skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people forget that Lightning predates USB-C by a few years, and the alternative at the time (USB Micro B) was hot garbage.

Should Apple have stuck with Lightning for an entire decade? No. But any switch away from Lightning was going to cause pain for customers already invested in the ecosystem, and there was a time when that ecosystem actually made the most sense.
I'm not totally opposed to powerful (Turing-complete) languages being used for configuration or defining builds— I think Nix works really well in that space, and someday Nickel may as well.

But wherever I've seen build tools from a language ecosystem that just embed a DSL in the host language (e.g.: sbt, Gradle), I've also seen projects get way too clever with their builds and create total nightmares for downstream packaging efforts. I anticipate similar problems for other kinds of configuration tools based on general-purpose languages, like CI or cloud IaC.

> Side note, I will be exploring a new CUE + Dagger setup, though it will work differently than the old Dagger engine

Sounds cool! I'll keep an eye out for it. :)
Who can read the mails sent to each org's top5 mailing list? Can ICs subscribe?
I also still have an XS and don't plan on upgrading until updates stop. I thought it was this cycle, but apparently not. Supported until 2025. That's pretty reasonable!
That currently seems to be the case, but it's a puzzling strategy.

It's a digital company that is trying to increase revenue with services instead of just hardware.

How can you ignore gaming whilst offering your own streaming service? The gaming market is many multiples in size of all of Hollywood.
> Apple announced that its Watch Series 9 marks its first carbon-neutral product. But focusing on the watch distracts from the bigger picture of the company’s climate impact.

Well what a tautological pointless observation. Apple themselves expressly explained exactly this, and laid out an objective to address the rest by 2030.

Journalism seems kinda swirling the drain with diminishing value add to public knowledge, all for eyeballs and clickbait to get them.
I love chips with cheese, but not like that.
If they had forced micro USB, it sure seems like it would have been updated to USB C.

But they didn't force it.

And I thought you were arguing about the current law, not complaining about something that was ten years ago and didn't happen.

And you still didn't answer my question.
> Can you imagine if someone in the future got a hold of gmail.com?

Google is their own registrar. The odds of this happening are, thus, effectively zero.
so nobody wants to make a fancy looking game because nobody's made a fancy looking game... hmm...
Thanks for playing! I’m pretty sure I feel the same way, but it is always good (and fun!) to stop and challenge yourself to see if there’s a good reason for the way you feel about something or not.
Apple's new gaming strategy (as of today) is ports of console games. It's not worth developing good games specifically for mobile but that's not necessary if iDevices can run console ports.
> Apple could sell a lot more watches if they upped their battery life game.

This would certainly require a display tech change. What do you have in mind?
What kind of amperage is your car putting out? Older cars really struggle to power phones. In some cars, it's possible to upgrade the USB port - otherwise, you may be better off using the 12V port (cigarette lighter) since you have wireless CarPlay available to you.

In my Fusion, I'm stuck using wired Android Auto, so I am unfortunately not able to use the 12V port for charging.
This is just buying into yet another new standard which seems ultimately wasteful.

I’m glad it works for you but I personally am glad we’re trending towards usb-c, at least for the next couple of years, across most devices.
No Mini again? Pass.
Is 'carbon neutral' still a talking point? I thought we had moved on to being 'water positive'.
Wow there's a name that I have not heard in 30+ years!

Once upon a time I used the Aztec cross-compiler in DOS to generate 68k code for some embedded point-of-sale hardware.
Looking forward to the subscription
>> My use case is, that you usually wouldn't un-move a robot. You want to re-plan from the current position, if an obstacle comes up. You sure as hell don't want to backtrack into an alternate plan from your original starting position.

That's right, but I think if you backtracked that far, the planning should simply fail.

Are we working on something similar? I'm using Inductive Logic Programming to learn robot plans. I don't know too much about planning but I reckon what we're learning are generalised plans (with an option to make them as specialised or general as needed).

The project I'm on has started only this June so I'm not yet at the point where there's need to change a plan, but I've done some thinking about it. I might be over-optimistic, but I think it's a matter of putting plans on a stack and allowing them to be carried out in LIFO order. Then, if the original plan (the first to be put on the stack) doesn't work anymore, you just backtrack to make another plan from the current position, after checking the current state of the world.

OK, I don't know if that makes any sense to you. Does it?
I've been stuck on Trevor Mahlmann's wicked shot of an Atlas V launch for a while now:

https://www.tmahlmann.com/photos/Rockets/United-Launch-Allia...

Having said that, I did get some neat shots of Niagara Falls while on vacation last week, so those are slowly taking over a few of my devices.
The thing is it's still far cheaper than Unreal, so unless Unreal is dying too calling it death doesn't make sense.
I've heard a lot about Godot but the last time I really looked into it, years ago at this point, it wasn't quite ready for prime time.

Is it ready nowadays? Looking at their showcase it seems I've played a few games using it without knowing.
ditto : well said, opinion changed. and thank you.
At some point a cat's gotta eat, and if they're feral they're eating animals or garbage, mainly. I don't know how much of a cat's diet "in the wild" can be plant-based.

But I suspect you have a small number of cats that are just murder machines, some that eat birds to stay alive, and the vast majority of fat housecats that just eat chickens via a giant grinder at the pet food store.
A hybrid engine like SABRE might also be viable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)
Without commenting on this specific set of videos, it is already generally considered established that there are bright sky flashes before earthquakes that are not related to electrical infrastructure, but rather, natural in origin.
Replicate has terrible pricing. Have you tried deepinfra?
There is a whole segment of society that cannot watch a 12 minute video unless there is at least one offensive joke. They are the audience of every right-wing grift YouTuber and dirtbag leftist podcaster.

Everything else is "politically correct" according to this segment.
They are trying to compete with Unreal. It really is "monkey see, monkey do". They see Unreal develop tech for movies and TV, they buy Weta Digital. They see Unreal advertise tools for visualization, architecture etc., they do the same.
Just produce good California wine for centuries, develop methods to produce it and you’ll have the same benefit then. Champagne or Port didn't start by taking the name of some other land and had much less money and power than anyone in the US today.
"The fast and efficient A16 Bionic chip brings proven performance to iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, powering the Dynamic Island, computational photography capabilities, and more. With two high-performance cores that use 20 percent less power and four high-efficiency cores, the 6-core CPU is faster than the previous generation and easily handles intensive tasks while delivering extraordinary battery life. The 5-core GPU has 50 percent more memory bandwidth for smooth graphics when streaming videos and playing games. A new 16-core Neural Engine is capable of nearly 17 trillion operations per second,"

Even Apple can't resist the numbers geekery - it's just a phone - nothing revolutionary.
It's possible that the company could be converted into a worker cooperative, which wouldn't be much of a stretch given their current (largely hierarchyless) company structure. There is no reason it wouldn't work.
> It’s just that the supposed sustainability of any single product doesn’t necessarily tell us how much progress the company is making overall toward its climate goals.

This is literally a non-article
Indeed, some useful links you found there. Thank you!
Ah. Good point. I guess I can remap this button to something else and basically never use the un-silent mode!
The USB-C port (even on the non-pro) supports Display Port though, which I think can be quite useful if you pair it with an external mouse and keyboard and have apps that support "extended screen" mode [0].

For example I know of https://shiftscreen.app which is like a fake desktop environment, and the Microsoft RDP client added it last week. I think Github Codespaces or any of those services could probably make a pretty usable experience. Just plugging in the phone in your usb-c monitor and get to coding, could be pretty sweet in some scenarios.

[0]: If you just mirror the screen you'll get black bars and the resolution won't be optimal etc, but apps can render directly to the external display customising the resolution for that monitor. Like how Photos.app behave, not showing the app chrome on the external display. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/windows_and_...
We don't know what's in the R1.
Dave the diver is a successful game made in Godot : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868140/DAVE_THE_DIVER/

Granted it's not a mobile game but still.
Having wandered around a ton of game engines over the years, they all have the "showcase games, none of which really feel polished." I dunno... Godot's showcase has a lot that look quite polished.

I think from a business perspective, I'd be more at ease if they could advertise any profitable games.

Not that games need to be profitable, but there's some value in knowing other people tried and succeeded to use Godot commercially.

Someone should be the first!
Please don't come here with rational arguments :)

A Volkswagen is a better buy than a Porsche for most - pretty much a comparable market positioning
>What's the best way to use LLama2-70b without existing infrastructure for orchestrating it?

That's an exercise left to the reader for now, and is where your value/moat lies.
I think you're mistaking the map for the territory. A googolplex is a representation of a number, but not the number itself, although it's simple enough that we can get away with using the representation as it's obvious what the form of the number would be. However a number such as tree(3) is unimaginably bigger, but more crucially, we don't know anything about the form of the number beyond its size and we can't sensibly use it in calculations.

Now both of those numbers are finite and we could try to figure out how many numbers we could "describe" such as tree(3), but that would be limited by the number of symbols (i.e numbers, operators, letters and words) that could be used (i.e we would have less than a googolplex different numbers that could be represented using maths, language and thought). That's still going to be a finite number.
I could maybe enjoy these games on an iPad. But my thumbs are too big and my eyes are too bad for playing AAA games on a phone-sized screen.
How many lightning cables are going to end up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the next two years?
My Toyota auris hybrid battery never kicks in winter. It's a dead weight that makes fuel consumption worse. It helps a bit in the summer. I live in Scotland, so winters are pretty mild.
iPhone 14 128GB on t-mobile’s site: $829 (zero-interest roll-into-your-phone-bill financing available)

Same, on Apple’s site: $699

IDK, maybe apple price-dropped today and T-Mobile hasn’t caught up, but that’s similar to what I’ve seen in the past when I’ve looked at buying through them.
Related:

WTF Happened in 1971? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31471602 - May 2022 (102 comments)

WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25188457 - Nov 2020 (454 comments)

WTF Happened in 1971? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24135845 - Aug 2020 (5 comments)

WTF Happened in 1971? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20811004 - Aug 2019 (44 comments)
Or a jet stage followed by rocket stages.
Can you do a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse?
David vs. Goliath in New York
I love my steam controller to this day.
That is more than an order of magnitude better than my experience; I get around 2 t/s with similar hardware. I had also seen others reporting similar figures to mine so I assumed it was normal. Is there a secret to what you're doing?
Yeah, I don't know how to make sense of the quote I pulled out, to be honest. Why say that, if everyone that had the vaccine was lower in symptoms? Seems to be the kind of thing you would only say if the vaccinated people in your study were represented across the spread?
I'll admit I started skimming about half way but did the author actually make any real proposal on how to address poverty? As far as I can tell they just hand-waved away the poor by suggesting just start a business? I'm not sure if that's a fair assessment or not.
No, all the rumors say M3 is based on A17.
It's because volume increases by cubed distance. For a larger planet to have the same surface gravity as ours, it would have to be less dense.
Would that be........bad PR?
Yea its unfair to taught Blueprints as the answer when they have a serious learning curve.

It took me a while to build up enough experience where I could become more expressive with Blueprints than C++. The Lyra example has some good Blueprint hygiene worth reviewing where they organize all variables underneath a function call.. but until you have serious experience with Blueprints they are going to feel like a cumbersome mess.

My advice is to do what you feel most expressive with, doing the thing you enjoy more will lead to more hours of experience. Start with C++ and build up a good understanding/mental model of the engine and then eventually give Blueprints a try in a few more years and you will see them in a new light.
Before the popularity of commercial game engines, each game was built bespoke, which had some advantages, but took a lot of time, and made each port a chore. One of the greatest things Unity provided was a relatively easy pipeline to console releases, making ports more about platform quirks than full recoding.

This heavily implies Unity was responsible for the advent of commercial game engines and game engines being licensed to third party developers, which is bullshit. This was done with many game engines long before Unity, such as iD Tech, RenderWare, the Build engine, GoldSrc, the Unreal engine, even the GameMaker Studio engine.
It's worse than that, they refuse to believe it - no matter how much data you pour on them, or point out, etc, the myth that real estate is the easy path to perpetual riches is ingrained in (US) society.
They've been trying hard to expand their userbase beyond games.

And as a result, losing focus on the needs of game developers.
Of course they are. They'd be stupid not to.

The US has definitely been preparing for war with China, just like they have with other possible foes. That's not a guarantee that war will happen - si vis pacem, para bellum and all.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see a real-world use case for blockchain tech going live.
Exactly. This debacle shows why truly open and free software is important.
> It is not energy free to extract, store, and transport natural gas, and often it is more wasteful than producing electricity (hydro, solar, wind, etc). Plus, presuming that electricity is coming from fossil fuels when they are only a percentage of generation, and virtually the entire world is working to reduce that use every single day as the second part of the process of switching to sustainable energy, is a limited perspective.

1. in some areas you can do worse than natural gas plants, eg. oil/coal power plants

2. Those are all valid points, and I even acknowledge them in my original comment (ie. "Things get more complicated when you're optimizing for carbon emissions vs energy/cost alone"). However my core objection isn't against heat pumps per se, it's that the article uses a simplistic analysis to conclude that heat pumps are better.

>In terms of cost, you likely won't save money in many markets, but as long as it does not cost more you are still not behind on that front.

Source? For last Janurary eia lists residential electricity as 16.11 cents/kwh in the US[1] and $15.28/1000 cf[2]. If you convert that to kwh[3][4], that gets you an effective price of $0.052/kwh for natural gas. Of course prices vary by region and time, but I'm too lazy to do this calculation for every state/region.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230407144604/https://www.eia.g...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n3010us3m.htm

[3] https://www.kylesconverter.com/energy,-work,-and-heat/cubic-...

[4] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1055055852.62+joules+to...
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of who or what you're for or against. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Ditto for trolling.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with; it will eventually get your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Banks are not repaying customers who contest “unauthorized” Zelle payments – potentially violating federal law and CFPB rules."

I suppose you and Senator Warren have different definitions for unauthorized.
Are you suggesting that the lights recorded in the video are actually happening during the earthquake? Wouldn't it be easy to tell when the earthquake occured due to camera shaking?
TL;DR:

1. USB-C. Yay!

2. New colors. Apple repeatedly refers to the colors as "stunning," but they look like regular colors to me.

3. Incremental improvements. Pretty much what you expect every year.
>Unlike like measles or polio

The polio vaccine children receive today in the United States is non-steralizing.

If this anti-vaxxer assumption was meaningful, we wouldn't have fewer cases of polio.

>We did this for chicken pox until a couple decades ago.

Fun, because that's having great side effects, notably, that shingles sucks ass, and now that there isn't a giant amount of chickenpox virus in every closed space because kids are vaccinated, my generation has a 1/3 chance to develop shingles, even at a young age. Meanwhile, those kids that were vaccinated do not have such worries.

Oh, and
>get the disease, recover, develop antibodies, and be done with it

I guess you aren't familiar with people getting covid multiple times, regardless of vaccination status? It's like how everyone told my mom you can't get mono more than once, despite her having flare ups every year.

The public never knew shit about infectious agents and I really don't care about their opinion, much in the same way I don't ask my grandfather who stopped using Windows in 1996 where to find the network settings.
You know where people play politics? 1:1's. Stories get told, facts left out, no dissent, people take credit for things they shouldn't be taking credit for. Group accountability and transparency squashes all that.
"we asked ourselves what would a cow think about this?

so to do that we really wanted to get inside a cows brain.

we figure dok now that we're here, let's explode it out onto the platter of dead skin of that same animal to capture it's essence.

so without further adieu

I present to you

iBrainSplatStainedWatchStrap"
> I hated the design

That original olive drab and grey color scheme was a special breed of awful, wasn't it?
Wireless CarPlay works great in our VW. What sucks is that when Apple abandoned Qi wireless standard the wireless charging pad in the car doesn’t work well or consistently with the MagSafe design.
There are plenty of people that know where to go to pirate games and still choose to pay for them, and not even just out of principle.

I like that if a patch comes out which fixes bugs and adds features, I'm guaranteed that it works immediately. I don't have to wait for a new version of the crack to come out that cracks the new version.

I like that multiplayer always works.

I like that I can access the Steam Workshop.

I like never having to worry if the latest crack is going to include malware.

None of that is guaranteed if I pirate the game.

As a side note, I just discovered that GameCopyWorld not only still exists, it's still using the same style as it did 20 years ago.
The process of turning the animal skin into usable leather orobably has environmental effects as well. Likely lots of water is needed and chemicals.
if your company was NOT to blame you would not need scrum to begin with ;)
> ~eight hours a weekday (less than ten).

You can use those two hours for driving.
Schemas for Python Data Frames
Will Larson [1] is a favourite of mine. Some parts os his writing are still "one person's opinion" but

a) has credentials to back up his opinions

b) often he triangulates with other people to give more weight to his arguments. For example for Staff Engineer he did interviews with many Staff+ ICs

c) is very humble and open about what he doesn't know or what is "the best of my knowledge"

Overall I give him more credit than any internet rando.

[1] https://lethain.com/
I believe it when I see it. I would like to see it, but I doubt that a significant enough portion of developers are going to jump ship.

For smaller indie studios, there are definitely better alternatives, but when it comes to the big packages, there's really just Unity and Unreal.
Yes.

The problem with touchscreen-only is that it doesn’t feel very good, and also any sort of control scheme will mean at least temporarily reducing usable area for UX since you can’t see through your hands.
Looking at the pro page on their site, the only diff between pro and promax on the camera is the 5x telephoto.
The funny thing is that if you are looking for some GDScript call into the engine it oftern supports exactly the functionality you need for your use case even though other more common use cases are not supported.

It shows that the developers making it are also the ones using it for themselves.
Sounds like the same logic used for writing apps in Electron. :)
Longer reply above, but I really like https://lethain.com/
It's overblown how much of a nightmare USB-C is. Yes there are many problems with the ecosystem, but it's still really not as bad as using both lightning and USB-C like Apple does, nor is it as bad as micro-usb.

At my desk I have a laptop, keyboard, and mouse which typically all typically get charged off a single thunderbolt 4 cable. You can have anything from games controllers to bicycle lights to remote controls sharing a single charger. No need to fuss with adapters, or having a rats nest of different cables, or charge-only cables with microusb/usb-c/lightning at the end. C to C cables are also very nice since they allow phones and usb-c only laptops to charge any other USB-C device, and you can't accidentally flip them around the wrong way.

The technology itself is great. It's the flawed implementations, the lack of standards enforcement, the confusing labelling of different types of cables, and the very gradual and slow death of lightning/micro-usb/USB-A that's really holds things back. Once you figure out what you need to buy, and finish buying the appropriate products that you need, it is nice.
I'll raise my hand and say I still sync my iPhone over USB. Happy to move to WiFi, I just haven't, as my existing workflow works fine. I also have an old 2015 MBPr, so that plays into it as well.