skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple doesn't care about the future of anything except their bottom line. They wanted sleek and different to sell a new generation of laptops, now they're adding features again to sell a new generation of laptops. Planned obsolescence and creating churn to sell more units, the Apple way.
If the grid wasn’t reliable, a hypothetical I know, it would probably be cheaper to switch over to a ground source heat pump rather than increase your panels by 3x. That would lower your winter electricity demand, albeit at the cost of significant capital expenditure.
Can’t I mint an NFT of the painting you own an NFT for and perhaps through my (fictional) celebrity status, my NFT becomes seen as the “main” one?
People will pay millions for an original Monet. Why? Digital image reproduction is perfect and the image is in public domain.

The answer is you’re buying status and provenance. The original Monet holds special value because of arbitrary cultural conventions. Someone can create a perfect replica to look at, but the replica dies not confer social status.

We now have a generation of crypto-native multimillionaires. I know many on this forum are pissed off about the fact. Many think all this crypto wealth shouldn’t exist. And many think the bubble will burst any day now.

All of which could be true. But the facts in the ground today is that there’s huge amounts of crypto native wealth. Just the same as 19th century Robber Barons are going to spend money on things that confer social status among other 19th century Robber Barons, crypto native millionaires are going to buy things that confer social status among crypto native millionaires.

For crypto native people, crypto provenance is as valuable as original copies are to Robber Barons. Again this is all just arbitrary social conventions one way or another. As long as the crypto ecosystem continues to generate massive wealth, expect the highest status goods among that subculture to command lofty prices.
> Stripe Inc. is signing up to pay for carbon-removal technologies that haven’t been invented yet.

> The payments company has formed a partnership with Deep Science Ventures, a London investment firm that specializes in building technology companies from the ground up. DSV will recruit scientists to develop ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. If they come up with viable concepts, Stripe will be their first customer.

why not focus on implementing already existing ecologically sustainable inventions and strategies?

what i read here: rent-seeking tech founders aim to funnel profits they collected from the taxing of economic activity [1] towards a privately-funded lottery of hoped-for future tech.

the techno-fix is dangerous because it 1) ignores existing systemic dysfunction:

"The current political economy is based on a false idea of “immaterial scarcity.” It believes that an exaggerated set of intellectual property monopolies – for [trade secrets,] copyrights, trademarks and patents – should restrain the sharing of scientific, social and economic innovations. Hence the system discourages human cooperation, excludes many people from benefiting from innovation and slows the collective learning of humanity. In an age of grave global challenges, the political economy keeps many practical alternatives sequestered behind private firewalls or unfunded if they cannot generate adequate profits." [2]

and 2) it covertly wields the lone genius myth [3], that supposedly the Stripe brothers are intellectually superior and can make better funding decisions compared to a democratic body of scientists.

check out this awesome video of just one ecological solution: Life in Syntropy with Ernst Gotsch, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPNRu4ZPvE

the work of Million Belay of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is also impressive and worth checking out: https://afsafrica.org/

and this video narrated by Jeremy Irons, and with Vandana Shiva: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-bK8X2s1kI

and this book by her: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43890614-oneness-vs-the-...

this is what global north capitalists are doing instead, Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas by Joakim Demmer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isiYYVmvn2U

[1] Rent-seeking as a service by Wendy Liu, https://dellsystem.me/posts/fragments-86

[2] Peer-to-peer economy and new civilization centered around the sustenance of the commons, http://wealthofthecommons.org/essay/peer-peer-economy-and-ne...

[3] The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato, https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-entrepreneurial-state
It's not an image. It's simply a piece of text that says, "This piece of text is unique. Signed, John Smith" and you can pay John Smith to edit that text to say "This piece of text is unique - Signed, John Smith and Jane Adams". This text is publicly available for all to see. Some people like to put in that text a URL to a picture they like.
I'll be going from WFH Covid to hybrid so I'll be spending time on the roads come January... Dune might have to be the first audiobook I start.

The real question is Dune or the Prequels... I do like the expanded universe, personally.
We saw the same thing with the dropshipping craze.

The real money was made after one got in early, made some money, then began selling dropshipping courses to other hopefuls.
I wish we could get away from OOP. "Be careful what you wish for" dances around in my head as I think about how badly literally everyone misinterpreted OOP, which ended up creating the OOP most of us deal with on a day-to-day basis. Whatever the initial understanding of any new paradigm, this will influence the implementation across industry as the inventors watch with their mouthes hanging open at the absurdity.
> That said, the more I read about the low or no interest loans against investments that seem to be the primary “income” of the mega-rich, it seems more and more that something needs to be done here.

The problem isn't that people don't pay taxes on unrealized gains, the problem is that people pay low taxes on realized gains, and usually no taxes on the very large gifts and estates. A tax on unrealized gains of billionaires raises a little bit of money without dealing with the giant structural unfairness in the tax system—which, really, is why it might be politically viable.

Actual tax fairness would be simple and not require a tax on anyone's unrealized gains: special taxes (with low rates and broad exemptions) on long-term capital gains and estates and the givers of gifts would be eliminate, and all of those things would be regular income to the recipient. Windfall gains and gains requiring long-term effort/ownership would be addresaed by allowing everyone the option of advance tax recognition of future income and deferring windfall gains over a period of years, both tools to smooth income.
If this headline is true, I'm ready to admit I was wrong thinking that Apple would never admit it was wrong about anything, ever.
That's how things work. Early adopters are the first one who owns the majority. You can't definitely deny that.
> the newbies compete so intensely amongst themselves that they can’t compete with the established dominant choice — in the case of research, that often means [mostly only old papers get cited].

The article does not mention tenure and the publish or perish incentive (which forces academia to work like the auto industry, just-in-time manufacturing of incrementally better output).

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gMszBSAX23uqYhytR/technologi...

( https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6xm5DFX4AEjP3_.jpg )
As for ports, who still uses SD cards?

SD cards are used for a lot more than just cameras, especially among pros of many different stripes.
If you are wondering about Vaccine QR codes, see this article that explains how the "shc" (SMART Health Card) protocol is used to generate and decode the QR.

https://marcan2020.medium.com/reversing-smart-health-cards-e...
Did we miss the time where the NSA the same thing a couple months ago, and the fact that Keith Alexander is on the board now?

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nsa-awards-secret...

This is lucrative for Amazon, and likely convenient for the Five Eyes and their data sharing ambitions.
Maybe there's a real person named Adolf Hitler? Not from Germany for sure.
The emptiness in BR2049 was explained in-universe: people were leaving Earth for colonies and the planet was severely depopulated. It was OK for it to have this lifeless feeling. But "Dune" should be brimming with life, struggle and constant dangers, this melancholy and sterility do not fit it at all.
Given that most software on this benchmark are basically open source linux citizens, I would say windows 11, which is basically way more functional and has way more features than linux did pretty well, given that we can expect that most of those software packages have probably more optimization work for linux than for windows. Not bad at all.
> You need discrimination to end discrimination

That is a false or at least unproved statement.

> only a temporary adjustment, to make things fair again

On the shoulders of innocents because they are associated by skin color to a group. We have to disagree here, I believe this is a completely wrong approach. It has been implemented a long while now and it is actually surprising it didn't have a larger net negative effect. So to what degree is it temporary? To me this is overlooking some of the most basic principles that lead to racism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics

Interesting read, but it is pretty much deprecated by modern ethical considerations. But that is basically the proposal here. Laws for equal and unequal people.
>VHS support

I'm not astute enough to tell if this is /s, but the idea of a USB-C to VHS dongle is highly amusing to me.
At the moment, wealth in most western countries is concentrating upwards:

1) employees, especially low-wage employees such as Amazon delivery and warehouse workers, Walmart employees or "gig workers" get exploited (e.g. Walmart is infamous for workers being paid such pittances that they require food stamps to survive)

2) customers are exploited by having to bear the cost of bad products (e.g. getting hacked because Microsoft can't be bothered to do proper QA)

In the meanwhile of that, the companies rake in billions - and many of them are owned to a large part by extremely rich individuals and thus gain (depending on corporate structure) wealth by dividend payments or stock price growth: Jeff Bezos, the Walton family, Elon Musk, Bill Gates to name a few.

The average employee in contrast doesn't see anything from that paper wealth gain: the poorest class doesn't even have enough money to put in a 401k or other investment vehicles, 70% of all stock investments is held by the 10% top earner class (per https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2020/08/31/mo...), and wage increases have been scarce prior to the current COVID-resulting crunch.

An implicitly forced break-up would at least redistribute the wealth gain to a broader class of people, and if it were done by levying taxes against the super-rich, the government would actually have money to provide services to its citizens: a decently trained, competent police force, health care access, housing cost assistance, public transport, to name those where the last two years showed the worst issues.

Let's face the truth: Elon Musk alone is worth 288 billion $. Taxing off half of that would still leave him with more money than he can reasonably spend in ten life times and provide money desperately needed to fix a lot of issues. The usual counter-point is that this eliminates the control the owners hold over their company and with it, the driver for success goes away - however that can easily be bypassed by converting the sold-off shares to simple capital-interest-only shares without voting power.
Apple improving features on new products and still supporting older devices is “planned obsolescence”?
Yes, exactly. That OP needs to know the time is the problem being solved.
Equilibriums are often punctuated.
The Google Translate:
The wall has rats and rats have ears.
Perhaps time for pro cameras to include better connectivity options such as WiFi?
> aspiring coconspirators

I feel like this describes the majority of "victims" here.
A billion dollars is a lot of money.

A billion dollars worth of minerals is not a lot of minerals. It would be worth extracting if it were something readily shipped and processed like gold or crude. But from what I understand of lithium processing, just the equipment along might ring up in the hundreds of millions, and you still have to pay to get it extracted, processed, etc.
I checked the Hitler code with apps from Latvia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Iceland and France.

The apps for Latvia, Luxembourg and Switzerland say OK, the one for France says "OK but fraudulent", the one for Iceland says no. From the article it looks like the Italian app also says no.

Not revoked everywhere it seems. Also, the French app seems to check against a blacklist, so it is possible that only the Hitler code is considered invalid and not the signing key.
> If you take performance out of the equation

But why would you take _the most important metric_ out of the equation...?
It usually takes less than 30 seconds to copy+paste quote the portion of the linked content that's actually relevant. Doing so greatly improves the effectiveness of communication.
they already did with the trash can mac pro design a few years back
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It is early days for us! We are not showing the pricing tiers because we don't have them. We jut want to put the free/demo evrsion out there asap, so we can gather feedback. Looking into it now, you are 100% right and it is unfortunate that we "appear unwilling to display what the pricing", it is not our intention at all.
> A perfect summary. "Foundation" trilogy is essentially a novelization of the generalized anthropic principle[0]: protagonists aren't special, the only reason we're reading about particular characters and not some others is because those people happened to be at the right place and time during pivotal moments in history.

That "anthropic principle" goes out the window pretty quick in book 2 when a super-powered mutant becomes the antagonist.
Everyone is a 'pro' at something. The term's meaningless. Vast majority of pros don't need any ports whatsoever and can do with a MacBook Air.
Most big-name cloud providers have needed to do this in the past half decade because the GDPR necessitated that they warehouse EU-sourced data in a different infrastructure with different privacy and national exfiltration guarantees then the ones US law requires.
If being safe on the streets is what we are talking, sorry, but we definitely must have a small talk about drugs and cars.

Friends don't let their friends drive while high on ecstasy (specially when there are a lot of children riding pink bikes in the street).
Across n languages you have m libraries that need to be maintained. As new languages are introduced or as existing ones gain market share, the maintainers of old libraries are stretched thin. You need to have n*m maintainers, and the number of concerns to keep track of continues to grow.

Perl has fallen. Fortran is legacy. Ruby isn't as hot as it once was.

At some point, new people won't want to learn an old language. This is when a language begins to wither away.

It will happen to PHP. Eventually (in the technological limit) it'll happen to everything.
Less than 50% of people using SD cards is not a great argument for removing the SD card slot from the 'Pro' MacBook.
I think it will only hurt 401k's if they have over a billon in assets, or pull out $100M/annual. In which case... I think I'm still ok with it. I remember someone has a billon+ Roth IRA, and at some point that is just getting really lucky and then abusing the structure.
Could at least spellcheck the title before publishing
lol - no worries, there will be no demos.
I like taking interviews as a software developer
I've used the SD slot to flash the OS for raspberry pi's, not sure how I would have solved it otherwise.
If you go down the "most people" path, all the ports go away.

I am certainly not most people but still use SD cards as a "thumb drive", to format for the Raspberry Pi, for my wife's dash cam, and I also have a few digital cameras I still use that are SD-card based.

I do however expect this will be the last MacBook with an SD card slot.
Have Employers Peeked at Pay History for Job Applicants? Hard to Tell
I'm a bit confused by this also.

My understanding was that each node in a certificate tree/list consists of a key pair (public/private), and the entity metadata which needs to be verified. eg. the root CA has a private key that it uses to sign CAs, and those CAs have their own private key that it used to sign individual leaf node certificates.

Meanwhile, revocations are distributed as a separate CRL - certificate revocation list - which contains a list of certificates whose signees are no longer to be trusted. I'm not very clear on how this process works, but in any case I don't think keys can be revoked.
Scientific progress is still way ahead engineering readiness in terms of results… and engineering readiness, while catching up, validates and enables further scientific progress.
I'm not sure that logic holds. Perhaps if "justice" is only point in time. There have been plenty of times in history when minority groups have been subjected to what we today would call an injustice. Simply having broad support would mean that they were just during the time in question and only considered unjust at a later time.
Your thinking of salars not hard rock deposits
> I can cite equal "overwhelming evidence" for any other religion,

No you can't. This is a challenge.

Islam is the only faith or tradition that has the notion of Isnad, by which we are able to ascertain that certain events or narrations are true. No other religion has this. For example, the authors of all the 4 New Testament bibles are unknowns. Under the Islamic Sanad system, this immediately renders the text as unreliable.

> You consider it evidence because you believe it

I believe it because of the evidence, after strict investigation of the process.

> without ever bothering to do so yourself.

I just did.

> You can have morality without religion

No you can't. This is the established position among atheist heads and philosophers, please see https://youtu.be/EqK_JPts26k?t=183 again.

Ah, Dawnkins, who argues along with Kraus, that he cannot find a moral argument against incest. Or that some pedophelia is ok.

Again, all atheists who are true to themselves will only come to the ultimate natural conclusion of their world view, that nothing matters and that there is no objective morality. At least they're honest with themselves.
Still an improvement. Keys can be revoked and regenerated.
It's not the same. Data fusion comes with ballista, with the goal of replacing spark for many usages.
It also supports JSON and Avro
There are loads of signed malware: in fact, that's how you know it's of genuinely good quality.
What Apple has done here is accept that MacBook Pros are indeed for Pros. Who uses SD cards? Pros!

In Apple’s view, the people who use only their phones for photos will be perfectly served with the M1 machines (Air, Pro 13, iPads). The ugly design is because they realize that it’s the lowest priority for Pros… performance and ports are far more important.
My 16-year old daughter, who is a user of TikTok, has never joined Facebook, and none of her friends seem to be suggesting that she should so either they haven't joined either or it's just not how they communicate with their peers. They text, which has the big advantage of being a way of communicating without your parents or grandparents being in the conversation. :)
Dongle. But, yeah, I prefer the convenience of an integrated slot.
I think the reference is MSD partners, the family office (private investment company) of Michael Dell's fortune. They have been described as "patient capital" informally. I can't seem to find any articles using that phrase in reference to MSD Partners, but I've hard it thrown around a lot in discussions of their overall investment approach.
I had a similar thought. I'm 45 and GP's dad sounds like the guy I want to be when I grow up.
I might be reading this wrong (I always have problems calculating AWS costs), but this seems VERY expensive. Much more than paying a 10Gbps internet plan for a year where I live.
I wish the article had addressed the other issue in the area: funding. The US stopped lavishly funding scientific research sometime in the 1970s. Private industry has taken up the difference, but private industry wants to focus on immediately usable research for profit, rather than fundamental stuff that’ll be useful for the next century for all of society.

Is it that surprising that the most cited research papers come from the tail end of the federally funded research era?
The tricky part is def the implementation. The question is how to tax billionaires and discourage hoarding of such wealth, and instead encourage spending and investment.
> The price seems to be the main barrier to EV adoption IMO, and is probably the reason they are so rare where I live (it's a major metropolitan area, and yet so far I have seen a non-rail EV only once).

Interesting. I live near a (relatively!) affluent suburb of Cincinnati and I see at least one or two Teslas a week, depending on how much I'm driving. Our next door neighbors have an electric BMW (i3). And I'm not a car guy, so there could be a lot more than that I'm missing.

Next car I buy will probably be a Tesla? Though it might be a few years.

Of course, this doesn't disprove your point that price is an issue in adoption.
It looks like the term "quantum supremacy" is now too dangerous a term to use. Someone needs to update the wikipedia page [1], I guess.

Separately, what these guys did is silly. Richard Borcherds (Fields medalist) explains it in a very entertaining way in [2], and likens this type of test to the concept of "teapot supremacy".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy#Criticism_of...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFhhQRxWTIM
Was academia terribly relevant in my field when I was a grad student? Nope. In general, the work was poorly supervised, not-reproducible, and the peer review process was completely broken. Students just wanted to graduate and professors just wanted tenure and funding points.
As I said, I'm not vouching for WhatsApp's implementation. What I'm saying is that having the ability to report messages does not mean they're not doing e2e exactly like they say. It doesn't provide any information on that point.

If they were going to look at all your messages, of course, waiting until the end user gets it is somewhat unnecessary, they could just get them straight from the sender since they're both "E's" in the e2e. But that's true of any messaging client. Unless you're inspecting the code and building your own binaries, you either have to choose to trust what they're saying or not (or I guess just don't care if it's not relevant to you). But again, that's not WhatsApp specific.
a 2 min video of him against a white backdrop acclaiming the chamfered edges?
Wow, this is extremely well written and illustrated! This would totally deserve a hard release. Where can I see more of your work?

I’ve sent a few dollars your way, get yourself a nice NFT or something with them ;)