skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you’re much more likely to just grab “the cheapest”.

And then realize there were better deals at the time and tarnish the brand.

Absolutely simplifying the lineup to four Macs was the best decision. Right now they have one more than they should - the MacPro and Mac Studio seem to clash a lot, especially since you can't use the PCIe slots of the Pro for GPUs. What do people put in those slots? I'd assume storage and fast networking.
There is a problem though. If you mix high effort with low effort content you will get a distortion compared to the perceived initial market. The economic equilibrium in any platform is the bang for the buck in effort-per-engagement. This holds true for YouTube as well, where the most serious channels (like MentourPilot) can’t rely on YouTube rev-share alone. So they use different revenue channels, like Patreon etc. Without it, we would not see the amount of quality content that we do today. The highest engagement per effort is clickbaity. Now, go to LinkedIn or Facebook, where the dials are tuned differently, and observe a barrage of absolute garbage.

Profit seeking will land you in blandness, and here Spotify is even exacerbating by playing in a conflict of interest market, through playlists with massive reach that they control. Not even Zuck does that (afaik), but rely on high volume content farms that at least he has plausible deniability to claim that it’s not his hand moving the needle. It’s well known musicians pay a lot to be featured, so the monetary value of playlist placement is really high.

Anyway, this may not be enough to cause an exodus yet. But artists will become more aware and rightfully complain, and perhaps find different platforms. It also weakens Spotifys own market position since algorithmic low effort music is fungible and much easier to disrupt (although Spotify still incredibly dominant today). It’s not impossible that ambient music streaming breaks out to a cheaper alternative service, with white noise and yoga tunes. That may be a better tradeoff in the long run.
Some of us don't build containerised web applications you know.

It's basically a Unix machine. A very fast and very cheap one.
Atomic reference counting per se is fairly slow compared to other simple operations [1]. But the biggest issue with reference counting is that it doesn't scale well in multithreaded programs: even pure readers have to write to shared memory locations. Also acquiring a new reference from a shared atomic pointer is complex and need something like hazard pointers or a lock.

[1] an atomic inc on x86 is typically ~30 clock cycles, doesn't really pipeline well and will stall at the very least other load operations.
It's worth noting that product is listed in the "Discontinued Products" section of the linked wiki.

Both of the ReSpeaker products in the non-discontinued section (ReSpeaker Lite, ReSpeaker 2-Mics Pi HAT) have only 2 mics, so it appears that things are converging in that direction.
Was it Pareto or Orwell or someone else who had claimed that every organisation eventually develops an informal inner circle, just due to the limitations of time and socialising? Even the consensus-deciding Quakers have "weighty friends". Note that Jo Freeman certainly dealt with the phenomenon, pointing out that the 1970s-and-currently best known antidote is making decision-making structure and memberships explicit.

(non-advertiser supported sport has a similar problem: if a country wishes to support elite full-time athletes, either a discipline has to have an affluent and widespread group of amateurs who take lessons and clinics, or it has to be able to hide the elite sport budget within the military or police structures)

Heh, now water can crash, or it can flow. I just had a vision of one possible future in which there's an entire generation of chinese "lying flat" at their country houses (furnished with 筆、墨、紙、硯, or at least their digital equivalents?), while there's an entire generation of americans (legally-at-will) working 996 in their manufacturing jobs...

(and speaking of jobs: there's about half a billion years of stratigraphy, before the oldest still-extant sequences, which we're missing and even the most curious geologist probably never can recover)

> I returned, and saw under the sun, that eternity is not to the igneous, nor the metamorphic, nor yet to sedimentary layers; but time and chance happeneth to them all. —not Kohelet 9:11

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7pOVAQ54Y
> the amount of storage build for spent nuclear fuel+energy buffer

I meant the amount of concrete needed (nuclear ppl vs energy storage)

> such blind faith is actually hurting renewables movement by giving climate change deniers more ammo to pummel the movement with.

what faith?
renewable vs nuclear debate has nothing to do with the question of the existence of climate change
Not being particularly smart probably gives you a better defense against conspiracy theories; a lot of them rely on pseudoscience and faith in said science, which require some intelligence to comprehend.

Like, I'm too stupid to understand the flat earth science.
Why has no one intervened on what is clearly a mental breakdown of one man?
its a music platform where u can find music... don need to be some fancypants 'artist' to make music.. often music from libraries like some mentioned there are simply ppl makin music for money, not like an artist but like a job...
they offer u the ability to make ur own lists if u wanna be elitist on whos an actual artist and 'who deserves to be on spotify'...

a lot of the 'ghost' tracks also come from actual ghost producers who moved from making ghost productions for labels to doing it indie.

not all producers are some kind of artist brand or make consistently the same theme of music every track. i got tons of projects i out stuff under, like categories.. some have 1 track, others lots. (no i dont make money from it, but often ppl do... just a few buck on the side)
> it was common for programmers to “bottom out” on the machine code level.

It's still this way in embedded development to some large degree.
Regardless, Americans are not five times richer than Brits by any reasonable measure. The salaries in the comparison upthread are outliers. The exact figure obviously depends on which stat you look at, but Americans are around 50% richer by most measures.
Mistakes of managers under 30 – by Anton Zaides
I think if we ban cars now we may still have a chance to save the horse industry
Yet, it is quite possible, although surprisingly in modern times, to be a developer, without dealing with UNIX, nor Windows.

Developer job !== UNIX.
One day, you may not even get to own a car for “safety reasons”. See gun control
Show HN: Find Domains Fast (Prices, SEO, AI and Alerts)
After being frustrated for years with existing solutions, I'm working on a new domain finder.

The idea is to combine everything I was missing: instant speed, good design, multiple extensions (with customizable search) and hack domains, real-time price comparison, SEO insights, domain name generation, meaning and sentiment analysis, favorites saving, custom alerts, management of all my domains all from one place.

If you try it, I'd love to read about it.
I often see engineers from other teams ask for a "non-blocking endpoint" because they don’t want to block while waiting for a response from the server. What is a "non-blocking endpoint"? If you are making the request, just do not block...
Can you elaborate more on the data-parallel computing part?
A few weeks ago I had the nice surprise that my usual strategy of starting to walk on the pedestrian crossing to test if a car driver has the intention of stopping, resulted in an emergency stop from a Tesla coming for the right (it was a two-way street and I was testing the car coming from my left). The Tesla correctly stopped, in accordance with the law. Its driver wasn't happy.
Wow, thanks for that!
Damn, reading all this makes me feel terrible. I wonder what goes on in somebody’s mind to make them self-sabotage their lives like Matt has over the past couple of weeks.
Parent had this exact issue:
> getting repeatedly frustrated with bluetooth connection issues

My suggestion to use the bolt reciever was in response to that.

Why you suggest to me and parent to just forget about it because you have such great experience is depressing to me.

I have the MX Master 3 and MX Keys Mini. Using Solaar on Linux for 2.5 years without a single issue.

I did have more issues using pure bluetooth with an external bt antenna (intel bluetooth hardware).
> The government protects intellectual property rights and they protect physical property rights.

Intellectual property laws are in the constitution and are structured to allow the government to preemptively act on potential violations. For example seizing shipments that would violate patents or trademarks before any actual sale occurs. They can also create registration offices to certify claims publicly for the holders.

At the same time you were, and often still are, expected to physically protect your own property and the government largely can not preemptively act on potential issues. You must be a victim to receive service. To a large extent most property dispute /resolutions/ are handled through the civil courts. A criminal prosecution for theft may or may not be perused by a district attourney or certified by a grand jury, and even if it is, it does not make your injury whole.

You would still need a civil judgement to reclaim your property or it's claimed and adjudicated value. Once you have this judgement you are again personally responsible for enforcing it. You can file paperwork with the sheriff to audit their property and sell it or garnish their wages but you take all responsibility for this. Including finding their property or identifying their employer. None of this will happen on it's own simply because you were a victim of an actual property crime.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_(microbiology)

Cooking reduces pathogens to a “safe” level. Sterilization is meant to overkill and eradicate them.
I don't cross in front of a car without knowing that that cars driver sees me. And sometimes you have to cross in front of a car. Most of those times everyone is just stopped at a light anyway, but not always, and some of those lights still allow the driver to proceed anyway if turning right, which they might do at any time.

I also ride a recumbent trike which is low to the ground. A diamond frame puts you up at eye level with most drivers and that makes everything easier.
Ryanair again faces GDPR complaint over face-scanning verification
> I mean, it could all be a psy-op by the animal agriculture lobby to get people to eat even more meat and less veggies.

I don't think you're wrong tbh, since before there was a big psy-op by the grain agri lobby to portray fat in a bad light, pushing for low-fat (but often high sugar/carb) and vegetable oil alternatives.

I mean for all these ones there's a grain (ha!) of truth, but the absolutist "X is bad for you" is definitely wrong. The core of every diet opinion seems to be "nothing in excess" / "you need a balanced diet". But that's more difficult than "eat only X" or "avoid Y".
Public transport cannot do everything cars can do, especially outside big cities. Better public transport can reduce the need for car ownership - I did not own a car for much of my life for that reason. However, it does not eliminate it.
Considering Waymo cherry picks conditions it drives on, this study is already fundamentally flawed.
I'm not convinced that this argument holds at all. Writing good code doesn't take much more time than writing crap code, it might not take any more time at all when you account for debugging and such. It might be flat out faster.

If you always maintain a high standard you get better and faster at doing it right and it stops making sense to think of doing it differently as a worthwhile tradeoff.
2025 – Back to Basics
2005 - 2025

200 years worth of human evolution in 20 years. The technological super acceleration and the price we had to pay.

We've been robbed, of our personhood and raped of our human experience. Comfortably numb and blissfully ignorant to the technology that replaced true human experience. Discovery. Interactions. Emotions. Replaced. Nothing is raw. Experiences are synthetic.

Kids these days will never know this feeling of discovering the world first hand with your friends, mysteries unsolved for you to find... and it makes me sad. Disgusted.

How do we go back?
So not independent. And published as a white paper on Waymo's website. And only addresses the collaboration between Waymo and the insurance company, no mention of who funded the academics. Pretty sure if you dig deep enough, Swiss Re is somehow a Waymo investor.

I'd trust this more if Waymo had a direct pipeline to an anonymized public repository of their complete data set for independent analysis
> we'd still want safer cars

With the technology controlled by a handful of corporations? At an development cost that will force them to create any and every opportunity to seek rent on your mobility?
I wouldn't know.

This thread is about Solaar and i suggested parent try the reciever to resolve their bad connectivity.

You telling us that your macbook is great helps who exactly?

I am a solaar user on arch linux, btw ;-)
Somehow that makes me think of this exchange, where the AI has been demonstrated to a select group of stakeholders, and believes their happy reactions are representative of everyone it will spy on.

> MORPHEUS: "I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about themselves."

JC DENTON: "I don't see anything amusing about spying on people."

> MORPHEUS: "Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are."

> JC DENTON: "Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance."

-- Deus Ex (2000)
Wait, newer versions of thr JDK Java SDK now bundle maven and gradle? Why does everyone use mvnw/gradlew for?
Eh, ask switchboard operators how they feel about the Internet.

Cars wiped out farriers. Should we go back to riding horses?

Gig work is a symptom. Not a triumph worthy of protection.
I thought Washington Post
I don't know, maybe something from Activision, Blizzard, EA, Tecent, RockStar,...

It proves how fragile the whole process is after a decade.
> In general my project is late adopters.

Amen ;-)

John Lakos' old Large Scale C++ Software Design (there is a newer edition which i have not read) taught me C++ "physical design".
uv solves this issue nicely. Uv manages Python version and being a single binary, installing uv involved downloading a file and add it to PATH
Indeed, that's an obvious appeal to authority fallacy, and "appears increasingly likely that a foreign adversary is behind some cases" is just weasel words; it's vague and meaningless but articles like this position it as pretty much factual.

Sure, they don't explicitly say it's a fact, but it's enough for many people to be "sold" on the idea that it's foreign adversaries.
Ventiva's fanless ionic cooling engine is higher performance and more efficient
Mac bootable backups have been deprecated for several years
> Do you really long for that?

Yes, absoultely. Saving data you don't want saved and overwriting data you want to retain are just as bad as not saving data you want to keep.

Keeping a scratch file to restore from unexpected applications exits (crash, power loss, etc.) is fine but beyond that I expect to be in control of when and where things are saved.

> one has to adapt to the modern times

I expect my computers to adapt to my requirements, not the other way around.

> especially when it makes things better.

Modern rarely equals better.
This is cool, but i can see simple improvement. You're supposed to discard airtag backplate, but the capsule is big enough to provide compartment for storing it. Just in case that you decide to re-use that airtag in some other way in upcomming 10 years... I think that would be neat addition.
> more specifically what the media want you to think

What media are you referring to, and how are they coordinating?
Well, yes, but that's an extremely low bar!!
> as they said: "They could stop persecuting and murdering Palestinians, stop occupying Palestine, and agree to either a one state or two state solution that recognizes Palestinians as human beings with a right to live."

There's really barely any evidence Hamas would agree to a 2 state solution. The overwhelming evidence is it won't agree to it. Same for one state solution - Hamas would of course agree to cancel the state of Israel (thus creating something you could call a one state, slowly or quickly driving the Jews away) but definitely not to any kind of shared power democracy.

To truly appease Hamas Israel needs to commit national suicide. That's quite a big ask for a people as persecuted as the Jews.
So an actual certified commercial Unix workstation is a toy now?
I've picked up an Echo Dot a few years ago when Amazon were practically giving them away, thinking that surely someone would have jailbroken it by now to allow it to be used with Home Assistant.

It was only after researching later that I discovered that this wasn't currently possible and recommended approach was to buy some replacement internals that cost more than the device itself (and if I recall correctly, more than the new Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition).
Language and Personality
Did you accidentally type an extra 1 there? The original Macintosh launched at $2.5K which is a bit over $7K in today's dollars.
Canva Incident API Gateway Outage – Canva Engineering Blog
There is a beautiful, somewhat depressing Danish documentary about this issue called Into Eternity (2010) [1] (it's also on YouTube [2]), about the Finnish nuclear reactions at Onkalo.

They faced the exact same problem as in the U.S. about how to store the waste safely and warn future generations about the dangers of accessing the waste.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

[2] https://youtu.be/ayLxB9fV2y4?si=4VoMTuV6aWTzpquA
The parsing outline in the article omits that there are also 140 hard coded color names in html: https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-names/
It sounds like the kind of thing that happens to people that don't look up often enough. Damn kids with their smartphones!
Running GenAI on Supercomputers: Bridging HPC and Modern AI Infrastructure
With self-driving tech, buses could be made a lot smaller and more frequent. They are large and infrequent because of fixed per-vehicle costs (mostly the driver).

EDIT: Small size then enables personalized routing: a multi-passenger taxi taking a set of people to similar destinations.
Our response to Google's policy change on fingerprinting – ICO
Interest as the Most Fundamental Emotion
That sounds great for Waymo: I'd love to experience a ride in one and I'll make sure to catch a ride next time I am in CA.

I wonder what it does in common situations, like stop-and-go traffic with two streets joining at an angle, where one has to yield? In that case, if everyone simply followed the rules, the cars in the yielding street would never get through. While I am passive-aggressive myself as a driver, I religiously follow alternating one-by-one from either street "rule", even if I am in a street that has right of way, to ensure traffic moves for both of those and reduce chances of someone overly aggressively moving in from the yielding street.

If it is still passive aggressive in that case, it will work ok while there are other passive human drivers in the road, but would quickly fall apart when everyone drives the same.
I'd imagine with 1-2 TVs constantly talking, general conversations and other random noises it'd get expensive quick. Definitely closer to a rack than a RaspPi or old laptop hardware wise. Also add to that more/better mics for coverage and the complexity of it guessing when you're asking it to remind you to buy toothpaste or your SO... It can probably be done by tracking who's home, who's in the room with the speaker, who the speaker is, etc but it's all cost..
> Does this authorise Hamas to go there and raze the entire country to the ground? Please let me know.

Pretty much yes according to too many liberal professors in ivy league universities. I think human lives on both sides are quite cheap to them.
It seems though the person who did this repo already violated the copyright by adding these annotations to the source code, correct?

It wouldn't be a reason or validation for others doing the same, of course.

However, whatever one would choose to do, it's best not to do it in GitHub..
CRUD backends have well-understood requirements, in a way, a significant part of the work is done for you. You are there to customize certain parts only.

How else would you architect with this in mind? Given that literally every other framework is quite similar (RoR, PHP's solutions, etc).

There is another niche, the HTTP server libraries, but they are much more low level.
Hah I played twice and did not meaningfully inprove my score. Even after seeing the color I could not match it up close enough, and the first time I got pretty close to most colors.
Sure cars are helpful for transporting stuff. But most car rides is one dude sitting alone in a 1.5 ton machine moving his lazy ass around town.

Public transport, if done correctly, can replace that, also outside of big cities. There are good examples across Europe for this.
I'm only seeing the one picture with that kind of damage (the first one); the other one has circles drawn around the pitting to highlight them, indicative that they're pretty small to begin with.
PHP and composer do. You can specify native extensions in the composer.json file, along with an optional version requirement, and install them using composer just fine. Dependencies can in turn depend on specific extensions, or just recommend them without mandating an installation.
This works across UNIX and Windows, as far as I’m aware.
maybe the author should update slightly the grayscale once a week to make the software not look unsupported?
Thanks, nice background to the whole event. I wonder why so little of it is part of wiki.

Yes, song is likely geo-locked, but youtube just gives vague "video not available". Weird, it's usually more generous on error messages.
I suspect the advent of self driving cars will just help get the streets even more clogged with cars.
> Is there a single developed economy that doesn't make significant use of trucks and cars?

You do not even need to restrict it to developed economies. Every city (even not very large ones) I have been to around the world, developed or not, has streets lots of cars: London, Manchester, Paris, Nairobi, Colombo, Madras, Bangalore, Sydney, Singapore..... and smaller towns and rural areas in those countries too. Those cover a pretty wide range of quality of public transport too.
From another comment, said documentary: https://youtu.be/S-rj8m7Ssow
I doubt that the reason public transport is not as prevalent e.g. in the US as in some European countries is the cost of the driver. The fixed costs of operating a train or a bus must be many many times more.
2.3m people we don't need to pay any more. Jobs'll open up, that money will go somewhere else.
Hard agree. Soviet Union built its economy around making sure that everyone had a job and, as a result... oh wait, nevermind.
The inevitable reality: https://xkcd.com/927/