skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not everyone. Most are just staying silent and trying to avoid being caught the crossfire.
This kind of attitude is why we get such bad IoT security.

Everyone deserves privacy - just like with Facebook, a bad actor watching your profile could infer your movements on Strava (or lack thereof) and use that to break into your home or steal your ride.
Yes, and wouldn’t it be bonkers if the M4 Max supported HBM on desktops?
Same. I used to upgrade every 1.5 years or so. But with every Apple Silicon generation so far I have felt that there are really no good reasons to upgrade. I have a MacBook M3 Pro for work, but there are no convincing differences compared to the M1 Pro.

In fact, I bought a highly discounted Mac Studio with M1 Ultra because the M1 is still so good and it gives me 10Gbit ethernet, 20 cores and a lot of memory.

The only thing I am thinking about is going back to the MacBook Air again since I like the lighter form factor. But the display, 24 GiB max RAM and only 2 Thunderbolt ports would be a significant downgrade.
Yes, it is, because in your phrasing the fact that nobody else keeps time that way is the cause and lack of support in software the effect. The comment that I originally responded to is phrased as though lack of software support is the cause of weirdness.

I object to the latter since software is not the source of truth, the social practices it aims to encode are. It is perfectly reasonable to say that this particular practice is so rare that it is out of scope, but this makes tzdb a not quite correct approximation of reality, rather than reality an approximation of tzdb.
Ah yes voice control, the one thing we have found to be worse than touchscreen to control a car's interface and serve no practical purpose over physical button beside looking pseudo better and saving you time on paper but not really.
> solar is now by far the cheapest backup power

If you're prepared to deal with it's unreliability (when the sun is not shining), then it's by far the cheapest power full stop. In countries with unreliable grids that looks a lot more attractive. Especially as in many of those countries it is reliably sunny.
LLaMA 3.1 405B
Agreed. To be fair, I also get annoyed by fake/exaggerated expression from human podcasters.
This is why people should build a huge ass f-u fund and not look back.
Back when Khronos was still trying to push OpenCL 2.0, I attended one IOCWL webminar where an attendee asked about Fortran support for SPIR.

No one on the panel provided a meaningful answer, and some were even puzzled why someone would want that.

NVidia knew pretty well not only why someone would want Fortran on the GPU, they bought PGI before someone else though about doing the same.

Meanwhile Khronos and AMD still haven't got it.

At least Intel Fortran now also does GPU, and like NVidia are having Python GPU JIT efforts.

And then there is the whole tooling, libraries and additional compilers with PTX backends.
When did you start and how long did it take you to reach 60+ customers?
i think you mean void pointers. the callee will then cast those pointers to an actual type it knows about (and then possibly go horribly wrong)
I don't think the point was organizational, that decisions by the IARC must be respected by the EPA, but more common sensical: if a substance is roughly equivalent in risk to food, which is ingested, then it surely can't be more harmful to spray it than it is to eat it. That may not hold in all situations, but it doesn't seem crazy as a general principle.
If you win the lottery there's no risk in doing it
I'll try to do it less snarky than others but;

This is fine, but frankly we'd love to see resources toward returning Thunderbird to be the more open thing it once was.

Losing the robust plugin system was incredibly frustrating; like, all I want is the ability to have custom colored accounts back.
Terraform is verbose.

It's only boilerplate if you write it again to set almost the same thing again. What, granted, if you are writing bare terraform config, it's probably both.

But on either case, if your terraform config is repetitive and a large part of the code on an entire thing (not a repo, repos are arbitraty divisions, maybe "product", but it's also a bad name). Than that thing is certainly close to useless.
> $100K all-in comp (which seems low to me for a tech salary)

ic1 at dropbox is 175k and ic4 is near 500k, ic5 near 700k.

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/dropbox/salaries

Do they really need such highly paid engineers? Are they really doing anything that innovative, new or first on market.

They could probably save these jobs by adjusting the comps.
Me: This does not look interesting at all, but its really popular, so I'll quickly skim it.
Me, 5 mins later: I can't stop reading this!
bingo. As I understand it, disorder is characterized by harm and lack of control. spending time lifting weights for health is usually OK, staying up all night throwing things at invisible monsters is not.
Is there any way to get push notifications instead of polling? My email provider is Fastmail, maybe there are some kind of IMAP extensions that can do this?
I have a 14" M1 Max with 32gb of ram for work, and it does that popping noise every once it a while too! I've always wondered what was causing it.
Would it make sense to upgrade from M2 Pro 16 to M4 Pro 16? (both base models)
I mean it terms of numbers, more cores, more RAM but everything else is pretty much the same. I am looking forward to see some benchmarks!
I don't have billions and I don't manage people (I've been voluntold to manage 1 person a few times, and I'd rather that not happen again), but I have enough that I don't need to work for economic reasons.

I'm working part time anyway, because it keeps me busy and interacting with people outside my home, and it gives me access to interesting real world problems that I can't really access as an individual person on the interwebs. Having other people depend on me to get things done provides motivation to keep moving on things that I can't seem to manage on my personal projects.

If I liked the kind of organizational management work a CEO does and I was good at it, I'd probably get roped into being a CEO.
Yeah, love these.

In my ideal world we'll add icons for things like "does this need to be a proposition" (i.e. bond-funded measures; some pension props), a visual indicator of the $$ at stake (state/municipal assessment if necessary), progress bars for how much campaign money was spent on each prop/candidate (a nice proxy for how contentious something is).

What other metadata do you think could be useful?
This is me. My wife's old intel air was finally getting slow enough she was willing to replace it. Ordered a 2023 M3 Pro for her on Monday (that was even on sale!) knowing the refund window was ~2 weeks. Today, ordered a 2024 M4 Pro for the same price and better specs. (M3Pro, 512GB, 18GB ram -> M4Pro, 512GB, 24GB ram).
Some Thoughts on Service Isolation
If you don't know what an iPhone is, what Siri is, this ad spot's is this girl asking on the phone for someone's name and faking remembering the guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPe8revsg3k

Is that a story or one single scene ? Was there someone on the phone ? Is the text bubble that person answering ? or is it just movie magic like so many over ads?

It only makes sense as an ad if you know the product, otherwise you wouldn't even understand it's the phone doing it all.

We're in agreement that the Ubuntu movie isn't selling it either. My point was that it's probably not aimed at that, you aren't suppose to rush to Ubuntu's site to download an ISO on the spot after watching it, it's probably more of a branding act than a push to action. Precisely to seed the Ubuntu name perhaps ?
The average tech worker really should not have to go into any debt for even a year long hiatus from their typically well paying job. All that is required is living like a typical American and saving your salary. I honestly don't see how anyone can claim tech workers are not compensated for the volatility inherent in the industry.
Yeah I’m in the same boat. I had my old mid 2013 Air for 7 years before I pulled the trigger on that too. I’ll be grabbing myself an M4 Pro this time
I've had programs written for Python 2 run on 3 first time by just changing the print to print(). I guess they weren't very big though.
That would make the most sense for the next Mac Studio version.
Agreed. Also rocking a M1 Pro MBP and can’t see myself replacing it until it dies
tangent: any reason to assume it gets mapped to a manifold rather than something that is not?
Because it's fun? Honestly after two days of vacation, I'm about ready to do something
Wow: Triggering the protection system a second time turned off the regular radio:

"While the S-band uses less power, Voyager 1 had not used it to communicate with Earth since 1981. It uses a different frequency than the X-band transmitters signal is significantly fainter. The flight team was not certain the S-band could be detected at Earth due to the spacecraft’s distance, but engineers with the Deep Space Network were able to find it."

Heros, both those who made the S-band radio and those who managed to retrieve the signal.
The minimum needed in the US for this situation is 60 calendar days [1]. Hence the 16 weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
This is how it feels to own a desktop computer.
For the EPA, "likely carcinogen" means:

• There is evidence of carcinogenicity in animals. (Multiple, consistent studies)

• The substance is shown to directly or indirectly cause chromosomal damage or mutations in a way that is relevant to humans.

• There are no or limited human studies, they are inconclusive, or otherwise inadequate. ((Note: This is sort of a "Why isn't this classified higher?" factor.)). ((If a substance isn't in widespread use, it is kind of hard to design an ethical human study. I mean, you aren't going to have some of your test subjects drink a bunch of likely carcinogen each morning.))

So this is a a classification for "Let's maybe not go nuts with this stuff, and someone really ought to check this out. And if you plan to ship tons of this stuff you might want to talk to your lawyers and lawsuit judgement mitigation team."

I didn't manage to find an exhaustive list of things the EPA has listed with this, but I found one that included higher risks as well, and in my little warehouse/workshop I identified 8 things at a casual glance that I have in inventory or generate. Proper use of these have minimal exposure to my squishy bits for most of them, and the others a well informed user should know to take adequate precautions. (e.g. "wood dust": wear a respirator)

The US does not currently fund the EPA to commission studies to further investigate likely carcinogens, so they stay on the list for ages.
Yeah that's "run for the exits" territory to me. Especially considering they are already below pre-COVID staff levels it appears.
Incredibly easy if you figure out how to use Android build variants.

I'm using and loving Thunderbird for Android.
I'm not sure why you think hallucinations can't be "fixed". If we define hallucinations as falsehoods introduced between the training data and LLM output, then it seems obvious that the hallucination rate could at least be reduced significantly. Are you defining hallucinations as falsehood introduced at any point in the process?

Alternatively, are you saying that they can never be entirely fixed because LLMs are an approximate method? I'm in agreement here, but I don't think the researchers are claiming that they solved hallucinations completely.

Do you think LLMs don't have an internal model of the world? Many people seem to think that, but it is possible to find an internal model of the world in small LLMs trained on specific tasks (See [0] for a nice write-up of someone doing that with an LLM trained on Othello moves). Presumably larger general LLMs have various models inside of them too, but those would be more difficult to locate. That being said, I haven't been keeping up with the literature on LLM interpretation, so someone might have managed it by now.

[0] https://thegradient.pub/othello
The consequences are going to be stock value increase.

Edit: it’s already visible.
It’s not “ridiculously low.” Before the layoff they were 2700 people. That’s like a VP2 at most large tech companies and 1.5M total comp is spot on for that level.
I standardized on 16gb for my laptops over 10 years ago. I keep a late 2013 MBP with 16 for testing projects on, separate from my main Linux box.

Getting an extra five years of longevity (after RAM became fixed) for an extra 10% was a no-brainer imho.
No, not right now. It was in 2023, by a thin margin,and that's soon 2 years ago.

In 2024, it's not even passing the top 5

https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2024-half-year-euro...
Agreed in general, but the question is what we give up in going to a more-resilient system. In particular, lots of things are the way they are because of cost. Would you be OK with your food costs doubling or tripling because it’s local? I don’t think I would.
Am not sure the second part is always true: there might be situations where statistical approaches could be made kind of "infinitely" accurate as far as data is concerned but still represent a complete misunderstanding of the actual situation (aka truth), e.g., layering epicycles on epicycles in a geocentric model of the solar systems.

Some data might support a statistical approach other might not even though it might not contain misrepresentations as such.
But is Janet Yellen still throwing a tantrum and telling anyone who will listen that China is building solar panels too efficiently? https://apnews.com/article/china-yellen-manufacturing-treasu...
It might not be complete nonsense.

If you map energy -> power the paragraph actually says something sensible.

It could have been worse: if they'd said something like "500 megawatts per week" it would be completely unclear what they even mean. Should you map it to megawatt-hours / week (around 3 MW), because that's a common (kind of goofy) unit to work in? Or does it mean they use (on average) 500 MW?
They probably don't have SF housing costs in their country.
That’s also how Julian days work, they go from noon to noon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
Isn't that a non-bus trap? (Seems like the UK gets it right by calling it "car trap"!)
> You can (and it would't look that different).

Actually the modern publishing of What do people do all day removed a bunch of the jobs. I don't have info on why they did that, but if you want to read it make sure to get the original unabridged (uncensored?) version.
GP is attacking annoying bullshit language. Not the CEO.
What's the alternative? Busy work and shrinking equity value until things turn around or I get a much more abrupt layoff?

I think I prefer the severance, the full disclosure, the opportunity to find another job and the possibility to keep teams together at a new thing.
I love google photos little albums and creations. I am the kind of person that almost nevers looks at pictures on their own, so when I get a google photos notifications I always get watch them and get to remember cool memories.
> Well run companies laying off 20% of the global staff?

Well run companies laying off 20% of the global staff a year after laying off 20% of the global staff?
EMMA: End-to-End Multimodal Model for Autonomous Driving
See the Apple page on 8k displays,

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102236
It's less of a habit and more indication of a matured business.

Their revenue has only been growing ~5% (and slowing to just 1% most recent quarter).

When you aren't growing, you must focus on operation efficiencies.

Rule of 40, now being applied to margin.
It doesn’t. You’re kind of illustrating what I’m getting at.
Night Lights in North Dakota – EROS Center
Obligatory - David Olsen and Paul Eggert - thank you for your service. The world literally works because of your efforts and I don’t feel people really appreciate the ridiculous man made problem that you spent your labours to help resolve.

If there was a Hall of Fame of OSS contributors - you would be in it sitting on top of a mountain. The Time Zone problem is a unique problem in that its not just a problem of whats the time in this location - its what was the time in this location 20, 50, 100 years ago. The level of scholarship and historical research you put into this library is really quite unmatched. Amazing folks you two. The whole world quite literally sits on the shoulders of you two giants.

“Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin in his whimsical essay “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). Not everyone is happy with the results.” - Paul Eggert
If we're mostly concerned about CPU grunt, it's really hard to question the Ryzen 7040, which like the M1, is also not the newest generation chip, though it is newer than the M1 by a couple of years. Still, comparing an M1 MacBook Pro with a Framework 16 on Geekbench:

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-14-inch-2021-...

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/4260192

Both of these CPUs perform well enough that most users will not need to be concerned at all about the compute power. Newer CPUs are doing better but it'd be hard to notice day-to-day.

As for other laptop features... That'll obviously be vendor-dependent. The biggest advantage of the PC market is all of the choices you get to make, and the biggest disadvantage of the PC market is all of the choices you have to make. (Edit: Though if anyone wants a comparison point, just for sake of argument, I think generally the strongest options have been from ASUS. Right now, the Zephyrus G16 has been reviewing pretty good, with people mostly just complaining that it is too expensive. Certainly can't argue with that. Personally, I run Framework, but I don't really run the latest-and-greatest mobile chipsets most of the time, and I don't think Framework is ideal for people who want that.)
I feel you, but Apple's trackpad prowess is not an easy thing to copy. It's one of those things I never expect anyone else to be able to replicate the level of deep integration between the hardware and software.

It's 2024, and I still see most Windows users carrying a mouse to use with their laptop.
did a small check & things seem to be hyped
The easily agreed upon stuff is done?? Gasoline is taxed enough to remove its carbon afterwards? Coal carries an environmental surcharge? Methane leaks are fined? The really obvious stuff is done?? Where?
Mercury is also pretty sweet as a live coding environment: https://github.com/tmhglnd/mercury
I used to play a modded copy of GTA 5 with my son that removed all the violence and you would teleport into cars instead of stealing them. My son would have me ride the street car with him, drive in the sewers, drive to the farm and look for tractors. It's a really great city simulator with mods.
The myth of exponential growth is not that companies can't grow exponentially forever (since that's the case for most companies) but rather that the valuation of these companies depends on exponential growth (it does not). Most public companies in the United states do not experience the exponential growth many tech startups do, but do perfectly well for themselves, their customers, and their employees.

No one is pushing for exponential growth. If a company wants to stop, declare a dividend, and be done with it, and let investors choose a new rodeo.
When I saw the M1s come out, I thought that dev tooling would take a while to work for M1, which was correct. It probably took a year for most everything to be compiled for arm64. However I had too little faith in Rosetta and just the speed upgrade M1 really brought. So what I mean to say is, I still have that deadweight MBA that I only use for web browsing :)
Wind power has also become really cheap in China. Tenders are around 1100-1800 CNY/kW onshore and around 3000 CNY/kW offshore.

At the China Windpower 2024 trade fair held in October, 12 manufacturers presented wind turbines larger than 16MW, and 5 manufacturers are pushing into the 25MW range.

After wind and PV became cheaper than coal in China, subsidies for onshore wind and PV were largely canceled. Subsidies in the offshore sector serve to build up an export industry.

As a result, 2/3 of new PV and wind farms built worldwide are subsidy-free, most of them in China.
ahhh this is brilliant! I've just pushed a fix for this - thank you!

I've also deleted your user so if you start again it should not give you any trouble!

Thanks for being a destructive tester. Please keep going!
IIRC, purego repurposes a lot of cgo machinery, so I don't think there would be much difference. For my purposes, it doesn't matter since the ML library does several seconds to minutes of work using multiple cores per call.
Yet, people still vie from all over to work at US companies and we still draw the best talent.

There's also unemployment benefits for US workers.

Haters gonna hate, I guess.
I do the same thing, but there are two big caveats:

1. Nested virtualization doesn't work in most virtualization software, so if your workflow involves running stuff in VMs it is not going to work from within another VM. The exception is apparently now the beta version of UTM with the Apple Virtualization backend, but that's highly experimental.

2. Trackpad scrolling is emulated as discrete mouse wheel clicks, which is really annoying for anyone used to the smooth scrolling on macOS. So what I do is use macOS for most browsing and other non-technical stuff but do all my coding in the Linux VM.
This sounds good until you realize that half or more of the software engineers are people working in 3rd world countries who just need a job, or they're H-1B's working in the US who can't afford to make waves.

We would need to form some kind of global union and push back together.
I admire your creativity/positivity!
I think the only upgrade now is from a non-Pro to Pro, since a 120Hz screen is noticeably better than a 60Hz screen (and a borderline scam that a 1000 Euro phone does not have 120Hz).

The new camera button is kinda nice though.
Yeah, FairEmail is great. Personally I can't sing its praises enough. I'm thinking of upgrading to Pro for the home screen widgets too.

I also find it surprisingly user friendly, the UI is easy to navigate and the advanced stuff is pretty well communicated e.g. templates and mailbox rules.
500 megawatts would be 4.4 terawatt hours per year. That's in the ballpark of what they actually did produce in 02019, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_South_Africa. So the journalist seems to have actually been correct in this case, although it's a bit like saying "the distance covered by the runner was 12 miles per hour", when it would perhaps be more appropriate to say that that was the runner's speed rather than the runner's distance.
"This is a huge week for the Mac, and this morning, we begin a series of three exciting new product announcements that will take place over the coming days," said Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus, in a video announcing the new iMac.
Ask HN: Are signups on archive.org broken?
Apparently you need an account to download certain files ¯\_(ツ)_/
Vitess 21
I just looked at it again side by side and I think they are actually the same. Not sure why I earlier thought they were different.
It's totally fine.

With a TB4 case with an NVME you can get something like 2300MB/s read speeds. You can also use a USB4 case which will give you over 3000MB/s (this is what I'm doing for storing video footage for Resolve).

With a TB5 case you can go to like 6000MB/s. See this SSD by OWC:

https://www.owc.com/solutions/envoy-ultra
It's already pretty prevalent in gym circles. Not to TRT levels yet, but pretty close. Whomever you get your TRT from (clinic or UGL) you can likely get your preferred GLP-1 from as well.