skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
those were the days..

I feel Snow Leopard was peak OS X. Clean, lean, no bullshit. It seemed magical how well everything worked.

To be fair though, current versions are probably 'better' overall, I'm just annoyed with all the new stuff and crappy apps haha
I don't share your experience.

It's usually about surfaces and smells, not home vs away.

The misbehaving dogs that the GP mentions are probably not terribly well-behaved around home either.
"The guitars are all defects. They're manufacturing defects. You know, we want to blow up guitars but we don't actually want to keep musical instruments out of the world." https://youtu.be/2dFdNUz2cQc?t=73

OK Go identified the potential issue beforehand and found a solution that would work for them.
You may want to check how you normalize or distinguish the logical representations. On the propositional logic quiz I'm presented with choices like these:

(R ^ L) v N <- incorrect
((R ^ L) v N) <- correct

((S -> G) v H) <- correct
(S -> G) v H <- incorrect

These pairs are the same, the extra parentheses don't change the meaning of the statements but only the ones with the extra parentheses are marked as correct.
Show HN: A WireGuard Powered Remote Shell
Time to announce Noisy Sockets Shell, the first in a series of WireGuard powered applications I'm working on. Noisy Sockets Shell is an SSH replacement that uses WireGuard for authentication and encryption, and WebSockets for communication.

CLI and browser client available.
How did you decide to divide the work between the wasm and webgl?
I always understood the whole point of political correctness was to not spew hateful words about anyone and that should be the standard.

Criticism is one thing, but the poster felt the need to "educate" all of us about how an entire country's opinion is invalid because "it's not an utopia". Nobody brought that up, and disregarding an entire culture's opinion of an advertisement campaign because weebs have unrealistic expectations, in a discussion with a valid and informative point about said culture, is tastelessly petty. And why belittle liberal arts majors anyway?
Replace "AI" with "post-industrial capitalism" and suddenly all this fear mongering seems insignificant.
There's many of these then!

I think I found the one I was thinking of:

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/182412/why-do-roots-of-po...

See answer by Will Jagy
Is there anyone who thinks it's actually a better system than European-style tipping (i.e. an entirely optional way to thank people for particularly good service) rather than just a necessity considering the system is what it is?

As a Brit I do always tip when visiting the US, because I understand the implications of not doing so, but I've never understood why people on both sides of the equation (tippers and tippees) aren't lobbying politicians to change it such that menu items are priced the amount you'll actually have to pay - and yes, I feel the same way about VAT not being included in the labelled price, but that's been discussed in a different set of comments higher up the thread - and so that workers are paid enough to live on without getting any tips. And then they can choose whether or not to be extra friendly or to go above and beyond their responsibilities in the hope that people will feel they deserve a tip as an extra bonus on top.

I can't remember ever hearing anyone in favour of USA-style tipping for any reason other than it being the system they're used to, so would be interested if anyone does have a different argument for it.
It's not about the actual instruments that probably weren't actually destroyed to make the ad. No one is mad about that. The visual of instruments being pointlessly destroyed can be viscerally upsetting. Just because you have no emotional attachment to such objects doesn't mean other people do not.
Under 4 min milers longevity shows that extreme exercise doesn't curb lifespan
It seems odd to complain about one old upright piano being crushed for the video when thousands upon thousands of them are out on the streets, living under bridges, because no one wants to move the piano anymore, or wanted the convenience of an electronic keyboard.

I implore you all: adopt a piano today! You may find yourself saying "I didn't rescue it, it rescued me."
EA CEO: "Real hunger" among developers to use AI to speed up development
Yes, this could have been done with CGI, but that seems unlikely. As others mentioned, doing this level of CGI destruction is super expensive, and destroying stuff is pretty cheap.

But there's also the bigger factor that, if Apple didn't destroy a bunch of stuff, why haven't they said so? It seems to me that if this ad was entirely CGI, Apple would admit that to minimize the backlash.

Therefore, unless Apple says something (or someone does some very convincing analysis), I'm inclined to believe this ad was done primarily with practical effects. That's just where the evidence is pointing right now.
Well I hope they're better than the Russian attack helicopters. They lasted ... I want to say about 3 weeks.

What's the plan, btw, if the west does not have air superiority due to Russians, or Iranians, having drones, and the west running out of smart rockets before they run out of drones, and the denial of communications works about as well for the West as it worked for Russia? (meaning, drone communications can be disrupted at 5 meters, which means the drone explodes 10 cm from your ass as opposed to directly in your face)
> They are conceptually related concepts, but the language puts syntactic distance between the two, and I don't think it should.

Haskell's type classes are a bit like Rust's traits. Type classes are open by default, but optionally can be closed off.
Also for normal cars you're supposed to turn off the alarm when parked on a ferry. Most alarm systems don't like the moving / tilting part.
There's nothing anti-establishment on the commercial. They need some minimal amount of punk if they want a "punk rock" aesthetic.

All that is there is a megacorp stealing a previously popular (comical) format, to show people's culture being (quite forcefully) transformed into establishment. The commercial is repulsively anti-punk.
One of my good friends is South Korean. When he worked for Samsung in Seoul as an engineer over a decade ago, he was forced to live in Samsung dormitories which were overseen by their managers. Apparently, it was a shock even for him to realize that he had to ask his manager just to go out on a date. If I remember correctly, he even had to give details of his female date to his manager. (It may or may not be official policy, but what are you going to do when they ask and you need permission to leave?)

Knowing what life was like here since he went to undergrad here, it was an easy choice for him to come back to the US.
It can surely grow if no issues occur. One of the worst things to do would be to drop some ridiculous sum on a project and expect it all to be used properly.
Safety Shot Doesn't Work – and Tastes "Nasty"
You'd do well here to not start attacking someone for how they want to live their life. Nothing about cooking means they have to stay inside while traveling. This is a fully valid way to do things. You can get access to new ingredients in new places.
At some point the companies just want to milk their customers. Nokia did it, but where is Nokia now?
Which means that they have a relatively easy lever they can pull to significantly lower emissions even further.
This again? Terribly misleading. It includes data centres and cryptocurrencies:

> Included for the first time were projections for electricity consumption associated with data centers, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence.

Also no mention of any energy usage that might be displaced by AI. Pretty sure firing off a bunch of LLM API calls is less energy intensive than hiring workers who will drive to the office, etc.

I also think that there’s a vast number of things that qualify as “using as much energy as a small country”. What’s the energy usage of the Vatican?
I'm trying to put a pin in exactly why this is offensive. Yes, you do lose fidelity in digitizing an analog signal, but I don't think that's exactly the problem.

I think it's related to the fact that an ipad isn't just a tool. It's a branded consumer product that has a (relatively) short lifespan. When Apple Corp decides that the device will no longer be supported, it will crease it function. So buying a tablet isn't buying all those art supplies and instruments crammed into one device. You're buying a window into the Appleverse. And yeah I do think that's dystopian.
>Aside from that, isn’t this just an appeal to tradition?

No. It's an appeal to something that is eternally true.
It’s the first G4 watch, but not the first G4 event. In other words, the prior G4 event was not predicted. It can happen that an event is more significant when it arrives than what was predicted, which is what happened here.
"Every dog I’ve ever know was very good about knowing not to relieve itself in its own building, but considered every other building fair play"

That's absolutely wild. Every dog I've known, except for a few with issues, seems to know not to relieve themselves in any building if they know not to relieve themselves in their own building. No specialized training, just regular house training.
The vast majority of games need to run on consoles to be financially viable, anything that requires an entire second GPU is a complete non-starter. The only way it's going to work is if the models get small enough to run on a negligible slice of GPU or CPU time, with a reasonable memory footprint (<1GB), on whatever the current console hardware happens to be.
All the pre-interview questions and filtering has so little value. It is just a test to filter to see if people will put in a little bit extra effort for almost no reason. It's an extra step that makes it more difficult for someone to at least make it to an interview.

I've focused on removing that part of the process for the engineers I work with and help people make it to an actual interview. If you have the skills you should have a fair shot and not get drowned out by the hundreds of other applicants.

If anyone is looking for a startup opportunity, I have a platform that removes that whole problem and gets you to an interview directly.

Here is our server.
https://discord.gg/WKj3uz6sZZ
I’d argue that if someone is not capable of making a rational decision (aka are driven entirely by emotional reactions), and/or impulsive (aka not able to control their emotional impulses), they’re essentially not able to freely make decisions in fact.

They’re being driven by things they have no choice in, and no way to meaningfully actually control.

When that is happening, they don’t actually have free will.

And this is where my original statement around ‘90% of the time free will is a necessary lie we tell ourselves’.

It’s why emotional manipulation (including advertising and propaganda) is so remarkably effective, and why it is so remarkably prevalent. It works - very well - 90% of the time.

And the reason this matters (philosophically), is because someone isn’t actually consenting (in the medical ethical sense [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent]) if they never had an option to actually make a choice - aka if they have no free will.

In the criminal justice system, that also comes into play with plea bargains, mens rea, sentencing, etc.

It also comes into play with sexual relations. And business. And things like gambling (which we generally excuse by saying ‘they are adults and can make their own decisions’ which presumes actual free will). Depending on who you ask, it comes into play with recreational drugs -or should never apply to recreational drugs.

If people don’t have free will, then all those excuses, rationalizations, justifications, freedom, etc. make no sense.

What actually makes sense in a no-actual-free-will scenario is a state-machine-like series of conditioning/programming responses to produce an expected society and/or individual. At least from a utilitarian perspective.

Which from a philosophical perspective is severely dystopian, if explicitly stated that way, as there is no freedom or actual choice - only fate.

But may legitimately produce more aggregate human happiness. Or more aggregate absolute human misery.

Depending on the goal of the state machine and the actual rules and application in practice.
Why is this better than Midnight Commander or GNU Interactive Tools?
Everything is art. You can't do something that isn't.
Some ads clearly are art. Speaking of Apple, their 1984 ad was very much a work of art. Things can have more than one meaning and purpose.
all of them are UTC I believe, Prof. Mat answer to a question about the tz on the post replies
Thank You! these are hilarious. I love the helpful tipping math giving options for 18, 20, and 25% tipping. A hard sell is illegal in the as far as I know.
I think it's trying to communicate.
>Why do you need a precedent to pass a law that [...]

When did I say that? I only claimed that having additional fees that are disclosed in fine print doesn't meet the legal definition of fraud, and that some rando calling it "fraud" doesn't make it so. That says nothing about whether I support California's SB 478, and in fact if you check my other comments I actually support it.
Thanks for the ideas, and yes it was a compliment :-)
I would note you absolutely have agency when you sleep - in fact a lot of the purpose of dreams is to simulate situations for you to practice in safely - that’s why you’re often replaying situations you’re worried about or things you commonly experience. Also lucid dreaming is still fully immersed dreaming but you have total agency and awareness. The key to lucid dreaming is just training yourself to not give up aware of the non dream reality control while dreaming.
it's a typo, Mar 2024 was a G3, not G4. ref https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39796973 and link in comments there.

[edit] i stand corrected, there was a G4 in march. sibling comment is correct. ref https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/severe-g4-geomagnetic-storms-...
It takes ages to show up when you’re hovering on something.
Other analog media like minidisc has also seen a notable uptick in popularity, albeit not nearly as much as vinyl.

Also while not analog, iPods modded to be a bit more modern (replacing their mechanical HDs with higher capacity flash and adding haptics and Bluetooth among other things) have also been popular lately.

Offline music is definitely seeing a resurgence.
Yeah there was revelling in the visual and nuance of their destruction. Could have done the whole thing CG where the objects squished together satisfyingly like they were made of clay rather than cracking and shattering. Honestly was easier/cheaper to do also.
Or contamination vector for food service areas.
[disclosure: I work at Jam]

I generally agree with you. I think there's a few important things to note:

- Since Jam is a browser extension, its functionality only applies to the user that installed it (i.e., only you, not everyone that visits website X)
- All captured data stays locally in your browser until _you choose_ to submit a bug and its details*
- You can choose which sites the extension is enabled on if you want to further limit the scope of functionality
- We have some user preferences to enable/disable certain functionality of Jam already, and I'm confident we'll add more over time!

* to be fully transparent: we _do_ collect application telemetry so we can identify bugs and performance issues, but we take great care in reporting information that is centered around what our application is doing, not what it is capturing.
There's a missing comma, OP is telling us to buy stocks in companies that are in the business of industrial technology
Same here. I feel like it’s anti waste if anything.
The full quote was not related to visual distraction (3 lines of config remove it all in Emacs) but rather:

> I used Emacs a lot so my Ctrl key is remapped to CapsLock. I think such Control key position is way better and ergonomic, so consider do the same.
I used these tools in the past:

https://mxtoolbox.com/

https://www.mail-tester.com/
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307084
Is the author really only 16? Wow!
World told to brace for 'severe geomagnetic storm' today
In IB/PE we have exit opps like VC or PM, and there is a reckoning in IB/PE leadership that the old school 60-100 hour analyst work culture is toxic.

In Korean companies, the work culture is still stuck in the 90s era IB mentality, as a lot of management are much older and started their careers when chauvanism, racism, functional alcoholism, power politics, overwork, etc was still the norm.

Tbf, SK was still a developing country until 10-15ish years ago.
Trying to build on persistent HTTP connections that don't close is a recipe for frustration when scaling horizontally, which is something you plan to do, since the reason why not to go with Postgres is so you can have more than one instance, right?

You can't juggle the connection between different servers. If a server drops out (because it's being scaled in), then you lose the connection, and you have to establish a new one, which introduces a hiccup/latency. No free lunches.
I boycott tipping restaurants on ethical grounds. Voluntarily exploiting a broken system for your personal benefit makes you an asshole.

This isn’t the days of slavery where buying food required you to support an unethical system, you can go to a non tipping fast food joint, cook your own food, etc.
> I have entire local hobby projects I’ve never git pushed anywhere because my local copy is authoritative.

Isn't this backward? Your local copy is authoritative because you've never pushed anywhere (-:

I know it's probably overkill and you should just use git (or just use folder backups or something if it really is just local) but you could in theory run the grace server locally too, I imagine.
Another person on social media noted that no Apple ad has ever depicted older generation iPads or MacBook Pros being crushed by a hydraulic press to signify them being made thinner - I suspect Apple wouldn't even greenlight that ad pitch.
Allow me to be the first of the two to announce themselves.

I agree, though. Although I only learned of the product because of the outrage over the ad, it certainly hasn't moved me toward wanting to purchase one. And I'll actually be in the market for a tablet in a few months.
Bets on how some executive saw their kid really into the hydraulic press channels and said, "We gotta get in on this! Here's piles of money."
You can make the same argument for any other geopolitical reason, eg. "American imperialism" or whatever
i can't click the create account button because my screen resolution is small: https://i.imgur.com/EATViKH.png
Who buys the products?
Yeah, I had the same thought - clearly dogs understand the concept of inside/outside which is interesting on its own (I've read that they "din" animals which means it is somewhat instinctual). The only dogs I've ever had were found street dogs and I also never had to housebreak them.
What is the implication here, ban anything that uses more energy than a small country? No more eating, driving, traveling, or building for humanity.
The creative tools just had to be sucked in like a wormhole. It's just surprising it got this far without someone intervening. Shows that someone high up couldn't be backed down.
Mathematics and Its History (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4419-6053-5) is a really fun book for someone who already knows some university-level math and is just curious.

You may also enjoy Proofs from THE BOOK (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-57265-8).
> Grace doesn't change anything about that for you. You still write code locally, and `grace watch` will sync you up when you reconnect.

Can you still branch and commit locally, and that will also sync?
IIRC Apple has had a history of using NetBSD for server/infra systems, especially those demanding high network throughput and stability. Examples:

• their ObjC WebObjects-based web backends (such as the iTunes Music Store backend — which might still be ObjC-based to this day? Anyone know?) ran on NetBSD servers

• the firmware in Airport routers was NetBSD

I wouldn't be surprised if there’s an Apple Silicon build of NetBSD, created for internal use at Apple. (Though I also wouldn't be surprised, if they've tried to "converge efforts" since then, and have somehow stuck a Darwin userland on top of a NetBSD kernel.)

I would be genuinely surprised, though, if the infra folk at Apple trust the XNU kernel's network stack enough at this point to want to use plain XNU/Darwin for their servers!

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As an aside, I've always been fascinated by Apple's approach to backend/server technologies, compared to other bigcorps. Despite not being a "UNIX shop" per se, Apple seems to have acquired some engineers somewhere along the way who have a deep understanding of the "UNIX way" to build stuff, and who carry what might even be called "legacy ideas" about system architecture.

You can get a peek into this approach, by prying into the insides of the old Server.app. Sort of like how XCode.app has a BSD buildroot inside it, with the base OS shipping with stub binaries that call inside it when it's available; Server.app does the same, but with an extended BSD userland containing regular old BSD daemons.

Besides being a wrapper for this BSD-userland payload, Server.app itself was just a configuration wizard and state-converger for a set of plain-old config files, living in a virtual /etc dir (regenerated from canonial plist files), that enabled and drove these venerable daemons to do their thing. The "Websites" feature was just Apache, and the "Wiki", "Calendar/Contacts", etc features were just symlink-managed PHP-FCGI plugins for that Apache instance. The DNS was just BIND. The VPN feature was mostly racoond[1]. It's exactly what you'd expect from e.g. cPanel on Linux, with no sense of anything "Apple-y" going on.

[1] https://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/ipsec/rasvpn.html

This UNIX-y approach also seemingly extends to Apple's use of networking protocols. Even while Apple was giving users a proprietary SMB-alike protocol (AFP) to use for local-network file sharing, their internal approach was different: macOS, to this day, ships with a pre-configured "auto-home" mobile user profile feature, that expects to talk not to an AFP server, or even an SMB server, but rather to an NFS(!!) server. (You could even set this up for yourself, in the Server.app days, given sufficient understanding of Apple's OpenDirectory + how it integrates with BSD Kerberos.)
Resolution is only one aspect of EM that can be optimized.
Landingpage tip: Show your real product at least once, in a screenshot, in a video. Currently all images, videos are stylized which makes me think you are hidding something or at least I do not know what I will get.
Barring significant progress in robotics we'll still need humans to maintain the thing.
I came here to say the same. I will also be on a transatlantic flight on the 12th. Is there anything to be worried about with airplane electronics systems in flight, or is it more potentially on the side of "there might be flight delays"?