skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know, I just discovered GarageBand on the iPad myself and I have to say I was impressed. Too bad my 4th gen air has lighting as a connector, otherwise I'd pop in a USB c hub and attach my little NI m32 and be rocking! With that, it would be enough to at least draft ideas on the road.
Im always amused when I see the HN community get excited about something that the greybeards figured out 40 or 50 years ago. Turns out grandma knew what she was doing after all. If only there was a better way for the wisdom of sages to be transmitted to this generation without eyerolling over IBM and DEC.

Now get off my lawn!
The article is pretty short on the "why", and entirely MIA on the "what to do about it".
all of this is based on what? this seems like an awful lot of speculation regarding one of the largest social networks on the planet.

is there waste? highly likely. but the kind you’re implying? sounds ridiculous. what are you basing this on?
Third Room demos sandboxed WASM scripting
Isn't HEVC comparable? It may lack some sheer bandwidth efficiency, but it seems to make up for that with less compute cost. And the entire M1 line has hardware and software HEVC support.

edit: Oh, you said royalty-free. Fair I guess? I guess I'd be pretty annoyed if I decided to encode some personal project I ended up making money from with my M1's HEVC encoder and got dinged by royalty police.
Definitely C#
MacBook Pros have the same Liquid Retina XDR miniled screen as the new iPad pro. It’s really good. Won’t replace your calibrated pro grading monitor but damn it’s good out of the box
My first try at Manjaro, I did an update after install and it wouldn't boot anymore. Haven't looked back since I want Linux that just works.
I once tried to observe Andromeda on a clear night with simple binoculars. The hardest thing was not to shake too much, to get a good view. In the binoculars it was clearly larger than the moon. It appeared like a smudge with a very soft eliptic halo. I was surprised by its size.
You need a source for apps that’s take money and don’t have ads?
Please no one offer any more context! Anything else might end up being a spoiler for folks who haven’t had the chance to enjoy it yet :)
Getting rid of ads and turning off the telemetry would be better, Microsoft.
Agreed. We've become so much of a nanny state that the kids are learning how to exploit these same "protections" to terrorize parents into submission.

...and that much before you have to contend with social media grooming and reinforcing misbehavior.

If you end up with a bad apple, anything you say or do in the name of parenting will be construed as Abuse by an army of "helpful" therapists.
> but which argument should CNN choose? MSNBC? Other mainstream news sources with large audiences?

I would expect them to cover multiple points, not just one. The news's job is to distill complex topics to a wide audience. I fully expect them to talk about the major points: turnkey tyranny, nation state actors, and how this harms children. Assuming good faith. Covering a singular aspect is not in their cards as they are disseminating information to the masses.

> I'm not trying to argue against you, but reach a novel conclusion by discussing with you.

I misunderstood the sentiment, sorry. But I'm not trying to call you dumb or attack you.

> I'd prefer to dispense with the metric of intelligence altogether and focus on reduction of wasted complexity.

I'm totally fine doing this.

> It's far more a function of time and available energy one has to spend learning about an issue.

But this is also why I am advocating for this strategy. If the news isn't going to distill this information to the masses then it is our job as the tech literate crowd to do so. Since it specifically is a topic we are willing to spend more time and energy on to understand. Unfortunately that also means we need to spend more time and energy understanding our perspective audiences and take extra care to make arguments that are both informative and relevant to them. The advantage of our position, over the news, is that we have smaller audiences and so it is easier to be adaptive. But our disadvantage is our smaller audiences, lower reach.
To be fair the A series chips are very powerful (compared to something tiny like a Roku stick) and don’t have the thermal/power limitations of an iPhone. They may be able decode VP1 at full speed without VP1 specific hardware.
What on earth? This is absolutely false.

The dominant licenses on GitHub are Apache and MIT. Neither of those licenses designate proprietary software. Both allow me (as an individual) to run software myself.

In fact, the licenses which satisfy "free software" criteria -- GPL etc. -- are more or less impossible to use in any context where legal jurisprudence would apply. That means any context where a lawyer could possibly get involved.
By way of disclosure, I'm the author of the linked piece.

That said, having spoken to most of the parties involved prior to their decisions to relicense, I can tell you that investors were a major motivating factor in many if not all cases.

In certain instances, this was because a particular investor convened private meetings between groups of commercial backers of open source projects - both portfolio companies and not - to propose non-open source alternatives, and companies went along with it. In other cases, board members were swayed by arguments from these same investors. Either way, pressure to try and replicate proprietary software profit margins from investors was a significant, if not sole, motivating factor in the decisions in question.

If you look at the history of investors in many of the companies involved the pattern is notable.
Precisely why I left it un-referenced :).
The issue is about bandwidth and resources. The policy is generic to provide reasonable allowances but stop usage that's clearly outside the limits. That's how "unlimited but with oversight" plans work.
In the old days, Grandma took care of the kids. Later, the kids took care of Grandma. And everyone worked the family property together.

After the (skimmed) pensions promised by governments go insolvent (due to lack of young people who had no apparent reason to breed), we'll get back to the old ways.
Apple do literally own necessary parts of those standards, and recieve royalties for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA
iPadOS doesn’t support RAW video formats (just h264, h265 and ProRes) but yes you can edit directly off usb-c SSD, it’s plenty fast.
TLDR: Someone discovered r/DeadBedrooms and wrote an article about it, and called it a Millennial problem.

The article does mention a "2021 survey of adults ages 18 to 45 across the US, conducted by the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and sex-retailer Lovehoney." I would have to see surveys going further back than this.

My guess is that this has always been a thing, but popular subs on Reddit highlight interesting societal issues we may not have been aware of previously.
> giving men alternatives

Just a nitpick, but prostitution, concubinage, burlesque shows, etc. have long preceded pornography
I do agree with this point and have adapted my arguments to point this out when I'm discussing with people who care about abortion rights. But when talking to more conservative types these arguments are often less effective. So a different strategy is needed for them. Though there are definitely turnkey arguments for them. They tend to be easy to convince since despite voting in authoritarians they are also highly concerned with authoritarians. Just the left kind. So s/Trump/{Obama,Hillary,Pelosi}/g and s/abortion/guns.
Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says
Far from full fledged but I just discovered that Cubase has something for iOS and Android. I got really excited until I remembered how hindered I'd be without VSTs, particularly since I mostly score orchestral.

I do believe the day is fast approaching though I was hoping it was going to be with this iteration.
It's like "open system" isn't so open compared to current "open source system". It was open compared to mainframes.
I was hoping this was going to be the frankly considerably more attractive System 6 or so era appearance.
I suspect that if you did a more nuanced study, with questions that differentiated between "not wanting kids" and "feeling that you'd be unable to have/raise children in a decent way that doesn't severely compromise your ability to live comfortably" you would have a much more interesting result.

My experience as a 21 year old is that many of my peers (both male and female) absolutely want to have kids. In fact, I've found it very common for people in my generational cohort ("Zoomers") to openly want large families with 5 or more children. Sure, there's the occasional hardcore childfree hedonist, but they seem to be a minority amongst people 20ish years old. I'm not entirely certain what caused it, some combination of internet-fueled braggadocio or a general sentiment of revolt against the modern world, but it is real.

What I suspect is driving the results of these studies is that the same people I'm talking about are generally smart/informed enough to recognize on some level that the prerequisites for having children in a fundamentally decent manner are extraordinarily difficult to obtain. This is on top of a generally pessimistic outlook on geopolitics and a complete lack of faith in our ruling class to secure a habitable (to say nothing of comfortable) future. It is generally accepted that having kids will implode your financial life, social life, and career. It is widely believed that having children is fundamentally an act of cruelty with the reins of history in the hands of our current tepid gerontocracy.

For people with the ability to consider it deeply, having children is a profound act of philosophy, a vote of confidence in the future and a claim to a kind sovereignty so indelible that you can reasonably safeguard something of unlimited value. Whether you believe it to be because of tradition or some inherent dimorphism, this is particularly true for men: the expectation of fatherhood is fundamentally libertarian in some very real sense. So on top of all of the macroeconomic factors, you have to consider the particular factors of 2022 that conspire to strip people of agency and subordinate their sense of self beneath a million behemoth systems in an act of distributed partial sacrifice.

... ok, it got a little weird at the end there, but you get the idea.
Off topic, I was about to comment on the statement "Night driving is especially dangerous, accounting for nearly half of all fatal crashes." And say something along the lines of how can it be especially dangerous if less than half is at night etc. But this being hacker news made me think a fraction deeper about any possible responses and realise that most journeys would be by day. Thank you hacker news for making me a little more thorough.
Well if that’s the case that’s still a pretty shitty thing to do on runways part. Just be curteous to what stability’s needs are, keep good business relations. Weird behaviour and I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future runway are silently excluded from before-public releases (which seems to be many in the years ahead).
ABP, Always Be Passing. This cannot be overstated, it's a lot easier to deal with problems in your field of vision than ones rapidly approaching from behind. That's also why filtering is so important, and it's heinous that it's not allowed in some (most?) states. If you're able to filter you can use your superior acceleration to always be ahead of cars.

It's true of bikes too, that's why treating red lights as stop signs on a bicycle is something that needs wider legal adoption. I often do it anyway and it means that in city traffic I am sometimes able to traverse a block without ever being passed by a car.
https://quarto.org/
That's pretty dark.

A nicer thing to wish for is that it leads to better safety an accountability protocols.
$1.7m toilet.

All San Franciscans that pay tax have been victims of theft!
I mean it may save them bandwidth on Apple TV+ or iTunes TV/movie purchases. But it seems they’ve chosen not to bother.

Maybe all the re-encoding would negate the benefits for them?

Maybe they didn’t think it was enough of an improvement over h264. Maybe they bet on h265 and it worked out well enough (for them) or it didn’t but they figure by the time they got everything set for VP1 something better will be ready.

Who knows.
Yep I had similar thoughts. Electric motors are ridiculously efficient and well known, as is the software to control them. I don't need my car phoning home or constantly downloading stuff. I just want it to, at a reasonable speed, get me from A to B and have a pretty good range (say 200 miles). I don't need all the overly complicated stuff they add today. I don't need seat warmers or AI driving or a ton of cameras and sensor all over (although rear and blind spot heads up would be nice but unncessary. I need AC/heat/cruise as far as amenities. Not much else. Teslas and similar are far too complicated with too many unnecessary bits that make them cost $50k+ instead of 20-25k
Ask HN: Why doesn't Google use supermarket loyalty program data?
My local supermarket offers me a small discount in return for receiving targeted advertising based on my purchases.

So why doesn't Google pay the supermarket to access that purchase data? Then it could, say, show me toothpaste ads when it knows I'm due to buy more toothpaste.
The referenced article suggested there's an upper limit to the spin rate of a black hole. From the penultimate paragraph: "The larger black hole in this binary, which was about 40 times more massive than the Sun, was spinning almost as fast as physically possible."

I don't get what limits black hole spin rate. As I understand it, The hole isn't a material surface, nor is there mass within, except for what's caused the singularity. Which might or might not be larger than a point.

Can anybody clue me in as to whether there's an upper spin rate limit, and if so, why? Thanks.
I think this mix of processes is testament to the fact analog is not scaling, and high speed IO has a lot of analog/phys. So having an IOD on 3nm would cost more and probably consume similar power, at least for the phys. Of course you will always get sub systems on that die that would benefit, but overall its likely a net loss.
I think you'd run into lawsuits about being anticompetitive if your car was only compatible with one FSD provider also owned by you.
The point is that some apps should be 100% hermetic and not have package dependencies whatsoever. The browser is a prime example.
Jesus Christ. Death penalty advocates always say there are so many checks and that only absolute monsters are executed but this is a case made off animal spirits and the testimony of a fellow prisoner, both of which were later called into serious question. What the fuck.

I think that a lot of people are just bloodthirsty and once they’ve categorized somebody as evil then anything can be done to them. Unbelievable.
Riding a lot absolutely helps get better, but there is also such a thing as deliberate practice for uncommon situations. Riding 100000 miles straight is very different from riding 10000 miles in twisty turns, around sharp corners, practicing your emergency-braking, etc. Even if its just 5 minutes or so doing these a week, it makes you a vastly better rider.

Every time I have to take extended time away from riding for some reason, I always immediately start off with a parking lot session of riding around, getting back into the groove. It doesn't take very long for it all to come back with just a bit of deliberate practice.

But there are what we call weekend warriors, and many, especially in the US store away their bike for half the year as well. There are many riders who barely put more than even a couple thousand miles a year on their bikes. And these are some of the most dangerous riders to be around, especially if they have an ego.
Your argument is a straw man, he's saying that apple should be force to allow competing browser engines on iOS so other vendors can support what they don't want to...
The bigger question is why design a new trash can in the first place? Does no current trash can exist that would work?

There are hundreds of designs now for less than $1000 each.

https://trashcansunlimited.com/amp/metal-armor-series/
Socrates would agree with you on that. he thought rhetoric was a bad thing because it could be used to argue against reason and ethical good.
Does anyone know what kind of range you get with BTLE sensors like this? I'd think a decent distance would be required in most cases, and BTLE is meant to be short range.

A while back I built a LoRa device and we got really good range, 10km at least without having to try too hard, the plan was to deploy 100's of these so it was complicated ensuring communications without collisions, and also this was for a controller not a sensor, which is much harder on the battery as the device needs to listen periodically for updates.
> What Microsoft did in the 90s was pale by comparison—they just bundled some extra software

nah........ that's not true
Reserve Bank of India encourages cardholders to tokenise their (credit) cards
Summary: Merchants store the token, instead of credit card details. Token is only valid for use between merchant and payment provider (requests very likely need to originate from the registered merchant URL). Conceptually, similar to OAuth. Why hasn’t this been done before?
if I remember my basic chemistry, batteries don't deliver voltages at the level of 10/20/100v directly often, its more commonly 1/2v or 0.5v class voltages. You have to have a much more 'aggressive' chemical reaction to deliver higher voltages. And, the same with current: a single surface between two reacting things delivers less current. Its a function of surface area. Same with capacitance: you sometimes need 'more' surface to big up the effect.

Therefore all you have is stacking it up. parallel or serial, thats what there is to get higher voltages, more current draw, longer life per-cell.

Inside a lead acid battery its multiple surfaces, sub-cells. It's normal. inside almost any domestic battery I suspect its sub-cells, sub-cells all the way down.

A giant roll of surface, to increase the area in contact might be one way of getting "more" in terms of current draw or lifetime. I bet that its voltage remains close to the constant in this, hence Tesla "stacking" up the rolled cells, to boost voltage.
Yes most people would use a MacBook (myself included). But some people love doing stuff on the iPad, LumaFusion is a thing - whatever works hey.

Also I think Resolve is a Qt app so maybe it wasn’t a total pain to port - Apple also likely paid them to do it I would guess.
And any of his other examples would work with powers-of-p if p is prime.

Those infinite series aren't divergent if you are measuring their size p-adically.

Gouvea's book actually goes through the things that RobAlni has just discovered.
OpenBSD upgrades are so much faster and more reliable than Linux. 3 minutes.
Holy shit, this is free and will be available on iOS devices!
I downloaded the databases earlier this year via torrent and attached them to a local SQL Server instance. Some notes:

- The files are big. The data files were 486 GB and the log file (I haven't tried shrinking it yet) is 1.4 TB

- There were no foreign key relationships defined. Nor indexes on commonly queried columns. Easy enough to add them as you work on tuning it.

- To be usable by humans you'll need to set up some full text indexes for searching - they use Elasticsearch. SQL Server's Full-Text catalog doesn't get you where you need.

https://stackexchange.com/performance
Sounds like an explanation there - pedestrians see and are involved with more crime, reported crime rates go up?
1.3v blows me away, at 7nm transistors were typically using 0.8v due to oxide breakdown at high voltages. I wonder how they can run at 1.3v and not kill those tiny transistors gates.

Dynamic power being proportional to voltagr squared will hurt perf/watt significantly also.
> (I should enable unattended upgrades but I haven't),

I'm not quite sure about that. If you do, at least enable logging/health monitoring. I've had unattended upgrades break services on Debian servers. I typically just keep an eye out for security upgrades and run the commands every saturday at 1 am to avoid interruptions if anything goes wrong.
Trivial things such as injection mold costs (to make a cheap, cost-effective case) mean that low-cost manufacturers avoid adding a button like a plague - we're seeing the exact same layout used by multiple products and in some cases even multiple manufacturers, we're seeing "unused buttons" just as to be able to use the exact same plastic parts instead of having to make a new mold for a new, slightly different part.

Cheap plastic shit is cheap only if you can make lots of them, because the variable cost is low - but as soon as you're talking about small quantities of niche products, the fixed costs dominate as soon as you try to do anything custom physically.
Tens of meters, highly variable in range and speed, not super reliable.
I think this is an unhelpful comparison. Simply put, when users exchange messages on WhatsApp it causes minimal traffic to a WhatsApp data enter as it’s mostly p2p. No ads, no persistence.

Snapchat requires semi persistence for stories (viewable for 24hr) and millions of users can view a single story. When a celebrity posts a story and 5mil users view it that requires more engineering effort that p2p what’s app messages. Additionally, serving ads requires a large amount of compute (ad ranking/serving), storage (impressions), offline processing (Hadoop clusters are hard), engineering, salepeople, economists, and auxiliary systems to support advertisers buying ads, etc.

As an example, check out snaps blog post on ML and ads https://eng.snap.com/en-US/machine-learning-snap-ad-ranking
> .. the pointless and counterproductive behavior one would expect from a badly designed automated system.

Badly designed automated systems are the life blood of our economy.
The old Apple TV got 4k 60fps VP9 decode in Youtube from A12 onward, and the AV1 software decoder is roughly similar in load, so 4K should be doable.

Wouldn't be surprised if the old one was already using AV1 for Youtube.

edit: there are 3rd party apps for the Apple TV that play back VPR and AV1 in software, this thread suggests that even on the old hardware, AV1 decoded better:

> 4k HDR @ 60 fps encoded with AV1 - Plays much better than previously, there are still some frame drops in more complicated scenes (for example when they show palm tree on a beach in Costa Rica video). Unfortunately it does not trigger HDR mode on my TV (all other HDR and Dolby Vision content does it correctly).

> 4k HDR @ 60 fps encoded with VP9 - It works, but performance is not as good as AV1. Does not trigger HDR mode on my TV. More dropped frames, video can freeze (audio plays, but picture is frozen).

Worth noting that Youtube often has lower relative bitrates/quality levels than other uses.
> all certs issued are publicly listed

By public issuers.

Non-public issuers don't list their certs... until someone stumbles on it and record it, eg:

https://search.censys.io/certificates?q=%28tags.raw%3A+%22un...
Runway is not "any company" they were part of the research for the original stable-diffusion release and were still working with StabilityAI team on SD. There must have been internal disagreements on the release of 1.5 version