skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a general principle folks who say stuff like capitalism relies on slavery are advancing socialism.
"No matter what your passions are in work or in life, there's a Macbook Pro that's perfect for you."

For the vast majority of Apple customers, Macbook Airs are plenty powerful. They're also lighter weight, and significantly cheaper.
I learned Python and "crypto" (as in cryptography) in one fell swoop:

https://inventwithpython.com/cracking/

Next up is Metasploit:

https://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/

(Which oddly, blocks Tor. Rude!)
This.

With respect to SolarWinds, we need only defer to their proxy statement to discover who the real shotcalling directors[1] and executives[2] are.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1739942/000173994223...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1739942/000173994223...
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Linearity by Daniel Marshall – Lambda Days 2023 [video]
No offense, but at first glance I thought this was a GPT generated SEO ad farm... with titles like "Best AI chat bot Zephyr 7B inside finetuning Mistral 7b," "How to Finetune mistral 7B for free and easily with AutoTrain" and the general format.

But its ad free, with no promotional links, and the information is good. For instance, I like the VRAM calculator, and the list of the top finetunes is excellent (like Zephyr Beta and SciPhi, both of which are very new and quite impressive).

Mistral is indeed amazing. I hope they keep updating it, and maybe even publish a 13B version.
It’s maybe worse than what you say, because there is a vicious cycle where individuals whose time is absorbed by parasocial relationships are less available to people around them. Those people may in turn become isolated and turn to… parasocial relationships.
Southern California Beyond the Freeway
> Honestly, there's nothing immoral about charging market rates.

I think the debate is far more nuanced than that. Dislodging families, eliminating the ability to save for retirement, sucking up capital that could otherwise be put to economic use, etc. are all worthy of discussion without flushing it away via the term "market rates".

It's not like landlords are doing remodels and making their property more valuable. Every landlord I've ever had does just about the bare minimum. There's simply no competition. I don't know how we can have a "market rate" without anything that really looks like a market. They've lucked (or manipulated) themselves into a situation where their property value goes up while their costs stay fixed and they're using their good fortune to squeeze others.

There's a reason we use the term "rent-seeking" for businesses that want to get guaranteed income without having to improve their product. I'd certainly consider it immoral.

> What's immoral is preventing construction of housing to allow supply and demand to meet. What's immoral is zoning rules that allow prices to rise well above the level of what would historically have been considered affordable.

I don't see these as separate issues. Rising rents influence property values and vice versa. Many of these landlords are the exact people opposing new construction or rezoning.
I think the answer to your first question depends on the definition of success. The metrics for financial performance and better pay and conditions for workers are hard to compare, and the people that benefit (shareholders/investors vs employees) are different.
You've made one strawman accusation, and sure, people polarized that specific way (insisting only things worth doing are worth making reusable) are often doing bad things.

But I see plenty of anti-intectual anti-whatever attitudes founded in other forms of disdain. And I think grug reflects a broad/broader spectrum of negative biases.

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. Or to zx or anything not just badly written shell scripts no one collaborates on.

People swear worse is better, are YAGNI (you ain't gonna need it) up the wazoo against 90% of everything. I think grug picks a lot of things to bash on, and a lot of devs do to.

I adore simplicity, but I find it challenging & long & arduous to hammer out of things. It's not fast to produce, or low thought. It's not made by resolutely sticking to lo-fi paths & mentalities.

We do need to be aware of the hazards at the other side, of ridiculous complexity & absurd/unnecessary systems engineering: yes! And I think grug offers some good almost-koans to reflect on, illuminates real hazards well. But I also think it's actively harmful & pernicious to put grug-brainedness on a pedestal, to go about actively disbelieving against any possibilities that might possibly be done simpler.

We seem to agree that simplicity takes iteration. Grug presents it as "oh I'm just dumb grug brain, I dunno" but in practice there is a lot of infighting in tech, and those who insist too loudly on aiming too high are not even IMHO as dangerous as those too loudly insisting on too low. We have to keep engaging possibility from all sides, & keep finding out what balances do work.
For the majority of open source projects the indirect effects are the potential for more eyes, more bugfixes, and more knowledge to spread.

RISC-V CPUs don't have any of that as there's no requirement that actual implementation be open source, only the ISA. And it's not like you can change it. You can't buy a RISC-V CPU and fiddle with the design, you don't get the source nor the toolchain. All you get are the man pages, and guess what? You get those with x86 and ARM, too!
That's really interesting. Thanks for providing something substantial.
Optical Character Recognition unfortunately.
> Standing up for people who can't is important, but any situation calls ensuring your own safety as well—you can't help anyone if you end up a victim yourself. The worse story in recent memory is of someone who got stabbed to death in a subway because they spoke up against someone else being racist.

Well that's just bad situational awareness... you can keep an eye on hands, pockets etc when confronting injustice, and if you've taken martial arts you know how to stop a knife attack.
I'm cautious as well. We all hate the spam and dark patterns, and Google is a relatively responsible citizen of the email world in my experience so I hope this will be a positive step.

However if email blocking becomes too aggressive then it can easily result in mails containing information that senders are literally required by law to provide to the recipient being silently dropped, which essentially means the mail service has caused the sender to unknowingly break the law. The penalties for not providing required information under consumer protection rules can be extremely serious in jurisdictions like the EU.

And Joe Random can be a real customer who you are really required to provide with information but can still hit the "this is spam" button if they don't particularly care or want to see it so reading too much into self-reported spam flags is a bit of a slippery slope. Combine that with mandating one-click unsubscribe but possibly without recognising types of emails that again the subscriber literally can't legally not send (at least not without sending the same information to the same recipient some other way instead) and there could be some real danger here.
Which one will get the RISC-V cores?
Unsure if slick promo or not, but that review by tiangolo instantly piqued my interest
No. A number of startups don't either. I hazard to say that even giants like Tinder or Uber likely can have a 30 min outage and lose some revenue and goodwill, but not be hit by some exorbitant liabilities.

Also, microservices add both resilience (by running many copies) and fragility (many loosely coupled moving parts). Which effect prevails, depends on many factors.
The cost of developing a competitive CPU is high, and then you have to package the whole thing into a SoC and optimize for power usage, support it for years, etc. The ISA is not the limiting factor there.
But it's not a PC, it's a mac.
This is many times in my experience not the case, autistic people still have very strong biases hidden under a layer of seeming logic. Incorrect, very confidently held opinions (perseverance -- the trait) are things I see often in the community, I believe.

Bluntness != correctness.

We have the normal emotions and human flaws, they're just expressed differently.
> is easily disproven as such

Not that easy. If the wealthy own 90% of the stocks and 90% of their wealth is in stocks, and the stocks disappeared, they may still be wealthy due to the remainder, but still the bulk of the their wealth was in stocks.
Nearly every part of a web page must run on the end user's hardware.

I would expect someone working on 3D animation or CAD software to require significantly more resources than a web developer.
> not at all. all it would require is the will to actually do it.

Oh the magical things that could happen if we all only had “the will to do it.” I can’t think of a more naively destructive idea.

And what shall the people of these countries do while they wait for their white saviors to develop the “will to do it?”
How many hours of battery life do you typically get when running Linux on the M1?
I can relate. The feeling of being undervalued and taken advantage of is poison for the soul. It's gotten to the point where I optimize for financial independence, maximum income, minimum hours worked and maximum free time.
I wrote a very similar post a couple months ago about trying to modernize the Redux JS packages to support ESM and CJS module formats:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2023/08/esm-modernization-...

I _liked_ Gregory's post. I _felt_ all of the frustration, and the confusion over lack of good docs, and the plethora of competing tools and formats. It resonated deeply for me. I haven't touched Python in years, but I could see exactly how all these pain points were happening thanks to the writing style and the explanations. The goal is to share "here's what I tried", "here's what seems wrong or broken", "here's the pitfalls I ran into", and "here's the _frustration_ I'm feeling at how messed up this all is". And it succeeded.

(And fwiw, I've had a lot of other folks in the JS ecosystem express similar thoughts as thanks for my post. It's a limited target audience, most people won't care, but the folks who _do_ have to deal with these kinds of problems understand and appreciate the details and the effort involved.)
Typically people have build servers for large compile jobs, and I hope for their sake that they have some incremental compile (ninja!) facilities!

I remember though, compiling UE4 in 2016, from scratch, was a half-day job on my non-potato PC.
> Yes, the Board can arrange it so they make a lot of money if the company does well, but if it tanks, they’ll still be OK. Here are some examples[...]

Do you disagree with this thesis?
They will still have wealth because that wealth is their ability to work and produce value.
Who holds the CSO-equivalent job in the government? It's the president or prime minister, isn't it? Because ultimately all decisions have an impact on security.
On one somewhat niche feature, on the lowest SKU in that particular product lineup.

I can pick areas where Apple is beating Intel. Different products have different feature matrices, news at 11.
RISC-V isn't freedom hardware, there's no equivalent to copyleft.
I could be wrong; maybe what China does with its AI developments will significantly and drastically alter the current startup status quo for AI startups.

Maybe the laws around AI will drastically impact the ability of startups to compete with foreign competitors.

…but I can’t see that being likely.

It seems to me that restricting chip technology has a much much more significant impact, along with a raft of other measures which are already in place.

All I can see when I look closely at arguments from people saying this kind of stuff is people who want to make deep fakes, steal art and generate porn bots crying about it, and saying it not fair other people (eg. Japan, where this has been ruled legal, China for who knows what reason, mostly ignorance) are allowed to do it.

I’m not sympathetic.

I don’t believe that makes any difference to the progress on AGI.

I don’t care if China out competes other countries on porn bots (I don’t think they will; they have a very strict set of rules around this stuff… but I’ll be generous and include Japan which probably will).

You want the US to get AGI first?

Well, explain specifically how you imagine open source (shared with the world) models, and open code sharing vs. everything being locked away in a Google/Meta sandbox helps?

Are you sure you’re arguing for the right side here? Shouldn’t you be arguing that the models should be secret so China can’t get them?

Or are you just randomly waving your arms in the air about China without having read the original article?

What are you even arguing for? Laws are bad… but sharing with China is also bad… but having rules about what you do is bad… but China will do it anyway… but fear mongering and locking models away in big corporations behind apis is bad… but China… or something…

????

It’s really not a compelling argument.
This very same site also supports Chinese, along with plenty of other languages! It's linked in the footer.

https://youglish.com/chinese
If I don't remember, please report a feature request on https://github.com/tadfisher/android-nixpkgs so we can get this packaged, at least in my SDK repo.
Within the MacBook Pro lineup, they are objectively the low and mid-grade pricing tiers.
It’s important to those of us with aging eyes.
Wonderful! The mosquito is draggable with my mouse btw (bug), and realistically should be more interested in flying towards me ;)
AGI will mean we’re no longer the dominant life form on the planet. If AGI were achieved tomorrow, how many humans would be left in 200 years?
The best feature to me is really the battery life and the quietness of the laptop. That's a game changer for me. I can work from anywhere comfortable, without burning my palms or legs and in silence.

I remember working on a PC laptop years ago and as soon as you pressed F5 the fans came on cranking for a couple of seconds, it was farcical.
I'm not convinced the training on copyrighted things argument will hold up either.
Out of their 32 billion revenue last quarter, 31.5 billion came from advertising. So I think that is _very_ likely.
What is happening in this comment section.
And still no 27 inch iMacs. Strange decision, that’s a great size.
> I hope they make it really strict.

The threshold is "spam rates reported in Postmaster Tools below 0.3%".

That sounds pretty low to me, but I'm not in the bulk email business. I guess maybe a very small number of users actually report spam? Or maybe Google is being strict.

Source: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#zippy=%2Crequir...

(I work for Google, but on something totally unrelated, and don't speak for them or have any inside knowledge.)
Password cracking lists
Today's CS pedagogy is problematic
Just got helping my sibling prep for their CS exam today. They are one grade below being an undergraduate so math was not an issue at all. They have trouble understanding college classes hence tutions but the latter is even worse.

So here's the thing. When i was 10, school taught us qbasic and html. That was my first brush with programming which i tried out on cmd itself. Far forward 5 years, we had java and I got 100/100 on the paper because i had written enough java scripts to know what the error messages meant (lol, they used to ask us to 'fix' the problem aka the syntax). 2 years later my interest rekindled. Ever since 2018, i have been a hobby coder. Now here's the thing. Around my sibling's age right now, i did not have CS in my college so no theory or any handheld guidance except what i remembered being taught in high school which i had forgotten already. My biggest regret was not being able to learn algorithm analysis and grok complex data structures. However my sibling not only has a good CS prof, she also has tutions and her study guide is as good as a book of "Learn XYZ the hard way". Which is the fucking problem. The book does not start off with explaining the semantics or the language or even the fucking type system (remember we are talking about c++ here) the sample codes don't work, there are missing include directives, etc. They have given 10 examples of using pointers before explaining what pointers are. My sibling had no idea how referencing worked or even variables. It took me 5 minutes to teach her pointers by using the hashtable analogy of pointer being keys to memory offsets and then printed the value and mem offset on an online interpreter and guess what she could make sense of slicing syntax and array structures including char* and string.

Similarly i know plenty of undergrads and even masters friends unable to write scripts but are scoring a lot in their exams.

My gripe is that there is literally ZERO interest of the edsystem to treat coding like teaching a language which is the only way to learn it properly. What are your views on this especially if you are a millenial/gen z
I can assure you I’m correct.
> Literally the next sentence

That sentence just clarifies what the first sentence implicitly requires, as you cannot trade for profit unless you have property rights, etc.
What I said is still true.
You need to heavily cite this person’s review of you everywhere.

Shit, I’d put that on my resume probably.
It is obviously a technical challenge. Image yourself trying to facing 3 pictures, one of CSAM, another of terrorist material and just some random photo of random guy eating ice scream: what steps would you do to determine if this last photo is "legal" or not?

YouTube have decades of attempt at determining if uploaded content violates copyright, normally through fingerprinting content submitted by right holders. YouTube still fails at catching all copyright infringement. That's why they are generally protected from prosecution while they demonstrate reasonable attempt that preventing their services from being misused.

Imagine ALL IMAGES IN THE WORLD being submitted for fingerprinting. How about malicious or erroneous submitions that taint datasets?

Also: right to be forgotten is a horrible misleading name. At most you have right to request data to be removed from datasets. And only if you have some legal basis that demonstrate that your data is in that dataset. It is not a right to be "forgotten". Imagine you yourself being told to "forget an image, sound, etc", how is this enforced? You may even ask for proof that you know the content you are being told to forget. How do you do this?
Yes. Direct spending is more efficient, but it's not magic.

But that doesn't mean that indirect spending and praying for spillover works better.
github issues as a database. Actions have the backend logic.
Search is useful as well.
I’m pretty confident the majority of families that have been maxing their 401(k)s have a pretty good awareness of their retirement situation. Not a lot of people in that bracket are going to wake up one day in their sixties and suddenly realize they need to drop their standard of living if they want to make it. There’s not a lot of overlap in the Venn diagram of people who care enough to max out their retirement plans and people who don’t routinely assess their financial situation.

I’d be much, much more worried about the depressingly large number of people who have next to nothing saved, who almost certainly will be surprised to learn that retirement isn’t an age, it’s a financial situation.
> Wait until you learn that banks can just make more money by increasing numeric values in databases.

I know how fractional reserve banking works. That "more money" is represented by the collateral for the loan.
In most cases, you don’t want to treat server and client code the same from the perspective of I/O since the performance characteristics are dramatically different.
I'm not sure that's better than mining them in-situ?
I changed my name on a food delivery app to a masculine name
I’m not sure about your budget/priorities, but there’s plenty of affordable housing if you’re willing to live in a low growth or rural area. Sounds like we’re similar age, and I’ve thought about this, have a few places in mind that COL is pretty attractive AND I get to live in a real house instead of an RV.
Not into open hardware, but recently bumped into this FPGA-based approach - the MNT RKX7 Open Hardware FPGA CPU Module [0] - that is a good example of how to experiment with a RISC-V design before spending the money to produce the actual chip.

[0] https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-09-29-rkx7-showcase.h...
Which workplaces are these that buy low-end laptops for their employees but shell out for dual monitor workstations?
With project.toml, the new strat is to build the wheel with `python3 -m build` and then install it with `pip install --root=$DESTDIR` plus a handful of flags to tell pip not to touch the network or the local cache.

It's not great, but it's also not terrible.

E.g. https://github.com/cbarrick/efiboot/blob/2ca46a7c27c837adf23...
Amazon.com as others have written here too. Amazon.in is similar though behind.

Fidelity: While I haven't needed to contact them much, each time I did, a human support provided good help.

Wells Fargo: Always provided good service. There have been a few incidents recently where they could have done better.
No, "your comp going down" is not "risk."
Intel straggler here. My laptop just completed 5 years. It says battery needs replacing which I’ve been putting off for a year. The thing is I have 32G which is quite good IMO so I’ll probably use it for two years at least.
A situation where someone requires help but is not receiving it is unjust, because people's needs are not being met while others have more than they need. It is also unfair, because if you require help and have several randomly distributed attributes, you will receive that help, whereas if you require help and do not have those random accidents of birth you generally will not receive that help. That is definitionally unfair, because random chance is deciding the outcomes of people's lives.
Yes, I was just pointing out why having huge fonts/images isnt as big of a blocker as huge JS on today's JS heavy apps with "loading placeholders" and what not. The browser also does font replacement fairly smoothly.

Whether this whole bazaar is ideal or not is a separate issue :)
>The reason becomes apparent when you take a carry on bag

your unreason will become apparent when you check that bag and stroll completely unencumbered through the vast distances twixt curb and plane (x2 departure and arrival)

baggage claim really doesn't take that long, and you can come up with something zen to do for 5 or 10 minutes, make a phone call or two, talk to family or friends. Life is better when you stop inconveniencing yourself and creating a rat race when there isn't one. Let everyone around you fight over the overheads.
> it's the vicarious and voyeuristic aspect that his fortune is built off, the art is incidental

Seems like Rodriguez is more of a performance artist.
Interesting that the whole presentation was shot on an iPhone. I've been wondering when they'd make that leap.
Maybe they know M3 is not up for that kind of task.
You guys live on another planet. As a software developer slave I make 20,000 after diacounts