skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll see the dominance of the USD erode in the next three decades is my prediction.

Look at how successful Putin was in demanding payment for Russian oil in Rubles. It has propped up the Ruble enormously and its predicted collapse hasn't occurred. In fact it has rallied.

I assure you that other nations have taken note and will take similar steps in the future. Other commodities may well be priced in local currencies of the producing nations. Think gold, diamond, gas, oil, timber, wheat.
Wasn't that just system 360? It had a fairly high level of isolation between services possible.
A good rule of thumb is that if a unit test was easy to write then it is useless because either the code it’s testing is so simple that it will never change and/or does not warrant testing, or that the unit test itself isn’t actually doing anything useful (for example it could just be doing an echo test on a function that does something very complex).

There are some things that are absolutely worth testing. For example my current project is a library that calculates payroll taxes for US employers. This stuff is self contained, stateless, idempotent, but complex. And yet I know what kinds of inputs are non-trivial and can calculate the outputs by hand, so I can test it.

On the other hand, testing that CRUD form that submits data to S3 as well as saving it in the local database is nearly useless. Run through the form when you update it manually and make sure it works. S3 semantics change rarely, your own database changes would necessitate you changing the corresponding form.
That is very cool, and it's going to help me alot on old RHELs I think. Looks like it was actually very complicated to make!
Lol Elon simps tend to be people like that. Technically capable intelligent people can generally see through the bs
TainwindUI all access bundled with Refactoring UI book for free, pretty good value for engineers looking to get better at design.
This looks like really cool technology, but what is the use case for "normal" users? The Subconscious site [1] which leverages this library lists the key value propositions as "Own Your Data," "Decentralized," and "Open Source," which are three things average users demonstrably don't care about.

I'm also concerned about the immutability of information stored in this way. [2] There are a number of reasons why immutability (in this case a fully public version history) is an anti-feature, with significant real-world risks. I would push the protocol authors to fully consider the ramifications of doxxing, harassment, accidental self-disclosure, etc—especially in authoritarian nations. If they don't have a story for how they'll handle this, it's not an appropriate foundation for the internet of ideas.

[1]: https://subconscious.network

[2]: https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere/blob/main/d...
This comment doesn't make sense to me. Epic broke one of the major tenets of their contract with Apple. Apple faced losing a significant revenue stream if Epic's efforts were allowed to continue. In particular, since they intend to use the same model for future devices in other verticals, they would have also lost out on a simply colossal amount of future revenue.

The business case on this was a slam dunk. Other companies running virtual product stores with similar terms would have done the same irrespective of how popular Epic's products were.
I really don't understand how strong typing does anything related to testing behavior. I keep seeing this statement and it makes me believe maybe these devs idea of testing behavior are testing nulls or maybe trying to pass in hashes with missing keys. What a waste of time.

If you don't have tests, all that means is you or somebody else is testing it manually.
makes sense to me. your phone is a huge part of you. it’s value is growing. today you might carry a wallet with you. you won’t every day in 5 years. your phone will become your entire source of identity, finances, contact. you have your phone at all times or know where it is. game consoles are nothing like this. just like game consoles you aren’t buying a new phone each year. but they are worth the money
Always easy to tell a musk simp
And in another thread people talk how "real programmers don't need unit tests", oh the irony.
> Apple's hardware is unquestionably very good now.

Honestly it doesn't matter. The whole "Macs can't game" has no basis in facts. The goalposts are continually moved.

To give some examples of arguments.

- Not enough games for it. There is actually more games in the Apple store than most other gaming stores. You can also play a lot of iOS games now.

- The majority of games are terrible. The majority of games in other stores are terrible too (sadly).

- It can't play [insert PC game]. Neither can a Nintendo switch but that doesn't mean it can't play games.

- I can play [insert PC game] but doesn't count because it's too old. You can't win on this one.

- It's not a real game unless it uses a GPU. There are countless games out there that don't meet this requirement.

Really the only argument for Macs not being gaming machines is that the majority of buyers do so not to play games on it, but to get stuff done.

Anyone who can afford a Mac is likely to have at least a console and/or PC Gaming rig.
I think it’s more an issue of other countries seeing that the U.S. can just confiscate their dollar reserves if the US doesn’t agree with their sovereign actions. Those countries are choosing to divest from the mono world order which is crumbling. For a long but instructive discussion on current economic events check out this interview.

https://youtu.be/cD_UcRtljDU
Create a list of the products you need and try to find deals for this list.

Otherwise, there is a huge chance to buy something you don't actually need, just because it's a good deal. Then it will be a good deal for the seller :)
That's akin to saying a car is more impressive than a nuclear power station because it can go to such interesting places. Or something something apples and oranges. Point is, my analogy may be bad, but it's not as bad as comparing Firefox and Teams in terms of what they do.
Tell your local VW dealership you hear "grumbling" in your car and you want them to order you 199 398 500 A to stop it.

I'm sure they only heard that joke few hundred times
Scott Forstall also talks about this: https://youtu.be/F3Pl8GmKtW8

Basically part of the reason Apple went with AT&T was they were the only carrier willing to let them control the user/feature layer of the stack.

The other telecoms would have this giant requirement document they dictated to handset manufacturers - which is why your crappy Motorola flip phone had three way calling buried 7 menus deep that nobody could use.

Things got magnitudes better when Apple leveraged their power to take away this control from telecoms. Though they still did agree to adhere to the minimum specs wrt safety/security.

The crappy Motorola rockr phone that Jobs hated is what happened when you tried to work with the telecoms.
I interpret that as Minsky being... an unpleasurable person, to say the least.
Picked up an m1 macbook air for $780 from Microcenter
Protocol merges require compositor implementations to be ready ahead of merge.
Meanwhile I’ve been happy playing games in Parallels (virtual Windows arm64) like Against the Storm. Crusader Kings 3 has better perf in Parallels than the macOS build.
As an engineer, I do not look at Twitter today and think about how much more reliable it will be in the next year. Nothing Elon has done signals this.
> If you have to rewrite your application code to migrate to a different platform, that's not going to be a moment.

Having a couple of days of downtime might be an acceptable tradeoff for an event with a very low chance of happening. Risk management basically. (If your business doesn’t survive that downtime it might be a completely different story of course.)
For PC Parts there's usually good links on reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/

There's a few regional equivalents as well. I know of

r/bapcsalescanada

r/bapcsalesuk

r/BaPCSalesEurope

r/bapcsalesaustralia

r/bapcsalesgermany
I found just the opposite in college. For me it was high write, low read, concerning my own notes. The only value to taking notes for me was the active nature of writing helped pin the information in my head. Other than assignment and test dates, which were just bullet lists, I rarely looked back at my notes.

I think that was the sole value of doing homework assignments and term papers. Going through the act of working out a problem, or researching then writing about a topic, is what reinforced the learning for me.
For those viewing the comments before the article, be advised that it is not the case—as my not-yet-awake brain first thought on parsing this headline—that the software system belonging to the Guinness World Records is the oldest in continuous use.
FWIW, addition of MetalFX upscaling (comparable to DLSS/FSR 2) in Ventura has been a nice surprise and one of the biggest development on Mac gaming in recent memory.

Digital Foundry did some review of MetalFX in Resident Evil Village[1] and was pretty positive about it. (From DF's findings, MetalFX has some problems with transparent texture, but details preservation/restoration are pretty good.)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iXx9lfe62w
> It doesn't matter if Metal is good, bad or even awful

I'm confused. Your previous statement was saying the main point is that Apple have kept a bad API.

> Vulkan is what people are using and Vulkan can translate from DirectX. Apple is shutting themselves off from the rest of the industry with this move, which I would argue (judging by how many Mac users wish they could game) is a bad thing.

Possibly, FSVO translate, but I don't think anyone was commenting on this new point. More with the previous points.
> And let's keep in mind, the entire purpose of a standard USB-C port is that you can use any charger.

That does not seem to be true. The standard is a lot more complicated than it used to be, but even back with micro amount of amps a charger can push varied wildly, I have seem chargers that could not even push more than what a device uses while on.

But like I said, it is even more complicated now. The rPI4 at launch with the brand new usbc power supply system only worked with specific chargers not because of amp limits but because the usbc spec.

Also this is ignoring the elephant in the room of the serious threat of cheap poorly made chargers that fry devices. Apple will not replace your device, or your house, if you buy some 10c charger from alibaba that catches fire the second you plug it in.
Any technical courses do you guys recommend?
Then don’t buy an official Apple charger? You can buy a cheap third party charger almost anywhere.
macOS got it "wrong" because their own displays were all integer scaled. They don't care about the rest.
> You could entrust a messenger to deliver a message long before electronic telecommunications.

That is not what a wire transfer is.

> I don't think it will take nearly 200 years for the scale of the difference to be as substantial as the difference pre-victorian mail and modern video calls. But it will take substantially longer than 13 years, that is pretty clear.

The first electronic value transfer happened somewhere around 1872 so it is already at 150 years which is far nearer to 200 than to 13.

> Even still, it is obvious to me (and many others) that this eventual future is inevitable-- and no amount of price fluctuation, scamming, or environmental concerns can shake that belief because these things simply don't even remotely address the core of what a foundational change this "tech" is in any way.

It would be nice to hear arguments on this topic than proclamations of belief.

EDIT:

Just noticed that in your first post you said:

> It took nearly all of those 184 years to get to a point where a majority of people had a regular use for telecommunications.

At first I read it as it took 184 years for telecommunications to become widely available, which would be a reasonable comment. Your claim isn't reasonable since even far before 1832 majority of people had a regular use for telecommunications but the technology wasn't there. Bitcoin technology is here but majority of people have no use for it.
Free? It's 30% off.
So when you open 5 tabs in Firefox it uses over 1.5GB of memory?

I find that hard to believe.
Even within the very well-worn "core" products of the MS office ecosystem: huge UI design changes de-skill millions of workers.

they're not optional.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/find-commands-easily-in-word-20...

I can easily imagine a world where other office apps are shutdown, you have the golden children like Excel, Word, Outlook and Powerpoint. Which change UI and design language or change features over the years.

Then there's things like Office Whiteboard, VIVA, Bookings, Lists, Planner, Power Automate, Yammer, Sway. Who knows how long they'll last?- even mainstays such as Microsoft Access have been deprecated, and I bet you didn't know that you had half of those tools.

I mean, I learned graphics design on Macromedia Fireworks. Can I use that now? no. It was the industry standard for raster graphics that were not digital photos- but it's dead now.

Even staying with Excel: Excel on Windows and Excel on MacOS are similar, but not the same. Many features available on the Windows version are simply unavailable on MacOS.

Where-as something like Libreoffice Calc works consistently across platforms.

So, yeah, learning Excel only means that you're Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office for your entire professional career.

Which is great for microsoft, because you will always take the pain of learning whatever they do over migrating to something else, due to the cost of retraining to more conventional standards.
It seems like we are effectively asking about the complexity of the halting problem of Turing machines with state space of N bits.

It seems incredibly likely that this question has a complexity of O(exp(N)) which very quickly makes the halting problem infeasible to solve for modern computers.
only works until you log out, then once you log in again, its back to shit mode
Right now dollars are skyrocketing in value compared to their own currency.

For them dollars earn much more being held rather than being invested in most other things within reach.

They can dig up more gold from their own mines which they're always doing anyway regardless of its prevailing price.
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, the goal is to simplify jargon/technical terms.

When I see a lot of math in a paper, I often skim it and don't spend the time to really understand what the math is doing. There are too many good papers to read in a day, so I can't spend time working through the math. However, I'm missing out on some insights because of this skimming. I use the clip math feature to solve this problem and it has done wonders!
Better performance and lower power consumption, congrats Apple!
I'm not qualified to do it, but someone should write a blog post figuring this out
Most dollars are created by offshore banks and are not backed by deposits at the federal reserve. The federal reserve only indirectly affects the value of dollars through manipulating inflation expectations. If people think the fed is easing, they buy assets which pumps the collateral of offshore banks which then have larger balance sheet capacity to issue new dollars backed by that collateral.

So even if you are signing contracts in gold/oil pairs, effects of fed decisions can impact your trade in ways that you are protected from in usd/oil pairs as gold is usually viewed as a safety asset - so when animal spirits take off due to fed statements gold can go down while oil takes off. This has in fact happened several times over the last decades.
I mean, yes, and that goes to literally everyone who's all "web is great because cross-platform" too, but it is worth noting that Factorio doesn't exactly ask much of GPUs compared to the games multi-billion dollar studios are putting out.

There are a lot of different GPUs and drivers to account for on Windows, and adding in Linux to that compounds the problem[0] significantly and brings in a paltry number of users, so it is pretty understandable why they don't bother. And the Mac user base that cares about gaming is kind of a joke in terms of size.

[0] Steam Deck being relatively bespoke hardware might help there.
Ahh yes, small changes never preclude larger shifts in large geopolitical entities.

But also if anyone tells you they know the future, they're probably trying to sell you something. If I were in charge of Ghana's finances, I'd be pretty cautious of standing in front of any windows for the next few years.
If MS software is the worst software you’ve used, you’re living a pretty good life.

There are businesses running on software that makes Teams look like a paragon of performance, stability and user-focused UI/UX.
You can freeze you experian data so no new changes are added. I just found out about it when I went down the OE rabbit hole to see if this was legit and I'm well and truly creeped out by what's collected there. I'm perfectly fine "noping" out of yet another massive corporation tracking me in depth & detail without my explicit approval, so I have started the process of getting such a freeze.
They dont need to know. Famously apple used to deny warranty claims if their moisture sensor tripped. All they will do if see if the internal PSU is melted and say you used a offbrand charger, and that is your fault.
I read this as “The book is included”
> Proving it always halts (or crashes) in some fixed amount of memory is insufficient for saying anything meaningful about the program: we oftentimes care about the mathematical object a computer is modelling, not just the computer itself.

I'd argue the complete opposite. It's very meaningful for me to distinguish whether a program works correctly, crashes due to running out of memory or loops forever.

In fact, this would be a huge, huge deal if you could solve it in an efficient way.

> There are several well known cryptographic problems that take on the order of the lifetime of the universe to solve in bounded memory... if you're trying to write a program to verify one of these algorithms the boundedness of memory will probably not help you much.

I think you missed one of my points:

> while these known algorithms are able to solve the problem in constant memory, there are no known algorithms to solve it in a time-efficient way yet

Yet being the key word here. As far as I know it's not proven that it's impossible to build a time-efficient algorithm, only that (as far as I understand) it's unlikely unless P=NP. But we don't know whether P=NP.

And there's another issue here as well: I'm not even sure if P=NP actually has any meaning in this context, because I assume issues related to P=NP are usually analyzed in the context of Turing machines.

This actually ties into the other point I mentioned:

> How many good people were discouraged into going into this area of research because of this widespread belief that this pursuit is proven to be unachievable in the general case?
Russia is a UUUUGE strategic geopolitical ally for China.

In a de-globilised world split into spheres of influence, Russia would be a foothold into Europe.

Cheap resources cant be discounted, China has duck all for resources. It imports everything (raw nat resources) and its current source Australia is not an ally.
An Anker Power Bank (24,000mAh) has a £40 discount right now on Amazon UK.

This is a really nice piece of tech that has helped me to work outside the house with peace of mind. Can keep my phone charged (which I use for tethering) for over a week, no problem. Drains way quicker when charging my M1, but that one has far less battery issues when compared to my phone.

The discount is real, as well. I know because I bought it recently, but you can also check it against camelcamelcamel or keepa.
'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads
...pushing virtual heroin on yet another platform, as a recovering addict you are making my life difficult. lots of love.
For some languages it’s a whole lot more important than others. Python and JavaScript are memory-safe so you don’t need to worry about writing a bigger object into a too-small memory allocation.

You will discover that you reversed the order for parameters to a function by running your code with much less effort than annotating all your code. This type annotation is entirely useless:

def get_user(email: str, create_if_not_exists: bool)
PragProg has 40% off with a potential additional 30% off on a future purchase.

The coupon code is on their blog.
Yes, we are using LLMs to do this. I tried it on whitepapers, blogs etc - it seems to do a good job at it. What use-cases do you foresee this could help solve?
I have the newer XM5s. The main reason for me to go with them instead of the cheaper XM4s was the call quality.

I use my headphones very often in conference calls and the XM5s have excellent microphones compared to their predecessors. Side note: before, I have tested the Bose QC45 but those microphones are absolutely garbage. Sad, because the QC35 microphones were good.

I don’t mind that the XM5s don’t fold anymore. In a way I like the new design better compared to my wife’s XM3s.
> TL;DR: Read the fucking article.

I was waiting for this punchline; I was not disappointed. Now I can get back to figuring out mbsync has decided to stop fucking synching mailboxes.
SO much more pleasant to look at than the floating tile-based Figma JS nonsense every web developer is pumping out these days. Great job, bookmarked.
I think they used to sell the book for 150$, ui for 299$, so yes 30% off the bundle, I looked at it as, free book but with full subscription.
I like very lightly printed graph paper. Very pale blue at 5 lines per inch.
I can ignore the lines for free hand, but they provide nice guidance for more structured drawings.
Generally I find Black Friday a bit overhyped, the "bargains" are best checked against price history with (say) CamelCamelCamel before you buy.

Not Black Friday, but in the UK and maybe other countries, Amazon Warehouse is currently doing a 20% off sale, so 20% off the price when you get to checkout.

I've had a few good "As New" things off there in the past, worth having a look.

There's also a 50% off books sale on the UK Warehouse, loads of tech books, though I don't know how many decent ones are left.

--

Specific Black Friday deals though: Quest Apps on sale:

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/section/15301901340...
For those of us old enough to remember when holiday sales really did start on the day after Thanksgiving, in my area, most of the shops started their Black Friday sales on Monday. If you waited until today, you missed out on a lot.