skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These comments are getting repetitive and Who Is Hiring threads are not the place to ligitate this (let alone have off-topic tangents like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228529)

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Cohere has a very cheap, fast and effective reranking API!

https://cohere.com/rerank
There are a lot of different well-meaning policies that can fuck up a housing market by restricting supply. Rent control is just one of them.

This is like if you say that privatizing prisons is a bad thing and then somebody else comes along and says "But look at North Korea. They have state-run prisons and the prisoner conditions aren't any better. Clearly, therefore, privatization of prisons doesn't result in any bad outcomes for prisoners." Just a total non-sequitor.
OpenBao[0] is a fork of Vault under the Linux Foundation

[0] https://openbao.org/
Here's my favorite zinger of the article:

"When she became concerned, I used Monopoly as a comparison, so, for her, Mommy is playing real-life Monopoly now."

I wonder if she remembers that only one person wins in Monoploy and that happens when everyone else is bankrupt.

I think she could have focuses this article on how she was going to use the fruits of her hard work (and good luck) to improve her community and/or the world.
This reads like parody. What are you going to do - never get Covid?
What servers, engineers, and operations are needed to sideload an app?

How did literally every OS before iOS manage to provide all of that for free, then? (Not counting game consoles, which always had a very similar distribution model, but importantly were often subsidized by their platform operator, and I hope nobody is claiming that iPhones are loss leaders for Apple.)

In my view, SDKs for third-party app development aren't premium/value-add services, they're a core OS functionality. Few people would be happy with an OS that can only run first-party apps.

The only things incurring costs to Apple scaling with the number and popularity of third-party apps that come to mind right now are malware protection and push notifications. If Apple really thinks that baking these into the device price would break their bank, I suppose they could always make an iCloud subscription mandatory for that type of service.
> In their ability to make accurate predictions.

That is a bit too close to defining them as better within the framework of scientific method.

For example, though I suspect you won’t like this line of question, are we by chance able to make increasingly accurate predictions about something increasingly irrelevant or not beneficial to ourselves?

Edit: I would be the first to say that the answer to that question is probably negative, but that is just to illustrate, maybe this would push you to define “better” better.

> But science does reveal objective truth, in the sense that it reveals truths (or at least very good approximations to truths) that are independent of what anyone's opinions are

Models are metaphors to aid our minds in coming up with more predictions to test. If a model was able to predict N outcomes that does not make it correct, unless you can guarantee that there will not be a future outcome that makes that model incorrect, which you cannot as that notion would presume you have come up with a provably correct and complete model in finite time.

> But even then, it does put constraints on what metaphysical truth could be. For example, unless quantum mechanics is wrong (which is extremely unlikely) then it is not possible for metaphysical truth to be classical.

I cannot object to that, except the part where you claim that quantum mechanics being wrong is extremely unlikely. I will stand by my initial assumptions and claim that it is not just extremely likely but a near certainty that quantum mechanics is wrong—just because it is foolish to assume that any of today’s models is finally correct and true. It may be useful in meantime, though.
I think this is the biggest shift that us technically inclined people will need to make. Bots are becoming useful.
Bit of a rant:

Luck. Word of mouth. Anyway, things you can't control (and can barely influence) as a developer/publisher. So, we face the notion that, perhaps, if we want people to take the risk of creating and sustaining a business for reasons other than simple profit (say, to provide a needed or pleasant service), the proposition might need to be better than, "Succeed or die (sometimes literally)." Because none of it's a sure thing, and it can't be, but sane people generally aren't going to bet their life or livelihood on a risky venture (assuming that irrational passion is a form of insanity).
This is true, you can set the format on your phone, but if you receive images from other people or clients, you cannot modify their phone's settings.

While I agree I could communicate it better, this utility not only converts but also compresses the image so you get 2 core functionalities in a click.
I typically write up all of that in my documentation somewhere. Stuff like "first thoughts are this approach might work, talked to person who had this idea, looked at this link and found this info, decided to go with this approach because of factors x, y, z". This isn't the primary user-facing documentation but a subpage or something that's helpful a couple of years down the line

It's like a book titled "A History of [Object]" that traces what solved problems before the object, issues with old solutions, the emotional, financial, etc state of the inventor, why they chose this solution over that one, how the object was adopted and improved afterwards, other inventions spawned off the object, etc. Capturing the history of the object requires capturing the context around the object too
have you seen the money supply graph. and predictions for the next year?
Ticket prices also are likely rising due to physical demand, there's more people and more fans than ever before, but most performers aren't performing at more and bigger venues. IT's the same pressure that exists on real estate, but to a lesser degree.
I don’t think so, you can create an app without the fee. (Xcode is free and nothing is gated based on subscription AFAIK), you just can’t upload it. So I think for EU users this isn’t the case.
So your phone should come with a lifetime license for all its software for free ? What about new apps and features ? You can currently get everything in the iOS ecosystem on an iPhone 11 that you paid for how many years ago?

It is funny to see people on HN arguing against paying for software. Of course software should be paid for, unless you want everything included for free - which means outsourced to India.
Sorry - I don't see how either of those sentences is relevant.
Yeah there's not much of a community on any of these services. Probably in part because there's no shared ground in the way there would be on a forum or what not. If you went to a site about a particular series or video game console or band or whatever, you'd know many people there would share at least one interest, if not many more, and the disagreements would be on fairly neutral matters.

On a large social media service, you not only don't have any shared interests to go off of much of the time, but there are groups and communities on there who actively hate each other and may want the other dead. In a sense, these sites are like a giant high school.
Oof, why the hate?

At first it seemed like a bunch of humble bragging, but she really did seem pretty genuine about the challenge it represents on your identity, what others think of you, etc. I appreciated the perspective.

Ok, on second though it really is a perspective from a VERY privileged position. While I think she was genuine and all, it's tough to contrast that with the increasing everyday challenges that most people are facing.
I don't think that your argument is sound.

For example when is the last time my customers paid for Ruby, Python, Linux, PostgreSQL? The list can be very long. Companies paid people to work on those technologies, they are not only free labor.

In the case of Apple, they developed those technologies to control the platform. They already got a very good return. It is fair to ask developers to pay for the Apple services they are using (cloud services, messaging?) but it would be even fairer not to force developers to use Apple technologies, starting with having to use Macs to write apps.
"illegal numbers"
>I am amazed that the governments of the world don't do more and that there is very little news coverage about it since to me it feels like it is a much larger threat than most.

Humans have been living closely with poultry for hundreds of years without some super-deadly virus jumping from birds to humans. Your prior should be that the chance of it happening is very low.
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As a person with Autism, I too have trouble with understanding people with "modified" or muffled speech. I am not sure if it's full-on Auditory Processing Disorder, but it's really annoying in meetings :/
Thank you for this comment! I blurted out "Wait, what? How do you do that?" when I read that bit.
Repairs of KC Scout outage may take months after cyberattack
Well one day the SSD will fail, and then your options are as follows:

1) reflow the board with a steady hand

2) bin it

The overwhelming majority of customers will not choose option 1.
True but there are reasons to believe that it's vastly higher than the covid though.
You own the hardware - not everything on it.

Should you have control of everything on your own hardware? I think yes, but that’s a different thing.
512-bit is probably a bit extreme, but I can see 192-bit and 256-bit becoming more popular. At the end of the day, if you have a high-end APU, having a 128-bit bus is probably THE bottleneck to performance. It's not clear to me that it makes sense or costs any less to have two 128-bit buses on two different chips which you see on a lot of gaming laptops instead of a single 256-bit bus on one chip for the midrange market.

M3 pro only used a mere 37 billion transistors with a 192-bit bus, so you can get wider than 128-bit while being economical about it. I'd love for there to be a 512-bit Strix Halo but it probably won't happen, it probably does not make business sense.

I don't know if the comparison to GPUs necessarily tracks here because the price floor of having 8 chips of GDDR is a lot higher than having 8 chips of DDR.
Has anyone had an otherwise undamaged DVD fail on them? By now there should be plenty of nearly 25 year old dvds out there that have done nothing but sit in a case on a shelf since 1999.
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You pretty quickly when from "yielding 8% on distributions alone" and "REITs that often yield 7%" to "pays 6% today". There are plenty of windows in which an investment in O wouldn't have met your original criteria.
Can you be an ex Microsoft CFO and a cool skateboarder? What if she is legitimately good at it? It is tricky to divorce the spirit behind an activity from the activity itself.

Also wow you have to seriously lack self-awareness to pose for skateboard pics as the CFO of a gigantic corporation and think it is going to be cool.
Here's what their quantitative tightening looks like: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL#.

They have a ways to go. And they just announced they would be slowing the pace of the quantitative tightening.

What are the odds they get back to the pre-great recession trend line before the next crisis that demands quantitative easing? (Hint: the odds are zero).
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The article is new, only the tested CPU+GPU is from 2019.

Snapdragon 855 was indeed the chipset used in most flagship Android smartphones of 2019. I have one in my ASUS ZenFone.

Based on the big ARM cores that are included, it is easy to determine the manufacturing year of a flagship smartphone. The cheaper smartphones can continue to use older cores. Arm announces a core one year before it becomes used in smartphones.

Cortex-A72 => 2016
Cortex-A73 => 2017
Cortex-A75 => 2018
Cortex-A76 => 2019 (like in the tested Snapdragon 855)
Cortex-A77 => 2020
Cortex-X1 => 2021
Cortex-X2 => 2022
Cortex-X3 => 2023
Cortex-X4 => 2024
Isn’t that what a Synology offers? An offline backup?
M-DISC is not mentioned here (manufacturer claimed 1000y+ longevity); anyone know anything about that?
> Native apps can still do/access a lot more things than a web app.

Could you even say that they access some core technologies?
It seems cassette (VHS) has had the best longevity
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What is the common ground? I for one am happy that the vast majority of people do not find the tradeoff acceptable. Ubiquitous masking during COVID was dystopian and damaging and I couldn't imagine having this indefinitely.
Sweet! I'll try running it tonight.
At the start COVID was claiming potentially 60-70%, then 5-10%, then <5%, then 1%. In all likelihood it's a sampling bias because only the very sick end up at the hospital(s) and are tested.

I don't think we should worry at all. We haven't seen any major illness spread with a fatality rate of >1% since introducing clean drinking water & having antibiotics.

You can see yourself https://www.healthline.com/health/worst-disease-outbreaks-hi...

It can happen, but the chances seem vanishingly low. Even the Hong Kong flu outbreak had only a 0.2% fatality rate.
We live in a time where almost everything is getting worse. Products are getting smaller, service is getting worse, businesses are closing, quality is going down. I don't think I've ever experienced such an obvious decline in commercial society in my entire life.

Is it the financialization of everything? Is that we reached peak growth and profit increases are only possibly through extreme optimization? Is it financial inequality?
I'm down to try. However, I think we'd have to take them to court just to get a code signing cert blessed by them because I wouldn't even want to need a copy of xcode.
> access to training materials

The materials that are freely available to anyone on the Internet? Besides, if you develop for alternative stores, you still need to pay the $99/year fee.

> the push notification system

How much does running that system cost for the average app? Is Apple willing to allow alternative push notification systems?
Thank you, and likewise!
As a vulnerable person, I wear an N95 as much as practical when I go out, and frankly at this point expect that to just be a thing going forward. As you said, it's really nice basically not getting sick. I've got multiple chronic conditions (asthma, T2 diabetes are the biggies, but far from the only) that both tend to act up either from being sick or the drugs you take when you're sick.

Ironically I'm about 2 weeks off some sort of what was probably some weird viral infection (not COVID, not traditional flu, not strep). Very well could have been bird flu, although there's a possibility that was also caused by an (insurance forced) asthma medication change that I possibly had a moderate allergic reaction to. In any case, I now have an approved prior auth and am back on the old med.
> Who invests in this stuff?

Bill Ackman (founder of Pershing Square Capital Management), for one: https://lexfridman.com/bill-ackman-transcript#chapter4_inves...
It's entirely visual in that it is a graphic of a vocal tract where you can move the tongue and shape the mouth, so in that form trying to make it do anything with screen readers would mean basically doing what the second link does, and create an API for it and hook the backend up to an entirely different UI.

The videos on the other link does show that the guy who has done that API has done stuff to the UI to allow interfacing to it in non-graphical ways, but sadly I don't see any online demos of those alternative user interfaces anywhere, which is a great shame. Sadly it doesn't look like the videos are very accessible either, as they're mostly demos with no commentary about what is going on on the screen, without which they're mostly just random sounds.
It's crabpot mentality
> How often does the average programmer need to care about the underlying mechanism a map?

I think it's useful to know it's not an O(1) lookup as many programmers seem to assume. Definitely useful to know it is ordered.

Also, I once ran out of RAM (over 80GB), because of all the extra pointers needed in a tree. I switched to a sorted array and used a binary search instead - got the same performance, without running out of RAM.
Agreed, and then I thought about using it with OpenSCAD to do insets on some dice boxes as well
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I have two out of hundreds. Both were about 10 years old when they first encountered issues.
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> I don't understand what goes through the head of people working at Microsoft today but the results are quite lacking

This is nothing new. Microsoft and security was always a problem mariage.
> My pet theory is that success of predictions of modern science helped us achieve a local maximum which, while useful, also makes it difficult to evolve towards a higher (globally) maximum.

> The axioms are:

> 1. Some models are useful, but all models are necessarily incorrect, incomplete, and/or unfalsifiable. (This can be restated in an unsettling, for a natural science enthusiast, manner as “there is always the unexplained”.)

> 2. We cannot know where the incorrectness/incompleteness lies.

(It is an axiom because I strongly suspect I will maintain this position but am not willing to spend time defending it. Maybe I should call it “assumption”.)
Well, there didn't use to be any large scale factories that handled thousands of birds/animals.

Sure, there were a lot of farmers having some animals but not in the large scale industry that we have today. That is a very modern phenomenon.
I'm also in the minority for thinking if what apple charged wasn't worth it, then no one would pay it.

What did it take it the bad old days to actually get your app into consumer hands, a publisher and a retailer who if you were lucky decided to do a deal with you and then you were given a small percentage cut.
Why would you give me any credit to any of Freuds ideas? Im honestly astonished the guy has any kind of credibility.
You posted three of these in this thread alone. Please don't do that.

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So ... the same as Rust, then?
And it's literally written in a magazine aimed at... other CFOs. I don't understand people's beef with this. Good for her. Not everything is about everybody.
> Swift, Xcode, CoreOS, Darwin, FoundationDB, Data Centers, the engineers on on-call rotations, and who knows whatever else.

Their tooling is absolutely terrible by any modern standard, there's a reason why I'm using Flutter...

Devs target iOS because of its userbase and certainly not because of the quality of the dev environment
I agree, this project probably shouldn't exist. But oh, well here we are and stuff like this can be built with reasonable effort. Scrape google streetview and every exif tagged Image you can get your hands on and get training.

I have no idea where this is heading, but we aren't turning back.
There are 3 million Americans unknowingly walking around with MRSA in their nose right now, all around us. It is so common I'm not sure it would be a good assassination weapon even if you tried.
First, I never said it was a great idea, or that we should. It's not about envy or not. Liquidity provides a great service, if we need long market hours. If we don't need long market hours, it arguably provides little to no value.

Yes it would massively reduce liquidity, that's the point :) Yes volatility would go up during that hour(especially at the beginning), because everyone would have to figure out the new pricing, but it would remove the need for liquidity as well. It would bring all the sellers and buyers together at the same time, eliminating the need for market makers to provide liquidity.

I'm not suggesting we actually do this, in fact, the markets are trending the other way to 24/7 market trading. I'm sure Jane Street and the other liquidity providers are 100% on board with this plan of 24/7 trading.

Personally, I'm very happy with the status quo, 7.5hr trading days M-F. Though personally I'd prefer they shift a little later so it's easier for west coasters to trade at market open. I.e. shift from EST to CST. I know that won't happen, but that would be my only real complaint.

> Jane Street’s 2613 employees are replacing at least 10x that many needed to perform the same critical and necessary service to the markets from 30+ years ago.

Agreed, they are doing a bang up job providing liquidity to the markets. I'm happy for them. I use their service, it's great.

If we as a society want long liquid trading markets, then we need people like Jane Street to provide that liquidity. If we don't want long liquid trading markets, we can eliminate them and force buyers and sellers to meet all at a given point in time. One is not necessarily better than the other, it's a trade-off.
lol exactly. I had to quit big tech after a little over a year. But for me I actually enjoy my profession. Finding a smaller company where I can learn every day while working chill hours is pretty close to ideal.
Commercially produced DVDs don’t fail due to age in my experience, but they do get scratched or corroded to the point of being error riddled.

Burnt CD-R and DVD-R definitely had a reduced life. CD-RW even worse
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I'm not going to read this because here's what it's saying "I had a great job that only some people would dream of having, now I'm leaving to do nothing and have a nice vacation." This is tone-deaf to the life of 99% of the entire world's population. Why does an article need to be written about this?
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You posted three of these in this thread alone. Please don't do that.

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