skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and the fallacy in the parent's argument is that they're only looking at one aspect of the leverage side of unions: strikes.

But the thing is, all organizations should be unionized. Meaning that all employees should always have group voting power to prevent malfeasance against any single employee. Critiques of this common decency mainly come in the form of whataboutism, fear and othering (our wealthy investors might find different non-union suckers, mob-union rule could take away some of our obscene power, what if the workers who make us our money get even lazier?)

The extent of union power is debatable, so maybe it makes sense for workers at a car company to go on strike because stopping production is unthinkable by the owners (capitalists), or maybe teachers should walk off the job because students should stay in school. But researchers walking out would have delayed consequences that might not be seen for half a decade.

So the union power for researchers is not in strikes, but that it moves individual responsibility to the group, which has actual power to effect change. If congress isn't funding the NIH properly, then the union can advocate for its members like a lobbyist and say "hey, if you don't raise our funding, we'll put ads on TV criticizing the committee and individuals cutting our funding. We won't endorse work coming our of the private corporations trying to defund us. We'll challenge pork barrel funding that's been diverted from us in court. We'll.. quiet quit.."
I wonder if VM passthrough works for cards installed its PCI-E slots.
Which ones, and why?
I think you just found four ways to describe money laundering and sanctions violations.

Which admittedly is a market crypto has been trying and succeeding for quite a while to own.
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Can you point me to the government grant program that requires patents as part of the application process? That is potentially very concerning. I would be interested to learn more.
That was my thought as well. I still prefer the original cheese grater :-/
Apple is once again making unrealistic assumptions about how many friends I have professional-quality headshots of to put into my contacts.
But since it’s Apache2 you can modify the model to remove the restrictions instead of making creative prompts is my point.
You aren't getting 76 cores and 192GB of RAM for $6999. Probably twice that fully loaded.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1860/07/darwin-...
The unbearable weight of being is probably better tackled than all of them going and studying algae trying to figure out how we stay alive 10 more years with heavy anxiety.
> The Mac Pro features eight Thunderbolt ports and six PCI slots for modular expansion. The base model config Mac Pro starts at $6999.

I'm guessing you can't use those PCI slots to add more ram or an external graphics card (maybe I'm wrong?!)

If not, what are they for?
Ah ok, I see what you're saying. It's an interesting idea.

One of the reasons that something like unified syntax is not preferred is because there are some important distinctions between runtime and comptime, and a lisp-like syntax doesn't translate well because lisp doesn't have a meaningful distinction between the two.

For example, it's desirable for some folks to have the "comptime" work (declaring types, imports, function signatures, etc) to have a purely declarative syntax. And languages like Rust use declarative syntax to express things about types, interfaces, and their constraints. Contrast that with the logic of the program which is more convenient for a programmer to express in the imperative style.
I was opposing to this part:

> "But what if they were correct answers?" is largely an irrelevant hypothetical side-issue.
Note that you can combine the lookup table with the taylor series expansion...

And you can even use the same lookup table for each. That means with 2 table lookups in a 32 entry table, a single multiply and add (and a few bit shifts), you can get ~9 bits of precision in your result, which is fine for most uses. It also probably makes a sin operation take ~1 clock cycle on most superscalar architectures, as long as your workload has sufficient instruction parallelism.

Note that a smaller table typically works out faster because 32 entries fit in the cache, whereas repeated random entry into a 1024 entry table would probably kick a bunch of other stuff out of the cache that you wanted.
It does feel a little like a product they made because people kept asking for it... As to who actually needs it, I have no idea.

I was hoping it would have expandable memory. Not because I need the Mac Pro, or insane amounts of memory, I just wanted to see how they'd deal with it.

Technically I suppose Nvidia could write the drivers, not sure if they can justify the cost though. Seems like most people would just get a Linux box.
The prompt “make it sound better” is vague and it requires the model to guess the target audience, the impact you’d like to make, etc.
I've been using C# and (Java|Type)Script pretty much since they were invented. Both use a function coloring async system. I don't know what it's like in Rust, but at least in the two examples with which I have experience with this apparently much-maligned system, I really don't get the complaints. Having to "color" functions really isn't that big of a deal.
Coinbase's argument hinges upon a blockchain not being a "common enterprise." The rest of their arguments are even weaker.
Would it be possible to run new macpro in an energy saving mode if you dont need all the power, i wonder?
Introducing apple Night stand: $299 for best ever and smartest nightstand

/s
Have you noticed how, during Apple presentation, all watches always show 10:10?
It would be trivial to insert banner ads, or even "native ads" in the response.

LLMs are probably even better suited for monetisation since they have a better understanding of what people want, so a better ad can be shown that is more likely to be clicked.

Do you think people were losing their shit when ChatGPT went into bing simply because web search gets better/easier? No - people were losing their shit because it meant the ads in search are going to be turbo-charged and so that is why the share prices are surging (GOOG up 40% over last 6 months): more ad revenue from "better" ads shown to users.
Graydon may lament the features that got away, but being a good loser may be the best way to encourage contributions and to respond to community needs. The historical forces on a language are both its constraints and its drivers. Languages that are nice conceptually are not responsive to history.

Both Swift and Rust both veered away from their original champions. The champions helped by focusing the problem and providing a technical skeleton, but the need (the pain of C/C++/Objective-C) was both intense and complex, so the community was stronger than the BDFL model.

Interestingly, Swift has seen Rust forge ahead on a number of fronts, but is quietly adopting the best of Rust, and soon interoperating with C/C++ will be frictionless. The ties to Apple are being loosened, with a more portable stdlib and a Foundation library that subsets the legacy Apple Foundation instead of dragging Apple API's into other platforms. If/since Apple is to rewrite its systems in Swift, Swift will likely evolve into the best language for migrating off C/C++.

Compare Graydon, von Rossum, or Chris Lattner to Java's Mark Reinhold. Mark has been quietly at the helm of Java since 1997, navigating: the Oracle and open-source transitions, partners ranging from IBM to broad developer communities, continuous VM updates that kept Java relevant, and the quick pace of recent language/library upgrades: lambdas (method and field handles), vector processing and FFI, native...
Answering my own question - just published at £1,399

Disappointing to see higher £ numbers than $. Even accounting for 20% VAT, the price should only be £1,250
> The transition was slow

Here's the timeline the way I think about it:

- 2008-2012 Python 3 becoming usable (byte formatting, six library)

- 2012-2016 Libraries (Django, etc) becoming compatible

- 2016-today Applications (Trac, Ansible, Chrome, etc) becoming compatible.

It took a lot of time for the ecosystem to be ready. Yes, there was a lot of stubbornness, but that's reality.

There are many things that could have been done to make the transition go smoother.
I’d assume you can add any expansion card with drivers for Apple Silicon macos. Now that this config exists I guess some companies will make the necessary drivers for their products.
Bump! app had this, in 2009. Was later acquired by Google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_(application)
This is common in all commercials for watches: https://blog.jgc.org/2020/06/all-symmetrical-watch-faces-and...

Often, Apple screenshots show 09:41: https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-the-time-is-always...
In theory, yes.

In practice, most of the interaction with smart contracts consists of locking up your money in one and expecting yield.
What does a hardware instruction for swapping do?
The solution is obvious then. Keep the same system everywhere and especially in rural areas, but forbid cars in cities.

People who like living in cities don't like cars. People living outside like them. It's quite easy to enforce tbh.
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You're right; but I read that as IRC didn't implement ("catch on to") those essential features as technical feasibility marched forward.
That is just from the newer encoding blocks, which are a small part of the die... And probably a cherry picked result.
Three possibilities (other than just inconsistent statements).

The "we no longer" could be referring to "the US" as "we", since they talk about the FDA outlawing it. So DuPont never made PFOA.

"Manufacture" might be used in the chemical industry only refer to creating products. And DuPont was earlier in the supply chain.

Or, even more upstream, DuPont may have made precursor chemicals that other people mixed into the final PFOA.
We definitely have considered those axes to price against but so far haven't adopted them because we deploy nucleus into your account and its honestly felt a little strange to us to charge a company by region, host, cluster etc. when ultimately you're paying the infra bill.

Not to say that we won't change our packaging and pricing down the line (we certainly will) but for now we're trying to make it easy to adopt without having to think across so many pricing axes. But we've seen pricing questions a few times in this thread - so maybe it's worth evaluating sooner rather than later.
but the ability to affect weight is mostly in the components, and the battery is the largest and heaviest of these. aluminum is pretty light but you need a certain amount of it to have the structural characteristics they're aiming for.
I think it's a useful idea, not sure why you are sarcastic about it
> "With iPhone in your hand"

The lack of an article was a bit startling here, i.e. "iPhone" not "an iPhone". Is this something they have been doing for awhile? Sure we've heard "Siri" and "Alexa" personified for awhile, but raising the device itself to a Person? Perhaps I've just missed this all this years and I'm more sensitive to it in a post-ChatGPT world.
> outperforms ChatGPT

Doubt.

I mean, maybe in a while, but it seems like the general trend is that a month or two after these announcements, independent researchers end up finding that the opposite is actually true.
100GbE networking cards, SDI video cards, audio interface cards.
Boost and std optional do not do it, but you can write your optional type that take advantage of the properties of T for optimal storage via traits.

FWIW, we have had this discussion a few months ago on HN.
Yes. Depends where.
What is the TDP? The performance promised seems too good to be true, what's the catch? I'm sure their advertised workloads are hardware accelerated so I wonder how it performs off-the-beaten-path so to speak.
Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones–Including Its Own
Either that or it will be like gluten-free, and you'll start seeing it slathered all over stuff that never had it in the first place. Like, no duh non-flavored sparkling water is gluten free! (Actual example I saw in the grocery store today)
Looking forward to playing with Journal, but I'm a bit underwhelmed by the preso, doesn't feel like they made it really unique vs third party journals. I was hoping for more of an integration to messages and individual app experiences, especially health. Talked about this a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662525

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662853
Decisions at Scale. The Ownership Model and Organizational Structure at Amazon
So far, in 35 minutes the Worldwide “Developers” Conference seems to be exclusively about consumer features, though they did mention API as an afterthought :)
That's not what the article you linked says at all. Some HW4 vehicles that are shipping now are shipping without Radar (likely due to supply chain or cost issues). But HW4 was designed with a Radar in mind, it's present in the code, registered with the FCC and there are physical connectors for it on the HW4 compute module. You can see photos of the interior of the Radar in the thread from Green that I linked earlier or in this article (https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-hardware-4-hd-radar-first-lo...)

The fact that some early HW4 units will ship with the updated camera suite but not the Radar only further adds to my point that some users are going to be left with inferior sensing systems despite having paid the same $10k for FSD as everyone else. The whole "radar will be used to train and improve the vision" argument is just nonsense made up by Elon & Tesla fans. A properly functioning radar camera sensor fusion system will be superior in every way to a camera only solution. And there will be 0 Tesla's that actually achieve "full self driving" (ie. you going to sleep in the back-seat and waking up at your destination) until Tesla adds things like a cleaning system to their existing camera solution for example. The hardware is simply inadequate.
Some of them seem to be outcasts who don't care about them being socially isolated and would love them to stay at home and play Atari games.
Obviously stopping the kids from doom scrolling or watching netflix all day is crucial so they don't grown into morons is necessary but being weird and isolated is no fun either.
Since the launch of the first iPhone.
Is there a reason to prefer macrumors over the original https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/apple-introduces-the-...
?
How does Bloomberg pay for it? Is it as a loss-leader as some indicate, maybe to sell other Bloomberg products? Or is it difference in news, Bloomberg has lot more advertisers to financial markets interviewing CEO's, then a CNN would get interviewing Diplomats. Where Bloomberg interviews all levels of CEO's and analysis, why can't CNN interview Diplomats from around the world, or scientists, or there are tons of people that want to talk. And interviews don't take that much overhead. --- I think I agree with other sentiment here, there is a lot of news to report, it can be interesting.
Microsoft Kills Cortana in Windows
CXL ram expansion cards actually are a thing!

It is no free lunch though, it will very very slow even if they offer it.
I've seen the same in golang, which ironically is supposed to be vehemently against OOP.
They would provide the photo. You choose your photo and everyone else gets it which is already true with the small contact photo and name which are shared automatically.
Ok, because that one seemed real familiar. I was a little confused because I was like "It doesn't already?"
Does it support more than one external display? The lack of that feature was the primary thing that drove me to choose a 13" MacBook Pro instead.
No sideloading?
https://www.techspot.com/news/98469-lg-gram-superslim-weighs...

"LG Gram SuperSlim weighs under 1kg, packs a 15-inch OLED screen. It's also extremely thin"
Time to start hitting up old friends and arrange photo shoots with them then!
Not only that, but one thing that bothers me about Apple's demos is how unusual all the models are. Why can't they just look like normal people? I did see an old person who they referred to as "your neighbor" and I felt like that was the first time in awhile I had seen a "contact" in an Apple demo that wasn't some young-20 year old with some wild fashion and hair styles.
An interesting read. Always been fascinated with compilers and lexers. I should really make a language at some point. I tried following that "make a lisp in c"* book but I didn't like that they used external libraries that I didn't know about.

[*] https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
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It's one of those Silicon Valley-isms that no one uses outside of product presentations. IIRC it goes all the way back to when Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone
your own obscure lisp of course!
The quality of those photos always gets me, makes me feel like Michael Douglas' character in Falling Down demanding that his burger look like the one in the advertisement.
Robot Pizza Startup Shuts Down After Cheese Kept Sliding Off
I really don't understand the excitement either
See also Boeing merging McDonald Douglas[1]
[1]https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merg...
I hope it will be on Mac as well because I'd rather write on the macbook over my phone.
Servers may be cheap to run, but the interest bill on ~20bn of loans is expensive.
This is only to cover damage to the drinking water (and excludes any drinking water supplied by state or federal governments). More lawsuits or settlements can concern themselves with damage to the environment.

As for if that is a trivial amount for what they are paying for, I don't know.
How much power do you think you stand to save by something like that? These modern CPUs have blurred the distinction between "idle" and "off".
Journal is Apple’s new journaling app for iOS
> The alternative explanation is that EFF, having experienced incredible and well-funded push-back in its attempts to invalidate dumb patents, believes that this rule has been engineered to limit even further the ability of third-parties to challenge unnecessary patents.

I am expressing doubt about whether the EFF actually has a stake in these rule changes, as they very clearly state several times. The article here isn't about generic third parties. It's about the EFF. This rule change also came after someone essentially tried to use an IPR to extort VLSI technology and Intel. The lack of recognition of that extortion and the corresponding limitations on these rules suggests to me that the EFF is not being entirely forthright here.

> I mean, I don't want to be rude here, but it feels like "I've read the changes, I don't think they apply to EFF, so I guess the only explanation is that EFF is corrupt", seems a bit of a jump, compared to the simpler explanation that EFF does believe its process to be affected, as argued by the OP link.

Holy strawman batman. Read the second paragraph.

Also, the rule change is in English. You can actually read the rule change and you will realize that it's a lot more narrow than the EFF is suggesting. In particular, the new rules only limit IPRs for (a) for-profit companies (b) not currently engaged in litigation on patents that are in litigation (c) where said for-profit company is not in that field. All 3 of those have to be satisfied for your IPR to be tossed under those rules. Since the EFF is a non-profit, they should really have no problem with this.

If we were to take the EFF's words at face value that this rule change applies specifically to the EFF's ability to fight bad patents, the only real conclusion we can draw is that some of the EFF's funding comes from for-profit companies who want specific patents struck down (invalidating (a) above) or want the EFF to hurt their competitors, which would, in fact, be suggestive of corruption. The other conditions certainly don't apply to the EFF.

So that leaves us with one of two alternatives:

1. The EFF actually has no dog in the fight but just doesn't want to have an effective patent system; or

2. The EFF takes money from companies with the purpose of hurting their competitors.
A 52 watt hour battery is very middle of the road. The tradeoff you're making is aluminum for plastic. The aluminum MBA is heavier and feels more premium. Plastic is an underrated material IMO -- in many situations it will bend rather than break.
The number one thing I wish for in an iOS update is for the text selection and the cursor placement to become less terrible. Currently it is an absolutely unusable nightmare.

My main use case for my iPad is writing, and the guy who invented the "smart" text selection seems to hate my fingers - it is impossible to place the cursor where I want it to be. It tries to "intelligently" snap to the beginnings and endings of words and it gets it wrong 90% of the time.

I know that you can move the cursor with press and hold on the spacebar or on the text, but having to wait a second every time I want to move the cursor is the most annoying thing in the world. It is so much easier to edit text on my much smaller Android phone screen, it's ridiculous.

Just place the cursor where I tap, how hard can it be!
Open-Source Data Collection Platform for LLM Fine-Tuning and RLHF
So with IrDA and animated emojis they... achieved feature parity with flip phones from 2000s...?
As if every presenter has the same time all the time.
A lot of times libraries want to have a C-callable ABI. This means you don't see a lot of C++ features in use between library boundaries, even if they use a lot of it internally.

Also, further back in history, the ABIs for a lot of C++ features were subject to change. If you used g++ on Linux in the 90s and 2000s you've been bit by this. I'm not sure if this still happens in the modern era with the standards still iterating a lot; would not surprise me if it still does. This is another reason to avoid interfaces with a high risk of breaking ABI, which C++ features can be.
Why would I risk ruining my $3200 MacBook Pro to save $70 to replace the battery myself seeing how tight the tolerances are for everything related to laptop Macs instead of just letting Apple or a 3rd party authorized repair person do it for $249?

The glue on the battery is the least of my problems. Do you really think that Apple glues the battery down for that sweet little money they make on battery replacements for the relatively few they sell? Macs themselves only make up 10% of their revenue. How much do you think out of warranty battery replacements make them?
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past. What If He Didn't Have To?
Assuming you don't intend to dismiss any source that doesn't paint an entirely benign image as being partisan, there is the Wikipedia page[0]. Of course, it's easy to find plenty of non-benign images and video from the event, it's odd that you've apparently never encountered them.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito...
Looks great, I imagine these will sell very well even if $1299 starting is kind of steep. Last time I was shopping for a laptop the screen was the main reason I picked a Pro over an Air.
Good. If they can execute them better than Google I am all for it. GBoard gets worse every day.
"I was slighted once by a completely opt in community that helps millions of people every day so it deserves to die"

Why is this everyone's default response to this kind of stuff?