skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't wait for the 15" macbook air. That thing will probably be my jumping off point into feeling out the Asahi Linux vibe on Macs.
Of course NYT frames regional rearmament in terms of PRC deterrence instead of US reliability. Yes PLA military modernization plays a part, but anxious US regional partners have been questioning US long term reliability post Trump. Why SKR is pursuing indigenous defense industry, or JP partnering up F-X with UK/IT. Both parties also got boxed in by 3 antagonist nuclear powers, PRC, RU, NKR in the last few years with increasing capabilities. Their security environment has deteriorated considerably. Meanwhile big bois in ASEAN have grown GDP 5-10x in 20 years, so of course they're going to start military modernization as well, while aquistion not sufficient to matter in TW contingency which they're staying out of anyway. The fact that Singapore has most advanced navy and airforce / general defense power in ASEAN is embarassing. Asian rearming is overdue. The question is whether US hegemony/defense and PRC ambitions can drive spending to keep up with Asian military powered by increasing wealth.
FWIW, even though I'd probably disagree with your assessment of crypto overall, I love that your comment tries to take a reasonable position: not just blind hate or love. That's what is missing from many crypto discussions on HN because too many people have hitched their assessment of crypto into their personality and can't try and be even the tiniest bit nuanced. I hate that some people blindly want to boost crypto and can't say anything bad about it, and some people want to act like crypto personally shot their dog and is responsible for most of the ills of the world.

> Crypto has its positive uses, but you have to balance those against the negatives of slow transfer speeds, speculative bubbles, scams, energy consumption, and carbon emissions.

How people balance these things out is subjective, but I see it as a question of values. If for example, you believe that what safety net that crypto offers from government destruction of currencies is of paramount importance, then it might outweigh any conceivable negatives. Conversely, inflation and government destruction of currencies is (IMO still sadly) not even in many peoples' radar screen. Everybody's cost-benefit analysis would be different here because their values and knowledge are different.

> Also, it needs to be said that Nvidia is probably just jumping on the next marketing bandwagon by pivoting to LLMs after the collapse of crypto. This doesn't seem like a principled stance they are taking.

Agreed. And we can all predict that if/when Crypto makes any kind of big financial comeback, many people who tried to signal their virtue by denouncing it will adjust their public position on crypto and happily make money on it.

Hell, I'd be very surprised if the people personally involved in this story don't hold at least some crypto as a "just in case" sort of side-bet even while publicly denouncing it.
If you haven't already, try Mack's silicone ear plugs. They are fundamentally different from foam earplugs in that they don't spring back when you press on them, which means they exert almost no force on your ears.
This was already true with the smaller Framework laptop, someone could make an alternative keyboard module.

This makes it easier to make a "DIY hack on the side", not needing to manufacture a complete keyboard.
Are you a machine?
That basically falls under money laundering
> It's not a good look for a manager to ask for an estimate in a meeting and expect a reply immediately. But, it happens.

The only time I ask this question is in meetings where a project is late and we are talking remediation or someone is proposing to do something new. I don’t do it because I expect people to deliver estimate instantaneously. I do it because I expect professionals to come to meeting prepared after having done their job.
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I have Airpods Pro and they provide some physical sound dampening, but the noise cancellation only works on rumbly white noise, not things like talking or eating noises. It can actually make talking seem louder by cancelling out the background noise.
Maybe for you.
I agree, people thinking about using LLMs to make apps that they can then sell are missing the forest for the trees.

The more interesting question is, once non-technical people are able to auto-generate their own apps, what backend will they use and how will they handle auth? The easiest default option today is "cloud services, and 'log in with facebook' oauth" but we can hope for better...
Yeah, all models are wrong, but some models are useful. As far as I understand, the goal of estimates is not to pressure you, it's to promise something to someone. As long as you are good enough, business decisions can be made. And that includes figuring out when something is off track, which is one of the primary goals of management.
lol i actually have no connection to russia. but whatever helps you deal. i rather enjoy broadening peoples perspectives. dont worry though, if you were a putin fanboy i would have quite a bit to say too

and yes ... nato is bad. every imperialist organisation is bad. be it russian, american, chinese, or whatever
Long time lurker here with no alts.

Aren't tight capitol controls seen as a good thing? Surprised to see that as a con.

> managed by parties who are not trust worthy

I thought the idea behind CBDC was it would be a scriptable. Not trying to get heated here but are you saying the Fed isn't trustworthy?

I see the primary use case of banks to be 1) store and transfer funds 2) earn interest on savings.

Use case 1 could be handled by CBDC.
Use case 2 could be better handled by literally anyone else

Personally don't have any strong feelings regarding any of this. Interesting to see people get so passionate about banking.
It's pretty easy to avoid if you keep your previous kernel in your boot directory... new kernel won't boot? Just boot the old one until you can fix the new one.
it works in group settings but not an individual, which the author is.
Yeah, Vgs(th) is 3V worst-case. That's the specification for 1mA of current flow Ids, which is near useless (note: the Arduino has traditionally been able to supply 20mA+, so a 1mA Ids current at 3V is completely pointless). "th" is Threshold after all, its not when the MOSFET is usable, its when it "starts to turn on".

https://rocelec.widen.net/view/pdf/orqxwkxkq1/ONSM-S-A000354...

Figure 2 on page 5 gives you an idea of the voltages you're supposed to use. Optimal usage of the 2N7000 requires 10V Vgs (for 1.5A or more), but 5V is sufficient for ~800mA bursts. And I expect 800mA to be enough for most beginner uses.

4V might be usable, but that's well beyond the capabilities of ESP32.
I can help you remember the locations with the help of Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
As someone that implements smart contracts I can agree with that opinion. Most of cryptocurrency users are using them because of FOMO, they read on social networks sponsored ads about big gains and they enter 21st century casinos created by modern Madoffs, waiting for airdrops in hope to make money etc. Reality is that most lose money but like with gambling maybe the next airdrop or next DeFi project will be a jackpot or this time they will be first adopters and other users will be left holding the bag. It's really sad because technology is great.
No, they're saying both of these things are off-putting. Obviously not to the same degree. I don't want to see either, though.
Convincing someone to kill themselves out of shame of upsetting an imagined being seems pretty life altering to me ...
DST can go f**k itself.
Point is you’d have to be to look at a chat bit running on a modern computer and think to yourself “this is just like the human experience”.
I mean considering that many expected venture backed startups to bring us through this upcoming recession and be the silver lining, SV’s problems seem more than a little problematic.

https://medium.com/prime-movers-lab/venture-backed-startups-...
No no no a bathroom isn't going to work anymore, we need a kitchen now.
While very few arrangements are optimal, I personally don't see how this is a good example. It seems like your assessment, as so far elaborated, is equivalent to "the government should not issue bonds."

My opinion on equilibrium: government should always be providing the most secure credit, at some level of issuance, that wouldn't be true, best not to get there.
Most of software development is not computer science. Building a login page is a routine task.
I really agree, the hardware is good, but macOS isnt attractive at all.

Its behind windows in every step, desktop experience, app support(no games!) And more, while not being as pure / techy friendly as Linux.

Didn't know that ashai got so far!, how is it on laptops? And can I use the custom kernel on anything else? Like fedora / Ubuntu?
No, it’s just a regular minor release.
Sure. So name one, that's cheap, readily available from many manufacturers, through hole, with 100mA+ or so Ids, low enough capacitance to be used with a microcontroller like ESP32.

Most of the good MOSFETs I'm aware of are SMT only, which is not beginner friendly. 2N7000 through hole is extremely available damn near everywhere. All companies have a clone of the venerated, classic MOSFET. EDIT: Its also been used in various beginner circuits for 40 years, so you can pickup an old book from the library and see those 2N7000 around and use those designs today.

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Honestly, if you're doing through-hole on ESP32, I suggest using a resistor + 2N2222 BJT instead of the MOSFET. But I think 2N7000 is easier (fewer parts, in particular no resistor needed). But that's a 5V design.

The 2N2222 also requires you to leak a decent amount of current through the Vbe / Ibe (while 2N7000 is like 1uA or less leak Vgs / Igs).

But... 5V and 2N7000 Jellybean + throughole is really easy to use. Its definitely a big advantage to Arduino IMO, and I'm glad that they're keeping the 5V driving capability in this newest version.
i would love to know what does these real pros cany actuallu handle in osx.
i mean really, what are the features that are show stoppers?
GPT also uses embeddings. It converts each token into a vector that captures the meaning and context of the word. Related tokens are close by in this large vector space.

The way I understand it is that the best way to predict the next words in a sentence is to understand the underlying reality. Like some kind of compression.
I will say, it seemed like right about the time the crypto markets collapsed again was right when AI application really started taking off and creating great demand. So I think the demand has remained roughly consistent. The big difference being folks with AI needs getting devices purpose build by nVidia for their needs, versus hobbyists buying up stock of consumer cards.
PNC seems to be up again?

Edit: it showed 82, after clicking on the link a second time it still is missing?? weird
>But those such as Bitcoin that are the most decentralized and censorship resistant

Bitcoin isn't anonymous though, which makes it's censorship resistance dubious. IIRC monero fixed that.
No these people had a years long habit of it, usually starting as kids or teenagers. Not every day but regularly still.
It's not fun, it's scary and tacky. Those red hats represent a movement that really wants to hurt people like me and my friends.
That answer would not fly in our organization (military). It reads like someone who isn't part of our organization, making little assumptions about our organizational structure. For instance, we would never "invest". We "acquire" equipment to meet needs. Likewise, nobody would ever talk of something impacting work. Everything is written in terms of operational requirements and missions. Even "approval" isn't appropriate. My boss will "support" my request that will go to another part of the organization for assessment and procurement. If I used language from an AI that did not understand our specific organizational mannerisms, it would be flagged as so odd that my boss would probably drop by my office for an explanation.

This is typical of generalize AI. Everything it writes sounds like it comes from a total stranger. It has no internal voice, no distinct style. It sounds like it comes from a child writing an essay ... which is basically what it is.
By the late 1990s the political parties had converged a great deal. Clinton picked up most of Reagan's ideas and led from the center, he didn't mind the unfair attacks from Gingrich and Richard Scaife Melon because long as he was under attack all the liberal groups would get behind him and not ask questions like "what have you done for us lately?"

In 2000 Bush and Gore both tried really hard to reach "swing voters" and each tried to pretend that he had some of the attributes that the other guy was famous for. Bush tried to play down the belligerence of his family and Gore played down his environmentalism. They were so equal that they split the vote right down the center and it took weeks to know who won.

Then in the Bush years there was no real conflict between the two parties, look how many Democrats bought Bush's lies and jumped into the Iraq war with both feet.

People were making analogies with pro wrestling even then in that the conflict seemed "fake" (kayfabe) but it got into real neokayfabe during the Obama and Trump admins. Particularly, the "culture wars" lead many people to believe they have a choice of exactly one party, and politicians can pledge allegiance to an ideology without committing resources, which lets politicians and lobbyists allocate resources to special interests such as

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/candy-coated-cartel-tim...

(Notably Ralph Nader would agree with the Cato Institute on that one)

Insofar as the parties aren't competitive nobody is running on issues that are a concern to almost everyone, such as anti-corruption.
Stallman said something good about ChatGPT, it’s not an AI, it does not understand anything. ChatGPT only predicts the next token based on the previous and it all boils down to statistics and probability.

So calling it an AI is wrong.
Estimates are about relative comparison, not specific accuracy. If you tell me one item will take a day and another will take 3 months, you can be wrong by several multiples and the information is still useful.

It’s less that I now have a specific endpoint, but rather I have a target (or multiple targets) at which I can decide if we’re on track and, if not, how I may want to change previously made prioritization choices.

If you tell me a day, then 5 days later if it’s still not done I may not rip you for being wrong but I may decide it’s time to pull the plug on that initiative since it no longer meets the criteria under which we agreed to do it.

I’m all ears for another proposal, but “just keep building stuff with no regard for how long any of it takes” is not much of a strategy and doesn’t reflect the way that decisions have to get made in the real world with limited resources.
I find "unwilling to not be useful.

I am perfectly willing to make a lot of sacrifices to lose weight. It's just that none of the sacrifices you list have an effect. Why would I continue to sacrifice it it doesn't work?

So I prefer "unable" in the sense that "we haven't figured out the way and thus they can't just do it harder."

Instead of the wheelchair, think of paralyzed people before wheelchairs. They "couldn't" walk because they were paralyzed and wanting it harder didn't work. What worked was inventing the wheelchair.

My argument is we haven't invented an effective fat loss diet or intervention that works even in a minority of obese people by any reasonable definition of "works." (I.e. long-term, sustainable w/o leading to ramped down metabolism, doesn't lead to massive lean tissue loss, doable "at large" in their normal lives not while literally being locked in a camp.)
Does it? As a device I want to hook up to a TV to watch streaming services without worrying that my TV is sending snapshots to its manufacturer it works pretty well.
I don't think it should ever be the depositors responsibility to figure out whether a bank is properly managing their risk backing your deposits. That's both intentionally meant to be opaque to depositors - you get dollars in an account, not share in an MMF for instance - and also, it is incredibly difficult for even professionals to evaluate. This is the responsibility of regulators plain and simple. And I'd argue by the FDIC taking this risk on now, moral hazard is still not a factor.
Notes on Taste
Weird. Some louder/sharper sounds definitely get through, but in my experience it's a very small amount. I can sit in a coffee shop and they'll block out people talking unless someone's sitting right next to me and being somewhat loud

I can also usually supplement with some music if I need to, to cover up that last 5-10% of louder sounds
So called proof of work systems are basically an instantiation of Bostrom's paperclip maximizer running on a hybrid human machine topology.
For industrial stuff I tend to use the Parallax Propeller. It was ahead of its time when it came out, it still holds its own well (and the propeller 2 is a beast) and it can take a beating electrically.
Sequence of events for me: 1) stopped using the GOAT compiler GCC 2) killed X11 support 3) killed all 32bit support. 4) hit rock bottom.
Friday deploy freezes are like murdering puppies (2019)
I believe only ubuntu half-supported boot environments. I don't know of any other distro that even bothered to support zfs outside of supplying the package for users to install.
Exactly. They censored a Stanford doctor on Twitter just because he had a different opinion, which is incredibly concerning. It's no longer (and never was, in my opinion) about filtering misinformation - it's about controlling the narrative.
I had this issue show up suddenly, but atter the past 10 years or so it has gotten a bit better. I know longer am managing rage if I know the person is stuffed up or following their cultural norms.

I think it is very similar to road rage, which can normally be defused by communication or sympathy.
(one of the ZBM developers here) - we strive to provide the best recovery environment possible. Between cloning/promoting previous snapshots through our interface, a full shell with ZFS userland tools, and the ability to chroot read/write into any boot environment (or read-only into a snapshot), we can help you out of quite a few common binds. There's usually no need to keep a recovery disc around!
Linguistic Relativity (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis)
> not raising short rates would increase inflation

Proxy war in eastern Europe, with USA dumping big $ there, is causing price rises.
So now we know how to export data from the notes.app, messages.app & reminders.app.

What’s next?
Would you like to elaborate on why?
I feel like you're being pointlessly pedantic and clearly not discussing in good faith. And not even in a correct way - it's a defined and accepted usage of "American" as an adjective to specify things as being part of the US, and especially when "American" is used to describe a concept that clearly has a national origin (a military). No one says "the American military" to refer to the Nicaraguan Armed Forces. I'm going to disengage here but i hope you have a good day
> So there’s no incentive to work with a bank that took the time and money to pass a stress test

This assumes that there future uninsured deposits are guaranteed (they may be, yes, but this is a bet, not a certainty).

Regardless, you're making the case that consumer choice is not sufficient pressure to enforce safety measures. Which is correct, but we already knew that! That's the purpose of regulations.

Expecting industries to self-regulate in response to market forces is a losing battle.
And GPT-3 (2020):
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/10/the-obligatory-gpt-3-p...
Don't know if Rust has this ability, but SPARK (a subset of Ada for safety-critical code) does have the ability to guarantee known space usage, as well as guarantee that a program will terminate.
You can’t buy a fishing boat with the proceeds of a fishing pole anymore, however.
Reminds me of this pretty common but all the more spectacular: a close-up of super complex production line (gene transcription) driven by DNA strands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9jct2ozY / https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/7Hk9jct2ozY
Where did I imply 1)? We never finish producing the numbers, so unless our production order was fixed from the beginning, we never know the full value of the diagonalized number. But the partial diagonalized number (which we refine at each step by looking at the produced number) will gradually converge to a limit, which is a real number different from any number we will ever produce. At no point in the process do we know the limit exactly, but it is there nonetheless.

> Of course the order will change from iteration to iteration. But in this way the generated real numbers will always have a corresponding natural number.

The real numbers that you generate will always have a corresponding natural number. But the diagonalized number will never have a corresponding natural number, no matter how much you shuffle your generated values.
No, why would I be?

In what world would you even lose all that?
I’d say it’s more like the Fed opened up a “Free ammo and cocaine store”. Most banks came by, got their free coke and went on their way. SVB came alone and said “well let’s have a fucking party: get rocked up and play some Russian roulette.” And every other bank that might’ve been eyeing that ammo realized “holy shit this is for reals.”
It is in the “advanced” menu for fonts (directly to the right of the font size selection drop-down box in the current UI).
In my experience, the estimate is almost never about an actual, literal target anyone should put on a calendar. It is more of a way for management to slowly develop an understanding of how much cost or anxiety is associated with a thing. The more often management samples you for estimates, the more likely they will start to grasp reality, even if you are wildly-off in most cases.

It is traditional for developers to look at this like a binary thing where they're being expected to provide a deterministic outcome at an arbitrary future date. Unless your management is actually incompetent/abusive, they understand how the game works and aren't actually looking for this kind of magic. Once you learn that missing targets is totally fine & acceptable virtually everywhere, life improves dramatically.

Another way to look at this: If your work is so easy to predict that you can set detailed targets 12+ months out and deterministically hit them, how much value are you able to provide to your customers?
> The truth of this is again illustrated by the Joint Strike Fighter F-35 with its massive cost overruns and its reduced performance.

For such a poor performer, the F-35 is sought after by almost every country that can afford it and that the US will sell it to. Sales increased even more after Russia invaded Ukraine, when European countries perceiving a new threat switched their plans to the F-35.
Interesting, does GitHub fill in and run the template generation? How many parameters does it support?

I'd recommend finding a way to have a contentful readme in the template tepo root so people know what it is and how to use it
> Why are SWE and programmers so afraid of bussineses persons, product owners, scrum masters and higher management?

I've seen this many times and I used to be such a person.

It stems from expecting to be at peak mental shape all day (because that's what you've shown in your job interview) - ultimately overestimating one's capabilities.

I had to wait to my thirties to understand that nope, I can't sustain this and I should acknowledge that I'm not really putting in 8h of focused work daily.

I see this as a rite of passage for a senior developer - you can't be dependable if you're not true to yourself.