skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine having a surround sound system.

Now put on your headphones and you still have that surround sound system.

That's why it's useful / wanted. Video gamers use spatial audio to know where that person shooting at them is.

Audio listeners like the illusory effects of panning around their head.

ASMR listeners like how it can sound exactly like someone is scratching their head because the sound has origin.

Movie producers like it because they can fit more audio into a single scene because the brain can process more spatial audio than regular stereo audio.

That said, stereo audio is still pretty good. Some audio is still just mono. Copied audio is usually mono.

Spatial audio is one way for producers to set their creations off from cheap copies, almost as a non-intrusive form of DRM.

These are my opinions, and happy to chat more about it. Audio is tight.
It's just as credible as any of the mainstream US networks like CNN, MSNBC et al.
> Ok… not sure how he got there. I have a gateway program right now that is definitely not just 10% IO. It’s like 95% IO. It seems a weird generalization to assume my programs will be similar to his.

Agreed. When a program exists mostly to coordinate the activity of other programs, most code in that program will be doing IO of various sorts, not crunching data. It's easy for someone who's written primarily data-crunching code to underestimate just how IO-intensive some other programs are --- and vice versa.
Heh.. been waiting forever for one of these! They describe it as being capable of cleaning any Apple display.
Power users forget that function keys and even command shortcuts are pretty much useless for normal users.

>About 90 per cent of computer users don't use CTRL-F to search for a word - as they don't know such a keyboard shortcut exists, a Google survey found.

The results stunned Google's Uber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness, Dan Russell.

I think we just all assume that we all know it, but no one actually does."

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/only-one-in-10-know-what-c...
Unpopular opinion: I am surprised by how much people like MagSafe. Charging over usb-c seems so ideal: one cable for all of my devices. And in a decade, the number of times I've tripped or banged on the cable in a way that having MagSafe would have made a difference is zero. Just trying to understand others I guess... What makes it so appealing, given you have to carry around more stuff to use it?
Everything you said is correct, but I would really like for the SEC to move away from the “accredited investor” angle. I’m not convinced there’s any real benefit to the populace to restrict a limited (not necessarily riskier) set of investments to rich people.
A year or two seems implausibly low but I would also compare this with the competition. For example, I have some great AKG headphones (over-ear, wired) which cost more even before adjusting for inflation — the audio quality is absolutely stellar but all of the plastic started falling apart after a couple of years. I've replaced the covers over the ears but now the non-replaceable cable shroud and padding on the crossbar are disintegrating, too.

They probably weigh 10 times more than a pair of AirPods so I'm not sure what the total landfill impact ends up like. I am 100% certain that we will need to have regulation requiring manufacturers to recycle dead products if we want to move the needle at all. I'd also be utterly shocked if AirPods were even 0.1% of the total landfill volume generated by the average buyer over that period — higher for certain trace metals but still, this seems like a newer spin on “I don't even own a TV”.
What issues with Docker do you have? I use it every day and have no issues
Not to take away from a very insightful comment, but can you share a link to the parrot video?
It doesn't sound like the USD has a ton of exposure here, so how would it bubble up? Does a major bank (Citi, Chase, BofA, etc.) have a large position in Tether?
Your statement does not really make any sense. Unless you are talking about the centralized banking shutting the ramps to coinbase or other large fiat/crypto custodians/exchanges.

That would piss off a lot of people.

With respect to defi, other than trying to shut down entities that host the website which is really just a gui for interaction I'm stumped at what action exists.

For instance, I go on coinbase buy ethereum and some wrapped token. I can then transfer that wrapped token to just about ANY smart chain I want paying for the tx, then use that money get an over collateralized loan, then go buy some other wrapped/native token collect what ever yield I want and use that to service the loan fees.

I can then unwind the entire process when ever I want come back to coinbase sell the wrapped token on their open market and then turn it into fiat. That's not only it. I can unwind my loan/yield strategy convert it into an ERC20 stable token transfer that any fiat on/off ramp I want and voila. I'll use tools to keep track of the transfers/txs pay taxes to the IRS on the cost basis.

What can they actually do about that other than action that WOULD cause mass panic and induce the very thing they are afraid of.
Nit: mini-LED is not the same thing as micro-LED, so it remains to be seen whether the LEDs are small enough/aligned in such a way that the black bar at the top doesn't have any backlight bleed.

(Maybe this was mentioned in the presentation...)
Mostly people are just responding to Tether's own claims about being fully backed.
A Linode VPS with 4GB RAM costs $20/month, 4 times more then the 1GB instance.

Dedicated VM is $30/month for 4GB, but that's the smallest so can't compare there. But that's only a little bit more than the shared vps, so I'd consider it pretty reasonable.

A few years ago I couldn't find a $5/month option. The cheapest Linode was $10/month.

EDIT checked Wayback Machine...10 years ago, a 512MB RAM Linode cost $19.95/month.
I think the M1 Max has more transistors than any commercially available CPU or GPU? In a $3499 laptop!
All: let's keep this thread about the processors, and talk about the new MBPs in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28908383.

Edit: to read all the 600+ comments in this thread, click More at the bottom of the page, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28908031&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28908031&p=3
Ask HN: How to arrive at a fair compensation for your first employees?
I could find a lot of content on equity component but what is a fair cash component to pay your founding employees.At an early stage where you have raised a seed round, it is difficult to match market salaries. But if you are providing 1% to 2% equity, how much haircut on market salary is a fair expectation
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2021/10/17/why-we-need-a...

>However, I include Worstall’s argument for a reason. It is true that some are more productive than others in an economy and it is true that this has always meant, and is likely now to mean, that those who are more productive do earn higher rewards than those who are less productive. In principle I have little argument with this idea: I have no difficulty with there being some differential in earnings within any society and think them inevitable subject to their being a safety net to ensure that all can have access to the resources they need to fully engage in the society in which they live (which means much more than having a basic material standard of living). Importantly though, what Worstall’s suggestion implies is that there are very obvious limits to wealth differentials, because the fact is that however clever someone might be the differences in productivity we humans have to offer is not that big.

I repeat, the differences in productivity we humans have to offer are not that big.
The terrorist industry is going for broke.
If your us jobs are like mine were years back, you’re only paying 20% of the cost of your insurance. Get laid off or quit and use cobra and you’ll learn the real costs.
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>I always know its type just by looking at its name.

Do you ever feel the names are getting too verbose and it would be great to have tooling that would allow you to get that information on mouse-over instead of having it make your lines almost unreadable?

I mean, there's a reason mathematics have decided to keep variable names short instead of having the names contain all the context.
Who says inflation hurts the rich more than the poor? I've been seeing that narrative lately. But the rich have access to hedges, and the poor have politicians who raise the minimum wage only when they have to.
I am happy if USB-A dies.
For me the price of RAM and SSD were the downers. I was hoping that after over 7 years I'd be able to buy a new computer with more RAM and drive space without paying that much more, but to upgrade I'd need to spend $600. The RAM is less important for me, but the fact that drive space hasn't grown much is a bummer since data accumulates every day and the kinds of data only seem to be growing in size.
I’m waiting on Apple’s final decision on the CSAM scanner before I buy any more hardware from them. These processors look cool, but I don’t think they’re worth the Apple premium if they’re also spying for law enforcement.
Hark to justify 2k for 512 GB of storage. I think I will go the macbook air route too. Just upgrade the storage.
For the price difference I can get a mavic air 2s drone.
Even for users who want the default ports, having the ability to swap out ports that have worn out without having to replace the entire logic board would be a huge win.
I don’t. I don’t pirate software either^. They are not the same thing, but in both instances sometimes you will negatively impact the little guy’s bottom line. So I don’t do either.

Edit: to clarify. I don’t think any less of any one for doing whatever or me being better than any one.

^there are exceptions. I’m sure if I needed to use Photoshop for a day I’d do something akin to pirating. In this case I don’t think it’s a big deal with Adobe being worth $300B.
13" M1 Pro is staying
Why are we talking about the rules of how the economy operates in the US? That is not and should not be governed by meritocracy, it should (and is) governed by laws, which are decided democratically.

Jeff Bezos cannot (or should not) unilaterally decide how corporate law works. He has a vote in who governs, legislates, and judicates, just like you have a vote in who governs, legislates, and judicates, and that's it. This is what I mean when I say "you're getting stuck on the word 'merit'".

I believe it's okay that not everyone gets a say in how Amazon is run. Everyone does get a say in the things Amazon is allowed to do in the US economy. Those are different things, though it seems you're conflating them.
> Both 14" and 16" have 254 PPI, up from ~220.

That is a very welcome improvement! I like scaling my display a bit so I have more real estate, but then the fonts get a bit blurry. 10% more resolution sounds great!
They may have a usbC -> magsafe 3 connector. It lets you just replace the cable when it inevitably breaks instead of the whole brick.
I'm guessing that's new for the 13" or for the M1, but my 16‑inch MacBook Pro purchased last year had 64GB of memory. (Looks like it's considered a 2019 model, despite being purchased in September 2020).
Go back to when the iPhone introduced the notch. There were so many comments just like yours but when was the last time you heard anyone say anything about it? It gets a lot of attention because it's quite visible — literally right in front of your eyes — but it's also in an area which is dead space most of the time and the most common scenario where it isn't is full screen video conferencing, when you'll be glad for the better quality.
Thanks for building this, very cool. Like UPnP for your wireguard network.
I wouldn't get one of those for games, better get a Windows PC and a M1 MacBook Air, cost should be about the same for both. Game support just won't be there if you care about gaming.
Same here. I want to use MagSafe at home and the office, not carry around a bulky bespoke charger just for one device while traveling.
Banks have very specific regulations to comply with that are much much much stricter than anything Tether or USDC face.

The better comparison for stablecoins are money market funds. The lockup of those caused the worst of the 2008 financial crisis. They also have much stricter regulations than stablecoins.

Fitch today released an opinion that stablecoin liquidations could cause a similar sort of systemic risk. They need some kind of regulation. No stablecoin has even done an audit! (Attestations are not the same)
For those using firecracker, what's your method for building a rootfs?
2x6K on the Pro, 3x6K + 1x4K on the Max. The 4K seems to be because that's the limit of the HDMI port.

No mention of MST though.
Well ok, maybe on twitter. But in elections the middle classes are typically pitted against each other. "Raise taxes for lawyers", "Decrease welfare payments".
Seems like PodSwap have figured out how to replace the batteries without butchering them. (I’m not affiliated nor used them.)

https://www.thepodswap.com/
T14 (AMD Gen 2 with Zen 3) has a higher res config too. But how useful is such resolution on 14" laptop? Can you see a big difference? And I'd imagine it comes at the shorter battery life price as well.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/18/22726444/apple-m1-pro-ma.... Thanks!
That's driven by how many people will watch it (demonstrably, very many, in Chappelle's case), not by the magnitude of offense taken by some number of people.

The proportion of people not watching a show will always be far higher than those watching it, so there's room for offense from non-watchers to drive product decisions. The parent comment is saying that he doesn't want that to factor in at all, which is orthogonal to the question of Netflix needing to allocate resources between content.
> all those laptops built between 2013 and 2022 will be dogs on the used market

In what sense? I'd bet they still sell for more than similar Windows laptops from those years.
Still have not solved the tinytiny inverted Tee arrow keys arrangement. Need to improve on the former IBM's 6-key cluster below the right shift key, or arrange full keysized arrows in a cross pattern breaking out of the rectangle at the lower right corner.
They are not built for your use case, that is all.

I have a pair of airpods pro I use during commuting every day and they are one of my favourite gadgets.
Seems there is a wider thing at play here

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/usd-coin-reserves-e...
That's so mean; SQLite is a gift to humanity.
Also, Christianity is growing with almost 100,000,000 members in the next decade or two. It will soon have more followers than in the EU.
I have the first (2015) version of the 12”, it’s still my main laptop. It’s powerful enough for light coding and music production which is all I need. I love the form factor and if they brought a new one out with an M1 chip I’d buy it in a flash.
400 GB/s is insane memory bandwidth. I think a m5.24xlarge for instance has something around 250 GB/s (hard to find exact number). Curious if anyone knows more details about how this compares.
Even if only one external display is run? That’s a bummer. Having a high refresh rate laptop screen with a 60hz monitor is not good.
I'd prefer that. But I guess that's why I'm not an apple customer
> our care is excellent

Where "excellent" includes shorter length of life, and over-testing, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment (each of which causes harm) because you've got to have something to show for all that insurance spending.
I would prefer something like the Dell XPS laptops, very minimal bezel with a camera and screen that still looks edge to edge. I'm talking about the new XPS ones, not the old ones with the camera at the bottom of the screen.
Not only the notch is an absolute disaster, the thickness is at most; woeful.

The CPUs are outstanding, but that laptop itself is a monstrosity from the 2006 Macbook Pro days. Finally the price makes it even more disappointing for what is on offer.

Another missed opportunity.
I've enjoyed watching crypto acolytes gradually learning why the consumer protections of traditional banking and investment exist. Until regulation catches up there's bound to be a stream of unscrupulous scammers taking notes from the financial crises of the past.
USB-C locks into place - not ideal for when someone trips on your cable and brings your laptop crashing into the hard floor.
Furthermore why bother encrypting anything if you then upload everything to the non E2EE cloud.
Right the Intels supported 64gb, but the 16gb limitation on the M1 was literally the only thing holding me back from upgrading.
I suspect the GPU is never really idle.

Even simple screen refresh blending say 5 layers and outputting it to a 4k screen is 190Gbits at 144 Hz.
> how would it bubble up?

A recent fear was Tether holding dollar-denominated commercial paper. If they went under, they'd dump that paper. This happened in '08 with money market funds, and we passed a lot of regulation to ensure that failure mode can't happen again.

Fortunately, to the extent Tether holds anything, it isn't cash or U.S. dollar commercial paper. So contagion vector contained.
Yes. Yes I would.

I would rather take a bezel and reduce the amount of e-waste this custom garbage has on the world. Add to that this will most likely make screen replacements significantly harder and more expensive.
Good point. Especially since a lot of software these days is not all that cache friendly. Realistically this means we have 2 years or so till further abstractions eat up the performance gains.
Isn't this against the US Constitution, specifically the commerce clause?
Apple's products regularly cannibalize themselves.
The beachball isn't directly related to CPU speed. It indicates the main thread of the foreground app is busy for more than a few seconds. It may be, for example, blocked waiting for something from the network -- which is one reason it's important for macOS developers to move filesystem and network access to background threads as much as possible.
Ok, these I find a little weird, honestly.

I guess they fill a niche for some? My best guess is that these were a compromise with what the M1 could then do. It's kind of the same reason we didn't have M1 MBPs last year. That's just a guess though.

I hope to see less-compromised M1 iMacs in the future though.
As a hobbyist, I've written my own matrices library in C
Point deduction for denying the superiority of communist tyranny.
My girlfriend bought 100€ worth of adaptors for her Macbook Air and can never find them when she needs them.

For a desktop it doesn't matter, but for a portable device that you need to carry around every extra thing that you need to carry around is just something you are going to misplace.
> No, I don't care about Face ID, especially in the era of COVID. A finger print reader on the side or on the back is superior.

Conveniently, these have a fingerprint reader still on the device.
I think Intel will be a pretty different company in 10 years, as we're on the verge of ARM becoming the dominant architecture. It's already indisputably #1 in phones, it's moving into PCs, and AWS even offers ARM.
> Let's not pretend that the USD and existing banking industry are shining bastions of righteousness.

They aren’t. Far from it. Now imagine how badly they’d behave without any oversight...
What happens if you plug-in an external display? With 3456-by-2234 non-standard ratio (neither 16:9 nor 16:10), will there be black bars on the sides when you mirror screens? If you don't mirror screens, the MacOS still does not rescale DPIs properly (unless it's Apple's own $4,999 retina monitor).
There is no display that accepts HDMI that would not work with a USB-C -> HDMI adapter. Add in the fact that HDMI is generally inferior to connectors like DisplayPort and you have a wasted slot. I can almost understand the SD card, but the inclusion of HDMI is just a waste of port space.
Lol, no terror, intrigue, or "espionage" here

just a dude who committed his private key to a public github repo

oopsie
I was talking generally, not for this particular feature. But it would still be sort of arcane knowledge for me since when I last actively used C++ `=delete` either didn't exist or was not in common use, so if I encountered it in some codebase I'd probably guess what it does but still have no idea about the implications.

Like, are there other =<something> construct? Is it overridable or overloadable by the user? Can I use it to "erase" any member of a class, for instance to hide a parent member from an inherited class?

I suspect that the answer to all of these questions is "no", but I can't know for sure without deep diving into some C++ ref.

In the C++ I knew there was nothing resembling this syntax, and `delete` was only the keyword you used to free memory.
The TL;DR on these is "AirPods Pro without ANC", but comparing the two models there are more slight differences such as skin detection and longer battery life.

Given that, the $180 price point is odd because the Pros occasionally drop to that level on sale.

The new AirPods (and now the old Pros) now have a "MagSafe Wireless Case" which is compatible with the MagSafe charger supposedly, although there isn't more info on that/if it's just Qi charging with no magnets.
Yup, exactly this. The error has been fixed, but there are copies out there
And marcan42 has specifically promised to start bringup work on the M1 Pro next week:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1450163929993269249
The US government spends more per person in tax on healthcare than the UK government does.
I don't think this is an apples to apples comparison because of how the new unified memory works
The differences between web2 disruption and web3 disruption strategy games is like the difference between robin hood and bladerunner.

Google went public @ $20bn and the papers were full of stories about Googlers getting filthy rich. Now bloggers casually comment on scrappy $10bn incumbents and the possibility of integrating a literal currency mint. web 4 is gonna be a bastard.

I wish douglas adams was still around to explain this all to us.
At the end of the day it's still 2 speakers. I get doing spacial audio effects on a soundbar, but for headphones its all just how well you can translate the effect to 2 close speakers.
57 billion transistors? a 5950x has under 20 a 3060ti has under 20

are they counting the RAM?
Any guesses how long it will take for Apple to update the pre-existing M1 Macs ? (Price drop, performance boost)
They've made 16GB and a 512GB SSD the base spec.

Maybe they're tired of the "only 8 GB ram" comments that always get posted. /s
If somebody wrote a plugin that simply moved the menubar (and the maximum top of fullscreen apps) $height_of_notch pixels lower and drew nothing but black above it, would you be happy? Because that would give you parity with existing macbooks.
> magsafe

can we still use an usb-c port for charging?
They did remove the input jack with G3 (2012-2015), and S/PDIF (digital line out) with G4 (touchbar) though.
It's been a while since I developed on Mac OS, but ISTR that beach balls happen when the main thread blocks and doesn't respond to events. If an application does that it's due to the developer putting too much on the main thread, as much as whatever the CPU's doing.
You're being obtuse, not pedantic
I wonder, how do they implement the head tracking? Radars? MEMS Gyroscopes?
>that (apparently) matches a 3070

I don't want to know the thermals on the laptop then.

There is a reason for the 3070 being available with a minimum of 2 large fans and liquid cooling existing at all. How do you want to cool the same performance in a thin laptop? With passive airflow?

For reference, this is what a laptop with the mobile (!) version of a 3070 looks like:

https://gzhls.at/i/89/84/2618984-n1.jpg

It's also 1199 euros, just saying.