skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google switched from running an actual auction to making you bid the most they think you're willing to pay.
Extremely promising, realizing that the worth is to be found the intermediates, containing much more than the single final output.
My hypothesis is Apple is mostly right about their base model offerings.

> I mean, I have a MacBook air with 16gb of ram and it's honestly working pretty well to this day. I don't do "much" on it though but not many people do.

If an HN user can get along with 16gb on their MacBook Air for the last X years, most users were able to get by with 8gb.
RansomHub gang allegedly behind attack on Mexican airport operator
will workers be paid more to reflect that higher output?

rhetorical question, we all know the answer
New 12MP Center Stage Camera. Will it support 4k?
I'd suggest reading the history of Digital Research, Inc. and Gary Kildall to get a more rounded perspective on this story.
> "As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision and the circumstances that led to it, and I’m truly sorry to those impacted by this change."

As with other CEOs who say such things in similar situations - does this "responsibility" amount to anything? Like loss of salary or options or seniority. Or is this just empty words?

I appreciate that this action is probably necessary to safeguard the business but, as someone who has been at the sharp end of a number of redundancies, I wish leaders would be honest:

"We tried stuff but it didn't work. I was and am in charge, and I'm staying. We're making you redundant because we need the money more than we need you."

Obviously no leader would say such a thing. But the people affected (and thas not just those being made redundant) deserve honesty, not platitudes.
It's not "DDR5" on its own, it's a few factors.

Bandwidth (GB/s) = (Data Rate (MT/s) * Channel Width (bits) * Number of Channels) / 8 / 1000

(8800 MT/s * 64 bits * 8 channels) / 8 / 1000 = 563.2 GB/s

This is still half the speed of a consumer NVidia card, but the large amounts of memory is great, if you don't mind running things more slowly and with fewer libraries.
2000, XP, and 7 were actually pretty solid releases of Windows.

Vista was okay after hardware caught up and it got a few patches.

10 was a huge improvement over 8.x, but 11 has had a lot of bugginess for me, particularly related to the new Start menu.
Lot's of people don't upgrade on the cadence that users on this forum do. Someone was mentioning yesterday that they are trying to sell their Intel Mac {edit: on this forum] and asking advice on getting the best price. Someone else replied that they still had a 2017 model. I spoke to someone at my job (I'm IT) who told me they'd just ordered a new iMac to replace one that is 11 years old. There's no smoke and mirrors in letting such users know what they're in for.
I think people present day do not understand how to really use AI.. understand how it can benefit their life. The commercial the OP speaks and the ad agency sounds lame as they arent helping.

Personally Ive been enjoying wearing my Ray Bans for the past year and have used them to do things no other glasses can like...

- Translate.... was in Canada recently and a sign about Jasper the town i was in was in French. I asked Meta to translate it... it took a pic and audibly translated it for me.

- Was in Harpers Ferry WV on an overlook ..looking down into the town of Harpers Ferry which has a huge church which i have no idea it's name yet ask Meta what church is that over there. Took a pic and told me.

- Was in line at HersheyPark up on a platform and my friend wondered how many people you think are in line so i asked Meta and it took a pic and gave me an estimate.
Someone paid the PR firm who helped the article's author, no doubt.
If the 2x multiplier holds up, the Ultra update should bring it up to 1080GBps. Amazing.
I installed 18.1 last night and after finishing waitlist I promptly asked Siri if she could answer questions like chatGPT now, didn’t understand. I said what questions can I ask you then? She said “Ask away!” I asked the difference between watts and volts, “I don’t understand”, she understood nothing, I’m so confused!

I was upgrading for these features so now I’m thinking of selling this 16 pro and buying a drum set because my 13 mini was easier to hold and apparently Siri isn’t getting any smarter according a the WSJ article yesterday.
That’s not going to work.

https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2024/can-trump...
> pretty sure bet that now you won't need to upgrade for a good few years.

Or you could get a framework and you could actually upgrade parts that are worth upgrading - instead of upgrade as in buying a new one
So this is just an advertisement for your company's services? Noted...
> Dieting is starving yourself to lose weight.

No it's not. Diet is just what you eat. It can be healthy or unhealthy.
Right—what "story"? "The appearance of desktop computers has changed over the period of time that Ubuntu has existed"? What does this thing do for me? Especially, what does it do for me that other platforms don't, or that I might not expect it would do for me?
> The boss is obviously supposed to be smart, he’s a black guy in a suit after all. Is this the first time he’s ever received something that was obviously from an AI. What’s he confused about?

Ironically, you're doing the same thing as the actor in the skit - pretending to be confused, for effect.

Obviously, the boss is used to receiving unprofessional responses from the employee in question. Obviously, the boss is thrown as a result. Obviously, this is a contrived situation for the purpose of humor that in real life wouldn't go like this.
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It's been my experience that newer technology, though being more efficient, etc, breaks much faster than the old powerhouse tech from the 50's, 60's, and the 70's. I don't see my 1950's-something oven dying anytime soon. It will outlive me if I don't replace it for that one shiny new feature I convince myself I just have to have, or because it doesn't match my curtains.

So, yes, replacing stuff with new versions will bring more and more sales as opposed to building something that will last. Hence "planned obsolescence" and the war on making things repairable that we've seen lately. Great for business, bad for the customer.
I apologize for not using a good title, but I think the issues I listed (especially my argument that we should break issues down to bugs in runtime and the limitations of Rust abstractions) are worth discussing, even if there are many people who argue otherwise
It's lighter so is structure such a big issue
Russian court fines Google more than world GDP
The consumer use cases of "AI" right now are mostly about cheating at work that one is still really supposed to do themselves.

Maybe the ad people tried to come up with relatively palatable ones?

Note that no one is cheating on their school homework, which is a huge consumer use case category. And no creative work was detectably plagiarized (art, code). Though they still did do employment slacking/incompetence gaining advantage, by increasing deceptive and time-wasting noise for everyone else.

Or maybe that's the actual use cases of their target audience?
Isn't that their point? If the Chemical in question is a carcinogen, but a weak one categorized the same way as other foods like red meat, then it probably isn't going to get banned.
If I remember correctly, the claim was that M3 is 1.6x faster than M1.
M4 is now 1.8x faster than M1.

It sounds more exciting than M4 is 12.5% faster than M3.
>For me, Dropbox's moat and USP is that they make all of their money from file storage, giving me some confidence that they'll ensure it keeps working.

To me that's now become a red flag with these companies. Not speaking of Dropbox in particular but all these start-ups from the past that offered a free new innovative product/service for Android/iOS went to shit soon after Appel and Google copied and integrate similar functionality into the OS out of the box, leading to investor money drying up and the company suddenly paywalling and gouging existing users to make money to survive. Look at Evernote, LastPasss, Cerberus, etc. but also Amazon, Netflix, etc, enshitification galore.

Google and Apple are less likely to do that since they already make more money than God and tend not to want to fuck up their reputation just to squeeze a few more bucks from their users.

That's why I don't trust these small app companies anymore, since they'll get squeezed out by Apple, Microsoft and Google, and enshitification will ensure. The app is good in the beginning for a few years when VC money is abundant and their goal is user growth at any cost, but after that suddenly once you're locked in, you get paywalled, as the company tries to squeeze more money from you so VCs can get their money back. Rinse and repeat. So no thanks, I got burned a few times already.
I believe they will be deleting K-9 from play store after giving its users adequate warming and informing them assuaging them. It's just K-9 right now named Thunderbird. I hope they bring in some important Thunderbird desktop features to mobile as well. The release is underwhelming if not downright disappointing.
Which has

1. Nothing to do with saturated fat.

2. Nothing to do with the dietary guidelines.
About 10-20% of my companies gpu usage is inference dev. Yes horribly not efficient usage of resources. We could upgrade the 100ish devs who do this dev work to M4 mbp and free up gpu resources

Smart move by Apple
Right, it's obviously that, not a marketing trick to make numbers look much bigger while comparing to old CPUs and laptops :)
There can’t be any information about “truthfulness” encoded in an LLM, because there isn’t a notion of “truthfulness” for a program which has only ever been fed tokens and can only ever regurgitate their statistical correlations. If the program was trained on a thousand data points saying that the capital of Connecticut is Moscow, the model would encode this “truthfulness” information about that fact, despite it being false.

To me the research around solving “hallucination” is a dead end. The models will always hallucinate, and merely reducing the probability that they do so only makes the mistakes more dangerous. The question then becomes “for what purposes (if any) are the models profitable, even if they occasionally hallucinate?” Whoever solves that problem walks away with the market.
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I wonder if they meant paid COBRA of 6 months, bc 18 months is like the minimum to offer continuing coverage. COBRA coverage is a Federal Law for large employers.

https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-a...

"Q11: How long does COBRA coverage last?
COBRA requires that continuation coverage extend from the date of the qualifying event for a limited period of 18 or 36 months. The length of time depends on the type of qualifying event that gave rise to the COBRA rights. A plan, however, may provide longer periods of coverage beyond the maximum period required by law."
Which Companies Own the Most Nvidia H100 GPUs?
Fair and perhaps that was a bad metaphor in hindsight...

But at least it's more connected to the actual current value of the stock seeing that it is defined by future not past cash flows

It doesn't matter if those are the right cash flows, you're really trading based on the market's expectations of those cash flows anyway
In addition to what everybody else has mentioned, uv plays nice with other people's build tools. I use scikit-build-core for building most of my python packages and making scikit-build-core play nicely with poetry was somewhere between very hard and impossible. UV trivially lets me combine the two so I can let uv do what it does best (manage and install python versions and dependencies) and then have it get out of the way and let scikit-build-core take over and do what it does best.
I have M3 Max with 128GB of ram, it's really liberating.
> MacBook Pro with M4 Max enables:

> Up to 4.6x faster build performance when compiling code in Xcode when compared to the 16‑inch MacBook Pro with Intel Core i9, and up to 2.2x faster when compared to the 16‑inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max.

OK, that's finally a reason to upgrade from my M1.
Announcement video as well

https://youtu.be/G0cmfY7qdmY?si=vbgIr8zn9EzB2Xam
Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100M daily users
When they hire as part of the push for that 30% chance, are they telling them that they have a 70% chance of being laid-off if the bet doesn't pay out?

If it's "just a bet" and not mismanagement, then we should tell people that, shouldn't we?

The reality is that these bets are only bets for the people getting hired/laid off, and they don't even know they are betting in the first place. Even worse because we're not talking about simply losing money here. Losing a job is many times a life changing event in real people's lives. It's not like someone betting on a stock.

That's why there should be consequences for the ones making those decisions. They get the most rewards, but none of the punishment. How's that fair in any shape or form?
Ever since I was assigned to work on the school website's calendar when I was in high school, I have successfully avoided any software project having to do with time and date. I feel like my quality of life has been better for it.
Other Fedora 41 spins are released too, here are the notes for the GNOME ("default") version: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-41/
> it doesn’t even tell me it’s about the OS at all unless I already know what Ubuntu is.

Try watching the iPhone ads assuming you don't know what Apple does nor what an iPhone is. They make absolutely no sense.

Ads are targeted at a market, and these in particular assume some degree of familiarity. I guess the Ubuntu one in particular is to celebrate the 20 years, so it's a different vibe from a sheer call to action spot.
I can imagine Nelson and other Anthropic engineers jumping for joy at this release.
If you want something lighter than FreeCAD I'd recommend trying Dune3D --- it's amazingly easy/nice to use.
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It's community-driven, 100% free, and open to all. I’d love your feedback and suggestions. Here's a short video where I demo the tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Plt_sh_cIg&ab_channel=Rahul
Musk has contributed to replacing 5 million gasoline-powered cars with electric ones and has facilitated the installation of 500,000 solar panels via Solar City. While there may be valid criticisms of Musk, questioning his environmental impact seems a bit misplaced to me.
Check out Asahi linux
> Jokes aside, how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need?

Because circumstances change and evaluation of projections and optimal employment numbers under them change, and it's never optimal to hire enough people to actually assess that with minute-to-minute updates.

> There's something to be said about spending within your limits and not splurging on the next shiny object.

There is something to be said for hiring and cutting slowly rather than rapidly in response to changing circumstances, and that is that, under the material incentives in a competitive capitalist economy, it is a poor strategy for a corporation.

> Way back when it was called cost control and operating within a budget.

Guess what happens quickly when you are good at operating within a budget and the projections on which the budget is based changed and so the budget changes going forward?
The funds probably went to funding terrorism. That is what happened with the UN funds in Africa and elsewhere.
> how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need

The Law of Multiplication of Subordinates:

> we must picture a civil servant called A who finds himself overworked. Whether this overwork is real or imaginary is immaterial; but we should observe, in passing, that A’s sensation (or illusion) might easily result from his own decreasing energy—a normal symptom of middle-age. For this real or imagined overwork there are, broadly speaking, three possible remedies

> (1) He may resign.

> (2) He may ask to halve the work with a colleague called B.

> (3) He may demand the assistance of two subordinates, to be called C and D.

> There is probably no instance in civil service history of A choosing any but the third alternative. By resignation he would lose his pension rights. By having B appointed, on his own level in the hierarchy, he would merely bring in a rival for promotion to W’s vacancy when W (at long last) retires. So A would rather have C and D, junior men, below him. They will add to his consequence; and, by dividing the work into two categories, as between C and D, he will have the merit of being the only man who comprehends them both.

source: https://www.economist.com/news/1955/11/19/parkinsons-law
They brought back the matte screen! Omg. The question is, will they have that for the air.

(I tend to feel if you want something specialized, you gotta pay for the expensive model)
Most of the world doesn't do DST either[1], nowadays it's mostly a European/American thing.

[1] See the map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_countr...
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I can't give legal advice over the internet, of course, but happy to take general questions here if anyone wants to reach out!
Looks interesting, built something similar as Chrome extension. Once done, let me know and I can also add it to https://ai-tools.directory.
Along the same vein… how are public holidays supposed to be handled? Do those always start and finish at midnight UTC, even if midnight UTC happens to be right during the middle of the solar day (and everybody's waking hours)? Or does every place define a specific time (aligned to solar midnight or some other suitable point during the night) for when holidays are supposed to start and end, which is basically reintroducing timezones through the back door?
It is very aggravating, but if they advertised a comparison to last year's model and showed you small performance gains you might not want to buy it.

A more charitable interpretation is that Apple only thinks that people with computers a few years old need to upgrade, and they aren't advertising to people with a <1 year old MacBook Pro.
Yes. It's finally back.
NASA Deep Space Network (DSN)
They are going to milk these horrendous crazy hot x86 thermally throttled macs performance comparisons for a decade.
As it should. There's no money to be made by selling FP32 chips at 200$ a pop.
How exactly can there be "truthfulness" in humans, say? After all, if a human was taught in school all his life that the capital of Connecticut is Moscow...
It guarantees that Nvidia's margins will be shifting downward by painting the biggest target anyone has painted on his own back since the US in Desert Storm.
Same. My MBP and M1 Air are amazing machines. But I’m now also excited that any future M chip replacement will be faster and just as nice.

The battery performance is incredible too.
You totally can after a little bit of time waiting for M4 bringup!

https://asahilinux.org

It won't have all the niceties / hardware support of MacOS, but it seamlessly coexists with MacOS, can handle the GPU/CPU/RAM with no issues, and can provide you a good GNU/Linux environment.
Fascinating. I have a prompt running on GPT4 turbo that takes an input text and outputs a report in a tabular format that includes some summary and analysis, and on about 1 in 50 runs, after the table headers it'll output a few hundred newlines and then spit out some Korean or Thai text, which, if I put it in Google translate can be pretty weird (i.e. it has nothing to do with the input text).

This reminds me of that.
At least they got one noteworthy "hit" on the jargon bingo card: "performant" -_-
Correct. Well, you can dump it into a fast sync buffer and let a background cleanup process do any async cleanup.

Sync Rust is lovely, especially with a bit of practice, and doubly so if you already care about how things are stored in memory. (And caring how things are stored is how you get speed.)

Async Rust is manageable. There's more learning curve, and you're more likely to hit an odd corner case where you need to pair for 30 minutes with the team's Rust expert.

The majority of recent Rust networking libraries are async, which is usually OK. Especially if you tend to keep your code simple anyway. But there are edge cases where it really helps to have access to Rust experience—we hit one yesterday working on some HTTP retry code, where we needed to be careful how we passed values into an async retriable block.
It would be possible to encode the phone number in the QR code and just send a text, but then you could just print out the phone number and write "text me" next to it.

Given that they have an app I'm sure the QR code leads to a link that will trigger the notification via app on the phone, no text message anywhere.

Again to your last point, no text message, dude just wants to get a notification on his phone without installing some dumbass $300 doorbell
This all feels like the abstraction level is wrong. If I think of a server as doing various tasks, one of which is to periodically pull an accepted connection off the listening socket, and I cancel that task, then, sure, the results are awkward at best and possibly wrong.

But I’ve written TCP servers and little frameworks, asynchronously, and this whole model seems wrong. There’s a listening socket, a piece of code that accepts connections, and a backpressure mechanism, and that entire thing operates as a unit. There is no cancellable entity that accepts sockets but doesn’t also own the listening socket.

Or one can look at this another way: after all the abstractions and libraries are peeled back, the example in the OP is setting a timeout and canceling an accept when the timeout fires. That’s rather bizarre — surely the actual desired behavior is to keep listening (and accepting when appropriate) and do to the other timed work concurrently.

It just so happens that, at the syscall level, a nonblocking (polled, selected, epolled, or even just called at intervals) accept that hasn’t completed is a no-op, so canceling it doesn’t do anything, and the example code works. But it would fail in a threaded, blocking model, it would fail in an inetd-like design, and it fails with io_uring. And I really have trouble seeing linear types as the solution — the whole structure is IMO wrong.

(Okay, maybe a more correct structure would have you “await connection_available()” and then “pop a connection”, and “pop a connection” would not be async. And maybe a linear type system would prevent one from being daft, successfully popping a connection, and then dropping it by accident.)
Yeah but usually these people are top candidates and occupy the other engineering manager positions, and you, managing a super productive team of 5 or 10 instead, don't even get into a single interview there. And that applies to every single company I have applied to.
SpaceX is not an oil company. Neither is Tesla.
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