skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with the "no app is bigger than Apple," I'm not sure the TikTok ban is specifically about TikTok. This opens the door to each state doing similar things for whatever they want -- imagine Alabama banning period-tracking apps or California banning Parler.

I'm not convinced Apple or Google want to be in the business of state governments telling them what apps they can and can't sell. Although I do concede that they do this at the country level, so what's one more level of geo-restriction? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's still not favorable, even compared to last-gen (30XX series) hardware. Here's the OpenCL scores for multiple different GPUs, including the Ultra: https://browser.geekbench.com/opencl-benchmarks

The M1 Ultra is a 200w chip, fabricated with 5nm silicon. It's being outclassed by the RTX 3060, a cheap 10nm card that draws ~170w max. In Nvidia's 40-series cards (on 4nm), the M1 Ultra's performance profile is most comparable to a laptop-class RTX 4060 that draws less than 115 watts.

There's a story in the total package draw to be made here, and it does weigh slightly in Apple's favor. Overall though, even with last-gen cards it's clear that there's a massive performance-per-watt lead in Nvidia's favor right now. Which is impressive, considering how they've been stuck with second-class silicon when the M1 Ultra debuted.
Look up "Open Core Legacy Patcher", it allows you to install new versions of macOS on unsupported Macs.
Yes, this can definitely be true, but is the context really so that you can be social with someone else - or is it for you to have the creative space to work on an idea?

I feel there's no idea of what the context is anymore - and that's what's killing all of these devices. No one can say 'this is the emphasis we gave these products for this reason' - because they all want the success of the iPhone, everyday use and wear.

We have to allow the pendulum to swing back to specialized devices - that's why Teenage Engineering is so captivating.
That doesn't just apply to people very close to death. If copyright ended right on death, the the work of someone in their 20's would have twice as long to earn revenue as the work of someone in their 50's. The former's work would still be covered when nostalgia bump came, while the later's work would not. This would create significant financial incentives for publishers/labels/etc to pick up younger artists instead of older ones, in markets that are already skewed towards younger people.

Fixed term makes so much more sense. We should have never signed the Berne Convention.
Seems like an obvious case of selection bias. Used car loans are going to be a lot higher than average prices people actually pay for cars, because people who take out loans to buy cars are buying more expensive cars than people who don't.
> A young person just starting out or at least earlier on in their career doesn't really have the opportunity to make friends, meet people (romantically), or otherwise make social connections while working from home.

Oh, we Europeans have no problem with that. The difference we have is that we have employee protection laws that put a hard cap on working hours to 48h a week on average over a year (with some rare exceptions, usually for crews of offshore rigs, boats, public health/safety, military and private security) - and that this stuff gets audited, especially on complaints. And when the government looks at a company, they audit everything, not just the person who complained...
Perhaps a lawyer can explain a little more to me the logic behind the "transformative" rule when it comes to copyright protection, and particularly how there seems to be a totally different standard when it applies to music.

While Ed Sheeran just won (in my opinion, thankfully) his copyright lawsuit, the writers of "Blurred Lines" famously lost the lawsuit filed by Marvin Gaye's family alleging infringement of "Got to Give it Up". In my opinion, that was the wrong decision - while you can argue there are some similar beats and chord progressions, I don't see how anyone could believe that Blurred Lines isn't at least a "transformative" depiction of "Got to Give it Up" (to be clear, I think it's much more than that - the songs sound completely different to my untrained ear). Even in cases where there is no dispute, where one song legally samples another song but pays royalties, in many cases the use of the sample is completely transformative, again in my opinion, use of the original song.

So basically what I'm asking is why do judges appear to apply the "transformative" rule to visual arts but not to auditory ones.
The soup can was not used by Warhol to sell soup. The Prince art was being used in an article about Prince. And that point was a major part of the Supreme Court decision.
By what metrics do you determine public bus system isn’t working, and how would you expect these metrics to change in your proposal?

As far as I can tell many people are using public transport, including buses, so it seems to work to some extend.
My first computer was a 95 Packard Bell. I was 12 years old at the time, so I might be misremembering, but I swear the interface responsiveness felt immediate.
I tried to read through all the direct replies to this comment and I didn’t see this (apologies if I missed it).

There’s a huge component of this that’s worth recognizing:

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The current legal landscape and lack of anonymity makes most hacking a non-starter

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In the early days someone could explore really far as long as they didn’t call up a government agency or try to steal property. They could play pranks, hook up Rube-Goldberg call chains that circumnavigated the planet, break apart any hardware they owned and assemble it in to anything else, dig in to the binary of any file on a computer, rip apart the memory of any process, post the results in a magazine or even collaborate openly online.

And most of the world had no idea. The only time they got in trouble was when authorities saw something they didn’t like and even then most of the time they had no laws to leverage (there are some significant notable examples that got the book thrown at them but those were outliers).

Now?

Now you can be retroactively targeted for making an emulator for a decades-old game system.

Or sharing a single piece of copyrighted content.

Or getting close breaking to the DMCA.

Or (insert wacky future laws here).

The risk is extremely high and the rules are way too thorny. Working for a company means you’re going to have clear guidelines about what you can and can’t use and therefore protection from the worst of the legal minefield that is the US. It also means you have a cushion for if/when you’re targeted.

Does anyone know how many true hackers are growing up right now who have already taken their first steps at learning and who have had their posts wiped from the internet or their inboxes “graced” with cease and desist letters (or worse), or their accounts outright terminated? I don’t think there even is a way to know.

How many of those kids would be crazy enough to keep being public, and how many of those would learn enough through private self-discovery that they can significantly contribute to the hacking scene as adults?
There's nothing wrong with that either. The Dutch, known for their bike and ped friendly streets and great transit, are also known to love their summer trips where they drive around and tow camping trailers. Japanese families in less urban areas frequently have a car for family trips or for shopping for home goods. There's no way transit will ever completely displace the car, the economics will never pencil out.

Having the option to drive when there's copious amounts of transit is empowering. It lets you go hiking into the mountains where it wouldn't be economical to run even a bus at greater than 1 hr headways or haul your ski and snowboarding equipment to the slopes. It lets you ferry around your aging parents who are starting to have cognitive issues. It means when your children are still very young you can keep them from being a nuisance on the bus. Being forced to drive because there's no transit and you know your brake pads are shot and scraping against your rotors but you don't have the money or time to fix your car is dreadful.
I take issue with the term "reforming classes." What do that even mean? People who want things to be better aren't a class in any socioeconomic sense. It's just normal.
The iPhone one seems mostly positive
You do the thing that is most convenient. If the train is faster and easier you do that. If a car is easier you use that.
wrist : insideOfPocket

is more different than

wrist : eyes

Or, to put it another way, how many people do you know who complain about the difficulty in looking at their wrist or cell phone?

That's the count of people for whom AR glasses would be different in kind.
I need to try disabling adblock and say random words. Chariots, chariots.
Had anyone tested that?
In case anyone wants the original article the adafruit post is based on - [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/27/16035508/d...
Yes - honestly, if a company like Nreal can do it using OTS components, I think Apple could easily have punched out a set of glasses like that and delivered 90% of this functionality just by attaching to a macbook pro in a true glasses format. They could probably have done it years ago and then built from there. What Nreal has made is already super compelling [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSBESw3a_tc
But the expectation is that site reports live state.

If it is up to person to change it then it as status page is useless, might as well look at reddit whether people are complaining...
It's expensive but not as expensive as a space station.
It took 50 years for the car to become dominant; it'll take another 50 for it to be displaced.
> My take is people want the internet that self selected for only the certain social groups/classes of people [who loved computers enough to early adopt] the internet in the [20th century] without having to say that is what they want.

This is what I want. There. I said it. Go lay down with the lambs on Reddit and Facebook to cry more about it.
It's a public platform to communicate with people on. The only difference is that groups are containerized on discord and discussions are chronological. Twitter is arguably better for discovery.
Don't put too much faith in fiction. Especially cheap, pulp fiction like Ready Player One.
Interesting take.

I kind of hope it's not a false leak, just to see the battery with cord, lmao.
This.
I usually go with Django + Tailwind and htmx. Most projects don’t need React imo, htmx provides just enough interactivity.
This is because you're not equipped to judge what's transformative or not. Transformative is not just about the visual, art's also about the context.

You should have wondered, why can't your designer pal do it, if it's OK for Warhol?

The answer may have been: Warhol's process, coloring, final result, context, was way more transformative physically, and also semantically.

I think this is where we need art experts who are advising judges, it's sort of like maybe that trope where judges are making judgements about encryption and they don't understand the technology. Not assuming these judges were not art buffs, it's the SC, it's probably a very complex, refined, elaborate, and legally sound judgement...but I think they're missing some key connection to art to have gone this way.

2 dissenters thank God. Hopefully overturned in future, or further refined to protect artists and great art. I think the plaintiff here is less an artist and more a "professional paparazzi with a lighting set up".
Unless they changed up the bill since I looked at it, you’ve got a bill of attainder with serious Constitutional issues, including First Amendment, due process, and dormant Commerce Clause problems. It’s very hard for me to see a federal court letting this stand, even at a time where every day brings another “federal court lets bad law stand” story.
You actually can, you might have to update some of your queries but if you use basic SQL queries you can switch drivers without changing code.
> What's depressing is visiting developing countries and seeing them start to ape the worst of American car life.

A lot of bad decisions were made in Europe stemming from American city planners after the second world war.
Like David Jokinen's influence on Amsterdam and The Hague:
https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2019/10/27/the-1960s-when-the-...

It's strange that people are so eager to export (and import) urbanism ideas around the world without much understanding of the cultural differences and needs.
I would presume they're already past that point and just want all they can get.
Yeah, sounds like a supervisor.
Yep. You've got to remember that Java is nearly 30 years old; at the time making a distinction between interfaces and abstract classes was seen as a radical move. Newer languages have better support for more decoupled ways of doing things, e.g. Rust's use of typeclasses (which it calls traits for some reason) or Kotlin's built-in support for delegation.
> Which suggests a relatively obvious possibility of a simple writing system, where learning to write and read doesn't require memorizing countless (logographic / concept based) kanji. Though kanji seem to be older. So apparently the syllable/character association was not as obvious as it seems.

Its somewhat shocking to me that you are not aware of hiragana and katakana or at the very least romanji. They are mentioned in [1] in the writing section.

From [1]:

> Kanji : Thousands of characters borrowed from Chinese writing, each with a different meaning

> Hiragana : 46 "smooth" style phonetic symbols used for inflected endings, grammatical particles and other Japanese words

> Katakana : 46 "block" style phonetic symbols used for writing foreign loan words, foreign names, and for emphasis
After being frustrated with

- INI

- XML

- JSON

- YAML

- TOML

... I welcome our new Jesth overlords. Progress is unstoppable even if it happens in baby steps.
There are neighborhoods in DC and Denver with no sidewalk. In the city proper, sometimes near a transit station.
Yeah, “I have not heard of any human rights issues in DRC.” is a real spit-take line.
The most famous case for it is here:
https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_the_surprising_decli...

but there are a lot more cases, generally in the same direction, depending on the time frame, whether it’s city vs. country, race-related, drug-related, enforcement-related, from strangers, etc.

Overall, far fewer cases are being given a lot more cover while deaths preventable with standard healthcare increase, and deaths and life-altering injuries from car accidents remain so frequent you’d need a metronome to count them.
Which has more ads in the settings menu, an iPhone or a Pixel?
FWIW my understanding is you don't get geotagging information on photos unless you've requested location access too.
The main problem with the ad-companies-are-listening-to-you theory is that audio processing is very power hungry. Running an ASR model locally would eat up a ton of power. Just doing wakeword detection (where you're only listening for a specific phrase like "Hey Siri") generally requires a dedicated specialized chip so as to not impact power consumption too much.

Same problem if they were surreptitiously streaming audio to their servers. You would see it from the outgoing packets and streaming that amount of data would also be fairly expensive.
Although I think their hearts are in the right place, AI safety researchers are primarily driven by irrational instincts and misjudge the promise and perils of artificial intelligence. If humanity chooses to turn away from God and sacrifice each other worshipping false idols, that will be our fault alone, whether or not the technology exists to hasten our demise.

We do have thousands of Einsteins today wielding untold resources, but the slowing pace of scientific progress suggests there are limits to scaling intelligence. Even with a hundredfold increase in scientists, I am unconvinced that would lead to a meaningful increase in social progress and have come to believe the bottlenecks we face are not due to a lack of intelligence, but a lack of other virtues (e.g., kindness, curiosity, courage, compassion, perseverance).
We might need to block all software features for the next decade so we can figure out what's going on.
Took 3 years to get mine. I didn't sign up for call service and can't comment on call quality. They push updates regularly and the quality consistently improves. It could hardly take a picture when I got it. Now, it takes a decent photo. As others have commented, the product is ideologically driven. That's the main buy-in for me—I'd like to see more free software in consumer products. At the very least, it's an expensive and fun pocket computer. Maybe its vision reaches full fruition. Maybe it helps the next attempt to open up mobile.
Sorry for not being clear - I was referring to the Whatsapp Bot API :)
> They're also laid out with an office, not home, in mind. (Think: plumbing.)

Plumbing is easy, pressurized pipes and pumps can deal with that just fine. The real challenge is air conditioning: showers create lots of humid, warm air - introduce that into your building's HVAC and you'll get issues with rust and mold - and cooking isn't much better, people generally don't want to smell the curry that someone at the other end of the building is cooking. Or they don't want to hear their neighbors having sex through the air vents.
Those works remain in the public domain.
>What that commenter misses is that nearly all hobbyist grade detectors (Geiger tubes) are not sensitive to alpha

from the original post:
"If your Geiger counter is actually detecting radiation, it's almost certainly the half-hour lead and bismuth. "
If you look at the table he provided lead and bismuth are beta decay. It is likely he is specifying that on the fact that most home geiger counters only detect beta and gamma not alpha.
Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, the Internet pushes back
I've talked to people that think there could be a problem with my smart RSS reader that retains the content of RSS feeds and trains a classification model to predict if I like the article and not even generate anything.
My wife uses Instagram, and at times, she receives ads related to things we discuss together or with her friends. Initially, you might consider these occurrences as mere coincidences, given that they only happen occasionally. However, the level of specificity in these ads is uncanny.

Interestingly enough, we find ourselves getting unusually excited when this happens, primarily because English is not our native language. When the spyware manages to comprehend our conversations despite our heavy accents, it gives us a sense of improvement in our language skills.

Conversely, our sentiments take a complete turn when we unintentionally activate Apple’s Siri while discussing unrelated topics. For some reason, the dedicated chip for detecting “Hey, Siri!” interprets one of us uttering that command and starts listening in. We exchange glances, shed a few tears of frustration over the misunderstanding, and then burst into laughter.

I’m not entirely sure how they manage to accomplish this, but perhaps there’s an idea for an app hidden in these experiences. For instance, an app that consistently listens in the background and occasionally shares a relevant joke based on the ongoing conversation. That would certainly add a humorous twist to things.
Car-centric design makes things unwalkable; other models make things undriveable. It's a competition.
Seems a bit overkill to recompile to get "no third party cookies by default" when you can just open the settings and disable it when you first install the browser. The setting is kept between updates (in Firefox at least) and if you are paranoid you can always check with Dev tools or a dumping proxy that 3rd party cookies are still disabled after an update
Well, is it generally true though? I don't even think it's very useful to talk about... compared to discussing how car manufacturers and sellers have intentionally stripped us of good urban design over the last century, and the ways in which some cities have undone some of that damage.
That's an inspirational narrative. However, offices aren't significantly vacant due to remote work. Advancing the narrative that this is the reason will in-part hide economic decline, and will help allow important people to escape the political consequences of the worst economic decline in ninety years.
I visit Amsterdam periodically for business. In the city center, where there are very few cars, there is far more noise, smells, and crowds than I would care to live with everyday.

Density of people brings those three annoyances, cars or no cars.
I second this :) Lived in Madison in my 20's and loved it. Great people, great environment, great food. Easy to get around on foot, on bike, or by bus.
A Jesth dictionary section is natively prettified. Additionally, anything you can encode in JSON can be embedded in a Jesth section, sharing the same document with another section containing, for example, a poem or a ChatGPT prompt. What JSON does is just one of things Jesth can do. For example, you won't use JSON as a markup language for, say, docstrings.

When it comes to machine-to-machine communication, JSON is more relevant.
How would it even be possible for apple to do so
> consider looking at what happened to your grocery bill, just because a regional war broke out half a world away

Assuming you are in the US...there is very little agricultural import from a region half a world away.
This is traditionally called “the pub” in the UK or “the bar” in the US.

Maybe it’s time for society to work on that drinking habit, eh?
House made with recycled nappies solves two problems at once, researchers say
My parents are in their mid 70s. My dad was almost 60 before he bought his first brand new vehicle. His house was paid off, his kids were out of the house, and he was making $140Kish a year.

The most I've ever paid for a vehicle is $19K for an almost fully loaded compact SUV with about 50K miles on it. The only reason I bought it is because the used $14K SUV I bought in 2014 was totaled in a car wreck. I was 4 payments left from fully paying the car off and had absolutely intended on continuing to drive it for another 8 years or so. Same with this one.
> The difference to a person is that most (though not all) people actually have an understanding if they know something, if they guess something, if they are making something up, or if they are outright lying. Which is about the first thing you train during a scientific education.

Scientist? STEM workers? Maybe. People who value truth / consistent world model for its own sake? Sure.

Normies? Not so much. It's not that they can't - I think they never learned to pay enough attention. What I mean is, most people tend to say things in confidence, and maybe even believe them, regardless of how they acquired the information. They don't seem to process the distinction between "I read it in a book", "A colleague told me that their colleague heard on the radio that...", etc. They don't even track provenance of the information, which is a critical skill you need to not end up confidently making things up.

It's a learnable skill, and I think it's even quite easy to pick it up from osmosis - but someone has to make the person feel that it's important.

> So basically it acts like a pathological liar

I think it's more of a bullshitter than a liar, in the sense that it doesn't care about truth value of what it says.

Lying involve knowing the truth, or at least knowing that the thing you're saying ain't it. Making a mistake involves you thinking you're saying the truth, but actually being wrong about it. Bullshitting is just saying whatever helps you achieve your goal; the truth value of what you say doesn't even enter the picture.