skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why does everyone have MacBook Pros these days? Prior to Apple Silicon, it certainly wasn't the hardware.

Oh, I don't know about that. Admittedly there were some awful choices made between 2015 and the emergence of M1 architecture, but Apple's reputation for making well engineered hardware goes at least as far back as to when they started milling Macs out of aluminum. I'm thinking back specifically to the PowerMac G5 in 2006. It was designed well, felt solid, and when you opened it up, it continued to look well made. I recently popped open my 2015 Macbook Pro because I'm finally having hard drive issues, and for as much as I have railed against Apple fanboyism over the decades, it looked so nice inside I wanted to take a picture. (Why?! Who cares!? What would I even do with that picture?)

I got tons of mileage out of various Dell desktops and self-built machines over the last couple of decades. It was better bang for the buck, I didn't have to fuss over proprietary connectors and a locked down operating system. When the company I worked for made a big shift away from (it's okay to chuckle) Coldfusion and MS SQL Server to Ruby on Rails and MongoDB in 2013, though they offered to let me continue running on Windows, I asked for a Macbook because that's what everyone else was using. Might as well learn. Didn't much like OSX but the hardware was better than any Windows laptop I'd used. Later I bumped up to a 2015 MBP, which I only just retired this year.

While I was Windows at home and MacOS at work, last month I snagged a Macbook Pro w/ 64gb of RAM from B&H for $2400 - the first Apple computer I've ever paid for myself - and it's replaced my Dell desktop and that 2015 Macbook that my old job let me keep.

I effectively skipped the bad Macbooks, so my perspective is tinted by that. But even during the bad years, even my friends who continued to operate in the MS domain were buying Macbooks and dual booting them into Windows.

I had access to a Surface tablet through work early on. It was really nice! Just like a Zune. The Surface Pros looked pretty great too, but anecdotally, I never saw them outside the context of visiting a business that was a strictly MS shop.

I still like Windows as an OS better. But Apple's new architecture (which importantly doesn't have me carrying dongles around, or even needing them at home) was compelling enough for me to take the plunge.
I think both would be correct, though your interpretation is more likely.

They could use “fake = 1” to report the number of fake users. Or “fake != 1” to report the number of real users.

I can’t imagine the gymnastics they would have to do to make a fake user count palatable in a road show so again, I think your interpretation is most likely. Then again, I’m about a billion dollars short of my opinion mattering…
Every society has different norms. The society I live in objectifies nude people, especially women and sex workers, as loose and not respectable. So, for us it is humilating and degrading (see how victims are talked about after sex tape scandals). It is worse when it shows you intimate with someone else. I've been looked at as an object of desire before instead of a human and it felt terrifying. And I was wearing clothes. All in all, nudity is not the problem but what happens after.
And an easy way to lose everything because you sent tokens to the wrong address, forgot your passphrase, lost your hardware ledger, fell prey to some scam or another, house burned down, etc.
This is a very important thing to consider when interpreting this statistic.

"Heart attack rates go up 24% after daylight savings changes" is not the same thing as "There are 24% more heart attacks due to daylight savings". You can't really know the weight of magnitude vs distribution without actually stopping daylight savings.
Just recently I had a worst-case nightmare scenario with a single BTRFS partition 5TB disk (no RAID or anything crazy). It was a single BTRFS disk, single partition external USB disk running under Linux Mint.

At some point after I restarted the computer and it wouldn't mount the partition saying that the path for mounting was already being used (even after restarting??), but the disk was not mounted. Searching around apparently there is some kind of bug where Linux will "cache" the BTRFS UUID [1].

At the time, the "solution" I read was to change the UUID of the BTRFS partition running btrfstune. Which I did... and it supposedly changed successfully. Except that after trying to mount the partition again, it will tell me that there was an error in the partition: the tree had mismatching UUIDs :-/. I tried updating the UUID several times, and the command ended in success, but the error remained. My BTRFS disk was officially broken...

After spending several hours trying to fix the issue following the BTRFS documentation (pretty shitty TBH), in the end, I ended up having to do `btrfs restore -iv ...` to extract the data from the disk into some other external disk (formatted NTFS this time!!). The command is still going, about 2 weeks later and I am slowly recovering my 5TB of data.

But the one thing clear to me is that I don't trust BTRFS or it's admin commands AT ALL after this experience. Once I finish recovering my data, I'll nuke the partition, format the disk in NTFS and forget about this sour experience.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/603528/why-am-i-get...
When I work on my own projects, I used to try to balance both worlds cuz I want these source code to be seen, but after some time observing GitHub insights on my repos I noticed barely any ppl even care to check out any sub directory like lib or src.. so I stopped caring about coding styles or formats, i do keep my repos zero warnings from linters though, for my own pleasure.
Well if we’re making silly reductive arguments I’m not sure they’d care how many zeroes are in Warren Buffets brokerage account. But you know EADS/Airbus headquarters is in Toulouse if that’s more your speed. There’s also Alstom and SNCF off hand. TotalEnergies. Hermes. Dior. Sanofi. Schneider Electric. Air Liquide. Essilor. You didn’t think they were agrarians did you? They’re the second biggest economy in Europe!
The replies... Its not YouTube bad, but why would anyone want to join twitter for awful threads like that.
Thanks for pointing that out. Clearly, the only people who hold anti-crypto views are just jealous and spiteful people. There totally doesn't exist any group of people who are just sick and tired of people propping up an almost totally useless technology as the savior of all financial, political, and social woes. /s

Please, point out one single application of blockchain that is useful and more efficient, beneficially transparent, and faster than a different implementation that doesn't utilize blockchain. Being somebody who is a big fan of blockchain yourself, surely this should be a very straightforward thing to point out.
No, I respect crypto people much more than music streaming, which was and is guaranteed exploitation and screwing people over. At least with crypto, it's at least plausible that you actually might help people.
This is true, but given the total commingling of assets the SEC will have to (try to) freeze everything.
Re-reading your comment, I realized what you seem to have hit was a bug in SQLPage !

Simple pages without an explicit 'shell' component were always supposed to work, but they were not tested ! I fixed that in v0.6.8

https://github.com/lovasoa/SQLpage/commit/f91f0d57c39360e560...

Thank you !
> I’d love to understand the interaction effects between 1) acceleration toward singularity (prob approaching c?), 2) gravity (prob approaching infinity?), 3) distance compression experienced by infalling observer.

None of these things are useful in the case under discussion. 1) is invalid--the singularity is a moment of time, not a place in space, and you aren't "accelerating towards" it. 2) is not well-defined inside the horizon (spacetime curvature is, and does increase without bound as you approach the singularity, but that's not quite the same as "gravity"). 3) is a special relativistic effect on others observing you; you yourself don't experience any "distance compression" regardless of your state of motion.
Been using it the past 3 years, the only form it's been likeable for me was when it's provided for through Hasura/nhost.

No apollo, no prisma, just plain strings in graphql format sent with fetch to a Hasura endpoint hosted by nhost. Automatically built resolvers, great low-code admin UI, easy query building, open source, and builds off of Postgres. It's actually been so effective it's hard to go back to anything else, including Supabase.
Some unsolicited recommendations for sci-fi novels that cover this topic well:

- "The Mote in God's Eye" by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven (1974)

- "A Fire Upon The Deep" by Vernor Vinge (1992)
Ummm... I think the inference is that much of what was passed off as "Science" during the recent panic was just confirming biases.

It's endemic; I don't know why covid studies should somehow be exempt from human nature.
I spent a good chunk of last year learning go, and felt dumber for doing so. I feel like Rust is the way to go in 2023 and beyond -- particularly if the rustaceans can get past their own stupidity.
By that revisionist version of events, every other bank should also have failed by now.
Sure. Doesn't negate the benefits though.
Some members of the Chinese government take the view that anyone of Chinese ancestry is fundamentally Chinese, regardless of where they live or to whom they pledge allegiance; they would presumably consider "our descendants are X% of the world population" to be as much of a victory condition as "we control X% of the world's surface area".

Some members of the Russian government take the view that anyone who can speak Russian is fundamentally Russian; they would presumably consider "X% of the world population speaks Russian" to be a victory condition.

Many religious groups consider "X% of the world shares our beliefs" to be a victory condition, of course.

I don't share any of these positions, but of course I come from a Western Liberal background.
The US voluntarily gave up its industrial manufacturing to countries that were more willing to exploit their workers.

"Designed in Cupertino. Made in China".
Throughput is not the only relevant measure of performance. HTTP3 doesn't suffer from head of line blocking the way HTTP2 does. This leads to reduced latency and improved user experience on jittery mobile networks.
> C/C++ (the standard) makes no claims about what happens if you overflow integers.

It makes no claims on what happens when you overflow signed integers.

Unsigned integer wrapping is specified by section 6.2.5, paragraph 9 of the C standard.
Reactive Programming in Swift
Hypothesis: Apple is a hardware company that also does software, and that ethos allows them to ship more complex products over much longer time scales than their competitors.
Live Trump vs. Biden Debate – AI Parody
Right. Like everyone has the same instincts as the Japanese to clean up their spaces after their are used. It’s why our stadiums in the US are so clean and well maintained.
Someone should do a UI kind of like Emule: the main idea was the same: You fired your client and could connect to one of several servers, but end users didn't care, they just clicked on "connect" and the client will do whatever was necessary. Of course that client could be Web based, not necessary an application (although for mobile, applications are all the rage now)
Can Asahi Linux run on the new Mac Pro? Would I be able to use the GPU to run LLM models?
Worse than that, it's actively undermining a system of laws and fair play that do create stability and value. It's strip-mining a rainforest for kicks. I came to Bitcoin naiively as a libertarian curiosity and after examining it fairly closely I'm convinced Satoshi was a black market kingpin and Bitcoin was conceived as a money laundering vehicle.
The Flying Dutchman is thought to probably have been a Fata Morgana.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman

With everyone handwringing about climate change clearly being our doom, has no one once wondered if it might be partly responsible for an upsurge in sightings of unexplained aerial phenomenon?
What is a plausible range of outcomes for Coinbase here?
he says we shouldn't worry about doom because worrying will only increase the likelihood of doom
Could it be that a tech savvy community like hn largely understands the implications of, the actual utility of and can see through the hype of crypto currency? I would put my money on hn understanding crypto currency over any other community. It should probably be a red flag to true believers that hn is generally suspicious of it.
NYC's first public health vending machine stocked with free Naloxone
building another FPV drone. finally venturing into hdzero aka analog + (digital signal over analog signal)
We've been warned for a while about this type of thing going on. I guess this is it, it's going on, and we can maybe expect it to be amplified with LLMs.
Replace it with Game of Thrones?
Apple needs apps for Vision Pro headset
Then why build another incredibly slow dynamically typed monstrosity that breeds bugs and bad quality at industrial scale? Stop building JavaScript infrastructure.
Home Assistant has been working on its own speech recognition solution. They're calling 2023 "The year of the voice": https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-vo...
> The only obvious advantage to a wide dataset to me is not having to join data entities, but I come from 25 years of mainly working with relational databases so I'm used to that.

Yes and that might be it and if so I don't think that's a huge benefit because joins are easy (with a little practice).

> Your data size is smaller than I expected and I'm still not sure I understand your use case. With that size of data you could choose pretty much any model and it would probably fit your requirements.

This is helpful feedback. I realize I'm not phrasing my question correctly. Nothing I'm trying to do is hard on the computing end.

What I'm trying to model is the ~value~ of a "computable encyclopedia".

Imagine if Wikipedia was just infoboxes.

If you had a single table 10 million rows long, but with maybe ~100,000 columns, would that be: _meh_ or a _step change_ in value? My thinking is the latter. If I wanted to learn about "bicycles" I could ask dozens of ad hoc structured questions from such a table and get instant answers as opposed to reading and digesting narratives.

My hunch is that such a structured dataset would be a significant increase in value over Wikipedia, but I'm not sure if I'm right and haven't yet been able to model from first principles why this would be right.

I could be wrong.
1) Console controls are not a suitable alternative to proper VR controllers
2) What makes you think the PS5 controller was connected to the headset, and not the headset being used as a TV showing the output of a PS5?
That can have many reads. For example from the article:

"The report followed a leak of military footage that showed apparently inexplicable happenings in the sky, while navy pilots testified that they had frequently had encounters with strange craft off the US coast."

I read it as, "We detected several times a military aircraft, that a country expected to be undetectable, flying over our territory, we send you the proof that such plane could have been knocked down; stop doing it" at same time they don't admit such other country violated the territory having to rise up a conflict.
I remember a poster (but not the venue), who had a .sig that read “I hate code, and want as little as possible in my software.”
They'd do the same thing if China didn't exist. It's a bug in our patent law.
Having just finished Iain Banks excellent The Algebraist, this is immediately what came to mind: we have no idea what timescales aliens would operate on.
> Rich people are never forced to face responsibility for their actions? A cursory Google search will turn up thousands of cases where rich people, including celebrities, are punished by courts. Its happening every day.

Minor pushback. When the punishment is money (i.e., fines), the rich are not penalized. It is a reflection of the fact that there exists income inequality. Can't afford to pay a ticket on a minor violation, e.g., jaywalking? You go to jail. Guess who can afford to pay those tickets? Not poor people[1]. Further, rich people get to trade their money for things like leniency, e.g., Jeff Epstein[2]. A PR team is always waiting for the call to contrive an effective spin (which only rich people can afford).

> The better question to ask is why hasn't Experian been displaced by a better competitor. What are the barriers to entry that prevent better companies from taking on its role?

IMO, this is due to the "rich get richer" mentality, whereby the system is unchanging unless an "act of God" happening takes place (e.g., the government decides no more and shuts it down). Usually it's catalyzed by the people rising up and doing things like setting things like data centers on fire, and exposing senior leadership for heinous crimes (e.g., murder, money laundering, human trafficking). It'd be great if it didn't come to this. If instead it was due to poor performance, which Experian definitely exudes.

[1]https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/2/118

[2]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-jeffrey-epstein-la...
I learned a lot about why Maslow's hierarchy is a pyramid. I had unending amounts of discretionary time, so I could spend hours and hours focusing on self-actualization. The problem was that, without work, I had no real spur to focus on competency goals (referred to as status in the pyramid). So I ended up with incredibly deep self knowledge, but knowledge of a depressing kind, knowledge of how I wasn't achieving my intellectual potential and how I wasn't repaying my luck to the world and so on. It was navel gazing, essentially, the equivalent of filling out an extended Myers Briggs test without actually doing anything with the knowledge.
You could use Go with templates and htmx, no js needed :-)
Ill bite.

> The truth is more interesting: the galaxy is emptier than it should be.

Why should it be less empty and what are the implications that its emptier than it should be?
I guess the next step will be someone who converts themselves to a living QR code via plastic surgery and makeup.
What I Learned at My Audience with the Pope
The haves and have nots in the HN karma game is precisely the set of people who submit stories and the set of people who merely leave comments. A mediocre story submission trumps a great comment.

So, you have to consider that when talking about downvotes being discouraging— for people that don’t submit stories it can feel very real.
Humans crash probes into planets and asteroids.

At the scale of the galaxy, alien probes could have launched long before humans were even a thing.

Or if they had expected intelligent life, they wouldn’t know how intelligent the life would be. They could suspect equal intelligence to theirs.

In the chance that this equally intelligent life could capture this probe, self destruct may be the optimal strategy.

People are making the mistake of assuming an all knowing intelligent life-form. There are at least some feasible scenarios where alien craft could crash into earth.
The main (and only) criticism I’ve ever heard about graphql in the companies I worked for was that it is very js-oriented all the best libs/frameworks for it are for react frontend / node server mostly.

Backend scala / php devs looked at it with distaste in their eyes, coming up with various reasons why its not a good idea.

And to be fair with tools like openapi / grpc a lot of the benefits of graphql can be replicated.

Even if they are clumsy and fragmented compared to it in my eyes, they still work well enough and keep devs in all camps happy enough, and compromise as they say is “when everyone is equally unhappy”.

Now placed in situations like this I am usually forced to reimplement graphql tooling with the chosen api tech (for example https://github.com/ovotech/laminar) and if me as a single dev could do it, then I’d wager if there was stronger tech leadership, all the other tech tribes could just smooth the edges that they didn’t like for using graphql in their respective languages … but sadly that has not been my experience.
There are no GPU drivers anyway. So I’m not sure it matters (Linux or macOS).

Seems designed more to support lots of low/medium bandwidth cards, not a few high bandwidth cards.
It's terrible. It's like forums, except there are bots doing it now and things don't disappear, instead they flood the field with automod comments and empty spaces so the thread is useless.
Why would two people sworn to protect national secrets disclose them to an unbriefed individual? It isn't a believable scenario.
Battling one sensational headline with another?

In this case though, I would also admit to a confirmation bias that people who would avoid vaccination might also be less cautious in traffic, leading them into more accidents.

But even if we accept that as true, it doesn't imply the inverse.

So the most laughable part for me was the idea that people should get a vaccine to reduce traffic accidents 8-)
C'mon. I can't be the only one who is amazed at the things we've managed to build on top of a unnecessary complicated foundation.

It's quite amazing that we've put layer after layer of leaky abstractions on top of each other and managed to make systems that mostly work.

I don't hate all the software. I think it's awesome. It can be hell to develop, though.
I'm not sure what you mean here. are you saying there shouldn't be any regulation? or something else?
The first two fit into the Culture Victory, the religion one fits into, well, the Religion Victory.

The 6 types in the Civilization games are Science, Culture, Domination, Religion, Score, and Diplomacy. I don't see what else could be added.
Parents can’t do it alone and parents are probably more active in their kids lives than ever. Compare todays parents to a generation that was kicked out of the house until sunset.
“but who are any of us to say what is possible or what is not?”

Those people are called experts.
This looks interesting to me.

I have been a bit spooked on Core Data, after a friend of mine had a months-long ordeal with it; finally giving up on it, and setting up his own file-based DB.

But I do have use cases for this kind of thing.
It would be nice if all software were simple, elegant, and minimal. But I don’t know why we should expect it to be. The hardware that runs the software is complicated on a whole other level. You want and simple, elegant and minimal cpu? Video card? Sound card? You better be ready to give up a LOT to get that. And giving up the current experience is something end users really don’t want to do.
Yes. If this is a competence test, which allows you to demonstrate your understanding of social contracts, you should absolutely wait for the green light.
Yeah but you at least had analog forms of things that represented mechanical work through computation (looms, relays, etc...). Nothing exists at all in terms of physical worth in relation to quantum computing and nothing is even close to being _real_ besides a model of a theoretical physical computation that has to be checked by classical means. So I don't really get why there exists a language for it.
All software, frameworks, etc is a reflection of the creature that created it: a Human, with all our faults, affectations, and prejudices.

A lucky few have a come to Jesus moment and realize that nothing is perfect and that fighting the tide by swimming upstream is a fool's errand, they swim sideways to the shore.
DeepFilterNet: Noise supression using deep filtering
You'd have to process and mechanically move some lenses and screens at around 50hz in sync with moving imagery.