skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh for fucks sake…

Let’s reengineer the entire system… AGAIN…

Instead of blessing an existing tool that would have instantly solved the problem their customers had, without requiring internal development… https://kompose.io … tada… it’s a tool the kubernetes community maintains to convert from docker compose files to kubernetes yaml

The team behind TrueNAS (iX Systems) has been steadily eroding the respect I have for them on a year on year basis for half a decade… which is really annoying because they make and maintain the easiest to use ZFS based NAS platforms.

It’s genuinely frustrating that like “how long before they kill it” being my reaction to anything new from Google, my reaction to iX Systems announcing something like this has become an automatic “yeah and what are you changing next?”

Also… what the fuck is anyone doing using Docker Compose in this day and age… I see two scenarios “enterprise retraining costs” and “home users who think kubernetes is just so much more complicated than compose files and they don’t want to learn a new tool when they’re just slapping a database container next to their docker container for this years automated piracy or media management tool of choice”… and in both scenarios management should have asked the crucial question “do we actually need to do anything to support them?” You ask this so you can decide if changes are justified, and by asking this… this is the question that lets you discover ways to leverage third parties to support use cases and save yourself a lot of stupid effort.

My day was off to such a good start… damn it… now I know this fucking update is in my future… maybe this will be the final push and I just fucking buy a Qnap because I’m sick of what feels like every second major release of TrueNAS significantly overhauling things in a way that seamlessly works with my data on disk, sometimes wont break 80% of the software running on the box to interact with that data, and just about always breaks 20% of that software… and having that 20% of software that breaks every time, be the most fucking annoying stuff to fix.
Without agreeing, I'm sympathetic to that point of view.
Awareness, transmission, what precisely is the difference? Sounds to me like mental health awareness campaigns are just another transmission vector.

Do we have any reason to believe that “mental health awareness” doesn’t CAUSE mental illness? To me, there’s a pretty direct line between the increase of mental health awareness campaigns and self-reported mental health. Usually this is framed in the framing “oh, the mental health issues always existed, and we just became aware of them, so things are better now since we can address them” and I am unconvinced. I mean, look at this study, eating disorders spiked, are we suggesting people secretly unknowingly had an eating disorder they only became aware of through social media? It’s nonsense!

I honestly and sincerely believe there is no reason to believe that the changes to mental health understanding have not been making people sicker and sicker every year for what somewhere around 2 decades now which is around when we saw things like suicidality bottom out. We’ve seen addiction and self-harm rising and let’s not forget eating disorders. Mental health is the only field of medicine I can name where outcomes have declined over the last few decades and I find the lack of scepticism to be well - insane!
The weirdest part from the outside: reliably detecting it's raining should have obvious positive impact on the driving side as well. For instance to better interpret the tires slipping, or even anticipate worse precision from some of the sensors.
I don't see any non-frivolous argument that can be made here. Federal law doesn't preempt state criminal law (you can in fact be tried in both federal and state court for the same offense), and I have a hard time seeing any constitutional claim that can be pressed here (especially one that isn't precluded by defense failing to object).
While it may be true that the Federal government has not used Section 33, they do readily invoke Section 1. As an easy example, roadside check stops for alcohol screening. This is a violation of section 8 (unreasonable search and seizure) and section 9 (arbitrary detention) but the SCC has determined that they’re saved by section 1 (reasonable in a free and democratic society).

During COVID 6.2 was violated repeatedly (pursue gaining livelihood in any province) when people were not allowed to cross the border between provinces. I don’t know if that ever made it to the SCC but I’m sure it would be saved by section 1 as well.
It actually says that they were attempting to gigacast their new vehicle as a single piece rather than three pieces, but that proved difficult so they are going back to gigacasting three separate pieces.

But your point stands: they are still gigacasting, just for now they are not doing the very ambitious "gigacast in a single bound" plan.
> Can you elaborate on what 'twitfuckers' means

It means "twitter.com" plus "my frustration with twitter.com".

> If you're signed in you'd see threads, right?

I shouldn't have to sign in to see threads.

> Do you think it's bad or unreasonable

Yes. I don't buy that bots are the reason for hiding threads. It reminds me of pinterest and linkedin: show a teaser and then turn the screws on the user until they do what you want. It's greedy and crude.
You can blame windows about spying, telemetry and advertising but bricking your pc is not one of its problems.
Check out the 24h chart on https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7456/Who-will-win-t...

The roughly 50-45 Trump-Biden favor briefly flipped to 48-50 but now looks to be reverting to the mean.
Yes, and people who have a certain mental architecture tend to associate with others who have similar brains. ADHDers tend to have friends with ADHD at least partly because they are more forgiving of some of the challenges of having ADHD.

This study is junk. There is no dataset or study design that is feasible for untangling the complexities of "like minds attract" to allow for an examination of the memetic spread of psychiatric disorders.
> Is ignoring M4's existence really 'wrong' given the fact that it isn't in macbooks yet?

I don't think so, but it is a risky position to take. Presumably plans to publicly lean on that benchmark were in flight before the M4 was announced, so they went ahead with it anyway.

I think it's risky because: assuming the M4 delivers the performance we'd expect from another Apple Silicon evolution - and releases in non-mobile devices this year - your marketing headline effectively becomes "hey, our best is only better than our competitor's last generation [and our competitors are already better]"
I am surprised at all the legal nitpick and enforcement-oriented scrutiny about the warehouse lady in this thread. Women with small children form informal networks - it is as old as dirt. What is the actual net value of these industrial goods anyway? excess retail inventory is excess for a reason - there is so much of it, it is cheap to make in large quantities.

It is almost like the legalistic, rule oriented mindset of techies plus the isolated in-the-spotlight story here invites a sort of dog pile of finger wagging. Does anyone have any idea how much random preferential treatment is involved in commerce overall ? Some mid-level after-market warehouse manager just has to get busted for this benevolent side hustle with a person of their choice, over baby supplies? Sure strictness has some virtues but overall with this story, give the people a break and find something actually significant and monetarily weighty to pick on..
“eventually” seems to be doing a lot of work here.
M4 is not in a laptop product at the moment.
Absolutely! I think the concept of proprietary knowledge for profit was actually a huge mistake, and that humanity can advance much faster and more effectively through open collaboration. This applies to patents too (and arguably copyright).
Cost is basically time here. "How much compute we can afford" is really "how long we are willing to wait for the result".
I think most of the time if you are in a serious enough accident to damage the gigacast in a way that it needs replacing, that would've totalled most other cars as well.
This would be amazing to see in the US. Unfortunately I feel like lobbying is too powerful with the death grip publishers have. If you were to do a popular vote, it would be nearly unanimous I expect.
Why recommend Docker if it's a single binary?

And what's good about a single binary if you're going to recommend Docker?
GraphQL is an opaque layer that is not necessary in the truest sense.

The lie is that it makes things better. 100% of the time that I add an unnecessary thing to a project in the name of "it will make things better", it never did.

It's the old new-shiny, so here we are lathering on our dislike, which I feel is totally normal and expected. There's a new new-shiny around somewhere and a few years from now, I'll see articles like this one about it.

Having not yet read the comments, I plan to enjoy them thoroughly, I love a good hate-post about software I myself don't like. :)
Thin and light is better for portability, if I didn't care about portability I'd just use my far more powerful desktop.
Has anybody heard of somebody dropping out the batteries, motors (sell as parts) and dropping in a front-wheel drive engine and transmission? A Tesla with no range anxiety.
Because the point of a laptop is to be portable? And a large chunk of that is being small and light? I could haul my full desktop and monitors around with me, but it's not worth the tradeoff. If I can get a computer that does 70% of what my desktop can do at a tenth of the weight and size, that's worth the money.
> "if AGI was available via an API tomorrow, what would you build?"

I guess I'd probably start with a bomb shelter, but it would take a while to work up the motivation. Maybe I'd just invite family over and look through photo albums together.
17 years ago I built a system to automatically consolidate and pre-processed data from various sources. It saved 20 man-hours a day of effort and downtime. Put in 12 hours of support over the 2 years it stayed under my management, while I took many hits about how "badly" it was designed and how other teams could improve it. Moved on from that role.

6 years after left the role, I got a call from a sysadmin. He told me the machine that hosted the system went down but they managed to recover the HDD and restore it into a VM. I was surprised because I thought they had decommissioned it long ago, when the vultures who wanted to pad their KPIs tried to write a better version. He said multiple efforts all failed and no one was able to replicate what that system does. The reason he gave me a call is because after they loaded the HDD into a VM and turned everything back on, the system came back online and was working perfectly without any effort on his part. He was astounded and just wanted to talk to the person who was able to build a system that literally wouldn't die.

It wasn't the most elegant or best designed system, but I designed it not to die and that's exactly what I got!
I wonder when the megacorps war will begin.
Author here. Some of the apparent errors here are due to the fact that this is part of a larger series, more of a book in blog form.

> every coal and nuclear electric power station, and a good fraction of the oil ones and part of each combined-cycle gas power station, runs on steam.

I'm aware of this. This is written in the context of the cultural decline of steam power as something people think and dream and write science fiction about, not its physical elimination from the world. See this post [0], particularly the last section, "The Twilight of Steam."

> so is contrasting steam engines with 'combustion engines'. steam engines are combustion engines

I'm aware of this also. But internal combustion engine is a mouthful, so I elected to shorten it, as described this post [1]

> but an obvious alternative hypothesis is that only henry ford knew what the fuck he was doing, so everybody else (including gm, which he had sort of founded before he founded ford) copied him once he outsold them ten to one in the 01910s

This can't be correct, because internal combustion cars left steam cars in the dust well before the 1910s; it was obvious to most people that internal combustion was winning by 1903.

[0]: https://technicshistory.com/2024/04/25/twilight-of-the-age-o...
[1]: https://technicshistory.com/2024/03/21/twilight-of-the-steam...
I’m not a regular Windows user, but now when someone asks what’s the Windows equivalent of a MacBook Air I’ll have a decent answer.
Unless I missed something, X has owners who can be coerced by a government and moderation instructions are not publicly open.
> it also said that it would invest 10 billion yen (around US$63 million) to standardize institutional repositories — websites dedicated to hosting scientific papers, their underlying data and other materials — ensuring that there will be a mechanism for making research in Japan open.

The important part isn't necessarily the papers, it's getting access to the data. I'll note that the hurdle for open access is not a lack of support from funders or from the government, it's from researchers. Researchers want everybody's else's data, but they don't want to give their data to anybody else, because they want to be the ones to publish on it. It's IP. It can take years to get access to a dataset, because the owners throw every obstacle in your way, and drag their feet as much as possible—it makes cancelling a gym membership look easy. And I am speaking about projects where open access is written into the funding as a requirement.

My point is that I'd be interested to know what data governance processes they're putting in place if all the data is being consolidated into a single system, as the article says it is.
I mean it would be forced down the throat, which wasn't making proponents any friends when their other actions culminated in Red Hat being temporarily banned from having any code merged into kernel.

As for documentation...

Maybe that's part of why it's dead and buried.
Trump supporters aren't going to sway the election.

They were always going to vote for him and will always vote for him.

The election is going to get decided at the margins by the kind of people who can still get swayed one way or the other to vote or not vote for one or the other candidate.

Actually convicting him can give a solid reason for someone who would have only very reluctantly voted for him to switch to Biden or just not vote at all. Old school Reagan conservatives who find that voting for an actual convicted felon is something they just won't do. It does create an additional nice red line of illegality, which should still matter to a few folks. It will cause some ethical problems with some Republicans for voting for him, and it really doesn't take much. The 2016 election was decided by a few 10,000s of people in 3-4 different states.

Where it can backfire, though, is if the conviction is overturned on appeal.
I second this recommendation!
> The United States also implemented an OA mandate in 2022 that requires all research funded by US taxpayers to be freely available from 2026.
I'm not sure what this "god" of yours had to do with it, I'm pretty sure that was the doing of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Musk proves to be a censorious bastard whenever the whim suits him, and your claims about the twitter files is just fake news; lay off it.
I recently listened to a CEO go on and on about Generation Z and Millennials this and that. He read a bunch of articles and is trying to shift the org to welcome in Gen Z who want: "a million dollars for nothing", "the company to adapt to them" etc. And thats why we have bring your dog to work and unlimited PTO. I would say he needs to hire a consultant instead but that sounds worse.

It's abject panic in CEO world these days. After that rant and a lecture on being engaged, he banned gym shoes and T-shirts.

I looked around and noticed that all the people wearing T-shirts and gym shoes were 50+.
Myths about platform engineering: what it is and what it isn't
That's a risk they all take. AMD and NVIDIA (or Intel) have the same thing happen all the time, one of them has to go first, and usually there's not much of a gap between their announcements, and thus each risks being overshadowed by the other or sometimes even forcing them to cut prices or cancel a product as a result because the first one's announcement happens to make it completely pointless.
That was one of the few things Alex Jones said that he was correct about.
Lifetime Apple user since before there was even a Mac. I just hope these are great pieces of hardware, whether in one area or another Macs or these perform better. Good quality, affordable hardware available for any OS platform would be great for users.
> The same set of people working on a monolithic kernel could work on a microkernel instead

If this is true why doesn't it happen more often?

See my first comment; there's more to building software than just the spec - it's political. I don't like it either.

> This used to be a site for great technical discussion.

Technical discussion has no utility if its done in a vacuum. Maybe academia. But it's not reality.
Giving Musk the benefit of the doubt, probably his thinking is more along the lines of:

"I'd like to solve this with vision. Sure, we can ship a $5 part to do it the tried-and-true way, but if we do that then we're probably never gonna solve it with vision, because there will no longer be a pressing need to do so. So I'm gonna force us to not ship our cars with a proper rain sensor in the hope that it will continually push my teams to get this shit done and do the improbable".
Yeah, it would be good if all the wipers on auto would repurpose the interval time adjustment as a sensitivity adjustment for the auto wipers when in auto mode. Some cars seem to be able to have adjustable sensitivity in this way, some can only change it deep in settings (not good on the fly), and most seem to be fixed sensitivity.
I'm more interested in the metaphysics of the comment itself. It clearly exists in an ontological universe because it can be constructed but it cannot apply to itself because self-evaluation renders it false. So it is de facto meaningless but it is actually not meaningless because in the universe where "the only thing we know is that we don't know anything" we would now know two things. I guess that means we've learnt something?

Anyway there is some connection to AI and AGI in this that is worth exploring...
That's... a 4 year old writeup that's mostly complaining about things that have since been fixed and were generally considered flaws at the time even by people who liked the OS/Hardware, and some of them are specific flaws to a specific model of laptop at the time.

You're free to not like it, but if you're still holding on to that list of reasons, it's a bit like abandoning Windows because of the W10 rebooting issues and disliking the original Surface. There's been a lot of change and there's other options.
> But I suggest that you just skip that and use gpt-4o. They aren't actually going to steal your data.

Why do you have this confidence? Is it based on reading their TOS, and assuming they'll follow it?
The Internet experience in 2004
Are there benchmarks that test usability? I don't care how long it takes to encode a 4k video. I care about how long the UI hangs while doing basic tasks or how many work-arounds I have to look up on Reddit to get my Bluetooth headphones pairing reliably. Looking at you, Windows...
Speaking from my own personal experience, telling myself that the specific facts at hand were irrelevant was very tempting and totally wrong. It had everything to do, for me, with the details of the emotion and the situation, and critically what it was linked to in my history. I suspect that’s true for everyone, but I couldn’t come close to proving it.
"It’s also important to note that, unlike Apple’s MacBook Air, Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop isn’t fan-less, allowing it to squeeze more performance out."

And there ladies and gentlemen is the catch... What a totally laughable and unfair comparison. Wake me up when it's fanless
I lost my wife to cancer after a brief struggle a year ago.

Everyone is different, and you don’t know what or how you’ll feel unless it happens to you.

For example, at a point, I felt guilty for not being sad. My son and I went to the beach and had a great time. I felt an intense guilt afterwards. But I focused on fitness and other things and tried to make each day better. Time and positive work heals.

In terms of love, etc, the heart has room. Some people are ready before the body is cold, others take years to contemplate a relationship. All i can offer is that as someone who has walked a mile in these shoes, I’d never cast a negative judgement on widower/widow behavior that isn’t plainly reckless.
> In such case I think I'd go for an internal-DRYing + copy-on-write approach.

I agree. The primary risk of presented by DRY is tight coupling code which only bears similarities at a surface level. Starting off by explicitly keeping the externa bits separate sounds like a good way to avoid the worst tradeoff.

Nevertheless I still prefer the Write Everything Twice (WET) principle, which means mostly the same thing, but following a clear guideline: postpone all de-duplication efforts until it's either obvious there's shared code (semantics and implementation) in >2 occurrences, and always start by treating separate cases as independent cases.
Ohh, I don't know about that...
With official vendor support: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X-Elite
Not precisely what you asked for, but here is a V8 Tesla Model S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-6kHjF1U1E&t=956s (mild content discretion advised)
> there’s a pretty direct line between the increase of mental health awareness campaigns and self-reported mental health

This seems like an obvious and intended result. I don't think this is suspicious. If you tell more people about something, more people will have words to describe it.

I think in your comment there are multiple places where you conflate reported mental health and actual mental health, for example saying mental health is declining. Is it declining, or are reports increasing due to awareness? The answer would be non-obvious, and even if mental health was declining, I suspect that other factors like declining economic outlooks for the average person would be more likely causes than "mental health awareness campaigns".
They just held a moment of silence for the Butcher of Tehran

I agree that the optics of that event don't look great. But the fact is, the ceremony was officially conducted in the name of "All passengers of the downed helicopter and their families". Because of that phrasing, the UNSC members who went along with it probably felt they had to do so as a matter of protocol.

Again - not something I would go along with, if I were in the room. But it also wasn't the personalized tribute to Raisi and no one else that you're making it out to be.

Meanwhile, Israel's primary airport is named after the architect of the 1948 expulsions, the Qibya massacre and countless other atrocities.

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

The point isn't whataboutism, but rather: "Credibility starts at home".
I'm curious about this. Do you think GraphQL makes things worse in its intended use case: allowing different clients to control how little or how much data they pull.

I have been, like you, baffled by places that insist on using GraphQL for a biz software website that they barely support on mobile, or an app-only product with limited to 0 web support. But for situations where you want both a robust mobile app (sometimes multiple), and a robust web app (sometimes multiple), I don't know if there's a better solution that keeps the frontends and one true backend decoupled as well?

Curious what you say or what I may have missed for this scenario.
Truly you are correct.

Darth Vader Must Fall.