skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good example of where we should have stigma attached to AI: a partner showed me their CRM that summarized my profile for them. It was creepy in how far into my online life it had dug. It also said, along with the creepy things, that I was "risk adverse" and "only acted when I had complete information" ... as a startup CTO this is both laughably wrong and could have career implications.
Why would I take the time to read a letter you couldn't be bothered to take the time to write?
It's not any industry anywhere. Any layoff thread on HN is people saying what they wish things were but framing it as "this is how everyone else does it this one company is being greedy" when it's not the case 99% of the time.
The proof is that Mastodon and his server were implemented in Ruby. It doesn't exist in another language. And it's the same language that he uses at his day job and according to him, it's part of what compelled him to work on it at all.

The fact that he built it and maintained it is the proof for the claim. Without Ruby it simply doesn't exist, so it doesn't matter how much hypothetically better your favorite language is.
Not sure where all the rating hate is coming from, but Nintendo always gets high marks from the amount of polish in the gameplay and design. The biggest thing BOTW accomplished was taking the "you can go anywhere, basically" approach from the original NES Zelda and translated that to an open world game far better than any game previously. Most open world games gate players hard with obvious gated entry to areas. BOTW integrated natural progression in a much more thematic way.

The destructable/interactable environment was also a big innovation that only a few other games had attempted at the time. You can argue the shrines were repetitive or the fighting too easy but that is complaining that the game isn't what you want it to be and not looking at it for what it is and who it is for.
I mean yes for sure but apple always had a high margin. I'm pretty sure they did not suddenly become 'nice'.

Would be interesint to know though if the margin stayed the same and they literaly just save a lot of money.
If You Want To Tell People the Truth, You’d Better Make Them Laugh or They’ll [unalive] You

-- Some famous person's quote that I paraphrased.
>the wife asks the AI to make a Woodworking Memory Video, and while they're watching it, it looks like a beach vacation photo is included in the mix

What's funny is that google photos sorta makes these sort of random little videos all the time for you and asks if you want to see them. It also suffers from the issue of not really understanding the context from some of the pictures it pulls in. But this is a thing that's been around for a few years, like a lot of things, apple is late to the game but pretending they invented it.
Do you have an OPML feed for that?
What’s amazing is that in the past I’ve felt the need to upgrade within a few years.

New video format or more demanding music software is released that slows the machine down, or battery life craters.

Well, I haven’t had even a tinge of feeling that I need to upgrade after getting my M1 Pro MBP. I can’t remember it ever skipping a beat running a serious Ableton project, or editing in Resolve.

Can stuff be faster? Technically of course. But this is the first machine that even after several years I’ve not caught myself once wishing that it was faster or had more RAM. Not once.

Perhaps it’s my age, or perhaps it’s just the architecture of these new Mac chips are just so damn good.
The problem is that it’s unclear consumers actually ever wanted Dropbox to become any more than a sync and share company, or to deal with the resultant complexity that that will bring to what has been a beautifully simple product. But they had to do that to justify Sky-high valuations.
It doesn't look this cut and dry.

M4 Max 14 core has a single option of 36GB.

M4 Max 16 core lets you go up to 128GB.

So you can actually get more ram with the Pro than the base level Max.
Previously (26 points, 18 hours ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989534
Huh? My m1 is still kicking strong with little to no reason to upgrade.

If it matters that much to you just sell the old one and buy the new. That's your subscription.
> I have no memory of the Jomon period.

You're not the only one with no memory of 300bc. My memory fails me too.
I meant more like India, China, Pakistan, Vietnam, Thailand, Iran, etc.
Where do the Wu Tang come in here?

And yeah, I do not pay for Dropbox either. I've got something like 17gb from pestering people for sign ups XD
Is there a reason why Mozilla haven't used their position and funding to just hoover up all the most successful open source projects to create a more cohesive ecosystem?

Surely any addons - like uBlock Origin - which have massive usage should just be baked in to the browser by this point?

The likes of Nextcloud and Mattermost would also be great additions in trying to create a true rival to Microsoft and Google's offerings.

Gives open source projects funding and development, Mozilla gets new avenues for subscription money to try and be more independent, and MS/Google's market shares can be chipped away at. Win win win. Potential anti-trust bait when Google start crying and withdrawing funding, too.
Explore: A new visual data exploration experience in Hex
Teams and Google Chat. They're both incredibly bad compared to Slack. But if your org is on 365 or Workspace, you're already paying for them. Big orgs don't love double-paying, quality be damned.
> In the Apple AI video, the worst is that the 'more professional' text, actually reads much less professional.

The original text is:

> Hey J,

> Been thinking, this project might need a bit of zhuhzing. But you're the big enchilada.

> Holler back

followed by the sender's first name in lower case surrounded by flexed bicep emoji.

The AI rewritten text keeps the "Hey J,". It changes the rest to

> Upon further consideration, I believe this project may require some refinement. However, you are the most capable individual to undertake this task.

> Please let me know your thoughts.

> Best regards,

followed by the sender's first name capitalized and with no emoji.

I don't see how the second could be considered less professional than the first.

From the other comments here it seems like some people may be seeing different ads when they follow the links, possibly depending on their location. The text above is what was in the ad I get to from the link in the article. Are you getting something different?
You’re right, your setup is the only one that matters.

I wonder why Apple bothers making small, efficient things when you don’t need it?
Most people buying macs don't care about specs, they care about _what they can do_.
I would probably be a bit confused by the fact that 6pm is 13 hours after 5pm, but I'm assuming Swahili has better ways of communicating time
you're not a target customer anymore.

they need $$$ from enterprise, everything else is a distraction.
Even if he still wants to work, restructuring a second tier post-growth tech company wouldn't be my first choice.
> 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.

All well and good, but doesn't Stripe have much, much more data on this? Once they start doing all of the above (assuming they don't already), their data will give them a gigantic advantage. And that's only on top of being built-in.
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> Jokes aside, how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need?

Often with this sort of thing, the company is essentially sacrificing future revenue to cut current costs; projects get delayed or cut, but, hey, the balance sheet looks better for a bit!

The other reason it happens (and here the cuts would mostly be operational and sales) is if the company just isn't getting as many customers as it had expected.
> His salary and the performance of the company were probably a good foreshadowing of the layoffs

As is standard. My recommendation to anyone that works in a corporate environment is that if you want to know whether the company will be at risk of layoffs in the future, become good friends with someone in sales. When the sales leads and activity start to drop (or growth rate starts to slow), you can usually be assured that layoffs will eventually follow. In my experience the sales folks were always the first to clean up their resumes and start the job hunt because they knew what was coming.
A dedicated server with no bandwidth cap?
The M4 is architecturally better than the M3, especially on GPU features IIRC, but you’re right it’s not a total blow out.

Not all products got the M3, so in some lines this week is the first update in quite a while. In others like MBP it’s just the yearly bump. A good performing one, but the yearly bump.
rsync is free why would anyone use anything /s
Asahi doesn't work on M3 yet after a year. It's gonna be a bit before M4 support is here.
Wow, I didn't expect them to update the older models to start at 16GB and no price increase. I guess that is why Amazon was blowing the 8GB models out at crazy low prices over the past few days.
I don't disagree, but its good to point out that trailing P/E is an accounting fact, forward P/E is speculation.

Trailing P/E needs less caveats but is also less predictive.
Yup, Wi-Fi 7 devices have been shipping for over a year. My Odin 2 portable game console has Wi-Fi 7.
roblox not working dat shit say blocked
I'm not sure about the caste system enforcement idea you have, but plenty of places (including Apple) lease MacBook Pros to businesses.
I am not familiar with the term.

"Universal agent" is some form of antivirus, ransomware software
like ESET, or McAffee?

Or does the universal agent listen to "endpoint security, somebody
elses antivirus that reports what it finds up the chain?

And the next step is that the data gets to the server, is parsed, stored
etc and present on a nice gui?

"Someone proped computer3 with a known exsploit at (somedatetime)"
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i'm surprised he didn't bring up the ad with the parents playing with the new iphone in bed and make comments that their kids overhear and think something sexy is going on.

i hate that ad because:

a) they're not really even doing sexual innuendo, they're just saying things in a tone of voice that makes you think they're making racy comments

b) why are the kids sitting outside the bedroom door listening? do they want to hear their parents doin' it?
Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
Trying to find out what this is / what DuckDB is. Go to website, see completely meaningless splash screen that doesn't tell you anything useful. Go to Documentation, see usage information, absolutely no information about what this actually is. Go to FAQ, still no information about what this is.

Is there some new rule about tech-focused startups where you're not allowed to tell somebody what it actually is / how it works / what it's used for, because you're afraid people will find out it's not for them?

edit ah after going back and poking around the website more, I finally found the "Why DuckDB" buried halfway in a menu. Still not a great summary, so Googling led me to understand it's SQLite for analytics. Maybe i'm the weirdo for wanting to see that first?
Does anyone have benchmarks for the M4 Pro or M4 Max CPUs yet? Would love to see Geekbench scores for those.
> basically a computer with some custom version of windows with a console-tailored UI

I presume you mean PC, but still this is situation for past 2 decades. PS used to run on Unix, I guess they still do, on very much a PC hardware, just not the exactly same chips you can buy on PC.

Xbox even more so, its ridiculously expensive to come up with your own cpu & gpu, all use amd/intel and amd/nvidia and definitely not the top of the ranges. OS should be skinned Windows with maybe some non-core parts cut off (but I presume telemetry remains).

The only one building non-PC consoles is Nintendo, which uses which uses very much cell phone hardware (but more custom IIRC).
I appreciate you might find value in these things, but each example I read just gets less and less compelling. Translation does seem mildly useful, the other things feels like information I can live with or without.

E.g. these aren't burning problems in my life. Even the translation, I'm happy to just be in the dark, or take a phone pic and translate if I really really need to.

Having everpresent AI tech on my face doesn't seem worth it if these are the kinds of problems I get solved.
yes... the footer links are still under construction :)

But please do share any bugs you saw here if you could.
TVs generally have more input lag, poorer color fidelity, and except at the high end like 8k the pixel size is often inappropriate for viewing close up.

There's less of a gulf now than in the past, but TVs are generally made for media watching at a distance.
Can someone please help me out with this? I'm torn between Mac mini and and MacBook Pro, specifically the CPU spec difference.

MBP: Apple M4 Max chip with 16‑core CPU, 40‑core GPU and 16‑core Neural Engine

Mac mini: Apple M4 Pro chip with 14‑core CPU, 20‑core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine

What kind of workload would make me regret not having bought MBP over Mac mini given the above. Thanks!
It's wild that people post papers that they haven't read or don't understand because the headline supports some view they have.

To wit, in your first link it seems the figure is just showing the trivial fact that the model is trained on the MMLU dataset (and after RLHF it is no longer optimized for that). The second link main claim seems to be contradicted by their Figure 12 left panel which shows ~0 correlation between model-predicted and actual truth.

I'm not going to bother going through the rest.

I don't yet understand exactly what they are doing in the OP's article but I suspect it also suffers from serious problems.
Sorta, in classical single-bounce ray tracing you still need to cast explicit shadow rays from diffuse surfaces. Path tracing gives shadows for free, because it is simulating global illumination rit large: ambient occlusion, shadows, bounce light are all special cases.
What do you mean it’s slow at saving? Do you mean the conversion is slow?
And the other excellent work done by the Bau Lab in this area: https://rome.baulab.info/
But no update to a M4 for the MacBook Air yet unfortunately. I would love to get an M4 MacBook Air with 32GB.

I believe the rumor is that the MacBook Air will get the update to M4 in early spring 2025, February/March timeline.
Just wait until we decide on a time zone for the moon, or Mars.
Brazil doesn't have DST anymore. And when it had, it used to be announced with 6 months of antecedence. It also had "standard" dates that were almost always used.

If your comment was about the 2019 change that almost all computers got wrong, this one was announced with 6 months of antecedence like most others.
GP asked what should CEO say instead. Not what should they not say.
The keyboard touch button (top right) is objectively hideous and looks cheap. My current TouchBar may be useless but at least looks nice.
Apple is using LPDDR5 for M3. The bandwidth doesn't come from unified memory - it comes from using many channels. You could get the same bandwidth or more with normal DDR5 modules if you could use 8 or more channels, but in the PC space you don't usually see more than 2 or 4 channels (only common for servers).

Unrelated but unified memory is a strange buzzword being used by Apple. Their memory is no different than other computers. In fact, every computer without a discrete GPU uses a unified memory model these days!
Hackers steal 15,000 cloud credentials from exposed Git config files
At least in the recent past, a hindrance was that MacOS limited how much of that unified memory could be assigned as VRAM. Those who wanted to exceed the limits had to tinker with kernel settings.

I wonder if that has changed or is about to change as Apple pivots their devices to better serve AI workflows as well.
Humans are not isolated nodes, we are more like a swarm, understanding reality via consensus.

The situation you described is possible, but would require something like a subverting effort of propaganda by the state.

Inferring truth about a social event in a social situation, for example, requires a nuanced set of thought processes and attention mechanisms.

If we had a swarm of LLMs collecting a variety of data from a variety of disparate sources, where the swarm communicates for consensus, it would be very hard to convince them that Moscow is in Connecticut.

Unfortunately we are still stuck in monolithic training run land.
I use copilot to write boilerplate code that I know how to write but I don't feel like writing it. When it gets it wrong, it's easy to tell and easy to fix.
Hey! Thank you for the comment.

It's first come first serve. If there are say 2 transactions, a and b. If b commits before a, b will supersede a in regards to an atomic bunch(operations in a single unit of work). The way it works is a transaction will block the memtable whilst it completes its operations and its first come first serve based on which commits first (FCFS).

I did not want to implement MVCC nor a complex transaction scheme as I designed everything else to be quite simple.
seriously. I'd never ask an LLM a question I had no idea what the answer was.
Canvas predates javascript. For example, TCL's TK toolkit uses Canvas[1]

[1] https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/canvas.html
Strange because their latest iPhones do have Wifi 7
I noticed that in ‘22 there was a solid shift from three letter acronyms to four. Madness.
Weird that the M4 Pro in the Mac mini can go up to 64GB. Maybe a size limitation on the MBP motherboard or SOC package?
I don't think so. They would have made that a huge deal.
> As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision

CEOs need to not say this, unless they're quitting too.
They are keeping both:

"Quite a few people seem to love K-9 Mail and have asked us to keep the robot dog around. We believe it should be relatively little effort to build two apps from one code base. The apps would be virtually identical and only differ in app name, app icon, and the color scheme. So our current plan is to keep K-9 Mail around."

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/12/when-will-thunderbird-f...
There is an agentless option that just requires ssh access. Not something I’d prefer from a security point of view, but it’s possible.
What those tariffs on Chinese EVs will cost Canadians
http://archive.today/UAgoG
What's the deal with running Linux on these anyway? Could one conceivably set up an M4 mini as headless server? I presume Metal would be impossible to get working if MacOS uses proprietary drivers for it...
Seriously, that severance is awesome. Of all the tech workers struggling, the ones from companies big enough to throw 4+ mo severance packages are not the ones I am worried about. Any smaller company your severance is a pat on the back.
Thanks, but just to put things into perspective, this calculation has counted 8 channels which is 4 DIMMs and that's mostly desktops (not dismissing desktops, just highlighting that it's a different beast).

Most laptops will be 2 DIMMS (probably soldered).
The speed of uv relative to other dependency management tools I've tried is incredible. My biggest hangup so far is that there isn't as great support for automated dependency updates as with more mature tools.
His entire appeal rests on them believing that they are entitled to a better life than the one they have, and that the only reason they don't have it is because they are being oppressed by his political opponents.

They don't see his behavior as pathetic. They see it as a noble attempt to fight powers so vast they dwarf even that of the President of the United States.

You and I see that as absurd and can point out numerous contradictions. But they firmly believe that the election was, in fact, stolen.

Which means that no matter what, one party or the other really is trying to steal the election. It has taken us a long time to get here, but we are in deep trouble and I have no idea how to get out of it.

It is my belief that Trump's side is very wrong, and that a loss on Tuesday will force them to reconsider the policy of buying so heavily into a false version of reality. But we shall see.
Dropbox ain't nothing to duck with.
Looks to me, they started to over engineer their product, just for a storage platform, you dont need 2500 people.
How does this self-perpetuating entrenchment not become a factor in what establishes the supply and demand, instead managing to exist as something off to the side?
Yeah but if you were worth $10m, $100m, $250m, would you take it easy? If you would, then you wouldn’t get to $2b.
I'm convinced what we are witnessing is that there are genius level engineers (lots of them) that are and many have always been sub-par communicators. I think being a good communicator tracks really well with how much someone can get out of LLMs (as does engineering competency. You need both).

Great but not genius engineers who are also great communicators may broadly outperform people with only technical genius soon, but that's speculation on my part.
It is a great deal. The core demographic of HN has been very fortunate and does not understand what the norm across industries is.
Ubuntu nothwistanding, I found the Apple ads quite offensive.

Ads tell you what the company thinks about it's target audience and clearly Apple thinks we're all just a bunch of bumbling fools that can't do anything without our phones.

Compared to this Samsung Galaxy S24 FE, which frames everything as something that can help you out and is fun and quirky: https://youtu.be/GZ-xGBTvtO4

I've been using Mac as my workhorse my entire career, switched from Android to iPhone recently. These ads are actually making me reconsider what my next hardware upgrades are going to be.
Pattern Language
As with the Apple ads, I remain unconvinced these are benefits. Translation, yes, but your last two examples feel oddly isolating and dehumanizing. Like, estimating the number of people in a line is a trivial task, and something fun to discuss and argue about with your friends! If your friend had the glasses to, do you think it would have come up in conversation at all or would they just ask theirs?

I dunno, I'm picturing a future with everyone standing around absorbed in their own devices (not too different from today) but where we struggle to ask each other normal questions due to offloading our collective intelligence and social skills to the cloud. Destined to become Daphne totally reliant on glasses to interact with the world around us.

I'm probably overly dramatic here. You're out having fun at a park with friends! I'm just trying to imagine how future generations will interact with this tech, particularly the youth who won't know a world without.
Most employees can as well - IFF you move to different companies.
Representing web applications as knowledge graphs
I've owned an M1 MBP base model since 2021 and I just got an M3 Max for work. I was curious to see if it "felt" different and was contemplating an upgrade to M4. You know what? It doesn't really feel different. I think my browser opens about 1 second faster from a cold start. But other than that, no perceptible difference day to day.
It's because of Passover: The Seder (main celebratory meal) lasts till midnight and later, and it's a very big deal for children.

So they don't want Daylight Savings Time to make it end even later than it already does.

It's also because of the fast day of Yom Kippur - people wanted the faster to end 1 hour earlier.

So they wanted DST to match up to those days - but that made the DST period too short, and led to the negotiations.
I don't think you understand what a press release is.