skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Android user, yes Samsung has the superior HW like display and stuff, but Apple leads on SW, simplicity and ecosystem. If you already own a Mac computer then the choice is a slam dunk in favor of buying an Apple phone as well. There's no 1:1 equivalent ecosystem for PC/Android even though apps that replicate certain functions of the ecosystem exist: KDE Connect, Microsoft PhoneLink, Samsung whatever, they can never match what Apple does since neither of them owns the full SW & HW stack across phones and laptops plus the adjacent services like Music, video streaming, etc. Then there's the network lock-in effect of iMessage, in the US at least.

Samsung's HW and Android implementation and skin, is in many ways superior to Google's Pixel but the overall packaged is hammered thanks to their bloat trying to replace Google's apps with their own offers to replicate Apple's ecosystem but with Samsung apps instead of Google and it ends up with a confusing duplicate mess. Observe:

Google Chrome and Samsung Browser, Google Wallet and Samsung Pay, Google Keep and Samsung Notes, Google Drive and Samsung Cloud, Gmail and Samsung Mail, Google Photos and Samsung Gallery, etc.

Oh, and the "best" part is, the functionality of certain Samsung apps like Pay is region locked for some reason, so in some EU countries like Germany you can end up with Pay refusing to work if you didn't buy it locally(even though this is the EU so region shouldn't matter). So if you buy your Samsung phone online from some small retailer running a sale you need to make sure the retailer is selling the right SKU for your region otherwise you can end up with Pay refusing to work with some obscure error. Thanks Samsung, great UX. The EU should look into this and maybe fine them as well.
Ask HN: How do you optimize your focus?
There is no better feeling than being _in the zone_ for me. I forget to eat, to drink, to communicate. But besides through a fragile symphony music and totally empty surroundings (at home) or a busy café (with headphones) it seems really hard to trigger this flow state. Sprinkle some existential dread on top (due to the current employment situation...), and it becomes nigh-impossible.

So, HN, what are your tricks and hacks to _limitlesslify_ yourself? I'm becoming desperate.
NVMe over TCP encapsulates and shows me the remote device as is. Just a block device.

I just copy that block device with "dd", that's all. It's just a dumb pipe encapsulated with TCP, which is already battle tested enough.

Moreover, if I have fatter pipe, I can tune dd for better performance with a single command.
Flipper Zero firmware can also be flashed that way! Blew my mind in a similar way: https://github.com/flipperdevices/update.flipperzero.one
Partial reads won't corrupt the data. Dd will issue other read() until 1MB of data is buffered. The iflag=fullblock is only useful when counting or skipping bytes or doing direct I/O. See line 1647: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/dd.c#...
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I'd argue the practice of Apple, Google et al is still "growing by competing".

Without regulation on what defines acceptable competition, everything is acceptable competition.
Statements and axioms.
Merge two knowledge graphs, what can you reason about them?

IE people and obesity, people and mortality.
Can you find correlations between the two?

The next layer up is to prove the trust in the data and your insights.

Also you are a decade late, google already bought freebase and made schema.org
Is cleaning a car less expensive? I feel like it would be harder, just considering that it's a cramped space that seems difficult to scrub and full of stuff that is not easily washable.
That point is also a bit of a stretch.

While there are a few papers on using KG/Ontologies to enhance training, this is really far from the mainstream, and i would be surprised if it would be used anywhere (outside of a research paper)
Okay.

- Jeffrey Epstein (2019, US): no explanation needed.

- Michael Hastings (2013, USA): Journalist known for his critical reporting on the US military, died in a car crash consistent with a car cyberattack (maximum speed/brake tampering, body charred beyond recognition) amidst national security investigations he was involved in. Expressed concerns his car had been tampered with and that he was being targeted hours before his death.

- Alexander Perepilichnyy (2012, UK): Exposed a Kremlin-linked fraud scheme, died under mysterious circumstances while jogging in England shortly after.

- David Kelly (2003, UK): A British weapons expert embroiled in controversy over the UK government's Iraq war intelligence. Suicided two days after testifying in a forest outside his home.

- Gary Webb (2004, USA): Investigative journalist who exposed the CIA's connections to drug trafficking, died from two gunshot wounds to the head in what was ruled a suicide.

- Deborah Jeane Palfrey (2008, USA): aka the "DC Madam," operated an escort service, threatened to expose high-profile clients, was found hanged right before she could testify in court. Notably, she said publicly multiple times that she would never commit suicide. One of the girls under her employ was also suicided by hanging.
Looks good, although I'm a little bit sad about this web application trend.

I mean I get the ease of deployment -- just open the webpage and use it.

But this application is just temporary; it won't exist after 15 years; it will change into something else, or it will cease to exist. It will be impossible to use older version of it. It won't be possible to preserve it, emulate it. If the server is off, the application dies. In contrast, it's still possible to install the original Lotus 1-2-3, an application from 1983.

The amount of applications that I've seen which aren't available anymore (even to be seen) is staggering. I see it as a waste of resources. Webapps have their advantages, but I see their core trait as ephemeral -- that might be sometimes a good thing, but I see it as a disadvantage.
https://archive.is/jS5Ww
Which company makes better laptops than Apple?
According to the documentation of dd, "iflag=fullblock" is required only when dd is used with the "count=" option.

Otherwise, i.e. when dd has to read the entire input file because there is no "count=" option, "iflag=fullblock" does not have any documented effect.

From "info dd":

"If short reads occur, as could be the case when reading from a pipe for example, ‘iflag=fullblock’ ensures that ‘count=’ counts complete input blocks rather than input read operations."
Not just an indulgent consumer, but a more analytical consumer, too.
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Informative enough that you don't quote a single sentence and just put a link?
iPhones have better CPU/GPUs though.
This is not happening to Apple. Apple does it to themselves. They have every opportunity not to make it as painful for them as it is.

Android already allows alternative browsers and app stores. It might not be quite up to DMA but it hasn’t ruined Google/Android. It won’t ruin Apple either. They could’ve spun it as a big win same that did with the switch to USB-C. They could’ve complied quietly and it would disappear from news in a week. They make it a drama worth updating on every other day.
Exactly, not all of us on the left are that stupid. It's just that a particularly stupid faction of the left is drawing a lot of attention on that topic. The rest of us see the concept of "male women" being as ridiculous as the right-wingers do.
A lot of hassle compared to:

nbdkit file /dev/nvme0n1
nbdcopy nbd://otherlaptop localfile
Effectively, it does - one of the things recent releases of Julia have done is to add more precompilation caching on package install.
Julia 1.10 feels considerably snappier than 1.0 as a result - that "first time to plot" is now only a couple of seconds thanks to this (and subsequent plots are, of course, much faster than that).
> If I'm shopping at a retail store, even Walmart, there is a certain floor I expect to the quality of goods.

I once got a badminton birdie from Walmart that, when hit with a racket, rather than bounce and fly off across the court, fell rather lazily to the ground.

The floor for Walmart is pretty darn low.
Sounds great, will test it out directly an andoid app is released :)

Be able to transfer folder and not just files between devices wireless easy without internet would be amazing.
Social transmission of behavior in macaques has been documented since the 1950s. See the potato washing studies of Imanishi et al (ref. #9 in the main paper).
My great grandparents had a black and white TV when I was a toddler, and I'm 36!

The amount of change millennials and the generations before and after us have seen is boggling.

I was out in country Victoria, Australia a few months back and the internet was TERRIBLE. I'm talking, JPG's loading line by line terrible. And this was on 'alleged' 4G.

I felt pretty nostalgic for all of 2-3 minutes before I started pulling my hair out. I feel nostalgic about it again now.
I think that's kind of the point of the paper. The model is based on un-normalized dot products, and wasn't deliberately designed to produce meaningful cosine similarities. They are showing that, in that case, cosine similarities might be arbitrary and not as useful as people might assume or hope.
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Just to chime in on the 'alternate explanations', I think it's important for anyone with conspiracy ideas to remember that the case he was being questioned in was not an investigation into Boeings liability as an airplane manufacturer, but rather a civil suit he made against Boeing for defamation of character.
I imagine you just scrap the (assuming reasonably priced) car, who would want to use it afterwards?
Maybe the lesson is to analyze different business units (product categories?) independently first, then the whole.
Also less traumatic for your loved ones to replace a car than have to move houses because they can't get the image out of their mind.
In Hungarian, both are 'paprika'. But because the pepper itself is common outside of Hungary, most languages already have their own word for the pepper, and so the loan word 'paprika' is only used for the less common spice.

In Hungary, it's relatively uncommon to need to distinguish between the ground form and the vegetable form, as it seems to be some kind of folk knowledge imparted by generation DNA or something, but if you ever do need to, then the expression fűszerpaprika exists (meaning 'spice pepper').

We use the same word for bell peppers and black pepper, so it's not that big of a jump, just takes some getting used to.
Bytecode based execution goes back to the 1960's, yet another thing that WebAssembly advocates tend to forget when writing comments and blog posts about its greatness.
> like in marketing, the stat that matters first is overall net profit.

I have a take on that. The stat that matters is the profit per unit of non scalable business resource. As in how much management, marketing, sales, accounting, and engineering time does the product take per unit. It's important because those are often hard to scale. You can have a low margin product that requires zip of the above and it's good business. And the reverse, high margins but requires too much of the above and it's bad.
I think maybe it's poorly phrased. As far as I can tell, their linear regression example for eq. 2 has an unique solution, but I think they state I that when optimizing for cosine similarity you can find non-unique solutions. But I haven't read in detail.

Then again, you could argue whether that is a problem when considering very high dimensional embeddings. Their conclusions seem to point in that direction but I would not agree on that.
Doubt it has anything to do with sensibility. It’s typical protectionism of own domestic market under pretence of higher quality standards.

I bet UK has a good hold on domestic animal husbandry given the history and geography.
> Corporations are indeed a difficult alignment problem

No, it's a very easy alignment problem: just impose a tax on size.

That which you tax, you get less of. The tax is revenue-neutral, so it doesn't affect the government budget one way or the other. Full details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39236786

The problem is that the government likes gigantic corporations. Big Government and Big Business love each other. Fixing that is the alignment and agency problem. It's much easier for bureaucrats to exert control over a highly concentrated industry whose players can be "invited to the table". Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28588457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39162088

The hard alignment problem is making regulators want their own job to be herding 10,000 cats instead of 10 elephants. Everybody wants to be like the FAA regulating Boeing; nobody wants to be the USDA dealing with a million unruly and independent-minded farmers.
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That might be the case as long as he was not suicided.
Lenovo, Dell and others. Because they make laptos with matte screens.
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Essential tremor is a potential marker of prodromal Parkinson's, which has been fairly conclusively linked to gut microbiota alterations with evidence of dysbiosis, transmission to animals via PD feces, and improvement following FMT: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8007/3/3/67

Gut - and oral - dysbiosis have been linked to other neurodegenerative diseases as well, so I'd really encourage you to look into this avenue.
You're forgetting the one thing that sets Reddit apart. They get crazy people to perform moderation tasks for free. It turns out that a lot of people don't ask for a paycheck as long as you let them push their ideology on an entire subreddit.
Agreed, I was responding to the GP's mention of the recent 787 incident, a bit offtopic but more technically interesting; I don't believe it made the front page.
...it depends?
This is such a dangerously wise sounding, but selfzdestructive idea. It reminds me of an old torrent site which had the policy to upload more than you download, which lead to a stanstill, as that obviously isn't possible to achieve, and users getting angry at the best uploaders, as they "stole" upload from them...

Just imagine what it would look like if everyone on HN posted more than they read.
The scroll on this is horrible. Really hard to read.
Well, SQIsign signatures are about the same size (204 bytes) than RSA-2048 (256 bytes). So ok, but most people who care about size on the wire have moved to EC sigs, which are much smaller (64 bytes). And “fast to verify” is not really true: 50ms is not fast — both RSA and Ed25519 signature verification is <0.1ms.
Personally I have noticed that the limited times I entered the zone happened after midnight, which can become quite unhealthy if you get used to it, that is to work night owl hours.

I guess it has to do with how quiet and serene that time you can become, which helps you jump straight in the zone without even realizing it.

Should we call it "the vortex of absorption", LOL?! :D
Pick a random time, pick a random person, what are the chances they have a laptop with them? What are the chances they have a phone with them?
thanks for the tip!
Not tried watchtower yet since i just have to click an update button and a background task in "screen" will be start a docker pull of the full stack and also clean up. Also have that for the host.
I don't now what watchtower is doing better, but since some project come with breaking changes i need to decide when to update...
Anyway update notifications are nice to have.
I can't stand Android compared to iOS. I buy Apple stuff despite their corporate shenanigans. But Google and Microsoft are just worse. I also use Linux a lot in embedded and server roles, but in daily interaction, for now, a MacBook and an iPhone it is.
> As long as AIs don't play golf and don't have fathers, we are quite safe.

Until it becomes 'who you exchange bytes most efficiently with" and all humans are at a disadvantage against a swarm of even bellow average intelligence AGI agents.
I assume that those USB-C connectors were USB 4 or Thunderbolt, not USB 3.

With Thunderbolt and operating systems that support Ethernet over Thunderbolt, a virtual network adapter is automatically configured for any Thunderbolt connector, so connecting a USB C cable between 2 such computers should just work, as if they had Ethernet 10 Gb/s connectors.

With USB 3 USB C connectors, you must use USB network adapters (up to 2.5 Gb/s Ethernet).
> And at the moment, there are only two mobile computer makers. Apple and Google.

Who both heavily depend on Asian manufacturers that are also producing phones without either Apple's or Google's software bundled for their domestic market. E.g. Huawei is doing pretty well lately and they are no longer getting their software from Google.

The operating system moat that Apple and Google enjoy is a lot weaker than the current market suggests. Just because things haven't changed for a while doesn't mean they won't eventually change. A little nudging from judges might force this market to be more open.
Isn't `nc -l -p 1234 > /dev/nvme0nX` working by accident (relying on that netcat is buffering its output in multiples of disk block size)?
I mean, you kinda glossed over 1/3 of the issue... how do you quit “the entire world”? I think the person asking for advice wanted a real answer for “how can one deal with this difficulty”, especially because in the work situation, a new job won’t necessarily make any difference in terms of the internal struggles.
There is surely a simple reason for this, like some app for the both platforms being incompatible with others.

Whatever it might be, each company and individual is free to choose where he/she/it goes, to whom it speaks, how it's spend it's money or even decide on who to serve and who not. There's no right for being talked to or to be done business to. Just slurp it down and go to next hospital.
And since Teams' launch the competitors have also gone full trash, so it all works out for MS. Maybe Hey/Basecamp's new idea ends up being something, but for now it's all kinda clunky Electron apps.
Estrogens tell the body's tissues to 'swell and divide'. It's a stress hormone, for both women and men.

Advocates for hormonal birth control have an unstated rule: 'do not talk about the problems of hormonal birth control'.

It's farcical that preteen and teenage girls are commonly put on birth control by their doctor becuase they're having very difficult periods, not because they don't want to get knocked up by their 7th-grade classmate.

Lots of women I know trialed and discontinued birth control. I've found lots of reports from women who didn't realize how adversely they'd been affected by these pills, until they discontinued after a decade+ had passed...
Good luck on your mission! As a kid/teenager who grew up creating animations and games on Flash (from v2 to v5) I've always felt that since then only the people really into animation have been able to play with it, the tools are not approachable, you need to learn a lot before you can do the basics which were quite straightforward with Flash.

I really hope Trangram gets some traction so you have the time and resources to further develop it, it's a tool that has potential to make the world a nicer place :)
This is my attempt at running Github Actions locally on arm and arm64:

https://github.com/mutablelogic/docker-action-runner

Running the actions in a docker container is not ideal by any means. The authors of Github Actions do not have a stable API between the actions runner and whatever triggers them on their server side; you need to keep the docker container up-to-date every few months, it's not a "fire and forget" thing.
And Microsoft and Google both stopped their extortionate egress fees thanks to EU

Turns out one does not need to let big tech do whatever they want at others expense after all
The link redirects to google.com
> Unfortunately iMovie is still in a different league to Kdenlive or Shotcut. Think iPhone vs iPAQ.

if you need a feature set like iMovie, why not use davinci resolve? its available on linux. not open source but neither is imovie
Sure. I guess this explains the size of the US prison population.
Personally, looking at the modern B&G devices[1], I find their UI pretty slick. Also super nice to get all needed information by just glancing at the display

[1]: https://www.bandg.com/zeus-s/
Looks very nice. Is this on webgl?

Speaking as a non-professional JS programmer, where can I read about how to architect a program like this where you select a tool, then that tool lets you draw (or do something) on canvas. Another tool, has a different behavior to mouse click/movement while initial placement and later editing of the nodes. Architect it in such a way that its not a long list of if statements for state management.

The recently shared Eloquent Javascript[0] had chapter 19 making a pixel editor. That seems to be a good approach, but then I wouldn't know any better. Any recommended reading or small size sourcecode that one could read and learn?

[0] https://eloquentjavascript.net/19_paint.html
As far as I can read into it, this is 95% metaphor and 5% "use a master database but call it a distributed system".

> What replica sets using Paxos and Raft propose is that you will literally deal with one master server and try to keep backup copies of an entire database aligned independently. When a master dies or fails, the clients try to decide on a new leader so that they are all talking to the same server. This leads to a delay in which no one can write.

No comment on Raft, but "a master" only exists in Paxos if you invent one. Any client can talk to any Proposer (which will then try to reach a quorum of Acceptors & Learners). Losing just one Paxos node will not result in a partition, so you can still operate happily with availability and consistency.

> There's no particular need to replicate a whole database if we only want to share a few records. Granularity is the answer to scalability and reliability.

Lots of data, lots of CAP tradeoff. Not much data, not much CAP tradeoff.

> In IT, correct values are assumed to be the latest values. It’s a race to be last, because the last value wins by overwriting and obliterating what came before. So if you have an evil demon flooding the system with nonsense, you’re in trouble.

Paxos itself does not allow for overwriting of values (Learners do not change their mind about the value of a given key.) In order for 'obliteration' to occur, you need to augment your key with a version number or timestamp - something that a downstream system could interpret to mean as "happened after".
Customers don't care who has a better CPU or GPU. They care that the phone does what they want and gives them a good experience. Not saying the GPU or GPU doesn't affect that, but I think we're to the point where phone performance (at least at the higher end, where both Samsung and Apple live) isn't much of an issue anymore.

Having a better screen and camera, like GP points out? Yeah, that's something actually important to customers.
Latency improved for everyone, but overall average latency increased because usage increased faster in high latency areas. That's Simpson's Paradox. Simpson's Paradox doesn't care where the subpopulations you're measuring came from.