skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This immediately brought the Dolly Parton song Jolene into my head.

First time I heard it I was struck with how pathetic it was. It was very jarring hearing a superstar like Dolly singing from such a position of inferiority.

But the song is incredible. You feel her feelings of inadequacy so deeply. It's a masterful example of this mechanic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixrje2rXLMA
I think the point of Google's media distribution infrastructure isn't just bandwidth or providing ingest and playback that "just works". (That, indeed is what I personally would be interested in.)

The "infrastructure" to the bigger audience is about

* being available ubiquitously and recognized as a brand

* discoverability, search, recommendations, filling you free time with cat videos, memes

* being a platform for wannabee influencers with real advertisers money in the form of pennies offered to creatives

Especially the latter two need to continuously monitor every little move happening in the "attention market".
I disagree - most breaks in encryption come about not because of poor math but rather poor implementation.
The capacity for shameless bullshit and reality distortion from Apple has long been documented, but I feel under Tim's it has reached new levels.

The absurdity of saying 8GB is the new 16GB, I mean.. What's can we say other than: no ?
Or they (Firefox folks) learned what happens when you (Netscape) try a major greenfield rewrite (Netscape v5) so ambitious that it becomes the example of why one should never rewrite.

And instead just back ported the lessons learned to make Firefox/Gecko better years earlier than a rewrite could.
It's hard to decide for me without seeing the data. Even if you don't know the exact exercise, seeing the title and the function name/parameters is often enough for me to guess what the challenge is. I checked the public questions on exercism and almost all of those (that I spot checked) that contained the function name were extremely obvious. Knowing it's a programming challenge would also improve my guessing chances.

For example the function stubs I can find are "value_of_card(<card>)" in exercise "Black Jack", or "generate_seat_letters(<number>)" in exercise "Plane Tickets". I think I could guess those without seeing the rest of the question.
If enshitification expands to fill available RAM is Apple doing us a favor by offering less? Can a MacBook Pro+ with 4GB of RAM save the Internet? Is a 2GB Pro++ the machine of my dreams?
Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B EU case
The Ivy League has produced most of the supreme court, most presidents, most senators. Very few of them ever led startups or became billionaires, but that is far from the only measure of success.

That is aside from the fact that I don't see any way, fundamentally, to become something like a scientist or a physician outside of the university system. You can't run controlled experiments, especially if they require any kind of specialized lab equipment or human subjects, without fairly strict oversight, and you certainly can't go into a hospital and put yourself into rotation getting clinical experience with patients outside of being supervised by a teaching physician.

There are other ways to meet these sort of dynamics outside of universities in principle. Guilds serve this purpose in some professions. But for many modern professions, the university system is the guild. It's where scientists train other scientists. It's how you get an apprenticeship.

Nonetheless, not every profession is like running a business, where anyone with money is at least allowed to try.
Almost 2024 and people still can't accept that LLM can code...
It’s about time Sony threw in a PCIe5/6 slot on these cameras. Ability to simply insert an internal 2-4TB drive would be very welcome. These CFE cards are ridiculously expensive for what they do.
Indeed, but would you like to be the MP who votes against a law which tackles CSAM?

Similarly, the age limit is 18, so if you are 17, a sexy photo (or AI generated image) of your girlfriend of 17 is CSAM (though there is a defence provided you are married or in a civil partnership with said girlfriend). That's a 10-stretch.
This is such an incredibly weird response, did you even read my comment properly?

You think people who go to therapy or overthink don’t even know what it is to relax? Not even that they can’t relax but that they don’t even know what it means?

I never said anything about perceiving anyone else’s struggle or issues… that’s an entirely different subject.
Labcorp Workers Say Productivity Goals Are Pushing Them to the Brink
Apple's naming of things is just getting worse and worse. What does "Air" mean? Lighter? Sometimes...? Cheaper? Sometimes...? Standard (Mac) or special (iPad)?

"Max" and "Ultra", so max isn't the max? I think the serious people at Apple have given up on naming, and whatever happens at normal corporations is happening. Part of it in genuine confusion in the product lines though. They need another Jobsian reset.
Philosophy: Who Needs It (Essay 1974)
Few recent threads on philosophy prompted me to make this submission.
Copying comment from other thread.
I think distinction should be made between academic tradition of philosophy and personal need/practice of philosophy. My favorite essay on this topic is https://courses.aynrand.org/works/philosophy-who-needs-it/ .
It is based on a lecture given by Ayn Rand to the graduating class of West Point Military Academy in March 1974. Some people will be alarmed by the name, Ayn Rand, so I will post few snippets and then you can choose to ignore or read the ~10 minutes essay.

The assignment I gave myself for tonight is not to sell you on MY philosophy, but on philosophy as such.

The best way to study philosophy is to approach it as one approaches a detective story: follow every trail, clue and implication, in order to discover who is a murderer and who is a hero. The criterion of detection is two questions: Why? and How? If a given tenet seems to be true - why? If another tenet seems to be false - why? and how is it being put over? You will not find all the answers immediately, but you will acquire an invaluable characteristic: the ability to think in terms of essentials.

Now some of you might say, as many people do: "Aw, I never think in such abstract terms - I want to deal with concrete, particular, real-life problems - what do I need philosophy for?" My answer is: In order to be able to deal with concrete, particular, real-life problems - i.e., in order to be able to live on earth. You might claim - as most people do - that you have never been influenced by philosophy. I will ask you to check that claim. Have you ever thought or said the following? "Don't be so sure - nobody can be certain of anything." You got that notion from David Hume (and many, many others), even though you might never have heard of him. Or: "This may be good in theory, but it doesn't work in practice." You got that from Plato. Or: "That was a rotten thing to do, but it's only human, nobody is perfect in this world." You got that from Augustine. Or: "It may be true for you, but it's not true for me." You got it from William James. Or: "I couldn't help it! Nobody can help anything he does." You got it from Hegel. Or: "I can't prove it, but I feel that it's true." You got it from Kant. Or: "It's logical, but logic has nothing to do with reality." You got it from Kant. Or: "It's evil, because it's selfish." You got it from Kant. Have you heard the modern activists say: "Act first, think afterward"? They got it from John Dewey. Some people might answer: "Sure, I've said those things at different times, but I don't have to believe that stuff all of the time. It may have been true yesterday, but it's not true today." They got it from Hegel. They might say: "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." They got it from a very little mind, Emerson. They might say: "But can't one compromise and borrow different ideas from different philosophies according to the expediency of the moment?" They got it from Richard Nixon - who got it from William James.
They fired everyone working on it and completely abandoned it while giving the CEO a million dollar pay raise the same year.

When are we going to talk about how openly corrupt Mozilla has become? They clearly have issues at the top that need to be fixed for the betterment of web.
> whose job it is to produce worthwhile outcomes for the vast majority of their students

If that were the case, wouldn't we be able to point to some kind of evidence of that being the case? Nobody seems to know what these worthwhile outcomes are.

It has even failed demonstrate the most popular college claim: That its graduates will make more money. In reality, incomes have held stagnant through the rise of college. Furthermore, if we compare the USA, where ~40% of its population is a college graduate, with its nearest neighbour Canada, where ~70% of its population is a college graduate, the median American without a college degree makes ~50% more than the median Canadian with a college degree.

It seems the actual job of college is to act as the arbiter into certain supply managed careers (doctors, lawyers, etc.), ensuring that only the "top 10%" of students are permitted into those professions.
City borders have pretty much always been defined by the 30-minute commute
Our Macs/PCs allow us to do our -- incredibly well compensated -- jobs. I can't believe that modern computers cost less than a car. I pay maybe $3000 for a computer and $30,000 for a car. When I compare how much value I get from both it's totally the wrong way around. I should be spending $30,000 on a Mac and drive a $3000 clunker. It's amazing how inexpensive computer hardware has become and I really don't get how people feel so entitled to lower prices when you can pick up a slightly older computer that runs linux for next to nothing.
Everyone should watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mera_Naam_Joker. It's such a great movie.
But PowerPCs were inferior to Intel at that time and Apple just wanted to muddle the waters.
> and no telemetry

Wrong. Look in Scheduled Tasks.
More is always “better” but futur-proofing is often a bit of a mis-spend, especially given the decent resale value of M-based MacBooks.
Another way to explain it is that popular stories are a chain of buildups and payoffs for the reader. The core of it is that unlikeable characters get misfortune and likeable characters get fortune.

Amateur authors and stories based on real life events can break the mold. I think that's why both can be quite popular.
> I'm very excited about Servo. Can't believe Mozilla wasn't interested in it.

This doesn’t feel like an accurate statement. It’s probably better described that Mozilla funded it as a research project, realized that it was going to cost a lot more money and time to bring it fully to the market and decided to save the money (and distributed that money to execs and others in ways that were not inline with their projected morals).

Based on what I’ve read from their blog posts, Mozilla then took what they could from Servo and incorporated it into Firefox, which means they were able to get some value from the project.

My guess is that if someone were to have offered Mozilla a lot of money and an unlimited timeline to complete Servo, they would have done it.
Of course Docker uses much more resources on a Mac than Linux, Docker is Linux specific containers under the hood so on Mac it runs in a full VM with a Linux distro!

Yes if you run docker as part of your regular workflow you probably want more than the base ram config, not sure why this is surprise to anyone unless they don't know how docker works.
Ask HN: What is your current setup for the Web?
Title says it all. By web I means today's paywalled, ad-ridden and bloated websites (imho, of course) - how do you browse them, without any annoyances? On mobile, and on desktop.

For instance - I use uBlock Origin (with some great filter lists by yokoffing on github), Buster and Imagus on desktop; HyperWeb on iOS, and NextDNS on every device I have. I also have a couple of site-specific extensions for RYM, Letterboxd, X/Twitter et al.
so when are they going after google for providing free email and such?

internet watch foundation is about censorship. they only "protect the children" so you can't contradict them without looking like a criminal. they actually give criminals a legal defense as their content hash system is easy to prove a false positive.

also they are going after the only service which contributed to arrests. lol. you think criminals don't use facebook/Instagram/telegram/tiktok/email/googlemeet/msteams/etc just because you haven't heard about arests?!
Uber decreased US road fatalities by 4% and alcohol-related traffic deaths by 6%.

https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/study-ride-shari...
That would open you up to arbitrarily large bills which nobody in their right mind would sign up for. If your content goes viral and you're paying to replace the advertising revenue, you could be in a deep hole.
Nice, consider adding dark mode classes too..
Check out your disk writes per day after using an 8gb m-series MacBook due to swapping. It will make your head explode. I personally had a tb per day, and that was mostly just web browsing with a lot of tabs, not even doing work stuff. The soldered on ssds only have a certain write capacity before they’re pooched, meaning your whole machine is toast after that. I got rid of mine after seeing that
It can generate never-before-seen strings of comprehensible language. It can react to the inherent logic embedded in words and text and provide a brute forced version of what a human could. That it can “solve” a problem only through “cheating” is an anthropomorphism that betrays the magic that is evident to anyone who has used these things.
What makes you believe they existed pre-Facebook?

If they depend on facebook, it's like asking car mechanics to go back to whatever they were doing before cars were invented.
> If we look at university performance at the margin, we would really be expecting some of these people to have won a Fields Medal or a Nobel Prize-winning discovery.

At the highest-level universities, nearly every applicant is already exceptional before they're even accepted, and yet:

Even if you carefully selected 100 or so people out of nearly any university, it's statistically unlikely that a Fields medal winner, Nobel prize laureate, or unicorn founder would come to fruition out of any of them, even if we allow more than a decade.
Where we ever less in a spiritual crisis? How do you measure these things? And who is 'we'?
> Can't believe Mozilla wasn't interested in it.

It is because it doesn't make money. An expensive research project (Servo) that was not worth the effort for Mozilla.

Mozilla needs to find better ways of making money and not depending on Googles' money.

Now thanks to the US v Google anti-trust trial, Mozilla doesn't know if they should support Google for keeping them alive for their hundreds of millions of dollars or being going against them for Google to be broken up for more competition.

Either way Google's search AND browser monopoly is held together by paying its competitors such as Apple (for Safari) and Mozilla (for Firefox).
No parent would allow their child to communicate with a groomer.
I’m building a telescope and would love to use it
I would still use WinXP if Firefox would work. I really don't need anything else.
The key difference between governments and Visa/Mastercard is that the government has the monopoly on violence. They can force you to do things, with guns. Giving them direct control over your day to day spending is a solid step towards authoritarianism.
Well you seem to have pasted about 600 words in two responses to my single comment. Interesting.

Let me ask you this Mr didibus, why the attempted mandate then? What does your little bullshit generator say the reason for the covid vaccine mandates were?
> Okay... Funny how forcing it to not CHEAT did not increase apparent ability.

The article did the opposite. It forced the models to cheat to solve the problems. Which it did happily. It should have stated "there is no actual problem to solve here, you must supply a problem for me to solve".

> It can code and it has memorized some coding questions are not mutually exclusive

This I will give you. Many humans try to cheat at basic math because they are lazy, so will this model. Maybe that's a sign of intelligence :P
Is no one using AI models for inferencing on Apple hardware? I imagine you can’t compress memory you are actively using. These computers must blue screen for even thinking of going to huggingface.
Yeah, Americans idealizing Euro countries or cultures, especially the nordic and germanic countries are really annoying. Please leave your bike unlocked at any major Swiss train station and see what happens. Or take a walk at night around Rosengård in Malmö and come back to tell if you actually felt safe there.
It's always the same story: "I went to this upscale hotel where everyone is a wealthy tourist and travelled to the most commonly visited tourist spots and nobody stole my wallet / watch / umbrella. Amazing people." It's like those people have a psychological need for a fairytale country to exist where everyone is a "perfect" citizen and no harm has ever been done to anyone so they can daydream about living there.
If you left a library unlocked in a wealthy NY or Boston neighborhood I'm sure that you'd get a pretty similar outcome like the one mentioned in the article. It's not a mystery that readers are usually domesticated and fairly educated people who won't steal books, even in the US.
Explain don quixote then.
Understandable that you wouldn't find it insightful.

I found it insightful because I didn't know. Also, how angry the commenter was; I'd been struggling to figure out why people hate build systems, and the hate pouring out from that comment was palpable enough to point me in the right direction.

Anyway, I've already read your comments on lobste.rs, and I'm glad it's worked for you.

Ninja is great (my build system will be able to read Ninja files), but there are two major problems.

First, you still need a generator. Most people don't think about reinventing the wheel like you do, so CMake still comes up. And a generator can still have the magic that people hate.

Second, it's still limited in what you can do. Sometimes, you need something more complex to make your build happen.

Ninja can definitely take care of the 95% case, and I actually will encourage people to use it before they use mine.

I'm only going to be targeting the people with the 5% case, or that hate all of the widely-used generators. I fall into the latter category myself.
If he wants to stay married to his current wife, I advise him not to think about that.
Combining Language Models for Specialized Domains: A Colorful Approach
Apple should pay €13B Irish tax, argues EU lawyer
> The core of it is that unlikeable characters get misfortune and likeable characters get fortune.

I don't think that's really true, though. Tragedies are a very popular type of story.

Indeed - a big part of the reason for the success of "A Game of Thrones" is because they violated genre tropes and killed off likable main characters.
The article is referencing the entire state of Maine, and their preferences, not HN.
“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.”

There are tradeoffs, and the energy efficiency of the M* processors was a huge win for laptops obviously, but anytime there’s a trade off there’s something being traded.
It wouldn't be Wikipedia if they didn't stomp all over the joke.
Yes, very much yes.

Your comment is such a concise description of the problem.
You cannot upgrade the boot drive at all. It's not even that it's hard, even if you put on higher capacity NAND on the motherboard, you'd still need an apple private key to make it work. This is unacceptable, the pricing for storage stings ever so slightly more because of this.

256gb is fine for my line of work for Linux and Windows, if you don't need too many VMs. It's a non-starter if you want to use multiple XCode versions.
Nice, to be honest I never lived during the QBasic days, but one of the channels where I got inspired into programming as young(Bisqwit) commonly used QBasic to showcase their creations in live coding.

My favorite one from him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL0oGct1S4Q
Doing those things yourself is the simplest place to start.

You need to know what you are hiring for before you have a chance of hiring the right person for the role.

At this point hiring is an XY problem.

Because your problem is sales, not hiring a sales team.

Good luck.
The first one lets you move opinion on things like AI regulation, anti-trust actions, election sentiment, and more... so the first one is valuable on its own. If you have the first, using it to get the second is like using a commercial passenger jet as a reading light (yes that's a Jim Butcher reference).
So how can it solve novel problems? Internet does not have all combinations for every possible task with any random programming language, library or constraints. It can even solve problems with non-existing programming languages and libraries if you describe them, if that's just memorization then I don't know what it isn't.
Let's make less money y'all! Everybody give up half your revenue this black Friday season, who's with me? *crickets*
Those dastardly Frenchmen used to always try and conquer my ancestors.

The long line of Louis didn't get all that far (but their interference in the 30 years wars probably made things worse), but Napoleon finally managed to take a big bit out of German lands for a while.
My gut tells me this is more of the Apple distortion field.