skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered that it's a plural "you" that you're choosing to pit yourself against, with different people each weighing different complaints?

Almost by definition, the people who argue strongly for free use of their hardware and software are almost never the same people who argue strongly for safety and security restrictions. You seem to be frustrated by a contradiction or inconsistency that doesn't exist.

It's true that Google can't win the hearts of both sides, but they surely know that -- you don't need to get so personally frustrated on their behalf. It's just a company with a product in a market, and the market is never going to be uniform.
is it weird that my first reaction upon reading the title is “a product with Firefox in the name isn’t already open source??”
gitkraken is nice yeah. it's nowhere near the efficiency of magit imo. git is like ed. magit is like vim. gitkraken is more like maybe word? does everything you want has a nice clickable gui but it is not quite as efficient to use.
>What’s the appeal of Windows now,

Apps that only run on Windows. (Some Windows apps don't even have macOS versions.)

>I think if someone is setting up Windows for grandma to use Facebook on, then surely Ubuntu can serve the same purpose? Maybe some dedicated grandkids can try and report back.

I know a "grandma" in her late 70s that runs Windows with sewing embroidery software (Bernina and Brother) and Quicken for personal finances. Those apps don't run on Linux and using workarounds such as Wine or virtual machines for them is not reliable.

So it's not just the exotic business apps like CAD/CAM and Adobe Photoshop/Premiere that keeps users on the Windows platform.

If a user is using the desktop as just a way to run a web browser 100% of the time, then yes, a Linux desktop is a realistic platform for non-techies.
Someone being able to connect to their device is the definition I use. What's your definition?

Being able to relay through a third party is a different thing.
DuckDB-Extension-Httpserver: Turn Any DuckDB into an HTTP API Server
Before we had software engineers, we had sanitation engineers. At that time, it highlighted the absurdity of 1) title inflation and 2) assigning a tightly qualified moniker to jobs that require far less prequalification and oversight.

I guess it was one of those memorized-but-not-learned lessons.
> It feels like the concept of qualia is a last-ditch attempt by humans to make themselves feel special.

I don't think so, I think fundamentally it's just a concept used to express a more generalized form of perception (i.e. not divided into discrete senses, either internal or external). I'm happy to leave it at that, but YMMV.
Are you using LLMs for SRE related task in your org today? How are you using it?
Some token that every account gets generated? It's really not that much to ask honestly.
There is a fork mentioned above.
In each round of expansion more externalities happen; we just fail to tax the externalities to reflect the real world consequences.
> You show up at the station when the train is coming. You get on the train. Later, you get off the train.

The train is late. The lounges suck or are tied to a complex system of ticket tiers that seemingly don't correlate to price. You bought a specific seat but the train was changed so now no assigned seat and lol on a refund. And fuck you if you're crossing borders.

Germans travel a good amount by car for good reason [1]. When I'm in Germany, I tend to drive between cities because the alternative is burning several hours in buffers and delays.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Destigmatize Being Dumb
Universities don't exactly decide guilt by proof. If their system says you're guilty, that's pretty much it.
As you should be. When we go spelunking for evidence of differences we're engaging in the reinforcement of social categories. When evidence of differences is found it becomes the justification for the category's existence. If that seems backwards and circular in logic, then you would be correct. The same interplay exists between sex and gender and well as a host of other categories.
The pope says he's appointed by God. So it must be true...

Your sources are as truthful about inflation as asking any general if he's fighting for the good side of a war.
Huh, you are right.
I must have seen the first two pairings (1p/2p and 5p/10p) and extrapolated.
Aren't they exactly making it because their customers are not checking it and still buy it probably for very decent money. And always remember buyers are not end users, either the teachers or students, but the administrators. And for them showing doing something about risk of AI is more important than actually doing anything about it.
It's an electrostatic motor, so expect peak performance at close to 0 RPM. It probably won't work well at 1k RPM, but whether "too high frequency" for it is closer to 10 RPM or 100 RPM isn't clear.

There's a video with some waves in unlabeled axis. I didn't watch it.

Anyway, it's almost certainly not aimed at aircraft propulsion or power generation. You may want something like it for robotics, but last time a paper from them circulated around here, they seemed to be focusing on instrument actuators and chip fabrication.
> Your motion through the x dimension in space, for example, is completely independent of your motion through the other two (y and z) spatial dimensions.

If one considers motion at (or near) the speed of light, that speed would have to be shared among space dimensions, just as with the time dimension. So not that independent.
Responsive TOC leader lines with CSS (2021)
TBF, the quoted section doesn't say that git stores diffs (or anything about git storage), it just says that what MySQL and Oracle stores is similar to a git diff.
> that's what I meant to say

Ah, that makes sense. I thought you meant long 'i' as in extending the duration of the 'i' sound, like in 'beep' vs 'bip'.
This one is way more battery conscious as well. Works great, I prefer it.
I didn't even it could do that to start with. But then again I don't use it because I don't trust it. It was a gift.

I still read tangible real books. They don't need backing up and you can give them to people when you're done.
I’m not sure I understand what you mean. Could you clarify?
The part I hate the most is that in 2024 I still need a connection pooler (such as pgbouncer) in front of it to make it usable.
Indeed. Calibrating scales with nickels is a well-known trick in certain circles, including, but not limited to, organic chemistry labs. It won't do for analytic weighing, but for sanity-checking a scale before weighing out reagents, it does the trick.
Or maybe this, plus Panic removing GDrive support from Transmit, plus iA dropping Android support from Writer because of it, point to a common perception that Google's API for doing things "the right way" suck to the point of unusability. If iA and Panic and Syncthing -- all who've supported Android for many years -- can't manage to make it work, then I suspect it's broken.

Google use to allow just any app to access the whole drive. That's probably too permissive. Now they've obviously swung too far the other direction, where even well intended, experienced devs are unable to work within Google's new constraints.
Or, its the same as Apple Vision Pro, that device everyone has forgotten about. Their MO has always been: We don't build products for a customer profile, we build the products we want to build and expect customers to come to us. On the surface level, one problem Apple has had for a few years and I expect will continue to have is, that "we" in there used to mean "intelligent and respected product minds" but today means "supply chain experts and investors".

But on a deeper level, that strategy used to work because there was so much green field in the world of computing. Its easy to sell a vision to someone with no expectations. The iPhone was released into a world where it didn't even have copy/paste, and no one cared, because very few people had anything remotely like it. Vision Pro was released into a world where we already have sixteen Apple devices, I use my computers every day for work and play, I expect things of them, and releasing with a narrative of "it replaces other devices X Y and Z" actually maybe could never work, even if it could replace those devices, because I kinda like my X Y Z devices. Not only that, but it was released into a world where VR already exists, and has been available at your local Walmart for a couple hundred bucks: Apple never got to control the narrative for VR, so they couldn't communicate their vision.
> First-person conscious experiences. Pain is a qualia. The way the color blue looks, as opposed to say the color red or green, is a qualia. The sensation of hot or cold is a qualia.
When someone stubs their toe and says "ow", you can infer that they're in pain based on their behavior and your knowledge of how pain works, but you can't actually feel or directly observe their pain. That's the "first-person" part.

So cool! I’ve always felt there was something really interesting about the idea that someone might internalize the color blue as I see the color red. I know we can define the colors mathematically, but I never knew the term for that subjective interpretive difference—qualia.
Success doesn’t imply that “reasoning” was involved, and the definition of reasoning is extremely important.

Apple’s recent research summarized here [0] is worth a read. In short, they argue that what LLMs are doing is more akin to advanced pattern recognition than reasoning in the way we typically understand reasoning.

By way of analogy, memorizing mathematical facts and then correctly recalling these facts does not imply that the person actually understands how to arrive at the answer. This is why “show your work” is a critical aspect of proving competence in an education environment.

An LLM providing useful/correct results only proves that it’s good at surfacing relevant information based on a given prompt. That fact that it’s trivial to cause bad results by making minor but irrelevant changes to a prompt points to something other than a truly reasoned response, i.e. a reasoning machine would not get tripped up so easily.

- [0] https://x.com/MFarajtabar/status/1844456880971858028
Perhaps I'm the only one who doesn't know. Care to enlighten me?
Only problem is that an oscilloscope isn't accessible to beginners. It's a specialist piece of equipment that takes time to learn how to use, and are furiously expensive at best for someone who doesn't know they might like electronics to buy. That's fundamentally why people are lauding the benefits of microcontrollers, figuring out what's wrong with one doesn't require an O-scope.
You can run that on android? Sorry I’ve been out of the android world for a while :)
You could just have multiple clients attempt to update a row that defines the lock. Postgres transactions have no limit and will unwind on client failure. Since connections are persistent, there’s no need to play a game to determine the state of a client.
I quite like Windows 11, and to me it feels like the most uniform and stable version of Windows thus far. The claims of it being bloated with ads surprises me, because it has less ads on a fresh install than Windows 10 and most Android phones.

It's still a highly customizable platform and overall backwards compatibility is unmatched. If I'm honest, I hated working on Windows in the 7-10 era as a developer. Doing anything from the command line was painful, you were forced to use clients like PuTTY, there was no built in package manager, and development tools like VS were so unstable. As a .NET developer that also does a bit of frontend work, the experience is completely different.
Sitting out when it reached these levels in the past would have been highly profitable. 1969, 2000, 2021…
> They want things to work reliably, not some gimmick.

Siri is still hot garbage far too often. On CarPlay, “send text message to [partner]” “I can’t find [partner] in your contacts”, often followed ironically by “new text message from [partner]”
Corollary: Failure is awesome and irreplaceable.
It works, and well, considering the constraints in iOS, but doesn't compare well with Androids version. Regular sync thing on Mac is awesome.
The Internet Archive had legal gems such as the Jamendo Album Collection, a huge CC haven. Yes, most of it under NC licenses, but for non-commercial streaming radio with podcasts, these have been invaluable.

Do you know Nanowar? They began there.

Also, as commercal music has been deliberately dumbed down for the masses (in paper, not by cheap talking), discovering Jamendo and Magnatune in late 00's has been like crossing a parallel universe.
Huh, I always imagined that newer cars would have a single CAN link to an ECU [0] in back, and that ECU would control all the lights near it. 555 timers may be cheap and robust, but monster wiring harnesses are not so cheap.

[0] Why do cars have special names for microcontrollers?
They do set how permissions on upgrades of Android work so even if it’s on f-droid, when they enforce the SAF protocols fsync will stop working if you keep your Android up to date
Nope. Nothing is deleted, just hidden.
I wouldn't be so sure. The brain is responsible for about 20% of resting metabolic rate, which translates to 300-350 calories per day for the average person.

300 calories is about the same as 30 minutes of zone 3 cardio (70-80% max heart rate, i.e. pretty high perceived exertion).

Most people in an exercise routine would only do that a couple times per week.

An "overactive" brain, day in day out, could add up to more than most people deliberately exercise.
Copyright is copyright. If you don't like the idea of a publisher owning the rights to content they published doesn't mean you have a right to their content. Let alone worldwide distribution of that content.

What makes you feel entitled to the content of the publisher before the copyright expires? Do you feel that you deserve access to everything because you've deemed the concept of ownership around book publishing immoral?

You can't just take a digital copy of a physical book and give it to everyone worldwide. That isn't your choice or decision to make nor is it ethical to ascribe malice to simply retaining distribution rights to content they own.

"Make publishers richer", it's actually just honoring the concept of ownership...
Again, no they don’t. They just hide them.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
Yes those are optional systems that exist, but they are unrelated to the autopilot (in at least the vast majority of avionics).

They are warning systems that humans respond to. For a TCAS RA the first thing you're doing is disengaging the autopilot.

If you tell the autopilot to fly straight into the path of a mountain, it will happily comply and kill you while the ground proximity warnings blare.

Humans make the decisions in planes. Autopilots are a useful but very basic tool, much more akin to cruise control in a 1998 Civic than a self-driving Tesla/Waymo/erc.
The Drake equation works much better when you use probability distributions rather than point estimates.
perhaps this is an effect of having a speed limit in a universe, if a universe does not have any set speed limit (which is somewhat different than the phrasing speed limit is infinite) perhaps the discussed derivation of other speeds would not exist in the way it does in our universe.
I think it's one of those things that borders on the unfalsifiable, similar to multiverse theory. I've had this concept for about a decade, but I did actually see a youtube video of a Cambridge (or some well known University for Physics) where a professor/researcher did present the idea, yes.
> With every viewing of 2001 I recall with more appreciation Andrei Tarkovsky's lament about what he might have been able to achieve with his Solaris if he had access to the kind of wealth available to Kubrick.

He might have achieved the Steven Soderbergh version. /s
i've never really 'properly' understood spacetime - can you expand on your comment?

why would going v fast in the x direction affect y and z?
Lucy Letby: here's why experts are still arguing about it
Given your evidence of zero, no.
Working extensively in SQL for a while also gives you another perspective of programming. There is just no way you can write this with a for loop in SQL since it does not (generally) have for loops.

WITH all_numbers AS
(
SELECT generate_series as n
FROM generate_series(1, 108) as n
),
divisors AS
(
SELECT *
FROM all_numbers
WHERE 108 % n = 0
),
permutations as
(
SELECT a.n as n1, b.n as n2, c.n as n3
FROM divisors as a
CROSS JOIN divisors as b
CROSS JOIN divisors as c
)
SELECT *
FROM permutations
WHERE n1 * n2 * n3 = 108
AND n1 < n2 And n2 < n3
ORDER BY n1, n2, n3

https://codapi.org/embed/?sandbox=duckdb&code=data%3A%3Bbase...
Strike the sharding idea as I misunderstood the CDC method.
I did the same thing with a webchat I made for a bunch of my friends (back before discord was a thing)! Lots of fun.
Do any organizations have a mirror of this?

Even if it's not publicly available...
>So, again: I think the assertion that "Apple is late but does it right" is totally invalid when applied to AI, because there is no way to do it right, because no one wants it.

No one wants "Artificial Intelligence," but it's unclear if they want the features that it will drive -- i.e., "Apple Intelligence." This is something that can't be known for sure until the features are released and the companies that make them get analytics on them. For now, the very conservative set of features that comprise "Apple Intelligence" are reasonable in that they easily slot into the workflow of users by enhancing or making easier things that people already do. The fact that they are not impressive like what Google or Meta is doing is only important to people who either live their life on the cutting edge of technology or are tech investors. For the people buying phones every 3-5 years (as opposed to every 1 or 2), the story is yet to be written.

I think Apple has a hard line to walk here. They have project progress to investors so the stock will continue to rise, and they have to be the thoughtful curator of features that the customers demand -- that second impulse is what gave rise to the reputation that drove the stock originally.

Apple Intelligence really should have been kept in the oven until WWDC '25, because it's not clear that any of them really require external developers to make happen. But Apple had to keep the impression that they are 'doing something with AI,' and now they're stuck doing what they typically haven't done: promising things that clearly aren't ready. This puts them in the same league as, i.e., Google. Google labelled Gmail as "Beta" for half a decade (April 1, 2004 to July 7, 2009), and now has a reputation for shipping quarter-baked, basically-Alpha projects and then killing the ones that don't catch on.
Relativity was derived as a direct consequence of imposing an invariant speed of causality to the Lorentz transformations, therefore it cannot tautologically be used as justification for an invariant speed of causality.
We have the same thing in Holland. It's also a thing where we consider responsible finance to be that one doesn't need loans, with the some exception of a mortgage.

Having tons of credit cards and 'shuffling' them like in the US is unthinkable here. Banks also don't require that you take out loans to get a good credit rating. Having none is even better.
Do you mean this is a free service? so you can use dummy API key without a server to hide it from the clients? Because it IS defined in line 262 `const API_KEY = "dummy-api-key";`
It’s not 2007 anymore - if a business executive closes a million dollar deal by signing on an iPad, that’s actual work.
Adobe due to the AI misusing and media stealing from thousands of companies it will be crushed down faster than Macromedia.
If you don't like stash, then use WIP commits like I said.

The easiest and by far most common thing to do of course is to just complete the commit you're working on before switching branches.
Does it require Azure to work? Or could the Azure steps be relatively easily be swapped out for AWS/GCP/etc?
>Movies still make over a billion dollars regularly

And if they make a million more fighting piracy rather than not then they'll do it. It's a risk to their expenditures.

Risk is obviously relative. Hacked movies don't kill anyone, a hacked game server of cheaters can kill the entire game.

>companies like Coke continuing to pay for advertising at the scale they do.

Honestly that's such a discussed topic with so much literature that I don't have more to add. It comes down to how fast you think people would forget about coke of they stopped, or how quickly the next generation would pick a new coke. Remeber that advertising includes making sure soda machines have coke on the front, as well as plastic cups with the same label. It's clear the Coca Cola company made it's decision there.

>It doesn't hurt them like you might think. It's well established at this point hat pirates are the group that spends the most on content, and also frequently leads to an increase in sales.

Word of mouth for product 1.0 doesn't matter if the single dev can't afford to get to product 2.0. Thars how "pirates spend the most" work Survivor bias is playing a huge role here, and most pirated services doit survive. And "we'll pay you on exposure" is just as insulting to hear from a pirate as it is from a conglomerate.

But again. Most small businesses don't have much choice because they can't chase needles in haystacks full time. Giving away your 1.0 for free works at the scale of Microsoft or Adobe where you can reel them in later (by shutting off the very piracy they benefitted from). Small businesses can't sit on rent or debt anywhere near as long.
Eutelsat uses SpaceX rocket to launch first satellites after merger
That seems odd to the point of uselessness, and does not match the required training I received in Germany from my work colleagues at Daimler prior to being able to sign out company cars.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvo_2013/__9.html seems to be the relevant law in Germany, which Google translates to "(1) Anyone wishing to turn must announce this clearly and in good time; direction indicators must be used."
I have the opposite problem. I want to play Rimworld, and it IS fun, but I always want more. Rimworld feels too basic and I find myself craving the complexity of DF instead. Ultimately I decide not to dive back into DF and I end up enjoying neither. Oxygen Not Include is great though.
The US uses the metric system, just with very non-standard units. All of the fundamental customary units are defined precisely in SI terms.

The precise five gram weight of the nickel was deliberate, but dates to the Civil War, a time when the US had no intention at all of moving to the metric system. It's rumored that a gram or two of weight was added to the coin on the premise that "five cents five grams" was a nice round number, but actually due to lobbying by moneyed interests who owned a nickel mine, so they could sell more nickel to the government.
Which is why who holds the debt is more important than the existence of the debt. If the government owes the money to a pension fund that's a good thing. If they owe it to a foreign adversary, it's not.
Good luck doing complex 3D drawings/art/office work with a subpar OS.
I highly doubt they are script kiddies. More than likely they are state actors or mercenaries of state actors attempting to bring down the free transmittal of information between regular folks. IA evidently has not so good security and wikipedia must be doing pretty well I guess? I can’t recall the last time one of these attacks worked on Wiki.
pretty informative. now i understand why people are often having issues with vacuum-related stuff. i like the diagrams too.