skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"AI means we can literally brute-force any scientific mystery by trying out millions of algorithms..."

This is exactly wrong. If true, then AI could readily solve any human-level problem we could throw at it. But AI still can't master any of the basic skills inherent in human children, much less in adults working in construction crews, or health care aides, or janitors, or even just driving a car.

AI's ability to build robots capable of even basic tasks like giving a haircut or climbing over broken objects littering a stair -- they're nonexistent, and even after a decade of deep learning, they're not getting appreciably better.

Deep learning has shown us two things: 1) deep NNs can learn how to solve approximation problems astonishingly efficiently and capably. That's AlphaGo and AlphaFold. And 2) a lot of what humans assumed to be signs of intelligence, like playing go and chess, understanding voice and speaking, recognizing objects in images -- these are just "monkey see, monkey do" skills based in probabilistic pattern matching, which deep NNs can do very, very well.

But cognitive skills that require reasoning -- deduction, induction, and the recognition and rejection of contradiction -- these must identify relevant domain knowledge (semantics) and the ability to reason about it, not just the efficient matching of a pattern in a matrix using a GPU. Alas, the effective and scaleable means of solving these problems still remain a total mystery.

So if you can generate a zillion clueless hypotheses per second using the very best deep NN, it will still drive over a cop dressed like a clown who's waving his arms the path of your smartcar, nor will it ever invent general relativity.
Well professionals would use the MacBook pro
The version I played was the CDX, which bizarrely you could put batteries in and carry around like a Discman: https://retroconsoles.fandom.com/wiki/Sega_CDX/Multi-Mega
Where is the funding for this work? Customers want to solve end-to-end problems, now, so it's difficult to get support for deep work on a particular part of the visualization and analysis stack (for almost anything, not just code).
> Maybe, but you're missing the other use case - that in the future you'll need an extension requiring geometries that are considered invalid by the current set of rules, forcing you to update all tools processing the file format to acommodate the new extension.

As someone else in this subtree mentioned, apparently this flexibility wasn't needed for the last 20 years.
> gdp essentially is a function of labor force size X worker productivity

Sounds reasonable. But how do you measure "worker productivity?" Is a retail employee standing in an otherwise empty store "productive?" If you work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without sleep, are you "productive?" If you spend the weekend working on a side project, could that be "productive?"
Previously, 92 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17852194

One comment there said, "This is a godsend. Probably the best introductory article on Lisp to date."
I have to disagree on this. Microsoft has gone out of their way to support their legacy software on older systems, and it's a huge reason companies in the IT and IoT sector have stayed with them all these years.
It's simply not possible to understand long-running codebases [video]
The telegram PWA is shockingly good. It’s not quite as good as the native app but it feels as good as a regular okish native app. It’s useful to get around chats banned by apple as well.
> Maybe it's time to come over to M1 and 12.4?

This is the very type of bamboozlement I was alluding to - instruction set and/or silicon architecture doesn't actually change the amount of data you use.

Citrix will still need to buffer the same (compressed?) 4K worth of pixels and Edge will still to load up the full DOM, cache all the sources, stand up a sandbox with javascript virtual machine etc.

There's nothing magical there... a single frame of 16 bit 8K RAW will allocate the exactly same amount of heap on M1, M2, Intel or anything else for that matter.
The number of children born to a given family has fluctuated over time. It's not absurd to say that the shape of our society influences family planning.

In fact, there are capitalist countries (coughJapan) where encouraging baby-making, in the face of a demographic crisis that threatens to catastrophically disrupt economic stability, is state policy.
agree, still hold out hope for a new 12 inch at some point, apple silicon makes me optimistic ^^
Does pre-2017 also mean pre-T1? TFA mentions T2 is "safe", and it was my first thought that anything pre-T1 was being nuked. Too bad they don't mention that at all. 2017-2019 does feel like the T1 era, roughly.
Could you execute those native apps using only a simple URL in a secure environment in under a second without any need for installation or cleanup?
Back on Fidonet in the 90s, we used *bold*, _underline_ and /italics/. Makes a lot more sense than what we've ended up with today.
Last year's “Apple releases revolutionary processor” was news.

This year's “Apple releases incremental improvement of last year's revolutionary processor” is not.
I'm baffled. The entire iPad ecosystem is extremely expensive portable TVs. They are also decent (but very expensive) e-readers. For messaging, web browsing, gaming it's much easier to use a phone. For doing real work, you need a keyboard and a mouse/trackpad.
I'm considering getting an M2 Air even though I very much don't like OSX.
Experts chip away at corrosion for the future of fusion
> You need top end device with mobile connections to drive experience similar to Carplay or Android Auto with fancy map animation, fast touch response time and music streaming apps. That device cost at least $700+.

I'm pretty sure a boring $50 Chromecast could drive this experience just fine & without challenge. An 8-core ARM chip with a decent GPU is remarkably affordable in this day & age, and more capable than most people realize.

It would be significantly different to try to drive multiple experiences at once, versus a Chromecast which runs a single app at a time. But there are just so many cores now. Even if they're low performance Cortex-A510, I don't see the need for big CPU. And nothing I've seen on any of these videos gives me the feeling big complicated GPUs are necessary: the whole thing experience is powered by pretty lo-fi simple Widgets, "glancable" experiences.
Ongoing related thread:

Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31644990 - June 2022 (25 comments)
I have had iOS tell me I needed to "unlock the phone to enable accessories" (or something to that effect) when plugging in the charger that came in the box with the phone.

This has usually been when the lightning port has been fouled by pocket lint or the cord has started going bad, but I bet it happens often enough to desensitize users (especially for people using off-brand cords) that it has been identified as a possible attack vector, and developer mode is the solution.
Makes me wonder if enabling the developer options on my Android is opening any security holes. I would think not (assuming you don't then go into those same options and start messing with stuff) but I always do it first thing. I love turning on the option where it shows a little white circle exactly where it is registering your touch - I am sure this was intended to be just for testing but it is super useful on a device as imprecise as a touchscreen.
From a technical perspective, that's more or less baked into HLS: these are just discrete files being served over HTTP, so you can save the files to disk along with the manifest file and you have the content.

In practice, there is a little more to it. For example, when DRM is enabled, you need some way to preserve the decryption keys. And for live content, the manifest file usually just tells the client about a sliding window of files, so you need a tiny bit of additional client side logic to pay attention to this fact.

One cool thing about DASH/HLS is that you can do some pretty complex mixing of content - you can build a traditional TV-channel like experience that mixes live and prerecorded content, you can replace and inject ads, you can make live content immediately available for on-demand playback, etc.
this is basically how everything works

where would tom brady be if drew bledsoe never got injured?
A good way to understand this is through an ocean world thought experiment. If a hypothetical planet existed which was covered in a 100km deep ocean, all nutrients would steadily fall to the bottom of the ocean - where there would be minimal to no energy to make use of the nutrients. You'd eventually be left with a surface layer containing only the minimal amounts of nutrients which diffusion pulls back up to the surface.

In order for this hypothetical water world to host a thriving ecosystem, you would need a large moon or heavy vulcanism to ensure that the oceans remain mixed.
Have you tried 3 finger drag? So much nicer than needing to apply pressure.
Seriously. Ridiculous.
It's utterly absurd that iOS on the iPhone still doesn't support Media Source Extensions.
Yeah, thats a good point. There's def something shady and untold about this whole thing; and that could explain it. Apple has deep pockets and considering they have done shady deals (like the Google default search engine) this could be another one of those.
What is arm64 container? Container is just a namespaced process so if your binary is x86 it is still technically x86 container just run using emulation. And qemu user static already does translation a la rosetta 2 so there probably wont be much difference in speed
This is useful for legitimate apps. If I add the telegram PWA, I want to see notifications when I get a message.
Changed now. (Submitted title was "Run full Linux distributions on Apple Silicon")
I'm seriously considering going back to university and becoming a teacher like I wanted to do in high school.

I ended up in SWE after all my teachers and parents told me "you can do much better than teaching" and pretty much forced me to change around my uni preferences.

It's not that I hate coding, but doing it professionally has sucked all the joy out of it
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it just entirely about competition with the app store? That they don't want to invest in features for apps on a platform "owned" by their largest competitor that then compete with apps on their own platform? On the app store Apple makes 15%, on the web they make zero and Google likely gets whatever ad revenue. I'm not defending Apple, Safari causes has caused me professional pain in the past, but it seems predictable.
Destroying and consuming everything on earth for short term comfort and gains isn't what I'd call the smartest move.

It's like burning your bed in winter because you're cold, it sure feels food for a few minutes but then you start breathing in the fumes and wondering where you'll sleep tomorrow
HN should have tags (not subreddits) like some other sites. The tags can be added on the create post form and also auto-added / modified by moderators.

Then you can view the full HN feed, or filter to specific tags, or filter to exclude specific tags.

You can ignore the tags and the site still works as it always did. Or you can filter e.g. to exclude Apple, or politics, or crypto, or anything else you don’t want for whatever reason. Or you can filter to your niche (e.g. compilers or operating systems) at the cost of a lot less posts because HN isn’t that large.
Can you use two external screens if you disable the internal screen? That's what I do now with a ThinkPad.
DIY AI-Powered Speed Camera
I belief the latest theories state thet life started already before the end of the Hadean. From that I conclude that cooking to death occurs less than one might think. 4.1B years ago while the hadean ended 4B years.

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-may-have-...
Unfortunately the finite element software used in the forecast requires a commercial license to run.

https://www.comsol.com/products/licensing
While I appreciate where you're coming from, your conclusion seems to imply there is no world in which technology and a sustainable future can coexist. I realize we are closer to the end now than ever before, but what you are suggesting is that the ending is inevitable. If this is true - we've triggered our downfall and nothing can stop it - then should we not be praising companies that make efforts towards sustainability?

Since we can't just put things back into a box, isn't complaining about marketing like this just barking up entirely the wrong tree? If the premise is that technology ideally shouldn't exist in its current form, then that requires an entirely different discussion built on an entirely different foundation, and Apple's marketing claims are just a small distraction at best.
Was it a modern house built to modern fire codes? If so, there's a good chance there was drywall behind the plywood on some walls. There's a reason even unfinished garages still get 5/8" drywall on walls shared with the house.
Update on AJPS / Harvard Corruption
I believe the main issue is file syncing between macOS and the container host OS.

I don’t have a M1 mac, but on my Mac a standard Linux VM has no impact on performance or battery life. The minute I use Docker the machine become sluggish and halves (literally) the batter life, I now avoids is as much as possible.
False dichotomy; I alternate between ignoring it AND being annoyed by it
I definitely get why professionals want a MacBook. I’m just observing that, from UI/UX/functionality standpoint, the differences between what iPad OS can do and what MacOS can do is quickly disappearing. It’s been happening over a few years, and will continue to converge. There will be a point where it will be good enough to add to consumer MacBooks, and satisfy most people. They will maintain differentiation between the “iOS” MacOS just like they enable more powerful features with iPadOS that you can’t have with iOS. But it’s going to happen, the writing is on the wall.

Btw, this doesn’t mean that iOS MacOS will be unusable by devs. I’m sure they have already roadmappped what a pro iOS looks like, for MacBook users. Eg terminal, compiling, code running, etc. But might be more locked down from where you can install .apps from.
Running an empire is a lot different than leading it. It's like COO and CEO, Sandberg and Zuck.
Yeah, that was my 1984-like daily minute of hate, except that Goldstein is now an OS. Better than hating people I guess? Also, other than "smugfaced", I believe I stayed pretty factual in my description. Still, gotta fullfil my obligations to the Party and all that, lest they start suspecting me...
Not at all. Feel free to come back to this thread in 2023 if you’d like.
A better question would be based on transistor density, the nm nomenclature no longer has a real tie to the physical chip tech. So whichever company's marketing decides to call their process "1nm" first.
That won't be Intel, they've already abandoned nm naming convention (after their 10nm process was renamed to 7nm)
Apple doesn't manufacture chips, they send their designs to TSMC just like Nvidia and AMD (and many others).
Assuming this naming scheme isn't abandoned by everyone before 1nm, it will probably be IBM in some tiny lab sample, and then Samsung in a higher volume process.
Unified Sports Classification System
A bit like SQL?

The interesting thing is that 1000000000's of people use SQL every day and not so many Prolog....
Big-O/Theta/etc. are just tools for analyzing functions. But it also matters which function you are analyzing.

Typically a program is evaluated in terms of something like the "Random-access machine" where every instruction has a constant cost.
There's a bunch of additional assumptions hidden in this machine model!

In the real world, the speed of light and the Bekenstein bound conspire to make constant-time random-access to a memory of unlimited size impossible. In practice, a random memory access takes O(sqrt(N)) time. We like to pretend that there's a constant worst-case access time, but that only works out because our machines have a limited amount of memory -- it's not really appropriate for an asymptotic analysis.

So complexity theory based on the "Random-access machine" is just measuring a theoretical instruction count that doesn't necessarily correspond to the real-world run-time. There's other models that get closer, e.g. the "cache-oblivious model".
$1500 to edit photos 20% faster? Was it slow before?
If you want really good and detailed analysis of the situation read Matt Levine.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-06/elon-h...
As a kid on family vacation we had a hotel room with a safe. Turned out to be usable as a toy for my brother and me. One of us setting a code, the other trying to guess it. Until the one of us setting it failed to remeber it.

Turned out the hotel had no problem opening it at all.
>Care to elaborate?

It's been nearly a decade, and we're still talking about PWAs being the next big thing. Mozilla/Firefox has killed them off for good [0], and Safari support is tepid at best. It was ultimately just another push by Google a la AMP to corner the browser market some more, and the rest of the vendors are fed up with it. Devs by and large never bought into it because they are objectively inferior to native, while the tiny number of niche use cases where they do make sense have (rightfully) just avoided the complexity and remained as normal web apps.

[0] https://9to5google.com/2021/01/27/firefox-discontinues-work-...
Twitch latency in low-latency mode is ~2s (you can check for yourself in the settings cog menu -> advanced -> video stats) because of "prefetch segments", which are delivered via HTTP 1.1 streaming body responses. The client requests this segment and long polls while frames are delivered as they're being encoded. It's simpler and cheaper than WebRTC or Apple's low-latency HLS parts, and scales to hundreds of thousands of viewers. The downside is that it's not part of the HLS specification so support for it needs to be bespoke, but it is a proven technology that wasn't covered here (and to my knowledge, the most widely used low latency HTTP solution by # of users). Twitch has been using this for years.
Here's hoping this signals a tide-shift in their general stance on PWAs. PWAs can and do put really important competitive-pressure on the walled garden, and Apple knows it, and I think that's why they've been hampered for so long. I kinda wonder if this change was motivated by the antitrust stirrings
Has anyone used the “Land of Lisp” book, or Exercism.org to learn Common Lisp? Any other fun alternatives for learning lisp?
> What happens in 2023? You’ll graduate middle school?

Are you serious? Lol, smh…
What would dripping the ball look like at this point in the game? Mediocre annual upgrades?
Who looks at the Mongol empire fondly?
Is there a technical reason that the M1 only supports a single external monitor (optimized intended experience), or is just market segmentation?
Nah, Elon is more bloviating than making a serious accusation. He waived his due diligence and is not using the same terms as Twitter, possibly because he's dumb but I think more likely because he's trying to deliberately mislead people. Twitter's 5% claim (from public financial filings!) is about monetizable users, not "accounts that look like bots to Elon" or whatever other standard he wants to use. He's acting in bad faith and Twitter knows it.
Bernie Sanders was operating on all cylinders in this last primary. There is a documentary on all the efforts by his own party to stop his progress. In the end, the turnout was superb but it still was not enough because the older generation did not want take a chance on the radical policies that Sanders proposed.

So no the idea of a primary challenge is a lost cause and the younger generation internalized it this past election.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAfMn2l3yAA
Honestly haven’t noticed the notch on my MacBook Pro in months until reading this comment. It really does disappear after a little while
Docker contains a Linux kernel, does it not?
Technically a microkernel implementing common Unix syscalls plus BSD userland.
Doesn’t the same problem wrt privacy exist on the desktop and android?
It's a difference in kind. The computer could experience a power outage, it could experience a hardware failure, but regardless it and all other real computers will cease to operate long before it would be able to explore all possible states.
What made IE damaging was that it raced out ahead of standards and created APIs that no one else supported but companies started to rely on while it was in the lead and couldn't migrate away to standards that didn't exist. Most people today remember the era of IE stagnation and misunderstand: that wasn't the period of danger, that the was consequences of danger.

Safari isn't the new IE, Safari is the new Netscape.

Chrome is the new IE in that danger period. All the web developers complaining about Safari and Firefox "being slow", that's the danger signs. That's the warning flags. That's the new IE damaging browser progress by locking people into single-browser "web standards" that aren't standards. I don't know if the web will reap the same consequences this time, if there will be a Chrome stagnation to follow this Chrome danger time. I do know that the warning signs aren't what a lot of people think they are. The warning signs are the complaints about "Safari holding back the web" because they tend to imply that Chrome is the web when it isn't.
Definitely not surprising, just an attempt at being PC.
They need to make trains into land ferries that haul hundreds of EVs from metro area to metro area. You buy your ticket, you drive onto the train, you sit in your car until you have to drive off at your destination.
I don't know if we can call them the most evil. There are plenty of contenders, even if the death rates don't match up.

If we go purely by deathrates then we should pick communist china or the soviet union.

If we go by barbarity the mongol empire, the timurids, and the japanese empire (talking the one from ww2) are all good contenders.

Imperial japan was so bad that the nazi ambassador to china in nanking did his best to save as many civilians as he could out of sheer disgust for their behavior.

imperial japanese soldiers used to bayonet babies and do beheading contests for fun.

literally, their newspapers had them even keeping score over who could do more beheadings.

they melted people, literally ate people on one occupied island, they did multiple genocides, they tested gasses.

Imperial japan is what I consider the worst by barbarity.
It seems to refresh fast enough to run Doom on it. https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/11/21/13697058/...

Framerate's hard to determine from a youtube video of someone pointing a camera at it, single-stepping has some things seeming to move at the same framerate as the camera but redrawing the whole screen as the player moves around looks more like 1/3 of the camera's framerate to me.
Whoever wrote this article? Obviously, are you asking a rhetorical question?
I would really appreciate if those reissue consoles would rather be FPGA based mimics of the original hardware instead of essentially correctly shaped plastic around a raspi and retropie. The perceived success of devices like the Analogue Pocket indicate to me there's a market for this, and at the audience scale of first party devices this might actually hit non-enthusiast pricing
These are all very welcome. I’ll never understand why people don’t want choices and want their tech to be intentionally limited.

The flag for web push has been available, albeit non functional since 15.3.

Apple needs to hurry and simply allow for alternative app stores as well.