skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is true for BI (which I tend to agree with), then this even more true for ETL. End users have an even less of a chance of doing data wrangling. Rather, it’s the technical folks that’ll do it.

What we learned in building AWS Glue was that it wasn’t just about the context — it was also about escape valves. Escape valves are tools necessary to get out of a situation that wasn’t anticipated. When the answer doesn’t make sense, the technical users are the only ones that have the know how to debug it.
PUFAs Explain the Collapse in Human Metabolic Rate
Can you store things other than passwords, e.g. credit cards? I doesn't seem so, but I only gave it a quick look. Would love to switch but that is a hard requirement for me. Also, does it only work well with Safari?
> and more that you want it to be bloated with drivers for millions of various pieces of hardware like Windows, got it.

MacOS is bloated anyways; they might as well use that bloat for something important like backwards-compatibility and not zombie-code left over from the PowerPC era. That's just an objective failure, on Apple's behalf; they break software support more often than Microsoft and even Linux at this point. A professional OS really has no excuse to break someone's software and leave it broken. Even Microsoft gets that.

So... yeah, you know what? I do want it to be bloated with drivers, because whatever they're stuffing it with right now clearly isn't working. I don't trust Apple to write or maintain a long-lived successor, I demand third-party alternatives I can maintain myself. Give me more options for writing and delivering software, or else I am going to continue ignoring MacOS as a build target for the foreseeable future.
What questions are you expecting them to ask? "Do you eat chipotle"? "Are you alive"?
I've heard this too, though not nearly as often anymore. ( I suspect as I've aged, nobody is waking me up before I'd normally rise )
> I don't get the hand-wringing when it comes to reasonably priced services. Development and infrastructure costs money.

I have no problem paying for software. But in this case I’d far prefer a one-off purchase. The only reason there are ongoing infrastructure costs are because I’m being forced into using the company’s cloud service. I already pay for infrastructure in the form of my own cloud storage. I want to pay, once, for software that will use that infrastructure.

More generally, while I might see the value in paying $45 a year for a password service a lot of non-tech folks don’t. They’re happy using the same password everywhere they go (until they aren’t, of course), making them pay a few months-worth of Netflix to use software they’re already not inclined to use means they just won’t do it.
A continuous water quality system for fish tanks would be excellent, I'm not sure if the appropriate direct sensors actually exist at low cost- but I do think you could basically make it automatically read physical dip-in test strips. I find using, interpreting, and logging the test strips to be a pain- it would be really cool to have it automatic and just pull up the data in a spreadsheet, or get a push notification if the water is having a problem.
Genealogy of Google Payment Apps
For those of you who are inclined to say "HackerNews doesn't deal with politics", I hope that Lynn's story reminds you that any work you do is intertwined with politics. While I appreciate that it's a difficult line to walk, to have productive and relevant political discussion in a forum like this, politics and social acceptance are a part of every aspect of our lives. Brilliant, kind, impactful people are kept from leading the life they want to lead every day because of societal intolerance for who they are. Incredible people like Lynn who have overcome that intolerance to lead a remarkable life should remind everyone of the suffering that others go through. There are uncountable other people who are not allowed to be themselves and who are suffocated in our society, with the lives of transgender people often ending in ostracisation or murder. One of the remarkable things about technology is that it enables trodden people to escape this tyranny to an extent once impossible. It enables marginalized people to be themselves in our world. Let us continue to enable that.

Such "political" discussions and the impact technology has on them are an important part of the discourse here. I'm sad she is gone but I'm glad to see that this post is high up the front page. If you're inclined to denigrate transgender people, I encourage you to consider that they are trying to lead an honest life. I encourage you to consider what you're taking away from them and from the world by dehumanizing them. No matter why they are who they are.
It's more likely www.apple.com.shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro. And yes, DNS is much harder for regular people to understand than company names.
Same. Aside from a few self hosted services, I use Apple for my phone and work machines because I just want it to fucking work all the time. My parents understand that if they want IT support from me that they must use a Mac or iPhone - because then I rarely have to help them with anything.

The one exception I made recently was to dump Windows and move to a Fedora immutable build after seeing how capable the Steam Deck (and Linux) was for all the games I play. I’ll get shot of that if it causes me grief though - or just stop playing games on my PC.

I just don’t have the energy to mess about with it all these days and Apple is the 2nd best option in lieu of that.
We have a take home assignment as a screening stage, but we ask candidates to time box it to 45min. Some folks refuse to do it and that's fine, but most are pretty open to it.
Specific feedback:

- The model is said to be rewarded/penalized based on answers, and the plain meaning would leave someone with the impression of "answer to the question asked/prompt", the visual appears correct (the chalkboard indicates the question is "fill in the next token" and the answer is "the next most likely token")

- You end up with a strong sense there's 3 tables in the model called key, query, and value that carry the weight of the world. Are there only 3?

- "what part of data are we processing and are they relevant?" - what is they? what part of data is it processing? what is data in this context?

- "how well does this data answer my question?" - so the model is picking out answers from the training data and checking if it answers the prompt? This creates a strong sense of copying verbatim from training data

- "how should we improve the contextual representation of the input data?" - "contextual representation of the input data" isn't clear here, in my dummy brain, it's "here's information we can use to decide the next token: in this context, they meant cat cli, not cat the animal"

- "training a model is like doing Q&A with the neutral networks while it attends to the right data": Is it Q&A? If we double down on that (which means also doubling down on the idea being finding the answer in the training data, I don't think it's a good idea), then there's a gap in how the sentence connects within itself that's worth addressing. I assume "like doing Q&A with the neutral networks, and based on whether the answer is correct or not, it'll adjust and learn to attend to the right data"
I had a similar experience and was left wondering whether I could add progressively larger units of work to the alarm clock task to get things done while still "asleep". :)
Having worked with both, I strongly disagree.
You need to consider this in the context of the relevant task. Nvidia GPUs have extremely high peak performance for GEMM, but when working with LLMs, bandwidth (and RAM capacity) becomes the limiting factor. There is a reason why real ML-focused datacenter Nvidia GPUs use much wider RAM interfaces and a much higher price point. The M2 Ultra might not have the raw compute, but it has a lot of RAM and large caches.
Argentine monthly inflation set to fall below 5%
I just got a generic message on YC's job board that ended by asking me if I'd be interested in doing their case study with a link to the case. No, head of product, I am not interested in doing a case study before I spend, y'know, fifteen whole minutes talking to you about the company and role.
420 is a weed joke
Not really. They use ChatGPT as a last resort for a question that isn't related to the device or an Apple-related interaction. Ex: "Make a recipe out of the foods in this image" versus "how far away is my mom from the lunch spot she told me about". And in that instance they ask the user explicitly whether they want to use ChatGPT.
It doesn't seem like there's really a right answer. There is such a wide spectrum between "yolo everything into the market and find out later whether it is dangerous" and "don't do anything unless it's proven safe." I personally feel we can afford to throw innovation under the bus a little more than we do today, in exchange for more safety assurances, but reasonable people can disagree about it.
> I checked sources, turns out literally tens of millions of people vocally and loudly disagree with you.

That is not how truth works.
In memoriam of Google Pay, which shut down today

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/google-shuts-down-th...
Windows Phone has this feature long time ago and I got to experience it at conference they had. Yea, if your daily workflow is Email/Word Processing/Basic Spreadsheets, it could mostly do what you need it to do but was touch laggy due to hardware. At this point, with most Pro devices, it could 100% be your daily driver. Seems all that is missing is software support. I wish iPhone would do it but Apple clearly doesn't want to cut into iPad/Mac sales.
Oh, I've played that game.

Did a round of interviews for staff engineer at Catawiki that felt more like trying to guess the right words than actual problem solving.

But I get it. People get dragged into the process, usually without compensation. And it's much easier and safer to reject than to accept.

The tragedy is that everyone knows that the approach isn't working, I haven't met a single person who thinks SWE hiring is working; but we still seem unable do fix it.
Indeed. Apropos to this: new features[1] to insert ads into videos in native apps.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10114/
Of course it does - plastics used in packaging scratch easily. That's enough to produce microplastics.

Additionally polypropylene degrades under sunlight, becoming brittle. The process takes several months.
It's a whole "chain of trust" kind of problem just like X.509.
That's so sad. I get so excited when I interview candidates that are ahead of me in their knowledge and experience.
I use BitWarden and I prefer having the open source and self hosted options for using BitWarden. 1Password does not have those. Despite that, I've been strongly advocating for it at work because it easily has the most polished and refined UI/UX of all the managers I've tried.
Does Norway still have much of a mining industry? After years of relying on resources from other countries, I would imagine that building the infrastructure, acquiring equipment, and hiring skilled workers will be a serious challenge. And the first productive year would still be a long ways away. On the other hand, it may be strategically important for NATO to have productive mines that aren’t under the control of enemy states (Russia, China, etc).
We are not always the target demographic. I know many people who use apps because they were the default. Most people used Internet Explorer because it was, and many still don't know that there's an alternative, or even why use an alternative.
Certainly! You can pretty much build full video editors with Revideo. There are many companies with video-editing at the core of their product that could have been built with us (think veed.io, invideo.io or the editor part of www.synthesia.io). We're thinking about building a template in this direction so people have a starting point when building these kinds of apps. In terms of video automation, we've seen people build apps for marketing and enterprise learning. One marketing tech company uses Revideo to generate video ads from their customers product catalogue.
Turin is now... Turambar!
If they grew up their whole life not caring about security, and they never perceived any issue in their life due to a security issue, then is it so hard to believe or understand why they don't care about security?

(I am just agreeing with your comment)
one hundred percent no --cheers from California, land of already dying retail everything
My best guess is that it's a lot more costly than "keeping the lights on," probably in liability exposure.

You can eff around a lot in the tech space (in the US) on AI, privacy, data protection and preservation, reliability, etc., but when you get into the financial sector the rules change. The US's monetary system only works because it's audited out to hell and back to avoid people cheating. And the government is quite empowered to enforce scrutiny on that auditing. Even having a toe in the water in the US market probably opens up Google to massive investigative potential they'd prefer to just avoid.

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:DEADNAME says:

> If a living transgender or non-binary person was not notable under a former name (a deadname), it should not be included in any page (including lists, redirects, disambiguation pages, category names, templates, etc.), even in quotations, even if reliable sourcing exists. Treat the pre-notability name as a privacy interest separate from (and often greater than) the person's current name.

So, now she has passed away, it is allowed by policy to add her birth name to the article (assuming it can be reliably sourced, etc)

Although https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BDP also says:

> Generally, this policy does not apply to material concerning people who are confirmed dead by reliable sources. The only exception would be for people who have recently died, in which case the policy can extend for an indeterminate period beyond the date of death—six months, one year, two years at the outside.

So some might argue that, due to WP:BDP, WP:DEADNAME still applies in the period immediately after her death – but in 2027 it won't (assuming Wikipedia leaves its policies unchanged)
I think you don't understand Apple's brand. They would much rather charge $100 for wheels for the Mac Pro or double the cost for RAM upgrades than look cheap and have ads on basic apps.
Decade of the Battery
What do you do when people refuse?

I know I probably would, so I'm curious.
I like to think of these neural networks as search engines for "solution" queries. When I used to do an old fashioned web search, I would check the results to see if they are useful. I'm really suspicious of modes that don't follow this pattern for using neural networks, seems to be asking for trouble.
The atmosphere, though thin, does a lot of work too.
I agree with you. V7 was good enough that I’d have paid for it over using Apple. But v8 has had me looking for an alternative anyway.
nice to see a small studio seeing massive success and also resisting the urge to over-monetize and compromise quality. Takes a lot of discipline to say no tens of millions of dollars today
In the northern hemisphere the prevailing winds come from the west, which is why west coasts are more moderate than east coasts. Winds coming from the ocean are more moderate than winds coming from the interior of a continent.

This is why New York is on the same latitude as Lisbon yet is much colder. Same for Tokyo and San Francisco.

Western Europe is about as far north as people can live in large numbers.
Motorola had it in 2011 in the Droid Bionic:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/motorola-droid-bionics-webt...
https://thomcraver.com/android/24-hours-with-droid-bionic-an...
The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
This does look useful, but I wonder - would there be any overlap between this desktop mode and ChromeOS or completely separate? I fear if they're totally separate, having two "desktop" modes will result in one of them ending up in the infamous graveyard.
> purposefully vague and mysterious/mystical terminology like 'embeddings' and 'attention'

I agree, but this isn't the cartoonist's problem: that's the fancifu vocabulary of the paper's authors.
I had one where the TL was on their laptop the whole time. They were prompted by their manager to ask me a question. They asked and immediately went back to typing while I was responding they didn't even acknowledge my response. I was offered the role but turned it down. The manager was furious. Why would I want to work with/for someone who doesn't have enough time or desire to show basic respect?

Another time went for a code screen that said we could use any language on our own machine. When I go there the hiring manager handed me a Mac and told me I'd be using Angular to code a given problem. That's great. I had no experience with Macs, no experience with WebStorm, no experience with Angular. What a waste of time. I asked why he even brought me in if I didn't have any of this listed on my resume and the recruiter told me it'd my choice of machine and language? His response was that maybe I had the experience but just didn't list it on my resume. Fuck you too.
Apple Wallet is for debit/credit cards, it already exists and works.
What's wrong with the interviewer wearing a suit?
> result is that its natural resources haven’t been consumed to the degree that most developed countries’ resources have

This also describes Saudi Arabia.
This feature is also a lifesaver when your phone screen breaks! A mishap on the bus led to this happening with my old OnePlus phone, and with a USB C to HDMI adapter I was able to navigate around and salvage anything I needed from that device. I actually assumed this was the standard, so when the same thing eventually happened to the Pixel 6 Pro I got after that, I was distraught to learn that Pixels didn't support video-out at all. I ended up managing to get TalkBack (Android's audio assistance tool for the visually impaired) turned on, use that plus screenshots I referenced online to get USB debugging enabled and authorize my computer, and then use scrcpy [0] to control my phone over an ADB connection.

[0] https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
May she rest in peace, her achievements and contributions to the field of computing are unfortunately unknown to those outside of the field - but impacted so much more than just computing.
https://xkcd.com/169/
How is this different to / better than remotion.dev?
when every app loads an entire duplicate browser stack then your RAM is wasted out of cheapness and negligence.

Moreover, I shouldn’t need a cutting edge microprocessor just to look at my saved passwords. Multiplied across 15 million 1Password users, even 1 second amounts to about six months of collective time wasted for each app launch.

I would never hire any developer who disregarded their users’ time, UI experience, and computing resources so blatantly.
> When nearing retirement, Conway learned that the story of her early work at IBM might soon be revealed through the investigations of Mark Smotherman that were being prepared for a 2001 publication

That kind of makes it sound like Smotherman was poking around trying to find Conway's secrets. What was actually happening is that he was trying to research an early IBM supercomputer project, but was not having much luck. There was very little published information, and IBM had apparently lost its records. Smotherman asked on the net for help and Conway responded and gave him a massive amount of information.

Here's an article that provides more information [1]. Here's the first few paragraphs:

> Late in 1998, a young researcher delving into the secret history of a 30-year-old supercomputer project at IBM published an appeal for help. As Mark Smotherman explained in an Internet posting, he knew that the project had pioneered several supercomputing technologies. But beyond that, the trail was cold. IBM itself appeared to have lost all record of the work, as if having experienced a corporate lobotomy. Published details were sketchy and its chronology full of holes. He had been unable to find anyone with full knowledge of what had once been called “Project Y.”

> Within a few days, a cryptic e-mail arrived at Smotherman’s Clemson University office in South Carolina. The sender was Lynn Conway, one of the most distinguished American women in computer science. She seemed not only to know the entire history of Project Y, but to possess reams of material about it.

> Over the next few weeks, Conway helped Smotherman fill in many of the gaps, but her knowledge presented him with another mystery: How did she know? There was no mention of her name in any of the team rosters. Nor was any association with IBM mentioned in her published resume or in the numerous articles about her in technical journals. When he probed, she would reply only that she had worked at the company under a different name--and her tone made it clear there was no point in asking further.

> What Smotherman could not know was that his appeal for strictly technical information had presented Lynn Conway with a deeply personal dilemma. She was eager for the story of IBM’s project to emerge and for her own role in the work to be celebrated, not suppressed. But she knew that could not happen without opening a door on her past she had kept locked for more than 30 years.

> Only after agonizing for weeks did Conway telephone Smotherman and unburden herself of an extraordinary story.

> “You see,” she began, “when I was at IBM, I was a boy.”

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-nov-19-tm-54188...
> I'm hoping someone shares a deep dive on the product soon

I have the app open in front of me but haven’t used it much. It’s basically the Passwords pane from System Settings ripped out and with some new fixed smart categories. If that’s enough for you, so will the app be. If not, not.
On that note, a simple point where Bitwarden is lacking is the custom fields feature. It feels disconnected, separated from the main fields, and doesn't integrate very well into web forms that use the extra fields. 1Password, on the other hand, handles the custom fields amazingly, and event lets you creat sections to group them together in entries.
Less the 19th century. The Congress of Vienna achieved a lasting peace after the Napoleonic wars.
If I won’t give Amazon my palm print to pay at Whole Foods, why the f would I give Mastercard a pair of retinal scans?

Seems like MC executives grew up on “Minority Report” and thought, damn this is a good idea!
Let's leak all the proprietary Source Codes in the world!

Proprietary software threatens to destroy humanity by enforcing and producing inhuman, capital centric values. Due to the existential threat caused by the proliferation of such production, all proprietary software must be seized and made public, so it can be audited, and repurposed for genuine human survival values.
Go small with Embedded Swift [video]
That’s just not what a “data structure problem” commonly means. If it was, all programs would be data structure problems because all programs interact with data in some form.

A data structure problem is a problem where designing and implementing an appropriate data structure is in some way hard. A 2d array doesn’t fit the bill. It’s not exotic enough.
The meat and potatoes are in the PDF, but I submitted the landing page because it has an intro and you can see that software is also available.

I got the link for this from here:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/YVVjUaDCCaBndfaok...

Which is a discussion that I can best summarize as "why ChaCha20 is better than AES-256".