skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of thing is present in every fandom, but Apple's is sort of legendary for how far it is willing to push it. This is rather evident even if you're just skimming through topical subreddits trying to find solution to some problem. It's very common to find a post that asks the exact question you have, followed by dozens of responses telling them that what they are trying to do is either impossible or unnecessary.
yes, gated by human reviews based on who owned the code, unless they were completely trivial and then were gated by a single global approver. there were always humans in the loop though.
Apple renews talks with OpenAI for iPhone generative AI features
Don't editoralise the titles please.
I remember a meeting of local gamedevs with sony in '95. A guy at the back piped up with "So when will the C++ compiler be ready? We've written our whole game in C++".

Crickets. Two Sony dudes at the front look at each other like, "You tell him".

IMHO Rust is the wrong language for game development. But so is C++ TBH.
FICA taxes are, as a matter of inarguable, objective fact, regressive, which is to say that people who make more money pay a lower rate of FICA taxes. This is due to two facts: (a) FICA taxes do not apply to interest or capital gains or other income sources that apply solely to middle class and above; and (b) FICA taxes do not apply to income above ~$160k.

Please do not post misinformation.
Fair point. The link seems still conjectural at best, but appreciate you elaborating and providing the links. My comment was indeed too reductionist.
All that and they make no mention of updates. A minimally viable security level for any product needs to be updated after sale and over the air by the manufacturer. IoT is terrible at security and that is critical. Legislation is useless without ongoing security.
You also forgot that they also have 100k of government debt per person attached, which they will pay through higher taxes(both principal and interest), and higher social security/medicaid to serve previous gens.

But I think it was not explicit intention, but more side results of some actions to serve some actors(politicians, corps, universities) who heavily profited from these actions.
You are right, the only way to win is not to play. Leave your cell phone at home.

But that’s not practical for most people and anybody can get talked to by authorities for any reason at all. When that time comes, folk need to know how to reduce their attack surface for anyone looking for a reason to make an arrest
It's a different agency, but Matt Levine has written a fair amount on the SEC making a killing by fining banks when their employees use SMS or WhatsApp. It's a similar story where conversations that might have been held at the water cooler, lunch, after-work beers or the golf course are now often done through text which according to SEC means different regulation applies.

> From the perspective of the banks, I have argued, this is a novel expansion of the SEC’s authority. When the SEC created its rules on recordkeeping, it required banks to retain copies of their “inter-office memoranda,” but it was 1948 and those memoranda were produced with carbon paper; they were formal business records memorializing serious policies. In the 2020s, WhatsApp chats are, in large part, substitutes not for formal memoranda but for talking to someone in person. When I was a banker, I have written, “There were some mornings when I sent more than 100 inter-office memoranda, though like 20 of them would be ‘lol’ or ‘fml.’” In 1948, the SEC would not have dreamed of demanding a searchable archive of all of the informal chats held at a brokerage: That was not technologically feasible, and also did not seem to be the point of its rules. In 2022, it was feasible, and the SEC did demand it, and when the brokers were missing some chats they paid a billion dollars in fines.
In California, when fast food employees were given a $20 minimum wage, the pizza delivery drivers were all laid off:

https://abc7.com/pizza-hut-layoffs-california-delivery-drive...
Hello TheLayoff and Goodbye to Glassdoor
There has been much talk regarding the changes to Glassdoor given they will remove reviews that are honest. There are discussions from HR professionals who have explained how companies get posts removed.

The Layoff is much better then Glassdoor. No one cares about ratings, we want to know about the culture and practices of employers and toxic leaders. I will still check glassdoor without consideration of their ratings except when it is obvious the ratings are deserved.
Most fun game on HN since Infinite Craft.

Worked well on iOS Safari. Installed as PWA and everything. Managed to keep my attention for 5 levels. Nice work.
It turns out modernism is incompatible with humans. Who would have thought that taking humans out of nature and putting them in brick cubes they must constantly work to keep would result in unnatural outcomes and behaviors.
Keep it simple, but not stupid
Creatine improves cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
I wonder how many of the victims were already under the influence of other drugs that might have had a horrible interaction (and, of course leading to the desire to subdue with drugs instead of tasers, etc.)
Corporations are not people and does not have a private life, and does not get privacy rights.

History has shown time and time again why powerful entities need transparency and accountability.
> Therefore: "use it or lose it".

Not really. It's more like "don't use it so you can lose it". The US has enough SLBMs that the ICBMs can all be lost without significant loss of deterrence capability. However their existence complicates tremendously the calculus of an adversary. If the US does not use its ICBMs in the early moves of a full-scale nuclear war, its adversaries need to allocate missiles to disable them. From wikipedia [1]:

> The solid fueled LGM-30 series Minuteman I, II, III, and Peacekeeper ICBM configurations consist of one LCC (launch control center) that controls ten LFs (launch facilities) (1 × 10). Five LCCs and their fifty associated LFs make up a squadron. Three squadrons make up a wing. Measures were taken such that if any one LCC was disabled, a separate LCC within the squadron would take control of its ten ICBMs.

> The LGM-30 LFs and LCCs are separated by several miles, connected only electronically. This distance ensures that a nuclear attack could only disable a very small number of ICBMs, leaving the rest capable of being launched immediately.

That is actually the reason the land-based ICBMs of the US are not MIRV'ed: in order to take them out you need to spend at least one warhead to take out one warhead.

The US nuclear strategists have given a name to this: the "nuclear sponge". Most certainly the options given to the President account for this. Nobody without top secret security clearance can know, including the book's author, but it's highly unlikely that a pre-scripted nuclear counterattack of the US against a single NK ICBM would remove 50 missiles from this "sponge", when a much better alternative is to use SLBMs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_launch_facility#Minute...
But they are doing just fine. Only those of us who see this as the insanity that it is, are falling down.

What mechanisms can fix this?
As a Tesla owner, couldn't agree more. The interface of the car itself is actively hostile to new users. Without instruction, most people cannot get into or out of a Model 3 without significant struggle. Regular door handles and a regular gear selector would go a long way. And they seem intent on making it worse. Why would I EVER want the car to decide if I should be going forward or back? Happy to have helped (however little) in making electric cars more mainstream. Doubt I'll buy another Tesla.
Sure. "Bootlicker."
Ha ha ha ha ha. That’s a good one.
America's locomotives are diesel-hybrid electrics, so pretty efficient and maintnence is reasonable. You'll see those in Australia and Canada as well, and even China (only 72% electrified, so if you take a train to Lhasa, it will be a diesel hybrid electric...athough they are currently working on an electrified line). 100% of the trans-siberian railroad is electrified, which is impressive.
This seems like a problem with a lot of places now, not just rental cars. Employees just don’t give a shit anymore, if anything they hate their jobs and customers.
- I don’t believe religion is true

- I do believe it has nonliteral truths that can be revealed with a lifetime of wisdom

- I don’t believe religious texts and structures actually
lead people to those positive bits

- I do believe religion carries a lot of negative ideas too. It’s just a random sociological bag of ideas with both good and bad in it.

So yeah not really worth studying. Like just go to therapy. It’s better.
On a long enough time horizon those that won’t drive electric won’t be driving. It’ll just cost us all a ton more the longer we wait to transition.
you can verify safety number out of band to assert that signal's server isn't mitm-ing you
I personally like the Emacs keybinds because they are also supported in Cocoa Text framework, which means native Mac applications respect them. It's not just the terminal that follows these keybinds, but every graphical program in my system. You can actually use S-c / S-v and C-k / C-y to maintain two clipboards at once. This is a feature I miss every time I have to use a computer that is not a Mac. I also like being able to use C-a, C-e, C-k, and move between words with M-<left> and M-<right>. In the case of Emacs, the proper keybinds are M-f and M-b, but Mac also uses meta key as a sort of compose key, so this is the keybind used in graphical applications.
Things I've seen stump the ones I've played with so far (admittedly, not a lot): playing/generating "MadGab" puzzles and ASCII art rendering/interpretation. I've also asked ChatGPT3.5 to phonetically transliterate from English to other orthographies using the typical sounds of said orthography and it was…OK at it.
> However, it’s easy to identify who was an early user of mobile phones versus new users mostly by the way they type with the keyboard: Newer users type with their thumbs.

I don’t understand this. I’m not a newer user and not only do I type with my thumbs but I can’t imagine how to do it otherwise, nor have I seen anyone do so. Can someone clue me in?

Edit: do they mean like index finger typing? Is that a thing early adopters do?!
I would argue it needs to be at least somewhat continuous. Perhaps discrete on some granularity but if something is just a function waiting to be called it’s not an intelligent entity. The entity is the calling itself.
They're fine even without it if there's infrastructure. Supermarkets around me have fast chargers, so I just recharge during my weekly shopping (BEVs don't need to be plugged every day).
Accurate. Businesses that show consistent good will towards their users often just haven't become successful enough to afford to exploit you yet. Pointing out that Apple only really cares about extracting your money is mostly an admission that they've found we will let them do it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40177032
Maybe when a cat is sat still staring into the void, they're actually perceiving a 4D box
This is cool. Can you make a shareable URL with filters included?
> I wonder if there is a benefit to sticking with our intuition even if we are wrong in the moment

I don’t bother optimizing small costs out of my life
It’s infuriating. At Amazon my sent emails only survive for 30 days. I try to use Slack for everything because otherwise I lose it so fast.
You would never go to a protest?
* DeltaV at perigee magnifies where your apogee ends up.

Historically orbital slingshots generally make use of this effect. Technically an asteroid can passively get a boost from an orbital slingshot but probes do a burn because they get more bang from the same propelent.
Intel is struggling because they are trying to compete with TSMC. It requires a lot of capital to build the fabs.
FWIW: I also enjoyed the game. I also got confused between strafe and turn, and often did things like bombs by accident.

My additional feedback:

* I got to level 13 or 14, and then got bored. There was no way to save, and it wasn't clear if it went on. Does it repeat forever? Is there an end.

* What would also be helpful is to understand the purpose. This type of game is the type of game I often see developed as a kids' project, where in a camp or similar, a senior developer sets up an API designed to make it easy, generates all the artwork, and then kids code the high-level logic. If it were open-source, perhaps it'd be that? Perhaps it's intended to be commercialized with more development (that'd be tough with a million similar apps)? Perhaps it's intended as publicity for the coding shop? That would be helpful to understand too when looking for feedback or when visiting.
Business is about staying in business, not being popular. A streaming pricing model, so you lose money on your best customers streaming 24x7 who get a great deal whilst keeping mediocre customers on a free tier because it is expensive. An advertising service where the audience is so tight they won't pay the price of a coffee for music streaming. Popular but sustainable? They already can't pay artists enough, only getting away with that because artists don't have a choice but to bend over.
Weird article, in my experience it's the other way around and the article kinda explains why:

Old people grew up with thumb based gaming consoles, e.g. the Game Boy, whereas people 20 years old or younger grew up with smart phones as their gaming devices and thus use their index finger.

This makes perfect sense, given that the thumb is the least dexterous finger: People around 40 might be the first and last thumb generation.
Coincidentally the Economist magazine has devoted the cover of its last issue to gaslighting the situation.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/04/18/reasons-to-be-c...
We are a 2 EV household. We charge exclusively at work (for free) or at public chargers.
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal–and why it won't go back
Gotcha. I was under the impression that what the government showed you was 100% final
and at least one mimic right around when the player is starting to get confident :)
I've been using Thinkpads since 2006, including fancy high-end ones such as X1 Carbon. I'm typing this on a newly purchased MacBook Air, and I do have to say: it really is very good in terms of hardware. And I don't mean specs, but ergonomics. Trackpad is truly as awesome as they say, keyboard is surprisingly good (kinda expected to hate it and amazed at how fast I can type on it), and overall it is just very comfortable. The battery life is unbelievable coming from Intel.

The software, now, that's a very different story. I really wish I could run Linux on this thing.
Wow. The companies I've worked at only kept old emails if there was a litigation hold. Otherwise, the email retention policy was enforced. It seems to me a double edged sword that slightly favors the deleter.

I think that you will find that your industry is an outlier.
Agency is one of those things we probably want to think about quite a bit. Especially with the the willingness for people to hook up it up to things that interact with the real world.
The simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers [video]
I installed a custom firmware on my ESP32-powered smart kettle and made it respond with the HTTP status code "418 I'm a teapot". [1]

I used an ESP32 to automate my kitchen rangehood light and fan [2].

I've flashed ESPHome on few smart outlets and powerboards. A lot of WiFi enabled devices that you buy in stores are actually white-labelled "Tuya" products, and there's a big community effort to hack the ESP32 chips and run your own custom firmware, such as ESPHome and Tasmota. Most off-the-shelf WiFi products don't work without the manufacturer's cloud services and apps. ESPHome means that everything works locally and it doesn't need to make any requests to the public internet.

I have KC868-AG IR/RF hubs in every room [3]. I found an awesome supplier on AliExpress who builds products specifically for ESPHome. They're quite expensive but they work really well. I mainly use them to control our air conditioners. I use one in my workshop to control an old CRT TV. And I also use them as "Bluetooth Proxies" [4] for Home Assistant. This means that I don't have to worry about range for bluetooth devices (temp/humidity sensors, switchbot, and LPG gas tank sensor.)

I run WLED [5] to control a few LED strips. I like using QuinLED controllers [6], which have an ESP32 chip plus some extra hardware for powering LEDs. I have one behind my desk in my office, and one on a board gaming table. I use Zigbee LED controllers for most of my LED lighting, but I like all the effects and patterns you can do with WLED.

I have a lot of ESP32 boards around my house running ESPresense [7]. They track the signals from our phones and watches and try to figure out which rooms are occupied, so the timers don't automatically turn off the lights. I use the ESPresense-companion app, which works ok, but I've been wanting to experiment with AI to make it more reliable.

[1] https://madebynathan.com/2021/08/19/kogan-smart-kettle/

[2] https://madebynathan.com/posts/2022-09-30-automating-my-kitc...

[3] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003833775634.html?spm=a2...

[4] https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy.html

[5] https://kno.wled.ge/

[6] https://quinled.info/

[7] https://espresense.com/

[8] https://github.com/ESPresense/ESPresense-companion
Not sure if this is a bug or not but the zoom feature seems to go infinitely on the canvas, kinda funny and should be kept in maybe.
is it a great or a bad news?
Office Space as relevant as ever: https://youtu.be/cgg9byUy-V4
You could imagine an LLM being called in a loop with a prompt like

You observe: {new input}

You remember: {from previous output}

React to this in the following format:

My inner thoughts: [what do you think about the current state]

I want to remember: [information that is important for your future actions]

Things I do: [Actions you want to take]

Things I say: [What I want to say to the user]

...

Not sure if that would qualify as an AGI as we currently define it. Given a sufficiently good LLM with good reasoning capabilities such a setup might be able to It would be able to do many of the things we currently expect AGIs to be able to do (given a sufficiently good LLM with good reasoning capabilities), including planning and learning new knowledge and new skills (by collecting and storing positive and negative examples in its "memory"). But its learning would be limited, and I'm sure as soon as it exists we would agree that it's not AGI
Recently, I added an AI-generated soundtrack to my open source project's home page https://socketcluster.io/

While unconventional today, about a decade ago when Adobe Flash was still broadly supported, many Flash websites had soundtracks. I think part of the reason why regular HTML websites didn't have them was because it was difficult to implement and internet was much slower so they had to be streamed which added to the implementation complexity.

Another reason was that web tech was evolving rapidly and conventions weren't established yet so everyone tried to use new features to differentiate their products and set the standard.
The Mexican market near me has the best bread in town. I’m often the only English speaker in the store when I stop in.
The US tax code is 70,000 pages, and is revised an average of once per day:

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/how-many-words-are-tax-code/

A typical federal tax filing for our household is over 100 pages long, and that’s just the stuff that we need to mail. The accompanying directions and worksheets are probably close to 1000 pages.

Also, lots of the directions are incredibly obfuscated once you start getting into those 1000 pages.

> If you do A and not B then you can do C.

> Example calculation of C (usually over a page long):

> Bob wants to do C but encountered corner case exceptions E and F in the absence of event G. That implies B, so here’s the arithmetic for doing D (which is covered elsewhere in this book, and is probably irrelevant to your situation).

This is just standard stuff TurboTax handles. God help people with filings too complicated for that!

(And, yes, I used to do taxes by hand.)
Periodic orbits for Newtonian planar three-body problem
Why not just retrain the python team to another language? I mean, software engineers are not really language specific, they can learn other languages if needed.
A very large percent, surely. It's why barbiturates or benzodiazepines or opioids have very rarely been used for strong sedation outside of a hospital setting. One person's sedating dose is another person's lethal overdose, with even slight mixing with alcohol or prescription antianxiety medications or painkillers.

It is true ketamine doesn't affect breathing as badly as those drugs, and has fewer interactions, and is sometimes used in medical emergencies for sedation when the airway is a concern. That seems to have been what gave people the idea it could be used in paramedic settings, but less is not the same as no risk.
Rented a Kia EV6 and had to spend 3+ hours trying to charge it. Joined several charging networks--one crazy network signup made me put in the damn VIN from the windshield. Several stations failed to ever start charging. All this to put energy in a car I had for a day. It was miserable. I completely understand why no one wants to ever rent an electric car. I'm as EV as they come and I'll never, ever do that to myself again.

EVs could work as rentals but it would have to be a total end-to-end experience, thought out with the actual customer in mind. An app for a specialized car already paired to your phone and easy to charge on the Tesla network by just plugging in.
Awful.

I last rented in FL a good 10 years back, Coral Springs - I'm UK based so only have a couple of anecdotes to go on. I was treated courteously and upgraded because the car I ordered wasn't available.

Obviously back then EVs were largely off the menu.

However, how on earth do you mount a wheel backwards? What is a rotor in an EV? I own a Chinese "Morris Garage" marque car - it's not from 'round 'ere boy.

Your Polstar is from Norway. They do them.
Typically magnets are used to create a magnetic field in things, usually using permanent magnets or electrons.

Yes light is electromagnetic but electromagnetism is also part of the electroweak force.

Whether something is electronic, photonic or harnesses the weak force depends on where the majority of the interaction is. Photons don’t interact with the magnetic force but electrons which do generate photons when they change energy state.

You can use a photon to excite an electron which would have electromagnetic effects but it’s not typically what you’d use to induce magentism.

Eg. If I asked you to magnetize something you’d use a magnet or electromagnet and not a flash light.
Theoretically you have a point. On the other hand it’s so bad for recruiting. I view companies that do large layoffs the same way I view companies that do a lot of contract hiring. You clearly don’t care about employees and their wellbeing.
Very polished and smooth but it feels a bit shallow. So far I imagine the gameplay is limited to moving forward and strafing through progressively longer dungeons.

There is a charm to the first-person element and limiting movement to a grid, but the controls feel slow and are frustrating relative to FPS movement or a top-down action RPG Diablo style layout/controls. It was annoying waiting for each animation to finish between alternatively walking/turning/strafing.
Apple released a LLM (Open ELM) that is pretty useless... I think Apple is being left behind by other competitors in this field...