skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you would want to go over, not under. It seems easier to build a 30' bridge that can support foot traffic than to dig a 30' tunnel that needs to support semis driving over it.

One thought, if there isn't a high volume of foot traffic, is to just the fact that these are typically paired (one to swap lanes, another to get them back to the "right" side). Put a pedestrian crossing in the middle, and you can stop traffic from both directions at once. Bonus points that cars are supposed to stop pretty far away, so pedestrians could see someone running the light from much farther away rather than having to wait til they're 15 feet away to tell they aren't going to stop.
I sought out to do this a year or so ago when my 10-year old "ultrabook" was finally getting unbearable to use. I'm not a heavy on-the-go user so I found a used M1 iPad Pro. I have no doubt it has the power I need, and even Safari in "desktop mode" has been great. I have two issues

1) so many apps are still locked to "iPhone mode". enabling Stage Manager at least adds some layout flexibility, but it's meh at best

2) if there's no app or suitable web version, you're stuck. it's still a very live and die by the app world

When I saw the M4 iPad Pro, it convinced me that surely the next iPad OS is going to finally do something to help us out. I can only hope that my "old" M1 gets the full feature suite now...
> ...managing that "proper ACL" that doesn't fit your business is a hell of a problem that nobody will get right...

I'm not sure there is a way to get this right unless there is a programmatic integration into the org chart, and ability to describe and parse in a declarative language the organizational rules of who has access to what, when, under what auth, etc. It has otherwise been for me an exercise in watching massive amounts of toil manually interpreting between the SOT of the org chart and all the other applications mediated by many manual approval policies and procedures. And at every client I've posed this to, I've always been denied that programmatic access for integration.

A lot of sites try to avoid this by designing ACL's around certain activity or data domains because those are more stable than organizations, but this breaks down when you get to the fine-grained levels of the ACL's so we get capped benefits from this approach.

I'd love to hear how others solve this in large (10K+ staff) organizations that frequently change around teams.
So what do you actually know about the origin of the "covenant", since you're quoting it. Who made it? What's the story behind it? Was it controversial among the group at the time? Is it still relevant? Etc. etc. Please enlighten.
I wrote an article about the lack of calculator for the ipad, and an actual port of the ios calculator as a PWA, if anybody misses this app on the ipad. Free, no ads.

https://mejuto.co/the-ipad-did-not-have-a-calculator-so-i-po...
Kyle Meyer: A Tour of Magit [video]
Statistically speaking, tech billionaires are rare among humans. We must protect the species on the brink of extinction!
It seems like the RF model has more granular targeting than the IR model. The IR can work by focusing a narrow IR beam on the crowd... the RF model appears to be able to address groups of tags based on their pre-programmed location. In the video they show the tags already placed on the seats. So presumably they've laid them out based on these groups.
> The report reveals that a combination of free time, curiosity and natural playfulness has led to young orcas adopting this 'trend' of boat-bumping..

> Most of the 15 were male juveniles and teens..suggesting that what started as playful head-bumping on boat rudders has escalated as the animals have grown larger..And no orca over the age of 25 – when males are fully grown – has been seen participating in the tomfoolery.

> The animals are known to be sensitive to trends.. Perhaps most famously, in 1987, a female orca in the Pacific Ocean near Puget Sound was observed carrying a dead salmon on her head; within two months, killer whales from her pod and two others were also wearing 'fish hats.' But it was all a fad.
Reproducing GPT-2 in llm.c
I've worked on chatbots for a couple of years. I too have come to the conclusion that they're generally garbage from a customer perspective.

Sometimes they can serve as a useful intake system for collecting information before passing someone off to an agent, but even then they tend to be less useful than just filling in a form. I think in most cases, a step by step form followed by a live chat would be better.

Unfortunately there is a segment of the population that is completely incapable of filling in a form. These people should probably be passed off to human beings, but then those human beings are wasting their time dealing with similar issues constantly.

LLM chatbots are even worse. They have great latitude to say convincing and incorrect information, but can rarely actually do anything. It would be much better to just publish a good knowledge base.

I would say a pet peeve of mine is when you do end up having support staff that are human beings, but are not empowered/trained to actually solve customer problems sufficiently. From a business perspective a chatbot is a great replacement for that, because it also regurgitates a script without actually having to action any business processes.
Indeed. Eschew humor. Avoid anything not super serious. Laughs aren't allowed on HN.
Plenty of people chanting “from the river to the sea” and “we are Hamas”. You’re being disingenuous.
I got a lot out of your comment, but I don't know that Mars and Earth are directly comparable.

- Earth has nearly 10x the surface area of Mars. This decreases the rate of escape.

- Mars has lower gravity meaning escape velocity is roughly 1/3 Earth's, or escape energy is 1/10. This increases the rate of escape.

- Mars has lower temperatures, which reduces what fraction of the atmosphere is at an escape velocity. This reduces the rate of escape. Though if we terraform it, maybe it warms up as well?

So Mars and Earth are not easily compared, and are likely off by an order of magnitude.

Still, it is worth thinking about what general scale we are talking about. Terraforming requires a civilization with access to resources many times our own.
No, it's an attempt to deflect any thoughtful discussion about the actual topic. Instead of providing anything of substance about the subject matter, you attempt to gaslight people into an argument about something else entirely.

If you find a distaste for whataboutism "partisan" perhaps you're the one who has the problem.
Clawing back vested equity it materially different that a general “incentive”. It’s way outside of standard practice and borderline abuse given the imbalance of negotiating power. Further, if OpenAI or Sam lied publicly by saying they weren’t aware it was going on and did this seems to be the very type of untrustworthy lack of candor that the board identified when they ousted him.

I was a vocal defender of Sam in the immediate aftermath but these facts are definitely concerning. OpenAI is moving fast with a critical and dangerous technology. If their culture isn’t profoundly ethical they shouldn’t be trusted with the privilege and responsibility of what they are up to.
Verbal agreement has lots of risks.

First you’re offering up a lot of trust to people you might have just started working with.

Or, they could be very trustworthy and just remember things differently. And of course people come and go in companies all the time they just might not be there.

At least if you do a verbal agreement follow it up with an email confirming the details.
>scratches meet the needle once per revolution, regardless of the needle's position

I need to go away and think about that :D
> "Greedy landlords"

It's always amusing that this implies back when housing was cheap, landlords weren't greedy.
Right, yeah, maybe I read that it's something like the typing system putting constraints on direct interop, I'm not sure.

I mostly follow from the sidelines, having a deeper buyin with Elixir, but whenever I find the time and a use case I'll build something in Gleam and learn more.
> reduced by 30% on Linux with default settings

With the default settings being the key there. I had the exact same laptop and was able to get idle power down under 3W.

But to your point, that's a fair amount of friction for someone that understands all the moving points. It's insurmountable for the average user.
A few days ago, onion published a list of interviews with orcas. Only a few of them were motivated by TicTok.
As soon as they add the ability to configure shortcuts, I'd more than happy to. After several years of requests, we're finally seeing some movement on their end.
The Mobifree link in the article: https://mobifree.org

Looks sketchy to me.

> Our values are different

Why?

> Big Tech: bad for people and the environment

Bad for the environment how? Do they think if they operate at the same scale as big tech, they'll be able to do a better job of managing infrastructure?
Is AWS providing DDoS mitigation services now, coupled with MITM access to user traffic?
This person is not a journalist.
I think policies[1] are blocking F-Droid more than anything from being a viable alternative. A bank will likely never release their app as open source, nor will any of the big authentication vendors. This means that you cannot completely replace the Google Play Store with F-Droid if you have to use any of these, you can only use it as an additional store, at which point many won't be bothered.

[1]: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/
Can share the link over there. That's where the discussion is, and there's lots of it.
> The problem is Apple is unable to make tradeoffs

I think the problem is they're very conscious of cannabalizing their own product line.

If the average person could use a $500 iPad ($399 + keyboard + mouse) instead of a bare minimum macbook air ($1000+), they would.
hey, I have the same one and didn't know about these controls! I'll definitely try this out now
Agreed. I don't really understand the mindset of someone who would consider this sort of hedging a smell. A candidate being able to take vague requirements and clearly state different solutions for different scenarios is an excellent candidate. That would be considered a positive signal for myself and pretty much all the interviewers I've worked with.
https://archive.is/5WXjz
Ugh, I loathe autosave popping up in more and more places, particularly webapps.
I've messed up the working copy of my wife's business website and various docs more than once because she's asked me to fix or tweak something. I automatically change some random things around in Squaredpace/Webnode/Canva just to get a feel for a tool I've never used and discover how the workflow might compare to something I'm familiar with. Then I find out there's no undo or it doesn't revert everything, I have no idea what changes I've made vs the original, and it's autosaved. Terrible UX!

Autosave has no place outside anything more complex than a simple text form, unless it's solely a backup solution for crashes, or paired with a very solid version control system.
How's the bridge's structure?
The main problem is that everybody understands that the chat bots are there to add more obstacles between you and an actual human who might be able to help. The reasons are also also easy to understand and everyone knows them. Humans cost money. Predictably, people are infuriated when obstacles are between them and what they need done.

In an ideal world, any company that sells anything would be required to have a phone number that is answered by a human. The maximum hold time would be limited by law and be required to be lower, the higher the cost of the items they sell. The punishment for violation would be jail time for the CEO, at a month per violation or so.
The struggle with the iPad is Apple doesn't want to cannibalize its laptop sales. There is simply no reason that the iPad couldn't switch to the MacOS UI when plugged into a hardware keyboard and mouse. So it will remain in this halfway up halfway down state until the winds change.

This is actually Apple's weakness. Right now Apple wants to sell you 3 devices, a phone, a tablet, and a laptop. The reality is that there is no reason why your iPhone when plugged into a keyboard, mouse, and display couldn't present a MacOS UI. Similarly for the iPad.

If someone could exploit this weakness then Apple could be placed in an uncomfortable position.
The Kia Orcas
Looking at that site's funders, it's not surprising they don't mention that at all. https://www.accessnow.org/financials/
Sometimes things aren't "bad" per se, they just aren't as good.

Wavelets seem to be another perennial also-ran in the image compression space. They work. They have the odd useful property here and there. They just aren't as good for most purposes.

There can also be differences in terms of investment; if hypothetically there were 3 techniques with roughly equally-useful "final forms", but only one of them gets that investment, then it'll win because there's no reason to pour the additional effort into the other two.
Wow, so 5 minutes ago this was #1 on HN. Now it's #347. Hmm.. wonder what might have happened?
This article does such a bad job of criticizing an already-unpopular theory that I found myself defending it. "The evidence is clear," "studies have repeatedly shown," and "analysis showed," would be a lot more convincing if the evidence, studies, and analysis were actually explained. Not to mention that focusing on income inequality doesn't disprove the idea of "a rising tide lifts all ships." It's possible the absolute wealth and standard of living of the poorest might increase while inequality also increases.
Fwiw, there's an event I was just looking at from UCL on the "Future of Quantum Computing" (online webinar), https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-quantum-computi...

It's a panel headed by Prof Al-Khalili. I suspect it will be a beginner level presentation.

>Professor Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS is a theoretical physicist at the University of Surrey where he holds a Distinguished Chair in physics and leads the Quantum Foundations and Technologies Research Group in the School of Mathematics and Physics. As well as his academic work he is a well-known popular science author and broadcaster on BBC radio and television.

No affiliation, just may be of interest.
I'm absolutely hating the chatbot item search thing on Amazon... the answers are pretty useless to say the least. I swear google and Amazon are both getting significantly worse with time/age.
When this becomes possible, prisons will become very compact: a micro SD card to trap one's consciousness.
>No, it's an attempt to deflect any thoughtful discussion about the actual topic.

Why can't we discuss both?
No evidence in the article that Altman knew about this, and intentionally clickbaity and misleading title.

Quoting: "there are only two plausible reasons for Altman's alleged lack of knowledge: either he didn't fully read the employment contracts he was signing or he was lying." No evidence was offered that he read the contracts.
No shortcut configuration.
You’ve replied to the headline, though the article is about the software gap between iOS and Mac.
See this post that talks about how hosting email yourself doesn't really work anymore, despite it being an open internet standard -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715437

Not sure about people never hearing about them, but the internet is no longer a network of sparsely distributed connected machines hosting and consuming content as it was originally designed. The content is all hosted on very small set of networks controlled by just a few companies -- Amazon AWS, Google, MS Azure, etc. The consumers access the internet through clients that are also controlled by these companies, and so it's easy for them to exclude other networks and hosts even though the network specification is technically "open".
Honest question: what's wrong with std::variant? I'm quite fond of using it.

Sure it has trade offs like being empty by exception, but that's necessary if you don't want it to allocate.

Also, pattern matching would be nice instead of std::get with visitor, but that's more of a language issue than an std::variant issue
I agree. There’s not a plausible scenario where I’d start a new project in C today. I’d pick one of the alternatives you mentioned if I needed that level of control and compilation to native code. The risk/reward ratio for C over any of those isn’t worth it in any case where I’d need something like it.
You are making factual errors in your response to the existence of this article.

First, this was not primarily about NDAs and trade secrets, even though an NDA was mentioned. This was primarily about non-disparagement and the ability to criticize OpenAI, see the linked article https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai...

Second, this is not even about the existence of the non-disparagement agreement itself, it's about Altman claiming ignorance about its existence (see: the article again)
I've read McDermot's paper a few times (it's a favourite of mine) and I don't remember that angle. Can you please clarify why you say that's his point?
> This is one reason why I think China banning Youtube is a policy mistake

China didn't ban YouTube, Google just refused to comply with the strict regulations. So China tried to do exactly what you said, but they can't exactly force YouTube to stay (it would involve a lot more than just seizing local physical assets).
> objectively worse place by creating a toxic work culture that leads to mental health decline, suffering, etc.

...

> and then as a consequence amazon workers can't even afford health care.

Amazon will eventually solve these issues by completely automating their warehouses so that they no longer need to exploit poor workers anymore (who made more at Amazon than the previous job options they had available). Would that make you happy?

Your kind of social justice feels toxic to me, actually. It is basically a "perfect is the enemy of good" argument that prevents us from making much progress on the problem at all. Just because Bezos sinks his own money into causes he is interested in does not suck away the capital that government could be investing in the problems instead.
> Bad for the environment how?

I guess this relate to smartphones being out of support way too early.
Wrong, you were not focus enough during the meeting:

https://www.bbc.com/news/60571253
I dunno.

I've bought more pen computers running Windows than I can easily count (and am still salty that Apple has yet to make a replacement for my Newton --- an iPhone w/ Apple Pencil support would be pretty close).

The big problem is that they've followed Apple/Android's lead in "dumbing down" the stylus input to an 11th touch input for many cases --- even now, in Windows 11 I have to leave the Settings app open on my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 so that I can toggle stylus modes between working w/ legacy apps (Macromedia Freehand/MX) and current applications (OpenSCAD Graph Editor).

That aid, I've gotten to the point where I'm about to give up -- most likely my next major tech purchase will be either a Wacom Movink 13 or a Wacom One 13" (Gen2) w/ Touch and a Raspberry Pi 5.
Well, although I've got admit that I haven't spent too much time looking into it, and also that I'm not familiar beyond a basic knowledge with Apple computers, I'm still unsure whether there is a sane way to get software of my own to run on ipads. Because without that, what's the point of using a computer?

More specifically, we were given two ipads by the in-laws. And I think they could be very fun devices for our small-ish kids - I've got quite a few ideas for little programs that I could make for them to play around with or that could accompany stuff they learn in school. Of course, there's lots of educational software out there, but I don't like all of them for one, and also just as a matter of principal, I would find it very useful to be able to actually use these devices in the way I want, i.e., with small apps that cater exactly to my kids' interests and their parents' educational preferences.

But as far as I can tell, it is super difficult to develop software for these devices, at least compared to the traditional ways of writting little programs: fire up editor, compile, debug, share. And by "share" I don't mean "deploy to the app store and await review".

At some point I thought I had found the ultimate work-around: just write every "app" as a stand-alone HTML page instead. Sure, you'd have to do JavaScript or use something that compiles to it, but hey, webbrowsers are super-powerful today, so that certainly work for little kids' apps that I just want to develop quickly and that probably end up having a half-life of days or weeks at most... But no! Even that is not possible, it seems: you cannot open a local HTML page that's stored on the device in Safari on the ipad. To that's that.

Again, I'm not an expert at all of this, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were functioning work-arounds to all of this. But the mere fact that you have to jump through hoops for something so simple is already such a big turn-off that I don't even feel like exploring possible alternatives. Such built-in hostility for DIY programmers who just want to create something for their own personal enjoyment really makes ipads pretty uninteresting devices for myself. And I kinda suspect for a lot of other hackers, too.

Do you have any tips for me? Please post them!
Pointing out hypocrisy does not invalidate the hypocrite's argument, but it does suggest they are arguing in bad faith.
Are you missing a /sarc tag?
Yeah, but he gets great time-on-site engagement numbers by doing that. Somebody give this guy a job in Silicon Valley!
> Ask yourself, do Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Britain, Ireland, etc, all have the same inability to build

Yes, everybody does. The population exploded everywhere, and rent-seekers enriching themselves out of land price increases popped out everywhere. All at about the same time.
The system allowed (really still allows) the wealthiest people to keep more of their income every year, year after year. It was always a trickle-up system. All these years after Reagan, we see the level of inequality it created.
> it's not their anticapitalist 'eat the rich' agenda

This seems epistemologically quite dubious. How would we know?
For each kilo of iron you would like to extract electricity from by oxidizing it using ordinary air, you will need to process about 1.85 kilos of air.

This is the amount of air that contains the 0.43 kilos of oxygen that will be needed to effect the oxidation reaction by combining with the iron.

This much air will have to be processed at a rate and in such a way that the oxygen contained in the air will be efficiently made available for the iron to react with, at the desired rate of energy generation expected from a given mass of iron.

On the positive side, air is pretty light so it might not seem to require as much heavy lifting as the iron content, on the negative side air is pretty thin and kilos of air take up lots of space.

If something like this were to be scaled to absurd enough sizes, you never know what could happen.

Unlike huge wind turbines which can end up knocking birds out of the sky, a massive operation to remove oxygen from the air might just suffocate them from a distance.
> T-Mobile is almost twice the size of AT&T.

But if T-Mobile bought AT&T, the back-to-the-future telephone monopoly wouldn't be so obvious.
I disagree. When one is only concernde about the order of magnitude, it should be given as 1*10^2 mya or as 0.1 bya. What the OP said is analogous to saying that one's grandfather died at the age of 100, when in reality he only lived to be 66.