skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's shiny but I think I'll stick to my upgradable RAM and two m2 slots + a RTX 3070ti and i7-12700H for a fraction of the price.

Something at Apple broke when they switched to their own silicon outside iPad and iPhone. They turned around the slow march toward parity on price:performance/RAM/storage and went screaming in the other direction. I really wanted to switch to mac when I was shopping for a new system earlier this year, but the prices were and remain ridiculous.
I think you’re arguing in favor of my point.
Amen. Time to dismantle it. The environment will thank us too!
But isn’t that how retrospectives work?

The initial reason for imposing the measure isn’t the point.

The point is to understand whether the measure was effective.
I'm reminded of that one quote from a letter of some author [paraphrasing, and I've seen it (mis-)attributed to Mark Twain and too many people to look the real quote up] "Apologies for the length, I did not have time to write a shorter letter".

EDIT: I ironically wrote way too long here. Grug say better:

> note, this good engineering advice but bad career advice: "yes" is magic word for more shiney rock and put in charge of large tribe of developer

People can write perfect, simple, DRY code if they have the time to and are incentivized to. In most cases you're rewarded for launching the thing and showing one's "technical prowess" with the amount of work / intellect / design skillz™ required to launch the thing. The natural conclusion of this is that everything becomes a bloated, over-engineered mess of kludge solutions that gets rewritten every 3-7 years.

I haven't seen any data on this but I'd guess the "rewrite half life" is correlated with turnover / average tenure, so even if people tried harder to write not-over-engineered code, it'd probably get rewritten anyway. As a perfectionist, this truly bothers me, but I find sometimes thinking harder / spending more time on the best _simple_ solution is rewarded less than building the complicated overengineered thing. I'm sure better organizations exist but I have yet to find one in 9 years as a SWE...

Open Source projects are actually the best counter-example to this that I can think of, but even then the best libraries sometimes get rewrites or new versions when they've changed hands from one maintainer to another, and I'll note that financial incentives are very different between open source and the types of enterprise-y cruft most people working full time as SWEs on HN probably see. It's like comparing a well crafted academic paper to a lazily written work email.
I assume the question is why there are comparisons to M1 instead of only having M2 comparisons.
Intel and AMD do that now with processors.
As economy falters, more Chinese migrants take a perilous journey to the US
>hobby uses it shouldn't really matter unless you are the type of person who just can't get past "I'm getting ripped off $10".

I mean, for one or two devices, sure, whatever (as was my thought process when I bought them). But then I was like, "What if I add a pi zero to this, and this, and this!" and a $15 difference quickly becomes 'expensive.'
They first spent 10 years making their own mobile chips.
Ask HN: Can Kagi make sure Reddit pages load?
It also appears they've dropped the memory bandwidth from 200GB/s on the M1/M2 Pro to 150MB/s on the M3 Pro, and you have to upgrade to the tippy top M3 Max chip to get the full 400MB/s bandwidth experienced on the M1/M2 Max chips.
I feel bad for the children whose parents post about their medical conditions on social media, your comment reminds me of that travesty.
You don't even need to do that: the Xbox Adaptive Controller accepts generic 3.5mm button inputs. So you just need to make an adapter that plugs into that.
No, they are not doing this to stop cheaters. It might be a nice side effect. They are doing it because money.
Yeah, I thought that was a little poetic :)

Especially since (and this just occurred to me), in a roundabout way the original may have been the first Mac game to ever use raytracing (in its pre-rendering)
System76. I bought a laptop that had some serious issues with internals. They helped me troubleshoot it via email by tearing it down and putting it back together. I was so impressed that I bought a mini PC from them too.
Literally nobody in this conversation is arguing that they should be able to do what they want.
I tried Ask HN and its the same as not
I don't think we're comparing apples to apples here (excuse the pun). These chips have something like 10% of the instructions that a typical x86 chip does. Once the big CPU players start producing the same kind of chips, I greatly expect Apple's power to performance advantage to drop significantly, if not be overtaken by the likes of AMD, etc.
A4 was still using ARM cores from Samsung. A6 was the first SoC with Apple cores.
It does diminish their state of being "in the world", though.
That one, and Sketchup really confused me.
I don't know, it began with the words "FACT SHEET" and based on that I already started to doubt the integrity of it's contents.
Not just that, but if you're not running ARM images then it's running a VM for your docker images to boot. It's just mind-blowing how many containers I have running and my laptop is cool to the touch, and at full battery.
It's a matter of perspective of course. I think if you claim that this makes Apple evil then you would also need to argue that most of capitalism is evil. Aren't the vast majority corporations just trying to make more money? I would disagree with that.
At the wrong gig, with the wrong bosses. I have the misfortune of being at one of those bad places now. I was at a much better place before, where if I went out of my way and saved a couple million, I'd actually be congratulated; boss would even let have the credit.

Never stay at a job where the culture is toxic. Even if the money is better. Nothing eats at the soul like being held down by feckless, petty careerists and control freaks.
Everyone's blub paradoxed about simple.

Anything below your chosen level of simplicity has no features.

Anything above is too complex.

You are at the true simplicity optimum. Your manager is the one who doesn't get it. Terrible guy. Understands nothing. Unlike you, true artist, pure simplicity.
So quickly 10 years in the making.
My intuition is that, in addition to what you mentioned and at least for longer flights, some people have residual effects from the mild hypoxia at altitude when they're on the ground in their destination airport.

I, at least, sure as hell feel dumber for the rest of the day after a six hour flight. Usually that's accompanied by a fairly debilitating headache.
I'm an artist and I've never heard of him until now, but then again I am not into TikTok. Drawing people in public is pretty basic stuff for people who get a degree in art; it's not anything new or original. He is clearly very good at gaining an audience which is a good skill, and his portraits seem very skillful from what I can see. Realism is a very minor type of art since photography exists; outside of TikTok it's not a big market. But dealing with criticism is also a necessary skill which he seems to lack. One person is an artist; the other 8B people are critics.
I think he’s done a far better job than Steve Ballmer. When he took over Microsoft had completely missed the smartphone revolution, desktop sales were reducing and it did not in general look like a great outlook for the company. It seems like Satyas focus on Azure and more recently AI helped bouy Microsoft’s stock growth
the nature of popularity is part of the point being made by the author.

yes, banksy is the most easily recognized, commercially successful modern art commodity object producer.
In the 2000s, Apple ran a big campaign with the phrase "I'm a Mac - I'm a PC" to highlight the difference.
It looks like these models won't be as useful for LLM inference which are heavily memory bandwidth constrained. The Macbook Pro page shows M3 at 100GB/s,150GB/s, and 300GB/s vs M2 at 200GB/s and 400GB/s. 400GB/s is available for M3 if you opt for the high gpu config, but interesting to see it go down across all of these models.
I just want the chip, not the computer.
> I'm not gonna reply to you anymore.

It's for the best if all you have to contribute are personal attacks and nonsensical accusations.
It has nothing to do with ECC. They are using LPDDR5X memory, and if you follow Android phones these number shouldn't be surprising.
Mac Mini with the M2 Pro can drive 3 monitors, Macbook Pro with the M2 Pro only 2.
The article weasels out at the end by claiming that companies “may be unable to comply” with requirements to delete personal data. It’s easy to comply - if there’s no other choice then you delete the model and all backups and derivative data that was trained in flagrant violation of the law.
What a load of trash. What MSFT is saying is, "We want you all to only buy our controllers."

With most games having crossplay, what "console experience" even exists anymore? Making people buy expensive ass controllers so they can be worked by someone with a cheap mouse and keyboard is not the "console experience" people want.
I still know a number of my colleagues who haven't jumped onto the Apple Silicon machines despite our 2019 Intel machines being out of warranty (and thus eligible for replacement) for two years now
goodness, what did you do to the poor man to give him such obsessive focus?
Incredible essay. Very funny and very wise.
I tried that one in my last foray into online dating. It was how you describe: simple, no b.s. Only, it was pretty much dead and I quickly met up with the two active people on the site and abandoned it. (Slight exaggeration, I'm sure)
Alternatively: they followed the heuristic that would get them to the right place in any properly-designed airport. Unfortunately this particular airport seems to have been designed improperly.
> So if, for example, Llama3 does not pass the government's safety test, then Meta will be forbidden from releasing the model?

Yes.

This is exactly the goals of this EO is meant to do and amplifies the fear of extremely large models for the sake of so-called "AI safety" nonsense.

The best counter weight against AI being controlled by a select few companies is by making it accessible to all including open source or $0 AI models.

A 'safety score' for an cloud-based AI model is hardly transparent.
I don't see any way of stopping this. If the risks are as great as some claim, that is not a great situation.

So now we have an executive order with a very limited scope. Tomorrow, suddenly the world's most powerful AI is now announced, not in the United States.

Ok, so now we want to make sure that is safe. An executive order from the White House has no affect on it. This can continue, until it's decided the stakes are getting too high. Then I suppose you could have the United Nations start trying to figure out how to maintain safety. Of course, there will be countries that will simply ignore anything that is decided, hiding increasingly advanced systems with unknown purposes. It will probably take longer for nations to determine a what defines "human values" so that AI respects them then it does to create another leap in AI capabilities.

Then there would simply be more concerns coming into play. Countries will go to war to try to stop other countries nuclear ambitions, is it possible that AI poses enough of a threat that similar problems arise?

Basically, if AI is as potentially large a threat as we are envisioning, there are so many different potential threats that trying to solve them while trying to stay ahead of pace of advancements seems unrealistic. While someone is trying to ensure we don't end up with systems going rogue, someone else needs to handle the fact that we can't have AI creating certain things. The AI systems are not allowed to tinker with viruses, as an example, where unexpected creations can lead to extremely bad situations.

The initial stages of this have already begun, and time is ticking. I guess we'll see.
Meta's failures contributed to abuse against Tigrayans during Ethiopian conflict
Ask HN: Apple launches M3 with 3nm tech,how far are we from end of Moore's Law?
Apple today introduced M3 range of laptops which uses 3-nm technology [1]

Moore's law has been driven primarily by the reduction in transistor sizes. How far does this go?

Can we go to sub-1nm or is there a limit here and then Moore's law ends? AFAIK at smaller sizes quantum tunneling starts coming into picture. What happens when we hit that limit?

[1]https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/
I imagine the amount of people upgrading from an M2 Mac will be close to 0, while there's a lot of Intel stragglers out there.
I tried to find a laptop with the specification you just mentioned that could last 20 hours on battery. Didn’t.
A few things I noticed, as I'm seeing the variety of SKUs becoming more complex.

- Note that memory bandwidth is down. M2 Pro had 200GB/s, M3 Pro only has 150GB/s. M3 Max only has 400GB/s on the higher binned part.

- Just like the low-spec M3 14" has one fewer Thunderbolt port, it also doesn't officially support Thunderbolt 4 (like M1/M2 before it)

- The M3 Pro loses the option for an 8TB SSD. Likely because it was a low volume part for that spec.

- The M3 Pro actually has more E-cores than the Max (6 vs 4). Interesting to see them take this away on a higher-specced part; seems like Intel wouldn't do this
Anything assigned in a high school or college English class gets a huge ding, because people who don't want to read it are forced to and, predictably , hate it.
> I think if you claim that this makes Apple evil then you would also need to argue that most of capitalism is evil.

I mean, surely a mixed bag, and I still participate in it regardless, but pretty much, yeah.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mining-children-trfn/...

https://www.culawreview.org/journal/child-labor-and-the-huma...
And more importantly, all the money goes to Microsoft.
Depends, will it reduce the number of ad driven sites? Could be a good thing.
Not even. If you ordered a non-baseline M2 Ultra Studio at launch, you likely didn't receive it til the first week of August. So we're a week shy of three months. So I'm glad for not being screwed, I think. Although who is to say they're not just being sat on (M3 Max chips)...
I agree with you about the feeling of helplessness on the child labour in chocolate episode, but John Oliver covers such a wide range of other topics, many of which are much closer to home (and therefore something you have a chance of being able to directly address).

Isn't having this knowledge a core part of making ourselves educated voters, to be better-equipped to advocate among friends and relatives for things we believe in, and having a greater ability recognise dodgy business practises?
Loaded Language
What does this have to do with autism, though? It is not defined by the ability to read signs, is it?

A week ago I returned to America from abroad and, by reading the signs at SFO, I downloaded the CBP app and abandoned the gigantic line in favor of the completely empty line. I am evidently in the top 1% of sign readers, but I don't know if I am autistic.
When Peterson needed the kind of therapy or care you fancy yourself receiving in him, he had to go to Russia. Please, take your time and take that in. Why didn't he just call his own hotline? Lol
What do you mean by this, exactly? The title is unclear.
Commercially available RISC-V hardware is not more "free" than other types of CPUs, in any meaningful way.

The openness of the RISC-V specification is great for chip designers, manufacturers, and researchers. But it has basically no effect on end users, except indirectly (i.e. hopefully the chips are cheaper, because there's more competition and no license fees).
> I will never understand why neurotypicals tolerate inept and abusive authority figures.

Neurotypical people tend to pick their battles. Especially in the workplace, incompetence is quite often not your problem. I’ve seen autistic coworkers raise hell over perceived incompetence, eventuating in a lot of stress and ultimately losing their job. I tried to explain “who cares if they are making a bad decision that could affect the company. You don’t have any exposure to that risk, it’s not your problem if something goes wrong”.

As well as the fact that quite often it isn’t even incompetence from leadership but a failure to recognise that these leaders are often operating with more information or different incentives. They don’t to let you rewrite the product from php to rust because their incentive is to make the most money, not to build the most technically impressive program.
I... gave an honest and reasonable assessment of the book. I think I gave it 3 stars.
Pretty incredible that so little CO2 can affect so much change of heat on the planet. And also pretty incredible how much more CO2 there is now than before.

What are you arguing about exactly? You are saying that CO2 isnt contributing to global warming?
Why is it ridiculous to allow for tax-excluded display of pricing? You couldn't run a TV or newspaper ad with tax-included pricing in the US since there are so many different taxing jurisdictions here (more than 13,000, as of early 2023).

Perhaps what's ridiculous is that we have so many different taxing jurisdictions.
The UK is also the third most populous country in that study, so that’s not surprising.

I’m not sure the reason behind the rise, but my anecdotal experience is that people are more likely now to keep their dog on a lead than they were in the past.

We have seen a rise in poorly bred and poorly socialised large breed dogs over the past few decades, the latest being the XL Bully. My guess is they are contributing significantly to the rise in attacks.

Also speaking as someone who always keeps their dog on a lead in parks, the lead is really more of a suggestion for a big dog. If a Bully, Doberman or even a Husky wants to attack, a lead won’t stop it.
other way around i suspect. qualcomm knew this event was coming and wanted to front-run's apple's announcement.

especially as the macs ship much sooner...
They AIM alliance also wanted to end the Wintel Duopoly. Adopting SPARC would help out Sun Microsystems, which I believe was the leader in workstations at the time.

MIPS was to be used as one of the 'standard' reference platforms for the Advanced Computing Environment[0] or Advanced RISC Computing (?) (the other being X86), that would run Windows NT.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Computing_Environment
They didn't say, but since their A17 is 3nm this is almost guaranteed to be 3nm. The 3nm process is the big improvement, the M1 and M2 were TSMC 5nm and 4nm which was basically the same thing.

The performance improvements here is roughly what you would expect if you knew the specs of TSMC 3nm chips.
I think one big barrier here is price. I'd love to try one, but paying a significant premium over an x86 laptop just doesn't make sense.

Mostly looking at the surface pro x, the price was high, the performance 'ok' and surprisingly the battery life about normal.

Why would I take the risk?!
What I really miss in my work issued M1 Pro isn't more power, it's the keyboard in those 2010s models.
You have unlocked the key to making the front page of YC, post about web scraping.
The Xbox is a computer. It natively supports keyboards and mice. Just give up on this idea of an anachronistic “console experience” already. It’s just holding players and games back.
They compared it to both, and most people upgrading will have an M1 so it's the more apt comparison (and of course, a bigger number).
One of the deleted articles, which I think you refer to, was called "Your Looks and Your Inbox". Apparently some people have made copies of it online, for example:

https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/okcupid/yourlooksandyourinb...
Because companies incentivize behavior and pushing all responsibility onto the end use for predatory business practices is very outdated thinking.

You can choose not to have credit but without credit you can’t really fully participate in the financial system, but a home or a car, rent an apartment, etc. But it’s a choice to participate.

You buy a computer it’s not really a choice to accept the OS terms and conditions. Not if you want to use the computer.

Many things masquerading as choices are not a choice really, though people pretend they are.

We don’t need sympathy, we need ironclad data protection for users who do care even if others do not. The illusion that consumers can make a choice on many of these products and data agreements is a useful fiction that benefits companies and is often subverted to unfairly benefit just one of the parties: the current system is frequently a predatory exchange by companies designed to incentivize behavior that benefits them under the illusion of choice.

Having seen data brokerages in great depth I can tell you the amount of information and type of information collected it hardly being done benevolently, and it always seems to go right to the edge of legality and morality in terms of what can be collected. Most importantly unless you are working deeply with the datasets it’s hard to understand just how profoundly powerful recombined data can be. So while users are offering approval to collection of data on a data platform basis the recombination of data is almost never explicit and has far reaching implications most people cannot really fathom. Recombination of released data is never presented to users in this way, as each company contributes their part and looks benign in isolated agreements, but they are not. Particularly not in the age of AI.

In addition data is durable long after that company and their aligned business model is defunct. Yet there is no opt in for continued use even if the data goes to a use that would be objected to by the original grantor. This is deeply problematic.

To call that a “choice” to release information is farcical under the current system. Beyond dark pattern in gaining the data, endurance beyond intention, unintended use and irrevocability are deeply, deeply problematic issues.

Respectfully, they “agreed” is a weak argument given the complexity of the modern paradigm.
Oh sure - I could talk about how their CISO is a former FBI agent who, prior to joining the company, was responsible for investigating the distribution of ransomware via their VSA product. Nothing shady there.

Or perhaps that their (rapidly shrinking) security team has been told to communicate via Signal so their messages can't be subpoenaed successfully.
Eh, you borrowed from society to create 'your work' and now you want to lock it up like you've created it wholly.
You can feel slightly less bad. M2 Max was announced in January, 10 months ago.
Possibly, I think the math on number of people that currently purchase controllers that will be blocked in the future is a very small amount of money compared to the possibility of losing that revenue to other gaming sources if that is the reason.

"Preserving console experience" really feels like corporatespeak to say "cheaters" without saying the devices in question (because then it raises visibility to those devices).

I think the "doing this for money" is the people who are currently not gaming due to rampant cheating in games like R6S, Apex, COD, etc.
Its not science no. I think its just data showing how much more CO2 there is on the planet/
I do not agree that gun control would reduce harm from guns.
Sure, I am thinking a bit ahead. That is, a Mac Mini / Studio / Pro with a M3 Max / Ultra could be interesting.
I have been able to get some traction via subreddits. They are a good source of early beta testers.

Other than that, content and email marketing would be an effective approach to consider.
MarkMonitor is fantastic. We eventually switched from MarkMonitor to CSC as our registrar and they are great as well.
It "loads" the page but it doesn't truly "load" anything other than the title or headline of the post. Comments don't load even at the most basic level (ad protection or intelligent yadayada yada