skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I vote with my wallet.

The Framework laptop is my choice. It is not the best in every category, but it is mine.

I didn't like the weak hinges, I replaced them. I can replace the battery when I need. I can upgrade the memory or hard disk, or motherboard or screen when I need.

The thing with Apple is that their way of vertical tech integration results in highly polished, non-standard, unservicable machines. They are nice, but not worth the trade of ownership for me.
None, we've been building OpenCopilot for the last few months and it seems they beat us with the launch by a few days. I do hope they do well cus we believe a world where copilots can be built with open-source is a much better one vs built on a closed MS, etc. stack.
This doesn't seem very comprehensive. As far as I'm aware, every county publishes this information. If I go to my own tax authority's website and search for myself, all of my property tax records come up. But if I enter in my name here, only one state shows up and whoever this is is not me. My name is pretty common, too, so this guy is definitely not the only US homeowner other than me who has this name.
I have no idea at all how I made that typo, or how I missed it as I proofread multiple times.
Hopefully getting it some attention here works out ok. :)
And when I can’t join a call because the Wi-Fi has stopped working I’m sure everyone will appreciate that distinction
Projective Reality > Mythologies of Intelligence
That's a good data-point, because a few people were speculating that with the PG&E new proposed fee structure (lower per kWh charges coupled with a income-indexed flat monthly fee), the most wealthy would choose to opt-out of the grid instead of paying the fee, and this could trickle down until the grid was unsustainable.
Given it's still a mystery, could an enterprising PhD student or prof could make this their primary research focus, formulate a plausible explanation, get published in an academic journal, communicate their findings to the lay audience via an insubstantive book on the subject that would have been better off as an article in The New Yorker or something, and subsequently appear on the Huberman podcast to talk about how to optimize caffeine consumption for optimal defecation?
> "We should delete data so that people get upset" is just shy of "we should shoot some kids so people will finally get upset".

Excuse me? Since when is shooting kids _just shy of_ deleting data. And no the rest of your comment doesn't pull that argument together.
That's largely right. Getting semver version solving into Nix core itself is a goal of ours. FlakeHub implements it server-side because landing it in Nix without proving it out conceptually would be really hard, and also -- in my opinion -- reckless. Trying these things out in the world without committing the project to it long term is a good thing.
> I tried looking at the Pixel for the Vanilla Android experience and long support, yet it seems like people are fighting battery life issues all the time.

I have the opposite experience. A few months ago a friend of mine had to buy a new iphone because their phone couldn't hold a charge. Shortly after they received their new phone, towards the evening, they remarked how happy they were that their new iphone (literally a few days old) still had 36% charge after most of a day's usage. I looked at my 2.5 year old (at the time) pixel 4a and I still had 84% charge.

> having to live with endless amounts of compromises just to get away from Apple.

Having basic system functionality, such as GPU accelerated OpenGL, Vulkan, or OpenGL ES, seems like a catastrophic compromise. Like I can compromise about how the widgets of application foo and the widgets of application bar don't match each other, I couldn't care less. But no Vulkan support? Forgetaboutit.
This is true. In the spirit of the project it might be good to add a predefined map function.

`(map li (eval "cat file"))`

Where `file` is newline separated text, and li is applied to each line, and the full string is returned.

For this example
```
(func ul "<ul>{0}< /ul>")
(func li "<li>{0}< /li>")
(ul (map li (eval "cat file")))
```
Would return each line of the file nested in a `li` tag nested in a `ul`
An iterator type is being actively worked on now. After that presumably the missing data types in the standard library will be filled out (set, deque, a usable heap, whatever other algorithms). After that, who knows. Maybe native bigints?

I don’t really see the enum thing happened. Is lack of enums a real problem? Theoretically, it would be convenient, but I can’t say that I see bugs caused by its lack.
With an internet business it's usually with ads
Uh...I have never met someone who intentionally had a beaten-up-looking bike nor who dressed down to avoid being robbed. That sounds horrible.
I’ll credit both sides with the stubbornness. Apple had many years of poor integrated GPUs (arguably Intel’s fault) and even mediocre dedicated GPU options (due to a rift with NVidia).

Apple also fully dropped 32-bit support, breaking a lot of older games that had been ported to Mac on Steam.

Even Windows running on ARM has emulation for 32-bit x86 apps.

On Valve’s side they gave very little love to the Steam client on Mac and didn’t bother to update their own games (Half Life, Portal, Counterstrike, etc) to 64-bit to keep them working on Macs.

The biggest thing that has changed is now Apple ships much better GPU power even in its cheapest Macs. They still aren’t equivalent to dedicated gaming PCs but are plenty to run a huge library of casual and older games, if only there were a convenient and well-maintained path to running them.
A 5x battery life improvement seems like the baseline had some issues, unless your MacBook goes like a week without charging.
I feel like death is a one way function. If you suffer some catastrophic event but come back, you were unconscious, not dead. I know doctors like the term clinically dead but I feel like it doesn't make a lot of sense. then again I'm not a doctor..
Has he even talked to the team about any of the features he introduced?
Yep, currently gpt-3.5-16k or gpt-4. We wrote the example prompts in a relatively Llama-compatible way though (we actually started building this onto Llama 1 before switching to OpenAI as default), and make few assumptions about the LLM so it's easy to switch out. Mostly this is waiting behind us adding an option to pass in any LLM, and we're planning to add support for this.

Generally, we leave the LLM up to the user -- if OpenAI or Google is a no-go, then you probably are anyway in the territory of self-hosting or even self-training your LLM, which means you're fine setting up your own inference endpoints as well.
Digital_Man/Digital_World: The Story of Ken Olsen and DEC (2011) [video]
- "Of particular concern was a plan to quarantine all researchers exposed to modified H5N1 at home, even if they were at high risk of infection — an approach that the funding agency administrators found so alarming that..."

They're already relying on researchers to self-report exposure incidents, so what other, better policy could they aspire to? Attach any negative deterrent to incident reporting, and people will simply not report things, for their own convenience. The empirical evidence for this is more overwhelming than physics' QED theory.

Pretending that their lab technicians will dutifully and conscientiously self-report exposures is exactly the same security surface as pretending that they will dutifully and correctly self-quarantine at home.
I hate any kind of vibrating alert and have disabled them for years.
From https://phys.org/news/2023-08-physicists-year-old-theorem-re... :

> The work, led by Xiaofeng Qian, assistant professor of physics at Stevens and reported in the August 17 online issue of Physical Review Research, also proves for the first time that a light wave's degree of non-quantum entanglement exists in a direct and complementary relationship with its degree of polarization. As one rises, the other falls, enabling the level of entanglement to be inferred directly from the level of polarization, and vice versa. This means that hard-to-measure optical properties such as amplitudes, phases and correlations—perhaps even these of quantum wave systems—can be deduced from something a lot easier to measure: light intensity.

> [..] Qian's team interpreted the intensity of a light as the equivalent of a physical object's mass, then mapped those measurements onto a coordinate system that could be interpreted using Huygens' mechanical theorem. "Essentially, we found a way to translate an optical system so we could visualize it as a mechanical system, then describe it using well-established physical equations," explained Qian.

> Once the team visualized a light wave as part of a mechanical system, new connections between the wave's properties immediately became apparent—including the fact that entanglement and polarization stood in a clear relationship with one another.
You presume too much on what I currently own and have owned. Tesla's software is far superior even with its weaknesses.
Is the Library of Congress still preserving tweets? Seems like that's probably gone to the wayside with all the API restrictions and what not?
Does anyone have experience how IntelliJ runs on this machine?
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We’re finalizing the lineup but in short: we want to ditch the blah blah and get straight to the point, to maximize everyone’s time.

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That's an impressive amount of space used for ads: https://ibb.co/hghR6XM
I bought a MacBook Pro in 2013 and my mom bought a Dell XPS at around the same time. Her laptop died, she got a Lenovo Yoga. That one died within a year and was replaced for free. The new one died after two years.
When the M1 Air came out I gave her the old MacBook Pro, which she still uses every day, going strong (aside from battery life, but it's mostly plugged in).

It has essentially outlived 4 Windows laptops. I expect the M1 Air to still be relevant in a decade, as well.
> i don't really think it solves the greenhouse gas problem by itself or even comes close.

Well, yeah...ok, everyone rides around on bikes. Someone has to make the bike. Is it done by hand? How do you scale that to 8B people? Or is it done by a scaled industrial process, and if so, how do you power this?

The answer to these questions isn't to limit technology, it's to limit population. The scale of our population is the cause of all of these strange threshold-breaking externalities we're now facing. And you can't point at the technology and say "SEE?! It's ruining everything!"

The technology is just a companion to our population. Real primitivists should be arguing for drastically reduced population (however that is achieved ethically), not a reduction of technology.
"Living comfortably" is obviously a subjective metric, but that is the general goal. Most people don't want equality of outcome in which everyone's life is exactly the same. Some range of wealth inequality is permissible in many people's minds, including mine.

I think the problem with your hypothetical is that increasing wealth inequality generally comes at the expense of someone. It isn't simply that the billionaires' wealth grows faster than the wealth of the poorest. Often the billionaire is a billionaire because they have taken advantage of an unequal system which has real victims.

Wealth inequality also leads to other issues of fairness that go beyond living conditions. For example, impact on the environment is one. That $100m yacht you mention will have a huge carbon cost. There is also a concern of political power in a democracy with free speech. If a billionaire can afford to plaster their political message on every TV network, radio station, and social media site, will that give them an outsized role in a democracy that is meant to grant political equality to all? This unequal distribution of political power can easily create a feedback loop that allows these billionaires to use their wealth to capture more wealth and political power.
I don't have any independent data, just what Tesla reports: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

I've read the many critiques of Tesla's analysis, and I tend to agree the benefits are overstated, but I haven't seen any reasonable empirical case that Autopilot hurts safety on net.
Teams was a classic hellhole for me when I was using Linux. Nowadays it lets you in but Firefox genuinely doesn't support all of the features the Teams site uses. This means certain features are made unavailable to Firefox users. Forcing the user agent makes some of these partially work but they are also still broken so Mozilla doesn't want to enable a user agent override by default and Microsoft doesn't want to enable a feature that only half works. This GitHub WebCompat issue serves as a good example history https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/77892

Haven't used Zoom in browser much so can't say what one can find there. I just run the desktop app. It's definitely something where you can go a few years with everything working fine then suddenly hit like 4 sites where you're like "wtf, why is shit so broken?". Chipotle and similar joints' online order pages were another place that would spontaneously break.
Both men are trained in martial arts and have competed in fights in the past in those disciplines. It's hard to describe the draw to someone that hasn't trained seriously or participated in that type of physical contest but it lets you understand yourself and someone else very deeply. There is a reason so many fighters will hug after a match, it's because in that moment you understand things about the other person that very few other people ever will. It started as a joke, gained some steam, and fizzled out, but I fully understand why they would want to do it.
"Bridging coherence optics and classical mechanics: A generic light polarization-entanglement complementary relation" (2023)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033110
>This puts a halt to the unsupportable increases in demand for housing and other resources.

What happens when the prices of homes (where most people's entire retirement savings are held) stop increasing, or heaven forbid, fall? What happens to the real estate and construction sector (which is a massive portion of our economy)? How do we support our social services with no population growth? We're in a catch 22, that's the issue.
This looks fun - but I just can't get past the Clarkson-like delivery that everyone seems to have these days.
I recently bought a Sony Xperia 10 IV and the battery easily lasts 4 days. Performance is great too, at least for my usage (I don't play games on the phone though).
What are the tools people use to draw diagrams? I've tried many things and settled on Miro on an iPad (infinite canvas + pencil), but I still think this space is underinvested in.

The downside of diagrams from code is the loss of the wysiwyg aspect -- I want to be able to manipulate things visually.
I don’t even want to hear about possibilities anymore. I just want things made public when it’s here already or available for use right now.
> _clearly_ spent a lot of time and resources to make third-party OSes viable on Apple Sillicon Macs.

This actually isn't clear to me -- can you explain? Besides keeping an open bootloader [0], I'm not aware of any affirmative actions Apple has taken.

[0]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Open-OS-Ecosystem-on...
Tesla pricing is wild. A base Model 3 is $40k. Increase that price by 50% to $60k if you want FSD beta and a color other than black or white.
South Africa is a dirt-poor nation that's suffered decades of colonialism and apartheid.

What's our excuse for our rampant homelessness? At least the thieves there have homes to steal solar panels for... (though, last time I was there, shantytowns were still common too).

And speaking of brokenness and theft... my god, look at the West Coast cities during/after COVID. It's heartbreaking, especially while our "country" keeps getting richer on paper. Extreme inequality was terrible for South Africa. It'll be terrible for us too =/
If you look the other way around (which is more relevant anyways), you can compile Mesa for Windows. However I'm pretty sure only the software renderer is available because Mesa is not capable of interfacing with the Windows kernel driver, as all the other drivers are coupled with Linux driver interfaces, iirc. (At least I'm quite certain this is the case for AMD.)

I'm also quite certain the proprietary NVIDIA driver shares a ton of code between Windows and Linux.
Of course Snowden showed us that agencies regularly exceed their mandates. Why would that not be possible here?
There seems to be many people who thinks sales is the way to go. So does it mean that being a average engineer will have no value in substantial future?
Oh. Wow, yeah, maybe UTF-16 is proof that time machines do exist.
Advances in Quantum Emitters Mark Progress Toward a Quantum Internet
There is also no precedent for Apple making any kind of pro-active design choices around future regulation. They clearly are the kind of company that does whats best for them and when asked to change, nudges in that direction, and then moves on. This is in the DNA from the top down. It would certainly be weird to make the decision about third-party OSes be about that.
Seems like you could easily do a little bash/python script to chop up the recording and batch process each, then stitch the results together?
South Africa has had very serious crime problems for a long time. It's not a 3rd world thing because it's richer than its neighbors but seems to have far more violent crime. In general though, when the government is corrupt, suffers state capture, cannot even properly put a former PM in jail for corruption etc then you can imagine they're not sorting out any of the causes or causees of this sort of crime.
Between controlling all manned US space flights and all communications allowing Ukraine to fight against Russia, Musk has a lot of influence and gov't doesn't want to ruffle any boats.
There are multiple adjacent threads describing this exact phenomenon. It’s also worth taking a look at a photos of the wealthiest men in the US sometime.
> That's what ultimately depresses me about AI. It's still just a parlor trick. We haven't actually taught computers to think, to reason, to be innovative. Deep learning is definitely having its day, but I suppose this too will pass unless we can unlock certain ways to make AI reliable and responsible. Or... to just start understanding it in general.

Isn't this just semantics, and the expectations that go with them, really?

If the marketing language surrounding ML wasn't so hyperbolic and sci-fi-y ("artificial intelligence"? "neural network"? give me a break!) I think we all could agree that what we can achieve now is really interesting and impressive in its own right.

Even if these models aren't on a path to some kind of "thinking computer" as you envision it, their "parlor tricks" are doing things I would've relegated to the realm of sci-fi even a decade ago, much less 25 years ago.
Some excellent links; thank you very much!

(Yes, I remember Forrest Mims (as an author) from "the old Radio Shack days" (where his books were primarily found, back in the day...) He was a great author of electronics related texts. It's nice to see his works preserved online!)
That's pretty cool. A number of comments on Youtube are saying "walkie-talkie", probably thinking of a 1960's/1970's form factor using transistors. Any voice transmitter in the 1920's would have used vacuum tubes.

But even then - the first "walkie-talkie" didn't exist for another 20 years, and was huge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-536

> The SCR-536 is often considered the first of modern hand-held, self-contained, "handie talkie" transceivers (two-way radios). It was developed in 1940 by a team

> The SCR-536 incorporated five vacuum tubes in a waterproof case.
Do you know why Microsoft never made proper examples of the new technology? The few examples provided are for programmers only.

In general there is a scarcity of working code that you can inspect to see how javascript in Excel works.

Now it is mostly "how to draw an owl"
> So you're volunteering to put the nuclear power station in your backyard?

Sure. I have no problem with nuclear. Where can I sign?
Excel single-handedly keeps VB alive; it has a huge amount of sway over what langauges people use and learn - so why settle for Python?
Does light have mass?

Photons cannot have mass in GR General Relativity because E=mc^2?

How do solar sails achieve thrust from photons and solar pressure if they are massless?
Are you sure? Maybe the point is that they blended in to be unnoticeable.
why was william allowed to act a fool for six months?

that’s a company deciding to sacrifice culture for progress. then symbolically sacrifice the previous knife-holder. for cya.
And a birth certificate, a passport, a marriage certificate etc. to name a few others.
I was recently visiting a friend in Victoria and it’s such a nice place. It also seemed like there was construction of new apartment buildings all over the place. At least y’all seem like you are trying to address the housing issues. Where I live (Western, WA) you barely see any construction like that and if you do it’s a McMansion development in the middle of nowhere.
On a daily basis, i paste into programs that aren't wysiwyg (terminal, reddit, browser omnibar, etc) much more often than stuff that is (google docs, powerpoint). for the former programs it doesn't matter if i paste with or without formatting.

for the latter programs having the default be paste with formatting seems fine. yes, i'll paste stuff from the web without formatting. But copying/cutting/pasting within the same document is also a pretty common interaction and if i'm cutting something non-trivial (eg. google docs table/nested lists), i don't want to paste it back into google docs as a bunch of regular, separate lines.
> so why not do it?

Because wildcard pattern matches are error prone.

When you add a new constructor, the compiler will remain satisfied that the pattern match is exhaustive and won't prompt you to verify the behaviour.
They did. Which is why it’s so baffling that they didn’t document any of this stuff. 5 minutes of documentation by apple engineers on the boot process or GPU would have saved 5 hours of reverse engineering work by the Asahi Linux team.

Seems to me like they can’t decide whether they want Linux on their hardware or not. I bet different people in the org are pulling in different directions.
I've done this.

I have a Preonic keyboard running QMK[1] and have a dedicated MIDI layer so I can still use it as a regular keyboard if I want to. I then use dannywarren/AutoHotkey-Midi[2] to listen for hotkeys.

This has been way more reliable for me than listening for trying to use hotkeys like Ctrl-Alt-F13 or things like that, as they'll never conflict with something I might be in the process of typing. The only catch with that is if you want to use AHK to send keystrokes to a process running in elevated access, you'd need to start your AHK script as Administrator. That hasn't had an impact on me, though.

[1] https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_midi

[2] https://github.com/dannywarren/AutoHotkey-Midi
The M1 won't, the SSD will wear out before that and with no way to swap, it will be landfill as well.
PythonAnywhere is awesome :) like the other commenter it was my first foray into web programming too!
It's a slippery slope, though. Should we criminalize kitchen knives because by the time someone starts stabbing someone it's too late?