skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the stats I could gather I really doubt macOS market share increased substantially in usage. What I think happened is that they doubled their usual sales figures. Which is unsurprising if you look at the buildup of not-so-great hardware they release post-2015 before AS. Their machines had annoyances and were very uncompetitive with comparable offering because of soldered RAM/SSD pricing.

Then they released AS and the first round of hardware looked competitive because at least they seemed to have something different, a real advantage worth paying more. At least that was the marketing.
I believe it got many to update very old hardware that was kept running because Apple offerings seemed so out of touch; then some others got interested to "complete" their iOS devices and even traditional PC users got sucked in for novelty factor or battery life argument.
In practice if the second-hand market is to be looked at, many went back to other machines and the market is inundated by underpowered, overpriced, close to entry level machines (people figure out the hard way that 8GB of RAM is very tight for a post 2020 computer no matter how good your software optimisation is...).

Now the second release of AS was disappointing to say the least (pretty bad considering the price hikes) and I think many are holding to see what they can do with M3. So the sales have dropped a lot, at least as much as all other OEM if not more (especially in comparison to previous years).

So I think what they call the market share is actually the sales number, that doesn't mean much. If you account for all the hardware that got retired plus all the hardware that sit unused (waiting to be sold or else) macOS market share has been slightly slopping upward at best. Mostly stable in practice.

When you look at the sales numbers, it is almost 80% laptops. They barely sell any of what you would call a "PC".
It makes sense; since laptops is the only place where AS has any advantages and it is also the only way to use your extra expensive "computer" as a status symbol. This is also what most employers are going to buy for their staff because unless you need real power where AS is almost disqualified from the get go it makes everything easier. They used to sell a lot of iMacs (especially the 27" version) because it was very convenient, but they don't have those anymore so...

If anything, macOS is becoming less relevant as a computing platform by the day and more of a luxury alternative brand. So its market is becoming less relevant by the day too.
I think Apple is on the path to become to computing what Campagnolo is to cycling...

Traditional PCs are not going anywhere and for way more reasons than just upgradability (your car is not technically upgradeable but is made with components from many different competing suppliers).
this is awesome!
I've added the page title to the source:

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This is the importance of the state in keeping the populace in a perpetual state of fear with their propagandists in the media. It's what allows garbage legislation like this to proceed in the first place.
I haven’t heard anyone be cynical about starship.
Site loading is stuck at 97% loading for me (on Android).
I defer to your expertise, esp when it comes to actually using these different services at scale, but as someone who used to deploy only to Heroku and wanted to learn real cloud deployment, AWS was pretty unapproachable. I almost laughed out loud at how unnecessarily arcane and difficult they made things when all I wanted to do was set up a simple Python app on EC2.

Google Cloud felt easier and intuitive to get started with, so that's what I use now.
Some stories that I've heard personally:

- Tony Xu (DoorDash) figured out that many early users were moms, and he would go and knock on their doors to ask them why they would use the product, and where other moms would hang out so they could get more signups. All of the founders also took shifts to drive for the app so they had to use it themselves.

- Tom Preston-Werner (formerly GitHub) emailed tons of OSS maintainers, including John Resig of jQuery, to try and convince them to migrate over to GitHub. He admits that it wasn't a great strategy though - project maintainers have to convince themselves to switch VCS systems.

- Jessica Mah (formerly inDinero) became a CPA in order to do accounting services for her startup. She would talk to customers and make sales during the day, and study for the certification at night.

- Ricky Yean (formerly Crowdbooster) struck a deal with an early customer/cafe owner to get paid in food, so they worked from the cafe all the time. They ended up building the cafe owner custom dashboards which later become their product.

- Nikki Durkin (formerly 99dresses) spent $10,000 at a time on Nordstrom, listed the clothes on her clothing marketplace, and then returned anything that wasn't sold or traded to users within the 30-day return window.

- Jake Jolis (formerly Verbling) would act as an English speaker trying to learn other languages at all hours of the night in order to improve the matchmaking on his language learning app. Most people were their to learn English rather than the other way around.

- Rujul Zaparde (formerly FlightCar) stood in front of a major airport parking lot for nearly 12 hours with a sign that said "ask us about free airport parking". He had the cops called on him three times that day.

- James Richards (formerly Teleborder) paid people from Craigslist $20 to sit and use their app in front of them. It led to a lot of valuable feedback, and they ended up hiring many of them later on.

- Walker Williams (formerly Teespring) drove an hour and a half to Petaluma in order to pack and ship bobbleheads for a long-term client that wanted to sell something other than t-shirts, despite the fact that the company... only sold t-shirts.

A while back I had this same question - and I ended up writing a book on it: https://www.amazon.com/Unscalable-Charlie-Guo-ebook/dp/B019E...

There's a bunch more in the book - I was lucky enough to also talk to the founders of Codecademy, General Assembly, and Zenefits. But those were some of the ones that I still remember pretty well.
> Yet to see any proof that namespacing has made things better in other ecosystems

It's really as simple as this: many libraries are generic enough implementing something that already exists. Let's say you want a library to manage the SMTP protocol. On crates.io, of course someone has already taken the "smtp" crate (ironically, this one is abandoned, but has the highest download counts, because it's the most obvious name). Let's say you disagree with the direction this smtp crate has gone, and you make your own. What do you call it?

Namespaces solve this problem. You'd instead of have user1/smtp and user2/smtp competing in feature sets. You can even be user3/smtp if you don't like the first two.

This is precisely what Java enables too. The standard library is in com.java.*; if you don't like how the standard library does something, you can make com.grimburger.smtp and do it yourself. If you choose to publish to the world, all the more power to you. It doesn't conflict with the standard library's smtp implementation.
Calendar app. If it’s day of stuff (travel, etc.) I make a list in a notes app and check things off, make sure it’s all checked off before locking the door and rolling out. I’m sure some crazy Kanban thing works for others, but it just never did for me, too much worrying about setting the right metadata on cards so I can aggregate them later (I don’t). Basically, a series of ad-hoc events and lists, and turns out it’s fine for me.
No one knows since OpenAI has not disclosed the number of paramerers their embeddings model uses.
> Literally EVERYONE said the cement base was a stupid idea and yet Elon had to trump his own experts.

Do you have more information on this? My quick googling turned up nothing.
No you don't. Go in the upward direction implies don't go in the downward direction
Re: your edit, that's not a bad component API, that's bad JavaScript (intentionally written by the author, in this case).
> Some of these globally-claimed generic packages are not really the best package to use.

Or it is just a placeholder from a squatter.
We have lots of these little roundabouts in Portland (not to mention all manner of other traffic calming features), and they are generally well placed. Almost exclusively used in areas with heavy bike and pedestrian traffic, where cars would otherwise be incentivized to speed and bypass heavy traffic on nearby arterials and busy commute routes.
Having anything to distract you on a motorcycle is a bad idea.

Best to put your phone in DND, if you need directions have them in voice only.
Thanks. I think I'm clear on it now. Looks like I gotta commit a full terabyte for the complete collection!
If you were to ask me what feature did I wish LMStudio had that if FreeChat had - would make me use it it would probably be really tight macOS integration.

Perhaps sort of similar to how something like https://www.finito.ai looks to be positioning itself but OSS and local first. It would be awesome to be able to have your local lly complete text in any application, input code in any editor, pass any image or graphic on the screen etc....

I think this would require using the accessibility / screen recording APIs so you'd want to trust whatever model you were running.
Is launch capacity the thing that holds back more space-based telescopes, and are those telescopes going to have the same availability to researchers as terrestrial ones?

If either answer is no, then the brag about capacity isn’t really relevant.
Tesla is doing great, SpaceX has always been amazing. Twitter is failing. Elon Musk becomes less respectable by the day.
Heck, I've driven a stick with one hand when I've had splints.
I remember early on G was doing several second billing, while AWS was on minutes. There are other things like better performance, authoring K8s and http2/3 etc that gave them the edge. AWS was earlier and had greater breadth of course.
Staying put is also polarizing.
I bought a hundred different label printers off eBay/amazon so I could reverse engineer and test all the different protocols. Now my app works with most label printers on the market and manufacturer’s send new models to me without even asking.

I personally answer every support email. My wife once asked me how many customers I had. Then she asked how many email support emails I’ve handled over the same time period. They were about equal (5 figures over 5 years)!

https://label.live/

Edit: on second thought, maybe I did things that DID scale. Hmm…
It has unpredictable performance because of lazy evaluation. Other high-level functional programming languages like OCaml, Standard ML, and Scheme can be compiled and achieve fairly high performance.
GCP shutting down might be one in a million, but "Google cloud niche product X" is a lot more likely.

With GCP I feel like you should stick to the core services to avoid any risks.
> There is no payoff for using a Google product versus one of the competitors

The linked article is literally about how Google is better than its competitor though! Obviously some people disagree.

If you want to write a nuanced take about risk and benefit, I'm there for it[1]. It's the stunningly absolutist take on something as clearly-not-a-big-deal as a cloud service provider, by people who would otherwise be willing to bet their careers on a job with a good vibe, that seems "deeply weird" to me.

[1] Actually I'm not. That's stuff's boring. But I respect that people do it.
given geeksforgeeks is/was spammy nonsense, I can't tell what you're trying to say about bytebytego
Excellent! And you were just saying how risky it is to rely long-term on OpenAI text embeddings in your post on the topic. The timing for this open source option worked out nicely.
Yep. We moved house recently so do fall into the articles “no reason to buy one except…”

But when we started shopping we were pleasantly surprised that there had been at least two major developments in the tech since last time I bought one.

First, an inverter gives you actual power-level control instead of the old-fashioned on-off modulation.

Second, flat-bed models have rotating emitters so you no longer need that rotating glass plate to get even application of heat to the food, and can even use square dishes that would be too large to rotate, without risking the usual hot-spots.

Maybe this market isn’t progressing at a rapid pace, but there is some progress.
From that source:

> Inline assembly is not supported on the ARM and x64 processors.
We as a society have defined a legal framework and within the confines of it we are free to live as we please. Working for big tech is legal but choosing not to is one's choice. Judging others for not making the same choice as you is what I was talking about.

Your example of "my moral code leads me to discredit the idea that anyone can have a private property right to unused shelter" is not a moral code, its trespassing and illegal. However, you could always do as you please with your own property and personally, I won't judge you and imply that I am better than you for disagreeing with me.
Sure - and do you think that means it doesn’t exist after that, or will cease existing at any point in the future regardless of how much we want it to?
How long did each reverse engineering take you? This seems like something that would require scale, so well done.
He cites "support for Palestine" in his first paragraph. It's not "zero ties to anything violent" if you didn't sleep through the last month. I mean, he probably isn't a member of Hamas or anything like that, but he very well may have donated to Hamas-affiliated NGO, either knowingly or unknowingly. It'd be not a huge link but also not zero link. He also publicly endorsed Hamas and Hezbolah in his tweets and dared the security services to arrest him. Also not zero. Well, now he got his wish as if seems.
Iraq dig unearths 2,700-year-old winged sculpture
> I think the kind of system where you don't have terminal emulation is not going to have environment variables.

This is quite wrong. The output could just be going to a log file, or to a window in your editor instead of to a terminal.
> The compiler is trying to help out as much as possible, especially since rustc has the best error messages in the world.

Generally good, but man do I hate how any error in my async function causes every recursive call site to generate an error about how the Future is no longer Send and Sync. Literally an entire console scrollback of errors with the actual syntax error buried somewhere in the middle.
Let's be real, is this actually an indictment of roundabouts or is it just Boston?
Seems to work better for defrosting evenly without risking cooking the item, which is one of my main use-cases for a microwave.
What statements have said killing civilians is the goal?
I don't think there's a fix here that's free, easy, and avoids you being on the hook.

I'm also a bit fascinated at the potential that you have 100+ people that you are related to but that you're not close to who would opt in to changing their email address onto one that you have ultimate control over.
No one is saying Google has broken contracts or the law. What is it with you Google defenders and your constant goalpost shifting? We are saying, Google is not to be trusted with claims like "we are committed to this product" because they have been caught in that lie several times before. Why are you going on about contract law and "most people and companies"? What you're saying is irrelevant.
Non-polarization is a thing. So is circular.
Not drinking _all_ of the trans-culture koolaid doesn't make someone trans-phobic.

I think he's posting a lot of crap, and probably doesn't have much of a filter and is impulsive at times. Clearly he's got some mental problems that lead him to say and retweet stuff on a whim that he probably doesn't actually believe. I think we can all understand these imperfections.

At the end of the day, he's an incredible human being, flaws and all. No one's perfect, and he's cocky and pushy and rude and stuff. But he'll be in history books, and mostly for having done a whole lot of good for humanity, while pissing off a lot of humans.
I use this sometimes when I can't find my daughter in a large shop - just turn on my wifi tethering and when I have a device connected, I know she's nearby.
Been waiting for 20 years for China to stomp on the big auto manufacturers. Yet, Chinese people still want "US" cars.

China should have been ahead of everybody on EVs. The fact that they are not speaks volumes.

When there is an actual minimum level of guaranteed quality that must be met, Chinese manufacturing tends to fail hard.
>Within the overlanding and bicycle-touring community, there are frequent complaints that so much of the federal-owned land in the United States (BLM land) is out west.

Not only that, but much of that land is basically uninhabitable; there's a reason it's all managed by the BLM. It's not really a good place for hanging out in nature unless you can haul a LOT of water with you. It's far from civilization, much of it is arid, there isn't much cover if any. Even the roads aren't really fit for riding a bicycle (or even driving a car); you could use a full-suspension mountain bike I suppose, but that's not what bicycle touring is about.
Not really. The phone only appears "off" but is in-fact in a low power mode providing beacons. It won't work if the battery were removed.

Also, modern iPhones use tower-assisted GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, BeiDou, and NavIC) so the satellite isn't necessarily Navistar. With fewer or no towers, and positioned in an odd orientation on the ground, a good fix becomes much less likely, and the range can increase from <1m to 10's-100's of m.
It might also be ňäïvë to think emissions from rocket launches can compare to switching from ice to EV, but I would check the math first…
I still think the belly-flop landing into the catch tower still seems… unproven to me.

I think it’s plausible that they can make it work, but I don’t think it’s a certainty that it’ll work out. I don’t really know what the backup plan is, if they can’t get the belly-flop and flip to a high enough level of reliability.

I also think the development timelines promised to NASA seemed… overly aggressive (as if they were Musk timelines, which never hold instead of Shotwell timelines, which usually only slip a bit)
If he goes to pro Hamas rallies days after Hamas started war with Israel it's kinda hard not to make this conclusion.
100% agree. It's unbelievable what a PITA it is dealing with pip or npm compared to Maven even 10 years ago. The descriptors could get convoluted but you could also edit them in an IDE that knew the expected tokens to make things happen.
EVs have less impact than mass transit most of the time due to the huge energy penalty of inertia for large public transport vehicles.
> If something is not working out financially, or the market has failed to grow at the pace Google initially thought, it is in their best interest to exit that market and re-allocate resources.

Correct, Google can't be trusted to commit to a product long-term. Even a product with paying customers.

> Well then perhaps you can enlighten us on why the market has failed to materialize?

Because like I said, it's a young market. It has absolutely enormous upsides for those that can win it.

> there is no addressable market

This is laughable. You're a clown.

> Just because you love a service

None of the cloud gaming vendors have ever even offered the service in my country. I have no dog in this hunt.
Disassemble and remove the battery. I can do this in about 1-2 minutes, others more skilled can do it in <30 seconds.
There's also that the whole plan of Starship colonizing Mars is wildly impractical and all the numbers Musk throws out don't work; the second you try to start fitting the supposed 100 passengers in to Starship for example there's just not room even if you halve the NASA recommended space per person. Once you account for keeping them alive once they get there it makes the slave trade ships look luxurious. SpaceX is doing really neat stuff just dragged down by Elon's overhyping sales pitches.
I think more importantly it is reference counting across threads, meaning mutexes and breaking memory barrier with large performance penalty.
Another interesting point is that math can be performed on embedding vectors: emb("king") - emb("man") + emb("woman") = emb("queen").
No; they they sell pollution credits to other auto manufacturers. That nullifies environmental gains by allowing others to pollute more.
LLMs and embedding models are certainly different, but it's a useful benchmark to calibrate expectations. OpenAI released text-embedding-ada-002 a year ago, and they describe the ada model as[1] "the original GPT-3 base model [...] capable of very simple tasks, usually the fastest model in the GPT-3 series".

It's fair to expect GPT3-level results - not GPT 3.5 and certainly not open-source tiny GPT4 as some might think when they read "rivaling OpenAI".

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/whisper
The Hugging Face page for the model has a two line load-and-encode Python code demo: https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en
Having tried Java and other languages, no, it's not a joke. Other than XML Maven got a lot of things right.
> Though Fish & Wildlife could have begun its own investigation in April, and met the 135-day deadline to give its approval for a launch the same time as the FAA, in September, it now appears that it did not start its clock ticking until after the FAA closed its work. If so, it appears Fish & Wildlife has until early January to complete its investigation.

The FWA is exercising a brand new power here, and obviously dragging it out as long as it can - but at whose orders? Maybe Elon should have coughed up 10% for "the big guy" or bought some of Hunter's paintings.

SpaceX probably got some good talent to push this through, but probably didn't foresee Biden's 4D chess move of using the FWA of all things to creatively block them. What's next? Perhaps the Dept of Education needs to weigh in on this.
A high death toll is not the definition of genocide.

There are 200+ hostages still held in Gaza be Hamas, a terrorist group that also governs Gaza. Tens if not hundreds of rockets are being fired daily. Israel has made it clear that they are going to war against Hamas and will not stop until they are eliminated; that is going to lead to civilian deaths. The civilian death are tragic. The war may be a mistake and it may backfire. But collateral damage in war is not a genocide just because the numbers are high.
> emissions: 0.855 lbs CO2 / kWh

Why do there have to be CO2 emissions?
A single draught isn't enough proof. Frequency of draughts can be indivative.

Also, natural climate change also occurs, the current one is man made.
100+ people is the upper bound of the surname afaik.

I don't want to have ultimate control... I would love to pay this for as long as possible, and let it go.

I ain't young, I got maybe 20 years left. But I just figured that I was not the first person to face this type of issue.
This is on Librivox:

https://librivox.org/around-the-world-on-a-bicycle-vol-1-by-...

https://librivox.org/around-the-world-on-a-bicycle-vol-2-by-...

and is an interesting listen, which is a record of how Europeans and Americans used to view the rest of the world (and to some degree, for some folks, still do).
To be honest, these "system design" rounds are a hassle for me and even those in-depth YouTube videos don't help.

It's all so theoretical and I feel like everything I do/say is bluffing my way through them. I prefer straight algo rounds even though those are a grind.