skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's similar to the two party system at this point, where the powers are so entrenched that they control the regulatory bodies that could change anything.
At the time of the release, people were wondering how the Pro Display had sufficient bandwidth to drive it. Big Sur came out at the same time.

Everyone using monitors with DSC 1.4 to the extent of their monitors capabilities saw those capabilities crippled and remain crippled ever since.

Those devices continued to work fine under Catalina.

Downgrading DSC from 1.4 to 1.2 on those monitors gave "better" performance (i.e. higher than without DSC, and higher than they were with DSC 1.4 with Big Sur+).

Hundreds or more bug reports were filed. This affected users of different Macs, different GPUs, different monitors.

The only common thread was DSC 1.4 and Big Sur (Ventura, Monterey... this still hasn't been 'fixed').

Given that the Pro Display and Big Sur came out 'together', it's very hard not to draw the conclusion that Apple found "sufficient bandwidth to drive the Pro Display XDR" by making changes to their "DSC 1.4" implementation that only the Pro Display understands.
This is a well-known criticism of the game though. Even putting rune mgmt and crafting aside, after dinging a new level, you should be hitting up the vendor and upgrading/selling gear so that you can deal with enemies at your new level effectively. And you do that process x4 because you are managing 4 characters. I personally didn't mind the ceremony too much but I can definitely see how some people would be put off by it.
Go's lack of sum types mean that there is no static check for whether the error has actually been handled or not. Go's designers went to all the trouble of having a static type system, but then failed to properly reap the benefits.
Sum types are the mathematical dual of product types. It makes sense for any modern language to include them.
Are you in the USA? I ask because that is mainly where I see complaints about having to do the cashier’s work. And I think that has to do with how grocery shopping is done in the USA: people drive up in their cars and buy a huge amount of groceries at once, so there is a lot to scan. Moreover, sometimes the bagging had been historically done by paid staff, so people weren’t used to doing it themselves.

But as someone shopping in Europe, I have never felt using self-checkout burdensome, because I’m usually just getting a few items for that evening or the next couple of days. Using the touchscreen is pure muscle memory, and the advantage of being able to listen to headphones or avoid social interaction outweighs the very slight inconvenience of ringing up my own purchases. Moreover, the queues for self-checkout are always shorter now than for the human cashiers.
Companies are creative until they have large, multi-million dollar contracts and engineers are more of a cost center to keep the lights on.

Most tech is bullshit no matter which way you spin it. I need to pay my bills, so I keep quiet in the meantime. However, 90% of what I feel like I do seems like a waste. Is it a waste for the company? Not sure.
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Should Apple exist in it's current form?

If it weren't, the things that are integrated become available for others - meaning better products for all, no?

What's the societal benefit of integrating all these advances in single companies?
> I’m not a conspiracy nut. I believe in listening to experts (but ultimately making an informed decision). I believe in modern medicine. But that experience shook me and forever changed my trust in the dental industry.

To be fair, in your story the "former head of the province’s dental association" apparently did know his craft, indicating that competence is rewarded in dentistry also...

There are a lot of doctors and dentists, and as in any field, mastership of a profession is rare. So you did the obvious and correct thing of finding someone more competent when you had doubts.

That would honestly have reinforced my trust in medicine more than do the opposite...
Oh absolutely agreed for the UBI. Unfortunately I don't see it happening anytime soon. But there's also a question I've always had about UBI. If someone works as a cashier let's say, it might not be an amazing job, but there's still some feeling of fulfillment of being part of society, of working, of getting to know regulars at the small supermarket you work at (for the smaller city sized grocery stores, not talking about the huge american superstores).
Would having UBI but not having a job be fulfilling, would people feel excluded from society even if they have enough to have a decent enough standard of living?

And yes, I know, plus self checkout is generally faster especially since a lot of supermarkets now only have less checkout lanes. So, most people will chose convenience and avoiding human interactions over ideals. I just wanted to explain to the OP that is assumption that people who decide not to use automated checkouts or automated shipping label creation might not be because they are sheeps or leeches.
> Its important to note the article was published on April 1st.

Haters don't waste time trying to understand what is before them. They just see a superficial opportunity to unleash hate and just go for it, logic be damned.
I like the translate idea, but it should be either interspersed lines or at the sentence level completion. Otherwise it will require the writer to go back and un-translate the text to fix mistakes. Another thought is to offering completion of multiple translations, for a particular sentiment.

Overall, providing some text services independent of the program (spelling/grammer, translate, etc) would be useful.
I am guessing today the prognosis will be different and all dentists will give him the same diagnosis. The sub-title will be

> From all dentists, I got a quote of $29,850!
Oh, we did all that. I even wrote my PhD dissertation on it (2001). Back then, there were quite a few research projects working on what I then termed ‘Web Augmentation’. You could do it serverside, in special proxies, or in the browser through extensions or scripting. The earliest browser based system I know of that allowed users to insert links and annotations into existing Web pages was DHM/WWW, developed by yours truly in 1997 – we even won best paper for it at Hypertext 1997. This was a specialised case of what was then known as Open Hypermedia, i.e., a hypermedia system that could integrate (more or less) arbitrary documents and systems through links and other structures.

Using a more general architecture, it was possible to add many kinds of structures on top of existing Web pages collaboratively. Navigational or spatial hypermedia, guided tours, etc. Link bases were stored outside of the linked resources, so that you could have different sets of structures applied to a corpus of documents.

There were also quite a few commercial attempts in this space. However, all, commercial and research alike, ultimately failed, and I believe that there were several reasons behind this: Web site owners disliked that others could annotate their pages; shared link bases often became polluted; bookmarks were ‘good enough’ for most users; maintaining link anchor consistency in (increasingly dynamic) Web pages became more and more difficult (despite our best efforts); and while I remain enthused about the notion of the MEMEX scholar carefully annotating their corpus of literature, I don’t think the appeal is all that widespread.

Still, there are remnants in some systems – e.g., I enjoy to see that others have highlighted the same passage as I in a Kindle book.
> So my question is why isn’t data being brought out in support of the RTO argument?

No one’s bringing out data to support WFH either, so I really don’t understand this demand. WFH at scale only has around 3 years of history where in office has decades and decades.
Mozilla is nearly a subsidiary of Google at this point, and exists primarily to push Alphabet's social agenda ('organizing' and 'activism' account for 4x more expenditures than software).
Yes I think you are right except that it comes at the cost of a device that is anti-anatomy :) a bulge on your wrist to wear 12h ...

Maybe they'll refine and refine those sensors to make it flat? They still add weight I think?
Sure. My point is: if a language has certain other fundamental language features, then there is no or less need for those "specific" error features like errdefer.
Who will be replicating it? Why would I want to set aside my own research to replicate some claim someone made? How would this help my career?
People interested in Forth might want to also check out PostScript (similar and stack-based). I recently wrote a blog post with a very brief PostScript tutorial and an example program translated line-by-line to Python
https://kenschutte.com/postscript-vs-python/
This is very true. I had a SO with severe chronic gastric pain and they got passed around by doctors for years. One jerk wrote "drug seeking behavior" into her file and that made things even worse. Finally someone took her seriously, got imagery done, and discovered surgery was necessary.

In US healthcare you have to be your own advocate and be willing to push. The system breaks down if you don't have a routine and obvious illness.
> One of the key points of Ted Nelson's research is that much of the writing process is re-arranging, or recombining, individual pieces (text, images, ...) into a bigger whole. In some sense, hypertext provides support for fine-grained modularized writing. It provides mechanisms and structures for combination and recombination. But this requires a "common" hypertext structure that can be easily and conveniently viewed, manipulated and "shared" between applications. Because this form of editing is so fundamental, it should be part of an operating system and an easily accessible "affordance".

Here's where I'm stuck:

Hypertext - whether on the web or just on a local machine - can't solve the UX problem of this on its own, though. People can re-arrange contents in a hypertext doc, recombine pieces of it... but mostly through the same cut-and-paste way they'd do it in Microsoft Word 95.

The web adds an abstraction of "cut and paste just the link or tag that points to an external resource to embed instead making a fresh copy of the whole thing" but all that does is add in those new problems of stale links, etc.

So compared to a single-player Word doc, or even a "always copy by value" shared-Google-doc world that reduces the problems of dead external embeds, what does hypertext give me as a way of making rearranging things easier? Collapsible tags? But in a GUI editor the ability to select and move individual nodes can be implemented regardless of the backend file format anyway.

TLDR: I haven't seen an compelling-to-me-in-2023 demo of how this system should work, doing things that Google docs today can't that avoids link-rot problems and such, to think that the issue is on the document format instead of user tools interface side.
Can we get some metrics? How much of a performance does this bring in action?
The incentives in place for businesses seem to dictate an ever increasing production of profits. There's no target production quota, where any excess is reduced to give more profits to employees.
Similar story here. I went to a dentist, who with a sad look told me that all my wisdom teeth needed pulling. She recommended me to an oral surgeon who agreed and wanted to do the surgery, but not without first handing me a letter to sign which stated that I would not sue her if I lost feelings in my face or developed some kind of permanent pain.

Seemed fine to me, but my father insisted to ask a friend of his who is a dentist. Turns out my wisdom teeth were completely fine and none needed pulling. My pain just stemmed from me grinding my teeth at night.
Windows is my main OS. If I have to use Zoom, I will use it in the web interface only.. I won't install the app. Reason is because I don't trust that the app is not riddled with CCP backdoors.
Why Does Incrementalism Dominate When the Environmental Crisis Is Getting Worse?
This might have been a “Missed Connection” for micro formats. We could/should have been able to PATCH those parts.
Note that I am not religious. The last religious thing I did was my bar mitzvah, which was like 35 years ago.

I felt like my dentist was morally upstanding.
Most people write only the characters on their QUERTY keyboards.

cafe, resume, fiance, etc
For people getting a 503: https://archive.li/xh0aq
I'm not convinced this proposed alternative is better than the status quo. It's simply not feasible, no matter how many benefits one might imagine.

the concern about skepticism is not irrelevant, but many of these skeptics also are skeptical of the earth being round, or older than a few thousand years, or not created by an omnipotent skylord, and I'm not sure it's actually a significant concern given the current number and expertise of those who are skeptical

so, we can hear their arguments for their skepticism, but that doesn't mean the arguments are valid to warrant the skepticism exhibited. And in the end, that's what matters: skepticism warranted by valid arguments, not just any Cletus McCletus's skepticism of heliocentrism, as if his opinion is equal to that of an astrophysicist (it isn't). And you know what? It isn't necessary to convince a ditch digger that the earth goes around the sun, if they feel like arguing about it.
Because modern fascism is funded by fossil fuel profits seems a more parsimonious explanation.

Anything that threatens those ends up on one side of the "culture" war.
> that the error happened in unsafe code block and not elsewhere

Remember Rust's Safety Culture, the big C word I mention over and over here and elsewhere that we run into each other? Although the Rust compiler doesn't get to have an opinion about this, Rust's culture does, and Rust says no, the error is in your unsafe block.

Suppose I write a function which takes six 8-bit unsigned integers A, B, C, D, E and F, adds them together and then indexes into an array I own which is 512 entries long. Clearly if you give me most possible values of A through F this is a bounds miss.

If I write this function in safe Rust, it panics when you do that. The bug is in my code, that's where the panic happens.

If I write it in C, it blows up when you do that, but, and here's the crucial part, maybe I say "Idiot, the documentation clearly says in paragraph six see value normality subsection B4, and in B4 I wrote that none of A through F should have values such that when added they sum to 512 or more, thus it's your fault.

If I write it in unsafe Rust then culturally I have two clear choices. One of them is like the C. I write my very extensive documentation and I mark my function unsafe which indicates that callers need to read and understand the documentation to ensure they obey all pre-conditions. Their code will also be unsafe because they can't call my unsafe function without that, reminding them of their responsibility.

The other choice, which is more usual, is to safely encapsulate the feature. I can optionally write extensive documentation, but regardless I must ensure the function cannot cause unsafety even if used by a malicious idiot.

Because of these two options, the problem is always the unsafe code. Maybe it's my unsafe code (I did a bad job either obeying or specifying the preconditions) or maybe it's your unsafe code (you didn't obey my preconditions) but either way it's never the safe code.

Rust's compiler can't promise that but Rust's culture can.
Indeed :)) the modern watches connect to phones for no reason other than to not cannibalize the phone. I accept that price - it'd be horrendous to market otherwise. But at least I'd love a device that is dumber but makes using it a better experience for me.
Exactly. And the well-posed gravitational theory that has MOND as a limit has not yet been found. So why is MOND considered as anything but an effective model?
"Contrary to popular belief, burnout isn’t caused by a lack of work-life balance. It’s driven more by the lack of ability to do meaningful work."

Couldn't agree more. I wish I was more like my peers who don't seem to get as fully invested in their work (emotionally, mentally, etc)...but if I'm dedicating 40 hours a week to something, it's hard to continue if the work isn't aligned with what I define as meaningful.

Like the author, I've beat myself up over the idea that my remote job offers good enough W/L balance...but that doesn't fix the core problem that the vast majority of those 40 hours are spent frittering away at the structure of the corporation (and its motivations).
I don't know, it makes sense to use different data structures for different purposes. (), [], {} are all different data structures (lists, vectors and maps) that are useful in different situations, so makes sense to have shorthands for them.
This is not the brand, but they look a lot like this. https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Dental-Floss-Picks-200/dp/B08...

The double string ones are really good, as they catch a lot of gunk in the gap between them.
I wonder what the "new game onboarding" process at Nintendo looks like. Thinking of something relatively more left-field and recent like the Mario Rabbids tactical thing for Switch.

Was that pitched to them? Solicited to studios by them? In the latter case that would be a fascinating process to observe.
Doing something like laundry, or taking a shower, or making coffee, is an excellent time to think over those knotty problems that refuse to give way when you are at the computer.
The new D&D movie that just came out a few months ago was actually pretty fun, and it has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
that link is just an infinite cloudflare captcha redirect.
Report: https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2022

As growing climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall is unambiguous. Yet the Emissions Gap Report (EGR) 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies finds that the international community is falling far short of the Paris goals, with no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place. Only an urgent system-wide transformation can avoid climate disaster.
James Webb Space Telescope Reveals the Ring Nebula in Exquisite Detail
It's an interesting article but I think has to be read as American propaganda.
Yes. Why you would expect a bunch of retail investors who have no interest in running a company to make the correct or best decision for the company is beyond me. Do you want those investors to lose their chance at a retirement?
I just had a checkup and they mentioned Water Pik and recommended a cordless model you can use in the shower.
I agree that antitrust is too reactive, especially in tech, but when it hits the real world your proposed solution would just lead to a new Byzantine maze like our current tax code. We'd get a whole new industry built up around helping corporations to technically stay under the thresholds by exploiting loopholes (and another industry for lobbying for those loopholes to be expanded).
Definitely. I know many exceptionally talented folks that prefer in office with the flexibility to occasionally WFH over full time WFH.
I work with code, which is about as reproducible as it is possible to get - the artifacts I produce are literally just instructions on how to reproduce the work I've done again, and again, and again. And still people come to me with some bug that they've experienced on their machine, that I cannot reproduce on my machine, despite the two environments being as identical as I can possibly make them.

I agree that reproduction in scientific work is important, but it is also apparently impossible in the best possible circumstances. When dealing with physical materials, inexact measurements, margins of error, etc, I think we have to accept that there is no set of instructions that, if followed to a T, will ever ensure perfect replication.
We are all animals at night
> unmet expectations

TBH PRC "growth rate" is roughly in line with expectations, including PRC will overtake US projections from years ago, caveate being many of those projections assumed PRC would strengthen rmb to iirc 4-6 vs 7 to 1 USD to put PRC at ~25T economy. Regardless, GDP not particularly useful for comparisons of comprehensive national power.

> Lower growth and - maybe - some form of stagnation are more likely

The distinction is PRC doomers think PRC has peaked and will be declining soon. PRC collapcists narrative is about wanking at the notion PRC stagnating and never eclipsing US. VS relevant indicators suggest PRC is where JP is in 80s, where JP grew 400-500% until post 00s stagnation. PRC "stagnanting" at 3-4x the size of US is a much different geopolitical scenario than narrativet tha PRC doomers/collapcist want to push. Even PRC @2x larger is TBH in the "unmet expectations" column, but that's still relatively the largest country in the world by 2050 and more than enough to compete against US/west.

TLDR PRC is at 25% skilled workforce, and moving to 60/70/80% of advanced economies by generating 50-100m STEM + other high skilled labour in next 30 years. FOr reference US on trend to add 40m people total. PRC in process of reaping literally the greatest high skill demographic divident in human history, and why other East Asian countries continued to grow with shit TFR - they replaced unproductive talent with skilled talent. Stagnation comes when TFR can't replace productive workforce at parity, PRC has decades of headroom. Past 25 years = 250M births already baked into future workforce with system that disproportionatlly filters talent towards S&E.

The fundmental problem with PRC peak/stagnate narrratives, especially peak/stagnate below US, is deliberately presenting using very questionable suppositions (real estate, demographics, authoritarianism etc) to suggest it will happen soon instead of decades from now, with a PRC larger than it is now, and likely larger than US. Folks over indexing on PRC being good at overbuilding in real estate, tend to a turn a blind eye to that state overcapacity also applying to everything else - like PRC moving up science and innovation indexes, value chain etc - all of which is rapidly building PRC comprehensive national power.
It was going downhill long before the partnership program launched.
> lose their right to being the default search engine on iPhones?

It would mean they can't PAY apple to make Google the default search engine. Apple would then (in theory) pick whichever search engine is best and not just play ball with Google's lock in. This would therefore enable competition. In theory.
I can't take your RCS argument seriously. You do realize it's just a scheme from the carriers to bill you for every message again like they did with SMS? Good riddance. I don't need that on my iPhone, thank Jobs.

And for the headphone jacks, I'd rather take a water resistant phone without this legacy connector. Do you also want serial ports back?
The casing and screen are much of the bulk, but the LTE is no slouch either. If you are ok with e-ink display and no LTE, I’m sure something really thin is possible. But I don’t see something like that with LTE as possible yet. By the time it is, probably the health hardware will be small enough to go along with it.
Grew up in rural Minnesota (now in rural WA south of Seattle) and am familiar with "peaked" pronounced "peak-id" as in "tuckered out" (but just now checking M-W dictionary I see "being pale and wan or emaciated : SICKLY", so I've been wrong about it for awhile). I'll listen for pekkid, thanks!