skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of my time in Netherlands, you would go to a supermarket and there were 10 years old guys fixing shelfs. Paid 2.5 euros per hour. Exploited by corporate since childhood, in order "To understand the value of money". Imagine living your life without dreams, just always as a bolt of the economic system.

> Third-party developers on Roblox are paid in Robux, the platform’s in-game currency

> user can buy 1,000 Robux for $12.50 but can cash out 1,000 Robux for just $3.50

> 15 years old, in Indonesia, living in a slum, and then now with just a laptop, I can create something, make money

> we wanted to be a resource for legislators as they start thinking about laws

Probably there are already laws, but by my side there is even something of greater value than those laws, and it tells me that you're a piece of shit
Are consumer grade RTX 4090 cards going to be suitable for running full tilt 24/7 for a year? Those things are fine to stress on the latest game for a few hours at a time, but would probably cause some defects from significant heat stress after just a few days at 100%.

This is inconsequential when you're playing Overwatch for a few hours a night and a frame drops now and again. If you're training an iteratively developed LLM though, physical defects could propagate into huge deficiencies in the final model.
That's a great news but does not surprise me. In the University where I studied in Germany, almost all Library computers had Ubuntu (and also LibreOffice). The Windows machines were limited to use only 2 hours a day and they were almost always occupied, so I had to start learning linux. Years later and I work half of time at my current job as Linux admin.
You can get shitty vending machines for that!
Discussion on the Qubes forum: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/blog-post-using-qubes-and-salt-...
How does AI content detection work? AIs vs. 10 AI content dectors
Theft is effectively a solved issue even without security, since Target probably insures for it and we pay for their policy through their markup.
not "koroutines"? I like "kernel shaders" though.
> On all mainstream CPUs other than DEC Alpha, dependency ordering is automatic, no additional CPU instructions are issued for this synchronization mode, only certain compiler optimizations are affected (e.g. the compiler is prohibited from performing speculative loads on the objects that are involved in the dependency chain).

> Note that currently (2/2015) no known production compilers track dependency chains: consume operations are lifted to acquire operations.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/memory_order#Releas...
Imagine if Roblox didn't give money to the kids. Would that be better? I don't really see how.

For children in the developed world their Roblox earnings are likely non-essential. If they don't want to work on Roblox mods, or whatever they do, then they just won't. Forcing your child to work on Roblox would be straightforward abuse same as any other kind of abuse.

For children in the developing world - perhaps there are some for whom Roblox development is mandatory. But, would that child be better off if we deprived them of Roblox? Wouldn't they just work somewhere else in worse conditions in a career with less of a future?

I don't see why kids earning money from Roblox is bad. The efforts to criticize it strike me as pattern matching. Child labor = children working in coal mines or as chimney sweeps = bad. Kids making Roblox games for fun is child labor therefore kids making Roblox games is bad. Doesn't strike me as a compelling argument.
You could get yourself a drying cabinet (basically a closet with an A/C inside).
I thought it was barely readable self-indulgent pablum. I can't speak to his fellow passengers on this cruise, but the set of those who cruise and Atlantic readers are not disjointed.
Sounds like Apple needs to increase its dividend, this does not sound like a promising use of capital for Apple.
I rented a Bolt from Hertz last December and their policy at the time was:

“Return your EV at the same charge level as pick-up and pay $0. Or return your EV at any level for a $25 Recharge Fee.”

They were pretty lenient about the return charge — it was close to 100% to start and 80% when I returned it, but they didn’t charge me the $25. Even if they had, the EV rental rate was cheap enough that I would’ve still come out ahead vs. renting a gas car.
Begun the drone wars have. Next up, clone troopers?
> Miku voice, speck fast, Vocaloid, math rock, j-pop, mutation funk, bounce drop, hyperspeed dubstep

What a banger.
I don't personally find them exciting but robotic vacuum cleaners are pretty popular, I guess they could make an expensive one of those and be successful.
AirPods swapping between devices is incredibly seamless, way better than standard Bluetooth. AirPlay sharing as well. And the Apple Watch is probably 10 years ahead of any competition.
Whisper >>>> Siri
A story illustrated in the style of ghibli studio
At some point in the future, wanting no part in AI-generated content is going to be like that old Onion headline. "Area Man Constantly Mentioning That He Doesn't Even Own A Television".
Most of the world are foreigners living outside the US.
In fact, one of the points of my loyalty programs with various car rental companies is that I can look at the board and walk straight to my car.
Kudos for knowing your worth and maximizing the leverage it gave you.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”

― Henry Ford

Maybe it's worth trying to be optimistic.
So the answer is just "American Exceptionalism"?
Sometimes spending 15 minutes on a problem in the evening saves multiples of that time if the task is delayed. Let employers and salaried workers navigate the tradeoffs of being on call.
Sadly, many folks will assume an "official" sounding message or call is actually legitimate. Especially if it's from someone calling themselves a lawyer. Next the AI law firms will be requesting payment in iTunes gift cards...
I’ll do it myself.

Altman/Loopt, Siebel/Socialcam, Emmett/Twitch failed and got rich. The people who trusted them lost a lot. People still say they’re smart.

Larry said we should put as much poison in Africa as we can. He wrote it down. He tried to get someone fired, by ratting out his friends. He made bankers angry. They never forgave him. So he moved. Also, Brooksley was going to save America. Larry said she was a woman and be quiet. Also stealing is ok.

Bankers don’t go to prison. They can do anything. But it’s not because they’re rich. It’s because they know important people. Also rich.

Creepy tech people aren’t like bankers. They don’t get in trouble much. But if they’re bad enough, they go to jail.

Someone did the worst thing in a long time. They’ve done it a lot.

He should say sorry and get a different job, because jail sucks.
The button is labeled “Return” on Macs. You certainly don’t expect that button to navigate back..
One thing about Apple is things can make sense for them to explore that don't make sense for others to. They have a big enough ecosystem, enough cash to do R&D on an idea for decades, and a culture of killing things that aren't good enough that make them an ideal place to determine whether ideas are a conceptual dead end versus just haven't been executed well enough (or tied to the right ecosystem to make them work).

Foldables make sense for Apple to explore because even if it's ~5% likely to be able to be productized, the return is measured in the tens of billions.

Smart speakers were comparatively cheap and are probably profitable, so even if they're not a huge market they made sense.

AR/VR remains to be seen. Meta's still learning how to build hardware and operating systems and still learning how to sell actual products, so they're probably not the right ones to test concept risk when they already have so much execution risk. They also don't have the leverage or insertion point that Apple does if e.g. AR/VR turns into an alternative to computers & iPhones instead of an alternative to consoles. It may also be that Vision Pro is just a prelude to AR that ship in ~2035 but lays so much groundwork that nobody stands a chance at competing by the time the tech is ready, letting Apple secure the next trillion dollar product.

Cars were expensive and cancelled, that's the one that required Apple to stretch the most in terms of both brand and execution.

In your Google example, remember they invented transformers and yet did nothing with them. Any failure in Google's robotics efforts are likely due to Google having an absolutely horrible record of shipping and standing behind products. I wouldn't trust a Google robot because I wouldn't trust a Google product.
First of all, thanks for engaging thoughtfully! The "Linux people" comment was a bit rude, sorry. If it helps it was meant as a general observation and not super targeted at you. Anyhow.

> they are not portable. it was not possible for decades.

I could be missing something, but I don't think this is true at all. The definition of "portable" can be quite fuzzy.

Supporting many different platforms is easy. Coming from gamedev the target platform list looks something like: Windows, macOS, SteamOS, Linux, Android, iOS, PS4, PS5, XSX, Switch. A given codebase may have supported another 10 to 20 consoles depending on how old it. Supporting all the different consoles is quite a bit more work than supporting all the niche nix flavors.

Building anything "new" probably requires building it at least three times. You make mistakes, hit edge causes, learn what's important, and eventually build something that's pretty good. It's a process. One perspective is "the approach exists for a reason". Another perspective is "damn we made a ton of mistakes, I really wish we knew then what we know now!".

> I said that approach exists for a reason

My core thesis here is that the reason is a bad one. It was a mistake. Folks didn't know better back then. That's ok. No shade on the individuals. But it doesn't mean it's a good design. In a parallel universe maybe the better design would have been made before a bad one. Such is life.

> They support Windows, MacOS, and Linux

Publicly. Internally Buck2 supports dozens of weird hardware platforms and OS variants. Adding support for a new hardware or OS platform doesn't have to be hard!

I swear compiling computer programs doesn't have to be hard! Build systems don't have to try to compile and see if it fails or not!

As one example, Windows handles linking a dynamic library much, much better than GCC/Clang on Linux. All you need is a header and a thin import static lib that only contains function stubs. GCC made a mistake by expecting a fully compiled .so to be available. The libc headers across all the different weird Unix variants are 99% identical. Supporting a new variant or version should be as simple as grabbing headers and import lib. Zig jumps through hoops to pre-produce exactly that. It'd be even better if libc headers were amalgamated into a single header. Two files per variant. Easy peasy.
Before, the American economy has been built on excess consumption. Assuming that the rising tide lifts all boats, rewarding and encouraging excess consumption helped everyone, not just the wealthy. That's almost the opposite case when most goods purchased are now overseas imports. If the model doesn't make sense anymore, it should be replaced. Remove the ban on charging based on payment method.

Stripe is relevant. If customer and merchant incentives are aligned, I would say Stripe probably just wants to have low or minimum interchange? Have I misunderstood?
> Gaza: Number of children killed higher than from four years of world conflict

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147512

There's even a picture, if that helps. Hope you kept the receipt for that bridge.
I think of dspy as a programmatic way to guide LLMs with information, whether from context based on retrieval or from input and output pairs, rather than traditional low-rank fine-tuning. Their readme has a high-level introduction to using RAG with a user defined way to pass relevant context. I also found their link to Weaviate's notebooks, where dspy is used with a vector DB, helpful in understanding an end-to-end workflow:
[1] https://github.com/weaviate/recipes/tree/main/integrations/d...
Well that's just false in this context.

vec[i]

Is safe in v8, blink, jsc, webkit, etc. Rust has a huge number of benefits over c++, but it hurts your argument if you refuse to acknowledge the actual environment the C++ is being used in and make objectively incorrect statements. It implies a lack of understanding of C++ and sounds like all you're doing is parroting other people's critiques without understanding the core issues, which undermines your message.

That said it's still not particularly relevant here, because the issues being presented are bugs in the runtime. e.g. the runtime logic and state results in erroneous behavior. The bugs being discussed are not "you did not use a safe vec" or "you did not use Rc", it's "the size or bounds check in vec is incorrect" or "the ref counting in Rc is incorrect". Rust does not inherently stop those the runtime from having bugs, it simply statically limits where the exposure to unsafe operations can occur.

That's super relevant to program safety, but it's not relevant to safety in the JS VM runtime, where they're performing the operations that would be unsafe{} in rust as well.
GLP-1 agonists (Wegovy, Ozempic, semaglutide), help people who have a brain chemistry preventing calorie reduction success naturally (willpower or whatever you want to call it).

The gene therapy trials should be done soon. At that point, the flywheel comes up to speed and starts enabling susceptible populations with the genetic bug to fix it, in order to have agency against a system designed to shovel them garbage for profit. Obesity at this scale is a system failure, so you have to fix the system (and it’s clearly not going to be done at the regulatory or corp level).

(You can absolutely blame them for making people fat; some people cannot control it, and you cannot blame someone for their brain chemistry)
I think they did a pretty good job of explaining that they meant the latter.
45 minutes! Why are you doing cold builds like that? That's not a problem with Next.js.

I mean, yeah, you have to do those sometimes, but they should not be blocking midday deploys.
Instagram and Twitter links in footer don’t work… I’d do a chargeback with your credit card
The company that builds a robot that can do household chores will be very, very rich.

I want a bot that can do laundry (load washer, load dryer, fold, put away), do the dishes (rinse, put in dishwasher, put clean dishes away, wash pots & pans), vacuum floors, dust, clean up messes, empty garbage bins, take out the trash, mow my lawn, trim bushes, clean tables, mop floors, make meals, cleans toilets and sinks and bathrooms.

Currently myself and my wife split these duties, and kids help a bit. But it's still a ton of work for us. I would love to offload all that and more to a robot.
Ideas for my dream blogging CMS
It's a thing the author of that article does, at least. He's got an article mostly about how to escalate identity theft complaints here that touches on it: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...

It's very long so I'll just quote a small bit specifically about the Investor Relations:

> If you cannot route letters to the legal department, go as high up as required. Pro-tip: virtually every major US company has a department called Investor Relations which is trivially discoverable, very well-funded, publicly routable, and very bored during 80% of the year. You can excuse any letter to Investor Relations with: "I am a shareholder in BigBank. I was therefore profoundly displeased when I learned…"

> What’s a well-paid bored professional in Investor Relations going to do with your account information? Nothing? Nothing is a great way to get fired. No, they’re going to open up their internal phone tree or ticketing system and say “I have a letter from an investor which alleges an identity theft issue. Which group handles that? Your department? Great; handle it and call me when you’re done. Do you want it by fax, email, or FedEx?”

For this to work though you've got to present like your position in the stock is in the millions of dollars, even if it's actually like $100. The author of the article has been in the financial industry for a very long time, and has also spent a long time as a Japanese salaryman, so he can definitely pull that off.
I grew up poor and took AP classes. What does money have to do with it?
Not to mention potentially paying for your cloud storage for life.
Food prep.

There are already products for infants that will prep baby food. It’s harder to do something more complicated than that. Meal kit type meals that take grocery store ingredients as an input would likely do well with the well to do 30+ crowd that is in the middle of having kids and home remodels and is upset at how much delivery restaurant food they eat.

I’m definitely not projecting ;).

I think there’s likely a market for just the iBabyFood maker let along coming closer to an automated chef that’s “smarter” than buying a meal kit.

My experience with smart vacuums is that the more “AI” they add to them the worse they get. I’ve switched brands a few times and have always preferred the dumber models. I’m sure old iPhone tech and some computer vision know how would make a “Roomba killer” possible but I don’t know how many people are going to by the Beats by Dre Vacuum. Maybe a lot?

As things become more solarized a cross “platform” energy management system would be useful. Load controllers exist but often they’re tied to solar batteries or EVSEs. In my case I could avoid the cost of a panel update if there was a good system for load control that also wouldn’t upset my family. I.e. if they need to handle a transfer switch they will not be happy. More like, “if I’m running the jacuzzi and it’s winter, gate the AC but not the heat pump. If it’s summer gate the heat pump Aux heat but not the heat pump itself”

Most load controllers are focused on making a generator or battery run critical loads and don’t really work for larger more electrified homes on 200A panels.
Ah, I understand my confusion now. I was trying to use the iOS version of the app. I'm using the macOS version now with my iPhone connected and it's working. Thanks for the advice! :D
That could handle items on hangers, but I'm talking about folding underwear, shorts, T-shirts, pants, etc... That requires careful manipulation.
Similarly, Apple has resolved the increasingly-aged stock Bash install, eschewing Bash's subsequent GPLv3 licencing, by making zsh the default login shell.

I'd like to see zsh also adopt GPLv3 to call Apple's bluff.
Decade and a half ago there was PacketShader, which used usermode networking+GPUs to do packet routing. It was a thrilling time. I thought this kind of effort to integrate off-the-shelf hardware and open source software-defined-networking (SDN) was only going to build and amplify. We do have some great SDN but remains a fairly niche world that stays largely behind the scenes. https://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/index.html

I wish someone would take up this effort again. It'd be awesome to see VPP or someone target offload to GPUs again. It feels like there's a ton of optimization we could do today based around PCI-P2P, where the network card could DMA direct to the GPU and back out without having to transit main-memory/the CPU at all; lower latency & very efficient. It's a long leap & long hope, but I very much dream that CXL eventually brings us closer to that "disaggregated rack" model where a less host-based fabric starts disrupting architecture, create more deeply connected systems.

That said, just dropping down an fpga right on the nic is probably/definitely a smarter move. Seems like a bunch of hyperscaler do this. Unclear how much traction Marvell/Nvidia get from BlueField being on their boxes but it's there. Actually using the fpga is hard of course. Xilinx/AMD have a track record of kicking out some open source projects that seem interesting but don't seem to have any follow through. Nanotube being an XDP offload engine seemed brilliant, like a sure win. https://github.com/Xilinx/nanotube and https://github.com/Xilinx/open-nic .
https://archive.ph/nmk8i

Seems impractical and difficult to enforce. Will be a stigma and potential realisation towards those who try and get their management fined.
I disagree; "Open Source" in software is well defined, and IME the only parties trying to muddy it are doing so to try and pass off their source available software as FOSS for marketing points.
For me it also was a lot like that. During my freelance time I not once had to search for a client and they all came via referral.

I was above average good and fast at what I did while being extremely clear in my communication. That alone meant people recommended me when someone had a problem or a project revolving about what I am good at.

Nearly all of that happened during my studies, with some of it being direct contacts from university.
Great rapper name.
How does this compare to https://github.com/jieter/django-tables2? That one makes it really easy to display database models as HTML tables with column sorting and pagination, and search/filtering can be added on top with django-filter.
I’m not saying it’s a lie. 4 Amex Membership Rewards points are worth around 6% if I transfer them to Delta instead of spending cash on the same ticket.

If I transfer those same points to Flying Blue/KLM (a Netherlands airline), since they are a partner with Delta, I can buy a domestic round trip flight in the US on Delta through them where the cash price to fly into my parents small regional airport is $508.

The price in points is 17K. That makes those same 4 points worth 12% back per dollar.

This isn’t about “only the rich get value”. It’s about the well informed.

4 points per dollar is what you get back on the Amex Gold for groceries.

You could never buy points as cheaply as Amex. For all intents and purposes, credit card users are collectively buying miles in bulk
> ”“Smart home" has really fallen flat across the board,… I just don't think people really want smart home devices all that much.”

Or are these devices just so common, unremarkable, and ubiquitous now that you just aren’t noticing them anymore? I can’t think of any of my friends and family who don’t at least have some smart speakers and smart lighting devices in their home.

Smart door locks that you can open with your phone, and smart door bells and security cameras that you can monitor remotely are becoming pretty common too.
You need to pay a lawyer to find that out!
"I tried it. It was magic.

No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again. ...(contd)"
Hertz just adds the charging costs to your rental bill. You don't set up any sort of payment in the car. The experience is the same as owning a Tesla.
I live in Pittsburgh and I’d love to take the GAP from Pittsburgh to DC this summer.

I never knew it was part of such a cool network!
Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI
You can fix most misspoken words by tweaking the lyrics. e.g. in my most recent song it pronounced "pasting" from "copying and pasting" as "past-ing.

I just rewrote the lyrics as "paste-ing" and it sung it perfectly afterwards.
Norway has huge financial incentives for buying EVs, including exemption from VAT and registration fees. This has added up to billions of USD in subsidies, [1] and is why there are so many EVs in Norway. I'd be very surprised if their neighbors, who have similar climate but fewer incentives, see the same rate of adoption.

Norway shows that you can have EVs in a place that is very cold if you shovel cash at buyers. It doesn't prove that weather wouldn't be a central factor in a place like Maine.

1: https://www.oecd.org/climate-action/ipac/practices/norway-s-...