skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grunty – Self-hosted desktop app to have AI control your computer
> the new iMac is up to 1.7x faster than iMac with M1

Now 4 generations in, they are still comparing performance to M1. I get that 15-20% improvements aren't too exciting but it feels old.
Side note, is there anyone that uses a Magic Mouse? It looks uncomfortable to use for an extended period of time and curious if that's true.
Psychopathic? I think that's a ridiculous statement. No-one said anything about automating any human connection. I can tell you that my wife is a full time carer for her parents, and though she does it willingly and with love, it exerts a great toll on her, both physically, and mentally. So if we're going to far-too-easily use words like "psychopathic" - I could just as well say that ignoring that cost is psychopathic. Knowing what her role as a carer has cost her in terms of quality of life, I would never want to subject my children to the same. That is entirely different to maintaining human connection with older relatives.
> It is interesting that you say it is becoming a problem. Why was it not a problem in a past?

You couldn't live that far apart since there were no roads or cars that allowed for this.
Do you always need that kind of prolonged argument whenever you learn a new concept?

> Sometimes the YouTube video is more helpful than the private tutor.

University lectures work like that. First the general lecture, which has 300 students and is not interactive. Then the tutorial, where students who want extra help can consult individually with a TA. Attendance for tutorials was typically much lower in my experience, because a lot of students thought the lecture was plenty and wanted to spend the time on something else.
Sometimes a doctor is available but crappy scheduling software hides that.

I got a small scratch from a squirrel and since it did cause a little blood to appear I figured better safe than sorry and went to Kaiser's site to make an appointment with my PCP.

They had nothing for a few weeks.

So I changed to requesting an appointment with any doctor at the same facility. It then gave me an appointment with my PCP for the next day at 9 am.

I've seen similar problems with vaccine scheduling using their web site. It will sometimes only show appointments at a bigger Kaiser facility in the next town, or an even bigger one 30 minutes away.

But if I actually go in and talk to the people at the front desk at the Kaiser office in my town they can often make me an appointment at that facility.
I'm glad to see Nano-Texture coming to their budget line.

That was definitely unexpected.
Accessories are updated to USB-C instead of Lightning
Sure, if you ignore the context of the claim, it doesn't make sense. The context is a US without cheap farm labor. Most of that list depends on cheap labor. Corn & wheat depend on massive machines run by skilled labor, but most of the rest depend on cheap labor.
Just want to add that so many freshman-level thinkers who are fond of this idea forget that democratically enacted regulation and oversight also count as self interest.
If 32GB is the max, why not just make that the one and only model and get rid of this weird segmentation. That's a ridiculously low minimum and only just barely adequate. 8GB was practically criminal.

Or -- and I know this is crazy -- slottable RAM on a device that is designed for things other than portability. Wild, I know.
Muse cost only $640,000 and was built in less than a year, sounds incredibly efficient. I wonder how this compares to the costs of development for other startups in this space like ocklo [1]

[1] https://oklo.com/technology/default.aspx
You'd be surprised how much staying power these things have. The nation and its language are two concepts inherently intertwined. Take the case of Welsh in Wales. It was an almost dead language that no one spoke, but as soon as the Welsh got the ability to self-govern, they enacted laws to mandate all documents and road signs were available in Welsh, required it to be taught in schools, etc. It's very difficult to kill a language in a democratic state because it's a very bad look to oppose laws that "protect the nation's culture". The people who want these things are endlessly pandered to as a result.
It's frustrating how disposable these are designed to be

edit: e.g. screen replacements cost nearly as much as the entire computer
I don't think these two forms of'amnesia-induced' typos are so different.
"Typos" happen quite often, especially when typing on a smartphone and selecting the wrong character. And people learn to read it correctly.
It's sometimes used intentionally, e.g. 歪果仁.
Not sure if they are purchasable separately yet though.
Now that my 27" iMac from 2020 is starting to get old and Apple will likely deprecate support for all Intel Macs soon, I really wish there was an easy way to use it as an external monitor for a MacBook. Every implementation of streaming to an iMac is hacky at best.
Dictionaries written in Chinese exist. They are in a sorted order, just like English dictionaries, so users can quickly look up the word they have in mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_orders
The research is population level research on estimated calories expenditure of some tribes and HDI countries. It shows exactly zero about what happens when you replace netflix with exercising in your day. It also shows exactly zero about what happens when you replace going 5km by car every day by walking those 5km every day.
The IMRXT1011 is $1.70 when bought in bulk from China from various vendors - it can do most of the things the Teensy has.

A reputable vendor: https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontrollers-MCU-MPU...

The IMXRT1064 can be had at $7: https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontrollers-MCU-MPU...
And even with that they're still only boasting of < 2.0x speedups...
Why does this still have the ridiculous iMac chin? Surely they can fit everything behind the screen at this point.
Funny enough, I actually live in Alberta. My personal experience with the healthcare here is actually amazing.

But I’m in Calgary. There’s still a big, expensive challenge in providing care in the tiny towns. Alberta is pretty much infinitely large compared to Singapore.

Another aspect is that some of Alberta’s money goes to subsidize other provinces which is something else Singapore doesn’t have.
the expansion adds some of these aspects.

> there are many different levels each

the expansion adds separate planets and multiple space-platforms. So it moves away from the monolith and towards multiple smaller factories. (In the end-game you probably and up with a massive monolith again, but until then you will have multiple medium-sized factories).

> ... classic tower defense and using the layout of the map to your advantage to extract resources and kill bad guys

Each new area add some unique defense-need, e.g. in space you have to shoot at incoming asteroids, and on the lava-planet, you have to build temporary mining-outposts, that get eaten by worms after a couple of minutes. (The other planes probably add something like that too, but I haven't played so far yet)
The only ML improvements I noticed and use in my Apple products in year is Chinese text OCR in images, and Chinese handwritten recognition on ipad with pencil. Nothing in Apple Intelligence is making me bat an eye.
Does it support Quarkus (esp. native build)?
The 5K screen was the killer feature of the 27” iMac.
After years of building virtual things out of code, I want to pivot into building buildings. I'm working on https://buildersqrcodes.com/ to scratch my own itch to easily communicate technical requirements to workers on the ground through QR codes.
It is even worse for widely deployed applications. To pick on some favorites, Microsoft Teams and One Drive have lousy performance and burn up a ton of cpu. Both are deployed to tens/hundreds of millions of consumers, squandering battery life and electricity usage globally. Even a tiny performance improvement could lead to a fractional reduction in global energy use.
>Now 4 generations in, they are still comparing performance to M1. I get that 15-20% improvements aren't too exciting but it feels old.

FTA:
"Compared to the most popular 24-inch all-in-one PC with the latest Intel Core 7 processor, the new iMac is up to 4.5x faster.1"
I've designed medical devices, implants, surgical robots and other complex, mission critical hardware that has been used to do thousands of surgeries, implanted in people all around the world and even in the Smithsonian.

After celebrating the 10th anniversary of my product design firm, nerdian inc, this year I've been focusing on building my San Francisco Design Lab here in SOMA.

We can design, 3d print, cnc machine, injection mold, build electronics and do all the integration for a complex piece of hardware all under on roof, right here in SF.

I've shipped dozens of complex pieces of hardware that are in use today. What can I ship for you?
The problem here is how you define harm. "Sticks and stones may break my bones
But words shall never hurt me." used to be the commonly accepted Wisdom, and with that definition you don't need to controll what others are allowed to say. I don't think it's a coincidence that governments are all to happy to get rid of that sentiment for exposing their lies does harm them.
> they'll have to reinvent the whole language to be understandable

Frankly, the whole language seems like such a mess that maybe they should?
An apartment in a major us city costs >4x per more per square foot than the adjacent suburban sprawl. Clearly a lot of people realize the value and are willing to take the financial hit to have it.
I'm a little older than most HN commentors, and I've seen so very many clearly propagandistic moral panics over new drugs come and go. When an article like this comes up, it's very hard to see it otherwise.
Oh I thought this would be about Natsume-
> First off, the author doesn't appear to be a crank.

Is this the first most people are hearing about this? In the 90's, I had a physics textbook for the layperson (i.e. non-STEM fields). It had a fantastic chapter on general relativity, and it also went with "not a force but a spacetime curvature".
The Obvious-Once-You-Think-About-It Reason Why Education Cuts Fertility
This is messed up, to put it politely.
This is not a problem in other languages. The word "set" in English has 7 different meanings, yet you rarely struggle to tell which is intended. If the language can be understood when spoken, it can be understood when written phonetically.
Working on 3DStreet, people-centered urban design. Think of it like a figma for street design: https://3dstreet.com/ or https://github.com/3dstreet/3dstreet
Some Languages like konkani are more closer to rig vedic in respect to both features and words, and have very little classical Sanskrit as borrowed vocabulary.

https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Linguistics/Mega%20linguist...
So far the screens I've tested are more tiring to my eyes (I work both on a M1 13" with external screens, and on a legacy 27" iMac). What are the best 27" screens for coding comfort that work well with Macs these days?
In this case it's more fair since the last iMac did indeed have an M1.

EDIT: This is wrong: apparently there was a M3 refresh that went under the radar, including mine: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-supercharges-24...
> Besides, isn't the goal of weight loss to get healthier in general, anyway?

I would argue that for majority of the people who talk about it does not. The goal is aesthetic and moral.
I gained about 50 lbs in my 20's by getting a sedentary job and eating poorly after moving out on my own. I spent a solid 2 years trying to lose weight by working out actively and lost nothing. When I changed my diet, I dropped it all over time and kept it off for the last 15+ years.

I tell people I know trying to lose weight to separate the ideas of exercise and diet, but few listen and most are quite resistant to the idea. To me, I think of exercise as maintaining a healthy heart, posture, etc. but keep it completely out of the picture for weight management.

The other side of this is motivation. If you don't see yourself losing weight from exercise, it demotivates you and that demotivation then carries into other areas like diet. So if you keep those separate, you won't make poor choices in your overall health as a result of feeling demotivated by the lack of results from exercise and you won't fall off the bandwagon so easily.
Okay well it says that's a part of the update
“If you accept that we live in spacetime, and it can be curved, then I think you should accept that gravity cannot be a force.”

I am on the opposite time of thinking — where spacetime itself emerges from particle interaction events. Pairwise distance (i.e. metric) is just yet another interaction parameter in the world graph.
They literally can't. They moved the headphone jack from the back to the side because it was too long.

Now you could argue if it needs to be that thin but for the current configuration, there's nothing you can cram behind the screen.
If they compared against the M3, people would be complaining that apple encourages needless frequent upgrades.
Typing this from a 27" iMac. I do love my 13" M1, but I would love to upgrade the 27" too...
Making public transit clean, reliable, and safe are important goals, and very achievable goals too. There are many examples around the world.

But few transit advocates are saying that we have to 100% eliminate all personal vehicles. They will remain an important part of the overall transportation infrastructure for the foreseeable future.

It would also be folly to advocate for eliminating all rural living. There are many necessary activities that take place in rural communities, such as agricultural production, that will remain critical to society.

The thing that I see most transit advocates targeting is excessive suburban sprawl, communities that aren't really countryside, but also aren't dense enough to be urban. They sprawl on and on for miles, with nothing to distinguish them, often simply the same tract home design repeated with only minor differences over and over and over. I am sure there are some folks that prefer these communities, but I also think that many residents would prefer wither moving into a less dense rural setting or a more dense urban setting, and many of those left that like the density would still prefer that the way these communities are structured be changed.
No need for personal attacks. This isn’t Facebook.
with the decline of regular religion, something had to take its place. and it's not like people got less fanciful or spiritual, they just changed where they invest that energy.
I've been using the 18.1 beta for a month now and Siri is noticable better at recognizing your speech and working around less explicit requests e.g. "set a timer for 15 minutes... uh make that 10"
Writing is a relatively recent add-on in human history so I was making a point distinguishing the difficulty of the two. There isn't really anything contradictory there. I did this because some people have the idea that the language itself is easier rather than just the writing system.

You are thinking of writing as part of Language difficulty which is fair(I mean it is in a practical sense and I don't disagree) but it doesn't make as much of a dent as you might think compared to difficulty of everything else.

According to the FSI who tracks the number of class hours it takes their diplomats to reach sufficient mastery, Korean and Arabic are still Category IV Languages for native English speakers (along with Japanese, Chinese) despite having a much easier writing system than those two.
Do you think there is a chance that they will remove the huge bottom bezel one day?

It may be part of the iMac design identity at this point, but I don’t like it since its appearance on the iMac G5.
Graduated two months ago and still looking for something. Maybe 150 application in the last 6 months.
Thanks, I appreciate you trying to help but I was already aware of those tips and they don't help. Either the accuracy is still bad, or going through the extra steps takes so long that it's faster to just do everything myself. Maybe the next version will be better.

I am not dealing with code or code reviews but rather complex written specifications where understanding what's going on requires integrating multiple sources.
Yeah those 5K panels are fantastic.

When I switched to a MBP M2 I got an Asus ProArt 32'' 4K and really like it. Comes precalibrated out of the box.
Don’t worry, synthetic life doesn’t work very well without evolution to tune it into a useful ecological niche. Venter already did something similar.

Tampering with existing viruses and symbionts so they can escape their current minima in the fitness landscape is the more dangerous thing.
> maybe you have the compiler running all the time ... looking for new optimizations

Anyone know if there was ever a retrospective on https://github.com/webyrd/Barliman ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_point_theory
Sorry to hijack this thread a bit, but I currently work at a Scala shop and have grown to like writing it. I worked at Clojure heavy place previously. This tool looks neat.

Has anyone at the senior level recently moved on from Scala to other languages recently? Any issue finding jobs or learning the new role?
This is great news. There are PC's that come preloaded with this malware [1] on Amazon, yet another reason to blow away the pre-installed OS and burn the image with Rufus to disable the hardware checks and Microsoft account requirements [2]. Even if the vendor has cleaned up their act, there are still loads of these machines in the Amazon warehouse.

[1] - https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/29/acemagic_chinese_pc_m...

[2] - https://rufus.ie/pics/screenshot4_en.png
What makes vscode good is its users contributed extensions. Without them it's as good as notepad.
Vscodium for me it is.
The ram is on the package for more than portability. It’s necessary for fast enough transfer speeds for the iGPU.
US Ag needs to figure out how to go from low productivity to high productivity regardless. The world is rapidly aging, the total fertility rate is declining globally (Mexico's fertility rate is below that of the US', for example, and even they are running out of farm hands), and it is unlikely we outsource production of the necessary produce to India and Africa (the youthful, developing parts of the world that remain).

Certainly, farmers will complain they no longer get a cheap labor discount, this is a common refrain in any industry where their labor costs are no longer discounted due to structural demographics. The desire to pay humans the least possible for their labor is universal. Automate or die, those are your choices. If there is a need for subsidies, cost of capital assistance, whatever, we can do that; capital is a fiction, labor is real.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor/

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/agriculture/our-insights...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/23/mexico-farmw... | https://archive.today/8rmWI
Yup, for years. It feels exactly the same as a MacBook track pad and lets you use all the same gestures. I like it better than a mouse for my work machine.
I think this 43" screen is amazing for coding. Lots of vertical and horizontal space!

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-43-4k-usb-c-...
Clickbait is the tradition that made the “how” and “why” so standard that we’re having a discussion prompted by its feeling necessary when it isn’t, because that’s the pattern headlines must have now… popularized by clickbait.

The clickbaitiest application of the pattern prepends a “how” or “why” and accompanies and article that doesn’t actually address the how or why, which is why they’re clickbait titles. This one at least arguably does address it, sort-of, even if that’s not quite its main focus.
For something that's literally designed to sit on a desk, yes... it's ridiculous to make it thinner in a dimension you never see vs one that you see all the time.
Yeah I'm a huge fan of Apple hardware and even I can't handle this. The different in price between 8GB and 16GB for the M3 Air was like $500 at Costco. My air from 2016 came with 8GB.
Quick side-note. Thank you for freesolitaire.win. It's such a beautiful implementation of solitaire. Works so well as a PWA, I can enjoy it even without proper internet connection, it's simple, does the basics, but does it perfectly. There's nothing to add to it, but more importantly... nothing to take out. I wish more software was written like this.

I've donated already, but I use it so much I'll donate again.
I know it would be political suicide, but I do believe that we could still have a very good medical system if the level of education we demand of doctors was reserved for surgeons and leadership and the front-line work of GP-style treatment was 100% left to people who were qualified by a normal nurse-style process of undergrad + apprenticeship + test.
Also, even if we are focusing purely on visuals, it is interesting that they didn't discuss the effect of these buildings becoming darker over time as the ornate details are hard to keep clean, which was exasperated by air pollution. I imagine a bright white marble building would have looked much more "heavenly and transcendent".
Another interesting one is LowRes NX, a contemporary project that uses BASIC: https://lowresnx.inutilis.com/
> That's a ridiculously low minimum and only just barely adequate.

What are you doing? I'm still doing web development with Chrome, JetBrains, and Docker on a 16GB M1 Pro and it isn't a problem. For the average Chrome-using citizen, 16GB should be fine.
Interesting to roll out the M4 with the low end machine
TIL it went that long without a refresh.
They're trying to get current M1 users to upgrade.
Worst MS feature ever. On-demand password breaches.
Visualize Your SHA-256
Hello hackers, I made this app of what happens behind SHA-256 algorithm, and some cool graphs.
A vulnerability illustrated here is that of packages having global state which is both security-critical and world-mutable. Such a vulnerability exists in the standard library, most notably (crypto/rand).Reader which is usually fed by the system CSPRNG but can be overwritten to any io.Reader value. There has been some discussion around different ways to address this issue, but fixing it has generally been rejected by the language maintainers,
e.g. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42713, with the argument that fixing it directly just provides an illusion of security.
This is such a strange argument. You want to copy and paste code 10 times rather than making a function, because if the requirements change and if the person assigned to fix it is a moron, then it might prevent the moron from choosing one specific way of making a mess?

You can't prevent future morons from doing moronic stuff in the future. They'll just find another moronic thing to do.
Exercise and work up an appetite.
Been using it for 10 years. It's my favorite mouse to use. Scrolling and tap gesture is the main reason I prefer it. I also like touching glass/aluminum over plastic.
Amazing! I went through the same but opting to implement the console itself on the ESP32[0]. It ended up being a bit too much and it's mostly shelved now

Good luck!

[0]: https://github.com/davidventura/picopico
Probably because most iMac owners are still on M1.
I actually think it makes sense to advertise this way.

Most people I know who bought an M1 (myself included) are still rocking the M1.

People who’ve purchased M2/M3 machines are less likely to be jumping on an M4.

Comparing to an M1 tells the most likely customer exactly what they need to know.
Clearly you know what work I do better than I know do.
Yep, this is precisely the problem I had with Milewski. It would have been nice if he included examples and definitions in a standard format.
And I'm sure in your mind you or those you approve of will be the ones to define what is "hate speech"?

Freedom of speech absolutely does mean not being prosecuted for your speech.