skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What he's saying is this:

USB-PD on USB-C negotiates the highest voltage your device and charger will support.

You can buy a 30W USB-PD charger that supports a smaller subset of voltages than a 20W USB-PD one, and in practice will deliver less power to your device because the voltages both like don't line up well.

What actually is supported by each tends not to be specified/disclosed-- or if it is, it takes a lot of digging to figure it out.
To some extent, if I read an article where I don't know about 90% of it, but the 10% I do know about is wrong, I will discredit the whole thing. To many people with ulterior motives pushing misleading narratives to assume good faith mistakes on things.
https://twitter.com/MichaelBabich/status/1450154997858115587
> there are many trained scientists that have never read a bit of philosophy

Not only not read a bit of philosophy, but it's almost as common to find trained scientists who scoff at the field as a whole. Of the trained scientists I've met, only two didn't immediately respond with condescension when I brought up philosophy as a subject worth paying attention to. Several have actually tried to tell me that science and philosophy are "opposites", or went with the the tired line of "philosophy is just science that does not have any proof for it". That last one there fundamentally misunderstands the point of it all. An ignorance philosophy in general I think is a problem right now.
Can I just put another word in for how bananas this is? WireGuard and Netstack allows you to run an entire TCP/IP stack in your userland program with no cooperation from your kernel. You can an interface to write raw packets (as an unprivileged user) and the whole TCP, integrated into the standard Go networking code. It is very, very cool to play with.
I don't know if you've been following marcan & co on their work on bringing linux to M1 macs, but it's moving along nicely. Pretty soon there will be an interesting conundrum for believers in open systems: buy high performance mac hardware but run an open OS on it, or take the high road and buy a "worse" laptop from a more open vendor.
They wrote a great paper explaining their "Unit Visualization" concept/approach: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

IIRC their engine used to be their own in house WebGL code, but according to their GitHub ( https://github.com/Microsoft/SandDance) they are now using Deck.gl (https://deck.gl/) for rendering and Vega for chart logic. I do think it's not designed to be used as a library though but a complete studio like environment.
Another anecdote from someone who is also in the music production scene - 32GB tended to be the "sweet spot" in my personal case for the longest time, but I'm finding myself hitting the limits more and more as I continue to add more orchestral tracks which span well over 100 tracks total in my workflows.

I'm finding I need to commit and print a lot of these. Logic's little checker in the upper right showing RAM, Disk IO, CPU, etc also show that it is getting close to memory limits on certain instruments with many layers.

So as someone who would be willing to dump $4k into a laptop where its main workload is only audio production, I would feel much safer going with 64GB knowing there's no real upgrade if I were to go with the 32GB model outside of buying a totally new machine.

Edit: And yes, there is does show the typical "fear of committing" issue that plagues all of us people making music. It's more of a "nice to have" than a necessity, but I would still consider it a wise investment. At least in my eyes. Everyone's workflow varies and others have different opinions on the matter.
What do I do if I want burgundy shoes? Do I decide if I think it's red or purple or blue? Or do I go further and think what the person listing it thought it was? Do I hope the decision went the same way each time, and all shoes have their colour listed?

I don't do any of this. I filter by shoes and look with my eyes. Retail search is a poor example because existing retail tagging is poor.
Well, you can have high bandwidth and poor latency at the same time -- think ultra wide band radio burst from Earth to Mars -- but yeah, on a CPU with all the crazy co-optimized cache hierarchies and latency hiding it's difficult to see how changing one part of the system changes the whole. For instance, if you switched 16GB of DRAM for 4GB of SRAM, you could probably cut down the cache-miss latency a lot -- but do you care? If you cache hit rate is high enough, probably not. Then again, maybe chopping the worst case lets you move allocation away from L3 and L2 and into L1, which gets you a win again.

I suspect the only people who really know are the CPU manufacturer teams that run PIN/dynamorio traces against models -- and I also suspect that they are NDA'd through this life and the next and the only way we will ever know about the tradeoffs are when we see them pop up in actual designs years down the road.
> The challenge for AWS is one lots of incumbents have experienced: they created a market and it's economics and now they're being attacked by the next generation of market entrants who've structured their businesses to _specifically_ attack those economics.

Absolutely. This exactly what Tesla has been doing with car industry incumbents. For example, the higher specs versions of the Model 3 beat +$100k cars in acceleration, raw power, torque, handling, etc.

Incumbents have been selling performance as a high-ticket price feature for decades. Traditional brands cannot compete on high-performance features against Tesla without cannibalizing their ICE offering.
The court cases allowing many of of the Vietnamese atrocities to go unpunished allowed people to claim they were "just following orders." You might not be wrong...
My understanding is that you don't really need hyperthreading on a RISC CPU because decoding instructions is easier and doesn't have to be parallelised as with hyperthreading.
I don't disagree there are technically huge incentives to ensure everyone is paid what they're rightfully owed.

But currently the problem is that in aggregate, it brings more money to rely on an overreaching algorithm (which is already built and paid-for) that favours big established labels as opposed to small-scale creators; the money they would spend on ensuring everyone gets paid fairly by building a better system wouldn't be recouped by the (relatively small) revenue they'd get from small-scale creators being able to participate.

When I mentioned financial incentives, I didn't really mean incentives in terms of making more money - as per the above I don't think there is enough money to justify improving the current system. What I meant is that there should be more enforcement; what the current system does is actually committing copyright infringement by misattributing the revenue to the wrong creators, and if this was punished appropriately it would provide a financial incentive to resolve this problem.
which is precisely the reason I went with linux: so I could maximize my hardware resources while eliminating license costs. By not buying whatever MS compiler in those days, I was able to max out my workstation with 32MB RAM.
Note how the actual quote is filled with qualifiers and suspicion and references to evidence but to no concrete conclusion.

Then notice that the made up straw man quote, which no one actually said despite being between quotation marks, you say "trust science now, we're surely 100% correct now."

You choose to read "maybe X, maybe Y, we recommend Z" as "we're surely 100% correct now." That's on you.
- Thicker top bezel

- Have the camera portion of the lid stick out a bit

- External webcam

- Move the "notch" into a corner where it's less obtrusive

- Put the webcam in the laptop base instead
Science qua science can provide humans with (close to) objectively accurate information, obviously constrained by the limits of human understanding of the natural world and the technology we have to measure phenomena.

What science can't do is the following:

* Science cannot make risk-management decisions for people. Weighing the known and unknown rewards and risks of some human decision and choosing what human action to take based on objective information is outside of the realm of science. No, the science cannot make choices for humans. Rational and smart people, when presented with the same scientific evidence, can make different choices. For instance, there have been many times in the past when the European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration have had differing opinions on whether or not some drug ought to be approved. Risk management is a different topic than science, yet they get wrongly conflated every day on TV these days.

* Science cannot make value judgements or ethical decisions for humans. There are some hills that humans find to be important enough to be worth taking some risk for. Science cannot decide whether "freedom" is important enough to risk dying for, yet rational humans have made and will continue to choose freedom as long as free will exists.
Yeah, they also claim to have "studio quality microphones". I think specs are great, but comparisons are not always honest.
Hm, growing somewhat experienced, I find myself adapating an old quote more and more: Sufficiently advanced static typing is indistinguishable from dynamic typing.

Now, I know, it's not true. It's entirely possible to build weird things in python that are provably impossible to typecheck statically. But modern language servers and their type inference capabilities in rust, terraform, or even straight up python are very impressive.
Yeah I have a 2012(?) and one of the only things is that the feet have all worn flat and smooth, and feel like they are going to fall off. And if I want to overthink it, it's probably one of the cheapest feeling things about it.

What do you mean the rubber feet don't stay on? They make millions of these, milled out of aluminum, they can't keep the feet on?

Personally, I would trade a lot of design elegance for some hardy laptop feet.
> This was science not that long ago [0]... Then whoops, mandatory masks... "but trust science now, we're surely 100% correct now!".

The findings from the scientific method are not infallible, just better in every way than the findings from any other method. Better than the words of charlatans, better even than the words of the wisest humans to ever live.

It's not perfect and it's not magic. It's just significantly better than anything else by leaps and bounds.

I think it's fucking amazing and I wish you could see that too.
Your criticism boils down to "it's possible to overcomplicate things". Sure if you completely remove static typing then you can't overcomplicate static typing. But is that really an argument against static typing?
I tried that too yesterday! I wanted to try Gnome 41 so I used the gnome template in archinstall, but then afterwards I got in a big mess with NetworkManager vs. systemd-networkd and the docs said NetworkManager was included with the gnome group but then it wasn't and I wasn't sure what to disable/enable and couldn't install it until I set up wifi with systemd. Ended up installing Fedora 35 beta, so far I'm happy. The previous time I tried to install arch manually but I found out late in the process that I made a small mistake settings up something related to btrfs and luks and I didn't want to restart all over again. That part went great with archinstall.
Cloudflare Workers competes with both Lambda and Lambda@Edge. Workers is a general-purpose compute platform that happens to run on the edge; it is not a platform intended to be specific to things that need to run on the edge.

(Disclosure: I'm the tech lead of Workers.)
Main reason is that banks are more responsible with giving out loans. Those loans are assets. Of course once you start giving out loans like candy to people who should never get them who then use them to buy highly speculative assets then the whole idea goes to hell.

With Tether they print it and give it out to their buddies for who knows what, maybe a pinky promise to repay some day.
I see. I found it more surprising that there was no 2.5K option in between which could offer good balance between improved quality and not draining the battery too much.
They're not interchangeable. USB-C has power negotiation, but that doesn't mean the devices support those voltages. You still need to understand the voltage ratings on both ends of a cable.
> The M1 still uses DDR memory at the end of the day, it's just physically closer to the core. This is in contrast to L3 which is actual SRAM on the core.

But they're probably using 8-channels of LPDDR5, if this 400GB/s number is to be believed. Which is far more memory channels / bandwidth than any normal chip released so far, EPYC and Skylake-server included.
The notch is not just a blow to the aesthetics, but it actually is annoying when it comes to software with long menu bars. Also, what happens when you install many plugins in the menu? The notch is literally taking up good space that could be used for menu apps.
Huh, TIL. I got the impression AC underwater was too high loss to bother with.
Your own analogy can be used to explain how you do not fully understand the situation. 10 cups of cream and 1 cup of ice does not make ice cream, even though that technically is ice and cream. Just like a 10V 5a charger is not the same as a 50V 1a charger.
I'm ok now, thanks.
The aspect ratio of the new MBP seems to come out to 16:10.4. I assume that the 0.4 is the notch zone, and the part of the screen below it is 16:10. So it's really just a standard 16:10 with some extra pixels, which sounds good to me.
I bang !g all the time still. Wish I didn't feel compelled to. As a point of contrast: I'm not using DDG very often for work, more so personal use.
> The big 3 clouds are playing Chess, but Cloudflare is playing Go.

I think most lay people don't know the nuances between chess and go and would presume that chess is the more advanced game based on superficial first impressions. Probably not a good metaphor because I don't know the author's opinion on the games and most people will probably see the title and interpret it in opposite ways. Using "3D chess" instead would have been a more clear metaphor.
So against games that they just became a Patron supporter of Blender [1]...

[1] https://www.blender.org/press/apple-joins-blender-developmen...
They are mostly not repairable even by authorized repair providers.

Basically, they can only change a few components (keyboard, display (with assembly), motherboard, and probably the aluminium case), but that's it.
You loose one usb-c port to get all the others. I've never needed 4 usb-c ports at a time, but definitely have needed all the others. And one usb-c port is replaced by power, which many times I have had to use one for anyway. So whether you bought into full usb-c future or not I don't see the extra ports hurting you. Maybe a 'whatever', but don't see it as a reason to dislike it.
The US took down kickasstorrents and arrested its founder in Poland despite them following the DMCA. You have to suck up the media companies to be allowed to host a service these days.
Sure, but the LLC wouldn't need to know the meatspace identity of the user. And for the LLC management it would be a bona fide arms length business. So the troll would be stuck doing discovery on the online account, which if things were setup correctly (likely for the situations where having to dox yourself is problematic), it wouldn't lead back to the user either.
This person either did not read that memo or read what they wanted from it. It makes no claim of individual inferiority or superiority.
Solar and wind are displacing coal right now, watt-hour for watt-hour. Each additional panel and wind turbine wired in means less coal burned, right now.

Nobody but you is talking about coal and nukes being interchangeable. But it is a fact that both boil huge amounts of water for steam to drive through huge turbines that need frequent, expensive maintenance, and need elaborate cooling apparatus to turn the steam back into water. Both have large, unavoidable operating costs that make them uncompetitive vs. tech that does not.

Coal has the extra cost of mining and transporting coal, and environmental catastrophe. Nukes have huge corruption overhead and life-cycle costs, and long, long delay between spending money and getting any power at all out, with a strong likelihood of never, instead, plus risk of regional disaster.

It is not a fact that both renewables and nukes are needed. We already know that nukes are not needed. (Rather, you wish that nukes were needed.) With every nuke project that collapses, it gets better that it was not anyway needed. What is tragic about the failures is that so much was wasted that could have been used to build out non-dead-end generating capacity.
> [I] can't remember the last time I felt like resorting to "!g", because I can't remember resorting to Google ever actually solving my problem.

I use DDG by default and it covers most of my searches, but I do have 2 main issues.

1. Maps and business information is way better with Google.

2. I usually work with Salesforce, which uses a lot of words from the 'traditional' developer ecosystem, but is an entirely separate world. Google "knows" that the method I'm looking for is in the Apex string class, not the Java one.

It's not enough to get me to switch but I find a lot of Salesforce related queries which give perfect results on Google, but overly generic ones on DDG. I suspect that's a common issue when you work in a more niche area where the personalization is more valuable.
Which is just google, right?
at least for me, every system has its place.

i love posgresql, but i would not use it to replace a rabbitmq instance -- one is an RDBMS, the other is a queue/event system.

"oh but psql can pretend to be kafka/rabbitmq!" -- sure, but then you need to add tooling to it, create libraries to handle it, and handle all the edge cases.

with rmq/kafka, there already a bunch of tools to handle the exact case of a queue/event system.
>This _isn't_ true at the state level, where payroll taxes may be paid by an employer and not the employee.

That's not true in my state.

>In the end it is a wash.

Not even close.

Show me a state that has combined (employer/employee) payroll taxes of 15.3%. What's that? No state comes anywhere close to that?

Not a wash by a long shot.
There’s a screenshot that shows this happening
The only thing I'm disappointed on is that I was really hoping for Ethernet-over-MagSafe like the iMac power adapter.
Just made a comment about this recently, but a few year ago Microsoft added an enhanced GDI scaling mode. It applies the scaling during the GDI calls so it can render elements sharply. Obviously this won't magically make low-res images look better and it can't do anything about UI elements not rendered through GDI, but it's much better than just scaling the whole window up after it's rendered.
I would put more emphasis on the grammar (operator+motion, use of case for mirroring, etc.) than on the vocabulary… and also avoid both repetition and fixed idioms at all cost.

As for "muscle memory", it is only involved in di" at a very low level: pressing the right key on the keyboard. Deciding to do di" is _not_ "muscle memory".
I'm curios as to why these much more energy efficient chips require a significant upgrade of the power brick, now at 140W that's more than 40W higher than the Intel chips (and only for the 16" model).

Not a big deal, but can't see what would require the massive upgrade (and I'm a bit frustrated that all my cables are only rated for 100W)
There is a generous bezel remaining below the screen. They could simply shift the display downward and have the same size display in the exact same footprint without the notch. It's a purely aesthetic choice.
Thank you for agreeing, many (a word you used first) people are still upset about Rogan's comments, disproving your point that "none" are. If you have anything but blind speculation you're going on, feel free to provide it!
It's a bit concerning that the new chips have special purpose video codec hardware. I hope this trend doesn't continue, requiring laptops from different manufacturers to play different video formats or at least with a non-degraded quality.
It's extra screen, but with limited utility due to that notch being there. Having that extra screen without the notch would've been even better.
> "But also it's super bad, and it's obviously the best we can do."

I didn't say that, but it might actually be true. Having the same people that created the current system design a single-payer system or attempt price fixing is unlikely to lead to a better outcome.
> totally a halfhearted hack, except for this markup file that I did spend a lot of time making

LOL
I just used Apple's trade-in service for my 2014 MacBook Pro and received $430.

So there is another, quite lucrative, option besides discarding it.
Behavioral changes were compelled on false premises. That generated the vast majority of the push-back and acrimony.

Closing borders was racist. Fauci admitted he intentionally misled people [1]. It was totally natural and totally not even conceivable that it had been engineered or part of a program that intentionally makes viruses more infectious. Masks don't work. Masks do work (even though we now know it to be aerosol, not droplet like the flu). So on and so forth.

It is hard to maintain an air of credibility when you are consistently proving to not be credible.

[1] https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/90445 (the source NYT article was paywalled)
What does the vertical axis mean in those graphs? "Relative performance" seems made up.

Certainly there are tasks they can do to skew that one way or another.
Well, Apple is selling M1 Macs like hotcakes, so it won't be too long until it'll be stupid not to support them. Also, texture thrashing isn't really an issue when you've got a shared CPU/GPU memory with 64 GB of space. Just cache like half the game in it lol
Laws can be changed, especially when it comes to people’s survival.
The Micronation of Westarctica
Solid gold
AMD showed with their Infinity Cache that you can get away with much less bandwidth if you have large caches. It has the side effect of radically reducing power consumption.

Apple put 32MB of cache in their latest iPhone. 128 or even 256MB of L3 cache wouldn't surprise me at all given the power benefits.
I agree with you that central banks don't have the tools to solve inequality in the long run (as you point out, the tax system and spending does). I'm simply noting that we've collectively invested central banks with magical powers because of our unwillingness to actually discuss taxation.
> No. The risk profiles on these products match that of Robhinhood, Wealthfront, or a Chase checking account (Genesis' custodial insurance policy beats the FDIC's $200k ceiling). Biggest issue is that you don't own your private keys but that's not unique here.

How are these companies providing 8%+ return on stable coins? They have loans at 4.x%, so they're not taking your coins, lending it, then returning part of the interest to you (like how traditional fiat banks work). With traditional banking the interest rate is closely related to bond rates and the federal reserve, but that's also not the case here.

Theres no clear reason BlockFi can offer such a high rate. Thats a reason for me to be suspicious of the stability and risk profile of these compared to a savings account. If I could truly be confident in the stability of this, I would happily use this as a savings account.

Also, they have insurance, but I'll believe its useful when its tested.