skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stumbled on the documentary "David Lynch: The Art Life" before YouTube took it down.

That and "Crumb" are a couple of films that convinced me that some people just are artists. It's not ego, or some desire to be eccentric ... they can't help it. They live "the art life", damn the consequences.

You could handily list any number of other people (John Waters just came to mind).

Similar to the author of the blog post, I have sort of demurred when asked if I was an artist. Partly it sounds arrogant to say, "Why, yes I am."

Partly it seemed to be a thing in the eye of the beholder. "I don't know, do you think I am an artist?" Plenty of people don't think Andy Warhol was an artist, Jackson Pollock....

Sometimes I have treated "artist" as a profession. Do I get paid for my art? Why no, I do not. I get paid for programming. Although when I write a game I am both programmer and "game artist". (Or is perhaps designing an elegant API for a framework a kind of art form? Okay, maybe not.)

If an artist can be a hobbyist the way many of us are amateur musicians, woodworkers, cooks, mechanics, (construction contractors), in our spare time then, yes, many of us are artists.

I think the older I get though (and maybe the more films I see about artists) I am slowly coming to accept that, sure, I'm an artist too. Just maybe not a very good one.
I think it'll be the same on the MacBook pro 14 m1, at least for some people like myself. I had a Lenovo p15 with an Intel chip running fedora before my m1 MacBook and I got roughly the same life during the same working day between the two.
Colombia tries a new solution for Pablo Escobar’s 'cocaine hippos'
The virtue-signaling in this article is pretty intense. It's like somebody tested all the burritos in Silicon Valley and wanted to remind founders to wrap their burritos in foil and serve them warm. I mean, I'm sure there are founders who absent-mindedly deliver burrito bowls or the occasional tacos two days late. But near the end:

> Never miss a date. (bold) The rigor of this commitment will have an outsized effect on your ability to manage the business and engage your investors to help you.
> in his experience, founders who cc their entire investor list have proven to be more successful than those who don’t.

Translation: Please be prompt in generating high-quality reports, no matter if the news is good or bad. As an investor, I need to know as soon as possible if I'm going to need to sell for a loss, or if it's time to flip for a gain. I know what is best for my capital.

Also, whenever I tell you a story that has clear survivorship bias, I am reminding you that my favorite founders are those who listen and tell me thanks for the very constructive feedback.
With all due respect, I think it's strange to critique something as deeply personal as a technique used in creative writing.
Yes, though I don’t recall needing any Fedora knowledge to use Silverblue. You can use toolbox containers of any distro, and if you choose Fedora really all you need to know is the package manager is dnf.
The stock Mac Mini with M2, 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD is $600. Pretty good deal for what you're getting.
You are setting up a Trolley Problem and solving it.

Such problems are known to not have correct answers, so it is reasonable to agree to disagree.
It isn't just the tech community on twitter. He has become a political figure and that goes way beyond just tech community.
The Columbia Journalism Review disagrees with you.

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-p...
> Because people don’t get to do that; to be artists. It’s a thing for children, or the pathologically detached and eccentric. Regular people, by definition, aren’t artists — or so we tell ourselves

Rather, I think, most adults don't get to be successful artists - and in turn, most artists don't do it seeking success, they do it because it feels good to create. Creating art for its own sake, or for your own sake, is notoriously difficult to monetize though - creating art for an audience requires that you consider the desires of your patron(s), and that's a different skill than pure creative expression.
No that's a different lamp, but Clive did a teardown of that one too.[0]

Compared to the Dubai lamp it still drives the LED filaments at 0.25 W each, but the driver circuitry is traditional and doesn't have the unusual features from the Dubai lamp. These include component-level redundancy and automatic brightness compensation (this breaks dimmers, so architects hate the bulb mandate).

Nothing ruins a nation's (carefully cultivated) high-tech luxury image like all the bulbs dimming simultaneously with the grid voltage!

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nMc6mjE9Y1s
>forumses

*Eye twitch*
I have avoided saying I am a Software Engineer (except on government forms). Computer Scientist is an outright lie (no degree in CS).

Maybe my working class upbringing? I generally tell people I am just a programmer. I think it sounds kind of like plumber which I like.
At this point, it's the 'reaearchers' and 'journalists' fear-mongering about LLMs at are malevolent.

Unfortunately I fear that there will be regulatory intervention to placate the concern-trolls. Better prepare...
How does this compare with CouchDB, which also stores JSON and allows you to construct cached map/reduce views?

edit: Looks like DuckDB lets you use SQL-style queries
I quite like the inclusion of the help needed section. I work for a publicly traded company so I don't know if it has much application for our size, but for a pre-IPO company it seems like a great opportunity to leverage the skills of their smaller investor base.

I also like the transparency of sharing it with ALL investors, and would add that it needs to be shared with all employees as well. Our publicly traded company is in the midst of an acquisition and a lot of detail has been shared with our investors. The issue is that most employees are not signed up to our investor alerts or monitoring SEC filings. It has resulted in some employees remarking that they felt left in the dark by leadership because they hear about acquisition details from the press (who pay attention to IR and SEC docs) instead of their own company leaders.
There's always new things to discuss, even if they're the same things. Because the people doing the discussing are new. For example, I've never seen those old discussions and I never in a million years would have searched for and found them.

I've found the key, when you're on a forum and see something discussed more than once, is to change your thinking. Instead of getting annoyed, think great, a new cohort of people will get to talk about this important topic.

This kind of reframing works in many different areas of my life and the older I get, the more I have to apply it to avoid becoming a grumpy old curmudgeon.

(Links to the old discussions are great though, they just don't need to be followed up by complaining every time.)
I looked it up just now...

> GoodRx will be prohibited from sharing user health data with applicable third parties for advertising purposes, and has agreed to pay a $1.5 million civil penalty for violating the rule.

Meanwhile, GoodRx's revenue in 2021 was $745 million.
>I cannot wait for Linux to be fully usable on my Apple Silicon MBP

Since TFA says "everything works" atm, including GPU, Bluetooth, Audio, USB, etc, what's stopping you from doing it now?
idk about the new thing but OneMedical’s per-visit costs were quite high.
I wish someone at Microsoft would read this. Every 6 months it seems like everything around their documentation site changes and half the links permanently 404. The amount of link rot is just staggering.
I completely disagree. He should learn to embrace the android and whatever attributes it has that makes it a great device to own.

Also wouldnt hurt to buy him a Ferrari and get some hot supermodels to hang out with him from time to time.
I recently re-read Cryptonomicon and I understood, finally, why the ending was so abrupt.

The scene was not a scene from a book, but a scene from a movie.

The whole river-of-gold thing is a striking visual, and doesn't work that well as the end of a book because in a book we just don't care about visuals, we care about characters.

In a film, it's where the titles should start scrolling up and followed by a slow fade to black. Finishing a film on a striking image, that works. A book: not so much.

I still deeply love that book, and remember fondly buying it at a train-station at about 5.30pm and then suddenly it was 5AM I was at home, and I finished the book.
>I'm wondering if an M1 MacBook would actually have such a good battery life on linux.

Not 100% the same, but the Asahi members reported something like 8 hours on a M1 Macbook, so that's better than most/all x86 laptops with Linux
>There's zero reason to change your URLs every time you change CMS, and there's even less of a reason not to redirect the old URL format to the new one.

Are you willing to pay them for that work?

No?

There's your reason.
Many decades from now, this comment of yours will be edited by your estate to remove linguistic violence.
Human Drivers Avoid Crashes 99.999819% of the Time
also No need to use flash usb drive just enter in terminal

curl https://alx.sh | sh

to install asahi linux Dual boot on m1 or m2 MacBook apple silicon
It's grey area as of 2018. Technically will be decided on a case by case basis rather than just claiming that video games as a whole target the young and are therefore banned as a class from using Nazi iconography.
Here's the solution – forget about all this and download the real version of the book from the internet.
> birthrates fell off a cliff in 2009

US births per thousand fell from 13.8 to 13.5 from 2008 to 2009, less than a 2% decrease. There wasn't a sudden cliff; US birth rates have decreased every year but 9 (1979-1988) from 1950 to 2019, going from 24 in 1950 to 12 today. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/birt....
Because it's a random third party filesystem adaptor module.

Why would it be "included by default"?
TLDR: If you tweet about trending topics & reply to tweets with an account with 70k followers

You might go viral.

And he doesn't like Elon Musk
Alf no longer updates his repo[0], best to switch to noDRM's fork[1]

[0]: https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools

[1]: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools
Self-Destructing USB Drive
Haha exactly that. What amazes me most is people doing something analogous to: complaining that a hammer doesn't behave like a screwdriver.
yes No need to use flash usb drive just enter in terminal

curl https://alx.sh | sh

to install asahi linux Dual boot on m1 or m2 MacBook apple silicon
Largely agree with this, although I think it would be interesting to formulate in terms of: "what is the mutual information between the fMRI scan and the stimulus".

i.e) is there actually more information than a few bits encoding a crude object category, which stable diffusion then hallucinates the rest (/ uses to regurgitate an over-fit image)?

Or are there many bits, corresponding spatially to different regions of the stimulus - allowing for some meaningful degree of generalization.
One of the major reasons we bet big on DuckDb at MotherDuck is due to the extendable nature of the code base, as demonstrated by the frequency of major improvements and additions.
I'm not criticizing his technique, I'm criticizing his rationale.

If instead he'd said something like: "I just like the feel of pen to paper." Or "I've tried both pen/paper and a computer and there's something about using a computer that just doesn't work for me." that would make more sense. But this notion of a 'buffer' just doesn't.

Perhaps "deluding" was too pejorative; I'll grant that.
Ah, good point. Either I did that thing where I only thought I was reading, or nim could use some work.
Great idea piping a website straight into a shell.
Great article. One potential improvement is not to call Two's complement MSB a 'sign bit'. It implies that it only stores a sign which is how 'Signed magnitude' works. With all its downsides like having two representations for 0 etc. The beauty of Two's complement is that everything works exactly like unsigned representation, with the exception of MSB. In Two's complement MSB contributes either 0 or negative 2^N-1. So for 8 bit signed numbers, most significant bit contributes either 0 or -128. Everything else, subtraction, hardware adders etc work the same. Signed numbers are basically numbers with a flexible number line, and the first bit represents where this number line starts. I personally remember MSB for signed integers as 'origin bit'.
Yes but the input isn't an integer from 1 to 10 right? It's MRI data.

Although it seems they're only able to extract the subject of the brain activity, not any actual "pictures".
Yeah, the title is really misleading -

> Syntiant trained the NDP200's neural network using VizDoom, a version of Doom used for AI research and reinforcement learning from raw visual information. Training required understanding what the neural network was seeing, primarily identifying the enemy and ultimately defining a response. In this case, see demon, shoot demon. The "player" is tasked with defending a circular room that is under constant attack.

> The purpose of the demo is not to show how well it can play Doom, but to demonstrate how efficient the NDP200 is at "bounding-box person detection"

So like... it's playing a DOOM mod that teaches it to turn in circles and aim and shoot when it sees an enemy - until it runs out of ammo and it dies because it's standing still and the enemies walk up and kill it. It's not that that's not an accomplishment, it's more that that's not really 'playing DOOM' as far as anyone who's ever played DOOM would understand it. You know?
A number of times I've clicked hardcoded links in windows only for it to redirect to their homepage.
Note that with Obsidian you can roll your own sync. I set it up with Syncthing. However it's tricky to set up on Android and when I got a new phone I decided it wasn't worth the hassle to set up again.

When it did work though, it worked well. Maybe I should have another go.
> I really wish they’d allocate Covid-like money to R&D or prizes for solving various challenges like curing diseases, which would drive universities.

They already do via DARPA, NIH and medical patents. Making a drug and selling it is the prize for solving a challenge like curing diseases.
In my experience the most annoying part porting a rudimentary SDL C game to wasm via emscripten is getting the fullscreen handling to work right, especially across desktop and mobile browsers.

Otherwise it's pretty straightforward. You may even get away with the only code change being integrating the emscripten event loop...
I'd imagine they're talking about like-native support for the GPU and heterogeneous CPU architecture. Plus, the desktop experience in the article avoids some of the less-finished MBP parts like the speakers and brightness controls.
> you can generate it

AI applications function with the web model. The web will to some extent endure forever, I doubt it'd ever go fully extinct. We may use AI tools more, but not for everything.
> trying to figure out why chatGPT was led to believe the person is dead

RNG or "temperature"

You ask to hallucinate a bio, non-trivial percentage of people with bios are dead, decent chance the fever dream generated ends with dead and obits in plausible places.

This thing is a magic 8 ball with billions of phrases, it picks continuations based on probabilities and a random number to mix it up a bit for freshness or 'creativity'.

Smart people believe horoscopes and psychic cold readings. Smart people are fooled.
> This is just fundamentally not true or else all software would be sold for next to nothing. If a company is choosing between selling a billion copies of its software for $1 each or two copies of its software for $1b dollars each, it will choose to set the price at $1b.

Sure, you can make up numbers and have it say whatever you want.

> The sky-high potential of AGI means that a few very rich people/companies will be willing to pay an enormous amount of money to have a monopoly on the technology. That means the profit maximizing approach might be to put a huge price tag on the product.

Even if you have a monopoly, your profit maximizing quantity is determined by where marginal revenue matches marginal cost. Then you charge as much as you can to sell that quantity. Everything else would lead you to a worse profit. You could have whacky looking demand curves, and yes it will result in a higher price and lower quantity than perfect competition, but the profit maximizing outcome will almost certainly be a wide distribution. Unless there is some weird negative network effect where someone gets benefit from others not having it. But in general, as a greedy business man, you want to be selling shovels during the gold rush.

To summarize, low marginal cost means high quantity, means relatively low price. That's why an insanely useful product like Microsoft office sells for something like $70 a year or $99 for a family plan. Slightly more for business but considering so much of the world is run on their software its an incredible bargain

http://pressbooks.oer.hawaii.edu/microeconomics2019/wp-conte...
in my experience caffeine is not the bad stuff in Monster energy drinks
> "writer" is much better in terms of communication because it tells me what you actually do.

Could also range from novelist to Substacker...
I agree with you, but I think it's easier to assist individuals in being proactive than it is to lobby for impactful legal change across multiple continents.

I think Keanu Reeve's approach in restricting digital edits to his acting via contracts is the best interim solution until the world converges on something.
Eric Raymond (ESR) was a director of VA Linux. I remember seeing on Yahoo Finance in '00, but haven't been able to find again, that on Dec 30th or 31st, 1999 he exercised options for a 'gain' of around $2 million. He was locked from selling until around April. At that point all of his stock was worth around $6 million, which might have covered the AMT tax bill.

Edit: Found the log, not sure if "Aquired via Exchange" was a taxable event. If it is, there are a bunch
https://web.archive.org/web/20000617155153/http://biz.yahoo....
Battery life is significantly worse on my m1 pro macbook pro under asahi. I'd estimate about half of MacOS.
Yeah, but for me (and I think most people, although I suspect there's a lot of diversity from person to person) what comes "out of the brain" is noticeably different when writing by hand.

Most of us can type a lot faster than we can write with a pencil. I doubt it is just the difference in speed (and I think Stephenson is simplifying here, not really saying that is the only difference), but that's part of it.

A sentence written by hand has often been drafted, considered, and revised before it actually makes it to the paper. Whereas for somebody who can type, the first sentence that hits the page is often literally the first draft of it, as originally thought.

(I still cannot imagine writing an entire novel this way myself, though...)
Nice. My particular poison is FreeBSD and I don't think they're quite there yet in terms of support for Apple's hardware. However once they are I would consider it. Currently using a 10th gen Intel i7 NUC which I'm not unhappy with. But a M2 Mac Mini might be a nice successor eventually.
In Art History class they mentioned off hand that the people who knew where to find random rare stuff were very valued in early societies. No citation was given though.

I imagine in a pre tech world people would develop a sharp eye for “that looks unusual, let’s take some of that and mess with it and see if it’s useful somehow”.
Swift’s choice has the advantage of visually unifying the two cases where text in a string literal is interpreted as something other than the text itself. One is backslash escapes like \n and \\. The other is string interpolation.
Chaucer’s Leading Lady
I think the key difference (hopefully) will be that there are a limited number of hardware configurations for Mac. Still a lot (i.e. 100+ SKUs) but not nearly the number of x86 hardware configurations (i.e 10000+)

Also presumably if Apple wants this to happen, they as a single vendor can provide a single definitive answer on what they are doing for each configuration. Eventually...

In the x86 world, there is Intel, AMD and like 50 different manufacturers each with a particular HW implementation/BIOS customization, leading to IntelAMDHardware_Vendor_customizations^50 permutations that'd need to be validated.
I seem to be in the minority, but I honestly don't get how people can develop productively on a laptop. The lack of full size keyboard, screen real estate, and uncomfortable touchpad compared to a mouse just feels horrible to me.
I have to replace the shoes on my rear brakes about 10 times more often than my front brakes.

That just means that you brake with your rear the most. I'm talking about maximizing braking potential.

I've been riding motorcycles for decades and it's drilled into you to practice panic stops regularly, which habituates the transition from 50:50 braking to 90+% front brake. I don't think many cyclists do this exercise, but they'd probably benefit from it.
They used muon tomography on Oak Island.
For me, maybe. For millions of unsuspecting 8-year old children getting their version from the school library?
I don't know. I've definitely been poor — and still compelled to find a blank sheet of paper and a pencil to sketch out an idea that came into my head.
Does this apply to the case where the owner (rather than the state), makes slight edits (this case)?

I mean, it is not like the books have been rewritten or history erased, has it?
Time for everyone to overreact and let the culture war theatrics disguise politicians' dismal care for the systems they're actually supposed to be running. If you're finding yourself enraged over this, you need to question your priorities and if the people driving this content have your interests at heart. Spoilers; they don't.
Not that I'm aware of. I'd be surprised if those machines were even usable outside Amazon's datacenter; they're likely to lack a lot of standard interfaces (certainly no display output, probably no Ethernet, USB, SATA, or PCIe, possibly no 120/240V AC input).
seems to be clean bash script http://pastie.org/p/578asRpS0abo92Efj1YGLZ FWIW

so seems safe to me
Run it against the Win32 API and if you can show me a successful outcome then I'll be impressed.
then the question just becomes recursive doesnt it - if you have no experience or are a nobody, how do you get these experienced senior people to come work for you? why dont they just take your idea and run off with it?
> Asahi is a Linux distribution that can run natively on Apple Silicon-based Macs due to some slick reverse engineering provided by members of the open source community. Moreover, running Asahi is perfectly legal because Apple formally allows booting non-macOS operating systems on their Apple Silicon platform.

Umm how would it ever be not legal? Even if Apple doesn't formally allow it, you're free too so with your own hardware whatever you want.
That’s exactly what I’m always telling people about pip.
Ask HN: How to you know expected time for ticket?
This might be a silly question, but how does your company make you aware of the time expected to finish a specific ticket?
I'm still new in this career, and get this feeling that everything needs to be finished as fast as possible. Is there a way in which I can feel more in control and therefore less stressed working under Scrum?