skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple takes the Nintendo approach. Myamota/Iwata mentioned that they always try to imagine what it’s like for a non-gamer to play the game. The way they simulated that in their testing was by playing their games with their non-dominant hand (left handed). That’s what it feels like to a casual user or non-gamer. They optimize for that.

The guy that needs MS Exchange is actually a niche market (hard to believe). It’s that click wheel that brought in everybody in the world. Your mother isn’t going to figure out those Creative/Rio MP3 players from the early 2000s.

This honestly takes incredible faith in what you think is cool. I’m not good at because I usually go ‘eh, this is my thing that I’m into, and you won’t get it’. But these people don’t think like that, they go out of their way to show you why it’s cool, in whatever way possible. They are literally trying to reach people.
And those parts I would suggest you might as well prebuild on the ground and launch them. With New Glenn you can launch 6.3m modules, with Starship almost 9m. That should be enough, no additional blowing up required.

From there you can then build real structures onto it.
Well, generally you need to file a police report to file an insurance claim, so whether or not they do you any good (or even harm), you don't have a lot of alternatives (unless you don't have insurance, in which case you also don't have a lot of alternatives, likely).
Fire in the Valley (2011)
They are vertically integrat-ing. Ref: battery day (Sep 2021)
Looking at their front page, I have very little idea what services they are offering.
This didn't even get into accents (I think they're called?) stacked to the moon:

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Draw a box around this. Oh, and they're called diacritic marks.
Dutch Super Sub is fast enough to run with “cruising” dolphins
>Tesla has such a high stock price because of an army of Musk fans believing in him.

Right, and they are not going to dump their shares. So the projected scarcity from that lack of supply is priced in.

I'm talking about price discovery, which is (as proved many times) independent of rationality.
It's like software engineers struggling to write code on a piece of paper? or without IDE?
Yup. Even at 1 in every 1 million systems, that could be 100,000 systems with life.

Or, even at 1 in every 10 million, that could be 10,000 systems with life.

In a way I hate these photos. It's like showing a kid an ultra delicious looking candy, but telling them that they will not be able to taste it in their lifetime.
doesnt make their observations less credible
Yeah, just like FB and Instagram /s
I don't know anything about Ira Glasser, why are they polarizing?
> the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had

I refuse to believe Google employees solve "scale" problems every day. Be realistic, you configure systems and make calls to libraries which perform the scaling for you. Yes, the systems and the libraries can be impressive but your glue code is not. That's why you fail the "easy" questions.
Please eli5 web3. Keep seeing the term but haven’t found a good answer
I think his take was right. The iPod was good, but iTunes was great.

The ecosystem made the iPod.
I'll have supperiority for dinner
Which is how these exploits gets delivered, so that's pretty damn ironic.
Now I'm curious if there's a word meaning 'having more syllables than the definition itself' because we crossed that barrier back at antepenultimate (and penultimate already is tied with 'second to last').
It's insane that any one company is expected to successfully moderate three billion people, they're doing the best they can with impossible constraints.

Nobody's going to sympathize too much with a company that brought its woes upon itself. If you can't handle moderating three billion people, don't put yourself in the position of trying to moderate three billion people.
YouTube channel with 1M stackoverflow Q&As
Facebook plans to break out its VR, AR business
UCS-2? I thought it was UTF-16?
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> This is imho a better way of building things than having everything completely integrated in a single company.

Sounds like you should run your firm that way, then.
Tomacco?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx1ztJROpyU
>in the library

Maybe, if "in the library" means "in almost every library in the nation for each warrant".
Has anyone shorted Zoom yet? Believe ticker is ZM.
I didn't learn anything from this comment while passively reading. /s

Seriously though, I've learned a lot just from reading and watching media growing up, in some cases much more than school because it's something I actively wanted to do. For me, doesn't matter whether it's active or passive, if it's something I enjoy I can learn from it much easier.
It's been pretty good, although it still has some strange bugs, but those might be a me problem. Namely, Mission Control crashes on me about 15 times a day. I have to 'killall Dock' to bring it back. Also, using Cmd-Space to launch apps is janky -- if I type say Saf, it will say "Safari.app" for about .7 seconds and then the autocomplete goes away. So I have to enter in those .7 seconds.

Other than those two things, it's been pretty solid lately.
Not to be rude, but this has been a thing for some time now.
I commented after the IOS14 stuff that FB revenue would obviously go up in Q3 as it has every quarter for years, to some incredulity on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27845536.

As always, FB keeps on trucking.
Good question. While I enjoy witty or even flamboyant writing, there is plenty of writing that is hard to understand on purpose, and I despise that (postmodern French philosophers come to mind). It seems here I've used a word that is less common and more distracting than I had thought (though it seems some people enjoyed it).
How to optimize your GitHub for job interviews
The 386 was still kind of expensive in 1990-1991 but it was not particularly high end. The high end was the 486, introduced in 1989. The 386 had gone into volume production in 1986, so in 1991 it was five years old. I wouldn't even see a 1986-era Compaq 386 until 1988, when it was already kind of dreary next to a Mac II. By 1991 non-enthusiasts in the USA who "needed a computer" would buy a 386SX with Windows 3.1.

Competing with Apple and "Wintel" - there wasn't much. Enthusiast computers like the Atari ST and Commmodore Amiga and, in the UK, the Archimedes, targeted a sort of odd market of folks who would really have liked a nice workstation or big box Mac but couldn't afford one. They didn't sell many. There really wasn't anybody who "caught up" by introducing an 8-bit after the early eighties - maybe Amstrad in Europe? They pivoted to PC clones, didn't they?
It's shitty. Doesn't seem to be illegal though?
I'd argue that you don't hear about failures as most people aren't experiencing them.

Out of at least a dozen people I know using them, every single person has multiple RPis that has been in pretty regular use. On top of that you have a plethora of documented uses and projects across the internet, ranging from home automation to arcade machines.

You seem to be painting an entire community with the same brush, but most of the people in this community would gladly help you solve the issues you seem to be facing. Perhaps the issue lies not with the RPis but with how you're using them....
Sure. But the assumption is that his options are eating either funnel cakes or burgers, which is just not true.
More like Vine, or MySpace.

Cherry picking examples is not a good argument
SharePlay to Mac is utterly broken, see my other comment.

Other than that, it seems more stable and faster than Big Sur, and that's without a clean install. Notes used to take 4 bounces to open on M1, now opens instantly. Haven't seen any crashing. No broken features that aren't brand new. I've only found one bug: Safari reopens private windows even if you turn that off. But no problem if you don't use Safari.
Resources for doing anything are limited (by will, as well as for other reasons). It necessarily follows that putting resources into space exploration reduces those available for "fixing the rot" (although sure, not necessarily by equal amounts).

If fixing the rot were genuinely an extinction-level imperative, I'd say we should devote zero resources to space exploration. However, I don't think there's an extinction-level event or period coming at any point in the foreseeable future, so I don't think we have to be that dogmatic about it. Even so, I'd far rather see us defer all fossil-fueled adventures until (if!) we get this place into better shape.
Don't the results already get ruined by people needing help with video games?
On the very contrary, the more forward-looking something is, the more volatile it is likely to be.

Nothing is more difficult to predict than the future after all.
I was at Lambda, graduated, got a job, and have been working since. Interesting to see I'm in the minority. I watched a lot of change happen. The classes ballooned in size, they kept rearranging the curriculum. At one point the curriculum (broken into thirds) had the 2nd and 3rd bits flipped. Then a forth bit was added on. I actually agreed with that change, as it the extra 3 months that were added on were just about finding a job, a task students were silently doing anyway.

Did the TL/PM/TA thing for a bit too. There were clearly people in it that were struggling. They started to have the ability to drop backwards a single week of course. That decision was reversed as it was kind of crazy to have people in between cohorts.

By the time I was done I don't think the UI program had anyone graduate from it. I was interviewed by lawyer at one point who was working on behalf of someone in that program. I am unsure of the quality of the program but it doesn't seem good.

Most of the people I saw who were doing well were going faster then the curriculum. The alumni program was sorta hard to keep track of after the slacks split, a lot of people never made the transition.

I know a lot of people who were successful after bootcamps, Lambda and otherwise. That may just be survivorship bias. I think one of the things that may also influence is when you went into the program. If you were going because you heard about it on hackernews when it was brand new, it was a different experience then when you had people coming in from everywhere.
Postscript: it would be really nice if Firefox allowed a "click-to-play, but for images" addon - but it seems like that's not possible, given that zero addons exist that implement it.
> that says how much they care about gaming on these devices

Apple's bread and butter is iOS gaming (where it takes in more game profit than Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and Activision combined) rather than Windows PC game ports to macOS.
But for all we know the odds could be 1 in every 100 billion; we have no way of knowing, almost any guess you'd make is equally unfounded.
If you reduce gas production, you will increase coal usage. That is what will happen. That is what does happen.
A lot of these changes seem to be pandemic-driven, which makes sense, but it's telling that smaller competitors hacked together all these same features within weeks of WFH and the largest and most advanced company in the world is finally here 18 months later.
The Fragility of Solitude
I feel like the linked article from GP has plenty of additional details linked. There is also plenty of media coverage on what they are discussing.

I am confused what is perceived as actually missing and why that missing content is somehow an indict on EFF
Just look at the sibling replies to see how delightful this new word is to some other folks here!

Sometimes using a word outside the register [0] or literary style is just a way to include a nice lexical nugget.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics)
Someone I know told me that he got a German passport, but absolute garbage as his name in there because his actual name is in Arabic.
I hate this "your mother can't..." ageist and sexist bullshit. Maybe your mother can't. Nobody tells my mother (who is now also a grandmother) what she can and can't do.

Honestly, lots of people were able to figure those devices out. People aren't really as stupid as programmers make them out to be. But coddle them and keep beating them over the head with this and they likely just give up from being treated like shit.
Is ist? I Tought that glueing memory in the die will always yield a better memory bandwidth? Also the new phone Uses ddr5 which is not possible in the desktop (yet)
Are you optimizing for any experiential aspects of your tomatoes, like taste or texture? Personally, in my area tomatoes are cheap enough to not think about the price, but the products widely available from supermarkets taste like water
The "anti-monopoly" (anti-trust) laws are not only about actual monopolies but rather about having a dominant market position and using that for anti-competitive behavior which is forbidden not only for monopolies but various dominant not-really-monopolies.

Asserting "X is not really a monopoly" is not particularly relevant because that's not the standard which matters. It's perfectly plausible for a not-really-a-monopoly with a large but shrinking market share to abuse a dominant position in a particular market (often defined more narrowly than you might think) in ways that violate anti-trust laws.
I wonder, if you run every container in it's own MicroVM a-la Firecracker like Fargate does (or Kerla's demo host), does the security of the kernel still matter as much?
Our GCP machines that are behind a Load Balancer are all app->vm->metal. Works fine. People keep bringing up kubernetes but it adds nothing.
Surprised they are opening the Walled Garden™ to allow FaceTime from Windows and Android.
That's a market cap of around $3000 per American or $100 per human being in the world.

That feels high.

Tesla sells around a million cars per year. That valuation is around $1M per car sold annually.

That feels high too.

I'm bullish about Tesla. I think they're going in the right direction. However, I can't run sensible numbers that make this valuation feel right.

I'm not shorting Tesla, mind you. An irrational market can keep going much longer than my wallet.
I feel it, too. I associate 3-2-1 Contact with its associated print magazine, in particular the issue that highlighted the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
You lost my business by not allowing me to use my own email to signup.
>Are board minutes considered private?

Yes.

The non-profit whose board I'm on does, I believe, have bylaws filed with the state we're incorporated in. And I know board member names (or maybe just the executive board) are filed as well. But we definitely don't have to make board minutes public.
Don't they have slow compilation times? At least my experience with Scala.

I'm used to TypeScript mostly.
An APS-C sensor would be enough to give the photos an entirely different quality than their current small sensors. But I think the issue is that the market isn't there for a really good consumer camera. Phones are good enough, bringing a camera is a hassle. And if they went for the professional photography market they'd have to also launch a range of peripherals.
New Deep Space Propulsion System Rides Like a Leaf on the Solar Wind
You will even increase coal usage if gas prices increase. The market adjusts.
i used to be into hardline freedom of speech... now i acknowledge that real life nuances are a lot more complicated.

censorship is messy and complicated and usually involves a dangerous concentration of power, sure...

but truly free and anonymous speech that can originate from places that are immune to it's effects or can be falsely attributed for the purposes of subversion can also result in a dangerous concentration of power.

what's the difference between a censored truth and a chorus of convincing lies originated anonymously that buries the truth?
Would they have been given an interview without going through the bootcamp?
> feels like they've opted for a more frequent release cycle

Their OS releases have been yearly for about the past decade I think.
During the heydays of the iPod craze, around 2005-2008, I was convinced that product line would be short lived. It was apparent that music playing was a trivial application of mobile phones, which were already becoming ubiquitous. In those days, Nokia was a far bigger cultural phenomenon outside of North America (where Nokia never gained much of a foothold). And it was truly global, not just European: even tiny villages in rural Asia, Africa and South America had Nokia vendors.

So in my straightforward projection, it was only a matter of time before the iPod would be crushed by the likes of Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Samsung, LG, etc. Never did I imagine that Apple would turn the tables on the phone manufacturers so dramatically after 2008...
i think you're referring to startup time not actual runtime of long running tasks
The share buyback amount seems kinda high, I guess they are expecting even more free cash flow in the future?
$500 from me, $500 in doomroot's name.

evidence, for doomroot's sake (trust but verify): https://nanocrawler.cc/explorer/block/818E31FBA9C4983AE54CE7...

And let's say another 500 USD up for grabs as a match. Any donations from HNers to the Nim project (in any kind of currency) I'll match for the next 48 hrs up to $500.
There are people claiming she was a victim of police violence as well. Though, considering there doesn't seem to be a serious investigation into this claim it is probably the realm of conspiracy theory.

https://news-block.com/the-police-killed-her-three-more-eyew...
I think it counts as no-code if you can write many things without any code; having the ability to augment with code shouldn't disqualify unless the no-code part is too limited to actually use without breaking out into code.
For the plebs among us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQK9m_OBVgY
I do. That's why I was trying every possible way to do this using SDR or some other non-noticeable way. FWIW it's not even really attached to the port, because the port itself is behind the glass, it's just that the IR LED inside the port is visible. So really it's kind of sitting on top of the glass bubble.

I also checked the local municipal code (my utility is city-owned) and there doesn't seem to be anything in the code that says I can't do it.

That said, I intend to put a notice next to it that says something along the lines of "This is a non-contact measuring device that counts IR pulses. Please call XXX with any questions."
Take it down a notch and call it 2.5 meals a week for $150/year. 115 cents a meal.

Food as a loss-leader does lead to funny math in a few other situations. Consider getting a $10 pizza at Costco every other week (which may be conservative or extreme depending on your lifestyle). You'd break even on an _executive_ membership over the course of a year, assuming the price of an equivalent pizza is ~$15 elsewhere.
"There is an important sense of meaning however, which comes not from naive universalism, nor from a hope that we can prevent tragedy, but from the knowledge that we sit between two extremes: eternal death or eternal salvation."

That contrasts nicely with a quote from another great essay "Web Design: The First 100 Years"[0] which was written in 2014:

"Grown adults, people who can tie their own shoes and are allowed to walk in traffic, seriously believe that we're walking a tightrope between existential risk and immortality."

For what it's worth, I am one of those grown adults.

[0] https://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
If you mean StG 44, then no, AK is not in any sense a copy of that, or any other design. It is a popular myth, but it's completely wrong, and rather evident to anyone who has ever seen both rifles disassembled.

Kalashnikov did draw inspiration from other designs, of course, same as any other gun designer. M1 Garand was arguably the design that influenced it most - most notably, the trigger, but also the principle of long-stroke piston action. This is further supported by Kalashnikov mentioning Garand as one of his favorite designs several times. But even then, AK is very much a distinct design.

Here's a detailed analysis:
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/05/05/rifle-paterni...

And I have no idea where you got the "most was just garbage" claim from. It's certainly not true, and I haven't heard it before.
Man, there was one episode of the detective show on that which scared me every time it came on.
I'm really impressed that with Facebook's poor reputation and age that it's still able to grow by 11% daily active users in a year.
Yeah, this is me too. I have essential tremor, so soldering anything takes a great amount of effort. I'll always pay extra for the ease of using the pins.
I took it to mean something about use of blockchain, especially but not limited to Ethereum, and "smart contracts", to create a new kind of distributed app platform. But I am not sure that's right.
Their recent contract with BYD seems to say it won't be soon.
THANK YOU for posting this. Another piece of the puzzle is in place for me.

I myself sometimes thought-experiment about this (the ephemeralization tendency) during running, taking the tram etc but until now I didn't realize much bigger thinkers than I am ;-) already described this

The wikipedia article with referenced other pages and this HN topic are a great source of info for me. Thanks for it!
The beta was terrible, up to memory leaks in applications in the latest release candidate. As a new user I under-estimated the amount of irritating bugs they would ship. I sure hope the release is better.
Not unless they're counting student loan deferral / income driven repayments as an income share agreement.
Practically, how is this better than my current local music library & player?

"INEQUITIES have been exacerbated." - yikes, no thanks.
And apparently propreantepenultimate. Love this lol
Ah yes, exactly like 1984. The Ministry of Truth was infamous for putting []s around the changes it made when quoting people on its own Twitter account.
Looks like you can.
A feature of only some keyboard layouts though? Ordinary US layout doesn't seem to have a compose key mapped by default.
That’s unfortunate, you can set focus modes from shortcuts on ios.

When i turn on my Bluetooth speaker in the shower room it goes into a focus mode that diverts all calls for 15 mins and resumes my podcasts. I thought the experience on macos was supposed to be a superset of the ios one. Really poor decision by apple then.
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I'm saying that 15.5% of the 17% difference from Apple A14 to Apple A15 is accounted for in the TSMC N5 to TSMC N5p upgrade (Aka: 10% fewer watts at 5% higher clock rates).

The bulk of efficiency gains has been, and for the foreseeable future will be, the efficiency of the underlying manufacturing process itself.

There's still a difference in efficiency above-and-beyond the 15.5% from the A14 to the A15. But its a small fraction of what the __process__ has given.

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Traditionally, AMD never was known for very efficient designs. AMD is more well known for "libraries", and more a plug-and-play style of chip-making. AMD often can switch to different nodes faster and play around with modular parts (see the Zen "chiplets"). I'd expect AMD to come around with some kind of chiplet strategy (or something along those lines) before I expect them in particular to take the efficiency crown.

NVidia probably would be better at getting high-efficiency designs. They're on a weaker 8nm Samsung process yet still have extremely good power/efficiency curves.

I like AMD's chiplet strategy though as a business, and as a customer. Its a bit of a softer benefit, and AMD clearly has made the "Infinity Fabric" more efficient than anyone expected it could get.