skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do the USB 4 ports actually work as Thunderbolt 3 too?

I know the post is about the Z-series. Perhaps somebody already knows... It seems the AMD-based T14 Gen3 Thinkpads actually don't support Thunderbolt. Some people speculated, it is a firmware matter on AMDs side and will be added in the future but that doesn't sound reassuring at all to me. On the product pictures, you can clearly see the Thunderbolt lightning logos besides the USB-C ports but that doesn't mean anything.
Reading Matt I realized there's another layer, which is Musk has complained about the bot problem for a while - heck, one could argue that he bought Twitter not only fully knowing (according to him) it has a bot problem, but he intended to _fix_ the problem.
> And people often forget that rates go down at the same time people get laid off and the market crashes and house prices go down.

This is really difficult to describe as a general trend due to endogenous actors like the Fed.

Recessions can co-occur with low rates as the Fed expands to try to spur investment in the economy. They can also co-occur with high rates that choke investment.

Never reason from a price change
Question: Would I be better off getting the improved M1 pro/max or getting the regular M2?

(Regular full stack software engineering, occasional graphics editing in Affinity Designer, audio work in Logic Pro, and video in Final Cut)
As someone who suffered under a Rails-powered microservice architecture: ew. Ew ew ew ew ew ew EW!!
Build trains...on every single road in existence?

Neither my house or workplace is adequately serviced by public transport, and even if they both were, I wouldn't use it unless legally or financially forced to. I enjoy proceeding directly from point A to B in the comfort of a private space, and so do very many other people.

The waste of personally-owned automobiles is admittedly abhorrent. Electrification and self-driving systems (and the resulting fleets of cheap automated taxis) will go a long way towards reducing the waste inherent to automobiles.
The MQ-25 is a repurposing of a failed armed drone program.

The F/A-18 is from the 70s, and the Super Hornet's from the mid 1990s.

The 777 first flew in the mid 1990s.

There's not much recent to brag about.
Abe had a good handle of the geopolitical situation facing Japan and the region and he used his administration to place Japan in a better position to survive the challenges that could come from potential adversaries.

Economically his policies did not fully restore Japan's economy but they did put Japan back on track to prosperity after decades of stagnation. They still face tremendous demographic challenges due to birth rates below replacement so they will need to seriously consider immigration law modifications to support their economic growth opportunities by making it easier for foreign laborers to live and work in Japan. They have made some changes but there is more work to do while at the same time they need to enact policies that encourage young Japanese to have multiple children.
> The laser part seems easy, the targeting part seems hard. I'm imaging some type of gimbal, is there a better way?

Here's the design 101 from base principles:

In practice, you need a big-ish telescope on both ends to control beamspread and to collect light from a big aperture. Aperture is a given based on link budget (and you can trade off power to make the aperture smaller, but halving the aperture diameter on both sides means you'll need 16x the power); if you target F/2 then it'll be twice as long as the aperture. Maybe think about a 6cm aperture and 12cm long telescope for a starting point. This will get you a 6 arcsecond wide beam @ 1000nm.

Then, you need to slew this at pretty fast rates-- perhaps 15 degrees per second for acquisition, and control the pointing within 3 arcseconds while tracking at peak rates of a few degrees per second. Yeek! This pretty quickly takes you towards some kind of direct drive fork mount that is very gimbally-looking.

One bit of fun is that you need to have a lot of bandwidth on your reaction control system on the spacecraft, too-- because when you snap one of these telescopes around, the whole craft is going to want to counterrotate, so the reaction control wheels (and/or other telescopes for links in other directions) will need to react. Feedforward is advised.
You're supposed to let someone else work the kinks out of v1, right?

But is the M2 v2 or is it another v1?

For example, I saw some mention of M2-specific thermal throttling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31941326 (also mention of slow 256gb SSD?)

> Although after all this I'm still not sure why the M2 MBP exists. By the time it's useful it costs nearly as much as the MBP 14" for the same spec which is far superior. And if you want to cheap it out, the M1 MBA is probably a better deal because it's far cheaper and perfectly adequate.
>"AFAIK, we have been in a recession since 2008. IMO we never really got out of it."

That's complete nonsense. The National Bureau of Economic Research, the body which officially declares recessions in the US, defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales."[1]

Aside from the 2020 pandemic dive, there has been positive GDP growth every year since 2008.[2]

[1] https://www.nber.org/news/business-cycle-dating-committee-an...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/gdp-...
answer from the Reticulum creator:

“My knowlegde about Meshtastic is a bit limited, so I might get some details wrong, but from what I understand, Meshtastic is more or less an application. It is focused on carrying out a single task well, in a way that is easy to understand and deploy, but that also means that it will not really do anything else than that task, and stop working well if you push it close to, or outside, its intended operational domain.

Reticulum itself is a general purpose communications stack. It will handle any sort of digital communication for you, from sending a single data packet to sending messages or streaming a video call, to serving a library of all human knowledge. But it will not do so itself. Someone will have to write the applications that utilise Reticulum to do those tasks. This also means that Reticulum, in itself, will not allow anyone to have a chat with someone else. You need an application using Reticulum for that, and a Reticulum network.

Right now, only a handful of programs and applications exist that use Reticulum. One of those systems is LXMF, a distributed messaging protocol that enables direct (and offline) messaging between users and machines. There is currently several LXMF clients available that people can use on mobile devices and computers. This is similar to Meshtastic, in that they both serve the same end-goal, of sending messages between users.

I don't know how open or interoperable the Meshtastic protocol is, but I do know that LXMF is very open and easy to integrate in other system, and messages passed with LXMF can be transported over any number of mediums, such as LoRa, WiFi, packet radio or over the Inernet. And you can mix and match the mediums as you please. This is possible since the messaging system is built on top of Reticulum (a general purpose networking stack), and it then gains all the capabilities of it (such as efficient multihop routing, global addressing, strong encryption, good privacy and so on).

I hope this clarifies it a bit. If not please ask away and I will try to answer as best I can!“

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/77#discus...
I find it valuable in moderation but some days I spend way too much time on it; past the point of diminishing returns. There's also an opportunity cost of what I could be doing with a lot of the time, which often would leave me feeling better than mindless HN reading.
> are you really comparing the moon to the earth with two satellites at much closer distances moving rapidly?

I'm comparing to LEO to ground, which has a higher rate of angular movement (e.g. harder to point at) than LEO-to-LEO in the same shell, among other things.

I've built systems that point to sub-arcsecond precision at satellites in LEO. It's not quite an off-the-shelf controls problem (e.g. good luck getting a COTS motion controller to hit-a-fast-moving-target-at-a-chosen-time, rather than follow a track and not care about time) but it's not super hard, either.
I understand your point. But if you follow the achievements of spacex and the current progress of starship, they clearly are making the most progress of any group of people in this direction.
We'll know in a few months if he pulled out too late.
The site gives assembly code of the inner loop, but isn't the problem that there is additional overhead on the calling of generic functions?
Okay yeah this is very reasonable. Hopefully the EU drops this investigation quickly, given the obvious lack of legitimate antitrust concerns here.
Actually, not being murdered by a motorist is necessary if you want to live any lifestyle
I use Yue (libyue.com) with its Lua bindings. I compile Lua source files into a static binary, but I can flip a switch (in the environment) to load sources from a specific directory. This isn't hot reload--currently I still need to restart the application--but it wouldn't be too difficult to hot reload the sources.

How and when views reflect the new code would be more complex, but AFAICT (from https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/hot-reload-in-electronjs/) it's not exactly magic in Electron, either--browser views are reloaded in their entirety, and the main application is restarted entirely if its sources are changed, so you can lose state. You could probably do something more sophisticated in Lua, by dynamically updating the metatables of live objects (similar to prototypes in JS). That'd be a very leaky abstraction (presumably by Electron hot reload doesn't try it). You'd need to architect your code to be robust to missing or changed object state across versions of the code, or at least to annotate which objects are capable of being hot reloaded. But Smalltalk and, to a lesser extent, Objective-C developers have experience hot patching code this way, so it can be done.
Cloud providers mostly suck. Not that I deserve to feel that, I feel proud that HN was/is run from bare metal
The ultra isn't out for a laptop I think you got it confused with the Pro.
The last mile is only a problem because people live in single-family housing zones, where there is not enough density for mass transit. We created this type of land use for several mostly not good reasons. Trains are far more efficient than car infrastructure. Why do commuters need a self driving car if there are trains that run by your block every 5 minutes, and get you to your office block in 10-20?
'Premature Abstractulation'

I'm sorry. I had to do it. Ban me.
Read the reason.
Twitter is all fake bots.
You gotta be nuts to own that.
Chisels suck, so do hammers. Chain saws? They suck. Don't even get me started on axes. All of these have in common that they have a learning curve during which they may just give you a blue nail, cut finger, shredded boots - you did wear those chainsaw-proof boots when you learned to handle the thing I hope - and more. Once you get to know these tools they allow you to do things which those shiny, gaudily coloured plasticky tools from the D.I.Y. store will never be able to achieve so it is worth the investment in time, band-aids and the occasional curse.
If you think about planning scalability as over engineering you're greatly mistaken. Probably also a terrible engineer. In fact you are likely to save money with a scalable solution. Because if a particular load is not required and it scales back as well as out with limits it prevents an over exertion of budget.
What you say is literally true - most of Santa Rosa is not WUI, but a significant proportion is:

https://www.srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/25294/CWPP-WUI-Ma...
I also ran into issues with Stripe, as their automated systems flagged my business as fraudulent and there was no way to call them or get a fast response.

Ended up switching to these guys in Melbourne, never looked back:
https://pinpayments.com
No. The securities aren't necessarily the length of the mortgages. Traders will offer to buy AAA tranches for 5 years or 2 years. There is no set length. A lot of times these are used to back municipal bonds which get setup for 5 to 10 years to help small cities borrow and build infrastructure. It's all intermingled and why our financial system did not learn any lessons from 2008.
Little did I know I had been getting ripped off by my parents for years! $1 a tooth? I demand reparation.
Surprised at the lack of dissenting comments.

Some background: I’m a professional ML dev.

I would buy an M1 if given the choice. But be aware that you’ll need to devote at least two weekends to compiling your own dependencies. Tensorflow “just works”, but the source code on M1 is closed source(!). Pytorch is relatively ok to compile, but you’ll have to figure out how to build it as CPU only. Jax was painful (sorry to say), but they seem to have recently sorted out their build issues.

Then we get into the hardware roulette. My M1 air has a “pink screen of death” issue (Google it and you’ll find dozens of stories, with no resolution). So get ready for a small chance of randomly rebooting when you’re in the middle of dev work, which is always so-much-fun.

Even with these flaws, I’d still take it. Even LuaJIT seems to work on M1 now. But it’s not all roses like the rest of the comments are saying.

Also fork over the extra $800 for the upgraded ram and disk space.
> All 18 year olds are old enough to get married, they don't need any permission.

That's not how marriage works. If I didn't need any permission to get married, I'd be married.
The CRTC does dictate a fixed pricing scheme for mobile phones:

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/phone/mobile/occa.htm

Near the bottom it states that those companies are supposed to promote those plans. They didn't the last time I tried looking them up. Regulation is meaningless if there is a lack of enforcement.

(Note: I'm not saying that the pricing scheme is particularly good since it leaves the needs of many people unaddressed. On the other hand, it does address the needs of those who would have the most trouble affording phone service.)

Also consider the continual battle of third-party ISPs to provide affordable Internet access. The CRTC says the major providers have to lease out their lines and stipulate what those rates are. On the other hand, those third-party ISPs are constantly fighting to keep the rates low and are pretty much tied to providing service levels that match the major providers.
My dear Sir/Madam,

Would you please stop spamming your opinion ? You wrote it once, it's enough.

Thank you very much <3
Um what are you smoking?
It's funny how much fraud could have been prevented with simple background checks however. There's an entire podcast about financial fraud called "Oh My Fraud" about many instances where a simple background check might have prevented hundreds of thousands of dollars of fraud at charities. Ah well.

I understand the negative impact upon recidivism that background checks and stigma may have, but also we have to balance the interest of financial and information controls of organizations performing essential functions in society. Ideally speaking.
Again as I wrote elsewhere it's because Canada is a deeply mediocre country just getting by with others help and technology.

Interac the main electronic money transfer system used Rogers as their primary network. Guess what they used for their backup network? Rogers.

There is also very rampant high level corruption leading to anti competitive behaviour, oligarchy, money laundering and I can go on and on.

Point is Canada is not a good example of networks and failures. It is a good example of incompetence and mediocrity.
I really doubt the basis of this argument. Arguably, there is something to be learned with any new technology and any expectation to the contrary may be rather illusionary. E.g., with the postal system, how do you know that Paris, Texas, is not Paris, France, when you ignore those "technical" bits like "Texas" and "France"? (But, when these were mentioned in conversation, you could infer this from context, but now, on the letter envelope, there's no such context provided at all!) Turns out, most people were able to cope with these "technical" challenges and some aspects of this were even taught in school (how to write an address). Most people are even able to memorize the ZIP codes most important to them.

Arguably, email addresses are (much) simpler to parse than postal addresses (including thing's like c/o, post boxes, etc.)
I agree with your characterization. It's often described as a monopoly on force. States, counties, and cities all have the right to use force to injure or kill you. "With great power comes great responsibility." Civilized societies need police forces (not everyone is a rational actor) but we should nearly always err on the side of mistrusting the police when it comes to policies and laws. People should become police understanding that they will be under the microscope at all times. That's the price they should pay for wielding firearms, forcing compliance, and the ability to arrest people.
Yes the pandemic has caused falling wages. You surely noticed that 2020 is kind of a weird year? And inflation is currently causing wages to fall further.

But 2014-2020 was very different.
so... its just 100% unthinkable Musk is right?

edit: dont know why this had to be flagged. I guess some people really take personal offense in that elon musk might be correct in his thoughts about twitter daily bot %
Could this be used to track gun permit holders?
Not in a competitive market. Small and medium scale development is usually pretty competitive.
I find it interesting that some religions forbid interest in loans. I think they are into something as it's evil to first lend someone money at say 2%, then increase it to 4% interest. Inflation is created by "printing" more money, usually when a bank issue a loan "new" money is created. This "new" money leads to increasing prices aka inflation.
Almost all goods on the market today are auto-made by robots in a factory, meaning it almost doesn't cost anything to produce, and the prices for goods are solely determined by how much people are willing to pay. People are willing to pay 2x for a house, but not 2x for a good. Then at some random point in time news sites starts to print articles about inflation (maybe because of a temporary shortage in some raw material) and sellers of goods decide it's a good time to increase prices, because people are now willing to pay more due to "inflation". This freaks out people who has lended money to others and starts to liquefy their assets. This causes inflated prices to go down. It's self correcting. But then there's interest rates that is just evil as it screws with the economy.
Well, the cost of outage vs the cost to maintain multiple ISP's is the key decision factor here.
His stated reason to buy twitter was in defense of free speech, despite the bots not because of them.

I'm guessing he saw a glimpse of just how extensive the problem really is and the unwillingness of the organization to be remotely honest about it. It would not surprise me if it was 95% bots, rather than 5%.
Do: "How To Build A Simple Hydraulic Force Gauge", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3r5vovF4UI (2021)

Don't: "A simple way to measure force with a shop press! DIY Force Gauge", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoiJDNJJUdE (2017)

Buy: https://www.woodysrocks.com/store/p86/Pressure_to_Force_Gaug...
I love my Linux desktop. More than 10 years I exclusively work on i3. Wouldn't change it for anything.

Now also USB audio just works
Just wait until Rogers and Shaw finish their merger so that the entire country can be plunged into the stone age every time a technician trips over a wire in Toronto.
Not GP, but chemtrails and flat earth are obvious ones.
Can you give an example of a large metropolis anywhere in the world where it's realistic for a significant percentage of the population to all be able to enjoy "proceeding directly from point A to B in the comfort of a private space" without any significant externalities?
Or are you suggesting we need to massively decentralise?
Yeah absolutely! But even people like cover have to work around ridiculous regulations for the type of homes they can create and where they're allowed to put them. If you look at one of the main callouts for benefits, one is "We take care of zoning research, design, permitting, manufacturing, project management, and installation." So 2/6 of these are regulatory related benefits (zoning research, permitting) even for a relatively simple structure that will go in a backyard. Govs need to do much more to enable automation at scale for all parts of the construction process and for all types of dwellings
The title says Go generics are not bad, and then in less than a page this guy only compared one use case with Java's generics.

I'd expect a CS professor to be able to add a little more rigor in a blog post but I guess everyone is losing patience to read and write these days, even for the supposedly erudite.
I believe it changed with Windows XP, so 2001.

(Oh my, has it really been that long?)
Your words not mine.

From this I conclude you believe some things never found in "that logic":

a) Slavery improves societal happiness

b) Maximizing happiness justifies coercion

Thankfully most people don't share your values.
If your house is currently worth $200+k over what you owe?

I say cash in and buy something later. A lot of people will lean towards stability, but a savvy financial person would sell sell sell.
Or even if the power supplies were purchased around the same time. I had a batch of servers that as soon as they arrived started chewing through hard drives. It took about 10 failed drives before I realized it was a problem with the power supplies.
Bookfinder is hella useful but sometimes, especially for pre-ISBN books, https://www.addall.com/ has wider coverage.
What is available to share crawls?

There would be a lot of trust required to use the data for anything but things like Common Crawl save a lot of time. Does Wiby support starting with that?
Ah yes because temporary isolation to prevent the spread of a disease is the same exact thing as forced imprisonment!

Congrats for making quite possibly the greatest leap since Armstrong stepped off Apollo 11.
Designing Arithmetic Circuits with Deep Reinforcement Learning
isnt it also possible he (some might say rather impulsively) decided to buy twitter, and then upon further investigating finds that his quick rationales no longer make sense if bot traffic indeed is way above 5%? that perhaps he feels that if it indeed is way above 5%, twitter is scamming?

is this just 100% unthinkable?