skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cop-out in question is not the complaint but the rote and glib response that a podcast isn't an academic venue. The two things are not at cross purposes, and quite a lot of popular media, including outlets in which Gelman has relayed his concerns about Langer, where the goal is quite specifically to critique dubious claims. And even otherwise, people form their view of the world based on the media they consume. Levitt knows this and leverages this, along with being an academic, to boost his platform, which in turn is used to boost the profile of his guests. The argument that he bears no responsibility at all for what and how he presents to his audience is dubious.

>It not like there can only be one Podcast. If you see that the world is missing something, create it! Nobody else is going to do it. If they would, you already wouldn’t have found it lacking.

I would have thought the past decade would have put this marketplace of ideas hokum to rest, but here we are.
I think: Ubuntu/the team that made the Ubuntu ad.
I agree, the history is pretty bad.

At least from someone who is on the edge of the business and seeing what is going on. It is a lot better now, especially at the enterprise level. They've been hiring and buying companies too.

It won't be fixed over night, but it is definitely a renewed focus.
I've been happy with FairEmail but I think I will give this a try when it hits F-Droid. At this stage it's mainly curiosity, but if they get new features like sync with desktop down the line it will be great.
Super Micro Computer stock tanks after accounting firm resigns
Hm, the M3 MacBook Pro had a 96GB of ram model (which is what I have). I wonder why it's not an option with the M4.
Farmer of 5,000 acres here. You have a choice between no till farming which requires lots of chemicals or till which requires lots of heavy machinery. Nothing else works at commercial scale or is capable of feeding the world.

The closest alternative I have seen is Joel Salatin's approach which does not use chemicals and has minimal tillage... But is extremely labor intensive and is not profitable at commodity prices.

Pick your poison.
The M4 tops off at 32 GB

The M4 Pro goes up to 48 GB

The M4 Max can have up to 128 GB
>Then we could have an honest conversation about why.

It doesn't even need to be a conversation. Humans forget things.

"Oh damn, I forgot! Let's grab dinner tonight!" or w/e, that's all people need.
the concept seems interesting and promising, esp for handling the information overload nowadays- I will definitely check it out to see how it works in practice
Off topic, but I’m very interested in local LLMs. Could you point me in the right direction, both hardware specs and models?
Most people understand that companies need to adjust in size. There’s nothing moral about it.
Musk has replaced 5 Million cars on our roads with electric cars.
Also he has installed five hundred thousand solar panels.
> while keeping the starting price at just $999 — a terrific value for the world’s best-selling laptop

Only in US it seems. India got a price increase by $120.
High availability story for AI workloads will be a problem for another decade. From what I can see the current pressing problem is to get stuff working quickly and iterate quickly.
Thanks for explaining, people! To me ABI immediately triggers the aarch64 / x86 etc vibes, but that indeed makes sense!

Now I'm wondering if/how managed code of e.g. dotnet solves this issue, but that might be too much of a tangent.
On the standard M4 processor. If you move the M4 Pro it tops out at 48gb or moving to the M4 Max goes up to 128gb.
SketchUp uses stencil shadows! Although we have more modern options, it is part of the look.
It's not the memory being unified that makes it fast, it's the combination of the memory bus being extremely wide and the memory being extremely close to the processor. It's the same principle that discrete GPUs or server CPUs with onboard HBM memory use to make their non-unified memory go ultra fast.
>I want NO part of the future they are selling.

Most AI in a nutshell right now.
Well it's more like pick your poison, cause all options have caveats:

- Apple: all the capacity and bandwidth, but no compute to utilize it

- AMD/Nvidia: all the compute and bandwidth, but no capacity to load anything

- DDR5: all the capacity, but no compute or bandwidth (cheap tho)
The biggest difference is that we own the retries and communications e2e (transactional email/sms from your domain and dedicated #). This enables us to be far more configurable for each Merchant in terms of recovery period while ensuring that sufficient retry and communications are occurring prior to cancelling a subscription. Stunning is typically used alongside Stripe's retries to send customer emails, which means the two are disjointed. This often leads to too many communications or too few. By treating each customer and their payments individually we're taking a highly tailored approach that's fully automated.

Stripe also caps retries at 8 attempts and while you don't want to over-attempt there are many payments left on the table that require more. It's the card networks (visa, mastercard, etc.) that set retry rules. Unless you're on an IC+ model Stripe is absorbing the declined authorization fees so there's a partial conflict of interest here.

Each business is different in terms of average transaction size, failure rate and recovery rate. Our primary value prop is increasing recovery rate but for others is our automation that's even more valuable to scale operations efficiently and move manual outreach efforts to other areas of the business.
Can pretty quickly see that the CEO comp # in question is not the stock. Houston sold many times more than $1.5m in stock in 2023. The $1.5m is likely direct cash and services.
They could also be reducing their workforce because they decided to for human reasons and their value might go down by more than the cost savings.
Kind of surprising to me, because I think I've tried every large competitor in the space, and have found there to be a gulf between the Dropbox UX and everyone else. I'm more than willing to pay their premium price. I was hoping Proton Drive would compete, but I felt like I was beta testing an inferior product.

I guess Wu Tang was right.
How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool
Nice to see they increased the number of performance cores in the M4 Pro, compared to the M3 Pro. Though I am worried about the impact of this change on battery life on the MBPs.

Another positive development was bumping up baseline amounts of RAM. They kept selling machines with just 8 gigabytes of RAM for way longer than they should have. It might be fine for many workflows, but feels weird on “pro” machines at their price points.

I’m sure Apple has been coerced to up its game because of AI. Yet we can rejoice in seeing their laptop hardware, which already surpassed the competition, become even better.
I was curious so I looked it up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR5_SDRAM (info from the first section):

> DDR5 is capable of 8GT/s which translates to 64 GB/s (8 gigatransfers/second * 64-bit width / 8 bits/byte = 64 GB/s) of bandwidth per DIMM.

So for example if you have a server with 16 DDR5 DIMMs (sticks) it equates to 1,024 GB/s of total bandwidth.

DDR4 clocks in at 3.2GT/s and the fastest DDR3 at 2.1GT/s.

DDR5 is an impressive jump. HBM is totally bonkers at 128GB/s per DIMM (HBM is the memory used in the top end Nvidia datacenter cards).

Cheers.
Won't someone think of the most privileged human beings to ever walk the surface of this planet (first world women)? :eyeroll:
New app performs motion capture using just your smartphone
I'm not sure Russel Brand is the best ambassador for plain English.
I have a 2013 Macbook Air as a casual browsing machine that's still going strong (by some definition of it) after a battery replacement.
I'm not sure we can leverage the neural cores for now, but they're already rather good for LLMs, depending on what metrics you value most.

A specced out Mac Studio (M2 being the latest model as of today) isn't cheap, but it can run 180B models, run them fast for the price, and use <300W of power doing it. It idles below 10W as well.
Still, no matter how much you are willing to spend, you cannot buy a MacBook Pro with an LTE modem, like the ones in the iPhone, iPad, and Watch.
Lisp is a language family, not one specific language. Do you have a particular one in mind? There are many languages that can be called Lisp which are different from each other, and some have multiple implementations.

Mainstream Lisp dialects have had objects other than lists for many, many decades. The LISP-1 programmer's manual from 1960, referencing the original language which started it all, describes zero-based arrays already.

In some Lisp-like languages, the syntax processing itself is based on arrays, like Janet. The parenthesized notation turns into a nested array, not a nested linked list.

In Lisps where the syntax is based on lists, that doesn't imply that your program has to work with list at run-time. The code-transformations (macros) which happen at compile time will be working with linked lists.

Budding computer scientists and engineers like to write toy Lisp dialects (sometimes in one weekend). Often, those languages only work with linked lists, and are interpreted, meaning that the linked lists representing the code structure are traversed to execute the program, and repeatedly traversed in the case of loops.

(If you're making remarks about an important historic language family based on familiarity with someone's toy Lisp project on github, or even some dialect with an immature implementation, that is a gross intellectual mistake. You wouldn't do that, would you?)

Linked lists may "kind of suck" on cached hardware with prefetch, but that doesn't prevent them from being widely used in kernels, system libraries, utilities, language run-times (internally, even in the run-times of languages not known for exposing linked lists to the programmer), ... C programmers use linked lists like they are going out of style.
The Basics of Rack for Ruby
> mostly just a problem of not having good reasons

I disagree, I think this is bad ethics, and bad marketing people, working for Apple...what other explanation - same people crushed musical instruments and books, human craft-work -- using a hydraulic press, in a recent Apple advert.

Advertising certainly can show outrageous ways to behave, and it's "okay". Calling someone and simply shouting WAZZZAAAAAAP! into the cell phone, for the famous Budweiser advert during the superbowl...derives into a crew of 3-5 people shouting AAAAAAAAAAAZZZAAA into their phones, oddly. That was cute ....

However this is about enabling through lying. In one ADVERT it makes a Manager believe an Employee is more engaged than they truly are, rewriting their unprofessional language using the new "Professional" button, reasonably leading to a future misallocation of resources by the manager to the irresponsible seemingly under-skilled or simply lazy unethical employee.

What's worse is the people who are NOT using Apple products to lie. The Employees who did not lie about their grip on written language now have to compete with AI, wielded by their ill-behaved coworker. It stratifies society into Idiocracy.

This is a TERRIFYING series of advertisements chosen by Apple.
Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype
I had some trouble migrating from Poetry to uv because the dependency constraints are different. With Poetry, you can use caret ^ and tilde ~ version constraints. Apparently this is outside the PEP spec so uv doesn't implement it. Understandable, but it does make the migration a bit troublesome at times.
I think it’s because AMD has been the “if only…” company for decades. It used to be in relation to Intel’s x86 dominance, and now it’s relative to Nvidia. The x86 fairy tale did eventually come true, which made a lot of money for investors who held on long enough or got in early in the Ryzen era. So now a lot of people are hoping the same will happen in GPUs, and that accounts for the valuation/speculation. And it does make a certain amount of sense. When you have basically a market duopoly but instead of two nearly equal sized competitors you have a 90/10 split, then there’s always a chance the smaller firm will somehow gain significant market share at some point. Waiting for that pop and selling high is a gamble a lot of investors are willing to make.
This is built upon OSSec[1]. While it works ok, with Elastic underneath it's far too much maintenance for my 30 servers.

[1] - https://www.ossec.net/
At least all the M4 Macs. I’m not sure of every older M config has been updated, though at least some have been.
You're handwaving, but I think there is a middle-ground in this proof:

Sum(i=1..n, i)

= Sum(i=1..n/2, i) + Sum(i=1..n/2, n+1-i)

= Sum(i=1..n/2, n+1)

I'm still interested in the general question, of whether some proofs have big gaps between them. The more complex the proofs, the more obvious this would be; my examples are unfortunately simple. Something like proving the fundamental theorem of algebra using Rouche's Theorem (complex analysis) vs. field theory. But I don't know enough math to compare those.
If this has any effect at all it could put downward pressure on the ruble.
I don't understand why people are still using dropbox. pcloud is one time payment and much less expensive. Why would people still use dropbox?
Keeping the equivalent of one week of regular purchases in cash at home, as suggested by the government, is not that practical. It’s just there, completely useless laying in a drawer or under the mattress.

And for a lot of people it’s just not attainable. According to 2023 survey by Alektum, one in three people in the Nordic countries have no or very little money saved for unforeseen expenses.
>tests to prove its safety should be done in a way where gathering statistics doesn’t mean killing people.

Honestly, I believe that in the noisy world this is exactly how you do things. You try it out. We've done it for hundreds of years. If you have good reason to expect drastically effects you are careful of course. I don't think there is a good reason to expect drastic effects from the Cybertruck. If you were wrong you will quickly see problems arise and can cancel your trial. If nothing bad happens, seems alright. This is basically how we've dealt with the safety aspect of engineering and medicine since forever. You can never perfectly predict what's gonna happen.
I'm not talking to "people", I'm writing a specific response to a specific person. Do try to keep up
(On the ad)

The face she makes when walking away from her family ... imagine being married to that.
Related quote:

"They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks." - Plato

https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/

Related blog: https://pessimistsarchive.org/
> This question always gets posted to HN, and is always the top comment whenever an article talks about how many people Company XYZ has.

Perhaps because there hasn't been a good answer yet.

> For every N people you hire, you'll need a manager to manage them, and for every N of those managers, you'll need a second level manager, and so on.

But clearly that's not absolutely necessary, because already we know that two uncoordinated companies can make 4 units with 20 staff each. If the second level manager isn't providing enough value in terms of eliminating duplicated work then they shouldn't be hired.

Of course diminishing returns are going to set in, and bureaucratic inefficiency is a law of nature, but I see your answer as more shallow a dismissal than the question deserves.
Agreed. "Industry standard is to offer 18 months"!! Please let me know this industry, because it ain't tech where I live!
Correct, every Mac computer starts at 16gb now. 256gb/512gb iPad Pro is 8gb, 1tb/2tb is 16gb.
Which iPhone ad can you point me to that doesn’t have a story around a feature at the least?

Also since you bring up familiarity, does that Ubuntu ad tell you which version it’s about? What’s it telling even a seasoned Ubuntu veteran?

And lastly, there’s a much larger percent of the population that knows what an iPhone is but even if they didn’t, it’s in the name. The ads end with iPhone, by Apple and show the product.

Based on that ad, what is Ubuntu? A desktop? An OS? A computer company?
I'm not sure the BBC is even pro-BBC.
Agree. When I hear “I wish Rust was Haskell” I assume the speaker is engaged in fantasy, not in engineering. The kernel is written in C and seems to be able to manage just fine. Problem is not Rust. Problem is wishing Rust was Haskell.
Time-based retention strategies in Postgres
Hopefully this time around Google will grow a brain, pull the plug and shut down operations in this dump for good and stop giving rt free lap dances.
Musical tribute: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/a_sign_o...
Python has overtaken JavaScript on GitHub
What do you mean by "net"? Are you suggesting that the Apple Watch actually causes people's deaths, too—in numbers large enough to counterbalance the lives it's saved?
Right! AMD could double its share of desktop / server CPUs without a huge change in the industry but its much harder for NVIDIA to double its revenue of GPU cards, AI chips.

I have no idea what will happen, or what either is worth. But like Apple, at some point the market is the limiting factor, not the company.
Also with the advances in local AI processing it seems realistic that the image analysis gets much more powerful and suddenly you have something like Microsoft's Recall but in your monitor/TV (and used _solely_ for profiling and not your benefit).
It's just a tactic to get a higher average price while being able to advertise a lower price. What makes it infuriating is memory is dirt cheap. That extra 8GB probably costs them $10 at most, but would add to utility and longevity of their hardware quite a bit.

They are supposed to be "green" but they encourage obsolescence.
I always wonder, do people lose their eyeglasses on these things ?
Arguably the value they were creating was influenced by the direction and application that labor was directed at. Redirecting that available labor at something more valuable would fix that as well wouldn't it?
Anecdotal: I know a lot of people who use Dropbox, I don't know even one person who pays it. They pay for iCloud, probably cause it makes the iPhone experience even more convenient, but not Dropbox. I also don't pay for it.
Generative AI and the Programmer
If it cannot write code, I am not very interested.
Some people do exactly that but it's rare that someone will simultaneously have the drive to do something that will generate them billions of dollars and also be willing or able to just stop working at that point.

Also remember once you have that much money a lot of things become basically free, both figuratively ($100,000 to a billionaire is nothing) and literally (comped rooms, gifts, etc for basically every event and your company(ies) end up footing the bill for most of your expenses).

There's plenty of people who make $5-50 million in a windfall and are never heard from again.
No wifi 7? Are others shipping it?
There is some model of truthfulness encoded in our heads, and we don't draw all of that from our direct experience. For instance, I have never been to Connecticut or Moscow, but I still think that it is false that the capital of Connecticut is Moscow. LLMs of course don't have the benefit of direct experience, which would probably help them to at least some extent hallucination wise.

I think research about hallucination is actually pretty valuable though. Consider that humans make mistakes, and yet we employ a lot of them for various tasks. LLMs can't do physical labor, but an LLM with a low enough hallucination rate could probably take over many non social desk jobs.

Although in saying that, it seems like it also might need to be able to learn from the tasks it completes, and probably a couple of other things too to be useful. I still think the highish level of hallucination we have right now is a major reason why they haven't replaced a bunch of desk jobs though.
In 2021, the average S&P 500 CEO made 324 times what their company's average worker made [0]. The widest gap was at Amazon, with Bezos making over six thousand times as much as the average worker at his company. The report is from a few years ago, since then the gap has increased further. So yes, many companies could trivially retain hundreds if not thousands of workers simply by cutting the CEO's pay.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/these-20-companies-have-bigg...
Actually "it’s 90 percent marketing and ten percent reality".
> Companies' need for people grows quadratically in proportion to the amount they are trying to do, not linearly.

That's fine. The question the poster raises is how come they have 500 over the number of people they need, if the amount of work wasn't reduced.

As a proxy for amount of work, we can take Dropbox revenue:
https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/dbx/revenue/

If those people were needed but now aren't, does this mean Dropbox plans to do less "units of work" and decrease its revenue?

I think a more convincing argument is they overhired even when taking your argument into account.
I agree that humans and AI are in the same boat here.

It's valid to take either position, that both can be aware of truth or that neither can be, and there has been a lot of philosophical debate about this specific topic with humans since well before even mechanical computers were invented.

Plato's cave comes to mind.
These chips are incredible. Even my M1 MBP from 2020 still feels so ridiculously fast for everyday basic use and coding.

Is an upgrade really worth it?
Most voters do indeed know what they want. In any election, well over 90% are going to vote for the same party they did last time.

But it just so happens that those ~90% are divided both bitterly and evenly. Which means the election is going to be decided by a small percent of people.

The former group is increasingly baffled by the latter, since the differences are so stark. It's hard to imagine what kind of person doesn't have a preference.

I'd say that the OP is encouraging people to realize that the difference is very real and will have a significant effect on their lives. They are not addressing the large majority of people whose minds were made up years ago.
Did your read the paper? Do you have specific criticisms of their problem statement, methodology, or results? There is a growing body of research indicating that in fact, there _is_ a taxonomy of 'hallucinations', that they might have different causes and representations, and that there are technical mitigations which have varying levels of effectiveness.
Do you steal and break people's phones?

Not trying to be snarky, I think I very much understand your reaction to this constantly monitored and surveilled world we're in. I think it's arguable that these types of glasses will make it worse too.

But people are recording without permission on their phones since several years now - what has been your reaction there?

I'm not a very confrontational person, so I tend to grumble and say nothing.
You are not disproving the point.
Discussion (129 points, 28 minutes ago, 85 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995701
Thanks. Poor scarecrow, what did he do wrong?
Astral is a VC baked company.

For now their decisions align with the community needs and everyone is happy.

But what will gonna be when their investors needs divert from the community needs or worse, they fail to meet their investors financial expectations and shutdown?
I dunno, those life alert ads gave me the impression that they might not care

https://youtu.be/8C4Sb9TpfM4?si=39Os2aBHL1mpSygy
There seems to be a bug in the 'report a bug' link as it doesn't actually seem to go anywhere to report a bug...