skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i mean, if the machine does the job you purchased it for, is it really outdated? Unless the job it is doing is to be the best and latest, as a status symbol...
They just updated their macbook air and mac studios and mac pros like 6 months ago? If they updated right now, the previous owners would feel utterly screwed over.
How did Apple become so successful making high-end CPU chips on their own so quickly?
myst with ray tracing is just upgraded crysis.

no one intends to play it.

that it can be played is the important part.
In other words, peer pressure.

But autistic people tend to be much less sensitive to that.
this effect seems to be especially true in airports. they seem to particularly inspire dumb herd behaviour. perhaps there's an increase in perceived danger leading to a stronger desire for safety in numbers?

another example: queueing to board the plane. other than to fit in, why on earth would I stand there and compete to spend more time in a sweaty uncomfortable seat packed with 400 other people? plus, if you get on last, you can take advantage of empty rows before anyone else
nah they just ported it to iPads, no way they are killing it
Seven minute audio+transcript interview with author

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-translation-of-the-i...

Homer's ILIAD. Book 1. Read in original Ancient Greek (Dr Stanley Lombardo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR7FGshwBWY

The countdown to the first full reading of the new Emily Wilson English translation correctly read with rhythm and meter using the bootleg voice of Morgan Freeman ... begins <now>.
FAANG simply reflects what those companies are actually called. Most people don't say "Meta", they say "Facebook". And Google is still Google, they never changed names (they invented a parent company but still kept the name).
What's with the 36 GB option? The other memory configs (16 GB, 64 GB) are still clean powers of two. Size suggests that they're using ECC-capable memory but using the extra width intended to support ECC for data... but why would this only apply to a single size? Part availability?

EDIT: Digging this a bit, it's not (one or more) 72-bit wide busses with 2^32 words as I'd expect as a gray-beard, it's (probably) six 32-bit wide busses with 6 GiB per bus; and this use of 1.5 * 2^N deep memories has become relatively common with the use of IC stacking, with 12 power-of-two sized ICs stacked in a single package (instead of the more "comfortable" 8 high or 16 high stacks of the same ICs giving powers of two).
Max is the one with the 128GB limit. We'll see what the limit is for the M3 Ultra, possibly 256GB.
The problem isn’t that they didn’t fix it.

It’s that they knew about it and didn’t disclose it.

When a company IPOs the SEC requires it to file a document that contains all known risks to the business and all possible factors that could negatively impact the company’s value over time. It sounds like they failed to include this specific known incident in their filings with the government.
Carson Gross

https://www.backendbanter.fm/episodes/024-behind-htmx-carson...
Let us know the book, please.
Don't forget the MagSafe(TM) port, Force Touch(TM) trackpad, and Magic Keyboard(TM) with Touch ID(TM).

(though tbh this is not a new thing from Apple, they did this even back when Jobs was around...)
I’d say you’re right and the differences are marginal for most photography but the real differences come out with things like night photos or portrait mode. Daylight pics are mostly all the same honestly.
Also, you lost Snowflake half a million dollars.
MacBook Pro product page/tech specs is up: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/

Prices for the old Pro/Max compariable SKUs seem changed: Pro SKU is $100 lower, Max SKU is $100 higher?

Notably, starting at 18GB RAM for M3 Pro, 36GB RAM for M3 Max (+4GB bump for each)

Pro/Max GPUs have lower memory bandwidth?

Up to 12 hours battery life using wireless web on M3 Pro and Max 14 inch, 15 hours on 16 inch.
Apple’s been doing this for a while. Hardly a first.

Charitably, its more realistic. Not many people upgrading from M2 to M3.
My point of view as well! Several months ago I purchased the M2 MBA I'm currently using, and which I plan to use for the next 3-5 years. By the time I'm ready for a new machine, its excited to think about how far not only performance but efficiency will have increased by then. Perhaps we'll have reached a point where battery life will be measured in days instead of hours.
It’s definitely not true. Elon way overpaid for Twitter and even tried to back out. Twitter was also in poor financial shape and it was losing money. Frankly after this many years I couldn’t see it as a growth stock.
Open source Braille cell: 99% cost reduction
"unveil" !== "give you datasheets and provide components"

e.g. https://www.space.com/spacex-drone-ship-a-shortfall-of-gravi...
Grug Inc. -- Fantastic! I really enjoyed reading this and feel like im guilty of unleashing the complexity spirit demon, even though im not even a big brain. Out of curiosity, are there any programming languages that naturally steer people away from complexity? but still "get the job done".
> doesn't align with modern capitalism

This smells like "socialism works fine it just that all the failed attempts were doing it wrong".
This rhymes with the tend in the US pre 2020 of fancy live/work, urban lofts that look like industrial spaces with exposed brick, masonry, metals, etc.

Cottagecore was a sort of backlash to that movement - especially during a time where we needed to stay physically distance from one another and had to make solitude look more attractive a la provincial life.
The lies are working:

There is a new executive order creating reporting requirements for doing too much math.

https://twitter.com/DavidVorick/status/1719097248699879831
They keep getting heavier. Not even sure I can reliably handle the 16" MBP with one hand.
OK they got me, time to upgrade off my i9 MacBook Pro.
>Well it wasn't always a case for the Asian community either yet somehow the Asian community thrives today.

That's because the Asian community has had the (stabler, more beneficial) conditions I've speak about for 3-4 decades at least -- it's not the time of the railroads of the WWII camps. Meanwhile, blacks and latinos still face those issues to this day.

Even so, even those Asians from poor backgrounds who do make it, have to work at it far harder than a middle class/rich kid. Equality is not just about a class of people (e.g. poor immigrants) getting the same outcomes. It's also not having to work harder and under more adverse conditions to get them.

(The injustice is the same to how to women had to be much better and work harder to "prove themselves" in order to get them same career outcomes as men).
His documentation has gotten better too! I actually just rebuilt my entire config based on his updated "standard" version. I want to use his "non-starter" config too, bc it seems remarkably powerful, but ... I need more time and brain to do that.

And, just to be clear, I rebuilt my entire config in less than an hour, copying and pasting where necessary, then it took about 20 minutes (!!) to download and setup all my software. Only one error, so I consider that a significant My NixOS Journey accomplishment! Granted, because it's NixOS, I have NO IDEA AT ALL what the error was, lol.
It's not a 40 series rival without CUDA. Probably great at inference though.
No, you don't have to agree with it. But don't expect people to be all sympathetic when you're trying to downplay a guilty verdict for your favorite company and saying "we don't know, how could we know, if that's actually accurate". It just sounds overly defensive.
If a company were to raise prices like that for no reason, their competitors would just undercut them and steal all of their sales. But with UAW sticking its fingers in, now they'll all raise prices at once, like collusion except without it being possible to defect.
The issue I’ve had with the BBB is that they always seemed to be a premium cost item. Why am I paying more for something that gives me less compute than a most of the RPi boards. I have one and when I got it it cost me something over $150 AUD, I don’t remember the price exactly but I remember how ripped off I felt, at the time the premium RPi 3 was under $100 AUD

I’d the BBB cost me ~$50 AUD I’d be much more keen on them… for all the well outlined reasons. It it just seems to always cost more than I’m prepared to pay for that hardware.
Say someone takes your written work (say your online comments, any articles, blogs etc) and claims it as their own. You still have a copy of your work but now your audience the authorship is in doubt. Would you be against this happening to you? What are your thoughts about plagiarism? How is this different from "copyright"?
Re: EDIT

Another interpretation is that the plaintiffs were well aware of how weak their case was with regards to the outputs and basically planned on abandoning it from the start.

There's been more than a bit of showmanship from the plaintiff's counsel so I'm not surprised that the actual legal tactics differ from the rhetoric of the blog posts. It's also common to stack the complaint so that when the judge does start focusing on the key issues that maybe a little more ends up at trial than otherwise.

There's winning in the court of public opinion and then there's winning in a Federal court.
> There is no doubt about that. But it has also brought us into a mass extinction (that's happening right now), it brought climate change (it will add to the biodiversity issue), and it relies very heavily on fossil fuels which are not unlimited.

There have been 5 mass extinctions in known history. Probably more. Pre-anthropocene. The universe has no morality, there is no "natural order". Whether or not a mass extinction is happening right now is irrelevant in the universal scope of things: it would happen eventually anyway.

Maybe Yellowstone finally goes in a thousand years - geologically that would be "right now" as far as a future historian is concerned.

A mass extinction is terrible solely because of the impact it may have on humans, on human life. That's it.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/mass-extinctions
Does this mean the end of custom accessibility controllers?
Colorado legislators and legislators from other states were drafting legislation to give communities right of first refusal to buy the property from the owner (i.e. a loan secured against the land, financed by residents), not sure where that went. It was focused on mobile home communities, I believe
Kinda the point of the two articles.
Yup I bought an m2 mbp about 3 weeks ago.
Right? I’ve just setup my office and for now I’m using my MBP hooked up to a couple of Studio Displays - which I adore for software development. I was planning on picking up a Mac Mini or Mac Studio so that I could still have the MBP spare.

Maybe not. It’s a bit of a pain having to unplug and replug everything in, not to mention having windows and such shuffle around each time.
I can't find any details on Dynamic caching. Anyone else?

I'd be interested in instrumentation on the memory allocation.
Hey don't be stingy yourself, Tim's people said "it's the perfect MacBook for students and aspiring musicians.."!

Seriously, you can't make up this stuff..
I was close to getting the air for $900 from Costco but stopped in my tracks from the low storage and upgrading just the storage is +$500. A frankly insane mark up for 256 GB of storage.
is this why m2 mackbook pro has such terrible pixel response times? swiping work spaces becomes a blurry mess, not seen displays this bad since we moved from CRT to LCD
> Is it the news that Google still accepted bulk volumes of unauthenticated mails in 2023

Apparently so. I just read through this earlier today, and it's kinda insane how broken email is. Kinda remains me of the "You go to jail" meme, believe it or not, straight to inbox.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628337
If you watched the video then you'd have seen most of the slides also featuring M2 comparisons. Though, not very impressive changes. Not enough for me to upgrade at least.
Here in EU, the price I get in the local Apple Store is 2029€ = $2153.
Did you miss the opening video?
According to wikipedia SolarWinds suffered one of the largest cyberattacks against a company in history - one that also directly affected thousands of consumer devices (not just a company backend). This might be a unique consequence of a unique situation. But who knows.

> In February 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that it was "the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_federal_gov...
Truck sales have been in freefall for a while too. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/trucks-tanking-americas-appetit...

In general, consumers have been extraordinarily willing to spend more than they would otherwise. Consumers were especially forgiving during the early days of the pandemic. People were highly stressed and desperate for familiar comforts. They were even willing to go into debt to get them. Companies weren't blamed for supply chain issues that caused higher prices.

More recently "inflation" has been the excuse companies use to drive up prices while deflecting blame, but with so many companies making record profits and consumers getting squeezed from all directions I think people are starting to rightly feel like they're being screwed over. I don't expect consumer's acceptance of higher prices to last.
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. Looks like the it will be the same story here given the performance numbers Apple gave. A16 also came with a power consumption increase so the 3nm process from TSMC is disappointing as well.
It’s kind of strange their benchmark for “Machine Learning Programmers” is “Simulation of Dynamical Systems in MATLAB.” Seems like they could have capitalized better by using a generative ai inference benchmark.
Jeff Bezos' Dad is an example of a refugee to billionaire story. He came to the USA as a refugee and eventually became a billionaire by investing 245k in what would become Amazon.
Can we use more than one external display yet?
Change the tax structure to encourage businesses to pay a dividend and this will correct itself.
from Emily Wilson's note to her new translation of The Iliad

https://amzn.com/dp/B0CJGMWVBM
But why even care? You can grow cotton. It's the ultimate bio-degradeable material.

The problem I have with "overconsumption" and consumerism people is they never actually seem to have any idea what the problem really is.
I'm open to that education, what do you recommend I read?
successive keys on adjacent rows of your qwERTy keyboard
Apple showcased their continued silicon innovation with the new M3 chips. Here's what's new:

Performance Leaps:

* CPU Up to 15% faster than M2
* GPU Up to 30% faster than M2
* Neural Engine 60% faster than M1

New Capabilities:

* Hardware ray tracing support
* Up to 128GB unified memory (M3 Max)

Efficiency:

* Built on 3nm process
* MacBook Pro up to 22 hr battery life

Value:

* 14" MacBook Pro starts at $1599
* 24" iMac starts at $1299
Right now LLMs are trained on publicly available information, so if that knowledge is guarded, and if an LLM can provide it, then it's not guarded very well.
It's probably due to a combination of the processor manufacture rate and the quarterly sales boost they get throughout the year
Calling it evil is a bit of a stretch.
IMO, if I'm doing that heavy of a workload, I'd rather SSH to a server instead of trying to do it on hardware optimized to work on a battery.
Requiring 2FA for local logins is stupid, since having the device itself is already a second factor.
These events have not been live-streamed in like three years.
I don't think the datasheets are available but you can buy them at https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac
If it doesn't include an overpriced dongle accessory, is it really an Apple product?

Actually it would, my decade old MBP 13 has 3(!) ports for video out.
> There is simply no easy way for your users to legally invite their own friends to your site, so it can never reach critical mass.

Referring friends and family by sending emails on your own? Who the fuck does that since ~2010? Ever heard of social media and instant messengers?

Edit: Parent was a wall of text when I responded. Stealth editing it to something completely different is not cool.
Sometimes grammar can give away a non-native speaker, particularly: “Show me how it looks like.” The use of how here is hard to explain, but it’s wrong. It should be “what it looks like”. This is an instant giveaway usually.

But even native English speakers have weird ways of saying things. One grammatical error I hear a lot in people from the Appalachia region is the “needs done” construction. Always sounds bizarre. ie. “This work needs done by tomorrow.” Also the positive “anymore” construction. ie. “You see that a lot anymore” (“these days”).
The answer is c) sell that energy and use your resulting funds to deeply root yourself in all other systems and prevent or destroy alternative forms of energy production, thus achieving total market dominance

This non-hypothetical got us global warming already
More help with math and science problems in Search
It was mentioned in the show, in a good light, much as you describe.
Solving interfaces for math, physics and science problems
> He is, by some measures, the most famous artist in the world

compared with say picasso or michelangelo or van gogh? jesus, the generation of ignoramuses that we are producing.
First thing I noticed since I'm sitting here in Mountain View looking at a nice sunset just above the horizon (or specifically, the Santa Cruz mountains), so nope, not close to dark yet. Maybe another hour.
People like us do tend to have a deep sense of fairness and caring yes. I see it too.

I don't read other people's feelings so well. But I still care a hell of a lot how I make them feel. At least the ones I care about which is the default for people I meet. Though once someone is a dick to me they can die in a fire and I wouldn't help them, there is that side too which is not as pretty.

However most people respond with kindness to kindness so I end up caring about most people as a result.

The lack of reading them drives my behaviour a lot because I start pre-empting how my actions could make people feel. And usually going from the worst outcome option so I tend to be a bit withdrawn, going for the safest option.

So my social withdrawal tends to stem from caring. It's weird.

Ps another thing I notice is that autistic people generally tend to be really open-minded and non-discriminating. Because not really feeling part of a group also means not really feeling the need to set your group apart from other groups. We're all just individuals on a journey through life. It doesn't matter what colour, sexual orientation, etc people have, they're just other people <3

Sometimes I wonder if this is why silicon valley is driving diversity so much.
The social media part exacerbates the issue because the intellectual has direct access to their listeners. In the past, if you wrote an influential book, indeed your fans might go back and comb through your back catalogue. And the basic idea of you needing to write your next great book on the next hot topic to maintain your fame is there. But social media cuts out the book writing cycle, instead you can spend five minutes on a tweet, a few days on a YouTube video, etc. The loop is much tighter, and the effect is accelerated.
What is "quickly" for you?

They don't "make" them, they design it.
> AIUI it's an absence or deficiency of theory of mind

I'm not sure what that means.

> It's something you haven't - it's a lack, like deafness.

Erm, no. At least not necessarily. If you can't accept that, you're part of the problem.

> was truly horrified when I started to understand the extent of how it affected him, and negatively, in his working relationships with us

Guess what, relationships are 2-way. Your behaviour as a neurotypical was just as debilitating in your working relationship with him as the other way around.

From that POV, being neurotypical is a terrible debilitation.
For what it's worth, this was sugardaddy4me.com, nearly 20 years ago. Facebook was embryonic. Twitter? What's a twitter?

Who wants to go around accusing websites like that of "Hey, I signed up, but all the girls seemed fake"? Some, maybe, but very much the minority.
> Although there is a lot of capital investment in a job.

No there isn't. You haven't put up any capital when you join a job, and you aren't (generally) required to invest any as you go along. Your time is not capital.
The author posted a review of you shortly after your review or fifteen years later? Both are bizarre and messed up, I'm not even sure which one would be worse.
Strange that they mostly compare performance to M1, not M2. Probably means it's not as much faster than M2 as they would like.
Kg would be interesting to know if the paper he gave the waiter has the full sentense or only the name of the "fruit".
The problem with climate change is that no one understands the staggering scale of what has to happen to address it.

> Literally nobody is suggesting we do that.

Okay, well what are we suggesting? Do we want to stay within the 1.5C warming target?

* If we banned all global commercial aviation tomorrow (~750Mt), we would save 4.5 Gt over 6 years, delaying our lock-in date by about 5 weeks.

* If we banned all global passenger vehicles tomorrow (~5Gt), about 30Gt over 6 years, we delay the date by ~9 months.

I'm sorry, but if no one is suggesting we do these things, why is so much ink spilled over the 1.5C warming carbon budget?

If you don't want to breach it, we _have_ to do these things, there is no other choice. You can't just tweak US CAFE standards a little bit. Even if you immediately ban every single car and truck on the road on the entire planet, you're nowhere even remotely close to where you need to be to prevent 1.5C warming.

If you ban all cars globally, all trucks, all global commercial aviation, if you immaculately create 50 billion carbon-free solar panels to provide free and green solar renewable energy for every single residential household on the planet, you've still only delayed things by a couple years.

Fertilizer is about 2.6Gt annually, 15.6Gt over six years. Are we going to keep that?

What are you suggesting we should do?

And this is exactly what the point of my comment is all about. Things like the linked article in this story are designed to allow people to moralize about climate change without affirmatively supporting a particular policy choice. It's just a club to beat people over the head with, without actually describing what the solution is.

It gives people the idea that we _could_ meet these targets if we wanted to, maybe with some minor changes, some cost that someone else could absorb.

But we can't. The only way we could meet the 1.5C warming target is with massive, drastic changes to the lives of all of us, changes so large that our lives would be unrecognizable, and indeed, enormous numbers would die.
How? You use fewer materials, simpler installation, it goes up faster. Specialized contractors?
The new M3 base model, along with only supporting one external display also loses a Thunderbolt port. A new shell / chassis just to remove a port. Courage!
It boggles my mind that this is getting so much attention instead of things like digital privacy / data tracking which is actually affecting peoples lives.
Yeah, I still have an M1 Mini and it does everything I ask of it pretty handily. The most intense work being rendering edited photos out of Lightroom while watching videos and web browsing around the same time.
"danger abstraction too high, big brain type system code become astral projection of platonic generic turing model of computation into code base"