skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are multiple meanings of the word "error".

I just don't care how accurate that the watch is (thus far anyway) because the perception of progress—delusional or no—is why I use it.

Generally, though, my perceived performance is reflected in the relative numbers. If I felt otherwise I too would be complaining about accuracy.
Not really, share price is just stabilising back to November levels pre-election. The trucks were never their staple income, and there is a new Juniper model coming out which has dropped their prices plus competition from chinese brands. If you look at overall global sales, they slowed in 2024 too.
I find fitness trackers/smartwatches expensive, useless, and frankly, creepy.

Why do I need to pay $400 for an Apple Watch that sometimes doesn't have enough battery to make it through the day, and aggressively insists on tracking every movement of mine on the grounds of 'fitness'?

Seriously, that 10 hour stand goal and 'streaks' and what other achievements are just to make sure this GPS and heart rate measuring device is on your wrist every day of every week.

It's utterly incapable of measuring anything fitness related, perhaps with the exception of some cardio stuff, but it's useless for any kind of weight training.

It's baffling to me that Apple somehow got the population at large to pay for its overpriced ankle monitor and got them to upgrade to the newest model every year.
> Arguably, Google divesting Chrome would be great for the web.

Because then Chrome would slowly rot since there's no one to fund development, leading us to WebKit being the only engine, as Firefox is also defunded. I don't see how that's better.
I am a bit confused by their moving from C++ to Swift instead of Rust. It sounds a bit Apple-first. I get that it ports to Linux okay, but will it be hard to make it work with Windows some day?
Attempt? Isn't that project still in full swing?
Getting things done in a distracted world
> You will always be able to ask for textual clarification. But the big win is that you won't be bothered by sub-par quoting repost.

Why would I need textual clarification? It was/is a mediocre joke. I don't need to comment on everything that crosses my path.
I personally saw how novice Python programmers searched for “Python compiler” while their actual intent was to find Python REPL/execution environment online (pythontutor, ideone, repl.it, trinket.io, etc)

Many of this services use “compiler” in their description. It may be technically true if they use Python implementation that compiles Python source to byte code first, and then interprets the resulting bytecode (like CPython, Pypy implementation do).
What is wrong with a bot creating an account? Is their money not as green?
From what I gather, for fitness and on an individual level, the delta seems more interesting than the current rate.
wouldn't it kill those shareholders too?
Are the phones more accurate?
Yeah, part of my argument is that that 250 year number is heavily skewed by past civilizations where life was much worse and so people were much more apt to just tear everything apart. I don't think it holds for countries at current First World standards of living. As we improve living standards further the number of years regimes will last for will stretch out even more.

I'm not too crazy about this as an anarchist, mind you, I think there are better stable equilibria we could get to. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, I guess.
Yeah but it’s like using a EU vendor that hosts on AWS, if the US government wants the data they’ll just subpoena AWS instead of the EU provider. I get that it’s better but anything hosted on US soil is under jurisdiction of the US government regardless of whether it’s ultimately owned by a EU vendor.
Background music in your commit messages
It's hard to argue with the observation that government really blocks progress in so many directions. Sometimes for noble causes like preventing inequality or environmental abuse, but those are usually eventually hijacked by bad actors anyway (example: introduce regulations that make it very hard to build renewable energy - out of care for the environment and health of course, such as dead birds and infrasound noise from windmills - and thus convince society that there's no alternative to oil and gas).

People who get shit done - there are still some left - are naturally annoyed by it. It shouldn't be a surprise that if they acquire wealth and power, they will try to actually do something about it.
I get the impression they've had similar results in London. They've had ~20 hydrogen busses for a while but apparently are expensive like £500k per bus plus you need to find hydrogen.

On the other hand battery seems to be cracking along: "over 1,600 zero-emission buses currently in service, and TfL aims to have a fully zero-emission bus fleet by 2030, accelerating plans with increased government funding."
With late interpretation I mean what is after the fact.

Job has not read his own story.

A late interpretation for me is viewing him, with what he has defined.

If faith would be praying five times a day and avoiding shellfish, his story becomes meaningless.

As you pointed out well, there are many scholars who discussed faith and belief over time. I am not a religious authority, think of me as a simpleton.
You may choose their take on the word, it is a late interpretation to me. It could be a whole book on the matter.

The direct translation is reliable.
Refactoring to understand and "vibe coding"
What do you think happens when the US goes down? You don't need oil to move within a small country and we self supply on food more or less, many areas are already power independent. Who cares about the banks then?

You may also overestimate the relevance of banking for the countries finances.
I’ve used OmniGraffle for years on Mac. Notes Plus is good on an iPad.

Recently, Apple has made playgrounds more useful on iPads, so I can now save something that I’m working on, and play with it on the road.

My default issue tracking system is a sticky note pad on the desk. I write a brief description of the problem/feature, and stick it on the desk, to the left of the keyboard. When I am working on it, I move it above the keyboard. When I fix/implement it, I move it to the right. When I’m done testing, it goes in the trash. I use code and checkin comments for posterity. I’ll also use GitHub Issues. They allow me to enter bug reports from my phone or pad, and associate checkins with issues.
Sean, have you tried explaining existing code with LLMs? It also works well in my experience. [1] Lets say, better than myself looking at 6 months old code...

[1] Sure, for now I only do it on the level of functions and small files, but this is probably my fear of being replaced...
Might be worth checking if your employer has 401k matching :)
The first-party source is Mozilla themselves skirting around saying, but very heavily implying they are now selling unspecified data about me to unspecified actors, in a legally binding way, then walking it back with a pinky promise that is not legally binding, so doesn't actually mean anything.

Have you read the first-party sources?
Herein lies the problem. Multiply this by 10 countries, add in accountant fees and legal fees, HCOL adjustments, and you’ve spent $20k very very quickly before you’ve written a line of code. You might suggest “only do this if there are more than X donations from a country”, but now I need to bookkerp this which again takes away from the core goal of writing code for Firefox. Maybe I hire a fractional accountant to manage it? Now there’s an annual overhead to cover.

How much would you be willing to spot, $20 a year? To pay someone in Europe full time you’d need about 6k people to donate that annually. My experience here is that what people say they value and what they actually value when asked to open their wallets are two very different things
I completely agree, it's one of those works where the pop culture lens filters a lot of things. I think Adam Douglas himself mentions in an interview that the later HHGttG books reflect his personal depression, and the enormous time pressure they were written in. Probably the whole series should have been one book, but it also makes it feel a bit human - here's this really smart guy with a lot of brilliant ideas, he just didn't manage to fully finish everything before it's shipped.
so the trend will be to get away from mono repos for a while to reduce the context size?
Even though Mozilla tracks you and sells your tracking data?
It'll make a comeback once stored procedures can be easily written in real programming languages using standard tools.
> Safari

This is a better answer than Waterfox or Edge. Like you said, at least Apple cares about privacy enough to defend it in court.

Waterfox is dependent on Mozilla, which admitted to selling its users’ data.

Edge is an answer just for Windows, and the primary benefit to MS is getting people to use Bing, to sell ads.
That’s not what OP is suggesting - that’s a Firefox fork.
Not sure how reliable this is but in line with what you said.

https://www.carwow.de/ratgeber/elektroauto/lieferzeiten-elek...

If you can't wait 2-6 months, I agree Tesla is not a bad option.
It's never as simple as that. What it costs more to live here I save on taxes, products aren't generally more expensive, just work hours are. What's a good thing in the end as everyone earns more. Also I am an immigrant and went trough several other immigration processes and honestly it's not hard, pretty straight forward actually, if you either have skills or a little backup money.
I read the author's comments as separating out Christianity (the religion that grew from the teachings of Christ) from the actual source of its teachings.
I have an ipad pro from 2015, an apple pencil 1, and a screen protector that gives it a bit more friction. It's pretty good for the most part, but since it's my only apple product, it doesn't integrate well with anything else I use. OneNote seems to work on multiple platforms but I never got into it. I mostly use goodnotes, and they seem to have released apps for web and non-apple stuff (finally). When I used it the most, the only export I had was as PDFs to Dropbox, which was fine enough but removed any possibility of editing outside of the ipad.
>> believes LLMs will never fix hallucinations because, essentially, the token choice method at each step leads to runaway errors

I may have an actual opinion on his viewpoint, however, I have a nitpick even before that.

How exactly is 'LLM' defined here? Even if some energy-based thing is done, would some not call even that an LLM? If/when someone finds a way to fix it within the 'token choice' method, could some people not just start calling it something differently from 'LLM'.

I think Yann needs to rephrase what exactly he wants to say.
This looks great, how are you doing the benchmarks? It claims to be way faster than Redis. Can you also measure it against Microsoft Garnet? Whats the secret sauce for beating in latency?

Redis:

Write Latency ~1.1ms
Read Latency ~700µs
Max Throughput ~85,000 ops/sec

Nubmq:

Write Latency 900µs
Read Latency 500µs
Max Throughput 115,809 ops/sec

also, 700µs for Redis reads sounds high to me. Running against memtier_bench also would be great - https://github.com/RedisLabs/memtier_benchmark
You'd like the ML-family languages, which don't use parentheses to call functions.
We are 3-6 people, and our pattern is specific reaction to questions like this. "do (specific task) so I can go forward" "can someone take over communication with X", depending on what we do we react differently I will do it/it is done/please clarify. This means that if you need two people in a meeting and get two "please clarify" and two "will be there" reactions, there will be less traffic in the chat. It is more concise.

You have a hint above you need to be specific what means what, when we onboard new people we go through these things. This is a problem with ontologies you have to be specific and not allow meanings to drift.

I am not a emoji expert but this has been a way to make our chats a lot more easy to get a grip on.

We do not use Apple so do not get "Loved X" types of messages.
In a multi device world that makes sense though. If you save your passwords on your phone, you don’t want to lose them all if that phone breaks.
It’s not factorial, that’d be ludicrous… Rather it’s (n * (n+1))/2, which is similar to factorial but using addition instead of multiplication.(52+51+…+1) So a lot, lot smaller.
> That second paragraph sounds like a self-contradiction

Aside from the point you made, it actually IS a contradiction. Paraphrased:

>> Athena knew where it was relative to the surface of the Moon, but Athena did not know how far it was above the surface of the moon.

Relative position includes height/altitude? One understands from context, but this sentence does not carry meaning itself.
67% is good enough for me. I am not using it as a medical device, and I am not an elite athlete. I just enjoy doing exercise, and every now and again I like to review the stats from my watch.
Actually, the real trick is to invent the technology that eliminates the need to drill so deep. But for that invention to be made/found, we need to go a bit more "quantum".
> Encryption for end users is de facto legal almost everywhere except for UK.

Encryption is legal in the UK.

But if the government turns up asking for your decryption keys, "you can't have them" is not an option unless you wish to enjoy the luxurious surrounds of a prison cell until you change your mind.

Which, to be fair, is basically the case worldwide, as per the famous XKCD cartoon[1].

[1] https://xkcd.com/538/
That doesn’t seem unreasonable for a drive by PR to an enormous project. I contributed go an open source rust project a few years back and my first PR took weeks of back and forth. My second and following ones were merged in days.
This, the only "fitness tracker" I need is a sufficiently large mirror.
Possible but... very unlikely.
He did. The parallels between Trump and Zaphod are not subtle.
isn't Zen exactly that? Arc, but firefox
He didn't mention Hamas, or Jews. And what he said is not anything anti-Semitic either. It's also true. Under international law an invasion and occupation of one's land is a justified reason to launch an armed resistance. Like Ukraine did.

You may have wanted him to say, in that clip, "10/7 was justified" but he did not. He is simply saying that any type of amassing of arms will be seen by Israel as terrorism when they have a right to defend themselves. Do you think Palestine has no right to defend itself from Israel?
In Adams’ universe people realised early-on that under no circumstances should anyone capable of having themselves elected president actually be allowed to do the job. Presidents had too much fun being president to notice they didn’t have anyp power.

Zaphod even gave himself a lobotomy to become stupid enough to be president, unlike the current lot who don’t even have that going for them.
> The app also “triggers a text message (in real-time) to the registered owner of the vehicle, warning them that they had been found in violation of the mandatory hijab laws,

That's not what MQTT was made for... or was it?
The God's eye view is death to poetry
Assumed age of LUCA: 4.2 billion years. Age of Solar system: 4.6 billion years. LUCA had ribosomes. A ribosome is assembled and shaped by about 200 different proteins, it is an ultra-complicated molecular machine.

Conclusion: pre-LUCA evolution and abiogenesis did not happen on Earth, or even in the Solar system.

Corollary: life (at least on some primitive level) is probably common in the Universe, or at least in our local area of the galaxy.
View-Source Explorers Welcome
Thank you, the more Lisps the merrier :)
Cellular smartwatches allow you to leave your phone behind, and still be "somewhat" connected - e.g. allowing people to reach you during emergencies, calling a taxi, checking maps etc. It can unlock my front door, be used for pay for a coffee or food, and can control all the lights in my home and allow me to answer my doorbell with a view of who is ringing it. Now it also has a digital drivers license and a mobile key to my car, so I can walk out just with my watch and nothing else, and that feels liberating.

The fitness stuff is a plus - its better than nothing, and answers simple questions like how long I've hiked or walked.

Battery life is an issue yes, but that's simple - pay more and get the $800 version ;)
IIRC Github was originally written in Ruby as well.

Now that they use something "far easier to work with", the UX gets to suffer accordingly.

I've never been in a situation where making the customer happy was synonymous with applying best practices to the tech stack or otherwise making it so everyone and their dog can contribute.
A semgrep rule is not code; it does not run anything.
I think the scale you’re thinking of is unnecessary.
Call it a million a year, and that’s enough to comfortably employ 4-5 programmers to work on something full time, with enough left over to cover the lulls in income. Make it 1.2 and there’s enough for an admin person to prioritise, liaise with Mozilla, and do the financials. That’s 150x less than Wikipedia.

I also agree with you that direct donations won’t solve this, whether it’s 100k or 100M
Sure, they achieved it in 2003, that's why they signed an agreement in 2010 with Tesla to produce an all-electric RAV4:

https://archive.nytimes.com/wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07...
The right of conquest, which you are invoking, was ended after WWII, due to the disastrous consequences of its implementation by a group Israel claims to be so against.

None of what you said changes the fact that there are no non-authoritarian, left-wing countries which annex land in war. Russia does it. Azerbaijan does it. Can you give some examples that contradict this? That's what I asked. I didn't ask for a flimsy justification to flaunt international law.

I will also say, though I hope you don't only respond to this and ignore the other parts, as you've done so far, that Israel is a democracy in name only. It has many subjects who have no right to vote who were born in the land Israel controls (The West Bank and Gaza), who have no other citizenship, and who are native to the land stretching back to at least before the founding of Israel. Of course, because Israel wishes to be an state controlled by a specific ethnicity, it cannot allow such people to vote. So how much of a democracy is it really? It's as if we called the US a democracy if it only allowed voting in such a pattern that white people were always the majority, or as if Saudi Arabia transitioned to a democracy but only in such a way that House of Saud members would always be the voting majority. How democratic would that really be?
precision != accuracy,
correlation != accuracy

let f be a continuous real valued function, let c be a fixed bias constant, let pcc be the pearson's correlation coefficient function.

pcc(f) = pcc(f + c)

f + c is precise, but not accurate
Tell that to Colin Chapman!

Although yes, agreed, a few kilos makes little difference to a bus.
What a pleasant post! Always cool to see new options popping up to make the web a little bit less centralized (the stranglehold that Cloudflare holds, admittedly in part due to them having both lots of features and good execution)
I was alive in 2003. There were no mass market electrics on the road. The RAV4 nickel-metal hydride plug-in hybrid from 97-03 sold a grand total of 1400 units. Nickel MH batteries were notorious for losing range quickly, having a memory if recharged frequently from only partial discharge, losing 20-50% of their charge per month on self-discharge alone, having far less energy density than lithium, only lasting for 500-1000 cycles etc. Electric vehicles only became viable with the advent of cheap lithium ion batteries due to mass market laptop and cell phone production of said batteries in the late-00s.
My first thought upon seeing the headline was that perhaps this could be due to a workforce that has abandoned or has been abandoned by other industries- providing an influx of enthusiasm, competition, variety, and desperation.

But, then I read:

> We document that, after remaining almost constant for almost 30 years, real labor productivity at U.S. restaurants surged over 15% during the COVID pandemic.

So I wonder if it’s a combination of workers getting better tips and more people buying takeout meals?
It is actually the policy though. There are tons of documented stories of physical and sexual abuse in Israeli prisons, which hold many people without formal charges or a right to any kind of due process. That being said, lots of countries do this. Iran, for example.
Seems like HR evaluated here was just from the wrist device (like watches) and not HR strap. Is that correct?

(I only track HR with strap and power on my bike power-meter).
> no brand can be accurate on energy expenditure because it depends on a lot more things than what the watch can monitor.

I was going to quip that I can probably look at a person and state their energy expenditure with 70 % accuracy (whatever that means -- I'm going to assume coefficient of determination.)

Just someone's weight alone ought to have nearly a 70 % r² with energy expenditure. (A quick internet search suggests 71 % though I have not bothered verifying their methodology.[1])

Of course, they could mean 70 % across days for the same person, which is significantly more impressive as it takes out the strongest signals, but it's not at all clear what they actually mean and that's sort of my point.

Edit: I read the article closer now and when they say 70 % they actually mean a Pearson r of 0.7, i.e. a coefficient of determination of 50 %. Reporting r as a percentage seems confused at best, or possibly dishonest.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-relation-between-bod...
which part of "cheaper on renewals" do you not get
> Battery life is an issue yes, but that's simple - pay more and get the $800 version ;)

If you mean Watch, the best uptime has been 2 days for me. Usually just one day. It gets much worse with cellural. I don’t buy new watch until they last for week.
Long time Hetzner user, but I would not trust new system (S3 storage) in this case for things beyond playground and tests until it has at least couple of years in production - Hetzner just made it public in ~ Nov 2024.
> I guess it was just a talking point to shit on Apple’s approach?

Apple is not a sports team. What people are shitting on is a vendor-specific messaging app. It would be the same if there was a Samsung chat.
That’s assuming the divested Chrome would then proceed to lose its gigantic market share and thus the mind-boggling proceeds from defaulting to Google as the search engine. They might even be able to afford a bigger development team, if need be.
This is very cool!

Would it be possible to add Bluesky link cards? It passes through this domain to extract the link card and can be very hit and miss on how they show up.

https://cardyb.bsky.app/v1/extract?url=

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Abluesky-social%2Fatproto%...