skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...how many people kept their Macbooks for nearly a decade; these devices are built to last...

This is no longer true for me. I've been an Apple fan since the Apple ][ days, and reluctantly left the ecosystem last year. The hardware walled garden with soldered-on components and components tied down to specific units for ostensible privacy and security reasons (I don't buy those reasons), combined with the steadily degrading OS polish in fine attention to detail, for me personally, meant I could no longer justify the cognitive load to continue with a Mac laptop as my daily driver. While others might point to a cost or/or value differential, I'm in the highly privileged position to be insensitive to those factors.

Last straw was an board-soldered SSD that quit well before I was willing to upgrade, and even Louis Rossman's shop said it would cost way more to desolder and solder a new one on than the entire laptop is worth. Bought a Framework the same day, when it arrived I restored my data files to it and been running it as my daily driver ever since. The Mac laptop is still sitting here, as I keep hoping to figure out when to find time to develop my wave soldering skills to try my hand at saving it from the landfill, or break down and unsustainably pay for the repair (I do what I can to avoid perpetuating dark patterns, but it is a Sisyphean effort).

I found myself in a position of having to think increasingly more about working around the Mac ecosystem instead of working invisibly within it (like a fish in water not having to think about water), that it no longer made sense to stick with it. It has definitively lost the "It Just Works" polish that bound me so tightly to the ecosystem in the past. I see no functional difference in my daily work patterns using a Mac laptop versus a Framework running Fedora.

To be sure, there are a lot of areas I have to work around on the Framework-Fedora daily driver, but for my personal work patterns, in my personal needs, I evaluated them to be roughly the same amount of time and cognitive load I spent on the Mac. Maybe Framework-Fedora is slightly worse, but close enough that I'd rather throw my hat into the more open ring than the increasingly closed walled garden Apple's direction definitely is taking us, that does not align with my vision for our computing future. It does not hurt that experimenting with local LLM's and various DevOps tooling for my work's Linux-based infrastructure is way easier and frictionless on Fedora for me, though YMMV for certain. It has already been and will be an interesting journey, it has been fun so far and brought back some fond memories of my early Apple ][, Macintosh 128K, and Mac OS X days.
And the ultra next year!
Base model is 16gb as of the M4 release.

You also don’t have to get the base model. You can stay under $1000 while increasing to 24gb of ram.
Switched to linux when they EOLed Windows 7 (slowly migrated my workflow over in advance using Linux distros in a VM). Couple that with how good Valve has made Windows gaming on Linux, I've never looked back.
The non-trivial environmental damage of building the new computer AND disposing of the old one should not be ignored. There are plenty of us who would rather pay a few extra bucks on our power bill rather than send e-waste to the landfill before it needs to be.
Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing
Show HN: CapySettings, a new way to look at config files
RISD's AI Software Design Studio: Teaching Students to Ship Code with LLMs
At RISD, industrial design students with zero coding experience are deploying functional applications in days. They're using Claude, etc to handle technical implementation while they focus on rapid iteration and user testing. Their projects must reach 100 real users, forcing them to tackle deployment, databases, and real-world technical constraints. The instructor's philosophy: forget traditional design education and let students with fresh eyes figure out what's possible with new tools.
Two great of a gap between rich and poor produces a number of problems:

It produces a two tier society where different rules apply to the rich and the poor.

It insulates the rich from the negative impact their actions have on the poor.

It results in the rich having a much greater say in democracy than the poor.

It produces problems when the rich and the poor are competing for resources (e.g. housing).

It can encourages the market to focus on the desires of the rich at the expense of the desires of the poor.

It damages social cohesion due to the rich and poor having increasingly different life experiences and worldviews.
In one of my work projects it was the Turkish İ that gave us trouble. In some case-insensitive text searching code, we matched the lowercase query against the lowercase text, and had to handle cases like that specially to avoid reporting the wrong matching span in the original text, since the lowercase string would have a different length than the uppercase string. This was one of my first real-world projects and opened my eyes a bit to the importance of specifications and standards.
I'm sure the thought has crossed their mind already.
Random stuff like tmp/log folder full, misconfigured DB, the DC network went down once for few minutes...

Managed Postgres is the greatest invention of mankind. Just $30/month and the data is safe. What a relief.
8GB is fine (on macos anyways) for what you're doing, but like it or not more and more AI is being (unnecessarily) shoved into applications and it needs memory for the GPU.

Memory (both system and GPU) is usually best thing to future proof a computer at buy time, especially as it's not user-replaceable anymore.
If you open the keychain app on a Mac you can clearly see the existence of multiple keychains and one explicitly labeled iCloud

iCloud only stores passwords when you're logged into iCloud. Logout and you're local only.

Would it be nice to have no configuration and customization? Sure. People have felt that way for as long as I can remember.
>Probably true, although I do still count it as a win.

I prefer a bit of competition.
Geekbench is more a "mid threading" benchmark on the multicore. Those extra 2x cores aren't really going to do much to increase the score as a result.
You can play with it at https://hazel.org/build/dev/ but programs don't "crash" when they're incomplete so "1 + 5 + ?" will evaluate to "6 + ?" in the editor. So your program can evaluate as far as possible with the holes. If you're using Java and throw NotImplementedException you lose all context to what did work.
> Linux was, and still is, an option for plenty of people who develop for Apple hardware/software without daily driving it, myself included.

Well, I believe in dogfooding. I don't think it would be good for my software or my customers if I didn't use the same operating system as them. Besides, work-related activities are mostly what I use a computer for, so I'm not sure what I would even do with Linux.
> Not sure I wanted to know...

Oh that's Unicode for you. It's not that they're "roundtrip unsafe", it's just that Unicode is a total and complete clusterfuck.

Bruce Schneier in 2000 on Unicode security risks:

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2000/0715.html...

Of course the attacks he envisioned materialized, like homoglyph attacks using internationalized domain names.

My favorite line from Schneier: "Unicode is just too complex to ever be secure".

And, no matter if you love Unicode or not, there's lots of wisdom in there.

When design-by-committee gives birth to something way too complex, insecurity is never far behind.
You are correct that there will never be perfect equality. However, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't take steps to get closer to equality. For example, wealthy parents sending their kids to private schools isn't as much of an issue when it doesn't take money away from public schools (e.g. via vouchers).
AFAIK, the current location of Alexander's tomb is not known.
Host your own calendar and contacts server (CalDAV/CardDAV)
That would explain the presence in a tomb…
I've spoken to the people behind Livewire Telecom. It's very much not stale data, and very much still in service in a real telco exchange. They have tariffs and everything. I'm not sure if they have any actual paying customers (yet). It is a labor of love for telecom history.
I’m not sure it robs us. It makes it possible, but many people including myself find the artistic products of AI to be utterly without value for the reasons you list. I will always cherish the product of lifelong dedication and human skill
Bridging server side and client side rendering is going to be really tricky, and it may be fairly jarring from a UX perspective. Routing is going to be your biggest challenge, as the SPA will be effectively reinitialized when you route back to it if you keep it as-is.

I would try switching the SPA to render on the server entirely/for specific components if possible, knowing there will be angular code changes to support this, then do a progressive blazor rewrite of individual paths. Your app is going to run like hot garbage during this transition though, so you'll need plenty of buy-in to attempt this.
If you put the cursor on it you'll see an error message at the bottom. In this case the case expression is inexhaustive because it's only handling lists of size 0, 1, and 2.
Are you accessing YouTube from outside of the United States?
In that case the promises are a waste of time because you always want to wait for them to complete. Very often you don't need to and your code will be quicker.
> I agree that this is the core question, but I'd put it as: Who Gets To Decide What Is True?

Well, outside of matters of stark factuality (what time does the library close?, what did MSFT close at?), many things people may be "searching for" (i.e. trying to find information about) are more in the realm of informed opinion and summary where there is no right or wrong, just a bunch of viewpoints, some probably better informed than others.

I think this is the value of traditional search where the result is a link to a specific page/source whose trustworthiness or degree of authority you can then judge (e.g. based on known reputation).

For AI generated/summarized "search results", such as those from "ChatGPT Search" (awkward name - bit like a spork), the trustworthiness or degree of authority is only as good as the AI (not person) that generated it, and given today's state of technology where the "AI" is just an LLM (prone to hallucination, limited reasoning, etc), this is obviously a bit of an issue...

Even in the future, when presumably human level AGI will have made LLMs obsolete, I think it'll still be useful to differentiate search from RAG AGI search/chat, since it'll still be useful to know the source. At that point the specific AGI might be regarded as a specific person, with it's own areas of expertise and biases.

The name "ChatGPT Search" is very awkward - presumably they are trying to position this as a potential Google competitor and revenue generator (when the inevitable advertisements come), but at the end of the day it's just RAG.
> Settings -> Apple ID -> iCloud -> iCloud Passwords & Keychain -> Sync this Mac

You clearly didn't even read the article. The whole point was that Apple silently toggled this on without my knowledge or consent.
> Why you would defend them

I don't defend "them". There is no "them". Conflating price gouging with lack of agency is, a different issue, outside of research. Patents count as output. Regulation hinders progress in the interest of safety and accountability. There are tradeoffs, granted. The idea that funds want to fund partial cures, rather than more comprehensive ones, is partially true. Comprehensive would be better for everyone, if it wasn't so damned difficult in western nations.

PHDs are predicated on thesis papers to prove something novel, which largely have no impact on society. This is a consequence of knowledge availability (and consequently utility), not maliciousness. Medicine is not special, in this regard.

The survival bias applies here. It's hard to know the diseases that are cured or have new treatments, because those cease to be issues at the forefront. Onchocerciasis? Nobody in the 1st world cares that was cured. Peptic ulcer disease? That was handled. What about medical procedures? Even incremental improvements to drugs, allow for more effective treatments or old treatments to have significant efficacy increases.

GL with whatever.
More of teaching like this in school could go a long way, but once people reach adulthood I don't think this would cut it. I think a more military training approach might be needed where you tear this part of the person's psyche down and rebuild it properly from the ground up.
"Norway collected about $1.46 billion on its wealth tax in 2019. But the exodus of the wealthy will result in an estimated $594 million in lost revenue."

ie. Status quo for the Wealth Tax, that exists, is +1.46 billion, it was projected to increase by ca 10% due to the tax hike, but instead trends towards decreasing to 0.87 billion, ie a loss of 594 million vs current tax income from the (lower) wealth tax
This is the plot-line behind the Serpentor story arc in GI Joe, but they mix all the best-worst parts together into one bad guy.
Nah, it doesn't even track which direction you're looking. Looking straight ahead, walk into some sugar cane so your whole screen is green. Now look up. It thinks you were looking down.
A short history of the All-Ireland Poc Fada competition
People have been throwing up the, "You're just too technical," canard for years, and it's just not true. Google search does not find what anyone is looking for; it finds what it wants to sell, in a way that makes it more likely that a purchase will be made. Full stop.
This is not clickbait,

This is clickbait.

it’s like a movement with a catchy name so it sticks

No, it's a title with no information, because we're talking about the title.

You seem to be stuck with clickbait but at the same time you don’t understand what clickbait is.

No, you seem to not understand what clickbait is because you think it has to do with selling something directly, which is bizarre and not backed up by anything other than you claiming it.

An intentionally sensationalized, vague or misleading headline

https://copyposse.com/blog/clickbait-or-catchy-hook-how-to-w...

Explain to me how "Wait Until 8th" isn't intentionally vague. If you knew nothing else, what would the title tell you? Nothing. That's vague. There could be more information in the title but there isn't. That's intentional.
Would love to see representative pairs of predicted vs real faces.
Not before Greece and North Macedonia declare war over who gets to claim the Alexander clone.
it's not about the absolute number of correct answers

it's about the ratio of valid / invalid answers

which is somewhere very close to 0
The reason many echo chambers exist is to keep the centre of mass or barycenter from moving too fast.
A combination of Pi-Hole and Tailscale
https://dancocos.com/2024/10/20/Tailscale-and-Pi-hole-ad-blo...

tl;dr
* It works across all devices (will block ads on the DNS level when using your phone on the cell network you usually cannot set the DNS servers in this case)
* To disable ads for minutes just disconnect from TS or deselect "Use TS DNS."
I'm not inclined to encourage multitasking just by rushing throwing more code while also driving while also writing a message to the kids while also eating.
It's also charitable to take the time to focus. And maybe think about how this code is not worth it or not urgent anyway. And doing less can be good
well... im shocked. the newest chip is the fastest.

i do wonder how much difference cooling does, and the temps and noise of that new mini
This was a surprise for me as well. I have two EPYC 9754 in a dual socket server, so 256 cores, and the test did not perform as well as I expected it too. It didn’t even load up all the cores, which is what I was needing to do.

I ended up using something else to generate the load I needed, but I can’t remember exactly what. I think it might have been a Monero benchmarking tool?
A Lot Changed in 2004
> Path forward requires solving the core challenge: actually surfacing the content people want to see, not what intermiediaries want them to see

But this will never happen with mainstream search imo. It is not a technical problem but a human one. As long as there is a human in control of what gets surfaced, it is only a matter of time until you revert to tampered search. Humans are not robots. They have emotions and can be swayed with or without their awareness. And this is a form of power for the swayer as much as oil or water are.

The idea that you can have an AI system provide factual and reliable answers to human centric questions is as real as Star Trek itself.

You will never remove the human factor from AI

Your hope might be that a technical solution is found for a human problem but that is unlikely.
It's not UTF-8 characters but Unicode.
The Tech layoffs are at a 2-year low...But the demand is at a 5-year low...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE
A standard example here is the Turkish dotless I, which yields "ı" → "I" → "i" with most case-conversion libraries.
People get "POSIX compliance" confused with "Unix certification". The first is an API you implement, the second is a rubber stamp.

All active Unix-like operating systems aim to implement the new interfaces as they're defined.
It was briefly a thing in the 1970s. They called it a "fotonovel", and similar names:

https://www.allaboutthewaltons.com/merchandising/fotonovel.p...

The Star Trek ones were particularly popular.
What now does this all have to do with shortening the distance? Or do you mean something else than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefitzat_haderech ?
I bet you could clone 1000 Alexanders, and none of them would be The Great. You'd need Aristotle as a tutor, and to inherit one of the best armies in the world from your dad, the king, and probably a million other little things would have to align in order to give you that combination of ambition and ability. If you can arrange all that, my intuition is that the genetic factors are probably of secondary importance.
Pics ?
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
In PHP the Turkish locale caused quite some trouble. In some situations a different locale was used for compiling and for runtime while handling "case-insensiteve" identifiers, fo that sometimes names with an "I" could not be found anymore.
Please tell me the position entailed more than just CRUD application work
I guess it comes down to your definition of state. I'm not saying there's enough state for this to be playable, but there is clearly state and I think it's important to point out how impressive the amount of temporal consistence and coherence this model is capable of, considering not long ago the state of the art here rapidly decohered into completely noisy pixels.
> you can't tell the injected statement is actually false.

It's dishonest on its face because it's trying to subvert the theoretical automation in order to get it to produce a false report. That's overt lying in my view, but even if you don't consider is so, it is at least lying-adjacent and is entirely dishonest.
Didn't they just drop? I see M4 Max benchmarks on the page linked in the OP article:

https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=mac16%...
In the US, magnet and charter schools are free and operated by public school districts. When there aren't enough slots, admission is typically handled by lottery so wealthy parents can't pay to get their children in. What they can do is move to a neighborhood with better public schools, and in fact we see a very direct relationship between public school ratings and housing prices in that school's catchment area.

The Chinese ghost cities are a terrible idea in every way. I am mystified as to how anyone would think those are a positive. Most of them will be left to decay without ever getting occupied.
You can get a 512g/24gb for $1104.00 USD. Still seems pretty great to me. If you’re disciplined with your internal/external storage you could also stay at a 256gb SSD and get 32gb of ram.
It seems to me that when people use the term "rich" they generally mean some combination of "wealthy enough that you don't have to work" and "wealthy enough that normal rules don't apply to you"[1].

In modern America, $1 million isn't enough to not have to work outside of small towns and certainly isn't enough that the rules don't apply to you.

[1] I don't even necessarily mean big things like hiring high power attorneys to get away with crimes. I mean things like cutting through bureaucracy, access to influential people/resources, the ability to bend regulations, etc.
>The answer to "is this legal" would have been such an obvious "no" to people on both sides of the debate

I'm sorry, but the people on the side of letting illegal aliens vote are squarely of the opinion that it is legal to do so.

Why?

Because when you prohibit any and all means (eg: government identification demonstrating citizenship and residence) to test the question of legality, everything becomes legal by sheer virtue of the fact you can't demonstrate what they are doing is illegal.

Remember: Innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. You are prohibited from proving they are guilty, so they are innocent by default.
> If you open the keychain app on a Mac

I've been using the Keychain app on the Mac for 20 years.

> you can clearly see the existence of multiple keychains and one explicitly labeled iCloud

There's no "iCloud" keychain if you don't use iCloud Keychain. There is a "Local Items" keychain. Let me emphasize LOCAL in the name. Unfortunately, what happens when iCloud Keychain is enabled (silently, without consent in my case), "Local Items" becomes "iCloud". macOS stores a lot of things in the Local Items keychain, including Safari web form passwords, which is why mine got silently uploaded to iCloud.
“Reduce” was never going to work. Only the deep electrification of our economy will save us.
Reaction Engines' hypersonic hopes stall as funding fizzles out
This is along the lines of what we need -- but those who control the world's resources would never allow it. I'm not optimistic.
Elon Musk snaps at Zoox co-founder over critical Tesla FSD comments
Similar to the journal idea, I keep a notebook by my bed where I can write down any thoughts or concerns I think of that needs attention the next day. This lets my mind relax so that I'm not worried about forgetting it or trying to solve it