skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think at some point people get tired of so much turnover of technology that doesn’t correlate with much improvement in quality of life (i.e. the latest phones are probably marginally better than older ones) sometimes it even feels like one is forever forced to upgrade computers, operating systems, etc, with minimal improvements. For me that pointed me towards hobbies that are lower tech such as working with hand tools, or crafts that occasionally use tech (i.e. 3d printing) but the higher tech is not the main point to the projects.
Things probably get baked into culture and practices even in situations where they aren't really optimal.
I really hope Apple can find their way home again as the leading consumer hardware business they once were.

It feels like they have been in a seemingly never ending spiral of trying to figure out how to make money off services, while abandoning enterprise growth, hardware category innovation, and releasing new revolutionary software experiences.

I haven’t been wowed by anything from Apple since the ARM transition, but before then the iPhone X.
This is a really sudden event. It’s only about a year old. We are seeing effects that are visible — on sea surface temperatures. But it’s likely too soon to know what the implications of this sudden temperature excursion will be on things like land temperatures, storms etc. Similarly, there’s no reason to believe there’s a “valley” or safe equilibrium we’ll wind up in. The world doesn’t fundamentally care about our well-being, that’s up to us.
Who is 'them' here?

Seems like anytime I hear people use 'They', 'Them' as some broad category of some secret organization driving things. It is increasingly hard to decipher what the 'they/them' is referring to? Is it Q-anon? Deep Christian State?

'They' are doing this to 'Us'. But can never really pin it down? Every conspiracy is always shifting to a new 'They'.
Ummm, no.
The species of bighorn sheep native to the Rocky Mountains is scientifically referred to as Ovis canadensis canadensis. This is one of several subspecies of bighorn sheep, distinguished by its habitat, physical characteristics, and behavior, adapted to the rugged terrain and climate of the Rocky Mountains stretching from Canada to the southwestern United States.
Depends on the deal, but you can look at other m&as to have rought idea.
Large teams themselves become boat anchors towards progress. But you’ve inspired me to spend a little time with Perl.
There's a fair bit of nuance and it really depends on the setup. You can run Python with CGI and execute once per request but it's much more common to use wsgi/asgi. Likewise, I think php-fpm is still pretty common which runs long running PHP processes.
But there is no "privacy policy" on the Samsung keyboard about page.

The Samsungs privacy policy on the web states this:

Samsung Keyboard information: The words that you type when you enable “Predictive text”. This feature may be offered in connection with your Samsung account to synchronise the data for use on your other Samsung mobile devices. You can clear the data by going to the “Predictive text” settings.

Source: https://privacy.samsung.com/privacy/samsung
I also spent time working with car makers while at Visa. There was a LOT of wishful thinking by carmakers that they could magic-up their own digital app stores (and pay for gas, for parking for drive-thru) all through their own proprietary infotainment platforms. There were these hopelessly unscaleable expectations that brands (McDonalds, Chevron etc.) would want to build and maintain custom apps just for, say, this model year's new 3-series BMW, and then do the same for every other car maker and model type. It was very much like the shortlived mindset of carriers trying to control downloadable mobile apps, prior to the iphone/appstore.
its not really a moat, but its a difficult model to emulate.

what they offer is a set of standard parts, tailored for verticals they think are important. but the secret sauce is that they are willing to customize just that much to make things work the customer.

even if you are a small startup and can't promise more than 100 units/yr, its entirely likely that they will build a custom PCB or riser or chassis on the chance that you will be successful. not a whole design, but a tweak on one of their standard models. they've done that for me before with no NRE, maybe they do charge sometimes.

so their moat is that they have enough money to make those bets, and an engineering organization that can do that in a lightweight enough fashion to make the whole thing work. and they do this while remaining very cost competitive
Right. There is a lot of innovation possible in controlling all the little embedded systems.

But I think that "car platform" should be clearly separated from the "userspace".

My sense is that why the legacy manufacturers are failing, at software, they have coupled the "userspace" to the "car platform". Updating UI in the center console is the same thing to them as updating the embedded code that controls the windshield wipers.

That being said, I admit you cannot fully leave the "userspace" to apple or google, because you, for example, probably have some custom kind of sunroof that doesn't fit in whatever generic APIs CarPlay and Android Auto offer for Sunroofs.

Additionally, if you go all in on Android Auto, you have no leverage when Google tries to extract more money.

At the same time, competing with Google or Apple on UX and continuity is a losing battle. When I enter the car, I want my car to continue playing the podcast I was listening to. No car manufacturer can do this, only Carplay/Android Auto can.

I guess the answer is to have good support for Android Auto/ CarPlay. But also have your own version as an insurance against being held hostage.
The point isn't that there are no animosities between SCS countries. It's that representing the situation as "evil China invades other countries" is one-sided, misleading, and ultimately harmful for peace. Having border disputes doesn't mean that countries must have bad relations, nor that they cannot be solved through peaceful means. Insisting on the notion that the existance of border conflicts must point to irredeemably evil intentions stands in the way of peacemaking because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Of course, the powers that be want such a self-fulfilling prophecy, even if it's at the expense of south-east Asia, which is why they keep perpetuating this view.
>Ironically, that also includes the price of purchasing the CNC machine to machine it on.

You mean ordering a part on Xometry or what? A CNC machine capable of this type of work will cost more than a house boat. For your budget you would be able to afford a pocket NC at best. Have fun trying to machine a propeller with that.
What about pride in your vocation?
A lot of what local news did - reporting on what is happening locally - is reported more than ever. It’s just done by citizens taking videos and posting them online, where they disseminate more widely than ever before.

I see local government budget reports posted on my city’s subreddit where people dissect and debate them, with detailed understanding of local politicians’ positions. I don’t see how the demise of local newspapers is ruining society. They are just an anachronism.
For Terraform there should be none, since you have drop-in alternatives for both the base product and the commercial platform (disclosure: I’m involved in OpenTofu and Spacelift, respectively).

Other tooling may be more problematic. Vault has an open source fork in the works but nowhere near production readiness AFAIK.
To me it seems ridiculous to throw away an entire program which has so much more going on than this one "weird HTML renderer". Rewrite entire program for just this one thing?? Just replace the HTML renderer in Outlook then.
Who is the leading consumer hardware business you think of if not Apple?
Because people cant wrap their heads around roundabouts here. Theres one major one near me where accidents are fairly common, despite it having been there for many many years. Theres another tiny one that a city implemented... aaaand then put stop signs at each entry. Ive only seen one roundabout that wasnt fully being used by idiots here, and its in a semi remote area, and a small roundabout.
That is what GP is saying. There are two types of software in the car. The entertainment system and the software that drives the engines (ECU), lights, etc, etc. The car company should be good at software engineering to ensure that all software directly related with driving is done properly. And then leave the faster paced entertainment software to other suppliers.
I thought this was going to be about Edison Houses the invention of Thomas Edison meant to be affordable to help the poor (and he just bought a cement company).

His idea of an all concrete house made using a single pour of concrete. Even the cabinets, beds, toilet were supposedly part of design and created during the concrete pour.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/06/thomas-edisons-forgott...
I live in Winthrop harbor and would love to know where this stuff is. I am reasonably familiar with the area and it would be a significant challenge to find anywhere safe to land a helicopter and nowhere to store them.

I am highly skeptical of this claim.
I'm shocked how good those numbers look. 3.5% of the apps hit 10k/mo? That's incredible.
Internet providers have left rural Americans behind. One county is fighting back
The question that's worth exploring is why did it change, and did it only seem to benefit one or a few groups/institutions?
I switched from Python to Perl for a lot of these use cases as the Perl across many target devices is gonna be much the same/largely compatible, and virtually always present, while Python could be some random fucking version or broken or not present.
Clay and glass are also partially made of silicon, right?

I’ve always found of fascinating that silicon was right there at the beginning of material science, and has stuck around since. Same for copper.

I don’t actually think the universe has intentions, but copper, silicon, and dogs do sometimes make me question that belief, it is just a little suspicious that our species would have such loyal friends.
Official rules say otherwise:
"Each puzzle includes at least one “pangram,” which uses every letter."

https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee -> click on 'How to Play'
> The Dockerfile format imposes a hierarchical relationship between layers. This quickly becomes very annoying, since dependencies usually form dependency graphs, not dependency trees.

Isn't a Dockerfile just a sequence of dependencies, rather than a tree?
This must be why those "EasyPost is hiring" posts show up every 3-4 weeks like clockwork. I assumed they were just bad at employee retention.
Well, no, but yes.

The critical piece is that this can be done in training. If I collect a large number of C programs from github, compile them (in a deterministic fashion), I can use that as a training, test, and validation set. The output of the ML ought to compile to the same way given the same environment.

Indeed, I can train over multiple deterministic build environments (e.g. different compilers, different compiler flags) to be even more robust.

The second critical piece is that for something like a GAN, it doesn't need to be identical. You have two ML algorithms competing:

- One is trying to identify generated versus ground-truth source code

- One is trying to generate source code

Virtually all ML tasks are trained this way, and it doesn't matter. I have images and descriptions, and all the ML needs to do is generate an indistinguishable description.

So if I give the poster a lot more benefit of the doubt on what they wanted to say, it can make sense.
Aliens of NY – Oblivion
I did the similar thing with exported list of books with my ratings from Goodreads. ChatGPT-4 gave me some good suggestions.
Thanks for the insight!

There's no actual answer to the question, given that the word list can be set inconsistently, so I had to choose _something_ to go off.

The best word list I was able to find is the one hosted by https://www.sbsolver.com/ , but unfortunately they don't distribute it.

I got a somewhat better word list for part 2: https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2024/03/mitzVah_-_the__worst...

But it's still imperfect. However a lot of the words I expected to be invalid have actually been in puzzles before, so it's not easy to guess which are going to be good and which aren't.

edit: there have been puzzles with as few as 16 words before: https://www.sbsolver.com/stats/count/low

edit 2: I modified the program to print puzzles with at least 16 words, and the "worst" puzzles it found with that constraint are:

unbEknown, jawbonE, monadnocK, woRkgRoup, daGlock, moonwalK, confLux, buLLhorn, yOkOzuna, Fraught, hogliKe
Stata I think?
I agree. I think this is one of the key reasons HN succeeds as it does: the narrow, delimited incentives on the part of YC.

All of the writing and discussion that exists on HN, which isn't a YC ad, is a "halo" to attract and retain readers to this forum (and see the YC logos and YC ads). That's their primary incentive: attract users, attract a specific culture of users. It's an incentive aligned with quality and pleasantness for us. The daily forum experience isn't the revenue source; to monetize that, YC would risk losing more (on their YC-halo boosting side) than they could expect to gain (from McDonald's ads, or whatever).

This is the diametric opposite of how most social media platforms think about users, and their business models around them. The Reddit IPO is a case study: they've willingly chased away countless millions of users with an abrasive, horrible forum experience, because they calculate they can extract more revenue from those that remain. Where HN is a "narrow, tall" revenue source surrounded by free stuff, Reddit is "wide and short": everyone and everything is the product.
nah - between govvies, frat guy investors, or giant companies .. none of those are guaranteed successful. Each of those can and will fail miserably, or get a lot done.
MERGE was interested in 15, if that's helpful: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-merge.html
I was an early adopter of FirefoxOS, back in 2014, IIRC. It's a pity it didn't caught on. Initial devices were very low-end, guess it didn't help with marketing, and it also failed to displace cheap bloatware-riddled android devices that flooded the market. Good to know at least part of it survives as KaiOS.
https://libretaxi.org/

There's a lot of companies and cooperatives from a quick look. Even cities rolling their own. Uber/Lyft is handing an entire market over to a lucky competitor,
I believe you’re right but my hypothetical is that it won’t have some Robinhoodesque IPO but that it falls in an inevitable but unpredictable short to medium interval. Long enough for me to want more gains if i invest but short enough for me to lose everything because I can’t time it right. Stoachastic if you will. A proper microtubule disassembly that leaves me with my little worthless tubules. Tulipules?
Except they've gone away from standard sizes and replaceable head units in order to push people to new cars, so the software integration has become a driver of car sales and a big part of the "good car" experience. You can't assume you'll replace the stereo head later if you don't like it, so software features now influence the car industry.

Case in point, I have owned mostly Chevies through my life and have been mostly happy with them. But I won't buy the new ones because they've done away with plugging the phone in (or will in the future) and made their own. It's a cash grab to get our data and force subscriptions on us and I'm not buying it even if it's a good car.

The whole thing is absurd. We have to get a whole different car if we don't like a screen, but that's how it is now.
I don't think it's true that "nobody is willing to pay". As the article points out large outfits like The Washington Post, and smaller ones like Politico and Talking Points Memo, and niche ones like Financial Times, get most of their revenue from subscribers, not ads. What is inarguable is that the old model of ripping off advertisers and misinforming readers is finally dead, but it has taken a long time for the operators of that model to internalize the reality. The death blow was dealt by Craigslist, so we've been waiting quite a while.

Personally, I refuse to listen to pleas to "support local news" coming from outlets that have been trying to destroy everything I value for decades. There may be 1 or 2 worthwhile journalists working at the LA Times, for example, but I will never ever give that organization even one dollar. Those journalists need to leave that paper as far as I am concerned.
'Data Is Rectangular' and Other Common Misconceptions [video]
In the same way that a MacBook is 4x the price of an Xbox.

As far as the market is concerned: the Quest is a gaming platform that can do computer stuff if needed. The AVP is a computer that can do gaming stuff.
I've always assumed they generate the puzzle starting from a pangram.
Yep. If it were possible to buy a car with no native infotainment and just a dock slot for a phone and dumb screen for CarPlay/Android Auto, I would. Car infotainment turns outdated, unsupported, and near-useless at breakneck speed and is generally buggy lowest-bidder junk to begin with, so why not just skip all of that, save some cash on the BOM which can be passed on to the buyer, and just let me plug in my phone which will never have these problems?
According to Ginny Heinlein’s notes in Grumbles from the Grave, Arthur C. Clarke also eventually used a form letter system.
Some very small subset is perhaps plausible, but I think you're overestimating how much Google or Netflix would care about addressing a small and inconvenient market.
Reset your password to something random and unknown. You still have an account, but when you want to participate you need to go through the password recovery workflow. After contributing, reset your password so you dont know it again.
Samsung and Sony come to mind.

To be clear, I still view Apple as a leader, I just think they’ve lost focus and become lazy on their hardware innovation while they are draining all their resources on trying to be viewed as a serious services company.

Personal opinion, but Apple trying to be a News, Medical, Sports, Financial, and Movie company all at the same time is a bit much and is proving to not be executed very well by them. I get why they want it since the profit margins are easier, but I just feel like it goes against the DNA of the company and what I’d expect out of them.
I'm confused. Reddit has had ads that look like normal posts for ages. What's actually different about these new ones?
I’m less interested in GPT’s suggestions, which are generic and well-known, and more interested in the author’s own list of podcasts. It looks like a lot of coding content? What do they talk about in podcasts like these? I can’t imagine taking in software information in anything other than written form. I do like the occasional podcast on AI news, so I guess I can relate a bit?
But that one has at least some potential mitigation. Per his analysis, the Java/JIT case is the only one that has no mitigation:

> Javier Honduvilla Coto (Polar Signals) did some interesting work using an eBPF walker to reduce the overhead, but...Java.
Twitter does this. Ads are the exact same format as posts, with the exception of a subtle 'Ads' label in the upper right. Of course everyone reads from left to right, so you can't really skim your feed without having your mind hijacked by at least the ad headline.
AFIAK, preferred shares (the ones investors buy) typically aren't subject to a lockup once they convert to common stock. They usually don't dump right away since they don't want to tank the market unless the company is actually dogshit and they're pawning it off on a bigger fool.
The old model is working fine it’s just that Google and Meta are using illegally acquired monopoly power to take all the money for themselves.
You said that the stdlib needs to provide it first, you were very clear about that. So a "de facto standard" can't in fact exist, such claims while they probably feel correct to you make a mockery of your demand that the stdlib should do it first - if it did then Requests can't exist.

And for what it's worth I agree with you about that doing it first, on the whole a stdlib should aim to do it first if they're doing it at all. Take Microsoft's belated decision to ship a JSON implementation for .NET. Obviously meanwhile a de facto standard took hold, Newtonsoft, and of course the Microsoft library isn't a drop-in replacement. Result, more complexity, more training, negligible real benefit. I just disagree that they should aim to do it all.
I’ve never done Perl but would writing solo in Perl and then rewriting it again in Perl with a team be an option?

I have an affection for both Forth and Lisp, two languages that have also been called highly productive but write only.

I think a working early version- even if its a spreadsheet- is 10x of a supposedly 80% done version of something else. The latter of which I must now return to unfortunately…
Imo there's a fair bit of complexity in request dispatch with sync/async interop, wsgi/asgi, channels. I think you end up with something like 10+ frames going through all these pieces before you hit the middlware.
So you need a 10-letter pangram that generates like 19 4-letter words. :)
This comment should not be downvoted it is both factually accurate and insightful.
Rumors are they aren't anywhere close to profitability, seeing their SEC filings will be interesting, especially if they disclose who they sell data to...
The problem is ChatGPT doesn’t understand podcast popularity nor the journey heavy listeners tend to go on.

To end up with a list like OP’s, you typically have heard of popular podcasts, tried them and stopped listening, either unsubscribing or not adding them in a new podcast app.

To ChatGPT the OPML just looks like you overlooked some similar material and it happily fills in the gaps. Integrating with a listener stats data source and capping the max popularity of the recommendations to the minimum popularity in the OPML shows would make it way better.
Sadly, no. 32-bit ARM only has 16 GPR’s (two of which are zero and link), mostly because of the stupid predication bits in the instruction encoding.

That said, I don’t know how valuable getting rid of FP on ARM is - I once benchmarked ffmpeg on 32-bit x86 before and after enabling FP and PIC (basically removing 2 GPRs) and the difference was huge (>10%) but that’s an extreme example.
If successful wouldn’t you be replicating the compilers machine code 1:1?

In which case that means fully complete code can live in the “latent space” but is distributed as probabilities

Or perhaps more likely would it be replicating the logic only, which can then be translated into the target language

I would guess that any binary that requires a non-deterministic input (key, hash etc…) to compile would break this

Fascinating
I see this one as the same level of inline ASM in C code.

It is certainly a bad practice, but on very particular occasions it is invaluable.
Normally they'd fall into irrelevance as Digg did, but their last desperate cry is an IPO. Weird times. Either way they're now absolutely hostile towards casual commenters, posters, and viewers. Their data dumps up until maybe 2023 will be valid and interesting only for some limited time.
They used to be really obvious, now they are less obvious.
Very cool, thanks! I play every morning. There are times when Sam's curation is very frustrating. It would be nice to submit other valid words and have the game verify them as a way to score "bonus" points. Oftentimes I find that there are some baffling omissions and, after the fact, some truly bizarre inclusions. It would be nice to be able to score points based on your own vocabulary while still having the game's score based on whatever common denominator Sam comes up with.