skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not necessarily what retirement means, and it's not what he indicated in the story.

> I don’t have any specific plans for what I’ll be doing next, other than not doing any kind of software for a while. I’m itching to create more tangible things, especially art and music, so I’ll likely put a lot of effort in to exploring those things more.

Nothing in there says the art/music can't make any money, nor does he rule out software again in the future. As he notes, "I absolutely love starting things..."

Retirement frequently means something different for a 30-something CEO who just exited ("I don't have to work") versus a 70-something year old ("I'm done working").
In the chip part of the presentation they mentioned the Air TDP as being 10W.
I'm expecting 16" MBP and iMac to support more along with an M1X chip or something along those lines.
The MBP gets all 8 GPU cores, the MBA gets 7 (but you can upgrade the MBA to get all 8 for effectively $50 with a $200 upgrade to the storage as well). Touchbar and bigger battery. I think those are the only differences
Apple's A series chips have been decimating the competition in phones for years now, what makes you think they can't do the same in this space?
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This is what the old Shit HN Says[0] Twitter feed should be about!

[0] https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
It was very early in the morning. Apologies for being obscure.

When platforms ban assholes and other platforms arise in the guise of decreasing censorship, said assholes flock to new platforms and infest them a la Ruqqus (though I believe the developer/founders have positive intent)

We need more clever ways of finding the assholes. I mentioned show and tell in my comment above. When you think about how show and tell works, you must earn your right to show and that works fairly well, even when you scale the idea. Does that make more sense?
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The macOS SDK exposes a processor affinity API that you can program against.

There isn't an option like taskset on Linux to pin or move tasks among different cores, or like anything that's exposed in Linux's sysfs.
> KeepassXC is pretty good about intelligent merging

Forgive me if I am not understanding the tools, but my impression is that if the file changed in two places at the same time Syncthing doesn't give the app a chance and just duplicates the file with two names.

So do you mean that you select all of the conflicting files in KeepassXC and it merges them? If so that seems like a nice option, I didn't realize it had that feature :)
There are quite a few people who look at the keyboard as they type and for them it's great. Seems like it would be more useful in a consumer laptop.
At least in the US Store, the Intel Mac Mini is still for sale:

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini/3.0ghz-intel-cor...
Psst…you want to use "discrete".
The 13" Macbook Pro lineup looks pretty weird on their store now, at least in the UK.

The M1 with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD is at £1299, with a 512GB SSD option at £1499. To bump the RAM to 16GB is another £200(!), so £1699 for 16/512.

The Intel options are £1799 for 16/512 or £1999 for 16/1024. So on the Intel side they seem to have cut out 8/256 options, and then they've re-introduced them for the M1 only - which makes the M1 look like it has a much lower starting price. It is cool if 16/512 M1 is £100 cheaper with more power and better battery life though. Intel can of course still increase the memory to 32GB (for £400 lol).

The other downside is only 2 ports on the M1 ones, Intel have 4.
It's an email signup form so it's fine.
Thank you all for your replies!
One word: keyboard.
I think you hit on something that so many miss and it's the tooling for the job, as it were. Go and Rust are fundamentally different tools designed for fundamentally different tasks. While it's possible to use them for the same tasks, it's much more difficult. I would HATE writing a full and secure operating system in Go, while writing back end systems in Rust is doable, but at an unnecessarily slower pace than Go.
> Fun fact

> US Navy bombing range

> accidentally dropped bombs on civilian homes nearby

> Puerto Rico’s Invisible Health Crisis

> military’s activities caused illnesses

> The Navy eventually conceded to using heavy metals and toxic chemicals like depleted uranium and Agent Orange on the island

We clearly have very different definitions of "fun". But thanks for sharing, interesting reading!
According to the tech specs on the Apple site, the Air is available with 7 or 8 GPU cores. All other new Macs have 8.
Don’t touch Xcode then, it welcomes you to paging hell.
Thanks, I sometimes get those terms confused.
Ah yes just seen that.

8Gb of RAM for £200 they can piss off. I paid £240 for 64Gb of decent stuff in my desktop.
Lets be honest - Apple has not really expanded its share of PC/Laptop market in a long time. Ordinary consumers are not going to care about this, especially with the Apple premium tacked on. I think combined it runs 10% +/- year to year variation.
Totally agree.

Besides, can the neural engine be used to speed up other tasks?
Which was severely underpowered because the cooling solution was knee-capped. This is partly Intel's fault, but they made their last-gen so underwhelming that this _had_ to be better
The MBP now only has 2 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports which would support this theory.
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Sleep as long as you can.
Do the M1 computers support Docker Desktop?
M1 - the gpu performance claim is questionable
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I have the 2015 model, and I completely agree. It's a real shame though, because I would absolutely love a faster processor.
Right? "Oh we can't give you a 64GB MBP because Intel can't use low power dram yet". Launches Apple Silicon with 16Gb.
In fairness, it's been possible to convert a TensorFlow model to a CoreML model for a while, and in April TensorFlow Lite added a CoreML delegate to run models on the Neural Engine.

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/04/tensorflow-lite-core-ml-...

So don't think of it as Apple walked right in with this so much as Apple has been shipping the neural engine for years and now they're finally making it available on macOS.
It's not, Apple most likely use TLC 3D NAND. There's no definitive source but the only remaining SLC drives being made are enterprise (and a few at that), and I think MLC is the same by now. (Even Samsung's Pro series moved to TLC)
I have a project that won’t compile on systems with less than 32 GiB of RAM, and I refuse to refactor the hideously overgrown C++ template magic that landed me here.
Anyone who needs more than 16gb memory (me, sadly)!
How do you know you're recognizing other players though if in the vast majority of interactions you can't verify such a thing due to the anonymity? It's true that it's often easy to tell when another individual here knows less than yourself or has a less matured knowledge on a topic, but recognizing another player just means that they can speak at the same level as yourself. You make the distinction based on the contents of their words and not their identity which gets back to benefits of being anonymous: The only thing that matters is the contents of the discussion.

An interesting way to see this in action is to take a look at any conversation here debating different viewpoints. You'll often have conversations that could coherently be read as between two individuals but every post could have a different author that contributes to the conversation in a way that it doesn't matter who they are. What is said matters much more than who says it.
I'm not seeing the "16GB RAM + 512GB SSD: 1499" configuration on the Buy page. The $1499 one says it has 8GB RAM, and any ones with more RAM say they have Intel chips, not the M1.

If I'm missing it or if there's some other way to get that config, do tell, since that's the config I'm interested in!
Sure, if you can sleep.
That's what impressed me when I first came across HN - the signal-to-noise ratio. The comments sections were always filled with thoughtfully written comments that provided useful insights into interesting topics.

Thank you @dang for your diligence and commitment to the task.
I mean because they're going to bring out another one really soon, that will, presumably, be drastically better. I'm guessing (hoping) that beefing up the graphics is why the 16 is coming later.
> (If they are or can be, I’m interested)

Exactly. Currently I am training my models using Google Colab and then exporting the model to run on my MBP. Would be interesting if I could do it locally

Another interesting thing is that ( if this is for training ) this will become the only accelerated version of Tensorflow for macOS as:
- No CUDA drivers for latest macOS
- AMD ROCHm only supports Linux runtime
> Even if he didn't earn any interest

Hopefully he puts some of it in interest-earning stuff prior to that point.
I'm not in the market for Apple stuff but if I were, developing locally: SQL server drinks all the memory you throw at it and then some. Occasionally spinning up a VM.
You could argue that mentioning Lancet Psychiatry is a citation. But to be fair the parent's reply is overly confrontational
I wonder if the Air gets the chips with one faulty GPU core? They could just disable the faulty one and use the remaining seven. </idle-speculation>
Edit: Whoops, I see I was not alone thinking that thought.
Agreed. Humour is a good part of good conversation and an excellent way to provide insight without seeming to be condescending and/or obnoxious.

That being said,it does take skill to squeeze in a dad joke in a discussion of abstract computing problems related to 8081s and I'll go on a limb that HN not lenient on badly executed D-jokes as say reddit would for the attempt.
The fastest drive available today is the WD SN850: https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-us/products/internal-driv...

The consumer price for 2TB is $450. $800 is absurd.
"engaging the machinery to recoup this $800,000 investment will incur significant financial costs, " ?

How? They write 1x participation into most contracts, and that's the normative expectation. It's not a 'legal battle' is literally a normal transaction between parties.

$1M is not 'nothing' to a firm with $500M under management - that $500M is not their money, it's other people's money.

If they are getting a %10 return for their LPs at $50M a year, and they are keeping 20% of the upside, which is $10M. So the $1M loss comes out of the fund, not their pockets, but still, $10M/year gross revenue doesn't 'feel' like a huge company now does it? A lot of these VC's are just 'rich' not 'rich rich' like mega-exist founders, just for some perspective.
The stretched resolution is because it makes people thicker at the expense of FoV, not performance as per se
My guess is maybe this is a yields thing for Apple Silicon? They use the same chips for Air and Pro, but shut off a faulty gpu core that didn't pass QA? Or a temperature thing.
In a small space like a prison where people by definition can't get out, it seems draconian to let people smoke in light of the fact that there are others who don't want to inhale that and may have medical conditions exacerbated by it. By default, the recreational hobby of smoking should be disallowed.
The low end Air only has 7 GPU cores compared with 8 on the one with more storage. So they must be disabling a bad core and selling it the cheap model. Other than that all these machines use the exact same CPUs. Which means that an iMac or 16" MBP are probably going to use a M1X or something with more cores.
I think it means that he wont be starting fights and will be avoiding them. It does not mean he is naive about why no one attacked him (weight and tough look plays role according to him). It does not mean that if someone attacks him when guards dont look, he will let himself being beaten without attempting self defense.
Yes, but they seemed pretty ambivalent about the mini for a long time. Probably easier from a SKU perspective though than coming out with new iMac versions. (Even if iMacs overall outsell Minis--which I'm guessing they do--individual models may not.)
I concur. PHP is a horrible language, but I don't hate working in it. The documentation is the reason.
I dislike it immensely, mainly because it changes all the time and this makes ot hard to use worhout looking at it every single time. The best way is to use an external keyboard.
> No

So you think that graphql, for most applications, magically allows you to request an "extra fields" from a backend service, with zero backend work, that was not previously returning though fields? Really?

> use a practical illustration

I just told you the illustration. There is an additional field. That does not exist on a backend endpoint. And you think that graphql magically add that field, for most people, to the backend endpoint, with zero backend work?

That is a pretty simple and common practical example. Needing a extra field from a backend endpoint, that does not already exist in that backend service.

IE, to quote the original post, it would be to support "ad-hoc GraphQL query requests extra fields".

IE, an extra field that does not exist in the backend service.

That was the original post. And originally you disagreed with the original poster, when they claimed that such a thing would require more than "0 lines of code" on the backend, for most applications.
This would make sense given the pricing, too.

For example, the $1,249 air is very similar to the $1,299 pro. The MBA has a bigger SSD, but the MBP has a bigger battery, isn't throttled (i.e. has a fan), and also has the touchbar (which may be controversial, but for the sake of comparison, remember that it comes with a manufacturing cost).

It seems reasonable that these are priced similarly. Of course, the machine I want is the MBP with the bigger SSD and no touchbar :)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-unleashes-m1/ down at the bottom says:

“World’s fastest CPU core in low-power silicon”: Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM measuring peak single thread performance of workloads taken from select industry standard benchmarks, commercial applications, and open source applications. Comparison made against the highest-performing CPUs for notebooks, commercially available at the time of testing."

So, "Comparison made against the highest-performing CPUs for notebooks, commercially available [one month ago]". I guess there could be wiggle room on interpreting "highest-performing", but this seems pretty good.
THanks dang!!!!!
WRT the pinebook, i didnt know it could do that. can it be done at runtime or do you have to change it at boot time?
According to Apple's website the Macbook Air appears to only have 7 active GPU cores. I suspect that chips in the Air may be binned separately and may or may not support the higher clock speeds even with the active cooling of the Mac Mini and Macbook Pro.
Fewer than 10% in the Bay Area, and far fewer than that in SF.
Virtualization and containers. Especially if you want to run an Electron based code editor next to it.
I think MacBook Air is very compelling, and that's why got more screen time. Unless you want to run your system on >60% for extended periods of time - MacBook Air should be great.
This is an excellent analysis of a critical geopolitical matter. In some ways, it's not unlike the space race, or the race to acquire nuclear weapons. The nation that controls the most advanced chips can make the most advanced weapons and hold sway over the rest of the world.

One aspect that is less explored is the actual depth and breadth of the semiconductor supply chain. Moreover, that supply chain is bound with technical expertise at every level. You may have the fastest car at Le Mans, but you're not going to win without the best driver.

Chip design starts with design software. The most sophisticated software is made in the US. To use it, you need a variety of highly experienced designers of the right ilk (think neurosurgeon vs. cardiologist), supported by program management, organizational management, test and validation engineering and other disciplines. This synthesis of expertise and tools and equipment has to be at the highest level of capability all the way up and down the supply chain before you can get a 7nm chip to boot up.

Additionally, there are about 40 different types of process equipment used in chip fabrication. Every one of them requires dozens of product development engineers to design and build. Those teams rely on decades of both personal and organization experience to build on before they can produce tools that can, for example, apply a material like, say, tungsten, to a 12" slice of pure silicon in a layer that can be precisely measured in atoms, uniformly, across the 'wafer'.

Of all the 40 process tool types, the most complex work of science is the lithography tool made by ASML in the Netherlands. This thing produces the light needed to print the chip circuits at 7 nanometer geometries by emitting droplets of molten tin into a chamber and hitting the droplets with a 25,000 KW laser that vaporizes the tin and produces the light, firing at 50KHz[0]. ASML has spent more than 20 years, employing 100s of engineers and scientists, in order to produce this wonder. There is no company (and certainly no government) on Earth that can catch up to ASML in any reasonable amount of time.

Next in the chip production chain is called 'Assembly' where the wafers are cut into individual chips and packaged into what you'd recognize. That node in the chain has it's own set of non-trivial equipment and expertise.

All of this is to say that there are vulnerabilities all up and down the supply chain, bouncing all over the planet. No one country has the technology to build state of the art chips from both the supply chain and expertise standpoints all within its own border. I'd guess that the least number of nations to do this would be the USA + Netherlands. But as Steve Blank alludes, it would take the US a decade to complete the development and ramp the capacity just to meet its own demand, and 100s of billions of dollars.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIiqVrKDtLc
> but still can worsen your health in long-term.

Grave statements like this with little supporting data that are accepted as gospel are exactly what I'm talking about. The reality is that there is no substantial evidence to suggest that this virus has serious long-term implications for the majority of people who get infected.

Could there still be long-term consequences we don't know about? Sure, but until there's data demonstrating such, it's incredibly disingenuous to state this as commonplace or fact just because a tiny minority of outliers experienced them.

It's almost like people are exaggerating the truth to rationalize the drastic lockdown measures being undertaken.
See also https://deno.land
How uncompetitive will their igpu be?
I was in that category once then I got kids. A cheap color laser serves me well, even if the colors are off key enough to change any photo to some halloweenish nightmare. Kids dont care. Neither do I.

Now the printer before that basically never printed. I used it to scan my (postal) mail. One day it decided to upgrade its firmware, then refused to scan without ink. What a waste.
I'm not sure if this is a sarcastic remark but I don't think your past managers will dictate your entry into FAANG very much? A lot of it is based off of the technical interviews and less about if you know someone in the company. Admittedly, I know people who have gotten in almost purely off of their personal reputation/former managers.
This press release has the vaguest, most misleading and content-free performance claims that have ever been printed.
All of them? I use the function keys regularly and it's much harder to hit the correct one without looking at the keyboard with the touch bar.
Yes you are right to point that it can juste be coping mechanism and that there can still be an underlying unknown medical condition, responsible for parts or all the symptoms. In my case the stomach burns and acidic reflux part were not « stress » but a kind of food allergy (kind of like ulcers were « stress » until it was discovered it was a bacteria).

Your last paragraph sums it up perfectly.
At Apple's volume and level of system integration, it doesn't make sense to do assembly sharing at that level between different models. Presumably the SoC package is the same between the different products, but binned differently for the Air, Pro, and Mini. The actual logic boards would be custom to the form factor.
Apple said that only virtualization will be supported on their ARM chips. Locked through the bootloader (although wouldn't be surprised if exploits are released to load up Linux/Windows)
I would expect single-threaded performance to be extremely good if this is in line with how Apple typically designs their processors. Also, you're comparing it to the wrong computer–this is clearly aimed at being a replacement for the 2-port MacBook Pro.
As someone dying to replace their 2017 15" Pro with something with a usable keyboard, I don't know if I'm convinced. Two fewer ports, a max of 16 GB of RAM, and no chassis redesign. Curious if anyone in a similar boat is planning on taking the plunge?
13" has always had unified memory.
Also, lack of 10gbe is a big let down...
> .NET is meant for stuff like microservices;

What does this mean? .NET has been around before SOA was a term and microservices is an evolution of that. The concepts are orthogonal and you could write microservices in PHP, if you really wanted. Like Java, the .NET runtime and platform is highly efficient. That's what .NET has historically had over PHP/Python/Ruby, but I don't keep up with the PHP and Ruby platforms these days.

I feel like this is another one of those discussions like the "Python GIL problem." Whether it's a really a problem depends on the circumstances, and the circumstances were it is a problem affects fewer people than the HN threads suggest.
> The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition—hyperrational, dispassionate, contrarian, authoritative—often masks a deeper recklessness.

Not that I disagree with the characterization, but the New Yorker criticizing other people for performative erudition is the funniest thing ever.
To be fair, most of us doing dev on our machines probably have a Slack client or Mattermost app floating in the background.

...And we might even be doing dev in something like VS Code in the first place.

We all like to dunk on Electron, but it's kind of become part of the furniture at this point, for better our worse.
They are saving the money, but they're just keeping it. You save nothing.
> That's $600 per month. Extra. From a thing on the side.

> I realise that I live in one of those cheap, unappealing parts of the world, but that kinda money would easily cover me and my family's rent every month, and then some. Do you realise how much of a mental weight that can take off a persons shoulders? To know rent is covered over and above your day-job earnings?

Well yes, exactly that's the issue with comparing salaries without thinking of cost of living. I live in a smallish apartment that's most likely smaller than the OP but pay 4k usd a month for rent. It changes your point of view of what's decent compensation and does mean that to cover the typical expenses, I have to have a much higher salary than in a lot of countries...

It's all relative, is living in a high cost of living environment nice? Yes, in my case because I'm careful and still try to save a lot of my income but it does require me to take certain type of jobs and reduces my ability to take risks. It also comes with a probably less enviable work/life balance..
Faster at WHAT? It is a world of difference between apps that depends on single core performance and tasks that can easily be spread out over 8 cores.
I have an iPad Pro. It’s not. And it’s not very flexible.