skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. I write PHP at work, everything from 10 year plus legacy cruft to brand new projects, and it still works well.

I'm not a Python developer, but it is probably true that Python is a better designed language and has more bells and whistles as language, like decorators, operator overloading and modules. Python is also used in more domains than PHP.

But if you look past some of the weird design choices, bad reputation and the packaging as web only language, you will find a JIT-ed & typed dynamic language with good performance, FFI for easy C glue, good threading performance that is not suffering from a GIL like Python, a large & mature standard library, can be used everywhere from a small script to a large monolith, a true diamond in the rough.

Today I worked on a importing system that takes an HTTP stream to read a CSV file line by line to mangle it and rewrite it simultaneously to a FTP stream, never keeping the entire file in memory nor downloading it entirely to disk first, and by only using functions from the standard library.

I'm not saying you can't do this with Python, you probably can, or any other language, I just want to dismiss the idea that PHP is only suited for typical web tasks, PHP is a versatile tool that has every potential to expand outside of its traditional role.
> As someone who lost 8 figures in crypto in 2017 ...

You could afford to lose 10+ million without your life being detrimentally impacted (at least I would assume, based on how calm you are about it). Most people can't. Most people can't imagine that amount of money.

I'm not a crypto fan. While the technology is interesting and has some intriguing use cases, it feels like all the big coins far away from actually becoming a legitimate currency, and most of the optimistic posts I read miss that.

Crypto is not stable. I think that's why so much money is flying into it. If the price of bread or milk goes up 10%, people get scared. In crypto, going up or down 10% is called "Wednesday". I'm aware of stablecoins, but the biggest ones (Tether, etc) all seem to A: be centralized, and B: be run by shady groups with whispers they could disappear at any moment. A breaks the promise that crypto is supposed to provide, and B only provides stability at a glance, until the whole house of cards tumbles apart (as it has).

The bigger problem is that crypto is unforgiving. OP's story is all about this. Sure, that's fine for techies who can afford mistakes, and banks or other who might have extreme security procedures, but Mom and Pop on a farm in Iowa are neither of those. When they get a phone call from the "IRS", they are happy to go buy Walmart gift cards and read off the codes, or set up a money transfer. Sometimes that money can be reclaimed, sometimes it can't. With crypto, there is no chance. The financial institutions that exist now are certainly rigged towards the bigger players, but Mom and Pop have a (slim) shot of seeing the money again.

Crypto is a fine gamble for those who can afford it, but I honestly doubt it will ever be an every day currency, because I can't see any concerted effort focused on solving those two problems. People can't afford to not know what everything costs at the grocery store, or that they could lose their entire savings by making a mistake when buying a Christmas gift. I don't think it's a great store of value either long term, because at least traditional stores of value (land, precious metals, commodities, etc) have uses to the entire population - blockchains provide no value to 73 year old grandma.
Because I'm used to referring to God with male pronouns. Someone could refer to him with female pronouns, doesn't matter as the human gender construct doesn't apply to God.

I would like to hear your opinion about just why you think that first doesn't make any sense. To me, it's logical you wouldn't ascribe hunger, thirst, lust loneliness, etc... To God.

Also, that second part of your comment makes ot sound like you aren't arguing in good faith.
YouTube seems to have three main priorities with their copyright system:

1) Eliminate legal liability and risk of lawsuits. Technically all they need to do is comply with DMCA requests, but YouTube would rather not be sued by a major record company or film studio, even if they could win the case.

2) Become friendly with major content creators (record and film labels, television studios). YouTube wants a good working relationship with these companies, to ensure that these companies post their content on YouTube. YouTube really wants the views they get by hosting SNL clips and Beyonce music videos.

3) Actually help the independent content creators deal with copyright claims. This is a very, very distant third.

Because of these priorities, YouTube has decided their best course of action is to offload all of the work on copyright claims onto the independent content creators, in order to keep the big media giants happy. After all, NBC doesn't need YouTube, but a solo channel with 50k subscribers absolutely does.
I build them from docker images: https://blog.davidv.dev/docker-based-images-on-baremetal.htm...
USDC certainly claims to be audited, by a big US accounting firm no less. Is there some nuance I’m missing?
Google decided to cozy up to the music and film industries to support Google Play Services. They are forced to bend to their will for their contract.

If YouTube was divorced from Google, YouTube would be friendlier to creators.

Counter argument: some of the top performing content on YouTube is made by the establishment. But then again, Google created this status quo by using their algorithm to promote content that satisfies their partners.
Does anyone know of any good orchestrators for Firecracker VMs? While the technology is great, the CLI and API are still a bit too complex and low-level to implement some basic use cases in production.
Bit of a stretch. Lynch disowned Dune as they denied him final cut privileges, i.e. his artistic vision. It may have been great otherwise but as it was it failed to capture the philosophical mystique I got from the books.

Jodorowsky's Dune could have also been great but his ambition outstripped practicality and the movie never got made as a result.

I've heard Villeneuve's version is good and will be watching it on release. He is one of my favorite directors so I have a lot of confidence in his rendition.

A better option is rereading the book ahead of the movie.

Side note, if this latest version is good I hope Villeneuve directs any sequels, all the way through at least God Emperor of Dune as that was my favorite.
Try to pair them again! My girlfriend said the same thing, as if my voice was attenuated instead of the other way around. All it took was re-pairing them.
Nice timing as finally today Julian Reichelt has been removed from his positions:

https://www.axelspringer.com/de/presseinformationen/nach-neu...
Does USB-C have some fundamental limitation or downside compared to HDMI? As a non-expert in HDMI or the needs of professional TV equipment, that isn't clear to me. The only thing that comes to mind is possibly increased attack surface (BadUSB-type attacks).

I'm of course speaking without consideration for whatever momentum the two solutions may or may not have in the current marketplace.
>How is this not just flagrant hypocrisy

It's not at all. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
> Debt is at best a red herring,

That's really not what red herring means.

The problem with debt is that is complicated, not that it doesn't matter.
PS5! Not true apple owner buys a Microsoft product!
Not everyone has the same abilities
I suspect there are people who want to do 3D rendering on a laptop, and these devices are probably a good option for them.

More broadly, that's why I put 'everything' in quotes. There will always be cutting edge workflows that require the power and cooling you can only get on a desktop or server, but that's a minority of a minority.

There are plenty of people who want to run multiple VMs, edit/render 4k+ videos, edit large audio projects, do semi-complex data analysis, or any of 100 other tasks without needing to choose power vs portability, or manage multiple devices.
> It looks like the 13" MacBook Pro will be phased out in the near future (over the next 6-12 months)

Knowing Apple, they will keep it around for a couple years just to have the price point with the Pro name. They love keeping around older models for price anchoring/upsell.
Apple’s New iPad Mini
Intel is years behind Apple, with no real strategy for catching up. Apple most likely already has the M2 ready, and the M3 under heavy development.
Rust's support for dynamic linking is entirely unrelated to how much of a pain LGPL makes static linking.
Priced out the one I would buy and it is $4300. Seems the value isn't quite there. Hard to say though without playing with it for a while. So clearly I need to go back to work for some tech company that will buy one for me :-).

It is more interesting to me to reflect on the comments from about 5 years ago that "ARM will never be in laptops, its a 'phone' processor."

That statement was both true and ignored the reality that if you wanted to put an ARM processor in a laptop you could add features and design it to work that way. Chip design is expensive of course, and so being a company like Apple really makes it possible to do this sort of thing as a 'risk' venture, but what surprises me is that Apple spent maybe $10B over the years developing an in house ARM design capability (after buying PA Semi) and here it is paying them some huge dividends.

If you compare that to Microsoft's efforts trying to use off the shelf ARM chips in the original Surface and now the Surface RT and you can really see the advantage of having the chip designers and the software designers depending on each other. That was true in the "WinTel" era when Intel and Microsoft were joined at the hip, but it was never the case for ARM CPU vendors who were more concerned about being in the next flagship phone than what ever it was that Microsoft was doing.

What an interesting alternate history if Microsoft decided to develop an in house production chip capability at the same time they decided to get into the hardware business for "real." [1]

[1] Yes, I'm aware they have done custom chips, the pixel/pen processor in the Surface is one such but they haven't really jumped in with both feet like Apple did, and certainly haven't had it front and center as long as Apple has.
Oh man, I didn’t realise that :/

There’s a website: https://diagonalpress.com/products/interrupted-polyconic-pro...

Feeling a bit spammy now. I swear I’m not affiliated. Just saving up to buy their stuff, nose pressed against the window :)
Using any external monitor requires turning on the discrete GPU.
I'm sure that's a large part of the problem.
...which has "NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 Laptop GPU 16GB GDDR6" for its GPU.
next they will be bringing back the headphone jack to the iphone
That doesn't sound very good in real life scenarios either. I can provide feedback without necessarily knowing how to fix it. For example, if someone I work with consistently have a hard time communicating their ideas, I can and should provide that feedback, even without knowing how they can fix it. At the very least if they realize the issue, they can attempt to go fix it themselves. Providing feedback in general is a gift.
> leave it for the next guy/town/state/etc

To be fair, we're talking about New York State. Which is the center of finance in the US. The regulators in NY-State have an outsized influence on this sort of thing.
I hate being "that guy", but isn't nearly every private corporation's policy "guilty until maybe proven innocent"? If Chuck E Cheese's get a report that I an punching children to death, they might preemptively disallow me in even if there's no evidence supporting that claim. If one of Best Buy's employees accused me of stealing Blu-Rays, they might not allow me into the store, even without any evidence. If I were a director and there was a rumor that my goal was to get Universal sued, they might not bring me on as a director.

I'm not saying that this is should be how it is, and you could make a strong argument that it shouldn't be this way, but I think it predates YouTube.
I would be surprised if the new OS didn't handle that
Facebook’s Ad-Tracking Loss Is Startups’ Gain
Unfortunately this isn't really a technical problem. Content ID exists to appease large organizations that sued YouTube into the ground for not doing enough to counter copyright infringement.

This claim process takes place before the legal copyright claim process. The legal process would require YouTube to take the video down immediately, and it would be required to stay down for at least two weeks even if the claim is bogus. (Or YouTube could decide not to follow the process and be held liable in case of actual infringement.)

There is no presumed innocence. The DMCA is constantly being abused, and the only possible punishment for malicious claims is an expensive lawsuit. It wouldn't surprise me at all if half of all DMCA takedown requests would be considered fair use in court, but the vast majority never get there.
Any day now Google Allo, Hangouts, Talk, Chat, Plus, Wave, Messages, Voice, Duo, Meet will displace Facebook Messenger/WhatsApp! Just you wait!!!
Bruh. I didnt say "join the moneyd elite". It doesnt matter if some ppl have more, only if some dont have enough, this is why I hate the "inequality" talking point, bc its not an inherent problem.

Im saying that some people who dont have enough could be in a better spot with better choices and that some personal finance education might help. Not everybody privileged enough to have parents who can teach them to be financially savvy. So high schools probably should.
Not all value add is compensated, that's the concept of positive externality, and it's a market failure.

If we want to get really precise, we can say that people give other people money for any number of subjective reasons, but the large majority of the time it's because the person wants something from the other party that the other party isn't willing to do without compensation. So money most of the time represents subjective value add that wouldn't otherwise have occurred without it. Cleaning services, manufacturing, specific engineering work, construction, etc.
It was also a vm on intel. It has always been a vm on any OS that’s not linux.
So is the argument it’s better to have your utilities shut off and be evicted?
> * At this point they're competing with CloudFront, S3, and Lambda, but it is still a a long ways away from all of AWS. *

Cloudflare's offering does not compete with Lambda at all. They have completely distinct usecases.

Cloudflare Workers at best compete with Lambda@Edge, which in spite of its name is actually a CloudFront feature.

https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/
Not usable water, though. That brings you back to desalination, which is... possible. Is it possible on the scale that's needed? It's not obvious that it is.
Duke Professor Wins $1M Artificial Intelligence Prize, a ‘New Nobel’
It was probably not rigged.

Both sides were really shady, with lots of evidence just disappearing. My opinion, as someone from a Soviet country with actual widespread voting fraud, is that the way your election went was a bit suspicious. It was weird in the same way we see when the side that's supposed to win stuffs ballots from dead people, people who didn't turn up, etc. The large sudden bump in votes for Biden also seems suspicious. The fact that Trump got a record number of votes during a pandemic in which his voters almost all voted in person and still lost, is a bit suspicious. The fact that you need to only rig a few counties with a few votes to secure the thin margin by which Biden won, is suspicious. Many things are weird and suspicious. It is possible actual well intentioned people rigged the election to "save America". Whether they did and if it was right, I cannot say, I am not an American, I cannot judge your country.

All that said, based on actual available evidence, I cannot conclude that the election was rigged. It was probably the most scrutinized election in recent memory, leading to us seeing a bunch of suspicious events that probably happen pretty often. Similar to how the 2000 election, Bush vs Gore, was a bit suspicious.
SD cards are still widely used in professional cameras, and they're not going away anytime soon.
USB-C supports video out.
I use StartPage over DDG. The results are just way better. Likely because StartPage anonymously using google index.

However, for programming related questions I couldn't live without google.
Agree on the chargers. SD card is great if you do anything wit Raspberry Pi's and photos.
Big Sur is officially supported by 2013 Mac models (8 years).

iOS 15 is supported by the 6s, which was 2015. So 6 years.

And I still know people using devices from these eras. Apple may not be repair friendly, but at the end of the day, their devices are the least likely to end up in the trash.
The problem here is copyright duration being insanely long. Works from 1926 should not still be under copyright but they are. YouTube is just doing the best they can do within the confines of our ridiculous system.

If copyright were only 20 years with an application to extend in special circumstances (equivalent to patent law), we wouldn't waste so much of our economic power devising and enforcing systems to uphold our archaic copyright laws.
>Function over form.

All the time. The Macbook pro is meant to be for pros, pros care about other things like having physical function keys over it having a "light blue color that matches my shirt :)".

I haven't bought a Macbook since 2016 bc of all the trash they've been doing. A laptop without magsafe would last ~2 weeks in my household, so just that thing makes it for me.

Also, best battery, best screen, best trackpad, ports. Assuming nothing weird comes out later (screen or thermal issues) this will be the best laptop on the market for the next 10 years.

Great decision to have fired Jony Ive back then.
Reminds me of AMD comparing their insane IPC increase when Ryzen first came out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y.... (from https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/technology/24google.html):

> Viacom said it was not seeking damages for any actions since Google put in its filtering system, known as content ID, in early 2008.

Obviously other media giants weren't going to let Viacom be the only one with access to this profit machine, so now pretty much all global media giants have access to Content ID.
People, including me, were pleading with them to stop trying to make things so thin over giving better batter life, thermals, cost effectiveness etc for the past 7 years or so.

I am delighted with this change. If you want light and thin get an Air; I want thermals, power, and bang for my buck.
My CPU has a special feature where I will not be bugged with prompts to update to Windows 11.
Problem is, AMD powered laptops are somewhat hard to find. Lenovo has some real nice lightweight models with 120 Hz IPS screens but they only come with 16GB soldered RAM and 512GB SSD.

And they are hard to find. Like real hard. Lightweight machines with 5800u/5850u and/or 5900hx are almost like unicorn like.
Someone will write an app that blacks this bit out for you and you can carry with your life like an Englishman in a Parisian restaurant…
Noted that it's only required for W11 Home, not Pro or Enterprise
Am I misremembering or was the community blackface episode actually blueface.
Thats not how industry works, thats not how any of this works. iPhone ecosystem is big enough to move itself forward, but desktop market plays by different rules.If you don't follow what majority of the market do, it's much cheaper to just ignore that tiny customer segment which requires totally alien set of technologies
On superglue benchmark, much smaller Deberta outperforms vanilla T5: https://super.gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard

I am curious why authors preferred T5?..
Is there a reason Apple couldn't just implement magsafe using a USB-C port?

Prong is too long/deep to be workable?
One thing to consider here too, as I think we might be talking about two different types of situations.

Even in the US (which is very low density compared to most places), most people live in cities or denser suburban areas (80.7%). 97% of all land Area in the US however is Rural.

So you are right in that this is not a problem in most of the US (by land area), and this isn’t a problem in elections in those areas either - it won’t negatively impact enough individuals, and problem cases can often be routed around, because the pop density is low.

However, this IS also a problem for most of the US (by populations), as this directly impacts costs and infrastructure upgrades for the majority of the population in the US.

Europe is even denser, and some locations have just as bad if not worse regulatory environments, so it’s the same factors at play. Some countries in Europe excepted of course.
A bit unrelate, but: FANGMAN sounds like some western tech equivalent to the Japanese salaryman.
>My answer to anyone who asks for kafka: Show me that you can't do what you need with a beefy Postgres.

Sorry thats just a clickbait-y statement. I love Postgres, try handling 100-500k rps of data coming in from various sources reading and writing to it.
You are going to get bottlenecked on how many connections you can handle, you will end up throwing pgBouncers on top of it.

Eventually you will run out of disk, start throwing more in.

Then end up in VACCUUM hell all while having a single point of failure.

While I agree Kafka has its own issues, it is an amazing tool to a real scale problem.
>increased key travel

I hope that is true. But they only state and quote

>For the first time, Magic Keyboard brings a full‑height function key row to MacBook Pro — with the tactile feel of mechanical keys that pros love.

Nothing really concrete about Key travel.
Machine learning uncovers 'genes of importance' in agriculture
I should start a blog instead of using HN comments as an outlet.
Minor correction: I (Stella Biderman) am a contributor to BigBench, have read many of its tasks, and have had access to it for months. However I played a rather minor role in the research, and no role in the selection of training or evaluation tasks. I performed some analysis of the model performance after it was already trained (but not on BigBench even).
I hate the naming.

By name alone and without looking at specs, can you tell me which is the faster chip-- the M1 Max or the M1 Pro?
Doesn't Vimeo also license their platform out for other private streaming services? I thought I read that the Criterion Channel, for example, was hosted on Vimeo. I don't really think that YouTube is designed for that.
That portion of my screen on my Mac has been a solid grey square with no meaningful information for 99.9% of the time that the laptop has been powered on. The aspect ratio is 16:10 so it’s not going to get in the way of any 16:9 content. I feel like this is a pretty bad take. Would you prefer a solid black bezel?
I'm reminded of those arguments in favor of making supply chains ever leaner. In reality, cops sitting on the side of the road are on call and ready to go in case something else more important comes up. I'm certainly not defending cops sitting around playing Candy Crush while waiting for the radar's alarm to go off, but abstracting and outsourcing seems like the wrong way to go here.

Cameras also have a serious due process problem in that if you get a notification even one week later, you're unable to collect evidence to defend yourself. If it's a daily commute, you might not even remember the weather conditions.