skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For another example, see speed of light in glass is slower than vacuum.

I'd love for you to explain what you mean by this. Either you're mistaken or I'm about to learn something really interesting. Here's a link a quick search brought me, for reference. Are you talking about something other than refractive index, ratios of c, and prisms? Like a latency metric of some kind? I'm very curious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#:~:text=For%20e....
Samsung eyes chip facility in Japan amid thaw in Seoul-Tokyo relations
All those complains always forget that the standard library happens to be available everywhere the language has a full implementation available, while third party libraries are hit and miss.

I rather have outdated code that works, than not having anything at all.
Probably not. This algorithm is specifically designed for trees, not graphs.
Late reply, but basically:

I pinky swear that my NotAScamBank is FDIC insured, and that it has 20% interest p.a., would you like to deposit money with me?

Obviously the FDIC is gonna take a look and say "hah no, go away", NotAScamBank knows this, and won't even bother applying. It's a scam, why would they be honest about FDIC status?
I’ve had multiple sit down meals with 5 people this week for <200$ in Seattle.
“Unlikely” being the keyword here. I know it’s unlikely, but just the act of collecting all this data makes it dangerous. IMO the benefits are small compared to the longterm risks so I lean towards, don’t track, just deliver “good coffee”. No need for hyperoptimalization of the coffee experience.

In your example they are only looking. It would be different if they were recording their observations in a structured manner (aka cameras). Even writing it down by hand would raise flags, would it not? Sure, being a human means looking at me and my coffee to brew it, but recording everything I do in (semi)permanent storage? Is that human? Is that necessary to brew coffee?
Exactly hypersonic glide vehicles are what’s interesting, the Kinzhal is not a hypersonic glide vehicle.

The Kinzhal is effectively just an air launched slightly modified Iskander.
Reminds me of my Toshiba Libretto
There were 8088 variants rated for 8+ MHz, motherboards supporting them had independent oscillators for the CPU and the ISA bus and you could switch speeds with software or a keyboard shortcut. Maybe also a button?
You are correct. It was a bad joke on my part.
a valid strategy for sure.

otoh i hope to be burried with my m1 airbook (for home use) -- i hope never to buy another notebook class device, and just keep replacing the battery every 5 yrs.
German roads are built very well indeed. If you're a US citizen, come to Germany and you'll find like you've travelled 20 years into the future. The tarmac is much better, signs reflect much better, it all feels much better maintained.

Then again, Germany is a tiny country compared to the US. Of course you can build expensive roads if you don't have to build long roads.

By the way, if you drive from Germany to Austria, you'll get that feeling again: they spend even more money per km of highway; it's again a significant step up.
You’re expected to build it
The US banking system is lightyears behind the rest of the world in banking, where they still use paper checks and transfers take multiple days. I show my family (who still lives in the US) my banking app and they gawk as if it were some magical thing they'd never even imagined. With a tap of a button in my bank account, I can split a restaurant bill in however many slices I want. Restaurants don't even split bills here (like they do in the US), someone just pays the full amount and splits it in the bank account.
Look into things using the Vortex86DX3.
> prices that valued the _ structures_ as having negative value

You are ready to pay $1 for a floor in the structure and how many millions for your share of the plot?
> I agree that 5% efficiency justifies widespread adoption, but that didn’t require much more than a few hours of maintenance to set wingtips up.

Retrofitting winglets on an airliner costs a million+ upfront and grounds the plane for a week.

It’s not to the level of buying a new plane, but this is not a few hours work on the tarmac between two flights, they’re not airfoils off of wish you glue onto your rust bucket.
Sometimes my kids mention how I made Gentoo! Lol
That wouldn't work either.

It would heavily favor distros that require major upgrades every six months or whatever over rolling release distros.

With Gentoo, the ISO doesn't matter. You can use any bootable linux distro. I generally used knoppix back in the day, these days I generally use systemrescuecd. I installed Gentoo using the Ubuntu installation disk once because it was the first bootable linux disk I saw. I've used Gentoo as my primary OS for almost two decades and I've only ever downloaded an ISO maybe 5 times.
I think onboarding is easier at remote-only companies because you can just search for relevant conversations, you don't have to puzzle out that the way to understand the wonky CI process is to go mountain biking because it's the drive home from the trail where they actually hash out the problems.
They bought the Florida land through shell companies so no one would suspect what was going on during the 1960s. That wouldn't fly today. They'd have to pay 10x the price.
Next thing, you’ll tell me Apple wanted to charge $5k (inflation adjusted) for their new products in the 70s, and we know how that went. People simply don’t pay for new, powerful technology.
Thanks for linking that read! I didn't walk away with that tldr. Mine was that airplanes are better because adding airports is way easier than adding train stations, and that HSR is hard (as in, not just a California thing).
Yes, but it's not road legal, although they're working on a road-legal version.

Insanely awesome car though.
There’s a better and quicker solution: stop developing native apps. Make mobile webapps instead, wherever possible.
This is also a good summary written by the ex CTO of Adyen:

https://tebi.co/blog/of-cards-and-costs/
Apple has almost never started out with a cheap product. The only notable exception would be the original iMac G3, and even then it was significantly weaker than every competitor in its price range [1].

[1]: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9811/09/macvp2.idg/
Sounds super boring. I'm glad you're not in charge of Apple
Asahi Linux is an incredible undertaking.

I don't see myself running it for years, until it becomes the only way to get security updates to continue to use the hardware.

Apple has virtualization and paravirtualization built into the OS to run Linux and Windows as ARM VMs. They even have support to let ARM Linux use Rosetta 2 to run x86_64 ELF binaries.

I can already run Linux in a supported manner. I don't see a reason to run boot linux until my current hypervisor is no longer getting support.
I was in Manhattan earlier in the year and a lot of restaurants had that written at the bottom of the menu!
I'm not objecting to credit cards and promoting cash instead -- I'll happily support a total cash ban (quite an unpopular opinion around these circles, I believe, but that's a story for another time). I'm objecting to the cost of 2-300bps on credit cards, when it is trivially shown that they can be 30-50bps (Alipay, EU caps, etc) and everything will work just fine, just without 2% cashback.
The mass murderer link sounds strange until you learn about "off the wall." Does that forum even stille exist? I was a profilic poster there before it turned insane.
Shader Execution Reordering: Nvidia Tackles Divergence
Something that runs openWRT.

Set up and forget.
There is one coming out I think called Unrecorded which to me looks quiet uncanny and close to actual body cam footage / realism. It's in dev anyways.
> They still would have to _license_ Half Life: Alyx

Nope. The user can license it, as long as the client is supported. And good news too, recent Steam updates have added support for ARM64 clients on Unix systems.

> Some gaming on Mac died because they are pinched by consoles

I mean, most gaming on Mac died because of inconvenient 32-bit lib depreciation and Apple's coincidentally unfortunate refusal to support a standardized graphics API. With Proton, Macs are a Steam Deck. Without them, they're a Steam Machine. They're not mega-powerful machines in the first place, but neither is my Thinkpad and it still plays nice with Wine.

> why so few developers take the effort to build and support their iOS games for iPadOS and macOS.

Now that is a head-scratcher. My best guess is that the market is thin, and the carrot at the end of the stick isn't big. It's much easier than porting a DirectX or Vulkan title from scratch though, that's for certain.
What I often find surprising is people or shops complaining about the fees, and then trying to use cash everywhere. Dealing with cash is so incredible expensive, just because you don't see the fee doesn't mean it's not there.

Like my parents had to deal a lot with cash before. That meant thataafter every shift, you had to spend time counting it, and whole processes around that. Safe storage, extra security, extra threat of robbing. Then have to spend time taking the money to a bank, and purchasing rolls of change.
Yes, I use a similar approach when debugging some parts of my CRDTs as well. It's very helpful.

However, this algorithm is designed specifically for trees. I'm not sure whether I could manage to make it work on DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs). It would require some rewrites of the aesthetic rules and designing a new algorithm.
Or used Boost.
I'd love to see the distribution on this. My bet is that most people don't spend more and a minority spend a lot more.
You might be able to (hypothetically) do it what might aptly be called Seattle's sister city, Vancouver, BC. You do still need to somewhat deliberately find a spot nearish the train, or a major bus route, or just bike, but it seems like it'd be more doable here. Haven't owned a car in years.

Last time I was down in Seattle though, I noticed they were building a massive elevated (40 mile?) train thing quite far north, which looks somewhat impressive if it wraps up in the near future.
They’ve had plenty of lukewarm products in their post iPhone era as well.

And it’s not as if the original iPhone didn’t have its own issues that Apple had to quickly pivot from.

Plus there’s a lot of talk about gaming here but Apple don’t have a good track record for gaming: their games console was a massive flop. macOS isn’t seen as a gaming OS (I see more talk of Linux than is do of macOS) and Apple Arcade is yet another one of those lukewarm products. So I’m questioning whether this headset is targeting that market…and if it is, whether gamers would even take it seriously.

I’ll definitely be watching this piece of hardware to see what happens but I don’t feel confident that this will be “another iPhone”.
When I tried this, it made up random, non-repeatable confidence values that had little bearing to the veracity of its statements.
I think you mean WebXR in regards to Safari, not OpenXR.
Most people don't know how little privacy they have. Since they can't see how violated their privacy is, it's not a very high priority.

My mom doesn't know that every website she's been to, emails she's read or written, purchase she's made via square/amazon, message she's typed on Facebook, show she's watched on the smart TV, etc. is being aggregated and used in various ways to sell her stuff.

Since it's all behind the curtain, she'd rather just not deal with it.

Privacy is something that needs to be regulated because the cost of caring about privacy is learning about complex systems and being paranoid about how they are/could be used.

It also creates a hazardous conflict of interest for companies selling privacy: "Let me scare you about your utter lack of privacy online and then sell you a product to reduce that fear in a very small way that doesn't really meaningfully make your digital life more private."
What a stupid section to start on. They should have done LA-Anaheim-San Diego or SF-San José or Sac-Stockton and started making money on shorter routes. Instead, they’re building a longer stretch between less populated and less wealthy cities.
AirPods have very very small screens, you could even say nonexistent. Their compute capacity is not very large either
It's a "critical" response for sure, but "defensive"? What makes it defensive (or "emotional" or "indignant", as others have characterized the response)?

I enjoyed the article, and I applaud the author for comitting to the bit. But on the other hand, I completely agree with the parent: the headline is somewhat misleading, and it's an absurdly impractical way to commute to school. Sure it might do the parent some good to lighten up a bit, but it's completely understandable that a person would have this reaction when reading the article. And for me, reading peoples' 100%-justifiably-negative reactions only ehances the absurdity and comedy of it all.
Google Android, or AOSP?
Will FedNow kill companies like Stripe?
I can see this happening. Not right away but rather quickly.
Tldr links; is there an open source version?
The Retina value is “for a specific visual acuity (usually 20/20), at a specific viewing distance (usually 18 inches), at a specific brightness (usually indoor office lighting), individual pixels cannot be distinguished”. If you have better than 20/20 vision, you need a higher PPI to achieve “Retina” (individual pixels not distinguishable). Chuck Yeager, the fighter pilot guy, famously had 20/10 vision, and it’s estimated up to 1% of the population might have 20/10 vision as well. It is apparently quite common among elite athletes to be 20/15 or better.

Viewing distance also varies a lot - I recall reading somewhere the empirical observed viewing distance for smartphones is between 6 and 15 inches sitting and between 4 and 9 inches lying down. Environmental brightness also varies, obviously.

Just to give a personal example, my near vision was measured at 20/16 with correction, I am currently holding my phone 7 inches from my eyes, and I have my room lit with four 1500-lumen bulbs (to simulate daylight). I don’t know what the correct PPI would be there, but it’s obviously going to be higher than the usual amount.

In addition, it’s not clear that “cannot distinguish individual pixels” is even the same thing as “no more visual quality can be gained with higher pixel density”. At 30fps the human eye can’t distinguish individual frames, but 60fps still has visual benefits over 30fps, and many people are able to consistently detect the difference between 60fps and 144fps. Past 144fps is when you get to “no more visual quality can be obtained by higher frame rates” (as opposed to proxies like “individual frames are not distinguishable”). I suspect a similar thing is true for pixel density.

But as I said originally, I’m excited that microLEDs might make it viable to have screens with a pixel density not just “beyond what’s reasonably good enough in most circumstances”, not even “beyond what’s detectable by most people in all but the best circumstances”, but in fact well into “provably beyond the limits of what the best human eyes can detect in the best possible conditions at impractically close viewing distances”.
8MB for a low-poly untextured 3D model in binary format. Something is horribly wrong there.
Most debit cards cost the merchant 0.05% for interchange and provide consumers with fraud protection.
It's a cool story, but the headline is bullshit since they didn't include the value of 576k frequent flier miles. That more than doubles the cost.
> where they previously would have kept as little as $97 in some cases

Or lower. A number of years ago I worked in an Apple reseller, and there were Apple products that wouldn't break even when the customer paid with AMEX, and that's only based on margin/card fees, not counting all other business costs.

IIRC AMEX could reach as high as 5% and Apple's wholesale discount could be as low as 5%. Possibly the worst two companies to be stuck between as a retailer!
> scrap your flight

Scrub the flight )) It's the Piper that is scraped ))
TBH, I don't get how "normal" users without a roaming authenticator are going to do this.

Let's say I'm a layman person, nothing fancy, my password is my cat's birthday and I have a home desktop PC for gaming and laptop for my work. My desktop Windows computer can authenticate to a website, and is currently have it open and me logged in as "Alice". Now, I want to access the site from my Mac laptop. I go to the website, but I assume that to add an additional passkey to account "Alice" I must somehow authenticate.

I cannot do this on my laptop - only my desktop has a valid passkey so far. Let's assume it's not removable, and I don't have any fancy password manager that syncs across my computers - again, our Alice is completely non-technical. So we must either: a) somehow create a passkey on laptop, transfer its public key to desktop, register it there, then be able to log in from the laptop; or b) initialize login flow on laptop, but transfer the request to desktop, make it generate a valid authentication response, transfer it back to laptop, get logged in, then proceed with registering a new passkey. Are we going to have fun with waving laptop camera, or there's some BLE protocol, or we're ditching all our fancy cryptography-protected authenticators and going straight for access recovery aka "code over email/sms" lowest-common-denominator? (Which possibly implies spam^W contact methods are mandatory?)

All the demos I've found online seem to completely disregard this aspect, they just show me "start over" after I log in with the first device, and I haven't found any showcase of how can I enroll a second device. Their FAQs sorta imply I'm either all-Apple or all-Google or all-Microsoft person because all they say is that software providers will sync keys across devices. Which - I hope to be wrong - but I find unlikely.
I love youtube, but if it wasn't for my family premium subscription I would probably not enjoy it much.
In 2003 I was in college with a Mac G3 iBook.

A room mate showed me Linux and I wanted to try it out. Yellow Dog Linux (A fork from Red Hat) was the stable/best option for PowerPC newbies.

I loved YDL but quickly realized that everything was a year or more out of date and by the end of the year I had distro-hopped my way over to Gentoo where I could get updated versions of GIMP, Inkscape and Firefox.

It took a few semesters but I did finally learn not to do any exciting upgrades the week a project was due.
while we're at it, stop saying "python"... which python are you talking about 1, 2, 2.6, 3, 3.x ??
Indeed, learn the language instead.
From the article, "A commonly heard advice is to not use binary search for small arrays, but to use a linear search instead. I find that not to be true on the Apple M1 for integers, at least compared to my branchless binary search, when searching a runtime-sized but otherwise fixed size array".

I expect the linear search is better when the data being searched isn't yet in cache because it allows the memory subsystem to better predict what the CPU will access next. I'm not sure how large this effect is. It would be interesting to see the benchmarks redone on uncached data.
Here's a packaged solution!

https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT
That sounds like a massive gimmick to me. Something that looks cool in demos, but doesn't really translate well into practical use.

Might as well just buy a keyboard with lights built into the keys.
Its an even higher tax rate if you buy 50,000 of drugs with your money and call it a heroin tax.
That is a workaround, not a solution. The issue is much wider than app developers.
From a software perspective, I think he'll be remembered as a Ballmer. He's pushed the services shtick to an extent even Steve would blush at, and kinda ruined the Mac and iOS in the process (IMHO).

FWIW I don't hold Musk or Zuck in very high regards either, it's just that neither of them were as successfully insidious as Tim was.
For starters, Spotify exists
Nitrogen pollution policy beyond the farm
I think that comes down to organization. We can't expect teachers be the experts they are in X and also be experts in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, graphic design, interaction design, and animation.

I'm imagining Wikistration. Not necessarily based on Mediawiki, but it enables collaboration on interactive illustrations. Start with SVG, implement Inkscape in the browser, add the usual version control. Then level up with shared JavaScript scripts and SVG snippets so the community can build a library of templates like in other projects. With enough elaboration, a next generation editor could formalize some of the most commonly used stuff to accelerate experienced contributors and make it easier for beginning contributors to get in the game. Also, CSS libraries can probably get mixed in to make illustrations skinnable.

If enough momentum builds up, and people keep looking forward far enough, it might be feasible to merge it into Wikimedia Commons, though that would be a major scope change for the project.
First 6 years I walked to school. Most of my friends either did that or took a bicycle. Next 6 years I took a street car. To/from school as well as afternoon activities.

This was in the 90s in Europe. Where I live now (still in Europe), all my friends have their kids to the same thing.

There is the occasional parent who shuttles the kid to/from school. They either live in some inaccessible place in the countryside or they are weird (or both). The kids that need shuttling by their parents actually have a social disadvantage since they don't get to spontaneously hangout with their friends and do stuff. Everything needs to be coordinated and scheduled and approved with/by their parents. Poor kids.
Even as a fan of the rewards points system I'm fine with this. My only beef is that I wish the credit card price was the list price and cash had a 2% discount. A fee that affects nearly everyone isn't a fee (see resort fees), a cash discount reduces surprise and cognitive load.
It's an amazing machine, to be sure (I'm typing to you from one), but it's going to be so far behind in another 5-10 years. Its 8-16 GiB of RAM is already dwarfed by the 64 GiB options that Apple is selling today and the M1's speed just isn't going to be competitive to keep up with apps' demands in 2033. I do really like mine though. There's an X61 Thinkpad I felt the same way about that I still miss. Hm maybe I should dig that out of storage.
Skeptical me things the cat is out of the bag, and they are scrambling to capture it back. The amount that has been invested into OpenAi is massive, imagine if it's all for nothing?

We can run this stuff at home, on a Pixel, or even laptop.

Open source is lapping them, and they are running to the government to help.
I think we want a slightly finer grained permission model.

I think specifically we want a plugin to be able to indicate if it's safe for it to be triggered without the user's direct consent, and then the user themselves can also override any plugin to force it to need user consent or not.

For example, if we have a plugin that can fetch the weather for a single city, and a user asks "Where, in the top 20 cities, is it the hottest?", I don't think we want 20 prompts. I think the weather plugin can mark itself as "I cannot do anything dangerous, just call me, no worries".

On the other hand, the zappier plugin, which can access email and perform proper actions, should be able to indicate "all these APIs are sensitive"

You might want to have a mix, where the weather plugin has "GetUserOwnCityWeather" (requires permissions / user intent), and "GetAnyCityWeather" (public, no user intent required).
Very interesting and it resonates with the things mentioned by Adobe ex-CPO to Lenny: https://youtu.be/HCKosdV1J-8
Zelensky to Attend G7 Summit in Japan
Yeah Apple’s DRI system means it’s pretty easy to just talk to the guy. No PM nonsense. It’s nice.