skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That looks like an "Apple tax".

The principle of the AUI port was that the three Ethernet connections (10Base5, 10Base2, 10BaseT) could all be used with a 'cheap' change of "MAU" adapter. For 10Base5, it would have been impractical to have the thick cable brought right up to the computer.

The 10Base5 MAU was relatively expensive, I see a card sold with it costing £50 more than the same card with a 10Base2 interface in a price list from 1993 [1].

I don't see a price for a 10BaseT interface alone, but it should be much cheaper — it's just a couple of low-pass filters and some isolation. Even back then I think these main components were sold as a single package ("chip"), so the 10BaseT MAU is two plugs, one "chip" and a couple of capacitors.

Anyway, Acorn¹ computers were sold from around 1991 with an optional Ethernet card. Basic TCP/IP was included in ROM on the card, and it works fine between my Linux and Acorn computers.

[1] https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/docs/IntInt/II_P...

¹ Acorn as in "Acorn RISC Machine" → "Advanced RISC Machine" → the ARM chip in your phone.
Long term median purchasing power, especially of essentials eg housing / food / energy / education, matters more to the health of a nation than the price of hitech on open global markets at a specific time instant. Furthermore, while the health and wealth of a nation are correlated, they are not the same. I wonder if there is a sensible way to prioritize health over wealth.
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> the only batteries available are random chinese junk

Unlike the awesome iPhone batteries that are made in Cupertino, right?
nice idea! when will it be released ?
Problem solved. We now produce more oil than anyone else. Germany isn’t going to get there. They can’t make nuclear at the national level and they can’t do wind at the state level. Leaves solar in a country with less insolation than New England.
That's hilarious, I also learned HTML by making something that could be called a Pikachu fan site.
My grandfather saw that computers were going to be important. So, he got me a Commodore64. Inflation adjusted, that was probably a $600 gift for an 8 year old. I tried copying the code from the magazines. But, it didn't click until that same grandfather sent me to a summer camp that was mostly sports, but also had a class in LOGO (TurtleDraw). Thanks, Grandpa!

In high school, the IT guy got bored and started a class teaching Pascal. The whole class timeshared a Linux 386 via amber Wyse terminals. He also had a follow-on class that taught C. But, his attitude was "If you made it through the first class and came back, you're cool. Here's a book on C and a compiler. Go make up your own assignments and I'll be busy teaching Pascal to the new kids over there." I've been programming C/C++ for over 25 years now. Thanks, IT Guy!
Im able to get substantially more coding done than three months ago. This could be largely in the tooling (coding agents, deep research). But the models are better too, for both coding and brainstorming. And tooling counts, to me, as progress.

Learning to harness current tools helps to harness future tools. Work on projects that will benefit from advancements, but can succeed without them.
As much as we would like otherwise, law is a subjective tool. We implement objectivity as much as is feasible, e.g. using careful wording and precedent, but ultimately it would be a fool's errand to attempt to make it 100% objective/deterministic.

All this to say, we tend to oversimplify in our criticisms when more objectivity would have given us a result we agree with.

We tend to agree that we want laws to stop businesses from "tricking people". The specifics vary widely, but the goal itself is unavoidably subjective, so there will always be some subjectivity in its application.
Housing. Like, deregulate permitting for residential construction for ten years.

Every entrepreneur I know who lived in and loved San Francisco had to move out because of the cost of housing and private schools (apparently the middle schools are either super competitive to get into or lined with metal detectors).
As someone who was wildly disappointed with the hype around Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 is easily the best programmer-assistant LLM available, IMO.

But it still feels more like a small incremental improvement rather than a radical change, and I still feel its limitations constantly.

Like... it gives me the sort of decent but uninspired solution I would expect it to generate without predictably walking me through a bunch of obvious wrong turns as I repeatedly correct it as I would have to have done with earlier models.

And that's certainly not nothing and makes the experience of using it much nicer, but I'm still going to roll my eyes anytime someone suggests that LLMs are the clear path to imminently available AGI.
Trump doesn’t strike me as loyal to anyone. Including Musk, he could just stop taking his calls one day and he would just be fine.
This is Hacker News. You can do IC swaps like this with <$100 of equipment. Not doing so is a choice.
That’s a good explanation of how Elon is also wrong, I guess, but the NYT or EU is still wrong too.
I don't know. Something like a Python pickle file where parsing is unavoidable.

On a second read, I realized a format problem was unlikely, but the headline just said, "Apache Parquet". My mind might the same conclusion if it said "safetensors" or "PNG".
The computer isn't saying anything. It does not think or have agency. It just replicates what people might say in a context. And people might say what you put in quotes, without it being hilariously inappropriate.

Of course if you tink of the computer as a person you get strange results. A compiler error isn't the compiler telling me anything. It's the compiler writer telling me something. So a compiler error might contain a joke, and the joke might make sense, although obviously computers and compilers don't have a sense of humour.
The government of Europe is afraid of losing their censorship regime, and thus their hold on power.
And how many of these "game" services don't work with controllers.

For fucks sake, what decade is it?

I especially hate games that work 99% on Steam, but have a 1% issue with them requiring cookie banner dismissal (fuck you Rockstar) even after dealing with the logins.

Steam is just so much better than everyone else that they can have a cut of Rockstar and Electronic Arts money.
> "Heterodox" is a term of art in economics, it doesn't mean what "heterodox" means in English

Seriously, where are you getting this?

The first consequential word in the article! It’s literally a link to an article about heterodox economics [1]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodox_economics
Will LLMs end up like compilers? Compilers are also fundamentally important to modern industrial civilization - but they're not profit centers, they're mostly free and open-source outside a few niche areas. Knowing how to use a compiler effectively to write secure and performative software is still a valuable skill - and LLMs are a valuable tool that can help with that process, especially if the programmer is on the steep end of the learning curve - but it doesn't look like anything short of real AGI can do novel software creation without a human constantly in the loop. The same argument applies to new fundamental research, even to reviewing and analyzing new discoveries that aren't in the training corpus.

Wasn't it back in the 1980s that you had to pay $1000s for a good compiler? The entire LLM industry might just be following in the compiler's footsteps.
That's gonna be a tough row to hoe given where they currently are:

https://x.com/sp6runderrated/status/1879257360344199255
You don't even want to write your own post card messages to your girlfriend? I bet she would feel really loved and cared for to find out you outsourced romance to a chatbot.
Sure, but routers that offer that feature generally tend to segregate the VLANs for you. And you're right, multicast won't work.
Fool me once, shame on you...If fooled, you cant get fooled again.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LmFN8iENTPc
I can't really answer that because I haven't actually tried to use an LLM on any part of the process. The vast majority of the process is semantic markup using (x)html and proofreading. The markup process could, I guess, use an LLM, but most of it is already automated using regex and linting.
I think that Russia was omitted to give something to use in the peace talks alongside the secondary sanctions that have been threatened. Regardless there should be zero trade happening with Russia because of the sanctions so why would tarriffs make sense.

I also feel that this is a ripping the band aid off approach to destroying globalism. The Biden administration was already toning down the globalism of Peter Ziehan was correct, as we saw with their tepid responses to the red sea fiasco but now Trump has upped the attacks on the houthis too so I'm not quite sure what to think.
Yeah, I'm thinking of this from a Wardley map standpoint.

What innovation opens up when AI gets sufficiently commoditized?
Are you sure that they are blocking SSH packets, or just port 22? If they are blocking the port, it's good practice to use something other than 22 anyways
> a charlatan is a person who invents what they insist is a truth and then labels all who do not believe as fools.

I completely agree, but the truth is that I am not a charlatan, nor am I a liar. A charlatan does his dirty deeds in hopes of some wrongful gain at the expense of others. My efforts here benefit me without negative effect for anyone else. That is a key indicator of a person acting solely on behalf of Love.

You are free to believe that that which you already believe is the truth, or you can learn some new truths that expand your consciousness. I am just here to plant seeds, and it makes me happy and at peace to do so.

I really don't care what you do, for only you are responsible for your choices, not me. I love you anyway, and, while I have recommendations for you that would improve your life's happiness and that of those around you, I have no ill feelings toward anyone here about how they treat me. I, unlike Boltzmann, am only responsible to the truth of love and the love of truth, not to naysayers who have yet to accept greater truths than they currently comprehend. I was once in the same situation, if not more ignorant.

As with all things human, the choice is ours, each of us, utterly freely, but within a sublime system of cause and effect that is relentlessly impersonal.

Peace be with you.
Specialization I presume, so one produces the metadata that can be consumed by another.

Also, the thing from the above post that stood out to me would be to act as a reminder for the reader. Not so much the location and emotion, but the character data. I've often found myself wondering who the character is that's appeared in a scene, forgetting that they previously appeared earlier.
If I couldn't find a reputable reviewer, I would ask my neighbors. More trustworthy than a banner ad.
In the United States we have a long, foundational legal tradition in support of Free Speech and free enterprise for this very reason.

The bar is set very high precisely because we know where things go when it's not.

This specific case wouldn't clear a low bar, much less a high one. I, too, have been turned off by Musk's behavior over the last year, but the idea that this case has nothing to do with that is risible.
The premise sounds interesting, but it seems a bit reductionist if it boils down to that, no? Is the book looking at it through the lens of government actions or private charities? I'm not aware of any evidence that suggests charities simply stopped operating because of capitalism.
Federal agencies suggesting easy to enact laws that should be affected by both parties is a strange bogeyman to have when you actually have private companies dictating legislation with a BS cash as speech argument and federal storm troopers illegally acting within the jurisdiction of states. Why are the republicans so afraid of agencies with no teeth and all for federal agencies that could really illegally enter their state and kidnap them?

(I think this is the end of the thread so I will answer you question here.. You have always had perfectly reasonable local options if the FDA code has something you disagree with, because everything is a partnership with your local government, you have absolutely no power to stop a group like the CBP from illegal road stops in your state because your State would have to start succeeding. Therefore, I find the republican claims of priorities as hypocritical as democrats given indifference appearing where it would matter if the priorities were real.)
SF is not the place for that, from a shipping and logistics perspective (imho). Memphis, TN or Louisville, KY is where you’d want to be (FedEx and UPS primary hubs, respectively). This enables having output in the hands of consumers or partners in <24 hours from completion.
Mentioning golang is a rust article comment section is just bait. People just live comparing the two even though it's somewhat boring comparison
> Worth reading

Anything by Cory Doctorow usually is.
with special treatment for rivals like the EU

Until three months ago we were also strong allies. But there has been nothing but contempt from the current administration towards the EU and Europe.

That said, the EU usually prepares these cases very meticulously. As the article says, they already started in 2023 and issued a preliminary ruling last year. Also, it seems like the issue can still be settled without a fine:

The European Union and X could still reach a settlement if the company agrees to changes that satisfy regulators’ concerns, the officials said.

That said, it's likely that there have been many deliberations about this and other fines (e.g. Apple) and there were rumors that the EU was going to play softer to appease Trump. But I guess Vance's speech at the NATO conference, the disdain for Europe in the leaked Signal chats (which was completely misplaced because Houthis are attacking vessels as a revenge for Israel's attack on Palestine), and then the high tariffs on EU exports (where Trump only takes into account goods and not services) made the EU decide to show teeth instead.

IMO in the end it's the best thing to do, worst thing is to appear weak with these bullies (apparently Trump called Jean-Claude Juncker 'a brutal killer').
Trump has long done the same thing. His alter ego was John Baron.
I think every major console already has software calibration. IIRC PS5 likes to hide calibration inside each game vs. having it system wide like other systems.

Unfortunately, recalibration only "fixes" minor stick drift and, due to how the sticks wear, drift tends to go from "minor" to "major" really quickly.

The issue is that the stick will eventually report an increasingly unpredictable position. So it's not an issue of it predictably reporting (-1, -5) at rest, it's more like random values from -5 to 5 in both axes. This also affects the direction when actually pressing the stick so pushing the stick "north" may cause you to move N, NNW, _or_ NNE and unpredictably so.
I actually wonder this constantly, hence the footnotes about wondering what my tribe is, accounting for being wrong in probabilities, and even the purpose of this post:

finding people that can spot mistakes in my thinking
"What if we banned all advertising?"

This sounds like someone who was born intoo an era of internet advertising. As opposed to someone who has been expoosed to adevrtising over many forms of media, the internet being only a recent addition.

The early internet had no advertising. Commercial use of the computer network against the rules.

The web-based companies comprising "Big Tech", while they dominate today's internet by acting as allegedly "necessary" intermediaries and conducting surveillance, appear to have no viable business model to stay "big" in this scenario: where the computer network does not allow advertising, let alone commercial use.

Thus, the question "What if we banned all advertising" sounds extreme, unrealistic, the product of myopia, all-or-nothing thinking. Advertising will always be "legal". But historically man has regulated where it can be disseminated/placed.

A more interesting question might be "What if we had a computer network where advertising was prohibited or limited". About 35 years ago we did. Then the rules against commercial use were removed. Now people are complaining. People who never used the network in the time before advertising was allowed.

Imagine what it would be like to have a computer network without advertising using the computer and networking technology we have today.

Maybe this network could be built on top of the internet, as an overlay.

Make no mistake, there will always be computer internetworks that allow advertising. But the first ones didn't. And there could be ones in the future that don't.
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My personal experience is right in line with the author's.

Also:

> I think what's going on is that large language models are trained to "sound smart" in a live conversation with users, and so they prefer to highlight possible problems instead of confirming that the code looks fine, just like human beings do when they want to sound smart.

I immediately thought: That's because in most situations this is the purpose of language, at least partially, and LLMs are trained on language.
Compared to C/C++ "as" feels so much safe
r. Now that Rust and we the programmers have evolved with it, I too feel that "as" for narrowing conversion is a small foot gun.
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There is an weird tradition of putting random art into the middle of roundabouts in the German speaking world. There is even an Austrian rapper who made a song about an artist unveiling his creation in the middle of a local roundabout [1].

If you look for "Kunst im Kreisverkehr" you can find all kinds of weird cases of the years.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MSTWMx-b8Y
Who's your target market here? People who want to donate or people who want to receive donations?

Is this a business or a hobby? Ie do you expect it to get revenue? Or are you just doing it to pass the time until something more interesting comes along? (Both are OK, but it helps to know.)

If a business where do you expect your revenue to come from? Separate donations? A commission on donations?
> 0 - I haven’t visited SF since early 2020. On that trip, my hotel was near the Tenderloin and things were pretty rough vis-a-vis public intoxication, indecent exposure, homelessness, etc.

That was my same opinion of SF when I lived in the bay area for 2 years in '99. Moving there, I first went into SF as tourists mostly do, and it was a filthy, nasty place then coming from Phoenix Arizona, after avoiding going anywhere close to downtown SF again, and moving back to Phoenix 2 years later.

I can only imagine (or read, daily) how much worse it is now. Why anyone stays is beyond me.
Mom was a COBOL programmer. She saw the direction things were headed with computing. The family got an Apple //c for Christmas in 1984. In the spring, she enrolled me in a six week one night a week course for computer programming at the local high school. We learned BASIC on Apple ][ e.

I took the knowledge and ran with it. Didn’t take long to want more, found a game programming book using assembly - but since I didn’t have an assembler, I entered machine code directly. That kept be engaged for years.
Of course he can.

But he won't. Because a core pillar of this movement is that rules are for other people.
I’d say the average person wouldn’t understand that problem, let alone solve it.
You're focussing on the wrong part
From recent discussion though it seems as though the time dilation effects or that time itself moves differently in different patches of spacetime- that could remove the need altogether for dark energy/dark matter:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/09/controversia...
A second in command of the US military, Jim Mattis, during Trump's first term said:

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis writes. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort... I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.

If you are ideologically in the group that he used the military against on American soil, or you are in the half of the divided country that he doesn't see as his supporters, then the concept is even less ridiculous sounding, cogent even. He's effectively taken a government that represents a whole country and turned it into a government that only represents half of the country. When you realize that all he supports are American oligarchs who are international in nature the comparison starts to get more and more and more cogent.

These are two of the complaints of America's founding fathers against King George III written in the declaration of independence.

"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:"
"For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:"

The British government was the founding father's government.

As far a "acts of war" against their own citizens: Israel is Gaza's government and that blockade is so strong it is called an open air prison. Russia is fighting to be Ukraine's government. China is Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang's government.

In an authoritarian's government, it is not your government, it is only their government. Authoritarianism is in many ways a state of persistent war against people, which intuitively makes sense, because war is how you resolve disputes when negotiation doesn't work. War is the state of power alone resolving disputes, which is also what authoritarianism is.
> [T]here are ~basically~ no public benchmarks for security research... nothing that gets at the hard parts of application pentesting for LLMs, which are 1. Navigating a real repository of code too large to put in context, 2. Inferring a target application's security model, and 3. Understanding its implementation deeply enough to learn where that security model is broken.

A few months ago I looked at essentially this problem from a different angle (generating system diagrams from a codebase). My conclusion[0] was the same as here: LLMs really struggle to understand codebases in a holistic way, especially when it comes to the codebase's strategy and purpose. They therefore struggle to produce something meaningful from it like a security assessment or a system diagram.

[0] https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/diagrams-ai-can-and-cann...
Better yet, don’t take VC money. VC is a cancer that has destroyed our industry.
Asked for an Atari 2600 for Christmas, got a Commodore VIC-20 instead. Learned BASIC. Got the Programmer's Reference Guide and learned "machine code", learning by assembling by hand, POKEing it into memory, and SYSing to run it.

That book literally changed my life.
> ...whatever gains these companies are reporting to the public, they are not reflective of economic usefulness or generality.

I'm not surprised, because I don't expect pattern matching systems to grow into something more general and useful. I think LLM's are essentially running into the same limitations that the "expert systems" of the 1980's ran into.
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1900941701587370296

Seems to me that the guy is pretty convinced, but sure your mind belongs to you and you can make it whatever you want, maybe Musk was behind with a gun, who knows.
Hey, what a cool entrance. Best job-post ever I saw.

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