skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From another point of view this author's arguments may look a little odd.

He has not much problem with Apple charging $1799 for a MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM. His problem is that Apple sells another model with 8GB for $1599. A $200 difference for a 8GB difference, what a ripoff!

Does that mean he'd be happier if Apple sold the base model for $1699 instead of $1599, making the 8GB memory upgrade cost a more reasonable $100?
Agreed.

The article makes a good point about how little of software development consists of typing. This matches with my experience also, over several decades. There are so many things to optimize before "code input speed".

20 years ago, one of our guys hurt his arm and had his arm in a sling. The customer asked for a 50% discount on his rate - it was clear they saw software development as "fancy typing" rather than a process of turning business requirements into functional software.
Live monitoring and test instances. They have ssh access to prod
Interesting. Does the prescription have a drug name? I've been using an OTC CBD balm for bone-on-bone arthritis knee pain, but I'd love something with a bit more oomph to help reduce pain and inflammation. I'd love to be able to ask my doc about it.
YJIT tech lead here.

On the flip side, YJIT is probably one of the most memory-efficient JIT compilers out there (for any language). I say this having spoken to other JIT implementers.

We've worked really hard to reduce the memory overhead and at Shopify it's now down to less than 10% in our flagship production deployment.

Regardless, if memory usage is a legitimate concern for you, you can very easily remove the Rails initializer that turns on YJIT. You can choose between memory usage and response time. The choice is yours.
It's the same in the UK. They are more concerned with left-wing politics (even far to the left of the Labour party) than they are for workers rights.
Is there any public webrtc discovery servers online? That's the only thing I think you need to actually run a server for to have an omegle clone. Everything else can be static and go on ipfs, github pages, or something like it.

Maybe abusing webtorrent trackers to do discovery might work, but would likely be trickier.

Of course, it's probably a bad idea to stand up a clone of the site that's impossible to properly moderate.
Thanks that’s a good answer. I don’t have time to respond, but I appreciate your thoughtful response.
Remedy's tech is just one reason Alan Wake 2 is the best-looking game of 2023
This is interesting for several reasons.

1. It happened during the Treasury auction, and if the timing was intentional, a case could be made about it being a national security issue. The hackers disrupted the largest, and possibly most important, auction in the financial world.

2. The hackers may have unintentionally provoked an entity you definitely don’t want on your bad side: the People’s Liberation Army’s cyber arm.

3. I wonder if ICBC used a specialized courier service to send the USB stick, or if such a thing even exists. Or did they just use any old messenger service in Manhattan? If the latter, it’s funny to think that there was somebody biking across the city carrying billions of dollars worth of liquidity and settlement data and he/she would’ve been none the wiser.
The cashier has three jobs:

- Prevent theft

- Keep track of what's specifically been sold, to help determine re-ordering schedules

- Sometimes, put things in bags. Some stores just ask the customer to do this even if they have a cashier.

The thing about physically moving products over a barcode scanner is only for those first two purposes. Mostly the first -- if theft weren't an issue, it would be cheaper to just do manual inventory more frequently.

The customer is not preventing theft. They (mostly) aren't stealing, but they also aren't deterring anyone from stealing. The lone employee for the eight self-checkout kiosks is doing that -- with the help of scales, cameras, and (these days) a little bit of AI.
> One thing I care about as a Swedish engineer is interesting work on the forefront of technology. Sadly that’s also been sacrificed in the Nordic model.

youre so high on copium if you think that the economic model has anything to do with that...

if you were a world class talent, you'd be able to get a position for such a job under any economic system. youre just not.
Because iMessage only works on iphone and 70% of the world uses android?
I'm truly sorry for your loss. I'm fearful of how much easier it is to share hate speech now, compared to even just a decade ago. You're not alone in your suffering or grief. Wishing you peace.
Connectivity could be easy. There's lots of extant subsea fiber connections in the Arctic region, because of satellite downlink stations there (polar satellite orbits are an easy way to guarantee revisits to the same Earth location, every orbit cycle). Fucking Svalbard, of all places, has 2.5 terabits of dark fiber, paid for partly by the USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Undersea_Cable_System

https://spacenorway.no/en/what-we-do/operational-infrastruct...

And the inverse is true as well: Starlink, the LEO satellite constellation, [edit: this is *no longer true*] spends the most loiter time and has the highest coverage, highest bandwidth, over the poles. I imagine you could plausibly get high-bandwidth, low-latency satellite backhauls from an Arctic datacenter.
Could be a self hosted home device for the big power requirements.
How did Van's Aircraft get into this mess?
In terms of bad side effects of dumb systems, maybe this is not the worst in the world.

20 people got to keep their paychecks and the company retained them, which means the company held on to their capacity to do work, in case a new project came up.

It turns out they didn’t need that capacity, but we all pay a lot for insurance that we hopefully and typically don’t use.
Braid is one of my favorite games. An unusual but simple set of rules producing surprisingly complex interactions. I often compare it with Portal and Mountain Valley: one bends time and two others - space. Very excited for this release.

Can’t tell if it will have new puzzles or not. Does anybody know?
I think parents should take some responsibility here.

The park analogy that the creator of omegle made is interesting, we don't shutdown parks because a crime may take place there.

And why not just remove video chat completely and keep the text chat and with higher moderation and tools, it should have been possible to keep the problems at bay.

We might try to out reason the following argument but I do believe it demands reflection. Omegle was about the only popular mass media which was fully distributed, allowed for random encounters with people.

I am reminded of Aaron Swartz. And, I have a deep suspicion that Omegle's shutdown being part of the lawsuit settlement has a lot more to the story. And probably the creator also had to sign NDA or something.
>Yeah this is definitely one of those things that sounds good on paper but has unintended "consequences" shall we say.

Definitely Goodhart's Law in action.
Sure. But given a crossbow made with salvaged spring steel, I suspect that skill (hitting close targets) would have much quicker learning curve (vs. a bow).
> NEED $25,000 for emergency medical costs, or to close a critical business deal, or to pay for your wedding, or a parent’s funeral, or to help out friend or family in dire trouble?

None of these are issues for anyone with that kind of money.

There's a thing called credit - which if you have that kind of cash - you have that kind of credit.
I think you missed the point - we're talking about computers marketed as "Pro" devices which should be able to handle "Pro" workloads.

8GB on the Airs is a completely different issue as these are not marketed as Pro devices.

Consumers place a lot of faith in Apple as a brand so when they go and purchase a "Macbook Pro" they should be able to assume Apple has their back and it's actually going to do what it says on the tin. It's 2023, memory demand is higher than it ever has been and selling a "Pro" computer thats destined to be living on swap so they can try squeeze another $200 out of you is pretty shitty honestly. And it's not like you can just upgrade it, you have to toss it out and get a whole new device.
types aren't a substitute for tests.

let add : int -> int -> int = fun a b ->
Random.self_init ();
Random.int 100
It’s pretty weird to count the number of games. Wouldn’t it be better to count the number of players? Many of those games will have close to zero players.
> Note that FireOS doesn't run standard Android applications anyway

What do you mean by that?

I have a Fire Tab, and it has F-Droid and I've installed many apps from there with no extra steps.
And in the mean time if they are waging war on you you are to die politely and silently.

State powers also learned from nonviolent movements. Like what are some major nonviolent protest movements against state oppression that have significantly achieved their goals in the last 50 years?

Their success depended on certain social and political factors that simply no longer exist. We are encouraged to consider them the perfect form of resistance precisely because they are not effective right now.
I find myself using J [0] for such type of ideation/programming exercises. Klong/K/APL also lend to similar productivity.

[0] https://www.hillelwayne.com/handwriting-j/
Maybe it should be safe to say? but do they actually have a diagram of their physical and logical setup that shows they use bare metal only and not VM's or containers? Is that documented in audited security controls?
Their argument is independent of inflation because they are comparing relative exports to EU and non-EU. If there was a Brexit effect that distribution should have shifted but it didn't.

But they do take inflation into account and it shows the opposite of the predicted effect:

If we exclude precious metals, then exports to EU destinations increased by 13.4 per cent while exports to non-EU countries increased by only 5.7 per cent (see table 2), and if we use deflated data then exports to EU
countries fell by 7.2 per cent but decreased by 9.8 per cent to non-EU countries (see table 3)

(precious metal exclusion is standard in this type of trade analysis)

The OBR's claims are full of severe flaws, with problems like key numbers just being made up, extreme assumptions that were already falsified, or relying on averages of economic predictions made by publicly Brexit-hostile organizations, years before the exit process actually happened and which didn't reflect the final agreement. The OBR very clearly chose a position and then made an analysis to meet that goal, which is typical of most of the British civil service's institutions in their approach to Brexit.

This analysis in contrast is very careful to study the different factors impacting British trade in detail, in particular reallocations due to new rules of origin accounting that don't represent real trade differences.
Doesn't that fact make the release less certain than the last time they announced it?
Cool. I would recommend FreeBSD to anyone wanting to jump out of the Linux bandwagon

Sadly my bug is still present if you attempt to create a Virtual Machine with bHyve in a jail.

Appears to only effect limited servers: in this case an Cisco UCS 220 M5.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=274051
Is risc-v really more power efficient at similar performance levels? I would think the ISA itself wouldn't matter that much for power efficiency, all things considered.
Primarily, you want an apples to apples comparison. A law firm is a service provider, however not a consultancy. The service the two types of firms provide are not directly comparable.

Furthermore, a law firm is a place where your assertion - “ discrepancy goes to equity partners (who aren't those doing the execution work)…”
Senior partners are pretty critical in bringing and keeping clients.

See https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-law-firm-isn-apos-0514053... . Valuing law firms is not that straightforward, and profit margin numbers are not defensible.

I would appreciate the source you are basing your arguments on.
beautiful summary
Lots of these laws of war exist to limit the gruesomeness of war, but if you think it's reasonably necessary for the objective of the war, these rules (legally) go out the window (completely, but to whatever extent is necessary). For example <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportionality_(law)>
Computer criminals calling themselves "hackers" is fairly recent, only the past few decades. And that's as unwarranted as calling anyone who codes as "hackers" as you mention.

Originally hackers were the people actually creating new innovations, typically with no financial gain desired either criminal or legitimate. People at places like MIT or Stanford in the 1970s and the like.
Where are the nRF52 usb dongles for $10?
Like the Catholic Church?
Rather pushy demand for well after the East Coast has gone to sleep.
> You can radiate heat from the surface of the earth into space via the sky, but you don't lose much energy that way.

That's not quite true. Black body radiation is the only reason why earth does not heat up much more. It's the only factor with a negative radiative forcing.

Solar radiation is the only main incoming source of energy, and black body radiation the only outcome with almost the same magnitude (which is huuuuge btw)
Give up earlier when the priority is low, so performance impact is low for low-priority threads.
He said on Twitter that it will!

https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1722709573071433996
Any major US city? Dinner for two with my wife is ~$200, yeah...? (I'm not even in California or NYC)
I guess that the usual range for datacenter temperature must include the eventual human working in it.

Usual acceptable legal office temp where I've worked in Europe where between 18°c and 26°c.

To allow someone to work out of this range, you'll need to reclassify the workers and provide accommodation for working under "hard conditions".

Ex : workers in refrigerated warehouse have specific work time regulation and specific clothing provided by the employer.
The Svalbard fibre optic cable connection (2022)
Keyboards with thumb clusters are definitely the best option, but in my experience, even on a normal keyboard, simply remapping your keys makes a world of difference.

Here are some of my most useful remaps:

- Swap enter and semicolon. Enter is one of my most used keys. It should be "directly accessible"

- Make right command backspace. Backspace is another key I very commonly use, but it's far away and causes a lot of pain. Now, it's right under my thumb! (Regular backspace key is now forward delete).

- Make caps lock and enter control. (When pressed with other keys). This is useful for Emacs commands.

- Caps lock is escape when not pressed with other keys.

- Enter is semicolon when not pressed with other keys.

I use Karabiner for Mac to do my remappings.
> No, the official Nordic devkits comes with a built-in debugger. Same for micro:bit. It's just plain USB.

Right, the devkits can do this. If you want to go past that, like making your own PCB with a NRF52 on it you need JTAG, which is not a requirement for esp32.

Maybe the NRF52 has some sort of ROM serial loader that I've missed though.
> You mean cash? Bitcoin is no more or less illegal than cash.

As I mentioned, cash has reporting requirements above small amounts ("except in small fiat amounts under cash reporting limits") [1]. Chainalysis exists as a business to provide reporting to governments for crypto transfers [2].

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/news/financial-institution-letters/2021...

[2] https://www.chainalysis.com/regulators/
How is giving people more options a bad thing? If somebody does want a larger screen and two monitor setup but will only ever be using it for light web, the 8GB machine is probably perfect for them.

And thinking "you shouldn't be paying extra" is just bias. Just select the configuration you need, look how much it costs and figure if this is what you want to pay. You are not paying anything extra. They clearly tell you how much you are going to pay for the configuration you want.
The author misses on a few points and the article comes across as nostalgic more than realistic.

First: violence was a lot worse before, so what makes the author think going back in time with weapons is actually good?

Second: that guns allow the weak to be as threatening as the strong is considered a feature by many people; an equalizing force. As the saying goes: "God made men, Sam Colt made them equal." The idea that you can find vulnerable people and exploit them without fear is a big driver of violence -- but if everyone must fear violence coming back at them, that's a pacifying force.

Third, the author goes on about the sustainability of guns. But arrows are a lot bigger and more expensive, so I question the idea that they'd be made sustainably. "Artisanal" means wood, I suppose, and that could be much more problematic than a few factories cranking out bullets. People would reuse arrows more, but there are also a lot more people today so that would really involve some kind of industrial process and I doubt it comes out as a net advantage.

Even when it comes to public safety, I'm not quite sure it's a win. We are pretty safe most places, and in the US, violence is mostly local to known areas.
This is an interesting diff

-3: .4byte __FreeBSD_version
+3: .4byte 1400097

Not sure what the significance of 0907? but it is interesting
Agai, why would you use sms with all it's problems, or iMessage that 50% of the people dont use when you have a better alternative that I'd also free?
In this case, a false positive might be a good thing from their perspective. If they can show that you have a close match it means they have an excuse to investigate you more thoroughly should they desire even if the real reason is that they suspect you of something else.
There is a very interesting video and I think it's from the official investigation. It seems to show that the steering broke before the corner and Senna tried to turn but he just kept going streight.

https://youtu.be/UfgadmP5PzY?si=CjSvAw9aGXb7uU0_
they should at least opensource their implementation. they may have errors there. should we just trust everything?
Could you also possibly be projecting your values on to Einstein?

There is a tendency to modernize or whitewash the views of heroes of the past so they pass muster today.

A generation ago we had far less reticence to categorize and rank people, for better and for worse.

I don’t know enough about Einstein to have a strong opinion here so this is a question more than rebuttal.

Does he normally write in loose metaphor or is he generally straight to the point?
Braid was the first game that blew my mind with its amazing gameplay and story. The other thing that dropped my jaw was lisp when I learnt that you could make cons using closures, encapsulating data in a "function"'s arguments.
His blog post mentions people influenced (and misguided) by reading only American Sci-Fi. What are some examples of good "worldly" Sci-Fi? Or, good non-US Sci-Fi authors? Should I just check the Hugo and Nebula awards? I would like to expand my Sci-Fi palate.
The first major design win of integrated circuits was the Minuteman II guidance computer.
"A price hike by any other name costs just as much."

(I didn't bother looking for the quote's source.)
AI expert reveals the best hiding place for the robot revolution
I wish my productivity was bound by my typing speed and not my thinking
Agree. That point was muddled by me. The aim should be in building things, not being seen as successful.
The two times I had RSI it actually turned out to be a postural issue. I never would have figured that out without going to physical therapists, who were able to figure it out in 15 minutes. They gave me specific instructions on how to hold my body and some exercises to do, and things cleared up in a few weeks.

RSI and similar mean there's something specific that needs fixing. PTs can dramatically speed up that process; trying to solve it on your own can result in more damage simply because you're not fixing the problem.

I'd agree that exercise is all well and good. But you should also make sure you're fixing the right problem.
All Western countries went into below-replacement fertility without any population control.

Life on soylent in a dorm is not worth living.
> All we need is a place in the dashboard to mount our phones.

Where I live, even touching your phone while driving is illegal. Doesn't stop most people, but I'd still not mess about.

I do remember reading news of someone getting cited in california when the model 3 was new, for "mounting a screen visible to the driver" which was the stock touchscreen.
if your aim is to effectively troll, reading comprehension is a prerequisite
That does look like it:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/n...

Looks like AMD has an equivalent:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-mktme-amd-memory-enc...

I wish there were a sort of checklist that prints out in dmesg saying "Your RAM is encrypted: (check) Your machine has these mitigations against cold-boot attacks: ...some list here... (check, check, check)"

In some contexts, I love how far we've come with secure boot, attestation, speculative execution mitigations, etc. but it's very difficult for the average Linux user to understand what they should expect for hardware security, and then work toward enabling all of it.

I love what Gnome did in the last year in Settings -> Device Security:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-No-GNOME-Device-Securit...

There's a detailed list here of what it's looking for:

https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=152705

Not a fan of all the bound-to-Intel technologies. I wish the concept of what's being secured were identified, then made available in dmesg or through some /sys or /proc interface.
It's not the point, but it doesn't hurt that, at least on macOS the 'real native' APIs are... terrible! SwiftUI only just got rounded borders this year https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71744888/swiftui-view-wi.... People here complain about CSS, but that's been a platform feature since like 2003.

On Windows the UI toolkit story is just as much of a pain, with microsoft reinventing the toolkit every other year, and it still lacks basic layout features solved in CSS.
"And 99% of the time the answer will be a locally running process"

Depends on the environment - for years I used either an HP X terminal or a PC running an X server and the one thing I could be confident about in both cases was that the process wasn't running locally.

Mind you - that wasn't recently!
Iceland absolutely does do that. There are multiple icelandic datacenter operators trying to get european customers with the promisse of being powered by cheap renewable energy.

(But Iceland's potential isn't as "infinite" as it may sound. Yeah, they could still build plenty of electricity generation. But they stopped massively building out electricity generation after building the Kárahnjúkar power plant, which was probably the most controversial infrastructure project in Iceland ever. They still build smaller hydropower plants and lately a bit of wind.)
A lot of people are either bad with their finances or have too much money to care (too often both -- see the existence of DoorDash and ilk). They won't put that effort in. Replaceable batteries are an outlet that provides those folks with better choices via the market to divert (i.e. delay) e-waste.
When you're combining letter names with other commands, even in perfect recording conditions, there will be confusion. The command "back Q" sounds very very close to "back U", but "back quench" is different than "back urge".

In either case, you're using the same number of syllables, so there isn't any speed lost. You just have to spend a day learning the alphabet.