skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple silicon Macs have been many people's favorite computers they've ever purchased (myself included) and blew out the value proposition for buying practically any other computer, unless you specifically need Windows for some reason.

iPhones have gotten so good they can barely come up with anything new to add year-over-year. Young people in the west are almost exclusively buying iPhones because people like them.

They basically own the tablet space, if you're looking for a tablet there's almost no reason to go with anything other than an iPad. Same for smart watches, they make the best selling watching in the world.

For the amount of devices they move, they're shockingly reliable and have a smoother customer support / coverage system than any other company I've had to deal with. That's why people keep coming back.

It's pretty bizarre to say they're in decline. The only area I can see active decline is how badly they let Spotify eat their lunch with music streaming when they used to basically own digital music distribution.
What about "we were cut from the deal"? It seems like you could make a phrase in which 'cut' means "to exclude"
> Salesforce is basically a pseudo ERP at this point.

Not quite there just yet.

Salesforce has commerce, OMS, CPQ, reporting (Tableau). Just missing the WMS (warehouse management system) and I think we should be there…
If I can safely discount all human behavior through history, then I can also assume that the behavioral changes you are espousing are equally non-relevant. Either human behavior can be a greater driver than genetic probability or it can't.
USB-PD as of its last revision can deliver up to 240W.
> So does the frontpage of WSJ (...)

Apples and oranges.

Reading the WSJ is a kin to subscribing to a specific Twitter user: you know what content to expect, and you are interested to read more.

Being force-fed political content you explicitly have not subscribed to is like you're reading the WSJ and out of nowhere you get pages from, say, MAGA's newsletter.

Not the same, is it?
Do you think the Wall Street Journal and Twitter are functionally the same?
I still remember looking at these with my mother when I was small. We loved to hunt for Gold Bug. She told me later in life that her favorite was, "Lowly worm washes his face and foot." (He always wore a sock and shoe on the end of his tail.)
Spherical or cylindrical?
The entry-level 2014 Mac Mini had a launch price of 499 EUR, I'm not sure it was ever that cheap new. If anything the price has deflated.
Does it work 24/7 or have two power sources? Can you charge the powerbank at the same time so it will rely on the battery only when the power is down?
> The language is slow compared to Rust

Numbers? Slow as in your cousin? Or slow as in causing a traffic jam? You fast?
>Yes, I can make that assertion.

Lol, no, someone just replied to you saying that they do this.

Okay?

>I have never, ever had my magic mouse run out of battery, or even come close.

The person that replied to you that they do this, has in fact had their magic mouse run out of battery, and they used the second one while the first one charges.

You're just wrong.

This conversation is boring and you're making assertions that aren't valid.

Have the day you deserve.
If you find many of these groups on X or Facebook, you’ll find a slew of comments accusing them of being Feds. The Patriot Front is a good example. Go to any post they make on social media and you’ll see dozens of comments making fun of them and saying they are obviously federal agents.

Whether that’s true, I do not know, but I think it is noteworthy that even right-wing people doubt whether most of these groups are even real.
Cursor's show-stopping problem is not if it is useful, the problem is that it is proprietary. These sorts of tools are fun to play with to try out things that might be useful in the future but relying on them puts you at the mercy of a VC backed company with corresponding dodgy motivations. The only way these technologies will be acceptable for widespread use is to measure them as we do programming languages and to only adopt free software implementations.
I tried Cursor but I honestly didn't see a huge improvement over VSCode + Continue.Dev. Cursor is better at editing multiple files, and it's cheaper than using the API directly... But I prefer VSCode + Continue.Dev (for chat) + Supermaven (for completions).

Cline, on the other hand, is a whole different beast. It edit multiple files, run the program, checks the shell for errors, go back to the files, edit them, run it again, and even access localhost:8000 to check. It's incredible! But if you use the recommended Sonnet 3.5, it'll eat your money very fast.

I've been using Cline + 4o-mini for a few days. Sometimes it's magical; it's the first time I truly feel that I have an assistant. I tell it 'run, check for errors, and correct them' and I leave to grab some coffee.

The bad side: I got lazy and once I almost let it delete rows in a table because it misunderstood what I said.
I’m always confused as to why people are so paranoid about storage size. I got the base MacBook Air and an external 2TB drive for cheap. Super fast and I never worry about anything - I didn’t even manage to get up to 50% of my 256GB drive.
Twitter has a setting where you can specify words that if they appear in posts, they'll not show up on your feed. This helps me.

However, several other factors also help me:

- I'm very aggressive with telling Twitter and any other platform when I don't like something by using the "Not Interested" button or equivalent. This seems to work well with Twitter.

- Twitter loads slowly on my system, so I use a Firefox add on that hides the whole sidebar or whatever they call the trending topics. So I don't see them anymore, even though they weren't really bothering me in the first place.

- I honestly barely use Twitter except to see the latest on specific accounts. I'll usually click on links directly to access them and not depend on a feed. Stuff that is super popular on Twitter tends to be screenshotted and posted to other platforms anyway.

- Overall my even minimal use of Twitter is dwindling; most of the accounts that have content I like on Twitter are also on BlueSky.
Oh that's right yeah— 6/7/8 all had the same form factor as that was the time that the off-year S versions were also dropped, so I always get confused.

And to further muddy the waters, the space in the 7 chassis for the jack was mostly still available, which led to that one madlad bodging in his own headphone jack, for a one of a kind iPhone 7:

https://hackaday.com/2017/09/07/bringing-back-the-iphone7-he...
I get annoyed by people knocking instead of ringing the doorbell. I am less likely to hear a knock.
If I'm already paying Anthropic can I use this without paying github as well?
It's the ads, less so the AI. Meta makes an absolute killing with ads by dominating much of the internet now, usurping the throne from google.
Half as slow and this is just in general CPU. Not getting into power efficiency, noise, size... etc... etc....
Typical fanboy reply. You're beyond reason.
How floating point works (jan Misali) [video]
I guess Steve Ballmer deserves to be richer than Bill Gates today because he held onto his MSFT stock while Gates sold the majority of his :)

Also, the Acquired podcast also makes the strong argument that Ballmer lay a lot of the foundation of what powered MSFT’s growth under Nadella e.g. Azure.
Yep, it will likely work and do what it's supposed to do. But what it's supposed to do is probably only 90% of what you want: try to do anything out of what the boilerplate is setup for and you're in for hours of pain. Want SWC instead of TSC? Eslint wasn't setup, or not like you want? Prettier isn't integrated with ESlint? You want Typescript project references? Something about ES modules vs CJS? Hours and hours and hours of pain.

I understand all this stuff better than the average (although not a top 10%), and I'd be ashamed to put a number of the amount of hours I've lost on setting up boilerplate _even_ having used some sort of official generator
In most parts of the World, some aspect of the media is regulated.

In the UK, broadcast news is heavily regulated by an independent body (Ofcom), and newspapers are "self-regulated" by a body created after the phone-hacking scandal[1] staffed by newspaper insiders (IPSO). Even so, sometimes bad things happen and Ofcom has to take GB News to task, and IPSO has to tell one of its mates off for printing something invasive. This is all below the level of the law coming into play (for example, slander/libel or personal data handling), this is just "best practice".

The regulators are needed in the UK and everywhere else in the World they exist not to censor platform owners and contributors, but to protect the wider World from them. You can't just break into somebody's voicemail and report what you heard any more. You can't just have one politician interview another and pretend its news content, no matter what GB News say. There are standards to try and improve the quality of the output to make it useful.

Social media has clearly reached a point where some rules are necessary for that purpose. Meta have had a little swing at this with their own Oversight Board, but its clearly not working enough in the interests of the audience because we keep finding examples of dead teenagers whose parents insist could have been saved if Meta had just been better members of society. [2]

And then there is Musk. I get it, he started a company that builds cool rockets, and bought Tesla and drove it bigger, and he had a cameo in Iron Man 2 because Tony Stark is meant to be modeled on him by the film creators, but it's clear now, he can't run an influential platform well, and it's no surprise that even if he isn't actively promoting his strong political preferences in the algorithm, he's not exactly diving in and insisting it gets fixed to solve this problem.

Regulation is seen by the tech industry as an impediment to innovation, a barrier to growth. I think with technologies that impact the health of a society, that society has a right - a need - to see that those technologies are regulated in the name of the society not being harmed by it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacki...

[2] https://news.sky.com/story/molly-russell-inquest-teenager-di...

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/19/tech/social-media-lawsuit...
I've watched that guy's video. The Apple arm64 Macbook Pro doesn't even charge without a functional SSD. I suspect it also doesn't boot off anything else if its main SSD is dead.
> As browsers continue to give developers more low-level control, the less of a problem this is. Take one of your examples, history. This used to be a high-level feature implemented only by the browser and if you built an SPA your users either had a very bad experience or you had get "clever" with various tricks. Now, we have a nice history API.

Quite the opposite, in my experience! As browsers give developers more low-level control, they're more tempted to build half-assed replacements for built-in functionality.

The history API - it's good it exists, mainly because it gives SPA developers a way to solve one of the many intrinsic flaws in the SPA design. On the other hand, it's subject to ridiculous kinds of abuse (stuffing history to make it appear to users that the back button doesn't work), or getting out of sync (because web developers can't manage a stack) and making history unusable.

> The whole idea of an "SPA" was never even imagined by browser makers but developers made that happen.

Yes, with generally terrible results, which could have been avoided if browsers hadn't stagnated.
>We don’t need to adjust for inflation since we are comparing nominal returns across the board.

Well there are things like TIPS, so comparing real returns across the board might be more helpful. Some of the returns from S&P investing will be in the form of dividends, so ideally the amount of taxable gains would also be included to get a better comparison.

I agree that even with the history of long slumps that stocks are still one of the best investments out there.

>If multiple SP500 companies are at risk, then I am going to bet Congress is going to shift into high gear to find a solution.

I think we might be in agreement that bailouts come down to systemic risk and political pull. Silicon Valley bank fails and people got all their money bank even if the accounts were far above the FDIC limits. Other banks fail at about the same time and account holders get only up to the FDIC limit. Maybe there was systemic risk there, but it feels like political pull was at least involved.

When the dot com bubble burst, many large companies failed but there was no concentrated action by Congress or the Fed to bail them out. Hence the lost decade for S&P 500 investors.
I assume you're not an AI model, but a real human being (I hope). The analogy "AI == human" just... doesn't work, really.
But the forecasting hasn't declined. It's better than it was.
A developer will spend far more time in the IDE than the version control system so I wouldn't discount it that easily. That being said, there are no network effects for an IDE and Cursor is basically just a VSCode plugin. Maybe Cursor gets a nice acquihire deal
Its no wonder why these people think we need a metaverse.
> The threat model is that police and prosecutors need to find someone guilty.

Sure. And the chance that I'm the person they decide to pin it on because my DNA happened to be in a database is extremely low. Why are you only focusing on one of the bullet points when the point is that probabilities are multiplicative?
I don't think this is a viable path as the technology gets more alien with every generation.
The general advice is to have top of monitor at eye level, but it's been wrong advice for me personally. I now put the middle of the monitor at eye level. Keeps my head up and posture better. Leaning back instead of stooping.
Data wrangling software EasyDataTransform makes v2 after 80 releases
The Wall Street Journal is a newspaper.
But the other potential uses of a TV assume it's not tossed on a desk in my office.
Section 230 is about who's liable if speech either breaks the law or causes damages in some way unprotected by the First Amendment. That's the table-stakes of the discussion. It's a little silly to bring up the First Amendment given that context.
Doesn’t sound natural to me, and I couldn’t find any examples online using that phrasing to mean someone was removed from a deal. You can be cut from a team, though.
Dockers can’t run off external drives.
It's hard to explain but over the last couple of months I have an intuitive sense of when Claude (the web version) starts to lose context over a problem. Over there it's as simple as starting a new chat and building on top of that.

To me, it felt like Cursor blurred that line too much for my liking. The way I use LLMs is by giving it atomic, independant chunks of code that I need to review / refactor which, in my experience, leads to far superior output. I'm sure there's some way to make it work with Cursor but it just didn't click for me.
Only consciousness exists? Two problems for IIT 4.0's ontology
FWIW me and my family have the ReVanced apps and we never see any ads.

https://revanced.app/
My wife was quite sad when I suggested to her that "this little piggie went to market" was in fact the farmer taking the pig to the market to be butchered, and that "this little piggie went wee wee wee all the way home" was probably a piglet taken from its family to replace the "now big enough to sell" pig....
I just added support for wiki links and back references (internal)

https://github.com/rochacbruno/marmite/pull/95
You may have misunderstood the above comment. While using cadavers in medical education is commonplace, _taking body parts home_ is no longer the norm.
You can boot Macs from external drives.
> Lately it has definitely felt as though Microsoft is resurrecting Ballmer's old meme as "AI! AI! AI!"

You nailed it! Having spent significant time (as low-level minion) under both Ballmer and Satya, it certainly feels like the old Ballmer-time meme is coming back with the AI!

Also with it, the forced-curve ranking that Satya disbanded is being re-instituted under a different name.
Cutting Deals and Striking Bargains: The History of an Idiom

https://web.archive.org/web/20060920230602/https://www.csub....

By way of "Why do we 'cut' a deal?" https://english.stackexchange.com/q/284233

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"Cuts " ... leads to the initial parsing of "cuts all ties with" or similar "severs relationship with".

When with additional modifiers between "cuts" and "deal" the "cuts deal with" becomes harder to recognize as the "forms a deal with" meaning of the phase.
I'm a skeptic, but this weekend I worked with Cline in vscode (using free gemini nano backend and free mistral backend via openrouter) and managed to make some progress on a flutter app I'm working on.

Flutter/Dart isn't something I'm actually familiar with though I have a lot of dev experience, so I was able to distinguish between poor advice and good advice from the agent. There was a good share of frustrating code deletion happening that required stern instruction adjustment.

For work I'd be concerned about sharing our IP and would want to be on an LLM tier that promises privacy, or maybe even a local LLM.

All in all I was more impressed than I thought I would be.
I've been a paying customer for Jetbrains IDE for years.

After trying Cursor, I'd say if I were Jetbrains devs I'd be very worried. It's a true paradiam shift. It feels like Jetbrains' competitve edge over other editors/IDEs mostly vanished overnight.

Of course Jetbrains has its own AI-based solution and I'm sure they'll add more. But I think what Jetbrains excels -- the understanding of semantics -- is no longer that important for an IDE.
Yes, indeed, the more they start sucking at things, the more money we should give them. This will incentivize not sucking.
Mexico may be at the cusp of one of its biggest transformations in decades
Notably the Mongol empire, much much bigger than the Qin, and in some ways even harsher, lasted for over a century in a relatively stable fashion.

So historical examples don’t provide much unambiguous evidence.
There's still good deals in mini PC land. Yes, the M4 is faster but there's loads of mini PCs with decent CPUs, 32GB RAM and a 1TB of SSD storage for under $600. I think for a lot of people for basic usage they'll get more value out of the larger and upgradable SSDs than the faster CPU.

https://www.amazon.com/BOSGAME-5700U-Displays-Computers-Emul...
https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-SER5-Desktop-Computer-Graphic...
I'll be honest, if I have to scan a QR code and fill in a form to let someone know I'm at their door, I'm turning around and going home.
There is a huge button called "following" when you press it only the feed of people you follow shows up.
I would love to see more in-depth analysis of recommender algorithms. You don’t need to know how they work (on a technical level). What matters is the results they are showing to people.

In lieu of an FDA for algorithms that I would love to see, it would be great to have some basic assessments of the distributions of recommendations an algorithm is making.
See https://kieranhealy.org/files/misc/levimartin.pdf

"What do animals do all day?": The division of labor, class bodies, and totemic thinking in the popular imagination (2000)

> Keywords: Animals; Totemism; Class body; Busytown; Symbolic domination; Division of labor

(36pp, not entirely serious, about which animals do what in Busytown; contrasted with Babar, etc.)
You are generally not using just one plug style on a harness so most of the control is at the engineer level.

Unless you are a big player, what plugs you are using boils down to what receptacle the component that you want to attach to use.
Visual Studio Code October 2024
I'm a grad student and ABD (all but dissertation). My work week has no beginning nor end. But don't worry, I still got plenty in me.
Well, they could if they're inside a beeper.
With Thunderbolt 5, once external SSD enclosures supporting it exist, there should be zero performance penalty for external vs internal storage speed, finally. Then you can built a 1PB array, if you want.
The same question scales outwards. Are there forces taking over from gravity at galactic scale? Like, perhaps the galaxy filaments and voids come about due to something we can't even comprehend. It seems unlikely that humans just happen to be working with the force at the largest "scale."

How complicated would it be for a small insect to explain gravity, if they're not normally affected by it in their daily routine?

I recently thought about something similar: it seems like at certain scales, things turn into spheres, based on applicable forces. And then there are in-between regions with chaos. Atoms seem mostly round. Humans are not. If planets and stars are at the next spherical scale, are there even larger structures out there that once again show spherical nature, once you're past galaxies, clusters and filaments?
Can you choose to not take part of this boring new world?

No? ok, back to NPC role
And when exploring for new interesting accounts to follow, that huge button is useless.
Wasmer v5 Introduced
Are they disappearing, or are they actually becoming more prevalent, dividing the population and leaving few people around to support each third space? A third place needs to more than a place – it also needs people.

I can think of 10s, maybe even hundreds, of third paces I could theoretically go to within a short distance. None of them particularly appealing, though, because they don't have enough people to create an engaging environment.

If these third places consolidated their efforts, seeing most of them disappear to focus on one third place, there is a much greater chance that the single community would thrive. Combined, it could be huge, but so long as they each try to go at it alone...
Literature Review on Sampling Techniques for Language Models
> but there is something so funny in our Americanised world where everything is reduced to "it's not you, you just need to buy the correct gizmo that will solve all your problems."

Sigh... I'm not american and i don't live in the US.

> Fountain pens enthusiasts are like music gear or mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, that justify their hobby and believe spending on the next shiny thing is the key to fulfil their whatever, until the next shiny thing arrives.

Yep, I'm aware, that's why i was explicit on the fact that a ~20$ Pelikan Jazz is just great and "getting into fountain pens" is something that you can definitely avoid (I do avoid it, as a matter of fact).

> The thing is... if one dislikes or doesn't care about writing that they have basically forgotten how to, it is not spending money on a fancy writing implement that is gonna turn them into a medieval monk scribe.

you do you i guess. good luck.
Why? Thunderbolt is PCI-E. There shouldn't be any difference between TB attached storage and adding disks to a desktop tower.
There are few places in the world where things won't be taken when left unattended.
Fine. But "you're lying" is also hostile, and also doesn't belong.

(I see that you edited that bit out of your post, so thanks for listening...)
It really feels like a digital form of colonialism; they come in take everything, completely disregard the rules, ignore intellectual copyright laws (while you still have to obey them), but when you speak out against this suddenly you are a luddite that doesn't care about human progress.
It's not your reading that would be illegal, but your copying. This is well a documented area of the law and there are concrete answers to your questions.
>Let's see the front page of WSJ. 90% is political content

I'm not sure I get your point.

News outlet and social media are supposed to be different things.
I'd love to put Linux on it, but one of the main reasons I use Linux is for CUDA programming and you can't even put an nVidia card in a Mac these days.
But you have to run Windows, which is a deal breaker for most people.
If you enroll in a college.