skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Apple calls a GPU core seems to be roughly the same as what Nvidia calls a “stream multiprocessor”.

For example a 1080 GTX GPU has 20 stream multiprocessors (SM), each containing 128 cores, each of which supports 16 threads.

Meanwhile Apple describes the M1 GPU as having 8 cores, where “each core is split into 16 Execution Units, which each contain eight Arithmetic Logic Units (ALUs). In total, the M1 GPU contains up to 128 Execution units or 1024 ALUs, which Apple says can execute up to 24,576 threads simultaneously and which have a maximum floating point (FP32) performance of 2.6 TFLOPs.”

So one option to get a single number for a rough comparison is to count threads. The 1080 GTX supports 40,960 threads while the M1 supports 24,576 threads.

There’s obviously a lot more to a GPU — for starters, varying clock speeds, ALUs can have different capabilities, memory bandwidth, etc. But at least counting threads gives a better idea of the processing bandwidth than talking about cores.
What on earth are you doing to your laptops that has you convinced that six years is an exceptionally long lifespan!?!?

Anyways even though it's literally not a Windows laptop my system 76 lemur ultra i bought in May 2013 works fine after a decade of regular use with no hinge or screen problems. I came close to replacing it recently because i need a laptop with vulkan support but then it turned out that mesa actually has a vulkan implementation on ivy bridge (albeit with a warning that it's not entirely functional) so ill be holding onto it for at least a few more months, maybe longer.
Harry Potter DM. A Harry Potter-Themed GPT for Text Adventures
It might be cost effective if you can export the externalities of rare earth refining. It is a deeply toxic process.

The only reason we don't want to rely on China is geopolitical. Besides that everyone would be happy to have China take the pollution it takes for the rest of the world to transition to electricity.
I will take my 66% better salary any day, than becoming an FTE.
I use Electron apps (VSCode, Slack, etc). They are bloated compared to native apps, but that running a few of them somehow makes 8GB "not enough" is overblown. You get by just fine.

It's wanting to run big VMs that is the real pain point with 8GB.
I have a 2011 Thinkpad T520 which still works fine, upgraded it to 16GB of RAM. There are high quality Windows laptops out there, but of course they cost as much as a Macbook.

I'm okay with laptops being sold with 8GB of RAM, but I'm not okay with artifically shortened lifespan caused by lack of upgradability. Manufacturers should be regulated to force them offer upgradeable RAM. I don't care what new technological innovations that may require to offer same speeds as current soldered RAM does, it's simply the right thing to do.
> Math can be proven. Math maps to physical quantities.

That's just wildly wrong. I think you should probably just try to deepen your understanding of fields you're interested in, and leave your prejudices at the door.
Price hikes and fragmentation sees some Australians return to digital piracy
I said there is no contemporary documentation of it being “a thing”, which I meant as “a widespread/accepted custom” (this being one of the false belief about the dark ages).

I’m not sure what to make of the document you shared: does it mean that in 1543 near Zurich this right was still being upheld?
Because in Italy there are plenty of documents and popular stories in which “in the past we were subject to this horrible practice by an evil Lord”, but no contemporary source. In these cases it is likely a local legend to emphasise the improvements of living in a city and not under a lord.

I can only see the preview of the article you linked, but it mentions the culagium (a tax on marriage, fundamentally), and it has been speculated that its name had an influence on the later perception of jpn: culagium sounds very much as “culus”, which means “ass” in Latin.

For another explanation and a reference, see https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2omu3t/was_p...
The topic of programming languages in game development, and realtime interactive environments is such an unsolved issue that needs a lot of attention.

There are huge problems eg with both the Unity C# approach as well as Unreal C++.

The swift approach is very interesting indeed, and Miguel de Icaza as the author gives additional reason to follow this effort.

Additionally the Verse project from Unreal is extremely interesting imo, and has much wider scope/implications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJv8rFap0Nw
Hey, you began your comparison with the most profitable consulting firms…

2 things -

1) Accenture has an EBIT of 20%.

2) The tippy top of the consulting pyramid plays on branding in a way that the average firm does not.

The VAST majority of service driven firms will not become McKinsey etc. making this a poor comparison

Finally - I doubt that the top firms have those margins, I would most definitely like to be corrected though. If you could clarify or share your source, I’d appreciate it.
There's definitely a middle ground, it's just not very close to where product imagines it is
You can get a climbing hangboard and hang it over a doorway. Do a pyramid training (2, 4, 6, 8, 6, 4, 2s with 5s pause in between) and your fingers and wrists will get much stronger
> Failing to put yourself in the shoes of a small town that cannot afford to triple each homes KW

That sounds possible, but is it really a problem? Regardless, the OP seems to say that disinterest in EVs correlates with political alignment and not with local population.

> Seems awfully authoritarian.

> the desire to tax people until they bend to your will

That is quite a description of the ancient, commonplace art of tax incentives and disincentives.

The taxes, if implemeted correctly, actually enable people to make informed decisions. It causes the product to reflect the true cost, moving externalities (in this case, the climate change damage) into the price. In other words, it's just people paying to clean up their own mess.
They are, but it's not as natural as A specializes B that specializes C.
I had a similar reaction at first. But, for whatever reason, when playing the video at 1.5x it felt completely fine.
That I was happier after I was laid off than I was employed writing software. Other software developers online seemed to relate but absolutely nobody in the real world (non-developers) could understand it.
It's distastefully ghoulish and trivializes the trauma of people who have lost loved ones to vehicle accidents.

For anyone who hasn't led a wonderfully sheltered life that lets them conceptualize the situation as if it were something out of a "Looney Tunes" cartoon, it's going to evoke imagery of pools of blood and viscera on asphalt.

Not the kind of mentality you'd usually expect from an HR department.
Well, on the other hand, they got AS great performance, amazing battery life, tremendous snapiness, no noise, and so on, first - which you didn't get for a while on the Windows laptop world, even for comparable priced machines, even if they had double the RAM. Not even getting into the trackpad, build quality and materials over cheapo plastic, and so on.

For personal and work purposes I use both Apple and Windows laptops and its no comparison on those areas really, even if you go for the nice one's (Lenovo, Dell Latitude, Surface, etc). And if you add the other configurations, you get closer to the MBP price.

Eg. Latitude 7440 laptop was the one left after filtering for all the "high end" attributes (> 8GB mem, highest intel processor available for the series, FHD+ etc). Configured at: 14", 16GB, the highest processor configuration they offer, 14.0-in. display Full HD+ (which is just 1920X1200, way worse than "retina") goes for $1,659.00 on Dell's website.

I'd get the M1 over that anyday, even if I had to pay $100-$200 extra for the 16GB option. Especially since it will keep its resale value way better.
Wow, somehow I missed all that despite being a contractor for about half of 20+ years of working in this industry... Perhaps it is a USA thing? Although I worked for a couple of US companies remotely and I never noticed it.

I'm currently doing contracting for a Polish branch of a US company you would recognise a name of and the only difference between being a contractor (other than tax stuff of course) is that I can't fill security exception requests, and I get asked if I want to work during certain national holidays or not (employees get a day off per default, I have a choice).
Apple is going back to how home computers used to be, before Compaq got lucky with the IBM PC cloning.

They were consumer electronics devices, most of the expansion possibilities were via external devices connected on an expansion port of some sort, and that was about it.

Naturally this model offers better margins than selling PC components on thin razor margins, which is why even the PC world is going into that direction, leaving custom PCs for hardcore gammers and servers, where OEMs can also enjoy higher margins.
Is there specific evidence of bias and ignorance?
No takesies backsies.
Aside from needing a forward airspeed greater than the maximum possible wind speed, there is also the unsolved issue of ballast.

Once you drop the 4 tons of cargo, you need to replace it with 4 tons of ballast. While water sounds like a likely replacement that means you need 4 tons of water ready for pumping at the drop off location which is supposedly in a state of disaster.

Until those issues are solved I think the only purpose is…

https://youtu.be/8_xaSom3Lro
Well that's all great and all and I like Proton but they only use it for their own game. Its totally tight to Steam and its not recommended to be used with non-Steam games. So this is THE OPPOSITE of doing it the nice way and good open source should be done.

The also did not start from scratch and just used Wine and build upon this and payed the guy who did DXVK ... its hardly eating up billions to come up with something like the Steam Deck and Proton. Steam OS is basically just Arch Linux now so its hardly anything revolutionary from scratch.

Do not get me wrong I like all these things but I stand by what I said. I fail to see where all the money is going. Take a SINGLE AAA game where Valve rakes in 30% of the profits for a few distribution servers and a few forum mods. They have invented a money printing machine and for like 20 years the have been printing money and there is nothing visible for anyone to actually see. They do not even make games. Other game devs do not have billions at their disposal and develop games with high budgets and at a 100x faster pace. I stand by what I said, the money goes straight into Gabens and other exec pockets, the have nothing to show for it. The Index is expensive AF its not that they made a loss with it. They make profits with everything they do, especially the Steam Deck.

Steam controller also failed but its not that they wasted billions on that failed product either. I never tried it, I think the idea was great but the layout was wrong, buttons should not be on the bottom.

You tell me where all the money is going. Like do you really think they spend even more the a tiny tiny fraction of that they made on paying open source devs and deving the Steam Deck? The already had their money printing machine loooooong b4 the Steam Deck was even an idea. WTF did they do with it?
>Manufacturers should be regulated to force them offer upgradeable RAM.

Disagreed. You can't make RAM upgradeable and have unified memory architecture that makes Apple Silicon good. Let's not regulate technology like this.

There were studies done that showed most people do not upgrade their RAM/storage even though they could. They just bought new computers. I can't find them now but you could probably find them if you dig around.
Also color blindness is universal
A quick look at destination-driven code generation
macOS market share is actually 20% on desktop/laptops despite Macs selling only about ~8-10% of total PCs worldwide.
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So that's older Macs still in use and doesn't mean that the current 8GB Macs is still trending that way.
How can it be a WWDC session if it's referring to hardware only announced a few weeks ago?
Thanks for the recs! I used to read more, but I was having some trouble finding books in the sweet spot of (informative, classic/acclaimed/other evidence of quality, actually relaxing to read). (As an example of a book that meets all three criteria, I loved Andrew Carnegie's autobiography. Informs me about America in the late 1800s, written by a self-made tycoon who changed philanthropy, helps me relax by putting present-day events in historical perspective.) In general, with books I spend more time (proportionally) hunting for new books that are worth reading.

I also enjoyed gaming more as a kid. I found it easier to suspend my disbelief when I was young, and my patience for grinding/clunky interfaces was higher. I've never played a game with microtransactions, seems dangerous!
I always thought the phrase "human resources" was itself intensely dehumanizing.
> 8GB is still good enough for office workers and students.

That's not the target users for the "MacBook Pro" series.
Texture healing should keep the letters within the grid. Also, it happens with texture healing on or off.
The only way that any "pin" of this type will make it is if it is actually a peripheral that connects to a phone. That's what this thing wants to be. A camera/speaker/microphone/laser box that you wear. It gives you answers or short messages on the palm of your hand. Want to see pictures you recently took with it? Whip out the phone.

You will not separate people from video calling and media consumption, sorry.

But imagine you had this as a peripheral for your phone. You could be on a call with someone, face to face, and then say, "hey, I will take you for a walk". Switch to the pin's camera and keep talking while your friend now sees more or less what you see as you walk around.
I never mentioned China. It could be ByteDance, it could be “The Algorithm”, it’s definitely humans.

I would have only passed on the deal of the house if it was across from a cemetery. Haunted AND on location? I don’t believe in ghosts but that’s just bad juju. Anywhere else and I’d sign those papers.
> They're more likely to buy a budget laptop in the 400-500 range

I'd imagine the TCO on those bargain basement laptops is terrible, so I doubt they're really a big sell for corporate buyers.
at what age, you started spending your time as a sedentary nerd? I have a theory. I have been similar to you until last year. Then I started exercising, lifting weights, fixed my posture. Then I had to take a break because of life's circumstances, and I got all the ailments and pains people have been complaining about the sedentary lifestyle; back pain and all that.

It is possible, those of us who have been nerds from an early age develop with body skeleto-muscular structure that is more forgiving to this lifestyle.
If you're interested in a free, but carefully hinted coding font, my Luculent font [0][1] may be worth a look. The hinting is its defining feature, since I hate fuzzy font rendering. I wrote every line of TTF hinting code in it myself (no autohinting), and it is legible down to 5x11 pixel sized characters even if you disable antialiasing, so long as your font engine interprets the hints.

[0] http://eastfarthing.com/luculent/

[1] https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/luculent (live example in browser)
Actually they have done a massive favour to the games industry, keep targeting Windows and get Linux for free, what a deal.
Why don't the schools, regular ones, teach proper ten finger touch typing? But then, will it still be a common vital skill in let's say 20 years? (I think yes)
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But what about VRR?
I think that without Woz to develop the first two product versions (at exactly the right place & time in history, in a field that Woz had been studying obsessively since childhood), Jobs would have achieved minor success at best.

Perhaps Jobs would become a well-regarded author, or a city council member, or own a franchise of restaurants. Alternatively, his drug use, lack of a useful college degree, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and his many other bad decisions could have led Jobs to end up homeless on the Berkeley streets like so many other hippies from his social circle. He might have died sunburnt and unwashed at age 45 from a heroin overdose, just as much as he might have been successful.

Even if he avoided the catastrophic homelessness and destitution which befell the believers of the "turn on, tune in, drop out" movement that Jobs immersed himself in, I think his success would be no greater than any other successful person whose career takes them to the upper-middle class. Charisma and design sense can only take you so far, and the real lotto ticket was the "right place right time" factor which came from Woz, who was practically born to invent computers at a time when the inventors of computers could change the world.

It was Woz who had dreamt of designing a computer since he was a boy, and who even in middle school taught himself computer architecture and circuit design at the Ph.D. level, and whose technical creativity was once-in-a-generation.

Woz was super lucky that his passion was about something that history had ordained would become the next technology revolution (rather than e.g. having his boyhood passion be in ornithology & birdwatching). For every Woz, there are probably 10 or 20 equally brilliant kids whose passions unfortunately, through luck of the draw and no fault of their own, have very little societal or financial value.

Jobs worked with Woz to get to the point where they had a computer company which Jobs could then grow by 1,000x.

But without Woz, Jobs would probably instead be spending the years in which Apple grew big in a "turn on, tune in, drop out" lifestyle of crashing on friends' couches and doing nothing useful, until eventually there are no more friends' couches to crash on, and he becomes a shaggy and dirty person on the street, trying to get money for drugs.
Do it! You will be a Thought Leader.
3D print channel banned after videos manually reviewed as monetizable [video]
Same, the very term "human resources" feels dehumanizing.
You need a large compressor and carry the energy around.
> On the other hand, I'm looking forward to watching the Asahi folks crack this stuff open.

It will still be years before it is practical for Linux developers to target these features. Eventually, the rate of change in GPU design will slow and Linux will catch up once and for all. But it's hard to not drool over the hardware that proprietary OSs get to use today.
>What on earth are you doing to your laptops that has you convinced that six years is an exceptionally long lifespan!?!?

When I was a poor college student, I kept buying $500 Windows laptops and they kept breaking after 1-2 years.
I'm guessing you were somewhere relatively large. I knew someone who got replaced like this and it was a small enough company that I don't think this could have been done because there was no layer of management between them and the top dog doing this to them.

Oh, and no one above that guy either. He was the owner of the business.
Ha, no, but I did check that email account a couple of weeks later just in case.
BF2 = folie à deux
Show HN: PortPilot a Kubernetes multi service port forwarding tool
While creating Kapeta (https://kapeta.com) we needed a small tool to do multiple port-forwards into a Kubernetes cluster. We found it very useful, so we are hoping that others will too :)
Not really. It takes 2 years to meet citizenship criteria and until then you are illegal without a visa but it's unenforced at ground level and not even a crime. It's actually much easier for many to obtain citizenship by residing illegally without permission and then applying under constitutional provision which doesnt care their residency was illegal.

That is the method to obtain citizenship for most without means is you must act without permission and then run down the clock.
Oh but the victim is usually the problem. PEBKAC is a thing. If you use a VPN, fake name, and aliased email to place an order online you can't really complain when the company cancels your order for looking suspicious.

Seems to me you subscribe to the "customer is always right" mentality and if you knew anything about working in a customer facing fashion you would know just how wrong that mentality is.
Curious why they are making the connection on your behalf. Could it have anything to do with LLM’s? Either way, if I were IT, I’d be livid.
> That's why I said normal office workers and students.

What? NO. 8GB is not enough for browsing and the proliferation of Electron apps these days. The solution shouldn't be constantly swapping, which is what all 8GB Apple devices do. This will lead to early SSD death and since the SSD is soldered on, that means the entire device is useless.
Cargo-zigbuild: Compile Rust using Zig as linker for easier cross compiling
Great project. Zig and Rust working together in harmony to make it easier to cross-compile Rust for different targets. We use this to great effect to build for x86 and ARM chips in AWS.
Not only that, but the banks themselves (not necessarily Bank of Montreal), are the biggest law breakers of these regulations.

As an example: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/bank-of-am...

The HSBC drug cartel money laundering scandal should've resulted HSBC losing their banking license and bank employees involved going to prison, but no.
Is eye-tracking tech not good enough these days to position a cursor when one stares at that position for 2+ seconds? I am recalling studies of driving or artwork where the gaze lingers.
Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
The Xenon is very similar to Go fonts. but it's still a really great set of fonts.
> Or, you can do what I did when a manager tried to do this to me, tell the new hire what’s going on, work as a team to do a great job for your customers while turning them against management,

Okay, I'm with you so far.

> then get said management fired.

Then draw the rest of the fucking owl? How did you do this?
Refinery capacity, big problem.

There's a lot of talk. Here's a rare earths refinery site in Fort Worth, TX, supposedly under construction for MP Minerals, the Mountain Pass mine people. Press release from 18 months ago.[1] Current view in Google Street View.[2] Some heavy equipment, and a billboard with the same picture as the press release, but they haven't even excavated the foundation as of that 2023 picture. US DoD put $35 million into this project.

[1] https://mpmaterials.com/articles/mp-materials-begins-constru...

[2] https://earth.google.com/web/search/Independence+Parkway,+Fo...
Turned the new co-worker against management, not the customers. Apologies for the confusion.
So many people here are now praising texture healing, but to me its just half-way measure. Why are we as a community so resistant for adopting variable-width fonts? This texture healing already breaks perfect character cell grid, so in some ways it feels like worst of both worlds.

I feel at least partially the same about fancy ligatures; we could just use the actual characters in source code, Unicode is widely supported. Raku does that, but it would need better typesetting (with variable-width fonts) to really shine.
The 8GB 14" MBP M3 is a strange one. I personally don't think this SKU should even exist. I think the 15" MBA can replace the now-deprecated 13" MBP Touchbar in the lineup.

Apple did open themselves up to ridicule for putting 8GB on a $1600 "Pro" laptop.
Sounds more like the Devil: you're replaced one bad design with another, there is no point in using pinky sideways hold (so some of the worse ergonomic components) for such a common key

Better to use home row mods, control prefix as a thumb key, or modal key sequencers instead is key combos
No, we need those benefits for the whole of humanity.