skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People complain a lot about developing for the web, but at least we don't have to put up with this kind of thing.
The iPhone is the greatest cash machine ever. Some people are probably on their 10th iPhone . Some people probably spent thousands of dollars on app store.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33364183
you're right, it was a joke. What isn't a joke is that Mississippi has been torturing their prisoners and would 100% continue to if the rest of the states had not objected via the federal government. https://www.wlbt.com/app/2022/04/20/years-deliberate-indiffe...
Of course. But I don't see there being enough of those people to drive that kind of revenue to one company. Apple makes money like a fashion brand because that is what they are. They are very innovative and very good at doing it. I'm not trying to detract from their success. Just amazed that it works and has worked for so long.

But I don't own any Apple technology and can't think of a reason I would buy any.

Yes I do work in tech as a full-stack developer and sysadmin.
I hope the cryptocurrency world has nothing to do with MBS.
Right wing pro Russian financial news site. That’s right in your wheel house.
Does it have any sort of calendar features, or custom domain support yet? Those were the immediate dealbreakers for me
the UI Is bad in comparison to what? its pretty easy to find whatever you want
Which is a great reason to not blow $15B on a shitty version of 2nd life.
having a roadmap to integrate this channel with the site https://kissfm.md is a squatting for you!? Applause (sarcasm)!
It's just wild to me that someone could care so much about it, or get so worked up. I'm not telling you to let other people mold your personality. I'm just saying it often happens and it's not really an earth-shattering tragedy if it does. You can also do what most people do which is put stuff you don't want to throw away in a box in the closet and forget about it.
https://ourworldindata.org/biodiversity

Wild mammals:

100.000 years ago ... 20 mil. tonnes of carbon

10.000 years ago ... 15 mil. tonnes of carbon

100 years ago ... 10 mil. tonnes of carbon

now ... 3 mil. tonnes of carbon

https://ourworldindata.org/mammals

"Wild mammal biomass has declined by 85% since the rise of human civilizations. This was mainly driven by overhunting and habitat loss."

"Wild animals only make up 4% of the world’s mammals; humans account for 34%, and our livestock for 62%."

"More than 178 of the world’s largest species went extinct during the Quaternary Extinction. Overhunting was likely the main driver."

"One-quarter of the world’s mammal species are threatened with extinction. Most are in the tropics."

"It is the largest mammals that are at the greatest risk of extinction. Most due to overhunting and poaching."

Cowspiracy [https://www.cowspiracy.com/facts]:

"Ten thousand years ago, 99% of biomass (i.e. zoomass) was wild animals. Today, humans and the animals that we raise as food make up 98% of the zoomass."

Postgrowth [https://medium.com/postgrowth/the-bomb-is-still-ticking-2810...]:

""Research by Professor Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba in Canada shows that as a percentage of mammalian zoomass, human beings and our domesticated mammalian animals (for food, beasts of burden and as pets) have gone from <0.1% 10,000 years ago, to 10–12% at the start of the industrial revolution to between 96–98% today."
Sure. But the benefit is way bigger than the drawback. At least that is the decision society has made.
The app can auto-update itself without nagging.
"Renewables" cost our government here in Ontario.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/06/07/kathleen-wynne-ran-en...

They were in power for ~11 years, but thanks to their "green energy" programs they not only lost the election, they lost political party status and have yet to regain it.

Renewables are not cheaper.

"The FAO estimates that the renewable generation subsidy program will cost the Province a net $2.8 billion over the first three years of the program, from 2020-21 to 2022-23. The FAO's three-year cost estimate is significantly higher than the Province's cost estimate of $1.3 billion reported in the 2020 Ontario Budget."

These long-term "green energy" programs were expensive, and the government knowingly lied about how much it would cost.
Just wanted to say I appreciated this nice start to a story and now I have an app idea to create crowdsourced interactive fiction or at least branching fiction, one paragraph at a time.

You pay the in-app-token equivalent of $0.25 to post a new paragraph at any given node, then as other users select your node for that branch, your node rises in popularity.

Once a month, the most popular branches get paid a prize of in-app-currency for submitting good content.
I am a tech person with an older MacBook Pro and a newer iPhone, and AirPods. I own zero USB C cables and am not really looking forward to the switch.
You made an assertion that everything is politics, without providing any evidence. Every time someone repeats that nonsense they get called out, refuse to back it up with any shred of evidence, and then have a cute response.

Like clockwork.
The premise of this thread is:

> Something is wrong with the economy, not just in the UK, but in America and probably a bunch of other countries. Where is the prosperity, if its there, why is it not more widely shared? is it a single cause, or is the cause manifold?

I'm trying to find basis for the part that references America, other than a gut feeling. If not transfer payments, GDP growth, real wage growth, then what? If everything we can measure says things are generally improving, then why the feeling that prosperity isn't happening?

Your response here tells me prosperity is pretty widespread as there are lot f shareholders in the US.
Funny - everyone above them in that list is either a retailer (so the revenue is passthrough) or a state owned monopoly.
Is there a reason the Bronze Age had to precede the Iron Age? At least in the Mediterranean, the only continuous civilisation I’m aware of was Egypt.
So I disagree with a lot of your points for other reasons, but I totally jumped into the chain without seeing that they were talking exclusively about IT, I misread the chain. So that's my bad, I'll see myself out.
That doesn't make sense though. If they are already working on it why would Google fund that. Doesn't really make sense as a bribe. Additionally, I don't think Google is worried about a search competitor. It's all about the default search eyeballs. Microsoft has invested an insane amount to Bing and after 13 years they have 3% market share.
I do this with the infuse client on ios, and it works quite well.
Another annoying thing about Jellyfin is the inability to disable subtitles by default. Doing it manually every time gets old.
> A “good” USB C cable that supports all of the things I said - high speed data, video over USB, etc - costs around $15. The same price as an Anker Lightning cable.

But the Lightning cable won't support high speed data. And if you want video over Lightning you can't just use a cable, you need an adapter with an embedded computer to decompress the output.

A USB C cable that has the same capabilities as that Lightning cable is 2-3 dollars.
They are spending $1 billion dollars a month on the metaverse for what? I really don't see it.

Mark doesn't have the taste to take this plane airborne. VR, moreso than other platforms, will require great design, artistry, music. I haven't seen anything in Meta's VR foray that looks interesting, well designed, nifty or just plain cool. It's a very reductive interpretation of virtual reality . You have a limitless sandbox and the most creative thing you can show is...meeting software? A complete lack of imagination.

Doesn't help that Mark himself keeps talking about the future - the next five, eight, ten years. He himself even admits the experience is not where it should be. Why would anyone buy any of this stuff then?

Can't wait to see what Apple is putting together.
I don't have any issues watching subtitled material straight through but I think I've seen it after skipping around and the workaround was to close the video and reopen it so it resumes from the right spot - not ideal but not a show-stopper at least.
Good point about birds. Add them to amphibians, fish and insects and it would make this look less impressive.
Yes, it does. About 40% of steel produced globally is recycled and the number for some other metals like aluminum are even higher. IIRC almost 80% of steel production in the US is from recycled stock.

Processing ore is very energy intensive. Problem is the world needs a lot of steel
How does this work on a LAN or other private network? Can it?
Key word... Mammal.
The sad thing is that 100 years ago humans and livestock accounted for around 5% of the biomass (all zoomass, not land mammals only), 95% being the wildlife. Now the numbers are reversed.

We've stolen the land from the wildlife and dedicated it to a few species we consider edible (agriland is more than forests now, and 75% of it for animal agriculture).

Is anybody surprised that we're living in the anthropocene, defined by massive die off of wild species?

We have to (as a species) return the land to wildlife and let it repopulate the earth, otherwise we'll lose them. We don't even know what gems we're losing. I'm not talking about some bugs, but about dna - those are millions of years of (computer) code generated by nature, code so precious we don't even have an idea how to simulate it, let alone understand it (at this point in our evolution).

If we lose it, goodbye new medicines, new regenerative dna techniques, new technologies, and who knows what. We simply cannot know what we're stealing from future humans (this point was made for the selfish humans we are, better arguments could be made).
This is a smart move imo: they can gain xp and build tooling for unreal 5. Part of what killed their last game is their engine. Now they can learn how to use a real game engine with a lower stakes game and prepare for witcher 4 or whatever comes next.
There are a lot of people. But not everywhere. What you say will true for the US. But in more sparsely populated and less accessible parts of the world it may not be.
>It seems like lucid dreaming is very tiring and that I don't wake well rested

I spent a lot of time in my teens learning to lucid dream and I do credit it with worsening my sleep quality. If nothing else because I have to force myself to wake up when lucid dreams repeatedly turn creepy with their occupants unhappy with me for being the dreamer.
As is the case for good people. You've said nothing. Having the will
to stand up for what you believe in remains a human virtue regardless
of the belief. Though of course we'd wish for people to have good
beliefs.
By being granted very broad security permissions that an application shouldn't need on a phone, yes.
> What would you expect a rational actor to do FOR the cause?

Di Caprio is rich and support nature conservation. Is not really so much difficult if you are rich. You just buy a chunk of land with a unique ecosystem, keep people from entering on it and you save ten species from going extinct. Is as simple as that.

What I would -not- expect is the children of some millionaires convincing poor or dumb people to perform humiliating, illegal and dangerous stunts in public for a small fee.

Lets imagine the outrage if one influencer would be caught paying homeless people to glue their heads and hands to a wall, and videotaping them while claiming, hey! I do it for the environment!.

This is mocking ecologists, manipulating poor people to perform degrading acts in public and endangering invaluable art. Three in one, all in the same stinking package.

This kind of fun is unacceptable, and should have consequences.
I don't think it's the mystery you do - they make money because they make the very best technology, that makes people who work with a wide range of workloads more effective, and so those people are willing to spend money with them.

If Apple is compiling my application 1.5x as fast and lets me work 1.5x as long without recharging, that saves me genuine time in the day, either to do more work, or to work on my hobbies, or to take more time out. That's really valuable to me. That's why I buy it, and why so many other people buy it. The cost is pretty insignificant considering it's where I earn all my money and do 50% or so of my hobbies.
I've heard that their algorithm now prioritizes lower licensing cost songs even if their algos rank them as a lower possible match for you. It also seems like their curated playlists prioritize lower quality songs now too, so I try to find better user generated ones.

Why does everything go from good to the lowest mediocrity companies can get away with?
I thought I was doing something wrong or that the cards were broken in Firefox for Android.

Turns out the cards use the accelerometer to spin on mobile! That's a pretty nice trick, I love these animations!
now add bacteria, fungi, and ants...
Plants, reptiles, amphibians, insects, marsupials, fish, bacteria, algae, fungus, etc.
Can that $5 USB C cable support data transfers at USB3 speeds and video over USB C?

USB C also has licensing fees. The stated reason was to prevent “ewaste” and yes you can buy a $5 lightning cable.

Here is a 3 pack for $10

https://a.co/d/8FB2naZ
It has custom domains (and can send as a Gmail account) but no calendar service yet.
I agree with this being the issue. With a right handed scissor in my left hand, I feel like I have to "pull" with my thumb to keep the blades together. Same scissor in tje right hand, that instead is a slight push but that happens automatically as I do the cut motions.
I don’t know where you are but most of my deliveries are next day, sometimes same day, the rest are indeed 2 days. Not defending Amazon just saying that it’s not the same across the board.

Edit: nvm didn’t read the last part. But I don’t live in a super big urban area either, weird
> They replace these devices about every 2-3 years.

Some people do, but definitely not “almost every adult in the developed world”.
LOL, yep
Only inactive usernames were taken away by them (and not the active ones). While it's good to have a memorable one, you'd run the risk of "spam attacks". I am not sure how the proposed blockchain (TON) will work (it's claimed to be immutable), but then this is their prerogative to earn money.
PostgreSQL fast full text search platform for all languages
I don't remember him doing that in the books haha. He was a beautiful swordsman not a goofball.
Sequoia's Map of Generative AI
Map of interesting companies and applications in the Generative AI Landscape, according to Sequoia (Oct. 2022)
Can you give an example of how the US government has made other countries use products from those 3 businesses?
It seems that the patents aren't the only obstacle to ubiquitous Lightning:

> Yes, it's hard to make floating paddle and sheet metal spring indents more robust than a solid metal puck, but it also comes with extra baggage that Apple is willing to eat and most USB committee companies are not willing to. USB has always made the connectors out of stamped sheet metal for mass production, but it is not possible to make the lightning puck like that. Having potentially live exposed contacts also complicates things.

(https://reddit.com/comments/6xfo53/comment/dmfqbnc)
It's really sad that software distribution has deteriorated into this submissive permission-seeking practice of pleasing an opaque moving target, as a sort of disorganized morality police that claim to act on behalf of the users. And not only that, but we still have 0 standardization or agreed-upon APIs so devs generally have waste heaps of time on per-platform idiosyncrasies that has nothing to do with business logic. We do have cooler tech today, but that is despite, not because, this suffocating and unsustainable selection of walled "gardens".
> Citation needed? I think those are below the minimum.

The law states nothing about data transfers or anything else.
Moving heat is always cheaper than creating it.

Also, gas furnaces get those 99+% efficiencies only at input=output (ie no heating) temperature. Most radiators require a water temperature well north of 50C to emit the power required, and for decades gas furnaces were thus set to default output temperatures of 70-80C. At that point, the maximum thermodynamic efficiency (which is a curve as function of temperature differential, with the optimum at Tdiff=0, ie no technical improvements are going to improve this) is more like 70-80%. Actually, a cheap way to get a ~10% gas bill reduction is to change the output temp to 50C (if yours runs at 70+) and see if your radiators still can emit enough heat to reach your desired room temperature.

Long term, heat pumps are the only sane choice. Burning gas in a plant and running a heat pump off its electricity is more efficient that burning it yourself. In fact, as of next year (or was is 2024?) any gas furnace must be replace with at minimum a hybrid heat pump here in the Netherlands.
Idk, I joined a distributed startup out of school and it gave me access to some of the best in their field from across the world. I learned a lot and there’s little chance I’d have an opportunity to work with that variety of talent if we were all were geo-locked and compelled to go into a local office. Not saying my case is the case for everyone, but I am saying the near-absolutes you’re presenting should be heavily qualified.
did you just carry spare pants also or did they trade their pants along with the contraband?
Build more zoos then. That’s the only realistic solution.
The author doesn't realize the interfaces from movies are often just polished up and simplified imitations of real interfaces.

The ones in that video don't look particularly advanced to me either. Wait until the author sees high resolution MWIR imaging that can see through smoke and fog.
Considering the this seems like a straightforward outcome to you, what would you do if you desired that outcome?
Individual action on the climate cannot solve climate change. I can live in a tent off the land and it won’t help because not even a small minority of people will be willing to take cold showers, let alone the other things they would have to give up. Things have to change from the top down, corporations have to do more than lip service, sometimes large organizations will have to be put to an end (big oil, big plastics, etc).
When clicked, they do look a bit blurry up-close. Very cool otherwise and hopefully easily fixable.
What system are you on? With Chrome 106 on a 2019 Mac Book Pro the website is completely unusable at 1 frame per 2 seconds...
I'd be willing to bet a talented team could have
pulled it off on the Sega Saturn

That's a big claim and a very intriguing one.

Dodonpachi is probably the densest 2D bullet hell shooter on the Saturn and even there, the screen has nowhere near the bullet count of Mushihimesama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IrLTjRlvxY

Of course that doesn't necessarily mean that Dodonpachi represents the absolute possible limits. Could the Saturn have been pushed even harder? Hrrmrmrmrmrmrmrmrmrm.

Maybe. If each bullet was a single, textured polygon... that theoretically fits within the Saturn's claimed performance envelope of several hundred thousand textured polys per second.

Still, the gulf between the Saturn's theoretical performance and practical achievable performance is legendary and notorious. Also, the game is going to need to do more than draw the polys. That is a lot of collision checks to perform. Though probably 99% of them can be skipped/simplified on any given frame if the bullet is nowhere near the player.

Seems like a fun challenge. Wish I knew the first damn thing about writing for the Saturn.

Battle Garegga had a near arcade-perfect port

Mushihimesama has at least an order of magnitude more bullets/objects onscreen than Garegga. It wasn't much of a "feat" to get Garegga running on the Saturn. Its arcade hardware was a MC68000P10 (17mhz) that is not even as powerful as the one in the Saturn!

http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=967
don't forget the ambis
> the new CEO Jassay is like Tim Cook at apple, a manager not a growth oriented CEO

Under Tim Cook, annual revenue grew from $76B (2010) to $387B (2022). That's rather decent growth, especially considering that at Apple's size, growth would presumably become harder and harder to attain.
The Best Home Media Server - Jeff Geerling
Oh really--I wonder why I'm paying for it then, I must have come up against the free tier storage limit at some point.
@pg is paying for the servers
> By personal media players, I'm talking about MP3 players and iPod-like devices. Essentially post-CD players. They existed, they weren't popular.

They weren't popular because they just simply sucked.

Flash memory was still expensive, so they'd usually only have enough room for 10 songs at the most. They didn't have displays to see file names, which I suppose isn't a big deal when you only have 10 songs.

> Even the initial iPod took a while to gain a real market presence.

I don't even consider the iPod to be innovative in any way besides maybe the click wheel. It was just that the iPod was the first product that was actually designed to be a good product and not a cheap money grab designed to get a few dollars from all the Napster users.

To put it more bluntly, IMO, all the other products were made by boneheads. The iPod was the bare minimum of what an MP3 player should have been. It wasn't innovative, it just wasn't made by boneheads.

Personally, I had always expected MP3 CD players to become a thing. I didn't like the iPod's idea of a hard drive (Though they weren't the first to make a portable MP3 player that used a hard drive). I expected them to have high failure rates from head crashes.
> The more interesting part of the story is Unreal is being used. For a while Unity and Unreal have been pushing out in-house engines.

This is exactly the case for CD Projekt Red. They built their own engine (RED Engine) for Witcher 1 and built on top of it for the two Witcher sequels and also pushed it to its very limits for Cyberpunk 2077. A lot of useful criticism of the technological pains (delays, marketplace reception issues) they experienced with Cyberpunk was that they were using an in-house game engine unprepared for that genre (jumping from a game series where the fastest vehicle was a horse to one with cars and flying cars and planes is maybe not the easiest straight line). CDPR responded to that criticism, especially from their shareholders, that they would be minimizing that risk in future games development and externalizing that dependency and moving to an out-of-the-box game engine moving forward (including in that announcement that it would be Unreal).

This announcement for the Witcher 1 remake seems like a proper and interesting "full circle" for this story: CDPR's last engine was built entirely for Witcher 1. Using off-the-shelf Unreal to remake Witcher 1 sounds like a smart way on paper to get their feet wet and move on from the old engine to the new one using a project they are already familiar with and can help them realign from old pipelines to new ones.
OK sure let’s just pretend like TPM doesn’t exist
I will note that in the data store I use to record the jeans preferences of HN commenters.
> If it’s over a $1000 it’ll flop. If it’s $500 it’ll do well.

I think we'll have to wait to see what the capabilities are. If it can replace an iPhone, $1000 would be incredible. $500 is only double the price of AirPods Pro, so functionality would have to be pretty limited.
Who said I was frustrated
Taking a cursory look at their example, and this caught my eye:

supervisor
.broadcast("A message containing data.")
.expect("Couldn't broadcast the message.");

As a non-native English speaker, the word expect tricks me up here. Is this use correct?
Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software
Truly brilliant. I'd love to know more about how this was achieved.
Nah, they just used a hack before working directly with visa to create a standard for this