skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you don't believe that, then go into business as a high quality sofa factory.

You can't, because your competitors have well-staffed marketing departments that can convince people their shit sofas are actually quality, sell them significantly cheaper than you could sell yours. They have more experience at this, much wider reach than you or any other upstart. It's hard to compete on quality when dishonesty is legal.
When you say "this", I assume you are referring to the message you were writing at the time.
The Soviets were pretty capitalist. They just had an extra rule, that said only Dear Leader was allowed to have all the capital. Apart from that they worked the same way as any corporation while trying to pretend they were not exactly like a corporation (which is also something corporations do).
Unfortunately we built those suburbs without factoring in the real cost of transporting people to and from them. Now those homeowners are real used to that transportation subsidy and are not happy when it is threatened to be taken away. Something is going to give, cities can’t afford it any more.
It is much worse than that because a proper client can have storage as well. The key difference is that the browser is not a proper client but a general purpose interpreter and that webb applications don't have a choice no matter how bad of a fit it is.
I don't see your point, you can judge you own mother untrustworthy. The point is that you need to have an extended and real life contact with someone before deciding to trust them.

Ultimately, the word "fact" in this context means "what someone considers a fact". You can be wrong, but if you can't trust your own senses or judgment, how can you live in this world? Well, rhetorical question, since there are no sincere solipsists.
> Languages that use the LVM — the Logical Volume Manager is a device mapper
> framework that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel —
> aren’t going to have to do too much to support components because the LVM
> will go ahead and translate the C, he said. But for languages like Grain
> and other non-LVM-based languages, more work has to be done to make that
> happen.

Did a language model generate this article? I'm struggling to understand how a human could write the above sentences and not notice something's gone very wrong.

Editors? Fact-checkers? Did anyone read this before publishing it?
I like the intent but homeless people deserve better. Just make them meals from scratch like everyone else eats. And keep taking your doggy bag home. A $1 doggie bag “corkage” that goes to a homeless food operation would be better IMO.
It’s very telling when people tell me that I have Stockholm syndrome instead of considering the possibility that different people have different preferences and priorities. Especially when your preferences seem to revolve around a particular ideological bent.

I have no idea what “ridiculous restore mode” you’re referring to, but in 15 years of full time Mac use, including using Apple Silicon Macs from around 6 months after release, however many years ago that was, I haven’t run into a situation where this has been necessary.

Please don’t devolve another discussion into 2000s Mac bashing. Especially when your ostensible worldview is predicated on a bunch of people being stupider than you.
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but if a search algorithm is truly designed to showcase the best content, then making it transparent shouldn't lead to manipulation
In Greek we call it "γκάζι", which means "natural gas", so it's already wrong. I'm fine with that persisting in EVs
The Chicago pile was demonstrated in 1942. Transistors weren't even invented yet.

You are incredibly off on complexity
See: "Who's Nailin' Paylin?"
Can't argue with that.

Guess I was going down the road that an environmentally-sane economy would need 'logic', it would be more 'logical', that it would be more correct versus the current system that seems 'illogical'. Thus we could use logic to argue for change.

This argument is showing that all sides could use 'logic' to reach their own desired conclusion, so logic is not really the method of change.

The whole problem of "You can't use logic to dissuade someone who didn't use logic to reach their viewpoint in the first place".

This argument has demonstrated that 'logic' can be more flexible when used by humans. Having a better environment for he future isn't necessarily better just by using 'logic'. Thus we can't use logic to argue for better policy. Thus, as you said, we need to fall back on different methods to 'threaten policymakers to change policy'.
Brands are dead now. We have arbitrary number of deodorant brands, as producers can, and do, create new brands all the time, and recycle or trade old ones. Between this and influx of faux brands for white-label dropshipped goods, there's very little signal in brand labeling today.
FineWeb-Edu: new 1.3T tokens web dataset
> support privacy of adults

> video and online surveillance of all children when not alone

So, you want children to have no privacy just to get a tiny bit more privacy to adults? Are adults really this horrible towards children, do you really think you would like this as a child?

> Children have some right to privacy, but not as strong as adults.

Why the hell not? Do you really think it is ok that your daughter gets constantly video surveilled all throughout puberty? Do you really think that is a lesser evil than your text messages being scanned for some keywords? Would you be happy if there was a camera constantly watching you as you jerked off as a kid?
Not in this country. It might get you through the first round of environmental studies for such a network though.

Remember that the SF to LA rail line is up over $135B and still has many years of cost growth ahead of it before completion.
That's correct. It invented expensive goods of dubious quality. If you want a cheap good and you buy a cheap good and it's cheap, that's all fine. More power to you. Problems come when the quality level you want is possible to manufacture, even profitably, but isn't manufactured because market said no.
I’m sure it’d upset you to find out that macOS itself is a current first class Python target. The fact that Python on macOS seems to be doing just fine should probably serve as an indication that your concern is rooted in ideology rather than any actual issues.
Can you imagine that "the kremlin" says the same to its population? Why do you think your own powers that be are any different?

Reading your comments in this thread, I know beforehand that my replying will be useless, but I'm bored.
How about dedicated external system for this, running on rPi or proxmox instance. On the local macgine app should only record screenshots on major scene change and save them on remote fs where it would go tgrough ocr, indexing, embeddings, whatnot.
A Mac mini is a few hundred dollars.

All development is expensive. The hardware has little bearing on the total cost.
I keep thinking of that Warren Bennis's quote: "The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."

Only now I think the dog will be robotic too.
Thankfully, you and Apple aren’t the only two choices here. That’s the thing about open source, isn’t it? Someone else is free to go and do it. And they are. The system is working as it should.
"have to stick with it"..

dont misrepresent
The hypothetical return type for Future using ADTs was interesting - this seems almost Rust-ish. The distinction between a return Value and an Exception really is often unnecessary and complicates things.
> The Third Thumb is worn on the opposite side of the palm to the biological thumb and controlled by a pressure sensor placed under each big toe or foot

IANAD, but I wonder what it would feel like to control it with the palmaris longus [0] instead. From what I understand, it doesn't really have an important role (14% of people don't even have it), and it's close to the skin, so an EMG could pick it up. It's also closer to the fingers, so it might be more intuitive to learn to repurpose it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmaris_longus_muscle
Played the bot for a little while. No pieces came off the entire game(30 moves)... interesting concept but at a loss as to how you should be making progress.
I loved this video. Highlight at the end “kids these days… they’re gonna save the world.”

A while ago I watched a longer, more in depth video on the same topic (spoiler for video title) by Angela Collier. Can recommend, she has a pleasant style and goes really in depth.

https://youtu.be/1eUI38MpiYo?si=6DAme9STHi6f6NDk
New islands grow enough to be colonized, and old islands are overcome by the sea. Anyone who has observed a section of coastline over weeks knows how this works.
Clicking anywhere in a background window (including the titlebar) in Windows 10 responds by immediately raising and focusing the clicked-on window when the mouse button is first pushed down.

The inconsistency is bizarre, since some here say that clicking-and-releasing before a resultant thing is allowed to happen is a hard-and-fast rule of GUI implementation that has been in place for decades, but that just doesn't seem to be the case at all.
> without resorting to a much heavier class of draconian laws

They may be coming down the pipe, after the soft version gets people macerated.

> at which point you won't be living in a democracy

But you will be hearing from talking heads that you are, and Russia and North Korea are the real dictatorships.

And maybe they will be right, because what is democracy? The word has different meanings to different people, and it won't be difficult to shape the discussion about what our liberal democracy is all about. Maybe it's about accepting who has power now and about protecting the vulnerable. We have seen a bit of this stance and real capabilities in recent years.
Exactly! The urban core takes in way more taxes per person than it costs for infrastructure, suburbia is the exact opposite. Urbanites are subsidizing the suburbs currently.
And here's an Australian article from [0], quoting some stats and an Australian academic. I couldn't easily find any legal expert analysis, or the text of the proposed bill. Much Australian media paywalls US search engines, so go read the full article:

> Professor Nicola Henry, a socio-legal scholar at RMIT University in Melbourne... ran a survey last year of people who have had fake images shared and found that Australia had far higher rates of victims (3.7%) compared with the global average of 2.2%.

Interestingly, her research also found that men were more likely to report being perpetrators as well as victims of deepfake pornography.

“Unfortunately, there’s not a huge amount of research that’s been done to examine the extent or the impacts of deepfakes or AI-generated image-based abuse,” Professor Henry added.

The government will also bring forward legislation in early August to outlaw the release of private information online with an intent to cause harm, known as doxxing.

[0]: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/six-years-jail-tim...
I think almost all business people earned their stripes as employee. SV and furthermore SV stereotypes are very unusual in their young founders. Nothing against young founders though! Just saying it ain’t common. Family business being the exception (but that quacks like employment then business ownership later)
Will we have a negative leap second? [pdf] (2022)
Government recording all our conversations also has have "unintended" consequences.

The track record of such societies is rather terrifying.
Of note: this PEP was authored by Russell Keith-Magee, who has been investing a mammoth amount of energy into using Python for mobile app development for a number of years now. As I recall he’s just joined the Python team. If anyone is going to push it, it’d be him.
which means you don't need the man to feed it
My 2 cents ; let people buy packs of Scans. Say 100, 200, and 1000. Rarely people will have exact match with their work, so they are left with some pages "left over", which can nudge them back into using the product more often to "use up" what they paid for.

With this strategy you might be more successful in making a workflow out of it, and nudge people over to a monthly model. Just don't make the packs so small that they can be aligned with their normal workflows, eg. Transcribing a 40 page note book. I would advise to do some statistics to see how many pages people typically scan at the same-ish time.

Also: it is considered good practice to indicate that you are affiliated when promoting a product
Isn't macos POSIX? Is iOS POSIX?
OMG what a nightmare. Thoughts and prayers to the brave souls who are implementing this.
> The only drawback to this is that the potential for customers to be ripped of by untrustworthy dealers selling overclocked CPUs to the public at the price of the actual CPU speed is increased by a large margin. Intel long ago locked the multiplier of their CPUs to keep such things from happening with their processors

Is the author being charitable or do people really believe this was to protect consumers rather than constrain them?
That is already happening though, this just says it should also happen to e2e encryption by scanning on device. If it was that expensive costs would have appeared a long time ago.
https://github.com/liquidprompt/liquidprompt works for bash and zsh and provides heaps of git info though maybe not all that sexy-bash-prompt does
> I’ve never seen a codebase ever really use OOP in an enterprise setting

What!? Did you look at the source code of Chrome, QT, even Java JDK, SAP, Adobe, WebLogic, WebSphere....and so on...and so on...What kind of enterprise setting are we discussing here?
You can use functional versions which compile to Lua code, like Fennel https://fennel-lang.org/
You think I disagree? My point is almost exactly the same, we should stop that (by promoting a saner solution).
Maybe you could clarify what OOP means to you ? There are lots of successful real-world OOP frameworks which have solved lots of problems.
„Better than“ was never going to work for any paradigm. What actually works is „better together“, with a healthy mix of OOP, FP and SP.
I had a related thought recently as I was trying to set up a new staging environment for $MEANINGLESS_PROJECT at $CORP and was struggling with various packaging errors - wouldn't it be much nicer if instead of working on the project, I could use spend my time on fixing these open source tools to actually work out of the box?
> but due to the generic nature of computers

This might only be a temporary state, though. Smartphones are, in that sense, not generic. PC might follow.
how do you track breathing for Lungy? Is it using the microphone?
> it’s expensive to develop for iOS as you need a semi-recent Mac

I'm so tired of this bullshit argument. No it's not expensive to develop for iOS. You can get an M2 Mac Mini for $599. Upgrade it with more memory and storage and you're still well under $2k. How is that expensive? If you can't afford the $2k for a Mac then you certainly can't afford the developer who has to use it.

There are few professions that require at little investment in tools as a fraction of the salary of the professional using those tools as software development. Go ask a carpenter how much they spent on tools and how much they get paid.

"But what about people who program as a hobby" I hear you say. Again, it's one of the cheapest hobbies you can possibly have. Have you ever talked to anyone who had any kind of hobby? Ask anyone who is a hobby musician how much they spend on instruments. Ask a hobby photographer how much their equipment is worth. Ask anyone who's into arts and crafts what they spend on their hobby. Hobbies cost money, and most cost a lot more than a new Mac every couple of years.
Don’t forget our automobile infrastructure gets heavy government subsidies too. Gas taxes and fees aren’t nearly high enough to pay for all the roads and parking we have.
> I’ve never seen a codebase ever really use OOP in an enterprise setting.

I have seen lots of them. Fairly maintainable ones too for that matter. With minimal spaghetti code.
> having to live in densely populated cities with no room for any activities.

Depends on activities, I guess, but my experience is the opposite, densely populated areas has vastly more activities available within 20-30 minutes reach especially to parents with kids.
More like these days everything is already clocked hard by default. There's basically no point overclocking modern unlocked chips, they are already clocked to 90% of their max speed. Compare that to the above example with 600 vs 900 Mhz (50%! faster)

Some locked chips are clocked pretty slow, but that's normal segmentation :(
Maybe at utility scale?

Household batteries are so stupidly overpriced there's no financial justification sadly.
Somewhat related, a random nuclear reactor generator :)

https://whatisnuclear.com/random.html
Along the same line it's always interesting to see Americans discuss mattress prices, it's always like "yeah best pay 4-6k at least and they're swapping the names and reviews so there's no way to tell if you're getting a quality product regardless" meanwhile I paid like 250 euros for a locally made memory foam mattress that's a dream (ha) to sleep on.

Post-socialist countries still have an absolute shit ton of these lifestyle businesses or even medium sized firms instead of monopolist megacorps which results in a very competitive market and has turned out to be quite an upside for the end consumer.
There's also AI's dark secret coming out -> it's very expensive to run.

But it's still WAY cheaper than upper management salaries, so, to employ classic MBA logic, they are the optimal staff to replace so as to maximize cost savings.
Jonathan Blow has shipped two games, Braid is very well liked and The Witness got more mixed opinions but certainly there aren't many people who think it's just terrible - more that it wasn't appealing for them. But two is a very small sample size, and the fact that The Witness annoyed more people isn't necessarily a great sign - given more time and money, Blow made a game he presumably liked better but others did not.

Maybe Jon will like Jai very much when it's done. Is that enough? In some sense maybe. But why should anybody else care?

In 2014 there weren't a lot of people doing this, maybe you'd look around and say "At least somebody is trying something". In 2024 there are plenty of programming languages to choose instead of C++ even if you specifically want to write video games. If you like roughly where Jai wants to be, no interesting ideas just do stuff we know works, there are even other languages in that space, including Odin and Zig.
I think lifestyle businesses are great, but if you are building a lifestyle business and meeting with VC firms then you are wasting their time. They can’t invest in you. Their business model is designed to take a large number of risky bets to try to catch a unicorn. If you have a less risky business that isn’t going to take off like a rocket, it might be a great idea and a massive success for you, but it isn’t compatible with their business model at all. You are better off meeting with angel investors who do invest in lifestyle businesses.
Also iOS development doesn't require a Mac, you can do apps without one on Linux, you will just be on your own for tools (but for example if you make an app with theos on CLion you will get completion for Objective-C, and it was not that bad imo)
Web app have storage. It is only because the app you use doesn’t use it properly. Even gmail has offline mode.
This rather low content promotional blog post really doesn't portray the team involved in a good light.

> Database War Stories: Initial high traffic led to 100% CPU usage on Postgres. Solved by indexing and vacuuming the database.

Indexes? In a database? Get out of here. Vacuuming a Postgres database? No way!

> Accuracy Issues: Data partitioning and denormalization led to incorrect results. Solution involved creating a structured JSON schema for queries.

... given the low content promotional blog post doesn't include any relevant info like "how big the dataset was", this sentence just fills me with existential horror.

If you're using PG's partitioned tables for data partitioning, how would that affect accuracy?

Denormalisation, what led you to that choice? And why did it cause your queries to return incorrect results?

Was it because your queries were incorrect, or how you ingested data into the DB was incorrect, given that you no longer had a normalised schema acting as guard-rails?

And how did using JSONB resolve this accuracy issue?

> Database Migration: Potential move from Postgres to ClickHouse for better handling of large-scale analytics queries.

Well I suppose that'll improve things. Mainly because the people running Clickhouse know how to use a DB well. I bet they even know about indexes and autovacuum.
> A handful of people? No one cares.

Actually police and various agencies do, because when most people aren't encrypting, the few that do are suddenly interesting. Some of them will turn out to be organized crime, but some of them are just adults who want to communicate privately.
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> Since I cannot install stuff from a third party on my iPhone without paying Apple

That’s weird. When I browse the App Store it’s full of free apps.
> The compiler knew next to nothing about the memory model before we started annotating lifetimes.

Compilers for garbage compiled languages have always had to reason about the memory model. Compilers for languages with obligatory bounds checks have always had to reason about the memory model. Compilers for multi-threaded languages have always had to reason about the memory model. Even "good old C" compilers had to reason about the memory model when it came to volatile variables. Rust didn't invent the concept of a memory model, and Rust's lifetimes are only a small part of its memory model.
Nvidia: Industrial Revolution
Every time I read takes like this I think people forget why big brands exist?

Small business (or “lifestyle business”) vs big brand is often framed about being high quality vs cheap price, because in practice it often is. But in theory the two things are completely unrelated.

Yes fixing stuff is good for the planet. But big brands could offer customer service just fine if people wanted it.

Small business vs big brand is a problem of predictability.
If you have many independent small businesses, NOT all of them will be good. It will be a mixed bag what you get in your area. OP has felt so fortunate with his local highly-skilled asian-owned small business that he felt compelled to write about it on the internet. Not everyone will be this lucky.

And in a world where information travels very fast (this is really the key point) this system is unsustainable, as there are really only 2 options: either people accept the fact that some neighbourhoods are served worse than others, or the take the car and make the travel up to the nice asian shop they read about on the internet, because that’s apparently worth it.

But, surprise, this second option doesn't scale. Because as soon as the nice asian shop goes viral, they realise they can’t keep up with the demand at all. And so they will probably refuse lots of customers. (Note, I’m not even considering the option they might increase prices)

In this sense, the derogatory “lifestyle business” comment makes sense, since I think it’s meant to highlight how elitist it is. It doesn't scale in the sense that it creates a race for who is able to cop the best option.
When I need a sofa, I want to be able to “just” get a sofa. Simple and predictable. If the sofa is good quality, even better.
Quality of care is distinct from fitness (gene quality if you will). It seems like offspring without much care is more needy of fitness than K-strategists.