skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amen. I got a crazy deal on a brand new 2020 M1 Max MBP with 64GB/2TB in 2023.

This is the best machine I have ever owned. It is so completely perfect in every way. I can't imagine replacing it for many many years.
maps with recent headlines about AI improving programmer productivity 20-30%.

which puts it in line with previous code-generation technologies i would imagine. I wonder which of these increased productivity the most?

- Assembly Language

- early Compilers

- databases

- graphics frameworks

- ui frameworks (windows)

- web apps

- code generators (rails scaffolding)

- genAI
If the hash algorithm were CRC8, then obviously it should not be probable cause for anything. If it were SHA-3, then it's basically proof beyond reasonable doubt of what the file is. It seems reasonable to question how collisions behave.
To my experience, AIs can generate perfectly good code relatively easy things, the kind you might as well copy&paste from stackoverflow, and they'll very confidently generate subtly wrong code for anything that's non-trivial for an experienced programmer to write. How do people deal with this? I simply don't understand the value proposition. Does Google now have 25% subtly wrong code? Or do they have 25% trivial code? Or do all their engineers babysit the AI and bugfix the subtly wrong code? Or are all their engineers so junior that an AI is such a substantial help?

Like, isn't this announcement a terrible indictment of how inexperienced their engineers are, or how trivial the problems they solve are, or both?
> You get a cool page like this -> https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024/f/bwb

How do I get to my page? The profile section is very spartan. I'm not even sure whether my profile picture was submitted.
I explicitly wrote "~0", and anyone who looks at that graph can say that there is no relationship at all in the data, except possibly at the extremes, where it doesn't matter that much (it "knows" sure things) and I'm not even sure of that. One of the reasons to plot data is so that this type of thing jumps out at you and you aren't misled by some statistic.
The descriptions of the Apple Ads range from “less than charitable” to “that’s a bit of a stretch” but I’ll agree they don’t really do it for me. The “last minute video” and “sure I read your email” felt weird but the “remind me of this person’s name” was pretty cool IMHO.

That said the Ubuntu ad at the end eroded what trust I might have put in this blog author’s taste in ads. It was boring and didn’t make me feel anything. In fact if you swapped out the desktop screenshot with Mac or Windows it wouldn’t change any of the meaning. It was borderline AI-generate-able which is ironic given its context.
Assuming the person is a passive consumer with no messages / money exchanged with anyone, it is very hard to prove social harm or damage. Sentences should be proportional to the crime. Treating possession of cp as equivalent of literally raping a child just seems absurd to me. IMO, just for the legal protection of the average citizen, a simple possession should never warrant jail time.
You should only leverage what you are OK with losing entirely. Most people should not be leveraging their only home as investments. We are heading into some rough times and people will find out about that.
Same setup here except I use Opencore Legacy Patcher so I’m on the latest OS as well. Works amazingly well.
Congrats on the launch! Curious what the main benefit of using a web assembly runtime is? And any plans for python support or mainly focusing on Go for now?
This is the biggest issue with Mac hardware at the moment.
All because of a decision to make it easier for their developers (and 3rd party too I guess) to be able to claim they figured out high-DPI before everyone else.

It comes at a large cost now, either more money than reasonable for one of the few compatible displays or accept a much worse experience, that is just not good for devices of this price.
This is why a big affordable iMac is so necessary, but TC's Apple likes money too much to care about their legacy customers.

After such a long history of Mac OS having better font rendering and in general better graphic stack (Quartz, everything is basically a continuous PDF rendering) feels like a big letdown.

The problem is going to improve as more high-DPI displays are released for sale but it has taken a lot of time because most customers like to focus on other characteristics that are arguably more important for other use cases.
There are plenty of premium display that are just good to great but you really have to think how it will work if you buy a Mac, most likely you'll need to compromise, feels bad considering the price of admition...
f*ing sick
Including Canada (100%) affects the Tesla built in Shanghai that were being imported into Canada.
My 2011 MBP died in 2023, it was used daily but very slow at the end of its life.
It's OK, they're fixing their brand image by stopping selling their cars as Taxi vehicles. /s
How do the modern and relatively expensive (in my country at least) “fuzzy” rice cookers work?

I have always assumed the logic was very straightforward heuristics not fuzzy logic because “fuzzy” was once a buzzword applied to many things like how everything is powered by “AI” now.
Congratulations, just curious what is the deal?
The build quality of Chinese electric cars is generally pretty good.

In the past "made in Germany" used to have derogatory connotations due to German goods being worse than British ones too.

As for regulations, the BYD cars consistently rank very highly on the stringent Euro NCAP tests: https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/byd/seal-u/50187
Election betting site Polymarket is rife with fake 'wash' trading
They could just choose blanket primaries, like California has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary After the blanket primary, the final election is between the top-two, regardless of their party affiliation.

The effect in California seems to have been to make the state even bluer, but arguably that's because rather than being forced to choose between Republican and Democratic standard bearers, the system returns some advantage to more moderate candidates, just within the field of Democrats (increasingly many of whom were once registered as Republicans). Unless you want to run on stereotypical Republican issues (abortion, religion, etc), your best bet strategically where the electorate is already majority Democratic is to run as a Democrat, regardless of your policies, which is not an option where candidates have to worry about being "primaried".

Ranked-choice is even better, of course, but I think you can see a similar dynamic wrt the candidate pool shifting Democratic.
I fully agree with you on gerrymandering and electoral college, but when 45-50% of voters think Trump is a viable candidate, this isn't something that can be fixed at the election system level. Society is broken at a deeper level.
What decides critical or non-critical.

One could argue that a game isn't critical but one could say it's critical to stop hackers.

If you were to take the stance that gaming isn't critical than with that logic you're then claiming multiplayer hacking is a feature of the game.

Doesn't do well for the community or the company. But nor do the rootkits do good for the consumer.
Authentication vs. Authorization
they apologized for that one.
Ok but you brought it up. I didn’t say anyone should be finding solace in anything. Or even mention ethics. You’re replying to something I didn’t say.
I shortened the title a bit, it was 42 characters longer than the title limit.
You probably didn't understand my point. You said CEOs are paid that way because it's the standard. In your opinion, who sets the standards for CEO compensation, and what are their day-jobs? The majority of boardmembers happen to be C-suite executives themselves.

My thesis is that the boards of public companies have been captured by the executives, and the diffuse shareholding has been ineffective in providing oversight to the boards at AGMs. If SWE (or teacher) remuneration were determined by a (nominally independent) subcommittee dominated by other SWEs (or teachers), I posit that incomes for that role would outstrip other roles at the same organization over multiple decades, due to biases and knowing who butters their bread. It would become standard practice, naturally.
Cloudflare's perspective of the October 30 OVHcloud outage
Yup you're right, surprising for a site so dedicated to benchmarks.
Is this a joke? Go has built in support for importing 3rd party code
I'm going through almost exactly this process at the moment, and this article is excellent. Aligns with my experience while adding a bunch of good ideas I hadn't thought of / discovered yet. A+, would read again.
My 2015 MBP would probably have been totally fine for development... except for the Docker-based workflows that everybody uses now.

Rebuilding a bunch of Docker images on an older intel mac is quite the slow experience if you're doing it multiple times per day.
These are not the kinds of hashes used for CSAM detection, though, because that would only work for the exact pixel-by-pixel copy - any resizing, compression etc would drastically change the hash.

Instead, systems like these use perceptual hashing, in which similar inputs produce similar hashes, so that one can test for likeness. Those have much higher collision rates, and are also much easier to deliberately generate collisions for.
Meta's Reality Labs posts $4.4B loss in third quarter
BYD is also building a factory in Brazil. It's almost ready (the deadline was later this year).

The factory stays on the same place of an old Ford factory. Ford left...

Fun fact: The street is called Avenue Henry Ford.
> The most glaring issue is the battery which is really its weakest part.

What are the issues? I thought BYD batteries were as good as they get?

I am pretty sure Teslas sold in my country (NZ) have BYD batteries.
I have the same one, but everyone I know with an M series Mac says the same thing. These are the first machines in a long time built to not only last a decade but be used for it.
While that’s true it’s good to be vigilant.

Viruses are constantly evolving and flu can also exchange parts of its genome with other flu strains (reassortment).

It may become more (or less) virulent by chance while evolving more fitness for human bodies so past results don’t guarantee future results.
I had a big problem with crucial 4tb ssds recently, using them as time machine drives. The first backup would succeed, the second would fail and the disk would then be unrepairable in disk utility, which also will refuse to format to non-apfs (and an apfs reformat wouldn't fix it).

Switched to samsung t9s, so far so good.
> the private search doctrine, which authorizes a government
actor to repeat a search already conducted by a private party without
securing a warrant.

IANAL, etc. Does that mean that if someone breaks in to your house in search of drugs, finds and steals some, and is caught by the police and confesses all that the police can then search your house without a warrant?
Well if you use sunglasses and pull out your phone to take pics, videos and see the time ... using the glasses to do all those things (even without having your phone on you) makes a lot more sense (quicker and easier).
Good, the sooner devs realize they need to do server side properly, the better
You got it exactly right up to the last sentence. Yes it is exactly the same amount of work to figure out how to make a long distance phone call or schedule a meeting.

Except for most people it is almost never a problem because most people aren’t scheduling phone calls or meetings with unfamiliar locations.

The benefit is obvious: things that happen at the same time have the same number associated with them. Just like we currently coordinate dates using a shared calendar, we coordinate times. And that has a local benefit as well. Aside from no more daylight savings time which we can achieve using other means, we also know when world events happen as they are being reported, we know when certain things take effect for countries that span multiple timezones now, we know the exact difference between any two given time points without asking “but where are they happening?”

Again, imagine that we had unified time and some country somewhere said “hey we are using the same format but doing our own variable offset from it”. That would be absolutely asinine. We are used to timezones and think they benefit us because of that familiarity. In reality we have had variable time even in the same timezones before and it was universally a bad idea that was shut down soon as people started traveling.

Oh and consider that due to cultural differences your example of scheduling meetings is already flawed: do you know if Tokyo wraps up the workday at 4pm or 6pm? Is there an hour or two hour lunch break in Barcelona? When do people actually come to work in Rome? Are banks open on Saturdays in Baghdad? Timezones do not solve these issues whatsoever so you still need to do the lookup of “when are people actually around” when scheduling a meeting outside of your culture.
I don't think the analogy holds for two reasons (which cut in opposite directions from the perspective of fourth amendment jurisprudence, fwiw).

First, the dragnet surveillance that Google performs is very different from the targeted surveillance that can be performed by a drug dog. Drug dogs are not used "everywhere and always"; rather, they are mostly used in situations where people have a less reasonable expectation of privacy than the expectation they have over their cloud storage accounts.

Second, the nature of the evidence is quite different. Drug-sniffing dogs are inscrutable and non-deterministic and transmit handler bias. Hashing algorithms can be interrogated and are deterministic and do not have such bias transferal issues; collisions do occur, but are rare, especially because the "search key" set is so minuscule relative to the space of possible hashes. The narrowness and precision of the hashing method preserves most of the privacy expectations that society is currently willing to recognize as objectively reasonable.

Here we get directly to the heart of the problem with the fictitious "reasonable person" used in tests like the Katz test, especially in cases where societal norms and technology co-evolve at a pace far more rapid than that of the courts.
From a physical trauma point of view, I'm not sure. I'm not educated enough on how the brain/body interprets this stuff. Intuitively, I would imagine they are just too young to remember anything.

But from a social perspective I think it matters, because of the message. I mean, it's a blatant violation of bodily autonomy done purely for sexual cosmetics. I don't think that sends a good message to boys about them and their body. It's hard to convince them there's more to them than sex when their own parents prioritized their sexual attractiveness right out of the womb. I think young boys already face a lot of sexualized pressure - they're essentially told that they are, or will become, sex-crazed monsters and that's their duty/destiny. I think circumcision without consent plays into that.
If it's got a full function row, it will probably work just fine under Linux. My 2014 MBP chugged pretty hard with OpenCore but handles modern Linux distros much better.
Freedom delivery business, please.
Does the figure include unit tests?
That's basically a non-answer. Measuring "productivity" is a well known hard problem, and managers haven't really figured it out...
Why the Global Standard Deviation Statistic does not filter out the noise [pdf]
I would want answers to all of these questions before touching an integration like this.

The underlying library it depends on is open source, but this app isn't. Presumably it's holding the codebase in state.

No website to speak of, just boilerplate text to satisfy Github's marketplace submission process.
By definition, "trivial" code should make up a significant portion of any code base, so perhaps the 25% is precisely the bit that is trivial and easily automated.
They are selling a lot of them in New Zealand. It’s a small country so wouldn’t move the needle in terms of global sales, but I see them everywhere.

We have no domestic car manufacturing and no tariffs.
Glassdoor itself encourages users not to post anything factual, only opinion-based, because of the legal consequences [1]. Glassdoor is more like a Google business review than a background check anyway.

Also your estimation of HN users is probably out of date with the current state of the employment market.

[1] https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/Tips-on-writing-a-revie...
Teslas have a reputation for shoddy quality but they’re still sold in the US, i’m sure BYD will be fine
> Prove it.

That's the trick! no one can because they don't share the data or methodologies!

You are doing the same thing you're accusing me of and what I'm saying is you're right! there's no verifiable data on either side.

My comment and what ziprecruiter is posting are backed by the equivalent amount of factual information, which as far as we can prove is exactly 0!

What I'm saying is only based on my experience, and what you're sharing isn't any better... this is the appeal to authority fallacy.

At least I'm not financially motivated to trick you, they are.
People overestimate faang. There are many talents working there, sure, but a lot of garbage gets pumped into their codebases as well.
I'm a little sus of owc these days, their drives are way expensive, never get any third-party reviews or testing, and their warranty is horrible (3 years). I've previously swore by them so it's a little disappointing
Hardware companies have yearly releases and work closely with their customers. None of this describes google and it's the reason why nvidia is a trillion dollar company despite Google TPUs existing prior. Basically no one outside of Google uses Google hardware. If it's a generic arm target someone might use it because it's low effort, but it's not exactly a value add.
He already sold his cars to all the silicon valley nerds by pretending to be all about simulation theory and whatever nerd podcasts were talking about for the 2010s. Now he's catered his image to the opposite to sell to people who didn't buy on the first marketing push. Musks public persona has always been a fiction of identarian marketing
CEOs are responsible to the board of directors and shareholders. The BoD and shareholders are who choose and remove CEOs and you can bet both are considerably displeased when the company isn't as profitable as they expect.
> Most anyone would agree that the hash matching should probably form probable cause for a warrant

I disagree with this. Yes, if we were talking MD5, SHA, or some similar true hash algo, then the probability of a natural collision is small enough that I agree in principle.

But if the hash algo is of some other kind then I do not know enough about it to assert that it can justify probable cause. Anyone who agrees without knowing more about it is a fool.
Ok, updated. Thanks! (Submitted title was "Pg_analytics is now PostgreSQL Licensed")
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-perspective-of-the-oc...
If everyone else (and specifically Texas) went proportional, then why not. Until then, CA changing the votes would be a massive give-away to Republicans.

BTW, people are overlooking that Nebraska doesn't allocate proportionally, they allocate the votes according to the outcome of each congressional district, which are probably gerrymandered. The overall winner gets the 2 votes for the senate seats.
No this is breaking the law by saying this looked like one of the situations where I already know the law doesn't apply. If Google had looked at the actual image and said it was child porn instead of just saying it was similar to some image that is child porn this would be 100% legal as the courts have already said. That difference is subtle enough that I can see how someone would get it wrong (and in fact I would expect other courts to rule differently)
I really respect Apple's privacy focused engineering. They didn't roll out _any_ AI features until they were capable of running them locally, and before doing any cloud-based AI they designed and rolled out Private Cloud Compute.

You can argue about whether it's actually bulletproof or not but the fact is, nobody else is even trying, and have lost sight of all privacy-focused features in their rush to ship anything and everything on my device to OpenAI or Gemini.

I am thrilled to shell out thousands and thousands of dollars to purchase a machine that feels like it really belongs to me, from a company that respects my data and has aligned incentives.
The powers of 1 are less interesting.
People don't like hearing this, but military tech and civilian tech move more-or-less in lockstep. We see this in Ukraine, where both sides are using Consumer-off-the-shelf drones for violent means with minimal modification. You could argue that Ukraine's defense is an even more novel form of warfare than what the United States is comfortable dealing with.

When two armies fight each other, what determines who gets power-gapped is the way each military operationalizes new technology. The United States defense sector does an excellent job of staying on top of new advancements, but when you examine the Cold War and WWII, most of America's tech is civilian-grade but implemented with world-class logistics and command/control.
I agree. This is a case where the physical analogy leads us to (imo) the correct conclusion: compelling major property management companies to perform regular searches of their tenant's properties, and then to report any findings to the police, is hopefully something that most judges understand to be a clear violation of the fourth amendment.
So like when you fly from London to NYC and have no idea how long the flight actually is because it leaves at 10am and arrives at 9am? Timezones explicitly make travel harder, not easier.
Critical as in "my gpu is a paperweight without a driver".
This was also content in today's Money Stuff [0]. Middle section, "Super Micro".

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-30/florid... or https://archive.is/SGhLe
You are of course correct.

A more accurate statement would be "kids are really good at taking things as matter of fact".

They don't have very many preconceived notions yet.
Lets call them what they really are, rootkits.
Russia fines Google $2.5 decillion
Also, using the ON clause is consistent with the syntax for outer joins, where you have to use it (because there's a very important logical difference between putting the condition in the ON clause vs in the WHERE clause).
Tasks were thinking makes human worse

> Three such cases are implicit statistical learning, visual recognition, and classifying with patterns containing exceptions.

Fascinating that our lizard brains are better at implicit statistical reasoning