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Quick question - if it's so super duper gfx 4X speed .... why still ship the new macbook pro with a radeon mobile chip?

It basically means your M1 won't get close to a radeon mobile chip...
Did I miss something? Everyone is discussing their anecdotal chronic condition stories, but the article is not about chronic conditions. We know the following from the article:

- 1 in 5 people will have a first time diagnosis of a mental illness (including but not limited to anxiety) within the first 90 days of being infected.

This does not mean the diagnosis is chronic or even lasts beyond the duration of the disease. There have been studies done showing that about 2% of people still have symptoms resulting from coronavirus after 12 weeks [1].

We should not be conflating people getting anxiety from having coronavirus, with people developing chronic mental illness.

[1]
https://covid.joinzoe.com/us-post/long-covid
Just google VSCode Remote Development. It’s very easy to setup. I personally use a Scaleway machine.
That's Big Sur. It's actually versioned as Mac OS 11 and brings macOS much closer to iOS in terms of feel and looks.
A country has nothing to do with race.
Depends what you are developing for - if you are developing for mobile then by that standard it's significantly better.

If you are developing for web... it depends what you are writing and how you are deploying it, but it probably won't have much impact dependent on your toolchain.
All I care about is the hardware acceleration of video codecs.

If a $1400 M1 powered MacBook Pro can edit and cut 8K Canon RAW Light And ALL-I HEVC from the Canon R5, it’s very attractive to me.
Mmh what do I know. But think the most important part is, that you think it is a signal for depression. So maybe look into why you think that. Being bored about something could be a good thing, so maybe there is nothing wrong.

Maybe wrong expectation? Why should the “internet” be exciting?

I am on the internet +20years. And I only spend ~40min om two websites a day. (Hackernews included). The rest of the time I spent building the “internet” (personal websites and solutions).

The internet should/could be an extension of the exciting things you do. Not the other way around if you ask me. The internet is boring, it is a tool.
Truth. When first starting out I always had the thought "OK, I'll go full-time once I hit $2k MRR", or 3k MRR, or 4k, "that'll be enough", but once I'd hit that mark, I'd realized I just couldn't do it because as my MRR grew my costs followed. I had to hit $8k MRR to be able to go full-time on my business, and even then that was taking a 60% pay-cut and a big leap of faith.
The Most Sensational, Sordid and Questionable Presidential Election (2003)
Indeed. The CPU is 3.5x faster "than before". What is this before? December 2020 or the last time they made their own chip?
I'm not suggesting that. I was suggesting that unsolicited calls in general aren't that bad in the UK. We have our own pollsters you know!
I don't understand the pricing of the MacBook Air vs the 13" Pro.

The Air ($1249) vs 13" Pro ($1299), you get:

- same CPU

- same GPU

- same Neural chip

- same RAM (8gb)

- More storage for the Air (512gb vs 256gb with 13" Pro)

- You get Touch Bar with 13" Pro

So if you don't care about the Touch Bar, you actually get with the Air:

- better specs

- smaller device footprint

- and $50 cheaper.

Am I missing something?
Which means that, according to Apple, it's better than the CPUs in the other laptops it's competing against. That slow i7 is typical for thin+light 13" machines. I fail to see how this is a bad thing or even sneaky marketing.
You are likely looking at the Intel models
Oh certainly, but I'd imagine that their default state was success. Not in the inherited wealth sense (though that's true of Marcus Aurelius), but in the highly competent sense. For me, I know that my dissatisfaction is the thin line between failure and possible success.
What’s not to like about DI? Makes it so much easier to wire up dependent services and refactor those wirings at a later time. If you don’t use DI you have to manually manage everything yourself.
They're heavily into Arrow. A few years ago they contributed Gandiva, an LLVM expression compiler for super fast processing. https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2018/12/05/gandiva-donation/

It's one of the reasons I like being all in on Arrow. Why do everything ourselves when a ton of other smart people are working on this too?
Hmm, I was getting a 403 error trying to access this page, apparently because I was using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1/WARP service on iOS. When I switched to 1.1.1.1 DNS only, the problem went away. Does Krebs block visitors who appear to be using VPNs?
Out of curiosity, why is your site using .NET instead of a modern framework in NodeJs or Python?
What difference does having it closed make? I keep my on a stand but open just for slack really. It does make a hell of a racket when I’ve got a lot of containers running.
My 2007 MBP, yes. I don't think that's true of my 2017 MBP, nor my 2012 MBA.

It's been years since Apple did away with this stuff, and nobody expected them to suddenly allow after-market upgrades.
Literally what it says... random awesomeness generator
> This bill requires Federal Reserve member banks to provide digital pass-through accounts (i.e., digital dollar wallets) to residents and citizens, and to businesses domiciled in the United States. Among other things, these accounts must provide specified banking services to eligible persons who elect to deposit funds into these accounts, including access to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) aid payments. These accounts may not charge fees or have balance requirements, and must provide a specified interest rate.

Note that "require" means "require of the Fed to provide", not "require people to have one".
It's very similar to the 2014 models, it has scissor switches and not the controversial butterfly keys. If you ever tried a magic keyboard then it's basically that.
Interestingly, the Air and the Pro now are almost identical in specs: same SoC, same display, same connectors, same RAM, same SSDs.

On the plus side I only see the larger battery for the Pro.
On the minus side it's more heavy and a bit more bulky. And it's got the TouchBar (I'd count that as a negative...).

Honestly, why spend the $300 extra? I'd take the Air any day.
There's a translation layer, so I'm hopeful everything will just work.
Why do you think there is no virtualisation? Apple showed Linux running in a VM during WWDC already.
I'm always finding commonality between Roman history and current events (perhaps because Roman history is the only history I read). For example, last night I was reading one of Cicero's speeches against Catiline, and in the preface for the speech the modern author giving context writes:

"To these men and his other supporters, Catiline offered the policy they longed for - cancellation of debts. It was precisely the policy to win him the support of the desperate from all ranks of society - and one that no respectable politician was prepared to offer"

Catiline has supporters both from the upper classes, where they had borrowed too much money and fallen into debt, and from the lower classes where they didn't have enough money in the first place, as well as dispossessed former soldiers.

It makes me think of some left contingents today where they are supported alike by upper-middle class children who have become burdened by inescapable student loan debt and lower class people who were just always burdened by poverty.
In practice, such a law could resemble right-to-repair bills like the one recently passed in Massachusetts, which requires auto manufacturers to give independent repair stores access to all the tools they themselves use. A bill like this for consumer electronics could practically ban serialized components, even without mentioning them explicitly.
In this case, it's better to imagine what could have than to see what it would have been. That's basically the 65816 documentation but 16 is find/replaced with 32. Some of time. A, X, and Y are 32-bit but the data bus is still 8-bit, address space is still 24-bit, stack, direct page, and program counter are still 16-bit.
Except that they're talking about per-user pepper, so 16 bytes per user, in addition to the hash & salt. It's not a sensible tradeoff.
Counterpoint: If driving a fancy car is your highest priority then most places in the developed world you can skimp in other places (family, time off, apartment size, etc) and save for a few years to pay cash for one if you haven't drawn a particularly short stick in life. A brand new GT-R costs something like 5-10yrs savings for a slightly-above-full-time pizza delivery driver who avoids most other luxuries.
The newest one fixed it enough to satisfy me, i.e. it has a physical escape key again. I never used the rest of the function keys anyway, and I like the customizable nature of the touch bar. The lack of a physical escape key when they first introduced it was my only real gripe.
I didn't see it in the post, but a huge amount of this is due to Andy Grove's work on Rust implementations of Apache Arrow and DataFusion.

I imagine he's happy where he is, but I hope there's some opportunity for InfluxDB to give credit and support for his great work.
.NET Framework was built to support and did allow systems to have multiple versions installed side-by-side and apps to call specific Framework versions and was built to support many versions side-by-side. But that turned out to be more difficult in practice than in theory. Multiple side-by-side Frameworks turned out to be more hassle than useful, and even with just 3 versions of the Framework that were built to live side-by-side (1.x, 2.x, sort of 4.x, long story) that was often pointed to as a source of bloat in Windows.

The mistake to include it in Windows was partly why more versions weren't made (because then they'd have to be serviced for the length of a Windows version's service lifetime; because then they'd contribute way more to Windows bloat).
I figured as much, thanks for actually pulling in the stats to prove it.
VERY curious to see if apple silicon will support pytorch or other common GPU based ML libraries?
If I run that script in an infinite loop, downloading the same persons photos, can I make they go bankrupt?
thing it does have a better mic and better cooling so you get better performance from your CPUs
From the comments:

"Firestorm is the fastest perf/W general computing uarch in the world & on the latest 5nm TSMC node, what ... else do people want?"
Go seems nice, but don’t you think writing business logic feels very tedious compared to C#? Generics and linq speed development time up for me significantly.
As a previous macbook pro top model owner, with the huge amount of dysfunctional features it had, I'd be totally in for a mac book air.
I got an incredible place to work for over 5 years, for an amazing company, and an even more amazing boss. I got paid well for it, and I also got a nice payout when the company sold. Don't worry about the employees :)
Shouldn't one 6k display be the same data transfer as two 4k displays?
You probably will before I throw out my 2010 MBP thanks to easily replaced parts.
I think it's going to come down to battery and the fan, which will let them run the chip hotter (faster) for longer
> what is the maximum possible harm zoom could have caused?

+ HIPAA violation

+ Violation of jury secrecy

+ FERPA violation

+ False advertising and fraud

That's US specific. I'm sure foreign governments will have their own opinions.

You're right, you can be HIPAA compliant and not be E2E encrypted - if you have the right paperwork and auditing process. Zoom didn't because they claimed to be E2E encrypted.

There are some things you can lie about and it's crappy but not a big deal. "Lag free video streaming!" - Sure, whatever. "The best quality!" Again, don't care. When it comes to information security claims though, lying has very serious penalties because the damage you cause is extremely serious. This wasn't them telling a white lie about how awesome they are, this is them intentionally and knowingly engaging in fraudulant behavior to make profit at the expense and security of users - and we should absolutely punish the hell out of people who do that to line their own pockets with a few extra dollars.
I find the narrative that Trump hasn't started a new war interesting, but not particularly compelling given his actions with Iran and ongoing incitement of civil unrest.

> The people have spoken, and they want war

I see where you're coming from, as usually I vote third party or abstain to avoid thinking I support one candidate that differs only by an epsilon of cultural preferences. But when one of the choices is responsible for the deaths of a quarter million Americans, it's a little different.
So Apple will be shipping 5nm chips while Intel is barely able to produce 10nm? Must hurt to be Intel right now.
Tailor Your Metal Apps for Apple M1 – Tech Talks – Videos Developer
Another SQL engine on data lake that heavily uses arrow is Dremio.

https://www.dremio.com/webinars/apache-arrow-calcite-parquet...

https://github.com/dremio/dremio-oss

If you have parquet on S3, using an engine like Dremio (or any engine based on arrow) can give you some impressive performance. Key innovations in OSS on data analytics/data lake:

Arrow - Columnar in memory format;
Gandiva - LLVM based execution kernel;
Arrow flight - Wire protocol based on arrow;
Project Nessie - A git like workflow for data lakes

https://arrow.apache.org/.
https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Flight.html.
https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2018/12/05/gandiva-donation/
https://github.com/projectnessie/nessie
The “no response” is actually more like 80-90%. See: https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-editors/special-...
Air only has passive cooling; Pro has a fan.
Back when Udacity just launched with their first course (Thrun's self driving car intro) I wanted to watch the videos on a big screen. I had a somewhat smart TV that could play files off a USB stick but did not have Internet access. Udacity hosted all their videos on YouTube at the time and there was no convenient way to download them. So I spent an afternoon hacking together a Chrome extension that would modify the Udacity website DOM and give me download links for the lectures (it had to be an extension to get around same origin restrictions). Udacity had some weird naming convention for their videos so I had to make some calls to their API as well as YouTube and correlate videos with titles. The YouTube part was "influenced" by youtube-dl. This was much faster than reverse engineering, even though I was writing new JavaScript and not using the original Python. Anyway, trivial stuff.

After watching the videos from my couch for a few days I decided to post a link to my extension on the Udacity message board... and it absolutely blew up! My dinky little extension had thousands of users all over the world seemingly overnight.

But the absolute highlight was getting an email from a student from Iran. Iran just blocked YouTube because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_of_Muslims and there was a whole group of students who could no longer participate in the course. Apparently they had some friends at a US university use my extension to download the videos and reupload to a VPS they ran. I was blown away - my quest to sit on a couch ended up accidentally helping fight censorship.

I maintained the extension until Udacity added a native video download feature and then took it down. But it was an interesting experience and definitely shaped my perception of fair use laws. They are important. People have way more legitimate uses for information than lawyers can imagine.
Fine. As long as we recognize that's a very privileged position. Many people on Hacker News have skillsets that are in high demand (across most geographical locations) so they have the luxury of moving on a whim.

This is not the case for many (most?) people.
That was before the current NS-based OS and so doesn't count
Yep we're 4X this and 3X that and here is a graph with a 2 curves and no scale, but it's a glowing line!

Then the top model still ships with a Radeon mobile chip. So... your super duper M1 graphics, not so super duper.
Perhaps this pricing was brought about by the same head injury that caused someone in management to believe 8GB is an adequate base spec for RAM in 2020.
Lessons we often learn too late in life
That I could probably look at the source and figure things out.

No, what kills me is

public Session getSession(Foo, Bar, Baz)

where Foo, Bar, and Baz are themselves interfaces, and I have no idea what implementing class I need, so I go searching, and after an hour of pain piece together that I need to instantiate a NotAtAllAFooButNeverthelessImplementsFoo, then pass that into the BuildingFactory class' static factory method to get an instance of Bar, and then I can just pass in a null for Baz, and it -seems- to work.
I also worked polls in Philadelphia and we were also visited by non-uniform cops at the end of the day to do the (critical!) step of picking up the paper ballots. We got their badge numbers and names of course, but it was a little sketchy. The one who came by midday was uniformed, though.
There are systems where the ballot itself isn't special, but the envelope you use is. Because of that there's no need to account for the ballots themselves. Poll workers never interact with your vote, you place the filled envelope in the ballot box, just like dropping off mail-in ballots work here.
> It was originally available exclusively to subscribers

No it wasn't - the subscription service shipped CDs (and later DVDs) with technical articles, updated SDKs and the like. The actual documentation was always included with every Visual Studio version on the installation discs.

I remember quite vividly the "joy" of re-installing the latest version because the documentation format was incompatible between releases and you could either reinstall the new version from disc (which took ages) or convert the already installed one (which also took ages, but not quite as long as juggling 4 CDs - it had to "rebuild the index" or some nonsense like that IIRC).

So if you owned a physical copy of any Visual Studio edition, you also had the documentation and thus no need to subscribe to MSDN (apart from the technical columns, SDK updates and the magazine, which any reasonable boss would allow you to read during work hours).
Perhaps you should pose your questions to the paper authors via the correspondence information provided in the paper.
I don't believe those reasons are more important than open access and reducing the environmental impact of planned obsolescence, outside of the kind of government agencies that are exempt from consumer electronics regulations anyway.
For such workflow 16gb is not enough. Docker on Mac is a VM and you need to have a lot of ram for disc caching to compensate for slow IO in VM even if 16GB looks like they could do it.
My guess is that they'd still keep the efficiency cores around, but provide more performance cores. So likely a 12 or 16 core processor, with 4 or 6 of those dedicated to efficiency cores.

The M1 supposedly has a 10w TDP (at least in the MBA; it may be speced higher in the MBP13). If that's the case, there's a ton of power envelope headroom to scale to more cores, given the i9 9980HK in the current MBP16 is speced at 45 watts.

I'm very scared of this architecture once it gets up to Mac Pro levels of power envelope. If it doesn't scale, then it doesn't scale, but assuming it does this is so far beyond Xeon/Zen 3 performance it'd be unfair to even compare them.

This is the effect of focusing first on efficiency, not raw power. Intel and AMD never did this; its why they lost horribly in mobile. Their bread and butter is desktops and servers, where it doesn't matter. But, long term, it does; higher efficiency means you can pack more transistors into the same die without melting them. And its far easier to scale a 10 watt chip up to use 50 watts than it is to do the opposite.
This is just the first SKU, no need to be dramatic about it.
I think it comes out in favor of flying either way, but for sure the second makes it pretty lopsided. It limits the possibilities of OnPlane && !Flying to waiting for takeoff, and since you spend more time in the air than grounded even death by natural causes in flight would overtake death while grounded.
I volunteered as an election judge in a neighboring county (Hello from DuPage County) and can affirm much of tptacek's post. Having the experience of an election judge, I'm not worried about anyone trying to steal the election, there's just too much paperwork involved at every level.

Likewise in regards to the police: we had DuPage sheriffs wander in occasionally to look around and chat - they were reasonably friendly with some random chitchat. I don't think they were looking for anything in particular, just trying to deter any mischief by being seen openly.

One thing that surprised me is how hard election judges worked: I started by 6:30 AM and only ended at 8:30 PM, with maybe a 15 min break for lunch. All the other time I was handing out ballots, doing paperwork, giving directions, etc. In DuPage election judges get $100 for the whole day - I would be in favor of doubling that plus some money for lunch + dinner.
Congrats! Sounds like a good outcome. From what I've read (my understanding may be wrong), using a revenue multiple at all for valuation is surprising for companies A) under $5M total valuation and B) with lower growth rates (looks like Baremetrics grew ~11% in the last 12 months). Can someone who knows better than I weigh in on the valuation math here (in general -- no one knows the exact details of this transaction, obviously). I'm not questioning it, but I am curious to get perspectives on this real world example.
I think it's actually a good move for the first gen. If they put out the CPU frequency, people would be comparing it to the intel parts. ARM and x86 being different architectures, a 2GHz M1 is going to perform differently than a 2GHz Core i5
Piggybacking onto this, since it looks like something the hivemind may disagree with and isn't sourced in your link, breaking down by family income, between $30,000-$150,000 is majority lean rep, outside those bounds is majority lean dem.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/09/13/2016-party-i...
>> Is it common to house non-violent offenders with ones convicted of violent crimes?

Bigger issue: Is it very common to house non-convicts, people not found guilty of anything, alongside violent actual convicts. Go to any US jail. The number of people literally waiting for their day in court is usually greater than those convicted and serving time.

(Note I said jail, not "prison". Prisons are for longer sentences. Convicts in US jails are generally serving less than a year.)
Lots of people talking about frequency binning and Benning in general. I would like to add in here someplace that AMD used to make 100% identical chips for an entire full lineup and then adjust the frequency and prices to the actual binning process like if they tested a bunch of chips and got a lot that did 3.8 then they sold them all as 3.8 if they did 4.1 they sold them as 4.1 it was quite common to buy the lowest possible cheapest AMD chip and get one that could essentially be and overclock to their number one highest bench chip. See fx 8120 the lowest bulldozer chip overclocking to be and identical performer to the much more expensive and higher chips.
I know. Been there, done that. To each his own, I guess. An open tab is an open tab, if I close it, it's gone forever unless I bookmark it which I would very rarely do. A bookmark is an inverse, it's going to stay there forever unless you clean it up and manually delete it. In my experience, a few hundred more open tabs beats ten thousand dead bookmarks, and closing tabs is easier than cleaning up bookmarks.