skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you’d think that, and it is approximately true. But the calendar repeats every 400 years (there are 97 leap years in 400, and 497 is a multiple of 7). And 400 isn’t a multiple of 7, so you can’t have it work out exactly.
I really, really hope you’re right about that.
The airs are incredible. I’ve been doing all my personal dev work on an M2 Air for years, it’s the best laptop I’ve ever owned.

I’m only compelled to upgrade for more ram, but I only feel the pressure of 8gb in rare cases. (I do wish I could swap the ram)
> Because recognizing a prime number using an actual regular expression would prove that prime numbers form a regular language, which would be an incredible result.

It would be literally incredible, because the pumping lemma shows that it's false.
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As long as there continue to be tutorials for how to draw a circle in GIMP, they will not seem alike to me.
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There's a known issue on arm macs with external monitors that messes with the framerates. Hopefully it gets fixed soon because pre-space age factorio was near flawless in performance on my m2.
Hi, I didn't see this reply before, but I think that's a wonderfully simple way of looking at it. Thanks for the intuition and step-by-step construction.

That makes me think of the normal distribution and the heat kernel, which I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on. The heat kernel is the Green's function solution of the heat equation (governing heat or other diffusive transport in the absence of material movement transporting the quantity along with it):

dT/dt = dT/dx^2 (pretend those are partial derivatives)

If we have an initial condition of T=1 at the origin and zero everywhere else (e.g., a spiked Dirac delta), the solution at time t>0 is the same as a normal distribution after appropriate normalization. The variance simply gets spatially bigger as time goes on and the thermal energy continues to diffuse.

Thinking about your intuition, the first derivative at the origin is zero as well (because the heat should diffuse the same in every direction absent any conductivity anisotropy). The second derivative is also near zero around the origin, for sufficiently small distances and sufficiently large T>0.

Because the heat kernel is flat to second (not first) order near the origin, heat flux vanishes to second order. At sufficiently large distances/small times, the flux vanishes to any order. The sweet spot is in the middle, at the steep part of the heat kernel/Gaussian. There, difference of heat and exiting a point is infinitesimally different, to the first order of the temperature gradient. But that doesn't mean that heat transport in an out of a point is proportional to the temperature gradient! One point can only transport heat to infinitesimally nearby points. The difference in temperature between infinitesimally close points, where the temperature gradient is infinitesimal, is doubly infinitesimal.
Lol ... You were not around for the ppc -> Intel change ... Same thing happened then ... Remarkable performance uplift from the last instruction set ... And we had Rosetta which allowed compatibility... The m1 and arm took power efficiency to another level .... But yeah what has happened before will happen again
Why is it called upper and lower case?
I think you're just restating the same benefit in a different way: you can modify or delete a file (or even just open it without modifying it) in another process while Notepad++ has it open.
What do you think will happen that is worth relocating your entire family twice?
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React is nice, but it has some sharp edges.

Basically, you're logically re-rendering _everything_ on every render. The React engine then diffs it with the last state, and then applies necessary actions to reconcile them. As a consequence, your rendering code is invoked by React, and you have to follow some rules to make sure that React doesn't have to _physically_ re-render everything.

Another consequence is that physical component creation is taken out of your hands.

This works great, if you're doing something with tons of simple components.

It works less great if the actual rendering is a complicated task. E.g. you're making a map widget, or a 3D editor. You might be better off not using the reactive approach, and fall back onto the classic MVC.
Looks a lot like Google’s AI Search features. I don’t think it’s the most efficient way to get information - LLM summaries don’t add value for me.
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> Everything is easy once you know how.

I think that this is definitely not true. There are lots of things where an "aha!" moment makes things appear conceptually much simpler after you've internalized the framework, but there are plenty of things in what I consider my area of expertise that are still hard even though I know very well how.
As demonstrated by the M1-M3 series of chips, essentially all of that lead was due to being the first chips on a smaller process, rather than to anything inherent to the chip design. Indeed, the Mx series of chips tend to be on the slower side of chips for their process sizes.
you were spot-on! Ordered!
Me, too! Use mostly Jetbrains these days, but we've been standing up some windows servers, and putting NPP on them - which reminded me of Scintilla: wrote my own turbo-charged IDE on top of it ~22 years ago. That secret sauce led to lots of work.
My only regret is getting base RAM.

It’s not a server so it’s not a crime to not always be using all of it and it’s not upgradable so it needs to be right the first time. I should have got 32GB to just be sure.
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> Brian W. Kernighan's excellent critique of Pascal

Well, most of it was obsolete before the paper appeared (see Apple and Lisa Pascal), and the reason Pascal became very popular in the eighties was not the version Wirth created, but products like Turbo, VAX or Object Pascal, or the ones mentioned, and of course later also Delphi. Even Wirth himself demonstrated in his Oberon System, that the system could not be implemented without direct memory read write and pointer arithmetics (via SYSTEM module, and mostly without support of a type checker). The Pascal ISO standard came much too late and had little significance.
For many workloads I think they are pulling definitely ahead. However, I think there is still much to gain in software. For example, my Linux/Fedora desktop with 5900X is many times more responsive than my 16” M1 Pro.

Java runs faster. GraalVM native generated native images run way waster. Golang runs faster. X86_64 has seen more love from optimalisations than aarch64 has. One of the things I hit was different GC/memory performance due to different page sizes. Moreover, docker runs natively on Linux, and the network stack itself is faster.

But even given all of that, the 16” M1 PRO edges close to the desktop. (When it is not constrained by anti virus.) And it does this in a portable form factor, with way less power consumption. My 5900X tops out at about 180W.

So yes, I would definitely say they are pulling ahead.
That page and its video are bat shit stupid.
https://archive.is/j6mSz
I wouldn't describe leaving the bootloader unlocked as "going out of their way" to make all of this possible. Clearly, if just booting another kernel would be sufficient, running Linux on their machines should be easy. Yet none of this is. "Going out of their way" would at the very least be providing documentation and support so that reverse engineering their hardware wouldn't be necessary.

Also, what's not to say that they will decide to lock the bootloader just as they do on all their other devices? What does Apple practically gain by leaving it unlocked? If they're doing it as a gesture of good faith to their users, they're doing an awful job at it. Doing it so they can sell a negligible amount of machines to a niche group of hackers also doesn't make business sense.

Depending on the good will of a corporation that historically hasn't shown much of it to the hacker community is not a great idea.
Sounds like they truly did incorporate Dark Sky's weather prediction then!
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This is also pretty easy is Hugo, albeit maybe less automatic [0].

{{ $image.Resize "600x webp q50" }}

[0] https://gohugo.io/content-management/image-processing/
Personally, I'm waiting for Panamax edition.
> so where are the competing ARM laptops that are anywhere close to the power of Apple's version of ARM?

Better question: where are the incentives for them to make it? Apple is pretty much the only company with an outstanding architectural license to design ARM cores, and the best off-the-shelf ARM core designs don't even compete with 5-year-old x86 ones. If you're a company that has Apple-level capital and Apple-tier core design chops, you might as well embrace RISC-V and save yourself the ARM licensing fee. That's what Nvidia does for many of their GPU SOCs.

If SoftBank offered ARM licenses under more attractive terms, there would be genuine competition for good ARM CPUs. Given that Apple has a controlling stake in SoftBank, I wouldn't hold out faith.
Merely mentioning illegal/regulated drugs does not get you on a watch list.
Answering yes/no to a list does not protect you. I will not continue to engage.
The existence of a hacked DLL doesn't mean notepad++ had anything to do with it.
> That ended over well over an hundred years ago

What do you mean by this? The Philippine War started in 1898 in Cuba, and began US world expansion. If you're dating expansion over the continent as overlapping with that (which you should) you're agreeing that there was unbroken expansionism.

edit: and what does Spain's (or France's) empire have to do with anything? If I burgle the house of a burglar, it doesn't make me not a burglar. The question was whether the US was expansionist, not a moral judgement about the people who controlled the places it expanded to. You can't say that we weren't expansionist and also that they deserved it.
I was there, writing apps with the DevTeam's toolchain before Apple ever released theirs. Were you?

Also, I assume you haven't read the Steve Jobs biography, which discusses this and contradicts your point.

One positive outcome of your comment is that it reminded me I still have the 2008 book, "iPhone Open Application Development" by Jonathan Zdziarski. That was a nice walk down memory lane.

https://www.amazon.com/iPhone-Open-Application-Development-A...
Don't forget Raymond Smullyan.
I'm not a cuber or a puzzle guy or a math guy, but I am curious: how do you know when it's solved? Or is this a 'whoosh' moment and I'm missing the obvious?
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Nvidia is not much better, but they do only make one component and generally ensure compatibility. If Nvidia went full Apple, their cards would have a special power connector for the Nvidia PSU, a custom PCIe express lane that only works with Nvidia motherboards, which also requires Nvidia RAM sticks and only boots NvidiaOS. And also most of the software that would run on it would be blocked from running on other OSes because fuck you that's why. Also if you tried running NvidiaOS in a VM, they would sue you.

It's still profoundly weird to me that nobody can run Safari outside MacOS, even for testing. At least the EU has strong armed them into dropping thunderbolt ports now, so we have that minor interoperability going for us, which is nice.
They might not divinize Lincoln but they certainly do Washington:

https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/apotheosis-wa...
I’m going to guess that the business owner is not worried about Trump voters.
hmmm interesting. In a gasoline engine with high temperatures, NOx is produced, but it is fixed by the catalytic converter. So I guess that's not possible with a diesel, so they have to lower temperatures. That must lower the efficiency of the engine because (I think) the temperature difference governs efficiency.
I think by the time my work-provided M1 MacBook Pro arrived, the M2s were already out, but of course I simply didn't care. I actually wonder when it will be worth the hassle of transferring all my stuff over to a new machine. Could easily be another 4 years.
There are discord servers specifically for this not pretending to be anything accredited (like these scam 'coaches' are) that can do this. I also just phone a friend sometimes. If you need a bit more support than that, hire a disability support worker for an hour or five. Actual psychologists are great for building long term skills. Please consider not giving money to predatory scammers like ADHD 'coaches'.
To be honest, this looks more like OpenAI playing catchup to what Google’s done since 2023. The fact is that ChatGPT, which people thought would kill Search, is falling behind Google in some ways.

I think it’s great that competition is driving both companies to improve, but I’m not seeing anything about this that screams “Google-killer”
Yeah, making a specific "Turkish lowercase dotted i" character which looks and behaves exactly like the regular i except for uppercasing feels like introducing even more unexpected situations (and also invites the next homograph attack)

I guess it's a general situation: If you have some data structure which works correctly for 99.99% of all cases, but there is one edge case that cannot be represented correctly, do you really want to throw out the whole data structure?
Thanks!

We didn’t have an end goal in mind from the beginning — we had the idea for the product and wanted to see if it had legs as a business, and then grow it and see where we could take it.

From what I recall, I don’t think this kind of acquisition was on our radar in the early days — we expected the startup game to be much more binary (massive outcome or bust), and this was the standard narrative at the time.

We’re fortunate to have landed in a middle ground that more founders should be aware of earlier on (and I think awareness is increasing).

Not a massive outcome by VC standards, but still a win for us, our team, our customers, our product, and our early investors, and not the end of the journey yet!
Congrats, I do really like the idea and especially the slogan!

Would recommend to explain the following terms on the landing page more thorughly:

25 Members
5 Apps
300 Authorized Guests
25 Extension Points
3k simulation runs

I would guess Members would be employees from my company who have access configure XTP and Guests would be the number of customer logins? And simulation runs is also self explanatory after reading the article, but I can't figure out what "Extension Points" and "Apps" could mean.

After looking further down the page I noticed that parts(?) of XTP are open source, now I'm more interested! How much does XTP differ from extism?
Not to mention Apple's challenge with 30% AppStore tax for subscription revenue.

My guess was that Apple is okay with Apps from third parties that tithe 1/3 of their subscription revenue but aren't willing to make a place for them if they don't "sing for their supper" as my Grandfather used to say.
Depends on major. I'm in engineering so it's more work than a full time job for whatever reason.
What's the royalty on tea cultivation?
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I am not confident enough to predict the future, but experienced and resourced enough to know that options are freedom and safety. I’m remote and mostly financially independent, my kids are homeschooled, relocating is just experiencing another place and culture for a bit. They’ve spent months living in Europe and Mexico, so this wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for us (besides the extended duration).

Worst case, we’re there long enough (~5 years) I can get them EU citizenship, giving them more options when they become adults.
The changes made were not as simple as not-setting a lock fuse bit. Making the bootloader unlockable in a way that didn't compromise their existing security model did require going out of their way. The status-quo for previous "apple silicon" bootchains (iphone, ipad, etc.) was not built this way.

Even T2 macs had no way to boot custom firmware on the T2 chip, without exploits.

Sure, they could've done way more, but evidently they'd rather not lock down the platform completely.
That's certainly not what the reviews of Whisky had to say, although I have seen it said that buying a Crossover license gets you more hand holding than a free copy of Whisky does.
clickbaity title. Makes it sound like Qt being removed.

Better might be:

Ubuntu Hoping to Remove Qt 5 in favor of Qt 6 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

or maybe:

Ubuntu will try moving from Qt 5 to Qt 6 by Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
I would say a,b,c are too late to be relevant. If you or a friend, coworker, employee are in the USA on a visa or opt the winner could be almost instantly relevant.
Fancy schools might indeed, coincidentally, vet founders for the same things these particular investors are looking for.

For example, wealthy family safety net for extended risk-taking, connections for finding customers and partners and investors, confidence of founders in asserting will over hires, and appealing to class-based beliefs of other investors.

But since most of us aren't investors, this isn't to say that fancy schools vet for, say, hires.

While I generally like and respect the people I've known who happened to attend fancy schools, I've learned not to pay much attention to what schools someone attended.
The article linked in another comment offers this by way of justification:

> "Because none of the potato’s flavor or aroma compounds can escape, you get the most intense potato flavor you’ve ever experienced,” Brock says. “And they’re steaming in their own water, which is why you get a totally unique texture."
This is super fun but I don't know why!
Can you share references for their refusal to fix and their excuses?
At the time of the Mexican-American War, in 1846, there was no Spanish colonial presence in Mexico. In fact, the country had become an independent monarchy, soon followed by a republic, more than two decades before.

Spain lost the vast majority of its empire in the 1820s. Just a few possessions, like Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, remained in Spanish hands until the end of the nineteenth century.
Another factor might be that Intel MacBook Pros got thinner and thinner. The M1 MBP was quite a bit thicker than its Intel predecessors, and I think the form factor has remained the same since then.
I think GP is intending to have it work as follows:

If canonical would like to remove QT5 from LTS vN, they need to remove it in the first non-LTS release after LTS v(N-1). That way there is a lot of time before it to adopt which increases the chances of it actually happening at vN.
Same for me, although I'm probably in the top 20%, not top 1%.

For us in New England, I wish there were an easy way to see if the difference is worth the effort.
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This is interesting history, but I am skeptical that this is safe to eat, or better than a regular potato. If people are interested in trying unusual potato cooking methods, I'd recommend making Syracuse Salt Potatoes instead- they are excellent and easy.
> Not to mention that you'd be supporting a corporation that has this hostile stance towards their customers to begin with.

Is the "this" in that sentence your previous paragraph of concern that Apple will purposefully break AsahiLinux?
> Intel shares were down 1% in extended trading on Friday. Nvidia shares rose 1%.

Riveting
That must be some setting for you. It doesn't prompt to save on any of my several Windows machines, and I don't recall configuring that anywhere.
It's taken a while for spraying and trimming to go from being a crazy research idea to mainstream in UEC, but if you're interested, the old animations from my Sigcomm 2017 talk still give the general idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO0QhaxBRr0

In addition to what is in the video, UEC introduces a new libfabric-based transport layer and a new congestion control scheme. Plus a bunch of stuff at the lower layers like link-layer retransmit. Hopefully the specs will reach 1.0 around the the end of the year - unfortunately at the moment you can only get them if you're a member of UEC.
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