skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Borchers' claim is fair for regular use, like surfing, light image editing and the like. However, there are several professional workflows that we highlighted in our Apple Silicon Mac Pro review from just after WWDC, and will again in our M3 Max MacBook Pro review, that demand the RAM. His comments likely won't hold much water with those users."

... then why can't they buy more RAM?

"I wish Apple charged me more for more RAM by default, instead of my having to choose to pay more for more RAM" ?
There was no way in 80386, except by pushing EIP on the stack within a CALL.

In 64-bit Intel/AMD CPUs, the instruction LEA (load effective address), with an address relative to RIP, can be used to save the instruction pointer in a register, then a jump to any address will arrive there providing the old instruction pointer in the register, ready to be used without popping it from the stack.

In all modern pipelined CPUs there are multiple copies of the instruction pointer, one that runs ahead providing the instruction fetch addresses, and an older value that provides base addresses for relative jumps and for relative loads or stores.
Because the tech and finance industry is kinda stupid like that, we pretty much only know how much revenue YouTube have, not the profit. I think it's fairly safe to assume that YouTube is generating a substantial profit for Alphabet, has they have no qualms about shutting down a service if the profit isn't large enough (Google Domains comes to mind).

So there's a level of greed at YouTube as there certainly could be fewer ads, and lower margins. I also don't think it's unreasonable to question if there is a "quality" ad market large enough to support YouTube at it's current profit level. They show a lot of ads, and they are pretty terrible, they also can't be worth much.

For $23 you get YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, for six people. The largest chunk of that money is actually for YouTube Music (I believe it's $11 for Music and $4 for Premium, for a single person). I'd be surprised if YouTube isn't making money on both the single and family plan. YouTube channels like Linus Tech Tips have pointed out publicly that YouTube Premium contributes a fair chunk of money in their revenue, so not all of the cost of the subscription goes to YouTube. That means that either the ads are subsidizing Premium or the ads bring in just a few dollars per month per user.

While I have no insights and I'm just speculating, it's currently my belief that online video ads are close to worthless, meaning that they are also cheap enough that the shittiest companies can afford to buy them. So you need to show more and more, and accept increasingly intrusive ads to generate the same profit as earlier.
For undergrad I did a business degree specializing in “computer information systems” as I couldn’t find an applicable CS degree. I was a full time architect with 10 years xp and learned really nothing directly useful in work. But the soft skills were kind of nice. Made some relationships too, but they’ve never helped me in work.

For masters I went to a very reputable school in my field and studied something new. Learned a lot, but hard to know what’s helped and what didn’t. I think it gave me basic context knowledge in my new field. Made lots of relationships with students, not they helped with work. With faculty led to future work (teaching, volunteer work).
The "supply shortfall" is due to the requirement that the DNA of the organ has to match up with the DNA of the recipient in order for the organ to function and the fact that the organ has a very short "shelf life" when outside of the donor's body. You can't just randomly stuff organs into people and expect a good outcome, and you can't just stockpile them.

Until we can customize the DNA in the organ for the intended recipient and manufacture them on demand with a short lead time, we are going to have some kind of lack of availability issue. Our issues are not a bunch of power-tripping sociopaths sitting on a hoard of organs deciding who lives or dies, they are trying to rapidly identify who is physically close enough and who genetically matches in the hours you have when an organ becomes available, and is there any opportunity for a cascade donation to be brought into the mix (is this organ compatible with someone who has a willing but incompatible donor who is compatible with someone else, and does that person have a willing but incompatible donor, and so on down the line)

(Edit: I have been informed that the paywalled article, which I cannot read, is about a UK system; I am only familiar with the kidney system in the US. This post probably does not reflect UK practice)
No. Two people with access to the highest level of state secrets have in public acknowledged something which although officially a state secret, has in fact been public knowledge since the Snowden revelations.
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I am also noticing a massive improvement over the old model
The contextual parent asked, in response to a comment lamenting the they don't want to pay for the Pro iPhone model to get high USB speeds, why you need high speed USB-C outside of some niche cases related to video (where you are already bound to want the Pro model for the better camera). The response was that the main benefit (of high speed USB-C) is that you can standardize on USB-C cables.

But it is not clear why high speed USB-C cables are not compatible with the iPhone 15, which has USB-C but does not support high USB speeds. If it were, then the purported main benefit would also be found on that device, leaving the question to be unanswered and the attempt at a response nonsensical.
The Imagination Muscle (2014)
Pikuniku is an independent platformer, where you cannot mostly not die except some boss encounter, but some part can be difficult for a 5 years old. It is mainly single player, with a small 2 player part. Available on Switch & PC at least.
Ugh, even if you have been accepted into the Copilot Chat preview for VSCode you have to apply separately to use it in a JetBrains IDE. Surely they use the same core API?
But it doesn't solve it; it just deters some of it. If all it takes is to pay money, you can wave your penis at anyone. A paid service applies a downward pressure on spam, sure, but you can't go without moderation.
I wonder how many visits your gethub page gets
So, I can load a 12GB file into memory without swapping? Cool!
I currently have 16GB which is fine but maybe 24GB would be better for future-proofing?
Yeah, most aspiring entrepreneurs don’t want to pause for graduate study at Oxford.

It’s like saying Y Combinator has failed to produce a single National Book Award nominee, or judging Juilliard by how many future dentists studied there.
How can you be sure Cursor isn’t just pilfering your entire codebase? Where’s the trust factor? Does look cool tho
How old were you when you first used the internet, and how supervised were you?
I think the only reasoning for this is to charge a much higher premium for 16Gb+
It’s like a marketing gimmick…
> And having to parse more code is harder than parsing less code.

I'd rather parse three straightforward copies with minor differences than one chunk of dry spaghetti. And in assign & test case, splitting them makes debugging much easier.
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That’s just FUD, regardless of what storage manufacturer we’re talking about.
That is maybe because everyone’s life falls into a single basic plot:

They are born, they develop, they die.
The original paper [1] also contains some great graphs. And less hyperbole; these are the six basic plots of ~1400 English-language stories on Project Gutenberg, not of every story in the world, ever

1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07772.pdf
Yes, exactly. Which is why any comparison of e2ee to physical locks is a ridiculous proposition.
What makes a “real” unicorn?

There was a time where FTX, Theranos, and WeWork were all unicorns and none of them had real “meat.”

Uber is/was a unicorn and the gig economy has proven awful for society. (Underpay what amount to employees while giving them no benefits or recourse and at the same time destroying taxi companies that did)

Facebook was also a unicorn…

I think billion dollar companies that “do more” (eg. be a net good) for humanity are as rare as individuals who do, especially if they are profit driven.
They shipping the new macs with SoftRAM 95 now?
Discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38202871
I agree. But with all the diverse elite institutions, many of them are focusing on startups, there should be some with higher success rates.
Apple is really expensive with their ram, that's part of the problem.

It's always been like that but of course now it's no longer possible to just add your own.
Reservations are not limits, they are minimum guaranteed CPU usage constraints. while theoretically, those are minimum guaranteed resources, if there are other busy containers running on the host, you will still see your tail latencies and average latency increasing abnormally

imagine you got 4 core ec2 instance, the latencies you see at 50% cpu utilisation and 90% cpu utilisation are quite different. with reservations similar thing happens i.e even though each container is guaranteed to their reservations, the relative CPU utilisation still increased very high when there are other busy processes on the same host
It looks cool, but if you wanted to design a car that causes accidents, this would be pretty effective way of doing so.

It would also probably melt the interior in summer.
Totally agree. AI empowers people with existing software expertise, and empowers people with domain knowledge. Both of which have historically been bottlenecked by things AI is now getting good at.
I think this -- whether something should be illegal because it could be used to harm others -- isn't a particularly helpful way to frame things. I could drop a refrigerator from a crane onto the jerk who lets his dog poop in my yard, and obviously refrigerators and cranes shouldn't be illegal. OTOH, "you could set off an atom bomb, should atom bombs be illegal?" (Yes, for ordinary folks, obviously.) And "11 year olds could drive a car and have an accident, should 11 year olds driving cars be illegal?" (Yes, obviously.)

I think you have to look at from a broader viewpoint. The government regulates many things for a variety of reasons (public safety, mitigating negative externalities), and aside from libertarian cranks, I don't see anyone shaking their fists at the government for having seatbelt laws or food regulations or speed limits. It's not "because criminals could drive their getaway cars really fast" that we have speed limits.

(Perhaps that's actually what you're implying... not sure.)
>could be adding a billion dollars in value to their society

Lets be real, I'm sure many of people here have jobs where they have to insist this is true, but that billion number is inflated nonsense. Most startups are not adding that much value to society. Maybe finding a way to middle-man extract that from society, yeah, but not adding it.
> In general this is a "thing" on pipelined processors

It's actually not? Or, indeed, it's a hard problem. And modern designs certainly don't expose the instruction counter as a general register anymore (ARM32 PC is the last of its kind).

But having an IP-relative data addressing mode is a critical feature for any reasonable modern device, for exactly the reasons detailed here: you want constants stored with your compiled code without having to incur overhead (c.f. the linked article, or the GOT/PLT indirection in shared libraries, etc...) to get it.
If took me until seeing the benchmark comparisons to Postman to realize
Yeah they integrated a chipset zipping/unzipping content when accessing RAM.

As in the 90's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive
As others have said, empathy and/or mirror neurons; it's the modern day equivalent of a laugh track.
Two microphones are clearly seen on the picture in the article.
I believe Show HN is also what is suggested in guidelines for non-YC startups that are not allowed to use Launch HN (although some text along with the post would have been nice).
People get so mad about this. Who cares if they offer an 8GB model? If that’s not enough for you, don’t buy it. They claim on their site in the section “How much memory is right for you?”

>>> 8GB: Great for browsing online, streaming movies, messaging with friends and family, editing photos and personal video, casual gaming, and running everyday productivity apps.

That’s not wrong. Someone only doing that stuff can get by just fine with 8GB of RAM. The only thing wrong about that is that the people who fall into that category aren’t pro, so shouldn’t they be getting some other Macbook that isn’t pro?

The thing we should be mad about are the prices. They’re charging $200 or more for each step-up in RAM. I understand that their RAM is integrated and special, but an 8GB stick of SD RAM for a PC is like $30. $100 might be understandable, but $200 is obscene.

The storage is even worse. Even the M3 MAX defaults to 1TB of storage. To upgrade to 4TB is $1000. A Samsung 990 Pro M2 SSD with 4TB of storage is under $300. I understand the apple storage is different, and that justifies some markup, but over a 300% markup is absurd.
Don't know if you are asking this because of general interest or if it's specific for this MP, so just FYI: While your opinion might align with him on this topic he has some very outspoken opinions on other topics where you might have a different opinion (or not).

For example Rob Roos is also an very outspoken anti-vaccine and against climate legislation.
Looks like you could do with less space for file buffers, but that's it. I suppose that would even come with a performance penalty. Sounds like marketing BS, aka low-effort-lies-that-you-think-you-can-get-away-with.
You start with any documentation they already have (usually done for insurance or legal reasons) and start mapping much in the same way you would map data flow in a program.

Other sources are any existing ERP or other business process system.

Paperwork of any kind (invoices, quotes, POs, accounting) can also be used.

Even if a business thinks they are a flat org and have few processes, I guarantee there are ad hoc managers/leaders along with shadow processes.
Memory pressure on Mac means you get this popup saying "you must close one of these apps NOW or I'm going to crash". On 8GB that's indeed pretty common.
Has there been any evidence at all of fairies and the like recently? Because any evidence would be world news if it seemed real enough
Where can I download staging app for signal
Docker, docker, always docker.

Docker on mac uses emulation and is a gigantic resource hog.
Massive value. But I think those are also arguments against college as it’s not like the goal of college is to produce those.

And of course it’s very difficult to evaluate the impact along these types of values. Saying college is good because Mozart is valuable and not STEM seems like a reach.
The last time I remember Apple saying "don't look at the specs" is about powerpc cpu frequency vs intel. And Apple ended up ditching powerpc for intel.
You can add fetchbook to that list!

https://github.com/4lejandrito/fetchbook

Disclaimer: I am the author. It's just a toy project but I really think it is a nice approach.
I would happily check a box that says "deliver to human being, if none home try again tomorrow".
Scale from 0-1 kills so many companies so I'm glad you're asking at this stage.

What you need is a 'specialized generalist' someone who knows enough to set you up for success, get the first few hires, get your sales engine going, get your ops infra nailed down.... but doesn't necessarily want to slow you down when you need to scale out the functions you mentioned.

This is how I operate basically; I help us get to 1, then I replace myself with four or five specialists that can handle those 'departments' as the company really hits its stride, and move on to the next company usually thanks to a referral from the previous guy. It's fun.

Here's what I'd consider

1. Youngish people (40s) who have done some time as a COO at a growth stage or earlier company,

2. Who've been in that role 2-3 times at various early-stage companies in your domain (SaaS operating models are wildly different than consulting services, for example). Also CFOs with diverse/soft skills are good here too.

3. Experienced folks won't work for free. They know the risks, so expect to pay; slightly under market + equity.
I like your take.

I’ll add that writing a cover letter is articulating why you are applying and interested in a role. It’s a window into a thought process. It shows someone else how you structure your story, your summarizations, etc. Also, easy way to understand verbosity.

I’m not an SWE by trade so don’t have that experience. But it is useful to practice breaking down your thought process into succinct valuable chunks. In a SWE, it might involve explaining an architectural choice or proposing something new. In sales it might be explaining your pitch approach for a prospect.

My background is actuarial. Highly technical. I spent a lot of time writing why I was doing things. Good then to get a glimpse upfront.
If you are shown only the title of a coding problem and the site name where it's from, and you manage to solve it you are showing that you either cheated or knew the answer.
Slippery slope fallacy. How many people are pedophiles? How many people who aren't will need to give up their rights so that that minority... actually just keeps on doing what they do, because there's always alternatives?
When I was a kid and found out that QBasic couldn't make an exe, I pirated QuickBasic which could do it just fine.
Is it so hard to believe that other people may have different opinions from yours?

I've never knowingly clicked on an ad in my life.

I am very aware of how law enforcement, political consultants, and other organizations purchase targeting data from ad companies.

I don't want to be part of it because I don't want to be part of it.
All models are, including humain brain.
These illustrations look suspiciously like Maze's artwork: https://maze.co/why-maze/
imagine amazon's order history microservice causes outage for ordering creation microservice. regardless of the monitoring and alerting, you never want a non critical system to cause outage on the most critical system you have
I agree with the prevailing sentiment that 8 != 16 and saying it is, is kind of stupid.

However. An 8gb mac with Apple silicon does have higher subjective performance for lightweight office use than a standard 16gb windows machine. I personally would rather have an 8gb Macbook Air than a 16gb Lenovo.
In summary, resorted:

1. Rags to riches: RISE

2. Riches to rags: FALL

--

3. Icarus: RISE, FALL

6. Man in a hole: FALL, RISE

--

4. Oedipus: FALL, RISE, FALL

5. Cinderella: RISE, FALL, RISE

--

So every story can be framed by putting brackets somewhere in this sequence: RISE, FALL, RISE, FALL

Now....what to do with this highly-abstracted level of information...?

It's like saying all music in the world consists of some form of "lower note, higher note, lower note, higher note"
8gb does seem a little light, but the headline is misquoting what Apple said it seems, "Actually, 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems,"

“Analogous to” is not them saying it is equivalent. Now why are they shipping computers with such little ram in the first place? Is that still such an expensive component that they can’t stick in a more reasonable amount? It definitely seems like this is done as a way to put a lower more competitive price on something that anyone who actually needs to do “real” work on these computers will recognize they need a lot more ram than that. Easy way for them to squeeze more profit from their consumers.

That said, their iPhones are 6gb of ram and the pro models are 8gb, and this is not configurable. So is it enough for basic day to day tasks, running the software that comes with the Mac out of the box? The answer is clearly yes.
I went from a 2013 MBP with 16GB of RAM to a M1 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM. The Mini does perform better, but it seems to start to slow down at about the same point in terms of my workflows. The slowdown isn't as bad (faster SSD for swap?), but there's no way is it equivalent to 32GB.
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How do you do it with a token?

The micropayment problem is not new, and there's no indication that the Ethereum-based tokens have solved them, especially not with transaction fees that high. If you're talking about a non-decentralized solution, then as the sibling comment argued it boils down to an entry in a database and that's trivial anyway.
2 minutes is quite fast, congrats.

I inferred this information by seeing the number of comments on HN (a relevant parameter in estimating the importance of an event imo), the time period 2009-2023 and then immediately after clicking seeing a tombstone.
This took me under 2-3 seconds.

The rest of the info I wasn't going time to spend on was the motives etc. It's not the first postmortem I see, I was just curious to why by skipping all of the boilerplate. Omegle is not important to me, but I know it was quite a phenomenon .

My point was that GPT failed blatantly at inferring this same easy task.
I mean sure, it memorized some of the answers. I'm not denying that. Clearly, it didn't memorize all of them.
We were taught NASM as part of a course and I'm so much accustomed to it's beautiful syntax.

Is it less capable than MASM? Don't have a reason to believe so because there's one to one correspondence between what you write and what's gets executed.