skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ultra-fast on-die RAM

The RAM is not on die. It’s just soldered on top of the SoC package.

> All that is to say, where you needed 1.5TB of RAM on a Xeon, the architectural changes on Apple Silicon likely mean you can get away with far less and still wind up performing better.

No, it does not. You might save a bit, but most of what you save is the transfers, because moving data from the CPU to the GPU is just sending a pointer over through the graphics API, instead of needing to actually copy the data over to the GPU’s memory. In the latter case, unless you still need it afterwards you can then drop the buffer from the CPU.

You do have some gains as you move buffer ownership back and forth instead of needing a copy in each physical memory, but if you needed 1.5TB physical before… you won’t really need much less after. You’ll probably save a fraction, possibly even a large one, but not “2/3rd” large, that’s just not sensible.
I wonder if it's related to the Azure outage.
I think about this a lot from the point of view of economic fairness and wealth inequality.

You have a higher probability of being rich if your ancestors "owned the land" first. Similarly, you have a higher probability of being rich if you "created" the market.

Owners deserve some piece of the pie for stewarding the land well, and innovators deserve some piece of the pie for playing a difficult role in the march of technology.

But the land was always there, and we were always going to continue miniaturizing computers. How big a slice of the pie is fair?
I don't think Russia is actually afraid of NATO aggression. They are running out of accessible gas and oil reserves, so the undeveloped wells in Ukraine are too tempting to pass up.
They’d have to go all-in on supporting third party OSs like Linux first. Sure, there are projects to bring linux to the M1, but enterprises that buy commercial server hardware will demand 1st party support
Couple of notes:

1. This is kind of funny when you think about it. I mean is Russia going to all of a sudden be very confused and think that the Americans gave Ukraine MIG-29s? No. Poland did. What's the point of the roundabout way of doing this? Maybe Poland is worried about intermediate range missiles targeting Polish airbases. But that seems like an escalation that Russia isn't interested in, unless they're in it for all the marbles.

2. This is further severing of ties between Russia and NATO-aligned countries. I expect other former Soviet Union states to follow and also acquire U.S. aircraft. They don't want to be reliant on Russian parts or technical know-how, and this further strengthens NATO around common aircraft and components. Expect American defense contractors (and some European ones as well) go get more business from countries such as Poland.

As I am thinking about this I think #2 is really what this is all about, but that Poland doesn't want to deal with transferring the aircraft to Ukraine and the Americans are glad to do it.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
> It's pretty clear cut what happens next.

No, it's not. Does NATO let the ICBMs fly? Does NATO switch to conventional war mobilization and march into Ukraine? Shoot some conventional missiles at Russian targets in Ukraine? How about if Russia issues a statement that the strikes were against legitimate Ukrainian targets, they do not intend to attack any more NATO territory, and they will pay reparations for Polish casualties? If Russian military activity demonstrates an adherence to that statement, it technically renders article 5 mutual self defense less applicable.

To avoid escalation, there is give and take at any level of aggression, just as when a fighter jet violates airspace. A posteri the destruction of Ukrainian jets at a Polish airfield, the desire to avoid nuclear war remains the same. The best thing is to avoid getting into the situation in the first place - by making attacking the in-transit Ukrainian jets a direct attack on the largest NATO power, the US.
This is what I believe family/friend group chats on platforms such as WhatsApp are.

They are great in my experience, but if people started posting politics news I could see how they could turn bad.
Fortunately it's gotten better. I didn't play it much during the first months as it was such a terrible shitshow of bugs. Seems they're getting ontop of it now though. I feel deeply sorry for the devs that they made them release it in such a condition. We've all been there I guess!
Erlang bit syntax is awesome. I never questioned handling bits the C way, but this way is so much nicer.
"Russia has started to make serious concessions and reduced their demands primarily to territorial claims"

Could you link to an article which shows a Russian official making such concessions or reducing their demands?

From my own reading, Russia has just been reiterating the same demands they had all along: for Ukraine to recognize the breakaway republics and for Ukraine to give up hopes of ever joining NATO.
> something is probably wrong when they're turning down qualified candidates without even speaking to them first

Maybe I've only worked at bad companies, but this is the norm where I have been. Literally anything in your resume could have triggered someone to nix an interview. Interview culture is very "best of the best" in ways that make completely backwards sense.
> Gaming benchmarks are completely irrelevant when discussing the actual raw power of the GPU.

Maybe, but the "raw power" is useless if it can't be exploited.

> Legacy games written for x86 CPUs obviously are going to perform poorly.

Not if they're GPU-bound. Even native performance isn't that impressive
The idea of the slippery slope fallacy is that you can't just identify a sequence of causal connections; you can prove anything that way. You have to present evidence that the sequence of horrible things you predict will actually occur. Just identifying a slope (or an oil slick) isn't enough.

Obviously, the argument I responded to is invalid on its own; we all intuitively understand that the EU is not going to end up managing its media the same way Russia does in some weird tit-for-tat, because Russia and the EU countries don't share the same values.

You could argue otherwise, but you'd be making an extraordinary claim, and the standard of proof you'd need to bring would be, consequently, much higher.
So you're the reason Cache-Control:no-transform exists. Bravo.
That is probably a sign you are trapped in an echo chamber.

Those three issues are polling in the 50-60% range on Pew research, and tend to fluctuate heavily based on recent events and question wording.
What a weird comment. Victim blaming at its finest.

By the same logic Ukrainians can stop resisting and prevent WW3. Is it "Zero sympathy for evil Ukrainians wishing WW3?".
This information is on the bottom of every paper check. While it is probably not advisable to broadcast and post up everywhere, it is not supposed to be a secret.
Using ethernet for the data part will need new specifications because Ethernet defines so little. For example, right now, I can plug in any random USB keyboard or camera into my computer and it'd just work in under a second, no special drivers needed. With Ethernet, someone needs to define a spec -- I don't know of any standardized "input device over ethernet" protocols for example.

Additionally, ethernet transport is pretty basic -- for example, there are no specs for Ethernet hubs which provide "device present" signal, or which can forward "sleep mode" state to/from devices as USB does.

The power delivery part will need to be reworked. Plain standardized POE promises 15W, while USB3 can get up to 240W. Plus 48V is pretty high and needs high-voltage converters, which will be hard to do in portable devices.

The PHY will need to be updated -- the copper-based ones rely on transformers for safety, but those are pretty big and hard to fit into portable devices. Also, I am not sure how power-efficient Ethernet cards are, but I bet they draw more power than USB ones. All this error correction logic to support long distances cannot be free.

So it's not like Ethernet-based stack will have less "weird proprietary nonsense". Once you get it to provide feature parity to current USB, it would be as complex, if not more.
yes same here
Perhaps we should solve that problem then.
https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1501292209781366786

Incidentally: @DownDetector is garbage. It merely looks at mentions on Twitter of people saying something is down. That includes incorrect speculation. And it even amplifies that speculation recursively. It’s reliably wrong, by design.
Internet is a bit slow here in Eastern Europe.. not just HN.
No, I literally meant the physical distance between me and a nuke.
Maybe this is the same marketing speak as we've seen with the 1600 nits peak, and 1000 nits sustained brightness claim for the new mini led displays. Which later became 500 nits for SDR content, when ambient temperature allows. [0]

I want to see proper benchmarks before getting too exited.

[0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-new-MacBook-Pro-14-only-ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
not when it has nukes
CPU as in core or socket? These days most CPUs are "many-CPU-cores-in-1-socket" and having X CPU cores over 1 or 2 sockets make a small difference, but software does not care about sockets.
Why do they have so many pitchers now? I just looked up the 2019 Yankees roster [1] and see 30 pitchers. For comparison I checked the 1927 Yankees roster [2] and see 10 pitchers.

In 1927 they played 154 game seasons, so I doubt the season being 6 games shorted than the current 160 game season explains the '27 Yankees only needing 1/3 the number of pitchers.

[1] https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=2019...

[2] https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1927...
The Ignoring the Middle Fallacy (the importance of accumulated earnings/returns)
Good breakdown, thanks!
Maybe better if they don't, if they don't have the capacity to put them all to use immediately. A plane that isn't on the ground in a war zone... won't be destroyed on the ground.
The indie professional market is more than big enough to justify this. Small films have been able to roll some pretty impressive vfx on desktop computers recently, and North American creative types tend to love Macs.
"It is theoretically a perfect-information game"

Ha, ha! A concept for suckers.
That's not really true. If people want a 4" phone and you only give an option of 6" or 6.5", them picking one of the other here doesn't prove they don't want an actual small phone.

I think it's true based on other evidence, but this on it's own isn't conclusive.
Yes, I figured, but given the emails I receive from HN I know that there are many many people that would want to know and just don't want the common toxic derailing from any crypto related conversations here, its an oddly out of character aspect of this forum, but consistent

so I just write the accurate answers for the silent lurkers really
Yeah that's an interesting problem, if people refuse to buy/upgrade to newer phones because they're too big, it might be hard to see there's a market for smaller phones.
> More and more I see the M1 chips and I wish Mac worked seriously well for gaming.

I guess Apple will never play the console game, with having their own game developer studios and buying exclusives.

But I wish they would put a M1 in an Apple TV, releasing their own controller and just do something!
The idea of "Put stuff to good use" is terrible. It just causes people to invent more uses for things that would otherwise sit unused.

US and European engineering is SO loaded down with ideas about real substance and power. We make stuff with physical moving parts. We don't think at all about performance. We ignore highly optimized libraries to handcraft artisinal apps instead.

Nobody really sees it as a problem to use resources. We don't even care about keeping old hardware running.
Alternatively phrased, too bad upstream isn't able to work with Grsecurity.
As someone who is on the LGBTQ spectrum, people that actively advocate for me not being able to exist in civil society without doing anything but trying to be authentic about myself are really not people I want in my life.

I absolutely hate that my ability to participate in modern society without harassment for things that are inherent to my existence is limited and I hope that one day we can move past this kind of foolishness as a species.
Cache size is very related to performance.
Next-gen Threadripper Pro was also announced today: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-details-ryzen-threadri...
In the latest Windows 11 there are a bunch of native OS dialog which are not high-dpi aware and look pixelated on my 4K monitor.

If even Microsoft can’t be bothered, what do you expect from app developers?!
We do see people activate the subscription for a few months, and then cancel their plan to downgrade back down to the Free Basic tier. The Free Basic tier sends ongoing Exposure Reports, so if they start to see more profiles pop back up, they re-activate. Others activate the subscription for a few months, then cancel, and then completely delete their account, and we destroy all info we have about the user at that point.
I would think they could just go to Mel Brooks instead of dealing with Tesla.
Don’t they already offer Xcode build as a service? That presumably is using Mac servers so it wouldn’t be totally out of the blue to have more Mac SaaS.
I'm typing this from a Unihertz Jelly 2. It's small enough that people make jokes about it when I pull it out.

It cost $200 with 128GB of ram and a case included.

Battery life gets me through the day, and no more, but it charges fast.

I thought the keyboard would be bad, but it's quite usable after you get used to it. I'm probably 90% as fast as on a full sized phone.

The camera, on the other hand is just bad. Like $200 Android phone from 2016 bad.
The scenario reminds me of this story:

https://mwl.io/archives/605
I am sure you are right, but unless these aircraft are radar invisible or they put them in trucks won't Russia just see them and the country they come from as hostile?
What chart are you seeing?
Nobody yet sold heavy weapon systems to Ukraine, stuff like Patriot or Iron Dome anti aircraft systems. Or tanks/planes.
> I don't think renewables are sufficient to meet our energy demands today, nor will it come close to meeting the needs of a civilization with spacefaring ambitions.

Nuclear isn't sufficient to meet our energy demands today either (although I accept that if we had invested billions into building such power stations 20 years ago, we could now be in a much better position in terms of the climate). In fact, nuclear's share of global electricity production has been decreasing since 1996, and is now down to about 10 percent.[0]

As for spacefaring, I think it will be a long time before the limits of renewables become relevant there, by which point we might have solved fusion anyway. Bear in mind that developed countries reached peak energy usage (per person) years ago, so we might be able to power new industries just by keeping production constant.

> It's definitely on those with power to set up a system that rewards good behavior. There are plenty of examples in the mining, gas, and chemistry industries of malfeasance as well as functional regulation. ... I'm certain there will be a few environmental disasters related to solar that come to light in the future.

It still seems like you're saying "Nuclear is fine as long as nothing goes wrong" and "Solar is bad, because I can imagine that unspecified disasters have happened which the Illuminati have hidden all the evidence for". Sorry if that's an unfair exaggeration; I'm just trying to make clear that you can't hope away the very real problems of nuclear, and you can't hope into existence any non-real problems of solar.

Nevertheless, I accept your point that in some countries it could be more prudent to keep investing in new nuclear power stations rather than grid-level storage and over-provisioning of wind turbines, for example. To weigh up the risks of nuclear against uncertain future energy storage systems, though, we need real numbers. We have the numbers for how much land was evacuated because of Fukushima, and how many centuries and hundreds of billions of dollars it will take to clean up Sellafield, which may not give a complete picture of those risks, but they are more helpful than assertions about "plenty of waste" and "I'm certain there will be a few".

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/world-nuclear-industry-status-report-c...
DisplayPort 1.2 (or newer) and HDMI 2.1 both support 5K at 120Hz when using DSC.
"it won't represent the kind of relief valve from European dependence on Russia that a free and prosperous united Ukraine might"

The EU and NATO are voluntarily breaking away from dependence on Russia on many fronts as we speak.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine galvanized this process.

Peace would have been far less devastating to all the countries involved.
I switched to this view a few days ago and it’s infinitely better. Originally when Twitter rolled out the toggle I figured I’d give the algorithmic feed a chance but eventually it got to the point where 80% of my feed was algorithmically recommended tweets from people I wasn’t following and I got fed up.
I think the Samsung Galaxy S10e and some of the Google Pixel models are nearly hand-size, but I don't know of any that rival the (now unsupported) Xperia XZ1 Compact. The XZ2 Compact is (AFAIK) still supported by LineageOS, but it's chunky.

I have read rumors that a new Xperia Compact model is likely within the next year. I don't want to get my hopes up too high, because this is unconfirmed and because the definition of "compact" seems to be expanding over the years, but I am optimistic.

I doubt that we'll ever see the likes of the Xperia Mini Pro again.

Edit: Here's a handy phone size comparison tool:
https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size
Hector Martin who’s developing Asahi Linux for Apple Silicon recently tweeted about this. The M1 Pro, M1 Max and the at the time unannounced “Double M1 Max” have a completely different series identifier (T600x) to the forth coming Mac Pro chip (T6500) so no it won’t just be a doubling/quadrupling of an existing design.
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1498317101245034502?s=21
Exactly - the internet is a hostile place, because of its openness, which is (was?) a core design trait. As much as it hurts, you can't have the freedom of the internet without allowing bad actors some degree of freedom, too.
It would be nice if it was rack mountable.
Not sure about game developers, but gamers are a low-margin, high-touch, low-satisfaction-score, garish-aesthetic, speeds-and-feeds market. Pretty much antithetical to Apple's core focus and I think they rightly avoid them. Despite personally wanting more games on Mac :)
I recently read an article that stated that Russian anti-air can basically reach all over Ukraine. I wonder how effective these planes can be if they can be targeted from anywhere.
I have like 400 favorite songs from wide variety of genres, and I've seen some songs becoming unavailable over time. And I don't know what it was, so I have no way to get it back in any way.

Not a huge loss, but annoying.
>nah, hidpi on Windows is fine…
Exactly, it’s fine.

Apple has never settled for “fine” either it’s great or it gets cuts at some point.

>if you know what you’re doing as an application developer.
Apple also tends to avoid wading into footgun waters to keep quality (for 3rd party devs) as high as possible across the board.
>Navy Seal Copypasta, broken into eight twitter sized parts. Eventually they banned me for this

Fucking killjoys.

If twitter is moderating for people who can't even figure out not to take that copypasta seriously[1], then they're showing their hand. There's no end state. No goal. There is no cultural equilibrium point that even perfect moderation could ever achieve.

Therefore, visible attrition is the end state. Twitter has to satisfy the normies who want to be on the internet but don't understand the internet. The moderation is a con because it can't be anything else. Lying "we're working on it, see?" to the monied/powerful normies who's continued use keep Twitter's stock price out of the dumpster.

[1]: It's not that people should recognize copypasta, it's that people should recognize the words of an idiot. This meme became a meme because how well everyone recognized the earnest original author of that post couldn't be taken seriously.
My understanding is:

1. Ukraine forces know how to pilot MIG29s

2. Poland has MIG-29s, USA does not

3. Poland has time to retrain on newer equipment, Ukraine does not

4. Poland doesn't want to be defenseless, if it gives aircraft to Ukraine.

So Poland gives Ukraine exactly what they need right now... USA agrees to aid Poland in replacement aircraft.

This isn't about "USA didn't give Ukraine aircraft", Poland did! It's about getting Ukraine the aircraft they know how to use right now
By banning Russian media and TV stations, the West gave a convenient precedent for Russia to do the same.
Ironically enough, that thread devolved into an irrelevant political argument.
It would be good if mainstream media outlets would read this article and understand the points made in it. All to often news ends up being something that someone said on Twitter. It's like going down to the local pub to troll for quotes...
At least for me, it's not listened to with the same volume you'd normally use for music or speech; white noise at that volume would definitely be awful. It's meant as barely perceptible background noise.
If the DNS server is out for more than 1 minute you'll get an outage. You also increase latency by preventing anybody from caching the response for more than 1 minute.
You should get into the small form factor (SFF) Mini ITX gaming scene.

Brands like Velkase, Custom MOD (in Ukraine, cannot currently conduct business), Phanteks, DAN Case, NZXT H1 V2, and many others are really interesting options.

I've built systems that use either SFX PSUs or Flex ATX PSUs (the latter are usually modified with Noctua fans to quiet them down, so using a case that requires an SFX power supply is more noob-friendly and will have more generous power limits)

The Optimum Tech channel on YouTube is a great as a general small form factor resource. Here's a case roundup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo8T81nuLFM

Gamers Nexus sometimes covers small form factor, but Optimum Tech has a lot more focus on SFF in particular.
> Perhaps, but unfortunately there is not enough information to get even a toehold on an idea.

Imagine some position you personally find to be controversial/wrong/stupid but that everyone else around you agrees with (or vice versa).

In my view, understanding what my position is on some arbitrary matter does not further this conversation in any meaningful way.
> One of my pet theories for why social media is such a cesspool is that it exposes us to the whole of someone else.

We are naturally inclined to be negative. Or, said differently, it takes a LOT less effort to be negative than positive. On social media it's just way too easy for people to pile on.
> What is NATO's next move?

NATO reciprocates hitting back with cruise missiles the originating place.
Poland is part of NATO. Doubtful that they would be targeted.
This feels an awfully lot like the US taking advantage of the current war to sell some more guns and, while I definitely don't want people to be left defenseless, I dislike how exploitative the whole thing feels.
What? $2000 for the Studio plus $1600 for their 5K display means Apple's new entry level workstation now costs $3600. That's a LOT more expensive than the old iMac 27 i7 at about $2400.

To sum up, Apple just hiked their entry level workstation's price by $1200. AND they convinced you they performed magic.

No, I think that flying pig you saw was proof that Jobs' reality distortion field is still alive and well.
Try ambient music.

Space music (a sub genre) is my favourite.