skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at Statistica [0] I see Intel at 62% and AMD at 35% on desktop for 23Q2.
That's a significant gap, and having more than half of the market is nothing to sneeze at, but I think they move from being dominant to just being a major player.

IF (big IF) the trend continues we might see Intel and AMD get pretty close, and a lot more comptetion on the market again (I hope)

On the server side, I don't have the number but that's probably a way harder turf to protect for Intel going forward, if they're even still ahead ?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/735904/worldwide-x86-int...
Apple's approach to both AR/VR and ML/AI is giving me big "Microsoft missing the boat on mobile" vibes.
4k 150% might be standard here, but steam statistics say a plurality of screens are still 1080p. Regardless i scrolled before i closed the tab, then realized i don't know anyone up to send an invite link to for powergrid (or whatever).
The questions I'd like to see elaborated on: What value does the average user derive from being able to run Blink, Gecko, Presto, etc.? For apps with embedded browser engines, to what extent should the publishers be held responsible for patching them against cybersecurity threats?
Does it work for touchscreens too? When I plug in a portable monitor with a touchscreen into my macOS laptop the touch input gets sent into the screen where the cursor is (ie. I touch the touchscreen but it clicks something on the internal display, because this is where I left the cursor), instead of always inputting on the physical monitor associated with this touchscreen.
Steve Jobs is gone. I’ve prophesied that the Apple stock will go up like crazy (the OS is in a near duopoly after all), but the magic spark (it just works/delight/polish factor) will be worse and worse as more and more employees and processes change.

Journalists are the easiest to delight so if they can’t even do that…

All that said, I do think they will succeed eventually with this product, with years of using us as beta testers and shrinking the size of it.
Having been through it myself, I agree that US immigration is fundamentally broken. With that being said:

> One thing I find really, really weird about the US immigration system is that immigrating illegally is trivial (apparently even more so nowadays than it was 15 years ago)

For the immigrants most at risk (not the ones overstaying visas), this has never been true. Many immigrants have to cross the Darien Gap: https://www.cfr.org/article/crossing-darien-gap-migrants-ris...

The system had serious negative consequences on my health, but my personal suffering isn't even a hundredth as bad as what hundreds of thousands have gone through.
I used to write all my code for this CPU in plain machine codes. Granted they weee very easy to remember- in octal form.

Eg 10102 - mov R1, R2

Very elegant and human readable machine code.

Btw, the same processor was used in the MK85 “calculator” which in essence was a mobile computer (ca 1990!). I owned one not knowing that fact, and was so amazed to realize it was actually a 1801vm1/vm2 architecture when I unsoldered ROM from it, connected to my parallel port and read its content - it had that familiar code there!!
From another perspective the UK had the problem of high energy availability (semi-petro-state style). Housing is built so that it needs cheap gas to practically heat. If you go a bit north to colder climates in Europe, people don't have gas, but they spend less on heating.
For that to happen we would need a transparent display that can block light. Seeing content on an additive display will always look somewhat transparent, with no hope of displaying blacks.
The augmentation on the vision pro look so much better than on a HoloLens2, it's like looking at 3d printed objects.
Transforming Science Education in an Age of Misinformation [pdf]
Elon Musk's $56B Tesla pay package is too much, judge rules
Bi-2 detained in Thailand, fearful of deportation to Russia
Houston is about to remove the Pierce Elevated, a section of I-45 that separates Downtown from midtown. This is a very big deal.
Not hot take: Musk is a pos.

Hot take: he deserves to keep the package. Tesla increased $550B in value, of which 90% went to investors and 10% to him should he kept his package. It was extremely unlikely that he would hit the targets. The value of the “options” back when he was conditionally granted them was like $50M. They only grew in value astronomically because he increased the market cap an insane amount. This feels like a casino nullifying a roulette spin because the croupier didn’t spin it fast enough after it landed on 14 and you bet on 14.

$50M over 6 years, which at the time most likely wouldn’t have been needing to paid out at all unless he met the unfathomably unlikely targets.
Watch out. Because your bits are indexed you have a different problem than before. The first red ball does not give you a significant bit.

Instead: Make a sample and now you know that it is greater than a random number unknown to you. Can you derive any knowledge about your next sample?
and I like the name.. Epitaph. Because when I switch tabs and I go back to it after 10mins, there are civilizations that came and went and I/we didn't even notice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitaph

An epitaph (from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios) 'a funeral oration'; from ἐπι- (epi-) 'at, over', and τάφος (táphos) 'tomb')[1][2] is a short text honoring a deceased person. Strictly speaking, it refers to text that is inscribed on a tombstone or plaque, but it may also be used in a figurative sense. Some epitaphs are specified by the person themselves before their death, while others are chosen by those responsible for the burial. An epitaph may be written in prose or in poem verse.
> I find the physically based rendering pretty disingenuous considering the huge gap still remaining between real-world and standard pbr

> ... I accept that it is just a domain-specific term that shouldn't be taken too literally.

Actually it is supposed to be taken literally. That's why it's physically based rendering and not physically correct rendering. The goal is to create a system based on real world physics to get as close as possible within the constraints of current computer hardware.

I believe this article gets it wrong:

> The primary goal of physically-based rendering (PBR) is to create a simulation that accurately reproduces the imaging process of electro-magnetic spectrum radiation incident to an observer. This simulation should be indistinguishable from reality for a similar observer.

I don't think the stated goal of PBR is to be indistinguishable from reality for a similar observer. At least, I have never seen this stated anywhere.

However, it's worth noting that PBR is a loaded term and includes both physically based lighting, and physically based shading (surface properties). If we are purely talking about lighting, that is, modelling the way light bounces in a physical way, it might be possible to get an exact match to physical reality. Light bounces in a relatively simple way.

The problem is that surfaces are not simple. They absorb, reflect, diffract, scatter, and so on. So even if the equations modelling the reaction of light are 100% physically correct, it's an entirely different story to model a complex surface like skin in a physically correct way.

This article is about light, so it's talking about physically based lighting. In which case the phrase this simulation should be indistinguishable from reality for a similar observer is more reasonable, but I think it should still be qualified for clarity.
There are no metrics. Everybody is pushing now for SaaS. We don't have enough e-waste.
In my experience, you can and will encounter a situation with conflicting resolvings of .internal unless the use is all properly scoped to broadcast and administrative zones (ha ha ha fat chance, though respect to anyone who really tries).

.lan, .home, and similar have the issue that they aren't actually reserved so they can conflict (see the land-grab of .dev that Google did after ICANN opened up TLDs).

The one way that has most stability (and is best recommendation I have seen) is to have a publicly reserved zone, which doesn't need to have anything other than NS records pointing to hostnames visible from your internal networks (I am always tempted to have essentially NS -> AAAA + PTR pointing at anycast internal v6 address).

Turns out it does not need to be separate domain from some other domain of yours, it can be let's say i.your-company-name.com. - I am partial to your-company-name.net. but that can be confusing for less computer crazy people.
Playing Captain Nemo is honestly a pretty decent strategy. I think I'd personally go for the volcano base, but the Nautilus method is pretty epic too.

Either that or fund any FTL research I could get my hands on. I want to break that particular barrier.
>What happened over the 8 years prior was hedge funds and banks had saddled up on Intel stock which was paying healthy dividends due to cost cutting and "coasting"

Not clear about what the role of activist hedge funds is here but Intel's top shareholders are mutual funds like Vanguard which are part of many people's retirement investments. If an activist hedge fund got to run the show, it means that they could get these passive shareholders on their side or to abstain. It would have meant those funds along with pension funds, who should have been in a place to push back against short term thinking, didn't push back. These funds should really be run much more competently given their outsized influence, but the incentives are not there.
Don't forget that a sequence of numpy operations will likely each allocate their own temporary memory. Numba can often fuse these together, so although the implementation behind numpy is compiled C you end up with fewer memory allocations and less memory pressure, so you still get your results even faster. Numba also offers the OpenMP parallel tools too.
I have a nice sequence of simulations in my Higher Performance Python course going from raw python through numpy then to Numba showing how this all comes together.
Just try having a function with a=np.fn1(x); b=np.fn2(a); c=np.fn3(b) etc and compile it with @jit and you should get a performance impact. Maybe you can also turn on the OpenMP parallelizer too.
Qualys TRU Discovers Important Vulnerabilities in GNU C Library's Syslog()
What is OpenAI used for?
> I don't know a single person who has encouraged their kids to skip college and go into the trades.

Same-ish here. I have a brother in the trades (of seven siblings) and at least two cousins. But out of 23 nieces and nephews, zero AFAIK.

But also, this is 100% the circles I’m in — I get that.
I what way shape or form can settling money over several days be better than instant transfers with direct auth?
I like not getting wet when it rains.
It can't even play games. You can do everything the Vision Pro can do and more on a quest 3 for 1/7th the price. The screen is not as sharp but the FOV is better on the quest (which they mention in the verge article), it has no battery dongle and it has actual tracked controllers if you want to use them (but you can fall back to hand tracking where it makes sense).
Hello, can I pay with bitcoin?
Microsoft profit soars 33% on AI, cloud-computing investments
Is M1 being used as a catch all for Apple Silicon here, or is this really M1 based hardware? Seems a bit odd to be offering M1s in 2024 when Apple's entire lineup (short of the lowest end MacBook Air) is on M2/M3 chips, I believe.
Huh, this area is more controversial than I had realized. I think you're grabbing that quote from this article:

https://oaklandside.org/2021/07/08/protected-bicycle-lanes-t...

But even the head of OakDOT is quoted as agreeing with me here, that their project turned out to be too unsafe! And yet many of the statistics, as you point out, look good. I dunno, I guess we'll see.

It's a nice area, regardless, I just have fundamental doubts about the theory of "if we distract drivers, they will slow down, thus making the roads safer".
Lumique: Global Celebration of Uniqueness
Overnight project!!

Lumique is a platform designed to celebrate individuality and personal stories through the sharing of photos. Users can upload images along with captions, unveiling their unique experiences and perspectives. These photos are then showcased on Lumique, creating a global community where diversity and individuality are celebrated.

The platform encourages users to engage with each other by providing a voting system. Viewers can show appreciation for a photo by upvoting it, contributing to the photo's distinctiveness . This rank is determined by the number of votes a photo receives.

No need to signup all using Client IP

Try: https://lumique.lol/
Doesn’t add anything significant to the thread
> That is certainly not the only pathway to being non-banked, but it is an extremely common one. Often, consumers self-select out because they try banking for a while and then repeatedly get assessed high fees which they do not feel are legitimate, such as fees for overdrafting their accounts. To bang a very old drum, the decision to move from everyone-pays-a-Netflix-subscription-for-banking to banking-is-free-except-we-assess-high-fees-if-you-screw-up created winners and losers. We called that one "free checking." Descriptively it subsidizes the middle class by using fees assessed stochastically to people in persistent economic precarity. In particular, young members of the middle class (college students and recent graduates in their least-well-off years) benefitted a lot.

Though I wonder whether you could just get an account where your deposited checks just take a while to clear (when the bank actually has the money)? And where any attempt at overdrafting would just fail?

Basically, a bank account where the bank does not extend you credit. A purely 'pre-paid' affair.

I guess the kinds of people who would want these accounts are on average not good customers?

(I know that they have these kinds of accounts in eg Germany where I grew up. But your average German is averse to taking on debt; so you just get average Germans signing up, instead of the adverse selection you'd have in the US?)
> How did he make money during those 5 years?

Worked in jobs that didn’t ask for proof of employment authorization.

Being white also probably helped a lot. I’m actually willing to bet that most americans aren’t even aware that white people can also immigrate illegally.
Getting fitter as in working out, or losing weight...?
Doing JS and JSON for many years. But react based frameworks are still are mystery for me and break everything I love about HTTP and HTML.

Calling it as easy as JSON for JS dev sounds a bit stretched. For a react Dev maybe.
You can talk to satellites over lora with a 5w transceiver (source: done it), which is on the order of magnitude of a cell phone transceiver. Opus goes down to .75kbps. Ham boomerisms don't cleanly apply to modern voice codecs and digital modulation techniques.
The first iPhone didn't have GPS either. No iPods had speakers back then so that wasn't missed, you just used your earbuds. It was great for browsing the web and media consumption, since you either had WiFi or you didn't (no slow Edge network to tease you). Once the App store came out you had Instapaper for offline reading, and Google Voice for messaging/calls.
Part of what makes React's JSX so nice is that it's based on familiar things, HTML and JS. Like, regular HTML <div> etc works the same there.
The policy that forced engineers to come to the office at 2 AM twice a year
I never before considered that "the edge" may become a constellation of Starlink satellites. Round-trip latency is a lot better if your messages are only going 500km.

That said — can you imagine deploying your service to ~5200 satellites? yikes
Celibacy is common nowadays.
ok thats true and that does work. But the system in the background is a mess.
... well, you can. Sometimes it even involves purser walking cap in hand scrounging up cash for a fuel pump replacement in pretty young 787 otherwise it's not going anywhere.

The main difference is that it's tracked. Licensed, too, but huge part of that licensing is about maintaining the history of the parts and plane, and that mechanics know given plane.

But the only reason you're going to know that a change happened was because the people have been trained to log it down - but there's no physical/computer lockout preventing them.
My problem with custom GPTs is that it's still building off of the chatbot fine tuned version of GPT-4 which incorporates a hardcoded system message in between yours and the model as well as reflects a very Goodhart's Law driven alignment.

For example, it's next to worthless for creative writing tasks - but it doesn't need to be.

Here is an example of a response to requesting chat suggestions as absurd and bizarre as possible from the current model:

> If you had to choose between eating a live octopus or a dead rat, which one would you pick and why?

It's stochastic so there's a variety but they are generally pretty dry and often information based (explain gravity to flat earthers, describe Earth culture to aliens, etc).

Here was one of the generations from the pre-release chat model integrated into the closed beta for Bing:

> Have you ever danced with a penguin under the moonlight?

I know which one of these two snapshots I'd want to build off of for any kind of creative GPTs, and it's not the one available to power GPTs.

The industry needs SotA competition in alignment strategies and goals badly if we want this tech successful outside of a narrow scope of STEM applications, and the reliance on GPT-4 synthetic data to train its competition isn't helping.
Here's an example of an article that gives both sides. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/31/tiktok-univers...

I'm going to say it's highly unlikely that the chatter among your social media friends is accurate for the same reason you stated - they weren't in the room any more than you were. The people who were in the room for sure aren't chatting about it.
The first, and second, reason for code reviews is QA (hence points in checklists). Some of it can be automated but overall it makes sense to have at least another human being check that a code change is sensible before it is merged.

Another aspect is that this allows to enforce approval of code changes at project level: ideally every change should have a reason and that should have been approved beforehand (e.g. when you planned your sprint if you're Agile).

This is why the usual process is that code reviews gate merging into the master repo. Ie., pre-merge reviews make sense, post-merge reviews don't.
If you read carefully my original comment, you would have understood specs were part of the description.

Just as an example, C++ concepts were originally presented in 2005 [0], dropped in 2009 [1], redesigned as Concepts Lite in 2013 [2], graduated to technical specification in 2015 [3], added to C++20 roadmap in 2020 [4].

Making it 15 years to fully work out a language feature and related library functions, and even what came out 15 years is a subset of the original proposal, not going to bother with specification refinements after C++20.

Everything goes faster if it were us doing it, right?

[0] - https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n17...

[1] - https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/cpp0x-concepts-history

[2] - https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n37...

[3] - https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/constraints

[4] - https://www.iso.org/standard/79358.html
It's interesting to see the heavily growing demand graph. Is that because people want to adopt it, or is it being mandated or encouraged as "best practice" etc? I'm not implying that true organic demand wouldn't exist because it definitely might, but I have seen in practice where leadership encourages or even mandates usage of FaaS, so the numbers go up even though on a neutral field people wouldn't necessarily choose it. There's also the "I'd like to try it" group who hasn't yet had experience with it so choose it as a target for learning/curiosity reasons.

I wonder because my own experience with FaaS has been mostly bad. There are some nice things for sure, and a handful of use cases where it's wonderfully superior, such as executing jobs where number of concurrent processes fluctuates wildly making rapid scalability highly desirable. The canonical use case being "make a thumbnail for this image."

For web servers though, I find the opacity and observability, and the difficulty running locally to be significant hindrances. There's also lock-in which I hate with a passion. At this point I'd rather manage static EC2 instances than Lambdas, for example. (To be clear I'm not advocating static EC2 instances. My preference is Kubernetes all the things. Not perfect of course, but K8s makes horizontal scalability very easy while improving on visibility, but that's a different conversation)
> After he changes, I wonder if Elon's lawyers can get this re-litigated somehow?

I'm rather skeptical that such a thing could happen. The events in question all occurred while Tesla was incorporated in Delaware, so I don't think there would be any reason for the laws of Texas to apply. As far as Texas is concerned all the relevant events happened to someone outside of its jurisdiction.

Granted, I'm not a lawyer, let alone one licensed to practice in either Delaware or Texas, so a few grains of salt are more than warranted.
hey thanks. I also had the impression/
How about making satellite phones illegal and then put anyone with one in prison. Allows them to arbitrarily put opponents in prison.
Then you lose the power of a second computing device if all view rendering happens on the AVP.
That is sold in form of the "Team" plan
I enjoy watching a skilled craftsman at work. It's beautiful.
Ah, I missed that from the FAQ at the bottom.
Microsoft Edge is apparently usurping Chrome on people's PCs
Not all shareholders are customers.
> remove the unnecessary asphalt and plant some trees. Or do something constructive with this unused, paved space — new housing, a solar energy field

It's always about the money. Who will sell the land, who will buy the land, who will build the houses, who will buy the houses (for how much), and so on.

If I am a developer I don't care to make a $100k house. I prefer that there is 'some' scarcity in the market so I can be selling $300k houses instead. This 'motivational' speech is socialist-like (I like socialism but the Scandinavian one - aka capitalism with enhanced social care).

If there is money to be made, then money will be made. I am sure that these places will go down in prices enough to become 'attractive', and not a day before.
True, but apart from video/games/possibly a browser they absolutely don’t need to refresh at 60hz. I’m surprised they couldn’t somehow work in a “one nice screen, the rest refresh when needed” solution - though maybe that’s just too clunky for Apple.
> The rule should probably be "1 space for car owned", like when you go to buy a car, you have to prove that you have a place to park it.

That doesn't provide any guidance to the builder though, so what should they build?
I think "economy in the dumps" is a bit too harsh.

China is facing a deflating real estate bubble, but they still managed to grow the last year (official sources are disputed but independent estimates are still positive).
Good point, I'll add some tomorrow.
Frontend JavaScript suck, here's why but not how to fix it [video]