skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes that does happen.

Apple historically tends to look for shipping results, and the underlying software and services (such as using DarkSky's algorithms and server code as starting points) are often worth it over just putting offers out to key people.

This obviously isn't always true; they do have some longer-term research projects and strategic initiatives we've seen leak out (cars and non-invasive blood glucose monitoring are common mentioned ones), but I think Apple generally would prefer to let others succeed or fail in the research.

There's nothing _to_ Pixelmator IMHO other than the product. Apple knows how to do sepia tone filters already.
The problem is, no executive can (responsibly) say that. What if macro conditions worsen? Some kind of black swan event? I don't think it's appropriate to say "we're definitely not doing layoffs soon." Not to mention, people will quibble about what they mean by soon and start asking for timelines.

It's a lose-lose situation to be up on stage and get asked this question, and I think it shows a bit of immaturity or naiveté to pose it.
I've heard the people behind Mastering Diabetes [1] talk about diabetes in general. The authors of the book are diabetics with advanced degrees they put into this topic.

I've known diabetics who changed their diet and no longer had type 2 diabetes after awhile. They did this from a medical program designed to treat it.

This was fascinating to learn about ways of handling diabetes that was more than drugs.

[1] https://www.masteringdiabetes.org/book/
Sure. I was necessarily speaking in generalities. There are always exceptions.
300 people / 17 spaces = 17 2/3

If I recall, the 1950's record for stuffing people into a phone booth is about 22.
This is the type of thing that a public review/reputation system tends to flesh out. But, we have seen this fail over and over as the system gets gamed or abused. Any industry where consumers buy less frequently than once every few months, these systems are awful. Different people have different situations and it might take a long time before someone even realizes they’ve been ripped off.
I got both when they were very cheap, and I stuck with Pixelmator. It felt best for me. But ... I'm a casual user. No clever or subtle edits.
We saw the benefit of moving online in academic conferences too. Often faculty from even developed countries do not have budgets to travel for conferences. For example, one professor from Italy told me that he had a travel budget of €400 per year. That would not even pay his conference registration for most conferences.

The visa issue mentioned in the article is also quite real. Although the US visa is more difficult to get, it is usually for five to ten years for the citizens of most countries. In contrast, most European countries will issue Schengen visas for the duration of the conference! Online conferences avoid all these issues.
That's a little too sci-fi for me but I am sure many youngsters with higher risk tolerance would be happy to pay a subscription fee for more streamlined nutrition delivery systems.
That’s where we are in America.

> Like, doing things like this seems like a very good way to stoke national outrage and be forced to legalise it.

That is absolutely happened. As soon as Roe v. Wade was overturned this stuff went on a lot of ballots and in every case the restrictions lost.

There are going to be a bunch of laws about it voted on in the election next Tuesday, as well as it being a very important thing in candidate races. We’ll see how it goes.

The right has pushed this for decades, it was a popular issue for them. As soon as they finally got their way it appears to have backfired big time and galvanized a ton of people against them.
Yes, it's just controversial topics. And yes, you're missing the cultural context. Which probably isn't worth your while learning about.
Yeah, Apple Weather is not even accurate 95% of the time in north eastern Toronto 1 hour ahead…

And sometimes it’s bizarrely off, like saying the UV index is 1 on a cloudless June afternoon. There’s no sanity checking to speak off.
I admit I don't use Notepad++ to actually write anything -- I use it view large files, do complex search & replace, regex, reformat files, data manipulation, etc.

I probably use it a couple of times a week but never to write. I don't even consider it in competition with tools like VS Code, etc.
Are you the same beej that made those network programming eBooks from forever ago? If so, thank you very much for those!
I used GIMP for years and years before Pixelmator came around, and the first time I tried Pixelmator was the last time I used GIMP.

As others here mentioned, Krita is also much nicer. If Pixelmator didn't exist it's probably what I'd use instead.
I think I got a little confused by the language here, my mistake
Surprisingly, Nintendo has a long history of copyright-striking videos of folks playing their games.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/16/nintendo-enforces-co...
I can answer that in part: they have developed followings that cannot be instantly recreated elsewhere. Social media is a huge part of their business model.

No, it's not a good idea to have your business model depend on somebody else, but many would simply have failed to get going without it. They put enormous effort into collecting followers.

I know people who absolutely detest being on Twitter but their livelihood depends on it. Usually, these are small concerns, without significant advertising resources. They developed their followers by building up relationships over years, and can't afford to do that again.
You can now try Microsoft's more modern Windows Hello UI
How can an economy function if there is no way to get any value from producing anything?

Google (and Facebook, a few other platforms) made it so that the vast majority of websites are never visited. ChatGPT further erodes the possibility of tying economic value to the production of that value.

Seems like we need a new framework around "intellectual property"
> I did look for something a bit more cross platform to replace it

vim. ;) While yes, it has quite a learning curve, the payout IMO is ultimately worth it.

But Notepad++ will always have a place in my heart; it was what I used for a long time back when I was also still using Windows, and it's a solid editor, and leagues better than NOTEPAD.EXE. Especially 21 years ago, the landscape was much different. "DevC++" I think was the other editor I had that was competing with it.
Fellow R / Polars user here. How (in what applications) do you use DuckDB?
I guess if you consider knowing what color the pixels were in the last frame "state". That's not a definition anyone would use though. Spinning around and have the world continuously regenerate or looking at the sky and back down regenerating randomly is the opposite of state. It's complete incoherence.
> XML is a much maligned and poorly understood technology. It lacks glossy pitch pages and hypemen like react.

The negative feelings about XML are not due to the lack of glossy pitch pages and hypemen pushing XML and XML-based technologies; they developed whole XML had those far more than React ever has.

Some people may be too young to remember that, but...
Ugh. Yeah going to a dentist is very similar to the average person going to a car mechanic. You just have no good way to self-verify what they are telling you is true. Its one of the ultimate "normal" professions where people with no moral compass can majorly abuse their customers/patients to make a ton of money
A parallel that was not mentioned has to do with intellectual property. In the 19th century the US did not respect foreign copyrights or patents; smuggled British machinery was cloned to produce the American industrial revolution, and Charles Dickens was the most popular author in the US but he didn't get a dime from American publishers, who could just take and print his works.

Likewise the Chinese often ignore foreign copyrights and patents, though not as much as the US did back then.
For posterity:

> 4.8 star / 10.5M reviews

> 500M+ Downloads

> No data shared with third parties
Yep! Which is why a key point for our next models is to get to a state that you can "code" a new world using "prompting". I agree that these tools become insanely useful only once there is a very good way for creators to "develop" new worlds/games on top of these systems and then users could interact with those worlds.

At the end of the day, it should provide the same "API" as a game engine does: creators develop worlds, users interact with those worlds. The nice thing is that if AI can actually fill this role, then it would be:
1. Potentially much easier to create worlds/games (you could just "talk" to the AI -- "add a flying pink elephant here")
2. Users could interact with a world that could change to fit each game session -- this is truly infinite worlds

Last point: are we there yet? Ofc not! Oasis v1 is a first POC. Wait just a bit more for v2 ;)
Probably if the pods had a solid door, then each pod would be considered a room under San Francisco’s interpretation of the fire code and would require a separate fire sprinkler, like the WeWork phone booths https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/01/san-francisco-office-phone...
Pods as a hotel concept seems like a “unique travel experience” where as pods as a living condition seems more like a city “code smell”

They actually have these type of “pods” at regular hostels in SF. I stayed in one for a couple of weeks once when I was new to the city. The noise, especially people coming in late, the germs (I got sick during my stay), and the lack of privacy is pretty bad. I can’t imagine living in one long term and I’m lucky I don’t have to, but if it’s your only choice (or you’re supremely cheap) then I guess it’s better than the streets.

Now if you double the price, exclude all the poor people, and call it a “cool invite-only hacker house”, that’s an entirely different thing!
Nobody is thinking of the original Star Trek?
Good idea to update the radio targets along with the wrapping. Also, I didn’t know `insert-pair` exists, could have saved me some typing. :)
This could be revolutionary. The PPL/compute graphs are damning. If the Transformer is a function, then the TokenFormer feels like a higher-order function. Perhaps this approach is a natural direction for producing System Two reasoning? There's so much to digest here...
"unicode codepoint sequences whose codepoint lengths and/or utf8-code-unit-lengths behave oddly when you change their case" would not fit in a HN title, however
Tech revenue is still in an all time high so no reccession there
Drupal makes me cry. And as other folk here have said, just stick ghost on your own host. I have a dev version running on a raspberry pi on my desk so that I can test ideas locally. Obviously I could have done that on my mac, but I just wanted to see what would happen and it's fine. You could probably run a live site off it no problem, so long as it wasn't heavily trafficked.
Apple did do that when they were building an electric car: https://www.reuters.com/article/business/apple-s-auto-ambiti...
You could fine-tune the embedding model to reduce cosine distance on a more specific function.
Apple Weather is still missing some of the data that Dark Sky exposed, like cloud coverage percentage and other niche info. I also find the UX a little worse, as I like more data at a glance. But you can tell they're using the Dark Sky backend, as it has the same bugs that Dark Sky had, like slowing loading map tiles which sometimes fail altogether. And there was the time they accidentally reenabled the Dark Sky API after an Apple backend deployment. :D
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I think the number of things that are impossible is far greater than the number of things that are possible, even in an infinite universe.
Construction in SF has been essentially zero for decades and remains that way. Last year the city completed only 2600 homes, the lowest total for any of the past 7 years. At no time in the past 50 years has SF created even half as much housing as Austin or Seattle.

Editing to add: If you vote in SF and this bothers you, vote against every incumbent who caused this.
To be fair, it’s just warranty data. It’s always existed. All you have to do is buy something to know it comes with a warranty card. So they could’ve figured it out it was there.

However the fact that they can now get it without having to sue for warranty information is certainly a new twist.

Of course they’d have to get it from a lobbying group, which wouldn’t exactly go over terribly well either.
> What it means is that barring a significant breakthrough, cheap ChatGPT-like services are simply unsustainable.

This is the basic premise of Ed Zitron's article https://www.wheresyoured.at/to-serve-altman/ and others written around the same time. A lot of what he's written seems to be coming to pass, e.g. unfathomably large investments (~$100 billion) by tech giants in OpenAI and other AI startups to keep them going. That does seem unsustainable.

Can anyone make a counterpoint to this claim? I'd be very interested to hear what a viable path to profitability looks like for OpenAI.
Was it this one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37022911 - I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)
> Why not just make everyone working there an incredible offer at the same time?

Under civil law this is regarded as tortious interference. Businesses have a contract with their employees and if you interfere with it to harm the employer then you are liable for damages.

If you tried to make a mass offer like this, the employer could likely get a judge to place an injunction against it immediately.

If they don’t notice until further down the line, watch out: damages are unlimited. They can extend to a judge breaking up your new business unit and handing it back to the original employer or rewarding damages of the entire lifetime value of the business unit.

That’s why you never see companies do this :)
I see very little of this, and I believe it's because Google's service (Pixel phone on Google Fi) is filtering them. I see messages every day about calls and texts being blocked as spam. Some are undoubtedly regular spam, but I see it much more recently, and I bet it will decline rapidly next week.

Yeah, I know that I'm selling my soul to Google to be so deeply embedded in their ecosystem. But there are definitely perks.
Trust me - if you had type 1 diabetes, you wouldn't appreciate such logic.
Ask if they have a cash rate for extra cleanings past insurance.

Many doctors, not just dentists, will do this. Usually about 1/3-1/2 the rate.
I think you mean "mathematical sense" as proofs are deductive implications (apriori). Science, an abductive and empirical practice (posteriori) does not have proofs either.
That will really fix their issues :)

How about dismantling the Board of Directors who allowed Boeing to get to this place by chasing short term profits and Wall Street ?
You forgot curtains for some privacy, then that would be perfect
The work is impressive, but I wish Google wouldn't try so hard to claim to be the world first at everything. This claim feels extremely unprincipled:

> We believe this is the first public example of an AI agent finding a previously unknown exploitable memory-safety issue in widely used real-world software. Earlier this year at the DARPA AIxCC event, Team Atlanta discovered a null-pointer dereference in SQLite, which inspired us to use it for our testing to see if we could find a more serious vulnerability.

Every word in "public example of an AI agent finding a previously unknown exploitable memory-safety issue in widely used real-world software" applies to the Team Atlanta finding that they are citing too, and the Team Atlanta finding was against an actual release version of SQLite instead of a prerelease. If either team has provided the first example of this convoluted sentence, it is Team Atlanta, not Google.

It is possible that they're arguing that the Team Atlanta finding wasn't "exploitable", but this is very debatable. We use CVSS to rate vulnerability impact, and CVSS defines Availability (crashing) as an equal member of the [Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability] triad. Being able to crash a system constitutes an exploitable vulnerability in that system. This is surely especially true for SQLite, which is one of the most mission-critical production software systems in the entire world.

But if we're going to act like we're being very precise about what "exploitable" means, we should conclude that neither of these are exploitable vulnerabilities. To exploit them, you have to provide malicious SQL queries to SQLite. Who does that? Attackers don't provide SQL queries to SQLite systems -- the developers do. If an attacker could provide arbitrary SQL queries, they can probably already exploit that SQLite system, through something like an arbitrary file content write to an arbitrary local filename into RCE. I don't think either group found an exploitable vulnerability.
Fully agree.

It's even stranger (to me) that they picked an existing protocol's name, given that they never even define "RTP" in their paper.

If it's just arbitrary letters, might as well avoid the collision. If it isn't arbitrary letters, please, if you're describing the protocol, you should start by describing the damn acronym.
Disagree with that; the administrative city district outside the major ring road extends to the south west and has a huge amount of undeveloped land.

Maybe its because tiny apartments are often marketed as “affordable,” but the phenomenon can contribute to gentrification? Apparently when developers prioritize small units to maximize profit per square meter, housing becomes less accessible to larger families or lower-income residents, changing the socio-economic profile of neighborhoods. Larger apartments could potentially promote more diverse occupancy types, attracting families and potentially keeping communities more balanced. Dunno.
Systemwide security flaw has been hiding in macOS for 2 decades
In order to enter e.g. the Newport-Bermuda race you need a minimum stability rating of 115. IIRC Bayesian's angle of vanishing stability was 75° keel up, and the vents started taking on dangerous amounts of water at 45°. That's not a boat I'd ever feel safe on! The skiing analogy would be like every single run is maximum consequence.

Source (found in a cousin comment which now I can't find): https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/08/27/former-bayesia...
6. Orthodontists often put braces on young children, as early as age 6-8, even though in many other countries (like Korea), the average age is around 18. I’ve read stories of people who regret early braces, particularly when the wrong teeth were extracted.

This happened to me and caused me all sorts of jaw problems later in adulthood.
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> By clicking the Submit button you automatically accept our policies. Please take a momento to read them.

You can make it easier for your users to read the policies if "policies" is a link to your policies. Also, I think you mean "moment to" instead of "momento."
Value is in the eye of the beholder. If the hotel charged less for pods compared to standard rooms, I'm sure many people would pay "premium."
As a T1D, I strongly disagree. The confusion of the “types” profoundly impacts public opinion, which is significant downstream (funding, employment bias, etc.).

Good journalism is hard.
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A study of private equity and dental practices: "Percentage Of Dentists And Dental Practices Affiliated With Private Equity Nearly Doubled, 2015-21" - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39102603/

The abstract: "Over the course of the past twenty years, private equity (PE) has played a role in acquiring medical practices, hospitals, and nursing homes. More recently, PE has taken a greater interest in acquiring dental practices, but few data exist about the scope of PE activity within dentistry. We analyzed dentist provider data for the period 2015-21 to examine trends in PE acquisition of dental practices. The percentage of dentists affiliated with PE increased from 6.6 percent in 2015 to 12.8 percent in 2021. During this period, PE affiliation increased particularly among larger dental practices and among dental specialists such as endodontists, oral surgeons, and pediatric dentists. PE-affiliated dental practices were more likely to participate in Medicaid than practices not affiliated with PE. Future research should investigate whether PE's role in dentistry affects the affordability and quality of dental services."

The original article is paywalled - only the abstract is available - so here's an article which summarizes it: https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2024/august/private-equity-...

And sort of related to get an idea of the money involved: "Selling up for millions: Equity arbitrage increasing wealth of US dentists, but not for long" - https://www.dental-tribune.com/news/selling-up-for-millions-...

Is it generally true that a dental practice that is a franchise is private-equity backed? The original article mentions Aspen Dental. If I wanted to know about (say) SmileBuilderz, how could I find out?
> Apologies for the long response.

No need to apologize for that. But I think you have a sign inversion error here:

> In that context, his arguments are trying to identify any body as one among millions

I presume you meant "his arguments are NOT trying to identify..."?
I’ve always been trying to reframe that marshmallow experiment as “the kid who wanted fewer marshmallows or none at all became a skinny adult”
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Well… it’s not uniform.

Take today, Nov 1st 2024, solar noon is at the following times in the State in these locations:

1pm, Crescent City: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/@11788520

12:53pm, San Francisco: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/usa/san-francisco

12:36pm, Los Angeles: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/usa/los-angeles

12:32pm, San Diego: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/usa/san-diego

It’s tempting to want to put stock in solar noon as the the thing the day should be aligned around, but honestly it’s probably overrated. Personally, I much prefer daylight savings time over standard time if I had to pick only one.
That's astonishing. The best I've ever heard? No. Completely freaking serviceable, especially for a demo? Oh yeah.
Bitters take away the sweet tooth, such as grapefruit (especially organic), bitter tea or natural bitter drops. Eat a grapefruit after dinner and you cravings should be severely limited.