skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over the last ~10-15 years the frontend has grown to be extremely complex. _overly complex_. Imagine a tire that can now play the radio.

Disagreed. Are we overcomplicating static blogs using fancy frameworks, CDNs, edge DBs, functions? Yes.

At the same time, we literally have front-ends that are a whole application - VSCode, Slack, Discord, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Figma, ec. These apps load instantly from any browser, connects to the cloud, and they can be downloaded to work as a desktop app. These aren't just tires with wheels. They're the actual car and the server is just the gas.
> an unwinnable fight when you're selling to datacenter customers.

didn't Apple pretty much throw in the towel in this market simply by choice of form factor for their computers? The sheer desperation of their users wanting a device in this space is shown in the "creative" ways to mount their offerings in a rack.

all of the user friendly things they've done by shrinking the footprint, making them silent, etc are all things a data center does not care about. make it loud with fans to keep things cool so they can run at full load 24/7 without fear of melting down.

so from that lead alone, we can make the next assumption in that Apple doesn't care about vs CUDA. as long as they can show a chart in an over produced hype video for a new hardware announcement that has "arrows go up" as a theme, that is ALL they care about.
Epic has the privilege to allow you to buy things from their store.
it is that - if you turn on the setting "Enable HTTPS mode in all windows" in firefox, the http is automatically converted to an https link and it works.
cost is probably minor.

"how it was sold" is becoming a Musk signature bullshit refrain.

anyone taking his sales pitches as anything other than hype and confabulation is willingly drinking capitalist koolaid
On mobile, I think the website layout (about half of the horizontal area on mobile being the sidebar and gutter, with the main text column a narrow strip on the right) is a bigger problem than the size of the background image.

But the tool seems like a cool idea.
Pretty much. Android the way to go there.
A junk phone maker anyway.
A friend got a g54 power because the online reviews praised the battery life, guess what, he needs to charge it twice a day, older phone with 1000mah less battery had better stamina. Screen is horrible, camera is junk. Earphone has massive sound distortion. He hates this brand now.
I use plasticity exclusively for 3D printing. I'm a huge fan. I also deeply appreciate a no-nonsense perpetual license for a fair price. You can't define persistent dimensional or relational constraints; however you can iterate and edit so fast that I have never missed it. Part tolerance is off? Grab a surface and pull it in or out to the length you need. If you need highly parametric parts, I might favor OpenSCAD or CadQuery (python), anyway.
Triggers my asthma when consumed in small amounts, but that's just me. (I only realised I was drinking a sugar-free soft drink when that happened, so I don't think it's psychosomatic.)
Ivermectin is a very useful broad spectrum anti parasitic agent suitable for many mammals, not just horses, and not just against worms.

In large unvaccinated populations in, say, Brazil, where there is a siginificant worm problem in humans Ivermectin correlates well with COVID recovery - treating parasitics improves health and the ability to fight infections such as COVID.

However, as this report points out in the body, in large unvaccinated populations with no significant human worm infestation:

The ACTIV-6 and COVID-OUT placebo controlled trials of ivermectin at 400ug/kg for 3 days, and 600ug/kg for 6 days in largely vaccinated Americans, regardless of risk factors, found no clinically significant benefit in sustained recovery, hospital admissions or incidence of long COVID over 10 months

Ivermectin doesn't directly do anything for fighting COVID .. but, as one would expect, you're better off getting rid of parasites if you want to fight off a virus.
If I've understood the Motorola page correctly, they do not give you the unlock code for your device if you do not agree to the terms. That would be consideration.
>I also hear some people just go with TrueNAS or Unraid as their bare-metal base and use it for both storage and as a hypervisor, which makes sense. I might have to try the Linux version of TrueNAS now that it's had some time to mature

Unraid is especially meant for that. But TrueNAS Scale is also good, it has Docker and Kubernetes support too.

There is also openmediavault, it's a bit more Linux-y than the Unraid or TrueNAS Scale but a lot of people love it
As someone who used to be in the field of public relations before starting a career in software - I don't understand why they are doing this. Surely they realise that this stuff is going to end up on mainstream media and damage their image?

EDIT: I get what people are saying about the App Store fees but reputational damage does cost money, possibly quite a lot.
Though I’m happy to see the 3rd party apps - I really don’t get why people even buy apple devices if they want to side load or do other such things.

In terms of camera quality, battery life, or any single criterion it’s not like apple devices are the best anyway.

As a side note - I really don’t understand the logic that leaves gaming consoles exempt.

As a second side note - how is apple even determining if you are an EU citizen or in an EU country? Presumably GPS, but is the implication that EU users must phone home to apple every 30 days?
>Why not both.

Because there's no basis or evidence for the latter claim (hence, baseless).

The justification "look how inept they are, they rely on a help of a 20-year old" is just circular reasoning, and nothing else has been presented.
Heh, I feel this way about Tesla stock right now. I held Nvidia right before its meteoric rise and traded it for Tesla stock. Do I have to feel 10X more pain to give it up now?

I don’t know anymore. Everyone, you can feel free to roast me today.

Sorry, I forgot I’m not at Wendy’s.
Personally I think it’s a bad idea. When the wheel is turned you can’t as easily keep track of how to signal left vs right.

Sure, most of the time you’re going straight when you need to use the turn signal, but not all the time.
In that case they'll probably either (a) ignore your setting and check anyway because the OS can do whatever it wants, or (b) default to "not EU" mode until you agree to turn location services on. They're not going to give you an easy workaround, Apple has made it clear they're going to do the bare minimum they can get away with.
I think this idea would work better using 3D printed keys. It's possible to print flexible springs, and filament can be used as a hinge pin. The computer just needs to recognize which keys have moved.
>We can just compare the books, per the article the Congressional procedures are 1000 pages and the International Building code is 832 pages

It keeps getting better!

Coming next: judging the complexity, importance, and impact of code by line count alone.
How HEAD works in Git
What Happened to Gentopia?
Does anyone know what happened to the Gentopia project (https://github.com/Gentopia-AI/Gentopia)? They had a great paper describing a platform for building LLM-driven agents and pushed everything to GitHub, but since the announcement last August there has been pretty much zero activity. Nothing on twitter, nothing on their Discord. Was it just not "better enough" than LangChain?
Sure, but to see what is in the queue you have to operate on it, mutating it. With this using postgres we can just look in the table.
It happens in all fields, at all levels. You cannot trust any papers without reproducing them. The intentional fraud is rampant. There is too much reward for publishing junk as quickly as possible and too little punishment for misbehavior.
https://thepatriot.in/heritage/experts-historians-object-to-...

NDMC is 80% controlled by Central Government, not Delhi government. (Sorry I should have written NDMC instead of MCD (which is what I meant by DDC above)).
Generally they use pulse density modulation, rather than pulse width modulation, which increases the frequency of the noise and makes it easier to filter out. Sigma delta modulation, which the comment you replied to mentioned, is a way of doing pulse density modulation.

Imagine if you did dithering to produce grayscale images with a black and white screen by just using different sizes of rectangles; you'd have to have a very high resolution screen before you wouldn't be able to see the individual rectangles. That's what pulse width modulation is like. Whereas pulse density modulation, using a sigma-delta modulator, is more like a proper dithering algorithm, where you spread the pixels out evenly across space, you don't just use different size rectangles to represent different shades of gray.
The board buckled. They could and should have done nothing. They would have then won. They’d have the contracts, the money, the IP and infrastructure.

You can hire new engineers & they’d have proven they’re working to benefit humanity.

Now it’s owned by Microsoft.
Does the warranty in Australia deal with the manufacturer, or is it related to the reseller/point of sale?

There are similar laws in the EU in various implementations, but most of them make the party that sold it the one to warrant the product, and the manufacturer isn't really involved (unless the manufacturer is the one that sold it).
even if they weren't greedy assholes, specialized television is simply not a must have device and they're definitely needing to secure a cash flow.

but that's because it's a lightbulb problem. I've been using the same android Nebula pico laser projector for almost a decade. I have YouTube and any other app service if I choose.

it's all I need for, essentially, ever.
CHIPS Act Stalling?
Not a big fan of this overly political website but does appear much of the authors premise does hold some elements of truth. https://ww2.aip.org/fyi/2022/workforce-diversity-initiatives...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-delay-20-billion-ohio-1...
They just stick to what they learned in childhood, then they die and the next generation has their own bit different moral truths they stick to.
"No politics" mostly means only politics that suit those in power. E.g fundraisers for Ukraine is, but not fundraisers for Gaza. Company-sponsored LGBTQ events, but none about collective bargaining rights.
> truly there's something about "internet scale" that is still boggling our collective mind/culture to this day

to me, this is precisely why the echo chamber style places are the most popular. people just don't want to go some place to have their views challenged. the internet echo chambers are just internet scale versions of everyday life though. people hang out with like minded people. they prefer to live, shop, assemble with like minded people. it is the rare person that ventures of to areas that differ.

the internet is just trying to homogenize itself, or the users are making it that way whether intentionally or not
I agree, but I am thinking about scenarios where businesses get sued for consumer safety. This happens, right? Someone is harmed and they assert it's because the manufacturer of the thing didn't take adequate care to prevent a situation?

Like I said in another comment, I think it's ridiculous. I'm just open to the idea that they are doing it to protect themselves rather than trying to give (I assume) a very very small minority of their users the finger.
I wonder if the tracking of location of European users will also be declared illegal under privacy laws, making it illegal for Apple to determine whether or not a European user is in Europe.
> "WilmerHale found that the prior Board believed at the time that its actions would mitigate internal management challenges and did not anticipate that its actions would destabilize the Company," OpenAI said in a blogpost.

Hard to believe this, esp. coming from board members who had experience. Even if they were right, the sudden firing was utterly unprofessional.
Wow, nice, tracking people now. Oh, wait... ;)

Apple beeing evil. I hope they get fined by the EU.
> How else can it be interpreted?

That although scientists are people and so there will always be some who try to cheat and lie, those lies will eventually be found out and when that happens the record will be put right. It shows that science is not only non-dogmatic in the sense that new information which challenges or improves on our previous best understanding of a given topic will be used to update or replace the old, but that even when there is no new evidence, new research is still being openly challenged and tested by other scientists.

Scientific journals have their problems, but finding and correcting mistakes, and being transparent about the correction and about how those mistakes were made, are all indications of credibility. Even better, in this case, the alarms were sounded very very early and yeah Nature really fucked up by ignoring them for as long as they did, but there were people who cared about the truth who were persistent and in the end Nature did the right thing. That's says something really good about science.

The replication crisis is still a big problem. Lots of less dramatic results are probably false and will likely go unchallenged for a longer time, but that's just something we have to consider when deciding how confident we are in those results. Results which have been independently verified multiple times are those we can be more confident in, results which haven't been verified should be taken with a much larger grain of salt. It'd be silly to take examples like this as a sign that science as a whole shouldn't be trusted.
If they did nothing Sam Altman would have won, since their job is to reign in Sam Altman when he goes out of bounds of the original mission.
Who needs reputation when you can have a 30% cut of every microtransaction game instead?
It can’t possibly hurt more than what they gain from racketeering
dentistry is one of those specialty that private equity is gobbling up.
It's essentially the university saying "You're about to be kicked out/expelled, so we can't tell the immigration folks that you are progressing towards your degree"

Yes, exactly that, it was something along the lines of "you are not sleeping with me, consequently you are not progressing to your degree".
To be fair, it's void in the US as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

edit: Going to leave this up, but the first-sale doctrine gets a little iffy around "materially different" devices. IANAL so it's pure speculation on my part.
dang, didn't know that.
Did they intend to fly an unused multi-kilogram piece of hardware around the world burning fuel unnecessarily with every flight?
I do not write anything as security sensitive as sudo, but I am continually alarmed at the size of a Rust dependency graph. I yearn for someone to package up an annual Rust-standard-library crate as featureful as Python/Go.
How is that an existential threat to apple though? Don't they profit from selling the physical phones?
Isn’t Apple tracking your location like this a gdpr violation even if they don’t store the results?
If you buy it second hand, I don't see why you'd have a warranty regardless. The manufacturer has a contract with the original buyer; they never made an agreement with the secondary buyer
In that scenario, future policy authors would thank Apple for free legislative fuzzing.
I call it the "Frontend Join Ratio" how many normally SQL operations frontend devs are forced to make because backend is just too isolated from the user requirements or doesn't want to bother with frontend needs.

IMO A LOT of bad frontend code is a direct consequence of bad API design.
I agree but this entire conversation misses my point that "alignment" originally only meant making the LLM act as you want it.

A GPT that hasn't been aligned does not work how we expect - you give it a prompt, and it will autogenerate until it reaches an end state.

To even make the GPT answer the question in the prompt, and not autocomplete it into nonsense, is an example of alignment.

It took a lot of fine tuning and data curation to get ChatGPT up to its current chat-like interface.

But this is not the only alignment you can do. The original Transformer paper was about machine translation, turning the prompt into the translated text. Once it was done it was done.

We could choose to have the model do something else, say translate the prompt into 5 languages at once instead of one, just as an example. This would be another alignment decision.

There is nothing political or selection bais or anything inherent to the original definition, its only recently "alignment" has morphed into this "align with human morals" concept.

Even in the Andrej Karpathy's build-your-own-gpt YT video, which is highly talked about around here, he uses the phase like this. The end of the video you are left with a GPT, but not a question-and-response model, and he says it would need to be aligned to answer questions like ChatGPT.
How is "doing nothing" winning? I don't see how giving all the reigns to the bad actor and capitulating is winning.
One of the side effects is increased risk of suicidal thoughts, so I think it’s not unreasonable to have a medical professional ask every once in a while. OTOH, the pharmacist dispensing it could handle that
The Existential Relief of Having Children
As someone in the market for a truck tent/camper, the $3k options typically provide (1) a hard shell case (2) quick, easy setup and tear down - packing into the hard shell easily (3) are able to remain mounted during travel.

This looks like a tent that you have to entirely pull off to travel.
Not in my experience. I am forced to use Linux at work. I choose to use Windows at home.

I recently updated Ubuntu at work and it then failed to boot. My sysadmin ended up having to completely reinstall it. That has never happened to me with Windows.

My solution is to use Windows as a host OS and running Linux in a VM for work. It works great!
Another data point: A while ago I bought a Motorola Edge 30 Ultra. It works pretty well. For the price the specs were even better than on Xiaomi phones.
Up until Hamas attacked Israel, Palestine relied on Israel to collect taxes. Collecting taxes is the bmost basic government function there is.

Hamas had twenty years to become a government. It was uninterested in doing so. Israel is not the genocidal agent here.
> I really don’t get why people even buy apple devices if they want to side load or do other such things.

That's Apple's argument, but it's bs. It's like Microsoft selling you Windows with ads all over the place and then when you complain they say: "I don't understand why you buy Windows if you don't want to see ads, there are other options w/o ads."
Y Combinators 'Boom Loop'
Self-Retrieval: Building an information retrieval system with one LLM
Assuming the trees were used for construction and are either still in place or in a landfill, at least cutting down the trees probably resulted in a larger net carbon sink!
MRIs don't consume much helium. Keeping them topped off is a trivial expense compared to the rest of the costs of the machine and operation. If there were a new design that didn't require helium, it would also have to cost less than current machines to make sense.
First sale just says that if you sell a copy you legally own of a copyrighted work that does not infringe the copyright owner's distribution right. That just means that if the copyright owner wants to stop the sale they will not be able to turn to copyright law to do so.

It does not mean that they can't turn to some other method to stop the sale. In this case they would turn to contract law. You defense to that would not involve first sale. It would involve trying to argue that a contract was not formed.
It shouldn't happen anywhere. It can only hurt vulnerable people. Noah Smith writes about this at length.
I'm sorry. Hospital staff are notoriously bad for incorrectly filling out the paperwork that Medicare requires to justify ambulance transport, such that we (paramedics and EMTs) are constantly explaining it to them.

Shock, horror, you actually need to read through the form and select the appropriate checkboxes (around ability to stand, need for oxygen, fall risk and hazard, danger to self or others, etc., etc.)

Too many of them literally fill out patient demographics and a signature and say "here you go".

We push back because our organization policy is that we will transport those patients, BUT we would also much rather bill Medicare than the patient (our billing staff and C-suite may disagree, but EMTs and paramedics wholeheartedly understand that routine privately paid ambulance transport is not a viable option for 99.998% of the elderly).
There’s an even simpler solution. Continue to fine them until they stop playing games.
>I agree, but I am thinking about scenarios where businesses get sued for consumer safety. This happens, right? Someone is harmed and they assert it's because the manufacturer of the thing didn't take adequate care to prevent a situation?

I'm not aware of any example of a company getting sued for consumer safety due to a consumer buying a good, modifying it in a way to cause intentional harm, then reselling it to another party. I would be absolutely fascinated to read if someone has an example of it.

There's a lot of things our legal system gets wrong, but that would be absolute insanity. No business would be able to function with what is essentially unlimited liability.
As a non_EU citizen, I hope other countries follow suite and pass similar laws. So far the EU has single-handedly faced Apple's unethical actions, and while I have several Apple devices, I hope more pressure is put on the company to save it from itself.
This is to prevent the EU DMA rules (and 3rd party EU app stores) from infecting their other markets.

The idea being, I could travel to the EU (or just buy an EU iPhone), install a 3rd party App Store + apps, then happily use a non-Appstore iPhone outside the EU.

I don't particularly think this "infection" a big risk, but Apple sure seems to.
What’s BS about it? Genuinely curious? Why buy iPhones? They’re not superior.
CBD is great for dealing with anxiety. I use broad spectrum drops and take quite a high dose a few times a day. Because the broad spectrum doesn’t have any thc it’s still easy to get work done with it and sometimes it even helps with getting started on something.
Mostly from a handful of apps, why limit everyone else?
>But that just means that the common practice for Congress and its staffers involves an appalling level of ignorance about the rules and procedures of the very institution they are working for.&

And what basis do you have to say that their "level of ignorance" is, indeed, "appalling"?

Let me guess, it's the fact that they found the expertise of the 20-year-old useful, isn't it?

Circular logic at its finest.

>To run with the construction analogy,...*

Oh, an unqualified (i.e. worthless) construction analogy, based on zero experience in subject matter. Great.

An analogy can be used to clarify your point (which is unnecessary - it's clear enough), but in itself, it can't be used to argue your point is valid, because you have zero basis to say that this analogy applies.

Maybe he's sharing the equivalent of I-beam sizes. Maybe he's sharing the equivalent of a Space X rocket blueprint.

You don't know which analogy is applicable, because you are not an expert in the field and your opinion is unqualified. And nobody should be convinced by your argument, since it is supported only by the conclusion you're trying to arrive at.