skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watching this unfolding over the last weeks from Europe feels like a bad fever dream. The thing that scares me personally the most is not that the USA under Trump is telling Europe to care for their own security. That's expected and a talking point for many years and Europe sure did little to prepare for that.

What's scaring me is it sure looks like the USA is in a process of self-destruction that seems to result in them badly harming themselves. Any amount of soft-power over Europe is gone. It sure looked like the whole of Europe is happily migrating into USA clouds and USA brands will have growing percentage in cars and other goods. A big chunk of Europe military spending was going to the USA. F35 sold like hot bread.

Frankly I have no rational explanations for the tariffs for Canada and Mexico, neither do the experts here on local media. More is likely to come.

I'd like to put the all the KGB asset conspiracy talk away but with every day and with every headline I'm scratching my head and I don't see how this benefits the USA.

Russia won't honour it. Actually if all is destroyed and Trump is gone I expect some final humiliation from Putin. I just don't see how aligning with Russia is of longterm strategic interest to the USA. But maybe I'm missing something?
Yes but so what? I said don't let an ios client reach the machine. I didn't say it was Apple who wrote the software that will commit the act you don't want.

The same danger on Windows doesn't come from Microsoft. You download and install software from HP and it does the deed.

You could in theory write an open source driver that runs on windows and is safe. There are also old closed source drivers which just happen to be well behaved. Which is why I said "drivers you aren't 100% sure about".

On Android, depending on the version and distribution, there have been both pre-installed and user-installable printer drivers from hp and samsung and everyone else, pretty much just like on Windows. Even the pre-installed whichbare "part of the os" are written by the manufacturer not Google or AOSP. And just like Windows it is technically possible to write an open source driver that you can safely use and trust. Which again is why I said "drivers you aren't 100% sure about"
And butterfly keyboards. Don’t forget their innovative trash can MacPro. Hockey puck mouse anyone? Apple has an impressive history of missing the mark.
Is that poor schmuck sitting by some friends? Because social isolation is a huge driver of anxiety in itself.
Right. Same goes for MacOS and all of it's convenient software services. Apple might stand to sell more units with a more friendlier stance towards Linux, but unless it sells more Apple One subscriptions or increases hardware margins on the Mac, I doubt Cook would consider it.

If you sit around expecting selflessness from Apple you will waste an enormous amount of time, trust me.
My favorite example of this is the GTA Online insane loading time issue that ended up being due to poor handling of a 10MB json file (and was finally tracked down by someone outside their org). Took a 6 minute load time down to just under 2 minutes:

https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...
>36 Tops

Thats going to be the NPU specifically. Pretty much nothing on llm front seems to use NPUs at this stage (copilot snapdragon laptops aside) so not sure the low number is a problem
> RAM slot would screw up the memory timings

Existing ones possibly but why not build something that lets you snap-in a BGA package just like we snap in CPUs on full sized PC mainboards?
> I have 2 options: - link GMP/mpdecimal/whatever (or hey, provide an abstraction layer and let a user choose) - accept function pointers to handle bignum tags

I would just provide two kinds of functions:

// For each representative native type...
cbor_read_t cbor_read_float(struct cbor *ctx, float *f);

// And there is a generic number handling:
struct cbor_num {
int sign; // -1, 0 or 1
int base; // 10 or 16
int exponent;
const char *digits;
size_t digits_len;
};
cbor_read_t cbor_read_number(struct cbor *ctx, struct cbor_num *num);

// And then someone will define the following on top of cbor_read_number:
cbor_read_t my_cbor_read_mpz(struct cbor *ctx, mpz_t num);

Memory lifetime and similar has to be also considered here (left as an exercise), but the point is that you never need function pointers in this case. In fact I would actively avoid them because proper function pointer support is indeed a PITA as you said. They can generally be avoided with the (sorta) inversion of control, which is popular in compact C APIs and to some extent also in Rust APIs. It is just you haven't thought of this possibility.

> sscanf (also do not use sscanf) doesn't work if the value is actually a bignum, and yielding a bespoke bignum format is just as unusable as simply returning whatever's encoded in CBOR. How would I add two such values together? How would I display it? This is what bignum libraries are for.

In practice many bignums are just left as is. For example X.509 certificate serial numbers are technically bignums, but you never compute anything out of them. So you don't need any bignum to read serial numbers. If you do need computation then you need an adapter function as above, but the library proper needs no knowledge about such adapter. What's a problem now?

By the way, sscanf is fine here because the API's contract constrains sscanf's inputs enough to be safe. Sscanf in general is also safe when every `char*` outputs are bounded. It is certainly a difficult beast, but so is everything about C.
No, if anything we'd be using XMPP or Matrix.

Email is the completely wrong protocol choice for instant messaging. It's just a completely different use case. You wouldn't send a letter to the fire department if your house is on fire either.
I hate that I agree.
Who are you to say what format a piece of journalism 'should have used'? You could apply your misplaced outrage about the 'Five W's' to any number of Pulitzer Prize winning long-form pieces from the last century.

In short, you appear to only be familiar with the mandated style for factual news-reporting - not for other journalistic output - and seem to think all deviation is in error.

Here's an example from one of the kings of the form - Michael Lewis - and his award-winning piece of financial journalism regarding the Greek bond crisis that nearly brought down the Euro:

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2010/10/beware-of-gre...
> Hiring a professional costs a lot of money. Like euthanasia is only for rich people who can afford it.

I do not know where you maybe but my expectation is that everything health is free (except for some minor stuff).

A medicalized euthanasia absolutely is in scope of that.
This fear is exactly why I have never purchased a WiFi enabled printer and added wifi printing via the use of a Raspberry Pi Zero attached to the USB port of the printer.
How are running costs an asset forfeiture?
magasafe saved my laptop several times in the last 10 years
Nobody types em-dashes.
These engineers have options and can go elsewhere. Airbus, BAE Systems if they want to head to Europe, lots to pick from in the US [1] [2]. Blue Origin recently let go ~10% of its workforce, or about 1k employees [3]. How many engineers are left out of the remaining ~10k workers, I'm not sure as of this comment, but there is a "shortage" of workers in the industry [4].

Very easy to say "we should be climbing" when it isn't your job, work life balance, etc. What you do is always up to you of course. Those with experience and options are always able to vote with their feet.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/industry/aviation-and-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aerospace_companies_o...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/technology/blue-origin-la... | https://archive.today/DQNuG

[4] https://acarasolutions.com/blog/recruiting-trends/aerospace-...
A factor of 100 faster in compute … wow.

It will be interesting when somebody will upgrade the ram ram of the 5090 like they did with 4090s
I love how even fair and justifiable critique of Apple needs to be hedged with the "Apple is great" prefix, such is the terror of the Apple downvote mafia on HN.

/typed from my Macbook Pro M4 — Love Apple — This is great!
I have an M2 Air and it's a pretty capable mobile dev machine. I do not notice any heat issues whatsoever.
The iPhone 14 added emergency satellite connectivity.

That seems like a pretty big deal to me?
> Let me get this straight the only difference to you for suicide and euthanasia is the risk of a botched job.

Also method, motivations, acceptance by family members, doctor approval, etc.

> So your saying if my 18 year old daughter wants to kill herself because of say borderline personality disorder which is treatable I cannot intervene if she asks a professional to lethally inject her

You wouldn't need to as no responsible medical professional would authorize euthanasia in that case.

> This is your “logical” argument?

No, it's your misrepresentation of my logical argument, which has consistently been more logical than your emotional argument.

Question, are you Christian? Is that influencing your complete rejection of suicide at all?
Ummmm, that's the taxpayers' money.
>Real victory in a traditional war against Russia is unattainable.

This is very wrong. Anything is possible, it's just a matter of political will.

The most likely scenario is russia is pushed to the brink and collapses internally like 1917 and 1990. Then Russia balkanizes along ethnic lines, like 1917 and 1990.
Even that could be fixed right?

return when err
return if err
return ?> err
return ? err

to:

return when stackify(err)
return if stackify(err)
return ?> stackify(err)
return ? stackify(err)

I don't know; I'm just throwing ideas out there.

I do agree that exceptions are just fine and it's not like you couldn't just catch and return exceptions if you wanted to like err.
Wonder if he's still working in AGI with Carmack.
The M4 Max is faster, the M3 Ultra supports more unified memory -- So pick whichever meets your requirements
DeepSeek-R1 only has 37B active parameters.

A back of the napkin calculation: 819GB/s / 37GB/tok = 22 tokens/sec.

Realistically, you’ll have to run quantized to fit inside of the 512GB limit, so it could be more like 22GB of data transfer per token, which would yield 37 tokens per second as the theoretical limit.

It is likely going to be very usable. As other people have pointed out, the Mac Studio is also not the only option at this price point… but it is neat that it is an option.
If you promote up, and you have 3 levels, then the CEO should have done the exact job of 3 people below him on his ascent.
More details:

+ 44dBm GPS transmit power
-210dB path loss
+ 15dB rx antenna gain

-151dBm received signal strength

That's slightly worse (5dB) than signal strength of a handheld device/ phone (~15dB typical handheld loss, urban environment). There is still ~15dB margin. They are cheating a little with the 15dB narrow antenna gain, which requires accurate pointing. Nice result and there is room for improvement. Note: -210dB = 10^-21
If you don't run macOS, you don't have Apple iCloud Drive, Music, Fitness, Arcade, TV+ and News and that means a loss of revenue.
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An election forecast that's 50-50 is not "giving up."
Where can I buy the data? Or who are they selling it to?
> What criteria makes a person sane enough to make that personal choice? Is it an arbitrary age? Say 18?

We collectively decided that 18 is an age when someone is fully responsible for their everyone (which is biologically incorrect). For lack of a better reference, yes 18.
I torrent things from two different hosts on my gigabit network. The macos stack literally cannot handle the full bandwidth I have. It fails and the machine needs to be rebooted to fix it. It’s not pretty on the way into this state, either. Other remote connections to the computer are unreliable. On Linux, running the same app in a docker container works perfectly. Transmission is the app.
M4 2x faster than M1.

M3 1.6x faster than M1 (1 year ago).

= M4 1.2x faster than M3.

not bad, but Moore's law is dead for CPUs.
You're nitpicking, but then you use lowercase b for a byte ;)
iOS autocorrects -- to an em dash. I do it a lot.

Though true I would have spaces around it.
> I’m running 24 threads at 5GHz, sipping data through a GB pipe, and somehow, sites still crawl.

Aside from websites, we will talk about that in a minute, how is performance? I am running Windows 11 on new hardware and it is running great. I built personal box with 64gb of the fastest DDR5 and a AMD 9900xtx. The most expensive component (and least bang for the buck)... the video card. This is my first time to have an NVMe disk and its absolutely amazing.

I am running Debian 12 on mini computer with much less hardware and its doing amazing there too. I can run anything on the box except AAA games and 4k video movies.

Now, for the web talk. I was a JavaScript developer for 15 years, and yes its garbage. Most of the people doing that work have absolutely no idea what they are doing and there is no incentive to do so. The only practical goal there is to put text on screen and most of the developers doing that work struggle to do even that. Its why I won't do that work any more, because its a complete race to the bottom. If I see a job post that mentions React, Vue, or Angular I stop reading it and move on.
If you're going to overthrow your entire AI workflow to use a different API anyway, surely the AMD Instinct accelerator cards make more sense. They're expensive, but also a lot faster, and you don't need to deal with making your code work on macOS.
I do! Alt-0151 on Windows. I'm not an AI, though... (and you can also write in Word and copy-paste here)
The full deepseek R1 model needs more memory than 512GB. The model is 720GB alone. You can run a quantized version on it, but not the full model.
ASML is European, without which, we would not have the chips in our computers.

What if Europe sanctions the US? How many vital resources would we lose? The world is far more codependent than you realize
For all the talk of the "Apple Tax", point me to a comparable laptop from another company at this price point. I don't think there has been one since Apple started the M series.
They can do so anytime they pick up an instrument. But plugging things into AI is not making music.
Sure it does. But at the same time GrapheneOS is one of the very options where you can run a modern Android smartphone with precautions, and use the Play Store only for selected apps (banking, government auth, and in the Netherlands, WhatsApp (unfortunately)), and just use F-Droid for everything else.

I don't mind paying Google for a piece of hardware quite as much as I do running their OS without anyone looking out for the user's privacy. The hardware transaction is much more straightforward and transparent (although by no means perfect).

Before this I used a Ubuntu Phone, and that was fine, but like a dumbphone, you can't use any 'official app store sanctioned' apps with it, which has become really cumbersome these past few years. If using PureOS means I can't install banking apps and government auth apps, then that is a non-starter. I wish that wasn't the case, but it is.

(The article threw this error on my Linux desktop in Firefox by the way.)
Greyskull cards might be a fit. Think they’re not entirely plug and play though
Just saying the left worships Fauci and hates Musk. The intellectual dishonesty is profound. Nobody on the left was criticizing Fauci and he had a far greater impact on freedom than Musk has. I don’t care that Musk or Fauci weren’t elected, I’m calling out the hypocrisy of complaining about unelected Musk whilst ignoring unelected Fauci.

And words have meaning. If people don’t mean fascism, then they should say what they mean, but fascism is a convenient term because it invokes Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler in ways to imply that Theil is an aspiring Mussolini, Franco, or Hitler. Which is complete nonsense.
I have Mac hardware and and have spent $0 through the Mac App Store. I do not use iCloud on it either. I do on iDevices though. I must be an edge case though.
Many of them voted for this.

I know they are portrayed as a cabal of woke leftists, but a third of them are veterans and they probably broadly reflect American professional demographics.

You could argue that many of the people voting Trump are also simultaneously ignoring a big chunk of politics and reality more generally I suppose, but it's not the standard meaning of ignoring politics.
I use Hugo with GitLab CI that deploys to an S3 bucket.
Hence, my original point. Some of these people are, in fact, redundant within the org.
I'm a web dev with both a M2 Max (in a Pro) and a M3 (Air).

Never heard the fan come on a single time with either machine while developing. Heat has never been an issue. Battery life is superb on both. Pro has better screen but is way heavier. Air is much nicer to bring to a cafe.

The only time I've ever heard the fan come on is when playing 3d games, especially non-native Apple Silicon games.

If I were getting one only for development, I'd get an Air. If it were meant to be a desktop replacement workstation for work and gaming and movies and such, then the Pro.

Both are easily more than fast enough for web dev. Not sure about other stacks (especially with heavy compiles or virtualization). I have a few services in Docker and that's fine (on both machines).

It's just so so much better than the shitty old Wintel days that I don't even worry about it anymore. Lightyears ahead of any ThinkPad or Latitude, etc.
I feel very similarly. When I want to understand from scratch, that means no pytorch, no numpy, etc.
It's important to note, that in their ideal future, you would also have the freedom to move to (or found) NoBillionaireLand, where, as the title suggests, no billionaires are allowed, and you are free to implement as many taxes and social programs as you like. And with smart contracts powered by the blockchain, there would be no such thing as tax evasion, and wealth distribution can occur automatically and algorithmically every time taxes are collected. Doesn't it sound great?
I feel you on a lot of this! But out of the box Python support? Does anybody actually want that? It’s pretty darn quick & straightforward to get a Python environment up & running on MacOS. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean here.
Just to be clear, digg started uncapitalized. I still miss the small d. It was more humble.
That's right! And on average, the impact of mass protests in recent years, towards the causes they support, is somewhere between "zero" and "massively negative". Care all you want and politics will just ignore you or get angry at you for caring.

See e.g. throwing oil on famous paintings, or everything re Palestine in the past couple of years.

Protesting effectively is a skill which the present generation lacks. They don't even realize it's a skill issue. "Surely if we just care harder somebody will do something..!", they think, over and over. Doesn't make it so.
It’s not just the em dash—it’s the juxtaposition.
> Sounds and Thuds [that scare birds away]

In "Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41592848 or a post linked thereunder, I mentioned ancient stone lingams on stone pedestals which apparently scare birds away from temples when they're turned.

/? praveen mohan lingam:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=praveen+mohan+l...

Are some ancient stone lingams also piezoelectric voice transducer transmitters, given water over copper or gold between the lingam and pedestal and given the original shape of the stones? Also, stories of crystals mounted on pyramids and towers.

Could rotating large stones against stone scare birds away from runways?
Him and his company is pure evil. Sadly some EU government do business with them (Germany, Denmark) whilst what should happen, if the world was sane, is EU wide sanctions on Palantir and life-time entry bans on all employees, and if any details of EU citizens are in their system, arrest and criminal prosecution if he ever sets foot in Schengen.
You're comparing desktop prices to laptop prices. Yes they're ridiculous but you're not the target market.
> most people are not running their own email servers

I honestly don't care about what the people I communicate with do, as long as I have the capability to at least own my persistent identifier (i.e. my TLD).

Just having that capability exerts just the right type of pressure on large service providers to maintain a baseline quality of service, regardless of whether the majority actually makes use of it or not, just like phone number portability has done in that domain.
> immigrants will choose the place that's the best for them.

Immigrants have always done this, that’s why they emigrate in the first place
I've been buying and using MBP for 6 or 7 years now, and just assumed I could run Linux on one if I wanted to. I just spent a couple of days trying to get a 2018 MBP working with Linux and found out [edit to clarify] that my other ARM MBP basically won't work.

I just want a break from MacOS, I'll be buying a Thinkpad and will probably never come back. This isn't my moaning, I understand it's their market, but if their hardware supported Linux (especially dual booting) or Docker native, I'd probably be buying Apple for the next decade and now I just won't be.
I do think people are going a little overboard with all the commentary about AI in this discussion, and you rightly cite some of the empirical reasons. People are trying to rationalize convincing themselves to buy one of these, but they're deluding themselves.

It's nice that these devices have loads of memory, but they don't have remotely the necessary level of compute to be competitive in the AI space. As a fun thing to run a local LLM as a hobbyist, sure, but this presents zero threat to nvidia.

Apple hardware is irrelevant in the AI space, outside of making YouTube "I ran a quantized LLM on my 128GB Mac Mini" type content for clicks, and this release doesn't change that.

Looks like a great desktop chip though.

It would be nice if nvidia could start giving their less expensive offerings more memory, though they're currently in the realm Intel was 15 yearsago, thinking that their biggest competition is themselves.