skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised by the almost universally bearish opinion here so far. AI is going to change everything about how we interact with computers. A M4 with a terabyte of RAM will run GPT-4 level models locally. Forget Siri. You will be able to converse directly with your computer as if it was a person. Not only in text, but by voice and even video, and it will be incredibly responsive. The computer will see using the webcam and have conversations about objects you show it. It will read your screen and give you advice about what you're working on, and even perform tasks for you. It will browse the web for you, summarize content, and take actions on your behalf. It will create images of anything you describe, and compose personalized music in any style. It will render an avatar for itself and show emotions, and it will see and react to your facial expressions and gestures.

This is not speculative. Almost all of this stuff is already shown to work, and it is all improving incredibly quickly as we speak! It just needs to be assembled into an actual product, which is exactly what Apple does best. With their silicon advantage they are best positioned to ship these kinds of features, and the best part is it can all run offline locally. No data sent to servers. No privacy concerns. Zero network latency.
Lenovo and/or Qualcomm managed to mess things up enough on the Thinkpad x13s that the cellular connectivity was provided by a M.2 card rather than the Snapdragon SoC.
From the 80s to 2024 – how CI tests were invented and optimized
Compare the reaction to Bob Lee's death from someone who was murdered by someone he knew vs the lack of reaction to the most likely way any of us are killed.

Traffic violence has become completely normalized, just the cost of doing business. You can constantly speed through school zones with no repercussions, especially if you cover your plate.

If you're looking to kill someone and get away with it, do it in your car.
whats the point of carrying phone that doesn't even play youtube videos? If security is so important then they should probably carry nokia style 2000's phone where there is no chance of malaware?
Why not a realloc which just fails if it has to copy?
Ah fair enough. The OP here mentioned having highly similar content on each of the many domains.
I also assumed that a class already existed for it. Because otherwise you have to think about whether you use a class or an id or an element selector, you have to think about what the class name is going to be, which file it should go into, etc etc. What I presented was absolute best case scenario lol.
Ask HN: Tool(s) to calculate horse hoof angles
So this AI revolution has given me a little confidence as I've been a "so so programmer" for the last decade or so. I love trimming horse hooves naturally without shoes (when possible). Is there something out there where perhaps I can input an image or multiple images, even a video and figure out horse hoof angles for proper trimming?
Yup!

(If I were trying to present this stuff in a maximally-elegant order without too much regard for what order human brains like to learn things in, the order of things would be: complex numbers, calculus, trigonometry. Then we define something that we might initially call e(t) to satisfy the differential equation de/dt = ie, and observe that having e and e' at right angles means that |e| remains constant, which means that |e'| also remains constant, so if we start with e(0)=1 then we have a point moving at unit speed around the unit circle, etc. Keep the linkage between the geometrical and formal points of view there at all times. But I suspect this wouldn't be great paedagogically for the majority of students.)
I'm in the same boat. And it's even more confusing to me when my 5 hours per week friend actually has daily stand-ups. When I talked to him about it, he says it's mostly just everyone in the team saying 'still working on X', even though they didn't even start or have been "working" on it for like 2 months. It boggles my mind.
> Surely running local LLMs isn’t that big a market.

Agreed. That said, if you do AI/LLMs, few, if any, portable non-Mac systems have the ability to pull this off. The Macs just crush it when it comes to GPU and memory bandwidth performance, and they do this while sipping battery life.
Apple seemed to manage just fine. You're saying there's nobody else out there that can do the same? And what's your solution? Suffer in silence? Or do you think yelling at other people on an online forum is somehow more productive?
> Driver was previously cited 5 times for speeding in a school zone but was allowed to keep his license?

We have a lot of dumb laws on the books, but somehow we allow demonstrably reckless drivers to keep their license—sad times.
Very true, but then how do you get rid of the foxes?
Slavery died out in the Northern states around 1800. The industrialization in the North came after that.

> not all the wealth built on slavery in the Confederacy was destroyed in the Civil War

What wasn't was a rounding error. Of course, the slave states didn't have much in the way of industry to be destroyed in the first place. The plantations were burned down by Sherman.

The slave South couldn't even make shoes. The reason Lee was at Gettysburg was he was headed for nearby Harrisburg to loot the shoe factory there. Rebel soldiers were largely barefoot.

History shows that free people outproduce slaves by a wide margin. Running an industrial slave economy has been tried a few times, with dismal results.
Seems like a hall sensor or two plus a magnetic club head is what you need
Kdramas, JDramas, CDramas, Turkish Dramas, Indian OTTs, and HBO Eastern Europe (Umbre, Aranyélet) touch these kind of themes a lot.

It's a common problem in developing and newly developed countries
Maine Is a Warning for America's PFAS Future
"_U.S._ imposes first-ever _national_ drinking water limits"

emphasis mine.
> A M4 with a terabyte of RAM will run GPT-4 level models locally.

Perhaps, but a 1TB RAM upgrade would probably cost about as much as a new car. This is Apple we're talking about.
I decided just to google Beijing air quality and both results came back... Not so good.

"Dangerous
Any exposure to the air, even for a few minutes, can lead to serious health effects on everybody. Avoid outdoor activities."
https://www.accuweather.com/en/cn/beijing/101924/air-quality...

"Very Unhealthy
Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected."
https://aqicn.org/city/beijing/

So not sure I fully believe that.
With a large (at least in kilograms) collection of vinyl and shellac records, I have looked into the 'what happens next (ie., what should my executor do)' issue.

The most memorable comment was in the blog of a buyer of collections. Can't find the link but paraphrased: "I will never even look at a collection that has had anyone else peruse and buy some discs. They bought your collection." As in, most 'collections' are really 'accumulations', the dealer will buy your accumulation and give you psychological cover that someone really values all of it, but keep the valuable stuff and bin the rest --- and first do an assay that there are indeed some gems in the ore.

Also, "If you recognize the performers, it's not of any value".

I see so many records at thrift shops that make me think "Crap, did I drop that off by mistake in my last move" that I have to concede that the fate of my collection will be the replacement of fossil fuels. As a classical listener and collector, I am nontheless moving to a (cynical?) assessment that a lot of those collections are "the music you were told you should enjoy".

Yep, it's heartbreaking. This thread makes me think about what the real goal should be, given that the material media is merely fuel. Maybe a short document about the things that I want to charge the beneficiaries with giving a listen to?
Thanks for the book recommendation, I will definitely check it out! I personally enjoy reading Russian history, it is fascinating and highly complex. It is also just revealing on how much society ideologically focuses on certain sets of history. Like in Russia, focusing on Stalin as the ultimate baddie of Russia. While Stalin sure as hell wasn't a good guy. There isn't a whole unique to his form of brutal-ism compared to the Tsarists before the USSR. The KGB of the time were doing essentially the same things the Tsarist secret police were doing before them. Many of the Tsars were also extremely brutal. Russia really just had gotten a bad hand of leadership for most of the past 1,000 years.
Try dealing with Vietnam or Indian police as a Westerner "carrying" drugs.

You better pay up or you might find yourself with a bullet in your head in a ditch.

Oh, and body cams are not a thing.
> has caused far far far more net harm than
Avoiding the cascade at all costs, for example. It can introduce a lot of unintended consequences.

Another anti pattern I have seen is the over use of media queries to force the browser to do certain things rather than embracing relative sizing constraints via intrinsic design and letting the flexbox and grid algorithms do most of the heavy lifting.

Here though I want to point out isolation is relative, as is the cascade. I think it’s important to leverage the cascade wherever you can but that doesn’t mean you are leveraging it from top to bottom per say, but it does mean thinking more wholistic about the context of styling
> terabyte of RAM

LOL. Have you seem the pricing of Mac memory?
Top schools compete with each for students. Collaborating to keep prices high or keep admissions criteria consistent in a way that reduces competition between the schools would open them up to anti-trust complaints.

But that would be hard to prove. If two gas stations collude to set prices, that violates anti-trust law. But if they just follow suit as they see the other raise or lower prices, that's generally legal, as long as there isn't a secret or understood agreement. I expect the latter is more what's going on here.
I'm not a big proponent of AI, but running code locally is far far better for privacy than giving all your data to a remote service you don't control.
Macs are better but absurdly expensive and I've only ever had an awful customer experience with them. For a daily development laptop, I don't think it's worth the extra money over Lenovo and I don't want to support Apple.

I do think it would be cool to have an M_x chip to try and run ML stuff on.
> I'm in an environment (military) were we actively work to prevent this.

Are we talking US military here? I think I recognize the pattern you're talking about when you say:

> I have lots of kids (18-20yo) with mental health issues that are not helped by being allowed to take time off so casually. Our mental health experts want to keep people working because having them sit at home drinking/gaming does nothing. I have seen kids actually react well to increased "stress" on the job. Think basic training stuff. They are worked hard, go home tired and then actually sleep. Sending them home not tired leads to drinking and late-night gaming sessions after which they do not sleep and come to work the next day like zombies.

You aren't actively doing anything. You're saturating their day so that they're distracted from whatever underlying problems they face. They're too tired to deal with them so they sleep and repeat. I'd be curious to see your solution play out in the ten years post separation, but the VA may be ahead of you. For context (if you're not American) TAPS is what you take as you separate: https://benefits.va.gov/TRANSITION/docs/pstap-assessment.pdf (Section 4.C should have some relevant quotes).

I remember at some point a Navy Corpsman explaining to me that the goal of Navy medicine isn't to make you better, it's to keep you in fighting shape. Fighting shape doesn't need to be the best or most optimal shape, just enough to do the job the military needs you to do.
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Related note: Amazon IAM credentials often look something like this (not real):

aws_access_key_id = AKIA367COJQOEU3UOE
aws_secret_access_key = a7Ed0F80a0AF6606/MQG3+4o/o

It's frustrating that you can select the access key by double clicking it but not the secret access key because of those / characters.
Hope they can deliver. Right now Apple hardware is silly compared to PC+Nvidia if you wanna play around with GenAI. Both in price and performance.
Worst case macs end up as thin-clients, all AI running on Nvidia in the cloud. Would eat into their competive advantage a lot I think.
> The US was certainly built on plunder

Selling iron ore and other raw material to other countries? I don't think so.

Don't neglect all the goods and services created by an industrial economy. You can't dig a house out of the ground, nor shoes, nor canned goods, nor glass bottles, nor choo choo trains, nor airplanes, nor textiles, etc.

Japan and Hong Kong both proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that great wealth does not come from plunder, it comes from creating things.
For a daily development laptop, I actually find Mac OS incredibly superior to the alternatives, but I guess ymmv
Yes I agree the popular email clients are as you say, hence why I made the post...
The Mars crisis, explained by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith [video]
If they ship the M4 this year, then they might be on a yearly schedule from here on out.
A random attacker will buy a "6 billion real IPv6 addresses" database dump for $15 and then will spam your specific IPs as soon as they will produce any outgoing packets at all. Only a matter of time.
Ask HN: What activities are you motivated to do?
Did they find factories, along with skilled labor to run them, too?
I actually just downloaded the VS Code extension earlier today as a result of this discussion, perhaps that will change my opinion. Because for me the two flows would be:

1. I find the element I need to style
2. I add/edit the inline style={{}} attribute I have for it by typing `sty<TAB>{borrad<TAB>`
3. I add a value

VS:

1. I find the element I need to style
2. I add/edit the className attribute
3. I pull up the tailwind documentation to find how to type the CSS I already have memorized in their DSL (I know some Tailwind by heart, but wayyyyy more CSS)
4. I wait for it to load
5. I scroll down to find the version of the class name that I need
6. I go back to the editor and add the class.

Also a very common flow for me is to edit the CSS directly in the browser, it's a much faster devloop than the fastest live reload server. In that case it's far easier to just copy from the `changes` view into the CSS than go through and remap everything from CSS into Tailwind.
Lacking historical pizzazz, but you might enjoy this: https://thelandmag.com/richard-ankrom-guerrilla-public-servi...

A man created a "fake" highway sign in LA because he saw how confused the lack of signage made motorists, and it took a long time for anyone to tell it wasn't actually real.
I had no idea. That's actually really neat!
Would you like some toast?
A famous shipping company's fake page redirects to someone's blog
Russia Fires Five Artillery Shells for Every One Fired by Ukraine Citing US Gen
I think that Apple's biggest sell with this stuff is going to be utilizing all the SQLite databases on OSX, IOS, IPadOS along with all the on-device analytics that are constantly running. I have a feeling that we're going to see Journal become more of a center focus over the coming years.

Question: Is it illegal for apple to do something on-device that runs queries against all the databases for the user's applications?
I predict Apple's launch events in the fall are going to be off the charts in terms of productizing AI.

I'm not an Apple fanboy - I just think Apple as a company has been prepared and thinking about this stuff for literally decades. They set the bar for user friendly products. It won't be the first time that Apple is late to the market, but they've always redefined it when they arrive, becoming the new standard. It's what they do.

I'm a firm believer in AI at the edge: Low latency, privacy, personalization, device integration and no need to invest in massive AI server farms. It's in Apple's best interest to bring AI computation to the masses.

But we'll see if Tim can pull it off.
Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about…?") is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense of the original accusation.
Does anyone know if MySQL is now in maintenance mode?
twitter.com.au deserves what they get. LoL

I probably would have pushed back against the replace in the first place.
Note: 1 ppt == 1 ng/L.

The EU limits are 500 ng/L for the sum of all PFAS in drinking water. Canada has an "objective" of 30 ng/L but I don't know how well it's enforced. The US proposal is for 4 ng/L for each PFAS but I'm not sure how they calculate the combined amounts. If it's simple addition, then it's 38 ng/L according to the article.
Not sure if I've seen anything of the sort, seems rather specific. Maybe something like Teachable Machine would be a good fit? https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/
That's not true. Teflon is not a PFAS because it's missing the "tail" that makes it active.

Teflon's predecessor PFOA is a PFAS, but there's not normally any remaining in the final produce. There is a valid concern with manufacturing of course, but not with use.
Remember the US was formed out of a revolt, too. Revolutions are not always bad.
Only if you're refusing to consider inline styles. Which is an odd decision to make if we're comparing to Tailwind.

That said, I agree that this doesn't work for pseudo selectors, very unfortunately, and I wish it would.
> You haven’t described how what you’re suggesting (a very very common
HN suggestion) would improve HN.

Well that's not true. I've said that I believe getting detailed
feedback from a known respondent is better than anonymous up or
downvotes, and that since downvotes affect visibility if ones aim is
to improve the quality of posting/writing then it's a superior form of
feedback.

You call it "noise".

I think that's just where we'll have to differ.

Might I also say that it being a "very, very common" suggestion might
bolster my point rather than subtract from it. We're all believers in
supply and demand here, right?

Anyway I must hush my tongue as Dang is wagging a finger at me for
being too mouthy. :)

respects
First Glassdoor, then OpenTable.

Who will dox us next - Reddit? Hacker News?
The original 128kb Mac was about $7,300 (today's dollars).

Apple's Lisa was about $30,000 (today's dollars)
Another reason to support public transit, albeit a sad one.
> This is just your perspective and, IMO, it's pretty warped. Software engineering is not a low-status position, even compared to doctors and lawyers. You aren't lacking in status or not having sex because you're a software engineer getting paid $200k/year instead of a doctor paid $200k/year.

I find that it definitely points to a time period when someone entered maybe not workforce, but the "IT world" let's say.

There was a time when programming in many places had definitely "unsexy" vibe among general population, with a lot of, well, painful "jokes", and all of that definitely set a "theme".

fast forward a decade or so to 2010 and suddenly IT is no longer that place where only losers go.
The Bering land bridge lasted for thousands of years, why wouldn't there have been multiple waves of migration?
Perhaps de-identification before training could be helpful here.

Microsoft does seem active in this, e.g. https://microsoft.github.io/presidio/
We're not looking for duplicates because we're afraid that probability has failed us. We're looking for duplicates because we have a thing of interest, with a corresponding UUID, and we want to notice where else that thing is involved.
Happy to be able to help!

If we’re talking about having the microphone tapped etc, I don’t think anyone would still be developing 0-days for such old phones. If you want to be safer (assuming fear of old software having unpatched vulnerabilities) Nokia launched a dumb phone not too long ago.

However… GSM networks and cell tower level tracking is much harder/almost impossible to escape short of throwing away your phone. SMSes can be hijacked, hostile agents can force downgrade the connection to 3G/2g to break encryption (iirc, please correct me if wrong), and your location is generally known to your service provider and Uncle Sam.

Plus… the SIM card is its own mini computer, and lots of the firmware between that and the telephony modules is proprietary and closed source. If you’re familiar with intel ME you have an idea of what I’m talking about.

Honestly, if you’re not a journalist going after big names, or a top CEO/president etc you likely don’t need to worry about any of these. But if you are, or just want to be privacy conscious, your best bet is to never use cell towers and only use Wi-Fi/internet from public or untraceable places; along with Wi-Fi calling for telephony. Btw I’m not sure but I think Google fi and a few carriers/MVNOs offer virtual numbers, which can be a good first step for privacy.
It's faaar away.
Oh, so you're saying tivert is only in favor of the death penalty for billionaire fraudsters because tivert isn't a billionnaire, not because tivert isn't, and doesn't plan to become a billionaire fraudster?

But how do you know? Is the idea that a billionaire wouldn't be posting to HackerNews?
Is this like, the AI equivalent of “another layer will fix it” that crypto fans used?

“It’s ok bro, another model will fix, just please, one more ~layer~ ~agent~ model”

It’s all fun and games until you can’t reliably generate your base models anymore, because all your _base_ data is too polluted.

Let’s not forget MS has a $10bn stake in the current crop of LLM’s turning out to be as magic as they claim, so I’m sure they will do anything to ensure that happens.
Thanks, I was looking this up yesterday and only found a bunch of JS that didn't work.
>Suffer in silence?

You must live in some coo-coo land of privileged entitlement if you think that not using Apple M laptops somehow equivalate to "suffering". Go out and get some perspective on what suffering actually feels like. I'm ending my talk with you here since your comments are of even lower quality.
Vietnam is ruled by a Marxist-Leninist party. One-party rule, vanguardist, officially Marxist, ruling allegedly for the benefit of the workers. Similar to contemporary China, Cuba, or the late USSR. What term would you prefer, if not (Marxist-)Leninist, to describe this type of state?
In my experience reading patents, you have this backwards. The spec (pictures, detailed description, etc.) is where the disclosure of what you actually did and how you are advancing knowledge shows up. The claims are the enforcement mechanism attached to the stuff disclosed in the spec.

If you eventually sue someone, the claims are used, but they will often be challenged if they go beyond the scope of the spec.
Depending on the study you care to believe, bottled water is 1/4 to 2/3rds of the time originally sourced from tap water.
FTA "Unfortunately, the venture-capital-funded AI industry runs on the promise of replacing humans with a very large shell script — including in areas where details matter. If the AI’s output is just plausible nonsense, that’s a problem. So the hallucination issue is causing a slight panic among AI company leadership."

I mean... If the VC's start funding AI companies with crypto is it incest or cannibalism.

Can someone come up with an idea for computing that doesn't involve wasting electricity with GPU's on pictures of cats and dogs?
So I learned this the hard way…

Let me share the solution with you so you don't face it again.
For context, if you get the beefiest MacBook Pro right now you'd pay an extra $1000 to upgrade from 48GB to 128GB RAM. For lower end machines you pay more for RAM, $200 per each 8GB you add on top of the 8GB baseline.
Unless one of those wanted two beers. Or 0.5 beer. Or -1 beers. Or 1e9 beers. Or 2147483648 beers.
There were like 55 articles about this. People are this famished for some action?