skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the reality is that no ones going to spend $100 to fix a 10 year old phone, when you can't get the security updates for it. Security updates cost money and programmers and the reality is that Apple is the best at security updates, but no one is really concerned about how to repair an iPhone in 10 years, because an iPhone is only realistically usable until the security updates run out.
Why are most shopkeepers in italy upset about being legally forced to accept cards?

The fee of credit card companies are much higher than the cost of dealing with cash, it seems.
Interview with the Founder of Mastodon [German]
PEP 733 – An Evaluation of Python's Public C API
>Also, security requires constant updates and updates cost money, so it's not realistic to use a device for a decade, because you won't have security updates from any company at that point

Why can't someone exchange money for a service they find valuable? As I understand it, that has long been a common practice.
I designed our anonymization systems. You clearly have a misunderstanding of the threat model and the treatment methods.
Maybe some personal enjoyment?
> They're just two different names for the same thing

No, they are not. One is a function, the other is an operator.

An operator has implicit meaning. I know with absolute certainty, that `+` is supposed to mean that 2 things are added to one another.

`Add()` is a function. Its name may or may not indicate what it is actually doing. Even if it indicates it, it may not be obvious how it is doing it's thing, or how good the indication is. Example: If Add takes as first argument a list and as second argument an integer, does it append the integer to the list? Does it add it to every element of the list? Does it sum the list and add the integer to the result? All these things could be meant by "Add"-ing an integer to the list. Does it have side effects?

I don't know, and I don't expect to know, until I look at `Add()` (or at least read it's documentation).

That is the big difference between operators and functions; With operators, I expect to know what it does, without looking it up. And that's also the big problem with operator-overloading, because as soon as a language supports that, that assumption flies out the window.
For what it's worth, the article says:

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Our DSP profiles aim to provide a balanced sound, with the features that people expect from high-quality laptop/small-speaker audio. In particular, we aim for:

• A balanced (neutral) tone at moderate listening volumes, with a mostly flat frequency response from a typical listening position

• Reasonably high peak volume with acceptable sound degradation (compression, limiting, etc.)

• "Fake bass" processing to make audible frequencies that cannot be physically reproduced by the speakers, extending the perceived frequency response of the system.

• Equal-loudness volume compensation, so that the sound does not become noticeably tinny as the system master volume is lowered.

[...] Our goal is explicitly not to clone the full/exact macOS audio experience. We consider the macOS speaker DSP processing to be too tryhard.

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So I suspect Asahi's implementation will be far more conservative than the systems you're referencing. It's also worth noting Marcan is a musician.
Why not just use act? It was made for this exact set of problems?

https://github.com/nektos/act
circulating bills don’t have to be in your wallet. 100 dollar bills are primarily used as stores of cash abroad and for illicit wealth. which is why despite the fact you raised people will be skeptical when you try to pay with one.
Moore’s law is far from over and multithreading is not the answer. Your opening sentence is spot on tho.
Nature and cities would be filled with people
His point is that the average person that walks into a casino loses money by definition, as the casino designs its offers in that way.

If the average person would win money, the casino would cease to exist.
There have been reports of thieves threatening victims with weapons and demanding they disable icloud. Not saying that negates the benefit necessarily but it's a relevant data point.
we need usenet back
The Steam Deck OLED spot ad was made with Steam Deck OLEDs
Rome managed to keep it together for centuries. Change 1 thing (like hiding it) and release a media blitz that it will all turn around. There are plenty of tricks to play and the US has had the advantage of seeing what hasn't worked in other countries.
The very first sentence of that Wikipedia article is incorrect (it takes an extremely obtuse reading of Peng Shuai's social media post to construe it as an accusation of sexual assault), so I don't have high hopes for the accuracy of the rest of the article.

Wikipedia is good for many things, but not for hot-button political topics. Those sorts of pages are usually written by politically motivated editors, so you're seeing whatever spin the dominant group of editors at that page wants you to see.
Github is pretty much the only major one that's closed afaik. Gitlab, Gitea/Forgejo, and SourceHut are all great existing alternatives that are open source. It would probably be better to volunteer your time to one of those than to build another one.
But in reality you’ll be paying anyway, just not right away. You need to pay someone to handle the cash (assuming you’re not a tiny shop), potential theft or losing it, human errors when handling it, etc
Most tills don't have change for a $100, and the clerk isn't allowed to accept it even if (latter in the shift) there was, so while you can pay with one a manager needs to be called to do the transaction. Every time I've paid with a $100 they need to scramble to find enough change, i've even been turned away because they don't have enough cash on hand to give me change.
Kurzgezazegg’t posted a video showing all of the Earth’s six billion year history in one hour. Time flows at about a million years per second: https://youtu.be/S7TUe5w6RHo?si=_KK15QPAqJLTxLQj

It gives a nice perspective, and it’s a visceral reminder that the planet has been through far worse than us. I find it comforting that even if we drive ourselves to extinction, life itself will continue on.

And in the multicellular era, too. This is important, because whoever (or whatever) comes after us might still have a shot at colonizing Mars. It may seem like Earth has lots of time to do it, but the video shows just how precious our tiny slice is.
I agree! Looks like a variant of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
> why their calculations show that 6rps (that's what their "17 mln monthly lambda invocations" really means) would require 25 servers

I'm guessing that it has something to do with the average job taking 15 minutes. 6rps represents 6 jobs being created per second, but each one takes 15 minutes to run until completion. Another way to look at it is each second 90 minutes of lambda work is created.

If you consider 15 minutes the rolling window, which looks like a fair assumption based on the graph provided, there could be up to 5400 (15 min x 60 sec x 6 rps) functions running at once. Working backwards, 25 medium instance provide (25 instances x 4 GB mem) an 100gb memory pool, or 100,000mb. That leaves around ~18mb for each of those 5400 jobs, if you don't consider OS resource overhead.

Looking at averages in this situation very possibly can give a warped perception of reality, but 25 instances doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility. I'm sure they have much more relevant metrics to back up that number as well.

Whether the functions really need this much time to run is another issue entirely, and hard to answer with the information given.
What you are describing is legalization, not decriminalization.
See "coordinate adjectives" vs "non-coordinate adjectives".
Scientists find toxic chemicals in recycled plastics
Biking 2000 kilometers through China, alone [video]
Ask HN: Why do we walk away from Single Page Applications?
Before server side components, if I wanted a native app (iphone, android, ..) I had to rebuild my SPA, now with SSC/SSR/HTMLX I need to rebuild my backend as well?!?!? Just to save some microseconds?
Or not: https://www.hifiberry.com/docs/software/guide-adding-equaliz...
Actually thats making a ton of assumptions about the experience of gambling on slots. The world is more complicated than some Atlantic articles on casino design, unfortunately. Go play some slots with a group of friends and realize it.
You’re surprised most professionals would want to actually try and diagnose a problem instead of trying to copy and paste a shoehorned solution? What? Most professionals I work with actually try to debug code, look at docs, etc. You know, research, like a real job.
The name serverless is missleading. Of course there is functions written in programming languages that runs on a real physicall servers in data centers.

This should be called Fuction as a service. Acronym Faas.
Yes Github actions is (are?) a mess lacking conceptual integrity and widely misused. But we do the following with success:

1. Jobs should always (just) execute a script or program. This allows running outside the CI system.

2. To test/debug CI jobs, use act.

3. To test/debug more complex scenarios spin up a Gitea instance (which provides a Github clone wrapping act).
$100 today is worth less than $10 fifty years ago, and accelerating in that direction. We need to go the _other_ way, we should print $500 and $1000 notes. And while we’re at, stop minting cents, nickels, & dimes.
A huge difference seems to be that in the diesel case the cheating was an open secret for decades, with even amateur journals describing how it worked a decade before the "scandal" blew out.
If locking large numbers of people up for inordinately long times prevented crime, the United States would be the safest place in the world. We have 5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's prison population. We are one of a dwindling number of countries that will lock up a child for life (there was a SCOTUS case baring automatic life sentences for minors, but it leaves a loophole wide enough for a semi to allow judges to still impose life without parole to children). We've doubled down on it again and again. Looking at the results, this approach obviously doesn't work.

Given our status as a massive outlier, could it be that our current system of mass incarceration is a driver of crime? I see signs that point to yes. Many people I have talked to have said the main thing being locked up taught them was how to be a better criminal. Prisons break families. Children grow up without parents. At one of the conferences for the heads of the Departments of Corrections for US states, a question was asked of all 50 heads: are prisons effective at making society safer? About 8 said yes. About 7 said they were unsure. The remaining 35 said no.

We've tried highly punitive mass incarceration for decades and it's failing horribly. I'm not smart enough to know the correct answer, but I can say that it seems obvious that the answer is not to lock more people up for longer.
Storms are much much worse at sea.
Serverless has it's faults, but spaghetti code spread across 100 repos is definitely a "user error"...
In the fix-it market, you only not overpay.

The rest is the usual price for parts and work. Like every normal service, too.

No reason to deliver crap, as you want to have the customer recommend you and come back again if they have another issue. Since there are enough alternatives, you have to deliver.
Because it is fucking cruel.
Not long ago I've read a very interesting and sad article where it was exposed that teenagers who haven't yet finished high school in Argentina are becoming addicted gamblers on illegal websites. We are talking about kids between 13 and 17 years old (in some cases younger ones) gambling on roulette, sports, anything. Apparently this was intensified during the pandemic. In one case a 14 old asked his grandmother a huge amount of money to keep gambling. What is worse is that on these platforms kids can get loans to keep playing, and one way or another they will get their money back.

Here's the link to the article (in spanish): https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/jugamos-una-fichita-en-...
I think it's unrealistic to expect complex export operations and contracts to be rerouted in a week. Like we saw with Brexit, stopping trade flows is very quick and easy but restarting them is very slow and hard. Chinese leadership typically reasons in terms of decades (or more), I wouldn't expect them to be mad with rage after a week.
In the article: The collectors involved are ex-employees and so are terrified. The rule was that you didn’t take anything, even if it had been thrown out. But if you loved film and knew it would be important one day, what did you do? So what we need now is an amnesty,” he said.
Good luck filtering out people who get addicted to dopamine hits from these games from those who get addicted to dopamine hits from things like debugging code. It's two sides of the same coin.
The over-complication of software deployments is just mind-blowing. I hope the end of cheap money reigns in the insane bloat that is DevOps today. It doesn’t have to be this way, but there continues to be too few rational adults in the room.
I agree cuda is really nice to write in, but what reason do you have to write raw cuda I’m curious? Usually I find that it’s pre written kernels you deal with
GPUs aren't that difficult to program. CUDA is fairly straightforward for many tasks and in many cases there is an easy 100x improvement in processing speed just sitting there to be had with <100 lines of code.
The runner is open source, but once you read the code you'd wish it wasn't.

https://github.com/actions/runner

For anyone in the audience who didn't know: GitHub Actions is based on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server's CI, and later Azure DevOps. And nobody, including the current maintainers, seem to know exactly how it all works (or how it doesn't).[1] The random exit codes is just the cherry on top!

[1]: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/510
The cost to handle cash is about 3%. People forget how much is lost to cash because it is invisible. However with cash the clerk counts it twice, then the manager counts it twice - someone will mess up so count it again. Then there us theft.
SEEKING WORK | WEB DEVELOPER | REMOTE

Technologies: Node (js/ts), Rails

Location: France

Remote: only

Language: English fluent, French intermediate

Availability: right now

Website: https://artem.rocks/

Hello, I am a seasoned full-stack web developer with over fifteen years of experience. Throughout my career, I've mainly gone back and forth between Rails and Node, with occasional forays into SPAs. I've worked with a variety of clients - from small startups to enterprises.

I like to understand the business before coding. I like to translate this understanding into automated scenarios and tests. I prefer clear over clever. I like to deploy fast, small, and often. I like to know about problems in production before the users. I like to talk to the users. I like to talk to the business. I like to talk to the colleagues and pair programming. And, above all, I like coding - it's not just a job, it's a passion.
> Also, security requires constant updates and updates cost money, so it's not realistic to use a device for a decade, because you won't have security updates from any company at that point. Apple has better updates over time, which is reflected in it's higher resale values.

I'm absolutely still using PCs from over a decade ago and I'm still getting security updates.
Wow, such a ridiculous HN take.

A top notch restaurant does not keep or retain ownership of your stomach, bowels, or shit after eating at their restaurant.

Apple "sells" hardware in a completely fraudulent way, by retaining control as a rental or lease, but advertises it as a sale.

You can play whatever word games and bad analogies, and they're not even wrong.
Danish is used as an adjective
Except it's not all smoke and mirrors.

Meanwhile, Stross is literally in the smoke-and-mirror business. He feels threatened, I get that. As an author, LLMs must look like an unpiloted bulldozer heading straight for his house. That's OK; he'll end up in a better neighborhood, just like the rest of us.
It isn't the consumer's responsibility to regulate the market.
It'd not even be 'deep' in the oceans, more just a few tens of metres off-shore and down a bit.

I'm no fan of Hancock, but I've long thought about how much of our history we're simply blind to because it's not right in front of our eyes.
I spend my coins in ordinary cash transactions. What's the problem? If the cashier can give me change, I can give them change.
What I find most disturbing is that it makes more sense than most creation myths, at least from my modern point of view; and it paints humanity hanging by a thread, like 20th century fears of being hit by a supernova, or a meteor, etc (of course we had apocalyptic themes through all of history though)

Or rather, anyone that had a dream with a person that said "don't wake up, or I will die" can relate
So far M systems are pretty similar to each other, which means m2 was much less work than m1. And I suspect m3 will be less work than m2. There's definitely a long delay on the first model, but extrapolating that to 6 next releases doesn't make sense.

> so far it is achievements for the sake of achievements

People are daily driving Asahi today, so that's incorrect.
I've been using Asahi on the M1 Air for >1 year now for my personal / non-work laptop, and it works decently. With sound & webcam support now enabled, this can now now be used fine as a daily driver. Battery life during use is excellent, up there with the best of any linux laptop, and GPU acceleration is good and getting better every day.

Missing features, so you can decide if those matter to you:

- improved external monitor support

- hardware video decoding - mainly for better battery life, because the CPU is more than fast enough for real-time software decoding. (This is work-in-progress.)

- fingerprint sensor
What about on macOS? Is OpenCL viable?
this is why i disagree with mcherm. we live in an anti-intellectual age where people seek to destroy information. Aaron Swartz and Alexandra Elbakyan are treated like criminals, while billionaires who abuse the legal system to silence critics are treated like intellectual heroes.
How Does Generative AI Work with DevOps and Incident Response?
It takes a long time and a lot of wrong doing to bankrupt humongous companies.
I' on episode 8 and it's ok. The production feels a bit "amateur"
Hacker News isn't really representative of humanity as a whole. It is a very thin slice of intelligent and creative but also cynical and pedantic people with low empathy and emotional intelligence. That is not a value judgement, that is just what it is. Virtually every top comment in every article is nitpicking or dismissal; positivity, especially blind positivity without any evidence, is not valued here.
Infrastructure as Code Will Be Written by AI
Isn't GitLab partially closed?

Didn't Gitea suffer a hostile takeover recently?

SourceHut seems to be alright, but the founder hates me.
Money games are regulated in the US, too, but this is not a money game because there is no money to be won.
>Why can't someone exchange money for a service they find valuable? As I understand it, that has long been a common practice.

[lifts hand up] Uh-uh, me, pick me: because most consumers have been trained and conditioned by corporations that they only pay for the HW, the thing that they can feel and resell, and that the SW running on it should come for free and always be free despite SW updates being a continuous effort that costs money.

Most consumers can't put a value on SW ownership, unless that SW is a video-game on a disc in their hand. Thanks to Google, Youtube, etc, we've grown to expect that everything digital of value should be free even though it's not. So ads it is.
If so, how are the speakers over-driven to sound better and louder?

Do they have a very very conservative profile by default?
Yes, I do expect that, and I will continue to do so, unless someone can show me a breakthrough in language modeling, that isn't just a big-data derived stochastic parrot.

Being able to write code because I have seen lots of it, and know what code is supposed to look like, and being able to write code because I understand what code does, and what it does in context, are 2 completely different things.
And, in this case NVIDIA earned it. They built a very useful software layer around their chips.
The idea that customs might ask to see the invoice on your very fancy special watch sounds like watch company marketing to me. I've never even heard of that happening.
Your lack of self control doesn’t make them evil.

I never carry a larger balance than I can pay off in full with cash any time.

I’ll take my “form of evil”, have fun with your overdraft fees.
Ideally, the slow code is available alongside the fast code and the unit tests confirm they are sufficiently equivalent. If that's not possible, the go-fast bits need to be refactored until it is possible. Don't forget that error handling is part of the equivalency testing.
That’s competition, baby! I welcome it.

We engineers tend to take for granted just how specialized our knowledge has been, till recently. It seems unrealistic to expect this privilege to last forever. The rest of the world is catching up, and tools like ChatGPT might rapidly accelerate this race.

The way to survive is to adapt. It’s always been key.
Why do people play Tetris or any other game? For most it is just a fun way to pass some time. However for others, it's an obsession that is prioritized over real-life -- jobs, finances, etc.

The clubs appear to be like guilds or teams in online games, players collaborate for high scores and to maintain a ranking on a leaderboard. The problem is that once someone joins a team, they feel pressure to generate points to contribute to the team's success, which often requires in-app payments to obtain more coins to wager.
> Credit cards work when you have self-control and to many who don't it's a wreck of your life.

Yes, and as an adult or a responsible individual it a good trait to have. Learn to use money and other financial means wisely. Take that step and it will make a lot of difference.

Unable to understand this is more evil to yourself than what the CCs do to you.

You can call your CC provider and ask them to reduce your limit to what you can afford to pay at the end of the month. They will hesitate, but most will end up doing that for you.
This whole article is about apps that are up-front about never paying out cash. Money turns into points, points can be lost or turn into more points. But points never ever turn back into cash. And yet people play.
Yes and no. Yes in the sense that such fora are out there. But a person becoming fascinated by computers and getting on the internet, will no longer encounter those fora as the default experience, unlike in the days of Usenet or BBSs. Moreover, post-2005, the software running phpBB-type fora usually borrowed features from social media.

(And “No” in the sense that, as one still reading various fora offering pre-social-media interfaces, there is no escaping that the participants are dwindling and graying. Moreover, the very thing driving people to hang around on unfashionable fora is an eccentricity that is often full-blown mental illness. Once forum activity has become dominated by a few outright cranks, you can’t expect quality discussion.)