skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should be organizing in person meetings, having weekly fireside chats, calling for strikes and protests, something concrete that shows the country what they're doing and helping us the people participate, even if performatively at first. Protest and in person meetings are a morale boost.

Tbf I need to follow AOC and Sanders on social media and stay more in tune.
Everything is cool although it's too bad they had changed the Air design. I have MBA M1 and I have to admit I'm a big fan of that design.
> why then have all the moves against Ukraine were when Trump was not in office?

In regards to the timing of the two Russian invasions, perhaps Putin felt those were his best chances to make such moves.

The first time when Russia invaded Crimea on February 20, 2014 was because of the Maidan Revolution. At the time Ukrainian government was a mess. The then Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, who was an ally of Putin, was to be ousted on the next day of the Russian invasion and eventually fled to Russia.

As for the timing when Russia invaded Ukraine again on February 24, 2022, I think one of the reasons was because of US troops chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan happened a few months ago. And after that, the US would be politically
unlikely to get itself involved directly in another overseas war so soon; and Putin hoped this time it would be a blitzkrieg coup, and then he could replace Zelensky with a puppet president.

I am not saying that Putin intentionally invaded Ukraine at a time when Trump was or wasn't in office; I only feel that these are two very opportune moments for Putin to seize, which both happened to be at times when Trump was not in office.
Not who you replied to but I’m on a Mid-2014 15 inch MBP retina, bought new and used nearly every day since and taken on dozens of trips.

I had the battery replaced, the tab key replaced, and the screen refinished (anti-glare coating removed) for about $240 a couple years ago and aside from the fact it can’t be updated beyond Big Sur 11.7.10 I have no issues.
I don’t blame them for how the world works. I’m saying if I need to be under some ‘protection’, I’d rather it is US than China and especially Russia.
I have no idea what that is, so ???

But if you're being pedantic, I meant Apple SaaS requiring monthly payments or any other form of using something from Apple where I give them money outside the purchase of their hardware.

If you're talking background services as part of macOS, then you're being intentionally obtuse to the point and you know it
I honestly don’t see how that’s a response to what I wrote.
> No native docker support

Honest question: why do you want this in MacOS? Do you understand what docker does? (it's fundamentally a linux technology, unless you are asking for user namespaces and chroot w/o SIP on MacOS, but that doesn't make sense since the app sandbox exists).

MacOS doesn't have the fundamental ecosystem problems that beget the need for docker.

If the answer is "I want to run docker containers because I have them" then use orbstack or run linux through the virtualization framework (not Docker desktop). It's remarkably fast.
14k for a maxed out Mac Studio
Oh, definitely! Many former empires still benefit from their history.

But all I'm saying is that there's a path to preserving wealth beyond outright remaining an empire. (Whether it's still possible after making hypothetical full reparations is a difficult question I don't know the answer to.)
Is this the first Macbook Air to support multiple monitors? I'm kind of surprised that's not highlighted instead of buried down in the page.
You're calling an Apple an Orange and complaining that everyone else wont refer to it as such. AGI is a computer program that can understand or learn any task a human can, mimicking the cognitive ability of a human.

It doesn't have to actually "think" as long as it can present an indistinguishable facsimile, but if you have to rebuild its training set for each task, that does not qualify. We don't reset human brains from scratch to pick up new skills.
They'll have none. Digg was taken over by power-users IIRC and that's why everyone left. As for the spam and policies, I don't expect any change.
why would you ever want to do that remains an open question
I don't follow your logic. How would one's membership in a big tech ecosystem determine whether they get unsolicited pics? Or whether they feel they can jump out of those ecosystems?

> But do consider that the other 50% may have significantly different preferences on this matter

Or am I reading it the wrong way? 50% of people want to get those pics? That's either news to me, or I run in different circles than you do.

Either way, I don't feel that I'm evangelizing about it, I'm not telling everyone that they should do what I'm doing. I'm merely telling my experiences and what I've done.
Ah seems like I remembered the CPU price for a higher tier CPU which can cost the 6k on their own.

Thinking about it you can get a decent 256gb on consumer platforms now too, but the speed will be a bit crap and would need to make sure the platform ully supports ECC UDIMMs
As a user of Firefox and uBlock, I haven't watched a YouTube ad in years, and I use it daily.

Is Chrome really that bad that people buy premium to avoid ads?
Rearmament is deterrence. Unless you have a big enough stick, you can't deter anything.
Bought new since 2014, used all the way to launchday M1.

I was riding the 'service battery' indicator all the way to the bloody end. 1148 cycles, max capacity 3735 mAh.
There is a cool webapp for visualizing current (inferred) GPS jamming around the world, here centered on the Baltic Sea: https://gpsjam.org/?lat=58.31474&lon=22.53044&z=4.9&date=202...

Seems at least according to that, there is plenty of +10% interference of GPS in the east and south of the Baltic Sea.
Downvoting is not supported for posts--only for comments. Once you have the power to flag, that is the option.
Head in the sand eh? even using your data the picture is very different to what you were claiming and much closer to my assertion, so we use different sources...your conclusion is still incorrect.

Bet you're not interested in looking at the three Baltic states I mentioned or Ireland...because it would be another fistful of nails in the coffin of your purely ideological belief that "aUsTeRiTy BaD" (truthfully, some austerity is bad, but the fiscal kind).
> The "Russia is weak" and the "Russia will go to Portugal" narratives happily coexist in the European press.

Just because Russia cannot do some things, that doesn't mean they cannot do others and be annoying, like disrupting the airline industry:

* https://www.wingsmagazine.com/estonia-gps-interference-2/

* https://www.gpsworld.com/faa-and-nawcad-advance-crpa-approva...

(Or interfering with other countries' elections.)
I’m talking about problems a lot more broad than music, hobby artists are a completely different entity than commercial artists and conflating them is targeted willful ignorance. And frankly, developers comprise the most coddled, overprivileged, out-of-touch professional sector south of the c-suite in any industry: your musings about income for anyone outside of the software business are meaningless.

Enjoy your mass layoffs because they aren’t stopping in my sector. Oh, are you one of the special ones too talented to be affected? That’s good news because all developers are according to them. Good luck.
I think this is awful and you should unlearn this knowledge for both of us ;)

I foolishly drank two full pots of coffee one absentminded day and spent the next three days in hell experiencing what happens when you saturate your caffeine metabolism pipeline. The clearance rate plummets and I was _wired out of my mind and unable to sleep_. Anyway, it’s a drug to treat with respect
Literally the only material difference between using my M1 Air and my work M1 Pro is the somewhat-better port selection on the Pro. Though even that doesn't have the single-most-useful port it could (aside from USB-C): a USB-A port.
That is an important point, I didn't really think of it since I've never had a reason to use Windows containers.
Nah, if I ever wrote an article about the software crisis on the Linux desktop, there’d be flames here making Apple’s issues look small.
A Happy Day for Rust
Are those reference numbers for L1 signals, or for L5 signals? I remember that L5 uses much longer chip sequences, and thus can deliver much higher processing gains.
From what I can tell, the efficiency comes from logistics and not the cost. Those large plants are cheaper to run, but then you need to get that ammonia from the factory to the field. Ammonia is very toxic (your household Ammonia CONCENTRATE is 99% water! we are talking 100% ammonia here). Your truck drivers need special training to haul it, they cannot drive on some roads (tunnels). Farmers - the least safety conscience group I know of - wear gas masks and protective clothing when they work with it (they will drink roundup on a dare). Everyone in the chain of handling it needs extra safety effort.

This thing is instead a box you put on the farm which means much less handling of it. It also means you can plan to have it on time (fertilizer shipments are sometimes late - when you apply notrogen matters). In short this can be more expensive than traditional processes, but has enough other benefits that people will be willing to pay that difference (after talking to their accountant).
That's the product. I'm not questioning the price of those, but the price of components vs markup

Show me the IGBTs and inductors that cost 90k.
> none of that is the same as spending time to figure out how to ensure that something breaks at the right time

Yes it is. At the absolute limit, balancing cost and reliability is this exact optimization exercise; we are talking about the exact same thing taken to different extremes. The difference between your ideal scenario and the practice outlined in the OP is the difference between 97% BOM efficiency and 99.99% BOM efficiency. At extreme scales, that gap can mean the difference between a company laying people off vs. surviving.

Side note - this same discipline is what ensures your widgets fail in a safe, controlled manner and not in a catastrophic way.

> I feel like you're reading my message extremely uncharitably

I saw an naive take on how mechanical design for failure works in practice and wanted to educate. I mean no disrespect, it's just seemed like it might be an unknown unknown for you. Your comment had at least a few upvotes, so there are others out there who may also lack the same information.

To your charitability point, though, my first take on the OP above is probably the most charitable take. The least charitable scenario for the OP is that the company wants to make sure they have higher annually recurring revenue from replacing their widgets breaking down but need to _barely_ beat or match the other guys in a warranty. Reality is probably somewhere in between.
I agree, it's a lot of work, plus Apple definitely is not not going to help with the project. Maybe an alternative is something like Framework -- find some good enough hardware and support it.
Whhhhyyyyy?

> The IDE may seem like a joke, but the research and development gone into it is most definitely not.

> MS Paint IDE uses a custom OCR that can be trained by nearly any font in any size, reading code from images in just miliseconds. The IDE's compiler and program output are in .png's, and automatically underlines any errors present and provides syntax highlighting with Java, Go, Python, and JavaScript currently being supported.

> The IDE also allows for arbitrarily editing any text file through Paint via a context menu option, with native-looking button overlays onto MS Paint to perform IDE actions.

why?
Yeah, a lot of the cargo e-bikes are closer in size to a moped than to an acoustic bike, which makes them much more difficult to steal. A heavy-duty chain and a keyed ignition are typically an effective deterrent.
For me as a professional, that's just fine; I never used the touch bar, but the fingerprint sensor was a great addition. Not worth upgrading for on its own, but a neat upgrade.

I think a macbook with a much better front facing camera would be good, teleconferencing is a multiple times a day use case for us. They did an in-between with the system that allows you to use your iphone camera(s) which do support more wide angles, but that doesn't work on my current work laptop as it's locked down and I'd have to lock down my personal iphone as well if I want the two to connect.
Evolutionary Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Group Social Dilemmas
M3 support in Asahi is still heavily WIP. I think it doesn't even have display support, Ethernet, or Wifi yet, I think it's only serial over USB . Without any GPU or ANE support, it's not very useful for AI stuff. https://asahilinux.org/docs/M3-Series-Feature-Support/
This is a ‘shut up and take my money’ price, it’ll fly off the shelves.
Pronouncing Doge
Human urine - yes good source of nitrates, although it will kill plants if undiluted (too much of a good thing...) . Human poop NO! it should NEVER be used as fertilizer. Typical human diet makes it pretty worthless as fertilizer, and pathogens make it a really dumb thing to do. Poop from grazing animals isn't the same stuff as human poop, which is where i think people get mixed up.
Digg v4 was a huge deal in how badly it was designed and rolled out
Ah, I see what you’re saying. Basically, Darwin doesn’t support cgroups, so Docker runs Linux in a VM to get that.
I've had concepts click in my head literally years after studying them. I have no idea why. I assume I was exposed to tangentially related information at some point, then an old thought bubbles up and it suddenly makes sense.
I genuinely forgot the Mac Pro still exists. It’s been so long since I even saw one.

And I’ve had every previous Mac tower design since 1999: G4, G5, the excellent dual Xeon, the horrible black trash can… But Apple Silicon delivers so much punch in the Studio form factor, the old school Pro has become very niche.

Edit - looks like the new M3 Ultra is only available in Mac Studio anyway? So the existence of the Pro is moot here.
Another Techcrunch [dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266387
I'm a mix of both, however, my dev time does not create macOS or iDevice apps. My dev is still focused on creative/media workflows, while I still get work for photo/video. I don't even use Xcode any further than running the CLI command to install the necessary tools to have CLI be useful.
[dupe] More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266387
Yes but why not release an M4 Ultra?
Since their whole pricing strategy depends on users not being able to do RAM and storage upgrades, you can be sure they'd rather make the integration even more tight in the next models.
When was the last time we had a deflationary spiral? The 1930s? And how long has kenyesian inflationism been trying to "fix" this issue? And exactly how many global economic crashes have happened under the system that is supposed to prevent them? Additionally, exactly how much damage has been caused by the destruction and pilfering of the dollar's value, and exactly how much good has inflationism done to offset that? Judging by how harshly everyone speaks about wanting to behead billionaires in the streets, I would say that things have "gone bad", in very light terms.
I'm at exactly the same point with mine, it still feels like new even though it is nearly 5 years old.

I have yet to update beyond Monterey though (even though I really should) in case it slows down a bit or the battery life isn't as good.
Your wording makes it sound like it was a one-man show. Asahi has a really strong contributor base, new leadership[1], and the backing of Fedora via the Asahi Fedora Remix. While Hector resigning is a loss, I don't think it's a death knell for the project.

[1]: https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/
In 2023 - a full year into the war - Hersh asserted "the Russians have yet to put any of their main forces" into Ukraine (https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1628898816953909251). He's carried water for the Syrian regime repeatedly; the Nordstream report was pretty widely debunked by available open source intelligence. He's not super credible these days.
I'm not making the claim that users don't understand what "selling their data" means, I'm making the claim that Mozilla is not doing anything that any reasonable person other than a lawyer interpreting the CCPA in the most unreasonable way possible would consider what Mozilla is doing to be "selling of data". It's an internal transfer between the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation that doesn't even involve money. No payments. No third parties whatsoever. In the CCPA's poor and ambiguous wording, this does technically constitute "sale of data", as the CCPA defines it. Please read my other newer posts in this thread.
I'm curious what sort of behavior you are wanting to change? And, yeah, don't underestimate the effectiveness of a good name.
She is a weird centerpiece of Russian-pushed conspiracy theories that attempt to convince that a relatively unknown middle manager from the US State Department was a mastermind in a vast conspiracy that pitted Ukraine against Russia, which left Russia no other option than to invade Ukraine and start raping and killing there.

Her name is like one of those obscure, but highly specific factoids that 9/11 truthers, flat-earthers or the chemtrail crowd share with each other and bring up at every opportunity. When someone starts telling you about the melting temperature of steel beams or the height of crematorium chimneys at Auschwitz, it's a clear sign that they've been reading conspiracy theories from the sketchiest corners of the internet. Nuland's name is a similar signal.
It'd be an interesting flame war in the comments, if nothing else, go for it! I'm happy to give plenty of concrete evidence why Linux is more suitable for professionals than macOS is in 2025 :)
It is not partisan at all. If left-wing populists took over the Democratic Party and tried to radically upend the system, I'd also hope the professional civil service resisted them.
How do we opt out
>Citation needed. As far as I'm aware it was just not renewed.

There were violations. They used the "inspections" process to continually delay & block ships from going to Ukrainian ports.

"Ukrainian Deputy Renovation Minister Yuriy Vaskov accused Russia of a "gross violation" of the agreement. All ships are inspected by a joint team of Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and U.N. inspectors, but Vaskov said the Russian inspectors had refused to inspect ships bound for Pivdennyi since April 29."

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/ukraine-says-rus...

And then of course it wasn't renewed, followed up by immediate missile strikes on Ukraine's grain infrastructure over the following couple of days. Which does speak in some sense to Russia's willingness to do deals and hold them. (That didn't end up working out for them as expected, because Ukraine subsequently sank half of what remained of their Black Sea Fleet).

I notice you don't address all the other deals they violated either.

> Which are as worthy source as Russian politicians.

What source do you consider credible? Random tankies on twitter? Nobody who was actually involved in those discussions gives that narrative any credence.

>Where is that deal? So far a lot of Ukrainians have lost their lives for what exactly?

Ukrainians decide what deal they're willing to accept, not you.

>And again, do you support Trump's demand for ceasefire?

No, because Trump isn't trying to make Russia sacrifice anything, he's just trying to force Ukraine into submission. Which, by the way, will not work.
Another Techcrunch [dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265521
Russia invaded Ukraine in a war of a territorial aggression. calling them "equally corrupt" is propaganda.
I understand what you are saying but I disagree. Yes, hydrogen is not as energy dense and has different safety issues, but I think it is overall still the better long term option. Biofuel is not scalable in the same way as green hydrogen. The more biofuel we produce, the more agricultural land it competes for that could be used for food, timber or even carbon capture vegetation. The more solar and wind we add to the gird, the more load shedding issues we will have and the more opportunity we have to convert that to hydrogen.

ICE engines running on biofuel are about as efficient as they are going to get, whereas hydrogen power is a fairly immature technology and has a lot of potential efficiency gains as the technology matures.

I think biofuel from waste products will still be useful for certain applications, for instance in medium and long haul aviation, where the energy density of hydrogen would pose a significant challenge. But biofuels are just not scalable to the levels required for global demand vs land requirements. Using biofuels just for aviation would require cultivating land the size of Texas, California, and Florida. [0][1][2] It is just not feasible to scale as a primary fuel in a fossil fueless future. Hydrogen can scale with electrical capacity, which can come from nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, etc.

[0] back of the napkin math/conversions based on 2 and 3

[1] https://its.ucdavis.edu/blog-post/making-policy-in-the-absen...

[2] https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/USA/jet_fuel_consumption/
That's why they're capturing the urine directly instead of using potentially contaminated sewage solids.
in case people are unaware, this is more exciting than other random computer updates, since the Mac Studio is probably the best system in the world for running LLMs, as it can come with >> 100GB of ram and that's all accessible to the graphics/neural accelerator at high speed.

this new one comes with up to 512GB of unified RAM!
I agree, except I can't admit the last part.

We need a system that allows a freer market of political parties. With two entrenched private organizations that are impossible to unseat, an extremist takeover of one is like taking over the country... Which is what has happened. Imagine a system where rational Republicans could have formed a breakaway conservative party and had a chance at success without being a spoiler.

And I think the new voting system has to have preference built in. I know approval voting is simple to explain and calculate, but I want to maximize the "expression of voter preference" as much as possible while keeping the process simple. Ranked choice has some issues but it is conceptually simple and eliminates the spoiler effect. And it's already in use in parts of the US.