skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there will be some challenges due to the population aging, but if our numbers are shrinking we won't need to build as much new housing and other infrastructure. Also, for all its faults, industrialized agriculture makes it possible to grow enough food for everyone with remarkably few workers.

It seems like we currently have a glut of people looking for work, and having fewer working age people would make it much easier for people to negotiate better wages and working conditions.
Somehow I doubt RFK is going to reduce antibiotic use on farms.
> I don’t understand how people underestimate it so badly

... explained by(?)

> History makes it abundantly clear that it is a regular occurrence for large groups of people to collectively believe things for which there is little evidence, and furthermore, to take extreme actions based on such beliefs.
You're not wrong... but for different reasons :)
People seem to forget this when their people are in charge, but a lot of the US governmental system is designed to be rather slow and limited in its power (both statutory and effective).
Your concern is reasonable, and I've thought about it myself. The Wikipedia article linked downthread by int_19h notes: "Up to one percent of all those detained in immigration detention centers are nationals of the United States according to research by Jacqueline Stevens, a professor of political science at Northwestern University." There are specific cases mentioned in the article, and the case of Mark Daniel Lyttle was pretty alarming. It was written up in: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/29/the-deportatio...

On the other hand, you can't be detained without probable cause, and race/ethnicity alone isn't enough. For instance, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Brignoni-Ponce (https://case.law/caselaw/?reporter=us&volume=422&case=0873-0...): "In this case the officers relied on a single factor to justify stopping respondent’s car: the apparent Mexican ancestry of the occupants. We cannot conclude that this furnished reasonable grounds to believe that the three occupants were aliens. At best the officers had only a fleeting glimpse of the persons in the moving car, illuminated by headlights. Even if they saw enough to think that the occupants were of Mexican descent, this factor alone would justify neither a reasonable belief that they were aliens, nor a reasonable belief that the car concealed other aliens who were illegally in the country. Large numbers of native-born and naturalized citizens have the physical characteristics identified with Mexican ancestry, and even in the border area a relatively small proportion of them are aliens. The likelihood that any given person of Mexican ancestry is an alien is high enough to make Mexican appearance a relevant factor, but standing alone it does not justify stopping all Mexican-Americans to ask if they are aliens."

I second the recommendation to get a RealID. You're going to need one eventually for domestic flights, among other things. When I got mine at the DMV renewing my driver's license, they asked for a birth certificate, social security card, driver's license, and proof of (local) residency (e.g. utility bill). So why not get one and carry that as additional proof?
> Is there somebody not researching faster llm performance?

The surprising bit is less about what they're working on and more about the collaboration itself, including the mutual and coordinated co-marketing/PR. Apple and Nvidia haven't had a business relationship in over a decade, ever since Apple stopped using Nvidia GPUs in Macs.

This sort of re-engagement and subsequent promotion isn't something that "just happens", in my experience. It's reasonably possible that this could portend additional future outcomes, such as official support for Nvidia-based eGPUs, Apple's licensing of/support for CUDA, Mac Pros with Nvidia GPUs, etc.
Apple illegally cloned a smaller company's patented SpO2 sensor [1], which resulted in a US ban on Apple using the cloned SpO2 sensors. As of 2024 new Apple Watches in the US can't detect blood oxygen levels due to the ban.

Google didn't clone anything, and instead acquired a smaller company (Fitbit) that had the tech they wanted to put in their watches. So new Pixel Watches still have a working SpO2 sensor.

1: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/18/1225432506/apple-watch-blood-...
Continue VSCode extension.
[inset “I told my people to slow down testing” video]
Yeah... and it's for God and the King that he so divinely ordained rule over all of us bc that is how that was, the church and the palace had all the money and they supported each other for thousands of years
It's a shame they wait until the end to mention:

> We believe AI software engineers will be a critical piece of infrastructure for every company, customized to their workflows, codebase and business problems.

> We are building a platform to enable that future: tools, context, and sandboxes for AI SWEs.
> in practice it's only good for storing documents that don't need to be edited/queried much by the backend storing them

Why aren't they good for that? They can have very high write throughput, they don't require ORMs, and they can be indexed and queried using standard database methods like the SQL language.

You can even enforce strict schemas on them if you want to, just as you would with an RDBMS.
To some extent this is what Section 174 is about.

If you hire US-based engineers working on R&D (most software engineers) then you amortize their pay over 5 years. Foreign-based engineers working on R&D get amortized over 15 years.

You get to expense 3x as much for domestic engineers compared to foreign engineers. This means you need to pay more taxes upfront for having a foreign R&D team, which is bad for cashflow. Your company could be losing money (unprofitable) but still owe corp income taxes because of Section 174.

If the gov charged "tariffs" on foreign labor or services provided, especially for certain countries that labor is typically outsourced to, or certain types of labor/services (e.g. support, engineering, etc), that'd probably be an effective way to discourage offshoring.
> What's going on with this developer message vs. system message?

Yeah, this. I was surprised I had to find the o1 release thread via the search box; I expected it to stay on the frontpage for couple days, accumulating gazillion points.

Anyway, that question is the most important and most worrying part to me. It basically reads like they're building up a hierarchy of prompt importance, where the API users are now demoted to second-tier role, while the most important system prompt will be under control of whoever is serving the model (i.e. OpenAI, or Microsoft via Azure, or Apple). This... sucks.
> AI prompt builder enabled by default in my mouse driver

That's so wild I had to go and look up what that could possibly mean. What a world we live in. https://www.logitech.com/en-us/software/logi-ai-prompt-build...
I've looked at jobs at places like this (some requiring quite high clearance) and the pay is hilariously bad, and I don't make anywhere near peak FAANG rates (or work in FAANG)

50% pay cut for a DevOps/SRE role requiring a Q clearance (DoE version of Top Secret I think)

You can't find employees because the job isn't exciting (you're probably not NASA) and the pay is bad. Maybe your recruiters are bad too.
Implementing algorithms doesn't need a computer, and it doesn't need something that's not a computer.

That said, with enough willpower why couldn't you implement a universal Turing machine in your brain? I think you would need external memory (a tape) but that's not a problem.
Here [0] is the datasheet for the batteries used. 25 year shelf life is spec'd.

I have personally run these cells buried underground, and gotten 4.5 years out of 4 of them, though my application is just for fun and likely not as power conservative as an AirTag.

[0] https://data.energizer.com/pdfs/l91.pdf
So the human brain is a great operating system that is desperately missing a good text editor...
AI is a technology that, in principle, makes it possible to have a "Star Trek communism" society.

I agree with you that it can also be abused to make the existing state of affairs even worse. But if we resist technical progress on this basis, we'll never get better, either.
I use Sony WH-1000XM4 and it has a native 3.5mm jack alongside USB-C, which even works when the battery is dead. It's been pretty useful over time, especially with musical instruments or older hardware. Honestly it's a baffling decision to remove support but not exactly unprecedented from Apple.
... But if they do make it in Java, at least you have the tools to analyze and refactor it.
I've been listening to this album since it came out, so I guess that makes two decades now. They so beautifully captured the soul of the game's soundtrack and amplified it in all the right ways. Can't recommend enough giving it a listen
I want this for medical expenses. And cars.

Even better: for political candidates!
Again, with no proof and likely not real. If there was a crashed drone, you'd imagine that they'd release a photo or something. The reality is that law enforcement officers are just as susceptible to mass hysteria as everyone else.
I've wanted this to exist my entire life.
Consider the analogy: the difference between two programs is one line of source, and most end users couldn’t tell you the practical consequences of that change.

The Orthodox allege that the Filioque amounts to a demotion of the Holy Spirit. Comparing the liturgies, disciplines and general character of the two churches, it’s difficult to feel totally confident that they don’t have a point.
Well I think advertising a price that you can't get the ticket for needs to be banned.
If robots do all the work (which is ultimately what all the lost jobs are about), why would UBI be unsustainable at scale?
I wasn't able to get wired playback (whatsoever) working with the aforementioned lightning to 3.5 mm adapter on my old lightning port pair of Airpods Max. What gives? Had thought this was a limitation of the whole line of products.
WinZip isn't about to drop a paragraph explaining what it might think it is to you, though. Following your logic anything with an electrical circuit is potentially conscious
You're telling me I've had 'Cry of the Chasmal Critter Chain' in my regular rotation for 20 years!?

I'd implore anyone with even a passing interest in VGM to find their favorite game on OC Remix and listen to some of the different remixes people have made. It's all very good stuff!
Is this that different from languages like Dotnet? I think one line in your config can make it Aot compiled.
Yeah. This is a huge bummer in the record making community and word got around immediately in my circles that they're incapable of going direct.

As it turns out the AirPods Max (v1) are great headphones for many critical listening tasks (with a few caveats). So the announcement of a USB connector on v2 was a huge deal. Several people I know bought them on day 1 and had to return them as soon as they discovered this flaw.

One industrious friend wired their own custom cable that terminates in a 1/8" plug to work around the limitation.
The problem is that the contactless stuff is all custom per network.

Some of the implementations are reasonably close to contact EMV; others might as well be a completely different stack and technology.
https://x.com/zhou_xian_/status/1869511650782658846
At least it's not actual spyware.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29056847

Wacom's drivers collect and send both application and window title names to them. It still does, even after all the outrage.
Thanks. Perhaps what’s lacking is a legal decent minimum wage then.
The subconscious reflex of avoiding an object thrown at your eye is certainly faster than 10 bits per second.
Dupe (180 points, 2 days ago, 122 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42438009
You're leaving out Putin's role and emphasizing minor details. For example, Putin always hated the US, and the fact that Yeltsin's campaign hired American pollsters had nothing to do with that, nor do Russians in general care who Yeltsin hired as consultants.

Former FSB agent Litvinenko accused the FSB of being behind the apartment building bombings before Putin had him assassinated. These bombings were equivalent to 9/11 in the Russian consciousness at that time, and FSB agents were even found to have planted the defused bomb that immediately preceded the Second Chechen War, but after they were arrested, FSB director Patrushev claimed that incident (that was used to justify a war) was an anti-terror drill and had them released the next day. There were no more apartment bombings after that, and the Chechens claimed to have nothing to do with those bombings, which is exactly the opposite of what any other terrorist group would do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombing...

https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/38614
Isn't cursor a fork of vscode?
To note, the climate isn't just whether you enjoy snow or not.

It's pointed in other comments as well, but winter in the north means trains getting canceled, flights delays if it's really bad up there.

Aomori is land connected so there's still other options, but in the event of an earthquake in the middle of winter you're playing the survival game in hard mode.

Even if it's a smallish shake and you just need your gas checked and restarted by a technician, you might be out of hot water for a few days while it's freezing outside. Elderly for instance regularly die during these kind of disruptions, and you'd think they know what they're doing.
You can actually get real compatibility with android directly - https://troopers.de/troopers24/talks/h7mlua/
What's a Bolt receiver?
I hesitate to use the word 'deprecated' because it means different things to different people. We'll continue supporting Replicache but won't add new features to it.

Even if you don't think you'll need partial sync our experience is that almost all projects end up needing either it or permissions. Both of which are difficult with Replicache.

And if you don't need either of those, the the query-based programming model of Zero is just a lot more fun.
Dupe (146 points, 9 hours ago, 199 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451130
Their major flaw is that they purposefully use shitty switches that fail, sometimes within months. This is true even with their absurdly overpriced gaming mice.

I have never had a mouse whose buttons failed until I bought a logitech. Every person I know raves about them until you ask them how many they've had to buy.
I’d imagine that the rusty candidate could refresh themself on linear algebra in what, two three-hour evenings before the interview.
Ooh, fair point. Did it feel less compelling because we didn't mention that at the top?
I agree it'll work, but from a broader ecosystem perspective it feels like a mismatch, given PHP's historic focus on webstack stuff, and the projected likelihood that someone maintaining the system will know PHP versus Python etc.

But perhaps we can both agree that it shouldn't be in JS/Node. :p
I’m glad to hear mention of roofing claims finally. I live in Florida, my insurance shot up. No claims, I live away from the water. I paid for my own roof. But a lot of people around me got free roofs, and I remember getting constant calls for “free roof inspections.”
Convinced that Apple has shot themselves in the foot / tied their hands behind their back / insert analogy here, re: privacy <> AI.

Interesting to see how it plays out. Meta and Google have much more permissive privacy policies / stances, which means Meta + Google models are going to get much better faster.

Apple does potentially have an edge with their Mx series of chips re: inference flops. I bet they're hoping that the model quality vs. model size curve continues dropping such that they can run sufficiently powerful LLMs on-device.

We'll see.
It may be okay in a server, but (for example) not in a desktop application. The issue, then, is that most code lives (or should live) in library-like modules that are agnostic of which kind of application context they are running in. In other words, you can’t just abort in library code, because the library might be used in application contexts for which this is not acceptable. And arguably almost all important code should be a library.

Exception mechanisms let the calling context control how to proceed. Deferring to that control and doing some cleanup during stack unwinding virtually never causes serious issues in practice.
> Is this English ?

Yes.

> Shouldn't be "is gone" or "is going" ?

No. It should be "is go" or "is a go".
If the button already has a function (like back) assigned to it, I think the input-remapper[0] software would work. That is what I use with my deathadder.

[0] https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper
Why write like this? It's antagonistic and pompous. I really don't like making light of racism by leaning on the "stop calling everything racist" trope response, but this is pretty extreme. I have no idea what's in the parent's heart, but you only need to give them an ounce of benefit-of-the-doubt to believe that the quoted sentence comes from a place of simple favor for one's own fellow citizens, and not petty racism. And on HN, you're supposed to be giving even more than one ounce of benefit-of-the-doubt.
Fwiw, I don't see "disarming" as a particular goal or win. It's neutral maybe. It might even be a bit unjust if we think the aggrieved is owed some form of recompense.

I guess my framing of these things goes something like:

* Person A made an error that made things worse for Person B

* A sorta owes B now. Could be A making up for the error—like if A knocked over B's coffee, A could get them a new one. Or another, perhaps disagreeable, sorta justice is B now getting to do something back to A—like B knocking over A's coffee, or just cursing at A for a bit.

* These things would put them back to even.

I feel several comments are thinking of "owning the mistake" primarily as a tool to neutralize B's ability to get back to even. This, rather than owning it to take responsibility or just because it's honest. Saying we're "owning our mistake" is not owning our mistake. The point is to know you were in the wrong—whether that's by introspecting on it, having to buy an extra coffee that day, or getting cursed at.
>I applied to a similar position locally this year. I far exceed their requirements and experience and I got rejected at the application stage.

Could be "This one is overqualified, we can't pay that much" or "He doesn't have experience in the exact thing we need." Or just that they want a qualified applicant but they've got lots of options.
I didn’t even check what it could be. I just got the rainbow cursor suddenly on boot, and the process name was enough to instantly uninstall the driver and search for a replacement.
What is the average lifespan of a logitech gaming mouse? I bought 3 over the years and the average life span has been around 2 years.
Try Microsoft Copilot on iPhone/ Android (not GitHub Copilot, this is a general AI product that is not for coders).

Getting answers (with references) to questions *destroys* using Google.
What about male and female- and _N_ genetic syndrome- in terms of XX or XY chromosomes?
How is it insignificant. Intel GPUs are the most exciting thing that has happened in GPUs the last 5-10 years imo.
Propaganda? Two Minutes Hate?
We are not supposed to do what we kno kno is bad - nothing is set in set in stone anymore, that's the Greatest Commandment actually, God saying you kno well enough to do this on your own without these rules I etched into stone for you, just follow this one rule and you will be fine - as if all of did follow the greatest Commandment we would remake this work out the broken thing it is now and into the Kingdom of Heaven - bc that was very clearly stated to be WITHIN US.

God will only bring his house down after we fix the place up a little bit, WE must save ourselves this time.

It's not wrong to violently beat up a man in a ring for money if that money has agreed to it - I don't think it's ideal per say, so it will come with consequences and over time, if it isn't what God wants us doing, those consequences will become very costly. That's how all of this works - we can do whatever's we want but we will face the consequences and there will always be them, eventually we will learn that even tho we can do anything we want, we shouldn't, we should just follow that Greatest Commandment - that truly is the easiest thing to do.

Tbh if you think about it at all, the whole idea of mortal, unforgivable, hellfire worthy sin - it all falls down when you consider that God made this reality and is there y responsible for all that he allows to occur within it, the exact same way if I make a violent sexual game for kids, its my fault, not the children for playing it.

Thou shall not judge. BC we can't - we don't have any ideas what is worthy of judgement or not and we can't fr our current point of view.
It wouldn't be an online service's T&C document if it didn't include at least one vague, threatening, unworkable, and unenforceable condition.

The useless but true answer is nobody knows what's allowed and what isn't, until it's tested in court. Practically (not being a lawyer, though) I suspect that the clause will never be pursued on its own, because it's bullshit and everyone involved knows it is so.

In your scenario, though, assuming you publish in a way that's not overtly and primarily meant for AI training, I think the "use" of data isn't yours and would be hard to argue as violating the terms of the agreement.

Of course we might take it to the absurd end of this line of reasoning and demand that any code base that Copilot was involved in should have a license term preventing the training of any other AI in it, and we wind up in a place where all AIs are trained on source material they're explicitly licensed not to be trained on, or trained only on a mostly static set of "pre-AI" publications.

Daft stuff.
> There's a reason why Arianism keeps recurring over and over again.

I don't have the numbers on hand, but I recently read that a remarkable number of US Evangelicals regard each member of the Trinity as an autonomous entity. This might invite you to scoff at sola scriptura, but I can't imagine the numbers being better for other denominations.

It's a strange thought: how many, maybe most devotees are actually heretics, especially when you consider more remote cultures. I've been looking for fiction that explores this idea. I think Black Robe touches upon it, but I haven't seen it in two decades and could be misremembering.
Now I'm having flashbacks to porting a whole stack of applications from x86 to a customized Linux distribution running on a big-endian PC platform. A mishmash of C/C++, Java, Node-JS, Python...

It was really dumb, but that's what the client needed. So much cross compiling.
Learning to eat healthily is a skill. It's a separate skill to learning to eat less.

I don't think any amount of junk food would get you adequate nutrition. So reducing the amount of junk food is a great first step.

You can take a multivitamin, it'll be enough to survive. Later, once you've established a decent calory baseline, you can start to optimize your good for nutrition.
The killer app that Pixel is missing is the WorkOutDoors app for Apple Watch (gps tracking app with your path shown on offline cached vector maps). 80% of the time I bother wearing the watch is to use that app. And I will buy a Pixel watch for my Android-using partner if something equally good comes out for Pixel.