skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that Trump could certainly have been worked with. Give and take reasonably, after all he is essentially older generation Democrat. But, it seems that appearances trumped actual goals.
> when most websites started to switch to responsive designs where image heavy layouts and other fun animations kinda dropped off

Yep, things got harder with AutoRotate on the iPad.

It took a while to get used to SwiftUI. But the pay off is immediate when switching from Portrait to Landscape mode. Now, everything flows perfectly.

Imagine designing for every single kind of device: be it watch, phone, pad, desktop, and TV. It kinda forces you to think differently.
Well, it’s not his own poetry - it’s some Persian classic he’s quoting so you could probably look into it and find a whole well-spring of deep knowledge explaining exactly what he meant by it.

In the letter he talks about his own soul, and the experience of deep work being like that of a river. So it’s pretty clear he’s talking about what’s on his interior spiritually. From a designer “I am barren and in a creative rut” pretty much means “I can’t come up with good stuff and I’m of no use to all of you here”.

However, regardless of what he actually said, he was on his way out from a tight-knit and emotionally connected team in which expressing your feelings and being sensitive is sort of expected, only the guys running that team were so paranoid that they decided to burn him and smear shit all over his beautiful farewell letter. That’s a dark thing to do to someone’s career/reputation etc.

Getting that glimpse, I do wonder to what extent Ive and his buddies have other ugly deeds on their accounts. Perhaps Ive running that separate company of his is really only a way of gracefully pushing this kind of toxicity away from the house just in case.
> automatic re-writers and scripts to test against Turnitin until it passes

Like an ad-hoc GAN where Turnitin is the discriminator. Interesting.
Anyone in a leadership position has a responsibility to measure their words carefully, especially in a farewell email.

"Sadly, rivers dry out, and when they do, you look for a new one." broadcasts extreme negativity to the people who remain. It almost reads like a cautionary warning followed by advice.

One can write a heartfelt goodbye without ambiguity. Assuming the ambiguity was unintentional, the author was careless and paid the price. He could've gotten away with it in other places (large companies are generally too bureaucratic to fire someone who's already leaving) but obviously not in this case.
There is also an art of making opinion polls say what you want them to say, e.g. by asking a biased question, sampling a demographic known to skew a certain way or using a method that largely may exclude certain demographics. (E.g. internet polling)

On top of that, there will be selection bias in what polls are published. If the poll you've paid for does not support your narrative, there is no reason to publish it.

Polls are therefore often skewed one way or another, and should probably only rarely be used as support for what the general population wants. At least when the margins are small. Especially if paid for by an organization with stakes in the question.
The MacBook Pro can support several external displays simultaneously:

Up to two external displays with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors (M1 Pro) or up to three external displays with up to 6K resolution and one external display with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors (M1 Max)
Inasmuch as desktop applications continue to exist, the future is Electron. The only applications for which there is still demand for traditional GUI apps are military and medical device applications.

Oddly specific, and definitely authoritative-sounding. You might be correct but it's the sort of wording that demands evidence in support to differentiate it from pure partisanism.
If the elites understood the masses, that would imply that the elites believe the masses to be capable of rational thought. Otherwise there is no basis for comprehension.

Elite by definition is believing that the opinions of the masses are not rationally based in logic or fact.

The real question is what delusion allows the masses to believe that the elites are simply "out of touch" instead of actively adversarial.

But that delusion breaking down is what drives more of these articles being written.
They’re learning representations of objects. It’s more fundamental than tou seem to realize.
You almost cannot. To find out what is relayed you would need to analyze the traffic your MacBook sends through your network adapter. This is pretty laborious since you need to filter a lot of noise to find respective apps sending data.

I would suggest to not use work devices for anything private. As for the MacBook not communicating you would need to look at your router or firewall. Or maybe Apple has specification about what constitutes it being off. MacBooks do use significant power while turned off but I don't know any details.
USB-C itself is great. Love the fact that I can plug a single cable into my MacBook for all docking purposes (charging, display, peripherals).

The annoying thing was the lack of everything else except usb-c. Especially in 2017 when it was uncommon and for devices featuring only 2 ports. „Dongle life“ was a serious step backwards.
Converting BC/BCE dates everywhere using HTML and JavaScript [pdf]
...so we can put history of our civilisation into perspective.
I'm a huge bear, but thinking its going to zero is crazy. Even beanie babies retain some value. And crypto still has utility as a transaction medium for illicit exchanges.
Deciding that the Engineers don't understand is not something a bureaucracy should be doing, period.
How much of that is the prompt?
I like the sound of "this time it's different" from the bitcoin doomsayers.
The driving enthusiast’s dilemma with electric cars
Even the basic schoolbook algorithms are recursive

a * (10*b + c)
= 10*(a*b) + (a*c)

In fact the usual method is even non-tail recursive, you build up a (literal!) stack of intermediate results which you sum back up at the end.
> poor would work together, and remake the world their own

Are you saying socio economic status has no relation to ability to organize and execute? It seems obvious that a large portion of elites are elites because they’re able to execute, and poor are poor because they can’t.

That being said I agree elites are not coordinated (for now) and it’s mostly chaos - but I think elites have the capability to coordinate under the right circumstances whereas the poor likely don’t.
It's an everdupe at this point, turning the front page into a bitcoin price tracker which is not particularly interesting

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Social reputation is still big in Japan.

Reputation is also highly correlated with company stability in Japan.

Such reputation buys you things like
A) easier time attracting a future spouse
B) respect in certain social circles and transactions, transferrable to your partner and children (yes this is a thing)
C) a network of individuals also “smart and hardworking” like you
Elites are too busy writing public opinion to bother reading it accurately. They control the media and get the tech companies to censor inconvenient truths. The average person never sees the naked truth reported, only the propagandized version in the news. Average Joe’s “opinion” is just a regurgitation of what he was fed.
Exactly! Submodules are a tool within a toolkit. Learn the toolkit, learn the tool, and then decide whether or not it'll solve your problem.
Thanks for sharing, just ordered.
Sarcasm, not shilling for TikTok.

Social media in general doesn't have the best track record on misusing user data so I would not think TikTok any better despite its protestations to the contrary. I'll grant that access by the Chinese government is not necessarily a given, but we do know that Chinese companies are very much obliged to accede to any commands by their government. Should the PRC have a desire for it, and should they consider themselves to have even a thin veneer of deniability, I am confident they'd make use of it.
No, I'd rather make a side project.
So we definitely need to visit one of these and harness it to drive high energy physics experiments.
Pateron should work the same as they enable for any other content creator: They should get paid in donations by their customers.
As an example: I love to go for a swim with my son, but this means I'm unreachable for 1.5 hours. Even with 0 incidents in oncall time, it severely limits these choices. This kind of thing is normal for most people
Microsoft should sue for what? They agreed to a settlement with the DOJ that mostly didn't require them to do very much. Then they ignored internet explorer for years and it kind of petered out, even when they tried to get back into it.
Controversial take, but the amount of salty comments on crypto here always amuses me.
I think 0 is eventual end result. Unlike beanie babies or sports card. The operating costs of bitcoin is rather high. You can throw those in a box and then leave it at back of cupboard... But to do anything with bitcoin you need a network.
Not Leetcode, but I did do Codewars for quite a while just for fun. This was after I'd switched tracks away from development to design, and, for the first time in about 12 years, was not burned out on programming, and wanted to just do more of it in my spare time. I didn't have a side project to work on at the time, just wanted to scratch an itch.

I learned a lot, and found it really enjoyable. Don't know why I eventually stopped; just kinda wandered away and did something else.
Anti bitcoin people are pretty toxic.

What an amazing invention to have the absolute truth published every 10 minutes.

Back in the day before naval armies, merchant ships used to have to carry their own cannons and couldn't max out their payload with goods.

Bitcoin has a neat feature of not requiring armies or vaults to protect itself. Is it a currency? I think not but it is many things all the same.

The people who focus on the price haven't seen the forest for the trees.
So if you just pretend there's no fraud, then there's no fraud?
Definitely feel bad for all the people duped into thinking BTC is a hedge against inflation.
David Boies got an undeserved reputation out of it as the killer cross-examination lawyer. People used to do the "Jaws" theme when he approached the witness stand. I think Gates made it too easy for him.

Since then, he completely soiled himself with Theranos and trying to intimidate the whistleblowers and the press.
You completely missed the problem that submodules are actually supposed to solve though. Using them for either of those cases would almost definitely be the wrong choice.

What they're really for, is vendoring someone else's code into yours. They're still not great even at that, but sometimes they're the best option.
...okay, but I can ignore all those very extreme numbers if I stick with the existing context of living on earth immortally, because that's "only" a few billion years.

> And when your brain has been in every possible state for say a billion times, you think it is not going to get boring?

I do think that, because if I'm back in a previous state then I'm not growing more bored.
This is actually a pretty good comment. The scissor analogy, while a bit on-the-nose, is very accurate. Maybe a better example would be: why is our body fooled by artificial hearts? Simply because it was built in such a way that it simulates a real heart pretty well.

Similarly, these models are built in such a way that they simulate real-life conversations pretty well. There's nothing really more to it. In my view, this phenomenon has nothing to do with intelligence or how smart we are, or whatever.
He needed to have Fadell around to argue with, but Tim prefers an office style with less tension. Which has been great for shareholders, bad for consumer design tho. It’s hard to know what is more “right” since more people have apple products than ever before, but wow I love my post-Ive Mac a lot more, and design across the board has focused a bit on function w/ Craig getting a bigger role
Maybe HN should incorporate a price ticker? /s

I appreciate that we get to look down upon the "fools" losing their shirt but there probably more appropriate places to do so.

Yes, we warned them. Yes, we told them that it was all greater fool theory, but remember it's usually the average punter who got in just before* peak hype that loses everything. And they don't really deserve it.

Those who fooled them do, but they're often the ones offloading their bags to the next.

* Just before because they're the ones who hit 60% gains and didn't sell, and risk chasing that high all the way down.
You can totally insulate old buildings. Not super cheap, but cheaper than heating, perfectly doable.
For anyone else confused, this refers to a previous title version as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31791942 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31792348 (the comment I'm replying to was far above those others for me, so I was quite confused)
Rust 1.63: Scoped Threads
I’m not so sure he’s even that, I think the hockey puck iMac mouse was his?
Just acknowledged it through email and well wishes from leadership. As they do Mother’s Day.
> resulting from and accompanied by a rise in the quantity of money relative to output.

> It is possible for the general level of prices to increase due to events such as wars that interfere with production

In that case, output shrunk relative to the money supply (or, the money supply grew relative to output).

Milton Friedman's definition is axiomatically correct. Nominal prices rise either because money is worth less (money supply increases) or things have become more expensive to produce (output has fallen).
That’s called an “opinion piece”, it is editorial content. Scientific American is a popular science publication. Most people read it for the scientific journalism, not for the opinion pieces.

Editorial content is always going to be hit or miss.
I'd been using a window unit for the bedroom but got sick of taking it in an out and decided to see how long I could manage without it. Now I prefer no air conditioning because of the reasons you state above - it feels much more comfortable being outside on hot days. I keep the windows and doors closed during the heat of the day then open them up when it's cooler outside than it is inside.
Historical examples of perverse instantiation are everywhere: Evolutionary agents learning to live off a diet of their own children, machine learning algorithms attempting to learn gripping a ball cheating the system by performing ball-less movements that the camera erroneously classifies as successful, an evolutionary algorithm to optimize the number of circuit elements in a timer creating a timer circuit by picking up an external radio signal unrelated to the task and so on. Some examples are summarized here: https://www.wired.com/story/when-bots-teach-themselves-to-ch...

GP wanted a concrete example of a doomsday scenario of failed AI alignment, so in that context extrapolating to a plausible future of advanced AI agents should suffice. If you need a double-blind peer reviewed study to consider the possibility that intelligent agents more capable than humans could exist in physical reality, I don't think you're in the target audience for the discussion. A little bit of philosophical affinity beyond the status quo is table stakes.
I personally prefer not designing my gui but coding it.

I met a guy who said he wanted to write whatever documentation, essentially a gui in Godot and I was like, why not use the proper tool for the job.
Well he said he's familiar with Godot so he'd write it in Godot.

And now this.

I was learning about Android development, jetpack compose, the new thing where you essentially write components in code, I prefer it over the old way, gui design with Android Studio in xml files. I guess I can get used to both but would prefer jetpack compose because it's so similar to "the web wayTM".

I'm guessing if you're used to graphical layout and design you'd disagree so TL;DR it isn't for me, but I've had Godot on the list of things to get into or at least try to scratch the surface and create a test project with it.
MS ToDo was hewn from the corpse of Wunderlist. It's the same "ding".
Mitsubishi's products seem to be mini-split systems[1].

--> EDIT: Or maybe not... they seem to offer forced-air too. <--

The DOE challenge is for ducted systems. Their site[2] says:

> The Challenge is currently focused on residential, centrally ducted, electric-only HPs.

The DOE challenge also has other requirements[3] that I don't know if the Mitsubishi systems satisfy. It requires certain levels of efficiency and "grid interactivity" (meaning Energy Star "demand response"[4] where your utility can temporarily tweak your thermostat settings).

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[1] https://www.mitsubishicomfort.com/residential/new-products

[2] https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/cchp-technology-challe...

[3] https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021-10/bto-cchp-...

[4] https://www.energystar.gov/sites/default/files/ENERGY%20STAR...
Right, which is why GDPR has totally solved all data harvesting and breaches..
If you're Elon Musk perhaps.
But for most people being banned from a single social media site is hardly a great imposition (there's little they can do to stop you signing up for a new account).
Whereas losing your job (or even the knowledge you're likely to) could very well leave an average person in a situation that they no longer have the resources or wherewithal to continue broadcasting their message to as wide audience (especially if previously that had been their co-workers in a large firm, as was the case in this situation).
>Now, can’t we improve the situation so that everyone can choose to work the way they’re happier?

One of the issues I hear is that, at many employers who are saying "Work wherever is most effective for you," a lot of offices are ghost towns. So you may see a handful of people, you're often hoteling, and the cafeteria is scaled back. So people who want to don't really have the option of going back to a pre-pandemic office.

That said, I'm sure I'm in something of a bubble. The few times I've been driving near rush hour for some appointment, traffic has seemed to be pretty much pre-pandemic levels.
If you manage to tell the other party how compression format X works, you can use it after that, and send information faster and using less energy (if we’re talking interstellar communication, broadcasting likely takes way more energy than any message preparation does)

If you intend to send lots of data (which, as you point out, you will have to, to give the receiver any chance of making sense of it), that may be a net win, even if you spend lots of time getting there.

You could, for example, teach that the bit pattern of ‘=‘ signals equality by sending simple math expressions

.. = ..
. + . = ..

and later try to convey how run-length encoding works by reusing = in that context

aaaabbc = 4a2bc

Easy for the receiver to figure out? Absolutely not, but if you give them a chance, they may figure it out, and if the alternative is that you can only send a third of the data, that may be the better choice.
This isn't how DFT was explained to me. The differentiating points are:

1. Aliens would kill us because they cannot determine if we are an existential threat. If they assume we are friendly and we are not, they are dead. It isn't about resources, it is about destroying your enemies before they evolve the capability to hurt you. There is no good way to monitor or communicate with a civilization more than a couple dozen light years away, physics doesn't allow for it. By the time your message gets there the entire government, culture, etc of the planet has probably changed.

2. They would use long range missiles (e.g. an asteroid going sufficiently fast) to wipe out the planet, not an invasion fleet. This means that they don't have to have the capability to travel in deep space, just to throw big rocks.

3. This is all predicated on a few assumptions: that no aliens are living close(r than 400LY) to us, developing the capability to fling rocks at a star or planet isn't extremely difficult, and that once the big rock is in motion, there is no good way to defend yourself against it (except sniping it with another big rock, but that's probably magnitudes harder than hitting a planet).

I don't know enough about biology to dispute the thing about biomarkers, but that would put a huge dent in DFT. And I agree using it to make policy decisions is dumb.
I also won't buy AC for myself anytime soon, but I'm still young and healthy. Older people have a lot more serious problems with heat waves.
People inexplicably hate Carter - not only was he a fantastic president… albeit unlucky but good, but also a genuinely amazing human.
That's a long wait for a single payment. Ignoring everything else, that sounds like a terrible investment.
Idk if it’s about btc or eth but it really started leaving a foul taste with hundreds of garbage Ponzi scams and NFTs - combined with non tech and older folks getting scammed. The moment someone brings up crypto (coins) not cryptography I just don’t entertain them anymore.
There is a lot of talk about how 3.11 is a good performance improvement over 3.10 and especially in comparison to other python minor version updates. Is there anyway to quantify other version performance increases i.e between 3.8 and 3.9 and 3.9 to 3.10 etc? So it's a nice comparison
Why is this funny?

I'm no crypto apologist, but a significant number of innocent bystanders are being absolutely ruined right now.

I understand the pull of schadenfreude when thinking about a certain subset of the crypto ecosystem, but that is also tampered a bit by the tragedy that comes with it. The life savings lost, inevitable suicides, relationships shattered.

Laughing about this seems like an odd response.
This î. Also subtree is an interesting relevant tool too.
Leave it at work.
I have no horse in this race but it seems like a lot of people are rooting for as much pain as possible for Bitcoin as that justifies/makes people feel good for missing its bull run.

Also it’s not just Bitcoin falling in a vacuum. The entire US and European stock market is absolute garbage too (housing showing cracks as well) so it’s hard to blame Bitcoin alone although it has undeniable failed as an inflation hedge.
This is a very good buying opportunity, because this is mostly caused by overleveraged people and institutions having to liquidate into thin markets. Too greedy people are now wiped out. This gives an opportunity for those who have been wiser and have spare cash around. If you decide to buy, buy only the amount which you wouldn't need in a couple of years, taking into account increasing living costs and coming recession.

Obviously, buy bitcoin only. Other coins can have their few months of fame but then fade away.

The price can still go lower, but I think we're quite close to the bottom of this cycle.
Efficiency is a misleading word for heating, because the units don't match; they are both energy, but different "type".
The denominator is fuel energy lost, but the numerator is thermal energy change within an area of interest.
A heat pump moves thermal energy from outside, changing unimportant thermal energy into good thermal energy.

"Coefficient of performance" is a better term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_performance
After reading that, Ive is a piece of shit.
That guy went out of His way to be cool. Instead of clarifying the misunderstanding, they just nuked him from orbit.
Maybe these waves of new lows stories will counter-balance the fomo-harvesting 'new all time highs' that were suspiciously absolutely everywhere.