skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this part about PCIe expansions interesting: "For those who rely on PCIe expansion cards for their workflows, Thunderbolt 5 allows users to connect an external expansion chassis with higher bandwidth and lower latency."

(Maybe this is a feature that Apple has supported for a while, but I am unaware) Does this mean they will be officially supporting all PCIe devices like GPUs? Or do they only mean certain PCIe components like SSD expansions and network interfaces?
There are already big servers designed for huge single databases, for example the 8-socket Xeon types. Tbh I don't understand exactly why RAM is such a concern, but these machines have TBs of it.
There isn't even a real iPad app (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Banks are not required to file a SAR just because you withdraw (or even deposit)
over 10k. They are required to report it, but the report is not a SAR - having a SAR filed can be bad, because too many filed about you will likely cause banks to refuse to open accounts for you.
>The car industry is probably one of the most stable economic pillars the US has.

You mean the industry that famously went bankrupt in 2008 and had to be bailed out? Looking at the list of sectors[1], there are plenty of sectors that I think are more stable: Consumer staples, utilities, and healthcare.

[1] https://www.sectorspdrs.com/sectortracker
"The car industry is probably one of the most stable economic pillars the US has."

I disagree, https://www.lendingtree.com/auto/debt-statistics/

"The average car payment for new vehicles was $737 per month in the third quarter of 2024, up 0.7% from Q3 2023

Auto loan delinquency rates are up compared to last year. 4.6% of outstanding auto debt was at least 90 days late in Q3 2024, according to the New York Fed, up 17.4% from Q3 2023. Meanwhile, the percentage of auto loans that fell to 30 days past due was 8.1% in the third quarter of this year, up 9.9% from 7.4% in the third quarter of last year."

I'm shocked that a somewhat predeatory lending company has great statistics about this - the whole article is interesting.

As for manufacturing, I also disagree -- due to current affairs w/ Trump and tariffs : https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-...

Oh yeah, something something they all took bailouts in 2008 and Ford was the only one that could pay the loans back while GM killed off several brands e.g. Oldsmobile and Pontiac.
Maybe. Now you just need several very specialized machines (https://www.iven-pharma.com/news/what-is-the-manufacturing-p...) to package it (with the right equally pure & sterile salt additives, preservatives, etc.; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringer%27s_lactate_solution, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_bag) in a guaranteed sterile fashion, in a usable form, in enough quantity (1.5M/day; https://www.aha.org/2024-10-07-aha-president-urging-administ...) to supply half the United States.
Thanks for the feedback! I see your point, and I’ll be more mindful about how I post. My goal was to spark discussion around Apple Silicon, not just promote my work. I’ll avoid adding self-promotional links in future posts to keep things more in line with HN’s guidelines.

That said, I’d love to hear your thoughts—do you see the M3 Ultra as a game-changer, or is it more of an iterative update?
I've used projectors for the past 15-odd years. Modern ones are very, very good in that they're portable, can run on batteries, don't need to be plugged directly into your laptop etc. The trade-off is that we don't really watch anything until the evening. The only ads we see are the ones from streaming services.
Or you know...we could just not put ads in cars.

People get so weird about easily solvable problems, like the developer who gets tasked to make the button red and instead writes an entire theme engine abstraction even though there's exactly one user.
Stellantis does not have the financials to make this happen.
> Sometimes people just can’t work out how to send me patches at all.

Yeah indeed. I have written but not submitted patches to a project (OpenSBI) because it made the submission process super complicated, requiring signing up to a mailing list, learning how to set up git send-email.

I don't see how he can think creating a GitHub account (which almost everyone already has) is a big barrier when he freely admits his process is incomprehensible.

I don't buy the GitHub locks you in either. It's pretty easy to copy issues and releases elsewhere if it really comes to it. Or use Gitlab or Codeberg if you must.

https://docs.codeberg.org/advanced/migrating-repos/

Any of those are far better than random mailing lists, bugzilla, and emailed patch files.

Putty is great but please don't listen to this.
I have a hard time understanding why anyone would buy a physical tv that big. I decided to get a projector. Huge surface area. Goes away/out of my sight for the 98% of the time I'm not using/watching it.
Technically the Budapest Memorandum was a "political agreement" between the governments of US/UK/Russia at the time. It wasn't an actual treaty like NATO that was ratified by congress. Of course you do have a point about the "such action as it deems necessary" part.
Isn't it time Apple moved forward with its design aesthetic? Apple devices always used to look cutting edge. Now they just look samey
He hasn’t managed to lead much of anything so far. The British will happily switch sides the moment they can play those Continental fools against each other again — it’s practically a national sport, and it always works.

When the real trouble starts, it’ll come down to the Germans and the Poles, as it usually does.

On the bright side, all that capital fleeing France and Germany will go a long way toward reindustrializing the US and giving Britain’s economy a much-needed shot in the arm — so, it’s not all bad.
I have a Sceptre from Walmart. No internet connection. I run all services from an Apple TV. You can definitely buy a dumb TV.
Some credit must go to Dr. Allan Neyman. 2024 marked 25 years under the shield.
It's a Heep thing. You wouldn't understand.
> That's why de Gaulle left NATO in the first place,

De Gaulle did not leave NATO, the alliance; France has been a member of NATO since its founding without interruption.

France left NATO’s integrated military command from 1966 to 2009, and also did not join the NATO nuclear planning group when it rejoined to integrated military command.
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Why wouldn't you just not use Tailscale? What you are describing here is, ....
A good memory allocator in 200 lines of code
Trump grants automakers one-month exemption from tariffs
There's nothing close, Apple has better talent and the vertical integration gives them an edge (especially on performance per watt on their chip designs).

Since the M series chips, there's been no other option if you care about quality. There are crappy alternatives with serious tradeoffs if for some reason you are forced to not use Apple or choose for non-quality reasons.
I was born in 1985, we got dialup around 1996 I think?

I did teach myself programming in the 90s, after my friend loaned me his floppy disk with all his QBASIC stuff. Then dabbled in PHP, MySQL, etc.

We had one computer programming class in high school and I never got to take it because I had too many other electives. I don’t think it would have done much for me by the time I could have taken it.

It never really occurred to me as a teen that I could use the internet for getting really good at academics or broader “self-development” - I guess I just cared about video games and making money. Parents’ attitude was as long as I was getting As and going to college they didn’t need to do anything.
Yeah, that doesn't answer my question, and it's not like money, it actively discourages spending it because it's cast as a rapidly appreciating asset.
Absolutely fair points. He's at least trying. But it's the tragic comedy of the point at which he has to start from, and the date on the calendar...
You can vote with your wallet and buy a car that doesn't have ads. The best you can do with ads on buses and trains is show up in your next city council meeting and raise a stink, only to be told that the transit agency signed a 10 year contract and can't pull out.
You don't know where the enemy ICBM warheads will land until it is too late. So you have to assume that they will target the silos
Exactly. And in these wild times, one realize that being dependent on the US, is no longer a viable path forward.

It's quite similar actually to Germany's dependence on Russian gas. It was all self inflicted (nobody seem to remember the corrupt German politicians, that all went to work for Gazprom and co...).
That's just the scammers. The people building financial products never left.
> The only thing I need is to simply connect to the home network and I dont want to need to open and forward ports etc in routers and firewalls for it to work, just something simple plug and play and is secure

That's tailscale, basically. Install on devices and they can magically talk to each other across the internet with no other configuration.

If you really want to, you can run headscale and manage the coordination plane yourself as well.

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
It’s a war of attrition now, which is a war of will and logistics. Can anything be done differently? I don’t know, but I don’t think so. Isn’t victory under these circumstances making the war so costly that your opponent must find a way out?

The US was doing that. Russia’s will has won out over the US’s, that is a defeat, and we can only hope next time it isn’t the same.
Activists sometimes hack the digital billboards. Just a matter of time till they find a way to play something loud and raunchy in all the cars whilst taking away the UI controls using javascript.
> nuking empty silo’s is pointless

Nuking full siloes is the point of a first strike. So yes, you’re relatively safe near a silo field if America is launching first and the adversary assumes or knows that every silo launched perfectly.
And then when you stop at a gas station, the pump plays ads at you.
They didn't say they're stopping deportations. They said they're not going to use military transportation.
You do you i guess. But we have decided as a society that childen do not have the full list of rights as adults. And in most cases, there is still leniency as well. You might think its fun getting shitfaced with your 6 year old, but society has said no. Now your 16 yr old has a glass of wine under your supervision? Well no one is going to be locking you up.

Is this method of parenting that you are advocating for working out okay for you or do you not have children?

Myself, I am childless and I do not like KOSA as I am unwilling to give up the anonymous internet to keep the kids safe. At the same time I do think there is room for some regulation here.
>People get so weird about easily solvable problems

Please tell me how I, someone who doesn't manufacture cars, can easily solve the problem of manufacturers choosing to put advertisements in cars?
OK, but I think it's generally understood that exhaustive search is not feasible for games like Chess and Go, so when "brute force" is used in this context it means an emphasis on deep search and number of positions evaluated rather than the human approach where many orders of magnitude less positions are evaluated.
If the chip isn't defective, why did it work with a known good one? If it isn't complicated to make them, why does your chip not work?

To answer these questions, we need to know: what do the chips do? Where did the replica cartridge companies get them from? Etc. You said you would test the chip before swapping, how do you do that? Is it just a flash chip? If it is, why are the replica manufacturers not putting the correct information on it?
> > The writer’s positive home equity, trivially available to the bank which wrote their mortgage, is well in excess of ten years of the median household income for New York City. The writer is the president of the family charitable foundation, which per its annual filings with the IRS has in the recent past held approximately $2 million in marketable securities. And the family estate in Connecticut (which the writer’s parents live at) was featured in the local paper, highlighting two hundred years of history.

Agreed. The author could have written, "it turns out the writer was from a wealthy family, grew up in a 200 year old home, and is president of the family's $2 million charity."
That's only true if you see politics as hewing to the two party paradigm. Sam Altman, Elon Musk et al., aren't liberals or conservatives, they're capitalists. Their ideological consistency, their only alignment, is to the growth of their individual wealth. That is and always has been their team.
Well, except they're still flying them home, just using cheaper methods.

So the punchline to your joke would be the guy says they don't even have to drill out that last fourth of the pencil and they can save manufacturing time
Without knowing anything about the arrangement, I would assume that as far as these matters are concerned, whoever controls the launch button effectively owns the thing. Those things are made exactly for the kind of situations where treaties aren't enough.
The purpose of a startup is not to supercharge the career of its founders.

It's not usually the purpose.
> I have not seen a _single_ hotel that provides IPv6 on their WiFi.

Currently staying at a Hilton hotel in Tucson, Arizona that has IPv6. I only checked because of the submission about ipv6.me yesterday [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256298

I'm not there at the moment, but I definitely took note of having an ipv6 address displayed on https://ip6.me/home.cgi
> When you drive, you still see billboards with advertising.

Far more so in the US[0] than in any of the parts of Europe I've lived in or visited[1].

[0] Around much of CA, RI, MA, passing through NV and CT, and the cities of NYC, Salt Lake City and Newark in NY, UT and NJ.

[1] Spain, France, UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Hungry, Finland, Greece, Cyprus.
The US hasn't withdrawn from any of its military alliances, and thus far has expressed no plans to do so.

I feel like this is where a lot of NATO commentary gets bogged down. There's a large group of people, conventionally referred to in US media as "the blob" (https://www.vox.com/22153765/joe-biden-foreign-policy-team-r...), who believe that the United States has an affirmative duty to engage in lots of global military interventions above and beyond the actual commitments it's made. I don't think they're lying - people seem to genuinely believe, for example, that the US is betraying NATO by cutting off support for Ukraine when most NATO members would prefer to expand support. But the North Atlantic Treaty simply does not contain a promise to align foreign policy in this way.
There’s going to be a lucrative aftermarket industry around removing that shit.

Dystopian doesn’t even begin to describe this situation. These executives are out of their mind.
It uses Wireguard, sure, but it's using a coordination service to give you a effectively a flat network mesh instead of hub and spoke.
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would be nice if all the "no, no, this can't work! email is slow! blah blah" guys once and for all actually give it a try to the app and realize IT WORKS AND IT IS BLAZING FAST! I have been using it since years with my family and some friends without any problems, it is the best I could find after trying Matrix, XMPP, etc.
I noticed that limitation quickly too. My solution was to just point A records on my domain to the tailscale internal ip and use the let's encrypt wildcard certificate my registrar (porkbun) provides out of the box.
As opposed to what alternative? A full-scale NATO invasion of Russia? Nuclear war?

The West has gone to great lengths to provide the absolute minimum response to Russia's invasion (no troops, even withholding certain weapons classes) and leaders have repeatedly expressed concerns about the danger of an outright Russian collapse. Weakening Russia's military without imploding the government has always been the obvious goal.
I loved i.reddit, and really miss sites that were actually optimized for performance and low-end devices. It being removed kind of felt like a final nail in the coffin for that whole era. I think HTML Gmail was killed around that time too.
I actually buy a new printer every 18 months because the ink "dries out" and whatever crappy box store I get it from surprisingly doesn't carry the ink cartriges for the printers they sell when I need it, and for another $60 I can print whatever I need.

i look at the telemetry their shitty spyware drivers collect and think I should do some vuln research on them just as a matter of principle and to regain some sense of screwing them back, but don't want to make my life about it anymore than I have to. printers are just a scam. consumer electronics companies just produce landfill, and don't get me started on their products.
$19 strawberry sold out in Los Angeles
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New brain-spine interface tech in Shanghai helps paralyzed patients walk again [video]
Paralysed man of spinal cord injury, once considered incurable, walked again in Shanghai’s Zhongshan Hospital. The “three in one” brain-spine interface uses electronic implants wirelessly transmit patient’s thoughts to his legs and feet via newly-created “neural bridge” on his spine.

Professor Jia’s team spent nearly three years developing a lightweight AI model to decode brain signals in real time and simulate right electrical stimulation to achieve muscle movement.

This is the first time such a complete system has been achieved worldwide. Early this year, the research officially entered the clinical concept validation phase.
Ok we've put that in the title above. Thanks!
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This makes me so glad I own 2003 Toyota Corolla
The distracting nature of ads is a problem here: on a computer or smartphone, it's merely an annoyance; behind the wheel of a massive and fast moving vehicle, it could lead to deaths.

IMHO ads in a car infotainment system should be outlawed. Let me focus on the road, and if I need to stare at the infotainment screen, let it be just for the GPS navigation.
Why AI firms should follow the example of quantum computing research
>Yes but you don't own the bus/train nor the road with the billboards. But supposedly, you do own the car

As opposed to a TV that you own? You even paid for the cable subscription.
I remember this but never looked into it enough to get what the point is. They still sell it with an M2 chip.

"includes six internal PCIe 4.0 slots for expansion. It does not support discrete GPUs over PCIe." uhhh, so in case people want an AS chip with most stuff soldered on but also really need certain PCIe cards that aren't GPUs?
The Apple engineer staff can keep their jobs.
Some states sharply restrict roadside advertising--Maryland does, Pennsylvania doesn't.

The bus advertising business seemed to have taken a beating a few years back. It is true that in Washington the bus shelters have ads, often electronic.
Tailscale is one of my favorite companies. They're clearly on to something. Here's a great post by their CTO explaining a lot of the motivation and vision behind it: https://crawshaw.io/blog/remembering-the-lan

IMO the main outstanding questions/concerns are:

* Is the VPN model really the way to go? If someone gets their hands on one of your Tailscale nodes, they can access every service on your tailnet, which are likely running with reduced security since that's a huge part of the appeal. This is exactly the situation BeyondCorps/Zero Trust was created to avoid. Tunneling services[0] are more of a Zero Trust approach, but they can't match the seamlessness of Tailscale once a node is connected to the tailnet.

* Can it expand into the layman market? I wonder if the average person will ever be willing to install a VPN app on all their devices. On the flipside, I could see TS partnering with someone like Google to integrate TS tightly with Android and set up a private network between all your Google-signed-in devices.

* The relay system - DERP is nice, but it's primarily intended for signaling/fallback. It feels like CGNAT adoption is growing faster than IPv6 is, and I wouldn't be surprised if fewer and fewer p2p connections succeed over time[1]. DERP forces everything over a single TCP connection (HOL blocking), and I'm not sure it even has any flow control.

* Use in web browsers - They got a demo of this working, but it's pretty involved. You have to compile the entire Tailscale Golang library to WebAssembly which is a large artifact, and it's DERP-exclusive.

* Portability in general - Depending on WireGuard, as awesome as it is, is fairly limiting. You either need admin privileges to create the TUN device, or you need to run an entire TCP stack in userspace alongside your own WireGuard implementation. I'd be interested to see something like Tailscale implemented on top of WebTransport.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

[1]: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works
They've stopped using military transport /because/ they say it's inefficient.
Justice William Brennan once said "The Bill of Rights was designed to protect the rights of the minority, the rights of the despised, the rights of the powerless, against the majority".

Attorney Harvey Silverglate also stated, "The rights of the accused are the rights of all of us. If the government can ignore the Constitution and the Bill of Rights for people it doesn't like, it can do so for anyone".

Obama should have shut it, Biden should have shut it. Now here we are. Turn it into a wildlife preserve if you don't want to hand it over to the Cubans.
I prefer Skynet attacking us with robots wielding phased plasma rifles in the 40 watt range, instead of behavioral targeted AI bots bombarding you with fake news and dopamine addictive slop. This timeline is much worse, give me the T-800s instead.
Yeah, in both cases it is user hostile entity hellbent on tracking you, with strong legal defense.

I think this actually makes things worse.
guess I'm about to become a vintage car collector.

Same. My truck is already a classic. People ask if I really love that truck and then I explain the de-evolution that is taking place in modern vehicles. When that truck fails and if I can't find anything I will happily ride into town on my 1947 tractor or a horse or my old side-by-side.
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