skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I would have done it kind of like a puzzle.

You show the frame of an ipad, without the insides or the glass on front. But it's actually giant.

A person playing a gameboy puts it into this frame. An artist puts their color pallette in, too. Many people come out, putting more and more into this frame.

A robotic arm puts a sheet of glass ontop of it, but you can still see the contents.

An animation plays from bottom to top, displaying the iPad UI and covering up the items previously visible. In the spots where the individual items were, the iPad UI shows matching apps now.

Same message, but without the disrespect.
Man, people get offended about everything these days.
I don’t understand your point.

These are long polled connections.
The introduction of electric vehicles has made Spanish cities much quieter. The youth can hurtle around on their electric bikes / scooters in the wee hours without waking everyone up for miles around!
Knowing this, couldn't the foreign country forge the case to look like something that's also illegal in Switzerland?
Yeah what was that ad even.

I am not a creative. But I do play the piano from time to time. It’s an old 15 year old Roland electric piano. I wouldn’t like to see it crushed. Even if it is obsolete. I bet a lot of actual creatives do have sentimental values attached to their tools.

Destroying things needlessly is very much off brand for Apple.
The West wouldn't be replying in kind with tactical nukes, because that leads to escalation as you said. It's about proportional cost imposition as a means of deterrence.[0]

It's also possible the opening salvo of such a response might see tactical nuclear deployments neutralized via conventional means.

[0] https://www.csis.org/analysis/deterring-nuclear-weapons-use-...
I am not an expert in the DRAM research, but this paper looks like a checkbox on the list to get a research grant and deliver something at the end.

I just saw a video yesterday where Sabine Hossenfelder was telling that the number of researchers is increasing significantly (per capita, not just in absolute, numbers), but the output is decreasing. Even if millions of papers are published every year, the scientific value of the combined output is decreasing, so the value of each paper is lower and lower.
Those are very current problems.

As said, birth rates are already below replacement rates in developed countries and decreasing everywhere else. Projections are that the global population may stop growing by the end of the century.

The seemingly "easy" option of immigration is causing big societal issues in Europe with a growing backlash against it.

The global environmental crisis is caused by the booming population of the last century or so combined with economic growth.

So this is very much a "now" issue.
I feel a lot of this comes from a big resistance to change. Germany tries to take in all immigrants and make them fully German without any trace of their original culture (not socially, but economics wise etc). And that creates huge tension. In my mind, Germany needs to decide which of those various aspects of culture are important and then focus on them, and allow for diversity in other parts.
>in the late 2020's (i.e. roughly when Git will be replaced by some competitor)

I'd put it at more like the late 2050s. I think it achieved critical mass. It certainly doesn't look like it's going anywhere in the next few years.
Would you prefer a world wherein people aren't allowed to speak their mind instead?

Stop being so sensitive about people "being sensitive" and engage in the discussion instead of dismissing it.

All this complaining about "cancel culture" is just complaining that other people are using their freedom of speech in a way that you don't like. This is what freedom is speech means - disagreement. Stop whining about people disagreeing with you.
Either address the arguments they're making to further the conversation, or deal with it.
Yes, that is very true. The micro perspective is that it improves things indeed, which is why it is hard to understand its true nature, which is just pure development of itself. But in fact, the Greeks already realized it in their creation of the words "techne" and "logos", which form the modern word "technology"!
Technology is going to keep marching forward as it always has. Most of the gadgets being destroyed in the ad are fairly recent innovations. And they had already done their fair share of disruption too. Speakers made live music less necessary, cameras made portrait painting less popular, and typewriters started the slow death of handwriting.

Should we mourn their technological predecessors or recognize we live in an ever-changing world we've only seen a small snapshot of?

And so ad where a guitar and some camera lenses are destroyed isn't "soul-crushing". Saying that is being overly dramatic.
Neither Apple nor AI is stopping you from being creative in whatever way you want. You are free to paint on a canvas, draw with an iPad, or generate with AI.

It's very understandably awful when proponents advocate alternatives to something you enjoy as replacements rather than additions (eg. EV advocates), but I shouldn't have to say that neither Apple nor AI is actually trying to take away your painting brushes.
Tell that to the people in Mato Gross do Sul now who don't even have running water now because of the extreme weather events caused by technology. Just an anecdote, I guess.
An interesting thing is the graph mapping user bond against physical longevity: https://res.cloudinary.com/rca2020/image/upload/f_webp,h_108.... I would love something like this with more object, but also a third dimension, how possible it is to do it yourself. For example, wooden furniture is pretty doable, and considering the strong user bond and long-lasting life, I see why so many people pick up woodworking.
Maybe stop playing games like the Arab Spring. Let the dictators do their dictating. When you help overthrow foreign governments and you don't have two oceans protecting you, then you suffer the refugees.
1984 was about breaking free from the bondage of an Orwellian society. Crush is a celebration of creating that bondage.
True enough! I like the lack of version control because it feels like surviving in the wilderness with less safety gear and more self-reliance, or swimming in a lake without a life guard.
English is a much more attractive language to learn than Dutch especially if you don't know if you're going to stay in that country for a long time. So, such expectations create bias towards people with already a solid footing in the country.
The article seems to make the claim he lives there but it's not really backed up by anything. I checked his Wikipedia and the last update is him studying at the University of Bonn, way back in 2007. Doesn't seem like it's possible to verify the claim of his residency.
Really interesting feature set! I'd like to ask, are notes and highlight saved separately or are they embedded with the PDF?
If you think that the reason people play guitar is that they haven't come across a better piece of technology, then I think you fundamentally misunderstand. I think these people simply value certain experiences and ways of relating to the world that you don't value (which is not a criticism, that's fine). Maybe it would seem less like an overreaction to you if you shared their values. Maybe you would have a more interesting time if you tried to understand what those values were instead of trying to explain to people why they're wrong for holding them.

ETA: I think this nugget of wisdom from Pirate Software is good to keep in mind.

https://youtube.com/shorts/S9xrkjUXuUM

People frequently express themselves in ways that are infuriating and unhelpful (myself included, embarrassingly often). Learning to cut through the noise and learn from them despite that is a valuable social skill. We can't change the fact that people act this way, but we can decide how we will receive and respond to it.
It's funny how these tiny islands have played roles in military history. Saint Helena is famous for Napoleon's exile and death. Both SH and Ascension were important uboat staging bases during WW2, and RAF Ascension Island was an important airbase during WW2 and especially during the Falklands war.
Bash reigns supreme indeed. If you’re writing software for yourself or a small team the benefits of Elvish are higher productivity. Try it out — I was really satisfied at the power and cleanliness of the scripting language.

Bash will be dethroned some day. As general purpose languages like Rust, Julia, Python etc have risen, Fortran, pascal etc have declined. And so that will eventually happen with bash. Not “if” but “when” !
Actual quote from his website: "Dive into how I've integrated AI into my daily grind and how you can do the same"
At first I had a negative reaction. Then, looking for comfort, noticed that the video is mostly CGI. But then again, I felt the same. It is what you say: the image of destruction of beautiful objects is bad per se, it's not what the objects are, it's what they represent.
Yes. I am questioning whether I have some emotional deficiency because I just don’t get why people are reading so far into it and, to me, it perfectly encapsulates how people are constantly looking for something to be offended by.

I thought the ad was bad, but for different reasons. The ads and presentation have become so over produced that it feels like some giant inside joke for a company that is out of touch. I think their culture has mostly become (or maybe always was) sniffing each others farts and telling them how great that last one was.

So I suppose it is somewhat ironic in the sense that I imagine their own leadership are the most likely to be offended by the symbolism in the first place.

Anyway I can’t wait for the M4 MacBooks. Take my money, Tim.
unfortunate, immigration is good.
Just because it's not CGI, doesn't mean there isn't a lot of trickery involved. They could have filmed the emoji toy part as stop motion, for example.
>it seems intuitive that the evolution algorithm would prioritize acquiring knowledge for efficient resource gathering over killing long term wouldn't it?

By what mechanism do you suppose evolution would implement long-term planning?
There are degrees of things; "too much immigration" does not mean "no immigration". And of course populations don't need to keep growing indefinitely for a "healthy economy"; that's just not mathematically possible. So we need to be able to deal with non-growing or even shrinking populations anyway.

And I do think "how much migration is too much migration?" is a serious question worth asking; there's a big difference if 1%, 10%, and 50% of the population are migrants. It's a shame this topic has been hijacked by right-wing firebrands.

One of the main problems is just housing; you can have long discussions on the cause(s) of that and I don't think migration is the root cause, but at the same time it's hard to deny that migration puts extra pressure on things, especially in the Netherlands with the whole tax discount for migrants. And abstract discussions are all fine, but if people ain't got no place to live in, then well... Long-term plans and discussions don't really resonate if the short term sucks so much.
Making A.I. Films after 40k Hours of Sculpting [video]
They are saved separately. We do have an "embed_annotations" command to create a new pdf file with annotations embedded.
I just parsed the whole findings and damn that's depressing.

My key finding is that the average European sees the EU and their country go down but his personal situation either improved or at least was stable.

https://www.arte.tv/sites/corporate/de/umfrage-concerns-and-...
> A series of unfortunate events that culminated in a global pandemic decimated my business virtually overnight.

That’s one way to put it.
I have seen recently a documentary about Japanese food, and an interesting fact was that the chefs at some big Japanese restaurant had a special decorated grave, in some nice yard, in which they deposited their old kitchen knives, when those were so worn out that they could no longer be used.

They felt that it would be disrespectful to just dump somewhere the main tools of their work, after they had used those every day for decades.
Yeah I mean virtual machines. Thank you!
When I watch the trailer, it feels very cringe.

I can absolutely see what they're going for- something like "you're iPad contains the power of all these cultural tools", but visually that connection isn't there. It just looks like "Hooray! Culture has been destroyed, now there is only iPad!"
I don't understand the outrage. It's cgi, and very obvious cgi at that. The items bend and explode in an exaggerated cartoon fashion.

It's whimsical. No instruments have been destroyed. No actual paint has been spilled. We don't get mad at destruction in a pixar movie. We cheer when rock stars smash their actual guitars after a live performance. We don't live in a culture that abhors destruction.

Do people just not recognize CGI? Is that's what's happening here?
Memory Management Every Developer Should Know
which is why I love hotels. if hotels are too costly, would rather opt for booking.com since it allows you to pay on the spot and has easy cancellation than airbnb
The metaphor is compression, the visual is crushing. An actual destructive action doesn't work as a metaphor for an imagined conserving action, the connotations of each are almost entirely at odds with each other. The best reason to do it is probably to make the audience deeply uncomfortable, which works if you're making a movie but is maybe not so good for ads.
It's unlikely, right?

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in...

Here's a list of medieval buildings in Winchester. There are 30-40 buildings old enough. Hard to imagine red squirrels choosing to die in these places, not being eaten by other critters, and then remaining undiscovered by cleaners all this time, only to finally become historical DNA samples.
You are right in that the world would be a better place with more useful and actionable error messages.

But:

> How is it not obvious to the point of pain that you need to know WHY something failed, not only that it failed?

This is obvious to everyone, at least after encountering the first few errors. But that makes it the perfect thing to upsell, to milk your existing customers with a pricier plan. One instance is e.g. Microsoft selling access to their customers' logs to those same customers: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/20/under_cisa_spressures... (they backpedalled after it blew up spectacularly).

No, I don't like it. Yes, I hate those Ferengi. Changing how things are for the better not only requires recognizing the immediate problems but also why the problem is persisted, and who is to blame for it.
"boutoku" (冒涜) ?
I believe shells have the potential to be much more than what they are today, and traditional shells are held back by their rather weak languages.

Re the cost of switching: on the one hand, I'd say that "switching" is really the wrong mentality, because you can always still use bash! You can "switch" to Elvish as your interactive shell and still use bash for scripting. Or you can "switch" to Elvish for some new scripts and still use bash as your interactive shell (and your existing scripts). If you want to give Elvish a try, you can just do it without giving up everything you do with bash today, and reap the incremental benefits of using a better shell.

On the other hand, the mental barrier of adopting "a new thing" is definitely real, even after you overcome the more irrational fears. We only want so much software in our lives anyway. To that I'd say Elvish needs to be more compelling than what it is today. Elvish today, with its nice interactive features and a real programming language, is perhaps 2x to 4x better than traditional shells on its own (if we ignore the whole ecosystem issue), but it needs to be more than that to stand out to people as something radically better. I'm still trying to figure out how to do that, but two ideas I'm exploring are:

- Make it super easy to build TUIs in Elvish - we've had a "renaissance" of TUI tools in recently years, but if you want to build a TUI from scratch it's still surprisingly complicated. Much simpler than building GUIs, but still much more complex than just building a CLI. I feel Elvish as a shell language is a really good place to have a nice TUI framework in.

- Make it super easy to manage a simple homelab or build farm in Elvish - this is traditionally a strength of shells and people still cobble together shell scripts for this purpose, but traditional shell languages are clumsy and you can't easily expose a nice UI from shell scripts. It would be very nice if you can compose some Elvish scripts together and have a nice TUI or a web UI for management at a very low extra cost.
This wasn't true before the internet and it is especially wrong today.
> For instance, technology allows and will allow to automate many jobs.

Japan will be the first place where we will see this playing out. I think this will be one of the biggest social experiments of our lifetimes.

I do not know how it can be done, but I do not see another way without huge productivity gains via technology to have some sort of support for an aging/dying population.
Cryptreboot: Convenient reboot for Linux systems with encrypted root partition
As I read your comment I became aware of just how loud a simple standing fan I have currently behind me is, even on the lowest of settings. Fan design feels comically lacking in this regard. I am sure it could be much quieter even when faster.

Dyson fans are meant to be quieter, but for a premium.
If you're being serious, I guess that shows how this could have passed review without anyone going "hang on, is this ad really saying what we want it to be saying...?"
> how uncreative this is ... aren't we just redoing that thing from 15 years ago?

People of a certain age are informed by shared cultural touchstones.

Those making ads in these timeframes are ages where they all experienced the Star Wars trash compactor scene as a visceral moment pressed into their psyches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u3QInIMVME

As a child, the blasters and light sabres are make believe, but the compactor closing in slowly on Luke, Leah, C3PO, that felt real. Kids could feel that big squeeze. It was ... VIVID.

When you start making create visual experiences (ads in particular), it's not uncommon you'll reference such touchstones. You'll get approved by marketing committees because they too have that touchstone in their pasts.

The original scene plots out as an increasing stress, but ends with a relief. Ad creatives often "quote" these if they feel they can match/replay the original emotional beats, here implied looming threat, visceral danger building agonizingly slowly, realization of total destruction, saved by suddenly revealed relief.

Nintendo, LG, and Apple all tried to have their "product placement" land in that surprise moment revealing the pressure relief: a sleight of hand where this moment, this thing, is the MacGuffin associated with the stress vanishing.

Is this uncreative? "Aren't we just redoing Star Wars New Hope?" Sure. But ads that connect to the beats of touchstones inside the viewer do evoke more reaction, and the ads aren't quoting each other, they're quoting the original.

Art often quotes art, the quoting considered both creative and effective.
I would love to fix the apps, can you point me to the github repo with all the code written the last 30 years so I can get started?
It's up to the relevant regulators of relevant countries to ensure that doesn't happen. This shouldn't be a barrier for entry.
I think this is one of the cases where "You don't have Google problems, so you don't need Google solutions" applies. Using Postgres or a RDBMS for queuing is perfectly fine and it'll get you a long way before you have to worry about scaling or optimizing it.

The benefits are easy to see: You already know how to operate a database, you can easily see what's the in the queue, you can easily insert items in the queue with a simple "insert" query, you can use triggers to enqueue items that got changed etc.

In the end, a queue is relatively simple to switch out later.
EA studios 'hunger' to start using generative AI 'as quickly as possible'
The documentation of Elvish is indeed top notch. I also like the self contained nature of the project. Elvish is like a beautiful tool in your arsenal while nushell is a powerful but perhaps too feature-full scripting language.

An imperfect analogy: Elvish is like a compact OCaml while nushell is more like a Haskell or C++ of the scripting world !
VMware security advisories now behind Broadcom barricade
> irrelevant for a VCS (cloud-native?!)

Disagree. "cloud-native" to me sounds offputting. One of the main selling points for me of git over the likes of SVN is the capability to work offline, in restricted networks and through non-http transports like mail.
How do you know they weren't broken items anyway?
> Given the ... personalities of the typical skateboarder, that public infrastructure will also usually get populated with graffiti and stickers.

So while I can't speak to your local skater culture, over here people doing graffiti and skateboarders are basically perfectly non overlapping groups. Where the association comes from is that a lot of skate parks get graffiti'd because skaters don't mind if their skate park has paint on it.

Again, quite possibly different in your locality but it's worth pondering if a similar association-by-cohabitation is happening there.
Compressing in software terms means it doesn't get destroyed. Just compacted. You can uncompress it and it gets restored, maybe with a small loss.
In the ad, the furniture etc was completely destroyed.
100 Years of IBM
If they had just replaced the crushing with CGI cartoonish squeezing and flattening, it would have been all good
There's indeed a feature request for it: https://github.com/elves/elvish/issues/322

I can't promise anything, but I'm undertaking a major refactoring of Elvish's TUI and that should make it much easier to implement this feature in the near future.
>it is their unstated framework of thinking that guides their speech and actions.

oh don't worry, humanity will probably have BCI technology for that in 20 years. and maybe the rest of society in 40 years.

But yeah, I don't have anything original to say. You're right, but a lot of the powers that be are putting a lot of money into trying to convince society that we're ready to automate out 90+% of labor in all sectors. Creative or otherwise.
And now please only install vite and try to create all boilerplate by yourself.
People aren't buying iPads (at least not as much as iPhones, Macs and Watches), that's exactly the problem (for them) that they're trying to solve.
The problem is that if you list on 2 websites at the same time, then these websites cannot guarantee availability anymore, unless there is some protocol to communicate this.

E.g. what if someone books an apartment on website 1, and another person books the same apartment on website 2 at the same time.
I agree it did not generate a fruitful discussion...But that is not what flagging is for.
"I offer you a distilled essence of my experiences"
> If you apply compressive force to a bunch of objects using a massive press, the objects would obviously get destroyed.

But in being destroyed turn into a diamond, and diamonds are forever?
Great if you already have a mainboard. Doesn't make sense if you don't as a better build can be bought from Asus, Lenovo or Steam for the price of a new Framework mainboard.
There are explainers linked from each of the examples - in this case https://elv.sh/learn/scripting-case-studies.html#update-serv.... Hopefully that clears up things for you!
To add to this, check out the Central Limit Theorem [0].

[0] - https://statisticsbyjim.com/basics/central-limit-theorem/
If you think about it a little bit...And you read "Fooled By Randomness", there are 20 other tricks they could be playing here...Instead of "predicting" the market.