skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Resale prices on eBay have always been significantly higher than any trade-in for any product for any company -- this isn't an Apple thing.

And remember that eBay charges a selling fee of 12.9%, and you have to go through all of the time and effort of photographing, listing, selling, packaging, shipping, and dealing with a (small) risk of buyer fraud.

On the other hand, Apple takes it off of your hands hassle-free, risk-free, and you pay no sales tax on the trade-in value (which in NYC is 8.875%, for example).

There's nothing insulting about it.
> very performant with Brave

To add to that, my 8GB "late 2014" Mac Mini is very performant with (the modern) Linux on it. (It was barely usable running a recent MacOS.)
I don't think this is correct.

https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/understanding-apples-un... is an article which describes the architecture. It's not on-die, it's next to the CPU, basically as close as it could physically possibly be without being on the die.

Here's a photo of an M1 CPU:

https://www.techinreal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2feddf...

Those chips on the right side are LPDDR4x chips (which you can verify by googling the part numbers visible on them). They are "off-the-shelf" so to speak, not custom on-die memory.
Your laptop complaints are addressed by the MBP models, which aren't much heavier if that is your primary objection.
Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?
I have spent the last 10 years working for FAANG companies, but nowadays I find their performance-review and promotion obsessed cultures to be really draining. Worse, those negative feelings seem to be leaking into my personal life and slowly alienating friends and family.

Therefore, I've been pondering a change of pace. The classic HN answer is of course "create/join a startup", but I've also been looking at areas more adjacent to scientific research.

One option that has come up is the US Department of Energy's national laboratory network[0]. From what I understand, the pay is 33-50% of FAANG, but they do seem to have interesting projects (e.g. the nuclear fusion facility that was recently in the news).

Has anyone here worked at one of them before? What is/was the day-to-day like?

[0] https://www.energy.gov/national-laboratories
Owning half of a government assets through AWS
There is this ideal that say society should aim to become productive enough that everyone can do what they enjoy, give what they can miss, and take what they need.

Though this ideal is not as popular nowadays.
> Maybe the answer is to cool it with the idea that government officials all need to have large personal protective details. Isn't that the job of the police?

So like Shinzo Abe?

Edit: I picked Shinzo Abe because it was a recent example I felt people would be familiar with, but honestly it seems like any notoriety at all is dangerous. Someone assassinated MLK Jr's mother[1] while she played a church organ. Relying on the general reasonableness of other people doesn't seem to scale at all.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/22/obituaries/m-w-chenault-4...
This happened before Musk. Twitter decided to 'pivot' to 'enterprise users' to sell 'influencer data' to them. They suddenly shut down their api and changed their api pages to some b2b sales pitch. You couldnt even open an account without giving them excrutiating detail about the size of your enterprise and how big you were (there were poll questions to pass before signing up). When they noticed that they killed their developer base, they started a mailing campaign saying something like 'We love developers' (cringe). But by that time it was done and gone. Again - this happened before Musk.
Interesting setup of the argument:

I have come to view cryptocurrencies not simply as exotic assets but as a manifestation of a magical thinking that had come to infect part of the generation who grew up in the aftermath of the Great Recession — and American capitalism, more broadly.

For these purposes, magical thinking is the assumption that favored conditions will continue on forever without regard for history. It is the minimizing of constraints and trade-offs in favor of techno-utopianism and the exclusive emphasis on positive outcomes and novelty. It is the conflation of virtue with commerce.

Where did this ideology come from?

It's a subtle construct that actually implicitly communicates a great deal. The thought that "favored conditions will continue on forever without regard for history" is not a mere thought for the 0.1% (sic), is it? Neither world wars, nor depressions, nor 'global pandemics' has stopped the gravy train for that subset of humanity.

So more precisely, what professor seems to be saying is an economic variant of "All [economic] animals are equal, but some [economic] animals are more equal than others". And yes, it is "magical thinking" to think you are part of the 0.1% or that we're playing in the same economic playground. He's right about that.
Cleaners aren't deterministic, so that's meaningfully worse than rust's resource mgt.
Java's try with resources cleanup only works if the resource is freed up before the callstack is unwound. Currently that's only viable for the most trivial of scenarios. Loom will make that applicable in more places but still not as widely applicable as a borrow checker/rc based deterministic resource management.
"Meanwhile, a 8GB stick of RAM can be bought for what? 40€? "

Ha! Not if you want to get it in your MacMini. 8GB will set you back $200!

The Apple Cult has gone all in...
Way fucking cheaper than 40. Closer to $16 unless you really need DDR5. Even then, it's still around $29/8gb if buying 32gb or more.

The issue is that Apple is integrating the RAM in the SoC. Personally, I'm not really a fan of "smart-phonification" of my desktop computers.

I get that the mini is in a bit of a weird spot, since it's still got fairly challenging size constraints, but still... not my cup of tea.
Just to leave that n=1 here, I haven't really used a laptop without an external display (and USB keyboard, Magic Mouse, LAN adapter ...) in well over a decade, and I've never had any issues upgrading macOS, neither on Intel nor on M2.
> New MacBook Pro features up to 6x faster performance than fastest Intel-based MacBook Pro

This seems like a cheap shot, if I'm being honest.
No, they make engineering mistakes while trying new things. We call companies stagnant when they don’t try, and we forgive them for trying if they are not Apple. But everyone loves to hate Apple.

I’m currently using a 2014 MacBook Pro and a 2020 M1 MacBook Air. I have also seen and supported a lot of intermediate machines at work. We don’t service them unless somebody spills something liquid on their keyboards.

So, while I owned a few of these things, I have seen and supported way more machines, and my judgement stands based on this experience.
Maybe this wouldn't matter to a lot of people but the M2 Pro Mini has HDMI 2.1 while the M1 Studio does not. You need HDMI 2.1 to get more than 60hz out of a 4k monitor.
>I ran a tor webserver for discussing geopolitics with friends on a pi for a few months before finding it had been compromised.

Not the fault of Tor. HSDir nodes could snoop on announced v1 .onion adresses. This isn't the case anymore for Onion v2 addresses.
But even if an attacker has the onion address of your webserver, he needs a way to compromise it.

Either through a vuln in your website or your webserver.
Airplanes live for decades (probably a fair amount are going to pass the 100 year mark) and so backwards compatibility is a huge issue for adding any tech into the system.

Radio works pretty well and it's flexible. Imagine some asshole is flying a drone around on short final. It's easy enough to say "Hey heads up everyone, there's a DJI buzzing around at 200'", but with a more streamlined system there might not be an easy way to communicate that, and if you have the new system and radios then you still need to commmunicate everything on both while everyone adopts the new system.
Goddard was obsessed with secrecy: he was convinced that everyone on the planet was trying to steal his ideas. That meant that he only worked with a few workmen (most of whom were related to his wife) who he trusted, he gave them the plans for one part at a time, they would build that one part and then return plan and part to him. He did all the designs himself and did all the final assembly himself- only he knew how the parts fit together. This meant that, even given that he was a brilliant dude (in addition to rockets he did some key research in the area of vacuum tubes- so he was working on computers and rockets!), he ran into two problems he simply wasn't able to solve: building a guidance system capable of controlling the rocket as winds etc. pushed on it, and building an engine that was strong and light enough to do what he wanted. That was why his best rocket got only about 9 miles high, rather than the 50 he was trying to reach.

von Braun (and his VfR team) ran into exactly the same two problems- they were damn hard problems- but because WvB was a gifted team leader he went out and got others to solve the problems for him. He got expert metallurgists to design an engine, and electronics engineers to solve those problems for him. He understood how to build teams- for example, he built the most powerful supersonic wind tunnel in the world, even though the V2 was already designed before the wind tunnel was complete. But he knew that offering the chance to work with the best wind tunnel in the world would ensure that the best aerodynamics engineers would want to work with him, and they would solve his design for him, even before the actual tunnel was complete.

That was why WvB built rockets that worked, while Goddard didn't, and why WvB had such a larger influence on others than Goddard. [1] Of course, team work can have downsides- sometimes you are on a team with nasty evil people. That's why Werner von Braun ended up a Sturmmbanfuehrer in the SS, because he was working for the Nazi's, and used concentration camp slave labor that was being worked to death to build his rockets. (It is estimated that more people died in Camp Dora being forced to build the V2- roughly 10,000- than from the rockets falling on them- roughly 7,000.)

[1]: At one point some debris from a crashed V2 were shown to Goddard, and he jumped to the conclusion that fit his priors about everyone trying to steal from him: the German rocket used control vanes like he did, therefore they must have stolen it from him. The best English language expert on von Braun and Goddard, Michael Neufeld, does not believe that any such thing happened- the German team documented their work enough that it's pretty clear where their ideas came from, and it seems unlikely that Goddard allowed enough information to leak out. But that was where Goddard's mind naturally went- any sophisticated rocket idea must have been stolen from him.
Minimal Swing app is about 27mb compressed, 28mb with FlatLaf. That's for Windows. A bit smaller if you drop ECC and accessibility support.

That 6mb is just for Dart right? I thought a minimal Flutter app is about the same size as a minimal Swing app.
Yeah, removing javafx-media and javafx-web saves a ton. It's good to point that out.
It's been a couple of years, so I'll need to revisit this again later and try again

> It includes FXML and see the discussion of optional plugin modules elsewhere.

Where is this?

And do you know if it's still not possible to generate an .exe? I remember that while I was turned off by the final files sizes, what really made me drop jlink was that the final built target would always be some baroque installer (which makes sense for large GUIs that need to maintain state between runs). But you couldn't just generate a double-clickeable .exe or .appimage file that'd be equivalent to running your uberjar. So I stuck to the uberjar.. (now user have problem installing weird Java 11 Runtimes from not-Oracle)

(Further confusing things was that there is some intermediary build target in jlink also called `appimage` that's not actually an appimage, but it's quite similar..)
then switch cables or docking station. It should support 240
Yes, its difficult concept when most tv shows get canceled after 1-2 seasons especially on netflix it seems.

I don't think everything needs to be super popular, have a world wide audience, or go on forever. Many British tv shows have a very different sensibility when it comes to seasons, the vast majority are done after 1-2 seasons.

It seems netflix tv shows should be more oriented as mini series.
While this is true on a purely de jure interpretation of the dynamics at play, a more clear-cut example - like same-sex marriage - makes it clear that the "right to marriage" includes not only the right to life-scale commitment to a person(s) but also the right to have that commitment recognized by the state. Insofar that marriage as a legal construct carries additional privileges alongside the simple recognition, which it does, the "right" to marriage must also include the "right" to access the consequent privileges or you have a structure of authority stripping those privileges by omission.
Honestly, I'm surprised by "follow the river" as a flight instruction. That sounds like the directions you'd get from someone that doesn't understand cardinal directions. "Turn right at the gas station, then turn left at the big oak tree" or something.

I have no experience with flying, but I assumed it would be a heading / cardinal direction and not "turn right at [landmark]"
That's impressive! I will try to see if and how I can incorporate your tool into my workflow.
>> book makes it clear that the Secret Service is constantly underfunded

it is critical that we recognize a few truths before we declare something "underfunded"

1. No amount of funding will ever "be enough". Government programs and depts expand to meet their budget + 25-50%... so they are always underfunded, you can increase a budget by 2x, 3x, 5x, and the very next year they will be claiming "we do not have enough money"

2. Where is the money going.... Often in government budgets essentials (like fleet repair) are cut in favor of non-essentials in order to make the budget issue into a "crisis". It is much easier to blackmail the public /congress/ who ever that is controlling the budget with "We have to use our personal cars" instead of "We had to give up our Cappuccino's" . Just because essential services are being cut does not mean nonessential services have. This is seen in local government often when they cut the big 4 (schools, fire, police, roads) first because it is easy to pass a tax increase for those 4 items than any other local service / program.
The title should be the caveat. Anyway, it's funny that this is per-project specific make configuration that you presumably have to set up every time (or resetup if you work on something that doesn't use make) rather than generic personal configuration, such as a bash function. You mean you spend time setting this up on every project?

One trick I've learned in 10 years coding is not to waste time on Twitter. Instead, every time I push a commit, I also push a tweet that just says "Tweet!". Tweet!
Manning.com also has LiveProjects which are good for Machine Learning projects
If you read through the 10 year old presentation linked[0] you'll see they have ways to break just running over Tor. You really need to be running Tor on the machine, possibly via a VPN (like Mullvad or VPS+Wireguard/SSH), and either using Tor Browser, Whonix/Tails, or QubesOS.

My (updated) understanding is that running all things via Tor is slow without as much benefit as just a normal VPN and that if anything you use throw away VMs or Tor Browser sessions to avoid any way to correlate. Also note that a well known attack is simply knowing a connection is currently happening (preferably a long-running one) and cutting off the internet in suspected areas until the connection drops. So I guess either you need to avoid long running connections (I think you could do this in the local firewall?) or have redundant network connections like Dual ISP or ISP + LTE on something like Opnsense (cause wow, is it difficult to do this on Linux. I intend to blog about it someday soon).

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/to...
So you are clueless.

SQL and Awk are both languages which will have to provide syntax errors if the user behind the terminal—mysql console and awk are both ultimately used through the terminal—gives some ill-formed input.
Studio M1 Max has 2x memory bandwidth of the M1/M2 Pro. And the Ultra bumps that to 4x.
That depends. If you had prefaced your remarks in the following way, then I would read it as making a universal claim.

"Bluntly, every person I know who's expressed these kinds of sentiments is guilty of the same mistake: [living outside southern California]."
In the present time, there is an air defense network around Washington DC. It uses the NASAMs system. Anything that is determined to be a threat can be engaged with surface launched AIM-120C missiles.

https://www.kongsberg.com/kda/what-we-do/defence-and-securit...
> randomly ending up in spam

If only we had some technology that could reliably execute if-then instructions.

(Recalling a time when people would say: "If only we had something [Google] that could look up an answer for that.")
> Your comments are also just anecdotes, except that they are second-order, based on your anecdotal impression of what you've read

I really doubt that the Randian philosophy that took over the US since Reagan is 'just anecdotes'...
RIP UK tech industry
I run an M1 mini with 16GB with 10 discord servers and hundreds of Safari tabs. Chrome is the hog here.
I learnt ruby with Zed Shaw’s Learn Ruby the Hard Way. Was a really great experience!
Before they switched to image-based updates over APFS, the issue was partially with the upgrade process.

My personal record stood at a bit over one week spent observing a dark screen with unmoving progress bar in the hopes that this time it will actually finish the upgrade.
Seems that you misread...
Sad how much the price ramps up beyond reasonable for what it is when you bump ram and storage.
"we’ll need to get used to [artificial meat] to avert a climate catastrophe."

Or we could just eat traditional vegetarian dishes, which are superior from the perspective of health, water/land use, and - in my humble opinion - flavor.
Another reason the Air is a good choice for most people is that it doesn't have a fan. I've cleaned quite a bit of dust/lint/etc. out of various laptops. Without a fan, that's much less likely to be an issue.

In one recent case, a family member was about to buy an entire new laptop because their old one was feeling very sluggish. I checked it out and realized that the fan had completely died and the system was constantly thermally throttling. A $12 replacement fan (and a thorough cleaning and CPU repaste) allowed them to put off a $1k+ purchase for at least a couple more years.
Apple nagware is a pain in the arse.

On my old MBP I get regularly nagged to update to Monterey. Despite it not being supported.

On my iPhone it wouldn't stop nagging me to accept changes to the iCloud T&Cs. There was no permanent opt out. You could say no for a bit and then it would go back to nagging you.

Same with Apple Music.

Currently my iPhone nags me to disable background running of Garmin Connect, so that I loose integration with my Garmin watch.

None of this endears Apple to me and is definitely a consideration for my next purchase.
> the reality is that the the whole process is just as deterministic and conscious-free as water flowing downhill

This isn't just an analogy, either...if the material happens to be water, it's _literally_ flowing downhill if it's falling into a black hole.
Incredibly weird, I have the same issue with bad cell reception in a lot of parks, so I tend to go into airplane mode and can send and receive SMS on T-Mobile‘s network with VoWiFi just fine. Have you tried reaching out to them?
The modern Chinese relationship to foreign retail distribution operations such as Germany's Metro, France's Carrefour, the US's Walmart and Sam's Club and even Swedish IKEA could also be framed in this light.
I'm getting tired of the self-righteous arrogant tone from journalism these days.

Even if they are right, they aren't winning hearts and minds this way.
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My M1 MBP wouldn't reconnect to my monitor via USB-C until I unplugged the monitor and plugged it back in. Of course, I had to go digging on forums to find that out.

Permission issues also arise after every upgrade. I purposely wait until the .1 so that other people find all these issues but it's still super annoying.
You have to pick the higher CPU variant apparently.
Yeah. Probably.
> perfectly simulate our precise physical characteristics down to the exacting neural biochemical fluxes in our brains. At every moment in our lives, they'll understand every thought we've ever had - already had and will ever have - better than we ourselves could conceive.

This assumes that the human experience is deterministic, and that all factors that determine the outcome are knowable. I don't buy either of those assumptions.

There's a book that ends with the distant descendants of humanity using a combination of a "read-only" time machine, advanced bioengineering, and virtually unlimited resources to resurrect every human being to the state just prior to their death - but I'm not 100% sure what it was called, and that was a plot twist at the very end of the book, so even if I'm right I wouldn't be able to share the title without it being a significant spoiler...
> P.S. Also looking for a good alternative to gmail if anybody has some suggestions.

Happy Migadu user here. No free tier, but it's just no nonsense hosting.
AWS partners with Avalanche to scale blockchain for enterprises, governments
If nation-states stop running servers, then the last one standing gets control of the network. The ROI is defensive (denying your adversary a resource), rather than offensive (dominating that resource yourself).
HarperDB 4.0 integrates with open-source connectivity platform NATS
I've been getting multiple of these per day. Nearly identical to one another, super spammy text and from obvious low quality email addresses. Reporting them as spam diligently doesn't seem to do improve anything.
HarperDB Inc. said today it’s boosting the capabilities of its Global Application Platform by integrating with the NATS open-source connective technology for adaptive edge and distributed systems.
Or at least, I'm having trouble accessing LinkedIn and a few other Microsoft sites right now
Two multi-head units should work just fine.
To state the obvious, Turbo Taxes website works on any device. No idea what an app would be needed for.
Most criminals (they're risk takers) don't really think these things out and a large percentage of them get away all the time. Stuff goes wrong, footage goes missing, cameras don't work, prosecution bungles some rules, etc.
It's pretty common in rural areas to have buried propane tanks that are refilled by trucks.

Depending on the climate and size of the tank, these might last all winter.

If you call that stockpiling, it's pretty easy, I'd say.

Much harder is the pretty capital intensive residential natural gas line.
Intel minis have upgradeable memory and their internals took up way more space compared to the (old) m1 mac mini at least.
This is the unfortunate situation we are in: software vendors are being banned by the governments from executing code on client side of websites.

It is mostly bad for European countries though, because inability to use advanced analytics could break business processes for companies that rely on them for their internal metrics. Which ultimately means, they will be forced to deliver a subpar product due to uninformed decisions.
Nim is a sleeper, plenty of GC options from ORC to manual and great C FFI.

Wish the big corps had backed it, or Zig, over drab stuff like Go.
Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)