skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was that the top spec, or top spec available for immediate shipping?

In my experience Apple keeps a few different configurations ready for pick up or shipping, and their return policy sounds pretty flexible (though I haven’t personally had to use it for a major purchase).
Getting struck by lightning absolutely happens, other things absolutely happen more absolutely.
I'm often coding on a server with like 10ms round trip latency, so I'm not bothered by the small latency that my editor introduces. I'm using Vim, by the way.
I can spot the difference but the value proposition is zilch to me. I would not pay 1 extra cent for it. If I was a gamer this would of course matter.
I mean, sure, but if you're demanding detailed statistics from the anti-side (the start of this thread), letting the pro-side gesture vaguely in the direction of hard to measure deterrence seems like an isolated demand for rigor.
Meanwhile, you completely ignore China using EU money to build its offensive capabilities against Taiwan.
The Man in Seat 61: train travel guide for the UK, Europe and worldwide
Portable version loaded instantly for me on Windows 10. Remote SSH functionality doesn't work at all unfortunately[1]. Would be nice to try out but I don't do any local dev.

1: https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/2985
A Cubic Millimeter of Mouse Brain [video]
Far from the truth. I have been building PEVs since I was in my teens (ebikes, scooters, a boat). When it came to buy a new car for the first time in my life in 2020, there were no EV options that would do what I needed (large cargo capacity, 6+ seats, not extremely expensive, decent range for road trips).

Sorry, I'm not spending 100k on a vehicle.

So I ended up getting a Palisade for around 32k, and my wife and I share that, at least until until better (and cheaper) EV options appear.

Luckily I can use my ebike for most of my around town travel, and that is way less of a carbon footprint than adding an extra vehicle to the roads.
Hey maybe we’ll go back to the smaller communities of the 90s, early 00s internet. Any large community will be overflowing with spam.
That would be a structural type system with Hindley-Milner type inference. A good example of that might be OCaml - it's largely structurally typed, and the types can be completely inferred without type annotations.

However, while Hindley-Milner will find all the type errors in your program, it won't necessarily report those errors in the most logical places. That's why it's generally still the norm to annotate functions with type annotations except in the most trivial cases: knowing that a function will take a string and return a number is useful information not just for the compiler, but also the programmer.

To come back to your first point, one common solution here is the "parse, don't validate" mantra for loading data. This is the idea that when accepting unknown data (e.g. from a file or API), you first parse the data and convert it into a representation that enforces the invariants your program believes about that data. For example, that names can never be longer than twenty characters, or that ages are always positive numbers. By doing this parsing as soon as the data enters your program, you immediately handle unexpected changes to the data formats - if data changes such that it can no longer be parsed, this is an immediate error, rather than something that will only show deep in your application.

With something like Pydantic (alternatives are available), you can describe what your data should look like in terms of types, and use Pydantic to do the parsing for you.
Wow, that's a great way to phrase it. I'm currently setting up a basic laptop with speed like you're describing as a goal. "Confidence in my inputs" is an underrated value in HCI. Of course websites have to implore users to not click on this again while it loads, they don't have confidence in their inputs!
i guess which and the number of extensions will have a significant effect on lag
This comment/sentiment/idea has already been thoroughly discussed, shared, retweeted, posted, and echoed a couple thousand times online already. Humans like you have been redundantly saying the same things in varying degrees of novelty, like this, for centuries.
I'm aware of that. I'm not sure that memoirs have ever been known as only being 100% truthful.
See: Vision Pro
I don’t think a tip makes sense in this case because the driver is already earning money on the ride.

This is very different from a tip in a bar or a restaurant where the employee gets paid by the hour and doesn’t participate on single orders.
It's less about waiting for vscode to do something and more about the general feel and experience of movement and typing in the editor.

"Speed" is probably the wrong word, it's latency that matters.
Everything is a trade-off. You can't publish native apps without Apple's 30% tax for example.
When a Digit Makes a Difference
>So IMO this is more of an UnspecifiedZoneTime than a LocalDateTime. (Also, it has no date portion.

It very well could also have a date portion.

E.g. "I want this alarm/cleanup/whatever to happen on 9am on the 1st Monday of each month" based on the timezone the user happens to be at that time - i.e. not tied to any specific timezone.
You need to account for leap seconds literally any time you are mixing durations/timedeltas with instants/datetimes, otherwise you will get wrong answer. Also needed whenever you parse ISO8601/RFC3339 style strings. For example this (correct) timestamp fails to parse:

>>> UTCDateTime.from_rfc3339('1998-12-31T23:59:60Z')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/tmp.4kBsq6IYyF/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/whenever/__init__.py", line 797, in from_rfc3339
return cls._from_py_unchecked(_parse_utc_rfc3339(s))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/tmp/tmp.4kBsq6IYyF/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/whenever/__init__.py", line 2420, in _parse_utc_rfc3339
return _fromisoformat(s.upper())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: second must be in 0..59
Optimizing for efficiency and performance is never "the wrong thing"
Sure, if you’ve got 10x the population you’ve got maybe ~10x the area and 10x more stuff to build. But you’ve also got ~10x the amount of capital and 10x the amount of labour.

So how is this a valid argument?

Maybe this is an excuse for some areas with extreme high population density… something Norway certainly doesn’t have. But then those cities (say New York) generally have public transportation to take some of the load off.

It’s not an excuse for, say Portland or Seattle, that looks very similar to the Oslo metropolitan area. And you can just repeat that argument for every medium density 1-5 million population metropolitan area in USA.
Apologies if the meaning was unclear, but what it's meant to convey that I resigned ALL of my dozen-or-so positions from the org simultaneously.
I think it’s clear that LLMs cannot be the end state of this technology, and we will need systems that can reason and develop hypotheses and test them internally. These systems may benefit from more curated datasets (such as those collected before the bullshit wave began) along with real world interaction data from YouTube and robotics. Such systems could eventually be used to rank web pages for their bullshit level, which of course would present a risk of censorship but when used properly could lead to insightful data handling.

It’s just really clear that a giant text averaging machine can only go so far, and while we do see some higher level emergent properties, we’re going to have to move beyond the current state of the art in the next decade, and such future systems may be much less affected by the internet’s bullshit. Even without the bullshit singularity I think such measures would be a necessity and we would see them developed soon.
No, he kicked previous party minions from Public TV station, politicians who somehow had private passes allowing them to roam free around Public Broadcaster facilities.

Previous regime in Poland was super close to becoming another Hungary with only Party aligned media being allowed to operate. They did try to shut down US owned TV station by using "anti russian media influence" law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_TVN
Innovation enables growth without raw natural resources. For example, the internet drastically improved productivity (GDP/time) by making communication faster. Also services are intangible, but provide economic value. If someone can now provide services to millions, that’s growth. We are nowhere near the terminal point of growth in my opinion.
I think what a lot of the answers gloss over is that the period of adjustment to the new technology often does pull the rug from under people who have invested a good deal of time and attention becoming skilled at something. Our lives are of limited length therefore the concern for a generation of people is real and shouldn't be just treated as a detail of history.

Equally in many areas the end result is a loss of something (often intangible) which we accept as "good enough" and which may take a long time to be recaptured.

The steam engine may well have been a good thing in the long run but I'm sure it did tear apart the fabric of many people's lives and I think it's reasonable to commiserate.
About time people starting taking the "safety" teams to task.

These people are power mad and want to impose their psychological issues upon all of society.

They are a cancer.
The way to do that is by funding local companies and increasing density and public transport.

You also made an error. Cars are essential. EVs are not the only type of car.
Heh. I'm not a part of the private St. Louis preparatory school and "drop out of Stanford when a VC tells you you're Jesus Christ" set. I doubt any of my potential offspring would be either.

No, more because Altman is an even higher form of Silicon Valley creature than we've seen before. This is a segment of society that thinks that you can directly judge something's benefit to humanity based on the IPO it could have, and pretty much nothing else. They create sea changes in society knowing that it's going to be a very rough transition for people who don't have their levels of wealth to deal with the consequences.

Previously, seeing was believing. Sure, there was Photoshop and CGI, but pictures aren't as telling as video, and most people didn't have the capital necessary to cook up anything they wanted using CGI. This, though... anyone could make up anything for any reason, with dire consequences.

Just spitballing here, what if, say, political campaigns started releasing generated video of opponents in compromising positions with minors? Or videos were posted to social media designed to create a casus belli for a country?

It won't matter for the companies making those tools; their stock prices will be fine. Well, at least until the EMP is set off near the data center.

I don't want to be responsible for a human being coming up in what is essentially a 100% post-truth world.
> there's obviously no guarantees of solvability

In fact, as the size of the maze goes to infinity, the probability of solvability goes to zero. Source: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/a/32381/20581
Looking out for the little guy is an American value? Walmart and Amazon warehouse employees would like a word with those mythical Americans.
"I wish AI would advance in other careers than ones that people are passionate about."

So that means? researchers are passionate about their job does that mean that we shouldn't use AI to speed up medical research? material research? so on and so on. It's just someone mad that their job is getting closer to be automated before others.
The brutal reality is, if we stopped every development that would result in destroyed livelihoods, we would still be cavemen.
VSCode is blazing fast on my 5 year old personal laptop. VSCode is frustratingly slow on my M2 work laptop full of corporate nannyware.

It’s not VSCode’s fault ;)

JS-based apps happen to interact terribly with nannyware for some reason. I see it every time I run one of our node services, everything just grinds to a halt while the antivirus freaks out about how dare I run a piece of uncompiled code.

Slack and friends have the same problem. Discord actually runs better in a browser than as a standalone app.
I'm a big fan of HTMX and it heavily inspired Ajaxial from top to bottom. In fact, until it started diverging more significantly, it originally began as "HTMX but fixing the things I don't like".

From a functional standpoint:

- HTMX is already tiny at 47.8kb minified, but Ajaxial is even tinier at just 5.0kb minified

- HTMX has more "batteries included" for things like history support and inline event handlers, where Ajaxial takes a more minimal approach with a heavy focus on extensibility, so that it's as easy as possible to add those batteries if you need them

- HTMX supports IE11 (until the currently-alpha v2.0) and has a lot of browser support-induced quirks as a result, where Ajaxial uses current modern web technology like fetch

The single biggest thing that sets Ajaxial apart is that it's designed to be as deeply extensible as possible. Where HTMX has more magic that makes things "just work" out of the box, Ajaxial leaves as much of the process as possible open to changes or additions, so that it can be trivially extended to support almost any use case. For example, here's a tiny extension that enables Mustache template support =)

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mustache@4.2.0"></script>
<script>
Ajaxial.responseConverters.mustache = (body, template) => {
const template = document.querySelector(`template[name="${template}"]`).innerHTML
const rendered = Mustache.render(template, JSON.parse(body))
return Ajaxial.responseConverters.html(rendered)
}
</script>
Returns for everything are too easy. Far too many people treat stores as “rental outlets”. Or purposefully buy three of something, try them all, and then return two. Nothing is more annoying than buying something you expect (and pay for) to be new and then realizing it was obviously a “return”.
> All tasks are mundane and labor intensive

I'd say all tasks when done for money and under pressure (deadlines, people depending on you, etc) become less enjoyable.

I enjoy coding in my free time. Doing it for work - not so much.
You shouldn't do that, it's bad for some business models.
I'm not disagreeing with your point, but this is a really bad example. Google does pretty well with that exact question, including this at #8 (for me at least):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3229938/
Could it be that the first statistic relates to global rides?

I tried to find out by following the links to the study but was unsuccessful.
And a good dentist can swap out your existing mercury fillings for composite ones for you.
> can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

I shortened it to RTFA.
I definitely plan on migrating. Absolutely ridiculous
It consume 2GB of memory to load a typescript codebase. VSC just need 600MB of memory to load the same codebase.
> Think about what would happen, if XX% of the passengers get food poisoning.

As amusing as that image may be -- the effects of food poisoning aren't usually felt for about 6 hours. So it would only be a problem on very long international flights, if an earlier meal was to blame...

But in any case, airplane food isn't "one of the safest", it's just "regular safe". They don't have higher food safety standards than restaurants or other institutional food prep, although they probably do adhere to those standards correctly, rather than some cheap independently-owned restaurants trying to cut costs by keeping food past when it should be considered expired.
Don't need to install them if they are portable (most everything can be made portable with some work, see scoop packager manager for instance). As long as the company isn't batshit crazy and has the resources and IT spend to afford to use something like applocker, in which case I'd seriously recommend looking for other employment if you cannot get explicit guarantees about administrative access.
Yea the world sucks, tech companies are making it worse, the economy is built to funnel money to whoever can suck the most value out of the commons for themselves, climate change will ruin everything, hug your favorite endangered species while you still can, and the internet is best at spreading lies

I don't see how arguing that it should be harder for journalists to get paid helps anything though
They rewrote the UI recently in their own toolkit, Floem [^1], and that broke all scaling under X11 for me (now the UI and fonts are rendered so large that it's unusable). It works fine in Wayland though...

Here's some issues that were filed for this same problem:

- https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/2732
- https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/2773
- https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/2737

[^1]: https://github.com/lapce/floem
We may enter into a highly ironic regime where ai companies subsidize writers and artists at scale to produce better data.
I understand - but isn‘t it a mistake to think of it as getting through? Soon it will be over and then merely having gotten through seems like such a waste.
I bought my first Mac in 1986 and kept on buying until about 2010 when the product quality turned to shit. I've used actual good Apple hardware but some who live in the current Apple ghetto have never had the experience.

They created many great machines in that time but also misguided junk. In my view the "magic" mouse falls into the later category.

But maybe try something other than an ad hominem or "my n=1 survey shows..." argument next time to be more convincing.
Because it's going to change the world in drastic ways, and it's very likely that it will be harder, in many ways, for the next generation than it was for us. The kids today will become adults in a world that is mostly foreign to all of us; there won't be precedent to fall back on or wisdom of elders to lean on. They won't recognize this or even mind that this is their reality, as it will just have always been this way for them (and the adults of today will complain about how good things used to be). And the generational cycle will continue.
> artificial beings

Last time I checked it was an algorithm that needs to be run and fed with input to perform calculations. Not a being?

The only thing that is a "being" about it currently is the nature of the beings that "donated" the training data (without being, hem, asked).
> It sounds like you were really unreasonable in this scenario

Given your unresolved questions, how can you come to this conclusion?
On the bright side, it might force those engaged in research to figure out just what exactly it is that makes their models work to begin with. Turns out knowledge is about more than just modeling statistics.
> Documenting a 'surprise' is not the same as eliminating it.

I'm going to have to remember that one
My experience on Windows 11 wasn't as bad as yours, but I opened a small Rust project with Lapce (~20 files) and it uses 1400MB of RAM vs VS Code's 900MB, and has very noticeable latency when navigating the code and typing.

But like you said, it's pre-alpha, and I hope this project succeeds. I'm sure these issues are solvable. It's exciting to see Rust-based non-web UI libraries finally starting to become usable for reasonably complex apps.
Cool project, but I hate the use of the RoR acronym
> They didn't implement it

They literally did. It was shipped in all major browsers. It was even shipped in IE 9.

It's still being shipped in most browsers. Though it's now deprecated and Safari removed it because it was, guess what, used as a fingerprinting variable.

> I would see a browser-level popup instead of a nasty dark-patterns modal on websites.

No, no you wouldn't. If industry at large cared about user privacy, they would actually come together and agreed on such a popup. And in the absence of such a popup they wouldn't come up with the plethora of dark patterns they now blame on the EU.

As is, they used DNT for fingerprinting, and employed dark patterns when asked (quite nicely, but in no uncertain terms) not to track users and not to sell their data without users' consent.

> The do-not-track header (at least at places I worked) were generally respected, going so far as to completely disable analytics for those users.

There are places where you didn't work. And they couldn't care less about user privacy, or user preferences.

It's very likely that the same very places you worked at now offer a "we care about your privacy, here's 1922 partners that build a profile on you, accept".
That puppies-playing-in-the-snow nightmare video isn't enhancing anybody's life
Isn’t the supercharger network now open to everyone? Or is that an EU only thing?
The invention of the car didn't make the horse industry happy.
America is a liberal nation. Almost every political philosophy has to rephrase itself in terms of liberty in order to get a foothold here.

Depending on the political context, you could be describing anyone from tankies[0] to ancaps to Black Lives Matter. The only commonality between them is that they all used Twitter at one point, a microblogging platform with a hilariously toxic userbase for the amount of attention the media gave it.

I shouldn't have to say this, but being toxic doesn't make you a fascist. Furthermore, political disagreements tend to be self-perpetuating in ways that look like coordination from far away.

[0] Who will insist they aren't liberals, but America doesn't use that definition of "liberal"
> Is your contention

It's not my "contention". You could read the text of the law and point out the exact places where it talks about cookies, popups, or browsers: https://gdpr.eu/tag/gdpr/ (Hint: there are no such places)

> all of these websites and providers all simultaneously decided, incorrectly, to use these popups and that there is no legal requirement for them

Yes. Yes they did.

The bigger players decided that they have god-given right to your data. Facebook has literally spent the past several years arguing that in courts.

The smaller players rely on a handful of literal ad-industry-owned leeches like IAB[1] or OneTrust to get their popup banners from because people are stupid and/or lazy and don't want to deal with details.

So they, like you, were sold a lie of "to be compliant use our services".

Sometimes sanity prevails. Here's GitHub: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

--- start quote ---

Well, EU law requires you to use cookie banners if your website contains cookies that are not required for it to work. Common examples of such cookies are those used by third-party analytics, tracking, and advertising services. These services collect information about people’s behavior across the web, store it in their databases, and can use it to serve personalized ads.

At GitHub, we want to protect developer privacy, and we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution. After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really.

--- end quote ---

[1] Literally Interactive Advertisement Bureau. Fined 250 000 euros in 2022 for non-compliance.