skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a P1 Gen 4 and went to a 14” M1 MBP and agree.

Screen was a bit better in most ways, keyboard was massively better, and the 16” was lighter (barely) than my 14”.

That said, I ran Win11 (my work environment requires Win) and MacOS is a straight upgrade to that IMO.

I do miss that machine though.
Did you leave where you were living and retire to some other area?

Most family and friends I’ve spoken to are completely fine and generally supportive.

Even when I quit my $1m/yr job, people were like - “if it feels like prison and is making you miserable - do it. Life is too short.” I took up another job at a 60% paycut. That turned out to be terrible too. So now I’ve not been working since June and traveling and living in different areas. They’re all supportive cause they’re like, “you’re living the dream. No responsibilities. You have money to live off of. Do it!”

It’s hard to imagine finding anyone who isn’t supportive of retiring early and is actually your friend.
That’s unfortunate you had a terrible experience but in all fairness, you’re one data point. You can simply google “most reliable laptop” and see the that Apple is consistently ranked #1.

As for my own single data point, I have the following in my house and none have had any issues whatsoever:
- 2012 inch MacBook Pro
- 2017 12 inch MacBook
- 2019 MacBook Pro
- 2021 Intel MacBook Pro (Company machine)
- 2021 M1 MacBook Pro
Now I'm just picturing AI generating and sending emails so another AI can craft and send a response back.
The more I talk to OSS projects and VC backed software companies who need to not only build on ARM, but also test, the more I think we can do better here.

Until recently it looked like the older AWS a1.metal chip was the cheapest way to get bare-metal, but the offering from Hetzner is really something else. (No affiliation)

If you'd like to try out faster bare-metal feel free to reach out to me using the form on the website. Since we're doing "things that don't scale" because this is the beginning of the journey, we can even hook you up to one of our ARM servers if you want to see how much quicker builds will be.

Alex
Is the RAM and SSD upgradeable? The baseline model is 8GB / 256GB, and very reasonably priced at $600.

Upgrading to 24GB is a whopping $400, and to 1TB is another $400. The $700 baseline seems reasonable. $1500 for a minimum usable machine seems more than a little excessive.
To quote Dennis Ritchie.

"I can't read German, does that make it unreadable?".

Or to put it another way, we don't criticize James Clavelle's novel Shogun because it's difficult for a 10 year old to understand.
Younger generations are offsetting this with their own retirement savings.

I've seen it argued that millennials are under-saving compared to their parents, but I remember seeing some data recently that contradicted this assertion. I would not be surprised if it were less evenly-distributed across the economy than prior generations.

I don't think we are going to see net outflow from the stock market, maybe just a decrease in inflow.

However I do think "worker shortages" will continue to grow as older people retire from undesirable jobs and aren't replaced by younger people, pushing up wages outside of white-collar and tech jobs and thereby leading to more inflation. I think this is a good thing in the long term and a price adjustment that has been a long time coming, but it needs to be managed properly or things could get really ugly.
You use a touch screen and pen on something other than a nonfoldable/tablet? Interesting.

Thanks for the share.
The user can enable javascript.
You got me there! -- I did read, but only down as far as the download links. As they came after a substantial amount of blurb, I assumed they were the last item on the page and didn't scroll any further.

I humbly withdraw my snidey comment [although not the bit in regards to the Fediverse!]
Apple is the undisputed king of never putting actual benchmarks in their info-graphs
As I understand it, the seller creates new accounts if that happens. That’s why the same product shows up under a lot of stores.
Yeah, I bought one of those fancy hub/stand thing that was built for the Mini, I'd still rather have then ports built it. I got greenscreen crashes for a while any time I had it plugged in, which meant I was stuck with the built in ports.
OpenAI at least got permission from Shutterstock.

"The data we licensed from Shutterstock was critical to the training of DALL-E,” said Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO."

https://www.shutterstock.com/press/20435
You can also use an infant. Now that my youngest is two years old this doesn't work any more.
The ThinkPad P15 gen 1, shipped in 2020 with 128gb RAM available...

for example: https://www.techradar.com/news/this-is-the-best-value-128gb-...

So I don't see why Apple would make the claim that their 96gb setup can load models that PC laptops can't...
I also have a large collection I have downloaded over the years, primarily ones that I read when I was younger. I used an ipad to read them as that has the best screen resolution for such material for a portable device. The ipad unfortunatley broke last year and I haven't had enough money to replace it.

It is interesting to read things like letters to the editor to see what people of the day thought.
Multi-season series rarely work these days. They will be either cancelled too early (e.g. 1899), or closed/cancelled too late (e.g. Walking Dead). Both are disrespectful to the time the viewer spent on the series.

Limited series is the future.
"do things that don't scale" :)
> Most of my friends are both what I would call more frugal and more down to earth than their parents were because they had to live through multiple economic crashes.

Is it because they had to live through multiple economic crashes, or because their own prospects are worse than those of their parents and they know it?
It does not. Noscript is set by default to allow scripts.
Another anecdote: I have a M1 air and an m1 iMac both with 8GB and have never run into a problem.

I think 8gb is still the sweet spot for casual users.
Nope, soldered.
Yeah, I know it seems more likely that was a typo, but that's what they told me :) Tbf, roots, animals, and mowers probably aren't that big of an issue because it was mostly xeriscaped desert.
I can get an i7 T14 gen 3 with 16GB RAM and stick a new SSD and another 16Gb RAM in it for < £1500
Nice upselling tactic to get 32GB of RAM ... /s
Does someone of you use the whole potential that this kind of chip offers ? What do you use it for ?
"Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!"

No anthropomorphism there.
Out of curiosity, will we get more detail? Presumably the FBI would need to reveal to somebody how they obtained this information in order for it to be admissible as evidence ("he did this, trust us" probably won't fly in court), but is there a legal means by which they could do that without revealing their exact methods to the general public? (I don't actually know what the law says on this subject.)
Well, I think that's the debate at the moment and I don't know the answer: Are the relevant laws already there? Are new laws needed? Is it an issue with the way the police responds, of fails to respond, to these actions?
none of your business what dark web cookie recipe websites I maintain
Not at all. States can produce their own (and thus official) propaganda, but affiliates or supporters can do so on their own as well (unofficial).

When the ambassador of some country purchases advertising space in a national newspaper in the country they are stationed in and uses that to publish a letter or pamphlet, then that is likely officially sanctioned propaganda (the Chinese ambassador did this in the Netherlands to present the official Chinese view on certain matters related to China debated in Dutch media some years ago). That particular instance literally came with the stamp of approval (or rather the ambassador's signature).
And a whopping £200 to add an extra 8gb. Ouch.
Almost certainly. The Thunderbolt spec requires any port labeled "Thunderbolt 4" to support dual 4k/60hz displays.

You'll note that, for example, on the Macbook Air (both M1 and M2 versions), Apple labels the ports "Thunderbolt / USB 4," which is confusing and IMHO downright misleading. Either way, the reason they do that is that those ports don't support dual displays, so they only meet the Thunderbolt 3 spec, which doesn't mandate dual displays.

A better label for the Macbook Air might be just "USB 4," or "USB 4 with Thunderbolt 3 support" (though TB3 is part of the USB 4 spec, so that's technically redundant).

USB/Thunderbolt standards are fun.
I honestly don't know, but if you assume that your sellers are honest, you can pay for refunds out of future sales.
That's (confusingly) a different MagSafe.

Apple has MagSafe connectors for charging on laptops, which was the original MagSafe. The name comes from the connector being magnetic, and being "safe" since tripping over the cable would make it disconnect without pulling your laptop off the table. They discontinued this in favour of charging through USB-C cables/ports a while back.

They then introduced magnetic charging for iPhones, similar to (but IIRC not exactly) their Qi charging support. This reused the MagSafe name since they didn't have any products with it. The evolution of this is speculated to be incorporated and standardised as Qi2.

Then they introduced the MagSafe charging connector back to their laptops (but updated), and so confusingly there's two basically unrelated features both called MagSafe. Maybe that'll get cleared up a bit once Qi2 comes out.
First, just to repeat, you don't need to modularise your app to use jlink. You modularise to enjoy additional security and evolution benefits.

> How easy is it for the average greenfield enterprise to start as a modular app?

As easy as a non-modularised one.

> How easy is it for the average brownfield enterprise app started 10 years ago to convert to a modular app?

This one is harder to answer because you can only modularise (i.e. encapsulate in modules) code that is actually modular (cleanly separates API and implementation into different packages, no circular dependencies among components that are to become modules etc.). So it depends on how modular your codebase already is. In many situations it could require a not-insignificant refactoring, and so worth it if you really want the best security and encapsulation (which was the case for the JDK itself, which is now fully modularised). In other situations it could make sense to leave things alone and only modularise new project components (modules and code outside modules can mix).

Either way, modular or not, using link to produce a custom runtime is a good idea!
Yeah I have a rather large and horrible stacked Dell 7670 here. I mostly use my MBP as a desktop machine though.
The British can't take a dump without the US ordering them to. So it amounts to the same thing.
They did not re-introduce the already-eliminated touch bar.
They did say 20% faster CPU and 30% faster GPU than M1 series in the same thermal envelope.

Intel doesn’t really seem to make any strides in low-power designs, they just throw more mid-power cores at the problem to achieve better multi core efficiency as well as manipulate power brackets. Shirt-time (benchmark-relevant) consumption of Intel chips is insane and their published TDP figures are utterly meaningless. AMD has very scalable cores and Zen4 performs admirably at low power, but AMD too falls victim to power inflation to keep pace with Intel.
The trick is, when you have deterministic destruction you can use it for many more things than just memory management. E.g. need to add a metric to measure how many "somethings" are active - just attach a tracker to the struct representing that "something" and the tracker can count itself because it knows exactly when it is created and destroyed. We tried to add such metrics system to a Java app another day, and it turned out to be virtually impossible because due to GC nondeterminism we couldn't tell when most of the objects die.
A person might still use Tor because they would rather have only the Feds know what porn they look at rather than have the Feds and everyone else know what porn they look at.
Not upgradable. But "minimum usable" all depends on usage - for a lot of users, 8GB / 256GB is sufficient, especially in office or education.
Never had an issue with Firefox on M1. Time to give it a try?
I interpret op to be suggesting Tor isn’t as anonymous of one who conducts illicit activity would assume. That seems to be the trend time and time again.
No, not weird, it is called having good taste. For OLED that means DC dimming not PWM dimming - big difference. And with all of the Ryzen Thinkpads there is no excuse for not having ECC when all of the Ryzen mobile CPUs they're using already support it. I don't get the touchscreen thing, but you can always use one of those artist pads via USB and not affect your screen and be decoupled from the rest of your system (USB peripheral).
Indians view US as biggest threat after China, survey shows
E-girl influencers are trying to get Gen Z into the military
> They tend to not sacrifice longevity over flashy technologies.

Hah! That gave me a good chuckle.

There's nothing that screams "longevity" as going out of your way to make all devices utterly irreparable.
Author here, I tried to make this article as balanced as possible, and even talked about Rust's advantages in concurrency and encouraging cleaner architectures and the disadvantages of MMM and GC approaches (plus other aspects, see my other comment down-thread about this).

There are actually 45 citations in the article on all angles, but I think you're talking specifically about the anecdotes.

Regarding the anecdotes, I had to add more of those to the borrow checking sections because it was the most surprising to my initial readers. Very little discussion online actually compares borrow checking to higher-level languages with good development velocity; most discussion online compares it to languages like C, C++, Javascript, or Python, so this was new to most readers.

The article also explicitly mentioned that those were anecdotes and colored them differently, so that people didn't mistake them as data.

They also made that part of the article much longer than it was originally.

I can see how that could come across as biased. Perhaps I should have added citations to the other parts of the article so their distribution was more uniform.

When you look at the content itself, it's pretty balanced I'd say (hence the focusing on the other benefits of borrow checking plus the downsides of GC), it's unfortunate that's not coming through as much.
BBC which is run by BritishIntel Services, one of the very first things that they did when the war in Ukraine exploded was to set up many new TOR nodes

But yeah, TOR is certainly a double edged sword, but I am led to believe that they assess that it's offensive capabilities to pierce against Anglo-Oligarchy enemies offsets the drawbacks it produces on how they themselves deal with homefront dissidents

My take is that, well, yeah, that's one of the benefits of having overwhelming power and capabilities, that they can afford to take one or two punches in the nose, if that means that they will beat the ever living shit out of their actual enemies
An important skill is being able to distinguish between "stuck due to lack of technical knowledge" and "stuck because of inscrutable bureaucracy". The first, you can research, experiment and rubber-duck your way to a solution solo. The latter, the only way you're going to find out is to talk to someone inside the organization who holds the secret sauce.
Yeah, I'd assume this is largely _actually_ about complexity. Maybe there is more manual QA, but probably not a _thousand people_ doing manual QA.
They're not even that expensive as tools go, either.

My Festool Domino was $1200. It makes one particular hole in a piece of wood. It's very, very good at it--but it doesn't replace my tablesaw ($600) or my bandsaw ($700) or my tracksaw ($400) or my drill/driver ($300) or my jointer ($600) or my planer ($900) or my drill press ($500) or or or--and I did not buy particular spendy variants of any of those, except the Domino. (I could've easily spent $2000 on a tablesaw alone.)

Contrast this to a $2500 Macbook Pro, which is a future computer from beyond the moon that can do a ton of revenue-relative work without even kicking on its fans, and can watch Netflix besides. It is also small; it provides all those benefits in a thing that can fit on your coffee table, without the ongoing costs of storing actually expensive tools (edit: as mentioned downthread, for me that's about $550 a month based on my mortgage's square footage calculation).

Computer people complaining about computer costs when they're paid six figures for what they do with them is...it really needs to stop. It's silly.
The U.S. seeks to cut off China from Dutch semiconductors
The lack of dedicated DisplayPort ports is fairly disappointing to me since their implementation is just "native DisplayPort output over USB‑C" and it doesn't support MST, so you can only do one displayport signal per port, even with a thunderbolt 4 hub with some bidirectional USB-C <-> Displayport cables.
"what exactly were you expecting?"

Exactly my thoughts. In the end it gets up to the developers are to blame by not taking time to upgrade their projects and end up with a legacy project.

PHP does the deprecation and backward compatibility better than many languages (hello Python!) but still some effort is needed as a developer to ensure your codebase is updated. I'm not even talking about the architecture here, which of course is harder to change, but language features.

And there is Rector to automate most of that!
> It's what someone in marketing does.

The linked website for this discussion is marketing.
I could picture and hear this in my head!
At what point is the intent defined. Do all of the animals out there not just "do what they do"? I can see how the analogy isn't great but I think it's closer than it initially seems
Mac Mini M2
Tor has a lot of pretty gnarly trade offs that will naturally keep usage low outside of people who really need it. The latency is nontrivial, exit nodes are congested and lots of sites don’t want to deal with Tor because so much abuse flows through it. Tor definitely has a similar problem to like voat or gab: a community with a strict no-witch-burning philosophy ends up filled with witches.
Dual, not single, gig-e? 2 x m.2 slots not crappy SD slots? Faster processor? Can run regular Windows (or even ESXi) if Linux/BSD isn't what I need?

And that's ignoring there's no RPi 4 you can get or have been able to get for $35 unless maybe you're ordering hundreds. The last one I bought was around $120.
The M1 Air I'm typing on has been shot down from desk to floor due to a golden retriever tripping on the charging cable running after a ball. It flew about 2m horizontally, and the height of the desk vertically. It has a very noticeable bump on the corner of the case. The screen though, is good as new.
Yeah, hawking things is a bit of a new world to me. Good timing for the question, though. We've been collecting testimonials just last week and have a brands block for the website ready to go, pending one more approval. So that's coming RSN.

Some firms who said we can point to their usage of it (these are all JVM based):

- HEBI Robotics. They make robot kits and ship apps that allow you to control them with Conveyor.

- GoToTags. They make NFC tags and just launched an app to work with them.

- IonSpin. "mementō is a simple and modern file management solution". They aren't fully launched yet I think.

- AdCentral. An app for managing various kinds of ad campaigns in physical stores (if I understood correctly).

There are others, that's just a subset of the ones we've asked for testimonials. There's also some open source projects that use it. So far there's definitely a theme of apps that do things with specialist hardware, which isn't a big surprise.

We also dogfood it for systemd managed servers, but that's kinda experimental. I'm still trying to figure out if there's anything useful to do there, like to go from a build.gradle to a set of pushed/updated servers in one step without Docker (or maybe with Docker). Like it'd make a linked standalone app, upload the files to the server(s), integrate it with systemd then start the apps. But maybe nobody would find that useful. Server ops is such a heavily invested-in space already.
As a heavy Linux user for two decades I disagree. You can't even talk about Linux vs MacOS because the actual distribution you use matters a lot more than the kernel when you talk about productivity.

Using Mint, Elementary or whichever GUI distribution you would like to use with the Linux kernel has completely different tradeoffs in terms of GUI, which implies different productivity levels.

There is more. Even with the best case scenario you need to customise the GUI much more than you need to customise MacOS, for example energy management is a bit a of problem for most Linux based distros.

This simply happens because Apple owns the whole vertical from HW to GUI and they focus on the user. They have done this for decades. There is no such entity in the non-Apple world and this means there is more work for the user when trying to create a working environment.
Open-source tool to manage events from the perspective of people attending
Since you say EUR, I suppose you're in Europe. Which means that your broken screen should be covered by the EU rules mandating at least two years guarantee:

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...

" You always have the right to a minimum 2-year guarantee at no cost, regardless of whether you bought your goods online, in a shop or by mail order.

This 2-year guarantee is your minimum right, however national rules in your country may give you extra protection.

If goods you bought anywhere in the EU turn out to be faulty or do not look or work as advertised, the seller must repair or replace them free of charge or give you a price reduction or a full refund. "
Realistically, what would need to happen for it to not be the case? How many millions or billions of people would have to use it before the government would give up and stop looking at you if you use it?
Not really, kind of clear the watermark is from Getty Images with no licence, no partnership, not even removing it from the training data and with no permission, all the while making money from the hosted service (with the trained model) with Dreamstudio.

Just because it's a scrambled watermark doesn't mean it's transformative.

Also, these images are copyrighted and it being generated by an AI (supposedly) turns it into a public domain image, which is incompatible with fair use.
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