skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's really fair to call these engineering problems. Creating a working quantum computer is at the bleeding edge of experimental physics. Sure, the theoretical physics behind a working QC is somewhat understood, but there are no successful experiments in the area.

Even the theory is somewhat debatable, as creating a working QC pushes close to the boundaries of the measurement problem.
Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study
facebooks downfall will be their lock in. every other social media platform lets you view a public profile, discussion groups etc. it's all locked inside facebook.
Can cities drive SUVs off their streets?
Stuff like this is so cool.

The golden ratio is really neat too, it works out to the longest period between overlaps for leaves and petals, which maximizes energy per cost.

An interesting aspect of that is that phi =1+1/phi, which if you expand that fraction it becomes 1+1/(1+1/(1+1/(...))), so it's actually the irrational number least approximatable by rationals. All repeating rotations are rational ratios, and so phi, being the least appriximable gives the angle with the least overlap for leaves over any number of leaves.
I often ask a similar question of what happens when we, as humans, have offloaded everything to technology, to AI to Robots? What kind of a society will we have then? When you no longer have to think about how to do something, or how to build or repair something, or create something original from your imagination.

I shudder to think the direction this is all leading to.
> The NYPD actually has 'international offices':

I wonder whether the media is going to write hysterical propaganda pieces about this, like they did with chinese 'international offices'.

With the media, it's always accuse others of what you are doing.
> there are never 2 fiber ISPs.

There are often zero!
I was initially confused because Glide is the name of a different YC company (from W19: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glide). But now I understand that Glide is the name of your product, but not company
plus, not only is it a dupe, it's also not the source material <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html> AND nowadays twitter is really coin-flip-y about whether it shows any content or a login box
I'm advocating not putting other people at undue risk. The same as you would tell people not to drive drunk. I'm not advocating for somebody to spend money on a cab, that's just circumstantial.
One way to look at it is a small price to pay, relative to the cost of those vulnerabilities being discovered and exploited in ways that cause major brand damage, negligence liabilities, and regulatory pressure.

(Though, as developers, we shouldn't forget: not continuously creating vast numbers of defects in the first place would be better for society, and for the professionalism of our field.)
Seems pretty much written to keep Epic, Valve and others off the phone i imagine.
Here's something to blow your brain: perhaps the English version is incorrectly translated. With Ireland now the only Anglophone country in the EU, I would trust the French and German versions of the text to have far more clear intent.
That sounds crazy useful and I think speaks most to the maturity of C# and Microsoft's commitment to making it so ergonomic. I'm pretty curious about that feature, I'd love something similar for C++ in VS Code, but thus far I've been doing a pretty similar Copilot flow to the parent comment. It's nothing groundbreaking, but a nice little productivity boost. If I had to take that or a linter, I'd take the linter.

Totally agree on the 55% figure being hogwash.
> Apple already has already implemented a perfectly functional balance between security and developers rights on the Mac

They really haven't - some APIs are locked behind entitlements that you can only get by paying the developer fee and requesting it specially from Apple. Among other nuisances.
I don't think the smartphone market is that consequential either way. It's a mature and played out end-user product already, not comparable to the early AT&T. If Apple could somehow be forced to properly support third-party app stores then so what. Forcing full PWA support would be much better, but still. I don't think it'd usher in some tech boom or meaningfully help consumers.

Personally, I don't fw apps anyway so whatever. Even if the govt wants to force iPhones to be like shitty Android then that's alright, I'll keep my old iPhone then deal with it when needed.
Sometimes it's really obvious combinations of basic techniques.

And sometimes a graphics programmer does a handful of vector products or matrix operations and produces something that makes you go 'how the hell did you think of that?' when you look at it. Any time I see a sufficiently amazing shadertoy the odds are decent that the actual code for it is way simpler than I expect but still nothing I could've come up with.
It depends. Some of the foundation-funded positions are competitive, and a few centers have surprisingly professional leadership. People are trying to organize, and- even if it's an uphill climb- there's been some improvement at the edges.

Anecdotally, some of the RSE leads I've spoken to are seeing more long-term demand than they predicted, which might lead to more room for senior roles. Currently quite a few teams (outside the big centers) seem to be priced way too low, usually explained as because they're testing the waters.... so "cheap student labor" and "one off project" is what they can afford.

Minor heretical aside: one thing I miss about old twitter is that academia was developing a real "second layer" on top of journals, where things like reproducibility could be discussed publicly. PubPeer is a partial solution, as are GitHub issues... if enough gatekeepy people really see value in code quality, norms will shift with or without mandates.
This rom build from microG may not even be needed since LineageOS now supports signature spoofing (as of a few weeks ago).
if predators breed annually, that means that one year is the clock-tick, not the cycle. as a very simplified example, let's say there is some fixed availability of prey. so if there are a ton of predators born and/or come to maturity in one year, they will exhaust the food supply, spend their time and energy fighting for food or starving, and have a population crash next year. the reduced population that year will have a glut of food and a surplus of time and energy for breeding, leading to a boom the year after that, for a two-year cycle with a one-year tick.
Sample size of 1, but I don't think in my mother-tongue anymore, and also don't count numbers in my mother-tongue and find them harder to recall at this point. But I don't speak/listen to it anymore, so that probably influences it.
> Having apps notarized to enforce some basic legal & safety standards seems similar.

Which things, exactly?
No, not “period”. As if Apple wouldn’t attempt loopholes around that rule as well. What defines an “artificial restriction”, or what’s “gateways exclusivity”? Things need to have definitions and laws have contexts. No EU regulator is reading random internet comments and thinking “ah, if only we thought to put in that one random sentence from sword_punisher_69, it would’ve made the law airtight. Those arm chair regulators sure know their stuff”.

People in tech are in dire need of some humility. We don’t know everything, we don’t have all the answers, we can’t just jump into someone else’s job and immediately do it better. Is the law flawless? Probably not. Would all its issues be solved with one sentence? Definitely not.
Whether it's trivial or not depends totally on the workflow. A 5% runtime cost can be enormous - when I was in academia I was running thousands of simulations on big clusters like ARCHER, some of which could take up to a fortnight to run. In those cases, a 5% cost can add a whole other working day to the runtime!
Knock yourself out: https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere

The Nintendo Switch is a great console for sideloading. There are numerous ports of PC titles like Quake and Half-Life, as well as a library of Homebrew games and modding tools. If you've got an original Nintendo Switch there's practically no excuse not to crack it, unless you intend to play online.

Same goes for the 3DS, too. You can now play Virtual Boy games using the built-in 3D screen, which enables preservation of Nintendo's darkest age (with or without their approval). I have soft-modded versions of both the Switch and 3DS, and recommend it to anyone that wants that "unlocked" experience.

If you want an Xbox or Playstation computer, buy the SOC from AMD. They sell them on Alibaba and get the same support Microsoft and Sony recieve (read: dogshit). Most people would agree that it's wiser to not use console hardware for PC software when you can build a superior machine for a lower price. But hey, if you wanna waste time and money I won't be the one to stop you.
Wow, cool. So how do I get distribution on Mercedes (HQ: Germany) or Renault (HQ: France)'s infotainment systems to install any apps I want on cars?

What? These European companies are exempt? Crazyyy
To... itself? Go measure something. You now have a reference!

If you scratch out the labels of your car speedometer and forget which is which, it still measures speed. 80 is still 33% faster than 60, regardless of the units.
> I wonder what the overall percentage of crypto transactions are for scams? 50%? more?

Less than 5% according to the companies like Chainalysis who have a vested interest in making crypto seem dangerous so they can hock their product (analysis tools) to law enforcement.

So not “50% or more” lol
it's really interesting just how similar these systems are to the designs adopted for HPC over the past few decades. I'm salty because it took a while for the ML community to converge on this (20+K GPUs connected by a real fabric with low latency and high bandwidth).
> Say, the "typical" rust laziness ... just unwrap() because well we know for sure it can't possibly be None, right ?

Which is safe.

> Do that in a form of crit code path, and while that may not open you to an exploit,

Oh, so you realize that it is safe.

> it'll still down your service and damn you to a crashloop.

So there isn’t an argument here.

Next.
This is part of the problem with the whole discourse of comparing human writers to LLMs. Superficial things like style and tone aren't the problem, but they are overwhelmingly the focus of these discussions.

It's funny to see, because developers are so sensitive about being treated like code monkeys by their non-technical colleagues. But these same devs turn around to treat other professionals as word monkeys, or pixel monkeys, or whatever else. Not realizing that they are only seeing the tip of the iceberg of someone else's profession.

Professional writers don't take prompts and shit out words. They work closely with their clients to understand the important outcomes, then work strategically towards them. The dead giveaway of LLM writing isn't the style. It's the lack of coherent intent behind the words, and low information density of the text. A professional writer works to communicate a lot with very little. LLMs work in the opposite way: you give it a prompt, then it blows it out into verbiage.

Sit down for coffee with a professional copywriter (not the SEO content marketing spammers), and see what they have to say about LLMs.
> (And to be clear, we were never debating whether action should be pursued. Just whether it could be, or whether an attorney should refuse to do so.)

No, we were, because that was my argument. This is putting words in my mouth and moving the goalposts.

I never said my basis for "should", you just chose it to read as "should on legal grounds" whereas my statement was "should if all things were fair".
Cynical nihilism may be a good prediction market bet but it doesn’t make a very interesting HN comment.
Allowing an alternate OS would allow users to avoid continually paying Apple to make use of their device. It will never happen
Doesn’t almost everyone do lots more than that anyway?
> What’s the key to enter the euro symbol?

There's one on French keyboards actually!

And it was there even before we got euro coins in our hands (I know this because I'm still using my first (mechanical) keyboard that I got with my first own PC in 2001: and there is a “€” symbol on it)
Back in the 1980s my mother would listen to Bruce Williams, who provided financial advice on his nation-wide talk radio show.

Did that make him an influencer?

I'm certain many listeners were influenced by him, to a greater or lesser extent. I learned the term "mortgage points" from him.
You Have to Type It Out: Learning frameworks, languages, math, music, etc.
I do own an iPhone, but I do like the idea of Apple filling up the EU economy by paying out the fines that the EU lawmakers serve and will serve onto them.
Does it matter? At this stage it's just ridiculous that there's no more uproar towards Boeing or even direct intervention into it. Maybe because it's one of the 2 disfuntional members of the duopoly at the foundation of global air transit with massive geopolitical consequences if major changes are suggested.
I prefer the term "national insecurity". The use of "national security" usually makes more sense if you would add the in prefix.
Weather radar cannot see clear air turbulence. Essentially you are relying on forecasts and pilot reports.
> Dark Sky was a revelation

Any replacement for it on iOS? Maybe I am crazy but Apple's weather alerts just don't seem like the same sauce.
If they're LFP batteries, then they should be pretty safe. That chemistry has a much higher bar for runaway fires.
The problem with engineering defense in depth is that systems naturally evolve to "spend" that defense in depth. Constant, active vigilance is required to maintain a culture that honors and preserves defense in depth rather than exploiting it. It isn't that hard to believe that Boeing has failed to preserve that culture. A company like Boeing would be constantly fighting against multiple forces pushing them to exploit the defense in depth rather than maintain it. Some of them, like the Harvard MBA mindset, are very difficult for large companies to resist. Short term costs that result in long term benefits are a hard sell to almost anyone, but current American business culture is definitely not strong against that.
> (Could you imagine a lawyer refusing to advance litigation against a city because it would harm the city's taxpayers?!)

Your client doesn't have a responsibility to protect the city's taxpayers.

This client does have a responsibility to protect their sources.
Nope, this isn't a good approach. I prefer tab-separated values (TSV) and use it as much as possible.
CloudGrappler: Open-source tool detects activity in cloud environments
Water can be problematic in lithium fires.
What about when the ai defines requirements?
Reminds me of the no-code / low-code hype around 2020, tons of startups advertising app-builders that used little, if any, AI. Just blocks that you dragged-and-dropped. While many of them were successful, it seems like overall they didn't really make much of a dent in industry, which I found very curious.

Like, by now you'd think it would be inevitable that we wouldn't be writing software in a text-editor or IDE. Everything else we do on a computer is more graphical rather than textual, with the exception of software development. Why is that?

Part of the reason why I'm kind of bearish on AI is because it seems like we could have replaced written code with GUI diagrams as far back as the 80s, or at the very least in the early 2000s, and it seems like something that should have obviously caught on given that would probably be much easier for the average person. Again though, curiously, we're still using text editors. Perhaps despite the popularization of AI no-code builders we'll still see that the old model of hiring someone good at writing code in a text-editor remains largely unchanged.

Makes me wonder if there's just something about the process that we overlook, and if this same something could frustrate attempts at automating the process of writing code using AIs as much as it frustrated our attempts at capturing code using graphical symbols.
https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower
31 tricks to bootstrap a company
Maaaaaaybe...but...

The (first) French Revolution, the period in history to which all revolution is compared, did not distribute equality to the masses. It distributed The Terror, and then it distributed Emperor Napoleon, and then it distributed the Bourbon monarchy right back into power.

Then the (second) French Revolution changed one king for another.

Then the (third) French Revolution distributed another fucking Emperor Napoleon.

Revolutions aren't as equality-building as people want to believe.
Don't dogs learn by watching people and other dogs?
I didn't know this! That just makes me appreciate this more, and thank you for making me aware of it.

But thinking of it as "The Anna Principle", named after a character from a children's movie, remains way more fun. It was already a tongue-in-cheek-ism to ascribe what I really do believe is a strong foundational idea (not just in project planning, but in life) to a character in a children's movie.

By the way, I tracked this back to at least one earlier use of a similar construction (which maybe is implied to be the basis of its use in AA) by Carl Jung:

> But if you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.

Excerpted from: https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/12/07/carl-jung-next-rig...

But I suspect this is an even older, indeed timeless, idea. But ascribing it to a modern well-known movie character makes it more fun and memorable :)
Thank you for taking the time to write such a long and informative reply. I found it enlightening.
About 9 years ago, I consulted for a company that had a bad internal hack - disgruntled cofounder. Basically, a dead man’s switch was left that copied out the first 20mb of every disk to some bucket and then zeroed out. To recover the data we had to use test disk to rebuilt the partition table… but before doing that we didn’t want to touch the corrupted disks so we ended up copying out about 40tb using rescue flash disks, nectat and drive (some of the servers had a physical raid with all slots occupied so you couldn’t use some free had slots). Something along the lines of dd if=/dev/sdc bs=xxx | gzip | nc -l -p 8888 and the reverse on the other side. It actually worked surprisingly well. One thing of note,try combinations of dd bs to match with sector size - proper sizing had a large impact on dd throughput
That data is in fact orthogonal to my point, for two reasons:

1. When we are talking about wealth and power that actually can influence the quality of the lives of many other people, we are talking about way less than 0.01% of the population. Those people aren't covered in this survey, and even if they were it would be impossible to identify on an axis spanning 0-100%.

2. Your linked article talks about income. People with significant wealth and power frequently have ordinary or below-ordinary income, for tax reasons.
> Can I use my banking software with all the security bells and whistles?

Most custom ROMs(including official LineageOS) are as secure, usually even more, than OEM ROMs. There is just one threat model where it is weaker, which is the evil maid. But it is safer on all the other ones (the evil metro wifi, the evil video, the evil app...). (and personally I take the metro everyday, while taking my shower while I have a maid home just doesn't happen)

As for whether banking apps will work, it's entirely dependant on whether your back is trying to serve their customers or not. Most banks I use work just fine on custom ROMs without hacks. But for instance Google Pay is skimming down on costs, and users pay the price for it.
That's a very weak argument in favor of apple, and I respectfully disagree. Just another variation of 'think about the children' meme without much substance, repeated in every single apple discussion ad nausea.

Look, you lock your phone as much as you like, your device, your choices (here we are already very far from apple mindset). Why the obsessive need to push this on literally everybody and not even giving the choice? Maybe you have some serious impulse control issues, but most of us don't.

It can even be part of purchase process - choose ultra secure more locked down model, or on-your-risk more free.

But we all know all this is just about 1 singular thing - revenue via customer/market capture. Oracle stuff indeed.
So that’s paying others to create garbage that takes resources to ship around, and was manufactured with bottom barrel labor and environment standards and also likely contains high levels of formaldehyde or other contaminants. And in many cases rips off American IP and undercuts places that aren’t cutting all the corners.

Yes it’s a “fine” if a few million Americans support that… no issues at all.
Instead of expecting AI to perform every task, why not every task that's not really related to what we wish to do?

> "It is a profoundly erroneous truism ... that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought ... must only be made at decisive moments." — ANW
No one should see a chiropractor thinking they are seeing a doctor
Short-term forecasts (1-2 days) seem more accurate than ever. However, weather as a business has meant a race at both ends of the forecast spectrum. Apps now offer minute by minute forecasts on the one hand or 10 and 15 and even 90 day forecasts on the other. Neither of those forecasting models are anywhere near ready for prime time but there is a market demand for them, so they get put out there anyway.
I'm in London, where I earn enough to rent a 2-bed 700sqft flat. Not exactly retraining for years money. But in any case, I think I'll be fine, it's others I'm worried about. I grew up in a poor rural area - I've seen what sudden unemployment does to people, even if they are smart and motivated.
For a smartphone, I can pick between 2-3 (depending how you count) major OSes, tons of different hardware vendors for the non-Apple ones, one app store if it's Apple or any source if it's not, whichever cloud any third-party app uses or no cloud if I desire, and a lot of popular third-party alternatives to the native apps.

All that choice is already there, just for a phone. Previously you'd choose a flip-phone and have it all locked together, including with the carrier.
They did finally kick their fork of Adobe's Type 1 Font Manager out of the Kernel in recent years (somewhere in the middle of Windows 10 as I recall), so that's definitely a complication to expect.
Unfortunately this is backwards for me. My mac usage is direct download (when possible) for small developers, but get the advantages of the mac app store when using an app written from someone big. So if I were inclined to download something from Epic I'd want to use the app store anyway.

For phones though I don't have the tools I do on the mac (ios is too opaque) so if I couldn't get it from the Apple app store I just wouldn't download the app at all.
Not person you responded to but for me it needs to be able to connect to ollama api.
Yet again, bad time to be on the labor side of the equation, great time to be a capitalist. For us laborers, if I had to choose from a list of fields to go into, anything creative would be low on the list. 'Prompt Engineer' will be the only one left.

UBI is a pipe dream... it's not happening. The wealth and means of production won't be shared in any meaningful capacity. Wealth inequality can get a whole lot worse.
That wouldn't allow for empty fields.
Your view of "the EU" as some sort of personified and consistent entity, is very naive.

This legislation is primarily pushed by commercial interests.