skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What GP is saying is that most people in the world do not have an account located in the US specifically. I seriously doubt they're saying 95% of Americans don't have a bank account, which would be absurd.
I'm still running a 2020 M1 MBP and this looks pretty similar, so I'm considering making the jump. Am I missing anything important? I mostly like my current MBP but I would really appreciate a larger screen and actual function keys, ideally without shelling out $3k+. Any ideas what I would gain or lose by making the switch? Are there better options?
> In Tech we have more choice, I'd say that isn't much more.

Ok. Then our main disagreement is whether a household income of $400k grants significantly more freedom than a household income of $150k. I'd argue that it indeed does.
you are correct, i am asking about hackernews
No doubt many will find 100+ gigs of GPU ram is worth closing 2 or 3 Chrome tabs.
Or they could just call it "sharing contact cards using AirDrop". Not everything they announce needs an obtuse proper noun :(
You can get a full spec one on eBay for ~$800 these days. Some cheese graters going for good prices as well.
So it looked like a bad idea to most people. But to few, it seemed obvious. Should they try it, or should they project their thoughts onto others and pass because if it's obvious, no point doing it?

It's very simple. Take everything that you see potential in, obvious or non-obvious and do research. That research will show if it's done or not done.
Its already known that the M2 line is more of a refresh than a big step over the M1.
It's obviously a joke.
I still run telnet services as easter eggs. One just connects up to an implementation of the original ADVENT, one to nethack, etc.

Few people have ever discovered these, but they amuse me anyway. And I like being able to play nethack from anywhere, on any machine.
People paying ransoms.
> other rights to other people’s money or redistribution of consequences you want me to add to the list

Glad you mention redistribution of consequences, given we're burning public prosecution dollars and court time in the United States to deal with FTX, who were downed by the same sort of embezzling Zhao and Binance seem to be up to.
The net interprets hate as noise and filters it out.

At least, that's the goal.
> If we stopped trying to report election returns in real time ... we could avoid a lot of these highly divisive controversies.

At least in the United States, election results were reported the same night for decades and there were very few questions surrounding the truth, even in 2000 people agreed on the need for a recount, even if they disagreed on the methodology or the ultimate result.

Only since 2020, all of a sudden results take multiple days and the electorate is supposed to just understand "this is how it is now" and not question anything, despite witnessing major swings in individual states or districts occurring overnight.
True, but the paper reduced opposition. I was surprised by the paper at the time, but given the authors considered it a useful analysis. I was quite relieved when the error was discovered
Allowing important systems to fail is not without cost.
thanks for the response, will check the showdead option
Came to say the same. Usenet was amazing - in it's time.
If that's "failure" then lots of apps would be happy to fail.
Haha I died reading this. I was feeling the same. Like isn’t this not WWDC? Apple is definitely losing the appeal for devs to watch these. It’s no longer technical and all marketing.

I miss WWDC several years ago
Yes, you only need faith.
Note: Even when nothing bad actually happened, this exposes customer funds to risk. It's fraudulent for me to promise to store your car in a garage, but then take it on a 140 mph joyride down the freeway.
I've seen this happen to a few others, including myself, when it's clear that the title was thoughtfully created to convey something substantial.

The way I've made peace with it is to think "not my platform, not my rules", and let others change the title to whatever they please.
I got a full spec one for £400 off ebay! (the trash can)
A detective show set in modern India filmed in Unreal Engine
Detective Dotson is a game and a show! It has pixel characters placed in a realistic 3D depiction of modern India. Would love your feedback on our trailer!
MacBook Air uses Thunderbolt 3, which only requires 1 additional display. Thunderbolt 4, which the MacBook Pro 14/16 has, requires support for connecting at least two additional displays. [0]

[0]: https://www.thunderbolttechnology.net/tech/faq
Apple wants you to buy an ipad for each kid.
In my experience, Argilla is a good open source platform for datacentric NLP. And these features are a great addition...
Have you tried it?
Can’t wait for ClippyGPT to annoy me like the 90s!
> So Apple wasn't able to increase performance (or even ram capacity) beyond the Ultra series chips. Thats disappointing.

Did we watch the same presentation? The M1 Ultra maxed out at 128GB of RAM, the M2 Ultra can handle 192GB. The CPU cores go from 20 to 24. GPU cores go from 64 to 76.
> The equivalent of polar coordinates in 3d are quaternions

I’d disagree. Quaternions are the 3D equivalent (yes, I’m aware of the subtleties here, but speaking in a rough sense) to using complex numbers to represent rotations.

Euler angles are much closer in spirit to polar coordinates, but unfortunately have gimbal lock.
Starting in 2003 I spent several years as a principal developer developing mobile office software.

When we launched our excel compatible spreadsheet we diligently formalized every function and wrote tests to verify behavior. It was beautiful.

Then we started receiving lots of bug reports from users because our calculations often didn’t match what they were seeing in Excel. Older Excel versions had lots of bugs and Microsoft had been carrying them forward because at that point it was “better” to carry the errors forward and display results people expected rather than fixing them and having everyone confused by the changed results.

So we copied their behavior as best we could. I wish I had the list still but it was long and full of weird edge cases which caused formulas to be incorrect.
I don't think Usenet failed. It declined.
It was a platform for "first hour" internet users, the early "internet natives", mostly nerds, like us.

When the masses appeared on the "intarwebs" the web would be the place to go, with all it's flashy hypermedia and uniform way of use (no separate client needed, same philosophy, etc.)

The Usenet simply got replaced by web forums.
> considering the SECs unwillingness of declaring when cryptocurrencies are securities or not

The SEC has been clear about ICOs from the start. BNB was launched in an ICO. Binance then traded it on its exchange. To the degree a security is being identified in this complaint, it's BNB. Nothing in this complaint is novel law.
Some evidence that the Howey test isn't that objective and clear:

1) Gary Gensler, now SEC chairman, used to claim that 3/4 of the cryptocurrency market were not securities[0]. He has changed his tune significantly since then.

2) The SEC chairman can't answer this simple question: "is Ethereum a commodity or a security?"[1].

[0] https://twitter.com/ZK_shark/status/1650689125580668931

[1] https://youtu.be/h_oAr4wn7M4?t=1048
It's a reference to how autocorrect will turn "fucking" into "ducking" as of now. I understood this as with iOS17, you'll finally be allowed to have "fucking" autocompleted and not autocorrected away - thought I might be wrong :)
I tried two other prompts, here is the last one (4) - asking GPT to use the voice of the best writer I know.

Prompt: Re-write this in the voice and style of the financial writer, Matt Levine

Output: Ah, the oft-encountered comment that warrants a fresh perspective. My interpretation deviates from the norm. Individuals blessed with formidable reading and writing skills appear to ascribe a diminished worth to GPT's prowess in written expression, whereas those with comparatively modest linguistic abilities accord greater significance to the very same aptitude displayed by GPT.
That is a terrible metaphor, because it is dismissive and implies that there is really no difference between LISP and other languages.

I repeatedly hear smart and productive people say LISP is special because of macros. Personally I think we all should try to listen, and not miss out on learning something important, when very smart people keep repeating similar messages.

I believe the power of LISP macros causes one cost and one risk.

The cost: source code is a regular tree of data with only one type of node and a few primitive types of leaves. This heavily restricts syntax, and people unfamiliar with the reason behind the syntax choices find the syntax ugly.

The risk: the power of macro transformations can make code completely unreadable. Writing macros is not for low skilled programmers or developers without good taste. Macros allow customisation, but that power can be used well or badly. LISP lacks safety features, and its power makes it trivial to code footguns (or much worse). In return you get productivity, if you and your team are wise enough to use the power for good!

Basically macros restricts syntax choices but gifts semantic choices in return.

A simple example: in most imperative languages from the code you can tell when a function is being called. In LISP with macros you can't (although I would guess each codebase will have semantic and stylistic (non-syntax) norms that would help you).

Disclaimer: I don't program in LISP so much of the above is academic.
I've said this a bunch of times before, but I don't see this take in a lot of Usenet postmortems, and I think it's truer than most of what people say about Usenet.

Piracy killed Usenet.

I ran a Freenix-competitive NNTP installation for a very popular ISP in Chicago in the 1990s. Usenet was by far the most demanding infrastructure we ran: we ran striped RAID arrays, read replicas†, transit servers --- all of this on the only expensive Sun hardware we had in our fleet. At one point, we independently reinvented the INN history cache, and there were a couple sites near the top of the Freenix leaderboard in part due to IRC conversations about our dumb patch. All this is just to say I feel like I have some bona fides here.

Keeping up with the Usenet everybody laments today was not this demanding. You could easily have done it with a Pentium FreeBSD server and a fast disk. But customers wouldn't let you. The open secret about Usenet was that it was a binary distribution system first and a discussion forum second.

Unlike discussion groups, keeping up with full-feed binary groups was a fucking nightmare. Usenet is the stupidest mechanism for distributing binaries you can possibly imagine: just imagine BitTorrent, but entirely Base64'd, and without the forward error correction --- your file was in 100 pieces, and if you lost one of them, you were just fucked. If users couldn't reliably download pirated games or porn from your Usenet servers, they'd loudly complain and tank your reviews for running a bad Usenet setup. And woe betide any ISP that claimed to do NNTP on anything less than a binary full feed.

The rest of the story is obvious. ISP operators had better things to do with their time and money than cater to the small minority of angry cost-center users who used Usenet this way, and so they outsourced Usenet altogether. Usenet centralized because binary groups forced it to, and once it was centralized there was no reason not to just stick it on a website.

Web forums are better than Usenet was back in the day, so arguably, over the long term, not much was really lost. Reddit today is very much like Usenet was like in the mid-1990s, and they at least have a reliable archive. Apart from the archives of my old comp.security.unix posts, all I really miss about Usenet was the competitive systems engineering aspect of it. I'd love to go back in time and take another whack at Usenet knowing some of what I know now; I didn't realize how fun a problem it was at the time: a real system people actually cared about with a leaderboard.

† These things sound very boring now but were most definitely not boring in 1995.
> The major innovation in this space is to make the compiler an interpreter which can evaluate the language at compile time (and emits code for runtime where it cannot).

Show us an extant language that does this, then.

Partial Evaluation (automatic) was a very unsolved problem, last I looked.
When I go to the article I get some sort of cloudlflare "check" intermediate page. Could that be interfering with indexing?
:D Great! What are you up to nowadays?
> Looking immediately before the referendum vote and afterwards

Umm, Cameron announced that he would propose to hold a referendum on EU membership if his party won the next general election way back in January 2013 [0]

The GBPEUR midrate at the end of that month was 1.167 [1]

Doesn't look quite as much of a story if one were to write about the British pound "plunging" from 1.167 when the possibility of a Brexit was first mentioned to, umm, 1.15 the day after the vote, does it?

BTW, I fully appreciate that the immediate movement due to the outcome of the vote was large, but there were a lot of expectations baked in, Cameron also promptly resigned after "losing" the vote, and political shocks like those aren't necessarily what you look for if you're hoping for a strong currency!

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jan/23/david-camer...
[1] https://www.xe.com/currencytables/?from=GBP&date=2013-01-31
Except that they are excessively gamed with reformulations.
More so given the drivers issue.. I expect OWC and a few companies like AVID will develop proper tools for their hardware but all in it's not going to be nearly as approachable. Also the limit of 192gb on Unified Memory might still be an issue too.

We'll see what happens with release, but as someone with two Intel Mac Pros in use, not quite sure I see a reason to switch still (though my laptop is the M1 Air released 2 years ago).
I'm starting to think there will be no headset announcement. They spent an awful long time on stickers. And it's almost over.

Edit: Glad to be wrong, but also quite deflated. I will never be able to afford this $3499 device.
The shareholders aren't the ones manufacturing the PFAS. I think that I want the operating unit to be halted and dismantled. Not the shareholders, management, or other units. So, I don't think Chapter 11 is the right solution.
The startup that became Google Sheets was basically an Excel->HTML conversion tool.
> If you look at developing countries like India and China, car ownership and usage is exploding as people grow wealthier.

Urban planning in these places will naturally cap car ownership, i.e. in PRC cities have 0.5 - 1 parking spaces per car vs 3-6 in US. Ownership is not going to explode to the point of replicating comparable problems of car centric urban design. It comes with it's own downsides of course.
> CBDCs are exactly why crypto will always be around

CBDCs aren't on the table in America anymore. They were a stupid workaround to our political opposition to postal banking.
SEC Sues Crypto Exchange Binance over Multiple Securities Violation Allegations
Is a public company not working of the exchange it's traded on is fraudulent? No — it can still offer governance rights and potentially dividends.

Does gold not work if the exchange it's traded on is fraudulent? No, it can still be held and traded peer to peer, and it can still be used in manufacturing.

You're conflating the market with the actual network. The Bitcoin network works just fine.
More accurately, Coinbase is claiming their staking service does not count as a security under the Howey Test. A judge or panel of judges will be the ones making the actual determination, Coinbase’s claim has yet to be tested in court.
Haha, it's fine to me that they're using attractive hip young (or old) people in their promos, it's just funny to imagine how these features will play out in the real world given the kinds of pictures real people tend to take of themselves.
The SEC and CFTC missed FTX being the worlds largest fraud. Now they are desperately going after Binance for... being above board but not getting the right license, during a period when no licenses were offered (and still aren't). At what point is this just pointless bullshit, let exchanges register, regulate them like other exchanges (segregated funds etc) and fuck off already.
So this means you now must have a contractual relationship with Google to appear in Google search results?

That raises major antitrust issues.
I had a 13" MBP with the last Intel chips and no whatever bar. I got at most 4 hours of battery life during the work day.

I now have a 2022 M2 13" and I can go 10+ hours w/o a charge doing normal work shit which generally includes 4-6 hours of video chat and 2-4 hours of development.

For me, the upgrade was well worth it. I now treat my computer like I do my phone; I charge it once a day overnight.
The 13 inch MacBook Pro also only supports one external screen. To have more then one you need the 14 inch or 16 inch models.
“Mechanical keyboard like”

What’s infuriating is how this lying has become normalized in “good” brands. For instance, try to buy a 60” TV. I do not think you can find one. They are all 59.5” and sold as ‘60” class’.
Copyright is definitely still valid. Tracing where money is being made gets so much trickier with streaming platforms, especially when it's owned by the copyright owner instead of being licensed. Best you can really do is divvy up the monthly subscription each person pays by the time spent watching a particular show. I'm sure it's also still getting licensed for TV airings somewhere a few times a year along with a trickle of DVD/Blu-ray sales.
I did a lot of C++ 20 years ago, and so figured I "knew" it. I recently tried writing some C++ again, and couldn't recognize the language at all... the symbols, functions, libraries, etc. were so radically different that it more than exceeded what I would consider to be the threshold for an entirely new programming language.
Yeah I stopped receiving robocalls entirely just two weeks after switching to Pixel :) Hopefully iOS a big enough footprint to finally make that industry unprofitable.
It's sarcasm. The keynote is full of it this year.
Wondering how long they're going to continue comparing to old Intel-based iMacs... The M1 iMac came out two years ago now.
24 minutes is a better target, i have a few repos like this... and long before the internet made it easy, it was the kind of thing i would do in my lunchtime at an office job.

it was way more instructive than following the standard path.

interesting read though :)
Thanks! I missed that - and I thought that maybe removing the #blahblah at the end of the URL had some effect I was not aware of.
So wonderful to be sitting in a nice, safe, comfy office in America, as I idly contemplate such distasteful moral dilemmas.

The Ukrainians, on the other hand...
I know a guy who worked at $BIGBANK and did the same with Ruby, he gave us a presentation about it at a local user group meetup many years ago.

IIRC, he was pretty proud of being able not only to have a regression test suite, but also being able to do TDD-excel :)
it is visible now
Parsed generously, 94% of Americans is about 300mm people. That's 4% of the human population. (It's a nonsense argument nonetheless: it's not America's job to bank the world.)
Sometimes it works to just resubmit your request again. Noticed the same in the HF demo just now.
US charges crypto giant Binance with 'web of deception'
https://tinyurl.com/43mkh68w reverses these incentives

Google will remain on top as long as Apple, Mozilla and Samsung take their bribes
That's a pretty imaginative method for recruitment. If you're nerdy enough to want to install Linux on a games console, maybe you'd like to get paid for it!
> Multiple users

That would be amazing indeed.

Not even just because of kids. Imagine for example having a separate user for different things.

Like for example having a dedicated user that only has the default apps and Google Maps and WhatsApp. You can use this user outside and if anyone ever stole your phone while it’s unlocked they don’t have access to most of your sensitive data (email, signed in web sessions, various files and documents, etc).

But multiple users would probably mean families would buy fewer devices. In which case Apple might not want to add such a useful feature.
I'm not sure what you mean about CPU-only RAM, the Ryzen 7940 is an APU which integrates GPU and CPU and both draw from the same pool of ram, just like Apple silicon.

Benchmarks seem to put the 7940 ahead of even the M2 Pro: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5454vs5189/AMD-Ryzen-9-...

Performance per watt seems remarkably similar.
There's Sonoma innovation at Apple.
So they can sell those as addons.
That's not evidence. That's hearsay.

Fragments, please. Or photos, or at least reasonably credible scientific reports describing these fragments. Or at least something resembling, you know -- first-hand evidence. Otherwise there's nothing to talk about here.

Can't believe I have to explain this on HN.
> [Async/await] feels so complicated and hacky, a mediocre very high level concept that someone managed to implement as a zero-cost abstraction.

I feel like I need to point out that Donald “Structured programming with GO TO statements” Knuth included an example of coroutines in the first volume of The art of computer programming, the first edition, dated 1968. In assembly language for an accumulator machine. With a box of scraps!^W^W^W^W^WThat is to say, that C and most other languages have made coroutines awkward and thus virtually unused in the past three decades or so does not mean they are particularly novel or high-level.

Granted, Knuth used coroutines in a simulation and not for I/O, so he did not need that much of a scheduler, but still.
They finally did it. They copied Aerial[1]. (Aerial has come a long way though, it's still going to be better than the basic 'Copy/paste the Apple TV screensaver to MacOS).

[1] https://aerialscreensaver.github.io/
Yes, and the SEC mandates that.
Does the M1 14/16" Pro use Thunderbolt 4, or is only the M2 14/16" Pro?
It's just a mode on the phone isn't it? You would get a charger from anyone that would let you set your phone in portrait mode to charge.
Not a big MacOS user. Do people really love these distracting widgets?
This feature exists. It’s just that you have to be an educational institution to use it :(
Great! I personally agree that a filter like this imposed globally is a mistake, and their attitude in that thread is hostile. I'm just extremely tired of seeing people use the word "fascist" to describe anyone who's acting the least bit authoritarian in any context, no matter how petty the stakes.

"Fascism" is correctly used to describe a set of far-right ultranationalistic and militaristic ideologies that are directly responsible for the deaths of millions of people. If you're going to use that label, I want to at least see overt racism if not actual calls for violence.

This example is particularly egregious because the brand of authoritarianism we're looking at is antifa, which quite literally defines itself in opposition to fascism. The far right does not have a monopoly on authoritarianism, and using the word "fascist" to describe left-wing authoritarianism gives up rhetorical ground that you don't want to sacrifice.
Right now every state that lets you pay taxes with crypto immediately converts it into USD. So the govt is not taking on any volatility risk.
“Apollo for Reddit” that one isn’t going to age well
DuPont has a complicated corporate history. Chemours, one of the other companies in the settlement, is the division that made Teflon. Corteva was also part of DuPont (and Dow). It may be technically true that none of the business units currently in DuPont made anything bad.
-Wabsolutely-everything

I haven't written the Language of Kings in a while: does GCC -Wall truly enable all warnings yet?