skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh but I do. There's no shortage of phony self-centered people in the world around me. Through a little effort and a ton of luck I ended up living and interacting with a lot of entitled people, obsessed with their petty tragedies which they hurry to encase in heavy golden frames and put on public display in the most prestigious art gallery in town.

I live in the world where about half the inhabitants don't eat meat out of "moral concerns" absolutely ignoring the grim reality of most of the world that will eat whatever food they have, and a lot of the time would have none.

People who protest about political causes in lands and cultures they don't understand because a propaganda ad featuring a bruised child in a pile of rubble made them feel sad.

People throwing themselves at the police at another pointless protest rally, only to be greeted at the police station by a mug of hot chocolate and be dispatched home to sleep in their soft and cozy beds.

There's nothing deep or special in this "loss". It make sense to mourn the loss of a life of a young man committing suicide because he was abandoned by the world around him. And I've seen that. It makes sense to mourn the loss of life of a young woman who got hooked up on heroin and died of overdose after an attempted recovery--and I've seen that too. It makes sense to regret the loss of young child's life, whose entire family was killed by poorly planned and poorly executed missile attack. Because such loss of life was avoidable, it took something that had a potential and squandered it. Old people dying of old age is nothing like any of the above. It's what's supposed to happen. It's how I want to go. It's how I want for everyone I care about to go.

I've spent enough time with ER to develop strong feeling of disgust for people who start crying "oh but my mom, she was only ninety-three!" and then latching onto the doctor's sleeves preventing them from tending to other patients. These also tend to show in large family groups and block the entire department for hours by driving attention to themselves with loud wining, arguing with the medical staff and other people in the ER. Demanding unlimited attention due to their "devastating loss". Demanding that the medical staff instantly produce all sorts of forms, perform all kinds of unnecessary procedures, basically, only to drive attention to themselves.
The network stack is very different now - BSD doesn't run on cell phones after all. But no syncookies, no.

But IMO the real advantage of ARMv8 for a server is that it has better security.
And you can pick up a used one for less than 1/10 the cost of a Mac Mini and it will be perfectly adequate for most people.

I appreciate the technical achievement of the M4 Mac Mini for what it is, but an old x86 machine is more than adequate for my home or even work needs.
The only position I took issue with, and still do, is my closing paragraph of my last post. Your argument for why ARC solvers wouldn't generalize doesn't even make sense.
I might go stare at the matte options for a while in-store. Exchange / return period is 14 days. Literally the only time glare matters for me is a few hours per day _if I happen to be using the laptop in one room_, but if I could avoid that problem, it’d be great.

I am paranoid and so pay for AppleCare+, so at least damage wouldn’t be financially devastating, only annoying.
Diminishing Returns – Mental Model
> stealing parts of fellow aircrews' planes to rebuild their own

US Army still does that today to some extent (not with planes anymore though). It's not stealing, they're just getting their stuff back.
DOS/V was just PC-DOS with some additional device drivers. IBM licensed it to Microsoft who in turn licensed it to other vendors such as Toshiba, Sharp, AST, Compaq, Dell and Fujitsu.

The biggest barrier to its adoption was vendors such as NEC (with their PC9800 series) and the AX consortium (Oki, Casio, Canon, Sanyo, Sharp, Hitachi, Mitsubishi) who had already invested in proprietary hardware for Kanji support and were threatened by the support of Japanese text on global standard hardware. (That said, some AX vendors decided to embrace DOS/V anyway, such as Sharp.)

Another barrier was that DOS/V had different APIs from those previous solutions so you needed new software that could support it.
I bought a no brand mini PC really small with older Intel CPU. It runs Debian quite well. But noisy and slows down a lot, perceivable once it gets hot. But it's cheap around $100,-150 on Chinese e-commerce websites with memory, disk.

Apple does amazing stuff. But it's very pricey in most markets and unaffordable to those on budget.
> I had quite some fun implementing this at a very lovely lake in Sweden

Was there a wonderful telephone system and many interesting furry animals?
Both are true, but we use "transactions" for clarity, since the semantics of consumers outside transactions is even murkier. Every read in this workload takes place in the context of a transaction, and goes through the transactional offset commit path.
Epic SXSWi party (2006). GaryVee and Community
> Pricewise, things start favoring PCs if you need more RAM, as Mac upgrades are costly.

That's the position I'm in, along with some other people I've talked to recently, too.

For our situations, the M4 would likely offer more than enough processing power, and the efficiency and physical size are attractive, but a maximum of 32 GB of RAM definitely isn't sufficient.

The M4 Pro's 64 GB of RAM is somewhat better, but the cost of those upgrades are very hard to justify.

I'd also prefer to use the system for at least 5 years, and likely up to 10 years, if not longer. Even if 64 GB is tolerable now, I can easily see it becoming insufficient for my needs before then.

The lack of reasonably-priced internal storage, while easier to work around than the lack of sufficient and reasonably-priced RAM, doesn't help matters, too.

Even if future Studio models, for example, might allow for a more ideal amount of RAM, I have to expect that unjustifiable upgrade costs will likely still be an issue, and then there's the wait on top of that.

I can easily see myself and the others I've talked to settling for PCs, rather than making unjustifiably-expensive Mac purchases.
Thanks for the feedback

The button located to the left of "power" initiates the calibration procedure. After calibration, you can see the predicted gaze position displayed as a thin white circle in real-time.
RAM is completely fair.

Apple is certainly out of their mind on storage. But on a desktop it’s trivial to plug-in an external disc that you can buy at an absolutely reasonable price instead of the insane Apple one.
That's not the way it was sold by politicians or reported by the media. For example:

"NYC to eliminate gifted and talented school program that opponents say segregated students"

"this new, equitable model"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/us/new-york-gifted-and-talent...
If you can't hire for it but you have solid raw materials, slowly bringing the front-end dev closer to the customer can bridge some of that gap.

It's not going to get you to some bauhaus ideal overnight, but it might start to click for them in a way that leaves you better off than you are today.
He designs a stack-based ISA with ten instructions.

I've previously written [1] about reducing RISC-V RV32I down to 10 instructions `addi`, `add`, `nand`, `sll`, `sra`, `jal`, `jalr`, `blt`, `lw`, `sw` [2]. Except for subword stores the missing instructions can be emulated with at most 4 instructions.

I implemented the `countPrimes` function in my own benchmark [3] using just this subset [4] and found a 28% code size expansion but only a 3% speed penalty.

[1] https://new.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/w0iufg/how_much_coul...

[2] or 11 if you keep a strict subset by including `and` and `xor` instead of `nand`

[3] https://hoult.org/primes.txt

[4] https://hoult.org/primes.S
one of my favorite conspiracy theories i've picked up recently is that apple purposedly puts these kind of annoyances in their product.

things like the button on the bottom of the new mac mini or the dumb notch on the macbooks.

according to the theory, such things:

1. they catch attention of people and give them something to talk about (and to fight about)

2. they might steal attention from other flaws

it makes perfect sense: the notch, this idiotic decision about the button, the charge port on the mouse.
>Current top models are measured in hundreds of billions of parameters. Future models will have many trillions

It wont matter. These have diminishing returns.

And, for LLM style AI, the corpuses aren't getting any bigger. Instead the get more polluted and self-referential.
It randomly showed up on my Windows machine after an Edge update. This reminds me of how Internet Explorer was once the most popular browser.
Good question. In Switzerland you could buy real estate with cash until very recently.

You could also open a front, say a barbershop or a restaurant, though convincing authorities you earned a million or more through that could be a stretch.
Yeah once or twice
Yeah, each cycle is generally meh over the last. I kept my M1 Air for 4 years, so it’s been quite a large difference. I got issued an M3 Pro for work, which is what made me realize there were some large gains to be had.
Ahh yeah fwiw it wasn't _intended_ to be a dig at the open source status of Kibana - but rather we're open source and building on top of Clickhouse.

On the commercial OSS side of things - I suspect the trend there is more nuanced than all OSS companies being suspect to the same problem, but rather companies that generally solve a "behind the API" problem are more susceptible to problems of cloud vendors taking their code and competing with them commercially (ex. if you're a DB like Redis, Mongo, Elastic - or a CLI like Terraform). We're building an end-user experience (more like Gitlab) - where experience differentiation matters a lot more than simple infrastructure hosting, something AWS is not particularly well suited at competing on!

It's been 3 years of Gitlab post-IPO and they're still MIT, and that's the boat we're on as well :)
I've lived for several years in parts of the world where bribing police is, unfortunately, normal.

There's a couple of places around the country where it's known that the police do shakedowns (although they certainly don't point guns at you). I guess especially corrupt police work in those areas.

But for the most part I am much less likely to get stopped for minor traffic violations than I would be back home, where bribing the police isn't a thing. I'm sure there are other countries where police shakedowns is a problem, but it's not just a simple equation of bribable police = shakedowns.
Seriously?

What if you want to have a few browser tabs and a spreadsheet open? Or containers?

My M1 routinely rests around 22gb of RAM.
I can't imagine it's anything but a silly comment. Macs have the equivalent of wake-on-LAN, plus you can configure them trivially to restart after power loss. The idea that you'd have to press the button often is just silly.
The problem with code breaking is that you can't benefit from it too much because your enemy will realise you're reading their messages and change their practices.

For this reason the allies had to let convoys be hit sometimes, because they couldn't always be too suspiciously at the right place at the right time. Luckily the German confidence in Enigma was so high that their top leaders ignored reports of enigma being broken, they thought it literally impossible.

I'm not sure how this played out in the Japanese war. But the point remains. You can't use signals intelligence too much unless it's literally ending the war in a couple of days.
Dystopian future here we come! Cashless seems cool until you realise one day they decide to turn off your access to money, or tax you more based on your spending pattern. The possibilities for abuse are endless so it WILL be abused.
Fantastic community! I've tried a couple of scripts already. I have running Pi-hole and Paperless LXC containers. I'm looking forward to Appflowy!
Chegg wasn't a victim — it was a middleman profiting from locked-up educational content and exploiting students’ needs. ChatGPT didn't "lure" users; it provided a superior, accessible alternative, democratizing learning rather than hiding it behind paywalls. The argument against AI due to resource usage is selectively blind to the inefficiencies of legacy systems like Chegg. Calling this hype is like dismissing the internet as a fad — it’s a failure of imagination. Disruption always displaces incumbents, but clinging to outdated, exploitative models is far worse than embracing a tool that genuinely empowers users.
Same. For me, I took a program I wrote / am writing that’s extremely CPU and disk intensive, and compared the execution time. It’s 2x faster on an M4 Pro compared to an M1. That’s worth it to me.
Because not everyone has access to cards?
It's probably easier to find and press than the old 27" iMacs. I always had a brief moment of trouble feeling around the back to find that darn button (part of the reason is that you need to press it very infrequently).
I find "higher level" format issues to be of greater concern. These are issues like: is the recipe structured in a way that makes the prep/process flow clear, makes it obvious when a certain ingredient needs to be prepped but divided into multiple parts for use in different stages, or when different stages lead to products that are combined and subsequent poisons in the workflow?

A recent example: I really like the Hainanese chicken recipe at https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/food/articl... ... But I find it very hard to follow in this format.

Using o1-preview to restructure it, I get something that I find much easier to follow during my cooking workflow: https://chatgpt.com/share/6733e594-df28-8009-ac80-d5dabd1ae0...

But getting from a well-written recipe to structured data is now pretty straightforward... if/when you need structure data.
There was a comparison mentioned on last week’s episode of the Accidental Tech Podcast, I don’t remember if it was pointed out to them or they noticed it themselves.

Base Mac mini: $599, 16/256 GB

Double storage and ram: $600 upgrade.

Price of 32/512 config: $1199

Two 16/256 machines: $1198.

The ram is (Apple) reasonable at $200, but $400 for the storage doubling is insane.
> can't imagine it's anything but a silly comment

Given my cat, after learning to press a button on his automated feeder, now presses anything that looks like a button with the curious expectation of food, I can only presume he got out while I was in Cupertino.

Button on the bottom isn't a design mistake. It's an opinionated choice.
Software tends to create winner takes it all markets, which means if you're a small fish wanting to get bigger you either need to create your own market, or get enough money to win over the other players.

Keiretsu not caring about a market forces new comers to go for the blue ocean strategy, as they won't get investments for fighting in the more crowded markets.

As the keiretsu also hold the capital, they also shape markets and should totally be blamed for what happens there.

To compare to the US, Microsoft wouldn't be there if IBM didn't invest in it. Apple also benefited from Xerox and got saved by Microsoft etc.. That's the kind of dynamic the Japanese market only saw in cars and customer electronics manufacturing.
this sounds like a "big-endian vs little-endian" kind of quarrel, to be honest
https://www.qwant.com

https://www.ecosia.org
So tech bros have become experts in pedagogy.

What if a teacher starts telling what the best way to write software for a large codebase that 1000s of engineer contribute to is, based on their experience of writing ten lines of code to some toy problem that teacher once faced.

Think about it. That’s what you just did here. The better thing to do is state your experience as your experience and leave opining on optimal teaching pedagogy to those best equipped to study and understand it, which sure is as well isn’t you
AI Startups in San Francisco
There are packages like django-oauth-toolkit.

But what is the sense to compare on a single feature? Obviously, Django doesn't cover 100% of use cases but, usually, you choose a technology that simplify you live overall not on specific aspects.
Nix support on Darwin is really good in my experience. Though it does happen that some packages are not supported.

Next to that I run a NixOS VM on https://getutm.app/ using Virtualization Framework. Performance is great.

You're one setting away `virtualisation.rosetta.enable = true;` to also use that VM for x86_64 packages and builds.

I have a WIP PR for Rosetta AOT caching on NixOS as well: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/330829
Yeah. My favorite professor this semester constantly says "hey, if you rely to much on the robot, and can't do this yourself, you won't get a job." I know some people are just here for the paper, but that makes me feel better when I'm having a hard time finding a new role..
You are free to purchase as many Apple products as you want to offset any perceived revenue losses from promotional discounts. I'm not so sure why you would want to do this but I keep hearing that behavioral economics is a thing, maybe paying more is your definition of rationality.
Hrm while we aren't a 1:1 Kibana replacement today (we're not apples to apples since Kibana is locked into Elastic, whereas we're on Clickhouse) - I don't think we're too far off with our UI-based filters, Lucene filter language, and timestamp filtering/sorting/live tail.

There is a setup modal (which is intended to be set up once by the data owner, similar to maybe how you'd set up some indexes in Elastic) - and afterwards the experience is similar IMO. If you're open to sharing more I'd love to learn more mike@hyperdx.io or if you want to open an issue/join our discord.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/322036/is-it-possi...
They've managed to get people to accept things they'll never accept in Intel or Android ecosystem. Like no SD card, no memory expansion, no dual SIM etc. That gives the confidence.

I guess once system shuts down you can switch off the power at the mains or adapter socket.
Nah that's all pointless trivia. It is dark inside the box. Nobody gives a rip whether the mini is faster because it's got better ram or if it's faster because it's got better arithmetic logic. So you do not have to control things like memory because you don't have a choice anyway.
Companies tend to focus on the overall % profit margin for a product. If a higher percentage of sales are for a discounted (edu) SKU with lower margins, they will tend to raise the price of the product to hit their desired profit margin.

e.g. If a company was selling a product at $1000, and wanted to offer a 20% discount for EDU that would be bought by 50% of the market, they would need to raise the price by about 10% to keep the same margin. If only 20% of the market bought the discounted SKU, they could keep the same margins with only a 5% (?) increase in price to the rest of the SKUs.
Not at all. Humans are fundamentally limited by our finite statespace and bandwidth. Classifying systems that are able to generalize at least as well as a human but that can exceed those limits as superintelligent is a meaningful distinction.

I agree that "equivalent to human intelligence" is not a robust way to define general intelligence, but humans are a general intelligence.
As categories:

- Language translation: is, in general, much better with the ML models than prior automated attempts.

- Internal search tools (GPT + all your internal docs, private)

- Voice-to-text transcription in lots of medical and medical adjacent fields. HN tends to be skeptical of this ("It's going to hallucinate diagnoses!"), but it has a lower error rate than traditional speech rec and human transcription. I met someone who built their own no-code speech to text for their partner's veterinary practice and saved them an hour a day of notetaking.

There's a bunch of businesses in all these areas.
As noted above, you can simply replace that module with a higher capacity module with just a screwdriver, as iFixIt did.

However, there is a real opportunity for those who do have soldering skills to make a quick buck here.

You could pretty easily buy the cheap base model M4 and resell it as a custom upgrade build, as long as you were clear that the SSD was no longer stock.
> Is there any possible issue with just having it upside down all the time?

You might scratch the top, maybe? Nothing that a small piece of cloth wouldn't prevent, anyway.
I use Fastmail for this. Here's what we do:

- My wife and I each have our own email addresses

- We have a third email address that we share with the school (etc.); this email address is not a real inbox but a forwarding address that sends mail to the first two

- When email is sent TO this address, the default is to reply FROM the address

- When email is sent FROM this address, an Auto BCC rule sends a copy to the other spouse

In this way we both get our own personal email addresses, but we have a shared address that goes to both of us, and we know if an email sent to that address has been replied to, what the reply was, etc.
I love the concept of simple tech which does 1-2 things well, and have built some apps myself following a similar philosophy.

However, there is always _some_ complexity when introducing a new solution. The simplest solution is generally what people already know and are comfortable with.

With that in mind, what benefits does this provide over something like Slack or Discord for small teams? I get those aren't email, but I'd assume the protocol isn't the selling point? As someone who struggles to answer this question myself, I'm genuinely interested in hearing the process which led to this being created.
SELECT *
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I usually don't bother with ALL-CAP keywords.
And Uber.

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/09/waymo-and-uber-expand-partner...
Sure but here in the UK schools will use what is cheapest, free or part of a wider package of software already used. RM web filtering or smoothwall make me want to bash my skull against a wall at times. Finally School IT staff are not judged on their ability to manage a web filter well. Safeguarding is (rightly) the primary concern and so if an existing solution can be said to block the more egregious parts of the internet, it's irrelevant if it blocks the useful parts too.
No, I'd say they're running interference for Musk. It's one anonymous source claiming that the media was wrong, and many other fired sources that were willing to step up and say their entire department was axed. Why would I trust an anonymous source?
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The typical .edu discount from Apple on largish purchases is about $100, regardless of whether that's a $600 final tag or a $2000 final tag. So, somewhere between 14% and 5%.

If Apple sells 50% of Macs to the .edu discount market, that's a difference to you of somewhere between 2.5% and 7%.

Or, you can accept that Apple's prices are not set by the market so much as by their marketing department.
There have been rumours [1] coming out from one of top frontier companies that they have a hit a wall with the existing technology. They simply can't just throw more data at the problem and expect generational advances.

Which means just like the last ML/AI/DS hype cycles we will be going through a winter until the next research breakthrough is invented.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1go6dq1/a_leak...
The SSD in the new small Mac Mini is replaceable, though it is proprietary (not standard NVMe) and uses different physically sized and shaped drives that are incompatible with each other physically between the M4 base version and M4 Pro version.
In terms of geographic area. It's still only open to the public in three places, with Austin on wait-list status.