skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but you have to admit something is funny here. Software, with its promise of being fluid and malleable, is in this case the exact opposite - so much the opposite in fact that silicone is seen as more malleable than the software.

> Maybe because the vast majority of users care primarily about their software running without surprises...

As a software user I don't disagree with you, but I'm contrasting "One of the goals of our architecture is to have it be completely transparent to software..." with other hardware changes in history. Being "transparent to software" wasn't a goal of adding extensions to x86, for example. Or the goal of having compilers support RISC-V, for another example.

What is different here, that the hardware manufacturer desires absolutely no changes in software when pushing for a hardware change? I can only come up with two things. First, AMD must be currently focused on optimization, not innovation. Drop-in the new AMD thing and get a speed bump with your current software. Reap profits immediately from that and if it leads to opportunities for innovation perhaps they'll consider that later. These are the people that came up with x86-64 after all.

Second, I suspect whereas software changes at a high level are easy, changes at a low level, near the hardware, are difficult. As for why it is difficult I'd guess it's primarily because low level software is a dependency for so much other software. Sure, low level software changes may also be difficult because of other reasons (requires more intimate knowledge of hardware, requires more focus on what the instruction set can do, etc), but those other reasons can't be the primary difficulties with AMD here because those other reasons also existed with previous hardware changes that were anything but "transparent to software." So when they say they want to be "transparent to software, because software is hard to change" that could also be read as "because software that interacts with our hardware is a dependency for so much, it would not be worthwhile to recompile even if the compiler existed today for free."
Sort of, but not really.

What is implied more strongly here is something very different: that Meta is, to at least some extent, responsible for the effects on the world at large of these nifty toys it is busily creating. All while telling the world (or at least Mark is) how wonderful this bold new future will be and what's not to like, etc.
You know unless you take into account humans aren’t machines and are terrible at precision and consistency.
You don't actually need a smartphone, which is good because a lot of older people do not have them or can't use them.

I think people sometimes forget that you can inconvinience a waitress without being an asshole about it (they are there to provide service) and that being able to be a customer is important enough that most businesses would prefer staff spend time helping you.

Sure they would prefer you have a smartphone, and it may be less convinient but that doesn't mean they can't work to accomondate you.
> AFIACT MIPS actively offers their cores for embedding in MCUs, like ARM.

Not anymore that I'm aware of. They laid off most (possibly all?) of their architectural engineers around 2020 and sold off the remaining rights to a Chinese firm.

There's still a few MIPS-based MCUs out there, like PIC32, but they're a dying breed. ARM Cortex-M is much better suited to these applications.

> I frankly wonder what prevented 680x0 from getting into widespread MCUs.

Poor IPC, high interrupt latency. The weird mixed 16/32-bit nature of the 68000 made it easier to implement a microcomputer with (since you only needed 16-bit RAM/ROM), but would only get in the way in a microcontroller (where memory would mostly, if not entirely, be internal). It's a shame; I liked the ISA, but the performance just isn't there.
I'd say the same back at you. Most people using them to work, are using normal dosages. Normal doses induce a focus state.

For the sake of argument, hypothetically, if I had a lot of experience here, I'd probably say no one I know using them to work more effectively takes them in a way that matches your response.
I built a software dev agent for VSCode – It's live
BuzzCode is a free VS Code extension that works by getting a GPT model to make a subtask list using four functions to achieve a goal. Once the user reviews and confirms, the extension will execute the list and achieve the goal.

BuzzCode can, generate files, execute terminal commands, ask the user questions, recurse, detect errors, read the error message, and attempt to fix them

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Aha yeah, I’m on mobile so it was a typo. I currently run a fanless mini pc with N100 and 4X 2.5G which has been great. If you don’t need SFP and can live with LAGG + 2.5G, you can probably get pretty similar real world speeds compared to a 10G SFP line.
> Good tools are hard to find, hard to evaluate, hard to learn.

I outsource the first two to ChatGPT. Results are mixed, but at least I have a starting point.
So what I want is something like Splunk search for traces. I want to be able to write 12-shareable lines of custom-query and immediately get a pretty graph of multidimensional data "What % of users who just registered this month got a 500 more than half the time on this specific path?" and I want it as a pretty graph over time
I did it in 2001 and it was one of the most educational things I've ever done. I think there should be a college course which gives you a box of computer parts at the beginning of the semester and at the end you get the grade displayed on a web page hosted on that computer built entirely from source.

I have some precedent for that kind of thing, back in 1987 I made a deal with a prof that as an independent study course a friend and I were going to build a pair of voice synthesizers on IBM PC Prototype boards using the synth chips available at Radio Shack and he'd give us the grade my computer verbally asked him for at the end of the semester. I had no backup plan and it was a crazy risk, but we got A's and the teacher regretted not having us make one for him as well.
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FWIW, I believe the person you are replying to means "paged" as in "an alert was sent to my pager at 3AM that the entire system is down and I need to wake up and fix it", not the paging in/out of memory.
Nevermind, I thought this was about the Linux kernel.
Many of the readers will know of that event, narrated at least in "Absolute Zero Gravity", of the malfunctioning mainframe. One day, as a technician was making diagnostic about why the machine regularly crashed around that time, a janitor entered, saluted politely, unplugged the server, plugged a vacuum cleaner and went on with his routine.

Some of us have personally witnessed cleaning personnel torture equipment, ignoring with force and determination the signals that machines gave while violently stroking the area of the cables.

Oh, and this friend of mine, only days ago, found that a cleaning lady disconnected, to connect some appliance... an incubator. A whole aviary batch - all dead.
artroom.ai. There's a downloadable Windows app and a Cloud version is on its way for those who prefer remote processing.
While you make a good point, I hold there is both progression and regression.

> or have teachers talk about their sexual orientations.

When I was a kid, I well remember teachers talking about their sexual orientations, like how one teacher took time off when his wife gave birth to their kids.
The issues about Backpage are not simple and I don't have time to do more than just skim it as I have some work to do now. I can't form a solid opinion, although it does give the impression that they knew they were doing something wrong. So let's tackle right and wrong:

Axiom: If it's between freely consenting adults then it's fine. If it's not between consenting adults then it's not fine and should be stopped. That is the simple basis of everything. Do you agree?

I know a little bit more about Craigslist and was annoyed when they shut down their contacts section. I had a limited degree of success finding casual sex on there, and I didn't appreciate American fundamentalists screwing that up (I'm in the UK).

"...This decision came after allegations by several U.S. states that the erotic services ads were being used for prostitution" – if prostitution is done between consenting adults, that cannot be wrong – see above. So why stop it? Some adults are forced into prostitution, some choose it and like it as a job (or at least make money from it and are okay with that). The former is wrong, the latter is not. I can think of 2 prostitutes I've known, male and female, both made good money and liked the job.

I guess that's it in a nutshell. Where do you agree or disagree?

(Like to mention that adults being forced into prostitution can happen not by force but by the need to pay bills. I remember a long while ago documentary where an American woman on the street said that she had kids to feed so "you get out there and you do what you have to do". It's possible economic circumstance is a bigger pressure to sell your body than coercion. I don't know).
So pretty much AI now can do anything except that “conscious” link between them. So an AI can write the software for drone autopilot for example ..(missing link).. and design the hardware for that drone ..(missing link).. and simulate all that ..(missing link).. to fly that drone autonomously ..(missing link).. to fulfill the objectives.

Unless something new fill these links properly, guess us human kinds are still needed :)
probably the most core example would be trans rights. For example, the NYT and other outfits sort of went along with the idea that "trans men are men, even biologically speaking" but have sort of moved away from that. For example read the ongoing coverage about nontraditional genders in sports competitions, the tone has cghange significantly over the past 5 years (more backpressure).

I think for a bit the Times was basically writing whatever trans activists were tweeting, treating it like the literal truth, and got burned more than once and decided to move back to a more centrist "we support trans rights but there are limits, and saying so doesn't mean we're evil"
Thanks, I found those with some digging, I see that even just adding Whisper it's a 3.8GB dl, mostly to upgrade the default voice apparently - I guess that's why it isn't all included by default I guess!
Yep, same here with Re and then something
While that’s true, preprocessors are pretty trivial to write these days if you want macros that the language doesn’t support. Racket excels at this.
To be precise, there is a single installer image that you boot and use to create the partition layout. Then you pick a stage 3 tarball and unpack it into the root partition, and this tarball is either OpenRC-specific or systemd-specific.

Yes it is possible to change your mind and switch from one to the other after installation, but it's not straightforward.
This is the sort of thing I badly want in my life, but the sad reality is that Amazon has a massive ~monopoly~ grip on most of the e publishing market. Most of the books I want to buy only have a electronic version for Kindle.

Being able to strip the DRM so I can read on non-Kindle devices is a major cat and mouse game and it's majorly frustrating to have a solution worked out only to have it break the next time I buy a book. Has anybody had continuing success with this?
+1 for Orbstack, shockingly good.
Leave 20 years worth of delicate research in an old freezer. If the freezer breaks and everything inside starts heating up, don't worry... there's no need to rush to get someone who can repair it immediately. No need either to have a backup freezer to transfer the samples; or to leave someone guarding the lab until the freezer is fixed. Just paste a note in the door and go home. Don't worry about leaving the alarm blaring all day, you're not the one who has to listen to it. And if the samples get spoiled, blame the janitor.
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I also Have no trouble reading text messages from Android in IOS. not sure what people are talking about. I still think its wrong to distinguish between the two platforms as it points to anti-competitive behavior. Apple does other things that are way worse.
I mostly use it for the generation of doc strings in python and js doc in typescript.

Recently I've been using git diff and asking 3.5 to write the PR description for me and so far it is doing quite well. The 16k tokens means I can feed even more into it.
The Cache button hasn't worked for me for around a decade, I used to use it regularly.
The chess one is much easier with my favorite Chrome extension, chessvision.ai https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chessvisionai-ches...

Just make sure to add captures/check/etc (Examples from wavemode on this thread: Nxe6 for N captures on e6, not just Ne6. Ne6+ if it's a check. Ne6# if it's mate.)
Decentralized social networking app Damus to be removed from App Store
You know microdosing doesn't make you trip right?
Too expensive fore sure at $80k
Thanks for all of your work (in addition to that of others) - it really shows! We do encourage people to create minimal repro cases and open bugs whenever possible. And, even more ideally, to consider contributing a PR upstream...
Let's hope it will be close. MacBook has twice the battery capacity as a run of the mill thinkpad. So 6h of battery would be the default I expect. More than that, and I will be impressed.

Note that I have been using Linux for 20y. And I fully accept the short battery life in exchange of the tooling and freedom I get with Linux.
Ahrefs frontend now built with Melange (OCaml –> JavaScript)
If you want a hackable e-reader, I have loved the Remarkable tablet. It's definitely more of a "writing" than a "reading" tablet although it works great with pdfs and epubs. Even lets you "write" notes on top of them!

It's not all open source though. They will give you access to the device and you can fairly easily move files on and off, but the app is proprietary.
Which preprocessor do you recommend for writing C?
I inspected page source and found the coordinates in the embed, then looked it up via that. Mine was the middle of a field in Brazil.
never mind putting people off edge, they risk getting sick of outlook! If my company had a product that was deeply embedded and collecting massive amounts of detailed information about the inner workings of so many companies across so many industries the last thing I'd do is risk scaring them off my product by making it more annoying. The insights MS must gain from the data they pull out of outlook (and office in general) is worth a hell of a lot more than an increase in edge users.
Both approaches are valid- NASA is the “we have one shot to get this right” approach and SpaceX is the “launches for test data are cheap” approach. Both are valid
If you reread my comment you'll notice that I am not talking about the frequency of new information being encountered. I'm not sure why you bring it up, especially in such a confrontational manner.

What I am talking about is the process that starts once you encounter a new piece of information that challenges your world view: the process of evaluating if it is of quality (ie. trustworthy), or just appears so superficially. That process is not instant, and if you treat it as an instantaneous process, you're probably going to accept a lot of superficially trustworthy information (including scams, mis- and disinformation, and so on).
Also if 3) if you have the energy to write and maintain some stateful thingy that manages this dynamic peer information you need to pass around. And while doable, a hack in bash won't cut it if you want reliability and the occasional introspection when things go wrong.

It's a no for me.
How can we counter idea theft and stolen credit in the age of AI?
Which is also what a computer should be, and thus why windows should only allow edge

I think you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who wants an unreliable and inconsistent laptop
Speaking of Geocities, there is a modern reincarnation called Neocities: https://neocities.org
Nearly 1 in 5 Workers Are 'Loud Quitting.' Here's What It Is
> Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing.

They are risking. Land value can go up or it can go down. It just has been mostly going up (in real terms) in the past decades, but it's far from certainty. You can lose money by investing in real estate, just like in everything else.
They are probably referring to DEXA scans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-energy_X-ray_absorptiomet...
It's not the drugs that make the person, the person uses the drugs because of who the person is

Those who seek novelty, explore reality and enjoy seeing the world through different perspectives use drugs to obtain all that.

This creates a false correlation wherein people believe the drugs cause enlightenment when in fact the person simply used the drugs to ease or induce the process.
I agree, at some point they do build up to the point that change is inevitable. There's usually a lot of false starts along the way (AI is a good example of this). No matter what it is, there's going to be a lot of fighting against entrenchment and a lot of us old timers simply have to retire for newer developers, whether they be Rust developers to come in and elicit change.
It usually doesn't matter much, but there are some situations where it can matter a lot. For one thing, you can't use seek() on a pipe, so e.g. `cat bigfile | tail` has to read through the entire file to find the end, but `tail bigfile` will read the file backward from the end, completely skipping the irrelevant beginning and middle. With `pv bigfile | whatever`, pv (which is basically a pipeline progress indicator) can tell how big file is and tell you how for through you are as a percentage; with `cat bigfile | pv | whatever`, it has no idea (unless you add a flag to tell it). Also, `cat bigfile | head` will end up killing cat with a SIGPIPE signal after head exits; if you're using something like "Unofficial bash strict mode" [1], this will cause your script to exit prematurely.

Another sometimes-important difference is that if there are multiple input files, `somecommand file1 file2 file3` can tell what data is coming from which file; with `cat file1 file2 file3 | somecommand` they're all mashed together, and the program has no idea what's coming from where.

In general, though, I think it's mostly a matter of people's expertise level in using the shell. If you're a beginner, it makes sense to learn one very general way to do things (`cat |`), and use it everywhere. But as you gain expertise, you learn other ways of doing it, and will choose the best method for each specific situation. While `cat |` is usually an ok method to read from a file, it's almost never the best method, so expert shell users will almost never use it.

[1] http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
I lurk the Gentoo IRC & mail (15+ years). I've never seen any systemd flames (not that they never happened). Gentoo IRC has always been helpful - even when I want to do stupid things.
Microsoft has always been horrible at building web-based products. Recently they are also horrible at building Windows-based products. And at building Windows.

But VSCode is okay, for now!
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You do realize that many, if not most, humans would fail this test, right?
>1) This is taken from a complaint in a class action lawsuit. Class action lawyers are very similar to patent trolls whereby they can spin almost any story they want. And journalists go for clicks, so they amplify the sensationalism. It doesn't mean this is one of those, but a class action complaint should not just blindly be trusted.

Do you think the rules that apply to patent litigators and class action litigators are different than the rules that apply to other litigators? I really don't understand what you seem to think is going on here, it's a bit naive imo (all the lawyers that I don't like are the bad ones and they lie!)

and I didn't even make it to your next part of your post, where you think that business executives are the honest ones! They aren't. They don't have their own personal license and livelihoods at risk most of the time, unlike attorneys.
They should have seen it 60 years ago
With a GDP per capita of just about 50k, that means each of those people earn no less than 10 shares of the nation's wealth...

That means 10 people have to be completely destitute to achieve that level of distribution...

Though GDP can always grow, the simple truth is that a nation has a fixed amount of production in any given year and this shit is a disgusting manifestation of the imbalances of its distribution.
Shipping a device that will overheat and reboot when the device is a couple years old and fixing it by silently throttling the device isn't pro consumer either

Those devices really should have been recalled or offered a generous trade-in value to account for the fundamental design flaw
I use managed switches for this, L2 units are fine if you let opnsense do all the inter-VLAN routing. All network devices go into the switches which are connected to the servers. As CptKriechstrom mentioned my PON or modem is connected to a switch and is tagged into a VLAN, which enters opnsense through that specific virtual interface.
This is kinda my thought too.

You can also look at it as a "perk" of the more expensive ticket. First class passengers on an airplane are the only ones that get a full meal on most domestic air travel. How is this different?
I think you'd be surprised how much our perspective can change. I'm not sure we can understand 4D, but I'm definitely sure we can think we intuitively grasp 4D.
I've never heard an investment expert use a term like "8% yearly upside risk" and suspect there's some errors in your thinking.

Look at it this way:

Imagine you have $200 dollars to invest. You can invest in country A or Country B. You know in a year one country will be up 10% and one will be up 1%. You don't know which country will be up the 10% and which will be up the 1%.

In a year, you need $205 dollars. Unless you like to live dangerously the rational thing to do is invest equally in both countries where you'll get a 6 dollar return. If you pick a single country you'll have a 50% chance of not having enough money.

Of course real world investing is more complicated, but my example demonstrates it's about probabilities of success at meeting your goals. Country A and country B have equal expected returns but investing in both decreases the probability of running out of money when you need it. Or it should, if we've modeled the expected returns of each country correctly.
Borg is better than Time Machine, for sure. Not tied to any company either.
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You pay the right salaries and the people will come. Granted you’re not going to get cheap labor working borderline slavery hours like you can in Taiwan but maybe large scale automation has a role to play.