skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Statistical extremes exist in any sufficiently large population (eg people). Extreme wealth concentration is a mathematical certainty if there are no regulations opposing it.

While there is probably correlation to things like intelligence and effort, it is guaranteed to be weak at the extreme tails of the distribution. Perhaps you are much more likely to be intelligent if you are ultra wealthy, but not significantly more than intelligent people of average income. Perhaps you put in more effort than an average person, but there are physical and temporal limitations than place a hard upper bound.

Success is much more correlated with what situation you are born into, what advantages you have, who your personal connections are, timing and ultimately luck.

It’s not all that unlike an investor who has repeated success, writes a book, becomes famous for being a “good investor” only to find out they can’t repeat their success. It’s just statistics to a point.

Historical counterfactual suggests that if a company like SpaceX, competition pressures would likely have driven similar innovation. Blue Origin might be a more dominant player, for instance.

I’m sure this is all very hard to believe if you are a person of great success.
>When really, humans are also pretty specialized. Humans have Years of 'training' to do a 'single job'. And they do not easily switch tasks.

What? Humans switch tasks constantly and incredibly easily. Most "jobs" involve doing so rapidly many times over the course of a few minutes. Our ability to accumulate knowledge of countless tasks and execute them while improving on them is a large part of our fitness as a species.

You probably did so 100+ times before you got to work. Are you misunderstanding the context of what a task is in ML/AI? An AI does not get the default set of skills humans take for granted, its starting as a blank slate.
It should be unsurprising that we don't really have a science of what company policies work best. There are a lot of variables at play and they likely interact with each other in non-linear ways. Outcomes are hard to measure and may look different at different time horizons. For example, if policy A results in more productivity but makes retaining effective employees more difficult you may need several months or even a few years of observations to truly understand the effects. Companies are quite private about their information and they want control over their own company policy. Experiments are costly to perform. How would you perform one? Randomly select a bunch of companies and try to randomly get them to adopt different sorts of policies?

I think this is why you see a lot of herd behavior amongst companies. Some business leader who feels they just have an intuitive sense of what's best just tries something. Are they right? Who knows? But if the company does OK it is evidence the policy isn't a total disaster so more companies follow suit.
Just curious, how does this work in practice? How is it enforced? How would they know if someone is sharing intelligence or not?
in this case polling every few days is more than reasonable
It's important to note that reddit has embraced bots since the very beginning, with the founders using them to inflate activity. As more and more bots flood the platform, they continue to displace and drive away real humans.
Given shared heritage, I would expect to see Apple work with FreeBSD before I would expect Apple to work with Linux.
The Mac Studio isn’t meant for data centers anyway? It’s a small and silent desktop form factor — in every respect the opposite of a design you’d want to put in a rack.

A long time ago Apple had a rackmount server called Xserve, but there’s no sign that they’re interested in updating that for the AI age.
There has to be someone at Apple with a contact at IBM that could make Fedora Apple Remix happen. It may not be on-brand, but this is a prime opportunity to make the competition look worse. File it under Community projects at https://opensource.apple.com/projects
> No one who understands modern economics wants to bring back the gold standard

Except, of course, Miseans.
Well, select your hardware of choice and see for yourself then: https://browser.geekbench.com/opencl-benchmarks

> but they’re also not really targeting it?

That's fine, but it's not an excuse to ignore the power/performance ratio.
Who said anything about Marxism?
You know how there’s periodically a recall of green onions or lettuce due to e.coli contamination? That is because farms in the desert irrigate the plants with water contaminated with cow or pig feces.
> The craft of real engineering—building sharp, efficient, elegant systems—is buried under layers of corporate sludge

No. It is buried under the laziness of build-fast, optimize-next. Except optimizing never comes. Building fast requires lightweight development on heavyweight architectures. And that means using bloats like JS frameworks.
My anecdotal evidence confirms this. Friends in my home country are hooked on Telegram meme groups and as a result they’re spreading [Russian propaganda] conspiracy theories at alarming levels.

(Russia is really good at weaponizing memes but I don’t meant to single it out, the US has also been very successfully influencing the same country for decades via Hollywood movies for example)
I've been looking at the potential for Apple to make really interesting LLM hardware. Their unified memory model could be a real game-changer because NVidia really forces market segmentation by limiting memory.

It's worth adding the M3 Ultra has 819GB/s memory bandwidth [1]. For comparison the RTX 5090 is 1800GB/s [2]. That's still less but the M4 Mac Minis have 120-300GB/s and this will limit token throughput so 819GB/s is a vast improvement.

For $9500 you can buy a M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory. I think that has massive potential.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/specs/

[2]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/50-serie...
> I'm Finnish. I don't recall ever hearing about a cable being cut in the Baltic Sea before 2022

I'm Swedish, if that matters, and recall reading about (accidental) cable breakages all the way back to at least 2010 sometime. As mentioned elsewhere, there are between 100-200 cable breakages annually

> Do cables break?

> Yes! Cable faults are common. On average, there are over 100 each year.

> Unintentional damage from fishing vessels and ships dragging anchors account for two-thirds of all cable faults.

https://blog.telegeography.com/what-happens-when-submarine-c...

It seems like the media have ramped up reporting on cable breaks, because of the context, but seemingly none of them have been confirmed to be intentional, at least as far as I know. But I agree that it seems highly suspicious, also the recent water-supply sabotage on Gotland seems related to this all (https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Vz2em4/misstankt-sabota...)
> Shipping labels. Returning something you bought online? The merchant often will send you a shipping label to print and tape to the package. My wife chooses to buy a lot of clothes online and return the ones that don't fit.

These can usually be printed by the clerk when you drop off the package here if you show the barcode on your phone. Means you need to drop off at a manned location though.
`alias | grep [alias name]` works as well, for me at least
That article says you can connect them through the Thunderbolt 5 somehow to form clusters.
As I said in another comment, probably the benchmark is done just using some hardware instruction that didn't exist on those models and gets compiled to several instructions (possibly by a very very old compiler, while we're at it) vs something handwritten in assembly for the purpose of one specific benchmark.

Does this mean it's 23x faster for normal workloads? Nah.

Apple when they were pumping clang were also claiming that binaries produced with clang were much faster than those made with gcc. This was because they used a 15 years old version of gcc that didn't have any vector instructions (because they didn't exist at the time) and benchmarking using some code that was solely doing vector stuff.

In short, they don't lie, but it's a lie :D
Thiel is smart though, smarter than the useful idiots he has parading around The White House.
> Since any binary can always be deobfuscated

Are you talking about decompilation? This, is in general very difficult, and that's when the author and compiler don't want to stop you from doing it.

Go fire up jadx or ghidra or whatever you like and see if you can find the bits of code you know are there. Now try demonstrating that a bit of code isn't there.
It's funny because Reddit basically owes Digg everything.

The history is often overlooked: when digg fumbled/shot itself in the foot, Reddit was in the right-place-at-the-right-time and got lucky by the mass exodus looking for somewhere to go. Reddit itself was failing fast and on its last legs at the time held afloat by its core users and that's it. They didn't know what they were going to do and rather than being visionaries in any way really they got lucky hosting everyone with a slew of very standard web 2.0 features. It is/was nothing special. It has been riding the wave ever since (and also why I see no reason to give people like Alexis Ohanian any praise or credibility when he's out there talking about all kinds of nonsense, but I digress). And as with any social site, it's the userbase/community that pulls it thru darkness to the where it is now.
USB-C on Macs is literally 10 years old this year, this has nothing to do with EU.
> they appear to have ended up committing very horrible and irrational acts.

See SBF. The fringes of the 'rationalism' are pretty much a series of rather nasty cults.
It's the Ultra chip, the same one that goes into the rackmount Mac Pro. I don't think there's much confusion as to who this is for.

> there’s no sign that they’re interested in updating that for the AI age.

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
I quoted Islamic religious leaders views on homosexuality during the height of "Free Palastine" and got a 3 day site wide ban for spreading hate and a permaban from r/worldnews.

The API change went into effect soon after and that was it for me. It was time to go anyway. Had been on the site for 12 years, never a ban or anything, but in the last year received 5-6 other sub level bans.
> I remember seeing a Java microprocessor for sale years ago. It claimed that the CPUs native instruction set is Java bytecode.

Could it be some older ARM core supporting Jazelle?

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle

concretely possibly a ARM926EJ-S?

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM9#ARM9E-S_and_ARM9EJ-S

Various other "Java processors" are listed on

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor
F# is a really good practical FP language.

- Great real IDE support (JetBrains Rider, Visual Studio)

- Large ecosystem of packages (F# is a .NET language, so you can just use all Nuget packages out there.)

- The language is stable and only gets small updates. There is no Scala 3 scenario on the horizon.

- It is fast, multithreaded (.NET TPL) and cross platform.

- Great for building cross platform UI’s with Avalonia.

https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI
The essentiality of the product is debatable, but ~80% of maple syrup production comes from Canada, 91% of that from the province of Quebec.

China produces ~80% of the world's magnesium.
Cobalt comes mostly from Congo.

In the 40-50% range, there is Kazakhstan with uranium and Australia with lithium.

You can explore more here:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/search?query=production&fi...
I literally posted about this issue with pretty much the exact same proposed solution in 2017

https://medium.com/p/31773fe6bbd5
Well put. That realization alone makes you wiser than strictly required.
> What does "23x faster" even mean

The measurements are in the linked footnote, they tested the “Super Resolution” upscaling feature of Pixelmator Pro.
Talk talk talk.

Invest ten years of your life in cultivating power like everyone else who wants to hold sway over humanity and stop sounding like world care hobbyists. The war has only begun and it isn’t Russia against Ukraine. Trump isn’t the enemy either. Thought controlled America will be the toughest challenge to come.

> The role of “leader of the free world” is open, I hope someone capable can take it.

I would not wish notoriety or power upon any I cared for. The fickle apatites of the lascivious mob are as great a danger as the lush intoxication of do or be damned power.

Americans have lost their way (continuity) and the consumertopia lie of self worth is only the start of deception.

Integrity cannot be found among America’s self lies. Bullshitting the way through it can hardly be called foul game.

You and yours don’t seem to have the push around for freedom in this game. You seem to have been told you “deserve” it and it’s your “right.” It must be made and maintained and rebuilt every generation, this tenacity of will which makes one’s “free.”
> Original author had the same cowboy mindset about keeping all stuff in his head.

Nobody is saying that. Name, document, and assert.
Deepseek would need Q5ish level quantization to fit.
That number doesn’t tell much without knowing the background noise on the L-bands out there. It would also be interesting to know whether they achieved this with commercial Gnss receivers.
I cannot express how dirt cheap that pricepoint is for what's on offer, especially when you're comparing it to rackmount servers. By the time you've shoehorned in an nVidia GPU and all that RAM, you're easily looking at 5x that MSRP; sure, you get proper redundancy and extendable storage for that added cost, but now you also need redundant UPSes and have local storage to manage instead of centralized SANs or NASes.

For SMBs or Edge deployments where redundancy isn't as critical or budgets aren't as large, this is an incredibly compelling offering...if Apple actually had a competent server OS to layer on top of that hardware, which it does not.

If they did, though...whew, I'd be quaking in my boots if I were the usual Enterprise hardware vendors. That's a damn frightening piece of competition.
Unrelated (I'm based in Switzerland), but I wanted to say that from the perspective of a potential future user, your landing page is great at showcasing why parents could benefit from your app. Well done.
Trump was elected to do this, so I guess "bots" means the majority of Americans who elected him.

He is also surrounded by Silicon Valley money people who support this. Also tech workers who don't want neocon forever wars.

(I voted not for Trump but for Jill Stein, who agreed with some of Trump's positions on the Ukraine)
Why do you ask about a "scenario you fear"?

I don't "fear" anything. It is simply a fact that printers have an update mechanism that doesn't require the printer to have access to the internet, which is merely a print job.

And so if one wants, as the gggp comment did, to ensure that ones printer cannot be updated without ones deliberate instigation, one must also be aware of all possible sources of print jobs.

I don't know why you seem to have a problem with this. What scenario do you fear? In what way does this knowledge hurt you?
I'm in the same boat and trying to suss out how much of a jump it'd be to the M4s, or if it's worth jumping to the pro.
The US prices never include state sales tax IIRC. Maybe we're finally getting some parity.
Stop overstating it as "KGB asset conspiracy talk", and it won't feel so unreasonable.

Trump repeatedly acts against the straightforward interests of the United States. Russia is well known for running propaganda campaigns to divide countries and install autocrats. It's foolish denial to think there isn't some kind of client relationship between Trump and Russia (and therefore China as well, Russia's senior partner in going up against US hegemony).
Show HN: The Web Actor Programming Model
https://asahilinux.org : Exists
> We have a lot of carbons in the pile (mostly leaves) so adding the nitrogen helps it all break down faster

I know that nitrogen/carbon ratio is being brought a lot in compost discussions, but AFAIK most of the time people bring that up they are actually talking about bringing water, not nitrogen, to their compost.

And regarding this particular comment of yours about “nitrogen helping it break down” I suspect this is another instance of it. Dry leaves aren't a favorable environment for fungi and bacteria to grow, so adding water will definitely speed up the process a lot, while I'm not convinced adding nitrogen would have any effect in that regard.

Peeing on a compost pile is still good because it ads nitrogen to the compost itself, part of which will end up in the plant you give it, but it's probably less effective at it than peeing on the plants directly, because some of it will evaporate over time.
That was a result of launching their program think early web client app to talk to their network. I did not install anything yet it started enumerating the hard drive. I had a LED for the CD and a LED for the hard drive. This was a 386-DX40 (40Mhz) with a 144MB RLL hard drive. There was enough flickering to indicate they were reading a lot of data.
No one would want OOTB Python support. You'd be stuck on a version you didn't want to use.
"The authors therefore see an urgent need for a special GNSS interference monitoring network along the Baltic Sea coast."

The Poles want the EU to spend more on the MIC. That is not a surprise.

All while Russia is unable to even take the whole of Donetsk and Zaphorizia.

The "Russia is weak" and the "Russia will go to Portugal" narratives happily coexist in the European press.
I wouldn't say constantly but from time to time and including things that I'd rather not entrust to a random print shop.
Since we're beating up on brother in this thread, here's brother doing the same thing: https://www.brother-usa.com/supplies/subscription-info
You’re giving Trump too much credit. He simply admires Putin as the authoritarian leader of a world power, and neither sees the geopolitical implications of the Ukraine conflict, nor does he feel moral/ethical repulsion towards what Russia has done there.
I’m among them, even if creative works aren’t my bread and butter (I’m a dev with a bit of an artistic bent).

That said, attracting creative users also adds value to the platform by creating demand for creative software for macOS, which keeps existing packages for macOS maintained and brings new ones on board every so often.
>> Do you agree or disagree that, on a long enough timeline, intelligence lets you build a model of a system that can accurately and precisely reproduce all observations without simply remembering and regurgitating those observations?

Why should I agree or disagree with that? Who says that? Is it just some arbitrary theory that you came up with on the spot?

>> The model will always be smaller than simply remembering those observations, ergo, the intelligence maximally compressed the observations.

"Maximally compressed the observations" does not follow from the model being smaller. You're missing an assumption of optimality. Even with that assumption, there is nothing in the work above to suggest that compression has something to do with intelligence.

>> I don't think you appreciate how impressive this is.

I do and it's not. 20% on unseen tasks. It only works on tasks with a very specific structure, where the solution is simply to reproduce the input with some variation, without having to capture any higher order concepts. With enough time and compute it should be possible to do even better than that by applying random permutations to the input. The result is insignificant and a waste of time.
If you're installing untrustworthy, closed source, proprietary third party kernel modules into your untrutworthy, closed source, proprietary operating system, why even bother with LibreWolf? You have a unambiguous revealed preference of not caring about your privacy or your security at all, regardless of what your stated preference is.
Tariffs perhaps?
I'm addressing the extraordinary claim that "Trump is a Russian agent" and that now we are suddenly now being soft on Russia.

If so, why didn't Putin mount a full invasion in 2016-2020? Why wait until 2022 when the supposedly tough Biden administration (which included veterans from the 2011 Crimea invasion)? It feels like gaslighting that, at minimum, we've been nothing but soft and ineffectual on Russia the entire time.
Thanks to share!
any estimate on how many regular text page can you print with your 20€ cartridge?

I have some questions:
- what model did you buy for 50€ ? was it second hand? (i only see 150+€ pantum laser printers)
- any links to buy the printer/cartridge ; i'm super interested!
surprisingly, Windows containers on Windows are not run in a VM. Well, not necessarily; they can be.

It is definitely odd that Macs have no native container support, though, especially when you learn that Windows does.
Show HN: The easiest way to monitor Linux servers
Hi HN,

I've been developing this tool myself as I've been constantly running into the issue of: I just want monitoring for my servers, nothing else, I don't care just let me know when they break.

So that's what I've made, you install an open source agent on your server and it automatically detects certain metrics and starts monitoring for you.

You can configure certain aspects if you like and at the moment alerting is limited to email only. I'm planning to add webhooks soon.

There is also live graphing. Metrics update every 5 seconds.

I'm using Django Rest Framework for the api, Django templates with HTMX for the frontend, Postgres for the database and Go for the agent. The agent has a pretty cool way of auto updating in the response to its requests, so you can configure the agent in the frontend if you need to and it'll tell the agent what to do when it next checks in.

Please let me know what you think :) You can monitor 1 server for free forever, no credit card required or anything.
In this vein, one of the more insipid traps of these fallacies is that they do not lead to a conclusion, on their own.

Ad hominem continues to be a good example. If you know that someone is a liar, you don't know that everything they say is false. You just know that they lie and are likely saying something to affect listeners. Could be based on some truth. Could not.
> at least be able to use Python, but in a very controlled, not-insane way

Thats funny, about 10 years ago I started my career in a startup that had Python business logic running under Erlang (via custom connector) which handled supervision and task distribution, and it looked insane for me at the time.

Even today I think it can be useful but is very hard to maintain, and containers are a good enough way to handle python.
You can use Thunderbolt 5 interconnect (80Gbps) to run LLMs distributed across 4 or 5 Mac Studios.
That wealth accumulation and attitude to chess are probably just cope for losing too many games to his cofounder.
Not at all for M3 or M4. Support is for M2 and M1 currently.
> What are they gonna do? Introduce tariffs? Annex land from the EU? The US is already a rogue state.

Tariffs can rise arbitrarily, though beyond a certain point it's meaningless as all the trade is smuggled, nobody bothers any more with doing it legitimately.

The Trump administration is currently making threatening noises about annexing land from the EU (and by extension a NATO ally). But it is currently noise, not action, so yes, they may escalate in that way also… or at least they may try to: I have no idea how anyone's military may react to this because the idea of such an act was unthinkable outside of weird dystopian fiction until about January this year.
lucky you, i have read the UK police is mostly well behaved