skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this decision to put it in the iPad Pro somewhat puzzling. One consequence of this is that nobody is going to want to buy M3 MacBooks for a while, knowing that such a big leap in performance is around the corner.

Does Apple really sell more iPad Pros than MacBooks to make it worthwhile? I was under the impression that the iPad Pro is a somewhat niche product and the Air is far more popular.
As someone who does some (but not a lot of) web development, I guess the only thing I care about is: can I turn this off with uBlock Origin?
That page you link says that the poor that escape poverty do so by mingling with well-off people. The poor that stay poor only mingle with other poor people. The best route to becoming rich is to look and act like the rich and hang out where they hang out.
Ray Tracing with Voxels in C++ Series
More people move from US to Europe
https://stateofeuropeantech.com/talent

And this proofs the point that income isnt the only metric for emigration.
Swipos-GIS/GEO, nationwide GNSS RTK correction for centimeter accurate location
I just learned that Switzerland has a nationwide RTK network for cm level positional accuracy using GPS, Galileo, GALILEO, and/or Beidou, GNSS systems.
And they have a nice map of all the station locations[0].

It's a bit of shame that the pricing seems to be rather steep for frivolous use, but it seems to be rather new.

It would be interesting to see what possibilities a totally free nationwide RTK system would open up.

Swisstopo is a government organization that already provides many services like highly accurate maps for free.

[0] https://shop.swipos.ch/Map/SensorMap.aspx
These are all valid points, I also very annoyed at noisy home appliances (fridges...), but I'm always shocked by how loud it is as soon as you step outside. I remember during the first lockdown I would take walks out in Paris and it was so quiet and peaceful; the sheer quantity of decibels originating from motorized vehicles is insane.
Hello everyone!

My name is Francesco and recently I found myself looking for a tattoo design.

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That's when I came up with Ink Studio AI!

Any feedback is more than welcome.
Default styles only make things harder to customize. If we didn't have so many useless/ugly default styles, we wouldn't need reset.css/normalize.css
> There could be plenty of other pathways to a stable carbon cycle.

To be fair, carbon is the only base that we have (first-hand) experience with. There _could_ be other bases.
Those two scenarios are not mutually exclusive
I get that, but there is zero reason to believe that Apple meant that. Nobody is attempting to make those art forms redundant. In the same way Apple's older MacBook Air in an envelope ad could be offensive to people who enjoy using paper. It wasn't and it shouldn't, because everyone knew that computers were just another option and paper documents would still remain an option for those who preferred it. Nobody was attempting to replace anything, and nobody is doing so with creative arts now.
The same way your <2 meters body can contain 6 meters of intestines.
Qualcomm pulled an Apple with all the hyperbolic words and very specific and massaged performance numbers.

Even without the M4 it would be awkward when those chips appear in the real World in real situations.

IMO some people inside Qualcomm have been stretching the truth way too much even internally.
How many pianos do you think they had to crush to get that ball to roll just right up to the edge of the press?
> Aside from the destruction of low-tech artistic tools triggering non-tech people aspect...

604 comments on this HN post (at the time of writing this), the bulk of which appear to be opposed to this video, and you're trying to tell me that tech folk aren't, to use your word, "triggered"? C'mon now.
Lectures on Complex and Fourier Analysis by Andrei Khrennikov
I thought these are really good, especially the second part on Fourier Series approached from an abstract angle, starting with lecture 5.
How do you do front-end on node apps? I am not very familiar with it apart from knowing that node is JS on the server (correct me if I have it wrong). Can people plug in their own front ends?
I think you got very close to the real issue.

One aspect could bae related the affordability of things. Imagine that beautiful grand piano - how many would have dreamt of owning one in their homes but can’t. Because:

a) they are expensive

b) need a lot of space (so you need to have a big home to begin with)

Seeing a lot of new
things being destroyed, along with the stress all emoji’s eyes popping out, was a bit much.
I think most of us want an iPad that we can dock into a connected keyboard and use as a laptop. But from Apple's point of view they really need to sell us multiple devices.
Trolling is bad, consider asking ChatGPT or reading documentation first, thanks.

var func1 = (int i) => i + i;
var func2 = () => func1(1) * 2;

Console.WriteLine(func1(4) + func2());
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20 years ago people were amazed that your phone, mp3 player, calendar, email and 100 other things were all in one device. Now it's dystopian.
Hey!

Will maybe add it in the future, possibly with magic links, but I want to focus on the product itself before adding this.

Thanks for the feedback!
Some of those example images are quite detailed, maybe too detailed -- tattoos blur and fade over time, so I'd love to see the app predict how it might look over the course of a few decades, to help people focus on designs that still appear as desired as you age.
My initial reaction to the ad, upon watching it in the launch event was "huh, that's a fun reference to the Hydraulic Press Channel". The slapstick elements (trumpet noise, squishy balls) made it come across as light-hearted, rather than an ominous display of force by a large company crushing artists' tools.

This idea of 'squashing all these tools down to a thin slab of glass' made sense given their somewhat unusual focus on the thinness of the device. It was a bit of a throwback to the early 2010s smartphone innovation, where the size of the devices was the yardstick by which manufacturers would outdo each other. I would charitably interpret it as an uninspired marketing team trying to spin some version of Jobs' classic "the iPhone is simultaneously an iPod, phone and internet device" - however the party trick is old, and nobody's impressed anymore.

Perhaps the blowback is a sign of a wider weariness that people have accumulated towards big tech companies over the past few years, mixed with a nebulous malaise about 'AI' and what it means for the status quo and people's livelihoods.
Because the average mental age of consumers has been decreasing rapidly
Nope. Not if the pop-up is first party.
It's still up on their YouTube channel despite this statement, so you're probably spot on.
Hyperbolic internet rhetoric has resulted in the need to phrase everything as if you're a psych ward patient who cries when it rains because the sky is sad. If everything is a pitched battle between good and evil, anything less than screaming and beating your chest is weakness in the face of existential threats. The squeaky wheel gets the grease so everyone is squealing as loud as they can. Textual histrionics from people laying on their couch or sitting on the toilet staring at a little screen.

It's the same as typing "ROFL LMAO" when you actually just lightly exhaled through your nose.

It's infantile and distracts from "meaningful discourse". They're allowing themselves to be seriously psychologically manipulated (or are playacting along with it), but it just happens to be in a negative way this time.
I'd prefer a world where people recognize their opinions are childish and keep it to themselves.
Documentation sucks but it doesnt have too
https://youtu.be/QvW61K2s0tA

How about OK Go exploding tons of guitars?

Making video art is more than a legitimate reason to destroy props. This feels like a silly discussion.
I wonder why there is no corresponding `role="popover"` HTML attribute yet.
Oh dang, I have no idea if the thing about recording the conversations from both sides and then splicing them together is real or not!
Kibibytes are silly and we should all use them
Which is plainful wrong. Why the supermarket employers work as employers if they could own their own supermarket? Most people cannot own the relevant means of production, otherwise salaried work would be impossible and capitalism would not exist. Your comment about socialism is also plainful wrong. In Yuguslavia, cooperatives did not owned the means of production?
Thanks for that succinct visual. Would be nice to have a side-by-side comparison like this for all the popular and up-and-coming shells. Really helps since the final choice is often influenced by style preference.
I think the theory is that there is going to be a large on-device AI push at WWDC. And iPads generally have a very long refresh cycle. In order for iPads to participate, they needed the M4's.
It will also make it semantically easier to detect. I'm thinking about accessibility and crawlability but also in case anyone wants to write some "no popup" plugin.
That's actually a nice idea, will think of a few ways this can implemented.

Thank you!
Someone "fixed" the ad by reversing it, and the result is much better.

https://twitter.com/rezawrecktion/status/1788211832936861950
You can actually wrap variables with {} (which functions just as a grouping construct in Elvish):

~> curl -s https://dl.elv.sh/{$platform:os}-{$platform:arch}/elvish-HEA.......

It's more verbose than quoting the dash so I opted to the latter.

You seem to use "elvishism" in a negative way, and this particular example is one of the more quirky ones, but the whole reason you would use Elvish is that it's different from other shells! :)
https://archive.ph/xSIka
Many musical instruments are still made by hand to this day. Many of the cameras still in active use were too.

And even if you pick up a crappy starter guitar, learning it is a purely human endeavor, propagating the mastery that has been passed down through generations.

And I have no idea how to reconcile “it’s all mass produced rubbish” with “craftsmanship survived unharmed”. These are in direct conflict.
I cannot fathom how one can compare crushing inanimate objects (commodity ones, at that) to murdering living things.

Even then; we regularly celebrate movies in which human beings are depicted as having their brains splattered out of their heads (The Departed won best picture), so I’m not sure where the basis to complain about depicting even murder in video art comes from. Not everyone likes puppies; pretty much 100% of everyone loves at least some humans.
I've seen exactly this comment somewhere on HN already. What's going on?
I'm skeptical about this, mostly based on my experience trying Perplexity recently, which is I assume roughly what OpenAI's future product will be like. My impression was that it essentially does a web search and then uses an LLM to summarize the top few results.

It's useful for certain types of general knowledge questions, but for anything involving finding something specific, which is probably 90% of my Google usage (for example, finding the URL of some particular project on Github), it tends to fall flat.
> The iPads have had the hardware in the M-series chips and the software in the form of Apple's hypervisor framework in iPadOS for a couple of generations now, but Apple hasn't enabled it to be used officially.

They removed the hypervisor framework in addition to the kernel support for virtualization a few months ago unfortunately.
The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints
You can find this in the explainer linked from the example too :) https://elv.sh/learn/scripting-case-studies.html#jpg-to-png....

https://elv.sh/learn/tour.html also has a big list of syntax comparison between bash and Elvish.
This is why I am embarrassed to tell people I work in tech.
That’s like asking if you can turn off <form>s. Not sure why you’d want to. It’s a perfectly reasonable component that doesn’t need to be abused for ads.
How can a cubic foot contain 230 feet of string?
*engineers I work with are telling me that some of you are going to argue that types don’t exist in real javascript and that web assembly isn’t assembly
When I did a driving test in the US (which was admittedly a complete joke compared to a UK one I did two decades earlier) I explicitly got told that it was fine to use the camera alone.
I bought one of those well reviewed mirror dash cameras and it replaced the center rear view mirror. I hated it and returned it because this extra visual burden and couldn't understand why anyone liked these.

When backing up out of a parking space I much prefer the turnaround method since I lose all my periphery vision that keeps from backing up into the path of other vehicles or people, etc. My back up camera even has a warning for that basically saying "be aware of your surroundings while backing up, because this tiny cone of vision on the screen definitely won't help you with that". Of course modern cars are so high up I can't see anything directly behind me without the camera.
Starlink is Brilliant Pebbles.
I think this is part of the issue. I really dont want to have the discussion because im sick of trying to understand how everyone is mad about everything. At a certain point it’s mentally draining for me just so people can feel morally superior because they are more PC than you.

Im done with it and a lot of others are also.
Considering you commented on another one of my comments about the Apple "special sauce magic' RAM I can see how you could think that.

I'll check myself thanks, but you should check your allegiance to a trillion dollar corp and its bullshit marketing, that's really not useful to anyone but them.
> Was your trip in USA? I get a weird kind of feeling that Airbnb is awful in the states...

I have the same impression. I've been traveling extensively across Europe and never had (significant) problems.

I wonder what makes Airbnb's service in USA so unreliable.
No Stale Bots (2023)
EA is even more firmly on the list of studios I avoid (Blizzard being the first). Not that I haven't enjoyed my time with some of their games (Battlefield 1942, namely, decades ago now), I'm just realizing that games companies like this are doing more harm than good.
We don't need much at all to be able to play together.
For context, the Apple Secure Enclave chips run an NICTA L4-based microkernel, albeit not SeL4 specifically as far as I know (given the Secure Enclave launched in 2006 and NICTA released SeL4 in 2014). I wonder if this indicates plans to adopt SeL4?

SeL4 is extremely cool technology. It has been formally proven to be bug-free against its specification, which massively simplifies the development of high-security high-reliability systems. I feel like there’s a lot more development to be seen in this space.
in terms of accessibility, i imagine a universal standard for modal state management will be an improvement over the bespoke approach - closing when the user presses escape, focus handling, etc.

but i really wish popover=hint made it into the spec. would have been nice to get a native alternative to tippy.js
> The only sensible way to draw a rational technophobic line is to look at specific technologies and their effects and decide if your life will be better or worse with each.

Interesting to note that this is what the Amish actually do.

The popular depiction is of people who blindly live as if they're in the 1790s, but it is not that simple. The various Amish communities all do things slightly different from one another, and the technology allowed in different communities is not homogenous.

For ex., the Amish family just down the road from me has a solar panel on one of their barns, and a small forklift, I think diesel-powered (might be battery). But on the occasional Sunday when the meeting is at their house, there's not a car to be seen.

I've read of Amish carpenters who actually use a computer to run their business. It's usually kept in the workshop, away from the family home, though, and IIRC none of them had an internet connection.
If the tablet form factor was really a game changer for software development, wouldn’t the surface line and high end android tablets be more popular for programming?

Wouldn’t there actually be some popular Linux tablets out there? (I am aware that there are a couple of niche options)

Touch screen interfaces are just not good for programming. Apple already brought all of the useful parts of the iPad to the Mac when they switched to the m series SOCs. Fanless design, long battery life, instant sleep/wake.

An iPad running macOS has some niche appeal for people who want to travel light but I really don’t see it being a game changer at all.
> What you're mentioning is something completely different.

I think that is because the term 'Pop-up' has changed. It used to mean the opening of a new browser window, typically smaller than the host window and floating somewhere on top.

Now it means a modal form within the same window and dom.
One of the reason this ad was so badly received is that Apple reputation has been degrading for a while now. And we're seeing the tipping point, they are in their villain arc, not sure if they can repair that.

Reputation is built by the drop, and consumed by the bucket.
Perhaps they typed it into the wrong tab, deleted it and reposted it here?

Doesn't seem to be a re-peat according to https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
No offense taken, and you are absolutely right.

Yes, it has to work first, and I intend to do that. And I surely will have paid support; that will be my bread and butter.

I was also going to have a web UI through the browser or a TUI.

I merely mentioned source available vs Perforce to show that my VCS could make money, if I made it right.
Cormac McCarthy published 5 or 6 novels before he published one that sold more than 5,000 copies. He spent most of his life writing, often living in poverty. He was almost 60 when he achieved success.

As they often say in the online writer's forums: You write because you want to, because you feel compelled to, because you enjoy it.
Why does Apple destroying things outrage worthy but Hollywood destroying many more things (in my head for example many classic cars) for a shot, not?
Is it because one is entertaining and one is not?
It is crucial that we ban the use of remote attestation on consumer devices through regulation if we ever want to have any sort of freedom.
Thank you for letting me know.
"censorship resistance and free speech" are delusional goals if you give everyone a mic connected to the same sound system.

Social media is an extremely abnormal (and therefore unfixable) system because it tries to give everyone Broadcast capability without a coordination mechanism.

Broadcasting (1-to-all messaging) has never been free socially or politically. Try standing up and screaming about anything in your house or workplace and see how long people tolerate it. This is why spectrum is licensed and no one is allowed to stick a transmitter on their roof and start broadcasting away on all frequencies. There is a coordination and sharing mechanism that everyone agrees too for Broadcasting to work. Otherwise it does not work.

And developing coordination and sharing mechanism are political and social problems. If everyone in the room doesn't agree to the mechanism, and the mechanism is imposed on everyone the system will fail.

A good historical example of how things blow up when technologist dont really think through the social and political dimensions of what they build is well documented here - https://the-santiago-boys.com/
Yes you can - uBlock Origin lets you apply CSS rules, and popovers can easily be hidden with the [popover] selector.
Toddlers have a neural network architected and fine tuned for object recognition. They also have a benefit of learning thousands of hours of video from the real world, initially blurry, gradually getting sharper, to draw the model of physical reality before they are given first examples of "dog" or "cat" to classify. If you kept toddler immobile in the darkness then presented him with static 2d photos of a dog or a cat I think it wouldn't learn much faster than artificial neural net.
The silk sheet from the article is a loudspeaker.

The solution proposed in the article requires a microphone, and would have a tough time dealing with multiple sources.

It basically records the room, then plays the room back via the silk sheet, but out-of-phase. Because it's out of phase, it cancels out.
You're wrong. Ads are feelings.
Looks similar to https://www.mail-tester.com/ which I've been using for many years as an email self-hoster to make sure I'm 10/10.

Still can't email my mom though because charter is still blocking the entire IP block that my email server VM lives on.
And most skilled (for the sake of this convo STEM) immigrants immigrate to North America and have done so for decades [0]

[0] - https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/7938614756940962...
It's fine to voice opinions but why does Apple feel it needs to apologize?
No animals were harmed, no protected groups offended.
Apple could have just internally said, "well that one kinda didn't work well",pull the ad and move on.
>I think an ad showing the same objects sucked into a tablet would have been received much better now. I doubt the lurid destruction of art, creative tools, and symbols of culture and history would have been received much better in 2004.

Except that the opposite appears to be true. There are numerous examples throughout this HN thread of companies like LG and Nintendo doing similar things (LG back in 2018, Nintendo I'm not sure when) without receiving the same kind of flack as this ad is.

You have to remember that it was only in the past year or two that AI has really scared the shit out of the creative community. That sentiment didn't exist in the past when these kinds of commercials were previously made. There has been a shift, and right now, whether you like it or not, or whether you think artists should be scared or embrace it, to artists it feels like the tech community is pointing a giant middle finger at them.

In 2004, this kinda thing was brand new, and you could spin it as promising to artists. Now that 20 years have passed and people have seen the reality of how things have played out, there is a lot more negativity and apprehension towards it.
The Beginning and End of the iPad
https://archive.is/6bfT5

Nice response... It sounded as if those executives don't like the dirty politics and will do only as much of it as they think necessary.