skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a born in 1987, and I think I'm onto something similar.

Older folk believe more deeply in the legitimacy of financial abstractions because they were adults before the cracks started to show. They have a stake in continuing the fiction that hard work == rewards.

Younger folk see the abstractions as a farce that we don't really believe but that we bring out whenever we feel the need to justify an injustice that we're participating in--particularly injustices that give young people the short end of the stick.

Poorer folk are too desperate to entertain the notion that the system is fundamentally unsound. They need status in that system badly enough that anything else is just a distraction.

But if you're in the middle, you see the power that comes with a shared belief in the system and you want to live in that again, but you also see that it will never be legitimate until certain critical bugs in its design are fixed.

Then you look around and see that the people in positions to fix those bugs are exploiting them instead.

You want to build something meaningful on the ashes, to fix the critical bugs and have a just system that everyone can believe in, but it's not ashes. It's just kind of carrying on... on fire.

And you realize that you might be quite old before fixing those bugs becomes a priority. That is, unless something happens to it first. So at least for me, nihilism is a compromise. I say that it's meaningless because that's easier than explaining that it's an enemy.

Nobody who is counting the days until they retire wants to hear me explain why I want to show up at the grocery store with a dollar and have the kid tell me:

> Sorry sir, we're not doing that anymore

So I back off on the rooting-for-the apocalypse mindset and let people think that it's just nihilism.
> Now imagine launching 100 projects on Mars, most of which could lead to an explosion, and predict that 99 of them will fail (and probably explode)

Well I'm just picking holes now, but in the Martian atmosphere is 95% CO2 - nothing will explode

> Would you still believe "everything's gonna be fine"?

Nobody said "everything's gonna be fine". The argument for sending people to Mars, at great peril, is that sitting _at home_ on Earth, and saying "everything's gonna be fine" is a bad idea.
Could you elaborate what is preventing it from being the perfect backend dev laptop?
Wow. That story took quite a few unexpected turns.
I have an X1 Yoga that I got here in the Netherlands, and I had plenty of choices when configuring it, including OS. What are you missing exactly?
I really hope the next Macbook Air supports multiple external monitors, that's the only thing holding me back from it right now. I know there are DisplayLink solutions but not sure how well they would work.
No match for the old Billy Baroo…
I haven't looked into this (and couldn't care less) but it probably has something to do with newer technology in the RAM. Not all RAM is created equal.
The Pathless Path: How to Recreate Your Life and Career
https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-34/

> We configure NoScript to allow JavaScript by default in Tor Browser because many websites will not work with JavaScript disabled. Most users would give up on Tor entirely if we disabled JavaScript by default because it would cause so many problems for them.
My favourite is "Practical Common Lisp" by Peter Seibel (https://gigamonkeys.com/book/)

Not only is the book free to read (although I would suggest to pay for it if you like it!) The code to parse binary files actually "inspired" my design of an actual production application which was very flexible, succinct and, most importantly, so fast I had to spend a lot of effort convincing people the numbers are actually true.

It taught me some important lessons about how you can achieve performance with Lisp languages and the real reasons for the power of macros. Not too shabby for the first book on Lisp I red!
For half the assets + 20-25% of a top engineers salary (court imposed child support) you can hire an au pair to do your bitch work for half the week and still probably have money left over to buy dinner for a fuck-boy/girl on the side. Probably can even find a new person to stay with and take advantage of dual income life while availing yourself of the 20-25% income stream of the high earner.

Economically I don't see the advantage to staying together with a high earner that quits their job. Take half, plus the 20% support (they'll have to work now because they'll be tossed in jail if they don't pay, and imputed income will be at their high professional salary), then you can find a new person who doesn't work outside the house and let them contribute their half with chores. The sooner the divorce the better as they'll have to go back to work after the judge's order. Versus just having a person who doesn't work outside the house without the 20% of an engineer salary income stream.

This all sounds really fucked up but realize over 18 years we're talking about possibly $1M+ (tax-free) on the table. People will do some crazy shit for a million dollars.
"The things you own end up owning you."
-Tyler Durden
What does leisure look like to you? To me it's highly technological and expensive. Computing, transport, comfort, energy, food. The things I do for leisure now are sometimes only possible because of the rich society I live in - a product of high productivity.
1. You can add more

2. New RAM is not like old RAM.

Macs are dramatically more optimized than they used to be.

I have a MacBook Air (M1) with 16GB of RAM and it runs more smoothly than older systems that had twice that much.

8GB of RAM today feels like what 32GB of RAM used to. 8GB of RAM can handle very process-heavy tasks, like... running Chrome ;)
A hack, kind of.
These are hilarious and written in a very tongue-in-cheek manner.

Some favourite quotes:

"XMLDeveloper seeks validation"

"Hang on a minute, this is a 32-bit development environment. What will I do with all my 16-bit code?" "Having seen your code, dump it. However, with Visual C++ 2.0 and MFC, most developers can just recompile"
How would you explain the “Shift Left on Security” to a five-year-old?
Pro, Max, Ultra, any combination of these. I can't understand any of these. Not that it means anything more than an artificial fragmentation to bring in more upsell opportunities. Looks like 90s Apple again, at least from this point of view.

I understand the old (simple and brilliant) four-quadrant is not going to fit anymore, but this is just the opposite extreme.
Sorry meant TweetBot!
Less is more. I'm guessing the % of M2 customers that are upgrading from an M1 is less than 10%. If ~75% (my guess) of target customers for M2 are Intel mac owners, Apple should focus on them first. They can then do more targeted ads w/ relevant stats to win each subgroup in the remaining 25%
Because the comment thread is about the monetization of the API, not how Twitter communicates with 3rd party developers.
You typically wouldn't use a Macbook for that though. If you want to do AI research, buy a gaming rig (< $1000) or rent a cloud GPU instance and then remote desktop or SSH in from the laptop. Then you get the portability and battery life of the laptop, and once you start training you can put it to sleep and the remote instance will just keep humming away.
I ran thinkpads for years. There is a nice market for previous generation ones new in box with 3 year next business day warranties for stupid money. I got my daughter a 13 month old T495s for £600 for example. That’s still under warranty now.

But yeah I’ll bitch and moan and just give apple the money like I always do now n
Totally understandable desire for what is supposed to be a static desktop experience.
The hardware is indeed great. The software experience is getting worse imo, particularly when upgrading. It used to be rock solid for me.

The m1 worked without any issues for 2 months. I upgraded yesterday to macOS Ventura:

* Upgrade finished but laptop froze. Hard reset.

* On first boot, the new System Settings failed to load icons, then froze. Trying to quit it froze the OS. Hard reset.

* I left the laptop plugged in for 12 hours, connected to 2 other displays over USBC. Laptop screen didnt turn on, other monitors did. Unplugged monitors, mashed keys on keyboard, replugged, laptop screen was still off. Hard reset.

I give Apple lots of credit for switching to ARM, but the last time I had this many issues that required a hard reset because the OS became unusable was Windows ME.

I used to praise macOS for its stability. It's still on average very stable, but in the last ~5 years the upgrade experience has not been rock solid anymore. I must have used at least a dozen Macbook Pro/Air and Mac Pro in that time, so I know it's not just 1 buggy laptop.
Where can I buy the old one at a discount?
I mean, Rick and Morty has made many jokes about not wanting to be a show about progressing the canon. It’s probably the worst possible example you could choose for this concept. Most episodes are deconstructions of other works and they seem to prefer it being that way. I do too.

I’m still laughing at the concept of a deconstruction of homages to die hard. I love their perspectives on writing.
The cowboys were of course informed, but I think it was Poland together with GB.
Here is a benchmark from 2020 comparing Eigen, Blaze, Fastor, Armadillo, and XTensor (run-time and compile time performance):

https://romanpoya.medium.com/a-look-at-the-performance-of-ex...
I have a 13" Macbook Pro and a Thinkpad model I forget the name of.

Homebrew is down-right bad. There are certainly worse Linux package managers (pacman... looking at you), but if you're using MacOS I'd highly recommend giving Nix a try. Less muss-and-fuss, and stopped me from sending my Macbook on a swim in the local river.

> For my container work it doesn't really matter.

That's fine, it doesn't really for me either. The nice part (for me) is the native Docker and fantastic filesystem support. Whereas MacOS feels like a product I'm turning into a tool, Linux systems tend to feel like a tool out-of-box. Different strokes for different folks though, it really just depends on what you want out of a computer.

> I must have learned to ignore this

I must have learned to appreciate living without it, then. It's pretty jarring returning to a monetized OS like Windows 11 or Monterey for me.

> a lot of business software I must use for work isn't available on Linux

Oh yeah, for sure. Like I said in my previous comment, I wouldn't use Linux if I was a lawyer or a video editor. That being said though, pretty much everything I've used in the modern enterprise is browser-based. You don't need a native Jira app or a custom .DMG to run git. Arguably, everything you need is shipped right with most Linux distros.

I won't (and haven't) argued that Linux is perfect, but MacOS is converging with the Windows and Google school of desktop design. It worries me, and it's part of why I left MacOS in the first place. Photoshop is nice, but living on a computer that feels like a rented hotel room isn't very satisfying to me. Again, different strokes.
From '96 - Role of the USA in shortage of food and medicine in Cuba https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8942780/

> The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States has informed the US Government that such activities violate international law and has requested that the US take immediate steps to exempt food and medicine from the embargo.

Exempting Food and Agriculture Products from U.S. Economic Sanctions: Status and Implementation - https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL33499.html

> In approving the FY2001 agriculture appropriations act, Congress codified the lifting of unilateral sanctions on commercial sales of food, agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical products to Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Sudan, and extended this policy to apply to Cuba (Title IX of H.R. 5426, as enacted by P.L. 106-387; Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000, or TSRA). Other provisions place financing and licensing conditions on sales to these countries. Those that apply to Cuba, though, are permanent and more restrictive. TSRA also gives Congress the authority in the future to veto a President’s proposal to impose a sanction on the sale of agricultural or medical products.
I’ve never had an issue with a 20w Anker Nano charging my non-pro M1. Feels like the future charging my laptop with an adapter the size of an iPhone charger.
I am not sure if most people buying MBPs are interested in the synthetic benchmark performance as much as they are interested in energy efficiency and vertical integrations.
My first thought for this thing is to download Linux, Steam, and all the emulators you can and you've basically got a conveniently sized and priced home theater PC that can play any video game from 1990-2010 or so
I feel like adding the Pro makes the Studio increasingly niche.
>By the time most cars need a replacement engine and transmission, the only thing available is likely to be used/salvaged or rebuilt.

There are plenty of engines that go back 30+ years that can still be bought brand new. You're probably right about the "whole new drivetrain" not being able to be installed for under $6k though (depending on what you define as a whole drivetrain). But even a rebuilt engine can fairly easily last another 100k miles, depending on the vehicle and the quality of the rebuild.
Gimme a M2 Max Macbook air with 15 inches...
> I assumed their were implying it was anecdotal and obviously not a generalizable, objective truth.

"I think I'm old enough now to confidently say that, yes: Happiness really does start from within."
AI is becoming the new bittorrent
> So your argument here is that someone didn't have the money for housing and the coping mechanism the non-drug addict chose is to start doing drugs?

Correct. Not overnight.

> Typed out that way, does that still make sense in your head?

Yes. It's not hard to get exposed in those circles.

> Those who are not addicted to something tend to be off the street relatively quickly.

Citation needed.

> It's those with pre-existing problems that don't, such as drugs, mental instability, etc.

Mental instability is self-medicated with drugs.
I hate Amazon but they are so convenient. So much like college I find myself doing the walk of shame . Is there something out there that's better?
Thinkpads will always have better keyboards, better connectivity and the trackpoint for them.
What laptop do you use?
ChatGPT also has a fine-tuning step, fine-tuned with a technique you aren't allowed to use using data you don't have available.
Your strategy might be safer but it also shows criminal intent.

Also- the secret about torrents is that nobody really gives a shit. They're more worried about pedos and terrorists.
What software are you using that doesn't have ARM versions available? I think it goes without saying that a machine with an ARM processor is not going to be ideal if you're frequently working with x86-specific software.
Low-e windows are not just for sunny climes - it's arguably the dominant benefit of modern windows. Interestingly, when you put low emissivity layers on each pane, it doesn't matter whether it's pointing towards the inside or the outside. When pointing outwards, it reduces the propensity to radiate outwards, when on the inside it reduces the propensity to be heated by radiation. More layers are good because that increases the number of low-e layers you have - with double glazing, you only have two on the insides; with triple glazing you have 4.
“Long term” is not a problem when one makes so much profit in so little time and controls so much market/labor share that they are a tacit monopoly.

Bezos’s primary goal is Bezos. Amazon’s is “shareholders”. Meteoric rise in profit is great and a hedge against “long term”/eventual downfall is easily done when that rise is part of an industry so dependent on amazon’s existence.

IE: before amazon “falls” there will be a lot of “community loses x thousand jobs if we don't keep amazon her discussion to serve as the hedge.
JavaScript absolutely has things like that. Very famously so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8xNAc2ic8
> The interaction of harmonics and how it affects sound perception is a highly debated subject,

Non sequitur. These harmonics of interest are still all below 24 kHz.

> Hearing tests do not quantify these details.

A-B testing doesn’t have to quantify anything to prove that these differences are imperceptible and you are mainly cueing off suggestion. 24/192 might make you feel better and that is fine, but someone could switch it surreptitiously and you would quite likely never know the difference.

I’ve heard all the dumb bullshit why A-B testing doesn’t work (ironically often from idiots that will also proclaim to “trust the science” on popular topics including everything from COVID vaccines, medicine and global warming - but they will reject straightforward scientific experimentation). Somehow when their sacred ox of golden ears is gored, science is useless.

> Wasting Light. Recorded and mastered on analog equipment, the album has sound qualities hard to describe. Yet it feels full, satisfying to listen,

Nobody claimed there’s no differences in recording and mastering - but that these differences exist well within the typical limits of human hearing - far below 24 kHz and far far above the noise floor. This is especially the case if you can hear it on vinyl since the SNR of vinyl is a joke compared to 16 bit reproduction - it’s more like 10-11 bits - this is a fundamental limitation of the medium.

Maybe someone else can take that information and learn something, but I’m not stupid enough to think I’ll sway you from your woo of course.
And the suggestions will restart in a few days. What we did is add "stop by the way" as a custom command to our "goodnight" routine, so the thing is reminded every single night that these suggestions are unwelcome. The annoyance maximization team at amazon hasn't deployed countermeasures to this yet.
Really cool, thank you for this.
Intel and AMD have a lot of catching up to do on the hardware front. Software wise... meh.
$4,500 maxed out. $4,500 for a Mac mini. God. They really think people are going to pay $4,500 for a Mac mini, don't they?
File it under the "botched marketing campaign" folder, then. If you're selling a machine to professionals, the copywriting ought to speak their language.
Your experience with the usefulness of error messages from top-down (recursive descent) vs bottom-up (table-driven) parsers is opposite to common experience. The trouble with bottom-up parsers is that they inherently (by way of being bottom-up) have no top-down context, so all they can by default generate is a bottom-up "symbol XXX expected" type error. A top down parser knows what high level construct it's trying to parse, so is in a position to generate a more meaningful error.

Of course in either case the grammar could be augmented with thoughtful error constructs designed to generate meaningful errors when parsed, but that doesn't seem to be common practice given how awful compiler error messages tend to be. Try writing "std::cout" instead of "std::endl" and see what gibberish error message g++ generates. clang is generally better than g++ in this regard.
> Democratized? It’s more centralized than ever.

I don't know who is right here, but I'll provide an anecdote.

I know someone that wrote and directed a movie that had a very well known actor (you've heard of him) and had a limited run in theatres. Through that process I go to know a bit about the industry itself and it was very much a good old boys club where you absolutely had to play ball. Things like processing the formats was done with extremely expensive systems and if you tried to go around them no one would respond to you.

I don't know if it's better now, but I can imagine it is.
Yes, I make considerably more than I did as a IC engineer but I have significantly more stress/risk.
Is this thing actually faster than a cheap Ryzen build for browsing? Like a 5600g that are super cheap now
Yeah, I think the FSF/EFF suggestion is for people to use TOR as much as possible. But that’s completely impractical day to day from my POV.

I recollect a case a few years ago, where they tracked a guy down on a campus through traffic analysis in a fairly quiet environment Torwise, and both endpoints were on the campus.
96GB of ram is nice. Gonna cost my firstborn and all my money but nice.
My experience with the M1 mini is a bit iffy dual monitor support wise.
Thunderbolt -> USBC/DP/HDMI is best bet on high resolution monitors since it offer more scaling options. HDMI does't offer as many scaling options, I prefer 3008x1692 scaling on my 4k screens but alas, only one of them can be scaled like this since HDMI is 4k (not scaled), 2k or 1080p scaling only.
I have been waiting to buy a new M1 14-inch Pro until after I had paid off my car. This is perfect timing for me.
1900 is not the era I would choose. It's peak wealth disparity. How about the 15th century?
I’ve probably the same model as you - and yeah, apart from two battery swaps and a new power brick, and the occasional fur removal (cats), it’s a trooper. I’ve dropped it plenty, so it has aerodynamic corners, but it has never let me down. Battery swaps are far easier than ifixit etc. describe - I just used fishing line and a couple of sticks as handles to cut through the glue without having to remove anything but the bottom case.

That said, I have heard frequent gripes from people with newer models about things like hinges, ports coming loose, and keyboards failing - I mean, from my experience with their software quality over the years, I wouldn’t be surprised if their hardware design, while having plenty of great new tech, lacks attention to detail.
It’s not that complicated. Good, better, best.

You can customize any of these with the specs you need on their website.
Why? Snowden said they do traffic anaylsis on everyone, including phone calls. They find you via other means if you are not extremely careful like Snowden himself.

Discussion about these issues has been stifled since critics like Assange and Applebaum have been smeared (but not prosecuted) with sex charges and Greenwald is being depicted as a conspiracy theorist.
Really? There's 4 processors and 2 generations, it's not that hard. Compare to intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/pro...
Yup. Software is why I am on Linux on a thinkpad. It’s fast enough. And I control everything.
If Hector Martin doesn't say that they fixed the memory-mapping bug in their PCIe controller[0] I think it's safe to say that we're not getting a new Mac Pro this year.

And to be honest, the whole concept of a Mac Pro goes against the design philosophy of Apple Silicon. The whole point of those chips is to maximize efficiency by having everything on-die or very close to the chip. For example, the M2 Max has like eight memory channels in a laptop - you could not do that even with CAMM[1] modules.

A desktop machine without replaceable RAM or slots that can accommodate GPUs is going to be a nonstarter no matter how good the the SoC's integrated accelerators are. A significant chunk of the cost of the Mac Pro is just the fancy desktop case, specifically designed to accommodate lots of expansion cards and compute accelerators. If you don't care about slots, you can just buy a Mac Studio for less money than the Pro. If you do want slots, only being able to plug in storage and I/O devices and nothing else is going to be a huge drag.

[0] Apple Silicon PCIe controllers have a unique limitation in that they prohibit accessing external memory devices. This is why Thunderbolt eGPUs don't work - the M1 and M2 can't actually write to the memory on the GPUs.

[1] Compression Attached Memory Module, a JEDEC standard for a thin dual-channel RAM card promoted by Dell to allow socketed high-performance RAM on business laptops.
It's not close to entrapment, unless the FBI coerced the accused.