skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hawking radiation gives you a lower bound for the size of a primordial black hole that still exists, at 10^15 g. Primordial black holes largely cannot grow, because they would be traveling very fast, likelihood of interaction with ordinary matter is very small, and there is no mechanism that would slow them down.

So if there are some in our galaxy, they would just be zipping about at intergalactic speeds until the heat death of the universe, or until they hit the event horizon of a larger black hole and get absorbed. The present-day universe is just too sparse for them to form or accrete material.
these crashes should have been caught easily
We also use temporal, it’s pretty great. Their ui makes it easy to debug workflows too.
I actually didn't find this odd. I'm child-free, but one thing I've often read about/seen is how life just...disappears...once you have kids. Your time is either consumed by stomach punching, kids, or chores with very little left over.

It's possible that his spouse didn't even notice that he was slowly losing it. It's possible that his spouse _doesn't even know_ that he gets punched in the stomach for work.
Can you point me to one single example of "a founder being celebrated on this website for 'epic demo hacks' that are fraudulent"?

Genuinely asking.

Be sure that the fraud is obvious at the time of the post (and not in retrospect), is actively celebrated at the time.
Kuwait is quite similar in its structure to the Greek city state, usually consisting of an urban core and its surroundings.

Also Monaco and San Marino where occupied for some time during WW2. Not sure if they count as modern city states in your view ;-)

City states just do not have enough strategic depth to be defensible in modern warfare.

That being said, Singapore is a good example for a modern city state that maintains quite a strong deterrence against being conquered.
I've used beacons a lot in installations. I found their reliability was a bit over-promised [1]. If you want to know whether a user is within a 4 metre sphere, in a time window of about 5 seconds, then it's fine. But don't hope for anything more precise than that; the false positives/negatives aren't great.

A large part of the variation I found was due to how individual users held their phones, and the resulting signal attenuation.

[1] https://hackaday.com/2015/12/18/immersive-theatre-via-ibeaco...
At the scale of Apple, is a specific device configuration that 'only' meets the needs of 3% of their market economically unviable? Did they build a whole special factory just for the slightly smaller device?
I used my phone for USB tethering a good bit on the go. I also had a version of Google Maps in 2005ish timeframe on 3G. I would often be able to stream music from internet mp3 and aac streams. I also had Opera Mini in 2005 over 3G internet.

It was only like $15/mo for unlimited data to add to my dumb phone plan. I didn't use the free dumb phone with the plan, I just popped the SIM into other devices.
Y'know what, I didn't think of adding my feeds to the head. SMDH

They're just links in the footer.

Okay, NOW it's fixed haha! Good grief.
I don't know when it was enabled, but on Desktop if you click on the Grok icon on a Tweet, it will tell you all the context. It's been quiet useful to keep up with obscure posts that pop up.
The obvious problem with that is that 90hz is just as good as 120hz for 95% of people. (60hz is as good as 90hz for probably 70%)
Build an AI agent for that :D
Gonna lance them SWEs like a boil!
> It makes sense that we don’t elect a fed chairmen, but if the fed chairmen doesn’t report to any elected official then where do they get their authority?

Congress put in a process for a fed chairman to be appointed in a way that jointly incorporates president, house and senate. Similarly firing them also needs joint cooperation, then the people have some say by electing/unelecting a congress or president that fucks it up. Same for FDA, USPS, etc etc. I definitely want a formalized process to hire and fire these guys and not just up to whims of individual executives.
> Sorry, but no - putting the burden on the developer to detect whether they are running in a container or not and then determine and adjust to cgroup settings is far too high an encumbrance on the service developer.

Because there’s no one way solution to this problem, the problem isn’t unique to only Go, but every GC language because you’re starving the program if there isn’t sufficient CPU Quota it will all eventually lead to CPU throttling, this isn’t really the problem of Go or any other GC language but at the OS layer, the inherent nature of containers

Secondly am pretty sure the Linux CFS does not strictly follow the CPU Quota, tho there could be something like a panic or warning, or switching to entirely different memory management just for what ? people who want 10ms ?
Microsoft researchers promise entire game worlds made from AI slop
Back in my day, new advancements meant smaller phones. Hopefully we get back there soon. Till then, I'm sticking with my iPhone 12 mini.
It's probably the same as the 2x zoom in the iPhone 16 line. The 1x pictures are a 48MP sensor that does some pixel-combining to output a 12MP image. The 2x pictures are a crop of 12MP in the center of the sensor, that doesn't do any combining. So it's still "optical", but it's lower-quality than the 1x.
"games" here being mods and indie games. I doubt Valve is making much if anything in engine licensing fees from these.
Okay, so detecting damage to people from PMBs would be difficult. People are fairly difficult to work with as a specimen anyway, so wouldn’t a more meaningful study be “what easily detectable evidence would be imparted by one?” Holes in silicon wafers?
The economics of a game engine engine business are grossly inferior to an app store. Steam charges 30% of gross (25% at high volume), Unity charges by seats and not fees after (huge backlash when they tried to go the other way and indies bailed to GODOT.) Unreal Engine 3.5-5% and maybe some seat fees now.

If you were a developer you are looking the other way, getting those app store fees down.

The App Stores - Steam, iOS, Google Play, are making higher margins per game than most game devs, and that's based on hard numbers not a guess. There is no meaningful way for game developers - artists, programmers, and everyone else involved - to make more money other than getting rid of the app store fees.

There is a whole explanation about network effects here, and endless debate about what the fees should be. There is a cost to sell a game and it is not small. Several percent just go to credit card processing, refunds, and fraud. More has to go for the infrastructure to deliver games and updates. Then there has to be some margin. Then there maybe should be a premium that goes to the "app store" so that developers don't have to worry about distributing their app to thousands of locations. There is another premium that really is delivering demand for the game in the first place. Many sales would never happen on Steam if the users were not shown the game as featured or recommended. Most developers have no problem paying 30% for a sale that would otherwise never have happened.

However, if I went back in a time machine to 1999 when you drove to a retail store to pick a game box off of a shelf, and you told me some arbitrary application would get to take 30% of all game sales decades in the future, I would have said that's fucking crazy. More developers should be able to seamlessly sell their games direct to their players, and I'm not entirely sure why they don't. Selling a digital item online is definitely simpler than developing a successful game.

Edit: And if you look at Unity's financials they are in real trouble and probably will only survive if another larger, profitable, company acquires them. Not a great feeling for game developers who might suddenly be paying Facebook/Meta or someone worse their license fees.
> Money is by definition zero sum, otherwise the word "inflation" would have no meaning.

Not sure that I agree, nor that the one follows from the other.

Without having the advantage of an Economics degree, I have witnessed when rising tides have lifted all boats and a majority of U.S. society benefited. Perhaps "wealth" is not a zero sum.

And if that is case, talking about "money" is orthogonal. We should talk instead about disposable income, standard of living, etc.
I meant the people who wanted a small phone experienced it, and were disappointed, and it gained a bad reputation, potentially turning off others who also wanted a small phone.

There was a big gap (5+ years?) between the small iPhone SE and the 12 mini, so a lot of people jumping on 12 mini and being disappointed by the small phone may have resulted in disappointing sales of 13 mini.

But I’m sure the phone sellers know what they are doing, it just would have been nice to even be able to still buy a 13 mini. None of the new phones have any capabilities I care about.

Edit to respond to below:

I am not assuming that, I am actually assuming the opposite. There may have been pent up demand due to the long gap between the small iPhone SE and 12 mini, so when the 12 mini came out and disappointed, people who had been waiting to upgrade chose a non mini reducing the total number of minis sold. And then the 13 mini was discontinued by the time those people needed a new phone.

But again, probably wishful thinking on my part.
I'm sure Apple still pays patent licensing fees to Qualcomm even if Apple is now manufacturing their own modem.
As an aside, I believe Nikola was at one time one of the more significant commercial users of the Crystal programming language. I wonder if they were/still major contributors to that ecosystem.
You joke but China literally does this for VAT
Friend, I think I see your concern, and I may have an answer. Most of the bureaucracy is apolitical. However, the heads and higher-ups of each agency are appointed by the currently in-office politicians.

So the upper management is composed of political appointments. And like any other organization, the upper management has considerable discretion in setting priorities.

re: "politically selective law enforcement" is not a good thing, because laws are one of the things that are supposed to constrain politicians.
It has all to do with this

> Please note that they are pretty much on target since. I have been following CFS closely.

And their credibility.
You call that maintaining a network?

I call it five minutes of setup, if even.

And if you're dealing with SQLite, are you making backups somewhere on a network? Securely? With credentials? Where do you keep the credentials for your webserver itself? If you're running a website, you're dealing with networking and credentials from the start.
The website isn't loading for me, so I guess I'll have to ask someone to read it orally and tell me what it's about.
Carbon, gen6, chosen after reading Joshua Stein [0]. As I understand it, OpenBSD and NVIDIA aren't a lovely pairing.

0. https://jcs.org/2019/08/14/x1c7
I'm interested to see how these perform at the edge of reception, which still is a massive drain. Before I had an iPhone with satellite reception, turning on airplane mode when hiking was essential for battery life.

My current iPhone (and I had to check which one I have...) actually is much more sticky to satellite. It wont switch back to cellular immediately.
> I see what you’re getting at but it does feel like goalposts are being moved, no?

I don't think so. I am not setting the "goalpost" here, it was expressed as "LLMs have cracked natural language comprehension".

I just don't think they have. There are tons of statements I would agree with regarding what LLMs have achieved, but this one is not part of them :-).
You're assuming that people upgrade phones every year, which (again) most do not. A badly received 12 mini would have almost no broad market effect on the sales of the 13 mini. Not unless most iPhone sales are by word of mouth.
Heads up to others, you have to sign up to test drive it, and when you try to sign up, it's a waitlist.
> Failed projects spent a great portion on writing code.

Perhaps because the project requirements were not known or kept changing?

I'm reminded of the quip about "Why spend an hour in a meeting when you can spend weeks writing code to avoid it?"
The biggest question for me is depreciation. My 2022 Model Y in perfect condition with 50k miles on it is probably worth less than 1/3 of what I paid for it. That’s very tough to stomach.

As we think about offloading the Tesla, I’m left wondering if this is a point in time issue (due to Tesla dropping prices so dramatically, their brand being in the gutter, lingering post-pandemic market effects, slowly evolving consumer hesitations about EVs) or a permanent reality where EVs will just never command the resale value that ICE cars do.

On the other side of the equation, there are some great deals to be had in the used EV market. We added a second EV last year and saved in the neighborhood of $20,000 on a Volvo XC40 Recharge that might as well have been new.
So as long as someone does a good job they can work remotely and when they like. Almost sounds like evaluations like these should be based on performance and not when and where you work from.
They're still dumping roughly the same amount of money into the Metaverse hole as they were in 2022 ($4-5B/quarter), investors have just warmed up to it (and spending growth slowed down).
This is all relative. In absolute terms, the iPhone SE alone would be one of the most successful products in the world, more successful than the original iPhone back in the day.

iPhone as a category is so massive now that small percentages are still millions of people.

It's kind of sad that Apple itself has become so huge, because now the company ignores people it used to care about.
Of course there are a million things you can do and find and learn now, that you couldn't in the early 90s, and I'm glad for that part. The overall quality of the discourse today though... not so much.
If somebody is interested in how the Nikola Trucks drive, there is a great YouTube channel from a German truck driver, that drives the European version (IVECO) of the Nikola truck on a daily basis across Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/@electrictrucker

German channel: https://www.youtube.com/@elektrotrucker
World and Human Action Models towards gameplay ideation
The lightphone is an option.

A few lower end black and white screen Android phones exist, and that seems closer to what you want.

I have some other obligations to handle, but the iPhone 16e looks perfect for me. You can replace so much music production gear with an IOS device. Can legit plug in a microphone and record a full album, which just isn't really their on Android.

It's beyond frustrating, but on IOS you have amazing music production, and Android is like 10 years behind. I wish Apple would offer a musicians edition with a headphone jack ( I'd literally pay an extra 150$) , but that's never going to happen...
They made their own modem, the right move but still brave, I bet there are a lot of 'Chestertons Fences' in those.
This is just concern trolling now. Game source code releases are often not 100% complete due to parts that coulen't be released.
> So they’re going to leave people code that either doesn’t compile or, if it does, doesn’t work?

I think that in general, potential open source developers would not care at all about that. Some code (that doesn't yet work) is better than no code. As someone else mentioned, a motivated open source group could probably easily fill in all the missing gaps within a month.
Avante also has @quickfix (push quick fix list into the context) and my change to add @buffers (add open buffers to the context) was merged this morning.
Tanagram: Tools for complex codebases, inspired by 5 years of building at Stripe
It's also better at non-english languages (at least the couple I'm interested in)

I wonder if it's related
I'd probably check this out in my home lab but as a corporate user the offering of discord as a support channel makes me nervous.

Discord is predominately blocked on a corporate networks. Artifactory ( & Nexus) are very common in corporate environments. Corporate proxies are even more common. This is why I'd hesitate. These are common use cases (albeit corporate) that may not be readily available in the docs.
If you think profit doesn't relate to human welfare directly then I welcome you to head into any economically depressed third world village and turn it into a utopia. Oh wait, you can't maintain the sizable bureaucratic structure and intellectual workforce when over 90% of the population is engaged in subsidence farming by necessity in order to not die of starvation.

You quite literally take the productivity of capitalism for granted and assume that its products are simply the natural state of existence, and that in the absence of the evil capitalist you would have instant magical utopias. Such folly is like thinking that if you got rid of the evil and heavy pollution-spewing engine burdening your car, you would then go even faster without any of that pollution. The work being performed is vital, even though it is outside of your ideologically blinkered willful inability to understand.

The rapid growth of education depended upon capitalism and the rise of paper-making and printing operations which themselves are dependent upon profit seeking and the price discovery mechanisms. More importantly it depended upon there being a market for books a middle class which could usefully apply those results.

If you find yourself wondering "why didn't revolutionary invention X, Y, or Z take off at this period even further in the past" the usual answer you get is that they lacked an essential prerequisite for its deployment.
Hey, thanks! Yes, I know about Fman. I’ve tried pretty much all file explorers on Windows, a fair number on Linux, and fewer on macOS. I watched that video a couple of years ago, it had some nice insights. Thanks for sharing that.

I've been talking about File Pilot since the early days of the project, so I managed to build a following on Twitter and Discord, along with a decent number of email subscribers. I'm hoping that'll be enough to spread the word.

I'm sorry Fman didn't work out for you as a business. But truth be told, you need to deliver something exceptional to compete with established players. While I don't see other file explorer alternatives as direct competition, I do think File Pilot will bring a breath of fresh air. We'll see how it goes!
I guess a lot of people don't really have a computer or laptop anymore, their phone is their computer which they use for everything, so it makes sense to want as big a screen as possible.

For the kinds of people who frequent HN, I'd wager we all do have a computer, heck there's probably a laptop in your backpack right now, so it makes sense to have a smaller phone for 'phone stuff' and whip out your laptop to do anything more involved.

Still though, surely Apple made money from the mini, even 3% of iPhone sales is a lot of phone sales! I wish they would keep it around.
Sadly NIHS is a severe problem in the US.

*NIHS = Not Invented Here Syndrome
The power used by a computer isn't limited by giving it less voltage/current than it should have - if it was, the CPU would crash almost immediately. It's done by reducing the CPU's clock rate until the power it naturally consumes is less than the power limit.
I don't care about 99.99% of Twitter posts enough to read them, but I'd certainly not call them "massive" -- in fact, much of my lack of interest in microblog posts comes from them being far too short to convey any ideas of substance.

Consider that you might indeed have a short attention span, and that there might be a lot of insights and concepts that you may be missing out on due to unwillingness to engage with long-form writing.
> There are some rather unhinged people on the left, sure, but they're basically just nutters on the internet, maybe a few activist groups, and things like that. They're certainly not the ones running the show

Just the other day, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) was quoted as saying, regarding his own Democratic Party, that “I think the majority of the party realizes that the ideological purity of some of the groups is a recipe for disaster and that candidly the attack on over-the-top wokeism was a valid attack” - https://www.politico.eu/article/us-senator-mark-warner-democ...

So, (if I’m interpreting you correctly) you are saying extreme views isn’t a major problem in the Democratic Party, while Senator Warner is arguing it was a significant contributor to their loss in the 2024 election, and hence Trump being back in the White House. Who is right here?
I suspect that the gun crowd is just trying to fanceify "come and take it" and is more thinking of the Texas revolution than thermopoly
> Wouldn't a columnar store be 25 512MB arrays?

Hm I guess you're right - I'm misusing the term. And yeah! Will experiment with it; what's neat is that it's not that much code to mess around with these basic notions...

Re: 224 << 24 - you're right; so many unusable actual addresses. It's just kind of neat to actually map out whole ipv4 space to memory. But yes lots of it unneeded, I'll see if I can add minimum-computation-possible mapping translation so that everything still stays ~kind of O(1).

Thank you for your comments! :)

edit P.S. 25 x 512MiB arrays - actually thank you, I thought of doing sth like that at first, but now forget why didn't start experimenting with that sort-of-actual-columnar-store from the beginning.. anyway, nice to quickly mess around with multiple base data layouts (I'll try that one next I think), would recommend anyone wanting to attain base knowledge on e.g. data layouts for data analysis...
AI can now model and design the genetic code for all domains of life with Evo 2
Weird :) .
Curriculum Interleaved Online Behavior Cloning for Complex RL Applications
Of course, since they gimped it. What about creating a smaller version laden with features...
Apple leans its weight heavily on controversial smartphone changes and defines trends for the rest of the industry, even when it's not the first company to do so. When it removed the headphone jack, introduced the screen notch, or added a camera bump, everyone followed afterward despite the grumbling.

So keeping that in mind, regarding the modem, I remember prior comments about it being near-impossible or extremely difficult for Apple to cut out Qualcomm because of the decentralized network of mobile towers, operators, proprietary information, legacy cruft, edge cases, hardware and geographical testing, etc., which Qualcomm handles as part of its value-add. If Apple starts spearheading changes in how phone modems work, could we imagine mobile towers playing along and converging? Or is it more entrenched than that?

Prior discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287977
Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor
Check out the battery life!

> iPhone 16e has the best battery life ever on a 6.1-inch iPhone, lasting up to six hours longer than iPhone 11 and up to 12 hours longer than all generations of iPhone SE.

Their page comparing models claims the new 16e gets "26 hours video playback."

iPhone 16e: 26 hours
iPhone 16: 22 hours
iPhone 15: 20 hours
iPhone 14: 20 hours
iPhone 13: 19 hours
iPhone 12: 17 hours
iPhone 11: 17 hours

The new battery life seems to be mostly due to their new Apple C1 cellular modem, replacing the Qualcomm modems in earlier models.

> Expanding the benefits of Apple silicon, C1 is the first modem designed by Apple and the most power-efficient modem ever on an iPhone, delivering fast and reliable 5G cellular connectivity. Apple silicon — including C1 — the all-new internal design, and the advanced power management of iOS 18 all contribute to extraordinary battery life.
You're correct — but they were in fact responding to someone that also offered no sources.

You can engage in the Gish gallop if you like, but to the original comment: extraordinary claims require....