skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the individual intellectual point of view it's better to have a better education, but from the collective point of view having too many wild cards is not good for anyone. If there are too many physicists, they won't earn enough to justify the cost of the studies, and won't be happy in a menial job after spending years learning advanced mathematics.

If anybody can do everything interchangeably, it also tends to create a monoculture which is a more fragile system.

Often it's better not knowing how the sausage is made, and trusting that people who have specialized know what they are doing.

Wild cats ("overeducated population") are dangerous.
With a novel and not-implausible explanation for why crosses incapacitate them.
Perhaps under (1) as well but especially at large enterprises you will likely deal with internal politics in the potential customer organizations. If the right person likes your offering, that can grease a lot of skids. If they don't, or your internal champion isn't well liked, you will face difficulty. This is all entirely separate from whether your product objectively meets a need the customer has.
And if you want to a satire/comedy/musical of the game as a show, it's been done. See The Trail to Oregon! by Team StarKid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxKCX-UvPrI
Not sure what to tell you. It has a satisfying ending and resolution as far as I am concerned. It's pretty plain on its face; I don't think an "interpretation" is needed.

It's obviously not the best Arthur C. Clarke story, but I don't think it's a waste of time to read it.
Wow, the price value ratio is insane.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini
To get to causal theories from hypotheses needs a lot experiments that were somewhat speculative then. And, yes, there are well and poorly designed experiments (and analyses) but I don't think the speculative nature prior to having a theory is what necessarily separates them.
We can be certain for one thing in the movie: Somebody is going to die from dysentery.
Inspired by a recent post, an old-timey radio station for my wife's newsletter
I'm not sure how they built theirs, but here's how I built mine:

- Parse the newsletter RSS feed
- Summarize the most recent post with an LLM in the style of a fast-talking 1920s transatlantic radio broadcaster
- Generate an audio file by synthesizing a custom voice I generated by sampling the recap narrator of Avatar: The Legend of Korra
- Upload the file to a cloud object store and return the playback URL to the client
- Repeat steps 1 - 4 each week until the heat death of the universe

This will run autonomously with new weekly content for as long as the newsletter persists.

Built with Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind & Vercel
My experience with Salesforce outside of sales orgs are it is used as an overly complex, bug-ridden phpMyAdmin
Beem.computer: New Interface for Computing
I can't tell from either of your comments whether you're saying CBT has proven itself or falls short of the others. Just that it's different.
Perhaps its better they just spend their money on expensive yachts. We've got one who has a good chance of eliminating polio and another 3 who together have a good chance of destroying democracy in America.
Relevant or not, python 3.13 shows the same thing:

Python 3.13.0: 799.6559143066406 ms

Node 18.20.4: 59.34080000221729 ms
Agreed. Unfortunately the ergonomics and the touch surface of the Magic Mouse make it unusable for most people. The charging port issue is a red herring because it doesn't really affect anything but gets lots of attention.
Does anyone know how many P vs E cores?

10 core = 4 P and 6 E
12 core = 8 P and 4 E <-- 2.0x P core over base
14 core = 10 P and 4 E <-- 2.5x P core over base

EDIT:

Updated with known P and E amounts.

Thanks HN for posting below.

https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apples-new-mac-mini-i...
- Lenny Rachitsky: startup product and growth
- Alex Xu: software/software system design
Similar to this, one of the most mind-blowing papers I’ve read was Life at Low Reynold’s Number about how at the microorganism level water is virtually solid and inertia does not exist.

https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gold/pdfs/purcell.pdf
https://swizec.com/blog/week-9-life-at-low-reynolds-number/
Show HN: Parse Gran Turismo 7 packets in Rust
A GT7 packet parser in Rust.

The story of how people discovered this hidden feature is quite interesting: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/gt7-is-compatible-wit...
I wonder if DuckDB could do better than SQLite?
it's at 24k forks now
I was laid off from a company that spent two and a half years transitioning to Salesforce (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Experience Cloud, Scheduler, 600+ seats) and decided to re-platform to Shopify plus a constellation—like 14 in total—of supporting startups to serve the various needs that Salesforce fulfilled. I was the tech lead and architect of the Salesforce move so I was intimately involved in every use by various teams.

I entered the move skeptical of Salesforce's value; I left impressed with the flexibility of the platform but aghast at the costs and development effort required to do much of anything. (I was also disgusted by the rough edges of its myriad acquisitions and their partial integration into the ecosystem—even after many years.)
At the very least it would be embarrassing that OpenSearch has 9.7k stars and ElasticSearch has 187 stars.

It also seems to factor into github search, OpenSearch is on the first page and ElasticSearch is nowhere to be found.

https://github.com/search?q=search&type=repositories

When I see that a project as been forked I use these stats to help select which fork to go with.
I don't see how you conclude from that quote that she doesn't know about the office of technology or lacks understanding of the US context. When I read making tech expertise available, I'm not picturing a government science department doing research, I'm picturing independent consultants translating algorithms into english.

If anything, your point shows the bipartisan us vs. them is the main problem if claiming bias against a party is enough to get rid of something disliked. Is that what you mean by monopolies?

And to be clear, I agree monopolies are an issue, but that doesn't negate other issues such the fact tech solutions can result in enforcing implicit rules that weren't decided through democratic process despite impacting populations at the same level a government decision would.
I honestly still don't even understand what Salesforce is.

I have never worked in eCommerce, yet still keep running into areas of the orgs I've worked for that use it's plugin ecosystem to try and accomplish... things- things which usually have nothing to do with sales.
I've used survival analysis for customer retention: https://entropicthoughts.com/survival-analysis-for-customer-...

It's especially fun when you start measuring survival time in things like dollars instead of years, because then we get a less biased estimation of customer lifetime value – something many organisations misestimate.
M4 pro comes with Thunderbolt 5, which means one cable to run 2x 2160p120. And in case of macbooks equipped with TB5, one cable to do 2x high res, high refresh displays + power + plenty of bandwdith for data accessories. Omnomnom.
> I have written two peer-reviewed papers in a major meteorological journal (here)

The blogger is Cliff Mass, a professor at University of Washington. He has written two papers on this specific topic (decline of US weather predictions). In general, as a scientist, he has published 100+ papers.

He only linked to his second paper [1]. I also found his first paper [2].

[1] "The Uncoordinated Giant II" (2023) https://journals.ametsoc.org/downloadpdf/view/journals/bams/...

[2] "The Uncoordinated Giant" (2006) https://www.e-education.psu.edu/files/meteo410/image/Lesson3...
I think it's in the National Interest of the United States to have an Internet Archive, available to all. The NSA and NARA should both have copies of the Internet Archive. NARA should be responsible for the public facing side and the NSA should make sure it doesn't get hacked and remains available.

If the NSA doesn't want to take on this task, then they shouldn't be allowed to have an archive of all of our data, including surveilled data, and should hand it off exclusively to NARA. The NSA should then have to convince a court they need access every time they "need" it.

Furthermore, Copyright needs reform, and an explicit law protecting archives.
"Print out your own virtual doorbell!"
We're still talking about Linux, are we?

Snark aside, it's still orthogonal to my question. I wasn't questioning whether it should be done centralized, but why it's supposed to be part of the display server protocol/compositor.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41984519
Spec page: https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/
But which version? The one in which everyone died would be kind of a bummer.
I don't accept that, actually. Since you like exaggerated analogies, here's one for you:

Imagine a world where, in the past twenty years, big companies started making transparent bathroom doors. And thanks to marketing, media, celebrity endorsemets etc., transparent bathroom doors have become the new norm. It worked, and most bathroom doors are now transparent or translucent.

I'm one of the people pointing out that we can get doors made of wood, and it's pretty easy to do so.

And you're the guy saying "that's so weird! Basically fucking everyone uses some degree of transparency on their bathroom doors, therefore it's normal and good, and should continue to be encouraged. Besides, this one company makes translucent bathroom doors - that's better, right?"
I still run uMatrix, and with paranoid settings, you become very aware of who hosts the web. Yes, Shopify is a biggie in the space.
"Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar, well, he eats you."
Are they shrinking minis for future versions of Apple Vision or would an iPhone be enough?
You Might Not Need a Metric
I just booted OpenBSD 7.0 (which is a bit dated).

The find utility has print0, and xargs has -0. Notibly, xargs also has -P for running processes in parallel.

rm has both -d and -v.

The renice command appears to be able to use relative adjustments with -n.

There is a timeout command.

There is a readlink command, but no realpath (but a manual page exists for it as a system call).
Sounds like someone else has watched “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch”
It's not the fact that software engineering is broken saddens me as much as the extent.

Email is older than absolute majority of active developers and yet, it seems, simple knowledge like "what is email address" remains such an arcane knowledge that you are being looked at weird when present something a tiny little bit more correct than the status quo.

Where else can we assume that the common knowledge is flat out wrong?
Interesting idea...

Cheap wireless doorbell is $5 delivered from Amazon. That's your biggest competition for the straightforward case. And that's easier to install, and easier to use.

There are plenty of scenarios where a Qr -> optional form -> notification is useful, eg hosting an event -- so maybe explore/emphasize those rather than the simple approach.

Fighting abuse and the resulting customer service, bad reviews, etc will be a constant drain/challenge.

There might be some market overlap with generic notification apps like Pushover.
Same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40740017 :)

Just saw you published your block editor blog post. Look forward to reading it!
Linus Torvalds slams AI as '90% marketing and 10% reality'
One story not mentioned here is the real history.

ROS was developed as the framework for the PR1 robot, as a "Linux for robotics" idea. But it really took off when Willow Garage GAVE out a bunch of PR2 robots to academic institutes around the world.

It then stuck because those labs, even independently, developed really useful tools in a very backwards compatible language (C++) or with support to old languages (Lisp). You can find many repos such as this one which basically have EVERYTHING, handed down from PhD to PhD student over decades

https://github.com/jsk-ros-pkg

Basically a lot of the headache inducing grudge work exist there as a library, you only need to glue it together.

You want to calibrate your camera, get the relative position to the root of a robot arm? You can knack it together with openCV and then end up debugging for hours because coordinate transform convention was wrong. Or just install this library, publish your sensor data in specified topic, and it does it for you.

Imo it's easy to miss the usefulness of ROS if you don't consider the tf package, rosbag and rviz together with ROS as a bundle.

Everytime I see a pub/sub "new ROS" framework, sooner or later I realize I need to reinvent tf/rosbag/rviz, because those standard packages are almost never available (or available only for the developers specific need)
Maybe it's own bullet.

We talked to one potential customer and he told us that they had an internal team working on something similar and admitted that they were much further behind and the experience was nowhere near as good as ours.

I think that's why you need really warm intros at very high levels or you need industry gravitas to pull this off without a very, very hard grind.
I think more precisely it will be a running joke like the early South Parks Kenny where somebody must die from dysentery every episode. The versatility of the joke will stem form the when and who.
Strongly disagree. There are so many places where the browser itself provides a reasonably good user interface, and web developers fuck it up - scroll hijacking and history manipulation being two of the biggest examples. I suspect that one of the reasons we ended up in JS-hell is that HTML and browser built-in functionality lagged behind user expectations for so long. If browsers had offered the equivalent of AJAX and DOM element replacement early on, heavy use of JS might never have caught on.

(Consider Triptych [https://github.com/alexpetros/triptych] as the baseline for what browsers should have been providing since 2005 or so.)
It's a similar problem to swatting. It relies on authorities taking severe action against an unverified source of problems.

I suppose a difference is that they use unaffiliated parties to send the complaint, instead of contacting the authority directly.
No M4 on the spec sheet.

Maybe Apples CDN cache is stale but I only see M2 specs on that page.
Lets hope that remains sci-fi. A better future is the rest of the non western world improving their living standards and eventually transitioning to some semblance of democracy.
> future editions will not require c17, but will simply require whatever C specification version is the most modern and already implemented by major toolchains

Is this really good?

If you can't rely on anything concrete being guaranteed, and it is open to interpretation what "modern" or "major toolchains" are, why have a standard?
M4 10-core = 4P, 6E

M4 Pro 12-core = 8P, 4E

M4 Pro 14-core = 10P, 4E
It does since we're using US dollars to describe it since each dollar is not worth less than it used to relative to other objects.
16GB base RAM across the board, following the iMac. AI is certainly good for pushing up the baseline RAM that manufacturers can get away with shipping if nothing else.
The new model is looking really good.

* Kept HDMI

* New, much smaller form factor

* Front facing USB-C

* Base model has 16 gb of ram
Oh, I see, thanks. I did screw up my understanding.
So 4P+6E for the M4, and 8P+4E for the M4 Pro
Btw, I'm @iambateman.com
Force refresh on your end as I see the M4 specs.
Even you don't want this, you only want it sometimes, for some apps. Which is exactly what they said.

I mean, would you like VSCode tracking your mouse movements across the entire desktop and your keypresses and then sending them off to Microsoft? Probably not, so we're all in agreement.
Only seems to cover half of what you're asking for... Starred this the other day and haven't gotten to trying it out :

https://github.com/usefulsensors/moonshine
Yes, you can buy them. When I was a child, my friend owned the "Cars and Trucks and Things That Go" book and I spent hours browsing the book by myself when visiting him. When I had children, it was one of the first books that I bought, and they loved it, too, although not quite as much as me. It is a great present for young children if you don't want to bring a Nintendo gift card.
Cool project! I like the idea of easily sharing LaTeX formulas. It's impressive how smooth it works right in the browser.

I've always thought compiling LaTeX in WebAssembly would be a tough nut to crack, so I was curious if that's what you'd done here. Turns out you're using KaTeX.

Have you considered any WebAssembly approaches?
definitely a stale cache somewhere, shows M4 specs for me too
Time to update all the Mac Mini server racks for the new design
I am sure somebody somewhere has tried to claim having had an academic position at a university, while actually they were working at 4 hours per week as a teaching assistant for one course.
Editorials and suchlike are typically presented as such, carved out and noted as their own special section, so that's okay. However, although TFA mentions editorial authors and staff, I got the sense that it was the papers themselves that were endorsing (or not) specific candidates.
Stupidity: Our Biggest Threat?
Yeah, let's just have everyone hosting TOR nodes out themselves and their friends to local authorities...

Nice try Winnie Poo
Or feature complete?
Show HN: Winaccent – A Python module for easily retrieving Windows' accent color
winaccent is a simple and lightweight Python module that allows you to easily retrieve Windows' accent color, including shades, specific window colors such as active/inactive titlebar and window borders and theme (dark/light mode). It supports Windows 8.x, 10 and 11 and doesn't require additional dependencies. Very useful if you're making a GUI app in Python and you want to style it according to the system's accent color or theme.
This seems like the perfect home media transcoding server (Plex, Kodi, etc). I am curious if these will ever be able to run Linux.
Having a fully fledged computer this small without an external power brick is pretty impressive.
Unrelated question: How is Bluesky different from early Twitter and how can we be sure that it won't devolve into same current Twitter (or X) after 10 years?
Yep. ROS is great if you are an academic or a garage startup who needs to get anything at all up and running ASAP because it is extremely flexible and has a huge volume of community modules.

But, when it comes time to deploy serious business (very often Safety Critical) robots in the field, you don’t want flexibility. You want certainty. You don’t even want everyone’s contributions. You want specialized, carefully vetted code.

Thus the effort to make it easy to transition off of ROS to something simpler and more reliable.
What do you mean by bilk? Are you saying Gerwig cheated the Mattel somehow? Or Mattel cheated Gerwig?
Oh hey, this is written by Chris Ware. It makes sense that he would be a huge fan of Scarry.
I trust Brewster and the rest of the IA gang more than the US government to safeguard the Internet Archive. The US cares more about copyright and IP rent seeking than preserving culture and universal access to all knowledge.

If the US government via NARA wants to pay for their own IA replica and donate to the Internet Archive to offset the ops costs to stream updates, I would support that. Separation between Archive and State. More replicas globally, regardless of sponsoring institution or colocation facility. This mitigates against disasters, both natural and human, inherently.

> Furthermore, Copyright needs reform, and an explicit law protecting archives.

US becomes more hostile to the Internet Archive? Pull up stakes, update DNS and/or BGP, and move on to someplace that respects them. Disk and compute can live anywhere globally. Don't get mad, get durable. Let economic termites chase distributed object storage around the world until they're tired.
>Error: no valid storage adapters found.

Stack Trace:
e@https://html-classic.itch.zone/html/7309245/index.html:1067:...

@https://html-classic.itch.zone/html/7309245/index.html:1072:...

j@https://html-classic.itch.zone/html/7309245/index.html:59:29...

Deferred/then/g/</k<@https://html-classic.itch.zone/html/7309245/index.html:59:30...

Wut?

Edit: On Firefox 132
You can implement all those things, just differently now.

Relatedly, now random apps can't record the whole screen. This is a good thing, now they get explicit user permission and go through xdg. I don't know how anyone could be opposed to this - it's objectively more empowering for you, the user.
The accelerometers in our ears show the same acceleration when we're falling in diving airplane as when in orbit in deep space.
As usual, no upgradability. There's evidence that it's possible with SSDs with no loss of performance. Probably the same would apply to memory, maybe with replaceable memory chips and a simple switch. More future landfill material.
That's one of the reasons Clue tanked in the theaters and then went viral before "viral" was a thing. They didn't do a good job specifying that there were three endings, and due to the lack of internet and social media, people got confused and put off by the idea. The VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray does the idea better, because it gives to all three with transitions like "here's what could have happened," etc.
Neither has damaged the publisher's bottomline, which is all that matters.

The publishers fight piracy so law abidding people consider committing a crime less attractive and pay the levy to publisher's instead.
How good are modern external hard drives? Is it worth paying for more internal SSD storage or is it more reasonable to get high quality USB one?
No mention of the SSD size that was the reason I returned my Mac mini 256Gb last year was just a pain juggling files
Where do you see the 14-core version detailed on the spec sheet?

I don't see it stated with the specific P vs E cores are for the 14-core version on:

https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/
Would be nice if the article explained the proofs.
Not making it VESA mountable is a missed opportunity, but I suppose they want you to buy an iMac instead of doing that.
But surely Barbie does nowhere near as well if it doesn’t have the Barbie IP. The movie plays largely as a parody of Barbie anyway, so it’s very easy to imagine nearly the exact same movie with a find/replace on a few trademarks in the screenplay and logos on screen. And I think that movie would have had a niche audience that adores it, but wouldn’t have broken out into the phenomenon we saw.
The Dyson of PCs
Thanks, that's good feedback!
"attempts to defend" anyway, seems to be making things worse from my perspective.

To review:

Billionaire buys newspaper. My skepticism goes up.

Billionaire claims he will not interfere with paper. My skepticism remains alert.

Billionaire interferes after all. My skepticism feels vindicated but wonders why bother to claim non-interference in the first place? What changed?
Love to see that it still starts at $599.

My M2 Mac Mini that I got for $499 is my favorite gaming computer I've had in a long time. Runs many games like WoW, Dota, League of Legends, etc great. Anything that it doesn't run due to MacOS I use GeForce Now over ethernet. And this was with 8gb unified memory, now with 16gb it'll be even better value.

Very excited to see how the GPU has improved in the M4, especially the Pro model.
You can now run prompts against images, audio, video in your terminal using LLM
Putting the audio jack on the front is a strange design choice to me if you plan on hooking it up to wired speakers all the time. Did they run out of space to keep it in the back?