skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MacBook Air level M3, not MacBook Pro. "Our best chip which isn't released yet is better than the competitors entry level model which is already in market" isn't that much of a brag.
a name is a name, if someone wrote an all new ORM for Python and called it SQLAlchemy++, as the creator of SQLAlchemy I'd be pretty pissed
Ah cool :)

yeah will check it out — we're already in the 'Google Sheets' mode of trip planning so sounds like we're in the target market!
any ES linter written in rust?
It’s not just that she overcame odds as a woman in the tech business that amazes, but that she was so clearly someone who cared about people, and chose to risk her business and reputation more than once to stay true to her values. That’s perhaps even more rare in this industry than being a successful female CEO.
+ Technology additions in early models

+ Parts availability woes

In short, buying a Tesla is a terrible decision from a financial perspective.

Maybe from a fun or cool perspective!

But if you're interested in maintaining $-value-over-time, there are much better options (Corollas, Accords, Tacomas, Subarus, etc).
it's fun to golf, but how big are pages these days, anyway?

(and if you're using a language with a stack, your executable probably ultimately loads as at least two pages: r/o and r/w)
The .COM program was only 5 bytes long, so it loaded instantly too.
Modems are usually directly connected to the battery rail, because (so the saying goes) they have high peak power consumption.
I'm yet to look at your project, but I can't say Comtrya without thinking about Stargate, so I'm kinda sold already.
No small artists cares about this at all. Grow up.
Here we go, Spotify coming in hot with it's own adpocalypse. There just isn't enough ad money to go around. What can you do? Targeted advertising is a bubble, at scale it provides little additional return and the industry is overvalued. The only thing that has been propping it up is startups looking for quick bucks to please investors, in the long run it was always going to collapse.
I just bought a loaded M3 15" Air, and it's a fantastic laptop in nearly every way. While I don't notice much CPU performance difference from the M2 MBA it replaced (Had a 13" before, but decided I wanted something bigger), I don't want there to be an Intel situation with Apple, and have them get complacent.

So this is great news, because competition should be fierce, and all of us will be the benefactors of that.
Does it even matter that the snippet was c++? Couldn't you just get the smallest binary that prints hello world and argue that they are semantically equivalent?

That should be like 10 x86 instructions tops, plus the string data.
Thanks for being a dick about it.

I'm just happy to have my efforts recognized.
They've been around for 7+ years with Raspberry Pi
https://electrek.co/2024/04/08/solar-eclipse-impact-us-grid-... ("Watch the solar eclipse impact the US grid in real time")
That's fine and I appreciate this progress, but right now performance is way below energy efficiency to me when choosing a laptop. My major question is, how long will the battery last between each charge. I just don't want to worry anymore about charging when travelling for a few hours.
If it's natural for those specific reasons…

Why didn't Russia get rich after the fall of the USSR made them no longer (at the time) the natural enemies of everyone around them?

And why is the EU (a union if not a nation) still chasing the US on GDP/capita?
I'm curious, when did you try it? On which version was it?
A bit of a shame really. Gnome development could be nicer with a language with some basic memory safety features and GC, but still generates fast code. Like C#.
I think it would be fair if Spotify abstained from charging me for my subscription if I listened to less than 100 tracks in a given month.
Don’t worry, Microsoft will find plenty of new background processes to spin up. Users won’t be faced with the confusing task of finding useful applications to run on their lap warmers.
You’re getting old. It happens to us all.
Check biome or oxlint.

I don't think any of them support all the rules of eslint
qualcomm had demos of snapdragon elite x laptops running debian with 3d stuf going on.

It's not released yet, why so much negativity?
Is this the link?
https://www.universetoday.com/166028/perseverance-sees-phobo...
I don't get those dotfile managers. I just have a git repo with a branch for every machine. And my dotfiles are in many formats, not just yaml toml and JSON...
and chromebooks
My point is that the quest was pure vanity. They didn't need to be there at all.
I came here to make a similar comment. I only have an M1 and I can't really think of anything I need it to be faster for. I've got a Windows 11 PC next to me right now that I only bought for gaming and I still find myself fighting with its incessant need to pipe literally every piece of data it can get its hands on up to Daddy Satya.

Let's say by chance Snapdragon is everything MS says it will be and more.

Who cares? If you're only using Windows for whatever reason, now you'll have a faster Windows. If you're not, "it's faster than M3" is not in and of itself any reason to use it.
>A tad ironic to make these two statements in succession don't you think?

Where's the irony? You'll have to point it out to me.

> As a result, Harp McGovern had the opportunity to see, sooner than most other companies, what Microsoft was adding to its own operating system in an effort to capture the market.

> It was a switch that Harp McGovern herself was inclined to make, so she contacted Gates and negotiated a provisional contract for Vector to pivot to using DOS instead of CP/M on far sweeter terms—and at a much faster pace—than were being offered to other manufacturers. “We had an amazing relationship with Microsoft. I’d signed a contract where every update and every new system in perpetuity we would get at no increased royalty,“ she explained.

> The deal was taken to the board, but the collective decision was made that it was better to stick with the known quantity that was CP/M for the in-development Vector 4.

She negotiated a sweetheart deal with Microsoft before their big break. She had a personal relationship with Bill Gates. This decision killed the company.

> but trying to dismiss the discrepancy on Wikipedia as sexism, when Jobs helped build a literal worldwide business empire that is Apple of today, doesn't help your case at all. In fact it's the opposite,

The final line was a summary of the article as a whole, not specifically the difference between Jobs' legacy and hers. I recognize the difference.
Just because the number of abstraction layers can be reduced doesn't mean they need to be. You might gain back some CPU cycles, some milliseconds of execution time. But the tradeoffs of maintainability, legibility, and developer quality-of-life may, in the long run, reintroduce abstraction layers of some other type back into the overall SDLC.
I did something similar, with a Play button that calls a PHP script that tells a Kodi instance to play the media, using JSON-RPC: https://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API
I also took a stab at this last year and made the mistake of using an email service as opposed to just using SMTP on my own Gmail. I’d love to see the open rates published, and response rates from this approach because this still seems promising.
Maybe [1] which is about per-rack UPSes, to reduce the blast radius of UPS failure?

Pretty sensible IMHO - I live in a country with a reliable electricity grid, and outages due to UPS malfunction are about as common as power outages.

[1] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-develops-its-...
Related: Wix (Website Builder) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2L4G1_eVOk
>> Can you imagine an autonomous RV? It would cost an arm and a leg, but if I had the money, I would 100% use one to get across country.

Underappreciated observation. The "interstate-only FSD on vehicles it's uniquely suited for" seems like much better risk-reward.

A less complex and variable environment, on a vehicle with greater need for it: freight trucks, long distance buses, and RVs.

Hell, I'm pretty sure the only reason Tesla didn't just buy Greyhound/Megabus was because the stricter scrutiny from CDL regulators (FMCSA?).
Apple and third party developers were collectively much better prepared to transition to ARM, to the point that it was totally seamless. Developers were experienced with ARM on iOS, and Apple had a robust dual-binary & backward compatibility system to make sure all apps ran smoothly.

I don't anticipate this level of compatibility with Arm on Windows. You're going to get your new machine, and many if not most of your apps won't run. The intel simulator performance will suffer.

Sometimes the migration path needs even more investment than the end product.
> she is cast as a villain ("Ice Queen") and relegated to a footnote in history.

The company failed for multiple reasons and some of those were a result of sexism. So, I wouldn't say it was the sole cause for their decline.

> She told Harp that one man had complained to her about “the awful bitch who was running the company."

While Jobs and to some extent Gates were called eccentric geniuses for all their misdeeds in their early years, I have no doubts on what Harp & Ely would be called if they attempted to do even half of the bad things Jobs and Gates did.
Fair enough.

However, the point of a hello world program is to introduce programming to beginners, and make a computer do something one can visibly see. I daresay this is made moot if you pipe it into /dev/null. I could then replace 'hello world' in the title with 'any program x that logs to `stdout`', and it wouldn't reach HN's front page.

In the same vein is this idea of 'a trip of abstractions'—I don't know about you, but I always found most of them very unsatisfying as they always stop at the system call, whether Linux or Windows. It really is afterwards where things get interesting, you can't deny that.
The Efficiency of Convolutional Neural Networks
But isn't the system heap also a ... shared heap? It is practically the same distinction as between the global and local heaps in win16.
80W elite 10C cpu is faster than the passively-cooled 10W 4C CPU? you don't say
This article appears to be a lot of hype without really sharing anything new.
> I love the lack of sympathy for tech workers across North America or perhaps even globally, when tech hub salaries still don’t allow tech workers to even have a middle class lifestyle

Do you have empathy for IBs, PEs, and other members of High Finance? The difference in TC between High Finance and the equivalent roles in Tech are not that significant.

Goldman Sach's IB Analysts starting salaries at the SF office were $90k with minimal bonuses in 2020. These same people could have worked at Google or Microsoft (and most of them legitimately had that option)

The overlap between Big Finance and Big Tech is massive, just like the overlap between random engineer and random corpdev drone in Dallas or KC.
Yomiuri Shimbun and NTT Corp's 'Joint Proposal on Shaping Generative AI' [pdf]
That’s what I wonder about simulation theory. People say that it’s just nerds coming up with another god, but isn’t there the difference that if we live in a simulation it’s highly unlikely that the folks running it will come to hand pick the believers in to a heaven program after they die.
Not to mention that the Air is fanless
As always, it's really impressive to see how much technical detail they release publicly in their RCAs. It sets a good example for the industry.

Also — quite impressive to make major infrastructure and architecture changes in a few months. Not every organization can pull that off.
CSIRO telescope detects unprecedented behaviour from nearby magnetar
Of course, the headline doesn't answer the other half of this equation: power efficiency. (Because, yeah, AMD also makes a faster CPU, but you better bring a power adapter.) So a few paragraphs in we have:

"MacBooks with Apple silicon also offer industry-leading performance-per-watt, while the Snapdragon X Elite will likely run hotter and require laptops with fans."

MacBook Airs don't have fans.
I did, and I am sure a lot of you are too.

Programming is a passion for a lot of young nerds, and it is quite exceptional in that it also makes for well paying jobs even without being part of an elite. I consider myself very lucky. Many other "dream jobs" can be fiendishly selective, don't pay, have hard to overcome barriers if you didn't win some lottery, or may be way worse than you think.

I am not saying that programming is the absolute dream job, I hate Jira as much as everyone else, but honestly, if I didn't have to work to get paid a good part of my days wouldn't be that different than a regular work day. Not 100% of course, work is not all just fun, and I don't always want to be in front of a computer, but it is definitely more than 50%. For many people, it is 0%. And I get paid for it, enough for pretty much everything that is not luxury. And even though my skills are not that exceptional, there is enough jobs available for me to be picky, it is even true for people lesser skilled than me. It is almost unfair (but I take it!).

If you are on HN, there is a good chance you are passionate about tech, that it is more than just a job. And chances are that it started from a young age.
Apple is 23% worldwide, but if a brand is looking at specific markets, it can be as high as 40%+ (US).

As for p3 adoption outside of Apple-land, you're right there's no good stats but I'd wager they're higher than you're making out. 62% of the (global) market is mobile (average replacement cycle is ~2.5 years so most will be a bit newer than 2017). Samsung have adopted p3 & are 24% of global share alone.

Desktop is going to be your smallest share but even there ASUS are selling DCI-P3 laptops for $500. And the growing gamer demographic are going to be investing in their screens after they're done paying for their RTX...
Man, this will kill home staging companies.

Probably a good thing—having a moving truck and people move furniture from a warehouse into a house and back, in a single day, seems like a terrible waste of resources.
RaspberryPI? If you mean ATX-factor then you can go and buy something like this Ampere Altra.[1] Probably better off putting Asahi Linux on a Mac Studio though, as the CPU upgradability is going to be limited regardless.

[1] https://www.ipi.wiki/products/ampere-altra-developer-platfor...
As I was exploring this topic, another good article popped up: https://planetplanet.net/2018/03/21/asimov-kalgash-take2/
There is a lot of harm:

1. In order to get a job, a person need to quit one. If there is a risk (in form of trial period), why to accept such an offer? As result, best candidates pass, or at least stick to existing positions longer. Or pay raise must be more significant.

2. Reputational harm: read about Amazon's hire-to-fire practice. And try to guess, why a lot of people do not consider employment with Amazon.

3. Work harm: any new employee is investment. It has to be onboarded, and it is a heavy load for the accepting team.

Of course, it heavily depends on the job market segment. I know software eng. only. If most candidates are unemployed, trial period could be a blessing. In the current market, why would I even apply (and spend my time on the interview?
The surprising carbon footprint of an Amtrak trip across America
Would love to see the new Snapdragon in the next Oculus Quest.
I use Android, not iPhone, but the only time I have stuttering issues is when I'm using Bluetooth headphones/earphones or speakers. When I'm using the physical jack, there is never an issue.

So my assumption has always been that the problem is Bluetooth. Perhaps RF interference or something.
Are your per-machine branches mostly distinct, or do they share a lot?

I use https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm and I find my dotfiles share _quite a bit_ in some respects (e.g. neovim config) but are drastically different in others (SSH config as one example) -- keeping things synced _across_ branches sounds very difficult. rcm handles this well, without branches, IMO.
The whole idea of an annular solar eclipse is that the size is not actually exact :)

I think part of the perception that a total eclipse "perfectly" blocks the sun is that the corona has a fuzzy edge but the surface does not, so when the moon is actually larger than the sun in the sky you still see the same eerie coronal glow. In particular there's little perceptible difference between blocking 100% of the sun and blocking 105% of the sun, compared to 100% versus 95%.
Seems odd. Unless that was going to require hardware changes I don’t see why you’d need to delay.

That still leaves 2 years past Apple’s long rumored debut.
Life before Unicode in Russia. (2021)
After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative
People bond over shared negativity.
I don't require a huge intake of new music: I obsess over those dozen albums I really love a month, always listening to them in full and appreciating them as art. Browsing Bandcamp tags, music review and catalogue sites, and music critics album reviews is really all I need to get that hit.

But it's not for everyone ig...
I think it's much easier to do if you're abandoning video games entirely, something that would make no sense for windows. The only reason I'd buy a non-amd64 PC is if it's better at running amd64 software than amd64 processors.
Comcast, in particular, has agents that will flat-out lie to you in order to get you off the phone.

I went through this a few years back. It took around 6 calls and I spoke to at least a dozen different people all around the world. My promotional rate expired and I wanted to step down to a lower-speed plan. Every time I explained this to the agent, they would start with an upsell to a HIGHER-priced plan. And then, after I refused it, ANOTHER higher-priced plan. Once they wasted at least 5 minutes of my time on sales pitches, the call proceeded in one of two paths:

1. They would promise to make the changes to my account exactly as I requested. The next day, I would check my account on the web site and see that nothing has changed. When I called back, the next agent I talked to claimed to have no record my ever calling them before. Which loses its humor around the 4th call or so.

2. In the middle of my explaining, the agent would say, "hello? hello?" and then hang up. This happened way too often, and too predictably to be coincidence.
I’m eager to see these. I bought a regular windows machine for the first time in decades to see how WSL works for my development work and have been pleased. My only gripe is the power efficiency compared to my Apple Silicon machine. If they can come anywhere near the Apple silicon devices in that dimension, I’m likely to switch over (which feels really weird after 26 years in Apple-land, but I’ve lost my patience with them over the last few MacOS versions).
I'll try again: Have two versions:

1) The hard version you sell to costumers

2) The easy version that runs in a fake server you own, and is only a game.

If someone wins the game in version 2, you give a discount if they buy version 1 (or a t-shirt) (or a png that s/he can print and hang in the wall) (or a congratulations message).

[Is this a good idea? I don't know.]
> And I didn't even know about most of the ones in this post.

I think that's the answer to the question of "why do we have so many". It's a great thing you don't have to know about them. Go down a layer, and the people working there will think it's a great thing they don't have to worry about the abstraction below. Software development is, currently, a human task, so the human needs necessarily structure it.

I can't comment on web development...
I'm more concerned about drivers than apps, because that's where you'll absolutely need native ARM builds rather than being able to fall back on emulation.
Another good comparison is WSL on windows vs Unix interface on MacOS. Ignore the technical limitations for a sec and just think about the user experience.

WSL is far less usable due to hardware, networking and filesystem inconsistencies when compared to MacOS's complete native integration.

Now I like WSL and use it as my daily driver, but the UX is not complete enough for mass market.

This ARM transition needs to be utterly seamless. 100% compatibility, 100% performance within a year and double-click ease of use
https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/04/at-scale-rare-even...
"We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky." [0]

We're fixing the fallout from burning fossil fuels by adding more particulates to reflect more energy back. Seems a bit counterproductive. We probably should look at the alternatives first.

[0]: https://www.matrixfans.net/movies/the-matrix/transcript/
Laptops, sorry, not Desktops.

And I would also want something that performs better than Raspberry Pie.
Having seen what box64 can do on my phone, I don't think it'd be that terrible. The graphics intensive system calls are all native system library code. The CPU parts will run slower, of course, but if they can beat the M3, I don't think the result would be all that bad.
Comtraaaya! :)
I have both a Jellyfin and a Subsonic-compatible (Gonic) server on my local NAS. Those are used for streaming and work anywhere where there's internet thanks to Tailscale. If I need to go offline, for a flight or something, I pick a dozen albums to download full quality to my phone and listen to them with the Retro music player.
the air? the one that's thermal throttled the second it's turned on? I'd be more interested if it was the m3 max
Agreed -- it's way too easy to misclick flag or downvote while using a mobile browser.
extremely good point. Also drivers can be even more disruptive. You have a scanner you use 1 / mo but for a critical business. Everything's great on your new Arm / Windows laptop and then you find out the 5 y/o scanner driver doesn't work. Your meeting is in the morning.
The headline obviously can't answer everything, otherwise it wouldn't be called a headline.

The body does address power efficiency.

> There are a few caveats here, including that (...) MacBooks with Apple silicon also offer industry-leading performance-per-watt, while the Snapdragon X Elite will likely run hotter and require laptops with fans.
I’ll echo that. Laptops have been “fast enough” for a long time, which is why I can break out an Core 2 Duo laptop from 2008 and still get a lot done with it, but somehow despite far better process nodes and battery tech, battery life is on average worse today than it was in 2014, which is just goofy.
I couldn't tell you the names of the founders of contemporary PC builders like North Star or Cromemco, either. But that's just because none of them lasted more than a decade or so.

Even the founders of Commodore, which was 10x more successful, are not household names.
We had a right leaning government for 16 years and the “Schwarze Null” was the most important for them. Now nearly everything is a fucking mess or near its limit. We don’t have staff for the most important parts of society… but we are one of the country’s with the least deficit.. nice … and now we need als the money to repair the ruins . Germany is a hellhole. The austerity was only so that they can still throw shits of money on the industry.
We're fast approaching the point where many events will "happen". Geo-engineering is easy and economical. Small Governments/Billionaires/Corporations will pursue it barring a legal framework to ban it. Given the lack of progress on nuclear, and slower than needed progress on renewables. It seems certain that a large scale geo-engineering project will be pursued by someone to lower atmospheric CO2/temperature.