skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That people think this is a real press, that this bunch of objects in a real press would behave exactly like that, shows how our society is increasingly disconnected from the real, physical world and have no fucking idea of how a factory looks like.
One does not crush a Stradivarius violin because AI somehow makes it "obsolete". Apple's shit becomes e-junk in a few years. Crippling the CPU by lowering its frequency because the builtin battery is degraded does not help either. Not the case with a Stradivarius.
You are a hopeless, overreacting child if this ad bothers you.

I’m honestly shocked at the response I’m seeing here.
This doesn't work because the ad farms will just copy the content and make the profit on it. We need to kill advertising as a viable business model, because it consumes all other forms of business.

Ad blockers are ethical.
I recently stayed in an AirBnB with a group of friends - we traveled to see a band we like play two consecutive nights at a venue in a city where none of us lived.

We all had our own bedrooms, and having the house to ourselves meant we could do stuff we couldn't have done in a hotel. Some of us brought instruments and had some jam sessions in the basement. We stayed up late after the shows listening to music, drinking and playing cards and laughing loudly at stupid jokes. When people got tired they could just go to their room and go to bed. We all cooked breakfast together in the morning.

It was a wildly fun time and it would not have been possible if we'd all just gotten hotel rooms.
> I really would like to see a 100lb digital piano replacing a 500lb upright piano while keeping its action, feel and sound, if not a grand piano.

I get the impression that you’ve not played a digital piano lately.

While purists will definitely not touch an electric, most casual players — and especially beginners — will be fine with, and are buying — and preferring! — a good electric piano over a grand or even uprights these days.

I wanted a grand myself for years, but couldn’t justify the cost or space consumption of a grand.

We’re now the happy owners of a Roland FP10, and it’s great! The sound, IMO is amazing, and about as close as an electric can get to the real thing.
PE is a broad industry, as it literally just means allocation of capital in the private market.

For example, VC is a subset of PE.

Apollo, KKR, Guggenheim, and Thoma Bravo are PE funds that have practices dedicated to acquiring non-performing assets (basically companies that are near the verge of collapse)
Why are you worried? Not saying you're wrong to be worried, but I'm interested to know what the actual concern is.
True, but they give a justification for that distribution, and the justification is incorrect.

> The number of real roots of a random polynomial with real coefficients is much smaller than the number of complex roots. Assume that the coefficients are independently and uniformly random in (−1,1) for if not then we can divide each coefficient by the coefficient with the largest absolute[] value to scale each coefficient to (−1,1).

It's true that, if you have a known polynomial, you can normalize the coefficients in this way... assuming that (-1, 1) is a typo for [-1, 1].

But it's definitely not true that you can produce a random polynomial as the input to this idea. That can't be done. The concept of "a random polynomial with real coefficients" is known not to exist; you would have to specify some kind of nonuniform distribution over the reals for the coefficients to be drawn from. Once you have done this, the distribution of coefficients in the normalized equivalents that have coefficients in [-1, 1] will not be uniform.

In other words, the question says "assume that the coefficients [of a random polynomial] are independently and uniformly random in (-1, 1), for if not, we can exhibit equivalent polynomials whose coefficients are dependently and nonuniformly random in [-1, 1]". But this observation makes no sense.
icons are really premium looking. are they open-source too?
Yes, for a lot of people, these blue-collar jobs will be terminal positions, and they are necessary; they should be afforded dignity.
The challenge is to build an open source MIT-licensed VSCode plugin that shows you the time-to-load of a type in TypeScript

https://tsperf.algora.io
I need this, but for Unreal Engine. :(
> Populations are shrinking

No. Populations are predicted to shrink. The current observed population is still growing.
Since my argument is “there is such a thing as bad publicity and I will die on this hill”, I’m going to shift from this sloppy ad rollout to an example that I think proves my case (that bad publicity is a thing that exists) pretty definitively.

Although it no doubt produced tons of brand awareness among people who had never heard of them, I doubt that the folks at Humane AI would argue that the recent flood of bad reviews or even the backlash against the bad reviews were helpful to them in the long term. Like sure, tons of people know about them now, perhaps they even sold a pin or two to the folks who heard about them through the controversy. But there’s a good chance they may not be able to stay solvent as a company long enough to actually capitalize on their increased brand recognition.
Every time I hear Orson Welles, I think of green pea-ness.
What makes them valuable or not valuable is how people respond to them. If it is all done as a "ritual" then it is stupid. If it is done because the org is legitimately critical about how it makes decisions and prioritizes resources, then it is valuable.
Yes. Why in the world would a director use practical effects for something like this?

The CG isn't even that good. It looks like something out of DALL-E.

It calls to mind yet another way in which the ad could have been crafted to communicate without controversy or offense -- the instruments could have been more obviously cartoons.
I have a hard time swallowing the hubris of the teller. No one was to be able to approach or chat with Orson Wells... except him, of course, who "connected" with Orson, so it was all OK and he'd launch with Orson too! But the others, these inferiors, mere crew, set extras. God, even a clapper boy could not /possibly/ do their job as they would need to get near Orson Wells!!!

But him, the director, yeah, he could approach talk, whatever. He's in another classssssssss, you see...
Why would a low end config that they don't have to choose limit them?
That's what is confusing a little bit I wonder if people said that about horses when they were replaced by cars isn't the one thing that's constant in this world change? A whole ecosystem that relied on horses being the main mode of transportation died
Not shocking Elon Musk is moving all the jobs to China after he made his bag from the US government.
This reminds me of Debian- and Fedora-minimal on Qubes OS: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/minimal/
Lots of Koreans move to Vietnam and Thailand for that reason. The pay is low in SK and the work culture horrid, so if your choice is earning $30-50k in Seoul or $20-40k in BKK or Saigon, plenty of people choose the latter.
Yeah exactly that's the link that doesn't work
Completely fair, but then don't announce what is a C library, as being a C++ one, just because it uses iostream on the examples.

Tell it is a C library, and announce C++ support when it is actually available.
Can you elaborate on the china's crazies? (I'm aware the can be pretty racist)
Nonsense. Reagan believed that """science""" could do anything, and was told multiple times by people he should have trusted that even pursuing such an anti-nuke system was geopolitically dangerous.

He was an old man with a preference for fake "hollywood" style realities over his own reality, and he was afraid of dying to nuclear weapons. He wanted a magic cope blanket so that he could keep role playing god
How to Scrape Forms
The Disappearance of Lived Time Part 4: critique of the techno-optimist (teaser) [video]
Forthcoming documentary film for the essay https://0xadada.pub/2024/05/01/the-disappearance-of-lived-ti...
Some bits of landmass have been around for a few billion years. From this we have atmospheric records that rule out a large industrial civilization.
I never made a social experiment either. People with something between their ears are able to scroll up and see I wrote as a direct reply to the claim "it's ridiculous to even say that". I then proceeded to mention this to you explicitly several times, but I guess you needed a flowchart to connect the dots. You can verify all this by scrolling up but I am not holding my breath.

It's funny how I say "minister 'motivating' civilians" and you ask and replace civilians with terrorists. Wasn't there an old looney tunes cartoon with a not very bright character picking up a can of gasoline and blowing himself up after saying g-a-s what a strange way to write water? I guess he won at being stupid, which seems to be a common theme here. Congratulations on your victory.
That's active electronic noise cancellation - there have been many of those described and very few delivered over the past thirty years. Presumably because it's the sort of thing that is angle-sensitive and hard to set up and maintain.

The thing I saw was just a pane of glass or plastic with large round holes in it to attenuate/dissipate sound waves while allowing significant airflow.
This is the type of content I'm here for.
Unix shells are already a bit LISP-y on a superficial level, because commands are syntactically like impure functions in prefix notation. Subshells act a lot like parens in a LISP, and the pipeline itself has analogs in FP like Clojure's thread macro. And of course, the command line itself is a REPL.

Elvish visibly leans into this to try to have a consistent syntax. Sometimes the similarities go deeper, too; IIRC, its number types are inspired by Scheme, for example.
I didn't say vaping was consequence free, but only that it is a significant reduction in harm.

Vaping seems to have much lesser consequences than smoking cigarettes due to the reasons mentioned above.

Thus vaping is a reduction in harm compared to smoking cigarettes.
They dont even support Firefox with thier browser extension product. Looks like this team give Firefox very little love :(
Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, died in 2018
I literally got into an argument with a couple Germans on HN about this earlier today.
It's give and take, it will help more than bare hard wall.

Heavy curtains are the cheapest/easiest way to "sound deaden" a normal room. Their fabric surface area is greater than the bare wall, and the weight helps isolate vibration.
Thinner ones will be less effective. Never effective as foam, and no method is as effective as actual mechanical isolation (IE a room suspended in a room)
Doing 5% less science is an acceptable cost for full commercial space exploitation. I'd rather have internet service in 100% of the US than an extra few graduate theses.

And who knows, necessity is the mother of invention so one of those grad students could invent a way around it.
ECC

I wonder if that means Apple will bring ECC to Apple Silicon.
If it bleeds it leads. They are most definitely exploiting cognitive biases to get eyeballs on their stories.
Disrespectful? What? That sounds like a cool ad.

People are being babies about this.
or shake the phone

Is the accelerometer data available?
> I hope they can get their decade old humanoid robot research fast enough to production, otherwise i really don't see how they can provide for their population while having to care for 35% to 40% of the population that is over 64.

Aaaaaaand cue Roujin Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEKTFwkuDps
I have to laugh when security conscious people think their browser is secure. I use TTY almost exclusively. But for a minimal desktop one should really look into stumpwm
Not just screen readers. Basically no support for anyone not using a mouse to navigate. Also really annoying when people put link text in a title on links.
Streaming feels more like cable TV than
I feel like with any tech, the folks who really understand how things work + the history / can get the most out of technology. The folks who understand the history, the whys, and accordingly they know where the bottlenecks are, where efficiencies are and etc.

Accordingly they know where in the "old stuff" are really good ideas.
The corporation is independent, and has the right to unilaterally leave the website at any time. The current website is not independent.
No need to destroy. They could have definitely merged the items like a rainbow melting all into the iPad. Those visuals are pretty common.

That would have have looked nice, but it wouldn't have touched people.

This is very graphic and elicits a much stronger emotion. I think that's why it was chosen.

The irony is that it know kind of feels like more honest then it's supposed to be, digital tools crushing tradition artistry.
Is it something similar to Userback?
I'm pretty sure it does HDR too.
The irony is that it know kind of feels like more honest then it's supposed to be, digital tools, with Apple leading the charge, crushing traditional artistry & creativity.
Nice landing! Just curious how did you do those canvas animations (videos of features of the product)? They look amazing
I discovered the joy of repair while fixing my Baratza Virtuoso grinder
It’s amazing people keep buying into the delusion that any of the people at the helm of these companies have a vested interest in long-term health of the company. What incentive is there with this much money floating around as an executive? You’re already set for life.
> How come I earn 2-3 times modal wages writing C++ software to stream video over internet?

Because the people you work for make shitloads of money delivering content and their employees expect to be paid accordingly? Because Twitter who delivers short messages on the Internet sold for 44b, while Westinghouse who makes nuclear reactors sold for $7.9b? Seems like there's more demand for a propaganda vehicle than for a power plant.
Adults, who might or not have graduated or attended high school or University, also use MSE.
Were you on Twitter, before Dorsey sold it? When cryptocurrency features were added, there was a mass exodus from the site with more threatening to leave if Lightning/BTC transactions became a central feature. Dorsey has tried this same shtick repeatedly and has only pissed off his community; it's a good thing that his conniving contributions have been removed from BlueSky.

McAfee also had ostensibly admirable goals in encouraging a world without borders, if you ignore his arrest warrant for murder.
This intent:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1coe3cp/comment/l3e9x...
Death to the dream of the American lawn!
Every now and then I poke my head back into GUI Linux-land to see how it’s doing (never any better, it seems) and the last time I found much to enjoy about the experience was when I tried out Void Linux on a “weak” Asus chrome box—probably 6-8x more powerful than the laptop I used in the early and mid ‘00s, but webshit makes that feel slow, no mainstream web browser was usable at all, only stripped-down WebKit browsers were sorta OK.

It’s got that sense of actually knowing WTF your machine is doing that’s so hard to come by these days, but isn’t masochistically awkward to use (I ran Gentoo for a long time :-) )

If Macs ever go to shit, Void’s my current frontrunner for a Linux distro if I can’t get FreeBSD working ok on a laptop.
>only way they can handle their rapidly aging population

There's always the unspoken option, which is to not handle geriatric care well at all. Old people have been dying neglected and alone in JP for a while. When shit critically hits the fan, geriatric population will be either too senile to vote, or if they can vote, too weak to protest, and thus can be easily ignored as a bloc. Goal of cycling through disposable migrants to do shit jobs locals don't want to do is to keep value positive sectors crunching. IMO different dynamic when it's coming out of pockets of already squeezed tax base to take care of boomers. There'sgoing to be a lot of, you lived a long life, so sad, too bad, because good luck convincing ethnocentric youth to take another L for the team by treating migrants better, the only social prestige pressed these days is knowing outsiders have it worse. Societies have no problem finding a way to be callous to poor, kids, women, minorities etc, they'll find a way to rationalize being incredibly callous to elders.
Exactly. Part of the reason this is news is that this in an incredibly obvious and rare own goal on Apple marketing's part.

To the extent that someone high up who greenlit it should be fired.

How do you know...

- Creatives are a target customer
- Creatives are concerned about AI
- Everyone is concerned about AI

... and possibly approve a literal machine crushing (in slow motion detail!) instruments of human creativity?!

That'd be like making a tobacco ad that features a pair of lungs aging...
I wanted to know the same and had to dig into the Docs section on the website to find that it currently supports all Chromium based browsers. Support for other browsers is said to be coming in the future.
Okay… but the reference they called out wasn’t very long and had a clear bar chart comparing different vehicular types that included battery manufacturing as one of the components.

One could even ignore all the text and just look at the bar chart for the numbers.

Any original analysis that’s worth its beans is going to be far denser than that reference or the NPR article. Scientific and technical publications aren’t quite as bad as reading legalese but they’re close, full of jargon and precise language.

Since that short reference with the bar chart was too dense, then what you’re looking for definitely seems to be a pop-sci type summary - like the original NPR article.
"Suspiciously cheap" is on-brand for an ex-Cloudflare team
We hit a peak of canned food durability probably 20-40 years ago.

Where we figured out manufacturing well enough, but hadn't gone fully synthetic with liners, overly minimized wall thickness, etc. Probably packaging contamination issues as well.

I've had more (young) cans rupture in the last decade than any time before, even as they're stored next to much older ones.

We're doing the same thing right now with plastic - drink bottles now weak thin and brittle vs the relatively strong/ ductile stuff of 10-15yrs ago.
I don't think that's cause to dismiss the very real experiences of racism that people do have in the US. Racism kills people here too.
I think the big thing here is that if you don't have an attachment to any of the items being crushed you probably don't feel as strongly. If you're a trumpet player, seeing a trumpet being crushed is going to be a bit distressing. If you're a photographer, you're putting a monetary value on those lenses being destroyed. If you're into old arcade machines, you're thinking about how many of those cabinets are left in that good of a condition.
This has great potential as a cat toy (provided you get a tough touchscreen)
You are ironically doing the exact thing you are accusing others of but instead of being mad that people don’t know how a factory looks it’s you not understanding why people are upset at this and have very conveniently ended up at a position where:

- everyone who doesn’t like it is dumb

- you are a self proclaimed factory expert trying to pretend this is a physics argument which nobody claimed but you.
But that’s not “£20 unless you microwave it, and then it’s £25”, is my point.

Also, that better be a helluva sandwich.
I am not talking about stock, here.

Stock is short-sighted, and I don't expect any boycott.

The consequences of the slow degradation of a brand are measured in decades.

If you take a look at the Vision Pro, they didn't expect selling them like hot cakes, given the price, but from what I've heard they still missed their projections, by a long shot.

This pattern will repeat, one failed or tepid product launch at a time, eroding confidence, and ultimately, yes, the stock will plunge.
I love the name play with "If it's Boeing, I'm not going".

Waiting for something like that for Apple. Let me get my popcorn...
An Uncommon Critique of the Common Law (2009)
Tell that to Congress[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_Democracy_Defense_Le...
If we're doing car metaphors, you're calling sub 20k cars luxuries.
Offloading and/or obfuscating complexity doesn't remove it.
Fair enough. We still have significant disagreements but I appreciate this response because I at least now understand your position. Apologies for pressing you on this.
My favorite anecdote is this one from Edward Zwick:

> ZWICK: You know, I have a story that I actually recalled after I wrote the book, but it's one of the most important stories in my life, and I'll tell it to you and see if you're interested. But it's - after the show, I was put on news programs, and I was asked to go on a local news program with Orson Welles. And you have to understand that Orson Welles was, of course, the spiritual father to this with his "War Of The Worlds." And I was in the green room with Welles, and he was in his wheelchair and not very communicative and actually rather cold. And I thought, oh, here's this opportunity to be with my idol. And he was not really forthcoming, and I just accepted it.

> And we went on with the show. And on the air, this news person begins to attack me and saying, well, how dare you do something like this and confuse people with actors acting as if they're news people? And Welles rises from his chair and says, you're an actor. You're just reading the news. How dare you attack this young man. And it was just one of those, you know, wonderful moments when things come full circle.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1236539789/a-hollywood-filmma...
This is also true of the dye obtained from the cochinilla (cochineal) insect.

Adjust the acidity and you can get anything from mauve to crimson. Soda ash and citrus juice were well known even three thousand years ago.

Of course this was the dye of royalty halfway around the world to the Zapotec people even before the Aztec conquered them, but details, details.
I don't have first-hand experience, but I own a couple of short-term rentals, and the word on the street in the hosts community is that booking.com (BDC) is full of scammers and not worth the effort to integrate with.
Would you be interested in posting the library here, or the vector parts? Your use-case sounds interesting to me.
Are you a physicalist or a dualist, in the philosophy of mind senses of those words? I don't see how what we do is much different than computers as both use fundamental physical computation to achieve a result. It could simply be that our brains are much more complex in their computation than current computers, but they both compute nonetheless.
Okay, well besides chainsaw operators.
I'm saying all this as a frustrated ThinkPad buyer. It's been 3.5 years since the first M1 machines went on the market and I still can't buy a ThinkPad as good as the Apple computers of that generation. I have to remember to power off completely before putting my ThinkPad in my bag otherwise I will have a very hot laptop, fans at full, with 50% battery remaining by the time I get to work.

Sometimes it feels like Apple is the only company even trying. It sucks.
They often work with the community in helping the ports for a lot of these projects, it's just not publicized as much (and often their engineers aren't allowed to talk about it).

E.g. when Apple Silicon was released there were people in various FOSS projects who worked with Apple assistance for porting. Here's an example that comes to mind:

"In collaboration with the Metal engineering team at Apple, we are excited to announce support for GPU-accelerated PyTorch training on Mac."

https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-accelerated-pytorch-tra...