skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are the exception in almost every office that I have ever worked in, but you are also not paying attention to what I just said. Apple's display controllers are huge, I'm guessing a non-zero part of that is supporting 6k60, which they felt was necessary.

Given that constraint, they chose not to make the machine presumably quite a bit more expensive to support what is a niche use case.

Saying it's an arbitrary decision is nonsense, they made a trade off, that doesn't work for your particular use case. Presumably market research would have fed into the decision making process, and that market research presumably said something like "dual monitor use with (apple?) laptops is negligible" or maybe something more nuanced "dual monitor use with something below high/max cpu count (apple?) laptops is negligible".

Engineering is about tradeoffs, it's not arbitrary - if you look at the twitter thread the display controller is bigger than multiple cpus, adding an additional one would presumably mean fewer CPUs increasing the price/cpu for the much more common people for whom the second display controller is useless, so they now get a slower machine for the same price; or it increases the price of the machine by needing a larger die with an additional display controller, that still isn't being used, and so remains useless. I would assume a larger die+additional display controller would also use more power even though it's not being used, so you'd get a battery life reduction as well.

Again, it's not arbitrary, it's trade offs that you don't agree with.

(I tried to see what the max display resolution for high end pc laptop gpus, and just found recommended resolutions which seemed unhelpful)
It's nonsense though. A couple of hard boiled eggs and an apple is a lot cheaper than a fast food lunch and healthier.
Please don’t presume to know me nor my personal thoughts. Thanks for really weirding me out.
Let me try restating my point: Windows users know how to be productive in Windows. How many of these people will be willing to give up that knowledge for a Mac that may be faster in terms of brute speed but with which they will, at least initially, have no idea how to be productive with?

Sit a person who's only ever used Windows their whole life in front of a Mac and ask them to find and launch a certain application. Once they realize there's no Start button they'll probably be completely lost.
I have the 16inch and I have never heard it’s fan. Not even while doing some intense multitasking in a room at 30 degrees Celsius. If they had told me this was possible two years ago I would have laughed
This metaphor is what the article is built in though: that excluding MacBooks from comparative reviews is a denial in the same way that Fox News denies climate change—

Both of which should be non-political topics, according to NASA[0]

[0]: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
Yea, they be laughing at how that fool hits a J.
I had little issue reading it on my mobile.
This is so depressing. It's nearly impossible to form a confident opinion these days without a ton of effort. I heard Sabine, I said to myself...makes sense...and it looks like she's put a lot of work into understanding all of this, and she is a professional. So that was it.

Now you're saying she's wrong. Very wrong. And you're a nuclear reactor physicist (thanks for comment!) Am I going to go read all of the relevant references for myself and study the state of the art well enough to understand it all? No, I'm not because I'm not a policy maker or advisor.

I feel like there is a legitimate problem with science communication, especially where it can influence government policy.
I recently started a project with a client that shipped me a laptop. It's one of the new MBP's with an M1 Pro. Even with all the crapware this client loves to pile on these machines (standard enterprise MDM fare), this is still by far the fastest computer I've used. The fact that this thing is noticeably faster than my "main" work machine which has the same amount of ram, zero company crapware (oh how i love working for small and med sized corps) but an i7. The i7 machine is fast, chews through anything that I throw at it, but the M1 Pro is just faster, like noticeably faster all-around, not just under certain workloads.

I've thrown around the idea of dropping big money ($4.8k the way I specced it) on a Mac Studio with an M1 Max. Up until now the idea was silly considering I have a perfectly good Macbook Pro from work without any spyware that I get for free. But dammit this M1 loaner might have pushed me over the edge.
Or perhaps the Girdlecity, from Iain M. Banks' "The Hydrogen Sonata".
I’m semi-sure that this is possible with .tar.gz files already. I’ve used vim to view a text file within a few different rather large archives without noticing the machine choke up on extracting several gigs before showing content. Certainly nothing was written to disk in those cases.
There is plenty of reading material[1] if you're really interested.

[1] https://www.bing.com/search?form=MOZLBR&pc=MOZI&q=the+WHO+pr...
A great developer can make the difference between your company getting that $ million contract or not. So the value of a great developer can be extremely high compared with the average developer. Also, great developers will often inspire the rest to do better, and remove any “we can’t do that” thinking from the organisation. Managers who doesn’t understand this simple fact should be fired for incompetency.
It's not hand-waving. We've got got what, close to a billion fission reactor-hours worth of data? Perhaps more? We know exactly how safe they are.

Also: "safety issues?" Useless to talk about safety issues in a vacuum. Safety issues compared to what?

- Fossil fuels, which are literally guaranteed to fry this planet?

- Wind, water, solar? Great but not sufficient and/or feasible in all locales.

- An imaginary energy source with zero downsides? Let us know once you work out the details.

You point to Fukushima, thanks to which a region was rendered uninhabitable. I point to climate change caused by fossil fuel, thanks to which large swathes of the planet will soon be uninhabitable. I know which one I prefer. I'd prefer ten or a hundred Fukushimas in exchange for what's about to happen to our planet in the coming decades.
"There is a lot of money to be made from implement the wrong solution, as long as you are not part of the problem."

* Adapted from a consultant proverb
> I decided that learning the tar file format and making my own tar extractor would probably be faster than waiting for tar. And I was right; before the day was over, I had a working tar extractor, and I had successfully extracted my 1.1TiB tarball.

That's awesome!

I once did the same thing (something else, not a tar). I was on discord at the time and typed in messages about the stupid stuff I noticed while writing my own code. A guy told me I'm an asshole and a shit programmer/personality because I wasn't willing to use stick with/figure out standard tools + blocked me. Which is weird because why wouldn't you want more tools available. I gave away my source at the end

Don't be afraid of writing your own stuff!
I don’t get it. A product is significantly better… don’t compare it to, competitors?
I guess you'll have to forgive my ignorance. Without some sort of rational explanation, I'm baffled that a single match would require 300MB of data transfer, as well as the fact that the game apparently moves 1GB around "very often."
> fusion is just going to increase the rate at which we are transforming this planet into a giant pile of garbage

That rate does not scale negatively with energy prices. It scales positively with population, in the West.

We could just accelerate towards stagnant global population growth. Improving economies and access to contraceptives in poor nations could do that. Everybody wins, except the very richest.

Coercing the population to stop consuming is a non-starter. We could also create stronger incentives and regulations surrounding waste. There are lots of new biodegradable tech companies now, to replace plastics, for instance.
It worked in Firefox on my iPhone.
They might be approaching the E-Bus market because their device needs to vent outside, and an airhandling device has easy access to vent outside, whereas a home dehumidifier often wouldn't have easy access to outside air.

In addition, an E-bus has an acute need for energy efficiency; reducing the need for energy for climate control lets you go more miles on the same battery and range on a large, heavy, EV is hard to increase. It makes sense for liquid fueled busses too, but liquid fuel allows for a pretty long range anyway.

Getting a design win on a new(ish) transportation category could have a bigger impact than competing in an existing market; although if the E-bus market is really 1000 units, they better find other applications soon. (Although if works for E-busses, it should work for any vehicle where dehumidification is happening)
I don't think it has declined

It serve its users, you are probably in the niche category that's declining, or rather the casual group is growing in number and as a result your category is being diluted even more, tech stuff usually are old stuff, users prefer new and up to date topics

If you are looking for something specific, i suggest trying few tricks to get better specific results: https://betterprogramming.pub/11-tricks-to-master-the-art-of...
While you may think it unfair to compare, the 3 coal slurry spills (from power plants) which happened in the US to date had ranges of impact on the order of hundreds of miles and included impacts to drinking water.

I have little doubt the NIMBY's are recalling one or more of these incidents.

And this is just limiting the scope to power plant related waste. If you talk about industry in general you have many decades of weird cancers and nonpotable tap water in various parts of the country. The lack of trust comes from precedent.
history repeating...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_cras...
First I've heard of standardnotes and it looks great.

I've been using notion, but since it's not end-to-end encrypted, there is a whole class of information I've not felt comfortable putting online.

This looks to solve that problem!
Solar is much lower than that, but it has the advantage of being doable on the ground.
Except MacBooks and PC laptops are being compared in the linked Ars article:

"They're going head to head with Apple's MacBook Pros—at the event announcing the systems, Microsoft even made this comparison explicitly."

Edit: Here's various tech outfits directly comparing Apple MacBooks to traditional PCs for "best laptop:

The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/21250695/best-laptops

CNET: https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/best-laptop/

PCMAG: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-laptops

Engadget: https://www.engadget.com/best-laptops-120008636.html
I feel like the "CO" part of this gets overlooked a lot.

E.g. "I'm eating fewer calories but in an unhealthy fashion and am now tired all the time and so I'm more sedentary" sorta things.

Is there a really reliable way of estimating total calories burned in a day that's based on direct individual observation vs averages and such?
That's all it is. You're familiar with Mac environments. Great. End of (useful) discussion.
Pinch to zoom Mr. Mobile.

Some people don't want 2 websites to maintain or just want to keep their publishing overhead to what they're used to.
Another interesting thing is then when you go to the channel page of the uploader's video, they're subscribed to an account named iluomo, and if you go to that account's channels page, it keeps loading the channel itself over and over again
yes! I worked at a place that seriously drank the agile koolaid. If you weren't going to finish a story, you'd get some sad frowny faces in slack, and if that wasn't a motivator (it generally wasn't, sometimes you just can't finish something because it was started late due to a dependency and it's not your fault), it was often declared "done" anyway, full points were booked, and another ticket was created to finish the rest of the work. It was a complete sham to get our "percent complete" up.

One guy did this for months. The same ticket would keep getting extended.
The difference in the health of a person who doesn't take caffeine, and a caffeine addict is much smaller than the difference between a teetotaler and a raging alcoholic.

It's very common for people to slippery-slope various drugs, but being a 'raging alcoholic' is incredibly damaging to your health.
> Having the option to run MacOS on the iPad would be incredible, but it would also likely cannibalize their market.

I don't see it -- an ipad pro costs about the same amount or more than a macbook air. Seems like they could easily get a similar margin on either device.

> I want MacOS on the iPad so badly and I know I'm not the only one.

I've never understood this. I'd be curious if you could give me some perspective. I do know a lot of people would like it, so it's likely I'm just not seeing what they do.

I do like some convergence between the two platforms (similar functionality / "pick up either device and continue where you left off" on a lot of apps from messaging to 3P apps like OmniFocus) but I often switch from the ipad to the mac because of the power of the keyboard and the interface metaphors.

Microsoft has tried to jam the two together without (in IMHO) success as they have different affordances. Keyboard on an ipad is meh -- my macbook air is lighter than an ipad + magic keyboard.

I use my ipad a lot, both standalone for reading and as a pen accessory for my mac (Apple needs to do more work on this use case). I see lots of good, remaining opportunities for overlap but wouldn't want the OS of one on the hardware of the either.
Yeah, but you're not seeing the conversations going on behind the scenes.

This[0] is a great video that dives into how tablet manufacturers manipulate artists into shilling for their products. This kind of behavior is much more commonplace among tech review culture than people want to acknowledge (i.e. companies signing off on review videos before their posted, giving out free samples in exchange for positive reviews, etc.)

Ultimately, the goal of advertising now is to generate advertising content that doesn't look like advertising. Review videos are an incredible vehicle to accomplish this.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH1WEYF8rlA
It sounds like you ought to be gotten at least one experienced team member an M1 laptop, and asked them to spend a 2-3 days making sure that you software runs smoothly on it.

Our software at work didn't work out of the box on M1, but fixing it was fairly trivial and mostly involved upgrading library versions (although we use Node not Python which admittedly tends to be better at portability). But someone completely new to the codebase definitely isn't the person to be fixing these issues.
energy efficient but not water efficient. Also unless you're in an area with plentiful soft water you're gonna create some impressive mineral deposits. You're better off painting things white and insulating the house better (which helps with both heating and cooling it).
For what it's worth, the guy who maintains GNU ed and wrote lzip says you should not do that[0].

0. https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
That does nothing for trip times, added walking distances, or convenience of transit (e.g. how easy are connections). You're replying to a post that mentioned "fast, frequent" first as their measure of quality.
The energy in fission ultimately came from gravitational collapse, not fusion.
The very title of the piece provides that metaphor, and why not?
Whatever 'translation' you choose, none of it comes anywhere close to accusation of a crime. It's pretty plain from reading the message and the policy. You have to lean pretty far into bombast to turn it into that. Which, if that's how you choose, to read it, fair enough but it has no basis in any of Twitter's actual communication with this user.
I think that as Google became more complicated, bigger, and ML based the average Googler begins to understand the system less and less well. At a certain point a problem comes up and they just don't know how to solve it that well or their bureaucracy makes solving it to painful or the people who solve problems quickly have all gone to companies where they can do that.
Numbers is speedy? ;)
Yes, I forgot about price. The premium paid for Apple products isn't worth it to me
Anything that states that an entire macronutrient is more satiating than another macronutrient is crank science and you should dismiss it. High fibre "carbs" for example are incredibly satiating.
It's a competitor in the same sense my smart fridge is a competitor. It's a locked down appliance that I'd have to hack to do what I want with.
I really wanted to take a train or greyhound, wasn't super picky, for my last two trips but it was stupid. I had naively assumed the tradeoff was going to be adding about two days to the trip for travel there and back but in exchange it would be a lot cheaper than a flight. Nope. I guess. For some reason. Same travel days, same destinations. Not only were flights, obviously, faster but they were cheaper too.

Pay more for fewer departure/arrival options and turn a few hour hours into +1 day on each end seemed not worth the vibe.
Yeah. I don't understand the point then. I can get two completely unrelated variables and show that there is correlation between them.
Then make have mckinsey make a graph of aesthetics ranking from dystopian feeling to utopian. Probably cost $5mm to make that slideshow

I personally like the 'swim to school' roads.

Some people have too much power and money.

Spending to try and make desalination economically viable and other green tech is cool.

Vanity projects that forcibly remove (potentially murdered) residents, wasting said green energy on fake ski resorts, etc are not.
Thanks. I've got a Mac enthusiast friend who says otherwise, but he's such a Mac fanatic (and a Gruber fan) that I don't trust his judgement
.tar.gz is a tar file, it’s just gzipped afterwards.
They also tend to be non-standard for a variety of reasons anyway! C bends backwards to support odd architectures but is often also insufficient (or at least the vendors cannot justify the effort to achieve full compliance and their customers don't care significantly anyway).
I haven't recognized the name, so when I read the first few paragraph of the page, I assumed this is a story of regular SF resident being priced out of their apartment because landlord wanted to convert it to Airbnb rentals.

(Spoiler: it's not, this is a letter from Airbnb founder)
I know; this was an M1 Pro (16" MBP).

CalDigit support told me that it happened on the M1 Pro systems if the make/model of the monitors was identical, but I don't think that's true, because I replaced two identical monitors with two newer identical monitors and both of those work through a CalDigit TS3+.
> how much faster would a non-Windows machine have to be

Until Macs run games, it's a pointless comparison. If Steam did for Macs what they did for Linux, then we'd have something interesting to talk about. But a PC without games is about as attractive as... a Ferrari, I guess. If somebody handed me a free 200K$ sports car, I'd just sell it. It's useless for my lifestyle. A PC that can't play games is equally useless to me.
Same thing happened to me. I've been trying to avoid ordering work stuff on Amazon since they're technically a competitor, so I ordered a part on eBay. Coworkers commented on the Amazon package when it arrived, much to my confusion. It's happened a few times since then, I think they call it 'fulfilled by Amazon' or something like that.
The New Astrology
You can sit on a rickety stool bought for three buck while programming too but you want to be comfortable. Buying a MBP is about comfort too. Long life battery, super cool and silent performance. Nothing worse than when an Intel laptop fires the jet engine fans and heats up dramatically.
Regarding ARM docker images, can't you just update them to support ARM same as any non-Docker software you use?

Regarding Docker on Mac I totally agree. It's not worth it. At my workplace we simply run everything natively. We have to use Macs because we do iOS dev, but if we didn't then I'd definitely be tempted to get a linux laptop. May stick Asahi on my machine once the GPU support is ready.
> offer a vegetarian meal to a student if they are vegetarian for cultural reasons rather than religious reasons? Or perhaps vice versa, out of an over-zealous desire to enforce secularism?

Yes they should definitely offer a fruitarian meal to everyone and pesca-pescaterian specifically to me
If you fully fission the U + Th in an average chunk of crustal rock (using breeding so you can use the 238U and 232Th) then said rock releases fission energy equal to the combustion energy of 20x its mass in coal. So with breeders we can in effect treat the entire Earth's crust as something an order of magnitude more energy rich than coal.

(Whether breeders are practical or competitive is another matter, but then fusion looks pretty challenged in that respect also.)
I know that's the big money-maker for them, but it irritates me that almost the entire first page of results is adverts made to look like search results.
It's great at showing explicit ads or "content marketing" ads-that-land-in-it-without-paying-Google-directly.

On one hand you have Google, trying to keep patching an algorithm while also maintaining an ad revenue stream.

On the other hand you have the whole of humanity's ingenuity trying to make money for themselves.

Why do we think one system is going to be able to defeat the whole universe of creative hacks to try to beat that system at any reasonable rate?

(It's a wonder that it's even still adequate... but as long as the main competitors are using the same machine-and-math-driven approach, just with fewer resources to throw at it, it's unlikely that there will be a ubiquitous replacement making a major improvement any time soon.)
If you patiently and systematically try to figure out all the layout options and settings in word, you start to understand what will and will not happen when you do any of these things. It’s still a deterministic piece of computer code? I certainly spent less time figuring out word than latex at least.
They didnt kill it, they rolled it into Samsung Pay
Compared to what?

Is that what reviewers are comparing?
What did the Roman’s ever do for us? :-) I agree with what you are saying.
Is your personalisation for google search turned on?
A Trump Backer's Downfall as the Target of a Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory
This plus Saudi Arabia and Qatar altering the weather to force rain for their needs

If we add climate change on top of geo-engineering, we'll see some nasty changes in the decades to come..

You can live for few weeks without eating, but without water, you die in 2 days
A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent
Geothermal, and all thermal power energy, have a big issue: thermal pollution.

You need a lot of water for the cooling phase of the thermodynamic cycle that transform heat into electricity.

That's why during drought episodes fission plants have to be stopped.

There is however a non-thermal path to fusion energy, aneutronic fusion with direct energy conversion. In this scheme, the fusion reaction produces no neutrons and the kinetic energy of ions is directly converted to electricity.
Interesting, thinking about it more I wonder if part of it is also that airline companies are one of the easier things to tax too? Many African govs have a tough time taxing local citizens and businesses, but companies, often major ones that are probably multinational and have to strictly follow laws and have major assets that can be seized are likely a better target for high taxation (what are you going to do, not land at the one airport in the city?). Between that and a lack of competition, I bet that explains a good portion of it.