skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fairly safe bet if you're trying to minimize your risk as much as possible. Sure it lacks imagination and you probably miss out on the true outliers but most Vcs are really conservative risk averse investors no matter what they say.
Man I wish notion was remote friendly and willing to hire in Canada.
Yes, and when it became clear that laptop sales would one day outpace desktop sales, Apple made the Intel switch, despite it meaning they had to downgrade from 64 bit CPUs to 32 bit CPUs until Core2 launched.

The Apple ecosystem was most popular in the publishing industry at the time, and most publishing software used floating point math on tower computers with huge cooling systems.

Since IBM originally designed the POWER architecture for scientific computing, it makes sense that floating point performance would be what they optimized for.
I'm reminded of the Intel dominance. Whatever happened?
That's fair.

Though you can salt a hash using a function that does not take a distinct salt input by just concatenating the salt with the value. This is a relatively common practice, but of course only works if there is no truncation of the salted input.
As did the steamboat, the telephone industry, the telegraph before that, and much more.
The topic being domestic inventions...
I just bought a Beelink SER9 mini pc, about the same size as the Mac Mini. It's got the ridiculously named AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, a laptop CPU that is decently fast for an X64 chip (2634/12927 Geekbench 6 scores) but isn't really competition for the M4. The GPU isn't up to desktop performance levels either but it does have a USB4 port capable of running eGPUs.
That’s a bummer! Have you found out why that didn’t work? Perhaps something like caffeine or allergies was interfering with your sleep?

If haven’t found out, I wholly recommend doing a sleep study if you can. It can shed some light on any obstacles you may be experiencing. I’ve never done one myself, but I know people who got enduring benefits from the insights of their studies.
Don't disagree with your post but netflix doesn't use zfs for a couple of reasons, one of which is broken sendfile support (though that might be fixed soon!).
My initial assumption is that this is more about Photomator than Pixelmator (ie. their Lightroom alternative rather than their Photoshop alternative).

Photomator has shown that you can add a lot of professional-level editing control to an Apple-Photos-like interface without making it difficult to use.

Their ML team also seems quite good — for instance, their spot/object removal tool was often more reliable for me than the one in Lightroom, despite being from a far smaller team than Adobe.

(I also feel that Photoshop has reduced in cultural significance in recent years, and that Lightroom is the more significant tool going forward, but that could reflect my own bubble)
why would someone in 2024 reach for bcrypt for building a secure hash key?
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In my free time I create video game cheats. You may have seen some of my previous blog posts on the top of Hacker News, emphasis on "hacker" [1][2]!

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Apple's marketing is comparing this season's M4s to M1s and even two generations of Intel ago. The 2x or 4x numbers suggests they are targeting and catering to this longer cycle where subliminally suggested updates are remarkably better, rather than suggesting an annual treadmill even though each release is "our best ever".
YC didn’t start as a VC firm, but it is one now. You don’t even mention pre-seed here, which is what YC was: the first pre-seed for an absolutely tiny batch of promising founders, who actually got a disproportionate advantage compared to average pre-seed rounds overall. Now, YC only gives disproportionate advantage against unfunded startups, and only a proportionate one against the average raise of equivalent size.

YC has lost all of the people who were there at the start. Saying something like “what ever was the ‘luster’” is akin to saying “who the heck was Steve Jobs, who cares, Apple is still the same business.”

Sheesh.
That gets your an hour of time split into 4 sessions, so are you saying it's $140 an hour?
Yep, I used it a lot. Made Windows tolerable.
As a parent, you’re underselling the impact of the help of grandparents and siblings on fertility
Well, firstly, it isn't. There are higher Geekbench 6 CPU scores, even forgetting the ones that appear to be fake or at least broken.

But secondly, that would absolutely not indicate that it is the "fastest single-core performer in consumer computing". That would indicate that it is the highest scoring Geekbench 6 CPU in consumer computing.

Whether or not that's actually a good proxy for the former statement is up to taste, but in my opinion it's not. It gives you a rough idea of where the performance stands, but what you really need to be able to compare CPUs is a healthy mix of synthetic benchmarks and real-world workloads. Things like the time it takes to compile some software, scores in video game benchmarks, running different kinds of computations, time to render videos in Premiere or scenes in Blender, etc.

In practice though, it's hard to make a good Apples-to-Intels performance comparison, since it will wind up crossing both OS boundaries and CPU architecture boundaries, which adds a lot of variables. At least real world tests will give an idea of what it would be like day-to-day even if it doesn't necessarily reveal truisms about which CPU is the absolute best design.

Of course it's reasonable to use Geekbench numbers to get an idea of where a processor stands, especially relative to similar processors, but making a strong claim like this based off of Geekbench numbers is pretty silly, all things considered.

Still... these results are truly quite excellent. It would suffice to say that if you did take the time to benchmark these processors you would find the M4 processor performs extremely well against other processors, including ones that suck up more juice for sure, but this isn't too surprising overall. Apple is already on the TSMC N3E process, whereas AMD is currently using TSMC N4P and Intel is currently using TSMC N3B on their most cutting edge chips. So on top of any advantages they might have for other reasons (like jamming the RAM onto the CPU die, or simply better processor design) they also have a process node advantage.
Exactly this. All that work, for reverse-engineering a handful of laptops made by a company whose only desire is to lock its users into its ecosystem and ergonomics. Even more demotivating is that the M1 and the M2 are already superseded.

Similarly, I completely do not understand the popularity of Apple's laptops in this community. Endemic mindless fanboyism.
A floating to fixed conversion is possible but would take some painstaking numerical analysis.
Why is that? Does it build an index so later searches are fast?
Hell, they’d probably be easier and less expensive to reassign than to hire anew for other roles because they’re already on the payroll, aware of policies, have their access provisioned, vetted for trustworthiness, etc.
I relate so much. I'm on some heavy hitting medication to manage it which no doubt will have their own consequences for me. Feels like there's no winning.
I do a version of this where what I have is a fixed wake-up time WINDOW.

The window is 90m, to account for 90m sleep cycle. I set the alarm to whichever multiple of 90 falls within the wake up window.

As a result, I sleep somewhere with 7h to 7h30 consistently, with the odd ~6h sleep day or ~9h in special circumstances (being sick).
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How does one go about buying a squatted domain? I realize domain names in this day and age aren’t super important, I am curious if knowledge persons have strategies or ideas as to how acquire a domain name that a.) you know has been squatted on for years and b.) cannot find any contact information associated with said domain.
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They are far from a demographic catastrophe if they start doing something about it now. Also, 23% of their population is rural. 1% is enough to feed the population. They could lose 22% and it would not affect their productivity.
If you want to estimate the stock market, would you rather:

1. sum 500 of the biggest companies by size (price * n shares).

or

2. have WSJ editors select 30 companies by any criteria they see fit, but you don't get to see the size of the companies, only the share price.
Dude you need to chill. Xi is just a man in China. You need to take a trip there to get a different perspective and make sure to talk/interact with the local people.
Gen Z support of unions is highest of all generational strata. They know what’s up.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-closing-gender-...
I think the crucial different is Workflow was targeted at what Apple should have been doing from the start. I see it the same way Karabiner, BarTender or QuickSilver (DropBox?) improve the OS experience in ways the platform owner would ideally could have figured out on their own.

Those fundamentally tend to butt against the OS limitations and benefit from becoming a blessed first party utility or feature.
The complete guide to integrating an OIDC server into your project
Yes, even in single mode fibers light is bouncing around between the layers of glass with different diffraction indicies. The pulses just aren't dispersing while doing so.
Can't wait to see it working.
How much notification did you give the developers before you disclosed? Did you enforce a timeline?
Looks like a duckbill valve. My wife’s breast pump uses them.
As someone who's intimately familiar with both cultures, I'm convinced Intel would have killed any innovation Nvidia had going for it before it had a chance to really take off.

Management at the two could not be more opposite if they tried.
very cool that dst has been killing us all this time.
LLMs absolutely did not emerge because of NVIDIA. you’re the one imho who is mistaking correlation with causality.

The first transformer models were developed at Google. NVIDIA were the card du jour for accelerating it in the years since and have contributed research too, but your statement goes way too far
> so the firing employees is not really justified

they probably got lots of lower quality employees during aggressive hiring period, so make sense to cut some fat.
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In my free time I create video game cheats. You may have seen some of my previous blog posts on the top of Hacker News, emphasis on "hacker" [1][2]!

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If my skills seem valuable to your organization, please don't hesitate to reach out - I am very interested in contract work as well!

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So much pessimism and downright denial on the impact of this technology.

The old guard have put earplugs in and wonder why everyone's dancing, they just can't hear the music. In this context it's their refusal to try anything and attempt to downplay everything. The technology will move on, with or without them, and that's the most beautiful part.

You can hate the marketing of AI, you can hate people starting startups to take advantage of this new technology, but you can not stop this technology from moving forward. They will fall into the same category as the people who denied the impact of the Microcomputer, the Graphical User Interface, and the Smartphone.
This is an interesting theory. To what end? To replace the entire American workforce with cheaper offshore labor?
The question usually goes "can this go better ?"

Pixelmator was a successful team with a polish product and happy customers. What Apple brings to the table is money I guess, but was that a critical issue the company was facing ?

The talent could bring a lot of good to other Apple products, but I guess Pixelmator as a product has reached its peak at this point.
Surely intel would have killed off CUDA
This. I worked in HPC between 2010 and 2013, and people were trying to compete with NVidia in the GPGPU space even back then, seeing the way the wind was blowing. Compute bandwidth, and FLOPS/watt has steadily been more and more important the last 15 years, even before AI.

NVidia has continued to stay ahead because every alternative to CUDA is half baked trash, even when the silicone make sense. As a tech company, trading $$ for time not spent dealing with compatibility bugs and broken drivers pretty much always makes business sense.
Blaming this on the tech workers, or the automation technologies themselves, misses the true source of the problem: the business owners who take the profit all for themselves, rather than allowing it to be enjoyed by all.

The promise of automation is that people should be able to work less and still be paid enough to live comfortably.
> The purpose of a company is

why do you think you have authority for such declaration?
Are those first two something other than Greek Omega and ascii K?
I don't, but it's easy to find people who realized this happened to them, getting scared about their immigration status and/or breaking the law. And the DMV isn't the only way this can happen:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DACA/comments/1aolik8/accidentally_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/1cuop36/need_advice_...

The comments on this one have someone describing how it almost happened to them at the DMV with the checkbox in question: https://www.reddit.com/r/immigration/comments/7bzst0/acciden...
This is tiresome. They cannot lock down the Mac without losing one of its biggest markets, software development. It was mentioned at a WWDC 5 or 6 years ago I think that software developers were the largest of the professional groups using Macs. You can’t have a development environment that doesn’t allow for the downloading, writing, and installation of arbitrary code.

As long as Apple wants people to develop software for its platforms and/or sell to web developers, Android developers, scientific computing, etc. they will not lock down the Mac.
It comes down to be willing to pay for it. There are domain brokers who can help get in contact with the owner, you can still contact through the privacy whois contact details to forward the details on..
Intels 3rd wave management by MBA would have ruined nvidia way back then forcing them into something dumb and blocked all of the R&D they did since since that's what they also did at intel.
It's my plex server and nas (m1). I've abandoned all the complicated complications and just have an 8 bay thunderbolt enclosure full of drives (JBOD)

And pg server. And a few web sites server. And something running in orb stack.

It's the 8gb model and I have around 2gb free most of the time
Amazing! Without Advil PM I can’t sleep more than 7. Really goes to show how diverse sleep habits/requirements are from person to person.
"Obviously there's an implication that people with terrible sleep regularity in that one week snapshot had terrible sleep regularity chronically, which in turn had a causative effect on mortality"

You got it.

"but we have to make a couple of deductive jumps to get to that conclusion"

This is always the case unless you assume reality is as big as what you can perceive.

"I'd really like to see the same study with longer term sleep data."

You can say this of literally 100% of the studies, it will never be enough. I understand it when authors put this at the end of a study because they want more funding and because their subject is all they think about. But for reasonable human beings you gotta make a common sense jump and allocate resources to other subjects. Yes, regular sleep has good effects on health, the burden of proof of that was already 0, this study is a nice added touch, there will be no double dessert, move on.
The source data is from the UK so it has nothing to do with the health insurance attached to specific jobs. Healthcare is covered via general taxation in the UK.
It's for one blog post so the audience is random blog owners, not developers. Prices for e.g. taking over an established browser extension would probably be higher.
He probably means initial grant is taxed as wage income, and then if company succeeded, stock goes up, and he pays lower long term capital gain tax.
I think their point is that easily accessible hardware capable of supporting the research is the reason the research has come as far as it has, and I would tend to agree. At the very least, GPUs keeping the PCI ecosystem going has played a major role in allowing the specialized accelerator market to flourish.
PPP is one of those things that sounds good but isn't meaningful by itself (to be fair, a raw comparison of minimum wages wasn't either).

When discussing comparative minimum wages, you're often trying to reason about something like subjective quality of life. An index of goods doesn't quite represent that though, because (a) in the place of external financial constraints consumers can be very happy choosing one good vs another, and (b) different consumers naturally have different purchasing needs.

(a) Includes ideas like eating more onions and potatoes in places where they're cheap and more rice and scallions in places where those are cheap. An index including both biases strongly toward countries able to provide both reasonably cheaply -- a noble goal, but at a minimum wage level the existence of a $0.30/lb potato and a $1.00/lb onion is much more impactful than both being at $0.45/lb.

(b) Different people have different constraints. At an extreme, a single person living in their car is able to be much better off in much of CA than a single person living in their car in Germany. Looking at minimum wage being "better" or "better when adjusted for PPP" misses a bit of nuance that I think is usually important here -- can minimum wage help somebody who works hard make ends meet, what if they're supporting a family, what if they only want to work 40hrs/week, ...? Just a few buckets of "types" of people can help us not talk past each other when arguing for some policy or another, getting to the root of our potential disagreements more quickly.

I mostly agree with the conclusion by the way, but appealing to an authority like the oecd (PPP) when the statistic they publish isn't at all applicable is a mistake that happens frequently, on all sides, and it leads to poor discourse without actually improving anyone's knowledge of the situation.
What do you mean? The commenter just pointed out (in a joking manner) that, even if some confounding factors were taken into account, the result might still be caused by other confounding factors. That's a serious critique, not a fallacy.
Edisons contribution was to capitalize on the discoveries/inventions of Volta, Faraday, Siemens, Gramme, and Tesla, helping to popularize and push electricity into the market. Not insignificant certainly, but if we're talking about doing the actual inventing here, I don't think that supports the thesis.
Cost-cutting, control, malicious compliance, and more importantly, plausible deniability. Apple has been caught sabotaging third-party repair multiple times and this sort of design is totally in line with that strategy. Making the design overly complex and fragile (and spending extra $$$ in the process), just to make it harder to correctly use, seems to be a common theme. They will of course come up with plausible arguments why their design is "better", but in reality it's only better for them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36926276

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24955071
Can a browser run a web server with this?
I hope they got more than $105 to sell out their userbase.
This is a fantastic way to give yourself an early heart attack.
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