skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The truth is, most small businesses cannot figure out how to add DNS records to their domain. So they will no longer be able to inbox.

And the more complicated and difficult Gmail makes it for companies to access your inbox via open tech like email, the more likely it is you'll be forced to pay for Gmail Ads.

The bonus is Google gets to couch this as being "for the users." Gmail already has fantastic spam filtering and it's highly likely they use all this stuff as spam signals already. I would be very very careful of any claims from a giant advertising monopoly that this is "for the good of all."
It looks like the N64 controller has a Home button [1], as does the Genesis [2] controller. Which makes it even more curiouser that the NES and SNES controllers don't. :(

Personally, I count the NES controllers as Joy-Cons, since they slot into the side of the system, as other Joy-Cons do. They don't fit in my Joy-Con charging dock or the Joy-Con grip that came with the system, though.

[1] https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...

[2] https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...
MacBook Pro M3
Does this work with alternate JVM languages like Scala?
I think it only exists to launder some government contract money. It provides no other discernable service.
We used a really simple prompt: "Represent the document for retrieval: <doc>". We did not get around to experimenting with it or changing it based on the document type; that's a great idea for future extension!
The first in tech - skipping a generation in performance comparisons! M3 being always compared to M1, not M2!
Sidenote, but when I learned of the new AOSP emulator, for some reason I thought that to use the Cuttlefish emulator (as opposed to Goldfish) with AOSP, you needed to run `acloud`, which refused to run unless I was on Ubuntu. I tried the LD_PRELOAD hack where you can replace the `uname` function output, but then it started trying to run dpkg (I use NixOS).

The old emulator is a real pain to get working, and the new one comes with many benefits.

Somehow I never knew you could just run `launch_cvd` manually.
Yeah. For the record I'm not against unions. It's just as a worker it's always been way too exploitive / exclusionary to be practical. I don't doubt it's great if you're a chosen apprentice due to connections with the union boss or whatever, or one of the guys that can use their card to shut out more vulnerable workers from the job.
This notion that the creators and artists are raking up the wealth generated by people consuming their creations is obviously wrong. Intellectual property in general, but especially copyright, has been a colossal failure -- rent-seeking middlemen have emerged to swallow up the financial dividends of the creative. The idea that someone can sell access to your work without you being rewarded is ALREADY how things work. Copyright as it stands is just a way to give rent-seeking middlemen a moat, not a protection for creatives.
Overengineering is part ego, sure, part new technologies and boredom, sure.

The biggest factor I've found in overengineering is the lack of a long term roadmap. If you need to build a feature X, and you engineer the bare minimum and need to put in the same amount of hours to do X+1, your management is going to be upset that you're taking too long to ship. You already had it 80% (in terms of feature complete) of the way there, why is that extra 20% as hard as the first 80%? So the engineers build up scar tissue. If you have to handle a ton of cases that you don't understand, why not build a CaseHandlerFactory so you can add the next feature faster?

A clear roadmap of "this is what we want in 1 year" will help solve over engineering. Otherwise engineers are incentivized to make their code as configurable, modifiable, and extendable, as possible, regardless of cost or business need. Not to mention all the additional time trying to figure out "canonical" data models that will "future-proof" the applications interfaces. If you have to iterate quickly (which is not as common as agile folks wish), you need to build up a raport with leadership to help them understand that speed comes with trade offs: faster might mean 'more work to change later', while slower to market today might mean faster iteration down the line. These discussions ARE valuable for leadership, as sometimes they need a quick win because of a Q3 earnings hole or contract, and sometimes they are willing to make longer term investments.

You move too quickly, they call your solutions hacky, you move too slowly, they call it overengineered. Everyone needs to be on the same page of what the change is trying to do: win short term, win long term, or somewhere in the middle.
Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't recall
US, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, then China. Toyota, Foxconn, Samsung, Huawei are grown with it.
They had comparisons to both.
It’s not just a color option because they reserve it for the most expensive 16” versions. Which is what I was referring to.
I believe the whole event contained 0 actual camera footage. Everyone on screen, down to Tim Cook, was an animated prop.
Freedom hardware?
And Intel CPUs
Its just so strange to me that they can release some of the most powerful and efficient hardware we have ever seen, and show it off by telling us we can now (checks notes…) check off tasks in a widget on our desktop.
I noticed that... Kind of weird. But guessing for marketing copy, "60% faster!" is an easier sell than 18% or whatnot.
I think maybe a reverse interpretation might be more charitable - like it's too bad that there are many people who don't have access to that investment and opportunity due to their birth.

Although my take is I disagree with both points - yes maybe connections and status may allow some people to be successful, and extreme poverty can hinder success. But on average I don't know how much that matters. I think someone like geohot could be successful without any network or without anyone's help. He has an attitude that's geared for curiousity and making a contribution
Where is the DirectX 12 conversion?
Why is a study of 67 people not serious? If their sampling is solid it should be more than enough.
And just like in politics the strategy is to redefine that which you want to achieve - in this case total control of a technology - as something else that’s bad so that people will be distracted from what you actually want which is exactly that which you describe as something else.

Politicians that point fingers at other politicians being corrupt or incompetent while they themselves are exactly that use the same strategy.

Power and manipulation. Nothing new under the sun. What’s new though is that we can see in plain sight how corporations control politics. Like literarily this can be documented with git commit history accuracy: thousands upon thousands of people repeating the exact same phrases defending openai and the “revolutionary” product, fear mongering, political lobby, manufactured threats and of course a cure that only they can provide and so on. I would not let people that use such tactics near an email account let alone ai policy making.
You mean a Mac :P
I get why they are calling out vs M1/Intel as this is primarily targeted at getting folks to upgrade but it is kind of annoying that they aren't emphasizing the incremental vs the last generation. Also, the callout to AI developers to get an ok GPU but with 128 GB of unified RAM is pretty smart.
Yea I don't see PEs buying a doctor's office.

I have seen "mergers". A doctor will join up with another doctor and then disappear in a year or two. That let's them legally sell the practice while weening patients over.

I have had a CPA start that process recently too. Suddenly announced he's joined up with this new CPA firm
. Not to worry, he'll still be here to take care of our corporate needs and has transferred everything over
(he's late 60s and snowbirding already)

A PE may buy up a already larger medical practice chain or something, but never individual practices.

The machine shop example is rough, he could do a merger retirement as well, but he needs to have consistent clients that he can bring over to another shop before slowly phasing himself out. Which may not have been scenario unfortunately.
M3 is absolutely impressive, but the event overall was... short? Uneventful? Underwhelming?
Gough is pronounced like cough. Not that surprising, just a very old way of spelling
The superior tone of the writing is wild to me, because it isn't exactly a story where I think the author looks great. Certainly others look worse in the story, but still, finding an issue and apparently barely trying to convince others it's an issue is not impressive.

It really sounds like they stayed in their lane and did their assigned job, just like every other person on their team.
Less space than a Nomad?
I literally did this while walking in the woods the other day. A man asked me how I was and his dog was off the leash, and so I told him I would be better if he followed the etiquette of the trail and kept his dog on a leash.

He didn’t seem to like that.

However I saw him on the trail with the same dog a few days later on the leash

So I’m not sure why this is a problem other than if people are worried that people won’t like them.
meh, they need to do something with the industrial design or OS. Feels like they made a big bang with M1 and then kind of stagnated.
Ask HN: What do people think of the idea of HN not showing already viewed links?
Specifically, if you are a logged in user, and have already visited or commented on a post, if someone later posts that same link again, HN doesn’t show it in your list of recent upvoted posts?
> Basecalling for DNA sequencing in Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW is up to 20x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Pro and up to 36 percent faster than the 16‑inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro.

What does the average consumer know about basecalling?

I mean, they are still selling just consumer electronics. Scientists and industry use Linux and Windows, and speed isn't the main reason.
The Intel is a surprise.

Others are natural evolution as the original cpu is a seemingly deadend, even though powerPC did move on and still some embedded 68k. But the salesmanship of steve can bring you that long n that platform is a miracle. Having the struggle later with wintel is hard as intel is really improved a lot.

Still a surprise as even steve said we have a secret project keeping next sorry osx I meant on intel as an option.

Love his presentation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcHQXMAd0c0

Btw he said the osx transition will last us next 20 years. Just dong it and by 2025 intel no more!

Wonder what is the next transition.
You have the right to protect it with means that are not government force. Force is only justified in response to force, and you don’t get to ransom anyone that “steals” your thoughts and pixels. Do you believe copying is force? That’s a yes or no question, and if I don’t get a yes or no answer then I’ll answer for you.
As expected, this aged perfectly well for the M3 3 year prediction [0] and the competition is already left in the dust before they tried catching up towards the M1.

Now that Apple Silicon has stabilized for software support, it looks like a great upgrade from those stuck on Intel laptops since 2020 or below.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549796
What's the mechanism here? In other words, exactly how do people die from air pollution?

My first thought would be lung cancer, but the WHO says:

> Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer, responsible for approximately 85% of all cases.

> lung cancer [caused] an estimated 1.8 million deaths (18%) in 2020

So the 15% of lung cancer deaths that weren't caused by smoking would only account for 300k deaths.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lung-cancer
The event ended saying the entire event was shot on iPhone and edited on a Mac.
Not just Intel CPUs -- old Intel CPUs in old discontinued MacBooks.
Sounds like every pit bull owner up until their totally harmless lovely well trained wouldn't harm a fly pit bull snaps and attacks someone or another dog.

The leash in public areas is to be able to control your dog. If you want your dog off of the leash go to private property or a dog park where a gated leashless area exists for those willing to assume the risk.

I've seen military trained dogs with training worth tens of thousands of dollars disobey orders. I simply do not care how well trained people think their dogs are.
back in the day some of the real stars did have epilepsy. the sacred disease
character limit :P
"Liquid Retina XDR display" I'm thinking ol' Steve wouldn't have liked this branding direction.
Yes the very first Mac OS feature mentioned was “now you can quickly see the weather.”
> Additionally, support for up to 128GB of memory unlocks workflows previously not possible on a laptop, such as AI developers working with even larger transformer models with billions of parameters.

The presentation explicitly highlighted this very randomly, without showing how AI development actually works.

I know Apple has put more effort into Apple Silicon support for PyTorch but is it there yet?
I figure it's part marketing and also part targeting the individuals most likely to upgrade. With an M2 I'm far less likely to pull the trigger.
Apple is trying to get people to upgrade from the M1 family, not people who have recently bought a laptop with an M2 chip.
And many people like to use update DEB packages, instead of flatpak.
I think they are targeting us M1 Pro upgraders. M2 Pro/Max wasn't necessary, then AI hit, and now they had a perfect message for a perfect customer
I have an M1 Macbook Air, I've never felt like it's not fast enough for the things I do on this computer, light programming tasks, media consumption, web browsing.

Though, apparently, you might play some games in the M3 macbook pro which is something I can't do on mine. That might be interesting enough. And battery life might be better too.
They only compare it to the M1, does anyone know how the M3 would compare to the M2?
> "Oh, we're slowly building up a custom, buggy, binary framing protocol. Lets just use protobuf/msgpack"

By using protobuf/msgpack you lose the ability to precisely control the layout and encoding of your data on the wire. Most applications don't care, but this results in your wire representation being defined by "whatever protobuf says".

Say I want to transmit an unsigned 16 bit integer with protobuf. How do I do that? The documentation doesn't include 16 bit integers as a datatype, so I'd probably have to wrap it in 32 bits and/or use some varint stuff. It would be simpler to just write a big endian 16 bit int though.

I wish there was a simpler alternative to protobuf that gives more control to end users and doesn't try to be smart. Until then, making your own binary protocol is not over-engineering.
They also say "Because of the relatively small sample size, we did not make corrections for multiple comparisons.".

I don't think that means this should be dismissed entirely because you accomplish what you can with the data available to you. It's extremely hard to conduct studies of specialized populations and if we waited for the perfect conditions nothing would get done. We should just be careful not to make any strong opinions based on this study alone.
A Mac can also be called a personal computer if i'm not mistaken
I heard mini-LED might be announced this time, but I guess not?
Don’t forget it can also play Myst.
They compared to both in all the charts I saw. I expect most people with any interest in upgrading are on M1 or lower, so it makes sense from that POV.
I was sitting here thinking to myself, "There's no way its that dark in Cupertino right now??"

I guess they never said it was a live-streamed presentation..
and watch Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
Going to be looking for outside validation of that Max GPU performance before making a buy decision, I think. Biggest hopes for this generation were dramatically better GPU performance--and Apple says they've got it--but we'll have to see how that actually pans out.

I was also hoping for a fourth USB4/TB4 port, which doesn't seem to be coming. Oh well.
Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience"
From a marketing/product positioning perspective, I liked that Apple was focusing on performance per watt as their main selling metric. Yes it's fast and you can likely advertise on that alone, but the per-watt performance is just leagues ahead of everyone else, especially with them being the first to release with TSMC's 3nm fab.

The 22hr advertised battery life is definitely a side effect of this. I'm super curious how long it ends up lasting in real-world tests.
And it still only does 1 external monitor on base M3...

A $1600 laptop that can only use a single monitor. Wild.
It went as expected given the weird event timing + no in-person showoff.

Oddly no gaming demos which people expected.
They really shouldn't mention the weather until they fix that app. That app is so inexplicably bad, it feels like an intern's summer project.
After several minutes of scientific computing, 3D rendering, game development, movie production, and Xcode, among others.
Whatever opinions I have against Apple I just cannot deny their ability to not only innovate but also deliver every year. I wonder just how far into the future they're working on stuff internally at the company. Well done to this company.
Ironically a parallel comment laments they showed off checking the weather. Can’t win if you’re apple!
Agreed, though they at least put M2 comps on screen in most of the places they did the M1 comps.
"Beware of doing good things at work"

You do have the option of becoming self employed. If you do, then you might discover a very different perspective. I've been doing it for 23 years now, with two partners and around 20 odd employees. IT company, you wont have heard of us but you will know some of our customers.

I'm still sort of working now (its ~0030 here) keeping an ear to the ground - HN, r/sysadmin (int al), The Register and a few others are some of my canaries. I listen to their songs. I also have a BirdNetPi doing the same for actual birds too.

If my company cocks up it will probably be fatal. I/we don't get the luxury of blaming someone else and I certainly don't get to mumble some sort of bollocks about "Your x is very important to us, soz we failed, lol and that - here have some free credit rating checker thingie".

Why not try running a small company and living on your own wits with no mother to land on - you are mother!
This is either to make the performance improvement bigger or to target user with m1 because they know most of their users are still using m1? (Me included with M1 pro and M1 max)

The perf difference though is still impressive compared to m2. It is bigger than the m2 > m1 upgrade
On the contrary, I only care about receiving email from bulk senders. I pretty much exclusively use email to read newsletters and handle communication with companies/accounts.

Any 1:1 communication with real people pretty much exclusively happens elsewhere for me.
Prerecorded presentations are prerecorded.
Cool, the M2 should go on sale soon then!
The comment you quoted is talking about the non-monolithic situations where static analysis tools cannot help you, e.g. when the callers are external and difficult to trace.
AI might lead to more paywalled sites which would suck.
Base system is still a rubbish 8/256. It's almost 2024.
Does this "dynamic caching" technique go by another name, as a generic concept? I'm having trouble finding information about it and why they are saying it hasn't been done before.
> YubiKeys can store a maximum of 25 passkeys. We are evaluating increasing this in the future because of the likely increase in fully passwordless experiences across the web that require them.
> the "dot product" and "cross product" are not necessarily as "natural" as you may have been lead to believe

The cross product, sure: its problem is that it dualizes unnecessarily, making you deal with a normal vector when you almost always just want the plane.

But what did the dot product ever do to you?
"We want to get the benefit of open source's good name without actually being open source!"
> "Don't worry if our adversary develops nuclear weapons and we won't - it's OK we'll just use theirs"

Beneath this comment is hidden a truth that there is AI which can be used beneficially, AI which can be used detrimentally, AI which can be weaponized in warfare, and AI which can be used defensively in warfare. Discussions about policy and regulation should differentiate these, but also consider implications of how this technology is developed and for what purpose it could be employed.

We should definitely be developing AI to combat AI as it will most certainly be weaponized against us with greater frequency in the near future.
Does .net not have a way to run simple private repository like Nexus? Over in JVM-land that's a basic thing that you'd be doing anyway.
22 hour battery life.. Fuck me!
> Namely, the formula for the scalar product of 2 vectors is identical to the formula for the correlation between 2 series of data. There's no apparent connection between the "orthogonality" in one sense and "orthogonality" (as a lack of correlation) in another.

Of course there is. Covariance looks like an L2 norm (what you're calling the scalar product) because it is an L2 norm. They're the exact same object.
Right at the end at the beginning of the credits it said it was shot on an iPhone 15 Pro and edited on a Mac. I think it might have been an MBP M3 Max… flashed by so fast. It’s fascinating that it was shot entirely on a phone.
Tangential question, but if I buy a copy of Hamlet by someone claiming to have written it, are they not committing fraud?

(Regardless, a “solution” to the problem of copyright that destroys people’s ability to profitably write books or make movies seems silly to me)
> Have you seen the napkin project?

Will take a look, thanks!
I think I understand your point.
I want to thank you for the productive discussion!
That sounds like a startup opportunity.
The thin gradient text they used is out of step with most modern advertising, and even their own, I wonder what kind of advertising/design philosophy they're trying to push
Oh, you're right! Fixed it, thanks!
Kubernetes is great when all your infrastructure is built around it, LXD and now Incus are great for when you have existing infrastructure that needs to keep on working. As in, turning physical systems into containers or VMs, running a local private cloud on your lab hardware, ...

Then when you want to deploy stuff with Kubernetes, you run LXD or Incus on your bare metal, create a bunch of VMs on it and deploy your K8s cluster on that, just as you would in a public cloud, but instead on your own hardware.
Of course it helps. I just think it's overly reductive to reduce something extraordinary to a single investment. Many businesses receive much more investment and fail.
I wonder what fps is baldur gate’s 3 playing on m3, m3 pro and m3 max

A lot of users are reporting not consistent 30fps on m1 even after larian studio worked with apple eng to port BG3 to mac
And why should people trust you?

You could just be someone looking to blackmail companies with damaging insider info.
Interesting that the Myst remake is being used specifically as an example, with how the original was created on Macs using HyperCard.
And thats exactly the goal - make mom and dad scared so they can vote those that provide “protection” from manufactured fear. And resorting to this type of tactics to make your product viable just proves how weak your position is.

I think more people should speak out left and right about what’s going on to educate mom and dad.
People with those Macs and the M1 are the most likely to be considering an upgrade.