skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really a Mac problem so much as it's the game makers not making a mac version available.

The mac market is small compared to the PC market. Now factor in that Apple CPU's are a different architecture and it makes sense that Linux would have more games written to be compatible with it vs. MacOS.

But, just like Linux there are emulators that will let you do it...

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover

There are many more out there but that is probably the most widely known.
I was going to guess "minimum wage" which is $18.07 in San Francisco, but I decided to actually do a job search for "Warehouse Clerk" and found a nice opening for Disney that includes health insurance and requires no experience. It pays $28 an hour, which works out to about $58,240 a year*

* not counting vacation days that may or may not be provided or possibilities for overtime
* simple math is $28 * 40 hours per week * 52 weeks per year
You tune it first.

A better faith version of this should have been the experimenters creating a creative writing pipeline they found created the best output and then testing that.

Using naive zero shot prompts in a single pass with no CoT doesn't even reflect real world production usage outside of the casual user of ChatGPT who discovered it a week ago.

So yes, surprise surprise - casual and naive use of a tool isn't comparable to experts without the tool.

And I'm sure my using a hammer to build a deck would perform much worse than an expert carpenter without a hammer. But that's saying less about the utility of the hammer than it is my ability to use the hammer.
The front page does not have the normal Windows XP logo. See Wikipedia for the unmodified one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_XP_logo_and_wordm...
It depends. If someone is only coming in 1-2 days a week, then I'm fine with them not having a dedicated desk. It does feel wasteful to give every single person a whole desk or even office if they're gonna just use it one day a week. But if someone comes in 4-5 days, they definitely deserve their own dedicated desk.

The issue is that they try to treat everyone exactly the same. I don't understand why it's so hard to have 2-3 different modalities, and let people pick whichever works best for them.
“Redfin will go further than resigning from the NAR board, requiring our brokers and agents to leave NAR everywhere we can”

Wow, they’re really pulling out the big guns. I applaud their efforts to decouple MLS access from NAR, that seems to be the biggest hurdle in advancing the industry.
> but the lack of high-quality games in Apple's ecosystem is odd.

Its not surprising, and not because of anticompetitive contracts.

- Apple is a completely different CPU architecture, graphics architecture, and graphics API. Thats not an easy port for most studios.

- There is no evidence that the Mac gamer consumer base is large. Maybe it is, but thats a chicken and egg problem.

- Many (a large fraction?) of Macs run the base M1/M2 in shells that can't sustain high power for very long, with a small combined CPU/GPU RAM pool of 16GB. Or even worse, 8GB. This would provide an unsatisfactory experience in many modern PC games, even with really fast Proton-esque translation layers.

> Why can't Apple do what Linux does and allow Windows games to run on Mac?

I dunno the answer to that, but this question answers your original question.

Most "big" game devs do precisely zero linux testing. The handful that do basically boot up Steam on Ubuntu or a Steam Deck and check if the game starts up and runs for a bit. Thats a remarkable level of turnkey compatibility that Apple is nowhere close to yet.
YES! It is about time that realtors get disrupted.

They take 6% out of most housing transactions and add very little value. They managed to put themselves in the critical path by lobbying and regulatory capture. You don't get access to the listings and MLS open houses unless you go with a realtor. They also made the process artificially complex.

Most other countries seem to rely on direct customer to customer for most transactions, with a notary making sure the contracts are binding. Why can we not do that in the US?
Is there an example of negative repercussions of this in modern society? I hear people complain about extreme taxation relative to history, but I also have plenty of access to goods and services in my region, so it seems there must be other, perhaps higher weighted, factors?
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Maybe it's just me, but when I hear "computational social science" I first think of agent-based modeling. But yes, when I look at recent work, it's all about statistical analysis of historical data. Ugh... So why can't we just call it that? Maybe it's justified to emphasize the computational aspect because of the scale of operation these days.
You ever try visual-ray cloudbusting?

I've tried it (with concentration-meditation augmentation). Seems to work.
The main struggle I have with Kafka is managing partitioning to avoid hotspots.

I have a scenario where we have hundreds of installs of an old and shitty RDBMS on customer sites, and we need to replicate changes to data to a central store. We had to come up with a bespoke event system that would capture insert, update, and delete events, ship them to a REST endpoint, who would then throw them into Kafka to be processed into the central store. Kafka’s ordered message log made it ideal for this scenario, as we can’t play events out of order (although because of poor design in the old databases, it sometimes happens and we built a retry system using additional Kafka topics, nonetheless avoiding out of order messages is critical to keep consumer lag under control).

This works mostly ok, but we have a problem when individual customers have big bursts of traffic. Ultimately, we need records to be processed in the order they happen, per customer. Naively, we could partition by customer ID, but arbitrarily adding new partitions as we add customers is not practical over time, and regardless, bulk inserts, updates, etc. could cause large amounts of latency for a customer. So, we’re doing a balancing act of trying to partition using customer ID + a “bundle name” of related tables (the net effect being activity to dependent tables for the same customer always go to the same partition and thus process in order). We’re also looking at using additional topics to create high, medium, and low priority queues, but while that may smooth out some of the problems, it really only breaks the original problem into three smaller versions of the same problem, effectively kicking the can down the road.

Ultimately, the best solution would be to get rid of the crappy RDBMS and replace with something that we can binlog or otherwise sync transactionally rather than record by record. We are working on this, but it’s slow going. In the meantime, we continue to wrestle with Kafka partitioning woes.

As an aside, we also got rid of Avro. It just didn’t have any benefits that outweighed the challenges to get it and keep it working over time. Much easier to just use plain json, a common message class library between consumers and producers, and a fast, traditional json library. I’ll fully admit that perhaps the avro woes are more an issue inexperience, but I seem to find more people who have the same experience as me than not. Either way, plain json has not caused us any problems.
Thanks, the most constructive feedback I have gotten. Will keep all in mind!
I started watching the Nova episode. I didn't realize the timing of the testing done in Houston during hurricane Harvey. As if the stress on getting JWST built wasn't enough, but now it's in the path of a massive hurricane that parked itself over the area dropping 40"+ of rain.

Edit: just to add that I found the segment on the alignment process of the 18 mirrors an interesting puzzle. Once you've found all of the pieces, you still have to decide what mirror each part of image represents. I've aligned my telescope mirror's primary/secondary mirrors on terra firma, but you at least have a bit of a feel for how much you're adjusting. Doing that remotely from 1M miles away, just makes it that much cooler
> Imagine half a million people out in the streets together. You’d definitely notice that.

In the streets, sure. Meeting up at out of town conference centers a few times a year, probably not. Most real communities have always been "dark matter" to those outside them; Discord working the same way feels more authentic than most of the internet.
I don’t see why a hotel would be a problem, 2 hour range so if someone wants to go back to family they still can.. I personally see no real good coming from trying to make people socialize late at night anyway.
I know this is curt, but it's the first thing that came to my mind as well. There's a threshold of what I can only describe as mundane misery past which it is very difficult psychologically and logistically to plan long-term, and tons of people are past that line. It is not a financial line.

The majority instinct is to blame those people as personally irresponsible. But that is always unrealistic at scale. This problem in particular has progressed beyond easy answers at this point.
I'd like to buy a cheapo Chromebook with Intel N100, IPS LCD, and 8GB (hopefully 16GB RAM). It should be sweet spot.
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Please tell me you write your security packages with automated LaTeX templates using Overleaf and make my day!
The only way to profit is to sell, if you do that where would you live?
> - There is no evidence that the Mac gamer consumer base is large. Maybe it is, but thats a chicken and egg problem.

But Mac users also tend to pay more for apps in general. I imagine if someone paid +$2000 for an MBP, they would be willing to spend $50 on a Mac game. Heck, maybe we're even ok with paying a premium just to get our games ported to Mac. ($100 for COD MW3? I'd do it even though it's expensive for me as a student).
Another benefit of electron is that it allows the community to quickly contribute and improve the project via PRs

In the last 5 days, Bruno received 25 PRs. I've already merged 21 of them and shipped multiple releases.
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It's giving Exo Squad more than Gundam.
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I wouldn't say any, it creates a more stable infrastructure that isn't at the whims of the markets or outside stakeholders. I'd say browsers are ready for that sort of stability too, and I'd hazard that it would be a renaissance for bringing in other interested silicon valley tech leaders to build out new sides of the business.
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> It feels like a semi-predictable outburst of the-need-for-joy following the dour years of Covid lockdowns and travel restrictions and general down-sentiment; a society-wide emotional pressure relief valve.

According to the article, it seem more like the onset of a doomer mentality.

Why save for a tomorrow that you might not live to see? What if all your sacrifice and planning is for naught? Better to experience life now when you are healthy as you might not be in the future (e.g. long covid, dead, ...) and can no longer do so.

I think everyone subconsciously does a risk-benefit analysis. The more uncertain things are, i.e. higher risk, the more ROI you demand from your investments. If investments aren't giving you the returns you want for a certain level of risk ... you just don't invest - which is what this is about; uncertainty has reduced the attractiveness of long term investment for people and making (less risky) short term investments comparatively more attractive.
I once sold my house without a realtor. I hired an excellent RE attorney to handle only the paperwork for a flat rate -- way less than a realtor who wanted a whole percent to do the same job. Some parts of the system grudgingly took my money without an agent, like title search and home insurance and the buyer's agent who still got their 3 percent. Best case, if you can get it, would be the buyer and seller meet up without the agents and each has an attorney to help with legal.
> On my phone I just added Japanese as a language and it now prefers those. Windows seems to support it fine too, as does Chrome on Linux.

Is the text you're reading getting rendered in Japanese characters? Or is it getting written in similar-but-not-quite-the-same (and thus something you can use, but irritating to do so) Chinese characters?
I remember thinking those cd caddies were so cool in concept, but after actually trying out a drive that needed the caddies, it was just so cumbersome.
Now HERE is the anti-trust trial we need. How is it that some slimy org controls the only access to price information nationally?
How can an imperfect being create a perfect, flawless being and then now how to flawless communicate with said being ?
It sounds like you've identified the actual problem you need to fix. Why shouldn't the browser know how long a couple of short video files are?

Also, if the video files don't have an audio track, you shouldn't get a PIP control. Why do these GIF-replacement videos have an audio track? I believe (but have not tested) that adding the `muted` attribute to the `<video>` element will have the same effect as removing the audio track from the video files themselves.
That's true! I remember that!
> Apple lacks the server side chops to build super low margin services

https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engin...

Has much materialized from this?
You might be imagining you think I said about formalities in mathematics, they're more or less essential in making something rigorous and passing it on to others but you'll find that many prolific mathematics start with intuitions, invent their own informal notations, and move toward a formal expression only when some new direction or concept is almost complete.

Maths proceeds faster with those who have been passed good intuitions about lengths, symmetries, and other concepts - these are the fundemental groundings. The formal notations follow to add rigor and to assist in the reasoning and formal proof.

With no intuition and only formal methods all you have is Coq: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq

> Even in music, a successful composer or improviser needs to know a lot about viable patterns and rules of thumb, and this knowledge would've been conveyed explicitly as well as by example.

There are entire schools of music that are conveyed entirely by example with no formal music theory whatsoever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBgQQXoUw8

Even individuals on remote islands born blind and left handed can make music with no training, no music theory, and only a right handed guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyppTLuJm14
I'll be honest and say your interpretation is probably right, and that's how the NY times reporter interpreted it. However, my strong anti-MS + all conglomerates (i.e., bias that would probably would have disqualified me from being on the jury heh) sees a guy only concerned about MS stock, taking a hypocritical jab at his direct competitor.

I am mostly disappointed that it indicates to me (possibly incorrectly) that the DOJ is not simultaneously pursuing MS for related practices. Maybe it's not in the ads space, but MS is not without their own anti-competitive issues. Or maybe they are, and are able to walk and chew gum. But DOJ asking MS to be a witness is just not a good sign to me.
looks pretty lifelike to me; like most people I see at Walmart.
Are you having a mostly positive or negative performance review experience?

Current job, fine. But a while back this happened:

I was working for a BigTechCo who shall remain nameless. At my first performance review near the end of year one, I was rated "Meets Expectations" on a scale that went "Needs Improvement" -> "Meets Expectations" -> "Exceeds Expectations". OK, fair enough.

At the end of year two, my manager calls me in for a performance review, and proceeds to tell me:

A. he thinks my performance has improved from the previous year (when I got a "Meets Expectations")

B. my evaluation this year is "Needs Improvement".

Huh??

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

The purported explanation was that he changed the criteria he judged me by. Mainly that meant that instead of being compared to my peers, I was compared to people in the next higher band, managers (I was an IC), and people who had been with the company 15+ years.

Huh?????

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

Still, the only real fallout from this would nominally have been a slightly smaller bonus, and a bruised ego (I never get "needs improvement" ratings, damnit!). But I could live with this and go on.

And then we got a new VP of our group, and this guy apparently has some hard-line "I only want TOP performers on my team" shtick. So he goes over all the department performance ratings, and decides he can't have me around. So I get PIP'd.

Now here's where this gets even more fucked up. I started looking for a new job immediately (because we all understand that a PIP is generally a "soft firing"). But I knew I had some time and could afford to be selective, so I didn't rush out the door. So I hung around until the end of the PIP period... and MET all of their criteria, by their own admission. My manager signed off on my having successfully met the PIP criteria and everything. And then a few days later he came back and said "the higher ups want you to do a second PIP". LOLOLOLOL. Luckily by then I was just a day or two away from having an offer from another company, so like three days later I go to my manager and tell him "Yeah, I'm out."

But seriously, if anybody doubted that the whole PIP thing is bullshit, that should serve as a pretty strong indicator. It wasn't about me improving my performance, it was about somebody deciding they wanted me gone and they were going to get their way one way or another. I guess if I'd stayed and successfully completed the second PIP they would have just made up some bullshit and fired me outright. Or somebody would have put their finger on the scale to make sure there would be not possible way to successfully complete the second PIP.

Anyway, the moral of this story is, performance reviews are generally a political game playing process and PIP's are bullshit.
Don't be too sure about that 10% increase in value. Online estimates are generally not great and may simply be guessing from past momentum.

Even if it really did increase 10%, you'd be giving up a lot of that difference in all of the various costs involved with selling a house and moving, even if you could cut agent costs to $0.

I have some friends who became real estate agents and thought they'd use their position to flip houses while being their own agents to save on costs. They're learning the hard way that even when you're not paying agent fees, buying, selling, and holding homes is expensive.
I personally believe that people need to collaborate in person for truly innovative ideas to come out. I also acknowledge that most no one truly wants to come into office every day and that they are actually more productive working from their home most times. This is the compromise I can think of.

If the job is merely finishing tickets in a jira board you’re right it can just be a fully remote org. I believe if you want to do cool shit then this is not sufficient. In fact I’m yet to see a truly innovative successful company that was fully remote from start.
Jake has his own site where he shares his essays here:

https://jakeseliger.com
Less features, but that can be a good thing. Interface is nice, but its electron (but that's not really a bad thing).
I read a few paragraphs and still didn’t know what the hell it was about. It read like a buzzword bingo.
Thank you! I’ll give it a read.
Ask HN: Why company should increase profit every year?
Why cannot company just being normal not crazy about profit. Isn't that unsustainable?
Shortsightedness like this tends to backfire spectacularly in the long-term.
Jake has written their experience elsewhere (and is linked to many times in the article, too) for example: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/08/27/on-being-ready-to-die-and...
It is unsustainable. Currently housing is priced as if it was going to increase 10% a year forever (and if that is not the case, you are almost always better off renting right now).

There are multiple factors that pushed the prices artificially up since 2020. They will look retrospectively obvious (as the 2008 subprime crisis seem obvious now). I'm usually not in favor of timing the market but I believe we are currently in the single worst time to buy a house in history.
Eh, I think a lot of realtors are not worth it, but a good one is.

As a buyer I got an excellent rate from their recommended lender, I got a solid lawyer rec, and I got experienced guidance throughout the whole process. Was it expensive? Yes, but was it worth it? In my case, very much so.
What if ChatGPT doesn’t want to generate code for the day due to an existential crisis ?
I would like to see less of Apple's revenue come from advertising, not more. So if it is a paid search engine with no ads, then awesome. But I doubt that will happen.

More than search, I wish Apple would compete with Google Workspace. Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I can tell, even with the new support for custom domains and Apple Business Essentials, iCloud still isn't designed for teams. The number of people you can share a domain with and the number of email addresses you can have per domain seem very limited. Or are there different limits for managed Apple IDs?
Well the other explanation is that you are better of buying than renting.

If rent prices go up faster than house prices, then you might as well buy at any price.
Of course this assumes you can afford it.