skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Eating out. At many Japanese restaurants, you have a tablet computer at your table, or you get a QR code to order on your phone. You use the tablet/web app (which admittedly doesn't always have the greatest UI, esp when you switch to English) to order your food and maybe pay.

That experience is horrible, and not just because pecking at a small screen for ants is horrible. Quite often the thing flat out doesn't work and/or is laid out in the most incomprehensible way possible that it's just faster to call a waiter over.

Also, owing to this being computer hardware sitting right next to food, the things are almost always grimey. Proper menus at least are ostensibly cleaned between customers. This isn't a problem specific to Japan, though.

>Toilets: they all have electronic controls to spray your butt after you poop. You can select water pressure, activate seat heating, etc.

Yeah, they have that since at least the 90s or something. Nothing new. I appreciate the engineering that goes into them, but it's a case of Galapagos.

>Public transit fare cards: in Japan, virtually every public transit system uses "IC cards" based on the Felica NFC chip.

They're great, but the world is starting to move ahead of them with everything moving to smartphone NFC and in a way that is carrier and brand and network agnostic.

>Remote-control air-conditioners.

They're great, particularly with how quiet they are. If it wasn't obvious from the toilets, Japan is great at hardware engineering. The problem is this doesn't translate to software engineering and high tech in general.

>Interpersonal messaging. In Japan, everyone uses LINE.

LINE is a perfect example of Japan's irrelevancy in software. Why? Because LINE is a South Korean product.

>Bullet trains. Japan leads the world,

Yup, top notch engineering as mentioned. Bad news for the maglev since that's being held up in political power struggles, though.

>Combination washer/dryers.

They've become such a mundane commodity thanks in no small part to South Korean and Chinese mass manufacturing that Japan is hardly relevant there anymore.

>Chip manufacturing. The US only has Intel,

The US also has Micron and Global Foundries, along with old school guys like Texas Instruments and more. Though I agree it's mostly Intel (and Micron) pushing the envelope.

Japan has a very bad track record with chip fabrication ever since they lost sight of everything, Elpida and Toshiba by far being the most tragic examples. The jury is indeed still out on Rapidus, TSMC expansion, etc., but I'm personally not holding my breath.
Out of curiosity: were you taught how to program properly in university? I'm grappling with the question if colleges should, or if it should be left to 'the school of life'.

I'm grateful for the more theoretical courses that I attended instead.
If plating is ever a concern to you (which it almost certainly is) then in a way you already eat art.
I'm not a fan of Elon-style "pitch FSD or promise things that you don't have" either. But we had to find the right balance between expressing our vision and expressing where we are which you can see through screenshots/product demos.

The vision is definitely to have something extensible and more powerful than force.com ; we aren't there yet because we need to build strong foundations before that. We already try to separate our business apps from the core engine in the code base to learn what will be the right api and get ready for that next step when it's time.
Keep thinking that, but you’re wrong. Nuclear requires perfection.
I would. The App Store censorship is abhorrent even if they charged nothing.

I should be able to install hacking tools, background apps that might kill my battery, sandbox breaking apps that allow adversarial interoperability, porn apps, protest apps that track cops, or apps that do legal things that nonetheless assist me in breaking the law.

Apple allows none of this.
No we don't. Many people are super confused about this.
Intel, AMD and others also have chips for training that perform close to or sometimes better than Nvidia's. These are already in the market. Two problems: the CUDA moat, and, "noone gets fired for buying green".
Yes, absolutely, I think most people don't click on those anymore, they just let it autoplay and pretend in their minds that they were not really watching it, just scrolling :D.
I implemented GJK almost a decade ago now based on this excellent explanation from Casey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qupqu1xe7Io
No we're not (yes, it's a bad answer, but that's what you've just done).
They end up as a VLA which may or may not be what you want.
Sounds exactly like the way the simply news podcast is put together. That is 100% ai for each topic (ai, tech, business, science etc) and combines multiple recent papers/stories for a hundreds of daily podcasts.

https://simply-ai.podbean.com

https://www.simplynews.ai
I do think server-side ads are way, way more OK than client-side ads: you don't eat _my_ resources, malware injection is harder, you have to know in advance which ads to serve me (so ads are related to the content i watch and not to whatever shit you think i'm using considering my demographics).

I could block server-side ads on a specific website that use the same div classname for every ads (all server-side). I do not do it: those ads are silent and relatively OK (some are animated shit, but not all, and even then, it's tame), and actually recommend me product i do buy (books in this case). a few years ago, a similar website (on music and not books) did the same thing, and it was really OK.

I'm not sure what server-side ads would look like on youtube tbh, but it cannot be worse than client-side injection (i'm a premium user anyway).

[edit] Also with server-side ads, it might let YT be directly liable in case of scam, so hopefully they will curate their list more.
> Take upgrading your Python 2 code to Python 3 as an example. You need to put a lot of efforts while gaining nothing.

Just the python's 3 string/binary distinction and explicit conversion squashed an entire category of bugs. Yes, it required to make explicit what was implicit before, but still, that's huge achievement in my book; saying that it is nothing is a very, very shortsighted.
That sounds a little too strong as a definition.

In sports or games, players have no control over their opponents, but they should have full control of their own actions. It is possible to play completely without stress.

But being outmatched in games can induce stress; that is, when no available action can improve a player's position.
Australian here, living in Europe.. I grew up with an understanding that the land of my childhood had been inhabited and cultivated for tens of thousands of years by the prior occupants .... and now here in Europe, I find it rather amusing that a thousand-year old building is being used for a nail salon.

Context is everything.
> Granted it was 2013, don't sweat yourself.

Don't worry, I don't. Funnily, recently something very similar happened.

At work, there was this C++ class that had a 'void reset()' member function. Of course, at some point it was used with std::unique_ptr and we got some SIGSEGV. Took me a while to figure out that the '.reset()' was called instead of the '->reset()'.

I think these 'omg that's so dumb' bugs are just part of programming.
Also if you take a step back, it's more like the US is getting a cut of the $, almost like profit sharing.
And if Haskell isn't your jam, maybe Excel is more to your taste? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH2Je6wUvPs
Mellanox and friends not being able to build fast enough switching gear at a reasonable price point was what got Google into the hardware game in the first place ;)
That someone updating the drivers is exactly the same person who makes the change in the subsystem that they depend on. They cannot break what is already in the kernel, but they can break what's outside; it is after all an internal API.
Ahhh, that makes much more sense to me. Dovetails a bit with the dick measuring contest folks in the hard sciences like to do about purity.
> keeping bad people from using the model in bad ways, e.g. having it write stories where...

The last ones are rather stupid too. Bad people can just write stories or creating drawings about disgusting things. Should we censor all computers to prevent such things from happening? Or hands and paper?
YouTube's recommendations pull you away from news
I'd say the real issue is reusing the same division operator for integers and floats. Integer division is an ugly operation (aside from powers of two) because it is extremely slow (for non-constant denominator) and has a uniquely high loss of information. It is a footgun even by itself.
That's also how you make windows ship with three different USB stacks and their weird interaction.
In truth, I'm much more this way myself than the median dev. Unfortunately it's not the greatest strategy for climbing the ranks and getting yourself to a top paying senior engineering gig to be a talented bug-fixer, and never a talented full program creator (or wheel-reinventor).
Java/JVM/Valhalla (May): Encodings for Flattened Heap Values
Why is it getting left in the dishwasher? Surely set it to half load&fast and stick it on overnight.
That's quite literally a technical solution to a social problem.

And as usual, the problem is not fixed, Apple just gets to chose who they get cosy with. Historically Japan Railways had privileges the France national railway didn't, for instance.
> watch your employees die?

If a gunman comes to your office, what do you do? You defer to competent authority. Same here. Particularly when it comes to scheduled foreign terrorists, there is no (legal) excuse. (Moreover, if the gunman comes to your office every Monday.)

> If you try this stuff with the AUC in Columbia [sp], they will torture and kill your people for fun

If you're operating in Colombia without K&R (or, apparently, basic OpSec), that's on you. Otherwise, I know plenty of people who do good business in Bogotá and Medellín and need not debaucher themselves.
...and the RSS is now live! https://learningquant.com/rss.xml (need to mention it on the website)

Let me know if that works for you, it's my first time I've set up an RSS.
Not familiar with flycut, but had a look through their issues. There are a few security-related, and a bunch of iCloud stuff. Eg, this one to add the option to disable iCloud sync, which is still open after 4 years:

https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut/issues/200

From that it seems clipbook may be better for people who care about local-only or have other security-related concerns (perhaps related to workplace policy, for example). Maybe someone who knows more could weigh in?
I am under the opinion that terms of use from models trained out of public (often stolen) content should be disregarded by the general public.
Similarly, Factorio's architecture transmits (almost; notable experience is rail planner) just input events, relying on a lock-step simulation core.
> Consider that if you could make 400k (including liquid stock) in compensation at FAANG

I'm very skeptical of the idea that this is common for new hires at FAANGs today. Certainly some people can command that level of comp, but I find it hard to believe the median employee can.
I'll have a look, but the trouble is I actually don't like most of the "big" YouTubers. This is just TV again, and I stopped watching TV about 15 years ago.

What I really want is the public square back. I want the ad hoc instructional videos etc. I know people will do this stuff for free, because that's just what people are like and everyone has a camera these days. I don't need or want super high res "4K" or whatever. I watch YouTube in 720p and always have. What I'd love is a P2P distributed media platform with curated communities. One can dream, right?
> Politicians and Law makers would have to test their new proposals in code before wasting anyone else's time on it

I look forward to when code can express the richness of natural languages. In the meantime, formally-declared law is a fantasy. (Exhibit A: any court opinion.)

> You might have to start off an extremely simplistic set of rules (kinda like RocoCop's prime directives or Moses' 10 commandments)

Every civilisation has a leader who thought they could reïnvent law from first principles. Nobody uses their systems. (Legal axioms ultimately track to time immemorial, i.e.g prehistory.)

> Killing is wrong unless X is true

Murder vs manslaugher vs self defence vs execution vs being stabbed by a soldier is a good lens into law. (Or, to be provocative, eating meat.)

> it would be an interesting exercise

It's a popular in laws school. In its failure one learns of the intersection between culture and the law and why VHS beat Betamax.
The prediction quantities were indeed zero, as they get discretized by multiplying with the sampling time. You're right that some discretized part of the update quantities were also zero, resulting in an identity 'A' matrix. I'll correct it, thanks!
Ah - I see. I don't think that's marketing; just a common misconception. But yes, I've seen that too. No idea if it's true or not. Presumably it changes depending on the country.
Virtual Screen Reader is a screen reader simulator for unit tests
California's Bullet Train Went Off the Rails (2022)
For notebooks I find apple to deliver exactly what I need, at superior quality. I don't really like the os that much compared to Linux distros, but everything just works 99.9% of the time, which is a major plus when trying to deliver good software and make a good impression at work. My 8 year old MacBook still works without major issues despite being wrought through the wringer, which is impressive. For desktop I agree with you, being able to easily modify individual parts is a major boon, and modern Linux distros offer everything one might want if one is willing to tinker a little bit.
This incredible reliability is the justification for TOPS and ETOPS policy in which suitably qualified aeroplanes with only two jet engines are allowed to fly over an ocean. Before TOPS this is why you see jet aeroplanes with three engines, they don't need three engines to fly, but the regulations required that if two engines fail the plane must get to safety, with TOPS that's no longer required (hence the joke expansion for ETOPS: Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim) and so new planes with three engines didn't make sense.

With piston engines two engines failing is a completely reasonable thing which will sometimes happen to say, a transatlantic flight. In the early days of such travel, the demands are such that all the practical aeroplanes are four engine models anyway, so limping to an abort airfield on two engines was a reasonable strategy if two failed, but once jet engines on passenger planes were a thing, their enormous reliability makes this unnecessary hence TOPS and then ETOPS.
Brand safety. They just make it seem like safety for someone else, but it is brand safety.
Heresphere is even better as a VR player, if you buy or pirate it. It has decent scale and position adjustment.
What the OP is talking about is an aggregate, ie. two distinct pieces of software talking to each other over an interface, which is explicitly "non-viral", cf. AGPL v3 § 5.

That being said, the AGPL v3 is on the more arduous side of things, so it's easier to avoid them completely in a business context.
You also have a right to buy a watch from Bremont: https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-05-13/eject-from-pla...
Another big advantage of Android is the implementation of intents (also compared to Apples new crippled intents API), which may turn out to become the deciding factor in the race towards the winning AI Agent OS, as it may enable AI to use programs programmatically
Almost everything in wrong hands is universally a bad idea. This phrase is just FUD and makes little sense.
The Kalman filter code does need floats, though. So here we did indeed need a conversion.
Welp there goes my long duration flight. I've had land borne stones. Not going to grow me some new ones in space.

I wonder if increased citric acid intake would help astronauts forestall them. Quite apart from the scurvy prevention.
sounds pretty advanced!
can you share some examples of deterministic dimensions for scoring?

and what about llm-scoring: does LLM output passed/not_passed or it is more?
Apparently the broadcast was wrongly routed audio from a ground-based simulation. Have such errors ever occurred before?
Highlights:

> The pros and cons of these routing choices have been debated for years. Only now, though, is it becoming apparent how costly the political choices have been. Collectively, they turned a project that might have been built more quickly and cheaply into a behemoth so expensive that, without a major new source of funding, there is little chance it can ever reach its original goal of connecting California’s two biggest metropolitan areas in two hours and 40 minutes.

California is too dysfunctional for a French railroad company to build them a High Speed Rail. Unlike Morocco.

> The state was warned repeatedly that its plans were too complex. SNCF, the French national railroad, was among bullet train operators from Europe and Japan that came to California in the early 2000s with hopes of getting a contract to help develop the system.

> The company’s recommendations for a direct route out of Los Angeles and a focus on moving people between Los Angeles and San Francisco were cast aside, said Dan McNamara, a career project manager for SNCF.

> The company pulled out in 2011.

> “There were so many things that went wrong,” Mr. McNamara said. “SNCF was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.”

> Morocco’s bullet train started service in 2018.
Why did you make the guys with exploding heads who run at you and their scream gets louder as they approach? I can still hear them.
> and the only way to avoid the associated issues is to mainline drivers, which most companies don't want to do (... don't want to invest in maintaining it etc.)

They wouldn't have to, that would be done for them, for free, if they got their code into the kernel...
Presumably Apple could still legally restrict malware because they are not distributing their own versions of malware, yes?
This is not what I'm saying. Consider the following statement:

"Absence of evidence is evidence of absence."

Presumably you would call this a simple logical fallacy for the same reason, but a little reflection would show that in many cases such a statement is true! It depends on context, in this case your estimate of how well your search covered the possible search space.

Evidence is a continuous variable - things can be weak evidence, strong evidence... There's a whole spectrum. I just take issue with statements like "X is zero evidence of Y" because often you can do a lot better than that with the information at hand.
> I don't think VCs changed much from when Google went public until COVID.

VCs changed a ton over that time. In 2004 VCs were still smarting from the dot-com bust. And VCs were hardly spewing cash during and in the aftermath of the GFC of 2007/08. The days of easy VC money were mainly in the early-mid to late '10s.

And as you point out with your end date of COVID, VCs have now backed off again, as they did around 2000 and 2008 during those bust/bear cycles. I would credit interest rate increases with the current backoff, though, not COVID. During early COVID, funding was still fairly well available, assuming your business wasn't something that required in-person contact; even better if your business facilitated home-office work.

> At least it's not been my experience in tech over the last 8+ years.

That's only ~4 years pre-COVID; either seems like too short a horizon to make this sort of assessment. (Source: been in tech for 20-odd years.)
The Shield TV has had an impressive support lifecycle for an Android device but it still falls well short of a 10 year support cycle.

The Shield was released in May 2015 and its latest software update has an Android security patch level of April 2022 and was released November 2022. No more updates seem to be forthcoming. Notably, all Shield TVs today are vulnerable to remote code execution when displaying a malicious WebP image [0], a widespread issue uncovered last year.

Apple released the Apple TV HD two months after the Shield TV, but it still receives the latest tvOS updates to this day and will be receiving this year's new tvOS 18 [1] [2]. It received a fix for that WebP issue the same day as supported Macs, iPhones and iPads did last September.

Even the best Android device examples with good vendor support still seem to be falling short. The Shield TV is still capable streaming hardware in 2024 used by many people, but it's sitting there doing that while missing important security patches unbeknownst to the users.

[0]: https://blog.isosceles.com/the-webp-0day/

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/10/tvos-18-compatible-appl...

[2]: To be fair it's the only Apple A8 device that receives support until today. The iPhone 6 with the same chip was launched mid 2014 and received its last update in early 2023.
The issue is the application limitation of the license.

ARM granted Nuvia the license for server applications. Typically that license transfers, but ARM is taking umbrage with Qualcomm using the Nuvia developed tech (licensed for server applications) and applying it to consumer / handheld.
I would love to work on a lock-step thing like that one day. Seems such a satisfying (and testable) design constraint to work with.
The most surprising thing here is that there is a person who can be called a "star botanist"
I am confused now. Are you arguing then that the distinction is dependent on region and not language? Because that is precisely what I said in a previous comment.
Until OP delivers (and in case OP does not); I suspect it's the following quote:

> "The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at,
not to compute, not to think" —Sussman.
As I wrote above,

A big advantage of Android is the implementation of intents (also compared to Apples new crippled intents API), which may turn out to become the deciding factor in the race towards the winning AI Agent OS, as it may enable AI to use programs programmatically
Probably has buckets of cash, so no? :)
The Antitrust Agencies' Big Tech Cases: An Update
> given that we cannot apply many legal concepts people rely on to trust such a system

Your problem isn't with corporate personhood. It's with our quasi-aristocracy.

To that extent, complaining about legal entities is entirely a distraction. (Akin to how "corporate death penalties" distract from proportional fining. Red herrings littering the path.)

> don't have much hope for fixing our body of laws, frankly

Have you studied them? They're precedented in millenia, not tweets, for good reason.
Is that why apple sell there chips to everyone??
Josep Rull, former political prisoner, new President of Parliament of Catalonia
Great write up completely agree.

“…more electric bicycles are now sold than electric cars in the U.S.”

Maybe because of high tariffs which as far as I know don’t exist for e-bikes.
Tribes was brilliant. Skiing down procedural terrain (and watching other people ski up it), big maps, lots of players, in 1999.