skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Magsafe is nice from a safety standpoint (I have a kid and work from the couch sometimes), but with all-day battery life, what is the use of it?

I was having a similar discussion the other day. MagSafe was amazing when my Intel MBP had to basically be tethered to power all the time. My M1 MBA only ever gets charged at my desk plugged into a dock/monitor. MagSafe was great when it was needed, but its time is passing.
I'm kinda sad to see the Touch Bar go so fast because I have one and actually like it a lot. The variant where it has a physical escape key is perfect.
My only beef with discourse is that it's pretty complex to install for what ought to be a web-app backed by a database. Judging from the traces of information scattered around the Internet (the official docs seem very mum on the issue, or maybe my Googling skills are poor), it seems like it expects all web servers to have access to a shared NFS drive, but I can't quite tell.

I don't mind the UI. I have nostalgia for old school forums (I used to operate one back around 2008-2012), but I'm happy enough with discourse.
Erlang is great for non-blocking concurrency, but for CPU-bound tasks it’s not the fastest language out there.
I've been getting a lot more misses than hits with Github Copilot, even when writing elementary math or utility functions; but despite its error I am nevertheless astonished at its approximation of intent.

Very eager to see Github Copilot catchup to some bright line of signal v noise.
Carl Sagan: The Age of Exploration (1994)
Look! The comments in the code are in Cyrillic! Therefore, it can only mean that... /s
Two inventions were required for BEV's to compete with even 1920's ICE vehicles: the power MOSfet (1970's) and the Lithium-ion battery (1990's).

GM was about to put Lithium-ion batteries in the EV1 when the project was cancelled in 1999. It was less than 10 years later that Tesla introduced it's game changing Roadster. In between Toyota's Hybrid technology both helped and hurt EV development. It helped advance EV tech but reduced commercial and regulatory pressure for pure BEV's.
Depends on what desktop you install I guess. There are some that have taskbar at top of screen by default, like Gnome afaik. I'm more of a taskbar at the bottom person myself and use cinnamon.
> Even though the researcher kept the “integrity pass” in place, or the first layer of the algorithm that sorts for integrity ahead of engagement, they said that “integrity bad metrics still shot through the roof.”

Not very interesting without understanding these algorithms. "Integrity pass" seems a good marketing name, but, at least this article, does not explain how it works.
It would be like reviewing the Boing 737 Max and only knowing MCAS as "that thingy that makes the plane easy to fly" instead of http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm
Seems they are copying NVIDIA. Let's see if the other cloud big boys will buy it like AWS etc.
https://aeternity.com

æternity blockchain is an Erlang-based scalable smart contract platform engineered by programming pioneers to address some of the most fundamental challenges native to earlier blockchains. By redesigning blockchain technology at the protocol level, the æternity developer community has enabled the core protocol to understand and integrate a rich set of functionalities out of the box.
lb is a common abbreviation for "pound" (the weight measure, 16 ounces).
Despite intensely disliking meetings I regularly get pulled into them, and having to go back to your desk to get an adapter wastes everybody’s time and makes you look like an idiot.

It also requires carrying an adapter at all times just in case.

> Your device's ports are a casualty of the lack of standard data port

To my great dismay HDMI is the standard video port, that’s why it got added back.

> The HDMI on displays makes you feel like you need an HDMI on your laptop

No, what makes them feel that is that every video input aside from specifically desk-top computer displays is HDMI.
Or, suppose the government charged a fee to emit CO2, and paid the money to companies who pulled the CO2 back out of the atmosphere?

Then everyone is paying the direct cost of fixing the damage they do, and the money is going to people who fix the damage.
Coincidentally, xmonad 0.17.0 was released today as well: https://xmonad.org/news/2021/10/27/xmonad-0-17-0.html :-)
https://twitter.com/bjango/status/1453171506263982087?s=20

iStat replied to this post to say that they're not!
Intel Takes a Page from Nvidia’s Book and Looks Beyond the CPU
I don't disagree with your analysis, but it's important to remember that most states think of the 80% of that $1.5B that isn't profit as going to their citizens in the form of local spending.
The vast majority of people are not comfortable opening their computer and mucking around the guts. In the old days Apple made this simple for their users:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Unibody+Model+A1278+Bat...
> Touch Bar I think was a legit attempt at modernization.

I agree, I think they're really interesting. The way we interact with computers hasn't changed much, and having a set of buttons you can configure sounds amazing.

I wish they would have just put it above the physical function keys, and deployed it to all MacBooks and wireless keyboards. Being limited to just some MacBook Pros probably hurt the number of apps that adopted it.
Using Octal, it really good and works on Mac as well, the pro features are not really needed but are still nice to have
Yes, all of those bad things can happen. A gold standard is not perfect. The goal isn't to be perfect. It is to have a currency that is fair to the greatest number of people. Gold is a currency trusted by all, fiat is a currency of force.

In crisis I would rather have the food, water, and ammunition. What a silly strawman. A warehouse full of survival supplies is incredibly valuable during crisis but it is not durable and must be maintained when not in crisis. For the long term representation of wealth I would rather have a vault of gold just like every nation on the planet. Nearly everything else degrades in a fraction of a lifetime. Gold will be exactly the same after sitting untouched for millennia. For the long life of nations this is extremely important. For the comparatively short life of a human this is less important but still valuable.

A casino is the best analog that I can thing of at the moment. When you want to play in the economy of a casino you are required to change your dollars for chips. You have to trust that the casino is not going to steal your dollars and will actually give them back. They practice full reserve banking where every dollar represented by chips is in their vault. The same is true for a gold standard economy as practiced sans full reserve. Gold is the money, banks do the job of verifying gold and exchanging for easily carried and traded tokens, dollars. You have to trust that banks or governments aren't going to steal your gold. If you don't trust them you change your dollars back to gold. If a lot of people lose trust you get bank runs. With fractional reserve banking there isn't enough gold to pay back every dollar and you get crisis and bank failures.

With any currency its value comes down to trust. A gold standard allowed people a way to keep their wealth in a durable form in times of low trust with no conversion cost. It allowed people to "take their ball and go home" so to speak. No governments needed to trust another country's fiat. The money exchanged in trade had a real, verifiable, persistent value.

Yes, a gold standard has some problems. Barring straight barter with physical gold it is still the fairest most robust currency system humans have come up with. Whatever excuses the US Government gave for ending the gold standard it still acted unconstitutionally. The government was facing a damaged economy and dwindling gold reserves as people and countries redeemed dollars for gold. The government saw their dwindling gold reserves as a problem instead of a function of a gold standard. This is the same as a casino seeing a lot of people cashing chips in and seeing their dwindling cash supply as a problem. In both cases it is a loss of trust in the token issuer that caused their supply to dwindle. It wasn't a problem with the currency it was a lack of trust in the issuer that the issuer saw as a reduction in "their" money that needed to be stopped. It was never "their" money to start with. It always belonged to the people. The people were just taking their ball home.
We made obstinate people do a good thing and now society is better for it - good.

We already destroy people's livelihoods for all sorts of transgressions against society, theft, murder, etc etc. Why are you pretending to be shocked by us adding another measure for the common good?
Show HN: Communication vs. Information
Not sure 'beautiful' or 'lucky' are words i'd use to describe it. Did you catch that the males of tuskless mothers generally don't survive, decimating the male population? It's a tragic and desperate response, though quite incredible that such a dramatic evolutionary trait can occur. It makes me wonder what we could become, if only...
Any article that uses the terms "coders" and "IT" is a red flag to me. I've never seen that terminology inside organizations that are actually capable of shipping software.

> Then of course there are the stories of small engineering teams with Unicorn exits, e.g. Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.

I'm surprised the author didn't consider these as well. Some of these stories are almost a decade old at this point, they should be well known by now.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Unibody+Model+A1278+Bat...
SDI Tool Origin for Windows. Download the torrent and store that on a USB drive. That's the only sane way.
In the Science article they wrote, “Poaching resulted in strong selection that favored tusklessness amid a rapid population decline.” And, “Whole-genome scans implicated two candidate genes with known roles in mammalian tooth development (AMELX and MEP1a), including the formation of enamel, dentin, cementum, and the periodontium.”

So, there was a change in the genes, but how do they connect this fact with poaching? I don’t see the relation. Surely, elephants themselves, cannot decide to change their genetics as a reaction to poaching.
yes, in the demo same thing happens to the macOS battery menu
> Also, the ports weren't all the same.

This was the most shocking to me. I learned that the left and right side ports run through different buses, but each side does not have enough capacity to supply both ports at full speed. This mean I had to buy long USB cable to run to the other side of my Macbook in order to supply 3 monitors. I have a port just sitting unused.

Also, there seems to be a problem with left-side USB ports when charging. They cause the system to overheat (or at least think it's overheating).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/04/24/why-you...
The comment that I replied to said that she has a valid point being anti-male because she receives so much unwanted attention. And my reply is that I believe the sexualized attention isn't unwanted but instead it's part of her marketing strategy which includes - among other things - the "sexy cyborg" branding and 18+ videos.

In a similar vein, if I wanted to make a YouTube channel that appeals to true hackers, I might stop shaving and showering for a few days and wear the hoodie. That sounds like a great marketing strategy to stand out from the boring suit & tie crowd ;)

EDIT: Marketing agencies already beat me to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLsNOMqyD8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aTGB1KFgII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M71fnJNNeE
> Researchers found the number of tuskless female elephants in Mozambique increased by almost double over 30 years. This overlaps with a period of civil conflict, where armed forces slaughtered 90% of the elephant population to produce ivory. This ivory went on to finance the conflict.

People suck.
Maybe a comparison with open edX makes the most sense
Latest Russian cyberattack targeting hundreds of U.S. networks
They could manage without our legal system, I'm sure, but I think there's some profundity in the military point. It does no good to create some sort of utopia if that utopia hasn't got an answer to smart bombs or paratroopers, etc. The fundamental game theory of the modern world's arms race has to be considered in any attempt to structure the perfect society.
So they can print money
It seems to me, making batteries difficult to service and replace is very consumer-unfriendly--not to mention shitty to the environment. So this is definitely step in right direction. Not exactly so easy as pulling it out from the bottom like back in the day of bricks, but hey.
Android 12L and new Android APIs and tools for large screens
Dual booting is my usecase.
It is always a sad thing when a person dies. Unfortunately, some deaths are much more predictable than others.

Until we're able to talk candidly about the decisions that led to those outcomes, we will continue to mourn preventable deaths in the future.
> if only...

If only humans were harvested for bony growths?
I dread that even if it were stripped from Facebook tomorrow the damage is done and cat out the bag, another platform would just copy and rise to the top of the pile that is "social" media...
Yeah, I just use \ls -whatever for those.
Every extant tracking system uses IMUs as the primary tracking sytem. The Lighthouse base stations and the Oculus camera tracking are used to correct for sensor drift.

You need it to be this way, because the IMUs can run at fairly high frequencies (200 - 1000Hz), which is (in part) keeps latency low. The data paths and processing needed for the reference frame corrections are so complex that they can't be run anywhere near as fast. It's why the hand tracking on the Quest is so high-latency: there's no IMU on your hand.

And it's not "algorithm magic". It's mostly just Kalman Filtering.
I really think the MBP notch is not long for this world.

The moment I saw it announced and found out it didn't do facial recognition I knew Apple itself was hesitating on it.

Even the perfect SDK for building out applications cannot solve the issue when you need to fullscreen a window or application.

It really does feel like an absurd design choice. I still don't like how it looks like on my iPhone and I would hate the notch on a laptop.
On this line of thought, the Numberphile YT video titled "All the Numbers" hits on this and other interesting truths. (I'd never learned the term 'normal number' until watching this.) Runtime 14m27s. Highly recommended.
There is no asymmetry in capability but there is an asymmetry in the desire to provoke. Russia has solidified its role in the world as essentially - a geopolitical troll. "Stabbing in the back", the thing they accuse everyone else of, is the strategy.

NATO does not want this fight, and they do not have the hierarchy of plausible deniability, which the Russian security services have perfected to a form of art.

"Independent" hacking groups do jobs for the government, in exchange to freely conduct mercenary for-profit attacks without fear of being jailed.

NATO countries don't have this system. If they do something, they do it without proxies.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/dutch...
I feel like I have to drop "Technopoly" here, because that's promoting similar concepts. Postman calls out our bias towards adopting new technologies without any reluctance, and without consideration of the hazards of deploying it. He also espouses the view that once a technology is adopted it will self-proliferate up to the point where it becomes wholly outmoded, which at least as far as I can tell appears to be true. So there's this natural blindspot for technology where mankind seemingly sees only upsides, judges it fit for use. Eventually an overarching technic emerges where it's not mankind that is using the technology, but rather technology is using mankind. Like most of Postman, it's a very compelling criticism, and despite its age the points he made are remain salient.
It is massively improving my productivity, things I couldn’t be bothered to write it does for me.

The thing I find really good is it can predict what I will do next. Say if I have a list of columns in some text somewhere in the project when I write one “df = df.withColumn(“OneItemInList”)”

Copilot will then add the same for all the other items - is really nice
Committed pacifists may not feel as much need for the military.
1. Canada has a huge mining Industry and that’s right next door to Maine.
2. It’s possible to bring in multinational consultant teams specialized in mining industries. A location doesn’t have a mining industry until suddenly a big deposit is discovered and they do.
NPR is rife with bias, if you know how to look for it.

At which point you're going to have a serious confirmation bias problem. How would I know that I know how to look for it? Easy: I found some.

"If only you'd open your eyes and look for the truth!" is kinda how that comes across to me.
Not sure why downvoted. This is a legitimate point. In Romania it's possible to get "sink vaccinated". That is, the doctor squirts the syringe into a sink instead of in you, and you get 100 % valid papers to show your local wannabe Arstotzka agent.

Having a covid passport proves nothing. They'll have to scan your blood like in Gattaca.
"New" refers to this particular Erlang-focused instance of a forum.

But I'm curious-- given that you seem to consider online web-based fora to be outmoded & anachronistic-- what in your mind would be representative of the new hotness?
Forums work well.
Wouldn't a light version of this basically just be a fancy camera obscura?
Honest question from someone who knows virtually nothing about chemistry or material science: is there a difference in quality between synthetic and natural ivory? If not, why is poaching even still a viable market?
hahaha, my 2016 MBP chews through batteries - I'm on my fourth, I think - and every time I get a new battery it comes with a new keyboard, so I haven't had any of the keyboard problems some are plagued with.
I think there will still be a human who deploys a killer robot, until AGI that is.... Also I don't think someone deploying land mines is thinking about the consequences beyond the immediate conflict, and they will kill/maim years after.
I was indifferent to the Touch Bar, but Apple needed to release an external keyboard with it if they really wanted it to catch on. I just never took the time to figure out good use cases since I could only use them when using the laptop keyboard.
Apple products are excellent, well built, and they last. If they didn't add new things regularly far fewer people would buy. I think a lot of the new features on Apple products have simply been attempts to make things look different enough to be worth buying.

This includes removing the things they've added...
Here is a demo of it with Neovim & Codespaces: https://twitter.com/josebalius/status/1453413543232090118
Yes, but Jython and IronPython (which were the only implementations that I know of that effectively didn't have a GIL) were much slower in general, didn't work with native extensions and were always lagging a lot on the supported version (so, yes, there's not much interest in having a GILless version with these shortcomings -- so, IMHO, CPython is right in only accepting a GIL removal if the performance in general doesn't suffer and which has a good path forward for compatibility of the existing native extensions ecosystem).
Beautiful, lucky, bad

Incredible, good
* "detected state activity", or even "detected foreign state activity". WTF does "nation-state" mean? Bhutan?
see answer to brother comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29013635

mainly the referenced links
Evolution works thanks to natural pressures -- in this case, a mutation in the gene gives an elephant no tusks, and thanks to this they are not killed by poachers. That elephant is lucky enough to survive to pass on its DNA. The recessive gene, over many generations, grows more dominant as more and more elephants "benefit" from having no tusks by not being hunted.

So the elephants aren't reacting to poaching -- the "reaction" is a random mutation that happens to align with external pressures, causing a shift in genetics for the population.
we don't record phase, there is no way to recover the phase from a single signal

what we do we make sure that all receivers are synchronized, i.e take samples at the exact same time

then you can correlate the signal received between dishes (which will arrive at different times due to delays in propagation), and find out the time difference of the signal which then points out to signal origin (beam forming) - this is how phased radar works

once you align the signals you can use the minute differences in the signals to compute a synthetic aperture, i.e improving the angular resolution
I don't get this charicterization where professionals don't have fun or use those childish whimsical things like emojis. By a huge huge margin I use more emojis at work than anywhere else and having a keyboard for them is quite nice.

The Touch Bar is infinitely more useful than the function key row -- volume and brightness sliders are way better than "louder" and "brighter" buttons. Answering calls with the bar is easier than mousing over to the Teams notification.
Have you seen https://forum.dlang.org/ ?

It appears to be a perfectly integrated web forum / NNTP / mailing list system.
“French law prohibits free book deliveries but Amazon has circumvented this by charging a single centime (cent). Local book stores typically charge about 5-7 euros ($5.82-8.15) for shipping a book.”

Interesting how Amazon charge a “centime”, which hasn’t been legal tender in France since 2002…
Still not working for me
‘Professional cybercriminals’ blamed for DDoS attacks against UK telecoms
The only place that really checks with the app in my world is a sweaty dance club in Prague. This is actually very appropriate. They even match with my ID.
nice generalisation. i for once never thought even remotely about slaughtering a freaking elephant in order to get the tusks.
yes lots of people are bad and do bad things , but that does not mean that all people suck.
Solus OS. Go to the driver assistant, it will show up that Nvidia propietary drivers are missing. Click on it, wait to download and install, done.

Windows is a joke in comparison.
In case anyone is wondering about the size of the effect, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/wildlife-... has the numbers. Before the war, 2-4% of female elephants were tuskless. Now 32% of newly born ones are.

So it's a significant change, but it's not like this property was coming out of nowhere. It started off about as common as humans having green eyes.
I feel like depends on whether or not they are using their iPhone while operating their horse and buggy.
> the theory for that was developed in 1957 by an Italian physicist who defected to the Soviet Union. (No Nobel Prize!)

This was Bruno Pontecorvo, Enrico Fermi's student and early collaborator. One defected to USSR, another to the USA

> It was Alan Guth's answer to survival in the physics hiring drought of his time.

Credit where credit is due: Andrey Linde's contribution to Inflationary Cosmology cannot be overstated.
> The meson support is now fully mature. While autotools support will still be kept for this release series, it will be dropped afterwards.

autotools delenda est.
Random mutations happen all the time. If there’s selection pressure that favors a given mutation, it will proliferate.
I actually really like the TouchBar except for the dramatic input lag. The input lag is so damn high that I never ever use it. If you could swipe left/right on it without holding down first, as on an iPhone, and if touch events generally had the same responsiveness as on an iPhone, I think everyone would have loved it much more. RIP TouchBar.
Given they made MORE money in this experiment, I suspect the decision to roll it back was more nuanced than a naive analysis and bad science experiment.