skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I hate to say it but I think we really need some kind of basic regulation in this area. Companies should not be able to just decide to remotely stop you from using your software just because they consider it old and icky.

I totally agree, but also disagree.

I worked at a large corporation that designed and built lawn maintenance equipment. It sold both commercial and retail products.

I worked there as a front-end developer. This was in the mid aughts when it had already been 5-6 years since companies had dropped support for it and developers were already migrating to Chrome and Firefox. I was told everything I coded had to have backward compatibility with get this. . . . .IE 6. They said they had several vendors in China and overseas and the only way they could order their stuff was on a site that still worked in IE6. It was more or less just an order form they would print out, fill in, and then fax to our office for fulfillment. It was probably the most mind numbingly stupid experience I was put through and it felt like torture telling your dev friends you're still dealing with having to code stuff for IE6.

So yes, I agree, but we should at least have some kind of limitation on how long a company needs to support their software since it eventually ends up costing the company a lot of time and energy. The company I worked for had spent a lot of money to deal with all the issues associated with supporting IE6. Developer churn was pretty high because devs would get there and think they were having to work at some clown show because this company had made the decision to stick with this very outdated technology.

So yes, I agree we need regulation, but we also need some decent guard rails so what happened to me at the above company doesn't continue to happen.
You don't. You need a good partner who is going to support you during the time you are going to take care of the baby.
What is that responding to? The problem is how to safely spend/clean that much cash. You're describing how to accumulate cash, which makes the problem (in the parent comment) harder.
So get a stronger one. There will be always something that is better on one or another side.

I have 13th gen i7, with 64 GB RAM and 2 TB ssd (and 2.5 GbE). It was 800 EUR + VAT, last year. How much would similar Mac Mini cost?

Not a fair comparison either.

Edit: 69W for the NUC is not TDP. It is 69W power brick that ships with the machine.
FireWire?

Once I have some more disposable income I plan to buy a Thunderbolt RAID array and a mini. FireWire hasn’t been on Macs for at least a decade.

Apple’s internal storage pricing is absurd but you wouldn’t plan to use a NUC or a Raspberry Pi SOC’s onboard storage for a NAS anyways.
Oh wow this immediately sent me back, haven't thought about this game in decades. The room I played it in, the computer (486/33 w/8mb ram?) the friend I learned about it from (terrible friend in retrospect, for unrelated reasons). Generally just loving the humor and ridiculousness of it. Definite Monkey Island vibes. Thank you for the trip down memory lane, felt good to have some reminders of the positive things from of that time in my life.
In TFA, "EdTech" refers to things like grade-school subjects: e.g. learning to do fractions. In this respect, replacing human teachers with software/apps is what's being debated. The consequence of this replacement is a sharp drop in face-to-face engagement, and the substitution thereof with 1:1 screen time.

You provided some examples of auto-didacts teaching themselves useful life skills via YT. I think these are good resources for such folks -- I know I've benefited from them myself -- but it's hardly in the same ballpark.
That certainly works, but Docker will use a Linux VM, right?
I sort of hate the Gartner hype cycle as a research tool but I think there's a lot of truth to it directionally.
Is the readme auto-generated? In the bottom it says "Made with [love-emoji] by [Your Name] [sic]" and it mentions a MIT license but there is no license file.

> without a lot of heavy dependencies

Is next.js, sharp, etc. not considered a heavy dependency these days?
It's almost half the price.
Or rotate it 180 degrees. There's nothing on the top (now bottom) anyway that can't stand being covered up.
Proxmox isn't legacy, far from it.
The reality is that raising a baby requires full time attention of one person and really even more than what one person can give. Our social and economic systems have not evolved to recognize this reality and support it properly. Even with one person full time, you do need help to catch up on chores or to just take a break or to keep yourself in a good mental state. Otherwise, you aren’t going to be able to give what is needed. Anything less, and you are definitely dropping the ball SOMEWHERE to make it work - you’re either hurting your own health or depriving your child of parenting/attention or whatever else. There’s no shortcut and I simply do not believe anyone says everyone just makes it work. Sorry they only do that by providing a reduced amount of parental attention to their baby, full stop.
Maybe an earlier draft said "We should reject this. If we don't [...]", and was edited to be less harsh.
Why not just rack them upside down then?
I don't buy the Keiretsu argument.

South Korea and China both adopted the Keiretsu model for conglomerates due to Japan's Flying Geese doctrine, yet both still have fairly robust software scenes.

If I were a betting man, my hunch would be the collapse of domestic financing during the Asian Financial Crisis and Great Financial Crisis.

Japanese asset managers who concentrated on tech like SoftBank, Nomura, and MUFG had better options in Asia (South Korea, China, India) or in North America (USA) to invest in with better returns compared to Japan.

This is why SoftBank has always been a prominent checkwriter in those markets.
Unreal Engine 5 WebGPU demo with asset streaming
I did my first startup when I was ~22 years old and still roughly on my teenage-year "sleep till noon, up till 4" schedule, which actually worked somewhat well (I want to be careful with what I say here because I was in a bunch of ways a total fuckup of a husband at the time) --- when the boy woke up, I was awake to take care of him. It did not cost me any productivity (in fact, it probably snapped me out of a bunch of unproductive A.D.D. spells.)
I have i7 NUC13 mounted on a back of monitor and I can barely hear it. It's not that bad, previously (NUC7-era) it was much worse.
See "Geoffrey Hinton in conversation with Fei-Fei Li" where the two got together and looked back at the developments over the last ~10 years, including why and how they did their part:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWWgr2rN45o
all you need is a .edu address If I recall correctly. you can buy them on alumni addresses.

That said, a far chunk of HNs never completed college, like myself and lost access to any email accounts of this sort, which only further supports your argument directly, as the EDU discount isn't universally attainable
A yakhchāl (Persian: یخچال "ice pit"; yakh meaning "ice" and chāl meaning "pit") is an ancient type of ice house, which also made ice. . . . Records indicate that these structures were built as far back as 400 BCE, and many that were built hundreds of years ago remain standing, where Persian engineers built yakhchāls in the desert to store ice, usually made nearby [0]

Perhaps the earliest reference to icehouses comes from Shulgi, who held sway in the Sumerian city of Ur at the tail end of the third millennium bc. . . . Year 13, for Shulgi, was dubbed “Building of the royal icehouse/cold-house.” Jackson suggested such buildings might have been “timber-lined holes in the ground” designed to keep ice brought down from the mountains “cool and secure.” [1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l

1. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/do-you-want-buil...
No it doesn't. That wasn't a norm historically and it's not a reality for probably most working families.
This isn't the market for MacMinis though. Why are people on this forum so bad at understanding market segmentation? Apple made an incredible desktop machine that happens to work pretty damn well as a server if you poke around.

This machine is for people at home to for editing video. It's great in the field for production where it goes from pelican case to hotel desk to folding table to pelican case to cargo hold to storage.
Shame they got rid of the ability to power the computer on and off from the keyboard. I know its been that way for some time, I'm sure there's good reason for it (maybe it doesn't work well over BT or something, or simply few generic keyboards offered the power button).
So let me get this straight. Once there are lots of people it's more dangerous, but once there are no people it's simultaneously more dangerous? I'm not following the logic here
A program is either opensourced or not. When its sources aren't available - one should never trust "it doesn't phone home" claims.
Is this from the view of a single parent?

Really the only answer is to hire a nanny/au pair for your working hours.
Just remove the space from the URL
Volkswagen to Invest $5.8B in Rivian Through Joint Venture
I'd like to engage in the discussion the article raises about why teams don't hire for this role.

So, I have actually tried to hire for this role. Multiple times.

The reality is that I got an order of magnitude fewer applications of an order of magnitude lower quality when I've tried to describe this role, as compared to when I just put the standardized "front end engineer" title in the role.

So instead I tried to just sift through the "front end engineer" applicants to find people with design sensibilities. But this also yielded poor results. After reviewing at least a thousand applicants, I found one or two people with this combination of skillsets, and one of them to whom I made an offer ended up going with a different firm.

Senior engineers in our team said things like "I think you're searching for a unicorn that doesn't exist" and "people just don't mix the right-brained and left-brained skills."

After trying so hard, I just accepted that and decided to work with dedicated designers and dedicated engineers. Each are good at what they do.

But our web experience is definitely lacking for lack of someone in this role. Right now, this week, I'm trying to fill the gap as I can do a little bit of both. Everyone on our team feels like we need some "glue" to tie our experiences together well. But a designer can't make it happen and a pure engineer can't imagine what to do without very explicit detailed designs / instructions. It's so much more effective for one person to at once understand how the code needs to function, what helps the user, and have design sensibility to make the form 'function' w/r/t cognitive overload and intuition. Things get lost in communication without someone who can understand all three. But there's no one I feel I can truly delegate this to completely on our product team.

What have the experiences been of other people who have hired and built product teams?
Just put Asahi on there, or any linux you like. I'm sure the support will be there soon if it's not already.
Can we use this as a mail interface on top of Fastmail?
I'm a paying customer of Kagi.

Kagi itself runs on top of Google. It's certainly worth paying for (IMO), but let's not kid ourselves -- it is *not* a competitor (as in, can replace Google). Without Google, there is no Kagi.
The only real constraint now is volume - there's still a hard db limit of 111 db because of the technicalities of medical device categorization. Software and hardware patents are entwined with the medical device nonsense and the hearing cartel is incredibly litigious. They make FAANG look like playground bullies if they feel their territory is being infringed on, and have an absurd breadth and depth of patents covering every possible iteration and permutation of audio technology they can possibly get away with.
Literally any very low income area of any larger city in the US is the same. You see kids all the time walking around without adults. If they're very young (like 6 or whatever) they're typically an older kid, sometimes like around 10 to 12, but again this happens everywhere.

It's only middle class neighborhoods and above where people start to have strong reactions to this in a "won't somebody think of the children!!!" sort of way
I don't see any of that in the article, in fact quite the opposite. The article explicitly states that neither Fei Fei nor NVidia were thinking about neural networks when creating ImageNet or CUDA, rather it is spinning the serendipity of the three unrelated efforts coming together to create deep learning, and the idea that none of the three would have happened if it weren't for people pushing ideas that went contrary to conventional wisdom.

> I don't think we can say that Hinton accidentally created the deep learning boom.

Yeah, the headline is unclear, but I read it as referring to Fei Fei being the "accidental" contributor to deep learning, not Hinton.
Nix works well on mac, very similar to Nix/Linux for the most part. There are some missing packages, but the common ones tend to be fine. Its worth using the Determinate Systems installer to avoid reinstalling Nix on every macOS update though.

Nix-darwin is good, and I use it, but it is nowhere close to NixOS. I think there are some options I've set through it that macOS keeps overriding, so the declarative configuration drifts from the real one eventually

I think the only real issue with Nix on macOS is that Nix can eat through storage quite quickly, and storage upgrades are pretty expensive on Macs. This might push the balance back to an fanless ryzen build
Hmm, this is not the "Kibana" alternative I imagined.

Kibana was supposed to be an easy UI. You go to Discover, and the data automatically shows in chronological order, I can explore it with different options.

Kibana is very suitable for non-tech or less-tech people. I hope your product find a clear target audience. With too much ES query JSON or SQL it would scare people off.
who is actually making sustainable revenue solving a real problem using AI? I can only think of the foundational models(OpenAI, Gemini etc), coding helpers(Cursor, GH Copilot)
"Emotional" is the kind of half-truth word. There are many different emotions. The emotion in question is what's responsible for the response. Saying "emotional" is omitting the important part. It's like saying "involved in road accident" w/o saying whether one caused the said accident or was the victim of.

The top-level response in question is disgusting. It's like listening to someone who won a million dollars in a lottery complain that they didn't win ten millions. Should I really feel compassionate towards a "victim" of such a bad luck of only winning a single million? Even if the "victim" genuinely feels bad about themselves?
I have a Mac mini backed by an Areca 24-bay Thunderbolt disk-array in the rack in the garage. Works like a dream.
It’s trivially easy to obtain the discount. Anyone working in education, or a student at any level, k-12, higher ed, graduates with access to uni email can get it. Apple doesn’t ask any questions or for verification.

They also go on sale at a similar price to the general public relatively frequently.
Yes, I should've said "can be". They are definitely difficult to manage. It doesn't help that people like to pass file paths or URLs across IPC and don't think of eg sending file descriptors over directly.

Hmm, who needs thousands of files at once (as opposed to serially)?
If I’m at the point, as a hobbyist sports gambler of keeping meticulously accurate records, I’m no longer a hobbyist.
Beelink has dropped the price for a roughly comparable unit with an Intel Core Ultra from 800 US Dollars to $700.

https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-sei14-ultra5-125h
How is this working for you so far? Do you ever need to report across the multiple tenants, and how do database migrations go? I'm starting to look into this, and purely for reporting and database migrations I'm leaning towards multi-tenant.
This is just pure gold of an anecdote :-)
I think reblogs as a technical feature were added first in 2009 by Tumblr and slightly later adopted by Twitter - not that it matters in this context.
I came to the same conclusion a while back. LLMs are very useful when user expertise level is medium to high, and task complexity is low to medium. Why ? because it those scenarios, the user can use the LLM as a tool for brainstorming on drawing the first sketch before improving it. Human in the loop is the key and will stay key for the forceable future no matter what the autonomous AI agent gurus are saying.
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/mistral-ai-strategy-openai
Asahi Linux doesn’t currently support M4 but it’s planned for next year.
It's nice to see that the hype is cooling. There will be more room to focus discussions on what's actually useful, and stop with the endless "I love it", vs. "I hate it", vs. "I fear it" discussions.
My understanding is that we have a lot of such "compostable" materials. However, they don't have as good properties as "plastic" and so they aren't visibly replacing them. Once we manage to get similar in structure and costs then it's a good start to replace.
I’m going to have to check this out, I no longer have access directly to my old college email, but it still forwards to my gmail over a decade later!
> Back in the day some(?) Mac models could be booted by a USB keyboard

Heck, way back in the day, Macs all had power buttons on the keyboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_key
A lot of houses use hard stone in various places, sometimes even granite, which is a lot more durable than any fossilized skeleton. So the assumption definitely holds.
People have been shown to enjoy different eq levels, and they are generally consistent in their preferences
> I find that I like English "sentence case" for it,

I could go either way, but if you want to go back and modify a query, this makes it more difficult for me. I just use a block syntax for my queries:

SELECT *
FROM the_table
WHERE some_column = 12
AND other_column IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY order_column;
It's Deutschland after all.
"Upgradeable" is too big of a word here, specially considering that they're using different form-factors even between the models released on the same year (e.g. pro vs non-pro) ; and also different from models released on the previous year (e.g. studio). This almost certainly means that next year's model will also use a different interface, so you won't be able to upgrade your storage at all.
In theory yes, but good luck with that.
How on earth is requiring card payments discriminatory? Providing cash payment options is absolutely not free and implies extra risk on behalf of the business.

Refusing to take part in the banking system is not worth penalizing businesses for. Let the free market work.
While it may not be the literal fastest CPU ever, it still seems very, very fast, and the efficiency is pretty compelling. I'm not sure how much of those efficiency gains are a product of the design constraints that Apple is not beholden to (external memory, x86 backwards compatibility, other aspects of the AMD64 architecture, etc.), the slightly better process nodes, or superior design. I'm honestly dying to know, but I guess we won't find out, and as far as the products go, it doesn't really matter that much. The end result is a pretty good deal.

As a mainly non-Apple user I see the following caveats for my own uses:

- I'd love to see better Linux support. (As far as I know, Asahi Linux only covers the M1 and M2 lines, and as amazing of a project as it is, last I looked, it's neither upstreamed nor exactly what one might consider first class. Maybe it's getting there now, though...)

- I'm worried about the SSD situation still. It seems like it hasn't amounted to much (yet), but some use cases might be more impacted than others, and once the SSD does finally fail, the machine's dead. This is not how things work in most PCs, even mini PCs, and it's a bit of a hard pill to swallow.

- The pricing is great at the baseline, but it gets progressively worse as you go up. The Apple M4 Pro Mac Mini has a baseline price of $1,399.00, which I think is pretty decent for a high-end computer with 24 GiB of RAM. But, it maxes out at 64 GiB of RAM, which is less than half of what I have in my current main machine, and believe me, I use it. That 64 GiB of RAM upgrade costs $600. For comparison, the most expensive 64 GiB DDR5 RAM kit on PCPartPicker is $328.99. Don't get me wrong either, I understand that Apple's unified RAM is part of the secret sauce of how these things are as efficient and small as they are, but at least for my main computer I really don't need things to be this compact, so it's another tradeoff that's really hard to swallow.

But on the other hand, for people happy to use macOS as their primary operating system, the M4 line of Macs really does look the best computer Apple has ever produced. (For me, it is rare that I feel compelled to even consider an Apple computer; the last time was with the original M1 Mac Mini, which I did buy, although after some experimentation I mainly just use it for testing things on macOS rather than as a daily driver machine.) There really aren't many caveats especially since the base memory configurations this time around are actually reasonable.

I suspect these things could be great on homelab racks if the longevity issues don't wind up being a huge problem.
Incumbents (Google, Microsoft, Adobe) seem to broadly struggle at reasonable integration of AI. Just look at windows/github copilot compared claude desktop or cursor.
?? i went to a montessori school and i learned how to read and write poetry, cursive, tie my shoes, use scissors, all 4 mathematical operations, how to read novels, hell, i used to read our encyclopedia for fun, did a project on the bernoulli principal, and more, all before 2nd grade. no one i have ever met had an identical experience
Some of the rackmount kits for previous generations already reroute the power button and connectors to the front, like this https://racknex.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/with-power-bu.... (Though why not just install it backwards?) I guess they will be able to run a little lever under the M4 model the same way.

Actually, the M4 model is a little taller so it no longer fits in a 1U rack mount. Whereas before you could fit 2 horizontally in 1U, now you'd possibly fit 8 or 9 vertically in 3U. (Edit: This company says 10 per 2U https://www.racksolutions.com/m4-mac-mini-apple-hypershelf.h....)
i'm in my mid 30s now, and I remember as soon as i was old enough to ride a bike well, i would ride it over a mile away from home all by myself, probably around age 7 or 8. i got lost one time and was really flustered, starting crying, knocked on a literal random door, and a very nice old lady let me use her phone to call my mom, who was slightly embarrassed, lol. this was in a large city in texas for context.

another random andecdote: my older brother, probably 11 or 12 at the time, got in a lot of trouble with my mom and they had a big fight. my mom just straight up kicked him out of the house with no shoes, and literally walked barefoot over several miles to his friend's house.

reflecting on that gives me a lot of introspection to the nature of the parenting i received.
> my big worry about BSky is the lack of any coherent monetization plan.

That's a reasonable concern. I assumed there would be ads at some point, but that's not the way that they are going for now.

> we will begin developing a subscription model for features like higher quality video uploads or profile customizations like colors and avatar frames.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a
It makes it easy to distinguish null vs not null columns and other similar things, so I personally don't mind.
> Surely very few of us on HN are still in college?

What makes you think that? I'm back in school getting a MEng degree in my 30s.