skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Mac mini M4 performance is around 4-5x in DaVinci Resolve for me - compared to my HP laptop (i5-1135G7).

Rendering HDR video was around 12fps there on the i5 - the same project in the Mac mini gets 60fps.

The M4 10 core GPU seems on par or better with a mobile RTX3060(65W) for video tests (NR / Deflicker) so I'm also impressed about the M4's efficiency. A lot of power per Watt.

It's becoming a dedicated video rendering machine for me where all the SMB auto mounting issues with macOS seem solvable. Pretty happy so far with the base model price even in the EU. The power button placement is an annoyance for me, though.
hah! meant thunderbolt :)

> Thunderbolt RAID array

this is interesting:

https://www.owc.com/solutions/ministack-stx
There are 14 points; what are your 14 justifications?
I doubt you have a whole lot of control over this, but this website is misery to use on a phone. Browsing scripts gives you six or ten tiles per page, navigation buttons are only in the header. There are no page numbers or any indication of progress. At a glance, there appears to be no way of filtering or sorting, although there is some arbitrary grouping being applied in the middle of the list. Also the script descriptions only show three lines of text, which is not nearly enough to give a clue to what the script is for.

This is probably the worst implemented list view I've ever seen. Completely useless.
Does that mean the discount is only for Americans? I don't see anything about it on the Dutch version of the Apple site.

Still looks pretty affordable. Until you look at the upgrades. € 230,00 for +8 MB RAM?! There are places you can get that for a tenth of that price.

I suppose doing your own upgrades isn't an option anymore? (My last Mac was a 2011 unibody.)
Nope. You'll find a full list of analyses here: https://jepsen.io/analyses
Honestly, if you have to choose between PFAS and phthalates... I'd probably take the PFAS. Pthalates are horrifying substances when you see what they can really do to human development.
My hot take on this new era of search engines is that "search is a bug" and even trying to be a search engine is a fool's errand. Search solved a problem of the legacy internet where you wanted information and that information would be on one of a million websites.

If someone is going to disrupt Google, it's because they've cut out the middleman that is search results and simply give you what you're asking for. ChatGPT and Perplexity are doing the best here so far afaik
Love the product and you've nailed the simple design!

Thanks for the kind words!

I'm concerned about email deliverability

As I’m sure you can imagine, we’re very concerned about email deliverability. We use Postmark to send email and deliverability hasn’t been an issue thus far, but your verification email ending up in spam is not cool. I would ask some followup questions here, but troubleshooting this on HN isn’t ideal for either of us. Any chance you could drop us a line at https://letterbird.co/jelly if you’re willing to dig a bit deeper with us? Sorry for the less-than-stellar experience thus far!
There was this entire Japanese subculture of microcomputers/home computers/PCs. Machines like NEC PCs you mentioned, proprietary models from Fujitsu and others, the many incarnations of MSX (which I think might have started out as a Microsoft initiative?), and of course the nowadays legendary Sharp X68000, that were marketed and sold in Japan but not necessarily well known - or even available - outside of east and south-east Asia (though I think MSX also got some traction in South America).
Yeah but that doesn't sell movie tickets
The CD-ROM version of SQ4 was especially insidious. It has many timing issues that the floppy version just plain didn't have (including the one you mention). Also, the scan quality of the VGA backgrounds was just better in the floppy version, with a much better gamma curve, the CD version looking rather more washed out.

It's assume that the CD version was developed alongside the floppy version and that the code forked at some point. The floppy version got the fixes, whereas the CD version didn't.

Somebody in the retro adventure gaming community with the handle NewRisingSun made a patch that used the floppy disk background images and has patched script resources to solve the myriad timing issues, whilst integrating seamlessly with the speech of the CD version.
! So, they have a 72TB tape and drive integrated into something not much larger than a 3.5" disk drive that they are planning to shrink to a 3.5" disk drive enclosure?

So basically they just leapfrogged LTO9 without a drive? I mean if these things are anywhere close to the price of actual tape, its a gonner.

But it also shows just how far behind the LTO consortium has allowed tape to get while milking the market by providing just slightly better density/price profiles to HDDs in a rack.
Then don't bloody call it a hearing aid then in those countries - call it "adjusted transparent mode with equalizer". Stuff that coincidentally works as a hearing aid is not regulated as far as I can tell anyway simply because I never heard of a government that would confiscate an amplifier with an equalizer function build in as soon as somebody plugged headphones and a microphone into it.
> "Or, it will be amplified, and will become the basis of a religious-nationalist movement."

^^^ If history is any indicator, this is the much more likely outcome. ^^^
And I mean, it uses 4 watts idle. If you power it off overnight for 12 hours you've saved... half a glass of orange juice worth of energy.
What do we say in such cases? It was good while it lasted!

Once that happens - eventually some new kids would appear on the block.

Such is the life.
If I know that I consistently like bass boost, it’s rational to buy headphones that are tuned that way by default.
Well, that brought up a memory from childhood. My parents borrowed this on a tape and my brother and I would go about calling the Sun “a very great man” and the Moon “another great man” because that’s what the character says about them.
You don't even need a .edu email address. I logged in with my regular Apple account and made a purchase on the education store expecting them to ask for that or some other verification, and they never did.
Has your opinion changed on that in the last few years? I could have sworn you were on record as saying this about foundation in the past but I couldn’t find it in my links.
This story is crazy because 10 years old is so old! That’s 5th grade! It’s almost old enough to baby sit small children!
I don't disagree that it came down to UI framework support. It came down to Qt and Wx and neither was a clear winner. The problem was there was nobody with broader ecosystem incentive to make a toolkit that kicked ass on all platforms. It had direct interest but was selling a toolkit and could not make it free/gratis as selling that was their business model. Maybe Firefox with XUL, but they had a vested interest in promoting web sites.
I'm not sure if you realize that this is _not_ a per user price, but a flat monthly fee. To me, that seems insanely cheap.

If you have a small team of 3 people who get paid 4k gross (severely under paid in all likeliness) then Jelly is 0.3% of your total cost.
I’ve worked for bike longer than my kids have been alive, they’re in high school now.

If the house burns down then sure, I’ll stop work, but day to day I start work when I start and finish when I finish. I don’t do a half assed job trying to do a home job and a work job at the same time.
Ignoring the ridiculous trajectory the world (well mostly the USA) has taken here and just assume it is a necessity to always be able to GPS locate your kids: Kids are smarter than some of the involved parties here seem to think. And they also value their freedom (maybe because the want to do something forbidden, but also just "because"). So, if you force install tracking apps on kids phones, what will happen? They will get creative. Maybe they will just leave their phone at home, maybe they find more involved strategies to fake their location, but they will find ways. Now in a real emergency, they can't call for help. Good job.
See also: Simpsons Episode 422 "Lost Verizon" from 2008.
> The power button placement is an annoyance for me, though.

Keep the thing upside down.

Not joking.
So now at least two people - who I'm going to assume don't have 100% trust in each other - both have the private keys. How is this going to work?
Noteworthy because related to energy efficiency across the entire product lifecycle:

> Mac mini is:

> Designed with more than 50% recycled content. Made with electricity sourced from 100% renewables. Shipped 50% or more with low-carbon methods.

https://www.apple.com/environment/
I _really_ like the way this landing page is designed. And I think it really highlights one of the sales points, which is that you are decent and reasonable.

Good stuff. I'm going to send this around to some people.
The storage is not soldered to the M4 mini SOC.
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A comparable option in my opinion would be Minisforum 790S7. They also have a separate mini-ITX motherboard from that one if you want to DIY.

The CPU in it is faster in raw multi-thread performance, single-threaded it's a bit slower, but still quite impressive.

The only problem I had with Minisforum is that they couldn't supply the exact hardware I ordered and their suggested solution was either to wait for 1+ month or get a sligtly different configuration. Two times out of two.

Quality-wise they're pretty good though, no complaints there.
They have variations of the program in some European countries. It's been a long time for me, but in the UK they used to just whitelist university domains (we didn't use .edu TLDs either).
Most infants and toddlers make sporadic (and, increasingly, predictable) demands throughout the day, and yes, they do so by screaming. I'd respectfully suggest that it's more about the parent's ability to metabolize those demands and the discipline to get back into flow than anything about handling those interrupts being a "9-5 job". For the first several months, infants aren't even especially interactive; by 6 months, they're straightforward to work around.

I am stipulating a two-parent household (but stipulating both parents work). If your focus is especially fragile (and I've worked with and admire many people form whom that's the case), a sitter makes this even more tenable. And, again, we're talking about WFH; we're not even addressing commute issues.
RDBs suck for many-to-many high-availability messaging.
After buying one, I actually like it. I know exactly where it is, and can reach for it by feel more easily; I could never tell you whether the power button was on the left or right side of the old Mini/Studio without checking each time.

It's also larger, more satisfying tactile/clicky, and concave compared to the old button (which was rounded into the outside curve, not particularly be satisfying to press). I think the old one being so small and indistinct feeling, and also being so close to the cables meant you would never try to reach for it blindly. You do have to lift it up a bit, but the device is so light you can do that with the same finger you're using to push the button (of course you need another finger to push the top of the mini _down_).

I think neither old nor new button were really meant to be used more than occasionally, since you typically wake your Mac from the keyboard, and both designs reflect that. I do sympathize that the new version could be less flexible in different mounting positions though.

(that said, I'd bet Jobs/Ive Apple would never have shipped this, unless the height underneath was exactly perfect for even the larger fingers to fit)
Cool! What about deploying?
This is like the Android environment. At some point apps require a newer Android than my phone has and I'm left sucking my thumb without even the older app's functions. (I'm looking at you CapOne)
Usually, proxmox is the base OS (meaing replaces whatever Linux/Windows/FreeBSD/etc that there was before). It is possible to run Proxmox inside KVM, but that isn't the usual choice.
The configuration being tested by OP is a $1499 model.
Tangential question - what are people using their homelab for / what are some interesting or useful projects you've spun up on them? I've been thinking about setting one up but not 100% sure I'd find use out of it :)
That and Linux support is better, if you need it.
is this custom built or are you using a third party system that integrates with Zendesk, Intercom etc?
FWIW, I'm 57 soon. Old enough that I could totally be some random HN poster's grandfather...
The IMAP feature sounds interesting, but as someone who would be interested in exploring the service, but wouldn't be happy going "all in" with no way of switching back without losing data, it's a shame it's only planned as a feature in the higher tier.

Being able to try a service "risk free" seems really important. To start replying to emails in a new service and then lose them if it doesn't work out doesn't sound like a reasonable option.
> 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.

Don't forget Nvidia...
At GE Healtchare, "AI", i.e. Neural Network simulation, is used as an optional PET scan image enhancement transformation (glossing over important details of what that actually means). Now, the revenue is from the scanner + software, but it's a contributor to revenue, and arguably sustainable.

Not a foundational model nor a coding helper.
> And remember, they can induce current via highly directional beam-forming

Once the tech eventually gets there this will be sold as a feature and will replace our current wireless-charging tech. There will be no more “charging” at all — every device will simply be always on. Then it will be that much harder to escape The System's eye since a dead battery will no longer be any excuse for a device to disappear.
Yes, that is what they are alleging with regards to Waymo.
I think your project needs a 'Comparison to Kibana' section. Sell your project to me: I am currently using Kibana, why should I switch?
It doesn't work. You need to set your App Store or Play Store region to US. The Waymo app itself requires a US credit card for payment, but apparently works if you have a non-US credit card setup in your Apple/Google Pay.
It has literally nothing to do with education. It's the brain's own neuroplasticity responding to overstimulation:

https://longevity.stanford.edu/lifestyle/2024/05/30/what-exc...
A Faustian deal. Worth the pound of flesh?
This just wouldn't work as a phone app. The main selling point of this is always on recording. When the keyboard is on, it records, nothing for you to do.

Only way this works in software is if you dedicate a device to always record and audio processing doesn't provide isolation. Ambient sounds may get picked up or loud noises could drown out your playing.

This item works, because it is hardware. I also wonder how this would work connected to something like the sonuus G2M V3. Would be nice if the audio processing was solved by someone else.
absolutely, directionally it is useful.
I think this is mostly just innuendo, and that there's very little empirical evidence to back up this assertion that there are observable deficits traceable to lack of "undivided attention" in early childhood. The parenting situations we're discussing here are drastically higher-attachment than was the norm for decades throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
No-one is forcing you to stop using Windows 7 if you don't want to. It's just no longer suitable for this specific use case(running the latest steam client).

If you apply the same test to other things you mentioned then often they are the same. They will continue doing the same job if you want them to, but they won't meet new requirements placed upon them, and the only realistic option is complete replacement.

For instance, cars over 20 years old are no longer allowed in central London because they lack emissions filters for particulates which are hazardous to health in high concentrations. These cars are considered ancient and it's acceptable to ban them from one of the most important cities in the world. They're not better, and in this specific case you literally can't still drive it(if you live London).

My 20 year old DVD player cannot play BluRay discs. It's considered ancient, and it was acceptable to create a new incompatible standard. If I want to play the latest discs I'll have to buy a new one.

My dwelling has no gas supply. I have an induction cooker, which heats far faster than either gas or thermal electric whilst also avoiding the dangers of flame and uncovered heating elements. 80 year old pans would not work with it. They're ancient.
communist: not 1,2,3,8,9,10,12

capitalist: not 1,2,5,6,7,9,11,13

and so on
> instructions are data.

is an insight I've often seen attributed to von Neumann, but isn't it just the basic idea of a universal Turing machine? - one basic machine whose data encode the instructions+data of an arbitrary machine. What was von Neumann's innovation here?
I can't confirm, but I had a Apple store employee tell me the same. And then I forgot to use it when I ordered my Mac Mini.
>The Mac mini M4 performance is around 4-5x in DaVinci Resolve for me - compared to my HP laptop (i5-1135G7).

You could pick a variety of non Apple CPUs that easily deliver 4-5x the performance of an 11th gen i5. Maybe don't be disingenous and compare the M4 to a more recent CPU like i5-14600K, which is also 4x the performance. I'm not comparing on power efficiency, since that was not mentioned at all as part of your comment.
In the particular little culture war concerning gender identity, pre Elon you would get banned for "deadnaming" and criticizing the health claims of gender clinics (aka transphobia)

It's flipped now, Elon has tweeted that using cis to describe not-trans people is a slur. Which seems like going the other way on "free speech absolutism" but whatever.
I turn my Mac off every day
Yes, docker desktop uses a Linux VM to run the containers.
> In 1.25U of rack space, you could run three Mac minis

I mean, 1.25U at 5" deep. Lots of cabinets are 35+" deep, if memory serves. So technically it would be 21 Mac Minis in 1.25U of space, so it's more like almost 6 teraflops. Again, button-on-the-bottom and wiring and thermals aside.
Having worked heavily with gRPC before I like how syntactically similar WIT is to proto. Looks like its time to start experimenting more with web assembly component interop :).
> Apple VPs Greg Jozwiak and John Ternus explained in an interview to a Chinese content creator on Billibilli (spotted and machine-translated by ITHome) that the main reason the power button is on the bottom of the 2024 Mac Mini is because of the computer’s size. Since it was nearly half the size of the previous generation, the underside was “kind of the optimal stop” for a power button. They also say most users “never use the power button” on a Mac, anyway.

> Apple isn’t wrong here. The Mac mini measures 5 x 5 x 2 inches, compared to 7.75 x 7.75 x 1.4 inches from the last generation; it takes up much less space on your desk, which is great. The trade-off is that you run out of space for some important things, like a power button.
The Studio being the GPU-centric model, I can't wait for all these M4 Mini performance improvements to make to the Studio line.
I just sold an M1 Mini and grabbed a Beelink. It's wonderful being able to run whatever OS/distro I want on the Beelink, and it's plenty strong enough for whatever. I love this adoration for Apple, primarily for my investment accounts, but in a cloud world I have no idea why there's such a demand for the M4.
Choosing to disengage from the world does not make you brave
I took care of a newborn while working from home. It's quite doable. It helps to have long arms, but you can keep the infant in one of those baby slings while you tap away. They get all the attention they could need, especially if like me you tend to talk to yourself. With a baby you no longer seem like a crazy person.

When they get a bit older, you can put them in a Bumbo and have them on your desk, if you can do it safely.

It's harder to work from home when they get mobile to be honest.
Corporate perks brokers and Amazon also give 15% off.

But anyways, 15% is pretty much in the error fuzz range of "which platform do I like better" and "dominated by RAM upgrade price.
Growing up, my father was estranged from his family. My mother told me his mother and father emotionally and physically abused him. He moved out of the house at 15 and we only saw them twice a year. Thanksgiving and Christmas and it was usually a few hours and then we were shuffled out of there really fast. By contrast, my mother's family was huge, we had massive gatherings at almost every holiday and all the adults would play cards and chat and we'd be there for hours on end before leaving. My mother's side was a very close knit Scandinavian family.

One of the things I knew about my father was that he was avid stamp collector. He called me last year and told me it was time for him to give up his collection as his eyes were getting worse and he didn't have the concentration to catalog his stuff any more.

I came over on a Fall Sunday afternoon last year. He sat down with them and told a very long story about how he got into stamp collecting and about ten minutes in I realized this was something incredible. I had was about to get a rather long, involved history of his family which I never had known before. I took out my phone and turned on the live transcribe. We took several breaks going through his collection and some other stuff like coins he inherited from my grandfather on my Mom's side.

It was completely insane the story he told. His great grandfather was forced into the German military during world war one. He hopped off the troop train at the first stop and fled into the forest. He made his way to the coast where he jumped a steamship bound for the US. He was terrified the Germans were still after him so he continued West after landing in New York until he reached Minnesota. That was just the beginning of the story, but I am eternally grateful for being able to hear him tell so many crazy stories about his life and his family that I never knew. I've saved that transcription and will be sharing it with the rest of my family this Christmas.

I had the same reaction, all this stuff was just incredible that I never knew and had the very same feeling that there was so much I learned in those stories he told, so I am eternally grateful he shared that with me. For me, it was absolutely priceless. My wife has told me multiple times how fortunate I am I took the time to go see him and those stories were not on the list of things I expected to happen.
> I consider it a typical Tim Cook decision

Tim Cook cares about money and efficiency of building and moving product. That’s it. I highly doubt there’s been any important design detail about any product that he made himself.
In that case wouldn't you rather have a managed power switch / iDRAC / restart over ssh, than send someone to go press buttons in person?

(I've only ever racked things remotely, so don't know if this is common.)