skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sweet summer child. Do you really belive this Anthropic story and that Anthropic will go any other way? Under late-stage capitalism, there is no other way. Everyone has ideals until they see a big bag of money in front of them. It doesn't matter if the company is a non-profit, for-profit or whatever else.
With all the money Epic has spent, and lost, on this, along with the billions they're making from Fortnite and Unreal, they could have made their own phone and platform by now.
What is the database behind ChatGPT? [video]
It won't end with Apple, you know. The EU's arrogance is going to impoverish the entire continent.
This is fantastic. This is why I think non-professional programmers could (and maybe sometimes should) learn to code - to solve little (or larger) problems bugging them.

You might be interested in Emacs, which is an environment for manipulating text and creating text-based workflows using a pretty nifty language called Emacs Lisp disguised as a text editor. ;-) (Full disclosure: I am an author of an Emacs Lisp textbook, and a long-time user and fan of Emacs.)

And here is a somewhat famous relevant quote from rms:

> Multics Emacs proved to be a great success—programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program. (https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html)
There are two problems: one is that cheap energy wasn’t the only factor in things like population growth or quality of life improvements and it’s also not like most of the carbon emissions were directed towards that goal. Attributing everything to cheap energy is effectively using someone in, say, India getting access to antibiotics, water filtration, and fertilizer as an excuse to ignore just how much of the global carbon footprint went not to providing the global poor with the huge reductions in childhood mortality but rather to things like Americans eating beef multiple meals a day and driving inefficient vehicles everywhere. Whether or not that was their intention it reads like an attempt to whitewash our highly disparate contribution to global carbon levels.

The other problem is the future: it’s mostly the same places which saw those gains which are also critically at risk from flooding, drought/famine, dangerous heat levels, etc. so there’s very much a “the future is longer than the past” aspect to this conversation where, say, 3-6 good decades shouldn’t be accepted as an excuse for the much larger number of worse decades which have already started.
That's exactly what you do. In all systems you should have two switches, and you annunciate on / off / travelling / error to the operator. Often you inherit something that doesn't have that.

In anything that really matters you have a continuous position transmitter instead of switches so your state is more obvious. In safety systems you might have 2 or 3 of those transmitters so you can have a backup or a vote
Apple should just not sell in the EU lol.
Postgres doesn't need to scan them all because it has indexes. It also has a number of random sampling strategies available.

It is niche, but it's a viable option for a lot of use cases if you need to limit the number of service dependencies.
In the US and in most countries, sure that'll be enough but in the EU, the DMA superseded their contracts. Apple might have got away with it if they had limited the ban to outside the EU but as I understand, they didn't.
Dating apps have gotten so bad that speed dating is in again
The Supreme Court ruled that apple must allow users to purchase from vendor websites. Apple takes a 27% cut instead of 30%
The top 1/3rd of Eng don’t see it as immutable. But the stack can consist of 10 other teams tools, and you’re not rewarded for the amount of time you’re spending to fix other people’s stuff. So it goes on
I'm a T1 diabetic, and CGMs are a great tool for blood sugar management. Combined with a closed loop system, they are literally life changing.

I am glad to see an increase in access to live changing medical care for a disease that is mostly just bad luck.
https://archive.ph/aQy30
The article predates the popularity of UTF-8 encoding on the World Wide Web.
you would probably run into the bigger issue of how to search for what is truly relevant. will the researchers of 3000 be able to tell the difference between AI or content-farm clickbait vs decent primary and secondary sources?

even today we have issues determining if what sources from antiquity say is true.
Archived: https://archive.is/D03zW

The relevant part seems to be the mention of "React Wordle" as well as:

> The Times owns U.S. Copyright Reg. No. PA0002342355 in Wordle as an electronic file and computer file for a videogame. The Times’s Wordle copyright includes the unique elements of its immensely popular game, such as the 5x6 grid, green tiles to indicate correct guesses, yellow tiles to indicate the correct letter but the wrong place within the word, and the keyboard directly beneath the grid.
They never said they didn't like iOS. You're hallucinating.
Many people consider what OpenAI is building to be the dangerous application. They don't seem nefarious to me per se, just full of hubris, and somewhat clueless about the consequences of Altman's relationship with Microsoft. That's all it takes though. The board had these concerns and now they're gone.
Because it's still Apple's platform.

And they have a right to prevent apps that harm the integrity of the overall platform which is what notarisation is designed to prevent.

Also companies have always charged a fee for using their SDKs. Even today Epic does this i.e. 12%.
> Publishing a Chrome browser extension more-or-less requires being a customer of the Chrome Web Store

Emphasis on more-or-less, though. You can use Chrome developer mode (which is NOT a paid option and doesn't require an account) to import extensions from files. You can't do that in iOS. That's Epic's point.
It would be interesting to see whether a group of 20-100 people could manually calibrate their readings by fitting their CGM readings to their fingerprick glucose readers. I wonder what the accuracy would be after a very basic personal curve fit.

I do this with a lot of consumer measurement devices. Both for thermometers and scales (food, human, and cheap 0.1mg scales). As well as thermostats, like the kitchen oven. I also do it for my multimeters. I validate my volumetric measuring cups/spoons by weighing water in them but I don’t correct them, just return if they’re way off.

It’s okay if the reading is off as long as I can correct it the same way every time and get a pretty accurate result.
Good luck syncing a clock at a random location on the ground with one in orbit. In a warzone. Without a connection to the sat with which you are trying to sync.
It's the "increases your lifetime cancer incidence" kind of dangerous.
But that's exactly what Swift does: it narrows the types. To do that, it uses a separate construct that only exists to make the parser ever so slightly simpler.
Bloat is detrimental to the bulk of your users.
I find that Gruber occasionally has some interesting insight but it’s often hard to take him seriously these days — he’s effectively an unofficial PR outlet for Apple.

(Fun fact: he co-created Markdown with Aaron Swartz)

Edit: Swartz not Schwartz
John Gruber @gruber@mastodon.social
‪@stroughtonsmith @macrumors So much for my theory that Apple was making nice with Epic.‬
https://mastodon.social/@gruber/112050165133240095
Huh, maybe Neal started sorting inputs to canonicalize them mid-way through my scrape? Without that sorting, presuming the backend is some LLM prompt plus the two input words, there's no guarantee that the LLM would emit the same result for both orders-- or it could even be up to randomness in the sampling!
If you want to know more about it you can just read about how diabetics treat different foods. Short version; high GI is fast high blood sugar, lots fat and sugar can results long period of with high blood sugars.

It is a CGM more or less what you would expect, insulin is the only hormone that lowers blood sugar, then you have all the stress hormones that raise it like adrenalin, growth hormone and cortisol plus glucagon for long time storage of sugars in the body. So measuring blood sugar with a CGM gives you a value between 2.9-13.5 mmol/liter that is supposed to give you picture of a rather complex system. A CGM also needs perfect access to your free flowing blood which in it self is a difficult task.
Makes sense! Thanks for the reply, Adam.

Best of luck and thanks for driving progress forward with the project still.
there's a global DECNet community still going (HECNet): http://mim.stupi.net/hecnet.htm
The people against this on X are probably not building a business. They wouldn't be giving PlanetScale money anytime soon.
Mega discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618673
// in the late 90's ... //
Yeah, it was well known even in the early days of the internet that this would be a problem. The pioneers were not entirely unsuccessful in developing methods for which people could get paid---we know who Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are because of PayPal. It was far short of their original goals, but at least they were trying to solve the right problem.
The company was burning money and growing slowly. Most of the original investment was likely based on the strong founding team.

In that situation, they'd probably just want their money back.
What's up with all the links on the page? None of them work for me.
The intensity of activity and change from 1939 to 1945 is astonishing to me. Heck, for the USA, the support of the Soviet Union and Britain via Lend Lease was amazing enough, but then the Pacific theater demanded a humongous amount of hardware too. A total war production economy is an awe-inspiring thing to consider.

And on top of all that, these people fought an information war at home! What was different then, that allowed people to dedicate themselves so utterly to the cause? If a similar situation happened today, would we rise to meet it?
Where do you put the needle thing? Does it get in the way of everyday things?
They don't have a court ruling on this that has any relevance in Europe.
I just tried that with nmap using --traceroute -p 53 and it used new sequence numbers for each connection, different source ports. It did decrement but never went to 1 and I received responses along the way. NMAP did not set SackOK but it used my home MSS. Maybe someone wrote their own implementation trying to copy NMAP but missed something. Perhaps those servers are good for people trying to learn to write scanners.
As an addendum, I found the episode fascinating. As someone who has spent about five of the last eight years on a foundational engineering team, involved in _many_ long, grinding migrations where the end goal is clearly a win for the company but not particularly useful for product teams in the short term, I thought the plans Chris outlined showed remarkable maturity and good planning in approach. I also enjoyed hearing a public discussion of the nature of that kind of migration.

I would not, myself, choose to talk quite so negatively about a former employer and colleagues, but I respect and enjoyed the decision of idealistic folks like Chris to be open about the struggles entailed!
A quote from someone on the Voron Discord sums things up quite nicely.

- Bambu is for people that like 3D printing.

- Voron is for people that like 3D printers.

If you want a box to arrive at your door that you can plug in and start printing, the Bambu is for you. If you want a printer you can call your own and tweak to your heart's content thanks to its wide open design, get a Voron. The price delta between the two is unlikely to be the deciding factor, especially when you look at kits other than LDO that maintain high quality but will cost you less. I went with Magic Phoenix and it has been great.
> The people who don't learn from the past are usually the people who aren't all that interested in learning how things work, learning the lessons people and companies made in the past, and applying those lessons to today and the future.

No, actually, I do know how things work. The problem for you is that the Internet is there now and the whole world is on it, to a first approximation.

Knowing what the Internet designers did wrong (btw, the internet-history mailing list does this subject regularly) doesn't help us much, because we're not going to be doing it again.

As for old hardware: right on. If it works, keep using it.
COVID is endemic. Endemic and pandemic are mutually exclusive things.
Partnering with Ultra Librarian is simply going to make me more inclined to shit on Flux, though. And I don't even know anything about Flux.

These "library managers" like Ultra Librarian and SnapEDA are a pox upon the ecosystem. The symbols and footprints have non-open source licenses, so you nominally can't share them. They simply want to get in the middle of your design so that they can monetize you.
Look for the 'who is hiring'/'who wants to be hired' threads on the 1st of each month and post there.
They're addicted to bad revenue here.

Once they started with the App Store revenue and especially taking a cut on all transactions, they were locked in. It's a public company so number must always go up. If number doesn't go up, executives are gone and replaced with people who will make number go up. That means it's impossible for them to back out of the App Store revenue channel. They'll have to be forced out by government action, in which case they can write it off as unavoidable and appease the shareholders and maybe not be replaced.

The basic principle here is that when a company takes on a revenue stream, it becomes addicted to it and it's incredibly difficult to give that revenue stream up even if it's destructive to other aspects of the company or brand. This is very closely related to the innovators' dilemma. In fact that might be seen a special case of the same failure mode.

If Apple ever goes really into advertising, that'll really be the end of them as a good brand. Advertising revenue destroys everything it touches. It's possible that they could recover from this debacle but a pivot into ads is the end.
Unix is not RIP, thanks to WSL1 still being maintained on Windows 11. Original Unix subsystem is discontinued though.
Seems current laws look civilized/weak for your taste.

I think you'd rather prefer Sunday gala of past where convict would be covered with oil soaked rags and then set on fire. So while that person ran crying, howling it provided tons of entertainment to hardworking folks gathered there. And in that process of course justice prevailed.

This is what one call win-win proposition.
This is Apple retaliating for Epic criticizing them. You aren't allowed to do that without a more reasonable cause, Apple argues that it isn't illegal retaliation since they have reason to suspect Epic will breach contract, so it isn't entirely clear. But it is clear that free speech is highly relevant to this case and the courts will decide if you are allowed to retaliate for this kind of speech or not.
They're not a monopoly though. Apple can disable safari's video playback capabilities, but somehow I doubt that would kill YouTube's business.
> Because it's still Apple's platform.

It's not Apple's devices, though.
Response to Intrusion Into Waiting Lines (1986)[pdf]
Yes. We hired everyone from meta starting in 2020 and so far this strategy is holding true
Congratulations on the release! Interesting stuff. But what is the difference between this and other tools like nix? If you are open to feedback, I feel like it is missing some lower level explanations of what problem this solves, preferably with screencasts showcasing how this can be used to solve it. I know that dev env setup can be a pain, but many of us have customized ways of doing this with dotfiles, nix, ansible, etc, and from reading the documentation I am not convinced this will fix any problem for me. But I am quite interested in learning more about this.
You can still name things when it makes sense, I just like that in tailwind I don't have to name ALL of the things. It's nice to be able to easily add some margin, or padding, or a few style properties to an element, instead of coming up with a name AND adding those properties in a separate file.
Two-Second Moment in Oppenheimer Is a Nod to a Dark Conspiracy Theory
What parts specifically are untrue/exaggerated? Asking because I am not in the know.
As I hear, for ML machines is normal to have 16 GPUs, if each consume 250W, totally 4KW per machine, so need 250,000 machines for 1GW (for 40MW would be 10000 machines, so 240,000 for 960MW).

240k machines is a big number, I myself seen DC for 40k machines, but they talking about campus, so reasonable assume, there would be not one DC but few DC buildings.
Something like Steam Deck? https://www.steamdeck.com/
Same, but my doctor pointed me to a promotion for a free sensor. It did require a prescription, but since I don't have diabetes, it's not covered by insurance.

Trying to get it filled and picked up was slightly annoying as the pharmacy initially did not want to fill it without some prodding, and I waited a while for them to figure out how to get the promotion billed.
How did I not know you were an original cofounder at Heap?
yes, and technically so does x86, but there's a pretty big difference between formats where the data is normalized and expected to be correct and formats that are intended for users and need to do things like name resolution and error checking. Parsing a language made for machines is easy to do faster than you can read the data from ram, while parsing a high level language will often happen at <100mbps
Apple bent over pretty hard to stay in China [1] and they'll do the same for EU.

Because if they don't, the network effects of an entire important continent without Apple's strong presence would be devastating long-term.

[1]:

- "Apple tells suppliers to use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing" https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/apple_warns_suppliers...

- "The problem with canceling Jon Stewart: Apple bowed to Chinese government censorship" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/10/26/jon...

- "Apple pulls Taiwanese flag emoji from iPhones in Hong Kong" https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-08/apple-taiw...
Does Betteridge's Law apply to headlines?
I just don't understand what Apple expects out of the situation at this point. What's the best-case scenario here, that the EU will say "yeah that checks out" and let Apple have their way after all? This is going to backfire horribly.
There is no point having rules and contracts if you aren't going to enforce them.

It is inarguable that Epic broke the terms of the contract. They could've simply done what Spotify and others did and lobby governments whilst honouring the terms of the agreement that they voluntarily chose to sign. Instead Epic chose to be petty in order to prove a point.

Is Spotify banned ? No. And they are 100x a competitor to Apple than Epic is.
Theres clearly a class of people that would do worse on the old tests. You couldnt as easily study for the old tests.
Microsoft loves switching from one bad thing to another bad thing.
Agreed, this is one of the better things I have done to take control of my own health!

It was very very surprising which foods, and quantities of foods, caused huge spikes.

However, this stuff is difficult to interpret. What should be the goal number for managing glucose spikes? What's good, what's bad? Ultimately there's a lot of judgement calls, just as there is with any health or fitness goal.

I learned a lot from Peter Attia's podcasts, but that required hours of listening.

My doctor offered to review my data with me, which was amazing. But many people's primary care docs may not have the experience or time.
> Sure, you can do it, but why?

Re. Solid cache they effectively answered this in the post. The cost is less meaning they can cache more so p95 response time goes down. If you're not constrained my money you can just buy a bigger memcached or Redis of course.

If you're talking about moving things to Postgres /in general/, then cost and/or complexity are compelling reasons to do so. Small engineering teams, small budgets, simplifying and reducing cost can really help. Obviously it's not suitable for everyone but it's nice to have the option.
Another decision that sounds nice in a Cupertino office and will cost them a few billion in fines along the way. These laws exist to protect European citizens. Them being abroad or not is none of Apples’ business. EU could even start fine stacking, since geolocating customers for their private peeves (preventing a worldwide market for iPhones with 3rd party apps.. why is that worth so much?) seems against GDPR as well.

The cancellation of the Epic Games developer account by Apple now on HN front page is another example. Apple has lost its marbles. You have a company creating gold from silica that has an another gold mine around the corner. Why the fear of playing somewhat nicely? Cannot imagine their moats crumbling by these comparatively tiny problems.
I had forgotten about this, this is an interesting exception.

Windows Update also allows the user to opt in to use a non-bittorrent protocol for peer-to-peer delivery of updates to other Windows users. But of course, it's not true Bittorrent.
That’s some sage advice.

People are often surprised when I tell them about the insane levels of pre-diabetes in the US:

> The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion notes that approximately 96 million U.S. adults aged 18 years and older (38% of the adult population) have prediabetes, and nearly 80% of them are unaware that they have it.

It’s honestly insane to continue a way of life that’s doing this to the majority of the population.

https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/prediabetes-trends-amon....
as opposed to the very intuitive css one liner?
You'd be far more hungry if you eat 350 g of nuts than ~1kg of regular dinner food.
It's a sad evolution. Gruber's blog is entitled Daring Fireball and in his early blogging days in the '00s he was in fact pretty daring and posted a lot of criticisms of Apple. Over time he had so thoroughly assimilated himself into the Apple way of thinking that he seldom notices whatever Apple is doing wrong.
>safety

the past few years made me really fucking hate that word.
A better analogy might be if a tire company could only sell its tires through the Ford/GM "store"/dealership. Nobody would put up with that.
Gross. Reminder that NYT ripped off the 'connecting walls' of Only Connect, though their version—Connections—is low quality in comparison. PuzzGrid[1] does it better, for anyone who plays Connections.

[1] https://puzzgrid.com/
Typically it is on the back of the upper arm where it is covered by a short sleeve shirt. Generally it does not get in the way.
That would be a huge boon to ReactOS.
I got the dexcom g6 three years ago via a simple online order in Canada. Is Canada more lax? What's the difference?
> Mach-O is built around a command list that has to be run to load the file. So instead of an entry point address in a table somewhere, mach-o has a 'start a thread with this address' command in the command list. Really composable, which means binaries can do a lot of nasty things with that command list.

ELF isn’t immune to doing nasty things at link time. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot13/woot13... has an example where they make ping call execl on arbitrary executables as root by tweaking such a declarative table.