skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Qualcomm is exploring acquiring Intel"

Huh, I didn't even realize they are sufficiently big for this to be potentially possible.
I do - I like to arrive early at the airport so it's just a long line to me. Unpacking my stuff to get xrayed is indeed a hassle but it's not a big deal to me.
Yes I noticed. Thanks for the link, there's a great post from eitland (first answer : reporting a bug to get unassigned from A/B testing experiments), I will try today.
I mean, you can have a tree of vectors also, so I don't see why lists are needed for homoiconicity.
I want to upgrade my Kindle but first I need to know where the power button is. My current one has the power button on the bottom and it turns off when I rest it on things - extremely annoying. Can't be certain from the product pictures, but looks like it's on the bottom again.
The vice president's opinions are not relevant, especially if they only stated those opinions before joining the presidential ticket.
It’s been a few years since I’ve had to do this, but I think that (at least back then) Calibre defaulted to MOBI for the conversion. However, you could manually select KF8 (AZW3), which is essentially EPUB with a different file extension.
> I think an explanation of this editorial choice is in order.

Maybe people are more interesting in Kindles and upvoting this story instead?

Not everything is a conspiracy.
I have plenty of complaints about Apple’s stuff, but my consistent experience when I try to use something else, for the last decade+, is that I’m jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. Even goes for things like Shield vs Apple TV.

I very much wish they had one or more peers putting them under pressure to do better, but the (tiny—which is likely part of the problem) set of competitors seem to have other priorities than chasing the particular market that Apple does.
Why would renting software be any different? If you rent a defective car, the company that rents it to you is still liable.
This article really buries the lead. It talks about updating monochrome kindles, when they just released their first color Kindle (not counting the Fire). I had to look elsewhere to confirm this was indeed a brand new line of products, and others give it top billing.
Interesting to see from the press release that Right to Repair is being cracked down upon:

When a product is repaired and upgraded outside the original manufacturer’s control, the company or person that modified the product should be held liable.

Will we see companies sue repair shops or compatible component manufacturers in order to prevent potential injury to their customers. Interesting times.
Those are integration tests. Integration tests are great, but not when you want to run thousands of them in a few minutes. And not when you want to have lots running in parallel, accessing and potentially making "changes" to the same files.

I'm happy to have a long running integration test suite that runs on a build server.

But while working on a project, I need fast running unit tests that I can edit and run to get fast feedback on my work. I find that "time to iterate" is key to effective and enjoyable development. That's why hot module reloading is an amazing innovation for the front-end. The back-end equivalent is quickly running affected unit tests.

So I'd rather unit test my FooFileReader to make sure it can read parse (or not) what's in various files, and unit test my service which consumes the output of my FooFileReader by either parameterising the FooFile result or having an IFooFileReader injected. ( Either works to separate concerns. )

While unit testing, I'm going to test "given that System.IO.File can read a file", and write tests accordingly. I don't want a test sometimes fails because "read errors can happen IRL". That doesn't help test my business logic.

I can even test what happens if read failures do happen, because I can mock my mock IFooFileReader to return a FileNotFoundException or any other exception. I'd rather not have to force a real-world scenario where I'm getting such an error.

In a functional world, it's the difference between:

function string -> result

and

function string -> parsedType -> result

The second is cleaner and neater, and you can separately test:

function string -> parsedType
function parsedType -> result

The second is more testable, at the cost of being more indirect.

Interfaces and factories are just an idiomatic .NET way of doing this indirection over services and classes.

Of course you can also write more in a functional style, and there are times and places to do that too.
Very true. The other factors multiply, though, like reliability and degradation, because there are so many packs involved and because they're expected to work for, well, as long as physically possible.
But he tells his students that X never marks the spot.
The title of his column and book "Metamagical Themas" is an anagram of Martin Gardner's previous column "Mathematical Games". It's clever wordplay turtles all the way down.
it’s very cohesive and stable by comparison to Windows. It’s beautifully designed compared to KDE. It’s most similar to gnome.

if you’re the kinda guy who sees it as user hostile, I’d wager it’s because you refuse to learn the macOS/gnome paradigm and demand things to be how they were on your windows pc 30 years ago.

what os/dwm do u use
It's not worth the bits this line was printed to screen with.

Trump will do away with the FTC because it stands in the way of their goal of dismantling the executive administration. The only thing JD Vance supports about keeping Lina Khan is keeping her captured and institutionally bound so she cannot bring legislation forward against their agenda as a citizen.
>> Presumably missing session is an alternative scenario and thus should be reported as an error

But in this case, a query using an invalid session ID is not an error. It is asking for details about something that does not exist.

>> cf File::open that could return Result<Option<File>> if file is not found.

This type of query is not like File::open which gets a handle to a resource. Trying to get a handle to a resource that does not exist is an error.

This type of query is read-only and does not allocate any resources or prepare to do anything with the session.

It simplifies the control flow because it distinguishes between errors in completing a query versus the presence or absence of items returned from the query.
> in general it's completely normal to assume someone wearing earbuds is listening to you

Just because you emphatically state that something is normal, that does not make it normal
Qwen 2.5 models are better than Llama and Mistral.
it's definately in the uncanny valley for me

he turns his head a little and his eyes look wrong
For some reason Nature and Science never want to discuss the other side of peer review - not that involved publication of a paper, but that involved in accepting or rejecting government or other institutional funding proposals. Let's say the NIH announces $1 billion in funding for cancer-related research - surely the system that distributes these funds is worth a little scrutiny, and it also involves peer review.
The pricing engine for Google Flights (and behind many big airline websites) is written in Lisp.
I don't know about anyone else, but I, for one, cannot wait to hear from the Supreme Court about how unconstitutional this is for some made-up reason that just so happens to benefit every company ever. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Hi, I'm from Zerodha. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It was a misconfiguration on our end, which we've now patched.
If Amazon remotely nukes my device, I've still had it for many years working perfectly. So I'm not going to loose sleep.
Awesome, let me know if you run into issues whiles trying podcastfy; I can help you. Feel free to open an issue https://github.com/souzatharsis/podcastfy/issues
Kind of ironic only in that's literally how society works
Cancelling The Economist was pretty terrible too.
I don’t think so. Stronger and attractive people have more options and opportunity too! This is the kind of thing you can’t lose sleep over.
I said completely for a reason. How do I cut the power to it? Or let me see the source code and compile it myself, then I'll be sure.
Good example of how people overestimate the impact of these things. Closer to 10% of smokers get lung cancer.
What about the 60 year old with autoimmune issues? That have expensive drugs but it wasn’t “their actions” that led to this?

The entire system only works if healthy 30 year olds are putting in somewhat similarly (it will be cheaper regardless). Insurance is based on the idea of spreading risk. Without it insurance cannot function.
Well they probably mean it would be nice if people were bored enough to be friendly.
This is one of the things I appreciate about ClickHouse: Contributors willing and able to dive in to performance tune even low-level core stuff like this and getting merged quickly and efficiently, even if they are not affiliated with ClickHouse Inc.

Lovely write-up as well!
If Godot is a dead Engine, Redot, a 'project' with zero code committed was never alive.
I hate to admit it, but the EUrocrats who drafted this are smarter than that:

All software is covered, sold, licensed, embedded, rented.

Even the cloud services tied to products are covered.
There is a miniature version I think it’s called quadrax. Just too expensive but consumer applications
Those 'slat awnings' look like a really good idea! (Less maintenance, air flow, letting a little bit of sunlight through)
Furthermore, while that same IP address (46.23.81.157) no longer hosts the stallman-report.org website, responding with "404 Site not found" if requested, it still has a certificate for stallman-report.org, which can be observed if a matching SNI record is sent during the TLS handshake:

https://i.ibb.co/S0fPvW3/ddv-sr-cert.png
It seems you believe “demographics” is a dog whistle for “which people are white”.

West Virginia is extremely poor.
Universal Jointing for Submarine Cables
>In fact, the judiciary can completely ignore the expertise of the federal agency and substitute their own.

I don't believe this is accurate, as you stated

>The overturning of Chevron deference enables the judiciary to first find that the FTC's authority for this rule is grounded in an ambiguous statute and then decide the FTC went beyond their authority.

The only thing the SCOTUS can do is rule against the agency for exceeding its congressional authority. They aren't substituting their own expertise. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Analogue's 4K Nintendo 64 launches next year for $249
The rulemaking process for this started 3 years ago. If the republican commissioners didn't want rules dropping so close to the election they could have supported changes to speed up the rulemaking process but they didn't. In fact, the dissent complains about how "rushed" the process was.

> It is also hardly one of the most pressing election issues.

Let's just send Lina Khan to Ukraine and get this problem squared away I guess
Yes, I would imagine it would be much easier for Elon to get 44bn as opposed to someone who is homeless.
This is the way. Taxes outside of Europe aren't too bad, and they fund more good things than bad things.

I also don't think people get to high income by min/maxing taxes. Best to focus on exponential growth than logarithmic savings.
My wife is a pretty voracious reader and has 3 active Kindles that I believe are mostly segregated out by genre/collection. I wouldn't be surprised if this is as much for convenience as anything else, I don't use it much but Amazon's library management and navigation on the Kindles has never impressed me.

She's also one of those folks who sideloads with Calibre as well as purchasing through Amazon.
I disagree. I tried the small ones but they too frequently output Chinese when the prompt is English.
Structure101 Joins Sonar
Crypto has become one of the biggest electoral players
You can create backup keys by creating more passkeys.
This depends on the jurisdiction you're in. I.e. Europe's GDPR argues that you need consent to keep someone's personal data. Encryption doesn't equate anonymization, so there's a potential liabity.
Now (or at one time), you could buy Microsoft Office and use it without an internet connection.

With this, maybe that option will be gone, companies can blame the EU for requiring a internet connection and the user is stuck being logged/spied on agreeing to this via an EUL.
> I travel sometimes for work and once i get in to the airport waiting to board I feel like work and every day life ceases for a time and i'm free to do whatever.

Yes, this is very much how I feel. 0 responsibilities and there's nothing I can actually accomplish during my time there. I just sit there reading a book or something, just waiting.
I love the oasis. Specifically the fact that it’s made out aluminum and is water proof. My daughter is an extraordinary reader since a very young age, long before her motor skills have matured, and ended up with my oasis. She does all the things a young kid does like smear food all over it and drop it all the time. I can just wash it off in the sink once a day and we are all good. If it had been less sturdy and not waterproof there’s no way she could have used it.

Finally the physical page turn buttons are great as well as the bevel on the back for holding it with one hand.
Click to Cancel: The FTC’s amended Negative Option Rule and what it means for your business

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/10/click-can...
How has the ecosystem become more solid in recent years? All of the important Haskell libraries I use were initially released eight years ago or before then.

While I personally don't like people promoting niche concepts as well (I'd rather have them promote building out a solid ecosystem as you say), I still feel the "brain drain" out of the Haskell community.
I wonder how soon we'll just be rendering real-time AI avatars of ourselves that are traced by our facial movements. Don't have to worry about fixing your hair or lighting or wearing nice clothes; just render whatever looks most appealing with a model.
I wonder if CrowdStrike's fiasco played a role in this.
I saw people being happy with hibernation on Librem 14 (I use Qubes OS, which doesn't support it).
I decided to ditch their devices because of the support I got — or lack thereof. First they refused to talk to me, because, for privacy reasons, my device was unregistered. I ended up registering it, and even so they offered just a 10% discount on the purchase of a new device.

Sadly, Amazon’s support is not far behind, considering its inability to fix certain persistent Kindle bugs. But I’ve never seen the hardware itself fail.
I've been using C++ for the longest time, and I would never give up destructors to switch to C.

For your particular use case, have you considered C#? VS works much more nicely with it.
Indeed. On the spectrum of health risks Australia is more like the US than France, but it’s far away. The most similar country is possibly Russia or Brazil.
Why would companies do that? They won't be held liable once it's modified.
Fungi could be given same status as flora and fauna under conservation plan
I think you are missing my point here.

Is there a requirement that a signup flow is a single process that you do all at once?

What if they just moved the last contract you had to sign to something that you clicked on the technicians phone after they set everything up?

I get that it is part of the install process and we think of it as a different phase. But in reality how much of a diasctintion is that really?

I am trying to understand what is realistically stopping Comcast from saying that the signup process is not complete until service has been activated? Nothing I am seeing or what is being said here is telling me they could not argue this.
Are they really open weights? Ministral 3B is "Mistral Commercial License".
It absolutely does. I got bit by the NYT back when they had call-to-cancel, and I won't subscribe to any company that doesn't have an unsubscribe button. I just search "bla company unsubscribe," and if it's call to cancel, I won't subscribe.
Is it? e.g. EPYC 9754, the equivalent to Neoverse ARM servers seems to have significantly better performance/power than Ampere's chips. Gravitron 4 seems to be slightly faster than the AmpereOne A192-32X, I don't know how much power it uses but I doubt it's significantly different.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ampereone-a192-32x/12#:~:tex....

Of course the Ampere chip is significantly cheaper which I think is the main and most visible advantage ARM has for servers at least.
This crew has worked so hard for so long. I hope they got a killer payday.
The author of GEB is a phenomenal writer, an old-style researcher who knew his greek, and the book for me is more interesting in its commentary on literature, and psychology, approaching themes of say, Foucault.

I don't know about the work's true impact on AI or tech languages, but it's a masterpiece of criticism, analysis and penmanship.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted (jk I know exactly why). HN will have an entire goddamn Bollywood dance number around the fact that big corporations screw people over, and government has to come in and fix it. "Omg wow, this is great! Why didn't we do this sooner?" Well, tech has a spasming tantrum every time anyone even hints at maybe not letting companies do whatever they want all the time, including most of the people here, and Congress has long since been captured by business interests and people who think the government makes hurricanes.

The solutions are not at all technically challenging, our political system just isn't effective anymore. That's why regulatory bodies do what they can to make rules while Congress and tech companies sit around counting their money.
I have a little unproven hypothesis that fits that last statement, that it would be absurd for a company like Apple to bring people together in the real world.

My hypothesis is that these companies want to make money by "taking" your senses. They want your attention to be with them at all times, by being in your ear so you'll hear them, by being on your wrist so you'll feel them, by being on your eyes so you'll see them.

I'm thinking these companies are building up technological ecosystems - Apple's specialty! - that they hope will eventually form a proxy for you to experience reality. Because if they can convince you to experience life through them, they'll have your wallet too.

Maybe it's just a silly thought of mine, but it kind of fits.
In your imagination maybe.
How many Mistral puns are there?

The benchmarks look promising, great job, Mistral.
Or otherwise to damn humanity to millions of deaths that would have been preventable.
The answer is not to do a chargeback, the answer is to not sign contracts you have no intention of fulfilling.
lukehollis, it's true 3D gales are so long-and-didfucult to build.
Maybe you get in xontact with me : I'm testing a tool that generate 3D Orlds easilly and fast.
Mytoo is called free-visit
thierry.milard@gmail.com

https://free-visit.net
Yes why not, in the general case. With an exception when the loan funds are being reinvested in the property itself. But in the general case where home equity from appreciation is being turned into cash that's then used for other purposes, that looks an awful lot like realizing a gain to me.

In fact this might even be advantageous to certain homeowners who live in a property as their primary residence and then convert it to wholly rental use. Before you move out, take a loan to easily realize of 250k/500k gains which you can then deduct before it's no longer your primary residence.
4.7m is ~0.05% of ~8bn
Langgraph.js: Building language agents as graphs
O1, inference time, Turing Machines and stuff
"Better" is a relative term. Better in what, for which purpose?

There is currently no fanless laptop that can run linux (at least macos is not windows, so good enough for me, I do have some standards) that can even remotely be compared to a macbook air. Or in general to meet the quitness of higher end macbooks except under heavy load, or the performance you get on the go. I am just tired of having a "jet engine" making constant noise in my room. We have been waiting for qualcomm snapdragons to catch up, maybe after a few more iterations they will stop being a disappointment, and then I may switch to a snapdragon (or amd or intel or whoever manages to get there) laptop with linux.

This does not even include other aspects that macbooks are superior to whatever I have used in the past, eg their touchpads or speakers, which I discovered just when I switched.
An added value is that in off-hours nuclear can be used to produce hydrogen for carbon free fuel.
I think that App stores are a big part of this.

When people buy an app on the app store they kind of expect it to work in perpetuity. This would be fine, but the environment changes and people still expect it to keep working. It is reasonable to expect an app I bought on my iPhone 4 using iOs 4 (or whatever it was) to work in perpetuity on that phone and that OS. It is less reasonable to expect it to run on my iPhone 16 on iOs 18, but that is what people expect.

The other thing that app stores did was dramatically lower the price point of software. In 2000, you could go to the store and expect to pay $50+ for an "app". Now, $9.99 is considered a higher price point, and we expect it to be maintained in perpetuity.

Given those constraints, a subscription model is actually pretty reasonable.

Add in that the investors in many companies are hyper focused on MRR, and subscriptions are the only viable way for a startup to work.
What Even Is a 'Cinema' Lens, Anyway?
battle of the sexes
> book a plane ticket without being lied to about what the actual prices is

This hasn't been true for at minimum 10 years. Paying for extra leg room is not a "junk fee"
Having a pocket-sized wifi-only kindle is what saves me from doomscrolling. Instead of spending god-only knows how many hours a week on social media, I read. It's an mental health game changer.
Biden admin did add upfront fee declarations to show the consumer the actual price.
Open Knowledge Repository
There's no rule requiring cookie popups.
Grace is NVIDIA's Arm CPU for servers, so the same will apply to Grace-Blackwell.
It won't happen because neither the US nor the EU antitrust regulators will allow it. It isn't just up to Qualcomm and Intel.

Some other deal, where Qualcomm buys some pieces of Intel, might be possible.
In general I feel like all model providers eventually become infrastructure providers. If the difference between models is very small, it will be about who can serve it reliably, with the most features, with the most security, at the lowest price.

I'm the head of R&D at Rev.ai and this is exactly what we've seen in ASR. We started at $1.20/hr, and our new models are $0.10/hr in < 2 years. We have done human transcription for ~15 years and the revenue from ASR is 3 orders of magnitude less ($90/hr vs $0.10/hr) and it will likely go lower. However, our volumes are many orders of magnitude higher now for serving ASR, so it's about even or growth in most cases still.

I think for Mistral to compete with Meta they need a better API. The on-prem/self-hosted people will always choose the best models for themselves and you won't be able to monetize them in a FOSS world anyways, so you just need the better platform. Right now, Meta isn't providing a top-tier platform, but that may eventually change.