skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved the idea of it but in practice I found that I barely if ever used it and the bugs and issues were plain annoying. Stuff like it getting stuck in 'volume control' mode after engaging the slider and being unable to close it or persistent touchbar apps not being so persistent. At one point I attempted to use one of those dock to touchbar apps which worked great and I assumed would help my productivity since I use the dock in a hover to show mode but I found that it often just disappeared to be taken over by default functionality. Which might've been an app bug, I don't know. The promise of it was really cool but it never really ended up being all that useful for me so I sort of forget it even exists.
Or bigger fish like Nancy Pelosi who discretely trades through her husband.
I don’t see that as being distinct from Brexit - which was absolutely a constitutional change.

With Brexit, the UK deeply and seriously considered constitutional change and decided to go through with it.

It wasn’t like they had some nefarious end in mind, realized the EU was getting in the way, and decided to withdraw to pursue this nefarious end.

They left the EU because they wanted to leave the EU.

Edit: I suppose it’s not really about Brexit, but about making trade agreements with the EU.
Colin Powell: The Vietnam War Years
Though ironically the macOS Monterrey RC actually came out the same day as this event.
I’m not particularly surprised. They have little to prove with the iPhone, but have every reason to make every measurable factor of these new Macs better than both the previous iteration and the competition. Throwing in a future-model-upsell is negligible compared to mixed reviews about Magsafe 3 cluttering up reviews they otherwise expect to be positive.
I am quite astonished as I have the opposite experience. My Airpods only go flat during long phone calls of more than two hours and I had them for at least a year before the Covid lockdown.

You have a larger n than I do, but still I am surprised that they would wipe out after a year.
I think you have to balance that against the fact that the recreational dose of lsd is so infinitesimal that 10000x that dose is still very easy to ingest in the blink of an eye. Not so for alcohol.

That said, even after reading wikipedia's source on the ld50 of lsd, I remain unconvinced that there even is a lethal dose of LSD.
Oh, I didn’t notice that the directory[1] only has compiled source. Wouldn’t hurt to file an issue, maybe no one ever asked him for it.

[1] https://github.com/philogb/page/tree/gh-pages/myriahedral
POWER9, RISC-V, and ARM all have microcoded instructions. In particular, division, which is very complicated.

As all CPUs have decided that hardware-accelerated division is a good idea (and in particular: microcoded, single-instruction division makes more sense than spending a bunch of L1 cache on a series of instructions that everyone knows is "just division" and/or "modulo"), microcode just makes sense.

The "/" and "%" operators are just expected on any general purpose CPU these days.

30 years ago, RISC processors didn't implement divide or modulo. Today, all processors, even the "RISC" ones, implement it.
What would happen if your backup harddrive at your friends' place was stolen / destroyed / went bad?
I just deployed a WordPress container on the same host that runs everything else. Makes me a bit uncomfortable. Was thinking about running a VM just as a Docker Swarm worker node, but this post reminded me that these virtualization runtimes exist. Looks like there's a drop-in containerd replacement using firecracker. Kata containers look a bit better supported, though?

Or am I too paranoid about container escapes?
Pretty sure that these are the only ones with their contour design, so I suppose this is truth in advertising.
There were some horror stories in YC about staff running certain receipts thru expensify, leading to bank or bitcoin accounts being penetrated and stolen.

I have to concur - i've had the ability to steer companies away from their product.

Expensify was OK before all the OCR stuff and shady billing.

Now with the S1 filing, whatever good designers and engineering talent they had will bail, and the company will be a hollow carcass of its former self. Avoid.

NOTE: the shady billing practices are traditionally the precursor to an S1 filing. Usually, a company going public has earnout/incentives, so they will do whatever it takes to increase revenue preIPO, even if that directly impairs the company's long term future.
B2 definitely has egress charges, unless you are going to one of their partners.
yeah ok, thanks for your input
I haven’t looked at their numbers at all but Amazon was also famously unprofitable for like the first 10 years even after ipo, sometimes it’s just accounting games.
Did you hackintosh? Because I sure as hell am not running Windows and Linux is great for VMs/containers/servers but doesn't run all my local software.

If you don't mind Windows, lots and lots of cheaper options. But you already knew that.
> Laptops with the camera below the screen tend to have an uncomfortable angle that look sup your nose, and the design suggests that they may be adding Face ID in a future iteration.

I agree it's probably designed with a future FaceID implementation in mind but if this isn't the case, Dell have managed to move their camera back up above the screen on the latest XPS's. In my opinion, this is the best looking option currently:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81FV+91am5L._AC_SL1500_....
They very much put some numbers on performance in the keynote, you can go back and watch it.

The Max:

10.4 tflops

327 gtexels/sec

164 gpixels/sec
Sean Eddy is seething.
They didn't say they were profitable - they said they were cash-flow positive. And if you look at the cash flow statement in the S-1, they were indeed cash-flow positive in 2019.

It looks like much of the difference comes down to stock-based compensation. This doesn't cost the company any cash, but under GAAP, it has to be recorded as an expense. (IANAA, so take what I say with a grain of salt).
Note the year on that post.
My most cyberpunk achievement is that I profited from a bitcoin ponzi scheme.

Many years ago (back when Bitcoins were ~$20), there was the PirateAt40 (Trendon Shavers) "Bitcoin Savings and Trust" bitcoin lending ponzi scheme. At the time, it was huge, thousands maybe even tens of thousands of bitcoins were invested.

Claimed that there was some scheme for providing short term liquidity to bitcoin OTC sellers or something like that, and offered a 7% PER WEEK return rate. Eventually had a fancy lending website so everything was self service.

"According to authorities, Shavers possessed about 7 percent of all bitcoins in public circulation at the peak of the scheme." (https://www.vice.com/en/article/nz7dy8/the-man-behind-bitcoi...)

Though I strongly suspected it was a ponzi, I deposited ~$20 of bitcoin, collected a few weeks of interest and successfully withdrew. The ponzi scheme imploded just a several weeks later, with the withdrawal mechanism being disabled and then several months later the creator was arrested. There was massive panic in the bitcoin community because a lot of people lost a lot of Bitcoins - the scheme lasted for months, maybe over a year, so trust gradually built over time until the rug got pulled out. Was interesting to see so many people defending and believing they would still get their money back after the writing was already on the wall.

(Some facts probably aren't accurate, but that's how I remember it)

Modern crypto lending platforms seem more legit but have that same familiar funny smell to them. I'm sure some are on the up and up (8% APR is much more achievable than 3372% APR... haha), but suspect a decent percentage are just ponzis with a nice story to get investors to buy in. Some people will pull their money out and be happy with the returns, some will 'invest' more than they can afford to lose and have their lives ruined.

Please think very carefully about the risks of using these lending platforms. Personally, I don't think 8% APR is worth the risk.
I know the commenters on Ars had previously dug into his past and made some conclusions as to who he was working for, but its good to see his admission that they were right
I have this problem too. A shame as walking the dog is a good time to catch up on phone calls
Backblaze B2 charges egress (at 1 cent/gb) with the exception of egress to bandwidth alliance members, B2 storage served via cloudflare is interesting because it means no egress charges, but unless you're just using it to serve normal webpages you're probably breaking cloudflares TOS.
Ha, I still use an intel 5775c in my home server!
You forgot corrolary 2)a) backdoor license other people's content under the guise of the Monetize option in Content ID.
One of the key points I was making was that pure AMD laptops have not had the high-end features afforded to those with either Intel or nVidia hardware. These Lenovo ThinkPads use AMD both for mainline CPU as well as GPU purposes (i.e., it's an APU that serves both functions).

Laptops with only AMD for CPU and graphics acceleration have been notably absent from the 4k club until just now. That was the crux of the entire article.
Ooh they're shipping the 16-inch with a 140w power adapter:
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MLYU3AM/A/

Sadly looks like its still not GaN, this thing is a beast...
First gen of m1 mac was first Apple product that i bought. I can't say i like Apple ecosystem or macos. I am opposite of Apple fanboy. I don't like Apple and this price they made me pay another reason for it but simply anybody who want and who can afford will buy it. There aren't any alternatives.
Thanks, I'll check this out! I just need to run Python on Ubuntu, so hopefully that isn't too crazy of a use case.
> That's possible with static linking,

Yes, but in practice it tend to not matter.

> (1) If you statically link against an LGPLed library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application.

Now to get the "oh C objects" thing out of the way, GPLv3 defines:

> “Object code” means any non-source form of a work.

Still this means what you need is to distribute you application in a partial compiled state which can be relinked with the LGPL library (or a updated version)
to re-produce the final application. (You also might need to provide the tools to do so if they are not freely available.)

Also let's not forgot the context, i.e. you don't want (or can't) provide the source code of the "main application" which links against the LGPL library.

Now if you program in C, providing a (set-of) pre-compiled pre-symbol stripped objects is feasible.

But most (new) programs are not in C anymore and most new languages do not have clear ABI boundaries at library level. Only clear API boundaries.

A good example are generics or template programming.

E.g. even in C++ if there is heavy use of template programming around the library boundary can make LGP infeasible for that use case. And we are still in C++ which is rather close to C in how it compiles stuff.

If we go a step further, e.g. into Rust it becomes even more of a mess. (It is possible, at least theoretically, with a lot of hacks and restrictions, but totally a nightmare not worth even considering. And again if generics are used a lot, all the generic code at the interface boundary leaks.)

Then there is the additional complexity this introduces to CI.

So possible yes, but for many projects not worth considering.

> What the LGPL requires is that the LGPL part can be replaced.

Not quite, they require you to provide intermediates which can be re-linked with a alternate version of the library.

Which means if you want to e.g. provide the functionality through binary patching it gets tricky, because you need to provide a binary without the LGPled library (1) which you then can "patch" the library into. Instead of being able to provide a binary with the LGPled library in it and allowing you to replace/update it. Which means various approaches around binary patching just became way more complex.

(1): The reason for it is that the object you provide falls itself under license terms.

So ya, no dynamic linking requirement. But for some modern languages still a major problem. And conceptually too closely bound to the concept of the C-compilation process IMHO.
In at least one of the charts they had the M1 using 100 W less power than the top spec laptop. So they must have had that thing clocked pretty high.
Hah - the idea of changes to your contractual billing rate being classified as marketing emails... one really does see something new everyday in tech...
If you examine the financial statements you will see that they were Cash Flow positive in 2019 (but not in 2020).

It’s also important to note that being cash flow positive is not the same as being GAAP/IFRS profitable (Net Income).
Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
Yes I’m sure Apple timed it that way on purpose :-)
Well that sounds like an interesting group.
Macs haven't had nvidia GPUs for a while now, so not surprising they're unsupported.
> Wow looks like Apple has abandoned every bad decision on the MBP for the past 5 years in one swoop.

Not unless they disabled all of the spying in MacOS. Doesn't matter if you bought it, it still isn't yours. Hard pass.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25078034&p=2
Or people jumping ship because of the CEO's "muh fascism" email sent to all customers.
I get recruiters from companies big and small spamming my inbox, my voicemails, and even sending me SMS messages multiple times a week (if not multiple times a day). It's really not a big deal that a company CEO sent out one email which accurately warned people that Trump was a danger to democracy.
That's the tactic, if you ban a group of people from your platform. They search for a competitor, then they can say oh that competitor is full of XYZ undesirable people, you don't want to use them.

YouTube itself use to be the fringe.

https://odysee.com/ is a site I have seen a lot of mainstream people promote.

The problem is actually discovery, it doesn't really matter who sends you bytes it's about users discovering your content, which YouTube has the monopoly.
> (HDMI used to be useful for plugging into a projector for presentations, that use-case is now nearly non-existent now that all meetings tend to happen over zoom, webex, teams, hangouts, etc. even when in-person. HDMI used to be useful for monitors but increasingly displayport over usb-c is supported by everything except the lowest end monitors.

> the cheap $400 monitor market.

I found your employer is great and you're rich.
Apparently at the Apple store they have some kind of putty they stick the Airpods into to get the gunk out of the grilles.
They kept the case design that requires two hands to operate and prevents installing a tether clip.

I have both AirPods Pro and Bose SoundSport. The AirPods Pro have good noise-cancelling. But the SoundSport clip to my shirt and so are always available. I can use one hand to put the right-side in my ear and press one button to turn them on and answer. I can also remove both earbuds and drop them. The tether keeps them in place on my shirt. I use the SoundSport almost exclusively and rarely touch my AirPods Pro.
I can't speak for the other commenter, but for me the M1 air is so good I wouldn't feel the need to pay several times more for a "pro" machine.
Same, I use a mechanical keyboard at my desk, and being forced to use the laptop keyboard would drive me insane. I spilt coffee on it and ended up upgrading to a 2020 Pro which (to me) is just barely bearable.
Let me tell you how this design is dysfunctional: It puts a piece of hardware that many people don't even use regularly in a very prominent place, in a way that many people find disturbing and unappealing. The UI needs to accommodate for this ("looks great in dark mode") to lessen the impact. The best thing you can say about it is "it's not that noticable" and "you'll get used to it".

There's another foolproof way to tell that the notch (on the iPhone) is a bad design: Nobody is copying it.
I think this is pretty easy to math: M1 has 2x the efficiency cores of these new models. Those cores do a lot of work in measured workloads that will sometimes be scheduled on performance cores instead. The relative performance and efficiency lines up pretty well if you assume that a given benchmark is utilizing all cores.
Tao: Facebook’s distributed data store for the social graph
From the study: "For instance, in a report released from the Ministry of Health in Israel, the effectiveness of 2 doses of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine against preventing COVID-19 infection was reported to be 39% [6], substantially lower than the trial efficacy of 96% [7]." Those are not the numbers I've been getting from the media. I'm quite shocked and surprised.
I have not looked at the financials, but equity compensation to employees can often be vesting at a significant higher rate around the time of an IPO and push an otherwise profitable company into a short-term net loss.
A Not-So-Lonesome Dove
"It makes me sad, in covid times, that the airport is now a gateway to contagion rather than adventure.But that’s all the more reason to tap my travel memories, which are the ultimate staycation. I don’t even leave my own skull!"
I think the slightly longer answer is that the SEC emerged as a way to regulate and moderate the cycles of investment capitalism that dominated the US economy for over a century: the bank insolvencies and speculative bankruptcies of the westward expansion; the fraud and corruption of the pre-Civil War and Gilded Age/Long Depression; and the evasion of state regulations and rampant double-dealing by financial institutions in the 1920s — plus the boom in junk finance, lightly-regulated developing world bonds, and boiler room operations as the SEC was deregulated in the ‘80s, to say nothing of the emergence of complex derivatives in the ‘00s. As a result, the operating mental model of regulators is that investments require strong regulatory oversight, because loosening restrictions has uniformly wreaked economic havoc.

However, they also have to balance systemic risk agai st the need for access to the capital markets for smaller (and, yes, riskier) companies, which is why we have reg D offerings. Traditionally, the balancing test has been whether the “accredited investor” can be expected to have access to knowledge and expertise sufficient for them to understand the risk of unregulated and often complex offerings, such as convertible notes. In practice, this usually covers institutions and high-net-worth individuals, who have no excuse for not availing themselves of such expertise, or at least are less likely to lose their shirt if they don’t do so. Systemically, this prevents people from rushing into less-regulated, more risky investments that could create the kind of fiscal and political instability that marked earlier panics — reg D offerings may be riskier, but this way the SEC can manage just how many people are exposed to that risk. (You can, justifiably, be cynical about the fact that very large institutions will happily sink tens of billions into high-risk investments and get bailed out thereafter, but that leads to the question of whether it’s actually worth tightening regulation at the price of reduced financial innovation.)

BTW, the SEC has also recently opened up 501(D) criteria so a lack of net worth can be balanced by an appropriate professional or educational background that would give the investor the ability to judge risk, though I don’t think this has functionally changed the definition yet in the field.
As someone that didn't like originally giving up my ports and thought Jony Ive was a bit too overzealous with thinness, I actually don't think he was wrong.

USB-C is pretty great, and the sooner we shift things over the better. When I bough a MBP with only USB-C ports I just bought a little dongle thing that slots in to my two ports on the side and gives me USB-A, HDMI, SD and MicroSD. I've used the thing around 20 times and its never been a burden because I carry it with me in my laptops case.

At this point I actually see adding the other ports back as a step backwards. HDMI is old and aggressively large in 2021. My 3 devices that use an SD card actually use a microSD card so I need to carry around an adapter anyway.
No, you have to create a new game based on the OpenMW engine.
Kinda like FreeDoom for Doom.
There are other forms of danger apart from lethality, and before new recreational (or therapeutic) drugs can be accepted by society, those need to be culturally understood.
Sure, every time anything happens to you, your state of mind is different. My point is that the relevant part of your state of mind doesn't necessarily change.

If you report a different number, that means some things in your mind changed. Those things may or may not include the level of pain you're experiencing.

Let's take an example with a bit more objectivity. If you ask me to rate how long a tv show is on a scale of 1-10 and I know the show is 30 minutes, how do I turn that into a 1-10 scale? Suppose I mostly watch shows with 12-minute episodes. This is relatively long, so I give it an 8.

Later I start watching hour-long shows. You ask me again how long this show is on a 1-10 scale. Now I put it at a 5. I don't think the show got shorter, and I don't experience it as being shorter. I just changed how I contextualize the length of shows for a 1-10 scale.

It would be silly to say that watching hour-long shows is a good way to shorten the mental experience of watching a 30-minute show.
What other options have there been? Apple? It's too expensive for the majority of people. For decades Windows laptops is what the crowds could afford.
> and that they can do in very undesirable ways if done wrong.

I think the risk of developing a long term mental illness from psychedelic use are overstated because of societies stigma with temporary psychosis. A healthy person can come back from those "psychotomimetic" episodes really quickly, even quicker than with opioid induced psychosis. It's not really mysterious or undesirable as you make it sound. People that develop long term issues from psychedelic use are also at risk of developing those from basically all other psychoactive substances, specially marihuana and opioids.

The motivations for making psychedelics schedule 1 where political and not related to that risk at all though. Drinking a lot can also create temporary psychosis and long term personality changes. There's also lots of studies about how marihuana also results in psychosis or triggers mania in some people. Neither alcohol nor Marihuana show as promising results for things like fighting depression, fatigue, social anxiety, as psychedelics or at fighting PTSD as MDMA does.

Alcohol and now weed are legal mostly because of other economic and political interests. The sad reality is no one gives a fuck about the people that could benefit from research into psychedelic medicine, except pharmaceutical companies that make billions out of treatments that are 20 years behind, and they want them to be schedule 1 forever.
Mutations, technology, crafting...

yes, I'd say it is.

If you want Nethack in space a la pulp magazines/scifi from the 50's, check P.R.I.M.E.
What I see on desktop 3080 is:

465 Gtexels/s

164.2 Gpixels/s

if those numbers from Apple are real -- that's bonkers
>Now I just want to know if the new keyboard has more key travel distance back to the like of MacBook Pro 2015.

If it's the same as the 2020 then no. It's better than the butterfly but not as good as the 2015
This is kind of a bummer because I want all the pixels. If they’re going to do this they might as well leave the menu bar up in full screen mode.
No greater example of the decline of our society: the contrast between HN's focus and attention to this product announcement and the NSA leaks.
It's not even the same ballpark