skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so happy with this post. I needed to buy a cheap laptop for a family member and I went so all in on Mac a decade ago that I really don't know the lay of the land when it comes to Windows. I'll just get a Lenovo Thinkpad second hand :)
And why in God's name did you accept that?
Whether we like it or not, delivery is a profession. It requires endurance, alertness and planning ahead (think travelling salesman problem); they also need people skills to deal with entitled customers and bosses.

However, there are incentives in place to not regard it as such: we don't want to pay extra; businesses don't want to pay a grown-ass adult with responsibilities; and adults don't want to make children's live's easier if they had it rough when they were growing up.

Disregarding other's rights of existence and rights of having a labor-free infancy will always come to bite us in the end: it's "fine" until you're replaced by an easily-exploitable teenager that can be underpaid because they're not aware of their labor rights.
You would rather not own things you buy than have things sold at market price?
This is why the idea of subscriptions embedded in physical products like cars needs to go.
Definitely astroturfed itself, these accounts are not even passing for real.
Ha! I think you might be asking for too much these days!
I didn’t know about the app but this is a great shutdown post. Clear and to the point, no corporate bs around failure to monetize (the dreaded “macroeconomic environment”, a reasonable period of transition for customers as well as a price discount (free!), and obviously last but not least open-sourcing.

It is the kind of post that would make me trust the founder to become a customer of their next project.
I own a Model Y, and I disagree. This is the first time in my life a company has treated me so well. I mean, they pretty much assign a TPM to you who is always just one text message away. Another nice thing is that if anything in the car gets broken, you simply make a request through the app. A technician(s) comes to your place and fixes everything while you drink your tea and watch Netflix. Anti-consumer? Unless you meant something else, Tesla is hilariously pro-consumer.
Apparently, they can't do their lunar spacesuits until they do their lander

> What's more, delays to Starship have knock-on effects because the spacesuit contractor needs to know how the suits will interface with the spacecraft, and simulators need to be built for astronauts to learn its systems.

From https://web.archive.org/web/20230809230628/https://www.chann...
IBM was always a powerhouse of R&D, so glad to see this to keep the field competitive between the few players in the game. I love APL and that grew out of Ken Iverson's work at Harvard, but then completed at IBM with double the salary [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson
>But it is though?

At some point quantitative change achieves a qualitative effect. I would think Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter have all reached that qualitative effect to change from being just a discussion forum.

However qualitatively the social functions of these apps present an extra functionality missing from traditional discussion forums. Being able to track users, notifications of the users updates, blocking certain users from being in the message - which is a traditional messaging function not found in discussion forums. Suggestions of people or subjects to follow given on what you have done in the past, weighted based on various algorithms to determine how recent your past activity was and what your current interests seem to be.. I'm sure you could think of a load of other functions that are not traditional discussion forum functionalities.
Slam the 30kg "laptop" on the table and order a coffee... I'd so want to have that thing!
I knew what laptop this was going to be even before I clicked.

Although for balance I did have a W520i that died. They're not all gold.
They used to literally walk around the House floor handing out donor checks. From https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/02/14/h... :

> “…it was publicly disclosed that Boehner in the last week of June 1995 walked around the House floor delivering six or more of the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. PAC checks.

> “in the same week Boehner was giving out the checks on the House floor, the House Appropriations Committee met in its room in the Rayburn House Office Building and voted down (17 to 30) an amendment that would have ended the government's price support program for tobacco. Seven Appropriations Committee members each had received a $500 check from Brown & Williamson's PAC, including one for the committee chairman, Rep. Bob Livingston (R-La.).”

This kind of activity seems to refute the “objective difference” you’re imagining.
Early alexa devices also have power supplies that are rated at 5.2V, those could be an alternative. I also had a good experience with a 30W oneplus warp charger after some power issues with cheap 5V2A ones.
That is what it is supposed to be. Offering a perspective someone said. In a michelin star restaurant, private resort full of prostitutes or after having donated substantial amounts of cash to their campaign ensuring their hold on power.

Somehow it seems different when 'presenting the case' is accompanied by gifts and money.
Storage is easily upgradeable in those MacBook Airs. It's a socketed SSD just like a PC laptop. (but a proprietary socket)

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/macbook-air
It's more like we've lost the engineering. The technology is all still there but now greatly improved. From welding techniques to computer components the whole exercise in in manufacturing would be a huge undertaking to rebuild because we aren't manufacturing any of those old technologies anymore so that would be a problem. Or you have the problem of re-engineering the whole rocket with modern components and manufacturing techniques.

We can build medieval castles all day long with concrete and steel, but if you want an actual stone medieval castle, we don't know how to do it.
Debian devs also let log4j pass.
Your "can maintain" for those old submarines amounts to "can maintain something which was originally designed to last for several decades, with a high-trained full-time crew, regular major maintenance, and a supply chain for spare parts...and all the billions of dollars which those non-trivial details cost".

Vs. those old rockets were designed to be one-shot expendable stuff. Plenty of them are on public display at museums - you could ask the museum staff about how many $$$/year they have available in their budgets, to keep the rockets in operational condition. (Hint: $0.)

Or, you might want to check out the YouTube channel for the USS New Jersey (historic WWII battleship, now a museum) -

https://www.youtube.com/battleshipnewjersey

- where their curator often talks in gritty detail about vast differences between "operational warship" and "keep afloat and open as a museum". Note that the something-million dollars which they are currently trying to fundraise - for some bare-minimum drydock maintenance - is small potatoes compared to the cost of a single new F-35 fighter.
When you make a new library for C/C++, you generally just install it locally at first (pkg-config and PKG_CONFIG_PATH make this trivial). It doesn't (need to) get packaged by a distribution until a program using it is packaged.
You don't need to do this yourself, unless you yourself use a distribution and want it packaged there.

As for the amount of dependencies, you have to wonder if it's better to have tonnes of small dependencies or whether it's better to have a few bigger ones. When I need something in a library, I don't make a new library for it, I first try contributing to it, and failing that I vendor and patch it. I feel this is less common in the brave new world of everyone just doing whatever and pushing it to a largely unmoderated repository...
The other big difference is that if you buy a cyber truck you'll be the laughing stock of your town. Tesla know this, and know that everyone is going to want to get rid of it as soon as possible when kids start pointing and laughing at them in the street.
this is different because rocket man bad
I remember doing that whenever I wanted to build a C program on GitHub from source. “Oh cool, so I’m going to need these 8 dependencies. Let’s see which ones are supported on my distribution. Ok, I have 6 of them but 2 are weird versions from many years ago. No way that will cause problems! The other 2 I can install from source - oh, but the latest version of this dependency in git needs something else I don’t have…” and there goes my whole evening.

Is my computer more secure for it? Am I in more control? Absolutely not. I have weird 3rd party programs installed in weird places all over my system. I have a computer that is almost impossible to rebuild if my hard drive dies. Finally I can make fragile builds that might have bugs that nobody else can reproduce because of the idiosyncratic combination of package versions I’m using.

This is so unbelievably worse than cargo or npm. With cargo I can take any package on GitHub and reasonably install and run it on any computer I own (running any OS) with one command. The only time this breaks down is when part of the dependency tree is C code. It’s miraculous.

Give me that experience in apt and I’m there. But the experience apt currently provides is unbelievably bad for developers compared to cargo/npm/etc. I can only assume nobody who works on Debian has seriously tried npm or cargo.
> What’s interesting is that this problem is largely solved for C and C++: Linux distributions like Debian package such a wide range of libraries that for many things that you want to develop or install, you don’t need any third-party libraries at all.

How is this not a third-party library, and how is this not exactly the same problem as with Crates.io?
It remains to be seen whether there will be a strong second-hand market for this vehicle in six month's time.
Those comments are not entirely wrong. Regulation does hurt, but the main issue is that even though the EU is a single market in theory, it's made up of nations that each have their own market and speak their own language. Not a lot of new tech companies target the entire EU, they mostly target their domestic market and certainly not the USA.

In the USA it's easy for a new tech company to put out a commercial to target the entire US population of more than 300 million people. This is practically impossible in the EU. The market here is actually very fractured.

We have "big" tech companies in each EU nation, but they cater only to the domestic market. "Big" as in they are dominant in their field inside their nation.

Take online payment systems for instance. While there are global EU companies like Klarna, most EU nations has their own system that everyone uses. So while you usually have a bunch of payment options to chose from, 99% picks the national one (usually no processing fees).

This also applies to a bunch of other apps in the EU.

If you create an app or a service in the EU and you want it to succeed, you need to target your domestic market first. However chances are there's already an app or service for your idea and you'll have zero chance to compete on the international market, even if you translate your service to as many languages you can think of.
Has which built in?
> Commission to table a specific law though

Just for the folks on the West side of the Pond, pretty much means to drop the bill. "To table" is so weird.
I say he is not a providential man, that it's a team effort, and that it's in line with current industrial needs and capacity. That is not an expression of hate, I think.
They were probably planning on using it for a year or so.

I don’t think I’d be put off buying a car with an agreement that said I couldn’t sell it within a year, the moment the car leaves the forecourt it’s already lost 20%, if not more anyway, unless I was hoping to flip a car(?) then what would the issue be?
I’ve been building Packj [1] to detect publicly UNKNOWN dummy, malicious, abandoned, typo-squatting, and other "risky" PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/Maven/Rust packages. It carries out static/dynamic/metadata analysis and scans for 40+ attributes such as num funcs/files, spawning of shell, use of SSH keys, network communication, use of decode+eval, etc. to flag risky packages. Packj Github action [2] can alert if a risky dependency is pulled into your build.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
2. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj-github-action
I believe this is what everyone has been suggesting someone do about fake DMCA for a while so, although it pains me to say it, thank you Google!
> well because we have inept leaders.

Not to mention corruption. About 15 years ago I got dragged along to a lunch in Kathmandu. My host[0] was meeting with some officials to discuss embezzling from an infrastructure project. It speaks to their impunity that they carried on in public in front of a basically unknown foreigner.

[0] Last I checked he was recently arrested on various corruption offenses.
ELI5, why does google want regulation that tells them to scan user content for various suspicious activities?
I'd love a filter like that, I'd totally pay once for apps if they just worked and didn't have extra bloat, subscriptions, IAPs, etc.
But it's THE Cybertruck from Tesla, the most anticipated status symbol from our meme lord and savior, the X-man himself, Elon Musk.

People will line around the block to buy his subscription vehicles, no matter how silly they get, and because of that, every auto maker will follow suit.
This isn't to deal with multi-minute power deficits in split grids. That is dealt with with fast acting generation or load shedding.

Solar and wind systems today typically do not have a voltage setpoint or control loop. That's because there is no big gas/steam valve to adjust the amount of power generated. The operator wants to inject all the power from the sun/wind into the grid, whatever the voltage.

An X% droop would be X% of the total generated energy wasted in the name of stability. Thats a lot of money, and they won't waste it unless required to.

Instead, power deficits in the 10's of millisecond range can be dealt with by inverters (which typically have storage capacitors for ~20ms worth of output). This covers large fault currents, and sudden inflows as bits of grid are reconnected.

Unfortunately, most of today's inverters, which have the capability to do that, will not, due to having code which will only operate the 'happy case'.
We have those too, but that's not exactly the same. Say you have a mortgage with a variable interest rate. A repeated scheduled transaction won't work because the amount can be different each month. Same goes for things like energy bills if you have a flex-contract where you pay the actual amount used each month. In my case they will just take whatever amount is due out of my bank account each month.
> Why wouldn't you trust them?

Because historically we've already caught these companies doing dubious things and they're still in business, still making money hand over fist.

For example, Facebook saying they would only use phone numbers for two-factor authentication and just ignoring that because it was profitable.

Or Biobank saying they wouldn't share private medical data with insurance companies and then just ignoring that because it was profitable.

Or Microsoft and its subsidiaries bribing foreign officials to gain sales and block use of FOSS alternatives because it was profitable.

The naughty list is long and it doesn't seem to cause much reputational damage if any.
>> The article points this out: middling generalists can now compete with specialists.

They can't, and aren't even trying to. It's OpenAI that's competing with the specialists. If the specialists go out of business, the middling generalists obviously aren't going to survive either so in the long term it is not in the interest of the "middling generalists" to use ChatGPT for code generation. What is in their interest is to become expert specialists and write better code both than ChatGPT currently can, and than "middling generalists". That's how you compete with specialists, by becoming a specialist yourself.

Speaking as a specialist occupying a very, very er special niche, at that.
Discussed previously

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38236701
You’re misreading the study. It says they asked 115 people for a low and high range of organizational spend on lobbying, and the sum of the estimates was 34-57 million.

So divide 57 by 115, and you get about 0.5 million euros on average for the high estimate.

(Some of the respondents may work for the same organization which complicates calculating the average. Hence why they’re reporting the sums instead, I guess.)
On the flip side, one can use ChatGPT as only a starting point and to learn from there. One isn't stuck with actually using what it outputs verbtim, and really shouldn't until at least a hypothetical GPT-6 or 7... and to use it fully now, one has to know how to nudge it when it goes into a bad direction.

So overall it's more an amplifier than anything else.
hey friend !
I gave my mom the X61t, from the same era. For what she does, it is a marvel, from XP to 7 to 8.1, I bought her an Ipad last year since 8.1 droppped the support.

I think with an upgrade of 4Gb it could be still ok in 2023. Just avoid website full of JS and videos.
If your company is literally writing the laws that will govern them, then yeah I'd say the lobby was successful.
> In this brave new world the author is proposing - what?

In practice, you just vendor your code as part of the source package. It's the distro maintainers' job to factor it out as a separate dependency.
"Which is better" would be a great question if those were the only two things we spent our money on. In reality, both are better than many other ways we spend our money.
Hinduvta does not exist as a driving political force in Nepal. You are thinking of India. Nepal is secular albeit there is a small faction vying for power based on hindu ideologies but they are a very small portion of nepal politics. Again there is no communal flair that has entered into national discourse like we see in India or some ME countries. Nepal is pretty chill in that regards, surprisingly so given the whole country has multitudes of ethnic groups. There are still caste based incidents in remote areas but not so much in urban cores. Knowing the decisions the nincompoop leaders have done out of whim over the last decade or so I am fairly certain that this decision was also not done with due dilligence.
Google has well enough resources to handle such an effort whereas a newer, competing entity will likely not. ("entry barriers")
I have an extreme instance where the ceo bypassed everyone to directly drive a group of sde1s. When pushed for same day deliveries and the sde1s pushed through, and everyone else were publicly humiliated for taking much longer to deliver. It resulted in weekend marathons and all nighters being a regular occurence for the group he directly took charge of, and the demands escalated to timelines needed in hours instead of days, and a mess of code. The already popular copy paste driven write once development pattern became the only means of survival to many. (code so bad that it's only written once, nobody had the confidence to modify. New, similar request? Copy paste, modify, and manually test.)

I am so glad to have escaped that, for many more reasons. Still working off that near burnout and putting off getting back to work since a few months. (burnout not due to overwork, I escaped that madness, but other dysfunctional things in the organisation.)
More than a decade of losses is hardly a meme, they nearly burned 10 billion last year. It is a much more interesting story than Truth Social.

> Rides/Mobility are profitable.

You can probably pick out a random subset of any company that is profitable. The sales team in nearly any company is profitable. The question is how the profitable part would do if disassociated from the all the loss making parts.
That will never work. You'll spend more time traveling to and from the remote launch facilities than you would flying conventionally from a nearby international airport. Destinations would also be severely limited by technology export laws; maybe it could be arranged for a handful of friendly nations / strategies allies like Japan or Australia, but most of the world would be scratched off the list.

When Shotwell and Musk talk about stuff like that or Mars colonies, they're hyping the company to attract more talent. If you loom at what they're actually building, it's all satellite launchers.
The T480 was last non-Apple cargo cult, repairable design.

The T490 and onward aren't good.

The problem though of old hardware is lack of CPU features needed by some operating systems and the presence of hardware vulnerabilities, and the obsolete ports they contain like FireWire, slow USB, and PCMCIA.
If you do this, remember to provide an option to factor it out. Meson (mesonbuild.org) makes this completely trivial and pitfall-free, and you should use it if you can't get away with just installing your libraries locally.
> If a kid was a blank slate that responded perfectly to training, would its emotions then not be its own?

No idea what this means. What is "responded perfectly to training"?

> What's the difference between a chemical concentration in the brain and the activation level of a neuron trained to predict the outcomes of chemical concentration in the brain? Sufficiently advanced imitation is indistinguishable from identity.

One is emotional; the other statistical. Is my monitor emotional for showing the words on the screen based on an electrical activation passed to a twisty crystal? All sorts of things convey things, but the actual emotion came from a person with emotions.
Transformer large language modes are about 7 years old. So we are 1/3 of the way from 2017 to 2040 and we’ve gone from hardly being able to string sentences together to being able to write entire scripts coherently - GPT4’s output is often better than mine to be honest, and I’ve been programming almost my whole life.

GPT4’s capabilities are quite close to a human’s even now, especially when asking it about areas that I haven’t specialized in. And now it has vision capability, it can see what it is doing.

With twice the time remaining that has elapsed, clearly there’s plentiful
time for its capabilities to increase and for it to
get faster and cheaper. And it will not be a linear improvement but an exponential one.

I don’t want programmers to become obsolete. I just consider the likelihood that we have anything to offer over one of these agents in the medium term to be very unlikely. Why would you want to spend $100,000s on a human if you can get something in less time from an AI for $1000s? Human programmers will be attacked on three fronts: price, quality and time. The quality aspect is the only one that is arguable: price and time are already lost.
Thanks. Not putting this onto you so I'll say "we/our" to follow
your good faith;

What is "coming for our jobs" is some feature of the system, but it
being a system of which we presume to be, and hope to remain a part,
even though ultimately our part in it must be to eliminate ourselves.
Is that fair?

Our hacker's wish to "replace myself with a very small shell-script
and hit the beach" is coming true.

The only problem I have with it, even though "we're all hackers now",
is I don't see everybody making it to the beach. But maybe everybody
doesn't want to.

Will "employment" in the future be a mark of high or low status?
Surely not - I only ever hear that the Parliament is toothless body that rubber stamps whatever the Commission proposes.
Whenever I see "X" I think of X11, so I misread the headline as "X[11] is changing its algorithm to highlight smaller accents", and thought it was about font rendering.