skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I sit here on an iPad Pro that refused to correctly highlight and copy a piece of your post so I could directly reply to it, I just want you to know that nobody views the whole “Apple can do unique things because they own the hardware/software stack” in a positive light. Apple is very bad at software and I will always stand by that… it is very sad that such nice pieces of hardware are married to some of the worst software.
I've found myself looking at 8 different kinds of mayonnaise now, and still can't find one that has added sugar (apart from the ingredients listed under 'contains less than 2% of...").

There is Miracle Whip but that is a bit of a reach to call mayonnaise.
You're almost clever... Tornado is accused of being designed to facilitate money laundering and, realistically, has very little other purpose.

By contrast, a hotdog stand is typically designed to cook and sell hotdogs and, in the rare instances where money laundering occurs, it's not a primary service the hotdog stand offers to clients, and will still get the owner arrested.
> It feels wrong to be happy

I think this is a common problem. Some of us sometimes feel guilty for being happy.

> the shit (that we threw) hits the fan

I'm not sure anyone is to blame because no one created human civilizations except all of us. My view is aligned with the human potential movement. As I understand it, we need a lot more work to overcome our tendencies towards what Catholics call the Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride. We are over-coming our primitive animal nature to something more intelligent and refined. Buddhists among others have a lot to say about letting our troublesome thoughts and emotions go and focusing on our resting nature. I like the Kundalini model for a nice way to visualize our human potential.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini
The Next Generation Large Array
I truly believe the privacy mission is personal to Tim Cook: it was a much smaller deal under Jobs, and Tim Cook was bullied for being gay in Mobile. It makes sense as a lens to view some of their other choices, too.

I think that's absolutely beautiful and very human.
Servo supported the CEF (Chronium embedded framework) API for embedding. See https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell and https://github.com/jdm/servo-embedding-example
Do you have some evidence of this being how we are currently getting quality artists? Talking with one digital artist, my impression was that stock art plus the ever-declining ad CPM rate eliminated most of the lower-level work years ago.
That’s true but I think the current working hours are not for everyone. Basically I don’t consider taking breaks to be slacking off.

We’ve evolved into brain work, not hand labour, and we’ve kept the same hours. My impression is that at the end of a week at the office in london I was beyond exhausted, and I could just barely recover before coming back Monday.

Now I work shorter hours, yes, and some might consider it slacking off (if they could watch it over a webcam). But I eat much better, feel much better, and don’t feel the need to get trashed over the weekend to recover.

Even in the office I would often take breaks to breathe again because I often felt the environment was a pressure cooker, I would go to the bathroom, go to the shop, find some excuse to eat. In my industry (advertising) overwork and burnout is incredibly common unfortunately.

So I personally don’t see it as slacking off. I know a lot of IT folk who don’t work as hard as most people in my industry and they get paid much better.
> chief selling point of Tornado Cash is money laundering, which is in and of itself a crime in both the US and Netherland

Also, law enforcement publicly announced Tornado was used to launder billions by North Korea [1]. Months ago [2]. Everyone continued as if nothing happened. This wasn’t based on hypotheticals.

[1] https://hub.elliptic.co/analysis/the-100-million-horizon-hac...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/north-korea-likely-behind-10....
There's an interesting bit in Chocky[0] where Matthew, Chocky's "host", (hereinafter "M/C") asks his father, on behalf of Chocky:

"Why do cows stop?"

M/C has noticed that the cows have seen the farmer open the gate to let them through hundreds of times, and they seem to want to go through, but seem unable to work out how to open the gate for themselves. M/C argues that intelligence shouldn't be limited, and you should just be able to build and build and build forever. But the cows don't seem able to do that.

In Pure Maths we know that we can have strictly increasing sequences that are unbounded above, but we can also have strictly increasing sequences that are bounded. How do we know intelligence (by analogy) is the former, and not the latter?

More, some sequences grow incredibly slowly, and maybe we are limited in practice even if not limited in theory.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocky
I would like to see the numbers on this to quantify it. Because the places where EVs still do use brake pads is when they come to full stops at lights and stop signs, which tend to be far closer to people.
Nitpicking here.

> JIT compiler can see that a function has never been passed a null object

It cannot. It can only see that function has never been passed a null object so far.

And the cost of such optimization might be that edge cases are way slower than anticipated. But what if those edge cases are actually the only thing that provide value for your business?

Imagine you're building a monitoring system that alerts very rarely, but reaction time is really critical for you. Do you really want to JIT compiler to optimize the alerting branch out because it hasn't seen any alerts yet?

My bet is that JIT compiler rarely does those optimizations by default, because it cannot know which branches in your code contain business value. I don't need my code to be twice as fast on average but twice as slow on critical branches.

Now, what would be great if profiler would make suggestions about how to modify your code for performance based on usage. But those should be approved and commented by humans, because humans know whether those are valuable optimizations or a fad.
This is really cool. Project was done by an undergraduate too. From the video I think they pick up an egg yolk without breaking it. Would love to get the 3d model files to print one myself.
Driving a car requires a license and registration of the vehicle. You can go to jail for driving a car without a registration or license.

In very much the same way, if you are running a money transmitting business, you need to register with the government and follow the government laws. Otherwise, you risk going to jail. It's not rocket science. Just because it is on the internet doesn't make it a whole new thing.
Thanks :)

I generate one image in about ~3 seconds with the DDIM sampler, 20 steps, on a RTX 2080Ti (~8it/s). The video on the Patreon page is sped up as it's not very interesting to sit and watch renders haha.

Although, some of the users who started using my UI weren't using the fork my app connects to, and were surprised it was a bit faster than what they were using before, so maybe you can give it a try. The repository is https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion
Isn't that backwards though? Git supports "rare commits that you commit to" just fine. It's Fossil that refuses to support the "commit rapidly and frequently on a whim and fix up a submission later" idiom.
Why would anybody want to trade with Mr. Smith's contract in particular when a market for the contract still exists, with market makers and other participants providing bids and offers that is better what Mr. Smith can do? At least, assuming you are talking about a regulated commodities futures contracts like those which trade on the CME.
While I appreciate it as a user, I hope that when it happens they learn from Python and, surprisingly, PHP.

PHP took over 10 years between 5 and 7. A bit push to upgrade from 5.6 was around 2017/2018 when support would stop. It was a mess because most developers simply didn't care or didn't know enough to handle this.

Now they're doing yearly releases (7.2, 7.3, 7.4) but also PHP 8 was released already (along with 8.1 and 8.2).
>If they start selling your data, they'll quickly eliminate the very market share that gives them such power.

No they absolutely will not. 99% of Apple users do not care about privacy. And when Apple does this, those users will find excuses to why it's okay.
Sorry, there is a typo in my post! I meant not instead of now

And it is unfortunately. For me, It means I won't buy one.
A good and practical first step is to learn to use map, filter and reduce to solve everyday problems, such as transforming an array of recursive definitions to an array of React component trees. Hint: define the function separately from where it is applied, and also apply it recursively.
It's extremely common.

Recursion only blows up if your PL has fixed size stacks and no tail call elimination. There are plenty of languages which support both, and recursion is safe.

Particularly with growable stacks, the alternative to recursion is to use something that has equivalent runtime characteristics as a growable stack (even making one explicitly). That's still using recursion, it's just explicit.

It is also used extensively in parsers and compilers. There's also recursive data structures, which are also extremely common.
You still need pictures of the spoons in an article like this.
You should quote the second line two. It makes it sound like that's something you're adding and the author disagrees with your sentiment.
> Letting Apple decide what platforms/services get their potential ad revenue cut in half is not a good thing.

Shouldn't you really say "letting Apple users decide..."?
Just evaluate performance on speed of tasks done.

If someone is underdelivering, get rid of them. It’s that simple. The “are they goofing off” part is just speculation in your part.
I just blacklist the device driver for my integrated mic & webcam in Windows with group policies. Good luck monitoring me with a mic that the OS doesn't even recognize.

I ever want to record anything I have an actual mic and audio interface that I use that I can unplug when not in use.
Happened during throttle-back after MaxQ:

https://youtu.be/SqAVWvOT-1c?t=4909

Appears launch abort worked as designed.
Is this a joke? ActivityPub is a protocol isn't it? People are "on twitter", not "on http"
> Wouldn't they only be able to make a detailed mapping of the temperatures of people's wrists?

Unless you're sick, most people's body temperature is within a fairly tight range.

So they could compensate for that ...
> You're almost clever... Tornado is accused of being designed to facilitate money laundering and, realistically, has very little other purpose.

It does have other purposes, hiding transactions from the public, which I have used Tornado Cash for many times in the past.

> I used Tornado Cash (non-US citizen here) for hiding transactions from the public (not hiding from the government), and when I filed my taxes, I still accounted for everything that is stored there + transacted via Tornado Cash, just like I do for my bank account. Appendix contained instructions for how they could access the proof of my transactions and accounts to verify themselves.

Not sure why people think what I did should be illegal, I'm paying my taxes and declare everything just like everyone else, but somehow I shouldn't be allowed to hide my transactions from randoms on the internet?
Agreed. I think that the Watch is part of that - get people used to the idea of wearables as luxury items, not dorky like Google Glasses. Then you get a design house to create the frames, use iPhone for computation and extend interactions to the watch.

I agree that we'll see some huge new product by 2025 - not sure if it's a visor or spectacles though.
How much storage are you going to build? 1 week worth? 2 weeks? A month? What happens when the storage runs out? You don't have that issue with nuclear which justifies the increase in cost.
cards are better represented as <article> elements: independent blips of content that are regular and largely self-contained (in a given section). an aside is literally something that's not part of the regular flow of information. it's not included in reader mode for instance.

especially with rapid prototyping, you don't want your stylesheet dictating quirky usage of html.
It is ceremonial according to the PR department of the royal family.

In practise, Charles tried to influence government ministers, and Cameron seems to think there should be less transparency over this:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/11/entirely-rig...
Saying "On ActivityPub" instead of "On Mastodon" is likely a very good way to prevent any sort of mass adoption.
That was some serious acceleration by the escape system. Looked like +100 mph (160 kph) in a fraction of a second. I wonder what the chances are of a human crew sustaining permanent injury, like with fighter jet ejection seats?

(Yes, it's better than the alternative!)
I believe the article was using Senior Engineer as equivalent to lead/architect, because at big tech companies like Google or Amazon, that's what a Senior Engineer is, they act effectively as team lead/project lead, and as team(or multiple teams) level architect. When you become senior at those companies you also start to report directly to the skip level.
That’s totally fair, but insofar as the number of commits matters at all, the number sited in the grandparent post for total commits is deceptive. It’s a fraction of the number of commits that team makes.
Thank you. Not only that, I think there are people in my office who would underdeliver because they felt the need to be productive all the time instead of thinking about it, doing four hours of research and doing it right in an hour, they kept doing “busy work” all day.
Wholeheartedly agree.

Our intrinsic existence with its beginning and its end is a contradiction, so I define God as "the unknowable thing that we came from", the "container of time and space". If it's reasonable to assume that there's consciousness down here, it's also relatively safe to assume that there's some form of more complete consciousness in the higher thing that we came from.
Pretty hard when they're 'brands' and not actually making anything, I imagine.
> it enabled you to buy something deemed illegal by the authorities (drugs) in a safe manner and the products bought were higher quality than what you could buy on the street. Why was it a problem to begin with and why where significant resources used to shut it down? (Again, not defending it, and the founder was probably a scumbag, I am just asking the question)

Because there was all sorts of white washing like this. "It's drugs, but safer, and without the violence and crime!"

If you think that violence, crime are magically gone because of Silk Road, you'd be considered ignorant or naive. Production still happens in the same places, the poverty, corruption and violence-stricken areas.

It's just invisible to you now, because you don't have to worry about your dealer stealing from you, getting mugged, or buying from an unknown source, or being arrested.

All those people in Mexican and Colombian villages subject to the tyranny of the cartels... oh well.

All good then, I suppose.
Yes, hot oils trigger the formaldehyde sensor every time for me. For doing wok frying, I got an outdoor propane burner so that it's far more dilute, and that delicious cancer-causing wok hei is delivered only to our stomachs rather than lungs and stomachs. The outdoor wok burner is also far superior to any indoor residential gas stove too for this purpose.
https://archive.ph/lM088
> the contemporary attitude of “block first, ask questions later (maybe)”

The sanctions followed Tornado being fingered as the laundering service used by Norrh Korea [1][2].

[1] https://hub.elliptic.co/analysis/the-100-million-horizon-hac...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/30/north-korea-likely-behind-10....
> There is a reason you find them in the rich western European countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands etc.

What reason is that?
This was a nice, brief informative and insightful blog post.

As a business model I understand what Apple is doing and can register the strategy as calculated. As an Apple consumer, I am not that interested.

Sometime after inheriting a pair of AirPod Pros and an Apple Watch I started to feel strange. Then I booted OpenBSD on my own hardware for the first time the other day, straight into the shell and I feel changed by how brutal (as in architecture, aesthetics) the experience was. I find it distracting even to use my MacBook now. The colors, the textures, etc. I just feel different now.

Apple is offering a lot of convenience, apparently. The watch is convenient. The AirPods that dig into my ear canals and make me mistake audiobooks and podcasts for my own thoughts are…disturbing…but convenient as a Bluetooth headset?

As a consumer and user of these devices I just feel somewhere between recognizing these new conveniences but being disturbed by them and distracted even after some time.
I think danaris's point stands - if you design an iron maiden style murder chamber but simply alter the name to "one time use changing room", you're not fooling anyone, the purpose is still clear, and illegal.
Precisely, fun is the operative word. As I was writing I was thinking that perhaps you would still need to run client-side non-layout JS, however, "attention is all you need": it seems that there are some architectures for Turing complete neural networks [1].

I wouldn't worry about performance: Nvidia breaks world records with H100 [2], Intel is going for 6 GHz processors [3], for performance you just have to be patient.

[1] 2019, Jorge Pérez et. al, On the Turing Completeness of Modern Neural Network Architectures, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.03429.pdf

[2] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/09/08/hopper-mlperf-infer...

[3] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-teases-8-ghz-raptor-...
> The problem with the parts is once the machine is no longer being made, they stop making the computer board for it, and the part inventory dwindles.

But that's nobodies fault, as long as companies are required to release any protocols or specs for interop. You can't sensibly force companies to turn back the clock forever or stay in a business they don't want to be in. You can sensibly force companies to fully describe the products that they sell unless they are willing to continue to maintain them.

If they're required to release the specs of parts that they won't replace, Chinese factories would flood ebay with any of them that they think they can move 50K units of.
They are good for following your specific brand/name.

In my experience, Google alerts are very messy if you want to follow a specific subject/keyword, 90%+ of the alerts I receive are from weird websites that sell research data about a specific subject, or news-like content "what's new in domain X in 2022", which are completely irrelevant and seemingly related in a meta way, not in a direct way.
When I worked in HFT with Java code, creating caches/pools of commonly used objects (generally serialized/deserialized real time parameter updates) was pretty common. It significantly reduced memory allocation in hotspots. But the better benefit, generally, was substantially reduced GC pause times.

Java was used back in the 2000s because it was seen as the cool kid. More productive than writing C++ and easier to hire and train for.
This is super important. I am often more productive at home because I get the change to recharge.
I am by all means not a big client of artists but I commission custom character art all the time and what makes me commission (especially smaller) artists is their signature style. I have never seen an artist grow from doing boring stock art, quite the opposite in fact.
Can Apple improve its battery life faster than Garmin can improve its UI, app ecosystem, and integration with the world’s best selling phone? I think so. I think Garmin is going the way of Blackberry.
Heh. I always thought it was named after the star system [1]. Never knew.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol
iOS 16 lands today with these five new security and privacy features
Kant's contribution to western thought can be summed up as: "Morality without reference to (or in the absence of) God."
Italy has had 69 governments since the end of WW2, they usually don't last more than a year. Not the prime example of stability.
The source says 5-19% reduction which is solid but pretty far off from "hardly any" in my view.
Ultra thin LiPos exist, a quick search found some as thin as 0.4mm. However I would imagine that packaging for product safety is a concern, as you’d also need to appropriately shield the cell from damage.
No, my (possibly too subtle) point was that this might be the moment where Scots begin to cease thinking of themselves as Brits. I don't think there's any danger of the DPRK declaring themselves non-human
Keep the job, reduce any need that is expensive (wife/husband and kids are two of the most expensive ones) and call it a day after 10 years. Then you get enough money to retire or at least get enough knowledge to go indie.
> Nonetheless, I still want to see an Apple Car and see the company’s still working on that bet as a potential head against incrementalism.

Perhaps me meant a "hedge" against incrementalism.

Am I the only one that does not want to see an Apple car? We already have Tesla, I would rather see more inexpensive (electric, I assume) cars.
Just because the maps aren’t detailed enough for this use today doesn’t mean Amazon won’t add the ability going forward
Largest Container Line Reroutes Around Endangered Blue Whales
Fair, I didn't like what look like a dismissal of the Scottish people's Britishness.
No, they have two thermometers, one for ambient temperature and one for body temp.
... and will it be a 400 W cpu or a 600 W cpu?

Where have I seen this "more megahertz" strategy at Intel? Right, with the Pentium 4.
I had my own wifi device, but it took 2 to cover the house. The one I rent from xfinity covers the whole house with one and it's pretty rock solid, so I've stuck with that, although I put a 2nd router behind it with DNS ad filtering.
The new Apple Watches will actually have two thermometers, one facing inward and one facing outwards.