skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto.
Macs are surprisingly long lasting. I have
- a 2011 MacBook Pro that is used for midi and piano classes. One battery change in 2018 and that’s it. It’s used every other day by kids for 2 hours.
- a 2013 MacBook air. Workhorse for the kids homeschooling. Used every day for 8 hours or so. One battery change and a MagSafe adapter change.
- a 16” 2016 MacBook Pro. My daily work device for the past 5 years. One battery change and 2 MagSafe adapters.
- a 13” 2019 MacBook air for the wife. It’s been puked on till the screen is a bit messed but it still works. No hardware updates.

So we are talking about ~ 30 years cumulative ownership with 3 battery changes and 3 MagSafes. Not bad in my book. If you want to nuke e waste, buy a Mac and hope it’s not a lemon. They rarely are
My personal experience is that they do not. Had one Macbook pro that would crash and then fail to boot after about 5 minutes of use around the 1.5 year mark. (It appeared that once it was warm it would not work). Then, my current Macbook pro needed a full logic board replacement at 11 months (so close to being out of warranty). It is still going strong but I am concerned the issue will happen again.

I very much enjoy using my Macbook over any windows laptop (the trackpad and keyboard are just so much better), but I am concerned about spending $3k on another laptop in a year or so when this one runs into an issue again.
Gist, the 4 are:-

Reid Wiseman (47): A US Navy pilot who served for a time as the head
of Nasa's astronaut office. He's flown one previous space mission, to
the International Space station in 2015.

Victor Glover (46): A US Navy test pilot. He joined Nasa in 2013 and
made his first spaceflight in 2020. He was the first African American
to stay on the space station for an extended period of six months.

Christina Koch (44): An electrical engineer. She holds the record for
longest continuous time in space by a woman, of 328 days. With Nasa
astronaut Jessica Meir she participated in the first all-female
spacewalk in October 2019.

Jeremy Hanson (47): Before joining the Canadian Space Agency, he was a
fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He has yet to fly in
space.

By inventing ssh, software engineers have shot themselves in the foot. Wont be seeing them on such missions anytime soon.

But what happens if there is a bug, the network connection to earth has died and the zoom calls have gone offline. Will we need a software engineer on board then?
Wrong. All cars will eventually have to move to hydrogen. This is due to the unsustainability of battery cars. A lot of the anti-Japan rhetoric here is bordering on racism. They are actually planning ahead. Western carmakers are short-sighted and not thinking past the next few quarters.
It is very hard to pinpoint a single moment. Rather I would like to list a few books that I feel showed me that mathematics can be beautiful and interesting.

1. Measurement by Paul Lockhart

2. An Infinite Descent into Pure Mathematics by Clive Newstead (available @ https://infinitedescent.xyz/). It taught me basic discrete math and proof writing.

3. Apostol's Calculus Vol 1. It is just so beautiful.
It is not mehs. It is more it is less of a shock because he sees it coming . He did say gpt2 amazed him. For example, I am pretty shocked by what gpt4 could do . It completely changed my world view about AI and expectations. Even if gpt5 achieves AGI , the surprise of gpt4 is still bigger for me because I didn’t expect it. But I kind of expect gpt5 to be AGI like so whatever it can do won’t shock me as much
> 1) That is a horribly denigrative view of human creativity, one that simply does not reflect reality.

I disagree with this. Part of the long trajectory of imagining and creating AI is figuring out what makes a human do what it does. Many believe there is no magic spark which cannot be replicated. And if there's no magic spark, then eventually AI can replicate the entire human creative experience. Whether it will or whether we want it to is a different question.
I'd rather die than live on the moon. What a miserable existence that would be long-term.
Yes, exactly. Use APIs that are broadly supported and somewhat settled and agreed upon. There is seldom an actual need to use whatever new thing that just became supported or is only implemented by Chrome… 95%+ of sites and web apps are doing the same old CRUD things that sites and web apps have been doing for decades and work fine with "boring" APIs.
Yeah Sean Evan’s is an amazing interviewer. Some mix between the depth of Nardwaur and the pleasantness of Jess Thorne.

The questions earlier in the series felt more “real”, where I get a sense of promotion now. It was always about the promotion (that was the “prize” in the first episodes), but the questions feel shaped to promote spots for plugs.

Still one of the best interview shows running. The wings give every sense of urgency and gravity. It’s the perfect comic relief to the weight or depth of the question, the focus on the heat disarms the guest of their routine answers and reveals a lot about the person.
Ancedotally, someone close to me who works at Meta has cited several outrageous examples of WLB'ers doing almost no work. Perhaps a few bad apples spoiled the bunch.
I think sitting is a lot more likely to give you lower back pain, though.
> Thanks for lmdb btw!

Thanks, that's great feedback! Happy to hear that you're both using it successfully and that you actually read the code and learned from it.
You can grab a weapon and go to help Ukranians right now, instead of complaining on internet. Will you do it?
Adobe Firefly vs. MidJourney AI image generation
After being in hiatus for some time, IntelBroker, a well-known initial access broker from BreachedForums, has made a comeback
THat's 1M a MONTH, so $12M a year in annual losses.
"In selecting a woman and a person of colour, Nasa is keeping its promise to bring greater diversity to its exploration efforts. All the previous crewed missions to the Moon were made by white men."

Please, please tell me that's not in the NASA press release. I mean, I get that's important for journos, but the hell?! Independent of your opinion on forced diversity, how demeaning is it for those undeniably brillant and capable people that manage to be an accomplished astronaut? Your employer insinuating it's not your skill and intellect, but your melatonin and gonads that gets you to space.

Edit:
I don't question they are some of the most capable and focused individuals on earth, and they have absolutely earned their place. Also, I think it's absolutely great that NASA acknowledges that the "all-white-boys-club" is something that belongs in the past. The thing that annoys me is the way it's presented. Why can't they just truthfully say: "These are the best of the best humanity has to offer!"? The "but they even are black and female!" in the text implicates that's one of the reasons they were chosen as well. And that's unbelievably demeaning to these two, at least I would think so in their position. (And probably not care the slightest, because "I'm going to space, so whatever!")
Meta needs its best engineers to be highly motivated in uncertain times. Otherwise innovation will be harder to come by.

All the best engineers I ever worked with so far all favor remote work because it increases code quality, throughput, and happiness.

Meta will be disrupted, seeing as whatever Meta tech they’re building isn’t even good enough for their own employees to dogfood for better remote work experience.
He lives in Hawaii lol
Thanks for clarifying.

I'm just using data found in random articles online, surely imprecise.
From my experience most researchers don't actually read most papers, we just don't have time. The figures are what tells the real story, not necessarily the interpretation of the authors.
They just multiplied the political officer headcount by six. Definitely a new beginning.
Ah, good point. So it was not NTFS but FAT compatibility they were aiming for.
You forgot to add a generation of children who will be a little stunted - socially, intellectually, even physically - because of 2.5 years of isolation.

A 10 year old in 2023 has already spent nearly 25% of his life without regular social contact or proper in-person schooling.
The problem is your plan hinges on you being the one and only company in your neighborhood with the "human touch". But you won't be. You'll be competing with every other human with a family who refuses to use modern technology. Even if it's possible, it's unlikely you'll win that fight. And even if you do, how many others did you have to beat out to make it work?

It's just not a scalable plan. It reminds me of a middle schooler whose plan for their future involves getting famous or winning the lottery.
The mission does not have a landing planned. Just a tour around the Moon.
yes, that's correct. Which is why I'm asking for advice/guidance here....
Honestly, the price increase from M1 to M2 really wasn't justified. Performance improved but that's the minimum you'd expect from gen to gen so the new price doesn't seem like that good of a deal.

Most users wanting to get into Apple Silicon are either getting M1 machines or waiting to see what happens with M3.

Also, temps increased significantly from M1 to M2 which isn't really good marketing.
I really liked rational skepticism when I became an adult and re-evaluated the dogma of my childhood. I still really like it. Rational skepticism is a great tool to learn about the world.

It is not a great tool for understanding what is "wrong" with people, or for communicating with people who are wrong. Flat earthers are not wrong because of science, they are wrong because of society. That is, most flat earthers turn away from our shared perception of the world because of some trauma in their lives. They have lost trust in something that they felt was solid.

You may think that you believe in science because you are a logical person, but you really believe in science because people you respect believe in science. Science also has the benefit of actually working, which is nice, but many things can LOOK like they are working (epicycles of the planets, flat earth, miasma theory of disease). You can make scienticious (sic) sounding observations about all of these things.

The point is that when you want to understand why people are wrong, you need to think about motivation and deeply held beliefs, not proof. Scientific proof is obviously very useful, but before you use that, you have to get them to come closer to you.

Imagine a person standing on a hill. If they are shoved and fall down, they roll down the hill. Using the strongest arguments feels like the most effective thing to do. Strong arguments do move people, but you don't get to choose the direction they move.
PRC wouldn't trigger a explosion where debris could land over US soil or even 12nm territorial waters where balloon was shot down. Realistically, only PRC on recieving end would know the effectiveness of US EW efforts. If USG is admitting PRC managed to gather some info then it was probably not as comprehensive as most thinks.
That wouldn't work. robots.txt is not enforceable.
> My favorite example is probably whenever there's articles about sitting being bad for your health. You tend to get a couple of contrarians replying, "Well standing more may sound like good advice but standing can cause lower back pain, so it's not so simple!" However, that reply completely loses grasp of the relative scale of the two things, inviting you to consider the inconveniences of lower back pain as being on the same level as heart disease.

Some of that is because the sitting articles often misunderstand the research, and even if the article doesn't a lot of readers here misunderstand the article taking it to mean that as soon as your butt hits the chair you start taking serious damage.

It is prolonged sitting that is bad. Stand up and move around occasionally and sitting is fine.

As far as standing goes, standing too long has more risks than just lower back pain. For people who already have some ischemic heart disease it increases the progression of carotid atherosclerosis, and in increase the risk of varicose veins.

Here's a nice summary from ergonomics researchers of the risks of sitting too long and standing too long [1]. Here's what they recommend:

> Sit to do computer work. Sit using a height-adjustable, downward titling keyboard tray for the best work posture, then every 20 minutes stand for 8 minutes AND MOVE for 2 minutes. The absolute time isn’t critical but about every 20-30 minutes take a posture break and stand and move for a couple of minutes. Simply standing is insufficient. Movement is important to get blood circulation through the muscles. And movement is FREE! Research shows that you don’t need to do vigorous exercise (e.g. jumping jacks) to get the benefits, just walking around is sufficient. So build in a pattern of creating greater movement variety in the workplace (e.g. walk to a printer, water fountain, stand for a meeting, take the stairs, walk around the floor, park a bit further away from the building each day).

[1] https://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html
I like that idea a lot. "General reasoning engine" sounds much more sensible than "AGI", especially given that the "I" in AGI is so poorly defined.
Seventies kids are finally going to the Moon.

Can Gen-X dreams actually come true?
Yeah this really isn't surprising. They had built up a huge demand surplus in the years before the M1. Everyone with a 2013ish Macbook Pro immediately jumped onto M1. Nobody in that cohort is upping to M2. This is a non-story, other than that Apple wouldn't know that?
Yeah, i have no idea how he managed to extrapolate sustainability from the fact that nothing has gone wrong with his macbooks.

Well, nothing went wrong with all the computers I've ever had, but that's just an anecdotal measure of reliability, not of sustainability.

Very weird logic.
Sounds like more known name for it is "ant colony optimisation". Lots of computer science algorithms and structures are based on that principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algori...
This person is already writing an article in 2-3 days. Is ChatGPT realy the problem, for reducing the time to 1 day?
No kittens required: Scientists find new way to study toxoplasmosis parasite
Although some of this might be accurate I think it is important to look at this being our first internet-based pandemic. We aren’t ever going to do things 100% right the first time as humans, but we can try harder and better next time using all this valuable information we’ve learned about ourselves and how we can cope with virulent outbreak, for better or worse.

This issue at hand with Japan having folks who “evaporate” seems to have been around much longer than this particular pandemic, though the recent lock downs seem to have exacerbated the problems.
Why are they looking in different directions? This is obviously Midjourney.

Nonetheless, I'm so proud and happy I get to show my daughter this image, even if it won't include a moon landing. (She recently asked if a woman had ever landed on the moon.)
I think it is important for the context to notice that the post is written by a renowned Italian mathematician and a computer scientist, and Italy just banned ChatGPT. I feel that the post is not about the AI (people using AI) taking the jobs, but about whether it is a good idea to blindly ignore the fact.
For all the people bitching about how Apple is "hogging" all of TSMC's production capacity, they should be happy. But they won't be, because the people who complain about that will complain about anything Apple does.
most papers are made of 90% of useless fluff, and 10% of meat.
Naming Convention for Tax Files and Documents
https://archive.ph/VYxH4
I thought he transcended meatspace /s
We can be a bit more specific. Towards the extremes a binomial distribution gets a variance close to the mean (it basically becomes a Poisson distribution). So that would be a variance of around 600 in this case. All in all a standard deviation of about 0.1 percentage points.

This is only a rough estimate but it should give the right order of magnitude.
> It seems to me there is no way to put this cat back in the bag ever again

Patents. Copyrights. Franchising?

Artists are now experiencing the joy of getting beaten in the market by someone else selling the product they created. It was not allowed to stand in other industries.

Copyright is a necessary evil. Disney may well be the savior of artists in the age of AI. There is no incentive to produce anything original if someone else can just gank it and drown you in volume.
The real question in my mind is, does democracy survive once the top 1% has a complete and unquestioned monopoly on violence and power? I don't think so.
It seemed to make substantial difference to Hogwarts Legacy when the seasons changed and almost all textures needed reloading.

It could have been avoided of course. But the difference still existed.
What do you think aligns those incentives in this example?
Apparently it's taken from panel data.
A sarcastic robot powered by GPT-4 [video]
TFA: Pandas 2.0 is also backed by Arrow as an option, yielding a large speed improvement, although not all the way to Polars
It seems to be a common belief with Europeans that the US has no safety net or public healthcare at all, but of course this isn't true. It's just mainly targeted at poor or old people.
By what metric is Vietnamese the largest immigrant group? The largest is easily Mexico, and I don't see that Vietnam cracks the top 5, and maybe not the top 10.
DuckDB quacks Arrow: zero-copy data between Apache Arrow and DuckDB (2021)
Does "unscientific" mean "unworthy"? Is it even possible to be scientific when evaluating innovations?
This is kind of an odd way to frame this. The increase of remote work, at Meta at least, was not a result of some kind of workers vs. management struggle in which workers temporarily gained an upper hand. It was the result of an exogenous event (the pandemic) forcing an on-the-fly experiment.
> Your employer insinuating it's not your skill and intellect, but your melatonin and gonads that gets you to space.

Why would you assume it's not both?

When the apollo program was all-white no one was going around saying "I bet those guys aren't any good and just got the job because they lack melanin" — yet other races were excluded from the astronaut program all the same.
I am suffering from this too, and I am not sure who to turn to or what to do about it.

I work remotely and all my interaction with coworkers is maybe half an hour everyday where we talk about work and nothing else. If I challenge myself to go to office, I find that its only about 33% occupied.

I have few friends but they don't call me anymore and live far apart.
Tried to meet women but it didn't work out.
UBI? let's just start with reliable food, housing and medical(including mental health). and shore up some kind of retirement funds. then lets talk about cost effective daycare so raising a child doesn't destroy your financial prospects. If there's anything left I'm all about it.
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Russian wheat production is large-scale, but horribly inefficient. This was launched, in part, as a "resource war."
"The term Panel data is derived from econometrics and is partially responsible for the name pandas − pan(el)-da(ta)-s"

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python_pandas/python_pandas_p...
This is a useful distinction, I think, to make: the current hype cycle and headlines are making it sound like we have invented autonomous, intelligent beings with super-human abilities of their own.

"AI," is such a poor, non-descriptive term that it allows charlatans and click-bait to proliferate and scare non-technical, uninformed people. They can bend their claims any way they want.

The people using these technologies under the banner of "AI" definitely want you to believe it's a revolutionary, fundamental, paradigm-shifting technology that will utterly change society: and they're the only ones that can bring it to you.

This isn't a public, social project for the good of society. We're seeing classic capitalist moves to make first-mover advantage to leverage this technology.

Too much of this hype-cycle shares the same characteristics of the crypto-bubble from last year: it's revolutionary and inevitable and will completely change society!

We need to educate people on what these technologies actually are and not let people sell the public on speculation and science-fiction "what ifs."
This is retconning. Covid was a huge risk to all of us before vaccines were common. Even with vaccines, covid infection remains a serious (non-deadly) health risk, causing many neurological sequelae in millions of people.

You also can't attribute the majority of the other problems directly to the covid response.

It also wasn't a "cure", many many many people were infected that didn't need to be because of mismanagement.
According to one of the creators (Gabrael Levine):

[GPT-4 is] composing scripts from 4 API functions I defined for the robot:

say(text)
command_velocity(x, yaw, duration)
stand_up()
sit_down()

Yes, integrating a vision model is the next step of this project, along with adding an arm for manipulation.
There are also laptops that went the opposite direction from Apple, yet they keep on trucking. Old Thinkpads, Panasonic Toughbooks and HP Elitebooks are perfectly usable today, arguably moreso than older Macs. Toss Linux on it, and you'll have longer first-party support than any Macbook shipped in the last decade.

If anything, the repairability and upgradability that prevented old Macs from being e-waste is gone now. It's hard to imagine Apple pushing the envelope on reusability or device longevity in their current era.
You know you can just buy the iPhone 13 Mini right?
Hooked up with both a few times but I'm definitely more into logic.
Logic is so cold, so...unforgiving. And fair, so fair. Logic is the fairest of them all.
Would this work as well if the maze had horizontal path instead vertical, when gravity and bottom-up air pressure wouldn't be helping the water find the path? I think it would look more like the one from Bergman Joe.
i know that's the generic thing to say, and its not untrue. But in this specific case i am curious what went into this decision, as I still have some small respect for the builder focused culture he created at FB for at least the first ~half of its life.
Yeah! I expected him to have to lift that pin before connecting it atleast but nope!

So was that pin left floating!? Bizarre!
Interesting, never heard this version. Heard only another Joy Division recording of it and New Order's. Digging the lower tempo
<insert obligatory comment triggering a debate over whether "Ceremony" is really a Joy Division song or a New Order song/>

"Disorder" might be my favorite Joy Divison song.

Hard to pick a favorite New Order song since they had so many different eras and styles. "Ceremony" is the best of their classic post-punk works. "True Faith" was an incredibly influential song musically despite being less-known. "Temptation" and "Sub-Culture" are works of art.
Co-signing dubious papers
Come work in the office meatspace on the metaverse