skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both of these companies are huge in the mini PC space. Most people have never heard of them because all they do is mini PCs.

Minisforum latest 7940HS lines are better than M2. More powerful, fairly close on power efficiency, better GPU, cheaper, and without all the nonsense that comes with buying Macs. Their fully juiced model is $800 (and doesn't lock you in to a model that milks casb from you like a sow).
Nice, it looks like a great idea. To be honest, I didn't click through all the forms following the landing. It would be great to see right away how SQLPage lets me build dynamic websites with just SQL queries.
If this story goes into more mainstream outlets, it's pretty clear it's just an attention distraction they can turn on and off like a tap to keep people watching the news confused. The only interesting question (or trade) to me is what this alien narrative is a pretext for.

What I am 100% sure of is that if aliens existed, they could have chosen to reveal themselves at any time, there is no concievable civilization that could consider our current order worthy of endorsement, and that to human power, power is everything and the only thing. You can't imagine how some of them suffer without it.

So even if aliens existed and the artifacts were real, if this story gets into mainstream rotation, there is zero chance it is anything other than a diversion tactic for another significant politcal event.
It died because of trolls and a horrible management system. You had “justify” moderation to some group and they turned everyone down.

Eventually everyone created forums with their own moderation rules.
The loading time need to be improved & sped up to under 2 seconds. Ideally a quarter of a second. It’s doable — one thing to do is serve a cached page first.

At the time of writing, the 1st page load is 14 seconds and subsequent page loads are 7 seconds.
Any person who commits a crime on behalf of their employer can and should be held criminally liable. That the employee was instructed to do so by his manager will not prevent his conviction, it will only be evidence that the manager should also be held criminally liable.

Veil-piercing is relevant when the business is insolvent or can’t pay the judgment. So the corporate entity isn’t protecting the business in that case.

Re Wells Fargo, would you hold ordinary shareholders who do not participate in the management of the business liable for debts of or crimes committed by Wells Fargo?
It's as though the cows reject to being slaughtered!
For the newer people clearly unaware, this is known as a "scratch disk"[1][2].

Now git off mah lawn ya greenhorns. :V

[1]: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/scratch-disks-prefer...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_space
Yeah, the cadence of the article also felt AI-ey to me.
That analysis is incongruent with modern linguistic descriptions.

> We can say: "A noun functions as a modifier. An adjective functions as a modifier." But not: "A noun used as an adjective."

https://www.grammar-quizzes.com/adj_nounmodifiers.html

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/nouns-that-loo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_adjunct

The fact that everyone knows what a "layman writing style" means that the only place it's failing is your personal list of acceptable attributive nouns. But English isn't static. It runs on consensus. And consensus here that there's nothing weird about that use.
Satori Paint (https://www.satoripaint.com/) achieved the same result (working with too-large files for available RAM) in the late 1990s. Hugely innovative, vector-based painting that looked like bitmap painting! But it was resolution independent (https://www.satoripaint.com/Tutorials/Workingwithverylargeim...).

Here's a gallery (sadly, thumbnails only): https://web.archive.org/web/20070813084252/http://www.animat...

And the original of this page showed how it was possible to zoom into an apparent bitmap image to an incredible degree (demonstrating the vector resolution-independence of Satori): https://web.archive.org/web/20070804225012/http://www.animat...
[As far as I recall, it zoomed into the writing on the clipboard on the right, to show a single period!]

Incredible software!
I suspect it was a market failure.

As home internet moved from a competitive dialup market to a handful of DSL/Cable players, all ancillary services dropped in importance. People weren't willing to take 128kbps ISDN instead of 10Mbps cable because they had better Usenet coverage or retention policies, or more personal home page storage, or better email services.

These services, in turn, became obvious places to economize and scale back. Nobody uses them because we don't invest in them so we shouldn't invest in them. All everyone wants is port 80 and promising the largest number of "up to" MBps we can.

So eventually ISP-infrastructure Usenet falls apart, and you're left with having to find an external service provider, which usually was competing for an entirely different market-- "we have the mostest and bestest alt.binaries, and we're going to charge prices close to what we pay for a streaming service in 2023, because that's an expensive customer to service" rather than "we have all the text-based communities you love, and realistically, each user clicking three banner ads a month would finance the bandwidth and disc space those use."

I loved Usenet as a teen, but the family stayed on a crappy provider for too long, and they killed it. I got an account on a server being offered as a public service a few years later, only to find it shuttered within weeks of doing so.

I just want to go back to 1997, writing terrible cringe RP on alt.fan.dragons.
Meta is also investing for AR
Lots of metadata about the image scan. Patient name/id, etc. and often physics related to the image scan such as the voxel size, units, properties of the imaging equipment, etc. DICOM is also used for other data that isn’t directly related to the visual image such as segmentation of the image, radiotherapy planning info, and so on. There are hundreds of dicom tags (the metadata entries) that can be in the dataset.
Arguably the main reason of writing a blog is to collect and organize thoughts in one's mind. Especially when writing about technical topics/reviewing scientific literature.
Controllers are largely optional, but if you want to play most serious games they need a controller. I think Apple is largely ignoring the gaming segment with their headset, apart from Apple Arcade games, which sounds like they will be played with a paired Playstation or Xbox controller.
So, like the iPhone did then? I’m not suggesting this will be a repeat, but I do remember similar commentary. VR has felt like a bunch of tech demo’s (you can see the potential, but no one’s managed to put it all together). I’m interested to see if Apple can make that ‘step change’ as they did with phones.
Safari 17 Beta Release Notes
Max is Max Headroom, of course.
Solution is simple, Black people will have to vote at 16, Asians will have to wait until they are 24.3, Natives 18.4, Hispanics 23 and last but not least White people at 19.6. Unless they are woman of course, then they have to wait an extra 6 years. Religious people an extra 6.48 years. When they get married people don't get to vote for 2.4 years.

For example, a married Asian Buddist woman 24.3+6+6.48+2.4 = 39.18 is the corrected for inflation voting age.

We can further refine the formula to account for the expectancy per region, get some of that creative gerrymandering going on. Should be fun!
It's not a problem if people don't mind (I don't mind if I can afford $3499) to buy multiple batteries, thanks to it's external.
BS. They're just paving the way for them to claim their AGI systems are "aliens" after they regulate AI through the roof, so that they can herd the masses and maintain their reign of power. Probably create a new religion while they're at it too. With AI image, video and sound generation, there will be no way to tell the difference between an "alien" and some sophisticated neural network outputs. It's no coincidence that this sort of "leak" is happening right now amid all of the AI buzz, regulation talk and breakthroughs in AI tech.
I don't like software patents but are SIFT and SURF really obvious? Even after 2 tries of trying to read and understand how they work, I've still only gotten the most superficial high-level view of them.
Firefox has next to zero marketshare (unfortunately and despite my best efforts to get people to use FF). There was never any chance that Mozilla was going to waste their very limited resources attempting to be the early adopters of an image codec when nobody is going to use it on the web until the browser engine with de facto control over the market starts supporting it.
Maybe, but for Apple yearly releases are just free PR. It wouldn’t be terribly difficult to write “if photos.app doesn’t have getStickerablePhotos API, tell user to update”
Apple’s icy relationship with Nvidia started right around when CUDA came into existence and before Metal ever existed. Nvidia created tensions between Apple and Intel and later handed Apple the headache of a class action lawsuit by knowingly shipping faulty GPUs.

I think Apple Silicon and Metal vs CUDA might have been a strategic reason for not repairing that relationship but that came years later.
On MacOS/iOS the ImageIO framework handles encoding and decoding images. Adding support for your image format to that framework means everything else just works once the image is decoded.

Another framework, CoreImage, provides generic operations to filter and transform images decoded by ImageIO. This provides hardware acceleration and other good stuff that make things like CSS transforms super fast and efficient.

While it can be done in JavaScript it would be much much slower, less efficient, and kill your battery.
I really want to see decent grocery shopping features in Reminders. I'm using Grocery right now, which uses Reminders but has continual problems talking between my Watch and My Phone and has way more features than I need...but it's still (in my experience) the best shopping list app out there.
Even without that.
I won’t go into details, but they went out of their way quite a few times, without me having to pay a dime, and no defect whatsoever was involved.

But perhaps I’m just lucky.
> "Getting ready for 2nm trial production and using Nvidia AI for optimized chip floor planning"

This almost sounds like TSMC is using Nvidia AI to optimize chip floor planning to make chips to sell to Nvidia who uses them to help TSMC to optimize chip floor planning to make chips to sell to Nvidia...
Yes you sound exactly like a non-parent.
Then why does the MacPro exist then?
We looked into unionizing at our company in the US and hit some big concerns:

1. Managers cannot be part of a union - only individual contributors.

There's a lot to unpack here. This can really set up an "us vs them" mindset which when takes hole has things go sideways. It makes switching from IC to manager or manager to IC potentially more complicated (and even contentious). There's are other issues in that managers typically focus on roadmap and where the company is going while many ICs I know want to just focus on getting their work done.

2. Union members are not part of the board.

This was something that we felt was unbalanced and relegates unions to not actually having the right level of influence.

When we did some research we found that there are better models for unions out there to reference: Japan and Germany. As part of this research we found that unions in the US have been watered down and regulation/legislation has been passed to weaken in. So you get stuff like "right to work" states or what sorts of things you are allowed to strike over.

With that said, things absolutely need to shift in a lot of sectors but I'm not sure if unions are the solution that everyone thinks (hopes?) it is.
Even though it's made well, it's annoying that Apple is investing for their own communication platform. It's completely useless for communicating non-Apple device user. Platform closed communication tool is nonsense IMO.
> "Everyone’s hackable"

Is that like when Wonder Woman tells the little girl in the foiled bomb plot she can do anything she wants? The little girl should have asked when she can deflect bullets with her arm bands.
Man.
Okay.
The parent is right, you are crazier than i gave you credit for.

Okay, I read all of your references, and besides the whole amazing arrogance piece, you fundamentally don't understand land disputes. Also, your references don't support any of your points in a meaningful way. Points 6-9 say nothing other than "blockchain is not immature".
It doesn't say "holy crap the world would be better if land was on blockchain". The referred to report doesn't say it either.

The whole thing reads like a serious case of NPD.

As a lawyer, let me try to help:
Putting land records on blockchain, and even turning land into NFT's that properly transfer when NFT moves is totally meaningless.

Land disputes are, 99.9% of the time, not about a lack of records. They are about a lack of caring about what the records say, and NFT won't fix that.

For example, when US states took land from the indians, it wasn't "hey we have no records that say you own this", in fact, the opposite - not only did they have records, the courts even said "yeah the indians own this, you can't take this".
The result was the state governments saying "yeah, we don't give a crap" and doing it anyway, and marching them out of the state.

This is repeated time and time again. It is incredibly rare to have a land dispute where the issue is "we have no records", or we can't prove anything.

If it was a bunch of NFT's, either it would be simply ignored (which is what happened pre-NFT's), overruled by some other chain that has more central control (IE a dictator creates his own chain and doesn't care about yours, even if everyone else does), or someone would just torture people until they transferred them. Yay, i'm glad you fixed everything.

Even if this was wrong (and it's not), the mechanics say that bona fide purchaser for value without notice take good and valid title, even against the people who had land stolen from them.

This, again, isn't due to lack of records.

The system isn't actually broken, it's behaving exactly as it is supposed to.

It just turns out that having land as NFTs or whatever doesn't change the fact that governments are sovereigns that can do what they want.

Somehow i suspect you think crypto will magically change this too - it will not.
At best, it will only change how formal a government exists, and even that's crazytown. In that world, the people with the most weapons and willingness to use them make the rules. Those are the government, defacto or not.
Ignoring the fact that this comment has a completely different bar than OP, I’m not asking about chips, I’m asking about desktops. Is there a desktop for sale at any price, from any manufacturer or custom builder, that goes 2 TB ram?
Really? My X is still 100% fine for me. I used my friends new 14 the other day and didn’t notice any difference besides it being larger and thicker.
They do have a “sensitive content” filter API so that’s likely not going to happen.
Not the same people though
Attacking another user will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. You've unfortunately been doing this more than once (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36143537). Please don't do it again.

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Ha, duly noted. Same system to me, I guess. Still a new, never before seen error.
I think the reality is that the public & media have decided they hate 'tech' and every industry is trying to distance themselves from the label to avoid regulatory scrutiny.
You don't need a ton everywhere. You just need enough in a few places for long enough.
I just hit accept with a blank input and it accepted it
The real-world photos of the demo units show a USB-C port next to the cable.
Hopefully, for the consumer it would be no different than YouTube or Netflix. Unless you don't want ads, then you pay your dues.

I have no idea how the experience would vary for the advertisers.

For the producer it should offer more flexibility in how they get paid. This is the major selling point I think. The ability to put out a high effort video -- say you made a full length movie -- and be able to charge theater prices (17.50USD, or close to it) and make sure the ads hit at the appropriate times? It might be worth it for larger creators to swap over.
I will say, the branding was actually pretty clever. I was a Windows Phone user back when it first came out, and the general consensus was that it was clearly a code name and they were going to find some bland corporate name for launch.

Actually naming it after an interesting AI character-- and as I recall, they used the same voice actress as the games did-- was one of those rare occasions when it felt like a trillion-dollar company let someone express their passion and soul.

Of course, by the time it made it to Windows desktops, it was already past our peak hype for Siri and Alexa, so all it could be is another faceless Wrong Answer Machine.

The only thing I ever used it for was a persistent geofenced reminder: take the perishables out of the back seat when I reached my garage. I suspect programmers were never the natural audience for voice assistants-- I'd rather type and redact my message 15 times before submitting it, and search with keywords rather than natural language.
Agreed that there is an absolutely colossal leap required. Computers can detect the shape & state of a room, but actually giving users interesting & meaningful experiences that befit the environment is a colossal challenge.

Starting with cosmetics is I think a good first step. Take a room & add some vines & flora. Create a variety of sci-fi style embellishments that can be added. Just getting the immersion right, without purpose, I think is a necessary-ish step that has to lead; it shows that the computer can really functionally play with space.

From the capabilities we can start to explore what is useful & helpful. It's mostly floating text, but I think Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End still has some of the best food-for-though, as it's so heavily networked.
I would love to see this. There seems to be a really interesting opportunity for Apple to provide a privacy-respecting replacement for social media as we know it today. Somewhere between group texts/shared albums and private Instagram, with everything being end-to-end encrypted and meant to be shared in small groups.
If the initial reaction from multiple people is “this is a name that has some pretty bad implications” then maybe, just maybe it’s the name that’s the problem, not everyone reacting to it.

This would have easily been avoided by… choosing a name that doesn’t have such a storied past.
That's exactly what's happening here. This is guaranteed to be a psy op. And the fact that all of this is happening now amid these insanely accelerating advancements in AI tech is not a coincidence. Soon (if not already) they will be able to generate an entire backstory for an "advanced alien race", coupled with AI generated imagery, video, audio and whatever else with barely any effort.
But how does them using it while presenting help sell it to me? What use case are they demonstrating by doing so that is more compelling in that case? I don't expect them to have airpods in their ears when announcing the next airpod (or even the first). I don't expect presenters to be sitting in a car when they announce a new model. If Nike introduces new running shoes, I don't expect to see the presenters in those shoes on stage at a business convention. When telling me about a new food, I don't expect the presenters to be stuffing their faces all presentation long. Likewise it would be distracting as hell for presenters to be working out while announcing a new fitness routine or machine.

So again, what is the expected value you think there would be in the presenter wearing the device that wasn't provided otherwise in the rest of the presentation?
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Rattling the cage, very naughty.
For the record, I'm an NIH fellow and my understanding is that as part of the government we're not even allowed to strike. Not entirely sure where the power of the union comes from at that point, but at the very least it gives a voice. And the point of the union isn't just pay increases (stipends at NIH are honestly considerably generous), but to have a voice.
American Airlines’ Radical Plan to Reinvent Business Travel
I would choose Rust because it has much better developer ergonomics than C. Even the little things like having a standard linter and package manager (Cargo) go a long way in writing idiomatic code. You can't go wrong with either choice, so choose the one that makes you most productive.
4~5K per eye feels like a lot, and it's impressive VR technology wise. But mapping a monitor at realistic size (let's say half of the field of view) at this resolution means we're below 2K to display text/images.

We've lived with 2K monitors for decades, so that sure could be workable, but the same way it's a clash to move from a Retina screen to an old 1080p monitor, I think it will clash to move from a current MacBook to this headset as a work monitor.

For games that's not an issue of course, but 3500 for a gaming device makes the calculation pretty different.
As a data point, the time I bought a 10" subwoofer for use in my home theatre was when my thoughts on headphone use changed.

Prior to that I'd used some decent (but not "fantastic" headphones).

Nothing compares to the whole-body experience of watching a movie with good bass speaker setup. Large bass speakers literally vibrate your whole body rather than just your head.

It's a huge, huge improvement over headphone. :)
Does local TV journalism exist anymore? Is there a source of local news for cnn to feed from?

I remember decades ago lots of news helicopters and competing tv vans reporting something.

Nowadays local news sources of all kinds can feed into youtube independently.
You've been posting tons of ideological, political, and nationalistic flamewar comments, as well as attacking other users egregiously. If you keep this up, we're going to have to ban you.

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usenet didn't have a karma system
Interesting how they pivoted from an app[1] to a market maker. Those are completely different problem spaces in traditional asset classes.

[1] https://www.producthunt.com/products/chainsage
So many apps on Windows, you might get the latest font rendering stack, you might get the old one, even in Windows' own settings UI
39 here too, and not turning my neck all the time to look at multiple monitors anymore has helped save me a lot of pain.
Sockets mean that you dont have to guess inventory levels so carefully, Apple presumably has to build boards that will be low demand, like 92gb ram with 4tb nvme, separately from 8tb and 1tb
The risk is brand dilution. Apple has a reputation for not launching products that flop
That was actually quite funny thank you. Reminds me of my friend in highschool who was a Zune fanboy.