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Have you tried the official DE edition Ubuntu distro to see if any of your issues are fixed? My experience is it's pretty good, one of the better linux laptop experiences you can get on a machine with comparable industrial design. Now, perhaps tellingly, I still use Windows 10 on my own 9300. While I appreciate Dell's efforts, I have yet to work with a linux distro on any laptop that does "laptop" things well, like docking/undocking seamlessly, autodetecting docks and USB hubs, having sensible power management settings, etc. So I just run windows now and get my linux fix with WSL.

With my 9300 I use the dell U2720Q monitor (27" 4K with built-in USB C hub). It does 4K@60Hz along with USB 3.1 data over the single USB C, non-thunderbolt cable provided (via HBR3/DP1.4 as mentioned elsewhere) in the box and basically everything worked perfectly immediately and I've had zero issues. Dell/Windows is still "not fantastic" at other laptop things, or at least not as good as apple, but one of the better experiences on the windows side in my opinion.

Relevant to the OP, I would add that when I did go to get a longer cable to connect the 9300 to the monitor, I ran into all of the insane issues described. "WTF, every cable looks identical but support wildly different features???" You have to become an mini-expert in USB technology to know what the hell you're looking for, no idea how non-technical people can even do it.
I agree! There's a lot more to it than MHz! At the time, we also didn't have any other figures, like cache size, any power consumption/TDP figures, memory speed/bandwidth, any base or turbo clocks.

I felt like it was probably one of the first possible custom cores I'd seen, something specifically built for Chromebooks or Pixel or whatever the product was. That probably this part was not listed on Intel ark. But it was super distressing none-the-less: I had been denied any understanding what-so-ever of what kind of core was going to be within. There's more than MHz, yes, but also not knowing process (nm), not knowing wattage, not knowing caches... Google was asking me for something unprecedented: to spent ~$1000 on a system for which I had no understanding at all of expected performance.

It felt like a dark dark dark dark day. After decades of in depth analysis & review of every cache change, every TLB tweak, after endless in depth review of cores, we'd entered a bold new era. Where none of of what you really were buying was regarded as consumer-pertinent.

There's some "bright" spots but they are somewhat obfuscated. Lenovo's M75q gen2 with AMD 4750GE was an amazing package, regularly on sale for a very reasonable price with amazing performance[1]. But alas, it's rare that the genuine performance is known, is what is for sale. We have become a post-consumer market. The invisible hand operates at a post-consumer level, selling us on other, more illusory factors than capability. Truth vanishes. And yes, as this article says, many people just don't need to play the game in the first place, but still, the becoming invisible, the vanishing of actual competition is most dismaying.

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m75q-gen2-ti...
Came here to say the same thing
True, but there is a reason most human societies (excluding the West in the past 10 years) have had strong restrictions on the excesses of human behaviour. Just because the animal can do something, doesn't mean it should, precisely because society as a whole doesn't benefit when individuals do that.

In most societies, you still can't drink to excess and drive, nor advertise cigarettes, nor sell them to minors, nor do all manner of narcotics or have polygamous relationships willy-nilly. All these things are certainly what people would like to if possible, but social norms and laws put a lid on it. There is certainly screeching about some or all of those issues (like by some parties here on HN, Reddit and elsewhere), but by and large those restrictions are good for the functioning of a healthy society.

Media consumption, and in fact media production, was regulated, initially by technology (you couldn't broadcast widely before radio) and then by law (The Hays code in the US and its subsequent incarnations).

Cable defanged that, and the internet has destroyed it.

I'm not for censorship, but harmful media production and consumption should certainly be contained and punished if done with malicious intent. It's not easy though - we all agree that online recordings from certain Middle East groups are inflammatory and can radicalise innocent people into doing foolish things, but we can't see as a society that the same radicalisation has been happening in the Western press as well. The targets are just different.
I really hope that the single successor will be JPEG-XL. It's much better format for still pictures (faster encoding and decoding, higher quality, almost unlimited picture size, layers, color channels, etc), and the ability to losslessly recompress existing JPEGs is huge.
My son is an engineer for a company that makes autonomous fork lifts. One month he was at a client at an aluminium smelter with the machines moving hot metal ingots around; the next month he was at a client that had the machines moving pallets of food product food around a warehouse-sized freezer.
He used to have a blog that is empty now that was called Chris hates writing.

chrishateswriting.com
It's just the same when the topic is ML models. HN readers shouldn't be making pejorative comments about each other in those conversations either, and when we see it we moderate it the same way.

There's no need to comment pejoratively on the other person. The post is stronger without it, and the expected value of such swipes, in terms of the impact they have on subsequent discussion, is sharply negative.
Exactly, this is backed up by individual income stats on short term and long term capital gains: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-sales-of-capita...

It routinely shows >7x long term vs. short term capital gains.
Stroustrup basically wrote this entire essay in a single sentence: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about, and the ones nobody uses."
If we're going in directions other than "fidelity as its own goal", it's interesting that they don't lean into it more.

People go mad for tube gear, because it's inaccurate, but inaccurate in ways people find pleasing.

Similarly, there used to be significant differences in the "voicing" of different brands of amplifiers-- a Harmon/Kardon would sound quite different from a Yamaha of equivalent paper spec. And, since both were claiming "1% distortion" much of the difference had to be in how it handled that 1%.

The modern equivalent would be codecs which are designed to degrade gracefully at their limits. I could imagine being able to tag a section of a recording as "clipping" and having the codec have special rules to handle it, or even user-adjustable voicing to process it differently.
Learning a bit about this in my MBA classes. Cost + Margin = Selling Price. Apple have the capacity to be more of a cost leader now, since they are not subject to the same bargaining power forces of CPU suppliers. As a result, they have the potential to push their costs down (if not now, then in the future once production scales) and increase their margins. A good time to invest, perhaps?
They can also provide specialized knowledge. Ex. the DOE OIG is going to have nuclear scientists, the HHS OIG or TIGTA is going to have tons of forensic accountants, etc. In the case of Inspector Generals specifically, they also have the mission of investigating internal misconduct within the agency, and they have a relationship where they are independently authorized to act but under ideal circumstances work closely with agency heads to root out corruption and improve efficiency. A lot of what they do is accounting and effectiveness audits that do not fall under law enforcement.
The problem is it's not an argument that manipulates you, it's passive reporting and it only has to be echoed by one other real person before it becomes "the rumor on the twittersphere" or whatever.

Even the act of people writing debunking articles like "Is shocking X actually true? No." is still doing a little bit of work to inject that idea into your psyche.
All my EU contacts that have an iPhone use iMessage. Companies(100k+ employees) in the EU, that have an iPhone as a company phone, use iMessage.
It's really for their benefit rather than maintainers. The actions abuse was apparently a major capacity issue.
Wait till you hear about privately-owned company and railroad police departments...
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What would be the ideal "HN-friendly" way to point out that the parent does have serious misunderstandings of the topic at hand?

I'm struggling to parse that first sentence in a way that someone would be offended by.
The collaborative editor seems seems to be struggling with the load test of visitors, combined with some people putting a lot of content into the editor--it looked like the entire Bee Movie script was in there.
The underlying cost of actions based on Azure compute pricing is about two cents per hour, it's really nothing to feel guilty about.
At work, we have been using Asciisoc for 10 years or so, so we use Asciidoc -> XSLT -> PDF / chunked HTML. Works great, not nice to use.

For new projects, we use Asciidoctor - it does everything but chunked HTML, and it's a pleasure to use.
It seems like they do binning. For example, the M1 with 7 gpu cores vs 8 gpu cores.
Like, in principle you're right. In practice, cyber attacks at the level of terror that is equivilent to a "full scale nuclear first strike" simply have not happened (yet).

I do believe that you might be making a bit of hyperbole with the scale of possible terror potentially possible for such small amounts of money. Some crazy mofo should have done this by now. You're telling me that ted kaczynski types don't exist for hacking?
People actively self-select for this type of tribalism. Be it sports or politics, it gives average people the feeling of identity and purpose.

There was a brief period in the mid 20th century when centralized communication was far superior to decentralized communication, and the populous hadn't had much time to apply selective pressure toward more divisive media, but even then, you had McCarthyism, Jim Crow, pro-war/anti-war, etc.

Humans are a tribal species and hate comes easy. You can't blame any single player or small groups of players. It's more of a species level problem. And I'm not convinced the current levels of divisiveness are historically unprecedented, albeit high.

Buried in this otherwise mediocre article posted a few weeks back is a visual called "Ideological positions of the major parties" [0]. It can be a proxy for relative internal divisiveness in the country (note that the lowest periods of divisiveness had high international divisiveness).

[0] https://www.economicprinciples.org/Why-and-How-Capitalism-Ne...
Yeah, I'd add this to the website (or maybe a short video of the analysis process). I went there, but there was zero description of what it meant to analyze an image. It just tried to drop me in, then prompted for an email address. I wasn't ready to give my email to a random website (yes I have throwaway emails) without any idea of what it was going to ask me to do.
The ideal way would be to simply omit that sentence. If the comment began with the sentence "King did not [etc.]", it would have exactly the same information content and would not contain a personal swipe at the other user. Win-win.
The IRS has a sizeable police force as well.
Sounds plausible, but is there any sort of evidence or indication that this is happening?
This is cool. I work on a lot of spreadsheets at work and am religiously against dropping into VBA for anything. It would often be easier, but it then destroys the portability of the spreadsheet (now it has to be .xlsm, people get scary warnings, etc.).

Also, does this:

> With LAMBDA, Excel has become Turing-complete.

sound like a threat to anyone? :)
I do still like Ruby and not yet hate working on Rails app. But after using Typescript in Reactjs projects i just loved it. I have a new found love for typed languages. Now trying to move to either C# or Rust to get enough experience to confidently choose those for new projects.
I'm sure they will support x86 for years, but I have a feeling they will stop selling new products with x86 rather quickly.

If you look at the PPC to x86 transition [0] it happened faster than predicted, and OS support only lasted 3 years after it was done.

IMO Microsoft is the company that heavily prioritizes backwards compatibility, while Apple is happy to drop support where necessary to move forward.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Intel_proces...
You're wrong it watches what you do and where you go via the shell command history file.
VCUs seem like an excellent solution for this problem and I'm actually surprised they didn't opt to build custom hardware for this earlier on. I wonder if other video companies will hop onto this and start releasing their own VCUs. I imagine this kind of hardware could be very useful for any video streaming site as well as people who edit videos all day (Hollywood etc.)

The article didn't really go into technical details, so would anyone happen to know why a VCU happens to be faster than a traditional GPU? I thought the point of building GPU kernels was supposed to be able to speed up tasks like this (doing the same set of steps over millions of different inputs).
The movie Life of Pi also comes to mind in regards to being stuck on a boat and retelling the story but Mohammed’s experience would make a great survival movie no doubt. Maybe Netflix will make a deal with him
Sure, static web servers serving files from a standard filesystem.

Does it apply to dynamically generated content? No. Does it apply to key-value stores like S3 and GCS? No.
In the context of UI components it has taken on the connotation that it mainly handles interactivity, state, performance, accessibility, cross-platform support and similar functional aspects, while leaving decisions about the visual design to you.

EDIT: And it does allow you to customize both styling and markup, as far as I understand.
The rich tend to keep their money in assets. Inflation only makes the rich richer.
I am a football guy. Anyone said we tolerate UEFA/FIFA's corrupted system is because ESL is not any better. ESL lacks of a real relegation/promotion system with other teams, and that's a huge blow to European's traditions of "competitiveness" and "dream" about having a small team going all the way to the top tier competition and even beat them. (Check out the year when Leicester won the English Premier League)

The ESL is simple a closed system, similar to what NBA in US in that there is not relegation/promotion from other lower division leagues, and that means they only play against themselves. Poorly performed team do not need to worry about getting relegated, hence there's really no competition there. And that kills the sporting spirit and the fundamental value behind sports.

Do we believe in UEFA/FIFA? Hell no, but we do believe in football pyramid system and ESL just don't have it. ESL is not the solution to the current problem in European football. It also creates a barrier to not let smaller teams to be part of the competition.
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Would this also hold "project state" like a .blend file? Or is that out of scope?

It would be awesome to no longer have to do the "save, then export" workflow
>You know, I don't really personally care if the successor to JPEG is AVIF (based on AV1), HEIF (based on h.265, pushed by Apple), or WebP (based on V8).

You should care because those formats aren't equivalent. In many important cases, WebP performs worse than the good old JPEG[1]. It's popular mainly because of Google's brand and cargo culting. HEIF is doomed because it isn't royalty-free.

In my opinion, JPEG XL is the most interesting new format. Cloudinary published many blogposts comparing JPEG XL to the other formats, for example: [2][3]. I really recommend reading them.

BTW, Chromium has recently added support for JPEG XL decoding[4]. It's currently hidden behind a feature flag.

[1] - In medium to high BPP photographic images (which, I believe, is the most common use of lossy image compression) and in generation loss tests.

[2] - https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_deth...

[3] - https://cloudinary.com/blog/how_jpeg_xl_compares_to_other_im...

[4] - https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/043d3254221...
> Second, Intel and AMD both benefit from a decades-old narrative that places the CPU at the center of the consumer’s device experience and enjoyment and have designed and priced their products accordingly, even if that argument is somewhat less true today than it was in earlier eras.

I would have argued that memory was far more important than CPU in quickly judging the performance of a machine, once the 7th generation Intels made dual-core obsolete. But the M1 seems to buck this trend a bit as well, given that it only has an 8GB and 16GB variant and its new unified memory model makes traditional estimates of how much memory is needed less important. Some workloads such as an in-memory database won't change, but the memory usage for GUI rendering, graphics, etc. can take advantage of much faster accesses. And, with SSDs which are now considered a must-have for any serious machine, paging to disk is far less expensive than before in any case.

On another note, the M1 iPad Pro is the first time Apple has ever officially confirmed or marketed, let alone offered a choice in, the RAM for an iOS/iPadOS device.
> As technologists, how can we work to rebuild regional and local political and economic sovereignty?

I think you hit the nail on the head. Unfortunately, technologists are naturally focused on scaling solutions up to the entire world. We want to use technology to push hard real world problems behind a screen, behind keyboards, and behind servers. This creates a contradiction in our thinking that cannot be resolved. It cannot be resolved because the political climate is created by exactly that phenomenon of scale, by pushing people and their problems behind screens and servers and making them dance at the touch of our keyboards.

You really want to fix things? Stop thinking about technology and making money and help out in your local community.

Don't take this to mean you, personally. Just someone else. Someone else should work in their local community. We can still write code and make money.

Oh wait. Dang it again.
I prefer "You cannot solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it in the first place."

But your point stands.
So is this basically a wrapper around ProseMirror with more accessible documentation and fancier branding?
I guess it depends on the local culture. In Madrid, with a population of several millions, it's not too weird if you speak with a complete stranger, but some persons get startled easily.

In my hometown, now 85 thousands, half of that when I was a child, it's now more unusual, but it's still very natural for you to start all kind of conversations with anyone with little excuse.

Actually it's expected in many situations, like when giving a heads up, and there's no prelude or pleasantries, you just go to the point as if the other is someone you know and you've been talking for a while and now changed subject. The other wouldn't thank you either, just make some more question or joke.

People from Madrid find it weird: "Did you know that guy? But he talked to you as if he knew you..."
I believe that Apple is effectively doing some binning with the M1: The intro MacBook Air has one less GPU core than the higher-config version or the MacBook Pro.

It would make sense if those were identically-made M1s where one GPU core didn't test well and thus had its fuses blown. Between the CPU and GPU, the GPU cores are almost certainly larger anyway; the GPU cores would therefore have higher probability of defects.
A pilot from the canal was on board, how is it not their fault? (Zero compensation)
Sure. It wasn't meant to be pejorative, just factual. Your comments in this thread make sense though.

Would a "This is a commonly held misconception about King" be more appropriate?
Those all owns their datacenters (and some can afford to design their own CPUs for those).
Renting racks isn't dying yet, but it is on a downward trajectory.
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That struck me as an extremely odd metric to differentiate products by, given its low relevance to non-technical users who don't know what a GPU core even is (except gamers, but they are not buying iMacs). Additionally, most people are going to think adding one more core is hardly worth the price upgrade, and its quite strange to see an odd number of cores.
Exactly, people advocate that there are those shipping stuff in Go, naturally there is the case.

Anyone that had to work with Assembly in production was happy to have any kind of high level language to start with.
Disrupt the hosting market, Apple. We're ready for your EC2.

Achieving a quantum power/performance leap without swinging for server market share is an massive wasted opportunity.

But Apple is Apple. I'll keep dreaming. Oh look, an AWS invoice.
Maybe because every tier 1 cloud provider is starting to design its own CPU. If this is the trend there will be little left to sell them.
It looks nice but seems incredibly laggy when multiple people are connected.
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It would! Thanks for the kind reply.
I apologize. It is difficult to tell when to refute praise of evil (Saddam, NK) and when to avoid starting a political flamewar. I'll just disengage since it leads to unpleasant toxicity, you're right.
One huge problem is that the space of available prefixes is just too damn small. It's tiny. This may be fine for you if you only deal with a few mundane filetypes like plain text, PNG, etc. However, it's very easy to end up in a situation where multiple applications share the file extension. I've run into it all too often.

So you need something to disambiguate.

I can understand that if you've never personally run into this problem, it may seem unimportant. It is extremely frustrating to work with two different files with the same extension on a regular basis.
I'm genuinely envious to people who can get by with just a single keyboard layout.
I'm not sure corporate media had much choice in the matter if they wanted to survive. Almost all are for profit companies that lost heavily when eyeballs shifted to social media. Social media companies make money off of ads, so they optimized viewership without being concerned with the consequences. In order for corporate media to stay alive and stop hemorrhaging viewers, they needed to play by the new rules. It's a shit snowball that is growing as it rolls down hill and it doesn't seem like there is anyway to slow it down or stop it. Or maybe it's more feedback loop like, like a closed loop toilet where no plumber is brave enough to confront it.
"Youtube" itself is not a source of information. It is a site where people post videos. Journalists post videos on Youtube through BBC, Economist, Washington Post, Nightline/PBS, etc...

Does their posting content on Youtube make them less credible?

Judge the originator of the content, not who hosts it.

Might as well go "Ah yes, the internet. A trusted source of information."

That's how shallow your retort is.
No, they're suggesting that the people who vote for either party don't have to hate each other with absolute hatred. They're saying that people should remember that they still have a lot in common. You can be against the other party because you disagree with their policies and still not think that they are evil that must be destroyed.
It's an ant death spiral at this point. The only way to be free of it is to unplug and focus on your own life.
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