skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The graph is misleading because they group PC and consoles together against mobile. That implies mobile would slaughter both of those segments individually.

It's also missing some very important markets like Japan and South Korea, presumably included in "48 markets multi-market average" but not explicitly shown individually. Makes one wonder, eh? :V
That's fine. Obviously words can mean anything and naturally one would ensure that they are aware of what they are intended to mean in a given context before going any further if there is any lack of clarity. As there was no earlier questioning of what they might mean, there clearly was no issue with clarity. To backtrack now is strange and hilarious.

But I posit that the "definition" is consistent with the literature. Scripts carry out a defined set of tasks and if something goes wrong they can simply fail, wait for the problem to be resolved, and then try again. Systems don't have the same luxury. They have to find alternative solutions when fault occurs. "An error occurred. Try again later." is not acceptable for systems, but is acceptable and perfectly valid for a large class of computing problems.

Again, "try/catch" is great for scripts as most of the time you just want the error to "bubble up to the top" to notify the user, or whatever, anyway. Such a thing would be unthinkable in systems, though. When you actually have to deal with errors at every turn, "try/catch" is a slog, and I would argue a poor mental model to boot (what's special about errors that deserves something different?).

It turns out that software development is an engineering endeavour, not a religious one. Different tools for different jobs.
Thanks, I have read that before and skimmed through it again just now. It's a good article. Was there a specific point from it you wanted to highlight?
Win+V is the one I use the most: it brings up the clipboard history.
What do you mean by infinite variations here?
Or IoT data, which is notoriously hard to make money on.
I just want to thank you for your contribution to this thread. I've long thought email should go in a direction similar to what you're describing, and I appreciate the specificity you've provided.

I wish I could say I'm surprised by the animosity (and relative lack of substance) in some of the comments you've received, but I guess that's a problem with social media and/or humanity that's unlikely to have a technical solution.
please, eli5 <3
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/choose-an-app-to-op...

Look at the “Permanently change the app used to open all files of a particular type” section.

Or just never open them if it fits your workflow - use Quick Look: select the file, press space, play.
It's insufferable
I don't even know if I would agree to such use of my voice. It's interesting to think about this.
And while you are at it, move Israel to a coastal area of Washington state and Oregon.
She is also the one who made that one famous post about armorplating her cat feeder

https://blondihacks.com/furiosas-cat-feeder/
Can you put linux on it today?
> Authorities in Bangkok reported a British citizen (73) on board died as result of a heart attack

FYI. Headline made me think they were killed by the impact but they seemingly weren’t. I’m not sure how often this happens without a coincidental (ish) heart attack?
According to a study reported by the BBC, it should be getting worse thanks to climate change: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65844901
Border guards usually just deny entry and turn them away without blasting out their kneecaps.

The real question is: why is there a militarized border fence and who is paying for it?
The claim is that spikes kill faster, but probably not fast enough to matter since spikes are destroyed with shear cleaning.
Did you read what OP wrote? It's not mostly about wearing your seatbelt when seated but mostly about never ever ever leaving your seat. That's the constant fear part.
> The only thing that makes Lisp unique in this context is that it also makes arithmetic operations prefix

I think that most problematic for prefix notation are not arithmetic operations, but field accessors.

In C you have a->b->c->d, in Lisp it would be (d (c (b a))), which makes you to jump to the center and read it from the inside-out.
You should then be able to show that objective reality exists without recourse to subjective experience.

I’m all ears :-)
It's like people typing "K" instead of "OK". It's disrespectful to the reader, suggesting that the reader is not important enough to warrant typing an extra letter.

One would expect Altman to know how to use the SHIFT key when running a massive business, but, hey - once you achieve escape velocity from society, you don't have to live by its norms or grammar rules.

I can assure you that it would cost most people people here a promotion or a raise if they did this at work.
Licenses allowing derivative works without attribution preceded LLMs.
I think one way to phrase this in a way that reflects how the market works is that sellers often very much under-value the worth of the brand itself, and buyers know this. If you can buy a brand for X and exploit the customers who trust that brand for 2*X, then it's worth it even if it destroys the brand that was truly worth 10*X in the process. The trouble comes when X is large enough to buy (almost) literally anyone out -- "F-You Money" -- and the seller don't care what the true value of the brand is because it's yacht time, baby. And the employees & customers get screwed.

If this is a problem we want to solve, the answer IMO is stuff like employee-ownership & unions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40427620 brings an excellent counterpoint to your post - why won't Taiwan itself drop the unrealistic claims on all of China?
Don’t practice obscure arbitrary brain teasers? No job for you. Too good at the brain teasers? No job for you.
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While on the subject of gifs, I'd like to recommend ScreenToGif. As the name suggests it supports screen recording, but the editor is nice for other gifs as well. It's easy to remove duplicate frames, change timing for all or some frames, etc. It can use ffmpeg and gifski for the gif encoding.

https://www.screentogif.com/

Also, I just learnt this, gifski has integrated gifsicle for lossy gif compression.
Is there such a thing as a 'stable' browser that will never have these flaws. (I'm afraid to use the word Stable since Debian-family corrupted the meaning)

I really don't need push notifications going to my desktop. HTML, CSS... ughhhh javascript...

So if covering javascript is too hard, maybe a HTML/CSS browser, and anytime you need javascript, you open a chrome session.
GrapheneOS is fantastic for de-googling. I switched years ago and have been happier ever since
Word spreads fast on good games due to Reddit and Twitch. Look at the success of Balatro and how much marketing that had.

The number of games you listed just highlights how little Steam filters.
Wash wood or eat microplastics from the cutting board.
Making an excellent game isn't even enough these days, that's just table stakes. With so many games out there it's a market of lemons. You need to have a way of rising above the noise. For AAA, it's having budgets to make games on a bigger scale than everyone else. For mobile games, it's generally about leveraging a large war chest to fuel an advertising-driven margin game. For prestige/indie games you need something that people will want to talk/write about, or build a dedicated fanbase over time. For tiny games like flappy bird / wordle you need massive built-in virality and lots of luck.
I believe you, I can see how it would make sense that AWS would create a tier to exploit the spare capacity in S3 disk bandwidth, just like they did for EC2 spare VM capacity with spot instances. Still it doesn't make intuitive sense to me how the performance AND the price can be so far. That's why I'd love a longer write-up if you know of any.

It's also weird that the retrieval gives you a regular fast S3 object you can then access. Given that it's already on that hardware, is a copy even happening?
> We have the parts drawings in our collection, and we can supply copies, but we cannot confer the right to manufacture reproduction parts for sale – you would need to contact the Ford Motor Company for that

Curious what legal mechanism they are trying to use here, and on how solid legal ground they are... somehow I imagine it could make interesting legal case if they sued someone making new parts.
No, it's the last thing I would care about self-hosting. I don't see any benefit over configuring some DNS service with terraform.
And buy more hardware, just to be safe…
Huge battery shocks if the handle is removed. Then send the thieves to Australia.
> unless the automated (turbulence?) avoidance system engaged

There is no such thing. Civilian airliners don't have any automatic avoidance systems - they can only notify the pilots when there's a windshear (drastic wind change), another plane very close by, terrain close by, etc. But it's only (very strong) warnings, and it's impossible to detect/predict turbulence.
> Move fast and steal peoples' likenesses.
build a wall around it
In practice, it's apparently often better to avoid these techniques and just use SIMD operations to search. You look at every byte, so it's O(n) but the overhead of more complicated approaches isn't worth it. See this comment from burntsushi: https://lobste.rs/s/ycydmd/why_gnu_grep_is_fast_2010#c_gpim7....
I remember seeing choplifter in action at a nearby computer store. The salesman showed us the game while demoing an Apple ][ then boasted over the fact that he could also just switch the TV serving as a monitor over to a broadcast channel to watch soap operas.
Let's be real here: no one thinks that Taiwan is in any capacity to invade and take China.

The BBC had an interview with Tsai Ing Wen that I think that offers a really good perspective on how Taiwan sees itself on the world stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9d_S_K5X_k
What kind of cursed date is 32/1/2017?

If you're starting with that kind of data-quality, what confidence can you have in the rest of it, even if the rest "appears" more normal?

To expand my thoughts further:

Data quality is like water-quality. If you find something bad in your water source, you're not going to think that you'll be okay just picking it out and carrying on with the rest. You need to have a proper process to treat it and more importantly, need to investigate the upstream source of the bad data.
Unlike the current Autocratic regimes, like Putin's Russia, or Xi's China, the "Western Worlds" - whatever that means - don't hide or rewrite their History.

You haven't seen any "Western" leader try to justify Hitler's invasion of Poland, and the start of WW2, by blaming Poland and apologizing for Hitler, like Putin did... conveniently so, perhaps because of the role the USSR played in it? Which Russia likes to omit, you know, their alliance with Nazi Germany.. WW2 started in 1939, not in 1941 as Russia claims. Or maybe because Russia is now using the same false casus beli the Nazis used to invade Poland, so Putin needs to legitimize Hitler's claims and grievances?

Or perhaps China attempts to hide its own atrocities?

So that whole "imperialist thinking" propaganda logic seems very flawed, and more like an excuse the new autocratic regimes are using to expand their borders by force, and be themselves imperialistic.

The good whole "so only you could be imperialistic, and now we can't?! Hypocrisy!!!", disregarding that in their History, they were also imperialistic at some point too.

The world moved on in the meantime, you know, since the founding of the UN and such.

It's much easier to blame the autocracy's shortcomings on the success of others, by framing everything as "Western Imperialism", and the forced expansionism of autocracies as a "multipolar world".
> SpaceX are undeniably a world leading aerospace engineering company and very likely would still be if he wasn't associated with them in my opinion.

How much has Blue Origin put into orbit? They've had as much money and more time than SpaceX, but aren't lead by Elon Musk, and how do they compare today?
What UI density means and how to design for it
I modified my touch bar to no longer show the play/pause button because every time I forgot and hit it, I got punished by Apple Music opening and getting stuck in a loop of me force-quitting it and it restarting.
This seemed so obvious at the time, you were throwing away so many useful features for the promise of "web scale". I argued with many developers at the time, but they insisted that NoSQL (Mongo) needed to be used.
Phase-In Codes
No, but I'm curious what would motivate you to consider it?
It's like product reviews (honest ones). The product is advertised as being all good, so people feel the need to point out the ways in which it isn't. Not so much negative as balancing the scales.
Very good point. I should think more deeply before commenting and not rush out off-the-cuff remarks.
The Most In-Demand Programming Languages in 2024
This is one of the interesting parts about owning obscure phones.

I cannot imagine having anything important on an iPhone since there is a huge demand to find a bug in the hardware/OS layer. (And we've seen this live in the wild with multiple 0 click exploits)

Meanwhile obscure phones could only be targeted by Pegasus by:

1. Go to a website and download an app
2. Change your settings to allow this app to install
3. Change another setting to allow this app to install.

I mean... not really elite hackers, I had to do this for my own Android app.
Amazon halts orders of Nvidia 'superchip' to await updated model
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Homotopy type theory is definitely the way to go. This 2016 talk from Vladimir Voevodsky is a good entrypoint for the general audience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOBqROtRoPA
> Look at the comments, even in this thread, defending Sam. I thought this could be dealt with by the courts. But it clearly needs stronger medicine; there is simply too much hubris.

The courts are a lagging indicator.

This is the entire "move fast break things" play, it's legislative arbitrage. If you can successfully ignore the laws, build good will in the public, and brand yourself in an appealing way, then the legal system will warp around whatever you've done and help you pull the ladder up behind you.

On the other hand, if you break a bunch of stuff that people actually like and care about, politicians might feel like they need to do something about that. If you burn all your good will such that both political parties agree that you're a problem, that is when the play can go sideways.
They mention using a service called Meshy for generating models, and I noticed that they have a free plan where the generated assets have a "license" of CC-BY-4.0[1]. Any lawyers in here that can comment on that? They're claiming copyright ownership over models generated from customer prompts, and I doubt they trained their model exclusively on stuff they own/licensed.

1: https://www.meshy.ai/pricing
One of the main reasons for this is that entry level roles have basically disappeared in many industries. The idea of hiring someone who knows nothing (or a little bit) about the work in question, then training them to get better seems to have become a foreign concept for most companies now.

As a result, you've got a lot of people who would probably do better in one of these roles applying for just about everything that pops up online, since they don't really have that many options. Someone who just finished a coding bootcamp shouldn't be fighting for a senior position, but there are plenty of those who are.

There's also the aforementioned skill mismatch too. The tech jobs being hired for right now have a certain set of requirements, but many of the people being laid off in this industry (or other related ones like gaming) have entirely different skills. So if your company didn't use the latest tech or used tech that's rather niche compared to the mainstream, good luck getting a job. The places that used your skills are either now outsourcing everything or closing down entirely.
What’s the technical reason for the launch? Lots of people report Music launching when they connect a headset, but it doesn’t happen to me with my Mac and headset. Do some headsets (like many cars…) issue a ‘play’ command to the device after connection?

Not trying to argue that Apple shouldn’t provide a way to stop this - just curious about why it happens at all.
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Could be a very decent laptop if it runs Linux. But why pay Microsoft for an OS you're not going to use?

I hope System76 has ARMs up their sleeve.
> particularly nowadays around masking to avoid COVID

Ah ok, as I suspected a covid authoritarian that’s deluded and ruthlessly mocking ANY recognition of cost in the cost-benefit analysis of safety measures, meanwhile overestimating the benefit all together.
> I had not realized humans could be that bad at math

Why would being bad at one subject or skill imply they are bad at all skills?

Reading the article, I get the feeling that the author knows less about human intelligence than he thinks he does.

Humans don’t operate at high detail all the time. So we skim and fill in the gaps with assumptions. Even when prompted.

The author doesn’t account for lack of comprehension vs lack of knowledge vs lack of interest. Beta readers and coworkers do this to me all the time and it drives me nuts. They should know better!

Also, as a writer, I use skimming to my advantage by omitting detail to allow the reader to tailor the story towards what they want to read.
Recent big discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40348531
“Let me show you how to torrent these movies you purchased but Sony took away…”

Yeah right!
How neat! Thanks for sharing. Wish we could get back to everyday people being creators as well as consumers
DeepLabCut: The motion-tracking tool that went viral
> Face it you're just old

Again, sure. That's how I know professional mindsets can age a lot slower than people.

> you ... think 2000 was four years ago.

Hardly. Want time to go slow? Care for 5 kids + disabled spouse on your own. It makes regular years seem like mindset years.
> Free software existed in the 90s and the most important free software ever made, the web, came out of a state funded institution.

Yeah, governments can do fundamental research fine. Nobody has any idea what is going on in fundamental research, so the government can't be at a disadvantage by being disorganised.

Where an idea comes from doesn't matter. Anyone can have a good idea, even the insane.

> Finally open source is highly regulated.

There isn't any inconsistency between free markets and regulation. Nearly all free markets have to be regulated at some level. Contracts need to be honoured so that people can make deals over time - otherwise it is just a barter system (the only possible theoretically unregulated free market! Even then not a guarentee). There isn't any point giving up products like insurance in the aid of some sort of technical purity.

When people say "deregulate" there is an implied "of regulations I don't agree with". Obviously everyone favours some level of regulation - although the useful level is so far away from where the typical legislative framework lives it is the same thing as calling for no regulation for average debate. People are difficult to dissuaded from putting dictators in charge - it is the naive response to every challenge - and they end up in the regulatory bodies.

> and no the USSR cannot be used as an example of communism in action, the first thing that Lenin did was dissolve the Soviets

You aren't wrong, but the fatal flaw of communism is that there isn't a theoretical way to keep power with the soviets without devolving back to capitalism. Powerful people end up with control of the capital. The only fundamental difference is that capitalism demands powerful people at least, y'know, build and maintain the capital and replaces them if they don't. Communism, when the powerful people didn't properly tend to capital, didn't replace the owning class and people starved.
100%. Whatever the actual limits, flaws, and failings of FSD, the outsize criticism of the branding is crazymaking. (as I've commented in many of these threads) no one who actually uses the product for even a short period of time is deluded into thinking it is fully autonomous by the labeling.

My pet theory for some of these dramatic fails: the driver is not risk-averse, and knowingly uses FSD at some limit "to see what happens" (I know I do it from time to time, though not in anything truly risky).
“Dark money” groups help private ISPs lobby against municipal broadband
That is surprisingly the allure for some people.
There is a building being torn down in Austin that reminds me of shipbreaking every time I drive past it. Specifically it reminds me of the game Hardspace: Shipbreakers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKX31xawWQk

https://www.statesman.com/picture-gallery/news/2024/03/05/fr...
A mentality that devalues creative work
AI data labelling startup Scale valuation doubles to $14B
Oh no, you just "snooped" on GP by reading and answering their question.
Let's play Singularity A card game for exploring AI governance risks
I think that’s a really important question to start with, and further along that same point is what exactly is Devereux’s thesis throughout that interview.
The policy probably made more sense back when $20M legal teams didn't exist
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This comes just as I’ve finished reading Tracers in the Dark. Pretty interesting stuff. Will be interesting to read more deeply how they were able to track and take down this marketplace.
> I Sell Onions on the Internet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
This is amazing! always been a huge fan of nostr.