skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an economy where the fortunes and worldviews of the 0.01%, the 1%, the 10%, and "everybody else" have so badly diverged - a breakdown of how things are going for each group would be vastly more useful than any "the grand total is..." factoid.
Lobby your representative for change. This is something that laws can and should fix.

Not having worker protections is a political choice. It's not something the market or technology will solve.

Many countries have laws that prevent workers getting laid off with no severance. It is a solved problem, but it's inherently a political problem.
US: 248 years old

What use irrelevant factoids.
https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/a-message-from-drew

Drew is developing a habit. 16% last year

edit: 11% before that: https://dropbox.gcs-web.com/node/8916/html
The rose branch brought to mind again this poem by Robert Frost which is one of my favorites:

The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose -
But were always a rose.

In one of her letters Jane Austen mentions that they had a game of coming up with powers that rhyme with rose, you may see Jane's, her sister's and others' efforts (rather mundane) efforts here: https://pemberley.com/janeinfo/brablt18.html#letter97
It's really hard to do in practice.

Yes, you can train an ML model on rendered data, but the model tends to fixate on rendering artifacts, and performance doesn't transfer to real world images. Plus, it's very difficult to make generated scenes with the variety and complexity of the real world. Your trained model will fail to generalize to all the distractions in natural scenes.

Yes, there are techniques for all these problems, but none of them are good, reliable, or easy to get right.
Apple's ecosystem is all about replacing other products, devices, and services with features of Apple devices. See: all those photos of "here's all the devices an iPhone replaces" from like 15 years ago.

I'm not sure how else they advertise that now your Apple devices replace OnStar and Life Alert, than advertising kinda the same way that those did (but less lame, hopefully).
I’m using the M3 Air 13 in (splurged for 24 GB of RAM, I’m sure 16 is fine) to make iOS apps in Xcode and produce music in Ableton and it’s been more than performant for those tasks

Only downside is the screen. The brightness sort of has to be maxed out to be readable and viewing at a wrong angle makes even that imperfect

That said it’s about the same size / weight as an iPad Pro which feels much more portable than a pro device
Why does it take that long to post? I've had multiple Ryzen 300-series motherboards, none of them take anywhere near that long to boot outside of using something like some server-grade HBA that has its own boot step.
This isn't a real blog post. This is an advertisement masqueraded as a blog post, generated by AI.

Check the 'questions' at the bottom:

* What is the row limit in Excel?
* What is the column limit in Excel?
* The effects of hitting the Excel row limit
* Why does Excel have a maximum number of rows?
* Conclusion

Which answer the same stuff as explained in the first block.
Oh yes, my wife bought a new Intel MBA in summer 2020... I told her at the time Apple planned its own chip, but it couldn't be much better than the Intel one and surely Apple will increase prices too... I was so wrong.
I claim that async/await is far more basic (/fundamental/simple, not necessarily easy) than most acknowledge, but it should indeed be more composable with sync code. It is a means of interacting with asynchronous phenomena, which underlie the OS-hardware connection. The composability is necessary because no one is going to write a massive state machine for their entire program.
> Kids really don't care.

Kids care as much as their parents care and what they teach them. Don't overgeneralize this please. Some do care, maybe most don't but it is something that changes over time.
Selling data is always the last play for all businesses that have data.

Either you never give it to them in a way that can be sold (e.g. fully encrypted), or you expect them to sell it when the leaders need to increase cash flow.
Dreaming of winning the lottery and Going On Permanent Yacht Vacation is precisely the difference between being a worn out low-level worker and being a high-level executive who has all their needs met (or at least has the resources to have them met). With the latter you can have enough resources for you next ten generations and still go to work and optimize shareholder profits while thinking to yourself that you are serving a higher purpose.
Is there something wrong with the sleep mode on your desktop?
I bought my M1 Pro MBP in 2021. Gave it 16G of RAM and a 1TB HD. I plan to keep it until circa 2031.
They did? The tweet that announced stuff from the head of marketing did not mention 3 days.

That said, I believe you. Some press gets a hands-on on Wednesday (today) so unless they plan to pre-announce something (unlikely) or announce software only stuff, I think today is it.
My one concern is that nano-texture apple displays are a little more sensitive to damage, and even being super careful with my MBPs I get the little marks from the keyboard when you carry the laptop with your hand squeezing the lid and bottom (a natural carry motion).
California is at will, you can fire anyone for anything or even nothing. I'm yet to see poor performing executives take themselves out before they take out the people that actually create value. You don't need to have layoffs, you need better leaders, and they're the last ones to get culled, usually running off with bonuses for under-performance and lousy work.
Scale is the really important thing here. It's really easy and really cheap to build a small-business, or home scale generation system.

This is in contrast to nuclear, coal, gas turbine etc where you really need large plants to work efficiently. Small portable diesel generators exist, but they are expensive to run, need regular maintenance and refueling.

Once you can cost effectively generate real electricity for very little effort, and very low cost, then people do it. And when you distribute generation like this very large effects happen very qickly.
When I talk to philosophers on zoom my screen background is an exact replica of my actual background just so I can trick them into having a justified true belief that is not actually knowledge.

t. @abouelleill
Rejection Isn't Personal
In case anyone is curious how you would solve this manually, here it is. In what follows assume all lists are sorted from low to high.

For a list of just one or two integers the median and mean are the same so we can rule those out.

For a list of 3 integers the average is their sum divided by 3. But 3 times the average we want (3.75) is 11.25 which is not an integer. That eliminates lists of length 3.

On to lists of length 4. In a sorted list of length 4 the median is the average of the middle two numbers. The only pairs of 2 positive integers that average 2 are {2, 2} and {1, 3}. That gives us these templates for possible lists:

{a, 1, 3, b}
{a, 2, 2, b}

Remember, these are sorted and they are positive integers. In the first then the only possible value for a is 1. In the second a could be 1 or 2. Our templates are now

{1, 1, 3, b}
{1, 2, 2, b}
{2, 2, 2, b}

For 4 positive integers to have a mean of 3.75 their sum must be 15. Setting b to make the sums 15 we get these as the possible solutions:

{1, 1, 3, 10}
{1, 2, 2, 10}
{2, 2, 2, 9}

A quick glance to make sure that the 4th number didn't end up smaller than the 3rd number, and we are done.
> Future AI Risk defense could become an even broader industry than anti-drone systems.

This is cute, but from a pragmatic perspective I don't think any engineers are expecting that. It feels more and more like today's AI pundits have their head so far up their ass that they could give themselves a tongue-powered colonoscopy.

You can't secure yourself from drones. That's the struggle - if you are in any open-air space, you can be surveilled or even targeted by a loitering machine. That is a problem, one that's hard to enforce legally for adversaries, and one which requires active defenses to defend against drones when they're detected.

AI isn't the same way. You can protect yourself from AI, both through legal incentive and by rejecting non-authorized users. Traditional cryptosystems are still well-defended against AI, the "cracks" come from social engineering that is technically available to crafty humans as well. Stopping the social engineering won't entail AI warfare, but the general application of security principles that have been around since Suzie Thunder.
Everyone I work with in Kenya uses standard dates and times. It’s a requirement when you work internationally.
"a little bit of time" is a bit disingenuous given that they haven't even started working on the M3.

(This isn't a dig on the Asahi project btw, I think it's great).
I met the founders, great people. Any open-source tools to start out dealing with failed payments before we scale?
Can confirm. I have an M2 Air from work and an M1 Pro for personal, and tbh, both absolutely fly. I haven't had a serious reason to upgrade. The only reason I do kind of want to swap out my M1 Pro is because the 13" screen is a wee small, but I also use the thing docked more often than not so it's very hard to justify spending the money.
Waiting for the retraction of the retraction because the retraction was bad science…
It’s stationary. Just get a Thunderbolt NVMe drive and leave it plugged in
Why on earth would “governments need to regulate and subsidise” a solar boom that is already proceeding apace without them? The tail end of this article makes no sense…
That would be truthfulness to the training material, I guess. If you train on Reddit posts, it’s questionable how true the output really is.

Also, 100% truthfulness then is plagiarism?
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Heats Up – Communications of the ACM
I think we'd all collectively blow our minds if a CEO said "I take full responsibility for the bad decisions and overhiring, so I'm resigning"
So we can scream about the lousy base storage, which is the same as my phone. Yikes.
The RIP Off
> I think anti-machine-learning suffers a similar problem to anti-GMO in that animosity directed primarily towards the technology itself easily loses aim on opposing exploitative power structures, sometimes instead even achieving the opposite.

This misses how technology actually works. Technology is a lever, or amplifier of human will. There has always been a dark side to human nature, but the amount of damage a single human could do was historically capped by physical limitations to their power. For example, a crazy person in 1000 AD armed with a broad sword could not kill millions of people, regardless of their desire and intent. However, a crazy person in 2024 with access to a hydrogen bomb could theoretically kill billions.

The moral of the story here is that even the most moral among us have some level of darkness in their soul and technology gives us far more power than we have the ability to handle responsibly, given our innate human flaws.

People think we can somehow manage AI when we can't even manage social media effectively.
Nope, MBAs have to learn exponential growth is impossible to accomplish forever.

Companies should be managed to be profitable, while paying employees and business expenses.

Anything other is a pipe dream that eventually blows up, but since only employees suffer while the MBA guys go to become CEO of yet another adventure, who cares. /s
The idea that a shlub like this would only just now for the first time be using an LLM like this is what is unbelievable. And as a joke it is simply stale. I get it, Apple has to at least pretend to themselves like they are groundbreaking in these things that are now years old.
It's cringe because Apple thinks this is a novel premise for humor.
That's correct on two fronts. First, I put "false" in quotes everywhere for a reason: I'm talking about the sort of thing that people would say is false, not what's actually false. And second, yes, I'm merely claiming that it's in theory learnable (in contrast to the OP's claim), not that it will necessarily be learned.
Jensen has said for years that 30% of their R&D spend is on software. Needless to say as they continue to crush it financially this number continues to completely race past AMD.

Turns out people don’t actually want GPUs, they want solutions that happen to run best on GPUs. Nvidia understands that, AMD doesn’t.

Lisa Su keeps talking about “chips chips chips” and MAYBE “Oh btw here’s a minor ROCm update”. Meanwhile, Nvidia continues to masterfully execute deeper and wider into overall solutions and ecosystems - a substantial portion of which is software.

Nvidia is at the point where they’re eating the entire stack. They do a lot of work on their own models and then package them up nice and tight for you with NIM and Nvidia AI Enterprise. On top of stuff like Metropolis, RIVA, countless things. They even have a ton of frameworks to ingest/handle data, finetune/train, and then deploy via NIM.

Enterprise customers can be 100% Nvidia for a solution. When Nvidia is the #1-#2 most valuable company in the world “no one ever got fired for buying Nvidia” hits hard.

The people who say “AMD and Nvidia are equal - it’s all PyTorch anyway” have no view of the larger picture.

With x86_64, day one you could take a drive out of an Intel system, put it in an AMD system, and it would boot and run perfectly. You can still do that today unless you build something for REALLY specific/obscure CPU instructions.

Needless to say that’s not the case with GPUs and a lot of people that make the AMD vs Intel comparison don’t seem to understand that.
I worked with a group of people once who just didn't care about timezones. All (ok, most) clocks were set to local time, but with some random timezone, about half of the time it was GMT, and 2/3 of the remainder were our actual timezone, but the rest were totally random. I had to write a "figure out what the time actually is" routine in my code because it was such a pervasive problem.
People who bought M3 arent the target customers. It's those who jumped into the M architecture first with the M1s.
> I upgraded from a 13 pro to a 15 pro expecting zippier performance and it feels almost identical if not weirdly a bit slower in rendering and typing

I went from an iPhone 13 mini to an iPhone 16 and it's a significant speed boost.
There isn't even an M3 Ultra. Will there be an M4 Ultra?
> "In South Africa, for example, the total amount of energy produced from solar systems in 2019 was thought to be about 500 megawatts"

This is annoyingly common with journalists and also a very clear tell that they don't have any idea what they are writing about.

Maybe in a few years the writer will understand that it's tricky to store energy in a cost-efficient way and that energy isn't the same as power.

Or perhaps they won't.

Either way, in late 2024, this low level of understanding is pretty tiring.

The writer "has been the the recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers reporting award for coverage of air pollution in Detroit, and a finalist for the 2019 Livingston Award for a series on water politics at the Texas-Mexico border. At The Atlantic, she covers climate change."

The writer's CV doesn't mention any education at all.
It's also on the iPad Pro. Only downside is you really do need the right cloth to be able to clean it.
I've had Macs before, from work, but there is something about the M1 Pro that feels like a major step up.

Only recently I noticed some slowness. I think Google Photos changed something and they show photos in HDR and it causes unsmooth scrolling. I wonder if it's something fixable on Google's side though.
Sorry but this is a hopelessly naive view of what is widely understood to be A Bit More Complicated Than That.
You are welcome to start a business that competes with Apple/Alphabet/Microsoft/Amazon, and see if you can survive without raising prices or making bets that may not succeed and cause you to fire people.
NextSTEP which macOS is ultimately based on is indeed older than Linux (first release was 1989). But why does that matter? The commenter presumably said "Linux" for a reason, i.e. they want to use Linux specifically, not any UNIX-like OS.
Ballmer was a fucking moron.
What's the "true criticism"? You've made a couple posts on this page about it that seem to just be "it's overrated" and "they re-use some assets a lot" and "other open-world games exist."

Neither of those are particularly compelling. Did they invent the game style? No. But this is the closest anyone's came to perfecting it. Exploration is encouraged and facilitated, without overloading you with "here are fifty map points of interest all at once." There are harder/deadlier enemies and areas, but you can usually get out easily enough and won't get stuck if you wander there before you're leveled up enough. The mechanics and responsiveness of interaction are super crisp. The inventory is quite well balanced and pretty thorough and allows a good number of different play styles (TOTK especially, obviously).
>But they always fire the weak employees

What you are referring to is called rightsizing and it's taught in business schools, but almost never implemented well. I would guess it's because it takes to long to figure out who's weak and who's not and they are in a hurry to cut costs.
That's disappointing. I was expecting a new Apple TV because mine needs replacement and I don't really feel inclined to get one that's due for an upgrade very soon.

Also, Studio and Pro are hanging there.
> Additionally, the row limit is 2^20 which is the max number of rows that can be represented in a 32 bit system.

I don't get it. Why is it the maximum?

Also, why 32 bit systems are still a concern?
Is that the general public (non tech)?
Eh, but even in the Find Your Friends ad, where the guy is pretty nerdy and not conventionally cool (I mean he’s going to some cosplay festival), it is still portraying the main character as kind of… somebody you wouldn’t mind being, right?

Like he’s doing something nerdy, dressing up in cosplay, but he’s doing it well, he’s got friends, businessmen get out of his way as he strides down the sidewalk. Some of the people he interact with don’t get him, but he doesn’t care. He’s nerdy but he’s living his best life.

The Mac Mini ad is cute, and it portrays the Mac Mini as a sort of… little computer with over-the-top bravado. It is sort of self-effacing and tongue in cheek, like clearly the little computer is over-compensating for its small size with attitude. But it works somehow. Partly because it is the device, I think. I’m not imagining being the computer, I’m imagining being the user, so the over-eager awkwardness of the computer doesn’t reflect poorly on the “me” character. Partly I think because the computer is like… awkward but not unpleasant.

There’s a big difference between being nerdy/awkward but embracing it, and being nerdy/awkward and a loser.

Some of these new ads look more like the latter to me. The Bella Ramsey ones, IMO, they are not so bad, like she’s doing a “forgetful/absent minded but still successful” character and it kinda works. But one with the guy who can’t write a professional email and the lady who forgot a gift but wants to sneak into the nice moment, they didn’t work for me. You don’t want to be those characters, right?
> Jokes aside, how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need?

What you need can change over time. As I remember, Dropbox acquired a bunch of companies of the years, so maybe some of them originated from there. They also had many new products and tried to move into new directions, which probably also brought many new people.
In many countries severance package is guaranteed by law.
The uncomfortable truth is that pretty much any business can cut staff by 20% without impacting overall performance. Provided that you manage to weed out the tail end of the performance bell curve that is.

Most of the time, reducing staff is a healthy move for the business and the impacted employees. The company will not only save cost, but strengthen its culture of high performance. And under-achieving employees are often fundamentally unhappy in their role. While the short term impact of being made redundant can cause some distress, these people can still use the occasion to reset their careers.

So all in all, no reason for grief.
WW3 was the cold war. This is at least WW5
Bobiverse is fun to read but it’s just pulp nerd fantasy. Not exactly great literature that will stand the test of time.
A solar punk utopia is near.
Not great. Works well with Thunderbird or Evolution though.

And yes. Web apps are not really great on low-spec machines.
As a European I find your assessment appalling. The oft repeated lie that Europe has protected its citizens against anything is bizarre, European governments only protect their big governments. The ban of US pesticides is to stifle American infiltration of EU agriculture, and basically every other law can be viewed under this lens.

It is as if people live in a lie, they do not understand what has taken place in the past 200 years, the devastating destruction of the environment with pollution worldwide. As for protecting its citizens, what can really be said about this other than: ignorance is bliss.
Having run a small (100K users) SaaS company and seen some of this first hand, this is interesting. We never automated any of this, rather just communicating with customers asking them to try another card, or in extreme cases getting them to send a bare PayPal transfer then manually provisioning the payment against their account. I also worked for a startup in the 2000's that had the exact same conceptual idea, but applied to a somewhat different specific use-case.

However, that's not what really makes me curious about this, which is: how do you make this a business? If someone explained this idea to me cold I'd immediately say "that's not a business, it's a feature of Stripe/PayPal et al".
From a technical perspective the integration with the customer's (customer of FlyCode) systems seems challenging.
Something like this, maybe?

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/13/nintendo-ceo-once-halved-sal...

I mean, this is actually taking responsibility for your decisions as CEO.
The crazy thing to me is that since losing that weight people don't believe me and think I must be lying that I ever weighed more. I've even whipped out a photo once to prove it.
Google NotebookLM named as Time's best inventions of 2024
One question about Brickit - the main usecase I and many many dads of Lego kids have is that our kids want to reassemble sets and we spend ages searching for these pieces. Yet Brickit works by identifying and recommending its own mini-set lists. Is this a usecase that is not in scope (because of business model) or is technically difficult or unsatisfactory in execution (colors, accuracy)?
They're really burying the lede here - magic trackpad and magic keyboard finally have USB-C :)
So basically their point is a major driver of solar installations is that in low-wage countries with unreliable electricity grids solar is now by far the cheapest backup power. And once they have it they use it.

That certainly sounds reasonable. In developed countries installation and mounting costs are a significant cost driver for solar installations, but in the third world you can do that a lot cheaper, and beating a diesel generator on cost isn't hard
Two displays with the lid open.

"The display engine of the M4 family is enhanced to support two external displays in addition to a built-in display."

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-m4-p...
They've been doing 20% layoffs two years in a row now.