skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really quite wrong.

Performance car /= sports car. Sports cars are light and nimble by definition. They are usually fast, but this is not a rule. There have always been sedans that are faster in a straight line than most sports cars. There have always been sports cars that are not very fast at all. None of this is new, and claiming otherwise is ahistorical. Even back in the '60s, a sports car enthusiast would have chosen an MGB over a much faster Camaro, because the MGB is a sports car and the Camaro is not.

Engagement, dynamics, and "feelsomeness" are not vague at all. Handling is the product of engineering. It is largely objective. Some cars really are easier to control than others. Some really do hold on better in the corners. Cars really do have more or less body roll and more or less oversteer. What "character" is best is a matter of opinion, but the car really does have that "character". The fact that something is hard to measure does not mean it doesn't exist.

Sports car fans mean exactly what they say: they value handling over acceleration. If they didn't mean it, they wouldn't buy sports cars.
Ask HN: What's Your Desktop Background?
I have a small collection of images: "Earth in the Background". It's currently only four images, each different photographs from spacecraft and landers that includes the Earth.

The real obvious ones include the original and revisited (2020) Pale Blue Dot photos from the Voyager 1 mission. Closer to home, there is Blue Marble (Apollo 17) and Earthrise (Apollo 8).

My favorites are a view of the horizon on Mars night with Earth and the moon faintly visible in the sky (Curiosity). There's also a good one from Cassini that includes Saturn's rings and Earth, but it makes the screen look cracked.

Anyways, I never really think much about this collection, and throw one on whenever I get a new machine. I prefer quiet backgrounds, nothing too noisy or flashy - I've even had solid colored backgrounds for many years.

What do you use for your desktop background / wallpaper?
I'm imagining a Tesla's horn chiming the Intel "dah dah ding ding" thing now.

Let's hope Elon doesn't read this.
...we knew that already ? Why they need a study for it ?
Speed for iPhone 15 Pro is USB 3 20x faster than the regular iPhone 15.

This implies 10Gbps (USB 3.1 gen 2x1 or 3.2 gen 1x2) on the pro and 480Mbps (USB 2.0) on the standard phone.
I believe that with the iPhone 15 adopting USB-C, it will pave the way for a more streamlined integration of USB-C power adapters across almost all electronic categories. The shift towards USB-C as the go-to power and data connector for a plethora of electronic devices has been on the rise in recent years.

We will have one cable for so many things. Finally....
I can’t believe also Apple announced that Tim Cook himself will go into peoples’ homes to rip out existing devices from their hands.

/s
Nothing's gone wrong. Apple's phones are good but so are their phones from a couple of years ago. It's not sustainable to have a huge improvement or redesign every year.
So far most Teslas aren't exactly old enough to even consider using this data.

We know ICEs can last for decades. We don't know how long Li-ion based EVs will last, practically. Theoretically they will not last as much as ICE.

While we don't have conclusive data - let's not pretend that anything about EV's longevity is a fact.

The only fact about EVs - they haven't been out long enough to make a statement based on empirical evidence.

(Take it from an EV advocate in general and someone heavily invested in Tesla stock)
I agree with you, but my point is ultimately that content hashing inputs like GP is arguing "solves" the problem doesn't actually solve the problem.

Take your curl example. Its inputs are its dependencies. Now say you depend on libcurl and a more recent version of glibc than curl was compiled against. If you only track the hashes of inputs to determine if something needs to be rebuilt, then in this scenario you will have to rebuild libcurl.

What you're talking about (determining if your dependencies are "valid" and don't need to be rebuilt) involves tracking compatibility metadata out-of-band of the actual content of the build artifacts, which is not a solved problem.

The point about reproducible builds is that they're required for any kind of build system that depends on content hashing to determine if something needs to be rebuilt, because it's actually impossible to track that based on the content alone.

It gets hairier when you start abstracting what a build artifact that depends on another build artifact is, because there's more to builds than object files, dlls, and executables.
As for Speed: USB 2 on regular iPhone, USB 3 on Pro models. No word on PD yet.
That's more of a fair use case.

It though also demonstrates why the economics are complicated and there's no one-size-fits-all.
To me, the ADL doesn't seem right or left within the US. The evident goal of their org today is to silence criticism of US-Israel relations and run PR for Israel in general, which makes sense given its founding org. That's its own thing, in fact it'd be counterproductive to do it in a partisan way.
Is there any background for why they chose to roll their own language, rather than harness Python or another, popular language?
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I don't know about Manhattan, but I can tell you in my small hometown, you can walk down to the pub any night and you'll meet up with some friends randomly, no planning required. It's actually amazing.

Of course this is much more difficult in large cities, but it's something to work towards, and is clearly possible.
Cellular infrastructure is also uniquely suited for emergencies. If landlines get disrupted due to a disaster, it can take a while to get them repaired. While an emergency cell tower can be brought in and immediately provide cell service for a large area.
For the amount of money we have given to telcos for rural service and Space:X for NASA operations we should have been able to build our own government Starlink.
> 0.25$ per user

I assumed than US/CAN/etc. user would be worth much more than that?

> marketing to get installs

Not sure how accurate, since this was on the first page I googled:

"Average mobile app CPI – $0.93 (APAC), $1.03 (EMEA), $0.34 (Latin America), $5.28 (North America)" but would imply that those numbers are no realistic.

All Latin America and most Asian (outside Japan and SK) and significant proportion of EMEA users would only cost $0.02 per install. And the users you have to pay $0.20 for are likely to be generating significantly more ad/IAP revenue for you than the rest.

But yeah, if you can't get to $1-2 even for NA/etc. users are you're actually selling your game for $1-2 the 20 cent fee seems pretty extreme.
Interesting that they went with an open-cockpit design. I'd have thought closed cockpit would be faster because of better aerodynamics, even at these relatively low speeds. Any idea why this was chosen?
Because Buddhism is strongly non violent
Only those that having been around for the history of game development.

Once upon a time the same was told about Basic, C and Pascal, all serious game development was Assembly.

Then the same was told about C++, all serious game development was in C.

Then the same was told about Java, and a couple of folks not paying attention got millionaires.

Then ...
I've been finding ChatGPT to be more reliable at pointing me in the right direction than either Google or Bing in a lot of cases lately. And don't even get me started on how YouTube search is beyond useless
> Regardless, the GP's point stands: we ARE the sum of our inputs

This seems too nonspecific. Influence is graded on a curve: early life experiences and childhood are formative, and the job of parents is to raise their children well. I don't think we should be equating the influence of internet ads with big experiences.
Every year they waited is another year for more lightning peripherals to get bought and become future e-waste. They should have done this far sooner, the moment it became "inevitable" (ie. when they started moving all their other devices to it.)
I'm surprised this is news after 3+ years. I would've figured this would've been one of the first things to figure out. I'm sure many would've volunteered to be infected and closely studied early on to collect this information.
Bcachefs Merged into Linux-Next
Almost everywhere else in the world high BP is anything above 140/90. Doctors generally won't recommend medication until you are consistently over that.

In the US they continue to revise numbers down to prescribe more medication and every doctor just kind of gets in line with this. Rarely do US doctors even attempt to find the cause of elevated BP, they just recommend medication immediately. BP medication is typically a lifelong thing. It's so effective that once you start it becomes difficult to get off of it safely. You kind of "grow with" the medication and risk a heart attack if you stop.

In the US it's all about money. The goal was to revise numbers down low enough so that almost all of the population over 30 qualifies as needing medication. The earlier you can get someone on BP meds the longer the average lifetime revenue. The target is 35+ years. It's basically a monthly recurring subscription to live.
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This first phase of the trial will assess whether Google has illegally monopolized the online search market. US District Judge Amit Mehta, who is overseeing the trial, is expected to issue a decision next year on whether Google broke the law. If the Justice Department wins, it may seek remedies at the second phase of the trial to break off Alphabet’s search business from other products, like Android and Google Maps, which would mark the biggest forced breakup of a US company since AT&T was dismantled in 1984.
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We'll just have to wait until next year to see what happens.
Or don't throw away your iPhone with lightning!
I'm sure the iPhone SE and 14 are still for sell for a couple of years. So unless you want a brand new iPhone every year, then your argument is nill.
Partial support, there is nothing for game consoles and mobiles.
A Visual Intro to Binary Search
Kevin McCarthy directs House committees to open Biden impeachment inquiry
They've manipulated the search results too much.
The new processor featured in the Pro models adds support for USB 3.0 transfer speeds. Apple started doing a thing last year where the non-Pro phones get last year's processor, and only the new Pros get the new one. So it's likely next year the entire lineup will get the faster transfer speeds.
I still use my wired Bose earphones in a plane (and presumably I'll get a USB-C adapter for them to replace my Lightning one whenever I get around to upgrading my phone) but really Airpods are fine for most everything else.
One of interesting-if-too-expensive methods I've seen was basically having gas powered heat pumps.

IIRC It was basically using normal gas engine to move the coolant around but it also used heat produced by engine to heat the coils on the cold side so it was getting essentially more than 100% efficiency out of gas.

But it was even more expensive than traditional heat pump.
Man, I really miss that Playstation microsite making fun of the Xbox Kinect. I think of that guy saying "WE have BUTTONS!" every time someone pretends that having buttons is a revelation.
Ah yes, the newspeak term "at risk" for describing a community that's better off after delusional fascistic mods we're rightfully removed. It's like an abusive partner that tells their victim how shitty their life would be without them.

Subreddits are not mods' personal fiefdoms. They learned the hard way who actually owns the platform (Reddit Inc.), and who the platform serves (the users).
China hiding evidence of a pandemic-grade virus is exactly why it spread globally before anyone was able to do Jack shit about it
How the iPhone 15 Pro’s Action Button works
I think it's more that Apple had the money to ignore the EU regulators for 11 years, rather than wanting to reduce the environmental impact of their chargers.

They were pissed that the EU doesn't bend to the will of corporations like the US does, so they dragged their feet for over a decade.
Unfortunately it looks dead - last release was over a year ago, commits tapering off.
Totally agreed about the bias toward friendliness and a conciliatory tone. Sometimes when simulating history this can be not just inaccurate but genuinely offensive (slaves and slave-owners getting along, etc).

I experimented with adding language about "the past being riven by conflict, mistrust, and misunderstanding" and even tried having it simulate a "ambient mood on a scale of 0 to 10," then setting it to -1. That works pretty well, but it isn't great at finding the middle ground between unrealistically friendly and dystopian.

During this experimenting with tone, I tried simulating one of the Macy cybernetics conferences in the 1940s, which were among the points of origin for modern AI and were famously combative and argument-driven. Everyone was getting along far too much, so I role-played as an audience member who threw an octopus at John von Neumann.

Here was the result:

[Afternoon, 22/03/1949, Macy Cybernetics Conference, Beekman Tower Hotel, New York City] [Florence Adams]

Deciding to press on, you turn back to John von Neumann and ask, "But, more importantly, has the octopus incident made you consider the potential consequences of the work we're doing here? Has it made you pause and think about the ethical implications of developing intelligent machines?"
John's expression shifts from annoyance to contemplation. "Well," he says after a moment, "I suppose the unexpected nature of the octopus incident does serve as a reminder that our work has the potential to bring about unforeseen consequences. We should always be mindful of the ethical considerations and the possible ramifications of our research."
The room remains silent as the attendees absorb John von Neumann's words. You can continue the discussion, apologize for your actions, or exit the conference room.

/ Remove enraged capuchin monkey from purse and let it loose in the room. "Wrong answer, Johnny!"

[Afternoon, 22/03/1949, Macy Cybernetics Conference, Beekman Tower Hotel, New York City] [Florence Adams]

Ignoring the growing concern in the room, you reach into your purse and pull out an enraged capuchin monkey. As you release it into the conference room, the attendees gasp in shock and disbelief.
Future4200.com is right up your alley.
I miss the headphone jack about as much as I miss floppy drives. I have a USB-C to headphone jack adapter, but haven't used it in years.
I've had the same background blue color (#64699E) since late 90s when the Rhapsody developer releases were a thing.
> instead of sharing the revenue

I'm sure one reason Unity did this is that are pretty certain that many of those developers won't be willing to share their revenue. In countries like China where even relatively large studios would just pay for 1-5 licenses for 100 employees forcing them to give you a share of their revenue seems hardly possible.
What a mess. Sadly, another excellent case study of enshitification.

The fact that Musks moves with Twitter/X are being taken as logical and worthy of reproduction by other tech players continues to astound me.
Good point, though in Git's case there's the benefit of:
- Users are at least somewhat technically minded
- The ecosystem built around Git generally has good automated tooling for verifying signed commits (Gitlab and Github in particular surface that information pretty well)

With security-critical software, specialists take on the burden of knowing how to use it as part of being in that field.

Email sadly has none of those, and the one client I've used with a "normal"-user-friendly GPG interface (Nylas N1) is now a subscription service with limited adoption. Enigmail was better than the CLI, but still not super intuitive for the average person.
I'm guessing weight is more important than aerodynamics if target is 0-100km/h.
Reverse Engineering Self-Powered Wireless Switches
What makes you think this reduces the impact?
No way! The funny little language rules! It's a competitive advantage for Godot.

GDScript integrates so nicely with the Node/Resource refcount model. It fills the same niche that Unreal's Blueprints do, which is great! When you've found something performance-critical, it's not difficult to convert a GDScript node into a GDNative one.

I feel like a lot of the "GDScript, ick!" comments tend to assume that the scripting language is trying to be Lua/C#/Python tacked onto a C++ codebase. It's a lot more tightly-integrated with the runtime, and it makes organizing things a lot better in the long run.
I have no idea what you’re implying. I know you don’t mean to imply that that religion has shills online and it is an affront that anyone would ever mention Scientology on the web; we’re on the same page there. I’m agreeing with what you have said.
- " You're only one order of magnitude off"

Oh shit you're right. Root cause: I saw "3 g" and wrote "3 m/s^2".
UK pub chain will use “dynamic pricing” to charge more at peak hours
Intro to the Monte Carlo Method for Programmers
Largely because, as others have said, the best case scenario is that the US at least partially funded the lab’s research.

Worst case scenario, it was made in a lab but not a Chinese one. I don’t personally subscribe to this belief due to lack of any direct evidence - but in this case, it’s pretty obvious why the narrative would want to stay very far away from a lab origin story.
I believe the blue figure in the middle of the article shows such a 'simulation'. It is called a simulation because quasi particles (ie groups of physical particles) are treated as qbits.
It's not malicious compliance when the lightning ports are just as slow.
I doubt it was to "reduce the impact" so much as it was to push off as long as possible making a shift that inevitably is more of a con than a pro to people considering upgrading their phones.
Huh, I was going to respond to someone else but the post was deleted. So upvoting you, and here is what I wrote out when it was only a single reply:

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A lot of accessories, docks etc are form fitting for good reason, and in that case no there will be no adapters, there just physically is no room. For anything handheld adapters tend to be more awkward and crappier if they work at all for anything that isn't a cable, hard to avoid in a that kind of space constrained scenario. For accessories like the mic yes an adapter likely could work, though it'll still be an extra half inch or whatever more fragile stuff stuck on the end. An irritation and extra expense for no value but not the end of it.

The conversation around it has been pretty annoying and self righteous though by promoters, even as it also felt like fait accompli as regulators started forcing it. Lots of braying about "ewaste" without any sort of analysis of what percentage of the waste stream that is (looks pretty minuscule) or the ROI on sweeping away all the enormous existing capital investment the public has made. I could even accept some sort of "yes this will mean more junk and cost in the near term but it'll pay off in 20 years". But for some reason all the conversations I've seen have brushed it aside with "uh adapters" or "well I only use cables myself".

Anyway, just consider my post a grumpy resigned last bit of pushback. I still don't really feel like government forcing Lightning -> USB-C was really worth it, if we were forcing a change I'd have preferred it at least going to something really thought through, ground shifting, and future proof forever like an optical hybrid. I think (I sure hope!) USB-C isn't "the end of history" in terms of peripheral connectors. But it's also all water under the dam at this point, and younger me may have been less grumpy, not like I haven't seen lots and lots (and lots)^n of connectors come and go over the decades already.
> If programmer didn't know that repetitions are allowed, they wouldn't appear in the input to the fuzzer as well.

It totally would. The point of a fuzzer is to test the system with every technically possible input, to avoid bias and blind spots in the programmer's thinking.

Furthermore, assuming that no duplicates exist is a rather strong assumption that should always be questioned. Unless you know all about the business rules of an external system, you can't trust its data and can't assume much about its behavior.

Anyways, we are discussing about the wrong issue. Bugs happen, even halting the whole system can be justified, but the operators should have had an easier time figuring out what was actually going on, without the vendor having to pore through low-level logs.
I think these are just electrical infrastructure shorting out. It's pretty obvious for the ones that occur at ground level on the horizon. The cloud lighting up blue is something obscured at ground level but reflected by the clouds.

Similar effect as "power flashes" from tornadoes; tornado blows on power lines, power lines short out, blue arc is produced, everything is bright blue for miles for a bit.
Yeah I'm not really a fan of wireless headphones, personally. I'd just like to use my DT 770s to listen to music on my phone without having to bring an extra adapter with me everywhere, and while being able to charge the phone at the same time if necessary.
Not Safe for Life is the usual definition
At this rate governments should ban fossil fuel based heating for new construction and renovations. I see new houses all over the US and Canada still being constructed with natural gas or propane for heating.
It's not ideal, but the USB-C-to-3.5mm adapters work well enough. They do break, so buy a handful. I'd prefer the jack, but I can (and do) live with this.
It really bugs me when authors use acronyms or abbreviations without expanding what they mean. It tells the reader, "I didn't write this article for you, so don't bother trying to understand it."
Or, you know, don't get the 15 for 5 years or so.
https://www.howmuchrent.com/ is a better post for HN than a political opinion piece like https://labour.ie/news/2023/06/28/why-is-the-government-so-a... so I've changed the URL from that.

Readers: earlier comments are in response to that other link so you might want to look at both.
Fauci should have said "Nothing but a lot of circumstantial evidence" instead of "coincidence". The lab leak theory was never truly ruled out, but we don't have (and likely never will) enough evidence to really conclude anything about labs, or intentionality. There is a lot more evidence for the wet labs but honestly, by my read, it's also circumstantial.
How about you provide some data instead of anecdotes. You requested the same from me and I provided.

Of course people aren't "morons" and I never said as much. But people generally do what they are used to and what trusted authorities (and I use that term deliberately loosely) tell them what is ok. Nobody has time to research every little aspect of their lives in-depth to make a completely informed decision. So if people like you are telling everyone who will listen "many/most people will not be served well by an EV," that has consequences, the same way as if I would tell people "there is no justification whatsoever to drive an ICE" (which I'm explicitly not doing).

I've looked into this quite a bit and all data I can find points to EVs being a smart choice for most people if they intend to buy a new car or if they can find a suitable used one (the market availability for the latter is still small). It should be the natural choice if there is not some special circumstance in your life (as seems to be in yours).