skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be expected when the MBAs take over... I will admit that Cook has done a much better job of shepherding Apple than say, Sundar Pichai (barf) but Apple has exerted many of the same patterns of failure - lack of vision, vendor lock-in and squeezing customers for every last penny they're worth for short-term gains in stock price. It's all the same business school behavior that we need to expect from that type of person.
The statement can only be interesting as a matter of interpretation ("as a computer") of formalism. Formalism, by definition, involves a desemantification of the domain. So yes, if you redescribe some aspect of something in terms of syntactic rules, and then do the same thing for another domain, there might be a correspondence. But correspondence is not the same as identity, especially when the method that produces the corresponding objects involves stripped elements of it away and redefining whatever remains syntactically.

Otherwise, a statement like "the universe is a computer" is worthless.

"Computation", as understood by computer science, is observer relative. It is a matter of subjective interpretation not objective fact that what we call computing devices are actually computing anything. Computer architecture is a purely abstract mental construct that can at best be simulated using physical devices. "Registers" and "bits" and "instructions" have no objective existence, but we can appropriate matter to simulate the abstract models of these things.
Congress, in its current state is a sclerotic body barely capable of doing routine committee work that doesn't even rise to the level of passing laws.

They had their chance...and failed spectacularly.
Headline on the article says it’s 45 years old — presumably that’s a typo and they mean 35 years old?
>We went from a default of "Opt-out" to "Opt-in"

So?

Hardly worth crying about and most of us prefer it this way.
It's true and it's no mystery to me, just tragic and irritating.
Is a SVP of a trillion-dollar publicly traded company legally considered a public figure? If so, the bar for defamation is a lot higher because they need to show malice. https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/public-figures-and-o...
Today, most ads that overload Youtube are for things that won't exist or be totally rebranded in 5 years: Meal pack delivery services, VPNs, DTC brands selling whitelabeled China-made furniture, clothing, makeup, toys and what have you.
I maintain a fleet of 100 PC/Macs. I have never needed to replace an SSD. I have replaced plenty of non SSD drives.

Even the 8gb machines will age out before the drives do in most cases.

An M1 could be the first machine that could have mainline support and work for the most part for over 10 years. Plenty have people have done that in the past but it wasn't a pleasant experience.
It is :)
But wsl2 is a bit more than X (or Xwayland or whatever it is).

- It let's you go out of that "userland only" view that WSL1 has. So you can actually make ICMP calls and use traceroute/mtr form it and so on. You can see actual load of that WSL2 (wsl1 has a ... hardcoded load info :D)
- You can safely have write access to a filesystem in both directions. Also write from windows to WSL2. It's even integrated into explorer if you want. On WSL1 that usually ends up with broken filesystem (ask me how I know - tried twice...)
- You can use regular services like initd/systemd. You can eaven run real docker deamon more or less like on a regular linux system
- The integration from vscode is still superb
- As the filesystem is NOT visible as a folder in c:\windows, crappy antimalware/DLP tools can't see what binaries you run. This means that most likely in a corporate environment it will run much much faster. If you worked in a company with underpowered DLP hardware you will know what I mean

It does complicate a few things, like networking which can break when you use vpn's, but there are workarounds like wsl-vpnkit on github.
Worse is how it's completely asymmetric. For example micro-donation based services such as charities are flooded with fraud because they are a prime avenue for card testing.

It's also a volume question. If you have low margins but high volumes, you might run a very sophisticated anti-fraud setup to walk the razor thin line around compliant chargeback and refund rates.

From the consumer POV of course it's all the same and annoying at that. But the plumbing behind the system has some insane blunt tools, some programs held together by excel-sheets and duct tape while others are super complex with blackbox rulesets.
Convex: The back end-as-a-service for fullstack app development
The stuff only helps if the government goes weakly nuts - otherwise unlikely to help much.

The large number of guns in Germany wasn't doing anything against the Nazis. The idea of violently overcoming an organised tyrannical and violent government that has millions of people supporting it is largely a US myth. Maybe the Russian revolution qualifies - but that kind of swapped things only.
Here’s an exercise. Go to Wikipedia for “Money Laundering” -> “Notable cases” and sum the amounts laundered by all famous banks for the last 10 or 5 years.

Then try to say again that “crypto is for money laundering” with a straight face.
I'd love to try it, but they're super-hostile to running on a Mac.
Perhaps the irreconcilibility of 3 weird mathematical theories is a sign that the universe isn’t mathematical?

but what would be the alternative?
Kind of scary if computer manufacturers start engaging in the same practices as google has started doing and SaaS companies regularly do i.e. increase prices while keeping the product largely the same (because the moat is so massive and stocks need to increase in value). Would be really really difficult to try to disrupt the Apple/PC duopoly if they also remove the "don't be evil" mantra like google somewhat has lately.
You forgot [Hyprland](https://hyprland.org). It's a quite stable auto-tiler for Linux (Wayland).
Show HN: My Holiday Project, AruarianAI
Over my recent school holiday, I had the idea to build an AI that could manage my to-dos for me. I've tried a lot of different productivity and to-do apps, but I didn't like any of them, they were all way too manual and felt like I wasn't really getting an advantage from using them over just a pen and paper.

So I built Aruarian. I coded it almost everyday of my holiday from 11:00 to 15:00 and then once school started again I worked on it every weekend in the afternoons/nights (I'll be honest, I worked on it in the weekdays too while I was supposed to be studying lol).

It's not perfect yet and it's still very early days, but I felt there must be other people out there tired of 'productivity' apps that charge you through the ass and give you basically nothing in return, after showing Aruarian to a few friends.
It can add and read to-dos for you for now but I'm planning on adding full natural language, batch adding to-dos, updating to-dos and voice chat. I'm keeping the price pretty low for now since its just an MVP but if you need a discount just hit me up!

You can sign up at https://aruarianai.xyz/ and if you want to see me coding some it, you can check that out here:
https://youtu.be/66IJ9ouKp9I

I think its a pretty cool idea, but what do you guys think?

P.S for anyone wondering I'm using Llama 3 under the hood!
If workers are all it takes, why can't all of the workers quit, reform a new company where they control 100% of it, and then put Amazon out of business?

If AMZN is a $2T company and has 1.5M employees, every worker can become a millionaire if they just do this one simple trick. Why don't they?

I'm also confused about what role you think investors should play in business if money is unimportant. What would YCombinator look like? A bank that just loans out money for a fixed interest rate?
The existence of some legitimate use does not make the system not a money laundering system. Some legitimate money flows through all money laundering operations.
Glad to see Valve figured out a fair solution to this. Gen AI opens up game dev to more people which is a good thing. Coders can use it silently in the background with impunity but visual and audio creators cannot. I expect as the tools become more widespread we will see more games and a lot of them will not be good, because the gameplay and the current trends the gaming community, determines what is successful .
> But if you make a stab at shoplifting and you are successful and give back the item, did you break the law?

Well, yeah?
Auto Safety Regulator Investigating Tesla Recall of Autopilot
I absolutely have adblock on my TV. My TV is a dumb monitor for an el-cheapo Linux box that just does web and local video files. I'll not be subjecting my dependents to any miserable privacy-compromising "smart" spyware from a monitor provider...
Others have linked to the book collection, there you'll find walkthroughs of the basics, building web applications, tracking code in git, and so on. A lot of the common packages also have examples bundled that you can play around with and read documentation in.

Once one gets over the initial hurdle of the syntax, message passing and how to use the GUI to create new projects and objects one can usually just surf around in the image and look for examples to figure things out.
The situation of base 8GB macbooks wearing down their SSD in the hands of power users is well documented but it's extremely specific.

Normal users with 8GB and power users with >= 16GB indeed have no SSD problems because they swap very infrequently
Browsing the models is a bit of a trip. Potato, chair, onion, lamp, medieval torture device, banana, couch...
You lost me at "firearm enthusiast."

Try again when US gun laws look more like Japan's -- including an assault weapons ban.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/asia/japan-gun-laws-abe-shoot...
I'd recommend those looking for local coding models to go for code-specific tunes. See the EvalPlus leaderboard (HumanEval+ and MBPP+): https://evalplus.github.io/leaderboard.html

For those looking for less contamination, the LiveCodeBench leaderboard is also good: https://livecodebench.github.io/leaderboard.html

I did my own testing on the 110B demo and didn't notice any cross-lingual issues (which I've seen with the smaller and past Qwen models), but for my personal testing, while the 110B is significantly better than the 72B, it doesn't punch above its weight (and doesn't perform close to Llama 3 70B Instruct from my testing). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRxvmb6227Au...
Yes they are. They have a valid point leaving it regarding immigration, but the side effects of it are far more advantageous to them personally and this is not being discussed.
I haven't had any issues in Ventura with window positions when plugging and unplugging the external monitor with my MBP M2.
I just want to find a good mechanism to see a cross-project dependency graph so i can understand the broader impact of individual stories in any particular sprint. Eg two different five point stories that unblock external dependent stories. One rolls up to a finops poc and the other rolls up to a regulatory audit response.
If we are doing anecdotes, a single tab Google doc with Grammarly running can easily surpass 4Gb of ram, especially if the doc is over about 30 pages. Use cases like that are not particularly uncommon.
there is nothing in place that prohibits that form of monthly registration that a plug-in dongle is going to provide.
"8GB ought to be enough for anybody"
I was going to say the same thing as well, I've used macOS for over a decade on-and-off with multiple monitors and Spectacle and now Rectangle are essential. I even use them when I'm just using my laptop screen.
The lower amount of RAM enables more people to get into Macbooks at a lower cost instead of choosing less expensive alternatives that will only last a few years.
How do the makers create the limits on what LLMs cooperate with? For ChatGPT I heard speculation on there being a second neural network that assesses the suitability of both the prompt and the response, which one could then work around in various ways, but with this seemingly being downloadable rather than something they host themselves, I doubt that's the case here. Do they feed it a lot of bad prompts (in the eyes of the makers) during training and tweak/backpropagate the network until it always rejects those?
> It's only meaningful to use those words for matter we arrange to do certain stuff for us.

But not, say, an octopus?
Eating more veg and less meat has got to be a lot cheaper for everyone, and more realistic, than building 100-story towers filled with cows, eh?
MIT Flea Market Survival Guide
> Ham radio's time has come and gone,

It is still very much alive.

There is a major world wide event called CQ WW dx contest in which on the order of 30,000 hams participate.

There are three morse code events each week, one on each of Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The Wednesday event has four separate one-hour sessions. If you tune in on one of these onto 20 meters, you will a whole mass of signals.

My local club, the North Shore Radio Club gives massive help to the Chicago Marathon, with on the order of 200 hams helping out with emergency traffic. Imagine a crowded event in a major city--the cell network becomes absolutely overloaded. Their help with traffic about medical events has doubtless saved lives.

The advent of the new digital modes invented by Joe Taylor (yes, that one, the Nobel Prize winner) embodied in the program WSJTX is massively active. This is a low-signal mode used on HF, LF and VHF/UHF. It significantly helps moonbounce communication.

Perhaps the most social of events is Field Day in which hams all over North America go to (generally) an outdoor location and set up stations to exercise emergency communications and use emergency power setup. You can check the ARRL web site in June to find one near you.

A recent activity is Parks On The Air where hams go to parks to set up temporary stations and pass out contacts to folks all over the world.

So Ham Radio is far from dead.
> like 256 orientations per pixel per image

You only need 4 parameters to describe the polarization at a single wavelength[1]. Naively this could be 4 parameters per color channel, so 12 channels overall. I think you could potentially need more color channels though to capture the full spectrum. But 12 channels at least looks feasible for a camera.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes_parameters

edit:

On second thought for dealing with reflections you might get away not capturing the "V" Stokes parameter, as you might not care about circular polarization.

edit2:

The I,Q and U parameters can be captured fully by a single polarization filter at three different rotations. This could be feasible with existing cameras with a tripod and a static subject. I wonder if this has been done before.
> How baked in?

Like in FreeBSD - to be as available option in installer.

In FreeBSD You just select 'Auto (ZFS)' - then select disk(s) on which it should happen - hit [ENTER] - and it happens.

That level of integration I would expect ... and all that with ZFSBootMenu integration for ZFS Boot Environments.
Lack of upgradability also damages Apple’s credibility with regard to their environmental aspirations.
I don't think that's necessarily what the OP is saying. I agree with OP.

Finding documentation to learn to use this absolutely obscure system is near impossible. I seen an announcement about a Pharo release a couple years ago and was like "huh, that sounds cool." Proceded to download it and had no clue about anything. It is not at all like any other IDE.

Learning it might not be hard, but when the IDE is absolutely different from anything else you've ever used, combined with very little documentation that speaks to how to do the basics, it can be a very mysterious and difficult thing.

Rust is like any other programming language, in that you write code in a file, then compile it. Yes, there's other stuff to deal with in between and it can get way more complicated. But the IDE is the real culprit, combined with documentation for a developer to learn to develop real applications with, that makes Pharo infinitely more difficult in my personal opinion.

I guess to simplify this a little with an edit. If you already know another programming language, learning Rust is not fundamentally different. Some parts of it will be difficult like the borrow system and stuff that's very Rust centric. But in most ways it behaves like a lot of other languages in terms of using it at a bare bones basic level. Pharo is ... otherworldly in that nothing else really compares, you have to learn a completely different paradigm for how to program it, and that is the difficult part imo.
I mean yes, we're programmed for it, the problem is that quantity used to be hard to come by, hence it was desirable. Now that we have essentially no limits we can see how maladapted we are
Exactly - That is why I flagged it.
I would be interested to understand how unions work in the UK, but In the US, much of their power comes more from regulatory protections than collective labor value and free contracting.
Same here. However, from what I've seen, touching any systemd component causes cascading issues.

I usually settle on networkmanager, since there's not a great alternative for dealing with wifi. However, it often delegates to a giant broken pile of fail.

Things can be much simpler on machines that connect via ethernet (including VMs).
> Isolating animal species, specifically separating their waste, prevents cross-contamination.

Not even close to true. The act of isolating (concentrating) animal species, pumping them full of antibiotics, and concentrating their waste is a significant danger to human and animal health alike. It breeds antibiotic resistant strains of disease and the waste is never isolated - it always gets into the soil, air, and groundwater of the surrounding communities increasing the risk of cross-contamination downstream. These are well-documented, peer-reviewed, large scale impacts that you somehow ignored when googling for n=1 anecdotes to confirm your bias.
> Go to Wikipedia for “Money Laundering” -> “Notable cases” and sum the amounts laundered by all famous banks for the last 10 or 5 years

This is sort of like concluding bull riding is safer than eating food because more people have died from choking than bull riding.
Remember when Youtube was a web-only thing, and videos could have embedded clickable areas, and how creative folks made awesome interactive video presentations with it? And how much interactive content was lost when Google disabled that? And didn't even try to make an effort to support it, or offer alternatives?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Pretty sure not using Full Self-Driving is linked to thousands of crashes and deaths too
Creatine found to improve cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
0 is highly unlikely, what's more likely is you just wouldn't know

Besides tabs there are Electron apps that non psychos enjoy from time to time

Also memory leaks since it's common to not reboot these laptops for a long time
> Al Gore read the intelligence briefing.

Wasn't that George W. Bush?
Does the actual Threads app have 150M MAU or are they counting everyone who has seen a Threads post shoehorned into their Facebook or Instagram feed as a MAU for Threads? Last I heard there was no way to turn that content mingling off, you get shown Threads posts in the other apps whether you want them or not.
My 18 Gb mbpro is currently at 80% battery and estimates 12 hours left. Isn't that enough? ;)
If tens of thousands (or really, even a handful) of people were dying from car crashes caused by, for example, brakes failing, then people would absolutely be attacking the manufacturer of the car. If you sell a feature that _does not work_ and it causes deaths, you should be held liable.
What the hell is with their naming? Self Driving sounds like an absolute and then they add the Full specifier to really drive it home but also add (supervised) meaning you must supervise the super duper full self driving.
Why exactly do you care if music you enjoy listening to is also enjoyed by others? If you enjoy it and the musicians are making it what else is there?

Plenty of artists are just making art for themselves.
Is there a good reason to have all these things as separate apps instead of tabs in the browser you have open at all times anyway, and VSCode instead of any non-web-based text editor?
When I realised there was a difference between inspecting a class and an instance it became much easier to find the things I was looking for.
Other manufacturers limit their features to more controlled environments in motorways. Tesla allows it in a lot more contexts of mixed traffic, road conditions etc.
Yes, skirting the law. Banks/payments have regulations.
Don't know of anything like this, but this is a really good idea! It would be sweet to have a scene and renderer with well-known properties (which could be adjusted to account for style; realistic/toon/dynamic lighting/baked lighting, etc) which could be dropped in to a webpage so that users could mess with it. That way, developers could independently include it and write their own ways of injecting the assets.

The end result being a web widget that is a 3D environment with whatever the developer wants to put in it (with some defaults like "sunny outside", "sun room", "basement", "cave", etc), and drag-and-drop asset selection for users to view the showcased assets in the scene. Could even double as a code-guide, based on your idea of including functioning TV and Radio assets (an example of how to include this functionality into the assets). Overall, just a really great idea!
I'm using WinUI 3. It's quite basic and lacks many features, but leveraging the Win API directly helps.

Yep, I'd also like to create an .exe later (I wasn’t aware of workplace restrictions), but I think building a website should come first.

Thanks a lot! Your notes were really helpful.
I'll happily concede the expensiveness point, and also say that if we are not entertaining the idea of forcing anyone to give up meat (which is what I thought we were discussing), then we are not in disagreement.

I'll only add that when promoting vegetarianism or veganism, I find most such sources to be akin to propaganda, i.e. they always talk about the benefits but rarely talk about the disadvantages. I suspect this might be because veganism is often tied to political preferences (and certain cultures).

As an example, here's something Wikipedia mentions that you will not usually see entirely discussed in articles promoting such diets:

> [Vegan diets tend to be lower in] omega-3 fatty acid, vitamin D, calcium, zinc, and vitamin B12. As a result of the elimination of all animal products, a poorly planned vegan diet can lead to nutritional deficiencies that counteract its beneficial effects and cause serious health issues, some of which can only be prevented with fortified foods or dietary supplements

This might partly explain why it's about as common to find a vegan bodybuilder as a flying cow... it might not be impossible to find one, but it's about as unnatural. And there are probably good reasons for this, including availability and easy absorption/digestibility of all the essential amino acids, which is important for muscle growth and maintenance, which in turn is very important for health especially in middle and old age.

It could also explain why when I see a random vegan person, they tend to "look" unhealthy more often than a random non-vegan person, although I concede that I may be biased, of course -- I've also seen sources claiming vegan people live longer, although I suspect that if it's true, it may be because vegans tend to be more health-conscious and choose their diet and sources of nutrition more carefully, not necessarily because of the lack of meat itself.

But of course, as long as all such information is reported in an unbiased and accurate fashion, I see nothing wrong with it.