skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. AFAIU, Ireland just refused to demand the money from Apple. I'm not sure what that has to do with vetoes. Can you point to a concrete instance relating to the Apple case, in which Ireland used a veto?
Having US corporations obey the laws of the countries they operate and do business in, is historically a foreign concept for them and the US government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
> anyone using the words "truly understand" (or "truly" *anything, really) in any AI conversation should be automatically banned from said discourse

What if a psychologist said the same thing about a human? Should they be banned too?
Indeed, google never behaves for me, always hands me language localized to my ip, even though my Accept-Language contains "en-US,en;q=0.9" (the local language is my native one, but i find using services or software that are originally in English translated to my (non-PIE) language awful, even anger-inducing).

For search i have had &hl=en added to the search parameters since forever.
Since 2018. Can't help thinking that if with that money they had bought Apple shares, it would be now 3 times more.
In which the thing being spewed is people
It would appear that Linux could be forked to follow the Rust preference path. But that would further reduce the number of maintainers. If that were to happen, it would be very interesting to see whether C-Linux or R-Linux would be preferred by the mega-corporations that are making billions with the Linux based infrastructures.
Maybe the placebo effect works even better if you spend more money (?)
> What they lost from direct tax in one area they gained in others.

Where is your evidence? I quoted the court decision to support my position.

The very existence of revolving door politics is an example of how conflicts of interest can exist which favor those in power, to the overall detriment of the population.

Government officials and politicians are well aware there may be a cushy job for them with the big companies they once regulated, so long as those companies are happy with them.

Thus I again caution on using "Ireland" in a way which blurs the difference between those in Ireland who gained from unlawful state aid and those who gain from its return.
There's absolutely headroom for more advanced models far succeeding what we have today.

Reality is always the middle ground between the extremes.
True. Every new system wants to be just about everything when it grows up. Run workstations, process transactions, power factors, drive IoT, analyze data, run AI...

"Down" however is historically a harder direction for a design center to move. Easier to add features--even very large, systemic features like SMP, clustering, and channelized I/O--than to excise, condense, remove, and optimize. Linux and iOS have been more successful than most at "run smaller, run lighter, fit into a smaller shell." Then again, they also have very specific targets and billions of dollars of investment in doing so, not just hopeful aspirations and side-gigs.
No mention of how well/poorly the envisioned systems of communicating smart vehicles/roads might deal with malicious actors.

Nor mention of spending any of their big budget on "boring" stuff (vs. cool/creepy) - like some Quick FixIt road work trucks, to remove debris / push stalled cars onto the shoulder / patch potholes.
> Does feel a bit like the EU should get the cash, not the state that was responsible for it

The EU court judges that a member country didn't tax a company enough, so the EU takes the money? That would be ripe for abuse.
> since those deals exist for a reason.

Scam the rest of the EU countries?
Really nice! I made a small cli tool that has an extra step of basically printing out a tree, so you can ask the ai what files you want to output:

https://github.com/markwylde/ai-toolkit
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> better VC funding, better labor pool

Did these 2 go away?

And isnt cost of living in Vancouver and Toronto both quite high? And are either as appealing a place to live as big cities in the US?
Basic incremental counters work for most real world production constraints.
Most people are not going to create tables with 4.2 billion rows, even with failed inserts.
If you are doing that its an extreme of either very much you know what you are doing, or you very much do not; I have seen both in production.
If you want to tax sells in a given country charge VAT.
Corporate income tax is just a fundamentally bad tax. It's hard to enforce, even with good will it's hard to calculate (is paying $X for a license a legit expense or not?), unjust (buying more expensive things to provide the same service leads to paying less tax) it sets incentives to mix corporate and private use of resources, it incentivizes building holding companies to use losses of one entity to offset tax of another, it gives big players an advantage and it gives dishonest players an advantage.

I think it should be 0 and we should tax use of resources and consumption instead. Then let countries compete to create business friendly environment.
It doesn't provide enough revenue to be worth all the hassle with enforcement and accounting.
How so? Works fine for me, and complex queries as well although you probably shouldn't need to run excessively complex queries all the time.
Wonder how liability for actions taken by Google and other tech companies would be divvied up if some of them split into smaller companies.
SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn crew on daring excursion to Earth's radiation belts
Wow, thanks for posting that, it was seriously impressive and surreal.

I mean, even if it was entirely some random Indian poster with no automated assistance, which is still more than plausible, that speaks to a pretty shocking amount of dedication to shit things up that I usually only see on imageboards.

Then add in the obvious signs he tried to use AI at at least some stages, and that's where it gets actually wild to me, because if the posts were even slightly:
- more coherent
- less irrelevant
- less duplicated
- timed a bit further apart

I can totally see most undiscerning readers never assuming that was all one person or arguably less than one person with automation.
You view the contact card. The relevant email has a RECENT label.
US seeking new pedestrian safety rules
US is actively seeking new pedestrian safety rules to address vehicle bloat, increased pedestrian fatalities and injuries.
Do you speak Japanese? A key for buying items from eBay (non-Amazon, non-Alibaba items) is to communicate with sellers. How do you do this if not in Japanese?
They gave Apple more than enough options, and plenty of time, to just comply with their pro-consumer rulings.

Apple very clearly and intentionally decided to not do that in the most transparent way possible, because they either assumed that the EU would just give up, or they assumed that any penalties they'd incur would be lower than the revenue they currently gain from their monopolistic, anti-competitive behavior. This is a typical FAFO situation for Apple, and I hope they learn from it when other jurisdictions, particularly the US, come after them.
We do this with the family, come Christmas time when everyone's together, everyone gets to pick 50 to 100 pictures to cast to the Apple TV and go over each picture. It's a lot of fun seeing people's highlight of the year.

We may need to revise the 100 picture limit because as the family grows it's getting a bit long for one sitting :^)
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-cluster.html Also postgres can do this, it just doesn't maintain a clustered index as a going forward concern, which is an odd choice but postgres is certainly full of them.
That will hit Irish economy really hard. Good.
To be exact, the ruling is that Ireland gave unfair advantage to Apple, compared to other companies. If Ireland want to set corporate taxes at 1%, it can, but it should be for all companies. Amazon notably didn't get the same deal Apple did, which is anti-competitive.
I'll keep an eye on it too, but for a query engine formatting compliance and edge cases tend to be almost all of the work. It's easy to implement SELECT x FROM y WHERE z.
I'd think that they could just take all space/ship shots, and completely start from scratch and it would look good. The changes in tools from then to now, I'd think armatures on internet could look better than something from 90's.

So I'd think someone that is motivated with money, some streaming service, could re-create these.
The real problem is liability. Radiologist, if they make a mistake can be sued. Who are you going to sue when the program misdiagnoses you?

NB. In all claims I've seen so far about outperforming radiologist, the common denominator was that people creating these models have mostly never even seen a real radiologist and had no idea how to read the images. Subsequently, the models "worked" due to some kind of luck, where they accidentally (or deliberately) were fed data that made them look good.
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It would kinda be funny if they did as they probably not want Apple to get fined as now they’d be shareholders
It sounds like you need to find some solid 1x engineers.
Is it actually the case that local computation on mobile devices is much more expensive than running the radios? I was just the impression that peripherals like the speakers, real radios, and display often burn up much more power than local manipulation of bits.
Or one for arduino
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41500071

Which was also forked for ESP32 and has its own community
https://github.com/biologist79/ESPuino
what a silly eulogy. it's cost.

there is dry fit tech made with cotton, if you want to pay 70eu per t-shirt, since forever. it was never about the technology. polyester is still garbage for the masses.
Sears Houses in the U.S.
In and out burger is a solid burger in a clean, well run restaurant with a simple and classic menu and iconic old school vibes.

Waffle House is typically dirty, semi-dangerous, expensive and the any dish they serve would get absolutely annihilated in quality by even a second rate mom & pop diner. The energy that clip is trying to serve up is "Diner energy" and that's just not Waffle House because the safety isn't there, and the food quality isn't there (and Diner's aren't exactly known for high level food quality, more like great for the price food quality). I suspect he wanted to do a clip about how Diners are great, which is True, and his old uncle Waffle House had a dollar or two to say to him about how that should be a Waffle House that he visits.
Just remember, you can't watch a Warner Bros. movie without a Warner Bros. ball cap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMj5M9w2qA
VMS[1] is an OS for VAX[2] systems by Digital that Dave Cutler worked on before Windows NT (with the abandoned MICA OS for the equally abandoned PRISM CPU architecture between the two). As people have noted, the NT kernel is rather VMS / MICA like, because it's written by some of the same people, so they're solving problems with things they know work (with some people suggesting directly copied code as well, although VMS and MICA didn't use C as their main programming languages).

Some people point out if you shift characters by one "VMS" becomes "WNT", and give it as an explanation of the name choice of Windows NT, but it's a coincidence. For one thing, nobody ever explains how this gag was going to work back when the project was "NT OS/2"[3].

[1] Virtual Memory System, originally VAX/VMS, later OpenVMS.

[2] Later DEC Alpha, Intel Itanic and now AMD64 systems.

[3] AKA OS/2 3.0 or Portable OS/2.
Show HN: Free Basketball Practice Plan Creator for Youth Coaches
Hey hey HN,

TL;DR: I built a free tool for youth basketball coaches to easily create customized practice plans. One pain point I see in grassroots basketball is that youth coaches need help with practice plans. It could be for a variety of reasons — they are new to the game, volunteering their time, just need ideas, etc.

So this tool I made has you to select your team's age, skill level, and focus areas (like ball handling, shooting, or defense, press breaks, etc), and then it customizes a complete practice plan. Each plan creates a unique link, so you can share it with anyone (your team, parents, other coaches, etc).

I also have a video demonstration embedded in this blog post: https://www.elitehoopsapp.com/Free-Youth-Basketball-Practice...

I’d love any and all feedback on how this could be more useful, and feel free to try it out! This is my first web project (iOS developer) so I'm especially eager for any thoughts on that front.

- Jordan
UDP is problematic because you can't recv() more than one packet at a time, so you get syscall limits that you could just ignore with a TCP-based protocol. There's a trick wasting lots of cores but it's bad for battery-powered devices. There's also iouring and af_xdp that look promising, but they aren't supported as widely as chrome.

HTTP2 I can't explain. HTTP2 should be better. I suspect it's probably an implementation bug because I can replicate lab performance and HTTP2 looks good to me in controlled tests.

I can always try turning it back on again in 6 months...
Overweight Ford F-750 Plunges Through Historic Wooden Bridge in Maine
NT used to mean "New Technology," if I remember correctly. Not sure if that was the internal codename or a marketing creation anymore.
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Our app supports side by side comparison of Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. It also allows you to fully control the context of the model using our Star system. Toggle to dark mode in settings. Supports rich text rendering, code highlighting and expandable input.
What if I have multiple partitions? Replication? What if I don't want business data to be exposed due to strictly incremental counters? What if I want unique IDs across different tables?
Maybe now the Irish government could do something about the housing crisis. Ah who I am kidding, they'll blow it all on fancy hats or some such.
Trade retaliation because a US company engaged in tax dodging abroad? I knew the US school system is bad but I didn't think it was this bad for people to make such connections.
YAML Norway problem strikes again!

I wish YAML wasn't so common in Python ecosystem...
find ... | xargs head -n -0
Even if this sounds like a huge fine, this is effectively meaningless, even if they end up paying it. 13 billion, for a company with market cap of more than 3 trillion is around 0.4% of their cap.

Until these fines become meaningful, companies will just continue breaking the law and asking for forgiveness later, as the changes to their market cap can offset this fine in hours.
Antarctic sea ice on cusp of record winter low for second year running
Just peel off the vinyl printed sticker you attached (See OPs updated cards), and reprogram the card.
Apple sneaks a Windows Recall-like feature onto the iPhone
ContrAltoJS Xerox Alto Emulator
Can choose to install `latest` (or `2_24` explicitly or even `git` that builds nix directly from master) version which before the submitted disclosure was set to 2.24. Has since been changed `latest` to install 2.23 instead and `2_24` and `git` have been marked as vulnerable.
Germany was never a significant colonial power and did not extract much value from them. Especially not compared to Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands or Belgium.

> Germany has 20x our population, France is not far off it. Neither has anything close to the job market per capita in the IT and Services sector that Ireland has.

If you say so. And yet those employees are payed less.

These jobs exist because Ireland gave US companies large tax breaks and because it is an English-speaking country. Otherwise they would perhaps been based in the UK before Brexit.

It's good that Ireland attracts business, but encouraging tax dodging is not the way and this particular judgement is an opportunity to acknowledge this.
Doesn't that mean your editor support is crap though?
Would you have recommendations for an English speaker trying to learn German? Where do I go to find anime with good German subtitles? Or, maybe even a German dub?
Can't you just disable the Pentium cache and it runs like a slightly fast 486? I haven't done this but see retro YouTubers doing this often.
I think you're misunderstanding something. This case was about a tax deal Apple had with Ireland a decade ago, not about consumer rights or anti-competitive behavior.
Shouldn't Ireland be fined 13 billion from the EU then?
The point made, which I agree with, is that the API itself might be easy. What makes it hard is understanding the domain, the documentation, the tools and other bits around it.

For the case of OAuth 2.0, I do really think it is an easy API to use as such.

What makes OAuth 2.0 hard is exactly the other stuff mentioned above, which is compounded significantly if one uses OIDC on top of OAuth 2.0.

Once you get an understanding for the domain and the technical language used, it ends up being just a few calls with some fairly straight forward data passed. As mentioned in another comment here, it can be as simple as just a single, simple POST call with a username and password to get a token, which you then pass in the usual HTTP header. How is that not easy?!

This is very much unlike certain other APIs. I mentioned Vulkan in another comment as such an example, but there are many others. For example, using Vulkan you must actively take care to add fences and use semaphores to ensure ordered operations. That's on a whole other level of complexity compared to OAuth 2.0.
Yeah but the website literally says “zero code changes”. It’s the long tail that’s dangerous since most people don’t understand it as well as a the core functions
Do you have children aged 0-4? My daughter had a CD player before we got the kids a Yoto each, and she and her little brother scratched the heck out of the CDs, not intentionally, but you just can't expect a child that age to handle them carefully enough not to scratch them.

I know Blu-Rays can take a bit more than a CD, but even they won't stand up to a 2yo.
> It's not a challenge to keep a limit on screen time at this age.

Good for you.

It is, however, a challenge for us.

If all your friends have the same rules as you, then great. If all your friends have no rules at all, you are a tyrant, and your child will be at his friends places as much as possible.
Results (Don't) Speak for Themselves: A Case for Documentation
It depends entirely on how you define AGI. From a lot of the occasionally heated discussion on these topics I've found that it varies greatly between people.
Right, the person saying "they use it" as opposed to "refer to it" is an indicator. It's a great feature, using on-device "AI" (privacy preserving), and available since Pixel 2 (2018).
Wondering how vulnerability applies outside NixOS. Does Nix outside NixOS also has such access over the system?
shopt -s globstar
tail -n+1 **/*.py | pbcopy
Sure. Not in the sense of "here’s a proof that a perceptron cannot learn XOR", but at least something that would hint that there are qualitative gaps in the expressive power of DLNNs, or even LLMs specifically.
they offer political manipulation as a service.

just before the 70s one could pay a think tank to mislead graduate students to write reports that greatly pushed one point of view. then that report would be used by the legislative to pass regulation because "the benefits are obvious". then the executive world award contacts to the think tank because "they are field experts without equal".

palantir is just the evolution of this. a sleazy thinly disguised think tank that uses AI and other magic algorithm instead of economics and social sciences to justify legislation and then get awarded contacts.
It's been a hot minute since I've used SVN at work, but in my last job where it was SVN, each dev checked out the entire repository locally. Even though you /could/ check out a section of the repo, it made no sense to do that, because you need the entire codebase to run locally. Branching was still a mess though, and Git has really innovated in this space. We used to all dev on `develop` branch, and we'd daily pull from the server, fix merge conflicts locally, and then push up to the server. On releases our lead dev would merge dev with master and run off a build.

I still maintain the differences are academic, because even though Git is a DVCS (and I agree it is), and it is possible to use it as a DVCS. But given that GitHub is the defacto standard, and everyone uses it for work and OSS, I posit we are actually using Git as a CVCS, and any argument about Git being better than SVN because it's a DCVS is moot because nobody is using Git's distributed features anyway.
Yeah I it's not right. Although, it's a decent early mental model for a JS dev learning ECS to adopt until better intuition develops!
"I don't see what the issue is, it works just fine on my M3 Max with 64GB RAM.".
A few weeks ago Mario Draghi asked my recommendations for his report
The end of the article has my favorite solution.

This is also how I'd solve it in Rust, except the defer would be implicit.

func doSomething() error {
f, err := os.Create("foo")
if err != nil { return err }
defer func(){ _ = f.Close() }()

if _, err := f.Write([]byte("bar"); err != nil { return err }

return f.Close()
}
At the time I was in an industry collaboration and we needed a place to work together and looked at SF and CollabNet. Internally we also would have benefitted from such a tool so I even got an onsite demo by SF. It was impressive but also as you say enterprise focused and very different from their free offering. And that was imho the key reason: There was not one but were two offerings with different tech and customers. Focus was lost.
America's Bad Math Scores Are a Problem
I'm also a French speaker living in Flanders with a Flemish partner, and children who speak both languages.

I'm pretty sure the ease of speaking English for Dutch speakers comes mostly from the closeness of the language (as evidenced by my comment on people who watched French-dubbed anime as kids, not Japanese original or English-dubbed). And TV content for children (including De leeuwenkoning or Een luizenleven, to take examples from the article) is almost universally dubbed in Dutch as far as I can tell.

My personal opinion is that watching movies in English is really not as useful as people think it is, it does help once you already know the language but children just don't pick up a language by watching movies in that language without having already some basic knowledge of that language.

IMO (but it's starting to get off-topic) it's more generally Latin languages that are a hindrance for their native speakers for some reason, and globally Latin speakers are just always bad at learning other (non-Latin) languages, especially at speaking them. But it's not because they're watching Le Roi Lion rather than The Lion King.
Microsoft could have implementes the Docker API as part of WSL1 instead of loading up a real Linux kernel for it. That's how LX Zones on Illumos work for running Docker containers on non-Linux without hardware virtualization.

I'm sure it's tricky and hard (just like WSL1 and WINE are tricky and hard), but we know it's at least possible because that kind of thing has been done.
Those are all great features, but they are not features which lock you into the platform. If bing or Apple maps had the same utility I could switch to them at the drop of a hat.
Even at their market cap, I don't think this would be trivial to operationalize