skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What delineates it as an idiot product? There aren't exactly a ton of alternative 5k displays on the market. Dell and LG have some 5120x1440 options, but only Apple has a 5120x2880 option as far as I can find.
Many of them can do 8K 60Hz over HDMI: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102236

Edit: You need an M2/M3 Pro or above.
Despite & not because of?
I think this is largely a reading thing, though? We have some defaults on how we frame subjects. In large, we want subjects to be singular things. For stories that span large amounts of time, though, the thing with the same name is largely not the same thing. Ship of Theseus being the famous example of that.

This gets more complicated with actually living things. That is, if you had "How the Ship of Theseus got its mast," I doubt you would necessarily think of any active choices from the ship. See the same for "how chickens came to lay an egg a day" and you would perhaps think there was a bit more active choice on the chickens of old. Realistically, they were both the result of external choices to the subject.
That's impressive. But they are not encouraging one to self-host. I wish they let one to do it.
Is this the introduction of native call recording on iPhone? I've always had to use an app to record calls.
Rust has had async for a while (though it can be painful, but I think request/response systems like APIs should not run into a lot of the major footguns).

C# has excellent async for asp.net and has for a long time. I haven't touched Java in ages so cannot comment on the JVM ecosystem's async support. So there are other excellent options for async backends that don't have the drawbacks of javascript.
It's totally fine to do that. Most "urbanist advocates" just want to make other options legal so the quarter-mile away isn't the only choice.
Keep in mind that telegraphs were uniquely sensitive to that kind of event. Our power distribution lines are the most sensitive thing we have today, and yet are much more robust.

Also, distributed generation, like we get with photovoltaics only improves the situation.

Anyway, we could still have large scale blackouts and localized equipment loss due to those. That's true. We should be able to protect ourselves, we know how and it's something perfectly practical; besides, we will have about a half-year of warning. But it's unclear if we will.
AI Integration or Generative Education?
Nah, bullshit. I grew up in a rural area [0], my parents are still in a rural area (their postal address literally contains 'rural route'). You just don't go to town every day. You didn't go to town every day in the past; you planned your trips ahead of time. It was a rare occurrence - maybe a monthly, quarterly or even less frequent occurrence. And if you do go to town, it might be a multi-day trip. Why? Because you were either walking or going on horseback. People got around before roads. Roads make travel easier. People have been trying to make traveling easier since the dawn of history. See: roads, ships, animal husbandry, the wheel, etc.

People can live far apart without problem if they're self-sufficient or plan ahead: grow your own food, have stockpiles that can last months if you can't make it to town (rural winters can be a bitch). What's new is this dependency on others and belief of "oh my god, I'll die if I don't make it to town (grocery store) this week".

[0] Our closest neighbor was a quarter mile away. Nearest paved road (and our bus stop as kids) was 2.5 miles away over private dirt roads with about 1000 feet change in elevation. It was 8 miles to town, 20 to city (which would barely be a suburb most places).
I have been working on improving the editor UI (svelte), the project wizard and adding payments on https://babelfu.com

I haven't merged those improvements on the community edition (yet) because of time constraints.

The next thing I will be working on is the GitHub Marketplace.
Out of paranoia I just checked and yeah, GoogleBot actual (and not the dozens of fakes) requested each 410'd URL at least once a month, some URLs get multiple requests per month. All have been marked 410 since 2014 or earlier.
Thinking Like an AI: A little intuition can help
> high-resolution imaging of the components of the PCC node

Does that mean they image the internals of the ICs? Or do they just make some pictures of the PCBs?
Reading this:

> To write code that’s easy to delete: repeat yourself to avoid creating dependencies, but don’t repeat yourself to manage them. Layer your code too: build simple-to-use APIs out of simpler-to-implement but clumsy-to-use parts. Split your code: isolate the hard-to-write and the likely-to-change parts from the rest of the code, and each other. Don’t hard code every choice, and maybe allow changing a few at runtime.

My experience is that the title doesn't hold. Code that is easy to delete is -- more often than not -- also easy to extend because it is layered, modular, and isolates different pieces through abstractions like interfaces or other type contracts.
Right now I'm working on https://htmgo.dev
Stacklok donates Minder supply chain security project to OpenSSF
The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0
It’s really nice! Expensive, but it looks great and the 5K panel is beautiful. Speakers are good for a display, webcam is meh.

It’s much better looking than the LG ultrafine 5K, slightly more functional, and costs more.

What’s the idiot part? Price?
There is no reason it would not: https://github.com/alexarchambault/mill-native-image
Pixi global: install dev tools declaratively
> What are you even paying for?

I have no idea! High-deductible plans give you access to HSAs, which are the "don't pay taxes" cheat code (you put in pre-tax money, it gets invested in the market and grows tax-free, and you can spend it tax-free if it's on medical expenses; if you're over 65 you can use it for anything and pay regular income tax). But I'm paying 42,000 per year pre-tax for that privilege + insurance; maybe it's better to just get paid that as salary, take the income tax hit, buy coverage on the open market for far less, and then invest the leftover money.
But ICBMs don't do anything besides launch nukes. The parent comment has a point - China can "harass" the United States with their materiel across thousands of miles of seawater, but America generally doesn't care. There is no Chinese threat to American airspace when both countries are thousands of miles away from each other. The Pacific ocean itself is so large that preemptive long-range shipping attacks are considered to be technologically impossible too.

And I'll even go a further step to argue that China copied the United States' nuclear scheme to be deterrent rather than aggressive. Their ICBMs are clustered in uninhabited lands in the northwest of the country, forcing potential aggressors to either nuke China's nukes or strike fast enough that China can't respond. The goal of China's nuclear program, it would seem, is not to enable a panoply of tactical effects like the US or USSR, but just to remind the world not to attack their soil.
Yeah. Malls are another good one, although that seems to be a bit of a boom and bust field or something… and we’ve already had plenty of zombie movies set in malls.

Office building are an interesting one because, of course, a ton of people can imagine working in an office building (having done so).

Small colleges recently had a rough time of things, and also could be a place that is likely to generate a horror script writer, I bet we’ll get a good college horror story.
So now you just limited to 24gb unless you are running dual 3090s or leave the consumer market for a gpu.
How much of the price is the AI tax
> A bare metal systems programming language can be used for web backend development. Let that sink in.

Hand-roled assembly too, and even brainfuck. What an epiphany.

Meanwhile this cargo cult is invested in toy projects to meet the bandwagon quotas of their cargo cult while the rest of the world goes on adding feature sets with a couple lines of code. And what's their tradeoff? At best saving cents on vCPU costs? Totally worth it, I suppose.
At one point there were about six manufacturers (though I think it was all various grades of the same panel). They just didn’t sell.
The difference is the discussion, the outcome is what matters (imho). If something is technically possible, but impossible to achieve (for whatever reason), it is not truly possible.

There is, to my knowledge, no country that has solved its labor supply challenges with mass immigration in a sustainable manner. I am happy to be proven wrong if my understanding and model is inaccurate.
I know that some of the older imacs could still work as a monitor using 'target display mode'. Would be nice, however, if apple could design an imac where the actual computer is a module you can snap into an older one to upgrade it.

At some point we need to stop putting these things into landfills or even recycling them. I've been using the same PC case for at least 10 years ship of Theseus style and the same monitors for 5.

I appreciate apples recycling stance but even better is a reuse stance. Even just stripping back all the aluminum, melting it all down, re casting it and then remachining it has a significant cost.

For the last 10-20 years apple has been pretty good about reusing case designs for a few generations before doing some kind of redesign. Seems silly that I can't swap out a motherboard for a m2 macbook for an m3 macbook. (maybe this would also stop them from fucking soldering the storage to the motherboard since an upgrade that wipes my whole machine is utter bullshit)
Those are both moving parts that must be treated as movng the same as a mouse, because they are not bolted to anything. Any mechanical designer will absolutely treat everything about the ports on those the same as for a phone.
Having to turn your head to see a full 16:9 screen doesn’t sound great either.
Great show and I thoroughly recommend it but...

Everyone in it seems to be doing these dodgy "oo ur" West Country farmer caricature. I can't think of a single character with an actual Suffolk accent.

If I compare to The Dig[1], another great film about finding buried treasure in Suffolk[2], Ralph Fiennes nails it[3].

It's like the good ol' days when the BBC used get Rada trained actors to put on "Cockney" accents to represent the working classes.

1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3661210/

2. Sutton Hoo, a set of long boats commerating dead Anglo-Saxon kings. Probably the greatest treasure ever found in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8yri1nejc
"If the choices are an underclass of migrant labor whose human rights are always in jeopardy, or automation, automation is the path to success."

I'm not so sure about this argument. Migrant workers come into a country for a reason. Removing this opportunity does harm to the migrant worker. Any migrant worker human rights issues do need to be addressed, however I'm not convinced it is a good reason for automation.
I'd love to see SSMs replace transformers but adapting them to non-causal, 2D+ inputs doesn't seem that straightforward.

Is there a non-autoregressive future?
I'll try one last time.

> I think you are not a mathematician

Guess again.

> Example: Jellyfish is not a jelly and not a fish. Biologists have got it all wrong!

You have a problem with reading comprehension. I never said any mathematician was wrong.

Think about namespaces for a moment, like in programming. There are two namespaces here: The analysis namespace and the foundations namespace.

In either of those two namespaces, the word "mapping" means what you're describing: an arbitrary subset F of A×B for which every element of a ∈ A occurs as the first component in a unique element (x,y) ∈ F.

But the term "function" has a different meaning in each of the two namespaces.

The word "function" in the analysis namespace defines it to ONLY EVER be a mapping S -> R or S -> C, where S is a subset of C^n or R^n. The word "function" is not allowed to be used - within this namespace - to denote anything else.

The word "function" in the foundations namespace defines it to be any mapping whatsoever.

Hopefully, now you'll get it.
Actually, the $1 thing is a relic, I just removed it. I have no pricing whats so ever, since all canine has to do is connect to your cluster and do all the hard work there, it is totally free :)
Firefox + uBlock Origin works well for me! It's all I use.
Extend Nginx with the New JavaScript Module
After I finished the two Frank Kittridge novels from S.J. Morden I was surprised I haven't heard of him until now.

They start as a "The Martian" cribbed story, but the development arc takes in better places. It was less geek/efficiency porn and more character development and required less strain on my suspension of disbelief overall.
Right. They used to, they stopped many years ago. So now it’s all guesses, estimates, based on whatever.
Looks good so far! If it helps, some of the challenges I had with take-homes as a hiring manager were:
- We'd suggest to spend an afternoon on it, no more than 4 hours, but many candidates would go far beyond that
- Senior candidates tend to have less free time to do take-home assignments. Some would decline to do them and others would have to delay their interview pipeline for weeks (and by then, many candidates had lost interest or progressed with other employers)

That said, take-home assignments were very helpful for junior candidates who didn't have much experience on their resume.
Sure but it seems like race to the bottom. Faster development will beat better quality in the market. Especially in unregulated industry like this.
I said I wouldn't follow a news outlet. That doesn't mean I wouldn't entertain any opinions or arguments that challenge my own.

> And please spare me the predictable response, because it's clear that you don't care about democracy exactly.

I will save myself writing your own words for you:

> You seem to be pretty strident and inflexible in your thinking,
There’s a Samsung one, though it doesn’t seem to generally be much cheaper than the Apple one, and the LG Ultrafine 5K seems to be… maybe still available?
The company is losing lots of money and is worthless. It is rising because people are gambling about an election outcome.
Note that the book uses python 2
Question to the physicists out there: When an electron gets accelerated it emits "Bremsstrahlung" because it radiates away photons when it changes its velocity vector.

So for an electron on a circular path in a magnetic field, we know that it emits this radiation because this is the synchrotron radiation.

Now what happens to an electron on a circular path around a black hole? Does it emit synchrotron radiation or not?
It's obvious they just shoehorned this stuff in after missing the bus. Now they made the promises, and are working feverishly to deliver in order to protect the stock price.
I’m not a big believer in absolutes like that, but unless a person is already proficient in C or C++, or there’s an existing C++ library, etc., I find it hard to justify using those over Rust. Rust has great tooling, good cross compilation support, good quality standard library and very good 3rd party ecosystem.

Also, it has so few footguns compared to C or C++ even modestly experienced developers can safely use it.
I mean, model layering has been around for several years now: https://huggingface.co/blog/lyogavin/airllm
Yeah a family friend PC that can end up on a desk or in the kitchen, or on a milk crate as a media player in an apartment, as a family computer they get years of use over time by different people in a family. From work to life to play.
> "Who will take care of you when you're old?" Well, myself, presumably.

I'm sure nearly every person who ended up needed their kids to take care of them probably felt the same way right up until they needed help.

Regardless, "future help" is definitely a terrible reason to have kids. As you noted, it's a complete change in life, lifestyle, and priorities. One needs to be ready for this (or as ready as one can be, anyway) before taking it on, and be willing to commit 100% to a journey that will be unpredictable and that has no guarantees of success or happiness.

As a parent that was previously in a "no way am I having kids" state, yet wouldn't trade in being a parent for anything else in the world, I have 100% respect for those who do and those who don't want to have kids.
But also be aware that non-profit does not mean non-profit-oriented. Just that any profit goes to executives [1] instead of toward community/charity services [2].

[1] https://paddockpost.com/2021/06/10/executive-compensation-at...
[2] https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.01542
I'm surprised they are still shipping these with 256GB of storage base. I had a Macbook with a ~500GB SSD in 2012 (I installed it), and a 500GB spinning disk in like 2008 (also user installed).

A 500GB SSD can be had for <$50 these days, and a 1TB for <$100. Still plenty of profit for Apple, even if they bump up the base storage to 512GB and make 1TB a $200 upgrade...
I would be keen to read it if you're happy to share?
That would be a pretty impressively sweeping thing to accomplish with a software update launching Apple Intelligence. :D
> I think to get somewhere in the AI space you usually need to work somewhere that's solving real problems where AI can help. I know that sounds trite and reductive but it's also where the success lies IME.

I think thats very true, and not trite or reductive at all.

I used to work for a data-heavy SME and tried to get the senior leadership interested in exploring AI in some commercially useful problem spaces. The main issues I had were not the tech, but resourcing and getting sufficient buy-in to work on it for more than a few sprints. In the end I failed on both counts.

In career terms its like "you can't get there from here". I wish there was a howto for that.
You're absolutely right re: the lack of batteries and bureaucracy used – I've only taught programming to teens in the context of recreational after-school courses, where kids know about Roblox and Garry's Mod (unfortunately through "skibidi toilet"), already have that context and pre-installed ideas with gaming. For advanced enrichment, I find that kids also love learning graphics techniques like raytracing via LÖVE, 2D shadows via vector operations, physics concepts like springs etc. (with a suitable pixel-graphics harness).

Now that you point it out, I'm in agreement with your comment about how Python would be a recipe for counterproductive frustration in many, many other contexts, where people have many other contexts and real-world experiences that motivate coding.

I really do respect the challenge of teaching to very different age ranges, and I acknowledge I've only taught in one context! I'm curious – what you do find engages children vs. adults? (I imagine kids might actually love making Discord bots etc.)

I'm mulling over a proposal for a community ed. class in my local community college about "programming for accountants" – I've informally heard from some accountant friends that they're really motivated to learn Excel macros for example with very bespoke accounting worklfows – but I'm dreading the thought of VBA.
Increased automation without corresponding societal change only means you transfer even more wealth to the ownership class.
> There's no way that someone today could take a plant that naturally produces a useful but toxic industrial lubricant, modify it to be less toxic, and then start feeding it to humans. But in the 1970s you could still get away with stuff like that.

Why? I am not seeing the causation. Tomatoes came from a family of plants that are not edible, and now they are consumed worldwide.
For pedantry's sake, "Project Hail Mary" is not Weir's second novel. I think "Artemis" followed after The Martian. It's a story set on the Moon with a strong female character, but I can't remember much else about it. :D
Why not define additional metrics around what you would spot check and then produce a consolidated figure of merit as the metric to optimize. Aren't we doing that with AI training and general optimization (including regularization).
That’s a cool idea. The desktop has only one cable even on wired network. Neat.
The Open Source AI Definition 1.0
It's new to me and I've found the comments thread enthralling.
How to Turn a Skateboard into an Instrument
HDMI might be a bit more complex, but displayport should be doable since most devices use embedded displayport (eDP) anyway for their built in displays. I'm guessing the main cost would be adding a switching chip for switching between external and internal source.
Yeah, 27” was about the sweet spot for me. We now have 32” monitors at work, and I find them a _little_ uncomfortable to use. Depends on your field of view, I suppose.
FWIW I wasn’t trying to start a semantic argument about the meaning of the term “CPU package,” I just thought it was a clear and specific term.
Wireless charging is also idiotic, to someone.

You don't like the mouse, that's fine, I also don't like the mouse.

But unless you've actually used the mouse for an extended period: I don't think you understood the point that you:

A) don't need it plugged in constantly

and

B) if you charge it for a handful of seconds it lasts the rest of the day, meaning you don't actually have to stop working.
They could design it in such a way that the hdmi input port bypasses the whole 'computer' and goes straight into the display board. If it's plugged in the 'computer' could either not boot or just run headless, i'd prefer the former (just to save on energy costs).
sorry just griping about apple’s announcements today in general.
I imagine this will immediately be folded into some LLM daytrading app
I just tried this and it sent "I will be home in 20 minutes". I am on 18.1 but I doubt that matters.
China Tightens Its Hold on Minerals Needed to Make Computer Chips
Why can't I see this comment when viewing the original article?
Most of the world is x86/Windows machines, developers included. I would bet that for every MacBook issued there's at least a hundred Precision/Latitude/ThinkPad/Optiplex machines that went into someone's hands. The Apple hard-on is from a specific region and culture where the technical "elites" have made a bajillion dollars working on shitty phone apps and other such light work where it's possible for your trackpad/keyboard to be the biggest issue. It sounds a bit mean-spirited, but I think it's pretty telling that as the gravity of the work increases, you see less and less Apple products being used to do it.
I believe the difference is that the JS version specifies compression strategy 3 (Z_RLE)[0][1], whereas the Rust crate is using the default compression strategy[2]. Both otherwise use the same underlying compression library (deflate aka zlib) and the same compression level (9).

[0]: https://github.com/pretzelhammer/using-rust-in-non-rust-serv...

[1]: https://zlib.net/manual.html#Advanced:~:text=The%20strategy%...

[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/flate2-rs/blob/1a28821dc116dac1...

Edit: Nevermind. If you look at the actual generated files, they're 594 and 577 bytes respectively. This is mostly HTTP headers.

[3]: https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/asset...

[4]: https://github.com/pretzelhammer/rust-blog/blob/master/asset...
I meant to add that of course there will always be those who prefer small rural communities, and that I think we we build more densely ( in an intelligent, thoughtful way) in the urban areas, we can easily meet the demand for housing while continuing to preserve plenty of small towns for those who prefer that. Of course, I can't say what the situation is for sure in the UK exactly, but here in the US, there are plenty of small towns that are slowly shrinking and disappearing. Many of these communities had much higher populations 50 or 100 years ago, and in another 50 or 100 years may not even exist as a community anymore.