skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since people don’t seem to understand Microsoft’s anti-competitive behavior, I recommend you start with Groklaw[0] and decide if you want to dive any deeper. Microsoft was akin to US Steel or Standard Oil. We really haven’t seen anything like it since.

0 - http://groklawstatic.ibiblio.org/staticpages/index.php%3fpag...
I'm sorry for you. You clearly don't get it. Please do yourself a favor and re-read the missing missing reasons article until you get it. Or accept the possibility that you'll die sad and alone because of your own actions.
Thank you! I really have tried to sweat those details, it's reassuring to hear that's coming through.
It's a symbiotic relationship like most things. Instagram, tiktok, Spotify, etc. would very likely not exist without the app store.

I'm torn in all of this because I'm not much of a fan of either company.
When I think about falling trust in so called “mainstream” media, pieces like these come to mind. Used to be that newspapers were the fourth estate, existing independently and keeping powers in check by being a source of transparency. Now in the age of web driven advertisement that business model doesn’t work anymore, and what we get is the shells of the old behemoths used as corporate mouthpieces and the crumbling democracy and freedom that entails. What an absolute shame.
> Your reply is rather hyperbolic.

I had a grocery store clerk eyeballing my checkout yesterday with absolute amazement at the "luxury" of buying TWO boxes of name brand cream cheese. We live in two completely seperate worlds at this point, and I don't think you have any idea how bad things have gotten for the bottom 90% in this country earning <$100k.
Given russias current trajectory with their war of genocide against Ukraine[0], it is not foreseeable that any western commercial airlines would be able to fly in their airspace for years to come[1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_inva...
[1]https://www.npr.org/2023/03/18/1162659715/russian-53rd-anti-...
There is a friend in my life who I meet with regularly in a small group setting that falls into this category - never seeming to reciprocate.

When I imagine asking him, "What don't you ask questions about my life?" I assume I'd get a response something like, "You can tell me anything," or "I'm open to hearing what you want to talk about," or "You're free to talk about anything."

If I had to devise a quick mental model, it might seem like the difference between talking at someone vs talking with someone? I might have to think about that a bit more. Do you have any insight here?
Yes, it depends on if the standard airport security meets US regulations for security. Many European and all Canadian airports do.
Firms are hiring from each other all the time. Plus there’s the fact that the base pertaining is being done at higher context lengths, so then the context extending fine tuning is working from a larger base
Humans are getting priced out
Which basically means the others could do it (all M1 processors can handle two displays, which is either two for the Mac mini or internal + external for the laptops).

The addition is the ability to have two external when closed; likely this could have mainly been done in software if they cared.

(You can get more than one external on a laptop with the screen open if you go up to the Max or Pro or whatever.)
> When Microsoft chose to neglect the web after IE6, it didn't take that long for competition to work around it. When Apple chose to neglect Safari in exactly the same way (and probably for the same reasons as Microsoft did with IE6), that was it. There was no workaround, nor any way for anyone to compete with a better browser.

This isn’t even remotely true. The entire front-end web development ecosystem came to an absolute standstill in terms of browser support for five entire years because Microsoft decided that, since they had killed off the competition, they didn’t need to work on Internet Explorer any more. That’s five whole years without a single new release of Internet Explorer, which had >90% market share.

And then after they restarted development, the next version mainly focused on adding tabs and a few CSS selectors. It wasn’t until Internet Explorer 8 was released that it actually started to properly move forward again. But web developers still had to wait years before enough people had upgraded because Internet Explorer wasn’t evergreen and people didn’t upgrade very often.

Supporting Internet Explorer 6 was still a battle developers were fighting in 2010, nine years after it was released.

Apple releases new major versions of Safari with improved support for web standards every year like clockwork. And people upgrade promptly. And Apple take part in interop efforts with other browser vendors. The two situations are absolutely nothing alike.
Using mercurial/sapling at work is really nice
ChatGPT4 gets updated all the time, the latest are:

GPT-4-1106-preview
GPT-4-0125-preview

See: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
Ah sorry if it wasn't clear below the jokes there are a few inferring posts and so far yeah didn't see Claude or other to reason the same way as palm or gpt4, (gpt3.5 did got some wrong), haven't had time tho to test mistral large yet. Mixtral didn't get the right. Tho.
I need RSS to keep following a website.
John Candy died 30 years ago today. Whenever I think of him I also think of this story about John Hughes and his pen pal.
I wanted to know how my income history has been keeping up with inflation and I couldn't find an easy way to do it. I made https://askforapayraise.com/ to help visualize how much you are keeping ahead of inflation or falling behind.
Dont have kids. Starve the bourgeoisie.
Alternatively use lemon (like bison but much easier to hack on) and re2c (or equivalent). LALR parsing turns out to be magic - in exchange for an unambiguous grammar you get linear time parsing to a tree.

Very easy to use. Build a parse tree from it, deal with the ambiguous nonsense of your language in a translation to AST.
Which is why you don't lose your SRE/OPS team just because you k8s.

I'd say that if you aren't big enough to have dedicated SRE then k8s is not for you. However, it really only takes 1 or 2 people to manage pretty large clusters with 100s or 1000s of deployments.

That's where my company currently finds itself.
Very nice article and very relatable. But I think for this to work, a person practicing must have a capacity for empathy, or at least some degree of it, in the first place.
The Wizard of AI – Alan Warburton
I run Mixtral 8x-7B on my M1 max mpb with llamafile, and Stable Diffusion - the backend for both is running via Metal implementations for Pytorch et al...

But "supports cloud-based solutions" is a pretty lame way to sell it.
After the big bump with the M1, we are back to the 10-20% generational improvements of old days. The deltas between generations are not impressive, but they do add up after a few years.

I am kind of interested in the M3 Air. I generally prefer MacBook Air over MacBook Pro, since it's lighter and more compact than the Pro, but I am currently still using a MacBook Pro with M1 Pro due to the limitations of the earlier Airs. It seems that these limitations are getting lifted slowly, with the M2 supporting up to 24GB RAM and the M3 supporting two external displays in clamshell. If the MacBook Air M3 supported 32GB RAM, it would pretty much be a no-brainer to go from the M1 Pro to Air M3.
I sat a few feet from Bob Metcalfe. I never heard any good stuff. He kept his voice down, or went to a conference room for that.
I'm not knowledgeable about quantum computing at all, just an amateur observer - but a professional software engineer mainly in logistics and warehouse management systems.

I heard it could be great for stuff like Hungarian algorithm-style job optimization, route planning/traveling salesman problem, etc. Is it true?

If so, it's going to disrupt a multi-billion industry as soon as it gets there. Complex operation optimization costs a lot, and a lot of money is lost because it's not feasible to do real-time - my clients run their planning few days in advance because it takes many hours (8 or so), usually needs some fixes and then another round of optimization.

If I told them "my API costs 3x as much but it's done in an hour" they would tear my hands while crying tears of happiness. Near real-time feedback/replanning would save millions per year for each of them.
The future is here!
Israel under pressure to justify its use of AI in Gaza
£1,699 for 13" Air with M3 (8/10/16), 24GB RAM, 512GB

vs £2,299 (from Costco) for 14" MBP M3 Pro (11/14/16), 36GB RAM, 512GB

I'm unsure if £600 extra is worth it for average dev use? The main points I know are: better screen, speakers, fans, 12GB extra ram. But not sure about valuing those at £600. Hm

(I'm making this specific comparison because I've just ordered the MBP, but could return it, and get the MBA :D)
My favorites are the BSoD commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNqPTOb31S8 and the pixie dust commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nbEeU2dRBg
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Hyperbole is often (successfully) used as a literary device to express sentiments. Is there a sentiment expressed in the parent comment you don’t agree with? Then let’s talk about that instead of the form of the argument.
If you're dependent on the adapter, you need to use the Apple ones, or you need to have multiple. Sometimes HDMI works, sometimes it doesn't, changing the adapter usually fixes it.
Character by character changes is almost certainly too low level. I understand wanting symbol by symbol. Heck, I even understand pulling it up the abstraction ladder and look at it at the semantic level. Having a diff of the form, "variable name changed, conditional added, etc" looks magical. I recall seeing some good demos of tools that could do this.

Unfortunately, none of these efforts have ever panned out. I cannot claim that they are unable to work, but they have not done so, yet. And I'm not clear on why that we think they will.

From evidence I have seen, there is no magic data structure that can help resolve conflicts. Pretty much period. The only algorithm that always works is to bounce it back to a user. With LLMs gaining in power, I suppose you could lean on one of them for the first non-mechanical pass?

Which sucks, because quite frankly CRDT and friends are fun data structures. But, they make the easy and trivial cases much much harder. Which is why a series of snapshots is far more effective. Those snapshots are not for the convenience of the tool tracking changes. They are for the convenience of every other tool that you are using.
One of the reasons git got popular is that it's FAST.

One of the reasons is that's in C.
i found out about embassy via the link in #1, looking at it now

reading the readme gets me pretty excited tho
> It says a lot that the €100 developer fee (I'd imagine Spotify pay for multiple licences in multiple countries) that Apple consider it nothing

They literally do consider it nothing. I've talked to some
of the devs that were responsible for implementing it and they consider it entirely a spam prevention measure. They determined that $100/account was a high enough bar to prevent people from creating hundreds of them and doesn't have the overhead of manual human ID verifications.

The most recent numbers I can can find is that there are 34 million registered devs which is a cool 3.4 billion ARR and that is 0.89% of their $380 billion revenue last year.
I was thinking the water eventually, mostly, makes it to the sea in any case. But, it probably reduces oxygenation of surface water (?) and maybe increases levels of chemical transfer from land to sea? I wouldn't expect either of those to be significant though.

Any thoughts on other possible effects, or is it just a general 'it's probably shit in a way we don't realise' feeling?
Here's the RSS: https://cd.is-a.dev/index.xml
My site has the appropriate HTML tags to hint your browser about where the RSS feed is. Also it's also mentioned on the homepage along with my other social media links.

For the RSS Reader, I am using Livemarks with FireFox, works pretty well for me
The Rise and Fall of Adam Osborne
MBA needs to go back to previous design with keyboard from MBP.
A data claiming that LK99 has zero resistance
>And yes, in a perfectly circular orbit there would be no overshoot??

That's where you and the other comment are wrong. The only way to get a stable circular two body orbit is for newtonian potentials which are exactly 1/r shaped. Add any other term (like 1/r^3 for General Relativity) and you essentially get more or less chaotic movement over time, similar to the three body problem in newtonian gravity. See Betrand's theorem [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s_theorem
Baudot enters the chat... 8)
Sure, but there are plenty of adapters that drive 4k@60Hz without an issue, such as the latest revision Apple's adapter (old revisions would only do 4k@30).
Dark pools don't provide sellers or buyers an asymmetrical advantage[1] and prices are still set by participants and cleared at market, not set by the operator of the exchange (i.e. dark pool).

[1] if they're both participating in the pool, clearly an institution seeing pricing signal from an alternative trading system (even if it's only their own cleared trades) has more information than someone observing only public market transactions.
MacPad: I created the hybrid Mac-iPad laptop and tablet that Apple won't make
In the US the labor force participation rate in 1975 for women was 45%; today it is 57%. Was it really that much worse in the UK?
Object stores like S3 work similarly, the entire path is to an object, and unless there is data at a path, the path doesn't exist. And you don't need to create the prefix before storing something with that prefix. That the tooling abstracts that a way to make it look more like a filesystem is a layer on top.
Spotify doesn't pay that though.
I like that you think Firefox is the overkill in all of that. At least, your username compliments this post quite well.

I would also like to thank you for sending me down a pointless rabbit hole which led to this cleaner madness:

curl -sL https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/3/24089843/google-morale-crisis-about-to-get-worse | grep -Pio 'application/ld\+json">\K[^<]+' | jq -r '.articleBody'
One you get to "reasonable specs" you're into the Pro, and they know it.

The Air with 16GB is not too bad, especially if you get the discounts that are everywhere.
This is my highly advanced test image for vision understanding. Only GPT-4 gets it right some of the time - even Gemini Ultra fails consistently. Can someone who has access try it out with Opus? Just upload the image and say "explain the joke."

https://i.imgur.com/H3oc2ZC.png
Veteran, woman, or minority owned, more specifically. The US Department of Commerce’s minority business development agency can provide more information about the “8a” program.
Hi Simon,

Big fan of your work with the LLM tool. I have a cool use for it that I wanted to share with you (on mac).

First, I created a quick action in Automator that recieves text. Then I put together this script with the help of ChaptGPT:

escaped_args=""
for arg in "$@"; do
escaped_arg=$(printf '%s\n' "$arg" | sed "s/'/'\\\\''/g")
escaped_args="$escaped_args '$escaped_arg'"
done

result=$(/Users/XXXX/Library/Python/3.9/bin/llm -m gpt-4 $escaped_args)

escapedResult=$(echo "$result" | sed 's/\\/\\\\/g' | sed 's/"/\\"/g' | awk '{printf "%s\\n", $0}' ORS='')
osascript -e "display dialog \"$escapedResult\""

Now I can highlight any text in any app and invoke `LLM` under the services menu, and get the llm output in a nice display dialog. I've even created a keyboard shortcut for it. It's a game changer for me. I use it to highlight terminal errors and perform impromptu searches from different contexts. I can even prompt LLM directly from any text editor or IDE using this method.
They probably have a WWSD (what would Steve do) attitude. I wouldn't be surprised if he's turned into an idol within the company.

In any case, most of the broad public is not really aware of these things at all. So I doubt it really tarnishes their image much.
Would you consider adding features for countries/currencies outside of the US/dollar? And/or do you have a github repo that I could PR against to add it if you'd prefer.
When was mainstream media not advertising driven? When was media not beholden to corporate interests?
I hate it. It just feels like a one-up attempt. Keep your shit to yourself, this is not a competition.
Some lenses definitely have more chromatic aberration than others, completely independent of film or sensor.
UK Population Pyramid Interactive
I found the variation in local demographics surprising.
This is a statement with no data behind it. At least some people don't think there's any cost difference.

Also, building owners are getting so desperate for tenants they'd probably cut you a good deal if you needed more space instead of less.
Take a look at my dashboard example, it should help show why this is useful. You can get a lot done with very little combined Markdown and JavaScript - building the same thing in HTML plus JavaScript would have taken a bunch more code.

Demo: https://simonw.github.io/observable-framework-experiments/pa...

Source code: https://github.com/simonw/observable-framework-experiments/b...
The First Transistors [video]
PG&E is an investor-owned regulated monopoly. Other utilities in California are publicly owned (either government, or non-profit. For example, LADWP, SMUD, Palo Alto, Turlock and many, many more). Those publicly owned utilities have much lower rates.

PG&E has a "revenue requirement" which is the amount it needs to bring in to cover operating, energy procurement, construction, and profit. At the most simplistic level, rates ($/kWh) are set by dividing the revenue requirement by the anticipated quantity of electricity sold.

The amount of profit it is allowed to make it determined primarily by how much it has invested to safely and reliably deliver electricity. Some of that is regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Something like a 9% return on equity for investment.

This creates a misalignment of incentives: PG&E would rather spend CapEx than OpEx. This is the market failure (of the natural monopoly) that the regulator is supposed to address.

However, PG&E's lack of maintainence on a metal hook (over > 80 years) which eventually failed caused the Camp Fire. Instead of replacing all of the hooks (a relatively inexpensive OpEx), PG&E proposed, and the CPUC blessed, an incredibly expensive effort to underground transmission lines. [0] This is a windfall for PG&E's investors and organized labor in California. But a huge headwind to the economy of California, and California's efforts to electrify. As others have noted, PG&E's rates are now so expensive that driving an EV doesn't save materially (or at all) over gasoline (even with California's relatively high gasoline prices).

[0] https://www.wsj.com/us-news/climate-environment/pg-e-wins-ap...
The tag is present on https://cd.is-a.dev/posts/ but missing from the post pages.
This is a great rebuke when someone tries to skirt around your point when you use hyperbole. Will be keeping this one.
Since their only job is to make their shareholders as much money as possible the (potentical) cost of noncompliance must outweigh the cost of compliance.

It's silly to expect anything else.

Trying to make a profit is a really powerful force to improve the lives of many people as a side effect. So we allow it and now enjoy the benefits.

In my opinion it seems like companies need to be confined though and is (sometimes) inherently unable to exert sufficeient self control and will even go so far as to saw off the branch they are sitting on.
Regarding 1, there are plenty of alternatives to iMessage and iCloud. They are even interoperable to some degree.

Essencial apps were made for Windows only back in 95-2005. Your only choice was emulation and there were no alternatives. It’s a completely different picture today.

2 and 3 are not relevant to monopoly claims.
... or it's a demonstration of reduced waste and/or shift to less water-intensive agricultural uses. Is there a particular reason to believe it's one vs the other?
I'm not sure collective suicide is a solution, but if it were, I'd still be reluctant to implement it.
Wild guess: not leaving it in the html but having a javascript write it after the page loads will probably get rid of 99.9% of the scrapers. Do spiders execute javascript?
The degree to which Apple has kinda just “won” laptops is nuts to me.

$999 for an 13-inch M2 Air is just bonkers. You can easily pay $1500, even $2000 for Windows laptops that are hotter, heavier, AND slower.
It would have required a different mindset, more like the degree of manual checking needed to write a mathematics paper. Plenty of mathematicians seem to be neurodivergent, but maybe not the kind of neurodivergence you are thinking of?
How’s that working out for you with immigration?
What _was_ the routing and speed? That was my very first question and the blog post doesn't really answer it. How much of the flight was supersonic? They talk about avoiding India for the BAH-SIN leg, and trouble over Saudi Arabia, but there's a lotta populated land between BAH-LHR. The flight listing says this:

SIN-BAH: 3698 miles, 4 hrs 6 mins, Mach 2.02 cruising speed
BAH-LHR: 3120 miles, 4 hrs 21 mins, Mach 2.02 cruising speed

Those numbers just don't make sense. That's 130 miles short of the great circle distance from SIN-BAH of 3935 miles. And then they talked about adding another 200 miles to go around India. So assuming the flight time itself is accurate, that leg should be:

SIN-BAH: 4135 miles, 4 hrs 6 mins, Mach 1.3 average speed

But how much of that time _could_ be spent at the listed cruising speed? Mach 2 will travel 4135 in miles in just over 2.5 hours! So we're looking at less than half the flight spent in supersonic — and this is the leg that's mostly over the Indian Ocean.

The BAH-LHR leg is even trickier.

Anyhow, it's little wonder that a direct non-stop is near the Concorde's time with these restrictions and the refueling stop.
Multi-mode standards change too frequently, and it's not really much cheaper. Prefer single-mode.
This is one of the main reasons I created Linkwarden - to combat Link-Rot.

Linkwarden is an open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages:

https://linkwarden.app
Thanks for the feedback. I was actually reworking the default shortcuts and the onboarding process when I got pre-empted by claude. I was planning to change the main actions to alt-j, alt-k to minimize conflicts.

Are you asking because it conflicts with an existing shortcut on your setup? Or another reason?
Depends which chips you're comparing.

Eg: The M3 Max is a substantial improvement over the M2 Max in both CPU and GPU. But the M3 Pro is a moderate improvement at best compared to the M2 Pro.
Car service is almost always the way to go, I'm just outside normal "uber" range so if I want a ride to the airport, car service it is.

Bus is hell, especially with luggage.

Abusing friendships is also a perfectly viable one, harder to get the company to reimburse ;)
I still want a MacBook Air with 32GB RAM or more. The Air is lighter and more compact than the Pro. (I currently use a MacBook Pro because of the memory limit on the Air.)
The US has been supporting Taiwan's de facto independence since the 1950s. I'm not sure what's supposed to be unsustainable about that, or what "things" are supposed to "collapse".
Bedrock erroring out that `anthropic.claude-3-sonnet-20240229-v1:0` isn't a valid model identifier (the published identifier for Sonnet). That's in us-east-1, so hopefully it's just a rollout-related timing issue.
Lots of worthless criticism. If you want the latest and greatest buy it. If you are upgrading from an Intel macbook air than get the m3 - who wants to buy last years version
This also looks like more moat and regulatory capture for existing IAAS providers.