skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software indeed rots because it doesn't exist in a vacuum. Requirements change, bugs are discovered, support declines unless you give golden coins to someone. Infinite backwards compatibility is the exception rather than the normal.

My point still stands: the compiler should have been kept around if it is required to keep something business-critical on an 8 year old machine running. Whether such old versions of compilers are still provided depends on the goodwill of Microsoft.
I think the Apple chips are the highest end integrated CPU/GPU chips? Especially on the mobile site, and if measured in terms of price.

They are far from the best performers, of course. They are meant to run on low-ish power, especially compared to a desktop or server chip.
Why companies are racing to build the biggest bug farm
New weight loss drug acts like an "exercise pill"
So Snow Leopard yet again?
Its actually a good indicator of a character. Not everybody fits you or me, or even can actually sustain long term cca happy relationship. You want an expensive ring? Why? Just because herd mentality obviously isn't good enough response when drawbacks are numerous and often pretty sinister.

When I was still in the dating game, I wasn't one of the desperate ones who needed to f*k desperately at all costs. Rather I was every single time looking for potentially working relationship, so evaluating compatibility and if I found obvious or already-known showstopper I finished it quickly. But how do you evaluate that when initially people automatically wear layers of politeness masks? Some of them even after years.

Well just wait for first conflict and misunderstanding to happen, and how the other side reacts when emotions are high. Masks are off, raw personality comes forward in bad situation. You just have to be realistic and also think how it would look like if tables turned.

Or don't, but I prefer to at least try to bring some smart into this highly emotional game, I mean divorce rates hanging uncomfortably around 50% come from something (my wife doesn't have any natural bloody diamond on her ring, we talked about it like mature people beforehand and both agreed we won't go that way)..
I try to keep my jokes here a few levels above memes.[0] I save most of the puns for social media where they're appreciated.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38244086
If you are talking about Nvidia's flip chip problems. Those were actually caused by the glue holding the chip onto the substrate, not the solder. The glue expanded at a different rate from the solder balls and caused them to crack.

This was especially the case on consoles. People kept reballing and doing other useless repairs that solved the problem by accident by melting the solder balls between the substrate and the silicon chip. Some even managed to remelt the solder balls simply by replacing capacitors, which then made everyone think the capacitors were the problem and everyone swallowed it because replacement capacitors were cheap.
People using watches as a store ify value is more a commentary on the state of fiat financial networks.

A Rolex has scarcity value, and can act as a deflationary asset is what's at play there.

I do believe they are having a correction right now as the luxury market starts to bottom.
> I've seen this as a common trend on any India-related discussion. Does anyone have any ideas as to why?

My theory is the rise of Hindunationationalism, and nationalism in general in India, which leads to the feeling of needing to defend ones country against any perceived attacks. Combine this with a huge country and rising levels of English proficency and you will get that type of comments on English speaking online boards.
The huggingface space seems broken
Sea salt is NOT pure NaCl; that's the whole point of eating sea salt! It has significant quantities of other minerals, such as calcium chloride and potassium sulphate. That's why sea salt tastes so different from regular table salt.

The reason people buy sea salt (made by evaporating seawater) or table salt (made by mining deposits left from prehistoric seas), is because no one produces these things artificially. There's no good economic reason to do so when you can just dig it up or dry out some seawater: making it artificially would be more expensive.

The same economics don't work for diamonds, for various reasons.
> It is a literal drop in the bucket.

That's a very first world comment
This isn't news because the BBC produces so little sci-fi, it's news because of the popularity and hstorical legacy of Doctor Who specifically. No one (except maybe lost media nerds) would care if this were about Blake's Seven or something.
Oh god, and it's everywhere. Literally would use the YouTube app every now and then with ads to support creators, but being unable to copy video titles, descriptions and comments drive me nuts! Just add "long-press is copy" ffs.

So I guess they want me to keep using the browser version in Firefox with blocked ads.
Certainly, and as a stranger on the internet I have no skin in the game, but "happy wife, happy life" is toxic poison that leads to deeply controlling relationships.
Sure - I understand that you have your particular opinions on what communication is ok, I obviously have my own opinions on things that I find ok or not as well, but I also consider what things may be considered out of line by other people before communicating with someone and I think

- I love my wife!

- Well, I wouldn't marry her.

Might be the kind of communication (obviously, broken down here to its base level here) that would be considered out of line by a significant portion of the world population.

>I haven't seen any good arguments in favor of purchasing a diamond ring

As a gift

>which don't seem to dismiss and devalue the agency and right to an opinion of the purchaser.

when buying a gift for someone it is probably good to consider and value the agency and right to an opinion of the receiver.

Not saying you are forced to buy a diamond, I don't have, but that is partially because my wife does not have strong opinions on that subject either way.
There are plenty of ways to put out press releases that don’t claim world-changing results where none exist.
Linkbait at its finest. But it's true that the Python AI stack sucks big times.
This comment only applies to tech people working in the US, and mostly California.
So instead of "it" trying to understand us, we have to understand it? Is this how software should work?
Cryptography has a lot of interesting stuff coming from both industry and academia. Especially zero knowledge proofs.
Hush, we're pretending those deep learning papers are science papers, not engineering reports!
> On the other hand, taken too literally, such language promotes anthropomorphism, exaggerating the similarities between these artificial intelligence (AI) systems and humans while obscuring their deep differences.

I don't see how the role play term doesn't introduce new issues. Cambridge, for example, defines role play as "pretending to be someone else". An LLM is also not pretending. Also what "role" would an LLM play if you just take the base model without a default prompt or finetuning?
https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/17rnuh6/comment/k8srx5...
On the one hand I get it, but on the other hand, humor has a long and distinguished tradition within hacker and nerd culture, and a preference for the constant drivel of midwit cynicism and rancor over even a single joke out of a fear of being contaminated by "Redditness" is one of the more toxic aspects of this community.
Some people are not a good fit for higher education.
My Retro-socket3-toy-unit with a P83@100 MHz is fast (40MHz bus), but the DX5x86@150mhz (50MHz bus) beats everything except in quake. Timings aren't that great for the memory but the synchronous PCI bus (and working PCI VGA card at that speed) beats everything you throw at it.
Legal or not, the BBC obviously put a value of zero on these things when they threw them away.

So who has lost, what value needs to be recovered? There's no reasonable reason for anyone to pursue legal action, it would just be vexatious and / or a waste of tax payer money.
Breaking your leg is not life-threatening (given modern medical care), but it would be fairly described as "no joke".

Going without food for three days has no negative consequences. There are no effects that will last beyond your next meal. And of the effects that occur before then, none are significant. You will not be stopped from doing anything you might otherwise have liked to do. You won't even be inconvenienced in the effort.

"No joke" is much stronger language than it's reasonable to use for that circumstance.
Same here. I still cherish my 5$ wooden wedding ring. There's such beautiful wooden jewelry out there.
Because muscle memory breaks if the physical layout of the keys is different. The parent is used to ANSI and might hit enter where there's a different key on ISO. I am used to ISO and my layout uses that key as a modifier and is barely usable on ANSI, simply because moving my pinky to the key above enter is uncomfortable for me.
>The only issue now is that Disney owns half of all media, so if you like movies or want to go on a date or take the kids to the cinema, you don’t get a seriously large variety.

Not true, you just need to watch movies at home. I brought my girlfriend over to my place and showed her "Alien" and "Aliens" (she had never seen them) and she loved them. Why bother watching new junk when there's SO many wonderful classic movies you can watch instead? And you can get an absolutely huge flat-screen TV these days for not that much money. Who needs a cinema?
This view doesn't stand to scrutiny. If it were objectively better, you'd expect that government mandates wouldn't be needed, people would just switch to it because it makes their lives easier. It seems to me most businesses accept what people have to give them, that is, debit cards as well as cash. Some businesses have gone electronic only, that appears to be largely a political statement (from groups that supposedly don't want corporations scalping money off everyone at every turn but I digress).

No, I think governments want electronic only payment specifically to raise tax revenue first, because they can get documentation on every little transaction and so can squeeze taxes out of them if they need to, as well as to keep the capital in a central location so as to be in control of it in the event of an emergency. Banks like it because every unit of currency in the economy constitutes their reserves. All in all this looks to me like the dictionary definition of fascism, that is, the marriage of government and corporate power.
I wonder how hard would it be to just write off the Internet and go full offline. Setup a local LLAMa instance, download Wikipedia, torrent every movie and tv show from the last 40 years, clone all the github projects. It might sound crazy, but I remember people archiving entire discographies of their favorite artists on a single DVD. How much can you fit on single, modern HDD?
Number 3 seems a good idea for a 007 movie :D
I did discover it back in the day by accident, and it must've been Windows 2000 or earlier. Very confused where that came from at first, as it clearly was the contents of some generic message box, but it made no sense why it was in my clipboard in text form. Then I was like "wait a minute, they didn't...." And sure enough after triggering a random message somewhere and pressing ctrl-c I had that very message in my clipboard. Immediately had to tell everybody about it in excitement; nobody knew. Though I remember there being long lines of dashes as separators between the sections instead of those [Title] headings. (Not on Windows anymore for a decade now, so memory is foggy).
The other problem with prop phones is that they don't actually need to work.
A synthetic diamond for the price of a natural one and the rest goes to
a good cause would be great. Some kind of certificate of authenticity to go with it.
Yup, but you need to reference the commit ID, meaning that you always need to create two commits, one for the reformatting, and a second one for updating the .git-blame-ignore-revs file. Additionally, you may not use git rebase, or any other workflow that modifies the history, or the references will be broken. Third, the git config needs to be set per-project (can't be set globally), so all developers need to manually adjust their config, for this feature to be useful.

If you value a clean commit history, then simply reformat as part of the code change. With autoformatting on save (e.g. through prettier), that's a complete non-issue anyways.
Came here to quote the same exact part. The author is hilarious and savage but it seems appropriately. Amazing prose and sad state of affairs
Diamond were the original cryptocurrency
> The idea of ordinary people buying a computer and programming it to do useful things was one.

First program I ever wrote (I was a kid) was a program to help my mum manage the household accounts, it even loaded and saved data to a cassette.

Bless her she used it - it had to be multiple times slower than just doing it in her notebook (paper not computer, this was the 80's).

Even then a couple of things became obvious, I was gonna be a programmer and I was more inclined to solving practical problems than games.
This comment would be a lot more interesting if it wasn't so vague
I like diamonds. They are pretty.

But we also look at the ethics of most diamonds. And aside custom lab grown, child exploitation and murder are the norm.

I ethically refuse to pay any money into that system of child exploitation, child murder, and mass violence.
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I'll bite for some of your points.

> I've still yet to see another laptop that has even passable handling of sleep states / other parts of power management.

That's the advantage of Apple where they control both hardware and software. It's hard to replicate, so yeah, they have an edge here.

> I've still yet to see another laptop with an even passable trackpad.

Never understood this comment, if you use keyboards instead for shortcuts the trackpad is hardly something you care about. this seems like a comment from Apple users who justify the trackpad as the key differentiator to not even consider anything else, even though the rest of the world has no problem not using Apple trackpads.

> I've still yet to see a laptop with a keyboard as nice as the current generation MacBooks.

Lenovo Thinkpad line has world-class keyboards that put the Macbook's to shame.

> laptop with as slick of a chassis and display.

display, they certainly have good ones, but most of them are not matte. As for the chassis, there's really nothing special in having a uniform grey chassis - it's a matter of taste rather than anything else.

> I've still yet to see another laptop that can chew through demanding workloads, remain snappy the whole time,

Recent AMD CPUs equipped PC, running Linux, fit that description - they are formidable machines with great performance for a variety of workloads and while you will hear the fan now and then, it's still much better than what you had a few years ago.
Recently posted (600+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361947
Current hard drives are in the 12-20 TB range. That's a lot of movies.
I think the plan is to avoid linking with llvm, not getting rid of llvm altogether.

To be fair go has never used llvm and was delivered in less that 50 years.
Ok I get ya. Need to spend $20k or whatever. But why a diamond? So many other things you can spend that on that would be a nice keepsake.
Firmware Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) Proposal
It took the diamond industry several decades (and huge investments) to build their carefully crafted public image that translates into diamond purchases nowadays. These efforts are still in progress today. I am not sure if there are similar powers and interests behind the moissanite industry to match that.

There appears to be some cultural change happening around smoking. It is very slow despite the proven causal relationship between smoking and lung cancer. The tobacco industry is working hard to ensure they can continue to operate and transition to products that are (at least perceived to be) less harmful to people. However, the speed of this change does not appear to be driven by the severity of lung cancer threat, but by the lobbying power of the tobacco industry that ensures they don't go out of business while the transition is happening.
> ...third, a contemporary mode characterized by the blending of highbrow pursuits with everyday forms of cultural participation, such as spending time with family, friends, and pets...

Is it a side effect of internet? Easier to engage in highbrow activities from anywhere and combine it with a family life. Another contributing factor is the presumably larger percentage of women in the elite.
Less sugar is probably good but why not do some testing for it instead of guessing?
I believe it's called 'playing devils advocate' or in this case sarcasm.

Unfortunately sarcasm doesn't come across very well on the internet.
The decent restaurant is a good example: For the price of a 9000$ diamond ring, you can eat a fancy dinner at a 300$ restaurant every year for the next 30 years of your marriage. And the money is probably spent much better that way. You'll build up memories of shared experiences.
Whenever I see articles like this I wonder the same. In theory it is possible to trace back where anything one buys came from, in practice not so much because almost inevitably you'll hit a company along the production/shipping chain refusing to disclose information. But yeah even if it were, a home test would still be a better source of truth. Assuming the test is correct. Lead tests are fairly common though (because of historic lead painting and water piping) and in some countries sort of regulated so that shouldn't be an issue. As for any other pollution: it might be saner in the end to not worry about it too much, there's just so many things which can go wrong.
Microsoft briefly restricted employee access to ChatGPT citing security concerns
What I'm trying to say is that the problem is not approachable this way at all – efficiently generating code by describing what you want, since when you compress what you want into a prompt you lose the details, and in order to restore all of them you will need a much bigger prompt volume than code generated. Because it is code itself which compresses an idea but no idea can compress the code well enough. In another 11 months it will be exactly in the same spot - it will not be able to be more efficient at this task by the nature of it.
Something like this you mean: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/P8475n4sc?

Edit: I think that dependent typing is needed only of the matrix bounds are only known at runtime.
> Google has become an existential threat to all our businesses

To the web itself.
> I had a lot of hope for things like Khan Academy, but the issue is video is not text and it's hard to iterate and improve on

When the entire video is generated by an AI, that dynamic changes. It's no issue to improve "the script", and have it seamlessly regenerated. We can't be that far away from this capability, and it could have a profound impact on available learning resources.
Pentium was very significant in comparison to predecessors. In the beginning Intel shipped a Pentium 66 and it smoked the 486 DX 100 easily.

We kind of marveled back then because MHz meant speed.
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Maybe it’s just the contiguous US? Fun fact!
It's the danger of good intents but still breaking the law. If a house is unlocked and you go in to prove it's unlocked, maybe leave a helpful note, you're still breaking in. Report and move on.
Because "investors" expect returns on their investment and the more investors you pull in, the more money you need to generate. At some point it's no longer about how to run the business well or how to make "enough" money for yourself and your people but how to keep the investors (whom typically don't live off of their one investment) from pulling the foundation for your only livelihood out from under you if you don't deliver enough returns.
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Exactly. I probably spent $20k this year on vacations (for me and my extended family).

Buy experiences. Money well spent. Not diamonds and other ego-inflating stuff. It keeps the negative flywheel spinning faster and will hurt you long-term.
Pentium was the first CPU which could run two integer operations per cycle.
"Protection of the public from fraud in the marketing of food products represents
one of the earliest forms of government regulation of commercial enterprise" -- https://www.jstor.org/stable/26658854 "FOOD DRUG COSMETIC LAW JOURNAL 39, 2-73 (1984)
A History of Government Regulation of Adulteration and
Misbranding of Food"

The introduction covers food regulation from Biblical and Roman times to the present. If you think about how many of the Biblical rules are devoted to food handling in some sense, it starts to become clear how food regulation is civilization and the state, as much as any other kind of ancient law. I will never understand the Libertarian dream of a "prelapsarian" world where everyone is free to sell poison to everyone else with no consequences.
Indonesia inaugurates Southeast Asia's largest floating solar farm
Tell HN: Cloudflare Captcha Is Down?
... at least in my region.

Although cloudflarestatus.com says all systems operational, I'm not able to login for the past 24h. The captcha that verifies login repeats a pattern of: "Veryifying... Failure... endlessly.

After a few tries I'm getting blocked by "checking the connection is secure" and then the captcha does not work either. I wondered if it affects websites using Cloudflare and I remember that I had an old website that was put in under attack mode, yep, it's not accessible at all because you cannot go through "Checking if the site connection is secure" page.
So you've never watched an old film? Listened to music from before you were born? Read a book from before you were born?

There was more than enough of this stuff when I was young, but instead of watching police academy 26 I watched something actually good.
I think GP was referring to that exact thing happening in The Abyss.
The problem isn't writing a better text, it's having departments willing to teach it, or to try alternate approaches at all.
I have yet to have been provided a specific example that matches the hyperbolic descriptions people are throwing around.

> > I've essentially got 15-20 high-priced world-class consultants in every field that I chose to pull from, working at my beck and call

I'll give you that: many of the claims are hyperbolic & ridiculous, including that particular one by the gp. The only way I can think of that statement being remotely true is if "high-priced" has no bearing on the quality of work of those consultants (though tbh that is often the case in reality).

Personally I have not found ChatGPT particularly good at anything I need to do. I have however found it very passable at many things I don't enjoy doing. It's reporting boilerplate is far more tailored & novel than anything I could ever put into a reusable reporting template. I dread writing reports: it's not a technical challenge for me but I gain no stimulus from it, so reducing the task to one where I just have to heavily edit something ChatGPT prepared for me is frankly incredible. The same goes for formal cold-call emails to people I don't know: another menial, unpleasant but necessary task.

It's also great at spitballing, and - as others have mentioned - quick shallow topic summaries of things you'd normally rely on a quick google & scan to get a quick topic summary (timely as Google gets worse and worse).

These are microgains throughout your day, nothing truly revolutionary, but that's the case for many successful tech we take for granted.