skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it “par for the course” for disagreeing with since an obviously biased and unsupported post like that?

“there is absolutely nothing sustainable or green about apple, it's products, or its business practices.”
It may not be illegal but I dare you to go take photos of a port.
SQLite's design docs were the first time I had seen a database use a virtual machine instead of walking a tree. I later noticed VMs in libraries, embedded DSLs, and other applications outside of large general-purpose programming languages. That really drove home for me that VMs could be anywhere and were often a useful step in handling a user's expressions.
Friends from the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech's A.I. Race
It's a common management strategy pushed worldwide by consultants. Undermining the opposition by promoting the worst in it. The people who are making the union unpalatable are not under threat from Google as they're in effect unwittingly performing a valuable service for management. Due to intrinsic deficiencies in humans there is no real way to fight it. What usually happens is that the organization, now free from internal opposition, is be able to make the large changes that it always wished to do only to find out that management did not see all ends, makes a bunch of mistakes, and enters into a terminal decline.
If you're up for self-hosting, there's BabyBuddy[0]. There's no first-party native app, but it is a decent web app and there's some third-party apps/integrations. And of course, multiple users is a priority. No affiliation, just a user :)

[0]: https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy
Shout out to secuso! Their apps might not be the prettiest but they absolutely work and they work well. Very useful
"He took a duck in the face at 250 knots."

But really about Case Pollack's soul catching up with her.
Just switched from Clue, thank you so much for creating this :) I love the simplicity and export feature
> Apple macOS use NFD while other mostly use NFC.

It's actually worse than that.

Older versions of mac did enforce NFD for file names, but more recent names don't, at least at the OS level. But many apple programs, such as finder _will_ use NFD. Except that it isn't even Unicode standardized NFD, it is Apple's own modified version of it. And this can cause issues when for example you create a file in finder, then search for it using `find`, and type the name of the file the exact same way, but it can't find the file because find got an NFC form, but the actual file is in NFD.

OTOH, in many applications, you don't really care about the normalization form used. For example, if you are parsing a CSV, you probably don't need to worry about if one of the cells using using a single code point or two code points to represent that accented e.
Show HN: Thru – Create QUIC/TCP/UDP tunnels for one another
GPS system = Global positioning system system
It's his core philosophy:

"Never. Ever. Buy a tech product based on the promise of future software updates."

https://x.com/MKBHD/status/1383616274693951494
Tangential story time!

Several years ago (circa 2015) I was asked to build an app like FireChat by just the _oddest_ couple of guys I've ever met. They wanted an app where you could connect to other folks just by being near them. I never could get them to agree on what exactly the app was supposed to be beyond that.

The first gentleman was a VP-type for a large company. He insisted that the app (nicknamed "Pals" at the time) was for people with similar interests to find each other and connect based on just being near the same place at the same time.

The second partner was a well-known lawyer in my city. When I mentioned their app sounds like a dating app, this guy says to the first man, "SEE! It's a dating app." And then he proceeds to tell me (in graphic detail) his proposed strategy to build a dating app that would tell you where the other person is when you go to meet them in person. He essentially wanted to be able to spy on them to see if the person matched their online description or not before committing to the date.

I thought the idea, while clever, was also super creepy but offered to build it for them. I thought if they pivoted to something like large-scale live events they might have something. Imagine going to a sporting event and having a group chat with everyone else at the stadium. Great way to make new friends/contacts to hang out with later.

They hired a marketing firm to build it instead, and last I heard they had given up on the idea. I guess the only good that really came out of it was that I had a lawyer to call when I had to go to traffic court a few years later. Turns out he was actually pretty good at his job.
MKBHD touched on this, but it seems a lot of products are coming out whose value is partially justified by the promise of future features. Tesla does this too, trying to take my 2024 dollars for a feature which may or may not arrive sometime in the future.

I call this a “tech tease”. When it arrives, I’ll pay for it. Until then, pony up for the R&D or take out a real loan or raise from VCs.
Sure, if you want a smaller display, just to avoid having the menu be in the bezel area.
Well, it does have the advantage of being FOSS, extensively reviewed by many eyes, and known to not send any data off-device. It also has the advantage of already existing and being packaged for most platforms already. I've used vi(m) plus a little awk for ex. calorie counting because it's already there and I'm not a software developer. That's not to say that it's a good choice, necessarily, just that it does have advantages. Something about the best tool is the one you have....
Profit is the accumulation of promises other people have made to you that they will work for you in the future.

That is, after all, why people seek profit. They like the security in knowing that others will do work for them in the future. When you feel hungry, you want to know that someone will work to give you food. When you feel cold, you want to know that someone will work to provide you shelter. When you feel bored, you want to know that someone will work to entertain you. So on and so forth.

Unless people can offer work that you want to have done in the future, you cannot profit. Rent seeking doesn't change anything. You still need valid promises of future work in order to profit.
Amateur birder in Oregon accidentally photographs bird never before seen in US
At least on android arm64, looks like a `dmb ishst` is emitted after the constructor, which allows future loads to not need an explicit barrier. Removing `final` from the field causes that barrier to not be emitted.

https://godbolt.org/#g:!((g:!((g:!((h:codeEditor,i:(filename...
I am not sure this works - it is an exploration of a concept, not a conclusion.

A web app has two parts - navigation and tasks. What if I make it NAV forward? With google maps (or world) you get a picture of the whole world and you can easily navigate anywhere. Zoom in to 1512 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA. Now zoom way out and go to New York City.

Why not build a tree map of the all tasks and places in you app that duplicates that map experience. When someone arrives at the website they see a tree map of the whole site. They can find a location: post in the group or add to the calendar or ... And perhaps after first visit you add a new place in the tree map for recent places or favorites.

When you find the place, there is a very limited, task specific overlay. Record your post then drag it onto the map? Write an email then drag it.

Question: does {grid, flexbox, floats, bootstrap, tailwind, material ui, etc} - present a better user experience than threejs?

Question: are there some places in a website (like navigation) that would be more effective with threejs?

And remember the big reason we don't use threejs. SEO
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> My understanding is Unicode (and therefore UTF-8) can encode all the codepoints encodable by Shift JIS

Trivia: There are some variants of ShiftJIS where this isn't entirely true. The traditional yuugen gaisha symbol, for example, which is analogous to U+32CF (LTD), is not supported. The /VENDORS/APPLE/JAPANESE.TXT file uses a PUA designator and then a sequence of four Unicode code points to convert it.
can you clarify 'was never better' please
Not really ugly. It is a clever design solution to allow the screen space to be larger without making the case larger. Pushing the display up into the bezel space. the only limitation is leaving space for the camera and two different sensors plus mounting hardware in an area of the screen that is not often used.

Once you’ve used it for a few days, it tends to fade out of awareness. If you really don’t want to see it, there are utilities that make the menubar black so it blends in.
It’s slow, inaccessible and looks awesome.

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-reactbricks-com...
And this is where the fallacy of judgement lies, people do not make objective decisions and assume based on random factors.

Imo, only similar type of people get the attention which they can usually use better at another company making more but sucks for the senior. Hence, mentoring should be done selflessly based on who needs it most as it ends up increasing the average and hopefully some other senior somewhere trains your new hire.
There are some AI companies focusing on chatbots for developer projects that do better than using a general purpose LLM.

I think this will become more common and not really a barrier
I will let you know when it's supported!
Silver Mica capacitors in the radios I've been working on with an older friend have the same issues... they worked fine for sufficiently long that they survived years of their first owner... and now 50 years later, they just cause "thunderstorm" noises in the audio output. (If you have such an old radio, take out all the tubes, but keep the B+, then measure the voltage across all the resistors.... the ones in the path to a leaky cap will have a voltage, because of the current flow, and the rest won't.)

I'm amazed that any transistors subject to more than 50 C for a year survive.
The graphql spec does include a DSL to describe the api though, so this is similar to that specific piece. The DSL powers a lot of what people like about grapqhql, like auto-generating a client sdk with type safety. This library does seem to cover a subset of the graphql benefits that aren’t baked into REST by default.
The Tupolev 144 was famous for being an utter piece of shit, rushed for the propaganda value of being "first", put into service with half the flight testing as Concorde, and crashing multiple times with not that many flights on it's record
Off topic but all these LLM-pin/tool/device keep building around chat. Chat is a genuinely horrible interface for conveying information to users, but it provides a nice layer of polite plausible deniability when the response is total garbage.
Towards the end the author talks about how Google News doesn't do a good job of actively promoting good, well researched content. I wonder why YouTube doesn't face this same problem. I know it's very subjective, but I've managed to find a plethora of incredibly well made videos on YouTube. It used to have a much worse clickbait problem in the past but at least in the last few years I've usually been able to .

I suppose it comes down to 2 main differences.

1. It's much easier to post a good looking but badly researched piece of writing than it is to make a good video. So it's hard to tell before clicking or investing time in reading something that it's good.

2. Google knows everything about a YouTube video's metrics so can base recommendations off of much more information than it can over just the click through rate that it knows about articles on Google News. So articles with high click through rate will be recommended regardless of whether they're actually high quality which incentivizes clickbait. Meanwhile a YouTube video with high click through rate but terrible audience retention won't be recommended.
For free atoms, yes. For atoms in a crystal lattice (or other solid), it's quite common for electrons to decay through phonon interactions, i.e. by emitting vibrations (i.e. heat) to the lattice.
Google I/O is 2 weeks away. WWDC is 6 weeks away.

Both are expected to release major updates to their assistant including on-device LLM/LAM.
But most door handles do not stick out. Now, side mirrors really do stick out.

And then there are those ski racks that I see on cars driving down the freeway in June. totally streamlined.
IMHO the Unicode Consortium should standardize on using a variant selector for switching between Chinese and Japanese variants of unified Han characters. Best of both worlds: language-independent specificity while keeping the ability to have both in the same document.
I love how people compare products like this or Apple Vision Pro to the original iPhone to make the point that products with limited appeal can flourish into something incredibly useful. The comparison is bad. The iPhone promised to be three things: a phone, an iPod, and a web browser. And it performed these tasks well! It didn’t oversell what it was, and it was a revelation. I owned the first gen shortly after it came out, and I fell in love.

None of these products fit that bill. Hell, Apple Watch still doesn’t, nearly a decade later.
I guess, but there are some all-time great series with relatively weak first seasons, e.g. Halt and Catch Fire and The Leftovers.
I rented ahead of the time and they sent me information. It was welcome.
NAT is actually less restrictive for inbound connections, because it allows people to connect with just the correct port and not the correct IP+port. Instead of needing to provide the correct 80-bit number to connect, they only need the correct 16-bit number, which is small enough to brute-force.

NAT doesn't even stop machines opening ports; it's your firewall doing that. It's not NAT giving you a single point of presence, that's your router. It doesn't normally restrict outbound connections either, so what's the point? All it's doing is presenting your servers in a way that makes them easier to find.

NAT doesn't do any of the things you've claimed to need it for.
It should be called the MINECRAPIFICATION of EVERYTHING!

Who knows if Notch was the first to herald in this new paradigm of half-finished products? It's the first thing that comes to mind every time I experience, read about or witness a product, service or idea that isn't quite fully baked. I say, "Self, they are just cashing in while they iterate and extend... or not."
Eh? I’ve never heard of them until this article and my first impression of it was worse than bad.

The author seems full of hubris and the subject matter is a reformulated “tech journalism is broken” is comically late by, oh, about a decade. The author seems to be unaware that this isn’t a new thing.

Then there’s some cringeworthy stuff like unironically using the word normie before conjuring an irrelevant excuse to proudly remind everyone how easy political writing was in his corner of the society where there is only one correct candidate to support.

Author is also selling a paid subscription to an AI magazine. In one of the free articles he coins the phrase “singularism” (and used it in multiple articles) being oblivious to the fact that singularitarianism has existed for 30 years and means the same thing as his “catchphrase”. As the saying goes, “if you can’t pronounce singularitarian, you can’t be one”.
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-im-not-worried-about-a...

It’s alright folks, AGI is not a risk because the world isn’t a chessboard.

It just seems like a grift festival in there.
I tried this with GPT-4 for NYC, from my address on the upper west side of Manhattan to the Brooklyn botanical gardens. It basically got the whole thing pretty much correct. I wouldn’t use it as directions, since it sometimes got left and right turns mixed up, stuff like that, but overall amazing.
I just don't want 'em to do it. I expect companies I have a paying business relationship with to not report on my private comings and goings, especially not to bounty hunters and other shady characters. Back in the day if you did something like this, you would be run out of town on a rail, but unfortunately we've allowed mobile phone companies and a lot of others to get such a large national market share that there is no recourse.
This looks like a bilateral trade agreement between China and Russia

not really BRICS

Also agrees to conduct, has not happened yet
Utf-8 has language tags, in-band way to communicate a language
Mushrooms when exposed to ultraviolet light can then have considerable amounts of dietary Vitamin D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_mushroom#Vitamin_D

Otherwise there really isn't much in the diet that naturally or regularly contains it other than milk that has been supplemented.
People are developing hardware like "web 2.0" beta software to compete with Google and Apple, but I'm not sure it will work. Yeah, the fear of the walled-guarded world of phones is fair and we can see it.
In the case of infants, sometimes their ability to break down bilirubin is reduced. small amounts of sun exposure could be recommended

My understanding is when children are born they may get put under a uv light for this. Your grandparents knowledge may be prior to modern treatment
What use case does the rotational eye give it?
The article appears to be syndicated (at best), or lifted, from its original source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/javier-mi...
"...it used to mean ..." When did it not mean that? The mechanism of natural selection was Darwin's main contribution to explain how evolution worked, even if they didn't understand genetics at the time. Darwin's famous finch example is a great demonstration of that. Finches with shorter, stouter beaks were able to take advantage of harder berries that were available on one island that other birds couldn't as easily eat. And once there was some geographic separation, birds with that same feature tended to breed more birds with that same trait. It wasn't some wild stroke of genetic luck where bird was born with a short beak -- it simply selected an existing trait that had previously been neutral (or close to it).

Evolution happens to populations, not individuals. Selection pressure is exactly what shapes population genetics. During times of stability, genetic diversity is introduced through gene drift, but it is selective pressure that leads to population-level shifts. (Please don't nitpick -- everything is statistical a neutral change can spread through a population even without pressure, but that isn't the main vector).

The article was about frogs, so my comment is in that context. In the case of bacteria, which are asexual and which exist in much greater numbers and have much shorter generation times, the "eureka" model of evolution you seem to be thinking of is more defensible, where one lucky bacterium out of a trillion gets a mutation that gives it some significant new ability (say, like being able to metabolize plastic or something) that allows its descendants to out-compete the rest of the population and take over.
Vaping linked with higher risk of exposure to toxic metals, study finds
Reddit may have told OpenAI to pay (probably a lot of) money to legally use Reddit content for training, which is something Reddit is doing with other AI labs (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-reddit-60-million-deal-a... ); but GPTBot is not banned under the Reddit robots.txt (https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt).

This is assuming that lmsys' GPT-2 is retained GPT-4t or a new GPT-4.5/5 though; I doubt that (one obvious issue: why name it GPT-2 and not something like 'openhermes-llama-3-70b-oai-tokenizer-test' (for maximum discreetness) or even 'test language model (please ignore)' (which would work well for marketing); GPT-2 (as a name) doesn't really work well for marketing or privacy (at least compared to the other options)).

Lmsys has tested models with weird names for testing before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205935
Discussions [0] (66 points, 2 days ago, 18 comments), [1](110 points, 23 hour ago, 101 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40185903
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40194622
And yet every time claims of large scale voter fraud have been brought to courts where actual evidence is required, it has been found to be bogus. Perhaps the “proper” part should be in how politicians honor actual elections instead of lying and claiming fraud when they lose.
Are Product Engagement Metrics Indicator of Supercharged Growth?
Dammit. I was beaten to it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zm7NR4-FFw
You don't need to bind everything. The corresponding Haskell code is

manager <- fetch_manager =<< fetch_user
You can always pop it on GitHub with no license. You retain copyright, nobody can do anything with it. Would enable users to report bugs there in the Issues area, or you could make a basic GitHub Pages site, or there's a wiki or discussion forum.

If you did add a license, users could submit PRs of bug fixes or new features. If you don't have a lot of users it probably would get very little traffic and so not become burdensome. (And you can always ignore it... Not ideal, but life comes first)

If you care about privacy and want to have some fun with the license idea, you can add an Ethical Source license, so anyone who uses your code has to comply with a code of ethics. (https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/) Maybe a license that says you cannot use this if you actively work against women's reproductive health/freedoms?
Math and Science questions in general chat bots seem to struggle with.

I've asked the chat bot that Microsoft Bing uses (not sure what brand or version it is) Chemistry questions - In the format "Is the reaction between X and Y Exothermic under Z Conditions."

It will give a confident answer including things like chemical equations and citations that is blatantly wrong.
Keeping Geese Away from Runway a Challenging Job
it depends when and where. Some latitudes or times of day may have relatively safer angles of sunlight.
It's surprising how many people think that evolution always takes millions of years. It can take a single generation.

If, for example, tomorrow all governments around the world made it illegal for people taller than 1 meter to have children under penalty of death, then almost all humans would be dwarves after 100 years.

There doesn't need to be new genetic mutations for this to work, natural selection can work off existing mutations which already occurred within the existing population. What can happen is that a trait which was harmful to the host can suddenly become advantageous in terms of survival and reproduction.

And if you think about it, deformities which we consider abnormal and might even consider illnesses are in fact natural occurrences within any sufficiently large population... There is nothing to prevent that so-called deformity or illness from becoming a survival trait in the future. It's just a matter of probability.
That does not sound correct. Sun exposure is still linked to melanoma risks. Regular sun exposure does increase protection (due to melanin in skin?) but doesn't remove the risks.

Being active in the sun for long period in New Zealand or Australia for example would put you at higher risk for melanoma due to higher UV exposure
That does seem to be more reasonable than expecting people to pick up on context
Service dog removed from Ontario home because it got too fat
> Admittedly, I'm currently making contacts all over the world right now on Hacker News.

It’s the difference between crossing the ocean in an airliner vs. in a sailboat. The end results are the same, but the methods and skills are wildly different.