skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that they haven't sorted this out, it's that they intentionally broke it. S3 sleep was a solved problem all the way back in the Windows XP days.

The problem is that S3 sleep means the machine is actually sleeping, and short of timers being set ahead of time or explicit wake events by PCI devices, the machine is unable to think which means it can't do important things like download ads^W suggestions or similar. It's technically possible to do Wake-on-WLAN/WWAN but would require moving a ton of logic to the WAN card (it would need an entire network and app stack in order to maintain high-level TLS/etc connections with the various sync servers autonomously and wake the host when something new comes in) and in practice nobody bothered to do it because it's just not actually solving any problem the users care about - even when useful data is being fetched, it turns out that in practice nobody minds waiting 5 seconds for their Outlook to refresh.

Microsoft's "solution" however was to simply remove S3 sleep, so now the machine is incapable of it and is constantly in S0 (powered on state) and it's up to the OS to ensure nothing resource-hungry is running so that the CPU can actually enter its low-power states. This might be doable on an OS built from scratch (it's after all what all smartphones do successfully), but not with Windows if they want to preserve backwards compatibility with the PC we know and love, so in the end you get machines that have the risk of overheating & draining their whole battery while "sleeping"... but hey at least when it works your ads are up to date, progress I guess.
Similar fraud story with Dragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking
> battery benchmarks have always been wildly overoptimistic

Assuming that’s accurate, isn’t that just straight consumer fraud?
They're actually still separate products. They don't want to sell office 365 but it still exists.

M365 = office 365 plus windows as a service licensing. If you buy your licenses as lifetime with your laptops it is much cheaper to simply subscribe to O365. Thus Microsoft is gating more and more things behind M365 to get companies to pay for the expensive windows subscription.
> Like some intern’s idea to train the voice on their favorite movie.

Ah, the famous rogue engineer.

The thing is, even if it were the case, this intern would have been supervised by someone, who themselves would have been managed by someone, all the way to the top. The moment Altman makes a demo using it, he owns the problem. Such a public fuckup is embarrassing.

> And then they’ve decided that this is acceptable risk/reward and not a big liability, so worth it.

You mean, they were reckless and tried to wing it? Yes, that’s exactly what’s wrong with them.

> This could be a well-planned opening move of a regulation gambit. But unlikely.

LOL. ROFL, even. This was a gambit all right. They just expected her to cave and not ask questions. Altman has a common thing with Musk: he does not play 3D chess.
SpecLang
My work MBP has been neglected in a bag next to my desk for 2 weeks now. I just opened OmniFocus on my phone and it shows that my laptop last synced this afternoon.

That’s about normal for it.
Yeah but then you need to resign every update, if the distro doesn't do it for you.
No mention of Android and how to DeGoogle it? I mean, I suppose this is mostly an advertisement for ProtonMail & friends, but still...

This is, for me, the area where DeGoogling has the strongest downsides: losing access to the ability to install apps from Google Play, and not being able to run the majority of modern android apps due to the heavy reliance on Play SDK. I definitely get some funny looks when people tell me to "just install the app" and I respond with "I can't install apps."
> But where it will get murky is people sound like other people. Most voices are hardly unique. It will be interesting to see where this lands.

Yes, it will be interesting in June 1988 when we will find out "where this lands": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
I dont like sam, but he moves way smarter than ppl like sbf or Elizabeth holmes. He actual has a product close to the reported specs, albeit still far away from the ultimate goal of AGI

i dont see why he should be in jail
Are you French?
Seems like the only place where PHP is still popular is France because of Symfony.

But for the rest I agree, coming from Rails and now working in Typescript: Rails is way faster for building stuff, but building scalable apps in a team that scale without a typed language is way more complicated
Humble Bundle: Bundles of books at extraordinary prices
So? You're merely (correctly) pointing out that the acts have consequences that are of wildly differing severity. Not that one is a legal and the other is not.
It worked ok for finding apps, not so much for random files or especially content within files.
...but that's not going to happen, is it? Kinda shows how politically loaded the topic is.
Well Sam Altman tweeted "her" so that does seem to me like they're trying to claim a similarity to Scarlett Johannson.
I don't think the US govt gives a hoot for the common soldier except where their warrant would provide precedence for a senator or president to also be arrested.
They're either very stupid or complicit. Neither should surprise anyone.
Nearly every electric car on the market (and quite a few ICE cars) feature Google voice assistant whether you like it or not, with no way to disable it. Even if you could disable the voice assistant, there's no way to disable the constant collection of data the Android OS on the car's infotainment system is doing.

It's soon going to be nearly impossible to escape them getting data about everywhere you go in your car, who is in the car with you, what music you're listening to, etc.
I agree that there's a lot of benefit to sticking with a thing. I've only seriously used Perl, PHP, Erlang, and Node, over 20+ years, deliberately. For productivity.

One reason for switching and trying is a fascination with finding the next amazing thing, always hunting for something new and better. Usually it's only slightly better, or not better. But sometimes you find Elixir, Laravel, or Deno. And it's more fun and productive, plus you're ahead on the resume.
Game consoles are luxury toys. I'm not required to get a game console controlled by one of 2 companies to interact with my bank.

(personally I'd totally support regulation opening up game consoles, but they are fairly insignificant compared to mobiles)
"encapsulate the most complexity with the smallest API" seems to fit the metaphor better.
there is a large selection of food safe filaments like TPU
OpenAI should hire you as their lawyer.
They vary and are limited time offers, but if you want to improve your library at a reasonable price, keep an eye on this source. Recent examples include:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cybersecurity-pearson-boo...

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/dive-into-dev-ops-no-star...

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/golang-programming-packt-...
Sure, that’s why I end my comment with saying that it’s a strong showing.

I’m looking forward to more aarch64 support everywhere. I just wish companies were more straightforward about what’s being presented.

Though I believe that perf per watt will end up being closer to an M2 than an M3. If you take the battery size of an M2 MacBook Pro it also claims similar battery life as the Snapdragon X Plus here.
> Then again, Apple will soon restock all Macs with M4-level processors

Probably not soon. They just refreshed the macs with M3s, and put the M4s in the ipads pro, I assume due to TSMC yield issues with a bleeding edge process (yes, ipads outsell macs, but not the ipads pro, which is a low volume "halo" product).
> They don’t work out for the average founder. Of 4000 startups, less than 100 were not ridiculous failures. The rest wasted a good part of the founders’ best years

I'll admit that I've been the FAANG sellout at times, and my partner keeps that steady salary in our household, but I think this take is correct (but myopic), but negative.

Yes, most startups fail, and most startups don't make their founder any money, never mind FAANG money, and def not Bezos money. That said, while YC maybe has 100 happy endings, plenty of people find fulfillment and enough money to pay middle-class bills through "small businesses".

Not every entrepreneur should try to start a hyper growth tech company. Plenty of opportunities exist for people to start consultancies helping small businesses use Ansible, or configure their WordPress site, or whatever. Plenty of people make a living on Shopify plugins, and sales funnel optimization services, and similar. Will all of these succeed? No, all businesses will fail given enough time, and some may do so before making any money and getting any customers.

We, the tech community, need to reclaim the definition of entrepreneurship from venture-backed enterprises (I say on HackerNews...). Individuals forging their own path, providing value they generated themselves are entrepreneurs even if they never made $100M ARR.

Don't try to start "Google", try to start "Larry and Sergey's new Website", and go for the ride.
That’s a reasonable explanation. Still, they need to be a lot more transparent about what happened and confirm explicitly that those files are deleted now and that in general, files are permanently deleted. I feel like all too often, Apple just stays silent on issues and avoids any semblance of customer support, and that needs to change.
Can someone avoid all accusations of libel or defamation (not sure what the difference is) by just posting a generic disclaimer on every post they make that this is their opinion, and includes speculation, and stuff like that?
this is what i ended up doing
That's why battery claims are always UP TO not AT LEAST.
Scott Tinker: A Conversation about Global Energy [video]
fuck off bot
Laravel with Livewire Volt is fire. This is like how Python used to be during Java days and when pg wrote the famous essay.
Ask HN: Which LLMs can run locally on most consumer computers
Are there any? I was thinking about LLM based agents and games and this will probably only be viable when most devices can handle LLMs running locally.
And perhaps not consistently candid either.
It's not that simple. Charge backs are a game of hot potato originating at the card issuing bank and making its way back to the merchant.

If Stripe instantly pays out funds to a merchant and there is a charge back, they have to claw that money back. This is normally done by drafting the funds from the deposit account, but if that is empty Stripe (or whatever processor) eats it and it becomes a collections issue.

Processors normally handle this by holding funds on suspicious transactions for 180 days (the max chargeback window). What is suspicious? For most processors it is literally whatever adds up to a [fraud rate]% of your volume over a 180 day window. Stripe doesn't do this because they are "the friendly processor" so they just take a bigger slice and cover losses out of that.

source: I spend a non-trivial amount of time monitoring threat actors and figuring out exactly how they are doing bad stuff, which means understanding the risk/abuse side of the house
I think the correct link is: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=96536
The source code is also included
But the browser wants all your RAM.
Sorry to hear about your situation. I don’t know that pain but I know it is painful for people I know that want kids but can’t have them for various reasons. In your case, since it is an economic decision, I do wonder if there are ways to get around it. Could one of you leave your job to take care of kids full time? For many people the net income from working (after taxes after child care etc) is not worth being away from their kids, and often it is even a strictly better financial decision to stay home when you do the math.

But if you both are earning enough in your jobs where that would not be the case, I wonder if you’re actually earning enough but overestimating the costs of taking care of a kid? Remember they have ways of getting aid for college and they can also work to put themselves through college - or take cheaper routes like community college before regular college (assuming you’re in the US). I don’t know your whole situation of course, so apologies if this is naive or offensive.
Can't wait for all the confusion in LET/LED pronunciation.
Well theres a couple ways to come at this first theres the idea that as you put it N fewer incidents of cops murdering people is proportionate to some decrease in crime deterrence. Then theres my preferred perspective which is that the strength and legitimacy of the rule of law tends to be a greater force in benefitting society than any % increase or decrease of the other factors. I think weve done a great job creating the framework for a generally equitable and reasonable justice system (especially considering that its not set in stone and we can adjust it to be more effective as we see fit) and just have done a less than great job at implementing it.

To answer your question I dont think theres a clear winner but as I generally believe in the forward march of civilization I do think we can simultaneously disarm cops and reduce crime while also making the judicial system more focused on rehab and less on punishment. I'm bullish on empathy, freedom and peace!

What do you think?
I mean in KDE. Using Dolphin.
the whole technology is based on fucking over artists, who didn't expect this exact thing?
Related:

The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38301710
Replicate this world 1:1
Replicate this world 1:1, like entering the real world can go to any place in this world, realize business, socialization, shopping, travel. How hard is it to make such a product? Welcome to exchange
And if you don't have a cursory understanding of NFAs and DFAs, they're still great for getting that cursory understanding.

These articles were my introduction to finite automata (and almost the only place I've learned about them aside from practical use) and my intuition for them seem to often be better than my peers'.
Just import IKEA countertop hobs: 1900W, just change the plug to a 15A 240V NEMA.
Or mount some European-style outlets and leave the plugs. Parts of Germany are even on split-phase.
Blue Origin doesn't have to, and had much more investment. Virgin, too.

It's not just SpaceX outperforming NASA, it's SpaceX outperforming everyone.
I tried Empire Earth (from 2001) and was impressed by its depth vs AoE. I've been thinking about installing it on Windows 11. But this is somewhat beside the point, I'm sure both would run on Wine. I guess AoE II was published by Microsoft, but it was made by Ensemble Studios before MS bought them. And Office can do one.
Related:

Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160331
> Do you think when you speak colloquially with a friend or a colleague, you are engaging in a deep reasoning exercise?

When I speak colloquially, I have an underlying idea rooted in a world model to be expressed. I don't spit out 1 word at a time based on the previous words I already said.
Altman doesn’t want to be part of regulation. sama wants to be the next tk. he wants to be above regulation, and he wants to spend Microsoft’s money getting there.

E.g. flying Congress to Lake Cuomo for an off-the-record “discussion” https://freebeacon.com/politics/how-the-aspen-institute-help...
Idk, iPhone 15 is faster, more private, and has better software. It’ll also last much longer, speaking from experience.
This has been studied under the name algebraic data types.
Has Sam already tweeted how sorry he is? All things considered, this might actually give people perspective on how weird OpenAI has been when it comes to respecting other people’s property.

The top comment in this thread is crazy too, they probably contacted her two days prior to launch on the off chance that they could use her as a marketing puppet.

Lost for words on this one.
Genuine question. In what way free? Stripe still takes their fees? Or is there a way to avoid fees when sending an invoice to a client?
> I'm really wondering: how can people switch frameworks / languages for each project so easily?

My trick is to use Anki to remember the important details occasionally, and before starting a project in any particular language or framework to heavily review that language or framework in Anki beforehand.

After doing it a dozen times in each direction it gets easier - the advantage of being old is that one has much experience.
Well to be fair it's a setting you can choose in the OneDrive app. You don't have to do this.
> [...] thanks to Meta’s outright abusive approach to social media where the customer is not only wrong, but should ideally have little control over what they see.

It's trite at this point, and yet worth reiterating: You are not the customer.
The IDF counts every grown man that they kill as a "Hamas operative"
Thanks. Yeah, I don't think Weird Al would lie about something like that.
Let’s just skip that most used operating systems are corporation owned.

Corporations were fighting long and hard to make their dev tools win and not allowing competition to make advances. Office on macOS was win by Microsoft because Apple needed it more. Apple iTunes on windows ugh that was terrible.

Browsers now are accepted middle ground - well Apple is not really happy about it - but SaaS, cloud and browsers made OS less of a problem. If OS would be still relevant MS would not become so “open” with new .Net and else.

Let’s also think how capital intensive is writing a maintaining operating system or a browser. Let’s skip over all the patents and IP rights, like if you won’t make your own language you are owned by some corporation.

If there would be no churn in tech we would be all nowadays drones owned by IBM having crappy devices they never ever iterate on because they like steady stream of income not new things.

Microsoft happened because Bill wanted to make his own compiler it would not happen if he would accept status quo. The same with Apple - Woz and Steve wanted to make new computer and it was not compatible with whatever IBM had because they would sue and take them over.

Node.js, electron and JS ecosystem also started because some people were expressing their freedom which is more important than having “single programming language for everything”. (Yes Linus with Linux as well just to throw him in).
Either PocketBook or FBReader for Android used pie menus in at least some versions.

I'd used it on an old Android 5 device where the pie menus were present for some functions. They don't appear on my e-ink Android 10 device. Not sure if that's the device / Android version or an app update.

<https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch/app>

<https://fbreader.org/android>

(Not positive which it was, though I think it was PocketBook. Device is not presently accessible.)

As for the pie menus: they were useful in some cases, but aren't a universal panacea for all touch UI problems.
The headline says

Bento3D is a web tool that allows
you to create 3D printable dividers
and toolboxes with millimeter precision.

Is the "millimeter" precision noteworthy? This is kind of a CAD program, right? Why would it have trouble with any precision? Isn't it just juggling numbers?
Sam messed with the wrong girl. In the end his firing was the correct thing to do. The "bad guys" of the company were doing the correct thing and like Jesus, we crucifix them.
On mice, that's usually available via the scroll wheel.

(Something ... notably missing from Apple's desktop mice.)
I've always wondered this. For example I can't imagine how they ever achieved their quoted battery benchmarks with system processes running in the background, like indexing. These regularly consumed >50% CPU resources on my older Surface pro even on battery and were not easy to disable (I never did because doing so would cause other problems). But I can't see how you would achieve the quoted battery life without doing so...

If they do disable these things in their test, then that's super dishonest.
Does insider trading apply to real estate in the same way that it does to securities?

It doesn't seem so different to any mixed-use project where a developer might construct a tower that is partly residential, partly commercial. Pretty sure a lot of large companies purchase residential around any major new HQ they intend to open, too.
The author asks

> I wonder sometimes why more people don’t use Laravel (or similar frameworks in other languages: Rails or Adonis)

these frameworks, and other similar ones, often assume that

1. there is some sort of UI or frontend

2. there is a relational database that the app is connecting to

3. there is some sort of auth, based on usernames and passwords

with the stuff I do at work, these assumptions are almost always incorrect.

(edited grammar)
The fact that a champion does rather than holds back or tries to execute complex plans, is the point. They don't overthink - they just go in and give it 100%.
An actress that specifically played the voice of AI in a movie about AI no less.
There are food safe materials, although you want to post process some to remove porousness that can harbour bacteria.
JBang is a piece of jewel in the Java ecosystem about which far more people should know.
All the dumbphones I’ve owned last 3 days with moderate use and 5 days with light use.
I have exactly the same feeling as I think you do. When you reach the levels of success he has, there will always be people screaming that you are incompetent, evil and every other negative adjective under the sun. But he genuinely seemed to care about doing the right thing. But this is just so lacking of basic morals that I have to conclude that I was wrong, at least to an extent.
I’ve had to explain myself a few times on this, so clearly I communicated badly.

I probably should have said _those_ Effective Altruists are shitty utilitarians. I was attempting—and since I’ve had to clarify a few times clearly failed—to take aim at the effective altruists that would make the utilitarian trade off that the commenter mentioned.

In fact, there’s a paragraph from the Toby Ord blog post that I wholeheartedly endorse and I think rebuts the exact claim that was put forward that I was responding to.

> Don’t act without integrity. When something immensely important is at stake and others are dragging their feet, people feel licensed to do whatever it takes to succeed. We must never give in to such temptation. A single person acting without integrity could stain the whole cause and damage everything we hope to achieve.

So, my words were too broad. I don’t actually mean all effective altruists are shitty utilitarians. But the ones that would make the arguments I was responding to are.

I think Ord is a really smart guy, and has worked hard to put some awesome ideas out into the world. I think many others (and again, certainly not all) have interpreted and run with it as a framework for shitty utilitarianism.