skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. Geometric algebra has one equation for each of: projection, rejection, join (e.g., two points into a line), and meet (e.g., two planes interacting at a line). The algebraic expression is the same regardless of the elements you're working with or the space you're working in.

You get transformations too, as easy as M=b/a, where M can be applied to any element in the algebra by taking the square root and applying double-sided multiplication such that b = √M a ~√M, where tilde represents the reverse. These transformations are isomorphic to complex numbers, quaternions, and hypercomplex numbers, and understanding them makes other explanations of these concepts feel inadequate and woefully un-geometric.

Add in logarithms and the exponential map for these transformations and we can perform linear interpolation between states and parametrize transformations.

I'm just a motivated amateur and I can do all of these things. The vector algebra I learned in engineering is useful, and it's often all I need for simple 3-dimensional problems, but it's just shy of something far more powerful and far more general.
Whats with the false accusation?
I'll just add that upgrading cam itself be the problem- having an update come out that isn't yet hcled with your hba probably is fine, until you call support.
> accused of using a chat app

> You can't use apps for what they're designed for!

my sides, in orbit
LLMs can never experiment with/in the real world to find answers to open questions.

That's the summary of "The book of Why" in one sentence as I understand it.
If crawlers are stealth DDoSing my site then I lose the ability to respond entirely.
> "Short showers (lasting three or four minutes) with a focus on the armpits and groin may suffice."

It's not like there's a universal standard for what "taking a shower" is. I follow that advice. Lukewarm at most, get in, shampoo hair, soap armpits and groin, rinse, and get out. About 3-4 minutes. Non-perfumed shampoo and soap.

My SO is very sensitive to smells. When she worked at a grocery store she smelled something off two weeks before anyone else noticed, and after yet another week it got bad enough they started searching and found a ruptured can of some sort in the back of a shelf. If come home in the late at night and I've had pepperoni pizza for dinner, she can tell almost immediately even if I'm over 15 feet away.

Anyway, been with her for years and she's never once complained about my shower routine.
> In the end, Epic and Spotify get a fat 30% boost in revenue and nobody notices anything different.

Well, let's be clear here: Neither Epic nor Spotify are selling anything with Apple today. Epic's games are not available on iOS, and Spotify requires you to make all purchases through their website.

Spotify's motivation for wanting change on the iOS platform is primarily due to how limiting Apple's profit share and App Store rules are toward expanding its lines of business. Spotify wants to be able to sell one-off audiobooks; but the margins are already razor thin, and would become impossibly thin if Apple had to be paid 30% of every sale. In the most egregiously and obviously monopolistic thing Apple has ever done, they also sell audiobooks via the Books app, where I'm (wink) certain they're paying the 30% fee to (wink) themselves.

One alternative Spotify hasn't tried is marking audiobooks up 30% to account for the fees. Maybe this is something that is contractually extremely difficult to do? Like, authors and publishing agencies don't assign pricing rights to Spotify, they have to sell the audiobooks at the same price they're available for sale on Amazon/Apple Books/etc. I don't know. But, regardless of that, it's a shit card to deal consumers, anyone with half a brain would just buy the audiobook from Apple Books where its 30% cheaper, and Spotify is very reasonably trying to drive traffic to platforms they have higher agency within.

This isn't really about boosting revenue by 30%. Its about unlocking fundamentally different business models from Apple's grasp; business models which Apple has found extremely profitable for itself, yet refuses anyone else to share in.
I reverse-engineered how my adjustable bed base works, then built (and sell) a hub for controlling it from Home Assistant. See https://blog.laplante.io/2019/01/11/reverse-engineering-the-... and https://www.tindie.com/products/cplaplante/temperbridge/
Yes, you’re right. At that point the videos were simply reposted without comment (which achieved her political aims all the more powerfully). She does provide commentary now her account has been restored to Twitter but I wouldn’t describe the commentary as hateful or inciteful.

I think the people she shines a light on are the ones we need to worry about as a society.
>Did you want me to start debating the economics of buying EVs?

Well, EV growth and adoption is all about economics (can you afford them in your business/lifestyle to replace your ICE or not?) Herz's decision to drop EVs is about economics (is it profitable for them or not?). So yeah, Economics are very important in this discussion so why not talk about it?

You pointing out Tesla, the most premium EV brand with the best chagrin network, as the competition to cheap ICEs is like telling peasants who can't afford bread that they should eat cake. EU voters aren't gonna be happy with this come 2035 if the EV market isn't full of cheap models with long range by then and we might see an exertion of the ICE life, especially since the post 2022 conditions has decimated the purchasing power and disposable income of the average European. We might have counted our chickens before they were hatched on this one.

>you can probably grab a Nissan leaf for roughly that 6000 euros and that mileage

Unfortunately, the Leaf's range is pitiful compared to even the most econobox ICE. And range is very important to EU buyers.
I would argue that we are not satisfied with that answer for humans either.
When people leave Reddit half of them come here. Lots of people left Reddit recently.
Prior posts on the topic of frequent showering:

- (flagged) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37989269

- (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5145268
Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into police detainees
Ah yes, the church of The Binomial Distribution. Quite a sight. And if you're in Reyjkavík anyways, you should go visit my favourite brutalist church, Áskirkja. Straight out of the Lord of the Rings.
https://live.staticflickr.com/5743/22683689714_cff8ae8af1_b....

Also, don't miss out on the botanical garden and its café, it's right around the corner!
> The vast majority of spam is explicitly permitted by Google. What are you talking about?

It is certainly not lmao - try sending mail to google from your own smtp server on your own doma

Seeing some spam occasionally doesn’t mean the vast majority isn’t being rej

> They have a Promotions tab, they could make spam - that is, marketing emails - go away in an afternoon, if they wanted to.

opting into newsletters is explicitly not spam, so either you don’t understand the basics of being on the internet or you’re arguing in bad faith.

Which is probably also implied by the “I saw a spam once therefore google runs an open SMTP relay” take honestly. You know that’s not true either. We both know you know. Why are you doing this?

again:

Google doesn’t provide your desired standard of openness either, in their own oligopolistic fiefs/gatekeeper domains like gmail. And everyone understand why it’s a bad idea. Forced open interop is an unworkable idea and forcing an unworkable idea on iMessage is the whole goal. Flooding iMessage with spam 2000s-style by forcing an “open relay” into the system is the whole point, whether you realize it or not.

Just like forcing “choice of browser” was never about giving users freedom either - but about wiping away the last counterbalance against chrome’s dominance/monopoly in the browser market. Hence the flood of shit like web integrity and adtech ever since.
I have a Pavlovian annoyance response to noticing that I have inadvertently clicked a mailto link, because back in ~2005 firefox would try to start Evolution. I usually only noticed the click because of the sound of my spinning disk thrashing to try to lift into memory hundreds of MB of dependencies from their rust platter slumber. Evolution generally didn't even load enough to so much as show its splash screen before I found a terminal and killed the process tree.
>I question whether we are living on the same planet.

I feel the same way when I see a friend ignore a call. I am curious what the difference is. What filters do you have in place? As far as I know, here's what I have:

My number that I've been giving out freely for a decade >
Law-abiding spammers check donotcall.gov >
Google Voice checks it's known spammers list and forwards legit calls to my Verizon number (whatever that is, I never wrote it down) https://support.google.com/voice/answer/115089 >
Verizon checks its known spammers list (free, I think default?) https://www.verizon.com/solutions-and-services/call-filter/ >
My Samsung phones have always come stock with a spam filter baked into their Android image https://www.hiya.com/products-smart-call >
I get the call

Someone in that pipeline is doing a fantastic job I guess.
You posted this earlier with a different username, so it looks like you're using a sockpuppet to get more attention. This is frowned upon and will likely get your post flagged, and maybe even your account(s) banned.

That post title is really not helpful.
This is a very sweet and beautiful thing.
Sound? Which sound? My main "workstation" has no sound. It physically cannot emit sound.

And it can browse the Web just fine and allows me to work just fine. It is exceptionally rare that I need something in a Youtube vid and if I do, I turn subtitles on and watch at x2 speed: but that happens maybe once a month, maybe not even that.

So, yup, don't count on me to write software that "emits sound".

The nice thing is that because there are deaf people out there and because supporting handicapped people is a thing, the Web is guaranteed to continue working just fine without any sound.

It's not that I don't like sound: on the contrary I'm listening to music all day long, on a very nice hifi setup.

And I certainly don't want pesky sounds bothering my music listening experience.
> “all this for…” — you’re employing someone for 40% a full time duration. of course you need to do the right thing, ensure they get the right wage, if you need to pay benefis, etc.

this is such a privileged position and you think you should’ve just been able to pay cash and potentially screw someone over?
Ask HN: What do you think of turning your blogs into audio
Most content I read is from a blog or news article. I’d like to listen to them when I’m at work or when I’m doing something. Seeking some validation, what are your thoughts?
Restraining orders are a thing for a reason. It's cheaper to harass someone out of business (intentionally or otherwise) than to compete on a level playing field.

Being a good neighbor requires restraining oneself and making requests with consideration for the other party.

Full disclosure: I worked for a price monitoring service that prided itself on crawling up to every 3 hours. Steps were always taken to mitigate the impact. Sometimes even asking hosts to allow-list the crawlers.
Hilariously, you can ask GPT 4 to explain the “why” of arbitrary grammar fixes.
A +1 for Boxy as a "quick'n'dirty" SVG tweaker / light editor.
I couldn't say stupid but I could say there's a whiff of bad-faith arguments in the air...

But of course the direct answer is that throwing the full faith and credit of the US (that is, in showing earnest and steady effort to pay off its debts, something that worldwide investors count on) straight out the window would immediately tank the value of the dollar, which wouldn't be good for anyone paid in dollars.

If the implication is that we should not bother to run our finances honestly and responsibly because of some idea that the checks written by lawmakers aren't for things we all agree on, then it seems like a bit of a non sequitur. The time to decide on that is when we decide who writes those checks, but we have every incentive to commit and honor our debts after that.
The FAQ on Zipcar's website says "Our Electric Vehicles are charged overnight by our team, so they’re good to go whenever you are" — but this isn't the case for the GP, so the failing is with Zipcar.
Got forced into an electric car on a trip. The experience was all around awful. I had to learn how to manage the regenerative braking, the car was a nagging beeper which took even more time to figure out, finding charging stations and then paying for the privilege was a pain, and the biggest FU hertz did for me was I prepay fuel so I can expense it out easier for work. They charged me me 35$ for having it 10% below the charge. Previously the charge for a fuel return at a 1/4 tank prepaid would have been 15$ at most.

I will purposefully not be selecting an electric car for my next rentals. Awful experience all around.
Depends on how severe the apocalypse is. Right now, you could scavenge your way through civilization and not run out of new computers to use / fix, ever. If you were stuck in a cave and had 40 years of your life left, I doubt you'd ever see one. Computers are cool but food takes priority. Not enough hours in a day.

There's a lot we take for granted in civilization. Once those layers are peeled back you're competing for territory with animals and scrounging for survival. Being able to manipulate bits will be extraneous, and really only emerged because of the sheer number of people that are alive right now. With 8Bn people, you get a lot of geniuses.

A better question would be: "how long until you could have a 24/7 source of electricity?"
It's very much a problem that Whatsapp isn't using an open protocol IMO. I really want to use Signal for my family and yet one has to jump from app to app to talk to other people.

It's ridiculous - all I'm asking is for the convenience of email.
Worthy reading in parallel the National Restaurant Association’s “2024 State of the Restaurant Industry” report: https://restaurant.org/research-and-media/research/research-...
AFAIK we did see how Apple banned political apps in China and Russia.
LLM’s are a compressed and lossy form of our combined writing output, which it turns out is similarly structured enough to make new combinations of text seem reasonable, even enough to display simple reasoning. I find it useful to think “what can I expect from speaking with the dataset of combined writing of people”, rather than treating a basic LLM as a mind.

That doesn’t mean we won’t end up approximating one eventually, but it’s going to take a lot of real human thinking first. For example, ChatGPT writes code to solve some questions rather than reasoning about it from text. The LLM is not doing the heavy lifting in that case.

Give it (some) 3D questions or anything where there isn’t massive textual datasets and you often need to break out to specialised code.

Another thought I find useful is that it considers its job done when it’s produced enough reasonable tokens, not when it’s actually solved a problem. You and I would continue to ponder the edge cases. It’s just happy if there are 1000 tokens that look approximately like its dataset. Agents make that a bit smarter but they’re still limited by the goal of being happy when each has produced the required token quota, missing eg implications that we’d see instantly. Obviously we’re smart enough to keep filling those gaps.
That sounds very overkill for something that already is overrkill for most ppliciations.
I upgraded the UCL CS webserver to CERN/3.0 (the last CERN httpd release) running on a Sun Sparcstation 10 back in 1994, and it has been in production use ever since. The hardware got replaced at least once (our sysadmin has a large pile of spare mid-1990s Sparc hardware), and the NFS server storing the data has changed more than once, but it's the same software install still running on 1990s Sun hardware. It needed some minor patches for Y2K, but nothing in the 24 years since. Will be 30 years this summer. Needless to say as it predates SSL, it's no longer our primary server, but it does still serve everyone's home pages.

% nc www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk 80
HEAD /staff/M.Handley/ HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 Document follows
MIME-Version: 1.0
Server: CERN/3.0
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:06:54 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 9973
Last-Modified: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:26:26 GMT
> People keep having to learn that developers cannot be trusted either

The problem with this is that Apple is also a developer trying to sell you things. I would feel better if Apple's goals and the user's goals were aligned all the time instead of just some of the time.

Admittedly, Apple's real priority is just to make money on every transaction that occurs upon an idevice.
Because those same kids aren't going to get mocked for the brand of clothing (or lack there of) that they wear?

Using something as an excuse to be a piece of shit is not the same as giving a crap. This isnt an example of a good reason to do this.
No further action taken by employees as well. If memegen didn’t exist, some might be inclined to escalate, actually forcing leadership to do better.
Why is the person posting a Voice of America link downvoted and killed?

HN's userbase is insane sometimes.
Hilarious that the government makes some of us think that portion of someone's money returned to that person is a "welfare payment"
that’s how free file works in the us….
As others have pointed out, OP is in NL, but the rest of the team was in the US.
The difficulty would likely be that the “X is Y” relations don’t just occur in that simple, separated-out form, but in a whole spectrum of more complicated contexts, and the latter probably dominate. You would have to identify those and synthesize a text corpus that contains the reverse notions across a similar spectrum.
Guns are made for shooting, but murder is still illegal.
I was under the (naive?) impression that Cloudflare a SaaS startup poster child. Do you mind expanding on your comment?
I would have imagine most major ceos are on constant litigation hold considering the sheer volume of lawsuits.

If I am reading that correctly, the ceo got a litigation hold from internal legal nine months after the original issuance to Amazon ? That is also strange.
> Guarantee an output will be consistent every time.

If you mean “consistent with a prior run with the same input”, LLMs can absolutely do that, though for most purposes settings are chosen deliberately which do not.

If you mean “consistent with some external structural specification”, LLMs can do that, too, e.g., via grammar specifications.
This game must have been around for a while. The menu page has a button to share on Google+.
Can't you just pick ballots for more than one party before going into the "secret" booth?
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Generally speaking higher costs are probably a good thing. It depends on what you value. If all we cared about were lower costs we would enslave people and make them make things cheaper and we would pollute the environment without any consideration.

Conversely we may have more expensive products but be able to avoid or minimize some of these awful things.
Outside plant cable doesn't really change. Telco copper wires, CATV cables, and optical fiber are pretty much it. They stay in place for decades. OS1 from 2004 is the same quality today. You just swap out the transceivers at the ends for better speeds.
I was a kid not too long ago and no one gave a shit about a single luxury item other than iPhones. People who had fancy stuff were generally made fun of, the cool kids all wore stuff from the thrift store
"it'll plan out the charge stops", "depends on the network", "you'll probably just catch a tv show on your phone".

All these combined are a far-cry from frictionless. And good luck if you venture out of the trodden path.
I'm not talking about a dent. I'm talking about the entire (closed) MBP bent by a car driving into it. There is no way a ThinkPad plastics wouldn't have broken (and its frame bent). But I guess we can't perform this experiment. Plastic is just not as good a material - sorry. Not just is it not as strong when new it also doesn't have the same longevity.

See here for some random MBP drop tests:
https://youtu.be/8kLtQBF52m8?si=a42uejjR4rUWWg-F

The ThinkPads are pretty good vs. most laptops in terms of design and durability (going back to IBM). I still think the MacBooks are an overall better design. I owned 3 T410s for many years and repaired them and kept them going so I'm very familiar with their design (And all the things that broke or failed over those years). The laptop I'm using right now is a 2013 MBP (which has been my daily driver for a long time with zero issues) and I have a new 13" M3 MBP work laptop (a great laptop) and another 2012 MacBook right here with me.

I agree 6 year OS software support isn't good but the 2013 machine still got updates up to the end of last year (though can't run the very latest OS). That said, as long as applications run on the older OS it's not necessarily such a huge problem unless some critical security issues pops up.
Server, I think you could be right.

Database engine, no way. Look at the internals of modern ones. Very very intricate pointer based data structures that you'll pull your hair out replicating with Rust.

Again, it's not like it's impossible. You can certainly accomplish it by treating it like a puzzle but using the right tool will have better results.
Haven't done it yet but I'm making a booknook for my gf of the verandah in a particular Guatemalan hostel on the river where we stayed on our Central American holiday a few years ago. When a button is pressed it plays a looping mp3 of the jungle ambiance (ripped from a video I took on the actual holiday), together with a rippling light effect on the resin "river".
Cats, of course, speak Catalan.
Funny, a kid at my son's science fair did this for their project. I don't recollect if he had a bibliography...
By this rational the government should be forcing nike to part with the Jordan brand so someone can make a discount version that every one can buy.

Changing the color of the bubbles would just shift the shitty behavior to another product.
Busybox replaces a LOT of much larger apps if you’re ok with a much reduced feature set. That’s probably much of the savings.