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> The 90%/10% is a distraction

This is false. The concentration of wealth directly correlates with increases of death, starvation, suffering, etc. Inequality is by far the most important measure. "Growth" of income is effectively meaningless on its own without relative comparisons to the other classes in your own country and the significantly higher increases in the cost of living. If you look for the narrative you'd like, you can certainly find a number in isolation supporting it. But that narrative falls down when you look at the whole picture.
> It's nice if you don't remember which os you are using

Because DOS and Unix are otherwise so alike? Hard to fathom, but be it as it may, a `dir` command not interpreting command line options like DOS's (or CP/M's -- which makes me think that even older OS might have had the directory listing command called `dir`) `dir` won't be of any help.

I think `dir` rather should flash the screen and screech out of the speaker to wake you up!
Disagree.

We are reaching a point where these integrated graphics are "good enough". Something that wasn't possible before.

It is going to change the gaming landscape.
Most likely a driver issue, not really OS related, as any game developer will attest with their GPU scars.
I think "hearing" the voice is the confusing part, or only.

Hard to know if it's a difference in the phenomenon itself or in how people characterize and perceive it.

To me the question is about thinking conversationally. Internal dialogue. Whether or not that dialogue is perceived as sound is perhaps interesting, it's not hard to imagine it working differently. Written language exists. Sign language. Non-auditory language is not a stretch.

What is hard to conceive of is thought, especially intricate reasoning, without internal dialogue.

Hard to conceive, but not hard to believe. We all do lots of non-dialogue thinking. The evidence of this is everywhere. We come to conclusions, find answers to questions without "verbal" reasoning all the time.

Say you've been building software. You're considering changing something. As soon as its suggested, you realize a whole list of implications. User implications. Server implications. Testing process X will have Y issue. Advisor A will probably advise B. You didn't verbally reason your way to all these conclusions... yet they exist.

That said... all this stuff is kinda "subconscious." You don't know where these reasoned conclusions came from. It feels like a "from the muse" thing.

If I am consciously trying to reason... I'm most (only?) conscious of my verbal reasoning.
I also don't always explicitly verbalize things. The whole problem seems to be more of disagreement about a definition of inner voice and what it means for different people.
In my experience in Europe they always advise you take the up-front tank as it's cheaper, and it's true you usually pay around 10% _less_ than most gas stations. However that's still only worth it if you manage to return the car with 10% of a tank remaining (which basically never happens)
Note it's free on the raspberry pi!

https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/

If you have one collecting dust in a drawer, I'd heartily recommend checking it out.
Classic USA move
Of what relevance is that?
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Yeah, those rumors seem super off-base, there isn't enough demand for iPads in general (mostly I think because they last so long - still using a 2018 iPad Pro here daily for web browsing and video watching here) to justify it. Jacking up the price is just going to mean they would sell even fewer...
A solution would be to make histories again that humans want to see, and stop all that panderverse nonsense
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I experimented with many stacks, but I'm sticking to: Hugo, TinaCMS, Tailwind, Stimulusjs, and Turbojs, all hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

website: https://bojanvidanovic.com
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https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-async-await-really...
You are the one being overly picky. Of course given this gif-hypermedia-client your gif is hypermedia. But the client you mentioned above is not.

How you transfer the data is irrelevant BTW. I don't get why you include that in your argument.
What's wrong with indie content? The web first enabled a big boom in that field and it's taken a lot of attention from traditional media. Much of Youtube is basically "indie" media and some of the content is extremely popular. Social media is indie news, if you will.

Some consumers do want Disney, Universal & co to feed them the 40th iteration of some lame meme, granted. I'm not saying there won't be a market for Fast and Furious 27. But dismissing everything that isn't a big budget Hollywood production is a bit much. We will see what the future brings but many people expect us to move towards more individual solutions, that's been the trend for decades.
Maybe for older titles. But in the last 2 years Indies have been forced to optimize for iGPUs because of the Steam Deck.
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The company never had any integrity^1 and has always lacked a moral compass.^2

1. Paper at TREC announcing the search engine cited harmful influence of advertising and promised a search engine "in the academic realm". They never delivered. Sold out. That was before they even went public.

2. "Don't be evil". Given the amount of highly personal data it collects, and the lack of regulation, the company truly needed some sort of ethical code. But they never even tried. Instead they let their senior management engage in harassment, settled every suit brought against them for privacy violations, paid off the competition, and routinely accepted enormous regulatory fines. Pure, unaudulterated greed.

The Google playbook is the furthest thing from "keep the margins less than or equal to 10%". It's the work of SillyCon Valley. It's the same playbook adopted by Facebook to keep Zuckerberg from being ousted. Keep reasonable people from having any ability to change anything.

There is nothing "cool" about it.
The problem is there is nothing to stop people slapping this badge on AI content, right?
If you have a Tesla the charging story is wonderful.

The car finds chargers on it's own. It shows you exactly what's available at each charger. Hardly anything is ever broken.

EVs are far easier and more convenient than gas cars. It's the non Tesla infrastructure that just sucks.
Are you unable to imagine any sound? Even a church bell or a drum rolling?
> The person in this TikTok admits to having closed zero sales. They're also one of the most junior people on the team (4.5 months).

You didn't listen to what they said:

* One month at speed
* Three months of ramp

Generally, ramp time in roles like this persons would involve tailing and listening to active areas, training for the specifics of the product that you're selling, etc.

We then hit December, wherein

* Nobody makes big spend choices in December. It's a dead month for sales unless you're in Retail selling toys and gadgets. Sales closing in December are fucking golden geese.
* They had one possible account land pull out at the last moment. Why? Unsure.
* Assuming this person is telling the truth, their management indicated they were a high performer overall.

Just like very few companies hire in December, very few companies make big spending choices at the end of the calendar year.

Unions can do things like

* Argue that the state of the dismissal is contrived ("you didn't sell anything in the week nobody buys things")
* Create mandatory minimum times of employment (e.g. "you can't lay off someone who has only recently joined" or "you can't lay off someone who moved > 100mi for the job until they have had at least one primary performance review")

Unions fight the nebulous "performance metrics" that HR is citing here.
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Swapping batteries makes sense for scooters because they are not heavy, and it is done already in asia.

Swapping a battery that weighs a ton and is part of the car structure is another story completely.

I think the more sensible solution is to have fast charging and a reliable network. 800 volt batteries and a good architecture enable incredible fast charging, and in the fjture it might be even faster. Combine that with cars with a lot of range, ex. 400+ miles and a 30m stop once 300 miles doesn't sound bad at all.
I actually like how a lot of these AI images and videos get the world a bit wrong, it kind of gives these works a character of their own.

The kid riding the bike but the wheels aren't rolling and are made of dirt, it's kind of cool. The windmill with the blades morphing back into the roof.
I feel like the scripting language (GDScript) is pretty bad. There's no real way to handle errors and its type system sucks compared to typescript. Not to mention you lose out on the diverse packages available from npm.
Not really? If a Yubikey in your pocket gets sucked out of a flying plane, you have no problems because you are no longer on the mortal plane.
Ha, interesting! I don't have the control you have on my inner hearing. For a song I love, I can like sing along with my mouth shut, not only the voices, but also the instruments. Strangely, it's hard to have the complete song at the same time (voice + instruments), but I suspect it's more of a skill issue, as I seem to be able to do it faintly.

I'm not envious of the people who have an inescapable inner voice. I think it would hinder my thoughts, the speed of it, and the ability to think abstractly. It's not totally baseless, because I can force myself to have an inner voice, but it's a conscious effort. Sometimes useful if I need to clarify my thoughts. On the same note, not having a inner voice makes it really difficult sometimes to put my emotions and thoughts into words.

But I'm really jealous about anyone that can clearly conjure images, "videos", and sounds in their mind, I feel like I have a big disadvantage if I want to learn to draw, 3D model, or play an instrument.
I just rented an Airbnb that used "Nuki" door looks and they were absolute garbage as well.

I never appreciated what an excellent solution a physical lock and key is until I experienced:
- The paranoia when my phone was low on battery that I'm not going to be able to get back into the house.
- The refusal of the stupid app to connect to the lock, requiring 5 attempts, turning things off and on again. Whilst standing in the street with all my stuff. Several times. Which causes...
- Paranoia that the thing is just not going to work.

A smart lock needs to match the reliability and convenience of the thing it replaces. The reliability of a physical lock and key is so high that I'd describe it with a 1 rather than 9's.
I have aphantasia, but I still say I "imagine" things (in the visual sense; I find it funny that this notion of visualising things in our mind is so ingrained that "imagine" has broadened to refer to the other senses) because I still clearly recall or imagine imagery in a way that means I can mentally operate on them.

E.g. I can draw things I imagine, or describe them, or "mentally navigate" spaces I remember with ease.

I also see images in my dreams, which seems to be pretty normal for people with aphantasia, so clearly a lot of us are not unable to see things in our mind, but something is - usually - preventing it from happening while we're away. Usually rather than always because some people see brief flashes, and I sometimes think I might but I'm not sure (it's surprisingly hard to determine). I've also had exactly one experience that seems to have been in a waking state where I saw clear imagery. I say seems, because while I don't think I fell asleep, I was meditating, and while I was aware and able to manipulate the imagery, it's possible it was lucid dreaming, but it was noticeable in particular because the imagery was far clearer than when I dream.
I don't think people are ditching internet relay chat because they can't figure out how to run an app.

But if I had to think of a modern equivalent of this joke, I would say now they think that Wi-Fi and the internet are synonyms.
I became interested in this topic after related discussions here in HN and listening to Sam Harris talking about meditation.

Like learning to meditate, it’s possible to learn to be anauralic at will.

I started practicing while going on long walks, trying to think about the things I was seeing without mentally discussing it with my inner voice.

At first it was extremely difficult, but I now do it sometimes without even trying.

Speaking of “alternate modalities of thought”, a while ago I made a comment here on HN that I’ve had “dreams in C++”.

As in, I wasn’t thinking about programming in English, the language of my thoughts were C++!

It was one of the freakiest things that had ever happened to me.

I liken it to how if you play a game like Tetris too much, you start “seeing” blocks moving even if you stop playing and go outside.
i mean, it's not that amazing when you think about it. If i have a ruler laying on the table and a computer screen on that same table, yeah, it's not hard to measure the width of the screen without moving the ruler.
My wife was manager at a pop podium, and she worked on a day where Prince might give a concert (it was a surprise concert while he was in The Netherlands, though the rumors were omnipresent). As a huge Prince fan, she was happy she was able to witness that concert, but it was chaos as the man had to be paid in cash. Also the tax had to be deducted on the go. They had to count 150k EUR manually (one ticket cost 100 EUR). This was in 2010.

Without context of that quote of Prince, it is a useless statement. Because many internet pioneers such as Marleen Stikker (DDS) also see the internet as (partly) failed.
This isn't solved. This is "we've got workarounds provided by people who have absolutely no incentive to solve the problem they protect you from for $$$". Solving this issue would be having actually working abuse contacts that can boot the customer off their network long-term. That's extremely unlikely to happen.
> the web site [..] is routinely offered as a fun toy for a new executive to make their mark on to show how they've got exciting new visions for the company

To be fair to Microsoft, this issue affects a great many other companies, even outside the technology space.

My personal favourite has got to be www.britishairways.com, where you can discover older and older versions of their website layered like the concentric rings of some ancient tree.

https://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb/

https://www.britishairways.com/travel/webforms/public/en_gb?...

and even the gloriously broken

https://www.britishairways.com/onbusiness/how.shtml
Maybe you'd be a 2025 Model 2[0] customer?

[0] https://www.whatcar.com/news/tesla-model-2/n25636
I've been to countless superchargers in a good chuck of the country. I've never seen a shady one with anyone begging, dirty bathrooms, or anything similar. They're in reasonable places, mid to upscale, next to grocery stores, etc.
Yes, that is silly until the employer becomes over leveraged or the resulting product becomes too expensive. Then hard choices must be made. At that point it’s not silly anymore.

Having written JS full time for 15 years most JS developers are deeply uncomfortable navigating complex data structures of any kind. There is a deep emotional reliance on declarative APIs to do that for them. This is a skill super foundational to programming in any language learned from experience, but in modern JS the reliance on tools fails to foster those very necessary skills.

This is a challenge to describe to software developers who have no experience writing original software, such as without a framework, because they have no frame of reference to consider alternative points of view. People might find it challenging to explain modern astronomy to tribal people living in a jungle, for example, because the necessary intermediate education is absent.
Full names are "opened file descriptors" and "opened file handled"... they typically have current file position of an opened stream.
Godel's incompleteness theorem strikes again. At least, you can be sure that your models can be consistent.
To put it into context, France, Italy, Spain, and the UK are all in the same general neighborhood in debt to GDP ratio. Japan's ratio is much worse.
“I can’t say anything to change the way you’re feeling” doesn’t sound like empathy to me.
Timely reminder that HR is not your friend.
Immediately thought of this book, thanks for the reminder. His others are fun, too.
I think the driving an EV experience is massively better if you can cheaply charge where you sleep.
Have you tried to change the tone in your inner voice?

Like talking more energetically and happy or using your favorite voice actor? It's pretty awesome.

If you have good imaginary you can combine it with epic music and a hall full of people cheering.

I found it in this small free epub, just 5 pages. I can't find it right now, but here it is in html.

https://www.bookfrom.net/jason-fladlien/589457-how_to_elimin...
Thats what ive been worried about

Im full remote since covid but I think it would be easier to advance when onsite
I guess you don't value non-working hours much.
So I went into some archelogy, turns out we were both kind of right. Me less so.

Unity 1.0 did not have .NET in the picture in 2005, however they went cross-platform already in Unity 2.0 around 2008, so Mono was anyway part of the story early on.
(Disclaimer: President of VideoLAN here)

Just a few remarks: VLC-Unity plugin is fully open source, and anyone skilled enough can build it themself.

We've tried for months to discuss with Unity and it was a nightmare. We've had discussions for years with Apple AppStore, Google Play store, and Windows Stores (including Windows Mobile + UWP). It's always challenging, but Unity was a headache an order of magnitude bigger: no answers, 3 different answers contradicting each other, and plain bad faith.

De facto, they use LGPL and open source to build their platform, but we're not allowed to have open source on the store? Not even LGPL with a layer of a different license? Why us? Why not the other people doing it?

Very frustrating.

So, yes, because some people need to buy support or licenses, even if everything is open source (don't want to build themselves, purchase department that needs a support contract, etc...), they need to have a small store. This is different from what we see usually, but there is a need, so this is a small store for that.

For most of HN users, you should just build it yourself. You should be skilled enough for that :)
Is it habitual for Microsoft to help their customers like this? Is there some kind of support or consultancy contract for it?
Show HN: Prompty, build games with GPT (early prototype)
Hey guys, I’ve been playing around with this prototype for a way to build games using GPT.

Some details:

- It’s an absolute hack right now; expect bugs and user unfriendliness. Also UI is not fixed for mobile yet (use desktop).

- It’s top-down, 2d. You view the world from above, and you can move around by clicking and dragging the world.

- It’s using gpt-4-turbo under the hood, and I’m outputting typescript code, which gpt will self-repair when there are type errors.

- Here’s a simple example game: https://prompty-58a21.web.app/dune/play

So far I’ve been quite impressed with what it can do (thanks to GPT of course), but would love to hear what others think!
The topic is interesting. I would also prefer a less politicized source.
I think some cold water on the hype is good; I just feel this is a bit too negative. It seems that there are many areas where the M3 is doing a good job of increasing both performance in general, and also performance per wattø:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M3-SoC-analyzed-Increase...

I also haven't gotten the same impression as you with regard to temperatures. Mostly, people seem to think it's very good, but a bit harder to cool the 14" versus the 16", and this seems to be backed up by actual battery life when unplugged.
Example: https://youtu.be/E9IJ7nOAZyM?si=xI6vR2Y8f0sr8dgo&t=743

I know that you didn't say that it's twice as bad as its competitors when it comes to performance and temperature (you were making an analogy to the PowerPC), but right now, it actually seems to be the other way around, where almost every other hardware architecture is using twice as much power for the same performance compared to Apple silicon (on PC at least, it seems a lot closer in on mobile where Qualcomm exists).

I think you can choose to view the GPU pricing from many angle. For instance, the value in relationship to token per second in large language inference seems to be high on the M3 compared to equivalent hardware needed to run it using any Nvidia GPUs. Unless you also think that Nvidia GPUs are also stupidly overpriced Of course.

Am I understanding you correctly that you feel the jump from M2 to M3 is not bringing much to the table? Or do you think that the M3 is overpraised compared to other CPU/GPU architectures? Or both? I would love it if you have some links to people that review it with a bit more critical eye on performance per watt and such, as I don't think an assertion that "People are complaining about temperature" can be refuted, so it might be better to focus on actual measurements and temperatures compared to previous generations or computer models.
Their status page was a lot more professional. But the third party hosting provider got DDOS'd as well.
Looks like full body movement is still unnatural (e.g. reverse joint pose riding a bicycle and funny foot sliding during walking), and the classic missing a finger problem. Long way for AI to model photorealistic human. FWIW “foot cannot slide” is important for AI generated characters in gaming industry
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An easy example is Roth IRAs. The contribution limits, including for conversions, are set quite low. The limits this year are $7,000, but that's including several jumps over the past few years. So according to this number, one could nominally contribute or convert (via a backdoor Roth conversion) $210,000 over 30 years, which would then of course likely grow at the market rate of approximately 10%. That would yield approximately $1,153,203 for a person able to max out a Roth IRA every year for 30 years, assuming this year's limit as a constant. Such a person is likely in the middle to upper middle class.

However, the super wealthy are able to amass tens, hundreds, and even thousands of millions of dollars in Roth IRAs, and furthermore, they use these accounts as investment vehicles into investments not available to non-super wealthy people. The only way that's possible, in accounts with strict and low limits, is through various loopholes in the system available to them because of their wealth.

https://www.investopedia.com/ultrawealthy-exploit-roth-ira-5...

https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec...
The Danish mysticist and spiritual teacher Martinus started talking about such structures in cosmos about a century ago.
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It's still a company. Just because it's a company that behaves ethically doesn't make it less of a company. It's just a very odd one.
> code can not be commented

Mathematica has a C-like syntax for comments

(* this is a comment *)

but it doesn't have C++ style comments

// This is a C++ comment
I've also found that I can tolerate a variety of lodging conditions and harsh environments, especially cramped ones, so long as I have Internet. I wonder, what psychological mechanism is at play here that allows us to trade comfort for connectivity?
A love letter to tinkerable hardware as well...
If you think about how many people entered electronics via "the Arduinos of this world". How many kids learned that you can actually build physical "stuff" that is nice & blinks. How many artists created "stuff" due to tinkerable hardware.

Shoutout to https://www.geekmomprojects.com/ and the others. Thank you for tinkering. Makes our world better.