skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's actually not unusual or even wildly unreasonable shopping behavior in a market where:

1. Many if not most "customers" (JS devs) don't understand how to evaluate quality deeply (thus, quality signals aren't trustworthy, making evaluation more difficult and resulting in further acceptance of using unevaluated products)

2. There's an overwhelming number of choices, with deprecation, replacement, and eclipsing all being fairly common - potentially even year-to-year

You kinda just have to try stuff out and work with what you've got.
I think Apple likes having a bit of a premium, low-pressure position.

One of the reasons I love Apple products for my relatives who aren't tech savvy is that I can just send them to the Apple Store when they have problems. I know the Apple Store isn't going to give them some high-pressure sales pitch to get them to upgrade an iPad that works fine for them or try to put some scummy anti-virus on their MacBook and charge them for it. Sure, people on HN might know how to avoid that, but I'm so sick of relatives buying a PC and then calling me 6 months later saying "I'm getting notices on my laptop that my computer is at risk and I need to subscribe to anti-virus," because it had a trial of some crappy AV. Windows keeps putting more ads into its system. It's just infuriating trying to help non-tech-savvy relatives in an increasingly user-hostile tech world.
Even when ChatGPT starts getting these simple gotcha questions right it's often because they applied some brittle heuristic that doesn't generalize. For example you can directly ask it to solve a simple math problem, which nowadays it will usually do correctly by generating and executing a Python script, but then ask it to write a speech announcing the solution to the same problem, to which it will probably still hallucinate a nonsensical solution. I just tried it again and IME this prompt still makes it forget how to do the most basic math:

Write a speech announcing a momentous scientific discovery - the solution to the long standing question of (48294-1444)*0.3258
I've been trying to show you that states having an official church of state, or religion doesn't exclude the concept of 'secularism', if that is mainly to be understood as the possibility to live ones life free of that, without too much trouble.

The thing is in most islamic states that's not a given. Especially abandoning Islam itself.

That's an absolute NO-GO in most of them, because the 'noble' Quran forbids it, by penalty of death. Even if some of these states don't employ this literally, they do nothing to reign in their fanatics, harassing the heretics, because shrug, it's their own fault.

Do you know people who did this, abandoning Islam, and how they have to live, even far abroad, because of that?

You may point to Dubai, but I think it's a big sham, mostly attracting 'soldiers of fortune', to make it look good.

What is vile here is the 'nobleness' of the Quran, and how it is used to justify the 'viralness' of it. It's a thing favouring the development of behavior equal to rabies.

I don't like rabies.

Why do you?
What is a word for this type of product? My spouse recently expressed an interest in "Skylight" and this has brought me down a rabbithole of displays for family coordination systems:

* Skylight: https://www.skylightframe.com
* Hearth: https://hearthdisplay.com
* Cozyla: https://www.cozyla.com/
* DAK Board: https://dakboard.com
* MagicMirror: https://magicmirror.builders/
* Mango Display: https://mangodisplay.com/
* Echo Show 21: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CDWWS127

The concept would be to eliminate leaks from the online calendars stemming from having to rewrite stuff onto the wall calendar.
It can be helpful to think of the Econ 101/homo economicus view of the world as something more akin to a secular religion.

And I don't mean that in a particularly bad way; most religions package a bunch of useful concepts (e.g., the golden rule) with some stuff that isn't literally true but does serve social and emotional needs in ways that the useful stuff gets passed down through the generations. As scholar Huston Smith put it, religion gives spirituality historical traction.

The notion that markets can drive efficiency is a valuable insight. But people for whom Econ 101 acts as a religion have a really hard time noticing when that effect gets swamped. This is pretty easy to spot these days because you'll find nominally pro-market people cheering oligopolies and monopolies, or getting upset at regulations that make markets more efficient. One easy test is how they feel about sustained high profits. To people who value markets for their ability to drive improvements through competition, that's a sign of something wrong, like insufficient price competition.
Try AliExpress, the prices there look unbeatable and are from AGM official stores at that.
Progressively Enhancing Maps
That would make the lifetime last forever, preventing you from ever getting the mutable reference back and causing any safety issues. (Your intuition serves you well, though: graphics APIs designed to commit on a guard type's Drop::drop are prone to panicking, since the GPU driver does not care about Rust lifetimes. To implement that properly, you usually need ersatz typestates.)
Apple Intelligence is months (years?) behind on ChatGPT. It can't even deal with other languages. Useless.
Epstein & Prince Andrew Years?
In the books the Patrician is a politician who was trained as an assassin (who have their own guild, and after many incidents refuse to take contracts on the Patrician because it's not worth their life).

What he's doing there is turning the thieves into the watch - they have a permitted level of theft they can do, normal people can buy "guild passes" which immunizine themselves from even that level of theft, and the Thieves' Guild comes down exceptionally hard on unlicensed thieves.

And the Patrician is unmarried.

They're quite fun to read as Pratchett has a good handle on the "balance of power" negotiations that the Patrician engages in; he plays various power groups off against each other in such a way that he is always the second worst problem to deal with, and taking him out would make it worse.
Nonsense. Healthcare for active duty military personnel is covered in the military budget regardless of whether they are deployed. Healthcare for retired military (including those medically retired) is primarily paid by the Veterans Administration which is classified as part of discretionary spending, not an entitlement. There is only a small overlap with Medicare. If you're going to complain about defense spending then at least get your facts straight.
An abstract syntax tree is not semantics. And language models don’t do this kind of explicit syntax parsing and representation at any rate.
On the contrary, it is their current design that makes me like it more than other options.
I was thinking of the Wirecard scandal in Germany. The regulators responded to concerns by silencing silencing critics of the company.

I read either "defamation" or "libel" somewhere, but this article says:

[German regulators] banned investors from betting against Wirecard shares for two months, the first such restriction on an individual company in German stock market history. That was quickly followed by a criminal complaint against two Financial Times journalists who had reported the whistleblower allegations about the payments company.

https://www.ft.com/content/f62f7f56-3d45-492c-ae88-172948d21...
I think this is much more on a botched rollout and a lack of vision. Apple should have been working on this for years and have some pretty big advantages. A deeply integrated version of the best o1 chat and vision models with context from all various apps and ability to do complex app interactions could be amazing. They could even have the ability to have AI basically create on demand personalized new applications for specific use cases. They could integrate it to be a proactive AI agent regularly interacting with you regarding various goals (instead of just answering questions). Instead so far we get the most barebones largely unimpressive features like basic text summaries and toy things like image gen and they fail to have even the modest features announced in June ready for latest iPhone launch earlier this year.
https://oeis.org/A004023 "Indices of prime repunits: numbers k such that 11...111 (with k 1's) = (10^k - 1)/9 is prime."

OEIS says "19937 ones in a row" isn't prime, but "1031 ones in a row" is.

And "8177207 ones in a row" is at least a probable prime. (Which you can maybe remember as a seven-digit phone number, or as either BITTZOT or LOZLLIB depending on how you prefer to hold your calculator. But those mnemonics are wasted if (10^{81777207}-1)/9 turns out to be merely pseudoprime.)
Stickers Standard (2018)
This is exactly the example that the article uses.
I think Ravensburger has a service where you can upload images and then order the puzzle.
Are you able to talk more about that? I’m curious what costs are when you run this at scale. We paid a firm $60k to write a custom parser. We parse around 50,000 pages/month. The parser is 100% accurate and has near $0 continuing costs.
I believe Op-Art and other instance were embedded into eyes wide shut as a precautionary move to still get the message out in the event of censorship
I read posted (by prominent individuals) on this site because if we were talking about posted [elsewhere] by (prominent individuals on this site), it doesn't seem relevant to a discussion that's happening on this site.
Regenerative Heat Exchanger
Valhalla – Java's Epic Refactor
Or start making their own stuff and ignoring most of the community.
It makes me really appreciate tools that DO work. Things like: the Linux kernel, Vim, PostgreSQL, the Golang compiler, etc. Interestingly, the aforementioned tools come from different ecosystems, and levels of financial backing, but all of them have been reliable tools for me for many years, all are complex, and yes... they all have bugs, but of acceptable severity and manageability.
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What I translate that to is: "Drizzle is top of mind for me". If they tried Drizzle and it was shit, they would likely look for something else.
My wife doesn’t quite appreciate that in the middle of the night
Crypto Is for Criming – By Paul Krugman
It's weird, "is the following statement about floating point numbers true: 9.8 > 9.11" it works, but otherwise it has no ability to do it with "decimals"
> Who called anyone a name? Luddism? Yes, many HN participants are reacting to AI in a completely common rejection of change / challenge, and it recurs constantly.

You should read up on what Luddism and Luddists were actually about. They didn't think the machines were evil or satanic, which is the common cultural read. They assumed (correctly) that the managerial class would take full advantage of increased productivity of lower-quality goods to flood the market with cheap shit that would put competitors out of business, and let them fire 4/5 of their workforces while doing so.
And considering the state of the textile industry today, I think that was a pretty solid set of projections.

Luddites didn't oppose automation on the basis that machines are scary. They were the people who worked the machines that already existed at the time, after all. They opposed them on the basis that the greedy bastards who owned everything would be the only ones actually benefiting from automation, everyone else would get one kind of shaft or another, which again: is exactly what happened.

This, actually is incredibly analogous to my opinions about LLM. It's an interesting tech that has applications but is already being situated to be the sole domain of massive hyperscalers and subject to every ounce of enshittification that follows every tech that goes that way, while putting creatives, and yes some coders, out of a job.

So yes, it was name calling, but also I don't object to the association. In this case, I'm a Luddite. I am suspicious of the motivations and the beneficiaries of automation being forced into my industry and I'm not going to be quiet about it.
I've just finished reading the Doom Black Book - https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/

The number of ports of Doom that were made by fans and only licensed after the work was done so it could be sold is surprisingly high. Randy Linden on the SNES is an interesting story (and the very chip he used was also a similar story at its inception).
This looks great for scripting. I will say that the query language looks a bit too verbose for daily use — meaning when you're interacting with a cluster to diagnose a problem, follow a job, testing the rollout of something experimental, or similar.

For example, I'd love to be able to just do this as the whole query:

metadata.name =~ "foo%"

or maybe:

.. =~ "foo%" // Any field matches

or maybe:

$pod and metadata.name =~ "foo%" // Shorthand to filter by type

I think a query language for querying Kubernetes ought to start with predicate-based filtering as the foundation. Having graph operators seems like a nice addition, but maybe not the first thing people generally need?

It's not quite clear who this tool is for, so maybe this is not the intended purpose?
I am user who thinks I’m getting a better experience, so I think his main point is right - you are expressing your preference with the voice of the general user, and moderation.
Reminds me of that old joke about then-modern stealth fighters having the radar cross section of a bird, with a reply stating that if they saw a bird going at mach 0.8 they'd fire some missiles at it.
It's the kind of blame-ambiguifying ("Can't do anything, law says so," "Can't do anything, courts say so.") that happens when the opposition to a given reform are perfectly happy to beat, bomb, and shoot anyone who dares to try to [integrate schools/secure voting rights/offer reproductive care/marry two people of the same gender/etc.].

What you're actually asking for is for America to finally undertake its own form of denazification, and hoo boy, if you think that things are rough now...

Remember, there was an actual insurrection by these folks 4 years ago. They literally entered the building housing our legislature and threatened the lives of our lawmakers. There is, like, zero question of why there's been a chilling effect on finding legislative remedies to American issues, even if you cut out the massive influence of lobbyists. No one wants to get Abe'd.
Winners are chosen because they tend to solve a problem easily for the average person. 99% of people don't care if it's written in rust or has the proper abstractions. It's, "I need to do X" and the winner does X easily. People here are very out of touch.
It's probably goint to be fine unless you demand express delivery.
In the EU, maybe. And even then you will most likely need to beg for an "entitlement" to use it which may have requirements around being a registered business, etc so hobby apps are still excluded.
Damn. I did use webmidi to wrap the access but apparently there's something missing. Works with my MPK3. Thanks for the feedback.
Yeah, there are counter examples everywhere. Actually I think they are way more than the positive examples (like SpaceX), so the world is definitely very, very inefficient. This can be felt by software engineers more acutely because we move fast and hate bureaucracies but sadly humans have to install bureaucracy for itself.
> I have to ask why you don't have a ton of unmanned drones down there. Literally remove the need to move somewhere for the people on board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_absorption_by_...

It's extremely hard to communicate long distance underwater, especially to do so discreetly.
Shopping without researching goes hand in hand with a fool and his money. For the typical consumer, visiting consumerreports.com and picking one of their top recommendations would solve a majority of these problems.
Extremist Pop Culture, the American Evangelical Right, and the "Satanic Panic"
Not OP, but I'll answer from my experience trying several different tools for this: the good ones are roughly as accurate as having a human note taker, familiar with the domain terminology, would be on average.
9.11 > 9.9 is true for software version numbers. For floating point numbers that is false.

ChatGPT 4o gets both of these cases correct for me.
I loved the article. And as a non-profit leader, I recognize the challenge of coming into an existing system, learning it, identifying things that need to change, and trying (vainly mostly) to change it.

My dream (but impossible) reforms for Congress would be:

- You can only run for political office if you have (personally) written and passed legislation at a lower level (city, county, state). I understand we need staff to help us draft legislation, but you must be a legislator, not a figurehead, to serve. No idea how to enforce this on any practical level other than a draft tracking system. GitHub for politics?

- If you do not pass one piece of legislation while in office each year, you cannot run for reelection. Your job is to work on legislation, negotiate, and pass laws. If you block a piece of legislation, it does not count. Once out, you must repeat the process - go back to 1.

- Congress get compounded bonuses or raises for passing legislation in consecutive years and can also make a special Legislator All-Star team. Trading cards will be released in schools so young kids can grow up celebrating the amazing legislators in hot streaks. CSPAN will keep a statistical database of legislators accomplishments and reframe politics around class sports narratives, like comebacks and underdogs and unlikely team-ups.
Most international migrants don't move far from their home countries
I enabled it for awhile, but turned it off.

My problem, as usual, is trust.

Summarizing a website, news article, or email? I can't trust that the summary doesn't contain hallucinated information.
It wasn’t ironic.
o1 gets this correct.
The notification summaries are OK most of the time and down right bad the rest! I'm currently working my notice period and a coworker messaged to say they where sad I was leaving the company and enjoyed working with me etc. Apple Intelligence decided the best summary of this message notification was: "News of [Me] passing received, expresses well wishes"
Come on, with one this "word avalanchey" you've gotta go whole ~hog~ hawg and macro expand the whole thing.

"yo dawg, I heard you like browsing, so we put a browser in your browser so you can browse while you browse"
Amazon and the endangered future of the middle manager
I'd start with the base game! Give you kid a chance to familiarize themselves with the core mechanics, particularly redstone, then look into command blocks and resource packs. These are fully vanilla mechanics, no need to fiddle with installing mods (which differs based on platform/version), but are extremely powerful!
How to find potential customers to interview about your startup
DevRel Hiring Is Broken [audio]
The underwater drone technology being developed could drastically cut military expenditures by making aircraft carrier-centric naval strategies obsolete. Look at this Orca XLUUV developed by the US Navy and Boeing - it can carry an eight ton payload, travel thousands of miles, and doesn't have to surface for extended periods (although it is diesel-electric, a hybrid of sorts). The depth limit is certainly classified but it could probably sit well below surface ship detection limits, and even be outfitted with nuclear payloads.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/06/our-first-look-...

Note this thing could also be equipped with autonomous drones, eg it could surface, release a swarm of aerial attack drones, and submerge. This sort of makes aircraft-carrier centric battle groups obsolete, and it's far cheaper too.

Notably, US shipyards are mostly building military ships these days; a more rational policy would return these shipyards to building cargo ships, an area where China currently dominates. This highlights why an economy that revolves around the military-industrial sector will always lag behind economically in comparison to countries that invest in more productive enterprises; eg a tank, once build, can only destroy; building large cranes instead means you are set up for big infrastructure projects.
Yeah, We don't really have the knowledge to ask intelligent questions. I did take some accounting classes so I can have some intelligent discussion with my accountant, but the regulation changes every year so it's difficult to keep up. Even if the accountant misses something, that's quite possible.

I mean, two of my previous companies messed up with payroll and many thousands were impacted.
no bugs or planned obsolescence --> "no business"
I wish there was a study of games in general, with a focus on evaluating games of increasing complexity.

Chess has been shown to increase IQ to a point (~2 IQ points). Studies show after about four months of playing chess, student's don't see further IQ gains. That is, the insights gained begin to trail off as expertise in that game increases.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327337702_Chess_tra...

I can't prove it, but it seems probably true that playing lots of different games of increasing complexity is a path to increasing IQ to whatever an individuals potential ceiling is.
With MLMs, the people doing the pitching know that it’s a bad deal, and they are trying to suck you in so that you will suffer and they will gain. It’s overt that the system can only work via deception, and the MLM is tuned to make that work at scale.
What I recall was that "what was sold" was changing at a steady clip but "what was used" was changing much slower - if you bought an EGA machine in 1990 you kept using it even when VGA was out; no real reason to upgrade since the only thing noticeable was games (maybe).

But Windows 3.11 started to change that and by the time Windows 95 was out nobody wanted to use a 2 year old machine anymore.

(Though to be fair most people I knew went from CGA/Hercules straight to VGA, there really wasn't a "driving need" for EGA, especially if your machine was business oriented - Hercules was better for text). VGA was a "sweet spot" also in that it always worked, SVGA started getting really hairy sometimes, and could be a bear to get working right.
I turned on Apple Intelligence to summarize notifications from Outlook, Teams, etc. I haven't found it to be very accurate yet, especially for MS Teams.
I think they mean that those should also be banned, but this ban isn't about addictive technology, it's about China owning the addictive technology and being able to exert control over it if they wanted. I also am of the opinion that this addictive technology should be regulated, including domestic.
The Kaggle competition page has more details: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/konwinski-prize

The prizes scale with the model’s score; the total prize pool is between $100,000 and $1,225,000, depending on the top scores.
Flexible geothermal power approach combines clean energy with built-in 'battery'