skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since there's a human behind the wheel, I'll ask:

Are you actually measuring the load-time bottlenecks in devTools?

I don't know the exact details but it appears a lot of sites are sitting around waiting on ad-tech to get delivered before they finish loading content.
> This hardware is really being held back by the operating system at this point.

Apple could either create a 2U rack hardware and support Linux (and I mean Apple supporting it, not hobbysts), or have a build of Darwin headless that could run on that hardware. But in the later case, we probably wouldn't have much software available (though I am sure people would eventually starting porting software to it, there is already MacPorts and Homebrew and I am sure they could be adapted to eventually run in that platform).

But Apple is also not interested in that market, so this will probably never happen.
They kind of took that quote out of context. In another article he begins the quote with something like "I'm completely making this up but imagine...". It wasn't completely serious. His real example was more around using AI to help moderators so they are focussed less on grunt work and more on community. Sounds sensible. In reality though I think he just thought it would be fun to give Digg another shot - and why not?
I got an old dell mfp 3115 from a business that was moving for about a hundred bucks. I've never replaced the toner since I got it almost a decade ago and still have a compatible replacements. I've printed hundreds and hundreds of pages. I'll probably use it for the rest of my life or until I can't get the drivers to work. If you have the space something like that is an option.
This is actually reasonable.

I just brought 2 laptops in the last 12 months, so I'm not rushing to buy this, but it's a great deal for the typical person.
I really wish Apple would make a MacBook Air variant with display quality on par with the iPad Pro or MacBook Pro (ProMotion/120hz and XDR/HDR, at least). The screen quality is the only reason I currently use the Pro despite its chunkier weight, since the local compute/memory of the Air is already plenty for me (and most users).

The iPad Pro proves that weight and battery life is no excuse here for the lack of state-of-the-art display tech in the MacBook Air. And as for cost — the base 14” MacBook Pro M4 (at $1600) isn’t significantly more expensive than the 15” MacBook Air M4 configured with same CPU/RAM/SSD (at $1400).

It’s really quite a shame that the iPad Pro hardware is in many way a better MacBook Air than the MacBook Air, crippled primarily by iOS rather than hardware.
Tbh I'm not at all worried about any of the party drugs you mentioned. If you took 1mg of each of those, at the same time you would feel about the same as you do after a cup of coffee (the amphetamines are relevant at that dose, MDMA/THC/ketamine would be deeply sub-threshold).

At the nanogram level? Forget it. There's all kinds of crap in everything we eat, drink, and breathe. Dose makes the poison - there's a big difference between a detectable level of something and a clinically significant amount. You'd be better off improving the ventilation in your house than worrying about whether your lettuce has 1PPT of cocaine metabolite in it.

Note that all of the above is about the party drugs. I have no idea about what the deal is with the psychiatric meds and hormones. If anyone has knowledge of whether chronic exposure to extremely small quantities of them and their métabolites has clinical significance I'd be interested to know more. I sort of doubt it, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong
As someone that had a 2011 MacBook Pro for I think 9 years and loved it, be glad you’ve skipped over the whole butterfly keyboard/Touch Bar era.

I now have an M2 Air and have zero complaints, it’s the best computing device I’ve ever owned. You’re going to really enjoy the M4.
As someone who’s been laptop shopping recently, the problem with most non-Apple options is that in exchange for RAM and storage been cheap and/or upgradable, they make significant sacrifices in various areas compared to MacBooks. This is insanely frustrating to me, I don’t know why generic PC manufacturers can’t seem to manage to build a small laptop that is as good of an all-rounder as the Air is and not also come with aspects that suck for no good reason.
What population are you talking about that a full half of them get sent {deck,dick,dock,duck,dyck} photos?
Both work fine for charging, so seems like best of both worlds to me.
I get nearly 10Gbps from my NAS to my Mac Studio. It absolutely can handle that bandwidth. It may not handle that specific client well for unrelated reasons.
It's just not an easy task. I can't help but compare it to the Nouveau project spending years of effort to reverse-engineer just a few GPU designs. Then Nvidia changed their software and hardware architecture, and things went from "relatively hopeful" to "there is no chance" overnight.
"I wonder how the economics work to push the price down."

Nomads and colonisers mostly. Interesting keywords/phrases to look into might include janjaweed, Muammar Ghadaffi, Omar al-Bashir, genocide in Darfur, United Arab Emirates, anglo-egyptian forces.

There are also tangential events worth looking into, like the 1998 attack on the Al-Shifa factory.
If you don't want your corporation's supply chain at risk, maybe use your lobbying dollars to ask the executive branch to actually support foreign nations rather than let them fall into civil war.

Sudan has had a military dictatorship from 1989-2019 (led by Omar al-Bashir).

In 2017, both President Obama and President Trump lifted sanctions on Sudan, after al-Bashir reneged on a promise to step down just two years earlier.

In 2018/2019, price hikes resulted in massive protests and a subsequent revolution against al-Bashir. This finally resolved in 2019, when a joint military-civilian political agreement, constitution, and council were formed. At that point, lots of aid was needed in order to rebuild and stabilize the country, but as usual, actually getting that money was difficult. The bulk of it came from Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

In 2021, there were two more coups.

In 2023, a new civil war broke out between the military dictatorship and a paramilitary branch of it. That war is still persisting. War crimes are rampant, mass-murder and genocide persist, almost the entire country cannot afford food. The main backer of the paramilitary group preventing the conflict from ending is the UAE.
It is actually quite difficult, which is one of the best things about democracy, but if you spend enough money over enough decades and infiltrate or destroy enough institutions, social norms etc. anything is possible.
moot point if tok/s benchmark results are the same or worse.
I can't speak to the Airs, but I went from an Intel Pro to a M3 Pro in a previous job and the battery life improved massively. I used to be able to heat my study by running a linter, but after the switch I remained chilly. I'm now on a M2 and have broadly observed the same.
I think this will eventually morph into apples server fleet. This in conjunction with the ai server factory they are opening makes a lot of sense.
Also to note, a typical macbooks' life span is more than ~5years - so are the target audience
Darwin is a terrible server operating system. Even getting a process to run at server boot reliably is a nightmare.
I do. I also type en-dashes where appropriate, and ellipses, and balanced quotes.
No competition among the Linux userbase - which is a client segment that you want to avoid at all costs.
>Look if it is saved in the smartphone's address book, why does it matter if it is email or a phone number.

Because when people interact with each other in informal situations, it's the phone numbers that are shared. Not email addresses. Thus, email addresses are often not in the Contacts app at all.
The last time they "innovated" on macbooks we got a touch bar (ignoring M chips). I'm good with incremental improvements if we can avoid those gigantic blunders.
> the Intel customers are still the ones they're trying to target

Definitely. I have ZERO rational reasons to upgrade from my lowest-spec first-gen Air M1. I use it everyday and speed and battery life are still way more than I need.
> There is so much hopelessness from my friends.

That's how a dictatorship works.

People need to be hopeless and don't trust politics anymore and give up.

Don't. They will make your life a bit more miserable every week untill you have to wait weeks in line to feed your kids ( => communism)
If you are familiar with pacer or ACMS - it is an old antiquated system. You can’t submit PDFs for example generated from anything other than Adobe Acrobat or exported from Microsoft word.
Lots of stories where the murderer survives the military and comes back to rape and murder back in Russia.

Not exactly a win for all parties...
> Yes; UUIDs are huge 128-bit values and many popular embedded platforms are 32-bit.

Size is irrelevant because UUIDs are meant to be used as is (see my other comment). `b210cdca-5d10-4c2e-a604-0fdd9502f02b` has no intrinsic meaning as a number 236689833926310967579631802650001076267; every parsing and formatting against UUID can be done bytewise for that reason.

> If your app needs them in MP that's what extension types are for.

No, I mean that why aren't UUIDs built-in (negative) extension types. I'm not talking about application-specific types which would be literally anything by definition, and CBOR does support such "private" tags (starting at 80000) if you want anyway [1].

[1] In fact, I would argue that about a half of tags past them should be made private.

> there's no use-case for a generic CBOR (or MP) decoder on its own. JSON/XML/HTML won in that space (you know things are bad when there are more public XML APIs than public CBOR APIs).

And that's your claim, not the verifiable fact. Public CBOR APIs are now starting to appear (even though very slowly), while I have never seen a single public MP API---please let me know if there is. CBOR API is rare mainly because CBOR is new. The same thing can't be said for MP API, which existed much longer than CBOR. MP API is even rare if not non-existent because of some other reason. Maybe we can tell whether CBOR API was indeed rare for the same reason as MP API in, say, 10 years though.

> CBOR really wants this to not be true; it really wants to be the binary JSON despite the fact this is more or less an oxymoron.

So, everything you claimed seems to be ultimately originated from this line of thought. And you know what? Needs for binary JSON were always high, otherwise we didn't even need any sort of schematic serialization and so many people tried to design one! CBOR is probably one of the best alternatives as binary JSON we have ever seen. (Again, that doesn't mean that MP is not one of them. But I will avoid any sort of irrelevant judgement here.) Maybe you may have been right, but I think there is no concrete evidence for nor against your claim right now.

It is not true that I'm totally satisfied about CBOR, of course. Some tags are proposed too late to undo harm already done, like private tags I've mentioned. Bormann in particular seems to be more interested in adding more tags instead of doing the most out of the optimal number of tags, and I don't like his attitude in general. So my ideal is actually somewhere between CBOR and MP, it just happens that it can be implemented as a subset of CBOR and MP is just insufficient.
.. if you are someone that even ventures into areas that lack proper cell coverage. I don't think most people do.
Using the NPU numbers grossly overstates the AI performance of the Apple Silicon hardware, so they're actually giving Apple the benefit of the doubt.

Most AI training and inference (including generative AI) is bound by large scale matrix MACs. That's why nvidia fills their devices with enormous numbers of tensor cores and Apple / Qualcomm et al are adding NPUs, filling largely the same gap. Only nvidia's not only are a magnitude+ more performant, they've massively more flexible (in types and applications), usable for training and inference, while Apple's is only even useful for a limited set of inference tasks (due to architecture and type limits).

Apple can put the effort in and making something actually competitive with nvidia, but this isn't it.
> but where are the Democrats?

Voted out of power.
My read on Slashdot was that we need to separate out the folks who built the site from those who run it.

The original authors executed an exit strategy. They sold the site, got a bunch of money, and left to work on new things.

The various new owners (of which there have been a few) have never been ambitious about expanding Slashdot, either in technical or social scope.
I didn't say it was novel. It's just not something you see in modern languages.
most non-Mac laptops have a spare slot for an SSD (and the original one is likely replaceable), with RAM being replaceable too. Why wouldn't the desktop prices apply here too?
I'm curious why not. I am running a few different models on my mac studio. I'm using llama.cpp, and it performs amazingly fast for the $7k I spent.
The US was manifestly not tough during the Obama years, and that was a mistake -- since Russia then tried to invade the whole country in 2022.

I don't really understand the rest of your comment, since it sounds like you haven't been reading the news since 2022.
> things like immediately reversing course on military support for the only country at war with Russia

America has a tremendous interest in not being at war with the world’s second largest nuclear power. We also have no interest in sacrificing good relations with Russia for the sake of Ukraine.
Keep in mind the minimum configuration that has 512GB of unified RAM is $9,499.
The solution is to require ships to be inspected and registered if they want to sail through Denmarks territorial waters.
Not sure I understand. What are the two axes?

Clarity and difficulty? If so what are examples?

- Clarity high, difficulty high: Iron Man

- Clarity high, difficulty low: online shopping

- Clarity low, difficulty low: ??

- Clarity low, difficulty high: starting a new business
I love the headline, very clever :)
The whole point of Apple's pricing strategy over the past few years is that since they have a monopoly on storage/RAM upgrades, they can price base model computers at margins below what they'd normally be comfortable with, and then gouge users on the upgrade costs to claw back some of those margins. That's how they're able to charge $400 for an extra 16GB of RAM.
Face ID, taking pictures, Siri, ARKit, voice-to-text transcription, face recognition and OCR in photos, noise filtering, ...
Exactly - the court system does not accept PDFs generated by most open source tools. Pretty crazy.

Adobe and Microsoft must love that.
The form factor (in particular the aspect ratio) is unfortunately not ideal for that.

The original Surface RT might have had the best form factor I've used for plane movies - 16:9 screen with built-in kickstand. 16:9 is sub-par for basically everything other than tv/movies though.
That's how most humans died except the last 100 years or so
The link is that autistic people are cool and awesome, and therefore are more likely to do other cool things, such as be transgender or gender non-conforming.
> lack of robust python support

There is no such thing. Tell me, which combination of the 15+ virtual environments, dependency management and Python version managers would you use? And how would you prevent "project collision" (where one Python project bumps into another one and one just stops working)? Example: SSL library differences across projects is a notorious culprit.

Python is garbage and I don't understand why people put up with this crap unless you seriously only run ONE SINGLE Python project at a time and do not care what else silently breaks. Having to run every Python app in its own Docker image (which is the only real solution to this, if you don't want to learn Nix, which you really should, because it is better thanks to determinism... but entails its own set of issues) is not a reasonable compromise.

Was so glad when the Elixir guys came out with this recently, to at least be able to use Python, but in a very controlled, not-insane way: https://dashbit.co/blog/running-python-in-elixir-its-fine
At least one of them worked as a hostel cleaner until she was elected, and at least one of them was a temp worker who did odd jobs and gig work in parallel to his political action with 'La Jeune Garde'
Silly

The point is to make America prosperous, which will happen with businesses investing in the US, wages going up, cost going down, buracracy cut.

What does Europe have now? Can’t compete with China
Definitely can’t compete with US.

The age of the 60 days vacation is over for Europe, when ur peers are competing with 0 holidays (Chinas 996)

Tell me realistically, how is Europe getting out of this?
Your problem is a structural crisis. You would need a reform of your voting system to effect a stabilization of the political system, o.e. abolish fptp and gerrymandering. I don't see that happen.
So you are fucked.
I haven't had any issue running BiglyBT on my M1 MacBook, granted I don't run it all day every day but everything runs plenty fast for my needs (25-30 MB/s for well-seeded torrents).
no nano texture? :(
I think Slashdot died when Cmdrtaco sold out, not for any real nefarious reason, but simply that it was no longer "a list of things Cmdrtaco was interested in" but had spread so wide that it was more of a mish-mash. Early on it was nice, because if you liked the things Cmdrtaco was interested in, you'd like almost every post (even if you got mad at it). Once it was wide, it was harder to follow.

Digg had a similar issue, but was more "active" for awhile. Reddit really "solved" the problem by having subreddits so you could curate what you were interested in.

Also, the people who were using /. grew up, and there wasn't really replacement people.
Apple’s innovation strategy is not to take risky moves. They are more of a fast, competent follower company. Even iPods were a slightly conservative implementation of MP3 players, which were already becoming a thing at the time (you could even get mp3 players with solid state, albeit flash, drives while Apple’s iPods were still spinning rust).

Of course iPods became very popular because they put it all in a package that gave it a UX that non-nerds wanted to use. The flash drive style MP3 players… had tiny capacities, they had to be “managed” by the users. iPods, just dump your whole hard drive on the thing. That solid state memory is much better in a mobile device… I mean, my Sandisk player, I’ll give it an A+ on reliability. C- on capacity. Apple always gets a B in every field.

Their next thing was supposed to be VR. But nobody could find an application for VR, so Apple’s gimmick of taking something with a perfect idea and making a copy that is almost as good at the thing it does right, but which doesn’t have any massive downsides, didn’t work.

They are in a tough spot now, the tech sector seems to have lost its dreamers and so nobody is making these A+/C- devices for them to level out.
Easy solution- seize any tanker coming from a Russian port. Revoke all insurance or bullshit maritime chicanery that allows hiding the beneficial owner.

Why even have sanctions if you don't enforce them.
You just know that the AI will leak out of 'moderation' use cases and into ginning up content and affecting your feed.
My M1 Max Mac Studio also feels very good even though it's probably full of dust and cleaning it isn't reasonable.
It’s not that different. Europe is largely irrelevant to us.
If a certain someone was indeed a KGB asset - would they behave any different than they are now?
I use F2. Unlike the arrow keys, I don't have to move my hands and I can hit it reliably. I use it enough that I want it within reach, but not so often that I need it on the home row, and all Ctrl combinations there are already tied to emacs operations in my mind.
It's an extraordinary claim. I think the reason I dismiss it as unlikely as when I look back at the steel dossier and muler investigation 1) if there was something, it's very likely they would have found it then 2) in hindsight both investigations were completely discredited and shown to be largely a institutional response to the shock which was 2016. This current re-emergence of 'trump is a Russian agent' is kinda surprising in that context. 3) I think the current behavior can be explained by a desire to end the conflict, while feeling no particular allegiance to Ukraine.
Depend if you chose the right target, pretty clearly they didn't.
the fact that a macbook doesn't have storage on an m.2 slot is incredibly frustrating. My m1 drive failed and they had to replace the whole damn motherboard because they soldered the storage in. Just incredibly wasteful practice just to, i guess, shave a mm or two off the things depth.
Half a terabyte could run 8 bit quantized versions of some of those full size llama and deepseek models. Looking forward to seeing some benchmarks on that.
And integrals are the sum of things.
I miss The Totally Rad Show on Revision3. I miss Revision3.

I miss Veronica Belmont and Patrick Norton.

I guess everyone's moved on to bigger and better things, though.
If Apple supported Linux (headless) natively, and we could rack m4 pros, I absolutely would use them in our Colo.

The CPUs have zero competition in terms of speed, memory bandwidth. Still blown away no other company has been able to produce Arm server chips that can compete.
Apple has already been in this spot. With the TrashCan MacPro, there was an issue with DaVinci Resolve under OS X at the time where the GPU was cause render issues. If you then rebooted into Windows with BootCamp using the exact same hardware and open up the exact same Resolve project with the exact same footage, the render errors disappeared. Apple blamed Resolve. DaVinci blamed GPU drivers. GPU blamed Apple.
Only 3/4 NS pipes were blown and in 2 places miles apart. The first explosion was likely and accident, the second intentional.
Mid-2014 MBP, that's amazing. Did you buy it new? And actually used it since 2014?
.Net Core MVC with Bootstrap CSS and a markdown file for each blog post.

Github CI/CD publishes my main branch to Azure AppService.

Blog: https://clintmcmahon.com
I remember that period as the one where non-nude sexual images of children was a huge problem on reddit, but it wasn't specifically against the rules. The admins were doing things like working closely with, even giving out a mod of the year award to, violenacrez, the guy who created and maintained r/jailbait and r/creepshots¹ as well as dozens of similar subs. The material itself was bad enough but it was extremely obvious to everyone that these subs were being used for people to meet and DM each other CSAM.

And then of course that period basically ended with gamergate, for whom reddit was one of the central venues to choose targets and organize harassment campaigns from. Also not against the rules at the time, since the harassment happened elsewhere and was only coordinated on reddit.

Reddit has always sucked.

¹ Both explicitly intended for sharing sexual & sexualized photos of minors
> the US has also formally blocked its allies from sharing US intelligence with Ukraine

Terrifying.
You’re making it seem like they’re hiding that information under a footnote. The real text on the page, which is quite visible, is:

> Up to 23x faster than fastest Intel‑based MacBook Air

And right next to it:

> Up to 2x faster than MacBook Air (M1)

The footnotes are there to expand on the conditions of the measurements.

So not exactly misleading. On the contrary, it seems to me they’re quite clearly saying “if you have an Intel or M1 MacBook Air you have reason to upgrade. Otherwise, don’t”.

https://i.imgur.com/pEWPXzK.png
Behavior like this is why I'm fairly convinced OpenAI took out a hit on Suchir. The singularity/AI doom pseudo-religion really messes some people up.