skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It adds up when you need to pay $25 to get per-app volume control, $20 to fix to the menu bar, $10 to get window management, etc, per seat.

I don't think it's cynical to point out the perverse incentive. I think it's a useful point for discussion, especially given anyone familiar with any of the other major desktop environments (Windows, GNOME, KDE, etc.) might be surprised to learn that there's a modern desktop environment lacking these amenities.
This is a “problem” that existed before the notch was born and has been fixed with Bartender (and clones) for several years now. Anyone with lots of app icons would run into situations where the icons would not all fit on the menu bar. Bartender gave us control and helped reduce the clutter.

The problem didn’t start with the notch, it just made it more likely that someone would run into it.
This is the advice I give everyone who is interested in smart home stuff: Pick Zigbee or Z-Wave and only buy that type of product, WiFi is trash.

I'm not super keen on Thread/Matter seeing how one of its goal seems to be allowing your devices access to the internet which is the exact opposite of what I want. I want my devices to be dumb, only able to talk to the hub, and then the hub can optionally run some code to connect outside the network if and when I decide.

The best part about my Z-Wave setup is every manufacturer can go out of business and I won't even notice. That's a stark difference to something WiFi based which almost always requires a cloud component. I understand why people start with WiFi devices, they don't need a hub, but having a local hub is the best way to do anything "smart home" by far. Personally I use Home Assistant but before that I used SmartThings and liked it well enough.
My take. I read a ton of history.
Since the EU already classifies Alzheimer's as Type 3 Diabetes, its increased incidence might be in line with increased T2D incidence.
Can someone make a car which has none of the complicated stuff?

List of features I want:

- automatic transmission (if ICE)

- bluetooth and FM radio

- no self steering

- cruise control with "follow speed"

- not-batshit-insane self-brake-system (use whatever Volvo uses, it works!)

- good airbags and decent structural integrity

- classic sedan height
Both the Bayesian perspective and the optimization perspectice are legitimate ways of understanding the Kalman filter. I like the Bayesian perspective better.
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I am allergic to video content. I don't use the tiktok app or website, and I only ever watch a facebook or instagram reel if someone sends it to me, I never click through the UI to get to them. There's something so infuriating about not knowing how long you're going to be held hostage for, whether it will be worth it, whether the volume will be on or off... I just hate it.
Smartphone market is much more complex than just ticking feature boxes. There is brand value perception, post-sales support and warranty, ecosystem, OS customisations, device exchange programs and other marketing strategies.

There might still be market for users looking for modular phones. Fairphone comes to mind in this aspect.

LG failing to provide a product for this specific market niche isn't enough of evidence to support the claim that the market itself doesn't exist, only that LG couldn't or had no interest in maintaining it.
The Internet is still fun! It's actually way more fun than I remember it being as a kid now.
Thanks for this! Something has always bugged me when I hear about big plans for tidal energy.

TLDR, the 1000 year estimate is is derived from the geometric series proof(i needed a refresher). Wolfram explains it pretty well: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/GeometricSeries.html

...then i needed a refresher on exponents and logarithms: https://wou.edu/mathcenter/files/2015/09/Exponents-and-Logar...

It's good to do the math and think about the big picture sometimes. ;)

p.s. i tend to feel somewhat skeptical about a lot of renewable projects i read about in the news. And even if the math all works out and it really IS The Best Solution i cant help feeling we are ignoring the elephant in the room(population growth). Maybe human beings should start preparing themselves to live with less(and be happy with that).
Things have regressed - the older Hue stuff could have switches that had no batteries (pressing the button generated enough electricity to send the signal) and they could communicate directly with the gateway or even the bulbs.

Now everything is wifi or bluetooth and it sucks.

Five years ago I would have designed a new house entirely around these things; now it would be so old-fashioned it wouldn't look out of place in the 1950s.
That's indeed true. I don't have siblings, but many cousins of different ages. If they were "friends", they would have probably have dropped out of the radar pretty early on. But now in my 40s, I do see an immense benefit of getting to know the adult version of them, and having shared history, family, locations, memories etc. makes it massively easier.
They don't.

They will go the way of the typists.
Thanks for the correction.

The upshot, however, is that few empires last as long as 500 years, and only a couple lasted as long as 1,500 years. And those empires change a lot over the course of their existence; they weren't effective vehicles for a collective effort at, say, colonising Mars.
Is it? Apple Silicon exists, but Apple created a translation layer above it so the transition could be smoother.
You are trying to impress with the number of sources, but it's all from animal models, or even speculative, while the data for its absence is from actual autopsies.
Also, it isn't something that is difficult or expensive to try.
I am not sure if raising minimal requirements is a bad thing. For example, it is harder to get into medicine now than it was 100 years ago, but is it bad? Maybe AI revolution will simply raise education requirements and those will lead to "smarter"/more specialised humanity?
> There will always be people willing to do your job for cheaper as well as these that take 3x what you take and do half. Such is life.

Which of these do you think is the bigger threat to you?

If they can do your job roughly as well as you for half the cost, what's the employer's incentive to keep you around to do it?
Science journals exist.

OTOH, I’ve never, not once, ever, heard of someone reading through the patent database to learn how to do a thing. I’m sure someone has done such a thing, but that’s not the norm. The patent database is where you record that you were the first to claim to have done a thing. It’s not where you meaningfully explain how.
Newer Android uses a hamburger, a square, and an arrow. It's not obvious what they are, but the shapes are very mnemonic.
I haven't looked too much into thread/matter, but my understanding of them has been basically this: https://xkcd.com/927/

I shudder at the idea of ipv6 addresses for my lightbulbs.
Internet fun is proportional to the degree of its decentralisation.
see https://2swiftboards.com/, which is an electric scooter with no handlebars.

At low speeds, a high-friction headset adds stability by damping the tendency to turn and flop.

At higher speeds, the reverse fork rake and spinning wheels provide stability.

This is my read on it, as someone that uses a 2Swift as a commuter vehicle, but the physics-based explanation may differ.
This happened to me, from a big "trusted" company.
That's not a question; it's guaranteed that they will. They always have, consistently, done so.
so not willing to make that proclamation.

Of course not, you know how heinous that position is, but it's the direct result of what you're arguing here, that we can't make judgements like that.

instead of reading my posts as angry, read them as a complete and utter dismissal of your argument. It has no merit and it's easy to see because you won't make the proclamation that's the obvious result of your stance.

Your argument is just nihilism in a funny dress.

A poor person is _forced_ to strip down to the bare essentials. Middle class _should_ do the same but they have enough money that they can afford the delusion until they can't (lifestyle inflation) due to losing a job, unforeseen expenses (medical bills, for example). The wealthy can do whatever the hell they want because the unforeseen expenses and job loss are a blip to them rather than an existential crisis the way it is for the middle class and poor.

IOW, just because someone is not willing to forego something does not imply it's an essential, it implies they have a preference they won't compromise on. That may or may not be a good decision, but people make poor decisions all the time.

I drive a 2004 corolla, early in 2023 I decided I needed a minivan and purchased a 2007 Honda Odyssey and then paid to have it fixed up. The GPU in my gaming machine was literally more expensive than the initial purchase of that Odyssey.

I'm a tech person and a gamer, I was not willing to compromise on the GPU but at no point was I ever under the delusion that made it an essential. it's like sneaking that candy that you know you probably shouldn't eat, it's a guilty pleasure.

On the flip side, if someone tells me they can't leave NYC because of family, I absolutely get it.
You can't renege on a "responsibility" you didn't sign up for. Furthermore, if someone asked me to make a list of mammals least in danger of extinction, humanity would be at the very top. The idea that we need to keep exponentially growing or face extinction strikes me as remarkably similar to pyramid-scheme thinking.
That is a pretty terrible take.

Having kids is basically never going to cause someone to go from rich (excess wealth and luxury) to actually poor (struggling to survive).

However, it definitely can be enough to take someone who is just barely getting by, making their car payments, enough food on their plate, etc. to start to struggle. Kids are very expensive.

No-one is not having kids because they want a second yacht. But there are a lot of people who genuinely cannot afford to survive with a child.
Yep, I develop several applications that use CUDA. I see AMD/Radeon powered computers for sale and want to buy one, but I am not going to risk not being able to run those applications or having to rewrite them.

If they want me as a customer, and they have not created a viable alternative to CUDA, they need to pursue this.
> Is the world better since we have to pay a license to use the word "Smiley" and not "Emoji" ? (a >500M USD per year business btw).

If this is true it would fall under copyright or trademark protections, not patents.
Yeah, Flash had its problems but it at least you "build a thing" without a ton of overhead. The complexity of today's "modern" tooling is a bit crazy. SPAs are often used inappropriately, where a simple, server-side generated site would be more efficient, easier to develop, deploy, maintain.
Oh ok I never had one but I read that in some of the reviews, I was interested because I worked in mobile phone management and I really liked the idea of full-screen phones (which turned out so great that everyone does it now, of course).
That's sadly true. But it's also a race to the bottom.
That’s a real issue even if the increase in risk from front overs due to large SUV’s is significantly less than the safety benefits of backup cameras alone.

A common bias when many things change is to only consider the changes which support your views rather than all changes combined. I could counter by bringing up nearly 100% of new SUVs in 2024 include automatic breaking systems, but what matters here is relative safety not individual changes in isolation.

Pedestrian deaths were 2 percent lower in 2021 than in 1975, which seems like zero progress but the US had 211 million people in 1975 vs 337 million in 2021. Thus the individual risk has dropped by almost 40% even though people seem to think it increased. Not that overall pedestrian deaths is directly comparable to risk to kids from playing outside, but it is suggestive.

Edit: The reduction in children being killed is much larger, but that’s probably less to do with cars than wider social trends. https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...
> If something new comes along that provides better performance per dollar spent

They won’t be able to do that, their hardware isn’t fast enough.

Nvidia is beating them at hardware performance, AND ALSO has an exclusive SDK (CUDA) that is used by almost all deep learning projects. If AMD can get their cards to run CUDA via ROCm, then they can begin to compete with Nvidia on price (though not performance). Then, and only then, if they can start actually producing cards with equivalent performance (also a big stretch) they can try for an Embrace Extend Extinguish play against CUDA.
As the second link notes, that helps only in "the most egregious cases of misconduct".
I don't buy into the conspiracy theory that's all planned. In the end, any corporation is trying to make money, they employ people because they provide some value, even in bullshit positions.

The bullshit part of those jobs is that they don't bring much benefit to society as a whole and society would be better off if they were eliminated. Ex: if you made telemarketing totally illegal, you would prevent some companies to make lots of money and some people would loose their jobs, but society benefits.
The Dutch and their history of sailing boats over the ocean... In these modern times, I believe it's about planting a flag on the land of the Vatican/Mecca of the digital tech industry.

I'd bet that GitLab, as an entity or corporation, felt mission-driven and empowered by settling not far from GitHub.
We don't have to grow infinitely. Population collapse comes with a huge host of problems though.

The problem of elder care isn't purely financial. It's not the model of paying that's the problem. At the end of the day, (kinda oversimplified) money represents a fractional value of the work output of a population. The output of the population depends on the number of people working in productive roles. The value of the currency is related to the consistent output of services and confidence in the existence of your country.

Shifting over an increasing fraction of your population to elder-care is non productive. It has a tension with both stability of currency and value of currency.
>The problem with effectively supporting CUDA is that encourages CUDA adoption all the more strongly

Worked fine for MS with Excel supporting Lotus 123 and Word supporting WordPerfect's formats when those were dominant...
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It will be like COBOL programmers now. We'll pay a lot of money for the graying experts in emergencies and declare non-AI advanced development obsolete. Eventually there will be no senior developers either.
I play Overwatch with my sons and not only can you not run a personal server, the game frequently has fundamental mechanic changes for certain characters (and all characters in this Tuesday’s update). The Overwatch of a year ago is a very different game than is now or will be a year from now.

If someone was to provide an Open Overwatch server, I don’t even know what it would look like at this point since game clients aren’t available for particular versions (maybe on PC, but not console). When Microsoft is done with Overwatch it’ll be gone.
I can't really disagree and also miss the local aspect. But local city subreddits have more much more info and discussion on local news, history and politics than BBSs did. Less DIY and decentralized and more corporate and centralized. Not great but it's still there.

Mixed bag I guess.
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Many KVMs do not have a "raw" port like you mention. But manufacturers are becoming more enlightened.

The other thing is, many KVMs will add a hub between your keyboard/mouse and the system you're connected to. This is convenient because you have just one cable to each system. But sometimes this is a source of incompatibility. I think the hub requires the system to be able to enumerate devices one-level removed, and the enumeration might be the source of delay. It also might be beyond bios-level firmware, which is less capable than many OS usb stacks. I believe this might have been the problem with mac boot keys.

I know a mechanical usb switch is not very elegant, but I find the reliability it adds is worth it to me.
Yeah it was due to the Open Compute Project AFAIK... Though for a little while AMD was telling me they really meant to call it "Radeon Open eCosystem" before then dropping that too with many still using the original name.
For many others, especially with regards to cathedrals and religious institutions more generally: religiosity / God.
IBM also made a whole bunch of strategic mistakes beyond that. Most importantly their hardware division didn't give a flying f about OS/2. Even when they had a 'better Windows' they did not actually use it themselves and didn't push it to other vendors.

Windows NT wasn't really relevant in that competition for much longer, only XP was finally for end consumers.

> where nvidia has the standard that AMD is implementing, and so no matter what if you play in the backward compatibility realm you're always going to be playing catch-up

That's not true. If AMD starts adding their own features and have their own advantages, that can flip.

It only takes a single generation of hardware, or a single feature for things to flip.

Look at Linux and Unix. Its started out with Linux implementing Unix, and now the Unix are trying to add compatibility with with Linux.

Is SGI still the driving force behind OpenGL/Vulcan? Did you think it was a bad idea for other companies to use OpenGL?

AMD was successful against Intel with x86_64.

There are lots of example of the company making something popular, not being able to take full advantage of it in the long run.
> It would be great if you also had more of a non-linear mode for content that is less structured
I have a "Dashboard" that sits in your Status Bar for quick access to sharing and camera switching which might be enough.

> Maybe it would look more like a sound effect board/stream deck/TV Mixer where there is a matrix of buttons to playback videos, add titles, show images, play sound effects, etc.
I think you're talking about a Stream Deck! CueCam gives you the other part of the Stream Deck puzzle when you do have structure, but lots of its features can be accessed with the Stream Deck plugin.

It's already possible to deep link to specific cards so you could set that up if you didn't feel like scrolling. But I'm usually fine to scroll (it's a pretty low friction interaction!) and it's less fiddling-about up front.

I have chroma key support already.

Other things may appear over time. If I find myself wanting to do some data-driven motion graphics you can bet that feature will appear within a week
> And yes, a recreational rider doing a serious distance will often carry 1.5kg of water, so saving 150g with special lightweight paint or whatever is lost in the noise.

But a lighter bike is still a lighter bike. If everyone is carrying 1.5kg of water, then a 150g lighter bike still has as much of an advantage[1] as it always had.

[1] Likely unmeasurable. Yes, there's some sarcasm in my comment, but I hear this type of reasoning all the time, e.g. "people say they want thin phones, then put a case on them anyway, so what's the point?" The point is a thin phone plus a case is still thinner than a thick phone plus a case. Similarly, a light bike plus 1.5kg of water is still lighter than a heavy bike plus 1.5kg of water.
A different option is to grab a standard ELF toolchain for i386, like GCC + Binutils, and then convert your ELF binary into a format that can run on DOS.

Which is what I did: https://github.com/depp/elf2dos.git

This is not really a polished, supported product, just a program I wrote to make DOS programs on Linux or Mac.
I don't believe they still do this & not sure their culture is the same. They were purchased by a company based out of China years ago. Lee Cheng I believe is responsible for a lot of that effort. He no longer works there.
Issuing a license is a form of "using it" in a use it or lose it scenario.

Those are not patent troll companies.
Patent troll companies file patents and then sit on the patent until they can sue another party for infringement, and never make an attempt to commercialize their patent.

Another example of not using it in the use it or lose it scenario is Pfizer's acquisition of Esperion Therapeutics in 2004. Esperion was developing a competitor to Lipitor, so Pfizer purchased Esperion for $1.3BB and shelved the technology to prevent competition with their best selling drug. Had Pfizer "lost" their patent for failing to commercial Esperion's drug, that drug could have entered the market as a generic to compete with Lipitor and severely reduced the cost of statin drugs for consumers.
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Maybe this can get around VoiceOver's "[app] not responding" issues. Probably want an M1 Mac or better to try this on though, especially with local models.
I could not care less about what the lives of 25yos in some midwestern city are like. The vast majority of millennials had to move to major cities for work around the 2008 recession.

What's your cities population? Is it even 100k? How much of your anecdata is actually related to this convo, in the sense of what percentage of your midwest people are even relevant to it? I've lived in at least 8 MAJOR (Houston, Denver, Dallas, Austin, Portland, San Josa) since 2008, those population centers absolutely dwarf whatever you can come up with in the mw to affect this stat.

This is like when someone on here chimes in with their amazing $120k house in Oklahoma. Owning a house at 25, whether you're in BFE Alabama or not is also not common.

Nor is being married at 25, anymore.
Brave did that already. Blocked the tracking ads and built an altcoin-backed tipping service whose coins they regularly buy off the market with real money.
living with parents, or someone else.

or else a bunch of roommates, some of whom may not be on the lease.
I like this as a direction to push, even if there may be some details that are later discovered to require correction. Is any org pushing for this?
If your AMD you don't want to be compatible till you have a compelling feature of your own.

Good enough CUDA + New feature x gives them leverage in the inevitable court battle(S) and patten sharing agreement that everyone wants to see.

AMD' already stuck its toe in the water: new CPU's with their AI cores built in. If you can get a AM5 socket to run with 196 gigs, that's a large (all be it slow) model you can run.
You're not having 2 different conversations, he's raising a perfectly good point.

Your argument is "new thing is good".

His argument is "new thing existed before old thing was removed, so removing old thing didn't make new thing better".
This is nice and all, but in 50 billion years, the moon's distance from the Earth will much greater which means it's gravitational effect on Earth will be much smaller.
There is also the mounting hardware. It’s not an unreasonable size for what it contains. If they were to really redesign the module they might shave a little off of it but how impactful would that reduction really be?