skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another Ars [dupe]

FT source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43257731
I mean, he always has. Let's not forget that diggs grew the way it did because he talked about it on TechTV (rip)
If Apple offered macOS VM as a (paid) app for iPads I would buy one.
Agreed. My (former) x86 Macbook was the best out there at that price. The only other laptop I found that was comparable (this was ~10 years ago) was the Thinkpad Carbon X1 (and the Thinkpads in general back when they were still high quality; not sure I would buy one now), but it was similar in price to the Macbook.
If you're into this, you may enjoy reading about Joan Ginther, a statistician and multiple lottery winner.

Her Wikipedia article is sadly short [0], but there are a number of other sadly short and poorly sourced articles around the web to augment it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_R._Ginther
> There is absolutely no way that the different costs anywhere near that much at the fab.

price premium probably, but chip lithography errors (thus, yields) at the huge memory density might be partially driving up the cost for huge memory.
You haven’t provided enough information to say for sure. If all your reports are happy, then probably nothing, but that’s a big “if.”

Language barrier can be quite high between JS, COBOL, and Haskell depending on what the situation is. With 25 years of experience, how have you not found the time to learn basically every language used in industry today?
I'm not sure a Macbook Air with only passive cooling would be the best machine for running an LLM that would fit into ~40GB of GPU accessible memory.

> I'd happily pay +$500 ($5300) for Macbook Air PRO if it was effectively the same specs as Macbook Pro but 1.5lbs lighter.

You basically want a macbook pro. I don't think it could be that thin with active cooling that such a configuration would require.
Nice article, although I think this must be a typo: "Despite the fact that a supernova has 1045 times as much energy as our tin blasts, the same math describes the evolution of both types of explosions."

Maybe they meant 10^45 times as much energy?
Bikeshedding about names, article titles and tangential annoyances is HN’s favorite pastime, and an easy way to get karma. As old as the hills.
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Starfish, also known as sea stars, do not have a brain in the traditional sense. Instead, they possess a nerve net that allows them to function and respond to stimuli. This nerve net is a distributed system of slow neurons that operate more like a simple computer program rather than a complex brain

So starfish are also like this.

Also out of topic but

I had also seen this muscle robot the other day combine this here with this and it can be absolutely nuts
Another Ars [dupe]

FT source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265009
I'm more concerned with whether the entities that were handed the money have themselves spent it yet.
People don't care, that's true. Most people just want to see funny memes and videos, they don't think too hard about it. Not saying that's good, in fact I'd say the opposite.

Here we are on HN, which is not, itself, user hostile. And there's Metafilter, which is still hanging in there, a bastion of the old internet.

But I get the sense that many have retreated off the open internet, into private communities. I've been running one for 7 years or so. Safer there, and you can actually have conversations with people. In a way, this is the digital equivalent of how the real world works: the thing which isn't natural is trying to talk to people across a massive crowd, while other people shout advertisements at you, and still others record everything you say.

These bigger link aggregators like Reddit have become a way to see new links, grab them in a net, and run back to the private community to discuss them.
> And it's not like Europe isn't fighting back. European intelligence has been deep inside Russian networks since before the first invasion of Ukraine. From the European side, the invasion of Ukraine is a proxy war, with billions of euros spent on fighting Russia, while to Russia the war is a normal invasion with Russian (and now North Korean) troops on the ground.

This is flatly wrong and gives far too much credit to Europe. The US had to shake Europe and Ukraine awake to the impending invasion of Ukraine. And I say this as an EU citizen.
And if that 56% faster chip didn't exist, or if it were replaced tomorrow by an even better chip that doesn't mean I need it to do my work. I don't see why I should chase benchmarks anymore if it doesn't give me any new real benefits, and the vision and execution behind macOS as an ecosystem doesn't seem to be getting any better
Apple says that not every generation will get an “Ultra” variant: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2025/03/apple-announces-m3-ult...
Every provider who offers MacOS in the cloud.
I can't quite tell what's going on here, earlier, you seem to be clear -- c.f. "Apple doesn't make server-grade CPUs"
There are three different launched commercial products called "Deep Research" right now - from Google Gemini, OpenAI and Perplexity. There are also several open source projects that use the name "Deep Research".

DeepResearch (note the absence of the space character) is the name that Han Xiao proposes for the general pattern of generating a research-style report after running multiple searches.

You might implement that pattern using prompt engineering or using some custom trained model or through other means. If the eventual output looks like a report and it ran multiple searches along the way it fits Han's "DeepResearch" definition.
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— Senna
I do know of a shop where an OSS database written in Java was chosen over one written in C++ because of the ability of the internal team to read the code, modify it, troubleshoot it, etc. That makes sense. It that was driven by pragmatics — maintainability. Not simply bias, or aesthetics or "rule of cool."
Brits end probe into Microsoft's $13B bankrolling of OpenAI
I'm curious what percentage responds to replies to their comments. I think it is quite high here.
2008 and 2000 were caused by our own bubbles and not outside forces.
> There's an endless desire to insinuate it, and say that animals are people too.

What? No there isn't! "People are animals" is not equivalent to "animals are people"
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OpenAI starts rolling out GPT 4.5 to ChatGPT Plus subscribers
Have you ever seen a human baby attempt to hide upon birth? No? Thought so.
I’m really good at helping pack vehicles for moves. My kid got to take three extra boxes and the driver got use of the rear view mirror back because I repacked the car.

So you need some sort of sealant on the keys? Or maybe just a flame polish?
Was there a reason to share those quotes in that context other than to spread FUD about Islam and weaken support for Palestine?
Congrats on your progress!

Over the past few years, while homeschooling my daughters, I've come to see the way math is usually taught as horribly pathological. In the US, where we live now, it's often seen as a competitive activity -- almost like a sport. In the UK, where I grew up, that wasn't the case but still it was taught as this huge body of knowledge and skills with almost no motivation.

My daughters are so advanced in math and I really don't believe it's even mostly due to innate ability. It's because, just to take an easy random example, when we studied geometry our very first lesson was me pointing out that the word "geometry" just means "earth measuring", and it was useful for farmers to be able to do that. Or, when we proved the irrationally of sqrt(2), of course I entertained them with the tale of Hippasus being thrown into the sea by the Pythagoreans. For basically everything we've learned there are so many fun stories. It makes me sad that most students of math never get to hear them.
Doing it with the laptop open is what I'd be interested in, as that's been my working style for years. I've had a couple of Airs, but ended up having to use a Display Link hub and software to support multiple displays, which wasn't ideal.
I wonder if the end-goal is AI advertising "nudges" based on some sort of psychometric profile. Who needs ads when you have a mass manipulation machine. Just figure out what drives X product even if you never see it directly.
Why it still takes days for banks to give you your money
It just feels more "fluid" and real, and then you get used to it and 60Hz feels jittery. I have an iPad pro, and its honestly made me consider going with an iPhone Pro (I still have just the non-pro model), although not quite yet. However, I notice a huge difference between scrolling on my phone and scrolling on my ipad.

Its the same thing about retina vs. the previous resolutions we had put up with. Yes, you don't need them for text, but once you get used to it for text you don't want to go back.
Are you the poor Unix system administrator at Sun with the Worst Job in the World, who had to install Solaris on Scott McNealy's and Ed Zander's and other VP's workstations?

The Worst Job in the World, from Michael Tiemann <tiemann@cygnus.com>:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/unix-haters/slowlari...

PS: Fuck Trump supporting anti-vaxer Scott "You have zero privacy, get over it" McNealy. May he run Solaris in hell. If you installed it on him, then good for you, he deserved it!

Scott McNealy has long been one of Trump’s few friends in Silicon Valley:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Scott-McNealy-h...

Former Sun Micro CEO Scott McNealy, known for his provocative quotes, says Trump is doing a 'spectacular job' amid the coronavirus crisis. That's not how many tech experts see it:

https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-mcnealy-praises-trumps...

Sun on Privacy: "Get Over It":

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/
Solid titanium side caps!? Did they just have some extra stock laying around? Love a good functional prop though!
While I am sympathetic to the notion that government is supposed to regulate corporations, it is a grave misunderstanding to conflate it with either unions or corporations.
Scientists call it “the meth cycle.”
the US now wants to sell F-35s to india, at which point india will grant the russians access to them

this renders the f-35 useless

if this happens there is zero chance the US exports jets to European customers again
Take this: if you wanna play on Linux with decent fps, you still need proprietary Nvidia drivers.
It may not be the last time: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2025/03/apple-announces-m3-ult...
Smaller, dumber models are faster than bigger, slower ones.

What model do you find fast enough and smart enough?
That is known as "drill," and is vital to math success.
Also should note that 800/819GB/s of memory bandwidth is actually VERY usable for LLMs. Consider that a 4090 is just a hair above 1000GB/s
Condé practically forgetting about reddit was one of the best things that happened to it. There was pressure to scale the side up, but they didn't have time to chase engagement metrics to the detriment of the experience. It's probably the only $10B+ tech company I can think of that ran so lean for so long.
You're right, Han didn't define DeepResearch as "a cosmetic enhancement". I quoted his sentence long definition:

> DeepResearch builds upon DeepSearch by adding a structured framework for generating long research reports.

But then called it "a cosmetic enhancement" really to be slightly dismissive of it - I'm a skeptic of the report format because I think the way it's presented makes the information look more solid than it actually is. My complaint is at the aesthetic level, not relating to the (impressive) way the report synthesis is engineered.

So yeah, I'm being inaccurate and a bit catty about it.

Your explanation is much closer to what Han described, and much more useful than mine.
Well I am banned from /r/libertarian for wrong think. I didn't know about other subreddits though.
To some extent, AI needs less extensive teaching than the problem-solving skills taught in school because it works in natural language anyways and builds off whatever else you know. You can easily talk to an AI about CS if you know CS, or even use it for coding, but not so much if you only know "AI".

It's not that learning AI isn't important, it's just that school isn't necessarily the place for it: AI is always changing, and can be learned relatively easily online, while properly learning something like linear algebra or operating systems online is pretty unlikely except for a very motivated student.
CSS animations make Flash look efficient by comparison.
I disagree that front end web development should be taught in a computer science curriculum. It seems like it's more of a designer job rather than science/engineering.
I am currently in university, and machine learning is a mandatory part of the curriculum. I think most universities do AI in one form or another actually.
For what it's worth, reddit is only 6 months younger than diggs, and both were developed in tandem.

Prior to the Diggv4 debacle, there was already a sense that reddit was "better" than digg in important areas. Digg had problems with power users, and reddit was able to pitch itself as being immune to them (lol). Comment sections on reddit in this period tended to have better content than digg, and subreddits were a meaningful way to curate your content, something digg lacked.

A common feeling of the era was that digg looked better, but reddit had better content. Less, but better
Congratulations for not hosting anything interesting, I guess? My self-hosted VPN is the lowest maintenance thing ever - it just runs, and I never have to touch it. I host quite a bit of stuff, but email was daunting. Every week it was some new fresh hell. Spam blocking lists were the worst of it, and no I wasn't spamming anyone.
LLMs are supposed to be a step on the route to a general AI. This is a data point suggesting that, if it can't do this simple job, it may never be suited to a wide range of jobs that any human can do trivially. That's a serious crimp in its reputation as an AGI.

There may be a solution to that at some point. But right now it suggests we're more on the stochastic-parrot track.
Pissing or shitting on plants has positive effects if those people have a proper food, hydration, no drugs
> The inspection paradox in renewal theory that you linked ... is an instance of the inspection paradox described in the article

I think that's debatable. The standard definition of the IP is intimately bound to random processes, and there is nothing random about class sizes. So while I do see the similarity, I think that saying that the class-size example is an instance of the IP is at best misleading because it discards an essential feature of the actual IP, namely, randomness.

It might be useful as a pedagogical tool, i.e. "here is an analogous result in a deterministic system" but to say that they are the same is very misleading IMHO.

Here is the relevant quote from the Wikipedia article on renewal theory:

"The resolution of the paradox is that our sampled distribution at time t is size-biased (see sampling bias)"

So the resolution of both "paradoxes" is the same, i.e. they are both examples of sample bias. But that doesn't mean that the problems are the same, or that one is an instance of the other.
You can print from iOS to printers that support AirPrint. No drivers needed, but the printer needs to support the AirPrint protocol.
There's also a film about a similar scenario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large (based on https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winner...)
"'Government is bad because it can be captured by malevolent interests', say malevolent interests involved in capturing government."
I want a better quality of jobs, in my experience service oriented industry often have a thinner margin than hardware.

Like walmart is the largest private employer in the US, the working conditions, pay and benefits one gets from working at walmart isnt comparable to what we used to give what was the largest private employer 50 years ago (which was AT&T) - nor can the margins that walmart generates support those kinds of generous pay and benefits either.

This story is repeated a 100 times over thruout the US - while yes we have full employment, its in service jobs (retail, food service, hospitality) and not in manufacturing or other high paying jobs.

The second thing I'm trying to deal with, for lack of a more polite way (without lapsing too far into euphemism) to put it is "jobs for stupid people" (edit, in hindsight the best way to put this is "good jobs for everyone") - for a significant portion of the population, the best job they can hope for in terms of wages and benefits is working on a production line in a factory, while you and I (presumably) work in some sort of information job - thats just not an option for a significant portion of the population, and until we solve that we're going to keep having an issue with a K-shaped economy.
> labor cost, regulatory regime, environmental rules, and human rights costs

These don't strike you as themes they're interested in? They're kneecapping or eliminating regulators and driving up unemployment. Their deportation drives, it's true, are a bit contradictory here, but those have other motivations.
> I actually call BS on the "not-being-able-to-tell".

I actually call BS on your BS.

I don't believe that people are standing with two phones in their hand - an Android and an iPhone - and comparing them the way that people here are suggesting. I don't think I have ever seen anyone do that IRL, and I don't believe anyone actually does it.

People go to the Apple Store to get their iPhone or to some other store to get their Android phone, because they are interested in either platform, and absolutely not thinking about hopping from one to the other based on some imperceptible screen-refresh 'smoothness'.
5,500 easily gets me either vastly more CPU cores if I care more about that or a vastly faster GPU if I care more about that. Or for both a 9950x + 5090 (assuming you can actually find one in stock) is ~$3000 for the pair + motherboard, leaving a solid $2500 for whatever amount of RAM, storage, and networking you desire.

The M3 strikes a very particular middle ground for AI of lots of RAM but a significantly slower GPU which nothing else matches, but that also isn't inherently the right balance either. And for any other workloads, it's quite expensive.
I mean people thought ELIZA was AI back in the 1960's. Everyone always thinks "this is it!!".
You can't attach the same windows in multiple locations with different layouts.

With screen, I can have windows 0 and 1 in a vertical split on my laptop, and windows 0 and 3 in a horizontal split on my desktop.

With tmux, you attach to a session and it has the same layout everywhere. You can have attach different servers or different sessions but you can't even show different windows in the same session, let alone have different layouts. If my laptop shows window 1 containing 2 panes, my desktop can only show window 1, and it will contain 2 panes. Changing the layout or the active window will change it everywhere.
What company was specc'ing out a 6 figure machine just to put in a consumer class SSD?
Ooh, I would like to learn/see links about that!
Right, but then it's not a surprising claim. What viewpoint does it oppose?

If you're saying that people are "animals plus", nobody says otherwise. We are after all undeniably made out of meat and shaped like apes.
US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine
Here is another study.

"Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40489486
Fruska gora, a mountain region in Serbia, has acquired or were gifted 5 European bisons from Poland[0]. It's always heartwarming to see a country working extremely hard to preserve any species. It was devastating news for a lot of people that one of the bisons, Djuka, passed away recently (not to be confused with a Serbian politician Vladimir Djukanovic also known as bison Djuka[1]).

[0] https://www.gov.pl/web/srbija/poljski-bizoni-u-nacionalnom-p...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Đukanović
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