skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched to my first iPhone last year and for me the determining factor was not feeling I had to constantly be on the upgrade path. I've has my iPhone SE (2020) and haven't been happier with a phone. A taken care of iPhone can theoretically last 7-8 years since that is how long an iPhone generally gets OS and security updates. Android is getting better on flagship phones, but still not as good. By some none flagship android and your lucky to get 1 year of OS and security updates. My last android was a pixel and so was the one before that and every time I felt like after year 1 with an android, there is a massive performance drop off. I feel like my iPhone SE (2020) runs just as well today as the day it came out of the box.

Apple does do some things really well. Android could, and I really want to see them do it, but as of right now, there are some things Android does not do well.

Addition: And I think one thing that really hurt the Android ecosystem is when Android phones went through that phase of every phone flagship phone had some sort of gimmick. Where as Apple really just buttoned down and developed a really solid phone. A lot of android phone makers were just focusing on gimmicks like styluses or niche features to set them apart from other Android instead of just really developing a good solid smart phone.
Yeah I love the idea of bug bounties, however there is this issue created when the provider cannot offer the most competitive price for bounties. It's no secret that nation states will pay more than Apple will for vulnerabilities.
With apologies for the diversion, may I ask why you like subtitles? I have a neighbor who watches every movie with subtitles. I've never understood it. When I ask him, it's usually something about seeing the words, but he's not hard of hearing, and they listen to their movies outrageously loud anyway. In any event, to me, it detracts from the cinematography, and absent some handicap, I can't understand why you'd want subtitles. But I'm fully aware there's a sizable contingent that prefers watching movies with subtitles. Why is that?
adding additional friction to a process always increases the difficulty of the process and the cost of overcoming that friction is always borne by the consumer.
It's legally mandatory. That's why they'd be required to home school (standards are set by the state), or face charges.
Generative self-supervised model for robotics data.

Highlights:
- Transformer model for autoregressive prediction of states and actions over time to implicitly encode dynamics and behaviors for a particular robot
- The representation learned can be fine-tuned to distinct tasks (navigation, mapping, localization) with minimal data
- The base transformer model serves as a generative robotics model, similarly to GPT-3, and can be prompted to result in different robot behaviors

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11133
Video: https://youtu.be/mNQvQu_atuw
Code and data: https://github.com/microsoft/PACT
It seems your bitterness is clouding your ability to have a constructive discussion here.
Which is around 8-9 iPhones per second.
> There wasn't broad levels of hate?

> Da fuq?

> People were being called plague rats, scum, degenerates, etc. At societal, national, international, levels, unvaccinated people were 'other'ed to an extremely disturbing degree - fired from work, separated from loved ones, locked indoors, bashed on national media at all levels.

> People were talking, and still talk of denying them medical treatment, ending the Geneva convention, altering the Declaration of Human Rights, etc, to force people into taking "perfectly safe and 100% effective" vaccines. Which weren't that at all.

> Anyone who spoke out for them was the target of immediate white-hot anger. Don't know where you live to have missed all this, but claiming there wasn't broad levels of hate is just gaslighting, and I don't like it.

Right, that sounds like what I said earlier, mandmandam:

"There was anger, sure, but not hate" - and you affirmed it; white-hot anger. And it was deserved. But broad hate, no. We just wanted people to be responsible.

When you violate the social contract (protecting others by doing what's due), you attract anger.

I'm not really here to debate it; anyone saying otherwise is spinning our anger for others' irresponsibility and others' putting the immunocompromised in danger.
When it came out, the new MacBook Air had better single-core performance than every Intel Mac that ever existed. Not just the Airs - all of them ... on a lower power budget.

I'm sure you can get even faster single-core by brute-force burning power, but Apple were trying to do something more intelligent by balancing with power.

I think anyone seriously trying to claim they can't see any value in this is clearly just being silly.
I wonder if “retail” includes Amazon Prime subscription revenue? I doubt there’s many people signing up for Prime just for video or the other random perks Prime gets you, it’s 98% for the free shipping.
Shouldn’t the app itself dictate if it is collaborative or solo? We shouldn’t be slamming in collaborative because “everything is networked”, and shouldn’t be tacking on “solo” to a collaborative app.

I mean a “solo” version of slack makes no sense.

Likewise a “collaborative” version of minesweeper also makes no sense.
Did you not finish the article? Later:

> I kept returning in my mind to the question of the interface itself. To how the fictional, fantastical cop-movie interface somehow became a reality.

> This slip between fiction and reality seems to speak more broadly to the role of law enforcement itself, and to how self-mythologizing police narratives go on to shape the world. To put it another way, the footage is a product of the fantasy that the role of the police is to protect us from ubiquitous hidden danger, a fantasy generated in no small part by the police themselves.
It's got nothing to do with hand capability, you've misunderstood. For an ambidextrous person, using right-handed scissors in their right hand will work properly, using right-handed scissors in their left hand will work poorly. And vice versa for left-handed scissors.

When holding scissors, the bottom blade is held fairly steady. The top blade tends to get pushed away from the rest of the hand by the action of the thumb. If the top blade is on the far side of the scissors (away from the hand), the far blade edge will get pushed towards the near blade edge when the thumb handle is pushed away (because the blade is on the other side of the hinge from the handle). If the top blade is on the near side of the scissors (the hand side), by pushing the thumb handle away from you, you are separating the two blades rather than pushing them together.

So on right handed scissors, with the thumb handle facing up, the thumb blade is on the left side of the hinge. That way the natural "push away" force from the thumb will keep the blades close together when held in the right hand. On left handed scissors, the thumb blade is on the right side of the hinge, for the correct push-together force when held in the left hand.
People are gushing because it's a 3D animation with holographic effects, which is pretty surprising to be able to achieve for a primarily-2D layout language.

I've never seen something this seamless and realistic built in flash.
We have very different definitions of "best".
This is a really bizarre take on what a nationalized or even "partially-nationalized" might mean. I could argue Apple is more impeded in its capabilities and growth by the US govt (anti trust concerns, labor relations concerns, tax liabilities, etc) than it is directly boosted. If it's just a benefit from being a US based corp... that's not at all nationalized?
I’ve wanted to love Jellyfin and it looks so nice but I have found for my Home Theater that Kodi is just better. I like Jellyfin for streaming on my iPad and for putting my downloaded tutorials. But Kodi just seems to have a lot more compatibility and handles HDR better. Just my 2 cents.
Because we're really feeling the consequences now. All over the world.
Toyota volume with Ferrari margins. The iPhone will go down as one of the single greatest products ever.
Me. Unfortunately, back then the photos didn't have much metadata, mostly just time and date. No geolocation.

Since i like to search for photos on the map on the macOS Photos program, this can be problematic. So when i was looking for a specific photo the other day, i had to scroll back by date to find it and that's how i found out it was taken on an original iPhone.
What is the problem with this? Where is the scam?

Looks like we need more crypto donation solutions like this one. Not less.
I honestly think this is going to have the opposite effect of what you think it will. People outside of metropolitan areas are sick to death of “new traditions and practices” and “high profile” names. They see it as another bourgeoisie vs proletariat battleground.

They do not want “new food culture” they want the existing culture but more environmentally friendly. You aren’t going to pry the burgers out of their hands no matter how good your beyond burger is. But if you make a petri dish burger that tastes better than a dead cow you might stand a chance of them getting behind it.

You can say the younger generation doesn’t care about old traditions but people have been saying this throughout time. Young people have a habit of growing old and more conservative when they gain more life experience and realise that the traditions they rallied against in the youth were actually developed for a good reason.
Yep. For those who haven’t heard it, there’s an old joke that goes something like:

“What do you call 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!”

Yes, it’s tasteless, but it gives the context within which I interpreted the parent comment.
"Installing a keylogger" is a vast oversimplification, even if it is outside of their threat model.

Installing almost anything in your browser is usually a matter of a couple of clicks.
Caravaggio, A fast image manipulation service
The worry is that the person prying it, rather gently, will be Tim Cook.

The only hedge against that is the ecosystem for phone & ipad development is still the macbooks - so it does hurt Apple to take away the ability to write your own apps on a Macbook.

I got a new ipad this week and it is pretty clear that 99% of my non-work life can be lived on it - banks, games and all the streaming apps. I don't have any more collections of DVDs, games or music.

Even writing/drawing is better on a device which I can pick up and sit in a chair to read like a printed document, now that usb-c lets me plug it into my existing setup for screens when I do need a bigger screen.
Less impressive? Do you think there is no significant loss of biodiversity?
This is turning a remote server into a previously "safe website" and expanding the threat model to include remote web browser attacks.
"Our Mission"

> We form companies centered around open source software projects with commercial applications. Rather than founders pitching us for investments, OCV identifies open source projects with traction and potential and seeks out builders and technologists to launch our ideas. OCV Fund I invests the personal capital of Sid Sijbrandij who serves as the General Partner of the firm.

So, this company takes the hard work of creator(s) who have been generous with their licensing terms, and in the name of "preventing them from using a more restrictive license" tries curtails their business opportunities by offering a legal structure with more favorable terms to end-users, thereby destroying the innovator's chance to make money off their invention.

To me, it seems like, if it offers no business opportunities, then people just won't offer innovations using permissive licenses for open core in the first place? If I'm going to give money to someone, I'd prefer it to be the innovator.
In Scotland, yes.
Thanks. It’s odd they do such in-depth analysis but don’t mention the versions used. I think that is on the old engine.
It would be very interesting to see how the new engine performs - I imagine the performance gets closer to something like Vaex which was using similar
Apache tooling
Oh, I thought you meant spec minimum not legal minimum.

Does the law not say the cables have to meet the USB C spec?
Ads suck.

Google sucks.

Put those two things together, and not surprisingly, the result is awful.
I put on subtitles so I don't need to constantly adjust volume based on whether it is an action scene or a quiet conversation.

But, I agree they are overall distracting - even when I can hear a conversation perfectly, I still find myself staring at the subtitles.
and 32-Bit microprocessors are still only about 1/3 of total microprocessors by volume (source https://www.ednasia.com/8-bit-mcu-still-alive-and-kicking/)
I too mostly prefer subscribing to services via IAP, but I’d also like the option to do one-time purchases without the 30% markup.

While you could argue enabling the purchase justifies this markup, forbidding the mention of alternative methods seems like an artificial constraint.
They play well enough together. You can use Kodi as a frontend to browse and stream from Jellyfin servers. There are two options depending on the level of integration you want with the Kodi library.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/kodi/
Yes but the comments that I make ...

:-)

Edit: I watched a documentary on the making of QI - a British TV quiz where the questions or answers are supposed to be "Quite Interesting". And the commentator pointed out that they have changed the sort of facts they bring into the show - in the early years it was all "you might think X but really it's Y". But there are a limited number of "common misapprehensions", and the show has / will exhaust them. So now they focus on Quite Interesting things that you did not know before.

I tend to think of HN as the process the QI team goes through - lots of discussion, a few interesting things I did not know before and very rarely something that will chnage my view on a subject. It's just that can only happen so often.

So yeah, most internet comments are bad. And even on HN which has a high signal to noise ratio, the overall noise is still pretty loud. But so far it's helping me.

As the film says, it'll do till it dies or I find something better.
Sounds neat. How will you help ensure malware doesn't show up on there?
I was looking at what the future of steel might look like recently, I think this is quite interesting https://www.hybritdevelopment.se/en/
With all due respect, these hypothetical geo-locked colleagues probably don’t teach at Oxbridge and have multi-million dollar patent portfolios. Short of moving to the UK myself and getting a job in his lab, the only reason I was able to work alongside one of the many of these types of persons was because of remote-enabled work. Believe me, I get what you’re saying on a “gotcha” logical level (because of course you don’t know what exactly could have been), but on a practical reality level, there are some things that in-office just can’t do as easily. There are highly sophisticated fields where remote is simply the best way for minds to come together when bodies can’t or can’t be bothered to.
Yeah. I went from iPhones to nexus phones for a couple gens. I went back to iPhones because I liked them better. At this point, it’s whatever someone prefers.
Plenty of people watch movies in languages that they don't speak. Probably half the movies I see are foreign. Subtitles are obviously necessary in this case, and even if watching foreign films weren't extremely common, working subtitle support would be crucial for accessibility reasons.
Can you be more precise? I used Plex as a free user for a while before getting a Pass, and I seemed to have full control over my media - I could watch it remotely, etc.
Many people on HN are wrong, but it's the quality of wrong on HN that is vastly superior to the wrong you'll find anywhere else.
Doesn't need to be near population center. The majority of the energy I've used in my life comes from a dam over a thousand kilometres from where I live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bay_Project
They'd just end up raising prices for the customers.
GOP Senator’s Report on Covid Origins Suggests Lab Leak, but Little New Evidence
> With apologies for the diversion, may I ask why you like subtitles?

Because I like to watch movies in languages I do not understand.
Does that profile limitation still apply with the latest Apple TV released? Now that they've added HDR10+ I'd imagine P7 is also doable?
If machine code can issue the necessary hints to the hardware to skip all time-variant optimizations, why couldn‘t the same work for a WASM runtime?
I'm also waiting for the Jellyfin app on LG and following this issue: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-webos/issues/99

Current status LG QA is testing it and if it passes should be available in the LG Content Store soon after that.
Good point. As another commenter said: we've made these jobs impossible because we criticize each and every decision cops make. Then we wonder why they don't do anything.

If I was micromanaged and scrutinized anywhere near the level we micromanage cops, I doubt I could do my job very effectively. I've only had negative cop interactions in my life, but I do empathize over this.

Sadly, I'm not sure how to solve the problem. Today's culture doesn't seem to have any accommodation for people screwing up in any role.
True, but that sounds like a PR nightmare. In that case I would expect them to go no-ports worldwide and claim that their amazing MagSafe charging is superior and how bold they are.
Time to nationalize F-Droid!
Tesla Engineers Visit Twitter Office to Review Code for Musk
> I think the important thing to contemplate is that [being happy to be alive and reasonably healthy] might be at the expense of other people, living or yet to be born. Not that we've done anything wrong – just that the circumstances that make this possible for us might preclude it for others

this is called the natural order of things. nature is competition. this is all self-evident. all of our ancestors innately understood this. what exactly has made us forget it? again, the only thing I can think of is sheer societal decadence, being so far removed from nature that we only have an abstract concept of it.
I think the main reason is that not everybody has the geography conducive for pumped Hydro.

Here in Kansas we have a ton of wind energy production and we’re lucky enough to have a nuclear reactor as well. It’d really be nice to store that, but we have no mountains. We have a rolling plain in the middle of the state but even the highest/lowest delta is like 200-300 ft (I made that number up).
> A goal we can actually achieve results in the collapse of civilization.

I don't think so, that's a bit dramatic. Some areas will be destroyed. Some will be much less livable. Some will be ok. Some will be better off, think Siberia or Canada. Especially in the northern hemisphere that has more land in the higher latitudes.

Besides the destruction of viable cities especially on coasts a big problem is the mass migration that this will cause. It's a huge problem for sure. But civilisation-ending? I don't think so.
This comment is underrated.
Because they're exceptionally good products that are beloved by everyone except the average Hacker News user. :-)

There is an incredible bubble here that doesn't reflect the world.
I just dropped Plex for Jellyfin since they’ve been pushing their live crap in the menus and not focusing on user content. Jellyfin is awesome.
There are millions of people around the world pushing the science and technology forward - this is the only way. Thinking you can just change the system on whim is childish as these protesters.
Crap. I actually did that 4 months ago (it was soooo much faster than the service repair) and now I feel ashamed.
You haven't provided any evidence at all. So more than zero would be a start.
For example, salmon migrate from the ocean to their spawning grounds in river beds. They have to go up over dams on special fish ladders. Most don't make it. Sockeye salmon were almost completely wiped out but are starting to bounce back. This also affects other species like bears which depend on these salmon runs before hibernation.
Most of Apples market share growth occurred in the Vista/7 era. Probably a bit more due to Windows 8, but overall Windows 10 probably had minimal effect. Most casual users and the press has been pretty positive on Win10.
So modern civilization currently requires the average human to consume roughly 3-4 times his body weight in steel per year. And given that steel production has roughly doubled in the last 20 years, this will probably still go up a fair deal.
You forgot Vista, the Wii U of Windows
I had a professor who said he used to travel to Russia and the only thing he would pack were suitcases of jeans to sell.
Maybe for Javascript, the language.

Definitely not for browsers as the execution environment, at least browsers running extensions.
Previous discussions:

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12772925

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20092118

2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27049601

I hope this comment was one of the good ones.
This is super well done!

Going through the pyramid brought back so many amazing memories. Had such a great trip here and because of this, I got to experience it again.

The website interactions are silky smooth and beautifully done and the image quality is just incredible!

Thanks for putting this together!
Lightning doesn't support video over mere cables. You need a complicated adapter that decompresses the video sent by the device. It's like a tiny streaming setup.

If you just pick up a generic lightning cable, you're not getting video.
Also, if you switch to a different tab and then switch back, the player doesn’t resume.
Fossil Free Steel
About 6 months ago. It barely got one day of coverage from the media.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/us/politics/climate-activ...
AI image generation, self portrait from 200 training images
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/uploads/2021/04/Decline-of-wild-m...

First 5 mil. tonnes took 90.000 year. Next 5 mil. 9.900 years. Next 7 mil. 100 years. 3 mil. remain, most of the megafauna is already gone.

If we continue this trend, in 30 years there'll be only mice, mosquitos, and medusas. And farm animals, of course.

We have to switch to plant-based diets. Now. There is no other way. No time to wait for technological breakthroughs.
Ha! I have the same question except for Kodi. Never could figure it out.

My use case(s) for Plex:

1. I have media on my HD. Plex organizes it, figures out what show/movie it is, gets relevant metadata, and remembers how much I've watched it.

2. I then watch it on my TV. I don't want to watch it on my PC.

3. It lets me watch said media when I'm away from home (e.g. from a hotel room when I'm traveling). This is critical for me and what got me on to Plex.

4. It lets me share media with other users.

5. DVR: I pick the shows I like, and it records them for me. This is critical for me as well.
How a lot of that stuff works on Earth is using abundant fossil fuels for mining, refining, and fossil fuels and biological material as feedstocks. In particular, it’s not obvious how to make volumes of virgin steel from iron ore without coke. (Electric arc remelting is fine for recycling steel to steel.)

Much of the plastic supply chain starts as oil or gas. Wood is a major building component as well.
I use Spotify to listen to Music, Podcasts and Audiobooks already.

I've longed for a audiobook library on there for ages.

Hopefully this works out, and apple doesn't screw them over too bad.
It doesn't take any noticeable effort or attention for me to read the subtitles. I've done it for simply so long.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is man’s inability to understand the exponential function."