skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, couldn't find anything coming near the value of a baseline Macbook Air M1 as far as build quality, battery life, stability etc. is concerned.

I have a Surface Laptop 4 with an AMD processor and 16GB of RAM. I'm extremely happy with it, though I'll concede that the build quality is a click lower than a M1 MacBook Air (two of the rubber feet have fallen off of mine, being my main ding against it) and nobody can touch Apple Silicon's battery life. But aside from that, it's definitely in the same arena for build quality as an M1 MacBook Air (my wife's daily driver, so I'm not just saying that out of ignorance) with, IMHO, a better keyboard and a touch screen if you're into that sort of thing. Oh, and the facial recognition unlock is the best. I've had zero issues with stability—Microsoft pays more attention to squashing Windows bugs on their own hardware, it seems like.

Surface Laptop 5 has been out for about a year, but it was a totally microscopic incremental refresh. That means the Laptop 4's have dropped in price a lot, even though it's still 95% the same laptop.

My exact model of Laptop 4 can be had on periodic sale, refurbished on Woot.com for ~$700 or less, which is a screaming good deal IMHO for what you get. You could almost get two of these things for the price of one new M1 MacBook Air once you factor in the (IMHO mandatory) RAM upgrade.
Thanks for sharing! We'll take a look. If nothing else, I'm sure you'll be able to publish using a CLI + token. Thanks!
In a traditional nixos install you have two moving parts -- configuration.nix(and whatever modules it imports) and channels. Channels are updated independently which makes it harder to reason about the system at a specific point in time.

Flakes unify the two in a common interface. You have the "channels"(called "inputs" in flakes) pinned and the "configuration.nix" (now one of the outputs) pinned together.

That being said, you don't need to switch your system to a flake-managed one right away. If you enable the flags from that article, you can run things from flakes using "nix run". This will transparently pull the flake to your machine and evaluate the output you wanted.
They disclose all of what you're interested in:
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/insights/investment-stew...
I prefer the dance version :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3San3uKKHgg
https://github.com/noiszy/noiszy
There's no direct link to the source, but it's out there.... and very, very broken.
KPIs can be used to measure and direct attention to problems or successes. KPIs can also be used to drive change. KPIs are rarely used for much more than vanity metrics. The article describes the situation nicely.

Like any system, KPIs can be tweaked and made to work for you, to accomplish your goals. The key is to start by asking why you want the metric.

Sometimes the answer “to appease management” is the right answer. Marketing does matter! More often though you can come up with a better goal for your metrics and it will make your team and company more successful.
Same, MPP Express, and the 313 area code BBS Listing. ;)
"Anomaly Six — also called A6 — claims it can track billions of devices in near real time. And Zignal Labs leverages its access to Twitter data streams to sift through hundreds of millions of Tweets per day, without restriction. The two combined would be an even more powerful surveillance tool.

During the presentation, A6 tracked the movements of the Russian army along the Ukrainian border, Chinese submarine positions, and even the American intelligence community. This was a bold idea: To demonstrate just how powerful its phone tracking capabilities are, A6 showed Zignal that they could spy on American spies.

On a satellite map of the U.S., A6 sales rep Brendon Clark drew digital boundaries around CIA and NSA headquarters. This is a technique known as geofencing. Within these boundaries, 183 dots appeared, representing GPS pings from phones that had visited both locations.

Lines radiated from each dot, showing where the phones had traveled. As Clark noted: “So, if I’m a foreign intel officer, that’s 183 start points for me now.”

Zeroing in on one dot, A6 showed how its software could reveal this individual’s movements as they traveled throughout the U.S. using the location data pulled from apps on their phone. In their demo, the person they were tracking traveled to a U.S. army base in Fort Bliss, Texas, an airfield in Jordan, and their likely home in suburban Maryland, close to NSA headquarters. The demo concluded with a Google Street View of the person’s house."

https://theintercept.com/2022/05/04/surveillance-anomaly-six...
https://adnauseam.io - clicking ads, so you don't have to.
> SSN is voluntary.

"Voluntary" but required to live like a normal human being isn't very "voluntary" in reality.

Get a job without an SSN.
Missed that... Powering down.
>$15 per search

What chumps, just use https://freepeoplesearch.com

Ya it has ads but out of all the hundreds of "free" sites it has actually the most amount of free information.
Right? I'm really blown away by the amount of people on here that seem to think this is a serious sentiment.
I find annotation-based programming of any kind to be fraught. It looks great, but it's prone to hard-to-fix bugs. The bugs usually result in something not happening, and because the control flow isn't top-to-bottom, you have no idea when it "didn't happen". There's no place you can put a breakpoint, unless it's deep down in the source code of some kind of container.

As much as this kind of mix-in looks like it's very natural and ordered, I prefer not to use it, because I find it makes for brittle code that's hard to maintain.
Maybe so, but thankfully you don't have to use it if you don't like it.
Ban it for reciprocal reasons.

Either China allows FB, Google, Instagram, X, etc to operate there.

Or we ban TikTok here.

Countries already have unfair competition protections, this would fall under that.
Why do people want her to stop working on Asahi so much?
It doesn’t make it less antagonistic. It’s like saying a Ukrainian soldier murdered a Russian soldier. Sure some might argue that it’s murder in a technical sense but the use of that word implies something that isn’t accurate
There is probably a trillion dollars flowing through Excel spreadsheets.
> "nothing is true and all is spectacle"

I think this from the book "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, a historian specializing in Eastern European and Russian history.

Lesson: 10 "Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights."
It looks like they sell paddles too. I'd pay for those, especially if there was a USB adaptor, so I could just run the games on a PC or raspberry pi.
Makes me appreciate being able set phones to vibrate instead of ring. Had that not been possible, you have to wonder whether cell phones would have caught on as widely as they did.
>while you are in America

I’m not talking about while I’m in America. I travel outside of the country.

If the CCP can make billionaires disappear, they can make you disappear too.
Ah yeah, to clarify this is the enterprise endpoint Defender, not regular consumer. If yours is an org machine, your org's filtering setup may be looser
Yes, but ironically
Or moral panics over Jazz, Rock, Dungeons & Dragons, whatever. People went from not knowing it existed to throwing fits after they found out that it's popular with socially progressive Gen Z-ers, and that a handful of teenagers screwed with a Donnie Dumbass rally via KPop spam.

The emperor has no clothes until the US has an equivalent to the GDPR that legally enforces privacy practices for all companies, and all NSA surveillance is abolished. I'm all for preventing mass surveillance, actually doing it. But this is just a farce, and a culture war facet at that. It's just a vocal minority that's mad about people consuming media other than the conservative crack pipe.
> Those are Linux issues, not HW issues.

The touchpads on my wife's T470 and my T480 have very similar intermittent issues, despite her running Windows and me running Linux.
I use File > Quit to close my browser and all of my windows restore just fine.

If Firefox doesn't restore all your windows on startup, try hitting ctrl+shift+n, that should reopen the last (non-private) window you closed. In my experience this works across sessions, as long as you don't erase the browser history.
Umbra Selected by Afwerx for $1.2M SBIR Phase-II
Question: have you sat for a retreat? The reason I’m asking is I’m curious if it’s a “dosage” issue.

I sat for a 10 day goenka retreat and was shocked at how psychedelic the experience was for how little warning I was given.
Well, maybe nobody here is having issues, but right now I own only one monitor with a composite video input. None of the other dozen TVs and monitors I own have one. Fortunately most DTVs can still display NTSC RF, so that's also an option for old equipment.
There is no reason why he should be taken as an authority.
"anything transient is false" is wrong at so many levels.
For example, your claim that “Every time people banded together to take the means of production, it resulted simply in destruction, instant corruption and a new autocratic regime built around the toughest thugs” is falsified by the history of Western Europe. If it actually were the case, Western Europe would now resemble North Korea, but instead, the means of production is well-regulated by democratic governments.
`Out-Gridview -PassThru` is pure gold!
If you didn't have enough tests you weren't acting like adults. Why should he treat you like adults?
Same here. The XPS’s hard drive died within two years and I had to replace it.

The keyboard and touchpad also don’t hold a candle to MacBooks.
Fort Solis Ending
Is it the only one? The video states that there are two of them, but I don't see any significant difference.
I wonder if theres some image openAI thing I can run a diagram through to add it lol. Theres not a chance I'm spending that long unless it's maybe for an interview.
Ask HN: Why do you integrate AI features into your product?
Hi everyone,

I’ve heard countless times people saying “I want to integrate AI in my product” and recently “I love ChatGPT, I should integrate it in my product”. Yet, as I dived deeper, seeking the genuine reasons and pain points driving this request, I regularly found the same pattern: many had no clear motive for their AI aspirations. It seemed as if they were only jumping on the trend because “everyone else is doing it”, or because their “CEO” told them to do so.

So my question is : why do you integrate AI into your products? Is it to enhance your user experience? Is to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks? Is it to stay ahead of your competition? or is it just because everyone is doing it?
Huh? If I have a resource I serve without Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers, all three browser engines won't make it available in cross-origin contexts. [1]

For example, here are a pair of pages which make a cross-origin fetch for a resource that either does (yes-cors) or does not (no-cors) opt into cross-origin resource sharing. In all three browsers yes-cors displays the contents of the resource, and no-cors (correctly) displays "error".

https://www.kingfisherband.com/test/yes-cors

https://www.kingfisherband.com/test/no-cors

[1] With the exception of some standardized legacy cross-origin contexts like images, but then they all protect the contents in the same way.
Native Web in Apple Vision Pro
What’s interesting for the web is that the device uses good* old Safari to browse the web and the UX depends on websites being fast, semantic HTML, scalable, accessible, and stable
> The Great Depression lasted quite a while!

It wasn't caused by a big advance in technology. [1]

"There is no consensus among economists and historians regarding the exact causes of the Great Depression. However, many scholars agree that at least the following four factors played a role."

1. The stock market crash of 1929.
2. Banking panics and monetary contraction.
3. The gold standard.
4. Decreased international lending and tariffs.

Nowhere are technological advances mentioned. You can probably find an article that mentions it, but productivity increases as a cause are considered heterodox theory.

> If the only way an average person can get money and be a consumer is to sell their labor, then they will get less purchasing power over time.

Not if they are as organized and lawyer up like the folks they are negotiating with. And the numbers say you are wrong. Purchasing power has stayed about the same over the past 40 years. [2] The real problem is that workers increasingly negotiate as individuals against an organized management team who has the goal of extracting more profit for the owners, and less profit for the workers. Organized workers have far more negotiating power, but workers fail to join in and use this advantage. Who is to blame for that other than us workers ourselves?

If workers had become more unionized over the past 40 years, they would have captured more of the profits and wealth gaps would be smaller. We can see exactly this with UPS announcing lower earnings for owners in the coming years due to unions winning higher salaries.

> The wealthy can get that way without needing to pay much to human PRODUCERS. That’s the point.

How? Where exactly is the money going to come from if the producers don't have any money to spend? From where does this money magically appear and who is buying the products that the wealthy are selling?

[1] https://www.britannica.com/story/causes-of-the-great-depress...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...
To be useful you'll need to track transfer promotions as well. Might be useful to create a signup feature where users are notified of promotions for balances they have.
Did you do what I asked and look at ripgrep's changelog?[1] The breaking changes are prominently advertised in each major release. Not all breaking changes are the same or have the same impact. Some major releases don't even have any breaking changes. (semver doesn't say to only do a major release when there's a breaking change. You can do a major release without breaking changes.)

I don't think you're correct about "old Unix software" using major version bumps to indicate compatibility breaks. Recent 3.x releases of GNU grep, for example, fucked around with the meaning of \d when using the -P flag. With no changes to the major version number. Did that break your scripts?

The thing about semver is that it tends to make breaking changes much more visible, which is kind of the point. And of course, when you compare it to projects that don't use semver and don't increment the major version for every breaking change, the projects using semver look like they're moving at a much faster pace. It might be true, but you can't conclude it by looking at version numbers when the projects aren't using the same versioning scheme.

[1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/CHANGELOG....
I’m not saying your arguments don’t hold. Just that the calculations may be closer than stated
I mean even whitepages.com surfaces and aggregates quite a bit of public data if you buy their $20 background check, and all you need is the person's phone number.
For the time being, it looks like you can choose between gpt-3.5-turbo-16k and gpt-4.

https://github.com/opencopilotdev/opencopilot/blob/d7aa8270d...
> People who do more will, by definition, have more experience than those who do less.

You're assuming skill rises meaningfully with just volume of experience. Who's a more skilled driver? The plumber that drives his van around to jobs all day and does about 1K miles/month or the guy that mostly rides his bike except for weekends when he's taking a defensive drivers course or going to a track day?

I'd bet $$$ that the plumber spends a lot of time checked out / in zombie mode on the freeway between jobs and the motor-sports enthusiast is hyper diligent when driving.

> Saying the inverse is true is highly unlikely over large populations of individuals across any field, not just software development.

Perhaps, but this is - again - because you're missing the point; meaningful advancement in skill comes from experience gained while attempting something an individual is new to/uncertain/uncomfortable with and not the same thing that the individual has done a thousand times before.

> You're telling me that you think musicians who are "very diligent" and practice less can be "some of the best" you'll ever have exposure to compared to those who are working in music all the time, just because they like it?

Yes. A simple counterfactual: not all musicians that practice 18 hours a day become successful.
There's a lot of work in being the best, absolutely. But some people have some fantastic genetics/general-upbringing/predisposition to leverage. Same thing with sports. There are comedians that you've never heard of that spend more time writing jokes than world-famous comedians do.

> Did it ever dawn on you that some people just like to write all the time? Or produce music all the time? Or paint? Or sing? Or act?

Absolutely, but the people that do $thing all the time _and get better at it_ are the people that are constantly looking to $difficulty++ on $thing. I love reading and I'm always getting better at it because I don't stick with the same language/length/difficulty level all the time :).
UoU's YouTube channel is at: https://www.youtube.com/@universityofutah/streams

John Warnock's keynote is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/VzEaM6QAy-4?feature=share&t=476...

And the whole 3 hour video is the same link sans the t: https://www.youtube.com/live/VzEaM6QAy-4

And here's the presser: https://www.cs.utah.edu/50th-anniversary-of-computing-at-the...
Cowpaths vs. Cargo-Culting
Radio firmware has been a misnomer for a very long time, because the so-called baseband processor it runs on has access to and can control much more than just the radio.
As far as I know, radio firmware on current phone SoCs has full, unlimited read/write access to all of the available RAM and can preempt and modify any process running on the application processor, so any indications regarding authenticity of any software running on the application processor - as provided by software running on that same processor - are effectively moot.

TL;DR: He who controls the radio (firmware) pwns your phone.
And somehow it's your problem.
Dang, good thing that the U.S. and Western countries in general have never supported authoritarians when it was convenient for them.
The original programmer specified "peanut butter" in the original docs, but being the author of a format does not make you a linguist. If each component of Graphics Interchange Format is pronounced properly, it is hard-g gif, and not the peanut butter.
Identity theft is private companies not doing their jobs. Pretty much no other country has this problem because in order to get credit, you need to prove who you are by providing supporting documentation which is not easy to forge and it is the responsibility of the lender to verify the documentation. And if they don’t, it’s their problem, not yours.
My son bought a Dell XPS for exactly that reason. After 1.5 years, the battery life was at 50%. He called Dell support and they said it was normal. He's now in the market for a MacBook Air M2.
Air Force to bring AI-driven combat drones from lab experiment to reality
A foreign government can't execute a no-knock raid on my home, can't garnish my wages, can't throw me in jail from outside of my country...etc. I know you used the wording "domestic company", but we are talking about governments here.
I would still like to have a model, open source at minimum, better yet with AGPL or so, that I train locally on my own code and also use locally exclusively on my own machine and that does not require me to have a Nvidia GPU and can simply be trained on CPU.

Does this exist?
I think it is an American vs Canadian thing. The list of ten largest banks in North America is nearly evenly split between American and Canadian banks[0], so the five main Canadian banks are 10x as large as their American counterparts, proportional to the population.

The only conceivable scenario where a major Canadian bank fails and any depositors are not made whole is one where the government has lost the ability to maintain the currency and the Canadian dollar is worthless anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks_in_North...
$850 / $12 hour (current hourly rate for Honda CRV in SF) = 70 hours. I wouldn't call that minimal time for a month. Is there a more affordable option for on-demand car rental in SF than $12/hour all-inclusive? Seems quite reasonable to me.
Keep whipping that cart!
> NEVER paste code you don't understand into the development console

Tech companies have long achieved security by simply locking people out of choices that they shouldn't make.

I'm suspecting that Google will soon lock people out of Chrome's developer tools unless they can prove they are a developer (with a certificate that's tied to the website they are debugging)
Bringing WebAssembly to PostgreSQL Using Extism
Hey HN - we've long wanted to bring Extism into a database server environment to see what a database could do with a more powerful extension system. Here we have an example of embedding Extism[0] into Postgres and calling UDF/plugins to run arbitrary compute, call-outs to LLMs for enrichment, and more.

Code examples here: https://github.com/dylibso/pg_extism

[0]: https://github.com/extism/extism
As a meditator, personally I'm a little sickened by the 'science of meditation.' From my view, meditation is ultimately (or at least often) about doing nothing. Limiting, reducing our judgments and reasoning mind. So applying logic and benefits and sticks and carrots to me is actually antithetical to the practice.

E.g.: you're anxious and want to get better, so you obsess about self-help and ways to get better. Some pop-sci author describes meditation as one such path. You make it your new obsession and think about how much you ought to be meditating but aren't. When you're meditating, you worry that you aren't doing it right such that you'll get the benefits.

There is of course an argument that this popsci helps bring people to something that's good for them, and for this I guess I'm ok with it. But it's annoying to me that meditation has become part of the corporate capitalist moneymaking, anxiety-provoking system that ultimately, it's actually completely unrelated to.
I couldn't make heads or tails of this map until I read the Wikipedia article:

The Fra Mauro world map is unusual, but typical of Fra Mauro's portolan charts, in that its orientation is with the south at the top. One explanation for why the map places south at the top is that 15th-century compasses were south-pointing. In addition, south at the top was used in Arab maps of the time. In contrast, most European mappae mundi from the era placed east at the top, since east was the direction of the biblical Garden of Eden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Mauro_map
When most people you know use iMessage then Android is a bad experience.

Also, as someone who switched from Pixels and other Android devices to the Apple ecosystem . It’s nice that everything “just works.”

It’s kind of like running BSD or Debian stable after having been on Fedora/Arch/etc.