skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Couldn't you do an experiment where you entangle two particles at different altitudes and measure to see which one drops faster?"

Yes. The experiment is easy to run. The equipment that can detect the factor-of-10^-50 percent difference between them is not so easy to come by. The problem with quantum gravity is the lack of data brought on by the fact gravity effectively doesn't exist on Earth at what we typically call "quantum" scales, compared to the overwhelming influence of electromagnetism and the nuclear forces.

(The inhabitants of the Dragon's Egg in the science fiction novel of the same name, which are creatures made out of matter on the surface of a neutron star, presumably did not have such troubles making a theory of quantum gravity, because they could gather data directly. We creatures made of atoms in an environment that permits that are not so lucky!)

It's not that hard to come up with situations where you get less-than-Planck time expected differences in behavior. This is another frontier in science nobody knows the answer to. For as small as Planck time is, there are ways you can theoretically detect if the universe was "rounding" at that scale, and so far they have all consistently come up as "nope, the universe isn't rounding"... yet it is also almost inconceivable with modern physics how it couldn't be in one way or another. (The most interesting one was trying to pick up various effects of such quantization on photons travelling so far across the universe that the differences would be detectable.) There are still many mysteries!
Incapable of attacking my argument about fanless/power efficiency, instead you nitpick on the sales

> I get that it is 2001 again and we should all be shitting on MS, but let's try and keep some facts in the conversation.

That's a windows 11 with snapdragon for you! fanless! ha
The whole existence of the 13” MBP is kinda pointless and anachronistic?! It sticks out like a sore thumb with the old-school display and touch bar next to the 14” MBP.
The highest estimates I've seen for Mac laptop market share are 15%, most places put it at 6-8%.
Firstly, there's a very good chance driving without a speedometer is illegal in your area.

Secondly, anything that affects functional safety should itself be vetted fron a FuSa perspective. I guarantee you that most manufacturers treat the instrument cluster as a Functional Safety item. If CarPlay can't bring the system to a state where that analysis is affected (which seems unlikely here), there's no issue.

That said, I'd probably use it.
I find it absolutely riveting that you think unpaid labor, which is what we are talking about from the article, is legal or encouraged in Denmark, let alone the United States.
Yeah, as it already is an imposition to use 10 for what is called "Month Eight" (from Lat.: octo = 8).
yeah, maybe he could have spent a little time looking into this stuff before committing. Oh well, I'm sure his lawyers are happy to take the billable hours!
> If we could deploy Apple products in a business environment we would in a heartbeat.

I'm not gonna pretend to know about how IT works in business, but most employees at big tech companies do all their work on Macs, so it's certainly possible in some cases.
M2 will be faster in single core, M1 Pro will be faster in multi core.

Taking Apple's 20% claim at face value:

Geekbench Single Core - M1, M1 Pro: 1700, M2: 2040

Geekbench Multi Core - M1: 7700, M1 Pro 8-core: 9000, M2: 9200, M1 Pro 10-core: 12400

Of course we'll see M2 Pro/Max sooner or later, which will presumably match M2 on single core just like the previous gen.
That is not how Trademarks work. It isn't "We used it first, so no one else can". If you are in an unrelated industry, selling unrelated products you can use any name that might be trademarked in another industry/product space.

> For instance, the name "MY GIRL" is a registered trademark owned by Enertec Enterprises for a line of dolls and accessories. However, there is a second trademark registration for the same name "MY GIRL" that is owned by Acushnet Company for a line of golf putters. The reason that these two different companies could register a trademark for the exact same name is that they operate in totally unrelated industries, and offer totally unrelated products. One company sells dolls, whereas the other company sells golf equipment.

https://secureyourtrademark.com/can-you-trademark/trademark-...

No one is going to confuse a Mac Book for a luxury car, or vice-versa.
Just try again after a few seconds. HN always does this to smaller servers.
The app developer has to specifically support Family Sharing if they want to allow people to share subscriptions.
Even if that happens, I'm not sure how much appeal an ARM version of Windows actually has. Right now, the only things keeping me on Windows are Visual Studio and my huge library of legacy software (ahem video games). Microsoft's x86 emulation on ARM is downright atrocious. A native ARM version of Visual Studio could keep me productive, but I'm not about to spend money on a new computer than runs all my favorite old games noticeably worse than my current machine.

If I buy an ARM machine any time in the next 5 years, it will almost certainly run macOS or Linux, with Windows relegated to an x86 box that I use for gaming.
There are some efforts to make things easier for password manager. E.g. differentiation new password, old password and 2FA token fields: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/password_...

I believe some password managers also look at the regex attribute to understand required or disallowed characters.

For resetting passwords there‘s at least a way to deep link to the right page: https://web.dev/change-password-url/
That buying however much of whatever from a single company can be read as "anti-competitive" reflects more on the market, which relies on a single company for its fundamentals, than the buyer.

To me it seems that the problem is not that Apple bought however much of whatever from TSMC, but rather that TSMC doesn't have competition at the moment. Hopefully that changes.

(I do think HN is a bit trigger-happy with downvotes lately. I don't often get downvoted, but sometimes people who reply to me with a different view do, and so they get grayed out and drop in the comments. I used to try to counter that, but my one vote doesn't work for very long, so I mostly gave up. But it's really annoying.)
If you assume that it's unbounded, then either the algorithms aren't solving the same problem or the first one is wrong, so it doesn't make sense to compare them.
To be fair, the time needed to build the necessary production lines and then hundreds of SMRs is even less certain than the time needed for building Large Old-fashioned Reactors (which can take 3x longer than planned[0]), and the economics are similarly unproven.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
In c++, std::deque is better than std::list as an address preserving backing store as it requires less memory allocations, less space overhead and objects will be closer together.
I have M1 with 8GB, it can't handle basic node.js/react app. I have to force kill node and start again every few hours. This with just browsers and apple music playing.
Is Active Directory still LDAP compliant?
Embraced and extended or compliant?

Open-LDAP should be able to get you most of the way there.
Stuff like CIFS allows for mountable shares, and roaming profiles is easily handled by LDAP login and a mounted /home

Oh wait, then you could use actual FOSS systems,
Sorry I forgot that this was about Apple..
Ok so they can license AD, giving M$!a bone in the process
It’s DDR5 on-die ram. The M1 ultra is essentially 4 M1s with an on-die messaging fabric and separate ram for each compute “node”, iirc.
It comes down to not being able to state that he was unaware of a bot problem (as an argument for walking out of the deal) if he has very publicly said that he's doing this because of and to fix the bot problem.
Eh, should've done my homework before commenting. Looks like Twitter has been saying 5% since well before Musk made the deal.
Isn't it just based on amount of pixels needing to be pushed through? So if it can support a 6K external, it should be able to support multiple monitors as long as combined resolution doesn't exceed 6k?
Safe, affordable and scaleable nuclear power is much more "tomorrow's technology" than renewable energy. The waste storage problem has not been solved. SMRs have issues and are still under development. Building plants usually takes decades. Specialized labor is in short supply. Nobody wants a reactor in their neighborhood. Putting reactors were governments could evaporate or are already riddled with corruption is ... unwise.

Renewable energy is actually more on track to solve the carbon emissions problem than nuclear energy.
> How are they going to solve the totally legitimate sharing use cases?

According to their Terms, there are no legitimate sharing use cases. "You agree that you won’t disclose your Account password to anyone". That said, Calm has a family plan (6 users) for only $30/year more.
0n the return on MagSafe: they should have let Jony "Form over Function" Ive go much sooner. Maybe we'd still have audio jacks on iPhones.
You can connect an external 4K screen. Also higher bitrate makes it better looking even on lower res screens.
I don't know when the original article was published, but Jon Bentley's book Programming Pearls (IIRC) contains essentially this same essay (actually, reversing an array) and was published in 1986.
I have loved playing around with this!

Two quick things:

- The documentation about classes in LeekScript v2/v3 has no English translation so it's not clear from that tutorial you can use them.

- Do you have a recommended way to handle version control and editing? Some way to sync from GitHub, or maybe an API to use?
And yet, I and many of my friends will keep using Windows because the third-party Windows screen readers are better than macOS's VoiceOver in many ways. I have no doubt that other users have their own favorite (edit: or essential) third-party tools that keep them on Windows.
> On the other hand, pointer chasing often isn't as bad as you think it might be.

It kinda really is, though. In addition to cache line locality, serial access also benefits from being speculatable. The CPU can't very effectively speculate past a pointer chase (and on arm little cores it doesn't even try), so those become pipeline stalls.

Even if the pointer happened to be close-ish, it's still going to end up being a stall more often than not.

And an allocator / GC is only going to lay out a linked list in any sort of predictable way if the linked list is built up all at once, in which case a linked list is obviously not the right data structure anyway ;)
> But if you get it a little too close together, it goes boom.

It won't go boom. One of the difficulties (of many) of the Manhattan project was that it was really really difficult to get fissile material together fast enough to cause a significant explosion. Those conditions are impossible in reactors. What does happen is that gaseous hydrogen is generated and that subsequently explodes.
XML isn’t hard to parse, sure, but you still have to do parsed entities and default attribute values for the (mandatory) “internal DTD subset”, don’t you? If you omit that, then sure, the rest[1] is basically in the ballpark of JSON. But for a full parser you still have to do a full textual macro system so you have to allocate given untrusted input so ... so now you’re basically doing a good chunk of a simple compiler frontend. (And the macro system it can’t even do namespaces because SGML.) Kind of annoying for a feature that basically nothing except MathML uses.

[1] https://dev.yorhel.nl/yxml
Continue hoping that people who don't want to run MacOS still won't want to?

I don't think they have any chance to match Apple in terms of efficiency while buying third party chips. The advantage comes from controlling the whole stack I think. Apple knows exactly what accelerators will be available for each generation, and their communication between hardware and software folks is presumably much tighter.

Is the Wintel laptop/Macbook gap even that much larger than the Android/iPhone gap?

The market for non-Apple devices is, I think, pretty large.
Funny how most of the answers to this post boil down to "remote into another $2k machine to do your work on a $2k machine that would be extremely capable of doing it by itself".
With the latest firmware, the RPi 4 can boot from an SSD over USB. Still not as nice and convenient as an M.2 drive would be, but it's much nicer than using an SD card.
This sounds like exactly the dark pattern Netflix will be clamoring for. “Oh gee, looks like you can’t share passwords anymore…”
The M2 MBA has magsafe, but the M2 13" MBP does not. Sure it's cheaper and quicker not to redesign a new chassis, but it puts the 13" MBP in an odd spot.

https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-m2/specs/
> There are precisely zero things that were deliberately made to be more expensive than their intrinsic cost by a small group of “rich people and dictators”

Setting aside the fact that 0) US healthcare is pretty much all “things being made more expensive than their intrinsic cost”, believing 1) the market in a democracy is not affected by information asymmetry and 2) a dictator-kleptocrat elsewhere even needs to manipulate prices hints at immense naivety on your part.

> shut up

If it’s my mention of the June 4th incident that triggered such reaction, I hope the Party pays you well enough to justify the stress that reading Western media must be to you.

> you have no right to pose as some kind of intellectual

And you have clearly run out of substance to present.
Isn't RETE a forward-chaining algorithm while Prolog is a backward-chaining language? I'm not sure you could use RETE for the actual Prolog semantics. Currently, fast implementations of Prolog use a virtual machine, the most popular is WAM, that can be compiled then to machine code (GNU Prolog does it). Also some implementations have JIT indexing, which improves performance too.
Do you mean Asahi?
You don’t use the feature.
There is a big erosion difference between glass dumped at beach with wave action and 10,000 feet down. Parts of the ocean floor are 200 million years old.
I don't believe Elon is worth a 30% premium on Twitter's valuation.
In 2009, 3 Quarks Daily credited this excerpt to an article in Aviation Week & Space Technology. What date exactly, I couldn't determine. See https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/03/sr71-disintegr...
IIRC (it's been a bit since I've configured this), you can specify both codec buffers and buffers for streaming to smooth out issues reading from the codec output. I could be wrong though.
The keynote implied it, but Stage Manager/Windows and Display Scaling only works on M1 iPads per the footnotes on the product page.
Apple forces safari on users in iOS, has icloud ads and integrations built into the OS, and sells devices with locked down bootloaders/filesystems that don't let you sideload your own programs.

Who is the bigger threat here? The real threat to user freedom is the tribalism of picking the "lesser evil" when there are workable non-evil solutions like linux.
Their keynotes are so corny. Like repainted 80s. And what's the obsession with that small rather bland round building
We already have no choice but to act. But we don't act.
The $999 M1 air was such a bargain, I was hoping they’d keep the price that low with the upgrade.

Possibly they’re moving to the iPhone model of keeping the last gen around as a lower price entry level device.
> Personally speaking I have no desire for touch on traditional MacBooks – I can only see it making sense on a dockable iPad-like MacBook.

Yes, the fundamental premise is that the last 10 years would have been used differently to grow the touch space to where it fits in the lineup. Arguably a desktop and laptop are as far apart as a laptop and an iPad. That doesn’t mean they need different OSes. I shouldn’t have to use a completely different OS because I want to use the Apple Pencil. It’s just a peripheral. And yes, peripherals should influence the UI (like how scroll bars appear or disappear depending on whether you have a mouse with a scroll wheel attached). I imagine a “Touch Mac” as a laptop where you could spin the screen around to draw on the go for example. Forget complex touch uses, just being able to fold it back to read like a book or watch a movie is a killer feature. But even the Magic Keyboard for the iPad doesn’t support this transformation, you have to take the iPad out to use it… like an iPad. It’s silly. Similarly, opening up touch to the Mac to allow for things like the Surface Studio, for those who need it, would be great! Instead touch is locked in a tiny screen on Apple’s least-used OS (well, after tvOS I guess).
Are you advocating for a rework of our capitalistic global economy then? If so - just say that.

A capitalistic company gonna do capitalistic things - shocking. Shocking!
Displays are significantly better on the MBPs though: PPI, refresh rate.
I'm not convinced that Apple's advantage is due to ARM vs x86. I think it has more to do with Apple's exclusive rights to TSMC's most advanced proccess. After all Apple is also beating Qualcomm's ARM Android CPUs.
Relying Party is the jargon for the entity that gets to rely on the fancy cryptographic technology to determine something that would otherwise be difficult / expensive / unreliable. They're relying on the maths working, and on certain other parties doing their jobs correctly.

Everybody here is a Relying Party when they use HTTPS. The Web PKI promises that this is really news.ycombinator.com to you, the HN reader, so long as the math works (RSA, Elliptic Curve Cryptography and likely AES) and so long as your browser vendor did their job, and the Issuing CA (DigiCert) did their job.

Relying Parties should ideally know why their trust is well-founded. For example, in the Web PKI examining this cryptography is the job of the Internet Research Task Force (related to the IETF), the browser vendors are responsible to you directly, and the Root CAs are overseen by m.d.s.policy, run by Mozilla on behalf of their users and everybody else's users.
For normal passwords they currently seem to support third party password managers just fine, including direct integration in Safari and the iOS keyboard.

You can also export everything from iCloud Keychain to use with another password manager.

They could always use Passkeys as an opportunity to lock things down but it would be in direct contrast to what they have been doing with password management recently.
Is there no config available with no Touch Bar for the 13" pro? I would prefer the Air M2, honestly, but still only 1 external monitor support.

Mind blown.
> However, I'm not convinced that "small government" is the answer. Many of our economic issues are due to the issue of a few megacorporations dominating their industries, but "Small government" advocates are typically OK with letting corporations do as they please as if the Constitution didn't explicitly list the regulation of interstate commerce among the powers delegated to Congress.

All good points. Actually, overall - your answer has a refreshing sense of humor to it. Even as a small gov't advocate, I will concede that we probably need a military given the number of nation that want to blow the U.S. off the map - and yeah, divesting ATT in the 80s and the subsequent 10x drop in phone call prices probably wasn't all that bad either.

But fast forward 20/30 years later, and people use whatsapp, FB, and telegram - I can't help but wonder if monopolies will work themselves out eventually as technology re-invents itself.
That's in the atmosphere around you, effect on organism, not the effect on the climate due to the greenhouse effect.
I can't believe I'm saying this but now that all my devices charge via usb-c I don't actually want magsafe that much now I can bring one cable and change all my portables and mac + razer laptops. Not worth it for me to lug around another cable just for magsafe.
Tell me you haven’t used an M1 device without telling me.

People getting their hands on 8GB M1 MacBook Airs in the early days were saying the memory management and performance were making it snappier than the 16GB Intel MacBooks.
When airflow around an object is spoiled, not aerodynamic, it creates oscillations of high and low pressure. Here's an example of buffeting on a wing during a stall. https://youtu.be/6UlsArvbTeo?t=94
A trademark can be registered for one or more classes of goods/services [1]. The APPLE M1 mark [2], for example, is registered across multiple US classes (21, 23, 26, 36, and 38). I did not immediately find a registration for US M2-based marks by either BMW or Apple. Maybe that's coming soon. Or I didn't input the right incantation into TESS [3].

[1] https://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/TMEP/current#/current/TMEP-1400d...

[2] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:q6...

[3] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/
As far as I know TSMC is building a new factory in Arizona right now, and one more in Taiwan. That was largely financed by Apple's money, and is a huge win for consumers who will benefit from the most advanced chip manufacturing capabilities for the years to come.
FIDO/WebauthN are generally "the good guys" when it comes to privacy bc "bring your own secure hardware key" is always an option. I'm kinda torn over the "use your cellphone as a key" approaches as not privacy friendly but we can't actually prevent them (you can always simulate a key).
Insertion in a linked list is not O(n) though.
It's very interesting to think the processor releases were holding back the Mac for so long. They are on the cusp on turning Macs into annual upgrades - with meaningful performance upgrades tied to the OS, just like they've done for a decade with the A series / iOS releases.

This is firing on all cylinders. The organizational structure and performance is a marvel for this.
Agree. Chip production is such an important aspect of economy these days. It baffles me that US still couldn't come up with a TSMC-like factory yet.

I get that it's really hard. Like rocket-science hard. But still.

Maybe Musk can start something in the sector.
I hate to say it but it’s happening with software and companies like Deel that make outsourcing very easy
Most IAPs and non-Apple subscriptions don't work with Family Sharing, and the few that do there's no way to tell before you buy.

Family Sharing is set up in such a way that you're punished for creating child Apple accounts as Apple recommends, because you'll need to repurchase MOST IAPs several times over.

Apple's subscriptions are the exception rather than the rule, but they like to promote it in such a way as you'd think all Subscriptions/IAPs are shared when they're not.
I've had so many of my non-tech relatives get hacked. Folks who don't live/breath/shit tech just kind of suck at p/w management. This is a huge improvement for them.

BUT, I absolutely think we should continue to demand the right to interact with services on our own terms: Even accepting the compromise of "less security" (debatable if you know what you're doing).

I think the only way forward is a Free/Libre implementation of FIDO2 that is NOT linked to any specific device and can be modified - along with direct access to the keys. Those are the users property and should not be held hostage by hostile designs. Users should have the right to move their keys, without justification, and use whatever manager they want. Even a fully-software one.
When using Blink Shell you can open local files too and connect to vps or use other providers like GitHub Codespaces.
Since they never made any specific power claims of the M1, why would you expect them to make any such statements about the M2? You'll have to wait for 3rd party reviews and analysis for that.