skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The demo object that turns itself over is nice.

I used to use a rattleback as a test back when I was working on accurate but slow physics engines in the 1990s. That's an ellipsoid cut by a plane that isn't axis-aligned. You spin it, and it spins, stops, rocks, and spins a bit in the other direction. Very similar to what they're doing.

The key to this is a multi-point contact model. If your contacts are single points, the frictional effects are wrong. It's not that hard to do this. I held a patent on that (#6,067,096), and there was a product called Falling Bodies, the first ragdoll system that really worked.

It was just too early in the 1990s. 100 MIPS was not enough.
Without the thread gaps, could the cap potentially be pushed off near the end with a lot of force?
They do not market these as gaming devices. The GPU is intended for rendering content for pro use cases. It is competitive if this is your use case.
One thing I took away from it that has been true every time I've had occasion to check: When economists tell the "first there was barter, and then there was money" story, they almost never care to connect the claim to evidence.

It's like they're laying down premises for an argument rather than making claims about actual humans.
> I am genuinely glad we are progressively leaving the "ancestors were dumb" narrative. It seems to have been a long and slow process, I fully root for it.

Other than the "our dumb ancestors dumbly believed their ancestors were dumb" narrative, I don't think I have ever seen this among people who who have actually seriously thought about it.

And if you're referring to dumb cavemen hitting everything with clubs "narrative" that's seen in comedy and other entertainment, I don't see why you think this article indicates we're moving away from that. Or really what the problem with it is at all, or why we would want to move away from it. Larson et al. rigorously proved it to be hilarious.
One minor new annoyance is that they check the option to allow remixing a video in Shorts by default, and hide it behind a "show additional options" link on the video settings.
Apparently, it does work in most cases, but aarch64 images have better performance and are more stable.

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/mac/apple-silicon/
Also the whole point of magsafe was to save laptops from smashing when someone trips on the cable. They likely reduce ewaste in total.
Um, the structure for an employee owned company is a called ... a corporation. Workplace democracy typically happens at shareholder meetings, where senior management is either retained or fired by the employee/owners. The largest example of this is Publix supermarkets. They have 200,000 employee owners.
In terms of lost years of life the comparison with HIV seems pretty reasonable. Roughly 0.5% of the world population has HIV. I'm not sure how many years of life expectancy HIV costs on average around the world, but conservatively say 40 years. Therefore HIV costs the average person 0.2 years. If CMV impacts 50% of the population and costs 1.1 years, that's a world average of 0.55 years lost per person.
The expansion of space itself is not subject to the same constraints as travel through space.

Put another way: Nothing can travel through space faster than light. But the expansion of space itself isn’t a form of travel, and so it’s not subject to this limitation.
I think you'll be fine, but I just wanted to point out the possibility that there could be interopability problems with other people, especially if that machine is something you take on site with you to clients, etc. That might not be a thing for you, though.

Would love to see how you go because, and this is where I get honest: I want to move to FreeBSD on the desktop and basically just use a browser and VSCode with Remote-SSH. That's what I do now on a $3,000 MBP. It's something I can do, technically, on a $300 Chromebook.
@threadreaderapp unroll

...is the modern way to read "books".
Clooney got rich from acting, and got richer from selling his tequila business.
And is #2 really true?
The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, native to Hawaii. It's the last known recording of it's song.
Mini and micro hdmi are almost non existent in the wild. USB-C is the correct choice for the airs.
We still have this kind of comedy today and its very lucrative for the studios that aren't playing the PC/woke games.

Book of Mormon and South Park especially come to mind.
I believe written letters actually weren't much of a thing back in 1000 BC. However, there was still real-time in-person communication, which can certainly lead to heated arguments no matter what year you live in. It seemed to have no problem generating persecution, pogroms, and genocide back then.

Maybe I'm a naive futurist, but I think the best time for a person to be alive is right now, if you're fortunate enough to be born in a developed country. And also maybe even if you weren't, as long as you weren't born somewhere awful like North Korea.
>"and probably living a pretty nice life"

Working round the clock, fighting with other tribes, being eaten by parasites, having all kinds of diseases, I could go on and on. Sounds like "pretty nice life".
CAD and code absolutely do not, and should not mix.

I tend to agree, having done both programming and mechanical design. Drawing by writing code is pounding a screw.

The major CAD systems have some scripting capability, for when you need to generate a gear or a geodesic dome or something that needs procedural generation. They also have constraint solvers, so you can specify constraints and let the system find a solution that satisfies them. Try the demo version of Fusion 360 for that.
I came into these comments and one guy said "The machine I spec'ced out only costs $4300" and another guy said "They just put back the ports and features they should have kept in 2011" and I noped out of these comments. Your mileage may vary.
My 2016 MacBook Pro came with an 87W charger and I always run it off a monitor that supplies 60W over thunderbolt and it never drains. I used to mostly run it off a 45W charger and would only see it slowly drain if I was really pushing it with compiles.
* or time travel / manipulate space-time
Carbonite - which is rarely mentioned on hn, had a $300M+ run-rate when they were acquired in 2019

I think brand awareness of Backblaze is insular - I remember Carbonite had the strategy of advertising on right-wing radio in the 00's which seems to have worked for them.
Can't speak for tahoe, but here in Utah, I read that total residential water use accounts for about 2% of the total water use of the state, and individual households it's something like 0.02% ... so really it's like comparing an ounce of piss to the ocean.

Alfalfa farms (of which the governor is an alfalfa farmer) are the worse culprits as it's a water heavy plant, and we're also a top exporter of alfalfa to Asia, so essentially Asia's buying our water from us via alfalfa.. there's plenty of other corporate/industrial culprits, but farms are a huge one here..
to me, first time I saw something like that was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraserver.com Microsoft was involved with it and used it to show off their sql server capabilities for holding large amounts of data ( circa later 90s)
AP exists for English teachers to be able to quantify their largely unquantifiable profession in some way. In order to keep cashing in on the sham, they continue to rewrite their rules yearly to be more bizarre and unintuitive every time.
If anyone is interested in checking out similar idea but for browser: https://bangle.io
How is the GPU performance?
The sealant viscosity is likely too low at those temps to effectively seal punctures.
The JWST will almost certainly fail. Here is that video re-edited to highlight the unprecedented risk they are taking on:

https://youtu.be/t-O_jFWX98A
Is there a galaxy on the boundary that is half disappeared (to us) and half visible?
as someone who has been the vandal

vandalism is the most accessible way to literally change the world. it's direct, visceral cause and effect before your very eyes, and it remains visible in daily life and to everyone around.

i didn't have anything to lose, and it was more fun than sitting on a curb. in that position it did make the world a better place for me.

if you want people to quit breaking shit give them a reason not to. no, legal penalties are not a reason, that just makes them hate you more
A compound monthly growth rate of “at least 15%” would be a hell of a treadmill to keep pace on. But aside from that, the target engagement figures seem aggressive. “A good metric for most SaaS startups … the typical monthly user visits the site at least two weekdays per week or 8 times per month.” “Most” SaaS startups?! I have used and loved plenty of B2B SaaS unicorns’ products that I consider the definition of successful but would never use so frequently. What business models other than social media are used so frequently?
>"I feel like the golden age of civilization was pre internet."

https://youtu.be/nS5_EQgbuLc
And for the longest time they put it in the bottom left corner for a good view up your nose. They also seem to mount the mic inside the fan bearings.
Yes, apple's marketing materials claim 400 GB/s, while the 6900 XT is 512 GB/s. This is very easily Googled. While memory bandwidth isn't everything, it is the major bottleneck in most graphics pipelines. An x86 cpu with 3200 MHz memory has about 40 GB/s of bandwidth, which more or less makes high end integrated graphics impossible.
Walking is easy for the vast majority of people who work, let's try not to complicate things for the sake of it. Listening is easy too, what is more complicate is, "listen and do exactly as I say", which one may or may not do for a variety of reasons.
That's so fascinating!

Picture:

http://preview.turbosquid.com/Preview/2014/07/11__16_24_14/P...

More discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/372h8x/why_th...

Last weekend, on my way to the supermarket, I saw a juice bottle blocking a drain. To follow UncleBob's advice to clean as I go, I picked it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSaAMQVq01E&t=2021s

I wanted to pour out the remaining orange juice for a nearby tree to get its vitamins. Pop! The cap flew off, lightly knocking off my forehead, but with much force. Thank God it didn't shoot into my eye, it was quite powerful.

Although it wasn't a fizzy drink by design, the juice had fermented in the hot sun.

Today I learned that there's a solution to the cap flying off, using a different design of screw thread! Thank you jfrunyon for posting this to Hacker News so we can all learn from each other :)
Never do a filter sweep on a synthesizer. For some reason, Youtube will slap you with a takedown as it thinks you're steeling off The Chemical Brothers.
I remember watching him lie to the world at the UN in the build-up to the US war of aggression against Iraq.

It was a disgrace. America disgraced itself. Not just by lying, but by doing it so stupidly and openly. I decided then that I would never believe anything again that came from this class of people or their ilk.

When a person dies, their family deserves compassion for their bereavement. Fine, they have mine.

This guy himself, on the other hand, was an utter disgrace. He lied because they told him to lie, and then they murdered hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and destroyed a country. None of them have ever been held to account, nor will they be.

Shame on him and shame on his country.
Help I hate being a software engineer
I am pretty good at it, but I hate all of the products there are to work on and I hate the culture and I hate the isolation. I thought I would like the job because I'm good with the logic and even with style, but it seems like every job available out there exists purely to further late stage capitalism into an ever more absurd farce of utility.

What else can I do out there? I want to be actually useful to my fellow human beings, and I hate pretending that I care at all about company growth or whatever.

Is this entire industry a Bret Easton Ellisonian nightmare?
He just did derive it from the halting problem. In words: It's impossible to statically check the type of a function that takes a program P as its input, and returns the integer 1 as its output if P halts, and returns the string "1" if it does not halt. It would require solving the halting problem, which is undecidable.
I live in Austria, and i had no idea people were that old.
I'm not convinced I'm going to be able to swap a USB-C port for a Display Port and FreeBSD is just going to be like, "OK! I can handle that!" It's more likely it's going to laugh in my face and simply not do anything at all. Worst case: it'll crash.

And even after shutting down and swapping the components out, I'm not convinced drivers won't be an issue.

Do you have more information on this?
I'll pretend I understood what the answer says about there not being enough energy and boldly ask: what if the neutron star is spinning _really_ fast?
I came up with a "almost too clever" way to reduce the tedium of writing command objects. Most command APIs expect you to write a separate redo and undo method, and possibly even a separate "apply" method. Instead I created a `BaseEditCommand` interface where each command object subclass precomputes the new state of the altered portions of the document. When the command is applied, the undo system calls `apply_swap(self: &mut dyn BaseEditCommand, &mut Document)` which swaps the Document's old state with the BaseEditCommand's new state. To undo the change, you merely call `apply_swap` a second time, which swaps the old state from the edit command back into the document (saving the document's new state in the edit command). To redo the change, you merely call `apply_swap` a third time.

It has the same tradeoffs as the usual command/action pattern (richer information about what was changed, but you have to implement a new type for each operation, and might end up copying a lot of memory anyway). However it's a lot easier to implement each command (less boilerplate, somewhat lower risk of implementing undo/redo incorrectly and altering state). As a bonus, apply/undo/redo perform zero memory allocations, because they only swap data, not copy or destroy it.

One arguable downside is that you can't transplant the same command from one point in the history to another (but most undo commands in traditional applications, as opposed to VCS systems or nonlinear editors, aren't built to do that either). And I'm not sure my "can_merge" system (which merely drops commands rather than bundling or intelligently combining their contents) was a good idea, since all mergable commands must alter the same state.

API: https://gitlab.com/exotracker/exotracker-cpp/-/blob/dev/src/...
AirPods use Apple’s proprietary W1/H1 chip for pairing, and it seems to make BT more reliable somehow. The impact of BT on the phone’s battery life is negligible.

As for sound quality, the Pros or a Sony WF/MDR are quite good. If you’re noticing significant reduction in quality you’re either choosing low quality ones or something else in the audio chain is wrong.

I actually prefer the Sony to any of my wired headphones (AT, Roland, Etymotic, Philips SHP) most of the time. The noise canceling and ability to turn my head / move about more than offset any loss in quality - which I’m unlikely to notice while working anyway.
It sits where the menu bar is anyway. Similar to the status bar on iOS.
> still get made

Can you give some examples that aren't utterly neutered and dumb? I don't know of any in at least the last decade. Certainly nothing Zucker-grade.
No, only 90% of it.
As an American, I refuse to do this. The purpose of written language is to share information. When using a quote, you'ra trying to share what was said/written. Ergo, adding arbitrary punctuation when it wasn't in the original quote defeats both the purpose of the quote and the writing.
The nervous smile indicated that was the case, but him being a younger fellow, it was harder for him than for me to tell the other guy to be polite.
More of a eulogy, but what's the difference these days?
I have no direct personal experience on high-DPI macOS. For Windows, I’ve only come across a couple of apps that claimed to support high DPI but severely mangled it, and they both got fixed before long; and a few others that had minor problems, e.g. opening windows at unscaled sizes so that you had to resize them, or rendering small icons. And to be sure there are various DPI-unaware apps, probably far more than on macOS (linked to why Apple was in the perfect position to implement and impose proper fractional scaling), but that’s not a serious problem either.
There is so much great comedy out there that somehow avoids his concerns. What a lazy attempt at legitimizing his lack of talent.
New MacBook Pro Notch Simulator
Saw it on Twitter https://twitter.com/Megabits_mzq/status/1450306167704457219
There were a number of people that could have stopped the war. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein to name a few. Powell played a large role to be sure, but imagine Condi Rice in that role. It would have been a harder sell, but given the drum beat it would have happened. Even if Powell resigned, the spin would have labeled him a political hack or out-of-touch with the situation.
I'm specifically asking about Tahoe. Down in the valley below, California uses a LOT of water for agriculture, no question. But I'm not sure ag-use is an issue for Tahoe water.
> the careful balance of universal constants that allow for matter and stars and life to exist surely would not allow it all to be destroyed forever in the end...

Imagine a brute-force creation of x^y universes with varying cosmological constants. Surely some universes with the right ingredients for life also include a deep freeze or a Big Crunch.

Or, maybe our universe was created in a lab somewhere and they’re trying to figure out how to make a stable universe through experimentation. And we’re iteration #42.
Apple is offering $1400 for my 16” 2019 Machine. Really tempted to take it and put an order in.
IIRC most people on HN lamented the passing of magsafe. A lot of people did defend thunderbolt though. Guess they weren't heavy users of that god-awful plug form factor (it always stopped providing a good connection after about 100 pluggings).
I've previously written about Snow Crash and Earth. Kind of tired given all the Metaverse hype this year. FYI, there were other inspirations like the amazing "Powers of 10" movie too.

But I didn't think it was relevant to the patent case or the Netflix show, which hinged on whether two SGI execs copied anyone's code. They didn't. More relevant were actual systems like SRI's TerraView that were prior art in a legal sense.
Wait, you're saying Zucker "lacks talent"? For real?
I'm not sure what is your intended audience. I have no ideas what is a "exponentiated mean-reverting Brownian motion" and I have a PhD in Math.

I have a few ideas of what it could be, mostly because I took a few Physics classes, and I'm trying to match the possible models to the graphs.

You should give a minimal explanation of what is the undelaying model, and also make the question more clear, super clear, it's not clear enough.

[spoiler alert] I don't understand why 9 is an obvious bad answer, but perhaps the problem is that I'm using a bad model. Can I google it?
They are all irreplaceable, but some are more irreplaceable than others . It's like how I can always buy a new car, but I can't buy a new family heirloom.
Here is what I believe to be the original patent from 1979 as well https://data.epo.org/publication-server/document?iDocId=1031...
Hats off to whoever made this smart, creative decision.

PR genius XD
How to Show Informative Tooltips in Blazor Charts
Did Electron fix the 60Hz (or rather current screen refresh rate) cursor blinking? Otherwise I don't see many web devs getting a lot of runtime in.
If you are willing to take a pay cut, the non-profit sector often has trouble hiring engineers. Same with the government. Pay is again low, but if you are against capitalism, you will likely find projects you view to be of value there.
> I believe written letters actually weren't much of a thing back in 1000 BC.

That very much depends where you were. We have lots of surviving letters from that time period.
What Is Git?
Sort of how economists are always urging more neoliberalism and less of any alternative (socialism, syndicalism, Georgism, whatever): they're talking their own book. If they don't examine the nature of money (for example, the control that capitalists exert over Fed policy etc.) too closely they can pretend that their simplistic models still have some explanatory value.
Ask HN: What are some tough problems that need to be solved?
Ideally problems centered around technology or hard sciences, but I wouldn't reject other problem spaces.
> part of the world which is now called Austria

The phrase "present day Austria" is commonly understood to mean exactly that.

I see nothing wrong with the title. Surely the ambiguity caused by the possibility that Austrians might be using their time machines to eat ancient cheese didn't cause you too much confusion?
Alphabet is a pile of rancid shit run by morally bankrupt lunatics, and it is 100 times the problem Facebook ever dreamed of being, but we will never address this because the intelligentsia is full of brainwashed imbeciles who subsidize alphabet corporation in numerous ways including sending an army of insufferable hipster dumbfucks to upvote each other's posts about how acshually it's great that we live in a dystopia now.
Airplane! is considered to be a good comedic film. Bearing that in mind, what makes you say that its writer lacks talent?
That's crazy. They almost discovered hot wings and beer.
Ghost Robotics CEO on Armed Robots for the U.S. Military
I can exhaust my 64GB just opening browser tabs for documentation.
And SD card, for photographers and 3D printers
This really happened, I read about it on LinkedIn.
100% of this solar system's other planets and moons are (likely) unreachable by you within your lifetime.
Pretty much true for all other stars as well… we’re not visiting anywhere soon
The apples to apples comparison would be CUDA cores to execution units. Basically how many units which can perform a math operation. Apple's architecture has 128 units per core, so a 32 core M1 Max has the same theoretical compute power as 4096 CUDA cores. This of course doesn't take into consideration clock speed or architectural differences.
As someone else said, you'll likely have to take a pay cut if you want to find something you consider meaningful. It's difficult to find jobs that pay well at places that aren't profit oriented.
> Seems the value isn't quite there

Looks like you are not in the target audience for those machines. The value is absolutely there if you need the CPU to do as much work as possible. As someone who spends a big chunk of my day compiling, a speedup by x2 means I need to wait half as long. And it won’t even toast my lap. The 1K nits screen means I can finally work outside in summer. This is _exactly_ the machine the disgruntled ecosystem has been calling for, for at least 5 years now.

While the 5nm process will certainly yield good AMD CPUs, the iOS/macOS optimizations built into Apple Silicon are hard to match for general-purpose CPUs. And the GPU story looks bad for Nvidia - the Max 32 core GPU uses half the power envelope for almost the same output as the mobile RTX 3080. And afaik the 3080 is already produced on 7nm, so there will be some engineering to do to get there.