skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple's Devices Are Lasting Longer, Making AI Strategy Even More Critical
Yes, you’re correct that’s what I meant. I think I accidentally mixed up two thoughts. Edited it now to clarify.
Yes, but it’s got some cool Haskell projects (like a new language). Also, it has some big Haskell names there. When I worked there I debugged a compiler performance issue with one of the original creators, and there’s people like Lamport or Wolfram or Cerf brought in for talks.

It’s not building products but the core platform.
Gleam has an interesting approach with the USE statement. It looks better than with, but I haven't tried to write code with it yet
I can't really tell if this is a sort of satire or joke?

It seems to implement BigInts as BCD where each decimal digit gets it's own int32, implements division, then suggests kernel upstreaming. All as a solution for arbitrary spans of time.
Yes, you are misunderstanding. Chevron obligated the courts to defer to agencies' own internal interpretation of statute law whenever any ambiguity arose as to what the law said. Reversing Chevron has restored that function to the judiciary, where it belongs.
Uh, i wonder if the Betteridge’s law of headlines is applicable here. /s
GPL-2.0 license in GitHub. MIT license on snap store. $19 in Mac OS APP store.
It was probably IOHK, or maybe Algorand.
Why is the font so drastically massive on mobile? I have to scroll down a lot to read so little.
The Byte Order Fiasco (2021)
Yeah sorry I mixed up two thoughts but what I meant is that larger companies wouldn’t have engineers participating directly in this kind of behaviour. They’d check the license and stay away, or would have some formal process to participate and would know better than to harass a dev while representing a company.
Thank you. This was my motivation. It is only a small step... much more work to do.
Does the sqlite java lib bundle support for many platforms which jacks up the app size?
MQD comes from the 2022 EPA decision. It "announces the arrival of the "major questions doctrine"", that is a direct quote from the decision. None of this power grab is obvious at all or they would be unanimous decisions.
> but there are many more national lab type organizations than FAANG companies

Is your claim really that national labs outspend FAANG for compute? Like do you understand what you're saying? You're off by probably an order of magnitude if not two.

> You don't have to match that breadth of effort to be competitive for very many AI applications being built higher up the stack, you only have to have a good enough ROCm backend for pytorch, and from everything I am hearing, it's getting there (if you are on Instinct, and not consumer hardware). But I don't have first hand experience.

I don't want to say too much more because I work somewhere that is very close to this story/melodrama but everything you're hearing is aspirational hype and what I wish for everyone talking about this is much less gossip and much more first-hand reality.
Does Microsoft not have a clearance process though to make sure you’re not inadvertently leaking IP? For example contribution to an Apache 2.0 project takes with it patent grants.
What does 51/2 mean?
It's still nasty and childish. If this is how you interact, I'd avoid you too.

If you want to give someone feedback, adult instead of playing passive aggressive games.

Putting jabs at people in the codebase is unprofessional and would result in some tough conversations in a professional environment.
Sorry, not going to go into details here. But I think the statement is not controversial. There’s probably well written criticism on it somewhere.

But then it wasn’t a bad starting point. I don’t have a better book to recommend. There are wikis with better info. But not in the form of a book which is also free I think.
"I'm curious - you believe wood fireplace use is an acceptable risk?"

Personally I believe that the benefits of a wood fireplace and the benefits of moderately smoking tobacco mixed with cannabis outweigh the downsides - for me. But I do not believe my personal choices are the right ones in general.

(also woodfire .. there are quite different types)
>There is NO market where “ASIL” is required

Define “required”. If every single legal department at every single major automotive company says “we must obtain ASIL-B certification for our gauge cluster software or we can’t sell cars”, does it matter if regulators don’t overtly mandate it? The legal environments of all of the major automotive markets make it a de facto requirement.
From the article: "Microsoft making very similar arguments about how antitrust was going to stifle innovation" ... "when Microsoft lost its cases’ innovation didn’t end. What did decline after ... was Microsoft’s browser market share"

Yup, this is what Apple is afraid of as well, and why they are fighting it so hard with very similar arguments.
It's probably worth noting that "someone who has litigated Chevron cases" and presumably will litigate again has a real bias to look supportive of the supreme court (or any judge who could decide his cases).

For the rest of us, whether you agree with the outcome of decision or not, it overturns a 40 year old precedent which is:

* old enough that several congresses have had a chance to clarify any older laws and have made new laws with it on the books

* not so old that it's obviously from a different era and doesn't make sense today

* and always icky from a stare decisis perspective

fwiw, from a HN perspective, I'm mostly interested in how the SC works as a process with politics aside.
Qualia and the Formal Structure of Meaning
The hardware itself (on most thinkpads I’ve owned anyway) is really nice to work on, with service manuals available, lots of parts, good community support.

Flashing the BIOS is also usually well documented.

I wish the BIOS flashing was not needed tbh, but at least it’s possible.
Maybe the universe is 64bit? It just starts all over again... and again... and again...
>It's just water, plenty of sugar and some coffeine.

And a ton of phosphoric acid.
I think the writer's punchline is implied but I'm not plugged in enough to make the connection.

>Microsoft's monopoly of browsers in the 90s = Apple's [?]

What goes in the box?

Edit: Smartphones. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-apple...
What a fun site and cool idea! Very interesting. A bit more depressing but I’d be a bit curious about rates of lost pets in cargo
From deals with ISPs that benefit from the caching of the traffic. The whole world fetching stuff from us-east-1 is an inefficiency that Cloudflare fixes, so the more customer traffic Cloudflare can cache or generate directly from its edge network, the better deals it can make with ISPs.

The peering and co-location partnerships also have a secondary effect of expanding Cloudflare's network, which allows Cloudflare to sell services on top of that, at large scale, with low latencies.
Summary: under the right condition like wind butterflies fly a long way.
This just seems like deflection. The EU does not have an understanding for modern consumer tech products, period. That they have old giants still producing sub components has no bearing on this discussion, it's not like their industry actually has to worry about making viable end-user products.
Sherlocking seems to be the exception rather than the rule. This year several of the features that Apple revealed do have the potential to Sherlock some apps, but most years that is not the case.

Look at window management. People have had to use third-party utilities for years to handle this function. Apple only provides a couple of ways to do it natively and they were very limited and rigid. People were constantly asking why Apple doesn’t include better window management. Windows has had this built in for several years. Finally, Apple did launch a window manager. Yes, it does the basics, but from what I’ve heard it is still fairly limited. It is likely that at least some of the third party tools will survive by providing more features and more options that appeal to advanced users who want more control or who don’t find the Apple solution to be a good fit.
Why does a bed need to run Linux? Why?

Of all the possible timelines, we live in the dumbest. What was wrong with a plain old bed without 1GB of RAM and a full OS running on it?! It is the same everywhere. Finding a washing machine that was not WiFi-connected was a chore and I dread doing it again in ten years.

As a person who's broken into O(1000) "smart" devices (for fun and for profit both), I do not want them in my house, and avoiding them is getting harder due to insanity like this linux-running bed! Please make it stop!
yep. it's really trash. used it 20-25 years ago when they were just introducing "neutrino" vs. the classic QNX4. the former had a good rep with auto and medical usage.

- very bad port of GCC was buggy and generated bad code. it was the result of some idiot blindly haphazardly applying a ton random incoherent patches to try to get it to build instead of porting it properly. (to be clear mainline GCC at that time was fine; we re-ported it ourselves instead)
- and, of course, they used their own faulty compiler to build their libraries and services ;) causing unknown carnage waiting to be discovered.

- malloc broken (heavy use under multiple threads causes heap corruption). replaced with dlmalloc.

- serial port driver broken. rewrote a new one.

- intel network card driver crashes. replaced hardware with 3com to survive.

- certain math library functions broken (iirc, fmod). replaced.

and so on and on.

it doesn't matter what certification your RTOS (or whatever) has. if you cannot examine the source, rebuild it, etc. (oss or private source available) - it cannot be trusted. this was one of the worse examples, but it's always like this with "proprietary" OS/toolkits.
http://archive.today/ZyqOz
I can barely describe how foreign all of this is to a Dutch person. Pre-school and school drop-off is with a bike by default - Parents today use every type of cargo bike, but traditionally you’d see just a parent with two bike seats (on front, one rear) until the kids are 4 and able to bike themselves.

This youtube channel does a great job exploring what infrastructure exists to enable this lifestyle: https://youtube.com/@notjustbikes
It looks like they’re using a style meant for selected pull quotes, but since the quoted text is the majority of the article, it looks unbalanced.
Gatekeeper companies whose platforms are all-reaching and all-encompassing (ie. not just toys or games) should be forced to surrender default status to choice. Default search, default payments, default messaging, default email, default browser, and default app store shouldn't be first party options thrust on the user.

Defaults are something 99 out of 100 users will stick with, making them one of the most powerful forms of platform monopolization.

Ending defaults is the only way a competitive gradient can exist. Otherwise, these gatekeeper companies are forever entrenched and can feast off of all economic activity forever. They can furthermore choose to enter tangential markets and snuff out the incumbents.
Yes, because of the difference in legality for many controlled substances between the two states mentioned. From the poster’s reply elsewhere, the context was focusing on Oregon.

> On February 1, 2021, Oregon became the first state in the USA to decriminalize the possession of small quantities of all illicit drugs, following the passing of Oregon Ballot Measure 110 in November 2020.
I have seen a few situations like this:

Company says "looking for an expert on X"

Expert on X walks into the room.

Interviewer: "How good are you at Y?"

Expert on X: "I know a little about Y, but not too much. I mostly use X for my work; I could show you how to solve the problem using X."

Interviewer: "Thank you for your time; goodbye."

When I tried to figure out why this happens, the answers are usually something stupid like: "HR posted the job announcement, they have no idea what we really need", or "yeah, we are still looking for an expert on X, but we need an expert on Y more urgently". (The latter still does not explain why they rejected the expert on X without asking him anything about X, but to the person who said this it seemed to make perfect sense.)
Wasn't this in the plot of Westworld? They started with mechanical robots, but discovered that bio-based machines were easier to grow/repair?
>>>that collides with the structural misrepresentation built into the US electoral system.

I never know quite how to respond to this, because (as an outsider) the US electoral system has been designed in a way that is misrepresentative but for very clear reasons.

Part of the 'pitch' for the smaller states to join the union was that they would retain some power, mostly via the electoral college and senate (yes, they still get over-represented in the house, but less so). If the pitch was "you get nothing and we can bulldoze your state" Wyoming would have just said "no thanks, we'll stick to ourselves/join another union". If you think of states as entities worth protecting, assigning senators per state is quite reasonable.

Fast forward two hundred years and we have a different view of states, care more for the individuals inside them, and it indeed seems unfair that Wyoming and California both get 2 senators. What's the fix?
I run Libreboot on my ThinkPad and it works great.
I’m confused by this post. Formatting aside, it’s drawing a comparison between something Gruber said and something Microsoft said.

Beyond that, there’s not much substance to the post around the assertion of the title?

They may very well be correct or not, but the post itself has no real content to it.

It also erroneously claims that the browser changes were after the European commission rulings but their own graph ends at 2009 when that commission ruling happened. The prior one for that time frame was around media player.

However the quote they point to is around the DOJ investigation which again, does not actually lead to what they claim. Microsoft won the appeal and the later settlement didn’t affect Internet explorer significantly.

The loss in browser market share was imho inevitable as a result of the growing Internet and growing competition, as IE6 lagged greatly behind.
They do not have any meaningful companies that actually have to worry about the end-user viability of tech.

Spotify, Indeed, and Booking are maybe the only real examples of consumer web apps from the EU, there are literally hundreds larger examples from the US.
If Warren hadn't given his Berkshire shares away he'd still have 474,998 currently worth $290bn and be the world's richest man by quite a margin. He's done good with the investing. I think one of the reasons for giving it away is to avoid all the hype about that.
in fairness, you also are a high-profile cloud provider with a pre-existing relationship - if small. ;)
If we keep this idea in mind. Couldn't we argue that any piece of software that communicates over internet might allow any type of exploiting, including arbitrary code execution at Ring 0. As technically simple open socket could be made to input data directly to be executed by kernel process?
https://www.thejuicemedia.com/5680-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM

https://xcancel.com/thejuicemedia/status/1807308764875461101
I don't see any mention of the data size or volume of transactions? Also, your API response times were worse after you finished and optimized, and that's a success? or you're comparing historical SQLite vs new PostgreSQL? I kinda see this more as a rewrite than a database migration (which I'm going through now from SQL Server to PostgreSQL)
> the decision was made to go backwards in technology

What is so forward about DAB ?

In theory it sounds excelent. In practice it sounds like crap due to using the lowest bitrate possible.
> When you use C++ to integrate them into your own project, you don't introduce an extra layer of bugs

I’m mixed about this statement. Yeah, I had to write some pimpls to make cross platform API for multiple OSes.

And I’d also say modern C++ got nice compile time checks and makes safer code. Still, it doesn’t reduce potential of bugs or security issues due to race conditions, or direct memory interactions in comparison to writing in Swift or Rust as an example and binding what you need.
How does it work if you want to cut at a B frame?
Yeah, they're risk analysts, not technologists. That's not inherently bad, you need those. In a previous life I worked in a domain with a lot of risk analysis, by the end I liked a lot of them and they were usually fairly easy to have as stakeholders. But security has a track record of failing to equip the rest of a business with process adequate for the inherent volatility in risk they're supposed to be managing. In the engine room it's still dashing from fire to fire, just with better fire alarms. The things you complain about are precisely the business problems that the security group should be solving. Cybersecurity is important enough that they can get away with overbearing demands without providing holistic solutions for the organization to reach them.
The cost of coal went up because of regulation. I am in favor of that.

But take away the regulations - and guess what happens.

Coal is condensed energy buried in the ground and cheap to extract.

Solar and battery is high tech, mainly coming from china with the domestic production allmost died out in europe. One global escalation and the solar prices will rise - and the coal will still be there.

I am arguing against blind optimism. Not against renewables.
For context, the post is really by the author who brought us this law.

There aren’t any question marks in the title though, so the law can’t be applied.
There's loads of alcoholism in Germany and Austria, but its generally frowned upon to get drunk at work (or at work events).
Emergency capacity is provided by natural gas turbine plants, which can go online in ~10 minutes, and respond to capacity demand in less time.

Coal takes hours and is not suitable for grid stabilization.

Grid stabilization in the UK is largely provided by hydro like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station

...which can go from 0 to 1.7GW in seconds. The UK has long used hydro to help with the "tea kettle" effect every time the BBC was between programs or went to commercial.
> I use a Logitech mouse which can connect wirelessly to a USB dongle over RF, providing lower latency and better battery life than Bluetooth

In my experience this has not been true at all now that most Logitech mice use LE ("Bluetooth Smart") rather than BT. The only advantage the RF dongle has is that it works without an OS.... or on an OS without a BT/LE stack, like here.
I just assume every piece of code can throw any kind of exception. If some code doesn't throw an exception today, it might change tomorrow. It ultimately doesn't matter. There is no need to worry about it.

There are only key points in any application where you can properly handle errors/exceptions and only certain errors/exceptions that can be handled in a specific way. Neither the location of the handler or can be handled has anything to do with what code triggered the error.

Explicitly declaring exceptions/errors completely breaks polymorphism. The library that you call exposes it's internals that way and if those internals change then your code breaks. Either that, or to maintain a consistent API, the library has to lie about the errors it produces by hiding the real error away in a more generic error type.
No it isn't. The country to the right is not in NATO. The country to the north is not in NATO. Transnistria is a None-Of-The-Above. Are the navigable waters of the Black Sea 'in NATO'?

Neighboring is not surrounding.
We gate check a couple of times lately and the big down side is that the plane exit can be jammed as folks wait for their luggage at the gate.
10% is way higher than I thought. Probably <0.1% of my transactions are in cash.

Cash is cumbersome and annoying. I wish there was a digital anonymous replacement.
Does it mean the 88Mhz -> 108Mhz frequency band will go to back the auction block ?
If the sales and earnings go up in the long run, and the stocks aren’t super overvalued, then the stocks go up. It doesn’t matter what other people think. All that matters is the performance and valuation.
I’ve quit caffeine for 3-4 months. Aside from a rough few days from quitting cold-turkey, there was zero discernible difference in my day to day life. I enjoy black coffee, and the drawbacks, compared to say, soda or alcohol consumption are minimal, so I started drinking it again because I missed it. And most decaf is too gross to drink black so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel the same way -- the silver lining is that it's helped push me to buying older / used / more maintainable stuff for a fraction of the price, all the while learning a little here and there about minor repairs for older electronics. This is a big win for the pocketbook and gratifying to keep something out of the landfill.

Reduce / reuse / recycle -- in order of importance.
Buried lede: “What I did find was a "convenient" backdoor that Sleep Number can use to SSH back into the hub (and my internal home network as a result).”
India, UK, Canada being on top of the losers list make total sense. Their countries will also rank similarly in any other arbitrary criteria.

I'm surprised to see Swiss so up there.
Acidity causes things to taste sour, not bitter. Bitterness is associated with alkaloids (many alkaloids are poisonous, so the fact we have taste-buds for bitterness is an advantage).

I experience lemons as both sweet and sour, but certainly not bitter.

[Edit] Perhaps the peel is bitter; the white pulp is certainly bitter.
This is funnily ironic. My broadband service <<as a pipe>> is very good. I saw a comment above from someone in Redmond regarding Comcast.

I'm kind of "at two" with a lot of the cloud religion; I'm intimately aware that it's a first world problem and that the cloud as we know it is a North American / Western European phenomenon. Sure, talk to anyone anywhere in the world and "the cloud is great" but it doesn't mean the same thing when the nearest cloudy datacenter is 500 miles and an international border away. Or even in Eastern Washington State.

I had two internet feeds until last year. One was DSL, with two fixed IPv4 addresses; the other was broadband. The DSL had some advantages, although throughput was not one of them.

A couple of years ago some meth head cut the cable head (right down to the ground! a couple pounds of copper??) out of a punchdown box by the side of the road. CenturyLink fixed it, but I think it was the beginning of the end. Last year they gave notice that copper line service could stop at any time without notice and wouldn't be restored.

Luckily the local option broadband operator (who leases a /17 from the City, we'll get to that) decided to make an offer that was too good to be true at about that time: $116/mo for 500mbit and two free fixed addresses to go with it.

Unfortunately Rainier Connect / Lightcurve can't competently operate reverse DNS, preferring to impersonate the lessor's /16 rather than configure 128 /24s. The PTR space is littered with defunct resolutions for customers they have lost. And the lessor, the City of Tacoma, won't accept email from their own address space so there's nobody to complain to. I've manage to shame / embarrass Lightcurve enough that they fixed some other egregious issues.

For some silly reason (besides the fact that I offer a TCP table plugin for Postfix which supports nontrivial aliases) I want email-at-rest to be on computers which I own on premises I own, and proper reverse DNS is necessary for that.

In conclusion, even in the first world with a cloudy datacenter virtually down the street the necessary business predicates to correct technical implementation and operation aren't universally present. If you look hard at the cloud and squint you can see it there, too.