skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can thank Apple for the Lightning connector

They did move to USB-C, but the lightning connector was actually a great product, far superior in usability to the Micro-USB, Mini-USB, and whatever other nonsense standards that existed. When Apple wanted to move to USB-C people complained about them "changing standards all the time". There really isn't a move that pleases everyone and even when they do the "right" thing people still complain lol.

> App Store too, for all the good it does everyone in the EU

The Apple App Store is pretty great. There's a large, vocal minority of folks that want changes there, but they also aren't the ones that have to deal with grandma and grandpa doing crazy stuff. If you want another App Store just by an Android phone since that's a feature they offer. Kind of like if I wanted a phone with a larger megapixel camera or something I'd buy something else.
> To prevent China from building whizzy AI chips, America has barred ASML from selling its most advanced gear to Chinese chipmakers.

Isn't that the craziest thing? America can prevent the Netherlands selling goods to China. Isolationist America? What did they threaten the Netherlands with, I wonder?
There is already a lot of automation and tech involved in creating images. At what point of automation is the image considered created by the AI rather than the human? When does the hand-off occur? There are photoshop filters that involve using neural networks to create complex patterns. Are those images owned by the human or not? The amount of processing done by digital SLRs is staggering. Millions of hours of work went into all the science and tech that eventually led to a digital SLR, but some rando human who clicked a button keeps the copyright? A human had to click a button to generate that AI image as well. At what point does the machinery become so complex that it's no longer considered the human's image?
Send the bill to my manager
Yes, I would expect kinetic action (missiles and SOF) before very long. I also anticipate he'll continue to engage in political provocations of Canada in hopes of engineering some kind of diplomatic incident.
Are we going to invade China?

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...
>Musk was a darling of the left like 2 years ago

Eh, maybe like 6 years ago. Hasn't been true for quite some time now.
Pennywise pound foolish and harming UX at the same time. They could just require that Spotify logs the plays and uploads them on the next connection. Resulting in more plays and more money. But instead they block it for the 0.1% of the time that the watch is lost, destroyed or reinstalled before that sync happens.

And people wonder why piracy happens.
It's still valuable to point out that the crimes of this administration are crimes. They aren't going to stop doing them until they are stopped. But framing their crimes as expected implies they are normal and of no particular consequence.

This one thing is, all by itself, worthy of impeachment and prison sentences for the people who abetted it. Add it to the list, and don't downplay even the small ones. If we're going to come out the other side of this every one of these violations matters and will need to be accounted for.
In practice, this sort of thing amounts to proclaiming lower primate tribal dynamics “human skills” and enabling them rather than supplanting or engineering around them.

Sure, you’re more effective in the context of the game if you play the game and play it competently, but that is advocating for the best way to do the dumb/wrong thing instead of advocating for the smart/right thing.
> you can override this silly default

But Apple sure won't, seeing as Music.app conveniently displays a modal advertisement for Apple Music when it launches.

Silly defaults. At what point does it stop being silly and start being a dark pattern?
You are right but there are a lot of curmudgeons that want you to get of their lawn with your AI. Really this whole situation is more of an indictment of copyright rather than of AI.
The 7.1 version was just released today.
They're not CPAs, they have zero auditing experience, and the federal government is one of the largest entities on Earth. What could possibly go wrong? It's insane that the Republican Congress allows this to continue, but here we are.

From now on, whenever you hear "DOGE did this" or "DOGE did that", or "Trump did this" or "Trump did that" - just remember they're doing it with the blessings of this Republican Congress, because they can put a stop to this at any time of their choosing.
a man's dependent children are not his "social connections." whether my scenario is the correct path or not, I'd repeat that considering this is what other advice should be seen in light of.

however, if you want to drill down on it: what is a guy going to do with a pc he needs secure shelter to operate? what kind of decisions is he going to make that protect it? what kind of promises is he going to make and break to his kids when he can't take care of himself?

if they're indeed safe somewhere, get into a position with something to provide. it would be smarter to sell the pc and buy a guitar as at least he can busk with it.
If we assume that both the typical engineer and non technical person is not a jerk, it’s still easier to talk to an engineer because you both speak the same language and usually have the same concept of the world.

It’s harder for many engineers to be outcome focus (what non engineers care about “business value”) and work backwards without getting into the weeds. Engineers usually think in terms of process.

Engineers are also more pessimistic thinking about all of the things that can go wrong and non engineers are usually more optimistic seeing everything that is possible. I’m not passing judgment on either.

The “Geek Leader’s Handbook” (https://www.slideshare.net/CommunicationCoach/the-geeks-guid...) and my pass Amazon indoctrination of “Working Backwards” helped me a lot.
The details in the article are horrifying and amount to state censorship in the same style of countries like Russia and China. There’s no reason for democratic countries to have these kinds of authoritarian controls. The labeling of content as illegal is a dangerous weapon. I think there could be a way of fixing inauthentic content or accounts and improving transparency with algorithms, to have healthier social media. But going beyond that just looks like manipulation of the public and of elections.
We are talking about WinForms specifically. If you want crossplatform GUI, then don't write it in WinForms - write it in Gtk#, or Avalonia, or Uno, or ...

Note that C++, Rust, Go all don't have any kind of standard GUI support out of the box at all.
Philly's street fentanyl contains a chemical called BTMPS used in plastic
Not yet, but the NVIDIA RTX 5000 (Blackwell) series does not use a newer manufacturing process, so their energy efficiency is slightly worse than that of the RTX 4000 SUPER (Ada) series, which remain the most efficient GPUs (e.g. RTX 4080 SUPER).

The RTX 5000 (Blackwell) series has increased the performance only by using bigger chips and a higher power consumption. The RTX Pro Blackwell series use the same chips as the consumer series.
over the past few months I have been developing a all-in-one music social media app that allows you to share, discover, and review music like never before. where do concerts come in? echo offers a refreshing UI that takes you from the concert/festival discovery stage all the way to uploading photos/videos after the event has concluded. if this sounds interesting to anyone, please take a look and provide any feedback you have.
What third party apps can see notifications and send via iMessage?
I design this kind of stuff for companies for a living. I was thinking the same thing, I could design and source them but the business and distribution side would be foreign to me.
It is learnable.

Check Olivia Fox Cabane’s book The Charisma Myth. I’ve read this and found about 30-40% of it to be implementable and a percent of that have positive outcomes.
Garmin watches can start Spotify playback offline just fine. You need to have synced your playlist within last 30 days, IIRC, and that's it.
> The moment you start ingesting the firehose

Probably someone who started ingesting the firehose
>OK, so is this article about what three to four thousand people are experiencing? And speculatively applied to Americans as a whole?

Are you implying Gallup did not conduct the study correctly? They are among the most credible sources you could hope to find.
AMD has documentation for its assembly language as I remember. Or one needs more documentation to run AI?
There's no incompetence involved.

If you read the story, none of the more expensive, "legacy publishing houses", like Elsevier, had their contracts cancelled.

All of the publication access to university presses and open access publishers were cancelled.

This is another power/money grab
Was just in an Apple Store yesterday mulling over whether or not to switch back to macOS after 15 years on Linux PCs.

Both MacBook Pros and Airs are nice machines, but macOS, for me, it's a huge step back.

Unfortunately the Asahi project is underfunded (likely one of the reasons the project founder/lead jumped ship recently), and as a result M4 support is likely a year+ away.

Oh wells, let's see what Dell and Lenovo have on offer this spring/summer. Should be able to get a pretty decent PC laptop for less than the $4k+ an MBP 16" with 2TB/64GB will cost.
The memory is soldered on top of the package, here's an actual real life photo of the M1 package with two LPDDR packages sitting on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1#/media/File:Mac_Mini_...

You could call that on-package, but it's not on-package in the same way that GPU HBM is, with that the main die and memory dies are packaged together on the same substrate. That's a much more difficult and expensive process, apparently packaging is the main bottleneck for H100/H200 production.

https://i.imgur.com/hFTPyjk.jpeg
Dont look for answers online. Go meet with a social worker and seek professional help within your community. It's there. They've seen it before. They can help.
First of all I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your mother and grandmother. Losing one relative is hard enough, but losing another and then experiencing a separation is quite a lot to go through.

In your spare time, it may be good to visit the Switchpoint center to help get their advice and support:

https://switchpointcrc.org
948 N 1300 W,
St. George, UT 84770

With regards to the $890 you would pay to continue driving the car you use to work as a cab driver for Lyft/Uber, I would ask:

- The $400 for tyres - there are 20+ tyre shops in St George, Utah. Which tyre shop did you visit in St George for your quote? It might be possible to get a better deal. I don't know, but it's possible. If you google "Tyre shop St George. Utah", you will see the list of options there.

- With regards to the insurance, if there is a price comparison site in the US for insurance, try it out and see if you can reduce that amount. I know in the UK there is comparethemarket.com and gocompare.com as examples, so I presume that there has to be something like that in the US?

I would ask "how much do you make weekly doing this job?" alongside "how much are your weekly expenses?" to help workout your income and outgoings to work out how sustainable your current situation is, and where changes can be applied to make it not just sustainable, but actually getting you to a place where you are good.

In terms of programming, what are your skills like?, what programming have you/are you doing? Do you have a GitHub profile where you have code that you can show to people?

If you are programming right now, then it might not be necessary to go and attend classes in school/college/university to study this subject. I can confirm that from 1st-hand experience. I studied a course in University in the UK that was a mixture of Business and Mathematics, but I ended up becoming a software developer.

What programming languages/apps/tools/frameworks are you familiar with?

It may be enough to sit down at a job interview, ask someone to pair program with you on a coding scenario, and demonstrate your capabilities right there and then. If the time allows.

In terms of finding local programming jobs, that will require searching for those.

Also, if you have a desktop computer, like others have suggested in the HackerNews thread, having a laptop will be far easier. See if you can find options to exchange the desktop for a laptop computer - donations, part exchange, part-payment anything. The mobility will enable you to be more mobile and suit you.

Lastly, you mentioned Ketamine. Please be careful because that is a very addictive substance and in the UK recently a public figure by the name of "the Viviene" died from consuming it.

Lastly, I hope that for your case that you manage to get to a better place. Life is a journey and not necessarily a smooth one - we hope for better times, but you can't rely on hope to gift you that - you have to strive for it.

I will leave you with one of the most inspirational talks I've ever watched - Jim Carrey's commencement speech at the Maharishi International University of Management class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYAk295MZZM
That's academic ethics. Academia holds itself to a high standard - voluntarily. Used car salesmen do not.
Unless you are giving trump literally millions of dollars, that doesn't matter.

How much he cares about your opinion is directly proportional to the money you give and could give him. When competing with a billionaire, 0 -> $100,000 is basically meaningless.
> is to have pressed the button

I don’t think the act of pressing the button is what determines copyright. Presumably that person would have been able to get the copyright to the image had he actually argued that he was the author (which he was).
Different than gaslighting? One is not with malice?
I know this is going to sound weird, but I'd really love a stylish smartwatch without any wireless comms of any kind on board. And I think a lot of people living in and around Arlington, VA would as well.
It doesn’t follow that the past had to be a shit show for the future to not be a shit show.

In any case we are largely still learning when it comes to security and I don’t really want to make things less secure for the many just to satisfy the few.
It's not though. Even generally good YouTubers are forced to play the thumbnail game. Garbage content is typically revealed in the community title.
It’s amazing how history kind of repeats. It’s crazy how the dark ages happened and how they can happen again.
all taxpayer funded research should be open sourced.
"The Art of Electronics" is the classic in this area.
Of course it's ddr5 not 4.
On the whole though I think Harvard has a budget

Right, but how do they set that budget? The cost part of the budget is the result of decison-making.

Yeah because the services the provide are insanely expensive.

The 'insanely expensive' isn't something inherent to the services themselves. Harvard can spend tons of money because it has tons of money.

Imagine a SaaS company that has really inefficient operations. Would you be willing to pay a higher price for that product than for a competing one that has equally good features and UX, just because the former is insanely expensive to operate?

You can argue that the services they provide aren't worth it, but clearly the people who go there believe they are.

People aren't paying for the services. They're paying for the name.

Imagine this. Harvard offers any student a $20k per year discount on fees, with one condition: you don't get the piece of paper, and you can never tell anyone you studied at Harvard, or even imply that you did. Would people take that deal? They'd get all the same services, so why not?
I mean a more straightforward comparison would be that this is a continuation of privatization & deregulation a la Thatcherism/Reaganism or w/e.

Thatcherism on ketamine if you will
That is maybe questionable behaviour from the headphones. But the worse problem is that there is no way to change what media player is used. I don't use Apple Music, have no songs in it and no subscription. But it opens that rather than the player I do use.

I'm pretty sure I have also launched Apple Music accidentally with some keyboard button or touchbar action. For a "premium" device having to close Apple Music (effectively an ad) a few times a week is not acceptable.
Then why does the dwindling inner reserve seem to line up so neatly to completed objectives? E.g. you successfully emerge from the dark period, but are unwilling or unmotivated to grind through another. The end of a struggle is not usually conveniently timed to match your age.
If SBF is what you think of when you think of charisma, you've never actually met a charismatic person.
> NYT literally gives away some content for free and charges for the rest

Yes. Not half.
Having an open standard doesn't mean every implementer will do so in good faith and using best practices, the consumer still ultimately has to make a choice about which product they use, and can continue to use apple's solution if they trust in apple to securely implement the spec. The insane strawman you're proposing is that the choice is between a single blessed solution from Apple that's infallible, and a wild west where the only way for a consumer to be safe is to personally audit their device against a 4000 page specification document. Absurd! We use devices and software every day that implement open standards and while issues do arise in particular implementations, they do with no more frequency than issues are discovered in proprietary solutions and standards.

Go look at the CVE's for iMessage, plurality of RCE's on apple devices in the last decade is Apple's iMessage implementation, and it's their own protocol! And almost all of the rest are apple's implementation of the open web standards!
It’s a neat concept, but I think the microwaveable ones have a shorter longevity. They say it can only be microwaved around 5 times. I suspect they just work because when heated, the erasable ink becomes invisible.

On the normal pocketbooks, the ink actually washes off with just a bit of water. It’s very similar to a whiteboard in that regard. I know I’ve cleaned out my notebook more than five times, it’s still basically good as new. Except one page where I accidentally used a normal non-erasable pen.
just what everyone loves to receive when announcing they published a book, unsolicited advice on the cover from an anonymous person on the internet.
I've heard it all before, both of these are simple to refute. Apple designed the USB-C connector, they knew it was an option. But as is Apple tradition, they created a new licensed serial and power connector specifically for their phones to promote MFi, their arbitrary USB DRM. Apple could have switched to USB-C at any time; they had no issue shipping millions of peripherals and Macs with them onboard. But they didn't, because then they couldn't foist a proprietary standard onto their most lucrative submarket.

> If you want another App Store just by an Android phone since that's a feature they offer.

Sorry, this is bullshit. Alternative sources for installing software will always exist, even current iPhone users have to accept Cydia as an option. You don't ever have to leave the Apple App Store, but your preference has no right to enforce an artificial limitation onto other users. The Mac as a product would not exist without third-party software distribution, the iPhone is undeniably stifled by Apple's stance on the matter.
That’s the Guardian for you.
Clearly not ALL users are happy because users of non-Apple watches are unhappy that their watch can do things with Android it's not allowed to do on iOS.

It's not reasonable to make a blanket absolutist statement like that.
The rate limit is extremely low for good minesweeper players. My mean time for finished expert games without marking is something like 130 seconds. If I half-mark in order to use the left+right click effectively, that knocks like 20 seconds off.

The rate-limit seems to be 2 clicks/sec. a 130s time at expert is 3.8 clicks/sec. My record is just a little more than half that.
That's their justification. I never had security problems on Android, and I actually find Android to be more cohesive. Just a few things where iOS is uncohesive to me: You can customize the keyboard, but it will not work everywhere the same. Apps will send you randomly through hoops to click some permissions things in settings. App settings are sometimes centralized, sometimes in the app. There is no single way to "back" to the previous screen.

I actually switched to an iPhone some time ago and was expecting it to be like you said. But I was shocked that iOS is actually less coherent and a mess in some places, and the App store could be curated better. To be honest the reason I still use it is because the hardware is really good and because it is pretty.
Yes, and what if they had a tab in the Bluesky app where you generated a keypair, registered the pubkey at your PDS and then began signing messages in the app? You could rotate keys on demand and update the PDS every time you make a new one.
This DOGE action makes that system far far worse:

> Most of the affected publishers are university or nonprofit scientific society presses, including Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; the American Phytopathological Society; the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which publishes the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; and AAAS, which publishes Science. (Science’s News section is editorially independent.) Several of the journals whose subscriptions were canceled rank in the top quartile for impact factor in their subfield—for example, the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Food & Function and Oxford’s Journal of Integrated Pest Management.

> The National Agricultural Library cuts didn’t include journals at Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley. Together those publishers accounted for more than half of the library’s journal subscriptions before the cuts, according to an analysis by Science. Studies of journal subscription fees indicate that on average, scientific society publishers charge less than such for-profit companies.

Only the most greedy pay-walled publishers are getting paid now.

And on top of it all the current researchers are missing out on a lot of research.
How much has SKU explosion lead to mask set explosion and having to do runs, bank that and switching to another set of masks?

At this point they should just produce Xeons and support at most 2 sockets. I don't care if they fuse off features with cryptographic keys. Ship one piece of silicon to everyone, streamline the shit out of that.

ECC everywhere, no questions asked.
My understanding is that they aren't nearly as problematic as some other non-native plants though, like veldt grass, pampas grass, English ivy, sourgrass (African wood-sorrel), ice plant, Himalayan blackberry, cotoneaster, periwinkle, etc.
It’s not hard to roughly calculate tax.
Nvidia Dynamo: A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework
I'm actually using a customized version of Universal Blue that Bazzite is also based on. Very slick setup
Yes, it is theft of the US Treasury, pure and simple. DOGE is salivating to get their hands on the Social Security Trust Fund, a fund all US people paid into over the past ~80 years.
Apparently they tried to acquire Wiz last year already, which means they've been thinking about it probably since before they let all those engineers go.
Given that Apple controls the entire hardware and software stack, can't they guarantee messages are encrypted and refuse to send them if they aren't?

It seems like they're refusing unconditionally and claiming security instead of actually requiring security.
By an ancient and forbidden science: I looked.

(Not sarcastic.)