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I've always wondered who is buying these super fast apple laptops? Freelancers with that much cash to throw around on a laptop, who wouldn't be buying an imac or mac pro instead for nearly as much? If you are doing this sort of stuff for work, you probably already have a server you connect to or at least a beefy workstation under your desk you are using for the heavy lifting. A lot of people in this space just use an i7 dell workstation from their employer that's probably cheap and thats that. Especially in the age of aws there is no reason anymore to run a lot of data analysis stuff locally anymore when you can get compute power for seconds at a time. I feel like they must sell so few of the top spec macbooks.
This seems perfectly fine.

Private APIs are private and shouldn't be used by third-party, specially if it can bypass security measures [1], furthermore, they've a working alternative already: the portal system.

As a side note, this will break the hackish screen sharing implementation that Zoom has made for GNOME on Wayland and might force them to update to the standardized portal system that works anywhere.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/3943
My employer issues a dongle with a type A, type C, and HDMI port on it with every MacBook. That only helps if you actually have the dongle with you. One popular option was to just keep the dongle attached at all times. Personally, I found an adhesive pouch and attached that to the back of the monitor, and carried the dongle around that way.

I wonder when I'll be able to get one of these new Macs at work ...
Facebook could disappear tomorrow without improving the lot of newspapers. The disappearance of classified ads has much more to do with their difficulties.
Other commenters here want to downplay RT's egregious propaganda, comparing it to the equivalent of other sources. But while I think many mainstream sources: NYT, WSJ, Al Jazeera, BBC, etc. have slants and glaring issues, all pale in comparison to the extreme level of RT.

Just yesterday they had an article from a Charlottesburg "Unite the Right" speaker lamenting why couldn't Americans overthrow their government like the Afghans did[0].

Journalists in Russia that don't unequivocally tout the Russian government narrative run the risk of jail or death.[1]

Every single article has blatant unidirectional spin: "US bad, Russia good."

None are on this level. Any sort of trying to obtain pieces of valuable info from it are infected.

[0]https://www.rt.com/op-ed/537723-americans-control-afghanista...

[1]https://rsf.org/en/russia
> I can provide feedback without necessarily knowing how to fix it

But at least you provide guidance on how and where to learn the solution as well, yes? I don't imagine anyone going around telling people what they should do but not being able or willing to guide them to where they can find out how to do something. Also, I don't see providing advice that is both unsolicited and uninformed as being a gift. That's the sort of thing that cause most people to react poorly and perhaps say, "mind your own business".
Right. Regulatory arbitrage aside, I think it’s hard to make the case that Uber was anything but a massive improvement over incumbent taxi companies.
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Hey! We just recently open-sourced the code behind our streaming music player at work. No visual component, just the guts.

Although the MediaSource API makes streaming MP3s relatively simple these days, there are some really hairy compatibility issues that require falling back to the much more manual AudioContext API for iOS. This library abstracts over that whole mess as well as a bunch of other weird compatibility hacks.

The library's API is admittedly still a bit over-specialized for our exact use case, but we plan to invest time into making it more widely useful as we receive feedback. :)

Demo (Github Pages): https://protonradio.github.io/player/
It was kind of confusing the way Apple did it but with the Intel 13" Macbook Pro. There was the "2 Thunderbolt 3 ports" which started at $1299 and the "4 Thunderbolt 3 ports" model which started at $1799. Other than the ports the 4 port model had an entirely different generation CPU and the Touchbar. When you compare it to the "4 Thunderbolt" model it is replacing it is a slightly more palatable $200 increase. They are keeping the 13" M1 Macbook available as an entry level Macbook pro.
The notation on all the measurements should be single tick (') for feet...unless you meant it to be in inches :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit)#:~:text=The%20IEEE....
cool! I like peoples custom solutions! I'm using fzf too, I found out about it here on hackaday, it was quite easy to script a nice little TUI for playing midi files (what I did) with it.

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Ooooh, git annex seems super useful! I'm definitely going to have fun with that, for other things
You clearly don't have a clue how modern Apple HW is built and why stuff that you're talking about on old Apple HW just won't work anymore on the machines build today.

I'm talking about 2020 devices where you can't just "change the chips" and hope it works like in the 2015 model from the video you posted.

Modern Apple devices aren't repairable anymore.
Au contraire, as a developer staring at screens all day I think it's very important to invest in high quality displays
I guess you have never been the victim of theft before? Sure, the government might, possibly be able to restore your property, but it is unlikely to actually happen.
I have a feeling that if they had released an updated Mac Mini with the new chips, it would have appreciably dented the sales of new MacBook Pros.

Too many people don't agree with the notch aesthetic and probably pair a discrete unit with their preferred display. Right now Apple doesn't want their race horse being outrun by an underdog.
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See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28888214 (2 days ago)
I know some people who became "accredited investors" through the simple step of lying about their assets. Obviously that's wrong, but many investment companies do little or no verification.
This is amazing as having only vaguely followed the announcements I thought it’s was published today until the very end.
Many people seem to rage against the removal of content that felt flavorful or gimmicky or part of the tedious grind that they grew up with. I think the game has gotten much better personally. They also removed enemies that could break your consumables and inventory encumbrance limits (items, not armor encumbrance). I can't really imagine playing with them again.

Food in particular always felt stressful and time consuming even though I never made it to the end without an enormous stash of permafood.
I doubt they are going to make different chips for prosumer devices. They are going to spread out the M1 pro/max upgrade to the rest of the lineup at some point during the next year, so they can claim "full transition" through their quoted 2 years.

The wildcard is the actual mac pro. I suspect we aren't going to hear about mac pro until next Sept/Oct events, and super unclear what direction they are going to go. Maybe allowing config of multiple M1 max SOCs somehow working together. Seems complicated.
The nuance is "claims". It's never been properly audited.
The rich get richer because their wealth grows exponentially.
Of course. Butlers aren't murderers, except for when they are!
> science-faith

In God we trust; all others must bring data.

> cyproheptadine

Never heard about it. I only remember that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexamethasone#COVID%E2%80%9119 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molnupiravir#COVID-19_clinical... had good enough clinical trials. IANAMD

> COVID-22

I understand it's a joke, but I don't expect a new epidemic from a new coronavirus until ~2030 (SARS was like 20 years ago, and MERS like 10 years ago). Hopefully the new variants of COVID-19 will get milder to fly under the radar, like other covirus.

> Modern Doctors basically know what they're doing and should be fully trusted to make good decisions for their patients.

Moderns doctors know a lot of things and in most cases can give the best known recommendation, but for some important cases it's best to have a second and even a third opinion. Also, some MD are better than other, like the x10 programmers, other MD are morons with a whitecoat.
This is a poorly considered take, no offense to you. I think you're failing to consider that Apple traditionally drives innovation in the computing market, and this will push a lot of other manufacturers to compete with them. AMD is already on the warpath, and Intel just got a massive kick in the pants.

There's other arguments against Apple being as big as it, but this isn't a good one. Tesla being huge and powerful has driven amazing EV innovation, for example, and Apple is in the same position in the computing market.
"why not both"

Direct manipulation/GUI will always be faster at producing content. It worth exploring how much the two can we wedded with code synthesis. I get that code synthesis attempts normally produce poor quality code, but maybe a hybrid work flow could work between using the GUI and fixing up code.

It's a shame that the current CodeCAD tools have very little interaction with he part viewer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=290&v=jC2_O5Jh_Rg&feature=yo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF8arSFKI1k
You are correct. My first sentence was imprecise and inaccurate.

Government does exist to, among other things, regulate what private businesses can do.

I should have stated that governments should not create regulation when there is either no quantifiable externality or the harm is a part of a voluntary trade between private parties.
Yes, in a menu bar you typically can't control and usually has a few icons (battery, wifi, date, bluetooth, VPN) and a few words, something like Outlook, file, edit, view, message, format, tools, window, help).

I watched in side of several apps I used and never saw anything useful in the top center.
RT????? Really dude???
This sounds like "some science has said things I don't like, so you shouldn't refer to science as a point in an argument."
I don't think that argument holds very much water. You can test both in sanitized environments, and Google's search is still better. Their algorithm is so much more than "surface content based on personal data" but people are so quick to deduce it down to just that.

I want DDG to succeed, but their search product sucks, and its not because they don't collect data.
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It's LPDDR5, which maxes out at 6.4Gbit/s/pin, on a 256bit/512bit interface.

It's much easier to make a wider bus with LPDDR5 and chips soldered on the board than with DIMMs.
People also replace IC’s all the time. Heat it, remove the broken SSD chip, put the new one, re-heat.
I feel like HN users reflexively downvoted this comment but it does have merit. Personally, I'm no supporter or Trump or his right-wing viewpoints but even I felt slightly uncomfortable with the CEO's decision to send such an email.
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If Nvidia buys ARM they'll flee like rats on a sinking ship. I'd bet on RISC-V.
Not sure if it will be available, but 400GB/s is way too much for 8 cores to take up. You would need some sort of avx512 to hog up that much bandwidth.

Moreover, it's not clear how much of a bandwidth/width does M1 max CPU interconnect/bus provide.

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Edit: Add common sense about HPC workloads.

There is a fundamental idea called memory-access-to-computation ratio. We can't assume a 1:0 ratio since it was doing literally nothing except copying.

Typically your program needs serious fixing if it can't achieve 1:4. (This figure comes from a CUDA course. But I think it should be similar for SIMD)

Edit: also a lot of that bandwidth is fed through cache. Locality will eliminate some orders of magnitudes of memory access, depending on the code.
I doubt that we'll see a really powerful Mac Mini anytime soon. Why? Because it would cannibalize the MacBook Pro when combined with an iPad (sidecar).

Most professionals needing pro laptops use the portability to move between studio environments or sets (e.g home and work). The Mini is still portable enough to be carried in a backpack, and the iPad can do enough on it's own to be viable for lighter coffee shop based work.

Not many would do highend production work outside a studio or set without additional periphery, meaning that highend performance of the new MBP isn't needed for very mobile situations.

A powerful mini and an iPad would therefore be the much better logical choice vs. a highend MacBook Pro. There where you need the power there's most likely a power outlet and room for a Mini.
Joe Rogan's comments keep coming up in the context of discussion of this issue in recent news; many people are still mad. You've picked a poor example.

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/18/tucker-carlson-joe-rogan-an...
What's your issue with toll cameras? The law is pretty clear in the US that you have no right to privacy in public, and public roads are no exception.

You can fight the fine if it wasn't you in the car and if the picture they took of you is unclear or looks like someone else you can get out of it.

Assuming you're recognizable in the picture what's the issue with that?
Let me arrogantly simplify the problem a bit and offer a solution:

1) bet everything on renewables - solar and wind. more scale means lower and lower production/maintenance costs over time.

2) bet on the cheapest, most effective, least polluting energy storage solution, and add huge scale to it, hence vastly reducing costs over time.

Cheap and clean energy storage makes the intermittent production problem of most renewables go away.

No nuclear meltdowns. No waste disposal.

And no coal, no gas, no pollution from burning that stuff.

Ok, end of arrogant rant.
They are using LPDDR5.

Not the usual DDR5 used in Desktop / Laptop.
Agreed. In fact, I think I'll mind it less. On my iPhone the only time it looks funny is in landscape, otherwise it just sits in the top-bar. On a laptop that isn't an issue.

I think for me it'll fade away, especially with a dark-mode UI.
Metal is Metal. Once you support Metal for iOS games they also work under MacOS when running on Apple's chips.

You can support traditional MacOS application chrome with little additional effort.
Seems obvious that regulating finance within the state is precisely in-bounds. What has been overstepped, besides the sense of entitlement by unregistered crypto lenders to ignore the law?

> New York’s Martin Act sets forth a broad list of instruments that are declared to be securities and thus subject to its provisions: “any stocks, bonds, notes, evidences of interest or indebtedness or other securities…or negotiable documents of title, or foreign currency orders, calls or options therefor hereinafter called security or securities.” As courts have stated for almost a century, the Martin Act is a remedial statute, intended to protect the investing public, which means that its provisions — including those setting forth the definition of a “security” — are to be given a broad reading. Indeed, those defined categories of instruments are not exhaustive; other instruments or arrangements can, and have been, deemed securities under the law

Note that this doesn't just impact lenders based in NY, it impacts anybody lending to New Yorkers.
Note that it starts at $2500, and that's probably with the lowest cpu and 16gb of ram. Probably gonna be $5K+ when specced to what you mention above.
It's not that people are against the Touch Bar. People are for physical function keys.

If they had added the Touch Bar in addition to physical function keys then there would have been less resistance to it.
The good news is that AMD is working their butt off on this, and seems to be much closer to Apple in terms of Watts/unit of performance. Intel needs to get in gear, now.
Although I would mention that I'd expect the litigious class to be some of the most highly impacted by the bizarre pricing practices of printers. Physical copies of legal documents are still often used for review and agreement even if those documents include 150 pages of boilerplate term definitions.
> As an aside, most designers I know use external monitors. Do you find yourself doing this type of work on your laptop display?

Guilty as charged (Two Eizos), but I work outside the office regularly, or in the weekends when "inspiration" strikes.

What is the point of Pro laptop when I cannot perform my work at a maximum UX comfort.

Another use-case is that I develop my photos on the go, so on, so on.:)

I am still partially in the Apple Ecosystem (mainly due to C1) so by the looks of it I will have to transition to something different.

> Idea: Write a utility to add in a software bezel for folks like this. We can call it distraction free mode. We'll take the extra space back and replace it with a black bezel. The webcam and front facing utilities are now within that space.
You can toggle it on and off.

My first reaction was this idea also. I am sure that as we speak someone is firing up Xcode and it will be available if Apple approves it:)
There are a few salient points to unpack here:

1. Are these companies breaking the law?

2. Are Nexo and others "tak[ing] advantage of unsuspecting investors"?

3. Does these companies think they're "above the law"?

4. Is the Martin Act protecting the investing public in this case?

Each of these is deserving of its own in-depth answer, but TLDRs are sufficient:

1. Yes, because securities law is written to be a catch all (both the Martin Act and the 1933/34 Securities Acts) where exceptions are drawn as to what is _not_ a security. While these accounts may act more like traditional "bank accounts", bank accounts are specifically excluded from securities law because they fall under a (stricter) regulatory regime.

2. 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.

3. I don't think so, but they do know they're not in full compliance. This is a game of Natural Law (see point 4) and cat and mouse, and staying ahead of regulators is different than being "above" the law.

4. Stablecoin yield-accounts are one of the few liquid, low-risk options for beating inflation and likely the only one accessible for every-day people. If anything, they should be more pervasive in accordance with the principal that BlockFi, Nexo, etc. and their ilk are offering a social good even if it is outside of what they are _permitted_ to allow by law. It is US fiscal policy, brittle supply chains, and lagging regulatory regimes that are detrimental to the investing public here.
My personal favorite was "Something Wicked This Way Comes".
The drug in the article is the suppository form of Indomethacin. That's between $6500 and $7000 on GoodRx.
I would love to be enlightened about the new physics that Apple is using which is out of reach to the other engineers.

/s

Anyway, people are crafty and engineering is not an Apple-exclusive trade. believe it or not, Apple can’t do anything about the laws of physics.
Not to mention all the eWaste that comes with the AirPods.
Apple does nothing to improve front line technician procedures. They aren't even an engineering factor. If you happen to be able to replace something on an Apple product, it's only because the cost-benefit ratio wasn't in favor of making that part hostile to work with.

Apple puts 56 screws in the Unibody MBP keyboards. They were practically the pioneer of gluing components in permanently. They don't care about technicians. Not even their own. They have been one of the leaders of the anti-right-to-repair movement from day one.
Can it do fluid simulations for aquatic robots?
Reading the history of science is a good reminder too. The amount of mistakes and struck of luck.

Science is a quest in models. With a somehow high degree of self consistency (poetically so). But that's it.
Yeah, M1 Pro/Max on iMac 30” likely in 2022 H1. Mini also, I imagine.
Really? Looks very cool to me. Matter of opinion, I guess :)
Even without presenting a lot, being able to impromptu throw my screen up onto whatever random TV/projector is around via HDMI has come in handy surprisingly often on my 2013 MBP. If I had been limited to DisplayPort, I would’ve been able to do that <5% of the time.
To be clear, I'm explicitly not commenting on market penetration of either solution, but rather their inherent capabilities. I don't see USB-to-HDMI cables or adapters as particularly cumbersome, whereas there isn't a way to just cram a storage module fully inside a USB-C port as though it were an SD slot.

As far as the cost of HDMI vs USB-C for long runs, that's a good point. I could see similarly cheap/efficient video-only USB-C cables potentially addressing that use case, but I don't know enough about the internals of USB-C to comment on whether that's viable. I could also see HDMI being used only behind the scenes in the future (like how computers don't typically have fiber optic or coaxial ports).

At the end of the day, it's not like I'm suggesting that HDMI should be removed from computers. My point is that the argument for removing it (whether or not you agree with that argument) never applied to SD ports in the first place.
If we can get an actual Windows on ARM ecosystem started things will get really exciting really quickly.
I don't think they are going to make desktop versions, they'll probably put the pro and max versions in a new iMac body during Q2 2022 and might add config options to mac mini. Might be for supply chain reasons, focusing 100% on macbook pro production to meet the absolutely massive incoming demand.
The lack of bootcamp imo is a mistake too given the nature of enterprise software. I know people that are beholden to Autodesk software that doesn't even have a mac version and recommends mac users install via bootcamp, which you can't even do anymore despite there being arm builds of windows.
I'd say it's practice
Good point, I was not aware that Deepmind aquired MuJoCo recently.
Right there with you. Used to want the same, now I've got the drive to do other things with the time and headspace.
Science is an amazing but frustrating tool. Amazing in the sense that it is the only way to reliably learn more about what is happening around us. Frustrating because it is much slower than we'd like in providing reliable answers in many situations (pandemics, perhaps even climate change). And the gap between gathering observations and reaching agreed upon conclusions gets filled with normal but unhelpful human behaviors.

It's especially frustrating in medicine, perhaps most in behavioral medicine, because there are so many degrees of freedom in human behavior and value judgments assigned to behaviors.
Yes, they are providing evidence that maybe the vaxx doens't reduce rates - but they are not saying anything about government claims or expectations up until now.

And yes, this data would be damaging to mainstream dogma but it's only one article.

My bet is the scientific reality is somewhere in the middle: vaccines prevent transmission, but not by that much.

Public Health Policy is always going to err on the side of 'more vaxxes'.

If the data really starts to show vaxxes not as useful as we might want for R0 (because one study is just one study), they will change their tune and back off.

There are a lot of reasons this data could be odd, including the fact that spread is happening among children right now, so it could be related to school outbreaks, and, areas where there wasn't a lot of COVID previously.

In the end, their messaging will primarily be driven by net cases and uptick: if we're seeing breakouts and growth of COVID in certain areas, then you'll hear about vaccines, if case rates stay very low, we'll get back to normal.