skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> r/conservative is a bad litmus test. Between AI-driven bots (read comment histories!), flair-only posts, and chronically online users it's a terrible reflection of the average American who identifies as conservative

Sure, the average American who identifies as conservative just shows up every 4 years and hits the R without giving it much though. Thinking about them doesn't really give us much either.

I think /r/conservative tells us a lot, even if it's not representative of the constituency. The President is driven by memes and is extremely online. The "vibes" in /r/conservative (and on X, The Everything App) are extremely relevant, because these are the audiences Trump plays to.
If you have an Air and use Intellij IDEA or any other Jetbrains IDE can you let me know how the performance is?

This really looks like an amazing computer if it can handle long IDEA hours on medium projects.
Have an M2 Air. Never think about heat. In my experience it‘s just not an issue.
Ten million times faster! (Compared to the Apollo 11 guidance computer)
Guessing you're in good health, have some control over your working hours, and are able to maintain a pretty clean sleep/wake cycle.

7 quality, consistent hours of sleep is plenty enough for most people, sure, but that means being able to shut your eyes at 9pm to get up at 4, which means having the discipline and energy to get ~everything necessary done by say 8. Avoiding alcohol def helps there.

People in their 60s/70s don't have kids to look after, and in many cases don't have to work full time. For those that make it to that age with themselves and their partner in adequate health, I agree daily exercise is a sound investment.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ai-guru-rich-sutton-dee...

He gave up his US citizenship years ago but he explains some of the reasons why he left. I'll also say that the AI research coming out of Canada is pretty great as well so I think it makes sense to do research there.
No benchmarks yet for the LLMs :(
> if they really believed we were in that imminent danger, violent attacks would have been the rational thing to do.

That's what these guys figured. But if we're being rational and realistic, all it accomplishes is getting your group killed or imprisoned.
I’m answering a question:

> Any bets on how this will be justified by Trump voters?

This is not what I believe
> unified memory

So unified memory means that the memory is accessible to the GPU and the CPU in a shared pool. AMD does not have that.
Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting, part 2
My M2 Air doesn’t even get hot. But I’m not running intensive computing on it.
Active cooling on the pro.
Comparing BCn Texture Decoders
Using RubyMine on an M2. Performance is great.
> too many things would have to fit perfectly for it to make sense

things like immediately reversing course on military support for the only country at war with Russia? things like torching relationships with our closest allies we've spent decades, if not centuries building?

things like repeatedly and publicly praising Putin? things like both ex-KGB officers and current UK legislators publicly stating the possibility?

things like everything in this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates...

I don't know why you think it's quite so far fetched. it's not a certainty but at this point I would say the preponderance of evidence calls it "likely"
No good guy ever had nuke.
Where does this obsession of making it as thin as possible even come from?

I am pretty sure almost everyone will gladly trade the "thinness" for a few standard USB and HDMI ports.
> coordination problem / hard to overcome lobbying / politically intractable, etc...

So much for free lunch?
As someone that migrated to the M1 Macbook Air from a Mid-2014 Macbook Pro... the Intel customers are still the ones they're trying to target, amusingly.

If they'd just give me onboard mobile connectivity, I'd upgrade to the next Air sooner, otherwise this thing will run until it dies... and maybe some day they'll start comparing performance against their original M1.
Yeah Silicon Valley got started through government-funded research into applied materials science. The inventor of the transistor worked at a university before he struck out on his own to build a company, and his research started at that university on a grant-funded project.

I would wager most of what you take for granted out of "Silicon Valley" started as fundamental or applied research funded by a government. The current generation of AI hype certainly did.
Yes and Ukraine is just like the United States.
I don't think that's "unified memory" though.
I think the issue here is not so much that errors can be ignored in Go (sometimes one doesn't care if something worked, they just want to try), it's more that errors can easily be ignored by accident in Go.

I definitely have seen that, and sometimes have done that myself, but I have to say it hasn't happened in a while since the linting tools have improved
Yeah that. I only got rid of mine because I wanted the nice mini-LED screen on the 14" MBP. No plans to replace that one any time soon!
For all the length of the cable? Anyway, ships must let have routes to pass over those cables or we would partition the seas into small patches. Any ship passing over a cable between two mines can cut it.

Edit: or do you mean mines anchored to the cable on the sea floor? That would make it easier to kaboom the cable instead of cutting it.
Is this really true or just false panic?
Let's rethink frequent upgrading, celebrating wear and tear like a good patina. The phone runs Google Free /e/OS
but now ask yourself why we got citizens united and you'll maybe see what your parent poster is saying
I have a 2020 Macbook Air M1, use it for xcode, it struggles to build a basic react native based app with watch-widget, but man it is slick, I love thin laptops. I have a carbon X1 too

Struggle as in the build takes 3+ mins

In general though it's cool, maybe when charging it gets warm but I use it on a desk mostly

A general gripe I have switching devices is the keyboard layout ha cmd+c vs. ctrl+c

Stick to an ext keyboard I guess

Edit: 16GB RAM is what I have I sometimes get the "out of application memory" message

Anyway I use my computer for freelancing/working on multiple platforms, it was a good buy (used), alternatively I could have went with a mini but that screen is so good on a mac (although I develop with an ultrawide external monitor).
I'm guessing it's more because "Ultra" versions, which "fuse" multiple chips take significant additional engineering work. So we might expect an ultra M4 next year, possibly after non-ultra M5s are released.
Thank you for this. I'm trying to get better at vi(m) and I'm looking for something similar that I can pull up while editing a document - I struggle to remember some basic keystrokes when I need them.

My favorite tmux command from the shell is: "tmux new -A -s me", which I have aliased to "tm". It creates a tmux session named "me", or attaches to a session named that if it already exists.
They didn't start doing it in 2024.

Also, at least in the US, it's the side that spent a lot less money that won. Just like in 2016.

Besides, having money is only one form of influence. One might also have influence from a massive federal bureaucracy, legacy media, Hollywood, academia, workers' unions, and other places.
I've tried numerous keyboards and the conclusion I've come to is that there's low profile and then there's low profile. The bulk of the low profiles I've tried (NuPhy, Keychron K8, the mechanical Logitech, a few others) are definitely low profile compared to the Logitech Pro X TKL I use for my gaming PC. However, they're still tall. Most of the gains are from a shorter switch and keycap, but the body is still quite high.

If you compare it to the Apple Magic Keyboard I'm typing on now – and that seems like a definite inspiration for the Bayleaf – it's a stark contrast. The K3, for example, is more than twice as tall (10.9mm vs 22mm backrow). The Magic Keyboard feels fine to type on without any sort of wrist support and I never feel any strain. But on the K3, even with a support (tried both their wooden support and a similarly sized foam one), I would feel strain after an hour or two.

Most low-profiles are really just a middle ground between the two sides. And, at least in my experience, you get the downsides of both without any of the positives of either.
Why aren’t people afraid of Bill Gates? Why is it only the libertarians that scare people? Bill Gates does some extremely scary things — not to mention some morally repugnant things that apparently even Melinda Gates couldn’t take anymore.

And speaking of billionaires, why no complaints about Soros? The intellectual dishonestly is astounding. Soros has literally bought scores of radio stations, bought off district attorneys around the U.S., and Gates is doing vaccine experiments in ultra poor countries where oversight is minimal to non-existent. Pfizer did the same thing with drug trials in places where people can’t sue.

Gates even wants to release genetically modified mosquitos — without the consent of the people who live in the proposed areas. How about Laurene Jobs’s ownership of The Atlantic and the influence she has attempted to buy with her billions? What about the Clinton Foundation’s malfeasance in Haiti (among other places?)

But sure, let’s have another article complaining about Theil and by extension, Musk.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2022-00294...

https://socialism.com/fs-article/the-robber-baron-as-lord-bo...
I have an M2 air. It gets a bit warm when I compile iOS apps, but otherwise I never notice any heat. If I open a few too many tabs or apps, though, I notice a bit of slowdown since I only have 8 GB ram.

However, it is surprisingly functional and I don’t strictly need any additional ram, which was surprising to me.
Prigozhin's "coup" was probably the closest thing to it. Unfortunately I do not share your optimism in here - Putin planted him self well and surrounded himself by loyal men.

Continuing to send men to die in a losing battle without an actual plan, hoping that the opponent's leadership falls, seems like an awful idea to me. It gives me similar vibes to "our scientists are on the verge of creating a wonder weapon" that is often propagated on losing sides, e.g Germany in WW2.
I recently did a CTF challenge write-up for an AES timing side-channel, which I tried to make similarly approachable: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/uoftctf-timed-aes.html

It's not quite the same "lab exercises" format but the CTF challenge files are public, so you can try it for yourself.
But was that in Watcom? I don't think gcc was on DOS until DJGPP v1 which was...1992? I don't remember if gprof was ported. iD did use DJGPP for Quake in 1996.

I'm guessing they used gcc on NeXT but profiling that platform probably didn't make much sense, different compiler, different CPU, different OS...

The game was written on a TurboColor which had a Motorola 68030 (?) that ran at 33MHz and supposedly only ran at 15FPS (probably as slow as a 386DX/33 at the time)
This will likely drive unemployment up. The retraction of capital from labor spending doesn't seem like a great thing overall, but I wonder where the money will go (does it go instead to scalable improvements like infrastructure/cloud spend?)
If you’re doing continuous tasks that max out the CPU/GPU it will eventually throttle. That’s when you need a MacBook Pro
Framework said that when they built a Strix Halo machine, AMD assigned an engineer to work with them on seeing if there's a way to get CAMM2 memory working with it, and after a bunch of back and forth it was decided that CAMM2 still made the traces too long to maintain proper signal integrity due to the 256 bit interface.

These machines have a 512 bit interface, so presumably even worse.
> unified memory

Its a very specific claim that isnt comparing itself to DIMMs
Do SSD companies do the same thing? We ought to go back to referring to storage capacity in powers of two.
> Every computer architecture in production addresses memory in the powers of two.

What does it mean to "address memory in powers of two" ? There are certainly machines with non-power-of-two memory quantities; 96 GiB is common for example.

> The whole klownbyte change was pushed through by hard drive marketers in 1990s.

The metric prefixes based on powers of 10 have been around since the 1790s.
Congratulations. You have discovered the fundamental problem with democracy - it is simply just not that hard to throw around a little power, money and influence and lull people into voting for you.
No healthy lawn needs Nitrogen or Phosphorus! People just think drug addicted monocultres are beautiful, change attitudes and the world will be better off. There are suburban lots using as much fertilizer as an entire field on a farm.

A healthy lawn will have plenty of clover and other plants to fix nitrogen. People call those plants weeds, but they are not and we need to quit killing them. Rabbits peeing on your lawn will add nitrogen as well.

Phosphorus is a mineral and shouldn't be going anywhere. The plants take it in, then they die and it goes right back into the soil. If you have a new house you might need some initial phosphorus treatments because developments often destroy the soil, but after a few years there will be plenty.

Gardens are different. When you remove anything to eat it you take some phosphorus (and other minerals) away. If you are not returning your poop to the soil those minerals are gone. (returning poop if not done right can kill - there is good reason we have modern sanitation systems to remove human waste!) Nitrogen fixers can compete with your food plants and reduce yields by enough that you are often better off removing them from your garden and getting nitrogen otherwise. A lawn is not a garden.
>economists, or people who actually study these things.

From my experiences over the decades, the Venn diagram that includes both and have worthwhile understanding is a small minority of either group, and even smaller when you consider the total of those outside the set as the mainstream.

When this showed up on HN, there were no comments for quite a while.

I had casually heard of Hotz as a recognized hacker, interestingly one who was respected for figuring things out that other people could not. But with no real familiarity, I couldn't recall what he had hacked or where he had worked. Maybe I had retained the impression that he started out quite young.

And then he comes out with this.

Last time I heard of him, I knew he was smart, I just didn't remember why any more.

This time it's different.

Something must have escalated.

All I could think of now was "How did he get to be so smart?"

That would have been my entire comment, which I didn't post because I thought it was not very substantial, and I was wondering if there would be any comments anyway. No interest was being shown at all.

Study takes many forms and some people can figure things out better than others.

No one person can solve all the problems, or even recognize them, and when you start looking from fundamental principles you can end up so far off the mainstream that there is overwhelming misunderstanding that can not be overcome. Any mainstream can look so sensible across-the-board because the experts are standing on the shoulders of those who came before, and some of these are lifetimes of intense study. It can add up to more than one person can usually do in a single lifetime themself.

But if the foundation is wrong to begin with, or turns out that way later, it can be like a pro-cheerleader pyramid where the top rallying cry comes from someone who can still not see out of the pit of their own making, not actually elevated above the crowd like it appears. What could be incorrect about all the shoulders they are balancing on and the adoring crowd of high-dollar ticketholders to boot?

One thing's for sure and I don't think it's the title by accident.

"The Demoralization is just Beginning"

I've seen this movie before.

He doesn't even try to discuss this main point at all. People are nowhere near ready for that, look at the comments, many from quite educated positions pooh-poohing him from different directions.

All anyone can do in a short blogpost like this is throw out a little evidence and people can decide for themselves how demoralizing it already is, or how it might turn out.

Which is what people are doing, as righteously as they can, bless their hearts.

So my advice to Hotz at this point is keep doing what you are doing, and illegitimi non carborundum.

No different than the comment that popped into mind at first, now just a little more substantial than a quick drive-by.
I might like Apple again if the SoC could be sold separately and opened up. It would be interesting to see a PC with Asahi or Windows running on Apple’s chips.
This finding invalidates the idea that Bennu was seeded with molecules by biological life: biological life would have created chiral molecules, but the mix on Bennu is racemic, which suggests that the molecules were created by run of the mill geological processes and simply wouldn't require extraterrestrial seeding.

Tldr the finding is that abiogenesis may be easier to get to than previously thought.
They could learn to code.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/47...
I went through parts 1 and 8 and did not see an import statement in any of the posts
The 13” model is only $300 more than the M4 Mac Mini whether comparing the base models or the 32GB RAM options. That’s a pretty good value for a battery, screen, webcam, trackpad, and keyboard. The main thing you give up is the ability to connect a third large display when at your desktop, a few ports, and support for higher than 60Hz refresh rate on an external display.
LLMs are primarily "memory-bound" rather than "compute-bound" during normal use.

The model weights (billions of parameters) must be loaded into memory before you can use them.

Think of it like this: Even with a very fast chef (powerful CPU/GPU), if your kitchen counter (VRAM) is too small to lay out all the ingredients, cooking becomes inefficient or impossible.

Processing power still matters for speed once everything fits in memory, but it's secondary to having enough VRAM in the first place.
It’s totally fine, so long as your build doesn’t take so long (10+ min to throttle)
I remember years ago seeing a trick related to this to allow aliases after `sudo` (which I think by default won't recognize them due to running as a separate user) by doing `alias sudo="sudo ".
Its interesting it says Grok excels at report generation, because I've found myself asking it to give me answers in a table format, to make it easier to 'grok' at the output, since I'm usually asking it to give me comparisons I just can't do natively on Amazon or any other ecommerce site.

Funnily enough, Amazon will pick for you products to compare, but the compared items usually are terrible, and you can't just add whatever you want, or choose columns.

With Grok, I'll have it remove columns, add columns, shorten responses, so on and so forth.
> This hardware is really being held back by the operating system at this point.

Please elucidate.
There are quite a few little differences like screen brightness, number of displays in can drive, faster unified memory, etc...

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/macbook-air-vs-macbook-pro/
Things we've learned about building products
The real win for me is that Macbook Pro M1 64 GB are now sold on market places within my price range.

So yea, same.
Welcome to oligarchy.

The headline is worrying about what it will cost or save the country. That is sadly no longer a relevant question.

Will it cost Musk and his fellow oligarchs more than it will save Musk and his fellow oligarchs? That's a better guide to what will happen next.
this is amazing!

I'm actually working on a similar ATC transcription project, but more along the lines of education / entertainment for non-pilots. I'm gonna be posting a YT video about it soon, but would love to chat if you guys are open to it!
This is a false equivalence. Whatever you or I personally feel about abortion, its legality in the United States is set through approximately democratic processes. Not perfect by any means, but it very roughly reflects the will of the people - sharply divided, with many geographic concentrations.

The will of the people in China is unknown. There is only the will of the CCP, and increasingly, one person.
Yet NS was done by Ukrainian ragtag group (unless there is some new development that I missed on the case), well within the rules of war, not that anybody actually cares about them anymore. And its destruction was a good strategic move for whole Europe, otherwise Germany would be dragging their feet forever. We're happy to do business with almost anybody but if some state keeps stating how it will wipe us out with nukes then no, you don't deserve our money and go f*ck yourself.

Throwing away diplomats for a week, not sure what that would cause, probably 'meh' and continuing if the effort is intentional. Its not like diplomats actually make any serious decisions, they just parrot official policies.
I have M2 Air and using it for rails development, sometimes with multiple docker containers, but the most hungry usually is just chrome with 500+ tabs. It usually does not throttle at all and is barely warm. Unless in direct sunlight (it's black) or unless I put it on top of a blanket without an air gap below for half an hour. I'd say that's coolest macbook I ever owned, no burns or anything near it even on bare skin, unlike some older intel macbooks.
Seems like a reasonable case for disregarding the client preference. If you're able to speak TLS then you're able to load up a public domain (de)compression library.
5 figures? can be done in 6k https://x.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106
This is for AI which is going to benefit more from use of metal / NPU than SIMD.
When would Apple silicons made natively support for OSes such as Linux? Apple seemlingly reluctant to release detailed technical reference manual for M-series SoCs, which makes running Linux natively on Apple silicon challenging.
FWIU geo-fencing was recently removed from one brand of drones.

Thermal: motors, chips, heatsinks, and batteries are warm but the air is colder around propellers; RF: motor RF, circuit RF, battery RF, control channel RF, video channel RF, RF from federally required Remote ID or ADS-B beacons, gravitational waves

Aircraft have less time to recover from e.g. engine and windshield failure at takeoff and landing at airports; so all drones at airports must be authorized by ATC Air Traffic Control: it is criminally illegal to fly a drone at the airport without authorization because it endangers others.

Tagging a bird on the 'dashcam'+radar+sensors feed could create a PIREP:

PIREP: Pilot's Report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_report

Looks like "birds" could be coded as /SK sky cover, /WX weather and visiblity, or /RM remarks with the existing system described on wikipedia.

Prometheus (originally developed by SoundCloud) does pull-style metrics: each monitored server hosts over HTTP(S) a document in binary prometheus format that the centralized monitoring service pulls from whenever they get around to it. This avoids swamping (or DOS'ing) the centralized monitoring service which must scale to the number of incoming reports in a push-style monitoring system.

All metrics for the service are included in the one (1) prometheus document, which prevents requests for monitoring data from exhausting the resources of the monitored server. It is up to the implementation to determine whether to fill with nulls if sensor data is unavailable, or to for example fill forward with the previous value if sensor data is unavailable for one metric.

Solutions for birds around runways and in flight paths and around wind turbines:

- Lights

- Sounds: human audible, ultrasonic

- Thuds: birds take flight when the ground shakes

- Eyes: Paint large eyes on signs by the runways