skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> where you scapegoat the management for everything.

Well, that's sort of their job -- to be the ones responsible for the actions of the company. If I hire you to do a job, and you don't do it, I'm not 'scapegoating' you if I complain that you didn't do the job I hired and paid you to do.

> Even things where the unions aggressively fought for and
have now mandated into law at the expense of management's contract freedom

Most of these are the 'FO' part of 'FAFO' historically, so I have little sympathy there.
"'Close to the speed of light' means, like, 99% of the speed of light"

So, you are saying that it is possible to accelerate human body to 99% of speed of light without transforming the body into a massless particle?
As per Kant:

Time: inner sense, intuition of continuity, unity

Space: outer sense, intuition of objects

Its a bit more complex but that’s a basic summary from the guy who came up with the “space and time” thing. Read the “Transcendental Aesthetic” in the Critique of Pure Reason for more.
Or as I tell people, kidding on the square, we're trapped in a time machine hurtling us into the future at the rate of one minute every sixty seconds! It is important you say that last bit in a panicked, breathless voice.

My God, that means every three hundred sixty-five days or so, we'll have gone forward a year!
I personally am going to bring linux to my whole family. I do still use Windows for gaming, although I do plenty linux gaming too thanks to the steam deck.

You have some nice customers! I was lucky to join a company that allowed me to choose linux as OS, the previous company strictly refused.
I'm strong on Linux, but I won't lie that sometimes things are pretty rough, even with widely supported distros (Fedora, Kubuntu)
Do you mean "Relativity: the special and general theory"?
>Moore's Law is mostly dead

Claims of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

>mostly give me the same speed as the latest model. Am I right? Is it worth saving the money? I mostly use spreadsheets and web apps.

Any CPU from the last 10 years can handle Excel perfectly and JavaShit mostly fine. However, RAM could become the chief issue because there's only so much bloated Chrome and JavaShit you can fit in there.

If you can find a laptop with at least 16GB of RAM you will likely be fine.
At that point if you can understand context and overlay relevant information, it’s not education, it’s augmentation.
My main desktop is running on a 14-15 year old Intel Core i5 750 and I've got 20-30 google chrome windows open each with about 100 tabs (sorry I know... I'll clean them up eventually) and I photoshop all the time and multi-task with excel spreadsheets and VPNs and Thunderbird email client with 10-20 accounts, etc... And my numerous laptops are running on 10 year old processors just fine. I've got a 16 core AMD threadripper PC for intense cases but I haven't powered it on in months.

It depends on WHAT you are using them for. Generally the public has reached a point where we don't need more processing power. Unless you're into gaming, streaming, editing, or a specific CPU intense use case we have enough computing power.
The only thing left to do is make them more energy effecient.
Link not working.

Though the term "Piracy Shield" is very editorialised. Shouldn't we just call it the Firewall? Eg what we call China's system.
One does not need to send and should not send one packet per syscall.
As usual the answer is probably "it depends"

Old school pen and paper and physical books tap into tactile learning. Even writing on my tablet isn't as good as just scribbling on some scratch so I'm definitely team analogue.

But its hard to not get excited for the prospect of being able to bring stuff like the dinosaurs and space to life for kids.
SF MUNI approves $212M technology from Hitachi to replace floppy disks by 2028
AR wouldn't completely replace regular forms of learning but it does AUGMENT them very well. There are VR chemistry and anatomy programs that are amazing. Being able to scale a 3D model up and down in size is amazing.
Completely different margins
I have the same experience, I like splitting my embedded C microcontroller peripheral drivers into 3 layers:

- header files with registers addresses and bitmasks

- asynchronous layer that starts transactions or checks transaction state or register interrupt handler called when transaction changes states

- top, RTOS primitives powered, blocking layer which encapsulates synchronization problems and for example for UART offers super handy API like this:

status uart_init(int id, int baudrate)

status uart_write(int id, uint8_t* data, int data_len, int timeout_ms)

status uart_read(int id, uint8_t* buf, int buf_len, int timeout_ms, int timeout_char_ms)

Top, blocking API usually covers 95% use cases where business logic code just want to send and receive something and not reinvent the synchronization hell
If we consider science as a way to document reality (among other things) then "information -> decision" is an elegant point of view (if information doesn't help make decision, it is just noise). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41881872

It reminds me of "brain (mostly) for movement " (no decisions to make, no brain is necessary). Sea squirts being a prime example: "As an adult, the sea squirt attaches itself to a stationary object and then digests most of its own brain." (Rodolfo R. Llinas
I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self) https://www.amazon.com/Vortex-Neurons-Rodolfo-R-Llinas/dp/02...
>diagnosis of Asperger's was unreliable and therefore useless

If this is true, then in what way is the diagnosis of autism reliable, that the Asperger's label was not?
> I'm thinking of buying a 5-year-old Dell i7 laptop, which will mostly give me the same speed as the latest model.

Heck, no. Moore's law applies to the doubling of transistors. But efficiency gains are still being had every year.

An i7 mobile chip released 5 years ago would likely be the i7-8750H (high performance). An intel chip released recently would be the 'Raptor Lake' generation - let's say i7-13650HX (also high performance).

The i7-13650HX is at least 50-80% faster (single-core) and over 100% faster in multi-core.

While it is true that an i7 from 5 years ago is probably sufficient for basic tasks, RAM+SSD is perhaps more important than raw CPU performance than anything else these days. If you have at least 8 cores, you'll probably have a good time.
Even if you agree with the trademark claim (I have no idea one way or the other), the way that Automattic is acting is wrong, pure and simple.
If there's one thing surgeons like, it is advice from other surgeons.
You are mistaken. The work described here is based on this paper, currently published as a preprint: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.15.24312078v...

This preprint is the first link in the article.
This is contradicted by reality. If it was true, it would be impossible for norms to change. Norms have changed throughout history. Therefore it cannot be true.
Ahh, IBM - another great example of a company that attained a near universal adoption by setting the standards of quality - literally established what we thought a computer was and then just went to shit.

IBM couldn't get their supercomputer/AI that McDonalds funded to correctly run a drive thru - the project was literally shelved. It can play chess tho ;)
A top-end CPU from 10 years ago... sure. But not an intel celeron or i3... You need at least 6-8 cores minimum for a smooth experience these days.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

They only care about their own preservation.
It's not working great for Japan either. Kyoto is practically bankrupt. Inflation unbearable for Japanese citizens. Wages stagnant. With aging population and low birth rates I don't see how or when it gets better anytime soon for them.
See the electric motorcycles Russian soldiers are now using
I've heard this many times, and as someone who owned an original iPhone, I don't buy this argument at all.

First, when I got my first iPhone, I was amazed by it. I used it all the time. Yes, there were missing features and shortcomings, but many/most of those missing features were obvious, and it was actually pretty delightful that with every new software update I'd cross some of those missing features off the list.

None of that dynamic exists with the Apple Vision Pro. Even big Apple fanboys end up leaving it unused after the novelty wears off because it's fundamentally a solution looking for a problem. People aren't leaving it untouched in a drawer because there are just a couple missing features they want.

Now, all that said, as much as I would dread having this computer strapped to my face as a "normal" person, I think the use case given in this article makes perfect sense. The surgeon is doing a specific task, and the Vision Pro helps with that specific task. While I believe the Vision Pro will fail as a general consumer product, I hope it can live on for these niche use cases, although I don't know if the economics will make sense for such a relatively small market.
Read a biography instead of just NYT headlines.
I used PictureThis almost daily as a gardening tool, but as soon as ChatGPT accepted photo inputs I cancelled it and now just send pictures to ChatGPT with a prepared prompt asking it to ID the plant and give me details on its care and health etc.

It’s been better in every single way.
Why AI is going nuclear
I’m using a 2018 MacBook Pro with 16gb RAM and just sent a ticket for an upgrade. I run a lot of docker containers and between that, jet brains IDEs, multiple browser, etc it’s pretty slow.
>Boeing needs to launch a few dozens more of test flights to gather the data needed for this kind of reasoning.

This in fact is a shining vindication of Musk's "Waste metal, not time." philosophy.

Boeing is operating in the old school "Spend lots of time planning, go for a hole in one." philosophy, so if they proceed to fail they need to spend lots of more time planning and going for more hole in ones to demonstrate sufficient statistics.

SpaceX? They wasted metal instead of time and got statistics out with sheer numbers before Boeing even got a number, because the only way you get numbers is by getting numbers.

Boeing should be fired and ideally bankrupted, and everyone else needs to get with the times so they don't become the next Boeing.
Nah, it can still connect through the smart TV of the neighbours.

They probably have cross-brand agreements in place to let any "offline" device access advertisement networks. Your data is a very profitable business for them.
It’s incredibly hard to avoid graphic images of dead children if you even lightly engage with political content on Xitter
> Respectfully, the US and its lackeys

That reads like sarcasm to me.

The embargo gets voted in every 6 months. There's huge lobby made up of bitter ex-land-owners from Cuba that now live in the USA and buy politicians.

The travesty in Cuba[1] and in Gaza[2] is directly related to the undemocratic policy in the United States where it is legal to bribe politicians.

1. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220207-cuba-marks-si...

2. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-am-zionist-how-joe-bidens...
Ya I would love to see the studies and know exactly how they are gauging such things. I can say that my children have learned all sorts of things they would have never learned without technology. I honestly think it more has to do with what they are pushed to do on said technology. Yes your kid watching 8 hours of prank videos is stupid. But I make mine watch things like how to draw and they draw along with it, they have improved so much as artists. I have loaded up videos on how to do certain math that I had forgotten over the years and they are able to see someone explain how to go through the steps. With out that they would be stuck waiting on the teacher and the limited time between all students.

Even something like obd2 readers is tech honestly. The other day I took my 8 year old out to my car as it was not running right. I showed him how to use the reader. Then showed that my car had a p0304 code. I told him that is a misfire cylinder 4. Then showed him how to open hood and where my coils are and how the car had 4 cylinders. Then explained why cars misfire and that often it can just be the coils so test those first. Explained how we could swap coil 3 and 4 and check the code again. We did that and when I plugged reader back in the code was now p0303. My kid immediately yelled the coil is bad! Because he knew that since the code moved when we moved the coil that is the problem.
All that said I do think yes tech can absolutely be used to improve learning in some situations. The obd2 reader is a bit basic yes but if we had AR I can think of dozens or hundreds of applications we could make from it. If I could afford it I would use it with my kids.
In terms of performance defined on passmark, than probably not with rank and or power efficiency.

However, given most mobile platforms will heavily throttle the CPU on battery, than the answer may be more complicated.

CPU choices became good enough for most use-cases years ago, and only the GPU and installed RAM bumps the capability these days.

For example: A slower 24 core i7 CPU with 64GB ddr4 and rtx4070 on laptops will perform a little better than an older platform. =)
Are you trying to persuade us with this comment?
I don’t think anyone is more or less normal here. But for some people, feeling the pressure to finish everything you’ve started could in worst case learn to burnout, not only like ”getting exhausted from a specific project” but your brain actually stops functioning. Maybe that’s why they glorify a more ”go with the flow” lifestyle.

It’s interesting to see most people here connecting ”starting many projects for fun” with procrastrinating, and also wanting to fix that with discipline. For others the situation is completely different. The grass is greener on the other side I guess: me as an ambitious person actually _want_ to procrastrinate more, and don’t see it as a bad thing to be less outcome-focused.
Let's say 60% single thread improvement and double in multi thread in the last five years. https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/8244301?baselin...

It's true that performance was already good enough in many apps, so better than good enough might not be noticeable.
For sure. I'm already using Auth0, but their managed universal UI wasn't going to work with my invite process, as well as my overall user management system. So, I spent a couple days building custom UIs and hooking everything up so it works.

I guess if people ask for oauth, I can set it up later and just spend another day and test that everything works. And if they want SSO I'm not sure how that works so I'll have to research it anyway.
> they want to sell an iPad on your face that you can also, if you want, use for movies and whatever.

Why would anyone think your average person wants an iPad on your face?
Worth thinking about efficiency/battery life. Might be fine performance wise, but if you tend to need it to last a while unplugged, a more recent laptop will be much better at the same performance level. I had kind of sworn off laptops because last time I had one, the battery life just wasn't useful. But nowadays they're actually good enough to treat as proper portable devices.
Show HN: Fast whisper turbo for ASR (speech-to-text) tasks
My "fast" computer uses a 5-year-old Ryzen 5 3600. The laptop I'm using right now is a Lenovo T460 from 2016, with an i7-6600U and 16GB of RAM. It's been perfectly fine for web browsing and some little programming projects (8-bit game system emulators, some reverse-engineering of old DOS stuff).

The 16GB of RAM and the SSD I put in here are what're keeping it usable. That, and I'm not trying to use it for heavy gaming or any giant programming projects.
I guess since initial outreach seems to indicate email is okay, and I've used a few other popular SaaS at my previous job where it was email only, I will stick to email login for now. Cheers
I think you are conflating accountability and blame when I don't think those terms can be used interchangeably here. Accountability can be used as a way of assigning blame, but that isn't all that it is good for.

Accountability, at least as presented here, is about feeeback between those affected by a decision and those making it. In a "blameless culture", people are still held to account for their decisions and actions but are not blamed for their results.

I would argue that a blameless culture actually makes accountability sinks less likely to develop. In blameful cultures, avoiding accountability avoids blame, but that is not needed in a blameless culture.
Some ketogenic therapy experts theorize that a possible cause for those plateaus is due to the body reducing its metabolism due to what it thinks is an abnormal calorie deficit, entering survival mode - then after a period of adaptation it returns its metabolism to normal and the weight loss process continues.

I didn’t happen to find a plateau yet but surely will share the data if that happens.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/teens-and-so...

https://influencermarketinghub.com/discord-stats/

Average age is 16 on Discord, average time spent per day is less than 10 minutes, so it's being used as a messaging service (but connected to a greater gaming-type ecosystem). 90% of servers are less than 15 members. 30% of teens use it, which is significantly higher than the rest of the population.

I don't really have anything concrete to point to for my general feeling about American society slowly moving into a post-social media phase. Tiktok falling into relative unuse with most Americans except Hispanics is probably a main point of data. There hasn't been anything emerging to replace it besides (according to studies) the more cordial YouTube, which you cannot really say is a social media site. It is the most widely used of all of them, though, something like 94% penetration.
The Rayleigh Criterion
I also couldn't imagine what one was supposed to do with phone apps. The thought was: If functionality is useful just add it in hardware or to the OS?

I guess there will be awesome niche applications for this phone that are supper useful to an audience of one person.
> you should make yourself unavailable for contact, when you suspect someone is trying to blackmail you.

Maybe I'm missing something, but how often does blackmail happen that it rises to the level of needing strategic advice like "make yourself unavailable" ?

Who is Tom Schelling's audience?
As long as debts are issued in their own currencies(Japan in Yens, US in dollars, etc) it doesn't cause any problem because people can swap nominal assets aka paper money(say, JPY) for real assets(gold, oil, rice, chips, etc). Only developed countries have this luxury of having 262% or 500% debt-to-GDP ratio.

Third world countries (say, Sudan, India) can print money like Japan and US, but Saudi doesn't to swap their oil with Sudanese pounds. Now you see where this logic is leading to: as long as real asset holders are happy to part with their real assets for dollars/JPY, debt-to-GDP ration can stay 1000% or 10000%.
I think the Watch is certainly more straightforward of a product cycle and happened on a faster time scale.

I think iterations of Vision Pro will take years and the final cost will not be what it is today. What everyone sees today is a developer toolkit that also serves as a public demo. It is not a consumer product that can be scaled (yet).
For anyone in Apple's ecosystem: photos on iPhone (I believe on Mac too but haven't checked) does this out of the box; details of how to use it are here: https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/iph21c29a1cf/io...

As with their live text (ocr on an image), subject selection (remove background) etc, there are probably slightly better implementations in dedicated apps, but for most casual uses the built in is likely more than sufficient.
yeah, it's awful. I have a 32gig machine and "only" windows 10. And have to go back to micro-managing memory like in winxp times. Restarting programs from time to time - and rebooting every couple of days. Inb4 "free memory is wasted memory" apologists. Programs just flat out refuse to start or crash when memory is >85%.
I thought Windows 8 was supposed to be Windows-ForEver. I think I heard the same for Windows 10. Weren't they supposed to be on perpetual upgrade?
Actually, with the new Svelte CLI you get auth “built in”

https://github.com/sveltejs/cli
Running a small Sveltekit app with SSR is the easiest yet most of the time good enough way.

However, when your app is larger or needs to be faster, you want a dedicated backend for your API. Then, you can choose a more secure and more scalable language like C#, Go or Kotlin.

Regarding performance, many SSR advocates (don't forget there's a huge business behind this stuff) don't do the math correctly. It's faster (or as fast) to host a SPA on a CDN and get the data from your backend close to your DB. Let me explain assuming the page containing personal data from the user:

1. The user never visited the site. Getting the SPA from the CDN is very fast. Even if you need to get the JS via a second round trip. Then to get the user data is a much slower second roundtrip to the backend server. With SSR, you also have a first much slower roundtrip to the backend to get your SSR site (maybe even another one for hydration!). Then there's a second slower roundtrip to the server to get the user data. This request is slower than getting the data from a fast API backend in the SPA case. So, if the user never visited the site, you need basically two requests anyway: One for the app another for the data. How else should the backend know, what data to return. With an SPA on a CDN the first request is much faster. I must mention that rendering the SPA is an issue on slow devices. But this is a much smaller problem with Svelte than with React. SEO is probably better with SSR, but no as much as the crawlers are nowadays fast to run the JS.

2. The user has visited the site: The SPA is cached in the browser. Or an eTag validation request goes to the CDN. Very fast. Then, the first relevant request with user auth token goes to the backend to get the user data. With SSR, you get everything with one request. No real world difference there. Both approaches one relevant request. One can argue: Rendering the JS on the client device vs on the Node server. C# or Go backend faster than Next or Sveltekit. But those are not the big numbers.

Now, the big disadvantages of SSR is that you need to run a comparatively slow and not very scalable Node backend. If your app is small, then go for Sveltekit or Next with SSR as the DX is awesome. There's no simpler way to create a fullstack app then Sveltekit. It you have a more complex scenario, most of the time SPA is the way to go.
Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati reportedly seeking over $100M
Crooked Timber, Daring Fireball, kottke.org, Econbrowser, DSHR's Blog, Jayarava's Raves, Pushing Ahead of the Dame, A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, Michael Tsai, Scripting News, Simon Willison's Weblog ... about 150 feeds in total I think (some of them inactive now but overall more than I can read.)

I think most feed readers support OPML now, more people should put together blog starter packs (like Bluesky's starter packs, which are super useful.)
One proposed explanation I've heard for the rapid rise of fentanyl is that prohibition gives a major competitive advantage to more potent drugs, even if people who use opioid drugs would prefer the less potent alternatives, because they are cheaper to produce and much easier to smuggle.