skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The camera zooms in a lot on certain objects coming apart, so maybe they animated or even re-shot select parts of it, but the overall thing was real?
Ah right, of course. The original coefficient space would still be uniform. I guess this means that a bi-unit [-1,1] interval for the random numbers is equivalent to any space of coefficients [-n,n] when it comes to answering the probability question?
Honestly, outside the context of a movie or education, I find it pretty off-putting altogether. The videos of brand new cell phones being destroyed, TV's kind of less so but still, cars being crushed or vandalized, etc. If I put my psychoanalysis hat on (always dangerous when your subject is yourself, but anyway) I feel two big things:

1. A part of me just does not like waste. I'm keenly aware of our rampant consumerist culture's slow and continuing march towards collapsing our biosphere, and one of the ways those thoughts manifest themselves is being really upset with people buying products simply to turn right around and destroy them, while barely using them, usually for profit in the attention economy but sometimes seemingly just because they're wealthy and bored.

2. And another part: growing up poor, I'm keenly aware of how valuable things can be for people like me, who didn't grow up with much. Maybe that old computer that works fine that you're going to run tannerite through for a YouTube video means nothing to you, but I vividly recall many points in my life I could've really used it, and I know I'm the absolute opposite of alone in that fact.

The "artistic" angle that a lot of the outrage this is drawing didn't really hit me as hard as these things did, but that's just my subjective experience. I respect people who love these beautiful things and don't want to see (probably) completely functional, or even repairable, useful things destroyed so a multi-billion dollar company can sell more products. (And let's be honest, given the nature of video production, the ones we actually saw destroyed were likely a fraction of the ones actually destroyed.)

The artistic angle I do understand though is if it's done for something like a movie, it doesn't hit the same for me. When it's done to make other kinds of art, even schlocky hollywood crap art, at least that has... a result, I guess? It's destruction to create something. This was destruction for... another fucking ad. That will be forgotten in probably 2 weeks.

Edit: The more I've thought about it, the more gross it feels, and I find myself really sympathizing. Times are pretty tough right now and artists have it rough during good times. How would you feel if you, as a piano player, who hadn't gotten to play in years (or maybe even ever!) on a piano like that, how would you feel seeing Apple buy one that at least looks to be in perfectly good working order, and smash it, in the service of selling you a stupid iPad? I really think this is impossible to comprehend without taking into account that everyone is hurting right now: inflation, Bidenomics, whatever it is you want to call it: people are broke, our expenses are going up, and our salaries remain the same. Yeah, I totally understand why this ad in this cultural moment hit a nerve: a whole ton of people, especially creatives, are struggling right now and here's Apple, buying up a ton of awesome things, and smashing em to bits and being like "here, you don't need a piano, you need an iPad!" Yeah, no shit people are upset.
It's true that they got disrupted, but tech also led to more democratization of the news / arts, which obviously entrenched players are not too fond of.

Also, the same embittered liberal arts majors had no problem telling rust belt coal miners that it was a good thing their livelihoods were being shredded.

If you fail to see that there's a massive culture war element to this, I have nothing more to say.
It’s extremely strong almost to the point of absurdity to say that transformers are the optimal architecture. As far as we know, human minds are not transformer networks and outperform them in many respects. And it’s even absurd to me to say that the human mind has optimal architecture even though we haven’t seen a better one in billions of years.
Yeah, no doubt the F-16s would be equipped with appropriately-ranged missles. The question is around their own vulnerability while patrolling/acquiring targets.

Seems to imply a job for stealth, or otherwise establishing air superiority. But, even with the latter the outcome might be variable—especially for eastern / northern Ukranian targets—without incursion into hostile (Russian or Belarusian) airspace.

Agree 100% on Western support. Seems we've been fighting to "not escalate" versus fighting to win. But, it's already a war with Ukrainian cities being pounded. In this context, "not escalating" seems to be a euphemism for "losing".
Simons was a geometer.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1970273?origin=crossref
"I just wanted to show off my French." - Mel Brooks

The GOAT doing that: https://twitter.com/JFrankensteiner/status/17876944958421527...
The title here matches the article headline but is pretty misleading since all sides agree that no protesters actually set foot in the factory.
I feel like I almost agree with everything you say, except that I systematically conclude the exact opposite. You seem to keep stopping half-way through every single point you mention:

> In fact, newer tech tends to be cleaner.

Newer tech is cleaner if you ignore rebound effect. It's absolutely certain that in history, new tech has always resulted in more energy use, which is the exact opposite of "cleaner".

> Also, everybody having more money is a huge help for the environment. Compare the size of the green movements between say, Sweden and the DRC.

Everybody having more money means that they can consume more. Do you know who goes on holiday by plane? Those who have more money. It's absolutely clear that those who have more money pollute more, even if they feel good because they drive a Tesla (which is all but environmentally-friendly).

> Yes, more money = more consumption, but it also means we can do innovative things in a better way.

Okay, it is "better" by many metrics. But certainly not by the environmental one. We are talking about the environmental impact here, right? Starlink is technically impressive, but it doesn't mean we should do it. It's just part of the problem, and we don't need it.

> In this particular case, surely extra-planetary infrastructure is better than millions of miles of ditches with lead cables in them.

Surely? It's all but sure. You don't even say precisely what you are talking about: do you account for the cables that are already out there and work perfectly fine? Or do you just consider the cost of bringing fiber to your tent in the middle of the desert? Maybe Starlink is better for that, but we don't need it. In fact we just can't afford it, at this point.

> Either way, our current state of development isn’t sustainable. It has to be millions of times smaller, or an unknown amount larger. I vote for more tech.

This is preposterous. With our current understanding of physics, more tech will certainly not help. We would need a breakthrough that is akin to wishing for a miracle. You may as well wait for Jesus to come back.

But there is more: our society depends on fossil fuels. But not only there is no serious way to replace them entirely (meaning that we cannot save the climate/biodiversity without fundamentally changing society), but they are limited and will become a problem in the next few decades (meaning that society will fundamentally change, whether we want it or not).

You can wait for a miracle, or face the truth: we need to prepare for a world with (much) less energy. And in that world, there is no place for fiber in your tent in the desert.
No Chernobyl is the reason why we don't have nuclear reactors. either Tokio tsunami disaster or the 600 nukes after Hiroshima should prove that mankind can't be trusted with this technology imho. there has to be a better way.
Engineers did not make this advertisement. Marketing and creative departments are dominated by business / liberal arts majors. You are really spouting all over the place.
Feels to me that it is a cry for attention. It is like pouring red paint on the Mona Lisa. It seems a bit disproportionate, but it clearly provides some publicity for those activists with little investment. The same against another random Volkswagen factory in Germany would have not the same impact and worldwide coverage. It is an efficient way to make a local town issue, becoming a worldwide cause.
at the beginning of every day, the market has a greater probability of going up than down, and a risk adjusted positive expected value (which is a different thing)

Therefore, your money should always be "in the market", not out of the market. Therefore, it's very difficult to make the case that the market is short sighted. I think what you are trying to say is that immediate risks are better understood than longer term, so the more distant future has higher volatility.
The entire hipster aesthetic is assuring people they don’t look cool in an attempt to look cool.
But why does this get labeled as a protest and not say January 6th?
Ugh solar wind and cosmic rays. You'd need to use very inefficient CPUs with enormous features instead of the latest small node.
There is no such thing as a uniform distribution over (-inf, +inf) for the simple reason that the Lebesgue measure of (-inf, +inf) is +inf and you can’t make the integral of the whole set be equal to 1. For it to be a valid probabilistic distribution, the integral of 1 over the whole space relative to the distribution should be 1. But it won’t be. In U(a,b) a and b need to be bounded, so that you can divide the Lebesgue measure by (b - a).
Why would you change your donation plans based on an unsubstantiated snarky comment about an event 15 years ago?
We were talking about the M2.

The M3 max is on TSMC N3B, which have a +30% of transistor density compared to the TSMC nodes AMD is using (N4).
You would be surprised how much you can grow in a small space. But also small additions of fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, and greens to your long term stores of rice, beans, and preserved foods can go a long way towards making those foods more pleasant and making up for some of the nutrients which are either not present or destroyed by preservation processes. In situations of major food shortages even a little bit goes a very long way.

And also, gardening is a high quality activity for you and your family at any time. It feels good eating a little bit of what you've grown, and there are lots of things that are either not possible or rather expensive to buy but simple to grow.
You do not need sophisticated methods to shutdown the power grid. There have been a few recent stories about some jerk shooting an electrical substation, taking down power for thousands of people. The grid backbone is enormous and impossible to secure.

Just drive a truck into a few key transformers or backbone connections could probably cut power for millions.

Here is one story (https://www.npr.org/2022/12/05/1140775417/north-carolina-sub...) where (probably) single gunman disrupted power for 100,000 people.
Designing Monte Carlo Simulations in R
I loved that game growing up. Now the brick-by-brick song is stuck in my head.

It really captured the open ended nonsense feeling of sitting down and playing with legos.
The fascinating decision someone at Apple has to make is how to allocate the production of chips. Every M2 Ultra chip that goes into a server is a chip that can't go into a consumer device, and vice versa. They're the only source for M2 Ultra chips, so they can't go somewhere else to get more, so they have to decide which division gets what.
I think what they mean is "climate activist" is often code for people with de-growth and anti-human leanings.
It's impossible to have a uniform distribution over (-inf, +inf). Since the distribution is uniform, each digit has an equal chance of being zero through nine, but that's true of all digits or else it's no longer uniform. At that point 100% of the values drawn in any sampling of the distribution are infinite.

If scaling the coefficients down to [-1, +1] gives a uniform distribution, then the original distribution must have been uniform in [-x, +x] where x is the largest coefficient in the original polynomial. That, too, is a contradiction! It means that either -x or +x are guaranteed to be one of the random coefficients, which is very much not a uniform distribution.

(That said, I think the (-1, +1) version of the problem still has interest!)
Scams are rarely recurring subscriptions. The general operation of a scam is that you take someone's money and then you're gone by the time they realize they're left holding the bag. Once they have the app, they'll know what it's good for, and then how are you going to stop them from canceling the subscription if it isn't any good?
Sounds like a mad system to tax property based on potential current value. Do you get tax refunds if the house price falls?
My interpretation of this (beautiful) quote is there was a traceable moment in HK's life where she acquired "consciousness" or perhaps even self-awareness/metacognition/metaphysics? That once the synaptic connections necessary to bridge the abstract notion of language to the physical world led her down the path of acquiring the abilities that distinguish humans from other animals?
I have four side rulers, all of them I bought at antique stores. One of them, the Pickett N600, was used by the Apollo astronauts (it's small---6in (15cm) long, made from aluminum, and very nice). I think I paid about $10-15 for each of them.
>We'll have mail robots drop off packages. Robots building houses, etc.

Robots building houses? I don't believe it

Robots/Machines need not small maintenance squad in great environment like semiconductor fab, but somehow they'll manage to be productive in mess like construction site?
I'm just shocked apple thinks we need a thinner Ipad. What am I going to do with it, prepare food? Shave? Will I need to wear gloves to prevent lacerating my fingers?
The process should be more accommodating of these situations, but if you're a developer you should know the policies and limitations of your deployment environment. If you don't and get bit by a policy violation, I feel bad for you, but it is still on you to know and your failure to own it.

Development isn't just slamming in code because Product wants a feature.
You’re being downvoted because you speak somewhat disparagingly of AI creating FUD. If you spoke positively about Web3 you’d be downvoted even more. You can’t go against the groupthink without paying a price sir!
Not just that, there's also that you can run them via SSH, there aren't a zillion top heavy GUI frameworks, interaction is significantly less cumbersome, and let's face it, they look so much better.

For me, hotkeys are the main selling point. I don't want to operate my machine with one wrist and one finger. I have a panel of switches in front of me, why should it be a typewriter 100% of the time? Moving to keyboard focused interaction, particularly vim keys but anything really, it makes me feel like in operating my machine with my mind, it is orders of magnitude less cumbersome once you're past the learning curve, such that when I have to use a traditional stacking, mouse focused environment I feel like I'm on a dial up connection with my hands amputated and cataracts.
Ask HN: New Feature for LinkedIn – Adding Tags to Your Connections
Hi everyone,

I use LinkedIn pretty frequently and today I was thinking about why I can't assign tags to my accepted connections so that I can find them easier when I need them.

Or does this feature already exist and I am too dumb to find it?

Right now, you can use the search bar but it's only for your connections in this or that city, or in this and that industry.

But I meet people in a specific HR event and I want to put the tag of that event on them so I know (1) why I have them in the first place, (2) I can send them a message the next time I have something related to that specific community.

What do you think? Do we have anyone from LinkedIn here so that they can add this? :D

P.S.1 If you use LinkedIn frequently too, send me a connection request and we can be LinkedIn friends.

P.S.2 I know using LinkedIn every day sounds strange but it is critical to my job - so don't judge me.
You can't hit what you can't see.

Put an ablator on the nose of the ICBM. As it approaches burn-through the warhead salvage-fuses. Your defenders have EMP issues, but let's assume they can shield against that. The problem is now the sky is full of electronic ghosts from the first detonation. Pretty soon another warhead comes along through that ghost-filled sky. The defenders have a much harder time locating it accurately enough to fire. And, once again, when it's going to burn through it salvage-fuses. The sky gets worse.

You can stop any given missile. Stopping a whole string of them is quite another matter.

(Same as an aircraft pilot beating an incoming missile. Do it right and you can use the missile's speed against it, forcing it to make a turn it can't. But now you're out of position and can't do it against a second missile coming in some seconds behind.)
I'll second Berkey Filters. While a full Berkey setup may seem expensive, the filters themselves and not the housing is the important part.
Storming a VW plant or one of Europe's largest refineries absolutely would have worldwide coverage, but also National Security level prosecution.

It looks like Tesla is facing the brunt because it's not a German company.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's also being astroturfed, as it is being spearheaded by a militant/direct action group [0]

Right and Left-Wing extremists are two sides of the same coin, and German utilities are viewing this as having potential ramifications on German stability [1][2]

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volcan...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

[2] - https://www.ft.com/content/c88509f9-c9bd-46f4-8a5c-9b2bdd3c3...
> Giving social networks complete control over the collection and use of public web data "risks the possible creation of information monopolies that would disserve the public interest," the judge wrote.

This person gets it. Information wants to be free.
IMO a more likely story is that companies that take time to write programs well get beat by their shovelware competition.
I see several people stating they're ashamed to owning an iPad, and will never buy one again. Is this a form of hyperbole to push a message, or is there really this much emotion?
Yes, that was what the ad depicted but obviously that was not the meaning of the ad. The ad was a metaphor.
These look great! Thank you for sharing :)
On the other hand, once it is observed it will be too late to reverse.
They're going to crush a bunch of programmers in a giant hydraulic press.
If you think the above poster's statement doesn't adequately justify that it isn't fraud, then you should respond to him. My statement simply stated that he didn't express support one way or the other for fees, and that even if the law is passed it wouldn't do what the parent wanted.
Exponential growth sneaks up on you. They probably thought the same thing in 1895 about the negligible magnitude of human greenhouse gas emissions.
> I don't think that using extensions to support new features is much of a problem

You are arguing issues that were not even raised. Read 1st para more carefully, especially the last sentence.

> X11 doesn't inherently require that many round trips. The complaint was about excessive round trips,

Why do NX, x2go, and xpra exist if the X11 protocol over high latency networks is such a peach? It's lovely that clients don't need to round trip for IDs, but this is like saying the Trabant is one the best cars ever made because it possesses a steering wheel (and fwiw Wayland has an even more flexible client side ID allocation). As already said, just because something isn't horrible doesn't mean it's any good either.
There is so much other typical crap that has to go on that is suboptimal: property requests, chatty window management, inefficient frame synchronization, inefficient event handling.
Even if certain operations don't require a lockstep roundtrip, overall chattiness also contributes to latency.

> Of course it requires a few round trips to do anything, but that is also true of Wayland

The Wayland project is not perfect (it is implementing de facto X12 and a large undertaking in a computing world much more complicated both technically and financially than 1986), but it's patently ridiculous and just misinformed to imply the core protocol doesn't address some fundamental shortcomings of X11.
Meanwhile I thought it should be obvious that dispensing with the baked in network transparency of X11 was done as a conscientious choice not because a bunch of smart people just "forgot".

From https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server..., someone with actual skin in the game.

"So here's the thing: X works extremely well for what it is, but what it is is deeply flawed. There's no shame in that, it's 33 years old and still relevant, "... "Though the code happens to implement an unfortunate specification,"
Yeah, it's effectively a placeholder for me. No content whatsoever.
Well, destruction of government facilities for starters
Due to the dynamics of demography, a population is either exponentially growing or exponentially shrinking. A stable population is an unrealistic goal.
It was the wrong comment, sorry about that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172324
Ah ok, so the squabble is just whether the `keepassxc` package is the full or the limited version. That's no biggie but I can see how it's annoying when people raise issues upstream after downstream disabled features.
I see this as a serious and unnecessary problem affecting many products today.

Perhaps smart phone integration is convenient or allows for interactions that aren't possible otherwise, but devices like smart phones are not reliable - they run out of batteries, they get lost or stolen, they change frequently, and they can be compromised. If anything of any consequence - especially a life-saving device - is dependent on a smart phone or other consumer-level product, that is a serious risk.

Medical and other life-critical devices are held to very high standards with special development methodologies and testing criteria. Elsewhere, it's the wild West. Normally, general purpose software is poorly tested, riddled with known issues that were decided are not worth fixing, and has little to no security provisions.

When a commercial-grade application controls a life-critical device, it defeats all of the effort put into ensuring the safety of the device itself. Safety is only as good as its weakest link.
This is my biggest complaint with keybindings on Linux/Windows, that Ctrl means “escape codes” in terminal emulator applications and “window/UI operations” in every other application.

By contrast, in macOS all the window/UI keybindings are typically Cmd (Cmd-W) which means that GUI applications attempting to layer on vi keybindings don’t have to also audit all the Ctrl keybindings that might be doing something wildly different compared to what vi users expect.

Cmd for UI and Ctrl for terminal just makes for such a nice default convention.
stretch it a bit, and it may be possible to define clacker balls as a nunchuku like device
I wasn't actually commenting on the "heavy" part but the "8 pounds per gallon" part. I can do these conversions on demand but, besides never being the native way I think personally, there are simply more numeric conversions you have to do when you use this system whether or not it's native to you.
True, I struggle to think 10 years ahead these days. The horizon for predictions is definitely shrinking.