skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise at face value is correct. But let's consider what is left unsaid.

First, if the govt didn't increase rates, we would have stubbornly high inflation. So instead of giving money to 1 specific person (Dimon/bankers) we would be giving it to many faceless recipients (Halliburton, Blackwater, MVM [1], Hilton? ) . I'm not sure what is better, but in the former case, at least we don't end up with inflation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVM,_Inc.

Second, the govt is able to give this money away because govt is the sole price-setter the cost of money, via fed. This, despite decades of evidence that price setting -in any industry- doesn't work. Yet, the US public continues to vote for status quo without any challenge to Fed policy. Ignorance is bliss, yet the majority of US voters insist to give money to Dimon. So, should one be outraged at handouts for dimon & pals, even if the evidence makes it clear that this was willingly accepted by the majority of the US public ?
Seeing ants crawling up and down a tree is how I discovered that the tree was infested with aphids.
I don't think most of the ones here could be easily reversed, for what it's worth. The streets were designed with them in mind, so they're usually at the exact spot where 3-5 different roads intersect.

The number of bad roundabouts is pretty common here, though. But it wouldn't entirely surprise me (based on other things I've seen) if there was a level of local incompetence that went beyond the norm. You're right that they can be improved, but (I mentioned this in another reply), sometimes that takes years or decades for whatever reason (and even then, they don't fix all of the issues).
M1 -> M2: 2301 -> 2598 = 12.91% increase

M2 -> M3: 2598 -> 3082 = 18.63% increase

M3 -> M4: 3082 -> 3864 = 25.37% increase

Assuming the M4 Geekbench score is legit, it’s interesting to see that the jump from M3 to M4 has the largest percentage increase in single-core performance since the M1 came out. The M1 -> M2 and M2 -> M3 upgrades were solid, but the 25.37% jump from M3 -> M4 is much more significant. It makes you wonder if we’ll keep seeing even bigger performance leaps with future releases, or if there’s something specific about this generation that’s driving such a large gain. Will Apple keep increasing performance at this rate, or is this an exception?
> 25% faster M4 chip: The box lists this 14-inch MacBook Pro as having an M4 chip with a 10-core CPU, whereas the current model has the M3 chip with an 8-core CPU. An alleged Geekbench 6 benchmark result shared by the YouTube channel behind this leak suggests that the M4 chip will be up to 25% faster than the M3 chip. Apple already introduced the M4 chip in the iPad Pro in May, and it indeed has up to a 10-core CPU and up to 25% faster performance compared to the M3 chip.

> 16GB of RAM: It was previously rumored that 16GB of RAM could become the minimum for all future Macs, and the alleged packaging indeed suggests that the next 14-inch MacBook Pro would start with 16GB of RAM, unless it is somehow a built-to-order configuration that will be offered on Apple's online store.

> Three Thunderbolt 4 ports: The box suggests the base 14-inch MacBook Pro will have three Thunderbolt 4 ports, up from two Thunderbolt 3 ports on the current model.

> Space Black: The box suggests that Space Black would become a color option for the base 14-inch MacBook Pro, whereas it is currently exclusive to models configured with the M3 Pro or M3 Max chip.

Aside, I still have an M1 Pro 16", is it worth upgrading to an M3 (or future M4)? It feels like my M1 can still do everything I need it to (coding, compiling, running emulators for mobile development), but for those that did upgrade, do you feel it was worth it, or are the gains incremental?
I feel like this is where I've personally landed with Rust. For many applications, it's at least good enough. It gets the job done. It looks and feels professional. Fit and finish are rarely a material concern. It rarely causes active problems (except where there isn't native coverage yet) and reduces or eliminated many more. And... well, I like it.

If I were putting together a web development team, would I recommend Rust? ...probably not. But that's because I'm putting together a team, not a playground. I'm paying people. I want to use common, well-supported, time-tested methods, unless steering away from that is truly needed to make the project successful. For web dev, that assuredly ain't Rust ("yet," some may add).

But for me? Just for me? I think it's a language I'll always enjoy. Within that line of thinking, I do feel there's room for better web dev tooling in Rust, though what's already there is probably enough to at least get started.
C# is indeed adopting some functional techniques from F#, but C# is still so bogged down with imperative cruft that the resulting combination of styles is a mess.
No I haven't. Will check it out.
The Warlord of Saturn's Moons
The ML community has historically held themselves to a higher standard, IME.
I “wish” AI would replace me so that I could do other stuff than coding
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OCaml is definitely something I'd consider using if I didn't already live and breathe Rust :)

I use Rust often for things that aren't possible in other languages, so I also use it for things that are possible in other languages. (Though I used Python for a production and an art project recently -- with uv it's quite nice.)
> It feels like my M1 can still do everything I need it to

I think you answered your own question: No, you don't need the upgrade.

(I'm in the same boat as you, for what it's worth. My wife and I both have M1 machines, and they both do what we need, so we're not upgrading.)
Growing up in the 80s we would regularly listen to WKBW out of Buffalo in Virginia. AM has amazing range.
I wonder how well this model can typecheck Ruby code.
Assuming a compatible phone and a compatible carrier (AFAIK AT&T and Verizon both still operate white lists), no there's nothing stopping you. There are/were US users who bought Sailfish over VPN. But for official hardware at least, "compatible phone" is the sticking point. The last phone with a North American variant was the Sony XA2 from early 2018. Today it's a brick because Jolla never gave it VoLTE support.
The Drombeg stone circle is like stone henge’s grandfather.
You can actually screw them up: by our house (in California) they replaced a 4-way stop with a roundabout with no signaling on 2 of the ways, and a stop on the other 2. An absolute disaster, as the 2 ways without the stop assumed they had the right of way over people already in the roundabout.

After the neighbourhood complained, it's now a roundabout with 4 stops (not ideal, but not dangerous either).
Still interested to know the answer to this Q tho:

> for those that did upgrade, do you feel it was worth it, or are the gains incremental?
The job of the Fed is also to regulate banks. If the big banks are charging disproportionately more in interest, it's the Fed's job to regulate it, which they failed to do as per their bank regulation mandate.
Reminds me a bit of those blurry photos of fake iProducts ca. 2005, taken in a blue elevator or loading dock. Anyone remember those?
What is your personal take on the smuggling of budgie smugglers? is it fraudulent?

Central bank: HN had a bit to say on MF’s thermostat, id=4915751, rayiner on pubgoods 4915946

psmith pants-mongering on JW Central Banking 101 (very likely that one o both psmiths econometrician, btw):

>On twitter you can see our real rulers humiliating themselves

[meanwhile on HN…]

On immigration i submit that it is morally wrong to avail foreigners of the capital destructive tools of the geographic rome of our times (which some, ahem, poets identify as carthage of Moloch)
Both are technical problems with technical solutions that have to fit 100%. You can't say this for art or writing. It's more mushi and anything can fit there.
Does it have a Desktop mode like Samsung, tbh I don't even get the point of a Linux phone without a desktop mode.

Is this even a proper Linux phone? What distribution is it?
Representing himself sounds like a mistake, where is the EFF on this??
It explains my book (Opinionated Launch) better than myself :D https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/98539685-0890-438b-a0...
Yes, this is impossible. If having a vehicle connotes survival such people will perish. My point was only to illustrate there are many ways to make a piston engine go brr and only one way to make an EV mobile.
Realistically only at static time
modern IDEs are nice on operating systems like windows because they bundle the compiler and text editor and debugger together, and installing and configuring anything on windows is a pain of wizards and menus, especially if you want those programs to talk to each other correctly. I've had jobs where we have spent entire days configuring and installing visual studio and related software and activating all of the licenses and connecting all the databases.

But on linux you can just can just figure it out once and "su install compiler-version text-editor-version debugger-version && cp dotfiles ~/.config"
I've been using Hyprland for about a year, and it's pretty great. I only wish there were more official layouts, kinda like XMonad. But it's very possible to add a plugin or use IPC to add just about any functionality you want. I think it's just a matter of time before window managers start being built on top of Hyprland
This seems to be thoroughly conflating two things:

> We’ll start with this story on Fed Chair Jay Powell’s choice to transfer $1.1 trillion to large financial institutions over the past two and a half years when he helped raise interest rates, which is about $3000 from every single American.

> How did this transfer happen? “Lenders got higher yields for their deposits at the Fed but kept rates lower for many savers,” wrote the FT, with subsidies higher for big banks than small ones.

The issues are:

1. The Fed sets an interest rate target. This has everything to do with controlling macroeconomic parameters and, unless there is some pretty serious corruption involved, should not give much if any consideration to the banks’ profitability.

2. Banks get away with paying approximately zero interest to most customers, and, critically, this rate does not scale properly with the rates set by the Fed.

As a result of #2, bank profits have a bizarre dependence on interest rates beyond all the quite reasonable ways that their profits should depend on rates. Arguably #2 should be fixed, but #2 being true does not mean that the Fed should keep interest rates low just to keep bank profits low.

(Note that bank profits are a very complicated function of rates due to large bank exposures to fixed income.)
ahaha. this is so good. they're just so earnest about every bit of praise
Steak and eggs made by my grandfather.
“Popular gut probiotic craps out…”

My hat’s off to the copy editor who wrote that headline.
Dear struggling Internet person: I hate to give a diagnosis over the Internet, but you are either depressed or burned-out. I recommend to take a year off from work. If you are good/valuable enough, your employer might let you take it unpaid. You can probably find some blogs or books about people like you who have done the same. If you are only 38 and worth 5.5M USD, then you are likely very highly skilled. You can easily get another tech job after you take a year off. And, if anyone asks why you took a year off, just tell them you had a sick family member that needed your care. (That makes them shut-up real quick!)

Lastly: About therapy: One thing I tell people: If you believe in it, it will work. (Conversely: If you don't believe in it, then don't waste your time and money.) So, if you do believe that therapy can work for you, try a different therapist -- couples or single. Example: Choose a therapist with a different gender. It will help to open your eyes to a new way of thinking.
This is a great example of a simple tool that makes a big difference by streamlining a common task. Not every tool has to be complex, just effective .. Thanks for sharing!
This is an email and contact harvesting scheme.
Read a physical copy. Use two bookmarks, one for the footnotes. Read until the toothbrush photo before thinking about putting it down.
I have played with LLMs (and many IDEs). I won't say they suck, but they don't give me any huge boost either. Other programmers may get more mileage out of them, but so far no one I have worked with reports any difference that seems more significant than novelty. We all feel more "productive" when we challenge ourselves to learn a new language, tool, programming technique, platform, etc. When that wears off we have to find the next shiny thing. LLMs have the added feature of FOMO and actual fear of unemployment that, for example, VSCode did not have.

All tools take time to master, and then once mastered they can maintain an advantage over competitors that seem objectively better in some ways. I used VSCode for a year and ended up going back to vim. Nothing really wrong with VSCode but it wasn't a 10X or even 2X improvement for me. But I have internalized vim and the Unix/Linux command line tools to a degree that -- as you point out -- younger programmers don't have the runway to catch up with.

As a freelancer (and for a long time a f/t employee in various companies) I gradually figured out that the best value I can offer (and the best way to stay employed) is not how fast I can produce code, but how well I can understand the business domain and then tease out and translate requirements into software solutions. Optimizing for producing more or "better" code (however we measure that) I think sends a lot of programmers down the wrong path, one that leads to over-specialization, commodification of skills, and eventual replacement by outsourcing or AI. I think it will take a lot longer for LLMs to do the real work of software development, which has about as much to do with producing code as word processing has to do with writing an interesting book.
The idea that entertainment could be all engrossing and some forms of entertainment addictively destructive to our well-being? That we could have cameras in video conferences but would want them effectively off? It was delightfully/scarily prescient in some ways.
Pretty much any app that uses a toolkit won't need to be rewritten. Most of them just need small changes, or even no changes.

Those that are written to use Xlib directly, sure, they'll take some work (though rewritten? doubtful). If their maintainers don't want to do that, they'll still run under Xwayland.
Speaking of inefficiency and waste, I was recently looking at a list of recent federal hires for a fresh team, 60% (6) of which were managers, only 1 was a scientist, and 0 were engineers. It is bureaucracy through and through, all at the taxpayer's dime, with goals that have zilch to do with serving the people. If the Republicans weren't so anti-liberty, anti-democracy, and anti-climate, I'd consider voting for them, but they are.
The state put in a roundabout in my town last year on an a relatively busy county road with a turn towards a new elementary school. While a lot of people had big opinions on it before it was built they figured it out pretty quickly, to the point that it's a non-issue. My manager, who is kind of a crank, noted the first day he used it to drop his kid off that he didn't expect it to work but it ended up being really smooth. In my experience drivers now are more consistent at navigating the roundabout correctly than at following right of way at any of the 4-way stops in town.
Still using an Intel MacBook Pro. Time for an M3 or wait for M4?
It may be faster when switching between multitasking. My problem is mainly that the screen of my m1 mba is too bad. It would be great if I could replace the screen module separately.
Plausibly a large part of the perf bump comes from the SVE and SME extensions, for workloads that can put them to use.
Isn't it a crime to pay people to register to vote?
Will they keep this up? Probably. Indefinitely? Likely not. But look at what it’s done. There are compelling ARM hardware outside of Apple now due to the renaissance in performance that this am series chip has shown.

I’ve an M3 max and now I can’t wait to see what an M4 max will do. 256GB ram in the top end laptop? 25-50% more cores?
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!

I'm not really sure that public acceptance can really be ascertained for most
policies, especially nuanced ones which don't make their way to the top of any party's platform in the form of an election promise or a referendum, but especially when the policy wasn't made by a directly elected body.
Messages have serious delays (sometimes minutes, sometimes hours) through SMS gateways. There's also rate limiting. That limits their usefulness.
Not everyone riding as a passenger in a car has choice in these situations, namely children.
Yeah, no kidding. Thank you, @madmask, for the comic relief. Can you imagine how nice a life you could have living in a small city/village in the south of Italy with 5.5M USD stashed away? Heaven on Earth!
The good thing is waydroid is fully open source. So you can add OS integrations yourself too. It's not too difficult imo.
ive been using perplexity more and more too. I respect those attribution/citation bubbles they give (1) (2) etc and click to them to get to the source with low friction.
I love a nice beer once in a while. Something dark for preference, but will try others. A g&t or a whisky mac is nice if I'm in company with spirit drinkers. Wine - overrated. White is sour water. I can sip at a Merlot, I guess it's a bit like a beer that died a few years prior.

I don't know much about cropping for beer production tbh, but I've lived in a couple of places where vineyards are popular, and the world could really do without them. Maybe they'd be worthwhile if they produced grapes to eat.
>To put it bluntly: in NYC, a 26-weeker is 90% likely to survive to term. In some areas of the country a 26-weeker is 90% likely to die

This is probably because of a shortage of highly competent medical personnel, especially in rural areas where no top medical school graduate in her right mind would want to work, just like they probably wouldn't want to live and work in someplace like Iran.

I don't really see any way to fix this. Getting excellent medical care means having excellent medical professionals living and working in proximity to you, and since they're humans with free choice, they tend to move to places that are nice for them to live in, which not surprisingly usually doesn't include economic backwaters.
Then Gleam (and others) use “|>” when piping with “|” would make more sense, except that’s a bit wise OR, not to be confused with “||” which is… string concatenation (in Postgres).
In most Rust code I write, I never have to use an explicit lifetime marker other than ‘static (which is more of a global const thing). It’s really only something you have to worry about under certain conditions.
does zoom screen sharing works? it's the only thing preventing me from daily driving it
been also using komorebi on my windows for some time, I was really pleased to see how I could just update it with the rest of my apps through winget and it just works:tm:. Thanks for the amazing work. However don't you fear to get to a kind of CMake state with a "old" and "new" way to get things done being both available for the sake of backwards compatibility becoming quite a mess ?
> It's been over 10 years.

For most of those years, fundamental parts of the desktop experience were just not possible on Wayland. Even today, there are some current Xfce features that are just not implementable on Wayland.

> You could make a whole DE from scratch in this time.

Depends on your goals and team size. Part of me would love to rewrite Xfce in Rust (yes, I'm one of those people), using a different, lighter, actually-well supported toolkit (unlike GTK3), but with the team we have, that would be another two decades.

Consider that Xfce 4 is a little over 20 years old at this point. It's taken that long to build it to what it is. Starting over wouldn't take any less time to get there with the people and resources we have.
Note the PDF file is ~414MB and 682 pages, so you’ll want to just download and then view, rather than try to load it in the browser for a quick look.
This is a great video about the Waverley: https://youtu.be/wuBbnIdwOHA?si=cw9P7wQQ7jf0krmf
Corellium doesn't emulate iOS. It emulates the hardware so it can install iOS.
I like to imagine the male voice is Jon Hamm from mad men and the female voice is Amy Poehler from parks and rec.
Clojure, for example, uses Hash Array Mapped Tries as its associative data structure, and those work well
My first thoughts. Before writing the piece, maybe they should look into what already exists.
M3 is already a massive improvement, but since prices don’t really get lower as time goes on, you might as well buy the M4 when it is fresh?
This looks great. Thank you for your work on Zig.
Thank you! Happy you dig it
I'm using DuckDB to parse GTFS data, which comes in a CSV format. It works wonderfully.
"That's powerful. That's Masto."

"You gotta be good. You gotta be top notch."

"It's like he knew what every team needs before he even applied."

Man, oh man. Comedy gold.
Good point I had not thought about the remaining parts of the economics if they did go though with something like a rate hike.
I prefer the Alternate Reality where businesses are now finally run as they should be: managers describing issues using technical terms that are fed into a machine to produce desired outputs.

Not to be confused with legacy arts like coding, or programming, which required Very Important project management frameworks... I guess we don't need PMs now either... or anyon-
I was comparing notes with a new coworker the other week - I've got an M1 pro, he's got an M3. Running an individual test for a feature we were working on (in Rails) lines up with the 25-30% numbers quoted up thread a bit, but that's the difference between my machine taking 40sec or so vs his taking 30 or less.

It's noticeable when you've got it to compare against, and I'm looking forward to work's hardware refresh cycle bumping me to M4 next year, but I still don't think I'd upgrade if it were a personal machine (and if I can get a decent discount to buy out the depreciated M1 for personal use I'm planning on that rather than looking at anything new).
rel is also broken. It should probably use a dash instead of a colon, unless octo: is intended to be a new uri scheme.
I converted the example on the Gleam home page [0] to F#:

let spawn_task i =
async {
let n = string i
printfn $"Hello from {n}"
}

// Run loads of threads, no problem
seq { 0..200_000 }
|> Seq.map spawn_task
|> Async.Parallel
|> Async.RunSynchronously
|> ignore

The two are pretty similar, but I would give F# the nod on this one example because it doesn't actually have to create a list of 200,000 elements, doesn't require an explicit "main" function, and requires fewer brackets/parens.

[0]: https://gleam.run/
I'd upgrade not for the specs, but just for MagSafe.
> I think you answered your own question: No, you don't need the upgrade.

They asked if it would be worth it, not if they needed it.
I want to know its bandwidth. How does it compare to Nvidia 4090? If it exceeds that (at least in the Max/Ultra model), it'll be huge; we'll suddenly have solid +190GB of VRAM (technically URAM) to run multiple LLMs on.
That’s pretty much just jq though, you have bespoke json querying capabilities in sql but you’re not sql-querying your json.

At least not before postgres 17, in the latter json_table does provide this capability.