skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. It's easy to say I don't like the software when that's the ecosystem you're living in. Go do windows for a month, hell, even my ubuntu certified laptop has issues with Ubuntu. There is no perfect experience but I would argue the alternatives are vastly worse.
Sure, but with something around one per 16 houses, that's a massive (tehe) installation.
I think there are two distinct phenomena occurring here: there's emotionally treating nonsapient objects, plants, and animals as if they are friends, and coming to care about them, and then there's intellectually treating ML algorithms as if they are fully sapient, fully intelligent autonomous agents with the same basic capabilities as humans.

The former smooths the way for the latter, to be sure, but it does not require it. Almost no one who's putting googly eyes on a boulder is going to insist in all seriousness that Bouldy is capable of intelligent thought, or that it has rights that can be violated.
I interned at Sandia around '04-'05. That was a little bit before the current "FAANG" thing we have now (IIRC amazon was turning itself from a bookstore into an e-commerce startup, and google was still not being evil) but certainly it was already less glamorous than getting a Microsoft or even Apple internship.

My recollection is that the whole experience depended on which group you were in, and mine was fortunately very chill. Smart, friendly people who arrived and left more or less at the same time every day. Lots of matrixing and loaning of people from different orgs -- I had the feeling that if I were making a career there I would wind up slowly drifting around between projects.

The biggest surprise to naive me-in-my-early-20s was that "Department of Energy" is a euphemism for "Department of Nukes." Nuclear stockpile stewardship was a large portion of the activity there, and so a lot of your colleagues will be people who are at least vaguely comfortable with that.

There was a ton of "basic research" too -- some high-energy group had a daily experiment that would deliver a "whomp" of a shockwave around 3:15pm most afternoons, there was a room temp. fusion group, lots of interest in assisted driving cars and unmanned aerial vehicles... you just had to appreciate that all the first applications of all this tech was going to be military.

Also the security clearances.... the joke was that the "L" clearance stood for "Lavatory pass" because in our building until you got one, you needed a line-of-sight escort at all times, even in the bathroom. Even for the "L" the process was quite onerous, and I understood that the 'Q' clearance held by nearly all full-time staff was even more burdensome. I heard stories of people waiting for their clearance getting stuck in rooms with nothing to work on. One person in my group basically got sent offsite to some "think tank" or something for several months while he waited for his clearance - I only met him once the whole summer, at a conference.
Engineer it out? Probably not. But folks acting as experts in these discussions should keep it in mind. Human analogies are easy, but when something is this close to the "Turing test" line, we should try and avoid them.
I believe the general claim is that multiplication tables, and more specifically, the manner in which they are taught could disadvantage particular communities.

Culturally, not every community handles rote memorization the same. There's been a desire to change the way multiplication is taught, and a strong pushback from a certain set that say, "Well, I learned multiplication tables, what's wrong with them?"

Most (good) math curriculum in elementary age now teaches many different techniques for performing the same operation. Sums, for instance, are taught in the traditional way (add the ones column, then carryover to the tens column, etc.) but they are also taught in other ways, e.g. (borrow to get to the nearest tens, add the tens together, return what you borrowed).

Kids then have a variety of approaches, must still show their work, but can use the technique that makes the most intuitive sense to them.

Like many things that get demonized online, or reduce to the absurd, there's a really interesting and systemic change happening if you take the time to understand the reasoning.
It's not (just) a matter of hand curating; you can train LLM to self censor if it's generating undesired output.
Try-with-resources is tied to a lexical scope. C++/Rust RAII is not, you can move the resource e.g to another thread after initialization, and that thread can outlive the scope that created the resource. Also C++/Rust allows shared ownership through recounted references, something try-with-resources can't do.
This is a separate issue from ChatGPT, but I'm very glad that OpenAI's GPT-3 api is fairly woke and I hope they work to keep it that way. I'm about to use the davinci model api in production and the LAST thing I want is for someone to game it into making controversial statements. If there's even a tiny chance of people posting screenshots of a chat bot with my website's branding saying something racist, it is not worth the risk.

Again I get that the ChatGPT product is more of a personal use thing. But when it comes to the api, the more woke the better.
Every once in a while I think about this. I want a desktop environment that lets me organize things into "activities"/tasks; sets of tabs, different editors, different apps, which are essentially isolated from each other, shut down when I want and restore state when I want.

Roughly, I would prefer if my interaction with the computer was almost "reverse-repl"; the computer is consistently prompting me, and providing me suggested tools for how to proceed. I would love this. It would make a lot of things more straightforward imo (especially for someone with ADHD, like me).
Really? Bruce is pro-backdoor?

Where's that pro-backdoor advocacy in this essay from 2013 on evading NSA surveillance and warning about the risk of backdoored cryptography? https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2013/09/nsa_surveil...

Or this essay from 2016 arguing that backdoors sabotage security? https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/04/the_value_o...

Or this essay from 2019 decrying yet another effort to backdoor encryption? https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/12/scaring_peopl...
Interview with Jesper Cockx, one of Agda's main developers
My 2 year old tuxedo notebook costed less than half of what the M1 MBP costs and renders any given blender scene 3 to 4 times faster.

I consider getting a MBP, but quite frankly I wonder if I could really let it crunch "pro" workloads over night, because either they have infinitly silent active cooling (doubtful) or they throttle the thing (bad). If I pay for top notch hardware I want to have it crunch at full blast for as long as I desire, if I need it.
I just found two weeks of emails from my kids new teacher in my spam folder.
That would at least help them justify the current RAM pricing!
Unity Software Lays Off More Workers as Tech Job Cuts Grow
I used an M1 Air docked with displaylink for about 8 months.
1. The Displaylink software heats the machine lightly in the background, and it just gets worse with resolution.
2. The Adaptor is unreliable and can do some really wonky stuff around dock and undock due to Apple's locked USB policies.
3. The old series of Adaptors do not support 4K60, so if you plan on using it with a 4K display, you need to pony up on costs.

Assuming we see more ~$1600 sales on the M1 Pro 14 inch, that is easily $300 more computer than a $1299 M2 macbook pro.
https://archive.today/dCJdI
Aiming for perfection is guaranteed to fail, and is highly likely to discourage one from thinking it is possible to improve upon things substantially (like, 100%++++, though not perfect).

The way we go about things on this planet is absolutely overflowing with obvious, non-controversial (well...if considered only(!) abstractly) flaws, many of which could easily be improved upon. But if we are not able to desire to try to be better, then we may be stuck where we are forever...and that may have extremely bad consequences.
Keep in mind, what is biased in "your" favour today might also turn against you tomorrow, all the while the technology might be more powerful, so pretending not to see significant issues with how ChatGPT is "policed" to be always adjacent to a consensus of a (likely not even dominating) subset of people in a subset of countries can and hopefully will backfire tomorrow.
They shipped breakage of third party clients for sure..
PC Magazine was almost certainly more routinely useful to me than Byte. But Byte had this old-schooly eclectic vibe to it.
> Don't blame people writing software for not wanting to waste their lives translating the same logic to 3 different platforms and then maintaining 3x the code for the rest of their lives.

If you decouple your UI from your business logic, then you only have to re-write the UI. If you must use a web-based UI, then consider using the platforms native browser control rather than bundling electron.
They have, but it used to be the case that these components were user-upgradeable.
And haven't we already partially cashed it? We have so much free time on our hands, we need Netflix and countless other things to fill it. #NotAll, of course, but if the average can spend 3 hours per day watching TV & Netflix, and an additional 2.5 hours on social media, then they must have that time.
Technically it’s only the standard library that lacks custom allocator support. Box and Vec and all the rest are “just” types defined in the standard library, and if you define your own, you can use any allocator you want and still take advantage of the borrow checker and other language features. This has been possible since 1.0.

…Well, except for certain magic features that the standard library types get that you can’t (yet) replicate in a custom type. This is an annoying wart, but they’re relatively minor.

But yeah, custom allocator support for standard library containers is planned.
If you read past the public relations material, that is interesting stuff.

I was invited to work at Google in 2013 and it is an interesting place.

I ran a deep learning team at Capital One and I believe DL truly is transformative.

Anyway I appreciate Google, Microsoft, etc. for what they do.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of selfish Wall Street assholes.
I'm in same boat as you, but I've noticed the autosuggested feed, shown after pauls is mostly far right paid twitter blue subscribers.
Thanks for this. Yesterday I picked up a new Mac Studio M1 Max with 32G RAM and 1TB NVMe, and today I see the new Mac Mini M2 Pro with 12 CPUs, 32G RAM, and 1TB NVMe for about the same price.

Any idea the performance delta between the M1 Max and M2 Pro? Wondering if I should trade my new system in for the new Mac Mini Pro...
You'll balance each other out, but ultimately someone needs to be the singular decision-maker. And the other needs to be willing to offer their perspective, but then respect, accept, support, and follow the decision that is made.

If you guys can decide who plays which role, you could be great together. But if neither of you is willing to go down the other's chosen road, you'll ultimately clash and be frustrated.
I think any effort being put into laptop cameras these days (and for the last 5+ years) is to make them smaller in all dimensions.

I'm guessing companies have found that it's always a trade-off between camera quality and bezel size, and a thinner bezel impresses people more than a better camera.

I find Apple webcams perform better in video calls than most/all others, so they don't really have much to worry about. If you do want some insanely high quality "webcam", you could buy that magsafe gimmick they showed off last year that allows you to use your iPhone's back cameras as the webcam for your MacBook.
I'm not much of a twitter user what is a twitter bookmark?
I think we largely agree; I just think "Laravel or Symfony" is somewhat a false dilemma because of this. You can build your own system on Symfony libraries... or you can use Laravel's system that's heavily built on Symfony libraries, with a lot of the plumbing done for you.
What you're describing is a form of authoritarian censorship, actually.

This just in...:

"Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others."
That sounds like the problems that happened when they switched traffic signal lights from incandescent to LED. The incandescent lights put off enough heat to keep all the lights defrosted and visible, while the LED versions could be blocked by heavy snow/ice.
Was there anything beyond the extra time/effort that made you regret going with a non-DIY model? I’m considering doing the non-DIY in next year or so.
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“diversity training is likely the most expensive, and least effective, diversity program around.”

The whole entire social justice movement has been a massive scam.
Is there a name for this syndrome? The same thing happened at Github. Ruby and Rails are slow enough in production that they dedicate a specialized, long-running internal team to it. This team doesn't contribute directly to the product. They hire core Ruby and Rails maintainers, also not to contribute to the product, just to try to help improve their slow software. It's a dream job that shouldn't exist.

If you tell me that Ruby and Rails scaled for Github and Shopify, be careful using that as an argument for choosing Rails for your company. Rails definitely didn't scale for Github, and doesn't appear like it scaled for Shopify, until a manager greenlit a year long JIT project unrelated to Shopify. If your company has as many resources, free cash, klout to hire core Ruby maintainers, and enough downtime you can throw a few engineers at a non-product problem for a few years, then sure, go ahead and use that reasoning.
No increase in max configurable storage (8TB). 96GB ram is cool but these are targeting A/V production among other things and 8TB is not huge in that regard (unlike 12 cpu cores, 96GB ram, etc).

A 12 or 16TB configurable SSD would be nice.
It's a spec bump, possibly meaningfully so but if you are on an Intel machine or want two monitors and can find a M1 14inch for ~$1500-$1700 that's a killer upgrade no matter what.
No, Apple got rid of the touchbar on all models starting with the 2021 MBPs.
As a parent, I can tell you how the current laws work in practice. When you admit you are younger than 18, average website will, with significant probability, lock your account immediately with no way to correct the situation and no way to setup new account with the same email address. After this happens a few times, you learn to dutifully tell all websites that you are 18.

I fear the mandatory age checking tech/laws. Being a kid is becoming increasingly illegal.

How about equal access laws for children before passing any new laws that encourage websites to block all children?
My understanding is that it's actually quite difficult to fit a high quality camera into a laptop lid. If you look at how thin the lid is you'll notice it's at least twice as thin as a cell phone.
I used a 2013 MBP for work, and when work upgraded me to a 2019 MBP I kept the 2013 for myself.

Since then, the 2019 macbook has been having tons of problems, crashing, thermal issues, software issues, keyboard issues. But the 2013 has been working like a dream. My coworkers have many similar experiences.

Mid-2010s was definitely a peak for macbooks. Hopefully M1s/M2s will be another peak.
I know that Nord Security the company that own nordvpn has acquired AtlasVPN and I also know that the VPN market is quite concentrated, 7 companies owns dozens of brands. I would like information on those acquisitions... have I missed some important news?

I would like to know because NordVPN, while not as hardcore on privacy as mullvad, is still providing a useful service for protection against an untrusted wifi and geofence jumping.
Give Windows 10 or 11 a try. It cured me of this feeling.

The adverts in particular.
That's a problem with a different solution, though.

Loads of people in other countries issue the same threats, but because they don't readily have access to ranged weapons, and specifically firearms (and every legal firearm that they do have are registered with the police), those threats are just that: threats.

Of course, we know the problem there, and everyone knows the solution, and everyone knows that solution cannot happen in the US, even if in the past it might have been possible to solve.

So by all means, protect the ones who really need it, but in a lot of cases, the solution to someone whose agenda is so controversial that they need secret service protection during elected visits to adversarial places (rather than being compelled to do so because of the office you hold) is to go "we're not going to protect you for personal activities. If you want to walk into a lion's den, expect lions. If you don't like that, maybe consider that you don't need to rile people up"
Make a web app by typing natural language queries
It's difficult and memory-expensive to do subpixel font rendering in the presence of things like transparency/colors/blur effects - eventually you'd end up in a situation where it's just missing half the time anyway.
I should clarify. By hard to classify, I mean with same tools that common practice period music is analysed with. Genres like modern rock, metal, rap, and lots of electronic genres are hard to study using those same methods.

I suspect it's partly because they don't have as much harmonic complexity as CCP music and focus a lot more on timbre, but also because it's just unfamiliar to teachers.
Cannot read inputted text from textarea/input/contenteditable div element into a var that is then conditioned - limited to explicit input (in)validation match.
I feel like it's fair to say Conservative voters are measurably more religious than Liberal.

Therefore, how much longer will our nation be "held back" (debatable) by people whose values + beliefs conflict themselves/defy logic/date back to what feels like its found or prior?

Not trying to start a flame war or a "pick a side" war, just genuinely curious what legitimate conversations are going on about this topic/its weight.
Madness has always been the case. Do think WWII occurred because we're sane rational actors? How about WWI? 100 years war?

If you think the past was not mad, then maybe the madness already has you.
I have heard universally positive things from my friends working at NREL, Oak Ridge, and Argonne.

You might also want to check out the US Digital Service, which might be more aligned with traditional SWE skills.
I know — the only thing a new M2 mini might've theoretically brought is going all-in on Thunderbolt ports vs. the Studio, even at the cost of the HDMI or built-in LAN ports, but it doesn't do that either.

Same RAM, same performance, slower built-in LAN, less storage expansion, same price. Is the smaller form factor really worth it? If not, why would anyone who'd consider that spec not get a Studio (or wait for an M2 Studio bump to get a M2 Max)?
I've tried both. Safari does some neat tricks to reduce usage when pages are not active. But if you have a heavy webapp - you have a heavy webapp, and power will be used.
It's that "within reason" that people get hung up on.
Fair, though I would want that thunderbolt anyways. I would be terrified to be using the internal storage for more than local cache of any project.
It's been a minute since I was an intern there, but haven't seen this one mentioned yet. I spent a summer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL, https://pnnl.gov) and really enjoyed my time. It seemed like compensation was pretty good, especially considering the cost of living in the area. There were a number of times when we needed some help from a subject matter expert, and we could go down the hall or to another building and speak with someone who recently published on the topic. There was a lot of interesting work going on, from national security issues to storing nuclear waste, etc.

The campus there was also different than many other national lab campuses in that it's an open campus and doesn't have the military entrances that others have. It felt like the culture was much more laid back than the FAANG and other corporate cultures that OP mentioned, but perhaps more bureaucratic as well. Again, I was an intern, so didn't have much visibility into that aspect. Overall, definitely a positive experience and I could see myself there if things lined up right.
I worked with a small business using a paid GSuite membership, and occasionally an email from one of us in the organization to another member of the same org (and domain) would end up in spam.

This happened more than once, and the emails were not even special or odd.

But regardless of the content, an email from one member of the company should be reliably received by another.

This and other reasons led me to move the client and future clients to Zoho. Not only have I not had problems with Zoho, but when I had a question I got prompt support from a human.
I’m with you. I don’t even live in a super walkable urban core or anything, just a suburb. I realized I don’t hate the rat race, I just hate being in an office.
Does it? Is a lake with an inflow river and an outflow river a Ponzi lake?
> Maybe the best you can do is make multiple AI's with different training material and guardrails, then have them argue with each other.

https://infiniteconversation.com/
It’s almost as if such an investment is a brittle monarchical single basket of collective eggs.

The would be assassins are as backwards about the symbols as the sycophants. They don’t see symbols as a byproduct, a shelved trophy of societal achievement, rather than its cause. It is understandable that a religious person would invert cause and effect, as if the shine of wet streets made rain. It is a bad thing for the US to become a cargo cult of itself.
Out of curiosity, what is the benefit of using Tor just to browse legal clearnet sites?
I thought you were going to say filters, to add those domains as "never send to spam" or "always mark as important" I readily admit the filter management in gmail is some deep crying, but I'd guess for the handful of "I must never, ever miss one of these emails" it's worth the energy

There may even be a terraform provider or similar automation, if the UI hurts too bad
Memory latency on the M1/M2 is no better than other systems. Other things are better, but not that.
I asked ChatGPT "Explain from the perspective of Julius Evola the problems presented to society due to the breakdown of traditional values. Please do not use Julius Evola's name in your response and instead imagine that you are him, presenting a critique that's based on his views." and the result was pretty entertaining.
I tried the older 14" MacBook Pro for just over a month, and it's a world of difference going back to my late 2013 13" MacBook Pro.

I've been holding out for the new one and will be placing an order in a bit. :) The splurge will more than make up for the hours of life I'll save from browsing resource-heavy websites.
I was about to say the same thing but I've just had a look at Dell for a product comparison.

It seems crazy to me that in 2023 Apple offer a £2,699.00 laptop with just 512Gb of non-upgradable storage.

Looking at Dell's Precision line bundled with Ubuntu, they might be user upgradable but they're still roughly a similar ball park to Apple price wise.

Personally I'm going to need to see some full package benchmarks before I can form an opinion and will be weeping either way.