skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hearing voices would terrify me. I only hear crickets in mine. (And, y'know, never outside of it since real crickets are extinct now.)
> run high-speed rail to Moses Lake Airport

Woah, that's a good ways out there
No GDPR mentions, cannot delete account easily :-(
Some of the links in the article go nowhere, and others seem to contradict what they claim to say. But follow the links in the links and you end up with contradictions on the contradictions.

Very confusing. Maybe wait for a better source or for them to fix this article.
Why are the gears still down?
Designing a Pure Python Web Framework
That may be true, but having customers who want to only use products from one company doesn’t make that company a monopoly, which is the topic sitting behind this article.
>That would make a trip to Japan much faster!

Assuming it has the range. Trans-Atlantic is IMO not that interesting. You can already get to London from the East Coast same day. The continent is mostly a red-eye but that's OK in lie-flat business class. Even comfortable trans-Pacific is a slog but that takes a lot of range.
You can split software licenses roughly into two, open-source and proprietary. Since SSPL is not open-source, it's considered proprietary.
> Those who care about time can already travel at much greater speeds

There is massive room for improvement. Consider the effect on global relations if crossing the world didn’t cost days but hours. More practically, consider an economy networked with this travel and transport competing against one sticking to trains, trucks and Zoom.
There are a million train spotter videos on YouTube, and given the audience I'm unlikely to find one filmed in someone's back garden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-wyR316550

(The navy blue trains with yellow 'noses' are high-speed commuter trains, the dark blue, gold and white ones are the high-speed trains to France, the plain white ones are normal-speed commuter trains to London.)

I think the continuously welded rails are the biggest improvement, as they remove most of the "clackety-clack". Instead you get the "hiss", but that's only noticeable from really close.
Weirdly, since I started using low doses of THC + CBD flower before bed it has increased my dreaming (or at least recall of it) substantially. For many many years now I would always wake up in the middle of the night out of breath, sweaty and sore whenever I'd have intense dreams, possibly due to trauma. Now I stay asleep through the most vivid and intense dreams, and wake up reasonably relaxed and well rested at normal times. Has been going on for several months now ever since I started using tiny amounts of cannabis intermittently again (no more than 4x per week, often less, and below 0.05g per "dose").
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My use of a white noise machine has recently increased significantly with the arrival of my first kid. I spent so many nights bouncing her to sleep in the dark, trying to determine if the classical music coming faintly through the white noise was a product of my sleep deprivation, or something else. Now I have a likely answer: both!

I still hear faint music in the white noise sometimes, as recently as last night.
> I believe in God for a number of reasons.

I'm not sure that what you describe as "reasons" actually qualify as reasons.

> Firstly, it just seems much more plausible that someone created the universe.

Why is that more plausible? You think that there is "an uncaused thing," which you call "God," and that this uncaused thing created the universe. Why is that more plausible than the uncaused thing being the universe itself? The universe manifestly exists; your idea of "someone" who created it does not (it may exist, but does not manifestly exist in the way the universe does).

> If we walked in to the middle of nowhere and saw a beautiful statue, most of us would say "wow,
> I wonder who made it?" not "wow, what an incredible coincidence that this thing which has
> meaning to me just spontaneously formed".

This is a variant of a common creationist argument, often promoted by those who prefer the term "intelligent design" to "creationism." But so-called "intelligent design" is just a variant of hard-core creationism.

> Another main reason is that I _feel_ like there is a God, and generally my feelings tell me
> things. When I feel hungry, I don't think "ah, but that feeling is only an illusion!" instead I > go and eat.

This conflates two very different senses of the words "feel" and "feelings." Hunger is a biological sensation; your "feeling" that there is a God is not and is a very, very different kind of "feeling."

Consider this: if you had been left alone on a desert island as a child, with no other humans around, you would still feel hunger, because that is a natural, biological sensation.

But you almost certainly would not have the "feeling" you have now that there is a God, and even if you did, that God would even more certainly not have the characteristics you ascribe to it now.

The "God" that you "feel" exists, which has whatever characteristics you ascribe to it, is a social construct. In the absence of a social environment, it is vanishingly unlikely that you would construct a similar idea on your own.

Again, this "feeling" is not at all like hunger: it is a purely psychological phenomenon in a way that "feeling" hungry is not. Using the words "feel" and "feeling" in these two different ways confuses the issue rather than clarifies it.

> I feel like there is a God, so I go and eat.

This is not really even intelligible.
>> Augmented reality vision system: Two nose-mounted cameras, digitally augmented with attitude and flight path indications, feed a high resolution pilot display enabling excellent runway visibility. This system enables improved aerodynamic efficiency without the weight and complexity of a movable nose.

(Cough) Don't tell the passengers it is all because the pilot literally cannot see the runway during landing.
Direct-to-consumer microbiome tests don't work as advertised
I think it said there’s a 447 page book and a few articles. This plus a little probable fiction could be a long tv series.

The possibility of being Satoshi of bitcoin also. Entertaining read. Programmer -> cartel boss.
Its not about being die hard or for the sake of an Apple logo alone.

Apple just often does stuff in such an elegant way that it defines entire product categories. In most cases, Apple products are qualitatively and quantitative better.

Apple Silicon-based laptops, XDR Pro Display, Apple TV, Airpods, etc.
Any claim they make can be validated through discovery. I doubt they would lie, and I’m sure they’d love to increase Watch revenue by addressing the other half of the duopoly.
Same people that buy a house next to Disneyland then complain about the fireworks and traffic. They just don’t consider it and the disclosures about it if any are often buried in documents they’re rushed to sign.
According to the article, not that effective:

> Evaluations concluded that their electricity production had become unprofitable for the power plant owners – especially when the costs of maintenance and mandatory environmental protections, such as fish-ladder introductions, were taken into account, Ollikainen says. So the dams were sold and dismantled. [..] Across Europe, many dams are either approaching the end of their operational life, or the costs of their maintenance are outweighing the benefits they provide.

Aside from various other problems mentioned in the article, which really don't seem that easy to work around, and doing so would make them even less cost-efficient. Never mind all of this takes energy so would reduce the efficiency (although I don't know by what amount, but it does need to be factored in).
But this topic is about the vice-versa.
Is there a way to link to a Netflix movie at specific time?
I hope you don’t really believe that’s a fair comparison.
Quite literally a magnitude 5 is 10000x the strength of mag 1!
The key determinant that tells you whether trains or planes are more cost-efficient is population density. If you have two cities far apart with not much in-between, then it's cheaper to build a couple of airports. If you have loads of other cities along the route, then it'd be cheaper to build a railway. The former case is true for much of North America, and the latter for much of Western Europe and UK.
Good point. It could be a stopgap. At the time the 3000 was launched, Sun was divesting from their 68K line in favor of the SPARC line, but the 3000 would fill a niche at a lower price point than Sun had with their own Sun/3 series (which were eye-wateringly expensive).
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Is this really the strongest evidence the ACLU found to justify the claim of "racism"? This entire case sounds like a right-wing parody of a left-wing workplace and "oppression Olympics".

> The A.C.L.U. acknowledges that Ms. Oh, who is Korean American, never used any kind of racial slur. But the group says that her use of certain phrases and words demonstrated a pattern of willful anti-Black animus.

> In one instance, according to court documents, she told a Black superior that she was “afraid” to talk with him. In another, she told a manager that their conversation was “chastising.” And in a meeting, she repeated a satirical phrase likening her bosses’ behavior to suffering “beatings.”

> “As a Black male, language like ‘afraid’ generally is code word for me,” ... Mr. Needham, who is gay and grew up in the Deep South, ... Ms. Oh and her lawyers have cited her own past: As a survivor of domestic abuse, she was particularly sensitive to tense interactions with male colleagues. She said she was troubled by Mr. Needham’s once referring to his predecessor as a “friend,” since she was one of the employees who had criticized him.
Yes but it’s seamless because they lock-down their APIs and hardware, even limiting their available documentation so you can’t build something as seamless. Apple doesn’t let anyone else compete on their platform.
Gotta love how ruling party fanatics have already downvoted this innocuous and factual comment.
Ours was from Google Fi. They had a promotion where you could buy the Moto for $50 on the condition of using it with them for 90 days. So we did and then she just popped her SIM back in her Pixel and I took the Moto.

It has an unremovable Google Fi app, but it doesn't interfere with anything. I have it on a cheapo Verizon Red Pocket SIM which works great.
I'm not sure I buy "three years" of concerted, Apple-class effort.

It's probably something that got brought up occasionally, maybe even some exploration was done to see what it would take to port stuff across.

My feeling is that the business case just wasn't there. Their customer base is people that buy into the complete Apple Experience. Not being able to control the OS-level removes a lot of that control, and the inevitable friction issues that result may tarnish the experience.

It's like: Could the French Laundry offer takeout / to-go? Sure. Do they want to? Ehh..

The goal is to welcome people into the Fold, not just sell them a watch. They want them to have an iPhone, so that they then use iCloud and buy apps / videos / subscriptions in the Apple universe.
Apple Watch requires the ability to go over Bluetooth or some other way to load an ipsw or some other means to update. It also needs ultra wideband tech to find the host and who knows how cellular is integrated to the phone.

What Apple could do instead to get around this would be to make the watch be 100% standalone. I don’t think that’s as easy as it sounds though.
> because the pilot literally cannot see the runway during landing

ILS solved this problem for airline transport pilots [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system
Anybody from any generation has experienced this is some form or fashion, don't be coy.
With js off, many news web sites will let you see the first few paragraphs.
As a GenXer, the issue is that there really isn't very many good GenXers - software was so new there just aren't many 20+ years of experience software developers, and then there were so many bad ideas floating around for so long, the subset of those developers that are actually good beyond the abilities of people with 10-15 years of experience is small.

I mean, when I started, there was maybe 100k "computer programmers" in the US. Now there are millions.
They're likely using a non standard protocol like they do with airpods, if I had to guess.
why can't you live forever then?
Airports because of noise have plenty of space nobody else wants so building out isn't an issue.
Meh... I'll take whatever supersonic passenger transport is offered, but Mach 1.7 is disappointing.
This seems to align reasonably well with Mark Gurman's reporting[1] from last year.

1: https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1770870612690358367
This is a fair point. It should not need an iPhone. I think it did in the first several generations but not today.

I suspect forcing Apple to allow this device to operate without an iPhone (even lacking features that might reasonably require an iPhone) could come out of this.
> can fly subsonic over land and go supersonic over oceans

A supersonic airframe is typically inefficient at subsonic speeds.
The lock-in problem at the heart of the Apple monopoly lawsuit
I pretty much never rent a car if I'm going into a city. But I'm often not actually going into the city that an airport services.
Okey, thats valid point.. Formating indeed..
> Whatever the "technical issue" was, it would have to be hardware related givent that AOSP is open source.

And it would have to be an issue that none of the other "works with android" wearables faced / managed to circumvent and an issue that google wasn't going to fix upstream.

I'm sure apple "tried" to bring the watch to android the same way a puppy tries to "drop it" before running away with something it knows it shouldn't have.
dooh! Switching to Private Window/Tab does the trick.
Similar MoE implementation was on GitHub for a while, since Jan 2024

https://github.com/zxaall/moegpt
> Notice how some airports (IAD, IAH) specifically have "International Airport" in their codes.

Since this is HN, we'll get ultra-pedantic...

IAH is technically "Intercontinental Airport of Houston", not "international" for some reason (full name is "George Bush Intercontinental Airport").
AmiSSL exists. Gemini browsers for Amiga too.
That makes sense to me. I don't know for sure that you're right but it sure seems plausible.

I do wonder how much of a range there is on non-brand-new computers though. I'm typing this on an M2 Max with 64GB of RAM. I also have a Raspberry Pi in the other room, and I know from hard experience that what runs screamingly fast on my Mac may be painfully slow on the Pi.

I could also imagine power benefits to an incremental model. If I type a single character in the middle of a 30KLOC document, a batch process would need to rescan the entire thing where a smart incremental process could say "yep, you're still in the middle of a string constant".
I got so frustrated with Android Wear being stuck, with no new chips for years, that I switched to an Apple Watch and iPhone in 2019 after having lived the Pixel/Pixelbook/Android Wear train for years. I bought the $1000 Pixelbook, and it remains one of my favorite machines just from a form factor I've ever used.

So I'm not an Apple fanboy and would consider switching back to Android (and have) if I could. Sadly, various apps I've begun to use (not just Apple's, Signal for instance) don't allow you to switch platforms without losing all your data, so I'm stuck. I won't buy a new phone unless it's an iPhone, or I lose years of messaging history and it won't work with my Watch Ultra (which with like 3 days of battery life is extremely excellent and arguably the best smart watch on the market).

But I'd be a lot more likely to switch and buy a new watch and phone on Android if there wasn't this platform lock-in effect.
You can go to archive.is, web.archive.org, etc. and enter the URL of the article to get a readable copy of it. This does not require a NY Times subscription. It works for many other sites too. (Once you get the archive link, you can post it in a comment to save other people the extra clicks.)

(Three people have already posted comments with links to archived copies of this article.)
Probably not. Maybe to like know where you are turning in a round about. But the drift is too big to be useful over any distance.
Hopefully they replace them with Coal in Germany
The idea is not to increase watch revenue, but to get people into the whole ecosystem and keep them there
And from Hnd either the monorail or the airport limousine are very cheap ways into the city. I use the airport limousine to get to Disney and it’s really convenient. WAY cheaper than a taxi
>Google bought Fitbit and still hasn’t created something that is good enough to entice Apple Watch users to switch.

Can anyone who uses or has tried to use recent "watch" style products from Google/Fitbit provide anecdotes on this claim?
> Apple doesn't have this power though. And they haven't been able to exclude competitors

Where does your mind drift off to when you read the phrase "walled garden"?
>> Didn't they say it could run on sustainable fuel?

The same can be said about my car/boat/monster truck/jet fighter and anything else that pumps out carbon. The average jet engine can be tuned to run rather well on olive oil. "Can run on X" is a far cry from "actually runs on X".
Indeed. For Emacs users, there's consult-notes-search-in-all-notes which does that with file previews.
> not as if we’re having surplus production of sustainable air fuel

You want to spur an industry by rationing its customers?
Sorry, I take the train 10x more than I fly, I mixed up the airport with Union Station.
Faster sorting with SIMD CUDA intrinsics
Agreed. Government doesn't get to force a company to make their product compatible with another platform. Unless I am missing it, did the DOJ plead that Apple actively prevented Google from making Android work with Apple Watch? If so, then it would be a different story.

Couldn't Apple also make a 1st amendment argument that the government can't force them to "speak" something (make iPhone work with Android)?
> This is similar to how one of the best ways to debunk toxic beliefs with honest people is simply through openly asking them to play out the consequences and walking through the impact of stuff that sounds good without much thought.

Actually, one of the best ways is pretending to be more extreme than them. Agree with them on everything, which is disarming, but then take it a step or two even further. Then they're like, "now hang on, what about X and Y" trying to convince you to be more reasonable, and pretty soon they start seeing the holes and backtrack to a more reasonable position.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1407055111
> its called a container for a reason, its how we isolate your shitty application from bringing down the rest of the system or the hardware that you dont understand

This reads as extremely cynical and also uncharitable towards the benefits containers provide around managing different versions of dependencies or run-times for the people who do understand the hardware.

It's really nice to not have to wrangle multiple versions of Python or set up venvs or whatever else on a target server that may be hosting separate apps. The alternative of having a couple of self-contained containers with nginx in front of it is better in many ways.
So then we agreed that final paragraph is irrelevant to the arguments of a monopoly. It’s misdirection from the fact that no one can build a competing quality product on their locked down platform. It has nothing to do with consumer choice because there is no choice. That is the monopoly, lack of ability to fairly build on their platform.
For the first test flight of an aircraft, it's quite common to test a very limited set of parts of the aircraft, and retracting the gear might not be on that list. Also, if the gear is left down, then that's one less thing that could go wrong while the pilot is still getting used to an aircraft with a very different feel to anything they have flown before.
For further evidence, this is the team that just had to pull one of their drivers out of the upcoming race because they didn't bring a spare chassis to replace the one their other (better) driver crashed.

They've shown signs for the last decade of being behind the times in terms of manufacturing logistics; this isn't the first time in recent years they've been riding the edge in terms of having a car built on time.
Ink is ink and paper is paper. How hard could it be?

I accidentally bought a large inventory of toner during a sale, and it's really cost prohibitive for me to buy a new printer as a result.

My comments might be a joke, but they're about as rigorous as the claims in the DoJ complaint. They invent a "performance smartphone market" and then claim Google is a distant third to Samsung and Apple because of iMessage lock-in.
I agree with the comments, that's a pretty lame excuse. But I've gotta understand where others are coming from here. I just don't see why Apple is in such hot water here - they created a gadget (well multiple) that people like. We're not forced to buy those gadgets and we have alternatives. Sure Apple has made a butt load of money on this, but it's not like other players are prevented from making similar gadgets. I guess if I made a thing, say a new type of keyboard and I also make a motherboard and ultimately some new type of computer - then isn't it my prerogative to decide that I'm only going to support that keyboard with that computer? Or is that thinking too simple: instead is the problem that Apple isn't allowing others to take the device they bought (keyboard in this example) and on their own make it work with their Asus computer? eh, maybe a lame example but happy to hear thoughts and feedback.
Just because AOSP exist doesn't mean that Apple would be able to get any Apple Watch specific things merged. And if you get something merged into AOSP today it will be quite a while before a significant portion of the Android devices in the wild actually contains those additions.
"We couldn't figure out how to make a bunch of people buy this ugly thing unless they were already neck-deep in the ecosystem. For three years we tried to make it legitimately useful in its own right! Or at least somewhat attractive. You know, so that if you wear it in a photo it doesn't immediately date the photo. Then when you look at a nice photo where everyone is dressed up there isn't this ugly thing on your wrist that screams "2015!" or whatever. But yeah, this is a tough nut to crack. I'd go so far as to say it's an AirPower-level problem in terms of difficulty."
For what it's worth, I think the law is an overreach. They are basically trying to outlaw a mathematical set of transformation from a training set of data to and an input file to an output file. I don't even think you should be able to patent NN weights or algorithms or their derivatives. But it's not clear here who judges if the output is "Taylof Swift" enough. There is this creator on YouTube who makes "bad versions" using AI, I guess they aren't welcome in TN. I'm against this law because it seems impossible to enforce, what happens when some guy in China trains a Garth Brooks LoRA? You can't run inference? I think parody rights are protected, or should Weird Al makes sure he doesn't auto tune too close. I guess my perspective on TN isn't nuanced enough, and people are calling me out on associating TN and "Libertarianism" and I'm calling them out on what I see as very non-free behavior.
There is also contemporary research, i.e. chronic noise exposure having subtle effects on health, that are accepted as true that would have been laughed at 2-3 decades ago.
Why allow them to take a device you think is secure and separate it from you then still consider it so.