skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For 3600€ you could get the M2 Pro 16" with 32 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD which is a much faster machine than the on you bought 4 years ago, even if the specs might not have changed that much.

Could not argue about the price of a Ryzen, can't beat that. :)
In Ireland, vat is 23% on electronics. Businesses basically don’t pay that but it still is there for the ordinary buyer.

My m2 air 24/1tb from work was 2300 or so, my personal m1 air 16/512 was 1850 a year earlier. Don’t see a huge difference between them, but the work one in particular is a giant leap ahead of the 5tr old mbp it replaced.

No doubt they’re pricey
Deserve? Perhaps not.

But respond favourably to, in sufficient numbers, that it remains profitable for the shovelling class? You betcha.
The minimally invasive nature - only a single wire soldered on the original board is great.
It probably doesn't have more intelligence than a dog or a cat...

Just like chatbots 20 years ago didn't, even though they could talk, too.
This does match up with my experience pretty well.

Hopefully once the EU forces Apple to open up their app store I can just tell all of my users that Safari is unsupported and that they should switch to Firefox.
Exactly, I might do it fast then, before learning more. :P
Yes, that's how it works, if you're talking about the setting privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing. To my memory, the list is any multiple of 200 on width and any multiple of 100 on height. So at this moment my viewport is, I believe, exactly 1200x900.

Bear in mind that it's a minority of people that hit F11 to browse fullscreen, they still have toolbars, so it's not as common as you'd think for the viewport to match a common screen resolution like 1920x1080.
> What is it with people generally that make them feel above others, forcing their viewpoints on everybody else as the only truth?

I honestly thought you were talking about the car drivers, until your next sentence.

> People should generally travel far and exotic more, it changes folks for the better rather than their own micro echo chambers

Travelling like this is a luxury. The views of those who can't afford this luxury should be protected over the views of those who can.
Outside of Peter Zeihan, I'm also utterly surprised that no one even brings up the demographics debate. Everyone has been so indoctrinated on the "we have too many people" propaganda that they haven't even realized how fast birth rates have dropped across the globe (and they're dropping even faster now).

The demographics of Europe, China, Japan and S. Korea are all terminal at this point. Outside of UK, France, and to some extent, Germany, most of these countries don't even have an immigrant culture to make up for the shortfall.

America, meanwhile, has decent native birth rate AND a culture that's always willing to accommodate new people.
Chrome eats a stupid amount of RAM even if it tries to not; just earlier I closed Chrome on one of my machines which immediately released 10GB of RAM. Combine that with however much Windows generally consumes and that's close to or even past the 16GB mark.
Unfortunately, this is rare because status traps blind people to these possibilities.

I mean, look at this article’s comments: defense after defense of status as the most important thing.

Bluntly: this article isn’t for you if you’re so invested in the idea of status. Given the quasi-finance values that tech represents now, I can’t say I’m super surprised. The author speaks of a life beyond such pursuits.
GitLab team member here.

In our 15.10 release (March 22), we added a new section called Explore that helps with content discovery and includes a tab for Trending projects that can be filtered by language. You can read out it in the release notes [0] or just go check it out [1].

0 - https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2023/03/22/gitlab-15-10-re...

1 - https://gitlab.com/explore/projects/trending
Hi. I’m a volunteer Midjourney content moderator. They don’t pay me. I’m under no obligation to make them look good.

The team behind MJ are a bunch of overly-nice people. The work very hard night and day to help people bring art into the world. When they see their hard work resulting in porn, gore, gross-out or hate material, it is very discouraging. It’s not material they want to collaborate on. It’s not what they want to work so hard to help bring into the world. Someone else can work to create communities for that.
I'm in rural Mississippi. AT&T buried fiber lines here a number of years back and never lit them up. I think there were some grants or something. Power company coop ran fiber last year though so AT&T can go to hell.
I tried to use Lenovo and I see the value in double the money.

Although I’d probably just buy a 3 year old Air for 800euro rather than buy a new one at that price point.

For durability, I would expect that old Air to last longer than a brand new Lenovo.
The great irony of this post is that the author dreams of a world where they can use a library without it depending on hundreds of other modules, yet their website is built on Gatsby, an NPM package with one of the most insane dependency graphs I've seen. Uploading the author's website's package.json[1] into npmgraph[2] lists a total of 1561 dependencies. All that for what amounts to a simple blog site.

[1] https://github.com/poeti8/pouria.dev/blob/master/package.jso...

[2] https://npmgraph.js.org/
I'm so happy I don't develop anything that targets web browsers or web servers. Yes deployments are a pain instead, but at least it's a known pain. Package the app and send it off.
The opposite of clean room is probably much more common.
> But it is less costly for the cities to remove the problem

It does not remove the problem but would simply transfer it elsewhere. In result, either people become significantly less mobile, or they get more used to cars, creating huge traffic jams and polluting cities with noise and fumes.

With scooter, one can get to any point of the city in 15 minutes max and basically for free compared to taxi. It has a huge value for the city economy, and worth the regulators' time.

> tourists who will bring back home a bad souvenir of their trip if they get fined

If you are caught for the first time, you'll just get a warning. So not an issue for a tourist.
NBN isn’t privatised. It’s 100% public. So it’s not fully privatised, I’m sure if folks give the liberals a couple more goes they’ll figure out how to sell it off and buy it back like Telecom
I think one thing that makes it IE-like is updates being tied to the OS. Asking the users to update an app is an easier sell than updating their OS.
Ceremony deserves a WebGL treatment as well ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zPIod2wjYE
>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.

I figured out a while ago that anyone who mentions the "petrodollar" in a geopolitical context knows knothing about geopolitics.

Bonus idiocy points if "BRICS" is mentioned in a way that implies any kind of formal collectivity, as opposed to a catchy nickname Goldman Sachs created 20 years ago for certain large emerging economies.
> This literally isn't Windows where 32GB of RAM is the new minimum.

Speaking as someone who has and uses a Windows laptop with 8GB of RAM, that's an absurd statement. The "new minimum" in terms of what you usually see for sale, is (still) more like 16GB.
I see that worked pretty well for North Korea already :^)
I have lost 4 dear friends in the last two years.

Made me reconsider my life and prioritizing my happiness before my loved ones. It has been liberating. Hope the prospect of death help you find your own light
One of China’s most popular apps has the ability to spy on its users say experts
> can never be exclusionary

I think this isn't quite the right word. "Off-putting", perhaps? It doesn't exclude anyone.
We need to get to zero. Burning gas doesn’t get us to zero. That’s the issue.

Given the lifetime of gas furnaces and what we know about climate change it is madness to even consider using them in brand new construction now.

Gas was and is the right tech for transitioning. But you seem to be stuck in the 90s or early 2000s when that kind of policy would have made sense. It’s too late and getting later.
> If your model touched X during training, it should be seen as producing derivative work.

I as a programmer touched X during training (learning how to code). Is all my work now derivative because of that?
> At least one middling positive of the invasion has been a litmus test for the levels of integrity of various countries. Russia annexed Crimea almost a decade ago. If you haven't read the writing on the wall and maneuvered independence you're incompetent or immoral.

I can’t really parse this. Why should Japan care about Crimea or Ukraine?
Thanks for your kind words! I'm happy it had an impact, even if a small one.
It has been understated what a disaster this is for Putin's paranoid war plans: Ukraine, the Baltics, Poland, Moldova, etc. are all on the list to be occupied because these are what he thinks are key to the security of Russia, and that Russia is entitled to rule these places.

Now not only is Ukraine out of reach, he has gained 800 miles of border directly exposed to NATO. A single road near this new NATO border connects Murmansk to St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg and the exclave of Kaliningrad are the only access to the Baltic Sea, with NATO nations directly adjacent.

Putin is presiding over one of the greatest geostrategic blunders in history and he doesn't even drink enough to have that excuse.
Fingerprints have been successfully extracted from photographs on a number of occasions (the fingerprints of Angela Merkel made the headlines). To do a secret retina scan with other kind of technology is a matter of time.

Compared to a password or an RSA key, I would say that biometrics are even dangerous.
reckon we're also entering the territory where even older hardware is "good enough", especially since so much work is now in the browser. My 4 year old Thinkpad runs fast enough that I won't feel the need to upgrade for a while. My other 5 year old Macbook is the same.

I also built a desktop 2 years ago and that's so smooth and fast that unless something physically breaks, I can easily stretch it out for 5 years.
It's 200 fast mode images and an unlimited number of images in relax mode, which is only slightly slower.
> Japan should move to withdraw from the Sakhalin projects eventually “if they’re really serious about supporting Ukraine.”

What an irony. Japan has to buy its own oil from Russia, from the island Russia seized from Japan.
After just two days in Vienna I changed from my London crossing style to the local style. The social pressure was just too great.
"On the application side, many developers considering or implementing Vulkan and similar APIs found them unable to efficiently support important use cases which were easily supportable in earlier APIs. This has not been simply a matter of developers being stuck in an old way of thinking or unwilling to "rein in" an unnecessarily large number of state combinations, but a reflection of the reality that the natural design patterns of the most demanding class of applications which use graphics APIs — video games — are inherently and deeply dependent on the very "dynamism" that pipelines set out to constrain."

What a surprise.

They even had to come up with ANARI to try to make data visualization companies to move away from OpenGL.

https://www.khronos.org/anari
Is GPT spitting out “substantial portions” of your code?
Thanks for the prompt - going to listen to that again today!
Exactly! Nobody should imagine and articulate any possibilities unless they are sure they will be correct.
It's so embarrassing.
> I assumed it would have parity with the standard <canvas> element. Why wouldn't it? The MDN documentation mentioned nothing about inconsistent availability of contexts.

only mdn docs do list the context types as separate subfeatures in the support table, as does caniuse
I don't think we need an umpteenth discussion about this here, it has already been discussed to hell. This is getting old. Just search Brendan Each on HN [1], this discussion happens any time he is mentioned here.

Or just read the summary on Wikipedia [2].

There's a lot of material on this topic, it's easy to make up one's opinion on this if you are genuinely interested.

edit: please people, don't feed this.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CE...
Sorry republished it, should be OK now
Ask HN: Does your team run recurring scripts/tasks in production?
Particularly interested in how folks run recurring jobs (like backups, cronjobs, etc)

Does your team use them? What do you use to make sure they actually ran?
Oh boy I was so into these in the early 2000 or earlier I think. Been so long. Ok wow lot of wasted hours being anti social during high school...

This article brought back memories of total regret in certain parts of my younger life. I wasted countless nights , endless hours. When I should of instead have been out parties and observing + inspecting as many female bodies, not just any female bodies but only the bodies that fit certain criterias such as they are my age or older and they fully consent actually almost desiring and demanding that I inspect their bodies. Last but not least 100 lbs and size 24 jeans waist. Maybe I wouldn't need to set these limts perhaps back in high school most fit within this limit as this was back in the 90s and people were generally thinner.

You have to understand back then being able to upgrade the memory or to overclock, essentially trying to max out the performance of your hardware, pushing it to the limit, was like the thing to do. Ok to start the frame buffer memory on a Voodoo graphics card was relatively simple. The card had a slot for a single 1MB or 2MB DRAM chip, and adding a larger chip would increase the frame buffer memory. However, upgrading the texture memory was more complicated.

The texture memory on the Voodoo graphics cards was actually stored on a separate card called a texture expansion card (TEC). The TEC connected to the Voodoo card via a ribbon cable and added an additional 2MB of texture memory.

What made the Voodoo memory upgrade interesting was that it required a fair amount of technical knowledge and skill. Upgrading the frame buffer memory was relatively easy, but upgrading the TEC required soldering and programming skills. It was not a easy task like I thought I had mad skills back then haha.

But think 3dfx was ruthless against modding like they won't try to answer any questions if it was touched
The stupid thing is that NATO already have a land border with Russia before even 2007: Estonia and Latvia. Both of which were concerned about being invaded by Russia because they have terrible memories of the last time.

(Ignoring Kaliningrad, which has a border with Lithuania and Poland but is not militarily defensible, and the awkward satellite state of Belarus)
Nothing beats Safari in terms of battery usage, and there are features like the reading list that work really well (for me). For development, yes, I always have Chrome installed in case I needed it.
>they are all picked for ideological concerns which all stem from feelings

Or, perhaps more commonly, they were picked for business model reasons or (related) because building a community that includes commercial interests tends to favor more permissive licensing.
I also don't need that much bandwidth directly. But, I'm a biologist specialized in the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data. I'm also self employed and such bandwidths are true enablers of my business. I need Terra Bytes of data analyzed, most of this data comes from research institutes' IT departments. I can avoid a lot costs with a server at home. In fact, it can be a unique differentiator for me if I can sit in the niche where a couple of beefy cpus with a nice array of discs can still outperform the cloud cost-wise.

To be honest, I still have to research that.
I think they’re just making a point about purchasing power.
In the job I'm currently in (doing front-end for the first time in many years) I can confidently say that every time we've had a bug that was browser-specific, that browser was some brand of Safari - usually Safari mobile, which shits me even more because the iPhone doesn't let users install any alternatives, i.e. literally what Microsoft went to court for. Reason enough on its own not to get an iPhone, or indeed any Apple product at all. I can only imagine how much Safari has cost the industry in wasted dev time.
> A margin of -8.5% isn't that big a loss, especially if they're able to raise financing that will last a couple years while they work to achieve profitability.

But they have trouble doing that, given the remark “I am about to close on $30M of additional financing this month but the terms will decimate common stock holders”.

My guess would be that part of the reason is “~ 10 years that I have been on this journey”.

For many markets, that’s a long time for a company to become profitable.
Basic authentication PowerApps app sample by Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Seth Addo. Login credentials are compared to a usernames and passwords table. If credentials match, users can access a protected application area. Password reset and multi-factor authentication can improve application security.
In other words, serialising an int into bytes is an operation that fundamentally requires you to care about endianness, if you want your files and/or implementation to be platform-interchangeable.

A format that tricks you into thinking you don't need to think about it is a suboptimal one, in my opinion.
Because you brought up public funding.

This National Health Service is not a government program designed to promote the arts, so the issue of whether it "helps artists" is orthogonal to whether it is a good use of public funds.
Its also one of the most sketchy and dangerous. If you hop on an escooter, you're not going to find a homeless dude there jerking off, there's no vomit anywhere, noone will assault your wife and you're not getting stabbed nor mugged. Can't say the same about the Paris metro.
Yes, science and academia are not the same, but this distinction is largely meaningless precisely because as you yourself say "the social process of science is more complicated" as in science does not happen in a vacuum. Science is largely by product of academia, if you will.

While the theoretical scientific method itself may be a way to get to actual truth, the published science - knowledge that will be known, preserved and built upon - is a result of academic process, not some ultimate truth-seeking. In a practical sense science is the social process of science even if there is innate ontological difference.
It rather depends though doesn't it. It's very clear in Islam that images of the prophet are forbidden, they find it offensive. So out of respect it would seem reasonable to disable that. It's not then reasonable to disable generating images of jesus or the pope. Why? Because christians don't object to images of the pope or jesus. If there were specific things that christians found offensive, I think it's reasonable to disable those things too. It's not giving Muslims special treatment, it's about being respectful to all religions, it's just that being respectful means making reasonable adjustments for each of their concerns.
Paranoid dictators will always eat themselves. Delusion and extreme corruption can only get one so far.

I’m happy that Putin has been exposed for the weak baby he is as opposed to the strong man image that he projected (and many people understandably believed) before this war.
> pedestrians can basically cross wherever and whenever they want

The "code the la route" article R413-38 says otherwise:

Lorsque la traversée d'une chaussée est réglée par ces feux, les piétons ne doivent s'engager qu'au feu vert.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI0000...
Quick question: is avoid prompting Xi / disabling satire about Xi the sufficient condition that would make Midjourney accessible to the people in China?

The answer is: NO. That's the point.

Is satire on June 4th, 1989, the tiananmen square massacre allowed in China? No!
Is satire on COVID and Wuhan allowed in China? No!
...
This list is so long in China that, eventually, if any person wants satire on some forbidden topics using Midjourney, this tool will be blocked. And very likely it would happen. The demand is not smaller than the endless gallery of women with huge boobs. So this is a hard problem.
> Of course, my referral to Graham in this context uses “smart” in a rather limited sense

Yes, limited in the sense that smart = can make computers do stuff.

> if it’s scammy, it will attract the kind of people who’d play in moral grey areas for personal profit; if it’s bureaucratic-authoritarian, yup, you know who you’ll find there

You don’t think smart people run scams or that only idiots want to be authoritarians?
GPT 4 Can Improve Itself – Ft. Reflexion, HuggingGPT, Bard Upgrade and Much More
I thought this video was pretty informative of the types of improvements built on top of GPT4.
You can do all that with the JDK, too, and at higher performance.

As an Erlang fan for many, many years, I am quite familiar with BEAM's design (and why I think Erlang would gain a lot by running on the JVM (or, more precisely, from implementing BEAM and OTP on top of the JVM). Aside from implementation details -- the JDK has simply had a lot more work put into it -- the main difference between the two is that BEAM is higher level, and the runtime itself does more things out of the box, while the JVM is lower level and you can do more in libraries (with no loss of performance, because Java is compiled to very efficient machine code).

Not only would Erlang and Elixir gain better performance and be able to reduce application's reliance on NIFs, but maintaining and evolving them would require less effort.

There is now (as of JDK 19, released six months ago) no capability offered by BEAM -- including runtime manipulation of code through a REPL -- that couldn't be implemented at least as efficiently as a library on top of the JDK. You can see the API here: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/docs/specs/jvmti.h...
Yeah, poring over all the garbage and spam blogs and "documentation" websites for Windows is the biggest hassle.

Windows is a very complex beast and frankly many of the good people move on, usually to Linux, since all the good IT work happens on Linux.
Are deep cost cuts an option? What meaningful changes to the business can be made?

The financing round doesn’t sound great and won’t last, just buying some time.
To be fair, except developers that have to write HTML generating web apps most people rent some CMS or use one for free (WP or static ones) and don't have to know HTML, even people that were paid to write HTML in the 90s.

And about Postscript, we generate PDF for that now.
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It's corrosive to humans, toxic to aquatic life, but once you dilute it, humans survive easily.

The dangers are in confined spaces.
I concur with the frustrations in the article. Note that you can automatically test Safari releases with Playwright and GitHub Actions MacOS runners.
Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
Used Concourse at my last gig, it was a pretty nice tool. It markets itself as a "continuous thing-doer", which pretty much sums up what it does. You specify your tasks in YAML, then it runs them and gives you a nice observability UI. You can probably do better, but I'll give it 4/5 recommendation stars for being simple to use and FOSS.