skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All software teams are busy porting apps to Vision Pro
> and it's "better for the environment" because every year you don't buy a new phone, the environment is happy.

This seems wrong. I am still on an iPhone Xs Max from 2018 and it still gets software updates. It looks like the last software update on the G6 was in 2020. The lack of even security patches limits the life of the phone for many people.

The primary reason I'll eventually need to upgrade is because of 5G support. Coverage is getting worse as 3G has been shutdown and all new towers are focusing on 5G. My battery life sucks now too, but that can solved easily.
I remember being completely impressed by my Note 3 (10 years ago almost exactly) playing games like Dead Trigger 2 and NFS: Underground. From then on, GPU performance / graphics on these tiny displays seemed good enough for me with only minor subjective improvements.

I'll second another comment, that another big challenge is the simple lack of ergonomics on any phone.
[dupe]

More earlier discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37480271
Acting hard on fakers basically says you add little value compared to them.
Well, if that's true, it would be really bad (in a simple model it means basically everybody gets infected repeatedly and gets more and more damage and then most of the population has long covid). I am not hearing much concern this from my larger medical community.

Large numbers in a study is good, but if the study design isn't right, then large numbers won't make up for that. It's absurdly hard to really conclude reliably.

For example, from:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/well/live/covid-reinfecti...
"""For many people who get Covid multiple times, subsequent infections will be as mild as or milder than their first, emerging data shows, likely because of partial immunity from previous infections, vaccination and the fact that the latest circulating variants generally cause less severe symptoms."""
which is much more consistent with my understanding of COVID repeat infections.

If you have a link to the VA study I will look at it.
Wild that it's taken this long, but glad it (might) be pulled from shelves soon... Every doctor I know (and most patients) have been aware for years that it doesn't do anything, with studies to back up its lack of effectiveness.
Build a ChatGPT search plugin with Notion and Pinecone
I have a nexus 5x which I wanted to repurpose for… anything at all. It can’t even update itself anymore. Play services update just locks up or whatever. Play store is broken and can’t install anything. The thing is useless as a smartphone.

My iPad 5 got an iOS update last month-ish? And a security patch last week. All of my kids run iPhone 8.
I think it has a bigger impact than you realize. The last iPhone I owned was the 3GS. I don't particularly like iPhone or Android; I'm hardly a fan boy. But, I'm seriously looking a iPhone 15 variant as my next phone.

I have USB-C for virtually everything and have no interest in dealing with keeping a second set of cables for one device. It's an extra expense, headache, and environmental waste I don't want. The change to USB-C makes an iPhone a viable option for me. I look forward to a refreshed SE line with USB-C as well.

I'm not thrilled about all the cables and dongles/adapters eventually going to landfills, but believe the move will be better in the long-run. I wish Apple made the move earlier.
The biggest issue, unfortunely is that all the other engines that offer C# support as the main language, lack the AOT compilation toolchain (including game consoles), the graphical tooling including debugging and profilers, asset store with people living from it, and above all, being fully endorsed by all major game platform owners and VR/AR hardware.

So anyone that wants to replace Unity, despite their missteps, has a long to catch up to.
Most people i know who pirate games are doing it to because it's free. I don't think it has anything to do with steam or any other service.
It doesn't matter whether the adapter is stubby or long (like a non-adapting cable), it still cost like $20 for no reason, despite being "such a well integrated ecosystem"

When it came to apple, that kind of stuff has always been pure puffery and marketing anyway. "Their hardware is the best" people would say, while their computers sat at 100% fan, choking under the strain of running basic apps with no real cooling, while the user worked around a stuck "C" key and being careful with their inflating battery.
Excel doesn't do half the Excel things, PowerPoint doesn't have reader mode, the list goes on. Anyone who thinks Office for Mac is any good hasn't used Office for Windows in 10 years.
I get trolling can be fun for some people but I genuinely don't understand what you get out of it in this case.
Staying with my mini! These phones are too damn big!
> That port is already water-proof.

Resistant.
> water (H2O) cannot become radioactive itself

This was interesting. I researched it a little and found this on https://www.quora.com/Why-is-water-the-only-thing-on-Earth-t...

When hit by neutrons "hydrogen, move to another stable state and only become unstable when that particular atom gets hit twice" "Oxygen takes three absorptions to become radioactive" and underwater neutrons "activated mainly the sodium in the sea salt."
We’re talking about people who still willingly use Twitter and pay for blue check marks here…
Well, not anymore. You can now take a wide landscape shot of some beautiful scenery, and then go home and sit on a couch all by yourself to look at it with a VisionPro. Allegedly, it's impressive, almost like you were there ;)
That sounds reasonable, but even then it doesn't mean someone shouldn't wear a mask. Their performance would be decreased, but it doesn't mean that it would be medically dangerous (they would not have low blood oxygenation, for example).
Well, I write one thing: https://godotengine.org/
if I was in his shoes and I'd probably be worried about getting long covid and that stopping me from skiing or piloting.

The symptoms of long covid can be pretty debilitating and a lot of people just don't get better.

> For some people, Long COVID can last weeks, months, or years after COVID-19 illness and can sometimes result in disability.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/...

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...
Taking the article as truth, 7 of the 7 CIA people were unconvinced it was a lab leak. 6 of the 7 were willing to say "low confidence" and 1 out of 7 wasn't even willing to say that.

They aren't against it per-say; they just aren't for it and that's a difference that has been lost with polarized headlines.
They were selling the 13 Pro after the 14 Pro came out? I was pretty sure they always removed last year's Pro from the lineup when the new Pro comes out. Meanwhile last year's baseline models will stick around at a reduced price.
Hasnt that not been updated since 2018? That would scare me
No... that's not the point of fuzzing... You cannot write individual functions in such a way that they keep revalidating input handed to them. Because then, invariably, the validations will be different function to function, and once you have an error in your validation logic, you will have to track down all function that do this validation. So, functions have to make assumptions about input, if it doesn't come from an external source.

I.e. this function wasn't the one which did all the job -- it already knew that the input was valid because the function that provided the input already ensured validation happened.

It's pointless to deliberately send invalid input to a function that expects (for a good reason) that the input is valid -- you will create a ton of worthless noise instead of looking for actual problems.

> Furthermore, assuming that no duplicates exist is a rather strong assumption that should always be questioned.

How do you even come up with this? Do you write your code in such a way that any time it pulls a value from a dictionary, you iterate over the dictionary keys to make sure that they are unique?... There are plenty of things that are meant to be unique by design. The function in question wasn't meant to check if the points were unique. For all we know, the function might have been designed to take a map and the data was lost even before this function started processing it...

You really need to try doing what you suggest before suggesting it.
Look at the optical zoom options. Granted, it’s not obvious that the Max has 5x while the base Pro only has 3x.
Show me someone who answers "entrepreneur" when asked what they do for a living, and I'll show you a huckster and/or trust fund kid.
The EU should mandate the increase of compulsory warranty from 2 to 5 years.

It would help reduce both sweatshops and e-waste.
The rate of immigration to developed countries far outpaces the rate of building new dwellings in developed countries. Net growth YoY for places like the US, Canada, UK, Australia all tell the same story. Several traditionally less-developed countries are also seeing the rural hinterlands drain and immense internal migration to urban areas.
Prosper it is you who changed.
Bringing John Ricitiello on as CEO (former disgraced EA CEO) should have been a yellow (or red?) flag that things had reached their peak.
You're right, upgrading to pro would be better at $2k/seat/yr which gets you a much larger million dollar buffer. Also, I'm noticing that the revenue thresholds seem to be per-game not per org - so actually, the new pricing isn't that bad!
Huh, never knew that the F1 had floor suckers!
How do you keep them in sync? I bet you're using an established time source.
How are they not equivalent?
Same reason getting excited about higher CPU speeds is so 90s. Latest tech generations do not enable meaningfully new experiences compared to the early ones, and the hardware capabilities plateau over time (whether due to Moore's Law or other miniaturization limitations).
I agree, but wow this is a poorly written article
Google Maps was also cheap. Initially.
So it is aggressively cheap now, but would aggressively change later.
Electric cooling could shrink quantum computers
Hello and thanks for your comment.

You can unplug your Ethernet cable after you loaded the website and still generate a key.

While offline key generation may offer an additional layer of security, online services can provide a more accessible and user-friendly option for individuals who prioritize convenience and still want a reasonable level of security.
:D

What calculation did you use though? Like some formula or is there a web utility for this, for example?
Well, this is in line with their wonderful incentive for devs to pay to REMOVE the mandatory Unity logo.

This has made +10 years of high-quality, unforgettable, GOTY games made in Unity to not have the logo, while all the humble, low-quality, full of free-asset-store assets, practice projects of newbies, show the Unity logo first and foremost.

Literally attaching your brand recognition to the projects exactly opposite of the ones you want your brand to be recognized with.
Because there aren't any of those. New York utilities have multiple similar events per summer, for example, as does California.

https://www.caiso.com/Documents/intensifying-heat-leads-to-a...
My Steam account predates my Gmail account. I think it's the account that has been around the longest for me that I still use.

It's funny to think back and remember the days of waiting in queues at FilePlanet to download a patch for Counter-Strike
Cattle are the No. 1 agricultural source of greenhouse gases worldwide. It's also causing water issues in regards to the Colorado River as the majority of the water is used for cattle feed.

If you look at it from that perspective then using leather is unsustainable given our current projected path.
> because China was never going to let any real investigation happen,

The lab in Wuhan was founded by the US government. Read the news.
Luckily Steam is a private company, controlled by gaben. If it were public it would have been enshitified years ago.
I agree that we should make America grate again
Or that the value cannot be verified before purchase.
In power-user-land we call IT glorified gatekeepers.

Neither would be entirely accurate and not every of either is always one of either and either can be both at the same or different times..
that said, my doctor has told me the pseudoephedrine hcl it replaced doesn't really help your cold or allergy, maybe just your symptoms. I don't know the truth/reality of the matter.
>Every single year I'd speak with a skeptic and they'd have a "reason" not to use .NET that wasn't true.

Having to argue with people about how well dotnet runs on Linux after having it deployed on Linux for 6-7 years sucks as hell
You never use a calculator?
An anecdote, but I've never heard anybody from my social circles to have their phone hacked. I keep reading about all these holes, but somehow they don't seem to be widely exploited in the real world.
I think the joke was "the conspiracy theorists, were so close to being right!, It's Big Parma that is putting microchips into all of us"
Has it been shown that the vaccine keeps you from getting it?

I do think it is worth calling out my point is FAR from a panic moment. The study calls out they had very few vaccinated people, for one. For two, again, the data is clear that you are much safer for yourself if you are vaccinated.
I wish the author knew about structural typing.
3.5mm jacks are still the standard for all wired headphones and will probably outlive both Bluetooth and iPhones.

Also the Macbooks still have it while the M1 didn't have magsafe, so maybe let's not use Apple's decisions as indication of obsolescence.
He's using Firefox with updates. I guess they still provide browser updates for his version. TBH, that mitigates most of the real vulnerabilities.

It may even receive system web browser updates, as those tend to go on for much longer than OS updates with Android.

With a little care, it is likely to be fine.
About time. What makes a game unique in spirit is its engine.
Improved error messages for failed or canceled builds
Assuming that there is a fixed cost associated with the mini production line, and assuming they sales and service based revenue from mini users isn’t a lot, it doesn’t make financial sense to have the mini line.

Also, where exactly are the users gonna go? The smallest is probably one of those Samsung foldable ones. But you’re really underestimating how bad android ecosystem can be (this is coming from someone who’s been hardcore android fan until recently). Maybe I’m getting older, but I really like the part where a lot of things with apple just work.
Initial reaction : cool! Subsequently: I am going to stop buying this stuff. I dont care about protecting the cartel, and want to punish them for this sort of behavior.
These days "security" has been perverted so it is mostly not about protecting you from attackers, it's about preventing you from accessing your own data or running the apps that you want. You are the threat that they are securing against. Less "secure" means more freedom for you. Less "secure" can also mean more real security for you since you have to leave the mainstream which is what actual attackers target.
you need to install the f-droid store. most google apps still work, but you can't use recent versions of them.
It would be nice to find some charts of what that would be for various virii.
I am talking about train tunnels, there is literally no more capacity.
Based on my research, GPT-3.5 is likely significantly smaller than 70B parameters, so it would make sense that it's cheaper to run. My guess is that OpenAI significantly overtrained GPT-3.5 to get as small a model as possible to optimize for inference. Also, Nvidia chips are way more efficient at inference than M1 Max. OpenAI also has the advantage of batching API calls which leads to better hardware utilization. I don't have definitive proof that they're not dumping, but economies of scale and optimization seem like better explanations to me.
I think the problem is that the same people who care a lot about their phone's form factor also care about features. We need an iPhone Mini Pro with high end cameras. I'm not going to settle for so-so pics of my toddler.
Why the school choice movement is finally scoring breakthrough wins
Oh thanks! I stand corrected. Good to see.
There is that--especially for kids. It may not be very good but at least it's not evil.
On the other hand, the 6th gen Mini uses an A15, and has USB 3 speeds support (only 5Gb but still).

So apple might have had USB3 speeds support in the A15 specifically for the mini, or they might have included USB3 support for a while in all SoC and enable it selectively for segmentation purposes.

That would gel with the comparison between the iPad Air 5th gen and the iPad Pro 5th gen: they both use the desktop-class M1, but the Pro supports full TB3 and USB4, while the Air only supports 10GB.
Making me feel a lot more like using godot, or writing my own engine.
Those people who point out that these phones don't receive regular updates, please note that at $199 you can buy a new phone every 4 years and still be more environment friendly.
Steam link is great, one of the best reasons to buy a game on steam. It even works on your phone pretty seamlessly
A "strawman" ? you said, "One of the first proponents for hand washing and hygiene during medical practice wound up dying in a mental asylum."

Maybe if you'd added, "of course, lots of people who wound up dying in a mental asylum are forgotten, with good reason" then I would've had nothing to say.

As it was, you cited an example as though that proved anything.
Anyway, thanks, Past. Signed, The Present...

P.S. Maybe The Future can stop them?
Any advice on how to build a tender pipeline from scratch? Im struggling learning how to implement interesting shaders as a user. I couldn’t imagine building a render pipeline engine on top of writing shader code.
Please do share the evidence.
We spent some time evaluating this on my team, and we're still experimenting with it.

I like it a lot, but the project appears to be mostly unmaintained since mid-2021, when the creator left it to work on a lispy CI/CD tool [0] that feels very complicated... not sure what's going on there.

[0]: https://github.com/vito/bass
On a 6 year old iPhone 6 here. Solid, charges quick, no battery issues, good pics, you name it. I may upgrade to go all USB-C but may wait to see if the 15 has issues.
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Serious gaming on iPhone destroys the battery in 1 year, 2 tops, tho.
People believing that in the mobile space Godot can be a replacement to Unity are delusional, in 10 years maybe?

Godot is a "mature" toy engine. There is not a single quality / money maker game that shipped on Godot.
Not a rocket scientist or even a physicist.. but if i remember right, the bulk of your energy in a rocket is expended on your horizontal speed not the height gain. I came across this when I was looking up if it made sense to launch a rocket from an equatorial mountain like Kilimanjaro (6000m asl)
Yeah. It's just the "dynamic pricing" thing moving into new areas. Not well, messily. But life will find a way
I'm not saying you're wrong, but your use of "god tier" so many times makes it seem like you're being paid to post that.
> I was vaccinated, and the vaccine didn't work (it didn't prevent me from getting ill, get out of here with the 'better outcomes' bullshit

How do you know it wouldn't have been worse without vaccination?
Agree that Siri isn't very good, and have been quite stagnant. It was released in 2011, that's 12 years ago!? Sure it's probably better now, but not 12 years of development better?

But, at the same time. ChatGPT and the likes have a very different failure mode, that feels even less Appley. Like saying actual fake stuff, or saying it understand that you want to turn the AC on when your son leaves school coming home - but then just not doing it, or doing something completely different. With current Siri the failings are at least very obvious…
Your conclusion is wrong. There is no difference in battery life if you compare to 14 Pro on their site.
Unity's site is all about real-time development, visualizations and things of that nature, not game development. Did they recently rebrand or has it always been this way? Could this have something to do with the perceived downfall? Are they now just targeting a different audience?
Apple is making 30%, just like all the console makers and Steam, on every single game transaction on iPhone.

What you're forgetting, and pushing aside, is that the mobile gaming market is as big as the traditional gaming market. All the phone games make as much money as all the consoles and PC gaming together. Apple, with its command of all the valuable phone customers, is pulling an estimated 14 billion dollars in 2021 in mobile gaming. So Apple is very dumb if they don't care about 14 billion in annual services revenue.

What you're thinking is that traditional gaming is big-boy gaming and where the big bucks are. The growth market is mobile gaming, with the other segments being stagnant outside of big hits. The reality is that Apple is a bigger gaming company, by revenue, than Microsoft or Sony, is controlling the growth sector, and is thinking accordingly. They have financed all on their own a new GPU generation for their phone and justified it as a need for gaming and gaming alone. Those other companies need partners, like AMD or Nvidia, to make them GPUs.

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
Conspiracy theory on this:

Knowing they are heading up to this big anti-trust case, they devise the following plan. They will ensure that at least in the search-engine space they are not monopolizing, by making google worse and worse until the point that no one uses it anymore. All in time for their case. Legal defense by enshitification. By the time it happens google won't be the most-used search engine.

Honestly it's not the worst idea if I was a google bigwig.

</joke> (?)

Honestly even though ChatGPT is dumb/on-drugs at times, it's really helped find information especially when asked to mention sources, and when prompted well (you have to know your requirements and be explicit). That is until the learning cutoff of course.

But yeah - it's really hit or miss too, but between it, yandex, and all the cool niche ones I've mostly picked up from HN, like Kagi, Marginalia, etc, or weirdly enough, Bing, it seems like in the last few years it has changed from google being functionally "the way" to find info, to being a plan 'b', or 'c' .. or 'z'.

Of course I'm not denying the scope of their activities in the world, or why the would be on trial for this, just noting that for me personally it's the first time it seems like there's `less` of a functional monopoly (for me and my use).
What's the safest way to ski? Don't ski.
Chromium running inside your terminal
Sorry, it wasn't the legend, it was in the tag line. But it's gone now, so all good.
In the EU, many foods fall under protected labeling law and it goes well beyond Parmesan and italy.

I'm personally all for it, fuck the waste they sell in the US such as wood pulp with cheese flavoring sold as Parmesan.
The power button on it is located on top, and it doesn't have a headphone jack either.
I’d do it tomorrow — well, I’d probably switch to LibreWolf or to Mullvad Browser — if only they copied how Chrome manages bookmarks.
I mean at one point Google never returned image results.

Certainly some of the Python queries could return a card promoting a result from python.org just like other queries return a card promoting wikipedia.org