skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they already have, depending on what you need. Settings >> General >> Sharing provides lots of options. "Remote Login" is SSH and SFTP, and last time I used it, "File Sharing" was SMB. "Screen Sharing" and "Remote Management" seem useful, too. I assume that "Media Sharing" is supposed to allow iTunes on your network to see media files, although I've never used it and the information on the dialog is limited.
I am not surprised at all. The excitement is receding in accordance with the hype cycle theory. People tried the tools and saw their worth and the limitations. This is actually good news, it means we are entering a moment of truth, a moment when transforming knowledge into productivity and profits becomes crucial ! (https://www.lycee.ai/blog/large-language-models-productivity...)
I'd like to replace my NAS using a mini - but Apple segment the market on disk.

A "dumb" NAS 2.5" SSD drive array plugged into one via ~~firewire~~, and then out to the network via the Mac Mini would work.

edit: thunderbolt!
Yes I found this strange coming from Ireland where (during the Celtic Tiger at least!) the minimum I ever seemed to get from cash machines was 50 euros.
Awesome idea, some suggestions (to fit my use case)

My annual leave resets on April 1st, so being able to change the year would be handy.

I worked compressed hours (I have every Friday off)

I can carry over 5 unused days to the next year, and buy 5 more days. This might impact what days I take off.
NUC 14th gen with i3 is around 400 EUR with VAT, with no RAM or storage. For the other 250 EUR, surely you can get more RAM than 16 GB and more storage than 256 GB.
In-ear devices with speaker and mic that look like hearing aids that perform hearing aid function for those with hearing loss? Hearing aids.

By that definition every TWS with transparency mode and parametric EQ is a hearing aid.
“I ask: in case I ever get my hands on millions in cash, what is my plan for using it?”

The question wasn’t how the Spanish Anti-Fraud chief would launder.

A number of high-profile acts in the US have had managers convicted for this in connection with drug trafficking and other organized crime.

It’s absolutely plausible.

I’m not sure why you think a cursory audit would reveal that a cash receipt was forged.
https://deflock.me/

FOIA requests are also helpful for getting location data for these remote sensing and surveillance devices from sponsoring agencies.
A Mathematician in a School of Art
that's a nice strategy for a 39 person startup ! using the tools is indeed the only way to see what works and what doesn't.
Cool project!

Some regional feedback coming from Sweden - your source data set is not 100% in line with what most workers in Sweden will get. For example, 24 December, 31 December and Midsummer's Eve are not reflected as days off in this calendar.
The big winner for AI at the end of the day is going to be Microsoft and Microsoft-like companies that can integrate AI and Copilots into existing tools, with an understanding of how those tools are used by daily users and without significantly increasing prices.

The rest of it? Mostly useless.
The connection to scrolling is usually increased activity on the bus. CPU feeding the graphics card new bitmaps is just one source of that traffic. In a previous job, I could tell whether a 3-machine networking benchmark was still running based on the sound.
Often the reason that they know all of these rules is because they are constantly being bitten/yelled it for breaking them

Speaking as someone who is constantly trying to keep good procedures in the team because of all the footguns I have collected over time
People do it all the time. We did it. In our industry, in two-tech-worker families, there's a norm of staggered parental leave. Contrary to a lot of popular opinion, taking care of an infants or toddler isn't a full time job. In fact, even if you're especially attentive, there are long, long stretches of downtime.
Would you be willing to share any (anonymized) anecdote(s) that helped you see this reality?

I'll share that I saw how much EdTech was infested by folks trying to leverage "gamification", and I read Kentaro Toyama's "Geek Heresy". That, and other events like Sebastian Thrun admitting "We have a lousy product" (on MOOCs) was enough to disabuse me of any notion that our generation's EdTech hype would prove any different than its predecessors (education over TV, or via Radio).
I seem to recall at some point that that old Twitter banned the account of the sitting President of the United States.

Later, Twitter banned a comedy account, the Babylon Bee. That pissed Elon off enough to buy it.

Both are back on Twitter now, both the comedy account, and the politician who will be President for a second term in January, having won both the Electoral College and the popular vote.

That's just two examples, but I would call them salient ones.
> it's not exactly a burden to lift it a little.

Human dexterity is not constant. Some people have injuries which compromise them.

> And there are highly practical workarounds:

Apple. A consumer product company where every _single_ product has some massive defect which must be apologized around.

Which is fine.. but I'm not sure how that justifies their typical price point.
(author here) hmm it seems to work on my device. Are you scrolling within the code block?
But you can just chuck Kubernetes nodes on Proxmox? I have my nodes running on XCP-ng. The beauty of running a hypervisor is maximum flexibility. I can try out different distros etc, either for k8s nodes or otherwise. I run my router on there (opnsense). I can play with stuff like nix and guix and could even install Windows if for some reason I wanted to.
I spent a few minutes looking up whether a Mac could be booted from a Bluetooth keyboard but couldn't find any documentation of that. Back in the day some(?) Mac models could be booted by a USB keyboard, see https://www.projectgus.com/2023/04/griffin-imate/ for technical details.
Sucks. More than the system it's the silly woman who called the cops. Instead of helping the child she did a great disservice to him and his entire family.

I had a similar hiccup when I first came to US when our apt neighbor called cops because my 1 year old was screaming. Crazy, I know.

This country thrives on fear - health, insurance, legal, weapons - the biggest money making industries in US all feed on fear economy.
There is no OPNSense script I think historically in part because any misconfig could expose the Promox instance to the world. It is easy enough for advanced users to spin up a VM with the ISO. There has been a request for a OPNSense script made recently.

I agree with OMV. It certainly can be used as is, but not usually how people want to use it. A note was added to the script a few days ago.

> I don't see any glue scripts to get VMs talking to each other

There is a Tailscale script which technically helps them talk to each other (over Tailscale) :)

The scripts are designed to setup self contained LCX containers. We are trying to avoid building our own k8s.
I use a NUC as a daily driver. The problem with NUCs is that cooling is suboptimal, the fan is small and thus noisy. It can be fixed with a third-party case, but that's at least €60-100 more for a much slower machine. Plus, you may void the guarantee by transplanting the motherboard.
> Any experiences using Nix and nix-darwin as a daily driver?

Not positive ones, even on x86 Darwin. Homebrew feels a lot more stable, which is a decidedly concerning thing for the average Nix enjoyer.
The controller being decoupled is an extremely interesting idea! Makes a lot of sense. I wonder if it includes a (nontrivial) cache.
What would be actionable? Local news? CNBC?
Right--it makes sense and shouldn't be changed, but it's a bit unintuitive for newcomers.
Minis are rarely racked in bulk unless you're running a server farm, which is not the use case they design for. The MacMini is first and foremost a desktop computer for non-professional people or at least not sysadmins. If people want to rack them, go ahead, but in that case how often are you hard rebooting a machine vs soft reboot anyways? Macs aren't known for freezing up too much.

Either way, it works for the use case its designed for.
run it in a VM.
> Self-identity isn't a political position

It is when policy is changed to prioritize self-identity over material reality.

The outcomes of such policy are often harmful, for example: https://4w.pub/male-inmate-charged-with-raping-woman-inside-...
The default handles (ending in .bsky.social) you get from signing up also redirect to your profile on bsky.app by default. Even if someone has no idea what bluesky is, they can load up that URL (even with the @) and be looking at your social profile right away.
I'm having to deal with increasingly pushy ads from Apple. Banner notifications with ads for their tv, news, game and music services, as well as fake alerts in the settings app that say some bullshit like "Setup required - signup for some icloud storage now!" I work at an outfit that uses RHEL, they absolutely inject ads for their services whenever you use a shell. Microsoft is the most distasteful, but it's matter of degrees for most OS vendors.
This makes sense for the current add-on wave but expect the launch of independent AI platforms to increase in the coming year.
> Then why do they have any remote operators at all? Don't tell me, to resolve rare problems or whatever, or other speculation.

I mean, I don't know for sure what exact tasks they do and what exact capabilities they have. If I did know for sure, I wouldn't tell. But given you're doing nothing but speculating, demanding me to not speculate seems unreasonable.

So, let's speculate, but still be more concrete than "resolve rare problems". Let's say that a Waymo can't plot a path it believes is safe, for whatever reason. There could be hundreds of different reasons for that. Maybe it doesn't think there's enough room to get through somewhere. Maybe it can't identify an object. Maybe a sensor stopped returning data. Maybe it's surrounded by an angry mob of luddites looking to torch the car. Maybe the passenger isn't leaving the car at the end of the trip, because they're black-out drunk.

The car can't proceed on its own in these cases. If moving, it'll stop safely, and wait for the human operator to resolve the situation. Maybe they'll annotate the map, or give the car a hint on a possible route, or tell the car to hang tight and it'll be picked up by a service crew (while they order the passenger a replacement car), or route the car with the uncooperative passenger to a {hub,hospital,police station}. In none of these cases is the alternative to a remote operator "to crash or harm people", which you claimed. It's that the car won't move.

The reason the car will stop when it needs help is that a remote human simply can't resolve a hazard in time. Communications aren't reliable enough, the latency is too high, and it's unlikely that a remote operator would have enough context to make a safety critical decision in a split second.

If you knew from the start the cars are not being driven remotely, why claim there's a "remote driver"? If you knew this wasn't realtime remote driving, why claim the remote operation is safety critical?

> I'm not sure why this is so controversial.

Well, you're making an extraordinary statement and providing no evidence for it. Like, literally your only source was about a different company. And when called out on it, you move the goal posts, or pretend that words mean what you want them to mean. That kind of thing is catnip to internet forum posters.
> NUC 14th gen with i3 is around 400 EUR with VAT

4 cores instead of 10 cores, 69W TDP instead of 22W, UHD Graphics 730 versus Apple's 10 core GPU (0.5 TFLOPs vs about 4.3), 23% worse single core performance, 45% worse multicore, and much louder cooling.

It's not a fair comparison.
> With education discount

I don't understand why so many people use the discounted price as reference. Surely very few of us on HN are still in college? So let's use the actual price when making comparisons.
What does f(x) mean in C++?
Taking care of a newborn baby is absolutely full-time job. I don't know how to interpret "we did it as two full-time tech workers" other than "we grifted our employers by getting paid full-time to work part-time as we juggled having a baby at home."

I'm as pro-natal as they come, but a newborn should have your full undivided attention.
> I am hearing this argument a lot, but I don't really get it. My grocery store forces me to make a lot of decision when it offers me 7 kinds of ketchup and 20+ kinds of cereal, but no one says "I am avoiding large grocery stores because they force me to make too many decisions".

I say that all the time. I hate decision paralysis. I'll specifically buy stuff in ways (such as online order + pickup) that I don't have to look at tons of different products.
Parental leave is definitionally not working.
I would bet to differ here. I've got pretty strong allergies to dogs, i couldn't even stay a night at a girlfriends house without medicating myself to sleep, waking up with a crusty throat, red eyes, and a blocked nose for days straight. But i grew up with a dog who would only ever give my nose a slight itch if i rubbed my face on him for a bit.

The difference? Breed. She had an Australian shepherd (i think), large and shredded a ton absolutely all the time. There were drifts of hair on every corner in the house if she didn't vacuum for a week. We had a havanese poodle mix, small guy, barely shed at all. So sure, if you take the absolute most extreme position possible that hypo means completely no allergens whatsoever at all, then it doesn't exist. But in reality i can live with one dog and can't with another, that's the only definition of hypoallergenic that actually matters to people
If you mean what you say, then please define it in a way that holds up to logical and empirical scrutiny.
“If only they didn't put the power button on the bottom.”

While I think Apple was off the rocker on this particular decision, I do respect their org structure that allows this type of decision to occur. Believe me, there are companies where a dozen people or more would weigh in and prevent an unpopular choice. Consensus sometimes hinders a desired result (both good and bad).
I was contemplating coming over, but this comment is the most convincing to me.

I think one of the fatal flaws tech companies have been making is locking things in. But what made the computer so great, what made the smartphone so great, was to make them hackable. You build environments, you build ecosystems. Lockin only slows you down. I mean how long would it have taken for smartphones to have a flashlight if it weren’t for apps? A stopwatch? These were apps before they were built into the operating systems.
We raised two. They turned out great. It was not a full-time job.
If the power button is the main gripe with this model of Mac Mini, then its doing pretty well.
I am sorry you feel it was a tired and pedantic retort, I might just have misunderstood what OP was trying to say. I was not trying to be pedantic, just to point out that some people (in this case, also OP) think we somehow get healthcare thrown at us for free when this is far from being the case.

In the case of Switzerland (which is in Europe, at least geographically) we do not have a “taxpayer-funded system” (see my other comment in the thread) and that ambulance ride would have to have been (depending on your insurance providers which go with a “you pay now, we reimburse later”, literally) paid fully at the individual at the point of sale (in the most logical model for someone in good health, the first 2’500 CHF + 10% up to 700 CHF a year are “self pay”).

Moreover, ambulance rides are not covered by the health care insurance in case of “accidents”. Which in this case (being run over by an ambulance) it very clearly is. It might be covered by the accident insurance, if you have one (which to be fair is the case if you work more than 20%). In case of “sickness”, some complementary insurances might reimburse for part of these costs.

You would probably find that this is actually the case in many European countries. The American healthcare system might be broken, but please don’t pretend that the ones in Europe aren’t and that we all live in some kind of healthcare utopia (see someone else’s post about the two-speed German system in the thread).

Healthcare is very lucrative, and greed does not know any borders.
Mac minis probably don't have enough RAM to hold Siri's models. It's more likely that Apple is using (modified) Mac Studios.
Living in abject chaos and constantly being surprised how little sleep you actually need.
It's also temporary.
The environment in which an OS runs becomes increasingly adversarial with time.
Am I the only one who has to update code to display a banner
As a dev for my company, if a vendor service is down or something in our system is down i always had to update code to display some banner message. If a dev wasn't around no one can do it. I built out a system where users can create a embeded code and display, update a banner message based on whatever they need. This can be alert messages for outages or even notifications of new features or annoucements.

https://embedix.io if anyone else is like me and doesn't want to have to update code
Monitoring is there in Proxmox
I wish the same could be said of the Studio Display, which is quite power hungry. If the Mac is running then the display is using minimum 10 Watts of continuous power usage at all times, fan running, with the screen off.

I guess it takes 10 Watts to maintain the Thunderbolt controller, USB hub, A13 processor, and run the fan.

Power usage does drop to <1 Watt when the Mac is actually sleeping, unless anything is plugged into the USB hub. Even an empty iPhone cable will cause the display to draw 5 Watts. It's disappointing.
You take parental leave or your wife/husband does. How do you go into work and manage a baby at home. You don't.
You don't and this is one of the reasons why we who can work and hustle as hard as in the office from anywhere have to RTO ultimately.
I may have to break down after the holidays.

I have a 2015 iMac and I've been holding off (and haven't really been using my Apple Silicon MacBook as intended) so it may be time to do the upgrade.
I run full multiple Ubuntu desktop VMs on Parallels on a M1 MacBook Air. You can use Docker for server installs, sure, but QEMU also works great on Macs and with Rosetta you can even get pretty damn close to native x86 execution speeds.
Hah, Tim Cook decision pretty much sums it up; its the kind of thing that wouldn't have lasted 5 seconds when placed in front of Jobs (although there is a strong chance Jobs would have demanded his own nonsensical addition/subtraction to the design).
That's the best looking Bsky tool that I've seen so far. Nice!
Reminds me of the finale of Six Feet Under.

"You can't take a picture of this. It's already gone"
He makes a lot of people mad but that doesn’t make him an idiot. It just makes him genuine. Everybody else who looks polished is hiding secrets behind excellent PR.
Very Russian story: must-have big drama, old grudges, extreme distances and overwhelming sadness.
This is exactly how Ive seen things occur. It makes a lot of sense, given some tools are great new additions (coding especially), but others fall flat (IMO, search)
Seems likely its a cacheless (well, host bus memory) design like the ones used by Apple on their other designs.
I see a lot of reviews that say things like this but seem to be written by people who aren't testing against commonly available mini PCs that are built on efficiency architectures.

How different is the efficiency of this compared to something like an Intel N100/200/300 or a Ryzen 7 7735HS that you can get in cheap mini PCs from manufacturers like Beelink?

I am not doubting that Apple's processors are class-leading but at the same time it seems like I see a lot of people impressed that a mini PC can idle under 10 watts. That's been common for a long time now.
Why use Macs at all? It's well within Apples abilities to make a completely custom server motherboard built around Apple Silicon rather than hacking something together out of Mac parts. That would allow for much better rack density, and they could add proper server amenities like a BMC for remote management.
This is an article about working from home.
BTW have you hear about asynchronous FPGA programming (and asynchronous HDL design)? It was very popular subject some years ago.
Back in Peter the Great's times the Dutch and Germans were called with the same word in Russian. I think it was the case in English, too. IIRC that's why they call it Pennsylvania Dutch, even though it's German.
LLM level response. I don’t think we need this opinion shared every single time.
> There's a lot of startup valuation which assumes this problem gets solved.

Not just solved, but solved soon. I think this is an extremely difficult problem to solve to the point it'd involve new aspects of computer science to even approach correctly, but we seem to just think throwing more CPU and $$$ at the problem will work itself out. I myself am skeptical.
Loved the article, thank you for sharing. How happy are the grandparents with the hearing aid functionality? Is it working well for them and how is the battery life?
I disagree that your ears get used to flat tuning eventually and then even the bass sounds better. This might be true for some people, but I know for a fact it is not true for me.
Proxmox doesn’t preclude you from having k8s. You can create VM(s) in Proxmox and then install k8s on them, then run your app workloads in k8s.

You do have to treat Proxmox VMs like “pets, not cattle” since they are more difficult to automate, but that’s the same story as if you were managing your k8s host on bare metal too. The benefit with Proxmox-hosted VMs though is that you can use Proxmox for whole-VM backups and migrations, so you can have the best of both proxmox and k8s!
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>The Eastern Front is where most of the fighting in WWII happened. It's where the European theater of war was truly won or lost.

I remember being very surprised when I heard for the first time that something like 80% of all casualties taken by the Germans happened on the Eastern front. Or the total sizes of the armies (collectively on both sides) fighting one another and the large margin by which the Western front was dwarfed by. It stood completely at ends with everything I learned about WW2 growing up in the US, through school, pop culture, friends, family of friends. I suppose it's not too surprising though that any country emphasizes their own involvement over that of others- for example I doubt that the Soviets touched much on the extent of lend lease in their education or war movies.