skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If, hypothetically, the majority of words communicated from one homo sapiens to any other homo sapiens (majority weighted by the number of homo sapiens who will hear, read, or otherwise receive the word over the course of the word's existence) were designed to be precise and unambiguous to the extent that the mean number of homo sapiens who receive the word correctly interpret the exact meaning of the word intended by the entity that chose the word is greater than 99.99%, then I would estimate a greater than 90% probability that the cumulative unique information (in the information-theoretic sense) contained in communications correctly interpreted by the receiving homo sapiens on any given day would be less than the cumulative unique information that is currently being correctly interpreted today (January 30th 2024 in the Gregorian calendar), and furthermore the reduction in information thus communicated would have a negative effect on progress towards the majority of cumulative goals implicitly created by all living homo sapiens.

Or I could just say "I think most people interpreted the tweet correctly, and it would be annoying if it was overly precise"
>Famously they divested their ARM-based mobile processor division just before smartphones took off.

Wasn't that AMD (perhaps also AMD)? Qualcomm Adreno GPUs are ATi Radeon IP, hence the anagram.
That's a great way to put it. I'm always amazed at how small the bribes can be.

When I hear stories with some quote similar to "then the senator granted them the mining rights to an $800M mine on public lands for a 3-night stay at Sandals." I'm mad about the corruption, but I'm also mad at the politician for being dog shit at realizing how large their bribe should be.
Intel makes plenty of chips in the 15W and even 5W envelopes to this day. MSI just built a gaming handheld with one.
And yet you literally have early access reviewers regurgitating talking points about how this will redefine the television-watching and movie-going experience.
I remember using Soviet-made VAX clone from СМ ЭВМ series:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_EVM
I love that there is a section on “sustainability.” Who says these guys don’t have a sense of humor?
Speech and voice cloning of politicians and celebs
Well there’s FOV and there’s pixel density which are both too low right now and antagonistic to one another feature wise. There’s also display brightness which is an issue and I’m not sure how that fits in to the FOV/density spectrum. And then more pixels means more compute… That prototypes exist doesn’t necessarily mean much in a space that is full of prototypes showing off one particular feature. The very hard thing is to combine all of the desired features in to one consumer ready headset.
Google+ also had enormous early growth, but I don’t know anyone who used it beyond a test run. So far it’s been the same with Threads in my circle.

Does downloads really tell us much or is it just a vanity metric?
And they should always respect user focus. Something I got used to on the Amiga, but (Windows) is horrible at this. I'm constantly typing into the wrong window when focus changes in the middle of something. WTF?
There is still archive.org
Still not gonna download it.
isn't this bad? every single language I have ever seen that added macros (including Rust) has had problems with macros. unless you are VERY careful, the macro language ends up being turing complete, and/or compile times explode. also now you have two programming languages, and macro heavy code tends to be unreadable, which is fine for the API users, but makes maintenance a nightmare.
Yeah junior devs that barely can use css being paid 200k was quite common sight at the height of pandemic bubble. Most of them are gone now though. I guess that’s why HN seems to be in slightly more bitter mood nowadays than in the past 2-3 years
Yeah I’d love to use one for PCB design at a cafe, but I don’t even own a Mac. I’m not going to drop $5k for an experience I can already do with my old laptop just a little bit fancier.
That’s pretty common for modern CPUs. Look at the temps for Ryzen 7xxx series.
This is a valid comment. Many times, when the US makes "cycling infrastructure" (scare-quotes intended), it's just awful: painted lines on a busy, dangerous road, or at best a path immediately parallel to such a monstrosity. Little wonder people don't want to ride a bike next to a bunch of giant SUVs speeding at 75mph.

And it is true the weather in many US cities tends to be less mild than in Amsterdam, but that can be worked around with proper clothing.
Is there any game that’s figured that out?
Market forces are hard to fight sometimes. Look at Meta- they were beaten like hell cuz of their metaverse bet.
The people building it will be fed, housed, and their children educated with that amount of money. Jobs are what the world gets out of this sort of thing.
> And so by presenting your check, which you think is substantially terminating a transaction, you are actually creating a new credit extension with your bank. They are extremely aware that you just asked them to advance you money, even if you are not aware that you did that. They already partially underwrote this extension of credit; that is why you were not shooed out of the building when you originally asked for a checking account.

I'm extremely confused about the usage of the word "need", and the implication that this need for the line of credit is what generates all these downstream problems.

The person depositing a check wants the money soon, sure. And the check bouncing or not depends on the person writing the check. The person depositing the check "should" "just wait"? Like don't extend the credit? Credit card processors hold onto your money for this exact sort of reason!

Yes, there are trust considerations. But don't move money that is not quasi-guaranteed? Pay for money flow? Make the trust relationship between banks and not between atomic actors? Risks are risks are risks but saying that people should be unbanked because their checks will bounce... I guess it's weird to have these pieces of paper have so much trust associated to them in the first place?

Maybe the check network doesn't work as well in this model. Fraud is a whole thing as well of course. I guess in this model people trust checks enough to allow groceries to be paid by check. Just feels extremely suboptimal.
Well, the world is a better place for all the shipbuilders who work on this project. And a better place for their families. And all the businesses that they spend money in. And the communities that collect tax from them, isn't it?
Accreditation doesn't mean that the school is prestigious or selective, or that the degrees are useful. You have no shortage of silly and easy degrees you can pay for at accredited schools, and I don't think they should give you special immigration privileges. Communications, advertising, dance theory, you name it.
I think you’re vastly overestimating how much Wall Street cares about technical issues like this. Spectre/meltdown barely registers on the radar of issues that Intel has. People are still mostly buying Intel CPUs in laptops, desktops, and servers, and the N100 seems to be gaining ground in the Raspberry Pi space. Maybe it gave an opening for AMD in some markets, but Intel really hasn’t seen some huge tarnished reputation because of it.

The far greater threats are that they missed the phone market, and are missing the GPU/AI market. Those are entirely new markets where growth would happen, instead of the mostly fixed size of the current CPU market where the same players are just trading small percentage points.
Great work, I'm really looking forward to full Wayland integration for WINE.
Intel divested their StrongARM/XScale product line.
man - I used to love him in Cover Up!
Camping lanterns are still sold with this idea. For instance, I have one of these: https://hardkorr.com/au/product/u-lite-dual-colour-led-lante...

> The wavelength of our orange LEDs is 610nm, putting them outside of the spectrum visible to must bugs, but still well inside the boundaries of human vision. As a result, most bugs will not congregate around our orange light because they simply don’t know it is there.

That colour also feels reminiscent of a camp fire, which I've often thought could be related — a bug wouldn't survive long if it flew into fires.
I instructed for a bootcamp. Most of these places lie through their teeth about the quality, its meaningfulness in the job market, about job placement, about what their certificate is worth to employers, and charge way too much. There’s nothing I taught you couldn’t teach yourself with a Udemy course or just going your own way and it’ll cost you little to nothing. There were only two benefits, as I see it, as long as money isn’t tight:

- you learn better in a focused, scheduled program

- you want access to an instructor that can answer your questions 1:1

IMHO, that isn’t worth the $8k or whatever these places charge. Work on it yourself, get active in online communities, go to dev meetups, make friends with more experienced devs that are willing to help you with questions.

I enjoyed instructing and my students, but I quit because I felt like I was complicit in a scam and I didn’t agree with how they approached the curriculum.
It can simultaneously be true that smuggling is performed by people deemed expendable, and that the kingpins behind them might purchase an extravagant vessel made for partying if they think it will improve the rate at which they successfully smuggle their illegal goods.

If you bring a submarine to market, intelligence agencies and smugglers will absolutely be interested in it.

That said, this is a submersible. If I understand correctly, that means it doesn't operate independently, but in tandem with a conventional vessel. So that may be far less useful.
Among GitHub's free runners, Linux is typically very fast, Mac is very slow, and Windows is somewhere in the middle. The quoted specs certainly sound great, hopefully they have sufficient capacity.
I don’t think that was the case. I believe Apple believed Intels roadmap as much as anyone and them repeatedly not delivering inspired them to move.
> Plus, these guys were (mentally) able to keep to those bitcoin for 100x of growth.

Given the time, I'd wager growth was completely fortuitous. They held it for the same reason I hold mine. Conversion requires either a source willing to exchange large amounts of cash for crypto, which tends to be impractical. Converting to cash through conventional sources (legal exchanges), necessarily involve either large bank deposits or, in cases like Coinbase or Kraken, conversions to cash are directly reported to IRS. I only say this because I'm in the same situation, except I didn't obtain it illegally.
It never fails to amaze me how tasteless and unimaginative your run-of-the-mill rich asshole is. Without even getting into housing, education, or whatever other feel-good virtue-signalling—this is seriously the coolest toy you can think to buy with 10e8-9 USD?
> As far as viewing with other people, this doesn’t seem like an insurmountable challenge.

This can also be achieved with 3rd party apps. On Quest, this is already a reality with Big Screen.
At those envelopes they are nowhere near as good as what Apple makes.

Even if Intel makes a thing that doesn't mean it's actually any good.

I had some of those Intel ULV parts back in the day. They sucked.
What does this even mean? (not sarcastic)
what stops GitHub from shutting down these offerings from a legal or technical perspective, these alternatives clearly violate their terms of service:

"Additionally, regardless of whether an Action is using self-hosted runners, Actions should not be used for: the provision of a stand-alone or integrated application or service offering the Actions product or service, or any elements of the Actions product or service, for commercial purposes"
HTTP/1.1 pipelining.

(NB. I am not a developer. I am not writing software for other people. I do not profit from online advertising. I use a text-only browser with no auto-loading of resources and no Javascript engine; I never see ads. Been using HTTP/1.1 pipelining, which all major httpds support, outside the browser, daily, for many years. It works really well for me; I rely on it. As such, I am not the appropriate person with which to debate the relative merits of HTTP protocols for developers who profit from online ads served via "modern" web browsers.)
I wish for a way to have a history of my text-files and I'm willing to have something like a Time Machine thing. I remember Apple Notes claiming but it somehow is not anymore or do not work. For instance, in Obsidian, I want to scrub through through my writing and get back or remember which I might have deleted/over-written.
that's correct, but I thought I was reasonably explicit.
Best outcome is when the people using these systems are the same people as those buying/specifying the systems. And best introduced with limited and constrained scope so you end up meeting the users actual needs. Pretty simple really and a tale as long as enterprise software itself.
I've been running the version on poe and chat.groq.com for the last week.

Much better than llama 70b.
In fact, the point I was trying to illustrate is that if they steal your fancy luxury submarine is even less expensive, it's free, gratis, 100% discount. Do you really want a ship that it's seen as disposable delivery system by every single organised crime entity on the globe ?
Both are impacted, not sure what percentage they among other subsidiaries make up of the overall number though. It’s not over yet either, notifications are still going out through the end of the week.
I don't know why they're keeping the "so and so result in 0.XY seconds" line.
Would it be that hard to make it understand glsl?

I have no idea how far apart glsl and C are.
This was the most reliable seeming information I could find from the companies website, they linked directly to the article.
Most of the ocean is dull and there is no much of a point in partying in the darkness of the oceanic waters.

I read that a typical load in a narcosub was worth about 100 million dollars and a narcosub itself costs 2 million dollars. Two narcotrips will not only pay for the submarine but also make a huge profit, your idea that smuggling is for those low on the totem pole and that it has to be dangerous is something that you invented.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39114075

Spoiler alert: it's Google and they don't seem to have released the model anywhere.
In my social sphere, most just used it as a test run, but then Twitter became a centre of rage, violence, and politics that the more apolitical ones are spending more time on Threads.
Whatever the "intention" was, what the parent says was the second most advertised supposed feature of Bitcoin by crypto bros (second, as first was "getting rich quick").
Turn one dev loose, no distractions, and you can get amazing results.

Add another dev, and if they are aligned, they can knock it out of the park.

Add another dev? Better have a damn good reason.

I forgot how productive a single person can be until I joined my recent company. I'm the only dev working on a sizeable application. I have all the resources I need and zero distractions. I can't believe how smooth progress is and I whince at what would happen if we added other team members without having a clear role for each person and a pressing need for them. Stand-ups are devastating to productivity.

I just left a number of huge enterprises. I could barely get anything done at any of them. Sizeable teams that could barely push out a web app. Its no wonder they have to acquire companies that were built by three devs to innovate.
i am way more curious about threads than any of the other social media networks simply because i use ig quite a bit and they do a good job of surfacing threads posts in your ig feed
so, add small diy pov display under the modified mouse[0] and use voice to text to generate 'mouse movement'[1][2][3] instead of physically moving the mouse.

[0] flexled display: https://hackaday.io/project/164585-flexled

[1] how to create and use audio qr code : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLy7_mP0BSM

[2] : https://thepythoncode.com/article/using-speech-recognition-t...

[3] : https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2012/05/18/creating-qr-co...
> Does downloads really tell us much or is it just a vanity metric?

It doesn't.

Which is why they won't reveal the new daily active users (DAUs) on Threads which is one of the most important metrics on user usage and tells us if they are still sticking to using the platform. The last time I checked it was less than 25M DAUs.

Not even the author is using their Threads account in the article as a contact and is still posting more on X than Threads.
I'm not sure what you had back in the day, but even Intel's E cores these days are spritely. Gone are the days of slow Atom cores. Pretty sure an equivalently clocked Intel E core of today beats the fastest Intel core ever shipped in an Apple product.
So then the city has to issue parking passes plus guest passes, and then actually enforce them. Seems totally impractical for all but the densest cities.
You're missing the big one: they missed the boat on 64-bits. It was only because they had a licensing agreement in place with AMD that they were able to wholesale adopt AMD's extensions to deliver 64-bit x86 processors.
Things DBs Don't Do – But Should (2023)
The funny about this is that despite all the beautiful pictures, it would probably be a very unpleasant boat to ride in. Submarines by design are not very stable on the surface (think of a cylinder that rolls vs the v-shape of a surface ship that keeps it upright). But underwater, it only does 12 knots. So you have to choose between going really slow or having a smooth ride.
I wrote the patch for 24 bit color in xterm, but I have to admit I was today years old when I learned how to make ncurses work with xterm-direct. I was already using my own terminal library in Lisp, but it's still useful to be able to fall back to using ncurses. Thanks to Mr. Dickey for answering a stack overflow question, and the author Chad for bringing it up.
not many I suspect, but enough. :)
I work for Timeplus, and just to mention for those asking how to use this? One real quick use case was mentioned on HN a few days back. Use Proton to view Hacker News API in any way you want. Why not try something like this with Flink? You could, but Flink's learning curve is sort of high and needs more setup. Proton you can get with a brew install command. A few minutes later ... and you've got HN sliced and diced any way you want. Now apply that to any live data stream - including crypto, stocks, etc.
https://bytewax.io/blog/hacking-hacker-news
Work keeping an eye on Chris Laffra's work in this area - he did a Python in Excel demo [1] a few months back, and while sheets aren't in his ltk framework [2] yet, the work he's done on reactivity-in-python-on-the-web there is really promising.

[1] https://github.com/laffra/excel-in-python
[2] https://laffra.github.io/ltk/
Our results showed that the global greening was still present in 2001–2020, with 55.15% of areas greening at an accelerated rate, mainly concentrated in India and the European plains, compared with 7.28% of browning.

Greener is better, isn't it?
Thank you for providing me with another perspective. I see your point.

It does still feel like a poor use of the world's finite resources, but I completely understand how it's not the individuals place to allocate resources effectively.
ARM has been really competitive since, well, 2007, when the first iPhone hit the market, and when Android followed in 2008. That is, last 15 years or so. Not noticing a hugely growing segment that was bringing insane reams of cash to Apple, and Qualcomm, Samsung and others involved is not something I could call astute.

Pretty certainly, Intel is improving, and of course should not be written off. But they did get themselves into a hole to dig out from, and not just because the 5nm process was really hard to get working.
Raspberry Pi IPO: are they selling out? [video]
Pretty dismissive to label me as a /r/politics troll.

I think there is something that you need to understand about our society. "Move somewhere else" is not a solution. Our country should not be operated in a way that something so radical can be decided by smaller and smaller groups of people, and if you don't like it, you must uproot your life and find somewhere else to live.

What do you define as more local government control? How much control should be provided at more localized levels? At what point does a higher authority act to disallow local government overreach? Is that seen as Federal government overreach?

At any level, we should be having a discussion to consider: whether we agree on the problem, that the problem is a problem, what solutions we have and what are the unintended consequences of those solutions. If we instead have knee-jerk overreactions such as this, and then tell everyone who disagrees to get out... is that the country you want? A country of more local government control?
FINALLY. I can finally easily create native Apple Silicon apps for my users!
I love how people just rewrite history on the internet lol.

Iphone 1 was a collosal PoC. Slow, most of web didnt work. Its only appeal was the full touchscreen, which of course sucked to type on, but looked cool (which is the reason people bought it mostly). Everyone that needed mobile compute functionality was still on Blackberry and some other devices.

There was a time during early 2010s where the iphone was better than everything else due to native hardware and in house software and updated functionality. However by 2016 Android caught up, and since the first Pixel came out it pretty much has been ahead ever since.
Aussie here, we try to get both the .com and the .com.au (and now also the .au), because people will just use one or the other, regardless of what the link says.
Recall trying to find some fun bugs caused by uninitialized memory, which was made harder to find due to the fact that the debug runtime zeroed memory allocations while the release runtime did not.
It's possible a previous tenant used that address or was attached to a business with that name. It happens to offices all the time as well. We had like 8 businesses attached to one of our offices, where only 1 ever existed. They were all tied to the owner and original filings used the address temporarily.

Still weird either way.
They didn’t sabotage them. The CPUs just didn’t align with Apple’s goals. It’s not like they gave the M1 CPUs the cooling that Intel didn’t get. My Mac Mini M1 never spins up its fans and everything is fine. I love it. If it did, I’d consider it a downgrade.
> ... you have to choose between going really slow or having a smooth ride.

Life is tough when you're a multi-billionaire.
A hell of a lot more. What you describe is the PG-13 version.
Neither here nor there--when Apple needed Intel to ship a decent, performant core that didn't overheat and chew through battery life, they could not.

Apple switched to their own silicon, and life for their customers has radically improved.

Maybe Intel has a great E Core now. Good for them if they do.
Threads is Facebook. To me, the more interesting one to watch is Bluesky.
Xeon is not something people normally run on desktops.

Datacenters were and still are full of monstrous Xeons, and for a good reason.
There's enough info here to throw together a model using JSBSim and fly it in FlightGear
I wonder why they didn’t integrate directly into Instagram main app. They did it for short video, why not text?

I’m not advocating this from a customer perspective; it just sounds like a good idea if they want to fully crush Elon’s Twitter