skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This doesn't change the fact that there are a large magnitude more iPhones that exist that will never be used for their full potential.

Depends I guess? Having a lot of power on tap can show up in transparent ways as well as obvious apps. Apple is definitely leaning heavily on their SoC for a lot of their computational photography stuff. Pros may prefer to just shoot RAW of course for decent reason, but having a system make "good shots" fairly point-and-shoot at the cost of a ton of compute is a real value add for lots of regular people. A lot of people also do some real gaming on their iPhones these days, and those can absolutely push the GPU. Maybe that doesn't fall into your definition of serious, but I don't think it's quite fair to dismiss any use-case valued by customers. There are also extremely practical energy saving issues like the race to sleep. Often the faster a chip can do a job and then return to hibernation, the better the energy efficiency. A lot of normal usage is very bursty, and like it or not on the modern web there are tons of sites that can hammer SoCs pretty hard. Everyone cares to some degree about battery life and responsiveness in handhelds.

If there was some big cost for this that'd be one thing, but there really isn't given the economics of modern silicon design and fabrication. Apple amortizes R&D big time across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even stuff like the Apple TV. Relentlessly pushing forward the units on the phones feeds directly into everything else. And even if most people only use the full potential a fraction of the time that may be a very valuable fraction, and what will take off in the future that might use it isn't always clear.

Though one thing that is clear is that wearable displays and serious AR/VR are the big next disruption/extension event for computing, and Apple like every other player needs to be ready. That's going to take a ton of compute power along with highly evolved environmental sensor usage and fusion. They have to be working towards that for years and years beforehand, and clearly are.
While I agree that AI in current forms can be very useful, I believe that the problem of e.g. driverless taxis requires understanding of other humans and empathizing with their intentions to be truly viable. Driving is a social activity, and the current self-driving tech is about as convincing as trying to carry on a conversation with Alexa at a party. I do believe that we need AGI before self-driving will be more than a better cruise control.

I think the better cruise control is very useful and I love to see it, but Tesla’s marketing of it as “full self-driving” is disingenuous as best, and industry-chilling + deadly (as we’ve seen) at worst.
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I'm not aware of any links that force open in Safari?
I suppose it wouldn't. But, if you're going to do it as a feature that's built into the core language, I'd say that's even more reason to just do it Kotlin-style. The other main downside of doing it that way is that it needs to be baked into the core language and can't be pushed out to the standard library the way you can with optional types. But that wouldn't really be a practical difference compared to an optional type implemented without full-fledged generics.

The other big distinction between the Kotlin approach and optional types is that the Kotlin approach introduces no new run-time types. Null safety is checked statically, and then you're done. That's a big part of why it plays nicer with an existing standard library. It also means, though, that you introduce no extra run-time overhead, which I would assume is something that's considered pretty desirable to gophers.
You get to choose which app is default app in iOS 15 and 14 as well I believe and maybe even before that. Not forced, just the default.
> Intel and AMD should consider how much goodwill they may gain by just removing IME and PSP.

Too small to measure: the subset of privacy activists who are concerned about it is orders of magnitude smaller than the number of IT workers who use those features, and that's a tiny fraction of the number of people buying computers.

Calling it as a backdoor is your choice but consider that using a term not following its standard definition is not likely to be effective or good for your credibility if you're trying to draw attention to something more important in the future.
Doesn't that require the competition to then use GPL code from this publisher? That seems a harder pull than, just make your JSON look like this spec.

E: it's MIT but, still.
Hopefully permanently.
TBF we've actually maintained the Windows Console for the better part of 5 years and we're incredibly passionate about performance. We live and breath in the commandline. Performance has always been one of our P1 priorities, because improvements to the console have second-order impacts on the entire commandline ecosystem.

There is an engineering tradeoff though - we've only got so many devs and at a certain point you have to say "good enough for now, we'll come back to this, let's go do this other thing for now". The Terminal is faster than conhost was, and that's a good place to start, but I don't think anyone things we're done working on the Terminal, and we're certainly not done working on its perf ;)
That exact case seem a very appropriate scenario for clarifying? Microsoft kept saying something was difficult, whilst Casey knew that it was not, so really he was being polite by first confirming that there wasn't something he'd overlooked?
Ask HN: Where can I find the Pandora papers?
I always hear of these leaked papers, Panama, Wikileaks etc and never actually know where to find the whole lot.

I would like to do some text analysis on the Pandora papers. Where can I find or download these papers? I am guessing there are in the public domain now so I am not requesting anything illegal
I'm going to try to take this comment seriously, difficult as it may be. How does Blockchain solve data interoperability in this case? Does the Bitcoin protocol have special support for cannabis crop lot numbers I missed? (I said try...)
Not only that, Reddit is an echo chamber, populated by people who claim to be tolerant, intelligent and open to new ideas. In reality most are single minded and will attack annoy one those who don’t share their believes.

I closed my Reddit account after the last Danish parliment election, when it became clear that only left wing politic was considered “correct” and apparently any liberal party or candidate is not to be trusted, so no argumentation would considered valid.
Also Speedtest.net for me is showing a 503 error page. Seems a large CDN might be having problems. Their status page shows all green. FB and their other sites are also down.

edit: I see it's back up and I've been getting downvoted, here's a screenshot of the error for clarity

https://i.imgur.com/wvhOwwL.png
Monopolies don't see themselves like a normal business, one that has to compete for customers by serving them well. Instead, their thinking is more like a cattle rancher: the users are their property, to pen and milk as they see fit.
This is a tech preview (“public beta”), not a release. And they won’t be releasing a new paid version of Fusion this year, so this will stay a free public beta for a while.

Also, VMware is ready to add ARM64 Windows support if Microsoft creates a legitimate way to license it.
Seems to be affecting all Facebook properties.
No, I'm getting their error page, so Load Balancers or whatever is behind.
EDIT: Or at least not /just/ DNS.
a recent macos installation fresh configuration does try to steer you towards using safari several times with popups and reminders.
It was posted recently, so there's some discussion here[1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23469233
Nuclear does take a long time to design, approve, and build. I would like to see somebody do a financial analysis comparing the cost and power generated timeline for spending the same amount of money on solar, wind, and nuclear. It doesn’t seem that research is really an impediment to majority renewable energy at this point.

I am pro-nuclear, but would like to actually see how an equal amount of resources would lead to what power and when to give arguments like this teeth or debunk them.
> (b) predictions were worse because data from plane based weather radar was missing

Is plane based radar even used for forecasting? I cant think of what advantage it would have over satellite and ground based radar, with the possible exception of data gathered midocean (where land radar doesn't exist, but there also arent many people).
Microsoft, there's no need to do this. I already use Edge because its features and quality, don't make me regret it.
nslookup www.facebook.com 8.8.8.8
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53

* server can't find www.facebook.com: SERVFAIL
If there is a potential conflict of interest you should tell the client and let them decide.
> If you clear your Google history (as you should), can they still respond to an order like this with your name?

Assuming they still have the data (didn’t delete it, just “cleared” it), then yes.
> Running Jenkins in a cloud-native environment is possible, but it is not a piece of cake. Kubernetes is designed to run stateless software, where Jenkins is a stateful application.

If going the Jenkins route, why run it in Kubernetes when there are battle tested alternatives?

If going the Kubernetes route, why not use a Kubernetes native CI system?
No like for you
I believe so. But I dont read German very well and I don't trust Google Translate so I am not ruling on that claim.
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The down page shows copyright from 2020 smh
Thoughts and prayers...
Ironically the dashboard status page is also down
"it's a reflection on themselves or their skills when that's often not the case." - it is often not the case, but often considered the case.

Successfully climbing the corporate ladder requires a set of skills, observational and behavioral, that people as teenagers or college students didn't think were necessary.

Say, your manager does not want to hear bad news. They panic, they get mean, they betray when faced with bad news. Should you tell them bad news or make the bad news less bad when not fairly ok? Sure, you can change jobs etc., but given that you want to stay at that company/group/position, should you tell them bad news? The answer is of course no, because it is much easier for them to panic one more time than to change their ways.

Basically, the correct (fitness-optimizing!) behavior is mostly situational, the behavior of the shrewd corporate player at the IC, manager, and leadership level depends on the company, people within the company, and situations within people within companies.

Of course, most of us would love to see a different world, but this is what we have as of now.
If Amazon has to remove egress fees to compete, wouldn't that be a pretty significant disruption to the industry as well? The author's argument isn't that Cloudflare is going to take S3 out of business, it's that removing egress fees makes a whole new class of applications viable. I don't see how the S3 removing egress fees as well would change that argument—it would still be Cloudflare that pushed the storage industry to this new place. In fact, S3 having to remove egress fees to compete would be probably be greater evidence for Cloudflare's disruptive effect :P
Apple is fine on macOS — changing your default browser is a simple setting. Their behavior on iOS, though (outright preventing installation of other browsers) should be illegal, IMO.
Pandora, if I'm remembering correctly, also has a feature that Spotify lacks, which is to say "I don't like this" for a piece that it chooses. Although I couldn't say how much that influenced its later choices, it feels better as a user to be able to convey it.
Whatsapp's down too. Tough month for FB, especially with the leak.
A common bit of knowledge here on HN is that "Ideas are worthless, execution is everything". Most ideas do not occur to just one person at a time... typically dozens of people and groups are working on the next incremental advance in human knowledge. Patents are awarded to whoever has the most aggressive lawyers, not necessarily who actually had the idea first. Beyond that, most innovation is funded by government grants and universities and should be public domain, not some professors property. And most importantly - patents stop all new further innovation, especially when a company owns many patents in an area. Why do you think there is only 2 airplane companies - Boeing and Airbus? They own all the patents you would need to start a competitor.
Facebook down, WhatsApp down, but Signal still works. Time for a change?

EDIT: Yes, Signal is not federated, but that's what people are at least ready to consider as a WhatsApp alternative. I also created Matrix / Element account, and had 0 contacts using it already.
Seems to be DNS related.

None of the listed facebook nameservers are resolvable or reachable:

a.ns.facebook.com
b.ns.facebook.com
c.ns.facebook.com
d.ns.facebook.com
One thing that triggers my OCD is leaving the Facebook session open, though it's my own computer.

Maybe it's DNS. It's always DNS.
Exactly, server failed on Fb corp
Whatsapp down as well
That's why XD
As far as I can tell, he:

1. Never claimed this is actually happening - just that it’s a possibility he’s considered. I don’t think that these kinds of ruminations are so odious and dangerous as to necessitate them being hidden or removed from view.

2. Never claimed it was illegal. In fact, I’m certain the operation as described by OP would be legal (in many jurisdictions) unless there was another component involved, such as identifiable price gouging.
Mobile app hangs too (I am from Italy btw)
I've never had any url open in Safari instead of the default browser on macOS.
Well said. I use Edge in my Windows 11 VM (for Fidelity Active Trader Pro) and I like Edge a lot. Might reconsider now.
From that light, I think the article's point is that rules of the environment have changed so much that the archetype of the lone-programmer is becoming obsolete in the workforce.

I've always worked at agencies so I get exposure to a great deal of projects, and I do partly see what they are saying. More and more parts of orgs are becoming intertwined with software, and they're becoming better at software, requiring you as a developer to organize and connect all the loose bits and pieces everyone else has made to achieve tasks. That takes communication and collaboration even if you're the only developer.

Half my days are spent getting access to SaaS accounts, figuring out who's in charge of what, finding out if certain things are still in use or not. A task like "automate a monthly sales report" becomes a journey of discovery, where you don't have access to anything, and nothing lives where you expect it to.

A single piece of functional software, built from the ground up, is not usually what I find in a new project anymore. More often it's a hodgepodge of SaaS that's opaque and hard to reason about in whole, but each part made sense at the time.
>refterm was ready to replace the terminal app

Considering Casey himself puts front and center the disclaimer that this is solely intended to be a reference and goes into as much detail in his videos I don't know where you got this from. I don't think anyone is under the illusion that this is could replace the actual terminal. It's just meant to show that there's a minimum level of performance to be expected for not a huge amount of effort (a couple weekend's worth) and there is no excuse for less.
According to Mozilla, they have 200 million monthly active users. According to Google Play Store, there are 100 million installs. How many Android installs are used? Half? I'd suggest there are 2 or 3 times more desktop users of Firefox than Android.
definitely disagree with the 'Concise Error Handling section', at least without a lot of enhancements to errors first.

yea, there's a lot of error handling code in Go, but a lot of the time its not just "if err != nil return err". errors are a simple interface type with an 'Error() string' function. This is NOT ENOUGH METADATA for real usable errors a lot of the time. Lots of codebases are littered with stuff like 'if err != nil return errors.WithStack(err)' simply to attach a stack-trace to an error coming from an external dependency. Sure, the enhancement proposed in the article doesn't preclude you from continuing to do that, but it doesn't solve the actual shortcomings of errors either in my opinion.

Errors in golang != exceptions common in other languages, I get that, but that doesn't mean I want to have to remember to attach standard metadata to every possible place an error bubbles up in my application. It's a consistency and simplicity problem too since some places you can just bubble an error up transparently, and sometimes you've got to wrap it with metadata for reasons that aren't obvious just by looking at the immediate error handling code. Thats a problem.
Most people follow/mirror the views of the leaders they identify with. Unless environmental groups come out in favor of nuclear energy, people will continue to be against it.

For the environmental groups themselves, this is a rather complex topic since they will be forced to embrace something they’ve vilified for several generations.

Anyways I hope there’s a stronger push for nuclear but I’m not counting on it. There’s no subsidies/incentives in the BBB plan, no major political player seems to be embracing nuclear etc
Yup. Not sure if connected but their stock fell 5% too
Definitely DNS. facebook.com might be in your local dns cache.
6 billions vaccine doses have been injected, about 1% of the world population dies every year, doing simple math, it means about 160000 people should die less than one day after getting the vaccine from unrelated causes. Heart attacks are a common cause of death, if not the most common, at around 1/4. It means 40000 of these deaths should be heart attacks.

That's enough for me to believe in coincidences.
Further up, the wording is:

> Prucalopride is primarily prescribed for constipation, and has an acceptable level of side effects if taken under medical supervision. (Italics mine.)

That seems rather different, and far less reassuring.
The second paragraph is more than "slightly aggressive" in my mind and it ruins the post. It is a wild theory based in no information at all. Cloudflare has a pretty coherent business model already.
Have you ever graphed the accuracy over time for the years you've been doing it? It would be interesting to see if there's a trend in forecasting improvement.
I didn’t personally find it aggressive, I was just attempting to understand the motivations of your down voters.
Could be centrifugal force due to the earths rotation but more likely has something to do with temperature. Could be a combination of both. I'm just guessing though
Confirming that we're seeing a major outage with all of our integrations with FB products.
I think as long as they were given State-supplied acting lessons, it would work.
Facebook went down (error page, then 503) before DNS went down.
Shallow things like humans love for symmetry, bigger, more, shinier makes it easy to rank. Humans or life in general love easy
Ironic enough; status.fb.com also down.
To be fair, the number of people killed directly or indirectly from Chernobyl (as well as children born with birth defects, higher cancer rates regionally, etc) is hotly disputed and certainly higher than the "official" tally.
Steering and forcing are two different things
Duplicates:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748233

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748199

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748159

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748246

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748131
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Andreessen participated in that "hoodwink", convincing investors to cede control.

> Realistically this practice should probably be banned...

Post Jobs, Larry and Serge were determined to not be ousted from their own creation. Others founders followed suit. And since returns were so good, investors played along.

Methinks that after Zuck and Neumann and others, investors have lost their appetite for being sidelined.
But a dev is often part of a pipeline that includes e.g. dedicated QAs. I'd also argue that common hardware is a lot less varied that common software architectures.
As are Instagram and WhatsApp
This might get me some shit but running away like that isn't a good trait to have. Not for Microsoft, but also not for themselves. This will probably be in the back of their mind for a chunk of their career since they have no closure.

I would expect somebody working on a greenfield project at one of the biggest software companies in the world to tackle issues head on with grace.
Lol, yes, it is their flagship browser for all of their operating systems. I would sure hope that would be the default behavior or else I’d be getting a lot of phone calls from family members.

Edit: mods quickly downvoting my comment. Okay. Will tell Paul Graham.

Edit 2: every HN comment should lack any emotion or anything. Just robotic comments. Got it.

Edit 3: Do better.

Edit 4: HN bubble thinks they’re above everyone else. Have a good one.
The "A" in AI stands for "artificial". Intelligence demonstrated by machines.

Human intelligence is natural intelligence.
When reviewing goverment grant proposals I am not allowed to review anything coming from the same university, even if I work in a completely different department/campus etc. same goes for conference reviews, but somehow if there is much more money involved the rules don't apply anymore?

Generally the rule for declaring a conflict of interest is not if you think that you have a conflict of interest, but if your role could be perceived as a conflict of interest. I would say this is clearly the case here.
They have the ability to do so, if they want.

I don't think they will need to as those types of bugs are exceedingly rare.
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Any 5/10 Gbps from Amazon/AliExpress will work for 4k@60Hz.