skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not so sure about the Canonical ad, but the Apple ones are really bad.

I clicked on those thinking that the author may be overstating things but those ads are really really bad.

There’s basically 2 messages they’re promoting (the office worker one seems to be promoting a different message from the other 3).

The first ad:
- You’re a loser and Apple Intelligence will make you look like less of a loser in an email. But also people will look at you, see you as the loser you are, and then immediately be suspicious about that email you sent.

The other 3:
- Apple Intelligence will make you an even more efficient psychopath and make you great at manipulating loved ones and people who are interested in you.

WTF, Apple. The quality of Apple advertising has taken a huge hit over the past decade or so. But these ads go beyond just the anodyne nature of their previous advertising. This stuff is truly deranged.
You can make money by either reducing head count or coming up with plans that involves generating more money with existing workforce.

Obviously you as a CEO failed at doing second.

Now question is do you fire yourself and try to get a better CEO or you choose to fire 20% and generate more profits.

If it's up to the workforce they probably choose to fire CEO. But if it's upto the CEO he choose to fire the 20%.
High-Powered Potential of Uncensored AI Pentesting for Attackers and Defenders
AI has so much potential, but sometimes the consumer products come across as a bit forced, like they’re still looking for their purpose. Overall, I didn't really like Meta's presentation this year. It felt kind of strange...
The setup leading to that phrase... brilliant.
Oh I was considering the $200/mo to be the expensive price. Yeah name brand you can pay $1k/mo but I don't imagine most folks going that route over the generic given the choice.

But yeah, that's a good point I suppose. Fewer side effects than meth that's for sure.
Microsoft Warns of Russian Spear-Phishing Attacks Targeting over 100 Orgs
Yes that is my understanding too. Short chained saturated fat to be exact, so don't tell any of the lipophobics or they will automatically add the prefix "unhealthy" to it as they are accustomed to.
Maybe they developed all the features they thought were necessary and now can manage the features with less workforce.
I've used `uv` a bunch. It was really, really good but didn't cover our use cases. I think that's probably changed now. Ruff also looks pretty cool.
I don't understand what you're advocating for. Are you against Tor because there was a vulnerability (that has since been mitigated) which led to the deanonymization of users or are you against Tor because there was an illegal service that used it? By killing existing good relays you're making it easier for someone malicious to come in, add a bunch of relays to the network, and have those relays be more likely to be used. And it won't be a saintly do-gooder either, it'll probably be some guy trying to mitmproxy crypto exchanges to steal money.

PS: The fake abuse report technique was invented like 5 years ago: https://www.theregister.com/2019/04/16/spamhaus_port_scans/
>Second is when is it acceptable to take a life.

As an aside, I think the general increase over the past few decades when it comes to society's inability to tolerate general case loss of life and/or limb did a lot more heavy lifting than anyone wants to give credit for when it comes to swinging the political pendulum against abortion.

Arguments about the point of minimum viability, "but it's a human life", etc. resonate a lot less in a world where kids grow up in houses full of second hand smoke, are playing with lawn darts at 10 and drunk driving by 18 and while not considered ideal all that is considered normal.
Cisco Patches Vulnerability Exploited in Large-Scale Brute-Force Campaign
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It is very hard to have a discussion about under vs. overvalued, because it is all predicated on guesses of future performance if you are not stripping a company for its components in the short term.

To try to play the anti-nvidia side, they are in a very good position now, but at 65 P/E where do they grow beyond the current frothy expectations so new investors can see stock price appreciation? Especially with companies seeing the profits desiring to compete.

With AMD, you can see past performance with higher earnings and be optimistic that they can hit past earnings bringing the P/E ratio into alignment.

That's the bear perspective.
> Drew Houston's total compensation for the year in 2023 was $1.5M

That is insanely low for the CEO of a public company of Dropbox's size. But I suspect he owned a lot of shares in the company so when it went public, so he doesn't need salary, it is just a rounding error in terms of his wealth.

EDIT: Yeah, he is worth $2B according to Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/profile/drew-houston/
The marketing goes for flashy scenarios
I think people put too much weight behind the will they think others all possess. The only empathy they summon is to compare to an ideal, without truly understanding not many are beings possessing identical traits that make up the phenomenon of behavior.

No one is screaming at a schizophrenic to summon the willpower to stop hearing voices, but many certainly will do so to those fighting addictions or other ingrained behavior. This might seem like false equivalence, but they are both abnormal psychological traits, one happens to rely on the environment more than the other.

As another example, some animals will overfeed if you let them, and you can craft super obese animals genetically. No one is damning fat squirrels, screaming "If only they had the willpower to stop overfeeding!"
Do you think it is possible to make people even stupider? At scale?

I believe it to be possible, and in play, at scale.
I've posted in the sibling thread r.e. the density (which I believe you have underestimated by several orders of magnitude), however a stroll around london will show you that, excepting arterial roads, cars always have to deal with pedestrians crossing at any time and place, including between you and the car ahead if you come to a stop, or if there's more than a couple meters between you and the next car. Even busy arterial roads will have to deal with people walking across them if there are large gaps or the traffic is slow or stalled.
I'm not super familiar with archlinux but maybe `uvx` or `uv run` already do parts of what you want?

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/tools/

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/
Taking a hit on their giant salary seems completely reasonable to me. Having skin in the game makes people perform better in all sorts of cases, and I don't see why a CEO would be different.

Do you also object to sales reps or athletes making less money after a long period of performing poorly?
Unrelated, but on the topic of reducing power consumption, I want to once again note that both AMD and NVidia max out a CPU core per blocking API call, preventing your CPU from entering low power states even when doing nothing but waiting on the GPU, for no reason other than to minimally rice benchmarks.

Basically, these APIs are set up to busyspin while waiting for a bus write from the GPU by default (!), rather than use interrupts like every other hardware device on your system.

You turn it off with

NVidia: `cudaSetDeviceFlags(cudaDeviceScheduleBlockingSync)`

AMD: `hipSetDeviceFlags(hipDeviceScheduleBlockingSync)`

On Pytorch

NVidia: `import ctypes \ ctypes.CDLL('libcudart.so').cudaSetDeviceFlags(4)`

AMD: `import ctypes \ ctypes.CDLL('libamdhip64.so').hipSetDeviceFlags(4)`

This saves me 20W whenever my GPU is busy in ComfyUI.

Every single device using the default settings for CUDA/ROCM burns a CPU core per worker thread for no reason.
> but the one here is that it's being used incorrectly

Being ALLOWED to be used badly, is the major cause of unsafety.

And consider that all the reports you reply to are by serious teams. NOT EVEN THEM succeed.

That is the #1 definition of

> something wrong with io_uring itself
The thing is, only Apple computers really need it, because of their technical choice on resolution scaling, where only x2 do not give you a blurry mess on macOS.
5K is nice but not necessary for other platforms, you can get a 4K display scaled to 150% and it's still a good pixel density with same workspace size as a 2560x1440 display.
They should make whole those affected, as best as possible. The CEO, who is the responsible party by their own declaration, should distribute their personal wealth to those affected until all parties have approximately the same amount of wealth.
Trailing P/E is about as informative as the tea leaves in your cup. You should ignore it.

Looking at Morgan Stanley's estimates for NVDA, their base case values them at $150.00 12 months from now, which is ~42x CY25 EPS of $3.57. According to the same report, the mean consensus estimate is ~$137.88 which if you assume the same EPS, equates to ~38.6x (this is from an Aug 29, 2024 report, which came out after NVDA's latest earnings, as usual)

For AMD, in the report that came out yesterday, the analysts values them at $169.00 which is ~43x FY2025 EPS of $3.94, below consensus estimates of $188.77 which imply a ~47.9x forward P/E ratio

Now this comes with a bunch of caveats like the different dates, the fact that each analyst has their own view on forward EPS, the fact that I picked just a couple of reports instead of looking at all analysts, the different periods from AMD's FY 2025 vs. NVDA's CY 2025... but two things appear to remain true: (1) trailing PE multiples are useless and the sooner we stop mentioning them the better and (2) the discrepancy in multiples you pointed out doesn't hold up to scrutiny

Diligencing the above caveats is left as an exercise to the reader
The comparison is a great example of the "show don't tell" cliche that English teachers love.
My work blocks Flickr links, but a set there is linked from https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/2wl35/richard_s... and I think that's the one I'm thinking of. Lots of changes for gender equality; I can't get too bothered about that, though "letter carrier" is probably going to lose some kids compared to "mailman".

But they got rid of the scarecrow (and the crow on it)! And a lot of little turns and phrases that were charming, as I recall. But take a look.
Does `uv tool` fit the bill? https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/tools/

From https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging

> Tool management: `uv tool install` and `uv tool` run (aliased to uvx). uv can now install command-line tools in isolated virtual environments and execute one-off commands without explicit installation (e.g., `uvx ruff check`), making it a high-performance, unified alternative to tools like pipx.
Can some folks in the cybersecurity arena recommend some good email newsletters, websites, blogs, accounts, etc to follow to keep up in the space?
EY Resigns as Auditor of SuperMicro
Loneliness is the product that creates more markets to fill the void.
FedEx should licence their model that’s meant to frustrate users into giving up trying to speak to a human.

Earlier it told me that it looked into my parcel tracking details and assured me that it was on schedule for delivery, so it wasn’t able to let me connect to an agent.

Except I hadn’t yet given it any tracking number.
LOL

It took Google 15 years to build an ad empire.

And they still have trouble filling ad slots on YouTube.

You think ChatGPT is just going to "turn on" $100B in online ad spending overnight?

That's not how it works.
Nvidia is $3.42T market cap. AMD is $246B market cap. Nvidia makes up over 5% of the ETF I use. AMD is less than 0.5%

There's a lot more wealth tied up in Nvidia, so there is more interest and worry. They are also more associated with hyped up tech like Bitcoin and AI. Whether you believe in those technologies in the long term determines whether you're likely to think Nvidia can maintain.

With everyone dumping on Intel lately, AMD also looks like the primary CPU manufacturer.
Do you think China degraded under Xi's authoritarian rule?
Well as someone that only has a passable knowledge of Greek, my phone has been doing that since at least 5 years now.

Yes AI algorithms are behind it, but hardly something new to brag about in 2024.
Me neither. And it will be funny for some until it's not anymore. I don't like how those, for now, useful ai tools, will dissposses us from our creativity and ability to make things by ourself in the future. It will be fast and hit hard.
The blog entry suffers from congratulating the mediocre Ubuntu ad, but it's right about the vile Apple ads.

The Apple ads are dystopian and revulsive. She really pulls out her phone while talking to a person and then lies to her face. A wife and mother forgets dad's birthday and smugly "gifts" him 50 auto-playing photos, as shown on her phone screen?
They could go the same way some insurances do it, with a very positive imagery through and through and only ever indirectly implying the "or else"
Apple have a range of ads to appeal to a range of people.

Even back then they had the Mac vs PC or a variety of other ads too that weren’t “cool” but were funny. Tongue in cheek ads have been in their DNA since forever.

Take for example the new Mac mini ad which is cute

https://youtu.be/JjpGvjy0Gxk?si=Gk1cU80FiJX2KYbC

Or just scrolling through their YouTube channel now to find a few over the years

Find your Friends https://youtu.be/yk6UVnMn9ts?si=UIqblUwbbONPFyRR

The Greatest
https://youtu.be/8sX9IEHWRJ8?si=NhRVcMZyOlU7-PfC

HomePod ( probably my favorite of the bunch. Directed by Spike Jonze, starring FKA Twigs. Imho one of the best ads they’ve done)
https://youtu.be/k70OczvX45k?si=4cKP63L4UwdP1vaW

AirPod pros
https://youtu.be/DpcXUXtZ4CU?si=AqWofXEOu7ejTCA0

One could argue that they’ve not had anything as iconic as the silhouette commercial. I’d agree with that, but I disagree with the position that their ads today don’t show cool people or that ads back then didn’t show “lame” people.
> "they have much more responsibility and risk"

Perhaps you've misinterpreted that statement? It is the board that takes on greater risk with executives as compared to other employees. The executives are given the keys to the kingdom, which means only an exceedingly small group of trusted individuals can be considered for the job. By the transitive properties of supply and demand, when supply is limited, price goes up.
They wouldn’t benefit though. Burning a few boxes would do nothing to change Oregon or Washington votes in the presidential election. It is possible these are just random nuisance crimes or that they are more targeted around local elections, which doesn’t make it obvious who would benefit.
> European grids have been connected for decades, way before new renewables were a thing.

Agreed, but not in the amount of capacity that they're aiming for now due to increased (expected) volatility. See e.g. https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/infrastructure/electricit... which sets a 2030 target of 15%.
Yeah that is true, but also not sufficient data to indicate that the Apple Watch actually net saves lives.

On the other side of the coin of more widespread and continuous monitoring is always the concerns of increasing false positives
I don’t know how but over time all the “new fangled” tech companies have the same approach to hiring. They just keep growing headcount as its own workstream. Google started it I think, their HR just interviews and grabs the talent without a need. Matching employees to a role that already got hired to a company is just insane. That is the reason why I never interview with anyone that wants to do a generic hire. These HR folks are purely assessed on how many they hire and so they keep hiring.

This just makes me respect the old school processes that apple and nvidia follow that much more. They are the best run companies in tech
Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]
For context, 14 year old Molly Russell committed suicide back in '18 after consuming thousands upon thousands of suicide/self-harm/depression pages/articles on FB/IG etc. It is claimed it's the tech giants that pushed that content to her.

Brianna Ghey was murdered in '23 by two 15 year olds.

Character.ai is currently being sued by a mother whose 14 year old son committed suicide after falling in love with one of their AI chatbots.
Conversely, I also know folks where everyone is redlining in the org because they cut deep and folks who can leave are able to leave for equivalent or better roles. The market isn't great, but it isn't 1999-2000 or 2007-2009 either.

If you want another job, make it a job to find it, and you will eventually find it.
That's a Blaise Pascal quote actually.
I think a good marketing move is showcasing the seamlessness of artificial intelligence. For some reason, AI is being stigmatized
Setting Your Pet Rock Free/how to deploy provably-fully-autonomous thinking sand
On the other side it's a good thing that there are ads teaching people that they can't trust anything they receive on their phone, because we can really receive fake images, videos, conversations.
Is there any future for the gaming/enthusiast PC segment? Feels like it's dying. Becoming an ever-smaller niche.

High-end gaming PCs became vastly more expensive over the last few years, between general post-Covid inflation and the chip shortage allowing high-end graphics card prices to be pushed well into 4-figure territory.

Other than those very expensive GPUs, performance improvements elsewhere have come slowly. And on top, Microsoft is doing their best to push people away from Windows. And the VR bubble has deflated.

AAA game development is a seriously struggling industry with little tolerance for risk/innovation, fewer releases, and many high-profile failures. And most of the really popular games can be played well on a 10-year-old PC or a console.
Interesting. It looks like each vertex in the "shadow model" is projected onto the ground individually, which means the shadows can "peel away" from the ground.

: :
: :____ ground
: /|
: / | wall
ground __:/__|
I can agree with you there. I don't think the new use-cases that have been unlocked are world-shattering but they're nonetheless really cool.

We're finally going to have dictation that works reliably, voice assistants that don't suck, really sick photoshop tools, grammar and writing style checkers built into Word that can provide real feedback, a lot of stuff that just wasn't possible before.
American Airlines Busts Travelers Who Cut the Boarding Line
Coming from the Poetry world, I'm loving ruff and uv. It's awesome having one single binary to handle linting for both convention and format, and uv itself is amazingly fast.

I do miss being able to shell into an env, but it hasn't been a big deal because you can still run `uv run -- code .` to launch VSCode with the right Python interpreter.

It's surprising to me that the future toolchain for Python productivity is Rust, but the results are awesome.
Most prolific example was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30758651

Not a big one, but this was of personal note: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wit-bindgen/issues/306
> Absolutely nobody is going to see these ads and to "Ah, well, now that I have seen this ad I will start lying".

I don’t think anyone is claiming these ads will get people to start lying. The claim is that lying to your loved ones is good and makes you smart is indeed the message these ads are sending.

People do lie. But they don’t usually feel good about it. These ads send the message that not only is that good, but Apple Intelligence will make you even better at lying.

It’s just a bad message.
Why didn't they just rename K-9 instead? I just gave it a try and it really is just K-9 with slight UI tweaks.
In some ways :). We've come to learn this feature should be truly open to the community, and are doing what we can to provide options to people. We had already done the work, so might as well make it accessible to as many as possible! :)
In a way ads seem to have lost that edge?
I know right! We worked with this individual designer from Reddit. If you want their name, shoot me an email/linkedin/etc. and I'll connect you. He was great to work with.
This rule sounds crazy, do you have more info?
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The really funny thing about the "lies about birthday present" one is that the wife asks the AI to make a Woodworking Memory Video, and while they're watching it, it looks like a beach vacation photo is included in the mix.

For a second I forgot where I was, and thought she'd be found out, then remembered it's an ad, and everyone is impressed.

Maybe the image is actually related to the woodworking? But I couldn't help but think, "that's about right - a random, ill-fitting photo"
>In my experience a lot of hiring in those big or publicly traded companies is to "build the structure to get promoted".

This comment should be at the top. Not just at the top of the thread, but at the top of HN homepage.

It's how during the pandemic many companies just suddenly doubled their headcount without any extra output in products or quality, and now we're seeing somewhat of a correction to that with all the layoffs.

It's how you see people in tech hubs climb to the top of some large companies despite never having worked longer than a year at any company. Nothing against job hopping but I ask myself what skills and value people like that actually bring, who have 10x 1-year of experience, as they're never in a place long enough get to see the end results of their work and decisions, if they're good or bad, they barely pass the onboarding stage.

It's also how many of these large orgs end up failing long term. Look at Intel now, or german auto makers, as the goal of each worker there becomes gaming the system to getting yourself a promotion at the cost of the org as a whole, instead of adding value to get a promotion, since the org is very bad at setting the right goals and incentives for the workers. Google and the like who have a monopoly with an impossible moat or an infinite money cheat can resist this enshitification much much longer than the rest of the companies.

I'm not even mad, in the end most people are just playing the game, they don't get to write the rules of the game, and the ones who do are out of touch with reality so they can't be mad when people try to game it for their personal advantage.
Ridiculous. I worked at Apple and if you have the correct permissions, you can see old Radars that Steve himself wrote and also the comments on them. He was profoundly insightful and absolutely drove product development. An absolute myth that he was just a “salesman.”

Many people who comment on Apple have never actually worked there and they think some curated history book tells the real story.

Go have a conversation with Eddie Cue or Craig Federighi about Steve. Or even Jony Ive. Perhaps talk to some of the original Lisa and Mac teams.
Labor = KPIs not People.
And also similar to the French Revolutionary calendar (1793 to 1805) which had twelve 30-day months and 5 or 6 jours complémentaires.

I like that Tolkien’s legendarium got the first mention here though.
Wimsey: Fast, lightweight and easy data contract library (supporting Pandas, Po
Curiously the default has audio output off. That is, was the little speaker icon unmuted?