skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop on Ozempic. There has to be one. You're telling me that food has become so addictive and modern life so sedentary that we now need to fundamentally change human biochemistry to resolve the issues those things cause?

Also, rough name for the row.
RISC-V extensions names have prefixes, S for supervisor mode, Z for unprivileged extension, and so on. https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/08/27/risc-v-bases-and-ext...

Zabha: Zacas & A extensions Byte and Halfword Atomic memory operations
(where A refers to standard extension for atomic operations)

Zacas: Z Atomic Compare-And-Swap

and so on. You can ridicule them, but then you should also ridicule the x86 world for names like MPSADBW, PCMPESTRM or VFMADD132PD.
I don't even mind an exclusive community but the idea of begging for an invite is against my very nature.
Did you publish your simple solution anywhere?
I think people have the wrong idea when they see “defendant” in the title. Here’s what happened:

Apple has been watching this case closely from the beginning because it implicates the enormous amounts of money that Google pays them to be the default search engine on Apple devices. They’ve been involved as a nonparty, providing witnesses and documents requested by Google and the United States and have had lawyers present to observe from the gallery throughout the proceedings.

Until recently, Apple and Google were on the same side. Google was incentivized to win the case, which is also what Apple wanted because that would preserve the revenue share. But then Google lost the liability phase of the trial, and the government asked for truly extraordinary remedies including a divestiture of Chrome, significant changes to Android contracts, and a 10 year ban on any contract of any value whatsoever between Apple and Google.

Apple feels that its interests are no longer perfectly aligned with Google’s. First, Google has bigger fish to fry than its Apple revenue share because it needs to defend its Chrome and Android businesses. Second, it would actually benefit Google if they weren’t able to pay Apple revenue share if Apple kept Google as the default search engine because it’s the best on the market and Apple doesn’t want to provide an inferior option to its users.

So Apple filed a motion to intervene for the limited purpose of defending its right to contract during the remedies phase of the trial. That doesn’t make Apple a defendant. The Court can’t order Apple to do anything in its final remodels order. But it would allow Apple to present evidence during the remedy phase, call and cross-examine witnesses, and participate in the post-hearing briefing.

Apple says its purpose in participating in the remedies phase is to present evidence that neither Google nor the government is equipped to provide: information on Apple’s future plans. Apple says, regardless of what the Court does, it has no plans to invest the billions of dollars that would be required to enter the general search market. The government’s ban on Apple working with Google is premised at least in part on that competitive entry, which Apple aims to demonstrate is a fantasy.

The Court partially denied Apple’s request, fearing that other parties would also want to intervene. The Court will not allow Apple to call or cross-examine witnesses, but Apple can submit up to two affidavits from fact witnesses and participate in writing post-hearing briefs.

The government has represented to Apple that it will challenge the Court’s decision to give Apple that limited role during the remedies phase, and so the linked document is a request for a pause of the remedies phase while Apple appeals the partial denial of its motion to intervene to the D.C. Circuit.

Happy to answer any questions about the legal standards involved or the procedural history of the case.
Develop their own crappy version and rely on most people not noticing. (Apple Maps)
What difference would it make? The macOS app is fine as far as I can tell.
Did you mean, no single market for _financial_ services?

In that case, yes. But other kind of services do take advantage of the single market. The issue is the language barrier, so Germany, Austria benefits a bit more than other, but with non-english speakers aging out of the workforce, this is changing (we used to be mostly franco-belge, we now work with Spain, Italy and Romania. Weirdly our bad accent makes it easier to understand each others than Oxford English)
True. The best solution for small models is to use Project Gutenberg to reduce risk:

https://huggingface.co/datasets/manu/project_gutenberg

It’s also enough data to be Chincilla optimal in under one epoch for SLM’s.
Option 1: Present the choices on the Setup screen when you install the new iOS.

Option 2: Leave the default NULL and when the user first hits search in iOS (and default is NULL), present the list of search providers.
Ivy League schools are notorious for inflating grades to make their graduates look smarter. It seems the biggest factor for entry is money.

Before you reply, let me be very clear: Yes, very smart people do go to Yale, and yes, people go to Yale without lots of money. A few specific instances does not negate the general case.
Apple need to get their AI act together and replace Siri with a decent RAG-supporting AI that people are likely to prefer to search (Google search is becoming less and less useful, both in of itself and wrt AI).

It's funny that when Apple originally acquired the Siri tech from SRI international ("Siri" = "SRI"), there were plans to augment it with all sorts of agentic behaviors like OpenTable bookings, which never happened, and now OpenAI's first agent "Operator" seems to be focusing on exactly use cases like that (OpenTable, Uber, etc). Rather than paying for search, these sort of AI-generated business referrals could be a revenue source for Apple, or at least offset the cost of licencing a SOTA AI from someone else until/unless they develop their own.
It’s impressive how a decision as banal-on-the-surface as a default search engine can kick open the strongbox of big business, unravel anti-trust suits and crook the neck and knee of businessmen to the State.
This is horrible. The worst thing that can happen to a business - more and more customers are coming every day! How will these people survive!
Both the "factory owners" in this video say exactly that; the industry has failed and they expect to soon as well due to younger generations being willing to "pay more for less, if it's perceived as more convienent."

Which is to say, one of them is now making liquid soap out of a pump container, using far less labor or natural ingredients, and making much more money.

A shame that something being shaped like a cube has taken down an centuries old traditional, practical, effective practice.
I haven't tried the combination of durian and bitter melon yet. But I think I know what it would be like.
Exactly. Users have to manually download Chrome yet it has a 70% market share. Changing the search engine on mobile is already easy enough, far easier than installing a browser. Google will get a majority of its share back, while Apple will get nothing.
Three AM 911 call, 9 AM salesman
I will not miss the “DEI” components of NSF proposals (or the PIER part of the DOE ones), especially having been on the review panel side about 5 times now. It’s not that I disagree with their intent, but the fact that after you’ve read a few you realize that proposers know exactly what they are expected to write there, so they write that there. Those sections are basically a useless going-through-the-motions exercise, and everyone knows it. I’ve never seen a proposal win or lose, or even change positions in a tie break, based on that content. More or less we just look to see that it exists, indicate that existence in the review form, and concentrate on the actual content. It’s a performative waste of everyone’s time.
as someone suffering from eating disorders, causing obesity, I can assure you that this drug is not just for vain, fat rich people. Perpetuating the stereotype is actively preventing people from considering using it. It also paints it in a way that makes it seem like there’s no legislation or way to make it more affordable and accessible.
That's not what this is about. When a court finds that there was a violation of law, they can impose remedies that go far beyond what the law normally requires, and Apple says in the filing that they're concerned about "an extreme remedy that targets Apple by name and would prohibit any commercial arrangement between Apple and Google for a decade". I don't know this case in enough detail to say whether that statement is fair, but if it is there's clearly no general law against making commercial arrangements with Apple.
That's only after a tremendous amount of effort, with high CPU and mem utilization to add to it. The potential with native (at least on Mac) would be much higher.
In our community, it's actually very well-founded. There are many that wish us harm, so discretion is a habit.
I don't think that I misunderstood - it says that more computing power beats "hand-engineering". But more computing power doesn't seem to work that well anymore to improve AI performance - and there is not much more computing power coming in the next couple of years, not orders of magnitude more for free like it used to be. Case in point: the somewhat disappointing new nVidia generation.
You can just use Xephyr or Xnest.
Theoretical limitations of multi-layer Transformer
It's a reaction to how so many new websites are just Wix or Squarespace templates despite all of the new capabilities our browsers have gained; they appreciate how much more accessible web development has become while bemoaning the cost to creativity and expression that came with it.

The article links to examples like https://lynnandtonic.com/archive/2019/ or https://optical.toys/ (I personally am quite fond of https://acko.net/) which, though their site content could be expressed with templates someone else built, it's conveyed in a more interesting or more useful way because of the thought and care put into effectuating the intended design as an interactive work.

I think one weakness of the article is that it doesn't draw upon the rich history of how creative coding has enriched everyone's coding experience. Cracktros turned into demos, demos turned into the demoscene and also into the early video game industry. Early Ruby and Arduino communities, flush with artists, became testbeds for all manner of intersection between art and software while also pushing the boundaries of what the tools were capable of. But ultimately, they're right. A handcrafted site making full use of browser features is just not something you see very much anymore.

Of course, it's not everyone's cup of tea. I'm not surprised about the dismissals elsewhere in this thread. Some folks just want to get their work done, and that's fine too.
I don’t think you understand how GLP ones antagonist work if you think they’re fundamentally changing human biochemistry. The medication works by using your own chemical signaling to achieve the effect.
> With a few simple changes

For certain values of simple.
I prefer "privatize the wins, socialize the loses."
The street has been famous under that name for centuries; the notoriety of Jimmy Savile is a blip in comparison.
>Can anybody explain to me again why systemd is so bad ?

I only started to hate systemd when I really had to work with it in depth.

It is hard to understand unless why people hate it if you view it from the surface. On a high level there is nothing wrong with it. If you had to write a basic unit file you could easily do so, there are just a few basic concepts and keywords you need to know to get it working. From that perspective systemd is very much like openrc, which works very much in a similar matter.

Systemd is not bad because it is "monolithic" or because it violates some "UNIX principle" or because it is "bloated". Systemd is bad because it is made by people who have no idea what they want to make and who seem obsessed with solving every single problem they can imagine.

Did you know that on Ubuntu your fstab is fake? It is just a file which tells systemd which mount units it should create during boot. (https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/en/man8/systemd-f...)

Did you know that systemd contains an entire virtualization manager? (https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/systemd-nspawn.1.h...)

Did you know that you can use systemd to manage network devices? (https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/systemd.network.5....)

Why do these things need to be part of my init system? I can not even imagine what the answer could be.

Systemd is an enormous C project, which has innumerable features, many of them used extremely infrequently and which wants to perform very important tasks for your OS. It has lost any focus on being an init systemd.

People hate systemd because it is bad software and it is bad software because it has no idea what it wants to be. The systemd documentation is one of the biggest rabbit holes in computing.
> However, as dev utilization is high, service times become elevated as well. As things take longer and longer to turn around

Funny enough, this is exactly like running a server. Once CPU is over ~80%, request latency increases quickly.
And they might have repeat business down the line, too. Absolute horror.

>“Our big worry is that at some point, they will come off this drug, and, inevitably, they will put the weight back on.”
If you haven’t noticed, Vance has no power in the administration. It’s completely a Trump/Musk show and Tim Cook kisses the ring as well as any CEO.

My bet is that Trump will have this whole thing dropped now that Apple is involved. You notice that during the first administration that Apple was never affected by the Chinese tarriffs
Aging reactors need a concrete solution
Trump is nothing if not a flip-flopper when he can get a deal out of it.
Savile Row has existed since 1735, predating the founding of the USA by 41 years.
If anything the type system improves the run time speed, because the static analysis enables better code generation.

But I think what OP meant was more about the "functional programming" side of things than the "HM-typed" side of things. Naively, anyway, you might think that "the FP-style" of avoiding mutation and preferring recursion would require lots of garbage and high-latency garbage collection, copying, function call overhead...of course, that's not the whole story, but having Jane Street to point to as a crushing counter-example is nice.
There is no multiplayer creativity, there’s only the holistic experience of it. Figma killed creative coding.
I did this for our beloved, dead cat... On replicate, too. I loved the results, until at one point I suddenly got really creeped out about the thing I was doing.
So was the TikTok ban….
Right .. the AMPLab was set up in 2011. The Djikstra prize for distributed computing was set up in 2006 .. people like Djikstra and Lamport and Jim Gray and Barbara Liskov won Turing Awards for a lifetime's worth of work.

Now, Berkeley has been a fount of research on the topic, no question about that. I myself worked there (on Bloom, with Joe Hellerstein). But forgetting the other top universities of the world is a bit ... amusing?

Let's take one of the many lists of foundational papers of this field:

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/02/foundational-distri...

How many came out of Berkeley, let alone a recent entry like the AMPLab?
lol, I think no one expected a linux debugger to be written in the visual programming language for kids.
There is a nice article by David Patterson (who used to direct the lab and won the Turing Award) on why Berkeley changes the name and scope of the lab every five years https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-... . Unfortunately, there's no good name for the lab across each of the five-year boundaries so people just say "rise lab" or "amp lab" etc.
My phone is how I track most of my contacts, so it makes sense to me that someone would assume email contacts work the same way.

I’ve was surprised by an email that revealed my saved contact name recently, and I used to work for an email company.
I think he means alternating raised eyebrow. Raising my left eyebrow is easy but my right requires some significant contortion of my face to achieve.
Wow. Bravo! This is such an impressive effort. As one of the very first home consoles, the venerable Atari 2600 is brutally difficult to program. Everything from ROM to RAM to CPU cycles is in painfully short supply and the requirement to continually keep 'racing the beam' is a harsh master.

My first computer, the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer, came out only a couple years later but even with only 4K of RAM and a sub-1 Mhz CPU, was still much more civilized to program in assembler than a 2600.
It opens the possibility that not-Google web search services could sell their way into various apps and service.

Right now, Google has exclusive global contracts. A company with a product that's paid for Google's web search must use Google at every search access point and in every country they sell into where Google does business.

If Google's restricted from those contracts, local web search has a chance, user web search choice has a chance, the web itself has a chance.

Sure, Apple may keep Google in the US, but they might start swapping in Siri for some search access points, or swapping in ChatGPT search in others, or switching away from Google in Korea or Brazil or other markets with strong local services.

Who knows, maybe we'd have a compelling Apple Web Search today, like we have Apple Maps as an alternative to Google Maps, but that couldn't have happened because of these incentives. Take away the $20B+ a year Google pays Apple for that placement and maybe Apple provides a better service with more privacy protections and less spam. Maybe not, but if we don't change how this all works, we'll never know.
Presumably you can afford it if your income is that high. While there are arguments to be made that it shouldn't be means-based at all (it destigmatizes it, for one), it does seem to be working as intended.
I don't. I hate installing, and I hate both apps and data that are tied to a single device.

I like the security model of browsers, and I like using browser tabs to organize my apps like Gmail, Docs, etc.

And webapps can use your CPU and GPU just fine. We have such powerful machines, but checking your email isn't going to use that power regardless of whether it's a desktop app or a webapp.
You know, I go back and forth on this a lot these days. I have a a couple of high power machines across operating systems and I find that, lately, I barely trust installing a downloadable application on them anymore. Installation instructions have sudo commands everywhere, on windows everything wants to escalate to admin rights for the installer, etc.

At some point applications completely broke my trust, and the OS manufacturers failed to protect us, and now we're all paying for it with inefficient garbage everywhere.
A Canticle for Leibowitz – A Radio Sci Fi Drama (1981)
It's all about stability and predictability. Science, like other forms of business, favors an environment without sudden regulatory changes. Sudden changes make the government an unreliable partner incapable of committing to anything beyond the next elections.

If the dominant ideology changes, it should only affect future grants, not current grants. Ideally, grants that have already been submitted or are close to submission should be evaluated according to the old rules. Otherwise a lot of time and effort will go to waste.
The vast majority of criticism of systemd would cease if it were made out of easily mixed and matched components which worked independently of one another.

The goal of systemd is of course to be a highly integrated system which solves everything. As can easily be seen how hard it is to run e.g. dbus without systemd.
It seems the main thing the DoJ is upset about is that Apple hasn't developed a search engine themselves, because they have these deals with Google.
I assumed if I kept reading there would be a line explaining why they can't simply raise prices until the demand becomes manageable with current staffing, such as "We sold all these suits with guaranteed adjustments for £[some heavily discounted number] for life", but I didn't find any such explanation. Shrug
Startup unveils polymer battery electrolytes that eliminate thermal runaway
What headphones are you using? If they’re fancy enough then your motherboard sound card may or may not be powerful enough / low noise enough / there’s a variety of other things enough / to flap the drivers as precisely as the old board. If they aren’t hella fancy or hella high ohms then this isn’t usually it.

Beyond that. Recon3d is Soundblaster? So they were probably doing a quality level one full step up from what you’d get with a typical motherboard. Something like an Asrock Taichi would typically max out the motherboard tier. Beyond that, you’re into PCIe cards or USB things or HDMI cards that expose a digital device to your PC and do the analog conversion somewhere other than the motherboard.

The conversion from beep-boop binary to analog electrical impulses for your headphone drivers, and the ability to add and remove power to the drivers through your headphone cables, are the two components of quality that you have control over. They’re typically called DAC and amp, and the options in hardware reflect that.

The fastest way to find out whether you’ll be happier with a better sound card is to buy one that has a 15-day return policy; either any modern USB Soundblaster, or a combo dac/amp for headphones like the Schiit Fulla E at ~$100. If that makes it all better and you’re happy, solved!

If it sounds perfectly fine in quality (no hiss, clearly audible music like you prefer) but is ineffably flat or lifeless, you may have had some sort of enhancement processing going on in the old motherboard’s driver that was adding head effects. For that path, make sure you’ve tried out Windows spatial sound > Dolby Atmos for Headphones; it’ll cost a few bucks one-time to activate but it’ll let you test if you were getting virtual surround boosting (or the modern Soundblaster USB devices may have this built in to test with too).
I don't have that answer. But I see no evidence that the United States benefits—as a society—from our high GDP.
for AI, probably when it's so entrenched in everyone's lives that it's treated as an essential aspect of computers and computerised devices
Yea, looks like the US is going full on Russian mode here. I'm not all that disappointed in Trump himself, this was no surprise. I'm disappointed at the lack of meaningful opposition. Most of the republican part have fallen in line and the Dems aren't doing much.

Question here for this group. In this day of technology, information is power seems much more relevant. I don't have clear data, but it seems from observation and analysis by others social media played a pretty key role: "fake news", info bubbles, biasing your feeds etc. What are some ideas on reliable ways to provide access to accurate information?