skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like the cloud sync functions out of the box on Google, Microsoft and Apple products caught up in features and already got good enough for the customer base of these to not bother paying extra for Dropbox no matter how much better they would have been. See Evernote.

It's difficult to go against Apple, Google and Microsoft when they're vertically integrated and can squeeze you on all sides offering an OS, email, browser, cloud sync, document editing, etc with seamless integration between them, while you're just a cloud sync service on their OS. You don't have any moat, while they do. There's no way you can compete with them from that position unless the government were to break up their vertical integration for anti-competitive practices.
The war in Ukraine is a regional war.

The damaging of the Nordstream pipeline wasn't terrorism. It was an act of sabotage. Nobody was terrorized.

I don't see any current energy crisis.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2480/brent-crude-oil-prices-10-y...

Germany has narrowly avoided recession, at least for now.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/30/german-economy...

> Economists said the inflation shock that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – sparking a dramatic increase in energy and food prices that undermined business and consumer confidence across the eurozone – was beginning to ease.

Inflation is moderating.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

https://tradingeconomics.com/euro-area/inflation-cpi
> Now available in space black and silver finishes.

No space grey?!
and then after the first full clock cycle, middle managers are hiring people to fire them, to keep their core dev team intact so that it can solve problems that take longer than 90 days
This seems very well reasoned. Ultimately what I think will win is whatever abstraction popular ORM providers can make easiest for devs.

It might be ‘wrong’ to treat vectors as a related table to your main model, but if frameworks and ORMs make it easy to handle the downsides of that abstraction in the app layer and a dev can just have one database for everything I think that will be the most common approach.
I think an even better question is why private organizations are allowed to spray random chemicals all over the environment without the safety being proven first. This will keep happening with some new alternative substance if the current approach continues.
Great question, but unless it’s really detrimental, it wouldn’t be a huge deal. You’re likely going to be losing muscle mass on a cut anyway, you’re just trying to minimize it.
Wonder how good are those for LLMs (compared to M3 Pro/Max)... They talk about the Neural Engine a lot in the press release.
I think the problem is our traditional notions of "understanding" and "intelligence" fail us. I don't think we understand what we mean by "understanding". Whatever the LLM is doing inside, it's far removed from what a human would do. But on the face of it, from an external perspective, it has many of the same useful properties as if done by a human. And the LLM's outputs seem to be converging closer and closer to what a human would do, even though there is still a large gap. I suggest the focus here shouldn't be so much on what the LLM can't do but the speed at which it is becoming better at doing things.
So what? If they didn't hire fast, those 20% wouldn't had the job(s) in the first place. Stupidity worked in their favor. Same at Twitter.

Edit: I guess that's basically what you are saying. The other comments confuse me!
My unpopular opinion (well to people heavily invested in AMD anyway) is that their valuation is bordering on the delusional based on a conjecture that they will somehow completely kill off Intel in the datacenter and eat some of Nvidia's lunch for GPU-based workloads.

They are seriously hurting Intel in the datacenter space, but Intel is not dead yet and their accelerator have so far seen very small adoption. They are fabless meaning that their margins are capped, x86 mobile CPUs are under attack from ARM and all hyperscalers are working on their own accelerator with some degree of success. They won't move to AMD GPUs.

They are a good company putting out great hardware, but at the current price I just don't get it.
What video technologies are developers using in 2024/25?
Because the context is that 20% of their employees are now unemployed. The tone of the letter is also "this is a hard but necessary choice" and not "this is great news for dropbox!"

> As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision and the circumstances that led to it, and I’m truly sorry to those impacted by this change.
The linked article is specific to executives and kind of confirms what most are complaining about here.

> a 10-year study of over 2,600 leaders showed almost half (45%) suffered at least one major career blow-up — like getting fired, messing up a major deal, or blowing an acquisition. Despite that, 78% of these executives eventually made it to the CEO role.

An executive can make a series of awful decisions and still advance in their career.
I have a Sharp carousel microwave oven that is 40 years old and works fine.

The "secret" solution is it was one of the last years made in Japan, not China.

I just move it from apartment to apartment over the years while everything else breaks.
Wish the videos were working. It would be really cool to adjust the style as well
I'm all for better protections for workers, and I think that the US should make companies give employees more notice, or alternatively make unemployment benefits a program that is more automatic, a full 100% of salary instead of being capped, and biased more toward the employee. I.e., I think a company should have to prove to a judge that an employee was fired with cause or quit voluntarily before the employee loses their benefits.

I totally agree with the idea that the benefits of at-will no-notice termination employment are lopsided in favor of the company, but the flip side of that arrangement is that it's very easy to get a new job in the US compared to many other places. It's easy to be hired on a short conversation and a handshake in an at-will environment.
The more tricks I learn with uv the more I like it.

The other day I got to share a demo by pasting this command in a Discord channel:

uvx --with 'llm==0.17a0' --with 'llm-claude-3==0.6a0' \
llm -m claude-3.5-sonnet 'describe image' \
-a https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2024/pelicans.jpg

That single command creates a throwaway virtual environment, installs an alpha release of my LLM tool, adds an alpha release of my llm-claude-3 plugin, runs that command with options, returns the results and then throws everything away again.

And because of the way uv uses symlinks and caching, running the commands a second time is almost instant.

(That stuff is no longer alpha, see https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/29/llm-multi-modal/)
> What you're calling "compelling" and "funny" seems very much also like messages telling you to that it's ok to lie to everyone around you including your family and friends.

Eh, "lovable but lazy dumbass forgot something and has to lie their way out of it" is a pretty standard trope of boomer sitcom humour.

Just imagine these ads, but the person using AI was Homer Simpson.
It seems they also update the base memory on MacBook Air:

> MacBook Air: The World’s Most Popular Laptop Now Starts at 16GB

> MacBook Air is the world’s most popular laptop, and with Apple Intelligence, it’s even better. Now, models with M2 and M3 double the starting memory to 16GB, while keeping the starting price at just $999 — a terrific value for the world’s best-selling laptop.
Ask HN: What product / service have you early-adopted and still use today?
do they really have this kind of jobs of moving parts from one shelf to another in a real factory?

I think a more impressive demo would be last-mile package delivery, since it can climb stairs and operate elevators.
They did rename K-9. They just also have been making lots of improvements to K-9.

They still have two different apps, Thunderbird Mobile and K-9, but the only difference is the branding. All of the UI tweaks other than the icons and colours are in both apps. The functionality is identical. So other than not deleting K-9 it is a rename (I guess it is a hard link, not a rename).
When does the TDD approach make sense?
The ‘system in place’ in question: two non-functional doorbells, a third wired up to your housemate’s room, and a fourth which only works on Tuesdays (nobody in the house knows why). :)
I never said you personally are their ideal customer profile.
"You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering." - Luke 11:52
How viable is Asani Linux these days? MacBook hardware looks amazing.
Remember when all of the far left folks around here thought it was okay to censor x.com? Once you start allowing censorship of one side, the same tools can get used against you. Fight all censorship, even if it's speech you disagree with.
I don't think the operation that completes after cancellation failed is "mistakenly-accepted," it should be handled in the normal way, but I admit that there are lots of people don't agree that
AI Agents creating AI tools directory
I was building websites with Hugo and I realized that there are not so many templates for directories. So instead of real work, I let AI create me a template based on some other popular directories and let it also fill the data. Now I am working on n8n AI Agents to automatically also keep the tools up to date, integrate with slack or telegram so I can just post a new tool and the rest happens automagically. Also the blog posts are highly automated (but need rework). I managed to create github branches/PRs with n8n while creating new content through Github API. Some details are in the blog posts of the page.
TSMC in tussle with golf course to build most advanced 2nm chip plant on planet
> It sounds like people want executives to get some kind of punishment or pain as a consequence of laying people off

Um... yeah. Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I want.

I used to work at a Dairy Queen. One dude there had been working there for a couple years. Unfortunately, one shift his drawer came up a dollar short. Our cutoff was 5 cents - a nickel - over or under. He was immediately terminated, of course.

He cost the company one dollar. A Dairy Queen cashier making minimum wage is held to a higher standard of accountability.
Lobbyists?
I only noticed because I was perplexed by the comment.

If I’m hitting this issue at random, others are hitting it too.
Nor is it in POSIX, but it's true of all POSIX-like systems that support threading.
My point is that this is probably the case for most users; the "more" doesn't mean anything because it's some functionality created by underemployed product managers rather than things that customers actually need/want to pay for. If you have to point out "hey, look here under this 'more' menu", then it's not part of the primary value proposition for the product and not why someone would pick that product. Sure, it might be that it is useful for some subset of users, but that you need to wave people down to show them that value means that it's probably not that valuable.
I don't think they had Space Grey on the M3 models either. That was initially my preference, but I went with the Black and quite like it.
>I've created new apps from scratch with it.

Would mind sharing those apps to view. Not the code, just the apps. I have a suspicion about the bi-modal experience.
Do you earn SF salaries in your country?
True - it means he could transfer, say, a billion dollars worth of stock to the affected employees and still be a billionaire. If he actually felt all that bad about it, of course.
The M4 Max goes up to 128GB RAM, and "over half a terabyte per second of unified memory bandwidth" - LLM users rejoice.
The high P/E means that "room to grow" is already priced into the stock though.
Oh bummed to hear that, how’s the ATC? The ATC was always the most fascinating part for me for the original Carvera. The Air does not have this feature but it’s expected given the price difference.
Have they published this ahead of other pages or is it just me?

The linked Apple Store page says "MacBook Pro blasts forward with the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips" so it seems like the old version of the page still?
Yes while the regulations for e-mandates had good intentions it makes recurring transactions more difficult. They've relaxed it a bit by increasing e-mandate cap from INR 5k to 15k (~$180 USD). If the transaction is below ~$180 then it is the issuing bank's (HDFC, SBI, etc.) responsibility to notify the customer 24 hours in advance. If over ~$180 then the customer needs to essentially approve each payment.

We have two approaches to this (1) we implement custom communication plans to notify customers in advance, day of, and in the days after with a multi-channel approach [email/sms] and (2) to switch offering to multi-month, annual, or semi pre-paid. Solution ensures a consistent and proactive approach if above the e-mandate cap and (2) reduces the frequency of customer intervention.
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Also use a chair with at least “multi block” (changes seat/back angle when swaying).
I really dislike this argument of "I'd rather enjoy the sun in the evening than in the morning" ignoring all of the other problems it causes.

Sunlight in the morning is useful. It's better for your sleep rhythms. It's safer for school children, etc.

And to be completely fair, I don't see that many more people "enjoying the sunlight" during the weekend when they have the entire day to do so. Like, what is the sun going down at 6 really preventing you from doing that you couldn't do otherwise?
The web UI makes that easier with GCP, but the main "UI" for me is Terraform, with only occasional usage of the "human-rated" interfaces.

BTW, I hate Terraform with a passion, but I don't have the energy to write something that can describe infrastructure in Lisp.
Lying can be seen as a sign of intelligence. Are you saying you hope “everyman” stays dumb?

I’m just being provocative to highlight this is a subtle issue. I agree with the general sentiment that Apple shouldn’t be encouraging ppl to lie. I found the actress kying to her colleague one quite tasteless.

That said, this all sums up how I feel about generative AI at the moment: a solution looking for a problem.
Holy Jobs, these Ads as if straight from the Black Mirror episode or that The Circle movie, unreal and sad, to the level of Idiocracy (2006) movie cringe.
> Microsoft wouldn't be able to pull that code out of already trained

I imagine they could, they just wouldn't want to. Because it might require retraining the model from scratch, or at least from some not-very-recent checkpoint.
No support for M3 or M4 powered machines currently.

> All Apple Silicon Macs are in scope, as well as future generations as development time permits. We currently have support for most machines of the M1 and M2 generations.[^1][^2]

[^1]: https://asahilinux.org/about/

[^2]: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support
I just installed the ArchiveBox add-on to Firefox, but I'm not sure how to find the page that I just archived. Do people normally run their own server to collect the pages?
This is what always happens when you have a technology and then desperately try to find problems to solve with it. Rather than starting with a problem and then applying the most appropriate technology to solve it. The exact same thing happened with Blockchain, but "AI" has about 100x more hype behind it.
Honestly if they can get good enough shadows with smoke and mirror trickery i'd prefer they stick to smoke and mirrors for performance reasons.
yes, it's not anywhere but the press release at this time
Huzzah, at last!
It may not be psychologically addictive, but there are definite ramifications when my wife misses a dose of Ozempic because the pharmacies are all out of it.
Looks like it's updated now.
I have slowly been aggregating various blogs in the cybersec realm at https://securityblogs.xyz/

I add new blogs as I run into them on twitter/reddit/HN/etc
Yeah, the 1.5kW spindle + VFD sounds absolutely amazing. It would be pretty nice to be able to cut some steel but not sure if the structure is stiff enough for it
Well Nvidia is just 30 days away from going out of business.
As can be seen from the other response to this post, there is a significant portion of people incapable of dividing ideology out of truth (people idiot for brevity) here so telling them the truth is often met with foolishness. I appreciate your effort though.
Finally they're doing starting memory at 16gb.

Looking at how long the 8gb lasted it's a pretty sure bet that now you won't need to upgrade for a good few years.

I mean, I have a MacBook air with 16gb of ram and it's honestly working pretty well to this day. I don't do "much" on it though but not many people do.

I'd say the one incentive a MacBook Pro has over the air is the better a screens and better speakers. Not sure if it's worth the money.
yep, just updated a second ago
I noticed the same, but it looks like the pre-order link now gives me M4 chips instead of M3.
Honestly I wouldn’t hesitate to steal and break any meta ray bands I see on the street in real life. I don’t want to see that creepy always recording without permission kind of shit normalised.
The M3 Max was 400GBps, this is 540GBps. Truly an outstanding case for unified memory. DDR5 doesn't come anywhere near.
> while protecting their privacy

This is misleading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959

"macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs"
Render96 found source of Super Mario 64 texture
This is the first compelling Mac to me. I've used Macs for a few clients and muscle memory is very deeply ingrained for linux desktops. But with local LLMs finally on the verge of usability along with sufficient memory... I might need to make the jump!

Wish I could spin up a Linux OS on the hardware though. Not a bright spot for me.
indeed! and not only is it in tzdata, there are signs on the road telling you about it
There Is No Such Thing as a Unit Test
> "up to 1.8x faster when compared to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro"

I insist my 2020 Macbook M1 was the best purchase I ever made
Have anyone tried it recently, specifically the trackpad? I tried the Fedora variant a few months ago on my M1 Macbook and it was horrible to use the trackpad, it felt totally foreign and wrong.
Disingenuous to mention the x86 based MacBooks as a basis for comparison in their benchmarks; they are trying to conflate current-gen Intel with what they shipped more than 4 years ago.

Are they going to claim that 16GB RAM is equivalent to 32GB on Intel laptops? (/sarc)
>Imagine the next 30 years when the majority of the population has no clue on how to function without cloud connected models answering questions on the daily.

The basis of this argument has probably existed for as long as humans have been able to self reflect.

If technology can very reliably do something I need to do better than I can do, why would I spend energy doing it myself.
Ohh, good catch. Sneaking that into the MBP announcement. I skimmed the page and missed that. So a fourth announcement couched within the biggest of the three days.
And not to mention acquisitions come with their engineers, sales staff, support and management crew.

The leadership should have been rebalancing yearly and quarterly in small chunks so they’re not in a position like this. It’s also a strategic play, while they come out with their major AI move next. That’s my guess. Gotta satisfy that board somehow
AMD EV/EBITDA is 55.85

Nvidia EV/EBITDA is 54.64

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/072915/how-can-eveb...

It seems like neither P/E ratio nor EV/EBITDA is a perfect measure. EV/EBITDA excludes capital expenses, but it also excludes amortization costs, which for AMD means the Xilinx acquisition.
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fixed my post. tnx
I always wonder what gives these people the drive to continue. Maybe I’m lazy and lacking vision but if I were worth 2B, I don’t think I would go to the office every day just to get accused of mismanagement when I have to lay people off. I would take my yacht to the Caribbean and slack off.
Feel free to provide sources.
> All MacBook Pro models feature an HDMI port that supports up to 8K resolution, a SDXC card slot, a MagSafe 3 port for charging, and a headphone jack, along with support for Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.

No Wifi 7. So you get access to the 6 GHz band, but not some of the other features (preamble punching, OFDMA):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_7

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_6E

The iPhone 16s do have Wifi 7. Curious to know why they skipped it (and I wonder if the chipsets perhaps do support it, but it's a firmware/software-not-yet-ready thing).
For me, Dropbox's moat and USP is that they make all of their money from file storage, giving me some confidence that they'll ensure it keeps working.

That's definitely not something one can say about their BigTech competitors.
We run our LLM workloads on a M2 Ultra because of this. 2x the VRAM; one-time cost at $5350 was the same as, at the time, 1 month of 80GB VRAM GPU in GCP. Works well for us.
It could see it as disingenuous, or a targeted message to those users still on those older x86 machines.
If AI kills a job, it kills a job, regardless of where that job is located.

I can't see what RTO brings outside of some vague "improved collaboration" which is hard to quantify, and can be done remotely with common tools and practices.
The ancient Roman calendar was before that, with 10 months of 30 or 31 days and intercalated days when it's no month at all.

Sometimes priests moved these days to suit political shenanigans.

Caesar ended this madness and "rationalised" the system, coincidentally making his year-long consulship last for 446 days.
scroll down and https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/10nirl9/oc...
The long-term effects of COVID are pretty darn obvious, though. I know two people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis from the 2009 flu epidemic and it's nasty. The vaccine was widespread enough that we've got a reasonable upper bound on on the COVID vaccine worst case to make the cost/benefit analysis an easy call.
I moved from a 3x 24" 1080p monitor setup to a single 43" 4K display... and holy smokes what a difference. The only thing it's missing is some curvature. That's needed at larger sizes.
Ah, you're only going to endanger the livelihood of your employees' families, most of whom have substantially less wealth than you. I bet the rest of your employees don't really care that you "feel bad."

At least they learned not to trust you, though.
> This is misleading: ...

To be fair, the link in this story is to a press release. Arguably there are probably many things in it that can be considered "misleading" in certain contexts.
I didn’t know soft jaws were a thing until I started working. Even in college, they just teach you to hold the part up with spacer plates and crank the vise. One of the vendors I worked with was explaining why 4-5 pieces cost the same as 1 piece. The time and effort to make multiple jaws for each operation is the time consuming and expensive part.
I find it very odd that the new iMac has WiFi 7 but this does not... Also it is so aggravating they compare to 3 generations ago and not the previous generation in the marketing stats. It makes the entire post nearly useless.
I think that is why Dropbox has been trying to diversify their offerings. They know as well as the rest of us do that cloud storage that's only cloud storage and not much else will have serious trouble competing with cloud storage that you also need to have to work conveniently with Google Docs, or Office 365, or whatever.

But, as parent poster pointed out, taking on that new work requires hiring people to do it. But that's expensive, and those new products need to start generating revenue quickly in order to cover the increased payroll costs.