skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably most people would think like that, but it all depends on what you can still do. If you become a good writer or even if you stick to software, but make valuable contributions, that improve the world a bit, or become a great orator, or give people good counsel, or any other great activity, you might find, that that is a goal worth still continuing to live.
> an alloy which is not easily detected

Seems implausible. Again, Ti is way out on the edge of properties, being intermediate between steel and aluminum in weight and stiffer than either. That alloy would be a pretty novel thing, and novel metallurgy is more expensive than the hot Titanium someone stole from a bomber graveyard in Siberia.
Building more homes to ease the housing crisis is similar to building larger freeways to try and ease traffic congestion. It’s just not going to work.
Joe Ferraro as New CEO of Hypothesis
Every research lab is focused on new architectures that would reduce training costs.
Your example was a little too over my head and I started Googling for this simulator I might not have played with.
Definitely convenient, but I question the need for an ever-changing API for this sort of thing. If you reload the endpoint (which can be done directly in the browser, which I like) the order of the markdown and paragraphs change. So, if I'm testing this when developing, and I want to find the perfect numbered bullet points, I have to scroll around and find them again, each time the API is hit.

It could be argued that I could build something on my own that grabs the result and caches it to make refreshing less jarring, but at that point, why bother with an API at all?
If you give away the land to someone else, but still own the building on it, the person you gave the land to would have to pay land value tax and they would pass that onto you in rent.
What’s damning is that they didn’t foresee the obvious reaction. It’s characteristic of the bubble that informs their product design decisions.
Asus has been fucking over Customers in their RMA for years (Personally had it happen to me like 10 years ago).

Steve had them on their Radar a year ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7af_LGtD_jc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJKzKbqxa0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbGfc-JBxlY

Then waited a year to see if they have changed and low and behold still scummy af: They scammed Gamers Nexus when they did an undercover Repair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY

Knowing Asus is run by headless chickens, the inevitable bullshit response comes out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3DwhTc7Z4o and it's victim blaming as you'd expect.

Steve than revealed that Asus is already on the FTCs Radar and talked to a few lawyers on camera explaining just how fucking illegal Asus tactics are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYdtpU8FKO8

And finally, with this Video, he straight up bullied them into giving him an interview with executives to make them finally fix their shit
I've attempted to use the effect strategically. Not sure if it really worked or not. It's certainly not healthy, and it certainly didn't improve the quality of my work, but I've pushed thru some unpleasant times with an eye toward trying not to form long-term memories by way of sleep deprivation.
And the font family
From all three major OS vendors on the consumer market, Microsoft is still the one that pushes more C and C++ into production on their OS, in detriment of .NET, despite all the security discussions.

All the efforts from other teams to have .NET reach Swift, Java, Kotlin levels of adoption on Windows, have always hit a wall against WinDev culture.

Also the 90's spirit from features over security hasn't yet gone away from WinDev, so it isn't really surprising this turned out this way.
Vercel sponsored my project (https://github.com/huhu/rust-search-extension) since 2020, and I also received their email yesterday. I sent a email try to ask the reason, and get no response yet.
You know what would be catastrophically bad? A Recall AI feature being baked into Android.

Like most people don't actually use personal computers anymore, even laptops aren't common among demos younger than millennials. I can tolerate switching to Linux or buying a steam deck.

But if this became a hard coded feature of android or iOS I'd have to give up smartphones entirely.
It literally does. A derivative is defined point wise.
This sounds like a much broader and uglier problem in the system than empathy between custech and the customer - namely, empathy between the broader company and the customer. I am not convinced that the kinds of companies that will be using these services are the kind of company that even listens to their customer support agents, and would rather sell them out to the lowest bidder and the only reason they have any customer support agents at all is so they don't get in legal trouble because their automated system doesn't have all edge cases supported.
This feature is exclusive to PCs designated as CoPilot+, which requires 16 gigs of ram and a NPU of a certain speed.
My mistake on android i'm using KeePassDX https://www.keepassdx.com/ open source
If you enjoy problem solving and you're good at Excel often spreadsheets can be fun. It's not necessarily playing a game but about the satisfaction of logically laying out data, transformations and calculations in a way that solves a problem.

That's not fun for everyone but it is fun for some people. The same way coding challenges and learn 2 code gamified websites are fun for some people.

[Insert Dilbert "the knack" show segment]
At least their extortion is polite?
What % of Global GDP would be lost within 24 hours if Excel suddenly disappeared tonight (all other things staying the same)?

A double-digit % would be lost, and possibly a very high one at that.
Making heavy weapons requires lots of energy and they just lost access to it.
It's pretty interesting. I have actually stumbled over this yesterday, because I needed to figure out a way to automate a very specialised and ancient TUI application (think car rental software that is still used worldwide). Meanwhile I've wrote a crude parser for ANSI escape sequences and managed a virtualised screen representation; but I'm also having a fair bit of problems sending commands.

ht seems to be almost "there" for me, and would allow me to easily build a sequence of actions. However, it's kinda missing the color representation, which is also a problem for me: I need to read the color of a specific row/column to know that a specific menu item is selected correctly, and then proceed from this.

Let's see to what it can evolve later.
There was a blog post a few weeks ago, unavailable now,

https://web.archive.org/web/20240608015525/https://ottertune...
Tulsa, Oklahama: Time Warp at 50
Is it fair though?

While I think them ending support from a day to another is terrible (should've given much more time to address it) at the end of the day they have put lots of money in open source ecosystem and hired plenty of devs to work on their own projects (not even Vercel's).
Excellent resource
To Zone or Not to Zone When Upgrading a Wet Heating System from Gas to Heat Pump
I saw a college hackathon project and the team only needed audio cues, because there were distinct change points you could detect, sharp changes in audio level or very small gaps in audio iirc. The harder part was deciding when to unmute, are you between commercials or resuming content
I'm not sure what business GP is in, but being encouraged not to be unethical and explicitly forbidding illegal activity doesn't seem like much of an infringement on one's freedom more than the applicable laws. I guess being arrested for crimes is one thing, but having a license revoked on top of that is just one step too far?
It's likely laundered through China from Russia bypass avoid sanctions.
Exactly! Consider you have an SQLite database on your computer with your aggregated data from Strava, Spotify, and everything else. You do whatever you want with it. The app will come with a GUI that will allow some additional analysis or querying but you do your thing if you like!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682165
The bailiffs will look for assets. That is too say other assets than that site.
The misinformation is coming from inside the house!
The value of the land is a function of the amount of money one could make off the land, which is a function of the overall economy. A coffee shop next to lots of office buildings can sell lots of overpriced coffee which affects the value of the land it occupies. If the economy gets bad the coffee shop will likely not make as much money, so the taxes off the land will be less as well.
1. Tell 'em.
Titanium is metallurgy on hard mode.[1] Iron and steel behave in a much more consistent way.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09215...
I think the issue is more that nobody asked for it.

These tools are useful, and on a Mac if you want Rewind, you have to know you want it, go out download it, pay for it, install it yourself .. and you knew what you were getting into the whole time.

Having a tool like this planted in your device without your consent is pushing your userbase over the edge.

If they made it a separate feature you had to manually install, like Windows Sandbox or WSL .. they could have avoided shooting themselves in the foot.
Surely all of us have experienced having to talk to someone who is angry, and even if we can't do anything about it, adjusting the way we speak to show that we understand their anger?

Eg letting them (to an extent) rant about the trouble being caused to them, phrasing things to not come off as confrontational or blaming, anticipating things that might trigger another outburst (eg being asked to try restarting the router when they've already claimed to have called in several times and thus may have been asked to do so several times).
Ask HN: Where to find founders in their early 20s?
I'm 20. Last year I launched a fairly successful SAAS startup. I recently dropped out to work on it full time and moved to NYC. I have friends here but they're all in college and I'd really like to meet people who went down the same path as me in life.

How can I meet other people like me?
Nope. DATEVALUE fumbles this badly.

It's precisely for parsing dates but on a column with 1-digit vs. 2-digit days/months and 2-digit vs. 4-digit years (all in d/m/y format, mind you), it fails in one instance or the other.
Why does nvidia release models that compete with its customers businesses but don’t make any money for nvidia?

Are they commodotising their complements?
You're assuming Microsoft acts as a singular, cohesive entity, which like any company it is not.
The piper has come and gone several times. Solarwinds, left-pad, xz-utils, we can keep going here. We can holler all we want about corporations handle open source so irresponsibly, but at the end of the day they don't care unless there is a lasting impact on their bottom line.
My guess: because they waited to make their offerings public when they somewhat matured their behind the scenes implementations and architectures.

So now a few releases after that, during which they bumped specs and made smaller changes to the architectures, there's not much room to easily grow.

More training data availability and quality is also a limiting factor to improvement (speed and resource needs can be improved more easily than that).
If they have any contributors within the territory I think there is reason to be concerned for their long term safety. The original capitulation may have to been to have time to check.
According to Wikipedia, Ti alloys are commercially available, and used in aviation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_alloys
Sadly YouTube has become a NO GO site. I am willing to watch an ad for a video I want to see, but so often with youtube content I dismiss the video within 5 seconds of it starting. I am not willing to watch 2 minutes of ads to find out if I want to watch the video in the first place.

What alternate sites are there?
> I've not seen anything to make me think this feature is intended for surveillance as opposed to personal utility.

In the future companies can have this enabled and just ask chatgpt to fire bottom 10% of staff.

Or they can ask microsoft to 'train' their own company AI based on worker interactions then fire them once the AI can mimic the work good enough. (this is likely the goal)
Oh the ERP world...you get some stubborn user that refuses to learn the reporting language or SQL, and instead wants to load data dumps into Excel. Requires about ten times the hardware to do the same thing.
Thanks!

And it's not so much about proof, it's about the details. For example the $300/month discount for a much longer transition period seems like pretty relevant context.
Self hosted coolify[0], very easy to set up IMO

[0]: https://coolify.io/
I've managed both data centers and cloud and IMHO, no, it is not fluff. To take it in order:

> doesn't have security issues

It sure does, but the matrix of responsibility is very different when it is a hosted service. Note: I am making these comments about Bedrock, which is serverless not in relation to EC2.

> It crashes

Absolutely, but the recovery profile is not even close to the same. Unless you have a full time person with physical access to your server who can go press buttons.

> data loss

I'm going to shift this one a tiny bit. What about hardware loss? You need backups regardless. On the cloud when a HDD dies you provision a new one. On premise you need to have the replacement there and ready to swap out (unless you want to wait for shipping). Same with all the other components. So you basically need to buy two of everything. If you have a fleet of servers that's not too bad since presumably they aren't going to all fail on the same component at the same time. But for a single server it is literally double the cost.

> doesn't involve lots of administration

Again, this is relation to Bedrock with is a managed serverless environment. So there is litterally no administration aside from provisioning and securing access to the resource. You'd have a point if this was running on EC2 or EKS but that's not what my post was about.

> Thinking that we don't know any better is both disingenuous and a bit insulting.

I'm not saying cloud is perfect in any way, like all things it requires tradeoff, but quite frankly I find you dismissing my 25 years of experience, 1/3 of that has been working in real data centers (including a top-50 internet company at the time) as "fluff" as "disingenuous and a bit insulting".
Milton is trapped (web LLM "game")
tbh that's a knockdown argument. All the conversation second guessing
the intent and motives of bosses, users and third parties is moot when
it runs on an OS that is controlled remotely and insecure by design.
Apple are following, (and I exlect you'll have even less choice about
that - because its clientsode scanning in disguise) and Google have
always been proud of their surveillance based business model, so I
think the whole landscape of big provider computing is
changing. People are actually starting to question what they want
computer devices for
Asif they don't have a handheld XRF to check everything that comes off the truck, the concern is the quality.
You can use $=a to get word splitting in zsh.

While incompatible, the zsh behaviour makes a lot more sense.

You can use "setopt sh_word_split" to get the POSIX behaviour.

Or split explicitly with ${(s: :)a}, ${(s:SPLIT-ON-THIS:)a}, etc. (not compatible with anything but zsh).
Yeah I suppose that's a fair point to make.
As far as I know, a long while ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran asked Cisco to develop a filtering solution to stop their citizens from accessing undesirable content. Cisco said no. Then US companies started asking for filters to stop their employees watching porn at work, Cisco invented a centralised domain/packet filtering solution for their routers, and Iran went "can we buy one of those, please?".

My take is that MS did intend the feature purely for utility (and to be fair to them I can think of a lot of scenarios where it is useful). But they did this by not seriously thinking about security at all, and the wider internet has now done that thinking for them.

It reminds me of why SSL version numbers effectively start at 3. Netscape wrote version 1, their internal security team broke it, so they wrote version 2 and I believe shipped it without letting their internal security team do a full review. That got broken quickly too, so they want back and did the job properly (by the standards of the day) and shipped SSL v3, which lasted a while. (It's also been broken now, of course.)

I think Microsoft realised recall needed more work, and is now looking at that more seriously.
It's like having a team of hyperactive interns at your disposal.

They'll fetch you all the latest libs, best practices, code samples, etc.

But they have no idea how to apply it to the business case at hand, how to secure the code, what real world edge cases to protect against.

And half the time their code is suboptimal or doesn't quite compile ... and wait till they try complex async ...

It's a force-multiplier for good/experienced engineers, but it's going to devastate the market for white-collar sweatshops.
Osmos, comprehensive data ingestion platform
Hopefully, much less, or Vercel is indeed bleeding money and not long for this world.
I would rather that Python catches up with Common Lisp tooling in JIT/AOT in the box, instead of compilation via C.
My personal feelings aside, Microsoft is Too Big to Suck like this, regarding security and privacy. At this point, their culture is a national security liability.

We have seen some recent efforts, but how does one right such a large ship?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/brad_smith_microsoft_...

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24119787/microsoft-cloud-e...
Wasn't Kalanick basically booted from Uber? I think he retained his partial ownership.
Except that there's no real path for non-technical people to learn and do that, but there is on for them to become Excel power users and solve their problems with that tool.
Or you can adblock and donate on Patreon etc. to your favourite channels. Not every channel you watch will benefit, but a much higher percentage of your money goes to creators, who generally get a less than fair deal from platform holders. Same goes for buying music on Bandcamp + pirating, versus a music streaming subscription.
Anyone from Twenty care to comment on this?
The family plan is a good deal too
Funny, because just such a referendum was held. And ignored. And I'm not talking about the recent one, but the one back in the early 1990s.
I wonder if negotiating with Cara on their $98k bill which got some press caused them to need to recoup costs elsewhere. (Just a wild guess based on the timing.)

https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/06/vercel-serverless-scale-e...
>This is a very cynical take.

But also very correct.

>I've not seen anything to make me think this feature is intended for surveillance as opposed to personal utility.

Now that's a very naive take.

They already use tons of telemetry to profie you for ads, snitch about you to your boss, share with partners, and so on, and only growing on that front. Plus all the cooperation they do with their favorite government.
Healthcare should be run by the government, PE is about as far away from that ideal as possible. Profit motives should rarely (if ever) mix with healthcare
so "Microsoft Windows By Dell" instead of "Dell Computer, powered by Microsoft Windows"
It’s hard not to think this is just the FAA trying to protect Boeing again by making it look like Airbus is equally bad.

FAA should just be rehoused under department of commerce where the job is actually to promote and protect American business interests.

At least then we can admit we have no regulatory oversight of aviation safety. Let’s be honest as a country for once.
> I've not seen anything to make me think this feature is intended for surveillance

What it's intended for and what it can actually be used for are two different things.
For some use cases. If someone is using a spreadsheet as a form app, then sure. But spreadsheets are one of the best tools for analysis work.
GitBook, Effortless API Documentation
>Because an "unstoppable apex predator" could never become 100% Grey Goo, as it still needs something to eat!

Grey Goo doesn't consume for energy but for mass; energy needs are plot devices.

I'd argue the majority of human food consumption is for energy not mass so we can't approach the 100% mass of a grey goo event.
I'm not vibing with your distaste for the vibes.
Explaining the Concept of Data Information
That’s a product recall.
Game theory opposes this.

The current equilibrium: data are co-located with processing, both the storage and the processing ("service") are things that clients are happy to pay to offload. Bringing data in is easy and often free. Taking the data out is hard / expensive, so customers stick unless the service becomes truly poor.

Imagine a player which makes it easy to take the data away. Now customers have easier time leaving, and will leave more often. They will go to the "sticky" SaaS players, and will get stuck there. There could be a bigger influx of new customers because it's less risky to try, but "sticky" providers also offer trial periods and free tiers.
Pytorch. If you understand a lot about pytorch, you will be forced to understand a lot of basic machine learning and math for free, and it will feel less magical.
I can see why they would want to hold onto this feature, since it would make their devices incredibly sticky. If you spent a year or two having an AI understand literally everything that happens on your screen, then you'd be hard-pressed to switch to a different platform that lacks that historical understanding. Assuming there's no way to port the data, this would all but guarantee that you're a customer for life.

It's possible Apple could have pulled this off. But MS has shown itself time and time again to be user-hostile and privacy-agnostic.
When I made the proposal to restore the CHM's pdp-1, the reason was "Spacewar!"
I work for an S-Corp with ~500 office employees and high nine-figure revenue (in dollars). All of our industry specific software is only available on Windows.
What about VVC (H.266)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Video_Coding
>Vanguard also has significant interest in the success of all Tesla competitors that are part of the index.

They don't really. They own GM and Ford stock, in smaller quantities, nothing from the other largest auto makers. Do you know something I am not aware of?
Satya Nadella's Microsoft is such a weird company. It's like there's one side of it that is running with Zuckerberg's "move fast and break things" and the other side is saying "wait, we're the most important software company in the world! Things can't break!"
> Is there really a perceived difference on the employees side?

Only if we could generalize all the employees! I am sure there are some who feel better to have holiday gifts, holiday parties, token recognition rewards etc. And there would be some who just evaluate everything on the basis of cold hard numbers. A good company should have policies to cater to as many employees as possible.
> AI will cause these dynamics to spiral even faster, making software even cheaper and distribution more expensive. It’s still early, but there are plenty of fascinating examples of AI acting as an increasingly competent replacement for engineering.

I've been hearing this for years and I'm still waiting on it. The most I've seen is some employees using ChatGPT or similar to produce some initial code. But even those employees reported you have to spend the same amount of time painstakingly analyzing each section of code because it contains unusual or bizarre bugs in edge cases.
'Elon Doesn't Care About Tesla Anymore': Musk's Biggest Fans Are Turning on Him
How do you know their private sector business is not booming?
I don't believe he ever got in trouble for pharma pricing. It was securities fraud.