skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect this is why companies like MS are locking down OS releases to specific hardware in the name of security. Apple moving to Apple Silicon also means they can potentially lock down the hardware as they see fit.

Upgrades will be forced via software obsolescence rather than hardware performance.

This is why I think the Linux/Free-Libre software folks would do well to focus a bit more on optimizing performance as there is a lot of room for improvement that will not need to be forced onto people.
Sounds like CBT, which seems to be the approach that gets the most success
How did it get detected?
I wouldn't say that. A
For example, I think a 300 USD standalone gaming console could be the next Game Boy, or the next Switch, in terms of sales numbers. The benfit/price ratio just has to be good enough and it could really take off. Even with fairly primitive graphics.
LCD is still superior for durability and max brightness. I'd still prefer LCD for expensive tablets because it will be used over 6 years, unlike phones. Early OLED phones were bad for burn in. I heard that iPhone X OLED has more chance to get burned in compared to later models.
Two extremely athletic high-school-age people die within two years of each other of mysterious cancers, with an obvious presence of cancer-causing chemicals, and you want to pretend that cancer statistics that are heavily weighted toward the older and more obese somehow have any relevance here?

Honestly I am quite disgusted at this take. How many readers want to bet this take is informed by more than a little implicit racial bias, these being Black men at a primarily Black high school in a primarily Black neighborhood?
I feel like engineers and all the math-y sciences, especially male, tend to dismiss very easily aesthetics over functionality.

I was once like that. Until I get over my anxiety and started to hang out more with girls. Especially from the arts and languages side.

The way they choose their environments… where they go to eat out or have a coffee, the clothing they wear, buying flowers, how they setup their home…

Even when I was down, being in their environments just made me feel more cozy. It was heartwarming.

In contrast, most of my engineer friends have either literally a mattress and a desk. Or, they just buy for their house whatever, without any thought in regards to color pallete, textures, shape, etc
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I'm looking for something like OP's description. If you see this, I would really appreciate a couple pointers on where to look!

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> What a patronizing take.

I've lived in Chile the past twelve years. I often say I feel like a time traveller. I feel like I'm from the not too distant future. Chile feels like what California felt like growing up in the 70s and 80s, only with smart phones. People here throw trash wherever ... just like we did in California in the 70s and 80s. People here love their cars, and think of them as a status symbol and an extension of their identity ... just like we did in California in the 70s and 80s. Before I came to Chile I lived in Los Angeles and had to commute each day for over an hour each way. I also lived in Amsterdam and had to commute by bike each day for 20 minutes. I never owned a car the entire time I lived there. I was much better off mentally, physically, and economically in Amsterdam for this reason alone. I was freer too. A lot has changed in Chile since I arrived, especially in car ownership, and car-centric growth. I would not say that it's natural or the obviously best choice to prefer a car-centric future. The future Chile is creating for itself is not the one I would choose. There are alternatives.

> Like, what's the alternative?

Building the infrastructure for cars is a choice. Prioritizing cars over other modes of transportation is a choice. So make different choices.

I live in a small town. It's just six square blocks, but is densely populated with multi-story condos, and lots of shops and restaurants. But the streets are filled with cars. Cars are double parked on the sidewalks, and traffic moves at a snail's pace. It's loud, dirty, and unsafe. We could easily close the streets to cars, encourage people to take mass transit (we have collectivos and busetas) by making it expensive to park outside of the town center, require the numerous gated communities nearby to incorporate more amenities, like markets and pharmacies, to discourage trips by car, make it safer to bike by building ciclovias, and so on. But we don't, because we choose not to, sadly.
Once aws credits run out, this is a lifesaver
It’s great that it’s being discussed but until it’s addressed, it’s just a bunch of words and doesn’t improve anyone’s life.
My first Linux was Caldera OpenLinux 2.3[0] in 1999 that i got from a magazine and even at that time the installer was literally a "wizard" where you typed a few things like username, password, etc, selected which graphics card and monitor you have, what you wanted to install (full install ~1GB) in a series of Next, Next, Next, Done.

It even had a tetris game you could play while waiting for the packages to be copied in the background.

As a kid at the time i installed it on pretty much any PC i could get my hands on - my own, relatives, friends, etc, nobody was safe :-P though they found it interesting anyway since it was chock full of applications and games to play around - and i don't remember ever having issues. I tried it recently in 86box (which emulates old PCs) and it worked as good as i remember.

Though in a way it was probably an exceptional case, IMO that CD was basically the best well-put together distro (especially when you consider that KDE was basically beta software at the time).

[0] https://archive.org/details/OpenLinux2.3CD
Maybe I’ve imagined it but I thought the image quality decreased when selecting a non-default frame.
The C memory model underlying all modern processors does not scale. Most of the time your cpu is sitting idle.
Generate skyboxes using rough sketches
Very cool.

I noticed the fox demo's wasm_example_bg.wasm is 22MB. That seems large? Is there code splitting?

Also, seems streaming is broken:

wasm_example.js:285 `WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming` failed because your server does not serve wasm with `application/wasm` MIME type. Falling back to `WebAssembly.instantiate` which is slower. Original error:
TypeError: Failed to execute 'compile' on 'WebAssembly': Incorrect response MIME type. Expected 'application/wasm'.
(Link in the middle of the article: "NYC’s Record-Breaking Rents Squeeze Tenants Across Boroughs".[1] That's residential, of course.)

I've been expecting "peak office" for years now. Offices originally existed to contain paper records. Look at pictures of offices from 1700 to 2000. You'll see much paper, and much paper storage. That's dead. If everybody in the office is using a screen and keyboard, the classic function of an office is gone. It may still be useful as a social business space, but the age of the clerical plant is over. (Outside of some Government agencies.)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-18/nyc-s-rec...
Say Walmart finds a use for a VR/AR headset. I really doubt they are going to buy fewer than 10 headsets.
The Gentoo Handbook taught me what excellent documentation should look like, and I'm forever grateful.
I'm just an Arch user and not an expert but AFAIK it's not officially supported (by Arch's packaging system). One is encouraged to update the entire system before installing anything new. If you installed just MyCoolCalculator vLatest and it pulled in the update for ImportantWidelyUsedDependencyX, dependent apps could potentially/do break, because multiple versions of that dependency are not kept. At least AFAICT.

The AUR is said to provide options for non-latest software, and I guess you have options like Flatpak too.
I think he is talking about Tesla’s wireless power transmission. If I’m reading Wikipedia right, he ignored Hertz’s work that described inverse-square and straight line propagation because didn’t fit his idea of long-distance wireless power. But Wardenclyffe was a failure and we now know could never work.
Pallone and Blumenthal Introduce Food Labeling Modernization Legislation
Not if you have Stacker.
> The vast majority of businesses will simply have no use for them

That type of ultra confident assertion is the sort of thing that usually turns out to be the faulty assumption when breakthrough technologies happen. People struggle to imagine the future reality where something's value add is far outside their experience.

How many businesses have computer monitors? I'd say that's the number that have a use for an ultra high resolution headset that does the same thing. Is it better? I don't know. It has advantages and disadvantages. Is it worth the cost? I don't know. But if you are going to tell me they have no use for it then I'm going to strongly disagree.
I'd love that! For my CRDT work, I stare at a lot of graphs to figure out bugs and optimize.

For example, here's the causal graph of changes made to git's Makefile:

https://josephg.com/git-makefile.dt.svg

Having a nicer way to render these graphs (and especially show them in the browser) would be delightful!
I hope you got paid to write that. I switched from an Android to an iPhone recently and it is precisely 0% cooler or "more inspiring" than my old phone. I did it purely because password auto-fill appears to be marginally more reliable.

Not that Apple is a bad company or place to work or anything, but it also isn't some magic zen garden that will imbue all who work there with the power to change the world.

For 90%+ of the people who go to work there, it's a job, and the scenery changing that equation meaningfully seems like wishful thinking. It might be nice, but it's not going to radically alter your output.
I mean yes in general I agree remote first companies are probably going to have lower profit margins and fail to keep up with competitors but how does that help them find a well paying remote job?
Boy, does this bring back some good memories of the Toshiba Libretto:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Libretto

I bought one on the gray market in 1996, and I think I managed to double my money in about 6 months by reselling it within the US. It was supremely handy to have around, but with only one PCMCIA slot you had to choose between wired networking and a CD-ROM drive.
Considering how many professional chess players can play chess blindfolded/in their head, I suspect there's a lot of intuition building/chunking that happens throughout the years before such facilities can emerge in one's mind.
I think there’s a least a number of folks with a similar mindset, but time will tell if they push back or just accept the change. The economy has softened too, so there aren’t as many options as there were in the past.
I don't see how climate change is going to nuke the PNW. Our coasts are too high to be much affected (so we don't have issues with rising coast lines), while the heat makes summers more...normal for the rest of the country, the fact that we get rain 9 months out of the year should insulate us from the changes. Forest fire season does suck, but again, 9 months of rain a year means it isn't that long.

Perhaps we should all be buying in Alaska, however, given that it will soon be the next mild climate tropical destination :).
> A shitty office in yet a clone of all the other office parks

https://www.macworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Jons-and...

I'm pretty sure (strike that, am certain) the secret sauce is not the office.
$300~500 bucks for a game console sounds reasonable to me, downright cheap even since a gaming desktop or laptop would easily go into the 4 digits.

But with regards to VR headsets? Even $200 sounds too expensive if I were to be brutally honest, but I surmise going even lower would mean whoever makes the bloody thing won't even be able to cover the cost of materials so I'll compromise.
TBH I use Python REPL the same way whenever I encounter unknown new libraries, which is why it's my goto after Bash.
There's like a 1% chance. MediaTek ends up making open source drivers for Nvidia not terrible if this happens. Which is orders of magnitude more likely than Nvidia ever lifting a finger.

During the potential ARM acquisition, it was all, "Nvidia would have to shed it's thorny cloak & play with other people! They would transform!" Unlikely they'll ever be more than a Lawful Evil predator, but maybe some partnership like this might spring things loose.

That said, people kept holding out hope Intel would eventually make their MID chips with PowerVR gpus (gma500) usable, which would have made PowerVR in general usable. That never happened.
Do you go to work to accomplish your assigned goals or do you go there to socialize? These things seem contradictory.

A salaried employee who can maintain productivity in a WFH environment has far more time and freedom to socialize, wholly on their own terms, than an employee who is forced to expend some amount of time on commuting.

For people who go to work to get work done, WFH is the obvious best choice.
not WSL, but dotnetcore, sure, crossplatform, all is great, microsoft loves linux.. run .net applications that produces GUI? nonas, this is of course not available, thats reserved for windows.

microsoft is the same old microsoft, and people would do well to remember it
Does you blog have an RSS or atom feed?
What parts are clockless?
Well, yes, eventually companies will have to pay a premium if they want people to actually move there every day.

Relative to what is an open question, because the jobs that require that also don't currently pay a lot.
He was strongly convinced that electromagnetic waves as described by Maxwell and experimentally shown by Hertz were uselessly wrong theory and that Hertz didn't understand the results of his own experiment (According to Tesla electromagnetic waves were longitudinal, i.e. more like space contracting and expanding around the transmitter). His own theories generally are based around assumptions that the earth and parts of the atmosphere are really good conductors and energy would somehow flow through them almost losslessly if it just were done right. I don't think he ever published a unified theory on how exactly that would work. In contrast Maxwell's equations are still part of every physics curriculum.
Unfortunately they disabled ability to install it on Apple silicon macOS :(
Supreme Court Backs Photographer in Warhol Copyright Case over Prince Portrait
because it's interesting? lots of programmers on this site!
Honestly it feels like when a city/area gets dense enough people naturally stop using cats because it just isn’t practical. Most trips in SF are faster on a bicycle than by car, for example.

Then when that happens, it’s easy to refactor architecture to be more in line with what people are doing already.
Nah. Gravity is a real drag. The asteroid belts have it all for almost zero g's, almost like someone already dug it out of the ground and threw it into space. And robots can just tug those around to your nearest habitat/spaceport/planet.
The only technology I've heard of that might outperform it is directly-driven nanorods, something Samsung has been experimenting with. These are basically the same thing as "quantum dots", except that instead of small round crystals they are rod shaped. Apparently if they're aligned and excited by an electric field, they glow with a pure colour. This makes them very similar to microLEDs, but potentially much cheaper to manufacture.

However, other than some breathless press-releases a few years ago I haven't heard anything happening recently, so it's possible the technology didn't pan out.

https://www.channelnews.com.au/new-samsung-lg-premium-displa...
Not really. Clock speeds for CPUs have stagnated because they hit the power wall back in the P4 days. Part of what enabled the relentless clock increased from the 1970s until the early 2000s is that each generation of CPU ran at a substantially lower voltage than the previous generation while being able to use more power. Going from 5 volts to 3.3 volts is a substantial power saving that gives you headroom to increase clock speed, but going from 1.1V to 1.05V is not nearly as much of an improvement. Once CPUs started dissipating 100-150 watts of power and voltages only drop by a few percent each generation, there's simply no power budget left to increase clocks. Current cores can run at upwards of 7 GHz (just look at the overclocking records) with liquid nitrogen cooling to dump the power increase, but virtually nobody will use such a system in the real world.

The reason we see increasing core counts is that 2 cores consume roughly 2x the power of 1 core (well, slightly more). Doubling clock speed from 5 GHz to 10 GHz would cost way more than 2x the power. Furthermore, pumping that much heat out of a sub-100mm^2 die gets harder and harder. You can have more transistors in a small space, but you simply can't have them change state much more than the previous generation did.
While those early intel days were great (for example, being able to add more ram or install an ssd in 2009 macbook pro).

M1 is a big improvement over that even without the upgrade flexibility early intel years offered.

M1 can run windows in parallels and it works well enough for most cases
Isn't the iphone 14 pro max 1tb version already $1600?
I made a Typescript-based CLI and package [0] you can import into projects, extend [1], and get metrics [2]. Hopefully others can find this useful. I built in response validation, lots of configurable stuff, fully tested.

[0] https://github.com/keybittech/wizapp

[1] https://github.com/jcmccormick/wc/blob/main/api/src/modules/...

[2] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jcmccormick/38b5527c16479...
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and 4060 Graphics Cards
This is nonsense. The place where the iPhone was invented, and iterated upon for many successful years, was the Infinite Loop campus, which is pretty much a clone of all the other office parks. Initially, when the iPhone was invented, developers had their own individual offices there, with closeable doors, which was nice.

Apple Park: it kinda sucks to actually work at Apple Park. It’s a goldfish bowl. It’s impossible to focus. But, yes, it looks really nice. It’s very pretty, that is undeniable.

Also, Teslas and Mercedes aren’t exotic or rare. They just cost a bit more than most Hondas. And the rare, occasional actual exotic doesn’t inspire new features, better design, or QA polish, they just indicate someone’s a pretentious ass with more money than sense. Remember that Steve drove a fairly pedestrian Mercedes.
As a nerd of a certain age I’ve been deeply attracted to retro computing. Even going so far as to place bids on 30 year old Atari STs on eBay since that was a computer I had in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s. But in recent days, through the use of modern emulators I’ve dabbled in these retro systems and I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re just bad. They are fine for the enjoyment of certain games and reliving or just getting a reminder of my younger years. Yet these home computers of that era lack so much. No MMU, no FPU, no IP networking. Very limited CPU cycles and memory.

Even switching from home computers of the era to workstation class system, it’s pure frustration at the limits on what can be done. Don’t get me wrong, for a lot of my computing needs I could probably get along just fine with a next cube or a late model Mac II. But on the other hand you’ll pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for these systems, while I can go on Amazon and spend ~$200 for a mouse, keyboard, cheap monitor, and a raspberry pi zero w and I’ll have a more capable system in every way. For just a little more money I can buy a tiny PC that is able to emulate near perfectly all the computers of my youth.

Thank you for attending my Ted talk.
I tend to think that standard libraries should be minimal enough to contain mostly code that is reasonably trusted to be near optimal.

I don’t think that can be the case here.

This should be released as reference implementation, an example, provided for convenience and education, probably not production ready…
Willow was surprisingly entertaining. It’s a Disney owned IP, Disney production so it’s strange to be pulled off after only a year.

I wonder if they had really high payout terms for this and Y (a high profile adaptation of a great comic book that was one of the worst tv shows I’ve ever seen) and so it’s cheaper to remove it than pay residuals.

This makes me wonder that there’s some payout just for including it rather than just based on number of views.

Netflix never removed their own content so I guess Disney and HBO are doing something dumb with the licenses they set up.
What you are referring to is the culture. Obviously people are big part of it but the office is a big driving force of shaping the culture.

Even in an online office! When I had Slack, I felt much more involved with people and the company (500+ employees) culture overall.
Ever since they transitioned to Teams, I feel like I only exist within my own team.

A pleasant and aesthetic office, surround by nature, built with sustainability in mind, etc is already a driving force for the type of culture you want instilled in your company.

It will certainly attract a type of people that want to work surrounded by beauty, it’s already paving the way for a common ground of understanding.

It goes much further than just wonder. It’s a feeling that persists. A nice feeling.
Yep, my M1 macbook pro is the best laptop I've ever owned too. And if asahi linux is anything to go by, its a surprisingly open system from a software perspective.

But I also think the abusive, controlling behaviour they exhibit when it comes to their hardware is shockingly bad. (See: any of Louis Rossman's videos).

I also think its awful how controlling Apple is over the software that runs on iPhones. For example, apparently the city of SF needs to pay Apple millions of dollars a year to allow iphones to be used as clipper tickets. Why is apple paid money for this? Users have already bought the NFC chips in their phones from Apple. Installing themselves as an unaccountable, monopolistic middleman is disgusting behaviour.
If we don't know whether someone stole money the appropriate thing to do is say exactly that. Not make up something else and say that's what they might have done.
When I come up with something new and complex (either something that qualifies as an invention or just trying to solve a complex data analysis problem using a single SQL statement), I tend to first have a big blur in my brain... And then it may feel promising... and then individual structural components of the final solution start to emerge non-visually (like where to apply recursion in SQL that generates data for the remaining layers)... it's more like that I feel that there are some solid parts (vs entropy?) in that blob... the whole thing doesn't fully make sense until the last important component has "manifested" itself. Nothing visual though and often I have to "roll back" to the blurry blob from half an hour ago and wait until something better manifests itself from there. Doesn't always work and sleep helps! :-)
I didn't see it mentioned, it's possibly this Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/