skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends entirely on the circumstances (whether the performance increase of the local machine can get you that, that is).

It's really a very specific niche that's targeted here: namely mobile(!) video editing and -production.

There are very few use cases these days that benefit from a high-performance mobile (cannot stress this enough) solution.

So unless your specific use case benefits at all from local processing power, I'd argue that it'd be hard to even get a 5% productivity increase that cannot be reached by other means (better/bigger display, more ergonomic peripherals, optimised workflow, etc.).

I'm not denying the fact that even a 5% improvement may justify the price difference. I'm just questioning whether the improvement in performance can meaningfully contribute to that in most use cases.
I'm actually most interested in the UX around https://explainshell.com, but I haven't had the time to dig into it yet still.
Watts are joules per second. So power consumption would still be in Watts. A kWh, or in other words a 1000 Watts for an hour, is 1000 * 60 * 60 = 3600000 joules. So in practice people would use Mj (Megajoules) and save a syllable.
You are right. I think the confusion arises because this Menu bar at the top mixes up the File/Edit/View menu to the left and the bluetooth and WiFi icons to the right. When you minimize all windows, what does this top bar show? How do you access the WiFi icon if all windows are minimized and this top bar is disappeared? Sorry, the last time I used a macOS was in 2017.

(Also, to the extreme left of this Menu bar is the Apple icon which can be used to access the "System Preferences". I guess this mixing of system-wide and program-specific menu options doesn't bother macOS folks.)
Fair point, but it has nothing to do with the context of the article. I was referring to the ability to influence societal and individual viewpoints. I don't think email comes anywhere near that.
It's a good joke, but frankly recruiters banging on your door do not always translate into jobs, let alone _good_ jobs.
Linus hates C++ with a passion. Other than that there hasn't really been any other credible candidate.

Rust is the only new language that appear to have enough momentum and community to be a candidate.
> Slowly evidence emerges that there have been many overunity devices invented in the past century that were suppressed to keep the status quo going in the fossil fuel industry.

Can you elaborate this? I didn't understand much of it.
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My interview with Steven Levy re. leaking of my Facebook Goodbye post
That's what speed limits and pedestrian crash tests are for. The US still doesn't mandate cars to be designed in ways that make hitting a pedestrian less lethal. A lot of American cars are not street-legal here for a good reason.

A recent story that made headlines was that one car maker (can't remember which) designed the front of the car to be so tall the car needs FORWARD LOOKING (!!!) cameras so that drivers can see kids (or people in wheelchairs) in front of the car. If you are designing cars and you need to add a forward camera to make it safe, you are most certainly in the wrong profession (and probably also a dangerous sadist who needs therapy or, most likely, mandatory commitment to an institution).

And, finally, IF you were driving within the speed limits, the street was inadequately lit and the pedestrian was intoxicated, you should probably get away with it if you manage to prove you are competent to drive a car (mandatory driving tests could be a thing here) and that you took all reasonable precaution not to hit the pedestrian.
That does not sound like the kind of experience general consumers expect and it doesn’t match Up with their subscription model.
As I understand it, the distribution mechanism of Worldcoin is not part of the protocol. The protocol does not know anything about eyes.

So the distribution seems completely centralized. A central authority distributes the coins however they wish.

Today they might use a process involving eye scans. Or maybe not. There is no way to check. Tomorrow they might change their approach however they like. And we would have no way of knowing.

The issue that seems to be overlooked is that there is no way to look at a hash and decide if it was created via scanning an eye. The hash is signed via some key that - according to the makers of WC - sits in an eye scanning device which behaves a certain way. But we have no way of checking that.
The problem with this article is that is poorly researched. Most of the services listed are running locally and storage is also local. (Things might change with automatic remote backups, but this is not what's addressed in the article.)

E.g., the Vision frameworks subjects any images to a local (built-in) neural network and returns the scanned text, which is then most probably put into the system clipboard. How is this surveillance, but copy-and-paste in MS Word was not?
The point is that they proposed expanding these relationships and they billed it as “security”. But anyone who really understands security knows that collecting more data and sending it to one big third party is the opposite of security. They wanted to expand surveillance while telling us they were protecting us.
Yes, HAM radio that can be used as an alternative. Here are some resources:

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:HAM_Radio

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet
Where doesn't Rust 'compete' with C, and where is C the better choice in a kernel?

Sometimes an OS rewrite, even in a different language, can be faster for some tasks (IIRC Singularity and/or Midori outperform(ed) Windows on some tasks, but I can't find the link).
Maybe https://shapeshifter.design/ ?
All the locally running software doing this is proprietary, how do we can be so sure what it really does withou inspecting its source code (and making sure it corresponds to the on device binaries) ?
Why not straight up overtime. That on employer request can be exchanged to time off.
I believe this tier only lets you use the new ...one.ems.host domain [1].

Element Home pricing might be better for you if you have a few friends who are also interested ($10/month for 5 users), and won't use bridges [2].

[1]: https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix#element...

[2]: https://element.io/personal-plans
> For example, the terminal and debugger are not available, which makes sense since you can't compile, run, and debug a Rust or Go application within the browser sandbox

Direct quote
You should then search and find all ShitApp made in Rust and post it on HN because the chance that it will be good in 15 years is not zero, probably 1/10^10^10^10 .
How is Altman's code relevant?
It has no reference loop detection. A bit of an edge case, granted, but still. Enter:

A1: =A2+1
A2: =A1

Then hit up/down/left/right arrows.
As I mentioned, QoL items can be had externally for substantially less money (e.g. displays, mice, keyboards).

The improvement only materialises in a very niche use case (e.g. primarily mobile workplaces with virtually no additional weight/space for things like mice).
Back in the day before the rise of Facebook, there was an open source service that combined all the popular messaging protocols - MSN, AoL, IRC, etc.

It was called Pidgin[0], and it never got particularly big.

I see the same thing here. While it's interesting, I'm failing to see what the use case is. What's the niche that needs this solved in a big way?

[0] https://www.pidgin.im/
Not advertised. But with the new 16 in MBP and “M1 Max” CPU, it supports up to 3 6K displays - https://support.apple.com/guide/macbook-pro/use-an-external-.... There must be at least one reviewer out there with 3 of the pro xdr displays.

(this is roughly $28K by the way)
I think this is really socialization, surroundings and trivial occasions. My family drinks alcohol, but very rarely so. I studied in another city where alcohol consumption is far more common and I was drunk nearly every weekend (didn't have much training). Now I am back to a beer every two weeks and I don't miss drinking more. I don't consider that self-improvement though, that would be a bit much, although it probably is far more healthy to not regularly intoxicate yourself. I also don't think most people were addicts, at least not yet.
Note it’s just a black version of the actual Apple IIgs keyboard.

https://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_Desktop_Bus_Keyboard
> Rust with its safety guarantees has those benefits in a way no other language does.

Lol no. There’s plenty of languages that are equal to or even more safe than Rust. Many of which are also more mature than Rust too.

This meme of “Only Rust provides safety” really needs to die.
From there Terms of Service: Where you read 'Element' or 'we' or 'us' below, it refers to Element, a trading name of New Vector Ltd., its French subsidiary: New Vector SARL, its U.S. subsidiary: Element Software Inc, and their agents. https://element.io/terms-of-service

So UK, French and US.
> First, retina scanning output hash is deterministic - it is supposed to generate the same result for the same eyeball. So it can't be replaced with random number generation.

His argument is valid, what stops you from replacing the retina scan with a random hash replicating a different person scanning each time and collecting new tokens? What ties the hash to the actual retina other than the device that you can mess with?
From math to machine: translating a function to machine code (2017)
That was my experience when I worked for a law firm, it’s not my experience at a tech company.

Maybe time to look for a new employer.
There are quite a few posts about this, it was working splendidly right up to the point where I moved back to Europe.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill/

https://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill-ii/
I rely a lot on stale bot actually, simply because I don't like closing issues. When you do that, users sometimes get upset and you have to explain that this is not a bug, or it's a duplicate of another bug, or that we use GitHub issues as a bug tracker, not for support, etc. Then the user might argue that it's not exactly the same bug, or that we should leave it open for reason x or y. It's a time consuming process that needs to be repeated very often when you manually close bugs.

And it's mostly worthless because we know what we're doing - we know what will be worked on, what will be ignored. We just tag the issues that we'll work on and Stale Bot will skip these.

So now I don't close anything anymore and let users get mad at Stale Bot instead. It's a bit weird but the end result is the same.
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I love Bartosz Milewski! Great talks to make cat theory understandable.

Sum-types to me are just a necessity for expressing certain situations that occur a lot. Enums do not cut it, and making sum-types from records is just ugly, waaaay to much boiler plate and hard to deal with in practice (one needs sum-types AND switch expressions + pattern matching to really unlock the bliss of sum-types).
Yes, Wired is bad too. That doesn't mean Apple is somehow good.
Thomas Paine published common sense anonymously. I think there needs to be a way to publish anonymously where the people are.
National libraries are institutions created for this purpose. The National (Royal) Library here in Sweden, established in 1668, started downloading and storing Swedish web sites in 1997. Compared to other solutions that might have a relatively high chance of actually being able to preserve sites for 500 years.
> meaning I would need sponsorship for an H-1b work visa

There's your problem. H1B is just such a difficult and lengthy process today. Even for experienced candidates - I have a decade yoe at faangs, still couldn't crack it recently. And in your position, without experience and a degree, yes you're just wasting time.

You have to apply for H1B in March for a sub-30% chance (it's a heavily oversubscribed lottery) that you might get to start in October. Few companies are willing to go through it to import brand new overseas talent. Most just sponsor people already having permission to work somehow (H1B transfer from another co, F1 OPT, L1, through spouse etc) to retain them in the states.

Some alternatives of what you could do:

* Go study in europe on the cheap. An undergrad degree is not a must for programmers, but still a very important piece of paper that you need to open doors later in your career. It's actually even a requirement for H1B: degree or 12+ yoe.
* Go for masters afterwards in the US, not cheap but you can stay work for 3 years on STEM OPT and no lottery involved as with H1B.
* Work for at least a year for an american company in europe, then you can transfer to the states on L1, lottery free.
* Go to Canada, they can issue you a passport in 3 years with which you can come work in the states on TN visa, also lottery free.
* Find second half with the right type of passport / visa that allows you to work in the states...
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https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/tag-files-and-folde...
Where I live (rural Ontario), propane costs somewhere around $2500/year for heat. Hydro costs about $4000. The sane people stick to wood, which if you cut and split it yourself will keep to under $1000. We have disconnected all the electric heaters in my house (except for the newly-installed radiant-heat floor in the bathroom, because it's a luxury I'm willing to splurge on) and only fire up the second woodstove for those weeks it drops below -20.
The CADT model seems relevant here: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
You can also self host it for free according to their website.
That's true - but it's mostly due to ignorance. One of my relative bought a Xiaomi phone (https://www.mi.com/in/redmi-9-power/), and after I pointed out to her that the Xiaomi customised Android OS on it as basically an adware and a blackhole for all personal data on the phone, she asked me for options. When I told her the OS could be replaced (from https://xiaomi.eu/community/), she asked me to do it.

That's one part of it.

The other is that I could replace the OS as Xiaomi (or Sony Open Devices) allow the bootloader to be unlocked and replace the OS. Apple iPhones do not even give you this option.
There's a reason why they're more expensive: the LED lights are of a very decent quality.

You can probably luck out with cheaper ones, but be mindful that there's a big difference in quality between them.

Here's one I watched when researching mine (I have key light and key light air, not the ring).
https://youtu.be/Q4xiJ37k9nk
Wasn't bluetooth beaconing already a thing pre-covid?
> Kids or coworkers are not going to make fake fingerprints

In truth I have seen this done to mess with people using cellotape and creativity, so I have to warn you this is not a reasonable assumption.
Playing the devil's advocate here but there could be a good side. It can also help us buy things we didn't know we needed, bringing our unconscious forward and making us realise things about ourselves we didn't know. I wouldn't mind that, if only I knew only I had access to that information though.
FileVault was inactive at the time I recorded that, though I still don’t expect this behaviour regardless of file system encryption.
I fear that waiting until oil is too expensive to use, is effectively waiting until all the oil has been dug up and put in the atmosphere. It's the non-answer. That way lies climate disaster.

I am disturbed by the shoulder-shrugging attitude to mass environmental devastation.
Sadly I don't have a single friend on Matrix that I could consider doing this with, and it's unlikely I could convince my wife to use it either. So it would be double the money for only that piece of flair.
I never understood how C took over the desktop space as well. Pascal was a way better language and already dominant for home computing back in the 80s. Then by the 90s everywhere was C and C++.

I never quite understood how or why that happened.
That was the motivation. I had the same problem that recipes from the apps aren’t localised to local produce. Also sometimes I want to cut corners and do thing easier. I should be able to apply agile and maintain my recipes in my way :-)
Go from blockchain beginner to cryptomining master to start a new career
D and Ada both use a GC in many contexts, and are not half as interesting in their GC-less contexts. They both initially only had a proprietary compiler, which durably harmed adoption. They both seem to cater to fewer domains than C/C++/Rust. Today Ada is only used in high-stakes industry, and D doesn't seem to have any claim to fame. It's a pity that neither succeeded in their time, but there's no good reason to use either of them today.

Zig is very promissing, but is just too new.

You failed to mention C++. It's well loved (and hated), has many pros and cons compared to C, and is used for kernel development (just not Linux).

It's silly to think that the only explanation for Rust success is community lobbying. Rust has many concrete advantages, like being safer than C/C++/D/Zig, being fully GC-free and suitable for kernel and embedded development, having actually gained significant traction, having great tooling/docs/ecosystem... And generally being a language that people enjoy. Rust isn't the end-game of kernel programming, but it isn't just "yet another better C".
You own the network your device is on and you can see what it sends over the wire. Inspect network traffic if you wish.

With the billions of iOS devices running around the planet and with the fact that it just takes one person to blow the whistle on this sort of data collection, I just don't buy the argument that it might have been happening this whole time... purely on the basis that things happen sometimes.
90% of customers only need MacBook airs, which have been at the top of price/performance for a decade.
The direction indicator is gyro based rather than magnetic so for most GA it would probably be enough to just learn the offset for the area you are flying and add that when you set/check the DI.

For VFR flying it hardly matters anyway
From my experience, Apple has a premium on overall quality and longevity. It's hard to quantify or benchmark, but it adds up over time.

I bought a Zephyrus G14 a year ago with high stats, but I often get weird issues where I have to restart my computer or find some fix online. And there are some build/design quirks that are a little annoying. I already want to replace it.

I also have a Macbook Pro from 2015 that I only switched because I wanted a better GPU. It still works fine and looks great. I don't think the G14 will be so great after 6 years.
> using mostly the standard library without any framework

I don't think that's totally true. Without any framework, maybe, but mostly the standard library? I'm not sure. People use a lot of libraries, and these may not have the same guarantees as Go itself.
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If I think about it: most of my career has consisted of re-creating something that already exists. And the one constant is that there is never any lack of people who line up to tell me what a bad idea this is.

They aren't always wrong. But they also are not always right. And when they aren't right interesting things tend to happen that sometimes involve important changes.

Linux itself was a "misguided" project as Minix already existed for the low end and lots of UNIXen existed for the higher end. The exact same sentiments, plus a lot less charitable ones, were put forward back then.

And I remember people thinking me silly for working for a web search company in the late 90s "because Altavista already exists".

Rewrites are perhaps a misguided idea for people who are highly entrenched in a "worker" mentality. But there are other modes of thinking and working. There exist people with what one could call a "creator" mentality.

But I would distill one point from your post that I think is important: the goal of re-creating Linux may not be the correct goal. But I think staying close to Linux has merit. Usability over fashion has proven to be a deciding factor for success as far as design goes. The rest is down to leadership and organizational skill.
https://jellyfin.org/
A stolen phone has hashes, not scans – if memory serves, there were a couple of old Android phones which saved the images but even that was a developer’s mistake leaving logging on rather than the design.

The sensible approaches for biometrics use them to unlock strong keys which never leave the device. If implemented correctly, this is somewhat resistant to offline brute-force attacks — certainly not impossible but not economical for going after most people.
> While it's interesting, I'm failing to see what the use case is.

I'm unclear if it supports relay mode, but if so, you can invite Matrix, Signal, and WhatsApp users into the same group chat! [1] Edit: Relay mode is not currently supported in Element One, I tried it out. I contacted support and they said "we will discuss this internally and possibly enabled it later"

I've been using this on my self-hosted version of the bridge and it does wonders for those friends who are on Signal but don't want to try another app.

Also, a lot of people just don't want to swap between apps for direct messaging people on different services. This means you can use any Matrix compatible app [2] to chat with anyone on Matrix/WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram.

[1]: https://github.com/mautrix/docs/blob/master/bridges/python/s...

[2]: https://matrix.org/clients/
> The US system is set up assuming that's what all governments do eventually.

What good is it when the fundamental principes arising from those assumptions are constantly being eroded? It appears some american states restrict even the bearing of arms now. If the founders of the USA were to resurrect today, I wonder what they would think about the nation they created.
The content is interesting but the page is totally unusable in mobile.
This can be said for all software, even open source. Nothing about that is specific to Apple.
> It can also help us buy things we didn't know we needed, bringing our unconscious forward and making us realise things about ourselves we didn't know

There is no commercial incentive to do any of that
This is fatalistic and wrong. There are plenty of platforms that do not sell you out in this manner (personal blogs run by ethical people exist, for one) and the platforms that do not deserve to be called out for their bad behaviour.
Not drugs, but I'm playing out this story right now in my own life. No matter how much I try, I can never find a reason I'd rather wake up in the morning than not.
> I’m not sure what motivates maintainers to install this on their repository

If you knew why it was being used, you might not "consider it harmful"
Awful. Several of my childhood friends are gone, most were alcohol abusers.

Substance abuse is a terrible curse.
Cool. I always wondered why you chose St. Josephs Island to settle from Europe. Solar costs have certainly gone down since then.
No, it wasn't a "service" - it was a program. Unlike this thing.

The main difference between this and Pidgin seems to be that you pay a monthly fee for someone to man-in-the-middle all your communications.