skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But it's frickin' 2023, those users need a better onboarding experience than having to futz with Emacs

Funny, the years spent onboarding Emacs, and GNU/Linux for that matter, was the experience I was looking for.I never wanted to be just another cog in a well lubed task grinding machine.

>they shouldn't have to entirely relearn how to write code

If you are referring to elisp, it really isn't a mountain to climb or anything like that. Besides, only very basic lisp knowledge is required to customize Emacs, after that you can code your day away in a lisp of your choosing.

If you are looking for a more modern experience with emacs try elgot + tree-sitter [1]

[1]: https://www.adventuresinwhy.com/post/eglot/
And, of course, there is no way for everybody to pull themselves up. You have to hope that you are one of the lucky few, while the rest are ground up and spat out by the machine.
If you fail to apply updates, then you fail to apply actual security patches to stop RCEs -anyone- can use. In exchange you agree to allow apple to execute any code they, or anyone coercing the key holders, want.

You can play semantic games, but the end result is the same under a threat model that does not trust any single entity to run code of their choosing on your device.

A supply chain attack is the correct term for this, but a supply chain attack is, in effect, and RCE path available to anyone in the supply chain.

Saying supply chain attacks are not a form of RCE because you can disable software updates is like saying no RCEs exist because you have the choice to disconnect from the internet. Security discussions should be grounded in threat models over semantics.
>It's typical for Canadians with the means to do so to seek medical treatment in the US or abroad

My favorite example of this is Chretien's secret trips to the Mayo Clinic in 1999. <https://web.archive.org/web/20100204202553/http://www.montre...>
Anyone with a dog can tell you so :)
In fact I would recommend you looking at other reddits that aren’t as bad of an echo chamber of whining — British Columbia , Coquitlam , Surrey , new Westminster
Sounds to me like the system is working exactly as it should.
For $3000 I would expect a different SoC that has a second integrated memory controller with DDR5 support, even if it leads to an asymmetric memory configuration.
> And the rest of FAANG chose option B

If you believe this I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell.
You’re paying $3000 for some PCIe slots. And as others have pointed out, there’s very little demand for those slots.

I think those two details are related in the opposite way people would expect. I think Apple knows extremely well that very few customers want those slots these days. That $3000 takes into account the considerable NRE costs that went into developing the Mac Pro since no other model has PCI slots.

This is designed to be a very low-volume product. One of the few “Pro” products Apple sells where the name is sincere.
That didn’t answer the question
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_actor
> Do they not have self respect seeing the bad quality product they’re throwing up on billions of people every day?

In the society I live in, self-respect doesn't pay the bills. I don't know where you're from.
It's bad if you were expecting the Mac Pro to be double the specs of the Studio because that's what Gurman has been saying for years.
To be fair, the "support" payments for these systems started at the beginning; in the late 50's / early 60's. But it wasn't considered "Subscription Software". AutoCAD was considered on of the first to make the transition away from box sales and they definitely lowered the purchase prices (vs annual subscription) to make adoption easier.
Of course not, but how are quality newspapers and magazines going to get paid if people would rather spend their time on those other ones, especially since they are free (money wise).
Except steamships were demonstrably better than sail ships. EVs are worse than ICEs in every way except emissions.
Is "religious purposes" a kind of catch-all cliche? One doesn't have to think it's aliens to consider the necessary economics of building these things. You need to feed, water and house all the people doing it, their families can't be far, and those resources have to come from somewhere and someone has to collect and move them. Just a threat of force seems improbable, given the basic economics of that as well.

Celestial navigation or regional defence seems like the minimum probable reason. Also it's a desert with no landmarks except these lines. If you follwed those lines without the map, you might not know you were going in circles and you would run out of water and food pretty quickly. There are probably short cuts where sentries could see an advancing group following the lines and alert the settlement while the invaders took the long way in. Maybe prey animals would follow the lines in search of water as well separating them from cover and making them tired and easy to harvest. The directions could be transmitted orally and encoded pictorally without someone being able to see the whole picture.

These seem more plausible than "religious purposes," which tendentiously sets up religion as magical thinking, and the people who built these structures as irrational.
Why do physicists care so much about dimensions but then pretend that their dimensionless quantities don't have units?
High Performance Compute (HPC) instances on Elastic Compute (ECS) offer Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA):

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/11/efa-suppo...
If you store things in a hypothetical subsidiary unit, you end up with plenty of corner cases.

1. You might need a different number of "implied decimals". Two decimals is enough for many currencies, but some are three, quite a few are zero, and a few are a janky 1-decimal model. And that doesn't even go near, say, pre-1971 GBP structures.

You'll have to put scaling logic on every interface with the outside world.

2. Even if you do it perfectly, it's going to change. For example, the subsidiary unit on the Icelandic Krona is being removed in a lot of financial APIs right now. You can either change your records, or change your scaling logic, but you've now got an inflection point where you can't reason about the behaviour before the changeover from the current code.

What you need is a decimal type, where you can have 6.33 dollars, 2.167 dinars, or 500 won, and have them all retain fidelity. Sadly, few popular languages provide it.
I think this is unlikely. All of Apple Silicon is based on a unified memory architecture. GPUs and CPUs share the same, incredibly high-bandwidth memory. In fact, the GPUs CPUs in unified memory are all part of the same chip package.

Whereas All current PCI-E graphics cards include their memory on the card itself. Which means the CPU is having to copy data to, and from the external graphics card to do basic video operations.

In this interview on The Talk Show, John Ternus, vice president of Apple hardware, says he sees no way to incorporate external graphic cards into the Apple Silicon architecture (at 22:48)

https://youtu.be/DgLrBSQ6x7E
Did anyone ever yell "Watership Down!" when it submerged?
> Profit is nice, even vital

Of course, no business will run at a loss, unless it is the WBNA, which is kept alive by the NBA

https://medium.com/@yannickondoa/behind-the-figures-1-why-wn....
this reminds me of the trading room cleaner who triggered a ruinous transaction from a terminal left waiting for confirmation
It's even worse, as the musical acts (once again, excluding Taylor Swift) that are able to survive/thrive from live shows are generally DJs or other low-overhead acts. DJs and other low-overhead acts go on the road with basically just an iPod. Exaggerated, but the point is that traditional bands can't compete, there's too much overhead (lots of equipment to travel with and maintain, more people to feed and manage, etc.)
So why does so much amazing music continue to get made, daily, as opposed to amazing journalistic content? Writing and producing music is no less challenging and time-consuming.
Nvidia/AMD/Intel GPUs, in theory.

I don't see why the Apple employees wood, most of the Apple silicon and mobo isn't really being used for coding and such
> The RAM being "on unit" has no impact here. It just requires the CPU & GPU to share an IOMMU & share the memory bus. Whether or not that RAM is soldered or not is totally irrelevant.

Sure, but to get the same memory bandwidth as a M1 Max you'd need 8-channel DDR5 memory, so your socket would look like Epyc and consume 50W+ just for data movement.

GDDR allows moving much more data than regular DDR (or even LPDDR) but both GDDR and LPDDR5X require much tighter signaling requirements that preclude socketed memory. And that means much higher watts-per-byte-transferred for socketed memory, in practice. Like dozens and dozens of watts higher for a typical configuration.

> Laptops have had unified memory for a ~decade as a result

There's unified memory, and there's unified memory.

Fusion HSA and Intel iGPUs have always required you to designate memory as either graphics or CPU side so that it knows which cache controller to run it through, and this has implications for memory and cache visibility.

ctrl-f 'garlic' and 'onion': https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-how-the-crew-was-po...

https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/amd-kaveri-apu-features-t...

Money shot: "One issue we had was that we had some of our shaders allocated in Garlic but the constant writing code actually had to read something from the shaders to understand what it was meant to be writing - and because that was in Garlic memory, that was a very slow read because it's not going through the CPU caches. That was one issue we had to sort out early on, making sure that everything is split into the correct memory regions otherwise that can really slow you down."

In contrast, the newer stuff like PS5/Xbox Series family and Apple Silicon family has true zero-copy where it's all just flat memory and all writes are immediately visible to all clients of the memory controller. You can interleave GPU and CPU and Neural Engine tasks without forcing explicit sync into memory to flush the cache/bus. I think most people would say that's meaningfully different.

Both are "unified" but one is more unified than the other.
No, that does not follow.

You're arguing for a sort of technology threshold beyond which we cannot see (presumably within a reasonable time frame). However, which side of said threshold we are on, even for technology from a civilization a million years older, isn't clear. I am not convinced it can be clear, since we'd be arguing about properties of a hypothetical craft.

A time-based argument is probably not useful. The difference between ourselves and ancient Egyptians is huge, but it isn't from exponential change in technology over time. That change in technology was driven by (and drives) both our different (from the Egyptians') model of the world, and our ability to sense the world.

Consider a recovered alien ship hull. If it crashed in ancient Egypt, they might make use of the metals and conclude the ship was a god or its vessel cast down from the heavens. If it crashed in the modern United States, we could figure out the chemical makeup of it, test its properties, hypothesize about how it works, and try to recreate it. All of that could wind up being incredibly valuable, even if we couldn't recreate the shell itself.
I actually implemented something similar for a personal project with a different syntax. It was two characters for the type, a colon, and then a UUID. Made it really easy to tell what primary key it corresponded to.
How high ocean temperatures is affecting the weather
Might lean toward postproduction studios' use cases?

No GPU support, but the slide during the presentation showed extended storage (4-8xNVME to PCIe adapters are fairly inexpensive I think), SDI video ingestion, ProTools HDX cards (music I/O and DSP), 25GbE card, and I think a fiber channel one. Since then a third-party company announced a networked audio card.

Possibly some special-purpose accelerator cards; IIRC the first-party Afterburner cards on the last mac pro were FPGA-based; video acceleration is now built into the M2 chips.

I think most of the extra ports that differentiate a Mac Pro 2023 from a Mac Studio Ultra on the spec sheet are on a small PCIe card included with the machine that stays in the top slot.
There’s something about the 2019/2023 Mac Pro I never hear get brought up in these threads.

Yeah yeah they suck and are pointless and your Thinkpad dug out of a Goodwill dumpster running Arch Linux is 100x more powerful etc etc

But: they’re assembled in Austin, TX. Perhaps one of the only things Apple makes that’s assembled domestically? Are we sure the continued existence of the Mac Pro isn’t the result of some kind of tax scheme or trade tariff boondoggle?
Like telling people asking for game cheats to use Alt-F4.
Once I’m used to GPT4 output and once in a while try and see if GPT3.5 can also get it right, it fails miserably. Every single time. I’m sure it’s fine for some things, simple things.
This is easy to say, but tape out costs for a reticle size slab of silicon on an interposer are ~10 figures, at least.

It makes zero economic sense for a low volume product like the Mac Pro, even with Apple margins.

EDIT: Also, they would have to seriously compromise performance. A number of GPU cores would have to be removed to make room for the bigger memory controller. The bus would have to be even wider with regular DDR5 DIMMs, and it would suck much more power.
The very first article in that link is pay walled
It's absolutely not efficient in the sense you imagine.

The VC capital is concentrated in to the hands of a few players. They're not going to compete against themselves.

And nobody is going to compete against the titans.

The market is efficient at concentrating wealt in to the hands of those who already have it.
Sure. But there are alot more use cases for GPUs than machine learning, many of which are latency sensitive and must be done locally.
Well these are people who also firmly believe in nonsense conspiracy theories pushed by some nutjob on the internet, so this just seems completely in line with their lack of connection to reality.
It still wouldn't hurt to have as an option for, say, a swap disk in RAM instead of the SSD, or expose it as storage to macOS for use as scratch disks, or even just use it as a buffer/cache for the flash storage. There are all kinds of use cases where it would be beneficial to have a wicked-fast storage medium working between system storage and memory.
Slack Architecture
...that there's a guy who says some other people told him that it totally worked.
I’m talking about the linked article above the fold
If you keep reading past the headline, it starts to make more sense.

It's literally about scientific models of consciousness in specific body parts that specific animals have.
Technology is a non-issue IMO. People don't want micropayments for the most part. Some people tolerated "midi-payments" for songs and mobile apps to some degree but even that has mostly migrated to subscriptions and "free to play" apps with in-app purchases.
It could work with the help with otvdm: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
> he starts from the conclusion that the aliens are not here

I'd say assumption not conclusion. It sounds like a good assumption to me.
> hurricanes that regular hit that area?

The ecosystem there has had 200 million years, give or take, to adapt the seasonal storms. Hurricanes bring rain, which revitalizes wetlands and flushes out lagoons, removing waste and weeds. "Hurricane winds and waves move sediment from bays into marsh areas, revitalizing nutrient supplies. Fragile coral reefs can also receive benefit from hurricanes during the warm summer months, as the storms’ upwelling of cooler waters help to alleviate thermal stress. In addition, waves and tidal water movements scour some areas, removing macroalgae and exposing the solid limestone structure of the reef, which provides a firm foundation on which corals can settle and grow." <http://www.hurricanescience.org/society/impacts/environmenta...>
Would you mind sharing what cloud provider you use?
No. They are an IP and merchandising company. That's where the money is.
Who are we talking about here? More total money is spent on music now due to spotify. And the money has never been that widely distributed. What small artists did better before Spotify?
Peak concurrent users in a day topped out around 10 on Steam (it's a niche game). Other stats: there's about 40 people on the Discord and there are 27 reviews on Steam. That's as a free game--I assume the numbers would have been lower (probably much lower) if it cost actual money.

As far as monetization on Steam, what are you getting at? DLC? I'll admit to not knowing (mostly as a player and, more recently, as a developer) of any other way to spend money on games besides buying them or DLC on Steam. Edit: I'm ignoring "free to play" since I don't like that model (as a player or developer).

Edit: Wow, looks like the median indie game makes barely $1k: https://howtomarketagame.com/2023/04/25/what-if-steam-didnt-...
There is some demand for those PCIe slots. Far fewer without GPUs, but there are definitely use cases where people will pay $3K for mostly IO (audio being an obvious case, network being a more niche one, unaccelerated video is one I’ve heard and don’t really understand but admittedly I’m very far from the target market). And of course the fairly obvious PCIe storage expansion use case, which I don’t think should be discounted (although it probably has been for this gen of MP).

The speculation I’ve seen (on Ars forums) about RAM is generally a consensus that this is a stopgap, with future base volume increases expected and a future multiple of die connections (a so called “Extreme” being a 4x Max). I don’t think RAM expansion is coming back to the Mac platform for the foreseeable future outside of some kind of hypothetical way to add more SoCs.
It seems hard to justify a 50% take rate for this kind of service. I guess 50% is better than nothing, but it's still kind of shit. If apple is trying to be an aggregator (ie. drive traffic) it makes more sense, but for most news services IMO they don't need an aggregator - they just need some kind of payment arrangement, presumably with a much lower take rate (on the order of 5% or somesuch)
The Last of Us Part II costing that much is absolutely crazy, considering the drop in story quality and the shattering of character's growth and arcs. It makes me wonder where the money went to.
Selefra-How to Read Code to Provide for Rule Use
I think it is possible that politicians are using this issue to get screen time, regardless of the veracity of UFO claims.
You do not have to incriminate yourself under US law, but corporate property is not the same as personal property. The NSA very likely could compel Apple to give up their signing keys if it came with an executive order citing national defense objectives... or more probably they will just manipulate the RNGs of the HSMs Apple uses, or get a special contract with their supplier, or bribe a release engineer. I know people who have been party to such arrangements first hand.

Any system that relies on a single private key with SPOFs in the supply chain should be considered compromised, if the targets it governs are high value.

The CCP did not need to do anything cloak and dagger and simply mandated overt access to Apples HSMs for chinese users.
Am radio tower power [video]
All dogs go to heaven.
It doesn't make you an elitist hipster. It puts you in a category of most people on earth. An elist hipster would swear by a custom smaller parameter model finetuned by a wizard for specific tasks and have a spell book of models.
You can run big models on the cloud yourself, or with a 3090/4090 quantized.

You don't have to go to openai.
> Python vs C/C++/Rust/Zig has even more startling performance differences.

There's no way you're seeing a >1000x speed difference in Python/Ruby/JS and C/C++/Rust/Zig/D without building some heavily contrived comparisons. That is not a normal differential.

The "high-level" languages are slower, certainly, but usually only on a single order of magnitude.
Something I find astounding are all these pseudo-medical ads in Google Adsense and YouTube.

How can they even let them through?
I have never connected my Aranet4 to anything. I just look at the screen.
No, they have cables over twice that long...

https://www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/explore/ships/ships-atlantis...
Yeah, these would make a nice server for people with decent internet service.
MBP is sincerely named too (excepting the weird 13"), and with the same familiarity with their user base. Lots of actual professionals choose these models for their higher spec configurations, and have done so for several years despite increased expansion limitations.
You get an interconnect which is faster than Infiniband. I could see some people using this.

They should implement ECC memory, though.
I think some animals have florbghji. What is florbghji? Well, I’m not going to define it. I’m just going to go on and on about it with no definition as though this wasn’t a total waste of time.
A large benefit for Canada, yes. It decimated the local industry in or around Los Angeles when I lived there. I was a software engineer and didn’t much care but had several friends who were affected.
Nice handwaving....
ultrasound works quite well as well - but no NRE technique is perfect

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7503374/
Don't bother arguing with amrocha. Check out his genius reply to me: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36515453>

I presume he's among those I wrote about, the ones stuck in Canada because they cannot and will not ever be able to get a US visa. And/or believes everything he reads in /r/worldnews and /r/politics.
What Is AI Doing to Art?
Anyone that has automatic software updates enabled, the default, yes.

And if you disable those you will not get security updates, thus allowing everyone access to execute code on your phone.
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a protected site due to this very topic of discussion. Diving it can get you in quite a bit of trouble: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/titanic-edmund-fitzgerald-1.68...
You are saying Apple needs CXL support.

Yes, this is 100% true. CXL devices are exactly what the Mac Pro needs.
I was under the impression that historically, ads inside newspapers and magazines paid the bills, not subscription revenue.
I had to look at the source to find the possible options. In 906d40b.js starting at line 3471 (could change in the future) is an array of possible values. You can search for the embed url of the iframe to get the country name.

It looks like

[
{
title: 'Australia',
link: 'https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.350684,131.0463223,3a,7...',
embed: 'https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332510022!6m8!1m7...'
},
{
title: 'Austria',
link: 'url',
embed: 'url'
},
...
]