skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. It is hard to reason without having a reference to a concrete product. For a start, how would a branded smartwatch and a no-name one compare in terms of:

- Feature parity (hardware and software).

- Build quality (again, hardware, software and materials used in the making).

- Overall quality (will it die in 3 days, in 3 months or will last).

- Support (branded products are sold through local reseller channels and are subject to the local consumer protection laws – if it dies 1 month later, can it be fixed or replaced?)

I did have a quick look at the latest Fossil watch product before chiming in, and their watch seemed like a very sophisticated and polished product. I still have my doubts that there is a $50 functional and quality counterpart to it.

2. Apple has taken up the upper end of the niche for a reason – they have an ecosystem that their watch products weave into seamlessly. Their watch can even be used to unlock a MacBook in the direct proximity of it – it is a bonus feature, unrelated to the watch functionality itself but is possible because of the ecosystem.

Non-Apple products would always remain 2nd class citizens on the Apple platform due to having to interoperate with someone else's platform by virtue of being a standalone watch product and not part of their own ecosystem.

Even if the Apple ecosystem was entirely unlocked and open to third party watch products, the competing watch products would still always lag behind due to having to constantly playing a catch-up with new platform features.
> We can't colonize Greenland or Antarctica due to the lack of fertile soil

Just on this example, you can physically pick soil up and move it. Enough for 9bn people? No. Enough for 100k? Yes.
A physical lock can get stuck. Especially on a moving trains with vibrations that could tense up the door.

Weakened people, anxious people and other people with disabilities need to be able to lock and unlock the doors without getting stuck.

My guess is that the metaphor used for this train is too allow people full control over door lock.

I don't think many people realise what it takes to build toilet in trains in a place like the UK where the disabled associations and protections are really strong.
IINA - Media Player

QuickLook Video - Adds non-quicktime supported Video to Finder Preview.

Transmission - Bit torrent

Unarchiver or Keka - RAR or Zip files.

Little Snitch Mini - Network Monitoring

Apple Numbers, Pages - Alternative to M$ Office if you dont need all the features.

Text Editor - VS Code or Sublime,

And that is it. Other than the Apps above and Default Apps by Apple like Stocks and Notes, 99% of my time are inside Browser.
Impressive. Thanks for sharing!
Your belief seems to be that the value of humanity scales relative to the number of living humans. I disagree - I don't think one billion humans would be 1/10th as valuable as ten billion humans, provided we got to one billion just by deciding to have fewer kids. Killing humans is morally wrong in everything except weird edge cases, but having two children instead of three is not killing anyone.

The bulk of what I value about the future of humanity is our continued existence and collective ability to do beautiful and impressive things together, not the individual existence of some as-yet-unborn hypothetical humans in that future. I don't think humanity's output scales linearly with population and I don't think there's much moral worth to future individuals outside their general contribution to wider human civilisation.
He did the right thing where 90% indie developers really ignored and failed because of it, that is the cost reduction as much as possible, you need to survive first, then others. But if you have enough cash to live on, then you can do whatever you can.
The difference is probably you used floats and he/she used fixed point (integers). Of course that way you do run out of precision very quickly.

Software emulated floats on Amiga 2000 were really, really slow.
Maybe a bit cynical and hyperbolic, but the point is good.

I'd boil it down further and say it's a focus on short term gains over long term gains. If the pan flashes, that's a win, full stop. When the pan stops flashing and people don't want to use your software because it's confusing, that doesn't matter because they can just flash another pan.
> This is congruent with removing women's bodily autonomy, banning abortion and banning or restricting birth control of all types.

There is absolutely no need to do any of that. Just tax them. Tax the childless and unmarried more. Tax the married couples with children less. Make not having children a form of wealth and tax it accordingly. The results will be achieved without a single sacrifice in personal autonomy.
Ok, Mark.
They mention it in the article but it is to keep people from pressing 'close' and then jumping out while it closes and becomes unable to be opened from the outside.
If we could only turn off the media stream and live civilized lives without worrying what global destabilization would bring us.
There's a good chance that the sudden bump in sea surface temperature is a consequence of us cleaning up marine diesel. Which is at least interesting, because it suggests we were doing geoengineering without even knowing it.

(Random thought: what's the sulphur content of automotive diesel? I know it's cleaner, but there are so many more cars than boats. Could we see another sea surface temperature bump as we phase out diesel cars?)
Problem of the macOS licensing model, which mandates excessive margins for bundled memory and storage.
What's the Polish train hacking debacle? The thing where the company added software so the train disabled itself if repaired anywhere other than company headquarters? Who are the saboteurs in that case? The manufacturing company itself?
I live in the south of france, and I really need to move to a cooler region in france. Summer are very long, nights are hot, makes it hard to sleep well.

I don't have enough money to install AC. Mobile AC is too noisy.

I have been postponing for 4 years now.

I am reading The Ministry Of The Future, it's a great book. India will be the first to suffer from this.
Writing first shows up there, the first cities do as well.
The carbon impact of PCs is negligible for almost all people, and possessions are only a smaller portion of emissions (with the exception of high embodied carbon things like electric cars).

Important things you can influence for a low carbon footprint are:

- How do you heat and how much? Gas heating is surprisingly bad in the US due to the high amount of methane leakage

- Do you drive a lot in a combustion car, or even worse, fly?

- What kind of food do you eat? As a rough guideline, dairy and meat is pretty bad and beef much worse. Also the stuff that has to be brought in by plane.

Living in nature often makes it harder to have a low carbon lifestyle and the things often associated with "good for nature" like reducing plastic waste and organic products are often worse carbon wise.
I'm not disputing the logical reasoning behind circular checkboxes, I'm saying that if Apple does something then everyone else will follow suit regardless of any reasons.

Apple is the fashion leader and trend setter of the IT industry, everyone else will follow them. It's appropriate to ring the death bell for square checkboxes, given that track record.
That is what I am talking about as well

>When the icon is white, is it on? Is it off?

They reinforce this with another example of ambiguity.

The user can’t be suggested to take any actions if they can’t figure out what the default settings are.
People on that forum are trying to call this "stealing", which is ridiculous. This involves less that 1 watt of power. The law should not concern itself with trifles. It's more of a health and safety issue than any "theft".

They don't seem to get the nuance of the situation and can only see it in terms of black and white and following "the rules". I've personally seen this behavior a lot in the amateur radio community, where people were harassed or threatened for breaking some minor rule.

You should see what hooligans in Belarus and Russia get up to, now that is a legitimate problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4zO2gB70ps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqRT7J86rco
The performance difference between H1/H2 and H3 in this test doesn't really surprise me. The obvious part is the highly optimised TCP stack. But I fear that the benchmark setup itself might be a bit flawed.

The biggest factor is the caddy version used for the benchmark. The quic-go library in caddy v2.6.2 lacks GSO support, which is crucial to avoid high syscall overhead.

The quic-go version in caddy v2.6.2 also doesn't adjust UDP buffer sizes.

The other thing that's not clear from the blog post is the network path used. Running the benchmark over loopback only would give TCP-based protocols an advantage if the QUIC library doesn't support MTU discovery.
It's not about going without that GDP, it's about redirecting it.

Simplified example: pay 6% of the population to plant trees.

> and the 1% simply never will because they don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves.

That's a lot closer to why we won't do it. Because as a species we can't act for the long term.
There is also LibrePCB: https://librepcb.org/
The edit fundamentally changes the meaning of the title. With the brackets, it's clear that the title is a paraphrase/quote and that the article will probably be an answer to that question. Without the brackets, I was actually expecting a rant about people using the "wrong" platform to post content - the exact thing that the article is actually replying to.
Oh right, how dumm of us to expect the police knows the law.
I got to a similar place, but it only lasted one or two seconds, then they got separated and the game continued
Homeschooling is full of indoctrination. If anything, indoctrination is stronger, because it is much easier to isolate kid from anything outside of a small bubble.
"Weakened people, anxious people and other people with disabilities need to be able to lock and unlock the doors without getting stuck."

I have never experienced a simple lock to get stuck, but there are panic buttons inside the toilets as well.

"I don't think many people realise what it takes to build toilet in trains in a place like the UK where the disabled associations and protections are really strong."

And I don't think this is a bad thing.
No more theft than putting a solar panel under a street light that's shining on your property.
Th USA and other industrialised countries operated with huge emissions because oil and gas were cheap and because no one factored in the externalities. Which includes energy security.

Now that we are seeing a reversal to the status quo, you see the move to more efficient systems moving into full swing. The uptake of renewables is exponential now.

I just renovated and fully insulated my house with cellulose fiber that was actually really cheap, double glazed inner windows and installed floor heating with a hydraulic heat pump. My energy bill is almost nothing of what it used to be and I’ve not installed my solar yet, but I’ll be starting in March.

I did this because the price of gas, kerosene (water boiler) and oil have increased dramatically and the technology to do so exists and is cheap enough to make this investment a no brainer from an economic standpoint. It’s hard to imagine how cheap solar panels are now.

I’m not the only person doing this.

The USA and all other developing countries will adopt all these efficient gains at the same rate. No one is going to pay more for less.
Because the operating system only supports devices with limited memory and storage.

I would love to run macos on my beefy workstation. But MacOS support for AMD Ryzen sucks.
Well, most people globally aren't drinking from a well near a farm that uses Roundup. So that isn't really relevant for this person.
Germany and France publish position on Quantum Key Distribution [pdf]
Most lovely genre: uneducated journalists trying to understand numbers and making bold assumptions.
It started as user-centric research and when the user became the product the intent of this research shifted.
Crypto may have become boring, but it still isn't legit
You are making the classic mistake of taking some good generic pieces of advice and forming them into a non-sensical and limiting rule. Do yourself a favor and let things be judged by their effect and not their limitations.
The whole premise of the book is a multi-layered hail mary, or a hail mary that continually plays out like a jackpot based on vibes and misconstruing the forces that are causing climate change.

Not sure why you'd call this "fantastic" other than it's a feel-good book without any evidence to support it.

>Carbon emissions per capita are actually down [1]

It takes maybe 2 minutes, maybe upwards of 10, to realize why this is completely silly. I would expect most highschoolers in stats to rip this apart. Does anyone need to devote time to debunk this? Why? You can ask ChatGPT.

>Average figures can mask significant inequalities within countries. In many countries, a small percentage of the population may be responsible for a large portion of emissions, while the majority have very low carbon footprints.

If you don't understand why this negates your comment out right should I start quoting 2Pac?
And the pyramid eye thing makes sense now too.
I think you're terribly misguided here; when people discuss "no exceptions" here, they do not mean "any error handling that is not the typical/expected flow", they mean "getting rid of built-in exception system that comes with the heavy price of stack unwinding and the related mechanisms", not that they do not want to handle errors.
White/black "indicators" of toggles are horrid. A lot of phone and meeting apps do this and it's horrible.

As for mute, I think it's pretty objective at this point that an icon based toggle should show the current state, not the state that tapping on the icon will produce. That's because the icon is serving two jobs: Convey the state and let the user change it. When a developer gets this wrong and shows a crossed out speaker while audio is playing, that's just frustrating.
If we magically went netzero tomorrow, the greenhouse effect from the already accumulated emissions would still cause a significant climate change in the upcoming decades.

And, of course, we won't go netzero tomorrow, there's no "just" in it due to the time and effort it would take to scale up the solutions even if the money was there, but of course the money isn't there; while technically the world could afford it if it wanted, there are absolutely no indications that those who can afford it would be willing to do fund the bill, quite the opposite.
The color of each pixel is

fragColor = vec4(vec3(cos(c), cos(1.1214 * c) , cos(.8 * c)) / 2. + .5, 1.);

Where c is the number of iterations divided by the scale.
lstamour talked about two things, the proliferation of toggles, and the unclear toggle buttons.

ncruces replied clarifying the former, that the toggles proliferate because they convey immediateness. They didn't say anything about the "unclear toggle button" point.

Your comment, then, aimed to correct ncruces' comment, clarifying that lstamour was talking about unclear toggles, when ncruces was talking about the other point in lstamour's comment, and thus was already correct.
The energy required for charging is the energy input required to fill the battery, plus whatever additional energy is needed to condition the battery. If 50% of the energy you use for charging (which you pay for) goes towards conditioning the battery, then then the energy efficiency of the vehicle is 50% times whatever efficiency you get through the drivetrain. When it gets cold enough, all of the energy draw goes towards conditioning the battery, so the car doesn't charge at all. Since none of the input energy goes towards moving the vehicle, the efficiency is zero, though if you wait long enough it'll take a low value as the temperature increases and the vehicle begins to take charge. It's probably more correct to say that the energy efficiency of the vehicle approaches zero as the temperature drops.

This is different to a standard car, because losses during refueling are negligible, but losses in the drivetrain obviously aren't. And of course for both types of vehicle you have additional upstream effects, e.g. production and transportation of fuel versus production of electricity, production of the vehicle, etc.

The reason I raised the issue is because I hear a lot about well-to-wheels efficiency of BEVs, but I've never heard anyone take into account the effect that conditioning the battery has in certain climates. It's one thing to say that the well-to-wheels efficiency of a BEV is around 60% compared to 16% for ICEVs, but if you're neglecting a large multiplicative efficiency hit in your chain, things like hybrid electric vehicles suddenly compare a lot more favorably.

And if you're comparing mileage on the basis of miles per gallon using energy input at a pump or cable that you paid for, it seems like a reasonable question to ask. Is that mpg figure calculated using the energy of the battery, or the energy that was paid for?
That's actually a hobby of mine, where I look for 5-10 year old forum posts recommending "new" hardware with good OpenWRT support. I order one on eBay for $30, then try it out myself. I now have 3 very stable 802.11ac access points across my home, and a WPS bridge capable of hitting 500Mbps of TCP throughput.

I do suggest using the latest generation client chipsets with driver support in your OS, though. Whether or not a newer client radio talks to a similarly capable AP, it is likely to have better receive sensitivity than older radios.

I also suggest specifically buying Intel client radios. I have first-hand benchmarking experience that shows that Intel radios are very good at receiving marginal radio frames in heavily congested environments. Qualcomm and Broadcom radios might be just as good, but I wasn't able to evaluate them for lack of driver support for my purpose. Realtek/Mediatek/Ralink radios have pretty good drivers, but the actual radios behave notably worse with congestion. I've had friends living in apartments take my advice and switch from Realtek to Intel, and they've reported back significant gains in wifi stability. I'll also note that the original Steam Deck has a Realtek radio, and many people complain about its mediocre Wifi performance. Some people have gone as far as hot air reworking their Decks to have 802.11ax Intel radios, which happen to be pin compatible.
Not true, either physically or legally.
macOS is great for UNIX, the best development for GNU/Linux is by definition GNU/Linux.

As grey beard never came to my mind that using a Solaris workstation would be great for HP-UX development, as one possible example among many combinations during the UNIX wars.

The culture of reaching out to macOS for doing GNU/Linux only proves the point of how broken GNU/Linux desktop still happens to be, which Microsoft was quite clever to capitalise on with WSL.
Brew update/upgrade is very cve aware.

Zsh is in base. Unlearning bash-isms is good.

At least we agree not fink¿

Little snitch for sure.

Time machine is a bugger but so are the alternatives.

Icloud keychain is good i think. And, never try to export anything except homedir and private data to the next mac.

I kept SIP. I worry about running in an insecure mode.
The characters in "Star Trek" are well aware of the holodeck's limitations. Data can "see" the walls:

https://youtu.be/uWWn0fPbcRs?feature=shared&t=192

B'elanna Torres (and many other characters, mostly Klingon) are notorious for disabling the holodeck safety protocols, because the experience is not "real enough" unless one can actually get hurt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30TXMZ_TSjk

The awareness of the holodeck experience being fake is so pervasive, that Odo actually believes the real Kira Nerys is a holodeck character:

https://youtu.be/8_nfZGFEm5k?feature=shared&t=82

I think this is the correct direction for AR/XR development (and why I'm a fan of AR as a concept, but not necessarily of VR): rather than trying to imitate a real experience as closely as possible (and then inevitably nose-diving into the uncanny valley), work with the medium and its inherent limitations and just let it be its own thing. We might discover applications we wouldn't dream of, just like the EMH from Voyager eventually rediscovers himself as a real person.
How many of your extremely depressed friends are willing to abandon civilization as we know it and relinquish capitalism, transforming political systems into dictatorships focused solely on achieving net zero emissions by 2035 through drastic measures that could potentially result in millions of deaths (indirectly)? None. Consequently, worrying about this issue is as futile as fretting about snow being white. The crypto miners will continue mining, the gas and oil industries will prosper, and the wealthy will ponder the feasibility of establishing bunkers and retreats in New Zealand (which would not offer protection). Our selfishness extends to the point of sheer stupidity; each of us thinks, "What can I do? Nothing," and only a handful among us will take action that doesn't contribute to solving the problem at all. I suppose this is what the great filter looks like.
Scottish Book
I'm struggling heavily to find the traffic statistic that I read a year or so ago, but it said that point seven to point nine percent of all Twitter traffic came from Nitter. Considering that at the time there were three different third party front ends that is no small amount, I think somewhere around thirty million visits daily.
Yes, as much weird as it may sound to those bashing it.
> Likewise I thought the article’s punchline was going to be the increasing use of on-off toggles instead of checkboxes.

That's the second paragraph. This would be those left/right toggles that became popularized with iOS on the original iPhone (since you could physically slide them with your finger). These also do have color insanity associated, though.

The third paragraph used "toggle" in a more general sense.

To be fair, the comment has a lot going on.
I doubt anyone would prosecute over it, it would get thrown out of court because it's so petty? No worse than littering, etc.
An in depth analysis I had once read (no references) described the three components further as each having dozens of fragments which through permutation reconfigured themselves.

The complete system, of which no single implementation existed was composed of an elaborate tool chain which continually varied.

Maybe not genetic algorithms in the fullest sense (it wasn't randomly self developing, rather capable of complex reconstruction.)

I do wish I had better notes, the read was excellent and pointed to the combined works of some sophisticated intelligence organization.
Everybody is gaining access to lower carbon tech, renewables, heat pumps, electric cars
etc at the same rate. It doesn’t matter about rich people.
A more accurate analogy would be old style overhead drive shafts that powered many machines in large early industrial revolution factories.

This is equivilant to throwing an extra belt over the shift to power your own machine.

There's only so much power available and as more and more machines are driven there's less and less ommph to power more.

This is literally adding "drag" to the overhead power line and decreasing what reaches the end point of transmission.

It's not equivilant to scooping up photons that were being thrown on the ground anyway.