skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hot topic of discussion where? Amongst developers, right? How many non-developer Apple users are aware of Apple’s shenanigans? I doubt not many.

Even if the end users are aware and accept it, that doesn’t make Apple right.

We as a society accept a lot of things - from the security theatre at airports (last week, I saw photos of passengers taken, for domestic flights) to Amazon workers peeing in bottles. As long as we get our crap the same day, we’re good with some unfortunate souls peeing in bottles. If it bothered us, we’d stop shopping at Amazon, for example.

All this to say, we’ve been trained very well to tolerate and even accept a lot of bad behavior if it helps with our laziness. Doesn’t mean it is right though
Codenames is a word guessing game - in part. It's also a game of ingenuity, of knowing your players / spymasters, of players trying to be better as a group than as individuals, of paying attention (and using the other team's clues) - and at some point it's a game and can be played seriously and competitively.

From that point of view I don't see a serious problem with embracing the game pieces provided and taking them into consideration. It is a dimension in the game. It does not kill the game. Solid thinking from that team.

I have more of a problem with people learning word lists for Scrabble. It's not against the rules - but it makes it hard to play with these people. It's a significant class difference.
> When women are empowered and have agency, they delay having children and have less children. What does this tell us?

It tells me that unless we find a solution, women of the future won't be empowered.
VR-GS: Physical Dynamics-Aware Interactive Gaussian Splatting in Virtual Reality
Related:

Rising rates of cancer in young people prompts hunt for environmental culprit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178776
I don't think so. Such changes would require full full certification in Europe, e.g.

Between the cost of of batteries, power trains, etc it's just cheaper to buy a brand new car imho.
Yeah I get it. I've found workarounds in the past. But it's always involved some friction.

In general, Go's generics are a huge step forward though. So I'm not that annoyed about it.
I went in the other direction and use Zellij for multiplexing. It works well for me, and I’ll be keeping an eye out for the Ghostty public beta to see how that compares. Great to have all these good options.
> Still wondering how AMD has only ~25% of desktop market share given recent Intel issues.

I sometimes pick Intel over AMD because I don't have AMD's CPU naming conventions memorized - and I'm in a hurry.
I actually had no idea that the glycan problem extended beyond high mannose N-glycans! Informative comment, thank you
> in a couple of months Intel will launch Arrow Lake S, which will have a very close single-thread performance to Zen 5

Will they? Intel Innovation event was postponed "until 2025"[1], so I assumed there is not going to be any big launch like that in 2024, anymore? Arrow Lake S was supposed to debut at Intel Innovation event in September [2]

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/events/on-event-seri...

[2] https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-says-raptor-lake-microcode...
I’ve happily been using Patreon for years and didn’t even know an app existed. Has the world entirely forgotten about websites?
Here's an example of the entire planet as a PMTiles:

https://pmtiles.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.source.coop%2Fpro...

This is zoom 0-15, or 1,431,655,765 addressed tiles. So it is designed for this scale - for a production internet site you can add a lambda, server or CDN as an additional layer for lower latency: https://docs.protomaps.com/deploy/
F*ck NASA and their "Starliner."

Soyuz is the most reliable and most successful vehicle at this point.

NASA simply does not want to use it because they will lose face.
For those without a strong math background but more of a programmers background;

You know the matrices you work with in 2D or 3D graphics environments that you can apply to vectors or even other matrices to more easily transform (rotate, translate, scale)?

Well tensors are the generalisation of this concept. If you’ve noticed 2D games transformation matrices seem similar (although much simpler) to 3D games transformation mateices you’ve probably wondered what it’d look like for a 4D spacetime or even more complex scenarios. Well you’ve now started thinking about tensors.
Is there any evidence that Apple has actually made this "threat"? I'm not seeing anything other than what Patreon has claimed (and it seems that they are only recently going to begin to allow iOS purchases, which might mean they are bringing this upon themselves).

I am suspicious, because the specific change to per-creation billing is overwhelmingly positive for Patreon (and, as you pointed out, not for its users), from a business economics perspective (assuming they don't lose too many users over this). It also seems odd for Apple to press that point specifically.
ChatGPT doesn’t think
Yeah if possible get screened and when in doubt about something in/on your body please get it checked. I also had to suffer through chemo this year because of metastasis – had I checked sooner I might've gotten away by just having the surgery and no chemo. Last chemo was two months ago, still have side effects, mostly neuropathy. Compared to other patients I shared rooms with I still consider myself lucky but definitely an experience you want to try and avoid (unless you need it, of course). Now hoping my next CT is clean.

I can't comment on causes as I'm not a doctor, in my case all the known causes did not apply to me.
it's because now having kids means sharing your resources, where 100 years ago having more kids meant expanding your resources.
DeFi Hacks Remain a Major Threat Despite 50% Decline in 2023: Halborn
I get that, but we had the same 'plan' but often failed to do so for the a lot of the same reasons we don't often deal with things the first time. I guess if you can make sure to stay on top of it better, it wouldn't be so bad
Basic question. Is there a service out there where I can easily link my database to an LLM to do this exact same type of analysis, except on one of my own Postgres DBs instead of one backed by PGlite? My org has several non-technical people who would greatly benefit from being able to interact with our DB via an LLM, rather than SQL 101 queries. The PostgreSQL Explorer extension on VS Code helps some, but doesn't quite make it as seamless at this.
> Please connect from a laptop or desktop to use postgres.new.

There's nothing wrong using Webkit / Safari on your laptop or desktop. There are dozens of us, DOZENS!
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The problem is that it's the only option across the OS. There's no reason this option couldn't exist with other options, built by the app developer so it cost Apple nothing.
We changed our current order for workstations to AMD parts. They arrive today or tomorrow I think.

Odds are it would have been fine, they were just i3 worker bee boxes, but, it's not really worth the risk when there's a viable alternative.
Right but we need a dose of realism. They don't develop the drivers, and they don't make the hardware. If the manufacturer doesn't care, then that's that.

It's a network problem. Manufacturers aren't gonna care unless it's a big OS with lots of users. Your OS won't get a lot of users unless it has drivers. So the result is stagnation, and only the Big 3 OS continuing. Well... really the Big 2. Mac OS is a unique situation.
Here is what their own "Font Sample" page [1] shows me:

https://0x0.st/XWE_.png

This is magnified 2x (to show the similarity). Both the sample alphabet and the "character differences" shows uppercase-eye and lowercase-ell as the identical glyph, for DPSansMono.

[1] https://www.pgdp.net/c/faq/font_sample.php
That's a great question! How far does Apple's control extend into markets that are unrelated to their core business? I always prefer using mobile websites on my own android phone instead of downloading apps because of security concerns and general notification spamming, ads, and annoyances, and it seems to me this would be a great solution ie just replacing "apps" with bookmarks. For the current situation, I may look into services like Nebula, doing PayPal directly, YouTube subscriptions and donations, or setting up an online store. Or even.... sponsored videos!! (just kidding)
Sorry for not discussing the product itself, but...

I'm just not seeing a machine that is "likely correct", constantly interrupting the "operator" to be that much of a win. I have seen some software influencers reflect on how much more fun it is to code, after dropping the LLM assistant.

All of these feel like offerings to the Productivity God. As a salary guy I'll never get excited that I can do more during my work day. It's already easy to hit my capacity.
Huh? Isn't the right interpretation that they are 100% dependent on SpaceX right now, in the present scenario, but simply pretending otherwise? The facts are what they are.

The reason one spaceship is better than another isn't a management or strategy problem. It is what it is. There's no decision here that changes whether or not Starliner is a shitty spaceship. It might look like it does.

Is NASA management is personally going to be assembling and running the plans? One interpretation is that they will now (?). Another is that is already happening and they are sucking at it, and that is SpaceX's opportunity in a nutshell.

If the government wants better spaceships, it has to occasionally buy them in politically unideal circumstances. It is that simple. Sometimes it will take longer to turn some senator's state into a manufacturing powerhouse than we will have political appetite to sustain all the failures on that journey. The fact that it's not an economic problem, that no amount of money can turn around Boeing, is bad, and that's why I am surprised. Any honest interpretation of the facts makes NASA, a bunch of civil service people, look like they are delaying the inevitable to benefit no one.
I was until I started needing things like true colour support and was forced into trying other options. But if you haven’t noticed anything missing or not working with software that you use then Terminal.app is a fine choice
I believe that if that was possible to do on purpose, they wouldn’t have so much trouble preventing the LLMs from talking about things they shouldn’t.
Not really. There are a lot of creators I watch who only make content once a year. Sometimes they'll have 2 videos a year if they're lucky. With the per creation model, I have no problems supporting them but if it's billed monthly then the price becomes a lot steeper. Alternatively they could reduce the cost to support them but then the fees becomes much higher for both the creator and patreon (29c + 5% IIRC).
I'm glad you asked about chameleons! Determining whether a chameleon is good or bad can be very important for lizard rankings. As everyone knows, a chameleon is able to camouflage to look more like a leaf. This can help protect it from predators! But sometimes looking like a leaf can go too far....

[and so on].

I hooked ChatGPT up to a speech recognizer and far field mics etc, trying to build my own alexa, and I had to add "Please be terse" to the prompt. And that wasn't enough, so I said "Please limit yourself to as few words as possible to convey the answer. Be terse. Try to keep your speech very short." before I finally started getting reasonable replies.
Taking away the options is not a win for the creators
ChatGPT will write in essentially any style you ask it to. The default behaviour is an artifact of RLHF training and the hidden pre-prompt, not a reflection of the capabilities of the underlying model. A pre-prompt along the following lines will radically change the nature of the output: "You are a subject matter expert in x. You communicate in a terse, information-dense manner. You make clear, strong arguments without vacillation."
I'm pretty sure the arbiters at the most important race at the most important sport event know what they are doing :)

Not to mention there was no controversy afterwards.
I've seen some creators on Patreon "pause" their monthly subscription when they have nothing to release on a given month, so that patrons won't be billed for that month. That could be a workaround for your use case.
I hope to be buried with my old, dumb cars :p
>In fact, the reason why antitrust lawsuits seem to never stick to Apple is because all the mens rea was stored in the mind of a guy who tried to cure his pancreatic cancer with fruit juice[0]

You don't need antitrust. Just consumer rights.
Driving through some towns recently I saw fast food chains as the main source of food for people. These corporations are like vultures feeding on people who are not able to control their own behavior. Looking at the people you could see years of overeating of very unhealthy food as they were extremely overweight, sometimes by hundreds of pounds. I used to live in Japan and the population looked normal and healthy. Coming back to the US and looking around me is astonishing and sad.
The relationship is more biochemistry = more opportunities for cancer. Obesity causes increases in a broad range of hormones as well as a generally higher rate of inflammation and stress, which can impact gene expression and cause higher rates of mutation, leading to higher cancer rates.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/o...
It felt pretty clear in the article that he was talking about people who were frustrated, tired, perhaps depressed, not in duress or under threat of harm. Hedging every exception makes the article weaker; I think you can write an article about how going for a walk every day is healthy without having to add a paragraph about how obviously this won't work for paraplegics.
I write.
With pen and paper.

Started this habit 5 years back, because if I do anything else, I get brain dead.

I also believe in a singularity concept that someone will build a comouter product that will make your work instead of you doing you work. So to skill myself ahead, I stopped learning programming related and started writing and gives an upper hand.

Writing is healthier as you use your hand in the direction you control. Whereas digital devices, forces the input, plus the light from the devices creates a new universe in your head.
This is where I think AMD really messed up on the current releases... If they'd called the 9600X a 9400 and the 9700X a 9600X, and charged like $100 less, I think the reception would have been much stronger. As it stands, it's more about wait and see. You can use PBO and get like 10-15% more performance at double the energy, but even then compared to the rest of the market, it just comes up short.

The 9800X3D and 9950X(3D) options will really carry this cycle if they're good and the pricing adapts appropriately. I'm not holding my breath. I've been holding on with my 5950X since it's release and likely going to continue unless the 9950X(3D) is compelling enough. Not to mention the DDR5 memory issues with larger sizes or more sticks. 96gb is probably enough, but at what cost.
good feedback, thanks

we'll change the verbiage for now, and look at ways we can provide a 100% local experience without logins
Tim Sweeney: " Now Apple is demanding a 30% cut of all Patreon DONATIONS
X11, the "old" [0] Linux graphics server.

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[0] "old" because there's a new kid in town: wayland.
Prove to my satisfaction that you think. ;-)
lol, I will have to change the logo colors then
Putting it in quotes is misleading, they are actually being forced:

> Apple has also made clear that if creators on Patreon continue to use unsupported billing models or disable transactions in the iOS app, we will be at risk of having the entire app removed from their App Store.
Wait, why wouldn’t RLHF influence word choices?
Ask HN: Do you love where you work? (>=medium size companies)
I think it's getting harder to find accurate info about company culture (Work/Life balance, workplace politics, ethical practices, managers who care vs will do anything to get ahead, executives who are in-touch with the day to day of the company.) Recently entering the job market again, I would really like to know, those of you working in medium to enterprise sized companies: Does your company have a good culture? Do you love working there? Bonus if you can tell us the company name.

Edit: Clarify what I mean by Culture.
Indeed, it's an important principle that you cannot change another person's mind or make them act a certain way. All you can do is influence and hope for the best.
I want to see different file types with their own rendering engines and/or programming languages in the same browsers.

Very powerful but also very limited languages and formats that know what their purpose is.
Agreed. We simply have been functioning off the premise that what we do has no impact. But we are in the billions now and most of what we do we do at a huge and unimaginable scale.

Nature could, before, take time to heal and "absorb" everything we threw it's way. Time was the ultimate healer.

We no longer have that option and we simply must stop the third world from progressing. If you all thought it was bad with the small 1st world population damaging the env, you can't even fathom the scale and sheer trash the third world billions will generate in the coming decades whilst they "come out of poverty and industrialization".
Stage 4 as well, diagnosed in 2021. Lifelong vegetarian, mostly ate organic foods and generally active. I always suspected something was wrong with my gut, but didn't think it would be cancer. No genetic component either.
The food chain certainly is
What was the cost to develop "a working concept that converts designs to interactive code"? Zero right? Because it was just you, and you value your time at zero.

You can't "just" "value" your time more than zero. Did money go from a bank account into your pocket to develop this? No right? So it is zero. Do you have to pay rent and food either way? Yes, even if this weren't developed. So you value your time at zero. There's no psychological trick here. This is fine.
How can they gain after losing 30% to Apple?
@dang merge these comments?
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Since at least the 1980s, IT had the concepts of "open systems" and "interoperation", to support market competition and innovation. And we later did things like the Web and other open standards.

Then Apple comes along, and uses its market position as a hardware and OS vendor, to make a nonstandard software download thing that could've been a Web site.

In parallel, Apple also made open-standards Web apps unattractive on their hardware in various ways. (Often through foot-dragging when other vendors were trying to make Web apps a smooth experience, but sometimes also going out of their way to make Web work worse.) (See also: making kids look like losers to their peers in chat, if they don't have iPhones.)

Apple then imposes predatory rates and terms on other businesses who are pretty much forced to use the Apple proprietary app store, due not to the merits of the app store so much as Apple's dominance of hardware and conflict of interest when implementing open standards.

I assume many consumers don't understand the situation, and how much of an overbearing abuser of its market position Apple can be. Or they have some idea, but pragmatically have to accept it. Also, this affords Apple a lot of money for really first-rate PR.

What I don't understand is why regulators haven't smacked the snot out of the Apple app store, with finality. For example: Apple may only charge a few-percent administration and payment processing fee, and that's it; and they have to permit other app stores with first-class access to the system, as a compromise given the proprietary lock-in mess they've made. (Making them support other open standards better, even to the exclusion of prorietary ones, is more complicated.)
When was the last time you bought any large item from a physical store that didn't come with advertisements in the packaging for direct services?

If you buy a Disney DVD from Walmart, there will be advertisements inside the DVD case for direct services (heck, last time I checked there were ads on the outside of the case). If you buy a Roomba from Walmart, there will be advertisements for direct parts and addons from the manufacturer. If you buy a hecking Apple Ipad from Walmart, Apple will include advertisements for its direct services once you start using the product.

People bring up this comparison all the time and it's very simply not true. You can advertise direct services inside physical products you sell at stores. What Apple is saying is not that you can't advertise prices in the store page, Apple is saying that you can't advertise alternative platforms in the app itself.

There is no physical equivalent to this for storefronts like Walmart. Home Depot does not have a restriction on whether a physical product you buy from them can have an advertisement for direct manufacturer services inside the box or software that comes with it.

If we want to be consistent about this, Apple really should be paying Walmart a fee for any app-store purchases made on devices that were bought from Walmart. After all, the user got the device from Walmart, right? Shouldn't they get their cut of app store purchases? That's how Apple sees the world.
Eww. No, it behaves as you described. Which is exactly what I want. I utterly despise any website that hijacks my scroll wheel to “complete full transitions”. YMMV.
https://www.epicresearch.org/articles/colorectal-cancer-scre...

This shows that the colon cancer screening rate has quadrupled for ages 45-49 since 2020. It says official guidelines were changed in 2021.

I am not going to pretend to be an expert, but I also imagine there could be significant difference in how sensitive these screenings have been over the decades.
but wouldn't that normalize over time? I think this may already not be true for gpt-4o-mini?
> Scarier in my opinion than the Roko's Basilisk theory that melted Yudkowsky's brain.

Is that correct? I thought the Roko's Basilisk post was just seen as really stupid. Agreed that "Lena" is a great, chilling story though.
mmmhmmm, indeed. You need to consider the mentality of the people who chose to live this way. Most don't want want to type an address into a browser, ever, they want to tap an app.
Due to their app store monopoly, Apple is probably one of the few companies whose version of enshittification often involves enshittifying the products and services of other companies.
Garbage data analysis, reporting the statistical rebound from a statistically anomalous period (covid) as if it's some kind of trend. To the article's credit, they make no effort to hide their political motives behind misinforming their audience.