skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a different experience.

I first saw the Apple 2 in 1978 and thought it neat. The early Mac was a revelation. The iPod was a revelation. The iPhone was a revelation. The iPad was a revelation. But they started fiddling with the designs. The iPad had wide margins so you could hold it while lying down without accidentally touching the screen. Then they reduced the margins. Sure, it looks cooler, but it's less functional, with constant unwanted screen touches doing something that you have to undo.

I had an iPhone 6 which I liked. But the new models are either too big or too expensive, usually both. Apparently nobody at Apple uses pockets anymore.

I had a MacBook Pro for many years. Very solid hardware. But the OS annoyed me. It's Unix-based which I prefer, but hardly "just works", with Apple's fear of the GPL meaning some tools are decades old because they can't/won't run a recent version, so I have to manage that myself. I eventually switched to Linux on the Mac, and I thought about doing that with new Mac hardware, but with the new CPUs running Linux is doubtful again. So no new Mac.

At the time I was running Windows, Linux and MacOS on different machines. I wanted to share many terabytes of data between those machines, so I settled on ExFat formatted drives because they could all handle that format, right? The Mac had constant complaints of errors on the disks which it couldn't fix. Yet if I plugged the drive in error into a Windows machine it either fixed it in a trice or, on a couple of occasions, could find no error at all.

Apple's aftermarket service is usually first rate. But my second iPad was obviously faulty when new, detiorating to useless over a period of a couple of days after a full boot. Yet putting it in for service, twice, got me a response of "no problem found". I told them to throw it away and I decided I would no longer have anything to do with Apple.

But your title is fine because in another sense they have come full circle. Under Jobs (the second time) Apple had greatness due to his, sometimes flawed, view of HOW THINGS SHOULD BE. Now Apple has an air of past glory, humming along, trying to remember the words, trying to remember how to be great.
Commented this on a submission that was a duplicate of this one, but:

When GPT's details were allegedly leaked [0] I read about the mixture of experts and wondered if this explains my recent distaste for GPT. Lately I have been using Anthropic's offering (mainly since it is free and has a 100k context window) and I've been surprised at just how well it reasons and understands what I'm asking. It responds like GPT 4 used to, and speaks to me with nuance I haven't seen since Bing released their original chatbot. I still find GPT 4 better if I want to fine-tune the model and make it adopt a persona-- Claude will almost always refuse.

Either way, I'm a bit confused with the way GPT 4 has been changing over time. It seems the team made significant changes to the model quality in favor of performance. Whether accuracy or performance is more important is up for debate, but something is clearly changing.

[0] https://archive.ph/2RQ8X
cross platform build tools similar to cargo or go build are important to me.

battery included stdlib that also has network and gui is super attractive too
Yea, to back up the point some more. I work on a completely desktop enterprise solution. So there is no offloading the work from my machine either. Our test suite even on moderately fast hardware still takes about 10 minutes to run the full suite parallelized.
I try to align my work with energy solutions (currently working and researching on renewable energy plants), not waste, and to learn as much about the problem as possible.

Some things I think I've learnt (but am open to being proved wrong):

Climate models are very rough, so take all catastrophic predictions with a grain of salt (eg this year's record sea surface temps were not predicted by IPCC models, the main factor discussed for the difference (policies reducing aerosolized sulphates) are not accounted for in their models. Heterodox hypothesis are not tested in sophisticated mainstream models)

IPCC goals are arbitrary and designed for political purposes (eg there is no fundamental reason why 1.5C goal is a better limit than a 2.5C goal, it is likely worse since it is currently unachievable), so don't get too upset if we don't meet them

Most of the popular 'solutions' don't bother with sophisticated methods to determine impact, like Life Cycle Analysis, and often rely on hidden assumptions that are mostly ignored (eg "we can install 95% renewables _IF_ the grid is upgraded and battery tech gets X% cheaper", "We will 'solve' plastic pollution from wind turbines") so be wary of those saying X tech will save us before they've built anything

Some of the 'solutions' counter-intuitively make things worse (eg biofuel policies causing 3rd world starvation http://theoildrum.com/node/3495)

The most obvious low-carbon solution, nuclear, has a bad history and so will not be accepted by the environmental movement for decades at minimum

Even IF the west stops all emissions, the rest of the world is not likely to follow (eg China increasing absolute emissions, even whilst increasing renewable share).

So in summary, I don't think the solution is technological, nor personal. The problem is fundamentally political, so the solution will need to be political. Solving this will require realism (eg accepting that downsides of nuclear are necessary evil to gaining the upside, accepting that poor countries don't care about your "net zero" targets until they are prosperous).
My problem with this term is it centers around parents, regardless of whether they are alive/free/sober/gainfully employed/mentally stable/etc.

But kids are going to school today and now, they cannot wait for their parents to get out of jail and get sober. These kids need solution asap and waiting for their parents to show up and get involved is a waste of time - and is a primary reason why US is failing kids from low SES and maintaining pipeline of people from hood to jail.
As a teenager I worked at a popular coffee chain. Once I started working the cash register autonomously I got very lightly reprimanded by co-workers for charging a customer (I forgot his name, this was a long time ago). They were like “oh you charged Tim? We don’t charge Tim!”. There were a couple regulars who we didn’t charge. I’m not sure if they were people on hard times or friends with the franchise owner.

It’s something I wouldn’t have expected to happen regularly before I worked there and I surmise it happens everywhere.
I want to emphasize that people also have been lived in Fukushima without problem, because it's the name of third biggest prefecture in Japan. I wish the nuclear plants had different name with smaller area name, maybe Futaba plant.
This makes me less inclined to buy NUCs in the future. I have more faith in Intel to deliver products without cutting corners than asus. I say this with my current and previous mobos both being asus. Intel NUCs were always the premium option in the micro pc market. I’m much more likely to at least look at other integrators now that it’s an Asus NUC.
> Otherwise there would be another world war

One of the two major nuclear powers is trying their damned hardest to break MAD.

Does this mean that we can hold the people working on it responsible for billions of deaths, should they succeed?

Can we hold them responsible for unprecedented crimes against humanity - today? Or can we at least get them to stop doing what they are doing, and call it even?
Seriously. GPT doing math is like using a 737 to drive around on the ground, or if you had the phone number of a prominent astrophysicist and you call him to do long division for you. Wtf is the point. We have computer things to do every math problem. It’s a waste of energy to use LLMs for it in my opinion.
reminder that telegram recently added this to their ToS

"2) For personalized ads, Telegram will analyze IP addresses, down to the city, will analyze users' interests based on search queries, subscriptions and contacts, and data "collected from other platforms."

3) Personalized ads will also appear in private channels.

4) A "list of identification numbers based on the phone numbers of platform users" will also be used for personalized ads.

Telegram states that it will not collect the above data if the user is a Telegram Premium subscriber."

promote.telegram.org still says

"This means that no user data is mined or analyzed to display ads, and every user viewing a particular channel on Telegram sees the same sponsored messages."

i wouldn't really trust a platform that went full 360° with their promises multiple times in the past and is now doing it again
Not sure how to feel about this. It can be a good thing if we get new business and companies in line with all the talent but without that it will just push down Canadian salaries even more. I guess it depends on if they have plans just as effective in encouraging VCs and entrepreneurs to invest more here.
As above, so below?
In addition to Val and Vale, there is also Vala: https://vala.dev/
Borland was the instant first thing I thought of from the title. It would be the defining example if you asked me.
Aurora Innovation Plans $600M Private Placement
I have used many kinds of NUCs from various generations and a pair of NUC8 (i.e. with Coffee Lake U CPUs) are much quieter than both the earlier and the later NUCs.

Most of the time they are completely inaudible. I have one that works 24/7 as a server in the room where I sleep. You can hear them only at full load, which in these NUCs means 50 W power for the first half minute, and then 30 W forever.

Unfortunately later Intel reverted to the use of cheaper, noisier fans. I have not used the last two generations of NUCs, so I do not know how they compare in noise.

So the various models of NUCs can differ a lot in noise.
The documentation is pretty standard, it allows users of this typeface to build out a design system that scales.
I bought for price - a max mini would have been better but ludicrously expensive.
Dropping birth rate is not a problem at all, Europe Scandinavia Australia has dropping birth rate but much better social situation.

The rest of your argument is incoherent and does not have a point, so I dont event understand what is it about.

Overpolicing is a myth, because cops are policing where crime actually happens. Doesnt make sense for police to patrol law abiding medium/high class neighborhoods if crime doesnt happen there. Police must be present where criminals live, this is actually the only correct approach
> OpenAI would not kneecap their commercial offering by randomly changing how it works.

Have you seen the 25 messages/3 hours limitation for GPT-4? Why do you think they did that? Of course they would make more money scaling up the volume, but how to do that when compute is so limited? Of course, by using some kind of approximation - quantised model or speculative sampling come to mind. It's hard to pinpoint model regressions, but scaling up volume is great, one more incentive to do it.
For reference:

3.5MW is a single largish wind turbine.

PV solar is ~200W/m2, so 17,500 square meters of solar panels.

A single nuclear reactor is commonly >1GW (1,000MW).
Would Asus or ASRock be interested in continuing the PC Engines APU2 line of low-power, fanless x86 embedded systems with coreboot?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635900#35636960

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635900#35636517
This is sad indeed, but it was already infested with low quality trolls before the Elon Musk purchase. The entire Jonathon Scott clown-fiesta was utterly embarrassing.
It's not solipsism. The idea that "you" exist is just as conceptual as physics - there is no solipsism without "you". And the idea that it "turns out to just be physics" is a concept rather than reality. It's a thought of yours, not ground truth. And labeling this "solipsism" is just falling into that trap once again. It's really a miasma of perception in the form light and shadow and color and sound and pressure and heat (which are crude conceptual labels themselves for actual experience), and thoughts emerge in this cloud of sensation, also as independent phenomena in themselves. This subjective experience is first and primary. Any structure you build on top of it is conceptual and not ground truth.

It's not solipsism or contrived, quite the opposite. It's profound. Whether we like the fact or not, or that it's not convenient to your desire to have a mathematical formulation of the world, doesn't make it any less true. To downgrade the most direct experience of reality and give primacy to the conceptual is to confuse the map with the territory.
That’s less of an issue than the price.
> The earliest known usage was by the American author Charles Astor Bristed, in a letter to the editor published in The New York Times on January 11, 1863. He used it to refer to claims that British aristocrats were intentionally weakening the United States during the American Civil War in order to advance their financial interests.

Those damn CIA time travelers.
Dask added an actor model after seeing it in Ray. I’ve used dasks in some computationally intensive applications (already had existing dask infrastructure which is why we didn’t go with rays)
I am not familiar with Replicate, but based on their website, they charge per GPU type. I didn't see the GPU type set in the example. Is it baked in as part of the "a16z-infra/llama13b-v2-chat" model?
But what's the difference? I don't see how me telling them to turn on telemetry, which they have no possible way to provide informed consent, is any different? Just feels like high-ideals to make devs feel better.

If people can't provide informed consent the dev must make the choice for them. Either do it or don't. Giving them the choice is almost more malicious.

Anyway. All this telemetry topic just feels poorly considered as a whole. Quite "hur dur telemetry bad". I've been on the other side is all.
Biggest advantage of TN is there is no annual quota which is by far the largest obstacle for most folks trying to even get in the country. Once you're in getting a transfer or obtaining eb2 is much easier bc you're going to have income to support it.
Google's. Do no evil they say
Show HN: A TSDB with REST API, MQTT, gRPC, SSH, HTTP Web Server
I smell some Amazon PR/FAQ style here
Every Software role employee at Google has two computers, a laptop and a cloudtop. I have no idea what this pilot is about but I suspect it affects the instance you ssh into and not the laptop, which is perfectly acceptable. The VM does not require "internet" access for the work done.
Okay I guess it's a timing thing because now I can reply at this level. I've always job hopped as well. I've actually only been an employee once, I prefer contract work, and a lot of times I worked 30 hours a week for free! Just because I want to come in, kill it, I get offered even more money to stay.

I've watched a lot of people though who refuse to spend any money out of pocket and aren't job hoppers, and also are resistant to do anything but the status quo. They lost out.

I would understand the resistance but ultimately if we are talking about me giving up $1 an hour to be 20% more productive, even if you stayed at a job for a year or two you are going to in my experience get a good ROI on that.

A good recent example is ChatGPT. I know some not so great programmers who I told "Hey this can really make a big difference for you as far as learning goes". Not saying to use the code, but just to ask it "How do I do X?".

They are like "Nah, I don't care". Well that's fine but I think that's a loser mentality, and it has only worked because coders have been in such incredible demand you can be pretty bad and still earn 6 figures.
Not sure if the Wayback Machine supports API-based on-demand archival, but they do partner with firms like Cloudflare to auto archive websites: https://archive.is/O9SAO

There's availability API but it won't tell us if the archived webpage does indeed display content (say, if it was behind a paywall or cookie banner): https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php

archive.is, which breaks past some of the paywalls, apparently (haven't tried it myself) supports the Memento protocol: https://github.com/palewire/archiveis/blob/master/archiveis/...
Increasing the amount of parking spaces seems to me like it would further exacerbate the problem of car centrism. Houston will often preach “just one more highway lane. That’ll reduce congestion” but it does the opposite. If we want to reduce the amount of parking, we need to make the alternatives to driving more attractive. That is - investing in public transit, bike paths, and cities that allow anyone to walk no more than 20 minutes to a grocery store.
> I think his message of peace and diplomacy over endless interventionist wars and healing the divide are gaining traction.

It's the right message at the wrong time. It sure sounds noble, "peace". But as an ally to a defending party, it essentially means leaving Ukraine to fend for themselves against Russia's invasion - which would actually be expanding the war. I've made many attempts at following these arguments that Russia is somehow a reluctant party here, and they just never add up. They're always full of assertions hyperlinked to supporting posts that don't actually check out as being true. (But if you don't dig, I can see how they would be persuasive)

And just for reference, I was against the Iraq War even before the invasion. I routinely call the US an "empire". I've been generally against the casual US meddling in various foreign countries that is now characterized as the "forever war". But I also understand that it's fallacious to focus on the US as the only possible aggressor, and this situation seems like a straightforward case of Ukraine wanting to avoid being re-subjugated by the Russian empire by choosing to align with the looser business empire of the West. If anything, all of these narratives against helping Ukraine by echoing criticisms of the Iraq War just feel like more terrible consequences of that misadventure.

I am all for peace and ending the war in Ukraine. But this is not an American political issue, but rather a Russian one.
IPv6 Deployment Status
Yeah you could do that, I'm just baffled that these guys think they'll be able to monitor something like this being used to augment anything for that matter
It's funny and sad how the NUC started as a super small form factor device but eventually ended up as mini-ITX. Intel's own models have been mini-itx for years now.

That said, I see zero reason to buy anything Intel as AMD is spanking them pretty much everywhere. That may change soon if rumours of hoarding all the latest EXE machines are true.
4. no loginwall for post and profile
That kind of depends on how your "management folks" react to "being scared."

Not everybody survives after telling unexpected or inconvenient truths to the monarch.
The sad fact is that the ruling class could profit much more by opening up visas for skilled workers. You only hire workers and pay them because they make you more money than they cost. Business literally doesn’t work if that’s not true. Every visa you deny a skilled worker is lowered economic activity.

Our visa policies directly hinder economic growth. And in the most absurd ways imaginable. H1B is tied to an employer. If your startup goes under you’re out. If you get laid off you’re out. I’d you want to switch jobs lawyers have to get involved.

It’s a lottery once a year so tons of skilled workers sit on their hands waiting. Then most don’t get in because… lottery.

I literally couldn’t invent a more useless and stupid visa system if I tried.
Library of my most useful GPT-4 Prompts
Maybe someone with more knowledge than me can explain - flatpaks seem way more secure than anything you would ever install in Windows by a long shot. It's also fairly trivial for me (and I'm by no means a hardcore user) to use a completely immutable version of linux such as Silverblue. The other complaints in these links also seem suspect. If the Linux kernel is insecure due to it being monolithic doesn't that make ChromeOS just as insecure? What about android? What about the "96.3% of the top one million web servers [that] are running Linux"?

Also there's something to be said for security through obscurity. My bet is I could go through my entire junk mail folder opening all attachments on Linux without a problem, but it'd take me less than 10 on windows to be fully owned. If you're careful on Linux aren't you far, far safer than if you're careful on Windows?
I stand corrected on the origin of the term but I stand by the claim that it was weaponized by the CIA to counter those who questioned the official JFK assassination narrative.

Here is the 1967 CIA dispatch on the Warren Commission with details:

https://steemit.com/history/@thelastheretik/cia-coined-and-w...
Because we know we learn from others so we also offer. Constructive reciprocity.

Not dissimilar from sharing code.
After owning and using the same shield since 2016 I was advising to get it if anyone asked for a streaming and local playback of media. But now days I think Apple TV beats it easily as a streaming device. If Apple moved to an M chip and added audio passthrough it would be no contest. I would not advise people to get Shield if they want to get a device for the next 5-6 years unless it has a hardware refresh.
Load Balancing in WASM Libraries
Humans are pumping out so much groundwater that it's changing Earth's tilt
I'd first want to get some estimates for the cumulative costs of somehow supporting the likely X% of guests where The Dang Thing Just Doesn't Work, or individuals who don't own a smartphone or groups without "enough" smartphones.

If every location is gonna keep a big basket of backup keys and backup remotes anyway... Well, having a single consistent lower-tech approach might well be cheaper.
> cops are policing where crime actually happens.

Alternatively, crime happens where police are.

Eg. Police might excessively arrest in particular communities as a form of overbearing bullying .. and the arrest and conviction rates in these areas climb.

There is much written about this, your take in your comment above seems naive at best.

The world is rarely as first order simple as you appear to believe it to be.

Of interest (although admittedly not all that compelling as it's a small rich unicorn area)

Crime Rate Goes Down After Half A Cop Shop Quits

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/17/if-the-crime-rate-goes-d...
> as small a form factor as possible

This is what I want. And the Mac Mini does it better than the nuc as the power bricks the Nucs use are big, ugly and annoying to deal with.
Do you get what you pay for? Are the executives that get paid $50M/year bringing in >$40M/year more than one who only asks for $10M/year? On average?

This seems like a question that can be answered with data. My gut feeling is no, based on how bankers kept their golden parachutes intact during the Great Recession, but maybe I'm wrong.
Well if they lie so readily and deeply, debunk their arguments themselves. It shouldn't be difficult. It's tiresome to see constant dismissals of points of views based on an obsession with bias. Bias is inherent to most organizations and people, so weight of argument and its evidence is what should count. Going on about the GOP doesn't help either, it shuts down debate dishonestly and ignores the simple fact that many sources from the left of the spectrum are no less capable of dishonest arguments, lies and forcing through their views, complexities be damned.

edit: Also, there's nothing inherently evil or nasty about this organization having the views it does. Their being divergent from progressive liberal views, such as those espoused by many organizations with a left bias, doesn't make them shitty per se.
fe de ratas, the above should read

blx r6 @ invoke block argument with byte, then

those responsible for this error have been sacked

years ago, in fact
yea same with windows having to open that command prompt to run random commands to fix issues