skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m Danish so my opinion on this will be coloured by the fact that most developers here have a form of formal CS education. But we teach people to overthink and abstract things. So so think that it’s only natural that people are actually going to do exactly what they’ve been taught.

I have a side-gig as an external examiner for CS students, and well, a lot of the stuff we grade our students on are things that I’ve had to “unlearn” myself throughout my career, because usually complexity and abstraction aren’t going to work out over a long period of time for an IT system. This obviously isn’t something that’s universally true. I do tend to work in non-tech enterprise organisations (or startups transitioning into enterprise) and in this space a lot of what is considered good computer science just doesn’t work. It’s everything from AGILE, where you project processes will trip you over as you try to juggle developers who both need to build and maintain things at the same time. To how we try to handle complexity with abstractions, and how those abstractions sometimes lead to “generic” functions where you need to tell a function 9001 different things before it knows how to perform “because it just evolved”. It’s in everything really, like, we teach students to decouple their architecture and it’s absolutely a good thing to teach CS students, but the result is that a lot of them “overengineer” their architecture so that you can easily swap which database your system is using (and similar) in a world where I’ve never actually seen anyone do that. Anecdotal, sure, but I did work in the public sector where we bought more than 300 different systems from basically every professional supplier in our country, and you’re frankly far more likely to simply replace the entire system than just parts of it.

But how are you going to know that when all you’ve been taught is the “academic” approach to computer science by teachers who might have never experienced the real world? Being self-taught isn’t really going to help you either. I can’t imagine how you would even begin to learn good practices in the ocean of “how to” tutorials and books which are essentially little more than the official documentation on a language and maybe a couple of frameworks.

> The developer's incentive to maximize their own lock-in factor and billable hours are powerful forces

This part, however, I disagree with. Again this is very likely coloured by the fact that I’ve mainly worked in the space where developers both build and maintain multiple things, often at the same time. But I’ve never met developers who wanted to do this. In fact I only meet developers who genuinely want their code to be as easily maintainable by others as possible because we all absolutely hate breaking off from actual development to fix a problem. That being said, I do think there is a natural risk of ending there accidentally if you haven’t “unlearned” a lot of the academic CS practices you’ve been taught. Especially because there is a very good chance you didn’t really “learn them right”.
It’s also a mistake to confuse a gain of experience for stealing intellectual property. A good deal of innovation in Silicon Valley comes from the fact that developers can move to new companies without non-compete clauses and take what they learned from their last job to build new, sophisticated software.

The amount of outright theft of entire IP from US, Canadian, and European countries by China is well known. There is no confusion here, in more recent times people have been arrested and charged for it, and it's how China is able to compete.
Patagonia is amazing. They’ve fixed a winter jacket for me for free that had a hole melted in it from a bicycle light. The light turned itself on in my pocket and became so hot within minutes that it melted a hole. Patagonia did a top notch fix (it’s invisible), provided and prepaid label to send the jacket, paid for return shipping, and did the repair for free. Even though it was 100% not their fault. The company making the light on the other hand did nothing to help at all and refuses to add a warning in the instructions that the light gets hot enough to burn your hand or melt your jacket.

The absolute worst service and customer service I ever received in my life was Turkish airlines, by far. They kept canceling our flights, were extremely rude and unprofessional shouting at us in Turkish, giving no directions or information to the hundreds of people affected, no one spoke English, they left us stranded in the terminal, then offered the crappiest hotel I’ve had the displeasure of staying at, provided meal vouchers that weren’t accepted anywhere, lied to us all the way, had a line at the airport 3h long to talk to them, rebooked us on red eye flights without even asking, and refuses to this day to pay the compensation we’re entitled to following the cancelations. After this little adventure, i looked up reviews and it seems like this is just another day for Turkish airlines: hundreds of reviews describing what we went through. I will never set foot on a TK flight ever again and tell anyone who will listen to avoid Turkish airlines like the plague unless they like pain and arriving several days late.
I periodically reinstall mine and keep the battery healthy
During summer I took a longer roadtrip through Southern California and into Nevada/Arizona. I tried to stay of major freeways as much as possible mainly because I think their boring and make me really tired (a thing that I also happens from time to time when driving my usual German autobahn but usually not during mid day!).

So my trip lead me to stay a night in Palm Springs. From there I headed out to Las Vegas. I wanted a stopp near Barstow to visit Peggy Sue’s Dinner one more time with my family. My Navigation wanted me to take the route via San Bernardino but I saw an alternative route on the map via Yucca Valley. Man that was such a good decision. The Highway 247 makes a beautiful turn through the Johnson Valley. I made a point to use shorter D Tours on the whole trip like using state Route 66 in Arizona instead of the shorter 40 to Flagstaff and back to Vegas.
TikTok is Chinese owned. Its algo was not Chinese invented.
Maine and Vermont are all small towns and they’re all cute
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The barrier to entry to using a domain name is way too high. Even just to use a domain with email you have to manually enter a bunch of DNS records. That should be a quick OAuth2 flow from your email provider that gives them a token they can use to set the records for you.
> The contrary is almost certainly true: picking fights with well-selected made up enemies is an effective way to promote a brand that is based on virtue.

I concur. Anecdotally, I see lots of content from TikTok creators replying to negative comments. At first I wondered why they seemed to be only amplifying negative responses instead of their fans, and then it hit me - those were the videos that did well (i.e. those videos got the most likes, views, shares). Showcasing a "hater comment" turns on the video viewers' tribal instinct. We want to side with the creator, to show the hater their place.
And what I was sharing is that someone like me wouldn't consider that outcome as "works". Someone that follows the herd in this scenario is exactly the type of person that would say "what do you mean, it worked anyway?".

In my mind if I'm an adult person in an airport and I missed obvious signs and just went with everyone I'd be genuinely thinking about this for days and softly beat myself up, look up the airport floorplan and for years after in every airport I would think about this.

This is not a hypothetical for me because it has happened and I'm still triggered about it to the point that's years later and I'm here typing about it.
> baggage claim really doesn't take that long

Sure. Just recently picked up my partner from SFO on a late night arrival. It tooke THREE HOURS for the bags to start arriving on the belt. Who knows why. Zero information given to the hundreds of angry people standing there. A very miserable time.

Yes, that's not typical, but it happens. If you carry your bags, it can't possibly ever happen.
Hilarious typo — I picture someone throttling an Intel machine (which sadly throttles you right back).
Perry Mason had some good traffic tips too.

I think the SNL skit, The Californians, is supposed to be derogatory to Los Angelenos but we love it because we love checking the traffic math in shows.
>You can ban all cars, all trucks, all electricity, all global aviation, do it tomorrow, and you've only delayed things by a few years.

It's already worse. It's not going to get better for hundreds of years. But IF we were seriously head in that direction IMMEDIATELY ... we can could stop the MUCH MUCH worse from arriving ... forever. We missed our chance to avert what we've got. It's not a case of ALL or NOTHING. We -can- make changes to avert some of the damage that's already arriving ... for ourselves and our descendents.
What I'm getting at is: unlike running LLMs, 3D modeling, rendering 8K video, or similar tasks, there's nothing inherent to working with html and javascript that demands such huge amounts of memory. Editing a few hundred (even a few thousand) lines of code is not a memory-intensive task.

The only reason we are in this current sorry state of affairs is because They(tm) have decided that the proper way to deploy apps is to ship it atop an entire Chrome instance, itself being a notorious resource hog.

The web sucks. Desktop apps are now just web apps, and they also suck.

It didn't have to be this way.
Where’s the SketchUp reference?
In fastmail, rules for specific addresses take priority over catchalls. So if I have a catchall and tell it to bounce emails to spamco@, the bounce rule applies properly.
I've lived in the southeast for 2/3 of my life, and ride my bike 10,000-12,000 mi/year, largely drawn in by charming rural towns. It's a lot of what keeps me engaged with the sport.

I would nevertheless agree with the parent to whom you are replying that they are the exception, not the rule, and much of rural America is depressed or just a whole lot of nothing, at least from the perspective of charm. Most places there, too, are built at automobile scale, and lack sufficient sense of placehood or definition to qualify as anything like a hamlet in the European sense. It's just a ZIP code with a Circle K, a church, and a some houses scattered over an obscenely large area that can only be traversed by car. Sometimes, boarded up historical relics are included, although you may have to drive quite a bit from the civic centre (the Circle K) to find them.

Food deserts, in which the Circle K feeds a massive radius (along with perhaps a Dollar General), are the norm. Getting from the Circle K to the Dollar General requires a car. In between, there's not much.

There are some delightful exceptions, and I love to visit and capture their splendid sights and sounds. They are few and far, and I find the parent's generalisation highly valid, at least as the Sourheast goes. I grew up in the Midwest and had a similar sense there. Perhaps the West Coast and New England are quite different, and it sounds like they are. "Flyover country" has little to recommend it in the whole, however, and there's a reason they call it that.
I've generated thousands of images using SD 1.5 based models and I've never got the getty watermark. That makes my think that some dishonest lawyer used img2img.
Would be nice if this didn't have a dependency on rxjs just for a single use of Observable
> One example, I've had an incredibly hard time getting folks to switch from dirty cobbled-together-with-StackOverflow shell scripts to Ansible, which is a just more sight-readable consistent experience.

Ansible can be used quite elegantly/simply, but the ecosystem as a whole is totally infested with "big brains" who insist on complicating things to make them more Reusable™.

There are really guys out there who will argue that your 20 line shell script actually needs to be two Ansible Roles each consisting of 10 files spread out among 2 layers of directories, and can be published to the Galaxy.

(In reality you can turn that 20 line shell script into a 30 line idempotent, single-file Ansible playbook, which is SOMETIMES worth it)
Nothing super special. I have family connections to Central Europe and enjoy the culture/architecture/etc. there, plus it’s very convenient for accessing Africa and the Middle East. I visited Japan about a decade ago and have been fascinated with the place since, although it’s definitely more difficult to live there with only a US/EU passport. And the American Southwest has a unique landscape and abundance of natural parks that can’t be found in any other developed country, save maybe Australia.

IMO the digital nomad mentality is the absolute wrong approach. If you can work remotely, that means you can live just about anywhere on Earth. That means you should find the environment(s) that appeals to you, not go to the “nomad friendly” places like Chiang Mai or Bali.
I think he said extinction risk. Obviously these tools can be dangerous.

The upcoming generation doesn’t know a world where the government’s role isn’t to take extreme measures to “keep us safe” from our neighbors at home rather than just foreign adversaries. It’ll be interesting to see how that plays out with mounting ethnic conflict as Boomer-defined coalitions fall apart.

Ironically AI’s place in this broader safety culture is probably the biggest foreseeable risk.
This particular HP is full metal. I was able to confirm it when using a random belkin charger with no ground: I got the familiar "vibrating" feeling in my fingers when moving them along the case.

This specific model is a 840/845 G8 (I have both, they're the same, one Intel and the other AMD). I haven't seen the current G10, but I've seen the supposedly higher-end 1040 G10 and, like the Dell, it looks the part, but it's clearly all plastic. Complete with creaking noises if you look at it wrong. And the one I'm talking about was brand new, maybe 5 hours old.

> the screen shifts colour when a slight pressure is applied on the lid

Heh. Must be nice to have a screen whose color is consistent if you leave it alone. My HP changes colors if I shift my head. No, these are not cheap 2003 models. Yes, they cost as much as a similar MBP.
Lots of people would do the same.

I vaguely remember a short science fiction story where people got uploaded to the cloud. There were three options for your memories.

The expensive one you got to keep all your memories of Copyright music, video, books. The medium priced one it was replaced with public domain stuff. The cheap one it was all replaced with advertising.
> maybe it's thermal throttling

The GPU is a very large fraction of the thermal output these SoCs are engineered to handle, so there really shouldn't be any throttling if you're only loading the CPU.
M1/M2 only has 1 native HDMI pixel pipe in any form, I think? Apple uses the HDMI PHY to drive the screen on tablets, and the screen on laptops. Base-tier M1/M2 also only have a single displayport pixel pipe, and Pro/Max get +1/+2 respectively.

The base-tier chips are designed as high-volume tablet chips first and foremost, with ultramobility crossover capability.

Using DisplayLink or certain kinds of thunderbolt multimonitor are possible while running outside the pixel pipe or running multiple monitors on a single pixel pipe (this is not MST which is multiple pixel pipes on a single stream). But yeah it's ugly especially on a base-tier processor with this eating cycles/dumping heat. You're running the hardware encoder at least.

Discord had this weird error if you tried to enable the screen/audio capture, it tries to launch something and fails and the solution is you need to manually install "airfoil" because it's an audio capture module that discord licensed. you don't have to fully install it but the audio driver is the part that discord uses and that goes first (has to be allowed as a kext, ie non-secure mode). theoretically a kernel-level capture like that could be a ton faster than userland, I think that's the on-label use of airfoil.
God help us. Is it inevitable for every technology forum to eventually descend into proclamations of intellectual superiority?
Agree that stuff is cool. The playground is especially neat. It looks like ASCII shader kind of thing.
> individuals whose time is absorbed by parasocial relationships are less available to people around them.

I’ve seen Mastodon and Tumblr users post, “I’m sick of people saying I should spend time with my neighbors. They’re probably TERFs/MAGA/whatever.” (There may be analogues mutatis mutanda on other sites, I don’t know firsthand.) You’ll have a hard time convincing people that social walling-off is a bad thing when they have elevated it to a virtue.
I've tested it and many fine tunes and while it seems to work ok for short chat it's really inattentive in summarisation and information extraction tasks. Continuation of long context stories/chat is also severely lacking, making up lot of contradictory details as it goes on.

It might or might not be better in benchmarks, but I just don't see it in practice for many tasks where you'd pick a LLM and go

There is one thing tho where I've seen it perform really well, which is single task fine tuning. It's small enough you can do full tuning and it's steerable enough you don't need more than few thousand samples.

But it's definitely not a pick and go model like a Vicuna-13b would be.
Is it really "lost" if it is funding the existence of so-called "tech" companies.
In my opinion, the biggest problem with Apple’s external displays is their 60 Hz refresh rate. That’s half of what their own iPhone (!) and MacBook pro models support, and is a far cry from the 240 Hz (albeit at lower resolutions) displays that are starting to pop up from other manufacturers.
Heh, I recall seeing many posts arguing against benchmarks when all Macs equipped with an M2/8GB/256GB SSD scored much, much lower than the M1/8GB/256GB SSD. People said the synthetic benchmarks were not representative of real world use and you'd never notice the difference. 'Twas a battle of the optimists, pessimists, and realists. In reality, 'twas just Apple cutting costs in their newer product.
Just a regular KVM? You can get them all day for $20-$30 on amazon. I use this $30 one for up to 4 systems.

https://a.co/d/eDtP3BW
My definition of force is the definition of force. The definition I gave you was literally "literal force", and you understood that to mean something different from your interpretation of force. You are the only one trying to change definitions here. If the court orders me to do something, that's force. If you think it's somehow voluntary, then I have a few examples I'd like to ask you about. I have no idea what injury you're referring to.

Yes, we've already established that you don't get the rights to pixels, sounds and ideas, and my creative abilities won't change that.
For anyone who has NOT written in rust yet, there's nothing in the readme that explains what's intuitive or easy about the library. It doesn't even explain what to expect as the `status` getting logged, not go mention other possible values.
I think the M series laptops were the first full manifestation of the laptop idea.

Instant sleep/resume, great input devices and monitor, cpu power at will without overheating or loud fan, super fast shock resistant storage, 20+ hours of battery life, no battery drain when off.

It took us 30 years but we finally have it.

Now let’s hope WIntel can also catch up soon.
So they're basically a whipping boy?
I read it as though they might have miscalculated which tools they would need to open it, and now that it’s partly opened inside the “anti-atmosphere box” they can’t easily add additional tools.
All it would take is one human to review the email, but sadly given Google's aversion to humans in the loop I predict it will be inferred by an algorithm and subject to false positives with no practical way to escalate for review.
> Why is this sort of question always framed as […]

OP didn't frame it any way at all as far as I can tell, but either way it seems like an entirely reasonable question to ask of someone on a forum which is largely comprised of computer and programming enthusiasts who has not upgraded their daily driver for nearly a decade.

> as if spending money on the new shiny without any reason is normal or desirable?

Every single person who spends their money on "the new shiny" has a reason. You may not find the reason edifying, but that's irrelevant to your stated argument.

> Why would anyone waste their cash to replace something that works without having any compelling reason?

As you were doubtless aware when you specifically constructed a straw man argument predicated on an entirely false premise and laden with your own subjective judgements about "waste" and things that "work" and "compelling" reasons, nobody does this.

I suspect what you really mean is that you believe people upgrade their machines without what _you_ consider to be a good reason. You think people are too quick to upgrade when their machine isn't the very latest, or when it's got a dent, or when it's slowing down a little.

If you'd written what you really believe -- that people should not upgrade as rapidly as they do -- you'd probably have pulled on the thread for a further 0.02s and realised that everyone has different values and priorities, and you likely "waste money" in others' eyes across multiple line items of your annual budget. So it's terrific luck, really, that the internet's various competing interpretations of a "compelling reason" can't stop you from spending your money however you'd like.
This is awesome! I dig this when using Rust and am pumped to try and sneak this in at work where we have a large TS codebase.
Ha I just noticed it!
> The M3 Pro loses the option for an 8TB SSD. Likely because it was a low volume part for that spec.

That's not super surprising to me. Apple loves to charge stupid prices for storage and memory. Maybe it's worth it for lots of people to have the convenience of built in storage at the lower levels, but I have to imagine that most people would want 8TB of SSD would rather just get an external solution for... much less.
> you put that information on the internet

That isn't necessarily true. Someone else might have put the information on the Internet. That could be someone else uploading a photo of you, or records of your home purchase on a city's public records, or an obituary or wedding announcement that listed you as family, etc.etc.
EcoEDA: Recycling E-waste During Electronics Design
Is this a change to the spec, or did they skirt around that previously, because I didn't think they supported more than one screen per port on the M1/2?
Further to my previous comment, before you write much on the topic, make sure you've properly read and considered what I've written (just the previous few comments relating to genetic determinism), in relation to the paper you shared. On reflection, I'm surprised you wrote "did you check out the paper I linked?", as if you assume it contains findings that contradict anything I've written, and it makes me think you might be intending to argue against something you assume I believe rather than something I actually believe. To be clear: (a) I believe very strongly in inheritance and common patterns of behaviour among family members; (b) I know of no research proving that behavioural patterns are entirely attributable to DNA code and/or are immutable, and (c) I'm aware of ways deeply ingrained patterns of behaviour can be significantly altered/abated when effective approaches are applied. The paper you linked doesn't make any specific claims relating to parts (b) or (c) of my statement.