skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a big part of the issue:

> state-funded nongovernmental organizations that have largely taken over responding to the people with addiction seem less concerned with treatment than affirming that lifetime drug use should be seen as a human right.

When it should be that addictive use should be seen as a health problem, to be taken care of with treatment, instead of either a "human right" OR something to be treated by intentionally inflicting MASSIVE suffering (jail + esp. the post-jail 'collateral penalties').
"Ok for those of you that haven't figured it out I got my wings clipped and they weren't gentle about it- so there's not going to be much posting on social media anymore and only on very specific subjects. I can leave but Kaidi can't so we're just going to follow the new rules and that's that.
Nothing personal if I don't like and reply like I used to. I'll be focusing on the store and the occasional video. Thanks for understanding, it was fun while it lasted."

https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/167748080945083596...
He, the Perl 5 to 6 migration is already forgotten? I think this says something about how well it went, because at the time Perl was more popular than Python.
Isn't 7430HS a Zen3 chip? Presumably Zen4 will be better. Remains to he seen, though.
Why? I mostly write Ruby and the code in the screenshot doesn't offend me at all.
> PEP-703: Concurrent collection requires write barriers (or read barriers). The author is not aware of a way to add write barriers to CPython without substantially breaking the C-API.

Jesus. Imagine a language runtime being this hamstrung.
Yes they have "moved on".

Which is why Alsol was "a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.” — Tony Hoare.
Rather than buying an old laptop which was high end at its time, it’s better to buy a cheap laptop which is new. The processor will be more efficient and powerful, it’s going to have multiple newer ports and you don’t need to run an obscure version of Linux which won’t run tools that people in your industry use. Running Linux as your daily driver is hard as it is, running an obscure version of Linux on an old laptop as your primary machine will drive you crazy. You would end up losing productivity fixing all the bugs and random issues.
10 years ago I could write software and take notes and browse the Internet for 8h a day on a MacBook air.
My old Dell XPS was actually slightly more expensive (even before adjusting to inflation - I was researching online and at the time it was the most recommended high-end pc laptop). And macs retain value a lot better than PCs - you can likely resell it for a significant fraction of its new price in a few years (unless you broke it).
I didn't find that point all that interesting. Once laptops got as small as is practical (full-size keyboard, just thick enough for a USB port), we continued cramming in as much tech and battery as it would fit and not get too hot. This shouldn't be a surprised.
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Is there a good alternative to Flickr/Smugmug and Instagram?
It's what the gaming community primarily cares about, TBH. I don't blame them.
turns out things like Stingers/TOW/Javelin are extremely useful in proxy wars, where NATO doesn't want to put boots/planes in the area of operations.

if NATO is so loss averse and doesnt want to risk own soldiers' lives, then NATO/US doctrine should plan for proxy wars - and not blindly assume they will have air superiority everywhere
Most conferences are field-trips/paid-vacation for businesspeople. A large part of the attraction is being in a fun destination.
This is the same argument as saying “well, Apple should make a walled garden and keep taking ownership away from people who buy hardware, and you should just not buy from them!”. No, ownership over a device should be a human right, and so should be ownership over software you purchased. If I want to enjoy a piece of tech or a game, I should be able to do so instead of being handicapped while Denuvo objectively makes the experience worse for legitimate users (while people who pirate enjoy BETTER experience)
Why's IOMMU thrown around so casually in this forum as if it's a silver-bullet explosive reactive armors? They'd be running something like 30 years old giant main loop with "// don't remove this line, build breaks" comments everywhere, not like Rust microservices on formally verified microkernel.

The main CPU/application processor/main CPU might be running better secured Unix/Linux and might be able to protect itself from peripheral CPUs, but that's not the point; a phone had always been a pair (minimum) of computers, traditionally referred to as Application Processor(AP) and Baseband Processor(BP), of only the slightly faster one is exposed to the user, and it's unclear what is going on inside the other one or how to handle it. That's the problem.
Oh wow, it's 999DKK per year in Denmark, and that's a special offer, or or 129DKK per month. So €135 for a year or €17-18 per month.

I think it has to do with the cost of the various right for different events in each country, and purchasing power. It's really an area where the EU has absolutely failed, licensing of content should be union wide, but in reality it's still country by country. That might be a good thing, because €135 is a hell of a lot more in Hungary, compared to Denmark.

Don't get me wrong, 999DKK is actually a pretty good deal. I'm not into sports in general, I only watch Tour de France, rowing and a few winter sports, but 999DKK is actually within what I'd pay for that.
If productivity is so important, why are people using laptops at all? Desktop processors are faster.
> more, faster

Not in the world de live in: https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html
Cumulus is dead. Mellanox only bought it because there wasn't much else. I another 2-3 years it will be as relevant as Vyatta.
Oh yeah, I realised that just after hitting submit. Had worked on almost as low powered machines a while, much earlier, as a hobby. Sorry for leading you down the wrong track.

It looks like the broad cross-platform capabilities of FP are mainly for modern machines and platforms, even if low powered like the RPi.
I think you severely underestimate how fast the M2 series is.
LOL. This comment rhymes with Steve Ballmer talking about the iPhone circus 2008.

If the market likes the headset, there’s no reason it has to be limited to 100k units. Figure out how to make an average office employee 10% more effective and it pays for itself quickly.
While there are a bewildering number of types of relativism in the parent article, the most common by far is moral relativism, which is usually used as a slur against those who do not conform to general or specific ideologies.

The wiki also mentions moral relativism in a pejorative context.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism
2015 was the nadir of processor improvements. At that point, Intel had effectively used the same processor in every laptop since 2008. I would like to see this analysis post-Ryzen and Apple Silicon.
None of it. Zero. I could have a much happier and peaceful life without constantly reading headlines and outrage, and feeling compelled to put in my 2¢.

I use HN to pass away my idle time. At this point, I really don't have better options. If I could think of any, I would use them. I neglect exercise and even outdoor times are few and far between for me. HN is undeniably unhealthy for me to spend all this time on it, but here I am.
I don't think so. They are just trying to justify why they do that kind of research, in the fear that people won't understand "we do research in order to understand more".
Yeah, sorry, I personally call it dev infra
The article author is a journalist, I bet his speed depends on his speed of typing and not the speed of his laptop.

He could to more, faster and longer but if he doesn't the extra costs are useless.
They change, but my 2015 ThinkPad 13 still delivers on performance, battery, screen, etc.

I'm a grown up now. I've got better uses for £2k right now. I'll get a new laptop when I need one.
How much more effective would ad spend be if ads were solely served to people with a decent bit of disposable income? I would guess the return on investment is almost all due to buyers with cash to spend more than anything, and those 40% of Americans with like $400 in the bank (if those popular stats are to be believed) are merely an expense serving them advertising content for products they are unlikely to ever buy.

You already see this with some goods so its certainly at least somewhat effective, e.g. luxury watch ads in beverly hills contrasted with military recruitment billboards in south LA.
> three engineer-years (from engineers experienced working in CPython internals) between the acceptance of PEP 703 and the end of 2025

This means multiple devs over a period of less than 3 years.
What is langchain?
I agree with this. All they had to do was the bare minimum and actually keep it alive for a few years.

This pattern is pretty common in industry. Almost all the huge companies that are winners in technology are those that got on the market and kept the thing alive - that's not sufficient, but it is necessary.
The Trip is amazing.

That B roll cut is actually from the original TV series which is much longer than the movie. If you enjoyed the movie you'll love the series.
Why talk of relativism at all? It's such a vague term.

Does "relative" mean context dependent? Does it mean arbitrary? Something else? Nobody who uses this term seems to be in any hurry to clarify this.

I suspect it's more of a marketing term, hitchhiking on the prestige of Einstein, than a concrete position worth arguing about.
And cheaper! I personally run on a M1 Mac Mini (and iMac before that)

I paid less than $700 for the Mac Mini right when the M1 chip came out. It’s hands down the fastest computer I’ve ever owned.
Hey all! Jerry here (from LlamaIndex).

We love the feedback, and one main point especially seems to be around making the docs better:
- Improve the organization to better expose both our basic and our advanced capabilities
- Improve the documentation around customization (from LLM's to retrievers etc.)
- Improve the clarity of our examples/notebooks.

Will have an update in a day or two :)
SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014):

http://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-cod...
p.s. (since i can't edit) Go compiles to native instead of to a vm like Limbo did. evolution of the idea...
The author is choosing to optimize for environmental impact over raw performance.
Search does currently work 100% offline - none of your data would be sent to OpenAI if all you're doing is searching for your local documents. You could completely disable your internet connection and it would still work.

Chat currently is only integrated with OpenAI because it had the highest quality + lowest barrier to entry. We're experimenting with open source LLMs and hope to have an alternative available soon.
The image descriptions did appear generated toward the beginning, but towards the middle it seems they are the prompt that was used to generate them (a bit quine-esqe) and towards the end, clearly part of the article.
Besides all the Apple ads, Apple News is one such place where 3rd party ads exist prominently.
I knew a guy who would buy a laptop, use it for like 3 months, then flip it on eBay and buy another. He said this is how you get good value for money -- flip it before it loses much of its resale value and buy new with the proceeds.

I'm not sure why people would do this. I use computer equipment to the point of exhaustion. I still have laptops from the 90s that work fine; while they will never be a main they are fun to play with. My main laptop currently is a ThinkPad from 2014 -- it does just about all that I need it to do without a hitch or stutter.

My main PC is a Ryzen desktop I bought in 2018. It's probably due for some upgrades, but I cannot afford them currently.
This.

I lose any hope for us as a species being able to reverse climate change if the top comment about an article that goes quite deep into meaningful ways to “reduce, reuse, recycle" is that this is virtue signaling, and that we should buy Macbooks every year instead because they are "expendable tools".

Guess what, their impact on the environment is very much noticeable. There is no way we are going to reverse or even meaningfully delay climate change with this kind of collective attitude.
What I find curious is how often comments like these are made without posting a link to any kind of source. I’ll just admit I have no idea what wage theft is, and I’d argue most people don’t know either. Can you enlighten me, or provide a source that explains it? And if you feel so strongly, why not post something to HN about it so we can all discuss?
I don't have a crystal ball any more than anyone else, but people are still making those salaries. The layoffs barely got us back to 2019 employment levels.
"The PMP certified 6 sigma ninja project manager" had me rolling
Bad managers do exist, but painting every manager as useless is a bit short sighted.

A good manager is your shit shield. They’re doing their job well when you have no idea how much work they’re putting in to minimize the amount of bullshit you have to deal with day to day.
With the ability to opt out, the anonymity, and the lack of third party involvement, this seems like a reasonable proposal.
That’s assuming you’re not using low-code. There are inbuilt connectors to read data, transform data, read/write to pinecone, make api calls to LLMs. It is much faster to prototype with Prophecy.io
You can also select a subset of pictures to grant the app access to, which makes the heuristic fall apart if you properly manage it as a user.
"Penicillin I and IV have no characteristic u.v. absorption,
but penicillin II and III show clearly the fine structure of a benzene ring."
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/chain-lecture.pdf

Not all antibiotics will have a benzene ring, besides benzene is carcinogenic, and some penicillin's will be metabolised into penicillamine which depletes the body of metals including copper, useful for treating Wilsons Disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillamine#History

Low copper leads to lower levels of interleukin 6, which is a particularly useful part of the immune system for targeting some cancers, ergo some antibiotics with their benzene ring and copper chelating properties, increases the risk of cancer...

I assume you refer to the Hypoglycaemic Sulfonamides?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9463023/#:~:text=As%20a%20fu...(

I know antibiotics are a hot topic for a variety of reasons, including the fact that livestock fed antibiotics increase muscle mass, perhaps this is why here in the UK Redbull and other taurine rich energy drinks are banned to under 16yr olds on the pretence the caffeine is the greater enemy, because they dont want stacked as in muscular teenagers running around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_psychoactive_drugs_o...

I think this also shows that what constitutes an antibiotic varies enormously, unless the definition of an antibiotic is one that includes the carcinogenic benzene ring?

Surprised you haven't mentioned how vitamin K1 disrupts bacterial biofilms, and is particularly useful for tackling pseudomonas, a particularly nasty and stubborn bacteria. Of course its not classed as an antibiotic, its classed as a vitamin, but even the definition of vitamins are being called into doubt when considering pathways that exist in the body, they werent known when the definition of vitamin or "vital amine" were agreed, so maybe the medical profession need to update their terminology in order to not mislead the public en-masse?

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-kynurenine-pathway-T...
And the terrible package management story is not one of those reasons
> Aren't you making the implicit assumption that the reason why women are paid less at Niantic, is because women are just "naturally" bad at negotiating?

Well, I explicitly and clearly stated "I can't really say anything meaningful about Niantic specifically; maybe it is a horribly sexist company". All we have is a single case of a single person being underpaid. That doesn't really prove much of anything, much less "systemic sexism".

Either way, giving women all sorts of tools and methods to address wage inequality and giving men none and telling them "sucks to be you", based on the average that women get paid less (and averages say NOTHING about individual cases), doesn't strike me as a good path forward.
as a human , controller outputs and keyboard/mouse movements look entirely different, mouse sweeps have jitter and an inherent lack of linearity, whereas joystick movements tend to radiate from a central point with a springiness that prefers neutral area -- it doesn't seem like that great a feat to me to profile those movements and throw it to a scoring mechanism that would consider such things.

as to whether or not that's how they do things -- no clue. If it's as brain-dead as most anti-cheat efforts are they're just profiling some hardware enumeration number that the devices failed to replicate and it's just an arms race matter-of-time until the cheat devices get it right.
There are so many industries that exist like this. The concept of a car dealership was obviated in a few short years once car manufacturers grew enough to bear the burden of production as well as sales and service, so car dealers essentially got their business protected by law in many states. Something the horse stable owners were never able to do.
Not at all. The GIL was explicitly part of the C-API! No one used the guarantees accidentally, including CPython itself.

The GIL was one of the reasons why the C module ecosytem took off.
The original article makes a good point but neither it nor the comments here mention my main concern with used computers-- They don't have the same clean/new-system "security" properties as a new computer.

Who knows what malware/security rootkit was installed on some consumer machine that persisted in some corner of it and didn't get detected/wiped? It's kinda a crapshoot in my view.
https://archive.is/1NTsr
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What is the catch with PyPy? If it was a drop-in replacement for CPython, wouldn't everyone choose it as the de-facto version of Python?
Ha! I guess I don't really get the joke, but relieved for gp's sake it is one, despite the egg on my face.
However, even if there is, why does that mean the answer needs to be the _specific_ extraordinarily-severe-by-nature method of criminal punishment? It seems the article, again, was basically suggesting the problem was there is no sort of incentive AT ALL, when it should be that we should be looking for "neither-nor" solutions that are neither the old method nor "just sit back and do nothing".
Any ideas what valuation range that might imply?
I don't know.

I said above:

>I don't know much about this area.
giphy api
If the cost is reasonable enough, it doesn't even have to be crafted for the individual, simply target them with one of multiple ads, which are modeled to have the highest (positive) effect... If you're not going to interact with it showing it to you has minimal effect. If one is modeled to have 5x higher interactivity, that's the one you want to show.

I think there are high value customers for whom this probably makes sense, but only if those doing the targeting make money from it. Right now you're the product, but the supplier is the one doing the targeting (or not) and the customer doesn't know enough about their potential customers to target. The suppliers don't really make money by effective targeting.
Anecdata, but before going all-in on ThinkPads I thought I share my experience.

For the ThinkPad x13 2nd gen Ryzen I received for a customer project (with the customer not interested in getting it back after the project was completed) it's too early to say anything about reliability, but somehow the touchpad isn't centered properly and I always hit left click when I want right click - it's unbearable and surprisingly bad for a ThinkPad.

Before, I had an ThinkPad E495 Ryzen that worked ok but after two years the touchpad got stuck - the pointless (for me!) construction with touch point and extra mechanical buttons (only acting as barrier) certainly didn't help.

Before, I had my beloved Dell XPS 2016 which however had a swollen battery. Still, I consider it one of the best notebooks I had; gnome 2 and Unity also just got it right.

In the last four years I got five (!) ThinkPad and Dell Precision notebooks for customer projects having battery or memory problems OOTB (the x13 I mentioned above was a notebook that finally worked).

The notebook I used for the longest time (7 years) was a PowerBook G4 2003. I hope my current MacBook M1 will last me about as long, but at least 5 years. In terms of power management, display, and usability, a Mac notebook is in another league compared to Dells and ThinkPads with Linux, it's not even funny. Linux desktops have regressed to the point they have ceased to be usable for me. With the newer MacBooks, I think Apple listened to customers and nailed it; I'd just prefer lighter (non-alu) materials.
and webassembly.
Yep, exactly - get rid of the alternative methods and leave no method and then that's a problem.
Always assumed it was because laptops start at $300 and cars start at $30,000.

Don’t call me out on the actual numbers, I am only really paying attention to the zeros.
> Yahoo was the one that started introducing limits

Yahoo. Yahoo! Yahoo broke Flickr almost overnight and then took several months to revert the damage. Infinite scrolling (no way to see someone's first uploads). Wannabe social-media guff. I gave up then and only keep my portfolio for historical reasons.
If my own worth to my employer is sufficiently opaque to require me to defend my position, this suggests they have insufficient data to evaluate me - and if my worth is not obvious to them, then I guess it's time to go. What else does this company not have a good handle on? It's a red flag they'll be poor performers in whatever market they've staked out.
Is that practical though?

Apps could just accept that and break. Food delivery app could show suggestions from the fake island, social media app could let your friends know you’re 6383km away, calculator app might switch to local currency conversion, etc.
Oh, I meant the gray 222s vs the clear 221s. The whole "I can see it right" thing is nice with the 221s, but I've had people tell me that the 221s don't hold as well as the 222s.
It seems even more unlikely that millions of business owners would be sufficiently knowledgable in statistics to even test these things.
I pasted your question directly into DDG and the entire first page has the answer.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=What+is+langchain
XPrivacy was great, but apps would regularly crash when I denied some permissions - so apparently it was not faking data well enough. It got so bad that I would never just click "deny", but always "temporarily deny" first. Then, if the app worked, I would deny permanently. If it crashed I'd have to figure out the minimum set of permissions I could get away with granting.
Anyone else notice the animated header image? That's a flex
That’s not really what I meant. Ads rarely get through my Adblock anyways. No, the problem with the dead internet isn’t that powerful entities flooded it with artificially generated bullshit, the problem is that the hyper commercialization incentivized real, living people to behave like inauthentic robots, mindlessly maximizing everything they do to drive engagement metrics.