skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess humanity has to commit suicide

The rhetoric on this gets dialed up to 11 immediately, and I don't think it benefits anyone but a very small group of people to do so. This report suggests that views on plastic recycling should be reconsidered, it does not suggest that humanity is going to come to an end unless we _immediately_ solve this problem.

> because it's the path that consumes the less amount of paper bills with made up numbers on them

I don't think people who work for an hourly wage are likely to agree that the numbers are made up. They may have a certain arbitrary quality to them when you consider them at scale, but they aren't made up for the majority of people alive.. and the difference between them means a lot to many people on this planet.

This is what this rhetoric ignores. Single use plastics are an issue. We should reduce them; however, acting as if they are only in use for profit motivations is insane. The next time you go to a hospital, or a dentist, or open up a pack of dental floss consider what else you might use to protect that equipment, those instruments, or your own hygiene products and foods.

We could go back to using waxed paper, but it's inferior for shelf stability, it's not compostable or recyclable, and it's made from paraffin wax which is a petroleum product.
Well I'd actually buy one of these if I could lol
>"A review of the discussion on this topic shows that we are suffering from the same insanity that peaked at during the Cold War. No lessons learned. And the same shitheads running the circus."

Please share the results of your review, and share the lessons you learned. As posted, this comment contains no informational or rhetorical content.
The Russian Roulette: An Unbiased Estimator of the Limit
From what I understand, this arise from various lawsuits against NHS policies

> NHS gender clinic 'should have challenged me more' over transition -

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51676020

> Man sues NHS on same day as gender reassignment surgery claiming he made 'biggest mistake of his life' -

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-sues...

> Hundreds of families could sue transgender clinic Tavistock for medical negligence -

https://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/18187/hundreds-of-famili...
My mac studio with an Apple M1 Ultra has 64GB of unified memory.
FTC requires Drizly destroy and limit user data after data breach
And fuel to power them, and oil for preventive maintenance.
Headline doesn't seem to match the content of the article. The big change is that gender dysphoric children will now be treated by medical doctors rather than therapists and hormone specialists. I can't imagine how anyone would oppose such a change, absent an extreme bias towards transitioning.
But the education will happen, whether you mean it to or not. Most people have nothing but what they see to base they're expectations on, so if they see your game, and don't specifically read about pig herding in the middle ages, your game comprises the total information in their head on the topic. Congratulations, you're an educator! Now take some responsibility.

Your point about authentic fabrication methods is entirely orthogonal. It's really hard to see why you brought that up.
I'm glad there's more serious competition in this space. And apparently I'm not alone in this opinion.

From 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17783924

> Oddly, what I'd really like to see is ARM enter the NUC space. Maybe I'm the only one, but I'd like be able to pay $200-400 for a small, low power usage, decently performant machine. The 8th generation Intel NUC are good, but 28W TDP and it'd be nice to get it much, much lower than that. I know these are a small fraction of the overall market but personally I think it'd be cool.

Once you want something more powerful than Raspberry Pi or a board based on a mobile SoC your options whittle down considerably. There are "mini/micro" PCs but they don't touch the lack of power consumption.
Yes, that formula did give me the heebie-geebies.

When I need to do a complex calculation like that in Excel, I break it up into multiple cells each doing a subset of the calculation, then I have a result cell that brings the results together at the end. that way I can work on manageable formulas and can check the results of each. It’s probably less efficient from a processing and memory standpoint but I rarely work on large data sets and the gains in reliability are well worth it.
I've been dealing with chronic sleep issues for the last 6 years. It's terrible. Has anyone found something that actually works?
Why does the existence or absence of a finite name affect the reality of a number? You can put every real number in a one-to-one correspondence with itself. Or a one-to-one correspondence of f(x).

This is a really interesting thought experiment, and I think in some ways reframes the problem of "exists" (which is nebulous) to "has a description which is finite (or countably infinite, but not uncountable)".

But I think if you could prove a way to countably label an arbitrary real number, you could probably inductively prove that you could do it for any. But you run face-first into the interesting number paradox and/or incompleteness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Is there an easy way to turn off web push entirely so I don't get spammed with spamification requests?
Some corporate training in the past decade are indoctrination camps, not teaching you real life useful skills and information. Treat it like any other kind of garbage.
Creating MPAs with HTMX is simpler than the SPA approach and makes it so you don't need a "monolith" on the front end.

For personal offline first web apps I build I do it this way, except with JS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33319875
Boy, I didn't think anything would get me to cheer on Zuckerberg and this metaverse BS but then I read this article. So many words just to say "halp I'm losing money".
These people lack the life experience to sniff out a potentially poor deal because people like you have removed opportunities to gain such experience in the name of protecting them.

The average 15-16 year old has the mental faculties to function as an adult least as well as a "below average but good enough" adult. We as a society fail to give them opportunities to hone those skills.

People cannot be functional adults without practice. If we keep nannying people until older and older ages they will not gain proficiency at adulting until even older ages.
When Silicon Valley Owns the American Dream
I appreciate the simplicity of the API compared with other libraries. Especially when setting up TLS. That by itself is a big win IMHO.
My rationale was that, before I had seen this very well produced video, I was not familiar with the way that content farms operated. The idea that words being fabricated means it must be GPT-3 seems spurious to me. A person in a huge hurry, with a poor grasp of the English language, could easily generate fabricated words.

The video I linked is extraordinary in its level of research and quality, and interesting on its own merits. If someone is not fully aware of the extent to which content farms squeeze out content, it’s easy to assume some weird prose is GPT-3. I felt the articles dismissal of the idea of a content farm was too quick, and perhaps they or the readers might not be familiar with how they operate. And so I provided a summary as well as a link to this very high quality investigative source.
The difference here is that the M1 in the M1 mac mini is faster than Apple's phone SoC (the A16).
The Qualcomm 8cx gen 3 (what a terrible name) in this machine is NOT faster than even Qualcomm's phone SoC (the 8 gen 1), let alone Apple's phone SoC.

It's absurd to be selling a desktop PC that's weaker than a phone.
Most children who believe that they are left-handed are just going through a “phase”, the NHS has said, as it warns that doctors should not encourage them to change the hand they write with.
So’s law school. If you’re getting legal advice from HN… don’t.
The Naval War in Ukraine – The Moskva, Missiles and Lessons
No that really doesn’t hold up. You do not have to be able to win the fight. You simply have to demonstrate that you’re willing to resist. Bullies, thugs, prison gangs, etc. will almost always leave you alone if they think you’re going to retaliate. That doesn’t mean you’re making an enemy of them of course.
I have a local music library, and it's annoying how everything I use has been shoved into a small part of the UI on the iPhone. Plus it occasionally pops up asking me to subscribe to Apple Music. I just don't need it. I discover new music through YouTube usually.

But iTunes/Music has supported that library since 2003 for me, so I trust it. 19 years, that's like 19 Google service lifespans! Even most software hasn't lived that long.
At least according to a few internet sources, it was in initially invented as a critique with the irony intended.

Over time it became idiomatic speech for initiating something difficult
Yes, thank you for catching. We just pushed the fix.

The original table was copied over from an old post (when we were still using 11th Gen Intel), and I somehow missed updating it.
A person who owns a Samsung phone gets the same functionality from any Wear OS watch, of which the Galaxy watch is one of many (the Pixel watch is just as compatible with their phone as a Galaxy watch). Google owns the ecosystem, Samsung has to rely on brand loyalty - not an ecosystem, because it doesn't have one, despite its years-long efforts (Samsung app Store, Bixby, and other duplicates to Google's services)
IMO Data engineering is already a specialized form of software engineering. However what people interpret as DE's being slow to adopt best practices from traditional software engineering is more about the unique difficulties of working with data (especially at scale) and less about the awareness or desire to use best practices.

Speaking from my DE experience at Spotify and previously in startup land, the biggest challenge is the slow and distant feedback loop. The vast majority of data pipelines don't run on your machine and don't behave like they do on a local machine. They run as massively distributed processes and their state is opaque to the developer.

Validating the correctness of a large scale data pipeline can be incredibly difficult as the successful operation of a pipeline doesn't conclusively determine whether the data is actually correct for the end user. People working seriously in this space understand that traditional practices here like unit testing only go so far. And integration testing really needs to work at scale with easily recyclable infrastructure (and data) to not be a massive drag on developer productivity. Even getting the correct kind of data to be fed into a test can be very difficult if the ops/infra of the org isn't designed for it.

The best data tooling isn't going to look exactly like traditional swe tooling. Tools that vastly reduce the feedback loop of developing (and debugging) distributed pipelines running in the cloud and also provide means of validating the output on meaningful data is where tooling should be going. Trying to shoehorn traditional SWE best practices will really only take off once that kind of developer experience is realized.
Break the build tools for their cash cow about once a month, and forbid anyone from developing for it without spending thousands of dollars on new hardware?
It looks great!

Do you think the web-based IDE is enough to be productive? For example, could this work on a Chromebook (in browser) or an iPad Pro (browser only)?
And it’s 100% compatible with Chrome’s implementation: https://wpt.fyi/results/scroll-to-text-fragment?label=experi...
Building an API to List Cloudinary Images in a Folder
>It continues to suck how African countries are excluded from these product launches

All South American, most Asian and most European countries are excluded. That sucks, too.
Fascinating topic but a self-serving article that belongs on Medium if it belongs at all.
Are there any actual stats of how profitable African countries are for Microsoft?
I get it’s way harder for Windows but they failed the first time but Apple succeeded because they went all in for the M1. Windows ARM is doomed to fail with such fragmentation.
It depends on what you mean by "possible", what future improvements you're considering, because otherwise the answer is just 1.84 Pbit/s.

But in very general, you have around 200THz of range for these infrared lasers. So on a single core, I'd expect the max to be within an order of magnitude of 200Tbps. They're using 37 cores, so they're getting 50Tbps per core right now.

Order of magnitude because it's not super hard to approach a bit per Hz of bandwidth from the bottom side, though difficult at very high frequencies, while it gets exponentially hard to exceed it. And here's a couple relevant charts for how fiber is extra self-limiting: https://i.stack.imgur.com/bwTy2.png http://opticalcloudinfra.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Nonl...
Insects are disgusting if we and nature could live without them, that would be amazing.
AMD EPYC Genoa Launches on 10 Nov (96 Zen4 cores, 12 DDR5 channels, PCIe5, CXL)
> Insects do not have emotions

Why wouldn't they?
I think you may be responding to something I didn’t write :-)
Google says potatoes are from South America and only came to Europe in the 1500s.

TIL!
Titanium has much less thermal mass than the same volume of water. Water is 4.2 J/g/K and 1 g/cc, thus 4.2 J/cc/K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium is 25.060 J/mol/K, 4.506 g/cc, and 47.867 g/mol, so 0.5235 J/g/K and 2.359 J/cc/K.

I think water is also a better thermal insulator if you can keep it from convecting, and a better heat spreader (to eliminate "a focused point of heat", which I agree is a problem) if you do let it convect. But that's the opposite of titanium being a good heat shield.
If all you need is to generate thumbnail from the first frame of local video file, then ffmpeg cli with a bunch of shell scripts already does the job.

I use this for web video thumbnail manipulation. Having on-the-fly control right from the URL gives more versatility e.g. seeking by percentage, skipping the black frames etc. And this is more well suited with cloud storages.
Generative AI Reading List
If you haven't seen a sleep specialist, I'd start there. I had pretty bad sleep issues that I finally got checked out, and after getting a CPAP I have been sleeping better than I had in a decade.
Yes, I’m pretty sure that the Mac Mini is good as a machine for developing Mac and iOS applications. I have myself used it for this purpose in the past, and it worked very well.
Robot AI-Da Gives Evidence to a House of Lords
Yes, anyone with an account can upload https://archive.org/create/
Classless as in the library only uses element and pseudo selectors, no `.class` selectors.
Excluded how you mean?
Maybe I am missing the point, but why wouldn't you rather buy a NUC instead of this slow box? I get it MS wants to be like Apple, meticulously copying anything that pops up there, but their brand is associated with different "experiences" and their main value lies in backwards compatibility and open hardware ecosystem.
HDMI connectors cost a lot of money to the HDMI licensing authority. This payment is very painful if you have a small quantity of shipments. DisplayPort is free. And as others have pointed out, you just need to buy a cable.
I also skipped Windows Millennium and Windows 8.
The Docker+WASM Technical Preview
Don't you usually have to assemble those yourself? Like get a bunch of vendors to brand some generic items and put them in a bag?
What's crazy to me is Hollywood is more focused on casting non-white actors in medeival fantasy roles rather than actually making culturally diverse movies. Chinese, Indian, and African history is fascinating and I would love to see more media exploring those settings.
They put more thought into their anti-piracy mechanics.

Want to compel a user to update/reboot? Mess with the aesthetics.

Disable their wedding-photo background. Change the UI to something horrendously ugly (pink-on-green?). Toggle high-contrast mode every hour.
There is a setting in Preferences > Websites > Notifications to disable notifications entirely.
I thought it looked funny, but couldn't put my finger on why.
> The Mac Mini is what you get if you want to make a Mac or iOS app

This is probably closer to the Mac Mini with M1 that they shipped to kick-start the Apple Silicon transition for desktop apps.

Because if I was a windows programmer for today's customers, I can't really build things on a "Windows on Arm" device like this.

Like Apple before, I hope this is just the first salvo against the Windows+Intel, before we all switch to Arm chips (including Intel fabs).
I am surprised by the amount of support for Facebook here by a community that is normally pretty critical of Facebook

That being said I think VR is amazing for games and similar environments but I find the idea of using VR goggles to view "screens" for work totally dumb. There is no way I am ever going to be doing that.
The 'phase' terminology seems to be used by quite a few UK publications, or words similar to that effect.
No matter what position your legs are in, it is the head and neck you need to align - make sure your screen is placed somewhere that makes you keep your head and neck up to look at it.

If you are working directly on a laptop, get an external keyboard. Disconnecting your screen position from your hand position can go a long way.
Not a sandwich but an equilibrium.

What is it good for if there's no mechanism to reach it?

"What they’ve found is that some games have Nash equilibria that are impossible for a computer to determine and even more equilibria are computable only if one of the largest open problems in computer science, P = NP, is solved."

https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/09/21/the-computabil...
I don't think it's entirely non-ironic. I think the term acknowledges the inherent risk in the situation. You are attempting something statistically impossible. So many of these ventures do not pan out.
And here's the difference between Microsoft and Apple: When Apple switches to ARM, people believe them. When Microsoft switches to arm, people ignore them. Why? Because Microsoft only ever half-asses such changes (see the terrible SOC in this).
It's a chicken or the egg dilemma. Non-Apple ARM is too slow, so nobody wants Windows ARM, and nobody wants Windows ARM, so nobody is seriously working on consumer-targeted ARM. It will probably fail because Microsoft is generally bad at managing and marketing their hardware projects and coordinating with manufacturers and retail partners. Also, yeah, the pricing and performance is abysmal. But there is some sense to trying to lay the groundwork for future ARM SoCs running Windows.

Right now, the biggest driver for Windows ARM adoption is, ironically, Apple's M1 and onwards because of people running it as a guest OS through Parallels.

Also, frankly, I'm okay with Microsoft failing at projects like this. We don't need another Apple-like presence on the market.
If possible definitely use Vercel :)
It's interesting if you read that article you posted the trend was pretty normal until COVID which speaks volumes. They blame it on the tax cut but the data just doesn't align with that theory. Specifically the chart at https://assets-c3.propublica.org/images/articles/_threeTwo80...

In reality the president doesn't control the budget. They influence it through an agenda but it's ultimately up to congress. Congress passed a lot of stimulus in response to the pandemic and much of it was bi-partisan.
Seems to be working out for them alright. I'd love to make fun of them for similar reasons, but look at market, and more importantly, mind, share...
Implying it hasn’t already been every integer number from 1 to 4294967295..
Wouldn't display over USB-C solve this as well?
Well for what it's worth, Synology makes some ARM powered NASes. But I suppose those fall under the mobile SoC category.
I write my apps like this for my offline first web apps. I thought about this problem for a while think it would be cool to do a totally progressively enhanced experience from no JS all the way to being offline with no need for the back end at all (except for syncing data).

Another option would be, instead of putting SQLite on the front is to use a repo pattern and if it is on the front end use IndexedDB, if it on the back end use SQLite or some other custom implementation for their repo.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33319875
Another one I've seen recently circulating on the Internet is an idea that "The customer is always right" was originally "The customer is always right, in matters of taste". Also not true.
Let's not forget that Microsoft did not put in the work to optimize for Arm like Apple did.
> they're not perfect, but they're the better of 2 bad options
This is also what people said about my being gay.

We are in the middle of a shot-for-shot remake of the anti-gay panic.
"The Windows Dev Kit 2023 is now available to developers in 8 countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States."
It cost them an ARM and a leg.
I would forward this question to Simula, since their website still says:

"We expect units to ship no earlier than Q4 2022, with priority given to Founders Editions."

Given that, as you've said, we're in Q4 and there's no updated information available on their purchase page, I doubt it's going to be any time in the next few weeks.
The (desktop) Music app suffers from such stupid UI omissions that I hate rewarding it with money.

Example: You discover a "radio" show you like because it is suggested on the Browse page. Well, there's no way to save that. There's no way to bookmark it. You seriously have to essentially WRITE IT DOWN if you want to come back to a show later. WTF?

Or you're on the Browse page and you play something. There's no indicator in the UI of what's playing. If you click on an interesting-looking playlist or show and 20 minutes later you've decided you like it... you come back and look and there's no way to find out what you're listening to. There's not even a little "playing" icon on the thing that's playing, let alone a proper highlight or selection. It's unbelievable. And of course, there's no way to bookmark that, either.
Ask HN: Has anyone had decent success selling iBooks?
Update from 2016: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7437394
I don't think that will change anything. Those places will succumb to the same politics. You're not looking at the root cause.
Already done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT#History

Windows is (was?) so deeply intertwined with x86 that MS bastardized their early ARM platform with ACPI and UEFI so they didn't have to write a new kernel HAL. Perhaps this has changed since Win RT.

The RPi can also run tianocore, an open source reference uefi.
Microsoft's Apple envy continues - additionally hobbled by Qualcomm's indistinguished/2nd rate hardware and disinterested developers.
Most children who don't like the opposite sex are going through a "phase", the NHS has said.
The point of this is that it's an Windows-on-ARM devkit; you can't buy a ARM NUC that'll run Windows AFAIK (Intel doesn't make ARM machines), and you can't test ARM software natively on an x86-64 NUC.
The hardware looks well suited to a cluster to me especially at the price point and with the presumably low power usage. Smack three of these bad boys together and you’re got about 64gb of memory to work with and 32gb for redundancy for $1800. That’s not terrible considering SBCs only go up to about 16gb of memory and tinyminimicro boxes probably draw a bit more power and don’t cost less new…