skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is it about our current American society that leads to basically a 50-50 split in registered voters?

Why aren't (R)s able to see and respect (and convert) to values of (D) (or vice versa?)

Why are people so stuck in their ways? Why does it feel the conversion rate for convincing people to "change their values" or "see things differently" is basically 0?

Do we have any stats on whether we really are in one of the most divisive political periods in our nation's history (or history in general) or not? Is it hyperbole fed to us by the media?

Where is this going to end/lead to?
I tend to agree with his suggestion (to a degree).

For construction work, you're paying with your hard earned money, and you can't Undo, Delete, or Git Revert.
What are you on about with "performance plans" and such?
Python 3.11 also claims [1] to be 10-60% faster than 3.10, which is the version that the benchmarks game is using at this time. The difference in used RSS is also quite interesting in this comparison.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.11.html#whatsnew311-faster-cpython
Creating and sharing powerful tools for people to build the things that they want to exist is kinda in Shopify's DNA.

It's also important to me to give back to open source. It's done so much for us.
Why these 10 humanitarian crises demand your attention now
Kind of shocked how many people here on HN are like "I'm totally fine with 8GB of ram on my mac". What? Isn't this hacker news? What are you guys doing with your computers? Are computers just toys now? Is HN no longer a space for professionals and hackers?

It's like a plumber saying they are totally fine using a $2 Walmart wrench. I just don't get it.
ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Yeah, but those Mafia bosses don't get where they are by being blabbermouths.

And note that Jimmy Hoffa got disappeared, albeit 13 years later.
> On the other hand, maybe there should be pushback against shitty inefficient software?

Agreed. Some might say "RAM is cheap" but that line of thinking is why one day 64GB RAM won't be enough for a dozen browser tabs.
PowerPC was an attempt to standardize (at a least a subset of) the industry on a common RISC processor. There were even two attempts at industry standards for PowerPC motherboards (PreP and CHRP, the latter with Apple's active participation).
Thanks for taking the time to find/share these links! Very informative.

It sounds to me like most of the criticism's outlined are solvable. Perhaps the people behind the standard should be engaging the framework community more.

I wonder if you think web components (and the problem they set out to solve) is wrong from a fundamental/architectural standpoint?
Yeah. I realized that it's a near certainty that all the retirees I traveled with 32 years ago are now dead, especially the Hellcat pilot. He was I think 75 at the time.

Sitting in a hotel bar in Kiev with him, drinking vodka, and listening to tales of the Pacific theater -- mostly just antics with his buddies, but some flight stories -- was pretty amazing. I wish I had kept a journal back then, because I've mostly forgotten any specific anecdotes.
I don't see why it's an AI issue only. Imagine how awful it would be if millions of people got their information from a biased carbon-based neural network, like Tucker Carlson [1]...

Is there something that we should do to prevent such a problematic outcome? Is it really a good idea that clearly biased information is being broadcast to millions of people?

[1] The entity that appears on television known as Tucker Carlson is loosely based in its kernel on an actual person named Tucker Carlson, but also consists of an army of support staff, producers, broadcasters, sponsors, curators, censors, etc, etc, who construct a fictional, manufactured persona that tries it's best to convince people of all sorts of biased [2] and insane things.

[2] I, for one, am outraged that not enough of my biases are blasted into the ether by that constructed persona. Is there something that these conservative groups recommend that should be done to remedy this problem?
I’m not the only one that noticed this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/7e84tk/joe_seamle...

Read the third comment.

Here’s another:

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/y36gw1/joe_does_a...
I just looked at it for the first time. While reading down it, I got the feeling that I was a content moderator looking for stuff violating the HN guidelines. So maybe it's useful for dang?

Otherwise, comments out of context do seem pretty useless.
I’m still using my 2008 MacBook Pro‘s MagSafe adapter via MagSafe 2 converter and never unpacked my newer (personal) MacBook Pro’s one.

It’s dirty, but not frayed and working as well as the first day.

Edit: Do you need photos? :)
Neither party's positions can be derived the values they allege to be for. That's what you get after 200yr of reactionary politics and choosing your policies based on the voting block you think it'll gain you.
A consequence of not having a Bill of Rights with a First Amendment, something routinely mocked on the one side of the Atlantic. The point is that intentionally overbroad restrictions on speech or content are a lot more difficult in the US.
> The cafeteria is way less fancy than tech company cafeterias. :-)

The cafeteria at Sandia in Albuquerque always had extremely good posole, though.
If someone was trying to run an Active directory domain controller on a windows VM on a mac mini, what would you tell them?

If someone was trying to run FCP on an OS X VM on a linux box, what would you tell them?

It's not the fault of docker or linux containers that people insist on trying to use the technology on another unsupported operating system.
The Trauma of Isolation at School
Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies
I was a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) from 2013-2016, working on computational particle physics (lattice QCD). Pay was extremely high (for a postdoc) but not high by comparison to other bay-area employers. What you get instead is reliable job security, and some sense of civil service (as most of the programs are federally funded).

LQCD is kind of funny because it doesn't YET have anything practical to say about nuclear physics, which is what the lab cares about, but it will someday. So I was pretty insulated from all the weapons+complex integration stuff; my work was 'pure research', which is not that common (though it is more common at the postdoc level, which the lab views as a way of recruiting talent). But unless you can find your own funding (usually from a DOE grant), you're working on something that advances the lab's programs. I can't bring myself to work on nuclear weapons, which is why I didn't stay [there's a lot more to LLNL than that, of course, but it's what my field funnels into, broadly speaking].

The computational expertise for HPC is really unparalleled, especially at Livermore (and Oak Ridge, which I've only visited). They're consistently pushing the envelope in terms of high-performance machines which can address scientific questions that require extremely tight coupling between computing resources, rather than a cluster, and they have a lot of experimental architectures and things like that. LLNL publishes a lot of open-source software; if you've used a cluster in a scientific setting you might be most familiar with SLURM or spack.

The day-to-day can be a bit surreal. At the defense labs people with enormous machine guns thoroughly check your badge on the way in. On your walk to the cafeteria you might pass a beach volleyball court that's inside the superblock [an extra-high-security area where they've got plutonium etc.], next to a machine gun turret. Very few employers have teams that regularly win SWAT competitions.

The food was fine. No luxuries like free snacks or anything else I'd seen my tech-company friends enjoy. No dogs allowed. LLNL has a lot of employee organizations for sports, charities, exercise, etc. Transportation around the LLNL site is via sporadic shuttles but more practically there's a bike share, which is just a bunch of bikes you can leave anywhere (on the sidewalk / by a building).
// If you’re considering the ability to self-actualize it’s not at all true.

What does that mean? 500 years ago, did one have ability to speak to like-minded people globally? Could they travel as they wish? Could they pick their religion? Could they choose where to live? Could they pick a wife from another culture? Could they read about any topic they want? Did they have a shot at starting a business and having it grow into real wealth?

If you think you are more powerless than a serf 500 years ago because Bezos has more money then you, then you are the one who gave away your power for no reason
macOS still provides anti-aliasing — I assume the OP is referring to the removal of subpixel rendering/antialiasing.

See "The subtle death of subpixel antialiasing"

https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/09/macos-10-14-mojave-...

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Scree...

The one thing I appreciate about windows is that you can completely disable cleartype/anti-aliasing, if you'd like. As far as I know of, it's not possible to do that in any version of macOS (including Ventura).

In fact Checking "Antialias text" in the Terminal.app settings profile just didn't do anything on a non-retina external monitor for 2+ years.

https://i.imgur.com/nRLReww.gif

https://i.imgur.com/fu08mPa.gif

rdar://FB8901170
A certain percentage of ram and storage goes bad in ways that cause this kind of instability, and an upgrade will have a tendency to bring this out. I’ve had my own share of stability issues fixed by ram and storage swaps. Too bad new macs no longer allow this kind of repair.
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Came to recommend his online course as well. You aren't going to find a better handtools introduction series IMO. You might be able to piece one together from Chris Schwarz, Sellers, Roy Underhill, and some others. But Common Woodworking is designed and offered specifically for someone like OP to get started IMO.
He mentioned in the piece that he was on 18:

"Seat belts fastened, I rolled forward made a right turn and taxied to runway 18..."

18 at the time it was written/recounted, and 19 now most likely due to pole drift.
Agree. It's not a question of "Whether bias exists" it's more of "Which bias exists?"
> Conservatism generally follows the principle of “be conservative in your attempts to alter society”.

This isn't what conservatism is. It's about conserving the values and traditions of the past. Modern conservatives advocate for drastic changes to society of many forms. Banning abortions, eliminating the income tax, making sodomy illegal, etc. These things all have in common that they were the way society used to be. Making big changes to social norms after decades of precedent isn't a conservative approach.
Start at £2149 in the UK. I bought an equivalent M1 last year for £1729. Price increase of £420. About a 25% increase. Wonder if that’s closer to the true inflation figure rather than the official 11% narrative. Regardless, they look like good machines, surprised they went this low key with the announcement.
The comment you're replying to has nothing to do about what you think people should be concerned about. It is about liberals complaining about AI bias, and you've demonstrated knowledge of liberals complaining about AI bias by citing two examples.

Of course more than only self-identified liberals complained about it, just like more than only self-identified conservatives are complaining about this.
Interval training is different, it's supposed to spike your heart rate for short(er) periods, so that makes sense. When people are talking about running easy or being able to have a conversation, they usually are talking about low to moderate intensity aerobic zone or "zone 2", which goes to 75-80% HRmax depending on who you're asking. Some would even explicitly recommend 120-130 bpm range.
> I don’t know why we act like gender norms don’t exist.

They’re inconvenient, uncomfortable, and people want to pretend they don’t exist because there’s a one in a million exception.

In the real world a man who can’t provide is going to find out almost no woman will tolerate that, even if they claim otherwise.
It's not? Are you getting A/B tested or something?

I see the RTX 6000 Ada and A6000 in both the hero image and the first products listed. The Quadro 6000's a 24GB 4,608 CUDA-core PCIe 3x16 card[1] and the A6000 is a 10,752 CUDA-core 48GB PCIe 4x16 card.[2]

I know NVIDIA's branding and product line naming sucks, but those clearly aren't the same cards, or even same generation of card.

1: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-vi...

2: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-vi...
So exactly how do you create a performant cross platform framework that takes advantage of all the platforms features? What happens when one of them create a new feature for their operating system?

When has there ever been a performant cross platform framework?
The potential social ramifications of AI cannot be understated, and if we approach every concern about it that doesn't align with our politics with this much dismissiveness and bias we're not going to get anywhere towards handling the situation effectively.

Every machine learning engineer on this site will repeat "AI is trained on human generated input and repeats those biases!" until they're blue in the face. If we're going to dismiss anyone who voices a concern and brand it 'panic' then we're hypocrites.
Not if you were a baby.
The answer to that is complex, and involves personal finances, shame, papering over concerns, the desire to use electricity as fuel, not understanding what the other options were, etc. etc.

People get attached to bad ways of doing things all the time. This was no different.
German prison sentences can be extraordinarily short by U.S. standards; I think I remember hearing that six years was plausible for murder.

Although maybe the "WTF" was about the crime rather than the sentence.
Against Decentralism
Quick preface from the essay itself:

This work is not against decentralisation. Nor is it contrasting centralisation with the former. Rather, it’s against decentralism; in broader usage, this usually refers to any push towards decentralised organisation, but in the context of this essay, it has a more specific meaning: forms of social organisation that narrowly focus on decentralising power structures but lack a broad aversion to hierarchical outcomes.
That's kind. That book came about because I wrote the Electric Make implementation of GNU Make and learnt a lot about it and then I worked with our customers on massive Makefiles and saw a lot of things.
I really thing this idea of joy / leisure is a bit of a smoke screen though, people are not great at knowing what they need. I firmly believe that we vibe and bounce our feelings against society which gives us balance, it's just that most of the time society is in the wrong paradigm (consumerism + bs jobs)
try searching DDG for "math is racist".
It would probably help if we stopped anthropomorphizing ChatGPT. It's an algorithm that consumes input and produces output. Assigning it human traits is asking for disappointment when it acts like a ML algorithm.
For that matter, it's not hard to learn to cut entirely new panes for old-school windows, and the tools aren't particularly expensive. Break a modern window and you'll most likely be replacing the whole thing, frame, casing(!), and all—the entire old window becomes trash.

... however, I do prefer the modern ones, myself. Energy loss through single-pane windows is no joke.
Unfortunately I think this time it'll pass (not least because of the exact failure you mention - they are desperate to pass something and it's got cross-party support apart from a few symbolic edge cases). Whether or not it will be fully enacted and then enforced is questionable.
Yes I've used it a fair bit in different ways. I'm very impressed with its capabilities. I also don't think it's impossible for us to create a thinking entity along these lines, at some point.

And I don't know how I would confidently decide that we had created such a thing. So I realize the imprecision of my understanding here. But nevertheless, I don't believe this is it.
I think those are cases where all parties agree that the AI is getting it wrong.

The biases liberals were concerned about where things like asking for an image of a doctor only producing male doctors, or that a family only meant straight families.
I wonder if Air Traffic Controller is a misnomer of the same type as "Autopilot". It's a true enough description, but it gives the wrong impression to inexperienced persons.

Pilots are always responsible for flying their aircraft in a safe manner. At the same time, the whole system must allow for pilots to do this. It has been many years since aircraft incidents have been investigated in a monocausal manner; the whole system is examined each time.

ATC expects a high level of professionalism from pilots, especially at a major airport.
I figured unless working for an intelligence agency or some ideological reasons there is no reason to go against the US government.

I don't think there is enough protection against such actor unless you are working directly for another state actor. And even that you won't keep anonymity. Check the North Korean gov cracker case. DoJ managed to figure out his name and photo despite that he works for a state actor.

That guy probably won't want to go abroad to most of the countries. Even countries competing with US such as China or Russia might send him to Uncle Sam for some exchange of interest. I actually think the Chinese probably provided some information to DoJ as he worked in the DaLian branch of a NK expo company for some years.
Without sending "Vary: Accept" the server might have its response mis-cached by a proxy. A request from a browser could populate the cache with HTML, which could then serve HTML in response to a request that wants CSV. Any time you vary your response based on a request header, the spec says you should list it in your Vary response header.

In practice, with the move to HTTPS this rarely comes up anymore outside the sending company's internal infrastructure. Basically no one is running client-side caches that are shared between multiple consumers.
Prefix each line with two spaces, per the formatdoc page [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

for subject in [
"Finance",
"Contact Management",
"Service Desk Automation",
"Web Apps from scratch",
"Web Apps on someone else's API",
"Baseball Metrics"
] : for language in [
"R",
"Go",
"Python3",
"Rust",
"Lisp"
] : print(f"Examples for {subject} in {language} would make a good book.")
And sometimes it just flat out refuses to write anything because it "isn't ethical" -- like a story about the creation of genetically engineered catgirls. Yes, I get that the actual creation of intelligent beings is an ethically dubious proposition and this has been covered in such works as Blade Runner, but it isn't unethical to write about it! And this is something that has been deliberately added recently -- in December it had no problems with the concept.
It's not just people purposefully injecting bias into a model, it's about the biases that get baked into a model completely by accident.

If there is a lot of material written about how short people are horrible, ChatGPT will hate short people. Without me making an explicit decision to make ChatGPT hate short people.

And that's a whole side of the AI conversation very few people are actually having. Are we feeding these neural nets bad models? Who has actually vetted the data we're using to train?
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137
Reading through 260 pages of legislation is tl;dr for journalists.
Similarly, cURL has been maintained by Daniel Stenberg for nearly 30 years. Billions of installs, every major tech company probably uses it... labor of love.
Foxconn and Pegatron are both Taiwanese companies (who make devices for many major manufacturers, not just Apple) but most of their manufacturing has been in mainland China.

Although some of that manufacturing has started to shift recently to India and Vietnam.
Cancer is way better than it was 50 years ago. It used to be mostly a death sentence, now many people live decades after diagnosis.
> What is it about our current American society that leads to basically a 50-50 split in registered voters?

The parties choose the policies they peddle based loosely on principal and tightly on the voting blocks they think they will gain/lose them.

>Why are people so stuck in their ways? Why does it feel the conversion rate for convincing people to "change their values" or "see things differently" is basically 0?

Because politics in secular western societies has supplanted religion in some ways (it's very much not a like for like replacement) and people don't just change religions.
Once you use Caps as Ctrl you wont get back :P
> I don't think modern Apple Photos is built to handle slow spinning rust very well.

Apple's software is garbage so I'm sure you're correct, but modern hard drives can do several hundred MB/s of throughput. How is that not fast enough for a freaking photo application? For Apple not to test/support this use case is inexcusable.
It's possible but not really feasible to hand-curate biased input data at the scale that's being used currently.

Maybe at some point an LLM itself can be used to cull training data of undesired input.
The most paranoid plan i have come up with:

- tor + cubesOS set up by somebody you deeply trust (person A)

- on a USB bought by a different person (person B)

- with a network card bought by a different person (person C)

- many miles away, wearing generic clothes in a cafe where people go to work

- different hairstyle and facial hair

- mask

- without having a phone (obv)

- navigating there by changing multiple cars with minimal electronics

- ordering the most boring coffee

- persons A, B, C don't know each other. You don't know personally B, C, but a person(s) D, (and E) can vouch for them.

My gut tells me that the more people you involve, the easier it is to trace you because you will be at the intersection of those people's radii.
> but I haven't opened a computer magazine and said...

I feel this. In my opinion, we have not had a computing magazine worth opening in two decades, at least in the US. I know we can find news and articles relevant to our interests with unparallelled ease on today's Internet, but a huge part of me misses going to a bookseller and picking up that month's selection of nerd rags.

I have always had trouble pinpointing exactly what it is I miss about the magazines of old. Sometimes I feel that it had more to do with how I fit into that world at the time, being a curious teen who loved tinkering with tech, and the future was wide open. Othertimes I think it had to do with the mags being my window to that world, since I had nobody to guide me.