skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that pandemic media coverage was always a vaccine marketing campaign.
Modern Doctors basically know what they're doing and should be fully trusted to make good decisions for their patients.
The Allopathic Medical Machine ought to be hoisted with its own petard.
If they were carrying around a bag full of dongles they'll still need most of them, as this just adds an HDMI port.
Yep, it can be 'hidden' with the menu bar. They specifically mentioned and showed it in the keynote.
Honestly, both of those combined with physical function keys matters more to me than any processor update they could've delivered. All around this is just a very solid machine that's completely worthy of the pro title.
These all look amazing. Interesting to see them drop the popular 15.4" size. All my accessories that are sized for that form factor will have to be purchased again. I'm thinking especially of the vertical dock I have.
Honest question, what do you do where a $6,099 laptop is justifiable?
So, as far as I can tell, they listened to every single complaint people had about the last generation of pro Macs. These are in every meaning of the word pro machines. Now, they're so pro, I can't imagine why anyone would need one, unless they do multi-media professionally, or work exclusively in Xcode.

I can't even believe they compromised on size and weight in order to deliver something more pro. It's a complaint I've been hearing for years, how people would gladly accept a bigger laptop if it were a "true" pro machine. Well, wishes granted.

Edit: (quick comparison in thickness and weight)
Previous MB Pros were (respectively):

* 15.49mm/1.49kg

* 16.51mm/1.95kg

New M1 Pro Macs are:

* 15.49mm/1.65kg

* 16.67mm/2.1kg (or 2.2kg for the "max")
The problem is that typescript is here to type existing JS, and existing JS has been written without thinking about types. "fresh" TS might be better for that.
I agree this is very targeted towards the creative market (i.e. SD card port, etc), but I'm curious as a developer what you would have liked to see included that isn't in this release.

I guess personally having better ML training support would be nice, since I suspect these M1 Max chips could be absolute monsters for some model training/fine-tuning workloads. But I can't think of anything design-wise really.
Lots of junk comments, but I guess that happens with Apple announcements. Laptops seem impressive to me, I want to see the real world use metrics. Pushing hard on the performance per watt type metric and no doubt they have a lot of power and use less power. Seems like they listened to the outcry of people regarding the Touch Bar and more ports. Seems like this should sell well.
Because CPU tears downs show that “Apple's M1 system-on-chip is an evolution of the A14 Bionic” [0]

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/amp/news/apple-m1-vs-apple-m14-...
Looks like news of MacBook Pro death have been greatly exaggerated
64Gb RAM, 400Gb/s! Ports! No touchbar! But 64GB RAM on a mac book, finally! Sold! Mine arrives next week!!!! And it is less than $4000!
EDIT: Never mind
In this version of the tragedy of the commons, the youtubers themselves are the resource headed for exhaustion.

> the revised video had 5 new copyright claims even before upload processing was complete!

Maybe there's an opportunity for an integrated offering of licensed music and lawyers to defend the licensee against bogus takedowns?
Our local office only uses macOS and Windows for desktop computers, GNU/Linux nowadays only for servers in some Amazon and Azure cloud instances.

Apple will have plenty of customers.
This is me too! I’m content with the M1 chip for mobile and ML development. I know this machine of mine will last a few years before it needs an upgrade!
Can the M1 MacBooks be used with Linux?
edit: this was wrong

16GB max RAM on the 14 inch model. No thanks.
If I were to hazard a guess, it's more of a brand recognition thing - now you don't even have to see the apple on the back to know someone's using a macbook.
They could have been optimizing for lower power consumption rather than more compute power. For example, the next iPhone chip will likely not be the most powerful when it comes to compute, even if it beats the other iPhone chips.
This is about the processors, not the laptops, so commenting on the chips instead. They look great, but they look like they're the M1 design, just more of it. Which is plenty for a laptop! But it'll be interesting to see what they'll do for their desktops.

Most of the additional chip area went into more GPUs and special-purpose video codec hardware. It's "just" two more cores than the vanilla M1, and some of the efficiency cores on the M1 became performance cores. So CPU-bound things like compiling code will be "only" 20-50% faster than on the M1 MacBook. The big wins are for GPU-heavy and codec-heavy workloads.

That makes sense since that's where most users will need their performance. I'm still a bit sad that the era of "general purpose computing" where CPU can do all workloads is coming to an end.

Nevertheless, impressive chips, I'm very curious where they'll take it for the Mac Pro, and (hopefully) the iMac Pro.
i'm guessing maybe sometimes type checkers make you jump through the hoops to pass, and the OP finds that distracting? To me though, the benefits of type checking far outweigh the cost.
Rutger not Femke.
I can live with the notch, but honestly I would pay more for an option to remove it along with the camera.

For me, it really depends on how this camera compares with a standard Logitech C920. If it's as good or better then I'm fine with it, but if it's just a minor upgrade over the terrible pre-existing camera then I'm not sure why they would mar an otherwise fantastic product.
I have a Framework laptop on order. But I must say that I am very tempted. If my attempt at daily driving linux doesn't work out, I will probably get the M1 Max 14'' MBP.
I know what you mean, my current PC laptop is a horrible experience, I used all mbps before this. Dell xps 13z 2n1. It's so, so cool and pretty but it throttles so much that it's absolutely useless for dev work. I got the full blown $2500ish 32gb/16core or whatever, too. Such a waste, sending it to my mom and getting a 14" whenever I can.
Not a huge deal for me, I dont notice it on my phone, I dont expect I will on my new Mac either.
Doc title was in the metadata until a few hours ago. "Microsoft Word - <Celsius/Nexo> Letter..." Showed up when you opened it from the link or download in a browser.
Maybe next year's refresh will have USB-A ports again!
ARM processors: how it started vs. how it's going
MacBook announcements are the opposite of slow news days. Consumer tech outlets are literally scrambling to cover every aspect of these things because there is so much interest.
By default full screen apps do not use that space. It remains be black.
https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/

Looking at the product photos it looks like they black-bar the entire top of the display when anything is full-screen? So that seems to make the notch even more intrusive as you lose out on all the screen real-estate next to it when something is fullscreen.

Or rather, the menu bar is now a permanent bezel that nothing else can occupy?
Then you must be distressed that mobility has been decreasing in the US and that we now lag substantially behind many of our European peers on that measure.
Curious - why an extra program when ssh already does this? (ssh -J, -g, -R, -L, et cetera)
Yes that is interesting. Maybe it would have made the notch bigger? :)
I'm not convinced drive is the word.

A younger version of myself wanted to have a company and build something of my own. Today I know all the sacrifices that come with that and I'm simply not willing to make that sacrifice anymore.

Does that mean I don't have any drive, or just different priorities?
Lucy Blasts Off
I can think of a huge area in which it's lacking: GPU performance.
what's the general need for microSD?

My XPS-13 has one but I've never understood why its such a big deal. I almost never use it.
Of all tech giants, I expect Apple to improve the status quo the most. They are really good at it.
It's just a piece of programming knowledge being explained. It's very far from a 'semantic pitfall' or an 'esoteric niche'. Don't be such a drama queen.
I suspect this notch is going to be a problem for a significant number of full-screen applications that never assumed there would be something like that.

Although that'd be probably mostly games, and I don't think notch is going to be a primary issue for those.
Second greatest: Restoring popular ports that were previously removed. Such innovation :D
It was fixed a few hours ago. The doc title was in the metadata. "Microsoft Word - <Celsius/Nexo> Letter..." showed up when you opened it from the link or download in a browser.
I suppose the future of personal computing may be ARM then? For now
Its not crazy cheap, a lot of people overvalue mobility when 90% of white collar work is done at home or in an office.
Where does all the effort go? Looking at Python core developer activity
The M1 stuff is amazing but it's kind of a sad state of affairs when I'm unreasonably happy about having things (decent keyboard, connectivity) that should be table stakes for a professional level laptop.

Mostly just bummed that we appear to have traded one gimmick - the touchbar, for another - the notch.
Did they ever remove the headphone jack?
The article is fundamentally wrong about the human condition.

The choice is not between bead and cake.

The choice is between bread and hunger.

More and more people can have nice things.

Just not as nice as castles.

Because fewer and fewer people have the not nice things that go with the slavery, conscription, and forced labor that they signify.

When it comes to his house, Bill Gates can only get what people will do for money.
Is it possible to dual boot windows with the new m1 chips?
Yes. Tim said the notch looks great in dark mode.
What else could he do? He knows they'll move anyway. Why call it anything else?
Apple has done it again.
Soyuz MS-18 Crew Returns to Earth
They were "boasting" about making the function keys taller.
On the other hand, the 16" max ram 64GB, is less than $4000, which is less than I paid for my 2018 32GB RAM i9 pro.
I'm guessing this has to do with Johnny Ive's departure. He was notorious for design over function.
They recently introduced a new standard that allows up to 240W
I'd guess that's about thermals. Thin looks good but runs hot.

Apple have de-Ived and gone for practicality over fashion-accessory style. I'm not convinced that's a bad move.
To say it's not controversial seems misleading. It may be widely acclaimed, but also hugely criticised. Wikipedia has a short collection of the criticism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...
As I recall, the watershed for Lake Tahoe is actually very small, because the surrounding ridges are quite close to the lake. The surface of the lake is the majority of the total collection area for precipitation.

To me, this suggests that evaporative losses may also be a significant portion of the draw-down you see each year, i.e. precipitation and evaporation on the same surface area. A trend towards more rapid reductions in water level may say something about climate shift, with hotter and drier summer conditions?
> Where are the federal regulators in all this?

We're still building consensus. This is a multidimensional policy space; I doubt any single person knows even what all of those dimensions are. It's a type of problem our federal system of government excels at solving, albeit slowly. States will experiment with policy. Down the road we can consolidate their lessons. Only thing to keep an eye out for, in the interim, are systemic risks.
Same, but there still usually aren't enough ports in total. Looks like the new Macbook Pros have 2 ports on one side, 1 port on the other. At least keeping 2 on each side would've been much better.
Don’t worry, webdevs around the world will do their best to hasten it as much as possible!
They increased display area with that notch and it only covers the menu bar.
I think they left in on the 13" MBP? But why?!
It’s listed as “in the box” on the product page.
Maybe I've drunk the Apple Kool-Aid, but there's another way to look at this: it's a perfectly rectangular 16:10 display, plus they've added an extra (albeit imperfect) strip along the top, 74 pixels high, allowing them to push the macOS menu bar into the bezel, leaving you with a clean and unencumbered 16:10 desktop area for your content.
Sorry to be specific I find it so weird to program without defining what I want in and out of a function
You get more usable screen though. I am curious how legacy apps with way-too-many menus will display with the split.
I far prefer just plugging in one USB hub than plugging in like five different cables. I have a Thinkpad with loads of ports, but I just use two (one for a wireless mouse that's always plugged in).
Mac Pro M1 Max Pro™
AV/Photo import?
What Republic has had the most influence on the USA?

There were very few republics between the fall of Rome and 1776. All basically local governments and very feeble.
The pop-up cameras proved reliable and I used a OnePlus 7 Pro for two years, and found it adequately water resistant (good enough for me to give it a rinse in the sink every now and then).

The internal space that the module occupied was the only real disadvantage of the pop-up camera, restricting the space available for the battery. Although I didn't have any complaints about the battery life of this phone.
photo/video people use those ports constantly, like all day every day.
The MagSafe Cable + relevant USB-C Adapter is present in the box, per the site.
That's a legit option and actually that's what happened with this guy - we moved him to a parser team from a client-facing team. But we both recognized that as a bit of "defeat" - we failed to improve his communication, so as plan B how do we help him not get fired.

The point I am making and that I don't want to get lost is: there's a huge difference between "I am consciously choosing to be a C++ hacker" vs "I am falling into this bucket because I fear doing other stuff". First one is fine, second one means a person is under-living their potential.
That's a good point. I've never had a bigger charger than the 97w so I've never had to think twice about it. I wonder if this will be obviously 140w, when I see bricks like that on gaming laptops they're usually meant to sit on the floor not plug into the wall directly.
How many external monitors does it support? I got an M1 mini only to find out it could only drive 2 4K monitor. And the M1 notebooks can only use 1 external 4K monitor. I'm not getting one of these until I can run 3 external 4K monitors like I'm doing on my 2019 Macbook 16-inch right now.
It won't be in the middle of the status bar when running anything full screen.

Some people run applications full screen most of the time. For example the browser, text editor, chat, etc.

I wonder if it automatically inserts a black bar in those situations.
It looks like it, previously Apple have indicated Apple Silicon Mac Pros will come in 2022. That will be interesting to see. I'm wondering how the economics of a super high-end processor exclusively for the Mac Pro could work out. It seems unlikely a single chip aimed just at the mac Pro market could be economically viable. I wouldn't rule out a multi-CPU architecture with dual high end M2 processors.
And so ends the last of the Dark Days of Johnny Ive. Don't get me wrong: he innovated a lot. My theory is when Jobs died, he lost his counterbalance and his designs suddenly became without compromise (no that isn't a good thing).

It's when we saw the 12" Macbook as the crusade for thinness at all costs (terrible performance, only one port, a terrible version of the macbook Air), the end of the Macbook Air (before getting resurrected a few years later), the butterfly keyboard (allegedly to save 0.5mm in thickness), the Touch Bar (primarily there to boost Average Selling Price) and the loss of MagSafe.

I was surprised last year how good the M1 was. The second generation looks even better. This thing has function keys back, no Touch Bar, MagSafe!!!, some non-TB ports and up to 64GB of RAM.

Shut up and take my money!
I can live without HDMI, but it never made sense to me to put SD on the chopping block. In what sense was USB-C ever supposed to be an alternative to SD card slots?

Edit: For clarity, read my reply to anamexis before responding to this.
The only thing I haven't liked about Pop!_OS in my two years of daily driving has been the name. I think they need to rebrand as 76OS or something a little more professional. But that's so subjective.

Oh and I hope they make a laptop with a trackpoint eventually! I know that's the one thing preventing me from making the switch to their HW.
It’s really scary what we’ve built on the Internet, and it’s even scarier that these corporations are able to go unchecked. Parts of life are already becoming miserable (e.g., automated “customer support”), and it’s just going to keep getting worse, all at the alter of growth and capitalism.

I absolutely hate the argument used that scale prevents them to do anything about it, as if crimes en masse are suddenly okay. It’s their problem, not ours, that they’ve built systems that are, for all intents and purposes, uncontrollable. These corporations act like they are the victim in these cases of abuse of their platform.
The parent comment literally posted the same link. I am aware of the replacement concept and how it is technically distinct from an outright ban on static linking.

> That's possible with static linking, that's possible with other languages than the ones relying on a linker step, etc.

We are talking about Rust, not languages other than Rust. Could you walk us through how you would offer a Rust binary with a statically linked LGPL Rust crate that is replaceable according to the license requirements (v2.0, 2.1, 3.0, pick your poison), without also releasing the binary's source code? I think it's technically possible, but how would you do it? * Edit: keep in mind that .rlib files are not stable across compiler versions. AFAIK very little about the target/ folder is stable at all, except the final product location.
Tools for Product Managers
Glad there’re back, but these are not Pro features and should not be limited to the Pro line (starting at $2,000). These are basic features that should be on consumer machines. I shouldn’t have to pay 80% more just to get HDMI, SD, and other features that were on Apple laptops 6 years ago.
> Sure, middlemen make profit, but nobody makes that kind of profit. Nobody pays these prices. Drug prices in the US system may be elevated, but in the grand scheme of things it's a modest part of the total cost.

"Aw, it's not so bad!"

>Furthermore, the reason that these prices can be charged is the regulatory moat, courtesy of the government. Suppose that same government would enact a single-payer system, what makes you believe it wouldn't pay outrageous drug prices, courtesy of the taxpayer? The mechanism that gives the pharma lobby free reign won't just disappear over night.

"But also it's super bad, and it's obviously the best we can do."

Don't know what to tell you -- seemed to work everywhere else. I guess that's American exceptionalism for you!
And they made a new bad decision: a notch.
No but a lot of people seem to think they removed it, they didn’t
On my 2013 Google Chromebook Pixel (running real Linux) I set Xft.dpi: 240 in my .Xresources file, matching the screen resolution. Seems to work well. I’m not sure what “scaling” is. Is that it? I wouldn’t want to use a 140 dpi screen, unless it were a big one mounted 6 feet or so away.
(I live in Seattle, moved from VA, have never lived in CA)

* Seattle, anecdotally, does seem to be popular with ex-CA folks. Been seeing a lot more CA plates recently.

* Weather is very taste dependent. I like it, but some people like taking fall walks that don't end with draining several gallons of rainwater from your clothes.

* No income tax, but high sales tax, so it's kinda a wash for most people probably (unless you live near the Oregon border and can make the WA-no-income-tax/OR-no-sales-tax arbitrage, which isn't really practical in Seattle).

* A good amount of the "I'm leaving CA" posts I see on HN mention a dissatisfaction with CA/SF politics. Washington is, in my opinion, a better run state than CA, but if you dislike CA's liberal dominated politics, perceived inaction on crisis issues like homelessness, anti-police stance and perceived rise in crime as a response, etc... you're not going to like Seattle very much either.

* In general, the last few years has been characterized by a gridlock between a suburban-supported, more conservative mayor, and a city council that's more radical and outspoken, which has led to a very toxic political environment and not very much getting done, because the city can't agree on whether we want moderate centrists who will focus on compromising between activists and business interests, or radicals who will tell the business interests to f themselves and do what needs to be done.
emphasis on periodically? you'll always lose data between now and the last daily or hourly backup. Not great.
they brought back the t-shaped arrows too!
A big notch and all of that for no FaceID? Only Apple could get away with that.
> these loans will be affected

Which will wipe out those investors. Not anyone else. People are free to lose their own money. It becomes a regulatory issue when those losses cascade, or if someone who didn't realize they were taking those risks is forced to bear them.
You can most definitely use the latest Parallels IIRC, why dual boot?
You can configure to 32GB for an extra $400.
It is shipped with USB-C -> Magsafe cable in every configuration I see.
Flight limit is on the battery, limiting it to 100 Wh. I have a laptop with a 230W power brick and never had any problems.
I believe the 3070 uses a different die from the mobile 3070. The mobile and discrete parts have completely diverged so comparisons are meaningless. Laptop GPU performance is entirely a question of power and cooling.
Well, Apple decided to stop digging their grave and finally recognized that the 2016 MBP was just a big mistake. No port other than USB-C, no magsafe, touchbar, crappy keyboard...
MagSafe cable does indeed ship standard - see https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/specs/.
The video moved a bit too fast for me to catch the exact laptops they were comparing. They did state that the M1 Pro is 2.5x the Radeon Pro 5600M, and the M1 Max is 4x the same GPU.

The performance to power charts were comparing against roughly RTX 3070 level laptop cards.
If you use DisplayPort, you can add as many as six external displays on an M1 Air [1].

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/24/m1-macs-able-to-run-six...
The limit is on battery capacity at 100Wh, not charger wattage.
Not trying to be snarky here, but... it'll probably come across that way.

Will we ever see the end of beach balls? I've got an m1 Mac mini, and ... I see far fewer, but I still see them. I don't understand what with so many core, so must 'fast' and 'powerful' stuff, that my computer will still freeze and lag doing seemingly normal stuff.
"Dowry" is conflated, while dowry itself isn't an Indian term, in the Indian context it is often jewellery given to the bride by her parents often in lieu of her share of property.

A witch hunt against this practice has actually worked against the women, and many are deprived of their ancestral property rights.

A lot of women in Europe aren't even aware of their property rights, the first son generally gets the farm and the daughters get nothing (even if the farm is ancestral).
Keyboard reliability was fixed and switch back to scissors or what they called magic keyboard. But the Key travel distance is still not the 1.5mm used in the pre Butterfly era.