skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried eM Client for last week.. and, nope. Not my thing.
- Cannot select which email to look at "next" after a delete
- Does not display number of item in the current mailbox (like Postbox did)
- Lack of a Unified set of folders.
- Unclear what mailbox any given item is in. Cannot really figure this out, when looking at search results, for example. Just not clear
- It looks like a tool written for Windows, ported to Mac. There is a reason I switch to Mac, that's just one of them.
- I could not figure out how to control where 'sent' emails go.. I'm picky
- Cannot 'group' email accounts.

I mean, it isn't "Horrible", but I'm not feeling it. I'll continue to use Postbox for now, and be searching for an alternative. I already have a paid copy of Spark -- but never really loved that either (but there is a Phone app..)

The search shall go on.
There’s a lot of IF like Eat Me or Midnight Swordfight which really lean on excellent writing, black comedy and wordplay. LLMs are still largely terrible at humour. Anything by Chandler Groover is recommended:

https://ifdb.org/search?searchfor=author%3AChandler+Groover

Someone else mentioned Emily Short and there are also fantastically written games like Sunless Seas/Skies.
Author here. The benchmarking tool I used for measuring response size was vegeta, which ignores HTTP headers in its measurements. I believe the difference in size is indeed in the QR code images themselves.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAUNT
True, but the hamburger conversion is the VM to machine code.
Whatever comes out of this kerfuffle, the based dial will be set to 11.

It’s unfortunate that we can’t monetize this stuff in the same vein as crypto and ChatGPT because I’d love to hear YouTube grifters telling you how you can make money overnight from quarks and neutrinos.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41967120
> I'd rather deal with a teen pregnancy epidemic than the current situation of rising authoritarianism, isolationism, and reactionary turn that we are seeing from the youth of today.

You mean the male youth of today.
The article you linked does not include any content related to the title you gave here, and looks AI-generated to me.
Fat margins on licensing Lighting accessories were good for Apple.
What cultural difference causes this?
> Kind of how spinning an object doesn't cause a centrifugal force, the real force is whatever forces it to stay on a circular path instead of continuing straight

Let's say the Moon is in a circular orbit around the Earth (close enough), what's the real force that's forcing it to stay on that path? If it's not gravity, what is it?
>if legal marijuana is priced low enough to make black market dealers less common,

It never is. The overhead from running a lawful business is way higher even before you start accounting for all the weed specific cost of compliance stuff.
in my work, inventory of raw material (computer system, scanner, printer, computer screen) is still done using paper so i'm building this android studio app that uses OCR and sends text to the server that will write it on excel sheet.

the data I want: model, serie, inventory id, type

so I have limited the text output extracted from the image to 4 lines and started each line by the necessary property e.g
model: HP prodesk 3000 MT
serie: XCQOUNF24
inventory id: to be added manually
type: to be choose manually (printer, screen, computer ... )
> When you study the old AI programming you eventually realize that non-determinism rules and recursion drools.

This part I agree with.
People have crazy long memories to consider this as happening "again," seeing as the lightning connector has been around for 12 years.

Who are the folks that only have one device, anyway? Surely almost everyone who owns a smartphone has at least one USB-C cable kicking around for something else?
Ah we were typing at the same time but strong agree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974935
I would have no idea where to even begin with such a projet.

Please do write about it.
Before LLMs, the cost to generate spam content was non-zero. Now, it's effectively zero. These infinite supplies of AI Slop should be handled differently and more aggressively that legacy spam.
It's great to see continuing innovation in the Java space!

One tool I've been using to speed up maven is mvnd, the maven daemon. It's a drop in replacement for mvn with impressive speedups.

https://github.com/apache/maven-mvnd
We are in agreement about the bottom line. Again, the poster did not claim they paid out of pocket for any of this work. The experience of whether they're seeing estimated values (even if not paid) seems to vary by customer.
I suspect relatively few Blackwell DGX GB200 servers will become e-waste in the near future. Look how much an A100 goes for on eBay today. Even if/when the AI bubble bursts there will be buyers for this stuff for years to come. I do suspect people will break it down to smaller components at some point as relatively few people are happy about running a 200kw rack. If these do end up as waste in the next decade I'll be diving into the skip to retrieve them.
13 inch Air is small enough. Get yourself an iPad if it's still big for you ffs
On linux? What drivers are you using?

It's been pretty widely supported that the "HDMI Forum" (licensing body) has blocked AMD from supporting HDMI 2.1 (necessary for 8k 60hz over hdmi) in their open source linux drivers - which I thought was the only set of drivers available. For example: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no...
## Clarification

Can you clarify what do you mean by:

> You would think someone would make a really great library to create AI Agents using Raku.

Maybe, you mean using Raku to make:

1. Standalone, web based LLM agents
2. Plug-ins for ChatGPT (or other LLM providers)
3. LLM Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) functionalities, or services, or objects

LLM RAG (point 3) is supported in Raku, see: "Raku RAG demo", https://youtu.be/JHO2Wk1b-Og .

Points 1 and 2 should be Raku-addressed sooner or later, but Raku provides nice alternatives to them. (See below.)

## LLMs at your fingertips

I would say, with the Raku LLM packages one can create "AI agents" on the spot:

- Programmatic ways to configure and execute LLM functions and chat objects.
- Using easy to compose LLM functions and easy to access prompts.

- Via Jupyter based notebooks with LLM-ready magic cells, aka "chatbooks."

In one chatbook multiple, global chats can be held with multiple LLM personas.

Also, each of the LLM-service access packages provides a Command Line Interface (CLI) script. That is another quick, "on the spot" type of access to AI.

## References

Please see these Raku LLM packages: https://raku.land/?q=LLM
One of my 1000 unfinished projects was a e-reader app for android that generates coloring book pages, or illustrations for young kids who are in that weird age group where there are no more pictures in their books, but they still enjoy illustrations. I have a gifted niece who is way ahead for her age at reading but still enjoys pictures/coloring so I planned on making it for year. Don't know if I'll have the chance to finish, but I'm sure Kindle will integrate this into their new color kindles (and probably every other e-reader) at some point.
I like the magic mouse, and I care that I can't charge it while using it. I also care that I have to activate bluetooth in order to use it, even if it's plugged in. Same with the keyboard. WTFF.
Its baffling how they can reconstruct such an ancient event that happened so far away.
> Alcohol and other drug use

Seems like a small thing but it's really not: I appreciate your use of "alcohol and other drugs"; the phrase you'll hear 99% of the time is "drugs and alcohol", where alcohol tries to avoid being lotted in with people using drugs they don't like.

Do you know many people prone to beating their wives after smoking a joint? Yeah, nevermind any of that I guess. Meanwhile, Singapore will gladly imprison or execute you for possession of cannabis[0], but as usual alcohol gets a free pass. Absolute lunacy, complete lack of logical thinking capacity.

From my German point of view, our nation has plenty of energy to protest what's going on in Haiti or Syria etc, and while I'm not saying those issues aren't important, I want to draw attention to how Singapore in particular somehow gets a pass for literal state-sponsored murder for smoking a joint instead of drinking a beer. It's absolutely no mystery why this exception exists: Singapore is rich.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx251p55le8o
Curses by Graham Nelson

https://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifarchive.org%2F...
Weed is uniquely fun to do by yourself. It's the ultimate drug for zoning out on the computer and playing video games with. Weed is the perfect drugs for "incelish" lonely teenager who sit at home all day - an increasingly large percentage of the youth.

Alcohol is not like this at all.
You've described Rust's niche circumspectly: Systems, which have strict requirements and are fragile minefields.

The performance benefits of Rust were supposed to be a non-penalty: "Look, you can please please use this where you'd use C or C++ I promise it won't impact your performance!" Performance and GC overhead was the rejection de jure of every other C replacement.

But here we are: All friends are javascript front-enders-turned-backenders and are wondering if they should pick up Rust. It fits into a pattern of "new shiny" but it's good, don't get me wrong, if everyone experiences compiled languages and starts writing their headless code in sensible languages.

Repeating myself, but I'm just wondering why not Go? Why now?
Anecdotally, I prefer telemedicine for my PCP other than yearly physicals. I can usually get an appointment in the same week, often same day if I am willing to go to another provider in a different nearby office.

YMMV I guess.
oh that might be it, two words, they went all out in the final version!

edit: no, I must have embellished it in my mind: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2832
Behind what? Windows chatgpt interface? Apple has been quietly adding AI features, sometimes with no equal. For example, having OCR being built in everywhere in the OS is amazing. I've used it many times already, but it's a quiet seamless addition so I guess people don't notice.

Their photos improvements are pretty solid, bringing closer to par with Google photos. Their translation and voice recognition/dictation are state of the art. Their photo processing is equal or better than Googles. Not really seeing where they are "so behind" to be honest.
> Apple is only "green" in their presentations - in reality they care more about inifite sales only.

needs citation. I say this as someone who worked several years in engineering at Apple, and they were extremely environmentally conscientious years before it was a thing.
> This isn't the First Amendment, since it's just a ban based on identity instead of posting content.

This is not why the First Amendment does not apply. The First Amendment does not apply to private entities. It restricts the government…

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

At least from a First Amendment standpoint, Reddit can do what it feels like to establish a religion, ban all religious discussion, tell reporters to go to hell, start a news feed, etc. There are other laws they do need to deal with of course.

More commentary on this here:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/first-amendment-expl...
I would agree with you if there was a way to ensure feedback isn't interpreted as a personal attack or a shortcoming.

So, this assumes you can separate feedback from motivation too. Authentic praise (as opposed to generic praise) is more effective in the long run because it reinforces motivation and allows time, experience, and in ideal situations, achievable high standards to take care of negative feedback.
This sounds like bidirectional search + rainbow tables
I think the author is right that harms caused by incorrect content aren't—and shouldn't be—the fault of section 230, and are instead the fault of the original producers of the content.

I think the author is wrong in claiming that modern attention-optimizing recommendation algorithms are better than more primitive, poorer recommendation algorithms. Appearing to be more engaging/addictive does not imply more value. It's a measurement problem.
The complaint seems to be that Freaknomics and related Podcasts, which are created for the sake of entertainment, are not the peer-reviewed journals he wishes they were.
Not sure if you're kidding, but around 2014 on campus we all got reusable water bottles, and I still of course have mine, as they're useful (and less wasteful).
Thanks for clarifying, and especially for not being snarky!

I think I was thrown off by your use of the term "inside," vs other terms like "on" or "part of," which led me to believe you were asking about the memory being part of the SoC proper. If that's not what you meant, I apologize.

The memory consists of standard DDR4/5 memory chips, soldered on a PCB, directly next to the M-series SoC. So my point was that while it is likely faster than any memory you could get on a standard consumer PC, it's not in any way special (read: more expensive) for Apple to source or assemble.

Side point: I don't think it's necessarily fair to compare most Macs to consumer PC hardware, given the price differentials involved.
Mostly because most spam isn't going to be reported. Traditional anti-spam works because once you have a handful of reports, you can probably generalize it to an entire class of spammy pages generated using a particular technique, and get rid of everything.

LLM-generated content is not distinguishable from human content by any simple rule, so you lose the ability to police the platform that way.
The fastest code in the article has an average latency of 14 ms, benchmarking against localhost. On my computer, "ping localhost" has an average latency of 20 µs. I don't have a lot of experience writing network services, but those numbers sound CPU bound to me.
Techdirt's coverage of section 230 has been pretty consistent from before bluesky existed.
Also inextricably human tasks like reading spam messages, scam messages, marketing messages, overly verbose work emails, enjoy that!
Nunquam by Lawrence Durrell. Not generally heard of because you have to read Tunc first which is not science fiction. Both are great and stylistic masterpieces. Numquam is my favorite robot book along with Caves of Steel.
The whole community and ecosystem is full of shady dishonest businesses and practices it seems. Besides all the recent drama as an end user and plugin buyer I have had to ask for 2 separate refunds from major plugins for shady dark pattern re-bills or secret upsells. I used to not consider myself a mark but maybe I am 42 now so I am starting to miss the real opt out buttons (4 pages deep below the fold). Anyways I don't like being in any ecosystem that is full of this stuff and not worth my time to manage all of it.
tbh Medium was slop long before AI slop
Why should it be one of them? It's either spam or not a problem beyond “I find it distasteful.”
It varies from state to state, but legal prices are comparable to black market prices in a lot of places. And the selection available in legal markets is beyond compare.
You're thinking of HDCP, not HDMI. HDMI recorders exist (Elgato built an entire brand off selling them for console game streaming) but they are not allowed to speak HDCP because gestures vaguely at DMCA 1201.

In the specific case of the iMac:

- USB-C video outputs are all either DisplayPort[0]. HDMI Forum was promoting an HDMI USB-C altmode but it was never implemented. USB-C HDMI adapters are all DisplayPort adapters that additionally tunnel DVI traffic (because HDMI 1.x is actually single-link DVI with a funny connector and extra bits).

- Apple used to support Target Display Mode for video input until the Retina iMac a decade ago. They dropped Target Display Mode because their 5K display panels were using eight lanes of DisplayPort, a configuration that doesn't exist[1] outside of Apple's custom display controllers. Every other 5K display (and even some 4K ones) were instead using multiple cables, with some extra (poorly-supported) metadata to tell the graphics card to treat both halves of the display as one.

Why Apple hasn't brought TDM back now that we have enough bandwidth for 4.5K over standard cables is beyond me.

[0] Or MyDP, aka "the funny Nintendo Switch altmode"

[1] Think of it like a "32-lane PCIe port". It's technically possible but no host or device silicon supports a link that wide.
Better than what, is the question.

Where people stand on this question ultimately lies in whether they trust what Apple says. For example, Gatekeeper / OCSP, the service mentioned in the GP. Apple says the following:

> Gatekeeper performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer’s signing certificate is revoked. We have never combined data from these checks with information about Apple users or their devices. We do not use data from these checks to learn what individual users are using on their devices.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102445

That's either true or it isn't. If it's true, then the GP comment is wrong about "Hey Siri who is using Tor", if it's not true, they are correct. Blocking the service using a hosts file works, and does not prevent applications from opening, a case can be made that this should be even easier with a system preferences setting, but we come back to the same question: if you trust what Apple says about the service, making it easy to disable (and blocking a DNS entry is not especially difficult) would be foolish, because the threat landscape does include malware, and does not include Apple sharing information (they claim that) they don't have, about what programs users open.

If Apple is lying, or one thinks Apple is lying, then the problems do not end with Gatekeeper. They could be logging every key I type, faking E2EE through some clever obfuscated code, and so on. Blocking the OSCP server will do nothing, they can exfiltrate anything they want from an operating system which they alone control.

I happen to believe Apple's privacy claims are honest. This is based on a couple of things: primarily, privacy is a valuable (to them) and emphasized part of their brand, and any discovered breach of trust would be hugely detrimental to their bottom line. Also, there's a dog which didn't bark, in the form of an absence of whistleblowers reporting on how Apple's privacy claims are bullshit and they actually pwn everything.

TL;DR there are OSes which claim to offer more privacy than Apple, but now you're trusting ~everyone who has contributed software to those operating systems instead. I also happen to think that e.g. Qubes and Tails do improve on privacy over the macOS etc. baseline, but I can't prove that, anymore than I can demonstrate that Apple isn't lying.

It is physically impossible to audit all the code we run personally. It just can't be done. So trust is a non-optional component of making decisions about privacy and security. It will always be thus.
How does feeling psychologically safe work when the boss is quick to fire "underperformers"?

That's totally a real question because I have trouble imagining this.

Is it the kind of situation where everyone involved, including the person in question, knows they're not up to the task?
AI Overviews in Search are coming to more places around the world
Yeah, I know a bunch more of my times table from memory today than I did when I was tested on it forty years ago. But I passed all those tests because of course all you need is know that multiplication is repeated addition and do the addition fast.

Today I can tell you that 7 x 7 = 49 but back then I'd have just gone 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49 quickly and said "49" for the same answer but a slight delay.

Parents who were taught times tables and didn't do much later mathematics are often confused by the way we teach kids today, because they expect we'd try to cram the tables in there, but that's not actually useful, what's useful is seeing the pattern and we'd prefer a child who maybe doesn't know off by heart what 9x8 is but sees the pattern, and whose first question when the teacher finally explains exponentiation and shows how it relates to multiplication, is, "Does this keep going forever?" which yes, it does, there are more hyperoperations and they do keep going like this forever. That child understood the pattern, 9x8 is a problem a calculator can solve, understanding the pattern is something else.
I mean maybe. They probably are doing everything they can do maximize their own budgets, but not so hard that they might expose themselves to more oversight or regulation which means the no real change to how the system operates.
I really like Hadean Lands

https://store.steampowered.com/app/376240/Hadean_Lands/

You are an alchemist whose spacecraft crashed at a nexus between worlds. You need to discover and perform alchemical rituals to explore and try to escape.

It has some great quality of life features, such as allowing you to re-perform any ritual you have successfully completed in a single command, and allowing you to recall any significant information you have deduced.

On top of this, some great writing and a very strange atmosphere.
I have a Sony 43" 4K and would love a 55" 8K. I think that would be the perfect. I'm really disappointed there's no current option. I'm waiting. Everyone says 8K isn't worth it for movies especially at 55", but I don't want it for movies! It would make my computer "desktop" as big as my physical desktop. I seriously considered the QN700B. I wasn't sure if it would do 60Hz 4:4:4 and wasn't quite ready to buy a new Mac (my current Mac can't do 8K).
I still have my fingers crossed that one day someone will build an electric drivetrain for a very common engine design (akin to how people put bigger engines from bolt compatible vehicles into smaller ones so they go faster), and for iconic vehicles so that we can keep them on the road. There are plenty of collectible cars out there that already lack matching serial numbers. Swapping the engine on those is no great sin against history.
The argument isn't that the more complicated spelling is unlearnable, but that it could be much easier to learn.

And yes, this is also 100% applicable to English.
The ridiculous amount of warning time and the ridiculously quick time to get an entire days charge are good design.
one of the saddest parts of the whole thing is finding out how many fucking arseholes out there have been waiting to flood the internet with crap, and had previously only failed because they were too lazy to do all that typing.

just absolutely embarrassing for us all.