skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know anyone that has any of that old crapware on their Macs or had their Mac infected by malware in the past 5 or 10 years? I don't. And they can go to a website, download and install any app they want.

What about Android, which lets you sideload apps? How many people do you know that sideload apps or have installed a malicious app from outside the Play Store?

Yes, the App Store was and is important, but you need to look at other platforms if you really think that Apple allowing app sideloading (proper sideloading, not that shit they're doing in the EU) is going to take us back to the days of browser toolbars. iOS is not Windows XP.
> Making it so users have to go through that system

The problem with that is then the regular people (the voters, mainly) can't find it an educate themselves. Which then defeats the purpose.
Belmondo also lived until 88 and died just 3 years ago
> The cost estimates seem to be 4-10 times as expensive as fossil fuels.

Importantly, this cost is expected to decrease precipitously as the cost of solar energy declines exponentially and as the the conversion technology continues to improve through iteration and economies of scale.
My take: first uses are free. Then we gonna getcha.
Why would they bother? Three hundred and fifty million Americans as possibilities and all they can come up with as a selection-choice is Kamala and Trump??

That's a bit like having to choose between bashing all of your teeth out with a rock or gouging out your right eyeball with a rusty nail.
By 1999/2001 I think you already had Star office.

And KDE1 for sure. But these were the very last years of the SGI machines.
Well, he was very, very indirectly a managing director over BOFH. It was just a matter of time.

Cheekiness aside, I love what he did for IT and the Internet. I'm sorry to see him go.
+1 it wouldn’t be terribly useful if it were only caching the tokenizer output.
The biggest problem in Pakistan right now is the Army propping up everything. But I doubt that’s what you were driving at.

If even half of what I read about Hasina is true she has completely gone around the bend and has no business running any country anymore.
> One thing that is becoming more and more clear, is that memorization is absolutely a required part of becoming an expert.

Has this ever been in question?

I don't think any serious expert in ML that is pushing against LLMs is making a claim that memorization and/or compression isn't a necessary part of intelligence. Rather that there's more to it.

Too much memorization is a bad thing, it's called over fitting. Bringing up schools is a good example. I'm sure many here have met people who can answer questions really well when in specific contexts but not in others. People who do well on tests but not in the lab. The difficulty of word problems is a meme, but are just generalization.

If you ask me, what makes humans and animal brains special is the fuzziness. It's this seemingly contradictory nature of well defined understanding through rules (such as physics) but also understanding that resolution is far from perfect. In our quest to become more precise it is recognizing the impossibility of precision and finding balance.

What I'd say is wrong with both the US and China is failing to teach how to think. The truth is that this is exceptionally difficult to test, if not impossible. It's difficult to distinguish from memorization when the questions are not clearly novel. But how do you continually generate sufficiently novel questions when not teaching at bleeding edge?
I know I'm not the smartest person in the room, but I imagine if, for example, I use the local public library's internet to update it (and do it remotely by sitting outside the library, and switch locations at random) then my chances of getting busted are low. Of course, nothing is 100% safe, but neither is crossing the street.
You know, I never thought I’d become an expert on “Brexit tackle”, but here we are. It’s been years since that fateful referendum, and I feel like I’ve aged a decade just trying to keep up with it all. Let me share my journey through this Brexit tackle maze – it’s been quite the ride!

What the Heck is Brexit Tackle Anyway?
When I first heard that term, I thought it was some new rugby move. Turns out, it’s just a fancy way of saying “dealing with all the Brexit mess”. And boy, is there a lot to tackle!

The Great Trade Tangle
Remember when popping over to France for some cheese was no big deal? Those were the days! Thanks to the Brexit mess, even sending a parcel to my cousin in Paris feels like I’m planning a military operation.

Just last week, I spent three hours on the phone with customs, trying to figure out how to ship my homemade jam to a friend in Germany. Three hours! That’s Brexit tackle for you – turning simple tasks into Herculean challenges.
Also see https://scitechdaily.com/how-close-are-we-to-the-climates-po..., also with a Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research byline and referring to Nature Communications entry at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49863-0

Both of these are dated August 1, 2024.
Yeah. Text editors constantly come and go. And that's no bad thing, but for those of us just wanting to edit some text: what do we do? The design goal of these projects is always to be better than what's currently available, which sounds great, and then, 5 years later, development has stalled, and the community is gone. Meanwhile Emacs is still going.

The features of this thing all sound decent enough, but there's no source code, and it doesn't run on Windows, and it doesn't run on macOS, and scripting is "coming soon" - I wonder if that scripting will end up even half as good as Emacs's programmability. I bet it won't.

I have been here before. And that is exactly why I continue to use Emacs, even though it is a bit weird. I bet I will still be using Emacs in 2035, and I bet this thing will be long dead.

(I bet based on the odds. Time will tell.)
I use maybe 10 plugins. I update them whenever I update nvim which isn’t all that often. Rock solid.
Mozilla's New Logo Brings Back the Dinosaur Mascot (Kinda)
> "we have to treat these things like infallible perfect works"

They don't treat the law as perfect, they just believe they don't have the leeway to reinterpret the law as they want in contradiction of the text. The law doesn't work if justices can read between the lines to get what they want.
Yes! Perfect scenario. This is a question of a slower but more trustable experience. I would always fight for both, however.
To me it basically seems backwards. Of course I am not arguing against having a robust configuration for setting indentation settings, it's usually the ideal way to handle this sort of thing. However, it's ultimately still just a convenience feature; all you really need is the ability to set the indentation settings for the current buffer.

As far as editors that have automatic indentation features, Zed is definitely the first one I can think of where it had configuration for indentation settings per project/per language, but no ability to change it for the current buffer.

I'm sure in due time, it will probably gain most of these features as more people jump in and run into these problems.
You can get regular bassinets everywhere, and they're pretty much all "better" and "cheaper" but none will have the function the SNOO has of rocking the baby in a certain way, along with a certain sound, that is claimed to mimic the movement and sound of the womb, and is clearly extremely calming. You can do it with just your hands using instructions from "the happiest baby on the block" video, also made by the owner and inventor of SNOO.

If you can afford it, get a plain untreated wood crib/bassinet with a natural fiber flame retardant free mattress. I posted elsewhere in this thread about the theory that flame retardants might contribute to SIDS, and the plain wood is based on the fact that kids will chew on it, and get particles of paint or plastic in their mouth otherwise.
The bigger principle is that atomising everything into small parts separated from their context obfuscated them and the bigger picture.
In John They Trust (2006)
That $100 billion data center has to get paid for somehow.
My point is that the app does that for free even from a distance. It’s simply website access that costs even though it should have 0 more marginal cost
Ultimately they drove me away by using too many "cute" names for tech companies.
Parents will pay a lot of money to get six months of sleep.
Alex’s solution doesn’t patch the module itself, but it patches the FW of the MCU in the SyncServer motherboard that drives the module.

People have looked into patching the module itself, but I haven’t seen any progress on that. It’s possible that the M430 MCU doesn’t allow dumping of the FW that is stored in on-chip flash.
Of the two of these I inspected so far (the Parrish, Florida powerplant[0] and the Holdingford, Minnesota trailer manufacturer[1]) they both seem to be located way out in the boonies with only a low double-digit amount of either residential or farming structures observed around them once I brought up the locations in satellite view. I don't like how they are intentionally obscuring the population density and scale of these structures with the greyscale mapping they're using; on both of the ones I looked at the big scary red blob didn't even reach out of the property of the targeted industries once you match the map scales up.

[0]https://maps.app.goo.gl/1JRTy4vHWirMNNuP8
[1]https://maps.app.goo.gl/NE3etStbsEF419ad7
These arguments aren't very convincing IMHO.

Using SNS as an example when it's neither micro nor a library but a service (and a huge abstraction over native push notifications, whereas most micro-libraries provide simple utilities that aren't very abstract), saying that complex libraries are harder to audit and hence a security risk (which should be a point in favor of micro-libraries that are small enough to audit in minutes), saying libraries might have large footprints (which is surely another reason to go for micro-libraries over all-you-could-possibly-need-libraries), saying transitive dependencies are bad, (yet again, this points towards an advantage of micro-libraries, which are less likely to have many dependencies), ... I don't know.
The Turbulent, Secret World of the AP3 Militia
Or just wast built to the correct tolerances. We loved our Snoo but it had a life of about 4 months before our son grew out of it. It doesn't feel like those rollers need more than a year or two of life, even with multiple owners.
If china is pumping so much money into their economy, subsidizing every manufacturer, why dont they have runaway inflation?
What's Wrong with SQL in Data Warehouse
>People using Amazon is not evidence that humans don't care about the suffering of others.

Yes it is. People don't care enough to not use Amazon - suffering is simply priced into the market and people are fine with that.

>At the other extreme, neither was colonialism.

It very much is. Colonialism was built on slavery and genocide, and the colonizers cared very little for the suffering of the colonized.

>Colonialism and or conquering and enslaving was how the world was run by all parties everywhere since the beginning of time.

"That's just how the world works and has always worked and it's absurd to take issue with it" is only one of many excuses people use to reconcile their morality with the amount of suffering they benefit from. No point even thinking about it if it's simply the law of nature.

>Are you saying that throughout all historical time , there were no moral people until the current crop of modern leftists ?

Now we're at the part of the comment where you purposely misconstrue my comment and make it into some weird anti-leftist rant.

No, I didn't say that, and when did I even mention anything about modern partisan politics? Of course diverting from the topic with strawman arguments means you don't have to take the topic seriously, which is another coping mechanism.

>If so, then you're swimming against a strong current and I wonder what it would take, and what you'd be willing to do, in order to perpetually force that current to flow in the other direction.

Ooh. "I wonder what you'd be willing to do?" That's a nice turnabout. The only true evil is pointing out evil. I bet you also like to say the only true racists are the black people who keep complaining about racism. Turning me into the enemy, nothing but a windmill to be tilted at, is yet another coping mechanism.

Thank you. I couldn't have asked for a better demonstration of my point. Not only would you not leave Omelas, you don't even think there's anything wrong with Omelas. Rather you'd be the one spreading FUD about anyone who does leave.
Margins are only collapsed in the vertical direction
All three of your points are correct, so please don’t resent my response: Client-side A/B testing exists because ‘we should be able to do this without a deploy’. And they’re right.
For people criticizing me for saying "it should cost $45" - that is based on what it actually costs for a lower end electric baby swing with sound[1], which is not fundamentally simpler or cheaper to make than the SNOO. I'm just guesstimating what a device of this (very low) quality would actually cost on the open market, if it weren't uniquely effective and patented, which it is.

I'm fine with them charging a lot for a unique invention that works better, but irked that they didn't then give it decent build quality.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Starts-Paradise-Portable-Autom...
We used a similar setup, but opted for two sets of analog walkie talkies (instead of one set), so that we could fall back to the secondary set if the batteries ran out in the first set (we replaced the batteries in the two sets of walkie talkies at one-month offsets so that they wouldn't run out at the same time). We also had the two sets running on different channels, to avoid concurrent outages caused by unexpected radio interference. We did the math afterwards; overall availability of the child monitoring system was four nines. Satisfactory.
That’s not my read from the article:

> she invested in about $4.6 million worth of cryptocurrency through the app Yobit Pro, according to a recent lawsuit. When the app reflected a balance of about $7 million, Vaca attempted to withdraw the funds, but was told she'd need to deposit an additional $500,000 for "taxes."

If you have additional info do share
Once you have manufacturers start implementing TC, that will really hamper reverse engineering efforts.

Imagine the possibilities of capturing the non-Microsoft market be allowing the TC to be turned off, or by not including it.

When it comes to Microsoft, there is an old business saying: "Never turn away a paying customer", because you will not only lose this sale, you will lose all future sales too.
They’re not “required” to block VPN apps. They are choosing to comply with the regime’s threats, so they can maintain their business. They could, like X has done in Venezuela, choose not to vend their products in that country.
You have to be very dumb to fall for scams like this but I've always said these walled gardens make people less safe. People get a false sense of security and outsource their brain.
Crypto definitely requires more active management compared to traditional assets, but there are different levels of risk available. For example, ETH staking offers around 3% yield with minimal risk, which is quite stable.

As for crypto products that invest in real-world assets, yes, they exist! It's known as RWA (Real World Assets):

RealT:real estate investments.
Ondo: tokenized US treasuries.
Centrifuge: portfolios of real-world assets.
Ask HN: Why are patents so cheap?
Compared to the cost of drafting, litigation, etc., the actual filing fee for a patent is a ridiculously small sum of money. If the patent office has the obligation to review a patent with the same attention to detail as the authors themselves, why doesn't it cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to file a patent?
> a table is a flat board with four support structures roughly 1 m (+/- 5 cm) in height, built for the purpose of keeping things off the ground

That is a terrible definition of a table. This is how you get loop holes in laws.

Law is not computer code. There is a reason we have judges and a court system to interpret laws.
The HTTP-centrism is the worst.

QUIC is hilarious because they ended up fitting everything and the kitchen sink for any need in the proto, just because 15 years ago firewalls blocked this or that and the reimplementation with websockets of the thing that was blocked runs only in a browser.
VLC is able to abstract over a ton of extremely complicated codecs by providing some common tools that work for all of them.

I guess if VLC has a feature, you can always expect it to work. That's their design choice. There's nothing "COMPLETELY WRONG" about that.
"The Rodgister used the slogan "Biting the Hand That Feeds IT" to reflect its"

The Rodgister. Is this the fucking Grauniad or el Reg?
> why does the JS ecosystem seem to have "more fear" than for example the Python ecosystem?

Perhaps it's because so many JS developers - quite rightfully - suffer from impostor syndrome?

It's the language with the largest proportion of people who didn't set out to be programmers but somehow got mission-crept into becoming one.
This feature was first introduced by deepseek. And deepseek will just do it automatically for you. https://platform.deepseek.com/api-docs/news/news0802/
Who often worked together, sometimes, gasp in the same building!
Definitely not random people on the internet not met or even emailed.
Make sure there's no soap residue after washing bottles.
We were starting to blow our household/toiletries budget every month so we found another brand we all agreed on that's a little lower quality but has more sheets per roll and we started landing in budget again. I didn't do any analysis beyond that.
You've already frowned on my comparison to S3 but I think it's apt: it's many times more expensive than S3, but (for even a gigabyte of activations) it doesn't even need to be two orders of magnitude faster than standard S3.

If you use the Elasticache pricing, which is $0.125/gb per hour, it's still eight times more expensive. So even if a million tokens is a full gigabyte of data, it's still almost an order of magnitude more expensive than an in-memory cache adjacent to the inference boxes.

When your managed cache costs right times as much as a general purpose managed cache _in the cloud_, you've jumped the shark on pricing.
I remember him for this song he made with Dalida. His deep voice is something I wished I had.
https://youtu.be/_ifJapuqYiU
I am noob with Go, trying to learn it lately for more rapid development, and I'm coming from C.

I'm currently using LiteIDE, any good soul could suggest how what plugin to install in Zed, or Lapce, or Pulsar ?

(Unfortunately I refuse to use VS Codium because microsoft, and NeoVim because IBM CUA keybindings)
> if you can't define proper limits then you don't know what you want or how to get it

What if what you want is simply for the onus to be on the cops to defend why they need to do something, instead of it just being assumed they can do whatever they want?
It’s useful to consider the impact this has on conversations.

In an ongoing conversation with a model you end up re-submitting the full test of the previous conversation - both prompts and responses - at every step. This means the cost per prompt in that conversation increases each time.

Claude prompt caching can start saving you money even with just a single user having a conversation, provided each of their replies is within five minutes of the previous reply.
As I pointed out, even if it's a gig of data that's still almost an order of magnitude more than the cost of a managed in-memory cache in the cloud. That's wild.
Why are you responding that to me? Are you saying that is why my son was crying so much?

He was breast fed, and only rarely used a bottle... and when we did we used high temperature water only sterilization, never soap.

The reason he was crying is most likely that he was a big baby, and wasn't getting enough milk initially.
Option 1 is arguably not an option in a lot of people's minds with the EOL date for W10 coming up, and threatening/pushy notifications from MS on all W10 machines telling people to upgrade to W11.

Option 2 is a non-starter for a lot of people - can't afford a Mac, would never be able to work out Linux. ChromeOS is an option but if you're going to buy new hardware, why not just go with option 3 and get a new Windows machine.

Option 3 is MS's favourite; they shift more unit of their own hardware, failing that they shift more licenses from OEMs, they lock more people into W11, then progressively upsell them stuff from within the OS itself, and finally make more money off of advertising from 3rd parties in the OS itself.

I'm also inclined to think that by creating a generational gap with hardware like this, MS is making their own lives easier by only having to test W11 on modern hardware - no legacy users to support. So they make more money, potentially for less effort.
My general experience with the forum - rather, with people who have social power in the Python community - is that they really don't make much of an attempt to accommodate neurodiversity. It's not even clear that they really understand what that would entail.

In particular, an entire discussion of how to do so (see Mr. Peters' thread https://discuss.python.org/t/how-can-we-better-support-neuro... ) was mis-cast as an attempt to petition for allowing more "slack" to neurodivergent forum users. But that simply wasn't the argument. Mr. Peters and I, and others such as Chris Angelico, repeatedly emphasized that their communication is lacking, and when they do say what they mean, they are extraordinarily closed-minded about it.

I expect to have a lengthy blog article about this at some point, but it probably be rather challenging to express everything precisely.
You seem very confident in your position, and I am reminded of the confidence of people exclaiming solar power would never take off back when commercially available PV efficiencies were in the single digit percentages. Going from 8% to 24% effectively tripled PV panel output on a per area basis, even though it sounds like just a 16% increase.

Given your confidence, I assume you are aware of efficiency bottlenecks and their associated fundamental thermodynamic limits.

What do you believe is the bottleneck, and what thermodynamic principle limits it?

At renewable farm scale everyone has read about negative pricing etc, so it seems there will always be a niche to profit from.

How can you predict in advance the capex investment cost in advance of future developments?

Pumping up fossil fuel certainly comes with costs (even when excluding moral and future costs), think of employees, securing facilities against attack, etc.

Given Western divestment from Russian fossil fuels, on non-economic grounds, why couldn't we similarly some day divest from fossil fuels?

> It'll cost 10x the price of the gas Qatar & Saudi Arabia pump out of the ground essentially for free.

What a bizarre statement, 10x 0 = 0.

If you want to educate people how you believe electroreduction of CO2 to be a dead end, please give scientific and economic evidence that renewable fuels could never become cheaper than sourcing and or distributing fossil fuels.
If your employer allows for you to build rust projects, Helix build and installation process from source is pretty straightforward, so that might be an option.