skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That critic would be manifesting his ignorance, because there is absolutely nothing to gain by lowering the memory budget.

Given that compute is often priced proportional to (maximum) memory usage, there is potentially a lot to be gained: dramatically cheaper hosting costs. Of course if your hosting costs are small to be begin with then this likely isn't worthwhile.
There are a lot of good explanations in my link why the current setup is outrageous, including the danger of deanonymization of Tor users by Apple.
Nice write up.

Did you ever figure out what happened in 2016?
I learned to program in Codea since I only had access to an iPad when I was younger. I published my first game on the App Store with it and threw me into the world of Objective-C. I'm really glad to see people are still using it to learn to program.

To this day, I still believe it's one of the best ways to learn to program:

- You're exposed to low-level primitives instead of complicated high-level frameworks (like Unity) that abstract the fun/educational code away.

- The Lua manual is arguably the best programming manual for students learning to program.

- Includes a built-in GLSL shader editor makes advanced graphics programming a small stepping stone.

- They automatically shipped in-depth examples with the app that are intentionally built for learning by reading the code.

- In-app docs encouraged discovering new APIs; I took it as a challenge to use all of the APIs they exposed and learned a lot in the process.

- No package managers, no complicated install steps, no security concerns, and a unified editor.

P.S. If you have an iPad and haven't played Two Lives Left's Crabitron [1] – it's easily the most creative game shipped for iPad.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/se/app/crabitron/id440462182?l=en
> Why do you think the caution is higher? do you have any thoughts on what changed?

In the US, Roe v Wade obviously. In Germany, more and more doctors willing to perform abortions are retiring and less new doctors enter the force [1], leaving pregnant women (or women who think they might get pregnant) pretty much down on their luck.

[1] https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/gesellschaft/unge...
A rocket would not accelerate all parts of the accelerometer equally.
I didn't but I thought of that after reading one paragraph and noticing it was going to take some time to get to the point.
You must’ve just skimmed the conversation.

My point is that an objective observer looking at the world would absolutely recognize that humanity is an exceptional species (not necessarily in a good or bad way) among all that exist on earth in many ways.

The impact we have on the planet is non-negligible. A few fractions of an inch in 500 years (effectively instant on a geological timescale) is indeed meaningful, but not what I’m trying to argue.

> people like you

You know next to nothing about me. Try not to generalize.
In a quick skim, I couldn't actually find the complaint.

The freakonomics guys have been proven wrong before, and update their texts when they can to reflect those things. I'm sure if some contrary evidence were presented to them, they would gladly consider it, and maybe even have this person on their podcast to refute it!
There is a timing factor that you need to consider, too. Anecdotally, Sunday morning is the best time to get onto the front page, while Tuesday or Wednesday morning gets you the most views.
New microsoft.design site
Another commenter pointed out the ambiguity in Japanese phonetics which is very true.

Imo, the biggest efficiency gain from kanji comes from reading. Meaning is grasped instantly because you don’t need to worry about phonetics. Pronunciation follows a general set of rules, such that even when encountering new words you can guess at how they’re pronounced, while grasping meaning at a glance.

To compare it to latin languages, the difference is like going from reading everything out loud to reading silently.
First past the post creates the two party system. The multi party parliamentary systems give far more power to the party leader to the extent that all tweets by liberal party members in Canada have to be approved by the leaders office. So instead of a MP that represents a constituency it ends up with only ~5 leaders that are allowed independent opinions.
Russia Publishes New Crypto Law Expanding State Control over Digital Assets
I'm reading this as I eat last nights leftovers for lunch, so I'm getting a kick...

I'm 6'1", 190lb. I'm not the largest person, but still, I'm struck by how much more food there is than I require. When I read a menu, one thing I look for is "Will this make good leftovers?"

What's really going to outrage people is that prices can't come down significantly as they do this. If they cut portions in half, they'd be able to cut prices by perhaps 10%.
I'm a typical software engineer nerd who uses a MacBook Pro for work.

My last two home computers have been 27" iMacs. Each one has lasted me about 8 years and I've been happy with both of them. Nice big display, good specs, not a lot of clutter. Really good bang for the buck.

At home, I use them for making music (Ableton Live), video production (DaVinci Resolve), photo processing (Photoshop and Lightroom), and programming (various IDEs and editors). I much prefer one good display over a pair of them.

Long-term, maybe it would be more cost effective to get a Mac Mini so that I don't end up paying to replace the display when I replace the machine. But display technology seems to advance about as fast as other hardware specs do, so I suspect I'd want a new monitor at about that rate anyway.

Going forward, though, I probably won't buy another iMac. That's largely because now that I make music with Ableton Live, I want a laptop that I can (aspirationally!) take to shows to play live on.

But for well over a decade, I've been a happy iMac user. I don't care about upgradeability. I buy a machine that has the specs I want when I buy it.
I cannot believe there was a waitlist after this massive marketing campaign.

How long is it taking people to get off the waitlist?
Recent and (coincidentally) related:

The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action (1978) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41947985 - Oct 2024 (7 comments)
Cannot Search for Joe Rogan Trump Interview on YouTube
It's easier to launder money with services than goods anyway because you don't need to dispose of excess merchandise to make the books balance. Like if you want to claim to have sold 10000 cans of soda despite only selling 1000, you need to buy 10000 cans of soda or even the most superficial review of your accounts will reveal the scheme. The ideal laundering mechanism is a service with a high ratio of price to variable cost, like car washes or laundromats, because then it's easier to overstate income without needing to jump through hoops to overstate the matching costs.

These days, it's almost trivial to launder via wash trades with the proliferation of online services with effectively zero marginal costs. e.g., setting up a freelancer account and a separate business account on some platform like Upwork and then hiring yourself. So I'd be surprised to see anyone laundering via sale of goods unless they are deeply incompetent or it's an opportunistic scheme of some sort (i.e., they are exploiting a unique opportunity that pops up).
Similar story, but for the mobile era: I knew an indie app developer who built a portfolio of early mobile apps. His top-earners were a coloring book app, bead animal patterns, and a no-essay college scholarship app. Those three allowed him to pay himself and a partner salary and drop contract/client work.
Memory-augmented Transformers can implement Linear first-Order Optimization
Only as an adult pushing into middle age was I able to recognize just how good my parents, especially my Dad, were at holding us (the kids) to high standards while maintaining psychological safety. He was a college professor and expected us all to excel at school, and yet there was never any sense that he would withhold his love if we failed. No yelling or getting angry. Maybe some disappointment, but accompanied by a plan to help us get back on track. My mom (also an academic) was sometimes more stern, but I never had any doubt that she loved me.

My older siblings modeled their behavior on my parents, and thus I had four supportive older people in my life. It's clear to me now that this environment shaped my priors on psychological safety, such that my default is to feel psychologically safe and it takes quite a lot to shake me from that position.

But that's the thing: psychological safety is not only a property of a particular situation, it is also colored by each individual's priors, so that one person might struggle in a situation where another feels perfectly safe.

It's interesting to consider what are the obligations of a boss or other authority figure to support adults with very low priors for psychological safety in a workplace or some similar adult space? The current trends seem to be to say that everyone must be supported no matter what, but supporting outliers rarely comes without costs. It doesn't make sense for a whole group to become risk averse to avoid triggering one person who comes in with a default "unsafe" prior.
Those numbers are very bad, given that proper phonemic orthographies can give you a 90+% confidence with far fewer rules.

There's a simple and consistent way to compare languages in this way too, too: train a neural net to map spelling to pronunciation on one half of the dictionary, then test it on the other half. The more complicated and less consistent the orthography is, the more mistakes it'll make. People have in fact done this exact experiment, and English scores extremely poorly in it; for spelling, closer to Chinese, in fact, than many other European languages: https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigtyp-1.1/
Non-paywalled link: https://archive.is/J23cD
I have also heard that vending machine locations are highly contested. You can buy the machine, but you are not going to have the pull to deploy it at the airport. Those contracts were signed long ago.
> Amy Edmondson of Harvard, the leading researcher in psychological safety, defines it as the belief that you won't be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. It encourages intelligent risk-taking by reducing interpersonal anxiety.

I've found that many tech workplaces seem to favor _always_ being complimentary over "psychological safety" per the definition above.

For example, there have been too many situations to count where folks don't feel safe enough to speak up if another coworker produces sub-par work.

Toxic positivity seems to destroy psychological safety.
Is there anything that today's youth are doing that isn't in decline? Allegedly, they're drinking less, doing less drugs, having less sex, watching fewer movies, driving less, owning fewer cars, watching sports less often, and so on. Maybe they're playing more games? Or are the youth seemingly doing less overall because the way we are polling them has changed?
I'm also skeptical of people talking on behalf of others in situations like this. I'd like to hear what the migrant workers think
That's... a much less clever sentiment than it thinks.

> No matter what you say, you will look like a fool

That's because the question is nonsense, not because it's about the future. If the question is "What is the most powerful computer that will be built this decade?" it's answerable. No answer will be correct but there are certainly ways to answer that aren't foolish at all.
The issue is not the writing system. Japanese phonetics are extremely simple. There’s nothing you can do about that.
For those interested in hearing more about the criticism behind Freakonomics, there is an If Books Could Kill podcast episode going over it: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wHpooGMRsSBrUHhQZbOZp

I don't agree with all of their criticism but it contains many valid points
The 'super users' who tap AI to get ahead at work
I think one of those cases of ecological/population fallacy "interpretation of statistical data that occurs when inferences about the nature of individuals are deduced from inferences about the group".

There is enough genetic diversity that some individuals can out work their caloric intake (bmr + tdee). You see it all the time in enviroments where high level athletes train. You'll have groups that still need to manage intake to keep weight off, and you'll have groups that can eat everything in sight and still stay lean, or even be forced to go into surplus to maintain.

IMO (bro science) it seems to largely boil down to whatever factors that affect rate at which individuals shit. Most of the naturally skinny people I know, either eat not much, or eat normal amount but shit often. When the normal range of people pooping is 3x per day to 3x per range, it matters how inefficient your body absorbs/wastes the calories you put in. Some people's bowels are natrually bulimic, purges everything all the time and keeps weight down.

Maybe it's not useful to apply to genpop (abs built in kitchen etc), but I don't feel it's a paradox.
“Happiness writes white.”
Show HN: Akas: A Micro-Podcasting App
I am experimenting with a micro-podcasting app, and would love your feedback. The app is ios only and invite only for now, and here is the referral code: BVN55L. Cheers
As you point out, decades ago privacy was a widespread social value among everyone who used the internet. Security through cryptography was also a widespread technical value among everyone (well at least some people) who designed software for the internet.

Over time, because security and cryptography were beneficial to business and government, cryptography got steadily increasing technical investment and attention.

On the other hand, since privacy as a social value does not serve business or government needs, it has been steadily de-emphasized and undermined.

Technical people have coped with the progressive erosion of privacy by pointing to cryptography as a way for individuals to uphold their privacy even in the absence of state-protected rights or a civil society which cares. This is the tradeoff being described.
Popular OSes and browsers have almost entirely come from the US. If people had a choice between IE with weak crypto or Opera with strong crypto they absolutely would have chosen IE.
I'm working on a WebGL-based timeline that covers the entire history of our Universe and let's you zoom in to see more detail. After I finish this 2D version, I plan to create a 3D VR timeline that you can "walk" through, complete with animated dinosaurs, etc. A while back I had started on the VR version using Unity but unfortunately lost all the code when I made a mistake migrating from Google Drive to iCloud :(
https://youtu.be/Jj0tfwX3JVE?si=3WDYUzYjQUnsLU7E
It is completely avoidable, but you're right, there is no indication that anyone is going to do anything about it. We could start to fix the problem by using stratospheric aerosol injection as a stopgap measure and building thousands of nuclear reactors to pull carbon out of the air. But that's not the solution environmentalists want, which is one of personal sacrifice and moral cleansing, so here we are. My guess is we'll face some climate catastrophe like the fictional heat wave in The Ministry for the Future, and then start actually doing something about it.

The good news is carbon emissions have already decoupled from economic growth, solar and wind are growing exponentially, transportation is being electrified etc. At the same time, technological progress is only accelerating with AI, so our capabilities as a species will be quite amazing in the coming 50-100 years. We can and will fix this.
Certainly, and that is my point? Throwing out query planners feels like the wrong thing to consider. Instead, focus on keeping the things being planned smaller.
My son loves collecting pokemon cards and trading with his friends at school.

We talked a lot about Pokemon on Friday and it got me into a nostalgic mood...

Side Note: Pokemon has done a great job staying relevant for 3 decades.

So... I made a python script with gpt-vision where he can manage his collection and uncover the value of each one. He just snaps a photo and boop, there's the returned valuation. He's now got his whole collection documented and appraised. :)

Most importantly, we had a lot of fun spending time with each other on this.
Hmm was this for very experienced pilots?

For newer pilots going through training, it seems like the baseline should move progressively higher with training, and so you’d want good data to know what kind of feedback accelerates that baseline improvement.

For experienced pilots who’ve sort of maxed out their inherent talent/capability, it would make sense to me that over and under performance would be somewhat random.

Anecdotally, I’ve never found feedback to be a one size fits all kind of thing. Everyone responds differently and needs something a little different from you.
Show HN: GitHub Repo Converter – Transform Any Repo into LLM-Optimized Format
I built this tool to bridge the gap between GitHub repositories and Large Language Models (LLMs).

Key Features:

* Convert any public GitHub repo into formats optimized for LLMs (especially Claude)
* Smart file filtering with customizable glob patterns
* Multiple output formats:
- Markdown with syntax highlighting
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- Support for line numbers and file paths

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* Intelligent default patterns for common code files
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* Custom include/exclude patterns with glob support
* Handles nested directories and large repos

Useful for:

* Training custom AI models on your codebase
* Getting better code analysis from LLMs
* Batch processing repositories for documentation
* Code review and analysis automation
* Migration and transformation projects
I could do my work on one, but yeah, the screen size would be annoying long term. The sad part is that it's the exact form factor my dad wants. It's absolutely perfect for his needs, except it's wildly overpowered and overpriced.

The 4K monitor is going to push up the price, and I'm all for giving everyone a high quality monitor, but I'd argue that the iMac is 30-40% over budget for those who'd like that type of computer. I think you could get away with having it be a $1000 computer, but not $1600, for the lowest spec'ed model.
The company Twitter was a mess before acquisition and is a mess after Trump bought it.

It's essentially a ring where rich and famous people try and dunk on each other but turns out advertisers don't like this sort of thing because maybe it's too inflammatory or the dunking distracts people from the potential product being advertised nearby.

The only thing that his purchase caused was that Musk became a sort of Dana White of the Internet, or Vince McMahon rather.
the issue with online kids isn't just the availability of the internet to kids but the availability of the kids to the internet
ChatGPT says: "The speaker wonders if others use ChatGPT to get summaries of
lengthy texts to determine if they're worth reading."

Nope, just you bucko.
Yeah, I've been using these on multiple Macs for a decade now and it's just not an issue.

If I get the warning the mouse is getting low on charge I just plug it in, go grab a drink or use the bathroom, and by the time I get back it's good for the rest of the day.

Then all I have to do is remember to plug it in overnight and it'll be good for months. YMMV.
Can anyone suggest a good [1] title that is more specific? I've taken a crack at it above but it seems lame.

A specific title is important because otherwise specific discussion (i.e. about what's different in this article) is preferable to generic discussion. We get plenty of the latter in any case, but it's best if it doesn't dominate the thread.

[1] in this context 'good' := accurate, neutral, and preferably using representative language from the article
India Is Building an Open-Source Cloud Computing Effort
>These days, it's almost trivial to launder via wash trades with the proliferation of online services with effectively zero marginal costs.

like an MS Paint drawing of a monkey, but on the blockchain.
Was very tempted too, but preempted that by evaluating that the effort of opening an extra browser tab -> navigation -> model selection (select 01-mini probably) -> then back/forth copy- paste, was mitigated by a very quick skim read/jump to the end.
Rent for 4€, buy digital for 7€ or buy a hard copy for 8-10€. The decision is obvious.
Apple iPhone 16 sales blocked in Indonesia due to local parts rule
nice, thanks for the link!
Linguists often use terms like "isolect" these days just to dodge this whole debate and the associated (often very toxic) politics. Not just with Chinese - it's also an issue around e.g. Serbo-Croatian.
Japanese doesn't have tones, it has pitch accent, and pitch accent applies to words, not phonemes. You would have to invent a system where pitch accent could be indicated for each word. The difference between 橋 (bridge) and 箸 (chopsticks).. the pitch accent is slightly different. But written the same in Hiragana: はし So there would have to be something (wavy line above the text?) to indicate pitch accent. Not sure how that should be done. And then there are the words with little or no pitch accent difference, only context.. in kanji they're different, would be the same in hiragana, so how do you encode that.. compromises would have to be made. I'm sure people have tried to come up with something, somewhere. Maybe.

But then again.. it's that other problem: Reading when there's kanji is much faster. Even for beginners. If you don't understand a word in kanji then it doesn't work, but as soon as you understand it it's way easier and faster to read.
It's so nice to see others asking the right questions.

We can't feel gravity's pull in free-fall because it pulls on all of our accelerometers' atoms in the same way at the same time and with the same force and in the same direction. (Assuming the accelerometer is small enough to not be able to sense the tiny changes in the gravitational field due to the field being spherical and the inverse square law.)
> That's the language of the bully

It is a mirror of the language used by the US who claims that anything happening in the other side of the world is a national security threat. So, even if it is deceiving language, it is justified by how the world currently works.
"Pick two"?
In Māori there is the concept of mana. It’s like your status, honor, dignity and authority. You can get it through action, ancestors, lucky experience (being blessed by the supernatural). I’m not Māori so can’t claim full understanding but it’s like a social ranking system covering birthright, merit, fame all in one.
I'm gonna steer clear of games that use ASCII graphics as that'd be too many games to think about. With that out of the way: Toby's Nose, A Dark Room, Kerkerkruip
> For the average person's setup the current model only needs a power cable.

Even if you use wireless input devices you'll need to charge them occasionally
I would assume it's the Chimerica(TM) Axis of Interdependent Economic Evil. Supply meets demand. Other countries get a scattershot assortment.
Ponzi schemes are illegal. MLMs are legalized Ponzi schemes. The outcomes are similar but one has a veneer of legitimacy that makes it more dangerous for some people.