skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gradually went from 17” to 15” to 13” laptops for my personal machines.

The main thing I miss is the expansive keyboards on the bigger machines. The 17” ones even had a number pad, and some my 15” ones did too.

My current work laptop is a 15” Thinkpad P15 Gen2 with an i9-11950H, 64gb of ram, and an rtx 3080 mobile. It’s a beast but very reasonably sized for its specs. It’s a little bit chunky but I wouldn’t expect anything less with a high performance cpu and gpa. Lots of ports, 15” OLED display. I love it, even if the battery life is abysmal. It’s a workstation.

But my personal machine needs to be small enough to throw in a bag and not think about, so its a Ryzen powered thinkpad X13. The screen is a little dim and the battery life is way worse than a comparable dell XPS 13, but it was inexpensive and does everything I need. The major downside to the size is the keyboard is also shrunk, so lots of typing sucks.

The biggest problem with both machines, and its true of all thinkpads, is that Lenovo put the function button on the leftmost of the lowest row instead of ctrl button and I often try to copy paste and accidentally hit the function key instead of control. I ended up getting a mouse with some extra buttons and I’ve assigned one of them as ctrl instead, but it would be better if the ctrl button would just be where it was supposed to be.
This one is tame compared with a whole industry of "data privacy" popups which hide "Legitimate Interest" opt-outs within Vendor lists containing hundreds of entries. Someone needs to slap some serious lawsuits on these gangsters.
Yes, though as I understand it, that still leaves a public record. Also, I looked into it when I got married, and the sense that I got was that name changes for men are logistically challenging.
There isn't going to be an exact process. The answer is, they say so, and someone else can make his own library if he doesn't like their choices.
> I feel we've been collectively losing the battle to keep our conversations private.

The USA is still doing pretty good but the UK and the EU are staunchly anti privacy. They're pretty good on consumer privacy but don't believe that privacy from the government should exist.
The problem isn't Capitalism. In Capitalism we can simply buy our services and anyone who can fund can play.

What is happening when a bank refuses to do business with someone, when App stores ban a twitter clone and prevent sideloading, is not Capitalism. It's ideological. It's about service to an end outside just capital.

Capitalism is the only system that freedom of speech can exist under. No Communist or Socialist author has ever entertained a freedom of speech concept - it is contrary to a centralized government. Such systems can not even handle mild political dissent and must (both in the theoretical and practical) literally kill or exile anyone pushing against the central authority.

Capitalism can always tolerate disagreement because disagreement is profitable.
Florida girl awarded $800k for McDonald's Chicken McNugget burn
even if a vaccine has passed all the required clinical trials for america's FDA to certify it, if and when you release it on a population you can still find things to be wrong with it, or effects its having that weren't understood. this is how all of medicine works, to try and dismiss the complexity of biology is a detraction from honesty itself. long term safety studies of vaccines, especially those given in early childhood, need to be used to determine that they don't cause harm, worse than the disease they're meant to prevent, 10-20 years down the line.

can you explain what i've detracted from this conversation? the nuance is appropriate. the complexity belongs as a natural part of the conversation.

your oversimplifications are more dangerous than the so called "detractions" that you haven't given a proper example of.
> the lack of testing

Having worked on very long-running projects, testing or well-funded QA doesn’t tend to save you from organizational issues.

What typically seems to happen is tests rot, as tests often seem to have a shelf life. Eventually some subset of the tests start to die - usually because of some combination of dependency issues, API expectations changes, security updates, account and credential expirations, machine endpoint and state updates, and so on - and because the results from the test no longer indicate correctness of the program, and the marginal business value of fixing one individual broken test is typically very low, they often either get shut off entirely, or are “forced to pass” even if they ought to be an error.

Repeat for a decade or two and there quickly start being “the tests we actually trust”, and “the tests we’re too busy to actually fix or clean up.”

Which tests are the good ones and bad ones quickly become tribal knowledge that gets lost with job and role changes, and at some point, the mass of “tests that are lying that they’re working” and “tests we no longer care to figure out if they’re telling the truth that they’re failing” itself becomes accidentally load-bearing.
Given the possibility of invisible and essentially free screening of private conversations, the analogy is probably more "install cameras in every home that only the government can access". But we promise, they'll be turned off most of the time.
I was surprised by your pronoun usage, then I clicked on your profile. Reminded me to think of the ambiguity of the English "you", in contrast to "I"/"we".

Edit: To add a bit to the topic. Tetrachromy seems a quite interesting example for "superhuman" sensory ability. Normal people have three cone cells, and the maximum/minimum activation of each cell gives rise to 2^3=8 "primary" subjectively dissimilar colors: 000 (black), 001 (blue), 010 (green), 011 (cyan), 100 (red), 101 (magenta), 110 (yellow), 111 (white). All the others look like blends of the former. But for tetrachromy there are 2^4=16 different such "primary" colors. That's a substantial difference.
Authoritarian regimes have lots of infrastructure in place to censor http(s) traffic, and at least China is getting quite good at restricting tor usage. Meanwhile they probably don't have much in place to ban specific minecraft servers, and their deep packet inspection might not cover Minecraft books. There's value in using obscure technologies.
I was using "multithreading" as a shorthand for "making use of multiple CPU hardware threads".
Google don't fully remove you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=lfgss

That will return the website as a first result (I run https://www.lfgss.com/ )... but no description or metadata. Lots of tangential results talking about it... the first result is more like a shadow profile, a more fact an exact domain match exists but nothing more.

Two months ago I had almost 7 million pages indexed from that site.

For this community, it was their objection to their content being used to train AI that caused them to request me (the owner / admin) to exclude bots. I surveyed more widely, presented arguments in a balanced way, then when the result was overwhelming I hard blocked all known bots and useragents and pretty much everything that looks like a bot and user agent.

It's early anecdata, but sign-up rates have not been impacted at all.

Several other communities I've run have taken similar decisions.

Defensively with the UK Online Security Bill some of the other communities I run are considering similar things.

Feels like the end of an era, communities seeking to protect themselves from external threats, and search engines providing as little value as search pre-Google.
> I think one barrier to better engineering programs in universities is that there typically is an onerous set of "accreditation requirements" which prevents significant modification of the curriculum to adapt to modern needs.

This seems to be rapidly dissolving, at least in California. Several schools including Stanford, Cal Tech, and several of the UCs have dropped ABET accreditation for most of their programs in recent years, with more likely to follow as they come up for renewal.
COVID is not a good model for the Spanish influenza.

I highly recommend The Great Influenza:

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Influenza-Deadliest-Pandemic-Hi...

We were so desperately lucky. It was not "like covid".
That's how I read it as too.

Cheers.
In theory, it's intended for things like officers going to the bathroom, or when interviewing witnesses who don't want to be on camera due to concerns about retalliation or discussing sensitive stuff like a rape.

In practice, it's often used less... wholesomely, as you'd expect.
Same, neat little effect. Thinking it could be fun to use this in conjunction with like a BBS ascii based door or something.
While obviously an opinion piece,these kinds of deranged articles are dangerous IMO.

Between the two authors, one is a spokesman for a free-market thinktank, the other is a pop scientist known for writing books on the debunked parallel universe theories.

This kind of "oh we'll figure it out" kind of attitude is why every major nation's plan for climate change includes the imaginary technology of carbon capture.

We have about 20% of mineral reserves required for a full green energy conversion.[1] These type of think tank grifters(I'm sorry I cannot think of a better term for these people) have a single goal, to throw us all over the cliff of climate change while enabling their patrons to extract as much value from us on the way down.

Due to this prevailing "we'll figure it out" opinion, every major country in the world has increased their carbon emissions, continues to destroy environments, and overall has done very little to counter pollution, emissions, and fossil fuel usage as a whole. Oh you're going to mine at the bottom of the ocean? Sure, that sounds about as likely as Musk actually sending himself to Mars.

But here's the thing, we didn't figure it out! The polar vortex jet stream has been interrupted, we've broken an extremely important meteorological system due to the endless search for growth, and these people want us to do more growing! more profit! At what cost? We still pretend like carbon capture will save us, that telling the average joe to recycle will save us, that driving a Tesla will somehow make a difference, despite still constructing our lives around driving cars.

We can't keep pretending like pure consumption is a good thing, or that the free market will save us. The free market is inherently reactionary, it doesn't plan for the future, it doesn't care where you'll be 10 years from now, it's a silly little state machine where numbers go in, and hopefully bigger numbers come out without regard for peripheral side effects.

God I'm so tired of these ghouls.

[1] https://youtu.be/MBVmnKuBocc?t=2605
[] https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to...
How to retrieve packet drop reasons in the Linux kernel
> being a martyr and refusing to play it is just giving up potential benefit for virtue signalling

I don't know about this guy, but it might not be virtue signaling. It might be that he simply doesn't want to take part in that "game". So what if he's giving up some potential benefit? Not all benefit is worth the cost.
Facetime is disabled in China, and on any phones purchased in China.

iMessage worked, last I went there.
Google, the same company that provides a litany of fine grained cookie retention options in its User Agent’s options page? Except thanks to the government’s antagonistic policies (read: big-media’s lobbying) those are useless as you need to keep on clicking the damn pop ups every time you visit a page “anew”.

Also never forget we already had a perfectly good solution in the form of Do Not Track headers that a benevolent governing body would have simply mandated abiding by. Instead we have this shithole.
This is great. It reminds me that I tried to recreate this effect with Turbo Pascal back in the 90’s when I first got into programming.

Sneakers, Wargames, and BBS culture were pretty influential for me at the time.
Less Is More: Why Use Retrieval Instead of Larger Context Windows
And you know for a fact that they never communicated with Facebook and just banned them out of the blue?

Or is this just speculation (fitting considering the source)?
It's a bit odd that exculpatory bodycam footage tends to be a lot faster to be able to get through that abysmal and overcomplex, failure-prone process.
Okay, but now try "what's the best gaming laptop?" or something similar. This is the sort of query that, at one time, would unearth some nerd's web site alongside PCWorld or whatever.

Now it's seven pages of nearly identical listicles, some of which are on bizarre domains like "DougsAutoBodyAndFlowerShop.com", and all of which are festooned with ads, also provided by Google.
A video essay on Alvin Toffler and how technology has dramatically transformed society in only ways in which he predict, including the rise of the hybrid and remote work environments and the fall of corporate paternalism.
MLC LLM: 70B Llama-2-4bit on MacBook at 50%-80% speed of A100
Yes, I focused mostly on the lack of benefit, but even for a single stream, size is another important cost.
I think you underestimate the power consumption of streaming video compared to what a VR headset already does. I mean, they already Chromecast the feed if you so choose.

I will say that Meta is fairly aware of their reputation. The TOS is clear that they do not upload or share any video capture and they seem committed to it. As it is now, all the scene understanding is done on device.
This is definitely not the case, the team behind Pik is eager to get JPEG XL deployed, but Chrome is blocking it.
Only 4 US cities have fully recovered from the pandemic based on cell phone data
Seriously, fuck pancreatic cancer. My best friend died of it in Oct 2020. I've had 10+ people I know (or someone that I know know) die of it. It's my worst fear, cancer-wise.
South Park from the future: a fully AI-generated TV show series via simulation
P2P does not require blockchain or a new token. Web3 is yet another solution looking for a problem that's better solved in other ways.
Compared to a 20 hour single player game for 70 USD? Let's break it down.

a subscription to an MMORPG for example ; 15 bucks a month, 5 hours a month = 3 bucks per hour. this is basically uncapped. if you only play 5 hours, then you're paying 3/hr - if you do more (say 10 hours a week = 40 hours a month) then the value goes up and cost goes down.

a single player game; 70 bucks, 20 hours = 3.5 bucks per hour. Plus an extra 5-10 hour for another 40-70 bucks DLC to extend the experience

i don't have time to grind out an overwatch2 hero in 30 hours, nor am i going to pay for one. i'd rather pay for a 15 bucks subscription for 1 month, then if i want to, then cancel.
Probably depends on your market. I think I get about 20% of my traffic from Google. It's about on par with Baidu and DDG.
Thanks. We've got a lot planned on that front - like auto-translating templates to different languages, generating themes with GPT, etc.

So many possibilities!
Actually, right now I'm thinking about whether cold pizza is still edible.

mjpeg streams are still popular in machine-vision use-cases. And you can be fairly certain your webcam has that codec built-in if the device was made in the past 15 years. Note most media/gpu hardware is now integrated into modern browsers. =)
> In my opinion a cop breaking the law is much more egregious than a civilian breaking the same law because the cop betrayed the public trust.

Yes. It should be an aggravating circumstance in charging/sentencing akin to hate crime enhancements.
If the interval followed a sequence of prime numbers, factorials, or exponentials, this could be the only explanation and every astronomer would lose their mind, even more because it's 15K light years away, so there's no way to send a probe to it. As of now, the signal is ambiguous enough to let them keep their minds unblown.
> cut alot of middle companies out of the payments industry

Those middle companies have lobbyist representation and the govt has no intention of cutting any companies out of the payments industry.
I've seen this SO many times. "We'll spin up this server that renders thumbnails of images for the UI."... months pass... "Hey why don't we use the thumbnail server to create low-res images for our marketing emails".... months pass... "The UI doesn't show thumbnails anymore so we can tear out the thumbnail server"
I was going to say that I know someone who went to jail for sharing pictures of under-age porn. It happens.

(But Apple is in the right in this case.)
i fail to explain how they differ so you are probably right
> learn how to turn requirements into code. A boot camp grad has a leg up here.

We did that in undergrad, most of my friends and I are leading small teams a few short years after graduation. We found that people without CS degrees can't handle ambiguity, and need a lot of hand holding to get things done, but maybe bootcamp grads are different.

> Senior - they can figure out what needs to be done (high ambiguity), lead multiple teams (scope and impact).

I am doing that, on AWS, one of the most important projects of the org, even though on-paper I don't have a lot of "experience".

I, the cs grad with an MSc, was the only one who could show that what the seniors wanted to do was [fundamentally] impossible - because this is very exotic CS knowledge. I delivered an approach - on time - that actually worked, when all senior engineers said it would take months. I was the only one who found a way out, and it leveraged all of my diverse - and at times exotic - knowledge and background.

> At higher levels, you need to know more about architecture and design. Even in large tech companies, being a good developer and knowing algorithms only distinguishes junior and a mid level developer

Ehhh, when you try to solve NP-Hard (or worse) problems, it is good to have people who can identify reductions and implement the right kind of algorithms. When the complexity (hah!) of the task is so enormous that exact solutions are impossible and you need to involve exotic stuff, neither design nor architecture can compensate.

To design a good system you need proper knowledge of what you are solving, no amount of engineering and architecture can get around a bad solution to a problem you don't understand.
Think of it more as an alternative method to fulfill the kinds of things that ACH and Wire Transfers are used for. You'll probably never see 'this is a fednow function' on any consumer facing documentation, but billpay, payroll etc will use it.
Technically, I do as well, but it's baked into my cell phone bill. I think I get something like 10,000 SMS messages/mo without incurring an extra charge, and the extra charge if I go over is small.
Most of the people who are going to be let go are pretty talented and hopefully fairly flexible. They'll find work, maybe not at the salaries that they were getting before, but this has happened many times before.
> Reality requires bias.

There's only one reality.

> We have limited compute power, and limited time.

Simplified models of reality don't need to be biased. Unless you consider every viewpoint to be a kind of bias, which is really stretching the term.
> arguably can be useful, but it's more of a stretch and it almost comes hand-in-hand with revolutionaries.

i disagree with most of this sentence. i can't find any use case that isn't niche, or else backing currencies mostly used to buy drugs or evade Chinese anti-corruption laws. and "revolutionaries" is laughable -- they're mostly white collar bros who think they understand tech and economics but keep getting fleeced.

AI has some scary implications, and we've been able to articulate what those are for a while now.
Bacterial Pneumonia was not the novel danger of the "Spanish" flu; They cytokine storm it caused in perfectly healthy people was horrifying, with perfectly healthy people who would normally fight off any flu dying from this one. A lot of young twenty somethings, strong people who were not malnourished died from it.

Hell, people got cytokine storms from COVID-19 and we still can only treat it if we catch it really early, otherwise it's still a great way to die for a normal person.
Seeing that every non Chinese social media company was banned and that Zuckerberg later tried to get back into China

> In 2018, Facebook attempted to set up a $30 million subsidiary in Hangzhou to incubate startups and give advice to local businesses. Permission to run the startup was quickly withdrawn

Do you really think that Facebook is out of China for any moral reason?
Starting with hand planes, dovetail/carcass saws, and chisels... and then moving to a table/bandsaw, jointer, planer etc. IS the best way to learn woodworking. Diving into riving wood, green joinery, etc. brings you to the next level.

Power tools are accelerators, not fundamental tools. Your analogy of woodworking is excellent, but I believe you draw the wrong conclusion from it.
Right now, you hold your money digitally with a bank. The bank holds its money digitally with the Fed. If your bank caught fire, the bank and its insurers would be responsible for getting you your money back.

A CBDC would mean cutting out the bank - you would hold your money digitally with the Fed, and the Fed would be liable for it.

FedNow creates a ledger that allows two banks holding their money digitally with the Fed make an instant transfer. You never become a direct customer of the Fed, but your bank and the bank of the person you're exchanging money with - both already Fed customers - have a quicker way to record the transfer.

The only relation between FedNow and a CBDC is that the Fed is involved, and, like, computers, I guess? Other than that, their mechanisms and effects have very little in common.
Dear Alt-Twitter designers: It's about the network
It's possible to use local storage or Aws s3, Azure, Google Cloud to store files.
When storing locally it makes all the documents 100% owned by you - but in some cases companies might want to bring a third party files storages to ensure the integrity of the documents.

But as was mentioned before in the comments - maybe bringing AWS QLDB as a third party to ensure the consistency of data with a local files storages is the best option. This way all documents can be logged with a third party so they can't be altered - while to content of the documents won't be shared with any third party.
While we haven't built Linux binaries yet (waiting to make sure we have _fast_ GPU support before publishing a Linux and Windows binaries) it does run on Linux. For example it's used to create and publish the "library" images (e.g. "llama2") on a linux server today

If you have the Go toolchain installed, there are some steps from building it from source here: https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama#building
I did something like that a year ago for mine (but never published it), complete with scanlines, glow, and beam scan effect. It also handles images as well, making them monochrome, tinted, and subject to scanline bleeding as well. All in CSS so it's very fake but somewhat convincing, and probably not the most optimal way to do it (CPU is like 40% pegged)
That's really cool! I always thought you needed a good amount of GPU VRAM to generate images using SD.

I wonder how fast would a consumer PC, with no GPU, generate an image with say 16gb of RAM?
> The anti-encryption laws are likely vocally opposed only by a minority, while the majority believes they had no privacy to begin with and governments can read your messages at a whim

Traditionally, couldn't they with texts? And with all the major social media players?

Isn't stuff like Signal they can't track relatively new and getting outlawed in many places?
I manage a network of news websites. We've played with few and currently using WordAssistant.org/news-ai. I wonder how will it compare to existing tools.