skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true only in the trivial case where the entire document fits in a single chunk, correct?

That seems like a meaningful distinction.
Urgent recall of baby powder that may cause cancer and was sold in 35 states
> A huge number of US politicians disagree. It's fashionable to claim that they are all stupid but the fact is that this just isn't true. Looking at Israels success in missile defense and similar technologies it shows where the R&D collaboration with the US has made both more successful.
If the US won't send weapons Israel would just make its own and in the past made fantastic weapons. Including great fighter jets that were approaching F16 level in the 80s.

I don't doubt that they would make their own weapons, and I'm sure they'd be pretty good. From a standpoint of U.S. interests though, collaborating with Israel hasn't been that great. Israel took U.S. money and tech to develop that F-16 level jet (the Lavi), and then covertly sold the design to the Chinese. Meanwhile, when the U.S. wanted to send Israeli produced, U.S. owned SPIKE missiles to Ukraine, Israel blocked the transfer.

> This isn't true. First it assumes Israel doesn't want peace which is detached from reality. Peace exists with Egypt, Jordan etc. Israel returned territory it captured at war and signed a peace deal. All sides abide and this works well.

Yes but the settlement with Egypt where land was returned was 45 years ago. Israel is not the same country it was back then.

> Israel wants a Palestinian state and tries to achieve that.

Based on Israel's actions, and the statements of Netanyahu and a couple of ministers, I don't believe this. I think that they've given up and intend to remove the Palestinians from the occupied territories.

> But the real horrible thing about Hamas is that they don't care how many Palestinians die as part of their Jihad. They consider the death of their own children as a bonus, they would go to heaven as they die heroes. Israel has never been like that. If Hamas had the firepower of Israel there would be no Israeli left. The reverse isn't true despite everything.

That's probably true, and so I also do not support sending weapons to Hamas.

We both agree that this is a very difficult problem. Personally I see no practical long-term solution, because the demographics of Israel have changed and continue to change in a direction towards more right-wing nationalism. Many peace-oriented Israelis (incl people I know personally) have left Israel over this. I don't think that if things calm down that minds will gradually change and a deal will be struck, because when things were relatively calm, Israel continued to expand the settlements and continued to oppress the Palestinians in numerous unnecessary ways. The Palestinians rightly don't believe that if they just stop attacking Israel that eventually they'll get their state.

How do you see there being a positive resolution in the long-term?
I got 6+ years out of my last intel MacBook Pro and expect at least the same from my M1 Max. Both have MagSafe and hdmi output :)
Cuz of this: was expecting 256GB https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971726#41972721
I don't quite understand one of the finer points of this, under caffeinated :) - if GPU memory is extremely close to the CPU memory, what sort of memory would not be extremely close to the CPU?
While over abstracting is one type of architectural problem, another unique, yet altogether different issue, is what looks like effective engineering, but turns out to be pseudo-engineering. Overchitecture is more like “Catch me if you can.”

The appearance of competence to the average Joe, that is total “Bullshit McAuley”
Can you elaborate a bit here? Neglecting _detailed_ info about storage conversion costs, etc, it's tough to understand the "all-in" cost for storage over time.

At home, I'm fanatical about using bog-standard AA/AAA rechargeable batteries for as many things as possible (anything with a micro-USB charger is basically "e-waste waiting to happen"), and thinking through any kind of home-supplement for solar, batteries, etc. makes me think that the "waste" of house-scale / grid-scale batteries for storage makes the math not work out.

Rough googling puts ~30kWh batteries at ~$15-30k, which: even if you think of it as having a 30-year service life, still works out to ~$50-100/mo in just battery depreciation.

Similarly with cars (eg: PHEV). First 5 years? Great! Next 10 years? ...a ticking time bomb of "must be replaced" with the battery representing an exorbitant percentage of the vehicle value. $500 of tires on a $5000 car is one thing, but a $5000 battery on a car seems like a net negative environmentally and financially?
Trump has eaten away at the Republican's (entirely unearned and undeserved) historical advantage on the economy, to the point that Harris has drawn equal to him on voter confidence on that topic, so without diving deeper, it's not clear that worries about "the economy" is a Republican advantage today.
My wallet is trembling.

On a side note, anyone know what database software was shown during the announcement?
Yup, honestly the main reason I'd like to upgrade from my M1 MBA is the newer webcams are 1080p instead of 720p, and particularly much better in low light like in the evening.

Has nothing whatsoever to do with CPU/memory/etc.
It looks like few people only are using Wifi 7 for now. Maybe they are going to include it in the next generation when more people will use it.
That is good example why one timezone doesn't work. The locals in Xinjiang use a local time zone +6, instead of China time +8, because the latter is too far off the daylight hours.

My understanding is that use of Xinjiang time has dropped recently because of the crack down on Uygurs and government forcing China time.
The questions actually are, what happens when we deplete the Ogallala aquifer? What happens when climate change, conflict or natural disaster impacts the Colorado watershed, the Central Valley, and/or the go to market infrastructure for that produce?

We’ve created a system where investments and massive subsidy made to turn the desert into a garden destroyed agriculture nationally. It’s a predictable black swan scenario that has impactful and broad implications.
My Mac mini M1 is still such a great computer and I really don't need to upgrade, but with the spec bump up to 16GB of RAM, $230 trade in value that Apple is telling me they'll give me, and the $499 education pricing (I'm currently doing a Masters degree) it's too tempting to pass up.
Discussion (97 points, 5 days ago, 92 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41947730
One needs an account to upload too.

No logins at the moment.
The customer base on M1 is larger and more likely to be interested in upgrading. The M1 Air was only discontinued in March and is still for sale through Walmart and Costco. Not to mention the resale market created by all the people that moved to M2 and M3. There are tons of M1s out there. It is probably the most relevant comparison they could make, even though we're accustomed to seeing previous-gen benchmarks on everything.
Same thing that happens when there isn't enough money to pay their taxes. Or their debtors. Or their vendors. Or their payroll.
I assume this is a typo but I did imagine a Belgian shire.
Is the US a social network?
I think a few hundred purpose-built nuclear powered CO2 scrubbing plants could be an option. At 1,500 kWh/ton, a 1 GW nuclear plant could capture 5.8 million tons of CO₂ per year which is about 0.015% of global emissions. It would have to be coupled with emissions reductions and so on though.
I thought that this video essay was a pretty eye opening take on what I had been struggling to articulate about BOTW: https://youtu.be/RNCCKABmHO8?si=fFX6z_ZnCSBDNpio

Basically, BOTW is "poetry" because it is heavily vibes based, at a time when a lot of games are "story" based. My most memorable moments of BOTW are exactly what you described, standing on plateau watching the sunset, walking towards hyrule castle in the rain, finally ready to face Ganon and the zelda theme starts to play, etc, etc. Not specific story reveals but the moment to moment feelings that originate organically from the world and the unscripted interactions and events occurring within it.
Had it said “500MW-years” it would have been accurate (well maybe, I don’t know). Weird as we normally use MW-hours for energy, but accurate.

They said “500MW”

Is that peak output? Nameplate capacity? 500MWh?

Who knows.
Video Game Pitch Decks
I'm waiting for the 16 GB M2 Air to be super cheap to pick one up to use with Asahi Linux!
!alive...

But slang always stays ahead of the curve, you could maybe say that's literally what slang is.

cops vs cartels, sports vs PED users, content creators vs algorithmic cancel culture, pirating....

Always gotta stay ahead of those trying to catch you ;) o
EU AI Act is much worse than you think
There's really no pleasing some people. Companies make cuts and don't give generous packages, they're evil. They give a package and it's just so they can dodge scrutiny.

This kind of no-win complaining is tiresome.
No, I claim that you don't know what you're talking about because you think the units were wrong in the given context and that the arithmetic values were wrong, which they weren't.
Show HN: Supershy, crossbreed between anonymity of Tor and speed of VPN
Brilliant hack but doesn't Strava hide the exact starting and ending points of routes? I don't see how they could get the exact home addresses of IDF soldiers if that's the case.
Are LLMs Gettier machines? I'm confident saying yes and that hallucinations are a consequence of this.

EDIT: I've had some time to think and if you read somewhere that Hartford is the capital of Connecticut, you're right in a Gettier way too. Reading some words that happen to be true is exactly like using a picture of your room as your zoom background. It is a facsimile of the knowledge encoded as words.
If you have discussed those things previously with the poster, I don't agree. If you were to go digging through their history only to respond to the current comment, that's more debatable. But, we're supposed to assume good faith here on HN, so I would take the first explanation.
Not one-and-done, at least step 3 in a potential routine:

16% in 2023: https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/a-message-from-drew

Or, before that, another 11%: https://dropbox.gcs-web.com/node/8916/html

I wish them well, things look rough.
16 pro has a specialized camera button which is a game changer for street / travel photography. I upgraded from 13 pro and use that. But no other noticeable improvements. Maybe Apple intelligence summarizing wordy emails.
> Also, any recommendations for suitable ssds, ideally not too expensive?

I own a media production company. We use Sabrent Thunderbolt external NVMe TLC SSDs and are very happy with their price, quality, and performance.

I suggest you avoid QLC SSDs.
I doubt I'll upgrade anytime soon, but at this rate when I do need to, I feel like I'm just going to get a Max because of how happy I've been with the base M1 Pro (just upgraded the RAM a step).

That is if I don't just suddenly decide to replace the batteries (relatively cheap from the apple authorized store compared to a full upgrade).
It could be viable to generate biofuels using solar energy and use these for heating. One would get the best of both worlds - carbon neutrality and the possibility to use existing infrastructure. But it requires that the price for biofuels falls below the price for fossil fuels.
I've never been to Moscow personally. Am I then not being truthful when I tell you that Moscow is in Russia?
The most amusing tidbit about the tz database is that it contains an estimate of Big Bang, and it refuses to calculate timezone transitions occurring before the Big Bang.

The commit message at https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/b22d459a367f4d01b10f6f6b... says:

> For example, Glib computes Sao Paulo time stamps as if
Brazil's circa-1913 rules were still in effect. (Thanks to Leonardo Chiquitto for reporting the bug.) Work around the bug by not generating time stamps equal to -2**63. Come to think of it, time stamps before the Big Bang are physically suspect anyway, so don't generate time stamps before the Big Bang.

Soon afterwards, a separate commit disallowed leap seconds before the Big Bang.
But this ad is specifically for you! (Well, and those pesky consumers clinging on to that i7!):

> Up to 7x faster image processing in Affinity Photo when compared to the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with Core i7, and up to 1.8x faster when compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1.
Sometimes energy storage devices are surprisingly reported in terms of power (the installation’s power output ends up being more relevant for whatever reason). For grid stability, being able to meet demand is more important than having days of energy, inaccessible, in reserve. So, surprising units isn’t a 100% bulletproof heuristic.

But in this case yeah, there seems to be a mix-up.
While we're bashing Apple marketing: `:prefers-color-scheme` is a11y. Take your fucking fashion statements elsewhere.
Forgive my ignorance, but why would very low interest rates ("almost free" money) be a bad thing we want to avoid?

Isn't it for best if society keeps interest gathering, rent seeking, behavior to a minimum and instead encourages that more of the available capital is put to good use?
Ah, thanks. I was referring to last weeks Tweet. I didn’t watch the iMac video.
> One also can (and should) be able to acquit oneself well at an interview even without prep time.

I don't agree. If you don't prepare at all for an interview, it shows. Aside from leetcode, it's also important to research the company.

My point is mainly that I might be upset if I were in that group that's laid off today. I don't want to prep leetcode for several weeks. It feels like a waste of time.
"energy produced from solar systems in 2019 was thought to be about 500 megawatts"
To be fair, I'm not sure people writing papers understand what they're writing either. Much of the ML community has seemed to fully embraced "black box" nature rather than seeing it as something to overcome. I routinely hear both readers and writers tout that you don't need much math. But yet mistakes and misunderstand are commonplace and they're right, they don't need much math. How much do you need to understand the difference between entropy and perplexity? Is that more or less than what's required to know the difference between probability and likelihood? I would hope we could at least get to a level where we understand the linear nature of PCA
If you've come upon the previous posts organically, why not address it then? and Why act like it's the first time here ?

I'm even less willing to engage.
I have an MBA and am not a CEO. I'm probably better at developing software than you, too.

But, I do get a chuckle out of what you believe is a "diss," when you're actually stating that MBA holders will not only do better in life, but they'll also control your fate.

Keep that narrative alive; I love it!
Why is it a blunder? Do you think only poor CEOs face downturns or overhire?

And if a company hires too many people for a few years and then right-sizes, isn’t that better for the economy overall than if they simply stayed small the whole time? They still paid salaries for those years and added to the overall level of employment.

Do you want a system where CEOs are hesitant to hire? Or where they’re afraid to right-size the workforce and instead run the whole company out of business?

There’s literally zero logic to your position, just feelings and Monday morning quarterbacking.
Discussion (297 points, 2 hours ago, 338 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995701
Batteries included frameworks+languages such as .NET or RoR or Springboot and similar was perhaps optimal choice 5 or 10 years back.

They balanced developer velocity over time and the learning curve needed to use them. Learning curve is important because steeper the curve, more experienced/skilled developers are needed and that translates to more $/hr cost of dev time. Simpler learning + with codegen tools was the pitch that RoR or .NET and all the frameworks inspired by them had in late 2000s.

Today it has shifted, to models like Firebase, Supabase or Hasura, NextJs or similar stacks using GraphQL, gRPC or occasionally RESTful APIs generation workflows instead of boilerplating tools .NET, Springboot et al provided . These frameworks come with hosting services and typically language agnostic, however TypeScript/ JavaScript is dominant choice in this model the developer now only focuses on business logic and not worry about organizing code or running it or about standard components like auth, so frontend teams are more likely to own this now and they will write TS/JS more often than not.

Even runtimes like Deno are getting into the game, instead of just writing the runtime code and make money with consulting, Deno wants to make DX for running code in their managed runtime so simple that a lot of small teams would just use that out of the box.

Until the app is at 10s of million scale - non NodeJS + unmanaged stacks won't make economic sense. People will build software in any system of course, because it is what they know not because it is the rational decision.
Profitwell does a version of this and they charge a percentage of the recovered funds.
Incredibly disappointing, but not surprising. Dropbox is no longer in its growth phase, and needs to settle into maintenance mode - enjoying a steady stream of revenue while continuously optimizing expenses, with a bit set aside for R&D to try and find the next big growth opportunity. Severance packages look really good, with the caveat that these figures really should be _the default_ in Corporate America at this point, like our EU peers.

I just wish the language in the announcement reflected this reality. Instead, it feels like a lot of desperation measures from current tech companies: overly optimistic to the point of naively dismissing or ignoring reality, and believing that if we just keep building then we’ll continue to grow forever.
As a long time HN user, it's quite disturbing to see the slow descent of this community into a world view dominated by luddism, degrowth, anti-technology and anti-natalism. All these things seem to go hand in hand in the ideology of today's left.

I can just play out this conversation in my head, I know exactly how it goes, every time

Me: we are dead by default, even if climate change doesn't kill us then population collapse will, or a natural disaster. The only way forward is to increase our technological power as a civilization and take control of our environment, we can't go back

Them: What's so bad about a declining population? We need fewer people on this earth to make life sustainable

Me: OK, we can discuss what's the optimal number of humans, but the population cliff that we're heading towards only means one thing: civilizational collapse. We need robotics to replace the work of the non-existant youth, and we need AI to cure aging

Them: it's selfish to have children anyway, humans are a virus

Me: Ok, so you're just anti-humanity? Why don't you start by offing yourself first then?

Them: Whatever, Elon-Stan
Why is the CEO's TC relevant to layoffs?
> sold my data

Sure the license agreement would not legally permit that.

I wonder what kind of legal recourse you would have. There's obviously copyright infringement, but I think state laws like CCPA include remedies for violations.
Interesting! I assumed that it would be fairly popular in the gym setting, but I had no idea it was already. I don't take gear, but I'd take GLP-1s. It seems like a no-brainer.
50% of the people don't vote.

Extremism sells and divides.
I'd add in that my solar panels aren't really all that valuable in themselves. They're bolted to my roof with little more than some bolts and nuts.

If I have a "Residential scale" nuclear plant in the basement, there are lots of people who would like to re-purpose my nuclear fuel in other ways. (And that's before we talk about how I purchase, and renew, that fuel to begin with.)

Ultimately even "small scale" nuclear comes with massive bureaucratic and security overheads that can't simply be wished away.

In closing I'll point out that my solar system _is_ nuclear. It uses fusion nuclear energy as it's fuel. But I've cunningly hidden the radioactive elements far far away....
> instead of PC limitation of 128 bit wide

Memory interface width of modern CPUs is 64-bit (DDR4) and 32+32 (DDR5).

No CPU uses 128b memory bus as it results in overfetch of data, i.e., 128B per access, or two cache lines.

AFAIK Apple uses 128B cache lines, so they can do much better design and customization of memory subsystem as they do not have to use DIMMs -- they simply solder DRAM to the motherboard, hence memory interface is whatever they want.
Pardon—what does Wu Tang have to do with Dropbox?
I went in to hate-read, but ended up mostly agreeing.

Mainly, I agree that the issue isn't ability being valued, but which abilities we choose to value. In a completely free market, abilities that get you the highest salary are what we will value, and those are in turn determined by competition with other nations. Unsurprisingly (perhaps to us), this turns out to me maths.

Now children who may be otherwise gifted are lumped in with troublemakers. Very much like being sent to prison for weed, and coming out with an BSc in burglary.
So, reduce people to numbers and accept the suicides?
> If we could have deployed nuclear immediately and infinitely when those folks were talking, they would have been right. We could t.

If we are talking about the US, the reason we couldn't deploy nuclear was that we vastly over-ordered the amount of reactors we needed, going into the 1980s, causing a glut then a drought. And then too many of them were financially disastrous construction projects. Some people say that we had too many different reactor designs, but I would point to France where they used the same reactor design but also did not see falling prices, and did not build nearly as many reactors as they had planned.

Certainly France has been much better off in terms of carbon emissions from electricity since the 1980s than most places in the world, but they were also going nuclear due to lack of cheap fossil fuels.

> If we could solar and batteries immediately and infinitely (without increasing prices), going all in on it would be right. We can’t.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying we aren't going all in on solar and storage, but I would argue that we are. Nearly all new generation capacity getting installed is solar, storage, and wind. THere's a few legacy projects for other technologies, but those natural gas plants will see little use, unless solar/storage/batteries are blocked from being deployed in the same area. EIA: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62864

This is happening in China too. They build coal plants, but they barely use them as they are just backups. Last I heard they are on track for 160GW of solar deployed this year alone, and it goes up every year.

So maybe put me into the bucket of people spouting nonsense about solar + batteries today, I could be wrong, but I really think it's the only tech stack that can and will make a big change in energy over the next 10 years.
I went from 12 to 15 pro max, the difference is significant. I can listen to Spotify while shooting from the camera. On my old iPhone 12, this is not possible.
That's not what it means.

As CEO, it's his responsibility to make/approve the decision to do the layoffs, or not. The buck stops with him. That's all that it means. It doesn't mean he's liable for any hardships.