skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You can get a Windows machine with 2x the RAM for the same price!"

is a trope that's been around for what... 15 years now? And unless you're someone who KNOWS they need the RAM (gamers, certain types of creatives, people doing certain types of development), it's proven out over and over again, they probably don't need the RAM!
> If you go far enough back in time, sure

It’s within living memory.

However we have gone off track, as the other responses show.

If happening at all, political killings are not occurring in the US at anything like the rate that they occur in Russia.
Yeah.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-P-and-W-Series-Mobile-...

> So, I get maybe, maybe, 2 hours battery life on my TP P14s Gen 3. It's only a few months old. I've had the battery replaced once but it hasn't helped.

https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/macbook-air-2020-m1

> On the Tom's Guide web browsing battery test, the new MacBook Air lasted an epic 14 hours and 41 minutes.

Let’s assume Tom’s full of shit and the real life battery life is 50% of what their test claims. That’s still almost 4x longer battery life than the thinkpad.

It’s not just 8GB of RAM and extra storage.
Then you're not talking about a lemon law, you're talking about something else. I think what you actually want are laws that regulate franchise agreements. That's the actual problem here.
I know that this is a low-effort observation but what stuck out to me in that story was "Dave's sushi in Bozeman". Like, there are some red flags just in that name.
People like you and I unfortunately are a minority. For some reason people think that if product lasts for a few years it’s perfectly normal. Laptops should be upgradable and lasting 10-15+ years until software advances to such a degree that hardware can no longer support it.
"Lasting" and "supported" are obviously different things. How much support do you get for a laptop from 2013/2014? I guess Linux stuff can still run, but I would imagine for most folks, there's going to be a practical limit re the software they want or need to run still working on hardware that old. Software will still run, but possibly not with newer security patches. And yep, with open source you can patch some of it yourself, but that market seems niche, and yes, that's not going to be Apple for your preferences.
German children would with you disagree.
Better GPU Cluster Scheduling with Runhouse
Look up Huffman codes on Wikipedia.

In short, you put the most likely or most common values at the front of the dictionary. Values 0-255 take up one byte, 256-65535 take two bytes, etc. The lower your index, the fewer bits are needed to represent the corresponding state.
Agreed. I'd also want to add that companies should be releasing some sort of transparency report on which governments are asking and at what frequency, etc.
And browser. Make sure you don't use an internet browser. And that way 640k will be enough forever.
But you didn't mention what components of the MacBook Air are better than the Thinkpad.

-The MacBook air M1 screen is amazing: 2560 by 1600 and 227 pixels per inch. The Thinkpad cannot compare

-The MacBook has an ultra low power but similarly performant M1 CPU and don't forget it runs so freaking cool it doesn't even need a fan!!

I'm never going back to an actively cooled laptop ever again. Those days are in the past for me.
https://www.costco.com/macbook-air-13.3-inch---apple-m1-chip... but interestingly it says $649 in search but $749 on the page for me, I suspect someone at Costco is scrambling to update the discount.
$699 seems kinda high still. I got one for 880€ (incl. 24% VAT) in 2021.
Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
You write the number down with a pen on the carbon paper. The swipe isn’t required.
Should have installed Linux on it.
this is the hardware version of the (in)famous hackernews comment on Dropbox:

> you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
I'm not worried. Will adapt as needed or die. Editing to add, I don't mean to sound flippant but I believe it's hard to predict things very far out and adaptation/iteration is the way forward. The true 'heroes' are the researchers, scientists and engineers involved in solutions around energy.
The commercial button mushrooms are still carcinogenic when eaten raw. The reason you see them at salad bars is because in practice there is no way to sue the salad bar if you get cancer 20 years later or whatever. But it's still not a good idea to eat them raw.

The only two mushrooms people generally recommend trying raw are the beefsteak polypore and the caesar's amanita. But this isn't because they are healthier when eaten raw, but rather because they have some unique culinary properties that are considered worth the risk when consumed in small quantities.
From what I understand (could be wrong): McDonalds forces their franchises to buy these Taylor ice cream machines, and despite the high cost and frequency oof repairs, McDonalds franchisees continue to own and operate McDonalds meaning that despite the troubles, it is still worth it. If the ice cream machine caused a big of an issue, McDonalds would see less franchisees, and discern from their research that the machine was an issue, and change brands.

Again, it starts with the customer. If people really are that pissed off McDonalds ice cream machines are seemingly always broken, then they should stop going to McDonalds, and then the feedback loop will start from there. It's not like there isn't ample other options (Wendys, Burger King, etc). That tells me that this "problem" is really overblown, and while McDonalds customers really would prefer to have the option to reliably order ice cream, it does not deter them significantly enough from consuming McDonalds, and doing something like simply purchasing their ice cream from a different location. If McDonalds wants to recoup that income, then they will, again, prioritize that initiative, and work on improving the ice cream machine, but again, that juice does not seem worth the squeeze.
This seems like it might upend Descartes' "cogito, ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") in that the process for forming thoughts in a language is not indicative that we exist, rather it merely indicates that we have evolved a brain that can produce and interpret language.

Seems like we're dismantling a lot of what Descartes came up with these days.
This should be higher up. They have it on Costco at $649 for a while now.
Can it run Linux? If yes, then it’s worth buying.
I’d still go with the MacBook.

The battery life on those laptops is not great and Lenovo’s quality is pretty subpar nowadays.

I have had two different Lenovo ThinkPads with broken hinges within a year and another with a SSD that died within 18 months.

It’s sad to see what they’ve done to the ThinkPad brand.
I'm no expert but I suspect this is wrong. To me, this is like saying you don't need to worry about integer overflow because your operations are only working on fixed integers. Really? You don't care if you multiply or add two large numbers and they spill over?

The more appropriate answer, I suspect, is that the numerical precision and stability sacrifices are more than adequate for normal usage.

If I'm wrong about this, I would certainly like to know.
> Apple have been running their little fiefdom mostly unchanged for almost fifteen years and it's only in the past few years that the EU has chosen to intervene in their marketplace

You literally just described Apple "starting it". They took the initial action (~15 years ago, by your words), starting it, and the other parties reacted, after that action.
Your intuition here is right on the money. I wrote a subsequent post with pretty much that exact approach: https://mbuffett.com/posts/compressing-chess-moves-even-furt...
When I worked in restaurants they would force us to use them. It was rare but it happened a handful of times.
The Mac keyboards have improved but there are so many more options on the Windows side it's not even funny - and I don't know if Apple has ever made a laptop with a numpad, which can be terribly important for some people.
Again, for most people... 8GB is enough for regular, at-home browsing.

You might be an exception, sure, but you're not "most people".
>I wish their were someone in charge to break the impasse of package managers in python? How do you overcome the XKCD 927 issue?

At some point, a problem is unsolveable.

After setup.cfg and setup.py and pyproject.toml and pip and poetry and pyenv and pipenv, it's actually over for Python. There is no way to mulligan after 15 years of mediocre tools followed by mediocre tools.

The other day somebody tried to convince me that poetry's handling of index urls is safer and saner than pip. It's probably true, but I only used pip because it was available, not because I like to be unsafe. So when another group of experts comes along and says "lmao of course pip (the only tool you could use until now) is worse than poetry", I just can't care anymore.

tl;dr once the XKCD 927 issue lands, it's here to stay. A language has to come opinionated out the gate (like Go or Rust).
What does performance look like?
I’m curious as to how they pulled this off. OpenCL isn’t that common in the wild relative to Cuda. Hopefully it can become robust and widespread soon enough. I personally succumbed to the pressure and spent a relative fortune on a 4090 but wish I had some choice in the matter.
including if there's an arbitration clause?
I can't speak to individual cases, it's usually impossible to determine from a news article. But realistically speaking, how many actual proven targeted assassinations of a white collar nature (ie whistleblowers) have happened in the US in the last 50 years? I think the answer is 0. The number of people who have antagonized big businesses or government and then died is pretty high, but also, everyone dies. Accusations of assassination are, in and of themselves, frequent weapons of dissenters. You can look at the cases of Vince Foster and Seth Rich as people whose deaths were deliberately exploited for political conspiracy mongering.
Thank you. We're definitely looking to get to a point where you don't need to jump to a jupyter notebook for simple analyses, especially things which are hard to do in SQL (a basic linear regression model for eg).

Happy to chat at prasoon [at] withpretzel [dot] com if you need any integration help!
Good 'jcranmer on the RISC-CISC thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481940
The basics is just solving puzzles. It's games similar to The Incredible Machine.

1. Define the problem.

2. Build a part of the solution that gets them closer to the answer. They should be able to evaluate whether this is closer to or further from solving the problem.

3. Build more parts iteratively. Test and debug. These will break earlier solutions sometimes.

4. At higher levels, they define the problem to solve. Make a racing game or a platformer? Automate something. Minecraft is good for figuring this out.

Many other hobbies work here. Paul Graham was inspired by painting. TDD utilizes climbing analogies. Something like cooking may not work because you have a full design and it can't be figured out iteratively.
I wish AMD did well in the Stable Diffusion front because AMD is never greedy on VRAM. The 4060Ti 16GB(minimum required for Stable Diffusion in 2024) starts at $450.

AMD with ROCm is decent on Linux but pretty bad on Windows.
Nice to see DuckDB-Wasm get some love Curious from the pure performance point of view whether you have performed any benchmarking against any of the alternatives for this sort of in-browser data work?
No, but you have 6 or so years of use before you need to switch to Asahi and maybe it'll be a daily driver by then.
It does seem to be harder to make progress over time though. Maybe it’ll bottom out at j=1/e. I won’t call my guess even a conjecture though, it just happens to be a convenient constant near where the current value is. It would be a funny prank for math to pull on us.
You're playing off a false dichotomy. Furniture doesn't have to look bad to be of quality.

GP said
> I think the problem I've noticed is - the furniture that is built to last very frequently fails the partner test - "that looks like old fart stuff".

This is a problem of taste alignment, not of preference. A person having a taste for the generally poor quality well marketed bit of goods available.

So, like I said. If one develops a taste for a certain type of trendy furniture that is poorly made, it's a personal limitation.
I had very similar thoughts but I think one can do much better, even.

Each move only needs four bits to identify the piece because each side only has 16 pieces at maximum. The game replayer would need to keep track of each pawn's starting file though (including after promotions).

Variable-length encodings of the move options help a lot. Pawns only need two bits because there are never more than four legal moves for a pawn - except for promotions, but just handle those specially for those exact cases (if a pawn moves to the last rank then encode the promotion with two bits, otherwise encode the next move). Knights and kings each need three bits for the move - encode each king-castling option as a move to the appropriate rear diagonal (normally off the board so not otherwise legal). Bishops and rooks need four bits (rank and direction). Queens only need five (three bits for rank, two for direction).

This way you can get down to between six and nine bits per move.
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$699 is $50 cheaper than Apple is selling the same laptop (refurbished) - https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FGN63LL/A/refurbished-133...
Still use this machine for full time + freelance dev work, alongside all my personal work (running mine + wife businesses). Also serves as my full time media consumption device.

Hasn’t missed a beat; my only “want” would be an even small form factor
That's not accurate. For an average user 8Gb RAM shared with the GPU and a really fast nVME bus...the RAM is just L4 Cache at this point and there's little to no penalty to using swap like there was with north bridges, south bridges and spinny disks.
The single biggest factor in Go's popularity is that google is pushing it.

Then I'd say concurrency, native compilation, static linking...

The simplicity of its language constructs is IMHO one reason why Go is not more popular. The point seems moot anyway. Go is mostly used by experienced programmers, usually havong experience in other, richer languages.
Spoiler alert: not good enough to break CUDA's moat
Sony lost in court twice but destroyed at least two commercial playstation emulators in the process. They abused the legal system to disrupt the activities of other corporations by simply burning their money via legal fees until the projects they wanted to kill were no longer financially viable.

Imagine the power imbalance when one of these multi-billion dollar monopolists go after some random individual for downloading a song or something.
I mention Huffman in my follow-up post: https://mbuffett.com/posts/compressing-chess-moves-even-furt... , but chose arithmetic encoding instead.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38045112#38047149 :

> from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35877402#35886041 : "EM Wave Polarization Transductions" Lt. Col. T.E Bearden (1999) :

>> Physical observation (via the transverse photon interaction) is the process given by applying the operator ∂/∂t to (L^3)t, yielding an L3 output

[and "time-polarized photons"]
Specs of the third party semiconductors are like half of what you have to look at in a laptop. As tools they are subject to a lot of wear and tear, desktop computers you can compare on pure specs, but not laptops, the plastic frame of the P14s will make your investment last way less than the metal body Macbook Air.

On that note, Lenovo leadership is being super short sighted in diluting the ThinkPad brand with these models. Didn't they use to have the IdeaPad as the product line made of less durable materials?
I prefer TOTP for privacy and control reasons, but I think you're overselling the disadvantages of SMS here. If you have to find and pay an inside guy to do SIM swaps, they'll be limited in the number they can do before getting caught so it really will only be suitable to do targeted attacks on targets you're pretty sure have something worth stealing.

There was a DND that talked about how sim swaps used to be a cakewalk over the phone social engineering exercise but were now kind of expensive to pull off and required a man in a physical location, with T-mobile remaining the easiest target. The black hat guy they were talking to said his first steps were finding a target worth swapping, usually some one that bragged a lot about bitcoin or some other crypto currency on twitter. And getting the phone number was usually really easy to do with a combination of OSINT and abusing the fact services will give you a partially masked phone number when you try to login.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
> …why the 1984 movie Amadeus, which was about Mozart and his rival Salieri, was filmed in Prague…

Surely the director of Amedeus – Miloš Forman – being Czech played a role too.

It is much easier to cooperate with the local crew in their native language, relative to Hungarian / German (IIRC Budapest / Vienna were the other two options on the table for that film).

> It was commonplace to see bricks made, say, in the time of Archduchess Maria Theresa

If you visit the cellar of an old house in Old Town / Lesser Town, chances are you'll find bricks much older than Maria Theresa. These cellars routinely date back to the original construction, 11-14th century (unlike the house on top, which has typically been rebuilt several times to match the latest fashion – gothic, baroque, rococo, etc).

Whether or not they let you take a brick home is a different matter :)
Tresor: As a tourist, could enter because I knew the DJs on the lineup and was wearing a black hoodie. Guy behind me with a fancy shirt got rejected subito, no questions asked.
Satoshi would be billionaire. Billionaires can hire tons of security to protect them. They can also pay for vaults to keep their Bitcoin keys. They can setup funds to manage their investments including Bitcoins.
What signs do you have here that this is "promotion"?

Apple selling a modern laptop for $699 is indeed worthy of curiosity as it relates to the consumer tech landscape -- which is a theme for this website.

It might not interest you, which is fine, but in that case keep scrolling! Not every post about consumer tech is "promotion".
>> What about the DMCA enabled that?

NO safe harbor means... no reddit, no Facebook, no YouTube... content aggregation in gated monoliths goes away. Data aggregation, data brokering gets a lot harder. And where are you going to mass license content at that point?

> run federated services with a maximum server size of one user.

Family exist, friends exist. Killing the DMCA, then the sea of copyright law suits is a path to copyright reform.
I'm surprised they didn't speak about the implementation at all. Anyone got more intel?
Describe Beta: The most descriptive audiovisual summaries for videos
Does anyone know how the AMD consumer GPU support on Linux has been implemented? Must use something else than ROCm I assume? Because ROCm only supports the 7900 XTX on Linux[1], while on Windows[2] support is from RX 6600 and upwards.

[1]: https://rocblas.readthedocs.io/en/rocm-6.0.0/about/compatibi...
[2]: https://rocblas.readthedocs.io/en/rocm-6.0.0/about/compatibi...
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It amuses me to think that this was posted by Rob Walton himself.
I don't know what a simpilician set is and wikipedia didn't really helped me. However I could roughly describe my "mind" as many mental maps where concepts are laid out and connected in different ways. Learning means putting new things on these maps a thinking is navigating through them.
they're cultivated because they're not poisonous, not the other way around. they aren't morels, they're a different order of mushroom.
> Congrats! You're among the first to solve the puzzle - but the I/O 2024 date will only reveal itself when more players crack the code. Share that you solved the puzzle using the hashtag #io24puzzle.

Well... that's disappointing...

Edit: when clicking 'continue', it does reveal the date: May 14, 2024
And it's still going strong
They just shouldn’t artificially prevent installation of newer software.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/wife-of-google-whistl...
I understand where you are coming from. However, this overlooks a critical stakeholder group directly affected by the outcomes of such research: patients.

For instance, controversies surrounding the PACE trial, which explored treatments for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), illustrate the profound implications of research integrity. Critics have condemned the trial as "biased and profoundly flawed," arguing that its deficiencies have led to detrimental effects on patients' lives and treatment approaches. This controversy underscores the significance of research outcomes.

For more insights into the academic dishonesty surrounding ME/CFS and its consequences on patients I recommended this article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/12/chroni...

This issue highlights why it's crucial for both the scientific community and the public to demand rigor and transparency in research, especially when the well-being of vulnerable populations is at stake.
Hey I did, and sorry for the self promo,

Please check out https://github.com/geniusrise - tool for running llms and other stuff, behaves like docker compose, works with whatever is supported by underlying engines:

Huggingface - MPS, cuda
VLLM - cuda, ROCm
llama.cpp, whisper.cpp - cuda, mps, rocm

Also coming up integration with spark (TorchDistributor), kafka and airflow.
It gives a non-canonical link.
The base specs are reasonably priced, but the RAM and SSD upgrades are still extortionate. $999 for a MacBook Air? Sure. $800 extra to add 1.75TB more SSD space? You must be joking, that's a ~700% markup over retail SSD prices, which are themselves marked up from the wholesale prices that Apple is paying.
The problem is that the board state requirement makes searching for specific moves hard.

But if you allow board state, you can do less than 14. 3 bits for the type of piece, 6 for the destination, 2 extra bits. (Promotion if destination is last/first line, disambiguation for pawns in en passant)

You're still at about twice the theoretical minimum, I think. I vaguely recall an upper bound of 6 bits?
They're open source and based on llama.cpp so nothings secret.

My money, looking at nothing, would be on one of the two Vulkan backends added in Jan/Feb.

I continue to be flummoxed by a mostly-programmer-forum treating ollama like a magical new commercial entity breaking new ground.

It's a CLI wrapper around llama.cpp so you don't have to figure out how to compile it
Some banks in Russia detect when the SIM identifier has changed and refuse to send 2FA codes to new SIM cards as a measure against SIM swaps.