skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ARM laptops have been trapped in a vicious cycle of low performance -> low sales -> low R&D -> low performance. The A78C and X1 cores should help a lot but they still won't match Apple Silicon.

Apple is ahead because they have more money than Arm, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc. combined.
State actors trolled people on Facebook and Twitter and spent $3100 on Google AdWords - against approximately $3 billion total spent on the 2016 election season.
How much that on-die memory impact these scores ?
Qualcomm and Samsung have access to 5nm.
This looks pretty cool, I'm excited to try it. The choice of lesser known format vs WARC is interesting, afaik WARC can do pretty complex stuff (like replaying youtube videos).

See: https://github.com/Rhizome-Conifer/conifer
I don't think we can blindly assume that the extraordinary improvements to energy storage of the last few decades will continue forever; things like the Samsung exploding battery issues suggest we're already pushing the limits. CPU single-core performance was always increasing rapidly until it wasn't.
anandtech has specint numbers for the A14, which should serve as the floor for M1 performance. M1 will (likely) clock higher, has more cores and sustain thermals longer.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

I’m also interested in seeing what M1 can do once people get their hands on real hardware running on Mac OS where so many more details can’t be hidden like in iOS, but all signs point to it being an absolute monster.
Polls show that 52% of registered Democrats believe that the Russians actually altered the vote counts.

And there was definitely ballot fraud in 2020. How widespread it was is yet to be determined.
Now called https://github.com/Rhizome-Conifer/conifer ^
Like the grandparent comment, I would avoid this M1 Macbook since the developer ecosystem is still unsupported by it. Take this for example: https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733

Docker still doesn't run on Apple Silicon Macs, so the migration path is already disrupted here.
Yes, this is third time I'm sharing this link but I have a large format (A4) e-ink device and I actually love it for when it's just sitting on a stand and showing my chosen images.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/jem97h/most_of_m...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064674, which is currently on the front page.
A better comparison would be the new XPS 13 which beats it at single core but only has 4 cores to MacBookAir10's 8 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4309589?baselin...
PowerPC chips had some advantages over Intel, which was why they were used to create supercomputers for a while, and were picked to power the first Xbox.

PowerPC’s biggest flaw was power efficiency, a situation which became critical as Apple’s sales skewed toward laptops. The G5 was a beast but it ate power like a beast too; it was never going to work in a laptop, and so Apple had to switch.
Did you register as "First name: Null" and "Second name: [object Object]"?
> What in the world is an actual professional?

Well, that is an easy question - actual professionals are people involved in making, marketing and distributing porno
Is this in reference to a new apocalypse religion?
Honestly, this looks great. Like a kind of a mix between Ruby and Python, but with static typing. Lovely, hope it gets some traction.
Every serious musician I know has a MIDI controller on their desk, each mapped to specific controls on their DAW. A physical knob that maps to its GUI equivalent is really helpful.

This skeuomorphism isn't without cause.
Great news, more distribution
For me notion is much faster in browser than on the desktop client for some reason. Scrolling in some tables is butter smooth in firefox and super laggy on desktop (chrome sits between both) on my 2014 mbp.

I initially thought i would prefer tabs, but I find it faster to alt-tab between the browser and the desktop client when working with both, so its unfortunate that it's laggy sometimes.
Don’t forget the un-tapered profile!
That does include practically every white collar occupation at this point.
Hearing statements like this make a lot of people deny Climate Change is happening at all.
This. People like to complain about facebook, but I spend way more times watching youtube and getting political ads there. If you live in california it’s awful (prop 22, prop 23, I will die if you don’t vote for it!) or san diego (BARBARY BrIE WAS ASLEEP on THE JoB).

Then there is the obvious “the algorithm can dictate what you watch” that tik tok was so critiqued for.
I don’t have an M1 yet, but the things you mentioned work perfectly fine on my Developer Preview hardware, so I don’t see any reason they wouldn’t on the production hardware.
> As is almost common knowledge today, most of the music heard on recordings by the Beach Boys, the Monkees, and other LA-based pop groups was actually played by a handful of ace session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew.

That’s interesting.

> In his later years, McKuen was candid about his less-than-ideal childhood. He was born in a Salvation Army hospital, his father having vanished soon after sleeping with his mother, who was working as a taxi dancer. He was sexually abused by an aunt and uncle, physically abused by his stepfather, and probably both as a teenager at the Nevada School of Industry. He dropped out of school and went on the road at a young age and spent time as an in-house male prostitute at logging camps in the Pacific Northwest. A background of this sort of abuse is now known to be associated with an “impaired capacity to develop proper definitions of the self,” as the psychologists Bessel van der Kolk and Rita Fisler have written.

Tough lot for a poet. Why is it so natural that he resonated with late 60’s/early 70’s American culture? As a child of the 80’s, that period will always be the weird era of the before time, when everything apparently sucked so much that it had to be replaced by anything at all as soon as possible, like an avocado green / harvest gold kitchen decor in a newly purchased house.
Pretty sure content creators are the core of the Pro series. It's not uncommon to have multiple design apps open at the same time, along with team apps, multiple browsers each running multiple apps, and multiple monitors.

And that's just web design.

Now open your eyes and look around your room. Everything you see was designed by someone, most likely on a Pro.
It’s also outperforming the 5950X in single core. Incredible!
Why do we only have 30-50 years of civilization left on Earth? I haven't heard of anything that would make the planet uninhabitable on such a short timescale.
To me, Ableton is as much a performance tool as it is a production tool. I used to limit myself to production, then I bought a Push controller and it completely changed my workflow.
The XPS's CPU only has 4 cores to the Air's 8. Dell would be wise to ditch Intel for AMD so that they're competing with the same TSMC 7nm silicone as Apple. Intel is in trouble.
Great point. It also makes me wonder about how long the NVidia deep learning advantage will last.
You can use sidecar with an ipad for a second external display.
To think I lived to see the day when you buy a macbook for value
If curious see also

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170998

Discussed at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1842557

and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1277626
Ask HN: Is Apple M1 Neural Engine Legit?
"The M1 chip brings the Apple Neural Engine to the Mac, greatly accelerating machine learning (ML) tasks. Featuring Apple’s most advanced 16-core architecture capable of 11 trillion operations per second, the Neural Engine in M1 enables up to 15x faster machine learning performance. In fact, the entire M1 chip is designed to excel at machine learning, with ML accelerators in the CPU and a powerful GPU, so tasks like video analysis, voice recognition, and image processing will have a level of performance never seen before on the Mac"
Yes you can.

For GCC targeting arm64 macOS, the dev branch is at https://github.com/iains/gcc-darwin-arm64/ currently.

For Rosetta, everything runs except virtualisation apps.
Apple released the first Intel Macs to consumers in 2006, and in 2011 removed Rosetta from Mac OS X, so I guess it depends on what you mean by a while.
its a YC company.
If they haven’t woken up by now, when will they?
I think there is something to be said about connection to the real world economy and hard currency, and values that contents on the Internet offer are surprisingly lean on that front.
Was Steve Jobs an infamous fan-hater? What did he do/say?
That does explain so much about the node community.
You guys must have some generic or Apple specific workflows since you are confident that the software is already supported.
My approach is to only read headlines (from reputable sources like WSJ and Bloomberg)
There's tons that no longer exist as independent entities. Of the Big 5 movie studios, only MGM is still independent. 20th Century Fox is under Disney, Paramount is under CBS, and Warner Bros is under AT&T, though they retain some identity still.

But RKO is just straight up dead, which I don't think anyone would have called in 1943, its 15th year. 1946 would be its most profitable year. It was gone in 1957.
Try Ardour. Open source and works great on Linux

https://ardour.org/
Man. Obligatory old person remark, but seeing this kind of a quantum leap in performance per watt makes me feel young and tingly all over again. If M1 makes SIMD suck less, there are downstream effects. It's true if that were /entirely/ the case, Radeon would have stolen the crown from NVidia years ago.

But this is different. There's the convenience factor here. How far does M1 have to go before commodity DL training is feasible on commodity compute, not just GPU?
It's just a name, if you need long battery life, bigger screen, dedicated gpu, etc. then you choose appropriately. Who cares what the Pro means.
Many, many years ago, I used a custom build of Plucker to build an offline reader for the schedule of a large conference in the UK - to the point of rebuilding the schduule file daily to include updates, and using an old laptop with an irda port running pilot-link in a loop to sync the new schedule to anyone who wanted it... That was fun.
As far as I can tell, PS4 updates are limited by the hard drive that the data is written to. It seems to reliably cap out at around 300 Mb/s, which is actually pretty good for a 7200 rpm hard drive.

It'll be interesting to see what speeds we'll get on the PS5, where they are constantly advertising just how fast the storage is.

On Steam I consistently get 900 Mb/s, but I have pretty fast storage on my PC.
I sympathize with the author's points, but the headline is misleading - the only reason they posit to move to Venus is because Elon Musk wants to move to Mars.

Yes, Venus can be as habitable as Mars, but there's a big problem - like it or not, we have to extract resources from a place to live there, and there just isn't much we can extract from Venus. Extracting any resources from the surface means mining them from a hellscape, and then lifting them out of the gravity well into the clouds. (Though, to be fair, maybe we could just park a few asteroids in orbit and use those.)
I wonder if Ableton 11 is already compatible with the new M1 Macbooks.
It does look very promising. One can only imagine what future Mac Pros will be capable of. And thanks for the correction.
How big one's pocket isn't usually the driving factor on who does best.

This feels like once again Apple is 5 years ahead of competition just like when iPhone came out.
Thanks!
At this early stage the geo data is coming from Maxmind, but I am also cross referencing more than 50 additional sources to generate the security data points.

Using Maxmind for now allows me to have the API up and in the meantime working on building my own source of geo data.
More self-promotion spam from this account.
Yeah, and doing this without a fan. It's almost like Apple is rubbing Intel's face in it for sport. It's not even fair.
Poor Intel
Coming from the author of ArchiveBox, that's greatly respected to see your comment here, thank you!
It helps me to focus during the Lockdown
I wonder if this is good enough that nobody will complain about x86 emulation performance. Although Apple will likely remove x86 emulation support in the OS in about 5 years.
it's a long awaited update for the Notion community. Beyond the timeline view, they introduced the ability to hide database properties in card view, so that doesn't obstruct content, which btw, adding content to a database record in a vertical UI is one of the best Notion features, so they made it so much nicer.

just like any new Notion features, there are bells and whistles so, i went ahead and carefully broke them down in today's blog post: https://optemization.com/timeline-view-notion
Makes me wonder if it's some sort of weird attempt by Craig Wright or Bitcoin ABC's deadalnix as there is a power struggle between him and the rest of the Bitcoin Cash team.
Yeah?

* Venus' avg temp: 880°F (471°C).

* Length of day in earth hours: 116d 18h 0m.

* Weather: storms of sulfuric acid clouds and a crushing atmosphere more than 90 times
Essentially:

Apple Silicon Macbooks can only run 1 external display at a time. Mac Minis are the exception to this due to the additional HDMI port.

I'm always interested in what Apple doesn't mention than what they keep showing off in their 'announcements'. Thus, I see no point in buying the first generation of any Apple product with major architectural changes like the current Apple Silicon Macs, 1st Gen Apple Watches and AirPods.

Sounds like good advice to follow when evaluating Apple products.
Roblox gamers must pay to die with an 'oof'
Yes, Apple IIs and early Macs had no fans because Jobs wanted them to be silent.
Forgot to mention I was using TinyGo v0.15.0.
Even if we all agree that such a duty exists, we would still need to decide what constitutes "betterment". How do we collectively decide that for a specific individual learning X betters society, but learning Y does not.
This guy is right I just haven't gotten around to the audio and video it's a little bit more work I think. websockets is not a normal request response thing that I think is easy to cache so it's a little bit more complex and I haven't really begun to think about it in a way that I feel will be a good approach... Or any approach that I think could work.
The UK government now relies on Slack for all their communications
This is definitely compelling. I’m still going to try holding out until the Apple Silicon 16”, but my computer is more and more reminding me how long ago 2015 was.
This argument is weakened by the fact that the first refactoring tools were produced for Smalltalk, years before anything similar appeared for static languages. And then it took many years of development before the tools for Java etc. caught up.
You can emulate anything on anything (pretty much), but the real question is can you emulate it at a speed that’s sufficient. That takes host-system-specific optimizations.

Look at N64 emulation, for example.
How to Build Your Own Alexa with the Coral Dev Board Mini
Have you never used the Windows Recycle Bin?
So on a cutting edge process, Apple Silicon is ~5-10% faster than the AMD offering.

Interesting times.
I've seen this term 'toxic masculinity' being used to describe anything from asserting yourself very firmly on discussion/debates to opening doors to your (female) partner. I'm not even sure what it means anymore.
> We've seen this before: cellphones tend to have simpler libraries that are statically linked, and at least iOS uses a page size that would not be relevant or realistic on a general purpose desktop setup.

This is an interesting thing to say considering that 1. most apps on iOS use large dynamic libraries and 2. Apple silicon Macs run on 16K pages, just like iOS.
Amazon’s use of marketplace data breaks competition law, EU charges
That's also a consideration. And I haven't thought of a way to approach it where we get the nice sort of size of the archives that we have currently, and when adding video it would just balloon and I think that could be surprising so I haven't thought of a good approach to gel all that.
Humans will not "live" anywhere in the solar system other than on the earth where we evolved. We may "survive" temporarily elsewhere, like on the ISS, but we will never "live" there. Earth is our only abode...
So it’s natural that devices from that era and devices after that era behave differently
This would be really cool if it integrates with nextcloud.
ARM has AES instruction extensions, and IIRC iPhones have had them for some time.
Same here in Singapore. The fibre infrastructure was installed by a government company. 2 fibre pairs were installed to every household, and then different ISP's can sell services over it.
Stolen from - https://twitter.com/burr86/status/1326646905116401664
Okay, but why was Youtube down?
Lol... I don't think you understand how baby monitors are used.
> What percent of the working population are video editors? Some tiny fraction, how did that become the default type of professional in the context of talking about computers?

I think it’s because youtubers like linustech etc are the type of people who review these laptops, they live in their bubble that only “real” professionals are those who edit videos.
Slightly larger case and fan could be a big difference depending on what you use it for.
Air has a cheaper option for 7 core GPU.
Also, toucbar on Pro - as if anyone actually _wants_ that.
Based on downvotes, I guess people don't believe me. Here's a support document from 2014 explaining the capability: http://web.archive.org/web/20140628022826/http://support.app...

Single displays driven as two half panels over MST has been supported since 10.9.3, including the UP2414Q that I mentioned. Otherwise, DisplayPort 1.2 could only give the screens enough bandwidth to run at 30 Hz.

> MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) or Mac Pro (Late 2013) also support 60 Hz displays using multi-stream transport (MST). These displays need to be manually configured to use MST. Follow the steps below to use the display's built-in controls to enable this feature.

> [display specific instructions omitted]

> Your Mac will automatically detect an MST-enabled display. However, your display may require a firmware update to support 60Hz operation. Please contact your display vendor for details. If your specific DisplayPort display is not listed above, check with the display’s manufacturer for compatibility information.

Having used that Dell screen on both OS X and Windows, I can tell you this MST capability was better supported on Mac than it was on Windows. On a Mac it worked perfectly. On Windows you'd frequently get half of the screen either black or shifted sideways, creating several visible seams in the image.

Not my screenshots, but see here for examples: https://www.dell.com/community/Monitors/UP2414Q-Rev-A03-Wake...
I’d extend it to mean someone for whom the non-pro model is less sufficient (for example, they are using dev tools or video editing as opposed to Excel, Word and email).
I don’t know if the wider audiences would invest heavily enough in servers given Apple’s graveyard of products in that space.
Ahhh, OK fair enough. I was just joking around:)
i spend 1/3 of my workday waiting for xcode to build
I guess talking about AI/ML lends you social currency. And even more if you are doing it. Whether it works or reasonable have become entirely different questions
Games specifically primarily take up space due to art assets. A high fidelity modern AAA game full of thousands of 4k+ textures, super-high-poly models, detailed animations, and hours of high quality audio is going to take up a lot of space. There are certainly optimizations to be had, but there's no way a 60GB+ game today would ever fit on, say, a DVD, at the same level of fidelity while maintaining the same player experience.

Higher compression means longer load times, so there's incentive to not compress more than absolutely necessary, and the biggest games tend to have huge worlds, which means you can't hold the whole world in memory at once. So you have to stream it in.

It's a constant balancing act between your nominal hardware target, the space the game will take up, up-front load times, and the amount of stuff that can be in a scene before the hardware can't keep up and you get model/texture streaming pop-in, stuttering, or an otherwise degraded player experience.

Perhaps in the next few years we'll see games leveraging super-resolution AI to quickly produce usably high-res textures from lower-res installed ones in storage faster than a directly compressed equivalent could be.... or games will leverage the same to take what they already ship and make it even higher detail...
i dont work with asm so pls forgive me. how can one write sth like this?

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> Polls show that 52% of registered Democrats believe that the Russians actually altered the vote counts.

Source? I can't find a poll that asked this question, or anything closely resembling it, reported.
If you were alive a decade ago, you already have. When the SSD transition started the MacBook Air was a surprisingly good value with a better quality SSD than almost any of the PC options at any price (integrated controller versus the overhead of a separate chip) and most of the sub-$1k competition had spinning metal.
I am addicted to my dual monitor setup, so this is unfortunately a deal-breaker for me. I will have to wait until Apple Silicon can get it done. My MBP 2017 still does a good job.
This article is pretty out of date. Man-made diamonds are now common, and the price of diamonds is about 1/3rd of what it used to be, and the margins at retail are considerably smaller. There are more countries producing diamonds, etc.

Also the pricing of diamonds is much less wild than he states. I think the author was not in the diamond business.
They're bulky to store and ship.

It'd be cool if couches came as a kit with an order sheet for you to source the foam locally. The frame and coverings would fit in a door-sized package. Hmm.
As long as you don't depend on x86_64 Docker containers or Boot Camp, you should be fine in general.
How a once-dismissed idea became a leading technology in the Covid vaccine race
Of course there are specific niches, but it's pretty easy to answer in general: 'actual professionals' need some combination of two criteria - capacity and reliability/durability/usability. A device which can handle 'large' loads - be it CPU-bound, memory/storage-bound, or even screen size bound, and can be worked hard for 6-8-10-12 hours per day, 5-6-7 days per week without either the machine or the user breaking.

The point is not a professional using a computer, it's a professional computer user - someone who doesn't just use a computer to do their work, but someone for whom the limits of the computer are the limits of the work they can do.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-04/alphabet-... probably has something to do with decreasing profit margins, or they are projecting a bad recession where firms will expend less on advertising. Also they don't actually need to buy the good will of us with free bytes (we are just clicking on adds & feeding the machine with data). They own the market, so why should they?
The Occult History Behind NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory