skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the layoffs were a situation of "taking from one pocket and putting it into another".

The number of experienced engineers didn't increase; a lot of them dropped out of the system. Temporarily they created some fear and panic and got some suckers to accept RTO, lower pay, or worse conditions, but you can't outrun business fundamentals. Software is eating the world and all these new technologies (AI, etc.) aren't "reducing the need for people", they are actually increasing it.
I'm just suprised most intelligent people never ever question all the research coming out of the climate science area.

There is literally zero, zero, zero incentive to research or publish anything that might remotely suggest we aren't heading for some climate catastrophe.
In fact you are likely to get banished from science if you ever question anything.

In fact it's worse, the best way to get publicity and further funding is to be as dramatic as possible about what the future holds.

That isn't reliable science. That's speculation at best, and fraud at worst.

Many many other areas of this entire climate industry needs to be questioned.
Less market concentration. Lina Khan, the current head of the FTC, argued before she got the job that market concentration and not consumer harm was a better target for antitrust enforcement.

Amazon does exercise a fair amount of their market power. FBA policies are generous to the consumer and to amazon, taking it out of the third party sellers. The other classic example was IIRC diapers.com which was a sharp competitor until Amazon bought it and raised diaper prices. It's possible this was all a ZIRP fad, and diapers.com was burning through investor cash, but still a pretty clear-cut case of consolidating market power (at the time the FTC did not consider it illegal).
People who actually want to make a climate impact with their money are supporting policy change and technology research.

One estimate puts the price of averting a ton of CO2 through the Clean Air Task Force's policy advocacy programs at $0.10 to $1 [1]. They've played a huge role in shaping things like the US's latest infrastructure bill.

However, donating to them means admitting that preventing climate change is messy, political, and uncertain - not great for greenwashing your company.

1: https://www.catf.us/timeline/rated-top-climate-charity/
No that is not "basically why you get Apple stuff in the first place". I have never in my life seen either Apple or its fan base market their products this way. That is a post hoc rationalisation for their operating system missing quite a basic feature.
DRM doesn't have to be proprietary. I should be able to buy books from any place and read them on any reader.
Calling it a jobs program is overly generous. It's broken windows fallacy. Considering the ineffectiveness of the TSA as shown by multiple audits, opportunity cost of waiting in security lines, lost revenue to airlines, and increased road fatalities due to flight aversion, it's a massive net loss to the economy for no actual benefit to safety.
What is a TLA?
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We actually do a fair amount of this in the US. Marion County in Oregon burns 90% of their trash. It's much better than landfills, anyways.
This looks really useful. Langchain is not my idea of a fun time.

Love the examples too. Low-effort humor is the best:

> create_superhero("Garden Man")

> # Superhero(name='Garden Man', age=30, power='Control over plants', enemies=['Pollution Man', 'Concrete Woman'])
I mean what do you replace it with, return to the prior status quo of private security? I don't think that's even a good idea, and I dislike the TSA as much as everyone else - nor do I think having Local LE do it makes sense, because then you end up with 900 policies.
Thanks I'll check it out. Are there other similar sites you like?
The article is just a thin wrapper of blogspam around an investigation by The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/19/do-carbo... which I think is high quality.
Would be curious to see how a "Hello World!" in Zig compares.
I give you that some of the new features are tied to OS-wide updates, but many of them seems they're not. And if they wanted to, they could still decouple apps from OS updates and if you're on a old OS version and the new app update requires a newer OS, just block that specific update from happening.

> Plus of course everything is tested together

That makes sense, Apple's QA department seems to be held together with tape for the last decade or so, as every new update seems to break something, so maybe they're trying to make it as easy as possible now in order to recover.
Sometimes it’s good enough to understand what all possible outcomes are.
Does anyone know more about Project Nessie? There's a portion of the complaint [0] that is heavily redacted from page 123 to 126. The only information that isn't redacted is this:

* Project Nessie is an algorithmic pricing system

* "Amazon's Project Nessie has already extracted over [redacted] from American households."

* "this scheme belies its public claim that it “seek[s] to be Earth’s most customer-centric company,”"

* It's related to Section VI.A.3 (Amazon maintains its monopolies by suppressing price competition with its first-party anti-discounting algorithm)

Amazon themselves identify Nessie as the system that monitors spikes or trends [1], so my hunch is this is some sort of surge pricing system. Does anyone here know more?

[0] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/1910129AmazoneC...

[1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/amazon-offices/the-surprisi...
Idea for a product I would buy, maybe it exists already:

E-Ink screen and an ESP32 in a white case, i.e. similar to what this guy has built. Programmable via USB-C. So I could buy this, program it to display something and put it on my wall.

Could be a range of different sizes.
Super interesting, thanks for putting this together
If that is the case, then 100% of cell carriers are in violation of the law.

If you know of a counterexample I'd like to hear it. In particular, California network neutrality says they can't discriminate against services or devices.

Complying with the law would imply that any 5G plan could work with any 5G device, so people could use their $10/month tablet add on plans for home broadband and laptops / tethering.

Similarly no company would be offering bundles or degrading streaming bandwidth on a per-service basis.

For what it's worth, Comcast is also obviously in violation of the above rules, as are the AT&T business 5G terms of service (which specifically say you can't use the service for residential services, such as streaming video, but you can use it for things like video conferencing.)

It could just be that the law is not being enforced.
Also the job still needs to be done, be it TSA or something else.
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Thankfully, that's no longer the case! The miracle of modern medicine means that we can take the DNA of the billionaire man, and the DNA of the billionaire man's wife, combine them in an egg from a second woman, and implant it in a third. The third brings the baby to term, a baby that has none of her disgusting lower-class DNA.
It failed before because system resources and horsepower were too low to make it work smoothly (&, let's be honest, because there were often poor UI choices going hand-in-hand with poor speed/smoothness). Plenty of ideas resurface, not because they were bad & people think they just might work, but because they weren't practical when they came up. There are plenty of faded-away applications & forgotten old OSes with ideas way ahead of the curve, needed speed and/or memory, & were laughed at & called stupid because of system limitations that will show up again in our systems, someday.
Not the happiest news I've read (and somewhat poorly written for a paywalled article).

Don't viruses and bacteria alter genetic expression? Usually it's just hijacking certain cellular organelles to replicate, but it makes sense this or other processes could trigger genetic expressions with longer lasting affects.

Really unfortunate to think that it's some sort of dice roll when you catch an infection.
Business didn’t have to compete with Amazon in so stringent conditions. People even were able to (gasp!) maintain physical stores, etc etc etc
vacation was probably cheaper than a buncha payroll. easier to push that and leave folks in a happy mood.
How do I know the new trees have really been planted, and that they haven't sold them dozens of times over?

How do I know the trees will survive and actually pull carbon out of the atmosphere, rather than dying in a year or two? Which they might do, if they're planted on unsuitable but cheap land.

How do I know that, in 20 years time, they won't have gone out of business and sold the land on to a logging company who turns it all into firewood?

There's also a wealth of scammers who'll do things like "buy rainforest to protect it from development" when no development was going to happen anyway.
The parent comment mentions Robert Sapolsky and I can't resist linking a talk where he explores various physical and environmental factors that influence human actions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRYcSuyLiJk

If anyone finds the video above interesting, also check out his Behavioural Biology lecture series on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...

His upcoming book can be found here - https://www.amazon.ca/Determined-Science-Life-without-Free/d...
It is hardware and use case dependent but I would say roughly that ExLlama is 10-20% faster than llama.cpp and ExLlama v2 is 10-20% faster than ExLlama (my experiences at 4 bit quantization).
A 1TB cap really hides the issue. Let's reflect on the impact with a more restrictive cap, say, 10GB.

If my ISP gives me 10GB from any service that isn't big_video_streamer but unlimited data from big_video_streamer it's immediately obvious that while they're not 'deciding' how I use their connectivity they're definitely 'coercing' me into going with big_video_streamer if I want to stream videos, which isn't their job as - ideally - a neutral conduit for traffic.
I have a company-provided mac, I don't have an App Store account as it requires a phone number (and I'm not going to use my personal phone number to register it, it is not even allowed by policy) so I'm not going to update any app via the store
I put together a list of OpenAI API compatibility layers for local LLMs recently: https://llm-tracker.info/books/llms/page/openai-api-compatib...

Some like c0sogi/llama-api are pretty neat because they support concurrency, and supports multiple backends (llama.cpp and Exllama, although it could be expanded).

While you might lose out on some low-level configurability, being able to easily swap between OpenAI and local models is a big win in my book.
I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to share an entire speech bubble, without any context (as in a screenshot).

On the other hand, it's obvious that given a message like "My address is 123 Xyzzy Rd, come anytime," the user would only want to select a subset, not the entire message.
judging by the front page in recent years you are not alone
> Please, for the love of god, add native window snapping.

macOS has had built-in “window snapping” since 2015. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948

And if/when you need more advanced window management, there’s a plethora of free and paid options.
That is not correct at all. The internet developed with "net neutrality" because that's how ARPANET and later the internet had always worked. Peering agreements developed based on symmetrical traffic loads and providers regularly upgraded links as needed.

NN was originally imposed by the FCC because Verizon started blocking VPNs, requiring customers to pay for a "business" plan if they wanted VPN support. That was the first wide-scale break with internet tradition and it rightly freaked a lot of people out.
RSRs [1] are sort of not this though. They’re still a bit weird, but can contain updates for WebKit and/or Safari in a very small update that installs very quickly. Also worth noting that WebKit is buried pretty deep in macOS (as it underpins a lot more than just Safari) so isn’t as easy to patch by itself.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-mk/guide/deployment/dep93ff7ea7...
Thank you for the response and taking the time to list recommendations, much appreciated.
It supports halves (horizontal/vertical), thirds (vertical), quarters (vertical or 2x2), and sixths (3x2), plus some variations (move to edge, "almost maximize", bigger, smaller, etc). Also supports variations on those, eg. "middle two quarters" or "right two thirds" if that's your thing.

I have an ultrawide external display, and keyboard shortcuts to quickly tile two or three windows at once is where it's at, though it also supports dragging the window to an edge for various snap effects.
GP's framing assumes that the homework is being graded to assess competency: "Is it appropriate for professors to give out A's..." If that's not the case, no ethical questions are involved in using Chat GPT to complete your homework, although it would seem to be a pointless exercise, since you are neither getting practice nor cheating the assessment mechanism.
I use sizeup. Small price to pay for great keyboard shortcuts to manage windows. https://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

after spending the last 2 months on desktop linux full time - I'd rather pay $12 and use macos than pay nothing and have a worse open source experience.
The CERN folks are a humorous bunch, I assume one of them is responsible for naming this epic roundabout close to CERN the "large car collider" on Google maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/iLWZRLLUWhDTjiDS7
This is brilliant. Thank you very much for this link. The analysis on the last image was impressive and quite thorough (given the simple prompt).

Every chart has an equivalent tabular representation. One way to get "charts" analysed like this before GPT Vision was to just pass tabular representations of charts to GPT-4. This makes implementing chart analysis a lot simpler. I do wonder though if for absolute best result it still wouldn't be better to pass both - image of the chart and the tabular representation of the chart.

Imagine having a dashboard with 5 different visualisations. You could capture the state of the entire dashboard in one screenshot and then pass tabular representations of the each individual chart all in one prompt to GPT-4 for a very comprehensive analysis and summary.
If they do these layoffs to increase stock value. Who is actually buying on them? Some automated systems? As by now any actual trader so know it shouldn't affect anything... Or is it just purely general sentiment that everyone is playing on?
> Doesn’t the fact that the FTC recently filed a case against a PE firm buying up anesthesia clinics and using that to jack up prices run counter to the example of the cost of housing?

If you can find a single private equity firm doing that to a functionally bounded market to secure a monopoly on, say, rental housing, sure.

But that isn’t the complaint I’ve heard about PE effects on housing markets.
Can we see some examples of the jokes it produces?
Really? "It just works" isn't something you've ever heard from someone who uses Apple products? Or "I might not be able to change X, but at least I know what's there works well"?
FUSE is only used for bind mounts. If you write to a directory that belongs to container, you get the raw speed of host OS.
MacOS apps are designed to be self contained and not require isolation, unlike most Linux distros, which are designed to use FHS and share their state/dependencies with everything else on the system.

Further you can sandbox processes just fine on MacOS without needing to mock the whole userspace, like you do on Linux. This will give you the same degree of isolation that a container does.
I've been using the browser add-on for this feature. Did they merge it into the main browser then?

My only complaint about it really is that it has no Asian languages.
Brakepads are not an issue on EVs. They barely use frictional brakes.

My car is at 150000 miles and it's still on the original set of brakepads. Some EVs actually have a problem with that, their brakes are used so infrequently that rotors start to rust. So automakers added firmware that periodically applies frictional brakes.
I agree, no one does it like Siracusa did. But I do quite like the MacStories reviews of macOS by John Voorhees: https://www.macstories.net/stories/macos-sonoma-the-macstori...
Hooray! Time to update to Ventura
Retrocorder – Use a PC to make an automated retro-gaming recording solution
It contains a http link to "ssss-0.5.tar.gz", which I would assume is meant to be a source code archive. That really looks suspicious.
Related: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FPhyY5VZo0E&pp=ygULdGh1bmRlcmZ...
Run a Monero Node – Sethforprivacy.com
I think the US has a very weird relationship with education. Here in Germany, you pay a small fee to the university, then an even smaller fee for something else and then like 150€ or so for public transport through the whole state. I think I paid something like 250 or 300€ a semester (graduated in 2016 in the state of North Rhine Westphalia).

Whether or not a degree provides financial success later in life is just not something people care about. You only have to pay back 50% of your student loans but 10k max. Even if your family is dirt poor you will be able to pay for that degree. And even if you end up as a taxi driver youll be able to pay it back (if you even have too... I think there's a certain income threshold you need to hit).

And I think statistically speaking the unemployment rate amongst higher educated people is lower on average than for others even if you look at those "unemployable" degrees.

Going for a philosophy degree or a history degree because it's what you want to do is 100% something society accepts as a valid choice.

Oh and same with private universities. Some universities have a really good reputation for one degree but as a rule of thumb: if you have your degree from a private university in Germany, people will assume Daddy bought your degree.
Product dumping is not illegal if you have a national newspaper that can be used to target any politician and if you make sure to contribute millions and make sure your employees do the same for the political party in power.
Before the 20th century, newspapers were explicitly partisan and were basically free to publish whatever suited their agenda. It is only in the 20th century that we see a more objective journalism emerge with the ideas of journalistic ethics, reliable sources, fact-checking, etc.

I really don't think the situation today is as bad as people say it is. You can still go to the news pages (not the opinion pages) of the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and the Economist, and the vast majority of what they publish is reliable information. We can debate over the partisan nature of what stories they choose to emphasize and editorialized headlines, but it's not like they are regularly publishing lies and nonsense.
I can appreciate a lot of the sentiments above, but I don't think the comment's "two conceptions" really 'decomplects' (a Hickeyism) the key ideas. If anything, it smooshes a lot of them together: different definitions of free will, meaning, origin stories, the divine, flavors of determinism, and more.
If climate change is the motivation for the great energy transition, then China would build a lot of coal plants to prepare for running out of oil and an enormous need for new sources of electricity in order to expand electrification of transport and possibly hydrogen production for long range air travel and other applications where electrification to replace oil is impractical. They wouldn't be concerned at all about the carbon emission impact of their coal plants and would simultaneously encourage the west to stop building coal plants so they could get a cheaper supply.
Currently, snapped windows jump around Spaces and resize for every monitor connection/resolution change. It’s incredibly frustrating to not have any consistent behavior. 3P apps can’t solve this as there is no public API for managing windows with Spaces. Of course, the native window manager could solve this…
I hope this get fixed asap, that’s ridiculous
Don't discount credit unions. If you or a family member is or was in the military you can get into Navy Federal which even offers interest on their checking accounts (!!). And more importantly, a serious lack of fees and add-on charges.
> why you'd have a Mac at all

My work provides it. Everyone else uses it and I don't want to be the one with a different setup.
We're preparing (i.e. cleaning up) the code for the repo. Will update you when we release the code.
> They have just as much as Amazon does.

What individual grocery firm has a monopoly of the degree that the FTC has identified for Amazon in the two relevant markets for this case over any market, what is that market, and where is the evidence for the claimed monopoly?
Isn't it all open-source?
im not trying to roast you, but i cant find any indication that TSA procedures, policies, or persons, have stopped any terrorist incident.

if you have, please share, as it looks like TSA in the present form is used for something other than transport safety, and duplicates many CBP functions.
I didn’t say or imply they were.
Both are, the FTC was created with shared jurisdiction on matters of anti-trust. However, the supreme court recently limited that to injunctive powers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMG_Capital_Management,_LLC_v.... relief would be through a DOJ suit or via state AGs
I'd say find an angle that adds value for you (ideally both since you want the answer AND you can benefit from learning) random ideas can be:
* C++: extension to interface with GitHub workflows results (say how many times job X passed)
* JavaScript: browser-based library to visualize data
* Python: crunch geospatial data (say your own GPS data)
* ...
Curious as to why you chose to do it as a decorator instead of just a function call?
Why do Open BSD developers in 2023 care about architectures like alpha and sparc64? What are their use cases? Why would anybody pick those over Intel / ARM? What do those architectures provide that makes people care? Is it just existing hardware that people already have and don't want to throw away, or is there an actual reason one would buy such a processor over the more popular competition? I get the arguments for Riscv for example, but the rest are a mystery for me.

I'm not criticizing here, but actually seeking to understand.
macOS has felt “feature complete” to me for years now. There is nothing I really want from an OS. I only upgrade for the security benefits and so I can keep all my systems on the same release, since new systems can’t be downgraded.

I actually appreciate not doing relentless “innovation” just for the sake of doing it. Microsoft does this by slapping new UIs on top of old every damn release. They often don’t even remove the old stuff, they just mask it with “innovation.” macOS does this too, but not nearly as bad. In Windows there are like 7 different layers of UI. You can click a half dozen times in the settings in Windows 11 and basically time travel back to Windows 2000.

I think the reason I don’t hate this stuff on macOS as much is because most of the changes are iOS-ification, and I use iOS so I somewhat intuitively know how to navigate the changes.
I usually create a backlogged task for adding some documentation.
Yes, that is really a shame, although it's been fully open sourced.

Yandex is aware of how the geopolitical situation is hurting them and are therefore building a new company called Double.Cloud, based in Europe, to work around the negative public opinion on Yandex, and thereby continue being able to sell Clickhouse cloud services.