skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is quite different to my part of inner-suburban Australia. I find drivers here to be almost universally polite and accommodating. And there is barely any speeding. Someone doing more than 1-3 km over the limit on the expressway is a clear outlier. Maybe it's only like this around here though.

I have driven tens of thousands of kilometres in the US on roadtrips, and the driving there is quite insane - speeding and dangerous, aggressive manoeuvres. Doing 10-20km over the limit is standard and anyone sticking to the limit is the outlier.
What about the electric SUVs?
Might be an exaggeration but can you run pre-Windows 7 games seemlessly on windows? Maybe that's not the trend, but I was surprised how easier it was to run 1990s/2000s games on Linux, from Jackrabbit to CnC. It's the nostalgia era, but still, works better on Linux than windows.
No, but the scale feels wrong if it doesn't match.

https://xkcd.com/941/
I see the basic version of this already with the Tesla vehicles where if you plug in another appliance on the same breaker the car will decrease its draw to prevent triggering the breaker.
I'm bivalent on this topic. On one hand 6MW is very little, compared to 3,200 MW lost power during the earthquake, especially when spread over 580 stations. It's likely the feature to disconnect when frequency drops is designed to protect the station, rather than the grid. In general, this sounds like a feel-good story rather than a something real.

That being said, I see this as a huge opportunity to stabilize the grid by having large-ish battery stations discharging their stored power when frequency drops. It's likely this will need to be grid controlled rather than individual and decentralized completely. It's hard (for me) to say what needs to be built first: an automatic way to reduce power draw from the grid by large consumers that are non-essential (eg. industry) or battery stations that can keep the frequency stable in case of brownouts.
This is absolutely my experience. “Good schools” are genuinely awful environments.

Not to get too dark, but I wonder why Cornell needs suicide nets.
I really love Udio, it works more like a tool for artists to extend, inpaint and modify musical ideas and explore. Compared to Suno it feels less polished but the AI is slightly more "dense" if that means anything anyway...
That might have been what he meant, but it's not what he said.

The competition to get into top universities has always been fierce. The only thing that has changed AFAICT is the wide-spread promulgation of the idea that if you don't get in to a top-tier university that you're a failure, your life is over, you're doomed to be destitute. It's no wonder that if we tell kids that, that they will be pretty unhappy if they don't get in to a top-tier university. But the only thing we need to do to solve that problem is to stop telling kids that, especially since it isn't actually true.
There are objective collapse theories that lead to different physical predictions. Copenhagen is not actually a well defined theory because it does not define measurement.

If we measured objective collapse it would falsify MWI.
I don't blog, but blogging is something I carry on my todo list for years.
Knowing how important is the cadance to keeping the public engaged I always planned to post at most one post per month, and keeping a steady backlog of articles for at least 6 months in case I won't be able to come up with something new or simply not having time to add something new.
It genuinely feels like you are in bad faith here, ignoring the parts of my comments you don't like.

Surveillance capitalism [1] is a pretty well-defined concept. If you don't know it, maybe you should refrain from talking about ethics in the context of BigTech.

> prove that it is what big companies purposfuly do

Why should it be purposeful? That's just your addition to support your point of view. I clearly said above that the purpose of companies is to maximize profit. All the rest kind of comes from there. A company is not unethical because it is "evil". It is unethical because that's the rational way to maximize profit.

> Until then all you say is just opinionated generalizations and dropping cool looking but meaningless words.

Sure. And yours are not. Let's stop it here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
> - A lot (most?) people’s Apple Account name is actually their main email address (e.g. Gmail), so they would still control their email address even if their Apple Account was compromised.

But the login for the Gmail address is a passkey that's on the Apple account...

> - You can still recover your Apple Account and iCloud Keychain without any devices (e.g. if phone broke like in your scenario).

So what's the point of passkeys if you can get access to them without passkeys?

> - Your passkeys stored in iCloud Keychain are still protected even if your Apple Account has been compromised.

How can something be protected when the thing that controls access to it has been compromised?
I just downloaded livebook yesterday, and it will be a great thing for gleam when you can include code blocks for gleam in livebook.

Also, if you're looking to pick up elixir or Erlang, I don't think there's a better tool. It's a jupyter-style notebook that feels really really good
> There was plenty of dislike of white migrants as well, eg, Irish, German, Polish, Italian, etc all received ethnic hatred at various periods.

White skinned, but critically, not WASP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestants
Yes, I agree.

What I wrote was in defense of GP commenter who was downvoted at the time, not against the article.

As with most things in life both too little and too much can have negative effects.
The Hard part is figuring out where that middle values range lies for each task.
At some point they removed the future answer list. Now it just sends it from the server (depending on your time zone you may get "tomorrow's" word, but you no longer get a years long list).
> That's because he shows up at the judges chambers where the witness and the prosecution are having a conference with the judge.

Do you have any source for that? I didn’t see that claim anywhere in the open court proceedings I watched (in the linked YouTube video), but I did absolutely skip around a bit so could’ve missed it. I also didn’t see that anywhere in the article.
Absolutely agree on street parking. If you're driving down a clear street, you can see a kid chasing a ball out from their driveway, or someone about to scoot across the road. When the area is full of parked cars, your visibility is going to be down to nothing in some of these situations.
I thought that the problem with Recall is that it takes screenshots (potentially of sensitive things like passwords, or private browsing sessions) and stores new data that you never intended to store in the first place.

This Apple AI is not storing anything new, it’s just processing the data that you already stored. As long as they pay close attention to invalidation on the index when things get deleted.

The cloud processing is a little concerning but presumably you will be able to turn it off, and it doesn’t seem much different to using iCloud anyway.
I'm genuinely wondering why the NU was added in first place, I can't think of any app that made egregious use of that outside of the Gallery and Photo App. They didn't even allow any access from third parties in a few initial iterations.
i tried this but it wouldnt run... so..

that was disappointing
And thank you for your reply - I think we can agree to differ over where the optimal level of skepticism lies.

Global warming is indeed a serious matter involving not only the use, abuse, and unintended consequences of applied knowledge, but also the abuse (for intended consequences) of skepticism. The same could be said for the lab-leak hypothesis of the origin of covid-19, at least for those of us (such as myself) who think there's a plausible case for it.

As someone who thinks AI "doomerism" is similarly a justified concern, I suppose I should be concerned that if Philip Goff et. al. ever get around to explaining mental phenomena as being a consequence of consciousness being fundamental, then that could help bring about the doomer scenarios, but frankly, I am not so open-minded as to think there's any real prospect that they will (mainly because they don't seem at all interested in finding such explanations.)

I feel there is a real possibility of humanity suffering a serious and possibly terminal setback in the relatively near future, either as a consequence of abusing something we know or not making use of something we know, but I have no opinion as to which way it will go, if indeed it does.
Same here. Data Eng by day but looking to move away from Python but Go and Rust i dunno doesn't feel like a good replacement for it plus the Python ecosystem in the data space is huge.
> By definition, only a small minority can excel

I have interviewed multiple head pupils, valedictorian and captians of the football team and rowing crew from the same school & year on a few occasions.
It sounds like it's a package deal, a whole mouth of new teeth (which has downsides and upsides I guess).
They maybe were shitting it in public like Balmer because what they can say to journalists? That we have a worse product? There is a story about Android and Andy Rubin said that after iPhone announcement they decided they have to redesign everything from scratch.
Boring and slow.
"Introduction to Complexity" by Melanie Mitchell from Santa Fe Institute.

https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/185-introduction-...

This free course is based on her book "Complexity: A Guided Tour"

https://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Guided-Tour-Melanie-Mitche...
No, the most basic scenario is:

Someone uses their phone as their only computing device.

Their phone gets destroyed or stolen while they're far away from home to require a plane flight to get back. Perhaps stolen along with their ID.

How do you recover when your logins are passkey only and the passkeys are gone with the stolen phone?
I’d kill for a phone with proper music control hardware buttons. I miss my iPod, and being able to control it, precisely, from my pocket.
I think you’re misunderstanding what they mean by adapting to use cases. See this passage:

> The adapter models can be dynamically loaded, temporarily cached in memory, and swapped — giving our foundation model the ability to specialize itself on the fly for the task at hand

This along with other statements in the article about keeping the base model weights unchanged says to me that they are simply swapping out adapters on a per app or per task basis. I highly doubt they will fine tune adapters on user data since they have taken a position against this. I wonder how successful this approach will be vs merging the adapters with the base model. I can see the benefits but there are also downsides.
If they have already hacked your computer then its basically the same problem, no? The hackers can install keyloggers, or even OpenRecall and exfiltrate data.
Apple never advertised how long they would support updates, but recently published a 5 years policy [1]. It’s still bad since the device is well made and would easily outlast 5 years with battery replacement.

https://www.androidauthority.com/iphone-software-support-com...
That’s a common misconception. The signaling channels used aren’t “unused” – they’re literally set up and torn down to deliver SMS!
Yeah, but that kind of thinking isn’t good for attracting media attention or VC dollars.
I didn't know about Marginalia, thanks!

I've been trying out https://www.mojeek.com/ recently. I mostly like it, but haven't made it my primary habit to use it first before duckduckgo.

I'm avoiding kagi for various reasons.
Key terms in what I wrote:

- regularly unable: When you're an IC, there's plenty of non-code contributions needed but if it's so fantastically wild that you should regularly contribute code, something might be off.

- not be able to imagine any interpretation: the article literally says it now, but any half charitable reading already covers a productive day of non-code work. There's just still something to be said for making "butt in chair in front of editor" time.

If there's so much "other" taking your time in an organization that this seems onerous, it might be all the more reason to push for that time or question why that is.
The Titan Submersible Disaster. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing
Me too...

Sometimes I wonder, what is current / next thing that's like the PC / BBS / early internet scene of the 90s, with such a rich ecosystem of innovation, hobbyists, open source / shareware, where one or two people in a garage have as much of a chance of changing the direction as any entrenched company?

At least from the outside, the bitcoin scene of the early-mid 2010s looked like that - although there was plenty of dumb hype about the "product" itself, there was also of opportunity for innovation with mining, exchanges, and trading setups.

What seems like it could be the next such scene?
I'm not so sure. Both Go and Rust seem like examples of very popular ecosystems with a set of common, "blessed" tooling. (They didn't have everything from the get-go, e.g. rust-analyzer was very popular before it became part of the Rust project, but it still demonstrates that a large ecosystem can rally around a set of common tooling.)
Wait, the OP starts out with an even more vague claim and then a counter-point gets jumped on?

"Don't believe me go to Europe and Japan where kids are still allowed to walk"

This is the top rated comment here, the line by itself is about as ridiculous as any other. Every kid in Europe is allowed to walk to school? How is this any different that than the US?
>Why today’s phones are so boooooring?

Because the HW part of the UX has been commoditized to a giant screen where the big difference in style and UX is made by the SW and UI.

In fairness LG has tried experimenting with different HW UX over the years to distinguish themselves[1], and they went bust doing it because consumer weren't into that and voted with their wallets to those making boring phones like everyone else.

If consumers want large pocket Netflix machines you give them large pocket Netflix machines if you want to stay in business. They can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

[1] https://www.androidheadlines.com/2021/04/top-5-best-unique-l...
I grew up on almost a farm smack next to a nature park, was very outdoorsy kid and have all kinds of allergies ever since puberty onset.
And way too big. Why doesn't have Samsung a Mini version anymore? If they look I really don't care, but that they are all scaled like tablets (the cheap ones) annoys me.
Aren’t they just optimised for screen size/display? Eg. before design sold the phone, now image quality and camera quality.
> The only issue is software

So like half the thing then? It is kinda important bit if you actually want to use the thing.

Plus in my experience many of "the hardware is ready we just need software to catch up" issues turn quickly into "uhm, oh, we have several hardware issues but hopefully the software can work around them eventually".

> But I can't imagine it's impossible that one of the usual SBC-SoC manufacturers would finally start doing proper upstream Linux kernel work.

One can always hope. After a while one might think that the reasons they are unable to grow up to the task is structural.

Either way the reasoning "somebody one day might start doing what Raspberry Pi is already doing" is not as damning as you make it sound.
> This is undoubtedly true, although if Gleam ever becomes as popular as JavaScript, there will almost inevitably be the same set of choices to be made for Gleam.

Huh? I don't think so at all, Go and Rust did this same thing (include great and easy to use tooling as part of the language), they are super popular now and the tooling is still great.
Adding weight to the screen makes it more awkward to handle, particularly on a lap. Same problem tablets with attached keyboards have.
2015.

And no, it was not a thing.
The author answers their question in the article surely? Phones are boring because they are all screen as that’s the most important part. Perhaps I missed some other point they are making?
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You'd be surprised how many people look only at the monthly payment amount and ignore other financial concerns when deciding on a vehicle purchase. And perhaps with some terribly long loan term like 72 or 96 months they can get that payment to "fit" in their budget.
Starbucks has grown to the point where it can't grow more, at least in the USA. So it has to raise prices to continue to "grow" revenue. I stopped going to Starbucks on a regular basis because the coffee is just fine so I prefer to go to local coffee shops where there is a chance the coffee will be good or excellent.

That said, I will still go to Starbucks while traveling because the stores are everywhere, and I will get a consistent quality drink. So I am not anti-Starbucks but increased prices without an increase in drink quality limits my desire to go there.
The article seems to be based on misinterpreted information:

> Apple’s model has extremely low latency (0.6 milliseconds to first token), outperforms similar sized Phi and Gemini models from Microsoft and Google.

From [1] it is 0.6 millisecond per prompt token so unless the prompt is one token the latency would be higher.

> Apple’s server-side models running in the Private Cloud Compute are apparently quite near the GPT-4o in terms of quality

The benchmarks from [1] never mentioned GPT-4o, the best model they compared to for the server model is GPT-4-0125. If their model almost matches GPT-4o they wouldn't need to integrate with ChatGPT.

[1]: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple...
my dad wanted to buy a 486sx, i convinced him to go for the more expensive dx for povray and factint...

Yeah. I know now about the int in fractint :D
> it's almost like being an achiever is something to be ashamed of

this is definitely a thing. I know people that when a child does something great whether it's academics or sports or something else it's hushed away like "what will the neighbors think?". I can't get my head around it.
observablehq.com has built in support for duckdb, and I have found it to be very easy to use. Getting windowing and cte and derived columns is great and being able to just refer to sql query cells as an array of rows makes things much easier for me than breaking out into js right away.

Someone wrote an export function, so I can make a select into a table and grab that as csv to use elsewhere.

I wish for Simon Willison to adopt duckdb as he has with sqlite to see what he would create!
Those vary by OS, but the OP only said "my preferred fonts" (not "system")
Banking apps are working to take control of instant P2P payments through the new FedNow service.

The idea is that this will eventually become a standard feature of most US checking accounts --- just like a debit card. No 3rd parties or their added fees required.

https://explore.fednow.org
Yeah, at this point, for me, it’s “use Apple stuff” or “barely use computers in my personal life”. I did the Linux and (later) Android tinkering thing for a good long while, and I’m over it. Losing all the features and automation and integration I get with no time lost, for a bunch of time consuming and janky DIY that still wouldn’t get me all of it, isn’t something I’ll do these days. I’d just avoid computers.
They've had a few good messaging apps that were then left to rot and slowly break before being killed. GTalk was pretty solid and Hangouts was amazing at launch. But they all got worse over time instead of better.
It amazes me the lengths people will go to to avoid security.
Pretty clever and versatile. Too expensive at $599?

And the last paragraph - I wouldn't want to use it for a trip to the grocery store because I wouldn't want to lug it down the aisles - seems pretty dumb, they have carts at grocery stores for lugging things. That's exactly it's best use case probably?
Was that really the case? I remember they were mocked for e.g. offering wifi only, firewire only etc., while the respective removed alternatives were way more common.
I use it regulary. It works on static sites quite well, but subsites are not automaticaly saved, so not crawled.
The article author ignores how little those old phones could actually do, and how much of a pain in the ass it reliably was to get them to actually do most of it. I understand why; none of that would go to his point. But I was also there.

Boring is good in technology. It means you don't have to think about it much, and that usually means it is doing its job.
Something feels off about this. I mean, it can go both ways, no? Perhaps, pressure from attending a HAS might push one towards substance abuse and more. But couldn't pressure from attending an elite institution and being an elite also make push one against activities like substance abuse?

If we assume that the type of school affects lifelong outcomes, then we should also control for something like parent's latent neuroticism, which would affect both what school their child goes to and (I presume) also life-long probability of engaging in substance abuse as a coping mechanism.
People will just call it Apple AI like ATM machine.
It's not only about if something is 2x or 6x but also the final price. Many people can afford iPhone for $1k even though you can get 6x cheaper android model that in many cases would be good enough. Same with going to restaurant or buying a wine. But $3500 price tag is just hard to swallow - not many people have such a 'fun budget'
You would NOT want to use always-on with lcd.
I can definitely appreciate that conclusion. We are told to fill in forms, answer questionnaires, attend appointments, wait for callbacks, sign up for waiting lists, read websites, phone these numbers, search for alternative private options... just keeping you busy and distracted. They loved using COVID as an excuse to abolish the concept of face-to-face anything, to keep you even more arms length.

I literally said one of my issues is isolation, lack of connections etc and they said "ok we can offer you a phone appointment only". I know it's due to shortages but it was the complete lack of acknowledgement of the situation.

A lot of people are definitely getting paid just to manage applications and lists and callbacks and note typing etc without any care being delivered. Just enough to CYA if a relative blames them for anything that happens
An Axiomatic Basis of Accounting (1991)
The design of a phone has to fit every app, every kind of content. A design that would look cool with one app would look weird with another.

The thing about headphones is that you don't see them when you have them on.
I think it's an outward reflection of how the decision makers at these companies think. A look into their psyche. They're probably boring, conservative, unimaginative, dull people, concerned with raising profits and nothing else.

Ask them their "vision" and they'll probably tell you a larger screen, or a thinner body. Some kind of optimization of what's there, and not something new and wacky.
So, a socialist society then?
While POV-Ray was a cool project, let's not forget how far we have come with Blender and what a great success for the Free Software movement it represents.
If they are soooooo boring why does everyone stare at them all day long?
Because of A/B testing and design by committee.
>what do you get on the back usually? A mat glass with too many cameras and a logo that you gonna cover with a phone case anyway.

Meanwhile, there’s a ton of aesthetic design in cases. The essay doesn’t make that point building on the quote above, but that seems to be the simplest answer.
Aye. OP just wanted to evoke biblical verbiage for an opaque outcome
Making quality 10% better doesn’t necessarily mean the device is 10% bigger. The device could be 10x bigger for a boost of 10% in definition. Law of diminishing returns.