skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. The new Air to my mind is decent value at $1199.

But that then becomes 1499 EUR in Germany, for... some reason. And then you see that the entry level model is specced low, and to get a reasonable 16GB memory and 512GB SSD bumps it up to 1959 EUR, which is a very different level of purchase, and also most of the way to the cost of a comparable 14" M1 MacBook Pro.
> A three-mic array captures clean audio using advanced beamforming algorithms

Oddly, out of the entire press release, this is the part I have trouble believing. Every MBP launch announces the best microphones ever. When the first MPB 16" came out, it's gazillion-mic array was supposed to be amazing, some reviewers asking "can it replace a professional condenser microphone", yet in reality it's made completely useless by the fan noise and people can barely hear you in a call.
I would love to see this work with NFC as the communication medium between the phone and the LoRa module so it can free the phone's USB port.
I loved that computer, and I hope they make another one of that size.
On the other hand, I got a hair pomade in a small glass jar that broke during shipping. I tried to get a refund option without returning, but wouldn't let me. So I sent a plastic bag full of hair pomade and broken glass back to Amazon...
But that's only one of the tips, the rest of the tips are about adapting to arbitrary screen size and content without visually breaking?

Sometimes you just have to clip user-generated content, though, because you can't tell the user to "make sure the label succinct enough to fit in this menu." The user will do as they please, and the layout must adapt or break. What alternative is there?

Sure, you could limit the length of the user-generated label ahead of time. But that'll only work for one combination of font-face and root font-size. The user-agent can override the font-face and the root font-size, potentially causing your layout to break. So, once again, you're left with two options: clip the text, or let your layout break (text wrapping where it shouldn't, overflowing text, etc). At least with `text-overflow: ellipsis` if the user-generated label _doesn't_ overflow, it doesn't get clipped.
I run a SaaS in the horse industry. https://horserecords.info
I put an order in for a 14" one last night to replace my 2019 MBP, this makes me feel better about the price.
♫ Mr. Spreadsheet, spread me a sheet ♫

♫ Make it a big one, with columns all neat ♫

♫ Give it two tabs, and pivot tables ♫

♫ And column headers I can use as chart labels ♫
i think it’s more of the second point you mentioned. additionally, pay seems stagnant for senior frontend positions as opposed to backend.
As someone who has donated all of the money I’ve ever made to fight global warming, I can say the problem is the heartless and shallow so called environmentalists. Here in the west our so called green movement is run by puppets of authoritarian regimes attempting to use morality as a way to gain leverage. It’s the reason why the Germans banned nuclear and is reliant on Russia. It’s the reason why America is cutting its energy output. It’s the reason why the ecb has stopped support of fertilizer plants in Africa and Europe. It’s a disaster and no one should ever listen to someone who can’t quantify the problem or the solution .
The full message was longer than five lines.

There's nothing to file a bug about. The bridge does not (and can not without some AI or heuristics which are both fallible) know where the relevant part of the message ends and the log spew begins, so a message with a one-line description and fifty lines of logs is treated the same as a message with fifty-one lines.
No, but it was a layer of security required by DoD so it was created and continues to exist.

The same need for modern communications (phones) exists.
Also there are probably a lot of people who want a bigger screen but not a thick and heavy laptop
I once got a Amazon recruiter email asking for my email address.
The people/projects that care about an open ecosystem but want more than IRC are moving to Matrix, and those that don't are moving to Discord. In particularly basically every gaming community that used to be on IRC seems to be a discord now.
Oh that's all, okay, haha.
That includes fast, no-reboot, and invisible-to-the-user security patches, not improvements in features like Lockdown Mode.
Why do you say "probably," do you know? I would guess that it has more to do with technological literacy.

People put effort into saving small amounts all the time, like cutting coupons or going to the cheaper store further down the road. But these things are understandable; using a crypto wallet in a place where most people don't have a history of smartphone use isn't really the same thing.
Assuming good intent on the part of Bukele, I tend to imagine that he wants to get the ball rolling on Bitcoin now so that his country can get ahead of the curve assuming bitcoin becomes more popular globally in the future.
X11 Keyboard extension system (which i need for my custom layout) is basically garbage on Wayland; some other extensions that are needed to enable small functions in other aspects (not just screen composition) also don't work or behave poorly outside X11. I really dislike X and i would ditch it in a heartbeat if a good alternative existed.

I tried hard to love Wayland but it's just not there yet. I hope it will be sooner, debugging why my keyboard stopped working because a C header file changed slightly in a semi-unrelated package upgrade is very not fun, and yet that's the best there is.
The cost benefit analysis can take generations and is still ongoing.

Cultures that have these rules and restrictions seem to be growing via positive birth rates while cultures that dont are stagnating and not growing and seem to be actively committing cultural suicide. So its not obvious to me which path evolutionary processes will choose to win out in the long run.
I feel like you might be noticing HDR. HDR supersedes your brightness settings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlAsAuBtmps
Basic is a good choice since it supports floating point.
> The sad irony of it all is that I bet the vast majority of purchasers were developers like myself, who have absolutely no need for a dedicated GPU.

I would seriously doubt that. Mac sales are huge and developers must be a relatively small segment of computer users.
90 minutes max for me. Awful machine.
> (Though to avoid permission fatigue for the average user, perhaps make it something only users that care can deny)

Yeah, I would not want to have to approve every app. What I would like is a machine readable description of the app's capabilities to include Internet access, just as is required for access to the microphone or photos. This would encourage app developers to advertise to users that they don't need such capability and encourage users to realize that privacy and Internet access are mutually exclusive.

There are many small apps I simply will not buy/install (e.g., apps for editing photos or contacts or calendars) because they cannot be trusted. Even if you trust the developer, the developers are often embedding third party analytics libraries that cannot be trusted.
Ask HN: Losing the drive to do everything alone
I’m looking for a wife. I’ve basically lost all drive these last few months to go solo. I quit my job and started traveling with the intention of moving to NYC after I'm done traveling solely to find a partner. The stock market crash on growth stocks definitely hasn’t helped my enthusiasm here as it looks like I’m grinding alone for another decade. How does one go about finding a high earning partner? It doesn’t have to be in tech - I’m open to law, medicine, finance, etc. I’m looking for someone who is earning similar FAANG comp but I have no idea where to find these people. It seems like online dating has them but I’m not physically attractive enough for online dating. I don’t know if that’s a market I can actually get through to but I feel it’s my only real option. At this point - I’m thinking of forking over $50k on image consultation, photos, personal training, and surgery to get me closer. I have already had surgery but it seemed to be inconsequential - so, I am not optimistic here.

I’m practically ready to settle for someone who wears a bag over their face and is a mute in order to just get by in life as long as they can pay the bills but I can’t even find that. Where do these people exist? How do you find a high earning partner who is single? I’ve found many that aren’t single but none that are.

I’m also wanting kids and I’m totally willing to be a SAHP. If mommy wants to play corporate wargames, be my guest. I’ll even pay for a surrogate if she’s worried about pregnancy woes! (Please get me out of corporate wargames!)

I suspect many of you - like most of my peers - met your partner in college, grad school, or very shortly thereafter. For those who didn't though (and in the last five years preferably since the dating market has changed drastically in the last 5-10 years) - any tips?
Pinning all the blame on LG maybe over simplifying the problem. Bad cells are inevitable, GM doesn’t have a good system for isolating bad cells in the bolt hence why you see catastrophic failure when manufacturing faults happen.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/a38252667/battery-experts-expl...
Do you really trust your average IT department to make an informed decision about whether WebKit JIT is currently secure or not? I don't see Apple putting these in MDM Configuration Profiles. If they do, it will only be for Supervised Devices (i.e. devices owned by your employer, must be wiped to enroll).
The base model seems fine, but I'm amazed by how expensive the higher spec models are.

MacBook Air M2, 8/8 cores, 16GB, 1TB: 2189 Euro

MacBook Pro 14, 8/14 cores, 16GB, 1TB: 2479 Euro

That's too small of a difference for how much nicer the Pro is.
I agree that federation is bad, but "Just use [two awful proprietary services, one owned partially by the unethical Chinese conglomerate Tencent and the other owned by a terrible American company]" isn't a good alternative.
just give it to me, right in my veins
Looking at the list, I see a lack of Native American languages. Did anyone try to contact the tribes during this?
It's a very high salary for the geographic market we're in, and we are far too small a company to compete directly with FAANGs.

Even having worked for west coast companies, I've never gotten $200k base salary- adjusted for my region, most pay in the $150-175 range, and I've got quite a few years under my belt.
It would have been interesting if the journalist went a little deeper and researched why the adoption rate was so poor.

How hard was it for a middle aged farmer to actually download and set up the app to get $30 out of it?

And to your point, how many citizens are using cash primarily because its untraceable? When people say they prefer cash, The journo should have followed up with 'why'?

I suspect one of the larger reasons this failed is due folks above age 40 not given it a shot because of how complex it all is to use for them.
> Did they also make their banking system crypto friendly?

El Salvador banks don't exchange or accept bitcoin as deposit. Some of them accept bitcoin for loan payments, via an external payment processor.
PSA: Stop Killer Robots

https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
The best real-world optimization: stand aside to make room for anyone exiting the elevator before crowding the doorway trying to walk in too quickly!
"Silly HN reader, you're just not seeing the big picture." Could you not?

You know what people do when they're targeted by state actors? They don't use computers. And if they have to, they air gap.
Any relation between ability to pay one’s bills and receiving healthcare is also not much of a thing in most of the developed world.
Stop. Burning. Fossil. Fuels.
Virgin Galactic buys two more motherships
I suppose tracing becomes more important in that new architecture, assuming of course that each service is logging the unique identifier for the trace (for instance the request ID or some system-initiated event ID), but of course that presupposes logging to begin with, so I am not sure what "incompatible with logging" means.
I'm not even sure how to do anything with Wayland. I have kubuntu and at no point has it suggested Wayland to me.

The stuff from comments about screen capture not working reliably does not inspire much confidence. I remember X11 taking decades to fix rough edges and surely don't want to go over it again.

Much like IPv6, it seems to be real old now, still not adopted and not really working, definitely not hip anymore.
> Bitcoin has been in existence for just 13 years.

Yeah, imagine how small the adoption would be of some other mysterious newfangled tech thing after only 13 years...

https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/27/8504033/apple-iphone-sale...
Nice to see Esperanto made the cut — the only artificial language to do so, AFAICT.
Dumb luck? No way. The billion-dollar smarts of the 'For Dummies' empire
Let me help you put a term to this behavior: Managerial aesthetics

And schooling (and higher education) is not the cause, but has been warped- by businesses- to normalize this kind of business jargon. And can you blame them? Shareholders love to hear corporate buzzwords, so companies only hire people who are fluent in it.
I guess my point is that instead of making a special mode that is only useful for a minority of users, it would have been really nice to get a feature that everybody should be thinking about and using.
You're an ignorant fool.

The worst offenders I have known about vanity sizing have generally been fairly small. My grandmother, for example, was without doubt a size 6 but would never buy anything that wasn't listed as a size 4. I have had two girlfriends who were similarly annoying--the clothing I bought them was clearly dead-on the correct size when they tried it on, but they wouldn't wear it because it was a size "too large" (they didn't last long as girlfriends).

By contrast, the smallest and largest women I have known simply wanted something that fit correctly regardless of the "labeled size".
It’s really a shame how bad water has gotten in my lifetime. I only trust protecting my family with a RO because I no longer trust our government preventing corporations from poisoning our water or trust our government to safely filter and transport water to our household.
It depends on your priorities. Thin and light is the win for me.
Also consider:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeDataCenter/
>I feel like there is an opportunity here though to make something more entertaining - what about showing a few product reviews and guessing what the product is?

That is absolutely genius. I'll ask the team over at Millions to whip that up - thank you!

Great feedback - I agree on choose a guess too...kinda lame - we'll take that off tomorrow.
I think it will interesting when it runs into a language (e.g. Dakota) where the women and men speak differently. Should be an interesting test.
> In Texas, you can sue anyone who aids and abets a woman who attempts to get an abortion for $10,000, which is enough to get someone to trick someone into installing malware on a phone.

Anecdata for people who think this is unlikely: my wife had an issue getting unclaimed property back from the state of Texas and hired someone who advertise the ability to help. She turned out to be a bulldog with a ton of knowledge of the necessary bureaucracy. She put hours per week into it on our behalf for months, through many rounds of filing paperwork and then hounding bureaucrats on the phone by telling them exactly how and why we could sue if they ignored it. She did all that for a cut that was a fraction of the $10k abortion bounty. The $10k might seem like a symbolic gesture, but it will spawn a cottage industry of bounty hunters. No doubt most of them will be ideologically excited wannabes who quickly give it up, but some will be dogged and effective and will cultivate an expanding repertoire of skills. It's a terrifying prospect.

There will be many, many people who never previously entertained the idea of getting involved in serious criminality who now need protection from the prying eyes of the state and their fellow citizens. To look at it from a cold and opportunistic viewpoint, this could change the public perception of digital privacy from being just for dangerous creepy people to something that everybody should value.
Gtk 2/3/4 programs. Also I think some people are conflating GTK and gnome. Systems can run multiple versions of GTK at the same time, and gnome will still use xwayland for older x-apps.

There really is no problem with this move.
X11 is a fairly mature piece of software, though. It's been around for decades, and as usual, when things stick around for that long, it's because they work fairly well. I'm not sure what progress you'd expect to see there.

I guess I don't see why software that's been around for a few years longer than I've been alive, and has never really caused me much headache needs to be replaced with software that is an immature and in many ways, a worse offering.

I see people talking about screen tearing, but X11 supports vsync on most video cards, so I really don't quite get where that's coming from.
I don't think Korea or Australia have the power to force Apple to build backdoors into their products. Maybe they'd get to use the US one if they asked nicely.
Donating that much is a serious commitment. To what types of initiatives have you donated the money? What you think are the most promising technical solutions (the original question)?
The point is that many people have iCloud Backups enabled without any awareness whatsoever of the implications, as iCloud Backups are opt-out and there is zero disclosure within the OS (only an Apple Support webpage nobody will visit).

It leads to E2E being systemically weakened, since most of your iMessage conversations will get immediately scooped up by Apple and alpbabet agencies, dragnet-style.
> Most of these are pure common sense if you are apt with CSS.

I see SO many designers/devs that absolutely do not think of these things. The minute the design is being used 'for real' it becomes messy real quick.
The Paradoxes of Nostalgia
X isn't to blame for screen flicker. That's all Nvidia's fault. Every other video driver on Xorg works correctly. Every other X server works correctly. X is just a collection of protocols and data structures. It can run on top of anything. It isn't to blame for low level hardware issues from poorly implemented drivers.
> Why not just sell discounted "non-returnable" versions of products, the same as you can buy discounted non-refundable airline tickets?

Online retailers often do just that. You may see a retailer have a section called "final sale" or "last call" for discounted, non-returnable merchandise. Others simply offload the merchandise onto EBay.

I have bought things that way, but often I have regretted it. In general it is hard to evaluate online goods before purchase, and if something ends up on "final sale" it probably wasn't selling well to begin with for a good reason.
"Colors" --really?
I remember having to close down every app before starting a video call in an attempt to keep the fans under control.

The new 16" just does not care! I've owned it since March and haven't heard the fans once. Runs smoothly whatever I try and throw at it.
Exactly - some folks at Millions whipped this up over the long weekend.

We're just throwing this out there for lols but will implement any good new ideas and see if we can make it a fun game!

All ideas welcome!
> Validators fulfill various functions in blockchains, including the creation of transaction blocks and the updating of data oracles. Ronin uses a so-called “proof of authority” system for signing transactions, concentrating power in the hands of nine trusted actors.

This paragraph perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with the way promoters sell Ethereum. Smart contracts can do little of interest beyond straight monetary transactions without information about the outside world. That information comes from "oracles", or what the article calls "validators".

The security guarantees of this system are far, far weaker than the Ethereum consensus protocol, as the article demonstrates. And yet, the system is hyped to the n-th degree by sheisters who ignore this basic fact with ludicrous claims about security and stability.

Zooming out, basically Ethereum is hyped as a platform for "smart contracts." But the minute a smart contract does anything beyond basic money transfers, it needs an oracle. And with the oracle comes radically reduced security.

Eventually, this will be obvious. For now, shenanigans like this will continue.
I always thought the price was a little high, the technology was proprietary, and the support was iffy. I did like the design, but I've heard only horror stories of folks having drive failures and their support saying "oh well". Take it with a grain of salt
Plus presumably we learn more from solving harder problems, and we prepare for one day needing to translate some alien language in a hurry.
That would require having competing ORMs (rails plus whatever library or ad-hoc we roll in the new code) working against the same database.

Unfortunately, it's a pretty complex system, and the changes we have slated don't really leave room for updating one endpoint at a time. Even if it were simpler, I don't recall anyone ever contemplating having two ORMs running against the same database without a shudder of horror.
Oh damn, it seems like they removed radio protocols in the v2 hardware...
From an Amazon listing of v1: "EnOcean, Z-Wave, ZigBee, Bluetooth Smart, Bluetooth, WLAN"
Secure notes are end to end encrypted [1]

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec1782bcab1/...
Just use JPEG XL (aka .jxl) - https://jpegxl.info/

You can re-save a JXL image a thousand times without deterioration :)
People act according to their interests.

They have no obligation to go out of their way to cater to yours.

The entitlement of the new generation of open-source contributors to require political correctness or friendliness is so destructive it's ridiculous.
I wouldn't want to be involved with any project that prioritizes such zealotry on top of practicality.
We've had this for about three years in El Salvador.

1. Download banking app

2. Open an account by taking a selfie and a picture of the national ID card.

3. Go to " Receive Remmitance Option", type the remmitance code/MTCN.

4. Remmittance in your acount.
What's the round trip efficiency of something like this, and what's the rate of loss to the environment? There's been a couple of these posted in the last few days and I have no feel for these numbers.
> Messages: ... Some features, like link previews, are disabled.

I've been wanting to disable link previews for YEARS!! Not for security, but to keep those corporate advertisements (aka previews) out of the conversations I have with my friends and family.

It feels super disingenuous when I type out an articulate, heartfelt, personal message to my loved one, character by character, anticipate their reaction reading it, and then hit send — only to find the URLs expanded 400 pixels into corporate advertisements designed by the bonehead SEO jerks who care about clickbaiting over content.
Anecdotal, but I heard from a friend that one of his friends was able to get a $2000 laptop on Amazon by complaining that the screen was cracked (it wasn't) and they were told to just keep it. They were then issued a full refund.