skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For phone users who only want to charge their phones, it's fine. It's hard to go too wrong.

For people who want to have e.g. 100W+ of power while feeding a signal to 4K60+ external monitors it's kind of a nightmare unless they know that "just use Thunderbolt 4" "trick".
https://twitter.com/AggroCrabGames/status/170169103683230926...

I suspect this will significantly impact the Xbox GamePass lineup soon once it takes effect.

Also, imagine that pirated copies or even multiple installs by the same users counts into hitting that threshold. I could see a malicious competitor pushing a lot of installs to hit someone else bottom-line and sink them financially with a minimum of risk for them.

That new policy need to go back to the drawing board ASAP.
The 4th gen iPad Air uses an A14 and also has USB 3 support.

So Apple is using a PCIe USB 3.0 controller for USB 3.0 iPads.

They could've easily done that on the iPhone 15, so it's market segmentation.
You're wrong. Not a single piece of working software (literally zero) was shipped before Agile was invented 15 years ago.
Rather than provide my intial example, here's a more recent and well known one instead :)

https://www.pcgamesn.com/only-up/steam-removed

You might have heard of this little indie game, streamed by only a few tens of thousands of people on twitch and youtube.
Consider checking out dwarf fortress if youre into this sort of thing.. It simulates a whole world from scratch, then you can set it to simulate however much history you want to happen before you begin your adventure.
Hat tip to the designers for coming up with the idea of using USB-C themselves then marketing the benefits /s
Picturing a real-world situation here in my recent past...

We start with the pinnacle of engineering, a SPA, could be built in React, Vue, whichever.

It loads, which on slower smartphones takes a long time as they suck in running JS. When it's booted, there's nothing there. It has to reach out for data.

And so it does, to the microservice. Which might start doing something in 20ms or 200ms, it's all very intermittent due to excessive virtualization. It can't just go and return the data, no...it has to take the authentication token that was passed in and authenticate it with yet another service, which is vendor managed and even slower. Then there's rate limiting, logging, all types of overhead. Eventually, it returns 3 product rows.

Sadly though, for each of the product items we have to make an individual call to get related data, part of it coming from yet another microservice. All of these calls having their own startup time, authentication and overhead.

So for what one might call a classic "join", we're into multi-second territory. Which is fatal territory. Not to mention the shit state of data, as it's all no-sql garbage. Mind you, this is about 1/10th of what users are supposed to see on the initial dashboard.

We're talking one tiny part of a small- to midsized "app". It all costs a fortune and it produces garbage that users hate.

Old dinosaur me used to code up a CRUD app like this by the dozens. Using LAMP, .NET, whichever. Performance would be near-instant, I wouldn't allow any query response time to go over 10ms.

Every part of our stack is "best-practise" and enterprise-grade. And it just doesn't fucking work. It's 10 times more expensive and 100 times slower whilst the very idea of such an app is that it's supposed to be more interactive/responsive compared to the traditional stacks.

Luckily though, these services are multi-client. Except they're not, because then the mobile app team needs different data, and it's all just bolted on to the "generic" service. Services teams independence is a problem, not a solution. Plan a UI feature and good luck getting it orchestrated across teams each having their own roadmap.

And let's end with comedy gold where Lamda developers now need to calculate the running costs of their logic line by line. Whoops, slightly inefficient loop, that'll be 30$ extra per month on the bill. Now "scale" that problem to dozens of such developers building hundreds of services.

What a joke we've become. Distributed computing is an error, not an architecture. The point of computing is to put compute and data as closely together as possible. As the brightest minds on the planet deliver in stunning hardware advances which us software developers piss away.

But hey, the God of Complexity pays well and those footing the bill have no idea what we're doing but it does sound impressive.
Well, I can compare it to all the clocks.

But, you know, if I have no accurate source of time, why do I bother having a watch and N clocks?
The USB-C was supposed to do more than just allow you to change cables. It was supposed to be a Dex-like, Docking Station extensible pocket computer.

The iPad Pro is like that and their extended desktop is called Apple Studio Display. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102286
It’s still a bit thin on top class games, but I still hold out hope for Apple Arcade.
Mapping Where Floods Have Devastated a Libyan Port City
The meetings he's are are already filled with people comfortable being loud and political. I'm sure the actual technical doers are having plenty of 1:1s
Similar software is used in some products. For example, synology DSM has a package called download station. Who knows if it’s based on some obscure .deb (or scripts such as youtube-dl).

It could give rise to a supply chain attack.
Same. I wonder if my parents had me try a few more things if I'd have found something I'm a little more interested in.
That's probably one of the reasons why Valve and Steam seem to never get involved in any of the usual political activism you see basically 100% of other big companies slash their userbase in half with.
Yeah that's fair. You can't necessarily draw conclusions from the fact that it hasn't outwardly progressed beyond a pilot.

But my point is more that the "news hook" on this story is so weak. Announcing the pilot launch of an interesting new product is news. Announcing a pilot launch that already concluded (?) months ago, less so. How did it go? What does the cheesemaker think? Honestly if I were covering this story I'd want to confirm that the product even really exists.
I'll go a step further and say that pretty much every phone for the last 5-10 years looks indistinguishable to me. And most people just buy cases.
If you still pirate games in 2023 then it's because free is more important to you than anything else. But back when Steam launched it was much more of a hassle to get a game:

First you needed to go to a physical store miles away and once you got there the game you wanted may have been sold out. And then there was seldom any sales, except the box of mixed five-year-old games no one wanted by the counter (only $1.99) that you could rummage through and hopefully find a gem. "Darn, they were out of Half-Life[1] but maybe this copy of Strike Squad[2] will be fun while I wait for two weeks for the next batch of Half-Life?"
Also note that while a five-year-old game today will barely look dated, back in those days it's the difference between [1] and [3].
Then when you came home to finally install the game, the CD was scratched and the game wouldn't install. And typically the installer didn't notice this until it had reached 95% after 45 minutes of waiting. The StarCraft CDs were notoriously bad in this respect and you needed to treat them like delicate flower petals. "Eh, my StarCraft CD no longer works, can I borrow yours? NOO!"

So for those of us, who pirated StarCraft after the third authentic CD had broken down, Steam was a godsend.

[1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/155/half-life/screenshots/
[2] https://www.mobygames.com/game/9899/strike-squad/screenshots...
[3] https://www.mobygames.com/game/1068/doom/screenshots/
You must have incredibly good insulation if 2kW is enough to heat that much space.
They may have removed the text, regardless I removed the reference to it in my comment. They also alleged that people were getting "trench foot", or as they described it at the time, "a world war one disease".

I was at Burning Man during the rain/mud, went bare foot for a few days, did not get "trench foot", nor did anyone else I knew there. Their unbelievably trashy reporting during that (everybody is fighting and getting trench warfare diseases, etc) is one of the reasons I'm unusually motivated to comment on their reliability as a source of information today.
No one on ones is probably to protect from sexual assault allegations. No time alone == safe.
Le Sphinx – Pocket cipher device (1930)
Awesome.

I'm a software guy who for 1.5 years worked for a hardware company with a relatively strict upwards-only information reporting structure. It wasn't even for secrecy, it's just that the people running it didn't understand the concept of collaboration at all. They were a mix of physicists and economists. Really smart but also, as it turned out, very 'square' people. It was a relatively small company, around 100 people.

It felt quite soul-crushing after a busy week to have to spend mental efforts writing up a report to someone 1-3 levels up... especially if you had no idea if it was ever read. And then do this every single week. If colleagues could read and learn from this effort it would make a lot more sense.

Never again. Went back to the relatively speaking much saner software world after that experience.
Any evidence for them being a fad? I definitely remember my parents' generation having dedicated one-on-one meetings with their managers on a regular basis, regardless of what field they were working in (skilled labourers, but none of them in tech).
You're right. I was thinking from the position of the consumer for which SSO is both convenient and a security feature.

I wasn't thinking as the service provider that needs a way to force the folks with the big bucks to pay up.

It sucks for the little companies, but it may be necessary for the service to do so.
We know what happens when a pop group doesn't perform on their own records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli
You're asking for software updates, not hardware updates.

Today is a hardware day.

WWDC (June) is their software day.
I don't think so. The metaverse is the obvious endgame for entertainment. The only question is how long it takes to get there. Zero marginal cost everything is just a continuation of what made software so succesful so I think it should be clear to HN users why the idea behind the metaverse is so powerful.
I guess there will always be someone who can damage any cable. I've never killed a lightning cable myself, and only ever seen someone else (my own mother) do it once -- and it wasn't the connector that broke, it was the cable at the strain relief. Hell, the cable still actually worked, but I was uncomfortable with the state of the cable and bought her a new one.

When I was doing Android phones, I was going through a new Micro USB cable about every month or two. Never long enough to fray the cable itself, it was always the connector flaking out and refusing to make a good enough connection to charge reliably.

Good riddance to Micro USB.
haha college-ruled exam workbooks for me. Basic as can be.
I have the same opinion. As I said in a comment I made in this thread before, gyms are non-places today. Maybe a CrossFit gym can be a social space because there are workouts that require a partner. It's not enough to go somewhere regularly, you need to be forced to interact with people.
Depending on what the service is, I can see how this would work fine, but I don't think this is a common case.
I see this as an opportunity for Godot. I'm not sure if it's a good opportunity, though.
‘You may have been poisoned’: how a Russian journalist became a target
answer to points 1-3: Valve controls the update process, linux has a stable ABI, and wine has had no problem adapting to library changes in general. They ship their own windows DLLs.

As for hardware changes? There really isn't going to be anything you can do there on windows or linux.
Can you clarify the 50x cheaper number? Is this for self-hosting, or if you're hosting on OpenPipe?

The pricing on OpenPipe says it's 0.0012 to 0.0016 per 1K tokens for Llama 7b. GPT-3.5 pricing is 0.0015 to 0.002, so not that different.

I'm assuming the 50x cost reductions are primarily from self-hosting?
Weren't the original iPods FireWire?
I have a friend who won't take medication (cold meds and otherwise) because they don't treat the illness "only the symptoms". While I understand the distinction I don't understand the lack of desire to treat the symptoms (assuming the meds aren't themselves damaging)
Yes, casual web games. Millions of units, high eight-figure to low nine-figure in gross sales. Tens of billions of online game sessions. I helped start an early online gaming site called GameRival.com that's most famous for Gold Miner and powering MySpace Games, and later led engineering for Grab.com (before the domain was sold off for taxis or whatever it is today).

I still run into Gold Miner clones at casinos even to this day.

Have you?
They gave UnrealCLR an epic megagrant. How can you say they "actively blocked it" ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potentially_unreli...

Didn’t know about this page either!
I really like the way they separated execution and writing memory capabilities. This makes it possible to write code, then run it, using separate capabilities, but no code can modify itself directly by mistake.
What hub(s) do you use it on?
The intuitive explanation is that the effect of a single sample on the average diminishes as you take more samples. So, hand-waving a bit, let's assume it's true that over a large number of trials you would expect the average to converge to 0. You just tossed a coin and got heads, so you're at +1. The average of (1 + 0*n)/(n+1) still goes to 0 as n grows bigger and bigger.

That skips over the distinction between "average" and "probability distribution", but those are nuances are probably better left for a proof of the central limit theorem.
They are. Apple Arcade is about at the point where it has enough great games that it might be worth it. Certainly it’s well worth paying for a few months to try them all out.
I would have mostly disagreed, but after reading the following comment in this thread I think you have a point (emphasis added):

> This looks like a fun project to give some more /incentives to playing older games/.

I don't have an issue with achievements when they're built on top of a game that doesn't need them to be fun, but when they're added to try to "incentive" a game then maybe you should be playing an intrinsically fun game instead? Sometimes its okay to complete a game and not need to be "incentivized" to play it again.
It is a solved problem - you need to use a build system with sandboxing like Bazel, and also vendor all your tools.

Almost nobody does that because very few people realise it is the solution and even fewer realise they're going to need that before they set up their build system.
There's also the famous example of PT on the PS4. If I remember the name of the game that made me switch my position, I'll add it here.
I've believed everything you said, when you said it.

The difference between

"My paper got rejected because a reviewer dug up some vaguely similar thing from 3 years ago"

and

"I mentioned the other project in my paper and pointed out the distinctions."

seems to me to be quite important. After hearing the first by itself, the second came as a surprise.
What product-market-fit does Unity have left?

If you're an indie studio making small 2d or basic 3d games, you will use Godot
If you're a big studio looking for AAA graphics capability you will use Unreal.

There is no other reason to use Unity other than legacy asset store purchases and existing project maintainence.

In 2-3 years those legacy projects will wrap up and Unity will be dead in the water as a company, mark my words.
This is simply wrong.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.95.24.14168 (Insulin depletion triggers death of fat cells.)

Apoptosis of fat cells is a popular outpatient procedure (see, e.g., Coolsculpt).

Hell, another study, on humans, even notes that fat cell death is actually more prevalent among the obese than the lean (https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318927#Beyond-canc...).
There's probably truth in that. If I think back, I'd have 1:1 talks with managers all the time in prior lives but I'm not sure I ever had standing 1:1s. Even at my current company, we often theoretically had regular 1:1s but with travel and other schedules they could end up being every month or two.
The most detail:
https://casetext.com/case/huy-fong-foods-inc-v-underwood-ran...

Collaborating:
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sriracha-lawsui...
They are indeed prohibited as far as I know and experienced, which makes it a great selling (and gifting) point of me as well!
On Gitlab.com you need to input a valid credit card once in order to validate your account, but you can still get 400 minutes on shared runners for free.

This is used to combat abuse and crypto miners, they don't actually charge the card.

You can also connect your own private runner to either the saas or self-hosted gitlab-ce for free, you just have to provide your own runner.
I agree in principal, but in practice stroking people’s egos with personal attention works wonders!
Absolutely not a Lightning-specific thing.

Flimsy cables are flimsy cables and they will break and fray. USB-C, Lightning, whatever.

The first-party Lightning cables from Apple have always been pretty flimsy so if Lightning cables have a bad rep in general, that's probably why. That's Apple's fault but not anything specific to Lightning.

I've had a lot of Anker Lightning cables and they're about as bulletproof as a cable can possibly be.
Swift Playgrounds

https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/
> it really doesn't matter where COVID came from

It really does. Pandemics are rare, serious ones doubly so. If one of those rare pandemics was artificial then we can create a massive increase in health by just avoiding those.

But more obviously, viruses leak from labs at far higher rates than are acceptable. This would then matter as it'd be yet more evidence that virologists as a group just can't be trusted to treat their work with sufficient seriousness, implying e.g. vastly stricter regulation or outright banning of their work (enforced, this time).
Hey Sean! Hope all is well. Glad the take was at least memorable enough you did a double take. :-)
A few years ago, Apple and Google were in a battle to dominate the AR space and made heavy investments (ARKit and ARCore) that I think have paid close to zero dividends. I'm not sure if any of that work is carrying over this spatial push, but I don't see Google following suit. I think it could be neat, but the addressable market is going to be tiny.
I've never actually thought about what a tractor actually is. I've seen them in use and could roughly describe one but its actual purpose or intent was unknown to me until now.
Imagine being seriously convinced Nvidia is a good example of a successful tech company, and that Jensen is just a quirky startup CEO and should be worshipped like how people worship Steve Jobs (which is also wrong to do, fwiw).

Again and again, Nvidia does everything possible to make shareholder value look good, while robbing both shareholders and customers of value.
Finally someone with some courage to say whats necessary.
Not OP but it's a fairly dominant property search service in IE https://daft.ie/
its about fat storage. Historically skinny person can eat more, body produces fat from extra calories, but that fat is not stored and goes away somewhere..
https://archive.is/ZLB5q
Same, for classical guitar. I hated it. But now I have perfect pitch, which apparently requires early exposure/training of the ear.
That, and writing teams getting hired for entire productions/seasons vs. treating each script and rewrite like one-off gig work.
According to Alberto Grandi, Wisconsin Parmesan is closer to the real stuff than modern Italian Parmesan.
Absolutely. Impediments to new housing undoubtedly have an impact. I just find it a little frustrating that when discussing the accommodation crisis (I say 'the' but there are many) this side of the equation so often overshadows the problems we have created on the demand side.

Cheap credit (which favours those with capital). Tax advantages (relative to other investment classes). Speculative sentiment. Lack of effective regulation (e.g. allowing investors to essentially remove properties from the housing market via short term rentals). These are just a few of the demand side issues that get largely ignored when discussion is framed only in terms of a 'shortage'.
I'm quite passioned about CI/CD and working in this field for the last 7 years.

I'm keeping a close eye on jenkins, tekton, circleci, travis, github actions, gitlab etc. and never ever heard about earthly.

Btw. one thing the person doesn't get: Everyone wants to have fast and reliable builds but no one cares.

No one.

CI/CD Systems in a developers eye are blackboxes. They don't care.

And its already a solved problem somehow. I was waiting for Jenkins X to happen (something like jenkins working nicely in a cloud native way because Jenkins Plugins!) but that didn't happen.

What happend instead is Github Actions. Holy shit are Github Actions good. Srsly.

GitLab stuff was slow and effort. GitHub Actions just do what they should do 99% of the time.

If you do not have a huge build, you will not care about your CI/CD System and everyone who has real build issues, has to solve it by another strategy than just switching the build system.
No half-baked products? Have you ever tried using the translation feature in the book app? That is the most infuriating, dumb piece of software I have seen in a long time.
Even "power" USB C cables can do data transfer. They just do so at USB 2.0 speeds (like a lightning connector would).

Finding a truly power-only USB C cable is difficult but not impossible. It's a special order.
A bunch of their zoom comments appear to be the same thing as saying a DX sensor is a "zoom" of an FX sensor.

No, its a smaller rectangle around fewer pixels, which when shown the same size, looks zoomed in.

DX sensors are not "longer reach" than FX sensors with the same glass, they are cropped.

Couldn't tell from the pitch if that's what Apple meant, but it sure seemed like they meant it's cropped, not zoomed.
It's really handy to be able to kick bigger or automated file operations to a backend service.
British food area of your local grocery store may have Ribena, which is a blackcurrant cordial.
Do not use those cables under any circumstances. They're not safe. The USB spec is not designed to accommodate chargers like that and they're a fire/device ruining hazard. Get a good usb-c cable from a reputable manufacturer.

Hackernews comment that put it better than me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35436727
I always liked this quote on officers which has been attributed to dozens of different generals throughout history:

> I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.

I try to be clever and lazy in all things :-)