skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First Past the Post is less democratic than other systems of voting.

Consider various definitions of democracy, they're usually along the lines of:

> Democracy is a system of government in which laws, policies, leadership, and major undertakings of a state or other polity are directly or indirectly decided by the “people,” a group historically constituted by only a minority of the population (e.g., all free adult males in ancient Athens or all sufficiently propertied adult males in 19th-century Britain) but generally understood since the mid-20th century to include all (or nearly all) adult citizens.

https://www.britannica.com/question/What-is-democracy

Put simply, democracy is a government by the people.

But in the elections I referenced, we see that some groups of people are underrepresented in government. Their opinions are not contributing to decisions as much as other people's.

It's similar to gerrymandering. Keep the same voting system, but distribute electoral areas so that a certain group of people will never have political power. Wouldn't you say that's less democratic?
they really listed "Gamergate" before "racial supremacist groups" lmao
Surveillance isn't worth a few photos.
Did Dijkstra ever write down a personal insult like this against anyone? I haven't come across it...
Then Samsung's market share goes up?
From your first link:

> Microsoft and its partners hold patents for CLI. Ecma and ISO/IEC require that all patents essential to implementation be made available under "reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) terms." It is common for RAND licensing to require some royalty payment, which could be a cause for concern with Mono. As of January 2013, neither Microsoft nor its partners have identified any patents essential to CLI implementations subject to RAND terms.

With such FUD, I guess no wonder CLI didn't have wider adoption.

The open source implementation of CLI was also left to the community, the main one being proprietary. If Microsoft & co wanted an actual usable standard, they could have done a better job.
Man if only we knew about it a few decades ago....

Oh wait.
That may be true in general. I think you are missing the point about tech jobs in Europe paying so much less than in the US.
My favorite quote of his: "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"
What’s old is new again.

Edge devices running bytecode has its uses. Being an old idea doesn’t discredit it (neural networks were first described in the 70s)

At least WASI is a standard unlike flash or Java applets.
I wish for many things. So far, this has not had a material effect on reality. But I will keep trying.

Please give me one example of a thing that is not politicized. And that some not-insubstantial percent of the population holds an opinion or belief that is truly their own vs something tribal and politicized.

I struggled to come up with an example before I made my previous post. Maybe you can do better.
Can't wait to see marble logic implemented with this...
Great gallery to commemorate. A social preview image in the head for sharing the URL would be helpful !
Do you want to send your cell phone, tablet, laptop back? Or stop using the internet? iPhones and Teslas and Levi's, great, but let's complain about McDonalds and Coke and Hollywood. The world is all connected now, that ship sailed a long time ago.
Yeah but masculinity is also a good ideal to strive for, for you know, roughly half of the population.

The key is that it's not the only ideal men (or women !) can strive for, and there are people blurring the lines, which is absolutely fine.

I find Tate to be absolutely repugnant, and he clearly represent some of worst aspect of what 'masculinity' is associated to, but to his credits he also represent strength, assertiveness, drive, and even spirituality (with his recent conversion), which are values that aren't found in a lot of other place not associated with 'conservative' nowadays.
Yeah, what you describe is not a remotely hot take. The technical advantage, such as it was, for the Spanish invaders was armor more than guns (though that was also subject to being unsuited for climate, etc.).
Put it in a plastic cylinder to protect it, with an easily removable lid and you'll fix that issue for many situations.

Unless there is something weird about plastic that impacts the signal, it might even be able to stay in the container when running.

Might be as simple as carrying around a device about the size of a Pringles can. Will be interesting space to watch, ass this could truly disrupt many things. Attached to a drone or ballon, and the possibilities multiply versus a static location.

Side note: I wonder if future wifi hubs will be cylindrical. Much better than the spiders today.
Why is the research story for MIPS even worse than for ANN?
I had a similar problem 18 years ago. I had bought a house with a heat pump connected to the water heater. When it failed, I could not find a local technician competent enough in both plumbing and air conditioning who would touch it. I ended up with two discrete systems.
Then the photographer must not benefit from the publicity unless he sues.
It doesn't seen weird to me because 3 words per minute is 180 words per hour. The fastest I've ever typed as a fiction writer is around 800 words per hour. I think my average is around 300~400 words per hour.
Su has been CEO of AMD for nearly 10 years. Does not contribute to my confidence.

Of course with the AI goldrush they're paying a lot of lip-service to ROCm (pumping stock price?) but a couple of examples:

1) They just added official support to ROCm for the top-end consumer card they released over a year ago. Meanwhile in CUDA land Nvidia back-ported support to CUDA 11.8 well before Ada Lovelace/Hopper even launched. Worked with everything out there day of launch. Even newest CUDA 12 and their drivers support anything with Nvidia stamped on it from the past 6-7 years. Literally everything.

2) Just check their repos, Docker Hub, etc. It's embarrassing for them. They used Python 3.10 for ROCm 5.7 because its basically the bare-minimum/standard for any broader AI, ML, etc project. Oh neat, they released ROCm 6 to support their year old ~ $1000 card! Python 3.9? Ubuntu 20.04? What the hell? Pytorch "hello world" usable but almost nothing else even runs.

The further you dig the more clownish it gets.
Seems like a nice weekend project.

Have the user auth with their google business/teams/Apple account - sync the calendar, make the calendar available via rss.
Fine, almost everybody. If there was any way to verify though, I'd put money on the numbers of people irritated by cookie banners and geo-blocks for websites was enough to tip the Brexit vote. I think the EU needs to be very careful about how these regulations are viewed by normal people.
On his point about multi-monitor setups is there any reason a usbc connection couldnt be used for each monitor? I've used a usbc-hdmi connector for years for a single monitor. Seems like it would just be a matter of having enough ports/dongles to fan-out the connection?
i can feel 144-200hz. above that i cant tell anymore, but probably pixel response times arent good enough yet on consumer hardware to provide a real test to me. 60hz feels awful to me.
side note, i can discern stutters at 144hz + when i take a deep breathe.
The answer I always give is "gear can matter - what is your gear stopping you from doing"? Generally people don't have a very compelling answer. If you are limited by your gear, you're going to have lots of shots that fall a little short in ways that gear might address. Well framed shots and the edge of possible shutter speeds that just need one or two more stops of ISO, shots where the colors can't be fully captured by the chip you used, etc. Mostly though, if you are using any camera made since 2010, your gear is probably not getting in your way much.
Amazing, the whole point of this exercise in stupidity was to not having to deal with OPEC's low cost of oil extraction ever again, only to end up in the hands of China's low cost of rare earths extraction and low cost of labor.

It already happened with solar panels. US, Germany and Japan subsidized the industry only to have China become the dominant player.
Ooof, that sounds like a mess tbh (traditionally, WASI could be described as "POSIX for WASM", and IMHO this sort of focus was just right, easy to communicate, easy to use).

When reading through all the things going into WASI Preview 2 (basically "everything and the kitchen sink", except for async/await(!) which goes into Preview 3) my first thought was: ok, this is what the second-system-effect looks like in practice.
For WASM in the browser I'd gesture at Figma for a economically viable product.

From my own perspective, which is browser based games, WASM opens up a lot of options. From using battle tested physics engines that are written in systems languages to the ability to access SIMD primitives. One of the underrated capabilities from that perspective to me is that floating point math is deterministic across browsers and platforms which is a bit of a holy grail for multiplayer games programming. Beyond that it promises to get faster and more efficient over time which is a good thing for performance heavy web apps.

Outside the browser MS Flight Sim uses WASM for the UI in part. WASI I know less about but doesn't seem totally crazy and in comparison to things like the JVM has a broader set of languages that can use it.
I wonder if that CEO was dropped on his head as a child or what else might have been wrong with him to have such a bizarrely spiteful attitude towards humans, and I would have asked him that. People with that type of attitude need to be confronted wherever they are found whenever they express something that fucking stupid. Hopefully he was able to mend his ways.
Things to note:

1) The new terms are opt-in

2) The new terms have not been approved by the EU

3) The reason for the disparity is 10 million installs, which exceeds the 1 million threshold to pay €0.50/install. If you charge €1/install then you're paying 50% to Apple for that fee. If you charge €2/install then you'd be paying 25% to Apple because the fee is flat.
How so? There's not even a passing mention of the macroeconomic conditions like high interest rates that affect sales of big ticket items that almost everyone takes out a loan for. Teslas have been in the mid luxury segment.

It's definitely not reliable analysis.
okay, but now you're adding 3 new satellites instead of just one
I agree about the standup, but not sure about the podcast interview (did not listen to that specific interview).

I have never heard an interview with Tony Robbins, so when I do, I would actually love to hear the best stories according to Shaan, and not random chatter.
Not to nearly the same degree. Having to physically print magazines with a limited run and budget means quality matters more than it does online, where everything is ephemeral, because the costs are higher. Compare the Wall Street Journal when it was in print to the clickbait on the site now.
No, it snowed.
I really want a Mac classic using the latest tech today. It would be simply just a fun computer you’d keep in the corner of the office.
I just found this. First paragraph says it all.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1316.PDF
It would be interesting to see what would happen if ChatGPT required users to talk to it respectfully, or have it eventually refuse to fulfill the request, or even to fulfill future requests until you made amends. It doesn't seem like a big enough burden that people would just stop using the application altogether. And if language is shaped by the medium of communication, would people start writing differently outside of ChatGPT? Acting differently?

Now, that will never happen, but I'd like to run the experiment in a pocket universe if I could.
From EWD387:

> The other two speakers that gave three one-hour lectures, Dr. McKay from IBM, Yorktown Heights and Professor Engelbart, SRI, Menlo Park, were both terrible. McKay spoke undiluted IBMerese for three full hours and I am not going to give any further comments; I only heard the first hour —like many participants— and that was enough (too much). Because I had an urgent letter to write I missed Engelbart's first lecture —it was not really a lecture, he showed a movie— but I attended his next two performances. He was not only terribly bad, he was dangerous as well, not so much on account of the product he was selling —a sophisticated on-line text-editor that could be quite useful— as on account of the way in which he appealed to mankind's lower instincts while selling it. The undisguised appeal to anti-intellectualism and anti-individualism was frightening. He was talking about his "augmented knowledge workshop" and I was constantly reminded of Manny Lehman's vigorous complaint about the American educational system that is extremely "knowledge oriented", failing to do justice to the fact that one of the main objects of education is the insight that makes quite a lot of knowledge superfluous. (Sentences like "the half-life of a fresh university graduate is five years" are only correct if you have crammed the curriculum with volatile knowledge, erroneously presented as stuff worth knowing.) His anti-individualism surfaced when he recommended his gadget as a tool for easing the cooperation between persons and groups possibly miles apart, more or less suggesting that only then you are really "participating": no place for the solitary thinker. (Vide the sound track of the Monsanto movie showing some employees: "No geniuses here: just a bunch of average Americans, working together."!) The two talks I heard were absolutely insipid, he had handed out a paper "An augmented knowledge workshop.": the syntactical ambiguity in the title is characteristic for the level of the rest of the article. As a result of his presentations I have told a few of the participants that I had found, thanks to this seminar, a new software project. "Because in the years to come there will be a crippling shortage of competent programmers, I shall develop a software package, called "The Instruction Interpreter". From the moment of its completion, users do no longer need to program, they just give their instructions to the system." (This is only an edited version of one of the paragraphs of the Engelbart article!) I would have liked to start a discussion with him but I knew that my lack of mastery of the understatement would have made me too rude for English ears if I had spoken. Finally —after a more than two-hour effort in the middle of the night in sorting out his muddle— I decided that he was not worth the trouble. (One of the most offending conclusions I ever came to!)
> Do you care about how your html output looks? - I personally don't, just like I don't care about what my Webpack bundle looks like.

It's not a good comparison. You won't ever read the output of your Weboack bundle, but you will surely read the html you write (or worse, is tasked to modify or debug).
Why would this be the end of them, specifically? What exactly is going to happen?
Hmm, I haven't seen this. But I am curious, how is that dishonest? It sounds like it is explicitly stated, so you know what will happen.

What Apple subscriptions? Logic Pro? Are you talking about a free trial or a paid trial? Also, if it is paid and you cancel and they terminate usage, do you end up seeing a refund for the balance of the time? With third-party devs, they have already sent the money along to the dev so they would have to pull back money to terminate immediately and refund the prorated balance of the subscription cost to the user. That would be hard on devs.
I love Fish, but I cannot for the life of me to get Starship working well.

Trying to get it working on WSL (Ubuntu 20.04 and Centos) as well as MSYS just wasn't happening. On the few occasions I did get it working, it was unbearably slow. Simple commands would have sometimes half a second of delay. I could time what was causing the slowdown and disable some of it, but by the time I got it bearable I had disabled basically all of Starship. Then there were font-related issues on top. Ugh.

I hope others have a better experience than I.
Yup - this example is deliberately cooked to create a misleading impression.
The answer to this question changes with time. A decade and a half ago you absolutely needed gear worth a few thousand dollars at minimum to take a good photo. Today you can put something taken from your smartphone camera on a billboard or magazine.

As tech improves every field has such jumps in baseline quality. The most complex software in the world can be written on a $500 laptop. You can record a chart topping song on a $100 microphone in your bedroom. In most sports the average enthusiast today is using better gear than the top professionals in the world had a generation ago. The cost of the gear you need to be "good enough for all practical purposes" is constantly getting lower.
I don't get the impression that I should be more wary about heat pumps, but that if I have the data collected in advance I would be ready to switch when the time comes. Armed with that data, you could also do some advanced prep work so that you can purchase a smaller system that will still maintain high levels of comfort. And any prep work would likely improve the performance of the existing system you have.
Is is though?

Maybe that's just a reflection of the organizations that have created said software.
Dana-Farber retracts 6 studies, plus 31 to be corrected over mishandled data
Seems like a good idea, to me.
Norton Commander-inspired interfaces were all rage back then. RAR for DOS had NC-like, single panel interface.
Beautiful projection map! I wonder if they're using TouchDesigner for this.
Permafrost melts mean more habitable land for humans! This is wonderful for humanity. Russian and Canada will be way more populated in the future.
> So you want to utilize the power of the state to force a private entity to sell its products under terms that are "reasonable" to you?

This is all consumer rights legislation. From the tone you are clearly opposed to this example, but it's not some revolutionary new concept.
As an aside : Unicode support was still an issue in TeX last I checked, because most of the LaTeX tools don't support it (well, having been made before it was expected).

Now, there are some attempts to fix this situation by Xe(La)TeX and Lua(La)TeX, but since TeX seems to be so much tied to PDF these days, it should probably just be abandoned by most scientific publishing in favor of the likes of GNU TeXmacs (note : it's NOT TeX in GNU Emacs) and HTML with MathML.
I can’t say I’m a fan of the pricing model, but the linked tweet makes specific choices regarding the number of installs, which in turn determines the pricing.

The tweet has 10M installs, where each one makes a $1. 5M installs where each one produces $2 in revenue results in a smaller cut by Apple. 20M installs at $0.50 results in a larger cut.
Date the camera, marry the lens.

With the slew of mounting adapters these days, you can keep using even 60-year-old lenses on most camera bodies.

Like the Helios 44-2 (ca. 1958), still being used today on big features like "The Batman" in a few scenes. They mixed footage from that $500 vintage lens with $50,000 ARRI anamorphic primes.
Interesting - it's definitely got a "Notice Me!" paint job.

The plane is a 737-800 - the most common, but not the most problematic, 737 variant. Still, I hope they got it cheap...

Bought used from Air China. Ah - maybe very cheap. Especially if it has a bunch of expensive eavesdropping devices tucked into the nooks & crannies.

The plane's intended use is unknown. It's not configured to haul freight, and now sports a few extra antennas on the top. Available flight data doesn't show it doing anything interesting yet. Maybe it'll test & demonstrate Starlink service for airliners, plus serve as an employee shuttle between SpaceX locations...

(The "SpaceX Appears to Be" is because the plane's non-SpaceX owner of record has the exact same address as SpaceX's HQ.)
Google Pixel 9 leak reveals 3 big design tweaks. It looks more iPhone-like now
In most cases relinking is enough.
I recommend Conquest by Hugh Thomas and its long list of notes and citations. A few podcast episodes isn't nearly enough to understand the nuances of the Aztec conquest.

The best sources aren't their diaries but all the depositions and testimony they made while fighting over the spoils. Anyone who survived the expedition spent the next decade fighting over it in Spanish court.
4) This atrocity was written and mandated by Apple

Of course people will still not boycott them. They're no better than Microsoft was in the 90's. Not sure if it comes at that high level of a company or they're not all that different to begin with.
Very interesting. Its like smaller brains have a higher clock speed. global oscillations?
I didn't realize Kamasi Washington is on Ninja Tune!

They had a predilection for releasing zillions of compilation albums with heavily overlapping track lists, which kind of fatigued me on the label, but I'm still fond of the early releases of theirs that I bought.

Funkjazztical Tricknology FTW!
You're welcome to "audiobook" of this by Piper TTS (en_US-lessac-high):

https://autkin.net/audiobooks/things-nobody-wants-to-pay-for... (8:13)
Yeah, but they dont need discrete graphics. Integrated is just a nice bit of penny pinching for OEMs.
Audio therapy is very helpful -- quiet brown noise in the background can be very helpful for assisting focus.

This is one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzGzwTY-6w
He was until he started communicating asynchronously.
I have a better idea for funding:

All the tech billionaires and their ex-wives throwing money at cool and fashionable causes should redirect a small part of it to the industry that made them rich.
AI: More Testers, More Money
Uh, given the number of $1 apps on the app store, how is it cooked in any way?
It represents a good bit of current reality.
And most card payment processors will charge you more than 30% commission if you sell a product for $1. The numbers are specifically picked to make it look bad without providing a clear disclosure.
I think their project in Serbia was stopped due to environmental concerns. Not sure about California.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/serbia-wants-tal....
Does this apply to free apps too?
This sounds to me like what
https://rungalileo.io is offering
Galaxy Brains
Apparently Apple had expected that the clones would pick up the bottom end of the market - make Macs affordable to a broader range of people. While some of that no doubt happened, the greater profit was to be had in the upper end where Apple's margins were high, and Clone makers had a lot of room to undercut them.

The clone period was great in the sense of making Macs affordable to people, and really stretching the performance of systems. Power Computing was especially good at this and really gave Apple a run for its money.

At the end of the day, the vision of the Macintosh was a product where the hardware and the software were built in sync - the computer and the OS were the product together. The clone era never really fit in with this.

When Steve Jobs came back to Apple he killed the clone program because it was killing Apple, and perhaps more importantly to him, it didn't correlate with his vision of computing.
There are many non-physical things, like the laws of physics. We know they exist, just at a higher dimension of being.