skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> total number of humans who ever lived 110B

But why do you think that all 110B individuals have made significant contribution to overall intelligence?

I think, at best case, in every generation exists few significant contributors, but all others are just carriers of genome diversity and nothing more, and all they have done, just disappear as a breath of wind.

So, for 200k years, if one generation 40 years, will be just 5000 generations, ok, lets consider significant 1000 persons from each generation, will be just 5millions, 5 magnitudes less than your estimation, and BTW much closer to known estimations of humanity knowledge and size of datasets used to train largest existing models.
Remembering the uproar when Apple said 3rd party apps would have to be web apps, but didn't ship the features needed to write good web apps on the first iPhone? The term PWA wasn't coined until 8 years later, and Apple has long been accused of hobbling its web stack to incite people to ship on the App Store and pay their 30% tithing.
Judaism is not only religion in a sense that you go to synagogue to pray. Being a jew is not only about religion but also about traditions, e.g., celebrating jewish holidays, teaching your kids about history of your people, etc.

If you do nothing jewish, then I would argue that you are not jewish in a cultural sense. You still would be a jew from a religious point of view (if your mom is jewish), but if you do nothing jewish, then you are not jewish.

I guess what I am trying to say is being jewish is not ethnicity only, or religion only, it's both. For example, converts are considered jews despite their non-jewish ethnicity.
If you read my linked comment, I'm talking about using the WHOIS service [0] ICANN is sunsetting that's been talked about in the post, not about getting domain information in the web.

The only way (that I've found) to use the WHOIS service with the .es ccTLD is whitelisting a fixed IP address with your national ID at a government site [1]. And even then, you're rate limited to 10 queries per minute.

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0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS
1: https://sede.red.gob.es/es/procedimientos/solicitud-de-acceso-servicio-de-whois-por-el-puerto-43
Why wouldn't he make that choice?

I don't know where you live, but he lives in a country that's surrounded by theocratic dictatorships, failed states, and Islamist terrorists who livestream murders and kidnappings.

His choice seems perfectly rational to me.
Thank you for this excellent post! I've been developing [my own platform](https://github.com/MattTriano/analytics_data_where_house) that curates a data warehouse mostly of census and socrata datasets but I haven't really had a good way to share the products with anyone as it's a bit too heavyweight. I've been trying to find alternate solutions to that issue (I'm currently building out a much smaller [platform](https://github.com/MattTriano/fbi_cde_data) to process the FBI's NIBRS datasets), and your post has given me a few great implementations to study and experiment with.

Thanks!
NLS, the system demoed in the Mother of All Demos, was a lot less well known in 1984 than it is now and I doubt anyone expected it to be delivered by packet-switched IP or HTTP (which didn't even exist yet).

In 1984 the big hype was ISDN - digital telephony to the home - and all the wonky (and expensive) special services and gadgets you could layer on top of a whole two digital circuits. What killed that future was a combination of corporate ineptitude[0] and government action to kill AT&T's monopoly before AT&T got big enough to just buy out the US government.

The thing about the Internet is that while it was invented very early on, it wasn't accessible until far later. The Internet was a DARPA project that had escaped into college campuses. You needed a hookup at a local college campus in order to even access it. In fact, USENET users refer to the time when normal people could just sign up to AOL and get Internet access as "the Eternal September" because it was an immediate and measurable cultural change. I think it's fair to say that the Internet before September 1993 was a fundamentally different concept than what was available afterwards, and for most people, that is when the Internet launched. September 1993 to 2009 takes us from "hey AOL has these funny new 'Internet' forums" to "tweeting on my iPhone in the bathroom".

Other NLS ideas have similar trajectories. The mouse saw use in workstations but it took Apple and the Macintosh to try and actually make a mouse-driven computer for ordinary consumers. Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu was getting plenty of Autodesk money in 1984, but the hypertext protocol we actually use, HTTP, was invented at CERN in 1991. A lot of technologies are good ideas being held back by a world that isn't ready for them yet.

Blockchain finance[1] is more akin to Xanadu or ISDN: something that exists because it's creators would be rich if it took off rather than because it has some obvious value to it. It runs off hype. As a regular Internet user, it actually provides negative value, because the people who actually gain value from having a financial system with nobody to tell you no[2] are literal scammers and thieves.

[0] ISDN was notoriously poorly rolled out in the US, as BRI lines had been priced as a business service. Most people didn't need two lines over one wire and all the other usages of ISDN were purely speculative. Other countries whose local phone companies didn't have their heads up their asses actually did manage to sell it on the basis of clearer calls.

[1] Being very specific here in case someone shouts "Git is a blockchain, your argument is invalid"

[2] Well, unless what you want to do is raise the base block size of Bitcoin, then there's plenty of people who will tell you 'no'.
They're not required to deliver your package where USPS is and can be done for flat rates. It's the problem with spinning out government services and trying to run them like a business, they're not there to make money they provide a service.
another illegal walled garden method
Doesn't seem to have "RTFM" (Read The Fucking/Friendly Manual)
> The author seems to conflate "dark" with "adult"

Oh, how I agree with your comment!

This is a bizarre trend I've also noticed. Also unfortunately helped with the "adult" monicker for anything showing sex, which is in reality generally more aimed at horny teenagers and so-called "young adults" rather than grownups.
> Experts in C taking longer to make a slower and less safe implementation than experts in Rust?

How do you know this exactly?
A regime can now force you to install their "root certificate" (and forcing organizations under their rule, e.g. national banks) to use a certificate issued by them, and these certificates would also be able to MITM your connection to e.g. Google. (1)

Looking forward to Americans being forced to install the DOGE-CA, X-CA or Truth-CA or whatever...

1) https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/12/18/kazakhstan-roo...
It's not only fog. Depending on pupil size it can also be rain. But during my thesis 10y ago one of the big limitation on horizontal line of sight laser telecommunication was scintillation due to turbulence. And this phenomenon appear in clear weather condition with heat. So it was limited in clear and sunny weather.
I don't know what up time did there expect ? But the bandwidth should fluctuate a lot.
No, that never happened. The US was in control and then voluntarily left.
Exactly. It is about expectations, and it is about inbalance. Every employee expects ideal benefits with minimal work, every emplyer expects ideal work with mininal benefits. The reality is balance here is one of very many possibilities with leverage being most of the times one one side, rather than in the middle.

Complaining about the structure is like your sales complaining that your customers choose your competition's product - nobody cares.
What about Arcade's handling did you like?

Your example is a pretty cool concept. I'll have to try it out!
That is clearly a false equivalence though. Being born in a country is qualitatively different to working in a military unit requiring security clearance.
I'm talking about the time analyzing, not the time executing. And that's definitely abstract.
And, as I mentioned, this applies to my design work too. And when programming. No words involved, until I write the documentation.
Which they never advertised it to be. Nor is my toaster and my oven or my xbox
Using "GEGL" IS it. That is not an industry-standard term familiar to users of image-editing software. "Gaussian blur" is.
Maintenance of two infamous guns: the AK-47 and the M16
> How long is high-variance, but if DOGE cuts and counter-tariffs hurt too hard, then Congress could flip in 2 years and Trump may find himself impeached

Except that the Trump regime is dismantling enforcement of voting protections, dismantling due process, and directly using force against people expressing dissenting political views, all of which are pretty good signs that there won't be anythig approximating free and fair elections in 2026 for Republicans to lose.
> But I'm the end, who had to flee

No one fled.
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I do not get smartwatches after having 2 of them. Back to a simple digital dumb watch.
Music isn't in the list of apps and I don't see any way to add it. I would love to fix this in my car radio.
Don't forget MFDs from military/aviation/marine interfaces. Buttons on the edges of the screen, and the interface has little boxes with a word (or abbreviation or icon) for what the button does just above each button on the screen. When the system mode changes, the boxes change their contents to match the new function of the buttons. So you get the flexible functions of a touch screen with the tactile feedback of buttons.

Some test equipment (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, etc.) has the same thing.
This sounds as interesting as hearing about a dream a stranger had last night.
If your value prop to customers is seamless and secure default behavior, then of course blocking insecure peripherals aligns with your financial interests. This doesn't seem nefarious at all to me.
I almost bought one and I'd love to.

But then I've read in the Q&A about the tariffs and how that would affect the price at time of shipment.

This is too much uncertainty for me.

I've got no incentive to buy from the US right now, as a European.

I wish you the best of luck, as you definitely put a lot of love into it
If you've never worked at a company that uses rippling or deel you wouldn't. They are niche HR tools, mostly targeting smaller companies.
That's the problem. Apple has two arguments. It obviously only tells us about the one that sounds good.
[dupe] Discussion & links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43400989
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They don't have to. The creation of such a direct government subsidy to bitcoin holders will drive the price up anyway.
Jagged Flash Attention Optimization
I’ve seen it with binary files a number of times.
It's not a problem, it's a good thing that someone's financial interests intersect with sound security practices.

That like saying "people want reliable cars" conveniently aligns with Toyota's interest and implying there's something wrong happening.
I feel this.

About seven years ago, I was working full-time at an amazing but consuming job, raising a family, and surviving the pandemic. I was also writing every single day on a large textbook. Then within the span of about six months, my dog got sick and died, my mom got cancer, and a few friends and family members died unexpectedly. I kept writing every day while dealing with all of that. I literally wrote in the waiting room while my mom was getting CT scanned. I kept working on the book as the pandemic reared its head and politics went insane.

I got through it all and finished the book, but I haven't felt the same since. It's like some nerve in my soul got burned to a cinder and is no longer able to fire.

I've spent a lot of time in therapy which has been amazing, but I'm still not what I'd call all better.

My hypothesis is that I spent so much time compartmentalizing emotions like anxiety, grief, sorrow, and hurt in order to keep moving forward that I got too good at stuffing them in a box. The only way to avoid being overwhelmed by them was to sever my connection to all of my feelings, which meant I lost access to joy, humor, whimsy, and passion too.

I'm working to rebuild that connection, but it doesn't come back easily.
Heart rate sensors have a number of uses aside from fitness tracking.

I'm guessing comfort wasn't considered because it isn't a common complaint.
A salute is just as much an invention as a car. As you pointed out, the politics of a carmaker almost 9 decades ago has little bearing on the car-buyer of today. If the people who invented a decades-old concept behind a salute are dead, then why should said salute have any relevance to the modern consumer either?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27789910
Seems there are only two actions: positive and negative.

Hardly useable for a message reply.
Agree with sibling, security theater largely. I suspect the logic of banning is to stop recordings of conversations, whereas Bluetooth is just a protocol for sending data. Eliminate collection sensors and mediums for transmit are fine.

I did decide to purchase a Pebble Time Steel and a new battery alongside the Core 2 Duo. I hope that with Eric back in charge, the old Pebbles will be allowed to use the new app and hopefully get modern apps.
Schwarz Group seems to be getting traction in that space. (stackit)
I'm glad Apple's financial interests are aligned to my interests of not letting the eco system turn into a shitty Android-esque privacy wild west.
Because in the relevant distros it is included in the first-party feeds. Only Debian acts like a special snowflake making it needlessly complex for everyone (including Rust). I believe there is an ongoing work to modify .NET's full source build (i.e. https://github.com/dotnet/source-build) to satisfy Debian's admission requirements, but really it's a problem inflicted by Debian on themselves, not the other way around.
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Bluesky was developed with backdated posts as a stated goal, see Jay's original prototype: https://github.com/arcalinea/smor-serve
Hopefully we can just get away from "MBA types" vs. "software types" altogether.

You should be well rounded. Managers with MBAs who work for tech companies should be able to have technical conversations, and be able to share their opinions with technical people without sounding like imbeciles. Software engineers should be able to understand and discuss business considerations without sounding like it is beneath them, or similarly sounding like they think the money just appears in the bank account magically.

The healthiest organizations promote this multidisciplinary approach, they invest in their employees to help make it happen, and most importantly and perhaps most controversially, if you're not well rounded and knowledgable about all aspects of the business it is extremely career-limiting beyond the lowest levels of management or whatever the terminal IC role is in the org.
Yes. Until you are 40 ...Read and hear for yourself:
https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/28/

"Now Avishai has left 8200 and went off to co-found Wix, the website building tool.
It’s crazy to think that the co-founder of Wix is an expert hacker, someone who’s broken
into multiple countries and conducted massive amounts of espionage."

"Once you get out of 8200 you’re then a reserve and have to spend up
to three weeks a year going back to 8200, refreshing your skills
all the way until you’re forty"

"There’s also a yearly reunion where you leave your family and
spend a week with your fellow soldiers you served with.
Every year they do that. Keep in mind, all this is happening
in a place not even as big as New Jersey with roughly the same population.
Look at how dedicated they are to keeping these connections with one another.
This has powerful results. Everyone knows everyone."

"Imagine if one 8200 member goes off to work at Google to help
"develop the Chrome browser and then goes back to 8200 as part
of their yearly duty and while there, they see a soldier building
exploits for the Chrome browser. What do they do?
Do they take the exploits from 8200 and patch it in Chrome
or do they help their fellow soldier by sharing the source code?"

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/28/
Doesn't change the overall power usage though. It is a lot.
It’s not exactly a new thing, either. Even back in the 80s and 90s, many times Apple either implemented obvious-in-retrospect functionality from popular freeware/shareware themselves or bought up the shareware and rolled it in.

This is also one of the things that makes a big difference between Windows and macOS when getting a new install/machine set up to basic usability. With the former, before I can get anything done there’s a whole laundry list of things that need to be installed and removed (which admittedly is now easier now that winget comes preinstalled), while that list is much shorter on a Mac. For me personally getting through that phase takes at least 3-4x longer under Windows.
I am aware that apple blocks certain functionality to maintain a cohesive and secure experience. It is THE reason I buy their products, I want the curation. Otherwise I'd buy an android device.
Yep, gonna unplug my Alexa tonight now. Maybe I'll try setting up openHAB for controlling my smart lights.
> How do I climb out of this? What programs, jobs, or options are out there for someone like me who’s got skills, drive, but no resources?

Go to your local libraries; the most beneficial programs are likely to be local to you, and the librarians are more likely to know about them than we are.
i find that interpretation a bit of a stretch. you could have expressed that more clearly. especially given that the obvious solution is to have local backups. what else could you do?

i have been discussing this on HN before in the context of a multi TB archive of photos and videos (part of which happened to be for a film project, so similar considerations apply). raid, external disk, and remote copy. for the film footage, everyone working with it has a full copy too, even if they don't need all of it. just in case. if you need to work with the data there is pretty much no other option.
This is (I guess) not what OP meant. Apple obviously also gains financially from blokcing everything outside of there ecosystem, mainly because the majority of Apple users will only buy Apple hardware.
Obviously, yeah, keeping the hardware a bit more safe also helps, but the main financial gain is definitely not coming from this.
I agree the best paper award should go to the paper with the strongest contributions, perhaps with writing quality as secondary. I don’t agree with your last sentence.

Writing quality is often a make or break thing when it comes to whether a paper is accepted or not, mostly because it makes a paper easier to understand, ie its contributions and the evidence that they are truly there are easy for a reviewer to pick up on and appreciate.

Furthermore a well written paper is a far larger contribution to the research community - the audience post reviewers - than a poorly written paper with the same contributions, for the same reasons: well written papers can be a joy to read, particularly if a leap in contributions are presented in an easy to understand way.

I understand that these things are cultural (ie field specific) but this has been my experience.
I just assumed they were bots since they seem to be clicking at the rate limit.
*why not more SRAM?
Affinity does the same thing; I don't remember about Photoshop.

The obnoxious thing is separating "save" and "export" into different menu items. Much (most?) software lets you choose "save as" (including saving as a different format) from the regular File/Save dialog. But Affinity Photo (and apparently GIMP) forces you to cancel out of the Save dialog for the millionth time and go back to the File menu and choose "Export." It's annoying and unnecessary.
I hope you knew that was coming, that would be terrifying out of the blue
Yes, but this badge is generated at their Appview index layer and not at your PDS.
Why doesn't Apple openly market that it's doing stuff in its financial interest? Is it too embarrassed to point that out?
SRAM is very area intensive. What you're asking for is very greedy. The RISC-V core they are using is absolutely tiny.
Also, don't shrink away from toil or lack of pleasure- to an extent.
So sick of this strawman dialectic from the apple-brained, where the alternative to the walled garden is the worst possible implementation of an open standard.
'Vibe Coding' Is Super-Charging Startups, Y Combinator CEO Says
The rizz.
I see. I didn’t take it quite so literally on first read. It initially read (and still does if I want it to, I guess) like people being upset about reddit using their posts for AI training, which I’ve never understood. The second sentence in particular.
The constitution of a nation and its practices are separate axes. Many US states practiced the functional equivalent of apartheid until the 1960s, but the USA was still a democracy nevertheless.

(This is not intended to reflect any opinion I may have about Israel's specific practices.)
In what world is screenshotting an iMessage enough to move them out of the security boundary
Military service is compulsory in Israel, so being a former member of 8200 isn't exactly unusual. Given the choice between spending two or three years as deployed infantry, or writing code in an air-conditioned office, I suspect a few of us here would choose the latter.
between the restrictions, apple dropping the ball on AI, and Gemini slowly improving, the idea of Google significantly leapfrogging Apple in end-user experience is not that unfathomable any more.
An incredible number of Python questions get marked as duplicates years after they've gained many answers and many user upvotes. Then when you look more closely you see that questions or answers are merely related, but not the same.

Unfortunately SO has incentivized marking-as-duplicate by a mob of people who are not skilled at discerning the distinctions between issues. The distinctions would have been clear to the original question askers and answers who devoted time to the topic but not to people taking a "mile high" view years later and with no "skin in the game". It is unfortunate because knowledge is being lost to incorrectly tuned gamification incentives.
Ask HN: Best book/course/resource for personal finance or financial literacy?
Where I come from, people don't get any education in financial literacy. Things like investing, budgeting, taxes, credit, credit cards, insurance etc. Had to figure that stuff on my own much later in life.

I am part of a mentor group for some high school and college kids now. I want to avail a recommended resource to them to get their feet wet with personal finance and financial literacy.

Any suggestions are welcome. Or also, what would be the topics a thorough curriculum on this would cover?
Today in “why enumerating badness is stupid”.
Similar but reverse, I felt unfortunate to have read the novelette after watching Terminator because part way in the story I thought - this is almost all of the AI/self replicating autonomous robot points of the Terminator movie just without the time travel. The movie addition of time travel adds a bit of hope to an otherwise totally bleak story resolution.
There's a whole second blog post about Apple support being discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401245