skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poll: Fire 50% of managers at random. Does your company survive?
Consider the org chart at your current company.

For this poll, a manager is somebody with 2 or more subordinates.

Fire each manager by coin-flip.

Could your org survive this arrangement without hiring for 1 year?

[1] https://taylor.town/thanos-management
Yes, my company survives.
No, my company fails.
Pandas 2.0 Released
> There are a lot of speculations and hypothesis from people who don't live in Paris and try to apply their experience in a different city to Paris, so allow me to offer the experience (obviously I'm biased) of someone living there.

So you're saying, compared to other cities, Paris' problem is parisians? And e-scooter don't work because parisians can't be bothered to be civil?
Not even used: when I was shopping for a laptop for my wife Apple was still happily selling M1 MacBook Airs and I was happy to buy one. The premium for the M2 just didn’t feel worth it.
Agree. You are set for a decade with a M1. Not much of a point in upgrading for 99%+ of users.
My point is, if same applied for AI, there should be cargo ships worth of generated cats - but no, all generative image AI is used for is to generate young (anime) Japanese girls, and absolutely nothing else. Which is okay for me, but curious.
I wonder how many VPN providers are going to turn out to be honeypots in the long run. Every time they make it easier, I get more suspicious about the privacy really being provided. Perhaps I’m just really distrustful and cynical.
Which country are we talking about? German M2 Air base model is 1499€ on apple.com and you can get it for ~1250€ at various retailers.
Not very aggressive in practice at that time. And the eastern Europe did not manage very well, which western Europe paid for for quite a long time.
Still rocking my iPhone 11 Pro. Unless it has a catastrophic failure I'll probably struggle through until the iPhone 16 comes out. For the most part it works fine (although the battery is getting a little ropey!)
32 pounds, and dual-floppy support! Fun wikipedia article to read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT
While I'm generally in favor of redistribution of wealth, power and knowledge, this doesn't seem an insight so trivial that it can be asserted without underpinning to me, nor congruent with history. Industrialization was essential or at least catalytic to democracy, which happened without public control over production production means (I'm ignoring the Marxist view in this).
You think a home ATMOS system can take and process 128 real time channels at full audio quality!?
Dam, forgot that. Ibuprofen definitely is NSAID and I do have inflammatory condition. So yeah, that's why it works. Thanks for reminding me :-)
I see this nonsense every day https://i.imgur.com/s59Bvf3.png
> Licenses are matters of law, not spirit.

But also, i think even the spirit of the original copyleft movement is being misunderstood. As a GP said, the spirit was about centering users, requiring developers to be responsible to _users_, in order to create the kind of society where our _use_ of technology would be unconstrained in certain ways.

It was not about anything owed to the "original" developers, it was not about developers responsibility to other developers. In original spirit, even. It was definitely not about creating a system where people could make adequate income from writing software. That was not even the spirit in which the licenses were devised.

(To be fair, it also imagined/hoped that a large portion of (but not all) users could also be "developers" in the sense they could tweak software to meet their needs -- for their own and others use, though, not for money. Even if users would be coding, the "spirit" still centered them as users, and centered the conditions of use, their needs and desires for how that software would work, not conditions of profit or income from charging people for software use).
Free IDE Extension for VS Code just launched – feedback on code in real time
CodeScene has just launched an IDE for VS Code, helping developers tackle code complexity within the editor.
It should be possible to make exceptions for sites you trust IMO.
Thank you. They have so many great songs, Atmosphere is one my favorites.
Apple doing their part in increasing inflation too. It’s impossible to reduce their profit margin, obviously. /s
Tells you something about the seriousness about the whole DEI thing.
Speaking as someone who has and uses an M2 Macbook Air with 8GB RAM, I agree it's not a lot but it's more than sufficient for any use case a Macbook Air would generally see.

This literally isn't Windows where 32GB of RAM is the new minimum.

I will say the Macbook Pro really should start from 16GB RAM and at least 1TB SSD; it's for professionals, isn't it?
Even if Russia is advancing 100 meters (300 feet) a day eventually it will reach the Western point of Ukraine unless something changes.
It's tribalism.
Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 1: Blobs and Trees
So you're expecting them not to do anything whatsoever with animals, because you define anything done with them as cruelty? I disagree completely. Of course there shouldn't be any unnecessary suffering and definitely zero cruelty, but animal testing - as well as animal eating - is fine with me and many more people.

It can be "fixed" but almost nobody wants that "fix". Politicians are here to enact the will of the people. That's democracy. I don't think it's nice to talk about your differing political opinions as a "fix". This is not something that's broken, we want it this way - we wouldn't have spend so much time making regulations about it if we didn't.

If you find developing technologies that could fix epilepsy and ADHD (and potentially many more neurological issues) as well as help locked-in people communicate as unnecessary, I really don't know what to tell you...
You may not have class but you are a member of a class and regardless don't deserve shovelware and ads in your start menu.
Apart from this, if you're an enthusiast who likes to build their own PC, component prices have gone insane. A flagship GPU is 2000 dollars, and motherboards are priced so high that Gamer's Nexus decided to do a 25 minute video rant about it.

The returns are diminishing, it's not worth to get a 4090 RTX with DDR5 and a compatible mobo, if for 1/3 of the price you can get 90% of the performance with a used 3090 and DDR4.
> All this Free Software movement started by something really similar to "right to repair", a firmware bug in a printer that was proprietary software. Free Software is about being in control of software you use. The spirit was never "contribute back to GNU", the spirit was always "if you take GNU software, you can't make it non-free". Those GNU devs at the time just wanted a good and actually free/libre OS, that would remain free no matter who distributed it.

Distinction without a difference. The end result is the same.
>There are dumb news stories in the search menu

I'm sorry, what ?!

>and it pleadingly tries to stop you from using Firefox,

But you gotta realise, for an OS, this is already too much..

I naively expect my OS to help me organise my files and provide a platform to run applications. And that's about it.

The weird thing is Microsoft seems to be acting as if they're competing madly against some competitor and must keep up the updates and new features and be constantly changing things to keep peoples' attention. But I'm sure this hasn't been the case for quite a while now.
I Effortlessly Create Presentations with ChatGPT and MARP (As Software Eng)
No propaganda has clearly gotten to you. Occupied Ukrainian territory peaked in march last year. This is a fact, there is nothing to argue. Russia's winter offensive is literally slower than a snails pace.
In some ways, Ukraine has already won; Putin intended to capture Kyiv in three days and completely failed to do that. He turned to some minor territory gain, but that's also going very poorly. Russia's winter campaign is almost a complete failure, with tens of thousands of lives lost for very minor gains.

Ukraine is smaller than Russia, but by no means a small country. Ukraine has 40 million people and is far more motivated to fight than Russia is. Russians really have nothing to win here; it's just about Putin's pride. Meanwhile Ukrainians are fighting for their lives, their country, and the future of their children. These are powerful motivators, and go a long way towards explaining Ukraine's unwavering morale in the face of overwhelming odds.

Ukraine also fights much smarter. Russia uses very primitive tactics: use massive artillery to flatten entire cities, move infantry in, and if they get killed, flatten the place with artillery again. And then they ran low on artillery ammunition, not to mention that many of their barrels have been so overused they can't shoot straight anymore, so now they've resorted to human wave attacks. Ukrainian defenders of Bakhmut have described wave after wave of Russian attackers crawling over the dead bodies of their dead comrades only to get gunned down too. There's no sophistication at all, and coordination is often poor.

Meanwhile Ukraine with its more limited resources executes very smart attacks. Most of the time they target Russian supply lines to make it harder for Russia to fight. But sometimes they've undermined Russian positions so much that they can suddenly grab an enormous swath of territory, like they did east of Kharkiv and west of Kherson.

I frankly don't see how Ukraine can lose this. In some ways they have already won. Although of course it really depends on how you define victory and loss here; both sides have lost a lot, and any end result where Putin is in a position where he can try again later, means that the war for Ukraine is not really over.
I am still using 2012 Macbook Air without any issues. Changed battery some years ago due to wear but other than that it has been great.
If you extend the definition of the maze a bit, aren't all circuits mazes?

But then, you can keep extending it and say that everything is a computer and also a maze.

Anyway, the brain gymnastics is a lot of fun, at least for me.
You should bring the fact you're solely dependent on stripe for payments closer to the front page so you don't waste people's time registering.

Wish the project all the best!
This is actually a long standing trope in their own culture, countless examples.

For a fun recent one please turn on caption translations and enjoy this short-film/music-video/documentary by Russian band Leningrad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bRPTb3z2rU

You won't regret it. :)
This is weirdly relevant -- I made some funny soviet-style propaganda posters the last few days and it happily let me generate them for Gaddafi, Putin, Kim Jong-un, etc. but when I wrote Xi Jinping it rejected it. I tried "general secretary of CCP" but the results weren't even remotely resembling Xi Jinping, so I assume they even removed him from the training data.
The Pro starts with 16 GB of RAM.
The journalists often investigate government waste but the Republicans made everyone mistrust them and you went along with it
Browser fingerprinting is exactly that. And the browser leaks are an even more concerning issue that must be confirmed. Websites want to know who you are or at least that you're not a bot. As a pro-privacy user, you don't want websites to know either of those things. That's low-hanging fruit that a few simple browser tweaks can help with.
> Leaving GitHub wont change that, OpenAI is training its models on every bit of code they can have, sourcehut, codeberg etc. If its public, they will train on it.

Not every bit of code, they are respecting proprietary licenses.

When MS puts the code for Windows, Office, Azure and everything else in front of ChatGPT, Copilot, whatever other AI learning model they have, then perhaps they have a leg to stand on.

Otherwise, they're just being hypocritical to claim that no injury is being done by using code for training, because they are refusing to train on any of their code.

Right now it just looks like they are ripping off open source licenses without meeting the terms of the license.

https://www.lelanthran.com/chap7/content.html
But Russia is not advancing 100 meters a day. Not even close.
EY fined, banned from some audits in Germany over Wirecard scandal
Sure, but that's not because Facebook is popular.
God is money nowadays
It's still stupid. It costs Apple a minimal amount extra to vastly improve the utility of their devices with 16GB RAM and 512/1TB drives by default. But they're cutting corners here in search of product segmentation and profit, so much so customers will genuinely be suffering because of their choices.
> The dollar is insanely strong right now

This is a bigger story that isn’t being told properly often. The recent BRICS currency move is about them panicking over increasing dollar global dominance.

Checking recently I can’t find any major currency that is up against the dollar over last 10 years. US productivity is running away from the rest of the planet is another variable and with rapid on shoring of numerous industries, especially semiconductors, there is a possibility that US economic dominance is about to go into hyperdrive.

That version is something the media never mentions.
I've built stuff with 80s processors, like wire wrap and solder type of build, so I've read quite a few processor manuals/handbooks/datasheets over the years (decades...) After the failure of the 432 I saw a set of 432 databooks for sale cheap, probably at a hamfest or similar, the typical CPU of the day was a hundred page book but the 432 was an entire bookshelf.

I know there's a marketing product message and we have to "respect" that, however... the impression I had from reading the actual engineering docs (well, glancing and skimming and having heard about it vs looking at the actual documentation) was marketing wanted to SELL an ada/object oriented chip, so they sold it that way, but the actual data sheet showed this was DESIGNED to be the IBM system/360 for the 80s microprocessor generation. Unimaginable list of features most applications would never, ever use. Literally every feature any assembly language programmer could ask for, and then more on top of that.

It seemed too complicated to ever optimize and release a vers 2.0 that's binary compatible. You can imagine, then create, an 8008 version 2, or a 8080 version 2, or a 8086 version 2, or a 6800 version 2 in a logical engineering sense. The 432 was a one-and-done, an evolutionary dead end. Possibly the next one could be smaller process and run slightly faster or use less power. But it was a dead end.
Neuralink is right to want to improve BCIs and make the technology more available, but the stated goals include things like controlling computers, using AI assistants, and telepathy. As far as I can tell, Musk likes to make promises or prognostications with a casual disregard for whether they are possible, and then apply significant amounts of pressure to the employees at his companies to make those things happen. This is a bad recipe.
I remember hating on cyclists a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFFrsvgu1Y
Nowadays I would love to live in a flatter part of town so I could have a bike!
But isn't this what Firefox containers achieve?

My understanding is that cookies etc aren't shared between containers, so I can stay logged in, and not be tracked across websites.

If it's achievable, why compromise?
>If your job can be replaced with autogenerated text then perhaps you’re being paid too much money.

I'd like to see someone say that while being thrown out to be homeless and saddled with family expenses...

But it's always what people say while having it easy...
Check all the browser leak tests too, they are important and different tests.
While your Dwaita/Adwaita dichotomy makes sense in terms of general concepts, it's too clear-cut, and ignores some intersections between Hinduism and Buddhism.

> So it is odd that the Tibetan monks in the movie will print names of "God".

As you pointed out, some sections of Hinduism follow Adwaita philosophy. In the same vein, even though Buddhism doesn't have a pantheon like mainstream Hinduism, it still retains lists of named Buddhas [1]. These lists are common in Buddhism (see also the list of bodhisattavas [2]) as well as the related and older Jainism [3].

I believe that the core of the Clarke story is based on the overall concept of these lists, probably simplifying the concept of a Buddha to "God" for Western audiences. The closest related concept I can think of is the Holy Trinity, and most people in the Western world would struggle to explain the difference between Unitarianism and Trinitarianism.

The filmmaker had a chance to correct Clarke's simplification, but probably hasn't studied the source material in enough detail to know or care.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_named_Buddhas

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bodhisattvas

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tirthankaras
The man & materials bill they’ve already paid makes that impossible.

This spring will show if they can change the current calculus but if not Russia is going to change the end game.
And I’m stuck waiting for an M2 Max (or better!) desktop computer that Apple for some reason refuses to sell for now.

Mac Studio should have been updated to M2 already imo.
Related discussion:

"Pandas 2.0 and the Arrow revolution" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968769 (314 points | 33 days ago | 93 comments)
Yes, that's a good example (and the author also mentioned this), but then there is sr.ht
> Solar+battery tech has made power lines not only unnecessary, but in some states arguably not worth the fire risk anymore.

Power lines aren't an inherent fire risk. Unmaintained power lines, however, are.

Primarily, you need to maintain clearance from bushes and trees.
Does this mean converting DataFrame between pandas and polars now is more efficient?
In your case there are technically two paths through the maze (straight through and going through the loop).
>"he former is basically a cultural institution"

Cultural my ass. It is as political as it gets. Just do a search on Lèse-majesté in Thailand. Here is one from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9_in_Thai...
C does not have exceptions...
Finland Becomes a Member of NATO on Tuesday 4 April
> So now talented people give their skill to the "whole" and they have to beg for contributions and donations to get by. And other geeks (not suits with ties) finance the ones they sympathise with. It's ridiculous.

Is it? I can't think of a single professional dev making money right now that isn't making money because they did not have to reinvent the entire tech stack that they are skilled in.

If there was no open source, we'd all be making a lot less, and the state of tech would be far far smaller than it is right now.
I have the same background as you, this is my first WebGL project.

While building it I actually was thinking of making a video of the process some day, but I thought it wouldn't have an audience, plus, I'm not an expert, I might say the wrong stuff. But anyway, I'll be happy to make a video that would help others like me!
Yes, it's an abstraction over the implementation details.

For html, the renderer still depends on the structure of the tree.

Whether it starts from the bottom of the top doesn't matter. Because the renderer is an imperative function.

But the declarative part is the tree itself and these declarative statements are not commutative is what I mean.

You cannot insert to a node that doesn't exist.
Replaceability of an SSD doesn't provide much day-to-day benefit once it's installed and encrypted; for corporate users using enterprise images, removable storage may be a vulnerability. Buy an SSD up to your cloud storage capacity, double it, and call it a day.
"The Apple tax on ram and storage has always been ridiculous, but a long long time ago in a galaxy far away you could use aftermarket RAM and drives, and batteries even used to be removable (and give easy access to RAM and drive, on the old polycarbonate macbooks). On my 2010 I could even replace the DVD drive by an aftermarket drive caddy."

Those were the good days. I loved dropping dual SSDs and additional RAM in my MBP. I harvested guts from broken ones off craigslist and kept it going for about 13 years before it finally kicked out.
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This leaves me wondering. Who and what is the biggest existential threat to humanity, sentient artificial intelligence or tyrannical governments?
And of course Julius Caesar gets you to Aeneas and Aphrodite.
Because they're old rust-buckets that are only good as supplies of replacement parts for the tanks that still work.

Have you seen that smoking aircraft carrier? Russian military equipment is often in a terrible state.

Of course they also have this brand new super tank, the T-14 Armata. No idea why they're not fielding that one, but I suspect it doesn't work.
The euro has actually recovered about 10% from its low last year.
The problem is Apple’s pricing strategy. Very static and never sacrificing not even a little bit of margin.
Meanwhile a lenovo is 800 EUR for a 11th gen i5, 16GB RAM and a 3050ti.
As someone with a value investing mindset, I personally can't find the extra value for double the money in macs.
I’m agreeing with you on the absurdity now; this weekend though, I happened to click through to a video of a guy who upgraded the RAM on a MacBook Air. The video title isn’t clickbait; he did it successfully, but it was a pretty advanced project (as in "let me put the circuit board on my rework preheater to get started")

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxbVxaScZQ4
I believe Tor is collaborating with Mozilla very closely, to the point that Mozilla includes patches from Tor Browser now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift
We use the ESP32-S3 as our main microcontroller!
cut the majority of management, COO etc that are not necessary in generating
revenue.

find ways to become cash flow positive yesterday.
dilute expected stock based compensation for employees and for you.
if all fails - have the business pay you an exit fee for not damaging the business.

unfortunately, a business with such bad numbers wouldn't have survived without the cheap money.

even with low margins such as 20% profits - it's still a decent bootstrapped business but ya'll got addicted to the cheap cash
You're framing it as if it's China vs Belgium but Russia has about three times the population of Ukraine. And literally millions of Russian men already fled Russia rather than be conscripted.

Looking at current ratio of Russian and Ukrainian losses, having three times the soldiers is not going to be enough.
My thoughts on the co-pilot thing remain as vague as ever but I made something of a connection reading this:

> GPL violations by soulless corporations stealing the hard work of independent programmers and assimilating it into their own proprietary software

"stealing"? Where's it gone? It vanished!? It's been erased from the internet?

Why do we play these semantic artificial scarcity games with code that has deliberately been made publicly accessible? If I read your code and copy it to a file on my computer it hasn't been destroyed, it hasn't gone anywhere. If my computer reads the code it hasn't vanished into the ether.

I don't pirate films/games/TV/books but I think open source code is an entirely different beast to the former.
As interesting and good as that concept is, it doesn't seem notable enough for a wikipedia article.