skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am afraid we might be too late for maglev party with self driving on the horizon. Non-functioning last mile transportation and ruined cities (as in for pedestrians and density) are another shadow.
Tale as old as time.

China has historically always been a leader in Asia. At its peak, it controlled an empire as vast as the entirety of the EU. Its cultural influence in Asia rivals that of Rome in the West, except that Rome is no more, but China still is.

The US is younger than a single Chinese dynasty. And like all great historic empires, with Chinese ones being great examples, the US is fracturing from the inside. Corruption, apathy, a false sense of exceptionalism, etc.

China has went through this rise and fall dozens of time. This might be the first time for the US.
{MacOS,Linux} seems to have a lot of {apologists,haters}.

There, fixed that (with a bashism) for you.
> the major plot element of having a weapon too powerful for humans (and humanoids) to wield (and which must be destroyed) is clearly influenced by his reaction to the atomic bomb.

Didn't he write mostly before the public knew about the bomb?
Chain of Thought empowers transformers to solve inherently serial problems
Are you suggesting that Apple is making it less convenient for users to run unsigned binaries, because they want to increase developer program revenue?
This is not necessarily true. I have had a labor attorney successfully argue constructive dismissal when remote was written into the employment agreement in an at will state (employer and employee were both in Illinois, attorney represented them on my dime, I was the one who told the employee to have the remote clause inserted into the offer letter when they were hired).

Importantly, speak to a labor attorney, depending on your situation.
WFH worked before COVID. Parts of my team were fully remote 10 years ago. I haven't been going in a full five days a week for 6 years. I got way more productive from home.

I'll never do the 5 days in the office again.
I've always been jealous of people who can sleep on their back as it would allow them to sleep on thinner mattresses when camping!
This. I was in the car with my mom and I wouldn't shut up. She told me to and if I didn't, she'd make me walk home. Open my mouth I did!

I walked maybe 2 miles home. Stopped in every store/business where I knew someone. I stopped in the stationary store, the little 5 and dime, a doctor's office. Said hello and chatted a bit. I had to have been 7 or 8. Some folks asked where my mom was and I told them what happened. I have no recollection of what they said. All I know is that I walked on home. Thank goodness there were sidewalks and that I knew where I was going.

What had a much greater negative effect was the walkathon. I was a fat kid and somehow decided I was going to walk 20 miles to raise money for some charity. No one, most of all my father, thought I would walk more than a couple of miles. So neighbors, friends, colleagues of 'rents pledged $20/mile.

Day of, my friend and I were told to go to friend's mom's office when we finished and she'd drive us home. Off we went! Thank goodness we had some idea where we were. It took us all. day. long. We went to a wedding, watched some cute guys play basketball, admired gardens, and talked and talked. We were at the tail end and had no idea if anyone was in front of us or what time it was. Got to the center of town and the organizers had packed up. We had to walk probably 1/2 mile to friend's mom's office. . . and I finally showed up at home and it was like I'd never gone! Sometimes the walkaton pops into my head and I wonder how the hell my parents were not worried about me. More now that my mother has moved in with us and we talk more. I actually asked her about it the other day and she remembers nothing about the walk other than I walked all 20 miles.

End of the world? Absolutely not. But it sure taught me about what my parents thought I could do.
Because it makes money for Big Pharma and insurance.

And no one else. That's it.

If we switched to Swedish-style healthcare, even accounting for the population difference, the US government ALONE -- ALONE -- would spend about 1/4 as much on healthcare (medicare+medicaid) as it currently does. The public would spend less. And businesses would probably spend less, due to not needing to pay such high premiums. The system would be simpler and it would be easier to catch fraud.

It's a combination of polarization, inertia, and effectively bribery by big companies that we haven't switched yet. That would probably help with a lot of your questions.

Our healthcare system is just crap. Most people don't like it, but...yeah. (By the way, if I had to guess, patient privacy rules might interfere with automation. Not sure/at all confident, though)

Good luck in figuring out our healthcare system. And I hope you like the US! We're not as idiotic as our politicians make it seem. :)
I mean I use rectangle, and used spectacle before it, and I’m very grateful to the developers for maintaining it and making it available for free, but this really should be part of the OS and I will be very happy to get rid of that app after updating to Sequoia.

I also use an app that reverses the scroll direction of an attached USB mouse, without affecting the (natural) trackpad scroll direction, because MacOS does not allow changing them independently (looks like they are separate options for mouse and trackpad but they are in fact the same).

The App is called Scroll Reverser [1] it is free and works flawlessly, but it really should not have to exist, it’s ridiculous.

[1] https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
Just tell these advanced users to compile it themselves.

Problem solved.
Please tell me they've fixed the bunk-ass Settings app
I don't even like Apple as a company but I have high expectations of their products and I assume their product is meticulously designed for a variety of use cases. Why should I as a consumer expect half-assed implementations? Just because all software are half-assed these days?

Apple says "With iPhone Mirroring, users can now fully access and engage with their iPhone right from Mac while iPhone remains locked nearby." And nowhere does Apple say this feature doesn't work for games.
Chrome switching to NIST-approved ML-KEM quantum encryption
As an avid user of both DJI and Bambu products, US-based equivalents, if they even exist, are so far behind the quality and capability curve it makes me genuinely sad.

As an example, I had a heatbed issue with an early X1C. I went back and forth with the Bambu support folks a few times, busting out a multimeter and thermal probe. They had no trouble interpreting the information, and sent me a replacement part, under warranty, ASAP. Can you imagine any company stateside that would engage in actual troubleshooting nowadays? At best it's going to be some poor guy stuck reading through a script they can't change, and aren't empowered to resolve anyway. Maddening.
The Ring provided much more power than that, especially to bend (masses of) people to your will, see their minds, etc. It was believed that if Sauron got it, he would be unstoppable. IIRC, some character said it provided power matching the user's 'stature'.
I think if both sides of the equation more consistently approached things in a reasonable manner then both sides would be better off.

Replace "reasonable" with "trusting" and this is literally a restatement of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
Your judgemental attitude is definitely a part of the problem because while you may be 'accepting' others that share your actual opinion aren't. Do you also think people that take anxiety medication are wasting their life? People that take sleep medication? People that take ADD medication? People that take pain medication? People that have a drink after work to relax? People that drink socially to have a good time?
> A proposed solution (IETF draft) for the long term is for servers to announce what cryptographic algorithms they support via DNS, so the client uses the appropriate key from the start, avoiding extra round trips during the handshake.
The USSR isn’t the opposite of capitalism. I’m excruciatingly aware of the history of all state communist regimes. Which I directly stated.

Read Proudhon. Try harder
Nope, we use Quip and Slack because the Amazon equivalents were just too painful.
Looks like the new security has made it very difficult to use third-party QuickLook plugins. I'm messing with qlmanage and xattr now but so far no luck. A starting point: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins
It's not just that; it's the culture of the people themselves. The OP mentioned high-speed rail. Such a thing just isn't of interest to the American people, because they've chosen a car-based lifestyle, and built every city and town not named "Manhattan" around that model, making rail transit non-viable economically. (HSR might be useful to some people in certain regions, but you still have to rent a car when you get to your destination city because going anywhere in that city (unless it's Manhattan again) requires a car.) This isn't because of regulatory capture; it's the predominant culture of the American people, and has been since the 1950s with White Flight and the rise of car culture.

Add on top of this the anti-intellectualism that's been in American society forever, and the more recent terrible state of pre-college education and lack of interest in anything STEM unless it's programming with the goal of getting FAANG salaries and it's obvious why America has fallen behind so far. It's really just coasting on 3 things: 1) a huge population, so at least some minority of people are exceptions to the poor education I mentioned, 2) a lot of immigrant families who actually do believe in education and STEM achievements, contrary to popular culture, and 3) waning economic power that came from past achievements.
> Google allows side-loading, and Steam is completely optional. You can avoid it, even on Valve's own handheld.

OK, so, a completely optional market charges 30%. This means the market is comfortable with 30% and elects not to bypass that 30%. Why should Apple charge less for an experience buyers seek out?
Conventional wisdom
Me too.

SGI had good support for it in IRIX and I am pretty sure I saw one video streaming solution using it on a LAN to maximize the throughput possible.

Seems like a good tech that fell into disuse.
> If you weren't hired into a remote job then you don't have much a right to expect or demand this.

This is being mandated for a number of employees who were hired remote as well.

Separately, why not? I generally have an expectation that I won't have to move across the country from one office to another. Especially not without some good reason. Especially not without literally any reason. Especially not if I'm going to have to foot the bill for switching houses, either disrupt my spouse's career or spend time apart, switch kids' schools in the middle of the year, .... Employers are (often) within their rights to do so, but the knowledge that Amazon does this sort of thing frequently is precisely why I work elsewhere.
At one point 25% of Intel's DC revenue were coming from AWS, but the competition from AMD and AWS switching every function / service they run to their own Graviton just means Intel are no longer required for Amazon. And Intel might as well Fab chips for them to keep them as a customer.

Another point I think Amazon is willing to partly / dual source ( I dont think Amazon is making a one way jump ) to Intel is TSMC is now constrained on leading node. It is always Apple or Nvidia. And the lead time for them to get any capacity spared is getting longer now Nvidia is also in the game.
Edit: Seems like its also broken on 14.7 now, battery went straight to 100%.
Some background on an API change: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1f00bbx/comment/lj...
> I've never heard someone say they regretted starting therapy.

Let me be the first one then. I went in with an open mind. When the first one did not work, I tried another. After two years and zero benefit, I regretted spending the time. Cost was not an issue as it was covered by insurance.

In the end I concluded that therapy isn't for everyone. Many people do benefit from it, but many others see zero benefit.

It is also possible that I was not a good candidate for therapy because my issues were super minor.
The author of that book is part of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a natsec state think tank.

Ukraine is a different affair. The CIA funded political parties during the Euromaidan/Automaidan, which resulted in internal conflict that led to the current state of affairs. The only reason they could predict it was that it was their goal.
Four Seconds to Hot Up the Disintegrator and Google Had Told Me It Wasn't Enough
I never understood this point of view. It's impossible to predict the future, and it's impossible to predict the complexity of something you've never done before. Given that, estimates can not be useful, other than as a tool for political post hoc justification.

I have personally only ever had success with estimates that were "is this a project, or is this a task that belongs to a project". Perhaps stretching to t-shirt sizing of S, M and L. Anything beyond that, say, comparing two projects to be able to prioritize and see the opportunity cost etc etc is a fool's errand.

From The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb:

[Critics say that] the maps we had were better than having no maps. [...] This is the strangest of errors.

I know few people who would board a plane heading for La Guardia airport in New York City with a pilot who was using a map of Atlanta’s airport “because there is nothing else.”
I was about to say. I bailed out of the industry just as the Xbox One/Ps4 was coming in. Even with the 360/Ps3, it was considered wise to try and steer clear of that kind of low level stuff just for ones sanity. When the X1/Ps4 came in, it was completely abandoned, turns out x86 compilers combined with OoO execution just made that kind of tinkering not only nearly pointless but sometime actually hurt performance.

Nowadays,I suspect it is almost entirely in the hands of the compilers, the API's and the base OS to figure out the gritty details.
A lot of people are focusing on why insurance is complicated in the United States, but I'll do my best to answer why tech has not made this more simple.

Why tech hasn't simplified health insurance?

There are no incentives for an insurance company to make the process easier. Their incentives are complying with the law while minimizing payouts. Insurance companies make large technology investments in making this happen. Providers are also incentivized by complying with the law, but instead of minimizing payouts they maximize their billing to the insurance company. They too make large technology investments in making this happen. No one is incentivized to make any of this easier for the patient, so why would they pay for tech to solve that?

Beyond that, yes there are regulations that make things complicated. Chiefly HIPAA, but also the ACA. The real challenge is a solution that makes everything more simple for the patient while appealing to providers and insurance companies that have conflicting incentives. Is there a tech solution for this?
Why would non-geeks want to run a local LLM? Electricity prices alone are quite high. Why not pay a subscription on a cloud service and be done with it.
I mean, China _was_ _the_ poster child for exceptionalism, they called themselves the middle kingdom and still call themselves the central country. For much of their existence they despised the outside so much they became very insular --and still are, yet they thrive and thrive despite no superficial diversity we so clamor in the West. Their strength is their unity and long-view.
I love this work! but my heart breaks that this DRBG won't see much use in many commercial and government environments. Businesses with Federal government customers are often required to use FIPS validated or at least FIPS compatible implementations, which the Blake / ChaCha20 construction definitely isn't. Businesses don't want to maintain multiple versions, so in practice they just switch to the FIPS mode implementation and that's what actually gets used.

This reflects a schism in the cryptography world; organizations that have to do what NIST says, which is basically AES, SHA2, SHA3, HMAC, and the new PQ suites, each the result of competitions and a lot of academic analysis, and open source cryptographers who prefer Blake, ChaCha20, 25519, and other algorithms that have been developed in the open and with a stronger emphasis on performance.

Even though this work is great and proves some of the DRBG security to the same extent as other DRBGs, I doubt we'll see the DRBG added to the approve NISTs lists ever. Just not how it works.
I wonder if there are military applications to seeing fires almost instantly from space?

Could you track the front lines in a war?
iPhone 15 Pro Max can degrade Thunderbolt peripherals (2023)
"C-Players" tend to keep "A-Players" out of legal trouble, so Jimmy might just now be learning their value.
These companies do the regular stuff such as advertising via the usual channels- job boards and LinkedIn. And sometimes with recruiters - not those fancy ones who recruit for start-ups.
Looks like a cleaned up version of Josh Nimoy’s classic Ball Droppings piece. https://experiments.withgoogle.com/balldroppings
The ones on the MacBook Pro used to be. At least were when I still used Apple until 2015 or so.

The butterfly keyboards were unusable to me and also the OS got too locked down so I left the platform.
you touch on a raw nerve that could be the subject of a long post.

in summary, the attitude of management in many large companies is that code is just work that needs to get done, and any engineer who can type on a keyboard can do it equally well (cue in ai-coder). so, the smarts is embedded in defining requirements and managing execution of said-code which resides in management.

The problem with this is many-fold.
1) it encourages a culture of top-down decision making including technical decisions and the person making designs is not the one doing the work
2) as tech evolves, the org is unable to catch up since the decision makers are the elite few.

in short, a manufacturing line mentality where the supervisor holds the cards and workers are tools.
Maybe the US reached the limit that free market can get a country to. A planned economy works better for the citizens (and consequently for the whole country) than a lobby-based one.
awesome! I tried once to make something very similar in p5 but never got past the sketch phase https://editor.p5js.org/ejarzo/sketches/dsNdGZt0n
While all this is true I only get to live my own life and my experience is mine. Someone else having a worse one doesn’t mean I have to put up with petty micromanagement simply because others do. But my point doesn’t stop with me and it extends to everyone who puts up with petty tyranny of management in every situation. It’s always petty and it’s always tyrannical and it should stop. It doesn’t help the employee or the company. It’s just about petty exertion of power in all its forms across all classes and professions.
Ahhh "you're holding it wrong" argument
https://schema.org/WebAPI

https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1423#issuecomm... :

> Examples of how to represent GraphQL, SPARQL, LDP, and SOLID APIs [as properties of one or more rdfs:subClassOf schema:WebAPI (as RDFa in HTML or JSON-LD)]
There's Whoop, but it's pricey.
Oh definitely my fault. I stepped on it!
> Yeah, this was rigged from the start. If Sony did want to take up Intel next gen, they'd need to do a lot of work on backwards compatibility with the PS5 on the PS6. Whereas I imagine the PS6 being a "PS5 Pro Pro" at this rate.

Why would they need to do a lot more work on compatibility if they'd picked Intel vs AMD?

Either CPU is presumably going to be x86_64. The GPU is almost certainly going to be much different between AMD's PS5 GPU and AMD's PS6 GPU, so the graphics driver will need work either way.
Hidden craters reveal Earth may once have had a ring
English and America make the distinction between race and ethnic group.
Yeah I am excluding the original iPhone announcement for that reason. Same with the apple watch
You think they all magically figured out they were overstaffed at the same time? It's 100% herd mentality. They're cutting because everyone else is cutting, just like they went on hiring sprees because everyone else was doing the same.

It's easy to measure short-term impact (we cut a bunch of people, we're saving money, we're more profitable) but it's very hard to measure the medium to long term impact of these cuts.

Note I'm not arguing these cuts are the wrong strategy, I'm arguing they have absolutely no clue.
It's not a dev environment, but when I have been observing at large (inter)national telescopes, there are often a variety of sound effects in the control room. These sounds often announce a change in status (e.g., observing script started, observing script finished, script failed, script added to the queue).

One example is the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, that in practice is three separate arrays of telescopes (an array up to 50 dishes that are 12 meter diameter, an array up to 10 that are 7 meter diameter, and another up to 4 dishes that are 12 meters in diameter) that are observing different targets at the same time. Each array has its own kit of sound clips and after a few sessions it becomes second nature to identify which array needs attention by the sounds coming over the speaker. "Uh oh, looks like there's gonna be trouble!" followed by another announcement that the script was terminated. Then the array operator works on recovery while I would see if the script should be re-started or if weather conditions had changed enough to warrant a different choice of observation.

Similarly, optical telescopes often have audible alerts when integrations have finished and the data are being read off of the CCD/sensor.
Great minds think alike! Here's my attempt using an ESP-based smart watch that clips onto your clothes at night: https://github.com/a1studmuffin/lilygo-twatch-sleepdevice
I think this is a backdoor layoff that doesn't spook investors.
First time I'm hearing of raptor codes which seems a lot more efficient for this use case which I had until now been using KCP for.
Does anybody know how much money someone has to spend to be considered a mobile gaming whale?
Is there a need to ever target 120 fps? Only the best-of-best eyes will even notice a slight difference from 60.
Waterfall makes sense if contracts and lawyers are involved.

Waterfall makes sense if national security is at stake.

Waterfall's downsides are reduced by having competent people write fewer errors into the specification.

There are defense contractors that once used waterfall.
A few of the Playstation titles that made their way to PC do seem to have a little home field advantage on AMD chips, but not enough to sway people over to them.
Runit seems way simpler. It's both good and bad. I like its minimalism, but it involves more imperative shell script style, less declarative.
The documentation is very terse, too; I learned a lot from reading Void init scripts which I wish was reflected in the docs. (Maybe I should send a patch.)
For me it’s at will absolutely and I won’t work there no matter how much money they offered me to go back.

For most people it’s only at will in one direction. They need the job, often for home and board, and always for insurance benefits. Saying it’s at will ignores the worker needs the benefits more than management needs the individual worker. Management absolutely uses that asymmetry to force people to do their petty whims. If you’ve ever worked for anyone else before we all know this to be true. It’s so true and pervasively experienced it’s almost vacuous to even say it.

I for one am pretty sick of the endless litany of bullshit in my career and am probably going to go it on my own again or just retire. Almost no one is so lucky as me and that’s a fucking tragedy of epic proportions.