skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple laptops are not expensive if you take into account how long they last, especially compared to laptops built by Lenovo et al.
Surely this applies to everything though?
Yeah, the cold slab is always a shock.

You can get it to warm up pretty quickly by running a local instance of Stable Diffusion or any CPU intensive task.
But this isn't marketing, it's a review with battery life benchmarks with a variety of scenarios...
I got the 16" M1 Max from work and adore it. I do Rails mostly and it's fantastic. We have a Rails based ETL app that pulls data from Oracle into a local Postgres with tons and tons of transformations. The Mac significantly outperforms our production server with Xeon Gold CPUs despite running the app in Rosetta due to Oracle's lack of arm64 support.

I've also never heard the fan, even running 100% load for hours. I'm sure it's spinning a bit but you can't hear it and the machine isn't hot. My Coworkers' Dell laptops sound like a vacuum just running a Teams meeting.
Granian maintainer here.
As other people pointed out, the project relies on the Hyper Rust project, which at the moment doesn't support HTTP/3. Once the project will add support for this, will be implemented in Granian as well.
Collaborating with Python/Web is a great way Rust to market itself.
If I replace it one day, it might be for a "miniITX" (whatever MB size corresponds to ~1 liter PCs) but I fear the cost of the case + specific MB + low-power processor with many threads + good NVME SSD will be through the roof, compared to this cheap used T320, and they're hard to find in used form, at least for now.
Or one of those springs that some doors use to dampen impacts with the wall.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ocvBI_vtJwA
If you need more than 1 external display you go with an M1 Pro or M1 Max. They support 2 and 4 screens respectively. Buying an entry level model and expecting it to come with higher end features is a user issue, not a product issue.
Well written, but it reads like a fiction based on a real story.
Thank you Sony.

I would so buy a standalone music player with buttons and OMG .... a motherfucking 3.5mm headphone jack.

So simple.

I don't get how removing essential things became "progress" and demanded "courage" from the consumer to accept.
Right, so MSG clearly is considered a legit public venue, but the small local theatre group in the alley may still be able to bar people of their choosing.
> ... I do not feel a whole lot of empathy towards lawyers that are actively suing the venue? This article even outlines how this practice has been done in NYC for like a hundred years.

Not liking the people, their profession or who they're suing is a terrible standard for a society to operate under because I guarantee you there is something you do or believe in that someone else objects to (rightly or wrongly) and if you find yourself barred from some broad activity because of that, you would probably feel differently.

How far do you want to take that? Imagine she has a family and this job supports said family. Aren't they benefitting from her activities? Should MSG bar them too?

Also, her firm is suing MSG. She's not involved in the case.
Related: an independent reverse engineering of a network that "grokked" modular addition:

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/N6WM6hs7RQMKDhYjB/a-mec...

One interesting thing is that this network similarly does addition using a Fourier transform.
Agreed. Way too many people seem to think that any asteroid impact would be similar to a thermonuclear device and could somehow be "survivable", which would only be true for relatively "small" asteroids.

The reality is that a large enough or fast enough mass hitting not only Earth but any of it's neighboring planets could completely destabilize the solar system on a (literally) planetary scale. So even our fear of asteroids hitting earth is already too modest as we should really worry about them hitting any planet, especially the inner ones.
Comes from a 'military family' doesn't really sound like a qualification, did he not serve in the military at all? Because it would seem like you would lead with ones own qualifications and not of his family.

Ihe US equivalent of this role is currently held by a retired general.
I had a one-handed watch once that was called "About Time" since you could only ever know about what time it was!
> What number of vulns would be acceptable to you?

Please stop trying to avoid the question.

Either you based your personal assertions on concrete data, or you're just a clueless troll spewing baseless nonsense.

You've repeatedly tried to dance your way out if substantiating your extraordinary claims.

Either you're able to come up with any semblance of support for your claims, or you can't. What is it?
Shaping Your Authenticity
I don't understand why these products still exist.

The audio out of my iPhone with good headphones is excellent. It's certainly the greatest portable audio solution I've had in my lifetime. Not needing another device is a real boon for me, so I have a hard time understanding why you'd choose a single-purpose player in 2023.
Germany is anything if not bureaucratic, and in this bureaucracy was the information encoded on how to run things.

Recently, attempts were made to privatize these bureaucratic behemoths, by having mc kinsey experts advise the military bureaucracy. Resulting in lots of key personal quitting and joining the consulting company. Now the state organs have dementia, unless he rehires the expensive external experts.

Which can lead to ministers looking ineffective if they do not rehire the privatized personal at any price. But then again, the bundeswehr minister post was usually one to send over-eager future political enemies to die. Van der Leyen was originally leading that resort.
So what, realistically, could they do here, if they had lack of interest for their own customers? Disable USB Mass Storage transfer functionality? Disabling being able to play non-DRMed files?
The Code of Capital, the legal infrastructure of modern capitalism
Capital doesn’t just exist out in the world for us to use. Economic value is actively created by the legal system. Our current economy is built on top of a "feudal calculus," according to Katharina Pistor, a professor of comparative law and the director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia University. And her most recent book, which is called “The Code of Capital,” completely re-imagines how we think about this base layer of our economy.

Legal tools developed hundreds of years ago in England to protect the rights of landlords over commoners have been applied to more and more kinds of assets over time, to the point where they now undergird our entire economic system in ways that are often invisible to most of us, even as they shape so much of our lives.

This is a transcript of her interview by Roge Karma on the Ezra Klein podcast, New York Times, 13-Jan-2023.
Other companies haven't even figured out how to get a trackpad as good as Apple's. If they can't even get the trackpad right there's no hope.
> The world is run by people who seriously think that we’ll have the means soon to terraform Mars (we won’t)

This is the straw-man I was complaining about.

Here's a direct quote from Musk, saying the exact opposite ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1329205209915154433 )

"Terraforming will be too slow to be relevant in our lifetime. However, we can establish a human base there in our lifetime."

> or at least put a million people there

That's an incredibly different question (see the sibling comment about Motte and Bailey fallacies).

A million people on Mars seems plausible, if we take "soon" to mean a century or two (Musk seems to have an incredibly optimisitic goal of 2050, but that still seems the right order of magnitude)
It's not really Apples job to build a copy of Linux for their hardware. You want it, you build it. There's nothing stopping it running.
On macOS apps can specify a desired Quality of Service per thread, and so background threads get scheduled to th power-efficient E cores. I don't know if Windows has any similar mechanism, and Posix threads certainly don't.
The device would just need to run Android to support all streaming services because Apple Music has an Android app.
Can't they wear a disguise? Fake mustache, etc? They could remove them when they are inside the venue. Ah, I see they have tried that.

> Alan Greenberg is a fan of Jerry Seinfeld. He is also, through his firm Greenberg Law P.C., representing a fan who sued Madison Square Garden after being assaulted at a Rangers game. That meant it could be tricky for him to attend a Seinfeld show at the Beacon Theater, which is owned by MSG Entertainment. He sued, so had a preliminary injunction in hand when he attended the show — but he also grew a beard to try to evade facial recognition.
140M people are born every year, but only 60M people die every year. We'll need to do something if the birth rate keeps increasing or even stays steady, or even slows down, but the death rate stops.
15 year+ consultant through my own company with recurring clients and more work than I can handle (and no interest in delegating or growing)

Never needed to network. Don't have to market myself. Never had or needed a full time position and never been short of work.

Get to know good recruiters who have streams of contract work with goal based outcomes.

Learn how the contracts are managed by middle men and understand why consultants and contractors are needed and what risk profiles they serve.

I'm used when times are tough, deadlines are tight or goals absolutely have to be hit.

My day rate is higher than my peers.

I'd say do it, find your niche and be ome the goto person for a specific kind of work.
Keeping Up on Appearances
It's an unpopular view, but I agree. As a touch typist who doesn't eat at my computer, I never experienced the key sticking issue.

I use the HHKB full time now, but if I had to use the stock keyboard, my first choice would the 2016 butterfly keyboard (pre-membrane).
I never claimed as such. From the comment you replied to:

>Sure, getting tracked isn't great, but it's not exactly the hypocrisy rage-bait that the OP is implying.
Clicks on link with bold thoughts of ‘I can handle anything’

Nope. The tears came for sure.
so, ceo's are trying to end remote tech workers domestically, but for less cost, are open to workers even farther away.
For Stable Diffusion I think the average number of bits in the model compared to the number of training images is in the order of 6-8 bits per image. There is no "storage" of the training images. It's 250 TB data in, and 1.4 GB in the weight file or so depending on the precision.. I think those 250 TB are compressed as well, so maybe 25,000 TB raw data in distilled down to 1.4 GB. I fairly certain you could never prove an AI saw your image. You'd have to sue the company and by discovery look at their training data.

There are probably pathological cases where a repeating image is more strongly overfit in the training data and could be reproduced in much more detail than this average though. But the systems learn similar to the human brain, they learn the gist of a style or scene and how it relates to words. It's not a search engine, it doesn't copy/paste any block of pixels...

One interesting example is that since SD's original training set included some stock photo watermarked images, it learned that there was a concept of watermark, which can end up in the middle of generated images. Not in an intelligible way, but you can see roughly how it interpreted this detail. And in those cases you DO have a very very repeating similar pixel bitmap in the training data.
Where do you find these roles
Who said they screwed up? The engineer could well have suggest the right solution, but management saw an opportunity to Design for Repair. No one builds things to last anymore, particularly not cars.
It's interesting to see these unconventional solutions. Genetic algorithms evolving antenna design produce similar illogical but very efficient designs. Humans have a draw to aesthetic. Robots don't have such limitations.
Wood houses can easily last 400+ years.

Building longevity is mostly a question of changing demands. Old buildings in major cities can’t compete with skyscrapers.
> Amazon doesn't allow "personal documents" sent via email to have covers

This doesn’t appear to be true. I have several non Amazon epubs that I sent using the web interface, all with covers.
> There's no reason to believe that Mars will magically become a political paradise, simply because it's a long distance away from here.

Obviously it won't be a paradise. But the natural environment will select for hard-working individuals with grit, determination, and community spirit.
Great work, and a really interesting application of GPT3. Some time ago I developed Datasloth [1] which might be a nice complementary feature to Sketch. Ping me if you're interested to bounce ideas :)

[1] https://github.com/ibestvina/datasloth
The battery life is amazing. But just as amazing is that my hands don't sweat when using my laptop anymore because it doesn't get anywhere near as hot as other laptops when under load.
wow, do you understand it can't run on windows? so guess you require student who bought windows computer give up programming? last time, I installed Racket and get sicp module. guess people really need move to JavaScript. at least, they don't need to spend time on this.
‘A Cautionary Tale’: An Arizona Suburb’s Water Is Cut Off
My M2 MacBook Air is the best computer I've owned, bar none. Can confirm the battery life, easily 22+ hours in my use.

My only known downside to low power consumption: when I wake, I usually lie in for 30 minutes of surfing with the M2 on my chest. It's quite cold. I usually visit a compute-intensive site like Ventusky to warm it up for a couple of minutes.

First world problems....
I am not sure how pointing out that Twitter has not, over the course of a decade, managed to make a client as good as third-party ones made with 1/1000th the headcount, nor figured out a way to monetize them, is “in support” of Twitter. Should I just edit in a few “Space Karens” to make you feel better?
Not too surprising. Each layer can multiply each input by a set of weights, and add them up. That's all you need, in order to convert from base 2 to base 10. In base 2, we calculate the value of a set of digits by multiplying each by 2^0, 2^1, ..., 2^n. Each weight is twice the previous. The activation function is just making it easier to center those factors on zero to reduce the magnitude of the regularization term. I am guessing you could probably get the job done with just two neurons in the first layer, which output the real value of each input, one neuron in the second layer to do the addition (weights 1, 1), and 8 neurons in the final layer to convert back to binary digits.
When will air source heat pumps be ready for service in cold weather climates without gas backup?
I carry an M1 Macbook Air (for xcode) and an LG Gram 17 running Kubuntu for everything else (which is most of what I do). The Gram is probably the best laptop I've ever owned (it replaced an XPS-15) - it's bigger (13" vs 17"), lighter (2oz less than the air) and gets crazy life out of the battery.

When new, the Gram got 11-16 hours of battery (it now gets 8-10 hours) under development load (i.e running a node app, a go app and a Django backend, plus support servers). The Air hasn't been used as hard as the Gram, but it's battery gets similar performance. On the power management front, everything works on the air. On the Gram, hibernate is disabled, and sleep works (I've left the Gram in my bag over a three day weekend, and it was at about 20% on Tuesday when I opened it up). I ran Windows for about a week on the Gram and it did got less than eight hours of battery. No idea why.
1 sounds like an abomination of a program. Adding in 2? I hope 3 just means a file system browser. 5 is netcat or do you want to receive them too?
And time. Restaurants are very time consuming.
This is great, would love it on my wrist! I think digitally making analog clocks is a really fun exercise in design. Basically asking "how far can I stretch this concept without breaking it?" I've made a small CodePen collection of such experiments: https://codepen.io/collection/AQawkJ
Of course, it's their money. I just found it quite surprising.
get with the program. Printf in its 86 varieties has been around for years.

Second, I'm increasingly associating that brit 70s show "keeping up appearances" with rust specifically that overly blushed face of the woman protagonist.
Aren’t these sites just a race to the bottom for devs especially with global reach
He was making an absurd statement to prove a point. No need to go all Good Will Hunting on us.
"if the birth rate keeps increasing" is another of your assumptions that most demographers find unrealistic. Rising incomes have solved this problem (perhaps too well) in every single advanced economy on Earth.

Is your assumption that certain developing societies aren't capable of this? Or won't do this? If that's the case, why? Why are we extrapolating current birth rates in places like West Africa 100 years into the future? That didn't happen anywhere else.
Yup I sell mine after 3 years, still get at least half its value back. Zero chance of getting anything close to that with a Dell/HP/Lenovo/etc
What did Apple do?
I'd say it's more that the network "discovered" that addition is something its own structure does "naturally", and reduced the problem into decoding binary input, and encoding binary output. In particular, I don't think it's specifically about the CPU having an addition operator.

My intuition is as follows: if I were to train this network with pencil, paper and a slide rule, I'd expect the same result. Addition (or maybe rather integration) is embedded in the abstract structure of a neural network as a computation artifact.

Sure, specifics of the substrate may "leak through" - e.g. in the pen-and-paper case, were I to round everything to first decimal space, or in the computer case, was the network implemented with 4-bit floats, I'd expect it not to converge because of loss of precision range (or maybe figure out the logic gate solution). But if the substrate can execute the mathematical model of a neural network to sufficient precision, I'd expect the same result to occur regardless of whether the network is run on paper, on a CPU, an fluid-based analog computer, or a beam of light and a clever arrangement of semi-transparent plastic plates.
Remember that the Teletypes were old school telco, mostly output devices, repurposed for computers. They were constructed first to be extremely durable, and then somewhere way down the list of requirements, easy on the users. The typical use case wasn't to pound on them all day long (tho some did), and you can tell.

Seem to recall that ergonomics really took off in the 80s and 90s, as people started suing for things like RSI which made companies start to care. I remember that was when everyone seemed to be swapping out for adjustable chairs and bolting keyboard trays on desks and having everyone take ergo training.
QC20 are not an option for me because of the extra device that is built into the cord close to where you plug it into the mp3-player. It makes handling of the whole system cumbersome.

I guess the noise-cancelling has to be built into the mp3-player to avoid this. I have not seen elegant in-ear headphones with built-in noise-cancelling yet.
Not like we can count on it, but most of the living space in the universe is not on the surface of planets but rather could be built out of carbon and water rich asteroids (though it is Nitrogen that looks like the hardest thing to get right now)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07487

is a plan to build a structure that could support a population larger than the Earth. (I'd read that paper not just as boosterism or science fiction but also as a criticism of other space colonization schemes whose problems it addresses.)

That kind of colony would be a solar economy but with deuterium-deuterium fusion you could support a similar lifestyle in the outer solar system or interstellar space. Hopping from comet to comet with a comfortable lifestyle, travelers could make it from star to star in 10,000 years ago but they might be completely uninterested in comparatively dry inner solar system bodies like the Earth and Mars when you could cut up a planet like Pluto to create much more living space.

Mars is a small planet compared to the Earth. If you actually want to widen mankind's prospects, look to the asteroid belt, where it takes just 10⁷ kg of material per person to build a habitat as opposed to the 10ⁱ⁶ kg of planet needed to support you.

So I think asteroids are a more interesting target than Mars, probably not that much harder but a much larger reward. Mars is a smaller planet than the Earth and would have a hard time outgrowing us, but Ceres really could be a path to the stars.
It staggers me that this is still a problem, because *more than 20 years ago* I switched from Win98 on a ThinkPad to a G3 Powerbook partly because of sleep.

I was working almost exclusively in Office docs back then, and the Mac and Win suites were (then as now) file-format compatible. What coding I did was on *nix servers I could SSH to. And I got real, real tired of often-crashing, slow-booting, sleep-sucks Win98 on a laptop.

Then I noticed a colleague who'd come into the consulting group from the design side, and kept his Mac. He could just open it, do something, and close it. And then open it again, and have it wake up normally. It crashed marginally less often than Win98 (this is pre-OS X), but the boot time was MUCH faster, so the crashes were less annoying. I bought a Mac and have been here ever since.

And you're telling me that even today, in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three, that sleep still doesn't work for shit on big-name Windows laptops? That's bananas.
both the comments are generalizations :), AIX development and support has been happening from IBM Labs India for a long time (Had some former colleagues who were into it) & if anything platforms like AIX are legacy Unix flavors that will probably not get a lot of people who'd be excited about that.
Why can’t my whole home participate in this technology? It would seem an ok fit for things like freezers, refrigerators, hot water heaters, etc.

When it’s freezing cold outside, it seems crazy that I warm the air of my house and then use electricity to keep the fridge cooler than the air I just heated.

Someone needs to make a standard for moving heat/cool through all appliances in a house…
"Plan to throw one away, you will anyhow" - Fred Brooks
Refuting those claims doesn't require misattributing them.
Even in the far flung magical fusion driven mckendree cylinder spinning future, we will have gasoline. It will be expensive to make, messy, but it is some of the most shelf stable, energy dense, and human handlable energy storage in existence. The jerrycan will be a tool in the human toolbox forever and this is probably how it will get made.
It was such a good story I was sure I'd read it before on here and well worth another read
People can always pay for stuff, download it and then refund it, or even request chargeback on the credit card, and then still be able to play for free.

Any sort of DRM protection doesn't really stop piracy, if someone really wants to pirate a digital product, there are always way to do it, unless the product is entire server-dependent.
RWSL take it a step further and are actually automatic based on ASDE. No controller input necessary.

I'm not aware of the costs to install it but I really wish it was everywhere. It's an incredibly handy confirmation for clearances given by ATC.
That is one place where Mac needs to improve, largely because you end up using VMs instead of containers to simulate your favorite container platform for development.
Yes, it was invented by Lauren Brichter in Tweetie, which was purchased by Twitter to become the official first-party client.