skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically it's the same thing but with M4 and more RAM at the baseline. I suppose Apple would like us to be gratefull for that.
Yet since it comes with only 256Gb storage standard, the minimum viable model is just under 2k euros with still a paltry 512Gb storage. That just crazy.

Considering there are report of the first generation having problem with the display (most likely because of heat generation) it's even more problematic because you can't expect it to last that long.
And since M4 output a lot more heat, how much this thing is going to throttle and how much faster it's going to create display problem ?

No large iMac of course, that would be too cost effective compared to the eggregeriously priced Studio Display. Not that you would want one with this terrible design.

It is really a testament of modern Apple : form over function, in the name of design.

Yet this design is really not good, dumb white bezel, external PSU, annoyingly placed ports (only USB4 anyway).
Basically you need a USB4 dock and an external drive to make this worthwhile, completly rendering moot the point of an all-in-one. If you are going to having cable galore, why even bother with this form factor.

In the end this thing is mostly a showroom computer or a luxury information appliance.
For someone who just want a simple information appliance the price doesn't make a lot of sense, you can get something that works at half the price, the display won't be as good but it really doesn't matter that much.
The display has this resolution because Apple has chosen the eazy for resolution scaling in order for them to claim to be first and "perfect".

It really is a display of modern Apple: beautiful hardware but extremely impractical and absurd pricing.
I guess they want to push for the Mini/Studio + studio display for workstation use cases but the pricing is just nuts.
It does happen, but not always.

For example, food got cheaper and consumption has increased to the extent that obesity is a major problem, but this is much less than you might conclude from the degree to which productivity has increased per farmer.

For image generation, the energy needed to create an image is rapidly approaching the energy cost of a human noticing that they've seen an image — once it gets cheap enough (and good enough) to have it replace game rendering engines, we can't really spend meaningfully more on it.

(Probably. By that point they may be good enough to be trainers for other AI, or we might not need any better AI — impossible to know at this point).

For text generation, difficult to tell because e.g. source code and legal code have a lot of text.
The languagemodels[1] package that I maintain might meet your needs.

My primary use case is education, as myself and others use this for short student projects[2] related to LLMs, but there's nothing preventing this package from being used in other ways. It includes a basic in-process vector store[3].

[1] https://github.com/jncraton/languagemodels

[2] https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=773418755

[3] https://github.com/jncraton/languagemodels?tab=readme-ov-fil...
Great post. There are lots of nostalgic game references here. I still remember being blown away by the shadows in the N64 Zelda many years ago.

I expect area lights and soft shadows to become the norm as ray-traced techniques are adopted. If you have the hardware, it's worth checking out Quake 2 RTX to see what the future might look like.

Lastly, I've added your blog to my growing list of graphics resources: https://github.com/aaron9000/c-game-resources
What would be your recommendation for best parsing? I've found Omnivore really reliable, definitely much better than Readwise Reader (which can't even show Youtube videos in article afaik)
I can think of several other approaches. Duty, honour, artificial incentives, constructive competition… People do work together without being forced to, you know.
Yeah, it is down for all my websites on different location.
It seems like a major outage!
unborn vs born

Maybe the EPA is playing realpolitik here. Fetuses get way more consideration from conservatives, so maybe, after getting shut down a lot recently from the conservative courts, they think this will be more likely to stand if the concern is over a fetus and not a living baby.

Obligatory George Carlin clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZdRMBTF-hQ
That's a fair point, but I think the fallacy here is that choosing a less-performant stack means it's easier/faster to deliver features. I don't think that's necessarily true.

When Facebook started PHP was a good choice. These days though you'd probably be better off going for Springboot or .NET. These are more performant and much more "batteries included". I would say the same thing goes for Node.

Node.js is... usable. It's certainly not nice to write JS on the backend and you need a LOT of libraries to make it work. Then the problem is they don't all interop perfectly together and you won't have great tooling. I think most people, even startups, would be better off going with a backend framework with good tooling. If you're able to do a bunch of codegen + you have all the batteries, I would imagine developer velocity would be faster.
Change Healthcare Breach Hits 100M Americans
Does this seriously need to be a first-page discussion topic on Hacker News every single day from now until eternity? Can this just become a pinned thread or part of an FAQ or Wiki or something?

I say this facetiously knowing Hacker News doesn't have those features, but what do these posts hope to achieve that hasn't already been achieved?

We'll see some variety of:

- Isn't it all just because of weight loss? Well, read the damn article because the author sure claims at least some effects don't seem to be because of weight loss.

- Isn't it all just because of eating less in general being good for you? If you're overweight, sure. If you're weight stable, seemingly you can't just eat less or you'll eventually starve to death.

- I'm worried about the long-term side effects we don't know about. Well, GLP-1 agonists have been approved for human use as a diabetes treatment for 20 years, so at what point are you expecting these to show up?

- Isn't this an amphetamine? No, it isn't.

- Isn't this addictive? No, it isn't.

- What about all the horrible side effects? The side effect profile for these drugs are among the most mild of all regular use drugs you can take. The few severe effects are incredibly rare and the most common issues with nausea are heavily dose-dependent and tend to go away after a while.

- Don't you need to increase the dose forever? No, you don't. The Ozempic is pretty low and stays low. The Wegovy dose is much higher but still capped, and if you see increasing dosages, it's because of titration to find the needed amount without overwhelming you all at once and taking more than you need.

- Why didn't the body just evolve this itself? The human body, all mammal bodies, and possibly other animals do in fact produce GLP-1. It isn't very long-lasting in serum, though, so medical researchers figured out how to make an analog that won't break down in minutes. That's all these drugs are, something your body already makes but a longer lasting version. GLP-1 is, in fact, secreted in response to eating, and is one of the signals the body produces telling you to stop eating when you've had enough. This mechanism seems to be broken for one reason or another in many people, and those people end up obese. Increasing the level exogeneously seems to help, as you might expect.

Is there anything else that is going to come up? Because it sure feels like the exact same back and forth, every single day.
would love to hear more on the architecture choices you made.

do your models run on device? what's the general CV backbone?
Steam turbines are very good at what they do, so I don't think that's the problem. Turbines are well understood technology so they're they're the major impediment to economic viability then everything else must be working amazing.

I do think economic viability will be a major problem though. The fusion hype crowd focus on Q>1 being their major milestone but that's still a long way away from it being profitable to operate a fusion plant.
Same reason I don’t like FSD even though as an engineer it’s cool technology: I enjoy driving.

It’s like cooking your own meal versus going to a restaurant. I enjoy cooking a lot.
No.

D + T or D + D fusion reaction produces neutrons and hard gamma radiation. The special glass cannot capture the energy of these directly.

The natural fusion reactor has a blanket that is literally thousands of kilometers thick. It effectively converts much of this into longer-wavelength electromagnetic radiation, from ultraviolet to infrared, with quite some visible light. That's what the special glass can make use of.

Also, the highly radioactive blanket is kept hundreds of millions km away from consumers, which helps alleviate the problem of disposing of radioactive waste. With a planet-based fusion reactor, we'd have to think where to put thousands and thousands of tons of slightly radioactive concrete which would realistically serve as a blanket.
If a computer/browser is so old it can't support WebP, it probably also can't support modern HTTPS/TLS requirements. How do they even check out?
China was very autocratic and it was a disaster. Not just poverty but mass starvation. Then it loosened up and the strength of its people brought it back up. Xi is more autocratic and he hasn't been in charge long. It would be hard to destroy it overnight but right now it looks like he is beginning to bring it down.
I followed that guide (it is excellent, if a little outdated) to get really good results. I should really write up and share my experiences, there is so much to learn.

In brief:

* It's an excellent method of producing very precise parts with fantastic mechanical properties (the next step up is aluminum, but you don't need it in most cases).

* It is much more difficult than just throwing something at a 3d printer.

* It is not comparable with 3d printing at all. I use both methods: FDM printing for most stuff, resin casting for parts that need to be strong, dimensionally precise, or nice.

* Yes, you can use your resin printer to produce originals or master molds, but you will have two problems: 1) precision, 2) silicone cure inhibition.

* Tips for those in the EU: Sika Biresin F50 is fantastic, Rencast 5146 is slightly worse (higher viscosity), but works very well, too. Both are relatively easily available. For silicones, BLUESIL RTV 3450 is unbeatable.

* For desktop CNC machines, there are good options now: Makera Carvera (either the full model or the "Air" scaled down version) are really nice and precise machines. Software is crappy, but hopefully will get better. I had a Nomad 3, but switched to Carvera.

* Don't buy a cheap CNC. There is simply no way to produce a desktop CNC with good precision for less than, say USD $2000. You will be disappointed. Perhaps if one day a Bambu Lab arrives with experienced engineers and a lot of money, they could mass-produce something cheaper, but right now this is roughly the cutoff.

* Autodesk Fusion, much as I hate it and the company behind it, is pretty much the only game in town if you want integrated CAD+CAM. Again, I hate the software with a passion, but there is simply nothing else that is as well integrated, works well, and is reasonably priced.

* Achievable precision: ±20μm is doable with a little care, things get difficult below that. This is roughly 10x better than what you can get from FDM 3d printing. Note also that this is the limit of what most people can measure: your calipers have an error of ±20μm if they are good. I also noticed that the 3d-printing crowd often has no idea what precision means, so you'll see crazy numbers thrown around.

* Mechanical properties of produced parts are way better than what you can get from FDM printing. I laugh at those "strong filament with carbon fiber" youtube videos.
> I wish there was a frame in the comic about that, rather than the irrelevant detail that the first followers of Ned Ludd were white males

uh, that's not a frame or detail in the comic you weirdo.
No issues with space flight or falcon heavy specifically. My gripe is with oil and large interests campaigning against my "personal carbon footprint" while themselves polluting more than any of us can comprehend
Part of the perceived value is the difficulty in finding it in nature.
What Making News in the AI
More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI

Google says its next-gen AI agents won’t launch until 2025 at the earliest

OpenAI reportedly planning to build its first AI chip in 2026

Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly trying to raise billions more

ElevenLabs has hired the team behind Omnivore, a reader app
USearch has had GoLang bindings for a long time, but it's more low-level and you'd have to use something else for embeddings: https://github.com/unum-cloud/usearch/tree/main/golang
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I have the Carvera (not Air) and it's a very good machine mechanically, the software leaves a lot to be desired.

It isn't even close to being the Bambu Lab of the CNC world, unfortunately, but I'd say only because of the software. If they open-source their controller, things might improve quickly.
this is some Elon Musk level of maturity!
Ctrl + F "antibiotics", Ctrl + F "penicillin" ... seriously?
The package was lost in the mail? Or did he not actually finish the computer on time and this was a dog ate the homework type excuse? Depends on the degree to which he was a hustler I guess.
Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
> while revenue growth slid to the low single digits.

looks like they edited the article to mke more sense
How is the latency of calling purego bindings vs cgo? The latter seems prohibitively expensive for most of my projects.
Obviously he is taking the responsibility and delegates it to 1/5 of his underlings.

Given how efficiently this was executed, I think he deserves a raise.
> Optimizer can also specialize functions and programmers can do too

Yes, but not if you pass in void *. For libraries this matters. If you're both writing the producer and consumer then sure, you can do it manually.

> code bloat caused by monomorphization

This is true and a real problem, but I would argue in most scenarios extra codegen will be more performant than dynamic allocation + redirection. Because that's the alternative, like how swift or C# or Java do it.
Let me guess, you're in the US along one of the hardcoded routes?
But they're not arbitrarily-selected people: they're network administrators. Somebody spoofing IP addresses to the point of abuse reports is practically a personal insult to some of them. (Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/705/)
The great thing about Australia/Eucla is that it’s not officially gazetted, and yet there are road signs informing travellers about it. I love that people just do it and everyone goes along
While it's true that the "state" of a future is only mutated in the poll() implementation, it's up to the author of the future implementation to clone/send/call the Waker provided in the context argument to signal to the executor that poll() should be called again by the executor, which I believe is how one should handle this case.
The most likely successor would be:

https://shapeokoenthusiasts.gitbook.io/shapeoko-cnc-a-to-z

(ob. discl., I work for Carbide 3D)
Why not? My ChatGPT to google usage is easily 10 to 1 at this point. How long will it be until everyone is basically doing the same thing as I am?
It's strange how Retina-level PPI has mostly been ignored by the market. There are some options, but not a lot, and certainly not much competition. Would like to upgrade from my 1440p 144hz Nixeus IPS display for awhile, but haven't found much.

I'd be willing to give up >60hz refresh rates, which pulls in the Apple Studio Display, but it also only has one port, which means I'd be giving up my gaming PC. That was mostly on the way out anyway, but it's currently a psychological blocker.

Has monitor tech stagnated, or is this another case of the tyranny of the majority (less-than-Retina PPI) crowding out everything else?
Interesting, how would this be used as propaganda inside Russia?
sure, if you forget about ether anesthesia, penicillin, synthetic insulin, progestin/estrogen, AZT, SSRIs, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, statins, corticosteroids .....
I had to lookup "jarrah". Ref: https://www.wood-database.com/jarrah/

Is this available outside of Australia? Your suggestion seems oddly specific.
'Sickening' Molly Russell Chatbots Found on Character.ai
Launch HN: FlyCode (YC S22) – Stop losing revenue due to failed payments
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In previous roles, we led payments teams at enterprises and startups, where we built payment recovery processes and optimized billing systems. We experienced firsthand how challenging it is to recover failed payments efficiently.

Many teams we’ve spoken to view failed payments as an unsolvable black box — a cost of doing business. But when a payment fails, it doesn’t just cost immediate revenue; it significantly impacts the customer’s lifetime value (LTV) and customer experience.

Teams are trying to handle it by (1) relying on the basic recovery of their payment provider (like Stripe basic smart recovery); (2) brute forcing or fixed-interval retry strategies, a legacy approach that ultimately reduces retry success rates and increases customer churn (3) sending too many or too few emails to customers (contact your bank..).

One of the biggest challenges is that payment providers, issuing banks, and card networks classify errors into different categories and have their own risk rules, which adds complexity and leads to many errors getting bucketed together, such as ‘Do not honor’.

To address this problem, we built decisioning models that take into account 100’s of datapoints, such as customer and payment metadata as well as internal classifiers of error codes and messages. The models determine the optimal time to retry a payment with current or backup payment methods and when to communicate with a customer. Our communications product coordinates transactional emails/sms with retries ensuring sent at an ideal local time and in the local language. With FlyCode you can recover more payments with (1) fewer payment retries (2) faster average days to recovery (3) less customer communications (4) compliant with the Card networks rules [we partnered with Visa] (5) and coordinate the communications with the retries automatically for each customer. On top of that, solutions like Card Account Updater (CAU) and Network Tokens help to automatically update card details when a new card is activated or an expired one is replaced.

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I’ve noticed anecdotal unfounded spitefulness towards people who use GLP1s.

I don’t know if it’s rooted in jealousy over access the drug (either via insurance or having a provider willing to prescribe) or whether it’s because people see those who take it for weight loss as “cheating”.
The way Powershell works is largely based on what the computing world was doing with shells outside Bell Labs, at IBM, Xerox, and others places, exactly at similar timeframe as UNIX was happening.
Okay, here's the thing.

I Totally get that GLP-1's are absolute medical breakthroughs. But they are a _serious_ societal problem, IMO. My partner and I are both larger-bodied people; both our BMI's (it's a terrible measurement, I'm aware) hover just over 30. We've done a lot of work to destigmatize our own bodies and accept who we are so that we can teach our kids to have healthy self-images and not suffer the dysmorphia that we both went through for decades. We're active, we eat well, and we have great lives; we just aren't _thin_.

My partner has a new coworker who just started on Wegovy and has been poisoning my partner's brain with her terrible self talk. She calls herself a "fat bitch" at work, and raves about how excited she is to "lose all the fucking weight" before her wedding next fall, and it's bad enough that my partner has had to talk to her manager and HR about it. It's bad enough that my partner broke down the other day and told me she's struggling to see herself as anything other than overweight and unhealthy because the negative sentiment her coworker has of _her_ body is leaking onto everyone else.

These medications are absolutely essential for _some_ people who need to lose weight for medical reasons or need the other benefits they provide. But, they've also unlocked a cheat code for losing weight, and people like my partner's new coworker are focusing on only that aspect. The potential societal effects of making weight loss easier than ever before are kinda terrifying to me. I don't know what I'll say to my kids if they end up with our body type and come to me one day asking to go on Ozempic or Wegovy because "all the kids at school are doing it" and "being thin is what's normal now". I'm so scared that we've opened up a Pandora's box of making thin even more of an expectation because it's "easy" now.

I guess my point is, I _really_ wish the FDA would step in and make it clear that these medications are not to be prescribed for cosmetic weight loss, and they should bring the hammer down on online pharmacies like Hers (which is where my partner's coworker got her Wegovy).

EDIT: there are a bunch of folks in the replies telling me I'm lying to myself and misserving my kids by accepting myself. That's...odd, to say the least. Every metric I have that isn't my weight is perfectly fine. My blood pressure is normal, my cholesterol is normal, my A1C is normal, my blood sugar is normal, my doctor and I are very happy with my health. The number on the scale is _a_ representation of your health, but it's not the only or even best one. And the impact on my mental health has been astounding. I'm not going to change my mind about my weight because a bunch of folks using an extremely outdated metric of overall health tell me my number is bad.
Moving up and down at a linear rate would result in a saw-tooth-like wave, but the length of days change in a sine wave. Why not have the clocks sync themselves to sunrise time based on their timezone and latitude? I don't think this would be much different, in practice, than changing times at a linear rate.
>Great! But the EPA classified DCPA as a "likely carcinogen" 29 years ago

Is this the same list as the IARC group 2A list, which contains stuff like red meat, hot beverages, and french fries[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide
>if you cut corners, you may be rich, but then I'll think you're a bad boy!

Uh oh, a moral judgement from a peasant? Say it aint so. Anything but that. I'm literally shaking right now.

Anyway, here are some actual incentives:

- If you do some shady corner-cutting, you'll be legally compelled to trade in your Bugatti and drive a used Kia the rest of your life

- If this chemical causes bodily harm to me, we shall inflict bodily harm on thee

- A portion of the profits will be placed in a trust and will be passed down to your children, if and only if your product lasts long enough to be passed down to our children

- If you (banker) lose our money, you will lose your head