skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that you're probably joking, but - if I use Claude / ChatGPT o1 in my editor and browser, on an M1 Pro - what exactly am I missing by not running e.g. HF models locally? Am I still the greybeard without realising?
The irony of interconnected grids to "reduce volatility" is that any place that previously had a stable grid with low prices are suddenly seeing the exported volatility from the German energy suicide experiment crossing the borders to rape their wallets
Larry Page and Sergey Brin control over 51% of all votes at Google. Similarly, Zuckerberg controls over 60% of the votes at Facebook.

I took a look at https://www.opensecrets.org/ and surprise surprise, Google and Facebook were major election fund contributors to Silicon Valley representatives, like Ro Khanna. This tells me who really holds power.
I have to call today to cancel my charter cable... I would sign up for the tv service more frequently (seasonally), if I could cancel it with a simple click. However, since they require a phone call so they can try to market to me, this will be the last time I ever subscribe in my life.
Lets see how much it remains left if US keeps offshoring all the stuff, followed by imposing import bans after those countries become good enough to start taking over economy sectors.
What about the HTTP sunset header? https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8594
I've tried using flame graphs, but in my view nothing beats the simplicity and succinctness of gprof output for quickly analyzing program bottlenecks.

https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/gprof-2.9.1/html_chapter...

For each function you know how much CPU is spent in the function itself, as opposed to child calls. All in a simple text file without the need for constantly scrolling, panning, and enlarging to get the information you need.
I'm in the US, yes. But I feel like my small Indiana town is always behind the times, so I'd be surprised if anything about it was hardcoded for me.
The EU has the tendency to over regulate every now and then I'd say... But in this case I almost appreciate it
During the post-2001 crash in airline passenger demand US airlines lost more money in that one slump than all profits from all US airlines, combined, from the Wright Brothers to September 11th 2001.

That was why you had such rapid consolidation, as America West became US Airways became American, United bought Continental, and Delta bought Northwest, to remove so much competition that they could be profitable again.
> Solar electric energy production in South Africa in 02019 did indeed average about 500 megajoules per second throughout the year,

Except that isn't what the article says:

"In South Africa, for example, the total amount of energy produced from solar systems in 2019 was thought to be about 500 megawatts"
Wow, this is great! This is exactly how Ive thought times should be done. Ive always called it “local sunrise time”. All the advantages of DST without the biannual spikes in traffic fatalities.
> It doesn't really feel different.

My work machine was upgraded from an M1 with 16GB of RAM to an M3 Max with 36GB and the difference in Xcode compile times is beyond belief: I went from something like 1-2 minutes to 15-20 seconds.

Obviously if opening a browser is the most taxing thing your machine is doing the difference will be minimal. But video or music editing, application-compiling and other intensive tasks, then the upgrade is PHENOMENAL.
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He mentioned FFI into and out of his code, which has been my main encounter with unsafe rust too. Often enough I could limit the use to the entry/exit code but that's not always possible.
I'm sad to see so much venom in these comments. HN of old would have tried to delve into the details and find something to learn from this.
Like all rules there are exceptions, and I am old enough to remember when management was battled earned from the trenches, not people thinking they could manage any random company.

It is like assuming generals can win wars straight into the battlefield after graduation from military school.

Some get lucky, most of them do not, then again the little soldiers are the ones thar have to worry with the actual outcome.

Good that you're having fun.
I was responding to the back and forth of:

> If you pretrained an LLM with data saying Moscow is the capital of Connecticut it would think that is true.

> Well so would a human!

But humans aren't static weights, we update continuously, and we arrive at consensus via communication as we all experience different perspectives. You can fool an entire group through propaganda, but there are boundless historical examples of information making its way in through human communication to overcome said propaganda.
"640k ought to be enough for anybody" vibes.
In this case the poster seems to have projected opinions on to a post where none were expressed. That seems problematic regardless of how they came to associate the opinions with their respondent. Maybe the poster they responded to still hold the projected opinions, perhaps that poster abandoned the projected opinions, or perhaps they thought the projected opinions distracting and resultantly chose not to share.

If I am wrong or not useful in my posts, I would hope to be allowed to remove what was wrong and/or not useful without losing my standing to share the accurate, useful things. Anything else seems like residual punishment outside the appropriate context.
There is a mix up. It might be that the journalist is correctly summarizing the person they interviewed, but that person is wrong, or it might be that the journalist messed it up. But,

> In South Africa, for example, the total amount of energy produced from solar systems in 2019 was thought to be about 500 megawatts, Nana said

This is a very explicit phrasing “the total amount of energy produced” and the units don’t work out. You can figure out what they meant by doing additional research, but that doesn’t make it a non-error.
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I agree that in my experience, little unsafe is needed. However, (from an earlier article in this series):

> This project is a library that exposes a C API but the implementation is C++, and it vendors C libraries (e.g. mbedtls) which we build from source. The final artifacts are a `libfoo.a` static library and a `libfoo.h` C header.

In this case, this project is doing a lot of FFI, both exposing C, as well as calling into C libraries. That's unsafe. Which is a good example of a project that may use unsafe more than the average Rust project.
I see, TL;DR == none; and processor switches from {CPU,GPU} to {GPU} in the 2nd paragraph. Thanks!
It'd be annoying to me whether it was AI or human. The faux-excitement and pseudo-bonhomie is grating. They should focus on how people actually talk, not on copying the vocal intonation of coked-up public radio presenters just back from a positive affirmation seminar.
Don't know why you're downvoted. In both the EPA and the USDA scientists only play a consultant role. Their advice has no teeth. No actual power on the final decisions made by the organizations. Industry representatives are "in the room where it happens" much more so than scientists
Any easy to migrate to alternative to Dropbox? I don't mind paying, but Linux support and light sync client is a must. And I don't need more than 1GB storage.
Britain and Svalbard would like a word with you.
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Great! I will follow your updates!
TLS 1.2 is still widely supported; the standard dates from 2008, but didn't really get pushed hard IMHO until right before HeartBleed (April 2014); and there was the SHA1 certificate deprecation that took effect in 2016. A lot of things that got updated to use sha2 certs also got updated to use TLS 1.2, and should work fine with most https out there.

Chrome had support for WebP pretty early, because Google, but caniuse.com says 2018 for Edge, 2019 for Firefox and 2020 for Safari. There's a lot of potential software out there that works in a post-2016 timeframe, but not with WebP.
I'm just some dude, looking at a press release, wondering when Tim Apple is gonna be a cool dude and release the MBP in all of the colors that they make the iMac in.

APPARENTLY NOT TODAY.

C'mon mannnnn. The 90s/y2k are back in! People want the colorful consumer electronics! It doesn't have to be translucent plastic like it was back then but give us at least something that doesn't make me wonder if I live in the novel The Giver every time I walk into a meetup filled with MacBook Pros.

I'm sure the specs are great.
IIRC Apple is a lot less heavy handed wrt service login requirements when compared to Microsoft’s most recent Windows endeavors. And depending on the developer you can get around having to use the App Store at all. Being you’re on an Intel Mac have you considered just using Linux ?
Interestingly enough, I once worked at a company that saw how huge amounts of money could be made taking the exact opposite approach.

This all came about because this company had built a couple of hugely successful, and profitable, enterprise software products. So this company then decided to plow a ton of money into building out other products. The company was also pretty famous for having a high employee bar, and their college recruiting process was kind of legendary for attracting top CS and other tech grads.

However, this company discovered that building follow on successful products, even with lots of really smart people, is extremely difficult. As a not-perfect analogy, think of all the "one hit wonders" out there in the music industry. Beyond those one hit wonders, the vast majority of the rest are basically two hit wonders. Point being, once you've built a really successful product, even if you have tons of smart people, there is no guarantee that plowing money into another product will give you a positive ROI.

So this company realized this, and then saw there were a lot of other small-to-midsize software companies who were similar: they had one or two really successful products, but then were trying to use money from that to expand and grow into other areas, usually with little or no success. So this original company pivoted their business model: they went out to buy these "one hit wonder" software companies, immediately stopped any investment into other products, laid off as many people as possible and outsourced the operations and maintenance of the few successful products to low-cost locales (at the time, India and China) and then essentially just milked the subscription revenue until the product slowly petered out. That is, they weren't really investing in big new features in the product, but the product had a lot of existing customers who didn't (or couldn't) move off of it right away, so often they had at least a couple years of milking the existing revenue dry. I called it "the world's most successful and depressing business model".

My overall point in telling this story is that when you ask "Are you telling me that no one in such a big, wealthy company of clever engineers has any use for a bunch of talented people?", that often times the answer is "Correct!" People tend to underestimate how difficult it is to build successful products, even if you've already knocked one out of the park.
Get as much RAM as you can stomach paying for.
Wait, they weren't already using OpenAI? That explains how awful it was. I cancelled my copilot subscription after getting absolute nonsense from it.
I was responding to the idea that an LLM would believe (regurgitate) untrue things if you pretrained them on untrue things. I wasn't making a claim about SOTA models with gigantic training corpora.
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500 megawatts is literally defined as 500 megajoules per second.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
California has the WARN act which I believe requires notice of 50 days, which people usually use to give severance. In the USA when someone is told they will be fired, usually we do not keep them on staff so severance is the usual middle ground.
They're implying that you have a single agent which does the EDR (antivirus) and SIEM (logging) functionality instead of two separate agents. This is becoming more commonplace throughout the security industry as multiple agents can be burdensome from both a security and maintenance perspective.
Disclaimer: each GMO product should be looked at individually, just like each chemical product. When people say all GMOs are good or bad, it's as silly as saying that all chemicals are good or bad.

That aside,

> GMOs can reduce need for pesticide and insecticide use

A funny thing happened on the way to quarterly report. I believe that the most popular GMO product line is Roundup Ready [0], and it does the exact opposite. It allows the creator's cash cow product to be applied more liberally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready
Seems like we've reached the "AI bro" phase...
Legally yes, culturally no.
In 2022 we launched our dev tool and then shifted to payments. It took us 1 year so far
It's not a good set of ads, granted.

But millions of people have been using Grammarly, et al. for this for years. Managers have actually paid to deploy tools like this to their employees. The ship you're talking about has already sailed.
Indeed. "An update.." is a trend in lot of enterprises nowadays, probably taking cue from SV companies.
perhaps we need to shift some of our habits to high sun hours where possible. Like run the washing machine and dishwasher at mid day. So you need less battery storage for the nights. And perhaps build houses that store thermal heat better so you can run the heater less aggressively in the evening.
Designing a Query Execution Engine
It is also creating the scenario where AI is being trained on AI generated content. What could go wrong.
My dad, because he's overflowing with wisdom with just enough smarts.
I don't buy it.

> "A top executive at JP Morgan has sounded the alarm"

Are we really at the point in history where a lone banker gets to declare world war?

Or is the news such dreck that they will amplify "This one coked-out-of-his-gourd rich person said something alarming" into front page news?
A manager doesn't care that you leave because he still gets to bring home a salary, all they have to do is hire another person and maybe cut back on scope for a little while.

Yeah, I'm curious how someone can have an opinions on workplaces and workers and not seem to have personal experience with the subject, especially in a community like this.

Do they just come from a wealthy family so the stance is "Getting fired isn't a big deal, just ask your dad to cover expenses until your next job."?
In general this view doesn't do a good job of explaining citrus fruits. There are a huge variety of hybrids mostly deriving from combinations of the mandarin, pomelo, citron, and micrantha (lime).
The grid is a battery. That's one of the benefits of going solar. It's not making anything harder for anyone.
And the week isn't over...
> People often have long term financial commitments they cannot back out of, and not knowing how you'll make rent, if you can afford your child's school fees, or even maybe having to cut back on how much you eat, _is stressful_ and emotionally taxing.

I'm sure people making >200k/year and getting a 4 month severance package will be cutting back on how much they eat.

What you say is true about low or even medium income jobs. But most of the cuts are to tech workers and their managers, ie. people best equipped to manage in this kind of event.
All “high risk” uses listed in the article (“Systems that are used in sectors like education, employment, law enforcement, recruiting, and essential public services,
Systems used in certain kinds of products, including machinery, toys, lifts, medical devices, and vehicles.”) seem to me pretty high risk and in need of regulation. If that’s what EU’s AI act is really about, I cannot blame the EU at all. Quite the contrary.
I'm sorry to say that I think you are muddying the waters. Competently, too. Kudos.
I get where you are coming from, and it is definitely an interesting thought!

I do think it is an extremely inefficient way to have a swarm (e.g. across time through training data) and it would make more sense to solve the pretraining problem (to connect them to the external world as you pointed out) and actually have multiple LLMs in a swarm at the same time.
it's almost like zooming in on a fractal
This post is subtly wrong: "multiple read-only pointers XOR one mutable pointer" is actually "multiple read-only references XOR one mutable reference".

It _is_ valid to have multiple mutable pointers, just as C and C++ allow. It's when you have multiple live, mutable references (including pointers created from live mutable references) that you end up in UB territory.
Fastmail is a webapp, and it's very obvious. I use it out of laziness, because I don't use email on my phone that much. I wish they'd make a proper mobile client, but I don't think they care, since it's been like this forever.
Unfortunately, there isn't much difference between far left and far right anymore: https://archive.is/Njc6E
Having two separate apps has additional benefit of acting like insurance against any automated/manual playstore review surprises.
Base physics is all we need to know it is true. Souls are unphysical and we've had reason to be pretty confident about that for at least a century.
Some people have made the (good in my opinion) point that this is actually survivorship bias and a lot of people actually do retire and are never heard from again once they have enough money. So people predicting what they would do aren’t necessarily that wrong, it seems that some people actually do that.
I had a product manager at Salesforce tell me he went around trying to build support for a new reporting product. He was eventually taken aside by some coworker and told they don't build new products at Salesforce, and bought companies instead.

And they did indeed later buy multiple companies, including Tableau, in that space.
When I see a project of this complexity advertise itself as "open source' these days my first thought is the rug pull. Will this STAY free, or turn into an eventual cash grab one it's insinuated itself so deeply into your environment that it would be hard to replace?
> Effective Aug. 7, DCPA may not be sold, distributed or used in any manner. Consumers with current stocks of the product cannot use it.

This probably means we got a huge increase in DCPA usage. In the 1970s when they found out Di-bromochloropropane made most workers infertile and caused extremely high rates of birth defects for those that were still fertile, it was banned immediately in the US. Companies that had large stockpiles of the chemical simply sold them to banana republics. This caused an epidemic of infertility and birth defects in many countries in South America and it still an ongoing concern:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62120058
The only mortgages that don't require cashflow are the paid off mortgages. Even if someone has a year of savings, or two years, or three, after that amount is drained, they need cash flow again. So how does one buy a house without being dependent on cash flow?
It's also incredibly condescending, at least the way they wrote it.
Let's keep trying. What learning opportunities do you see in the details here?
Yes, that's pretty bad linkbait. We've replaced the title with the subtitle above.
Good luck philosophically defending this dividing line between 'statistical' and not
with all that output during the day, we might be able to revisit less "efficient" uses of energy like desalination plants that only make sense during the hours when energy is "free" because of overabundance.
> Shadows do become darker when they overlap in Metal Gear Solid.

They should indeed get darker when there are multiple significant light sources, as in the Metal Gear Solid screenshot. This is because the addition of another obstruction (i.e. Solid Snake) causes more sources of light to be blocked.
Now that's cultural appropriation! Thousands of years of domestication and breeding by Chinese fruit growers, and then New Zealand takes all the credit!
Don't people have savings? Don't people see what's happening in the industry and make sure to have 6+ months of savings? Don't people think that putting away a small portion of their immense tech salary would be a healthy thing to do?
I agree this is a good idea. Actuaries do calculations/models like these all the time. We shouldn't limit ourselves by our imagination
In this case we're talking about tech sector anyway.
I highly recommend. Personally I have the one without LTE, can store music, podcast & audiobooks and leave the phone home. Apple pay also works for the occasional stop at grocery before going back home. Once you start tracking running, you’ll get addicted to track every other workout, I definitely doubled+ the amount of activity I do just thanks to the gamification aspect.
I have a 64gb M1 Max and already do that

but yes, I was looking at and anticipating the max RAM on the M4 as well as the max memory speed

128gb and 546GB/s memory bandwidth

I like it, I don't know yet on an upgrade. But I like it. Was hoping for more RAM actually, but this is nice.
The idea that someone's response to being fired should be the same as a manager's response to one of their reports quitting is hilariously out of touch.
> Of course any API breakage is also an ABI breakage.

I don't think this is true. You can change things on a superficial level in a source language that still compiles down to the same representation in the end.
"It's no secret that tech companies have not been hiring for sustainability and that sucks."

Does it suck? It means that someone got a job where they didn't really have to do that much and got paid anyway.

An alternative is where that job was never offered. And then we're complaining that there's no jobs.

Also, no, the solution is not to "just hire the perfect amount". Sure if we could just do anything perfectly everything is great, but how is that a reasonable demand.
I’m really excited about the nano-texture display option.

It’s essentially a matte coating, but the execution on iPad displays is excellent. While it doesn’t match the e-ink experience of devices like the Kindle or ReMarkable, it’s about 20-30% easier on the eyes. The texture feels also great (even though it’s less relevant for a laptop), and the glare reduction is a welcome feature.

I prefer working on the MacBook screen, but I nearly bought an Apple Studio Display XDR or an iPad as a secondary screen just for that nano-texture finish. It's super good news that this is coming to the MacBook Pro.
It has a lot to do with the housing crisis.

A Georgist land value tax would fix the housing crisis by encouraging building up (tax the land, not the building).
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Ed Roberts: The Secret Father of Modern Computing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38680698 - Dec 2023 (37 comments)

Interview with the "Father of the PC" Ed Roberts in the early 2000's [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38655639 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)

Why Gates is richer than Allen - an Ed Roberts story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246540 - April 2010 (1 comment)

Altair developer Ed Roberts dies in Ga. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1235671 - April 2010 (13 comments)
>Seems like shitty consumer rights that they'll just keep the data regardless of what I do.

But they aren't keeping it regardless of what you do. You can ask them to delete it and they will. The power is in your hands and you are refusing to use it.
Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M4#Comparison_with_other...

M4 is built with TSMC's 2nd Gen 3nm process. M3 is on the 1st gen 3nm.

For the base M3 vs base M4:

- the CPU (4P+4E) & GPU (8) core counts are the same

- NPU perf is slightly better for M4, I think, (M4's 38TOPS @ INT8 vs M3's 18TOPS @ INT16)

- Memory Bandwidth is higher for M4 (120 GB/s vs 102.4 GB/s)

- M4 has a higher TDP (22W vs 20W)

- M4 has higher transistor count (28B vs 25B)