skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grain of salt due to the source? What is that supposed to mean?

Tesla is so far ahead when it comes to these things (48V architecture), there literally is no other source in this case.
However getting some paid responses and comparing them to the other respondents is surprisingly good methodology for a blog post. And I think it does show that while the results weren't identical they weren't wildly skewed either
You can't post flamewar comments like this to HN or use the site primarily for ideological battle—it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

We have to ban accounts that post like this, so please don't do it again.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
> regularly get OOM warnings

Ah, yes that was why I asked what I did. I'm quite confident they sell a lot of stock MBAs, is what I said, as a guess at what we were trying to 'tell'.

As for "low on application memory" warnings, macOS doesn't really do that unless the user is also out of swap. Offer may not be valid for XCode. My wild-ass guess is that users who need lots of RAM tend to know that when they buy computers, and that percentage wise, there are more over-provisioned Mac users than under-provisioned. But who knows.

> So this is just basically a generic office / front desk PC for people who don't need laptops.

Right. Apple market-segments their products pretty carefully, and the post-Pro iMac line is for receptionists, desktop publishing, light-duty visual/creative, the occasional desk-oriented email job, and so on. 16 GiB is a generous baseline for those tasks, and 8 GiB was probably adequate for most customers.
Tangential, but anyone interested in literature should read "The Sagas of the Icelanders" if they have not already. The early Norse and Icelandic sagas are a treasure trove of great stories. I think about them nearly every day and it's fun to recognize similar plot points in modern novels.
Bezos bought WaPo when corporate news was a on a clear deccline, and it's consistently lost money on average. Bezos doesn't care, as you said, and it's not about making money but rather controlling a narrative.
Misleading on the comment, LG WebOS is using EnactJS (Framework on top of ReactJS) + Chromium Embedded Browser, not native, just webapp on browser.

But React Native is different , JS code compiled to native code using c/c++ compiler on target system. Flutter also do like this one.

Embedded browser is slower than native app, because extra browser layer than native one.
Sex is one of those things that's best learnt by doing. Half the fun is in the learning, after all.

That being said: sex education is an absolute mess. I imagine that this is mostly because when people start getting interested in sex, society typically thinks they're too young to be having sex, let alone getting any pleasure out of it. And so we (barely) educate on things like puberty, reproductive organs, and STDs, but to my knowledge we never educate young people on sexual pleasure. Would that be awkward? Probably.

By and large, anything related to sexual pleasure is accompanied by poorly drawn cartoons, by heavily censored imagery, or by fully clothed people simulating sex. This is, in my opinion, idiotic. Probably caused by the prudeness of advertisers and payment processors ...

However, there are some good resources which include graphic content. OMGYes comes to mind, as do Nina Hartley's sex education videos. But it would be nice if we could get more quality content in this space - and break a few taboos in the process.
Which flutter apps do I likely use?
Unfortunately women's successes are a side issue here.

Disenfranchised men are in a chaotic state right now, but it's only going to take one decently charismatic leader to coerce them into a globally connected league of brownshirts.
> You're trying to interpret anti-discrimination laws to cover the actions of users of a service, no the service itself

You are failing to take into account context. My comment had nothing whatsoever to do with anything about Reddit.

My comment is responding to a comment that asserted that the only laws regarding religious discrimination are for employers potentially discriminating against employees.

I provided an example of a law prohibiting religious discrimination in something other than employment.
No, you don't have to understand the algorithms in order to use the software.

But I understand your feedback. I put it on my list to make it really easy to see the software running once you have the executable.

There is one little complication though -- you do need a working OpenCL install in order to use GpuOwl. For example, for AMD GPUs, you'd need to install ROCm. On Nvidia GPUs you'd need a working install of CUDA.
They're renting out the space or making a royalty from the sales. So it's not really competing with them, it's a way to make money with absolutely no maintenance or stock management. It'll be less profitable for them, but the rock bottom overhead makes it worth it.
yess I did haha
> The general point is that Section 230 gives companies a shield from liability for manual curation, automated curation, and algorithmic recommendations alike, and that removing 230 would result in a wild west of we're-afraid-to-moderate-so-you'll-get-unmoderated-content that would be far worse than the status quo. But it's unfair to say that the NYT article is completely wrong - because, in such a case, recommendation algorithms would be made more carefully as well.

It's not "recommendation" that's the issue. Even removing offensive content resulted in liability for user generated content prior to Section 230. Recommendation isn't the issue with section 230. Moderation is.

Chubby Inc. vs. CompuServe established that
a non-moderated platform evaded liability for user generated content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc.

Stratton Oakmont vs. Prodigy Services established that if an internet company did moderate content (even if it was just removing offensive content) it became liable for user-generated content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prod....

If we just removed Section 230, we'd revert to the status quo before Section 230 was written into law. Companies wouldn't be more careful about moderation and recommendation. They straight up just wouldn't do any moderation. Because even the smallest bit of moderation results in liability for any and all user generated content.

People advocating for removal of section 230 are imagining some alternate world where "bad" curation and moderation results in liability, but "good" moderation and curation does not. Except nobody can articulate a clear distinction of what these are. People often just say "no algorithmic curation". But even just sorting by time is algorithmic curation. Just sorting by upvotes minus downvotes is an algorithm too.
Owning media is clearly very profitable for those involved, just not in a direct accounting sense.

The savings in tax go into the billions at least.
Thank you—I understand where you're coming from. My interest in using GenAI stems from its ability to catch subtle implications or unintended double meanings in my writing. I've had plenty of "that's not what I meant" moments in the past, so using AI helps me align my phrasing with my true intent. It offers an objective lens, making it easier for me to convey my thoughts clearly, especially since I sometimes find it challenging to step out of my own subjective perspective.

Some roughness in my recent writing comes from being on mobile, which makes reviewing even harder! My writing has improved, though, even when I’m working without AI, likely from exposure to better writing flows. I’d say I used to rely more on edits (20% input to 80% edits), but now it’s closer to 75% input and 25% edits. Hopefully, I can refine it even further.
Keep in mind performant just means that it works in an effective or expected way. It doesn’t necessarily say much about performance.
A newspaper's owner should never be suppressing their editorial board's endorsements out of fear of retaliation from public officials (or potential ones).
Tahitian Pearl Farming
I don't need another computer, but, hell, I want one of these...
All but one CAN bus in my Volt were connected to the OBD port. The unconnected bus controlled the high-voltage battery contactors and some other critical stuff.

The "main" bus was saturated with data, more than 80% of bandwidth utilization at 512kbs. And it kinda had a mix of everything, from street names to be displayed on the dashboard to ECU messages. The other two buses had some random messages, with no rhyme or reason for the split ( https://vehicle-reverse-engineering.fandom.com/wiki/GM_Volt ).
That is not correct.

The railroads deliberately killed the passenger business because it has worse operating ratios and needs more capex. Investors and execs believed (and still believe) railroads are in long-term managed decline so capex and labor costs must be avoided wherever possible.

To give an example: Caltrain used to run all the way to LA. It was a profitable line the day Southern Pacific killed it. They used shills to buy up all the tickets for phantom riders then used the low passenger boarding numbers to justify to the US Railroad Commission that they should be allowed to close the route.

This strategy or variations of it were used all across the USA to deliberately kill profitable passenger service because it made the company financials look better: no need to buy or refurbish passenger cars nor pay stewards and conductors. Operating ratio looks better? Mission accomplished! Making less money doesn't make sense but profit is almost irrelevant if you think the whole business is in long-term decline. Better to kill anything that might require future capex or labor and instead optimize to get the most juice with the least squeeze of existing fruits.

Much like the shutdown of public transit across the USA. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a semi-documentary for which the real-life villain General Motors was convicted of monopoly action in federal court! But the judge only fined them $1 because all the movers and shakers thought cars and airplanes were the future so who gives a crap about public transit, trains or the lot?

Passenger train service and public transit were systematically dismantled on purpose by elites who thought they knew better.
The problem is you are outright dismissing the idea without having brought yourself up to speed..

You continue to look foolish when you attempt to ridicule others because you think they are wrong or ignorant, because you yourself don't realize your knowledge is limited and out of date.

You're basically equivalent to someone from an earlier era ridiculing a modern person trying to explain the earth is in fact, not the center of the universe.
Sure, but not every cross-platform app developer wants their app to look "native to iOS". Especially if you want your app to look the same on all platforms and/or have some creative design.
Absolutely. I should have said "strive to be objective" as I did in another comment. And the solution is to have more news sources, more organizations, each with their own set of biases and perspectives that, when taken together, offer people a more diverse view of the world and what's happening in it.

But we've been moving in the opposite direction, with media outlets being bought up or going out of business, while others become nakedly hyper-partisan with little reporting and tons of ultra-biased opinion. Many "news" sources these days just make shit up and post straight up lies and conspiracy theories. It's a bad scene. Which is why so many people are pissed to see the Washington Post, one of the last bastions of reputable journalism, succumbing to political pressure.
As a major media organization they definitely should have known better with the timing but I suppose they weren't expecting their employee's to turn it into a major story.
Today, kindergarten was closed and I had to take much of the day off to take care of my five-year old daughter. We asked Chat GPT to assume the role of a master board game designer and to lead us through the creation of a novel boardgame, with input from us. She came up with the setting - we are unicorns that need to rescue princes and princesses that have been captured in a scary forest full of monsters. Quickly, the LLM proposed a full list of rules and props to make. We then had fun for around two hours drawing various cards and markers.

The game was playable on the first try with only a few minor and very quick rule tweaks from me. Even I felt we went on a stressful quest in the forest. Honestly among the best games for this age group that I have ever played.

10/10 activity, will try again.
I barely read his articles these days. Most of it is irrelevant to my work/obvious to professionals. A lot of it is just summarizing other articles in his own words.

Deep insights in finance are typically not useful once everyone knows about them.
I don't find it hard to believe. I am not at Google but I work on a product with 200 million MAU, in a core team that serves requests to every single one of those users and there are 6 of us.
Possibly better background, with the lawsuits linked in the post:

https://heatherburns.tech/2024/10/14/say-their-names/
Yeah, Project Hail Mary was the only one of the three I'd ever heard of. Still, it was a great book (especially since I read it right on the heels of reading Artemis, which was only "okay").
I don't really agree with this assessment. If it took 100 fighters/attack aircraft all launching missiles, then of course most got through.

Iran is also a huge country. More than 2x the size of Turkey, so that facilities in part of it can be struck is rather obvious.
ArchBook – Essays about specific design features in the history of the book
I wonder if more people know about Mr Money Mustache than Matt Levine?
Curious what y'all thought about this -- happened 4 years ago. Obviously it's well within any open source maintainer's rights to quit at any time for any reason, and it doesn't seem like any of the 274 other contributors have stepped up as lead. Anyone's free time is something the community should be grateful to have, and despite the warning the lead is still merging pull requests when he can.

That said, this just seems a little... rude? I love y'all "Rustaceans" usually, and just tried `cargo` for the first time recently to much fanfare, but this is beyond the pale, and comes of as more than a little elitist. Python is the most popular programming language among IEEE members[1], beating the next highest (Java) by a factor of 2 -- not to mention beating Rust by a factor of 6, as Rust is right between HTML and Mathematica...

Python isn't perfect, sure; but we're talking about git. There are probably git implementations in Brainfuck. Am I blinded by my prior investment in Python, or is "just quit using Python" kind of a ridiculous and preachy message to send? It seems insane to me that the only sizeable[2] implementation of the largest VCS for the largest programming language is currently defunct[3]. Microsoft recently employed the chair of the Python foundation fulltime so they kinda own the language now -- surely they could sneak some of their $50,000,000,000 investment in AI to git support? In general, how does a programming language community best account for things like this?

I hope this doesn't get deleted, but if you two think it should, apologies of course -- I'll probably register an account on the Python forums and see what the true believers think.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2024

[2] This project has 5K stars, rivaled only by the libgit2 C library's Python bindings at 2K https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2

[3] https://xkcd.com/2347/
> Particularly in economic matters, people believe many intuitive folk economics like eg. building new houses cannot lower prices, or that businesses raise prices simply “when they feel greedy”, or that voluntary transactions must have a loser & a winner when other people transact (but not themselves personally), or that a policy will have only intended effects because everyone will just do what they are ordered to (even though they personally work around policies or rules all the time for doubtless noble reasons).

Pretty skeptical of this assertion in an otherwise great read
Night's Dawn was the first Hamilton I read...and I've read it once or twice since.
Glad someone else gets it.
Seems they have to endure a nasty loud background noise, hope for them they can fix that
please, sell it. don't trash it!
a computer from 2017 is still perfect for most people, and especially for hackers. there is a market for computers that are barely 7 years old.

i am writing this from a macbook pro from 2012, and it's my daily driver. macs are really amazing machines (i guess there's a bit of luck involved, but they are in general very solid).
Musk and Friends Are Smothering the Internet's Truth Seekers
You know, keeping the planet we live on alive is also self interest.
Your average retiree should not hold stocks as they usually can't survive a 10+ year drawdown (which, as I just showed you, happens a lot more than people think, even in the survivor biased S&P500 example). This is why target retirement funds transition to safer fixed income assets as the target date approaches.

You're also forgetting that inflation doesn't just affect assets, it also affects living necessities (and that's how it's defined in fact), so it's unclear how this is a net gain for asset holders.

TL;DR: Inflation doesn't magically make asset holders richer and retirees would be some of the worst affected people anyways.

You're wrong on both fronts and your whole idea that the stock market is politically propped up by old people doesn't pass the sniff test.
Gotcha. To use "Founder" then seems like a weird choice? I guess, I must catch up to the changing meanings of words used in SV.
You can, but why should you need to? Why can't the build tool take the plugin code directly off of disk, build it, and use it? This kind of orchestration of manual steps is what build tools are meant to be good at
Robinhood did not actually "admit it's just a gambling app" in any way. Robinhood opened up a betting market and this article is mocking both the idea as well as their specific phrasing of the announcement.

The headline is intentionally flip and misleading from an author who just really, really hates prediction markets (and Nate Silver).
> but "in Debian, we like to improve things" by "applying our own judgment" to the code.

Mmhhmm, yes I’m sure you Know Better™ but maybe don’t complain when you do this to yourself, and then it makes your life hard?
It sounds like there's some confusion here between "hard legal obligation to give non-binding external advice" versus "moral and practical obligation to fix the binding wording if they are actually interested in mutual agreement and understanding."

I suspect most people asking Mr. Mullenweg "what do you mean by X" are doing so with a subtext or next-step of "now go fix the text to correctly capture what you really meant."
Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
Actually, excessive omega-6 arachidonic acid intake is far more problematic than saturated fats. Dr. Gregor knows about the arachidonic acid problem but doesn't seem to understand it. https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/arachidonic-acid/
Compare what Gregor says to this comment by Norwegian animal science researchers. "Chicken meat is commonly regarded as a healthy type of meat; it is popular, and hence the consumption has increased. Chicken meat is lean, protein-rich and rich also in other important nutrients. However, the fatty acid composition is strongly dependent on the diet fed to the birds. A typical modern poultry diet is rich in cereals having a high ratio between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. This diet is very different from the natural diet for the same species containing more green leaves that are rich in the omega-3 fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid (ALA). It has been shown that a diet rich in ALA gives increased concentrations of ALA, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosapentaenoic acid (DPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in broiler muscle and improved, i.e. reduced ratio between total omega-6 and total omega-3 fatty acids. The utilisation of ALA and linoleic acid (LA) for synthesizing EPA and arachidonic acid (AA) depends on feed concentrations of ALA and LA as well as on other factors. Much AA in the diet may contribute to prostaglandin overproduction in disease situations in humans, but some AA is necessary for virtually every body function. Dietary sources of AA are especially meat, eggs and offal, with smaller amounts coming from milk and fish. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2875212/
It's likely that the global increase in obesity and diabetes is largely due to increased consumption of grain-fed monogastrics such as poultry and swine. A 2021 paper by Australian zoologist Anthony Hulbert, PhD entitled 'The under-appreciated fats of life' concludes, "As a final comment, I note that we are only beginning to understand the implications of the balance between omega-3 and omega-6 fats in the human diet. Although most animals have a relatively constant diet, we humans are especially diverse (both between individuals and over time) in the types of food we consume. Over the last half-century, the modern human food chain has emphasised omega-6 and diminished omega-3 intake, largely because of: (i) a shift from animal fats to vegetable oils, (ii) an increase in grain-fed meat and dairy, and (iii) a decline in full-fat dairy products from grass-fed livestock (an important source of omega-3). In the opinion of the current author and others, these diet trends are likely to be responsible for the increased incidence of obesity and other modern epidemics of chronic disease, but that is a story for another time." https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/224/8/jeb232538/...
I wonder what the longest duration has been, in the history of let's just say S&P500 or similar, between [a low so bad that people would say "sucks that I'm retiring now"] and [the point in time prior to that, where it had the same exact value but as an all-time high]. A decade maybe? So basically one would conclude that they could've begun taking withdrawals a decade ago with the same size of retirement account (well, except for all the contributions throughout that decade, and except for the extra decade of remaining life expectancy, and prevailing wisdom to reduce risk as retirement approaches, each extremely significant, but the point remains to some extent).
Mill uses the same daemon design as Gradle and mvnd. You do hit edge cases occasionally, but overall it works great
At its core, Wordpress is not bad software, it’s just old and shows it’s age sometimes. I’ve worked with a lot of really talented engineers who built their careers on Wordpress. News organizations powering the top breaking stories online run on WP. It’s a competent, mature, and extensible platform for developers, even if the modern marketing is not catered to devs.

These days I’ve moved to Laravel but all of my friends in WP world are bummed that their livelihoods are being toyed with by the former BDFL now just DFL.
That’s not what affiliation means. This checkbox is similar to T&C that “prevent” competitors from signing up. It’s more about having grounds to bring up WPEngine’s behavior in court if they check the box. It’s understandable you did not realize this, though, and perhaps that chilling effect was intended.
There are many "untested" substances.
For me, the quickest way to tell that I'm running on Wayland is seeing if multi-lingual keyboard input is broken. I have right-alt-while-pressed set to switch to a Greek layout (because who doesn't math?), and it reliably works on X11 but breaks in all sorts of weird ways under Wayland (sometimes it simply fails to enable/disable, sometimes it shows a notification as if it changed but switches back when input actually happens, ...).

On the bright side I'm finally learning how Vim's digraphs work.