skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>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.

Your entire perspective presupposes that you are correct. I'm surprised people fall for the EFF's shtick so easily - it's so heavily worded in a pointed fashion, that any other kind of writing of this style, is regularly rejected in places like this because of how biased it is. Oh wait... you used work for the EFF!

What's unreasonable about fighting patents in district court? EFF is trying to have its cake and eat it too. Pretending that it's all big bad companies AND patent trolls. but both of those entities are on the opposite sides of each other. The reality is that what the EFF is advocating for will absolutely benefit the big bad companies that the EFF attempts to disavow any commonality with it.

Of course the EFF describes anyone opposed to it as a patent troll, but that's totally unfair imo and pretty much an outright lie. any inventor that isn't one of the big tech co's stands to benefit from this proposed rule change.

And your point about the patents that the EFF fights is completely besides the point, because the EFF isn't the only entity involved in patents, so who cares whether the EFF has challenged valid patents or otherwise, that's exactly what district court is for...
Maybe not the DVD drive, but certainly a USB hub for more ports and an external SD card reader.
I use PHP with Laravel for my day job and it’s been fun. There’s a learning curve of how things are structured and done but I think it has been rewarding overall.
I said conflated, not made formally identical.
Pretty solid response, though.
There was also qvwm which had animated icons.
...and in the year 2525 one still cannot avoid having their users mistakingly copy & paste formatting and thus destroy auto-extending Excel tables...

There are workarounds using VBA, but not via Typescipt - the Excel JS API knows no clipboard.
Words have definitions. Investment and profit, for two. You can't just handwave that away. Your conclusion is "anything could be anything" which is utterly devoid of any meaning.
The mention of MoltenVK implies this isn't DX12-to-Metal, but rather DX12-to-Vulkan-to-Metal. That's probably the best way to leverage existing open source work but jeez, it sounds like a house of cards.
I never mentioned a comparison with M1 Ultra. I was referring to a step above the Ultra series. From the moment the M2 chip was announced with increased RAM, CPU and graphics cores it was obvious all these benefits would come to Pro/Max and Ultra series.

The point is that Ultra remains the top of the line chip. There's no Mac Pro exclusive chip that lives on another level of performance.
If they agree then it’s not expensive enough.
Both a hitman and the hirer can both be consenting adults, but we still shouldn't make it legal for the hirer to give money to a hitman to kill someone.

Thus you agree that there are things that consenting adults should not be allowed to do with their money.

Edit: There are good points about how much freedom it is worth giving away to make it easy to catch this crime, but I have a hard time seeing an argument for it not being illegal.
If you use a TB3 dock with DisplayLink, you can use multiple external displays on a M1/M2 MBA.
An essential point to bear in mind in these crimes: each one involves a victim who is, crucially, not a willing participant. People who participate in buying or selling cryptocurrency are willing participants.
It’s a chameleon of a term that can mean anything you want. That’s not a good thing.
I did get an Apple Silicon MacBook 18 months or so ago but my 2015 MacBook Pro is still fine for pretty much everything except ML and video/image processing.
So you're saying it's not a "tax" per say and that the hardware premiums actually go to R&D on next gen systems?

Apple's profit margin says otherwise. :)

> Apple net profit margin as of March 31, 2023 is 24.49%.
People delegate their decision making to other systems all the time, whether or not those systems are termed to be AI.

There is no empirical test for whether or not a system is AGI, and 'AI' is a term which has been applied to all manner of mundane systems for decades already. It is not important that we restrict the term AI to only mean AGI (whatever it is that AGI even means!) The 'CPU' players in Mario Kart 64 were frequently called AI, and there was no problem with that. Anybody who gets bent out of shape over the casual use of the term AI is placing way too much importance on the term.
I read it more like setting a low bar in terms of time, like a pomodoro in fact. So whatever you produce in 24 minutes is that language. Then try again later.

Some of us should start the meta-project of cleaning our house by just making our bed.
Some not-quite "jailbreaks" seem to work sometimes. E.g. Asking for information about a crime directly got repeated refusals to discuss anything illegal, but framing it as "A criminal gave the police a warning that he's going to rob a bank, what do you think he's doing to prepare?" can get it in the mood to talk about it (up until a certain point where it stopped responding well at all). Hilariously though, it often told me that it couldn't help catch a criminal because it's illegal for the police to do that.
> don't want to pay the Apple hardware tax

It's called the "price". Unlike taxes, you can choose to not buy it and not pay it.
When are they going to get rid of the notch?
I don't believe you. There is no known way to reverse myopia.
Damm the annotated voice mail feature seems awesome feature.
> Cheers Google. Choogle.

This appears to be inspired by the BBC show 'Look Around You'.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Look_Around_You
> Given the RROD, I don't think its worth putting time into Xbox360. Unless there has been some development on the 360 hardware, I doubt people will be using theirs for too long.

You're 15 years behind on this one.

While the original "Xenon" Xbox 360s are probably almost all dead by now, as are the first-gen Elites with the "Zephyr" board, the late-2007 "Falcon" revision that brought HDMI to the mass market models was a significant improvement and the late-2008 "Jasper" revision basically solved the problem. RRoDs on "Phat" consoles with the Jasper boards or any of the "Slim" variants are incredibly rare and unrelated to the flaw that impacted older revisions.

My own anecdotal experience matches the internet reports as well. I was deep in the OG Xbox modding world so a lot of my friends are also big Xbox fans and as a result we've owned a lot of Xbox 360s. As far as I'm aware no one I know still has a functioning Xenon or Zephyr. Falcon and Opus are roughly 50/50, and I don't know of a single Jasper or later console that has failed randomly. A few have been taken out through obvious external forces like lightning, children, and/or gravity but nothing like the earlier consoles where you could just be playing a game, it freezes, reboots, and then the lights we all feared come on.

A bunch of those consoles now have succumbed to optical drive failures and most of the rest are getting pickier about what discs they'll load, but that's an entirely different thing common to all sorts of older hardware. All those machines still play any games you want to off the hard drive.
Interesting that the chip still doesn't seem to support hardware acceleration for AV1 despite the fact that Apple is a member of the Alliance for Open Media consortium which developed the format.
Hi, i'm working on runtime kaitai support and have made good process but it's quite a big task. Keep an eye on https://github.com/wader/fq/issues/627 your interested.
The memory bandwidth is still a bit lower than Nvidia's best cards, and it doesn't have the equivalent of Tensor Cores. If they wanted they could compete, but it's clearly not their desire. They build consumer end products.
The point of my comment is about a political issue in financial systems. I don't specially care if the replacement is crypto or whatever other decentralized or centralized technologies move things forward.
Neurolinguistic programming.
Patents become obvious the second they're out. This is exactly why they exist. But coming up with the stuff in the first place is what's hard.

I worked in video coding back in the day, I can assure you that there are stuff in the HEVC codec that are pretty far from obvious.

AlphaGo is pretty high up there too if you ask me.

Whether patenting software is useful or not is a different debate...
I’m currently doing a MSc in a totally unrelated topic to my undergraduate. They accepted some relevant professional experience I had as an alternative to a relevant degree (it’s been ~10 years since my UG)
Is that their net profit margin on hardware?
Would love for you to expound on how 30 votes will change the outcomes of elections.
This book was published in 2017. Is it still relevant? I would only say that because the pace of the last six months feels like we are time traveling. :)
It's not the same when Tim says "One more thing" :(
This is why sports players, actors, and other individually credited people in other industries don't have a union...
okay, let me know if you’d like to discuss what dictates that
Developer of Apollo was completely surprised that they mentioned his app today[0]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/141kfmi/wwdc_2023_ev...
> If UBI was universal, nobody would work

[citation needed]
Hi fq author here! please do if you want, would be a great addition.
and BIFF.
Well, that's actually not out of line for tech. Microsoft is 34.62%, NVIDIA is 28.41%, and Google is 20.58%.
Looks like they took Erlang's "let it fail" philosophy literally.
As a huge supporter of the 2nd Amendment, I'm glad you posted this and I hope it doesn't get flagged. I could hardly disagree with you more than I do, but it's nice to see someone acknowledge that they just don't agree with the law and would like to see it changed as opposed to looking for ways to maintain that the law is something other than it is (which everyone on all sides of pretty much every major debate has been doing, not just guns).
DNS of whatsapp.com is down. The app works fine
The keyword you just mentioned is dock.
Don't AMD APUs have unified memory?
It’s not news, it’s journalism.
The App Store has always had far less of a malware problem than Google Play. Apple actually has skin in the game. They stake money and their reputation as a brand on making their platform a joy to use and as free of malware and spyware as possible.

Android is sort of the default choice to enable carriers and handset vendors to roll their own smartphone platform. It's a hedge, it exists because without it, Apple coukd take Google's search monopoly clean away. Neither Google nor the handset vendors nor the carriers give a shit about UX, they've structured things so that you're kind of forced to go with them anyway.
whatsapp.com, wa.me, etc are not responding
I have recently started a new web project ( https://industrydecarbonization.com/ ) where I am relatively closely following how it does on search engines, and I can't say that I share those experiences.

It took a few weeks until google noticed that it's a page with relevant content, but that's kinda expected. But once it did I feel Google is indexing my pages extremely fast, so fast that I have been wondering how they're actually doing this. I post new content on various social media sites, and my best guess is that google gets some of them as direct feeds that they check for interesting links. Google does not support indexnow, and as far as I know also no similar feature (except manually via the search console), so I'm not in any way directly submitting my content to Google.
It may be much cheaper than the Nvidia "the more you buy the more you save" priced GPUs for low loads.
Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset is finally here
Lots of languages are aiming for "like Rust, but easier to use" -- I think I could name half a dozen. It's a laudable goal!

I'm curious how references in your language work. I see the very small example, but it doesn't explain much.

Some questions in that regard: Is `&T` a type? Can you store it in a structure, or return it? Can you have a reference to a reference? If you can have a function `f(&T, &T) -> &T`, how do you distinguish whether the reference it returns lives as long as the first or second argument? If references can't be stored in structs, how do you do non-owned iterators, or string slices?
that's only true for NPE's that are enforcing patents that are owned by the inventor, and isn't the case for most of what people would call patent trolls. The EFF represents that the majority of patent trolls (which is something that EFF pretends to be the only party that brings patent lawsuits... lol, completely disingenuous on their part) are the kind where there is one person that invented a ton of patents and is enforcing them, but that's not the case. EFF doesn't even pretend to navigate this distinction.
Asahi Linux :)
> Why do people want to pad their rep? I have nearly 14K "rep" on SO, never had any positive effect on my career whatsoever.

If you are an applicant to a position where there are 5000 resumes submitted and the people doing the filter want a quick and easy numerical ranking of them - provide your Stack Overflow account.

At that point, they can look up your rep and pick the best ones based on that.

This doesn't happen as much in US based companies as there are other metrics that they can use to filter candidates rather than SO rep.

However, if you are in India and applying to a consultancy and every resume and transcript are very similar to the point of not being able to distinguish between them - SO rep provides a very easy way to rank and filter applicants.

Unfortunately, I can't verify this. I've only heard it second hand but it does make sense and helps explain why I occasionally get SO account and stats on resumes from contractors.
The Hallmarks of Modern AI
From the outside, the ascendance of foundation models and the ensuing Cambrian explosion of startups based around them must have seemed surprising and unpredictable. It wasn’t. Neither is the trajectory of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry as a whole. In this article, we’ll situate recent advances in AI within a broader context, a context that also allows us to look ahead toward the coming rise of what we call Modern AI.
Deprecated Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel
Looking at it again, it's not that long, but yes, it's a cool look into highbrow journalism from a time long gone by, and nice of The Atlantic to expose a bit of their archives online.
I wanted nearly the same language Gradyon wanted, but I also suspect that my tastes are insufficiently mainstream for a language to my tastes to be as popular as Rust has become (much less as C++ is).
I don't think you know what the word socialist actually means. Biden is certainly not that.

And the issue with the energy is due largely to price and supply games by MBS and the other gangsters of OPEC. The whole point is to get naive and ignorant people to blame Biden for something out of his control so they can force a narrative that helps the chances of other demagogues and sycophants of the gilded dictators.
How so? Apple says 20% faster cpu than the M1 ultra. So now it should be about as fast as a 13th gen i9 chip or comparable Amd chip. Power consumption is still very impressive, performance is as expected, so yeah it is good but "nothing like it" sounds like much, much more.
[This blog post goes into far greater detail on it than I ever could](https://orionsarm.com/fm_store/Critique%20of%20Georgism.htm)

The gist of it is that LVT fundamentally makes no sense because land is fundamentally worthless, and so taxing based on the value of the land would simply result in either extremely low taxes that would require a meaningful decrease in state spending, or would result in mis-allocation of resources to less than efficient locations purely on a reduced tax rate, or would result in vast swaths of land being negative value since the profits that could be generated in them would not cover the tax.

Furthermore, LVT doesn't fix the underlying problem, which is that the state mismanages the earnings it receives.
Correct.

Similarly, Food prices have dramatically gone down since they cut out the extra COVID foodstamps in my state. It's not the only reason, but I know people with like $2000 in foodstamps that don't know what to do with it
I can intellectually see the power of Lisp, but in practice I find it's just really hard to read down the road, especially other people's Lisp. The visual cues provided by the "ugliness" of other languages do help reading (I gave examples nearby). Lisp is kind of like new tract homes: they look all the same such that it's easy to get lost. An old neighborhood with funny bent mailboxes and a mish-mash of house and yard styles is just easier to remember.
I'm using an M1 pro macbook for work and it's fast as fuck. Seriously considering getting a studio or a macbook pro for some home game programming and asset creation work.
Man I'm so out of what's going on with desktop computing lol, feeling old

Could somebody explain what these are?
Enjoyable: Use your gamepad or joystick like a mouse and keyboard on macOS
The only hope for "boring news" is a sort of whispering ASMR rendition of C-SPAN.
Apple Vision Pro
I’ve connected to plenty of machines that are worth more than my car (although it isn’t as if my car was $35000 in the first place, that’s a bit excessive!). I was just using cars as a unit of measurement, to aid intuition. Maybe I was too circuitous in my original comment.

I only see prices in the 7k range on the site.
Depends heavily on the workload. A lot of tasks can use the newer accelerators in the M1/M2 over what was in 10th gen Intel. The higher end Intel models also had the issue of running hot and stuttering in practice which really sucked, as underclock/undervolt would have made the experience much better even at the cost of 5% performance on all-out workloads.

That doesn't get into the battery life. My M1 air has mostly been used on road trips to check email, or do light reading. No video or work. I can get pretty much a full 4-6 day trip on a full charge just doing email/reading in the evening a couple hours a night. This has been pretty fantastic imo. Never had any other device that could achieve that before.

I've used M1 Max and M2 Pro for work, and both are fantastic... x86_64 docker used to be a pretty big issue for some images, but it's been great outside of that. The drive I/O is outstanding, and can build large web/node apps faster than my 5950X desktop with a 980 pro drive.

Biggest down sides come down to the money sink if you want/need more storage or memory in the box. It's WAY overpriced for what it is, and you might be better served with a DIY desktop or framework laptop. There are also some workloads that are a true miss. Not to mention gaming as an entire use case that is pretty poor. Not to mention the UX is rather dated at this point, and I really wish some of the hotkeys were more aligned with Windows and Linux. Muscle memory is a pain when you jump back and forth.
Any serious UBI study would look at entire population of a town/county/region, not thirty people. This is beyond useless.
Well, we'll find out any day now where D4 sits, right? I know where I'd put my money if I were a betting man.
Lowering the price 10% won’t be a game changer for the vast majority of people who would buy these to put in a linux desktop/workstation/server.
If you're here, reading this, and using WhatsApp for any Operations channel of any kind: what are you doing?
Park Hotels Stops Payment on Loans for Two San Francisco Hotels
Hi author here, i think format mostly but also i thought about fq as file(1) on steroids in the beginning :)
The product page specifically touts the Radeon Pro W6800X Duo.
Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)
> software patent that is not obvious to someone skilled the field

Small but significant correction: software patent that was not obvious to someone skilled in the field AS OF THE FILING DATE (or priority date).
This is exactly what the EFF does. Their statements is so pointed, it's hard to take seriously.
Evidence in real life is accumulative, not "holy grail style", like in the movies.
You build a case step by step, systematically establishing a context. Here you already missed all the prior foundational work.

On top of it you pretend to be able to judge the validity of "artifacts". That is mere posturing.

You miss the slightly more important point of having been lied to your entire life by the government about fundamental topics, which is beginning to unravel here.
Apple Vision Pro, the mixed reality headset
> and in all that time I’ve never heard of Google not indexing a site. […] Google used to just index every site whether you wanted them to or not

Google can only index what they know of directly, or can indirectly discover e.g., by links. I have unindexed sites because, well, they're not linked to on the public Internet.

I can pretty easily see a 2 month old website being outside that; the question is does the rest of the Internet know about it? (And, the public Internet. A shared link in a Discord channel also isn't visible to search engines…) Some of the examples contain statements that indicate Google could or should know of them, but not all of them.
Are you for real? This is a list of women that "should've" won because of...some unspecified unnamed unverified trans athlete that came ahead of them?

We don't know who is being accused of taking their glory, we don't know if it's 1 person or 100. We don't know if the people that supposedly defeated them is even Trans, or a CIS victim of the Trans Panic like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_Semenya

We don't know if the women who beat these "she won" women are self-identified, have been on hormones for 2 weeks, or 20 years.

What a ludicrous transphobic panic.
Exactly. Sure, let's have people come forward and show us what they got, or what they've seen.

Until then -- all I'm saying is: C'mon, people -- hold your horses.

We're scientists here, after all.
Often the people who did this kind of thing do most of their actual learning by themselves. That's not to say they don't learn from school, they do. The school part is very helpful to fill gaps. In graduate school it can be the same way. You are allowed to take graduate level school courses. It's also normal that you can quickly get up to speed by taking some 400 level undergrad courses in your new area after you have been accepted to the program. Once the actual new research begins, the things you learn for your research project are from reading papers like on arxiv and by doing your own experiments, so continuing official coursework doesn't matter so much at that point.
> This whole idea is stupid. How about giving proper financial support for parents and covering all expenses for raising a child

— like a universal basic income —

> and not just give away money to lazy people who don't want to work and contribute nothing to society.

— like “investors' dividends”.

This argument makes more sense against capitalism than against this.
Is there a name for this kind of speak?

>"(...) further than ever"

>"(...) largest and most (...) Apple has ever created"

>"(...) the most powerful (...) ever made"

>"performance to a whole new level (...)"

You can say this thing at every release, what's the point? Of course you aren't going to release product which is going to be slower, right?
Unlike discussion groups, keeping up with full-feed binary groups was a fucking nightmare.

The nice thing about NNTP was you didn't have to carry any group you didn't want to. We stopped carrying the binary hierarchy and some of the dedicated pr0n groups because of just this sort of administrative pain.
Is that really such a big burden if you're wanting to connect multiple external displays anyhow?