skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like both, and they're apparently using Apple Silicon in their own datacenters. From Bloomberg[0] (archived)[1]:

"Apple Inc. will deliver some of its upcoming artificial intelligence features this year via data centers equipped with its own in-house processors, part of a sweeping effort to infuse its devices with AI capabilities.

The company is placing high-end chips — similar to ones it designed for the Mac — in cloud-computing servers designed to process the most advanced AI tasks coming to Apple devices, according to people familiar with the matter. Simpler AI-related features will be processed directly on iPhones, iPads and Macs

...

The first AI server chips will be the M2 Ultra, which was launched last year as part of the Mac Pro and Mac Studio computers, though the company is already eyeing future versions based on the M4 chip..."

...

Relatively simple AI tasks — like providing users a summary of their missed iPhone notifications or incoming text messages — could be handled by the chips inside of Apple devices. More complicated jobs, such as generating images or summarizing lengthy news articles and creating long-form responses in emails, would likely require the cloud-based approach — as would an upgraded version of Apple’s Siri voice assistant.

...

For now, Apple is planning to use its own data centers to operate the cloud features, but it will eventually rely on outside facilities — as it does with iCloud and other services. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on some aspects of the server plan."

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And from [2], Apple has been working on Apple Chips in Data Center (ACDC) for few years, focusing on AI inference, not training.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-09/apple-to-...

[1] https://archive.ph/MUswk

[2] https://www.medianama.com/2024/05/223-apple-launches-project...
Jim never gave a fuck and smoked even in investor meetings.
Here's an alternative I've built for myself
https://github.com/vb-consulting/NpgsqlRest
This is something I noticed as a kid. We had a creek in our backyard, which,depending on the temperature the water would be louder or quieter. This annoyed our dog, which after a number of times caused me to notice. Running water is louder and much more sharp when it's cold out, and quieter and muffled when it's hot out. In the same way sounds are louder in a colder environment because there's already a low level of ambient energy contained in the air and so the energy disperses much more readily but dissipates much more quickly. Essentially a difference between a quick "crack" and a lingering "whump" in terms of auditory impact. This effect also propagates to solid materials, as cold metals and ceramics transmit sound better than warm ceramics or metals. A church bell quite literally is louder on a cold winter's day.
You can't do it directly, that's what the scaling is for. Another trick would be to answer the question for (a,b) and then see what the answer is when b-a -> inf.

For some questions neither of those tricks will work. For this question scaling trick seems to work perfectly.
It sounds incredibly complex.

My guess is that it's going to end up a clusterfuck of everything and a kitchen sink built on ill-defined murky concepts with an easy UI bolted on top. Just the opposite of git.

You don't seem to care much about simplicity, you care about shiny features.
Gaza is being leveled to the ground, and thousands of innocent people are killed. Many of the boys who witness that will become terrorists when they grow up, because from their perspective and lack of education - it seems right to respond to violence with violence.
A thousand iPads cannot offer the experience of a single piano key. And vice versa. So the direct comparison the ad is implying is failed. It could involve 1000 old mobile phones or 100 DSLR cameras or 10 PCs. But then it would be uninteresting and nobody would care
I disconnected the battery and was still able to make reliable contact!
Agree, but it’s like hurling toward a brick wall at 100mph instead of previously 110mph and saying “we’ve reached peak risk”. Sounds a lot better than “we’re braking but currently we are still going to hit the wall and life expectancy of passengers still currently is measured in second”, but what we need is to push people to brake more, not sugar coat the situation.
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon knew about this already.
Tools like OpenReplay and Fullstory already are capable of capturing a scary amount of information. I'm curious how far you could go with this idea without the need to be an extension. What would really be missing?
> There is a reason why people invent GraphQL or BFF

Sure, it was because creating servers--REST or otherwise--with code (looking at you, Spring, Django, and RoR) is such a slow, laborsome task that rapidly iterating frontend teams got tired of waiting around for ill-fitting backends to catch up, that they built their own abstraction layers: BFF and then GraphQL. That wouldn't be a problem if backend teams were as nimble. Things like PostgREST, Prisma, Hasura, etc. allow them to be that nimble. Ironically, that brings folks like Wundergraph full circle, where they relegate GraphQL to being a development language for defining REST endpoints. If you're going to use a query language like GraphQL to define your REST services, then you might as well use the OG query language SQL to define your REST services, if circumstances allow. That's precisely what PostgREST does.

So, yes, I have heard a lot arguments for why REST sucks. I just don't think they apply anymore (if they ever did).
Sure you can. Just write a function.
This is great! One request would be for the smoothing when zoomed out to not generate square pixels.

Example: https://imgur.com/a/lRrHHTJ
Employee wellbeing is overrated.

In fact, standard economic theory would say that it is better to pay people more instead doing anything else.
Getting "Argo tunnel error" on the page
> The war in Ukraine was created by the US/Nato.

No, it was created by the Russian Federation invading Ukraine in 2014.

It was exacerbated by the Russian Federation launching a larger scale, broader invasion in 2022.

> It’s incredibly naive to assume that Russia was the sole malicious actor here.

Whether or not there is some standard by which some other actor is “malicious”, Russia is, in fact, the aggressor in the war.

> I wonder how we would react if the soviet union was tipped to expand into Mexico.

Mostly wondering where the Soviet Union hid out for the last 33 years.
Dude where's my Ion Cannon?
IIRC, one of the problems with SDI was that at the time the only way to make lasers powerful enough to destroy an ICBM was to pump the lasing medium with a nuke, making them one-shot devices.

Sensing may still be a problem today, especially as stealth is also improving, but detection in general is much easier than it was in the Regan era.
Another factor is color - our eyes don’t notice it well in low light, so the patches don’t stand out. Camera sensor is equally sensitive to colors at all brightness levels.
I’m curious, if you shoot a street scene in Germany is that the case? That you’d have to get everyone’s permission? That seems ... impractical.

It’s a common misconception here in Australia. You can film in public. I’ve had the public come up to me and try to tell me about ‘their rights’ and I have to politely inform them that, in this situation, they don’t have any.

We got the cops called on us in central Melbourne because we were shooting a music video outside a bank. There was an ATM in the far distance and the bank’s security guards were going on about it not being legal to shoot. Again, politely, we told them that we could in fact shoot on the public street.

The cops came. “This sounded a lot more interesting on the radio”, the guy told us. They left.
They say they have't lost any so far.
So that's how they make it so thin!!
While they "typically" look like that, because most often they're quite weak, I wouldn't compare it to milky way photos. If it's strong, especially if you're up north and somewhere with little light pollution, what you see is comparable to lots of pictures.
The article is short on action.

What can the american EV manufacturers do to compete? The largest cost - the battery - is cheaper to produce in china (for which ever reason, it no longer matters as the results are the same regardless).

What can american manufacturers do, not just EV manufacturers, to compete with the decades long reliance on chinese supply chain which has made products sold to american cheap, and affordable? The quality of life improvements cannot be rolled back. Their american wages cannot compete, and not to mention environmental regulations, costs (such as rents) skyrocketing etc.

The only real way, as i see it, is to technologicially advance the problem away. Compete in an arena for which the chinese political state cannot mandate improvements in. This is getting scarcer and more difficult as china is becoming more technologically advanced.

The US stupidly also blocked the semiconductor chips tech from china - which sounds "good" in theory, but is actually an own-goal. The lack of the more advanced nodes available means the US just created the mother of all inventions - necessity. If chinese firms had access to foreign made chips more cheaply than their own, it makes their own industry uncompetitive and force the CCP to sink even more dollars into it to subsidize it (and the US has to hope that the subsidy is wasted or not efficiently spent).

Instead, the state subsidies will be efficiently spent because of the US trade restrictions, and this necessarily force them improve their own domestic industry. Mark my words, the technological edge the US enjoys will wither away soon enough, given the current trajectory.

I, and i suspect many others, don't want to see the US resort to only having military coersion to maintain their global superpower status.
Show HN: Multilspy – Cross platform framework to develop Language Server Clients
multilspy is a cross-platform library that we have built to set up and interact with various language servers in a unified and easy way. Language servers are tools that perform a variety of static analyses on source code and provide useful information such as type-directed code completion suggestions, symbol definition locations, symbol references, etc., over the Language Server Protocol (LSP). multilspy intends to ease the process of using language servers, by abstracting the setting up of the language servers, performing language-specific configuration and handling communication with the server over the json-rpc based protocol, while exposing a simple interface to the user.

Since LSP is language-agnostic, multilspy can provide the results for static analyses of code in different languages over a common interface. multilspy is easily extensible to any language that has a Language Server and currently supports Java, Rust, C# and Python and we aim to support more language servers.

Some of the analyses results that multilspy can provide are:

Finding the definition of a function or a class (textDocument/definition)
Finding the callers of a function or the instantiations of a class (textDocument/references)
Providing type-based dereference completions (textDocument/completion)
Getting information displayed when hovering over symbols, like method signature (textDocument/hover)
Getting list/tree of all symbols defined in a given file, along with symbol type like class, method, etc. (textDocument/documentSymbol)
Works great as long as you aren't in a hot climate. Out of curiosity I checked and I'm currently measuring 14 degrees C in my room. Haven't turned on the refrigerator since October.
Now that FFM is being finalised, it should become better supported in GraalVM [0].

Would be interesting to compare the two.

[0]: https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image...
No. Absent additional information, the fresher is more likely to better with less opportunity and duration to be improperly stored.
I didn't know the name, for any others like myself:

Roberta Lynn Williams (née Heuer; born February 16, 1953) is an American video game designer and writer, who co-founded Sierra On-Line with her husband, game developer Ken Williams.

In 1980, her first game, Mystery House, became a modest commercial success; it is credited as the first graphic adventure game.

She is also known for creating and maintaining the King's Quest series, as well as designing the full motion video game Phantasmagoria in 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Williams
Bit unrelated question and please excuse me if it's going in a wrong way - any plans to have sort of multithread support in rsync? Being single thread limited is painfully slow. I'm concerned on data reads ( disks do much better being read in parallel ) and checksumming - doing 2nd pass of rsync over medium sized mysql db of around 2tb is literally slower than just something like tar ..|zstd | ssh "zstd -| tar -".

Doing copy with rclone can be much much faster as well.
I don't think SA had ever endorsed a political candidate before 2020.

There has been a change in tone over the past few years.
Flatcar: OS Innovation with Systemd-Sysext
I believe they were doing ML based trading. Their edge was data collection, cleaning and standardisation and the ability to trade a lot at very cheap borrowing cost. This was way before computers became a thing in trading or ML became a thing.
I don't see what the problem is with producing analytics.

As for data database migrations, if anything about them is "notoriously hard" it isn't changing views and procedures.
They're not mandatory, and indeed, less likely, in GUIs anyway, so I'm not sure the point you're arguing is with you.
It might help if you told us what you think makes Tetris unique in that an ACE would be assumed to be implausible rather than simply not yet found
They should have made it with teleporters that beam the items into the iPad. For some reason we don't think of teleporters as destructive (when in actuality they shred their targets down to the individual atom level.)
A polynomial of order n has n roots (real and complex). A random polynomial has roughly log(n) of those be real and n - log(n) be nonreal.

For large n, log(n) is tiny compared to n, so it's very surprising that over half the time the largest root is one of the tiny number of real roots
I would not be surprised if RenTec had developed GPT way before OpenAI and kept mum about it.
> in an endpoint I can do much more than just interrogating the database. And I usually do.

Like what?
Depends, does it run arch?
Since we're all scientists here, I'll report a negative from central York. My wife and I stood up in the attic looking out of the Velux for 10 minutes. It was dark, clear and we were could see from NE-ish to SE-ish. We couldn't really call it. A very subtle effect on a 10s smartphone exposure, mayyybe? I will compare with tonight.

We once rented a beautiful, slightly remote house on a beach outside Reykjavik and one night, the sky danced for us. So I don't feel hard done-by.
I stand by my counterpoint: Google can’t run “Hey Google” on-device because it only controls a small % of the devices it’s available on. In the world of built-in voice assistants, Siri is behind, but only as behind as it was in 2021.
But since he fired 70% of the company the cost of keeping it running is also down, that is why Twitter could survive such massive losses in revenue. Now they're trying to diversify revenue sources
Do you not like the texture or something?

Throwing away room temperature rice after an hour or two has nothing to do with safety.
Another example that particularly riles me is that NextJS forces the "edge runtime" (from Vercel) on middleware even when your server is otherwise running in nodejs.

The implication is that you can't do anything that relies on node APIs that edge doesn't support which can be quite limiting.

There's rumour that they're walking back this decision, but it always struck me as an arbitrary way to "encourage" codebases to make themselves compatible with edge which in turn would make deploying using Vercel easier.

(In general I'm reasonably happy using NextJS, though there are many architectural decisions that I find frustrating)
Joins are supported:

https://postgrest.org/en/v12/references/api/resource_embeddi...
> it's one of the few useful (maybe) things we can do with quantum computers today.

It's theoretically useful, but quantum random number generation has been around for a long time. All you need is a way to detect nuclear decay.
Whow, one of Google's biggest blunders recently. That's why you should not hire PM's straight from university.
Nothing about this imposes an infrastructure burden.
This could lead to more data being lost than from ransomware.

The best part is Windows doesn't even notify you about it. It will show you numerous useless notifications and now even ads, but it won't notify you that it has encrypted all your data. As that would be too "intrusive".

I already know of one case where all data was lost. Somehow recovery key was not stored in Microsoft account.
That's when the shooting starts. Let's hope it never gets that bad.
https://jsr.io/@cross/kv
I have noted your opinion and have disregarded it.
Anyone else read the title as "Roman Tyrian, exotic luxury house brand of dyes known for making dyes out of unusual extracts, maker of purple dye out of snail juices somehow, is finally selling his stuff in UK either because some ban on mistreating snails was waived or his beef with the king is over" ?? Just me? Thought so
Corporate tax here is applied on the profit, so until you make enough profit to pay corporate tax, you pay nothing.
If they're so easy to write, then why write them at all? Why aren't they being generated?
By wrapping an interface around your technologies so you can swap them out?
I think you're hiding the ball with these questions. Nobody expects something shot with a RED, with whatever lens, to look bad. They're some of the best cameras ever made.

Phones, on the other hand, have long not been considered equal to dedicated camera hardware. Apple would like to change that perception, so they hitch the dedicated fancy hardware to their phone and say "look how good our phone is," without properly calling attention to the fact that it doesn't look the same without the fancy hardware they are suggesting you shouldn't need to use.

Further, the average person would see "shot on iPhone" and think "they held up an iPhone and recorded this," not "they hooked the iPhone up to professional-grade equipment and recorded this."

The language is deliberately misleading, and the efforts to insist that it somehow isn't just because it is technically true are deeply unconvincing.
I understood that they'll release the source for the decompiled project, so you can build it yourself or compare hashes.

Of course it would be a lot easier to hide malicious code in such a decompiled mess of symbols.
OK so I was totally confused by the Oberth effect and how it could possibly be and so did some research.

Now I have no idea why or how kinetic energy has a quadratic relationship with velocity, but it does. Something something work something something square of velocity, who knows. If someone could explain that to me like I'm 5 I would totally appreciate it.

But if we just take that as a given then we can develop an intuitive understanding of the Oberth Effect pretty easily if we remember that velocity is only relevant to a reference frame. So when you burn at periapsis (at top speed aka when youre closest to our black hole) your energy relative to the black hole is increased a lot more because for a given unit of fuel you add the same amount of velocity, and doubling your velocity is more than doubling your energy. That energy is what carries you up and away from the black hole and towards your apoapsis (or the stars)

It makes sense if we just pretend to understand why it is that somehow magically KE is proportional to the square of its velocity IDK
Any Ham Radio operators here can share their experience if and how much it affected radio communications?
> even though we have the tools to completely automate this

PostgREST is literally a tool to automate this.
Raytracing builds look surprisingly good! Meshes well with the artstyle.
Thanks for the heads up, just fixed this.
That’s a great episode and covers a lot in depth. Would recommend Acquired in general - appeals to me as interested in tech, business and finance
Not op, the more flattering word for "dumb" is "simple". Rich Hickey's talk "Simple made easy" had an impact on me.
Here are some phone pics from my home village in Germany: https://www.nowhereinparticular.xyz/polarlichter.html

This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. My brother, who is a hobby astronomer, called me and sent me outside. Initially, I saw only a faint red glow in the northeast of the sky, but after a few minutes, my eyes adapted and I could see how it slowly moved and changed its form over time. I stayed outside for maybe 15 minutes and then went back inside. An hour later, I went outside again and almost the whole sky was shining in all different colors and forms, from patches to clouds to pillars that seemed to support the heavens, ever chaning. Incredible.
I was taught logarithmic scales in middle school. If every concept needs to be dumbed down to a pre-middle school level for maximum accessibility (to minimize gatekeeping), you're going to end up with a public who literally can't comprehend the things they're being told because they stopped learning before middle school.
My wooden peg leg and the parrot on my experienced and still active privateer shoulder tell me no.
Autocorrupt
> Canned food can develop botulism

I don't think that has much to do with age though. Sometimes canning is done wrong.
It's so sad that ads got such a bad reputation as being intrusive, annoying, fraud, etc. While when used correctly, ads are very useful and sometimes fun.

Especially in this case, the future will talk more about the engagement, conversion, impressions, clicks, etc related to in-game ads, and not how to creatively integrate the ads in the game in a fun way
Show HN - A side project I built to help with my laziness/procrastination
I thought I'd share a side project I've been work on recently.

I've always struggled with procrastination. The final straw came last year when I forgot to book an MOT for my campervan, resulting in a cancelled weekend away, grief from my wife and kids and a realisation that I needed to address my procrastination problem.

So, I did what all good software engineers do: I spent a weekend hacking together a small reminder service.

The service emails me 12 weeks before, 8 weeks before, 5 weeks before, 3 weeks before, 2 weeks before, and 1 week before an important deadline. I can also choose daily reminders on the same 12, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1 schedule.

I have found that this increasingly frequent nagging helps me focus on important tasks and I haven't missed any renewals or deadlines since.

Following feedback from people I have shared the idea with, I put some more effort into the service and built remindify.co

Thanks! Matt
Great read. Thanks for sharing. I am not familiar with Adam Curtis' work but will be looking for more!
I want you to think about for a second, why Google would be conducting their own brain research. I think it is quite terrifying.
“The Innovator’s Dilemma” came out in the 90’s, but I bet it would still be an ok place to start (I haven’t actually read it, but it is a famous book).
This is interesting. You need to post a write up.

I would read it.
His 4-part Century of the Self series is on Youtube, IIRC. Interesting watch. Hypernormalisation didn't grab me as much.
Linus wrote git over a weekend...

[Edit: and that's why it's so good! Because it's so damn simple!]