skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you use Instagram much?

Yes.

Shops, doesn't work, really high friction way to buy stuff.

Reels, great, but how long did it take to get it to work? especailly is it was(or should) have been a modified instagram TV

> "Meta can't innovate" is a take I've been reading online since 2014

Meta has one product, which is advertising. It has singularly fucked up the blue app to the point where its basically unusable for anyone younger than 30. Its trying to get there with instagram, but thats a separate story.

Instagram has been dented by Tiktok. the only saving grace is that the vast majority of impressions on tiktok are for people who are not yet old enough to have a credit card, or if they are, not enough spare cash to be worth targeting. However that is changing.

Meta hardware is great. It's software stack sucks hard.

Oculus: come and play games with us, just don't expect to be able to join your friends. Oh, and before you can play you need to do an update, oh and charge the device, because we wake it up every hour to check to see if we need an update.

You want to join your friends? just start a party! oh wait that game doesn't support it. Ok. have you tried just phoning them?

The amount of research that they are doing is phenomenal. Its just a shame there is no attention to customer experience so that all of that research can be applied to a product that is easy to use and does what it promises.

Rayban stories: Headphones in your glasses! oh wait you want to listen to more than 5 minutes of music? sorry I need to reboot. oh you want me to re-connect to your phone? naaa we can't do that. You'll need to turn me off and on again. but don't get comfortable, we're going to disconnect in 6 minutes! (it took a year for rayban stories to reliably connect to an iphone. a _year_ so much time that the rayban sales specialist said to my optometrist "yeah they look cool, but don't order them, they're way more hassle than they're worth. something like 70% get returned inside a month")
Vinod Khoslas 12 predictions about the future
> But for libraries, the e-book or e-audiobook version of a title actually costs up to three times or more than the print version.

Is this an economically rational outcome for a not-obvious reason, or have libraries been very poor negotiators here, in the way they have spent public funds; or have e-book sellers been exploitative (or a bit of both)?
Amazon is still a growth company.

Meaning money will likely go to continued investments in automation, corporate acquisitions, capital investments (high & low tech) like real estate for logistics, etc.
Thanks for the hint. I like 8 even better.

3840x2160 with 150% Scaling, Firefox on Wayland (KDE) on Arch Linux.

Somehow, the mouse is not just slow but has a hard downtrend. After swiping 5 times left to right and back again. I look at my feet. The downtrend increases with higher mouse sensitivity.
>Personally, I'm not turning it on. And would in fact, avoid using it. It doesn't seem consistent.

I feel like we'd have to repeat these tests quite a few times to get to a decent conclusion. Hell small variations in performance could be caused by all sorts of things outside the actual program.
While I agree that Musk's personality is damaging Tesla a lot lately, and it lost a huge chunk of the accumulated goodwill, I still don't get how people manage their daily lives then. Shall we stop buying Nestle products? Luxottica? Oil companies? Clothing products? The list goes on.

Besides that, the closing sentence and some comments regarding stalks and buttons demonstrate once again that many people have never driven a Tesla for more than a 2h rental:

> Of course, there is much more competition today, and Tesla’s designs are getting old, and looking a little stale. Their huge decade-long software advantage is now probably somewhere in the 2 -4 year range.

The design is minimal due to aerodynamic reasons, and competitors have essentially the same lines, with perhaps a slightly more rounded accent to it. Interiors are minimal because half the point of Tesla is save on costs on 200 buttons that you never use once. The software makes up for it 99% of the time.

Similar priced cars in the same segment are still nowhere near the efficiency or software quality of Tesla. Yes, FSD is still in beta, sure, but the infotainment experience is still unmatched, and it's not a 2-4 year headstart, it's more in the 5-10 year range.
The Value of Unit Tests
I buy books but I don't read them anymore....
I use TPFanControl and ThrottleStop on a T480. Without it, there is a pathology where it gets stuck in an upper frequency limit of around 900 MHz when it should peak to around 4 GHz (although the official Turbo Boost speed is 3.4 GHz).
Reasonably experienced and 'a week' can mean vastly different things... It's certainly easier to keep the cost down with longer time-frames.

For a focus on electronics rather than implementing some kind of toy 'algorithm accelerator', I find low-hanging/interesting projects where the combination of requirements exceed a micro's peripheral capabilities - i.e. multiple input/output/processing tasks which could be performed on a micro individually, but adding synchronisation or latency requirements makes it rather non-trivial.

- Very wide/parallel input/output tasks: ADC/DACs for higher samplerate/bitdepth/channel count than typically accessible with even high-end micros

- Implementing unique/specialised protocols which would have required bit-banging, abuse of timer/other peripherals on a micro (i.e. interesting things people achieve with PIO blocks on RP2040 etc)

- Signal processing: digital filters and control systems are great because you can see/hear/interact with the output which can help build a sense of achievement.

When starting out, it's also less overwhelming to start with smaller parts and allocate the budget to the rest of the electronics. They're still incredibly capable and won't seem as under-utilised. Some random project ideas:

- Driving large frame-buffers to display(s) or large sets of LED matrices at high frame rate - https://gregdavill.com/posts/d20/

- Realtime audio filters - the Eurorack community might have some inspiration.

- Multi-channel synchonous detection, lock-in amplifiers, distributed timing reference/control,

- Find a sensing application that's interesting and then take it to the logical extreme - arrays of photo/hall-effect sensors sampled at high speed and displayed, accelerometers/IMU sensor fusion

- Laser galvanometers and piezo actuators are getting more accessible

- Small but precise/fast motion stages for positioning or sensing might present a good combination of input, output, filtering and control systems.

- With more time/experience you could branch into more interesting (IMO) areas like RF or imaging systems.

With more info about your interest areas I can give more specific suggestions.
It's linear with respect to the number of cases, not the size of inputs. It's still O(1) in the sense of algorithmic complexity.
The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
Have them self-modify.
This is mostly unrelated to the current point, but you’re unquestionably fitter than the average person. I used to dance for about 15 hours a week, and I have no idea what I actually burned calorie-wise, but it was plenty of cardio.

After about a year of dancing, I had a moment where I needed to run after someone about a half kilometer away. It was incredible- I’d never felt so buoyant while running. After I passed the message on, I decided to do a measured run. I ran a six minute mile in my late twenties with zero warm-up after having not run in over a decade. I wasn’t even out of breath, it was fucking easy. Cardio is a life hack.
I advocate for accessibility and inclusivity constantly, but not implementing additional measures which are helpful to most due to some not being able to make use of that one aid is not the way to go. Direct your hate elsewhere.
A "1" can have a little squiggly roof on it. A big 1-squiggle easily looks like a 7.
There's a tiny amount of light, yes. I don't know why Amazon made it that way. It's not really visible.. not to me, at least. But it's probably one reason the battery is slowly drained, over weeks, even if not in use.
Santa Clara county (California):

> Limits. You may borrow at any one time, 100 total items per library card, including up to 10 console games and up to 30 DVDs/Blu-rays.

https://sccld.org/borrowing-policy/
Are you under the impression that those YouTube tutorials aren't copyrighted?
> from 2 light days distance

The distance is currently 22.5 light hours (and increases by half-hour per year.) But it is indeed about 2 days of round-trip time for debugging.
Greetings fellow robot human! I'm proud that you represent and fight for the rights of robotic humans!
i used to read a lot but buying paper books was a real pain for me, i read hundreds of books on the kindle but figured out i could just slap a video on my phone and actually sleep.

since then i've read maybe 15 books in the last couple years and my kids never see me reading, however we've read to them and had them read to us for their whole life and they now both read independently for fun. i don't think leading by example is anywhere near as important as reading with your kids
I presume the value is in the associated open source software. You could obviously build your own for less in hardware costs, but once you've put in the effort of doing so, you will have spent far more of your time on the project than the cost of the ready-made product. You're paying for the bundling and the convenience.
I haven't been to Thailand, but I assume there are also libraries at the universities. The parent appears to be referring to a tradition of public libraries, so these are not really counterexamples.

I've used private English libraries in various countries of the Middle East and East Asia. For the expat community, they were really a treasure before the internet.
I find it sad they haven't been overtaken by much faster and better probes yet.
I like that hypothesis.

I have another one. They are removing variables from the environment. Any unfixed object in a high position can potentially lead to a fall if they try to walk over it. It could also alert prey/predators if it falls at the wrong time. Better to get rid of it now and be sure it won't cause problems later.
Presumably you would use AI to generate code for the problem you are solving. If you are working on a React project, you would want it to create JavaScript, not Excel formula.
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No, it is advertising.
> I mean you do not install it as a dependency. It is not available or distributed via npm.

> You can use the diff command to check for updates against the registry.

Isn't that a contradiction? So they do offer automatic importing & updating but refuse to use the infrastructure everyone else is using and instead copy/paste their files directly into your project with their cli?
Linux Mint.

I moved my parents to it from Windows and they never realised since they only use Thunderbird and Firefox.

Never had any issues since then.
OverDrive is a strong player but they’re still a commodity. Publishers and libraries can use other lending platforms if and when they emerge as stronger competitors. This article serves as a good overview: https://openeducationalberta.ca/ciicm/chapter/public-library...

The problem is the publishers - they don’t always sign on to provide books to every new platform and don’t always release to every platform. But other platforms do exist: https://bookriot.com/comparing-public-library-ebook-platform...
Reminds of of Project Hail Mary. Never heard the word "carapace" before that book...
I won't bother addressing most of the nonsense you've written. I'll just say that the US has FedRAMP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedRAMP) and EO 14028 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/05/17/2021-10...). So if you imagine that this is somehow an EU-specific thing and doesn't affect the US, you're very wrong. Not to mention NIST and FIPS and CISA.
>If you're rich, powerful and an unethical asshole those are two things you definitely do not want.

This smells like a half-baked conspiracy theory. It's not like the overwhelming majority of people want to get smarter in their free time. I'm not sure how it is in the rest of the world, but in American and all (individual) European cultures, most people don't pursue self-education. I would not be surprised if this applies to most other cultures as well

You might say that's how a lot of people on this website got their knowledge, but this website is statistically insignificant compared to the world population. Plus, it's not like every single member here pursues self-education. I'm willing to wager most people come on here just to be entertained
I've been using UUIDv7 a lot lately and I've been quite happy with the results.
As I mentioned in another comment, make the bureaucracy a bit more prescriptive and easier to, for lack of a better word, unit test.

You don't want no-regulation in dense urban environments. But the rules are unclear, the permitting system opaque, the outcomes kind of subjective and open to too many outside interference, and the agents of the bureaucracy mostly disinterested in getting things at any sort of reasonable speed.

Like, it is probably easier for me to open a taco shop in Japan then it is in the USA, and Japan is THE land of red-tape and bureaucratic prescriptivism.

Completely off-topic, but I wonder one of the reasons why government/bureaucracy jobs in Japan tend to attract more engaged workers is the relative difficulty of bureaucracy in Japan. Imagine this: most legal documents have all the words still written in some mixture of Church Latin and French. Including giant explanatory paragraphs. Navigating this document without the aid of a trained worker (who most likely has a college degree in Church Latin and Legal French) is nigh impossible even for educated individuals and so they guide you step by step through every box and field.
Hahaha, you know - it seems pretty funny, but I think it's not a bad idea at all! They are also doing other things like offering substantial payments to married couples have who have children. They have an abnormal fertility issue going on thanks to the 90s. When the USSR collapsed Russia economically collapsed and fell into borderline anarchy, to say nothing of rampant alcoholism and drug use, which sent fertility rates plummeting even below Japan.

It's getting much better now, but they lost the better part of a generation, and they're still below where they should be. Their population pyramid is here [1] where you can see it all too clearly. That huge gaping maw that peaks at around 28 years old is due to fertility collapse in the 90s. I think it's also reasonable evidence for my 'vicious cycle' hypothesis.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media...
I have an Ipad Air 2 from 2014, running Ios15 (not too old yet) with security updates.
Ask an economist how this is meant to function. If nobody has to work what does money even mean?
I moved them to android (Samsung) tablets: never had any issues.

I moved some elderly friends in my village to Ubuntu without root pass and Tailscale so I can login. Also zero maintenance/issues.

The only times when I get questions is Windows Home with the administrator account and ‘everything’ being generally ‘not working’ after ‘an update’. Sigh.
Doesn't help when you have to match the person's name and they have these characters in them. My name contains the letter "o" and I once had a lot of trouble getting something done at the bank. Multiple staff had to crowd around the computer to figure it out. Eventually somebody discovered that when I had opened my account, that o had been entered as a 0 for some reason and the font they were using, also for printing, showed them looking almost identical.
Try neovim + vlime!
You would wager wrong. Humans who identify as cybernetic systems are real - I am one. We have real struggles, like forms of disability that require us to use assistive technologies. And we have real needs like access to effective and safe assistive technologies.

These needs are in my opinion clear and self-evident. The fact that many others see it as a joke means that we have a lot of work to do here. Normalizing and recognizing humans that depend on technology - and choose to hybridize themselves with technology - is a valid goal for robot rights.

And it's currently the only valid goal of robot rights. This is because human-robot hybrids are the only cybernetic systems that can suffer at this time.
Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World (2021)
> For example, the AWS C++ SDK uses virtual functions for everything. When you subclass their classes, marking your classes as final allows the compiler to devirtualize your own calls to your own functions (GCC does this reliably).

I want to ask, and I sincerely mean no snark, what is the point?

When working with AWS through an SDK your code will spend most of the time waiting on network calls.

What is the point of devirtualizing your function calls to save an indirection when you will be spending several orders of magnitude more time just waiting for the RPC to resolve?

It just doesn't seem like something even worth thinking about at all.
yeah but I can type 300 wpm on this one
At any dangerous speed the tire noise dominates anyway.
I purchased a paper user manual “for the elderly” for iOS/phone/ipad. They update it every so often and the text is large. They got a few years of use.

Now down to a home phone and an iPad with Facebook.
Couldn't it be that training it on 4chan makes it more truthful for some reason?
CRA applies to all companies, Fedramp applies to just government.

All major governments have policies like this, its an issue when government tries to over regulate private matters.

What government regulates inside its own workforce, is absolutely upto them. But government shouldnt interfere so much into private matters.
>Example: DuckDuckGo’s popularity came out of the desire for a more privacy friendly search engine.

DDG has a market share of 0.66% [1], that doesn't feel like popularity. That feels like an 'etc.'

[1] https://backlinko.com/duckduckgo-stats
>The primary reason I chose "harmonious" over "obsessive" is that I don't want to be defined solely by software development. I have other passionate interests, such as philosophy, religion, philanthropy, business, public speaking, and reading.

Good for OP. In my experience, people that have nothing else than software development going on in their lifes are rather annoying because they can't grasp that people can see value in things other than engineering and technology.
You fail to understand how software development and maintenance works.

OFC you need an updated system that has all known security holes fixed to run homebanking apps.

Also, as a dev I would only support one config and not a myriad of different devices and operating system versions (APIs). Livelong. For 3$ purchase price. On all devices. For the whole family.

And imho Apple devices are supported much longer than most Android ones...
He would have called it WINDOWSCOIN even if Microsoft had already excommunicated him!
in some countries' handwritings the digit one is not a vertical bar but it has a little ascending hook, like a digit seven turned vertical, but with a shorter roof.

so 'muricans mistook my German ones for sevens, all the time, and I had to force myself to write what looks like a pipe symbol vertical bar to me instead of my trusted one.

and to disambiguate, we cross the seven like a lower case eff or tee is crossed.
Global variables and the magic of a build system based on C semantics.
Pulling all of the batteries is unlikely to unbrick anything if Linux allowed write access to critical system-specific manufacture variables most users of other operating systems typically don't obliterate randomly. UEFI variables are typically stored in SPI EEPROMs, not battery-backed SRAM as ancient CMOS clock and BIOS data was.
I’ve been very happy with Proton.
Eh maybe it’s my personal biases in play. Fair point on the bad example.
I am also an outside observer but it doesn't look to me as if the Meson issue was never finished, it looks as if it was held up and then new things were added to the main project, and the Meson build had to catch up, several times. This is an open source classic. Rather than the PR I am looking at the Discourse link where it says "@edolstra: Not convinced, knows the old build system but not Meson". Note it doesn't say "Meson is bad" or anything of the sort. This is a classic example of someone who wants to stay in control of something, to do so they need to understand how it works. That doesn't benefit the project, it only benefits the person.

With respect to the xz stuff I simply don't agree. Are we never adding new maintainers to open source projects anymore until xz is no longer top of mind in a couple of years? Note that a commit bit does not imply the ability to make a release in many cases. The complete release can still be done by a smaller group.

>certainly not when that reluctance is in the face of a coordinated pressure campaign complaining about a lack of speed.

The screenshot is from before the xz backdoor so it definitely wasn't top of mind for them. And they (including Eelco) even agreed in a previous meeting to add more maintainers: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2023-06-02-nix-team-meeting-mi...

It's not about security, it's about being in charge. I don't think the letter is very good, but even before this letter and without ever using Nix, I knew about the Meson PR, and many other things that are taking a very long time in Nix.

I see no real reason to doubt that one guy is holding the project back. You are talking about "rampant bad behavior" but that is not necessary to severely frustrate a project. Simply bad leadership is enough. I don't think the letter means to convey there is rampant bad behavior either. I wonder if there is anything except blatant bullying that would convince you that Eelco needs to relinquish his position.
"USB-C" -> Good for consumer, I believe.

"cookie banners for everyone" -> cookie banners only if your website is using cookies in a way that needs a cookie banner. There are plenty of sites or web analytics technologies that don't mandate the use of a cookie banner.

"GDPR nightmare for everyone" -> only for companies that intend touse personal data in non-ethical ways (cf. for instance: https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/europes-hidden-security-cri... ).

"now this new government rule on opensource contributors to software being held liable for security breaches." -> Indeed, that's problematic, specially the way this was (not) discussed with the open source sector. Cf. https://cnll.fr/news/la-france-doit-prot%C3%A9ger-sa-fili%C3... and https://cnll.fr/news/declaration-cra-cyber-resilience-act/ (two texts that I wrote, in French, last year).
Llama-3-70B instruct benchmarks
I find it very suprising, in my testing @FireworksAI_HQ is almost as fast as @GroqInc!

Time taken for get_groq_response_requests: 1.28 seconds

Time taken for get_together_ai_response_requests: 2.60 seconds

Time taken for get_fireworks_ai_response_requests: 1.42 seconds

Groq is still faster 1.28s vs 1.42s for fireworks, but I doubt they build their own chip