skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article concludes, FB is controlled by Zuck, who is only interested in profit. Therefore, as long as Zuck controls FB, FB is not fixable.
Seems like an awful lot of ink spilled and heads scratched over what is really a very simple concept. For FB, controversy drives engagement, engagement generates profit, amoral and greedy Zuck is in control. No further analysis required.
What do you normally pay for 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM?
An individual almond contains only a small portion of the water used to grow it, so presumably the vast majority of the water used to grow almonds in California actually stays in California.
The October refresh timeframe was posted pretty much everywhere on the internet that mentioned an updated M1 Macbook Pro. The M1 was released last November. This didn't come out of nowhere.
Ah so _that's_ why it was so good.

So often I find these 'AI' systems are just smoke and mirrors. You have a great system, nobody is interested. Sprinkle on some 'ai' magic beans, and people are now throwing money at you.
Backblaze is $70/yr unlimited.

Did you save $-10?
The last several years, I've noticed there's been a lot of effort to debunk and discredit a lot of those unethical experiments. I'm still inclined to agree with you though.
Pretty sure the batteries are bigger in the new ones vs the Intel ones, at least in capacity (6000mAh vs 5000mAh). I imagine they are the same physical size; if not bigger.
honestly he probably died because of his exposure to yellow cake
How does memory bandwidth between M1 Pro and M1 Max affect CPU (not GPU) performance?
I have magnetic connectors for USB-C in both varieties. The circular one I normally use just has two pins and is great because I put my phone down near the cable and it usually leaps across and connects. The multipin flat connector supports PD and data, I'm not sure exactly what its limits are but it does what I want.

Both were cheap ebay purchases made because I'm willing to plug a $10 cable into a $600 phone despite the early USB-C cables occasionally frying devices.
I could imagine an extension that scrapes video metadata (if not actual video frames) and runs some FLoC-like P2P discovery mechanism for similar video content.

The main problem with this would be spam; Google has a lock on web search entirely because building a search index that is not immediately besieged by adversarial content is very difficult.

Alternatively we could bring back RSS readers and aggregation. We'd need some way to scrape/feed YouTube metadata into it. Feeds could advertise related creators that way (with the caveat that this would almost certainly become a sponsorship/advertising mechanism, something something RAID Shadow Legends).
Individuals incorporating themselves, then adding in their friends who also appear in their videos and maybe some assistants is a bit different than billion dollars companies posting their videos.
Not sure why you got down-voted. I for one appreciate your humor.
Personal opinion, but I think it's time that HN increases the character limit, we are seeing more and more of these sort of things.
That is an interesting thought. What’s it an example of? Convex optimization?
Can you show me a situation where a UK government has done this? When have they enacted constitutional changes simply because it restricted their ability to enact policies?

EDIT: Lloyd George comes to mind. That was over 100 years ago.
I don't think so. The iMac sure. The Mac pro, may be. These machines don't compete with the mini.

I like the mini in theory but I'd never shell out to buy one. I almost never work just from a desk. With WFH, the average person is likely to lie in bed or couch or work from the kitchen counter and dining table, than they are to work from a proper desktop.

(Not even to mention the fact that you'd need to have/buy a good display and keyboard setup to go with it.)
> It's wrong, it doesn't account for debt.

Yes, it does. The usual “wealth” slices by decile are of net worth, which is assets minus liabilities; the latter includes debt.
All depends on your priorities and such.

My personal desktop was about $4k for what's inside the case. Add in my $2k monitor, and I'm right up there.

Some people call it excessive, I do too. But man, my desktop is blazing fast and my gaming experience is top notch.

The $1000 5950x was the easiest decision. Cut my compile times by 80%.

If I was serious about a portable development and such machine that many people with MacBooks are, I could see dropping $6k.

I'm not, hence I have a $2k M1 MBA and remote into my gaming desktop for anything where speed matters.
Charles Ammi Cutter
I mean the documentation of the SoC itself. The thousands (or perhaps tens of thousands) of pages of information about every register and peripheral on it.
How does DDG make money?
Why in the world wouldn't Framework use CoreBoot? Very strange.
For added reference, the beloved 7-row ThinkPad keyboards found in laptops like the T410 and T420 have 2.5mm key travel.

Kailh Choc (low profile) mechanical switches have a total travel of 3mm.

Cherry MX switches (and most clones) have 4mm travel. Some clones are a little more or less.
Better could also mean temporally.

But yes, the main difference is "than others". It's just much doing a good job as others doing a bad job.
Fun comment! What are some things you think that Smalltalk does have or does do that embody the liberal sides of the axis? I want to agree, but trying to describe the image based environment, or how being more messages helps, is challenging for me to elaborate on.

Personally, I think we grade really hard on the small but visible differences like "do I have to declare 'MyFoo foo' or is there inference typing &c about", but it's much harder to assess from a big picture what behaviors & differences there are, harder to understand how each language & runtime is going to help us make sense of things.

Spreadsheets are an interesting place to turn to next. I'd be interested to see spreadsheets that can also visualize the dependencies of cells, that show how values flow across the sheet. Having that positional sense is interesting, versus, say, a debugger where you can see maybe what lexical scope a value is from, or less interestingly the address on the heap where a value happens to be. There's still, in both spreadsheet & debugging, dependencies, which power the processing that is now underway. I feel like both environments could be much better at helping explore this.
> no mutable reference parameters

Not anymore.
I have it too, but to say I love it would be a stretch. It really doesn’t feel like max spec machine most of the time.
I wonder about that too.

My bet is that they will get rid of the Mac Pro entirely. Too low ROI for them at this point.

My hope is to see an ARM workstation where all components are standard and serviceable.

I cannot believe we are in the era of glued batteries and soldered SSDs that are guaranteed to fail and take the whole machine with them.
- If they covered the camera with pixels, it would severely compromise both the camera and the display in that area.

- Disregarding software, having OLED pixels above the camera line is strictly better than not existing at all

- I suspect they are keeping the camera sensor area large enough for adding FaceID in future gens without removing screen space.
It's not worth the price premium, IMO. Maybe on a mac it's good. But Linux's font rendering is a shitshow when the same font can look totally different in different apps. Windows isn't too bad, but there are even parts of that that struggle with fnt rendering.
Can MasterClass Teach You Everything?
Well technically it is an Apple to Apple comparison in his case.
Here's a fun fact: since 1968, only one US institution, the University of Mississippi, has had a Federal license to grow marijuana for medical research [1], although this may be (finally) changing [2]. The barriers to Federally funded medical research of cannabis remain significant [3]. It's almost like the University of Mississippi and the Federal government are doing everything they can to stymie research and limit access.

Also, cannabis remains a Schedule 1 drug at the Federal level. Schedule 1 drugs are "drugs of abuse" that have "no accepted medical use" [4], the same as methamphetamine and crack cocaine (and of course it's worth mentioning that powdered cocaine is the less serious Schedule 3).

All the while ~18 states have legalized recreational and/or medical cannabis at the state level [5].

The case for the continued criminalization is beyond ridiculous.

I fully support decriminalization and further study of the effect of psychedelics but I'm not confident that the US government, even with a Democratic president, a Democratic House and a (notionally) Democratic Senate won't make this as difficult as possible.

The roots of US criminalization of cannabis and psychadelics is rooted in racism (eg crack cocaine vs powder cocaine), cracking down on counterculturalism and anti-Vietnam protesters (ie the hippy movement of the 60s and 70s) and virtue signaling to a conservative and fearful voter base under the guise of "law and order" and "family values".

It's truly ridiculous we're still here some 50+ years later.

[1]: https://www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nations-only-federally-a...

[2]: https://mjbizdaily.com/dea-preparing-to-ok-companies-to-grow...

[3]: https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/natural-products/Ca...

[4]: https://www.dea.gov/drug-information/drug-scheduling

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S._j....
> So tired of this idea that powerful people are free of responsibility for their actions

That's irrelevant; distinguishing between distinctly different acts is not absolving either of liability; in fact, I explicitly noted the basis of moral liability for each of the distinguished acts.
That's interesting. My wife has the same but she loves it. Maybe there are different use cases. She runs Fedora on it, for what it's worth, and never complains to me about the hardware itself.
...need to open a new cable manufacturing facility.

No, they don't. [1] https://www.nsw.com/en/cable/submarine-power-cable/ has plenty of capacity. They have been in the local, regional and sometimes national news for having to sit on their product, because for environmental reasons some (otherwise fully operational) offshore wind parks couldn't get connected. Maybe some other factory in the same region also. Expected boom, and then busted by regulation. Meanwhile investigations because of cartel allegiations in that sector, but not them. Anyways, out of work, profit, changed owner two times.

Whatever, it mostly just sits there, way underutilized.
Deal with it! :-)
The announcement implies that they no longer attempt fast charging over USB-C, so lower power requirement will improve reliability with 3rd party hardware.
https://archive.ph/1hRnc
> And the cost of the pods will be capitalized and depreciated so a large surge in buildings won’t necessarily lead to bad financials.

I was curious about this as well:

Cost of revenue consists of expenses for providing our platform and cloud services to our customers. These expenses include operating in co-location facilities, network and bandwidth costs, and depreciation of our equipment and capital lease equipment in co-location facilities. Personnel-related costs associated with customer support and maintaining service availability, including salaries, benefits, bonuses, and stock-based compensation are also included. Cost of revenue also includes credit card processing fees, amortization of capitalized internal-use software development costs, and allocated overhead costs.

We intend to continue to invest additional resources in our infrastructure and related personnel, and our customer support organization, to support the growth of our business. Some of these investments, including costs of infrastructure equipment (including related depreciation) and expansion, are incurred in advance of generating revenue, and either the failure to generate anticipated revenue or fluctuations in the timing of revenue could affect our gross margin from period to period.

Sounds like this is captured in their cost of revenue.

50% gross profit is not great compared to a SaaS company, but still not terrible compared to <insert literally any other company that isn't enabled by tech>.

They also generate ~$12M in net cash from operating activities. So "profitable" is a weird one here. They'll have to continually invest in data centers and hardware, but generally speaking they are turning cash pretty well.
I’ve used my B&W PX over Bluetooth while charging over USB-C.

They also support playback input over USB-C or 3.5mm. It’s nice. Expensive, though. But not Apple Airpods Max expensive, at least!
Here is one meaning:

Intel microcode updates added new machine opcodes to address spectre/meltdown exploits.

On a true RISC, that's not possible.
Not very many skydiving scams in history fleecing millions of people though.
I am not aware of any long-term legitimate findings in psychology research from the 60s or 70s (that would not be allowed today). Are you? My guess is all, or nearly all, have been debunked, or are non-reproducible for silly technical reasons.
Groan... All I can think of is the kids in the hall episode when they make fun of "god is dead." Sure, god is dead (shrug emoji). But to think that progress is also dead, takes a bit more than an obscure quote to convince me. WWII could be considered the genesis of the nuclear age, which is hard to imagine not being "progress". Lately I've been thinking the exact opposite that war drives progress. Maybe I'm not picking up whatever this guy is on about, but it makes no sense to me. maybe someone will enlighten me. *edit spelling
I don't really see it as surrendering at all. The vast majority of consumers don't need the power the Macbook Pros offer. I see this more as an (IMO overdue) acknowledgement of the target audience. The M1 iMac and the M1 Macbook only have USB-C ports.
Not really. The reason PGS was deemed "escalatory" is because it was indistinguishable from a nuclear first strike but had a conventional payload, and that the payload itself was fairly small. This missile certainly has completely different objectives to PGS.
That's less of an Apple problem and more of a developer problem.
Then it's best to disabuse them of such notions. If they want a consistent product that is produced by the operation of an assembly line then they should invest in factories instead of software and software engineers.
When the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic launched, I tried the beta and kept having issues where it would launch to a black screen, wait, and then crash.

Someone, somewhere, figured out that the game only runs properly if you have the text scaling at 100%; I had it at 150% because I was playing on a TV and the screen was unreadable at 100%.

I have to wonder what Microsoft did with text scaling that it broke a DirectX game.
I certainly don't miss the feeling of typing on concrete. I suppose a very light fingered typist might appreciate the reduced travel though.
Are there any recent examples of web development things that haven't worked right on the M1? I'm looking to upgrade but am worried about this.
I'm an MIT student and received the letter as an email. This was the URL linked in the email for the 'online version'.

I had the URL updated to the Office of the President's page linked by a poster below as it is certainly clearer / more immediately credible. Thanks for raising the issue and thanks to that poster for the link.
> by essentially preemptively throttling CPU and GPU

Not really a fix then. That may prevent hurting your machine but it’s still not running at optimal performance.
This is the ARM core that lives inside AMD Xen:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Proces...
(2011)?

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://xkcd.com/927/
I had (and lost, unforunately) a pair of Sennheiser MM400 headphones... The charging jack was on the removable battery pack and you could charge it while using it (no effect at all on headphone operation)
That's a good start, hopefully he'll be using some of that $60 million he's made from his netflix specials to support other trans people, not just 1 person he knew
I assume that's possible in many programming languages, although may be a pain for the parser. Doesn't Python already totally change how it parses method definitions if there's a single `yield` keyword in the definition? That seems pretty similar to me.
I thought YouTube made money now?
I second the concept 2. Definitely a great rower for a little less than a thousand on Amazon with free shipping. Warning make sure to measure the space properly. It's a beast
Not really. They've taken very little outside funding (mostly venture debt and a series A), and have been around for 10+ years. They'll likely get a better valuation from the public market than they would privately and the founders who have been waiting 10 years can take some money off of the table.

Smart move IMO.
*restoration of the SD card slot.
Lines of code. Yes, it's easy to game. Don't use it for bonuses.

Yes, it varies by person and how they close their brackets, how they write comments, whether they use functional, or how they break up formulas. Compare a person to themselves.

Coding is an iterative process. Write stuff. Stick placeholders everywhere. Remove stuff and replace it with better stuff. LOC measures the stuff.

Does it measure architecture? The biggest argument for architecture is that it slows things down at first, but speeds it later. Great, measure LOC for both stages.

If you see people writing 1000 LOC/day early then slowing to 50, that's probably underengineering or overengineering. It should be more or less steady, slowing a bit when they get to the edges of the familiar code and need more R&D, then speeding up again.

Your devs spent some time documenting and refactoring? How's LOC rate after that? You added 3 newbies to the team? How does the LOC change for the seniors training them? Do the meetings discussing code increase or decrease LOC? How much does No Meeting Day or remote work change productivity? How effective are 4 day weeks or days when everyone goes home at 5?

It's not perfect, but it works for many of the things you'd like to measure, as long as you manage the downsides. If you're trying to reward productivity, it throws it all off.
More than 3A on PD requires tagged cables, I'm not even sure I have any 5A capable cables here. I do have tagged cables as tagging is required for USB3 over USBC which is negotiated with the aid of PD. Magsafe does make it rather somewhat simpler for the end user and I never really liked that the main cable for a portable could be so easily damaged, I liked magsafe and the magnetic connector on the Surface laptops quite a bit.
Most of them didn’t really need to be unethical though.

There are things you can learn either extremely slowly or extremely unethically, but it didn’t really seem to be the case with psychedelics. Things which could have been done responsibly were done recklessly, and not all that much time or effort was saved.
Wouldn’t you want to run firecracker on bare metal anyways. Nested VMs come with a decent perf hit.
I’m 100% with you, but this country will forever be legislating the fact their neighbors might be happy and enjoying life. And then the fact so much race enters into it too as you mention, just makes it addictive for certain people. It’s like crack or something.
> you hold up other laptops like the framework as ideal even though they lose vertical real estate via the chunky bezel.

Because they more than make up for it with the 3:2 aspect ratio.

> Do you want design aesthetics (no notch)?

Don't care about aesthetics.

> But given we can’t have that, if you were in charge of the MacBook Pro design, what would you choose?

Bigger top bezel and - ideally - a 3:2 aspect ratio.
Notwithstanding Hanoz's law, that all laws named after a victim of crime are bad laws, David Amess by all accounts received next to no online abuse, anonymous or otherwise, because he was the kind of politician that even people who usually hate politicians actually like.

Conversely, the politicians attempting to use his death to further their own pet agenda already, are the kind of politicians that even people who don't usually hate politicians do actually hate.
Tether is more like a fractional reserve bank at this point, so they should at least have $1 in reasonably liquid assets for every Tether issued. Which, in all honesty, is a more efficient way to recycle savings into the supply of capital—it would be tremendously wasteful to just park $60+ billion in a risk-free bank account. Of course, the problem is that they’ve repeatedly lied about the state of their balance sheet and misled the rubes into believing this silly fantasy about bank accounts full of idle cash.
Yep, IIRC around Kafka 2.6? the default partitioner changed from RoundRobin to preferring existing open record batches.
Ryujinx: Progress Report September 2021
United States order for 16-inch 1tb ssd 64gb ram shows $3900. Brutal.
the first truly revolutionary product
Yeah, but the things that aren't clear from the comparisons are how under-clocked those gpus may be, and at what power usage did apple set them to before they ran their tests.
Maybe they bought a Chromebook 10 years ago?
I think the only reason dynamic typing can speed up prototyping is that it allows you to make certain type errors that you may never encounter at runtime while prototyping.
you could install that license on one physical machine. so say you want to use a Colab or cloud GPU or something, or your university compute cluster, it wouldn’t work.
Is Al Pacino’s accent really _that_ bad?
The Only Man Who Could Have Stopped the Iraq War Is Dead
I get mouse stuttering on my Mac Mini if I'm using my computer incorrectly and I'm doing way too many things way too stupidly. I don't have a touchpad I don't even have an apple input device I just have a Bluetooth Logitech k830. But the stutter is system wide it's not just the mouse. If you're watching a video or if you're doing anything you could plainly see that Mac OS loses its ability to be real time for a little bit. But this happens to me very very rarely and I do use my Mac Mini all day everyday because it's my TV's computer and that's where I watch everything.

Edit: it's the cheapest model that came out at launch with the lowest memory and the smallest drive.
Tesla is selling amazing straight-line performance unlocked by their electric motors, but I wouldn’t rate the Model 3 a better handling car than a 70K Porsche 718.

Much of the mechanicals of handling well still have to be pretty complex even with electric power.
When are the 27" iMacs coming?
It would sure be nice if they used any of that spare space inside to let us load up our machine with M.2 drives. Maybe that technology is too futuristic though, much like function keys or magnetic chargers.
You could also change “receives” to “gets” and eliminate the word “treatment” to remove all need for awkward shortening.
It feels like such an opportunity for problems at already difficult times.

You have to install a new mainboard or hard disc due to failure. Your Wi-fi card is not supported on the install media, so you're already in chicken-and-egg mode to get it workable. In Win10 and before, once you got to the desktop, you would be able to pop in the terrible manufacturer CD which had some months old but nominally working drivers, and could bootstrap that to something that worked.

How do they handle that in Win11? Drag your PC to a wired socket and hope the Ethernet card works?
tl;dr: cults are dangerous, cults employing psychedelics and psychological manipulation are especially dangerous, and it's not always obvious what constitutes a cult or cult-like abuse when it's a subgroup of one's own community.

Don't read (most of) the details in the article, read the comments instead.