skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I expect most will feel the same.

I buy Pis because of their support, stability and out of the box experience is far superior to other cheaper clones. I have tons of cards which are paperweights without Armbian or self-rolled distributions, and even them some are feature-capped because of kernel-dependent closed source modules or out-of-tree drivers.

I can still download and install a recent version of RaspberryPi OS to my Raspi 1, customize the image even before it touches the SD card, and remove the card and install to a more recent Pi, and continue working.

More importantly, I can upgrade OS from version to version (Armbian doesn't support this, and they say it explicitly for example).

OrangePi, Radxa and Asus failed on all these fronts. I still peek and poke OrangePi 5B's Debian image since I can't trust them blindly, but can't use its AI and video (rendering/encoding) accelerators without its official image.

Oh, and my OrangePi Zero always crashes within a day or two if I don't practically disable its frequency scaling capability via governor. Even a good cable and adapter which can run a Raspi 3/4 without any hiccups can't make this postage stamp sized thing happy and stable.

P.S.: For everyone who thinks RaspberryPi brand and hardware will be enshittified: I'm not saying that it won't happen. What I'm saying is, let's watch how this moat evaporates, and who passes (said moat) and replaces them on their hill.
> 280 feet long, stretching longer than a football field

Seems unclear to phrase it that way when talking a about the dimensions of the load and then comparing the entire transport apparatus length.

Unsure how they jump from 280 being greater than 360.
Apple doesn’t farm all its GenAI out to OpenAI, not even all its server-side stuff. So, yes.
Switching gears is expensive, and if every company switched to "the most profitable thing" it wouldn't be profitable.

This automatically prevents them from mindlessly switching.
You know what else happened in late 2021? Vaccine mandates in the US (and Canada).

In the US, there were two - the first, via OSHA, affected all employers with > 100 employees. Employees would need to be vaccinated or tested weekly and required to wear a mask. This was overturned by the Supreme Court.

The second, via CMMS required vaccinations for all health care employees if Medicare or Medicaid money is involved. SCOTUS allowed that one.
Training a minimap detector for League of Legends without overthinking it
TLDR: work performance dropped.
No, It's just because the service is overloaded
The military industrial complexes and supply chains of those three countries are the relevant ones, not Slovakia's.

Russia, for example, built a lot of nuclear plants around the world as a way of exporting the supply chain and skills base they built up while building the world's largest stockpile of nukes.
It doesn't happen often, but I always enjoy when I spot oversize equipment making its way across the roads. Enormous construction equipment; wind turbine blades; partial buildings. The kind of stuff that requires multiple lanes, careful route planning, and lead & follow cars. Gives a little glimpse of the immense effort we put in to building, improving, and maintaining our society.
Yeah, title inflation / deflation based on DEI quotas are still the elephant in the room.

Of course the guy backpacking the contract making $20 an hour is gonna have something adverse to think of his "CSR" title relative to a few salaried watering hole loiters/"Software Engineers" who's biggest achievements are having named an Excel sheet 4 years ago and googling a Salesforce configuration option and misplaining it.
The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government
Compromising Rspack Using GitHub Actions
Will we continue scientific research?
Neither the press release nor the claimant's website clarify that the "price parity" agreement is specifically about redistributing Steam Keys. If you generate a bunch of keys for your game, you're not supposed to undercut Steam by selling them elsewhere - which imo is defensible since you're selling permanent access to Steam's services.

If you're selling the game on other platforms without the use of Steam keys, there's no such agreement or restriction. I think that this changes the case considerably.
> No one has ever brought a native (not 3rd party) calculator to the iPad before. Apple is the first.

I'm not sure I understand... Considering apple makes the ipad, wouldn't all ipad calculators other than apple's be 3rd party by definition?
Seems like it hasnt crawled any sports-related datasets. At least not for baseball. You can get things like ticket sales but not anything like batting averages.
I get that AI is overhyped, but calling it “trash” seems silly and hyperbolic. LLMs can do some pretty neat things if you understand their limitations.
Doesn't matter, it's not worthwhile to use this tool. As soon as you become productive with it, incorporate it into your workflows and suggest it to your friends, the inevitable will occur. You'll hear the announcement from Google about its termination. At this point in time, it has even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since everyone expects it to be dead soon, none will start to use it, causing it to be dead soon.
Yes, but there seems to be a pretty reliable supply of used thin clients. I have no idea who still buys new thin clients, but whoever it is must replace them regularly.
Sure—but Apple had the advantage of being able to develop the whole thing fully to their satisfaction before revealing it (jury-rigged initial demo notwithstanding).

Once the iPhone was revealed, everyone else had to scramble to catch up in real time, and many of them tried to just half-ass it—or, as the GP says, just weren't used to the paradigm and took a while to figure out how to do it well.
That is not how they are being sold. We have people saying they will be AGI in just 3 years.

They are sold to do programming, drug synthesis, general reasoning, pass the bar exam, etc...

It cannot do any of these things even competently, but it does do other things like proof reading and modification of educational content very well.
How the recycling symbol lost its meaning
Actually, with the laptop I bought the new installerwas actually kind of more of a pain in the butt. For some reason I could load the live CD fine but if I tried to do a network install I could not get the firmware to load it all. Even on an external USB.
Elon Musk drops claims that OpenAI abandoned mission
Who does this marketing?
why would you not build that stuff onsite?
Well, you can expect all of those superior things to start going to hell in about a year or two. The enshittification will begin.
Honestly, now that I've seen this, I'm a little bit mad that I've never seen one of these for products I've worked on myself. I'd argue this presentation should be mandatory reading for product people everywhere.
True. WFH was the real trial of offshoring especially to similar time zones.

Also it took the risk off the CEO plate that remote might fail. Further the market is rewarding them for it now.
More introspection is needed to get this right. Apple has copy and paste. And they even had a sort of decent text selection at some point (iOS 16?), so their list surely still thinks that this capability is fully functional.
Can't compete no longer, can we?
it was never opt out! Even the previous version had AI as opt-in, you would have to turn it on and provide an API key. It was NOT on by default. Now even the code path is moved to an external component.
Nobody is forced to become a founder. A lot of people are naive to the sheer level of stress involved, and think it’s going to be easier than it actually is. You don’t find out just how stressful it is until you’re already super committed, have raised money, have employees, and there’s no easy way out without screwing a whole bunch of people over.

Founders tend to only talk about the good things happening at their companies, and tech press tends to focus on the successes. These things contribute to more people starting companies.
Show HN: I made an HTML markup to plain text converter
We covered VLSI design as part of Comp. Sci at Bristol, UK c.1980, based on Conway & Mead's "Introduction to VLSI systems".

Comp. Sci was mostly software, but we also did some 7400 series TTL bread boarding in the lab - building things like traffic-light LED sequencers based on DIY flip flops made out of NAND gates.

VLSI design was a revelation - that there was a different way to designing things than out of TTL "lego bricks", and that you could go full custom instead !

I was never aware of Lynn Conway's personal transgender challenges - more power to her for having had such an amazing career and impact while dealing with this.
For most hardware projects I reach for Arduino first. They are a lot cheaper (especially the knock-offs), actually in stock, and easier to reason about (fewer layers involved in the software stack, more direct hardware access)

Raspberry Pis are great if you want easy internet connectivity in your hardware project, or need an OS or lots of computing power.

If they were readily available and $20 each I'd grant them that they are more convenient. But at real prices and availability that's more difficult to justify
Whatever the guy said, it was clearly insinuated, without saying it specifically, that his hands would be taking a trip into my butt :p
I didn't care for the feature (I have no issues with AI/LLMs but it just wasn't useful IMHO) but the backlash was ridiculous and embarrassing for everyone complaining about an opt-in feature. The comments on the GitLab ticket and here on HN were examples of some of the worst people (or people at their worst) in our industry.
LOL, I open my Samsung phone and everybody is instantly jealous: twice the screen is a big boost in productivity and of course photos and games. Android is just fine and I still can't find anything I need from iOS.
There's no real pattern, it's just that in some cases I would opt for a Google product because it turns out to be cheaper than the competition or in some cases there was no equivalent.

For me the services I got annoyed with the most were Cloud Print/Domains/Latitude/Reader because they were actually decent. In almost all these cases there were no official Google alternatives provided, at least not immediately; and in the case of Cloud Print there really isn't an alternative other than a VPN connection which is incredibly hacky. It bothers me they are discontinued in the way that they were because it just feels disrespectful.
> stop being a blocker to progress

"Says mulching machine maker to tree about to be turned into mulch."
Sounds like a piece of shit CEO, not because he fired the guy for his performance, but for deploying spyware to all employees and a core belief that working a second job is 'unethical'.

Working a second job doesn't necessarily mean that performance on the first will suffer, or other team members will suffer, or "productivity" (what a horrid concept) will suffer.

CEOs do it all the time. Not only are many CEOs, but also Board Members of other companies.

What a two-faced piece of shit.
Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It If You Try
Introduction to Quantum Computing [pdf]
I don't recall which year it was, but at least one year back in that general time frame when the financial reports came out, Apple and Samsung together had taken over 100% of the revenue share in the smartphone market: that is, they were making profit (and Apple was making the lion's share), and every single other company in the sector was taking a loss.
To be precise, Sherlock was first and Watson came later (hence the name). However, Sherlock 3 then seemingly took quite a bit of inspiration from Watson in terms of features.
One popular AI detection package that you can licence with the turnitin academic anti-plagiarism software warns that it may produce false positives if the writing is (1) not by a native English speaker, (2) writing on a technical topic, or (3) neurodiverse.

So yeah ... congrats, you've built a tool to detect autistic Chinese computer scientists!
Where I live, anyone older than 12 must ride their bicycle on the street and not the sidewalk.

I'm all for it -- bicycling, but not on the sidewalk.
For a lot of stuff it just comes down to convenience, there's community projects that are primarily distributed as raspi sd card images (home assistant and octoprint come to mind).
Tangential, but what's the state of semiconductor fabs in the US? Looking at this Wikipedia article [0], there are quite a lot. That said, all but three (assuming I counted correctly) are pre-2020. Is the push for fabs in the US specifically to have modern, sophisticated fabs?

My initial understanding of needing more fabs in the US was mainly for embedded stuff like for military, automobiles, and that kind of thing. Is this push actually more so for higher end fabrication for modern non-embedded use?

Whatever the case is, having some more domestic production (especially for something as valuable as microprocessors) seems like a big win for any nation. I'm looking forward to seeing how the US does with chip fabrication. I don't expect them (us?) to become the dominant player, but I am bullish on US chip production.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
For most other companies, the shift to / focus on touch interfaces was reactive. Apple’s first (mass market) mover advantage allowed them much more time for extensive internal iteration. Remember, they started off with the iPad, err, Newton…at least.
I think OP is an idiot for judging people with iPhones but just to be clear:

> How I open apps? I have the main ones on my home screen, and for everything else I double tap the home button, and type (the start of) the name.

On the iPhone you can have your main apps on the Home Screen or swipe downwards and start typing. Basically exactly what you have.

I'm not arguing that this one feature makes iOS an unbeatable platform or anything but the reality is that you (and all of us) are intimately familiar with one UI pattern and are a stranger to the other. That doesn't make the other "wrong" or "bad", it's just not what you're used to. And it's absolutely fine to keep with the pattern you know, but dismissing anything else is being for "kids" or whatever comes across as tedious whining.
10% to a founding engineer almost never happens. You’re in cofounder territory. There really are 2 reasons to stay in the startup,

1. The startups reaches a great valuation. If it reaches a 1B valuation, then even assuming 50% dilution, you have 10M for 2+ years of work, almost 3-5M per year TC! Yes your founders are earning much more but comparison is the thief of joy, you just got a salary that no big tech company could match (unless you’re in C suite)

2. The startup doesn’t reach a large valuation but grows rapidly making you in charge of a large group. This too is useful, promotions in big tech have a very standard time schedule, it takes 8-9 years to reach staff (or never) and then 4-5 years for every subsequent promotion if it happens. With a startup, if as a founding engineer you gain experience leading a team of 50 people, you’re scoped for staff and above in your next job hop. Of course you need to sell this in your interviews but I’ve seen this happen and it can be worth it, if you played your cards right.

If none of this is possible, you should leave.
You may also be interested in Joumana Medlej's book "Wild Inks & Paints": https://majnouna.gumroad.com/l/wildinks?layout=profile.

"this handbook introduces you to the wonder of transforming natural matter into fully developed art supplies. Learn the basic chemistry behind colours and prepare inks, lakes, paints, pastes, binders, media and drawing tools from plants and materials foraged as the seasons turn, or already present in your kitchen cupboard."
If that happens, I won't buy them anymore. The boards don't have an expiration date, and I can roll my own distribution "if it comes to that". Have done that in a professional capacity back then, can do it again.
Signs of things to come.

In next 3 to 5 years, many of the sparkling icons next to input fields in many products summoning AI would be gradually removed.

OpenAI will have the fate of Twitter. High valuation but not profitable. Subscriptions alone not offsetting the personal and compute costs.
Controversial opinion but the problem with Gen AI is that we conflate intelligence with competence and expertise. This is a common ailment of the exceptionally intelligent.

There is an over indexing on mental capacity, and an underappreciation for grinding and actual, erm, hard work and understanding…

I see this a lot with learning a foreign language. Intelligent people assume it will be simple for them, because they are intelligent. Spoiler, actually less intelligent folk tend to have less ego, ergo they progress much faster (personal experience, not gospel).

I don’t really care about AGI. I care about how good you are at your job. And the fact of the matter is, Gen AI isn’t that good at all.

Generative AI is misunderstood as a sentient tool that is highly intelligent and thus capable of expert output. Truth is, Generative AI is capable of performing enormous amounts of work to an intermediate level.

Given the speed of the output, we forgive Generative AI for errors and inaccuracies that we wouldn’t begin to tolerate in any walk of life, i.e. from absolutely anybody who actually knew what they were doing. "Sorry sir, it wasn't the correct arm I amputated, but it was still an arm!"

Is AGI really imminent? Probably, but only to a specific and flawed definition. There is an important distinction. Intelligence is not a synonym or equal to competence. We are conflating intelligence with expertise and competence. This is a common problem in hyper-intelligent people.

These algorithms may well reach superhuman levels of intelligence. Does it matter? Regards actual expertise and output, they are mediocre at best.

To a beginner in any field, intermediate is impressive. Unparalleled speed alongside something that resembles (but is not equal to) competence has the effect that those who are starting in any field are in awe of this tool. They are the confident graduate, unknowingly ruining the professional competence of your business.

Full blog post about why I think GenAI is cracking nuts with a sledgehammer
There was an oft-repeated response back in the day (but gladly rarer now) when you dig too deep into employee benefits at startups: "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat!"

To this, I usually reply "Unless the seat happens to be in a stage that gets jettisoned before reaching orbit".
Because the expensive android phone may have more desirable characteristics in screen size, camera, battery, form factor (my gf loves foldables e.g.) that would be some examples that come out of my head.

Getting into more niche examples: I'm one of those people you describe. I have been locked out my apple id for months (despite having any information required to recover my account) when my iPad with the authenticator broke.

I couldn't even work on my MBP, they just kept sending me emails they were gonna phone/sms me two weeks after. Which they didn't twice and they only recovered my account at the third shot. 0 ways to speak with any human, obviously.

Other examples: I'm a software developer, I want to tinker and write my applications. It was always way more difficult on iOS than Android.

Also, another thing: Android/iPhone in 2024 this barely means jackshit, in fact any $300 chinese android phone is more than perfect for 99.99% of users.

> you’ll literally lose dates over it

I feel like it's a great way to weed out idiocy out of my life.
Im really surprised how obsessed people are with something as arbitrary as the phone manufacturer someone is using. I have no clue what phones my friends and family is using, I barely manage to remember the iPhone generation I am on.
I'm honestly surprised it took this long for them to do this. Knowing nothing about how ad delivery/networks work (or ad blockers, for that matter) my guess is that something fundamental with how they are delivered (e.g., 3rd party domain for tracking?) also made them detectable via extensions? Makes me wonder how they are solving the problem now.

Twitch seems to do a good job of staying ahead of extensions.
> $100mm for a Series A is unheard of in software.

Peak 2020: https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-comes-out-of-stealth-with-100m-s...
Inflation slows in May, with consumer prices up 3.3% from a year ago
Yes. Western ops in Afghanistan and Iraq - where we had total airspace domination - exhibited a best case view of medevac - all the way up to mobile operating theatres in Chinooks flying to the point of need. A full-on high intensity conflict between peer adversaries would be nothing like this.
I even wrote this comment on an Android device and I don't trust Google.
I’m surprised it lasted this long. It was always kinda just a marketing gimmick for broadcom that got out of hand.
That looks like the one. I get why it's not really been replicated. Making a UI function well in both touch and keyboard and mouse modes is hard, the extra space you need for touch is wasted in laptop mode and then you're asking every app maker to support another UI mode which gets into the chicken and egg problem of support. It's not every useful without apps and it's not worth supporting for app makers unless there's a broad userbase or extremely low support costs. The closest we get now is the iPad pro line going in and out of a keyboard case but that's not quite the same and the jump in capabilities is pretty small because the form factors are so close.
I've been wearing the same N95 duckbill for about 3 years now. It is getting a bit dirty but structurally it's fine. I don't wear it every day though, only in what I deem high-risk situations. Its construction is much more robust than the around-the-ears N95s.

I think one could reasonably stretch out a box of 20 duckbills for a whole year even if worn daily. They are about $1 each. While I could see that there would be places that $20/year would be too much, I don't think money is the barrier here. People just don't like wearing masks (especially respirators, which are bulkier) for many reasons.
Doesn't change the fact that he didn't build shit. He brought money, which is what I said he did.

He wrote some code back in the 90's and there's no evidence he's done any actual work since then. His job is to be rich, and write checks. Anyone can do that. I wrote a check this morning.

Well, that and going on Joe Rogan to get high and crash the stock price of his companies. I could do that too I suppose but I'd prefer not to.
This is not a productive way to engage with this issue.
I'm a little bit late to the party here.

The rp2040 is a great chip at a decent price point.

However the internal ADC is quite bad for wide range readings. There's a few points around 512 / 1536 etc where it gets a "personality" in the readings.

AVR seems to have this down much better along with internal references for even more accuracy.
A fairly simple and useful AI detector that works uncannily well on student papers: (a) does the text contain "I am an AI" or words to that effect, (b) are there lots of completely made up references?
Support and stability will go down, they will cut support roles to drive profitability and they will release multiple variants of the same board to saturate the market so hardware support will get dicier. They may even roll their own distro as a way to capture the market.

When a company lists they switch from being customer focused to being share-holder focused. They will do anything and everything to make number go up.
Creating a social stigma against anyone who doubts the government is highly beneficial for the government.