skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That part about paranoia was a half-joke. But no, it was not suggested (that was not a «notion») that paranoia would be a «default emergent state». It is tough a temptation of many.

And while you will often be able to identify «potential malicious incentives», you have to put those possibilities together with the rest of those which can complete the set.

Assessments must be complete.

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Edit: oh, by the way, importantly: paranoia ("off-thought") means "delusionality", and in that sense the statement «And keeps you away from paranoia» was literal. "Be "cool" and exhaustive in assessment, and you will avoid getting stuck in alluring stories". The half joke was about the current use of the term (in the popular interpretation of the clinical state).
No country in the world has classes as starkly as the US. No, not even China, not even close.
> The 35 watt processor in the T430 is just way too easy to get toasty.

Definitely true, but I don't use laptops on my lap very often. I also have a fear that

> lighter, thinner

may mean harder to get into and repair/replace things.

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edit: let me let these people argue in favor of the T430...

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/r88wag/my_almost_...
I do a lot of Android and iOS app compilation (Lots of flavors/schemes of apps). So lately the upgrades in cores has meant a faster upgrade cycle for my work dev machine than for the intel based MacBook Pro era. I’m sure Apple can’t keep up this pace of the last few years though.

Back in early 2000s we used distcc for distributed compilation of QT apps and reused old workstations in a server room. But with XCode and Android studio it isn’t pragmatic.
That was also within a few years of Bush W making moves to cut protest effectiveness, such as the free speech zones. Not to mention, there are plenty of examples of social media creating very effective protests, which then inspired heavy handed tactics in retaliation, with examples of this from all over the world.

Do you think what happened to OWS was just because of tweets lack of effectiveness? I don't believe that, and neither should you.

I did try to find the study you mentioned, as well as the podcast, but came up empty. Got a link handy?
>At the request of new bosses who’d come in, she says her colleagues had to join a large group call, then prove why they deserved a role over the others.

This is just dehumanizing and humiliating. At that point you might as well strike and throw the managers into the Battle Royale pit. Also a good reminder why unionization makes sense even in well paying white collar professions, employers will pit people against one another regardless.
You can uh

find them on the internet.

I wont tell you that the record 2020_03_22_DOOM on archive.org has it. I can't confirm.
Is it really so bothersome to you to hear it pointed out that people who aren't rich white men have very real needs that could be solved with political action and as such they might be more inclined to talk about politics? I'm assuming you're talking about the GOP. That party has a lot of poor white voters, they also have a very real need for political action on their part.
Langchain is as pointless as one of those kitchen tools that specifically cuts egg into slices, but you could have done that with a knife.
A lot of lisps end up writing their own assemblers, the lisp model of 80/20ing your own compiler with every compiler step being a different set of s-expressions as sorts of intermediate representations works best holistically. On the old lisp machines even the microcode source would be specific s-expressions that as a final pass would be converted into the actual bit pattern needed by the machine.

This paradigm is well seen in the GOAL (Game Oriented Assembly Lisp) code for Jak & Daxter that could mix relatively standard lisp, MIPS asm, and PS2 custom vector asm all within the same function: https://web.archive.org/web/20070127022728/http://lists.midn...
That's not an optimization, lol, and it's not an answer. If the 20 minute recharge was built into a break, with a fast charger, that's going to add an extra 120 miles onto the delivery route range. IDK how many miles Amazon routes are expected to drive in an 8-10 hour shift, but given that the top range of the vehicles is about 350-400 miles with the biggest battery, that's almost an extra 35% of range.

If the trucks go far enough, and the drivers don't need breaks, then say that I guess. Drivers don't want to do their job is not an engineering problem, whereas delivering more packages per shift could be one.
Energy usage isn’t the only thing to be concerned about. There are resources that have to be extracted, and non-recyclable waste piling up in huge quantities.

Seems like a fine fruit to pick if you consider broader environmental impact.

(Also, we can do multiple things at once. Burning an extra 36 gallons of oil if you don’t have to is still bad.)
They banned it because that sort of call out is meaningless in an age when everyone accuses everyone they disagree with of being a "shill", "astroturfer", "troll", "fake news", and what have you.
This seems like a real weird strategy.

Most often, a company's competent people are (at the very least) slightly underpaid and going along out of a sense of inertia. The day to day routine is comforting and interviewing is a real pain, and while I'd take a good pay bump, it's definitely not worth going through the entire process for a couple thousand dollars a year.

I've had teams just shattered when the first person left because it reminds everyone else that leaving is an option.

Forcing your most competent people, the ones that preform the day to day work, to get their resumes updated and practice interviewing seems like it's going to make jumping ship a realistic option for all the people you're relying on.

Now, maybe half the staff or something is dead weight, and you can afford to offer the competent ones a ~20% pay bump to the new market rate (as opposed to the market rate when you first hired them) while cutting 50% of payroll, but that doesn't seem like what these companies are going to do. It seems like they're going to make everyone interview for the same salary they currently have, and I'd be rather shocked if that was the best deal most people with skills could get. This seems like it's going to backfire hard.
I used to think that as long as all you needed to do was some web browsing that older or underspeced machines were fine.
But in the last few years websites have become insanely resource intensive.
Even using something as seemingly simple as Gmail is a frustrating experience on older laptops (speaking as someone who just upgraded from a 2017 dual core MacBook Pro).
I also have a hard time believing that the same hardware could handle that task much better if it used some lightweight linux distro. The browser engines are the same after all.
You could swap Gmail for a lightweight email client, but I find that this approach of choosing software compatible with a capabilities of these low powered machines runs into some limitations sooner or later, e.g. when someone decides to sends you a Microsoft Office file, asks you to collaborate on a Google doc, insists on doing a meeting via Google Meet or Zoom.
I may also want some of the other amenities modern laptops have to offer, like bright screens, long lasting batteries, the possibility of using a modern IDE or IDE like editor instead of having to learn VIM.
And then do it again the next day. And the next. And so on.

I don't think I would be able to walk after two back-to-back 100km days, and these guys are doing double that with a lot more climbing nearly every day for over three weeks straight.
Oh, speaking of Radio shows, there was a hilarious spoof call-in show on BBC Radio front 2006 to 2013. That's really worth a listen.

https://archive.org/details/DownTheLineBBCRadio4
Putting a bunch of addicts in an abandoned building so they can live in misery doesn't seem very helpful.
It would be more like: does the code support nogil?

Because the code that is updated is expected to work with both versions.
You can fast-forward through the boring parts without missing the plot.
In general, until you do use threads, removing the GIL is a performance loss. Even if you do use threads, you have an overhead: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#performance
All you have to do is read the datasheet and multiply a few numbers to calculate worst-case power. Remembering to do that should be second nature, like remembering to close any parentheses you open. It's a great tool for understanding in greater detail, but it's not the way to avoid breaking stuff.
No it wasn't and not by a long shot.
Because the time to get updates is less on an older phone or that a used phone is less secure because someone could install malware on it?
That isn't what I've observed. I wonder if there's any data on this?
There is concern amongst countries in the area. There are many territorial disagreements. Both that and pressure to host bases etc in exchange for secure access to US markets.

The Biden administration is pursuing a policy of ambiguity with respect to China. A blockade is an act of war, but publically threatening it is also a quick way to lose sway in the court of world opinion. I agree that there is no public threat of a blockade by the adminstration, nor did I claim they did. Similarly, when was the last time the US officially declared war? WWII? Actions are better indicators than words. One cannot "contain" a country like China without assets in place. And they are there. I've read about 400 installations in Asia alone?

China militarily invaded another country in, if I recall, Vietnam in 1971. Most here were not born then. I'm a geezer and I was two. A lot of wars have occurred since then, but we characterize them as an aggressor nation.
Their threat to us is not that they will invade their neighbour. It is that their economic force of gravity will pull the entire world into their economic orbit, leaving us as an "also ran".
If coworkers are competition then it doesn't make sense to help them too much. And if you have to do anything with hiring it makes sense to steer the process towards hiring people less capable than you.
Perfect.. I've seen so many demos showing people feeding data to LLMs so they can "ask questions about their data" but still not seen any real business use cases. Is anyone using these tools in production for a real problem?
the latter. Meta’s naming made sense cuz it was an acronym. LlamaIndex sounds like a joke name and not well thought out for such an ambitious product.
The whole whatwg ES3.1/5 saga was dealing with the specs saying what they wanted the world to be (which they did badly and incompletely, and frequently in direct contradiction with) and what browsers needed to do (the “quirks”). The spec as produced by whatwg and the browser vendors actually matched reality, didn’t have ambiguity (or rather any ambiguity that was missed is considered a spec bug/error) and could actually be used to make a browser.
Is this supposed to be some kind of joke?

The problem with Python 2 to python 3 is that python 3 was essentially a new python 2 esque language instead of just being a major version bump.
If python 4 was no GIL python, then both Python and C would remain unchanged as a language.
How you you ever come up with an ontology without an epistemology?
I have a still working 2010 Acer 4810TG upgraded with a SSD and 8GB RAM, I use it to play very old games and a little of Internet browsing, for that it still works.
All code is not created equal. In a project there is normally some divide between shared code and service specific code. This divide can be as simple as a base class and its children or a library and the microservices that use it. I declare that shared code is sacred and should only be touched for a good reason. (Note: sacred does not imply good)

So when reviewing my carelevel is highly dependent on if shared code is touched. If the commit only contains changes in the leafs eg subclass / single microservice my gut instinct is to trust the code and go into LGTM mode (if it goes wrong it's at least localized). But if shared code is touched I don't trust it, I deep dive and complain about everything I can think of.
> You increment b when you change something in a backwards compatible way.

Problem is that 'backwards compatible' is not a black-and-white criterion. Most non-trivial development could lead to changes in behavior (or at least in performance) that, while not part of API contract, could still be relevant for users.

For that reason, it makes sense to have a.b.c scheme, where 'b' is for regular backwards-compatible development, while 'c' is for targeted bugfix releases, which are hopefully devoid of such behavioral changes.
If they wanted to prevent apps from showing ads on iOS, they’d change the App Store rules to ban it.

There’d be an exodus of apps. Followed by an exodus of users who couldn’t live without IG/FB/TikTok/Snapchat/Twitter/Reddit/etc.
Have you tried it? You are right in general, but even if you don't write anything in Python, CPython runtime constantly writes to heap, so everything is copied. You need specific support from CPython runtime to exploit copy-on-write.

This is documented: https://docs.python.org/3/library/gc.html#gc.freeze

For details, see "Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection" by Instagram Engineering: https://instagram-engineering.com/copy-on-write-friendly-pyt...
You'll still need to re-tune your prompt and the hyperparameters when switching models. So the actual effort of switching models is not improved much if at all.
I’m gonna have to disagree with ya there bud. Never been easier to be a Python developer.
> I am one of those who prefer working on existing code.

Me too, mostly because I hate starting a project form scratch, it's something I'm not particularly good at. Like you, I love rewriting, I love improving things, making them better, faster, or easier to understand.

The notion that software engineers hate code is wrong, depending on who you consider a software engineer. SREs, systems administrators, operations people, they hate software with a passion. Developer (who in my mind are software engineers) freaking love code and will write more code to cover up problems which should have been address by revisiting designs and earlier assumption. I've meet with developers who's understanding of IT outside the realm of development have been so extremely poor that they frequently reinvent basic webserver or database feature, but badly.

Currently I'm working on a Django project, in the back of my mind I always have a notion that if something requires more than 20 - 30 lines of code, then it's either already a feature of the framework, or I'm doing something terribly wrong. That rules has yet to fail me.
This being a late '80s, how unfortunate that they did not decide to settle on the other British computer platform starting with A and referring to a kind of fruit
Okay, and? Are you seriously arguing as someone that lives there that it’s not a shitshow? Wake up - this is not acceptable in any modern society.
In some countries Apple provides a battery replacement service for the Macbooks at a fixed price, but you have to leave it with them for a little while like any other service.

I think the price is reasonable for the quality of the batteries. The Apple price was much lower than a local Apple reseller store quoted for battery replacement - they pretended not to know about Apple's own service, and when I showed them they said they couldn't match Apple's price as it was too low.

The inability to upgrade storage space is a big problem though. Apple storage is prohibitively expensive up front yet you know you might run out of space during the long life of the device. External drives work and are fast so that's the practical solution but it's not as convenient.
There are atleast 2 more exception levels with higher privileges than the Kernel on arm64.
> being no data

"but sure you have photos on your phone, if your phone tells me there aren't any then it's lying"

Yeah, fake data. I remember there was an Android Xposed(?) mod that did that, was quite funny to see heaps of fake names in contact list
Threads is literally just textual Instagram and TikTok. I don’t get the feeling Twitter users ever really used those, and Threads is much closer to those
> a few years ago battery life was maybe 7 hours and now it’s 18

At what point do battery improvements become completely unnecessary? Who's out here using their laptops for 18 hours continuously? It's like an electric car that can go 2,000 miles on a single charge; YAGNI. The vast majority of people would be perfectly well-served by a smaller, lighter, less expensive laptop that cuts down the battery to just 10 hours.
I have a Thinkpad T460p myself, and its battery lasts as long, or longer, than most new laptops I've seen!
I was just searching for a new one for a friend, and noted that most new laptops are absolute garbage, total crap. Most have the same specs as mine, almost a decade later, WTF (yeah, "new gens", whatever)
It's really sad, we are dropping all quality for mere quantity and consumerism...
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It is well-known that planar transistors are more reliable than FINFET.

It is usually agreed that the end of planar transistors was the last process node of 28 nanometers. Everything below this (14, 10, 7, 5, 3, and 2 nanometers so far) is less reliable.

The fastest, lowest power, and most reliable CPU in a laptop will be on a 28nm process node. Everything beyond this sacrifices reliability for speed and lower power.

(And if you really care about lower power, then you are on ARM.)
My version: Intel did not do shit for 10 years. That’s it.
Looking forward to seeing where all that 'intellectual property' these companies are simultaneously worried about ends up after putting the people that actually handle it through this.
This looks interesting. Curious how many automotive organizations would uptake this. Is this a fork of another distribution or created from scratch? I could not find anything in the About section. Is there a history article on AGL somewhere?

[Edit] Answering my own question. Found some history on AGL on Wikipedia [1] Apparently based on Tizen [2] which was based on Bada, created by Samsung. It appears to already have many members [3] though I am unsure what it means to be a Silver Member.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_Grade_Linux

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen

[3] - https://www.automotivelinux.org/about/members/
They're talking about C code that blindly relies on implicit concurrency guarantees that are now conditional. Isn't that enough said?
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Spell: Delegate your tasks to autonomous AI agents, powered by GPT4
Async function coloring is a worse disaster than "goto" of the previous generation and go is one of the very few languages that didn't fall into that trap.
You have a really dystopian view of NYC — have you spent much time there?
> If someone overloads your site with automated requests how is that not criminal? Why aren't they liable?

Criminal requires a specific law in the criminal code be intentionally broken.

There is a world of difference between an intentional DoS and a crawler adding some marginal traffic to a server then backing off when the server responses fail.
It's probably legally infeasible, as well as bad for Apple's own advertisement business. They also can't make different rules for the same legal reasons.
What about other permissions where you can't realistically send an empty object? For example, if the user grants permission to view location, the location object passed to the app will obviously have the pertinent information. Would the OS simply pass an empty location object and wouldn't that make it obvious that permission was denied? Or is it hidden behind some kind of error
The after party scene at the Psychedelic Science conference must be fun.
If half the company gets fired, I'm bolting out the door anyway, no matter the process that decides who gets to survive the first round.
Apple is becoming an ad company it's why they made moves against Facebook.
Filching from Nietzsche, scriptwriters are lazy bums.
Meta's naming is clearly also a joke. It's a backronym, not an acronym— it's pretty obvious they started with Llama and came up with a cute acronym to justify it.

Large LAnguage Model Meta AI

Not saying they're not entitled to use the name too, but laying the blame on the developers of LlamaIndex when they had no idea that LLaMA was coming isn't fair to them.
It’s not intellectual.

I love it, it’s great for workout and vacation pics and seeing what people you know are up to. I get the feeling Twitter powerusers hate it
I was proposing that as a back of the napkin sketch for how Apple+Gmail+Office365 could implement it. But this description of ProtonMail is hugely illuminating.
I have zero problems with people who vote with their feet and walk away from RHEL over RH deciding not to share source code with non-customers. What I do find cynical and hypocritical is people making up all sorts of wild accusations with no basis in reality, like elsewhere in this thread someone accused RH of violating the GPL by suing customers to stop them publishing RHEL source code.

That's just one example, the online forums and social media are full of people making up all sorts of stories. The one thing that's clear to me is that people never actually bothered to read the GPL, or didn't actually bother to find out exactly what RH is doing. And they can't be bothered to while they go on their moral crusade. God forbid that facts get in the way.
I had a similar experience; looked into using it for something, and felt that it would be easier to recreate the things I would use langchain for in Jinja2, than it would be to reshape my code to the interface that langchain wanted.
I watch everything with subtitles. Honestly they volume of the show after compression can be a huge factor where it is just too quiet or there are some characters that I can barely hear. I know that some shows I can play at almost double volume, but barely hear. One example is NetFlix's Lost in Space. I have to turn it up to hear what they are saying and then the orchestra comes in and it just blows the voices out. For the orchestra to be at a tolerable level, the voices are mere whispers. Its way too loud, its like JFK I get it, you have an orchestra. But It would be better if it was balanced well, I'd prefer not having the orchestra in a version so I could comfortably watch the show. Otherwise I have to manually adjust the volume down for longer sequences. And sometimes I can walk out of the room and it sounds better than in the room. I grew up with CRT tvs and I'm willing to bet the modern sound gear just no longer has the benefit of being in a bigger chassis.
Why don't you buy an EPYC/Threadripper workstation then? Even best M2 laptops still can't compete with hackintosh on dated 3970x
The touchbar feels to me like a time bomb that explodes when Apple thinks it's time for you to give another stack of cash to them.
well, it has sw switches at least, but yeah, i would love to :)
Just replace it with another one generation old used phone when it stops getting updates. Still better value.
A functioning society should be able to contain Ads and a right to privacy. I don’t think Apple wanted the privacy stance it developed. The stance developed as a reaction to what some companies saw as fair behavior to the unsuspecting.
Why your phone’s portrait mode fakes the blur
As job security slips away, the cruel dance of competition begins within the walls where friendships once blossomed. The heartache of watching colleagues forced to vie for their own livelihoods is a cruel reality.