skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can a laptop be "underpowered" when in fact it's faster?

Next you're going to tell me the new I6 turbo engines are "underpowered" compared to the V8s they're replacing, even though they have more power, more torque and in the same vehicle produce faster 0-60 and 1/4 mile times.

Your definition of "underpowered" is interesting to say the least.
> By shrinking the amount of journalism in the world, AI-powered search will effectively destroy the goose that laid its golden egg. The world-class reporting The Walrus publishes can’t be pieced together, on the fly, from random data sets.

Did the current generation of media parasites miss kindergarten?

Rule 0 of being a parasite: don't kill the host that feeds you.

Ask the LLM how to develop a symbiotic and long-term financial relationship with cited media suppliers.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/02/reddit-has-already-booked...

Reddit's Form S-1 … says the company expects $66.4 million of that data-derived value from LLM companies to come during the 2024 calendar year … Google and other AI companies that license Reddit's data will receive "continuous access to [Reddit's] data API as well as quarterly transfers of Reddit data over the term of the arrangement," according to the filing. That constant, real-time access is particularly valuable, the site writes in the filing, because "Reddit data constantly grows and regenerates as users come and interact with their communities and each other."
This is really cool--I've played with a lot of these online desktops, but this is by far the slickest.

As someone who is doing something similar (https://gridwhale.com), I'd love to know what your goals were. Did you ever try to commercialize it? If not, why not? If yes, what happened?
WebTV became the foundation for Microsofts hardware biz, and is responsible for the Xbox. If you go back farther. Artemis was responible for the Xband modem and is largely repsonsible for online gaming as a whole.
Correct. I often have hundreds of browser tabs open on my iPhone, but it knows how to manage resources by unloading the ones I'm not looking at right now. The Mac can also swap tabs or apps to disk. Or warn me when I hit 90%. The only wrong option is to start freezing when it's too late. I'm a software developer who has been coding for decades, and I'm surprised by this failure mode. What would a random non-techie need to learn to reason about this? It's not like Macs are marketed only to technical professionals who keep an eye on resources.

Look, at least the Apple is smart enough to wake up basically in the same window state after having refreshed the resources. That's fantastic. But even better to fix it without going through the whole "have you turned it off and on again" routine.
I just find it fascinating that people think Macbooks are faster without even bothering to at least look at some benchmarks as context. Sure, M processors are good, but Intel and AMD aren't really sleeping the past few years, but rather made some significant improvements that are worth acknowledging.
More accurately it is just the same evil corps colluding.
> But do you and I even hear the same thing when we listen to the same music?

I say "yes". We can share an experience but come to different conclusions about it.

> Creating an experience we all can enjoy is worth it, even if it's never going to be the same.

This makes me think of vegan food. I'm not vegan but there are many vegan dishes I thoroughly enjoy. Despite that, I'm consistently disappointed by vegan adaptations of non-vegan dishes. The best vegan dishes IMO are the ones that don't pretend to be something they're not.
Perhaps such women prefer men who don’t think about women in such terms
Good enough is not the correct term.

The other day I bought a 30 dollar phone,

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Walmart-Family-Mobile-BLU-View-4-...

it has all the functionality that you might need it has map, a browser, runs facebook and twitter apps, tiktok what else do you need

can I use that as an argument that why buy an iPhone for 1K if you can get a great phone for $30 - no because when you talk about phones or laptop you are talking about comparable products

what I was saying that you cannot buy the same value you get with a Macbook in any laptop product
An extremely tangential personal anecdote -

I learned about WebTV while writing essays for my college applications more than ten years ago. I had stumbled on this memorial site[0] for an engineer at WebTV named Jos who passed well before his time. The site includes some of his college essays[1] as well as some other bits of writing like his guide to OOP programming[2] (complete with Spanish and Portuguese translations !). His writing style and sense of humor have stuck with me for years and years now, and I still visit the site to have a laugh. Seemed like a very dynamic individual, and I'm grateful to his family for keeping his memory alive.

[0]: https://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/jon/family/jos/

[1]: https://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/jon/family/jos/college/index...

[2]: https://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/jon/family/jos/oop/index.htm...
The Incans were quite wealthy and advanced. As said by the official secretary of Pizarro [1]: “The city of Cuzco, being the primary place where the lords made their residence, is so great and so beautiful and with so many buildings that it would be worthy to be seen in Spain”.

On a fortress of the city: “Many Spaniards who have seen it, and who went to Lombardy and other foreign kingdoms,” he adds, “say they have not seen another building like this fortress nor a stronger castle.”

In any event, the advantages of stronger pack animals are only significant if you can create wheeled carts. The Incans, like most Mesoamerican civilizations, had limited access to metals and advanced metallurgy preventing them from widespread usage of wheels as a means of facilitating travel. Without wheels, the amount of distance most animals can go while carrying their supplies is fairly similar.

If I recall correctly, it is something on the order of 150 km, regardless of horse, ox, or even human. If you have to carry your food and water you can only go around 150 km with what you can carry. That means proportional consumption rate is highly similar, so two animals that can carry 100 kg is not materially different than one animal that can carry 200 kg. Under that model you would probably actually prefer smaller pack animals to reduce concentrated risk of animal loss and improve maneuverability.

You actually can do better since animals like horses can efficiently graze, but that heavily limits your transportation speed and weight maximums for commerce purposes and you still need to feed the humans.

Incidentally this is why rivers are so important in early civilization. Barges on rivers bypass the fundamental distance limit even without wind. Floaty boat and a stick to push off the banks/riverbed dominates almost everything else for commerce.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarterl...
Could depend. If the next gen console is a Wii > Gamecube type situation, it may be that Yuzu could run games for it with minimal modification, just like how Dolphin can play Gamecube games. That would keep nintendo/their lawyers interested most likely.
Apple users do - 9hr is short enough that you’re going to want a charger for a full day’s work unless you’re certain you’re only going to do very untaxing activities. People get worried when they start approaching the low battery warning point.

The run time Apple’s ARM systems get is very noticeably better - I don’t even bother packing a charger even knowing that I’ll have a full development environment, containers, etc. running all day because I’ll still arrive home at 60%.
Lots of bullshit in your post. Probably speaks to your youth and lack of long term perspective. I sure hope you get a chance to tend a garden someday, and every day.
Plastic windows are absolute garbage, and will rarely hit 20 years without problems in any location with significant temperature swings, or extreme cold or extreme heat. I know, because I have some. I've also had some old old hardwood window frames, and they've been by far the most resilient...but really same goes for all hardwood materials. My best friend growing up, in "ultra cheap eastern Europe", lived in an old (early 1700s) all-wood house. There was 0 maintenance. The wood simply refused to rot.

>Most of us, our life satisfaction lies very much elsewhere and to spend our valuable remaining free time to just to learn properly and maintain such stuff that doesn't matter much in long run seems... unwise.

I think throwing plastic windows into the dump heap to pollute the local waterways and ultimately ground water (and maybe air if your dump incinerates), is vasty more unwise than simply using biodegradable, 100% renewable, and much longer lasting, not to mention beautiful, wood.
Private service planned for Bob Heil, local rock sound innovator
Cloudflare has no markup or fee [0].

> You pay what we pay — you won’t find better value.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
Wow, I have a few dead 1Us.. I should rig up a training platform and try it out
Honestly I don't think it is worth bringing Surface devices into the discussion. Microsoft isn't even trying. They only care about enterprise customers and are not competitive in the consumer market at all.

Maybe look at some high-end Lenovo or Dell laptops.
>Osborne announced his "Executive" machine with superior features at a Personal Computer World Show in London in 1982. This killed sales of the original machine, but the much-hyped new model failed to appear in any quantity before the company went belly-up in September 1983. Compaq inherited the design and produced their first portable machine in 1983.

Didn't know about the Compaq point, although I remember reading about the Compaq portable.
What’s the “publish as website” thingy/functionality all about?
>Microsoft became a trillion dollar company with another approach, yes, you're right. Walmart became a trillion dollar company doing completely different things. Nobody is pretending anything.

your point here more or less argues with your point above and goes back to what I was trying to tell you. "Follow the money" doesn't mean "follow the money of the biggest companies that you only tangentially compete with". It means "understand the business in question and use their motivation for money to figure out their priorities".

Take a look at what makes Microsoft money, then what makes HP/Acer/Lenovo/Razer/etc. money, and even what makes Intel/Nvidia/AMD money. Now ask how much "fixing a proper sleep mode" will make any of these entities. That probably gives some clue on why no one has solved this yet.

>I think it is fair to point out that most money goes to the company that makes laptops that aren't crap.

I think I explained this above, but I should emphasize that we both know the best product doesn't always make the most money.
Most rail equipment, powered units included, can be pulled along by just about any other powered railcar.
> you probably wouldn't say, "I changed the codes for the three apps,"

Unless you’re - shudder - a data scientist
I can't take that record off the shelf without thinking of this CBS memo.

https://i.imgur.com/2GMwXPo.jpg
> Because now you have already decided you don't want to game, etc

That’s exactly what I’m not saying. If you want to play games (with Windows only games), then a Mac won’t work for you. If you get a Mac, that means that gaming likely wasn’t part of your decision tree.

Think of the choices as a positive selection. I want to do X, does computer A allow me to do that? People make decisions based on positive selections… not negatives. If gaming isn’t on your requirements list — you aren’t actively rejecting gaming… you just don’t care one way or the other. The post I was replying to asserted that if you chose a Mac, then you’ve already decided not to do X and not to do Y and that you don’t want form factor Z. But that’s not it… decisions are made based on what you DO want. They aren’t made based upon what you don’t want.

Some people just prefer one ecosystem over the other… it doesn’t mean that they don’t know that other options exist. It’s not ignorance, it’s just a different choice than you made.
There's no cure, but 'remission' is possible in type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes. Remission is defined as maintaining normal blood sugar levels without medication. This is not possible in type 1 diabetes
It’s a constant problem with nvidia articles, sites love to make up unapologetic bullshit or cite ancient stuff as if it’s new.

A few months ago all the internet sites were abuzz with jensen’s “recent” comment that “nvidia is fully focused on ai now” and the article that is from makes it clear that it happened in the “mid 2010s”.

Gamersnexus actually had the citation on the screen with “by the mid 2010s” literally on screen, they still went with “recently” and refused to issue a correction or retraction (I asked).

https://youtu.be/VSSb-t76EpU?t=147

Similarly, the “nvidia sells directly to mining farms!” articles from a few years ago, were citing an article that was an estimate of mining sales based on the hash rate… it never accused anyone of selling anything to anyone, but tech media didn’t bother reading the source, and once the first article got rolling everyone just cited that instead.

https://twitter.com/dylan522p/status/1332502890104188929

Just like with apple “parts/defect stories” news sites know these are potent money-makers that drive a lot of clicks, and frankly I think there is a lot of open fanboyism and hostility among tech media today. GN didn’t “accidentally” refuse to do a correction, they want to push that narrative. Just like the “long-term value is mathematically impossible” etc - we have been in a world where reviewers are openly feuding with one of the vendors for over a half decade over the direction of product development and the death of Moores law in terms of pricing and performance increases.

Winning rhetorical points in that debate is more important to tech media nowadays than little things like journalistic integrity, or reading your sources.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu7pxJXBBn8&t=273s
Understanding Why PassKeys Will Replace Passwords
Mac mini maybe?
There is an intermitted and basically unacknowleged memory leak in M1, which is supposedly addressed in M2. It also depends what app you're using - Logitech Options was somehow hogging top to 12gb on occasion, but was fixed sometime in the past few months.
The original argument by vineyardmike was "LLMs are a next character predictor, therefore they are not intelligent". I'm saying that as a human you can restrict yourself to a being a next character predictor, yet you can still communicate intelligently. What part do you disagree with?
Well, may as well add two other required readings.

1. The Turn (1993) by the same William Langewiesche quoted in Children of the Magenta:

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/turn.ht...

2. The Crash of United Flight 232 (1989):

https://www.iamcraig.com/2010/11/15/the-crash-of-united-flig...

https://youtu.be/ovkgV2_t9uc?si=DarGgG4wpeJ5SwH6
Just in the last month I've been working with PEG patterns, which are mostly tree-shaped but rules make it a cyclic graph, and writing a rope, which is a DAG.

How do I use SQLite for those?
You could say the same of Lists.
Different fixes over 100s of different repos lol
Here in Ontario we are similarly bent over the barrel by Hydro One. The key to operating a regulated monopoly is to inflate your expenses so that the regulator has no choice but to approve the increase the rate you charge. Hydro One accomplishes this by sending out 6 people to do a job that only requires 2 or 3. Works great -- our delivery rates have never been higher!
It was more of a thought experiment to show that a process boundary isn’t likely to be some sort of perfect defence, than a real example of how someone might operate.
It could but only if you connected one of them to the HDMI port. The M2 allows to connect both over USB-C. One of the M1 display controllers is hardwired to a DP output which goes to the screen on laptops and iMacs and to a DP->HDMI converter on the Mac mini. The controller isn't hardwired anymore since the M2, only the output is.
Yeah, I've bought refurb Apple devices from Apple, partly because they're always in pristine cosmetic condition, but mostly because you can buy AppleCare for them just as if they were new.
Yeah, whoever managed (or didn't manage) the Surface trackpad project needs fired. Can't count how many times I have belted out obscenities while working on my Surface Pro. Garbage. I forgot it had a touch screen and I never flip the screen. All that caused the trackpad to be ignored, I guess. Again, hot garbage.

I have a MacBook Pro M1, which is pure fluid bliss. It cost less, it's faster, and the battery lasts for days.
They’d just jump to Ryujinx where it is still legal
rr and Undo are about the same here: they support multiple threads but run all threads on a single core.
Was the headline in HM changed cos it says campus so it didn’t sound like they got a power plant…
They do it so that the consumer can't price match nor return swap from one retailer to another. The model number ultimately becomes a type of trace to reveal which retailer sold the device.
Who is building LLM Chatbots, and what issues are you running into?
Heya,
like probably everyone, we are building some internals LLM chatbots for customers of ours. I'd love to hear hands-on insights for what people are doing, why, what's working for them/not working, etc.
> For matrices, you can show these end up as finite series (i.e., it can be written with the highest n being the dimension of the matrix)

I don't think is quite accurate. It sounds like you may be referring to the Cayley-Hamilton theorem which says that A^n can be expressed as a linear combination of A^0, A^1,... A^n-1. But this is not the same as saying that the exponential taylor series is finite. Any 1x1 matrix is a counterexample. Another counter example is a diagonal matrix. It's exponential is the exponential of each diagonal element, but each of those requires an infinite series.

The statement is true for a certain class of matrices called nilpotent matrices. A nilpotent matrix has the property that for some k, A^k = 0. An example is

A = [ 0, 1 ]
[0 0 ]

In this case A * A =0, so the e^A clearly is a finite series.
They go sued because the android version directly competes with how Nintendo switch is played and most likely have a easy to use rom search and install system somewhere
It's more of a problem that changes to one linked file change the only copy. But this depends on your filesystem. Not all work this way.
This may help.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34847611
Gosh, I wish there was an archive of WebTV sites. I built my first website when I was 9 or 10 in WebTV. If only I could visit it today...
the latest hot one is eBPF/xdp, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_Data_Path;
however I think in most cases skipping kernel might not be such a great idea, a lot of kernel features are there for a reason (e.g. like routing/arp lookup, fragmentation/reassembly), if you skip them, it means you have to implement those features in user-space...
That's gotta save a bundle on transmission and distribution charges. I wonder if industrial users get better deals on that, because my utility bills are mostly not for the gas/electricity generation.
Together.ai is interesting; I think it might be a relatively new business model in tech -- since they sell inference and training, you might be tempted to think of them as an engineering / infrastructure company.

But, because inference is largely quality based -- e.g. customers seem to be selecting "cheapest generation at the quality I require", they have a strong incentive to optimize speed of inference at different quality points, and so this paper is coming at the market from a very different place than "quality first - sell second", like OpenAI or Anthropic. On those terms, the ideas and concepts in Based are pretty interesting. Faster inference is awesome, faster sequential token generation is awesome, cheaper long range memory is awesome..

As revenues at these places grow, they should have access to more compute, which should mean they'll be able to start training at a scale that will get to 'minimum acceptable quality', and then they'll be off to the races.

I'm looking forward to the next year, where companies like together can start putting out models optimized toward specific workflows that compete on quality!
Is it possible they are using some sort of specialized prompting for these? I'm not familiar with how prompting optimization might work in LLM benchmarks.
I nodded off watching this great Michael MJD video unboxing and setting up an original WebTV last night[0].

He plays around with an ongoing project to reverse-engineer and re-implement WebTV servers for self-hosting[1].

[0] https://youtu.be/NjteQv6oYgA

[1] https://github.com/zefie/zefie_wtvp_minisrv
Probably not but they have had a similar web-based interface going back at least twelve years
For example, for us, we are building an LLM chatbot that pulls in the data of a technical book publisher. They have 20 years of technical books, and 20 years of videotaped conference talks.

Hard:

- We're using LangChain, which isn't always great

- The data pipeline was trickier than I had initially thought

- Indexing embeddings (in PostGres) is just hard (requires tons of ram)

But the hardest thing has been working on conversation quality. We've started to use LangSmith, which was a godsend for tracing and observability, and came out fairly recently. But it's not perfect and I wish there were better tools out there.
If you give me a couple test questions I'd be happy to plug them in and tell you exactly what they cost.
> But in 2013, a MacBook Air came standard with 4GB, and we're looking at only 8GB in 2024.

You're saying "RAM usage", but your evidence is "RAM provisioning", which is the entire basis for the criticism. The reality is that RAM usage has increased significantly, but Apple has been stuck by the addressable memory limits they've baked into their architecture.

As another point of comparison, a 2013 iPhone 5c (technically not released until the last quarter of 2013, but we're being generous here) had 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, though you could upgrade that to 32GB. A modern iPhone has 6GB of RAM, and comes with storage from 128GB to 1TB.

Maybe the bytes are growing more on iOS? ;-)
Yup completely agree
> For developers who do development on remote machines

Gosh having started program on 286s in the 1980s, my M1 air feels blazingly opulently fast. What sort of local development are people doing that requires heavier compute than an M1 air, but doesn't require a full on cluster?
China Sentences Pirate Site Operators Win for Japan's Anime Industry
No, username is only for discovery. So while reuse is allowed. Your contacts would stay connected with you.