skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people have strong emotional connections to their artistic tools like instruments. It's a very common reaction to feel discomfort at the sight of an instrument being destroyed. Emotional attachments are irrational, but the point of an advertisement isn't to be rational otherwise they'd just show a spec sheet as a still in a video.
How long before this become a TIL on Reddit? I'm guessing it's already in the que. Then it will slowly make it's way to different sites with titles like 'This one thing is ruining you energy level'...'5 quick hacks to increase your oxygen levels, you will never guess what number 5 is'...

Aerbil313 putting in the hard work to keep the content wheels of society turning!

But I do love seeing these 'echos' bounce from discussions like this off into public consciousness then into the randomest places.
The correct choice is easy.

Each country is free to set whatever media laws it wants, by whatever political process it does so. If any particular transnational doesn't want to comply with them, it's free to sod off. If what they provided is valuable, some domestic competitor who is in legal compliance can take over the market.
[PDFgear](https://www.pdfgear.com/) has LLM integrated, it is currently free.
I imagine if people selected for what society wants at a given time you'd have disasterous population level effects. Aren't animals bred to taste pretty messed up in a million other ways?
Aside from the destruction of low-tech artistic tools triggering non-tech people aspect, tonally the ad was also overly edgy, which is off-brand for Apple. As noted elsewhere, it felt like a video game commercial from the '90s: gratuitous in its attention-seeking.

https://twitter.com/cuniiform/status/1788013085392859171

And it's actually already been done before, by Nintendo:

https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1788047377556791321

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzAo9HzOgtQ
Missing from this extremely short and underreported article is how badly this played out in Japanese market. The culture they have states that musical instruments, creative tools have some energy and imbued sense of spirit to them. So destroying these elements of culture is really really blunt and gauche to them. The majority of the push back came from Japanese people, and then artists empathizing with their sentiment.
It was an entire room in a press. I didn’t even notice an instrument…
Doesn't matter. The point is that, thanks to reusable boosters, launching satellite constellations, and other recent developments, space is becoming much cheaper - so if you can't fit 8 JWSTs in one Starship, just launch the rest on another, and it'll still come out cheaper than the original JWST.
As if I couldn’t hate protobufs any more. They go and layer on yet more complexity.

These sorts of things need to be as simple as humanly possibly and get out of your way so you can actually do some programming. Instead protobufs are the opposite. Full of backwards compat issues, footguns, and needless complexity that make them an absolute horror to work with.
Good, the ad was really disturbing. An ad is just an ad and not the biggest deal in the scheme of things but that was really unpleasant to watch. For me, it was the visual of needless destruction and waste as much as the meta-message.
When I was a young'n, Apple was very big on treating artists and creatives as a set of people they were humbled to have stumbled into helping.

Marketing was driven by ideas like avoiding "speeds and feeds", in the words of Steve, and emotionally connecting with users: ex. famous lore is an Apple ad is never "Buy the New Galaxy Plus Pro S6 with the 120 megapixel 240x Zoom!" it's "Soft tinkling music as smiling father takes video of 5 year old sledding down hill in snow"

I'm not saying they always obeyed those principles in every single ad until yesterday, but you'd be hard pressed (lol) to explain to someone a decade ago why Apple's first ad for a once-in-3-years iPad launch was...crushing a bunch of creative tools to communicate they shaved half a millimeter off.

It's funny being old because the thing that confuses me is why people have reactions to reactions, ex. people saying "based, why should they have to apologize anyway, it wasn't offensive"...it clearly wasn't offensive in that sense! It was just bizarrely off-brand.
From a safety design standpoint, surely multiple redundant temperature sensors is the only way to go right?

The user might "life-hack" the cable into acting like a fuse with it in the handle, having it halfway down the cable risks complications like that portion of the cable lying in a puddle etc.

With good enough coverage, if they can all be kept cool, the cable likely is as well.
I had some ECS Fargate hiccups when deploying a new release. For whatever reason ECS task got stuck in the weirdest places - e.g. it logged one thing, then there was some code that just initialized some data structures (no external I/O or anything), followed by another log statement - and that statement never ran, the program just hang. No idea what was that, tried it a few times - something was always off. Retried again after ~15 minutes and the deploy went well this time.

So, yeah, possibly there's something going on there.
Many performance-sensitive in-datacenter applications have moved away from TCP to reliable datagram protocols. Here's what that looks like at AWS: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9167399
Why did the researchers use ML models to do the reconstruction and risk getting completely incorrect, hallucinated results when reconstructing a 3D volume accurately using 2D slices is a well-researched field already?
I probably need to explain more as that is not what I meant. Dollar cost is a good measure of environmental impact when comparing two options. An EV has more environmental impact on day one than an ICE because it costs more. After 200K miles (pick a number) the EV has less environmental impact (to a good first approximation) because the total cost of ownership (vehicle, fuel, maintenance, tires, insurance, etc.) is less.

$100 of gas and a $100 solar panel do have about the same environmental impact at first, but 10 MWh of electricity produced by a $100 solar panel has much less environmental impact than however much fossil fuel it would take to generate the same.
I'm confused about the confusion, really. It's not hard to imagine how "tech company compressing all your traditional art tools into a blackbox" imagery would have struck some nerves that were already rubbed raw by the AI-Art Discourse.

It's not just general sensibilities, it's comically topical.
I dunno, they still had a strong real-world advantage in battery life on laptops when they were still on Intel. A lot of it happens in the software.
Just a couple too many syllables.
Or capitalization.
I saw it felt nothing other than a morbid kind of "will it blend?". I think the ad is fine. It did its job. I mean, people are talking about it. They just can't use the same schtick again. But there's no need to apologize for it.
All of the tooling that's been developed by systemd around booting, secure boot, TPMs, and disk encryption has been wonderful for embedded linux development.
The bad thing is not as bad as the very bad thing.

If you must have a car, then sure, an EV is better than a ICE vehicle. But our local, state, and federal governments should stop subsidizing highways and fossil fuels, and invest in public transit and cycling infrastructure. Solid bus /train service + a bike/scooter is a powerful combination.
If you are managing many devices I agree, but for just a few.

When I said it was easier I meant for a single device or if you need some unusual configuration.

I have my own dns server, but my devices are already set so not sure will use this.

If I was setting things up today I might give it a try..
Cool? Putting aside the controversial content, the aesthetic was cliche. Same edgy lighting, same colors saturation. It was terrible.
The jurisdiction where content is hosted has the legal ability to remove it. A multinational company with a presence in a jurisdiction can also be ordered to prevent access within that jurisdiction to content it hosts elsewhere to the best of its ability.

That does create a dilemma for a country that wants to prevent its citizens from accessing content hosted by a company without a presence there. Their only real option is a great firewall of X.
On the other hand, a significant amount of neural circuitry seems to be dedicated to "housekeeping" needs, and to functions such as locomotion.

So we might need significantly less brain matter for general intelligence.
> There’s a much longer list of large radio based telescopes which have minimal advantages in space to the point where we haven’t launched any

What if they could be put behind the Moon, completely shielding them from Earth RF emissions? It's been a cost-prohibitive idea now, but might not be for much longer.
It doesn't simplify the design; it increases its complexity. All the problems of telescopes on Earth become significantly more problematic in space: temperature, flexure, warping, backlash, pointing models, optical alignment, and collimation are some of the issues.

Electronics, sensors, and consumables fail or run out, which means you need to be able to get there to fix things. Then, as research projects change, you need to change instruments.

Yes, one could have thousands of 1-5 m telescopes. A terrestrial scope is about an order of magnitude cheaper than an orbiting telescope. So, the big question is who will pay to replace the thousands of scopes in that size range that are already operating on Earth.

Rationing will still needed (Research projects always exceed the number of available scopes). High-quality data, will not be as cheap or abundant as you think it might be. With the number of scopes we are talking about and the sensors that astronomers use, we can expect hundreds or thousands of petabytes a second of data. How will we get that data down from orbit?

A practical example this volume of data comes from the event horizon telescope. I could describe the firehose of firehoses but this paper from supermicro does a much better job of it https://www.supermicro.com/white_paper/white_paper_Black_Hol...

This is just one project. Could you imagine a thousand of these astronomical fire hoses running at the same time in orbit?

The next issue is where these telescopes should be placed. The more we learn about running telescopes in orbit, the more we realize that they need to be placed very far from Earth to increase the observable sky and the length of time one can study a chunk of it. As I said above, consumables need to be replaced, sensors need to be changed for the observing program, boils down to how you are going to get a repair crew out to wherever the telescopes are.
It's obvious to anyone with any critical thinking that it should. If A and B are in an attrition war, and A and B can make no wins with production at their maximum, but A can degrade B's replacement rate but B can't degrade A's replacement rate, who do you think is gonna win? It's not that complicated.
I just ran into this this week implementing a socket library in CLIPS. I used Berkley sockets, and before that I had only worked with higher-level languages/frameworks that abstracts a lot of these concerns away. I was quite confused when Firefox would show a "connection reset by peer." It didn't occur to me it could be an issue "lower" in the stack. `tcpdump` helped me to observe the port and I saw that the server never sent anything before my application closed the connection.
Maybe it's not about reconstructing a volume but about recognizing neurons within that volume.
> And this logic is how folks convince themselves that ball players are doing trigonometry when playing. It is just wrong.

You're attempting a sleight of hand here by saying "they're" not "doing trig". Clearly they are not doing anything like that consciously, but equally clearly some part of their brain is triangulating objects and predicting trajectories based on gradients, meaning that part is "doing trig and calculus" subconsciously. What else does it mean to "do something" if not "process X is isomorphic to process Y"?

> You can /model/ it that way. But you are making a symbolic model to justify how a solution is reached.

I really don't understand what you think people are doing when they're compiling a grocery list. They're clearly thinking, "I need x AND y OR I can substitute z".

Or if they're planning to paint their fence, they're thinking, "I need paint AND brushes AND I have to start before lunch OR I won't finish before dinner".
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I think this spec is designed precisely to offload the responsibility of safety to its users. They no longer need to make value judgements in their product, and if their model output some outrageous result, users will no longer ridicule and share them, because the culpability has been transferred to the user.
Even if you solve for immortality, that wouldn’t mean you will have solved all of the medical ills of humanity.

We might be able to “cheat death” within our lifetimes.
The ad had multiple shots where the creative tools were crushed. There was too much emphasis on destruction as opposed to compression.
golang is a Google technology, so protobuf is going to be there, right? Moreover golang is compiled and protobuf interoperates best with compiled languages.

Now just wait for golang packages that have conflicting editions requirements!
Sometimes you don't even get to make the deal with the devil, you make the deal to get rid of the devil: https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/th...

I like the idea of mashing up Nietzsche's Abyss with Moore's Rorschach: "None of you abysses understand. I'm not stuck here gazing into you. You're stuck here gazing into me."

Lagniappe:

Radio Yerevan was asked: "Is it true that the Capitalists are standing on the edge of an abyss?"

Radio Yerevan answers: "Yes, true. And our goal: to catch up and go beyond them!"

PS. If there were a bounty, my entry would be not DE:Boba Nacht, but rather FR:Boba Fête...
I flaged this post because it seems to violate HN's guidelines. Am I missing some context here?
This really shows how much sentiments about technology have changed in the last five or so years. If this ad came out in 2018 it would have been received differently, I think. The buzz has worn off. People don't see doing everything on your device as progress. iPads are no longer novel.

Apple has been so used to growing new markets that I don't think they even know how to market when they're on top. All their best ads have been when using their products speaks to being a rebel. Nowadays the least rebellious thing you could be is an Apple user.
Was that made with Unreal Engine 5? The physics has that look.
I like the asinh scale, I’ve come across it before as “signed pseudolog scale” - your name for it is nice and descriptive, do you have a writeup about it somewhere?

https://win-vector.com/2012/03/01/modeling-trick-the-signed-...
This is super impressive. Love the demo, especially the AI recall feature that deeplinks your files and @'s collaborators. This product feels like the obvious evolution of the digital workplace after the cloud. Is the plan to eventually integrate more native collaboration tools (Kanban boards, team password sharing, cloud file storage) after chat?
Given that context, it’s nuts that this ad was approved for the Japanese market
Working on a freelance job 3 years ago, I got sucked down a rabbit-hole for months trying to get Azure Durable Functions to work. Too many bugs, no visibility into its workings and the worker would always grind to a halt. That job did not go well.

Avoid ADF (let alone Azure) until you've got some innovation tokens to spend, or go with another provider.
I'm still waiting for Jim Beam to apologize for their "Sweet Caroline" ad.
The video in question is a recording of a terrorist attack, a stabbing of a priest in a church. The video gives no missing context to the incident, and risks being used as recruiting material if allowed to disseminate. But hey, if you want to defend people's right to view content like this then go ahead. Personally I think it's irresponsible of X, or any platform, to allow such content.

Also as others mentioned, X is not as prolific as you think, especially since the rebrand, and withdrawing from the AU market would just create more space for its competitors to take over. The sentiment here after a few recent public stabbing attacks would be in favour of the Govt, not a murder-porn platform.
The (m)Ad Man's Dilemma
gene therapy to fix sequelae from the first gene therapy
As noted elsewhere in this discussion, the ad attracted particular criticism from Japan for what it sounds like cultural-spiritual sensibilities.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cld0rxlqgggo

> People based in Japan appear to be prominent amongst the critics, which some said "lacked respect".

> Some said this was based in "tsukumogami” - a term from Japanese folklore describing a tool which can contain a spirit or even soul of its own.

> "The act of destroying tools is arrogant and offensive to us Japanese," one person explained, while another said musicians value their instruments "more than life itself".

https://twitter.com/AngelicaOung/status/1788241764383678900

> Everybody hated That Apple Ad but the Japanese REALLY hated it. I’ve never seen so many upset Japanese ppl commenting on a single thread
I've seen a few people mistake the outrage felt by artists as them misunderstanding the concept. I'm an artist, and I understand the concept just fine (all these tools are squeezed into the form factor of an iPad! Our thinnest one ever!) but the visual itself is tone deaf. Especially with artists feeling so threatened by tech companies this year, using a metaphor that shows their tools quite literally being crushed is insensitive.

It's a bit like if you made a video that showed my dog getting crushed in a hydraulic press and replaced with a tamagotchi-like device. Like, I get the idea, but it still makes me want to cry.
Positive on the one hand, stupid it took us this long on the other.
The main thing is reading long form PDFs doesn’t feel like a chore because it was hard to get comfy and just read without printing. And frankly I am not always near my printer when a paper comes up I want to read. A laptop or display just doesn’t work for me. Also, unlike print outs I can have everything just in my bag at all times.

The supernote is light and the right size so reading lying down, at the couch, or sitting on the ground works for me.
I’ve seen a few comments about this. Is there any English page that documents this in more detail? I find it really interesting.
This reminds me of a Google Chromebook ad from a long time ago where they destroy 25 Chromebooks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo

It felt so sad and tone deaf, a celebration of disposability. I don't think Google ever felt the need to apologize for that one, but then again it was a lot less... graphic than this new Apple ad. It's safe to say Apple outdid Google in this competition.
relevant: https://xkcd.com/936/
It's the times we live in. People have just become overly sensitive it seems. Apple needs to apologize or risk a cancel culture backlash.
>The "Left" isn't pushing to eliminate AM radio

I didn't say they were. You're making a straw man argument. I literally said the opposite, that they agreed with Republicans in protecting the safety of Americans.

> I question your claim that presecing AM radio in EVs costs only $5

I'll double down on that point. The radio retails, shipped, for $9. [1] Those are consumer prices on individual, discrete units, with additional plastics, documentation, packaging, separate warehousing costs, freight, etc.

It's obviously much cheaper than $5. I've grossly overestimated the cost of an AM radio.

[1]. https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Pocket-Compact-Transistor-Ra...
It is not impossible. But you would have to design the telescope to be a rocketship complete with motors, fuel tanks, and all that other fun stuff. That would significantly increase the telescope's complexity to withstand the force and vibration of a rocket engine. Theoretically, one could use ion drives, but the engineering challenges of creating ion drives capable of moving a few hundred tons of telescope are significant.

It is much simpler to build the telescope equivalent of IKEA flatpack furniture and assemble it on-site than it is to build it and then move it.
This is awful in so many ways
maybe I'm biased here as a millennial or using it differently than teenagers today, but my feeling is, with "ok" at least you can use it neutrally, even if it's also used for sarcastic eye rolling. At least you can see it in both contexts.

Whereas I haven't ever seen "k" in a neutral context. Seems to me, this one is overwhelmingly used for sarcasm or awkwardness, so I think it carries a stronger message of disapproval than "ok"

...and then there is "kk" which is the exact opposite of "k" and is basically an extra-chill "ok".

Or maybe I'm just imagining things of course...
If a bunch of CGI objects being crushed is disturbing to people wait til they see this movie of a train coming directly at you.
Nope, we are just the weaklings that chose to spell things korectly
As part of the same fun exercise, also imagine what it would take to prevent K2 (which is currently the world's 2nd highest mountain) from becoming a pile of shit.
Ooh, you were right. Either something has changed since my initial viewing (unlikely) or I have incorrectly assumed that it is in build.rs because all other examples don't contain `LicenseManager` (much more likely).
Seems to be much better at notetaking, as well as not as locked down ?

https://ewritable.com/best-e-ink-tablets/#Best_Dedicated_Not...

Myself, I just bought the Note Air 3C a few hours ago - I've literally waited a decade for color to show up !

Maybe in yet another decade something GAFAM-free, like PineNote, will be viable, sigh...
The methods used here are state of the art. The problem is not just turning 2D slices into a 3D volume, the problem is, given the 3D volume, determining boundaries between (and therefore the 3d shape of) objects (i.e. neurons, glia, etc) and identifying synapses
Agreed. I think it will lead to a product gulf where on low end you have stuff that can be cranked out for cheap with low margins, and other stuff that is premium. Nothing in the middle.
1984 was edgy for its time. I think the difficulty is that the iPad is no longer an edgy product. The least edgy thing you could be these days is an iPad owner, and this ad wasn't the one to change that.
EDIT: Symbolica doesn't use `build.rs` for license checking, that was clearly my misunderstanding.
As someone who needed high throughput and looked to QUIC because of control of buffers, I recommend against it at this time. It’s got tons of performance problems depending on impl and the API is different.

I don’t think QUIC is bad, or even overengineered, really. It delivers useful features, in theory, that are quite well designed for the modern web centric world. Instead I got a much larger appreciation for TCP, and how well it works everywhere: on commodity hardware, middleboxes, autotuning, NIC offloading etc etc. Never underestimate battletested tech.

In that sense, the lack of TCP_NODELAY is an exception to the rule that TCP performs well out of the box (golang is already doing this by default). As such, I think it’s time to change the default. Not using buffers correctly is a programming error, imo, and can be patched.
US overtakes China as Germany's top trading partner
Thanks, that explains it well. It seems it's less about who climbed but more so who funded the climb. I daresay though they'd still have claimed the Canadian as a Commonwealth victory if he'd summited and likely knighted him too like they did Hillary.
It's kind of feeling a bit like an intruder? There probably is a name for that.