skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...and gives us a name to actually blame.

I'm not sure that scapegoating makes the characterization of the article any better.

> atleast this guy has given us good information and context to understand Googles decline.

The style of the article gives good reason to think that the context & information is selectively provided.

> And of course, it's more entertaining when people are called out.

Yup.
got to level 8 and gave up but this was very fun could be better with changing camera angles
Thank you for this. I found this article compelling not only because of the subject matter but because of how it was written. It's possible for something to be informative and entertaining at the same time - I think this article is both. I enjoy the flourishes and creativity.
It is definitely a different experience - the Windows warnings are very easy to not take seriously, since they pop up for anything and everything. On MacOS, you have to practically agree to your PC being unsafe to even enable running non-signed code, iirc.
Data and AI in 2024: Three Problems
Are you suggesting this because you have some knowledge of the field and are aware that this work hasn't been done? It seems like if it were so simple someone might have taken a look. Magnetic analyses of rock deposits are after all how we know about things like the timing and frequency of magnetic pole flips.

The Carrington event lasted about 2 weeks. How much silt is deposited in that time?
In my (limited) experience, COBRA is far, far more expensive than buying on healthcare.gov.
Meta prints money, Tesla does not.
We also have on average a lot further to go :)
During the Federalist Revolution period of the the 90s, before Scalia got spooked by drug legalization, the court was definitely heading in the direction of reversing Wickard. Perhaps now that the court is willing to reverse big cases like Roe and Chevron (so it seems) it will also be willing to reverse Wickard.
I’m sure I’m being naive, but I was expecting at least one “crazy” and interesting graphic in this article.
Mortality is unambiguous
Congress established many parts of the executive branch. Nevertheless they remain part of the executive branch, a separate branch of government from Congress, and this distinction is legally important.
Debate over word definition semantics is badly missing the point given how many innocent people are being killed.

I'd pedantically classify this as "not genocide" based on my understanding of the word but it's still 100x as bad as, say, Srebenica.
How did my iPhone 7 plus get remotely hacked?
Hey everyone,

So, back when COVID first hit, I started noticing some really weird stuff happening with my iPhone. Like, whenever I got a call from my mom, instead of just showing her name, it would say "Mom and three others" on the screen. Super strange, right? And then there were these battery notifications popping up, but they didn't match the actual battery level. Like, it would say my battery was at 10% when it was really at 20%.

But it didn't stop there. I started noticing random stuff in my browsing history that I definitely didn't search for. I mean, it wasn't just out of character—it was stuff I'd never even think about searching for. And I always used Safari, but suddenly there were all these Google searches showing up.

Then, every time I opened an app from the App Store, it would automatically open in a web browser. Like, why? I have the official app, why does it keep doing that?

So, I decided to dig into it. I logged into iCloud and checked out my phone on the map. Everything seemed fine until suddenly the phone icon at my address disappeared. Total freak-out moment. And then I found some creepy stuff hidden in my iCloud—screenshots of my banking info and passwords. They weren't in my photo gallery, but they were there in iCloud.

Turns out, someone had hacked into my phone and was using it to access all sorts of stuff. They even sent out a link to their friends through my contacts, giving them access too. It was messed up.

I tried getting help from AT&T and Apple, but they were no help at all. Like, Apple support was basically useless—they just told me to change my password, even though I knew there was some serious spyware going on. Keylogger.

In the end, I had to cut off all my internet connections just to stop it. But it was a nightmare. I had to change my phone number and just ditching all my social media and email accounts.

I still try to figure out how the heck this happened and if anyone else has experienced anything similar. Any advice or insights would be really appreciated. Thanks, guys.

I am into tech A LOT. But I am not a developer, coder, IT professional, hacker (not implying anyone is using as example as they are highly tech advanced), cyber security or osint social engineering professional.

Not saying this to assume anyone is dumb. I want to paint the picture here, that I'm just a regular person not as tech advanced as most users here when that happened to me. I learned so much from that experience. I know more about it now but i had no clue then.
> "Different races exist" is not political opinion--it's a statement of fact that any kid can observe

Race is a social construct and therefore a political opinion. The scientific fact is that race does not exist.

"Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning."

"What the study of complete genomes from different parts of the world has shown is that even between Africa and Europe, for example, there is not a single absolute genetic difference"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-...

Differences between people exist, of course, but they don't map neatly to any concept of race.
It's not necessarily an Elon issue.

Elon was, for a long time, the genius billionaire who saves us from climate change and gets us to Mars, so even in liberal cycles he was liked until he bought Twitter (or until he became a sh1tposter on Twitter).

Some people just like the software, some don't. Me personally, find it way too much, too complicated and I am not going to control my AC over touch screen, sorry.
What's the story behind that?

IIRC, I saw something about it on HN at the time, but did not read it, being busy.
Eerly similar story! Linux is the ultimate rabbit hole.
They've existed for almost 4 decades now under a market labelled "MPCs and MIDI controllers". To name a few common alternatives, you have the Digitakt and Octatrack, a cheap TASCAM and a laptop, a 4-track cassette recorder, the Akai grooveboxes, the Electribe series, the recent Novation Circuit line... the list goes on. People have been making beats on battery-power long before the iPhone and Garageband, if that's news to anyone.

> I don't even know HOW I would do that without TE gear, $50k worth of Eurorack?

A quad-core laptop running Reason and VCV Rack would do just as well, but I won't spoil your hardware fun. Who can deny how sweet TE's analog DCO sounds?
Scaling open-source application software to 100K+ Docker pulls, 44K+ K8s deploys
I recommend that book, too. (I translated and wrote several books in the same series and knew the editor.)

Claims that Japanese is inherently vague are often made by people who either don't understand the language fully yet, are frustrated at trying to translate expressions that have precise meanings in Japanese but no equivalents in another language, or are focusing on literary or creative language, which, yes, can be ambiguous and allusive.

When necessary, Japanese can be as clear and precise as any other language. The design, manufacture, and operation of the Shinkansen, for example, have been implemented through millions of documents and conversations that were nearly all in Japanese. In sixty years of operation, the train system has never had a major accident. That would not be possible if the language were inherently vague.
The entire US cleared workforce from 2014 waves and goes "hi!"
gofile.io isn't like that
I disagree with The_Colonel. Part 3 has a different setting from the rest of the book, but is still part of the overall story. It is a logical extrapolation of the first two parts, and specifically follows up on a plot twist that appears at the end of part 2.
The problem with leaf blowers, and what you can do instead
I haven't used wireless yet, so maybe I just don't know what I'm missing, but I kinda just don't see why I'd ever need it. I'm going to plug in my phone anyway to charge, so what's the draw?
Not necessarily true, yes, but as a remote worker myself since last century, I've still always chosen places that already had something going on, because I appreciate when goods and services come (close) to me.
Maybe - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8302433/
This looks cool. I built a similar open source semantic data / warehousing tool called Zillion. I use it to power my company's BI but haven't put as much time into the polish as you guys.

https://github.com/totalhack/zillion
Can you elaborate on why this is self-serving and manipulative? I disagree with him on this, but I think he's being honest. He left his cushy job at Google Brain due to ethical concerns.
I got my start programming through an avionics apprenticeship. My first project was porting an Ada project to C. Still hurts my heart to think about now that I'm experienced enough to appreciate a lot more of the implications.
In terms of understanding the dynamic though, That Fucking Guy doesn't really help. At best it can be emblematic of the underlying dysfunction, but in reality, with complex organizational dynamics, it's the underlying forces that empower That Fucking Guy that are important to understand, because the whole problem is that their function in the organization are an inevitable consequence of the dysfunction, and with proper function the organization would be able to harness their skills productively.
The FTC is not an executive department. It is an independent agency. Though nominally considered part of the executive branch, it has been delegated Congress's authority while also been given intentionally limited executive oversight/control.

Personally, I feel Congress giving its authority to the executive branch breaks constitutional separation of powers period. Could Congress grant the President autocratic authority? SCOTUS says it has to give sufficient standards to delegate authority and inconsistently says yes or no to different attempts, but really what congressional standard did the FTC use to arrive at this (admittedly good) rule?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Williams_(pastor)
California could ban Clear, which lets travelers skip TSA lines
It will be statisticaly significant but if there's any confounders at all it's a correlation but not necessarily causation.
Is vllm on a gpu server. Unfortunately won’t be cheap if you need it 24/7
> I use only three apps when driving: Google Maps for navigation, Spotify for music, and Castro for podcasts. The number of cars on sale today with these three apps available is zero.

My car (a Volvo) has two of these three apps built-in.

I stopped reading the rest of the article.
Their nationality is relevant because they are Israeli and Israel and Gaza are at war.
I suspect it hasn't been done because there was no obvious value to such data, and the effort of figuring out the precise position and magnetic orientation of trillions of iron particles would be pretty high...
Oh yes, current cars do. I'm concerned about the situation where Apple provides the onboard infotainment system, which is what's being talked about in the post.
Notifications in Gnome 46 and Beyond
New study links early gut flora disturbances to autism and ADHD development
The nocebo effect in current practice
> In the March 2019 core update to search, which happened about a week before the end of the code yellow, was expected to be “one of the largest updates to search in a very long time. Yet when it launched, many found that the update mostly rolled back changes, and traffic was increasing to sites that had previously been suppressed by Google Search’s “Penguin” update from 2012 that specifically targeted spammy search results, as well as those hit by an update from an August 1, 2018, a few months after Gomes became Head of Search.

So it is true that the quality of Google search results have decreased, and the cause is that they wanted more ad revenue and they achieved this by making the user to navigate through spammy results?
Nah as someone who spent years getting beaten by wordpress admins with barely enough neural complexity to be called vertebrates in search results I'm going to concur with the author-- Prabhakar Raghavan has been waging a war against humanity's greatest communication medium and worse -- he's winning. He deserves all this contempt and more.

He's at least earned the equivalent of the Ajit Pai FCC chair treatment but because John Oliver and his audience can't understand this sorta complexity without a massive concurrent media literacy push it will never happen.
Depends on the application.

If you can process "offline" for an hour and then cache the results, CPU inference is fine.

GPUs are expensive.
That's the first question that came to mind while reading the article. Many of the possible answers that came to mind did nothing to improve my perception of the article.
Do cars with systems built on Android Automotive (which is Google's infotainment OS, and is not the same as Android Auto) support CarPlay?
Adam Neely's commentary video on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q811R6YsM0s also gives some context and funny explanations of why the ban doesn't make sense.
They know a lot of people only read the headline, so how difficult would it have been to add five characters to the headline:

"Patients 0.2% ‘less likely to die’ if treated by a female doctor, study reveals"

It's borderline dishonest not to.
I so much prefer hooking up my phone, rather than having to authenticate every device I own to all the services I want to use. And given that most of the services that I want to use in the car are also services on my phone, e.g., GPS maps, music, podcasts -- why would I want to have to use a whole new app for this purpose?

I love that when I search for something with Google Maps it knows, typically in a letter or two, what place I'm trying to go to. I don't want to use a different music service in my car -- it has all my playlists and my "likes" already.

Do I want Ford to write its own implementation of Google Maps or Pandora? Why? Seems stupid to have 10 different implementations of the same service.
Optimization means "make it faster without changing behaviour in ways I don't like". Clang can't generally default that one to on because it doesn't know whether you're going to splice in more code it can't see at runtime.

Lots of code gets slower if it might need to be called from something not currently in the compiler's scope. That's essentially what ABI overhead is. If there isn't already, there should be a compiler flag that says "this is the whole program, have at it" which implies the vtables option.
Sounds very fun! I also spent many hours with simulators, but unfortunately never got to the real-life stage, as that was just about the same time as FPV flying was made effectively illegal here in the United Kingdom.

For those who are curious, it is not one single law that makes this the case, which is why many people will tell you that it's still allowed. However, with the combination of privacy laws forbidding the use of aerial cameras, UAV regulations limiting the locations you can fly, limitations on certain radio bands as well as specific rules about maintaining line-of-sight, it is not usually possible. How could it work? Perhaps if you live in a rural area with no nearby air traffic, have permission and access to use a large patch of land (such as a farm) from which to take off, a willing partner to maintain line of sight (which of course precludes many of the stunts often associated with competitive flying) and you have done the paperwork. Not really hobby territory for most people at that point :(
This is a rabbit hole worth jumping into when time allows it.
It’s silly, but actually not an terrible analogy because nuclear weapons aren’t really that complicated as a technology — there’s even somewhat famous caselaw established when a magazine attempted to publish the basics. [1] While it’s not terribly technologically complicated, it is very complex—to the point that it’s only feasible for nation-state level actors. It requires huge investments over lengthy time to develop nuclear weapons…kinda like AI models. (The analogy breaks down at this point because there’s a huge difference in scale—AI costs millions; nuclear weapons cost billions.)

[1] https://progressive.org/magazine/november-1979-issue/
It’s not really a brainworm, it’s the fact that people see the government in radically different ways.

My view is that as long as there’s genuine consent, two parties agree to something, no one is coerced, both are of sound mind, two human beings should be able to enter into any contract you can imagine. It doesn’t matter if that’s Gay Marriage or a firearms transaction.

The role of government should only be to ensure that that both parties engaged fairly. The minute you want to start using the government to ban one thing or another based on some moral imperative, is the minute you stopped respecting the autonomy of other people and decided to force your morality on another through collective force.
The SCOTUS likes to decide things on the narrowest possible grounds. That means that if it wanted to reverse this rule it would want to find grounds relating to (3), which as you note it probably could not.

The court could still decide that this rule is a "major powers question" and so belongs to Congress. This would allow the court to not have to reach any question of whether the FTC has broad powers, whether the act that created the FTC is constitutional, or whether Wickard was correctly decided. Therefore it seems more likely that the court would do that -again, if it wanted to reverse the FTC here- than anything else.

Can you imagine if the court ruled the FTC to be unconstitutionally created? They wouldn't risk that chaos.
Pay for DHL Express shipping when ordering from JLCPCB.
Also worth considering publication bias: any result in the other direction will not get published.
I think in cases like this, “untranslatable” is really shorthand for, “cannot be translated without loss of information and/precision”. Of course words can be massaged to produce a similar meaning, but conveyance of the entirety of the original meaning can be somewhere between difficult and impossible, particularly when one must be succinct and cannot use sprawling sentences to dial in the message.

This is also why at its best, translation is a skill and an art. The same text can have significantly differing impacts readers depending on who’s translating.
I was definitely being sarcastic!
> This fact metaphorically depicts how sad this story is.

It also highlights how selective the information & context provided in the story is.
I found the software they used for digitization to be interesting: https://markummitchell.github.io/engauge-digitizer/
Well this is sadly not surprising. Wonder what lobbying efforts are with other companies
Yeah, the pejoratives were not the argument. They were clearly put there to make the reading /freaking hilarious/ for anyone on board with "Google Bad".

But I wonder if there was a deeper strategy: were the attacks put there so that Google gatekeepers would ignore the article's insights?

It could have a similar effect to Cory Doctor's concept of enshittification. I don't know if it's intentional, but the vulgarity of the term seems to prevent committed enshittifiers from reflecting critically about enshittification and how to stop in time to avoid a collapse. After feeling the insult, enshittware supporters seem to conclude enshittification is a non-existent category.

It would be fun to learn these are intentional choices, designed to sabotage the criticized party on an epistemological level!
You stopped reading the rest of the article because your own personal experience has thus far matched the authors? Or some other reason?
Well, no, it isn’t. Nobody wanted a plane that suddenly turns into a lawn dart or falls apart in the air.

The MAX was short term thinking on Boeing’s part. A foolish mistake in the aerospace industry. Boeing was a few years behind Airbus. Now they are a decade behind and tarnished their reputation.
This headline is simply false, no matter how you interpret it.

> Phi-3 Mini measures 3.8 billion parameters

> The whole model contains 155 million weight parameters and the three transformers consume 128 million parameters, or 82.6 percent of the total.[0]

> Phi 1.5 has 1.3 billion parameters.[1]

I feel sorry for the reporter, who must know the headline's wrong (if she's read it) given I got to the second link from her article.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/microsoft-and-...

[1]: https://www.semafor.com/article/11/01/2023/microsoft-pushes-...
Even a short novel is 50,000 words, that's 100 hours at a brisk pace of 500 words per hour. The NaNoWriMo folks famously challenge writers to do that in a month. So I don't doubt that some people can do it (10x writers?) but even typing 50K words at 70 wpm would take 12 hours. Famous writers tend to produce a few hundred to a few thousand words per day. Lets say 300-3000, so between 17 and 170 days to write a short novel.
In my view, Apple does a better job designing high-end digital surfaces than Mercedes. Last week Mercedes decided to add a green polo shirt to all the user avatars in my vehicle, which to me seems like a clown move, and something that Apple would never do. You can always just not connect your phone to your car if you prefer the stuff the car does on its own.
Cancel culture can ruin careers
I love CarPlay, but has anyone noticed that Apple just isn’t testing on non-touch interfaces? Some cars use a wheel to navigate the UI, and there are some awful CarPlay UI bugs where certain buttons become unreachable.
OpenTofu. Pulumi is cool especially if you want to run "code" code and not declarative code but Pulumi is in some ways the next Hashicorp. We'll see if they can manage to build a business and not become lame and evil like Hashicorp. OpenTofu is 100% open source.

Honestly, if they built a real scripting engine into OpenTofu, I'd be overjoyed. As it stands though, the declarative code (HCL) isn't the ugliest.
This is going to sound crazy, but do you know what the web really needs right now in 2024? A new, searchable directory. Like the old Yahoo! Directory or DMOZ. Just a carefully curated list of trusted sites that are made and managed by humans and for humans.

Reddit is usually very bad, because it's heavily astroturfed and trivially easy for marketing firms to game. Something else is required.
I'm pretty sure nuclear bombs are open source.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aristotle_Phillips
I think this is a bug. There's dedicated metadata that's supposed to end up on the indirect call to list the possible targets and when that list of possible targets is this short it should be turning into a switch over concrete targets. Don't have time to dig into the IR now but it might be worth posting to the github llvm issues.
Any online communities?
TIL ratfucker actually means something relevant to the context of the article.

I think you worded my feelings much better than I did. This is a fiery op-ed from a personal blog and not polished journalism, so I should expect some individualism on writing tone.
It's not unrelated. They kicked him out or he just got sick of the company's direction. Or both.

Not a coincidence at all.