skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of hard to tell, because sort of an optimal successful product is made from the worst possible hardware.

If you were to look at this in terms of a CPU chip, the cheapest chip would be the chip with the most defects that runs, while the chip with the fewest defects would be overpriced to sell, or extra-overpriced and overclocked to barely running.

Think about it - do you run out an buy a Xeon Gold blah blah for $15k or a core i7 for $200? Marketing keeps you from thinking the core i7 is "crappier and cheaper"
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Coda’s successor Nova[0] continues the tradition.

[0]: https://nova.app/
When this happens, you should more easily be able to find another job that pays more or negotiate a raise, because employers know you now have better alternatives than you did before.
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Thank you. TFA does not seem to say why they are so good...
Thank you for the explanation, that is very helpful.

You said “ My feeling is that if you think quitting the day job is risky, you probably won't fit the profile YC and VCs look for.”

And

“ The odds of your idea working are not great, that's correct.”

So it is kind of geared towards wealthy people?
Gluing together tools with shell scripts is a significant cause of CI failures in my experience. There's no reason to do it. Use a real language - at least Python, but my preference is Deno because it's not dog slow and you don't have to deal with venv.
Indeed, the Apple Silicon hype stemmed from the terrible Intel gen at the time (unlike AMD), and because Apple monopolized the TSMC N5 node for months.

Most of that lead is gone, x86 is cheaper, open, and as battery friendly now.
Curious how you verified that? I should possibly do thesame
Friendly reminder that the modern country of North Macedonia has no connection whatsoever to the ancient Kingdom of Macedon which was a Greek state, similar to the other Greek city states (Athens, Sparta).

Ancient Macedonians spoke a Greek dialect, had Greek names and practiced the Greek religion. Modern Macedonians are for the most part Slavs that speak a Slavic language and have no historical connection to ancient Greece.

The naming confused me until I visited Vergina in Greece and had a chance to learn more about the EU politics behind it.
You were diagnosed and referred by a nurse in an emergency department? That sounds strange. Was this an offhand suggestion, or a formal referral?

If I went to the hospital and a nurse gave me any instructions I would be absolutely perplexed.
Do humans learn like transformer networks?
> We try to stick messaging-as-signalling rather than messaing-as-data-transfer.

I was thinking of trigger-messages vs data-messages.

Then again we've just begun dabbling with AMQP as part of transitioning our legacy application to a new platform, so a n00b in the field.

We do have what you might consider hybrid messages, where we store incoming data in an object store and send a trigger-message with the key to process the data. This keeps the queue lean and makes it easy for support to inspect submitted data after it's been processed, to determine if we have a bug or it's garbage in garbage out.
Strikes me to be the case.
That 3090 uses about 5x more power than the 7800x3d.
> the newest M4 laptop will have a 24 hour battery life. That exceeds anything remotely possible in the same laptop form factor but with x86 by nearly an order of magnitude.

Honestly, why is this such an appealing feature? Are you often away from an outlet for 20+ hours?

I use 6+ year old laptops that last 4 hours at most on a single charge, even after a battery replacement. Plugging them in every few hours is not a big inconvenience for me. If I'm traveling, I can usually find an outlet anywhere. It's not like I'm working in remote places where this could even be an issue.

Then there's the concern about fan noise and the appeal of completely silent computers. Sure, it's a bit annoying when the fan ramps up, but again, this is not something that makes my computers unbearable to use.

And finally, the performance gap is closing. Qualcomm's, AMD's and Intel's latest chips might not be "M4 killers" (or M3, for that matter), but they're certainly competitive. This will only keep improving in 2025.
As a mastering engineer, I am removing them from Logic mixes almost every day. Sometimes I need to pinch myself to reascertain that it's really 2024.
> Apple is pretty much the only company with an outstanding architectural license to design ARM cores

Many other companies have done this to great effect in the past, but in recent years it has become more common to just license one of ARM's own stock cores, instead of designing your own from scratch.

This follows a period where companies like Qualcomm and Samsung were still trying to roll their own core designs from scratch, but ending up with designs that were slower and less power efficient than the cheaper stock cores you could license from ARM.
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I think the spreadsheet space is honestly super challenging. There’s lots of possible use-cases for these tools, but also, Excel/Sheets are great products that everyone already knows how to use.

I think if these products nail some core use-case(s) that are valuable enough to build the core business around, then this can probably get you to “escape velocity” and you can start to become a truly horizontal tool as traction and awareness compound. (This is the path we were going for)

Lots of spreadsheet type products have tried to stay very horizontal from the beginning and end up trying to boil the ocean, or ended up focusing on a dead-end use-case that isn’t valuable enough to reach that escape velocity.
You are misreading the comment. It is indicting Apple, not the Asahi team, for not caring. If Apple cared and hired the Asahi folks and provided them with help, they would probably be able to churn out drivers faster.
It's absolutely not like any human source, and there's little reason to think its competencies and biases are anything like humans.
The National Review link provided opens by denying that it's the source:

In a new Axios/Harris Poll survey, nearly half of Gen Z voters copped to lying about which candidates they support when they head to the polls.

The paragraphs that follow quote from and cite:

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/30/election-gen-z-voting-lies

as the source.
That's similar to Jamie Oliver's "famous" recipe. He also suggests chuffing up the outsides a bit before baking, to create a crispy outer layer.
In my experience as a published academic author all the LLM will make up all kinds of plausible papers I “wrote” that don’t exist, academic positions I’ve never held, and the like.

Even if you give it a paper directly I’d not believe it to be reliable. Maybe it could help search for papers, but that’s it.
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I think the most important thing for its survival is it needs young contributors who care and thus can one day take over, which seems difficult to do consistently.
There are 8000MT/s CUDIMMs for the new Intel Chips now...
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It's based on the BBC News RSS feeds for now, maybe I'll add different news sources later on.
Run Geekbench on a sample of hardware. Run your workload along same hardware. Regress.
DJIA is not taken very seriously outside of mainstream media it seems. The news loves to quote big drops or increases to the DJIA due to the index being price weighted. “Wow the news is saying the DJIA dropped 1000 points today! That’s huge.” Nah, that’s like 2%

This seems like another media opportunity about a nothing burger event for an index that has lost relevance, when other indices like the S&P 500 and QQQ have already incorporated NVIDIA a while ago. They’re just playing catch up.
Interesting, I have a DEC2 mutation and don't need much sleep, but I do sleep very consistently. When I was first working through this discovery, I asked the dr how it was that people who have this have no adverse effects when folks always say not sleeping long enough is bad for your health and he said "well, we don't really know that's true" and kinda shrugged it off.
Symbolic of the times. The new wizzy guy edges out the old school lumbering giant.
> And risks nothing because the product was technically sold by “INXBDBA”.

The kicker is that this is a classic "cobra effect" [1] that has bogged down government offices. Those useless brands exist because Amazon tried to cut down on counterfeits and no-name junk by implementing a policy of requiring the brand to be a registered trademark. Instead of cutting down on junk products, it led to an explosion of junk brands [2].

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[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-co...
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No, because from your perspective you are supporting the wrong company. Competition is good for consumers, especially if you're a minority group.
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NPs are pretty common these days in EDs for anything not immediately life threatening. It's completely normal to get a referral from one.

I'd assume that is what OP is talking about at least. It's getting rarer to see an actual physician for most visits in many areas.

Edit: thinking about it more, I've received referrals directly from nurses before as well. Usually the triage nurse.
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Great, another source of anxiety to make it harder to maintain a consistent sleep schedule.
Peter Winkler's Mathematical Puzzles is an amazing continuation with great teaching.
There was at least one socketed version.
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Everywhere useful has it these days; even on Windows you can get a very capable vim in Git Bash or WSL
If you are American and have never had british style roasted Potatoes… oh boy are you in for a treat.
I have long felt that the best way to optimize photograph JPEGs was to scale them to the right size and then have a human turn the quality down until just before the eye notices a decrease in quality, and this has worked well for me. But I have to say, you beat me in the two images I tested, one by 30% file size, and I could not discern a quality difference. Very nice!

Or maybe I have just been clinging to notion too long?

FYI, your tester did miss an image that my site was including via in the style sheet.
Pretty much. Their universities are very prestigious and rising fast. The prior comment has an old perception of china, heavily influenced by western propaganda, which is quite strong in their native Australia.

Chinese leadership is deeply influenced by Marxism. The representation of the masses is strongly prioritized. There are obviously many problems, but it doesn’t take long to be certain of this fact.

There’s many many examples that support this. Evening out the education landscape, ruthless drive towards ecological sustainability, massive anti poverty campaigns, state funded healthcare, hard regulation of the housing sector, complete renovation of the slums (they even pay out or rehouse citizens when they do said renovation)

The perception about China in the west is genuinely psychotic.
Is this mindreading or do you have direct knowledge of this assertion?
- SURD Method (the algorithm discussed in the article): https://github.com/Computational-Turbulence-Group/SURD

- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53373-4
"Furthermore, AMD OLMo models were also able to run inference on AMD Ryzen™ AI PCs that are equipped with Neural Processing Units (NPUs). Developers can easily run Generative AI models locally by utilizing the AMD Ryzen™ AI Software."

Hope these AI PCs will run also something better than 1B model.

What is it useful for ? Spellcheck ?
Do you plan on staying with the company?

I think if I ever hit a real payday I'm done working.
It would be cool if you could use an AI to summarize the articles into a single sentence link for folks that just want to scan the headlines and get a sense of what is really going on.
Yeah I switched from cygwin to msys2 a few years ago, it works quite well for most things, seems a little slow when scripting though, as windows process forking is slow af. It kind of pushed me to learn a lot more python and switch over from bash which was my primary scripting language for various tasks, msys python is roughly as fast as straight windows python install
I'm considering offering some additional features as paid options. Currently, the system only optimizes images from the URL you provide, but one potential premium feature could be to allow the system to crawl all internal pages of a website, optimizing images across the entire site. This would make it easier for users who want to optimize all their content by simply submitting the homepage URL.

However, this is a double-edged sword: I might encounter sites with a large number of internal pages, which would complicate the resources needed to provide an efficient and sustainable service.

Another option I've thought about is offering a CDN service to directly serve optimized images, improving performance without the need for users to manually download and upload images. It does become more complex when charging users, as reliability, support, and infrastructure take on a much greater role.
Ewaste will create CO2 and physical environmental pollution. Much of it is just dumped on the third world where some parts will be burnt, some melted down, and some subjected to chemical baths for metals extraction. Those chemicals will then be dumped.
In addition to Whisky, it seems to not be well known that VMWare Fusion is free for personal use and can run the ARM version of Windows 11 with GPU acceleration. I tried it on my M1 Pro MBP and mid-range Steam games ran surprisingly well; an M4 should be even better.
Well, now I’m curious if other things often called rosins can be used the same way. Would cannabis rosin extracted by the solventless method work? It’s edible so probably not dangerous to eat like turpentine rosin.

Can I make cannabis rosin potatoes for danksgiving?
also things are recommended for the average population, not the individual - with "conditions"/superpowers like yours, it's absolutely the individual that matters, not the mean.
Apple literally designed a new boot loader for Macs that allows the computer's owner to install and run an unsigned OS without having it degrade the security of the system when booted into the first party OS.

That didn't happen accidentally.
Reverse engineering the first bit of Apple's flagship M1 CPU, which was implemented in the original iPhone released back in '08, through an ARM-based architectural analysis, and integrating it into Linux kernel system calls is an extreme measure. This reduplication of the original dump, checking its hex value, then altering it to see if the application is functional. Doing x,y, and z, then seeing if it works inside VM hypervisor-space.

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Yup, those three.
You could run it via wine if that is really your own hangup from switching to mac.
> duckdb

Not sqlite, out of curiosity? which do you use when? I'm going to need one of them soon, which is why I'm asking ...

FWIW, the aformentioned text editor working with the 200+ MB file could edit the entire thing almost immediately (at the UI level; I don't know what happened in memory). Each record was less than a screen-length, so maybe 100 char/line conservatively, so maybe 2 million lines. iirc I could insert a character on every line without problematic latency - my memory says mabye 10 seconds, but unless it was a dirty operation, that can't be true?
Not sure why you are being down-voted. We're already seeing this with the team saying they won't work on M3 yet because they aren't even close to done with M2...
This reminds me- I gotta go back and reread Borges's short stories with ML theory in mind.
Agree. Every month there’s some new “discovery” about what can make your life shorter. It makes me anxious and definitely doesn’t help at all. I cannot simply manage so many variables. I try to do a little bit of everything, to be in the middle point of everything as much as I can; that’s my strategy.
> DJIA is not taken very seriously outside of mainstream media it seems

AFAIK its only real utility is if you want to make very long term comparisons over the years against old values of itself, where its long baseline may be valuable compared to other metrics that don't stretch as far.

Everything else is just flim-flam for getting views/clicks or comforting very old viewers with something that is a familiar staple.
The article says the potatoes bubble and eventually float to the top as water is released. So surely some other volatile compounds could be released too? Perhaps compounds cannot be dissolved in the rosin as they are in a pot water? But then why is it better than regular baking?

Sous vide would certainly trap everything, but then again, we want a potato that is ultimately dry on the outside.

What if instead of rosin we used something safer and more available, like a cooking oil? I bet deep fried potatoes would taste quite good! :-P
Ignoring the /s, that would actually be very welcome.
Maybe it's about it's usefulness?
> So it is kind of geared towards wealthy people?

Or young enough that there’s not much more to lose than a few years.

If you’re choosing between going to a masters/phd or YC, then you’re in the right place. Or if you got laid off from a FAANG and looking for something fun to do while your severance lasts, doing a YC startup will beat other things you could add to your resume during this time.

And if it works, great you’re on your way to something cool. If it doesn’t, then at least you had a fun gap quarter.

But the people who really build successful companies don’t need any of this stuff. If you’ve got traction, VCs will find you.

~15 years ago I really wanted to get into YC. Now I realize that was because I wanted to be a founder more than I wanted to build a successful business. These days I focus on making the money machine go brrr and that's been working much better for me.
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And yet the article clearly says that the rosin will bubble because odd water escaping. If water can escape why can’t the aroma compounds?
Companies slashing jobs so the CEOs can get hundred million dollar payoffs.
> what makes you think it was set in stone?

It was not. But you got contradicted by people who actually remember what happened. It is fairly well documented, and was common knowledge even at the time. Jobs was initially sold on Web Apps for several reasons, and the state of iPhoneOS 1 and its internal APIs was very precarious and not stable enough for serious third-party development. Again, this was known at the time thanks to the jailbreak community, and it has been explained in details over the years by people who left Apple since then, and Jobs himself in Isaacson’s biography.

When they pivoted towards the AppStore model, there was no predicting how big it would become, or even if it would be successful at all. The iPhone was exceeding expectations, but those were initially quite modest. It was far from world-record revenue.
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> It’s like, Apple never budges—until someone reverse engineers it.

Could you give 3 examples of this? Because I cannot think of many.
Seems kinda weird to get a lawyer in the UK. Why not get a lawyer who groks the courts in the EU or the US?
Is it really a far comparison? Apple has a proper bootloader capable of secure booting 3rd party OSs. What part of the open-source ecosystem was built differently?

It just so happened that after possibly even more painstaking reverse engineering, the responsible hardware vendor later realized that server machines are de facto linux, and they better support it properly. Like, that Intel chip working that good was not achieved differently, we just like to wear rose-tinted glasses.
That's how my mother used to do it, but I've found that you don't actually need to use "lots of fat" -- you can get good results with much less (just enough oil or goose fat to cover the bottom of the roasting tray), provided you toss the potatoes in it (pre-heated) when putting them in, and turn them a few times during cooking.

The variety of potatoes used is also a critical factor.
Well I agree that there are better alternatives. But is rosin really that toxic? It seems to cause problems if the fumes are inhaled, but I can't find evidence it is particularly dangerous to consume. Similar to lots of other tree resins, which are even used in traditional chewing gum.