skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the M1 was a pretty huge innovation. It's the first time a laptop felt portable and without compromise. I can get a full day of work out of my laptop without plugging it in. It's pretty wild.

Before this laptops were simply things that were small enough that you could carry one from point A to point B, but they were still effectively tethered to a wall and desk for any non-trivial usecases.
> What gives you the impression we don't tax the rich?

Math and history. One example explainer: https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/80552/total-tax...

> The upper classes, especially given a disproportionate percentage live in places like NYC and CA, are carrying EU-levels of tax burden already.

Citation urgently needed. That doesn't jibe with literally any report I've read about such things, except from anti-tax extremist organizations.
RISC-V CPU Design – Lec 5 – Design Top Level and Testbench, Instruction Decode
the conflict in Sudan isn't without usual players and the non-"conflict free" gum money go to Putin too :

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/africa/wagner-sudan-russia-li...

"The Russian mercenary group Wagner has been supplying Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces with missiles to aid their fight against the country’s army, Sudanese and regional diplomatic sources have told CNN."
> On 3 January 2009, the bitcoin network was created when Nakamoto mined the starting block of the chain, known as the genesis block. Embedded in this block was the text "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks", which is the date and headline of an issue of The Times newspaper.

We’ve now come a full circle where the US government is bailing out crypto bros.
They pay you for it, but it is a trial work day.

Story time. I interviewed for a job at posthog. I knew that I really loved their communication style. But I hadn't used their product and didn't know a ton about them except that their writing is fantastic.

The 'product for engineers' focus that they is cool but when I had an interview, it was clear that I wasn't a 'product for engineering' person.

When they proposed the Super Day. I was like, I'm not sure because it's awesome to get paid for a day, but it's also not an unstressful event. And I sort of said I had some more questions before we moved on to the Super Day.

And they basically just said: we don't think it's going to work out. It was actually a pretty positive experience. I think that they correctly assessed the situation pretty quickly and my hesitation was a real signal to them.

(This is my recollection - I could have the details wrong.)

But yeah, super day is a day of very structured work in the role that they setup. And its paid.
CGNAT frustrates all IP address-based technologies (2019)
It makes it impossible, because your modem/router no longer has a public IP that you can connect to from the internet.
Not bad, impossible; it is NAT over which you have no control and thus cannot forward ports.
I say "for a generation" for two reasons. One, I'm an optimist and I want my country to not be a failure forever - and I am differentiating our foreign damage from the domestic damage which is more repairable in the short term.

Two, nothing is forever in the world, and countries can come back from pariah status. The US is still a military and economic powerhouse, it spans the oceans, it's the breadbasket of much of the world.

I think it will take some kind of electoral/structural reform for us to be taken seriously again.
Not much Worrying about Musk's ketamine use would be to question whether or not he could have erratic behavior in the future; isn't their enough in front of us to just worry about the behavior he is exhibiting?
EEOC Acting Chair Vows to Protect American Workers from Anti-American Bias
The MacBook and MacBook Pro used to be immediately distinguishable from each other because one was made of plastic, and the other was aluminum. I'm not suggesting it should've remained that way, but it was clear to the consumer which one was which. The Air/Pro laptop lineup is still rather distinct to this day.

I won't defend how fragmented the iPhone lineup has gotten around the 3GS/4/4S, but the iPad is much worse, because again it's not immediately obvious which one is better without a comparison tool.
Yes, LG Gram laptops are amazing. Surprised they're not more popular.
You likely have network misconfiguration like MTU issue. Don't blame Samba if you cannot configure properly.
> First we would have to agree that the patient is actually 42C.

This is known as rejecting the hypothetical. The only time it's a good faith argument is after you've agreed with the conclusion.

If you do agree with the argument, you should cite something verifiable that the white house has done that's incompatible with the original assertion. Which is the actions are indistinguishable from an ideal agent. Do you have any provable examples?
its true the big guy mostly does shrooms and goes to spas our lord and savior jesus is the one implementing everything
The Making of a Data Center – Hetzner Timelapse [video]
As programmers, is it not our natural instinct to create a ChatSystem and MailSystem on top of a GenericMessageDeliverySystem? When did we stop doing that? Creating a brand new GenericMessageDeliverySystem for each purpose comes with substantial costs. We don't reinvent the Internet to create WhatsApp.
One benefit is that computer stays connected even if you go somewhere else with your phone.

It's one of those small things that makes like a bit easier. On Lenovo/HP these have been around for years and they don't cost that much.
It's of no coincidence that your anecdote, anecdotally is completely outside of software development field.

While I agree that 20 year old kid highly unlikely to be a good replacement for an experienced 55yo machinist or a 55yo electrical engineer. The same is absolutely not true in software.

John Carmack shipped Doom when he was 23, and had shipped multiple games by then (Wolfenstein, Keen, etc). Many pivotal software projects are made and created by young guys (Ken Silverman, etc), and not set in their ways 60yo Fortran devs or enterprise java devs with baggage and old habits who will use any excuse not to write any code, learn anything new or better themselves - because they simply don't have that energy and drive anymore. Now this quality is useful ... sometimes, but more often than not it is not if you're doing anything new.

I'd have a Carmack at any age, but given the option I'd always rather have him at 20 than 55.

Back in those days it was rare and unusual if a person started programming when they were 7, 10, or 13. Nowadays it is extremely common that kids start programming when they are 6 or 7. By the age of 20-30, most competent software developers have been programming for solid 7-17 or more years.
Can LLMs accurately evaluate their own confidence?
I ran a simple experiment to try and understand whether self-rated answer confidence reflects the actual probability of the LLM generating that answer.

I've always been skeptical of prompting techniques that ask the LLM to output a score or a confidence level numerically. The results from this experiment suggest that LLMs tend to understate their own confidence, and that "self-rated" scores prompted from LLMs may be generated more based on what the LLM thinks is a "safe" answer rather than an accurate representation.

The reason I'm curious about this area is because the startup I'm building does AI-powered E2E testing, and I'd like to more objectively figure out when a decision made by the agent is low-confidence so that it can be re-assessed.
National Environmental Policy Act on the chopping block
A small subset of them, sure. Mostly online services, and drugs, as far as I'm aware.

I can't pay my rent or mortgage with crypto; I can't buy groceries with crypto. I can't buy gasoline or pay for electricity with crypto. I don't think I can pay for home internet, or my phone bill, with crypto. I definitely can't pay for any of my child's stuff with crypto.

I think Tesla used to allow you to pay for their cars with crypto, though I'm not sure if that's still the case.
You might want to look at the previous Nobel Peace Prize recipients.
I almost take this comment seriously until I read a second line
M4 Pro MacBook and Mini have TB5.
Recently, people seem to love quoting history out of context. I've heard so many misplaced comparisons to Chamberlain that I’ve lost count.
"unified memory"

funny that people think this is so new, when CRAY had Global Heap eons ago...
I get the sentiment but I've never really understood why this saying is so popular. A tax is a specific word with a real meaning. It is not voluntary. By this logic alcohol and cigarettes are themselves a tax on people with poor judgement, as well as many other products.

I myself have never understood the thrill payoff that must exist for lottery ticket buyers, but I cannot call it a tax.
There's a couple ways this works. Progressive jackpot games (Powerball, Mega Millions) allocate some amount of every ticket sold for winnings, but if the jackpot isn't won on a particular drawing, excess winnings are added to the prize pool for the next drawing. After a certain point, the jackpot prize for a single winner is more than the cost of buying all possible tickets. There's a chance of sharing a jackpot, which is hard to model, but makes the payout worse.

A similar game feature is "roll down", again excess prize money accumulates over several drawings, and when a certain criteria is met, the excess prize money is distributed over some set of tickets (possibly all winners). Again, this sets up the possibility of a positive expected value, and you have to consider other ticket buyers as well.

A trickier one is for scratch off games. Many lotteries share the number of tickets sold and the prizes left. If you assume all (big?) prizes are redeemed shortly after their ticket is sold, you can estimate the expected value of purchasing the remaining tickets. When the game opens, the expected value of a ticket is less than the purchase price, but depending on the observations of tickets sold and prizes redeemed, you might estimate that the expected value of the remainder of tickets has improved.

Ex: if there were 1 million scratchers printed, the cost per scratcher was $1, and there was only one prize $500,000on open the expected value of a $1 ticket would be $0.50. If the winning ticket was redeemed, the expected value of remaining tickets would be $0. If it was reported that 999,999 tickets were sold and the winner had not yet been claimed, it might be reasonable to assume a higher expected value for the last ticket --- although there's no rigorous proof there, someone may have purchased the winning ticket already and not redeemed it for whatever reason.
Insects comprise a total weight to about 1 billion tons.(1)
Which is roughly the same as the weight of all people and farm animals on Earth combined.
(1) https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article...
> The lottery is a tax on people with poor judgement skills

Maybe it's just fun and exciting. Do people who bet in casinos or on sports have poor judgement skills or is it just exciting?
Is the court ruling available to see?

I feel like there are details missing. What happened to those who "really" won the jackpot according to the random number generator? What did the UI show then? Did everyone who won the smaller jackpot actually win the big jackpot? What are the technical details of the glitch?

Based on this incomplete information I'd say a total audit of the system should be carried out.
Steve Jobs wasn't an anomaly because he was Steve Jobs; he was the anomaly because he was the founder and CEO. Founder C-suites can foundationally get away with actual innovation in a way that the board refuses to permit for their successors.
But you have to implement and test both sides of that "if" statement, both behaviors. Thus "build the feature twice"
What do you mean "consumed" ? Government spending is only hard-limited by keeping up this Federal Reserve dog and pony show that seeks to handicap the government's own monetary sovereignty. What you're actually talking about is the risk-free interest rate given out to entities that park their money in Treasuries, which is itself set by the government!

This is most certainly not to say that the government could just create an unlimited amount of money and expect there to be no repercussions! Rather the overall point is that it's specious to analyze a government budget in terms of "debt", especially while giving a pass to all of the monetary creation that happens outside of the legislative (loans issued/bought by the Fed).
Yeah, FWIW I also have an EV, get ~2.2 mi/kWh highway and ~3 around town, and L1 charging on 120V gets me, you know, 1.0-1.1 kW.
I think maybe it's just hard to unlearn the offset mentality. Of course you can convert a direct index mentality to an offset mentality, but I don't think anyone is pointing at the first item in a row of items and thinking "that's a zero offset from the start of the number of items". They're thinking, "That's item number 1".
Some are suggesting this is because recent gains that Ukraine is making as the army of Russia is getting exhausted also because of some recent succesful destruction of large stockpiles of ammunition by drone attacks.
It sounds like the traffic gets routed through a Tailscale relay because all attempts at direct connection failed. A direct connection would have been as fast as a direct connection.
It's called the legal system. It's there to resolve these issues and it did.

edit: As for the rest of your question. You're perfectly "free" to commit fraud or any other crime but, again, we have a legal system that would jail or fine you for that if caught.
The problem with the debt is interest is paid on it. Keep adding to the debt, and the interest payments will cause a doom loop ending in fiscal catastrophe.

If the government instead switched to simply printing more money, we'd have runaway inflation, and history tells us what happens next (Weimar Republic).
I used Tailscale the other week to solve a problem where a government website was blocking me from scraping it from GitHub Actions... so I ran an exit node on an Apple TV on my homework and configure the GitHub Actions worker to use that instead. Worked great! https://til.simonwillison.net/tailscale/tailscale-github-act...
since a lot of people are sharing anecdotes..

i spent some time today buying a new domain and setting up mox on a hetzner vm. the IP was on 3 blacklists on first check, after fixing the reverse dns it's on 2, one of which is apparently fake? dkim and dmark seem to be working, sending a mail to protonmail succeeds the checks, and yet it lands in spam - however, i'm confident once the domain is older than "just now" and i've set up DNSSEC (takes 1-3 days for this to start working in my country apparently) things will improve.

worst case i'll have to request a blocklist to unblock me, but i'll see.
It's a satirical reference to a historical event, where the speculative bubble kept going up... Until it didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Though the article does not mention it, there does not appear to be any dispute over what the program displayed to the plaintiff, and I would guess that the company is not asserting that the plaintiff's claims are fraudulent.
Yeah we all know that Putin stopped back in 2014 as well in Crimea. He certainly didn't wait 11 years to try again or anything like that.
Because they care more about being contrarians than actually working together, and it shows. This isn't the only bill to have this issue, and it sure wont be the last.

This can be true about either side btw.
Letting Russia get what it wants and inch ever closer to the center of Europe brings us closer to WWIII, not further away. It's enabling the aggressor and Russia will not stop - why would it?

I hate to invoke Godwin's law, but if Hitler was stopped at Czechoslovakia, and then Poland, maybe we wouldn't have WWII. But the world didn't care back then, and apparently it still doesn't.
Language models completely upended my Beancount setup. To me, there is no point fiddling with precise parsers when a language model can read any PDF. I have the language model extract balance assertions from the PDF (beginning/end balance) so that it grounds its work in reality.

I dream of a future where anyone can download a ZIP of all the PDFs they've ever received from their bank, drop it onto a local app, and wait while it creates an entire accounting setup for you.

Edit: also not mentioned here is Fava, which is a really nice web UI for Beancount (https://beancount.github.io/fava/). I share a link with my accountants, and they find it convenient (for downloading files, at least).
Yes, that is the problem. The mods they have are far outside the political norm, which does not match their attempts to seek mainstream advertisers, which limits the success of the site and provides an entry point for a decent competitor.

Reddit has a large amount of video based subreddits. Videos, if you haven’t seen them before, are a mix of moving pictures and audio. When the audio doesn’t work, it does in fact make many videos unusable.
Jesus CHRIST — this article should be taught in writing classes everywhere, specifically, on why editing is absolutely important. I'd about how this article could be vastly improved if you cut out x% of its 6,500 words, but I can't even make that estimate b/c by the time I reached the end, I was no longer sure what the point of the article was.

> A style magazine published an account of a large cash withdrawal that didn't match my understanding of banking reality. I burned several thousand dollars and a year investigating. I now doubt that account less, because I understand the context better.

I'm truly at a loss at understanding how the author spent so much time and money to arrive at basically the same conclusion made by anyone who had closely read The Cut's essay [0] and the next-day NYT followup [1]. The Cut writer's family wealth [2] was already tweeted about during the viral discussion. The police report that apparently satisfies the author's skepticism was something that could have been pursued as soon as he finished reading the article, which clearly asserts that she made a police report.

Kudos I guess for detailing this laborious process. But if it took author this long to find a police report, then maybe he could trim the roughly 2,000 words devoted to exploring how dumb the media can be.

edit: one example of how tendentious this article is:

> The writer’s positive home equity, trivially available to the bank which wrote their mortgage, is well in excess of ten years of the median household income for New York City. The writer is the president of the family charitable foundation, which per its annual filings with the IRS has in the recent past held approximately $2 million in marketable securities. And the family estate in Connecticut (which the writer’s parents live at) was featured in the local paper, highlighting two hundred years of history.

> Discovering these facts radically changed my impression of why, per the writer’s written communication with me, she was not asked for the purpose of a $50,000 withdrawal by any bank staff. It no longer looks like a surprising lapse in procedure, when someone attempted to empty their entire savings account and wasn’t even half-heartedly counseled about caution.

So the author links to U.S. Census [3], which says the median household income is $79k. But it also says the median value of an owner-occupied home is $751k. I suppose having $800k in positive home equity is different than owning a $750k home...but she's a New York City-based writer at a prestigious magazine. Even if you didn't look up her address, it should have been obvious that she was obviously a different kind of bank customer than the ones that fit Bank of America's profile for scam victim.

[0] https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-w...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/your-money/scam-new-york-...

[2] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/850...

[3] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewy...
I moderate exclusively on Old Reddit with the Moderator Toolbox extension, I can't imagine doing it any other way.
that's not a professional line card, but a data center card.
I was an undergrad interning in a computer vision lab in the early 2010s. During group meeting, someone presented a new paper that was using abstract machine learning like stuff to do vision. The prof was so visibly perturbed and agnostic. He could not believe that this approach was even a little bit viable, when it so clearly was.

Best lesson for me - vowed never to be the person opposed to new approaches that work.
Math Academy uses spaced repetition for skills with tiny, to-the-point interactive lessons (typically following "theory, some exercises, theory, some more exercises" formula) based on an initial diagnostic test, where the skills are structured as a graph of dependencies.

I didn’t, at the time, appreciate how challenging a problem it was until I started researching Bayesian Knowledge Tracing. While their definition of a skill can be a bit narrow, thus putting more time into reviewing things I'd rather move on from, it does work from what I've observed.

I recall they had a course on Abstract Algebra and other more advanced subjects, so if you're really interested, the great thing about subscriptions is that you can afford to try it.
Not a cap. It’s the delta. About 117megabytes a second measured by windows explorer to around 101.

These are on my local network, connected to my switch over 1gig Ethernet.
My first job in 2008 was working on a backup product that ran on a ton of different OSes and architectures (HP-UX on Itanium and PA-RISC, AIX on PowerPC, Solaris on SPARC and 32+64-bit X86, SCO Unix and Unixware, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, MacOS, Novell Netware, Linuxes running on IBM zSystems, probably a couple more that I'm forgetting). On most of those systems, we basically made a headless backup daemon. It was only really Windows and MacOS where we made a

I was there for about 10 years, and over that time, the number of customers using non-x86 machines plummeted, and the ones hanging on were frequently on ancient versions of their respective OSes.

My impression was that even when I started, those generally weren't new deployments. We were supporting customers who'd been sold the hardware years before, and were just trying to wring use out of them before moving over to a more "standard" setup, i.e. Linux on 64-bit x86. I infer that to be the case because our support matrix got smaller over time, dropping platforms that customers weren't paying us to support anymore. Development moved further and further from the aging Unix machines in the lab, and they started feeling like "special cases", while development continued on x86-based VMs for the OSes that supported it.
No one's saying you can't. The equation changes when a foreign billionaire (and richest man in the world) is saying it.
I didn't say anything about it being hard; just that you may have to use some proxy for sending mail rather than doing it directly. This is not hard.

It does mean that you are slightly less than perfectly self-hosted, in some sense.

If your mail server is in a position that it can send mail directly to any mail exchanger in the world, rather than going through a forwarding host, there is the advantage in that it can use end-to-end TLS.