skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of penguins starting fires.

Recently I learned about cats starting fires. Cat arsonists leap up onto kitchen counter tops and walk across the glass hob with touch buttons to turn the hob on. A chip pan fire then ensues.

Because of the rise in fires cause by cat arsonists, the British fire services now carry oxygen masks for cats. Since there is a reasonable chance that a house fire is caused by a cat arsonist, it only makes sense to take the cat-sized oxygen mask. They don't want the culprits deceased if they are to interrogate them.

There are two grains of truth in the above tall tale, the fire service do carry oxygen masks for cats and cats do start fires from walking on hob buttons. Put together it sounds ludicrously credible, verging on urban myth.

I now need to work on 'penguin arsonists' to combine with the fact that there is an Antarctic fire service.
Humans are fundamentally not that different from other animals really. Any emotion you have, they have. It's a Victorian era misconception that humans are somehow a unique species with all these wonderful properties and animals are dumb.
> a big standard library

Not really, no. It doesn't even contain wrappers for the most common system calls.
That version (and Pieter's) lacks Reversi, you have to chose Windows 3.0 to get it.

I can't believe how poorly it plays at "Master" setting now that i know some strategy.
I think desktop(and phone) icons are a fundamentally flawed ui design in the first place. something about having your stuff semi randomly spewed across two dimensions makes me feel we are not using our computers correctly. I think we should be doing better than emulating the bucket of legos user interface model.

Give me a one dimensional list, or table I can sort, search and actually find things in.

No, I am not much fun at parties, why do you ask?
So you're saying your health is not your number 1 priority? Interesting that you think everyone else is paying lip service to this basic way to take care of your body.
Open source projects draw equity-free funding from corporates, startups, and VCs
Tell them you didn't receive macbook and get second one for free.
We Don't Run Tests on a Continuous Integration Server
You may or may not be familiar with some of the use cases here in Australia. 3G coverage was more widespread and reliable for low bandwidth use cases, right up until the end. It was 4G that would have partial coverage, not 3G. 3G was often forced by IoT vendors, or routers using cellular for out of band management, due to its superior ability to penetrate through buildings. Same with ATMs, payment terminals, emergency telephones in lifts or out on the highways. People in regional areas would also force set their phones to 3G, to stop them flapping between a poor signal 4G network and the consistent, but slower, 3G network.

Many DAS/Distributed Antenna Systems, essentially networks of antennas placed inisde buildings to extend cellular coverage indoors, are costly and must be approved on a per-operator basis. Some of the DAS solutions requirements I've seen to provide full coverage for Optus, Telstra and Vodafone in 4G only in a 30 story building or medium sized mall, wanted 18 full racks, 100 amp 3 phase power connectivity, 15kw minimum redudancy cooling capacity, 8 hours of battery backup for all racks and cooling, all located in the centre of the facility to minmize cable runs. As a result, high quality DAS systems don't exist in every large building or campus environment. Even in 2024, we see buildings nearing the end of construction before the developer bothers to consider an appropriate DAS system, and at that point they balk at the space and location requirements, and refuse to understand why a DAS can't just be installed in 4RU in a crammed comms room thats the size of a domestic bathroom.
Delivery drivers in the UK regularly do this. They get to 11am, realise they won’t meet the delivery slots for the afternoon deliveries, so bulk mark everything as delivered and sign themselves, then take their time and deliver after the slot later that day.

This is illegal. Signatures are legally protected in the UK (and elsewhere I’m sure) and forging a signature is a crime. I got like 3 Hello Fresh deliveries in a row when I complained of their repeated forgeries before I cancelled.
Mattel apologises after Wicked movie dolls link to porn site on packaging
OK, i don't associate old Windows PC with "applications taking 0 seconds to load". In fact, usually the disk drive would spring into action and it would take much longer than nowadays to load a 300kb application.
We're increasingly aware today of how the media operates cycles of self-referential and self-justifying citations: a TV show will quote an article that reports "some people" taking an issue, which ends up being a quote from someone interviewed for another newspaper article.. and so on. This "legitimacy laundering" is rampant, and we're now getting towards media literacy levels which expose it for many people.

However, most concerning: this is how academia has always worked. It's the great absurdity of peer review, and of citation. This is how entire fields can sustain themselves with little or no scientific validity (esp. see, psychometrics).

We are no where near the equivalent "academic literacy" for generally informed members of the public to understand this problem. Entire fields can be sustained with zero "empirical pressure" to close down. So long as one can cite another who can cite another... and somewhere some government body will take these citations as prima facie evidence of a research programme, then funding will be given and more papers published.
No, it's not right!

And I agree with you!

I truly don't understand why this is contentious.
Normally you'd think that, but in my experience Apple users will excuse any amount of poor behaviour by the company.
> classic French omelet (raw egg in the middle)

Are you referring the omelette baveuse (drooling)? They’re not supposed to be totally raw, you just stop the cooking a bit earlier, maybe 10 seconds before a normal omelette. Don’t add raw eggs at the end.

I’m not a cook but that’s my local experience in restaurants and my kitchen during three decades. Perhaps a regional recipe?
And then there's Greek.
They need to increase the revenue (=> new sales) and decrease the costs (=> Uber delivery) so that shareholders are happy...
I agree the answer is not more process. But the answer is also not “no process, let engineers get on with it”.

We need different processes. We need much better managers. We need to plan, but in ways that are specific to the risks of software development. It means more work, but not, perhaps more meetings.
Isn't it a reasonable reaction, whenever you see a new (to you) product, to ask how it compares to others?
I’m not from the UK, but my windows open outwards. What kind of weird places have windows that open in any alternative way??
Chargebacks in Canada are more often decided in favour of the merchant instead of the consumer, as I've found out the hard way.

By the way, good luck with arbitration, courts, or the police in Canada. They can't even stop brazen car thefts, even if you track down your vehicle and are able to locate it at a rail yard [1]. 28,550 vehicles were stolen in Canada in the first half of 2024. Even rape cases and murder are being dismissed because courts don't have the resources [2]. The legal system is collapsing in that country. I say that as a Canadian who recently left the country for good.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto-man-finds-stolen-truc...

[2] https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/we-have-no-judge-for-you-man-s-as...
PS. I submitted GNAP RFC separately: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42105487
Lgtm; A NN is literally a probability distribution producer.
Unless you are writing a book nobody cares. Even if you have a beautifully written blog post, people will forget about it the day after, or next week or next month. They won't remember any details. Just don't make any jarring mistakes like grammar or abrupt jumps.

Even if you intend to write a book, you should just treat your blog as a bunch of notes.
I can't understand how Apple can possibly get away with this. Is there any chance for them to win if the case were brought to court?

One year ago, I had to contact Apple support because the FindMy feature wouldn't work on my Airpods Pro, which still were under warranty. It looked like they were already associated with another account, which wasn't mine. That made no sense as I bought them myself at the Apple store and only have a single iCloud account.

I went to the store and they acknowledged the issue, and immediately got a replacement which turned out to have the exact same issue. I then had to spend hours on the phone with their customer support. After trying everything without success, the person on the phone told me I'd get a call back in one week to either issue a refund or find a different solution.

That phone call never came. All my following messages to that person were ignored. I finally gave up, but found out I was far from being the only one they had ghosted like that. Reading these stories reinforces my belief that Apple is terrible in terms of accountability when something goes wrong.
> Why is this? Is it worldwide?

It's part of the different mobile phone standards. Emergency calls get location information with them (AML), can be sent on other networks and without SIM card, they can be dialed on international short codes (eg: you can dial 112 in the US and 999 in the EU and it will connect regardless). There are many more differences.
https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2011-12-28-Lockheed-Martin-W...
I’m about to buy a Mac and it will be in the physical store, but for a different reason. In Switzerland if you buy online, you cannot make a return in store. Got a DoA Mac last November. Four people spent a total double digit number of hours on the phone with Apple, who were incompetent to the point it looked like malice. E.g. after taking about half an hour of my time, the lady decided my claim is legit, but she cannot process it because she’s in the wrong country(I called the Swiss number, they never told me they’re transferring the call abroad). But she’ll transfer me to someone who can just press a button now… After a couple minutes of music the same lady picks up, tells me she cannot find Switzerland in the list of countries, so I need to hang up and start from the scratch. In the end got my money back, but it was processed only in the February cycle.
ironically, im glad this post wasn't about that. that would've been too typical of HN imo. why talk about metadata when you can just enjoy the data itself??
20-30 minutes is a bit much, but I think getting up every 45 minutes (get a glass of water/cup of tea, go to the bathroom, look out of the window) is reasonable.
You're the zealot he was complaining about.
> If I did that I’d be had up for fraud.

You wouldn’t be. That is hyperbolic. This happened like a week ago. The police is investigating a crime. These things take time to be resolved.

It is sad that it happened and it could have been handled better by Apple but the poster whose laptops were not delivered should take several deep breaths, accept that this will take time and politely but insistently apply the tools at their disposal for a resolution.
Ethernet deals with frames, not packets.

Packets are an IP concept :)
Just think about the human batteries in the matrix movie. Anyone who heard that thought the machines were using human brains as biocomputers, but no, they actually insist on the battery explanation.
Why Jaywalking Is Called Jaywalking
> I live in the US and have never heard of a phone that uses a different technology for emergency calls vs. normal calls. Why is this? Is it worldwide?

In the GSM (2G) standard, and all of its successors, emergency calls are treated as a special case.

Your phone does not simply place a regular call to 911 or other local emergency number.

The pgone instead goes into a special mode where it can connect to any available carrier network to place the emergency call.

It seems to be the case that some older phones didn't support placing an emergency call over VoLTE, so they just fell back to using 2G/3G when that was still available.
And UPS is probalby to blame for that. AFAIK most delivery companies nowadays work their shifts with delivery quotas. I.e. the courier needs to deliver everything on the truck (which is typically more than you could deliver in a time-based shift) before calling it a day.
Essentially, courier companies have found out that rather than scaling their workforce to the deliveries workload, it is more profitable to squeeze out a fixed number of employees to save wages, and occasionally apologize for the mixups caused by this situation.
Similair stories with UPS in Czech republic. I stopped ordering from any site (including apple.com) that only uses UPS.
The message is not addressed to Hezbollah, it is addressed to the citizens of Lebanon. It is a threat against the civilians in an entire country: Israel is going to kill you the way we are killing the people of Gaza, unless you yourselves take some steps to distance yourselves from them.

Imagine what outcry there would be if Iran came out and said the same thing, warning the civilians of Israel to distance themselves from the IDF, lest they become collateral damage.
The Torvalds Zombie Shuffling Desk does seem like it could be a hit.
Somwthing that stands out was a cheapest of the cheap $5 new stroller. It is not good enough to be the main pram. It is not quality enough for a young baby. But for 1-3 yo it is perfect for travel. So light! And beach trips where there is enough parafenalia to bring as it is.
Do you know Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders [0]? A Lucas Games video game published in 1988 on C64 and several other platforms.

Puzzles were very difficult at that time in games, possibly intentionally because Lucas Games was selling hint books.

Throughout the whole game you take planes to fly from one location to another, and this eventually depletes your credit card.

At some point you have so little money that the only plane ticket you can afford is a rusty world-war-era biplane that will fly you to some destination through the famous Bermuda Triangle [1]. It's the only option you have so you will eventually take it. But why that? Because when in flight, a tractor beam pulls you up and you find yourself, the biplane and the pilot in an alien space ship, which is how the game justifies the myth of the Bermuda Triangle.

Now if I remember correctly, you will be stuck there and will have to reload a saved game, unless you have a guitar with you. In fact, in the space ship you meet the alien captain who is wearing the classic white Elvis dress. If you earlier purchased a guitar in the shop close to your apartment and now give the guitar as a gift to the alien captain, you will then become friends, and the alien captain will allow you to leave the spaceship with the biplane. Even more, on the ship there is a machine named "lotto-o-matic" or similar, that will predict lotto numbers. So you have to use the machine and collect the receipt. Back to USA, you can use those lotto numbers and win an incredible amount of money that will allow you to take all the planes you need for the remaining of the game.

I remember this particular puzzle as I was stuck for weeks in this limbo without money trying countless useless solutions. I leave in Italy those hint books did not exist and there was no internet. Luckily at some point a local game magazine (Zzap! [2]) answered a letter from another gamer who was asking for a clue.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zak_McKracken_and_the_Alien_Mi...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzap!64
My view is that LLM performance looks like bursts of improvement as breakthroughs happen, with lots of much smaller incremental improvements along the way.

What OpenAI were hoping for was AI stepping in to provide the breakthroughs. But for now it'll have to assist with incremental improvements only.

There's probably 50% disappointment from the AI optimists and 50% relief from the pessimists.
FWIW that is not a Pixel-specific issue. I encountered this on other cameras (IIRC Olympus and GoPro) as well. It's maddening.

The issue stems from the fact that images are written with proper EXIF time and timezone metadata while videos from the same camera might only store a timestamp field. Whether that's local time, UTC, or something else depends on the camera and how you configured it.
Very interesting, so it's the US without access to the cutting edge technology now? From official US standpoint, Taiwan is China therefore in a sense China is cutting US off. Well of course the reality is more intricate, probably this is just Taiwan playing its hands to secure US guarantees but if China ends up taking Taiwan the end result will be the same.

We live in really interesting times. Hope this CHIP act stuff and the re-industrialization of US works out.
Sophisticated is a synonym of advanced.

In elephant point of view, hose and shower are definitely sophisticated (=advanced) tools. While they may experience it regularly, they usually dont operate them. Like humans with airplanes.
Biggest downside of this tool is inability to render PDF or ePub[1]. This is why we recently switched to Quarto[2]. Typst is also a good alternative, already mentioned in other comments.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/815

[2] https://quarto.org/
It is a frustrating situation.

I don't know exactly, but I think they prioritised the release of the LTE standard for data networks, and thought that voice could be sorted later.
I always found the 'sea of icons' a bit weird. There is some server management software that I used to have micromanagers specify, not that they would ever use it. I always begged for stock Ubuntu with a command line but they insisted on the 'sea of icons', making it impossible to find things quickly.

I can understand the desktop metaphor but just because it is intuitive to aged boomers that liked Steve Jobs does not make it right. But these people did not get the advantages of the history file or how command line meant that you could repeat common tasks with an exclamation mark + number.

Another thing that gets me with icons is when people over complicate them. An icon has to be simple, if it is not simple then it is not an icon.
This is Taiwan saying: if I gave you this tech now, how do I know you will be coming to help were I be invaded?

We need to be irreplaceable to be protected
It’s kind of a weird design that some of your variables (which you can define anywhere in the scope FWIW) just randomly define a critical section. I strongly prefer languages that do a

with lock {
// do stuff
}

design. This could be C++ too to be honest because lambdas exist but RAII is just too common for people to design their locks like this.
Thanks for sharing! These look amazing and I look forward to trying them out.
2023: American Library Association reports record no. of book titles challenged
Please, please, please, don't let your country go the path of radical religion like Iran did after Iranian revolution. Keeping religion out of state business looks like really nice idea when it comes to personal liberties.
Their geopolitical alliance with Apple is a good bet, even if their net worth is only 10% of the US's defence budget.
I think of my two rules.

Rule 1: If you see someone do something shitty to someone else, stick around and they'll do it to you to.

Rule 2: When people tell you they are a bastard believe them.
This doesn’t surprise me at all. I expect we’ll shift from a focus on the models to models being fairly commoditised and a focus on the UX, interaction model, and new use cases.

It seems clear to me that most value will come from little bits of LLM integrated into other applications. Code autocomplete is a good example of this, it’s valuable because it’s a key press away in the workflow we’re already in. Email editing clearly works best in an email client. Generating an image for a slide deck is most useful in the slide authoring application… and so on.

There’s plenty of product discovery to be done and value to be realised in this space.
It is only diluting the ads. The paying businesses will notice higher cost per conversion, maybe individual print price will adjust accordingly, then the ad company will need to print even more ads for people who don't use adblockers.

Or google finds a way to beat all adblockers everywhere.
> "RustCamp" would likely be adjudicated as a trademark violation if it went to court.

Used in what context, though? As far as I am aware, each trademark is only granted for a specific list of market segments. Anything beyond that, and beyond offering products/services, should be (mostly) in the clear.

I think it's a good idea from the Rust Foundation to prevent others from naming threir convention "RustCamp" or something similar, and I don't think they're doing much more.
Lovely textures, thank you for sharing. Will try them out in some generative art projects I'm working on!
Sadly, current state of OS choice and hardware make MacOS the least bad of the lot :(
> It'll be a moot point soon, DoJ will be too busy dragging Democrat bodies through the streets to quote the probable future AG.

And you're not worried of the 2 trillion the future man of 'effective efficiency' [Effective altruism pun intended here as these are all of the same ilk) slashing any and all jobs that pose a threat to his fiefdoms with their pesky unions or workers rights? The guy litterly piloted the slash and burn everything in sight to cut costs and 'get lean' which every other lemming C-exec followed in tandem.

Honestly, this DoJ under Khan simply didn't go far enough to gut them and you guys were too busy gorging at the trough to unionize when you had momentum, so now you too will feel the wrath of these corpo-raiders who hallowed out midlle America to save a buck and a bonus now that 'AI can make you a rockstar programmer' and you will be expected to 10x every review or you're put on PIP.

It's hard to feel sorry for you, you did this to yourselves and didn't push back when you had the leverage.

It's funny, what I see is he will put tariff exemptions on his corps given just how much they rely on global supplies to make a Tesla and lots of stuff from SpaceX like optics are supplied by foreign companies. Because, hey if the crooks who voted for bailouts and golden parachutes did it, why can't he?

The best the 'Chief Scientist/CEO' can do is tell it's Taiwanese suppliers to go to Thailand [0],so as to not disrupt the flow of goods due to pesky things like invasion/annihilation from the CCP, which unless I'm mistaken will still be subject to those hefty tariffs they went on about throughout the campaign.

0: https://www.manufacturing.net/aerospace/news/22925817/spacex...
A Hybrid Approach to Full-Scale Reconstruction of Renal Arterial Network
The level of sophistry here is amazing. The Dutch are neither at war with Israel, nor occupying them. The actions of some Dutch civilians against some Israeli tourists can not constitute war crimes, because these are not combatants. They are crimes, make no mistake: the penal system of the Netherlands will hopefully see to that.

In contrast, Israel is at war with Gaza, and all of the actions I am discussing are official military and government actions. Cutting off the supply of power and water, cutting off food and medicine, deliberately bombing civilian infrastructure: these are all explicit actions taken by Israel as retaliation against the civilians of Gaza in a form of collective punishment, as their leaders gleefully proclaim internally. And they constitute undeniable war crimes because of this.

Hopefully in time the ICJ will receive enough support from the EU to actually prosecute this obvious violation, though my hopes are slim: the pressure from the USA to shield Israel from international law is immense.