skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>a while after the first M1 Mac came out one of Apple’s VPs had said something on the record about Apple having tried to get Microsoft to sell retail licenses of a Windows 10 for ARM build

Not quite. The Craig Federighi quote is:

>As for Windows running natively on the machine, “that’s really up to Microsoft,” he said. “We have the core technologies for them to do that, to run their ARM version of Windows, which in turn of course supports x86 user mode applications. But that’s a decision Microsoft has to make, to bring to license that technology for users to run on these Macs. But the Macs are certainly very capable of it.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/we-are-giddy-intervi...

The scuttlebutt says that Microsoft is locked into a requirement to only run Windows ARM on Qualcomm chips for an unknown period of time, although I've never seen anything from Microsoft to confirm that.
Thanks for this OP, I've been looking for an easy to read comparison, I purposefully stayed out of these types of debates since I only understand blockchain at a high level.

(Matters of opinion aside, collecting the facts that drive one position or the other in one place, in readable English, is useful work.)
>Patent examiners permit operation of monopolies in my view.

The operation of a monopoly was already possible before the patent via trade secrets (typical contemporary example, SpaceX), what the patent does is make it illegal to break the monopoly by re-inventing the technology.
Yup

May have had something to do with these tweets [1] from Emily Haber @GermanAmbUSA German Ambassador to USA:

>> "The current geopolitical situation and its impact on supply chains has triggered a discussion about “technological sovereignty” in the US and Europe. For us, it means being able to help shape future technologies in line with our values. We see the USA as natural partners in this."

>> "It's one reason our Minister for Education and Research is visiting Washington. Welcome, Minister @starkwatzinger
. Your visit will deepen our cooperation as we face intense global challenges! 2/2"

https://twitter.com/GermanAmbUSA/status/1534236635562491905
Encoding speed can be very important, especially if you are seeking to decode the resulting image as quickly as possible at all times. Certain image formats are wildly better real-time containers than others. Encoding speed is irrelevant unless it's very low or very high. Most people are thinking amortize the decode against the encode and don't even consider what would happen if you took it into the other extreme.

Did you know that, with the correct SIMD code, you can encode a 1080p bitmap into a 4:4:4 JPEG within 10 milliseconds on a typical consumer PC? Encoding times like this open up an entire dimension of new possibilities.

I do have a side project where I use libjpegturbo to synchronize a frame buffer between server & web client (i.e. 60 FPS real-time). HN may frown on using [m]jpeg for real-time applications today, but in my experience it has proven to be a very robust path. Bandwidth is really the only tradeoff (and it is a big one). This is the very last thing Netflix would want to do (short of sending RAW files to your TV), but it does provide some very compelling attributes in other areas such as streaming gaming.

Our networks are only getting faster over time. Intraframe video compression techniques are really elegant in their simplicity and resilience to motion-induced artifacts (as seen with x264, et. al.). They also can provide lower latency and easier recovery for clients (since every frame is a keyframe).

For real-time applications, I'd happily trade some extra bits per second to have a final result sooner. Especially if it looked better.
> Shortcuts app on macOS

well they have mentioned at least that I will be able to run them from Spotlight. Something I was wanting to do with Services since I came across Quicksilver app back in the days.
Have you seen https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-for-k8s?
Why so? I am genuinely interested. I am one of the authors.

Other virtual cameras would work too, by the way. OBS is the README as it's the easiest to set up.
“It’s only for the next 24 hours and then you’re dead”
As I understand, this requires two fold sanctity - one for the printed form and one for the NFC. For being not a counterfeit now two conditions have to be met independently and simultaneously. Has it been considered that while accepting it neither visual verification, nor electronic verification are enough alone given that it is meant to be circulated among strangers in all imaginable and unimaginable circumstances?
> I assume this is a technical limitation rather than a business decision to sell more notes. But I do wonder (as someone who doesn't quite understand cryptography and multisig beyond the basics of how Bitcoin works), barring a protocol update, is it technically impossible to have reusable notes or was this a trade-off/design decision? If it is possible, is the trade-off it requiring an on-chain transaction to update the multisig every time the note change hands?

This is a trade-off; we could issue notes that never expire and do not require cutting to claim (and could be reloaded), however, this would require perpetual trust that we remain in existence without a fallback. Creating an expiration date mirrors how real money wears out after use. Our intent here isn't to sell more notes; in a medium-confidence scenario our hope is that after a long life in circulation the final holder of the notes re-keys them and puts them in a safe place until 2029 at which point they claim without cutting the notes (and retain them as collectable artifacts with no Bitcoin value thereafter). Our goal is not to sell more notes because they are cut/expired, but rather because we have new designs and denominations.

> This looks like a cool gift, but the necessity of destroying the note to move it, or otherwise trust the giver didn't copy the key, makes it a bad currency (I understand that cold-storage is the aimed use-case, not currency). My first thought on the landing page was that the keys were inaccessible to the holder without destroying the note for moving it to a known address (which would be somewhat alike trading in US dollars for gold, back in the day). I.e., that you could trust the note holds it's denomination as long as it is not cut. That would make it a proper offline and trustless currency. Is there a future where such notes will exist and does it require a major protocol update?

If there is anything beyond zero trust that we exist in some form into the future, the goal is that the recipient can re-key a note from an untrusted giver without cutting the note. In a medium trust world you can assume that a note hold value without scanning it so long as the expiration date is not past. But this requires several things -- (1) trusting that we will continue to exist and facilitate key rotation and (2) that the previous holder carried out some validation and is somewhat trustworthy -- e.g. potentially a bank or large retailer. For low value notes this doesn't seem completely unreasonable, but I appreciate why no one would treat the notes that way without some track record. Given a theoretical new chip which doesn't exist there are some additional possibilities here.
Check out silicon doping.

> When on the order of one dopant atom is added per 100 million atoms, the doping is said to be low or light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_(semiconductor)
Still, bridges do not really solve fragmentation problems the same way compliance with internet standards does.

For example bridges break important features like end-to-end encryption.
WWDC 2022: Why Apple's influence on Matter is a win for all smart homes
Can someone with information on the caste system chime in on how caste members recognize one another (especially outside of their native environment/homeland where cultural modes of expression such as clothing may be vastly different)?
This is kind of a weird discussion.

"Embodiment" here seems to mean "having a body," i.e. being able to perform motor tasks in the external world (as opposed to the way it's used in "Embodiment and the Inner Life" [1]).

In that case, I don't think embodiment could ever be considered a necessary condition for AGI. But AGI would need to be able to learn motor tasks if given a body (in order to be called "general").

A deeper question, and one I don't see enough discussion of, is whether a certain kind of embodiment is necessary for AGI to "feel something." I don't think this question is definitively answerable, but it's super important. Can a CPU experience qualia? Or do you need something more "meaty" and analog? Does the material matter at all, or is consciousness (in the hard-problem sense) just a pattern of information?

An even more interesting and relevant question might be - is "feeling" (i.e. having qualia) a necessary condition for AGI?

[1] https://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780199226559
To be honest I'd kill for a revival of the MacBook Pro 17".

Heck I'd love portable 21" and even 24" models.
Sideloading is not accessible to everyone, even though it's fairly easy to achieve. Most users, even technical, would not want to rely on such methods for installing a development environment (or customising their devices for example); Any tentative for monetising an application that depends on sideloading would be bound to fail at scale.

Is the context I described responsible for the lack of market? It may be.

I still think that iOS is the best mobile experience out there, but it's
Interesting thought. I can see your case for some growing companies. However I'm not sure if you would always need Kubernetes for this. What would you like adjust when we grow into a 1000 person company? I think you have still similar requirements like autoscaling, resource allocation, zero-downtime deployments etc. This is also possible without direct access to the container management.

And there are a lot of companies which do not become the next Unicorn and need an easy way to manage their container workloads.

SetOps currently uses ECS since it comes with no additional overhead costs for the management plane/API and does the container management job well enough. However this is not a definite decision and ECS could be replaced in the future. The main point is that there is a simple abstraction for users managing the workloads and that the "backend" is interchangeable.
> Very few countries have a single-payer system without health insurance providers, in case you're unaware

I lived in Australia for 23 years, and Canada for 15. Australia has single payer and universal, Canada (apparently according to your map has single payer)

To be honest you're splitting hairs, and in practice it doesn't make any difference.

You live in the country, you get healthcare without paying a cent out of pocket.

Both of those countries spend less on healthcare per capita than the US, and both have measurably better health outcomes.

So it costs less, and it's better. Why would any person not want something that is measurably better and costs less?
Involuntary mental health holds or longer commitments are already included in today's mandated background checks. It's limited to those because we don't want to dissuade people from seeking mental health treatment, especially former military or others who really don't want to be disarmed by the state.

In my experience, many people proposing additional gun legislation really have no idea what's been in place in many states and/or the entire country for years (e.g. background checks on almost all gun sales, waiting periods, magazine restrictions, weapon restrictions, etc.). Also, it doesn't help that studies have been done by decidedly anti-gun organizations that show universal background checks do nothing to reduce gun crime and even suicide [0].

The best way to stop an active shooter is obviously to prevent the crime. The next best are trained individuals with firearms, and since time is of the essence you might want them already onsite. We have armed guards for banks even though the money is generally FDIC insured. We have armed guards for cash transfers and even coin pickups from grocery stores. Yeshivas often have armed guards — why can't we harden secular schools? And no, literally no one is saying teachers have to be armed.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10472...
> allows for instant, anonymous settlement in regions with poor connectivity (El Salvador, Ukraine.)

What percentage of your orders come from such disadvantaged regions?
> For a long time, we have included workarounds in the codebase to disable features or change their behavior when dependencies are missing or incorrect.

I don't get this part. Why can't they enforce their constraints at build / start-up time instead?
> Are they also going to insist that Android manufactures support their phones for more than six months with operating system updates?

Yes they are, with a directive from 2019. See for example https://grunecker.de/en/blog/sales-of-goods-directive-and-di..., search for “Update Obligations”.
Oh, I think it's expected that we get some amount of personal stuff done during the day, and don't feel the need to hide this from my coworkers or even boss. At the lower end, there are few "white collar" desk jobs where you can't, say, take a phone call from a family member during the work day, or take coffee breaks whenever you want, or have to hide any of this from your boss.

If it got to the point where I felt like I had to hide the amount of time I was spending "working"/"not working" from my boss, then even if it were ethical (I still think it depends on the situation), I would just find it too stressful and unpleasant an experience, to be routinely hiding or lying about what I did with my day.

To me, doing 'some amount' of personal stuff during the day (which should be acceptable at any job), is still an entirely different thing than "I don't work Fridays, don't expect to see me online". Qualitatively, not just quantitatively.

"meeting output expectations" is tricky, I think, because what is the amount of "output" expected from "a person week"? It obviously varies for different people, at different times in their career, different skills, and just from week to week different things going on their lives/stress level. Knowing that I am not "cheating" my week is part of what makes me feel justified and honest in pushing back if a workplace does try to assign more work than is possible. Barring emergencies (and "your failure to plan is not my emergency") -- we should not be expected to work extra hours to get more work done. We get done in a week what we get done in a week, and then we come back the next week and do more -- to some extent, as engineers, the amount we can get done in a week is simply defined by what we do get done in a week.

But still, my real point is that even using this humane "you get done what you get done" approach, in our line of work, most organizations would find, I predict, that people working only 4 days a week (80% time), get done 90% or more of what people working five days a week do.
Another quote "it's a tech company with a banking license"
The tobacco the Native American was talking about is likely nicotina rusticana which is apparently ~9x stronger.[0] Not to detract from your point but that isn’t what they sell in stores.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana_rustica
That's a made up scenario, it provides no example. We don't know what china would or wouldn't have done in that situation.

One may as well argue if Taiwan didn't have the world's most advanced semiconducter industry, it would have voulentarely joined China.
I’m suspecting that a big lump of cheese makes me automatically noop for hours, as in, stare in the void, sad, only one or two neurons firing at a time, very slow thinking. The comment next to yours says the same.

Butter, milk and yoghurt (which I eat in quantity, all 3) don’t have this effect, so I’m just suggesting you eat other stuff for a few days, maybe French or Lebanese restaurants, or sushi. It would be logical, if true, that pizza eaters tend to be couch potatoes as well. If would be logical, if true, that I get depressed when I’m alone (it looks stupid but other people aren’t depressed in just 1 day alone), maybe I tend to have pasta-cheese when I’m alone, plus cheese before dessert, and bahm slowness and suicidal thoughts.

But I’m French and, like you, I couldn’t quit fromage - but maybe I should have various ones for taste, and not for quantity.
haha funny, sounds like u are tripping now too ;)
The Python code using C libraries you get on machine learning is a nice model. There is no reason why you can't recreate it with Haskell + Rust.

But it has one drawback that it's relatively slow to pack stuff to send between languages. On Python everything is so slow that this doesn't make much of a difference, but on the Haskell + Rust scenario you will want much larger library blocks.
you have summed up my feelings on politics pretty well.

If I were to dedicate my time to politics in any way, it would be to get a little check box on the vote that says "they are all rubbish, please go away and try harder to find decent candidates"
Indeed. The difficulty in manipulating graphics is what most puzzles me these days. We have these amazing graphics cards and screens, but all we can do is output text by default in most languages, and drawing anything requires large libraries or SDKs.
Where did I mention Bitcoin?
M1 is a fixed target, everyone will get there eventually. For example, AFAIK Intel has plans to have something competitive with the M1 in terms of performance per watt at some point in 2023. The question is whether Qualcomm will be able to get where Apple will be at that time, because nobody will care about “M1-equivalent” in 2 years.

And yeah, Nuvia is more “a handful of engineers” (though quite good at their job) than “the former Apple M1 team”. It took Apple billions upon billions and the better part of a decade. These things are very long term plans, and at this scale it depends at least as much on high-level strategies than on engineering.
GitHub launches Skills section with interactive courses
The problem is not just the time to charge a single car but the capacity in cars/hour.

First, if a car takes five times longer to charge, you need a lot more space to cover the needs for peak days. This may not be a problem on highways (or in the US) but space in Europe is much more limited.

Second, a smallish 6-pump filling station serves 150-200 cars per hour. An equivalent charging station would need 12-15 MW which means working at 40 kV.

Dealing with peak days is easy for filling stations, you just request gasoline trucks more frequently. For charging stations you need to build infrastructure that might hardly exist in more rural places, it's the same as sneakernet vs broadband.
Office-centric companies will likely have to endure a much higher cost of labor.

Such companies will have a smaller talent pool to draw from, and such talents will also be more expensive.
Tamagotchi kids: could the future of parenthood be having virtual children?
This argument would sound less hollow if there weren’t two existing superior (from a user experience perspective) alternatives already on the market.

Apple’s Lightning (thinner than USB-C) and MagSafe (safer than USB-C for charging laptops… so glad Apple is transitioning back to it for M2 Airs)
Sure, if you define AGI as needing to be able to perform all physical tasks that a physically median-or-better adult human could perform, maybe it needs to be embodied essentially by definition. I don't think the physical aspect is implied by "artificial" or "intelligence", and I would argue not by "general" either seeing as how it's modifying "intelligence".

Also, think about humans who cannot accomplish physical tasks of this standard. Babies, elderly, disabled, malnourished, and maybe people who are just really lazy or defiant.

I stopped reading at this point so sorry if the essay returns to this point and addresses it.
You seem to be interpreting the internet’s historically libertarian ethics as not thinking about ethics, rather than what it really was (and is) — an intentional, studied decision to prioritize openness and individual empowerment, instead of trying to enforce safety through prior restraint.

Individual empowerment enables incredible creativity, engenders individual and societal resilience, and leaves space for those who do not fit the norm to contribute their talents in ways we might not otherwise anticipate.

The second — prior restraint to enforce “trust and safety” - requires exerting authoritarian or paternalistic control over others to achieve its aims. In the process, it gives those who prioritize power over others the tools they need to undeservedly secure it, and invariably leads to individual, social, and institutional ossification.

Having things go wrong is a good and necessary thing; a perfect world is a fantastically dull and oppressive one.

These views did not arise from a lack of ethical consideration; they were a very considered ethical foundation on which the internet was originally built. In many respects, it was originally built to stand in opposition (or at least offer an alternative) to the staid and oppressive institutions that prioritize trust and safety.
Methane was investigated as aviation fuel, and was found to be more problematic than Hydrogen - in fact, it's even less forgiving than hydrogen due to taking longer to dissipate and having worse side effects in case of accidental tank rupture.

In fact, the only viable use of Methane in aviation fuels was by 2007 considered to be... feedstock for Fischer-Tropsch chemistry, which also can make carbon-neutral syntin that will require no complete rebuilds of planes and engines.
It covered some real ground but it still felt vacuous to me.

What I find interesting about blockchain articles is that they so often involve asking questions or people confessing their own confusion about a topic such that it makes me think about Milton Erickson's "confusion" technique

http://lermanet.org/scientology/confusion-technique2.html

the idea is to elicit a state of confusion to soften people up and bypass conscious resistance. "How can so many people hate cryptocurrency? You know there's got to be something there when so many brilliant people like Paris Hilton and Jimmy Kimmel are talking about it."

I doubt these people consciously know anything about hypnosis but instead they bring into existence a collective unconsciousness by simply copying each other.
I used XMPP around 2003 when it was still called Jabber. I can't say there's something major wrong with it (only XML verbosity comes to my head), it's just the idea of making it mandatory. By the way how come some EU officials use Zoom? [1] Where are those good open standards?

[1]: https://meeteu.eu/events/
too verbose. not ergonomic.
Congrats!
How do you keep your site from crashing with all the traffic? I assume you must be serving up a lot of javascript
https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=CNY&view=1Y

You can directly compare the 2 currencies against each other.
>Furthermore it's still the case, that there's not much really interesting SW made in it.

TidalCycles would like to have a word with you. Easily one of the most interesting and unusual pieces of SW that currently exists.
It's got provenance since they bought it from a Christie's auction. (FTA -Schlumberger 1 & 2)
Is that why all PC (interoperable) laptops are inferior to MacBooks?

Your statement might hold for software but definitely doesn’t hold for hardware.
Most people are more bothered by the annoyance then some nebulous, intangible “tracking“ that will likely never have a visible effect on their lives.

Outside of high tech places like HackerNews, mention the tracking and you’ll get a shrug, mention the cookie banners and you’ll get a “yeah I hate that crap“
What problems are those?

Can you provide more details / examples?