skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is saying that the mere existence of the 8GB Macbook is a "problem". But it is disingenuous to claim that 8 GB unified memory = 16 GB regular RAM.
> and yes Ireland.

I think you missed that bit so I edited it for clarity.

I am not saying they have no workers in Ireland, I am saying Ireland’s tax policy doesn’t increase the number of workers.

As the Alphabet shell corp has no workers. Alphabet itself does. It’s a 190,000 worker behemoth attracted by a cheap English speaking workforce in a reasonably close time zone.
If something has to happen, it will happen.
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As a Dubliner, I can tell you that very few are feeling positive effects of these ‘billions of euros.’ The EU ruling is more about a tax evasion loop hole that sees vast billions of euros passing through it, then investment of billions in any part of the economy.
Servo is an experimental web engine written in Rust, originally by Mozilla.
That is an opinion which assumes waste/pollution affects no other person than the one creating it. Ridiculous and naive.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38189817
It's a great song. Hearing it at 33 rpm [0] is a different experience still: it's almost more plaintive, more haunting. Worth a listen IMO.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doz1QJ7LwjA
Ireland is being forced to tear up its own taxation rules, by countries who have an interest in making the Irish economy less competitive.
> I am aware of the purported benefits of decriminalizing certain kinds of CSAM, but utilitarian arguments are suspiciously silent on the subject of costs.

The reason they're suspiciously silent is because there is little to no evidence for the existence of such costs. The harms of CSAM with real children is clear as the victim is on camera, but who is victimized by animated CSAM? The allegation is that exposure to porn encourages deviant thoughts that eventually culminate in molestation. This is contradicted by lots of sex research in ordinary people and porn, and the small studies of child molesters suggests that it reduces recidivism too, like I said.

So the situation we're in is that the government has banned something with little to no evidence of actual harm. It's the obscenity laws against porn all over again. Shouldn't the government ideally have to demonstrate actual harm before regulating behaviours?

I understand the impulse to the precautionary principle, but it doesn't seem warranted here.
you gotta agree the age addiction is the worst by far
You get an artisanal laptop created by passionate Linux enthusiasts that work for a Small Business in Oregon.
Colleges are both broken and functional on many different ways, with different results for each kind of value you want to take from them.

They are certainly up for improvement, but throwing everything away and starting back from first principles almost never work for something that complex. "What first principles should it follow" is an open problem by itself.
> Sad to see they are planning on filling them up with concrete:(

I'm not sure what "them" exactly refers to, here, probably "the Paris Catacombs" in the title… which is not very precise. The misconception is that there is a plan to fill up a) the publicly accessible part of the network (the actual "catacombs"), or b) the non-publicly accessible parts of the network (the "carrières" and "abris" that both cataphiles and casuals incorrectly call "catacombs"), or c) both with concrete.

The publicly accessible part is basically the ossuaries, which is a very popular tourist spot. That part is profitable and very well maintained so there is no reason whatsoever to fill it with concrete.

The non-publicly accessible parts are the ones the cataphiles care about. _Many_ parts of it have been clogged with concrete over the past decades for the reasons already mentioned, but there is no plan to do that at the scale of the network which, given its size, would be insanely costly, challenging and pointless. No one is planning to do that.

The whole network? No. Just no.

What will continue to happen is concrete being poured here and there whenever the IGC identifies a security risk that can only be mitigated that way—entitled weed smokers be damned—and the cataphiles being pissed about something they can't do shit about.
This has been a problem for years in Portugal too, but lately the number and the amount of stealing has increased dramatically. More like a coordinated organized crime.

Historically this was done mostly by some ethnic groups, I'm not sure if now there other forces or people behind it, as police forces have been more of less sleeping on this since it has been a "country problem" not a "city one" and as it has some ethnicities attached to it, the media also avoids to touch it, so the answer is: most of us don't really know what's going on in a deep way.
comparing Apples to Acers. My 2021 Samsung Fold has 12GB RAM.
sigh

Here we go again with FOMO, tullip bubble, grifters and short squeezes …
How to Light the Dark Months
I think what I’ve suggested is sensible environmentalism. Add a deposit, let the market sort it out. It is what we’ve done for lead acid car batteries, and it works pretty well, I think. Lead and acid are nasty things, but we recycle something like 99% of these batteries.

The issue isn’t whether or not you are fine with a little bit of waste. That little bit of waste has a cost. The cost is paid by the planet, not you, if the phone just winds up ina dump. I haven’t suggested banning phones without replaceable batteries, just making sure that you or your phone manufacturer somehow pay that cost.
I am relieved to be way below the average but that was kinda expected as I have most notification but instant messages silenced and am mostly only using the browser on my phone and closed all social media accounts but a fediverse one.

And I would totally use it less and leave it at home more if it wasn't for my partner complaining when I am not answering her messages and calls.
See how Disney and other pulled their content away from Netflix. Considering Netflix as existential threat to them, they thought its better to have their own streaming service. And now Disney of all is pulling their content away from their Disney+ because.. wait for it... it is too expensive to put their own content there.
Whereas with Netflix they could have gotten nice stack of money which they forgo dreaming about their own service ruling streaming.
Your point is interesting. I didn't think about this use case. Inject code with ptrace. Like the LD_PRELOAD trick but you don't even need LD_PRELOAD, just attach and bamboozle the running process into running some code you provided. In such cases sections don't exist, but pages. Right.
I suddenly needed to replace my maxed out M1 Pro Max with a new laptop a couple months ago. The base M2 Air 8GB was the only one that would ship to me quickly. I was reluctant because I figured it would barely be functional with that much memory - before I got rid of my Pro, I loaded up my usual workload and checked how much memory was being used in total, and it was easily more than 8GB.

But I've been doing my usual (Firefox with many tabs, VS Code with a bunch of tabs and a couple windows, a Next.js dev server or two, multiple terminals, sometimes even more apps open) and I haven't noticed even a slight struggle to handle the load, no frame drops or anything.

Of course, it only supports 1 external monitor instead of the 2 I was using with the Pro. I'm sure it would struggle with the heavier VM/docker workloads. But it handles medium demands just fine.
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Leaving aside commercial companies and police who are more or less known to be malicious (no, the ends dont justify the means. you monsters), what would make accedemics support a law as destructive to democracy as this.

I bet none of them are anywhere near cryptography or computer security.
I had the same experience as a kid. Probably built over a hundred QBasic-powered games with no internet to help me.

I missed it, so last year when I rebuilt my website I built it in QBasic:

jamon.dev
I'm also Irish and you need to think of this more than just the GDP number. Tens of thousands of Irish people are working in the tech and pharma sector which is directly related to the tax status that companies have here. It's convenient for a company to have its "tax HQ" as well as a large physical presence in the country. It is allowing us to build our own sovereign wealth fund.

The Ireland of today is hugely better off than it was in the 80s and early 90s, and a good deal of that progress has been smart "marketing", as you call it, bringing in investment. Without this, the economy of Ireland would be closer to Greece or Portugal today.
A little bit off topic question. When people are talking about costs with GPT, like the following link. Does the cost concern only apply to the API? If you’re using the WebUI and have a Plus account, is it always just the flat $20 amount?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38193978
See... you're in that same place I was in before I got married and had a child. Children are egotistical little noisy monsters, scared of random things, and needy, needy, needy... I get it.

It's not the amount of exposure to kids, it's the relationship during said exposure, that forces empathy for those little monsters upon you, and your appreciation of your parents goes through the roof.

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As for blocking out the noise, industrial hearing protection is your friend. I'd go for the foamy things that expand inside your ears from 3M.[1]

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Also, you're in a recliner, flying through the air at 600 miles per hour, with your needs attended to by someone paid to do so... putting up with a temporary crying kid with a desperate parent trying to comfort them is waaaayyy better than walking. ;-)

[1] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/c/ppe/hearing-protection/earpl...
I just watch YouTube. My attention span has dropped to shorter formats, and I don't have the time to binge series after series.

It does seem like they are pushing out a commercial or two every 3-5 minutes, but I haven't ponied up for Premium, yet...
A lot of these kinds of routines could be translated to other languages but aren't because they are complex and often unmaintained and no one is really around that understands them well enough to port them to C or Rust or whatever.

There is also the issue that often they were published before adding a LICENSE file was a thing. I've found myself in the position before of having to email professors in some random university to ask them if I can get permission to redistribute such a routine while packaging a library that depended on it. In one case I asked them if it would be possible to update their code with a license (which was just a zip file on netlib) and the answer was, "no, but you have my email". So I found myself having to write something like "distributed with permission from the author, private correspondence, pinky swear" in my copyright file. some of this code is so old the authors aren't around and it would get "lost" in terms of being able to get permissions to use it, I mean it's a potential crisis to be honest, if people really cared to check. (Until the copyrights expire I guess, which is what, 70 years after the author's death or some such?)

Anyway, I wonder if a potential solution is to autotranslate some of these libraries using LLMs? Maybe AI will save us in the end. Of course you can't trust LLMs so you still need to understand the code well enough to verify any such translation.
But phones without user replaceable batteries have advantages like water resistance, size, weight, etc.

If you mandate everything has to have replaceable batteries, you restrict the ability for consumers to choose devices that prioritize other things.

Only logic that I would say could be used is an environmental concern, but you'd need to really show that replaceable batteries would lead to significant improvements in the amount of e-waste we generate. If everything has a replaceable battery, but only a few people take advantage of it and the average lifetime of a phone remains constant-ish, it's really not valuable.

I think the replaceable battery thing is very much a HN bubble issue. It's not like there aren't phones with them. If more people wanted them, more people would sell them, but most people prefer the additional battery life, increased water resistance, and thinness of modern phones.
Some goals are so great that they can not be reached alone. Space flight for example, was a dream for many, but it required massive joint effort to finally achieve.

Even people seeking hyper-individualistic goals are paid, for example in sports. I don't mean that getting paid is a prerequisite, but if you're struggling alone you have to check after some time if it's really worth doing.
Today I stumbled across this nice chart, which shows how small Bitcoin still is, compared to traditional assets:

https://twitter.com/JonathanBeuys/status/1722637010718822902
It's possible, but cleanroom suits are primarily designed to protect the product from the employees. They keep foreign contaminants out of the manufacturing environment. They're not necessarily capable of protecting the employees from the hazards of the manufacturing environment itself, nor do they necessarily account for the removal of hazardous material before venting the production area to the atmosphere. It might further add to the costs of the fabrication facility.
I've known two people who have suffered from actual carpal tunnel syndrome, as opposed to milder forms of RSI, and both were in food service--a chef and a barista. Picture flipping food on saute pans five hours a night or pulling portafilters out of espresso machines five hours a day. You get the idea. The chef was also beginning to suffer from elbow tunnel syndrome.

Folks typically don't get actual carpal tunnel from keyboards, especially newer (here, newer than the 90s) keyboards with much lighter key presses. Touchpads are much more resistant to even milder forms of RSI than mouses.

That and better keyboards and mouses are an easy and relatively cheap way to mitigate, so those who suffer from RSI pain at work can ask for ergonomic devices. It is hard to argue that they aren't "reasonable" accommodations under the ADA, so firms accept that they are required to purchase them.
I get your point but xul specifically is gone
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1ORqed8SW_7fPnPdjfz42...
Cracking down on piracy is totally possible. Pirates winning is not a foregone conclusion.

If you follow the torrentfreak blog you can see that anti-piracy forces really do make big moves. They are capable of passing laws internationally, international enforcement, dictating the technology in our devices.

So far things have worked out in favor of Pirates, but every year another piece of the cage is created, from device attestation, secure enclaves for decryption keys, infiltrating and busting piracy groups, shutting down the latest applications that people use, etc.
Better phones stop being made.
Why is that newsworthy?
It's possible that there is no dual channel, so the laptop would not take a performance hit due to mismatched sticks.

I can not tell the configuration of the slots from their specs page [0].

Their configuration page [1] confirms that it's 8GB+32GB to get the 40GB.

Why wouldn't they just offer 2x16GB to get the dual-channel memory? Unless, of course, the laptop does not support dual-channel memory...

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[0]: https://system76.com/laptops/lemur#specs

[1]: https://system76.com/laptops/lemp12/configure
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I prefer content that is for techies in general, not the AI super-expert
The vast majority of popular content can be bought/rented online via platforms like Amazon. It's just very expensive in comparison to streaming.
so that'd be the 900 not the 9000. The 900 had a diagnostic port that the ISAT could communicate with for resetting the SRS system, or to talk to the LH 2.4 systems which I think were just the non-turbos.

The 9000 is a fully integrated system though, there's like 5 or 6 different modules and all sorts of ODB support from TCS to ABS to the HVAC controls, ECU, etc.
But fining Apple and Google is!
> it is entirely morally appropriate to destroy Hamas.

Short of entirely depopulating Gaza, Israel isn't capable of 'destroying Hamas', and even if they magically did, they'd only be leaving a void to be filled by more extreme resistance groups (both in terms of violence and in terms of Islamism) like Palestinian Islamic Jihad. One of the things that the October 7 attacks proved is that Israel doesn't in fact know where Hamas are or what they're up to. If Israel had known who the Hamas leadership responsible for the attack were and where to find them prior to the attack, they would have already assassinated them before the attack ever took place. But they don't, which is why Israel has murdered ten thousand civilians in order to kill mere (alleged) 'dozens'¹ of Hamas commanders.

That the stated purpose of this bombing campaign is in reality unachievable is part of its function: that the completion condition is infeasible and impossible to verify means that the IDF has no stopping point. There is no amount of carnage and destruction which the impossible mission of 'eliminating Hamas' would 'not unjustify'. Indeed, Israeli officials have said as much on international television.

This is an 'opportunity' for Israel to unload (at least) several hundred thousand more of the indigenous population it never wanted within its borders by making Gaza as near uninhabitable as it can. It is also at once why Israel is publicly pressuring neighboring states to take in refugees from Gaza and why those neighboring states refuse: every party involved knows that any refugees who set up camp outside Gaza will never, ever be allowed back in. Israel wants to keep the dowry of 1967 and divorce the bride, to paraphrase a famous Israeli metaphor.

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1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/08/israeli-airstr...
I don't think it is just you. It felt to me that Netflix went down the path of the History Channels alien shows. Cheap garbage, some reality programming mixed it that is easy for couch bingers to enjoy. Nothing wrong with liking it either but none of it feels very high quality to me but I also never enjoyed a lot of the programming on cable networks the past decade.
Sorry to be blunt, but: Bullshit

1. Batteries can still be replaced.

2. The battery is a major contributor to the ewaste in a phone. End-user-replaceable batteries means replaced batteries are much more likely to be tossed than recycled.

If your concern is ewaste contributing to the ecological crisis, here are some much better ideas than user-replaceable batteries on phones:

- require manufacturers provide one free battery replacement

- require 24-hr turnaround

Or, for the people who like heavy-handed government regulations, flip the convenience/cost calculation, by, e.g., requiring a waiting period or fee when making a new device purchase.

It's so obvious there are better ways to approach this from an ecological standpoint that I can't take this kind of argument seriously. People like to talk about the ecological crisis, but won't actually spend any thoughts on it. Oh well!
Predicting the future is difficult.

Does anyone else remember when the top upvoted HN comment on the leaked FTX balance sheet article was “I work in the crypto industry and FTX is going to be fine…”? Because I remember that.
When I worked in engineering at Google they definitely put a lot of people in Dublin due to the tax agreement. It was very clear.
My frustration is that we keep fucking bundling streaming TV shit into things that don't need streaming TV bundles.

Why does my phone plan need to suddenly include streaming services? Why does a retailer's loyalty service need to include a streaming service?

I'm so fatigued by the amount of subscription services and platforms out there and I'm just absolutely bewildered at how normal consumers... accept this.
Part of it is that happy clowns just aren't interesting to study or hear about.
I have no sympathy for this, he should have moderated it far, far better. He let it become what it was before he shut it down. He should have shut it down 10 years ago.
the nice thing too is that because you are freezing almost all the parameters, and generally in lower precision (eg QLoRA loads the full model in 4-bit), it's super low gpu memory usage. a free Colab will suffice for finetuning a 7b definitely, renting a 3090 is less than 50 cents an hour, pretty low barrier to entry to try something!
I would be eager to see if Rust starts to show up on the list too.
> All of it is heavily contended for various applications like gas turbine blades […]

Then why does it only cost $1 per gram?

[1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2021/mcs2021-rhenium.pd...
Rant:

I gave up. I cancelled my streaming services.

I bought a mini PC (<$100). I started buying blu-rays on FB Marketplace and pawn shops ($.75-$2.00 each). I'm ripping them to a big harddrive (12TB, ~$200). I have Jellyfin installed (Open Source, Free). I bought a digital antenna ($130) and capture device ($200) compatible with Jellyfin. I set up SSL certs and DuckDNS (free). I integrated it with Home Assistant (free).

I can now watch my movie library or live tv from anywhere, and I have all of the bonus features from the disks. It's private!!!! I'm not being tracked. There is no profile anywhere that says "he watches this or that for X amount of time at Y part of the day, and travels to A and B".

I had subscribed to Netflix for over 16 years. Then, when they "cracked down" on my mother accessing it (I had stopped using it myself), I decided that enough was enough.

I don't care if it cost a lot to set up. This is mine, and I will NEVER go back to paying them a subscription.

Lesson: Don't anger the nerds. They can replace you. They will replace you.
I was also referring to the way the title uses “I” to say that an individual person built the tool, when really it’s a company with employees.
> In that case they will be given a government mandated market advantage in true communist fashion.

The USA is a capitalist county. "Communism" and "Socialism" are not synonyms for "the government is doing things I disagree with."
No. This isn't a tax case, and EU has no authority on direct tax matters. The point is not that Ireland should change its tax rules.

This is an antitrust case. The point is that Ireland gave Apple preferential terms compared to its own tax rules.
They are clearly two different clips though (just listen to the first 30 seconds and you will see... your transcript only matches the YouTube video), so what am I missing? Is one edited?
Thank God there isn't. My own government scares me more than random hackers do.
Basically any wired earphone/headphone other than Apple' s glued stuff are repairable.

There are real business running out there to repair and modify those.
> Piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem.

I have a real life example of this from the other day. My friends and I were about to watch an NBA game. I pay for Youtube TV with all the requisite sports packages and my friend had Sling with the corresponding sports packages. We tried both services only to realize that the game was "blacked out" in our area.

So we seeked out a pirate stream and watched the game that way. It's not that we don't want to pay for the service, no we are both more than happy to pay for it, there was simply no way to watch the game outside of a pirate stream.

I get that there are contracts in place that require blackouts and probably other agreements in place that prevent X game from being streamed at Y location. But as a consumer who just wants to watch an NBA game, I really don't give a s**t.
NASA wants to extract oxygen for astronauts from lunar dust