skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't find it impossible, and it requires no modelling. From my anecdotal experience, it does seem that most people would have a neutral or positive view of Jobs and Apple.

When I said "what planet are you from", I meant simply that what the poster was saying (Jobs did "marvellous things for the advent of human-centric tech") isn't true on this planet. That's all.

I do think people have been misled, yes, but I wouldn't have guessed that would be a controversial point? Advertising is the art and science of misleading people, and we've never been so saturated in ads, morning til night.

And finally (you asked a lot of small questions) I think I've more insight into the matter because I've read books and articles about this issue and related issues.

On the actual question of whether on this planet Apple (Microsoft, Google, etc) have been a "boon for regular people", the book that struck me the hardest was probably "La Fabrique du crétin digital" by Michel Desmurgets, but I don't know if there's an English translation. There's lots of good stuff from Cory Doctorow. Ivan Illich, Neil Postman, etc.

In summary - I wasn't saying it's a popular or majority opinion. I was saying that it's really true though, and I was even implying that people working in tech-related fields have no excuse for lying to themselves about it (although they've tons of incentive to do so, of course).
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978636
I think this is just to show off how strong a thinkpad x/t hinge is :)
For me, ham was about off grid communications. Back in the day I used to do a lot of backpacking and this was before cell phones. New Mexico had this incredible repeater network that was linked into Kirkland AFB, so you could be just about anywhere in the wilderness out there and use the auto patch to make a phone call. It was incredible.

Now days we have satcoms for cheap and soon we will have Starlink even on mobile phones so ham has lost a bit of its value proposition in terms of backcountry safety.

It’s still nice to have when there are big power outages or emergencies, but you are right that the social side of it has died down quite a bit.

Edit: it’s also good to have a ham license if you’re into flying RC airplanes - you can use much more powerful radios and have a lot more range.
Which is basically a total rip-off of the Stuff Made Here version where the actual engineering process is the highlight, not Rober's shilling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu_1S77XkiM
> Except there is no profit, only pain

I have 20 years or professional experience and my conclusion, if someone asked, what IT boils down to: pain.

The pain is what filters who can succeed and who fail. Can you endure hunting a bug for 7 hours in your chair? Can you fix problem after problem to get a system running? Everything that can fail, will fail, and you have to deal with it.
Doesn't the fact they have successfully demonstrated displays at 2000, 5000 and 10000 DPI alleviate those concerns a little bit?
? even on one's own computer? I don't follow

It would follow from your statement that not disabling the screen lock is also anti-social.
https://archive.is/THgjP
Many (most? all?) nation-states have compulsory service, either triggered in a "draft" or always ongoing (e.g. all young people serve in some way after high school). So no, I don't believe that you as an individual have the right to not work with your nation's national security apparatus, regardless of where you reside. You may think this is only for young people but I think that's just been typical practice/need, not a matter of law.

Similarly, corporations have obligations to the state. In the US I believe this largely falls under the "Defense Production Act". My personal assumption is that most companies are more pragmatic than individuals and would accept some suggestions/requests to aid the state rather than risk disruption from a formal order to support the state; and the state has a lot of levers to make themselves persuasive.
That one's on Intel. They marketed Optane poorly and created a subpar product for the market they were tackling.

The whole point of memristors is to make something better than DRAM and SRAM. Perhaps even blow up the dichotomy between storage and memory altogether (as memristor MRAM can store information even when powered down, unlike DRAM and SRAM). Let here we are in 2024 with no viable memristor products on the market.
MOSFETs on NASA's Europa satellite can't handle space radiation; mission at risk
A little earlier: the DoubleClick merger happened in 2007 and it took a little time for the ad guys to end up running everything, coincidentally also marking the end of their ability to launch a successful product.
Also great discoverability. When you need to send that email so badly that you start repeatedly slamming the laptop lid out if frustration, you get presented with this extra input method.
sorry, did not know about that one. my bad.
I'll reach out to HN to remove this post then
You are missing a big factor in this - “neutering” the National Weather Service is not something corporate lobbyists agree on. Yes, commercial weather services would love it to happen, because it would force people to buy more of their products, thereby significantly increasing by their revenue-so of course their lobbyists will be urging for that “neutering” (or even abolition) to take place. But, on the other side, many industries (e.g. aviation, space, maritime, agriculture) are heavily reliant on weather forecasts, and are used to getting them free or cheaply from the government, and don’t want to start paying $$$ to commercial weather services for them - so their lobbyists are going to be urging the opposite. And these other industries have a lot more money and established influence than commercial weather services do, so their lobbyists will win

The Wikipedia article you cited [0] says:

> The bill attracted no cosponsors in the Senate and eventually died in committee

So Santorum couldn’t find a single other Republican Senator to openly support his bill. Why? He may have been in AccuWeather’s pocket, but the other GOP Senators were listening to other lobbyists telling them to do the opposite.

Also, I expect the Pentagon would have been complaining about it behind closed doors. Weather forecasting is very important in the military, and the military is used to getting it for free from NOAA. Forcing them to buy it from commercial weather services would be adding a new expense to the defense budget. Not that people in the Pentagon - and defense contractor lobbyists - are opposed to budget increases, but they’ve got other things they’d rather spend it on than giving bucketloads of DOD money to AccuWeather.

This is the thing about “Rein in Wasteful Federal Spending”-everyone in the GOP agrees with it in principle, but not necessarily on what spending is wasteful. There are other areas of spending where you are far more likely to get a GOP consensus to slash it (e.g. NEA, NEH, CPB, NPR)

Whereas, Project 2025 is just thinktank blather. Thinktanks can recommend doing anything they like, no guarantee it will happen. I doubt many GOP politicians bother to read the whole thing. Very likely, if anyone in a Trump II administration actually tries to implement the “privatize the National Weather Service” part, lobbyists from industries that would be disadvantaged by that will swoop in, and the whole thing will die. Just like it did in 2005.

NOAA spending on medium-to-long term climate modelling, as opposed to short-term weather observation and forecasting, is more likely to get cut - it has limited short-term commercial value, so not many corporate lobbyists to defend it. I don’t think that’s a good thing, but it is what it is. (I should point out I am just an outside observer of US politics, not a participant, from the opposite side of the planet.)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Dut...
It's strange, isn't it? I love them.
Yeah, and it turns out that talking to other nerds around the world kind of sucks a lot of the time.
Bone marrow transplant. All the infected cells die, and the transplant produces new one, free from HIV an. carrying a mutation preventing them from being infected.
This approach does not scale.
But that's a semantics game. Sub probability for entropy. Why do we live in a world where low probability states were in the past and high probability ones are in the future? What intrinsic property of the universe causes this asymmetry? One can imagine a symmetric k-negative universe where high probability macrostates trend towards low probability macrostates. Or a k-zero universe where the dice never rolls.

None of such questions follow definitionally from the second law ^H^H^H probability.
I am at a different large company. We got a pile of alerts for a service's staging environment being unused. Of course it's unused, we haven't done a release in months.

We clicked the appeal process on those alerts. You could tell from their response that this was a novel concept.
SpaceX doesn't really do any sort of frontier research. They do technology. They are taking concepts that have been done in the past and doing them more economically.

They have pushed the state-of-the art with projects like Raptor-2, but doing fundamental research and simply doing engineering are different things.
I don't do a journal, but I do like to do "end of day" notes. Working on adding database binary support to my JS framework [1] and finished last night with this (just dropped in a Markdown file):

---

Latest version of DB installer is breaking.

Why:

- We had it bump all DB versions to latest. MongoDB is failing on MacOS.

- MongoDB is failing on Linux and PostgreSQL is failing to build.

Ideas:

- Separate the logic off by database/platform. This will ensure that once we lock in a database/platform combo, it’s set unless we mess with it. Current set up is getting increasingly complex to the point of insanity.

- Go through, one database at a time tomorrow, for each platform. Get it perfect on each for the latest version (unless there’s a compat issue) and then move on to the next.

Good news:

- The basic idea WORKS. We can always roll back to older versions and figure out the latest stuff later, but I don’t think we’ll need to. It’s just going to take a full day of work to get 100%.

- This is worth it as this is the last major barrier to entry. It also removed headaches with people saying “works for me” while others say “it doesn’t work.”

---

Makes the next day's ramp up take a few minutes as opposed to who knows how long.

[1] https://cheatcode.co/joystick
Aside: bisecting flakes doesn't have to involve repeated runs. You can reformulate bisection as an information probing operation, expanding the scope to support noisy benchmarks or low-probability flakes. Bayesian inference narrows down the probable range of the failure for each new observation, and you can choose new probes to maximize information gain-- or even run them in parallel to minimize the total time.

You do have to provide flake rate probability to do the probability estimates, but even roughly correct rates work fine. Running bisects assuming a 5% chance of getting a false positive or negative barely adds more steps and greatly improves robustness.

The math is pretty simple too-- my old prototype might still be in Google's monorepo; I should reimplement it for the open source world.
Do you think the 2008 financial crisis had anything to do with it too? Like at that point, it was all focus on money, no focus on pet projects?
It's in Hatcher iirc
Cooling is the main and normal direction heat pumps run in; heating is the new and unusual way to use them.
>more general answer is that everyone doing science is working incredibly hard to find the answers to hard questions.

I think this is too romantic of a view. Yes, some (or even many) are working hard to answer hard questions. Others are seeking money, status and/or prestige as their top priority, just like practically any other field. It’s no different than saying financiers are working incredibly hard to create a rising tide that lifts all boats. It makes for a lofty narrative, but it’s also ignoring much of human nature.

And if you think that question is impossible to answer, it should at the very least give you pause to think about the confidence you have in your conclusion. Otherwise it reads as “I can’t prove it, but I know it’s true.” That’s dogma, not science.
I've read more than one history of bell labs and never heard about this dynamic.
The metaphor fits best if you make it an appendix. It may or may not provide some unspecified benefits, but there's marginal difference of having it removed. Sometimes it swells to an uncomfortable size, which is when you're best off cutting it out before it kills you.
This makes me sad, I haven't thought about Bob Newhart in years, he was a ever present fixture on TV my entire youth.

As soon as I saw the headline, the only thing that popped into my head was, "Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl!" with Bob maintaining a straight face the entire time in front of a audience.[0]

Class act all the way. I wish we had more celebrities like him and Betty White nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yyB06HvAjI
I think this is doable; and practice makes perfect.

I can enter passcode on my apple watch with my nose. It’s the smaller apple watch model. Nose is quite big.
Uhm yeah talking with people is optional and only required to check how well they receive you when you set antenna up.

Buying off the shelf everything is not fun. Buy radio and try to build an antenna from metal wire or whatever else. Then try to see if old farts can hear your calls.

It is much more like fishing it is supposed to be boring unless you are really interested in the topic.

Yes there is Chinese vendor that you can buy antennas that will work much better than whatever you cobble up by hand but yeah YOU are the one to make it fun for yourself not old farts in your propagation range.
Hopefully they double check, as I would hate for him to be buried alive in a box.
I never said anything about one-liners?
AlphaGo – The Movie (2017)
Is that not solvable using an IOMMU (assuming hardware that has one)?
Even when you create the conditions there's always some luck factor. Whether it is leadership with the right vision or the right people in other key roles to create innovation. But I feel like the 2 points above are sort of the starting point that makes it possible for the other things to matter (or more likely, flukes can occur).
"started"? Is this a repeat from 1987?
The only one I've listened to was him interviewing Donald Knuth which was worth listening to, tho from time to time I got the impression of an interviewer that didn't quite know enough to do the interview.

If you like podcasts of a very intelligent person interviewing very accomplished guest thinkers, Sean Carroll's Mindcast is slightly higher level: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ (tho I don't think Donald Knuth has been on that one, lots of other computer folks have).
So aluminum and copper are listed as not magnetic yet powerful magnets are used to separate them from non metallic materials in recycling? Seems like a semantic argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current_separator
>it makes some sense for a company to want to only hire people whose skills exactly match the specific thing they are hiring them to work on

The good ol' "10 years of experience in Swift" approach... Though that joke is so old now that it probably is possible to legitimately have that.

That approach would make sense if the requirements seemed possible to begin with. And the salary was enough to attract that kind of niche talent. You're basically asking for a consultant for an employee's salary at that point.
99% did a very interesting episode on the Vultures. I highly recommend it https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/towers-of-silence/
Python in Cloudflare Workers – Running Pyodide on the Edge [video]
Ah, so no true scientist would do such things.
Let's be glad what they only managed to 'hit' a hospital with only 1 missile from the pack of 6.
Yes, "panchromatic" is probably the more accurate term for it. It's just a camera with no color filters and a known spectral response curve that's high enough across the frequencies being imaged.
While I find it questionable that a government agency should be collecting analytics on its visitors in the first place, there are self-hosted analytics tools that they can use. One Google search turns up plausible.io which, even if its less convenient than Google would help with trust. It seems we've completely normalized the State conducting mass surveillance, tracking and metadata collection on citizens with the aid of corporate tech giants like Google.
Moore's law is dead in the USA for almost 20 years. The improvements we see come from research in Asia and the Netherlands.

Also the idea that US tech companies are doing much innovation is debatable. They are designing products for the international markets, but the core technologies are more and more coming from Asia.
It's actually typically a sign of your parents having money, above all else.
I don't like serverless development, because I need to rely on logging more and there is deployment overhead.

But for personal projects, I like its charge-by-usage model. I want my projects be cashflow positive.
Part of the problem, I think, is that Google's relentless focus on information is just never to end up being as sexy as the stuff Bell Labs worked on over the years.
SQLX has an offline mode where it saves the metadata of the SQL database structure but then you run into risk of that being out of sync with the database?

Yeah I just drop this one file [0] into my Tokio projects and I have a SQLite with single writer/multi reader pool done in a few seconds.

[0]: https://github.com/seddonm1/s3ite/blob/0.5.0/src/database.rs
I acknowledge that you also included your nice talking point in a paper you published on arXiv. Citing yourself doesn't convince me any more of the credibility of this argument.

> is there even the slightest doubt about the importance of standards when building and operating giant particle accelerators

The particle accelerator application is a checker for existing JSON config files. The accelerator is already running with those files. The proposed project is in an early stage. The checker will add more assurance, which is nice. The checker's author does not talk about the importance of warranties or standards. The checker could just as well be implemented in some non-ISO dialect as long as that dialect has a reliable specification and implementation.

So yes, there is the slightest doubt.

Edit: BTW, your oncology paper heavily uses CLP(Z), which does not have an ISO standard, so your argument is... The base language must be standardized, but arbitrary nonstandard extensions are OK? Please clarify as I've probably misunderstood.
Somewhat less cynical view, but maybe corporations were allowed to be more long term focused in the past?
I'm all for avoiding sunk-cost thinking, but considering that nearly half a billion was spent on this thing and its launch was barely a year away, it's hard to wrap my head around scrapping it entirely.

From the lost talent alone, this seems catastrophic - why would any of the country's best engineers want to work on ambitious NASA projects when they can be rug-pulled so close to completion?

Also, where's the accountability or at least lessons learned in this cancelation? Is there a single finding on how to reduce cost overruns for future missions?
I've always understood Moldovan wine to be quite respected. I love the wine from that general region...my favorite is Crimean wine, the semi-sweet variety.
I recently bought a batch of six bananas from a local farmer's market - they were very fresh and very green and smaller, having just been picked. I let them ripen at home over the next 3 days.

They tasted very much better than my usual rather tasteless supermarket-bought bananas. I'm going to try the exercise again tomorrow to check whether this was a one-off or not.

After reading the article, I'm going to check with the grower whether or not these were Cavendish bananas which are the norm around this banana-growing area, or something else.
If they allowed the tracking pixels, they intentionally shared the data. We all know what the tracking pixels do.
All I could think about when listening to this interesting clip is, "How many young people, today, even have any idea what he's talking about, re: computers being ugly and hard to use?" Since this is 1983, he's obviously talking about IBM PCs[1] and DOS[2] -- not even MS Windows (Windows 3.1[3] wouldn't arrive until 1993, a full decade later). But that might be lost on younger listeners today.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC%E2%80%93compatible

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1#Windows_3.1
Do this before it gets the GeoCities treatment. I regret not making backups of things I made as a kid.
And now you see why the GDPR requires a site to list the third parties involved.

https://www.royalmail.com/privacy-notice and the cookie policy, 3.4.
Ukraine stopped the Russian invasion and turned the war into a stalemate primarily through widespread use of land mines. The chance that those will all be removed after the conflict is approximately zero. Many of them were artillery delivered so no one even knows exactly where they landed. No one cares about war crimes when their own survival is at stake.
Well I think there is a small connection between endless editing possibilities and a programming language that can express any kind of function, but I also get your point. I might remove it in the future.
Why would apple ban this? Seems like a great way to increase sales!
I think a big difference between Apple and some of its competitors is Steve’s inherent outlook.

He clearly envisioned a world that he wanted to make. Even in these clips, it’s clear he is thinking about the current state of things not being adequate for the vision he wants.

When I look at Apple, and certainly the couple times I interviewed there, they have that same vision as part of their culture. In one of my interviews, I was asked about my own view of the future. Another time they asked me how we could avoid certain dystopian trends like proliferation of ads and reductions in privacy.

Both times it was clear the product vision wasn’t just monetary. To quote jobs from this talk, people wanted to give back to the world.

I compare that to some other tech giants I’ve interviewed for and the focus is, how can we maximize returns.

Apple certainly isn’t perfect, and they’ve faltered many times, but I think there’s the spirit of Steve in everything today.

Often I ask the interviewers “What is customer value? Is it the value we provide to customers or the value we get from them?”. Apple is the only place I’ve interviewed where people start with the former rather than the latter.

Even though I was a heavy Android and windows guy going into those interviews, it did convince me to start paying more attention to their product vision and I eventually switched over. Sadly they went with an internal candidate but it was still very eye opening.
> 12 cores but 100 incoming connections

Especially when using a modern storage medium, which most servers nowadays use, I doubt that filesystem I/O will be a bottleneck for the vast majority of use cases.

I/O is extremely fast and will be negligible compared to other stuff going on to serve those requests, even running queries themselves.

The CPU work done by SQLite will vastly outshine the time it takes to read/write to disk.

It might be a bottleneck to reading if you have a very large database file, though.
Pretty great that this random engineer has superior ethics to a member of SCOTUS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas#Nondisclosure_... .