skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly — capitalisms goal isn't to create a good service, it is to extract money, hence a good CEO will take a perfectly fine service and maximize revenue by extracting value even if it means the service gets worse.

Now ideally that would mean the service then dies or gets surpassed by competitors, but that mechanism only works if we are not talking about monopolists, that e.g. have the power to make themselves the default on browsers and operating systems.
Paying for dependencies sounds like a good idea. Reduces the incentive to sell out; allows contributors to quit day jobs to focus on fixing bugs and security holes; less likely to result in abandonware.
Seems like Tesla doesn't understand the principles of legal ownership.
Once you bought and paid for a product, you can do whatever you like with it.

Tech bros like to think that they continue to own stuff even after they have sold it and you have fully paid for it. On this score most products with embedded software have a similar problem. Maybe Elon thinks that "his" CyberTruck is an oversized iPhone.
I remember Ola from his days as a jruby contributor, maybe 10 years ago? He's been under suspicion of the Ecuador government since 2019 and has recently been sentenced to 1 year in prison [1] for "Attempted Non-Consensual Access to a Computer System".

[1] https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/04/08/activist-ola-bini-sen...
> Instead what I have is ads.

> And copilot everywhere.

You raise a serious point, oft discussed here (about the sorry state of the OS)

I actually think the "whimsical", nostalgia these kind of apps (toys?) point to is actually indicative of a more serious "yearning" for simpler, higher quality, more user-configurable computing. As it was not so long ago ...
the best satire is not obvious identifiable as such
Yeah, but they will be using internal Microsoft and Meta software stacks, nothing that will dent CUDA.
Indeed. That’s an excellent point
The situation of multiple falsy values is more like Javascript than Common Lisp.

If you have only one false value, it means that this test

if (str)

can mean "we have a string object here". If we make str take on the false value, such as nil, then that is not a string.

If an empty string is false, then we cannot use this test.

An empty string being false encourages the poor practice of using empty strings to mean "there is no value here".

You might as well code in Bash.
The article makes the point that the random variable map and the underlying sample distributions can change independently. That’s just not the case in quantum mechanics.
Is that the real Jack Dorsey?
Hardware is useless without software to make it show off.
It's a shameless plug, but on topic, so I'll go for it... :)

Cloudflare Radar has a section on Internet quality that can show graphs per country and also at the ASN level. Here's what it shows for Greece:

https://radar.cloudflare.com/quality/gr
Government has been sleeping on digital payment payment, like physical money there needs to be a standardized digital money and protocol.
The Energizer Bunny too. You could install it on a lab full of machines, trigger it, and it would march from one to another, banging a drum the whole time.
I think the positive effects for physical exercise in cognition and hypertension are fairly well known.
There are other factors like alcohol consumption and stress have high correlation on the downside as well.
I have a family history of alzheimer's and have hypertension so have a personal interest in looking after my mental health.
What I can recommend from personal experience is:

1) Regular exercise with a routine designed by a fitness trainer.

2) No alcohol, moderation is not an option

3) Manage your stress, some repetitive tasks I find useful, like household chores
It's easy to be best when you have no competition. Linux exists for the rest of us.
(Screensavers, which were a thing back then - and useful in the age of CRTs - and, of course, wallpapers ...
these originated i think on the 8087 and are widely supported today, including all amd64 and arm designs
Ooh I remember eSheep!

There was also this desktop program where you would choose from different weapons, I don't remember for which purpose... anyone knows what I'm talking about?
I don't want it to look like I'm picking on you here (see my other comment above) but that's a naieve take on things.

Not sure you realise but in the corporate world it's about politics and money. People (above entry-level staff) do things to look good to their boss. That's it! And saving money is a great way of getting promoted: "Look boss, I just saved us $500k a year in license fees!".

Saving $X per year using a "free" tool from Microsoft will always trump anything you pay for especially if you are all in on Azure, O365 already. It's a no-brainer.

Not only that, once the decision is made, it will likely never be changed until the higher-up that made the decision moves on, quits, or is fired, no matter how wrong or bad the decision was (well, within reason, of course!)

I'd love it to be as simple as making a good case for the competition, and I've had to make that case many times over the years, but the reality is that a bundled product from Microsoft will win in a place that uses other Microsoft stuff, vs a paid product thats 100x better, faster, stronger, whatever.
> It's similar to SSH works, but with SSH you'd need your Pi exposed to the Internet.

How does Pi Connect’s access differ from regular port forwarding? Isn’t the device still exposed to the Internet?

The article mentions Cloudflare tunnels near the end. Does this work on a similar principle as Argo? (I haven’t watched the video yet.)
more like the labour to get one made for you.
I mean, this isn’t a jury trial, it’s a forum discussion, and opinions about current events are legitimate. If not, we should delete the entire thread.
you may find this interesting if you haven't seen it already: https://fredrikj.net/blog/2017/11/new-rigorous-numerical-int...
Obviously not him, but it is trivial to find out. His profile links to his current company, which has his real name, which Google links to https://taskulu.com/ unless he has another startup doing communications.
> Imperial Germany had a lots more people and lots more resources. Had they not totally and fundamentally fucked up (driven by their own zero-sum thinking) they could have absolutely been a global power not unlike the US.

You mean the colonies? That wasn't really sustainable, notice how everyone decolonized regardless of their status after WW2, except for Russia, whose colonies were adjacent to the heartland and much more sparsely populated.

The German heartland was much smaller than the continental US is: 540k sqm versus 8 million sqkm for the continental US.

Population wise, similar situation: 70 million people Imperial Germany versus 100 million for the US. And due to their much smaller size, Imperial Germany for sure couldn't have scaled to 350 million people, which is where the US is in 2024.

For the rest of the comment, you're focusing just on energy. Oil and gas are used for everything. Materials, medicine, etc.

Also, relying on food imports for potentially hundreds of millions of people is stupid. That's how you end up with people starving at the first major catastrophe.
From my (hopefully) neutral point of view I think Waymo running a red traffic light is the worst of all and most likely will end up in a disaster.

For huge metropolitan cities for examples London, Istanbul, Delhi, Tokyo, Jakarta or Sao Paulo running a red traffic with a car can most probably cause fatal accidents. I am now more than convinced that level 5 autonomous driving cannot be achieved in my lifetime, and much better efforts should be better directed toward non-invasive highly accurate early detection of high mortality diseases like CVDs and efforts for properly mitigating climate changes.
You know what would be cool? If I could throw my ball into your dock. And then it's yours. You can throw it back to me.
than just don't save the returned value?

If you don't want the result, just call

someFunction()

instead of

const a = void someFunction()
affine arithmetic does not need a full-blown symbolic rewrite engine, though it too sometimes produces overbroad intervals
Another way of looking at it is that every credit card in EU is better than in the US because the credit card companies are not taking with one hand and giving back less with the other. The money has to come from somewhere.

It’s a great coup of US credit card companies to convince credit card users that they are getting “free money” when it’s the exact same money they paid in transaction fees.
> Tesla doesn't understand the principles of legal ownership. Once you bought and paid for a product, you can do whatever you like with it.

See also: content licensing, smart phones, most enterprise hardware….
You are being down-voted, but the point is valid. Presence of excrement does not mean inhabitation. I think most of us shat somewhere they were not supposed to somewhen in their life.
The above was referencing stopping on a city street ("Powell between Bush and Sutter"). You're talking about stopping on a highway. These things are not particularly comparable.
I am no expert on the public health system and so I'm more than willing to be educated/corrected here, but I have the following impression:

There is more money to be made by stakeholders treating health problems than there is in preventing them. And so there is a lot more money and effort invested in developing pharmaceutical and treatment solutions than there is in preventing the problems they treat – even though that would be far, far better for society as a whole.

Alternatively/additionally, the stakeholders that make money treating things (insurance companies, hospitals, etc.) are simply larger and better capitalized than those that make money preventing health problems (gyms, health food stores, etc.) The biggest gym or fitness company in the world is probably minuscule in comparison to the average medical company.

The only wrinkle in my understanding here is that as far as I know, insurance rates are lower for healthy people, and thus doctors(?) are somewhat incentivized to have healthier patients.

Is there a market-based solution to this? And if so, what would it look like? Tax breaks for gyms? More lobbying from Big Gym?
agreed. i find reduced affine arithmetic the most appealing, but haven't tried it
I mean, you’re not wrong that the entire extradition system is a stain on justice. I just wish anyone cared when it’s not about someone accused of hacking.
tinyml fascinates me because its principles can be directly applied to web-based applications imho.

micropython seems pretty accessible from first glance. would it be easy to create a webassembly port of its code?
What was this thing called?
> But consumer software spending was something very niche before Apple expanded the market.

LOLNO :-)

The web is and was a major consumer "software" platform. We just don't have raw numbers for it because it's so distributed, my guess is that it's still bigger than these walled gardens combined.

The web would be even bigger if said walled garden makers wouldn't c**block it by not investing in progressive web apps & co (while they are investing like crazy in their walled gardens, of course).
unfortunately it gets reported
Oscar! Thank you for the trip down the memory lane.
I'm not familiar with that technique and don't know what's going on from that snippet.

In Haskell, any time a heterogeneous list turns out to be fine, I expect to be able to model it. Often it'll look like "I'm applying a polymorphic function to every one of these list elements", and then you can either do a sum type (as discussed in the post) or an existential (which doesn't need you to list up front all the types you might use). If the function is "is negative?", it'll look something like (untested)

data SomeNum = forall a. Num a => SomeNum a

isNegative :: SomeNum -> Bool
isNegative (SomeNum n) = n < 0

numbers = [SomeNum (3 :: Int), SomeNum (5.2 :: Double), SomeNum valOfUnexpectedNumericType]
anyNegative = any isNegative numbers

...but it'll often be easier to just apply the `< 0` check to every element before putting them in the list. (If you have several functions you want to apply to them all, that's when the existential trick becomes more useful.)

So you can model heterogeneous lists in this case, and it's safer (because you can't put in a value that can't be compared to 0) but also less convenient. Whether that's an improvement or not will depend on the situation.
In the bullet point definition,

> the function which maps sample space outcomes to numbers,

the "numbers" referred to in the codomain are not probabilities. Similarly, in the Wikipedia definition,

> a measurable function from a sample space... to a measurable space,

the "measurable space" codomain has nothing to do with probability of events. Random variables are related to probability distributions/measures, but they are not the same kind of mathematical object.

As a concrete example, consider gambling on a fair coin flip. We can bet 1 unit of money on Heads and define a random variable for the amount of money we win/lose. First we set up the probability space. The sample space is the 2-element set of coin sides, Ω = {H, T} (Heads and Tails). The event set (aka sigma-algebra) F is the power set of Ω: F = {{}, {H}, {T}, {H, T}}. The probability measure assigns probability 0 to the event {}, probability 0.5 to each of the events {H}, {T}, and probability 1 to the event {H, T}.

Now, we can define the random variable of our winnings by the function X mapping Ω to the real numbers by Χ(ω) = 1 if ω = H, -1 if ω = T.

So, within the setting of the probability space (Ω, F, P), the random variable is defined by the function X, which does not map anything to a probability. It maps coin sides to real numbers, including negative ones!

We have not yet constructed any object that gives the probabilities of the possible values of X. The only thing that "maps an outcome to a probability" in our setup so far is the measure P, but that is defined independently of our numeric random variable. If we want to talk about the probabilities that X takes the values -1 and 1, we are talking about the pushforward measure of P by X. This is another mathematical object, distinct from the random variable X itself.

This is one of the points of the article. Suppose we define another random variable Y for the winnings of the person we are gambling against: Y(ω) = -1 if ω = H, 1 if ω = T. Now X and Y are two different random variables, but they have the same distributions! The pushforward measures of P by X and Y both put probability 0.5 on the measurable sets {-1} and {1}.
You cannot export private messages though without an upgrade.
Wow, thank you! That brings back unexpected memories of playing on my dad's first laptop.
He would never receive a "fair" trial in the United States.

He was accused of espionage, which is in itself incredibly alarming, given that he's a journalist. The law he's being charged under comes from WWI, which was a low point in the history of freedom of speech in the US, and that law is most likely unconstitutional. The law would not allow Assange to argue any sort of public interest defense. Probability of conviction would be near 100%. The US government conspired to assassinate Assange when he was in the Ecuadorian embassy, and many American officials, from the president on down, have denounced Assange, called him a terrorist, called for his execution, etc.

The United States is claiming the right to prosecute any journalist of any nationality anywhere in the world if they publish information that is classified in the US.
"Everyone is so stupid except me :("-type comments are becoming far too prevalent...
I've got a tesla, which integrates neither.

What am I missing? I can play podcasts/music/whatever from my phone, the name/progress bar shows on the UI. I can control volume, next track, next in play list etc from the Tesla UI.

Maps/Nav are already google and speech recognition works well. I've seen horrid interfaces from Ford, Subaru, and Toyota, which would make me beg for a phone UI, but the tesla UI seems pretty similar to my Pixel 8. I.e. pinch/zoom/rotate works pretty well with a decently high update rate.
Never Interrupt a Programmer
I like them? Especially the R3 if that ever makes it to production.

https://rivian.com/r3
AI has definitely boosted my productivity, although I can't quantify the time savings.

Usually using Raycast (a Mac app), I enter my prompts for GPT-3.5 Turbo or Llama 3 from anywhere without having to open a browser, go to an AI UI, log in, etc.

I did use CodeWhisperer for awhile in VS Code but found it kind of disorienting.

I use it several times a day for generating JS code snippets or boilerplate that I can tweak to meet my needs. I've found it surprisingly helpful for writing Python code that generates charts using Matplotlib or Seaborn (who can ever remember any of those functions and options?) – easily saving me hours of manual research, trial and error. And I use it to refine or optimize SQL queries.
They do: https://youtu.be/YxVihk4c-h8?t=3m5s
We used to have that for online transactions, it's called surcharging, EU put a stop to that in 2018 with the PSD2 directive because it wasn't working.

It was only when companies themselves were paying the transaction fees that they started optimizing the cost of transaction fees.
I'm fairly sure you can have 3D secure for credit cards.

> 3-D Secure is a protocol designed to be an additional security layer for online credit and debit card transactions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure
Please don't grind your axe on me.
I don't exactly live in central London.
DevRel and Sales Avoidance as Praxis
I've seen it being used before to call async operations within a class constructor. Hated it though.
The US system is a tax on people paying with cash.
Yeah, I’ve long felt his PR game outshines his interestingness and insightfulness. He gets quoted and referenced reverently by media often, but then you read his takes and they’re either eye-rolling hype or stifled-laughter obviousness.
In your experience why is alcohol moderation not enough; Is it that the effects of a little are still significant, or that it still lives room for abuse?
Lava tubes on the moon are really important— they are plentiful and huge. Human settlements need radiation shielding and why build on the surface when you can just inflate a habitat underground? Cavemen on the moon!

With their huge size, we can inflate big arenas for televised sports (moonball, anyone?) which will play a foundational role in the development of the moon’s economy. After all, nearly everyone on earth would want to watch… & you can’t scale moon tourism like that. Concrete prediction: Moon sports will be a 10 billion dollar industry within a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_lava_tube
Not just what, but who.

I expect to see a rise in use of small scale networks/groups, ideally self hosted in some way, where participants are all known to each other in real life. For years now I've been seeing people migrate to WhatsApp groups largely for this reason (I know each of you, this conversation is not public, and we're not going to have some weird bot or 'curator' turn up to shill, steal, or spray slop around).

Really curious to know about any co-housing/living communities or the like that have found a useful solution along the lines of a calendar/notification/chat/messaging/file sharing platform that isn't some mashup of big tech offerings.

Who's offering real life communities a 'social platform in a box'?
It's likely because thermal is expensive for the BOM and also wrt energy usage. Also low res.
It's pretty decent, actually... if you use Starlink. At least in Chalkidiki, it's terrible! There's no 5G anywhere, not even 4G in most places. Wired internet is a complete joke.

Meanwhile, it's good, because you can really rest and enjoy Greece! Yeah, if you forgot, you can post the photos and videos later!
You need to get rid of excessive solar energy when prices turn negative anyway. So why not charge a fleet of electric taxicabs.
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Is there a debit card that has low fees but is meant to be used as a slush fund? e.g. top it up to $100 when it falls below $20. I don't need credit protections for my coffee purchase.
Maybe the Greeks care more about enjoying the life, the nature, the sun, the beach, the sea, their small villages, their food, in person interactions with other human beings than being always connected and worrying which Netflix series should they consume next. Maybe they enjoying the real life too much than the virtual one.

That's the impression I've got when I traveled to Greece and I've seen far less Greeks with their noses stuck in their mobile phones than tourists.
The barrier to exercise isn’t money in most cases. It is that exercise is misery.

Exercise sucks. I am overweight. I much prefer Ozempic (and pay a substantial premium for it) vs lifestyle change. So do millions of other Americans who are shelling out for it.

You would basically need to economically torture fat people to the point that exercise is less horrible than your incentives.

I’m paying 8K a year to avoid exercise.
Sounds like the Cybertruck is just big enough to haul your regret.
Some people grew up in a household too poor for travel-by-plane to become a thing. I only knew about airplanes because i could see them in the sky and in the TV. I thought it was a rich people's thing.

I'm telling that to make people aware that travel-by-plane is not only a carbon-intensive way to travel, but also a privilege not everyone has.
Microsoft Teams inclusion did not kill your product.

If a single customer dropped you because he now has Teams for free your product was a failure for that customer anyway and he just suddenly realized you offered him no value.

Just look at https://taskulu.com/ and tell me how Teams even competes with you. Your real competition was Jira and customers dropped you because Jira was a superior product and integration with Teams gave them everything you offered and a chat application separate from project management is an all around better option as there is a single chat for all employees, regardless of them using the project management tools.
Credit cards generally use multi-factor auth in Europe for unusual transactions, typically an app, sometimes SMS.
Julian Assange, on his leaking of the names of hundreds of Afghan civilian informants into the hands of the Taliban:

"Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it."

that's rich coming from an informant.
I'm moving to Italy around the end of the year to the Cuneo region, i'd really love to know who your providers are, I haven't seen any plans as great as those.
for anyone that has been spared, teams is the kind of product where you have to make an appointment for an ad-hoc meeting, or you'll be stuck in some unreliable p2p skype call that doesn't work on anything but chrome or edge.
I'm in France but these prices are coherent with what is available here. I don't think they are being sarcastic, I'm guessing prices are not that good over by you? :-)
No one is sure that Transformer model is the final best structure. However, you can still use RTX3090 or RTX2090 to run AI models today, no matter the neural network structure is LTSM/RNN/Transformer. Programmablity and compatibility have more value in some aspect of economic considaration.

I hope in the future, when Chip manufacture cost is no longer the bottleneck of AI, we can have more options.