skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting hard copy content is getting quite difficult and very expensive, that may work for “classics” especially if you can get them 2nd hand. But the amount of new content that isn’t released on anything but digital media is very significant.

DVDs of new movies are £10-15 in the UK still, shows are much more than that if they even get a DVD or a non-digital release to begin with.

Unless your content consumption is low it’s going to cost many multiples than what even paying for 2-3 streaming services does per year.
but we have come a long way from “most applications crash if not the system hangs” (or macintosh as it’s known for short)
> If people are not willing to make trade-offs or sacrifices, this also means they don't care enough for companies to listen.

"If you won't make sacrifices, you don't care enough". Nope. Some people care deeply and still need software that monopolized their workflow. It doesn't matter how much they care, if the VFX company they work in uses the Adobe Suite, it will not re-train all staff and rewrite all the work that's been done (plugins, assets) for the Adobe Suite.

I myself work in an adjacent industry - video games. Some 3D tools are as ancient as the civilizations they are named after and Blender has surpassed them in many ways. So much so that recently in AAA games, people have started using Blender a significant amount and many companies now allow a choice. But this is still impossible in many workflows. Game companies have written many plugins and integrations with their pipelines for the ancient software, they have hired staff qualified in this software. There is a very significant cost to switching that is beyond what is possible even for large studios, which I won't name, but I'm sure they made some of your favorite games.
I dunno why you're so focused on trying to make China look better. It's well acknowledged by pretty much everyone that supply chains in China have a counterfeit problem.

There are pretty much two solutions. Either you more closely handle supply chain issues yourself by buying from the OEM or reputable sources (which increases costs). Or you accept the counterfeits as good enough. Based on this discussion, you've gone with the second option which is fine. But it's something people should know about your argument.

You CANNOT compare prices in the way you've been doing in your argument. That's all I'm saying.

When we compare OEM ATMega328pb vs AVR64DD32, the OEM prices for AVR DD is cheaper. That's the ground truth.

The methodology you've chosen as the basis of your argument is not accounting for the huge, well known risks of counterfeit ATMega328.
Siri has been out longer than Apple Maps. It can at best follow a very stretched-out version of the timeline Apple Maps followed.
Yes, I didn't intend to suggest it a replacement for a strong ad block but if v3 neuters it for those who don't want to or can't swap browsers.

Also a big benefit of DNS level blocking is it can block telemetry other unwanted network traffic (unless connection by IP or some other wizardry), for instance how often my TV attempts to phone home.
What's the hydrid in this case? Also isn't Apple going big on AI next week?
Ha, Ha, but seriously; Stallman has been right from the very beginning and people have forgotten what the movement he started has delivered to the World in terms of egalitarian access to Computers and Software. Much of the developing world would have been shut out of this revolution if it weren't for his uncompromising and forceful viewpoints.
Boeing used to mean quality. Now it means cutting corners for the sake of stock price and dividends.
Probably more concerning than harrowing. Remember that those astronauts are experienced test and combat pilots; well trained. They're used to things going wrong and reacting to them (I'd hope) calmly and methodically.
They had different goals. But it's not clear that Microsoft's goals--a largely hardware-independent OS--ever made sense for IBM. As it turned out, a more proprietary PC architecture didn't really make sense for IBM either but that was sort of beside the point.
Several problems:
On mobile. Desktop not supported. Everything else is clear text and readable by telegram and authorities. Of course it’s missing encryption!

Really, telegram is being naked for 99% of the time, with an optional clothes feature that is limited and mobile only.
Whereas signal is fully dressed, all the time.

Signal is 100% encrypted, all groups encrypted, all messages encrypted, all contacts encrypted. The vendor knows when your registered… that is all.

Of course people who don’t understand the sheer dystopia of cleartext coms and visible social graphs —
They will say “when I need them “ I will encrypt. No, you must encrypt all the time. Messages must be indistinguishable. You don’t just encrypt the sensitive stuff, you should encrypt everything!
Not necessarily as much as you think.

The issue is orbital velocity is an absolutely bonkers high velocity. Nothing can even come close to that velocity in the atmosphere. The SR-71, fastest air-breathing aircraft ever flow topped out at around 1/9th of orbital velocity.
Yes scramjets could certainly beat that speed, once they are developed but even if that doubles the speed of a SR-71 (which already was pushing the limits of heating) then you are still only doing 1/4th of the speed you need for orbit.

So you have a bit of a catch-22 situation - You can have plenty of oxygen for your engines all around you, or you can have the speed you need for orbit - But not both at the same time. Yes, a scramjet can reduce the amount of oxidizer required (by a lot) but to do this you need the extra weight of wings and everything else you need for proper aerodynamic flight.
No it's simply reinforcing that the hype with AI is not matching reality on the ground.

It may offer better photos, better Siri, better translation etc but not enough to move product.

At some point there needs to be compelling, innovative use cases.
A highly insightful book on Japanese culture on what makes people reluctant to be part of society (getting married, having children etc) is "Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation"

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1400077796/
how exactly does that work? you went into my house, I throw you out, you call police and they come and haul me away? what stops me from calling the police on random guys claiming they threw me out? what will you say when police comes? "I was trying to steal his house and he threw me out"?

im not saying to beat the squatter to a bloody pulp, im just saying, you go in, they are evicted, end of story
What I would like to figure out is what building a pyramid would look like today, with modern tools, but with similar structure and materials. I.e. stone blocks about 1x2x1 meters in size. Presumably quarrying and transportation happens with machinery, placement could happen with cranes, etc. What kind of size could be achieved and at what cost?
Leave it to capitalism to drive people away from capitalism
Storage getting expensive it seems for data that's probably hard to use for ads and radioactive because law enforcement wants it.
I have no idea if this translates across the pond, but over here what's been happening is the newspapers that were around in the 80s and 90s and died in the 2000s and 2010s left a bunch of unemployed journalists around. Occasionally, a handful of the brave ones will come together to start up a new news outlet, usually with a much smaller and more casual scope than the outlets they left. Some succeed, some don't, but that's where we're at right now. I try to support the ones I like.

As for how to find them, it's largely social media & word of mouth, and maybe some advertising if they pitch it just right. Maybe poke around the social media accounts for some journalists from local outlets you do know about and see if they have some links to new places you haven't heard of.

(I don't know if it's just a language thing, but I definitely wouldn't call these outlets "newspapers." Certainly there's no print component to any of these.)
There are plenty of state “highways” with businesses and residences immediately abutting. Most road fatalities are not occurring on the interstates.
Flatfile took more than $50m in venture funding. It's not clear to me if they're profitable or not. With such funding you can hire senior sales people, marketing agency, build prototypes for customers, build integrations, travel to your customers, survive very long enterprise sales cycles, build infrastructure for 10x or 1000x of your current need... all while actively loosing money. No single developer can match that. They've likely outspend their competition on every level.
In 80 years, societies are going from 2 children supporting each adult, to each child supporting 2 adults. That's a 4x elderly burden that I don't think is significantly ameliorated by lack of kids. Socialized medical care for the elderly around the developed world is already barely able to manage. Elderly countries like Japan, Greece, Italy, and Portgual are already at debt-to-GDP burdens of 261%, 177%, 145%, and 116%, respectively. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe every 100% debt-to-GDP at current 5% rates is like an extra indefinite 5%/year tax taken from everyone, with no benefit (you already got the benefit in the past).
A common approach is to mess around with name resolution. Many operating systems have a hosts file that can be modified. You can do DNS on your own computer. Piholes are a variation on this where people usually use a separate machine to handle DNS requests for their entire network. If you cannot change the DNS for your computer/device, some people use a VPN. I believe this is how things are currently handled on Android.

This approach is less flexible than the filtering you can get from a web browser. On the other hand, it can be used to filter DNS requests from all software. With something like a Pihole, you can configure the Pihole and (maybe) your router, and it will work for all devices on your network.
The Beekeeper-Keepers
I just wouldn't be surprised to see Apple react as Apple tends to do - slow and steady. They are not bandwagoners like everyone else who go 100% in the direction of the new shiny hotness as soon as it appears. That is what we are seeing everywhere else - and I think a lot of the integrations and candy we're seeing layered on top with LLM's is just noise and novelty.

tl;dr just because everyone is running in the same direction doesn't mean it is the correct direction.
huh, yes it seems it does. I'm still in the city for another day, maybe I will get to try it out tomorrow. Cheers for that, I wouldn't have re-installed the app to take another look otherwise.
> one side intends to conquer a continent or the world, invades without provocation, and won't stop until brought to submission through extreme force? The Allies did not initiate war and did not want war.

"The Allies" included the Soviet Union, which did initiate war--against Finland, against Poland, against Japan (this in the 1930s, before historians say WW II started)--and wanted even more war, hoping that all of the capitalist countries would destroy each other and leave the USSR to take over. And as others have pointed out, the USSR ended up in control of Eastern Europe, which was supposed to be liberated from tyranny--that was the original reason for Britain and France declaring war on Germany when Poland was invaded--so WW II actually failed at its primary objective. Even if you make the argument that Allied firebombing raids were a justified war measure, that argument only works if the war succeeds at its objective. If it fails, that argument falls to the ground.
When you can ask an AI for an entire book with no errors in the output… god that would be a huge token model
If the OP was running a virtual desktop on a server with no GPU then they probably had to fall back to software rendering which can be slow. This isn't QEMU's fault per se; if you physically don't have a GPU then you don't have a GPU.
>That’s about the only time I use or want to use “AI” on my phone ever – and I wish I didn’t have to do even that.

I hope you have recovered from this truly hard pressing moment in your life.
The original game was such a moonshot, despite the many bugs I did get a ton of entertainment out of it. The first real open world experience I remember.
I just used it on a fresh Ubuntu VM, will be my daily driver moving forward I think.

I like the styles it comes with, the terminal, and the way the workspaces and shortcuts are set up.
I was taught the same thing by Catholics in Buenos Aires.
Let's talk after WWDC
This could be solved by replacing the protection (I think solutions like that are rather common, mechanically move the flat transparent screen) or by just switching to another camera.
I believe this is what they call a plant. Could be someone wants AAPL to drop a tad more to gain a few more points after the inevitable WWDC bump, or they want to push NVDIA/MSFT further up
well yeah, the regime is 100% out of control. Also, it was a pretty short negotiation, pretty much like: "yo, i give you location, i get my property??" "deal."
You can use the hosts file to block ads.

https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
I assume automation has increased at the chains at least?
Perhaps published before WWDC because expected to be a stale article within days?
Whilst not owning isn’t ideal before streaming most people still rented movies at blockbuster et al rather than buying.

And for TV we had reruns either on primary channels or for older content on the various basic cable “syndication” channels.
I get music and DVD's from thrift stores and my local eBay equivalent. So yeah there's definitely a cutoff.

You're right, the newer stuff is difficult if not impossible to get a physical copy of. I just don't bother. I go see a movie in theaters every now and again but I'm 500% done with modern streaming platforms.
>yet makes most of their money selling products for creatives

Do they actually?
> EV is overhyped and underdeveloped, and hybrids are all around better.

Gosh. This is an enormous claim that's going to need more than a simple citation. On the surface it seems very obviously wrong, and sounds more like propaganda.
You should read more about failures than happened during Apollo program. Apollo 1, Apollo 13 being most famous, but even during Apollo 11 multiple things failed.
All of the itertools functions are implemented using loops, but they heavily abstract over them so that users can think in terms of "streams" (or officially "iterators") without writing loop-oriented code themselves.
People can market $1.50 hot dogs to me forever
See "Florida man" for a famous example I suppose. 'America man' does sound weird to be though definitely, maybe because of the habit of using the state instead, or because it's closer to sounding like a superhero due to Captain America.
Concrete Faith: The creation of the Bahá’í house of worship (2023)
TLDR: they fell behind because of low tolerance for hallucinations and privacy focus (meaning preference for locally-run models).
Allied options were:

1. Invade. Expected Allied casualties of 300k all the way to much more than a million. Expected Japanese casualties: tens of millions, perhaps up to literally all of them. Previous Japanese strongholds fought to the last man, earlier in the war the Allies invaded an island with 11000 Japanese soldiers, and I think 47 of those eventually surrendered. The rest died. The civilian populations on these islands infamously committed suicide in huge numbers rather than be captured by the Allies. How much harder would an invasion of the home islands be!? The Japanese government issued an order that every single person must fight to the death.

2. Starve them out. The allies had submarines all around Japan and completely blocked all food and oil imports. This was working. But given the Japanese fighting spirit, likely tens of millions would have died before any change took place. It's also possible that the population could drop so low that the islands would become self-sufficient and then the war would drag on literally forever.

3. Conventional aerial bombardment. The Allies were already trying this with great gusto, to little diplomatic effect.

4. Demonstration nuke off the coast. The Allies only had two nukes left after the test one, and weren't 100% sure it would work. A failed demo would only strengthen Japanese resolve. There were concerns whether one demo nuke would be scary enough to force a surrender. Given that one actually used nuke wasn't, these concerns turned out to be valid.

5. Actually drop a nuke. This option turns out to have had the lowest bodycount in the end and had the unexpected side-effect of ushering in an unprecedented era of global peace.
How long would it take Geely auto to create distributors and repair centers across the usa? And the infrastructure costs and tax on their cars make them a real competitor?

I dont see it happening.
Shopify is acquiring the Threads team
The general consumer does not care about this at all. If Costco passes this revenue down to consumers as savings, it will only drive more purchases.
I'm having a ton of fun with midjourney, this magic box that makes whatever image you want is pretty compelling to me.
The 'noise the brain made up' has never made much sense to me. It's more likely physical damage to the sensory mechanism in the ear. One thing that surprised me when I googled how the ear works is that there is an active amplifier mechanism in there so if that's getting feedback it could make a noise your doc could hear.

Part of the cochlear amplifier mechanism is cells which move in response to electrical signals so you can hook them to a sound system for a laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgFae2r1s8

Tinnitus other people can hear has a name - objective tinnitus - and is a thing though less common than subjective tinnitus which they can't.

Vid on the cells making sounds https://youtu.be/b_3AngVJzp8?t=645

As an aside the explanations I've read of what the amplifier cells do seem wrong to me in that they say they make the sound louder. From an engineering point of view you'd imagine it would make more sense to provide negative feedback loop so the membrane doesn't move too much and overload the ion channel gate which must only have a useful movement range of a few nm.
The article says that someone was fired for wearing a keffiyeh. Your response is people shouldn't mix personal and work.

Your response is directly to an article saying a keffiyeh got someone fired, so it's absolutely reasonable to assume you are responding to the article and consider it an example of mixing personal and work.
That's certainly one of the available takes. Mine is that I'd need something other than some exuberant posts to think that's market essential at this point.

Either it becomes an essential part of workflows, in which case it becomes commoditized and we're worried about whether or not they'll someday support the mouse, or it's hype and it doesn't matter if/when they implement it
> EV is overhyped and underdeveloped, and hybrids are all around better.

I thought EVs were on track to outsell hybrids this coming year for the first time.
It's a massive amount of data. Not just video, but all senses, continuously. Also, I think an important aspect is that the training data is interactive. From day one, an infant sees his own hands moving and begins testing cause and effect. They aren't passively absorbing.
Generally agree with this - have had lots of buggy experiences with Amethyst, Yabai, Hammerspoon, etc.

That said, Rectangle works - in my experience - flawlessly and is an essential addition to Mac window management. It’s not as ambitious as a full TWM, but what it does provide (snapping, hotkeys, etc) is essential.
The hybrid case is that AI is a side player not the main attraction.

For example it's expected there will be better text summarisation in the existing Notes app rather than replacing it entirely with some LLM chat bot centric UI.
While LLMs and people are questionable in their ability for one-shot answers to complex things, with an LLM you can at least ask questions ad-nauseum all the way down the tree, ask for sources, ask it to be self-critical, think step-by-step, etc. From there, you'll at least be armed with more knowledge to ask better questions, whether to an LLM or a person. I think it's also a good exercise in figuring out how to break complex things down into smaller parts, and figuring out what questions to ask -- especially important if it's something where you barely know where to start.

Humans have a tendency to over-value their personal experience and cite their limited knowledge sets, beliefs, and intuitions as fact, and will probably tend to only show you the info that aligns with that.

I guess I'm biased, but for the most part, I don't think the error rates between people and LLMs are significant enough for me to want to deal with the human ego, versus an AI with infinite patience. There are certainly equally intelligent and gracious people, but I don't think they hang out much on Stack Exchange (or much of the popular internet, really)
The soundtrack to my childhood.

Baldur's Gate 2.

"You must gather your party before venturing forth"
if you frame "a creative" as people who select an emoji
> they were the aggressor

Only because the US froze all trade with Japan and intentionally refused all Japanese attempts at diplomacy to negotiate some kind of arrangement. The US did that knowing that the Japanese government would go to war, since the US had broken the Japanese codes and was reading all Japanese diplomatic traffic. In other words, the US intentionally provoked Japan into going to war.
This is a disappointing and shady thing. You're getting a value loss now from your membership. Previously you had a membership that allowed you to use, and buy from the club. Now your behavioral data is being used to sell it to 3rd parties to remarket to you.
Might not need to be human rated. Something remotely operated (teleoperation?) might be able to get it done.

Well, "might" if it's the SpaceX crowd that put it together. :)

The modern Boeing/ULA... probably not so much. :(
Almost every adblock user will move to firefox. They didn’t install it out of boredom, cause that’s non-trivial.

I mean it is trivial, but the world fights over defaults now and there are people who only use defaults and complain when they change.

So yeah, they will move. Download an app, import userdata, reinstall extensions and blog about this hacker-news-level journey.
But it's part of Mesa, it's not something you can drop into an app written against OpenGL to translate the calls to Vulkan right?
> for, allegedly, not properly disclosing the nature of his business—something the bank will not clarify further, now, nor offered any reason for at the time—of which this guy didn’t push them on either.

This is basic KYC (know your customer) stuff: if you see red flags, you are not allowed to tip the customer. If you do that you may end up in jail.

It may feel unfair, but that's the law.
Were the poor decisions made by Mozilla engineers or by Mozilla Corporate Executives? Mozilla has never paid engineers particularly well; in the past engineers joined mostly out of a duty bound to philosophical alignment.