skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes exactly!! I made so much effort in recording it, and then they gaslighted me into believing it's a browser issue. Same copy paste reply about clearing cache.

I went so far as to show them network logs from the browser dev tools to show that the delay/bug was on their end.

This is after I explicitly mentioned testing it in Chrome, Firefox, Android, and also my friend's account to rule out any browser/account bug
I think Nanovms is the “umbrella” for Nanos & Ops. Nanovms runs the unikernel and offers products that helps you manage them.
Good catch. There's still something fishy though. I mean, does anyone here know of an an unpowered, waterproof GPS "chip" that can be "sewn" into a jacket?

Also, charging a $10-$15 mandatory rental fee is weird given that an Everest climbing permit is already in the neighbourhood of $15k (up from ~$10k last year). I can't see the Nepali Government bothering with a rental fee of that magnitude, so maybe it is a cheap Recco-like device (ie *not GPS) and the fee is more of a deposit? So many questions.

This mistake aside, I can't say enough about Alan and his blog/podcast for those interested in the topic. Even non-climbers.
Sounds appealing, but I think in practice this would be very unpleasant to work with. ASTs are almost always significantly more verbose than the code that generated them which makes both reading and writing more painful.

I say this from my own experience designing a language. Writing the AST directly was at least 2x as long as the language code.
Smallchilds move fast and break things. Time was, we tried to teach them out of it.
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> but also for anything that requires Face-ID (which doesn't work well when the Vision Pro is covering your face, which feels like an Apple ecosystem fail).

At some point don't we need to accept the laws of physics and biology? That is, The VisionPro covers a significant part of your face, much more than a pair of glasses. Face-ID already has the challenge of needing to recognize you in tons of different conditions (lighting, pale/tan skin color, wildly different hairstyles, facial hair, etc.), while for security reasons nearly never letting someone else impersonate you. Is it really possible to get that level of forgiveness with accuracy if Face-ID only gets to consider the bottom half of your face?
FTA: “But they don’t account for the majority of what I’m storing, which are PGNs.”

If they’re storing chess games, why do they try to compress individual moves?

If you compress games, you can get much better compression. For example, in any board position, deterministically order all legal moves (they’re already ignoring some illegal moves in their setup, so I think ignoring all is within the rules of the game), and write down the number of the move made.

At game start, that will be an integer between 1 and 20 (16 different pawn moves, 4 different knight moves). Black’s reply similarly will be an integer between 1 and 20. For white’s second move, the maximum will depend on the first move.

To compress an entire game, use arithmetic encoding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding). If there are, on average, n legal moves per position, that will use 2log n bits per move.

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Chess_Position: “The maximum number of moves per chess position seems 218”, so that will give you less than 8 bits per move. In real life, it probably will be less than 6.

The only reason I see why this wouldn’t be an option is performance. Decoding would require move generation and thus be more complex.

To improve on that, make a deterministic predictor of how likely moves are and use that to improve on the arithmetic encoder. That probably isn’t worth it, though because of the increased decoding complexity.
> What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right

Hmm so basically they say Apple massively overengineered it and doesn't expect to sell it to more than 3 people at that price, which is right.

But Occulus has been owned by Facebook for a long time now, what stopped them?

They could at least have an aspirational "research" device that they sold for 5000, in addition to the semi-affordable (minus privacy concerns) stuff.
Couldn't have happened to a better rent seeker.
You can get around this by asking Siri for a timer for "one five" minutes and "five zero" minutes.

(Folks irl do this too... damn you english language...)
Its very telling that the major corporate news site chose to frame it as suicide “after” testifying when in fact he was found dead just hours before he was scheduled to give more testimony. They just as easily could have said he was found dead before scheduled testimony.
Kiosks I don't mind, you can still order anonymously. I just won't use an app or web site I have to maintain an account on.
In all fairness, they don't all have watermarks. I don't know why. Perhaps they collected images from a variety of sources before downscaling and those sources included watermarks.
I kind of wish that sort of thing had been part of the QA process though. Decent resolution and clean images would make this so much more valuable.
Don't they have to maintain that mapping to keep it available?
Most housing that is “speculated” on is still rented out. Encouraging price discovery lets us provide cheaper housing in areas of high demand before it becomes a major problem.
> Has Apple ever put out a "Pro" version of a product before the "normal" version?

Yes they introduced the MacBook Pro before the MacBook.
Apple does not have the scale of other major cloud providers, the fact they’re not in the cloud game having customers subsidize their cloud costs is why it would cost them a lot.
I've noticed that every other broker stoops really low. 5Paisa, Dhan, ICICI, etc. I have opened accounts in all of them for friends and family as per their requirements. Zerodha is definitely the most trustworthy, but lacks even in basic features.

I should make a blog on them someday
Debt financing has a lot more to do with illiquidity.
I wasn't aware of this (and neither were local lawmakers), but ironically it is actually illegal in Oregon as of 1971 for any local government body to pass a law targeting the public consumption of alcohol and drugs. This threw a major wrench in plans to control the rampant public use of fentanyl and meth around Oregon cities, and this likely contributed to us to rolling back small time possession to a misdemeanor.

Although there were exceptions for limiting public alcohol use in proximity to schools and such, there were no such exceptions for hard drugs (since they were already illegal).
I’m sure there’s a plethora of companies ready to move in and take their business.
Why do you think Apple is allowed in China.

You think Apple cares about your privacy? It's part of their PR, sure.
See, there's this education and licensing process, with a Trademarked(TM) name and everything: REALTOR(TM).

Unfortunately, this process is what we have now.
> red flags, can help you negotiate the best deal and extract the most concessions from a seller

... but under the current system, the buyer's agent is also incentivized to get the buyer to pay as much as possible, to maximize their commission.

I agree we should push for a fixed fee model, including if no sale occurs, because while the buyer agent _could_ add value in a lot of these ways, there is not always reason for them to do so today.
The Eames lounge chair is a reasonable solution to this problem.

(It probably invokes other stereotypes. I don't really know, but either way, you'll be too comfortable to care.)
Tech companies continue to run the domestic abuser's playbook:

* I want to know everything about you and who you talk to (privacy violations)

* I can change deals unilaterally and do whatever I want without your say-so (disrespecting user agency)

* You can't leave me (vendor lock-in)
Lol, I don't like pornhub or any of the big sites. Too much incest, non-consensual scenarios, and making woman performers dress or appear too young.

I think I saw the story about pornhub and Texas on HN before I made that comment. So it was somewhat fresh in my mind.
Tangential, but if your table doesn't break in the next few days then you won't be able to report back, since editing and replying to comments get disabled after some days. I don't know what the exact time frame is like though.
> Hey there! Looks like you may have missed the Nix/Generic and Nix/NixOS tabs at https://flox.dev/docs/install-flox/? Do those satisfy the side by side use case you’re talking about?

I totally did! Those are what I was looking for. (Although I'm glad I missed them in a way because I'm happy to have gotten to explore the behavior of the Flox installer when there's an existing Nix install already.) How embarrassing! Thanks :)

> I think the best way to use fish at the moment is `FLOX_SHELL=zsh flox activate -- fish`. That doesn’t support aliases but should mostly work

Thanks! I'll try that for sure.

> Are you hoping to actually hack on the source or just trying to understand how to come up with a workaround?

More the latter, especially because I don't totally know yet how interested I am in Flox. But I do love Fish and I did once work on some hairy issues in shell initialization for Fish in NixOS, so this kind of shell environment setup is the kind of thing that I've enjoyed plugging away at in the past, haha. At the same time I have virtually no Rust experience. That link is already pretty helpful, since I have a sense of where the shell code finally comes in, now.

But I am curious about how the thing works, and I miiiiiight try to mess around, so if the shell init stuff is something you've worked on and are proud of/excited to share about, I'd love to hear more about it!
Thanks a lot! I am looking into this now. Will create a ticket on their portal. Will be the last ticket I annoy them with hopefully!

But their support article mentions that I have to transfer everything before closing. Are you sure?
Show HN: Kaldo – Cross Shell Aliases
I made this so that I don't have to maintain my aliases across my $profile, .bashrc, and .zshrc when I swap shells. Let me know what you think about it!
That interpretation seems pretty out of sync with their financial history across divisions, their operating margin across divisions, their customer loyalty across divisions, and pretty much everyone's experience of the world, but maybe you're right.

You may not like their products, and you may think their customers are idiots hypnotized by villianous marketers or something, but that's kind of the point of it all: by targetting high margins and precisely volume instead of low margins and maximum volume, they really don't need to care what you think. And that lets them approach products differently.
For optimal compression, look into Huffman coding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding
So excited to see this! I’ve been thinking about building a GUI for jj for a while.

It even uses my daily driver theme, catppuccin!
I'm not saying it's ideal, it was just an example of something that I thought could address the issue. I agree that we should limit PII being given to companies, but I'm conflicted on how the average Joe can maintain some semblance of security as hackers get better at finding holes. If the software can identify you based on something that only you have, then that's a tall barrier to cross for hackers that also doesn't require a steep learning curve for most.

Just to reiterate, I am personally a fan of maintaining anonymity, particularly online. I'm just concerned that our increasingly aging population won't be able to keep up with security best practices and we may need some braindead solutions to keep them safe.
it’s a brokered market where the brokers collude. if it is not directly a cartel, it is very cartel resembling.

NAR was taught as a model case of broker collusion in my economics classes.
Steve Peters (Psychiatrist)
The people who confuse that mostly have not done very much reading. Audibly, those words are identical.
2020 article. Amazing nevertheless. I am a huge Kailash Nadh fan.
Researchers propose fourth traffic signal light for self-driving car future
Australian farm grows biggest blueberry
A lot of people will simply malloc and free at the beginning and ending of the function, or worse they will do things incorrectly and so the data won't actually free, or it frees before it's completed

I don't think programming mistakes in other languages make a point when talking about garbage collection performance.

but they can also be extremely optimized

Every language I've ever seen with garbage collection has gone through decades of "now the garbage collection is better" or "just wait until the next version, garbage collection will be better". I've seen it in java, D, julia and every scripting language. It's always a thorn people have to work around when talking about performance interactivity. Julia is right in the middle of this common problem and that is fine for what it is because it isn't a typical systems language and avoiding the gc is not difficult, but to pretend that it is the same as C++ is just not true.

A lot of the time savings you get from avoiding a GC will be eliminated if your program crashes and restarts.

This is besides the point of performance and no longer talking about reality, it's just FUD from a "what if" future.

Julia, at least in benchmarks, does get speeds getting close to something like C++, even with GC enabled

Right, but you get it by avoiding allocation and avoiding the garbage collector the same way avoiding allocation in C++ is important, but in julia it won't be woven in to the performance, it will cause big pauses.
Not sure the author's use case the naive solution seems like just using 6 bits for the piece's original position, 6 bits for the destination, and 2 bits to designate promotion type, for 14 total bits. Everything else can be found from the board state, and I can't imagine a scenario where you have a move, want to convert to algebraic notation, and also don't know what the board is.
The phone networks and basic infrastructure for the internet in many countries wouldn’t work without Erlang. Which is functional… but maybe that doesn’t count?
The Elon koolaid is strong with this one. Tesla will not be releasing a 20k car, I can assure you of that.
Uber, Lyft to stop operations in Minneapolis over minimum wage law
Bringing Verse Transactional Memory Semantics to C++
I have always found that the best sofas are the ones you least expect. Never a rich person's big fancy sofa but some girlfriend's, who lives in her tiny apartment, beat up, sofa, for example.
I think Apple is in a unique situation.

First, we cannot ignore Apple Fanboys (and I am not using that in a negative sense). They have a large base of users who will jump at nearly anything they put out.

However they also have a track record of doing things, both big and small, and pushing the industry to go a certain way. Dropping CD drives is a great example of this, this was an inevitability with more and more distribution through the internet. This would be a risk for a manufacture to try with a random computer because consumers may just ignore it. Apple has the power to say, well you want a Mac? here are your couple options and we are doing this anyways.

Sometimes this fails, see all USB-C Laptops.

But I think it also often comes from thinking about the entire experience. Take them removing the head phone jack (the debate on whether or not they actually needed to do that aside), at the same time we got the AirPods.

Or the iPhone wasn't just simply, without a physical keyboard. It emphasized the advantages of this throughout the entire OS.

But regardless of all the above, I think the simple fact that they just happen to generally sell a lot of devices. Enough that it can normalize a decision for consumers and then other manufactures can follow without risk.
Three are two housing crises. The first is a market-rate housing crisis which is caused by government zoning that limits the construction of new homes and thus leads to supply shortages and high prices. Zoning reform will fix this crisis. The second housing crisis is one of people who can’t afford housing no matter the price. These people need govt assistance, preferably in the form of vouchers.

The transactional costs from realtor fees does reduce liquidity, but it is a secondary factor compared to zoning.
Yeah one is collusion and the other is more just within-firm inefficiency.
You don't need a high bandwidth connection for AR. Vector graphics + text dramatically reduces the bandwidth requirements.

That's not immersive 3D, but the useful bit of AR would be things like putting peoples names above them at a party as if you where in an MMO. Countdown timers over cooking pots, a map or just an arrow when walking somewhere etc.
> it is more difficult to sell a very expensive home vs a cheaper one

I don't know where you are, but in Bay Area this is not true. And even for mega-expensive homes that don't sell as fast, the agent can't really accelerate this much -- certainly not commensurate to the giant commission they receive.
He is a director and a "key managerial person". I have heard in a podcast that he is the CFO or CIO (not sure what a broker has a CIO for, so might be wrong)
> This was part of the internal culture during my time at Apple.

From a management perspective, how do they handle the people side of that - keeping good people on the team and keeping them motivated to do something extraordinary?

People don't like spending time on unsuccessful projects and don't want their names associated with them, and don't want to work extra hard on something that won't come to fruition.

Maybe Apple management has enough internal reputation that employees are willing to take that risk (but even Apple management has flops - the car seeming to be a recent example). But that doesn't feel like a sufficient explanation to me.
I don't know why this answer is getting downvoted. This is absolutely correct.

W. Miller has a paper discussing, under conditions of numerical stability, O(n^3) multiplications is necessary [0]. Any algorithm that gets sub cubic runtime for matrix multiplication, like Strassen's or Coppersmith's, must sacrifice some amount of precision or stability.

[0] https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/0204009
Actually, do the math and you'll realize that a selling agent is incentivized to quickly take lower offers rather than hold out for higher offers. They more than make up the difference by increasing the volume of closings.
> For carrying the unauthorized number porting, Katz received $1,000 in Bitcoin per SIM swap (total of $5,000), plus an (unspecified) percentage of the profits earned from the illicit access to the victims' devices.

So, a little more than $1k pp
This looks like a great tool and sort of makes me wish I was starting a new game rather than hand-knitting more cruft into our homemade backend. Kudos for open-sourcing it with a proper license.
Yeah, I'm not saying the author is wrong, but if all his job search was in 2023 this may very well be the case. When in a tough job market employers can cite a million different things to not hire you, and you start to double doubt yourself as to what's wrong with you.
I understand individual actors following incentives wherever they lead. I wouldn't say condone, but understand. What I don't understand is how it came to pass that McDonalds, whom I would assume are canny and cutthroat in their own right, would find themselves maneuvered into a position like this.

Is there no equivalent phenomenon when it comes to their grills, deep fryers, drive-thru comms systems, self-order kiosks, etc?
That makes sense - maybe something closer to a passphrase-protected SIM could work?
It's kinda complex.

I think my initial stab would be to encoding the source position (6 bits) and end position (6 bits) for a constant 12 bits per move.

You don't need to store whether it's a capture, you can figure that out from the game state. You don't need to store disambiguations, there are none in that format. You don't need to store check/mate, you can figure that out from the game state.

The only wrinkles (that I can tell) are castles and promotions. But you can get around this by the fact that kings and pawns have limited movement, so their legal destination squares are highly constrained.

So you could signal a promotion by encoding the destination with opposite rank, and using the file to encode which piece. Promoting to a rook on c8 gets its destination encoded as a1 - "a" for a rook, and "1" to indicate a promotion.

Similarly, you could encode a castle by encoding the king's move with opposite destination rank. Castling the king to f1 gets encoded as f8, and to g1 as g8.
West Elm's quality has definitely dropped the last 10 years. It's still not a bad place to get things like side tables, but I definitely wouldn't buy any furniture there any more, which is too bad. We had gotten a couple of nice pieces there in the past, although they're now gone.

For quality modern furniture, the only game in town around me is Room & Board. The last couch we bought there was ~$6k[0]. It's a lot, but we'd honestly been eyeing it for almost 20 years and it'll likely be something we have for another 20 years or more.

https://www.roomandboard.com/catalog/living/sofas-and-lovese...
How is a $100k house different from a $600k house. 4m is a different class of customer.
[dupe]

Some more discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39715511
> what is sexual attraction?

The best way I can describe sexual attraction is having an emotional level awareness of sex as a category. It's not limited to physical appearance. There is something would make you want to have sex with another person.

> instead of choosing a partner because they love them and only wanting to have sex with them because of that love.

Given what you already said, this isn't a question an asexual person is likely to ask. They would already know the answer. :)

> seems to me that being able to enjoy sex in the way you say is the better and healthier approach.

Not really. I don't understand why sex is important. I don't understand why anyone would want to go out of their way to have it.

Sure, it's fun, but not enough to justify all the hype about it. If you want to get hot and sweaty, can we go play laser tag and gang up on some over-confident teenagers instead?

Why the heck does the entire history of human society care about this?

What would get me to want sex? When it's an add-on to another fun activity. Cuddling and sex! I'm listening. (Note to self, never suggest naked laser tag again.)

Hope that helps! :)
> How do you guys figure things out before you sign.

Get a Word file with tracking for every change.
Thanks for replying to what was a rather half-baked question, typed out in some excitement.

I guess a more thought-through version is as follows: Currently, the CT logs with state == usable are operated by only six entities (Cloudflare, DigiCert, Google, LE, Sectigo, TrustAsia). In the earlier days of CT logs, there were a larger number of log operators. I think it's a reasonable assumption that we've ended up in the current situation at least partly because of the cost of log operation?

Since Sunlight aims to drastically reduce the cost of log operation, might we expect the number of log operators to rise, and if so would there be likely changes to the ways that log operators are enumerated as "trusted", or would things likely be as they are now?
Many people have desk jobs where all they do is emails, web browsing, and editing Google Docs, a perfect scenario. And if you need it, it can show your mac in a virtual window while you have other apps open around you.

But this is missing the point that, while it can do work things reasonably well, that's not its primary use case. All of the marketing focuses on content consumption - movies, reading, reliving photos and videos, facetime - and other things typically already done on an iPhone or iPad. For those use cases, it's pretty much perfect, with the text clarity being leagues ahead of any other production device, maybe except some enterprise-targeted Varjo headsets.