skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey good news -- you might be interested in Warpforge: https://github.com/warpfork/warpforge

It's heading in exactly that direction. In fact we specifically want to start using Starlark for module declaration (mind -- optionally. It's still all declarative JSON API at the bottom! APIs FTW!).

We're also going full hermetic and aiming for reproducible-by-default. Those should be "duh" things in modern world. The comparisons with the good parts of Nix should be obvious.

The starlark-adjacent parts are still (very) early, but you'll find some notes about the intention in our Notion already: https://www.notion.so/warpforge/Data-Execution-and-Formulas-...

Get in touch if you'd like to collaborate, we'd be thrilled to have more company working on it, or starting to package things!
Apple probably has 0 interest in entering the server market.

Doesn't matter if Apple has interest in the server market; the server market has interest in Mac Studios.

I can see a rack of these in someone's datacenter. Can you imagine the render farm that could be created?
Seems like it shares the same shortcomings as the M1 Pro/Max family then.
Chrome with only about a dozen tabs open can take up to 16GB of memory. There is no defense for this. It only gets worse as time goes on and as more tabs are opened.

I have 64GB of memory total and about 16-32 of it is in use for virtual machines, which is reasonable.

How much total memory do you expect the average computer to have?
No mention of refresh rate, so I'm assuming a 60hz panel, only offering usb-c and thunderbolt, no hdmi or display port, and no mention of hdr rating, or mini/micro led backlight zones. Apple's gonna apple i guess. People will still buy it.
> "In the current environment, it is not in the best interest of NATO or the US that [Eastern European] states be granted full NATO membership and its security guarantees,

"In the current environment" -- environments change. 1990 was 32 years ago.

> [We] do not, in any case, wish to organize an anti-Soviet coalition whose frontier is the Soviet border. Such a coalition would be perceived very negatively by the Soviets.

The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact don't exist anymore; no one cares what they think. There were never promises made, and even if there were, those countries / alliances aren't around to complain. Hell, several WARPACT members are in NATO now, and it's clear that several (like the Czechoslovaks) didn't really want to be in WARPACT anyways.

> Also the phrase "purely defensive military alliance" is a lie. A lie viscerally disproven by bayonet thrust up Khafaffi's backside in 2011 by NATO allies after he was "welcomed back" into the international community.

Bollocks. Libya had a long history of trying to attack NATO members. Quaddafi's Libya blew up western airplanes (e.g Lockerbie), fired missiles at western aircraft and ships (Gulf of Sidra), and openly supported terrorists attacks elsewhere (the La Belle bombing in Western Germany). He wasn't just some random bystander. Plus his own people did the thrusting; NATO only gave them enough air cover to rebel.
If anything this just reminds me how frustrating their product line was pre-M1 for so many years. I'm still dealing with the legacy of having to work with people with 16GB as the ceiling and projects that simply do not fit in them.
The last time NATO depended on nuclear as a deterrent was in the late 70s when we didn't think we could stop the advancement of soviet tanks. No one would like nuclear to not exist more than NATO. You might want to be on an Asian website if you are trying to lobby against nuclear weapons.
> I don't engage on Twitter out of fear.

> it means I'm endorsing everything the author has ever said or ever will say.

> People in my demographic face significant exposure to "cancelling" or ambushing for wrongthink.

I totally get that this is the zeitgeist now (and I'm starting to behave this way now on HN since I don't really do other social media), but this is a horrible place we've worked ourselves into.

People taking pop shots and then getting algorithmically amplified has reduced the surface area for having safe dialogue and has led to increasing tensions and polarization.

In an ideal world, people talk about and discuss things they disagree about frequently and are at least respectful in dealing with those they don't see eye to eye with. We all have a different frame of reference, and that's not something to fight against.

I think the pandemic increased stresses for a lot of people (myself included), but these trends really took hold with algorithmic amplification. It isn't just a passing fad, sadly. And it isn't just rooted in just the technology. There are real needs and causes for social angst that need to be met.

Imagine if we also amplified inspiring and hopeful things. Nourished ourselves with stories of hope and overcoming difficulties. Science and technology, opportunity, a look to the future. (Especially for kids!) I know life isn't all sunshine and roses, but this would give us balance and perspective and wouldn't chip away at a person's inner drive and passion by replacing it with skepticism and dissatisfaction.

I think we can swing back. People are noticing this and feeling displeasure.
It sounds like the chip is fast but I wonder, if like other M1 products, the computers built with it will be fairly restricted, like a console, in terms of the hardware they're able to use (not being able to boot off external HDDs, problems with thunderbolt 3 compatibility in peripherals, having to use abstraction layers to run most of the software world indirectly or have specific porting projects dedicated to M1, etc).
Interesting tweet from Hector Martin, who is leading the Linux port:

>Chances are our kernel will Just work on M1 Ultra with just device tree changes, might not even need any m1n1 changes.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1501271229763706882
Poland’s government ready to hand over all its MIG-29s to US air base in Germany
Right, but the keynote is marketing. And they've been saying that for, what, nearly a decade now? [0] And in that time they have chipped away at that segment from different directions, with the iMac Pro and the Mac Studio. The latter of which is a beast already.

What's left? Render farms, scaleable computing.

I guess I think there will be some sort of new machine in that segment. But I figure it's not going to be what people expect from a single, unitary Mac Pro desktop.

Because once you're up at that level of performance requirement, you start to want modular and scaleable things.

What is the pitch for the part of the market that is used to using commodity hardware in scaleable configurations?

[0] Edit: I obviously forgot the cheese grater
A bond between Russia and China over the next decade if not century could be a huge problem if China decides to pull the plug on products for US.

We import half trillion per year from China. Everything would disappear, prices would go up tenfold. I guess kind of like oil/gas for Europe from Russia.
that's the best thing i've read today
Yet another "exclusive" distribution platform. I swear sports leagues and media companies are doing everything in their power to drive away casual fans. Why is watching MLB/NFL/NBA games so difficult in this country??
Tell the game developers! They need to hear from you that the demand is there.
> I want to hear what the Russian people are being told

Me too, but I don't think the Russian people are the main audience for the English, Spanish and French versions of RT. We'll have to rely on translations, from other sources, of the actual Russian news to find out what the Russians are being told.
That and I think you can genuinely use all 128GB so long as you're not trying to run something else on the CPU at the same time. So a bit bigger than 80GB.
Well, that’s not exactly what happened.

MS only “injected” $250 million in Apple. Apple turned around and used $100 million to buy Power Computings Mac assets. The $150 million left did not “save” Apple at the rate it was losing money.
Creators is not one group but many groups who create different things.
I cancelled my subscription last week precisely because of the poor UX.

It really pisses me off that they charge what feels like a disproportionate amount (certainly more than I've ever spent on music elsewhere), offer a very simple service only passably well, then waste their revenue on SV dev salaries (with no obvious benefit to the users in features or stability) - and of course their illustrious podcast hosts.
Cannabis will probably never be legalized for children, outside of some extreme medical conditions -- or CBD, which is not psychoactive. It is clear that THC is not good for a developing brain.

It is also likely that cannabis is generally less harmful than alcohol or even acetaminophen, and unlike those, considered fairly non-toxic. Consider that cannabis metabolites can be detected in your body for up to a month after consumption. It's apparently not that high of a priority for your body to purge it. Cannabis does not need to be combusted. The resins will readily vaporize at temperatures well below the point at which the plant matter actually burns.

I no longer consume alcohol, but occasionally consume cannabis. My personal decision comes from a lot of experience with both, the way my body feels after consuming them, and studied risks associated with each. I exercise responsible moderation in my consumption and strongly believe that cannabis is the safer choice.

This conversation is more about the extent to which we need to protect adults from their own adult decisions, and/or protect the antiquated and partially racist underpinnings behind how and why cannabis was initially made illegal. To that end, I'm not sure it bears much, if any, similarity to lead exposure.
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And that fake "lab" environment (100% rendered, I guess?) with computers and monitors having no cables, random single tools that make no sense lying alone on a "clean" table, etc.
It's there but it's noticeably slower/buggier.
Apple finally releases a powerful affordable desktop computer. Now I am worried it's the start of WW3 or otherwise the end of the world. Going outside now to look for flying pigs
Ah ok, you were just being pedantic. Fair enough.
Hehe the truth is much less nefarious; I was typing this on mobile, my 2 year old was climbing on me as I type and my wife was calling us both to hurry up and get to the dinner table, or else!

Edit: and to explain why z's, it's exactly above the comma "," on my Android phone (Gboard), and it's easy to miss when you can't see!
Sure, salt as seasoning. My question was more around the usecase for "seasoned" rice.
McD not only has almost 100k employees it also has over 95% of its supply chain from domestic (Russian) sources. McD is irreplaceable, any other fast food business already have their supplier and not even retail supermarkets won’t be able to absorb the influx of foodstuff, not to mention settle in multi-year contracts.

The ripple effect might put ~500k out of the workforce!

And this before considering the symbolism of McD having opened in Moscow in 1990!
The actual poll seems to ask "ever used". I believe that 25% of Americans have every used Twitter. I believe the number is probably much higher since "ever used" could mean anything from tweeted to seen a tweet.
Perfect. Recently went to a 40" ultrawide display to share between work laptop (during work hours) and personal desktop (after hours) to simplify my desk, and felt the Mini was probably just a little too limiting/low-end.

Finally, the replacement to my 2015 iMac 5k.
Yelling at the time of physical pain is plain reaction, it's not catharsis... specially not in this context. It's not a violent release of pent up emotions.
We tried that for months in the leadup to the invasion. If Putin wanted to negotiate, he should have negotiated. Instead he played for time by deliberately making demands he knew we couldn't meet.

Why should we assume, after that show, that he'll be reasonable now?
Might be region-specific. I was just talking with my friend on Discord about 5 minutes ago.

Also noted that Spotify seems to be having issues, but I'm listening to music through Spotify right now without issue.

Curious what the affected area for this outage is.
Thanks to anyone who checked this out or shared. <3

Please let me know if you have thoughts on how I can improve this BERT 101 Guide.
>Looks like all the people saying "just start fusing those M1 CPU's into bigger ones" were right,

Well they were only correct that Apple managed to hide a whole section of Die Image. ( Which is actually genius ) Otherwise it wouldn't have made any sense.

Likely to be using CoWoS from TSMC [1] since the bandwidth numbers fits. But needs further confirmation.

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/tsmc/cowos
That is a Patreon link ProtonDB, not Proton. Proton is funded by Valve and ProtonDB is unaffiliated.
> It gets criticized from time to tome, though the newer 14/16” MBPs ship 200% as default again.

The new 2021 MacBook Pros were such a great design and it's clear how every small thing points to them being the greatest since 2015 Pros.
I'm not sure I accept that. A whole lot of CDs I owned at one point got scratched to the point that at least some part of a song couldn't be listened to any more. In some cases, the entire CD stopped being readable. Sometimes, they went beyond scratching to breaking. They could get lost. The players broke. Did loss of listenability due to physical degradation of media happen more or less than Spotify goes out? I have no idea. But CDs in boomboxes definitely did not have 100% uptime.
‘Constantly afraid’: immigrants on life under US Government surveillance
I am genuinely crestfallen that there was no update to Mac Mini. That thing has the right balance for most computer science folks who want a Mac. Not everyone needs/runs a silicon Godzilla on their desk after all.

As of the current lineup, Mini is still stuck with 16 GB RAM and a disappointing number of ports.
Right, we are doomed.

Wake up and live your day like it's the last one.

Be kind.

Be generous.

Give up your ambitions and plans.

Just breathe every moment in and out and observe its beauty while you can.
I think you serialise misinterpret the sentiment in Central Europe. Several people are already seriously considering if more intervention is necessary. However, the fear of nuclear WW3 is keeping that in check. If Putin was to attack attack Finland or Sweden it would be clear to everyone that he is going to continue further and further.

Apart from that, after this war (no matter if he wins or not) the Russian military would be in no state to attack anyone except maybe moldavia. In fact there was a leaked FSB memo just two days ago, which was highly critical of the invasion and estimated that even if they win they would need 500,000 permanently in Ukraine to "keep" it. That is significantly more than half of the active military in russia.
It's "free". No additional cost.
Now redirects to webfx.com.

Original: https://web.archive.org/web/20220303112715/https://httpstatu...
This is not really geared towards 'all'. You can see that on the presentation and who they had talking.
Can you refer to the relevant law? From recent vague memory I believe anyone can take their stolen property back without court order.
What's the phrase? You'll own nothing and be happy.
Personally, I always read it as "advice" rather than as an insult. Unfortunately, can't seem to find much context for that quote so it's hard to determine what was intended.
Russia May Use Antiquated An-2 Biplanes to 'Draw Out' Ukrainian Air Defenses
You've already made up your mind, so if you're not interested in actually understanding why cancelling both exists and is a problem, you can probably sit this conversation out. You want an example, fine.

In many scenarios canceling is completely arbitrary, based on misquotes, lack of context, or total fabrication simply because someone, somewhere was offended and can get other people to act on their behalf.

In the best case scenario, the person being canceled is actually a shitty human being. I know such a person. He said some really stupid stuff online, was called out on it, doubled down on it, was doxxed and canceled. He's not the type of person who considers the consequences of his actions in any scenario. He's also actually stupid and not a friend of mine. I think he's as close to hot garbage as a human being can get without actually abusing or murdering other people.

However, this person still did not deserve death threats for the words he wrote. This person did not deserve people calling his employer threatening to burn down their building. The employer certainly didn't deserve that. His coworkers didn't deserve it. This person did not deserve his house to be vandalized; nor did the actual owner of the house. His roommates didn't deserve to live in fear and to have to deal with angry people maybe thinking they were him.

These behaviors are not justifiable. They are, in fact, less justifiable than someone saying awful things online. Writing them off as "consequences" is simply twisted.
> If Apple supported gaming more

You mean if gaming supported Apple more, right? The industry's reliance on DirectX and the frameworks that build on it are largely what keep gaming so PC-centric.

If we saw AAA studios embrace macOS-compatible (or better yet Open Source) graphics architecture, the need to have separate gaming PCs (and the insanely expensive GPUs associated therewith) would evaporate.
Thinking that this is just between Russia and Ukraine is such a common mistake. Ukraine is the latest move in a larger chess game (remember Transnistria, Georgia, Bellarus?) where the end goal of Russian is a new world order. Instead of the current order based on western values and laws, Russia wants the so called "uni-polar world" to change such that it has it's own sphere of influence. That sphere would consist of weak countries subjected either politically, economically or militarily. It sees those as buffer states... and there are never enough of those.
The thing is, for most people a glossy monitor with an AR coating is a good compromise, since reflections are a lot more distracting than a slightly matte finish. For a studio monitor this isn't a consideration, but in general the finish is mentioned in the specifications.
The comparison chart for the high spec M1 Ultra was using a 3090.

So even if it "only" reaches 3060 levels of performance in games, I think many people would be okay with that. Reality will likely place it somewhere between a 3060 and the 3090.
Why would you overload this machine for that need, though? Just have a laptop sitting on a shelf for when you need to spin up those old VMs, do what you need to do, and put it back on the shelf.
Making people comply with moral values they wouldn't otherwise comply with is the super-glue holding society together. One can wish all day long that someone like Putin would be a decent human being, but otherwise social and financial pressures are the only non-lethal option for dealing with him. This extends down to your neighborhood or office level criminal as well.
Swish! (That's amazing.)
Not defending Russia in general, or in particular russian government. As a French person whose national medias are completely taken over by multinationals (source https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/PPA), not only the ban was a bit laughable in terms of banning propaganda, but also RT France's perspective and journalism was refreshing. It was presenting a skewed version of the world, but if you believe as I do that we won't attain information via objectivity, which is a nebulous concept anyway, but via plurality, RT France's disappearance is a net loss for the French media landscape, and I'm a bit alarmed at the black&whiteness of views I see here and in other places.
This is such a random thing to complain about but I hate these Mac product pages with the animations as you scroll. I guess they are designed for mobile but I navigate them on a desktop using a mouse wheel and they always look super clunky.
I wonder if the max 128GB graphics memory opens up some applications that would not have been viable before?
When handing over to the M1 Ultra part of the keynote he literally said something along the lines of "we're adding this last M1 chip to our lineup". So maybe an upcoming Mac Pro will have the next generation of Apple Silicon (M2).

I am curious to see how that device will look like. Surprisingly, with the last Mac Pro the modularity of the device and the ability to user-upgrade GPU, RAM or storage was actually a huge selling point that Apple emphasized. I can't imagine how this would work with Apple Silicon.
Industry sanctions started in 2018. Their production had been declining since 2014. It's not just an issue of equipment. Its also a brain drain, corruption, lack of a functional justice system, legal guarantees, property rights...

Competent Venezuelan oil professionals have been fleeing the country and can be found in Colombia, Brazil, and other oil producing countries farther away.

The Venezuelan regime is far, far from being harmless and nonthreatening, their human violations are numerous and nobody is suffering the consequences of their actions more than Venezuelans themselves. I've seen the plight of their people on the immigrants who fled to my own country.

Even their own PDVSA stars don't drink the Kool-aid... It was sad to share a table with disillusioned young, bright, venezuelan engineers at the SPE Latin America Heavy and Extra Heavy Oil Conference, so ask me how I know...
and it makes total sense! computers are slowly transitioning back to professional/enthusiast/educational focused as casual internet browsing continues to move onto mobile devices. you don't have people buying laptops to browse the internet on their couch anymore.
Yeah it feels horrible now.

When I got my iPhone 13 pro it cost me an M1 iPad and a 14” MBP because everything felt horrible afterwards.
It was reported from the beginning that the fire was in a training building and quickly stopped.

The outrage was that it was close enough.
Amazingly, NVidia cards had this port on previous generation models, but it got removed for some reason. (Though it's actually not clear to me it would work; they did some non-standard stuff to get USB 3.1 instead of USB 2.0 alongside DisplayPort lanes.)
I do wish the Bypass Paywalls extension still worked for Mozilla Fenix.
Even their editor in chief resigned because she was sick of her government's actions and that she had to spread more lies about what they were doing. Maybe that tells something us about RT?

Also - when they ban every outlet of free media in Russia, why should we have to allow to operate and spread lies elsewhere?
BTW, your observable profile link is broken
Though maybe we can get some NUMA-like affinity control for the M1 Ultra, so HPC control freaks can finally tune the fuck out of this hardware.
What makes you think they were in Airplane mode?
Mega, Supra, Domina, Prima, Stellar, Noto, Nova, Jumbo.
M1 Epic (late 2022)

M1 Ludicrous (early 2023)

M1 Insane (late 2023)

Probably they'll make enough changes to release M2 by that time.
if they hold an account with you and it's your ATM: yes

it's called setting-off
Iiyama [1], Dell [2] and LG used a 27" 5K iMac display for a little while, but as production at Apple wound down you can no longer really buy those in most places.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12568/iiyamas-prolite-xb2779q...

[2]: https://www.dell.com/ae/business/p/dell-up2715k-monitor/pd
Actually, they're excellent as one can actually easily purchase an M1 mac at the moment.
You might have to join a war that you don't want to get involved in? That's a pretty big downside.