skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew someone that used to work on the Alexa team on the language side of things. She had an emotionally terrible few weeks at one stage, because she and her team had to brainstorm (working in conjunction with experts) on just about every possible way users might ask questions that indicate they're being abused, so that they could provide suitable responses. Glad to have worked on it, but it was heart wrenching in many regards.
I googled a bit around because I found the requirement weird, and it's slightly misleading. Candidates need to have a separate bank account for the election, so that it can be monitored (there are various limits to how much funding they can get and so on as far as I understand).
Game design suggestions for preserving the Minesweeper flavour (e.g. tension to not explode!) and to discourage random guessing:
- Every time you explode a mine, you can't perform any actions for the next 5 seconds in addition to losing a few points.
- Exception: for the first little bit (say 5-10 seconds, or until a certain percentage of the board is opened) no punishments for incorrect actions (maybe just scores, but don't allow scores to go negative).
- Modify flagging to be private per-user information (don't provide any points for it) and allow undoing flags. As someone else mentioned, this keeps with the flavour of the original minesweeper where the goal is clearing; mines are automatically flagged at the end.
> one of those countries has a president who basically tried to stage a coup, and now are back in power ignoring any rule of law

President Yoon of South Korea has been suspended since December, as a result of the martial law incident and the following impeachment. (Actually, Yoon's prime minister, who first became acting President, was also impeached and suspended. It's someone else now.)
In Haskell:

flip_one Posn(a,b) = Posn(b,a)
flip_first p:ps = flip one : ps
flip_all ps = map flip ps

To my taste that's a lot nicer
In Europe Apple was forced to allow side loading + alternative app stores.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/117767

Might be possible to do more (like call private apis) when apps don't need to pass app review.
"If I have to show my card to get into Costco, the free samples aren't free"
Ah yes, a chat bot that is consistently failing to do such advanced tasks as counting letters in words is definitely life-changing, right next to the metaverse and NFTs.
Isn't this sort of an inconsequential point? The commit still has one and only one author and that's almost certainly what I'm looking for so I know who to go ask questions about their code. I also use it to find the commit but less frequently.
git help mailmap
Eric, I’m interested in what you learnt picking up a 10 year old open hardware project.

I’m especially interested in the “revival” nature of this project. How did staying mostly true to the original vision guide you practically?

You mentioned briefly that some apps may have stopped working as they attempt to hit now no existent url endpoints. Least of which is likely the old official pebble endpoints.

Have you done any design work as a revival project such that the project will be more robust in future. Eg 50 years from now, if things didn’t pan out and your company is still here, such that the watches and their apps are all that bit more resilient?

Curious as to your thoughts on designing in longevity of serviceability into this reboot given you can feel that yourself.
The point about Israelis and jews is perfectly valid. I probably know more about the country of Israel than plenty of jews in the UK (and I don't even know that much).

With zionism, it's a little different: a person is a zionist by virtue of simply holding an opinion, and it's an opinion I have to imagine most jews hold.
> Boeing hasn't killed someone yet.

The 737-MAX killed 346 people. Which reinforces your point rather than taking away from it. In any sane world the CEO should have gone to prison for that, but instead he walked away with $62 million.
Indeed, the relief is great. However, there are relatively few users of virtual threads yet. Even fewer are keeping up with the releases. Those using it in production already managed to work around the issues or have given up on it. We will hear more when Java 25 is released (which will be an Oracle LTS version) or if a backport to LTS 21 happens.
She was incredibly popular and people wanted more, Harris didn't capitalize on this, she did the opposite.

https://techoversight.org/2024/09/25/khan-kanter-poll/
Just realized the French lottery is only 19 068 840 combinations. You could send spam to 19 millions people, each with a number saying you can predict the lottery, and if they send you 10 000 euros in BTC, you could give them the next one.
Isn't this just the latest cut in your democracy's death by a thousand cuts?
Why would that be ironic? That is quite expected and in fact the reverse would make no sense. Only the people who understand the meaning of the word can be turned off by its meaning.

That’s like pointing a finger at someone for denouncing slavery or nazism because to know those are bad they would have to know what they entail. Yeah, that’s exactly how it works. Knowing what something means does not indicate you agree or approve of the thing.
Apple certainly doesn't have to do free R&D for third parties. They could, instead, not ship features that work exclusively with other Apple products. Or, hey, there's also the other valid option of "don't be the exclusive gatekeeper of the platform", they're welcome to take that one too.

When Apple goes up against governments over encryption, I'll cheer them on with everyone else. When Apple is engaging in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce) , I have zero sympathy for them.
RealPage was DoJ. As was the Google search litigation where DoJ proposed Google divest Chrome.

Which is by way of saying, the FTC and Chair Khan were not responsible for those.
NAN is a part of the IEEE standard for floating point operations. AFAIK there's nothing which would prevent a NaN from being passed into your function--because NaN is a possible value for a double.

I believe what would happen in that case is that the comparison with (celsius < -273.15) would return false, and so it would not return an error object, but it would fall through into multiplying the Nan by 9, dividing by 5, and then adding 32.

All of these results would return a NaN, due to Nan propagation, and then the function would return a NaN.

I don't know Scala at all, so please let me know if any of this is wrong.

--//--

As for what changes to make: well, I'd add a comment which said that this function should take a temperature measured in Celsius and return the same temperature measured in Fahrenheit.

No matter how much time you spend designing a function (and, ipso facto, how much money your employer spends for you to design that function) you are never going to foresee all possible ways that function will be used.

But that's ok--somebody can come along and fix a bug, or enhance it, if they know what the function should be doing.

This just can't be the code itself saying what it should be doing. If the code itself documents what the function should be doing, then it can't have a bug--what is is doing is exactly identical to what it should be doing.
> But isn't that's the case Pebble is making here?

>> No, the case they are making is that Apple is making things worse for Apple users. They haven't done anything to effect the Android watch experience.

What? Pebble is making the case that Apple is making things worse for Pebble users on iOS devices than for Apple users on iOS devices.
That's the case.
Android Wear is in the same boat as Pebble here.

> They create a market

>> They didn't create a market in this case. They created a product, which is the Apple Watch.

They created a product to sell in the market they already created, because an iOS user is free to buy any competing watch he wants, but Apple sets the rules for those competitors while setting other rules for itself.

> Apple actually acts as a gatekeeper to the smart watch market when used with their devices

>> Wrong- they act as a gatekeeper to developers, not to users.

What's wrong? What users? Thanks for confirming what I wrote.
You agree that Apple acts as a gatekeeper to developers, which means that they control access to the market these developers are trying to reach.

> If the new Pebble's core product was their app, then all of this would indeed be anticompetitive behavior

For a Smart watch, Apple requires that the core product of competitors must involve an App, and Apple is the gatekeeper for that App and thus also the gatekeeper of the competing watch-product.

Their own product requires no dedicated App and can offer features of iOS not accessible to competitors
He was talking about Trump
I searched the site and got negative result. Sorry anyways.
The whole benefit of LLMs is that humans are not consistent enough. Or at least Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft all believe normies don't want to be consistent enough to speak the most common input the same way, allowing to use much simpler and efficient approaches to voice input - like the ones that worked off-line 15+ years ago on a regular PC.

LLMs are actually the only reason I'd consider processing voice in the cloud to be a good idea. Alas, knowing how the aforementioned companies designed their assistants in the past, I'm certain they'll find a way to degrade the experience and strip most of the benefits of having LLMs in the loop. After all, as past experience shows, you can't have an assistant letting you operate commercial products and services without speaking the brand names out loud. That's unthinkable.
Ask HN: Is there a fast/performant alternative to Excel?
I like using excel for quick analysis/calculations but I find it falls apart if you have like 100,000+ rows

Does any company make an alternative that can handle large amounts of data?

I don't need super fancy features, just the basics like being able to run a formula across a column or do pivot tables

I feel like there is an opportunity for a company to make something like this, even if it only supports a subset of excel features
You can click on "continue without supporting us".
Everything?? Or do you just mean digital media?
This is not correct.

The copyright office itself doesn't recognize any transfer of works-for-hire [0] unless there's (#3) a written document of the transfer, (#4) signed by the recipient, (#5) signed by the copyright holder, and finally (#6) the work was made expressly as work-for-hire. Every employment, contractor, and freelancer contract is written with all of these questions accounted for.

Even wedding photographers keep the copyright of the photos they take of your wedding too for this very reason, unless explicitly contracted to transfer those rights.

[0]: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ30.pdf, page 5
What comparison do you think the parent comment is making? They just vaguely gesture at corporate personhood and say "what about that?"

My best reading of it is "can 'they' say that corporations can author works?" and excepting works for hire, no, "they" can't.
Let me draw your attention to "Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons" (1995)[0]. Basically, it takes a nation state 4 years to develop its first nuclear weapon, and no amount of explicit knowledge-sharing speeds up the process. The only thing that speeds up the process is sharing tacit knowledge by embedding a nuclear scientist who has already been through the process.

[0] https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1018881.pdf
Post in which simonw explains the "snapshot testing" approach: https://til.simonwillison.net/pytest/syrupy
https://elonmusk.today/ tried to keep a list of promises
Wow. Our phones all do the same thing there's no doubt.
For that H100 image, how do they get the top surface of all the chips on the same plane? Do they solder them "upside down", so the chips are sitting on a reference plane, and the PCB is allowed to "float"? Or is the soldering controlled enough that they can just heat and be done?
For what it's worth, Trump isn't unique in being sanctions happy. His drug of choice is tariffs, and those are more simply statutorily remedied by making IEEPA [1] actions subject to (a) a mandatory delay and (b) the CRA [2].

[1] https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45618

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Review_Act
> interest in technical matters is driven by a trauma response... attaining mastery over an "objective" arena allowed us to feel better about our place in the world.

Interesting insight. I do think there's some truth to this - seeking an "objective" truth is emotionally comforting because it eliminates all the messy ambiguity of human culture.

But it's not that technical folks lack these social skills, it's that we've been conditioned not to use them for fear of appearing subjective and not rigorous enough.

In it's toxic form, this leads technical folks outright rejecting messages from anyone who tries to be charismatic. The effort is viewed negatively and with suspicion. Surely the correct answer would be dull and obvious and not require showmanship to convey. Charisma is an attempt to manipulate the room using levers other than objective facts. The horror! /s

Reality is you can't ignore the human factors. Your ability to sell the idea is just as important as your ability to code it.
That is insane. AWS has more complicated policies, GCP literally lacks ability to even have easy security posture in many cases.
I don't think advertising is immoral, but the techniques they're employing are.

Advertising with something like a banner ad, that is related to the content of the context, is moral.

Advertising a full screen, non-closable ad, that has content related to gathered facts about users, is very immoral, death penalty immoral in my opinion.
Is this linked to the fun & free Electric Sheep collaboratively-rendered screensaver in code, personalities, or just in spirit?
Why is the person who "took the photo" the thing that pressed the button and not the person who did 99% of the work?
Only the Cybertruck is like that.
Wow, we are living a lot of the same life story. That feeling where I imagine would it would feel like to have something enjoyable to look forward to, but I'm not. Hoping that I will somehow come to terms with my grief for a death of someone close to me. I keep kind of grinding it out in my tech jobs, maybe not as bad as yours. After that death, after covid, the world just wasn't fun anymore. I have talked to a therapist about it, but didn't get anyway. What I wish I had was a new mission in life. I was so excited to go to grad school, loved my first job. My family is fine. They need more of me probably.

And this is my anonymous online diary.
WWDC22: Create macOS or Linux virtual machines [video]
If they did then the monkey wouldn't have been awarded copyright on that photo.
Another interesting European hosting company is Hostinger
https://www.hostinger.com/
> AI which still offer all sorts of opportunities for disruption

... such as destroying what's left of the entry to junior-level job market. And perhaps in the near future, mid-level too.
In fact, Elon Musk is the source of the hatred. He can’t seem to go a day without amplifying weird depraved shit like “Hitler was actually a commie” and “recipients of benefits are part of the parasite class” that makes people shudder with disgust. Plus the whole illegally dismantling our federal government thing.

Maybe Tesla should change that.
Many vested interests really want to be artists without putting in the work into the craft required to be one.

Of course, other interests simply want to cut out artists entirely while claiming their creations totally aren't a result of stealing Petabytes of existing artistity.
I think the problem is that nobody makes a smart watch as good as the Apple Watch, so people already in the ecosystem have no real reason to care that it's their only option. There's a reason Linus Sebastian has been wearing Apple Watches for years despite being a self-proclaimed Android fanboy.

This is only getting attention now because these new Pebble devices are offering an Apple Watch alternative people actually want.
The current Reuters headline is "US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator". That's still kind of clickbaity, but far more accurate and correct than the link I see here on HN.

This whole case has been a dumb waste of time for anyone but scurrilous headline writers.

The plaintiff insisted on filling out the copyright app with their "creation" in the author field. Every legal opinion since has had to start assuming that's true, making "no copyright for you" legally obvious. The plaintiff apparently tried to walk that back on appeal, to argue he authored the work using the software. There's a paragraph right near the beginning where the court points out it simply doesn't consider that argument, since it wasn't brought up to the Copyright Office, back when the plaintiff was insisting on the opposite.
What a beautiful comment even though it is beautifully off topic :-)

Love the sentiment - knowing it’s ok to “just be yourself” adds value to others reading this. And often as not, what you say while being yourself is actually a contribution, you just don’t know it.

And now back to the half-life remake.
> Something that helped was re-connecting with the past version of myself by going through some truly ancient computer backups. To some extent it put me back into my prior mindset, and so now at least I’m doing things explicitly because I want to and find doing them enjoyable.

Heh, this is so poignant for me, but for me, it's going back and reading old journals/writings - I write a lot, so much that most people don't want to read it all, so a lot of it when I was younger went into journals. One entry in particular was after I had just lost my father, in front of my eyes, in kind of a violent/traumatic way - I was in my early early 20's and had no idea what I had been experiencing was some kind of PTSD, but knew enough to know something weird was happening to me, so I wrote everything down in a little journal by hand.

Recently, in a fit of frustration, I picked it up (this is now 15 or so years ago) and I found an entry I had forgotten about - a wildly delusional (at that time, if you had known me, you would have considered it delusional) passage where I aspired to lift myself out of my situation and said I wanted to study CS, or as I put it that time, "something with computers," and even named my dream university I ended up transferring to in the end. This was many years before any of it ended up becoming reality, and I became proud of my past self, and I felt that connection a little bit of what you are describing. Until I read that I had no idea that where I ended up was exactly where I intended, I had lost sight of that.
Yet Apple is fine letting users browse Safari with an unfiltered internet. If their APIs can't facilitate safe permissions for user data, maybe they need to re-configure their security model to look more like the Mac. UNIX solved this decades ago.
It's not that the AI is considered a person. It's that your inputs were the same in both cases, and it's your creative input that justifies the copyright.

If your creative input was insufficient to justify granting you copyrights in one case, they would also be insufficient in the other case, as the inputs were identical in both cases.
Ik. I have friends from Haifa, Nazareth, and Beersheba. There isn't an easy way to write Israel, Israeli Arab, Palestinian Arab, and non-Palestinian Arab.

My point is, anyone who isn't Israeli (be they Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, Ethiopian, Arab, Druze, Chechen, etc) or Palestinian should stfu (me included).

You have wackos saying "Israel is a fake state" or "raze Gaza into a parking lot". Yet if you talk to an actual Israeli their opinions are much more prosaic. It's just a complex situation that outsiders shouldn't comment on.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7060016?hl=en
While I really do like wireless charging for watches (no exposed electrical contacts == easier waterproofing and no corrosion to worry about, and the battery capacities are so low that slow charging barely matters): 2 and 4 pin magnetic charging cables are extremely common in smart watches, it's what pebble used before, and it sounds like what they're using for these as well. "Standard pebble charger" is listed in the tech-specs, which likely means the 2-pin version.
I believe, for bitcoin, that only works to spend coins from addresses that have already been used to spend coins, which, is therefore discouraged as a way to hold bitcoins? Instead, best practices are to, when sending from an address, to send all the unspent coins to addresses that have not been sent from yet. This does make things marginally harder for providing an address for people to send to though, because one has to change the address they are to send to at least every time one wants to spend what one has received.

For chains where one uses one persistent address, in order to allow other important features, then it could be more of an issue.

Still, I think solutions will probably be put in place before it becomes a real issue.

… hm, come to think of it, the use of public/private key pairs in cryptocurrencies, is, I think, pretty much exclusively used for signing, not for encrypting, right?
In that case, it seems like an option based on hashes and ZKSNARKs should be able to play much the same role? So, even if all the purportedly quantum-safe alternatives to RSA and ECC end up vulnerable for the same reasons, I think probably something that only does the signing part should be possible? Or, hm, at least in the interactive setting…
EUV lithography machines are borderline science fiction. I mean if you look at all the steps included it's mind boggling. Shooting tiny droplets of tin with two lasers at a speed of 50k times/second, harvesting uv light through atomic precision mirrors, moving wafers with nanometer precision and all that in perfect vacuum. You watch the video demos and seems like you're watching a sf movie.
Why do you think that? This obviously does not preclude copyright interests from existing in works which were generated using "AI" as a blanket rule; rather, this is about the fact that the applicant persistent in insisting that the author of the work was an "autonomous[] computer algorithm".

Do you think autonomous computer algorithms (to the extent we could suppose they exist, for the sake of argument) should have a statutory right to copyright?
Based on the contract you signed, yes. Though there still are stipulations for you as a designer. You can't design Mickey Mouse and then Disney says "you're not allowed to say you designed Mickey Mouse". Accreditation of the individuals is the very mimunum of protections you have as an artist who surrenders their copyright.
What's the overlap between hard core Trumpers and people that want an EV though?
https://archive.is/xFwdN
yeah it was a bullshit piece all around, but this sentence really stood out.
Nothing in society operates in a vacuum. The ASML/China issue doesn't exist in isolation. Obviously, there are plenty of levers to pull elsewhere in trade and policy, and many things more important to either side than the ASML issue.

As for the nukes, I invite you to imagine a hypothetical: what if Netherlands really, really wanted to sell a lithography machine to China, for whatever reason (say an ancient prophecy compelling them to), and the US really, really wanted for that not to happen (again, prophecy of something). Try to imagine how those negotiations would go - step through them, like you would a loop in the debugger, and tell me where you believe it stops.
Why did they annul it? I'm assuming they gave a reason, not sure if that's a reasonable assumption.
Google Messages is telling users to install a phantom update
The first three words that got into my mind (kernel, Linux, operating system) were not here. I guess this is for another sector of IT?