skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The present reign of terror and international lawlessness began a few years ago.

It began through unjustified interference in the internal affairs of other nations or the invasion of alien territory in violation of treaties and has now reached a stage where the very foundations of civilization are seriously threatened. The landmarks and traditions which have marked the progress of civilization toward a condition of law, order, and justice are being wiped away.

Without a declaration of war and without warning or justification of any kind civilians, including women and children are being ruthlessly murdered with bombs from the air. In times of so-called peace, ships are being attacked and sunk by submarines without cause or notice. Nations are fomenting and taking sides in civil warfare in nations that have never done them any harm. Nations claiming freedom for themselves deny it to others. Innocent peoples and nations are being cruelly sacrificed to a greed for power and supremacy which is devoid of all sense of justice and humane consideration.

To paraphrase a recent author, "perhaps we foresee a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, will rage so hotly over the world that every precious thing will be in danger, every book and picture and harmony, every treasure garnered through two millenniums, the small, the delicate, the defenseless-all will be lost or wrecked or utterly destroyed."

If those things come to pass in other parts of the world, let no one imagine that America will escape, that it may expect mercy, that this Western Hemisphere will not be attacked, and that it will continue tranquilly and peacefully to carry on the ethics and the arts of civilization. If those days come, "there will be no safety by arms, no help from authority, no answer in science. The storm will rage till every flower of culture is trampled and all human beings are leveled in a vast chaos."

If those days are not to come to pass- if we are to have a world in which we can breathe freely and live in amity without fear-the peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort to uphold laws and principles on which alone peace can rest secure. The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.
I just realized that Diggnation is also back.
The solar system is teeming with 1M 'alien invaders' from Alpha Centauri
I miss TheBroken.
Hey! Just wanted to let you guys know that your UI is very awesome. I came to know about you just few days back.
I forget where I read this but most people are watching youtube on smart TVs, with smartphones/tablets being #2. Most people who watch youtube do so on a platform where it is difficult to disable ads.
I’m guessing it’s not really a M3.

No M3 has thunderbolt 5.

This is a new chip with M3 marketing. I’d expect this from Intel, not Apple.
If that, as @acatton says. It is certainly not happening all the time. There are laws around libel and slander, which are more aimed at civility than anything else, but its rare that they make it to actual court. In Britain at least there is a long held tradition, and some rightly infamous accompanying libel cases, where 1 farthing/penny/pound damages (inflation has had some effect I guess) were awarded in an ok, you win but the moral case was with the defendant signal. One of the more recent:

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/judge-right-to-award-lying-...
We were promised "Star Trek," so why did we settle for these lousy chatbots?
Apple have been putting ML models running on their own silicon into production for far longer than any of their competitors. They publish some of the most innovative ML research

They also own distribution to the wealthiest and most influential people in the world

Don’t get lost in recency bias
Well yeah, I understand that this is based on some specific benchmark. Yet it's still some random arbitrary number effectively picked to mislead consumers.

Especially when for the M1 (2x faster) they decided to use an entirely different Photoshop benchmark YET they they still show it alongside the 23x for the Pixelmator one (presumably the M4 is NOT 2x faster than the M1 there..).

That's just objectively slimy (even if mostly harmless) marketing...

Also presumably Pixelmator's "Super Resolution" and Photoshop's "radial blur, content aware scale, diffuse, find edges" are also mostly GPU bound these days? Which again.. might not be the best indicator for "performance" for most consumers.

Edit: Looking at some more general benchmarks the the i7 (I7-1060NG7) from the last Intel MBA is "only" 4x (Geekbench MT), ~2.7x (Single-Core) or 2x (Cinebench single core) slower than the M4. Picking some highly specific "benchmark" that's several times higher than that is just dishonest.
Whats wrong with how ie Switzerland works? Capitalism is everywhere, work ethics stellar, personal freedom is top notch, people have guns yet they don't shoot nobody, crime is low, education is free, healthcare cca too and all is top notch. Obviously economy then follows and so does population happiness.

We have billionaires but not because we desperately try to lure such piece of scheize like thiel, they come or don't leave because they want all it offers and know when to shut up and respect rules just like effin' everybody else. And they are well taxed btw, wealth tax is here, pretty real albeit not crushing and not something introduced recently.

Things can be done, well within framework of typical western democracy, people just need to get down from their hyped egos that 'their way' is the best way bar none. Emotional discussions vs rational ones.
A New, Chemical View of Ecosystems
I've yet to find a non-apple laptop that's as ergonomically comfortable _as a laptop_ as the recent Airs. That's a premium unto itself, I don't know if it's $500 worth, but that's a less tangible part of the equation over raw horsepower.
Huge congratulations to Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton on the well-deserved Turing Award! as a student, their textbook Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction was my gateway into the field. I still remembered that how Chapter 6 on ‘Temporal Difference Learning’ fundamentally reshaped the way I thought about sequential decision-making.

a timeless classic that I still highly recommend reading today!
Really? M4 Max or M3 Ultra instead of M4 Ultra?
Zig-0.14.0 Landed
After 9 months of intense development Zig team released zig-0.14.0 with many fixes and new features [0]. Ziguanas rejoice!

[0] https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/release-notes.html
addressable is a weird choice of words here.

CUDA has had managed memory for a long time now. You absolutely can address the entire host memory from your GPU. It will fetch it, if it's needed. Not fast, but addressable.
I have been peeing on corporate for years, but I am very discrete about it, lest they find out it is me.
> 512GB of RAM

Keep these things the hell away from the people who develop Chrome and desktop JS apps.
But I’m not ignoring the power/performance ratio? If anything, you are doing that by handwaving away the difference.

Give me a comparable system build where the NVIDIA GPU + any CPU of your choice is running at the same wattage as an M2 Ultra, and outperforms it on average. You’d get 150W for the GPU and 150W for the CPU.

Again, you can’t really compare the two. They’re inherently different systems unless you only care about singular metrics.
So they wouldn’t put the power button on the back of the latest Mini, but they did on the Studio? That’s frustrating (yes, minor nit).
You don't need to deter what doesn't exist.
That’s mostly just a stacktrace. You can add other information that wouldn’t be in a stacktrace, but you shouldn’t do it by string concatenation because then every instance of the error is unique to log aggregators. Instead, you need to return a type implementing the error interface. Which is not all that different from throwing a subclass of exception.
I did a quick search to understand how the crabs eyes work. If they see less detail then this must be even more convincing.
Transformers are typically memory-bandwidth bound during decoding. This chip is going to have a much worse memory b/w than the nvidia chips.

My guess is that these chips could be compute-bound though given how little compute capacity they have.
Lightning strike on a near empty tank of gas can go boom, too. Definitely can start a fire. This is like asking, "yeah, but what if the charging station gets hit by a meteor?"
I wouldn't say old. is fine. It's all I use, but there are big flaws: some posts just aren't viewable and you'll end up on new. if you're not careful.
Nope, M3 did too.
From the article: "Windham County's pee-donations are collected by a lorry and driven to a large tank where the urine is pasteurised by heating it to 80C (176F) for 90 seconds. It is then stored in a pasteurised tank, ready to be sprayed on local farmland when the time is right to fertilise crops."
No, just a way to say "tl;dr" which also somehow manages to be offensively classist.
I don't think it supports userland namespaces either, which is another important part of container isolation.
Since the high gain antenna is pointed at the entire earth, the noise temperature is similar earth temperature. Semi-custom gnss receiver, they collect mostly correlator outputs, and 2.5 seconds of raw IQ
> The "Russia is weak" and the "Russia will go to Portugal" narratives happily coexist in the European press.

Weak now and weak forever are not the same thing.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was once a baby, but it would be silly to conclude that means he can't lift 50 pounds today.

Putin's current territorial ambitions in Ukraine can be traced back to the West's almost complete inaction when he invaded Georgia, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea. A victory in Ukraine would be likely to reinforce the approach as a functional one.
Frequently submitted. But only discussed once, a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=visdeurbel.nl
>I really wish Apple would make a MacBook Air variant with display quality on par with the iPad Pro or MacBook Pro

>The screen quality is the only reason I currently use the Pro

Well why should they, you already bought the more expensive one.
I am a fan but the hyperbole from the announcers calling the games (especially he nationally televised games) is trying at times. The sports betting did not add anything positive to the game. It is better this year but, figuring out how to watch the games at home is at time difficult. League Pass ads say "Watch all your favorite teams". The do not say "Unless they are blacked out in your area or have some other license agreements".
I think OP meant that they only receive the allowance because they are popular enough.
Haven't the Max/Ultra type chips always come much later, close to when the next number of standard chips came out? M2 Max was not available when M2 launched, for example.
TheBroken and TechTV got me into tech as a wee lad!
Now do VRAM
I'm not swayed by the arguments that the white house is compromised. But I do appreciate the significance of the question "find the daylight between the actions of the white house and the actions of an ideal agent".

You're a physician, your patient is running a fever of 42°C, that's very quickly going to become fatal. Do you administer antipyretics and cold compresses now, or do you debate the likely causes, and attempt the root cause analysis?
> we should support other free nations not just because it is right, but also so we don’t have to do the fighting directly.

There are young Ukrainian men who avoid conscription to fight their aggressors. They flee and become refugees. It’s a total slap in the face to the American taxpayer.
No, I'm not. I'm comparing the TOPS of the M3 Ultra and the tensor cores of the RTX 5090.

If not, what is the TOPS of the GPU, and why isn't apple talking about it if there is more performance hidden somewhere? Apple states 18 TOPS for the M3 Max. And why do you think Apple added the neural engine, if not to accelerate compute?

The power draw is quite a bit higher, but it's still much more efficient as the performance is much higher.
Yeah there are a couple of resource concentrations in Africa that aren’t immediately obvious.

Platinum group metals, phosphorus, manganese, cobalt etc all pretty Africa heavy usually one or two countries
Warning about the case: MacBooks are not built to handle hard cases and you will destroy the hinge, screen, or both.
This reminds me of the classic StackOverflow question (maybe inspired by it?): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5508110/why-is-this-prog...
i guess i ride enough - not dozens of kms or daily, but over many years - to intuit the gear, which is helped by the gear mechanism jumping to discrete positions. The first bikes i rode with gears were Marins back in the 90s which had no indicators, there was an old 3-speed Sturmey Archer (had to Google this one) where the gears are within the hub, I don't recall a gear indicator for that, but perhaps there was
> but even non-tech people I know are wondering why Android phones run smoother than iPhones. Stuff that would be completely unheard of purely because of how noticeable 60hz vs 120hz is.

Are they? I'm a tech person and I can barely notice it at all. And I don't think I have a single non-tech friend who is even aware of the concept of video refresh rate.

Whenever there's something that doesn't feel smooth about an interface, it's because the app/CPU isn't keeping up.

I've honestly never understood why anyone cares about more than 60hZ for screens, for general interfaces/scrolling.

(Unless it's about video game response time, but that's not about "running smoother".)
I'd argue that "engineering culture", or to be more frank, a culture that is dominated by engineers, not accountants or marketeers, requires a time when building new products can bring massive amount of profit.

Capital doesn't really care what brings profit. If killing people brings more profit, it happily embraces that. If building new products brings more profit, it happily embraces that, too. It is beyond good or evil.

So to make an "engineering culture", you have to bring a lot of profit by building new products, not by selling services or shaking the greasing hands of some shady government officials. That also means, "engineering culture" almost surely dies when the company becomes too big.
Show HN: Emergency Landing Challenge – Interactive Story-Based Math Learning
I've built an interactive learning platform where students solve math problems to complete a mission-critical emergency aircraft landing. Your math skills determine if the plane crashes or lands safely.

*Note- The UI and product is optimized for PC. Kindly test it there and not on mobile.

How it works:

1. You're the pilot of an aircraft losing altitude with engine failure
2. Each decision requires solving a real-world math problem (weight calculations, glide ratios, landing mechanics)
3. Your answers determine the story's outcome with appropriate animations
4. AI provides contextual feedback and explanations

The prototype teaches core math concepts for grades 4-8 through high-stakes storytelling rather than abstract problems. I'm planning to release new mission modules weekly.

Question level, types and topics can be set according to target class. Same animation and story can be used multiple times with different level according to student grade.

Specifically looking for feedback on:

a. Is the difficulty level appropriate?
b. Would you use this with your kids/students?
c. What other missions would be compelling?
Best guide for learning functional programming.
I have a Late 2013 MBP still going strong. Original battery, original charger, no repairs whatsoever, hours of battery life still. Wife stopped using it just two months ago when I upgraded her to my M1 Air.
So you're saying AI can be incompetent at a grander scale. Got it.
so you're saying...

it was just a prank, bro!
You make it sound like there was only one.
Good time to remind everyone that Sutton is a human successionist and doesn't care if humans all die. He is not to be trusted nor celebrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgHFMolXs3U
I'm in another, bizarre camp. I'd pay double whatever they're charging for if I could run linux on it utilizing all of the hardware. Also, if notch went away, but that's another story. Unless someone knows of laptop hardware that comes close to both performance, comfort, and battery which can run linux.
Thunderbolt 5 can do bi-directional 80 Gbps....and Mac Studio Ultra has 6 ports...
Current (individual, not counting dual socketed) AMD Epyc CPUs have 576 GB/s over a 768 bit bus using socketed DIMMs.
My 2014 got a little screwy around 2022 and eventually wifi stopped working entirely (I suspect battery swelling putting pressure on something) but if not for that I'd still be using it. Hell, I probably could have gotten it fixed, though I'd prefer to put that money toward another machine that'll last me 8+ years.

I'm on a 2020 [edit: I got it as part of comp for a contracting gig, is why the overlap in years with my 2014 MBP ownership, but didn't switch to using it for personal stuff until after that was over and my MPB wifi broke] M1 Air now, so close to or in year 6 for that. No issues yet and battery life still stellar, should get at least 2-3 more years.

(Folks who are like "LOL who even needs 18 hours of battery life?", which is a common sort of post on Apple laptop announcements: well for one thing it's extremely nice to be hunting for outlets even less often, and to maybe go on a whole light-laptop-use 3-day trip and not charge it the whole time and it's still alive at the end of it, or to have that battery as reserve for charging your phone, but also and perhaps most importantly, it means that a 30% degraded battery after several years of ownership still gets you 10+ hours of real-world use)
The old timey grammatical construction makes me ask — is this a quote from the disgraced America First Committee, who fought tooth and nail against American involvement in WW2?
Other than nostalgia, why should I sign up for it? I didn't gather from the article what sort of innovations are they planning to bring in than would make it appealing to use
The last I checked, AMD was outperforming Apple perf/dollar on the high end, though they were close on perf/watt for the TDPs where their parts overlapped.

I’d be curious to know if this changes that. It’d take a lot more than doubling cores to take out the very high power AMD parts, but this might squeeze them a bit.

Interestingly, AMD has also been investing heavily in unified RAM. I wonder if they have / plan an SoC that competes 1:1 with this. (Most of the parts I’m referring to are set up for discrete graphics.)
Ask HN: Chrome Extension Similar to Linkclump
There was a great chrome extension called "Linkclump" which let you 'screengrab' a section of a window and any links inside the shape that would open as new tabs.

Was super useful for checking out sites. Its now flagged in chrome now as not meeting their new requirements and cant find anything else like it - have people come across similar?

Linkclump: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/linkclump/lfpjkncokllnfokkgpkobnkbkmelfefj
Haven't read the article yet, but the headline is silly. We were never "promised Star Trek" by anyone (Star Trek is fiction), chatbots aren't "lousy" (they are extremely impressive technology that most people would have thought was impossible ten years ago), and nobody has "settled" for them -- there is still tons of money being poured into improving the current state of AI.

"It's not Star Trek" is just an incredible reason to be cynical about a new technological advance.
What about serviceability? These come with soldered in ssd?
That would be an issue for server use, Its too expensive to throw it away all for a broken ssd.
> that’s going to tell us crypto is bad?

No but it does answer which is more crime-laden.

> Just say you hate it.

I don't hate it. I am a former Bitcoin maxi that watched the entire community commit suicide the moment KYC was imposed. When you remove the opportunities for fraud, money laundering, rug-pulls and illegal commerce, cryptocurrency atrophies.
You’re largely correct for training models

Where this hardware shines is inference (aka developing products on top of the models themselves)
And even then. Little reported: Switzerland's largest private bank was forced by the government to take over its rival's assets. Why "forced"? Something something Archegos. The truth is that we don't know what UBS saw and didn't like in Credit Suisse's files, and we won't know for a long time, as the report for the investigation into what actually happened during the acquisition has been sealed for 50 years.

Suffice it to say that the debacle presents circumstantial evidence that "rich with not too much effort" might encourage dangerously laissez faire behavior.
You are technically correct (the best kind of correct). I’m just a filthy heathen who lumps the BSDs and Linux distros under “Linux” as an incredibly incorrect catchall for casual discourse.
> Dry leaves aren't a favorable environment for fungi and bacteria to grow, so adding water will definitely speed up the process a lot

Nor is an environment without sufficient nitrogen, IIRC, especially since dry leaves are really carbon-rich.

I'm guessing it would be easy for parent to test if it's the water, the nitrogen or both that helps the most. Science your way to an answer, as long as you're logging metrics should be easy enough :)
It is as if you were on your phone (mobile only)
Different battery, different bills
h100 sxm - 3TB/s

vram is not really the limiting factor for serious actors in this space
Sourcing .zshrc works reasonably well. I have the following at the end of setup.sh -- which creates symlinks and sets up other configurations.

makeLinks does most of the work, then sets Homebrew's zsh as the default shell -- this currently runs in bash, so it probably will need to be updated at some point -- and everything gets reloaded.

makeLinks && chsh -s /usr/local/bin/zsh

exec $SHELL && brew doctor
I think this was intended as snark about how one of the recent Baltic submarine cable outages was eventually attributed to on-shore damage from an excavator.
That's because Digg's changes fundamentally changed how users interact with the site and receive content. From an article at the time:

> Protesting at the removal of the upcoming news page, the default setting of "My News", deleted favourites, the apparent front page domination of a handful of publishers, and the removal of the "bury" button (for voting down stories), Digg users flooded the front page with links to rival aggregators and pleaded with chief executive Kevin Rose to turn back the clock.

The quality of the content itself dropped off a cliff because of systemic changes. By contrast, Reddit's redesign was a reskin. Lots of people hate it, but Reddit is fundamentally still the same.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/pda/2010/aug/31/digg-...
Handwritten, vanilla HTML with a self-self built static site generator (reading the HTML files and doing some fancy 'find and replace'). Get's the job done:
https://willem.com/blog/2025-03-05_durable-smartphone/
2x 5090s would only give you 64GB of memory to work with re:LLM workloads, which is what people are talking about in this thread. The 512GB of system RAM you’re referring to would not be useful in this context. Apple’s unified memory architecture is the part you’re missing.
I know you're joking, but I'd love to know their take on it. I assume they're viewing the logs and cursing all of us forcing them to keep maintaining old.
What do you think the executive branch of the USA could have done to prevent any of this instability? al-Burhan hardly seems better than al-Bashir.
The world is tired of it.

No, the world seems pretty committed to backing Ukraine in its defense against an invader. Only Putin, his puppets, and their useful idiots who consume Putin's propaganda seem to be "tired of it".