skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't just look at wages. The real thing to quantify would be quality of life, i.e for the total money that you get, what do you spend it on and what do you get in return.

My bet is that most people who grew up in the span of 80s-now are pretty content considering they make enough money to afford the basic necessities even if they have gotten a little bit more expensive, while on the flip side getting access to cheap fast internet and electronics, and by extension entertainment. Those with houses in area that got gentrified are also sitting pretty.

That being said, the kids that were born in 2010s are likely not going to see the same effect as they grew up with this standard. I don't place much faith in AI considering the current direction of improving LLMs in lieu of exploring architectures like Mu Zero.
Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid [video]
I am 100% going to do this with an old laptop of mine. Is it even "fraud" if I just want to test my SSD longevity by constantly installing and uninstalling a game?
I know these are examples, so I don't want to pick on you too much, but I have one nitpick: Reserving SSO for enterprise customers is awful. Please don't do it.

See https://sso.tax/ for details but I'll quote this from it "SSO is a core security requirement for any company with more than five employees"
You might love the Devolver Digital E3 Press Conferences. They've done a masterful job dismantling the E3 presentation format, but I find it's generally true for all these kinds of longform corporate product ads.

The first one is here from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKgEsuEBhqI
Apple upgrades (!) AirPods Pro with USB‐C charging.
It's a software thing, so maybe they can just add it to iOS 17 and that's it.
I was waiting for “one more thing” to show a new LLM powered Siri. I am disappointed
Jep, its a black rectangle
This might be a dumb question, but would you use the deployed version of the admin interface for writing your blog? And what if you weren't online but wanted to work on a new essay or make edits to an existing post?
Lightning connector was introduced in 2012. Probably sat in the lab being developed for a year or two before publicly announced. It made it easy for someone to plug in no matter which way the cable was seated. It also provided phones, iPads, and iPods quicker speeds.

USB-C was published and finalized in August 2014.
The iPhone 15 Pro can even directly record video to an external storage device (4k60).
Wireless CarPlay is becoming pretty common.
> but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables.

that's something i never cared about. whether i carry 1 usbc and 1 lightning or 2 usbc, it's still 2 cables.
The iphone 17, now with a RS-232 DB25 port
You... know about the iPhone SE, right?
https://www.apple.com/ca/iphone-se/
They are always released ~one week after the event. (date appears to be September 18th, so 6 days)
I wish Apple would return to pre-COVID live keynotes. But that would mean demos would fail, wifi networks would be crowded, audible boos and gasps from price announcements. Yeah, Apple isn't going back anytime soon.
And pro should be usb4
Underdogs Know: The Teacher Never Catches the Bully in the Act
Yandex is great, same as its image search. Props to the Russians heh.
Udacity launches “All-Access” subscription
I wonder how much worse accidental UI interactions will be due to smaller bezels. I alredy despise phones that I have to pick up _really_ carefully not to engage some completely unwanted gesture.
Zara Finds Shoplifters Outsmarted Its New Security System
This overly simplifies things, especially in regards to Ireland's housing market, and ignores the fact that our construction sector is still yet to recover after the 2008 crash.

Housing as an investment, combined with piss-poor government policy, have certainly not helped things though.
Wait, what??
1. Boomers entering workforce en masse (oldest boomers turned 25 in 1971).
2. Women entering workforce en masse.
Don't forget you can now plug your airpods into the phone instead of needing a charger.
Press releases are a good way to advertise your products.
$1/mo?
> A fossil fuel boiler is always less than 1 (usually 0.6-0.8) since it is never 100%

DOE mandates 80% efficiency for new furnaces, and high efficiency units are in the 90-95% range.
This is incredibly painful for indie devs.

My app is totally free, done as a charity/side project for disadvantaged kids.

I've been paying for their Plus plan - $35 a month. Now it will have to be $185 a month, or my app would have to have Unity splash screen...

Very sad.

Would have to figure out another engine to move to, preferably that has good native Web support as well. Any recommendations?
I don't know about spite — I feel like they were holding off on moving the iPhone to USB-C for so long precisely because they had already planned on going portless "soon", and it would have been silly to do two of these "brave" transitions in quick succession.
? lightning predates usb-c.
Related ongoing thread:

iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37485290
> They won't fit new iPhones

no, i'll be buying them for my current iphone.
I love my AirPods Pro, but I don't feel the need to upgrade the earbuds themselves. Since the USB-C port is on the case, you'd think we could just buy a new case... but I'm guessing that's too much to hope for.
As always, implementing features is a matter of priorities. If the overwhelming majority of users aren't using cables to transfer data, spending resources on improving data transfer rates isn't a great way to allocate engineering effort.

Meanwhile, flagship Android phones can't match the CPU and GPU speeds nor the battery life of even years-old iPhones. I'd wager that's a much, much more important feature for most users.

> That's assuming you pay a not insignificant sum to have more than a paltry 5GB of iCloud space.

$0.99/mo is "not insignificant"?
I imagine most people - especially those not using the Pro models - only care about universal charging. I think I’ve connected my iPhone to my PC for data transfer maybe two or three times since I switched ~six years ago, and even on Android I used network shares and such more often than not.
Related ongoing threads:

Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37485271

Apple ditches the Lightning connector in favor of USB-C after 11 years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37484897

(Before the announcement) iPhone 15’s shift to USB-C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37480508
This is great. I was making a 3D NES emulator years ago, which just dug into the PPU memory (plus some register hooks during frames) to figure out what was being rendered (old archived explainer here https://web.archive.org/web/20160820051951/http://n3s.io/ind...). I then wound up having to add some simple scripting so contributors could determine if, for example, the sprite being rendered was the cloud or bush in the original Super Mario Bros (since both used the same sprite, just palette-swapped).

It eventually got me thinking that I should try to standardize some sort of layers over Retroarch cores, which could interpret (RAM or GPU) memory values, value updates, and function calls as values and events to consume in some other application. My thought was that if someone used those hooks to create a "wrapper" for something like Contra for the NES then you could, say, handle rendering and audio from Unreal or Unity. So.. super HD remakes, reinterpretations, or art projects. Maybe play the original Final Fantasy and have twitch chat affect damage and other values.

But then I got distracted, as usual :| But it is weird to see something like it in the wild now. I hadn't considered achievements.
Closed source, right?

It's unorthodox but my favorite notekeeping app has become TeXStudio, just raw tex files that I never compile, with macros to quickly insert sections, subsections and subsubsections and use the nav tree to quickly navigate.

It works pretty well!
No AV1 encode?
Zero availability would indicate either severe supply shortages due to an inability to build (zoning/regulatory problems a la some municipalities in the US? Something else?) or a price ceiling on rent, leading to an inability for the market to clear (with the equilibrium price being above the legal ceiling). Do you know which applies?

As an outsider, it would seem that Ireland has plenty of land on which to build, though the availability of building materials is another matter, and is something I can see Ireland being short on.
Why is yours the top comment when it's obvious you didn't read the article? Canceling this program is a move to prevent future pandemics by reducing the chance of gain-of-function research to go awry and result in accidental release of augmented viruses.

There are other types of research on viruses, zoonotic virus reservoirs, all sorts of topics that don't involve intentionally making a sample more and more contagious or deadly.

Obama also instituted a moratorium on US federal funding for this class of research during his tenure. This is a bipartisan issue. Nothing controversial for anyone other than grant recipients who need this money to keep their business afloat.
Apples vs. oranges, though. If I read the blog post right, he's demonstrating that he can restart the main Arcan process while an auxiliary process called "waybridge" lives on, which for the Wayland clients is the actual compositor. This still requires the same type of "reconnect and restore" dance, but internal to Arcan-proprietary bits, pushing the problem up one level from the native Wayland exchange.

The blog post being discussed here is about handling a crash in "waybridge" instead, so to speak, and having this ability in Wayland itself instead of requiring an additional abstraction and protocol.

Arcan can use multiple waybridge instances, e.g. one per client, to get some isolation between the clients (from the post), but it does start to sound a bit heavy perhaps (I don't know much about the inter-Arcan IPC though).

Cool stuff, though.
I think the USB-C cable will make a big difference for me. I love how the EU has coerced Apple to make this change.
I was looking into this and one factor is that you still need hot water. So with mini-splits your options are either resistive water heating or having a gas boiler as well. I haven’t seen any systems which do mini-splits and also heat a hot water tank.
As gravity increases, buoyancy also increases. A high-g civilization with access to hydrogen would be able to float to the top of their atmosphere, and then proceed to launch into space.
The cynic in me knows the real reason for them to be a carbon neutral company is so that you don't feel bad purchasing another one of their phones since it was produced "neutrally".
The removal of the headphone jack was incredibly disappointing and frustrating for MANY consumers.
> satellite backup calling or satellite data

Given the way those antennas work I doubt that. From what I understand they did some neat tricks to send very simple signals for the SOS stuff in the absence of that.
My prediction is that Apple's going to introduce some sort of "MagSafe Data" protocol — some kind of high-bandwidth NFC that runs through an autonomous controller chip that comes up before the rest of the device, such that it can be used to DFU-restore / JTAG / etc. the phone, just as Lightning currently does.
https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang - "The official repo for the design of the C# programming language" that's in public.
The brainwashing of America’s school children [video]
Customers don't really want anything different. Brands don't want to rewrite their apps. Android doesn't offer real competition but it keeps regulators away (Apple doesn't look like a monopoly since it sells less than half the phones even though makes much more than half the profit) and keeps a real competitor away.

The most interesting play in mobile, I think, is spatial computing, not necessarily that Apple Vision itself makes it big, but in that with all the features in an iDevice (particularly Ultra Wideband tracking) a phone can become a "sessile robot" that is quite aware of exactly where it is, what is pointing at, what is going on around it, etc. It's just as feasible to interact with a virtual object in that space as it is to do so with an Apple Vision.

We've been moving towards this gradually (see Pokemon Go) but Apple has been firmly establishing a lead in this space with high accuracy positioning technology and Apple Vision as something that inspires people to realize what is possible. The thing is it will just sneak up on people and people might gradually get into using this kind of app without ever having a moment where they realized it happened.
I'm actually shocked they didn't update the Airpods Max with a version 2 with USB-C.
I mostly look at the total deaths as a benchmark. The way they counted covid deaths changed and had new financial incentives which impacts numbers. Also, I would personally question the early accuracy of false/positive covid testing.

The numbers you suggest gets complicated by the fact that many people delayed care due to fear of leaving their houses, much less going to a covid-infested hospital.
No one would watch the "Apple's getting rid of leather" video. And it would have seemed weak if their announcement was half the typical duration, signaling that there's not much new here.
Honestly if it weren't for the USB-C I'd probably just keep on keeping on; but this might be the time to jump from the Xs.
The rent in Ireland is insane for the quality you get. My GF and I are currently living in my parents house. Collectively we earn ~€200K. New homes are in limited supply. Existing homes are poor quality but demand has increased the prices dramatically. We were looking at a new development and they increased the price by €80K. For a lot of people owning a home is
becoming unrealistic.
It takes a while to roll out fundamental changes to things at that scale.
There's a good chance your buddy has an immune disease or something along those lines. Or knows someone who does.

What's the harm? Especially when long COVID can cause long term effects that can cause professional harm (ie, an existential threat)
I was interested by the mention of a "counter-reformation" in the story and increase in sermons and homilies about death that led to some of these beliefs. It made me think of movements today like Q'Anon that are detached from traditional religion but involve some of the same characteristics -- and obviously some false, macabre beliefs.
Berkeley, CA has one. The rest of California doesn't yet, but there are some attempts to do it. Keyword is "rental registry".
Stupid comparison. To dramatically reduce our prison population would mean releasing tens of thousands of very violent black men into poor black communities. Europe has tons of low level violence and intimidation that they punish with EXTREMELY short sentences. They would be much better off with a lot larger number of people in prison.
It would need a lot of these devices for the odd mW to really make a difference. It adds up, but it's in the ballpark of a router's status LEDs. These costs are already accounted for as part of the device's operation. Critical systems might start to better direct their transmissions and to reduce side bands instead of saturating the area with energy.
According to my research (1) wireless charging increases the consumption between 40 and 80 % depending on how well you align the coils.

It would be very much Apple move to take something that wastes enormous amount of energy (given the number of people who have iPhones) and claim it is eco-friendly.

(1): I looked on Wikipedia for 30 seconds
But it isn't even shipping for ten more days! Anybody who accepted that invite must be going home disappointed.
I don’t see the point in releasing new iPhones every year (besides making more money, ofc). I mean, if I buy a 1000 EUR phone today, I’m not planning on replacing it the next year (or in 3 years or so). So, as a person who has an iPhone already (and that will last me a few years more), I don’t get excited anymore with these releases.
The double pinch recognition (enabled in Accessibility) seems a bit hit or miss on Apple Watch 8. Maybe they improved it a lot more in Apple Watch 9, because in the event they mentioned the use of the gyroscope, accelerometer and heart rate sensor to detect the motion.
10Gbps is perfectly reasonable given the devices cap out at 1tb. If people can tolerate iPhones taking hours to charge, I doubt they're going to mind the minutes a wired data transfer takes.

480Mbps is so bad you're better off using Wifi in every situation I can think of.
Crazy idea: now you can carry one cable.
yes, but I've heard many, many negative things about it (lag, slow charging, phone overheating, etc). I don't think I've ever heard of anyone actually liking it.
I think 800+ million Wordpress blogs are not planning to shut down in 2023 after reading GP's comment.
They're training the mind. It would be dissapointing if it didn't.
1 gram lighter!
Pedant-man on the scene: this is just highlighting since the highlighting isn't derived from syntax.
I love the "This is our best $PRODUCT yet", duh is there a company making worse products every iteration?
How many leather cases do you go through per phone? I think they just said they're not making any new leather products, not immediately killing all existing ones. I'm sure the sales channels will eventually dry up though.
It's a phone. Does it really need AV1 encoding?
Just to be clear, your question is: why should a senior developer -- whose job ultimately involves managing a complex set of text files -- understand basic concepts behind the industry standard tooling for managing ... text files?

Complete waste of time, they should be out playing golf with a board member instead, right..
Haven't watched it yet, but I bought a 14 Pro just two weeks ago (well aware of the imminent 15 on its way). I guess secretly I was hoping that the difference is not huge. ;)
"a guy"? I see people like this every day...and I'm one myself. Not outdoors, but when I enter a building.

We don't yet know the long term sequelae of an epithelial infection, nor do we know why about 10% of those infected appear to get "long covid". Why should I risk it when the burden of reducing the chance is negligible?

I also wear a seatbelt.
Yea. Some kind of nuclear scramjet would be the way to get off a big planet with a dense atmosphere.

To explain for all of the non engineers:

On earth scramjets work because airflow enters the front of the engine and the shape of the inlet compresses the gas, fuel is added and burnt, then the exhaust gasses go out the back really fast.

With a nuclear scramjet the fission reaction heats up the middle of the scramjet so air comes in, is compressed then heated so it expands and goes out the back really fast.

That would move you very quickly and efficiently through the dense atmosphere, using almost no fuel, and you do not have to carry much reaction mass.

Then once in space you feed compressed hydrogen into the front of the engine heat it up and send it out the back really fast, just like the nuclear rocket motors that nasa is developing right now.
Apple: make me!
REI3: Open-source, low code platform to Build and host applications
Have to admit, I read the article in full detail only after commenting and I see your point.

Especially since the implenting company is called out explicitly for failing to achieve this, and the risks of changing the well-established identifiers are also illustrated.

Perfect might be the enemy of the good then, or the standardization thing at least is a separate topic.
How cold does it get then? EVs are good to -35C and most cars should be ok down to -30C. Idling solves nothing about the frozen tires and stiff axles and shock absorbers. Best would be to insulate the car with a simple tarp and I bet -50C wouldn't be a problem.
From my experience hosting our own instance of Gitlab + few CI/CD workers was few weeks of initial work (integrating with company's LDAP etc.) then around one ops-week per year worth of maintenance over last few years (50+ developers, dozens and dozens of projects).

Before that we had just "a git server + jenkins + some slaves" that took even less maintenance (althought I'd imagine more fumbling on dev side with job config)

Earthly isn't cheaper than any of those options and none of our clients use it (and we occasionally have to work on client's gitlab instances).
Lightning was a better, smaller, simpler and reversible electrical connector, but for almost all devices that ever used it (the very first iPad Pro is the exception), it unfortunately offered no improvement in USB transfer rates over 30-pin.

Pour one out though. It’s still a fine connector. 11-12 years-ish ain’t too bad, shame that Apple never prioritize data transfer rates though and to be honest, still don’t seem to care that much judging by the base models.
I'm pretty sure I heard them mention that during the iPhone 15 segment. I could be wrong though.

EDIT: yep, per Ars Technica, you can now charge your Apple Watch or AirPods off the iPhone 15: https://live.arstechnica.com/apples-september-12-2023-wonder...
>it would be insane to make something worse than the previous version

Well, this is the company that brought us the butterfly keyboard.
> Side note I'm working on an "ai infra handbook" aimed at technical people in software orgs looking to deploy unspecified "AI" features and trying to figure out what to do and what resources they'll need - it's a 20+ page google doc, if anyone can help me review what I have so far please let me know and I'll add you.

Interested in helping out.
This was a large part of the Gaia Online experience, obviously it's not a technical issues.

Everything else starts on a computer in CAD, with great effect to making it accessible to people who aren't real big time enthusiasts, even a basic transparent PNG layering based approximation (Train an AI to take a picture of a piece of clothing and normalize it to a layer?) system would be really cool.

But now that I think about it, if you trained an AI like that you could probably make your own frontend site for Amazon that could take the pictures they give you and show a preview..
I don't know how to tie this in. Gambas is a Visual Basic dialect for Linux Linux and FreeBSD/BSD.
It gives me the same vibes as my early VB experiences and I think
I deserves more love.
Ugh, they’re busy bringing bad project management to GitHub, in a quest to make it suck as much as all the others.

The old issues + tags + milestones was perfect. Now it’s the same needlessly-heavy thing as all the rest, with their reimagined “projects” thingy.

But then again I’ve not once seen a PM embrace any version of GitHub’s project management, with the only explanation forthcoming being “it’s confusing for non-technical users” (fucking how? More confusing than Jira or Asana? No friggin’ way) so maybe they have to shit it up and make it hard to use and easy to get lost in or miss info in, to get any traction with PMs.
Careers pages are a bit broken, for instance, "Software Engineer, Runtime Team" role says "Experience developing production software in Go or Ruby" (https://www.heroku.com/careers/software-engineer-runtime-tea...).

When you click on the "Apply for..." button, another page appears saying it's for "Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Senior/Lead/Principal)" role and mentions "Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, or Python". So not only the title of the role changed, but all the requirements as well.
Can you go into a bit of detail please, or do you have a blog post about it perhaps?
Any details about USB-C? I bet this USB-C implementation is not standard compliant in a typical Apple way.
Pointing out the obvious, but the iPhone only has the touch input, and no physical controls, so it's not going to work as a serious gaming device.
Not only that, but in a lot of cases you won't have to fine-tune at all if an existing instruct model does a good enough job with unambiguous enough instructions.