skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet murders happen everyday for dubious reasons. If some party has big incentives in a death then it is a moral duty to suspect that party first. Suicide is a special case (suicide rates are not far from murder rates), it is not the default one. The burden should not be on the family to prove it was not suicide, but on the party who has big to gain it was not them.
1 Android update

3 years of security updates (every other month)

It's an improvement over the 2 years of updates they used to do, but Motorola's software support still sucks.
"devkit" at over $2000 is just mind-boggling and we are talking about Apple here.
If you are interested we wrote about our experiences with PlanetScale here: https://gridpanel.net/blog/why-planetscale-broke-our-trust
"Schema changes must be coordinated across all shards to ensure the databases stay in sync. Foreign keys and globally unique indexes can no longer be enforced by Postgres."

One of my best practices for RDBMS data after executing a few sharding projects is to mandate no use of foreign keys even for v1 of a project.
Computer chess has been failing for 30 years, until it didn't. Try winning a Go or a chess game against the computer now. There easily might be another architectural find lateral to LLMs that will 10x the code generation quality.
DuckDB: Move to push-based execution model (2021)
This is the trap of when a company needs a user to buy a product more than the user needs the product.

This was something jobs was adept at navigating around along with Jonny Ive.

Tim Cook is a product idiot. Or maybe more to the point he is adept at making factories and has run out of products for them to manufacture. So what’s more important to him his giving the factory more to do vs designing the right product.
Predicting that this holds for any j > 0 seems rather bold. Would you care to share your intuition why you think that's the case?
That’s not a real issue:

* the go module proxy ensures repos are never deleted, so everything continues to work

* changing to a new dep is as easy as either a replace directive or just find and replace the old url
There were a lot of tablets before the iPad but it wasn’t until the iPad that tablets really took off as a serious market segment. Ditto with AirPods and Bluetooth earbuds.

In the past, once Apple started pouring R&D money into a specific product type, the entire industry around it tends to advance very quickly. I’m optimistic about the Vision Pro, and I actually think the n+2 Meta release will be much better off for it.
... and that should be the same residue.
The power to talk to companies and attempt to coordinate efforts on communicating information about important national concerns like public health and voting information? If that's not allowed, are government sources not allowed to talk to the press either? Or even send out press releases (which could be interpreted as "coercion" to publish the included information)?

So long as the companies have no obligation to do what the government agents suggest, then I think this is an entirely reasonable "power" to have. In fact, it's one that you can't actually get rid of anyway.
> But the vast majority of people want to have real in-person human interactions when they're out in the world.

I think this statement is too strong. I see too many people every day in elevators, in lines, all sorts of different places that are on their phone and specifically avoiding eye contact with other human beings. That suggests that the term “vast majority” is probably too strong.
Yes, please dont post about any unpromoted venues on hacker news!
Right, but the parent comment is comparing children to adults.

Even a native speaking 3.5 year old actually speaks a language very poorly compared to a native speaking adult.
I'm not sure what your point is here, it seems like you are just listing off announced hardware.
The Power of Community: Why Open Source Is the Future of Software
I don’t buy this. So many people walking around absolutely glued to their smartphones. Neck crooked down, ignoring the world, even inside businesses, social situations, at home, at work, and the taboo is very quickly softening! I often notice couples sitting in a restaurant, basically ignoring each other in favor of their phones for an entire meal. No human connection going on here!

People want human connections less and less, especially with strangers, service providers, “NPCs” as some would lovingly call them. I think good AR will accelerate this, not fail due to a shrinking taboo.
Which knobs does go need?
i honestly dont know if this is an excuse but very frequently when i try to study, through lectures or textual content, i start feeling drowsy very quickly. i have been told this is not uncommon but idk
Good riddance. The whole zirp decade saw these random companies like airbnb, Uber show drastic disregard of the law and subsidizing users with VC money but all that couldn't last because they aren't real businesses.
I think of COT as a memory scratchpad. It gives the LLM some limited write-only working memory that it can use for simple computations (or associations, in its case). Now suppose an LLM had re-writeable memory... I think every prompt-hack, of which COT is one example, is an opportunity for an architecture improvement.
An "incremental view" is just an index over some custom query. So you're pretty much asking for improvements in Postgres' index support.
The power is still there, as is the abuse. It just belongs to the government at that point. If anything, it is even worse then, since before we nominally had two entities with slightly different aims, and potential for a clash. Once it is all under the same umbrella, there is no longer even the appearance of checks-and-balances.
very bad UI
> to write every line for basic stuff you've done 1000x before

There are ways to avoid writing basic stuff you've done 1000x before that are better than LLMs though...

Put it in a well-thought-out function or package or other form of shared/reusable code. You can validate it, spend the time to make sure it covers your edge cases, optimize it, test it, etc. so that when you go to reuse it you can have confidence it will reliably do what you need it to do. LLM-generated code doesn't have that.

(When you think about how LLMs are trained and work, you realize they are actually just another form of code reuse, but one where there are various transformations to the original code that may or may not be correct.)

Where LLMs shine for coding is in code-completion. You get the LLM output in little chunks that you can immediately review correctly and completely, in the moment: "yeah that's what I want" or "no, that's no good" or "ok, I can work with that". Not surprising, since predicting completion is what LLMs actually do.
My dad recently had me help him port some Matlab code to a web service. He eventually ported it over to Octave so I could run it, since I don't have any kind of license for Matlab. I couldn't find any good web server implementations for Octave, so I was looking for free "matlab-like" languages that might, and I found Julia. The code wasn't stats-heavy, but it was heavily number-crunchy, making heavy use of matrices and tensors and stuff that admittedly still kind of goes over my head.

I've not done a lot with "numeric" programming, but I was able to pick up Julia really quickly, and I was able to do a more-or-less straight port of my dad's code to Julia. What I was extremely impressed with was how much faster it went out of the box; for some of the more crunchy bits, running on the same hardware, the Julia code ran quite literally 150x faster, and this was without any Julia-specific optimizations other than adding types to the function arguments.

Since then I've learned a lot more about Julia, to a point where it has sort of become my go-to language for starting new projects (assuming I don't need to use a specific JVM library or something). It's basically guaranteed to give me fast code out of the box, it has most of the concurrency constructs that I actually care about, it has a better-than-average macro system (at least compared to something like C++), and personally I just think that the language looks pretty once you get into some more of the details. I wish it were a more popular language, because the only thing that has held me back from using it more has been the lack of library support. Most of the libraries are fine, but for example I had a lot of trouble getting the Bcrypt library working, which is something I wouldn't really have a problem with on a JVM language or C++ or something.

Of course, this is (hopefully) a temporary problem, as the language slowly grows in popularity the library support should just get better.

ETA:

I haven't done proper benchmarks on this so this is purely speculation, but that said I think that the biggest boost comes from the fact that Julia properly optimizes loops. My dad is a smart dude, but not being a software engineer in 2024, didn't really know that using loop constructs in most higher-level language is considered a code smell. I don't now about Octave, but I know in Python it's generally considered way better to try and avoid vanilla "loops" and try and convert looping things into some kind of vector operation.

I think the JIT part of Julia is smart enough to optimize loops out of the box, and so my straight port of my dad's code just "magically" got faster, and I was extremely impressed, but I suspect that if my dad had utilized a lot of the vector operations of Octave and/or Matlab, the results wouldn't be nearly as impressive. I suspect Julia would still have performed better (if nothing else because I was able to add type information), but I suspect it wouldn't be the 100+X speed increase that I was getting.
Author here.

It wasn't meant to be a knock on Montreal. But on code bases that have very apparent different eras and styles.

The idea actually came from Kate Gregory, in an interview I did with her some time ago, where she talked about some parts of any large C++ code base looking like Old Montreal and some looking like Art Deco or whatever other style.

Edit: Yes, Montréal Effect seems better... changing.
This one is 1.2 GB in binary format and only handles 10 tokens.
ClickHouse: Query Execution Pipeline
Show HN: Summon – Remix the Internet
> Nobody actually knows who’s covered by this bill,” said Eric Goldman

Um... did he just not read the text of the law? It's pretty straightforward, and unless your company is owned by Iran, Russia, North Korea or China you don't fall under the scope of this law. It also isn't a ban, it's a forced divestiture, ending in a ban only if that law is ignored.

This simply isn't the slippery slope some people seem desperate to paint.
I don't think lawyers have a reputation for holding themselves to a high standard. There is a reason that an entire genre of insulting jokes exist targeting lawyers integrity, or rather their general lack of integrity.
shrug I don't spend my entire life in company. Reading a book is hardly a group event....

Also, when shared experience hits the next version (or the one after that, or..) and I can watch Liverpool beat Man Utd with my brother on a different continent (with whatever lag being compensated for) I'll get more of a shared experience than I could have today.

This is a version-1 product. It's only going to get better - I have one of the original iPhones, and compared to the '15 Pro I have now, it's pitiful. Apple are generally a long-term game company, and they're not going to let this just drop.

So sure, in company down at the pub, I won't be wearing goggles like this. Funnily enough I don't think that's the target market, making your argument a bit of a strawman one. Apple (I expect) will focus is attention on where it can make a difference. And (again, I expect) it will.
Don't worry I don't think this comment is going to the move the antique furniture market. Your secret is safe :)
This is probably a step forward for HTTPS, but it still bugs me that most of the internet is running on a cryptography system that doesn't provide confidentiality or integrity.

Instead, it makes it possible for you to detect that someone's been using a rogue certificate after the fact. It bugs me even more that many security certification folks insist on using this junk to manage SSH keys (out of the box, SSH provides stronger security guarantees than X.509 certificates).

The whole situation reminds me of Crypto AG:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
You'd have to read the book. He uses "you don't stand a chance" in the context of will power.

That is, in short, (and I'm paraphrasing): ...Some of the brightest human behavior experts in the world are being financed by some of the deepest pockets in the history of the world to influence your (read: our) behavior... Just use will power? You don't stand a chance.

The "defeatist" to me is, "I don't have anything to hide." That might be true, but those influence super powers are going to use that "nothing to hide" against you.

Read the book. It's just over 100 pages. It's on the order of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" but that book is 500+ pages. THoSC is great but it's a serious commitment.
If we were living in a progressive society, I'd root for LLMs to come in and replace me, as this would free up some of my time to use on what I really want.

But we don't, and any marginal improvement due to automation is fully expected to improve the wealth of rich people, create all new sorts of scams, and leave everyone else worse off.

So I surely hope this article is true, the impact is limited, and the soufflé falls down as it did with blockchain. I'm certain we'll collectively suffer from it though.
Un Switerland any town with 1000 people is expect to have regular trains. Even mountain towns of a few 100 people have regular buses synced up with the train. In the US, multi million cities are somehow 'in the middle of nowhere'. If that doesnt tell you the difference in additide then I dont know what will.

You literally have two metro areas with 10+ million people and multible towns with millions or multibe 100k people in the middle.

Maybe just improving the projects organisation instead of cancling it makes sense.
But murders do exist and happen everyday. What makes it ridiculous here? People take the bad decision of killing another one for way less than that everyday.
Buried in the complaint is an interesting part about why he lost his original insurance carrier, they stopped writing policies in FL. The personal injury lawyers in Florida are out of control. There are also a ton of staged accident rings that nobody is doing anything about. I’m surprised any insurance carriers exist in that state anymore.
Try the Anki system…there was someone who learned over 10 languages with that method:

https://apps.ankiweb.net/
If the old city centers are crowded and expensive because they're so desirable, then why do we need any new solution? Can't we just copy paste the old stuff outward in every direction in concentric circles from the old downtown?

I've never understood all the headscratching on this topic. Everyone likes charming little streets, plazas, coffee shops, locally owned restaurants. Just let people have it!
The new technique is AI, that's the whole article.
Defective by design. Still using essentially the same battery pack they designed in 2008 for the 2010 LEAF -- no cooling system whatsoever, emergency resistive heater that keeps it from freezing but doesn't otherwise warm it, obsolete CHAdeMO charging port -- just with more capacity. They had their first class action lawsuit about unacceptable levels of battery degradation in new LEAFs in 2012, yet didn't change the design, just the warranty. The larger packs are now having high defect rates for cell-level failures. They are only able to sell a few hundred of them a month in North America for good reason.
You really have a very distorted view of this topic. Old school broadcast TV was and is heavily regulated. Certain percentage of ad time had to be allocated to public service announcements. Certain types of "adult" programming couldn't air before a certain time of day. Ownership of broadcast stations was highly limited and competition was enforced. The content of commercials is regulated, and many types of claims are entirely illegal to make. Political advertising was incredibly heavily regulated. Important government messages are required to be broadcast at the whim of the executive branch. Social media is the wild west compared to TV.

You call out the drug ads. They are annoying and questionably ethical, I agree. In fact, they didn't used to be allowed at all! The fact that things have gotten worse in that regard doesn't mean we should just give up on regulating ads on social media, which are far far worse, and do much more harm than an ad for a diabetes medication that spends 25 of its 30 seconds citing every potential side effect.
Author here.

This is inspired by my love / hate relationship with Scala. I love the language, but it's so flexible that in a large enough code base, it becomes a mess.

It's not a Scala-specific problem, though. I think that languages that have a lot of powerful constructs need to be explicit about style, what's idiomatic, what approaches are no longer considered ideal, and when it's appropriate to reach for various features.

I see here that many disagree with me, which is ok I guess. But I'm pretty pro code formatters and style guides and I wish their were someone in charge to break the impasse of package managers in python? How do you overcome the XKCD 927 issue?

I think someone needs to be empowered to force convergence in languages when its needed.
Exactly right. IBM has always been a leader in R&D, almost always 10 to 20 years ahead of anything companies are researching at that time. Their downfall has always been their implementations and their marketing/sales.

Neural chips, quantum computing, ultra high speed fiber, are just a few from the past few years, and just what we hear about. You name it and you can pretty much bet that IBM has something significantly better just sitting on the shelf, so to speak, when it comes to anything AI/server/datacenter, and plenty more.

Their patience and strategy in that area has always been impressive. Knowing you have amazing technology but there is no chance you can make money because of how difficult the thing is to manufacture, so just letting it sit until a worse version reaches scale, trading a smaller leap forward so it can actually be capitalized on is the smart move.

They do it well, but they simply cannot stop tripping themselves every time they try converting that library of advanced technology into revenue generation.
"He's out to lunch right now"
> there is no dispute that Einstein "invented" General Relativity.

Just like there is no dispute Newton invented calculus, gutenburg invented the printing press or columbus discovered the americas...
Down on the Body Farm: Unlocking the Forensic Secrets of Decaying Corpses

https://undark.org/2019/11/11/how-microbes-could-aid-forensi...
US is not at war with China. We are in a period of escalating tension, but have broad and far reaching economic, political, and social ties. Despite our disagreements, we have in the past and continue to cooperate on mutually beneficial terms.

That said, the CCP is not hoping for the United States to suddenly become politically stabilized. They are not hoping for the US populace to embrace the current social and economic order which stands at odds to Chinese goals. The CCP is an extremely disciplined predator organization with a long-term outlook, and should be dealt with appropriately.
Sure, one could spend a semester learning to build a rudimentary compiler, or watch your prof build a better solution in under 37 lines of Prolog.

Wish I was joking here... =)
I highly disagree. I'm not going to say someone isn't a a true fan of Bach and Vivaldi because they refer to the music as "Classical" instead of "Baroque." Saying they "merely enjoying the sound when [they] happen to come across it" because they aren't interested in how other people have decided to name these things seems incredibly dismissive. Enjoying music is entirely unrelated to being interested in where other people have decided to artificially create divisions and the names they give to those divisions.
Post-Open License: First Draft
The Post-Open license proposed by Bruce Perens consists in making it contractually mandatory for companies generating more than $5 million a year to redistribute 5% of these revenues to the open source community.

(Source: point 3.2 of the licence draft: https://perens.com/static/DEVELOPMENT_LICENSE.tx)
> For more complex and performance-intensive programs, I don't see the case for choosing it over a general languages like Rust and C++.

I mean, the fact that it's getting comparable speeds to C++ or Rust, while having full garbage collection and nice built-in concurrency support is a selling point to me. I'm not saying you couldn't write code faster in C++ or Rust, but I'm going to argue that Julia will often be just as fast or faster from "default implement".
to have been a fly on the wall... was surely a site to behold :)
And like the previous two wafer-scale processors, virtually no one will use them.
I doubt it's very common at all, most people just Facebook without putting much thought into it I imagine.
There's an immersive viewing setting on the Vision Pro called Cinema that's very close. It puts you inside a theater-like room without seats and gives you a pretty convincing feeling of looking at a movie screen — way better than any of the stupid immersive viewing rooms in Disney Plus or whatever.

Also, there's an IMAX app that actually simulates being in an IMAX theater. It's silly, but having the seats and railing and being able to look to the side and see the dim IMAX sign glowing on the wall goes a very, very long way. But for now there's not much you can do inside of it. I really,

The only thing that's really missing is the sound. The built-in speakers sound fantastic, but lack that low-end, guttural rumble that you can only get in a theater or with a very fancy home theater setup (which I don't have because I have a family, with a partner who's very noise-sensitive, and a house that's just not big enough to watch movies in without waking up my kid — I'd just never get to use it).

I haven't actually tried watching it hooked up to my homepods, which I'd guess would help. But yeah, the visual experience is remarkable. They can get there if they keep putting effort into it.
This is no different from my coworker who regularly copy/pastes from stackoverflow to do things he doesn't have any idea how to do himself, and just as awful, unproductive, and problem inducing.
Training an AI. This will be interesting the first time a suspect tries to challenge the forensics in court.
The second paragraph seems silly. Nobody thinks its rude to talk with normal glasses on, and that's the same form factor. Meta's AR glasses are already available as both sunglasses and normal glasses (though obviously lacking in actual AR).
My question is why does it seem like only Apple can do this, over and over? Why are they the only ones who seem to be able to knock a product category out of the park and legitimize it? Is it just the vast amount of money? Are they the only ones who can create products? Is everyone else that bad? Competitors work for ages and ages fighting each other, refining v1, v2, v2.1, v2.2, v2.25, and then suddenly Apple comes out with something v8-ish and the whole industry scrambles. Why does this keep happening?
Makes sense. A quick search shows that there is research on this subject and results seem to agree with GP.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230529/Study-shows-link-...