skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought there were some really good statements in the article

> When you’ve spent years watching how some tech bros break the rules in pursuit of personal and economic power at the expense of safety and user protections, all while wrapping themselves in the flag of “innovation,”

We've all see tech startups get big by breaking the law and saying they were "innovating" and that it's "too expensive" to comply with the law like every other country.

> When someone talks about “free speech” while actively working to control speech, that’s not a contradiction or a mistake — it’s the point. It’s about consolidating power while wrapping it in the language of freedom as a shield to fool the gullible and the lazy

It's straight up doublespeak. And this administration +Musk is all about doublespeak. Just look at the recent court arguments. Depending on the case Mr. Musk is either "not employeed by the government" or is a "special government employee" whichever is more convenient to them at the time.

> If you do not recognize that mass destruction of fundamental concepts of democracy and the US Constitution happening right now, you are either willfully ignorant or just plain stupid. I can’t put it any clearer than that.

I think this is well said. Even if you agree with the positions Trump and Elon are taking and the things they are doing, the ends do not justify the means. Eliminating the co-equal branches of government so your side can rule by fiat is not a democracy, full stop.
In summer 2022 I picked up an M2 Air (24GB/1TB/10-core GPU) for 1939USD with edu discount. Today the M4 equivalent is 1479USD, and the M4 (aside from being faster) can go to 32GB RAM instead of 24GB, and has Wifi 6E instead of just 6 (why not 7?).

I said I'd buy the next Air as long as it had 6GHz wifi support (6E, eventually 7) but now that it's out it's just not enough of an upgrade for me (a lot of money for 25% more RAM, CPU performance, and 6GHz wifi).
Been using Airs since 2011, 2012 model lasted me to 2018 upgrade (Retina finally) but now I snagged the m4 pro Mini and it’s so small I brought it to the birthing inn with me and (with the help of a universal remote) just used the room TVs as a monitor. It’s so small that I can just throw it in a bag with a mouse/keyboard/HDMI and even a PS5 controller which I do appreciate my wife tolerating Jedi Cal joining us in the postpartum wing over PS5 streaming from the console at home, quite doable and the Mini’s built in speaker is quite a charmer all things considered! I ran it from inside a drawer under the baby “kiosk” and it definitely outgunned the in-room speakers that were clearly gimped (similar to putting your phone into the right enclosure amplifies the sound).

At home when not at my desk I’ve been using screen share to remote in from the 2018 Air, this is the first time since 2018 I bought a new computer and it’s oddly nice having it not be a laptop, don’t have to worry about the precious built-in screen or keyboard.

Caveat may be if I wasn’t working remote perhaps it would be different but not sure, using the 2018 Air as a client for the M4 Pro has been pretty solid for my current purposes and it’s nice still having an Intel Mac for the edge case backwards compatibility development needs.

Whoops didn’t mean to make a blog post in here…
Ukraine is acting as a buffer state which prevents the inevitable nuclear confrontation between Russia and the nuclear armed states in Europe. Any nuclear issue will always become a global issue. The oceans protect the US from russias military, but not its missiles.
> I am pretty sure almost everyone will gladly trade the "thinness" for a few standard USB and HDMI ports.

I think there’s a lot of people that want something as light and thin as possible to slip into your purse and take to the cafe.
> 2) People who upgrade every year are sheeps!

> 3) Apple support devices for longer than Android, that's nice!

> 4) God, why do their benchmarks compare devices that are 3-5y old?!

2 and 4 kind of contradict each other.

I wouldn't be surprised that the average upgrade cycle for a lot of folks is in that 3-5 year range, for both personal and corporate buyers.
If every article was in your preferred format, I would probably enjoy reading less.

Thankfully, there's a variety of writing styles, so that every one of us can find something we enjoy reading and skip the stuff we don't enjoy.

I don't see why you should be the sole arbiter of what writing style is allowed.
If you ever get a full background check done on you by a 3rd party service like First Advantage or Hire Right, please ask for a copy of the full background check if they provide that option. Like several here have said, minor discrepancies like date mismatches will be found and flagged. Having a copy of your corrected background check will be invaluable for future background check requests.
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Did you report the issue?
The EU just announced a series of financial measures designed to support a massive level of re-armament by member states.
I don't think we are in denial. Whether we can effectively respond is a different question.
Well now I live in Berlin and I'm not sure if I've experienced a power outage in 3 years. I remember a Swiss guy from Zurich that had only experience a one minute power outage in his entire life through 18 before moving out of the country. I met him in Nairobi and there electricity was out pretty much daily and a generator was de rigeur. I've lived in suburban America and never had a generator but my parents were 'pioneer stock' and we knew the methods: candles, fridge access extremely limited, warm blankets if Winter, etc...
the latest intel ultra chips are also pretty good, and so are the laptops using them, such as the asus zenbooks
Anecdotal, and reasonable criticisms of the release aside, OpenAI's gpt-4.5 introduction video was done from a hard-to-miss Apple laptop.

It is reasonable to say many folks in the field prefer to work on mac hardware.
I have a M4 128GB RAM MacBook Pro -- it gets very hot after playing Civ VI or Civ VII for a couple of hours. If I limit the fps to 30 it's stone cold.

Nothing else seems to make it sweat. Just games and presumably mining Bitcoin or other very intensive tasks.

Devs/Gamers should always go for a Pro machine.
Probably because the article is about how this important ingredient is smuggled rather than a list of ingredients for popular drinks and snacks.

And also probably because the article is featured on general audience site rather than a scientific or culinary journal.

I get that people hate clickbait headlines but this is hardly misleading, impossibly vague nor exaggerated.
I see a lot of people requesting cellular modems in MacBooks, but the integration with iPhone hotspot connectivity is so good that I don’t really see the point of it for most people.
Convenience, security, and power-savings. I currently also use a Thinkpad X13s with onboard 5G and it's nice to not have to screw with it when you want connectivity.

On my Verizon plan (Unlimited Ultimate), I qualify for two 'connected devices' to be discounted. My Thinkpad is $10/mo extra on my account for unlimited LTE. I'm not a heavy data user by any means and this works out well for me.
How many t/s would you expect? I think I feel perfectly fine when its over 50.

Also, people figured a way to run these things in parallel easily. The device is pretty small, I think for someone who wouldn't mind the price tag stacking 2-3 of those wouldn't be that bad.
I reach for the ~/bin/thing approach when I want the utility to be useable from vim.

For example, if I define an alias thing, vim won't know about it.

But as a executable on my $PATH, I can do any of the following:

:%!thing
:'<'>!thing
:.!thing

A good example is on my work machine, I can't install jq because reasons. However I do have python, so I have a simple executable called fmtjson that looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
python -m json.tool --indent 2

When I want to format some json from vim, I just run:

:%!fmtjson

Easy to remember, easy to type. Plus I can use it in pipes on the cli.
Is the Pro fan cooled? I have never heard a fan on my M2 Pro.
I RTFA, RMFP

The comment was that the press had reported that the interposer wasn't available. This obviously uses some form of interposer, so the question is if the press missed it, or Apple has something new.
Sounds like overengineering. If you just need a shortcut for a command, that's exactly what aliases are for. If you need something more sophisticated, you probably are going to lean to scripts or functions.
Why wouldn’t I want onboard cellular connection instead of having to be dependent on the more finicky and less reliable Hotspot connection, hurting my ability to use my phone freely, and burning both my laptop and my phone’s batteries at the same time.

Besides, having a cellular modem also allows you to tap into both WiFi and Cellular seamlessly like your phone does to make your overall connection much more reliable.
Its not just one system and it's all classified. But you can look into the NRO and DIA. The headcount is possibly public.

Early in the war some of the provided intelligence leaked and it was just a list of the coordinates of every Russian SAM system in ukraine updated daily.
Yeah, having just 8GB ram was the reason I never bought the older versions. This one starts at 16 so it picks my interest.
NVIDIA RTX 4090: ~1,008 GB/s

NVIDIA RTX 4080: ~717 GB/s

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: ~960 GB/s

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT: ~800 GB/s

How's that slow exactly ?

You can have 10000000Gb/s and without enough VRAM it's useless.
I'm totally with you, but to pull the tent up even further: you don't even need to be scared of billionaires to be scared of Thiel -- I would trade a thousand Buffets for a single Thiel.

In case anyone hasn't read it yet, I highly recommend you read his (short) Q42024 letter to the Palantir shareholders: https://www.palantir.com/q4-2024-letter/en/

It starts with typical SV hype, but by the end he espouses Samuel Huntington's theory that the world will soon fall into a vicious race war, and that the White ("western") World--the US, the white-majority Commonwealth states, and Western & Central Europe--should strike first to assure its dominance. Our enemies in this war will supposedly be primarily 2) team Every-Muslim-Country ("civilizational conflicts are particularly prevalent between Muslims and non-Muslims") and 3) team China+Korea, but there's also six other races ("civilizations") in the mix: 4) Latin America, 5) Sub-Saharan Africa (minus South Africa), 6) Russia+West Asia+Eastern Europe, 7) Southeast Asia, 8) Japan, and 9) India.

I know it sounds like I'm being absurdly hyperbolic, but... well, lets just say I'm afraid of Peter Thiel:

As Samuel Huntington has written, the rise of the West was not made possible “by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion . . . but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.” He continued: “Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington
16 GB RAM included in base model. For $200 more i can bump it to 24 GB RAM, So that i can open Chrome and firefox at the same time.
Amazon's AWS forms new group focused on agentic AI
Those aren't are only two options. We could raise billionaire taxes to take a larger portion of their assets. We could adjust anti-trust law to limit the power of their companies. We could adjust campaign finance law to limit their influence on politics. We could better fund a free press to better inform people on their actions. The question is how should the power of governments and the ultra wealthy be balanced.
Another huge issue is estrogen from women using birth control pills.
> UPDATE: what I am getting at - if you are developer and don’t care about screen or battery differences - should you go for same spec macbook pro instead of same spec macbook air.

Depends on how much you care about the last bit of performance and how often you expect running into throttling. In my experience, it takes the M2 Pro multiple minutes of full load before the fan starts. I do a lot of Rust programming on smaller projects and I think the air would have been fine for me. Compilation takes at most a few minutes on the first run. For doing larger projects like LLVM, the pro is a better option. MLIR took 10 minutes to compile each time I pulled in new commits on main. Then throttling becomes an issue.
History begs to differ – one of the biggest learning is that larger, generic models always win (where generalization pays off – ie. all those agents and what-not <<doesn't apply to specialized models like alphago or alphafold, those are not general models>>).
I care more about total mass than thinness. But those things tend to be correlated.
Just scanning on your computer/phone and emailing the result would not be any more effort.
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Apple stated that they were deploying their own hardware for next generation Siri. My thesis is that this is the hardware they developed.

If so, this is hardly a hobby project.

It may not be effective, but there is serious cash behind this.
Seriously - why then have all the moves against Ukraine were when Trump was not in office?

Russia has been invading Ukraine for _14 years_, first under Obama/Biden then under Biden/Harris. Clinton was secretary of state. And the west continues to buy gas from them, etc.

Maybe there's some 4d chess I'm missing but feels like gaslighting on how tough we've supposedly been on Russia aside from Trump.
Great work!

When you talked about "document index is a hybrid index of keyword frequencies and vectors", I am a bit curious of how to get them. In pre-processing, do you have to use LLM / models go through documents to get keywords? What about vectors? Are you using embed model to generate them? Does that imply preprocess has to be done whenever there is new doc or any modification in existing doc? Would that be costly in time? Any spicy cook to make the preprocessing more efficient?
Can someone attest that this is actually the issue?

FWIW Outlook does accept the "Accept-Language" header and I don't think anyone is saying that outlook is wrong for doing that or claiming it to be broken?

Are you totally sure that this isn't a backwards myth?

I think the most likely situation is that locale information for English speaking countries would be incorrect if the default (en_US) was used to install the operating system, which happens on occasion.
Yeah, if only Apple at least semi-supported Linux, their computers would have no competition.
Like a lot of guys who haven't had a hit since the dotcom boom, he seems to have spent the past decade jumping on whatever bandwagon. He went big into crypto, too. https://www.coingecko.com/en/nft/moonbirds
When I tested a 15” MBP with an i7 and touch bar vs my M1 Air the Intel Mac throttled down 30% immediately and the M1 barely throttled towards the end. The test was a 4K transcode in handbrake and the M1 air was only 10-15 minutes behind.

I’ll try to replicate the test with an M3 13” vs the 15” touchbar intel. Don’t have my MBPs at work.
Experience with semi-formal proofs [video]
They use their own M chips for IA.
They are far more advanced on AI than the majority of company.

They are using OpenAI for now but in couple months they will own the full chain of value.
I remember seeing a Java microprocessor for sale years ago. It claimed that the CPUs native instruction set is Java bytecode.

I can't find that exact microcontroller that I remember, I think the domain is gone, but there are other things like this, including some FPGA cores which make the same claim that I remember from that microcontroller I read about in the early 2000s. I wonder how those would perform compared to a JVM running on a traditional instruction set on the same FPGA.
I could be wrong, but (after all the appeals are said and done) I don't think this is going to happen under Trump.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-urges-doj-reverse-...

Google kissed the ring and donated $1 Million to his inauguration fund.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-donates-1-million-tru...
Probably never. We don't have official Linux support for the iPhone or iPad, I would't hold out hope for Apple to change their tune.
Europe doesn't want an armed conflict with Russia. Even if Europe would be willing to sacrifice as many people in a conflict as Russia has, they'd still be up against a megalomaniac dictator with nukes. Real victory in a traditional war against Russia is unattainable. Same with China, or the US, or possibly India; the people in power are willing to look crazy enough to choose nuclear armageddon as a last resort.

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.

The way Europe (except for Ukraine, of course) is fighting Russia mostly benefits Europe, as far as I can tell. Most of Europe's losses, so far, have been economical. Switching to a war economy to defend against Russia would probably cost more and be less effective. Until Ukraine falls, I don't see why Europe would want to change that deal.
When I read the headline I took it to be a pun about mimes after commuters struck them with their cars.
This is literally totalitarianism. What the hell? I shouldn't be able to say that I support the AfD just because I don't live in Germany?
The alternative of no or tightly-limited government is potentially worse. It's an economic form of the paradox of tolerance.

One can imagine all kinds of exotic forms of government that don't resemble a traditional large and centrally organized state, which still accomplish summer all of the goals that we might want a state to accomplish. But so far we have never seen that put into effect at any scale above a commune. So we are kind of stuck with the binary choice for the time being.
Maybe because .1% of tasks need this RAM, it attracts a .1% price tag
>both people already had each others' phone number in their smartphone's address book...

Look if it is saved in the smartphone's address book, why does it matter if it is email or a phone number. I bet that people don't actually memorize even the phone numbers of people close to them these days.

>Why did Person A (who already had an email address) send a SMS text to Person B (who also already had an email address) to chat?!?

I think it is because we didn't have near universal internet access in smartphones for a long time. If Whatsapp (or something like that) was a little bit late to appear, and the tech crowd was actually a bit more smarter, things like Delta Chat had a much better chance to be in Whatsapps current place.
I think which ingredient is being smuggled from a war-tone is the least interesting part of the article for me
In bash this is how I get git completions working (with bash functions rather than aliases):

__git_complete grm _git_rm
grm() {
git rm "${@}"
}

Internally git uses the __git_complete function to set up completions for its subcommands, though this may be specific to your OS/distro and perhaps or git version.

This does seem to ship as part of git now, here[1].

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/6a64ac7b014fa2cfa7a69af3c253...
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I just bought the m4 mac mini at Costco about a month ago. I have been slightly irked I didn't wait for this so I can walk it away from my desk sometimes. I really hate the idea of a return since I'm still in the window but....
Time for a Change: The long, contentious history of time shifts
Shifting baselines in action. 2021-22 reddit was/is terrible. It had already accepted the massive injections of venture capital and turned into facebook for all the refugees in the second half of the 2010s. Things like corporations (and for-profit human persons) posting to their own account pages instead of subreddits, the terrible redesigns, constant top-down moderation instead of letting subreddits be like forums, etc, etc.

Reddit normal is 2008-2013. This kind of normal still exists on usenet, if you seek it.
>lack of robust python support (out of the box)

What would robust python support oob look like?
Handwritten HTML served from a RPi and cached with CloudFlare.

I wrote a custom web-based editor that lets me conveniently edit all the files from any device including mobile.
I wish I could send a one-time link to my father where we could play chess against each other by re-visiting the same link.

The e-mail part made me think of this. I have no use for an e-mail based chat but an online chess game that's easy to use without registration would be cool. He's 82 and he can't use complex sites.
The CPU stays the same, it's the GPU cores that are upgradable on the baseline 13".

There's a BTO 24GB RAM option.
Personal recommendation:

A while ago I bought a bw laser printer from a brand I've never heard of: "Pantum".
Specifically the Pantum P2500W, for 49,95€ (~ 53$). I have never seen them in a store in (western/central) Europe either.

It does not have a display, in general it's the simplest, minimalist printer I've ever owned I'd argue.

CUPS configuration exist in the Arch AUR (for usage with USB), and driverless printing with AirPrint (which also works with CUPS) is supported. This new driverless stuff works really nice in general, glad to use this instead of unreliable driver printers (which sometimes are not even available in low quality for Linux).

It does not require an internet connection and appears to not have any DRM on the cartridges: I use a 20€ (~ 21$) no-name toner cartridge from Amazon, and it works perfectly fine. In fact it doesn't have a display to complain about this (like my 10+ year old HP, which even back then showed me ads for their own cartridges, and HP paper).
It's not just money. There's another aspect which the US has that edges out the competition. The fact that everyone is treated as an American in the place without racism/xenophobia. This is a huge benefit over impenetrable countries like Denmark/Netherlands.
It's been a while since they made a bold choice. When I bought an iPhone a couple years ago, even the apple store employee kinda shrugged his shoulders when I asked if the new 14 phone was better, besides the camera, than the cheaper 13.
Laying a mine field across the whole length of major waterways probably isn't a very good idea. Plus, maintaining a mine field and preventing innocent deaths would probably cost more than the inconvenience and monetary damages of repairing the broken cables.
The idea that democracy is broken is a convenient piece of propaganda, promulgated by people who have something to gain by weakening the American government, whether that's financial or geopolitical.