skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pi owners should hardly notice any changes

I always notice when my laptop logs into Wayland instead of X after an Ubuntu upgrade because of the cursed, terrible mouse/trackpad acceleration curves under Wayland.

Long live the native Xorg synpatics driver!

(Also why I wrote this to get trackpad gesture support with the synaptics package instead of switching to the cursed libinput project: https://github.com/mqudsi/syngesture and explanation at https://neosmart.net/blog/multi-touch-gestures-on-linux/ )
You need to buy this ASAP:

Spigen LD202 Designed for Mac Studio Desktop Stand Mount with built-in Air Filter - Crystal Clear

https://www.amazon.com/Spigen-Designed-Desktop-FIlter-Crysta...
You can draw a strong connection from in 2019[1] when the USDA allowed slaughterhouses to self inspect to the recent listeria outbreaks.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/09/17/761682926/us...
So, all your baristas working a graveyard shift are going to be at the bottom of the stack ranking in terms of revenue/time. What do you now do?
How much difference does this make to the code copilot generates?
"Don't buy a smart TV" is stupid out of touch and tonedeaf advice.

There are no non-smart TVs. You cannot buy one. Your only alternatives are to not buy a TV period, or go to great lengths to firewall your new smart TV.

Yes, non-smart displays exist, but they are not sold to consumers, nor at a price consumers can afford.

This is one of those prime examples of how the idea of "vote with your wallet" is a fantasy. Consumers are not in any way in control of the market.

There is no possible way to protest smart TVs when the only options for a new TV include spyware. Your only possible move is to not participate in the market, which then summarily ignores you.

Similarly, existing without a smartphone in today's society is largely not possible. You can't even park in many cities without an app.

I think it's clear that you don't understand the problems being discussed and are just blithely assuming that deflecting blame onto individuals is a reasonable position. It isn't. It's moronic and unconsidered.
There is TikZJax[1], which apparently compiles TeX to WebAssembly, to run TikZ in the browser.

[1] https://tikzjax.com/
Either SICP or PAIP, but these with cwm, uxterm and an editor it's mind-changing.
After 15 years of having a desk job I find that I’m more sensitive to the position I sit in. My back feels a lot better if I have a single, regular sized screen right in front of me, instead of having additional screen estate on the sides or below (as with a laptop).

At the same time I use virtual desktops that I can switch with both keyboard and mouse.
I think they were referring to the general tech (crossbar) not the specific brand/models being the same.

But it's good to point that out so people aren't confused about it, since these are technically two different switch models.
They never released in that order, no? That would mean perfecting the highly integrated M4 Pro and Max before releasing a regular M4 laptop.
I used a 32" non-curved 4k monitor for a few months once. At some point I realized that I was moving my head around a lot as the corners were at an awkward place. On 28" I don't have this.

So anything above 30-ish inches I would consider either curved (expensive for hidpi resolutions) or two/three 27" screens angled a bit.

I can't imagine how bad it would be on a 65" flat screen.
Enclosure is: Acasis M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure 40Gbps

The disk I put in there is a SK Hynix Gold P31 2TB, I am not getting its full speed with this enclosure so you can probably get a slower one and get the same results.
> unlikely that there is good precedent for a private weather organization.

When has something being a bad idea or never having been tried stopped political apparatchik's from trying, especially given past appointee's opinions:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11110660/

* https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/14/john-oliver-...

* https://time.com/5699545/john-oliver-weather-last-week-tonig...

See also Project 2025:

> The document describes NOAA as a primary component "of the climate change alarm industry" and said it "should be broken up and downsized."

[…]

> Project 2025 would not outright end the National Weather Service. It says the agency "should focus on its data-gathering services," and "should fully commercialize its forecasting operations."

> It said that "commercialization of weather technologies should be prioritized to ensure that taxpayer dollars are invested in the most cost-efficient technologies for high quality research and weather data." Investing in commercial partners will increase competition, Project 2025 said.

* https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/sep/26/jared-mosk...
You don't have to be a researcher to do original work. Out of ten people on my team one has a PhD, but we're all doing more-or-less unique work a large fraction of the time.
That's fair, it sounds like you've got a real problem. I'd be surprised of the majority of users experience that problem though.
...or it could turn out to be a 3D-TV moment - the jury is still out.

For a while, all OEMs had 3D TV models, and it seemed their ubiquity was inevitable by sheer force of manufacturers ramming the products down consumers throats (like AI). The only debate was over which solution was superior: active or passive. 3D movies are still with us, so the tech didn't completely disappear - only from the consumer space.
I'm pretty sure that still works. I forgot the exact scenario, but my Windows CI on GitHub Actions output shorte~1 pathna~1 like that in a script just a few months ago. On one hand, the backwa~1 compati~1 is nice. On the other hand, there's just so much depreca~1 cruft that keeps popping up even on contemp~1 systems.
X Algorithm Feeds Users Political Content Whether They Want It or Not
From the day WebAssembly was announced:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9732827

The Web is an evolving system too large and long-lived for any single company, stable consortium, or standards body capable of doing the deed to do it, so none of Java, Flash (AVM), .NET/CLR, NaCl/PNaCl, Dart, and others I have forgotten about ever had a chance to take over.

JS got out first and evolved through several jumps into https://asmjs.org/, a typed (as in static types) subset suitable with AOT+JIT techniques of hosting near-native-speed code such as Unreal Engine 3. https://brendaneich.com/2013/03/the-web-is-the-game-platform...

Java was mismanaged as a plugin (and only ever a plugin -- no deep or even shallow browser integration worth talking about) by Sun, who tried getting it into Windows after Microsoft was killing Netscape (Microsoft then killed Java in Windows, pulled trigger on .NET; Oracle later bought Sun).

Flash had its day but fell to HTML5 and fast JS, Adobe threw in the towel well before Wasm announcement, even salted the earth re: good Flash tools instead of retargeting them at the Web.

Google was a house divided all along but had absolutely no plan for getting PNaCl supported by Apple, never mind Mozilla or Microsoft. I told them so, and still get blame and delicious tears to drink as I sit on my Throne of Skulls, having caused all of this by Giant-Fivehead mind control (testimony from one of my favorite minions at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555028).
Xbox cloud gaming also works great over ethernet on Mac
Fair enough, and what I said was wrong too, so it's turtles all the way down!
I butchered Cunningham’s Law, thank you for correcting me, though the name of the law is confusing since it was McGeady who pointed out: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.", which is what I did, and what the parent comment did, it is attributed to the great Ward Cunningham, creator of the first Wiki, who is a rightful dude. I have nerd-sniped myself on this. At least I'm less wrong now, thank you.
You still pay the premiums. You just have access to an HSA account you can make separate pre-tax contributions to. Sometimes your employer puts some amount in as well on some regular interval.
Geforce Now is pretty much the only still viable game streaming service, you can run it on pretty much anything.

The free tier is mostly crap (you only get to play if no paid users are using the capacity pretty much), but the paid tiers go from good to excellent.

Its main selling point is that you don't need to buy games for it separately, you can use your existing Steam catalog for example.
Well then Fearless Concurrency should be sold in a proper way.

In modern times the network is the computer.
>Stack ranking just clumsily says, I'm gonna give x% a bad score, y% a middle score, and z% the top score.

as long as the ordering top/middle/bad is preserved, I don't see a problem. there are entire respected statistic methods based on rank ordering, not raw metrics.

People don't have a right to fall on a normal distribution. Employers do have a right to grow or trim the workforce, and those numbers are driven by factors that are not necessarily normally distributed.

the people who downvote me simply want participation trophys, and "no" is the answer.

You absolutely can argue that Microsoft pursued a system that hurt both Microsoft and its employees, but not by attacking rank ordering.
Apple has shown people gaming with PS5 controllers at events for I believe a few years now. Someone can fact check me on that but it's not the first time I've seen it.
Bakelite to the Future – 1950s rotary phone ESP32 Bluetooth headset
Came in real handy once when the odd Harvard PhD I worked with insisted I had written something improperly. She was so confident that was beginning to feel like I had lost my mind. This book told me that no, no, she was the incorrect one. (iirc it was capitalization of certain words in a title or along those lines)
In most noisy contexts, a throat microphone should work [1]. A small Bluetooth one could also connect to its small earpiece(s) to make a wearable speech interface whose bigger battery could be concealed in the mic and last much longer than usual earbuds.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throat_microphone
> As a personal note, I know I’m a bit of an exception for operating multiple IP addresses, but I need the flexibility to send packets with any of my source addresses through any of my ISPs. That’s critical for me, and if an ISP filters based on source, it’s a deal-breaker—I’ll switch to a different ISP.

If you actually have your own IP addresses this is normal and expected, but if you're able to use ISP A's IP addresses through ISP B or vice versa that has always been a bug that you are wrong to use.

If you are doing the latter this is firmly in the "reenable spacebar heating" category and I hope your ISPs fix their broken networks.
"8K TVs tend to start at around $1500 to $2000 for a 65” one. This is about the same as getting four 32” 4K monitors."

Getting 3 32" 4k monitors is still better than having a single point of failure. But also I'm extremely happy with my single Odyssey G9 55".
Really interesting article. Highlights something I think is so cool but have a hard time really articulating: how even within our own 3+1 dimensions, just changing your scale is an entirely different experience.
As far as I am aware, there isn't a single competitor from big brand manufacture at $599 price point regardless of size. M4, 16GB RAM, Thunderbolt 4. The SSD is the main failing point but with TB4 you can easily get an external SSD. You can also get 10Gbps for extra $100. With EDU or Staff pricing this thing stars at $499. Which is practically a steal.

I am thinking it may be better for cooperate to buy this and run Windows on VM than buying a PC.

Considering iPad and iPhone has been replacing 99% of my workflow outside of office I am thinking if my next computer could be a mini rather than a Laptop.
Maybe it's my red/green color blindness that's playing a role.
Manufacturers started pivoting almost immediately when the iPhone debuted. Yes, eventually it delivered, but nobody waited for that before they started aping it.
> Sure, right now the democrat policy is letting migrants in so that they vote for democrats.

First of all, new migrants can't vote without becoming citizens. So even if it did increase Democratic votes, it would be on a much longer timeline.

Second of all, the last democratic presidents actually did a better job of returning migrants, just without all of the drama and commotion: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-deportation-re...

The reality is both parties are currently tough on illegal immigration. But one party is overtly nationalist about it.
Without supervision? What good is that? This is a disease that breaks people. Those who would convince themselves to see such symptoms in a positive light are doing nothing but damage.
Gleam's Journey on the Beam – Hayleigh Thompson and Louis Pilfold [video]
How about a projector?
There are no 8K projectors

Well that's not technically true...

https://www.jvc.com/usa/pro/projectors/dla-vs8000g/

But obviously not affordable.
I'm always looking for a ROS replacement.

The limitations section at the bottom of the readme is excellent. Good level of detail and self-awareness. More projects need that.

Sadly, while theres a lot of stuff I like, ultimately I don't think this is the ROS replacement the world needs. Specifically because of step 1: clone the repo (or add as submodule).

Its a terrible move, IMO, to not have the pub/sub system be a binary executable or shared object file. ROS's fatal flaw (among many flaws IMO) is requiring every library-user to be able to build from source. I'm glad it doesnt dictate a folder structure, but I'm really sad to see this project continue the trend of needing to build from source.
Is there a plugin for mac to make tiled windowing easier. All the current ones are a bit too hacky. I really liked tiling in PopOS.
Nice project! One thing I'm unclear about is at which point exactly is the running process killed during the restart process? If this example:

gw /path/to/repo -s 'echo "testing"' -p 'longrunningprocess'

If the first script fails, is my previously running `longrunningprocess` killed anyway, leaving me with no running process?

I will probably be trying this out with a few projects of my own, thanks for building this!
No, because that's a straw man. What many people want is a balanced, unbiased editorial department that weighs the facts as they see them and then publishes an endorsement.
This analogy is completely off. A closer analogy is someone calls you on your phone letting you know they're here. You were expecting them, so you say "come on in." But, they were at the back door instead of the front door. I don't think anyone would consider that your friend did something illegal.
I could add a GPT based pdf to latex functionality in the future.
Commoditize your compliment baby.
Anyone doing strategic business with Microsoft would do well to remember what they did to Nokia.
I think the questions to ask are:

1. At what size and resolution are flat screen monitors most useful?

2. At what size do curved screens start becoming useful?

3. What is the upper limit for useful screen sizes?

4. Is there an upper likit for useful resolutions?
I removed it from windows and I'm still very productive. Probably moreso, since I don't have to make constant corrections.

To each their own.
Elon Musk's XAI in Talks to Raise Funding Valuing It at $40B
Yeah, my first sentence is sort of nonsense the more I think about it... removed it to keep the focus of my comment on different kinds of proofs.
The presenters look so stiff and rehearsed, and the makeup and lighting are so bland that it feels like an AI-generated video!
This is pretty standard for a human run system. Gotta make the human feel good about an idea before they can do said idea.

If you’re not familiar with humans, there are several manuals available online.
Ha! It was a trap, they are likely talking about Surface, the big table-computer. It was such a failure that they repurposed the name for something else and you might have never heard about it. We had one at work circa 2013.
Macs run decently as headless servers except for the limit that you cannot use full disk encryption -- the boot process stops and waits for you to provide the decryption key via local keyboard and there is no way around this. If you are concerned about this then you can look at running an encrypted external disk or a partition of an internal disk as an encrypted volume. You still need to decrypt things before everything starts working again but at least the system can boot for remote access. Yes, yes, this is not a secure as having the system fully encrypted and we can all think of various ways something like this can be compromised. It all depends on the threat model you are looking at.
Is Beacon 23 the book better than the show? I thought I was a general fan of sci-fi, but I realized that I was generally bored all through the first season and had begun hate watching it in season 2 before I stopped all together.
Frankly surprised to see GitHub (Microsoft) signing a deal with their biggest competitor, Google. It does give Microsoft some good terms/pricing leverage over OpenAI, though I'm not sure what degree Microsoft needs that given their investment in OpenAI.

GitHub Spark seems like the most interesting part of the announcement.
> "More LDL over time means more heart disease."

... in the Standard American Diet. Dr Paul Mason's video "The truth about high cholesterol"[1] at 9:40 he cites a study showing that increasing levels of "light buoyant undamaged LDL" do not correlate with increased heart disease risk over 15 years and 11,000 subjects. Then at 10:20 shows study results that increased levels of oxidised, damaged, small, dense LDL do correlate with increased heart disease. IIRC it's damaged by oxidation, glycation, plant phytosterol cholesterol-mimics (driven by increased seed oil consumption) and involved with disruption to lipid rafts which some medications cause, e.g. statins and anti-psychotics.

That talk is 1 of 3, they are here:

[1] The Truth about high cholesterol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdgS3PuSuyg "can we tell if we have normal or damaged LDL? Yes"

Part 2: The shady truth about statins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7r4j1u42V8& (studies showing they do lower cholesterol, and that doesn't lower the risk of heart disease).

Part 3: "Hard science on the real cause of heart disease - why you should avoid seed oils" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xCr3mvFCHM

[2] A comment I've made before about his views on saturated fats generally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32966148 linking to his talk "Saturated Fat is not dangerous" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUY_SDhxf4k

"Why your doctor thinks cholesterol is bad" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-nq60_oEIc
There will be a regular M4 MacBook Pro I assume, just like how there’s a regular M3 MacBook Pro now. They did this same release order last year (Pros in the fall and Air this spring)
Breakout Agentic Apps
GitHub Spark lets you build web apps in plain English
This video describes one: https://youtu.be/UJrdKKmb9tQ
"flesh automaton" reminds me of this great short story by Terry Bisson I came across in an issue of MIT's Twelve Tomorrows

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
Modern TVs have decent input lag around 10 ms which is on par with professional monitors, but of course it will still be worse than gaming monitors. Lots of people game on their TVs. And most TVs have settings that disable postprocessing.
If there were self hosted options of unstuckstudy.com and notebooklm.google.com or a combination of both then we'd have a good option for home study. NotebookLM has good potential to summarize and analyze information, but I hope they extend this feature for use as a full blown teaching assistant or tutor, especially with its engaging dialog because it is that upbeat voice dialog that keeps me awake as opposed to just watching a boring youtube video or reading a boring book, since most of these are really boring and don't engage the audience, especially those made with education in mind.
Eh? It's really not a bother in pretty much any programming language, and you don't really need to do anything special for it. I don't know any program that has any problems with it.

Even zsh has fixed this. It's just /bin/sh and bash that are annoying.
My first sentence didn't make sense and wasn't well-thought-out. Removed it in favor of keeping the discussion about proof-theoretic strength.
I was really hoping for upgraded monitors today.
Most hard sci-fi breaks the rules too unless it's strictly near future on earth with no space stuff.

Ramscoops don't actually work, you lose velocity collecting the mass. Everything else is subject to the tyranny of the rocket equation unless we're inventing new physics.
People want to style things to match their page, exactly because consistency is part of usability. Especially given the limitations of browser form validations, you will absolutely need your own validations in addition to any browser validations you use. But your own validations will look different from the browser-provided ones, at least on some browsers. Which will confuse users, hence decreasing usability.

And this also assumes that the browser validations are in any way usable to begin with. I would argue that they are not, and would require some sane styling to become usable in the first place.
> the comparison isn't to Western wealth

It is built right in the middle of western wealth, it's crazy to say "this island of exploitation is fine because poor people exist elsewhere" with a straight face. Expensive, minimal standards "home", but think how it will make your dreams come true!
I hadn't noticed that. It's an absolutely hilarious little touch.
> how can we be sure that it won't devolve into same current Twitter (or X) after 10 years?

It probably will, just like most other internet services. Nothing is forever, especially on the internet. Enjoy the good things now and be prepared to move on to something else later.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41985915
The other consideration is people don't upgrade their Macs every year. They're selling to people with several year old Macs.

Though honestly my M1 Pro MBP from 2021 still performs so incredibly well I have no desire to upgrade anytime soon. Best computer I've ever purchased.
That's the painful beauty of hindsight being 20/20.

There is a world where IA became listed as a digital library and maybe had to comply with some arcane rules in order to operate but had otherwise escaped relatively unscathed from this incident.

Maybe we missed it on this pass but there's always a chance we could get another.
The RAM is expandable as well… however I am curious how well the extra RAM performs. Part of the M-series performance gain is from having the RAM dies very close to the processor.
He uses it for a lot more than e-mail. The anecdote was meant to communicate his level of technical literacy, not what he uses it for.
Could be a fight against Llama, which excludes MS and Google in its open license (though I think has done separate pay deals with one or both of them). Meta are notably absent from this announcement.
I expect my PDF reader to be secure. If the PDF format is too complex to implement safely then the renderer should be sandboxed in the reader itself instead of preventing me from scripting using xdotool and similar.

And unless you fully sandbox your PDF reader then an exploit is going to have access to your user directory without any display server involvement anyway. X11 vs. Wayland doesn't even come into the picture.
On the anthropic blog it say it uses AWS Bedrock.

> Claude 3.5 Sonnet runs on GitHub Copilot via Amazon Bedrock, leveraging Bedrock’s cross-region inference to further enhance reliability.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/github-copilot