skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computers had made large inroads in many different businesses. Newspapers all were done on computers because desktop publishing was so obviously better than the manual processes. Finance and the like were also computers. Scheduling was done on computers (thus the doctor's office had them for the staff but the doctor had not clue how to run them). Most word processing was on a computer, so low level staff had them - but the executives worked with hard copies and never touched the computer.

Nothing was on the internet. So even though airlines did scheduling on a computer you needed to call a travel agent to get tickets as you didn't have access to schedule flights yourself. Even if you got access, there was no usability so you couldn't figure out how to do this without a week training.

You might have had email, but the messages from the CEO was sent out via hard copy as not everyone in the company had it.

When I started as an intern in the mid 1990s everyone was excited that we had a new system and now you could schedule your own meetings instead of asking a secretary to do this. This was at a computer company where the people wanting a meeting spent hours every day staring at a terminal, and had access to the scheduling system - but the system was so complex they couldn't figure out how to use it.

The above is office jobs. There are a lot of non-office jobs that now have computers. When I had my garage door fixed the tech pulled out a tablet to sign off and pay for the work when done. Even 10 years ago this would have been handled by paper.

In conclusion: computers had a lumpy start. I think that it is fair to say most businesses didn't have one. However many of them did. They were expensive, but affordable.
> Sounds like they violated a non disparagement clause

Where do you get this? No third-party developer is under such legal obligation.
We have good reasons to be concerned when looking at the sudden rise in ocean temperatures seen since early 2023 that closely track the worst-case scenarios. Given the stakes, I prefer to be overly cautious (aka. alarmist).

On the topic of possible inaccurate climate models used in IPCC reports https://youtu.be/4S9sDyooxf4?si=qEIMzCg-oI4y8pbo
> A user of Oracle since the 1980s,

We all know about Resume-Driven Development and hopping to another company every 18 months, incidentally avoiding the consequences.

But a very different model is when people are entrenched in a shop where not only is there big legacy investment/lock-in that would be hard/prohibitive for the company to shed, but also the personnel's familiarity with the legacy setup gives job security. So there are multiple reasons to pay the Oracle Tax (and/or Microsoft Tax) and not disrupt the status quo.
At least thanks to Unreal engine and their content in the PC space, Epic is big enough to survive this, but think of poor small indie devs who can have their revenue streams shut down at any time because $REASON and have no way of fighting back.

Apple needs to be brought down a peg or two.
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"This week, students in the U.S. will begin taking the new SAT on their own devices — including a tablet or a laptop — or on school devices."

I'd thought "never trust the client device" was the golden rule to prevent cheating. A background process that reads the display and fills in the field when you start typing would be difficult to detect.
Same with Cheat engine https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/2105
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> But how do these jammers work?

Pretend you're having a conversation. Now pretend you're having a conversation at a concert/club/any loud place. So like this[0]

> so in theory putting your receiver in a metal box with the top removed solves the problem?

You'd think so, but not actually. Think about it this way: you're trying to toss a ball into a cup (or box).

Is it easier or harder if that cup has a wide mouth or a narrow one? Make it V shaped for easier visualization and we'd be talking about the angle of that cone. Obviously the wider one right? The extreme other end of this is like a carnival ball tossing game where the cup is just as big (or they cheat and its smaller) than the ball you're trying to throw in. Now pretend you're trying to make that shot from a moving car. You come from far away and drive right past it and you get more points in this game the more shots you score.

That's analogous to what then satellite is doing. Remember it comes from over the horizon and then passes to the other horizon. You want to maximize your viewing angle because that gives the satellites more chances to make contact. This is more complicated because you need to kinda do this in parallel as you're handing off data collection to the next satellite coming through so the better viewing angle the more chances you have to smoothly negotiate that pass over.

Then there's the whole issue that we're talking about waves instead of particles but I'll let someone else handle that. You can actually find some cool visualizations on the internet about these. See knife edge diffraction.

[0] https://youtu.be/m-YSPHib-kg?t=89
Useless as in it harped upon information everyone was already aware of and completely ignored the mitigation strategies that were discussed.

The PM ended up going back and listening to the recording because the strategies were what was the most important part of the discussion.
> watching Apple be maximally aggressive

Sweeney allegedly tweeted that he would breach his contract with Apple. Apple reached out and asked if he was being hysterical for public display. He didn’t clarify. At that point, Epic credibly threatened breach of contract.

This is a commercial dispute between multi-billion dollar companies, both of whom charge outrageous platform fees, both of whom seem to enjoy being dramatic, and both of whom are being maximally aggressive. It’s fair to remain emotionally uninvolved.
Maybe Epic should just come out with their own Android-based phone and ignore Apple.

EDIT - I don’t mean this flippantly. I really think a gaming phone made by Epic would be fantastic. They have some great games that I enjoy, including Rocket League and Fortnite. Would love to see what they could do with a phone, especially how well they did on GM’s Hummer ( https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/7/21506572/epic-games-unrea... )
Really curious what Apple's end game is here, they must know that being this anticompetitive will bite them pretty hard in the long term.
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But as of iOS 17.4 they do allow alternative app stores in EU.
I work on a "white label" site that gets customized by an army of css coders/designers. Tailwind seems like it would be a total non-starter for us.
Yes. I agree with everything you said, and "infrastructure/orchestration" in the LLM space, seems to be what some ppl are already calling as "LLMops".

Thanks for your input
Averaging is a FIR filter
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I have mentally trained myself that every time I read the word "Oracle", I replace it with "Larry Ellison needs a bigger yacht". Thus far, this has worked great for me in staying away from paying that organization even one dollar.
you can't use whatever external monitor you have, because you need specific dpi ratio to make scaling works, otherwise blurry screen, because apple only do things for their hardware.

you can't charge keyboard/trackpad (and probably a lot of other stuff) with (some, or most) non-apple blessed chargers. i was unable to charge the trackpad fully, even in a week; had it constantly connected to charger, couldn't connect to mbp as the mbp had only usb-c ports. after few warranty replacements, someone asked me what charger i'm using, so i've tested the usb-c -> usb-a adapter and connected the trackpad/keyboard to the mbp. it charged fully, and the battery didn't died in few hours. after that i've returned/give away all apple-made accessories. fuck that hostility
That’s also true of a GCd language though.
> We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.

That feels like a quote out of a novel or a Hollywood movie. Absolutely thrilled for Medellin to be able to enact this kind of change. It's a huge struggle in the US and extremely dispiriting.
> ransomware existed at least since the 1980s

Did you just go to Wikipedia article for Ransomware, saw 1989 AIDS Trojan being mentioned and now claim that ransomware existed since 1980? AIDS Trojan didn't really work and didn't provide any kind of anonymity for its creator. It was created by a mentally ill person. There were no instances of successful ransomware before Bitcoin. It really started with CryptoLocker. CryptoLocker gave victim an option to pay with either cash card or bitcoin. Cash cards were converted to bitcoin, which was outsourced to third party low-level criminals who took the risk of being caught. So bitcoin was absolutely critical piece here. And it was true for all successful ransomware schemes since. I stand behind my claim that ransomware wouldn't be possible without crypto. It's especially true about extortion attacks against corporations, like what article talks about.
I don't hate that Tesla tried to do something different with indicators. I think there are some issues with how stalks work, and thinking about how to make cars better and safer is good. Complicated stalks that make adjusting your wipers feel like playing a game of Bop-It? Total pain in the ass. And assuming something is well designed because that's how it's been done for decades is obviously silly.

But that doesn't make it wrong to do the research, go through the design process, and come to the conclusion that, in the end, putting blinkers on a stalk is still better than the alternatives proposed. It reeks of change for the sake of being different, rather than an actual innovation.

My biggest issue with the choice is that, on a wheel, indicator buttons are constantly moving. And when the buttons are right next to each other, it makes it significantly easier to indicate the wrong direction. Or have to take your eyes off the road to find the indicator when your wheel isn't straight (suppose you're trying to exit a roundabout)

And then with the lack of dashboard on some teslas, there's the knock on problem of having to look away from the road to see which way you're indicating if you think you've indicated incorrectly, rather than the indicator arrow clearly flashing at the bottom of your field of vision.
Both sides are authoritarian. One is a private company with more money than most countries, one is an economic union nominally representing the people of many countries.

I don't know where I fall on this issue personally, but siding with Apple is probably more authoritarian.
Would you also defend Microsoft of the 90's with the same argument for the similar issue?

At least Microsoft had no way of stopping you selling apps for Windows but Apple is a next level of nefarious.
Would be nice to know how much this cost the author. I've been considering getting myself a 3D printer recently too. The Bambu Lab P1S/P1P is looking like the best option for me so far.
Few relevant blogs on using pg_vectorize:

* Doing vector search with just 2 commands https://tembo.io/blog/introducing-pg_vectorize

* Connecting Postgres to any huggingface sentence transformer https://tembo.io/blog/sentence-transformers

* Building a question answer chatbot natively on Postgres https://tembo.io/blog/tembo-rag-stack
More likely, Apple needs to withdraw entirely from the EU and see what happens.
How would you label information that is objectively false? i.e. someone claiming the Earth is flat?
I don't know why the above got downvoted - it's absolutely true. There is a reason I have to go into a testing center or sit there with my camera on with a proctor watching when taking cloud exams.

I don't see how hard it can be to keep organizing SATs once a year - plus it really does generate a shared identity, which is something we are all sorely lacking. It was a big event to go to a different school to take the SAT.
What policies need to be made more fair? It makes no sense to make Apple pay itself. And surely, Spotify is subject to the same fees as any other music streaming business.

And all fees can be avoided by not taking payment via the App Store. A streaming service can even accept payment in the Safari browser in iOS via Apple Pay, and it would not cost them anything.

99% of musicians being paid small amounts has only to do with the population at large liking a very, very small percentage of music much more than the vast majority of music.
Yes, true.

When I had a 486 laptop at home, OS/2 felt like it was worth the money because it allowed me to access the power of the computer I already owned. Disk caching, lots of windows and lots of apps, multitasking, all stuff DOS didn't do on its own back then.

So I didn't resend spending it.

But Microsoft provided beta for free and it's long been quite easy to pirate MS OSes.

IBM did no blocking of pirates, but it expected journalists and evaluators to buy it, which is madness. It also released a time-bombed demo version of the OS, which is insane: it 100% will expire and nuke your PC, even if it works perfectly, which mostly it didn't.

Compare when I tried to review the new MS Exchange Server against Lotus Notes.

IBM sent me a copy of Notes and that was it.

MS sent me a copy of Exchange and Outlook, it sent me client licenses and OS media, and then it put me on a short off-site training course to make sure I knew what I was doing and was competent to deploy it, attach clients, and get it working.

(It wasn't amazing: for instance it couldn't collect mail over POP3 or IMAP. MS expected you to have a fixed IP, an MX record, and be receiving mail over SMTP like an ISP.)

But still, MS went the extra mile. IBM didn't. It spent fortunes on marketing, TV ads, everything, but it never occurred to IBM to get permission from Paramount Pictures to use the "warp speed" line from Star Trek until after the product had been named.

IBM spent billions but missed obvious stuff.

MS spent its money more wisely and worked to get the press, the developers, the vendors and so on on-side.

By the time IBM went solo, its vendors had been burned by missing the Windows boat, and were shy from pouring more good money after bad.
I'd rather people dump Apple products over their anti-repair practices or the whole concept of locked-downd devices tied to monopolistic App Stores, rather than the Apple vs Epic vs EU fight.
Okay, but this is rather low-level. Most users aren’t going to care about “running an LLM.” They want to ask an AI chatbot questions or get code autocompletion or something like that. What applications are there that need a local LLM and who is using them? What do they do with them?

Personally, I’m reasonably happy with GPT4 and Github Copilot, and I’ve sometimes used Midjourney, though I cancelled my subscription since I’m not currently generating any images. Are there important apps that I’m missing?
That’s certainly a valid weakness, but at least getting up and running on Swift’s most native platforms is straightforward. One wouldn’t expect C# and Windows App SDK on Windows to be as much of a struggle as it is.
It's because he's an egomaniac and wants credit and control. He's not the brains at all
Who would actually spend that much money though? Mercedes and maybe Ferrari*? Everyone else would just fall further and further behind.

To me this seems like a necessary transition period. Once new engines and regulations come into play, some of the previous engineering work will become less relevant.

Also, some of Red Bulls current dominance is certainly due to Adrian Newey and his experience with ground effect cars.

* quick google search seems to indicate that Ferrari has roughly 1.3B in cash and Mercedes 26B. So not even a team like Ferrari, who's entire raison d'être is racing, can necessarily afford to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for years on end.
Apple's last quarter results: $30 billion in net sales from Europe, their second largest market behind the Americas. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2024-q1/FY24_Q1_Consol...
What worked for them won't work for everyone. Try snacking on 2,000 calories worth of nuts a day (which isn't that hard) and see how much weight you lose! What this person likely did was, eliminate the foods that caused them to over-eat, and they lost weight, which happened to be sugar.
> #1.a: Because of #1, there will be a flood of unverifiable bot activity on the internet, easily outnumbering real human interaction by 100x+. The only way to identify other humans is some sort of biometric verification process.

The intrinsic problem is that over the internet, you're basically getting an "id=<hash of biometric data>" field, and how do you know that biometric data actually came from a scanner rather than a hacker who stole the master biometric database? This is the intrinsic problem with any e-verification: there is no way to distinguish between a human initiated something on their computer and a program on the computer imitated a human initiated something on their computer, and if you have a problem that requires you to distinguish the two, well, you're out of luck.
Sure, maybe. (Personally I think that’s a mere conjecture, trying to throw more compute at the wall.) But obtaining that money by orienting their R&D towards a profit-driven business goes against the whole stated purpose of the enterprise. And that’s what’s being called out.
A pretty good response: https://blog.daviskedrosky.com/p/jared-diamond-a-reply-to-hi...

This FAQ is mostly ideologically-driven and, at the very least, willfully misinterprets what Diamond says in his books in a way that I think is impossible to explain by accidental misreading or even misunderstanding; only by intentional misinterpretation driven by an agenda. I've read Diamond, then many years later this FAQ, then the above response; then cross-referenced all 3 to see who's lying.

I used to say all modern humanities are worthless garbage, except history. After that exercise, assuming AskHistorians crowd is representative, I'm not so sure about history...
After having written a few of them at this point at $DAYJOB and on my own... They're actually not so bad at all -- it's quite nice the world that they open up.

I'd venture to say most people are mostly annoyed at the overuse of macros (where a simple function would do).

Rust's attribute system is something it REALLY got right -- stuff like #[cfg(test)] and the conditional compilation stuff is really really impressive. Not sure what cross platform dev looks like in Swift but the bar is quite high in Rust land.
The conversation here is really degrading, when EU is mentioned. People down vote for the sake of down vote every opinion that is not in favor of EU, so they can silence it?

It is really disappointing to see such behavior here on HN.
> Isn't that because it pays 100% to Apple?

I didn't expect I'd have to make this point clearer but given the pedantry in HN: Apple Music doesn't have to pay 30% of its revenue and survive with the rest of 70%, it has potential access to 100% of Apple Corp's revenue, which is vastly larger than the revenue that Apple Music brings to Apple Corp... Apple Corp can subsidise multiple Apple Music if they so wish to maintain an advantage.

> but how do you actually solve this here? One option would be to split up Apple and require the services division to be an entirely separate company, and maybe that would be a good solution...

That's exactly why anti-trust exists. And yes, splitting a company into its components if it gets big enough to engage in anti-competitive behaviour is a completely valid solution applied quite a few times in history [0][1].

Usually in international trade a competitor subsidising a product through other product lines to engage in price dumping is considered illegal. Apple Music not having to pay 30% of its revenues to Apple when other competitors would have to provide the same level of access to their subscriptions is just price dumping with a few more layers of indirection.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil_Co._of_New_Jersey...
In what sense did the submarine delivery of functionality clearly in violation of their contract with Apple—the inspiring incident for all this drama—represent integrity?
> generally accepted that Red Bull's "secret sauce" is the car

Only partially; Newey is a generational talent at what he does but if it were just that, Checo would be way ahead of where he is.

Unless your assertion is that he has a LACK of talent that counteracts the car's advantage?
Ask HN: Can someone tell me why my post got flagged?
Hi all,

My posts are "flagged". Honestly wondering why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dragonasul

It's the title, the website redirect...

How can I improve to be accepted?
How much traction does this creepy project have?
It is now.

BeOS was an early adopter of the Web, though. It bundled TCP/IP, a server, a client, and it had a pioneering "internet appliance" version, BeIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeIA
> When you build websites you are creating code for others to read as much as you're creating an "app" or document.

I couldn't disagree any more with this. When the overwhelming majority of your users would never actually be impacted by this, I believe you have more of a responsibility to the bulk of your users, rather than a fraction of a percentage.

I say this as an open-source developer, who ships source maps to production. I would much rather us increase our development veloticity and build higher quality products rather than satisfy one nerd who might want to occasionally view source.
I can’t believe any researcher that measures prompt strength based on how well an LLM does math.
Apple makes incredible products, but their teenage angst corporate temper tantrums are vomit inducing. Might be time to vote with my dollar on other tech.
In addition to the other poster's suggestions, "mouse ears" or other brim styles (slicer availability may vary) can be useful to help reduce warping.
Having worked for many bosses, never ever never undersestimate the power of ego of an executive. It's only second to the ego of a lawyer.

Many of them will tank their company and their client if they get their ego bruised and feel publicly humiliated. Those are hyper competitive people which see live as zero sum game and are trained in life to never, ever, lose a challenge or competition for domination. ESPECIALLY in public.

The myth of a rational businessman is just that - a myth.

Being publicly regulated is exactly that scenario for Apple. There's execs in that very company that are frothing at their mouth in irrational anger ready to throw their weight around and WIN. Stomp on the opponent. SPLAT the unimportant fly that DARED challenge them.

(I'm exaggerating... but not by much. This seems more of an emotional than thoughtful response Apple is doing here.)
That’s true. In the same vein, competitors stagnating is not necessarily proof of anticompetitive harm.

But it’s a strong clue that maybe the EU got this one wrong. The fact that Spotify doesn’t pay the Apple tax and yet still is the market leader shows you that, at the very least, Apple is not foreclosing competition.
> Colombia looks to have a GDP per capita about 1/10th of the US, so if we scale it up 10X...

Ah, yes, but costs for public projects like this in the US is far greater than 10x Colombia's.
This seems like a smart move. I know some will be frustrated with losing a free tier. But ultimately businesses need to make money and charging for it is part of that.
The continent, not a continent. As in, the continent the war is fought on, not a continent on the other side of the planet.
then let's blame and fire the people who hire oracle