skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still can be. Most of my friends are still in FB (I'm also of a certain generation where none of the people I care about are on IG or TikTok, so those networks mean nothing to me).

I ruthlessly unfollow people who post garbage links on FB and only follow who post their own content so I find my FB feed to be surprisingly sane and helps me keep in touch with people I've met throughout the years in all the cities I've ever lived in, which is not a few.

Despite younger people and curmudgeons retreating from FB -- no concern of mine since my own social network of people my age is what I care about (and one day soon the IG and TikTok crowd will learn that they are old school grandpas too and that they're the MySpace of their generation) -- I find I can still tell stories with pictures and words on FB better than any other platform except blogs, but no one follows blogs these days. IG stories are too short, posts are too limited (you can't caption individual pictures), and TikTok requires you to sit through a 15s video.

Because I ruthlessly unfollow garbage, I don't think I've seen a political post or any divisive content in years. Instead I've gotten to "travel" with friends to different countries, gotten updates on their kids and their struggles with growing older, volunteer efforts that they're part of, etc.

FB is still useful for those of us who use it correctly, and for those of us for whom the written word is still more important the pictures or videos.
ideally one shouldn't even need to fast, unless we have to spend several months with less food in the cold, semi-hibernating like some of our ancestors. I know in our modern society, more than half people are now overweight, but ideally we should reach our ideal weight, and have few meals per day with vegetable rich diet

I'm at 60kg I think, for 1.83m, it's not underweight for my body shape - long legs, thin hip, arms & wrists, I often have huge meals, that way I can spend at least 20h without eating, but doing multiple-days fasting would be difficult unless I stay in bed
As time goes in from 10.5 System preferences UI kept on degrading to the point that I didn't know what icon to click and frequently just made the search bar for everything. Having the search bar more prominent and making the UI standard for all of the other products probably is a good idea.
I briefly checked the dataset and I could not find the rank column.

For example, the top 1000 URLs .txt file contains only the URLs itself, and it's not possible to check which is more popular: https://www.google.com or http://a24.app.gree-pf.net
I've been using super glue to assemble 3D printed models lately. Loctite gel is my favorite right now. It's available at all major hardware stores and is easy to control. My only gripe is the size (.14 oz). They put it in a large "bottle" which is actually a mechanical container for the small tube in the inside. You can disassemble the container and find the small tube that's actually labeled for the European market since it's made in Ireland. Not sure why Loctite thinks the U.S. needs a special container, maybe they think the average American will fall for the larger "bottle" compared to other brands standard tube for the same price?

I'll likely be looking around for a more reasonably priced gel because of this, maybe something from McMaster-Carr.
There simply isn’t a proper contender to Apple. And with Apple silicon, it’s a done deal for the next decade at least.
Apart from hardware, you need a company that is willing to take Linux from the ground up and create a macOS type OS. Not simply make your own distribution and DE and call it a day. Chromebook was close, but they had bad execution and wrong ideas.
He preferred the election of Donald Trump and worked to make that happen.

His preferences in specific political outcomes are well known:

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks...

So yes, that would be why $politicalside doesn't like him, because he aligned with a very specific, pro-fascist $politicalside (whether or not he is actually a fascist).

downmod away folks but that's why $politicalside doesnt like Assange. He is extremely biased which makes the "journalist" angle look pretty weak. there's your answer
>What part of the "Dozen 'stable' coin fails in the past years" lesson are you having difficulties with?

The part where the major stablecoins (eg. USDC or even Tether) hasn't failed yet, and the "dozen" you speak of are the equivalent of shitcoins that never had any traction in the first place.
Tax funded bail outs are never at fair market value, if they were the market would have done the bail out. Giving a risky venture low interest loans is the same as giving them free money.
I moved from 15+ years of Mac to FreeBSD about 2 years ago for similar reasons. It's too locked-down, too opinionated, too iOS for me now.

Very happy with FreeBSD + KDE which gives me configuration choices again.
My concern is that due to the amount of code that these tools can generate, a codebase will rapidly turn into mud in the hands of unskilled people. So, either you build an extensive code review process or only hire people who were working programmers before 2021 and augment them with AI assistants. Unfortunately, the latter kills off the role in a generation while the former kills off the business in the current generation.

It’s lose/lose.
recently reinstalled windows on a machine to play some games, and holy hell Edge is an absolute monstrosity of popups and just things I like to call "product BS". Reminds me of the toolbar hell we used to have way back when.

Installed Firefox immediately and will never look back.
A perfect illustration of my point. In the Carmack thread[0] someone with a surface level of what it means to work in software because they’re just entering the industry worries that ChatGPT will eliminate their entire career. Then a thread of experts goes into the many things they do today that ChatGPT can’t, and why those fears are overblown.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35216894
I would note that it seems he said “AI” consistently but the journalist wrote “Chatgpt” in the headline.

I would have agreed with you two years ago. But knowing what we’ve done with AI before this (grand master level chess, cars that can self drive, etc) building an ensemble from those and what these LLM are able to do, I think if you don’t see 10 years from now being on its head from today, I think you might have lost the capacity to dream.

I don’t think LLM alone are sufficient. But pointing to what they produced in beta and saying “time is static the universe is done AI is a crock” seems myopic.
Microsoft Edge on Windows 11 provides a very different experience compared to for example Apple Safari on MacOS.

It feels like like a shitty commercial zone with advertising billboards everywhere. I don’t want points when I use Bing, I don’t want to know how the stock market is doing today, I don’t want to “save” money on my shopping, I don’t care about the latest stupid thing some extreme rights person said, I don’t need a huge ugly logo to access GPT4 while the GUI is minimalist.

And I don’t need a well documented scam in my web browser.
No. Maybe you could make it work but I wouldn’t count on it. Marine epoxy is designed for this task, it can be applied and attached fully submerged with no issues.
>How you ought to live depends heavily upon the axioms you choose, and the axioms that do not coincide with nature and physics are often foolish.

How are you defining "natural"?

We treated each other, and animals, pretty horribly for centuries. This was 'natural'. Then we reasoned about what makes for the kinds of societies where the most number of people can flourish. Certainly not natural, nor foolish.
True.

Google is much younger though. And its 50% are in line with the NASDAQ.

Apple had a crazy run under Tim Cook. While Steve Jobs is rightfully remembered as a visionary who built one of the biggest companies in the world, over 90% of Apples value was created under Cook.
"Random third party binaries" are not something Linux users really use, generally. Most of it is open source and comes through the repository.
> competent business analyst

with the danger of invoking the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, I'd say that competent business analyst are even more difficult to get hold of than a competent programmer.

I've had so few managers that were competent at managing people and projects.
The principle applies to all kinds of structures. For example a common way to implement a generic tree that respects this rule is to model each node with exactly one parent and any number of children. My statement instead is that you may have legitimate reasons to want exactly one parent and from zero to two children, but not more.
That's a very narrow definition of a 'need'. You haven't even mentioned emotional needs and these are widely accepted as must haves to lead a 'happy' life.

The line between a need and a want is fuzzy to say the least. To cavepeople, all our needs are met at this point. But we're anywhere near fulfilled and have come up with more terms that enter the 'need' category. Maslow's hierarchy, pop authors like Tony Robbins (certainty, uncertainty, significance, connection, growth, contribution) and Dan Pink (autonomy, mastery, purpose), trained psycologists/psychiatrists like Gabor Maté and Ted Klontz talk about how our relations during childhood reveal a need for bond/connection to oneself and others.

We're not dealing with exact sciences here, so it's not easy to converge on an objective list of 'needs' that are separated from 'wants'. There are studies like the famous Harvard Hapiness study that may give us more objective notions, but you'd need to run several of these across time to find stuff that has stronger predictive value across generations.

We could go on here - I'd argue universal healthcare is a 'need' in order to live a happy/fulfilled/safe human life in the modern world. Many would disagree with me, but the point is the goal post shifts as we progress.

I'd call it a need if the lack of it is correlated with disfunctional states or objectively lesser outcomes (which outcomes are necessary?). Even if you have this clear cut the question of what's considered necessary is an opinion. The implication of this in the conversation is that AI isn't likely to fulfill our needs: we'll come up with more and shift the goal post just like all our ancestors have done until now.
* People complain about system preferences but I use spotlight to find settings when I need them*

This is exactly how I do it, and I also do it this way in Ubuntu. And in both OSes, I hide docks/apps.
And in that context, it’s better to at least have the option, should you ever feel the need to use it.

Personally I leave both on because even having used computer for 27 years at this point, I can still slip up and I’m still vulnerable to social engineering among other things, and so it’s nice to have something to help cover for those situations. It’s no cure-all, but it at least raises the bar for malware and such.
Is it really a mystery why people turned on assange?

In his later years his work became similar to that of breitbart, James okeef, and tucker Carlson. Regardless of what one thinks of those, There’s no question that their publications and intentions are extremely slanted.

No surprise most of the country dislikes him
The Panic of 1907: How J.P. Morgan Took over Wall Street
The developer can prompt for a solution with specific storage/performance requirements by specifying an algorithm, and specific scalability requirements using by specifying an architecture. Imagine a business analyst prompting for an app, and getting a ruby on rails monolith with O(N^2) performance for the core behavior for a service that is expected to have millions of requests daily.
How to take an improvement and make it shittier.
Meanwhile in Seattle we have gone full left wing nutter to balance our right wing nutters. My kindergarten is marching for BLM and we renamed social studies to social justice.
No, he's saying that this is an alarming situation
It's funny how this is a common fallacy.
I thought exactly the same when Barings Bank was sold for one British Pound back in 1995 [1].

[1] - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/baringsbank.asp
Literally changing the law in order to allow bypassing a shareholder vote?

I get that it's an emergency, but I think people ought to find this hard to accept. At the same time it's a warning about size: CS has grown so big and so integral to the Swiss economy that the tail wags the dog. Let something grow to this size and it falls outside of the control of ordinary democracy. When bad things happen to an essential institution you end up doing things that are against your own principles.

People will rightly be asking how the government ends up paying for it when things go wrong but shareholders get paid when they go right.
they run plain debian just fine these days

(with no random dude on github deciding to add microsoft directly into apt's trusted keys/repository list)
done. Thank you!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/11vnm...
Ask HN: Best hardware investment for learning ML in 2023?
Hi HN'ers,
I'm a new grad / software engineer and have decided to learn ML and experiment with some models. I wanted to buy a PC for coding and ML experiments. I want to try running larger models and perhaps experiment with new architectures too. I am also very interested in RL. (I am aware that I cannot compete with companies like OpenAI in terms of compute power but I still have a hope of doing something new in terms of application or architecture).

What would you consider the best investment for a begginer? Would a M2 Mac be a good choice? My main concern is that my initial investment should be extensible, so I could add more compute/GPUs later if required.
It is .NET Core. People still use that term to refer to the "new age" .NET occasionally. The name "dotnet" is also used for this form of .NET more often.

Yeah, it's confusing. Took me some work to get through too.
At this point I believe this would be the best solution. It would prevent mass layoffs and prevent UBS getting put into a critical situation because of the bad CS assets. For the tax payer it sucks but if we are bailing them out, then the bank should be ours.

If something is too big to fail it should be nationalized or broken up.
What is this, Breaking News from three years ago that fell through a wormhole?
Computers lack non-monotonic reasoningas of now, you mean :D
Tell me more about this cheese straightener… that sounds amazing. Where do I prepay?
Perhaps the people against touchscreen on MacOS finally retired or gave up the fight, so Apple is slowly preparing what Microsoft did years ago with Windows 8.
> "He cut the throat of the goat with a knife, which is the most kind way to do it,"

Not everyone with a homestead does that though. I know it's the traditional Jewish and Islamic way of doing things but it's cruel to drown an animal in its own blood or letting it die slowly from blood loss when you could just disable the brain in an instant.
Looks like gdscript. Not a bad thing!
So, it won't replace all programming jobs, but many programming jobs?

Won't that create stronger competition for fewer roles?
A VC I'm familiar with is in two modular fission reactor ventures. I was generally skeptical about a future for fission reactors, but it behooved me to learn. Among the things I learned is that there is a huge distance between making a small reactor and making a reactor of any size that can run unattended or with minimal supervision. Taking a reactor out of a nuclear powered submarine just gets you the small reactor bit. Much of what new gen fission projects do is to make reactors easy and safe to operate.

Submarines are run by a crew of trained specialists at all kinds of high stakes systems, including the reactor.
One more specialty tool is acrylic cement. I've used CA for this job (6mm Plexiglas with butt joints) but it was difficult to get exactly right. In my high load situation, joints eventually failed. The right tool here is acrylic cement, which dissolves both surfaces and then they harden as one. It's not easy to find on the intertubes but it's a must if you really need it.
Because these trivial matters aren't trivial.
Putting food in the table isn't trivial, finding jobs isn't trivial either.
Once life becomes guaranteed, our outlook will change.
Approximating continuous functions is likely quite the same as what people do too. You think there isn’t some mathematical model under the hood of how the brain works too? That it doesn’t break down into functions with interpretable results? Is it spiritual or mystical in your mind?

These takes are so bad and pervasive on here, honestly. This is what I mean by grandiose thinking.

A machine that approximates functions, that otherwise is indistinguishable from human, is effectively intelligent like a human. Incentives, wants, desires, and the ability to conduct our own training is the only difference at that point.
Until you qualify as "low T". They the docs prescribe you enough testosterone supplement that to you get bored with golf and start power lifting. You ain't "juicing" if your doctor is the one selling the pills.
Of course CS jobs will exist. Who else will be fixing the bugs the AI generates?
With this tomorrow will be business-as-usual. Much more than in any other alternative, at least.
This is good thing. Managers can clarify their ideas using AI tools.

But still, the real product needs to be fleshed out, back and forth, interactively.

Regardless of whether it is the manager or engineer who commands the tool, you can't entrust the AI to get everything 100% right. Some one has to proofread it, and that is the bottleneck, or where the value of human kicks in.

A human brain can only hold that many details by itself. It can't maintain all the details live all at once, and some business do have overwhelming number of details. A one man team with help of infinite AIs to replace an actual team isn't useful.

At some point, that human will start to fail to verify the system generated by AI is actually what he/she wants.
5 days too late to the thread. But it is refreshing to see Sanity still prevails on HN. No more politics and ideals over rational. As they were during the past 5 years. Top 4 upvoted comments were defending Peter Thiel.
Great leadership from Satya Nadella since 2014 seems to be the leading explanatory factor here. A sequence of very good decisions and products coming one after another. You forgot to mention VSCode as well which has now become an industry standard code editor. They have really focused on great developer experience.
My understanding is that you had to go into the BIOS to do it, if turning it off was supported at all.
The announcement is in the Q&A after the talk - but the talk itself is definitely is worth watching. It starts at 10:56 (link below), and covers his "75-year project". It's kind of an amazing story that his life has spanned so many different eras of technology.

https://www.youtube.com/live/kaandEt_pKw?t=656
It's easy enough for users to extend existing packages in Nix that it's never necessary for packagers to explicitly add support for every conceivable upstream build option out there. For example, the following three lines will create a new package based on an existing one with custom configure flags added.

existingPackage.overrideAttrs (old: {
configureFlags = old.configureFlags ++ [ "--custom-build-option" ];
})

Package options that tweak the build flags are there for convenience and not a requirement. Many of them are there for internal use in the Nixpkgs repo to provide variants of the same package.
I have a Thinkpad T495 which is also AMD based. When I 1st got it battery life was atrocious under Linux. Kernel release 5.17 greatly helped battery life. Now it is just horrible even with TLP installed. The battery life under Windows is about double what I get when running Linux. It isn't the only but is the main reason I run Windows and not Linux as my main os on it.
Weird that the only method which would allow you reveal government crimes happens to itself be a crime! Almost convenient, really.
I'm not advancing a view about sexual ethics, I'm just amused that you believe that your own pre-conceived notions about sexual ethics must agree with a universal moral order which is also a fact of nature. How convenient.

> I feel like if you were on the ISS and the crew stopped to admire a particularly beautiful view of Earth, you'd be the one to start complaining about...something

Again this is just your prejudice. You dont know anything about me.
They decided to use their power to make their products available everywhere, rather than try to get everyone to use Windows.
Seems like someone's OKR was to maximize page views and time on site.
Skunks in Vancouver Are Dying of Avian Flu
Frankly, if React didn’t exist, and assuming none of the other post React frameworks ever came to exist, we would likely have a duopoly of Angular and EmberJS. I personally do not like Angular at all, but EmberJS was awesome. It’s performance was slightly sluggish but nothing having more developers due to higher popularity couldn’t have solved.

If I had to be absolutely honest, the developer experience side of EmberJS was miles ahead of what React is today. NextJS is only just coming closer but I’m not even sure it’s there yet.

If React hadn’t existed, and more people had experienced EmberJS, I think web development would have been a far better experience today than it is right now.
New CEO, Satya Nadella (arrived in 2014, but takes time for changes to become noticeable).
HN is not a place to fight an ideological war, especially from a losing side.
Those Meta RSUs have done dwadle for total compensation in the past couple years. So the layoffs are piling stress in stress - much lower income and now job uncertainty. As others have noted, transferable skills due to Metas open source contributions are the bright spot.
nice prompt, i usually just add "ask questions to gain context" at the end and it will just list off a bunch of questions before answering.
Like you I found that ChatGPT is not really all that great at coding, but great when you ask it to do very specific grunt work. I'm working on a new database and one thing I found it super useful for is generating test data, I would just tell it: "here's the CREATE TABLE statement, create 50 rows of test data off of it, with all of these specifications: this has to be this, that can only be 1 or 2, yada yada yada.

> Professional developers will recognize that we're talking 50-90% of the LABOR-HOURS that go into software development,

I call it 'dumb coding'. You have a type of programming that requires you to really think, and then there's the type where you just need to write 200 lines of code but you know exactly what to write. If AI could pickup the slack on 'dumb coding' and let us think about 'smart coding', we would all be way way more efficent.
When someone says "can we..." or spills their idea they've often identified a real need but they often don't seem to do any sort of analysis further than identifying a demand signal.

In my experience, they've identified a want. Either their want or a want they think the market has.

It's not until further analysis do they / you / we get to root need(s). This is why (allegedly) so many "IT projects" fail. The client got what they wanted...not what they needed.
And knowingly allowed their technology to fuel at least one genocide. Not many companies have that on their resume.
DVDs are still available in many stores for movies, but there's nothing mainstream I can think of that still uses CD-Rs.
They are not buying the buildings alone. They are buying loads of debt as well - and other assets which may or may not be enough to cover the debts.