skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those PCs have to be ordered from Aliexpress, or some other Chinese site, or else from Amazon via a third party resellers that adds their own markup on top

I anticipated this concern, the $509 I gave earlier is the Amazon price that includes the mark-up. The Beelink SER7 costs only $320 on AliExpress.

Modern solid-state electronics are very reliable, most reliability issues for electronics are related to screens or batteries; which desktop computers lack. I guess there was a bad-capacitor problem over a decade ago, but nothing since then. If your risk-aversion for a desktop computer is high, you pay the Apple premium (possibly buying Applecare), or self-insure by buying 2 SER7s for nearly the same price ($640) as one regular M4 Mac Mini and keep the other one as a spare.
The Alignment Trap: AI Safety as Path to Power
Recent discussions about artificial intelligence safety have focused heavily on ensuring AI systems remain under human control. While this goal seems laudable on its surface, we should carefully examine whether some proposed safety measures could paradoxically enable rather than prevent dangerous concentrations of power.
Takkyubin in Japan is basically this, though smaller. https://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/ytc/en/send/services/takkyu...
Intel also had the stack ranking. I think this management technique originated with Jack Welsh at GE. It does pit groups against each other. Even for individuals on the same team, it pays to sabotage each other's work. I heard of managers hiring people so that they could be offered up when layoffs came around. It was kind of like how the Celt's had human sacrifice. Families would adopt people so that they could be offered up if they were chosen to give a family member for sacrifice at a later date.
I had no idea that there were Busytown games! Very cool, thank you for linking.
HP of the era was falling apart and making stupid acquisitions.
Non-Apple displays have awful PPI, even the allegedly high-DPI ones.
Where I work, Salesforce is the ERP and also powers a lot of our front end.

Its core strength (if you don't fall for all their salesy mumbo jumbo magical mystery tour weasel words) is that "native applications" require zero integrations/configurations. They "just work".

Salesforce is the CRM. It is the source of truth for our customers, orders, vendors. It is also the service (help desk agents use their VOIP to help customers and transcripts are automatically logged). It does the marketing. It also does our financials. It also integrates with our survey SaaS.

It also powers a lot of front end because our front end stack sucks. We use SOSL to power our front end search. It also creates micro-sites that our front end points to.

They also have an ecosystem of third-party apps that "just works".

With all that said. It is very expensive. Mulesoft is horrible. I wish they tone-down the salesy bullshit; they don't need the Microsoft-Azure level of bullshit -- Salesforce actually works.
Curious if your experience of this is good or bad?

Setting up a clear us vs. them mission at least makes it clear across the company what you should be focussing on.

My experience at bigcos is that the mission is some hand wavey 'we exist to make life better for our customers' statement, and no one ever could agree on what that meant.
It was really not waterproof. It was IP67, which is far from the IP68 almost all phones have today. https://phandroid.com/2014/04/21/galaxy-s5-ip67-meaning/
>This is not a problem in other languages.

I don't have a dog in this fight one way or the other, but it really is surprising that all these pro-kanji comments seem to ignore the concept of context altogether. It's very circular reasoning being used to try and explain why kanji are necessary.
Call an ambulance. Acute psychosis needs immediate treatment, they may easily hurt themselves or others. The psychosis can be stopped with one injection, don't prolong their suffering. Before the ambulance arrives, try to reassure them that they are safe, there is peace around them and help is on the way. Once the ambulance arrives, go away - it might get messy.
To be fair, they bought Quip four years before Slack, so they haven't all been winners.
If you want some sanity, bare git repos, of course :)
I think Bloomberg’s at fault: “cut a deal” isn’t usually that ambiguous because it’s clear which state transition is more likely. But here it’s plausible they could’ve been ending some existing training-data-sharing agreement, or that they were making a new different deal. Also the fact it’s pluralised here makes it different enough to the most common form for it to be a bit harder to notice the idiom. But since we can’t change the fact they used that title, I would like HN to change it now.
The feds do this to literally every extremist movement/group/demographic. It's so f-ing tiresome.
I'd wager it is almost certainly real humans, just not engaging authentically i.e. paid trolls, at least until the cost of generative AI falls bellow troll farms.
You keep using the words "perpetrator" and "victim" as if it's a given that a person filing a DMCA is always doing so truthfully against an actually-violating project.

I don't have as much faith in the system as you, apparently.

Sometimes the DMCA'd person is the victim, and the complainant is the perpetrator. What is your response to those situations?
Yeah, it was odd because the first time I told a psychiatrist that I heard voices, it was because of a split-second incident out in the street where I swear I heard a distinct vocalization from the vicinity of a traffic light. No human was there, of course, and the illusion was over before it began.

That was enough to slap a prescription on me for years to come.

Eventually I began to question why they kept wanting to prescribe this stuff and why one of the standard questions was always "do you hear voices?" and I also began to question their terminology. "What do you mean, by hearing voices?" "Oh, well, hallucinations." and I drilled down into their definitions and epistemology for a while.

I told them that I am a Christian, and of course I hear voices. People of faith, who are quite sane, discuss this openly all the time. We are always encouraged to listen to the voice of Jesus, the voice of the Holy Spirit, to listen to the voices of those who wrote Sacred Scripture. I told the doc that I'd be crazy (and lost, and significantly more troubled) if I didn't hear anyone's voice.

Of course they're probing for stuff to medicate, they're probing for irrationality, and they're probing for evil voices who goad us to do harm to ourselves or to others. And of course I was troubled by those types too.

But they weren't unreal. They weren't hallucinations because the sources exist in reality. They don't come from human bodies, but spirits are real to Christians.

The solution is not to medicate the voices or deny that the voices exist or to ignore the voices, it's to form our consciences so that we can stand up to lies, stand up to temptation, and resist evil. It's as simple as that. Whether the voices come from Mom and Dad, or social media, or television, or they're 100% in our heads, we need to discern their spirits, and deal with them according to our conscience.

It was so jarring that the doctors would be goading me to deny my faith in this way and to claim that if I heard a voice encouraging me in a moral direction, that it was fake, a hallucination, a disease. I have been so profoundly insulted. This is one of the many reasons I lost trust in them.
Remember that this for evaluating future states of the board. A state of the board where the opposing king is taken (or technically just checkmated), yielding a win is highly desirable. In this case K' is zero even though this can't happen in a middle of the game. By having such an evaluation function the computer is encouraged to make moves that reach this state.
These Cable Matters ones work well, but need their firmware flashed. Luckily, it was extremely easy and worked great for me. Here's an Apple forum thread about it: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/dp-usb-c-thunderbolt-3-...

Here's the exact model I have: https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Ethernet-Delivery-Charg...
This observable resistance to change seems to stem from firm irrational beliefs: it's amusing how structurally close to an (institutionalized) religion institutionalized science is.

Like, how most people actually believe in science: they're incapable of understanding, nor reproducing most results (e.g. flat earthers, reproducibility issues in research).

A half-baked religion, which doesn't even encourage morality, what could go wrong…
It's the halfway point between the winter solistice an autumnal equinox. Just like "Christmas" is really just winter solstice.

It's all thinly veiled solar worship.
Posted in another comment:

These Cable Matters ones work well, but need their firmware flashed. Luckily, it was extremely easy and worked great for me. Here's an Apple forum thread about it: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/dp-usb-c-thunderbolt-3-...

Here's the exact model I have: https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Ethernet-Delivery-Charg...
Here's how Twitter did it 15 years ago: https://blog.x.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/murder-fast-data...
You're right it is a bit all over the place.

"The killer app is making calls" is me quoting Steve Jobs on the Iphone 1 presentation. I get that it doesn't sound true now, knowing all we can do. It's true Iphone was a lot more, but that was his conviction at the time, and I think it makes sense. Their aim was to make the best phone in the world.

I also think yeah, it is a bit like Macintosh in the sense that this is a new general purpose technology, and I'm not sure we've really figured out what's going to the most transformative about it yet.
I went with the LG CX model based on what I read on rtings.com

That’s a previous-generation model. I think all of the LG TVs are good.

There are / were technical caveats. I believe all of them are solved by M3 macs that have HDMI 2.1 ports. (M3 or M3 Pro or something? The ones advertised as 8K capable.) Out of the box, those will do 4K 120Hz HDR with variable refresh rate and full 444 color. This is what you want.

It is possible to get that going on older machines, except for VRR which is more of a nice-to-have anyway.

I have a 2018 Macbook Pro 15”. Disclaimer!: My setup was a “complexity pet”, a tinkering project; There are simpler ways to connect a 120Hz 4K HDR HDMI 2.1 display to a non-HDMI-2-1 mac. And! My tinkering project wasn’t only about getting the display working correctly. It was more about messing with eGPUs and virtualization and stuff. Definitely a long way round.

On my Intel mac, I use an AMD Radeon 6800 XT eGPU with Club3D or CableMatters DisplayPort-to-HDMI 2.1 adapters. Plus some EDID hacking which is easy to do.

EDID is how the display identifies itself to the OS. The EDID payload can be overridden on the OS side. Mostly it’s about copying the display’s EDID and deleting the entry that says the display can accept 4:2:0 color. Only then does macOS switch to 4:4:4 color. I also created a custom “modeline” with tighter timing to get 120Hz going fully.

—Please be assured that this was way more complex than it needed to be. It was for fun!

There are much easier ways to do this. Lots of forum posts on it. On the MacRumors forums iirc? User joevt is The Man.

And even then, what I wrote above is actually easy to do once you know it’s possible.

Mostly though you really want an M3 Mac that just has HDMI 2.1 and is ready to go.

There are/were also OLED gaming monitors available, such as from Alienware. Those have DisplayPort inputs and are ready to go with almost any older Mac. Might be able to find one for a price equivalent to a TV, idk.
I think they do both simultaneously, it's just that the cursor sprite/plane is overlaid during scan out and the software cursor is rendered in the next frame to be rendered by the compositor. The cursor sprite/plane can turn on or off pretty much mid-frame, whereas the frame that's about to be rendered could be two frames away from the one that's about to be scanned out. What you actually need to do is track when the first frame with the software cursor is about to be presented, then turn off the cursor sprite/plane. I think technically speaking all of the information needed to implement this is present somewhere, but I'm sure it's quite complicated to actually implement, possibly made worse by interface layering issues :)
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I‘m using rsync too. Works great. Unfortunately my managed server at Hetzner does not allow to run Go apps as services. That‘s the last step to figure out for me.
You can often search for press releases with big name services vendor or big name software vendor + your target customer and see if there are press releases. Many large companies work with specific partners for IT services and these providers are the ones with the MSAs that you can attach to.

Examples: Cognizant, Tata, Accenture, etc.

It won't be easy unless you know someone on those teams already. Sometimes if you find a customer that loves your product but cannot procure through a startup, you can ask them if they can refer you to one of their partners and see if you can work something out with them (most of the time, those partners will want an arm and a leg).
As a former vendor working with customers across the e-commerce spectrum, Shopify were certainly the best to work with from both a technology integration and ease of use standpoint. They're a rare example of a company that started very self service and remained that way while growing to significantly more complex client bases so has a wide appeal. Working with them was generally a treat.

Demandware weren't strictly speaking the worst to work with, but it was certainly better days when they were an independent organization vs part of the Salesforce behemoth. There's just a lot more red tape slowing everything down, which I think carries over to the customer experience....things take days/weeks/months in SFCC land that can be done in minutes/hours/days in Shopify land.

All that is to say I'm not at all surprised by the headline, that I'd be long Shopify as an investor, and I'd seriously look at them first as a developer if I were building in the e-commerce space.
How does that address the point the person you are replying to make:

> something like a 1440p monitor will look much worse on macOS than it would on Windows or Linux.
For the past couple weeks or months, twitter has been shuffling the order of sidebar buttons to make room for new features e.g "Premium", "Grok", "Verified Orgs" "Jobs" "Communities"... with no way of disabling this helpful 'feature' or changing the order. "Lists" is now hidden in the same submenu as settings. Way to kill my muscle memory...
I agree with the fire code issues of course!

On the transit and lifestyle aspects - I think those actually come naturally if you allow the density. And I say that is someone who was an organizer for transit for a decade in Seattle. It would have happened on its own, and probably better, if we did the development first.
Well you have to consider the differences but you can absolutely compare them when you want to decide what you buy.
My 14” MBP is the perfect size, best MacBook I’ve ever had. To each is own.
Nah, these look like keyed Deutsch DTM connectors. They are very obviously keyed, so not sure why you say unkeyed.

This will never take hold. These are extremely expensive vs weatherpack and other cheap connectors. Auto manufacturers care about literal pennies.
wouldn't you have the same issue regardless of where the intake was positioned?
10 seconds, why not 1s?

We deploy in <1s. New sites, mods, small sites, large.
Are you suggesting you would inline all that logic if you hand-rolled the method? Probably not, right? You would have a high-level algorithm of easily-understood parts. Why wouldnt the AI be able to 1) write that high-level algorithm and then 2) subsequently write the individual parts?
I think it's less children's books and more decades of propaganda from right wing sources decrying things like affirmative action, DEI etc. If some are to be believed, white men are the most discriminated group in the US.
Read Tubes last year. Magnificent read. A must read for internet users.
The "statistical parrot" parrots have been demonstrably wrong for years (see e.g. LeCun et al[1]). It's just harder to ignore reality with hundreds of millions of people now using incredible new AI tools. We're approaching "don't believe your lying eyes" territory. Deniers will continue pretending that LLMs are just an NFT-level fad or bubble or whatever. The AI revolution will continue to pass them by. More's the pity.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09485
That's what Big IP wants. If copyright is drastically shortened, Mickey Mouse can rake in new IP more quickly and further reduce royalties for creators.

Instead let's support creators directly, boycott publishers, buy and produce physical media, avoid media subscriptions, and shift gaming to open source.
Oslo has also electric ships as public transport operating already for few years.
That is the "For You". I have a comment on this story about how you can remove it, and there are plugins out there that remove it.

Once it is gone Twitter becomes usable again – you only see who you follow and ads. Otherwise it is a really awful experience.
I don't understand the case being made here at all. AI is violating FOSS licenses, I totally agree. But you can write more FOSS using AI. It's totally unfair, because these companies are not sharing their source, and extracting all of the value from FOSS as they can. Fine. But when it comes to OSI Open Source, all they usually had to do was include a text file somewhere mentioning that they used it in order to do the same thing, and when it comes to Free Software, they could just lie about stealing it and/or fly under the radar.

Free software needs more user-facing software, and it needs people other than coders to drive development (think UI people, subject matter specialists, etc.), and AI will help that. While I think what the AI companies are doing is tortious, and that they either should be stopped from doing it or the entire idea of software copyright should be re-examined, I also think that AI will be massively beneficial for Free Software.

I also suspect that this could result in a grand bargain in some court (which favors the billionaires of course) where the AI companies have to pay into a fund of some sort that will be used to pay for FOSS to be created and maintained.

Lastly, maybe Free Software developers should start zipping up all of the OSI licenses that only require that a license be included in the distribution and including that zipfile with their software written in collaboration with AI copilots. That and your latest GPL for the rest (and for your own code) puts you in as safe a place as you could possibly be legally. You'll still be hit by all of the "don't do evil"-style FOSS-esque licenses out there, but you'll at least be safer than all of the proprietary software being written with AI.

I don't know what textbook directs you to eliminate all of your competition by lowering your competition's costs, narrowing your moat of expertise, and not even owning a piece of that.

edit: that being said, I'm obviously talking about Free Software here, and not Open Source. Wasn't Open Source only protected by spirits anyway?
It’s portability for a price especially if you already have your own peripherals
Oh, I've looked at it. I'm not sure how much it would actually help? The holes of the filter seem rather large.

This one from the related products actually looks maybe a little more promising

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CL257227/
> The thread seems to be about how one would manage baristas.

What gives you that impression? It isn't not about baristas, but namely about a parallel between baristas and athletics. That was the context that was setup at the head of this particular thread branch, and we haven't change the subject (aside from that irrational attempt related to being "put down", whatever that was).

> I guess that’s a no then.

Correct. There is no logical place for pointless emotions here. Save it for human interactions.
Of course not but the task requires excellent image understanding, large context window, a mix of structured and unstructured output, high level and spatial reasoning, and a conversational layer on top.

I find it’s predictive of relative performance in other tasks I use LLMs for. Claude is the best. The only shortcoming is its peculiar verbosity.

Definitely superior to anything OpenAI has and miles beyond the “open weights” alternatives like Llama.
It already has a self-hosting option: https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/tree/main/self-host...

It's just not documented well.
Says who?

Install your favorite flavor of Linux then. Beelink devices have a good reputation for being quite happy with a new OS. It's more compatible that the latest Apple devices, that's for certain.
This brings up the broader question: why are AI companies so bad at naming their products?

All the OpenAI model names look like garbled nonsense to the layperson, while Anthropic is a bit of a mixed bag too. I'm not sure what image Claude is supposed to conjure, Sonnet is a nice name if it's packaged as a creative writing tool but less so for developers. Meta AI is at least to the point, though not particularly interesting as far as names go.

Gemini is kind of cool sounding, aiming for the associations of playful/curious of that zodiac sign. And the Gemini models are about as unreliable as astrology is for practical use, so I guess that name makes the most sense.
> the youth struggled with spelling because they wrote rarely, but texted frequently

I wonder if there is any evidence of that other than boomers complaining about it.

>Over several more generations, the speech could even change because the written word has lost the tonal information.

That happens automatically with every language already. It's not like a race to the bottom where suddenly no one knows how to communicate though.

>Compared to the past, we read far more, speak less, and write even less, and most writing has been replaced by typing.

That's not necessarily a bad thing.
You can find this on their website with a bit of clicking around and looking at footnotes:

https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/desktops/Mac_...

> Only after these efforts do we cover residual emissions through high-quality carbon credits that are real, additional, measurable, quantified, and have systems in place to avoid double-counting and ensure permanence.

Better than nothing...

Also interesting:

Maxed out: Mac mini with M4 Pro (64GB memory, 8TB SSD): Product footprint before carbon credits 121 kg CO2e

Min spec: Mac mini with M4 (16GB memory, 256GB SSD): Product footprint before carbon credits 32 kg CO2e

I wouldn't have thought that there is this much of a difference in electronics!
I don't doubt it was in the works, but on what time frame?

Timing probably matters: when most of the market already agrees you can't wait for the last group, you have to strike before everyone defuses again.

And while I can imagine that apple had a plan here, the part that doesn't fit is that they protested the mandate. If this had no effect on their plans, why bother?
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