skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Look at our breathtaking Covid death tolls. Look at our staggering inflation and energy shortages. Look at the current mass protests all across Europe over the cost of living. Look at the media censorship over the truth about the Ukraine war.

I've had people in China asked if our country has been destroyed by the pandemic, inflation, energy shortages, BLM protests, etc...and well my answer is "no, you're just being lied to by CCTV." It isn't like the misinformation goes both ways.
Did Democrats also just shit on railroad employees?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_la...

I wonder if the generalized statement is that politicians with investments and beholden to lobbyists never pass up opportunities (but i don't disagree with your sentiment).
"If you don't see this thing that's TOTALLY OBVIOUS to me, I don't know what to tell you." - Don't forget confirmation bias etc on your side. Different things are obvious to different people.
Coca Cola's corporate propaganda is ubiquitous. They certainly are not innocent.
If you turn on Show dead, this thread has a comment and link explaining it.

Not sure why it was flagged.
Vultr's Bandwidth Policy “Improvements”
Just received email from Vultr: they suddenly re-announce "improvements" in their bandwidth policy.

One thing they've added on top of November's announcement[1] is that they are removing (!) "Stop Servers on Bandwidth Usage" functionality.

I suspect that a good chunk of some of VPS providers' profits are accidental overages[2] (and then those providers sometimes get "aww" from the crowd by forgiving /some/ of the charges, which were totally avoidable to begin with). This kind of practice is despicable, IMO.

Any recommendations from HN on VPS providers that never overcharge?

[1] https://www.vultr.com/news/Vultr-Announces-Reduced-Bandwidth-Pricing-2-Tb-Of-Free-Monthly-Egress-Free-Ingress-And-Global-Pooling/

[2]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30054739

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/droplet-bandwidth-overage-ridiculous-amount

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Subject: Vultr.com - Notification of bandwidth policy improvements and changes to related functionality.

In November, we announced updates to our bandwidth billing policy, which will make high-performance cloud computing even more accessible and affordable for users around the world. You can view the announcement here.

Here are the highlights:

- Every Vultr customer will now receive two terabytes (2 TB) of free outbound data transfer every month, in addition to the transfer included with each subscription.

- Data ingress will now be free.

- All customers will receive global account-level pooling of transfer across all instances and locations.

- Vultr will now offer a reduced, single worldwide egress overage rate of only $0.01 per GB.

These improvements also some of the existing functionality.

We will be making the following changes:

- The "Stop Servers on Bandwidth Usage" function will be discontinued.

- The "Bandwidth Usage Notifications" will be updated to reflect the new policy and will be calculated based on the pooled bandwidth total instead of on a per-instance basis.

If you have any questions or concerns about this change, reach out to our customer support team for assistance.

We value your patronage and are dedicated to providing the highest level of service.

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I’m looking forward to picking up a second hand M1 Max mbp now that these new models are out. M1 is more than fast enough for me, and I’m specifically looking for a native 3 external monitor setup, without any DisplayLink shenanigans!
Why would they spend any amount much less $3b or $10b to keep people they don’t need/want?
You don't know the business logic of every program. You can't say that a rust program won't have a security issue due to this.

`UserAccessLevel > Threshold`

Like there could be a million ways an integer becoming small could mess up something.

Also there are business logic issues as well
I mentioned The Ray Tracer Challenge in a comment below, and it seems quite popular so I’ll submit it here as well.

http://raytracerchallenge.com/

It’s not really for beginners though, but maybe possible to start it together with a beginners book in a language of choice. It starts with points, vectors and matrixes, but gets more advanced later on. It’s around 250 pages and there’s basically no code provided, just test scenarios and a bit of pseudo code.
Other Common Lisp applications for music, written in LispWorks, http://www.lispworks.com :

ScoreCloud, Music Notation: https://scorecloud.com

MusicEase, Music Notation: https://www.musicease.com/

OpenMusic, Music composition with a visual programming language: https://github.com/openmusic-project/openmusic/ , https://openmusic-project.github.io/openmusic/

OM#, originally based on OpenMusic: https://github.com/cac-t-u-s/om-sharp , https://cac-t-u-s.github.io

Most of these applications are available for Mac and Windows, some even for Linux.

OpusModus, https://opusmodus.com (mentioned in the article) now is on Macs (Intel / Apple Silicon) and an upcoming version is promised for Windows
This is not personal information (so not a GDPR matter) but a 'functional cookie' required to provide the functionality requested by the user

So IMHO, and IANAL, this does not require consent and should simply be explained in your privacy/cookie policy.

Lastly, depending on the implementation this piece of data may very well never leave the user's machine and thus may not even be known by the server.
I mean, the test may be good. But they must be so slow they're not really useful.
Well if you’re not hiring, your competitor is picking up the talent

Plus the more people that you have, the faster you can get competitive products out to market

Could be a damned if you do, dammed if you don’t situation
Might I recommend an 8BitDo Pro2 controller if you don't find one? Fantastic wireless controller for not a lot of money.
The Kia EV6 and Hyundai Ioniq 5 are both 800v charging too.
First they’d have to stop exempting themselves from all the other labor laws they pass for everyone else…
It's called following through with campaign promises. I know it's scary. People voted for the people introducing this law, and those people want to see an attempt to get it passed. It's not the houses fault they don't control the senate. That's how things are supposed to work.
> I wonder what they believe this reduction in staff is meant to provide?

An increase in profitability most likely?

If we can agree "you need to have + pay employees in order to deliver projects which grow revenue", I don't know how they expect to grow with "less employees" delivering on less growth projects?
Wasn't something that was claimed. Reducing driving in better for the environment.
Obviously this is just a showy stake in the ground, but I was struck by this juxtaposition:

> The bill would require that within 30 days of passing, every agency returns to pre-pandemic arrangements. ... The bill would also require federal agencies to complete and submit to Congress studies outlining how pandemic-era telework impacted their performance.

A legit process would be to do the studies first (not to mention surveying what has worked and not worked in the private sector), do some experiments, etc. This seems like a really good thing to direct the DoL to do: do some research and surveys, commission (fund) some external research projects, and then do some experiments. I'd really support that.

We are trying some small experiments internally to try to blend the best of remote and in person. For example trying to record & transcribe in person meetings just as is done with Zoom meetings, and publishing them all internally. (So far the company is so small that it hasn't mattered much, but...)
Historically (not sure if still true), Microsoft had top tier profit:employee.
BigCo has a tedious process of getting rid of bad hires. Most managers are not going that path unless they are forced to.
That's my setup and I was thinking exactly same; Mini M2 Pro with 32GB RAM would be perfect for me. Except that I don't have too many complaints with my current machine which I feel can easily work just fine for at least 2 more years.
The same people who vote for these reps. You can’t fix willful ignorance, you can only wait for the electorate composition to change. You are not going to convince someone tribal to suddenly approach policy problems with a logical, data driven approach. Their feelings, to them, are as good as facts.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gi...
This author has certainly constructed an interesting logic puzzle in their conversations with the bot, but I feel like drawing these conclusions runs afoul of the assumption that when ChatGPT is confident about something it is correct. At this point it's a meme how confidently incorrect ChatGPT can be about its replies.

Curious what readers more informed about AI tech will have to say. From my limited understanding, this seems like an interesting display of getting ChatGPT to analyze itself and to contradict its own analysis, but not necessarily an autopsy of its real functionality.

On a strictly factual note, the author links another article in which ChatGPT recollects specific details from earlier in the conversation, and claims that contradicts ChatGPT's stated capabilities and indicates a human editor is involved. But OpenAI states on their website that ChatGPT is capable of limited working memory of its ongoing conversation.[1] The author wrote an entire article on the flawed assumption that ChatGPT cannot remember details of its own ongoing conversation, and that does make me question their credibility on this subject.

[0]https://mindmatters.ai/2022/12/yes-chatgpt-is-sentient-becau...
[1]https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6787051-does-chatgpt-rem...

Edit: And with no comment section or author contact info provided, I can't even see a way to submit a correction about that mistake to this outlet.
The most damning evidence that ChatGPT has passed the Turing test with flying colors is that the author relies on its testimony about itself.
> Is explicitly disregarding several Unix philosophies, but not really discussing why the author believes those philosophies are wrong.

I'm not sure I'd characterise these parts of the Unix philosophy as 'wrong'. For example, if you are writing a shell program for use by somebody else, then having that program work with text streams makes sense. The focus here is interactive use and short functions/programs for local use, though, which means that the text stream part of the philosophy becomes a less pressing consideration.

> I would welcome a discussion of how the Unix philosophies break down, or what they prevent. But I didn’t find that here.

At least as far as text streams go, the readme talks about awkward considerations like '-0' and '-print0', but more generally, when the command doesn't output a known format like XML or JSON, parsing the output can be fun (e.g. per https://stackoverflow.com/a/15643939). Oftentimes the response is "the command has flags for getting the data that you want", but it's simpler (IMHO) not to build this sort of functionality into every command, and instead just have the shell support it more nicely, whether by providing a function that produces a first-class value (e.g. 'ls', 'ps' here) or by providing more generic parsing functions (e.g. 'split', 'splitr' here).
Actually, yes, there seems to be. The Republican political playbook seems to be mostly getting their based riled up about meaningless culture war nonsense. Here they can present themselves as fighting to get lazy liberal remote government workers back to the office rather than wasting tax money at home. It fits right into their style.
Sometimes. Other times the cutesy name is used to conceal the intent, like the PATRIOT act.
I’m glad to have it as an option, but I think I’ve used my magsafe cable for charging two times in the past two years. The incredible battery life + switching my desk setup to USB-C means I pretty much never need to charge outside of normal usage at my desk
Yes, this will get fawning coverage on a cable news network, and people who previously had no opinion on remote work will heartily support their team's efforts to stop rewarding unproductive laziness.
Have the 14"'s outer dimensions changed any? I am wondering if my 2021's case can be reused.
Don't think this is at a haskel conference, but this looks like fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1m0aX9Lpts. Their web site is https://sonic-pi.net/.

An explanation of sonic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLLwG_SN8oo
That small question is so complex, it could probably be elucidated in a complete high quality bachelor thesis.

Many of those patients will continue to have high blood pressure for other reasons (obesity, fat intake, renal impairment, god knows what else) and will need to continue their medication, maybe they will downgrade (upgrade? (-; ) from treatment resistant hypertension to normal hypertension. A significant amount of the patients receiving surgery will suffer from mild to severe bacterial infections that also need treatment.

At the top of my head I would still say yes, it would be cheaper.

ALSO and BUT: Please do not expect a treatment that is both cheaper and better for the quality of life of the patient to be chosen by default. Hospitals and doctors don't work that way.
> Plugging a monitor enabled the dedicated GPU.

There's the problem.

Dedicated NVidia and AMD GPUs are the cause of a solid 50% of issues or instability with laptops. Including for Apple.

I get that some people really need them, but having one built-in to your laptop is just begging to have way more problems than if you left it out. If you want/need a high-reliability machine and can afford not to have a dedicated GPU, leaving it out is a really great way to instantly improve your odds a ton. Integrated GPUs used to be so bad they were a liability even if you weren't a gamer, but that hasn't been true in a long time. Hell, my base-model-with-a-little-extra-memory 2014 MBP could play Minecraft at high settings and Kerbal Space Program just fine on the integrated Intel GPU, plus a bunch of other Unity games. I know those games don't exactly represent the cutting edge of graphics (and didn't back then, either) but it was surprisingly capable.

Actually, now that I think about it, at least for me personally, GPUs are probably the cause of about half my problems on desktops, too.
Well, loosely speaking:

Democrats sometimes shit on employees but do support some measures to help workers. Republicans never support measures to help workers.
Tangent: "Commonest" is listed in the dictionary as an acceptable alternative to "most common", but I can't recall ever hearing it before. According to Ngram the latter is 20 times more common (or commoner, heh) but I would still have expected to remembering hearing it. Is this a UK vs. US thing?
Anyone who has used ChatGPT should be able to see what's happening here.

You can get it to "admit" just about anything if you ask enough leading questions.
Indeed ChatGPT waffling and giving the impression there are humans in the loop is pretty good evidence it's just a brainless bot replying. If there were humans responding to his queries, they'd deny everything!

(Although FWIW it wouldn't surprise me if some of the "hall monitor" responses were pre written strings the model was tweaked to heavily favour using in response to certain prompts...)
Early to mid 80s, on Sun stuff! Swap over half-duplex Ethernet sucks though.
Ehhh, I'm actually kind of bearish on grains as bio-fuel.

I'd like to see the switchgrass biofuel take off. A surprising amount of emissions in the USA (and Brazil) are due to deforestation associated with turning forests into farmland. That's largely mitigated by using "natural plants", like switchgrass instead of farm crops.

I mean, its all "solar power into fuel", which is great. But its also important to recognize that some (ie: switchgrass based biofuel) are better than others (ex: grain or corn based biofuel).
So if they care about data harvesting, are they also blocking Facebook?
I agree 100%. The level of customer service has hit the floor. I'm not sure if it can go any lower.
It boggles my mind that people will work hard for an employer. You care about you less than a used napkin.
This is sick! Thank you
5% layoffs? Gammannnn....
Thank you. My brain is very damp but knew it was somewhere.
Super cool tool!

Are you thinking of a way to automate the actual tracking? Do you find it a hassle to do manually? (this is the main thing I was trying to solve, check out https://www.t12n.io )
It makes me wonder if they ever allocated money on a as-needed basis. Are they hiring across the board the way they are laying off across the board? Because then their hiring practice makes about as much sense as their firing practice.

They must be looking at the recruitment cycle as a cyclical process.
A bit of a tangent, but I find the use of the "tele" prefix for words like "telework", "telehealth", etc. to sound very outdated. Haven't we settled on "remote work"?
They say they lined up on runway 18 which is now runway 19 so they were flying almost directly south. That doesn't really clear up how they had any ambiguity about what direction they should go to follow the river though because for a decent ways you're already following the river downstream.
I don't know if "announced" is really the word they want to use here. It makes it sound like they're unveiling a new feature.
How donkeys changed the course of human history
Journal article: Wu et al., "11C-metomidate PET CT versus Adrenal Vein Sampling for diagnosing surgically curable primary aldosteronism: prospective test validation, and impact of somatic genotype and ethnicity on outcomes"

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1179128/v1_covere...

Metomidate is a molecule (C_13 H_14 N_2 O_2) that naturally collects in the adrenal glands, and 11C-metomidate is a version where some of the carbon atoms are carbon-11, a radioactive version that will show up on PET-CT scans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metomidate

For reference, a PET-CT scan costs $1k-$10k in the US. Not sure how much the radioactive tracer adds.
That is funny though under Biden the dems did manage to pass some significant bills in 2022. But that's worth noticing only because the meme is so on point.
My house still has phone wiring and my ISP still offers landline services, and I'm not in a primitive area.
There are organisational scaling issues that you may hit with a language like Ruby that strongly typed languages like Java can solve.

And so Ruby may scale in cpu performance, but not with your number of teams.

That’s why Spotify switched to Java (I think they were a heavy Python user before that, not Ruby, but not sure anymore - but the organisational problem is the same for those two).

Note that I still choose Rails for all my projects, but my company is small.
Sounds a lot like Simon Willison's open source project shot-scraper

https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper
I have thought about that. It's hard to estimate the value of unlikely to succeed company options. The answer of course is do your own startup, so you can be the one making foolish decisions and causing chaotic development, instead of someone else.
Most Chinese wouldn't classify their government as "Democratic" even if they think the government works for them. Most Chinese never go abroad either, just a small portion that makes up the middle class. You aren't going to talk to some farmer in the middle of henan province about their overseas trips. Heck, most people in Shanghai (the richest city) haven't been abroad, especially if they don't have hukou there (and many don't).

Given that only 120 million Chinese even have passports, 100 million traveling the world every year seems a bit optimistic.
The author has also made a significant factual error in another article that he cites as additional evidence in this one.

>Previously, I pointed out aspects of ChatGPT that implied humans were helping craft the chatbot’s responses.

He links as a source an article where he gets ChatGPT to recall a detail from earlier in the current conversation, claims that is not a capability of ChatGPT, and insists that means there is a human editor involved.

But that is a capability of ChatGPT. It has limited local recall, with a small token budget, but it absolutely will remember the name of the fake company the author made up in their first question. That entire article lambasting the tech is based on a completely incorrect assumption, declared by the author with absolute confidence.

Edit: The author is not on twitter, there's no comment section or contact information provided. There's no means provided to even redress this analysis published on fallacious logic.
Yeah, 5% is a small, manageable number. Small enough that if you find you accidentally cut important people or roles, you can quickly get them back.

The point in my second paragraph is that if the company actually needs a 15% layoff to maintain itself long term, it would be safest to do it in three smaller 5% waves rather than one fell swoop. After each layoff, you let the system settle and recover, making sure that the body is still generally healthy before continuing with the next operation.
> Send messages to people, write some code, do some online shopping
> I’m saying 8G is enough for doing most things,

All of that can be technically accomplished on Windows 98 machine with 128MB of RAM can't it?

Why shouldn't 4GB be more than enough for most things (maybe even 2GB? That would have been a huge hard-rive several decades ago). I mean I do agree with your main point, but the cost of additional 8GB at this points is not really significant compared to the cost of the entire (~$1000+) device which alone is IMHO a pretty good argument to ship 16GB in the base model.

> The state of hardware progress has slowed, for most of the last decade you could barely buy a laptop with more than 16GiB of memory

Through most of that decade you could upgrade most laptops yourself. Even macbooks until ~2012, I had a 17" MBP from 2011 and I had no issues installing 16GB RAM myself back then.

But yeah I agree that there is no good reasons for Slack, Discord etc. to use 1GB+ memory. The web apps use a bit less I think and they doe pretty much everything (including notifications) though, Safari and Firefox also seem to be much more memory efficient than Chromium.

> The better performance of the CPU helps everything, battery life (race to idle) included.

> More RAM helps people who don't close tabs; and people making software that does not even attempt to constrain its resources.

Well you have different preferences than some other people. Also there are perfectly legitimate reasons to need more than 8/16GB RAM besides more open tabs (what's wrong about wanting to open more tabs though?) or using Electron Apps.

Also I can both agree with you that software could and should be more efficient and think that Apple charging this much for memory and storage upgrades is objectively outrageous. They can only get away with it because they purposefully made their HW non upgradeable and because people who use macOS simply have no choice than to pay that much.
Or IP addresses associated with VPNs are often found to do things that violate TikTok's ToS.
Normally, hiring 11,000 people you "didn't need" would be a warning sign that management was incompetent and require much more than just laying off the unneeded workers. It would suggest that large reforms are needed in planning and hiring. But these days it's just dismissed as an "oops!".
The headline on TFA reads "Science Museum removes trans-inclusive display after ‘propaganda’ complaints"

Trans inclusive, not trans exclusive.
Not for me. The M1 Pros were on discount for $1499 not too long ago. The screen alone vs the air is worth a it, if you use a lot for reading.
Yes, both US parties are right wing.

The only difference today is that the Democrats might feign alliance with unions on occasion.