skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it isn't complicated, for completely different reasons though.

Supporting multiple external monitors is such a basic feature, it is absurd that apple insists on using it to differentiate products.

it's akin to making me shell out $400 extra dollars if I want the laptop to have a trackpad, or if I want both the left and right halves of the screen to work
That's what happens when there's no competition. Come up with an equivalent product with more RAM at the same price and I'll buy it.

Sadly (or perhaps gladly, depending on your perspective), there just is no equivalent to a macbook for many people.
Usually when I get the spam you are describing sent to my gmail account it looks like some spammer managed to send obvious spam messages from a server on an authoritative domain like a university.
Ah I misread the Macrumours article.
it is to target intel hold-outs.

this year’s model is this many percentage points faster than the first chance they had to ditch the intel mac, and the mental math for converting whatever they internalized to decide to hold out to a comparison against the m3 should be easy.

some early adopters will salivate, some will pull the trigger, but the holdouts should be near their breaking points. the fear of shipping dates slipping due to early adopters with fomo will drive holdouts further towards the cliff.
> I'm surprised there's still no pro chip for the iMac, and I guess at this point we should assume there never will be.

I wouldn't assume that. It's likely there will be a 32-inch iMac next year running on the M3 Pro or M3 Max.
Sounds like it will be the end of 3P accessibility controllers yes.

Xbox has invested extensively in their 1P solution though:
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/controllers/xbox-adap...

It's modular and programmable
It's an ad by any definition. If I'm paying to remove ads, but ads are not removed, whats the point?
or tretchikoff
Oh I'm super happy with it - it has handled everything I've thrown at it and then some and I'm not planning on upgrading anytime soon. But I feel like with the M2 Pro's having such a short shelf life, what that means for long term support.
The Catholic approach is economical: it's expensive to keep dying people alive if you need resources to do so, but a religion promising eternal paradise is going to have a real propagation problem if a significant number of adherents commit suicide - and trying to carve out euthanasia exceptions wasn't going to play well to medieval peasants.
I think the most charitable interpretation of this phenomenon is that bureaucracy is hell and the entire organization tends to get put on a leash pegged to the level of incompetence of whomever is in charge of #thing.

(Peter Principle writ large.)
Picasso is dead. Etc.
Probably billions of dollars in R&D and extremely clear executive guidance?
Speculating, but I'd wager it's to clear out existing inventory by phasing out the old chips on other SKUs over time. E.g., you start with the expensive Macbook Pro models when you have fewer M3 chips in production, since those will sell slowly, and then you clear out your remaining M2 inventory in the Air lines while waiting for a "refresh" when M3 production is more ramped up.

I have no idea what Apple's sales are for the macbooks or if Airs sell more than Pros, etc., but they're definitely making profit this way to be this consistent in their approach.
The reason becomes apparent when you take a carry on bag and find yourself desperately searching for somewhere to put it in an overhead bin, but there is none. You boarded too late and everyone ahead of you stole your allotted space.

NOW you have to check in your carry on. And waste time waiting for your bag at the baggage claim. If it even makes it. Your bag has much higher chance of being lost if checked in late.
They showed music production in Logic / Protools about 50% of the human scenes too, which can be demanding.
You will need to convince your politicians to lower import duties and taxes.

And that $1599 USD is without taxes. So not the whole US has this price. It was always worth for me to travel to Oregon to have zero tax.
https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths

> Particulate matter – often abbreviated as PM – is everything in the air that is not a gas. These are very small particles made up of sulfate, nitrates, ammonia, sodium chloride, black carbon, mineral dust and water that are suspended in the air that we breathe.

> Particles with a diameter of 10 micrometers (10 millionth of a metre) or less can enter deep inside a person’s lungs. But the most health-damaging particles are even smaller. Those with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less – abbreviated as PM2.5 – can penetrate the lung barrier and enter a person’s blood system. These are extremely fine particles: 2.5 micrometers is about one-thirtieth of the diameter of a human hair.1

> All studies of the mortality impacts of air pollution consider our exposure to particulate matter. Some studies also consider the impact of ground-level ozone. The death toll from ozone is much lower than that of PM, but it is still considerable: it’s responsible for hundreds of thousands of premature deaths every year. Other air pollutants are rarely considered in global studies.
Feels like it's moved super fast. I just bought an M1 Studio earlier this year.
You should read the rest of the review:

> Devon Rodriguez is almost certainly the most famous artist in the world, at least on one level. Almost no one I know has ever heard of him.

It's clear that the author means that in _popular circles_, he's very famous, but in _critical circles_, he's unknown. The author isn't trying to draw a comparison with Van Gogh. He's trying to make a statement about the changing nature of what it means to be a popular artist.
>Rendering speeds are now up to 2.5x faster than on the M1 family of chips.1 The CPU performance cores and efficiency cores are 30 percent and 50 percent faster than those in M1, respectively, and the Neural Engine is 60 percent faster than the Neural Engine in the M1 family of chips.

WTH, was Apple sandbagging on the M1?
64 GB chips that failed testing? That's one way to increase yield.

Clive Sinclair did that trick back in the 80s.
If an organization can't figure out how to factor out clearly-defined contracts within a single codebase and maintain that over time, adding a network hop and multiple codebases into that will not make it any easier.
Are you looking at the same benchmarks the rest of us are looking at? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38076018
Literally the only reason I can’t use my work MacBook for any work that isn’t just testing Safari support. I was even ready to tolerate the terrible ram quantity given it’s so friggin’ insanely fast at javascript.
The possibility of safely doing whole body gene therapy is barely past experimental so it's hard to understand what you might be trying to explain (it's gonna be hard to cure a genetic disorder some other way).

Sure, an expensive drug to correct some issue with a protein is not the ideal solution, but it's just bizarre to cast something that represents tremendous progress as some kind of novel evil.
as I can grasp its blacklisted, at least such spin was present even earlier in various countries, but now the western realm is mids vast agitprop psyop thus having service where every content member can archive its work its guess risk for the a.i. bots in chase for deepfake overrun of unpleasant news for the euroatlantic realm!?, one can save even archive.org links in archive.is so guess that is additional motivation for the blacklisting!

anyway I can still reach it through TOR Browser with some push pull with the captcha (asks for patience) lets hope euroatlantic authorities will drop their fears and reopen the doors, yet knowing that the war in the fifth realm for them is huge issue so not sure whether that will happen soon!?, pity coz in effect there is no other service where one can get address string for the quoted part in some page i.e. its useful for fast footnoted communication of various quotes and links in same post ...
They've been doing this for years. It was just mobile only at first.
Now's a good time to scrub your online identity before things get worse.
The full 40c Max GPU is back up to the full 400GB/s bandwidth, but you're right, the Pro has significantly lower memory bandwidth, and the 30c Max does too.
It's a $1600 laptop. It's sort of excusable on a $400 one. Not $1600 or even $700. Should $2000 be the bar for 2 external monitors? The OLD 2016 13" $1500 could do 2 external monitors. The 2020 Intel i3 MBA which was $999 could do two.
> Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced chips for a PC

Nice! When can I order these most advanced PC chips for my next build? Do they have any kind of upgrade path for existing AMD/Intel users? I don't mind starting over too! Exciting times.
Pretty underwhelming a bit like the A16 release. They basically upped the frequency in A16 and that's how they got their single core performance improvement, not much of an IPC increase to speak of. Given the numbers they quoted, same story will repeat for M3. And A16 also came with a power consumption increase so the 3nm process from TSMC is disappointing as well.
USA/CANADA prices are without VAT/sales taxes.
I find this whole exchange silly, but I would point out that you said:

> The concept of intellectual property came about at the same time that slavery was fading away. Essentially at the time when people progressed into something better than basic primates that thought enslaving one another is a good idea.

Wouldn't that suggest that at the point in time where we move past IP we are _also_ progressing to a new stage in humanity?
They've been designing the A-series chips in iPhone and iPad since the A4 in 2010.
Plain and simple: It's a way to tear up ERISA oversight and pension guarantees and instead get fed to the wolves of wall street. Who doesn't know someone who's 401k was wiped out just months before they were about to retire in 2001 or 2008? Why make rules where you can't change your portfolio settings more that twice a year and in very productive and limited ways in exchange for inescapable Management fees?
The article is really nice, with a fresh perspective on how we-the-public (or, rather, segments of the public with very different worldview) perceive creations and creators, and how that seems changed recently because of the incentives driven by social media.

But perhaps similar interplay of the triangle of artist-fans-critic was already there a century or two ago, just on a smaller scale ?
Depends on if you're talking about training performance or inference performance. It's probably a decent deal for inference on such large models, but I doubt it's anywhere near competitive for training. In the 'consumer' space there's also the A6000 with 48GB for ~$4k.
Am I the only one shaking my head that they kept comparing the M3 chips against M1 chips skipping M2?

Just like the last product release spent more time on huffing their own farts (the Apple Watch is the first of its kind carbon negative product), there is no real innovation or something to garner interest for me here.
Is that with or without VAT? The US always gives prices without VAT, since different states have different rates.
He posted his review within a day or two of me posting my review.
Black is available on any pro or max chip model.

Gating it is still a bit silly, but the gating is not as bad as you think. The base M3 pro is $400 more than the base M3.
If you need to say the world's most popular artist in place of a name in a title then you probably are not that famous.

Isn't Banksy the most well known artist these days?
I got it. The art is technically very well executed, but it’s nevertheless a hyper realistic take of an extremely bland instagram-type photo, again and again, which makes sense why it would be popular on instagram, and amongst the blandified youth with little taste and little knowledge of art history. Not really surprising.
They've been doing more multiples of 6/12 lately, I supposed it's related to the available chip sizes for the LPDDR5X.

M2 and M3 go up to 24GB

M3 Pro is available in 18GB and 36GB

M3 Max is available in 36GB, 48GB, 64GB, 96GB, and 128GB
Gattaca is about the senselessness of the dystopia, not the inevitability of it!
There’s also a 18GB M3 Pro config of the MacBook Pro. Very unusual.
Right but why did they just update them then? Why not do it earlier or wait for the M3?
I'll admit "evil" is a stretch but I was thinking in terms of the amount of e-waste this causes due to insufficient RAM hurting the longevity of a $~2k+ computer

e.g. https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/technology-media-an...
If the workers at non-union carmakers get inspired to unionize there may not be competitors willing to undercut the Big Three, but for now I'm guessing they'd jump at the chance.
Wow, great answer. Why bother saying something unintuitive if you don't have the will to explain it?
Basically all clocks are electronic and automatically adjust. Why is this confusing?
20 years ago, Palo Alto Semiconductor was founded, and 15 years ago, Apple bought them in order to start building their own CPUs.
I don't think it is? But I would love to be wrong. Cheap mobile Nvidia cards outperform regular M2 chips on small learning tasks.

M3 Max might be a contender, but Metal is far from CUDA yet? A laptop M3 Max looks like it can compete with a Nvidia 3070.

It's an unfair comparison as Nvidia is a huge desktop heat/energy hog and Apple M chips are really efficient. Let's see how desktop M3 chips fare.
The M2 Ultra tops out at 800GB/s unified memory bandwidth. A 4090, on the other hand, has 1,008 GB/s. On the PC side, dual-channel DDR4-6400 offers a bandwidth of 102 GB/s.
Whoa, there. A pony is a unit of volume, not mass.
A bit confuse here. I am not sure about coded in c part … osx is … but is os9 Pascal plus assembler?

To me, there is a struggle of transition but the strategy is to contain, extend/swap then extinguish, as today is Halloween let us quote the halloween paper, to kill the os9 the whole code base. Everything from assembler has to go … as hp once said you do not eat your own baby other will ….

Among these major 2 plus 1 then just announced transition, as steve said in my quote video above it is the brain transplant of os. That is hard part. Not the hardware as they start with emulation and the cpu power of powerpc and intel move them along “easily” (and arm but we do not know because of low end target of Qualcomm). The whole discussion on cpu is sort of misguided. It is not the cpu ….

Really the hardest part is the os part. Os9 to osx when the base is actually objective c … hence nextstep (the real osx) can move from hardware to software, and run on intel. Apple just to maintain it secretly for years.

Yes osx always can run on intel. Just os9 and all this carbon thing etc thing that is the baggage that has to leave behind. That is a decade of work. But not to migrate os9.

For the arm as pointed out by others, the NVIDIA is an issue. Given N can be a Trillion dollar firm … I think Apple car may not be the best next move. Apple ai for the rest of us might be. How to make that transition ….
As a person on the spectrum "help others in need" is actually a very difficult concept because I don't really care about them. When something happens around me where I'm not directly involved my instinct is to ignore it or to get out of the situation so that I can go on with my life.

The only difference is when I see unfairness or injustice, then I feel like I have to do something about it. But it usually isn't about the person, it's about the principle.
I think you mean, convince politicians to allow for the ridiculous tax-excluded display pricing that’s prolific in the US.
That is not at all related to my question.
with a few modifications, it should.
>how is living across the globe from your extended family leading to a more stable environment?

In that your real family is not looked down upon (not as much as a poor black family, they're even a "positive bias" for asians from whites), denied loans or opportunities in the same way, your community is not rife with drugs and violence, your school district is not as underfunded, cops don't just shoot you in the same rate, and so on.

>until recently, did asians not have to achieve higher scores than black/latino to get the same opportunities? how is this not exactly systemic racism?

It is. From all I've read, Asians faced racism, and suffered from ill-conceived programs to artificially boost other communities that excluded them, too. At least though they got a stabler environment, more acceptance, and more opportunities (see above) to achieve those higher scores than black/latino kids, even considering the "affirmitive action" and such (which only benefited a handful of black kids anyway).
There's no point in going crazy trying to make the perfect code. It just needs to be good enough for its purpose. Usually it is.

The problem isn't usually the code, it's the people in charge not giving the right instructions, shifting the goal post, allowing feature creep, or the deadly sins of rewrites, large refactors, unrealistic deadlines.

Over-engineering is just fine in the real world. The problem is when that causes cost and deadline overruns. Those can be controlled for, even if the complexity can't. But finding a manager who knows how to manage software teams effectively and simultaneously keep his bosses from digging their own graves is even rarer than an engineer who writes simple code.
In the same way that Wikipedians rush to update the pages of recently dead celebrities, I'm surprised there isn't a similar rush to update pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon around events like this.
It’s not akin to that at all. A laptop has one screen. You may like having 2 extra monitors but to call it a basic feature is clearly wrong.

It’s a basic feature to you. To Apple, for whatever reason, it’s a premium feature.

You’d probably be better off with a different laptop if you’re looking for a budget option that meets your needs.
> And, a new media engine now includes support for AV1 decode, providing more efficient and high-quality video experiences from streaming services.

It's taken years but AV1 has ended up everywhere.
It's disappointing, but not surprising. This is the same console which pioneered charging to play games online, while providing no value, simply because they can get away with it. Locking you into their more expensive controllers is totally on brand for them.
Hyperbole like this is necessary for people to justify the extreme negative emotions they feel about a computer they’ll never buy having specifications that they disapprove of.
Is it? Its pretty evil to overcharge and prey on a customer base who doesn't know any better, but would benefit from a more usable starting point, oh say 16...

Tims a finance guy, they are kinda evil by default.
If my worthless genomic data contributes to a drug that one day helps even one other person, I'm fine with this.

Would I prefer all this data be free and open? Sure. Failing that, would I want to hold onto it? No. I'd still rather some mega evil pharma have it and be able to develop some overpriced medication that may one day be genericized. It's not doing me or anyone any good just sitting in my body.

Hell, I'll spit for anyone wanting to do research, for profit or not.

I think there are very few true "good guys" in the world. But if mega evil pharma corp has even a 1% chance of accidentally doing some tiny good as a byproduct of their evil... that's already more than would've happened if 23andme didn't share it with them. It's cool with me if they make some money in the process. My DNA isn't some creative work that I need royalties on. What nature giveth, I spiteth.
For training you want the best NVIDIA card you can afford. Doesn't make much sense to use a laptop for training IMHO. There is an argument that the M3 Max is the best non-datacenter chip for inference with the ability to scale to 128 GB of memory.
Bring in people with expertise, buy outside expertise where you can, focus on the product you actually want instead of the product that will appeal to every possible use case for every possible customer that the chip marketing team can imagine, don't sweat where you can put the margin line between chip and system integrator, because they are both you.

I suspect any $2,600,000,000,000 company could pull it off, if they moved first.
That’s just the default feed, there’s also one just for your friends
My favorite part was when Tim Apple teased the new M3 parmesan cheese grater.

https://i.postimg.cc/TYpx7SVf/Screen-Shot-2023-10-30-at-8-48...
I use a maxed-out M1 Max and have 0 complaints. There was never a task where I felt the memory or CPU performance was not enough
Twitter was losing $200 million/year in 2021 IIRC.

Taking a $13 Billion loan and therefore being charged $1.3 Billion/year in interest payments means its going down the Xitter faster than ever before. The amount of loan-payments Twitter had to make this year alone dwarfs the losses Twitter had over the past decade.
> Should $2000 be the bar for 2 external monitors

For Apple laptops the bar is whatever Apple decides it is.

> The 2020 Intel i3 MBA which was $999 could do two

Neat! Buy one of those.
These are the new 3nm chips from TSMC, right?
Usually "most X person in the world" implies "living". Otherwise, the phrase is usually "most X person ever" or "in history".

That said, I've never heard of this person, but I'm probably way out of touch with popular art. When I think of popular living artists, I think of Dale Chihuly, Takashi Murakami, and Banksy.
This is a fascinating story.

HN is (very deliberately) my only social media other than what my friends send me.

I am not saying anything you don't already know by saying that parasocial relationships are so evil because they get the time that formerly would have gone into your real human relationships but don't give you anywhere near the payoff.

In many ways the genie is out of the bottle/Pandora's box is open but the attention economy might just be the most insidious technology ever invented.

How empty are these people attacking the author?
I was just reading something related to that (can't remember the text) but the gist was that improvement in hardware do not follows software as they try to limit the control that the user has over that hardware.

My own impressions after 4 years with apple devices is that there is no expert mode on the Mac. It, and the iPhone and the iPad, are computing appliances, something you use to get work done. They either work for you, or they don't. The mac is more flexible than the others, but the whole ecosystem is trending towards making your workflows fitting the tools, not the tools fitting to the workflow.
Even without the taxes it costs ~$200 more in the EU. Admittedly mandatory 2 year warranty might play a role
The thing you are looking for can be achieved by buying something on the DietPi hardware compatibility list. https://dietpi.com/ I personally have had good luck with NanoPi boards from that list.
That's interesting. Could it be a chrome extension? I was thinking of a chrome extension that would hide links on either hn or lobste.rs depending on where you see it second.