skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
adding to this:

From the wikipeida: Smith has appeared on the Neoliberal Project's podcast multiple times[21] and was labeled the "Chief Neoliberal Shill" by the group in 201

And to be completely clear, noeliberalism and leftism are NOT one and the same. Leftism is defined by a goal of communism or socialism. "Smith has expressed disagreements with socialism and communism". Calling Noah (Or Biden, Or most mainstream democrat politicians) leftist is totally incorrect and one of my pet peeves that online commenters tend to do.
Ha ha, I see, nice
> people who are escaping Microsoft Windows

Could the author get more overly dramatic?
I don't think so. People have been complaining about Congress' dysfunction for decades, even when it was fully in the hands of one or the other party. I don't think Congress' dysfunction has anything to do with partisanship. And yes, "populists" get to have a voice -- that's what it means to have a representative democracy and republic. If "populists" (or whatever) need to be negotiated with, so be it, but it's not intransigence that makes Congress dysfunctional. I suspect the problem here is that you want activist agencies to ratchet-like interpret power delegations ever more broadly as long as you agree with those interpretations, but that is a very risky game.
Why are you disappointed?
This is just obviously what canonical wants and has been continually pushing for.

Also, the situations in which manually installing a .deb is a good idea are extremely rare. It just is an all around bad idea. That this is unintuitive to Windows users is true, but also an incredibly weak argument.
Please, stop with the "anything that happens that I don't like is enshittification" trend.

Please.
> the medieval era

You mean the era in which we got things like the Magna Carta, rights of due process, habeas corpus, the gradual abolition of slavery (at least in western Europe), the gradual transfer of power from monarchs to parliaments etc.

I think our direction of travel is a lot worse now!
Having the ability to buy a lowish spec Apple isn't so terrible. Understanding what a terrible rip-off Apple's optional upgrades are feels pretty awful.
Survey Forensics: Identifying Near Duplicate Responses
If passion can be used instead of policy, I'm for it.
Couldn't care less. Quitting watching youtube freed up so much time for other activities. Sure, I still watch a few videos on other platforms, like makertube or tilvids, but no more binge watching until late hours of night.
I think what I suggest works for someone who would struggle with discerning between a male and a female (applicable only to binary people, it should be a non issue for non binary ones).

Just use they. Try to remember the gender when told, but if this is still an issue, use they (for the names, I just find workarounds to not have to mention them when I can help it).

(especially in English that seems more and more current; in French iel is becoming more common but still not very widespread)

Surely people can understand and accept your struggle if you explain what's happening, though again, I never met someone like this knowingly, so I can't be sure how that works.

You're too ahead of your time! :-)
Union members bled and died to get those regulatory protections in the US.
I have my oldest son on some membership plan of a game[0] they let the kids play at school.

While maybe not ideal, it’s something I like as it puts problems into the game as a required mechanic for success.

[0]: https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/
it's the pedestrians hanging out in the bike lanes that are crazy :P

that's not an NYC problem though, in Paris i couldn't walk for more than 15 min without seeing someone on a bike slam into a pedestrian

from the ensuing dialogue though, i was starting to get the feeling they were doing it on purpose (both bikers and walkers)...
Ok. But can you get 16GB RAM for $200 on top of that or are you stuck with 8?
What does retail e-commerce AI mean?
Yes, I have, just now, been thinking about how few, and featureless, syllables I can utter to determine if an unknown caller has a legitimate reason for calling, such as a large-delivery driver, medical lab or other real call.

It seems the best tactic is to make the caller do as much of the talking as possible.

Or use a generic cloned voice to interact with unknown callers.
Add in cars being totaled out a lot easier due to "efficiencies" in manufacturing making the cars disposable and of course rising natural disaster events that flood/burn cars.
> Cash was a private, p2p currency before it was basically replaced with corporate, permissioned and surveilled credit.

Yes, but cash can also be used for money laundering.

If you operated a cash mixing service which was designed to hide the origin of the cash, and it was used to conceal criminality, you would be just as liable as operating a bitcoin mixer.

> Obfuscating bitcoin to prevent 3rd parties from seeing your balance is not money laundering.

Correct, but operating a service that does this which ends up obfuscating criminal money is money laundering.
The amount of people in this comment section, on "Hacker News", that are completely oblivious to one of the most iconic groups of hacker culture is... depressing. I wonder how can we spread more zeitgeist about it to newer generations?
I've used both quite extensively. Are chimpanzees and humans the same species? Well, if you're comparing them to a shark then they are!
This is the part where you have people dismissing a security from a simple assumption and reverting back to another assumption of their current state. Is still dangerous
How will they know which car you're in for any given journey?
If you use a `-slim` debian docker image variant, it won't have the manpages (or most locales, and apt will be stripped down, etc, etc).

I think you can achieve the same thing on bare metal by being careful to tell it not to install a bunch of base package sets.

Alpine is more container-focused than debian, so I imagine they default to something closer to `-slim`, but I haven't tried installing it on bare metal or in a VM.
For activists working on causes where powerful people would like to unmask them. You can use mixers to end up with crypto for VPNs and other privacy services that aren't connected to your identity. Obviously you have to take 20 other steps as well. But this is in my opinion a very legitimate use case for this technology.
> VSCode instead of any non-web-based text editor?

In reality, only a small percentage of the all developers have endless will to configure their editors or be mostly keyboard-based. VSCode works pretty well just by downloading couple extensions.
The pricing page is an instant turn off. I want to start a trial but I have no idea how much I'll be paying without contacting you first? Are you kidding me?

Yes large orgs will probably want to contact you for pricing but you are leaving business from smaller orgs on the table. My first reaction when seeing the "contact us for pricing" was "ok whatever I'll just go use a competitor"
So does it use symmetric multiprocessing at all?
That’s because a drunk persons’s decision making is inherently impaired. They might be sitting quietly now. The vast majority of criminal violence (domestic or otherwise) occurs in conjunction with impaired faculties and alcohol is often the cause.
On the contrary I don't really understand what do math problems supposed to prove at this point. We already know LLMs badly suck at math, even if it somehow gets one correct just changing numbers is usually enough to confuse it again. Barring an architectural breakthrough, this next token prediction based AI is very unlikely to get better at doing math.

(Just tested Opus and GPT4-turbo to be sure, both failed. However Llama-3 did get this right, until I scaled up the numbers and then it failed terribly)
Back to Basics in Web Apps
If you set the screen brightness and background color right, you can make a screen look like paper or maybe an e-ink display. Unfortunately, the illusion can break within minutes if clouds are moving in the sky. Also the screen doesn't reflect like paper if viewed at different angles. Nevertheless, I wonder how well it would work to do such a calibration with a sensor.
I can't fathom this addiction for VPN for "security". Nowadays almost every website uses HTTPS and browsers block HTTP downgrades most of the times. Yes VPNs are still useful for the occasional HTTP website, however most people will use some form of free VPN that could totally do the same.

But yes, VPNs did solve this issue at the time of writing, and I even used one for quite long as my mobile carrier used to proxy all images through their own servers, as well as intercepting port 21. They stopped doing the former with the advent of HTTPS. To my knowledge they did not use this for nefarious purposes (they served downscaled images for lighter browsing at a time where 3G was frugal and websites not optimized yet for mobile).
>Well, if you're in a state that thinks EV's are woke propaganda

The opposite is true. Washington state has the highest EV registration fee in the nation and the governor ran on a platform of climate change.
These numbers are a bit old but will give you a good ballpark for scaling: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4167

You can basically just divide by the multiple as you scale up parameters. Since this is all with a 7B model, just multiply memory by 10X and divide speed by 10X . For batch size=1 (single user interactive inference) if you can fit the model you're basically going to be memory bandwidth limited, but pay attention to the "PP" (prompt generation) number - this is the speed for how long it will take to process any existing conversation. If you're 4000 tokens in, and you are prompt processing at 100 tokens/s, that means you will wait for 40 seconds before any text even starts generating for the next turn.

If you're not in a rush, I'd wait for the M4, it's rumored to have much better AI processing (the M3 actually reduced memory bandwidth vs the M2...)
It is absolutely true that SMTP can be sent over plaintext. Many mail systems have opportunistic use of TLS, but they can fall back to plaintext if that’s not available. A few mail systems require TLS, at the risk of not being able to receive messages (and the big boss yelling about it).

A blanket statement that all email is encrypted is just plain false.
Reading the article or the NHTSA documents would clarify that blame is not placed on Tesla here for the crashes, but blame is placed for not ensuring the driver was paying attention. Drivers had plenty of time to react, but they didn't.

This is not trying to say the car quickly jerked into a pedestrian on the side of the road.
> Apple's refusal to make RAM upgradeable

I'm not sure they can make RAM upgradeable at this point and still keep their unified memory. If you look[0], they have the memory under the heat spreader, butted right up next to the SOC, and my impression is that this is what allows them to get that nice memory bandwidth.

[0]: https://www.ifixit.com/News/46884/m1-macbook-teardowns-somet...
The question is how that compares to human drivers.

Imagine everyone would have been using autopilot in the past and steering wheels would have been introduced just recently. We would see horrifying reports about humans causing deaths by speeding, driving drunk, falling asleep etc. It would seem as if letting humans drive is an insane idea.

But would that really mean we have to return to autopilot immediately?

We don't know until we have some numbers. Like miles driven per fatal crash. For humans and for software.

Wikipedia says:

For driving, the rate was 150 per 10 billion vehicle-miles

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

In Teslas latest investor update, they state that FSD has driven about 1.2 billion miles:

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/...

But I think that does not include autopilot?

So I'm not sure if there is enough public data for a comparison.
It's not actually using 4gb of ram. Pretty much every memory reporting tool cannot handle paging and will report total allocated. You can create a one line c program today that just calls mmap(file) on a large 4gb media file and your os will claim 4gb used. Actually measuring real physical ram usage is hard. I'd be looking for page table misses (and the likely noticable resulting performance issues) as a better indication of any potential issues.
It’s not merely getting to publication, but also things like reviews, promotion, etc. The VIDA count project (which appears to have disappeared from the web) revealed the rather stunning imbalance on this front, which has been improved thanks to the illumination, but there continues to be discrimination in how books are received (one example often given is that Jonathan Franzen’s subject matter, written by a woman, is dismissed as merely “domestic” fiction rather than serious literature).
There is[1], I checked and it was blank. They mailed it to me.

https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request
I live very near here - the area used to house a proud Jaguar Cars manufacturing plant. It's distasteful to know that Amazon have come here, and are doing their union busting tricks here too. When Amazon has software engineering recruiters contact me, this stuff, distasteful practices like this are in the forefront of my mind. When people are wondering why AWS or Alexa or other Amazon's products seem clunky or behind, I suspect a big problem they have is retaining talent, because from everything I've read, it seems that their employees are treated badly. They say they obsess over customer satisfaction, but it seems that this does not extend to employee satisfaction. Unfortunately, I am a customer of theirs and stuff like this makes me want to get as far away from their products as I can, and many of them are overall of sufficiently reasonable quality, that I have not yet. But stuff like this happening, almost on my door step is a good reminder to look at alternatives even with the friction from switching.
Yes, the above is wildly outdated.

In 2024, human data is the only product.
This is a fantasy either way. I mean, really.
I loved math type A, so I majored in it.

Once you're fully ensconced in the major, it pivots into type B. And it turns out that I hate type B but slogged through it with medium-good grades.

looking back on it now, I've come to like type B and wish I could go retake those classes with my current perspective.

I think my original distaste was largely due to what felt like a bait-n-switch: start out majoring in something you like and are good at, but then pull the rug out and switch to something completely different
Yes Apple has problems, but don't forget that performance / efficiency sucks when you have an accelerated compositor spanning across graphics cards. On top of that, most Macs don't have two graphics cards (or even slots to put them in), so you're really spanning across generic USB-C attached HDMI adapters that could be sharing the same bandwidth depending on where you plug them in. In a time when Apple wants to be 120hz HDR retina, that doesn't sound like a high priority for them.

That said I sometimes run side by side monitors, and I too would appreciate the pony.
> basically that entire /24 (at the very least) appears to be an absolutely massive source of the SSH login attempts

Basically the entire ASN, they let abusers run wild, and if you look at Cloudflare's stats there's more bot traffic than human traffic!

A lot of the bigger ASNs (unicom, china mobile, etc.) in China are the same, totally unresponsive to abuse reports
Not the point. Crypto skips all the regulations.
Processing foods is what makes many things like olives palatable to humans
Unlike their OS, their stock is not affected by insecurities. /s
I find it useful to imagine that the brain comes with two types of compute power.

One is similar to a CPU, and provides the ability to follow procedures accurately and fast. This helps with arithmetic and a lot of cases where one can follow a memorized pattern for how to solve a problem.

The other is more like a GPU. This helps in a number of areas, such as visualization, geometric intuition, inductive reasoning and often creativity when facing novel problems. Most of these are a form of pattern recognition.
They sell all your driving data.
Or just TLS
It's a bit different with China. China has a mandated one party system, but as for individuals they do have normal and fair elections that I think even the US could learn something from. Basically at the smallest segment of society you have groups of something like 2000 people who have a local elected representative who has significant power to actually get things done. Those representatives then elect representatives at a higher tier, and so on up until you have the Politburo Standing Committee electing the President/Secretary of the CCP.

I think this system is pretty nice in lots of ways because it lets local representatives focus on local things, while high level representatives can focus on broad national interests. It also means peoples votes are always extremely important and you're going to be quite 'close' (literally and figuratively) to your representative. Of course the obvious downside is that in China you don't even get to directly vote for the President, but on the other hand - that is similar to many parliamentary systems used throughout Europe. Anyhow, it's an interesting system! Our first past the post district based system is completely broken and dysfunctional, but the people most benefited from it are the only ones who could fix it, so it's not going anywhere anytime soon. But it's fun to at least consider alternatives!
> Unfortunately China doesn't seem to have an approach yet, other than doubling down on more and more authoritarian measures to lock down the economy.

IIRC, they've only tried carrots so far, which hasn't worked. My bet is they'll turn to sticks, sooner rather than later, and have a lot of experience with them due to the one child policy.

I wouldn't be surprised if they start to fine the childless and/or limit childless women's advancement opportunities at work.
Because of a flaw in Bitcoin, you need to be able to launder money? That's a weird logical leap.
Your faith in humanity seem low, because this would never be pushed worldwide by security experts who eats and sleeps it, if it was so easily broken where you just figures it out during a comment
Part of it is that the shelf life of a mob boss is not expected to be very long. You've got to get what you can, while you can.
> $50

A human went to jail because of using obsoleted money transaction technologies and you are really judging the fact by the amount of her donation - just to protect your misjudgement about cryptocurrencies? Are you even Ukrainian?

> Sorry, meant to say half. Corrected. Thank you.

Even if it would be 99%, so what? Why are using this as an argument?
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> You pay $200 extra for 16gb so that others get a compelling machine that lasts a very long time

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding you, but it reads like you're saying that Apple's doing everyone a favor by selling their 8GB machines for so cheap, and those cheap machines are in turn subsidized by the folks paying 8-10x (!) typical retail price for an upgrade to 16GB.

That argument doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me -- presumably the default configurations with 8GB are the ones that sell the most units, so why would they take a loss on those? Also, Apple's RAM pricing hasn't changed in years, but DRAM cost has come down considerably, so I'd be really surprised if they're not making a tidy profit margin, even on the 8GB units.
Yes. But under most use cases that doesn't matter. Range is mostly a concern for long highway trips where the average speed is much higher.

At low speed drag and friction losses are much lower and range increases beyond the EPA number. Also cities have many charging locations so you never worry about running out.

In my personal case I can charge in my garage and almost never get below 50% charge (only charging to 80% overnight to maintain a 20000 charge cycle life of the battery).
That sounds like a much better experience for new users. Ideally it would simply tell users "No! Running installers from 'totally legit website' is not supported". Either add the respective repo or tell the devs to get added to the official repos.

That is also a good recommendation for other OSs. If it is not on the app store, play store or in winget, it might as well not exist and you are not missing out (if it were any good, someone would have packaged it by now).
I pay for other services (I plug Nebula often), and I disagree with this sentiment wholeheartedly. YouTube is practically a monopoly on video.
As a DIY shade tree mechanic, I find car repairs are getting cheaper & easier.

New parts are a dog eat dog race to the bottom on margins with more choice than ever, markets for used parts are more liquid than ever and there’s a guide for everything.

I can google some vague OBD code (yes, the car will tell you what’s kinda going on!) with my year/model and someone will have a step-by-step guide on “oh, it’s 99% this $11 part, if not, check that”.

My own experience with an insurance claim after getting rear ended was this: take it to their preferred shop, or we could choose a licensed autobody shop (they would pay $2800), or cut us a cheque for $1900. We took the cheque and our mechanic fixed it for $950.
Alpine is a joy. I use it as a very small and lightweight distro for various containers on my Proxmox server.

I do wish there were a glibc-based Linux that had an emphasis on being small. Not as small as Alpine, of course, but something without systemd and snap and 100MB of files for locales I'll never use.
Perhaps true of recent models. However RAM-starved machine upgraded with slightly slower (but still fast) additional RAM would still be much better value in performance per additional dollar than a whole new machine.
I've got an M1 MBA, M2 MAX MBP, and a 16 inch Intel MBP. I loathe having to use the Intel machine because it's a dog. Runs hot, drains the battery fast, sluggish, not snappy. Even the base M1 is way more pleasant to use. I look forward to the Intel machine reaching EOL.
I wouldn’t buy a machine with 8gb and the MBAs are just extracting value from their customers.

However as an engineer interested in efficient software, I support what Apple is doing here. If there is a significant number more of machines with just 8gb, it forces the software developers to think and consider these folks to keep their software less bloated. I’m not talking about professional apps like photoshop, but regular things like email clients and browsers. I feel browsers and bloated websites can optimize their memory consumption here.
Passkeys has a good UX and security balance. The other method would be to memorize a 20 length random password all inside your head or let grandma create a “password” so she can easily memorize it.
The university I went to was notorious for having their own textbook for Analysis 1 and 2 that had 1600 or so exercises of just calculations and covering all cases(for example, if a theorem gave you 3 conditions for it to work you would work through 3 examples with one condition not present and how the theorem would fail, and stuff like). It was completely different to a theory textbook like Rudin/Tao, which had fewer exercises that were more focused on "did you understand the abstract object" and "use your knowledge to prove this slightly modified proposition or easy extension of the theorem".

If you want to practice addition/subtraction I suggest Zetamac(https://arithmetic.zetamac.com/), this is what most people use to train for HFT/MM interviews(although I heard there are more specialized tests now).