skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One consequence of this is that nobody is going to want to buy M3 MacBooks for a while, knowing that such a big leap in performance is around the corner.

I think this is one of those things that only enthusiasts care about, and if you care that much about performance you’re probably one of the people who buys a new one every year or two anyways so they aren’t really missing out on your revenue.

Most people just need or want a new laptop and order whatever one is currently available.
There is the kawai novus5 which is a digital piano with the action and soundboard of a real upright piano and enough speakers to sound almost exactly like a real piano. There are also some new roland models I haven't tried. Many dealers lump these into their acoustic piano offering and don't market them differently because they are that good.

See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4DaaafyAUqA and https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oLsPK2ATJcY. He is a pianist and he bought a novus5 to replace his own upright piano...
It's difficult if not impossible to do active noise cancellation for multiple people simultaneously.
I think the #1 third party app is probably more responsible for this sentiment than the device itself.

People can’t emotionally separate their hatred and disgust at corporate social media taking over and censoring and monetizing the public square with the physical device that it leverages.

On one hand, we have Facebook and Instagram. On the other, every person interacting with a cop has a cloud-uploading HD camera at the ready.

For every Twitter, everyone can video call their parents/grandparents at any time for as long as they want for ~free from ~anywhere.
It's a great ad. 620 comments on hacker news, got me to watch it voluntarily even though I never see ads. Even got me to share it with someone else.

Ads don't exist to make you feel good, they exist to make you notice them.
I agree that the comments on Japanese culture were unwarranted, off-topic, unnecessary, offensive… and while I know very little about Japan, I feel I should ignore random internet opinions on it.

But can you elaborate on your second paragraph? Should culture always be immune to criticism?
Sites need to charge for subscriptions, then, and write content worth paying for. Maybe give us a headline and charge access per story. But charge up front.

That means losing 90% of "journalism" on the web at least, but that's fine. Most of it is filler for ads anyway.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but my eyes find even a typical laptop display too straining for programming. I like my desktop monitors.
if there were extra 5% budget they already would be using it
We live on a semi-main road. Normal engines aren’t really noticeable or annoying. Nearly all of the road noise is generated by tires with a fraction coming from large truck engines and vehicles with broken exhausts.

Tires are shockingly loud.
Seems like you could, since it has an attribute and a pseudo class to select on.
document.querySelectorAll("[popover]:popover-open")
should select all visible popovers. AFAIK uBlock uses regular CSS selectors.
Are you seriously arguing about mini-LED displays only found in expensive MacBook Pro when I mention a cheap 500 dollars Chromebook.
There is at least a 4x difference in price for those machines, it is ridiculous to even pretend they are somewhat comparable.

And if we are talking about expensive high-end hardware, mini-LED is worse than OLED found in those machines anyway so it's not like if that would be a strong argument.
The intent of the author shouldn't matter when it comes to advertising - it's not the viewer's responsibility to figure out a deeper/alternative meaning. The ad company is injecting themselves between the viewer and the media they actually want to watch. The onus is on the advertiser to make the message as clear as possible to the viewer who doesn't care - and if it misses the mark, it's the advertiser which failed. Not the viewer's lack of effort on understanding it.
It feels like this is the turning point when corporate social media giants found out that anger/depression are the easiest ways to increase engagement.
Worse, it’s going to be a very expensive part.

I know us nerds aren’t the market, but an mATX motherboard with elite x for like $700-800 would be a seller.
Wonder if anyone can comment on how this played out in other periods where states could maintain large plausible deniability, like when we it was normal to hire privateers to interfere with other nations trade?

Maybe if people move towards the actions with plausible deniability, it reduces the risk of major (attributable) action being taken
Bit of a side note, I was trying to understand why the history of craftsmanship feels different for cameras compared to say pianos. One variable here is definitely the fact that I work in lithography and cameras are a sister industry. Familiarity diminishes the mystique of something. But I think it's a bit more about time. Each advance in piano technology had it's "moment" so to speak. New refinement in pianos were slower to develop due to many reasons, but the prestige of pianos remains the same. But unlike cameras each generation of pianos got an entire human lifetime to be explored, sometimes even multiple lifetimes. It's cultural impact got time to be normalized and then commented upon. None of that has happened for cameras. Things changed so fast we didn't even get a chance to explore all of the options.

An argument against my amateur analysis is of course scale. Pianos were being explored by maybe a million people and only a fraction of that fulltime. Cameras are basically a part of life for a large portion of humanity.
Brain is just his Welles impression. They even do a parody of the pea commercial on Pinky and the Brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs&t=6s
The advertisement statement is destroying all these things and replacing them by an iPad. I.E. thats the sales pitch -- you don't need any of these things anymore just this iPad.

Hollywood does destroy all sorts of things but that's not their sales pitch to you. It happens in the background. Also it isn't replacing those soulful cars with a new car -- it's using them for a shot.
How Humans Spend Their Time
Don't forget to take your ibuprofen.
There was an orca (technically not a whale) on the west coast of canada that famously ripped fishfinders off the bottoms of boats. Evidently it didn't like their noise. But it wasn't just the active ones. It found and ripped them off parked boats too.
Oh, so you're option three, you just got everything, lol.

I actually liked the ad, and I like the underlying message of the iPad being a simile for all those things. Consider a situation where you have a limited budget, let's say you're a teen and you only get one birthday present. Me personally, I'd get an iPad or a similar device, as that's the single thing that will maximize my fun, out of all other options.

(emphasis on thing, please don't come back at me with the "I'd rather have friends" strawman, you can have friends and an iPad)
Did they pull the add?
"just do it in space" has got to be one of the best hacker news solution to other profession's issue I've ever read.
> Who is the mother in an anthill?

Except the queen, all the other ants are the daugthers of the queen.

IIRC thermites have many "queens" and "kings". I'm not sure about social wasps.
The state of European Tech is about STEM. Do you think they talk about American uneducated refuguess stranding on the European shore?
Really really. What makes that so hard to believe?
Great job, and written in your own custom language as well! Did you use piece tables by any chance as a data structure? And did you have any reference for how to write a text editor or did you just invent it all yourself?
A little over a year ago I was struggling with python related to packaging and managing my own dependencies. I found a blog post called "Relieving your Python packaging pain"[0] that piqued my interest with its simplicity. A couple of days later, the author released another post called "Why not tell people to 'simply' use pyenv, poetry, pipx, or anaconda"[1], which included the how-to steps outlined in their first post, and generated a sizeable discussion[2] on HN. Being on a Mac, this really has made things so much easier for me. I'm not a professional developer by any means, but more like a hobbiest+ as I make things to help automate away some pain points within the small company I work for.

[0] https://www.bitecode.dev/p/relieving-your-python-packaging-p...
[1] https://www.bitecode.dev/p/why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379008
I don’t see any ads on this article with ublock origin and privacy badger disabled (maybe the safari system-wide ad blocker gets them?) but I use the orion browser by kagi on iOS. It supports firefox and chrome extensions.
Yes I have seen those. I mean that effective teaching needs talking, visual illustrations (slides), and code.
Bugger. Apologies for posting misinformation.

(at least I warned people I was undercaffeinated?)
I really don't see the problem. It's a tool, not a coworker. It's up to you to test it. If you find a solution from googling, you still need to test it. It's the same thing.
> By 3 p.m. he’d been seated, and he delivered the lines perfectly. We were done by five, getting everything we needed without overtime. I remember him grinning at the furious agency guys as he walked away from the set. Later on, after a few more commercials, they’d fire him, but I wasn’t around for that.

Sounds like he combined alcohol with a sleeping pill—never a great idea—and needed to take a nap. Unprofessional, but hardly the worst thing a star has ever done on set.

My favorite Orson Welles thing is this anecdote from Kenneth Tynan:

> Arriving, some years ago, to deliver a lecture in a small mid-western town, he [Welles] was faced with a tiny audience of listeners and no one to introduce him. He decided to introduce himself.

> “Ladies and gentlemen,” he began, “I will tell you of the highlights of my life. I am a director of plays. I am a producer of plays. I am an actor on the legitimate stage. I am a writer of motion pictures. I am a motion-picture actor. I write, direct, and act on the radio. I am a magician. I also paint and sketch, and I am a book-publisher. I am a violinist and a pianist.” Here he paused, and rested his chin on his hands, surveying the sparse congregation. “Isn’t it strange,” he said, quizzically but with clinching emphasis, “that there are so many of me—and so few of you?”
Qualcomm is laughing to the bank because MSFT doesn't have a choice.
It's kinda surprising that nobody has made a product for that, because it COULD be done with a plain ol' loudspeaker playing out of phase.

Basically:

1) put a mic above one person's head, in the headboard or somewhere near there

2) record the room

3) play the room back from the same location, but out of phase

voila! Snoring cancellation.

One unfortunate side effect is that it might be quite loud for other people in the home! Because the cancellation will only work well at a single point in space; get a few feet away and it will sound like TWO people snoring. (The snorer, and the loudspeaker.)
Hard to know how credible this story is. The Nightly is a new website from one of the Australian media companies, seems to be relatively tabloid-level.

It's not clear, is this "Chinese Government-sponsored hacker collective" chatting in English or is it translated?
Which people still hate because its mostly marketing trash that gets in the way of whatever they were trying to do on the underlying page.
I would put this up there with Dark Mode. I want your product to work, I could care less about dark mode, light mode, keyboard shortcuts or anything else.
The metal fatigue issue is a solved problem with life limited parts and maintenance check intervals, and whilst African airlines might cut some maintenance corners, they won't have missed a D check or major engine overhaul

Quite normal for passenger jets to last over 20 years, Northwest was flying 40 year old DC-9s in the US not that long ago, and the reason for retiring them is that their lower efficiency means they're worth less than the cost of the necessary overhauls, not that the maintenance can't be done.
People are concerned about waste forget that once the item is produced, it’s already waste. Just because it’s in their definition of “worth it” doesn’t mean it’s not going to end up in a landfill in the near future.
I'm curious if they CGI'd your basket of puppies in there (after all, you can take puppy pictures on your iPad!), would you not be bothered by it at least a little bit?
Another extremely useful feature that won’t work for our Safari users with any older than 1 year old iPhones and means for the next five years we have to support both this API and a full-blown polyfill or alternative implementation.
This is such a hilarious hot take. I almost think it’s fake.

You do you, bud, but that’s a lot of shade for the dumbest story ever.

You travel all over the world so you can checks notes stay inside your airbnb and cook ingredients. Cool
If you're a family on vacation it's much more convenient than a hotel and most importantly it allows you to stay in more remote locations where there are no hotels; it's worked very well for us over the years (though I'd feel differently if we'd ever been scammed).
But it has gotten a lot more expensive than it used to be, and the charm and appeal of staying at someone's house and meeting new people is mostly (but not entirely) gone. If I'm traveling alone or on business I don't bother with AirBnb anymore.
The pessimist inside me worries about whether this could be used to lure people into revealing their credentials; granted, there are thousands of ways to do this easily, but I'm still cautiously optimistic on this topic.
Pretty sure this backlash is orchestrated as part of the campaign itself to boost the visibility of the ad.

The proof is: here we are talking about it.
Lots of folks are doing front panels in PCB these days. They're precision and sturdy and you already have the workflow set up.
"against its specification"

Which itself is not know to be bugfree.

(And is 10x the size of the source code and in a language that is less readable than x64 assembler)
"mostly isolationists" except for wanting to kick off a war in the Middle East so Jesus can come back
It doesn't have to be 100% one or the other.
I went to University to do maths 6-7 years after leaving school (with decent maths results there) so had forgotten everything. Nothing beats doing all of the exercises that you did before, and actually you find that you've not quite forgotten everything. Good luck!
The Dose Makes the Poison
Same here. Loudest noise is one of my servers, but after that is birds and cicadas. I wish I could make the birds shut the hell up, but that sounds like the start of a horror movie.
Windows 8 failed because it tried to merge desktop and tablet UI paradigms.

Switching between entirely different and separate "UI personalities" could work.

I don't think the pointer vs touch UI is the main thing that people have in mind when wishing for macOS on the iPad though, instead a "proper" UNIX-style filesystem and shell, and the ability to install any software outside the app store via a package manager and without Apple's nanny reflex getting in the way.
If I'm on somebody else's system and need to hit the ground running Right Now then this comes into play instead - https://trout.me.uk/X11/vimrc (I think it's been a few years now since I've been annoyed enough by something in vim to figure out how to turn it off and add yet another line to that ;)
They're basically the same. Browsers started blocking popups because they were almost always misused. Pop-overs took their place because they're somewhat less trivially blockable.
And this is an uplifting great advertisement. Unbelievable how much of a difference the message makes.
Properly tracking changes would allow less disk space to be used.

xdelta is not supposed to be used on compressed data [1], but my VCS will handle that transparently using less space.

You are right to be nervous about auto merges, and that will be the biggest work when implementing support for a file type.

But I think it is possible in many cases.

For example, Blender files store everything in one file. You can reference things between files, and people do that, but often, you will still want to store the material for a mesh with the mesh.

If someone changes the mesh, and someone else changes a material, those changes should automerge.

[1]: https://github.com/jmacd/xdelta/issues/193#issuecomment-1000...
I suspect this isn't going to get major usage. Making it a dedicated API makes these things easier to target by extensions and thus easier to block. There are legitimate usages but almost all of the ones I encounter are marketing call to actions and invasive support chat boxes which are both almost universally hated and would the target of those blocking action.
That's redhat deprecating spice in its releases.

That doesn't mean spice is being deprecated.
>Ah, the classic "You criticize technology and yet you have a smartphone, checkmate".

I never wrote anything remotely similar to that in my comment. I'm talking about the convenience of carrying a single thing vs. many of them.

>removes any of the "humanity" from it

No, the iPad didn't remove the humanity from those activities, you did, right now. Let me tell you something, there's some really good pieces of art out there, music, short films, photography, etc... that were created using a modern digital device like the iPad. Does that make those less human? Less artistically valuable? Absolutely not!
There's plenty of outrage over climate change. It's not clear it meaningfully contributes to solving the problem.
If I'm being real I do kind of want an OLED iPad. But I'm almost positive it's not because of that ad.
I think the Popover API will be really transformative when CSS Anchor Positioning[1] arrives as well. Anchor positioning will let you position elements relative to others on the page. Combined with the Popover API it will let you implement things like custom tooltips and context menus in a declarative way and without any need for libraries like PopperJS [2]

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/tether-elements-to-each-ot...
[2] https://popper.js.org/docs/v2/
Wow, this looks awesome and carefully designed! It even has an official VSCode plugin with a language server[0]. Well done, author!

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=elves.el...
Cars aren't the sort of noise that I primarily care about. Neighbors with their god-awful dogs and children that scream and hit the walls 24/7 are far worse.
Destroying classic cars for a movie creates something. I think a few car people would be pretty upset if some really bad, made for TV movie destroyed a lot of classic cars. This is just that, but upsetting musicians, photographers, artists, and basically anyone who cares about the environment.

This ad destroys a lot of things people are really really fond about: musical instruments, painting supplies, photography equipment, and record player. And then says that all of those things will be replaced by this "gadget" that won't have the years of life of the piano, guitar, camera, record player, etc.

So it destroys things people care about AND tells you the things you care about don't matter anymore.
I got annoyed with it, then went and fixed it in 5 minutes and went on with my day - https://twitter.com/joelrunyon/status/1788312003670360320
yes, because i find the argument that a chromebook coming close to a MacBook to be extremely disingenuous.

no, i’m a big fan of OLED, but for a laptop, especially a non gaming one, the extra brightness and lack of burn in concern makes it better.
The directory history idea seems incredibly useful, but I’ve never see of it before. Did you come up with it yourself?

It has the characteristics of a really great idea: seems obvious in retrospect, doesn’t look too difficult to implement, but somehow everybody seems to have… just missed it?
You're absolutely right! Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the server-side. While Node.js itself isn't directly used for front-end development, it can work seamlessly with various front-end frameworks and libraries. Popular options include React, Vue.js, Angular, etc.
I really liked Sioyek as a more fully-featured Zathura, but two features kept me from using it as my primary PDF reader:
1. Can't open multiple PDFs at the same time: Trying to open a second PDF with it while it's already open with some PDF crashes both instances.
2. Annotations are stored in a separate document rather than the PDF itself.

Other users have noted both of these before. I didn't find an easy fix to 1, and a partial solution to 2 uses an extension, but IIRC it still requires manually running a command to transfer annotations to the PDF document itself.
Well......I've really changed my mind about this whole thing over the years. I used to also think that it's really "them" not "us", but as I grow older I'm not sure. Admittedly I live in a rich western country where consumerism is king, but all the people I know are in the cycle of "new car every 2-3 years, new phone every year, new TV every few years, flying at least 6-8 times a year, meat 3x times a day for every meal, everything you buy is packaged in plastic etc etc etc etc".

Like, these corporations don't produce all of this stuff just for the sake of it - there are consumers like "us" buying it at the other end. Us again meaning people in countries and in demographics where you can afford it, I don't blame someone in a poor country burning tyres for heat - their environmental damage over a full year is probably less than mine over a month.
Maybe you’re younger than I am, but I definitely feel like the introduction of the smart phone — and the iPhone on particular — was when things started to decline steeply.
"How Viking-Age Hunters Took Down the Biggest Animal on Earth" is far more clicky than informative.
The same way each of your cells contains 2 meters of DNA.
I remember the hype around the first M1 and getting one and it actually living up to the hype! It was compiling code twice as fast as the MBP I replaced and was booting way faster and was generally snappier in every way. I ran through lots of benchmarks but also tested on my own code. It was faster than the beefy servers I deployed to.

But the absolute biggest game changer was that it was silent. Completely silent. Hadn’t realised how noisy computers had been until then.
A Basic Example of RAG
This is becoming more interesting as more articles are getting written.

I've already commented several times that Apple completely misread what was once their core market - creatives. These are the people who played a key role in getting Apple to where they are today. It was insensitive on Apple's part to literally crush the things that market cherishes and brings them joy, and replace it all with a piece of technology, technology which creatives are generally leery of. Yes, I understand the message that Apple intended - all that creative power is in the iPad - but that's NOT the message they conveyed.

What that tells me is Apple has lost their understanding of a key component of their customer base.

Now to add more salt to the wound a senior editor at Macworld, a journal dedicated to all things Apple, doesn't understand why this key customer base is upset. It's sad, but it's also fascinating - how did these people miss the mark so badly on this market segment?

Since I'm a glass half-full kind of guy, I'm hoping this faux pas spurs Apple to re-evaluate their relationship with creatives and spurs them to work with the creative communities to create tools they love to use. That was a key part of the old Apple's identity. I'd like to see Apple get that back.