skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess that's true, I forgot about Apple making Rosetta 2 installable in Linux VMs.

Also though, since Rosetta 2 was released, it's had an incredibly slow implementation of x87 FPU operations, and anything that relies on x87 floating point math (including lots of games) is currently running about 100x slower than it ought to. Apple is aware of it but it's still not fixed in Ventura.

I hadn't heard of FEX before, looks interesting.
Snowflake is not expensive. Snowflake is super cheap, IF you know what it is for and how to use it. Compared to if you had to solve the problem on your own.

The best way to describe Snowflake is that it is a brute force method to run complex queries without creating indexes.

If you have a more traditional database, you will notice you need to set up indexes to be able to get anything from it in finite time. What if you don't know the indexes upfront? What if you want your users to be able to ask arbitrary queries and get answers before bedtime?

That's what Snowflake is for. It automates using ENORMOUS amount of hardware to get your query executed fast, very inefficiently.

It is not for free though. That inefficiency will cause a lot of resources used for queries. It is meant for those few queries when your users try to get some insight into your data and you can't predict indexes beforehand. Sometimes this is exactly what you want, like when you let your data people in to figure stuff out. Or when you have very rare functionality that allows the user to build their own queries -- which you should avoid like hell (and there are tricks to make it index pretty well) but can't always avoid.

For everything else, whenever you can predict your indexes, you always want to use more traditional database that can be very efficient on queries properly supported by indexes.

The issue is a lot of people try to use Snowflake as a database or to support frequently executing queries of the same kind. This is bad and it will cost you.
You can't leave us hanging, what were the emails related to Internet buttplugs? Was it the IoST (for some reason they have been beaten at SEO by some blockchain bullshit), or the IoD?
iOS Dictation Is Dickish
I once worked for a large telecom equipment vendor whose IT policies banned the installation of dangerous software like Wireshark.
We did the same thing but with self hosted runners with github actions.

https://github.com/philips-labs/terraform-aws-github-runner

phillips-labs has some good resources for scaling this up as well.
The funniest Ethernet system I've seen is that used in dataprobe's "iBoot" remote power switch. These used 8051 microcontroller (the classic 40-pin DIP) connected to an ISA-bus FIFO-based 10/100 Ethernet chip using GPIOs. The FIFO saves you since the 8051 doesn't have to keep up with the line rate (one whole packet has to fit in the FIFO).

But I know these devices fail when the network is chatty- like if you have spanning-tree enabled.

The iBoot has a simple web interface. Somebody wrote an entire network stack for 8051..
Yes, good point you need a very good processor for instant hot reload.
Great to see that at least some places in the EU seem to be doing it right. The startup ecosystem is a shame for such a developed place.
> I was curious what you guys who have been disillusioned by this industry have done and are doing nowadays?

In a word, gardening. It's very fulfilling. Other than that, look for ways to help people. (I haven't done very well at that so far myself, but I keep working at it.)
I have to agree. Fit and finish on cases has come a long way in the last decade or two. I do agree with GP that there used to be plenty of sharp edges and burrs lurking inside cases demanding their due of blood from the fool unwary enough to poke around inside, but that has greatly fallen by the wayside.
>There isn’t a missing logical leap in the middle. The tracking is self-evidently anti-democratic.

If you can't mount a coherent argument that doesn't assume the conclusion, you should consider the possibility that the conclusion simply isn't true.
Mission statements are marketing, and should be judged as such.
Unable to signup.... validation failed error message keeps coming up... Im actually trying to pay you guys for this
It seems the Corsair One has been around for ~5 years, and launched with a GTX 1080[0].

Though I agree with the overall point that such a GPU should be sufficient to run modern games, unless you're insisting on 4K and higher quality settings with a certain frame rate target... which seems likely; he espouses GeForce Now, but laments having to play in 1080p. So it's odd that he isn't getting enough performance at 1080p out of a GTX 1080 (or higher). At 1080p, his CPU might even be the bottleneck (Core i7-7700K).

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/11/15216182/corsair-one-revi...
Yeah, I do the same. Although my 1070 is very long in the tooth thanks to the last couple of years of GPU madness. And now that prices have come down significantly, it's not really a good time financially for me to buy a new GPU.

Murphy's law...
For something that's supposedly a myth, the expectation was spread broadly enough that the NY Times wrote an article about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...

Also, there were some Cable TV channels, sometimes bundled with other channels, that explicitly did not have ads (HBO, to name one), just to complicate things further.
From the article: "Perhaps the most extreme case is Japan, where population growth has been slowing since the 1960s. Rather than seek to reverse this pattern, Japanese authorities are now working to adjust to a much smaller population. If the current trend continues, the island nation’s population will drop from 125 million to under 90 million by 2065 and barely 50 million by 2115"

"barely" 50 million. That's 50 cities à 1 million each. Not enough?

From Wikipedia article about Japan: "Japan is the eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 125.5 million on narrow coastal plains. [...] The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37.4 million residents."

When you look at Japan from the air what you see is mostly lush green hills with interspersed grey floodplains—grey from the dense urbanization going on there.

A Japan of 50 million people is what we had around 1920 or somesuch. Japan was not considered an empty quarter back then, quite the opposite.

We don't need to "reverse or slow rapid depopulation". We must become less people. What we need is to learn how to do that with a minimum of suffering. If we don't, our suffering will be ensured, for a long, long time.
Yes I do. Paid for it, and got the beta.

Basically it's an open beta, if you pass their minigame test for 30 days, you can get in and have FSD.
Wrong place to share. The harmless people here will nitpick you to death as the adult version of sucking-up to teacher & showing how smart they are. The dangerous ones will silently steal the better parts of your idea & run with them, but with better funding & connections.
This reminds me about a criticism of quoting 99.999...% reliability of storage systems: the number of 9s kind of doesn't matter because you're more likely to experience an administrative problem, such as an unnoticed payments issue :)
Yeah. I go back and forth between responding with a scathing review of the employee when the inevitable follow up survey arrives, and trying to help them figuratively burn down their dystopian hellscape of a working environment.
It was almost a non-event for us. I was at a university computer science lab. We were already running tcp/ip before the transition on our Vaxes. We had a TOPS-20 system but rather than transition it, we just retired it. We made very little use of the relay services.
Who’s gonna notice if your webassembly renderer uses 10% of its time to render crypto? You could even use their gpu…
> The research, published in Nature Communications, shows that 1 gram of graphene can be sufficient for extracting nearly 2 grams of gold. As graphene costs less than $0.10 per gram, this can be very profitable, with gold priced at around $70 per gram.

It’s profitable provided that the rest of the process costs less than 2 grams of gold, minus 10 cents. Not to take away anything from the seemingly magical properties of graphene, but I wish the article included overhead costs.

Also I’m wondering what the necessary pre-existing “traces of gold” in the solution entails, exactly.
No, they're legally limited to 15 MPH for safety. You also don't pay for distance, just time. Not everything is a conspiracy theory.

SF: https://www.williamweisslaw.com/sf-e-scooter-laws/
NYC: https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/ebikes.shtml#:....
Yup!

I ended up doing TeamCity over Jenkins, but they do the same thing.

Amazing how fast a 32C / 64T EYPC server in my basement can be..
>The cost to Apple to produce the screen is almost certainly closer to $100-$200.

Where are you getting this number from? Why not $50, or $300?
Nope, it’s a common misunderstanding. While the particles are entangled regardless of distance and the action is instantaneous (at least, that’s one way of interpreting it) there’s no way to actually transmit information.

You may try to come up with clever encodings for electron spins, but you’ll see that you end up having to know a priory what the other end had. It’s a long topic to discuss on a HN thread but a quick YouTube search will get you interesting videos.
How are ad funded websites "anti competitive"? Start by defining "anti competitive", as I suspect you're using a non standard definition.
The trouble is not supporting all the different Operating systems/compilers, as make can do that. The issue is when the OpenGL library location varies, even on the same OS/compiler set.
UK inflation to top% in early 2023, Citi warns
Father Ted had an episode about this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MiSsKqbPIMU
Video games are not sold at full price. 20 years ago the average game price was $50. The price point was universally increased to $60. In Europe the price point has scaled beyond that but in the USA the price has stayed $60. 20 years of inflation has not be accounted for in that price. 20 years of technology improvements leading to increased art team demands, etc.

And to top that off, the frequent mass sale events on popular game distribution channels have led to a culture of people not purchasing games UNLESS they are on sale.

I'm not a fan of the implementations they have selected to make up for that, but it's a bit disingenuous to imply that all money making on top of the $60 cost is profiteering.
To add onto this, those are raster tiles and the industry is moving away from raster tiles for a multitude of reasons. Headway doesn't bulk-download tiles from OSM, by default it takes an OSM extract from BBBike (with explicit permission) and brings up a server based on that. It generates vector tiles with planetiler and serves them with tileserver-gl-light. I've put a lot of thought into the way it all works in an effort to minimize load on the OSM ecosystem's infrastructure, provide attribution where required, etc.

I can promise you that there's no one-line replacement for the work I've done here unless you want to go out and pay for a closed-source product.
> Even with a guard band don’t you need to at least test the polygons for Z clipping prior to the perspective divide?

Yes. Guard band is an optimization that reduces the amount of potential clipping required. You still need to be able to clip for fundamental correctness.

If you totally reject a vertex for a triangle without determining precisely where it intersects the desired planes, you are effectively rejecting the entire triangle and creating yucky visual artifacts.
As an aside, the PBS space time video The Speed of Light is NOT About Light : https://youtu.be/msVuCEs8Ydo

As an aside to the aside - as I rewatch it I quickly notice how young he looks (and then note the date is 2015 on there - one of the early ones and the production is less refined).

You may also like The Geometry of Causality https://youtu.be/1YFrISfN7jo
That's a ridiculously high bar to set before you recognize any progress being made.
I’m based in Europe, where it’s more popular to go and pick stuff up from a physical store. Maybe they should consider having such an option in some countries, but this is a different issue.
I remember in the 80s cars would talk to you. “Door ajar”, “Lights are on”.

It seemed so cool then, like something out of Star Trek. But it was an unnecessary use of a new technology. Touchscreens seem like the same thing.

An article reminiscing on the talking cars of the 80s:
https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/miracle-1980s-talking-ca...
> alibaba

Note that importing these items might work out for an individual, but Apple has a very recent history of seizing "counterfeit parts" at the border: https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3ppvj/dhs-seized-aftermarke...
The MX30 is definitely all physical, only a few of the climate-control buttons are touchpad-only.
They are using their ad business (wherein they have an effective monopoly on search engine advertising) to subsidize their other businesses. That is a fairly standard definition for predatory pricing in the US.
IMO absolutely not. I just think the entire grant submission/reward process is so broken in Academia that...ah, never-mind. Think I'm just gonna go sit in the corner now....
I've wondered on a similar vein to this from time-to-time about the relative numbers on deaths from children being struck in the parking lot of a shopping center vs. children dying from being left in a hot car. The raw numbers are about 205 deaths per year from collisions in non-roadway circumstances (https://www.uab.edu/news/research/item/10658-study-parking-l...) vs. 38 deaths from heatstroke (https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/motor-vehicle-safe...).
I have failed at words.
Also because going fast on those things is fucking dangerous, especially when (like most people riding them) you're not wearing a helmet.
(Author here.) The message format definition is included in the protocol doc only as a convenience. Ultimately it would be two standards.

Trying to "upgrade" the email ecosystem is an impossible goal, and the requirements I'm working to can't be shoehorned into the email model.
When I started using Google, their motto was still "Don't be evil." My entire business and personal life runs on it, so I have no way to switch. 300 employees emails, all documents, videos, tons of custom scripts would have to change over.
> Thankfully, this sort of analysis tends to use "constructive logic"; in which case, we're told why some property isn't provable (either because we're given a counterexample proving it's incorrect, or we're told which assumptions/preconditions need to be proved first)

That's not what constructive logic means.
The vast majority of filers have no additional income to report that isn't already reported with their SSN. And the current standard deduction is big enough, many people won't have additional deductions. And all of the "IRS does your taxes" plans actually have it set up so the IRS sends you/have available on their site a return populated with everything they know. So you can do nothing if it's correct or submit changes if you have additional income/deductions/credits.
>generic replacement

Could they be dead-pixel factory rejects that aren't even like-for-like? "Touchscreen" seems suspect.
Funny that most people here advocate aws while they have tons and tons of foot shooting tools that cost people 1000s of usd all the time. And we just accept it. Like if you want to kill a complex cluster with one api call or button click, it won’t let you for xyz; that’s not because they cannot, it’s because you will just let it be and that makes money.
Anyone have their own cure for a hangover the following day after drinking heavily? My usual go-to is a 'Full English Breakfast' that has all the trimmings and it replaces lost electrolytes in my system and 'cures' me although it's only a band-aid solution.

There's nothing you can really do except wait a bad hangover out and let your body repair itself after essentially ingesting poison. Lucozade is another thing we have over here in the UK which is lauded as a 'curer' for hangovers. Apparently your blood sugar drops dramatically after imbibing heavily and glucose drinks bring your blood sugar back up quickly.

That and Solpadeine if you have a bad headache after (Solpadeine contains codeine which is a powerful analgesic).
It, like so many things, is a balancing act. How much does the working programmer need to know about binaries, symbol tables, platform calling conventions etc etc to use a debugger well? The author of a debugger absolutely has to, the user less so except in specialized circumstances. Allowing users to get at the inside-baseball bits of a tool without disenfranchising people that are focused on other areas of work seems ideal to me. RPC is unreasonable in that it makes unfair assumptions about the nature of the network. Seems to me insisting that programmers learn a good chunk of separation logic before knowing if a tool that uses the same internally is unreasonable in a like way. But a tool that _allows_ users that get some utility from it to learn separation logic if they need, now that's a well-designed tool.

If you can't use a tool without being an expert in it, the only people that will use that tool are experts and the techniques die out as the experts do.
Sony*, sorry
In that particular case another reason could be that they quite reasonably don't want you going very fast for safety and liability concerns.
Alright I’ll bite finally. What do these companies do? Neither Snowflake’s front-facing website, nor the Wikipedia article, nor this post tell me why people pay all this money.

I know a bit about the effort involved in chucking around 100 petabyte datasets, and there are numerous niches a SaaS could fill in there, but it’s very murky from the outside.
I appreciate that and fully understand, but, in many places, having a non standard licence pretty much guaranties it can't be used. I can't imagine volunteering myself to engage with legal to get this approved.. I don't need this is my life..
> My high school diploma wasn't good enough to get into a software engineering university in my country (the Netherlands), so I had to wait ...

I also hadn't heard of the (Dutch) Open Universiteit in 2001, but it allows anyone over 18 to start an academic study.

If you're a successful autodidact, you probably have at least a reasonable "academic attitude" - the main difference between a university and vocational training (MBO / HBO).
Hi freakynit, we would love to have you on FundingFyre, I checked from backend, and came to know that the error happened because of a slightly weak password, so I would request you to please try with a stronger password.

Also, thanks a lot for your trust in FundingFyre and us, and we will work on this issue, and improve our error messaging.

Thanks a lot :)
Lmao! Even better. I envision a custard pie as their logo
No, but it is a proxy for growth of profit, goods and services, and jobs
All fair points. As someone who has never actually gone to the effort of reaching out to a representative by email/mail/etc, perhaps I should give it a chance instead of dismissing it as not useful.
> astonished

Why? This is quite literally every thread involving Apple. It doesn't matter the topic of the thread, it will eventually devolve into the same shit.
This is the most bizarre and foreign concept for Apple zealots.
No clue in terms of dollar amount, but enough to buy nice houses in San Francisco, drive nice cars, and no worries about eventually having kids and sending them to private schools. They seem pretty satisfied but who knows behind closed doors.
We're not talking generally about LCD screens. We're talking about an original part to a specific laptop.
> They charge per minute, so why would they care if builds are slow?

It's worse than just not caring: they have a direct financial incentive to make sure your builds are as slow as you'll tolerate.
I agree that the losers are renters, at least for now. Although it does speak volumes that at the current stage professional investors in Germany are expected to shift investments into bonds because the yield will likely be higher. It's still popular with small scale investors but I doubt that many people are really familiar with the possible risks.

That said I'm curious how things will develop. Now that U.K. expects up to 18% inflation I wonder if the price-salary-real estate spiral in the metropoles can keep up its momentum.
We get what we tolerate.
Is this on pay-per-view somewhere? I think I would like to subscribe.
finland? moldova? georgia?
Existing in public does not entitle someone to be able to solicit you.
I disagree, the fewer assumptions means the simplest. I'd argue it's not worth the risk for Apple to hire people to shill for them, when there are so many who do it not just for free, but do it genuinely. Imagine if Apple hires shills, then they spill their guts to the NYTimes, that overall makes Apple look far worse.
Haha, not to take anything away from the article but I found it funny that it starts with saying that the colors are "extremely saturated", but the image they chose for the article looks actually somewhat de-saturated to me (or if not de-saturated, at least not unnaturally saturated).
Why would that make economic sense when the PCB makers already have the necessary machines and I can get a small 2-layer board delivered straight to my desk for a few tens of dollars? Electronic prototypers are not waiting around for some hoped-for long-tail revolution, because it's already possible to click a button in your EDA program and get hardware via fedex almost instantly. And we've had this capability at monotonically decreasing prices for over 20 years.
“Steady state” is impossible because of one thing, and one thing only: Capitalism.

It’s a system less than four centuries old, but absolutely requires growth at any cost: growth of the population, growth of resource extraction, growth of products produced, growth of profits. It demands infinite growth on a finite planet.

Until we move away from capitalism, any form of steady state or even degrowth will be impossible.
Hard Pivot: why we moved away from the no-code reverse ETL space, after YC
Earlier this year, we shared our pivot experience on Sifted.
Since then, I’ve received dozens of messages from other founders asking me for more details about the insights we gathered and our rationales.

I've shared our journey and thought process here, and hopefully it can be helpful to other founders in the space, or considering jumping in it.

https://www.getlago.com/blog/why-we-moved-away-from-the-no-code-reverse-etl-space
Alcoholism is causing me to lose relationships with two family members, plus it has caused severe stress among many other of my family members. For a long time, because my wife barely drinks, and I barely drink, I was able to ignore the situation. However, it has recently become clear how much I've lost because of others' drinking problems. I don't think my situation is unusual, either. I suspect many of us have relatives who are alcoholics, and that most of us have found a way to avoid those people and to minimize their impacts on us. It's often easy to ignore the health impacts on those of us who don't even drink, and yet, it somehow spirals farther than I once thought possible.

I wish more people talked about how dangerous alcohol truly is. Yes, it can be perfectly fine to drink. However, it also commonly leads to severe outcomes that are often outside of our control, and that harm us even if we don't even drink alcohol.
Honestly, one bottle of beer turns me from a chronically melancholic and outright boring person, to a functioning, social human being.

So, I call BS.