skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the ages of 8 to 13 i woke up at 5:45 and did a double public bus transfer every weekday to get to the out of district rich kids school, approx 45 miles

at 14 i biked along county roads to get to the hippy school, approx 14 miles.

both my parents worked. i am not a city dweller. kids can absolutely get themselves to and from school and doing so at 9:00 or 10:00 will mean safer roads with less ice and less traffic. if school started at 10:00, snow days would virtually be a thing of the past.
skateboards have a lower fatality & injury rate than bikes(mostly due to the inherently lower speeds involved), although they have limitations for long distance transport and offer no luggage capacity.
As buildings closed due to shrinking enrollment, my small town school system went to picking up kids in front of their homes.
Also how they handle genuine debates.
Yes, because you're only seeing half of it. Seen from above (or some other perspective in some cases), it's a full circle. This was my point. Most people don't objectively know the shape of a rainbow.
I think your worry is overblown. I don't see why you have trouble seeing why group 1 is able to be so certain.

Anyone with an understanding of the current state of the art of both computer programming, and AI, understand why it's not sentience. The article said "sentience" not "thought", so we don't need to have a working definition of thought in this case.

Sentience is a stronger form of consciousness. Let's take the weaker form, since if you don't have consciousness you certainly don't have sentience. Consciousness is the subjective experience of "being like something". It is "like" something to be me. It is "like" something else to be you. The question is, is it "like" something to be the Google AI. Given we don't believe it is like something to be a laptop running a program, and AI is currently just (over-simplified but essentially) very powerful laptops running programs that have done a LOT of pre-computation to build themselves (basically just a whole lot of math) there is no reason to believe at some point enough math, or enough computing power, leads to consciousness. We did not believe Deep Blue was conscious even though its power exceeded that of a human brain by several orders of magnitude. This is because computational power alone is not the stuff of consciousness.

The same way 100,000 volts of electricity is a difference in magnitude from 1 volt, but not a difference in kind.
Apple is optimizing for vendor lock-in of developers and for the sweet, sweet App Store margins on games and in-game purchases. Enabling cross-platform game development goes against both principles.
The hum of equipment is not as intrusive as the bursts of noise from keyboards and calls.
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> the Mac is treated as second-class by devs

I appreciate Mac ports of Windows games, but typically they arrive a year or more after the original game and are buggy and slow, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy that Macs aren't good for gaming.

Mac ports of iOS games are going to be much easier/faster to produce since they already run on Apple's APIs and GPUs, and are likely to have excellent performance and reliability running on macOS.

Perhaps this will create a new self-fulfilling prophecy that Macs are pretty good for playing iPad games.
To what degree should society pick up the cost of that choice?
2.5 mi is almost an hour away on foot. That target shouldn't be more than ~30 minutes which is what, 1.5 mi?
There is an advantage to being able to take them off. Crying babies, dogs barking, lawnmowers, etc. go bye-bye. Your body still feels the vibrations which of course is biologically stressful (e.g. constant vehicular traffic), but psychologically it is a calmer state.

That said, there may be a drug to help restore some of it in a few years for some people, but I won't be first in line for it, because I'd like to know more about negative outcomes in a large population.. tinnitus risk, etc.
I've been told that the "deprecated" OpenGL is mostly just signaling to promote Metal adoption and not actually getting removed anytime soon, since it would be far too disruptive.

Something along those lines was the rationale I was given for GTK4 devs choosing to standardize on OpenGL despite prioritizing accelerated MacOS support.

It'd be nice to have more data points preferably from current Apple folks in this vein, since it's a constant factor to this day in deciding what GPU API to target when supporting the big three OSes. Maybe we're already at a point where webgpu makes the most sense?
The Mac's traditional problem is that it's a small niche market. It may or may not make economic sense to port to an Intel Mac, depending on the popularity of the game in question.

iOS, on the other hand, is the most profitable segment of gaming. A developer is certainly much more likely to to target the platform where the money is, and it's no longer possible to target iOS without your game also working, unchanged, on an Apple Silicon Mac. (Although you should, at the very least, add support for game controllers, since iOS and Macs now support XBox, Playstation, and Nintendo controllers out of the box)

Adding traditional Mac UI application chrome and adding support for a mouse based UI (in addition to a gaming controller) is also a nice thing to do for Mac customers.

The strategy of leveraging the most profitable segment of gaming is the opposite of trying to avoid success.
Having parents not be present for the go-to-school time is certain to raise absenteeism significantly. As you point out, these are teenagers.
Everybody else lies.
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Apple is not the first... but is more relentless.

You get iPhone X, WWDC is about that, then iPhone X+1, WWDC+1 is about that too, etc.

... is like the MCU of the developer world. Is kinda ironic, that MS is more about long-support but Apple deliver it better (eventually), in the sense that it continue building momentum.

Then, together with the continuity, it also trow some nice candy here and there, and if that catch (ie: Apple Watch, Payments, etc), then you see about it in WWDC+1.

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In the other hand, Google is like the DC: Each installment is only loosely connected to THEIR "brand" but it not create the momentum that make developers confident about putting passion on certain stuff. Alone each thing is interesting, but it not create the feel you actually need to continue about that...

Is like the video game world: If each game a company launch is "different", then each game a company launch needs to be great.

Instead, Apple launch something, at first interesting but probably considered not that big of a deal (like iPod), then iterate, it become MORE interesting (but: Without requiere EACH LAUNCH to be massively interesting) and somewhere along the line you get caught in the wave, and your next time? You are already hooked.
Restaurant waitlist notifications. In-store pickup notifications. Travel notifications.

Basically any situation that is some combination of in-person and online. Sure, you can build and maintain an app and then force people to install it to receive notifications. Or you can use/abuse SMS and force people to give their (highly targetable) cellphone number. But both of those alternatives cost more and are less consumer-friendly.
Also Gmail and google photos are both amazing.
Why is it that we can radically transform human society in the first place, but we simply cannot design our cities and schools and work days to just let teenagers sleep in a bit more? There's absolutely nothing immutable here and these are all problems that can be solved. Why can't workdays be vastly more flexible for parents? Why can't public transport be vastly superior to allow teenagers to get to school whenever needed?

These also aren't weird, aspirational goals that have never been done before, there are plenty of places where public transport is good enough even in rural areas so that kids can actually get to school. The areas so sparsely populated that that's impossible are...not the majority, to put it mildly.
On x86, inc/dec cannot be interrupted. The main use-case for these atomic inc/dec functions (and the associated LOCK prefix, which has been there since the 8086) is indeed for multiprocessing. x86 was designed to support multiprocessing from the beginning, although it was rarely used, mostly in systems outside the PC architecture.
Who pays for the stock market collapse? the same people...
I wonder how often that's true, or a myth of uber-capitalism - sort of a trickle-down theory for tech. AFAIK, it's often government that pays for new tech, and then once it has a profitable nitch, corporations.
Grab your popcorn!

My gut is that many of them will never sell. They'll just remain trophies. Better than losing face on a 95% loss.
First of all they’re going to read the legislative history and understand that Carter’s brief is definitely putting a spin on what happened: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/03/16/2.... Pp. 14-15.

The amicus brief immediately raised alarm bells on first reading, suggesting that Congress didn’t intend the Secretary to consider economic values. Congress basically never does that in an environmental law. They are always a compromise that requires balancing conservation goals with economic needs.

That’s true especially in this context, where native land is at issue.
> A safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions.

-- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interlock#Noun

Which seems weirdly fitting considering the Win98 behavior on 80386 CPUs ;)

Further googling leads me to believe that MS indeed made the term up for referring to atomic operations back then, but they kept it ever since.
I suspect it's just a Microsoft-ism that came from the LOCK prefix.
He's saying Apple killed flash support because they wanted the app store gross 30% rent-seeking.

They are doing the same for gaming on Mac's. Apple wants the 30% free rent-seeking money.
> So, yes, Metal will inherantly optimize for it better, but Apple also deliberately chose to go in the opposite direction of the gaming industry.

Vulkan runs just fine on phones. MoltenVk on macOS sometimes runs things faster than the native Metal port since the Vulkan port is likely to be far better optimized.

Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX 12 have pretty much converged to roughly the same architecture.

Apple could switch to Vulkan. Valve has already demonstrated this by funding MoltenVK.

Apple chooses not to play nice. This is 100% purely the fault of Apple.
I'm also curious how much it is because Apple is primarily a hardware company, and over-leveraged in laptops vs. desktops in the modern era. Apple as an OS vendor probably wants to be a good OS for everyone. Apple as a hardware vendor is in a world where most non-console gamers are desktop-based and getting them onto an iMac or a Mac Mini is a harder sell.

There's a lot of odd history that goes into the Windows hegemony of the gaming industry, I'm sure, but that's lead to an industry that's built on desktops for the most part for non-console gaming. Even if Apple magically had even Linux-level support for games, I'm not sure how much that would ever raise their prospects in business or hardware sales, so it's a harder sell internally.

Taking the Wine/Proton emulation path that Linux has gone down also means that Apple would now be beholden to Microsoft not being screwy with them when it comes to how DirectX or the like gets developed in the future. I'm sure there's some calculation that if they started trying to be cross-compatible with something as complex as Windows' graphics APIs, it opens them up to MS intentionally breaking compatibility in the future just to ruin them. I know Linux devs have enough trouble with that already and MS almost definitely doesn't care about them.
I reas that we can remotely control minds

That would be interesting ! Wouldn’t it?
How is this anything other than a slippery slope fallacy? Can you provide some examples of where the development of a rural, gravel road led to unstoppable, cancerous development?
> If you want to be generous, ports to Mac OS have traditionally been shit as the Mac is treated as second-class by devs.

Mac ports certainly suffer from this effect, but it’s hardly exclusive to them. Ports of console titles to Windows are frequently bemoaned due to some mix of extremely bad optimization, half-baked adaptation of controls to keyboard+mouse, and lack of updates (frequently, console ports to PC receive none).

Ports of games to the Nintendo Switch are also often bad, though in that platform’s case there’s a massive lack of hardware power that is one of the causes in many cases (the Switch is roughly equivalent to an Android phone from 2014-2016, with the CPU being on the older end of that and the GPU on the newer end). Even so, many Switch ports are exceedingly low-effort.
IMHO, I say put in GitHub personal projects. Personal projects are an excellent way to demonstrate your understanding to future employers. Last week, I had an employer interview me, she was quite pleased to look at my portfolio on GitHub. That would definitely be a plus point.

Regarding CV, I placed my CCA (co-curricular activities) and current research with my professors. I would also do more courses on edx or coursera. I am picking up ML so as to do more personal projects to understand the field further. This is just my 2 cents. One good personal project you can work on is https://zhengludwig.wordpress.com/projects/self-driving-rc-c.... I myself am working on Autonomous RC car :) Good Luck buddy
> I can't help but realize that most people I meet outside of tech are... how do I say this? Not that bright? I'm talking people who can't add small numbers or multiply, and seem to have short term goals and interests.

I thought that way when I was younger, judging people by the skills I excelled at. Not only was I mistaken but the attitude was damaging to myself and others.

Unskilled and unaware is a thing: it takes wisdom, maturity and focus to learn to recognise the excess talents and abilities of others in areas that oneself is weak in. Looking at myself and understanding where I have an IQ of 60 is painful, but necessary.

Oddly enough, the more I look for talents in the people I know, the more I see the excess talents of other people: especially soft-skills and non-scholastic skills. We all have a lot to learn. The smartest people I know recognise they are dumb in significant areas of their lives. The stupid people I know can be snowflakes: often overconfident and often overvalue their profession.
To me, it has felt that a vague apocalyptic feeling, or at least a millenarian one, has seemed to be everywhere, not just among the super-rich.

It has right- and left- variants. Mostly it leans right. The climate versions lean "left", though honestly I think the interest comes from more center-left/Davos places than from far-left/purple-haired places. Which means that, as a grassroots thing, it's more "right-wing".

(There's some interesting crossover in the vaguely hippy / Peak Oil / Stewart Brand / permie space, though this skews older.)

But is this feeling growing or shrinking?

"SHTF" peaked in 2012:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=S...

Prior to COVID, "prepping" peaked in 2017, before seeing renewed interest, spiking in 2020, though we're now back down to 2015 levels in the psychologically-"post-COVID" era.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...

"Peak oil" has been going down since 2005:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...

"Doomer" peaked in 2020 and is trending down:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=d...

"Recession" is tricky. It's actually down, though trending up with the rate increases:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

The "firearms" topic is pretty flat:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

"Bunker" spiked in 2020. That spike is now over, though the baseline has been trending up:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

"Climate change" is apparently a somewhat passe topic (who knew?), peaking in 2007 (that actually isn't great; it means people got tired of it before anything was done):

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

Weirdly, "inflation" only started to really see interest last year:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

So the general population might not actually be as worried as particular corners of the internet are...
>This is true: but Apple also shot themselves in the foot here

A 2.2T company doesn't usually do that. It's all about the lock-in they get with Metal games that won't run on non-Apple hardware. And incentivizing PC game devs to learn Metal to target Macs and eventually iOS where they take 30% of all gaming revenue. They don't give a crap about Mac users being able to run new or old games because they make no money from it.
yep, this summarizes what to put in a CV :)
and for no other reason than feeling good about oneself. I mean people are replying to a guy from Alaska
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Absolutely.

Especially with all the additional fees carriers are tacking on these days under the guise of reducing spam.
most schools are located near public transportation and even if there are no bus stops near the home it is generally easy enough for kids to get to their parent's office/rec center/ friend's house etc. basically you have a lot more options when everyone is no longer rushing to be at work or school
Very nice, but the mechanics of the vehicle remind me of the Moller Skycar and the V22 Osprey, both of which were famous failures. So I'll remain skeptical until it starts doing manned airport-to-airport flights.
Who isn’t eating themselves these days?
It’s 2022. Autophagy. We’ve been doing this for millennia, for all time.

Get with the program.
Not if that viewer would never come to the site anyway
I imagine in the future the west will have less reliance on China due to the current differences on Taiwan, Hong Kong, and human rights. Businesses will evaluate the risk of their dependencies on China and source or develop alternatives. The supply chain issues we have at the moment have demonstrated what a delicate house of cards the world economy is.

Put me down as pessimistic in the short term until people in charge now learn the same lessons that the boomers got from their parents who lived through world wars.
Businesses are just groups of people doing stuff, that hire people to do stuff and sell stuff to people. And you can go into San Francisco and find plenty of people who don’t want Silicon Valley businesses in the city, or people who complain about how NYC has become gentrified. But I bet if you took a vote “should tech companies all leave San Francisco for Texas” or “should NYC go back to the way it was in the 70s” that would be a land slide against losing those businesses.
> Windows programmers were more familiar with “critical sections” as an abstraction than mutexes.

I disagree on that front. Mutex kernel objects have existed just as long as critical sections. Critical section objects are cheaper because they don’t switch into the kernel when not contended.
Of those, only Youtube feels like best-of-breed. The others feel legacy.

For reasons I don't understand, almost no one except Google can reliably stream video. It's dumb. I remember streaming postage-stamp sized video on a 200MHz Pentium.

You'd think that would work reliably in 2022.

I can think of a half-dozen other sites which work okay, and many (including very well-resourced ones) which just fail a lot of the time.
How do you think crypto/NFT/DeFi fraud would be handled if ETH, BTC goes to zero
How do you think the DOJ and other agencies handle fraud, like NFT theft, or scam projects, or rug pulls, if the underlying insutments like ETH goes to zero or close to it. Would the damages be zero or some midpoint .How do you assess damages for something that is worthless or close to worthless or on the verge of being worthless. It's like an AFT ape was stolen worth $200k at the time but now worth $2k.
Fetching Weather Forecasts with WeatherKit
Bottom line from the interview: false sense of security.
I suspect that some people believe (consciously or not) that it's ok to be more careless because they've been vaccinated.
Yes, I start looking at job descriptions (Glass Door or Indeed) and the necessary skills required to perform in the skills set. That's a great way to identify what to improve on.
> Just think hard until you can move objects with your mind. If you still can't, think harder.

That only works if "move objects with your mind" is possible to do. "It's not possible to make a model of a human" is a possible objection to the argument, but it raises the question: "why not?". There seems to be no blocker beyond cost and lack of research.
Finally, no bid on mortgage-backed securities
I'll add a voice for base58 representation of UUIDs on the wire, it's my preferred solution as well.

Not only for debugging: by being compact, unambiguous, and URL-safe, the helpdesk is also spared a cringeworthy source of PEBCAK incidents since misquoting the identifiers is simply harder.

Caveat programmer, though, there is a hazard, occurring when someone is glib about the usage and relies on randomly generated fixed-length base58 values directly. It happens readily because some popular frameworks include such generation as a utility function. However, 58^22 > 2^128 > 58^21, so a 22-character base58 representation is expected for UUIDs but carelessly random 22-character base58 values may exceed the capacity of UUID's familiar hexadecimal serialization, effectively an integer overflow. We never generate base58 identifiers as a PK, for example, for this reason (they would of course not be UUIDs either). Alas, there is no conventional base encoding more compact than hexadecimal that is robust to the general problem. And I mention it because this issue was observed in the wild.
uuid is just what you said - 16bytes. you could presumably base64 that too...
like any other bubble that pops

don't expect any govt. bailouts though
It's open source and designed to be built on top of and to easily deploy at scale.

Every instance is linked to an end users number, licenses are sold per number per month. Self-hosted SaaS.
Before having us watch a 70-minute podcast, are there any particular examples that you'd like to point out?
meh/10
House prices will adjust once air taxis take off (no pun intended).
Yes, this would be the 'meat is magic' argument: That there's something mystical that enables biochemical systems to do 'consciousness' in a way that mere silicon+software can't.

I certainly understand that some people think this. I just don't understand what basis anyone has for believing it with certainty.
Or people will get so inundated with spammy notifications on websites asking for permission to send notifications they will just disable them globally (like I will).