skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, talking a bit outside my comfort zone, but I believe our universe's physics say that circles only have a fixed circumference-to-radius ratio at "small" (astronomically) scales. At large enough scales space is curved and the ratio begins to change.

In a similar way, a set of different physics would apply to small enough aliens that are principally governed by quantum mechanics. They might never come up with the real numbers because they do not believe that quantities are dense.

We could think of more examples -- aliens who typically move at speeds close to the speed of light would have very different conceptions of time, etc.
I'm waiting for Envoy Gateway [1] to go GA before standardizing on that. A battle-tested core, simple deployment, and new packaging laser-focused on the modern needs of north-south traffic.

[1] https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway
No thanks, I’ve been to the DMV
I want good urban design, but I realize that converting our existing construction is tremendously expensive and fraught with project risk. Our car-centric cities and suburbs cannot easily be undone. While it would be nice to have additional mass transit lines and increased density, all of these things are decades away at best.

Edit: Therefore I am not against improving things for cars in the meantime. I don't think this is a zero-sum game.
The fact that the Math scores are the ones that changed between the classroom and national tests is surprising - I would have assumed that these exams would have the most "objective" right or wrong answer.
Comment on your edit:
I don't disagree on the potential for a worse technique or tech on either side, but isn't there also potential for the opposite? As in, exposure to a technology/architecture/process at Company B that might help Company A.

As a consultant, I find many clients are genuinely interested in how other companies solve similar challenges.
> the EU USB-C deadline is approaching

It's only arriving in the end of 2024, so in theory even the 2024 iPhones could still use Lightning.

I'd imagine the Pro iPhones would ditch Lightning first, hopefully for Thunderbolt/USB4 for fast transfer speeds for video files.

The non-Pro iPhones would probably move over to USB-C the year after the Pro phones do.
Dorm buildings are still thinner and have more access to natural light. No matter what you get these awkward units and dystopian unlit spaces internally. In places like nyc with huge, city block width apartments, there are actually internal voids that let in natural light deeper into the structure.
Most people can't even live in a walkable city if they wanted to. We haven't built enough capacity. The Bay Area basically stopped building housing after the 70s and is about a half million units short overall IIRC.

Tokyo density isn't necessary. I now live in a East Coast city that's denser than San Francisco and has very very few buildings over 4 stories -- there's a sort of low-scale density that pervades the city's entire surface area, as opposed to the California model, which is SFHs with big yards and massive setbacks over 90% of the urban landscape, 10% massive high-rises.
People should know the CA govt is full of democrats that don't want to do ANYTHING to lower gas prices. They want the gas prices to be $100 per gallon. Ask them directly.
It's hard to find good English press reporting about this. Amazon.be is a domain that has been owned by insurance company Baloise for a long time, and it appears they did not want to let go.

Amazon settled for this domain that should make everyone think "phishing?", but people will probably get used to.

- Amazon announcement: https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/amazon-prime/amazon-com-be-l...

- Some press: https://www.retaildetail.eu/news/general/amazon-now-launched...
The government is massively subsidizing private car ownership with zoning, minimum parking requirements etc.

It should be a personal choice, but until someone using a road needs to pay a toll that's high enough to outbid other uses of that land it's not, it's central planning.
Quite a few have been done badly (cheaply) so there's issues with insulation, damp, etc. And like you said, they don't often look nice.
This doesn't exactly answer your first question, but WebAuthn exists as part of the FIDO2 framework. One of the authentication modes it provides is passwordless authentication where all you need to log in is your hardware token like YubiKey or platform token like Apple/Google Passkeys.

https://www.yubico.com/authentication-standards/fido2/

https://webauthn.guide/
https://archive.ph/5NQWH
Ah right, that's a major scandal here in BC that I had forgotten about. Condo fees are soaring because insurance is going through the roof for that entire class of housing.
They never went away, they just started being used ironically, but yeah, I do think we've already entered a post-ironic phase of text emotes

:-)
Any one using it as their daily driver?Is it a fully viable alternative to KDE for example?
Most people aren't power users. An iPad is a great device for lots of people. It's my favorite computer to use mostly because of the excellent apps.

What you call a dumbed down UI, I call streamlined. It's simple, focused, and fast.
Thanks for this. I see that perspective and from my experience in larger tech corps it jibes.

I'm still trying to reconcile it with the CHIPs thing. Intel on one hand is admittedly bloated and inefficient, and so is choosing to reduce its headcount and therefore bandwidth to do work.

So what is the CHIPs money going to. Typically when you invest in something like this you are buying people's time to do the work and also materials and supplies to build the stuff like factories, etc. So if we are lowering headcount it's not going to labor.

I suspect as you say it's more about changing worker types, like getting rid of skillsets they don't need so they can hire those they do like people to build semi plants here.

So, in my mind, the only way it adds up is if Intel goes on a big hiring spree soon. Otherwise, where did the money go? We can buy equipment to build plants but who builds them?
Webb Compare: Compare Hubble Telescope with the Webb Telescope
Yes, but I ended up buying a 1br in SF for a comparable price. The HOA fee was $650/mo. The building had 24/7 front desk staff, twice-monthly unit cleaning service, a small gym, a hot tub, and a full-time building engineer. All the while dealing with a lawsuit against the builder for leaks. And our reserve was quite funded. Where was the money going in Chicago?
This made me wonder: Why do PDFs feel so much slower and bulkier compared to something like viewing HTML over a browser? When it comes to displaying static images and text, shouldn't PDFs outperform HTML pages by miles?
Further, about a quarter of workers are annotated in Ivy as "Do Not Promote." They don't know who they are. I don't know why they get put on that list.
The Carruca
" I don't travel with the MacBook any more, as I can do anything from the iPad. But it's not just me."

Interesting, how long have you been iPad Pro only? At the price point of the iPad pro with a keyboard and touch-pad.. why not just buy a laptop like the MacBook Air?

Hauling around an iPad pro with a touchpad.. and an external keyboard seems less convenient than just using something like the MacBook Air. Unless I am missing something here.
I would like that option as well. The closest Mozilla will officially let you get is multi-account containers.

But it's just not a bug, and I think it should be clear that it will never be a feature.
A variety. I'm working to restore a large tract of former farmland, and so we're trying to plant whatever sticks to increase biodiversity.
No it isn't. You're doing the same work. It is fair to get paid the same for the same work.
Heh I’ve visited Europe and rented a car each time once done with “the city” and it’s been really nice.

My dream world has me in one of the few cars and everyone else off the road. I do realize this is unreasonable, however.
You are literally helping the "big corpo" doing that.

Firefox was mostly funded by Alphabet/Google to avoid antitrust lawsuits/promote their search engine, one of the best scenarios for the "big corpo" is a product (firefox) that doesn't have many users and cater to the most anti-corpo users (users that wouldn't like to use "big corpo" products anyway). At this point mozilla is just a bussiness expense for the big corpo, the cost of doing bussiness.

"Big corpo" can argue, "look we are even funding the competence", the competence need to be small but relevant enough, so while you are thinking that you are fighting the "big corpo" the reality is that you are just helping to keep firefox relevant enough that the "big corpo" can't be sued.
Heaven oh mighty, I just wanted something web based to take a peak not to download 5Gb of data :D. Few resolution layers, real time like google map, there are public domain algorithms now, should not be difficult to setup and they could put something like wiki. (support me button)

Anyhow thanks!
I'll move back to a city as soon as you pass laws on fragrance, booming radios and dog barking. In all cases those are a huge hell-no for me.
Not all organizations are in a position to make the switch or even want to. I personally like Rust and find it interesting, but that doesn't mean I would throw away my C++ codebase.

I'm sure other people will be able to share reasons their organizations use C++
Yeah, that's basically exactly what I said but with different words.

Also, wobble does play a factor. You may want to look into it again some more.

https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/07/the-length-of-earths-d....

> Apart from these large-scale changes, over shorter periods weather and climate also have important impacts on Earth's rotation, causing variations in both directions. The fortnightly and monthly tidal cycles move mass around the planet, causing changes in the length of day by up to a millisecond in either direction.
>> If only we were hellbent on building communities where you don't need to get in a car every time you leave your house.

> Not everyone lives in dense cities, nor does everyone want to.

Fortunately, you don't need to in order to not be car-bound. I live in a small college town (10k people), and ride a bike for almost all trips April-November. It's easy, because there's no suburban mess of six+-lane roads or 40+mph traffic to cross. We went to a party at a friend's house on Sunday on the other side of town; my five-year-old daughter road her bike, and I carried our two-year-old on mine. We are hours away from the closest "dense city", and biking is easy and safe.

My parents live in another ~10k person New England town. My 82-year-old mom drives her car once a week to get groceries, and walks for the rest of her trips. This myth that you can only be car-free (or mostly car-free) in big cities has got to die.
There exist codebases that are too large and too old to ever adequately rewrite. Joel Spolsky wrote an entertaining article some time ago on why rewriting software isn't always the panacea it's made out to be[0].

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
No, the city is a notoriously high tax, hostile and bureaucratic hellscape when it comes to running any kind of business. Just because they are corrupt and hand out a few token tax breaks to their richest cronies doesn't make them business friendly.
That would depend on if its cheaper to have an AI team or a real team. For example mcdonalds had all the tech to replace burger flippers by the 1980s if not earlier. Just retool a robot that builds Fords to hold a spatula. The reason they still hire people is because its cheaper than what the maintenance contract on such a robot costs.
> Well if you like sneezing of buffets, that’s very strange and anti-social and frankly your preference shouldn’t factor in any decision making because your tendencies are unhealthy in many ways.

Responses like this are the most important replies. This is someone saying what the others are thinking, but without the guile. "Saying the quiet part out loud", that is. What it always comes down to with these types, "We know better than you. Shut up and do what you're told."
It took decades to demolish vast swaths of US urban centers and replace them with surface parking, highways and sprawl. 1930s Dallas could be mistaken for 1930s downtown San Francisco. It will take decades more to undo this damage.
> Not everyone lives in dense cities, nor does everyone want to.

That's great for them, but let's price things realistically. As it stands right now, the exurbs are economic dead weight. Their infrastructure isn't supported by their tax base and it never will be.

I think we might find that people not wanting to live in dense cities might feel differently if they are actually required to pay for the infrastructure that the dense cities are currently purchasing for them.
It's probably using A-GPS.
This! They even enabled swap on iPadOS 16. Why oh why can’t I run a VM?
Wow, that is not at all what I got from your original question.

I think the answer to the original question, as I understood it, is that HN is still somewhat a startup-oriented site, and defense spending is traditionally about as far from startup-like as possible. It's really slow and really bureaucratic. It's just not our kind of thing, not necessarily because of defense or violence, but because of the massive amounts of paperwork. It's a foreign land that most of us don't want to visit.

But the question you ask in the parent, that sounds like the kind of thing that a startup (and a startup mindset) could go after... if the Department of Defense could both fund them and get out of their way.
I'm tempted to think of things as a 0 sum game or positive sum - but California really seems to be a negative sum game.

California was pretty nice when I was 22 and didn't mind living in a studio apartment.

I honestly think California is a negative sum game at this point. It seems like hardly anyone is winning, and most people are losing - most of them massively.

I guess the people living entirely off handouts are winning? Maybe 22 year-olds that get paid a bunch of money to work at FAANG and live in studio apartments?

It's not even clear to me that the majority of Prop 13 recipients are benefiting that much. You only really benefit if you sell and leave the state. And, yes, some people are doing that - but not anywhere near a majority.
A blog post about my work on libcamera I do for the Purism Librem 5 phone touches on this topic:

https://puri.sm/posts/cameras-its-complicated/
Create Custom Vector Tiles
previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33212168
> What makes them better? I love Tokyo, for example, but would hate to live there - as it's too crowded for my sanity. But I'm not going to hate on others for wanting that. I'd rather the government focus on fostering choice and options, rather than picking what they deem is "best" for everyone.

I don't mean to single you out, but I find comments like this really perplexing. Do you really believe the GP meant "everyone should live somewhere like Tokyo"?

Most urbanists in the US are talking about fostering choice and options. Right now in the US you have effectively two options - rural or suburban car-centric living where owning a car is the only efficient option - or living in extremely dense environments that still cater to cars but its at least possible to live without one.

You can look at a number of different countries in Europe to see how even small towns can still be built with a natural density curve to allow choice rather than the car-centric sprawl that we have here.
The price spread on this versus the Air is questionable.

Stock price on this for 256GB is $600, the Air with 256GB is $750.

But the Air 256GB is $660 on Amazon right now.

$60 for the M1 and a few other advantages seem worth it.
Reminds me of UTC[1]. Maybe the compromise is to call it "IGF"?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Ety...
Nice idea, but perhaps the list itself could be put in the beginning.
Extinguish might look like Microsoft or their customers/partners writing proprietary replacements for open source products with the help of copilot. I don't know how likely this is, but what co-pilot provides is a plausible path for leveraging open source code to create closed-source products. Over time this allows the proprietary software industry to contribute back less code while still benefitting enormously.
Bingo. I also have a 2018 11" iPad Pro, and the only things that would even nudge me in the direction of upgrading is a landscape-friendly selfie camera (like the new iPad got), significantly smaller bezels, Touch ID (again, the regular iPad has this), and a better display (11" doesn't have mini-LED).
I use the ipad for reading music scores but would never replace it with a laptop. M1 and M2 is overkill for a consumption device that doesn't have a real file system accessible to the user.
It's pretty fast with modern tooling. Try vite or swc if you have the time and inclination. vite builds one of my large $DAYJOB projects in ~45 seconds (which is insane compared to how webpack performed).

If you don't need vite's extensibility, you can go with 'pure' esbuild and slim down transpilation + minification + bundling to only a few seconds.

https://vitejs.dev

https://github.com/swc-project/swc

https://github.com/evanw/esbuild
Rust doesn't have Qt
Kotlin JS transpilation is very solid

It has tools both to emit TypeScript definitions from Kotlin, and to generate Kotlin types from TS libraries ("Dukat" tool)

Go I do not have much experience with unfortunately
> Therefore, even though subsidies were instrumental in getting electric off the ground a decade ago, it makes no sense to further subsidize at this time

The fossil fuel industry tripled their profits in 2022, and we still have $20BN in fossil fuel subsidies.

For those keeping score at home, that is more than ten times the subsidies for electric vehicle purchases.
Dear Apple,

Please don't listen to Veliladon. Keep the iPad as it's own thing. In fact, make it more iPad-y and less Mac-y.

If I want a Mac, I'll buy a Mac.
Wow what a great original idea. Let's just turn the whole city into an unlivable hellscape like the Tenderloin!
Then stop using nightly.....
I really miss that too! Unfortunately iPads now stupidly have a camera bump
What I can't stand about Rust is that the language developers think they know better than language users developing software. They stack on syntactic salt to make it more unpleasant to write the equivalent of correct C++ programs with aliased mutation or manual freeing, in situations where the idiomatic Rust ways are also unpleasant to write (Cell, RefCell, raw pointers), have runtime overhead (RefCell), are busywork to implement in working programs (restructuring your entire program around an ownership tree with only ephemeral stack-allocated cross-linking &mut, which is only sometimes possible without reducing performance or increasing memory use), or are easy, tempting, and undefined behavior in Rust but not C++ (casting *mut to &mut in an unsafe block in a safe function).
It's that, and more. It's also that they want to be able to rely on being able to call you in at any moments notice without any potential for excuses like "Well, it's going to take an hour to get there, because of the bus." or "I can't come in right now due to the weather on such short notice."

Quite frankly, I think the entire restaurant industry (in Canada) needs to be audited for multiple reasons. Tax evasion, disobeying the law in regards to discrimination, etc. (Canadian laws) There may be some innocent owners caught in the crossfire, but if they truly are innocent in this case; they should be fine and worry free. It's not a line of logic I like to use in many things, but in this case it really is true.
I don't think that's true. My grandparents live near a town of 4k people or so that's not walkable in the slightest, spread out over miles of highway with massive city-sized streets criscrossing everything. Most of the houses are 2+ miles away from the grocery store.
as an ipad mini owner, i selfishly hope they make it work on the a15 as well. I don’t know how unfavorably that chip compares to the a12z, but it seems very fast on the ipad mini.
I know people who are laptop power users who are fine traveling with just a tablet and an external keyboard. (They still use a laptop when they're not traveling.)

Good for them but I've never been able to make it work for me. I'll just carry the extra weight. But, to your point, it's also true that, beyond getting an external keyboard, I've never really committed to making a tablet work for me as my only travel device (other than a phone).
It's not just that the OS is crippled, the apps are as well.

Trying to quickly navigate between apps, edit, and copy and paste, is an exercise in frustration.
Open Hardware for AI Infrastructure
let me google taht for you?

https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/im-former-teac...

https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/feqtuo/te...

Parents send their kids to school to get an education, not be pushed propaganda.
HP-UX is still being actively developed.
If California succeeds in driving the wealthier out of the state, then who is going to pay the bill?
I'm totally in favor of bringing back dinosaurs. I'm also in favor of modifying animals to have more human-like brains.

I understand that many/most people would oppose this on ethical grounds. I could probably even articulate those positions if I tried.

But, deep down in my inner child, I think the world would be much more interesting if these things existed.
> If it doesn't get security updates, you really can't do online paying/banking with it.

Maybe you shouldn't, but in terms of pure ability you perfectly well can. (And somewhat ironically, if you take matters into your own hands and update the OS yourself, quite a few banking apps will then refuse to run for "security reasons", while at the same time they're absolutely happy to run on an outdated OS version.)
> Chrome isn't the most common browser on the planet because of its identity politics. It's actually addressing real needs(i.e. a default browser on common computing device - used to be reason for antitrust but w/e), rather than a loud vocal subsection of a handful of societies, so I don't think that that growth strategy works.

I'm pretty sure Chrome is the most common browser on the planet because Google abused its market position in search and mobile (Android) to shove it down people's throats, helped along by bundling it with other installers. Everything else was secondary.
Well, video editing is crazy fast on iPad and iPhone, that doesn't make it good. Apple goes above-and-beyond building hardware accelerators into their GPU for video content, but the form factor of the iPhone/iPad is considerably worse than editing with a Macbook. I feel the same way about music production on iOS - the hardware is willing, but the software is weak.
Damn the font size is way too large on my mobile, unreadable.
Would love to read an article on this! Do you have any reading to recommend?