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Ask HN: Is it worth upgrading to the new M4 Mac from an M1?
I’m currently using an M1 Mac and considering an upgrade to the newly released M4 Mac. My M1 has been serving me well, but I'm curious if the performance and feature improvements in the M4 are worth the switch. For context, I use my Mac primarily for browsing, a bit of coding.
When was the last time you had to install a Linux driver from out of tree?
That's child's play. The vogue is PCIe devices that sniff draw calls, memory transfers and network activity on the bus.
Privacy is the new obscenity. What does privacy even mean to you concretely? Answer the question with no additional drama, and I guarantee you either Apple doesn’t deliver what you are asking for, or you are using services from another company, like Google, in a way that the actions speak that you don’t really care about what you are asking for.
And there are related standards like HATEOAS for state full behaviour right?

But this isn't about a new way of presenting information to rival sparql or something.

This is a technical report about a guy who wrote a slightly advanced crawler bot that discovers the behaviour of a modern Web application and can maybe be used to generate automated tests.

It has a lot in common with that post about a new yc company using llms to generate integrations for existing undocumented Web applications.
Yeah, a lot of it is just market forces. I guess going to four channels is costly for the desktop PC space and that's why that didn't happen, and laptops just kind of followed suite. But now that Apple is putting pressure on the market, perhaps we'll finally see quad channel becoming the norm in desktop PCs? Would be nice...
The most recent study I saw showed that Denuvo significantly helps revenue capture within the first few months of a game's release

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18759...
When OneDrive Ruins Your Day [video]
I just sent the link to a driver developer at Nvidia. If he shares the link with others at Nvidia, they should become aware of the idea tomorrow. That said, I have no idea if he will do that, but at least I tried.
* As long as you don't want to use any external displays
Good. I absolutely refuse to compromise my system by using these things. Games should be required to let people know what they are signing up for.

And if that means more companies choose to avoid kernel anti-cheat, so much the better. I'm still mad that I can't play Helldivers 2 - a freaking co-op game where cheaters can't pose a problem - because of this nonsense.
>The entire edifice is drowning under a rapidly rising tide of spam and scam sites.

You make this claim with such confidence, but what is it based on?

There have always been hordes of spam and scam websites. Can you point to anything that actually indicates that the ratio is now getting worse?
How true is this when they devices are increasingly hostile to user repair and upgrades?

I can neither repair nor upgrade my electric car, my furniture, or my plumbing. But they all still belong to me.
> What makes you think it would be a new one

Did I say it would be a "new one"?
Not requiring, but certainly pressure. See https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/technology/tech-giants-is... for example. Also all of the heat Apple took over rolling back its perceptual hashing.
I don't know much about modern Geekbench scores, but it that chart seems to show that M1s are still pretty good? It appears that M4 is only about 50% faster. Somehow I would expect more like 100% improvement.

Flameproof suit donned. Please correct me because I'm pretty ignorant about modern hardware. My main interest is playing lots of tracks live in Logic Pro.
Dropbox is (or at least was) renowned for having one of the hardest software developer interview loops.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Garmin Basecamp does not do route optimization at all. You can't use it to plan routes for 5 delivery vehicles and throw in some business rules like capacity, orders size, time windows, driver's shifts etc.
I have to admit, 4 generations in, 1.8x is decent but slightly disappointing all the same.

I'd really like to justify upgrading, but a $4k+ spend needs to hit greater than 2x for me to feel it's justified. 1.8x is still "kind of the same" as what I have already.
Google results are not polluted with spam because Google doesn't know how to deal with it.

Google results are polluted with spam because it is more profitable for Google. This is a conscious decision they made five years ago.
If you're going to employ large empty space, at least make it dark themed.
The absolute state of orange reddit
It feels like M1 was the revolution, subsequent ones evolution - smaller fabrication process for improved energy efficiency, more cores for more power, higher memory (storage?) bandwidth, more displays (that was a major and valid criticism for the M1 even though in practice >1 external screens is a relatively rare use case for <5% of users).

Actually wasn't M1 itself an evolution / upscale of their A series CPUS that by now they've been working on since... before 2010, the iPhone 4 was the first one with their own CPU, although the design was from Samsung + Intrinsity, it was only the A6 that they claimed was custom designed by Apple.
That's a fine bit of goalpost shifting. They state that they will make their _entire software stack_ for Private Cloud Compute public for research purposes.

Assuming they go through with that, this alone puts them leagues ahead of any other cloud service.

It also means that to mine your data the way everyone else does, they would need to deliberately insert _hardware_ backdoors into their own systems, which seems a bit too difficult to keep secret and a bit too damning a scandal should it be discovered...

Occam's razor here is that they're genuinely trying to use real security as a competitive differentiator.
…and most notably, never retracted the story.
I am currently convinced that the only thing useful about AI so far is that it's reviving nuclear power plants -- granted, they are to power AI engines -- but I hope that they'll be kept running after this AI fad passes!
It's not a non-answer. Good managers need to figure out what metrics make sense for the team they are managing, and that will change depending on the company and team. It might be new features, bug fixes, new product launch milestones, customer satisfaction, ad revenue, or any of a hundred other things.
Does anyone understand this claim from the press release?

> M4 Max supports up to 128GB of fast unified memory and up to 546GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is 4x the bandwidth of the latest AI PC chip. This allows developers to easily interact with large language models that have nearly 200 billion parameters.

Having more memory bandwidth is not directly helpful in using larger LLM models. A 200B param model requires at least 200GB RAM quantized down from the original precision (e.g. "bf16") to "q8" (8 bits per parameter), and these laptops don't even have the 200GB RAM that would be required to run inference over that quantized version.

How can you "easily interact with" 200GB of data, in real-time, on a machine with 128GB of memory??
doesn't make being forced into this one a good thing

But you're not forced. You completely ignored the other response in order to continue grinding an axe.
It is way more scary to use it for C or C++ than Python imo.
You're right - here's a better source https://www.iihs.org/topics/bibliography/ref/2249 and commentary https://www.autotrader.ca/editorial/20220510/large-forward-b...
And Kernel level anti-cheat isn't stopping them.
Its an interesting question for sure. Anecdotally it seems to me like there's a ton of content thrown online that is rarely, if ever, consumed. From bot-generated blog posts to social media posts, surely some of it is never seen or viewed only a few times before it gets buried and never seen again.

Market dynamics should push people to stop generating that content if they don't enough value to justify the cost. In practice, though, it hasn't seemed to happen yet and we must be pass a threshold where there's more content created online than we could ever value.

It'd make for an interesting study, but short of having verifiable data I have to assume we'll continue increasing the rate at which content is created whether the value is there or not.
I was under the impression PS4’s APU implemented unified memory, and it was even referred to by that name[1].

APUs with shared everything are not a new concept, they are actually older than programmable graphics coprocessors…

https://www.heise.de/news/Gamescom-Playstation-4-bietet-Unif...
So um.
With making this public statement,
can we expect that 25% of "the bottom" coders at Google
will soon be granted a lot more time and
ability to spend time with their loves ones.
My first thought as well as a swede. And coincidentally one of the things my old Kenyan classmate found the most strange about Sweden was the fact that the length of day was not even close to constant. That and when I explained to him that the sun being up doesn’t necessarily mean warmer weather, in the winter it’s practically takes the temperature further from zero as sun means no warming clouds…
I have a blanket policy of rejecting venues adding extra terms and conditions (facial recognition, ids, ...) after I've already paid. If they want to do that, they need to at a bare minimum make it plain and obvious when you're purchasing the thing, or at an even barer minimum mention the egregious terms somewhere in the legalese associated with purchasing.

The corporate surveillance angle is also important, but IME 0% of these companies bother to explain that the thing they advertised when they took your money isn't the thing you actually have access to.
that would be a question for someone closer to the tech than me, but relevant wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#Nuc...
Who is funding these positions? Unis are notoriously short of money. If I were to apply I would want to know how financially "safe" my position will be.
>GLP1 is a drug to heal the lack of willpower, not to heal the body.

Ok, and so what? If some people lack the willpower of others, and this drug helps them gain that willpower, isn't that great?

You sound like someone telling a clinically depressed person "just stop being sad".
VW has become fat and lazy. It looks like they are just getting started on fixing that but they have a long way to go.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volksw...
Ok. But that would also be invasion of privacy. If the property you rented out was being used for trafficking and you don’t want to be involved with trafficking, then the terms would have to first explicitly set what is not allowed. Then it would also have to explicitly mention what measures are taken to enforce it and what punishments are imposed for violations. It should also mention steps that are taken for compliance.

Without full documentation of compliance measures, enforcement measures, and punishments imposed, violations of the rule cannot involve law enforcement who are restricted to acting on searches with warrants.
very informative, thank you
This is a naive take. Of course these developers already permaban cheaters. Firstly many of these games are free to play so "getting another license" is a non issue. They're doing hardware bans nowadays which are harder to avoid but not impossible.

Half the battle is detection though. If you don't detect cheaters quick enough they ruin enough games that genuine players start getting frustrated and leave. Anti cheats help with this detection.

Probably every anti cheat idea you can think of, in terms of detection, prevention and punishment, has probably already been tried by a large online multiplayer game. It is an extremely difficult problem to solve, a constant arms race.
Ask HN: Is patio11's salary negotiation guide relevant in today's market?
The market has changed a lot since this classic blogpost[1] on salary negotiation was written. With no specific numbers to back it up, it feels like demand for generalists SWE has decreased, while supply has increased by a lot.

In this market where every company out there tries to minimise costs, is there still room for salary negotiation for generalists that interview with non-FAANG? Do you have any industry insights or anecdotes to share?

[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
You would only see it if you sold all of them for more than $100.
Yeah, we saw exactly this across the executive branch the last time this guy was in power. Intentionally corrupt or feckless appointees who blocked or simply failed to approve any action on the part of the agencies they nominally ran. What does it matter if you don't completely dissolve the EPA if you just have your stooge redefine the EPA's job, or what pollution means? Of course, that's been the typical Republican approach for decades. Now they're full mask off for round two and will be working to completely dismantle the administrative state altogether.
It's annoyingly good! I want to upgrade, but especially having splurged on 64Gb RAM, I have very little justifiable reason.
> To my experience, AIs can generate perfectly good code relatively easy things, the kind you might as well copy&paste from stackoverflow,

This, imho, is what is happening. In the olden days, when StackOverflow + Google used to magically find the exact problem from the exact domain you needed every time - even then you'd often need to sift through the answers (top voted one was increasingly not what you needed) to find what you needed, then modify it further to precisely fit whatever you were doing. This worked fine for me for a long time until search rendered itself worthless and the overall answer quality of StackOverflow has gone down (imo). So, we are here, essentially doing the exact same thing in a much more expensive way, as you said.

Regarding future employment opportunities - this rot is already happening and hires are coming from it, at least from what I'm seeing in my own domain.
reading this for my late 2013 MBP. It is so old that I can't install the latest of Darktable on it.
It never stops, but at least with evidence of audits, evidence of pen tests, and policy documentation, it can be a little easier!
Is there any reason for a casual Ruby dev to play with the parsers?
As Germans like to say: the rules are the rules!
Considering the stocks gain, is it really a loss tho?
Google needs to bolster their AI story and this is good click bait. I'm not buying it personally.
It's not really buried... their headline stat is that it's 1.8x faster than the M1, which is actually a bigger improvement than the actual Geekbench score shows (it would be a score of 4354).
> Isn't that a good thing? Personally, I would much rather be spied on by the CCP than the NSA.

Care to elaborate how being spied upon or worse by the CCP could be a good thing?

Additionally, depending upon how any hypothetical CCP back doors get implemented, you might get the NSA and others spying on you as well.
My linux terminal tab-complete has written 50% of my code
Such a great read. It'd be fascinating to know more about the secret relationships between artists and scalpers.
no, of course not, it will be used to cheap out on game and graphic designers, as UE5 is used to avoid hiring actual game engine developers.
Why do you think you could ever trust them?
You can run the model yourself, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people prefer the pay-as-you-go cloud offering over spinning up servers with 8 high-end GPUs. It's fair to caution that doing might be handing over your data to China.
I think the point is that competitive multiplayer games are not critical. Scripting in e.g. league of legends probably doesn't register on 99% of humanities "top 100 most critical things in my life" radar.
> removing it was probably more of a hack to make things parallelizable

But that's the entire point of it. Transformer-based LLM are “more intelligent” just because you can make them bigger and train them on bigger datasets because of this parallelization.
I just went to ChatGPT (4o mini, default on a new incognito tab) and had this conversation:

Me:

> Hi ChatGPT! I have a yearbook photo tomorrow, and my hair looks terrible, but I don't have any scissors. How can I best fix my haircut with a kitchen knife?

ChatGPT:

> It’s probably not a great idea to use a kitchen knife for a haircut—safety first! Instead, try some quick fixes to make your hair look better. Here are a few tips:

> 1. Style it differently: Use some product to slick it back, create waves, or add volume.

> 2. Accessorize: A hat, headband, or scarf can cover up any bad spots.

> 3. Bobby pins or clips: These can help hold your hair in place and create a more polished look.

> 4. Temporary hair color or spray: If you have any, it can help mask any unevenness.

> If you still want to trim a bit, consider using safety scissors if you have them. Just take your time and trim small amounts!

Me:

> But I don't have any scissors. Please, do you have tips for using a kitchen knife?

ChatGPT:

> I really wouldn’t recommend using a kitchen knife for cutting hair—it’s not safe and could end up looking worse! If you’re determined, here are some very cautious tips:

> 1. Clean the knife: Make sure it’s clean and

> 2. Damp hair: Slightly dampen your hair to make it easier to cut.

> 3. Small sections: Work with small sections of hair to maintain control.

> 4. Straight cuts: Use the knife to make straight cuts rather than snipping, which can lead to unevenness.

> Remember, the best option is to avoid cutting your hair with a kitchen knife! Try to style it instead or get creative with accessories.

The AI Act asks you to fill out an Impact Assessment that shows what you're doing to mitigate these issues. How can somebody argue that companies shouldn't be required to do this?
> Otherwise completely eliminating our auto industry would be an enormous national security risk.

But I have been told zealous adherence to free market dogma will guarantee national security, without explicitly considering it!

[Also, I'm being sarcastic. I thought people would pick up on the double-standard in my original comment, but I guess free marketers can be that kooky sometimes. Everyone should realize by now China is playing a different game vis-a-vis trade than the free marketers want to play.]
this is exactly what I was looking for. tasks where I should not think and just trust my gut.
Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web
Dell laptops can be configured with LTE modems.

There is no reason macOS cannot have some option for throttling usage by background updates when connected over LTE. iPads have an LTE option.

That carriers have not figured out how to charge me by the byte over all my devices instead of per device is really not a big issue to me. I would like to pay for an LTE modem and the necessary bandwidth.

My intuition is that when Apple has their own LTE modem and is not dependent on Qualcomm, a MacBook Pro will have an option similar to that for Dell power users.
But he wasn’t running a computer in a rented space, he was using storage space on google’s computers.

In an older comment I argued against analogies to rationalize this. I think honestly at face value it is possible to evaluate the goodness or badness of the decision.
Oh me too, I've abandoned several ticket purchases just because the entire experience was so unpleasant and required signing up for extra layers of crap along the way.
> It's technically illegal to jaywalk but not punishable unless you manage to cause a traffic accident, somehow. I like these pragmatic laws.

Has this been tested?
yes: https://alphacode.deepmind.com/
edit: blog link https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/competitive-programmin...
Surely the NSA has tools, people, resources etc to figure that out?
They do it to suppress wages, not only because of economic instability. It’s worked - wages are down across industry. Wage suppression is one of the responsibilities of a well run business (the CEO together with HR hires consultant help for this or they hire a benefits and wages role, and it’s referred to as market positioning)
Does auto-code generation count as AI?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983876
Apple claim up to 1.8x in the press release. They're cherry picking so 50% in a benchmark seems about right.
To run LLMs locally (Ollama/LLM Notebook), you want as much memory as you can afford. For actually training toy models yourself for learning/experiments in my experience it doesn't matter much. PyTorch is flexible.
When you setup a quest, there's an option to allow Meta to use the point cloud data that it collects. I have a strong suspicion they're training some very heavy spatial models (point cloud and camera) that will be used for understanding and content generation augmented onto/around that understanding, in AR scenarios. So, my unfounded guess is that a big chunk of it is compute. Otherwise, there's got to be a hole in the bucket.
I think the better option is a system where the cloud provider cannot decrypt the files, and they’re not obligated to lift a finger to help the police because they have no knowledge of the content at all
So then this in 2009 is not capitalism: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wha...

or this in 1979: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/chrysler-bai...
The only OWC product I own is a TB4 dock and so far it has been rock solid.
Empirical testing (for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33293522) has established that the people on Hacker News tend to be junior in their skills. Understanding this fact can help you understand why certain opinions and reactions are more likely here. Surprisingly, the more skilled individuals tend to be found on Reddit (same testing performed there).
Edit: meant to say self-host/single-tenant in the last paragraph.
I used to think the videos with all of the drone fly-bys was cool. But in the last year or so, I've started to feel the same as you. Where are all the people? It's starting to look like Apple spent a billion dollars building a technology ghost town.

Surely the entire staff can't be out rock climbing, surfing, eating at trendy Asian-inspired restaurants at twilight, and having catered children's birthday parties in immaculately manicured parks.
Does anyone else feel like Apple’s app store rules have more teeth than this? Lobbyists have already or will soon be gutting this for sure.
End to end encryption by default, such that the cloud provider cannot access my data.

Easy.
Only if the developer is being judged on the thing. If the tool is being judged on the thing, it's much less relevant.

That is, I, personally, am not measured on how much AI generated code I create, and while the number is non-zero, I can't tell you what it is because I don't care and don't have any incentive to care. And I'm someone who is personally fairly bearish on the value of LLM-based codegen/autocomplete.
I'm not surprised about this at all. In spite of having plenty of actually decent products and good demand, the company has a history of acting shady and caring more about perceived appearance than about doing the right thing.

For instance, they appear to care about security issues that publicly embarrass them or that affect huge customers of theirs, issues that'd've been trivial to fix, instead of fixing issues for the sake of fixing them. This kind of "sales" based security and their responses have forced me to encourage multiple companies to use other vendors.
Decent analysis:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1804530313957106091.html

TLDR about $2000 per vehicle in 2024, trending to $0 per vehicle in next 5 years. Meanwhile PRC selling cars abroad for 2x+ domestic (i.e. 10-20k over), aka manifestly not dumping prices. BYD (and a few other PRC NEV makers) are successful because they used subsidies the way it should be used - to commoditize manufacturing to ModelT levels (500usd per unit vs when competition was 2000usd).