skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And just to be clear, in C++ a "bad unwrap" could become an exploitable gadget in arbitrary code execution or bypassing security checks or literally any really serious issue. Also, the same issue would show up as any one of N failures and may even be missed.

In Rust it would manifest as a DOS attack vector and the issue would be blamed to the bad unwrap 100% of the time.

So the C++ case the possible failure modes are arbitrarily serious vulnerability with poor observability and difficulty finding it. In Rust that failure mode is a mild generally non-exploitable vulnerability* that 100% of the time fails in the exact same way making monitoring & detection trivial.

* Yes, it could be a single stage of an exploit where you take down 1 service which opens up another vulnerability. But that's still a more expensive exploit (in terms of $ to discover) than if you had this problem in C++.
What happens when Meta, X, Google et al. move to their own stores where they distribute apps unencumbered by Apple's privacy policies? Your relatives then contact you and insist that you flip the switch for them so they can install Facebook and Instagram from the Meta store so they can continue scrolling cat memes.

I have yet to hear a convincing argument (from multi-store proponents) about how to prevent this. If the big social media companies pull their apps from Apple's official store and move to their own stores (with unfettered access to spy on users) then they will be successful at dragging their users with them. Furthermore, there is no evidence that GDPR has had any success stopping them from siphoning up all the data they want.
* After some reflection I can see that this is too early to show. There should be publicly available links.

Will work on that before posting again - sorry everyone!
The Game Boy Color's ability to select a color palette for GB games (from 12 built-in palettes) that didn't have their own was a good way to teach 8-year olds about how color really works in games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Color#Color_palettes
> it's all about maintaining their app store monopoly.

Does this only makes sense if you assume payments are tied to the App Store? They aren’t.

If you remove payments from your list of motivations, what do you presume Apple’s motivation is to encourage apps to list themselves on the App Store and not a third-party marketplace?
A DOS attack is still a security vulnerability, but as I describe above it's still a better failure mode than you get with C++.
> Even the King James Bible has been colorized for... some reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript

For hundreds of years people have been putting a large about of effort into coloring in bibles. As far as I know the book itself doesn't endorse the practice.
Here is a screen recording including this hacker news post + your comment & and a switch to the app store with the search phrase. The first result is the scam app. I scrolled down so you can see where serious apps are in the list of results.
https://streamable.com/q2mulu
Lack of a pointer stick is a 100% a showstopper for me.

I can't stand using a trackpad.
I used one long ago: I remember that, as with the TRS-80 model 100, the keyboard was outstanding.
What if this is a boring business text summary task that takes additional hours of my time at work? Why should I waste my time? I have better things to do. I can leave early while you sit there at work typing like a fool.
The users who want to use that app, should get to use that app. If there's content on the app that breaks the law, that content can be addressed directly. This thankfully will be a very politically costly move if they pull it off. Millions of people will be pissed, and they will be right to be.
Is it safe to assume this is the same float16 that exists in Apple m2 chips but not m1?
Surprisingly low signal-to-noise ratio for most of the common, creative ways people come up with to detect rain. Windshield wipers on cars are another example.

The thing is, even if you did have a super reliable in situ "rain detector", how do you combine it with the existing datasets like weather radar, which is a gridded product? This is actually a really, really difficult sensor fusion problem when you then super-impose product requirements like the general location real-time detection map and the inputs necessary for whatever internal nowcasting system they use.
Kant's Categorical Imperative: Act the way you want others to act
That's essentially how the UK does motorway junctions. Lanes go to different places, road signs a few miles in advance and written in white on the lanes. Generally we don't bother with the U turn options as relatively few people want to go in the opposite direction.

If it looks like magic, your country is doing this wrong.

Benefits of said junction include noone needing to slow down. Drawbacks include some fraction of people accidentally going in a direction they didn't want, using quite a lot of land, general construction cost.
How people use music to optimize their cognitive performance (2021)
When going to a restaurant you should include transport costs and time wasted with transport and waiting. Cooking at home can be an efficient pipeline where you have full control of inputs while saving money and time. I was frustrated because I wanted to pay for convenience but in my case I found it to be non-convenient.
I have mapped every AWS data center globally, and I worked at AWS.

Facebook publishes this data.
Apples app store is way worse than the google play store. i was shocked at how bad the app store is with shitty ads and promoted content over organic search results
This is incorrect unless you're shifting topics to whether we trust MS, Apple, or Google's data collection more.
Consider these two statements:

1) I happy having a walled garden, I feel safe

2) I am happy being imprisoned in a walled garden with no door, I feel safe
The problem is not (only) the context size, it's (for lack of a better word) focus. GPT4 can easily get lost in too much information and produce results that don't work well (duplicate code or just incoherently solving a problem), and it needs a lot of handholding.

Imagine GPT4 (or any other LLM) as a very eager but not very bright junior developer that just started to work with you. It's good, but it'll need a lot of situational management for it to not go wildly off the track.

What improved models will bring us in the future is making Pythagora and other such tools work better for large and more complex projects. The tipping point will come when for example you'll be able to load Pythagora in Pythagora and continue development. While we do build some auxiliary/external tools with Pythagora, the core is still handcrafted mostly by a human, and I'm pretty sure that's the case with other code gen tools as well.
I bet you have been waiting years to pull that one out of your pocket.

Well played sir! Nice shot man! :D
meta has the Quest.
It's not so bad that they're looking to create an LPU for their headset to offer local play.
ASML's threat to leave uncovers deeper concerns in Netherlands Inc
There isn't a vector where after-action reports like this could "improve the model." That data is useful for verification, but these systems generally have no learning component to feed the data back into them to improve them.
Two versions of the video. This one shows the click: https://youtube.com/shorts/dXZQMkPJkXg?si=hsL8fUirHZj3DMG5
I also misread your point. Is watchOs and tvOS targeted by this ? I thought they were exempt, the same way macOS is exempt.

As I read it they're subject to the anti steering and alternative PSP ruling, but not app downloads nor alternative app stores.

That's two limitations the other platforms don't have.
You can just map them all... I have. I also worked at AWS :)
Oh wow. This would be great to have in North America because I own my phone and stuff.
Text-only, works where archive.md and archive.is are blocked:

x=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-double-brood-of-periodical-cicadas-will-emerge-in-2024/
wget -U "" -qO/dev/stdout $x \
grep -Eo "<p class=\"article__block-KZIY9.+</p>" \
|sed 's/Follow Us:.*//' > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
Not sure about Earthly as I’ve never used it, but for Nexus and other artifactory solutions around package repos:

1. Don’t need to set up anything. No need to set up an apt repo and push packages or configure a mirror, because StableBuild already caches the complete registry and thus has everything.
2. Don’t need to think about the complete package list when pushing files to artifactory. Have packages cached from 3 months ago, now want to add another one? Oops, not in Nexus, and the current versions in the Ubuntu package registry are not compatible with your cached versions -> need to update the full dependency tree.
3. Integration is trivial. Three lines to your Dockerfile and done.
4. Can retroactively fix things. Knew that this container built 4 weeks ago? Ok use that as a pin date -> fixed.

Then there’s some stuff, like the immutable Docker pullthrough cache and history pypi mirror that I haven’t seen before (but I’d like to learn if others are doing this :-)).
You were right; that was a case of Simpson's paradox. Every category experienced a latency boost but the overall statistic worsened. Jevon's paradox is what caused the induced demand, but when the new usage data was gathered the initial review was an example of Simpson's paradox.

Effect of the change -> Jevon's paradox.

Measurement of Jevon's paradox -> Simpson's paradox (in this case, that isn't a general rule).

The fact that the two are easily linked is one of the reasons the statistical paradox is so common in practice.
I thought Windows had winget or something now?
You can state your vague opinions as facts all you want, but it doesn't make them facts.

Imagine if we wrote code the way we talk about political matters, where trying to be correct was considered wrong, worthy of punishment or banishment.

Or for a more apt analogy: imagine if the inaccuracy and untruthfulness in threads like this was tried in a thread about technology right here on HN: do you think that would stand unchallenged, and do you think those challenging untruths would be considered to be doing it wrong?

> You're not going to find quality education in North Korea. You will find it in Finland.

Is Finland the absolute pinnacle of what's possible?

And is there some reason the US cannot replicate across the country the quality offered there?

Perhaps I missed the class where we learned we should not think about such things - rather, whatever intuition pops into our minds is correct, necessarily.
https://archive.is/45EHM
The Sharp Memory LCD screen is opaque, unlike most other LCDs, so can't work with a backlight. It could work with a front/edge light but the results are not what you'd hope for.
The way I read the json standard, the only way to include control characters is to encode them as hex. For example BEL can be encoded as "\u0007", but escaping it by using a backslash followed by a literal BEL character is not allowed. So literal control characters should never be in json text.
I wouldn't consider 10MB/s high bandwidth. My home wifi network can comfortably handle 35MB/s, while a wired connection is 110MB/s+

> No, I didn't use compression. Would it be useful over a high-bandwidth connection?

Compression will be useful if you're IO bound as opposed to CPU bound, which at 10MB/s you definitely are.
Fair enough. I removed it and recorded the screen again:
https://streamable.com/y5nhy7
I don't know. I haven't actually worked with IB in this specific space (or since before Nvidia acquired MLNX). My experience with RoCE/IB was for storage cluster backend in the late 2010s.
Hopefully one of them was a pilot
Fantastic observation. I once saw someone calculating the sum of a column (just a few numbers, ok) with a calculator!
Release the pedal. Car figures out where the next car or stop line is (I think. Even when you're not using radar cruise control).
> Make of it what you will.

I see what you did here :)

Just replacing the word will with should could make that post work so much better.
(1) How much more valuable do you think it is to the scam app developer to appear at the top of the search results than for a legitimate wallet developer?

(2) Do you think a legitimate wallet app will engage in the same black-hat SEO tactics a scam app developer will?
Ask HN: My flat startup just became a pyramid. Now what?
I work at a startup that was, until recently, embarrassingly flat. No middle managers. But not because we were believers in consensus - we just had initiatives from the CEO and CTO, and a lot of people scrambling to achieve them.

To my eternal surprise, we're doing better than most of our competitors, we've grown 10x since I joined, and no layoffs are on the horizon.

I really thought I'd be leading a project by now or managing, and I essentially am! Just not officially.

So we're finally getting some structure. But not promoted from within. All hired from outside the company. We've gone from having no VP of anything to having Executive VPs who hire other VPs who hire Directors, in the space of a few weeks.

I really thought we were going to hear that our CEO had been fired by the board, but to my surprise he has not been.

I'm not sure what to think about it.

I'm looking for guidance from people who've experienced something similar. I've been through chaotic re-orgs, but those were at failing companies, with accompanying layoffs. This company is doing okay but it's suddenly transformed and I don't know if it's good or bad, or if my career prospects just became better or worse.
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I think the biggest contributors to cost are the Sharp Memory LCD screen, custom built crank, and the fact that you get 24 games included with the device. Regardless, it's absolutely worth it without a shadow of a doubt. There's nothing else like it.

Plus, it's the only way to play exclusive games of which there are many. My game YOYOZO was listed in Ars Technica's "Best Games of 2023" alongside several games by Nintendo.
A ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events
30% higher tyre wear vs 90% less brake wear && 100% less cancer fumes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Y1uAA-2Y

A good lecture by John L. Gustafson on beyond floating points?
Pretty much every brand or app I search for finds a competitor first. Searching for "robinhood" turns up an unaffiliated cryptocurrency app and "macrofactor" turns up a competing diet app, etc. App store search has been broken for at least a few years.
Related: http://uriel.cat-v.org/

And, well, I miss this guy even if I never met him.
That's why some EVs are moving back to drum brakes
When the Mac was introduced, there were two loud groups of people:

Those complaining bitterly that Apple had ruined the product by eliminating expansion cards, and holding the case shut with a special screw that needed an "only available from Apple" screwdriver.

And those who gladly bought the first computer that didn't need users to open up the case and mess around with expansion cards and dip switches and so on.

And so it goes.
If the argument is "the number of stores is not a useful metric", I agree.

If the argument is "Apple in particular has a huge vested interest in making sure that their first party App Store doesn't distribute malware", that's somewhat stronger.

I don't know which argument nektro was trying to make, I could read it either way.

Personally, I lean towards the point about vested interests, although it is only "lean towards" not "fully embrace": what they care about isn't strictly security, but their bottom line, and being a US company with US moral norms and US payment providers, this can also be observed in the form of their content rules — they seem to treat sex as a much more important thing to hide than violence[0]. This does not sit well with people like me who think violence is bad and sex is good.

[0] A bit over a decade ago, the app submission process flagged the word "knopf" in German translations, telling me it was a rude word and I might get in trouble if I was using inappropriate language. It's the German word for button… or knob (but in the sense of button, it's never a dick), and so I can only assume someone got a naughty words list in English and translated it literally rather than asking for a local list of naughty words.
Pretty cool. Swift is such a great little (little?) language, I'm always thrilled to see more of it outside of Apple stuff (which is not to say I don't also love it on Apple stuff)
The only Google application (besides Play store and all the stuff that's more or less part of the system) I use is Google maps and it doesn't require being logged.
That was Pascal not Twain.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Lettres_Provinciales

> The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Code listings show up just fine in Firefox 115.8.0esr on Linux
> It's an engineering problem and now that is been raised, we can find solutions.

Engineers won't be permitted to spend any time or dollars solving this till there is a law capping particulate emissions.
> The parent comment cited Web Distribution as evidence that Apple doesn't actually care about safety and security, when in fact Web Distribution is more secured than Marketplace distribution.

Which goes to the parent's point that their intent is to prevent competition. Otherwise why would the alternative need more onerous security measures, if not to act as a deterrent through friction?

> Read the DMA. It is very explicit that it expects Apple to maintain security of devices and apps.

It also says that the security measures have to be "strictly necessary" and "there are no less-restrictive means to safeguard the integrity of the hardware or operating system" and "[t]he gatekeeper should be prevented from implementing such measures as a default setting or as pre-installation" etc.

Which implies to me that you not only have to be able to turn them off, they have to be off by default.
People aren't going to want their parcels to take more time to be delivered
But is it even legally required for them to provide a stable 3rd party software support? That would be ridiculous. So if they put in the effort to provide such a base and open it to public, why can't they choose to be compensated for that work?

My problem can be summarized as (assume the company in question is not a monopoly):

* Is it illegal to sell a device with a microprocessor in it that has no support for 3rd party programmability? -> no, most digital devices are like this in fact.

* Is it illegal to sell a computing device and develop software in house for it? Maybe charge for some of it? Still with no 3rd party support? -> no it is not illegal.

* Is it illegal then, to contract other developers / companies to write that "in house" software for the device you are making? -> no that is not illegal

* Is it illegal to make agreements with other companies to buy software / programming services from them to include in your device? -> no that is not illegal

* Is it illegal to make agreements with other companies so that they can sell licenses to "unlock" their software in your device and get a cut from their sales? -> no it is not illegal

* Is it illegal to sell dev kits to the the above? So the device in question is still not a device you can develop on - but you can create another device where 3rd parties can develop on, and you can sell it to them. You can also pick and choose which companies you will work with. None of this is illegal.

* Is it illegal to automate all of the above? Provide low barrier to entry, no bureaucracy, if you want to develop for the device just do, pay us $100 a year, and give us a cut and you are golden! No need to get into direct contact with us, wait months to get our manual approval - we streamline everything and even the little guy can participate? -> HN thinks that this suddenly must be illegal. If they are providing all this service, they should be legally forced to do all for free.

I just don't get the logic.
Instead of defensiveness, why not talk about the ways in which the C++ committee is changing how they're operating (or even leaving ISO) and changing their culture to shore up these things.

Look at past Scott Meyers talks (e.g. [1]). He highlights how the committee has arbitrary set of principles that can be applied to justify or reject any proposal and the inconsistencies in the language are a reflection of this.

This isn't a problem of the language itself but rather that it's design by committee with 4
major front-end implementations (Intel, MSVC, Clang, GCC although I believe Intel is standardizing on the Clang front-end at least). Organizational issues like that are tough to spot but it's become clear now for several years that Rust is going to beat C++ silly if the C++ committee doesn't clean up their act and steer the C++ community a bit better (e.g. still no ABI specification, no improvements on macros, no standardized build system, modules are a joke, no standardized package system, etc etc). They're not effective stewards not least of which because they can't even take good impactful ideas from Rust and copy them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ
Did anyone else think it was interesting that the difference between the two floating point images looked like a Julia set? It’s probably trivial, but I liked that.
Factorio Yosys: a full yosyshq back end for Factorio that can compile a riscv co
Eligible taxpayers in 12 US states can file their tax returns directly with the IRS for free online.
They did solve the search issue before it's demise.

"Google and Yahoo to Search Inside Flash Files" (2008)

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C4...
To date, facebook has built, or is building, 47,100,000 sq ft of space, totaling nearly $24bn in investment. Based on available/disclosed power numbers and extrapolating per sqft, I get something like 4770MW.

Last I updated my spreadsheet in 2019, Google had $17bn in investments across their datacenters, totaling 13,260,000 sq ft of datacenter space. Additional buildings have been built since then, but not to the scale of an additional 30mil sq ft.

Amazon operates ~80 datacenter buildings in Northern Virginia, each ~200,000 sq ft -- about 16,000,000sq ft total in that region, the other regions are much much smaller, perhaps another 4 mil sq ft. When I'm bored I'll go update all my maps and spreadsheets.
This was an engaging read about a researcher trying to breed passenger pigeons back into existence.

https://sammatey.substack.com/p/repost-the-weekly-anthropoce...
That seems like the ID.4 has drum brakes on the rear only and disc brakes on the front (which is not unique to it; some lower end gasoline cars still have rear drums as well).
The problem of "brake dust" on human health and air quality has been known for a long time (https://phys.org/news/2020-01-air-pollution-effects-immune-c...) before that there were also issues with asbestos in brakes, but thankfully those haven't been used since the 90s as far as I know. This is the first I'm hearing about electrically charged particles though.

The bottom line is that proximity to traffic is horrible for your health and your air quality. Electric cars can help with some of the problems but don't solve all of them. The people with the least amount of money end up having to move to apartments near highways and so they often suffer the worst impacts, but I've seen very nice and expensive apartments and houses very close to (or directly on) busy streets. Noise is usually the obvious and immediate consideration, and I doubt many people are aware of the risks they expose themselves and their families to just by opening a window in the summer.
The 737 Max debacle claims another victim without so much as a rough landing. Very very sad.