skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree, and it's useful to play out the shrinking quality gap over time:

- Today: Financial companies are willing to pay cloud providers for DB, LLM, & AI services, and want to paper over the rest with internal teams + OSS, and maybe some already-trusted contractors for stopgaps. Institutional immune system largely rejects innovators not in the above categories.

- Next 6-18mo: Projects continue, and they hit today's typical quality issues. It's easiest to continue to solve these with the current team, maybe pull on a consultant or neighboring team due to good-money-after-bad, and likely, the cloud/AI provider solves more and more for them (GPT5, ..., new Google Vertex APIs, ..)

- Next year or year after: Either the above solved it, or they make a new decision around contractors + new software vendors. But how much is still needed here?

It's a scary question for non-vertical startups to still make sense with the assumption that horizontal data incumbents and core AI infra providers don't continue to eat into the territory here. Data extraction, vector indexing, RAG as a service, data quality, talk to your data, etc. Throw in the pressure of VC funding and even more fun. I think there's opportunity here, but when I think about who is positioned wrt distribution & engineering resources to get at that... I do not envy founders without those advantages.
The only reason 0% intro rate exists is because many people never pay off the balance before the interest kicks in. Also in some cases the entire interest from the start is then due so the 0% means nothing at that point.
From what I have seen women tend to prefer the larger phone sizes more than men, because they keep it in their handbags and use it two-handed.
The sentence captures the notion clearly, it just sounds a little awkward, especially for an opening sentence in an abstract, which is usually carefully crafted. I think you're probably correct that this is because the authors aren't native English speakers.
I'd like to be able to do the following things on a watch with just 5g and not paired with a cell phone:

- call uber

- maps navigation

- a camera. I need to be able to capture photos and videos things while out. even at lower specs i'd love this
You don't need CLA for legal protection, Developer certificate of origin is enough. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Certificate_of_Ori...
Those methods are not magic pixy dust. Chain a few a those and you've looped through the entire array 3 times, instead of one for loop.
This?

https://i.imgur.com/9uUJLaz.jpeg

I've never seen any kind of UI where the "Home" button wouldn't be in the center. And you have the option of placing the "Back" button on the left and the "Open Apps" button on the right, or vice-versa.
It is a proxy for consuming less Poly-Unsaturated FAts (PUFAs). Likely because your skin ceases to be able to withstand sun exposure, making it more uncomfortable to generate vitamin D.

This also explains why supplementing vitamin D doesn’t work: it’s the PUFAs poisoning your metabolism that cause the problems, not the lack of vitamin D.

Sounds crazy, but explains a lot.

https://theheartattackdiet.substack.com/p/what-im-currently-...
It's usually two taps, three at most. Hard to see how that isn't convenient. And what's frustrating about getting it to work? It's generally extremely reliable.
This has been brought up in the past and Apple did try to cater to that market with their smaller phone and it seemed the market response was not great, they ultimately had to drop the iPhone mini because it was not worth it.
Another alternative is GNU/Linux phones.
The bar for chrome was IE at the time, and it beat that.

I think it’s also partly Google’s very open culture on CVEs that means they are discovered and reported on promptly. It’s difficult to tell how much it’s just increases awareness that browsers are full of holes and whether the holes are increasing in size/frequency tbh.
https://archive.is/4wPmq
Pretty interesting juxtaposition considering water makes up about 71% of the Earth's surface, while the other 29% consists of continents and islands!
The source has to be annotated to export the function.
Overton window in US is shifted so far right, that while Democrats in 2024 have position on migration similar to one that Republicans had in 2016 - Republicans in 2024 talk about deportations.

What you call 'extreme left' would be considered 'center right' in Europe.
This somewhat reminds me on the discussions around the Web Monetization API [1] a few years ago.

I still wish for a service that gives me access to all paywalled sites or a way to sending all websites I visit a little money in exchange for them not serving ads.

[1]: https://webmonetization.org/
The freezing-into-a-ball-of-ice is relevant here. A body that small can't hold on to water vapor at anything a human would consider a reasonable temperature; the average velocity of light gases at human-sane temperatures is high enough to overcome their escape velocity. See [1] for a log-log plot of what gases a body can hold onto - even Mars, which is much larger and denser than a Ceres-sized ball of water, has lost most of its water (although other factors like the solar wind are contributors there).

A cold enough body, though, has a low enough vapor pressure that this isn't relevant even over cosmological timescales. That's why Europa can can have a stable icy surface. It's far enough from the Sun (and has a low enough albedo) that it's very very cold (about 100K), and at that temperature ice doesn't sublimate very much.

TLDR: a Ceres-sized ball of water could hold itself together, but only as long as it stayed water. But it wouldn't be able to. Either it'd be cold enough to freeze over at the surface, or hot enough to evaporate into vapor that would escape.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere#/media/File:Solar_s...
Tech is a really weird field; I think because of the high salaries, a lot of people are rich without realising they're rich. Tech is the "Nouveau rich". $28 a month on coffee is rather large amount to spend on coffee.
Senecas "De brevitate vitae"
Especially if you do a bit of serious (long-distance) running, you can't get past garmin. My partner has recently reached the semi-professional level and nobody there actually uses anything else. A few apple enthusiasts often refuse at first, but they all switch at some point.

I'm not that deep into the fitness scene, but I'm convinced by the 14-day battery life. But I also understand if you find the look a bit unfashionable.
Going from a liquid to a gas takes energy, which rapidly lowers the temperature of what remains. Net result most of the water freezes without some external energy source. Sublimation then lowers the temperature of the ice until near absolute zero, again unless there’s some external energy source.
"fine-tuned for fitness" the product presentation page scrupulously avoids talking about sport and systematically uses "fitness" instead.
Anyone who has ever tried to use Fibit + Google Health for their training knows that it's going to be a disaster.

This product seems destined for those who like something big and bright on their wrist.

In principle, this watch has no built-in GPS. One day's autonomy is therefore well below that any entry-level sport watches released in the last 5 years could offer.
There's a long history of spreadsheet errors and literature on same going back a few decades now.

The problem with Excel is that whilst it's an easy development environment, and a vastly flexible one, it's absolute death to debug.

In a business sim class in college a couple of decades back, I discovered that the Lotus spreadsheets (as I said: a couple of decades back) had a totalling error which double-counted individual row totals in the bottom line (everything was twice as profitable as the spreadsheet indicated).

At an early gig, one of the senior developers instituted a practice of code walkthroughs on projects (only a subset of them). One of these involved, you guessed it, a spreadsheet (we used a number of other development tools for much of our work), in this case Excel. Again, numerous errors which substantively changed the outcome of the analysis. One of the walkthrough leader's observations was that you could replace all of the in-cell coding with a VBA macro making debugging far easier (all the code and data are separated and in one place each).

The particular analyst whose project this was: he insisted to the very end that this "wasn't a program" and he "wasn't a programmer" and that the walkthrough didn't apply to his situation. Despite the errors found and corrections made.

At the time (mid 1990s) the walkthrough lead turned up a paper from a researcher in Hawaii on the topic. I'm not certain it was Raymond Panko, but his 2008 paper (a revise of a 1998 work) discusses the matter in depth, and finds 94% of spreadsheets have errors, with a 5.2% cell error rate:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20070617041554/panko.shidler.haw...>

Panko is now professor emeritus at the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii:

<https://shidler.hawaii.edu/itm/directory/raymond-r-panko>

Poon et al, authors of the study referenced in TFA, cite Panko numerous times.

Direct link to Poon: <https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11704-023-238...> (PDF).

(I've been noting this prior art on HN for over a decade now: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>.)
A quick search turns up problems, enough so that, as a consumer, I'd be concerned. Is that hard enough data to reach a conclusion in a major scientific journal? No.

Is it enough data so that, as a consumer looking to purchase one, I would be concerned? Probably.

Is it enough data that I'd expect some engineer at Google (or wherever) to pay attention and address? Certainly, I would expect some engineering team to pay attention to public forums and address issues as they arise. It doesn't seem to be happening. If these phones are supposed to be a flagship items, and I think it's reasonable to claim that they are, it's also reasonable to expect flagship support.
I long for the days of being able to reach all four corners of my phone screen with one thumb. I had an iPhone 12 mini which was a wonderful respite, but apparently us small phone fans are a small enough demographic to not warrant serving.

What's extra annoying is I never felt the need to use a case when phones were smaller, but one-handed corner reaching upsets the balance of the phone in my hand now to the point where it feels like a necessity—making the phone even bigger and bulkier.
Not discounting your knowledge, but somehow that was never the case for me across multiple companies, with I think one exception and even that one wasn't as slow as people talk about, despite being the worst I ever encountered.

In fact, I'd argue that one of the biggest annoyances I had in last job was that I actually missed JIRA, or rather it's glorious issue list view with its keyboard shortcuts.
No-car Games: Los Angeles readies for its 2028 Olympics closeup
> They interpret await as "let promise run"

This is actually how rust handles async/await. If nothing is polling the future then the future is not running. If you want background execution like javascript then you need to hand it off to an executor (for example via `tokio::spawn`). Its actually pretty nice because then you can build a future and pass it around but you can decide if/when you want to execute it later.

That being said, you still wouldn't want to do a for loop awaiting each future.
The Pixel and iPhone are really seeming homogenous with each other. The marketing seems similar, typefaces used, the naming conventions are close to the same, the airbrushed image generators, the photos app marketing that's turning your personal photos into a photoshoot with editing capabilities.

On top of that you've got the same earbuds form factor, smart watches, etc.
Looking at some of these screenshots, this is such a fantastic idea that it is surprising it wasn't done earlier. Magit has the perfect interface, why shouldn't everything be like that? Who wants to read the Info manual anyway? Info, Dired, Calc, obviously. Org mode, of course.

Maybe other people have been working separately on similar ideas? Really it is extremely obvious in retrospect that everything should have a Magit style interface. Ultimately, it would be great if that were the default, generally assumed style throughout Emacs. It would be great if all that effort could be coordinated and merged into the main distribution. Built-in, no external packages.
In the case of a relationship, maybe it could be argued that you are profiting, in the currency being used: you get more positive interactions out than you put in. ;)
I thought it was an Olympic sized swimming pool.
> From Alexander the grammarian, [I learned] to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used, and in the way of answer or giving confirmation, or joining in an inquiry about the thing itself, not about the word, or by some other fit suggestion.

Honestly, this approach also sounds like it has the potential to be insufferable, though I've seen it done skillfully. But I guess it must have been better than the prevailing norm for Marcus Arelius to cherish the wisdom. Maybe to Marcus it was more about the humility therein than about playing the role of a grammar tutor.

If your conversation partner is made to feel like a human on equal footing with you, then you can just mention the mistake candidly without any condescension implied or perceived. Maybe don't try it in settings where you would risk accidentally embarrassing someone.
China's autonomous vehicle startup WeRide seeks US IPO at $5B valuation
> self-hosting GHA Runners (plural!) is ... hard (not impossible, and quite doable with enough investment, especially if one takes the dive into the murky waters of k8s)

I’m the maintainer of RunsOn (https://github.com/runs-on/runs-on), which solves this problem with far less investment
I wish we had more than two phone giants. This is aggravating.

Unfortunately due to their market dominance and muddling of (hardware, OS, software distribution, and platform ecosystem), it's almost impossible to disentangle.

It'd be amazing if the DOJ made these companies only offer one slice of those four things. There would be so much competition and a wild variety of new things being tried.
I have a 5G Stylus rn, it's totally fine except I ruined the camera 3 days in so it takes TNG soft focus photos... love the G Power line, battery for days is not to be underappreciated
Besides what you listed: maps, payments, door locks, and music. I'm mainly concerned about losing the web browser that lets me do everything from my phone, but stuff like gpto could replace a lot of stuff, and if there are more actually usable apps(with potential ai integration for ux), that might be enough for me to ditch my phone.
good examples I also would like to be able to just have peace of mind for texting and calling for uber

dont really need a screen, its cubersome when you are outside for long periods of time and battery life on Apple phones isn't very good

Need something, I don't care if its big, that will last for at least a week, can do 3g/4g (5g is too much) SMS globally and calling internationally

bonus points for satellite connectivity and extended battery mode (where you can text your coordinates in mountains etc)
You can look them up here in System V Interface Definition Issue 2 from 1986: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/SVID/System_V_Interfac.... It has a note “Future Directions: The restriction on only having one hash search table active at any given time will be removed.” Which of course couldn’t be done without breaking compatibility.

Most programs at the time probably didn’t need more than one hash table, and it made for a simpler interface. (A program could in principle also work around the limitation by storing multiple values per hash table entry.) Most Unix libraries worked with global state at the time, since multi-threading also didn’t exist yet. I remember running into the limitation of only being able to have one lexer/parser grammar (via lex/yacc) per program.
Rocks, not eggs, and top of vehicle, not side:

https://cphpost.dk/2016-08-26/news/more-rocks-being-thrown-f...
That's 100% fine. I've never cared how thick my phone is in the least.
seriously? no GPS?
Take a look at the Nokia XR21. Headphone jack, esim, and incredibly rugged
My guess is that, whenever there's a possibility of innovation then competition is great and private corporations are the best; but when that period comes to an end, when the private corporations naturally merge together to save money by eliminate duplicate functions or improving scale efficiencies, then government buy-outs, nationalisation, is the best — everything that would have been a shareholder dividend, instead becomes a taxpayer saving.

Even if this is correct (unlikely, I'm not an economist) I have no idea how it would interact with globalisation/multinationals.
And I already get Max through my home ISP anyways, so really only $8/mo extra value. But I wouldn't watch Netflix With Ads anyways, so really $0 for me.

But that $80/mo plan I quoted doesn't even include the streaming services. That's just the regular data plan rate for a single line. Adding Max + Netflix (With Ads) is another $10/mo, so $90/mo compared to the $20/mo I'm paying now.

Note, when looking at Verizon's website, the big advertized rate numbers show the per-line rate with four lines.
> i mean awk supported arbitrarily many hash tables in a single process

This API supports that, too, as long as you don’t call one of the functions while another call is in progress. You get that for free if your process is single threaded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)#Threading_m... says

“History of threading models in Unix systems

SunOS 4.x implemented light-weight processes or LWPs. NetBSD 2.x+, and DragonFly BSD implement LWPs as kernel threads (1:1 model)”

According to Wikipedia, SunOS 4.0 is from 1988, NetBSD 2.0 from 2004, so I guess chances are good that AT&T System V UNIX didn’t support threads in user space programs.
Go 1.22 is still right there.
Huh, just yesterday I started setting up and getting used to my new (to me) Apple Watch Series 6, after having used a Pixel Watch 2 for several months.

I'm surprised to find myself somewhat disappointed, and preferring my Pixel Watch, though I'm still giving myself some time in case it's just familiarity. But a few things:

* The available watch faces are pretty underwhelming, particularly digital ones. There's only a single one that actually includes the seconds, as far as I can tell. And the only one with lots of complications is Modular, which sticks the time in the corner, and has a big unwieldy complication in the center. My kingdom for Pixel Watch's Utility.

* No watch face store!?

* I can't seem to set up a minimal all-red face for night time, like I had on the Pixel Watch.

* The heart rate complication is just a picture of a heart that I click and it takes me to a widget that measures my heart rate. I had a real time glance on Pixel Watch, right in the complication, always up to date.

* The sleep tracking is weird and confusing. I need to set up schedules and such? On the Pixel Watch, it just tracks my sleep automatically.

* Subjective, but I still like the size and shape (round) of the Pixel Watch more than this Apple Watch, for now.
>...new jobs will not be created, except the kind of jobs that crush the human spirit into oblivion...

AI certainly means everyone will be able to create 'art' and as a result we'll have more art than we know what to do with, music and images are already confetti, soon so will full length 'films/movies'. That leaves anyone who can actually sing, paint, play, dance, in prime position to take up those mantles.
Apple was able to make it work in most "developed" countries (do we have a better term for these countries now?). I guess they're just better at the regulatory game?
I posted this in another comment, but I've found sports is kind of a tossup. My current glasses are large aviators because they do a great job at keeping gnats out of my eyes that are all along my favorite trail right now. If I wasn't wearing glasses, I'd want to be wearing goggles anyway. If I want to go swimming, it's also a lot simpler with glasses since I can just take the glasses off in seconds compared to removing contact lenses.

I think this also extends to sex. With glasses, you can just take them off once you're ready and then afterwards you can just go to bed right afterwards if you want to. With contacts, you need to make sure you take them out before going to sleep.
A galaxy a54 is like 50% of the price of an 24 but with like 80% of the specs and better battery life
I'm always interested in trying things like that, but I'm not that into playing some sort of "jailbreak cat and mouse" over time. If I install GrapheneOS, is it automatic after that for security updates and whatnot, or do I have to do some weird two-hands-three-fingers reboot and manually download, etc?
Show HN: A monthly habit tracker built using Odin and Raylib
I created a small habit-tracking program using Odin and Raylib.

Each month is a simple text file saved on disk.

I have been using it for a while and it has been pretty useful, so I wanted to share it.
Not true; DEF CON 29 required a valid COVID vaccine card with at least two vaccines listed, paired with an ID (most of us used our passports) to be given a little silver wristband before you got your badge.

and that year, the goons were searching for attendees without the silver wristband more closely than even attendees without a badge, they weren't joking around.
I figured doing so would be a tad too on-the-nose in my original post, but yes, it is a clear cut case of racketeering, if not outright fraud.

Agree completely regarding lack of sufficient enforcement. Honestly we could use a serious wave of RICO enforcement at the highest level in this country, targeting (but not limited to) pharma giants, major "healthcare" and & insurance companies, big banks, etc.
Yep. I still use the iphone 7+ as a backup phone, it still gets security updates and runs modern apps fine with 3GB! Slow compared to modern phones, but that's not down to the RAM, the memory management is amazing, never had an issue.
Depends on the temperature. At Earth-like temperatures, yes, it would. The transition between the two is around 175 K, give or take; below about 150 K ice is quite stable in a vacuum even over astronomical timescales; above 200 K it sublimates rapidly. (Surface liquid water is never stable in a vacuum or thin atmosphere regardless.)

The rate of evaporation ramps up exponentially, from ~irrelevant at the bottom of that range to fast at the top. (For a body of this size, any resulting vapor would be quickly lost at these temperatures, so the rate of evaporation is effectively the rate of water loss as well.)

This is why Jupiter can have icy moons (temperature ~100 K), but ice sublimates quickly on Mars (~200 K).
> Plus, your phone comes with 7 years of OS and security updates.

Way to go, the 7 years of updates was the reason I bought my Pixel 8 Pro
> Sure many of us also do patreon etc but that’s never really sat right with me personally

I'm curious what it is about the Patreon model that doesn't sit right with you? To me it seems like it's both the most respectful monetization strategy to viewers, and provides the creator with a much more stable income than YT ads, YTP shares, or sponsors.
There is a vibrant Chinese Android scene, with their own fairly stand-out design trends. One design that's pretty popular right now is the "large circle", as exemplified by Xiaomi 14 Ultra. My favorites in this theme are the ZTE Z50s Pro (IMHO just a gorgeous phone) and the Honor Magic6 Pro.