skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and aggressively chases him

It's definitely not aggressively chasing him. Snakes are way less aggressive than the average person realizes. The problem is that we are huge to snakes. So while we're thinking, "Oh, shit! This snakes is chasing me!" The snake is thinking, "I gotta hide! Quick to these two big rocks right near me. Wait! The rocks keep lifting and moving away! I gotta get to them!"

90% of the time when someone thinks they're being chased by a snake, it's either:

1. You are between the snake and where it knows shelter is (water, cover, hole, etc.).

2. There is no visible shelter nearby and the snake thinks your legs are a place to hide.

I've spent a lot more time around snakes than most, including many venomous ones in the wild, and I've never been "chased". Snakes are small animals with very limited energy budgets. To them, you are a giant monster running on high octane fuel. All they want is to get away from you as easily as possible so they can go back to running in low power mode until prey comes along. They don't have the inclination or energy to tussle with you.
Some of them do! Go check out a Huawei store, or, to a lesser degree, a Samsung one.

It's true that it might not apply to all their products, because they also cater to people without 6-figure USD equivalent incomes, but you can buy the expensive stuff.
I’m not talking about physics being different in different places. I’m talking about the signal we are getting from far away quite likely being altered between its origin and when it gets to us.

Different branches of science have vastly different degrees of certainty. I don’t feel there is sufficient effort put towards communicating this well to the public, especially with respect to the Big Bang, and that annoys me because lay people seem to use it as a factual version of an origin myth when really it probably isn’t any more factual than any other random myth you could pick.

It’s very irresponsible to replace the cultural origin myth, which is psychologically important to humans. The whole “explosion from nothing” myth may actually be contributing to modern people’s feelings of meaninglessness.
This explains one of the more bizarre sightings I've made on a roadtrip. Halfway from Houston to some no-name hamlet in the middle of the state I spotted an ostrich running down the opposite shoulder of the highway. A quarter mile later I spotted a dude trying to run in cowboy boots, 100 yards farther a cowboy hat on the ground, and just a little further a dually with an open livestock trailer parked at a rest stop with no driver and no livestock present.
> why is that?

Because the same group of people that hate the tax office and a working healthcare system also have a deep pathological fear of the underclasses rising up. And the only thing that will protect them from this is a gang of uniformed thugs.

That group also holds ~half the political power in the country.
The way to counteract AI influence is to view the world as Bayesian and incorporate many different opposing views. I read both Russian and Western views of the Ukraine war on Telegram channels for example that regularly contradict each other. When I start reading something and I experience cringe, I view that as a positive signal that I'm getting information from a different perspective that I should evaluate and update my priors.
> IPhone is a status symbol.

Maybe for some but not for everyone.
In the past you could trust that your phone works 7 years instead of 2 years by having software updates. It also is very stable on software side.

I have saved so much money by buying iPhone and using it for more than 5 years.

> Chat GPT has proven people are willing to spend $20 a month on AI that doesn't even hook up to your email, calendar, or files.

The biggest benefit for paying is the large rate limit and the best accuracy on the market. Copilot is useless with 30 responds per day.
This is VERY bad engineering practice, you throw away knowns for unknowns. A blue sky design isn't a fix. Especially if your corporate culture has the wrong leadership. First year engineers take engineering economics for a reason. Money is always an object.
Jesus Christ, that's horrible. It's something a clever fourth-grader would write.

> my first stint with a hard-on over a clever metaphor

That's all it is.
bingo.

so many companies raised on sky high evaluations in the '21-'22 vintage, that its going to be a tough ask to keep going now the market has reset and valuations returned to the mean.
Has to be a creative retelling of a Simpsons episode.
> Good thing you are NAL

I'm offended. Presumably if I was AL I would have gotten it right.
(For text processing, I use octal \034 all the time.)

Perhaps there is a software developer version of "Needs more cowbell" called "Needs more complexity"

Computer languages generally use the Latin alphabet. And even in a case like APL, which some HN commenters call "hieroglyphics", the number of symbols is limited and each is precisely defined (cf. potentially up to 1.1 million Unicode symbols and "emojis" that are open to interpretation).
I think the people who are plugged into avherald.com and trying to prove how much they know about aviation are in a worse state, because they're missing the fact that through MCAS and the plug blowout that Boeing's culture really can't be trusted right now. You're very concerned about the fact that you've been studying dendrology and correcting people about the species and nature of the trees when the forest is just on fire. And I can connect this back to problems with our entire management class, which you can't reach when you're just looking at the technical details and frequency of aviation accidents. There's a way to be incurious about the overall sociological and political environment by overly focusing on detailed technical knowledge.

And I'm acknowledging that they may be "innocent" in this case (in the sense that these kinds of things are expected across all of commercial aviation). I'm not arguing that I know they're guilty and being completely incurious. But my default hypothesis with Boeing has shifted to guilty until proven innocent, and in the absence of conclusive evidence to assume guilt. That isn't actually incurious, since I'm willing to listen to evidence. But the argument that "things like this happen all the time" isn't actually evidence, that's just a rationalization.

And it is okay to stop giving people the benefit of the doubt when they've proved in the past that they don't deserve it. That's just healthy psychological defenses. You move them from the box where they get the benefit of the doubt, over to the box where they don't. To argue nobody should ever do that is to argue that everyone should constantly get manipulated and taken advantage of because this time Lucy isn't going to pull the ball away from Charlie Brown.
The submitted title ("Dutch gov. proudly announces it will tap Europe's largest internet exchanges") badly broke HN's title guideline, which asks: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Seems to be the case, to some degree. My SSD is 8% slower doing random writes. I guess your mileage may vary.
Do you block your engineers from using S3 or other cloud services?
Also don't forget at least 40% of the board, employees, and other shareholders are ADAMANT that the internal armed tribe which is actively harming everyone in retribution are actually the good things, call them a tiny cyan boundary, keeping the world from anarchy.

Speaking of crimes, I've murdered this analogy
That would imply that my entire career didn't exist!

Hmmm, wonder what I've been hallucinating about for the last 30 years.
There is a ton of literature about cicadas and prime numbers. Experts definitely lean towards the primes emerging from natural selection indeed.
How does someone not in the EU get this?

I wonder what Apple's line is to justify not making this open for everyone
Depends, the "optimal" forecast can be very sensitive to the scoring metrics used.

E.g. Darwin in Australia's tropics - persistence forecasting (as you describe above, just predicting the weather the day before) does very well on a metric like 'mean absolute error'. But has no practical skill at forecasting a severe tropical cyclone (aka hurricane/typhoon)! Many are willing to accept some level of false positives and a higher mean absolute error, because the cost of a surprise cyclone is so devestating.
The front and sides are basically an exact knockoff of the Taycan. This is so common amongst Chinese EV brands, they make a carbon copy of two different car models and use the front half from one of the two and the back from the other.
Not really though in my personal experience. You only need to learn conventions about how to say currency values out loud because you enter the numbers at a register and it presents you with a total that you read out like, "That'll be twenty-one oh seven," or, "twenty one dollars and seven cents please." All the money handling and change making you do in numbers in your head.
The movie LA Story comes to mind where the TV forecaster prerecords their weather reports.
My understanding is that the customer of a service (like Twitter or an ISP) can sometimes file a motion to quash a subpoena given to their service provider. It depends on the jurisdiction and the nature of the case, however.
I think it means "for any given point in the specified area, and for any given point in time, p(rain)=50%

So it of course won't rain for exactly 50% of the time on a given day, but over the long run, it will.
There is literally nothing that can win against national security as "state actors (Russia, China, even mentioned in the text) trying to sabotage your infrastructure - look we have evidence but we're not gonna share it with the public".
Hijacking planes was another popular route.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_1...
OK, but that wasn't my intent. I really meant who are we (the US) to criticize the Netherlands when we are doing the same ourselves (and not even fully admitting it). But, I can see that if you are from the Netherlands yourself, then you may very much want to - and have every right to - criticize it! Sorry.
Influencer Andrew Tate will be extradited to U.K
and then feast on some BK
Why do I want games and apps inside Discord?
Let's compete with Tiktok on merit, not a targeted law. This seems wholly unfair, and for any US citizen, the bigger danger is the US government and its access to Meta/Google/etc data on its own citizens than what the Chinese government can do to Americans living in American.
> For your safety, of course.

I know they have ulterior motives for their walled garden, but this is a product of said garden. The App Store is by far much safer to use than Google's Play Store. Plus the parental controls on android are essentially non-existent.

I'm happy in this walled garden.
Wow! I used to use fractint ages ago, and I thought "tint" was for colors...
Counterpoint: My bank, which has next to no physical branches, no longer permits depositing a check from a desktop. I must either use the phone app, or mail the check in.
oh... also the article does try to take into account the varying rates apple charges and notes that despite the exceptions the true figure is likely much closer to 30% than the lower rates.
There is a crisis going on with lonely and addicted men
something something security
Apple Weather uses your precise location if you allow it to, meaning it knows your location down to a meter, network and positioning issues etc notwithstanding. It doesn't have to guess your weather based on "Toronto", it knows your GPS coordinates. There is no technical limitation here, as I outlined in a separate comment thread [0], other apps already give you weather data and predictions with this granularity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39683660
The location data from your PC, for example, is not nearly as sensitive as a phone.
Unbelievable. Glad you made it.
So can you find other real example, since this one is invalid because of Epic lawsuit. All Apple fans name Facebook so please show us the Facebook example or maybe shut up about Facebook and use a real example not imagined ones.
Curious what folks think about this versus cedar (https://www.cedarpolicy.com/), the open source policy engine behind aws verified permissions.
There must be a bug in this generator because I keep seeing those long lines of same-color pixels... pseudo-random, maybe?

Should have used the lava-lamp number generator.......
> So no, if I'm a good author i dont need their so called 'services'. I want my money upfront.

I guess it depends on how much money is on offer, and how much money the author already has. If the advance is $500k and the royalties could otherwise pay $750k, perhaps there won't be many takers. But if the royalties could be $1.5M, there will be some confident authors who would prefer to take the risk and hope for a big payoff.
> it will probably mostly help big picture architecture devs compete with people who are really good at Leetcode type algorithm stuff.

The competition should be happening in the other direction.
>Yes. The SLO grad will always get the leg up Dallas westwards.

Completely fair, this is indeed a California/SV problem in particular.
When did the US take it over?
We’ll be writing a lot in the near future about how Antithesis works, stay tuned :)
Any big company has numerous data access restrictions. Some of them are obligatory and external, or required for certification. Even basic HDD/SSD decommission and transfer between projects strongly implies that old data was not stored as clear text.
On Dec 2nd 2016 the FAA had issued their airworthiness directive AD 2016–24–09 summarizing: "We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all The Boeing Company Model 787–8 and 787–9 airplanes. This AD requires repetitive cycling of either the airplane electrical power or the power to the three flight control modules (FCMs). This AD was prompted by a report indicating that all three FCMs might simultaneously reset if continuously powered on for 22 days. We are issuing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products."
Incredible - they guy got his freedom. These stories are as inspiring as they are tragic.
The fact is that very people have been killed by Boeing planes, and you won't be killed in one either.

The FAA's job is to prevent that - to stop it before it happens. I don't at all object to them grounding planes.
I am sure it is there to stay as no other thing is going to stay forever as much as “temporary” law giving authorities more power.
Because they don't have the numbers to matter, that's why. I know it can be hard to keep several distinct conditions in the head at once, but it's important to remember that just because one can satisfy a single condition does not mean a law which requires several conditions to be true will necessarily apply.
It’s one of those situations where the latency, packet loss and jitter really does kill you!
I'd even be willing to pay the $99 a year, I just want the signature to last longer than a week, ideally forever. For years when I don't feel like updating the app, I won't pay the developer membership fee.
How TikTok Was Blindsided by a U.S. Bill That Could Ban It
Store now, decrypt later?

Metadata analysis on netflow, source and destination traffic, etc.

Most people still don't use VPNs for everything, and some services outright block or degrade VPN connectivity. Two notable examples are most banks, and 4chan.

I firmly believe 4ch is a Honeypot.
What would a murder in space look like?
As a Tech Lead I feel more like a manager and I hate it
“Why are people buying safer cars than the brand I am emotionally attached to?”

Read through what’s actually happening:

https://developer.apple.com/support/web-distribution-eu/

> Apps offered through Web Distribution must meet Notarization requirements to protect platform integrity, like all iOS apps, and can only be installed from a website domain that the developer has registered in App Store Connect.

If you can’t see a safety benefit, go look at the Windows or Chrome extension malware industry and the billions of dollars it costs people every year. You don’t have to like Apple or agree with everything they’re doing to understand that there is a real problem here.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/how-tiktok-was-blindsided-by-a-u-s-...
I worked in IT, with people that played dirty. Used to have to record my Teams calls with Amarok, since they wouldn't hang on calls that were recorded via Teams, and "off the record" would promises us stuff that they then would re-neg on like their bonus depended on it.

A different person, also a dirty-player, accused my boss of trying to sandbag her, and threatened to play the race card and get him buried for it. my boss said something to the effect of "you know that's not true, as does everyone on this call" and her reply was "lol who cares, we know who HR will side with".

There was an HR complaint, and I eventually dragged out the recording to cover my boss. Boss got a light talking to but they let him off, and the shady PM eventually got rotated, two months later, to another project before "deciding to spend time with her family".

I got reprimanded heavily, transferred off a juicy project, and made to sign another round of NDAs. Even though I just saved them from one, maybe two lawsuits.

Point is: HR doesn't do happy endings most of the time.
Last time I was using Bevy I had a cleanup system to solve exactly that issue. It queried for entities with the AssociatedWithState component, or whatever I called it, and destroyed any where the was a mismatch.

I could see an efficient version of that being a nice thing to have built in, though. It’s definitely a very common thing.
> I do know it's an entirely unnecessary ingredient in hummus, so why would you want something that unneeded?

Hummus itself is entirely unnecessary for humans to consume. Why would I even consider eating it? Maybe because it tastes good and has a texture people enjoy? Maybe guar gum improves the texture to the food? I don't know, I'm not really a big fan of hummus, so I can't speak to whether or not guar gum makes it better or worse. But I imagine the people selling it determined people tend to enjoy the hummus with the guar gum more. They didn't just include it in there because they're an evil megacorporation out to control the world by adulterating hummus with guar gum, they put it in there because in the end they thought they'd sell more hummus.

If the yardstick of what we should eat is based entirely of if its "necessary", most things people generally consider fine wouldn't make the cut. Once again, its not necessary for me to put cinnamon in my oatmeal, should I stop doing that? Its not necessary for me to put red pepper flakes in my pasta sauce, should I stop doing that?

You can make a cake without egg in it, its not "necessary". It won't be the same as a cake with egg in it, but it can still be something sweet, kind of bready, and edible. But I'll continue to put egg in most of my cakes even though its not strictly "necessary" to make something edible.

From your article trying to define ultra-processed:

> The term “ultra-processed” was coined to refer to industrial formulations manufactured from substances derived from foods or synthesized from other organic sources. They typically contain little or no whole foods, are ready-to-consume or heat up, and are fatty, salty or sugary and depleted in dietary fibre, protein, various micronutrients and other bioactive compounds.

Isn't pre-roasted, pre-ground coffee beans made in a factory "industrial formulations manufactured from substances derived from foods"? They're not whole foods anymore, they're ready to consume or heat up, you're brewing it to get the fats out of it, depleted of the original fiber, doesn't have anywhere near the protein content of the original bean, and roasting destroys a lot of the original micronutrients of the original bean. Sure seems to me roasted ground coffee beans meet the definition of ultra-processed laid out by your source.
A more catchy title would've been "Weather has become more predictable".
My argument is we regulate these companies and not others because these are important to society, yes. Same as we regulate phone companies or the internet.

We can't allow two global multinationals to gatekeep this much of our modern lives and simply do nothing about it. Or we could, but we don't want to.

Apple and Google can leave the market if they don't like the rules.
> Editors highlight matching braces

Until it doesn’t fit on the page anymore so you can’t see the highlight

> parser will typically fail if they are mismatched.

The concern is that your braces are technically matched, but not in the intended way, which happens a lot. Probably more than tab errors in python in my experience
Had to look this one up, "libSQL" is the name of Turso's own one-way-compatible fork of SQLite.
This is exactly my experience. Furthermore, I've become acutely aware that spending time prompting either a) prevents me from going down rabbit holes, all but denying me the kind of learning that can only really happen during those kinds of sessions, and b) prevents me from "getting my reps in" on stuff that I already know. It stands to reason that my ability to coax actually useful information out of LLMs will atrophy with time.

I'm quite wary of the long-term implications and downstream effects of that occurring at scale. AI is typically presented as "the human's hands are still on the wheel," but in reality I think we're handing the wheel over to the AI -- after all, what else would the endgame be? By definition, the more it can do without requiring human intervention, the "better" it is. Even if replacing people isn't the intention, I fail to see how any other effect could usurp that.

Assuming AI keeps developing as it has been, where will we be in 20 years? 50? Will anyone actually have the knowledge to evaluate the code it produces? Will it even matter?

Perhaps it's because Dune is in the air, but I'm really feeling the whole "in a time of increased technology, human capabilities matter more than ever" thing it portrays.
This view of spreadsheets is 100% accurate, beautiful, and inspiring. Spreadsheets have brought the power of computation to everyone.

... but I love to contrast this view with the behavior that Joel Spolsky observed: "... We visited dozens of Excel customers, and did not see anyone using Excel to actually perform what you would call 'calculations.' Almost all of them were using Excel because it was a convenient way to create a table. [snip] Suddenly we understood why Lotus Improv, which was this fancy futuristic spreadsheet that was going to make Excel obsolete, had failed completely: because it was great at calculations, but terrible at creating tables, and everyone was using Excel for tables, not calculations." https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/how-trello-is-diff...
Makes sense, I drive in the sim way way more than real life and I get sick in the car now due to visual differences. My spouse has to drive most places.
Sure, that's why I said, "for me".

Perhaps there are many more, perhaps I'm an outlier, and maybe some HN threads might uncover a which (sometimes happens).

Apple’s requirement that you already have a lot of downloads pretty much defeats the support for small indie developers. But I doubt many people care much about supporting them anyway.
Right. It's not like they can form a cartel and collectively decide how long a brake pad should last, just like the incandescent light bulb cartel [1] of the early 20th century or the NAND flash memory cartel of the 21st century.

Mate you're far too naive to believe what you're saying.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel