skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The shocking story is that 25% of Americans tweet. As a non-tweeter, I would have assumed that number was more like 1-5%. 25% sounds pretty representative to me.

I'm annoyed by how this story seems to be jamming together unrelated things to paint a picture. Are people under the impression that twitter users are big political donors, or that twitter users don't mostly self-identify as independents? Are [capital-I]ndependents "somewhere in the middle," or is that just editorial trying to turn 42% of people into centrist charity-givers?
Fake grills have existed for years. More airflow is usually, but not always, better.

All I'm saying is the current design doesn't look good to me, and some more work could've been done to not just make it look like a weird, tall Mac Mini.
> needs to be addressed

By HN? Or by a C++ conference? They should call the police or get a lawyer, not protest in computer science forums.
Is that Threadripper in anything like the "same power envelope"?
Kasper Timm Hansen Resigns from Rails Core
It's kind of ridiculous how slow the progress in screen resolutions has been. It's disappointing that Apple is only going for 5k, not 8k; they're well positioned to fix the ecosystem and bring high-resolution large displays to everyone, if only they tried.

I'm finally sitting in front of an 8k 65" screen. This gives me a nice combination of decent picel density in the center and lots of peripheral vision in which to put secondary windows, plus I can sit across the room and watch a movie on it. But every component of the ecosystem introduced problems and friction.

I have an M1 Macbook Pro on the same desk. The Macbook can't drive the 8k TV. I have a separate desktop running Windows with an nVidia GPU for that. Every component of the video ecosystem has given me friction in getting to 8k. I had to swap my $1k nVidia GPU for a different $1k nVidia GPU that wasn't any faster, to get HDMI 2.1 support. Had to use special HDMI cables, because cables that aren't specially marked as HDMI2.1 compatible don't have enough bandwidth. And then the display itself has a ridiculous postprocessing bug (I wrote about it at https://www.rtings.com/tv/discussions/IyO2wLLsNnJCMT-_/firmw...) which makes me think the firmware engineers didn't have a working 8k source to test with.
Zelensky: “No Longer Pursuing NATO Membership, Open to Compromise on DNR/LNR”
It has been a phantom product, because Apple has needed to fill major gaps in the desktop space first.

I suspect Apple is set to debut powerful revision to the Mac Pro focused on AI/ML at WWDC.

I wrote about this 10 months back[0], and it still applies following Studio:

> It may not be obvious, but Apple has repair work to do in the pro community. Four years ago this month, Apple unusually disclosed that it was "completely rethinking the Mac Pro." [1]

> The current Mac Pro design wasn't announced until June of 2019 and didn't hit the market until December 10th of 2019. That's just six months prior to the Apple Silicon announcement.

> It seems unlikely Apple spent 2017-2019 designing a Mac Pro that they would not carry forward with Apple Silicon hardware.

> The current, Gen 3 2019 Mac Pro design has the Mac Pro Expansion Module (MPX). This is intended to be a plug-and-play system for graphics and storage upgrades. [2]

> While the Apple Silicon SoC can run with some GPU tasks, it does seem it does not make sense for the type of work that big discrete cards have generally been deployed for.

> There is already a living example of a custom Apple-designed external graphics card. Apple designed and released Afterburner, a custom "accelerator" card targeted at video editing with the gen 3 Mac Pro in 2019.

> Afterburner has attributes of the new Apple Silicon design in that it is proprietary to Apple and fanless. [3]

> It seems implausible Apple created the Afterburner product for a single release without plans to continue to upgrade and extend the product concept using Apple Silicon.

Given "Ultrafusion" it seems plausible that M2 would be able connect multiple custom SoCs that are littered with GPU cores as stackable accelerator cards.

> So, I think the question isn't if discrete Apple Silicon GPUs will be supported but how many types and in and what configurations.

This prediction not come to pass:

> I think the Mac Mini will remain its shape and size, and that alongside internal discrete GPUs for the Pro, Apple may release something akin to the Blackmagic eGPU products they collaborated on for the RX580 and Vega 56.

But at least the mid market display now exists.
> While possibly not big sellers, Apple Silicon eGPUs would serve generations of new AS notebooks and minis. This creates a whole additional use case. The biggest problem I see with this being a cohesive ecosystem is the lack of a mid-market Apple display. [4]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26956886

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives

[2] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/apple-unveils-powerfu...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33ywFqY5o1E

[4] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/wishful-thinking-wwdc-d...
Some missing stages here?

0.1 Raspberry Pi in your mums shed.

4.5 You rent between 6 and 24 units of rack space or a half cage. You
build and configure your own hardware including custom disk
arrays, a lead-acid UPS fallback, and co-locate it all in a
trusty local rack shack.

4.6 For TPB/SciHub/Wikileaks style authenticity, do this in some
disused farm outbuildings oddly next to major internet trunks
spread across 4 countries with a command-control overlay.
The complete lack of what HDMI port it uses is indeed pretty bizarre, but why would it come with a keyboard and mouse? The people who buy this already have those, or know which ones they need far better than Apple does, and will buy the exactly models they want on their own.
I guess. I mean, it's a forgettable stopgap machine (I forgot it ;-) It's not really what people wanted, is it? It's just something they had to put on sale to shut people up. A conventional, Intel-era thing.

They've been saying "something really great is coming", all that. That Mac Pro was not that.

Does Apple still care about the market that wants to plug in internal GPU cards? Does that make much sense even in the context of hardware the speed of the Mac Studio?

I wonder.
Sadly I don't have a proper record player setup here—only my CD Walkman, but I have plans for something else down the line. But I do have a healthy music library on my main PC.
> But surely the GPU things can't be real? The GPU in the M1 Ultra beats the top-of-the-line Nvidia?

Dubious. https://www.pcgamer.com/apple-m1-max-nvidia-rtx-3080-perform...
[ ] Parcel didn’t arrive

[ ] Parcel arrived damaged

[X] Parcel damaged my house/city/country
So it has USB-C... yet can't be powered via USB-C?
It is the maximum for a single chip. Ultra is two chips in a single package. I think the name subtly emphasizes the distinction.
I'm cross posting a question I had from the Mac Studio thread (currently unanswered).

----

Mac Pro scale up?

How is this going to scale up to a Mac Pro, especially related to RAM?

The Ultra caps at 128 GB of RAM (which isn't much for video editing, especially given that the GPU uses the system RAM). Today's Mac Pro goes up to 1.5TB (and has dedicated video RAM above this).

If the Mac Pro is say, 4 Ultra's stacked together - that means the new Mac Pro will be capped at 512GB of RAM.
Would Apple stack 12 Ultra's together to get to 1.5TB of RAM? Seems unlikely.
And cyberpunk 2077 or farcry 6 on full on ultra settings makes me almost want to cry it's so pretty. I'll walk past a puddle and just... walk back and forward. It feels like what your teenage overclock made crysis look look like in the early 2000's, I can recommend.
It'll have to wait for a new Thunderbolt Standard to make it to Macs. TB4 tops out at 30GB/s, while 5k/120hz is 32GB/s.
We only produce enough oil to meet our needs via fracked shale wells, enhanced recovery methods, etc, all of which comes at great cost, both financial and environmental.

I wouldn't expect an economist or an American Jingoist cheerleader to ever crack a geophysics book, but someone should look at the production decline curves of these wells and then take a wild-ass guess how much longer the shale miracle will last.

We import oil because "energy independence" (at least from an oil & gas perspective, renewables and coal may be another matter) is a fleeting, rose-colored dream, from which we will soon awake.
Can someone explain to me why unlocking with FaceID requires you to swipe up? Pressing the power button and having my face visible seems like a good signal to let me start interacting with icons. That, to me, was the FaceID downgrade. It's still easy to unlock when you pull it out of your pocket, it's just annoying that you have to shift your grip downwards to swipe up.

(One problem with designing products in California is that they don't have public transportation, so nobody beta testing the phone is standing on a crowded subway, hanging on with one hand and trying to use their phone with the other. The SE was great for one-handed use. The subsequent phones are difficult there.)
> As a comparsion a quick build on PCPartPicker: Xeon E5 22 core, Radeon RX 6900 XT, case, power supply, 64 gb of ram, motherboard, 1TB SSD and CPU cooler. Comes in at just shy of $5,000

And that's just the parts. Don't forget the M1 Ultra will use less electrical power too.
It is. The statistic the article is actually referencing is that ~25%, "use twitter"[0]. That most likely indicates they at least open Twitter. Another post from the same site, the article references, has the headline that about 10% of those create 80% of the content[1]. Bottom-line a fraction of 25% sometimes tweet.

[0]https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/04/07/social-media...

[1]https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...
Presumably with a much worse webcam and speakers. It's also ugly black plastic compared to the aluminum construction of the Apple display.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspelling#Fingerspelling_...
Which is fine for NSA/FSB purposes; the text to speech reduces the absolute flood of calls to the trickle that they may want to pay attention to ... ah who am I kidding, they'll sit on some drive somewhere and never be paid attention to, just like all the 9/11 warnings.
So what are all those Belarusian military doing there at the border?

I think they officially said they were doing exercises and will not invade Ukraine. So no worries.
I did hear on the Bulgarian TV some Ukrainians openly saying: "We're gonna learn the language, we're gonna work in Bulgaria." That won't be news as most of our seasonal work was already done by Ukrainians, but speaking to Ukrainians who do seasonal work in Poland and Germany - they've shared to me that they were often treated as cattle.
How do you think you would feel about that if you lived in Lithuania?
"overseas oil, even after shipping costs, is often cheaper than domestically-produced crude"

If that were really true, the US would not be able to export oil, which it does.

There may still be a tax break for some imported oil. Saudi oil was taxed by Saudi Arabia, and this was tax-deductible for US buyers, even though ARAMCO is owned by the Saudi government and that "tax" is the government taxing itself. Not sure if this still applies.

Some export is geography. Alaska has good access to Japan. There isn't enough pipeline capacity through the Sierras. Stuff like that.

Not sure about the refinery argument. Here's a study made during the last oil glut, so the technology is the same but the economics are different.[1] (Start at page 7.) Refineries can crack heavy crude down to lighter fractions, but they don't have to. Turns out that's not the problem. The problem is getting out too many light fractions - propane, methane, butane - for which markets are limited. Some distillation columns can't handle too much of the light fractions. It's possible to add a reformer stage to combine light hydrocarbons down to at least the gasoline level, but most refineries don't have those. All those problems are solveable on a scale of five years.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/petroleum/morelto/pdf/l...
Discord never claims to be decentralized?
$8100 for a 20-core, 128GB, 8TB, 2x10ge, 2xTB3 BTO config of a HP Z6 G4. You get more expandability but fewer and slower TB ports, random graphics, and a much slower CPU, also a different operating system. Z workstations won't be competitive for people who can choose macOS until they refresh them with a newer Xeon. On the other hand, Mac won't be competitive for people who require ECC or Windows or Linux.

https://zworkstations.com/configurations/2944242/
now back up; it was horrible
I didn't think of that as a migration path.
Doesn't display stream compression support higher bitrates? Also, I think thunberbolt 4 supports DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0, which can handle up to like 80Gbps. But I guess that comes at the cost of attaching any other devices other than the monitor.
If they are yet another data broker with a novel phishing pitch, giving them your info just adds it to one more list among many. If they're legit, they could lower the spam volume by a few decibels. Seems like a reasonable risk/benefit ratio.
In what way is a pipeline riskier than truck/rail/ship?
Just unplug it?
For all the work Apple is doing to improve their environmental impact (which I applaud) I'm completely flabbergasted as to why this is a single device monitor. It's quite the impact on the environment to require users who have a Mac mini/Studio and a MacBook Pro to buy two monitors (no matter how great the production chain is).
Sure, you can plug/unplug the cable, but that works so-so on a Studio with the ports on the back.

Everything else I could've lived with, this is a major omission :(
Italy's Salvini challenged over Putin praise in Polish visit
> And unsecured civilian radio, too.

When I was at the military we "learned" that encrypted communication makes no sense when the transmitted content effects events no longer than half a day into the future as the opponent cannot take effective countermeasures anyway.
I'm eagerly awaiting their future announcement of the MK Ultra version. It will be amazing!
Right, it's the studio's fault, not because Metal is a dogshit API with dogshit performance. And instead of paying 900$ for a RTX 3090, you could pay 4000 for something with the equivalent power of a 3060Ti that you can't upgrade without buying an entire new SoC.

But go on, blame directx for being the one API actually moving things forwards. Not Apple's shitty behavior.
I recall reading we only have oil reserves to meet our demands for 5-15 years if sourced exclusively from ourselves.
> having to use abstraction layers to run most of the software world indirectly

Nearly everything I use daily is built for M1 now.

https://isapplesiliconready.com/

And honestly, if it's not, its a good indication that it's time to move away from that product as they don't care about a huge segment of their users.
>>> "overseas oil, even after shipping costs, is often cheaper than domestically-produced crude"

>>>This is all you need to know.

And the Jones Act which makes it cost-prohibitive to ship between US ports.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/jones_act
My earliest memory of getting "cancelled" predates twitter where Dixie Chicks were "cancelled" by their own fans because they criticized the Iraq war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks_controversy
> The entire phrase "expanding to their border" betrays a defective world view.

I've never read a sentence that so clearly ignores the meaning of the words it is rejecting. When NATO includes another country, it's expanding. This is the meaning of the word "expand", to grow - adding a new country to your territory makes you grow - or expand!!

As Ukraine (as well as the Baltic states, which are already NATO) borders Russia, "expanding to the Russian borders" describes physically what it is that NATO is doing.

I use words with their current meaning without trying to spin their meaning to express something that's occurring... if you think that's a "deffective world view" then you're way too far into the play of words of politics to be able to have a serious discussion about the topic.
The problem is, some monitors aren’t “slightly matte” - many are very matte, and you can’t tell just how matte they are into you receive them, since the finish is always just called “matte”.

Glossy isn’t ideal but I’d definitely take it over spending $500 on a 4K ultra sharp display only to view everything through a fine layer of grainy rainbow colored dust.

Apple’s nano-matte technology seems like it could be a wonderful albeit expensive compromise, but I know I and many others are willing to pay the premium.
Based on Anandtech benchmarks the M1 Max GPU is basically on par with a mobile 3080, which a quick search tells me is about 60% as fast as a desktop 3080. Not unreasonable to believe 2 of them combined will outperform a 3090- with nearly 128 GB of VRAM to boot.

Even more incredible Anandtech reports the M1 max GPU block maxing at 43W in their testing. So a 90W GPU in the M1 Ultra is trading blows with a 350+ watt 3090.

1) https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
I think your math is off a bit. TB3/4 carries 40Gbps and 5k@120 is 53Gbps (5120 * 2880 * 120hz * 30bits/pixel). But your point still stands :)
Apples stuff has been cost competitive since the M1 came out... Although it's partly because there isn't much else in the same performance envelope, so there isn't much to compare to.
Why are they doing this? Trickle down effects for their mass market products? There is no way that the prosumer market is big enough to justify this distraction for Apple even if it used to be their core business line.
$8k for 128GB RAM, 8 TB solid state storage and 22 trillion ops/sec isn't exactly a bargain.

I do however image that the performance per watt will be really good.
I've noticed when uploading to Youtube it will ask some questions about subtitling - and one of the options is "never on broadcast TV in the USA".
Sciter does not use website at all, nor any HTML engine provided by the host OS. It is itself an entire HTML,CSS,JS engine.
It's not priced like a 3090 though? There's an entire computer there and the CPU performance is no slouch, even if the GPU may be lacking for what gamers want today.
When the M1 was released... a year ago...

You could buy a 900$ laptop with a better CPU than any laptop out there. 20 hours battery life (almost 3x any other laptop out there). Silent (no fans). With a great screen, a great keyboard, lightweight, well built, etc.

Basically a machine that was more than 2x cheaper of competing laptops at 2500 $ or more, yet had more than 2x of everything.
> They are usually in the middle

Is there any evidence for this, or even definition of this? I'd define it as swing voters who tend to mix up their ballot between the two parties, and I'd be surprised if the percentage of people who did that broke double digits.
The 2TB option is an extra $400. That's $200/TB.
The 4TB option is $250/TB.
The 8TB option is $275/TB.

That looks like planned obsolescence to me. A customer with 1TB will likely want to upgrade sooner than a customer with 8TB, so this pricing strategy discourages people from buying the more future-proof options. Other SSDs on the market tend to be cheaper per TB as you go up in size, but Apple's seem to be completely backwards (and obscenely overpriced, of course).

Or am I being too cynical here, and this is just that famous "luxury tax"?
> Is there anything in the constitution that forbids legislating against particular groups, persons or institutions?

Article I, Section 9, Clause 3: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed" [by Congress]. Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: "No State shall [...] pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, [...]"

(A Bill of Attainder is interpreted under current SCOTUS precedent as a law that 1) specifically identified the people to be punished; 2) imposed punishment; and 3) did so without benefit of judicial trial.)
> I think they're blowing all their competitors out of the water with the price point.

Not only on price point but also performance per watt. The M1 laptops were a game changer on that front, and I expect the M1 Ultra to be the same.
Weird. I have a 6S, and I haven't noticed and performance issues.
What? It's a whole new tower with PCIe slots and everything, and was super well received. Were you still under the impression they were selling the trashcan Mac Pro?
Looks like it's starting to come back. Messages are now loading for me in most servers.
80% of the desktop market and 100% of cloud deployments won't care.
While I don't think most of the people engaging with you are doing so completely in good faith, I don't think you understand the "fickleness" of the tweeting masses either.

Just like you're getting downvotes and a lot of blowback for your opinion on this matter here, it's way worse on twitter.

I've heard someone say that twitter is a game where the goal is not to be the main character of the day. And that kind of holds. Twitter is a bit geared for outrage. Small snippets with no context. Say you don't like The Batman and you could find yourself under a barrage of hate and vitriol. It's not a left thing or a right thing, they both have their mobs on twitter, in addition to all the other random mobs floating about. Hell, say something shitty about the wrong product will have that mob after you.
Your comment offends my intelligence, therefore you've hurt a person, therefore you're not a "good person" anymore.

But you might not care about that. You might say that I'm arguing in bad faith, or that your words couldn't possibly have offended me. But you don't get to redefine it.

Obviously, you might just not care that you've just offended me. That's what bad people do. You aren't a bad person, right? Could you please apologize?
These sorts of discussions keep rising. I don't think we have decided how to deal with it.

In law, armed robbery is a much more severe crime than an antisemitic tirade. Yet the court of public opinion is more willing to forgive George Floyd than Mel Gibson.

What purpose does a ban serve? Are we doing it to protect other memebers? Or is it because their presence makes other not want to join? Is it permanent or temporary?

I don't think we have really decided the rules around re-joining society, resulting in contradictions and inconsistencies.
Desktop marketing seems to be getting desperate. Few people use the apps they show in the Mac Studio benchmarks. Fewer still care that their chips use less power... if they did, they would stay on their phones.
I wonder if it might also be possible to introduce a kind of tiered storage, where, for example, the queue starts persisting to cheap, massive block storage (such as cloud block storage) instead of it's usual mechanism. That does imply tier 2 events would read slower when the busy period ceased though.
Baseball had a first mover advantage which helped them a lot. Playing just about every day also helped create a routine for people. But as new generations come people are realizing that baseball has the least to offer among the big 4 sports in the US.
True, but if the issue doesn't get surfaced, how will the people hiding it face any ramifications?
In Mariupol there are accusations against Azov Battalion that they are preventing people to leave the city. For the defensive side it is useful to have human shield preventing attacks. In the Internet there are also videos of people being shot trying to leave the city.

https://twitter.com/oulosP/status/1498365157747081218
I am in the same bucket. LG Ultrafine is the only option which seems available. But it's an old model and I am surprised the lack of availability from the other manufacturers.
This is the same source that claimed that vaccination did not have anything to do with smallpox eradication and vaccination actually increased smallpox cases.