skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, but kinda hard to believe that the sounds we hear in the forest could be coming from that high up
I'm no expert, but if that's true, that's pretty mind-blowing
Looks positive to me!
Outside of Hawaii and maybe Alaska, everywhere in the US would be devastated by the ensuing flood
Not everyone needs that kind of performance. Consider for example someone upgrading from an Excel spreadsheet. The fact that you can create a Neon database in just a few minutes, typing only 2 strings, is pretty incredible. And they don’t even ask for a credit card!
What do you mean by "operator"?
I agree with you on the importance and necessity of getting rid of dead weight.

All I'm saying is that stack ranking might not successfully get rid of dead weight. As with any system of metrics, the people who game the system are the ones who reap benefits from the system - thereby subverting the system, and preventing it from achieving its stated goals. As systems of its kind go, stack ranking is particularly insidious and gameable.

I have no idea what _would_ work, though. I have some half-baked thoughts, but will reserve them until such time as they are better than half-baked.
I agree. People should gradually build up their intuition from lower abstractions to higher. People should be banned from using async/await unless they had first experienced callback-based code, and then promise-based code. Going straight to async code is like asking people to run before they have learned to walk.
here cames the pixel 5-8 regression bugs! yay!
I’d like to see them split off crawling from indexing/search, and be forced to provide the complete crawl to anyone who wants it, at cost. Currently, they have a privileged position, where almost all websites are willing to let them crawl, while blocking most smaller crawlers pinging them anywhere near as often, and forms a bit of a natural monopoly. Opening that up for all would open up competition in the search interface space a bit, and open things up for more specialized vertical search engines, making it generally a lot easier to start a search site without negatively impacting the sites they're searching with n engines worth of crawler traffic.
This would destroy me. I’d avoid closing it so that I don’t disturb the pooch. Forever on my phone.
Everyone has their own preferences but $100 a year for a note taking app that will need a third party service to sync seems a little rich.
Understanding embedding models: make an informed choice for your RAG
I get more comments on my Casio A159WGEA than the dozen other "nice" watches I own.
I have negative desire to get a phone billing itself around AI and LLM features. I turn off every AI assistant feature on my existing devices, I actively don't want a phone that ties Gemini and AI photoshop even tighter into it. If Google wanted to actually improve their phones they would add basic software functionality they're still missing instead like, say, a per-app volume mixer that half the 3rd party Android phones I've used have added but is still missing from AOSP and Pixel.
The issue is that these physics threads always end up the same, with commenters having only popular-level background offering suggestions they came up in five minutes, mirroring obvious thoughts that actual physicists have of course already thought of decades ago, and in much more detail. It is really hard and quite unlikely to come up with novel ideas that haven't already been discussed and played out ad nauseum in that field.
> the flaw in your reasoning is that you are assuming ChatGPT has a subjective experience

No I'm not.

I don't think ChatGPT thinks either. But I can express that claim without making untestable, unscientific, circular claims.

Your explanations of why it can't be conscious have all boiled down to "because it isn't [synonym for conscious]". But you are conscious "because you do [thing synonymous with consciousness]".

I'm not trying to attack you as a person, just poking fun at this all-too-common style of reasoning. I apologize if I offended you by doing that.
Agreed. Gmail is probably their best product and while they make money from Google Workspace, imagine without Google Ads, they'd have to start charging those 2 billion users who would then leave for a lesser but cheaper alternative.

And Google Maps and Waze and YouTube and YouTube Music.

It's always been unsafe to rely on most any Google product since they will eventually evaporate. But Google Search, YouTube and Gmail have always seemed untouchable, but without Google Ads, it's anyones guess.
Ha... I remember recommending a google pixel 6 to someone for their decent prices, but now even the non-pro model is at 800 USD...
The person you are responding to didn't say that, I did.

The abstractions I'm pointing at are cases where mutation or side effects are the desired result of execution. Ultimately this always runs up against having to grok a lot of different monads and that's simply never going to be as easy to understand as calling "print" or "break". Haskell works really well if the problems you're solving don't have a ton of weird edge cases, but often reality doesn't work like that.

The other thing is laziness which makes it hard to reason about performance. Note that I didn't say it's hard to reason about execution order--I think they did a good job of handling that.

Don't get me wrong, Haskell's dogmatic commitment to functional purity has led to the discovery of some powerful abstractions that have trickled out into other languages. That's extremely valuable work.
I haven't subscribe such ISP in person, but there are many cases from Internet, it reminds me that never trust any ISP (or Gateway that could inspect data):

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/70970/my-isp-is...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/157828/my-isp-b...

https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/19
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237879

When I was at EFF, we did try to get UN official accreditation, but China would consistently veto it.. I was EFF's international activist and later international director for a number of years.. more of the work than you'd imagine has a global side to it. This has been true since the days of [DMCA].. elements of which were rejected by the US Congress in the mid-Nineties, then policy-laundered through WIPO into the 1996 Copyright Treaty, which meant that it had to become law after the US Senate consented to it in 1999. (Treaties don't need the support of both houses in the US). EFF and other orgs at the time learned the lesson that regional and international agreements can often be an end-run around local democracy or norms -- and that local laws (from the DMCA to the GDPR) can have wider ramifications on a global network..

EFF and partner groups often contribute to government and international proposals (a hundred-or-so of them have been involved in the cybercrime treaty process for many years [1] and I believe got it to a fairly good place before a last-minute push by some states to introduce more surveillance into it.)

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/joint-statement-propos...

Earlier HN threads:

UN Cybercrime Convention To Overrule Bank Secrecy, 40 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41221403

UN cybercrime treaty unanimously approved, 50 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41210110
He died from a glioblastoma. Car-t therapy is promising for that.

https://www.massgeneral.org/news/press-release/clinical-tria...
But then surely this is something Congress can and should remedy? Why is it a better outcome that the least accountable branch of government should claim interpretive power that was not granted to it by Congress?
Does any of that water, though, ever make it onto the Earth's surface? I'm guessing not, or only miniscule amounts over geologic time through volcanism.

For all intents and purposes, I think only counting "surface" water is more useful and intuitive. It's essentially any water that can participate in the hydrologic cycle on Earth, and that water locked beneath the crust doesn't really "matter" for what I think the intended purpose of this graphic is.
Pretty much! Both because solar is by far the most interesting to me, and because it provides a natural way of significantly limiting scope (for example, certainly anyone asking for longform detailed sources on "energy" and "power" is absolutely doomed, but my hope is that "solar" is narrow enough that some useful answers start to exist)

For example, I can imagine (though no clue if it exists) some materials science professor who studies something related to materials for solar cells who also has a blog, or some policy wonk who dissects things like FERC rulings on interconnection policy with a view on their implications for integrating new solar developments into the grid.

I've seen things similar to this for other fields I've looked at, but for solar specifically, I have no clue how to find such people, if they do exist somewhere out there.
I don't think any programming language would help with the huge surface area present in a modern browser. What really needs to happen is that the web browser needs to be obsoleted by something simpler and better. Something that at least has the chance of being reasonably secure.
Government antitrust actions aim to promote competition but can sometimes slow innovation by disrupting large companies' ability to invest in R&D. Cases like IBM, AT&T, Microsoft, and Qualcomm illustrate how such interventions, while fostering competition, may also delay technological advancements or make companies more risk-averse.

While antitrust actions might temporarily disrupt a company's innovation, they ultimately foster a healthier market by encouraging competition, which drives more diverse and widespread innovation across the industry. Breaking monopolies often unleashes creativity and technological advancement by empowering smaller players and preventing market stagnation.
> at the beginning of hypothesis formation

But the expansion of the universe has been thoroughly studied for over a century. We're past the brainstorming phase.

I generally think people should brainstorm to generate ideas and then filter them down. And it's true that filtering too early can significantly decrease the quality of ideas.

And it's also true that in a place like Hacker News there will be smart people from all sorts of backgrounds getting to experience the joy of exploring a new topic that they're not fully up to speed on yet.

The risk though is that somebody who thoroughly understands the field is reading your comment. So for that reason I think it's a good practice to always be aware that technical fields we're not expert in are usually more subtle than we initially think.
I'd split it into at least:

Advertising
Google Search
Google Drive/Docs/Gmail/Gemini/Maps i.e. apps and office productivity
Google Cloud
VC activities
Waymo and Robotics
Health Care/Drugs

And I'd do the same with Meta, Apple, etc.

There's just no good reason to have mega-conglomerates that own such huge shares of the market. It leads to regulatory capture and locks out potential new competitors.
If you haven't read it Road to Wigan pier is a great work by Orwell on the status of the British poor post war.
After the media backlash, the team was quietly deprioritized.

Source: knew folks on the team.
Great analysis. How is divisiveness actually calculated?
You can use "Content Blockers" on iOS, they add ad-blocking to Safari. I quite like the (paid) Wipr one.
even that was marketing
For new-build houses? I haven't heard that, but then again I haven't heard otherwise for other western nations. The way the US builds houses seems positively primitive and backwards, but I don't know much about how they're built in places such as UK or Germany. Here in Japan, single-family homes seem to be largely pre-fab, and assembled from modules on-site. Here's an interesting article about it:

https://www.dwell.com/article/japanese-prefab-homes-e1f1b65c

One notable quote from the article: "The country’s population is roughly twice that of the UK, yet over six times as much new housing is built in Japan than in the UK each year."
> After the computer, new jobs have been created, but what kind of jobs? Every year, we are becoming more entwined in wage slavery as the wealth accumulates at the top and jobs become more meaningless.

What are you talking about? Many of us have tech jobs with much more comfort, creativity and autonomy than the jobs they displaced, and computerisation has made it much more practical for those who dare to strike out their own rather than needing wealthy family or friends before you can even begin to think of starting a business.
> But if Google Cloud Platform can't stand on its own, and merges into AWS or Azure, that's less competition.

The other complexity is the actual infrastructure and IP. Inside, Google is very “vertically integrated” to making software services. They have a huge toolbox of custom software and a ton of custom magic they built into the data centers and infrastructure.

I’m not sure that there have been any modern cases of antitrust breakups that would have as much complexity and nuance. Bell could easily be divided geographically but of course that makes no sense here. I can’t imagine a breakup doing anything but destroy value and competition, even if you support antitrust intervention.

What happens to Google’s famous monorepo? Does it get chopped up? Are the libraries and tools shared and each child company gets a fork?

What about the SRE team that manages the shared database infrastructure for every team at Google?

What happens to the database that stores users accounts? Each user has basically one identity across each Google product. What happens to your YouTube account if it ends up in a different company than your GMail account?

And of course, who gets the physical data centers? If that goes to GCP, does that mean that search needs to negotiate a usage price as part of the breakup negotiations? Imagine the contract YouTube would have to write for renting storage?
for claude 3.5, is it done purely from prompt engineering?
Who is "they"? You seem to be implying that CBS was aware of the deception but hid it until its hand was forced by bloggers. Was that the case? Because otherwise they obviously couldn't act on something they didn't know.
If you want applied science, advocate for increased public funding of research. Supporting abusive monopolies in the hopes that they'll do some good with part of their ill-gotten gains is the wrong play.
A friend of mine in the mid 70s was reduced to burning furniture in his Edinburgh flat. Mind you, given the temperature in Edinburgh back then, and the quality of the furniture, you could hardly blame him.I always found the wardrobes intensely depressing.
Rather, expanded. Way too much is influenced by the decisions of a few. The opposing political party (nor the American people) shouldn't ever fear that one president could turn the country for decades just because they had the power to appt 1 or 2 justices
Apple is so clearly an active, harmful monopoly with clear consumer pricing harm (forced 30% tax, you can't even mention alternative payment processing or they'll ban your app), and the DOJ and FTC consistently ignore it; I've pretty much lost hope in the honesty of the American regulators at this point. Enforce the law consistently, or don't enforce it; trying to pick winners with this degree of selective enforcement should be a crime.
I think you're overlooking the disincentives to competition that exist while Google is so consolidated. Google funds things like hardware, cloud, and Android so that they constitute a hundred-mile moat around its core Advertising and Search business. Android could lose basically unlimited money without Google winding it up, because its key role is to prevent the emergence of a competitor that would threaten to become another intermediary between Google and consumers.

A lot of these secondary products and services are not there to be profitable, they're sold at unrealistic prices (or given away for free) to kill competition. Once spun off, these products or services would have to become profitable on their own feet, which would - after an initial spike in prices - make the space a lot more competitive for other firms seeking to enter that market.
> but I suspect it's a niche that Patreon is very interested in (both because Patreon can't engage them through any other channel, and because they probably have above-average discretionary spending).

It's interesting that the existence of this supposed niche is entirely contained within the larger group of people who are kept unaware of the choice being made. Makes it a little hard to estimate or talk about what that niche actually is since they're always going to be an invisible subset of the users who are unaware of other payment methods or of the increased fees they're paying, and who are by Apple policy not allowed to be informed.

> You might as well say that an operating system implementing memory protection is "protecting users from themselves."

I guess readers can decide for themselves whether a store banning telling consumers about an alternative payment method is the same thing as memory protection.

I would suggest that one key difference between antivirus/memory protection and Apple's app store policies is that antivirus doesn't need to desperately try to hide the fact from me that it exists.
> If directed by high enough up they might accept the now-disputed EPA rules

Since we're talking about the military, it's less legally complicated than it might be with some other agencies: the president could make that happen with a phone call, there's not really any "might" about it. One assumes he either doesn't know or care what's going on, or (more interestingly, and I think more likely) the OLC has reasons for wanting things to go the way they're going.
Who comes into a thread about watches just to proclaim "I don't wear 'em"? What's even the point.
Excuse me, what?! How is this cargo cult science? I literally just described the scientific method. Here it is described on Wikipedia:

> The process in the scientific method involves making conjectures (hypothetical explanations), deriving predictions from the hypotheses as logical consequences, and then carrying out experiments or empirical observations based on those predictions.

The other questions you added are not bad questions to ask if you are practical and resource-constrained, but this is besides the point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
I was in that situation. I was thrilled when Sprint long distance became available at $0.10/minute and I also remember when you could stop renting your home phone from AT&T and plug in one that you bought and owned.
I have no clue but how can it be any good? What have they done but ruin everything they touch?

They destroyed Macromedia. They destroyed Flash. They destroyed Mixamo. The list goes on and on.
I thought it got slower because of Gemini. I have been setting alarms (yeah, I know!) under various conditions and it always worked like magic. It's something I have gotten really REALLY used to now and I'd notice any change.

Also, their AI photo effects never really worked any good for me but I do not own a pro model.
I think that part of what is surprising is that our brains cannot comprehend the scale of earth so we see the photo as a model of earth and wonder how it's possible that so little water can spread throughout. At model scale, the water wouldn't spread all the way around the globe because of viscosity and surface tension.
Maybe congress would function better if we brought back Congressional fist fights on the house floor?
I came back to see the different answers op was getting, and I am seeing lots of resources available, to the point in which I have decided to teach Math too! (The basic knowledge I have on the topic).
Yup. People act like they are geniuses there, but they were pulled kicking and screaming to allow native apps.
I don't think this is an awkward fit. There's no reason it should be Mutex<CustomerBankAccount> it can be Mutex<MyTransferToken> or indeed Mutex<()> if you're really sure you don't actually want to lock any data.

One piece of advice I'd suggest is, write APIs which take that MyTransferToken to signify that you must take the lock before calling them, it can be a unit type (a Zero Size type, a struct with no members) at the start if you like, but I suspect you'll find that across several functions which take that MyTransferToken you realise actually the data I was going to put in a separate parameter is really always accompanying that token, and so it might as well go inside the the MyTransferToken and before you know it your unit type that was just to ensure correct locking is in fact an object with important data protected by the lock.
Also they never cheerleaded anyone so hard about making a paradigm shift like they did Clubhouse audio app...
They mean in terms of the ratio of water to rock.
Advertising needs to split. Search, youtube, ... need to bring their own ad sales with, with a few of the external customers.
If there aren't enough people willing to pay for someone else's work product to make it worth the producers time/effort, then I'd argue that maybe that work product is not actually worth producing in the first place. In the realm of youtube, that may require putting out enough quality content as a loss-leader to gain a following large enough that a percentage is willing to support the creator directly. Many have made this work well.

I have many issues with advertising in general, but put simply, it breaks the basic transactional nature of business. When the people benefiting from someone else's work product aren't the ones paying for it, then both the producer and consumer end up being taken advantage of for someone else's profit.

The way I see it, tools like Patreon that allow consumers to directly support people they benefit from are just what are needed.
I'm sorry, but this is absolutely nonsensical. I literally just posted a screenshot showing that this is configurable on a Samsung.

In fact, when I first setup this phone, I had to specifically choose to make the home bar visible at all. Because the current default setting on Samsungs is to use "gestures" only. The same as the default setting on a Pixel now. All Android manufacturers seem united in pushing this, to ape iOS.

There are plenty of reasons to choose a Google Pixel. And I wouldn't quibble with any of them. But it's absolutely bizarre to point to a default setting as a reason, when they are configurable and when both brands use the same default setting anyway.

So many of these discussion threads are like this. It's perfectly fine to prefer a Pixel over a Galaxy. But people so often seem to take umbrage against Samsung for some reason, and when you poke at a little it rarely makes much sense.
People might assume you have ripgrep, or fd, I suppose?

Ultimately, though, I think the importance of having a guarantee that the OS has the complete built-in 'swiss army chainsaw' (to borrow a Perl-ism) just isn't as high priority in the age of modern package managed, dependency graphed, fibre connected always online systems vs. big monolithic beasts that you maybe 'make install' the odd extra piece of software you heard about on usenet, once the 300 baud modem is done bleep-blooping out the source from the CVS repository. =P

That said, we do get new toys, right up to the kernel level; compression algorithms like zstd, hashing algorithms like xxhash, the slow & steady (glacial?) advance of BTRFS features...

If there is demand for something like age, you'd expect it'll filter through into the base of distros, become 'de facto standard', glom onto the kernel, etc. etc. like other stuff people find useful and want, no?

(Even if not, it's written in go, so... 'go install filippo.io/age/cmd/...@latest'? =d
Issues aside, modern lang-specific package managers make it stupidly easy to grab software these days.)