skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not to belittle Nokia or anything, they took already available eg. smart calculators' digital displays adopted to GSM phones.

They co-created GSM! Both the specification and then deploying the first GSM network too. Nokia basically invented how cell phones work. I'd say that was little more involved than taking something that was already available.

Which is ironic because the iPhone was exactly what you described about Nokia: existing technology. Apple did a fantastic job putting it together. The form, feel and entire UX is top notch. But Apple didn't invent new technology to create the iPhone - they very much stood on the shoulders of giants.

> Steve Jobs (Apple) did something no one ever expected, knew, or supported at the time

The iPhone was far more evolutionary than the first ever cell phone. By the time the iPhone was in development there was already smart phones, feature phones, PDAs and tablets on the market that lead some weight about what worked and what didn't. There were design documents published about UX too. And thus there were a few similar devices in R&D from different companies at the time, all converging on a similar UX as the iPhone. So I'd argue the iPhone was only unexpected if you weren't already paying attention to the way the market was heading.

> *Wozniak is acting like an ex partner probably because he owes his entire identity to Jobs, an identity that he enjoys but perhaps coming from an ex he never liked, maybe he's seeking catharsis. Perhaps feeling indebted to a bully who he never recovered from, not being able to reach that peak again on his own, is the reason why we get these interviews from him where he says these things about Jobs. Who knows.*

That's a grossly unfair comment. In fact, at risk of being blunt: it's ridiculous and petty.

If you want to understand Woz a little more then I'd suggest you read into what Woz is doing with his time now and why he left Apple.
edit: My analysis is clearly unwelcome here.
I mean, there is Sixel.

But why do we care about graphics in a terminal? If I want to display graphics, I'll use a GUI, if I don't care, I'll use a terminal.

If I want to use graphics remotely, there's X, or any number of remote desktop solutions, or scripting remote data and local programs, or web browsers.
As the other comment pointed out, that is not an apples to apples comparison. The monitor you linked is a UHD one (3840 x 2160 pixels, around 8.3 megapixels) with a pixel density of ~200 ppi. The display showcased by Apple has a resolution of 5K (5120 x 2880 pixels, around 14.75 megapixels) with a pixel density of 217 ppi. Also, based on my experiences with LG gaming monitors I would assume that the Apple display also has a significantly better color accuracy.

If you would have taken a second to look at the specs and search for actually comparable products you would find that there are, at least to my knowledge, no displays with the same resolution and higher refresh rates. This makes sense because 5k@60Hz already has incredibly high bandwidth requirements.

The best actually comparable product is an LG UltraFine 5K which comes in at 1,499€ msrp which is 246€ cheaper than Apple's Studio Display at 1,745€ msrp. Oh, and to no ones surprise, it also has a 60 Hz refresh rate.

So to answer your initial question: Yes, people do spend that kind of money on displays with "only" 60Hz.
At the point where something is copied the creation process has already occurred. The fundamental idea behind IP is that it will put incentives on people to create as they can guarantee big profits afterwards.

But is this incentive adequate in modern society? I would argue it is worth revisiting. A lot of the science that is done around the world is already funded by governments with no guarantees of patent success, so it is clearly possible. Open source software also shines a light on the willingness of people to create amazing things for everyone...
Ya agreed. I have a similar setup and would love an easy was for both to use the same screen and peripherals
I myself have a 135TB home server. I am well aware and invested in local data hoarding. It still doesn't remove the fact that it's getting harder to find certain media. Additionally, most people can't spin up a server... hell most people I know could barely sync their iPod to iTunes. Owning your own media is more expensive in both money and time. That's not a compromise that most people want to deal with.
> MacOS on ARM handles memory differently, try it you might like it.

I already use the 16 GB 13". And while your comment is correct for most consumer applications regarding memory compression, it may not work that well in numerical computing on Python or C++ e.g. where a lot of RNGs are used or 2D/3D arrays are juggled. Just clarifying. Your statement is mostly true - but not always. Having a higher RAM machine could help definitely.
Again, easy for someone who has never been in circumstances like that to judge.
"What are some modern, free alternatives to Visual Basic that would allow me to easily create a GUI and attach scripts and events to its controls?"

There isn't anything really. It's pretty amazing that in 2022 there isn't anything for creating Windows GUI desktop apps that matches your description: easily create a GUI and attach scripts and events to its controls?

Another poster (wdurden) mentioned Delphi - a cross-platform tool with a drag-and-drop GUI builder. However, the free "community edition" of Delphi comes which restrictions. Read the restrictions here:

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/free-dow...

The open source version of Delphi is called Lazurus (built with FreePascal). It also features a GUI builder but the documentation is uneven and scattered. If you get stuck, the forums are the main source of getting help.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Same author, further down in the thread:

> All these twitter/facebook/youtube bans are trying to put a genie back in a bottle, Parler is gaining steam

Did not age nearly as well.
Good question! The line is definitely not a hard one -- it's blurry.

While I don't care for social justice seminars at work, those don't actually bother me to the same degree that mandatory company profile changes do (even something insignificant like a pronoun).

Like I mentioned, the main concern is being ostracized for not doing the performative stuff. So if my coworkers are going to shun me for expressing the wrong opinion on some topic (or just refusing to engage in discussion) that would be a big problem for me. I don't want to feel compelled to express an opinion I don't actually have.

Some people are okay with doing that. Some people like doing it to improve their image. It's not for me.
Milk?
100W of that is probably for the USB ports; afaik TB4 ports are required to support 15W, and I don’t think there’s been a Mac didn’t support full power simultaneously across all ports. (if that’s even allowed?)
Good Bye Lenin!
The gaming performance of the existing M1 GPUs is, well, crap (like far behind the other laptop competition, to say nothing of desktop GPUs). The Ultra probably isn't changing that, since it's very unlikely to be a hardware problem and instead a software ecosystem & incentives problem.
The test seems flawed. I got the first one (after the attention check) wrong - I said it was fake, but it was real. I thought it was fake because Trump's hair was clearly very smeared out, not at all realistic. But it seems that this must have been an artifact of heavy video compression. I don't see how this is a meaningful test of anything.
> Were were you when the killing of innocent Russians was taking place in 2014?

These people were Ukranian citizens, Putin funded the separatists and tried to start a civil war. Since that didn't succeed plan B was to invade the country as we are seeing now
> I'd love to see what they have in store for designers and programmers next.

We're not really their target audience. Back when they had a rack server, they had something that looked good to us, but we're not really the ones that will buy a maxxed-out Studio.

It's an interesting machine. It definitely is aimed at folks that would get Pros, beforehand. With the hint dropped at the end of the Studio presentation, I suspect that they may announce some crazy Pro, in the coming months.
That still doesn't address the issue that it's community-supported and can disappear at any time. Cyanogenmod used to be the main alternative ROM back in the day, and disappeared virtually overnight? It came back as LineageOS but it still meant that people had to reinstall (or somehow convert their Cyanogen install into Lineage, if that's possible) which takes time.
Neural Engine cores are not accessible for third party developers, so it'll be severely constrained for practical purposes. Currently the M1 Max is no match for even last generation mid-tier Nvidia GPU.
If your interest is purely in playing unoptimized games coded for different architectures then absolutely there's better options.

However if your workloads are in a more professional domain as mine are then it's entirely fair to say this chip is trading blows with Nvidia's best at lower prices. Don't forget this is an entire SOC and not just a GPU, power saving aren't irrelevant either if you actually work your hardware consistently as I do.
Yup. Calling it. This is the future, may not seem like it to everyone but this is a part of actually new and extremely useful, passively scalable technology. Imagine (good) unkillable zombie databases- so long as the name of a piece of data is known (its hash).. someone, somewhere, might make it possible for you to answer your query, without even needing to setup a server setup.. that’s _it_! Not to mention it might be faster than the original source.

Pretty damn powerful. The next level above this is a search index that lets the user generate their own results, using their own machine learning algorithm or ranking weights of their own preferences, bc they would have direct access to the DB index and features. People could wrote anti-ad plugins. There could be foss upgrades all the time. Nobody would have to spend a particularly crazy amount of money on storage if they could all just cache the bits they’d needed themselves. Quite remarkable imo!! Whatever ends Google search’s reign, will probably be user-owned in a way that seems a lot like this..
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I wonder whether Russia will be as isolated as North Korea.
1. Some kind of relationship with Epstein

2. Divorce

3. Melinda hinting that 1. had something to do with 2.
> Come to think of it, IRL text deep fakes don't even make sense. You can make up whatever quotes you like, you don't need GPT3 to do it for you.

Exactly. John Oliver pointed out a few weeks ago that the Russian media was using stock footage of other nation's military actions (Finland?) for propaganda. No need for deep fakes. The lowest effort lie can still work.

Deep fake tech is the new photoshop. It's mostly used for good (art, memes, jokes with friends, Disney films).

You can imagine a future where deep fakes are utterly indistinguishable from real life, but I think that people will learn to recalibrate themselves against the new technologies. It may even cause us to think more critically: people frequently chime in, "how is this not photoshopped?" on social media. They'll call out videos of explosions and physics as "looking fake". They'll have the same response to purported deep faked videos.

All the same, I'm glad and appreciate that academic and policy folks are taking a close look at the technology. We need frameworks, ethics, and institutional familiarity.
DisplayPort 1.4 (which TB3/TB4 support as an alternate mode) has enough bandwidth for 5k at up to 144Hz using display stream compression (which Apple already uses for the Pro Display XDR): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Refresh_frequency_...
I don't understand why they're called "bots".

They seem to be organisms, not robots.
This point is discussed in the article. And since the FFT is n log n, any faster algorithm would have to be completely different.
For a while I went down the rabbit hole of getting high end CRTs for retro games. I’m in a PAL region though, and the first time I booted up a 50Hz game I wondered how the hell I didn’t spend my entire childhood with a migraine. 60 I’m fine with but 50 I can literally see flickering.
I agree with this. I've found that in order to maintain my relationships with some good friends, I've had to stop following them on twitter (and other social media).

On twitter, it's really easy for my to ignore all the insane and stupid things that complete strangers blather about on there all the time. There's a ton of noise, but just enough signal for me to check in regularly.

But then suddenly I see a ridiculous post from someone I truly care about. Someone who I've known for years and know their spouse and kids and families. I can read their post in their voice as if it were said to me, personally. And now I'm angered and incensed and putting up maps and charts and pins in my head preparing a response that this person whom I care about deserves.

But they weren't talking to me. They were shouting something crazy into a cacophony of crazy strangers. If we were at dinner we would have a long, deep, and nuanced conversation on the subject and we'd listen to each other's points and respond accordingly. But in 240 chars they're wrong and now I will reserve two hours of mental capacity to argue with myself about why.

Nope. Just block them, knowing I'll see them next time they're in town, and we'll have a real conversations about real things in a forum more befitting two people trying to understand each other.
Doesn't the iPhone 5 support 4G (LTE) though?
Throw in translation, on device image labeling, stuff like on body walking/biking detection, voice recognition.
It's depressing how it's becoming almost impossible to avoid inbuilt advertising in web browsers.

I still am annoyed at Google for adding ads onto the new tab page of Chrome. Yes, it's possible to use an extension to replace the new tab page, but I don't want a new new tab page, I want the stock one without ads.
If anyone is to blame for our troubles, it's you for trying to make this an us vs them issue. There are valid reasons for and against domestic oil production.
I'm actually in the other camp. I'm currently running an iPhone 8 and the touch id has been very inconsistent in actually unlocking for me. I have to position my finger in a specific way (I even have tried reenrolling my fingerprints) and to no avail. I do usually get sweaty palms and fingers so perhaps that has something to do with it but, in my opinion, touch id isn't perfect for me.
Lighting is a much firmer connector from what I've experienced. The latency on audio is also miles better if you do music. I returned an ipad with USB-C - unusable.
Just found my new libreboot background. Thanks for sharing!
4channers made a comic of this concept a few years ago, but it was something like "gay dragonkin neonazis" instead of toaster lovers.
>> No, NATO has plenty of wiggle room to decide not to retaliate in order to prevent further escalation. And furthermore, you might see a flat out refusal to honor treaty obligations to avoid “the unthinkable”.

If Russia attacks Poland with ballistic missiles and cruise missiles and NATO failed to respond then it would effectively make the NATO articles nothing more than words on paper. An attack on any NATO member would cross the line. The NRF has been activated and stands ready to act:

"Following Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked attack on Ukraine, February 2022, and in line with its defensive planning to protect all Allies, NATO is taking additional steps to further strengthen deterrence and defence across the Alliance. This includes the activation of elements of the NRF for the first time in a deterrence and defence role. Allies have placed thousands of additional troops – along with armoured vehicles, artillery units, ships and aircraft – at high readiness earmarked for the NRF, ensuring that it continues to have the speed, responsiveness and capability to defend NATO territory and populations."

Source: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm

>> EDIT: and remember 1939. They can simply drag their feet on actual military retaliation until the immediate threat subsides.

2022 is not 1939. NATO did not exist in 1939.

>> A Russian invasion of Poland is highly unlikely. It’s not an objective of theirs. And without the threat of an invasion that would directly threaten larger economic powers, is a conflict with Russia even rational? NATO will simply absorb the hit.

Neither an invasion nor economic threats are required to trigger Article 5. Conflict with Russia is not rational, but neither is Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
"Included in your salary"
"Demilitarization and denazification" was the justification for the war, and is really the only way their full war, which has been costly in many ways, makes sense. Pre-war negotiations with NATO included demands far wider than just Ukraine. There's a chance things are being misinterpreted in terms of wording, but it sounds like demilitarization has been softened and any agreement would involve accepting the existing Ukraine government ("nazis"). There are also nuances about recognition of DPR/LPR, Russia's preferred version previously would have essentially given veto power over Ukraine government decisions. Losing that means they need a different form of leverage, such as replacing the government ("denazification"), with constitutional guarantees being a far weaker option.
The companies pulling out of Russia will lose revenue. That is an objective fact. They are cutting off their nose to spite their face.

On the flip side, this isn’t that bad for Russia. Multinational corporations suck the life out of medium and small businesses. Such a mass exodus of goods and services gives the people of Russia an opportunity to establish their own homegrown businesses, which is empowering.
It’s in the sub-headline, and there’s an entire section about it:

iPhone SE features an all-new camera system powered by A15 Bionic, with a 12-megapixel ƒ/1.8 aperture Wide camera that offers incredible computational photography benefits, including
driving is much more stressful to me than subway-riding
I am trying to imagine what a page of code laid out by a professional designer would look like and I can hear a million programmers screaming bloody murder in my head about the thoughtful use

There are beautiful programmer fonts nowadays that look amazing on Apple's high resolution screens.

There are several GUIs for Vim/Neovim that take advantage of the GPU and the text rendering abilities of modern computers in general and Macs in particular [1].

And once you get used to seeing your code this way, it's hard to go back.

[1]: https://github.com/neovide/neovide
Just to add in any case Apple is solving a big problem related to limited GPU memory, which is quite cool

Hopefully AMD, Nvidia, others can follow the trend
"The treaty means attack one member, all other members respond militarily."

That's what it means on paper. But we already see that in practice NATO is not willing to start WW3 to protect Ukraine.
Agreed. The G4 Cube is an amazing industrial design. I always wanted one.
Eh, all the time = maybe once a year. Still no Spectre/Meltdown exploits in the wild. Most Windows XP users don't even know about Reddit and shit.
My favorite deep fake is still Sassy Justice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM

Ha it keeps on giving, note the picture on wall at https://youtu.be/9WfZuNceFDM
The difference between an Apple TV and a Mac Mini is essentially how powerful of Apple silicon it has, whether it runs tvOS or macOS, and whether it has HDMI out or not.

The Studio is a more compact form factor than any modern 4K gaming console. If they chose to ship something in that form factor with tvOS, HDMI, and an M1 Max/Ultra, it would be a very competitive console on the market — if game developers could be persuaded to implement for it.

How would it compare to the Xbox Series X and PS5? That’s a comparison I expect to see someday at WWDC, once they’re ready. And once a game is ported to Metal on any Apple silicon OS, it’s a simple exercise to port it to all the rest; macOS, tvOS, ipadOS, and (someday, presumably) vrOS.

Is today’s announcement enough to compel large developers like EA and Bungie to port their games to Metal? I don’t know. But Apple has two advantage with their hardware that Windows can’t counter: the ability to boot into a signed/sealed OS (including macOS!), load a signed/sealed app, attest this cryptographically to a server, and lock out other programs from reading with a game’s memory or display. This would end software-only online cheating in a way that PCs can’t compete with today. This would also reduce the number of GPUs necessary to support to one, Apple Metal 2, which drastically decreases the complexity of testing and deployment of game code.

I look forward to Apple deciding to play ball with gaming someday.
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Why, do you think, russians may want to block these corridors? Because they're just evil (as all the western media told you)?

If there were no peaceful people in Mariupol, we'll just turn it into ashes with all the Azov nazis.

Don't you think it is kinda logical for Azov to just not let peaceful citizens go, because now they're like a shield for them?
I just don't think anyone has to be on Twitter to learn about (for instance) bad legislation that affects marginalized people so they can oppose it. It tends to bubble up into other media sources. And nowadays, those media sources will cite the big influential tweets anyway, so it's not even like you can escape from Twitter.

It seems like you're reading the original comment as saying "I feel justified in never thinking about marginalized people and systematically preventing myself from seeing anything that might prompt that thinking"... and I think that's a really big leap to make. There are ways to be informed without exposing yourself to the firehose of everyone's random opinions and feelings, which can be a complete lose-lose proposition, damaging your own mental health and relationships without helping anyone.
No, you can price that. The cost will be so high that people won’t do it and pay the price. That’s the point. You can set a price on emissions or pollution and if it’s a small amount the piece may be worth paying. At higher levels you figure out how to do something else that is not that. You don’t just continue what you were doing at greater scale.
$600 extra for a 2tb drive. So they're just giving them away now? /s
Boy is that an ugly box… the proportions seem all wrong to me - looks like they just stacked a bunch on Mac Mini’s (which has pretty nice proportions)
lol, if you're being sarcastic all I can say is I don't get a commission
The existing AMD CPUs aren't quite like that. Technically they are all UMA, not NUMA - the L3 cache is distributed, but they are all behind a single memory controller with consistent latencies to all cores. But the Threadripper 1st gen was absolutely like that. Straight up 2+ CPUs connected via infinity fabric pretending to be a single CPU. So is that 56 core Xeon that Intel was bragging about for a while there until the 64 core Epycs & Threadrippers embarrassed the hell out of it.
32 GB of unspecified frequency ram? 512 GB of unspecified speed and type ssd?

That's not a 2000 dollar configuration. For reference, that memory capacity costs 120 euros with 3200 Mhz
There's a limit to open mindedness. Ukraine is not "luring [the Russian military] into [its] cities," they're defending their cities from an invading force.
I (based in Europe) see a page presenting Mozilla VPN. Are you saying you see an ad for Disney?

[edit] I used a United States VPN now. Indeed a Disney ad for a movie. In Europe it's a static page with some text about Mozilla VPN.
Unfortunately that runs into the issue of education, expense, and general preference. We're never going to remove it by relying on consumer choice.
That would really be a trip!