skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just used the MacBook Air as an example because even at 8GB, it’s still an amazing machine. I know the $1600 MBP with 8GB is strange. It shouldn’t exist. But it does so Apple opened itself up for ridicule.
Vinges novella "True Names" for anyone interested.
Logging doesn't require disks, the logs can be sent over the network.
>if the system I'm using has excessive latency (more of a 90s problem than today)

Hmm? If anything a lot of modern software is worse even from 80s latency, from extra processing going on in the editor, all the way to inefficient polling and scan rate in keyboards, USB latency, monitor refresh latency (next frame, 60fps = ~16ms wait if you're unlucky and press towards the start of a previous refresh) and so on. And that's not even accounting for extra layers like Electron.

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/
Apparently it can be configured with shapes instead.

By the way, have you seen the Firefox extension "Let's Get Color Blind"? It can simulate colorblindness, but perhaps more importantly, it can Daltonize web pages on the fly to make them usable by the colorblind -- even including real-time stuff like video. It blew a protanopic coworker's mind. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/let-s-get-col...
I think complexity always costs. You have to devote more gates to implementing it, more engineering, more area, and more power.

People claim that there is no efficiency difference in ISAs, but why did Intel not implement a low power processor to compete with ARM, even when it had a process advantage? Maybe they could have pulled it off in terms of power budget but the implementation was too hard.
> Rather than being technically superior weapons, firearms took the skills and muscular effort out of killing someone from a distance

This, after detailed explanations that amount to why firearms are technically superior.

It is very silly.
> In most Western countries, (most) people aren't dying of hunger.

Bar is on the ground, here. Added parenthesis mine.
Countries that have banned landmines have allies who have not that will step in and place those mines if needed. If US EU relations (NATO) go south and war (not necessary with the US) looks likely Europe will get rid of those treaties fast.
GDB options for debugging/flashing can be had for sub 10eur, Segger is not mandatory. Moreover, the onboard Segger of the devkit can be used externally on Nordic MCUs in custom products and is covered by the licensing agreement between Nordic and Segger for this usecase.
As a counterpoint, some years ago I developed a severe case of elbow pain (classic golfer's elbow, not that I play golf) in my right elbow. I stopped bouldering, got a vertical mouse, started carrying my kid only on the left arm. Nothing helped.

Then I did a little research and found a YouTube video that recommended muscle exercise instead of rest, using torsion bars. I bought those and did the exercises for a few weeks. Pain went away and hasn't returned.
Pretty sure they have been audited recently.
It was over a year ago so it's a bit hard to recall... Maybe 20 minutes clean? 1 or 2 minutes for cached. Things have probably improved since then but idk. We did stuff like protobuf, we had a few proc-macros of our own, plenty of serde, and I think ~3 native dependencies (zstd, librdkafka, something else I don't recall). The native dependencies could be brutal, it caused long serial stalls, if I recall correctly. Linking took up a lot of time as well, but I forget why we didn't use mold, there was a reason at the time... but, again, over a year ago.

Here's the code:
https://github.com/grapl-security/grapl/tree/main/src/rust
Fine. But where is the truth in that it is sent to Russian servers? Perfectly open to any evidence.
Esp32 is not low security:
https://blog.espressif.com/esp32-s2-security-improvements-5e...
Management has entered the chat.
Unless it lacks the ability to give a MacOSX Look & Feel, I don't see a problem.
> resolving a database latency issue is not nearly as fun as figuring out who's going to resolve it because the database guy's mom just died, and he'll be out... Shit, we don't know, his mom just died, it's on a spectrum of "he'll be back in a week" to "he'll be changing careers," it's not up to the manager

This is real life for most managers. It is also true some can’t handle the stress and find toxic ways of dealing with it (inappropriate comments, focusing more on the promotion than improving the lives of their team members).

> The end result is that people who want to do good work are managed by people who are ill-trained and ill-temperamented to enable them to do good work, and it can make for a pretty miserable experience.

Sort of true. The reality is somewhere in between. Most managers want to go good. Few are truly evil who get off on making others suffer - or take pleasure in uprooting lives. Incentives and personal motivations play a very big part in how they manage.
When the "option" is paying $200 for an extra 8GB of RAM or 512GB of storage that would cost 1/10th of that if you bought it as a separate part, yes, it's a bad thing.
You are missing the point that legal vs. socially acceptable are two different but very real factors that people care about.

You can’t legal away basic courtesy and explain away people’s anger at being treated like a lower social class.

Imagine if first class seats on a commercial flight were interspersed among regular class seats. First class passengers get more room, better food, more respect from attendants … right in front of people who don’t get those.

If the first class passengers get faster access to something basic like water, some people will go ballistic.

Sure people paid more for the nicer seats, but do you think that legal fact dispenses with the unhealthy social situation and bad feelings that would create?
Some companies are definitely better than others for pay/benefits/process/general BS level, but for ICs, most of your experience is going to be shaped by the quality of your direct manager and coworkers (and there's usually a strong correlation between the quality of your direct manager and coworkers. :)

If you have any concerns about (or god forbid, no knowledge of) your manager in a new opportunity, that's an excellent reason for a hard-pass.
Such a weird discussion because we're talking about a company that is going from the very fundamentals of operating system design and the boot process of bare metal machines in order to get more security.

I am extra skeptical of a company that pushes this. They and I know they can't side step lawful requests which raises the spidey senses even further so I believe it is a valid question.

Containers, btw, cannot be snapshotted.

I did not say they could be. Their memory contents however can be accessed, even if the host memory is encrypted.

They've also discussed booting UEFI directly to VPN nodes:

That in no way precludes having VM's. I have run VM's on PXE Diskless nodes. The boot method is orthogonal to this.

It's completely weird to argue that they might introduce a layer of insecurity here.

Weird maybe? But completely logical and valid question nonetheless. They are leaving 53 characters out of their documentation unless I missed it. My questions could be solved by saying "We do not any form of virtual machines or containers". That is only 53 characters and should fit on their document site.
Conspiracy theories relegated to usenet and little-heard AM radio stations. Sounds good to me.
No, they are not. GDPR notices (which this is) must be understandable to the layman. Including all consequences like "this will also allow access to other services secured with the same university/company-wide password".

This could also be a punishable crime in Germany: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__202c.html and other articles around that one.
I believe that features that were proposed/planned are now implemented, which makes it higher confidence but, of course, not certain.
The use of a continuous roll of paper with punched perforations to control a loom was invented in 1725 by Basile Bouchon. Then in 1745 Jacques de Vaucanson invented the first fully automated loom using punch cards which unfortunately was not well received at the time - perhaps due to pushback over the automation making the draw boy role redundant - and it wasn't until after his death that Jacquard reintroduced the idea alongside other improvements and was a success. de Vaucanson also invented the chain drive and slide lathe apparently, he was all about automation.

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

Funnily enough the Smithsonian doesn't mention his invention in their article on him:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/eighteenth-century...
Just a quick glance at the dell website shows me an Inspiron 15 w/ 8GB RAM, and a 256GB nvme for $279. I'm sure the panel isn't great, but it is 1080p.

It is an i3, but still... this is $279! Do some bargain hunting and you can find some pretty decent machines for <$500 now.
""within a few months of the launch of ChatGPT, copywriters and graphic designers on major online freelancing platforms saw a significant drop in the number of jobs they got, and even steeper declines in earnings. This suggested not only that generative AI was taking their work, but also that it devalues the work they do still carry out.""
Totally, it's my daily driver. I now only reboot to Windows if I feel like gaming. Proton is available too.

I use Xfce and Nvidia drivers on a 3060 but AMD worked too when I was using an 5700 XT.

Processor: Ryzen 5950X - no issues

Sound, I'm using a PreSonus via USB

Ethernet (realtek) too works nicely.

WiFi I've not attempted but probably would. Can't fault it.
The biggest con of chemical weapons is you can't prevent the wind from shifting and blowing it back at you. Any general that has an attack backfire and be worse for their side than the enemy looks bad so no great general will risk it.
Would have been a pretty straightforward response with maybe less statistics.

Increase production of masks and provide temporary assistance for people who would otherwise spread it at work. The most we could say tech did was allocate just-in-time logistics outputs a little more efficiently, except that just-in-time logistics were only a result of the tech you're referring to. We would still have contract warehouses across the country and world that could store and distribute basic provisions with a little bit of planning.

Abundant visibility breeds a sense of abundant control, but when that sense goes beyond material reality we see technocrats fail.

Vaccines did help a lot, that's true, but that success doesn't really generalize across tech per se.
Have you tried SSH over Mosh? (or rather, mosh over ssh)
I believe that fraudsters have been pumping up bitcoin because they know that it attracts attention to the whole market.

Most people trading bitcoin don't buy it with a money transfer. They go to an exchange. And most people on the exchange who are buying it will be exchanging stablecoins that the exchange accepts as worth the same as dollars. The problem is that most of the exchanges and all of the stablecoins are fraudulent. So the market price of bitcoin represents what fraudsters want it to be, and not a true market price.

Remember that the total money that can be extracted from the bitcoin ecosystem is the money put in minus the money extracted from the system to pay for mining. Currently, a lot of the money put in came out of fraud. And a lot of money has gone out for mining. As the fraud is unwound, we'll wind up with people trying to convert bitcoin to money to pay off as much of the Ponzi schemes as possible. When that happens, the bitcoin ecosystem will wind up in a world of pain.

Anyone who has studied bubbles and market crashes will recognize that this won't be a slow process. Nobody wants to be the last to hit the exits. So once it is clear that people are hitting the exits, everyone tries to at once.

That said, the economics of bitcoin are essentially this. It is a painfully slow, expensive, and inefficient way to transfer money. But, structurally, it is an artificially limited resource whose value comes from what people think it will be in the future. This provides inherent incentives to try to make the price go up if you have some. (Which is what drew the fraudsters in.)

So at some point I expect the price of bitcoin to crash hard. I couldn't tell you if that is in 3 months or 3 years. And after that, well, it's perfectly designed to create bubbles.
Very excited that this unique game continues. It's too bad they aren't supporting the Mac, like the old game did.
Is the Web Evaporating?
The integration is really cool, and it seems like this would be a powerful tool, but I think I'd be fighting against the main thing you want to do (I don't want to reschedule stuff after my Sunday planning session, with only very few exceptions).

Thanks for the suggestion though, and good luck!
What in God's name are you talking about?
Introducing version 4.4 of passbolt, with updates for an improved passbolt experience: Leverage generic OAuth 2.0 for SSO, Admins now have the ability to suspend and unsuspend users, Create and edit TOTPs from the comfort of your browser.
> After all you're working to get paid. Making meaningful contributions to the society at large is at very best secondary.

I think how true this is varies from person to person.
I do heavy dev work on my M1 Air with 8GB, meaning multiple IDEs, dozens of Chrome tabs, iPhone simulators, and plenty of electron apps all open at once. Never had an issue with it. MacOS is very good at paging to it's super-fast SSD.
Like one where social media algorithms weren’t shoving anti-science conspiracy theories at half the population?
I do all that myself as well. The work is not hard. It just takes some effort to learn.
I wonder if the real reason they are going to these extreme lengths to conceal the identities of these experts is because they don't actually exist?
On a Mac?
Agreed. IMO the only reason why the 8GB model exists is so Apple can advertise the Macbook Pro line with a starting price that has lower margins than they would otherwise make and then charge anyone who actually wants to use the computer for a professional workload an extra $200-400.
Streaming Geospatial Data from Postgres
Are these statements verifiable? Honestly interested to learn more about every argument against Telegram.
A lot more people, as a percentage, died during medieval wars than do today in modern wars. Read about the crusades sometime. They would lay siege to cities and massacre the entire population. Not a single survivor.

They didn’t need advanced weaponry to kill tens of thousands of people. A few thousand soldiers would go through a city, house-by-house, and put every single man, woman, and child to the sword. They then looted what they wanted and burned the house to the ground.

Thousands more died during the siege, long before any soldiers reached them, due to disease and starvation from overcrowding and dwindling food supplies. It was absolutely horrific and it happened mainly because swords, spears, and bows were useless against city walls so long sieges were the rule.

The massacres that followed could be chalked up to deep resentment on the part of the attacking soldiers for the defenders holding out so long. I think another part of it is simply that the commanders of the day had less power over their soldiers, so looting and pillaging was part of the bargain to encourage them to fight.
Whats the bennefits of using mysql today when mariadb exists.
Add on to that the observation that memory for your average consumer computer is something of an arms race between the manufacturer of the consumer's computer and the developers of the software they'll use.

Manufacturers want to have a computer with enough memory that it never feels like a constraint to the user (and blog posts like this one enjoin them to do that).

At the same time, developers of software want to consume as much memory as possible-- up to the point where they've used it all and any extra becomes noticeable as perf problems to the user.

So Apple keeping their default memory offering low could be seen in a certain noble light...like honoring a nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
I was wondering about that as well.

I think he's talking about cs, but last I checked it had a massive modding community.

Unless he meant custom skins on official servers, but that's how you can cheat so.
I don’t even care if the quality of the build is great, I bet it is, I just don’t see consumer market ready for something like this. They might have better luck in b2b world of logistics warehousing. Why are we still solving for non-existing problems? Look shiny new ai thing
Seems like a AI generated article, it lacks the personal touch and is too generalized.
Lem’s “Cyberiad” is brilliant and hilarious. I highly recommend it.
I can't tell what level of parody we're at; if we're currently being serious, why would xkill or equivalent make rendering any harder than a normal close event?
solar power, wind power,
grid-scale battery storage, heat pumps, ev cars,
ev aircraft, mRNA vaccines, cures for very specific kinds of cancer, spaceX... maybe it's just me, but there's a ton of intesting tech happening outside of computers
Ask HN: Does anyone have a full list of sites supported by 12ft/1ft or similar?
I'd like to add redirection scripts to automatically send me to news sites without annoyances. I can put together a browser extension quite easily to redirect me when I face a paywall but ideally I'd like to just handle this transparently.
Amiberry: Optimized Amiga emulator for the Raspberry Pi and other Linux devices
I love how this proposal assumes that everyone simultaneously forgets about armor. Joe Rohan recently lost a bet with Elon Musk about whether he could put an arrow through the cybertruck.
Indeed: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/tag/system-transparency
I don't really have a problem with 8GB for the base model. There are plenty of people buying Macs, including Pro versions, that won't need more than that.

My issue is the heavy price increase for higher RAM amounts. A $2500 machine should come with at least 64GB.
While I applaud the modularity here, I just can't get excited about a ICE vehicle from a company actively lobbying against BEVs.
ICBC ransomware attack triggers global regulator, trader scrutiny
Emacs does not require finger contortions. You can use M-x commands (like VS Code), or use evil (like vim).
It’s Iridium that had best coverage over the poles (and actually useful because they’ve had inter-sat links since day 1). As all sats went right over the poles and that’s where latitude rings are the shortest.

Meanwhile starlink has its poorest coverage over the poles, you can see mostly hollow space near the poles:
https://satellitemap.space/
I disagree that bash is fixable for the same reason I believe that javascript isn't fixable. It's too "low-level", by that I mean whoever implements it is also implementing the entire system it's going to be living in. Javascript runs in a browser, and standardizing it means standardizing the browser. And that's just not going to happen, there are literally thousands of versions of browsers.

And so bash exists in the context of an entire unix-y system. You can fix it for yourself, but that's not going to fix the problems that bash has. No standard library. You need to build on an abstraction that you control, that can accommodate for the differences between systems. And if you want a language with a REPL, it already exists. Ruby. You can do amazing things with Pry, Ruby's true REPL, and inline Bundler. Automatic dependency management in a single-file script? Yes please! Could also do Smalltalk or a Lisp if that way of working entices.

You literally never have to touch bash/zsh/fish/whatever if you don't want to. Set your shell to Pry. In a Ruby process you can abstract over literally everything. You can use Pry's shell-integration to do bash-y stuff or you can use editor integration to open up classes or methods in emacsclient or what have you. An actual, honest-to-god, real language, specifically engineered to be human-friendly, with everything you could ever need. It can even run it's own readline, which you can modify if you feel the need.

https://github.com/ConnorAtherton/rb-readline
Score one for a distributed system.

A large player in the US Treasury auction goes off line during the auction and it turns out to be a big nothing burger.

It had no impact on the auction but ICBC is a decent sized player in the repo market so it could have a slight impact on the over night rate, but again, there are so many banks involved in the repo market that the impact was not noticeable.

So far the hack is attributed to Lockbit, who is supposedly associated with the Russians, which is the first time I've heard of the Russians directly trying to interfere with a US treasury auction.

The hack seems to have affected China more than the US so maybe you can squint and say this is Russia attacking China more than Russian attacking the US here?
Rubbish. It isn't remotely true that quantum mechanics is based on Aristotle, but even if it were true it wouldn't address the fact his ostensible book "Physics" is utterly useless for practicing modern physics.
Thank you!. I will have a look
Einsteins time period was the golden era of libertarianism and individualism were more mainstream especially during WW1, so it doesn't come to me as surprising that Einstein would write something like that. The famous books of that era have many central themes and elements of individualism from authors such as Orwell, Tolkien, Huxley.
How SteamOS Is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem [video]
What I mean that building a system to radiate radiate energy into space from the surface of the earth isn't very cost effective, and it's undoubtedly far less expensive than building a system you would launch into space.

The actual surface of the earth has the advantage of being able to use the whole surface of the earth.

On earth you can use things like fans and evaporative cooling. It's far superior to making huge space radiators, but nothing is free.
Meta are based in Menlo Park. Many senior engineers leave when they have kids because the commute is terrible. They have every incentive in the world to make remote work.

That being said, Facebook (when I was there) was a difficult place to work remotely from as it was a super in-office culture. I was essentially remote (not in the same office as most of my team) and it was very hard, so maybe it's more cultural factors that are causing the problems for them.
> , but there is no reason, in my opinion, to suggest that Pornhub had an unusually large problem.

How many videos or images of child exploitation are required before it becomes an "unusually large problem" ?

Again, as someone who worked in the industry, I can't even begin to tell you how fucking paranoid and diligent we were about that. One single instance would have been enough to shut us down and possibly land us in jail. Not to mention the ethics of it which are paramount! This was to the extent where I was never even comfortable with the concept of user-provided / generated content being hosted and distributed on/by my web servers at all.

PornHub played with fire. They didn't just burn themselves, they burned all of us.

It would have only taken ONE instance! Two becomes "numerous" by definition. But one would have been enough.

I actually can't believe that you're trying to downplay the severity of what was at stake. I'm not typically one to be all "think of the children", but this is that one case where it really is literally that and most people don't find the level of diligence that I'm describing as being at all unreasonable.

I mean you're basically saying "they only murdered like 3 people ... and were pretty good about making sure they didn't murder more... hardly 'numerous.'" And if you don't think that child sexual exploitation is on a similar level in terms of severity of the crime then I don't want to know you.
Link if paywalled: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/us-army-marines-artill...