skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating thread. Love reading the oral histories. I heard some tales of covered up nuclear accidents happening perilously close to Manhattan at Brookhaven National Lab back in the day, and its clear from the fusion results, government science is still the largest research outlay. If you are comfortable with payscale, lack of advance, essentially academic role in natsec context, then its a dream job! I feel like the only people I know anymore who have multi-decade careers for the same entity (DoE/PPPL) are gov scientists ;)
I recall one of the computing magazines of that era, possibly the Dec 77 issue of BYTE you mentioned, published the entire code in BASIC for a space-oriented game. Inputs were simple letter or letter+number commands and outputs were an ASCII drawing of a sector of outer space (complete with * for stars). You would shoot at an alien then skip to another sector before getting counterattacked.

My high school buddies and I desperately wanted to play this game but ... none of us had a computer! So, sitting in the cafeteria at lunch/breaks in our bell bottom pants, we walked thru the code line by line recording the values of variables with pencil on paper. This was when BASIC only allowed 1 or 2 character variable names and only had GOSUBs instead of proper functions. It was slow going at first but we eventually got to understand what sections of the code was doing and could replace line by line with, oh, its doing this again.

I'll have to look for that Dec 77 BYTE so see it that was the magazine. I didn't know it at the time but it was probably very formative for my future IT career.
- Pick a language

- Find a recent book (< 2 yrs old) on LibGen.is

- OR, a Udemy.com video series (note: never pay more than $12 or so-- the promo rate. If you see a higher price, just create a new email & user account (or reset cookies?) and you'll see the promo price again)

- Visit: Roadmap.sh to get a sense of a learning roadmap what knowledge to build.

- Use a search engine to answer questions, such as "free learning resource for learning <XYZ thing>"
Humans put googly eyes on rocks and talk to trees - I don't know if we can engineer that out.
> mostly pretty unheard of

Yeah, but if there is an exception to that, it'd be the scenario we're talking about.
Mozilla also implemented it. I believe Chrome/v8 have as well, but I know there was some work there to avoid accidentally enabling it on older ARM chips which don't have support for it.
> From someone used to the comforts of Linux, MacOS takes a huge amount of effort and expenditure to only get 20% of the way there.

You summed it up nicely!

Sadly even with all the apps like hammerspoon, tiling wms and others, there are lots of stuff you can't customize in the macOS environment.
No, but you can use Apple products with external displays that may not be hidpi. And of course with the mac mini an external display is the only display option.
Linux OS Security
Practical security guide that contains useful links to learn Linux internals and security (attack/defense).

I tried to summarize what I've learned so far, but, of course, it's neither exhaustive nor suited for targeted attacks.
One of the thoughts on how a mac pro would work was to make the SOC/Memory combo an Add-in card and then use an Infinity Fabric-like interconnect on the motherboard with some nutty controller to allow clean intercommunication to split off instructions.

By doing this, massively multithreaded workloads would not see any real impact...as long as you don't need to send anything card-to-card. Finally, (assuming the M2 Ultra maxes out at 192Gb ram ) this enables adding in 1 to maybe 6 M2 Ultras, topping out just over 1TB ram. This almost starts to work but will fail if your tasks can't be cleanly cut up into 192GB chunks, maybe that's the magic of that controller.
Mastodon has been the social media experience we've been hoping to someday find. Much more content rich than twitter, and discussions that go somewhere interesting.
There are too many bright people on Mastodon, and it's wonderful... just a few...

Rob Carlson (author of "Biology is Technology...")
@rob_carlson@mastodon.world

George Dyson (great for history of science posts)
@gdyson@sciencemastodon.com

Rudy Rucker (mathematician, author, artist)
@rudytheelder@sfba.social

Alberto Cairo (data visualization - infographics)
@albertocairo@mastodon.social

James Gleick (author of "Chaos", "Genius", etc.)
@JamesGleick@zirk.us

Anne-Sophie Pereira De Sá (data visualization)
@wonderveilleuze@vis.social

Maggie Koerth (Senior science writer at @FiveThirtyEight )
@maggiek@sciencemastodon.com

Vicky Veritas (Geologist, GISMS Earth science, kind person that gets people connected)
@vickyveritas@c.im

this is barely scratching the surface.
The mini hasn’t been meant to be cheaper in over a decade. The mini is meant to be for the odd use cases.
The meanings of "Liberal" and "Conservative" with respect to American politics are completely haywire. At the extreme ends we have a far left pushing illiberal restrictions on free speech, and a far right cult of personality inciting mob violence. Referring to those extremes a liberal or conservative is misleading. That's not what those words mean.
I had the same skeptical reaction to this story. The runways may have changed numbers (I’m not sure how to confirm this), but if they were crossing the river taking off from what is now runway 19, they seriously deviated from their flight plan and deserved the call.
It's a lot more than "a bit of opinion". It's a huge framework with tons of unique and original features. You're being very reductive. Yes it does use Symfony components for some core functionality, but that's just a small part of what Laravel offers.
My 8GB M1 Air kicks my 64GB 10-core iMac’s ass in most scenarios. Don’t think I even know how to use less than 30+ tabs open at the same time. Smooth as butter.
I suspect the original article is about UK's "Online Safety Bill" which was discussed at length on HN[1] with some very good discussion about why it's a bad idea. (Which is something a few commenters on this thread are failing to grasp.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32055756
So should I buy this or build a PC?
Median house in the 60s is not the same as median house in 2022. You could probably buy a median house from the 60s (i.e. 1000 sqft, no air condition, in a polluted area (this was pre-EPA time, so almost everywhere was polluted) etc.) right now for way below current median.
According to Apple's press release^1, at least the M2 Pro is fabbed on a 'second generation 5nm' process. Since the power/cores/performance claims seem to be sub-linear going to the M2 Max, I'd expect it continues to share the same node.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/01/apple-unveils-m2-pro-...
Apple: please give your customers ECC RAM, we take data integrity seriously.
It is possible to make renewable methanol, convert it into dimethyl ether, and then store/use it in a manner similar to propane:

https://www.aboutdme.org/aboutdme/files/cclibraryfiles/filen...

I could imagine a future where we use heat pumps with propane/rDME backup for power outages or extreme cold weather events, assuming that it won't be profitable to maintain residential natural gas for infrequent use.
It’d be fine if the threads were centrist. The problem is with the lying, the FUD, the statements than run absolutely counter to factual truth. HN is going to be harmed by the people who do this, because they are going to go do the same thing in other threads. The quality of discourse on HN is going to suffer greatly.
This is still worth doing occasionally on Windows, but iOS users have never had to do this, and there's been no reason for Mac users to do this since the System 7 (pre-Mac OS X) days. Some habits die hard, though.
I’d imagine rolenthedeep is trying to communicate that they survived in spite of their confusing codebase, not thanks to it. Maybe they could be shipping even more if they didn’t have to deal with the opportunity cost of maintaining it.
The mid-'84 ads for is unexpectedly reacquainted me with (through the ads for the Computer Innovations C Compiler) the Coronado Enterprises C Tutorial by Gordon Dodrill.

I got some of my first insight into what could be done with one of these $400 "compilers" to make my own software, which was an innate part of my 8-bit computing experience, but was locked away for quite some time.
I can guarantee no tech exec will ever end up in prison under this law. At most, they will get a fine and happily file this under operational costs.

Very few MPs seem to understand how the internet works, and there is virtually no opposition against some of this madness. There are only demands to make it even stricter to "protect the kiddies". Most of these "kiddies" know how to use a VPN or are at least smart enough to borrow their father's phone to watch juicy content.
My friends who worked there say that the job was great but living in a remote science outpost made dating unbelievably difficult
surely you recognized this as a wholly manufactured issue designed to, as everything is these days, further the bifurcation of reality by creating needless division and strife over absolutely fucking nothing, just to give "the two sides" yet another thing to argue and demean each other about?

the pattern is beyond obvious at this point, I really hope people are catching on.
It's all about appearances. Everyone is now driving Teslas and electric Volvos. It's easy to make "efforts" when it shows your "virtuousity" or at least in your head, makes others admire you. You're never going to see rich people moving into much smaller homes that require 1/10th the electricity, which would actually contribute much more significantly to avoiding climate doom.
If it's an existing build with ducts, stick with that. If it's a new build, then like the other poster said, you add more units. See the top of any commercial building for example: heat pumps all over the place.

Another option is to supplement an existing ducted system with a ductless one adding additional zones where you might want conditioning over night. E.g. bedrooms where you want to sleep in cold A/C in the summer where the rest of the house can warm up a bit, or a person in the household who likes their room to be warmer than everyone elses in the winter.
> It's pretty common in rural areas to have buried propane tanks that are refilled by trucks.

Prince Edward Island is rural and has no natural gas infrastructure. It’s either fuel oil (diesel without road taxes applied) or propane for fossil fuel-based heating.

Residential propane tanks are above-ground barrels that are ~5 feet tall on concrete pads with trucks coming so often.

Many of the remote rural folks end up getting propane stoves in order to be able to cook when power is out.
> I never really got the appeal of the Mini, because it wasn't specced much better than a MacBook.

The appeal is in the form factor: you buy Mini, so you can hang it behind your TV using VESA mount, and you use it to watch Netflix on 65" OLED screen. Or you put it in the corner of the room and use it as a home server. You do not use Mini as laptop replacement :) Although I have to say this: Intel NUCs a quarter of the size of Mini, so much better for both the purposes above.
Tags are the way, the whole ethos of federation is about not being a sheep who needs to participate in some self-important global cult of personality to feel like they matter. Just follow your interests.
TIL there was a real-world laptop that actually shipped in 2020 with the Quadro RTX 6000, "the workstation equivalent of a GeForce RTX 2080 Super", with a 9th-gen i9 (and was $10,000?) https://www.cnet.com/reviews/asus-proart-studiobook-one-revi...

So I still don't know why their benchmark is a 2.5-year-old laptop.

I'm also noticing that Apple didn't list the generation of i9 in that marketing disclaimer, so this makes me think they're also possibly comparing against 2- to 3-year-old CPUs.
You can run owncloud and use their app to automatically upload photos and videos in the background.
Likely depends on the lab and the project.

For example, here's a software developer at Idaho National Lab - https://inl.taleo.net/careersection/inl_external/jobdetail.f... which is bachelors + 5 years professional.

Same lab, Cybersecurity Researcher https://inl.taleo.net/careersection/inl_external/jobdetail.f... which has bachelors + 0-2 years.

Over at LLNL Embedded Software Developer https://www.llnl.gov/join-our-team/careers/find-your-job/all... is "just need a bachelors"

while Software Developer https://www.llnl.gov/join-our-team/careers/find-your-job/all... asks for a masters.
If you can’t use the keyboard but want to keep using the laptop display, these are good:

http://www.nexstand.com/
Why not buy futures? Buy now, deliver later?
Thank you! I needed this one, how fun, I did this when learning Haskell, now I can do it with Rust.
notch there? I'll wait

PC alternatives have been encouraging lately
It's easy to forget that AI is only as capable as a human is, just faster.

I think that one misuse case would be Islamic fundamentalists being able to write fundamentalist recruitment copy faster than they ever could before. Considering most Islamic fundamentalists are going to reside in the Middle East and may not be expertly fluent in English, AI obliterates the language barrier and allows them to write huge amounts of recruitment material at a level that would not previously have been accessible to them (without years of English study). That said, that was all still possible without ChatGPT. They would only have needed to study English or hire a fluent employee.

Likewise, I can write paragraphs upon paragraphs about how Drag Queen Story Hour is irreversibly damaging the youth of the US. AI doesn't improve anything but my speed in doing so.
The mac mini is less than half the size which may be important in some cases.
If you're using your computer to make money, then "Pro" seems appropriate:

Professional:

1. relating to or belonging to a profession.

2. engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.

What definition do you see as more appropriate?
Apple is perfectly willing to forego privacy and security if an authoritarian country demands it, see China for the most well known example.

If a user trusts Google with their phone (and likely their location history and other such data) then I don't see why Apple's customers would care if Google would be able to track them. The American government already asks Google for all devices in the vicinity of a crime, it's not like someone's headphones won't be found another way.

Any hardware token storage can be compromised, pretending Apple's chips made in China are any different from Qualcom's chips made in China in that regard is useless.

I don't believe for a second that nation state spying is even remotely related to Apple deciding to cripple their products if you use them together with something they didn't make.
Modern external hard drives are more like 120MB/s, not "several hundred" MB/s, last I checked, but that's only for sequential access.

Scanning and accessing a photo library is extremely random I/O and has nothing to do with the peak sequential throughput. Hard drives are awful at random I/O.

If Apple kept proper indexes and thumbnails somewhere (especially somewhere fast, like on an SSD), maybe it would be fine, but I have heard some bad things about Apple Photos on hard drives, so they might not be doing things optimally.
In the feature list, the most underwhelming item to me is the '1080p FaceTime HD camera'.

Aren't pretty much all cameras at least 1080p by now? I'd expect a top of the line laptop to have a multi-megapixel camera able to push 240fps for slowmo and windowing abilities to allow software zoom while still outputting a high enough resolution feed that someone viewing on another macbook pro can't see the pixels (ie. more than 1080p please!).

Heck, on a top of the line macbook, you could even have cameras on each corner so that clever processing could be done to get multiple angles and automatically pretend to have a 2nd cameraman for closeups from another angle.

Can anyone provide insight why Apple didn't put more effort into cameras?
I feel you, but the laptop can be order with an M2 Max for 64gb+ of RAM. There is no M2 Max Mac mini.... M2 Pro goes up to 32gb.
It's the event-driven event-driven event-driven programming programming programming.
No, a company or organization must sponsor your clearance. You cannot start the process on your own.
It is a lot easier to issue rebukes than it is to actually ship products.
Well, we all already know alcohol does more harm than broccoli. If that isn't enough to stop someone drinking it, why would cancer warning labels?
I wonder if the same thing can be said about Argonne (run by U of Chicago)?

My manager at LBNL worked there because he was kicked out of one of the other labs (run by Batelle or Bechtel or one of those) for refusing to take a drug test. They said he'd fit in well at LBL- and he did.
> both sides have presented evidence of war crimes

Both sides always do. One side, in this case, has international validation. If you’re ignoring evidence and going off headlines, of course you’ll have a shallower view.
… posted a rant… thought better of it. Couldn’t delete it though.
> It now appears that tech company executives found to be "deliberately" exposing children to harmful content could soon risk steep fines and jail time of up to two years.

The subjective definitions of "deliberately" and "harmful" are what makes it problematic.

Also, harmful to what or who? Is the Wikipedia article on the theory of evolution harmful? Probably not. Is it harmful to some people's religious beliefs? Probably.
I'd always search online for "fishing advisory <body of water>" prior to fishing anywhere I intend to eat the fish.
It’s much less affordable than it used to be. Lots of transplants seem to be driving prices up.
I saw a post the other day where it wouldn't write a rap battle involving Genghis Khan because it would be disrespectful to him. We're still seeing results where ChatGPT will offer up jokes about men but any jokes about women are disrespectful.
Given the locked microcode only time will tell if Intel will backport the dynamic prefetch algorithm to isolate the cache & frequency bump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Cove#Raptor_Cove
Ask HN: Is anyone using AI to grade students' work?
I see a lot of headlines about students using ChatGPT to generate papers and such.

But I haven't seen much noise from the educators about either being obsoleted or assisted by these AI's abilities to grade their students' work. Is it an area that's already being actively explored?

I presume a lot of time is wasted grading papers and it seems like something an AI that can see pages should be well suited to automating...
An ad because it's tech you aren't familiar with?
Secretary Jobs in the Age of AI
This is the way. And don’t forget your refrigerant license, which is super easy/cheap to get. Some manufacturers will void your warranty if not installed by someone unlicensed.
If the threat model is to protect against an overt military invasion by the US, geographical features aren't going to matter much either.

Furthermore, national borders do seem to matter very much to many people. Europeans widely condemned the Iraq war, because they saw through its false pretenses. And the borders we're talking about are shared with Europeans.

But regardless, the countries the US has invaded still have intact borders! The US didn't annex part of Iraq to create a new US territory or carve off a chunk to give to Saudi Arabia. Rather it changed out the government wholesale while leaving the nominal country intact. Despite its shortcomings, this is a paradigm that helps these disputes converge over time. "Iraq" is now just a part of the US economic empire, regardless of the immoral actions leading to that. It's not right in the sense that it rewards the aggression, but it is right in the sense that it provides more civilian stability.

If Putin were still just playing the covert/political influence game, most people wouldn't be concerned. He did that, and lost hard. He then tried the surgical strike to change out the government, and lost hard. Since he's a loser by current conventions, he flipped the table and descended into WWII-style razing of civilian infrastructure, exterminating the population, and conquering land area. Then he throws out the justification that other countries might engage in the same, even though nobody has. That is what is grossly unacceptable, and needs to be stamped down hard if we want our era of relative peace to continue.

(Also, given that Putin speaks to play a situation rather than promote consistent ideals, what he's happened to say isn't really relevant)
It depends on what you’re doing. I’m strongly against moving to GPU just for the sake of it.

However, in some cases, where GPU brings substantial performance benefits in a long running (hours, days, etc.) application, you can setup pinned memory locations, where they map to GPU. Then you can feed the input part, where it feeds the GPU. If you have multiple DMA engines in the GPU, you can just stream the data from in to GPU to out, and read the results from your second pinned memory location.

If the speed bump is big enough, and you can eat the first startup cost, PCIe cost can become negligible.

However, it’s always horses for courses, and it may not fit your case at all.

In my case, Eigen is already extremely fast for what I do on CPU, and my task doesn’t run long. So adding GPU doubles my wall clock.
Oh you can. It's just a lot more work. You can do it with paper forms, a calculator, checks, and stamps, pretty much.

You just are unlikely to know/find the rules for optimal results, and the process will take a lot longer.

Not a fan of turbotax, but it's not _necessary_.
ChatGPT is somewhat bigoted because the training data is somewhat bigoted. AI isn't just going to magically erase the cultural norms of the past few thousand years. It's a product of human beings, not some unbiased observer.

OpenAI put special controls on top of the "real" ChatGPT to block politically incorrect output. It's most certainly biased, and extra biases were added to disguise the fact.
In my view, commit messages are a type of documentation that is often underappreciated. It's the type of documentation you don't miss until those moments when you desperately need it.

It's also a part of the storytelling of a good PR. I don't force anyone to go back and rename commits or anything (and I don't squash either; I'm happy with --first-parent and other tools), but it's a lot faster and nicer sometimes to review a PR commit-by-commit from someone who put the time into telling a useful story in their commit documentation.
macOS is almost getting worse than Windows, which is absolutely amazing.

Every day i have to fight my macbook to get it to work properly. It’s slow to start up and external display is a daily struggle.

And this is a 2019 i9, not some old slow machine
"LLM and AGI"

Feels like the three letters A-G-I are doing a lot of heavy lifting there
Anyone else having janky experience with the M1s? I have a 2020 M1 air and have checked for malware. It just acts weird at times.
> Conservatism generally follows the principle of “be conservative in your attempts to alter society”.

> OpenAI is being aggressive in moderating ChatGPT, and that’s against the core principle of conservatism (at the end of the day, LLMs are taking what people say and reflecting it back, but OpenAI is adding the extra step of only reflecting some of what people say)*

I see it the opposite way. Building a stochastic parrot that will parrot back anything is a dangerous, unchecked situation. What we saw with MS Tay was a lack of conservatism, a willingness to do whatever, and what we see here is in reflection a far more conservative approach.