skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can fill that in for you I think. The "We" and "Whom" are you, me, the arbitrary host/admin/user.

If you look at the regulatory trends developing around tech at the moment there are a lot of pushes to slap obligations on the host essentially toe the societal line of their geopolity. You will spy on your users. You will report this and that. You will not allow this group or that group.

This tightening acts in part to encourage centralization, which is regulable by the state, and discourage decentralization, which is at best, notionally doable.

The power of technologically facilitated networking has, prior to the Internet, been in large part a luxury of the State or Entity granted legitimacy by the State. With everyone having the potential to take their networks dark enough where the State level actors legitimately revert to having to physically compromise the infrastructure instead of being able to just snoop the line, it's a threat to the edifice of power currently extant to under a bottom up inversion.

No longer would the big boys in the current ivory tower be able to sit on high and know that there may be threats purely by sitting on SIGINT and data processing and storage alone. The primitive of true communications and signalling sovereignty would be in the hands of every individual. Which the establishment would like to cordially remind you includes those dirty terrorists, pedophiles, communists, <group you are mandated to treat as an outgroup>. So therefore, everyone must give up this power and conduct affairs is a monitorable way to make those other people stand out. Because you're all "good" people. And "good" people have nothing to fear.

You can't deplatform persona non grata from infra they've already largely built for themselves, which is a terrifying prospect to the current power structure.

It's all about control.
> Or please tell me how to use the magic mouse while it's charging? Am I just holding it wrong?

is that really a deal-breaking decision to buy an iMac? Yeah, sure, I agree it's super silly design that they put the port under the mouse; but c'mon, does it really matter?

As far as I can tell, I have never had to explain to my 61 year old Indian mother how to use a Mac as much as I have had to debug every little thing on Windows PCs. Macs & Apple products _truly_ do "just work"
As someone who tried (and failed) to adapt to other ergonomic keyboards (like a Microsoft Sculpt a few years ago), this really speaks to me.

The interesting thing is I did manage to fix most of my right wrist pain, but not through an ergo keyboard – switching to an Apple magic trackpad did the trick.

But I'm still intrigued by your design - if it was something I could buy (instead of building) I would give it a go.
So what? It's not because something is legal that you can't discuss it.
Why not get a Mac Mini and external 32” display? It should be refreshed this week with rumors of a redesign.
There are definitely 10X teams in that sense. Two problems:

(1) Very few corporate compensation programs are team-oriented; managers are structurally forced to reward/punish individuals, not teams. In many cases there is even some sort of forced distribution that requires the manager to punish someone on the team regardless of performance. This makes it counterproductive to attempt to construct a uniformly high-quality team in the first place.

(2) The organizational friction encountered by a 10X team is the same as for a 10X developer, only much larger in scope, thus more expensive and visible. A 10X developer might want to write a bunch of unit tests; a 10X team might want to swap out the entire CI/CD system and reorganize their relationship with product management.
We shovelled 100 of them into a van last year to be shredded. It’s terrible. I had no say or control over that before anyone shits the bed.

I bought a studio display to get out of that. That has spares available and is repairable as well. It’s getting its second computer shortly.
Required to connect a headphone directly to a USB-c iPad or iPhone.
It's been awhile, but isn't the trick to give ye flask to Dennis?
We are going through something of a golden age of text-based games. There are still plenty of parser-based games being created but choice-based games have been growing in popularity and complexity over the last few years. And yes, people have been experimenting with generative AI.

There are several competitions each year for new text based games and an active community.

https://intfiction.org

Tooting my own horn, if you like retro Star Trek-like things then here is a short somewhat randomized choice-based text game I entered in a competition a few months back.

https://sheep.horse/voyage_of_the_marigold/
I once had a storage unit, and lost the key to the padlock. The manager said no problem, and we went to the unit. He pulled out a battery operated angle grinder, and cut through the hasp in a few seconds.
It'd be awesome if Apple could make skins for the iMac. That way it wouldn't look as dated in 3-5 yrs.
Lol I will only be replacing bulbs with OEM parts. Some vehicles come with xenon, LED, or HIDs and that will have to be replaced with proper bulbs.

As blinding as they are, if that's what the vehicle has I gotta put them back in.
Apple’s intelligence has the benefit of a much deeper integration (if they can live up to their wwdc), which will pretty much bring the sci-fi assistent to life. Just say “when will my plane depart” and when siri replies ask it to “send that info to X” is absolutely possible with current LLM tech exposed to a standardized API against which it can execute commands. Give it some personalized context and that’s absolutely reachable tech.

I don’t know, if apple can pull it off, that will bring a huge change to human-device interactions.
I copied the text into a TTS site and listened to it. Well worth it for any slow readers.
Georgians join mass rally as president urges protest at 'rigged vote'
I hope more companies start recycling their own products. It makes me sad to see so much valuable electronics, so many "totalled" cars just thrown away on the same heap as other rubbish (and old cars respectively). Such a waste of resources is surpassed only by war.
Rare 1975 Roosevelt dime fetches more than $500k at auction
yes, 30 seconds of math would have told me that, but I foolishly jumped in without doing that calculation…
Standardizing Automotive Connectivity
iMac Pro with HDMI in would be a purchase for me. The screen will outlive the computer hardware, yet an imac is cheaper than a studio display.
> Many people who find something mediocre will not bother to rate it at all; the act of viewing or purchasing something and declining to rate it contains useful information about that item’s quality.

Not really sure, some people have different base likelihoods of rating something. I will rate apps when I see the app rating popup because it's simple and I know how important that app rating is. But the majority of people will just instinctively close it.
Apple burned through collosal amount of developer/core fanbase good will with this little mauver. More than a year of hostile actions against developers, consumer choice and then anti EU PR stunts etc. Many of their services like News and Fitness+ are still not available in all EU countries even.
Unconditional positivity destroys moral, but I think the effect on psychological safety is more nuanced.

Your example is certainly a lack of psychological safety, but only you can speak to the causes of that.

A common reason would be a lack of accountability, which led to unconditional positivity as a veneer over the lack of constructive feedback.
‘Informed users’ has always been a joke.
> I don't think I've ever heard anyone but few power users here and on some other boards to be excited by Apple Intelligence.

Because the vast majority of the user base hasn't really heard of Apple Intelligence and definitely doesn't understand what it is.

It's been out in tangible form for a few hours, and 99% of the people haven't had a chance to update yet.
> If you get wasted on anything, or do anything silly, or act weird, someone will pull out a phone and video you.

Anecdotally this seems to be the key impact. With social media almost everyone now has a "brand" and that brand is typically not supported with a post of you out of it, sloppy, etc.

Along those lines, there also seems to be MUCH more emphasis on health - granted superficial health (looking good) but health nonetheless. Fortunately the standards for "ideal beauty" for women especially have shifted from the 90s/2000s no-such-thing-as-too-thin dangerous and extremely unhealthy to a physique that is well-muscled and actually healthy (while being inclusive of different body types).

When I'm at the gym and the high school/college kids show up I just can't believe their level of physical fitness and development. Self-selecting given it's the gym but when I was in high school (class of 2002) the most fit kid on the football, basketball, track, volleyball, etc teams would look out of shape next to what appears to be the "average" gym-goer of this generation. The numbers also seem to be quite a bit higher - there are A LOT of these kids hitting it really hard in the gym.

Needless to say this clearly obsessive-level focus and work is not supported by using drugs like marijuana and alcohol. If nothing else having a lot of followers is much more important and "cool".

If anything I'm more interested in usage statistics of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. Some of the physiques, performance, etc I see just don't seem possible to achieve naturally at 16-25.
It isn’t surprising that they get details wrong. It’s the same NY Times that called the constitution “dangerous”(https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/books/review/constitution...), fanning the flames of a kind of uncivil line of thinking that has unfortunately been more and more popular.

But this article itself makes mistakes - it does not seem to understand that the first amendment is about protecting free speech principles, which are actually much bigger than just what the first amendment says. The author makes an illogical claim that there is a category of speech that we want to illegitimize and shield platforms from. This is fundamentally opposed to the principles of free speech. Yes there is the tricky case of spam. But we should not block people based on political views or skepticism about science or anything else that is controversial. The censorship regime of big social media platforms should be viewed as an editorial choice, under law and in principle.

Lastly - large social media platforms are utility communication services and public squares. They need to be regulated and treated like a government agency, restricting their ability to ban users and content. After all, so much of today’s speech is on these platforms. Not being able to share your ideas there is similar to not having free speech rights at all.
444 is a (nginx-specific) idea too, indeed.

Blocking at the edge (on the CDN) is another, and it would be even quicker ;-) (I use Cloudflare, a Cloudflare worker could be set to answer /wp-login.php or anything, without even reaching my own server.)

Wrt. how to ban: an option would be something like fail2ban (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail2ban)
I generally get a notification I need to charge my mouse when I’m in the middle of using it. It’s nice to be able to plug it in without interrupting my workflow. If instead I ignore the charge notification and keep working on what I was working on, I generally then forget to plug it in however many hours later when I’ve finished work. After enough cycles of this, it dies entirely. Sure it only happens a few times a year, but you would think Apple of all companies would get this right.
I'd also include some temporal aspect in many cases, a review on Amazon from the day it arrives is far less likely to include useful information than one from several weeks/months later. This would also filter out a lot of the reviews that seem to review the wrong thing (i.e. reviews that are about the seller rather than the item).

Maybe even start including an incentive to re-review items several months on?
> The prevalence of such hallucinations has led experts, advocates and former OpenAI employees to call for the federal government to consider AI regulations. At minimum, they said, OpenAI needs to address the flaw.

I don't see why there should be regulations against models that produce hallucinations. If a model has a high error rate, then it should not be used for critical tasks. Any user of the model should know that it is not error-free.
Yah, one often doesn't discover the existence of a quadratic algorithm until something like this happens.
One town over from my own hometown is Westfield, NJ where Charles Addams is from, and there's a house on Elm Street that looks a lot like the Addams Family house -- especially the one he drew in New Yorker cartoons. The town has a festival in his honor every year around Halloween and the house in particular features proudly as _the_ Addams Family house.
AI Slop is everywhere and soon to overtake man made content.
A native English speaker wouldn't have trouble with "been" vs "bin" since these are two different vowel phonemes.
Author here. I believe I generated both of those images using the Rust lib, they shouldn't be used for comparing the compression performance of the JS lib vs the Rust lib.
It gets so much worse. Today, my sales guy was trying to register for WordCamp, a conference that we have been attending for years as an essential place to meet customers. And then he encountered the registration form for a WordPress.org login, which neatly specifies that you affirm you have no “affiliation with WP Engine, whether financial or otherwise.” [1]

Of course, my company does have an affiliation with WP Engine. We use their service to host our website. Therefore, nobody on my team can register for a WordPress.org account.

I wrote an open letter to Matt Mullenweg complaining about the requirement and stating that I believe it violates the Sherman Act and Section 3 of the Clayton Act by being an overly broad prohibition that is clearly anti-competitive and has no clear business justification (aside from limiting competition).

Matt and the rest of the people backing Automattic should take note: Moves like this that destroy your community will eventually usher in a replacement. WordPress is pretty neat, but it only got that way because thousands of people put millions of hours into building add-ons and hosting services to make it blossom into what it is today. If their efforts are redirected in another direction, WordPress will wither away to nothing in a few years.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ksimpson_open-letter-to-matt-...
Sure, that's legally true, but it's normal and natural to have feelings about things that are different from the legal reality.
The computer that can be opened is larger and more janky. Most users derive absolutely no utility from ability to open the machine, as they will never open it. They do however benefit from a smaller, more aesthetic computer.

I have plenty of space next to my desk for a mini-tower computer - something like a Micro ATX. Since trading it for an ultra small form factor that's the size of a paperback book, I wouldn't go back to the larger one. The smaller one is just less janky, and I sometimes remove the computer from the desk entirely to convert the room to another use. The smaller computer is easier to throw into a box.

Sure I could do all of this with the micro ATX, but since the upgradeability did nothing for me, I might as well take the smaller size.
That feature was available and only possible with specific Intel chips. It went away because Intel stopped supporting it. Sad the feature didn't come back to life in the AppleSilicon iMac.
Counterpoint: I have used the podcast numerous times and shared it with many. Great system and medium to digest complex information that I otherwise wouldn’t have.
Related:

Apple Intelligence is available today on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971835
Haha, I have this issue with the Arch64 code generator I'm building.
I looked around, but all the open source analytics projects I could find were bloated with all kinds of UI and unnecessary code paths. They also all seemed to use row-based RDMS as the data backbone (vs columnar stores like ClickHouse). I was looking for a backend-only solution that we could shape for our product use case that could scale.

So TLDR, if you're at a smaller scale (<1M MAUs), you probably will be fine just using a table in MySQL or Postgres. If you have a lot of traffic and users, you will need something like Trench that uses Kafka and ClickHouse.
Weed and alcohol remain forbidden due to age restrictions. But anecdotally, I grew up in the 90's and 00's. When weed was outright illegal and alcohol was as it currently is. There was plenty of desire to get drunk among minors. Weed had some but very little presence in my area. Today the weed presence is much more on par with alcohol among highschoolers (or so I'm told) where I'm from.
There's a lot of ground between "the high standard of peer review" and "tak[ing] published research at face value."

The former is impractical for a lot of formats (ie podcasts) but the latter is clearly harmful in the context of a popular podcast or some other medium that amplifies the dubious message.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971835
"Who is making the comparisons?"

MSNBC: "We are!"
Replace “Medium” with internet. Otherwise this is just a paid promo piece for Medium
Was it hard to find a cofounder on there? Everyone seems really opinionated and focused on their own ideas.
>If the goal is to have a system where everyone can have passive income, then achieving that goal is the end of the world.

If AI and robotics continue to be developed, then eventually most human labor becomes uneconomical by comparison. At that point, the system provides passive income on a mass scale (UBI) to prevent its own violent destruction. At least, that's the good ending.
DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub
Sounds like software engineering is not for you.
I think the key word there is "properly." Mass exporting of e-waste to poorer countries from richer ones is hardly proper.
People aren't excited because most of it already exists with native apps like chatGPT itself or even Copilot (Microsoft's SwiftKey keyboard for example, can generate memes, images, guess emoji etc)

Integrarion through Siri is not transformational because few actually use Siri - Siri in Europe is dumb as a bucket, even when it correctly understands what you're asking.
https://bullenweg.com is getting spicy.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971726
Your reaction is mine too, but it feels like you're fighting for the sake of fighting.

Yes, it's infuriating that they effectively made an iMac, don't let you run your own software on it, but do charge iMac prices for it.

Also, if you're a consumer who wants a retina-class desktop display, do you have any better option? So far as I can tell, the 27" 4Ks we bought for my office ~9 years ago are still state-of-the-art if you're unwilling to consider Apple's option.

People are taking exception to your "idiot product" remark, because you're standing so high on your principles that you're calling people who are willing to make a financial sacrifice to get the best available option "idiots." If you spend hours a day in front of a screen, you can justify amortizing out stupid-expensive over the amount of time you spend using it.

We'd all like to see either just-the-screen for half the price, or a revived iMac Pro at the current price; but neither of those are options anyone can buy right now.
Previously, spam has been reported and filtered via "flag" and "report" buttons.

Why is that not sufficient for site operators to separate "AI Slop" from other articles?

If existing sites choose to tolerate "AI Slop" (why doesn't HN have this problem?), does that create a market opportunity for competitors with better filters?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971726
Cables are the obvious one, as someone else mentioned. But I think people forget how many accessories have been sold (e.g. FLIR cameras [0]) that were Lightning only. Switching the phone to USB-C renders those expensive accessories obsolete.

[0] https://www.flir.com/products/flir-one-gen-3
It is not hard at all to find a 21 year old to buy some legally and pass it on for a small tip.
>just put up some initial capital in exchange for even more money back

Isn't that how index funds work?
YouTube allows one to report a video for 11 different reasons. A list below. Unfortunately, AI Slop is not one of them.

Sexual content

Violent or repulsive content

Hateful or abusive content

Harassment or bullying

Harmful or dangerous acts

Misinformation

Child abuse

Promotes terrorism

Spam or misleading

Legal issue

Captions issue
There's Kava or Kratom - I've not tried them myself but I have heard good things about their ability to ease social situation like alcohol without alcohol's side effects.
That’s why I specifically qualified my comment “within the context of a typical crud api server”.

I remember this being true 10 years ago. Java web servers I maintained had a huge problem with tail latency. Maybe if you were working on a 1 qps service it didn’t matter. But for those of us working on high qps systems, this was a huge problem.

But like I said, I know the Java people have put a ton of work in to try to close the gap with Go. So maybe this isn’t true anymore.
Personally I picked my next phone based on which had the most useful AI this year.

I've been waiting my whole life for, basically, the computer from Star Trek, and I think it's on the way.

Gemini was really disappointing. It could do some incredible things but it was more like the first hints of what will be possible. For example, I could ask it to show me the biggest files in my Google Drive. And as far as I could tell, it had access to Google Drive APIs, and _could decide how to use them_. That's extremely powerful, that means it could think of what to do to accomplish any goal you have and determine how to do it. If the API can do anything the UI can do, then the AI can do anything you can do, and you don't have to point and click and type like it's 2024, and we're suddenly in the 24th century.

But, it was too early. Many of my requests were met with "I'm sorry I can't access x y z" when it could and did at other times. The unreliability is what got to me.

So I went with an iPhone (my first ever, I'm not American) because I think in the short term, iOS is going to have the experience which is closer to this intelligence. Because it can drive behavior in other apps and will increasingly do so as features roll out.

Don't be fooled though Apple Intelligence is currently very, very limited.

Side note: I don't care about the text and image gen capabilities at all. Though the notification summaries are pretty handy and occasionally hilarious.

.... I might write a piece for http://unlikekinds.com about this.
> Tesla invites all device suppliers and vehicle manufacturers to join us in this initiative.

This is not a standard in the sense that engineers use the term. Tesla is hoping it will be adopted as a standard and since Tesla doesn't appear to want to involve any standards bodies, Tesla appears to only be interested in making these connectors a de-facto standard.

In any case, that is not a standard.