skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know. I looked into it. That still doesn't justify a $52.Xk Mac. Sure, other shops in that field are going to be spending the same kind of money, but less of it on the Mac, more of it on networking and storage.

Then again, when you're MKBHD, one big hit video in a given month probably covers a decent portion of the cost of that insanely spec'd out Mac.
Nothing "good" about this move. It's a nothing burger. Everyone's phone literally tracks them with every other app, basically in the same way. Hell, the cell phone carriers are even tracking you, along with the U.S. government. So yeah, great job removing tiktok which ultimately does nothing for your opsec or privacy.

It's completely and utterly political. Just like banning twitter would be, although that actually has more merit than the banning of tiktok.

Sorry to burst your bubble.
I really just use my machine 95% as a tape machine with few plugins or edits. So as long as I can get 64 tracks of in/out reliably with 128-sample buffers (or lower) then I'm set. I just haven't tried that out in my new studio yet, as it's under construction. If I can do this, then I'll skip the upgrade for now.
Also, actual contract law is a lot more nuanced than what this post on Bob Loblaw's Law Blog will have you believe.
Lol, my girlfriend has been doing remote state work for 4 years now. Service levels have gone down because the same X amount of government workers were asked to take care of double the rate of applications and requests because everyone got fucked during the pandemic and needed basic help from the state.

These people are asked to pick up ten "medium" (using Tshirt rules) tickets a day and have a hard, legally mandated cap of each ticket must be actioned by 40ish days.

If you do software development, these people work way harder than you ever have, and get paid $40k a year for doing it.
Lol, EVERY last company I've worked for talks about how we are their 'family'. When layoffs come it looks a whole lot different. They talk family when they are trying to get a few more off the book hours out of you.
It doesn't cost you anything to do your best work
>To look at what more sustainable restaurants look like, look at high end French restaurants.

I guess that's what I don't quite understand about these restaurants - apparently Noma was $500/plate, and still couldn't make it work financially even with free labor. So are these types of restaurants just horribly mismanaged or is there more to the story as to how a $15/sandwich place can stay open for years but $500/plate you go broke?
Developers will care if they are spending their time waiting for a build.

Both could be satisfied with a single-threaded make keeps the standard order to ensure backwards compatibility, but `make -j` that also turns on --shuffle. Which is also backwards compatible, because timing of each target might rearrange them.
Same, still trying to get a good book that's pragmatic and for experienced developers. Many starts from the basics, or don't even talk about stuff like Quicklisp and ASDF.

I want a book to make production-ready software in Common Lisp, not to faff around. The Paul Graham "On Lisp" book seems excellent, and I'll dive into it next.
"Any" would be more apt than "all", although they may be able to do a coordinated blast targeting every phone at once. Not very stealthy though.
That's what a market is for.
That's great and all but it seems one can not easily download the 'arc' browser.. Arc wants contact information to join a 'wait list'.. ?
If by "hard mode" you mean throwing your population into a man-made famine, chasing out or killing all the educated people, decimating the country, and then basically enslaving your entire work force for generations in order to pursue some weird ego trip, then yes.
For you though that cost is just part of the normal depreciation of using the vehicle. Allowing the utility to discharge your battery isn't part of the normal utilization for yourself so the cost should get included. We also don't usually think or talk about how much depreciation using a particular gallon of gas costs you so it muddies comparisons.
Reality Submerged in Fantasy: The Villages Boomers Utopia, Demographic Time Bomb
Context: https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12...
Calling a smartphone a "luxury item" if you live in America (or similar) is a bit disingenuous. Anything that has 85% market penetration is by definition not a luxury item.

In some countries this could be an accurate description, though. And I agree with the overall sentiment, I would like it to be easier to get through my day without using a smartphone.
I think people forget that the country was still somewhat raw from 9/11 and didn't know how to treat the uncertainty regarding future attacks. This was the timeframe when the "1% doctrine" was proposed, where if a threat was thought to have a 1% probability, it had to be treated as a certainty and response was more important than analysis.[1] In that context it doesn't take much to convince someone, even if in hindsight, Powell's presentation was "less than convincing."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_Percent_Doctrine
I think it is less pessimism and more realism. The fed clearly indicated that it will raise rates until the market cools
When a piece of land the size of and location of Taiwan is in play you bet there are a lot of massive implications and unseen ones to most people are at play here. Not just tangible effects like economic and location but all sorts of derivative effects short medium and long term politically
Wars continue to happen for even dumber reasons; they just rarely involve the largest nations clashing anymore.

If you’re betting on human rationality over time in the hands of people with a lot of centralized power, you’re making the losing bet. There’s a reason people were genuinely afraid of nuclear war (and still should continue to be): if it happens, it will involve very few people and there will be nothing any one of the billion’s of others can do about it.

There is a solution: the dispersal of power tends to work well; but the risk you run up against is charismatic individuals acting as a locus for a majority’s power, so you also need anti-majoritarian institutions and a culture that values them. Hard to get all three.
It's not likely that the pennies offered will offset the much larger loss of value in the battery, though.
China has also not fought an actual war since their tussle with the Vietnamese in 1979, so really hard to say how the modern PLA would actually perform in a conflict. Seems rather overambitious to go from zero to D-Day-esque massive naval operation.
While I haven't benchmarked JSON vs protobuf, I've observed that JSON.stringify() can be shockingly inefficient when you have something like a multi-megabyte binary object that's been serialized to a base64 and dropped with an object. As in, multiple hundreds of megabytes of memory needed to run JSON.stringify({"content": <4-megabyte Buffer that's been base64-encoded>}) in node
The base doesn't consider those people "True" americans and don't think they deserve rights.
I made almost this EXACT comment a few days ago, nice to see I'm not crazy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34386997

For 98% of tasks Rust is incredible. But modeling those 2% of problems that don't fit neatly into Rusts domain, the level of "unsafe", "PhantomData", and advanced type-system hacks you need feels obscene when I can use some pointers in C++.

I will openly say I think Rust is an all-around better language. If you are building general-purpose systems software, or just want to write fast software, use Rust.

If you are fiddling with bits, doing low-level concurrency, writing a GC/Memory Manager etc, or have self-referential datastructures like graphs or trees, you're going to have an order of magnitude easier time writing it in C++. (Rust-experts excepted)
How does iOS compare to Android and ChromiumOS these days?
I'm not so sure that's true. Linux seems to handle these SoCs fine as well. The secret sauce in that regard seem much more in the very large amount of co-processors rather then the OS itself.
I'd recommend trying to sell anywhere but Ebay. FB Marketplace, Swappa, even Craigslist.

I recently sold on Ebay after a few year hiatus. I cannot believe the haircut you take these days. I sold an item for $360.00 flat. Ebay gave me $308.00. Since when have they charged 15%?
The smartphone: A Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy

Pegasus was just a way of some governments to get their hands on a small part of the action GOOG & FB are swimming in.
Cbooker, you put a link to your website as the submission and then included the article text as a comment, even though your headline implied that you were linking to an article.

This is spam-like behavior. If you forgot to link the article properly on your first submission attempt, the right way to respond would be to delete it and post again. To be honest, other than 'Show HN' submissions, self-links in submissions are Not Great because it's hard to distinguish them from spam. Your content is kinda shallow and very samey, and I almost flagged it out of habit.
> If we're talking about the west, US, Japan, South Korea are either close or exceed Taiwan's trade with China

41% of Taiwan’s exports by dollar value went to China + Hong Kong in 2020 versus 25.4% for US + Japan + RoK.

https://oec.world/en/profile/country/twn
TruffleRuby can’t run production Rails traffic today, and YJIT can.
This has to do with lack of demand during high PV production. This excess energy still has to go somewhere, it doesn't just disappear. This costs the grid operators money, so either they charge you or don't let you feed the excess power to the grid.
There were very large demonstrations in NYC and DC. These were underreported. The press began loosing credibility after 9/11 but when WP stuck this in "Metro" that was the end of it for me.

"Thousands" buried in "Metro":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/10/27/thou...

"A headline in some editions of the Oct. 27 Metro section incorrectly stated that Saturday's antiwar demonstration in the District was the largest since the 1960s. The rally, according to police and estimates of the organizer, was the largest antiwar demonstration in the District since the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975."

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Honestly, if this demo -- it was huge -- happened in say Cairo, wouldn't it be splashed all over front pages for days?

-- ps --

"Demonstrations in other cities, including Rome, Berlin, Copenhagen, Denmark, Tokyo and Mexico City, were held to coincide with the Washington march, and in San Francisco, thousands marched through downtown."

Do they teach this at Columbia's School of Journalism?

- There were demonstrations in lots of major capitals all over the world. Put it in 'international' section?

- Sister cities. Metro.
Granted that there are definitely people there resting and vesting and not contributing much. I get it. This still does not explain why all these big tech companies went on hiring spree when clearly they did not need that many people. And now they all: ops sorry, we did not know ...

I would like to see top managers bonuses/refreshes and so on trimmed and maybe fired as well.
As someone in IT, but as a lowly technician, medium and large companies are leaning more and more towards a locked down Microsoft, Google, or Apple platform with managed browsers with extension whitelists, and whitelist allowed OS apps only via MDM.

It's both a tech and management thing. Management likes the control and less risk, and having one console to login to as opposed to 4 makes things easier for IT.

Just a general comment.
The better solution would be to locate government agencies in red states so they are staffed with representative employees who are at least theoretically sympathetic to their values. Those agencies would cease to be a perennial target for sabotage because no one wants to legislate away X jobs from their state. I would go so far as to allow any federal employee to be allowed to legally work in any State … which feels quite American to me. After all, why should any State or district be elevated above its peers in regards to governance of the whole?
As an American I am in favor of us helping Ukraine and Taiwan over something like Iraq/Afghanistan/something-like-Vietnam because it is just as much about preserving self-determination and liberty as it is realpolitik.

Iraq is not really comparable because you can’t separate support for the war there in its early days from 9/11 and the desire to “do something.”

But this is also not a Vietnam situation in which the US is propping up a relatively unpopular government and fighting personally in the conflict at great cost of American lives (maybe Taiwan could go down like that, but I think that makes the prospect of actual conflict unlikely, because neither the US nor China wants to nuke the other).

Ukraine was a bit different because they were not as US-aligned before the conflict. But especially with regards to Taiwan, I’d consider an attack against them the same as an attack against any European or ANZAC ally.
I do have some sympathy for companies who don’t want to have to deal with a constant barrage of benchmarks that are egregiously wrong.

HN has been host to quite a few of these spats over the years and I wouldn’t want to deal with it, there are pretty much only downsides to letting people poorly benchmark your product and have every incentive to get it wrong.
You don't even need to invest in the 'build and maintain' aspect of things for use cases like the Twitter poster's (YouTube content). Just the backend network and storage services.
I'm trying to figure out what "dropped 50x" even means... wouldn't that be like -$2.5 million?
Yes, it's in bold even.

If ads give you the ick, then one distinction we’ve made around ad blockers has been especially crucial to privacy-lovers everywhere.
The way Afghanistan was (90s) and is governed by the Taliban and how that authority and responsibility interacts with the local tribal authorities and governing responsibilities is a unique system outside of history books. It is not a "modern state" with the characteristic strong central government that all states have had for ~200yr or so.

Compare to Pakistan or Iran if you want.
Note to self: do not fight the Japanese if at all avoidable. Even when you beat them it's not fun.
Why are we spreading the “poor performers are the ones let go” trope that hurts anyone laid off? That’s a very dangerous assumption to be spreading around blindly.
Elon Musk Goes to Trial over His 2018 Plan to Take Tesla Private
In a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, it would be very close, and it would not go well.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/08/us-loses-half-its-f...
So many people are talking about no commit messages, can we talk about the blanket use of "git add ." as well?
Agreed, basically all phones having exploits that NSO has discovered and have yet to be patched by the owner of the phone are vulnerable. I think Apple's lawsuit against NSO is still in the courts, they mention a specific exploit that has since been patched.

https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2021/11/apple-sues-nso-gro...
It's called noblesse oblige. People with means in their daily lives constantly make financially unsound decisions out of a sense of duty and responsibility.

That microsoft is cutthroat here, sure, it is the nature of transactional corporate relations, but it would be a sad, ugly world if individuals internalized this same dehumanizing ethos in their personal dealings.
a bunch of appliances already can be aware of TOU pricing and run when it's atlowest. Many thermostats can be "auto-adjusted" based on grid load
That makes more sense as it can be better planned based on projected demand. They also have more batteries than customers. With individual car owners, they often can't charge when it's convenient for the grid because they drive their car and need it when they need it.
During flight school, one of the first things we learn on a piston-single aircraft is to apply right rudder and maintain runway heading on takeoff. Small single-engine planes have a tendency to yaw left due to effects of torque, slipstream, and p-factor. I'm guessing the pilot drifted left on climbout due to lack of right rudder. He could have turned 90 degrees by the time he leveled out at 1500 feet and been over the river. Sometimes as pilots, the worst thing we can do is react. It's usually best to take a breath, think about your situation, cross-check, decide, and act intentionally. By rolling the dice, the pilot had a 50/50 chance of making the wrong decision. I don't like those odds.
Jerry : You don’t even know what a write off is.

Kramer : Do you?

Jerry : No. I don’t.

Kramer : But they do, and they are the ones writing it off.

aka that's not how write-offs work
> without fear of getting a cease and desist letter

Seems like the problem is the law and legal system being abused to prevent adversarial interoperability. The official clients being closed source doesn't change anything.
Did you ever get around to communicating your use-case to the developers?
It does mention submarines, of which shipping traffic going around the far side of the Philippines would be exposed to. More so because of the depth of the water.
No, but it has allowed $9bn in Texas pension fund dollars to flow into Tencent and Alibaba, companies heavily involved in churning through all that sweet, sweet US user data.

Follow the money. This is political point scoring at its most brazen.

> Yet through Texas’ seven public pension funds, which are fueled primarily by contributions from members but are guaranteed and backed by state taxpayer dollars, $9.12 billion is invested in companies in China, based on a Hearst Newspapers analysis of figures provided by the seven funds — representing a multi-billion dollar bet in the success of the Communist country’s economy.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/legislature/article/Texas-i...
Re: the "loaded cost", back when I worked for MSFT in the early 2000's, the rule of thumb for management was $250k per person total cost. This is when $125k was considered a pretty good SDE salary. So I'd double your $3b.
At a certain point, someone being willfully ignorant crosses into malice. We live in a world with the internet and a flight to whatever US city you want for $500. If you aren't willing to learn about the world, that's on you. If you aren't able to conceive of the idea that people in different situations might do things different to you, you aren't "ignorant" or "stupid", you are a child who hasn't developed one of the basic parts of your brain.
> Mass layoffs give you the opportunity to quickly purge poor performers without as much paperwork. It's advantageous to have regular rolling layoffs because of this if you can justify them by economic conditions.

Yeah, unfortunately, this is believed by so many low level employees that it hurts their confidence, if they ever are part of layoffs. I wish organizations really educated employees how layoffs work.

I was part of layoffs in 2008 in which my whole department was eliminated, including managers and their managers. The developers who were hurt the most, were the smartest ones who could not believe that C-level executives didn't see their contributions. Their egos were bruised and some even switched from development to other fields.
> Also, curious where the extra energy comes from to keep the 'vacuum energy' (zero point energy?) from going down - IIRC, its remained constant even though the universe is expanding

Energy is ill-defined in a global sense: it's the conserved quantity associated with time-translation symmetry, but there's no single choice of "time translation" that can be extended to all of spacetime.
Right, it tries to guess and it's not very good at it. But IME if you do pretty much always use it plugged in as was being discussed above, it will just stay at 80%.
I opted NOT to sell my excess to PNM (New Mexico), because the agreement allowed them to claim my 6.7kW array as part of their own progress towards renewable conversion.

What I didn't understand was that I ended up with an even better deal! I get back the excess kW/h on a 1:1 basis. This is much better "pricing" than I would have received if I had sold it for cash.

Granted this model only works if there's a part of the year when you produce more than you need and another part of the year where you produce less. Since we heat more or less exclusively with electric air source heat pumps, but need no heat or a/c during summer, this works extremely well for us.
The US economy shrank in the first 2 quarters of 2022, and is already forecast to shrink in the first 3 quarters of 2023. Whether it’s in recession or not is a technical issue for economists, but the reality for many companies is that they face a lot of challenges at the moment.

In tech particularly there was a boom as businesses moved online during the pandemic that’s shrivelled away with increasing interest rates and inflation.
>bitch work

this doesn't seem necessary or accurate
This is great, well done, and thanks for open sourcing it.

I started to build something like this early last year, but got too busy with another pet project and having a baby. Here's some demos and notes if you're interested.
https://twitter.com/convey_it/status/1433163282597171200
You're right it would be a stupid idea for Russia to march on Germany, given the precedence of the Napoleonic Wars that killed so many. Not to mention the advent of chemical weapons and high powered artillery which makes outright open warfare between the great powers a historical memory thus far (which also explains why the Russians are fighting a proxy war rather than an actual war in Serbia)
Yep, same idea behind many of the tax code changes (SALT deduction), or immigration rhetoric and posture.

It's fine to hurt people, so long as we're hurting the right people.
Exactly. The BTO options are basically zeroed out for the trade in. If you're someone who plans to upgrade their machine frequently using the trade-in, go with one of the primary configurations.
Look at who elon has banned and who has has chosen to unban or not ban. It's pretty simple math.
> Plus the more people that you have, the faster you can get competitive products out to market

This is not always true. Do you have citation to back this up?
You don't need a dumb phone, you just need decide who's in charge. I used to want a dumb phone, but there are a few things (mainly maps/navigation) that I find genuinely useful that dumb phones can't do.

So I decided that it's my phone and I'm the one who decides how to use it.

I have a reasonably new iPhone. I spend maybe 15 minutes a day on it (excluding navigation), total.

I have removed apps I don't use. I disabled Siri, FaceID, most notifications, and location is turned off unless I'm using maps. I have one page on my home screen and there are maybe a dozen apps on it (and that still includes a few I have never used so I could pare down further).
> It doesn't seem like there is any way to explain that transcript in terms of simple text manipulation rather than "true understanding". What do you think is happening as the AI takes the hint?

I've worked with a lot of Devs that knew how to copy-paste and throw around buzzwords without true understanding. Sentience == True Understanding
Dont know why this got downvoted. HN to toilet.
If China is using submarines to prevent Japanese shipments outside of their territorial water, the conflict has already gone hot and ICBMs are in the air.
5 years seems like a low for Apple device longevity. I think that there’s an enormous difference between today’s Macs and Macs from 5 years ago and maybe the leap is accelerate deprecation, but there was a long period of stagnating macOS requirements. Hope we return to that for Apple Silicon Macs.
well to be fair, most benchmarks are of course not comparable with the real world. People should always use what works best for them.
Logic errors can still be security issues, even if they don't violate memory safety.
Somewhere a TikTok lawyer is writing a frantic email.