skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loss/victory is far too simplistic to discuss the possible outcomes and their consequences.

Putin seems to have painted himself into a corner where now his continued rule over Russia depends on being able to paint this as either a victory or a loss that's in no way his fault (because NATO started it and he was just defending himself). But also it seems that at the very least, he needs Crimea.

For Russians in general, they don't really need anything here. The real loss for them is that Putin is willing to sacrifice their entire country to bail him out of his fiasco. A win for them would be getting rid of Putin and not replacing him with someone even worse.

For Zelensky, the bare minimum is of course independence from Russia, and he seems to have won that at least. But millions of Ukrainians have been captured and often deported/abducted by Russia, and that's a loss too. He wants those people free, and he's absolutely right to. And he wants to keep Ukraine whole; accepting any loss of Ukrainian territory is a loss to him. Not to mention that it sets a precedent; Putin has a history of making small land grabs, and without hard security guarantees, it's likely that Putin will try another land grab in the future. And indeed Putin is still trying to grab more land right now. Putin wants that corridor to Moldova, and then Moldova itself. Leaving Putin in a position where he can try this again and again, is also a loss for many countries in the future.

So even if on the short term it would be good for Ukraine if the fighting stopped; if it's really just a temporary cease fire during which Putin can regroup in order to try again, that may be worse for Ukraine than trying to completely block Putin right now.
I doubt this is about price like some people in here are suggesting.

Maybe a little bit overall market trend, but primarily I would wager it’s because many, many people bought the M1 when it came out and it’s so good that the only people buying M2 are those who waited - it’s a fine spec bump, but not something you would be tempted to upgrade from M1 for.
Windows has been dying for me since Windows 8
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I was just buying a laptop for my family and the prices of MacBooks here in Europe are utterly crazy.

The crappiest 8GB RAM (?!) 256SSD M2 Air model is 1650EUR. 1650EUR for a laptop that won't have enough ram to run the browser in two years.

The 16GB model is rounded 2000EUR, which was before reserved for a high-end gaming laptops. It's bonkers.
Especially if they bought one during the PC buying frenzy in 2020.
Worlds' tallest timber tower replaced by forest growth “in less than 25 minutes”
I currently use a Thinkpad T14 :)

Don't get me wrong - I like this laptop, especially it's keyboard.

But it simply doesn't offer enough value compared to the newer Macbooks.
Does the tor browser fork stay up to date quickly? I would be quite worried about stale browsers in this day and age, to an extent at least
Eating a steak is not a good reason to cause unnecessary suffering. I don’t know what kind of argument you were hoping to make, but comparing one cruel thing with another is not insightful or useful. Industrial livestock production is inhumane and this is unnecessary; it can be fixed but there is not enough political will.
It is one chapter (a story-within-a-story) in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
When line go up then line must go even more up in the next quarter.
About Atlanta, this is a ban on e-scooter and e-bikes in day times.

About Paris, this is a ban on rental e-scooter.
ANE saw an improvement from M1 to M2, but I’m hoping for a more significant one for M3
Things a Good Plan Addresses
Oh, so pay extra on top of already absurd price...
I thought we decided to use electricity and silicon mazes instead?

But there were attempts to use water too, e.g. MONIAC: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
I've tested the site with the Tor Browser and it told me "Yes! You are unique". I've downloaded my fingerprint, closed the Tor Browser and did it again and again it was unique. So they couldn't link the two sessions together which is good. A jsondiff of the downloaded files only showed "canvas" as different which I guess gets generated randomly on every visit?
Code on github is not open source, end of story.
The 3G service will be replaced with 4G/5G - it will probably be better, in all likelyhood. The range is based on the spectrum used, not the technology. 3G was kept around only because of old mobile devices (eg. PoS terminals) that needed it to function, not because it was any good.

It's kind of amusing to me that you blame our private telecom industry. I'm relatively sure Australia has some of the best mobile connectivity on the planet, with generally extremely high speeds, high data caps and usually, relatively good coverage. It is absolutely not a given that government service would be better.
I’m not sure if the example fits to the concept.

Your example describe a poor trade-off discussion.

The wiki article describes a “spectrum of wrongness”, on which you can sort wrong things.

My 5c at least. But maybe I’m wronger!
If you ignore the Académie Française's overblown sense of self-importance and just treat is as publishing a style guide to be followed by official publications, you'll see it as fairly reasonable. Most countries have a style guide for official publications, don't they?
Probably also because a lot of people didn’t see the point in upgrading to this new M2.

I noticed that a lot of users also seem to go for a used M1 because it got cheaper and it’s still insanely good.
Layoffs impacting the market.
I think you might be missing the point a bit. I'm answering the question "Why not optimize for CO2 emission instead ?"

So, in what plausible scenario would a gamer's CO2 output (which is mostly power use) be significantly influenced by download time?

The vast majority of people spend a lot more time playing than downloading. If your connection is really bad, then you're probably going to buy physical media or play something smaller.

There's no plausible scenario I can think of in which a significant amount of people sits there waiting for an hour for a game to download, on a daily basis, and where the amount of power consumption caused by that is significant when compared to what's consumed by actual game play.

Yeah, I get that giant updates might be annoying to you personally. But the discussion is about CO2.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27020810

Also despite them having some how getting a patent for what is basically just look up tables there is probably prior art.
https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/13629/i-had-inve...

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/What3words#Patent_Validi...
Framework’s computers aren’t perfect, but they are exciting
I think more so the last three years tried to convince us that the Government is the science. Academia just went along.
Get a used m1
A lot of finger-pointing at price in this thread (or how the M1 captured new MacBook sales) but I would be more worried about the segment in general.

I think we've all seen a trend among users away from general-purpose PC's and toward phones and/or tablets.

My bigger fear is that the rest of us, like some kind of ham radio enthusiasts, are going to become a dwindling market segment that fewer and fewer computer companies will continue to produce for.
Might "status" be a different thing than "wealth"? They are not unrelated in practice in our society, but I think the OP is thinking they are different things (I think I agree), and is making an argument about status specifically.

Status is being liked, respected, included, looked up to, followed, listened to. Which is a different category than having enough money to do things you want to do. One might lead to the other (in either direction), but some people can definitely have a lot of one and little of the other (also in either direction) as well.

Now, listing those "status" category things -- of course a person might want/need some of those things some of the time, having none of those things any of the time would be challenging, for sure. I don't think the OP's claim necessarily denies that either.
Shocking headlines drive clicks to media sites.

Don’t worry about it. Just go apply for jobs.
My 6yo has an iPhone which arrived OOTB with a News widget, accessible by a single swipe, including similar "breaking" content. No sign-in required. Just an internet connection. What does she want for Christmas? An iPhone 14 Pro Max. I kid you not.

Literally everyone she goes to school with has TikTok and are talking about content in that app day in and day out.

Do I like this? No. Are you a million miles from reality for pre-teens? Yes.

A song and dance about how this is a somehow simply a treatise on the decline of Microsoft is naive at best and highly disingenuous at worst. I really don't want to sound vitriolic but do y'all live in the real world? I wonder sometimes.
The Apple tax on ram and storage has always been ridiculous, but a long long time ago in a galaxy far away you could use aftermarket RAM and drives, and batteries even used to be removable (and give easy access to RAM and drive, on the old polycarbonate macbooks). On my 2010 I could even replace the DVD drive by an aftermarket drive caddy.

With soldered ram and drives, Apple’s the only game in town, and that means the Apple tax is a lot dearer.
I believe (without supporting data) that most altnets that are expanding coverage to people with poor broadband are government funded. The economics in London are quite different than that of a rural village.
Apple care+ isn't available everywhere. Here in Poland a basic Air is about 1.5x national average monthly wage and apple won't sell you apple care+ for any apple device(you can only buy regular apple care which is just an extension of original warranty,nothing more). So yes, if I had one I'd also baby it.
Aren't people keeping their PC's for far longer nowadays?

In my experience they are far less brittle and far more capable than they used to be and we spend most of our time either running web browsers on them.
ummm..you asked the question :)

shouldn't you know what it's about? :)
They accept bitcoin and even offer a discount
IMHO, just like there was a robots.txt file made for the web, there needs to be a NOAI.txt for git repos. Sorry, this repo does not permit you to ingest the code for a learning model. Seems completely reasonable.
Exactly. Difference was minor. Too many jumped in during the M1 change (from Intel) to be upgrading to M2 now.
> Rusia has been inching forwards for months

Emphasis on inches. Ukraine War Mapper [1] does a good job documenting the line of control. It's not a good look for what, until recently, looked like a dominating regional power.

[1] https://twitter.com/war_mapper
Give ChromeOS a spin.
“Casa” and “A Day in New York” are among the most beautiful bossa nova records I know of.
TBF Dell is equally as bad if not worse. A 128GB ram upgrade on my Precision 7670 has been £1800. It's insane.
The Tensor cores on nVidia GPUs are effectively "a separate chip", they're just on die. That's where they can run DLSS and frame generation ML inference.

Separating them out would hamstring them, since they wouldn't be able to process the frames as they're being rendrered without performance penalty.
Not sure how it's designed but if I was designing a system of reducing detectable entropy from viewport size, I'd make a fixed list of available resolutions. First all the common resolutions (1920x1080, 2550x14540 and so on), and in addition to that maybe just "snapped" grid sizes in 64p pixel increments. If you use a window size that doesn't match, it should just render the viewport to the closest smaller allowed size, and fill the border with something (e.g. the background color of the page). Perhaps that's exactly how it works?
Last time i plotted points with coordinates from the English Wikipedia i noted the density of points falls off dramatically in France compared to its neighbors. That kind of attitude is widespread in advance.
> I doubt this is about price like some people in here are suggesting.

Regular consumers do not buy a regular laptop for 2000+ €.
AFAIK this would also work with an incompressible fluid like water if you started the maze fully filled than add a sink at the exit and a source at the entrance. You wouldn't have any bubbles in that case and the current would flow along the solution.
Adderall Is Not an Identity
If you're including the VCs that have already invested in Worldcoin(s) and have lots of pre-allocated tokens between them, hoping that new VC money + retail money with an eventual ICO happening, then yes it is indeed a pyramid scheme.

Worldcoin is another 'Scam Altman' pyramid scheme, waiting to pump and dump on retail using AI scaremongering tactics.
As evidenced across the social media spectrum in that so many people are convinced of how right they are now.
I have a M1 Mac mini and even at the time it was overpriced. The base model specs are ridiculously low if you want anything more the browsing the web and use it for more than a literal couple of years.

Now if you got to laptops it's absolutely ridiculous. Given the inflation numbers, people having their dollars bills flying out of their pockets and the post-pandemic lull after everyone have bought a computer, I'm not surprised they have to adjust the production numbers.
Yeah, computational cost is indeed pretty close to zero. However, mental overhead of developers, and technical complexity of the implementation, is not zero. These things cost development time, and most importantly they cause bugs.

A principle of least astonishment is being able to memcpy() a structure or mmap() a file, and get the correct numbers in the fields without swapping bytes all the time.
> I would love to ask the Starlink support team for more information since I own the equipment, but I can't because there's no email address, phone number, chat, or other way to message support

That seals it. Better to buy HughesNet or similar. It may be slower but at least you can get support.
No, as a bit of a railfan I can assure you that this would be not nearly as efficient or easy to operate as you assume.

The NYC subway believe it or not is a wonder of efficiency compared to most US transit agencies. (Many of which don’t even have double tracking) You basically want to gut it in favor of avoiding the company of the unwashed masses. In the long run this would lead to much longer wait and travel times.
I have a 2008 MacBook pro that still works - don't see any reason why the current generation MacBooks shouldn't work for a decade or more too.
I wouldn't be surprised if you have zero clue about parenting.
That depends on how many lanes they devote to cars. Most of the main roads near me have at least 2 lanes in each direction - sometimes the inner one is devoted to parking, sometimes to cars, sometimes just to busses and bikes.
Funny how the example of people one believing the earth is flat is also wrong.
Desktop 3.8: End-to-End Encryption levels up with sharing and file-drop
I dont know. This site is very biased towards enthusiats. If we are complaining about price, it must be even worse in the wider market.
There are far more than two strands of Hinduism, and "Hinduism" itself is an artificial construct that homegenizes under one name what are actually hundreds of different religions, many of which are widely different from each other.

For instance, there are atheist strands of "Hinduism"[1], which reject gods of any sort.

I also fail to see what the various Hindu religions' views on god or duality/non-duality have to do with Buddhism.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_atheism
The usual caution applies here. The danger of data isn't in the data itself, but in how it's used and interpreted. In this particular case, a relatable comparison would be a book - it's just a bunch of words on a page, but those words can be used to inspire or to manipulate. Pretty important to be mindful of the context and the intent behind the data.

Something important I was thinking of the other day is the power dynamics that come into play with data as the new currency. Those with access to more data (money) and better tools for analysis (investment) of it end up having an unfair advantage.
>1650EUR for a laptop that won't have enough ram to run the browser in two years.

That did not have enough ram 3 years ago... the fact they are still trying to sell 8GB as an useful amount outside of extremely budget laptops is insane.
> So it seems to be just a regulation/enforcement problem

But it is less costly for the cities to remove the problem (ban e-scooter) that to hire people to chase bad e-scooter behavior. Especially if many users of those e-scooter are tourists who will bring back home a bad souvenir of their trip if they get fined.
It’s not pedo nonsense. Twitter doesn’t allow that. It’s just women. If women make you uncomfortable don’t click.
How does this compare with Brave in terms of privacy?
> I dont think slayers engaged with DND at the same level.

While I agree on this point, The Slayers seems to be comparable to say... the 2000 Dungeons and Dragons movie (or this 2023 version).

No one is seriously going to suggest that "Honor Among Thieves" is how you actually play DnD in practice. The "gamey" bits, like choosing spells at the beginning of the day, will give way to more freeform storytelling.
> modern tank can explode when hit by an anti-tank missile

The T-72's jack-in-the-box design flaw is being productively exploited on the battlefield. That's not a "can explode" problem.
It is based on Firefox ESR(Extended Support Release) which gets security fixes backported.
Convenience is the wedge that separates you from your privacy.
Oil on Canvas, gosh. Their final masterpiece before David Sylvian would go on to make those incredible solo records.
If that were true they could afford support chat outsourced to a 3rd world country but they can't even do that.
Yep, and that’s always been an issue with Apple products: they set their prices in USD, then set the foreign price using conversions from around release date (plus taxes obviously).

That means if the dollar was very strong at release, the machines get very expensive in foreign currency.
If Apple wants to keep their volumes, they will have to squeeze their margins a bit at least.
How do you know you want to talk to this person if you can’t hear them in the noisy bar anyway?
An army of people conscripted for 1 year for training; they are not sent to the war. Every man must serve for 1 year. There are also soldiers hired by contract and well paid for their service. They are sent to the war and they cannot refuse or break the contract. Sometimes they are called "professional army".

Army of conscripts is around 1-1.5 million soldiers; professional army was about 300 000 soldiers before invasion. It was not enough to win so there was a mobilization of about 400 000 (official numbers) and recruiting volunteers from prisoners.
Recession signal if you ask me.
Everyone is just winging it, all the time (2014)
Did you actually look? I am pretty sure they have experts in this field.
That's literally just one person's opinion though.
Am I the only one powering through with old refurbished PCs? For most of my needs 16gb ram and an SSD "cures" most old laptops.
>"the rule is to capitulate to authoritarian regime demands"

Western countries impose a crapload not so freedom loving laws / rulse / behavior / etc as well. Do you propose shutting down business in the West as well? Or you have a rule that says kill no more people than X or do not kill people in country Y and you're ethical?
Can you quote the update? The nearest phrase that can be interpreted as the internal passport is "please hand in your red civilian passports" (full context below), but this refers to the red-coloured external passport (as opposed to green diplomatic, blue service, and maroon internal passport).

Quotation follows:

> Alexandra Prokopenko, a former Russian central bank official, said passport restrictions had now expanded beyond individuals with security clearance.

> “Now they are coming to certain people and saying, ‘please hand in your red civilian passports, because you have access to sensitive information for the motherland, so we want to control your movements’,” she said.
Agreed. As an American raising a child in Europe, it's also strange that what I believe to be perfectly reasonable positions like "My child should have the right to play outside unbothered by police or busy-bodies", are not only opposed, but opposed because of other unrelated culture-war reasons. The reasoning seems to be that because (e.g.) some states allow parents to hit their children or otherwise do things that (I agree) are reprehensible, therefore parents should not have the right to allow their children outside. Baffling.
Apple prices have always been high, so regular (by your definition) consumers have never really been Apple customers.
We're Knot Friends
Induction... Look it up.
I have also been using GitHub since the early octocat days (2009?). But never saw it as this magical place the blog describes. Consider that we concurrently had access to really magical feeling collaborative open source tools like ruby gems and npm. By comparison, Sourceforge felt way more magical during it's generation.

What WAS and IS magical, is git, as a fully distributed, has everything you need but not too much, beautiful repository with easy to use history editing to cultivate sensible code trees. The only magic from GitHub imo was that it made git the defacto standard when we could easily be stuck using svn today.

As for his points about AI being against the philosophy of open source, I imagine he will have the ear of RMS and a few other absolutists, but in my personal experience AI assistance has lit a fire of individual empowerment for the little guy wanting to take on big projects so bright that I think it is the single best thing we have left to save open source. It is a new wave of open source, and we can collaborate with 100% of the population instead of 5%.
> because the Intel/T2 TouchBar machine was so crash prone, glitchy, and hot. The i9 was the worst Mac I’ve ever had.

I'm running the same machine, but for me it's the best Mac I ever had. Decent keyboard very similar to my prior 2015 MBP, larger screen while at the same time keeping the exterior footprint of the 2015, it can run virtually everything you throw at it (sans 32-bit legacy games, but not because of the hardware), and if you remember to restart MS Teams after a videocall (because Teams "hogs" the external GPU and doesn't release it after a video/screenshare call ends) the battery lasts hours, even after three years of extremely intensive abuse.

The only (but massive) issue I have with all post-2013 MacBooks is that their storage cannot be easily recovered in another machine in a disaster event, and with the 2019ff it is completely impossible "thanks" to Apple soldering the flash chips and locking the encryption keys in the T2 processor - without TimeMachine and an expensive NAS you're completely and utterly fucked.

Switching to an M-series Mac would provide me with even longer battery life and probably a notch better performance with IntelliJ, but that's it - I'd have to give up on running x86 Docker images which is a real problem as a lot of third party images don't provide ARM images.
The overcompensation is palpable
PC and laptop sales exploded during the pandemic. It's clear that these devices absolutely have their place and aren't going anywhere. I know it's popular to be contrarian, but sometimes the obvious answer actually is the answer. When you're facing double digit inflation in much of Europe and the Euro is falling against the USD, a 1650 Euro price tag for an entry level device simply isn't realistic.
That maze has 3 solutions though. If there is only one solution, without reversing, it has to be 2 pieces.
Honestly don't understand why people didn't see this one coming.

Congestion seemed like an obvious outcome from the point they announced the idea of internet via satellite ?