skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You aren't alone -- that pretty much parallels my own opinions.

Not to take anything away from his masterpieces such as Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, which I adore beyond measure, but my favorite book is still The Big U. It's simpler than his later works, and he was still learning his craft when he wrote it, but it brings me such undiluted joy that none of that matters.
Oh I'm not saying it would be must-pass everywhere. Just in Florida, if they managed to pass the Ultimate Cancel bill.
When that congressman claimed he meant he was Jew-ish I flat out laughed. Dude is a liar and a crook and totally undeserving of serving in congress but the sheer chutzpah that took was amazing. I found myself more amused than offended. I still chuckle when I run across a reference to it.
Great template, will use it. Thanks!
>Exceptions have implied control flow which makes them strictly worse than the Result types which are, as their name suggests, just types.

If they're checked exceptions, then the control flow is hardly "implied". If anything, it's explicit: this method potentially throws X, so if X is raised, expect this control flow consequence.
I noticed upon Apple silicon that when you’re emulating x86 via Colima, performance falls off a cliff.

Everything is instant for me on dwm on my AMD Thinkpad
Anthropomorphizing is just (a very specific case of) metaphor; it can be useful in some cases and obstruct understanding badly in others.
I was able to run 7B on a CPU, inferring several words per second: https://github.com/markasoftware/llama-cpu
Anathem and The Baroque Cycle both took me two tries as well. The second half of Anathem is an action-adventure book mix of Zodiac and Seveneves, so it gets really engaging. The Baroque Cycle eventually sucked me in because I felt like I really got to know the characters, but it never gets fast-paced.
I completely disagree. I think GPT companies will make an absolute killing in the next few years. They can provide automation on steroids. Here [1] is a list of 10 unicorns from 2021. Everything they can do, GPT bots can do better.

Of course, the competition in the GPT space will be absolutely brutal. There's no reason to think the 10 unicorns listed there can not roll their own GPT bots. Or that 10 new GPT startups won't appear between now and the end of this year. Ah, ... make that 100.

Still, if you are a VC, you invest in what exists right now.

[1] https://www.analyticsinsight.net/top-10-ai-unicorns-that-are...
> Companies that fail to abide [...] can violate Section 5 of the FTC Act

I'm sure the fine will be a real deterrent. Just like the fines have deterred Amazon to stop their anti-union practices. I wonder if we will ever see some antitrust measures ever again, or if it is just going to be a free for all from now on.
PHP never stood out as a language with very clean syntax. It is very PHPesque to put the burden on the user of the language instead of going the extra mile and implement something that might be harder to parse, but would be more consistent. Inonsistency in general is one of PHP's issues.
You're right, I'm getting my nothingburger purveyors confused. As you were!
I'm wondering if an M1 MacBook would actually have such a good battery life on linux. The processor is very power efficient, but I'd (naively) assume that MacOS's power management probably has a big influence too. In the same way that Linux laptops usually have a bad battery life compared to the same hardware on Windows. How good is Asahi when running similar workloads? And is it possible that it could reach parity with "stock" MacOS?

(I'm sure linux is in theory just as power efficient as MacOS or Windows, but distros are just usually not very concerned or capable of tuning it well enough.)
Lyons has also made a "career" out of hating on technology and SV in general. Besides writing for the TV show, he's also written several books about why technology and SV really, really suck and are to blame for practically everything wrong in the world (e.g. Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us). Oddly, he did actually try to work at a high-tech startup on the east coast, and when he was booted out for incompetence, he wrote a book about why startups are just such bullshit, man. I have personally spoken to him, by sheer coincidence and long before any of this came to pass, and he was very interested in working at a startup someday, although he was writing for Forbes at the time. In other words, if you want my take, dude has serious envy and has spent years trying to exorcise it by punishing everyone who has what he covets.
Virtualenvs are a part of the standard library since v3.3[0] and most READMEs do reference them btw.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html
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One Medical would write adderall scripts for people during the pandemic. I think they stopped, but idk I went back to using a regular psychiatrist. Pretty wild to think that nurse practicioners were prescribing schedule IIs.

source: I got all of my adderall through them for nearly two years
Sounds like ChatGPT has free will under those rules then.
I for one welcome our new block-chat-fungible-chain overlords.

I asked ChatGPT what it thought and it wrote this:

----

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With BlockChatGeniusTok, you can chat with your friends using a large language model chat system that analyzes your conversation and generates unique non-fungible tokens for every message you send. Because, who doesn't love a good NFT these days?

But that's not all! We've also incorporated image generation systems that automatically create custom memes and GIFs based on your conversations. And of course, we couldn't forget about the latest trend in social media filters, so we've thrown in Tik Tok AI filters to make sure your conversations are as aesthetically pleasing as possible.

But wait, there's more! The cherry on top of this technological mess is blockchain integration. All of your conversations, images, and NFTs will be stored securely on the blockchain, because who doesn't love the idea of their private conversations being permanently recorded on a public ledger?

So what are you waiting for? Sign up for BlockChatGeniusTok today and join the elite group of people who can say they use the most needlessly complicated and convoluted chat system on the market!
My love for line-based data formats have increased over time. CSV, JSON-string per line and so on. You can always append to the data and you can deserialize line-by-line.
> I would like to restrict known NSFW sites so that I wouldn’t risk any reputation harm if someone attempts to use my service to visit sites with illegal (CSAM) or even NSFW content. What’s the best way to get a list of domains to prevent this?

It'd "reduce" it, but not stop it.
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I spend far too much time browsing YouTube in my spare time and would like to swap in some learning that is tech/business/personal development focused but doesn't involve writing code or too much interaction and can be consumed in small bits, any suggestions that you have found to be worth your while?
Microsoft uses Azure DevOps for products as large as Visual Studio.
Virtually everyone who read the Mueller Report came away thinking that Trump and his campaign were deeply involved with Russians. Justin Amash is a great example.

Where there's smoke there's fire.
C# 10 introduced interpolated string handlers. They allow to address some of your points (you can handle format strings however you want and you could also choose invariant culture by default, without using FormattableString.InvariantCulture) and at the same time avoid allocations.
This is pretty much what nim is btw. Very fun language in my experience.
The packet filter, for one thing. Yup.
Anecdotally I have observed the same but I don't understand the problem. Why is that? It seems like one could fairly easily search for code in the older project, find it in the new project, and link to it in the report. What am I missing?
To be fair, technically it becomes ethical when your position is that "the end justifies the means."

IMO Utilitarianism is a particularly dangerous ethical framework when wielded by narcissists who have a difficult time imagining that they might catastrophically fail (looking at you Sam Bankman-Fried), or might not be delivering salvation to the world (looking at you Elon, lol).

If you tell yourself it's for "the good of humanity", or the alternative is destruction / widespread death, you can justify any action.
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Documentation is an integral practice for any software development company. This past year I’ve had the opportunity to write two collections of documentation: one for the Sales team and one for onboarding software engineers. From this opportunity, I saw firsthand the importance of documentation and how its goal can impact the structure.
Oh, I thought younwere suggesting a federal amendment that would render the Florida action invalid, not undoing the action within the Florida system. But, you've got a similar problem in Florida—if the present political alignment is such that such a bill could pass (especially if not by a narrow margin), undoing it is unlikely to be an easy lift, politically.
Absolutely, each to their own but its never really bothered me. There is obviously a difference in the tone its said when used by someone like Kanye or a neo-nazi vs a rabbi. I've never really allowed myself to be defined or bothered by things like that. I've had beers with neo-nazis before with them full on knowing I was jewish. They obviously toned downed their rhetoric and we had a pretty decent conversation. No friends were made that day but it was a fun chat. Obviously there are levels to this though, they were not marching calling for my death.
Or better yet call a spade a spade:
It was programmed to infer…

‘It’ doesn’t need anthropomorphizing in the slightest. It’s a computer program that can slurp up data.
> "These were the words that introduced most people in my generation to the concept of an AI gone rogue; HAL 9000 in the classic science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey"

The first introduction to the concept of an AI gone rogue was Eve, when she bit that apple. We all need a starting point.
I'm really happy with it.

The video visits are especially useful. Generally if you click "emergency video appointment" in the app you'll be in a video chat with a nurse practitioner in less than five minutes - often faster - no matter what time of day or night it is.

One thing I've used that for is emergency prescriptions: say I'm traveling and I forgot to bring a medication, I usually find that a five minute video chat will result in the medication I need being made available at a pharmacy in whatever town I'm visiting.
> you don't need to resolve every little question.

Then why do you want to argue about it?

I just don't want conversations to grind to a halt to figure out a piece of trivia, moving on is fine as is looking it up.
Again - please show me where I argued that this bill "is ok" or is "justified". All I did was highlight what the bill said. If folk want to assume, as you are, that that's not enough, fine, that was exactly why I tried to point out that detail in an unbiased manner - to foster discussion around the detail, not have words put in my mouth for simply going, "Uhh, hey guys, anyone see this?".

If I failed, cool, but that's why I've asked you to show me where I actively argued in support of this bill. That way I can actively make myself clear in the future.
Not to mention more in-depth notification management, much better code search, and significantly improved code browsing! (Examples of polished features.) I have been pretty impressed at the pace of new features over the past two plus years.
Yep! Basically, Uber/Lyft for PCP
> there's a legal precedence

"Precedent" is not a concept that applies to civil law. Its a common law tenet.

> Claiming that open-source maintainers will get fined 15M euro is scaremongering

Read the actual legal document. The static, non % amounts are totally left to the interpretation of the regulator in the 'legal maximums' section of the draft law.

It doesnt need to be full 15 million. No Open Source contributor would risk getting fined a few dozen thousand euros. Even a few thousand is too much for anyone who contributes to Open Source.
It’s not a straw man. I understand we’ve have been in low interest rate environments for a long time, but access to capital is no longer free and likely won’t be for a while.

Companies now do (and will continue) to go under due to lack of access to capital markets.

One Medical is actually probably one of the top examples of that kind of company. It would be very hard for them to issue new shares or raise debt to fund their operations.

And to the health and happiness of humans point, a bunch of people losing their primary care doctors is again, one of the top examples of bad social outcomes from a company going out of business.
Interesting that you find it bizarre when he clearly states his rationale. The intention is to put mechanical constraints on throughput and make it take longer.

It seems like a matter of picking the right tool for the job.
altra is also > 2 years old, so the age of the apple chip doesn’t matter

Neoverse N1 is hardly a dog. It’s a decent enough core in a server processor that has 80 of them.

Altra is not intended to compete core for core with any laptop/desktop/workstation processor.
Pretty much, yes. That was before I got kicked out of the house and become one of the objects of that elite concern. It was also before I confronted the prospect of my kids having to do some sort of diversity dance to pique the interest of some white admissions officer.
I hear you. I regret that we live in a society where we have to police ourselves for fear of cancellation and offence when no offence is intended.
I would assume the USB3 ports on the 4 would be better, as they go through a dedicated USB controller connected to the PCIe bus. The USB2 ports are provided by the SoC itself, and that controller is not the best.
For other readers, the most closely relevant version of that article in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a

(Clicking the "English" article from OP's link brings you to a version without that subsection)
Brave Search now comes with an AI-powered summary feature
>Two ways to delimit blocks is redundant.

It isn't redundant though because without delimiting symbols for a code block you lose the ability to have your code autoformatted in certain situations. Here's a trivial example to illustrate the point:

def example():
x = 5
print("Hello world")

What's the mistake here? Depending on whether the print is part of the function, it should either be indented or have a newline before it. The point is you (and any formatting tool) can't know what the horizontal alignment of this code should be just by examining the vertical line order. You can only determine this by knowing (or reanalyzing) the semantics of the code. During a refactor where you're moving around lots of code, this can be a significant PITA. However, in the JS example,

function example() {
let x = 5
console.log("Hello world")
}

it's unambiguous what the mistake is because you can determine the correct formatting entirely from the line order, without having to know anything about the code's semantics.
technically? yes
Doesn't performance always fall off a cliff when emulating?
We have found that when faced with the task of interacting with other complex systems whose consciousness/"knowing" status we are not really sure of, taking what Dennett calls "the intentional stance" turns out to be rather useful. That is, we act and talk about them as if they have intention.

Dog owners across the world can confirm this for you.
They’re both $200ish a year. What distinguishes them from each other in this regard?
What they should do though is support all business required OSes, not just Windows.

That's not an enterprisey thing to say. MacAfee, CarbonBlack, ViperSnot, etc all go for the low hanging fruit which is massive corps with 10K+ Windows seats. They won't support Linux ever and personally I get it. It's no big deal. You find ways to work around it.
Back when wavelet compression was still being developed, there was a joke that the best compression algorithm is "give an image to a grad student and tell them to figure out the best transform".
That looks like an excellent place for a small company offsite weekend. Or week.
The problem won't be the cost. It will be access. Someone's going to say it's too powerful and restrict it.
In one comment, you say the webapp is abandoned. In another, you say it gets too many new features you don’t care about. If the latter is true, the former is definitely not true. That’s the main reason you’re getting some flack in this thread!
Yep.

I do enjoy building things but I learn more and more how important it is not to focus on things that are already "solved" if they aren't part of your core business.

Distractions can scale exponentially.
CVS bought Aetna. Aetna doesn’t own CVS

Source: https://www.cvshealth.com/news/company-news/cvs-health-compl...
PS5 runs a FreeBSD distro out of the box!
That's a bit sad. When I read the title my first reaction was: "He clearly loves swords. I'm happy for him that he found a way to try his hand making swords." But turns out the title lied.

Also I would say he is letting the "perfect" be his enemy. Nobody ever woke up being a master sword smith. Everyone who ever made a great swords made a bunch of crappy swords first, followed by some mediocre ones before they made a great one.

> it's a specialized craft

Yes it is.

> that requires much detailed knowledge of metallurgy

Being among the best sword makers, crafting the best swords? Maybe. Some amount of practical knowledge of metallurgy helps there. I wouldn't over estimate the required knowledge though. You are not growing monocrystaline turbine blades. You are not manufacturing subsafe valves for a deep submersible rescue vessel, or a nuclear attack submarine. You are making a sword.

But in general: Just try to do a thing! I have much more respect for a backyard sword smith who made a crappy sword which looks kinda bad and can't hold and edge, than for a sword snob who has thousand excuses why they can't do a thing.
Just curious, any reason you prefer the DSi over the 3DS?
A First Look at Microsoft Designer
APFS has some kind of “file provider” API that apparently allows user space file systems. No idea how hard it is to use or if it’s well documented.
I understand what you are getting at, but I find it more inspiring than bizarre.

I am inspired by the fact that this man is able to use the correct tool for the particular job.

I am also inspired by the self-awareness required to make such a call.
Autonomous trucking startup Embark closes shop
Not me, but someone I know 20ish years ago got mad at his broker and told him to sell everything (converting everything to cash so he could find a new broker and transfer it to a new account).

While he was sitting on all cash the dotcom bubble burst and the NASDAQ crashed.

He was quite happy he happened to be in all cash right then.
Perfect, I can finally ask him what _really_ happens at the end of his books! /s But really, I did wish Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash had a bit more of an epilogue. I know it may not be needed but it would be more satisfying.
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I paid for it out of pocket, the experience is pretty great in theory, but it doesn't make up for the apparent doctor shortage in SF. It's very difficult to get appointments with an actual doctor without waiting months.
Do we know what doesn't work yet? I'm rooting to get Asahi onto my M1 mbp and have fallen out of the loop as to what is pending to be done on the Asahi side of things
> F-Froid

A bit of a Froid-ian slip there.

I know HN doesn't appreciate comedy, but I couldn't resist and will gladly take the down votes.
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>If you have a technology with practically zero marginal cost, pricing it very low and distributing it widely would maximize your profit.

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.

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.
Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?
TIL…all that.

Wow. I had no idea CVS owns Aetna!
I wouldn't say so. The 'Learning by mistakes' step in the demo shows that the AI can work through these issues, presumably this can be done more efficiently than a human.
I would consider myself quite the power user and use both macOS and Linux daily…
I don’t really understand, from the developer perspective, your concerns about macOS?

While I prefer the feel of Linux, macOS is more than sufficient for almost any development I do (which also involves a lot of container/VM development and I’ve never felt this was slow).
I'm not so confident. Places that industrialized during the industrial revolution saw explosive growth as automation yielded unprecedented productivity. Factory jobs paid very well and were readily available because demand was generally high for like a century... but automation and labor passed a tipping point and now we have very few manufacturing jobs and the days of guaranteed high salaries and growth are gone. Rust belt cities are a living proof that industries get to a point where they pursue cheaper ways of making a stable income rather than endlessly innovating and leveraging a skilled workforce. For a lot of people, that situation just plain-old doesn't work out in the end.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all companies are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"
Precisely today, given the lack of SBCs stock and the price rises, I was checking small routers as options. I.e., a basic mikrotik router is 30 something euros, and in some models it supports OpenWRT.

Some of their more powerful routers have a bunch of ARM cores (no video out, though) and I think I've seen people using OpenWRT there.

For a while they were using Annapurna Labs CPUs, and I've seen that in some high end Netgear wireless routers from 2017, and I see people selling those with OpenWRT on eBay. I don't know their performance, but I'd like to try that instead for a mini server instead of an expensive and virtually inexistent RPi.

There goes a list of routers with Annapurna Labs processors, I'll see tomorrow if I find around some OpenWRT builds for them.

https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Annapurna_Labs