skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, rasz! I was still a kid during that time so unfortunately I don't have first hand experience. I will happily defer to your experience!

My comment came from a couple of post-era experiences:

* The Am486-DX4-100 benches nearly (or just a bit below) the Intel DX4-100 in my own testing. I thought it was less expensive at the time, but I haven't checked prices

* The K6-3 was able to match early Pentium II performance for a lower cost, at least in my personal testing. I have a modded K6-3+ at 600MHz and it exceeds some P2 CPUs in Phil's benchmark tests, though naturally it's not a part many people had around back then

* AMD 386-DX40 was also apparently a high performing part and I'm happy to have acquired one recently, though I'm unfamiliar with prices and I have little to compare with. Just received some new parts (external battery & 128MB CF cards) to help me get into testing this platform

Those other landmarks you describe are definitely very interesting and noteworthy, though! It was quite cool to see AMD first to 1GHz, 64-bit, and dual core. One of my favorite retro rigs is a maxed out AMD K7 system, the last of their 32-bit platform and in my opinion the end of the 32-bit era, though Intel kept pushing 32-bit parts for a while.

I've been an Intel fan for most of my life, but as I get older I'm finding a lot of appreciation for AMD and my main PC is AMD for the first time ever as of the 9800X3D release. :)
Similar thing that happens with crypto exchanges, also swift transfers and federal states for that matter.
Xilinx, Altera - there's also some really cheap stuff coming out of China (Tang Nano). Because they all have their own dev system you tend to choose the one you know

There's a standard for external add-ons called PMODs (small boards with external connectors or parts) tiny tapeout uses it too, picking a dev board with PMOD connectors is probably a good idea.
>for Vancouver/BC especially

The ALR bans any and all significant development in BC.

Land is not scarce in BC; land that it's legal to build on is.
N-gate will be missed!
Weirdly written for the size of the company
WFH debuffs/nerfs an extrovert's primary weapon attribute (soft skills). this gives an implicit visibility bonus to introverts.
Of course, it's just more demand, like immigration, aging population and so on. Of course those are a much more difficult target..
Why would anyone bother to report a crime that has just 10% of being solved?

Probably a huge chunk of crimes of this nature don't even get reported because of that.
> This is somewhat orthogonal to whether those criticisms are correct!

I think this is the most important take-away in evaluating the success of many technical businesses. At the end of the day businesses succeed or fail due to lots of factors that have nothing to do with the soundness of the enigneering or R&D that is at the core of the value proposition. This is an extremely frustrating fact for technically minded folks (I count myself).

Reminds me of the quote about how stock markets are like betting on the outcome of a beauty contest. The humans who control large purchasing decisions are likely much less technical than the average audience of this blog. The fact that this is frustrating doesn't make it any less true or important to internalize.
He does contrast what he calls "wokeness" with a sort of Christian prudishness ("prig") several times, and even says that it's the same sort of person responsible. However, both sides are not treated equally throughout the text.

For example, he talks about the impact of the Bud Light thing on Anheuser Busch, but he doesn't acknowledge that the backlash was itself a perfect example of cancel culture.

Your mob and my mob are both mobs, but he paints one angry mob as righteous pushback and the other as priggish busybodies.

Regardless, it was a well formed piece that caused me to think. I just think the argument would have been more compelling if it had been offered from a more neutral frame.
Canada should follow suit
Looking forward to a blogpost or writeup from github on this.
>As far as I know every EU business has to have an eu citizen representative

You can't hire a nominee director?

>Additionally, a company owned property can't just be used privately.

They can't "rent" it back to the owner?
Pedantic nit: dampening is to wet, damping is to subdue oscillations.
As a professional software developer, you rely on software written by those hobbyist hackers.

Whenever you do a clone or an npm install or apt get or pip install, etc...

You choose github because your dependencies chose git
California is notorious for implementing retroactive taxes, having done it multiple times. I can't think of an example from another jurisdiction though.
I think the ship has sailed, but regardless isn't it all meaningless? Surely they can setup a company to get around it, or will be ban all foreign ownership of shares too?
That happens once every 10 years. They use tax records and other records to estimate it otherwise.

Also people will just not return the form, and once again they have to estimate.

And in places that impose a vacancy tax, they have incentive to lie or deceive the housing authority to avoid the tax.

And in my neighbors case for example they come by once every few months to pick up mail and probably fill out those types of forms.

In reality there are a lot of vacant homes that aren't counted as vacant.
Is there a textbook like [1] or [4], which also incorporates PyTorch into learning?
It was down for ~2 hours. The status website claims "degraded performance", but in reality we get

git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).

Either GitHub didn't know how to communicate, or they were not sure about the real impact.

This is bad.
> Cheap corn syrup does not incentivize more sweetening. No one is rewarded more for putting more of an ingredient that costs money in a product.

Um, sure they are. As sugar gets cheaper and cheaper, the incentives are to substitute sugar for other ingredients that are more expensive.

Look at the "fat free" foods--they've got whopping amounts more sugar than their normal counterparts, for example.
[sigh] fine. You believe whatever you want.

As I said, I don't care about the current OS situation, I think it's actually pretty well reasoned out. I'm not spending my time tracking down statistics for you to "prove" some point to some other person on the internet.

I don't care enough to argue. Have a nice life.
Very surprised at that list.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interesting.
Empty-nesting has been a thing for about 2-3 generations. Before that there were often multi-generation homes. But it seems like people didn't really up-size 2-3 generations ago. Many of the great generation were happy to build their 1000sqft Sears house and live there the rest of their lives. The last 1-2 generations seems to be more of a drive for trading up to bigger and better everything. Now we see empty-nesters in 2500sqft houses. I think it's natural to not not want to leave a long-time home, even if it is oversized and only filled on holidays for company or parties. But why do we really need that much space in the first place, seems to be more of the question.
How doctors make medical decisions is evolving with technology
> politically derisks the change, by tying it's deployment to rigorous testing that proves it at least does no harm to the existing process before applying it to all users.

I just want to drop here the anecdata that I've worked for a total of about 10 years in startups that proudly call themselves "data-driven" and which worshipped "A/B testing." One of them hired a data science team which actually did some decently rigorous analysis on our tests and advised things like when we had achieved statistical significance, how many impressions we needed to have, etc. The other did not and just had someone looking at very simple comparisons in Optimizely.

In both cases, the influential management people who ultimately owned the decisions would simply rig every "test" to fit the story they already believed, by doing things like running the test until the results looked "positive" but not until it was statistically significant. Or, by measuring several metrics and deciding later on to make the decision based on whichever one was positive [at the time]. Or, by skipping testing entirely and saying we'd just "used a pre/post comparison" to prove it out. Or even by just dismissing a 'failure,' saying we would do it anyway because it's foundational to X, Y, and Z which really will improve (insert metric) The funny part is that none of these people thought they were playing dirty, they believed that they were making their decisions scientifically!

Basically, I suspect a lot of small and medium companies say they do "A/B testing" and are "data-driven" when really they're just using slightly fancy feature flags and relying on some director's gut feelings.
I agree. From what I can recall, the Expo line is just as loud as riding in a Tokyo subway. Good thing I always have an in-ear or NC headphone with me when I travel.
Yeah, I generally really liked this blog post, and I was very much steeped in "woke" culture at one point. But this part struck me as an analogy that could be improved. Lots of things about human culture and language are strange if you try to understand exactly why they came to be what they are. Think of various ways of saying Christmas: Xmas, Noel. Or Santa Claus, he is also Saint Nicholas, but Christmas is not Saint Nicholas's Day, like Saint Patrick's Day or Saint Valentine's Day, etc.
So let the people build enough to make houses being stores of wealth useless rather than engage in more govt control.
Something is inherently cool to me about solving deep mysteries, I guess.
It was down for ~45 mins according to the linked page page, which would put it at 99.897% uptime for the month, assuming no other downtime.
> wp engine doesn't contribute to open source themselves

At minimum they contribute Advanced Custom Fields, one of the most heavily used plugins. I make no judgement on if they contribute enough, but it's not like they give zero back to the ecosystem.
But git has built in email features

And it was developed itself by email.
Cool concept. Links to full stories are broken and return an error page.
Counterpoint: it's a 45 minute outage once in a blue moon. Very small price to pay for the convenience of a centralized VCS with many features that aren't easy to reliably set up in standalone installations.
This article really grates me the wrong way. A company selling an AI product saying the following about AI sceptics:

> All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software engineering exists as a discipline because you cannot EVER under any circumstances TRUST CODE.

is straight up insulting to me, because it effectively comes down to "use my product or you're a looney".

Also, while two years after this post (which should be labeled 2023) I've still barely tried to entirely offload coding to an LLM, the few times I did try have been pretty crap. I also really, really don't want to 'chat' with my codebase or editor. 'Chatting' to me feels about as slow as writing something myself, while I also don't get a good mental model 'for free'.

I am a moderately happy user of AI autocomplete (specifically Supermaven), but I only ever accept suggestions that are trivially correct to me. If it's not trivial, it might be useful as a guide of where to look in actual documentation if relevant, but just accepting it will lead me down a wrong path more often than not.
I thought my account was hacked and ssh keys removed. Panicked a little bit and then double checked that my keys were still there.

Then went to github status and calmed down.
They now own Activision-Blizzard-King, which even now (new Battle.net) is still better than GFWD ever was.
>Perhaps if they were mobile homes. :p

Tourism counts as an "export" even though everything stays within the country's borders.

>The comparison breaks down a little further with cases where the foreign owners just rent the home out.

So... an investment tax?
Someone could say something similar about the large number of people who apparently reviewed this essay, who were supposed to critique it in order for him to make it stronger. It's possible he just ignored their criticism, but it's also possible they already agree with Graham and didn't think about the flawed premises, so their feedback didn't address what might be "blatantly obvious" to you or I.

Similarly, Graham almost certainly already has strong opinions on the basic premises of this essay. Thus, the process of revising and polishing his essay to make it readable and compelling doesn't help him spot any of these obvious critiques. As you quoted, he believes the people advocating "people of color" over other terms have no principles. Thus he can't apply their principles to his own essay and anticipate their criticisms. Based on how he describes "wokeness," he seems to think are generally unprincipled.

Neither he nor his reviewers are equipped to analyze the substance, which is why it can be stylistically strong but substantially weak.
It's like calling the word of Jesus heresy ... if pg essays don't belong on HN then the word "hacker" has lost all meaning. He's describing a system and how to change it. What else are we doing all day on these computers?
> I don't think people ride the California Zephyr to get from Chicago to the Bay Area as quickly as possible.

Of course they don't. It's too slow. Our rail shouldn't be as bad as it is.

I love that trip, and I've taken it more than twice, oohing and ahhing all the way, but I do not need it to last as long as it does.
> That's the same as not having one.

That's the way the Linux kernel (the first Git repository) and Git [2] itself manage their codes. There's even a git send-email command, that prepare the commits as patches and send them following the using the correct template.

[1] Linux kernel, IIO subsystem: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/

[2] Git mailing list: https://lore.kernel.org/git/
This doesn't seem to be the case (I checked the nutritional labels; they have the same percentage of sodium). In my experience mexican coke tastes significantly "drier" (less sweet) but just as importantly, the mouth feel is less viscous than US-bottled coke. Salt wouldn't change that.
Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?
But he's not doing that. None of this essay is based in data.
Why are speakers so hard? It's insanely old technology and they're still charging hundreds for a baseline handheld speaker.

I'm dearly holding onto my Marshall Acton that can be connect to WiFi without an app and stream directly from Spotify. No smart nothing.

Nothing like this seems to exist anymore, not for the $200 I paid this years ago anyway.

Before this I had tried a smaller but $250 Sonos speaker and it sounded like crap, with far worse UX.
FAA Acknowledges G550 In-Flight Object Strike at FL270
The silent majority.
Calling an llm and a cv model by the same name to give the appearance of agi is a pet peeve of mine.

And someone that's not openai buying into this naming convention is just unpaid propaganda
A subset of UX people want something that's beautiful or elegant or cutting edge more than they want something that actually makes sense for the user.

Just like some engineers want something that's technically impressive more than they want what's good for the user.
The risks of 'space junk' are clear: what goes up, might well come back down
1300 comments seems a bit... overkill. The article is overall very pragmatic and doing exactly what the title says. Ofc this is all a soft science, so there will inevitbly be some interpretations that aren't agreeable, and no "source to back it up".

just one tiny nitpick though:

>Instead of going out into the world and quietly helping members of marginalized groups,

"quietly" is indeed a way to literally silence such progress. You don't need to be prigish about it, but you should indeed be advertising yourself and the efforts of the groups. as well as what actions to take to help relive this. It's easier than ever in the age of the internet. Any charity will tell you that awareness is one of the most important aspects of their organization. Likewise here.
it's very good for cleaning glass optics in the lab.
For many (most maybe?) calling someone a women is not based on a social identity but rather a physical property someone has. It's not like calling someone a skater, or nerd. But more like calling someone brown skinned or blue eyed.

This is the core of the disagreement argument of the two "camps". What does it mean to call someone a man or a woman.
This doesn't follow.

Apple only ever scanned images being uploaded to the server. They were only ever going to scan images (even if it was done on the local device) if they were uploaded to the server.

On the one hand you have:

- do the scan in private, get a pass (I'm assuming we all get a pass), and no-one outside of your phone ever even looks at your images.

On the other hand, you:

- do the scan on upload. Some random bloke in support gets tasked with looking at 1 in every 10,000 images (or whatever) to make sure the algorithm is working, and your photo of little Bobby doing somersaults in the back garden is now being studied by Jim.

If you never uploaded it, it was never scanned, in either case.

So yes, you've lost privacy because faux outrage on the internet raised enough eyebrows. Way to go.
I'm British and it's very easy to setup EU companies, many UK companies have HAD to due to Brexit.
Kajal: Extracting Grammar of a Source Code Using Large Language Models
Git is distributed. Distributed system does not guarantee 100% uptime or real time consistency. You can take the whole history with you and push to a different remote.
BC has already implemented actions to limit foreign ownership without them actively living in the residence. Probably more to be done though, but one needs to be careful about unintended consequences.
That sort of thing is a bit risky. One company I followed was bought out by a US vehicle owned by a Chinese investor, and then everything ground to a halt because (it appears[1]) the local agent fraudulently changed the bank accounts into their own name and locked out the owner. Operating stuff in a foreign legal jurisdiction is hard.

[1] this seems to have been the judgement of the court, but not all the fillings are free to access.
I think most of the instruction fine-tuning methods for oss models stem from Alpaca, so it should be included: https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html

And the one referenced in there on synthetic data generation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10560
> It's uniquely inconsistent (many distinct toolkits with irreconcilable look-and-feel, even in the base system)

While I agree that Windows has long since abandoned UI/UX consistency, it's not like that is unique: On desktop Linux I regularly have mixed Qt/KDE, GTK2, GTK3+/libadwaita and Electron (with every JS GUI framework being a different UI/UX experience) GUIs and dialogs. I'm sure libcosmic/iced and others will be added eventually too.
The „owner” is the company.
Yeah I think it’s a cool idea but also a little funny to see that the project is archived after clicking on it for the first time haha
It's not about agreeing or disagreeing, it's about the shoving it in your face. It's also done in fairly "modern" ways (modern = juvenile, twitter brain-rot, millennial, culture war-coded, whatever you want to call it).
That actually shows that helping poor people would help black the most. So why not do it?
Dive into Deep Learning is implemented using various libraries such as PyTorch, NumPy/MXNet, JAX, and TensorFlow.

Here’s an example: https://d2l.ai/chapter_natural-language-processing-pretraini...
Are you willing to use AI for financial advice?
Also absent in these discussions is who maintains the 80% that wasn’t written by them when it needs to either be fixed or adapted to a new use case. This is where I typically see “fast” AI prototypes fall over completely. Will that get better? I’m ambivalent but could concede ‘probably’ but at the end of the day I don’t think you can get away from the fact that for every non trivial programming task, there does need to be a human somewhere to verify/validate work, or at the very least understand it enough to debug it. This seems like an inescapable fact.
One of the highlights of my 15 year old daughter's week is a new SNL episode.. Your thesis has been refuted.
> he is talking about the great firewall but the rules remain the same, nothing changed

You're misunderstanding the point of the great firewall, which is to create an isolation effect on the Chinese net. Obviously a bunch of American e-refugees foils that. This absolutely is a massive change to the status quo.

> he says people is leaving meta in anger, some are, I don't see a significant massive migration

He's saying zoomers are moving from TikTok to REDNote rather than Instagram/Facebook. Not that they're going from Instagram/Facebook to REDNote.

> honestly I think he is talking from his user experience and trying to extrapole it way beyond its real extent

Speaking as a zoomer, no he's right. I can think of maybe 2 friends who haven't gotten on REDNote in the last couple of days. The numbers[1] don't lie. Whether or not this sticks? Remains to be seen. But it's inarguable that it's happening.

[1] - https://www.newsweek.com/rednote-app-tiktok-ban-xiaohongshu-...
Actually, in my imagined best scenario, we would develop better means of producing energy that make a solar farm in the middle of the desert less attractive, causing working there to become less lucrative and encouraging people to find new jobs. The megaproject winds down naturally due to that changing economic landscape (like how I expect the town where I grew up in Texas to die when the oilfield workers no longer frequent it), and the dark zone is reclaimed for astronomy or whatever.
Even if it does, I don't see why it really matters. Cost of living has nothing to do with the value of the land you live on. Maybe the real problem is foreign investors leave the property vacant?
According to DHH, the massive tech layoffs were motivated by a desire to rid companies of wokeness: "most major corporations have wound down the woke excesses while pretending it's all just a correction for "over hiring"." He goes so far as to say that's what Basecamp did and (in his opinion) it's a necessity to clean out those with the wrong political views in every tech company. Sure sounds like a politically-motivated purge to me.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/google-s-sad-ideological-capture-w...
I recall some kind of Intel trade show event where attendees got to buy a P3-500 and an SE440BX motherboard for $250.

It was awesome and was my main computer for years.
Yes, I agree, when it gets to the level of "that made someone vaguely uncomfortable" rather than "that ruined someone's entire life", it no longer qualifies. So, how do you effectively fight the latter without ending up fighting about the former? "Working quietly" doesn't seem like a good answer. This is an unsolved problem that PG seemingly isn't much interested in solving; he's more interested in how people talk about it.
> If software doesn't want to run on your hardware because it can't make sure you're not tampering with it, why is it wrong for doing so?

It's not the software, it's that the hardware itself, that I bought to own, still serves someone else in a way that's detrimental to my interests, and that can't be overridden because those stupid encryption keys used to sign attestation reports are burned into the silicon and only accessible to that TrustZone hypervisor that can't be unlocked.

> And there are some real strong reasons why you benefit from this sort of ability, such as preventing folks from cheating in competitive games.

Maybe playing such games on general-purpose devices is a bad idea to begin with. You know, consoles are already locked down pretty tight. But then there are PCs that have no hardware roots of trust at all yet you can play anything on them and sometimes even compete with console players. So go figure.