skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I remember was that discoverability was really difficult in Clubhouse. You could pick as many interests as you like, but it seemed like the feed would still spam you with a lot of stuff disconnected from your interests. When you found a good room, there was no way of following it for the next time it was open. Once it closed down, it was gone.

It's a shame, because there were some very interesting rooms with good conversations. It's just that it became a chore to have to sift through all the garbage to find them.

For everyone saying "why not just go out in real life?", that's not really an option if I'm cleaning the house for an hour, while clubhouse is. Also, some of those conversations (biologists discussing trends in the field with other biologists) aren't ones that are easy to just call up a few of your buddies to get.
What happens when you're not using an apple device?
> Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at 1 billion colors and:

> One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz

https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-m2/specs/
Banned from More Than Ten Social Media Sites, I Decided to Create My Own
Why is it BS. AI allows scientists to zoom into information they seek. For example by training a language model on the latest papers, a scientist could use question & answering to find answers to specific questions. It's similar to using a search engine.
The M2 air and the M2 13" Pro have the same internal bandwidth - it's the same chip, just one has a fan and one doesn't.
Literally my only question. If they don't understand that then this is a massive market-research fail. I went Windows before the M1 Pro Macs just because I could not run two displays well on the Air (Displaylink sucks so so much).
Software is eating the world, sure, but consider a parallel: the typist. In 2000 there were 282,000 employed typists in the US[1]. Today it has fallen to 23,000. A 90% decline over 20 years. Why? Everyone knows how to type now. Typing is an assumed skill in other jobs. Twenty two years ago I took a typing class in middle school on clacky old Selectrics[2]. While typing classes aren't taught in school today, I cannot help but look at the pervasive 'teach kids to code'[3][4][5][6] wage and think of the similarities.

Future jobs will expect coding as a skill, not an end to itself. You can even see the inklings today with the explosion of data science, analysis, and digital marketing. In two decades, with an assumed coding skill, we'll have orders of magnitude more. Just as we can ask today, "What happened to all the typists?" we'll be able to ask, "What happened to all the coders?"

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0254503100A

2. http://ibmselectric.blogspot.com/2016/03/topaz-bronze-select...

3. https://teachyourkidscode.com/

4. https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/how-to-teach-k...

5. https://www.apple.com/education/k12/teaching-code/

6. https://www.idtech.com/blog/how-to-teach-kids-to-code
There was a WWDC session last year about Passkey:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10106/
Finally, Apple has seen the light! This is going to be an instabuy for many, including me. This feels like 2012 when Apple introduced Retina displays: Everything that's good about Apple in a single package, and unavailable at any price anywhere else. The nitpicky in me will complain about the lack of a glass touchpad, but I feel Apple is justified in leaving it as a Pro feature.
The `cpuid` instruction would tell you things like cache line size (and can enumerate cache topology). But you're then paying a cost for the value not being known at compile time, so you'd need to weigh the tradeoffs that may result from that.
Depends what you do. Compiling/Building or Video/Photo editing, the speed makes a big difference. M1s cut compile time on xcode build by half compared to I9s. Also docker builds are faster. Shaving off a few minutes here and there makes a big difference in ROI when you factor in the a year lifespan. Let's say it saves you 15 minutes a day. That is 62 hours a years.
Those studies have no way of measuring users who only consume tweets.
Yeah but my guess is soon the M2 Max will be revealed. Its probably already developed, they just need to wait six more months to reveal. Clearly apple is able to jump straight to the M2, but they are releasing M1 to maximize profit.
yes but "bury very low radiation waste in a big pit with a no digging sign" seems very sensible compared to longterm spent fuel rod storage.
Looking at how various places do 2FA, it's likely that at least some websites will not support multiple keys even if they ought to.

Also, I imagine that many people do not have the luxury of multiple devices. So if you lose your phone, you'll need to buy or at least borrow another iOS device to recover it from iCloud before you could switch to Android.
Ah, okay. I'm not interested in Apple's periodic product ads so I didn't really understand why this was linked again, especially since it's been available for a while now.
One paragraph on that page bothers me:

"Better for the Environment"

No, it is not better for the environment, it is not as bad for the environment.
My company makes software for factory-made buildings and it's a very high risk high reward space. Katerra was a very public collapse, whereas House by Urban Splash recently went into administration in the UK.

With enough time and effort, we'll likely get there eventually, partly because the construction workforce is very old and isn't being replenished with nearly enough workers.

For an in depth read on what makes this space so hard to succeed in, I recommend the constructionphysics substack.
I am torn... One one hand I think I want this as an upgrade to my 2016 MBP, on the other hand the 14" Pro has a 120hz display. And although I mostly code on it on the go I got so used to 144hz on my desktop monitor that I kinda feel like an upgrade should include that too. I get that this would totally canibalize their more expensive models but one can dream.
You don't necessarily need to wait for a reference picture to start playback. Modern codecs all support "intra-refresh", which allows you to reconstruct a reference frame from a set of existing frames. With that, you can set periodic intra refresh much lower than 6s keyframe intervals.
Data in iCloud is going to be encrypted by the host provider in-transit and at rest. That is not the same as being encrypted at the source by Apple. It means that Google, Amazon, Azure (and whatever other platforms Apple uses for iCloud storage) will be doing that encryption with keys that they have for Apple. All the major vendors have storage encryption both in-transit and at rest. I suspect that it would be a requirement from Apple for any future vendor, too.

It does mean that the data is not sitting in clear-text form on the provider's disks. But the exact details of that encryption may vary from provider to provider.
There’s no reason to lie - the way it’s stated makes it clear that it is not, in fact, an estimate of the total number of bots on the platform. They never stated the number of bots on the platform and never claimed to. The stat they gave (percent of monetizable users - those who see ads) may be not what Musk was asking for, but there’s no reason to believe they lied about a percentage they defined in a very specific way - especially when, even with that definition, it had a disclaimer that it was only an estimate and could be higher.

So the argument wouldn’t be that they lied. It would be that the information they provided wasn’t useful to gauge the true scope of the “bot problem” on Twitter - at best it’d be misleading by omission, which is almost certainly not illegal given what publicly-traded companies do all the time. (Making truthful statements and being fully transparent with all facts of a business are clearly not the same thing.)

Part of the reason Twitter is so hesitant to put some number on bots is because we’d first have to agree on how to define it exactly and how to measure it objectively. If someone uses the API or third-party app or integration to interact with Twitter, how do you prove they’re not a bot? Twitter’s definition avoids that by focusing on people who can see ads on the website and if you’re actually visiting the website proper (or using an official app) you’re much less likely to be a bot to begin with.

But honestly, all this stuff is just a distraction anyway. The SEC statements were there for years and if he doubted it this could have come up during due diligence. He only is making a stink about it now because a) he wants to get out of the deal at the quoted price and b) he wants to embarrass Twitter in the process. In fact, it seems to me this whole thing from the get-go was an exercise in the hopes of uncovering evidence of something salacious regarding “censorship” and various posturing around it. There never appeared to be any realistic and serious plans to address the issues at hand, just to gesticulate wildly about it in front of the press. I think those truly concerned about the problems being discussed should have hoped for better from this whole thing.
I can be onboard with this if Apple opens up an iCloud API for syncing, so I can sync a non-Apple device through iCloud, and if I leave Apple and iCloud behind, my non-Apple devices keep working, even if I never sync through iCloud again.
Knew I remembered that spiral from somewhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ
As far as I can see this is Apple's (thus macOS / iOS) platform for FIDO, whereas WebAuthn does FIDO for the Web.

So, if you have macOS or iOS software for Mailpace, this is a way to have the same workflow for that as you get with WebAuthn for the web site.

Android likewise has an API for apps to get this, as well as the Chrome browser on Android having WebAuthn, and if you have apps on both platforms it might make sense to do that there too.

Technology wise the key difference is that for WebAuthn the Relying Party ID - the thing that distinguishes GitHub from Facebook (for example) is based on a DNS name, and that's verified by your web browser, while for these app APIs the RPID is based on some platform identifier and is verified by the host OS.

So, GitHub won't get your Facebook credentials because github.com and facebook.com are different DNS names. Likewise "The 100% Legit Mailpace App" on iOS can't get the credentials for "Albert's Real Mailpace App" because they have some different internal iOS ID.

At the backend, validation is pretty similar except the RPID is different, and you'll need to read the documentation carefully to figure out what the RPID is for these app APIs, if you have a pile of magic numbers for "your" app it's probably one of those. You don't get to specify, because the whole point is that nobody can impersonate your app (well, obviously on an iPhone Apple could impersonate it, and on Android Google could)
As someone with a diagnosed arrhythmia, I absolutely love the features that the Apple watches continue to ship which help me understand my heart health on a more day-to-day basis.

And as someone with a diagnosed arrhythmia, I absolutely hate how easy the Apple watch makes it to obsess over heart health when so much data is available immediately.

Overall, though, Apple's continued investments into health data are one of the reasons I'm loving the ecosystem.
From the specs:

-802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 wireless networking
-IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac compatible

Both same on the Pro and Air M2.
This was on the same manufacturing process as the M1. There's generally a bigger boost when moving to a smaller process. But yes, there are diminishing returns, especially when you look at single core performance. Power efficiency and transistor counts are still increasing decently.
Incremental release of breakthrough products. M1 and M2 were both probably ready at the same time. Release M1, then M2 to try and get the upgrade sells. Its tough to beat, but atleast the products are amazing
I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad and thinking of upgrading soon. How's Linux on these new chips?
Thank god the touchbar continues to disappear
Looks like just one. This is the wording on the marketing page:

> "You can also connect up to a 6K display."
Because people don't hire other people to handle sales? It has to be an MLM? Something smells off here
5 years from now people will grok more fundamentally that launching 2 process nodes ahead of Intel via TSMC was the big win.

For now, we'll deal with marketing-ese about how "other CPU vendors have to choose between power and performance" from Apple's head of semiconductor engineering, and posts on this page like the one saying Microsoft doesn't care and Apple's about to take over computing.
MacBook Pro M2 13-Inch
Have you used one with the notch? It disappeared for me in less than an hour of using it. I never notice it.
I wasn't looking for an exact answer. Just an something that indicated they were aware of caches at all. When asked to go into detail about their estimate, people who guessed 2x would start counting arithmetic operations.
This argument went round and round back when Apple first released the notched MacBook Pro. Some people apparently don't care about the tradeoffs involved and would indeed prefer a smaller screen -- they think it would be that distracting to have a notch. I think they're crazy, personally, but maybe I'd hate the notch too if I had a laptop with one.
You can't make that form factor and a repairable laptop, no?
How are Rust's concurrency tools compared with those of Java? In Java we rarely need to use mutex at all. Instead, programmers use high-level synchronizers (latches, barriers, phasers, exchanges, and etc) and containers (concurrent collections, executors, various pools and flows, and etc). I don't have extensive experience in Rust, and somehow I saw Mutex everywhere.
This was a zero-sum game.

The loss of the masses who invested into 18% APY accounts is equivalent to the profits that Anchor made from this scheme.
This is based on an open standard and is entirely optional.

So your analogy makes absolutely no sense.
Well, it is also not proved to not be NP-hard, so it could also be NP-hard to our current knowledge. But you are right that researchers believe that it's not NP-hard.
I find a huge disconnect between the main assertion of this article, and the lip-service paid to most workers. In the article, the author states:

> While a lot of ink has been spilled on the future of work, the majority of Americans, and most people around the world, can’t actually do their jobs remotely.

Ok, so a majority of workers can't do their jobs remotely. Granted, many of these are not anchored to a city (medical offices are in the suburbs, truckers are mobile etc.) but a huge swath of people will still work in cities, at least part time. So this strikes me as another example of tech's myopia and why the tech world is increasingly disconnected from the majority of the country.

Simply put, most people can't work from home. Most people can't afford to buy a house 2 hours away from their office and hope to have the leverage to stay employed. Most people don't make six-figure salaries. Most people are afraid of lay-offs, are afraid of offshoring, are afraid of being antiquated.

And as I have said elsewhere, this almost obsessive focus on remote work could very well be very detrimental to those six-figure salaries and signing bonuses. Why pay USA wages when you can hire a Canadian or Mexican at 75% the cost? We are writing our own obituary and everyone seems to be cheering.

Finally, this is also a step _backwards_ for the environment. In cities like Boston, NYC, SFO etc. most workers commuted on public transit, at least part of the way or lived in dense neighborhoods not owning a car. Now they live in the exurbs and need a car to do anything. Now when they do go into the city they don't take public transit. People didn't stop living, they just moved out of the density and thus became more reliant on ICE vehicles to move about.

Much like the long-term damage of education loss was hard to quantify against the immediate risks of COVID, we will be paying the debt incurred by this almost cultish movement to make remote work the norm.
Wonder how good it is compared to the latest NVIDIA GPUs in laptops for gaming and ML Tasks
whoops good point!
1.) Why can't you buffer on the client side for WebRTC? That sounds like a client issue (what library were you using?) not the protocol.

2.) I use the same tactic as HLS. Generate your video with a reasonable (~2 seconds) keyframe interval. When a new client connects start sending at the keyframe.
Apple Announces the M2
> And for the first time, MacBook Air supports fast charge for charging up to 50 percent in just 30 minutes with an optional 67W USB-C power adapter.7

Woah. Speaking of batteries I've been impressed with the battery life in the new MBPs. They last forever with these new M chips. One of the best features.
Hmm. I am unsure I agree. These artifacts are part of a good project management methodology. Are you trying to stick them into project management software? Not correct, but its only my opinion, having developed Project management methodologies and Software Development Methodologies for a fortune 50. Yet, there is many ways to skin the cat, but i don't think your app will be any different than anything out there so far.

How did the project get created in the first place?
How did the project wind down?
Was it a success?
Were there any lessons learnt?
I do wonder if the words should be further away from each other phonetically though - start … unstart seem close enough to be confused if the radio is noisy
Probably because a 32gb limit would cannibalize the MacBook Pro with M1 pro/max.
> what you need is often not known ahead of time

Well that's kind of the point of software engineering, isn't it? Actually typing code is only a small part of software engineering, and if you don't know what you need yet, then you're probably not ready to write code. That doesn't mean you're not being a productive software engineer! It just means you're still working toward that point.

I could be more clear about "what you need" actually means. Let's say I sit down to (A) prove the four-color theorem, which says that no more than 4 colors are needed to color in a 2D map with no two adjacent regions having the same color; (B) write a function to color a map using as few colors as possible. Before I can start on the meat of it, I have to decide exactly what I mean by "map". Anything that (A) relies on my proof or (B) calls my function is going to need to turn their data into the kind of "map" I'm working with.

Oh, I know what a map is: it's an ArcGIS Pro 10.7 Geodatabase with a Polygon layer! Hand me one of those and I'll assign a 32-bit ARGB value to each polygon. What? You don't have ArcGIS Pro 10.7? Well, sucks to be you. Obviously it has to be that, since I need insert esoteric proprietary feature in order to color it.

Hmm, well, okay, maybe I don't need every feature of ArcGIS Pro 10.7 Geodatabase Polygon layers. In fact, I really just need a list of regions and how they're connected. Do I need literally every wiggle-waggle of every border between each region? Well, not really ... in fact all I really need to know is which ones touch, and which ones don't. In fact, it turns out what I need is a Planar Graph. It probably shouldn't have any loops (nodes connected to themselves) either. A loopless planar graph. If you hand me one of those, I can color it for you -- in fact, I'll just assign each node 1 through (up to) 4 to represent the colors, and you can do whatever you want with that information, rather than me picking the actual ARGB values for you.

The reason I associated it with a math proof is because it's more clear in that case that reducing the preconditions on the objects you accept increases the power of your proof. Proving something interesting about all multiples of 5 is less powerful than proving it about all integers, and less powerful than proving it about all elements of an Abelian Group, etc. Writing your code to work on any loopless planar graph is much more powerful than writing it to only work on <Random Complex Proprietary Format>.

And we settled on "loopless planar graph" not because we had a bunch of graphs lying around -- we probably didn't! We probably actually had a map representation we've used elsewhere. We settled on "loopless planar graph" because that is the minimal possible description of the objects we can run our code on. That's what I mean by "what we need to do our job". That is the birth of an abstraction.
lol. Been a long time since I worked on a PS1 ;)
It's a real shame, but the people working on Ahasi Linux seem to be making steady progress. With a bit of luck, the device will remain usable when Apple eventually drops support for this machine, assuming the non-user-replaceable parts like the storage or the RAM don't wear out.
Apple’s Continuity Camera lets you use your iPhone as a webcam
Hail Alma Mater! nice work.
the 24GB are for the MBP
> Appple always leads the way with wireless chips for the last 15 years, and they don't disappoint again.

I mean, those specs seem to say that it doesn't support Wi-Fi 6E.
Make it opt-in! I'm happy for users that like it but it would lower the sticker price and make it more useful for those who don't.

I know Apple isn't known for offering LOTS of differing models of products but ffs we've been screaming this since 2016.
Depends on what you mean by "learn the rules, facts, and equations of science". I mean, a language model could memorise it and retell it in poetry if you wanted. On the other hand it's not just a parrot, as some have claimed. AI is useful in accelerating progress in hard scientific problems. For one - a neural network is a universal function approximator. That's got to be really useful in many places where an approximation is good enough.
Asahi is promising. Some folks can daily drive it, while some can't. Checkout what all things work now
3nm TSMC process isn't ready yet, we have to wait more for it. I agree that it's not a huge upgrade like what M1 was.
I doubt Apple will allow you to configure up to 24GB on a MBA though - they’d likely want to reserve that to the MBP which has active cooling and can sustain peak performance.

Edit: as comments pointed out, I’m wrong - thanks for the corrections.
Didn't the M1 come out in november 2020 and the M1 Pro in October 2021? That would be closer to a year than 6 months. I actually would not be suprised if it took even a little longer and if they went with a more advanced node on TSMC to get both, architecture improvements and miniaturization improvements.
Not the most credible news-source. "Report claims" - and that was during the Trump Administration, correct me if I am wrong.
Think about what you do and what you need. I bought an M1 MacBook Air to keep me going until the Apple Silicon 16" Pro, and ended up staying with the Air.

16GB is fine for a typical web dev setup with three Docker containers. When I go out for more than a day I take an external monitor with me, the total package weighs less than a 16" Pro and has way more screen real estate.

Of course there's some people who definitely need the 16" Pro.
18% is pretty good for the same process. So all these gains are from microarchitectural smarts only? Or a case of Apple presenting fab gains as their own?
Right, but you can't get an M1 Pro in a Macbook Air or 13" MBP. I think we'll probably also see an M2-based iPad Pro.

If I had to guess, we'll next see a Macbook Pro 14"/16" with M2 Pro/Max, and the Mac Pro will be M2 Ultra.
Nice work. You might be interested in this visualization of the first million prime numbers from UMAP: https://umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/exploratory_anal...
For Air too: https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-m2/specs/

> Configurable to: 16GB or 24GB

Store is updated too, 16GB upgrade is 200$ and 24GB is 400$.