skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Good luck finding people who want to maintain that. It just seems incredibly short-sighted unless the current batch of maintainers intend to live forever.
It looks like a straight-up bug in chroma quantization. libaom has never had good chroma RDO tuning.
I've been thinking for a while, that since these chatbots will be optimized for profit (if accounting and legal can be profit centers, why not customer service), we'll see all the same anti-patterns. You won't be able to cancel the monthly payment, or return the part, or fix the excess billing fee. Instead they will be highly trained in giving you the polite frustration and screaming anger without paying a human to absorb it. Likely, they will also gather any additional saleable personal information and legal justification for doing so.

Would you like to sign up for our new personalized support for only $4/mo? The first month is free with credit card - I mean the Nigerian scam works because of self-selection, amiright?
Since the late eighties Sweden has privatised, as the euphemism goes, heavily. In particular schools and medical and elder care have become cesspools of corruption and mob activity. It's gotten worse in construction as well.

Today some active politicians simultaneously perform as senior advisers and the like for so called public affairs, i.e. lobbying, firms. That is, in the open. The leader of one of the largest parties in parliament and kind of part of the current government had a mob leader as guest at his wedding a while back.

There's an agreement among the largest parties to blame the fallout on immigrant minorities. They still disagree about whether to also put blame on sexual and gender minorities, as well as indigenous minorities. I expect them to start agreeing more during the next election.
Historically sports was self paying and a massive benefit. I don't know what the score has been for the last 2 decades.
TV reflections, black level raise and color saturation
In the vast majority of cases, being a bad driver is a lifestyle choice, not an incurable condition. No-one should be granted a right to present a significant danger to other people as a consequence of making bad and avoidable lifestyle choices.
Quiet quitting is realizing that you want to move on in your career but every interview process takes 2+ months for beauracrit reasons instead of actually judging your ability to do the job.

Quiet quitting is having no safety net when you're no longer satisfied with your job for any reason but your Healthcare is tied to your employer as ransom.

Quiet quitting is realizing you are going to be terminated in the next wave of layoffs 3-6 months later and that your efforts will not save your job anyway, so focus on jumping ship.

Greed has always existed, this was just a new name companies tried to gaslight with. I don't want to hear about "lazy workers" in a time where layoffs (that aren't performance based) are only increasing in a society thst decides it lawful to treat an employment contract as as a toy to be thrown away at any whim.
> In reality I enjoy steering it to reach a solution.

That resonates with me. It actually brings back some nostalgic memories about setting up and constantly tweaking bots in World of Warcraft (sorry, I was young).

There's something incredibly engaging and satisfying about configuring them just right and then sitting back, watching your minions run around and do your bidding.

I get a similar vibe when I'm working with AI coding assistants. It's less about the (currently unrealistic) hype of full replacement and more about trying to guide these powerful, and often erratic, tools to do what they're supposed to.

For me, it taps into that same core enjoyment of automating and observing a process unfold that I got with those WoW bots. Perhaps unsurprisingly, automation is now a fairly big part of my job.
I think a fair amount of leniency with input is a good thing. The problem starts when you start to increase your leniency in response to someone else's out-of-spec output.

A nice thing of open source projects is that they are freeer to call out other software that produces out-of-spec output, and I would encourage them to do so... liberally.
This is different. This allows DJ software to utilize Apple Music as a library. You would still need DJ software to actually make a mix.

However, for your use case, if you're already using Apple Music, you can set start and end points on individual tracks (Get Info on the track, Options). This is nondestructive, but not specific to the playlist so you'd have to turn it off again to hear the full track, and your export options are limited to burning to CDs.
I see what you're trying to do here but....yes, actually? Or to be more accurate to what I'm thinking is that not also the job of money? To provide what's needed for a happy life and a retirement plan? And for those of us who are not in the rent-seeking class, money is acquired by working for pay. The only actual issue is exclusivity - when you can only live in company housing and can only buy at the company store they're free to take advantage of you. When the company housing has to compete with other housing and the company store has to match or beat prices at other stores they become just one more potential source and you as the wage-earner get to decide between them and everyone else.
I'm not actually sure. Using Cursor Rules, you may be able to instruct the agent to be explicit as to which project a memory is related to. And do the same with retrieval i.e. tell the agent to rerank search results by distance from the project node. The Tools are all there for the agent to use. Compliance likely depends on the Cursor Rules and the model used.
I would say that "nuclear proliferation" is about not letting North Korea or Israel getting nuclear weapons [1], not chasing random guy who tried to purchase infinitesimal amount of plutonium.

[1] As we know, both efforts failed.
A well designed chatbot is better than a well designed UI for this use case. A “well designed chatbot” could absolutely do something as common as claiming a return in an online shop.

We gotta compare apples to apples.
Macbook Pros have fans.
Neither did TMBG. It's a cover of a song from an album of educational music from the late '50s.

And the melody is a variation of the traditional song "The Girl I Left Behind" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_I_Left_Behind), which dates at least to the 17th century.
Trader Joe's has narrow selection, leverages economies of scale for relabeling, does it's own distribution, and forgoes any form of ready made/ready prepared foods (instead leaning on a large frozen meal selection).

I love trader joes, don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't be happy if it was the only grocery store I had access to. For me it's an awesome second-in-line grocery store, more like a specialty grocery than a main grocery.
I been reader for a long time and this is my observation. From 2021-2025, Daring fireball's article were either boring or very few far in between. Most are either also ran reviews of Apple products, or just rants. The best article he came out with recently was the "something rotten in Cupertino", and is also when I notice a big uptick in frequency of blogs. It was well derserved ranking, or should I say FAIR.
This was my immediate thought, but it doesn't sound like what they did. They also mention they still get the Google translate pop up - which suggests they didn't.

Though it sounds like they serve many languages, so they'd need to do each survey individually.

Maybe the survey part is an iframe?
I suppose the argument is that while the robot itself might not have run over anyone, it might have caused someone else on the road to do it.

So if we're just measuring how many crashes the robot has been involved in, we can't account for how many crashes the robot indirectly caused.
Seems difficult to me to support the idea that choosing Ruby over Python or TypeScript has nothing to do with personal preference (or at least comfort) and is purely about Ruby and its ecosystem being somehow objectively better.
I didn't learn programming by drilling on programs that I didn't want. I saw an Apple ][ for the first time when I was 8 or 9, got a TRS-80 Color Computer a year later, and since then I've been writing programs that I wanted, not programs that I writing to "practice", the whole time -- with some occasional exceptions such as a few CS classes and that time I did the whole Python course at Hackerrank.

Sometimes it's been driven by utility and sometimes it's been driven by fun, sometimes I have chosen projects meant to develop my weak spots but I've rarely "practiced" programming or any other skill.
Well, once you get over the fact that information on a TOML file can be out of order in any place, denominated by any mix of 3 different key encodings, and broken down in any random way... then yes, the rest of TOML is good.
Thanks, adding it to my wishlist!
that's the point at which you say (reasonably accurately) that the 364 byte thing is written in machine code. it is small enough to manually translate between the binary and asm
I'm a hobby / Bedroom DJ for a few years, and I still struggle with beatmaching vinyl ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just throwing stuff at the wall here - Wikipedia has a pretty long list of historical inaccuracies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game#Historical_...
gVisor runs a userspace kernel that proxies syscalls to a shared host kernel. Running an "application kernel" in userspace impacts performance because it goes through two schedulers. Virtual machine isolation is more restrictive because it doesn't share any kernel state with other containers. We have a whitepaper that compares the performance of gVisor and Stylorite/Edera if you want to see the differences http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04580
It feels so ridiculous to me that a total stranger can send an iMessage message to me, including some attachment, and my phone will process that message in the kernel.

How hard would it be for apple to have a setting of "Only receive messages from mutual contacts", and require the stranger to first "request to be added to contacts" (a message which is tightly controlled, and obviously doesn't include a pdf file or webp or whatever), and have the apple imessage server drop all other messages from them until I accept.

Signal has "message requests". iMessage doesn't have "message requests", and receives messages in a unique path which goes through the kernel.

Like, sure the attacker could hit my Mom with a wrench and iMessage me a PDF exploit that way, but I feel like requiring physical access to one of my contact's phones raises the bar significantly over the current state of affairs.
Thank you for that fantastic explaination.
In my experience, this happens at bad private-sector organisations as well. An asp is an asp, even when it's taxpayer-funded.
Craniometrix: Care for Dementia Patients
Every time you make an async call there is a whole state machine that has to be instantiated and managed. The only situations I would argue justify async over sync:

1. You are making an I/O bounded call and most of the CPU time would otherwise be spent idle.

2. You are making a CPU bounded call that the UI thread cannot directly await.

3. You need to propagate an asynchronous call context for one of the 2 above scenarios.

There are situations where you can put yourself in a position where it seems async needs to be everywhere (i.e., sharding a monolith to a bunch of separate networked elements).
Eh, I technically pay 0 in delivery fees due to uber one or whatever but the fees somehow pile up anyways…the menu price of an item somehow doubles or triples I kid you not by the time I check out.
>The skill of an average knowledge worker today is miles and miles away from elite levels.

Wouldn't that by definition always be true? Average and "elite" are dynamic values. I'm unsure if that gap is increasing or not.
Yeah, you can also use Parquet/JSON/protobuf/XLSX and store numbers as strings in this format. CSV is just a container.
> synchronous requests impact the availability of your service, because all the invoked services must be up and running in order for your service to work. The more services you rely on in a synchronous manner, the lower the availability of your service will be.

Hear, hear. And the knock-on effect is that as a developer you end up with more support tickets (because downstream services are always screwing up in some way), and your users will make it your problem.

Worse yet, once you've diagnosed the problem (partner company returned 500 for a while) and fixed it (well you probably can't fix it! The codebase belongs to a different company!), you might be stuck sheepishly asking the user to try again, because the sync control flow (including auth) starts from the user.

Had the system been built async, then the user would have created an (auth'd) request in your system, at which point you and your system can decide on your own retry policy, since you own the control flow.

If the request is reified in a queue/ledger as data (rather than being represented implicitly by services invoking one others' methods directly) you can start automating/batching your support actions. You can query "how many Requests created more than 24h ago are not married to a successful Response" and bulk-fix by re-attempting fulfillment of those Requests.

Furthermore, you might start discovering your system is a little crashier than you thought. Maybe for every Karen who calls into customer support and tells you to fix her issue, there are 19 other users who got a 500 and just got on with their day, (but probably won't renew their subscription to your service 3 months from now.)
> > this is more like "requesting the data to be deleted".

> Ideally the court can compel the purchaser(s) to destroy the data.

I suppose a court order holds more weight than checking a box on a web site, but I'm not sure how much I'd trust the eventual purchaser.

Worse yet, if the seller drops their guard (due to lack of funding for proper security) will someone steal the data? At that point web requests and court orders are moot.

I guess I'm seeing a black hat behind every bush. I'm not sure if this kind of data has any value on the black market.
I found one of the threads, there were others, too, IIRC.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41854897
They're responding to incentives. The only user that matters is the marginal user, the person who didn't previously use your product but now does. They even teach this in MBAs and economics classes. And so the only efforts that matter are those that create a customer, and hence management spends a great deal on promotions, marketing, new customer discounts, advertising, gamification, addictive usage mechanics, lock-in, etc but basically zero on making existing customers happy. It's almost better if they aren't happy - an "ideally run" company is one that has users who hate your product but don't hate it quite enough to quit using it (or if they do, they have no alternatives).

Enshittification in action.
Sometimes the data is a seep and clean-ish bell curve and average works well despite a lot of 0s and high scores.
I think the overall conclusion from this investigation must be: We'll never know because at the end of the day it's HN's site, and they are the only ones who know how moderation works. They have the logs and (presumably) the materialized dashboards showing what's going on, and we only get a peek at it when the lead moderator (dang) pulls back the curtain a little. He is very friendly, and actually very, very prompt at responding to questions (both over E-mail, and in-thread) but I've always thought the responses about moderation activity are pretty opaque. Any time something that looks like shenanigans gets mentioned, it's always vaguely attributed to "user moderation" or "automated algorithms" such as the flamewar detection, with very few admissions of HN staff putting their thumbs on the scale (in either direction). Best case, if it's true that everything is due to user moderation, it would appear the site is pretty vulnerable to organized brigading (for or against specific topics).

So we'll never know for sure. Please keep writing. I visit here -and- have your site bookmarked because I appreciate the pro-Apple take on tech news, too.

EDIT: Aaaaaaand, in the time that I typed this comment, the article predictably went from normal to user-flagged.
What's more, the biggest hit of 1997 swept the Oscars the following year. I'm not the biggest Titanic fan in the world, but it gave moviegoing masses what they craved: spectacle and pathos. And it was considered the best film of the year just for doing that with aplomb. It was very Old Hollywood in a sense. These days, "blockbusters" are thought of as just expensive-to-produce slop for the lumpenproletariat, so the studios treat them as such. No one wants to produce a blockbuster with the sort of care and attention to detail that went into, say, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Or even Titanic.

What's worse is that comedy is a minefield, as somebody somewhere is bound to be offended and launch a cancel campaign. So comedy films, including the once-beloved rom com, just don't get produced anymore like they used to. Any attempts at humor in movies has to be rolled in to something else -- superheroes talking in aggressively annoying Whedonese and the like -- and housewives must content themselves with Hallmark Channel glurge. And what humor is there is cringey as fuck because it's either entirely toothless or it's a "Straight white men, am I right?" type of thing because you are still allowed -- and encouraged -- to mock that group.

I mean, the normally sequel-averse Jim Carrey came back to do three movies about a video game hedgehog because those are the only movies being made in which he gets to flat-out do Jim Carrey stuff.
Is this anything more than just supply and demand? As a society, we have shunned physical labour as an effective means to earn a living. In the education system, we insist that everyone graduate from high school, regardless of the attained level of achievement.

As a result, we have a huge supply of young people who are college educated and have eschewed the trades because they believe that physical labour is below their standing. They're not wrong, since that's what they've been told their entire lives. They're all looking for white-collar work, but we simply don't have enough jobs for all of them.
I was a big fan of glider pro, having been born long after apple ][s: http://macintoshgarden.org/games/glider-pro

I would download it, but I wanted to be productive today.
> Please precisely define your criteria

You introduced the term. It is on you to define it. My stab in the dark to try and get us to an understanding may have failed, but that's where you would logically come in and explain yourself in better detail.

> so that I can end this discussion by giving you a concrete counter example.

A single counter example? I definitely would have never guessed that by wide-adoption you were thinking something singular. No wonder you've been so afraid to share your definition.

> Logic being, do two divisions and print the result of the first one, or if it failed, of the second one, or fall back to 42.

That too is just "if" with different syntax, and worse syntax – treading into Perl one-liner territory, but I concede that this particular example may not be a good basis on which to start from.
This is a huge deal in some industries even today. Such as film photography. No one makes 35mm cameras although it would be all too easy to rehash a good 90s point and shoot model and have it sell like hotcakes (see prices/hype on olympus mjuII). No one even makes or services lab scanners anymore; all those noritsus and fronteirs for pro lab scans are approaching 30 years old and nothing is even close on the market or could even catch up to what went on in terms of R and D building these machines for a seriously profitable industry at the time.

Film has been getting increasingly popular. Local film labs are busy and new ones are opening. It is the vinyl record of imaging. Yet despite this, kodak and fujifilm have responded as most lack of forsight businesses do and cut film stocks, raised prices, constantly trying to squeeze more blood from the stone which goes on to kill growth in the industry vs supporting it and fostering actual growth and more profits more than 1 quarter out.
The Turing test can be considered well and truly passed at this point, partially because it has always said more about the human taking the test than it did about the machine. As for the Chinese Room, it was never anything but a pointless exercise in question-begging. If anyone ever considered it relevant, the advent of LLMs should have immediately convinced them otherwise. Searle knew nothing about embedding vectors, never mind attention.

Great points otherwise, though. A strong focus on identifying, understanding, and solving customer problems is, in modern parlance, all you need.
I think about this often and it bothers me a lot.

I think the same can happen for knowledge work. Country A ends up turning into a bunch of managers outsourcing to Country B, and then at some point Country B realizes they can manage themselves. Companies are quite literally training their future competition. Once it reaches a tipping point, I don’t think it’s easy to reverse.
There are a few "wait what?" moments in the first half of the book that no other books have matched.
> literally every attachment I received into my camera roll

There's a global setting for this: media visibility: off.

Then you can enable that per chat.

I have all chat images contained to only Whatsapp by default. Then I only enable some chats (family, friends) to expose images/videos to the phone.

Google Photos scoops those and backsup all family pictures shared to whatsapp to my Google Photos.

I'm the family's reliable source of truth when it comes to family photos.
> Is Australia particularly bad about it perhaps?

Australian border security is notoriously strict. So in this specific case, yes, and everyone knows it.
Yes, this is so telling:

> For example, neither the key advance of transformers nor its application in LLMs were picked up by advisory mechanisms until ChatGPT was headline news. Even the most recent AI strategies of the Alan Turing Institute, University of Cambridge and UK government make little to no mention of AGI, LLMs or similar issues.

Almost any organisation struggles to stay on task unless there's a financial incentive or another driver, such as exceptional staff/management in place. Give them free money - the opposite of financial incentive - and the odds drop further.
In this showcase tutorial, you'll be introduced to a library that allows you to use a database in your code. DuckDB provides an efficient relational database that supports many features you may already be familiar with from more traditional relational database systems
A zone is jargon for a virtual machine guest environment (an homage to Solaris Zones). Styrolite and Edera runs containers inside virtual machine guests for improved isolation and resource management.
I think "catching loneliness from their contact with each other" is a perfect way to describe how Facebook use seems to make humans feel.
Ive had a really good group of DnD/Pathfinder in the past, but I've tried several times to join games at the a local shop and it wasn't fun. D&D probably selects for a certain type of person that might already have some poor socialization skills to begin with. Moreover, it allows said person to absolutely dominate the game and make it no fun for anyone else.

My recommendation is like yours, join a hiking group, or some other more structured activity in person where you don't have to worry about someone's halfling barbarian with agoraphobia spending your gaming session derailing the module. If you find a good group though, it's a lot of fun.
This often isn't related to a monolith vs microservice comparison. Large enterprises and institutions tend to run a lot of completely separate applications, which then end up sharing database infrastructure unnecessarily. Think of universities, for example.