skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I code on it yet?

Just wild to have such an unbelievably powerful piece of hardware that I pretty much only use for youtube and netflix.

You sell a keyboard for it. Let me code on it!
Shanghai lockdowns are easing now so we should see supply come back online soon.
Here’s another great video: https://youtu.be/m6YDhVeW5Kc
Yeah, that's going to be the next big ecosystem challenge for WebAuthn in my opinion. Ideally platforms would support 3rd party password managers, so you could manage your keys without having to tie your credential database to any one specific platform.

I'm sure as the popularity of WebAuthn grows there'll be more and more demand for cross-platform compatibility until eventually the big players are forced to implement it, but it's going to be kind of rough in the short term until then.
Face ID and some lidar stuff most likely, the notch being the same shape and size as the iPhone one is not a coincidence.
Asahi doesn't have native sound support so you'd need an external DAC or audio interface to get audio from it... as well as no GPU acceleration. I'd say that the only people that could daily drive it are using it from a desk right now for programming. Very promising indeed, but I don't think anyone would be wise to run it on their primary device.
I had completely forgotten my 16" MBP has one. When I read your comment I had to remind myself "oh yeah, this laptop has a notch".

I see it there looking right at it... but I'm sure in a few minutes it won't exist in my mind once again. It is simply that out of the way which seems so strange given that it is right in the middle... but that has always been a dead space in macOS.
If they were already planning to switch platforms, the loss or destruction of their old device provides a natural moment to make the switch, where buying a new device feels like it's locking yourself in for another couple of years.
Kind of ridiculous when you can get 64GB of laptop RAM for less than $400 easily. I still don't get why the M-series chips have such ridiculously low memory ceilings.
Or more likely a market segmentation issue.
Why do you want to lug around a 16 inch laptop? Just get a monitor when you need more screen real estate. I have to carry both a MBA and a 16 inch MBP and the MBP just has too big of a footprint. It makes almost any bag bulky.
I really do not understand this. The 14" Macbook Pro (M1 Max) does support up to three external displays. What was the problem with these new Macbooks to not support at least two displays..
It matters because Twitter have misled advertisers as to the quality of their audience.

If Twitter did come out and say they underestimated non human activity by 50% or the like then yes Musk should be forced to continue the sale.

Twitter haven't though. They are still pretending that less than 5% of daily active users are non-monetizable.
AI Art: Notes on a Genre
sys.version_info

I'm not sure why this guy is doing it the hard way.
Nah, I'm not worried.
And still just the two USBC ports.
I would have jumped to this if it just had better onboard connectivity like it's 14/16 versions.
Yeah, my impression is that the arm windows laptops were basically using cell phone chips.

And if you consider that arm cellphone chips are already behind Apple cellphone chips (which the M1/2 improved on)… not great performance for windows.
Microsoft.

They had some promising years but I always sensed a struggle in the wheelhouse.

Now they are back to forcing Edge on people, ads on login screen and in the Start menu are their new inventions and their store is almost as broken as ever and most importantly hard earned trust flew out the window in the process.
Creating products that you can't easily repair or upgrade? Creating a vicious upgrade cycle? Hmmm...
The problem isn't even the computer most times, its more often the display. Many modern flat panel displays have far more latency than even a crappy analog CRT, and yes the difference is definitely often noticeable if you have any experience with computers. Some of the most modern ones can be the worst offenders too, given the amount of signal processing a modern display does.

To add to earlier example, I do some retro gaming on an old windows 98 box with a CRT, the lack of latency moving the mouse in first person shooters of this era compared to today can be incredible.
Maybe it failed because it was repairable...

Sealing everything into one blob is going to be way more reliable than thousands of crusty connections.
here are some real-world numbers for starting a Clojure process:

1. 2017 3.1GHz Quad i7
clj -M -e 1 1.73s user 0.12s system 232% cpu 0.795 total

2. 2020 M1 Mac Mini
clj -M -e 1 0.65s user 0.05s system 157% cpu 0.445 total

and I'm getting a very similar time-ratio, when I'm running our test suite for example. I find these speeds extremely satisfying already!
> The value you provide not only has to beat Google, but also Netflix, Bitwarden...

It's hard to compare the intrinsic value of all services that cost ~10$. Is the ability to search the whole Internet, something you do every single day multiple times, less valuable than watching Netflix shows a few hours every week? Our perceptive is seriously skewed because we've had free (paid with ads+data) web search engines for almost as long as we've had the web. On the other hand, Netflix seems incredibly cheap because for a long time before it, legal access to movies and series was expensive and hard/impossible due to strong copyright laws.
Largely true, though...

https://www.asus.com/us/site/gaming/rog/gaming-laptops/flow-...

It's a very small laptop with the option to utilize a current generation Nvidia GPU.
It has 2 memory chips that appear smaller than the ones on m1 pro and max.
Probably not for the Macbook Pros. The current ones are already backordered multiple months, not much incentive to release new ones this year.
Almost 10 years ago we purchased a MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD for approx 2K UK pounds. It's really surprising and disappointing that a decade later these same specs essentially cost the same!
There is a movie from 1998 called "pi" about a number theorist who got sucked into it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)

I saw it a long time ago, but still vividly remember some of the scenes.
Bursty symbols in training allow prompting (ML)
My burnout was a useful gateway to a new career outside tech in mental health as well as my first spiritual experiences. You can read about the transition here: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
Yes Apple is walking on familiar ground here. They abandoned M68K, then PPC, now Intel. They know they can do it, as they have done it before, and their customers will follow along, as they have done before.
I don’t buy 60hz displays in 2022. No way this comes without 120hz „Pro Motion“. Disgusting.
Integration with dark sky most likely.
One is a chip just announced/released by Apple. The other is a company floundering and stagnating in their product offerings.

Did you want to compare the M2 to a specific Intel CPU? The M2 is better.
+ Means

+ Motive

+ Opportunity

You want your thing to be very safe? Forget the safe, throw it in the ocean encased in a cement block. Very secure, will not be retrieved. Note - I said ocean, not a lake.

Biometric and pin pad locks are quick. Less secure sure but quick.

If an attacker has the triangle of means (tools, knowledge), motive and opportunity (physical access) then any lock can be defeated if only because you can torch through the lock.

Security is always a tradeoff. "More" secure is not always the correct tradeoff.
I'm going to sound like an Apple apologize, but what's wrong with Apple Music on the web? I just launched it (for the second time in a while), and after signing in, was presented with a familiar looking UI and all my playlists, and was playing searched-for music in under a minute. I know Apple prioritizes their platforms first, but this doesn't seem like an example of Apple failing a competing platform.
Spoilers:

Maverick died during that crash and the whole movie is just his last DMT hit before brain death.
(Not my theory, lifted from the internets)
The actual danger to humans pales in comparison to stupid humans being irrationally afraid of a tiny statistical increase in the likelihood of cancer. Detonate a dirty bomb and you've created a zone that is difficult to remediate to the point where nobody would have any issues with living and working there.

Do it in a place like Manhattan and the cost to remediate would be potentially huge. We're not talking about turning an isolated former nuclear or chemical weapon production/storage facility into a nature preserve, but returning a 'slimed' dense urban area into one suitable for long-term human habitation. That's the real power of a radiological dispersal device.
No it doesn't. It's essentially Air with just a few incremental upgrades, the same chip just with a few updates. It's a money grab. They will keep selling Air for $999 and pressure consumers into a higher price, as they typically do/and is their business mantra.
I think they are fundamentally different. For the first case, everyone must broadcast with enough power to reach the AP. It introduces a bottleneck.

For the second case, everyone only needs to broadcast with enough power to reach their device. Overlapping coverage areas are essentially a side effect.
why does web development require so much memory and computing power?
Because in Software Engineering, layout matters. Computing Machines don't care about asymptotic behavior.
But you will be aware that you are being hurt. And only you will be hurt.

A single fuel rod can kill millions without them even knowing why they are dying.

Your daughter will not die from playing with a burning stove, she will burn her fingers and stop. In Brazil, a little girl ate an egg with radioactive dust on it. [0]

Your stove will not slowly kill people living on the other side of the wall.[Happened in russia].

The water supply will not be ruined if you drop your stove into it. If someone puts your oven in a truck full of fertilizer and detonates it in a large city, it will not kill millions of people and make a large area unsuitable for human life for thousands of years.

So fuel rods really are ferociously dangerous, in a way that very little else on this earth is.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
"One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz." [1]

Same for the new M2 Macbook Pro.

[1] https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-m2/specs/
The theory some people have is that Qualcomm's acquisition of Nuvia last year was their attempt to get their hands on some desktop-class CPU cores (Nuvia was originally aiming for the server market), and Microsoft has largely partnered with Qualcomm on all their previous offerings. So that might be their saving grace if they can actually materialize something in the next year.

But I agree. Apple is pulling ahead a decent amount here and likely will stay in that leading position for a while, like they did in the phone space, and that makes all the competitors that much less appealing.
Exactly. The real question is, Was Social Audio Ever Alive? Betteridge's Law applies.
I don't have the time to run my own infrastructure. That's why I pay someone else to host my mail, compute and everything else.
I see Microsoft as a SaaS company now, heavy on cloud and Azure. Apple is still a products company.
The question is who is Apple competing with with these new chips? Is it other PC/laptop makers (Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, Dell etc) or is it solely Apple on Intel? Whether Microsoft (and everyone else) needs to react or not depends on whether Apple's overall market share in the segment is going up.
The buffer sizes in ffmpeg are more about ensuring that the calculated bitrate is accurate iirc than ensuring smooth streaming (although you need your bitrate enforced to guarantee smooth streaming).
I completely agree with "not a huge upgrade", but calling it "diminishing returns" is way too extreme.
Except Apple are kind of notorious about avoiding cross platform compatibility which is why I ask. Find them hard to trust at this point.

I can already hear them making the “we can’t because it will impact users security” argument in my head.
Where is the new Mac Pro? Where is the upgrade to the XDR Display? Where is the M2 Mac Mini? What a shit show.
F-keys don't have decent integration with apps since...forever?
Very cool. Hopefully learning to constantly crunch and simulate the fire hose of sensor data at places like this will lead to ever-better earthquake predictions too.
I think after all the drama, this is the likely outcome:

"One possibility is that Musk will keep sending nasty letters and tweets about bots, and the people — including the ones working for him — whose job it is to get the deal done will keep working to get the deal done, and one day Musk will be mid-sentence typing a nasty tweet about Twitter and find out that he owns it."
but they will bid out the entire install and possibly even design. Gas pumps come in multiples of 1 or 2 but gas station design & construction happens in larger units of pumps & aren't bid in a "pick any multiple of 1 or 2 pumps" way. Does that make sense?
Their answer is this: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/microsoft-will-boost...

They will need to get developers up to speed porting their apps to ARM before they are even in a position to re-boot their Windows ARM strategy.

But this is a multi-year journey which is likely to give Intel/AMD time to produce something more competitive.
16GB is $200 more, 24GB is $400 more. Not horrible but can't help feeling it should start at 16GB at this point.
This article has some great examples, but there are MANY it does not mention. Here are just a few others I think are super cool (links to media articles, papers are typically linked to within article):

* AI model’s insight helps astronomers propose new theory for observing far-off worlds https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/03/ai-models-insight-helps-as...

* Scientists Discover Method to Break Down Plastic in Days, Not Centuries https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvm5b/scientists-discover-m...

* Machine Learning Helps See into a Volcano’s Depths https://eos.org/editor-highlights/machine-learning-helps-see...

* Stanford University use AI computing to cut DNA sequencing down to five hours https://www.zdnet.com/article/stanford-uni-nvidia-use-ai-com...

AI is just a tool, and is increasingly becoming a big part of scientists' toolsets. I don't know if it's fair to say it will lead to a scientific revolution, but it's impacts will most certainly be vast.

Self-plug warning: I know of all of these articles because I run the newsletter Last Week in AI (lastweekin.ai) and co-host its related podcast (https://www.lastweekinai.com). We've covered a dozen or more of these types of stories, and new ones keep showing up. So it's definitely a big trend IMHO.
> This makes a huge difference because power consumption increases exponentially with clock speed.

It scales linearly with clock speed.
I have the M1 air with 8GB and it's unusable with pycharm on an external 4K display.
Resource Control Demo: Better Resource Control with Simulation
Depends - I've had a world of pain with Python because of incompatibilities. It's not my main language though so if you're as deep down the rabbit hole as I am in my main languages you might be able to get it working.
> Your actual physical computer can trivially iterate through all of its possible states in a fixed amount of time.

Nope. You're in an imaginary world again. This universe will cease to support computation a long time before it would be possible for the computer to try all possible states.
They're only 1 process node ahead of Intel. Intel 10nm is roughly equivalent transistor density as TSMC 7nm. The M1 was TSMC 5nm.

And given that there's no way a single process node jump is going to give Intel a 75% uplift in instruction per clock (2 nodes wouldn't give them that either, for that matter), Intel is going to have to clock higher for comparable performance and that's still going to put them behind on power consumption (which is exponential in clock speed).

Which is to say, it's completely untrue that the only reason these chips look good for speed/power-consumption is the process node they're on. Apple came up with a super-wide architecture (way wider than anything we've ever seen in x86-64), and they made it pay off by getting good performance out of a much lower maximum clock, which bought them a ton of power efficiency.
I'm a little sad they didn't have an actual dark color available for the M1 MBP (just light silver and medium silver), I assume it'll be offered on the next MBP.
Here's a paper about how methane leaks from gas stoves contribute to climate change: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00437
The methane contribution alone is significant. Not to mention the CO2 from actually burning the gas
> Basically everyone I know has gone the route of a single large display, Mac user or not.

I've noticed that, too, which I don't quite understand. Dual displays were touted as a productivity multiplier back in the day. Is that not the case anymore?
Thanks for that link.

For my next work laptop, I've been waiting to see if (sometime soon) there would be a MBP that supported external refresh rates > 60 Hz.

Given that the M2 MBA still has that limitation, I suspect not.
If your purpose in buying a computer is to have the latest thing, and not because it does what you need it to do, you're gonna have a bad time.
not a specialist here, my first reaction is .. feathers are quite insulating.. so, not good for hot climates. Flying means that the creature is in wind all day, cool climate or not.. So put that together, I suspect that lots of the large reptiles just had to be in warm climates, and did not use insulating features each day.

useful and interesting to see that everyone here is saying "yes" to the birds question
i use surface pro x on arm as a daily driver and it's excellent (on the beta release train anyway), and i use linux and osx too daily.
Running a more or less complete stack of the backend can be a lot of containers.
Waste is pretty much not going to be enriched uranium, by definition. No one would be dumping enriched uranium in the first place... it's expensive, yo.

Low-enriched uranium (suitable for burning in standard power reactors) is 3-5% U-235

Highly-enriched uranium (suitable for building bombs) is >= 20% U-235.

Spent fuel is typically < 1% U-235.
Urk: nothing above 8G memory listed on the apple store.
The M1 Pro/Max have multiple GPUs, one in each CPU cluster.
Interlacing could have been handled by the playback hardware. At the end of the day, 60 interlaced fields or 30 full frames per second still require the same amount of bandwidth.
You are right. But instead of making things smaller all the time, a company could chose to make things better repairable - like the framework laptop. Would Apple do that? No, why should they, since most if its hardware buyers are oblivious to the implications of bad repairability. It least thats what I think, but what do I know ...
Idk where this idea of repairability = good for the environment came from.

You’ll be hard pressed to find a laptop that is built with more recycled material than a MacBook.
Prolog is cool but has exponential complexity which makes it impractical for real world use.

The rete algorithm was supposed to be a solution but has anyone applied rete to a prolog implementation yet?
MKBD asked Craig Federighi in 2020 [1].

Federighi said it would be very easy for Apple to just scale the iPhone Weather app to the iPad, but that's not something the company wants to do, instead looking to create an app that makes use of the larger screen of the iPad in every possible way

[1] https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/apple-exec-explain...
News from WWDC22: WebKit Features in Safari 16 Beta
I want to make fun of javascript here
Those two numbers are the same
It's a lot faster and of higher quality now. Those numbers do not reflect the speed of the ram, the speed of the memory, the quality of the screen, or the performance of the CPU
Right now we can look at DALL-E and say that it did a good job or it didn't because it is producing familiar objects like teddy bears or whatever. If the science equivalent of DALL-E said this is a process to extract an enantiomer with right chirality and it's actually is for left chirality who is going to know it made a mistake except a trained chemist? Thus, double checking the work of the AI is going to be a lot of the work of scientists in the future.
All of those electronic locks are garbage. Last year I bought a safe with a S&G mechanical spin-dial lock. Those are GSA approved. S&G also has electronic spin-dial locks, but they do not seem to be available as an option on consumer/commercial safes.
Yeah, since Apple's (and Google's) soft WebAuthn implementation is designed for syncing across devices, it should also work with many browsers on the same machine.
The same farcical logic can be applied to any substance in a hazardous concentration. PFAS, heavy metals, the list is long. Sure they won't instantly fry you but it's basically guaranteed terminal illness if you have enough expose.

As we've seen from the industrial hazards of the 20th century, once people start dropping dead the living start asking questions. It's impossible to really kill that many people with a spill of any type. Poison a watershed, render land uninhabitable, sure, but killing millions is childish fantasy.
Living in a bubble is always nice though. How many laptops are even used as laptops?

Most of the world is not using Apple laptops and is not going to. The Facebook community around you might, but that's not the entire world. The "nobody" in your list still accounts for what, 90% of the laptop buyers? Even more?

Most of the powerful laptops are neither Macs, as those go to the gaming laptops where - this is a big surprise - games and their performance counts. Apple has no answer there.
Actually, when you consider how many banks of memory it would take to obtain 100GB/s, it's a bargain. Desktop DDR5-4800 tops out at 38.4 GB/s, so you would need three, desktop DDR5 memory sticks to get that - but it would not even matter because a 12th Gen desktop Intel Core i9 can't handle more than 75GB/s at once. Now, DDR5 is falling in price, but low-power laptop grade DDR5 is still quite a specialized part, let alone with such bandwidth potential.

In a nutshell, not all RAM is created equal.
> For example, if I search for a certain wrongthink blog I'm not supposed to be reading, google gives me literally 10 pages of results (I checked, out of curiosity) pertaining to a movie that shares its name--none relevant to the blog.

What's the blog?

Google is actually generally terrible in cases like this. Any popular pop culture thing will totally drown out anything with the same name, even the original. Try searching for "fallout shelter" - the entire first page is about an old phone game. There are a couple non-game links on page 2, almost all are still about the video game for pages and pages.
maybe they're still in development, or test production runs?
Are 120 Hz 4k or 5k external displays common?
Love it, but the lack of ports still seems like a bit of an issue. It looks like the MBA and 13in MBP only have 2 USBC ports, with one used for charging (they don’t have magsafe from what i can see). The 14/16in MBPs have 3 USBC, HDMI, SD card + a separate magsafe charging port.
FWIW I do code on my iPad and have gotten rid of my Mac laptop. I have two options: remote desktop into my gaming PC, or use GitPod (which works quite well for a more "native" but not offline dev experience). One day maybe there will be a full IDE, but for now this works well for occasional side project work.