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> The real champion isn't even Apple here, it's Codeweavers for keeping Wine fresh on MacOS and Valve for pushing gaming on UNIX-likes to it's logical conclusion

Assuming this thing takes-off and suddenly the RGB LED-illuminated crowd switch to Apple hardware and macOS, then it's a very depressing thought because it means Apple will veritably make hundreds of millions (billions?) of dollars off Codeweaver's (and their extended community)'s work - and they'll get-away with it because their revenue can be classed as hardware sales, and not software licensing.

I honestly don't know how to feel about this.

I do feel a pang of smugness seeing the (post-iPhone) Apple having to stop pretending that copyleft doesn't exist[1] but also seeing them acknowledging that ecosystems other than their own do actually exist, but ultimately favourable smirks are in no way any kind of compensation to the unpaid effort put in by many of Wine-and-co's devs.

I suppose Apple could do the decent thing and offer to acqui-hire Codeweavers et al., but that's more akin to a heavenly afterlife for Codeweavers' people (i.e. after acquisition Codeweavers would necessarily die along with their mission (beyond Apple's own self-serving uses) which might be a bigger disservice to everyone involved, especially the community.

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Unrelated-but-related: is any of Wine or Codeweavers' code under GPLv3? If so, that's might be the undoing of Apple's locked-down bootloaders: supposing that iOS, iPadOS or visionOS/xrOS includes DX12 compat via GPLv3-derived code: would Apple be legally obligated to explicitly allow users to install their own firmware contrary to their user-hostile, regressive, and (imo) indefensible policies so far?

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[1]: Apple avoids the GPL, but so do all the large incumbents (though of course, like literally everyone, Apple is now fairly on-board with MIT/BSD licenses) - I do note that the KHTML-derived WebKit retains its GPL licensing, is a single, huge, exception, but I also note that Apple, internally, heavily firewalls-off their WebKit devs from anything else. (I've visited Apple's offices in-person and while the pizza place in the central cafeteria is nice, the fact that their SWEs can't casually walk down the hallway into another product team's office and exchange misc advice is just downright _weird_ to me, that's why I withdrew my only application to work there)
China's exports tumble in May as global demand falters
FBI warns of increasing use of AI-generated deepfakes in sextortion schemes
And a net loss for kids education, and a net loss for the vulnerable in who’s name the lockdown is enacted, and a net loss for the health of the nation who’s services were to be prevented from collapsing. It also would be good if next time we rely on those same set of “key workers”, who just so happen to be those that are relatively disadvantaged in political, health, and economic terms, despite that the next pandemic may actually have an IFR that matters more.

But it’s good to stiff the economy. That will make up for all the other policy failures. And more people will be on board with that next time so there won’t be any of that pesky criticism of the settled science that there was this time.

But good to stiff the economy. That’s what matters.
My mate - for some unknown reason - bought a pub and lamented that "the kids aren't drinking anymore!" which anyone who goes to a lot of gigs could have easily observed. Booze is the worst, even though it can be awesome.

Personally, I think weed is horrible, and not just the smell. I once thought weed was as harmless as a banana, until I saw the state of my friends who've smoked a lot of weed for multiple decades, they're just lethargic and fugged-up, often distant, but who knows if it was the ultra-strong stuff - skunk? - that was all the rage.

A lot of other drugs have popped up in casual use, though. The stuff just gets delivered now, like a pizza.
This doesn't hold true for FPS games. You absolutely need to tell the game where you are aiming so it can draw crosshairs, even for on-rails shooters favored by VR.
In the same vein I used to consider intel drivers to be the most stable and best for desktop use. Now understand there are many caveats to this statement.

I use a lot of openbsd and you won't be running nvidea drivers on openbsd for love or money. there is nouveau and they are doing amazing work, however, they are also up against a petty, secretive company that appears to hate them. So nvidea is out.

Understandably openbsd gets zero support from the manufactures. So we need an opensource driver and some brave heroic soul to volunteer their time to get it running.

AMD drivers worked well enough and if you want decent 3d acceleration the only real choice. However they tended to crash and 3d acceleration is usually not a priority if using openbsd. Also starting with amdgpu the drivers got big, really big. The amdgpu driver nearly has more code then the rest of the openbsd kernel[1]. it is this big mess of generated code where each card uses a slightly different ISA. I understand why having a stable ISA is not a priority for AMD(it lets them change the card architecture easier) however sometimes i wish it were documented and pinned down. it would certainly make for a more stable driver that is easier to integrate.

And then there is intel, Note that I have not used intel graphics since 2016 so my experience is out of date. but once you got past the first generation of intel graphics the experience was rock solid, the drivers always worked well for me. if asked for the best openbsd experience I would recommend intel every time. However my last few machines have been amd and unfortunately there is no intel graphics add-in card(i looked). My last intel box I had an amd 3d card but I only used it under windows to play games. for work/openbsd I would just use the onboard intel graphics as they were more stable.

1. https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/watc
Those estimates seem to be outdated.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08234-0
Would you say the same thing later this year?
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Hopefully they're laying off whoever's responsible for the video player that hasn't worked in 5 years.
A single number to represent a rotation in 2D, vs a single number to represent rotations in 4D for which 2D, and 3D are special cases.

Compared to 3 numbers and a series of operations which happen to rotate a 3D vector.

Regardless I think euler angles should not be taught except as a dont do this, its a bad idea. Mostly because when used in practice, in order to interpret them you must convert them to quaternion to do so, which is very telling. Gimbal lock is a secondary problem to that.
Strapping on goggles to record a family moment feels super weird to me too. I wonder if future iPhones will have the sensors required to take 3D photos.
That is not a typical lock file. If it is, then it is a bad one. Lock files need checksums, not version numbers (oh well, both.). Version numbers do not protect from changes. At least not in all important cases or scenarios. I've had packages in the PHP world change their checksum and when I alerted them about it, they were like "So? We only changed some documentation of that version." ... Who knows what else people change in the same version. No. You need checksums.
Macbooks are really cheap for what they are, not sure what are you on friend. I would never buy one though, still, they are very impressive and its a shame that they are not free.
No, according to this [1], Debian's i386 architecture dropped support for the 386 and 486 in versions Sarge and Squeeze respectively. Pretty amazing that it did work on the first Pentium (released 1993!) up to 2018. In Debian version after Jessie the Pentium (i586) has been dropped too [2].

Of course, I don't think many people are using i386 builds anymore - most people would have switched to the more modern x86_64 long ago.

1. https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/ch02s01.html.en

2. https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/i386/ch02s01.html.en
Has Apple ever released a Developer Edition product before?
And what it would be like to live in a society of uneducated people.
Vektor (Mini Vector Database)
a mini vector database implementation that intends to be educational and interpretable
Run and create custom ChatGPT-like bots with OpenChat
The problem is that your account is coming across as a single-purpose flamewar account on a divisive topic. That kind of thing isn't in the intended spirit of the site.

It's fine to express a minority viewpoint but if that's the main thing you're doing, on a single divisive topic, then you aren't using HN as intended.

Can you please stop creating accounts to do this kind of thing? We end up having to ban them because they're not what this site is for. I don't have any problem with your views (I don't even know what they are, actually) but we need users here to use HN in the intended spirit, which is above all curiosity. Hardened battle from fixed positions is the opposite of that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wasn't sure if this was a joke about overlicensing of everything in Germany, but alas no.
> If the movies of the era are anything to go by…

I suppose if our frame of reference for talking about reality is movies, it’s also incredibly disappointing how little respect we display as a society toward Dominic Toretto. He and his crew have saved the world several times since Gen Z were born and they act like he doesn’t even exist.
Where do we think the aliens came from, specifically, without it?
As a user... I prefer to use Linux for everything else. Until not long ago, I was restricted to Windows due to my gaming habits.

Now I can run Linux as my daily driver, since I can run games properly.
Well, most people would not accept the generous offer from the African prince, just because he wrote them an email.

And not everyone would buy everything some market crier advertises to them - or order anything that's hyped on some shopping channel.

And hopefully not too many would not fall for those scam calls, were the caller claims to be from Microsoft and to need their help (and password) to fix a Virus on their Computer.

And not everyone will just blindly agree to every single upsell that any company offers them.

Most people are kind of conditioned to be at least somewhat suspicious of anyone trying very hard to convince them of something.

I don't know if it's correct to call that a "disorder", kinda implying that this is the "abnormal" behavior - and also implying that agreeing and accepting all of the above is what a "normal" person (with no disorder) would do.
It won't kill it quite yet, but it will reduce demand. I expect the major players in the industry, who are quite litigious, will try to show that their IP was used to train the models so they'll try to get their cut stifle or kill them at birth.
I've written one comment with a link to Lemmy on one of my alt, permanently suspended the next day, I appealed and they refused it without replying on why I was suspended.
There’s also perverse monetary incentives.

“We need to increase tourism on the Town. Cowille business is booming since they had that Virgin Mary apparition. Anne-Marie, could that shape that you saw while tending the sheep be the Spirit of Saint Peter?”
The more people buy the more venues will be tempted to raise the prices, also.
Most of them are religious paintings. It's still surprising to see a UFO in The Baptism of Christ, though I'm sure some people would explain it away as something else somehow.
It's not really obnoxious, even if it were, it's ridiculous to expect people to simply silently tolerate all the decisions a browser with a share majority makes.
Hmm I wonder... Space walk for your average article might be more selling if generated. Olympics, maybe some posing setup would sell more too. Presidential speech surely they want more "representative" gallery or fix some defects. Met Gala fashion, again make things better.

Propaganda and need to sell things are powerful motives. And AI generation and modification are great tools for that. Authenticity sell to very few.
You've no idea.

The ARM has lots of instructions, each fairly simple. Compare this to an architecture where a single instruction can ① compute the address of its operands in main memory, ② read them, ③ carry out its main operation and eventually ④ write the result to main memory, with most of those steps optional and depending on the arguments supplied.
good point, as an artist the joy is in creating - the result is not that important, but that is my work, other artists results can be very dear to me.
> Then go online an hour later to send reply + update the feed.

Usenet was truly special and an awesome design. Every iteration of something newer has been strictly worse. Mailing lists, forums, and now proprietary platforms controlled by a single corporation. At every step, features and functionality have been lost.

In the early 90s I used to travel coast to coast a lot, so I pulled all the newsgroups I was following to my laptop and spent the flights reading and responding to posts. Then I'd sync at the other coast before flying back.
Agree. This was the first wwdc that really made me feel like apple's vision of the future is really not mine.

And made me question my work choice as an iOS user and developer, this time from an ethical perspective.
Do you really put aliens and psyops in the same league of fantastical speculation? One is advanced beings from light years away or other dimensions, and the other is military information campaigns for which there is plenty of precedent.
You can also dispatch at runtime based on CPUID (x86) or getauxval(AT_HWCAP) for ARM. Also Clang and GCC seem to be moving in the direction of removing -march=native which is sad since grokking all the different microarchitectures isn't easy.
Just to stay grounded in reality, yes there is intelligent non-human life in space. No, based on what we know about physics, we will never interact with them. Occam's Razor says the GP is correct and this is intentional deception - either that or the guy with the big shirt who says we have alien spacecraft in warehouses is a nut.
It’s almost as if I said

> in different circles with different people, like GP indicates happens

But you just chose to ignore it and soldier on with your rambling diatribe.

If people in completely different subs like StarTrek and CanadaCoronavirus and god knows how many others all say someone is an asshole, then the person is just a fucking asshole. That’s all there is to it.

It’s not some big conspiracy caused by “merging of subs” or whatever other BS you and your friends come up with to justify your shitty behavior.

Considering this thread is no longer on the front page and you somehow chose to reply to all my comments and their sibling threads in here, I’m just going to go on a limb to say you’re probably a sock puppet for someone else here. Next time, just use your main account.
I don’t know what estimates exist for the bit rate of SETI signals, this paper seems to imply 0.01 bits per second:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00945...

If we assume GPT4 is a trillion parameters, each 16 bits, then this would require 5000 years to transmit (quite aside from any error correction or the description of how the parameters should be arranged).

I would hope that our AI would be able to bootstrap to FTL in that time.
The universe is big.
What part of the plant suggests that it "wants" anything instead of just being adapted by force of natural selection to respond in certain ways?

There is nothing in plants that should make us believe they can do anything like thinking, certainly short of sentience. They have no neurons, or anything resembling neurons, only cells locked into a grid that behave in deterministic ways. It's not impossible to imagine a system that thinks using chemical signaling alone, but what makes you think plants have this quality?

They respond, for example, to light. The cells can detect light, and this induces chemical signaling that directs the plant on internodal length and direction. We could make a robot or something that does this. Could we say such a thing "wants" light? Probably not, except as a convenience of explanation out of personification.

Or, to summarize, these simple stimulus-response effects are not sufficient to justify a belief that there is intelligence. I suppose it's argumentum ad absurdum.
I think it's sort of priced in already. I expect certain cryptos will outlive even the biggest exchanges. That statement has been repeatedly over the last 12 years anyway.
Discussion of this story from a couple of days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195832
Computing is a very broad matter, sooooo maaaaaybeeeeee if you were Karpathy you could be compared?
I am the author of this trick as well

You can read about it in https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/infrastructu...
While not directly related to your question, Google docs' switch to canvas broke my custom dark theme which I'd been maintaining for years, and several others were also using. This had been the main draw for me switching to Google docs in the first place and they took it away. I'd argue this is much less accessible as I can't use the product at night. Ironically, I feel like I've experienced more bugs after the switch than before
In 2020 Apple invented unified memory?

More seriously people need to stop with the Apple comparisons. Unified memory has been a thing for a way longer time. Heck around 2014 AMD had integrated GPUs with not just unified memory but fully unified address spaces with the host. Unified memory in itself happened way before that.

Not to mention that mobiles have always been unified archs. It’s just a design decision.
> they could release a stand alone camera in future

I would prefer a lens that could adapt an existing camera to 3d photography / video. Some already exist, like:

- Canon RF 5.2mm F2.8 L Dual Fisheye: https://www.dpreview.com/news/7991481617/canon-shows-first-f...

- Loreo 3D Lens 9005: https://www.oddcameras.com/loreo_3d_lens_9005.htm
The trajectory of ML appears to point towards massive transfer of wealth to capital owners and impoverishment of the working classes.

We need to find a way to distribute the benefits of such developments.
> Not sure why you're downvoted

Butthurt mac users that don't like to think their toy is worse somehow, obviously.
A QR code is just data, it doesn't have to be a URL, it could just as easily be any kind of data
Once you're talking about millions a year rather than billions or trillions I don't know if that's true. A government (or a group of several) could decide to do it because their citizens would benefit from a reduction in warming.

Whether there would still be appetite for the larger price tag of carbon sequestration once there was a band-aid for warming is another question though.
Lots of speed sensitive programs also ship multiple implementations they can choose at run time so they can more fully utilize a CPU without recompiling.
Very interesting! Thank you for the effort.
Real life is what good illustrators actually train from: figure studies, value studies etc. - from life. (Edit: you study like the old masters, not necessarily the paintings of them - though it is also done ofc, but not the most important part)
You can't waste energy. It can't be destroyed!
Who should take responsibility for evil UX design and digital ethics?
Metals with 4 magic inscriptions: what secrets does Alchemical Hand Bell hold
> A different monetization model is easily conceivable that gives paid users better functionality instead of (what the author calls) "aesthetic perks" that only serve to evoke class envy, as if like jewelry.

With a group of friends we subscribed to Nitro to boost our private server's capabilities, which we use almost every day so the "better functionality" is definitely there.

Quite tired of this particular author/blog on HN and their edgy take on everything.
A marketing demographic having less sex does not equate to them being less rapey. It just means they're having less sex.
Interesting. Evolution is a series of happy accidents. So is creativity.
I was taking while being tired from exercise. While skiing biking etc often. While doing vr, I've broken a monitor and gone through a wall and broken several controllers. While just waking around I forgot my shed had a low door and clipped my head last week first time in years. That's why I wear a effing helmet. You're blind on your stationary bike and pop off wrong. Done. Foot stays clipped in, faceplant.
> Not sure how parents feel about putting kids in front of a machine that can fabricate lies.

You mean like a human teacher?

Of course, I agree with your point, but worth remembering that teachers can and do (knowingly or unknowingly) give incorrect information to their students.

I think one big difference with ChatGPT etc. is, as far as I've seen, it will pretty much always give a confident sounding answer (unless it's on a banned topic) rather than saying something like "I don't know", which a (good) human teacher should do rather than just making something up.
There is going to be an AI/AR/VR existential crisis in some people.

The status quo is that we interact in 2 distinct ways. First, with a simulacra of a real object or people, but at a distance. That's video conferencing, texting, email, (mostly) social media, etc. Second, with simulations, i.e. video games, produced media (i.e. fake people played by real ones, photoshopped everything, post-produced CGI'd, etc.).

The difference now is that the wall between these is going to fall, and it will be difficult to distinguish between the two going forward.

Culture doesn't require that its basis is real. Some people are going to choose Religion 2.0, where they prefer the mediated experience to the unmediated one, and others will reject it. These two groups can't get along because even if values are shared, there will be a divergence of meaning.
CSINC and even CMOVBL do not sound "fairly simple".

Maybe it is because the mental model of higher level programmer - for an application programmer, anything that involves writing and reading main memory directly is considered simple, whereas combining a conditional, an increment and a write in a single op sounds "not simple".
There is no one to be laid off. This feature in particular was contracted to eastern European devs through some German consultancies;) It was cheap though.
The new instructions are used often or seldom depending on whether you count invocations or occurences.

There are new instructions that can be used to write a constant-time SHA-256 hash function. A program that contains megabytes of code, more than a million instructions, may reasonably contain only a few of those instructions, because it contains only one or two small hash functions. The instructions are important and effective, but occur only a handful of times among a million instructions.
>And these 3D spacial moment recordings, imagine children growing up in a house where when something nice happens, the parent rushes to put on goggles and stare at them through them,

Isn't this what used to happen with camcorders and now with smartphones?

Hell, how many people watch live music events and the like in-person through a smartphone camera (assuming recording is okay)?

I understand where you're coming from, but it pays to take a step back and look at things from a wider and more fundamental perspective.
you mean the demographic that regularly buys enthusiast tier 2000 dollar pcs and 1500 dollar VR headsets is not a demo that apple wants to buy their enthusiast tier 3500 dollar device?

apple's anti-gamer slant has always stunk to me of some exec being salty about what went down with nvidia and hating the idea of ppl playing games.
their slapfight with epic games is another example of them not giving 2 shits about the gaming market and alienating a highly growing userbase.hell they didn't mention live streaming at all and that seems like a usecase this thing is tailor built to be good at considering how many cameras and screens it has!

meanwhile they want people to buy into apple arcade...