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by cnst | 2025-08-08 22:17:23+00:00
> CalDigit TS4

Wait, that's a $379 dock? Isn't it a bit too much to pay so much just to get back about the same ports that most non-Macs still have?

If I connect my peripherals like SSD and mouse/kb through this dock, will they continue working during a power outage? Or do I now have to get a UPS for my laptop, too, because I can't use the native ports anymore, and have to use a dock to connect the most basic equipment?

> Dell U2724DE

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-27-thunderbo...

$599 USD for QHD 2560x1440? That's just not very competitive.

I got a QHD 2560x1440 with RJ45 and a DP-Out for $149 brand new, for HP Z24m G3:

https://slickdeals.net/f/17456364-23-8-hp-z24m-g3-2560x1440-...

So, it's basically a 4x premium for TB.

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Many monitors on the market today do come with a dock built-in, but most of the time, it's a DP MST kind of dock, so, the daisy-chaining won't work in macOS, since it has no support for DP MST.

Thunderbolt is VERY rare across most monitors. It's even more rare on the models that go on sale and aren't broken in some fundamental way (IIRC, some Samsung TB monitor that was on sale, would actually have terrible reviews specifically because it still didn't work daisy-chained properly).

Since you're a Dell fan, I've just casually looked over the filters at https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/computer-monitors/ar/8605, and it's got 42 for USB-C, but only 6 for Thunderbolt; that's 7 times more non-Thunderbolt monitors that Thunderbolt.

If we limit the search to QHD 2560x1440, there's 11 USB-C, but only 1 Thunderbolt. You're basically paying 2x more, or $300 more, for a "free" Thunderbolt dock.

Compare to DP-Out options. For example, HP Z24m G3 2560x1440 was on sale for many months throughout 2024 at $149.99 USD brand new, it does have DP-Out and RJ45, a very quality monitor.

As for battery life, I'm not doing video encoding or compiling on my Mac, so, battery life is just a matter of power consumption. There are many ARM-based Chromebooks that are powered by like 5W CPUs. By definition, they're INCAPABLE of consuming their 50Wh battery in less than 10 hours; this often results in a better battery life than my MacBook Air, simply because M1 is still a 15W CPU, and can easily made to waste lots of cycles doing pointless webpage busywork that noone cares about, diminishing the battery life.

Yes, they've finally fixed the regression with a second monitor come M4, but it's still missing the most basic ports and expansion features.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-08-08 22:17:45+00:00
The author of https://http1mustdie.com/ says that the desync issues caused by pipelined HTTP requests combined with reverse proxies are so bad that we should stop using HTTP/1.1 for anything

Even the popular and battle-tested implementations disagree on how to interpret requests, which causes vulnerabilities when forwarding them to origin servers
Show HN: Tiered storage and fast SQL for InfluxDB 1.x/2.x
by ignaciovdk | 2025-08-08 22:18:28+00:00
If you’ve run InfluxDB at scale, you know the pain: Retention policies mean throwing away history, keeping everything means huge hardware & license costs.

We built ExyData Historian to fix that.

What it does?

- Automatically exports old InfluxDB 1.x/2.x data to compressed Parquet in S3 or MinIO - Keep recent data hot in InfluxDB, move the rest to cheap storage - Run fast SQL on archived data via Apache Arrow + DuckDB - Query it all through one interface and / API. No hot/cold boundary for the user

Why it matters - 70–80% lower storage costs - Historical queries that are as fast (or faster) than InfluxDB itself - No manual exports, no query rewrites, no downtime

Who’s using it right now? InfluxDB Enterprise Customers and Huge instances of OSS, telcos and logistics companies are trying this right now.

We help you to reduce your Enterprise licensing cost, cause you are going to shrink your InfluxDB cluster.

You keep your existing InfluxDB running, Historian works alongside it, moving history to cheap storage while giving you more analytics power.

We’d love feedback from anyone managing large InfluxDB deployments.
by creativenolo | 2025-08-08 22:18:37+00:00
>Big, difficult goals can be inspiring.

So true.

> Some of the space race was driven by Cold War politics.

Is it fairer to say, initiated by? Listen to Michael Collins speak on the first episode of “13 Minutes to the Moon.” “We did it.” The “we” being humanity, not nationalism.

Yes, it started with rivalry, but it lifted humanity’s ceiling. There is a lot wrong with the Apollo story (race, gender), but these issues were a symptom of the time, less a cause. These issues were reckoning against a legacy.

The goal was to show superiority, not leverage it. I wish this was the case for a nation capable of going to the moon today. Instead of leverage against shared and common issues, the goal was to better.
by simne | 2025-08-08 22:18:47+00:00
World already changed in 2024 (covid era ends, AI era begins, huge trade dis-balance of US actual for many decades, and new administration want to resolve it), but employers not release changed reality immediately (even when plans of conservatives was known in November).

Looks like now they slam on the brakes, and first cut new projects and now trying to build new approach.

And looks like, tip point was when president Trump demonstrated tables with new import tariffs.

What I mean, even when Apple, TSMC and other tech giants already said about huge investments, but they first stopped many already running projects and will spend at least few months before start new jobs (to be exact, on big projects, from budget decision to start hire, usually spend ~1-2 months).

What worsened things, some infrastructure giants are not in good shape (Intel, IBM, Ford), so, probably their tops will spend additional time to negotiate with investors new terms.
by jchw | 2025-08-08 22:19:27+00:00
> Seems there's some willingness[1] to do just that.

I'm glad the wxWidgets developers are being helpful here.

> Wayland is soon older than X11 was when Wayland got started, and it's still a mess.

To me the Wayland transition is less about Wayland and more about finally breaking the dependency on X.org. It was a long, long, long time coming, and there were a lot of prerequisites to get there. KMS, DRM, EGL, GBM, dmabufs, libinput, etc.

I believe the immutable aspects of Wayland are perfectly serviceable and it should have a good shelf-life. I hope to see more advantage taken of the fact that Wayland is capabilities-based, more edge-cases of protocols nailed down, and I also hope the Newton accessibility bus sees more development as it seemed very promising.

I realize people are upset at how long things take. In my opinion, community-driven open source is pretty good at long-term things and bad at short-term things. The Wayland color-management MR took five years, but paging through the threads it's easy to appreciate the amount of thought that went into it and feel like it really lays a solid foundation for the future. With desktop systems evolving about as slowly as ever, I think this a tractable situation, and being a daily driver of Wayland on several devices I feel like it's been a long time since I felt the free software desktop was this close to parity with the competition in terms of features and to some extent, even productivity, dare I say. (I really like what KDE Plasma has done.) I honestly think the most major blocker for Wayland remains full parity for NVIDIA devices, and from that point forward the real main challenge for the Linux desktop will go back to being software and hardware support as it arguably once was.
by Epa095 | 2025-08-08 22:19:51+00:00
Why would they produce more if they could? It must meet the demand at the current price point. More money goes to poor people, more demand for food at the current price. That will increase the price, which will increase production. Short term the price might go up a lot, but then new production will come online, and the prices will fall back to today+delta.
by rpeden | 2025-08-08 22:20:57+00:00
I'm appalled by how dismissive and heartless many HN users seem toward non-professional users of ChatGPT.

I use the GPT models (along with Claude and Gemini) a ton for my work. And from this perspective, I appreciate GPT-5. It does a good job.

But I also used GPT-4o extensively for first-person non-fiction/adventure creation. Over time, 4o had come to be quite good at this. The force upgrade to GPT-5 has, up to this point, been a massive reduction in quality for this use case.

GPT-5 just forgets or misunderstands things or mixes up details about characters that were provided a couple of messages prior, while 4o got these details right even when they hadn't been mentioned in dozens of messages.

I'm using it for fun, yes, but not as a buddy or therapist. Just as entertainment. I'm fine with paying more for this use if I need to. And I do - right now, I'm using `chatgpt-4o-latest` via LibreChat but it's a somewhat inferior experience to the ChatGPT web UI that has access to memory and previous chats.

Not the end of the world - but a little advance notice would have been nice so I'd have had some time to prepare and test alternatives.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-08 22:21:02+00:00
It also had poor advertising and, reportedly, the director overestimated John Carter's name recognition as a character. Yes, he was a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs (a name people might recognize, but not be able to place) who also created Tarzan (a name people would recognize). But no connection was brought up between Tarzan (popular, well-known) and John Carter (unknown by the time of the movie).
by prophesi | 2025-08-08 22:22:35+00:00
I will also add to the discussion that disposable vapes (in the USA) tend to be outrageously high in their nicotine content. If you buy the juice yourself you have options to choose much lower nicotine per volume compared to these disposables (and will be a lot cheaper in the mid-term/long-term). A lot of devices these days curb the issue of replacing your own coils too, as that used to be a common issue.

But please don't start vaping if you don't already smoke. There's also the discussion of tobacco-less nicotine pouches that have hit the scene; on average they have higher nicotine content than regular tobacco pouches. And the same issue applies, as it's also acceptable to partake of them anywhere at anytime.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-08 22:22:46+00:00
The particular problem (and one that AI firms marketing approaches have actively leveraged and made worse[0]) is that correlations between capacities that humans are used to from observing other humans do not hold for LLMs, so assumptions about what an LLM should be able to do based what is observed to do and what a human ovserved to do that qould also be expected to be capable of do not hold even as loose rules of thumb.

[0] e.g., by promoting AIs as having equivalent capacities of humans of various education levels because they could pass tests that were part of the standards for, and correlate for humans with other abilities of, people with that educational background.
by mikearnesen | 2025-08-08 22:23:31+00:00
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by Aurornis | 2025-08-08 22:23:42+00:00
> Many of the best models are open source, just too big to run for most people.

You can find all of the open models hosted across different providers. You can pay per token to try them out.

I just don't see the open models as being at the same quality level as the best from Anthropic and OpenAI. They're good but in my experience they're not as good as the benchmarks would suggest.

> $10k is a lot of money, but that ability to fit these very large models & get quality results is very impressive.

This is why I only appreciate the local LLM scene from a distance.

It’s really cool that this can be done, but $10K to run lower quality models at slower speeds is a hard sell. I can rent a lot of hours on an on-demand cloud server for a lot less than that price or I can pay $20-$200/month and get great performance and good quality from Anthropic.

I think the local LLM scene is fun where it intersects with hardware I would buy anyway (MacBook Pro with a lot of RAM) but spending $10K to run open models locally is a very expensive hobby.
by treetalker | 2025-08-08 22:23:50+00:00
Perhaps "government lawyers at the FBI" might be more accurate then. Lawyers as a whole are an appreciable reason why anyone can access even these documents — let alone go after better information (see, e.g., https://newrepublic.com/post/198937/judge-chutkan-trump-hate... and the case linked therein, https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71059502/democracy-forw...).
by atombender | 2025-08-08 22:24:20+00:00
While DBOS looks like a nice system, I was really disappointed to learn that Conductor, which is the DBOS equivalent of the Temporal server, is not open source.

Without it, you get no centralized coordination of workflow recovery. On Kubernetes, for example, my understanding is that you will need to use a stateful set to assign stable executor IDs, which the Conductor doesn't need.

I suppose that's their business model, to provide a simplistic foundation where you have to pay money to get the grown up stuff.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-08-08 22:24:58+00:00
So implicit in this is that the poor should have no luxuries at all. Water + a crust of bread. When not working for their betters, can sit in the darkness inside their hovels so as to not be seen.

The median USA income is $40k. Most (not all) people are fully capable of living within their means. They can balance housing+food+medical and even some non essential luxuries. However, they have little slack. A shock to the system (loss of job, car failure, medical problem, or 20% increase in consumer goods within a few months) can force them to make tough choices. Which is where we are now. Basics have gone up, so whatever slack that might have existed has been cut short and people are stressed about how to adapt.

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
by kimbernator | 2025-08-08 22:25:12+00:00
I can't stand that this thought has permeated as much as it has. The magnitude is entirely different, and when I try to make that point I'm always seen as pro-vaping. The fact that barely any kids are smoking is a bigger deal than the fact that more of them are vaping. The vaping is still a problem, but it's a huge success that we've come so far from the problem it replaced.
by em3rgent0rdr | 2025-08-08 22:25:21+00:00
AA/AAA won't fit in a flat conference badge. I've wanted to get coin cell format NiMH, but they only seem to be the more thicker button type (or I don't know the magical term to search for), and I can't seem to find cheap options either. The 40 maH ones seem to be 5mm tall and I can't seem to find many smaller capacity ones that are thinner.
by pmarreck | 2025-08-08 22:25:28+00:00
If treating an LLM as a bestie is allowing yourself to be "wire-headed"... Can gaming be "wire-heading"?

Does the severity or excess matter? Is "a little" OK?

This also reminds me of one of Michael Crichton's earliest works (and a fantastic one IMHO), The Terminal Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal_Man

https://1lib.sk/book/1743198/d790fa/the-terminal-man.html
by vizzah | 2025-08-08 22:25:31+00:00
Gmail and other consumer services have deliberately dumbed down e-mail experience. No proper quoting, threads by default (instead of single one by one emails), hidden text, subjects. Consumers were not educated to clean unneeded chunks, instead they're just responding above the fold, creating a mess of a read. I still can't stand long unedited emails, recalling old years of FidoNet and GoldEd mail editor - how clean and neat it was, when every Kb was counted! Still cleaning all my in/out emails and hate to text-encode large attachments.
by yak7 | 2025-08-08 22:25:38+00:00
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by andy99 | 2025-08-08 22:25:58+00:00
The molotov cocktail example is so stupid, because how to make it is essentially entailed in knowing what it is. At least they could do making meth, or better still- something not readily found on the internet that gives a non-expert new capabilities. If there was a Claude code for crime, that wouldn't be in society's interest. As it is, these trivial examples are just testing the strength of built in refusals, and should be represented as such, instead of anything related to safety.
by stacktrust | 2025-08-08 22:27:05+00:00
What advice would you give to a younger L. E. Modesitt, Jr. at the beginning of his writing career?

> I wouldn’t even try. I like where I am, but getting here was so unplanned that any advice given to me at that age likely would have ruined me or made the journey seem so impossible that I might not have even tried.
by jumploops | 2025-08-08 22:27:07+00:00
I've been looking at migrating to Temporal, but this looks interesting.

For context, we have a simple (read: home-built) "durable" worker setup that uses BullMQ for scheduling/queueing, but all of the actual jobs are Postgres-based.

Due to the cron-nature of the many disparate jobs (bespoke AI-native workflows), we have workers that scale up/down basically on the hour, every hour.

Temporal is the obvious solution, but it will take some rearchitecting to get our jobs to fit their structure. We're also concerned with some of their limits (payload size, language restrictions, etc.).

Looking at DBOS, it's unclear from the docs how to scale the workers:

> DBOS is just a library for your program to import, so it can run with any Python/Node program.

In our ideal case, we can add DBOS to our main application for scheduling jobs, and then have a simple worker app that scales independently.

How "easy" would it be to migrate our current system to DBOS?
by gnabgib | 2025-08-08 22:27:28+00:00
Related:

The Luckiest or Unluckiest Man in the World? Tsutomu Yamaguchi, double A-bomb victim (79 points, 2009, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=622244

Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023) (111 points, 2024, 90 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40711780
by kimixa | 2025-08-08 22:28:47+00:00
I feel then people would then complain that they're shipping "incomplete" or "obfuscated" code.

These headers are likely generated from their internal RTL, and somewhat part of the documentation to allow other OSS users to understand the interface. Even if most aren't used by most client drivers, and "just" some internal detail of their firmware/GPU command processing, or even optional and completely unused in current drivers, they may be useful to the community if the host can see and modify them.

Sure, you could argue that should be "split out" from the headers and documented separately, but at this point I'm generally happy for the hardware companies to give the community as much as possible and let them decide what's relevant.
by cnst | 2025-08-08 22:29:39+00:00
Yeah, my $79 Chromebook, could literally already do 2 external USB-C monitors, at 1/10th the price of an M4 MacBook Air!

The best part about DP MST is that most monitors already have a DP-Out, so, you can already daisy-chain even without having to buy a cheap dock.

I'm pretty sure DP-Out would be even more popular if not for the macOS users leaving all the negative reviews about the daisy-chaining not working after paying a full half price for a DP MST monitor compared to a Thunderbolt one!

Ironically, some manufacturers simply remove the DP-Out port, and release the resulting product as a Mac-friendly version of an identical PC monitor with a DP-Out.

My fav USB-C / DP MST monitor deals, have been HP Z24m G3 at $149.99 USD in early 2024, and PHILIPS 4K UHD IPS Black 27E2F7901 at $209.99 in mid/late 2024, both 400nits with DP 1.4, USB-C and DP-Out, at far cheaper prices than any comparable Thunderbolt monitor:

https://slickdeals.net/f/17456364-23-8-hp-z24m-g3-2560x1440-...

https://slickdeals.net/f/17650827-philips-creator-series-27e...