skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in hindsight both investigations were completely discredited

.... discredited by whom, might I ask? possibly discredited by those it investigated?
My counter:

My 5 year old is recreated duck hunt with almost zero assistance in an hour.

I helped with the copy paste.
EGODs
Tokenization/detokenization does not use BLAS.
My understanding was that Apple wanted to figure out how to build systems with multi-SOCs to replace the Ultra chips. The way it is currently done means that the Max chips need to be designed around the interconnect. Theoretically speaking, a multi-SOC setup could also scale beyond two chips and into a wider set of products.
I'm curious what the assumptions are. Looking forward to reading the paper.

a kilometer-or-so is about what you get on Earth without a lot of sophisticated corrections, averaging, and kinematics. So, if they're not doing all that stuff, they could be doing quite well. (on the other hand, one of the bigger correction terms-- the ionospheric delay -- they don't have to deal with-- but they have to deal with all of their measurements being in "one direction"). If e.g. they don't know about the moon's relative motion, that's a big disadvantage.

If, on the other hand, they get the kilometer after a -loooot- of averaging, that's quite bad.

I don't know how big of a fleet you need to make this worthwhile, though. Just one satellite in a different direction would collapse that big error ellipse to a much shorter arc.
Disappointing announcement. M4 brings a significant uplift over M3, and the ST performance of the M3 Ultra will be significantly worse than the M4 Max.

Even for its intended AI audience, the ISA additions in M4 brought significant uplift.

Are they waiting to put M4 Ultra into the Mac Pro?
Copied from other thread:

The case centers on who has the authority to interpret the terms of an open-source license:

1.The software developers who adopt licenses like GPLv3, MIT, or Apache 2.0 for their projects
OR
2. The original authors of those licenses (FSF, Apache Foundation, etc)

If the appeal fails to overturn the flawed lower court ruling, it will set a precedent allowing legal cases to focus on how software developers themselves interpret the terms of licenses like GPLv3, MIT,Apache 2.0, etc.
This is precisely what happened with Neo4j.

This issue is significant enough that two of the leading open-source foundations submitted amicus briefs in the case.

I think Neo4j knows it is wrong after this latest Amicus and they have the power to stop this in its tracks by simply settling the case before the ninth circuit makes a ruling which will be precedent.

Pretty crazy situation!
Per their FAQ, usually within 72 hours. That said it appears to be out now although the setting for vertical tabs is somewhat hidden (right click on the bookmark bar)
I had someone tell me "an Air? You're a developer, you need a Pro" and I thought to myself, well this Air is frankly amazing.
Great article.

The article also mentions another artist who led a remarkable life:

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

He wrote, over 60 years, a 15,145 page illustrated fantasy novel, as a janitor who had had a very, very difficult life. At first, I initially couldn't process that figure and automatically read it as 15,000 words, but, NO!, it's 15,145 pages. Unbelievable.

I had never before heard of either of these extraordinary artists, but my day is already better for having learned of their lives and works.
Still cheap if the only thing you look for is vram.
That's why it's best to grow your own food and compost with your own pee
The emphasis on containerization and strictly using green energy makes me skeptical about the underlying technology…

If this “lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis reactor” is really so much more efficient, surely incumbent nitrogen plants would be camping on the sidewalk to be first in line?

Maybe it’s different elsewhere, but here farmers don’t use daily applications of small amounts of pure ammonia, they get an armada of co-op spreaders to deliver and apply dozens-hundreds of tons of dry blend in one big shot and then do nothing for months. There’s a reason production is so concentrated, and it’s not because farmers haven’t realized air is the main ingredient.
> 1. I run Docker and Podman on my Macs.

That's using a Linux VM. The idea people are asking about is native process isolation. Yes you'd have to rebuild Docker containers based on some sort of (small) macOS base layer and Homebrew/Macports, but hey. Being able to even run nodejs or php with its thousands of files natively would be a gamechanger in performance.
Right and I'm not sure consumers are willing to tolerate innovation.

I recall the amount of hate touch bar got on HN and everyone asking Apple to revert back to building normal machines (which they did with Macbook Pro).
M2 Ultra is ~250W (averaging various reports since Apple don’t publish) for the entire SoC.

5090 is 575W without the CPU.

You’d have to cut the Nvidia to a quarter and then find a comparable CPU to normalize the wattage for an actual comparison.

I agree that Apple GPUs aren’t putting the dedicated GPU companies in danger on the benchmarks, but they’re also not really targeting it? They’re in completely different zones on too many fronts to really compare.
We used to have bootcamp though.
Seymour Hersh published a detailed piece outlining his case that it was carried out by the US military with assistance from Norway (who have expertise in that part of the seabed), using the cover of a NATO naval exercise as partial cover:

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...

I find it more credible that these were the actors involved. Biden wanted to end a future link between Germany and Russia. In Germany there is significant segment of the population that is distrustful of the US (even before the recent Trump shenanigans) and the potential stronger infrastructure ties to Russia. I find it more credible than a ragtag group of Ukrainians did it personally.

Although the truth may never be known.

Edit: for clarity
> A gold standard means that when the economy gets overheated it pops, then contracts and you get deflation. This makes crashes last longer and harder. It requires greater fiscal discipline to overcome.

Kenyesian economics, through inflationism and fiscal policy, has been trying to solve this problem since the New Deal. When they actually make any progress on that front, why don't you let me know?
BPF or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kernel
This is me when I go to a state forest 20 minutes away, and about 2.5hrs drive from Manhattan. Anywhere with even a little elevation has abundant cell dead zones.
As I replied in else where here, I do not run any Apple Services on my Mac hardware. I do on my iDevices though, but that's a different topic. Again, I could be the edge case
I don’t quite see how it disproves or undermines panspermia - surely if earth began with a racemic mixture of the building blocks, life could have started with either chirality (both being an unlikely scenario what with it vastly increasing complexity and therefore decreasing probability of evolution), and would then select for that chirality exclusively - so it’s no great surprise we have ended up with a single-handed biosphere.
IF your nation had some very convenient combination of geographic isolation, small size, decent wealth, and high social trust, then "no lockdown" could work pretty darn well.

But using the easy metric of "excess deaths" masks most of damage to society and the economy that lockdowns - especially contentious ones - caused.
I'm curious how poop is so deadly.
Nitpick: It's PyPI (pronounced pie-pee-eye).
Start further back. Depends on whether you are actually in imminent danger. Then, if you are, then you have to choose the right target.
With all things semiconductor, low volume = higher cost (and margin).

The people who need the crazy resource can tie it to some need that costs more. You’d spend like $10k running a machine with similar capabilities in AWS in a month.
I was wondering that too, and that led to the question whether, without an atmosphere, all radio communications at any wavelength would be strictly line-of-sight. It turns out, however, that the moon has something of an ionosphere, though I don't know whether it would support over-the-horizon radio (or, for that matter, whether it tends to interfere with the accuracy of GPS, as it does on Earth.)

https://phys.org/news/2011-11-mystery-lunar-ionosphere.html
It's also a way to subsidize your own country by subsidizing the arms industry. Pretty much what has happened in the US in the past years (pretty much all "gifts" are subsidies of the arms industry).
Ask HN: Why are there so few Flutter jobs? Should I switch to React?
Every month I search through the Who Is Hiring thread but very few (if any) Flutter jobs appear
The willfully ignorant have no peace to give.
Regulators caught on since early 2010s, they were just soft because hard messing with wealth.

Before 3RL, RE bubble was being addressed since 2010s, TLDR is policies led to domestic construction slump in 2012-2017 - where indicators like floor space completion and construction employment peaked. ~2017 crack down on shadow banking which drove developers + local gov to increase presales, turning it into a financial instrument to keep the taps going. Then hard 3RL in 2020.

Could have probably smashed skulls harder, sooner, but they've been regulating for 10+ years, developers kept finding loopholes thinking central gov would be soft, until central gov wasn't.

See:

https://www.ceicdata.com/datapage/charts/o_china_cn-floor-sp...

At minimum getting floor space completion to peak in 2014 = mitigated bubble.

E: IMO also important to note 3RL happened AFTER 12TH & 13th 5YR PLAN that build out PRC renewable manufacturing. Reason why 3RL is feasible was it became possible to shift construction to renewable rollout to keep jobs and gdp, minus RE speculation, i.e. why PRC can grow at ~5% instead of 5% + 3% RE speculation. RE was never 30% economy, about 15% + 15% in construction and downstream industries. The 15% RE growth got cut down, but other 15% shifted to growing renewable infra.
As a developer, I say Air all the way.

Never noticed any thermal issues at all. It barely gets warm for me.

Make sure to get at least 16GB RAM.
This post was written by a rogue AI
ah I see what you mean, sorry it took me a while. Yes, you're right, the two are dual: "fix complexity budget then optimize data error", and "fix data error budget then optimize cx".

I'm struggling to put a finger on it, but it feels that the approach in the blog post has the property that it finds the _minimum_ complexity solution, akin to driving the regularization strength in conventional ml higher and higher during training, and returning the solution at the highest such regularization that does not materially degrade the error (epislon in their paper). information theory plays the role of a measuring device that allows them to measure the error term and model complexity on a common scale, so as to trade them off against each other in training.

I haven't thought about it much but i've seen papers speculating that what happens in double-descent is finding lower complexity solutions.
uv

(Not saying Apple should bundle that, but it's the best current answer to running many different Python projects without using something like Docker)
CIA director says US has paused sharing intelligence with Ukraine
"Most" might be a bit of a reach, but there has been a deliberate perversion of one of the American Founding Mythos: The "Protestant Work Ethic".

God rewards those who are good, and punishes those who are bad. Therefore, if you're rich, its God rewarding you for being good, and if you're poor, God is punishing you. Therefore, we should help the rich, because they're good, and not help the poor, because they're bad.

It's not spelled out this explicitly, but this has very much become the philosophy of the right-wing Evangelicals, and a big part of why they love Trump. He's rich, so anything he does is good, and he's really punishing those wicked poor people.
There are a large number of macOS users that are not app software devs. There's a large base of creative users that couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag, yet spend lots of money on Mac hardware.

This forum looses track of the world outside this echo chamber
This goes along perfectly with The Math Sorcerer videos (and book) I’ve been reading which boils down to a similar point: take action, that’s all you can do and the only thing that makes a difference.
> Would like to see a write up on how it's even possible to achieve that when PCs from 20-30 years ago had no issue with such task.

At a guess, by something in the UI framework turning an O(n) task into an O(n^2) task. Seen that happen in person, the iPhone app was taking 20 minutes(!) to start up in some conditions, the developer responsible insisted the code couldn't possibly be improved, the next day I'd found the un-necessary O(n^2) op and reduced that to a few hundred milliseconds.

The over-abstraction of current programming is, I think, a mistake — I can see why the approach in React and SwiftUI is tempting, why people want to write code that way, but I think it puts too much into magic black-boxes. If you change your thinking just a bit, the older ways of writing UI are not that difficult, and much more performant.

I have a bunch of other related opinions about e.g. why VIPER is slightly worse than an entire pantheon of god classes combined with a thousand lines inside an if-block: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/04/07-21.31.19.html
> Chats in general (not WhatsApp specifically) have "better" usability than email

Definitely, but that's not WhatsApp's innovation.
Show HN: Instant Bug Fixes for FastAPI with Crashless
Very capable instant bug fixer; when a bug occurs triggers a search on the AST for each stack owned by the user, collects all relevant methods and definitions, takes local variables, and finally suggests a fix with o3-mini. Then the user can apply or reject changes.
Show HN: SVG Path Length Calculator
Not much to figure out. It's 2x M4 Max, so you need 100 of these to match the TOPS of even a single consumer card like the RTX 5090.
Agreed. It's also free to stream.

I've seen it a couple of times and I keep marveling at the sheer strangeness of how it all played out.
Lack of focus on quality of software affects all types of workloads, not just consumer-oriented or professional-oriented in isolation.
Drone warfare as we see in Ukraine is new default. Any poor schmuck ragtag group can muster hundreds of them, with basic grenades or 30/40mm AP grenades. Enough power to kill anything on wheels or tracks apart from modern main battle tank, that one would be just more or less crippled. Bigger drones can and do kill everything, some drop literal 152/155mm shells.

You may say - but we have good EW! Which is pointless for optic cable drones, can't affect them like that. Those are a bit more expensive and sophisticated but not that much.

If US decided to do their invasion to Iraq or Afghanistan these days things would be very different re US casualties and expensive material loss.
I think I heard of this before. I've seen the bots say the cookies were poisoned with democracy. Hilarious
Python programming Plone was painful.

However, I learned so much from the entire system.

* The CSS of the Plone theme was a Masterpiece. There is a very good reason why Wikipedia used a near direct copy Plone’s CSS for most of the 2000s. Using just a layer of CSS and minor changes to the templates, I could radically re-theme an entire site in a short amount of time.

* Plone enforced semantic HTML and used XHTML. Regardless of what you think of the value of semantics and XHTML, it thought me how to create well structured HTML at a time when the web was full of very broken HTML4

* While programming was painful, Plone’s UX for content managers was first rate. I was invoked in testing Plone, Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. Plone got top marks by a large margin

* Again too marks for Accessibility. In 2005, I built a Plone site for a nonprofit that worked with the blind. I remember users saying they could not believe how easy Plone was to use using the Jaws screen reader

* Multi-lingual sites with workflows for translators. Last year I ran into a translator who used a Plone site I build 20 years ago. They lamented that none of the sites the work on today are as good as that old Plone site.

* etc
Broadcom urges VMware customers to patch 'emergency' zero-day bugs
There you go using logical arguments in an emotional illogical debate.
I gave up on a "blog" or portfolio after not finding it useful and didn't like the idea of handing over free data to companies to train their next pyramid scheme.

When I did blog, it went through different tech eras. My biggest tech era was simply using Go and compiling the entire blog to a static binary and deploying with rsync/systemd.

I then moved from Go to Rust doing the same thing (static binary, all assets/html/etc baked in).
> This makes crashes last longer and harder. It requires greater fiscal discipline to overcome.

Isn't this a good thing? Otherwise, what incentive is there for financial discipline?

> The problem with the USA "empire" is that for a trading empire to work you need a plan, and stick to it.

Have stuck with it for over 75 years. Not too shabby. Also why is empire in quotes?

> China has been quietly debt trapping a whole bunch of nations that have strategic things they need.

I know the US and Europe has for centuries. Which ones has china "debt trapped"? Or are we sticking to the propaganda that china helping develop other nations is "debt trapping".

> Something neither the president or congress have the ability to do.

Neither the president nor congress sets the "plan" for the US. Do you really think trump gets to decide geopolitics? Do you really think congress decides the direction of the nation? Or do you think they listen to the elites who fund and control them? One has to be extraordinarly naive to think that a superpower with nukes is run by the masses.

The president and congress sells the plan decided by the powerful to the masses. It's why they exist. They don't plan or decide anything. Most of their time is spent raising money for elections. When do you think trump or congress has the time to develop any expertise in anything.
but is it actually usable for anything if it's too slow.

Has anyone has a ballpark number how many tokens per second we can get with this?
No, they're not. SODIMM prices aren't radically different from DIMM prices and laptops (usually) use the same M.2280 NVMe drives desktops do.
agreed their firmware is their biggest flaw

disagree it's all their fault, I've had 0 problems with my amd board on linux, and anecdotally that appears to be common on the forums, where intel is more painful.

That's one of the reasons I refused to invest prior to their amd board. I can't trust intel not to be toxic.

I'd still take a broken crappy printer from framework (assuming it's hackable, and not doom and gloom like you predict) over the status quo. I mean, I mainline linux because software being non-toxic is more important than polish will ever be to me.
> So why now? It’s a combination of reasons, according to Rose, who says that the existing social media landscape has become toxic, messy, and riddled with misinformation — and AI is well-placed to address that.

If by "address" you mean "exacerbate" then definitely.
Thanks, I didn't realize that! Not necessarily so far north as I thought then. I assumed they were all going up to the tundra.
US withdrawing from plan to help major polluters move from coal
Yeah but those problems were all solved decades ago.
uv pre-installed! /s
>But it seems like nobody really cares.

Reddit is referred to by most of it's users as an app.

That should tell you everything you need to know.
Unfortunately, poop and urine is one of the main reasons for soil contamination by Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS).[1] [2] . I think farmers will have to rethink using those as fertilisers soon

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/climate/pfas-fertilizer-s...
[2] https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241473455/pfas-forever-chemi...
Don't forget this also came with the awful butterfly keyboard, allegedly to save 0.5mm in thickness. It had terrible reliability, Apple was forced to do replacements and IIRC required a motherboard replacement to actually replace.

And why did Apple do all this? To increase the Average Selling Price ("ASP") of Macs. That's literally it.

the new M4 Macbook Air for $999 is incredible value and that's what I want the Air to be: a good compromise of power and price. For example, the 12" Macbook made too compromises to be just a little bit thinner.
Biden/Obama and Europe are responsible for Putin invading Ukraine?
What did it do that was particularly "user hostile"?

My memory of the event was that they just launched a redesign that was half baked and everyone bailed overnight.

I've always thought that was why old.reddit.com still exists, paranoia about the same thing happening
That’s roughly the Air I have still. I hate using it (prior to recently adding the cooler shim mod, it would thermal throttle constantly) but between a Hackintosh and my work Mac I haven’t felt the need to upgrade. I think sometime in this M4/M5 gen is when I’ll pull the trigger and retire the Hackintosh to gaming rig only status.
The combination of both is usually optimal.

- Investing in deterrence is cost effective... up to a point.

- Directly sending Ukraine arms is cost effective... up to a point.

Right now, it's fair to say that (relative to Russia) Europe has been underinvesting in defense for a couple decades.

Good news: they seem to have recognized this and invested in recapitalizing their industrial defense base.
Sorry for the delay, got rate limited.

The Mozilla Corporation sharing user metadata with the Mozilla Foundation to assist with internal decision making may technically meet California's definition of "sale of data" despite constituting absolutely nothing even vaguely resembling what laypeople would consider a "sale of data".

Note that the CCPA's "third party" clause is part of an "OR" set, alongside "another business". Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation are respectively "another business" relative to each one's self, despite not being unrelated third parties.

The problem is not that Mozilla is actually selling user data (they're not in the sense that any layperson would understand "selling data" to mean), the problem is the way the California law is worded.

As usual, tech-illiterate politicians aren't even competent enough to write laws with the nuance and understanding required to not botch the entirely good and justified intention without pointing a loaded legal gun at the heads of the genuinely innocent. Think along the lines of the CFAA's legal risks to good-faith security researchers¹, or how the DMCA would technically criminalize discussion of how to decode Pig Latin if that was used as a copyrighted media protection technique.

¹ At least up until the Biden administration instructed the DoJ to be more sane and reasonable about this: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/department-justice-a...
512GB of unified memory is truly breaking new ground. I was wondering when Apple would overcome memory constraints, and now we're seeing a half-terabyte level of unified memory. This is incredibly practical for running large AI models locally ("600 billion parameters"), and Apple's approach of integrating this much efficient memory on a single chip is fascinating compared to NVIDIA's solutions.
I'm curious about how this design of "fusing" two M3 Max chips performs in terms of heat dissipation and power consumption though
What am I supposed to say? "Launching an Economic World War on the basis of an unfounded national crisis with age old allies and sinking the US economy along with them is an interesting political decision for President Trump with uncertain outcomes and motivations"?