skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run airbnbs and would love a low cost dumb TV since I just equip each one with a apple TV box anyways
They probably meant "a reasonable amount more". My understanding is that the digital signage/commercial displays are substantially more while often being lacking in features that are important to most consumers. I'd probably also be willing to pay a little bit more, but not very much since, at the moment, unless you are really paranoid about your privacy/spying to the point that you don't want the TV to even have the connectivity hardware at all, most of these issues can be solved by just never connecting it to the internet, having it default to immediately selecting on of your inputs (I don't know how common this feature is by my TCL can do it), and using whatever device you choose on that input.
> The enforcement of laws is not authoritarianism. The manner of restrictions, the immunity of the police and authorities above laws, the form of trial system, etc are what make up authoritarian systems

I just don't agree at all—formal democracies and democratic institutions can be authoritarian, too. I certainly don't have the faith in our justice system you have.
These are not stream of conciouness emails. Almost certainly lawyers reviewed or drafted it, or edited it, or suggested edits or he knew how to write a good negotiation email. This ain't necessarily how he talks to his team.
They made the best decision based on the information they had at the time. No need to mock someone based on that.
Zed feels quite as fast as vim though, and has remote ssh for remote hosts

And you don't have to suffer latency when working on machines with 300ms latency

I still use vim when I need to quickly edit some file on some remote host once, but for see no reason to use it over zed in other cases
I had a boss who had a math degree. He'd map out the flow from start to finish on a whiteboard like you see mathematicians on TV/movies. Always had the smoothest projects because he could foresee problems way in advance. If there was a problem or uncertainty identified, we'd just model that part. Then go back to whiteboard and continue.

An analogy is planning a road trip with a map. The way design docs most are built now, it shows the path and you start driving. Whereas my bosses whiteboard maps "over-planned" where you'd stop for fuel, attraction hours, docs required to cross border, budget $ for everything, emergency kit, Plan A, Plan B.

Super tedious, but way better than using throwaway code. Not over-planning feels lazy to me now

Sure, everyone has a plan until you get punched in the mouth; however, that saying applies to war, politics, negotiations, but not coding.
I'm only 30 and honestly, sometimes I sit down at a side project and think "How the heck did I just sit here and grind out this entire desktop application" when now I'll struggle to work on it for an hour at a time.

Part of it is motivation in that it went from being a personal project I use to something others primarily use but I also constantly ask myself "Is this really what I want to spend my time on" which was never really a thought back then when it was just fun (and something I needed)

Not exactly the same but echoes of the raw firepower thing where it's easy to fully commit if you either have nothing else or you're fully sure of your dedication otherwise you're sort of one toe in the pool and aren't sure whether to save your energy
A black hole would orbit the center of the earth, it wouldn't be lodged in place somewhere
Find a decent media remote you can single hand with built in keyboard, i.e. lenovo n5902 (discontinued) - a bunch of cheap airmouse works pretty well. Setup macro for browser, boomarkts , microphone use etc. Adjust desktop UI scaling.
It's why Walmart purchased Vizio for $2.3 billion.

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/26/why-walmart-bought-vizio
Founder of https://fractionaljobs.io here, yes you're right. But we spend dozens of hours a week sourcing the whole web for open fractional roles. So it's not that this board doesn't have the ones you want, it's that there just aren't that many available yet.

But we're doing everything we can to accelerate this. We have about 5 new jobs launching tomorrow.
This. This is why companies win.
It's a shame capitalism doesn't reward any of that, but instead rewards (in the industry he was CEO in) putting product in consumer's hands. He stood on principal and his ultimate reward for that call (in the absence of any regulatory enforcement against what Apple aimed to do here) was iPhone beat out PalmPilots.

Oh well.

On the plus side, looks like he's having some success with what he's doing now.
Thanks for raising awareness on this. I think I may have a retail box with Warp 3 in Portuguese (Brazil). I had an ISV at the time, and used to join the OS/2 meetups organized by IBM, where they regularly distributed copies to power users.

I'll try to find it next week and see if it's helpful for the folks in OS/2 museum.

edit: it seems they're looking for Warp 4; I don't think I ever saw that version. I only used 2.0/2.1 and Warp 3.
Or they start to require internet access before you can use the device. Even if it's periodic. Once a month you have to connect to the internet to validate your license and agreement, wherein it uploads your watch history and downloads new ads.
Ayyy, thanks for the shoutout Lizzas. Taylor here, founder of https://fractionaljobs.io
Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance (2013)
"Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If someone else is wrong or you feel they are, two good options are (1) to respond with better arguments and/or more accurate information; or (2) chalk it up to the internet being the internet and just move on.
Antibodies can bind to wrong-handed antigens, but an antibody to a correct-handed antigen would not automatically bind the mirror. I'm not finding a lot of literaturee about this, however.
There are always many hundreds of options for "dumb TVs", the secret being that they're called "commercial [TVs|monitors|displays]". For example, B&H lists 2,105 so-called commercial displays as I type this (which you can easily filter to your specifications).

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?q=commercial%20display
Creating 'Mirror Life' Could Be Disastrous, Scientists Warn
Some dumb TVs still exist, only they’re called computer monitors now. And they’re a lot more expensive than TVs because TV-sized monitors are a niche product, and because manufacturers don’t subsidize them in exchange for your data.
You know there's always going to be comments from those who bring the low value criticism of sleuthing out someone's employment and making implications. Being transparent can assuage such discussion.
The arrangement you are looking for is typically for people who have contributed to an organization for decades, have a lot of organizational knowledge, and are close to retiring.

- working part-time primarily solves a problem for you, not the employer.

- pay is not a linear function of time. your value drops when you aren’t available during working hours or skipping initiatives, etc.

- you are signaling to the organization that you’re not really into their thing and to yourself that you are not willing to take risk on your own thing (Paul G writes about this).

I would advocate for working hard full-time to capture your full value, and then take time off to do other things.
What kind of role are you looking for? I'm the founder of https://fractionaljobs.io, I may be able to give you a better sense of why these aren't working for you.
ipod / imacs were key to the turnaround, although yes iPhone was a second stage booster.
There was almost a tablet as well, I think it got pulled just before launch, and the inventory got sold off for next to nothing.
Ah thank you for the signup and feedback. I'm increasing the services to check for expired jobs now that a lot of companies seem to be expiring there job listings around this time of the year, so apologies for that (I want to show more transparency into how/when those job listings are indeed checked for expiry too)

You can currently 'archive' any job listing by clicking on the 3-dots dropdown menu on the right side of each job listing to remove it from your view (and it will disappear and only be accessible in the "Archived" section of your sidebar). But gotcha there should be a report method, thanks so much!
I agree with the criticism though, the Foleo looked like some kind of internet appliance anachronism straight out of 1998. I was fully on board the Palm train too (rip Pre)
Long time freelancer here (decades). I've gotten 99% of my contracts through word-of-mouth. You will get better long-term results than simply grinding through job boards (which you should still do--you never know). You will want to do two things:

1) Cultivate your existing network. Just the other day I reconnected with a friend I haven't seen in several decades. Guess what? He just so happened to be a software dev, and needed another dev to help him with a project. This is just one of many, many stories I have. Call or email people to see how they're doing. Even better, meet up with them for coffee or a meal. This doesn't have to be mercenary; you're probably already doing those things. But start reaching deeper into your network.

2) Build your your network by meeting others in your field and/or potential customers in person (e.g. at user groups, meetups, tech talks, etc.). Talk about what you do and love to do. Presumably that involves your skills that you want to get work in.

Finally, be consistent and reliable and communicate clearly.

As for selling yourself when you're more of a generalist, I wouldn't worry too much about this yet. The key will be when you're presented with a job opportunity that leans in one direction (e.g. 90% dev, 10% management), and you'll have to decide how far you're willing to bend to fit it. But right now you're just getting the word out.
High wages doesn’t mean they aren’t being suppressed
NYT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403886
> often think in Chinese

I noticed that too, but I haven't seen it think in numbers in Chinese like most bilingual chinese speakers prefers. Or at least I haven't been able to trigger it.
Without directly addressing your proposed experiment, the history of aviation was filled with all sorts of grotesque experiments on humans. Absolutely disgusting stuff, like suffocating people to simulate high altitude flight. There was an ethical quandary about whether to use this data (IE, as citations).
IMHO the only solution is to change the way students are assessed. It may be more time consuming for the instructors, but a good old one-on-one conversation could be the best solution. Most of my university exams were oral (and written), so it’s doable.
Can you link a map?
Ray is a distributed computing framework that has a fast scheduler, 0 copy / serialization between tasks (shared memory) and stateful "actors", making it great for RL but it's more general than that.

I'd recommend checking out their architecture whitepaper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tBw9A4j62ruI5omIJbMxly-l...

Imagine spark without the JVM baggage and with no need to spill to disk / serialize between steps unless it's necessary.
Given the rest of the exchange between Steve and Colligan, they might have needed to leave for other reasons too.
average in the US is around 28 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/05/18/graphi...
Presumably the peoples who made that art couldn’t see it from above. Unless it was aliens
Can you elaborate? I had no problem with DuckDB and a few TB of data. But it depends on what exactly you do with it, of course.
Tl;dr (a) program synthesis is provably hard and (b) English is too ambiguous as a specification language. Therefore we’re nowhere close.

Ultimately not a convincing argument. We could use this same argument to argue that a human cannot write a program to spec. That may be strictly true, but not interesting.
Discussion (132 points, 7 days ago, 125 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364038
> Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the other's employees, regardless of the individual's desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal.

Said in email, from one CEO to another, is this obviously intentional paper trail?

> Threatening Palm with a patent lawsuit in response to a decision by one employee to leave is just out of line.

Did that patent lawsuit happen? (And if it did, did this email, which suggested illegal activity, come up in discovery.)
They also, unfortunately, ran into hardware issues. They were exploring the novel battery form-factor and storage space when lithium chemistry was even less understood than it is now; they had a sequence of models with batteries that went EOL too quickly, enough to (at best) make them seen as unreliable in the consumer space and (at worst) seen as trying to put people on an upgrade treadmill (back when that was a bad thing, before people understood that would actually be Apple's whole model with iPhones).
I’ve found it’s best to squeeze them in the morning, before you’re tired from daily work ;) But I understand not everybody can function well that early
My employer's product database is about 2TB currently and is still perfectly manageable with a single machine, and to be honest, it's not even all that optimized.
> groq

i went to a groq event and one of their engineers told me they were running 7 racks!! of compute per (70b?) model. that was last year so my memory could be fuzzy.

iirc, groq used to be making resnet-500? chips? the only way such an impressive setup makes any kind of sense (my guess) would be they bought a bunch of resnet chips way back when and now they are trying to square peg in round hole that sunk cost as part of a fake it till you make it phase. they certainly have enough funding to scrap it all and do better... the question is if they will (and why they haven't been able to yet)
Yes I have to second that. MLJ.jl is also written by a mathematician and the API is excellent. Truly well thought-out.

(If you think “why does MLJ.jl have so few stars?” please keep in mind that this library was written for the Julia language and not for Python. I honestly don’t think the library is the cause of low popularity. Just wrong place wrong time.)
GM corn and glyphosate science: Documents from Mexico-US trade dispute
If you actually have shared ownership but in C++ you're getting away with pretending you don't, chances are that'll bite you really hard. Maybe it's already biting and you didn't notice, so Rust actually do you a massive favour.

If there is no shared ownership then inventing it so as to make your Rust slower is just a problem with you, not with Rust.
Right, and my point is that this stuff genuinely matters and is worth recording - but needs to be recorded with a very clear timestamp (hence my preference for comments in a GitHub issue or PR).

Otherwise you'll inevitably find yourself re-litigating old decisions because you never recorded WHY you chose one approach over another.
No need for thoughts and prayers, if they worked at Apple as engineers at that time and weren't dumb enough to sell their shares they are likely multi-millionaires at this point.
“The real value is the concept.”

Insipidly Hegelian.
Here's a dumb 43 inch screen. It's sold as a gamer monitor. It's a UHD TV display with HDMI in and no onboard smarts.[1]

Here's another Samsung dumb screen, at 55 inches.[2] This is supposed to be for digital signage, but it's really a UHD monitor with HDMI in. But the next size up has "Alexa built in".

Sceptre, which mostly supplies Walmart, has a whole line of dumb TVs, including some big ones.[3] They're a little company in City of Industry, CA, which seems to have found their niche in dumb TVs.

There are lots of "digital signage" displays available. They're usually very bright, reasonably rugged, OK for 24/7 operation, immune to burn-in (they may spend their whole working life displaying mostly the same fast food menu), but not that good

[1] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-m70d-43-led-4k-uhd-60hz...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08651PB1J

[3] https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U750CV-UMRD-75-4K-UHD-T...
The First iPhone was sold in Palo Alto, with appearance made by Steve Jobs
Same, thats for sure not the first thing I do after waking up.
It took me about 20 minutes to make a basic FPGA-friendly implementation of the CPU core in Verilog, but the 256KB of ram is pretty expensive (16-bit color seems excessive for such a simple core!).
few hundred TBs here - no issues :)
That’s why you connect it to an IoT network that has no internet access.
Static analysis works on strings: source code. Similarly, it can, and does work on the strings in a tagged template literal.

Lit's templates are HTML with bindings. They're very analyzable, including checking for valid structure, associating tags with definitions, type-checking bindings. The tools that do this parse template strings, build an AST, and run analysis passes just like other source analysis tools.

Developers get standard intellisense features like jump-to-definition, hover-over docs, errors on invalid properties and events, etc.

But also... templating is an implementation concern.

To build a web component you don't have to use a tagged-template-based system. There are template systems that use JSX. You can use Preact, or React themselves. And your component users don't ever have to know what template system you chose to implement your component.
I thought their size filter was missing the . but you really can get a 589" display there.

Good to see these have added multiple HDMI ports since I last looked.
10+ years is nothing compared with a human lifespan. Web standards are more likely to still be around in 50 years than react vX.
The documentation that needs to be kept 100% up-to-date is the usage documentation. Here's how to use this Python class library. Here's how to use this REST API. Here's how to use this CLI tool.

THAT should live in the same repository as the code itself, and updates to it should be enforced as part of code review.

Design documentation that describes the process that got to that point should live separately from the repo in something like GitHub Issues, because it's not guaranteed to be up-to-date but can still be referenced during code archaeology sessions when trying to figure out WHY the software is the way it is.

Commit messages work too, but I prefer to have a short commit that links to an issue thread where I can find out more.

I wrote about this here: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/29/the-perfect-commit/#do...
Did you think that I meant you can switch them on one side of the equation but not the other?

That's not what anyone is saying.
Rather than restoring the baity "this", I've replaced the title with the less baity subtitle. Belatedly!
"Plans are worthless, but planning is essential".
Whenever a recruiter contacts me and I say I'm looking for a part-time job, they ghost me. They don't even say "that's not what we're after", just... nothing.

Not even dating apps have been this rude to me.
I mean personally I see continuity as mostly being about the hardware with the process running on it only being secondary at best and disjointed, though not completely irrelevant.

So funnily, I'm "perpendicular" to the issue of if continuous consciousness is needed -- i think the only relevant question is following the original structure and processes every "tick" of the universe to see what happened.

E.g. to me if the structure is wholly or nearly-wholly preserved, "teleporting" by the mechanism of particles having an uncertain position is non destructive and retains continuity, stasis is the same, becoming part of a hivemind is the same -- though leaving one or being quickly ship-of-theseus'd would likely impair continuity, but less in a manner of "death" and merely making the question meaningless, because two new entities are born descended from the same source, akin to how who we were as children never dies, only undergoes a process of growth/change/refinement until it's something not only different but significantly more than the "original".

I think a very interesting line of thought is actually if severe brain damage essentially kills continuity / "the original", in context of how we can absolutely disable or impair parts of the brain with magnetism or drugs but then have the hardware return to original function along with apparent return of the original process. It actually feels much closer to the self-evidently wrong assertion that any mere identical copy would equally be the original, suggesting to me that damaging the original too far past a point may actively kill that thread of consciousness in a way I wouldn't consider to be the case from sleep / stasis / joining-but-not-leaving a hivemind / etc.
i pretty much gave up looking for part time roles. i apply for full time roles and hope i can talk them into reducing my hours later. in germany, by law after i think 6 months you have a legal right to reduce your hours to part-time unless it is a small company and they can show that reducing your hours would cause serious difficulties for the company.
Apple 'Working' on Redesigned Magic Mouse with a Long-Awaited 'Fix'
Compared to what there is now, it might be OK as long as it doesn't further slow down users who don't have broadband.

So some real-world testing would be called for if there is not data already.

When you think about it, this could very well be the most accurate way to discern that a real human had reached the web address.

By how quickly they disengaged before following through to the encumbered web page itself.
Palm... Or "how to blow your lead by wasting half a decade doing nothing".

I _loved_ my Palm Treo 600, that was released 5 freaking years before the first iPhone. It had everything I needed, but the OS felt anachronistic even in 2003.

So I was eagerly awaiting for Palm OS 6 to come, so I could upgrade. And waiting. And waiting. And then Palm died.
There used to always be some smug commenter in these threads pointing out that life's better without any TV at all... Guess it's my turn.

Really - why bother? Can't you feel how it dominates the room? Don't you resent being constantly programmed by a handful of giant companies hiding behind different brands? Not to mention the ads shouting muck into your brain.

The main benefit of a giant HD TV - and please correct me if I'm wrong on this - is that the bigger and brighter the TV, the heavier the mental domination. After a long day/week working, you get to subside into the minima of mental and physical effort.

Relaxation and escapism are valid human pastimes, and we have 'choice' over what to watch to a higher degree than ever before... And it's a golden age for TV in many ways. But I can't help but feel that TV's hooks into people's minds are also more cunning than ever.

There isn't a nice way to say this, but... I can't help but notice that people who watch cable news, for example, become quite predictably wrong on important topics, and get very worked up over whatever the weekly outrage bait is. It's a toxic brew..

And the same goes for all kinds of other 'programming', from reality shows to celeb gossip to sportsball. Doesn't it ever feel like you're being... Subdued? Or even herded?

/smug
> So far we are multiple years in with much investment and little return

Copilot ? Recall ?
"Your privacy is _very important_ for us"
How much mockery would you trade to get some 2007 Apple RSOs?
I like nock.

the official specification for Nock, the assembly language used by the Urbit virtual machine, fits on a t-shirt:
The Nock specification is only 200 words long
It can be compressed to 371 bytes
Nock is a low-level, homoiconic combinator language that's similar to JVM code. It's designed to be simple, and is interpreted by Vere. Hoon is the practical layer of Urbit, and it compiles itself to Nock, the simple layer.
Narcissism and hubris works great... until it doesn't.
Well.. history tells that people usually sell shares too early. It’s hard to not sell if they increased a lot in value.