skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but these "Ultra" chips do target the same niche as (some) high-TDP chips.

Workstations (like the Mac Studio) have traditionally been a space where "enthusiast"-grade consumer parts (think Threadripper) and actual server parts competed. The owner of a workstation didn't usually care about their machine's TDP; they just cared that it could chew through their workloads as quickly as possible. But, unlike an actual server, workstations didn't need the super-high core count required for multitenant parallelism; and would go idle for long stretches — thus benefitting (though not requiring) more-efficient power management that could drive down baseline TDP.
What are GPS sats if not artificial stars used for celestial nav? (In a roundabout way, no pun intended)
It was fascinating hearing LTT talk about how much less money they get from Adsense than from their own embedded ads.

They only do two 15-second embedded ads per video, and they make an order of magnitude more money through their in-house ad sales. That is even factoring in the amount of skips, ad-blocking, and the minutes of ads Google puts on their videos.

Which begs the question: Do Google's video ads just really suck? Are they just really bad at delivering ads and getting buyers? Is that why they have to shove so many into each video now?
I returned an M2 Max studio with 96GB RAM, unquantized llama 70B 3.1 was dog slow, not an interactive pace. I'm interested in offline LLM but couldn't see how it was going to produce $3,000 ROI.
There are wifi drivers; you just have to install them separately because they use broadcom chips. It's a proprietary blob. The other things do work, but it requires special packages and you'll need an external keyboard while installing. It's a pain to install, for sure, but it's not insurmountably difficult to get it installed.

Apple Silicon chips are arguably more compatible with Asahi Linux [1], but that's largely in thanks to the hard work of Marcan, who's stepped down as project lead from the project [2].

Overall I still think the right choice is to find a laptop better suited for the purpose of running linux on it, just something that requires more careful consideration than people think. Framework laptops, which seem well suited since ideologically it meshes well with linux users, can be a pain to set up as well.

[1] https://asahilinux.org/

[2] https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-l...
That would've been a much better comment in the first place. I do understand where you're coming from, though. In my case, however, a single Brewfile is enough.
>Even oligarchs don't like to light money on fire.

Russia's war with Ukraine is not profitable for Russian oligarchs or Russia itself yet it continues
The market for local inference and $10k+ Macs is not nearly significant enough to effect the big boys.
Why stop there? LLMs will free us from the shackles of having to ship actual code, instead we'll ship natural language descriptions and JIT them at runtime. It may use orders of magnitude more resources and only work half of the time but imagine the Developer Velocity™
> So when do we put up GPS satellites around Mars?

A system like GPS? Probably never. It would be fantastically expensive and solve a problem that no one has. In any case, the moons would be a poor choice for signal transmitters: 1. landers are harder than satellites 2. two moons is not enough for a system like GPS 3. three-body problems mean that we can't really know the future configurations of the system with high precision on anything but the very short scale.

In any case, it costs something like $700 million per year to operate the GPS system here on Earth.
>While there are some pharmaceutical compounds detectable in crop tissue, the levels are extremely small–in the nanogram per gram (or parts per billion) range

I was somewhat skeptical about this given all the headline I've seen about birth control causing hormones to be in the water supply, but it checks out.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20977246/

>This paper reviews the literature regarding various sources of estrogens, in surface, source and drinking water, with an emphasis on the active molecule that comes from OCs. It includes discussion of the various agricultural, industrial, and municipal sources and outlines the contributions of estrogenic chemicals to the estrogenicity of waterways and estimates that the risk of exposure to synthetic estrogens in drinking water on human health is negligible
It's not either/or. I also strongly support major changes to agricultural and food policy.

For what it's worth, my property is suburban. It's a post-war subdivision with rather large lots, we just choose to use most of ours productively. Food and timber for us, native plants for the critters, grass be damned. When we commuted, we lived in a denser area with better transit access, but neither my wife nor I have had a commute since before the pandemic.
> What does it mean to "address memory in powers of two" ? There are certainly machines with non-power-of-two memory quantities; 96 GiB is common for example.

I challenge you to show me any SKU from any memory manufacturer that has a power of 10 capacity. Or a CPU whose address space is a power of 10. This is an unavoidable artefact of using a binary address bus.

> The metric prefixes based on powers of 10 have been around since the 1790s.

And Babylonians used power of 60, what gives?
except nowadays, so many people are on medication that the urine may be contaminated by other chemicals.
It's one of those things where once you have used it, you will notice it. Given most iOS users aren't swapping between pro and non pro models, it's not something you think about.
Top-ish utilities should just be preconfigured to only show RSS unless you absolutely need to know what's virt. A lot of griping would diminish.

There are many specialized allocation patterns -- especially for larger system things like DBs, virtual machine / runtimes etc. -- that will mmap large regions and then only actually use part of it. Many angry fingers get pointed often without justification.
Israel has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

If you adjust for population, that's like Mexico bombing nearly every building in the US and killing 8 million people.

Hamas is the aggressor only in a very immediate sense. Israel holds millions of Palestinians under military occupation, steals more and more of their land over time, and kills Palestinians all the time. From January 1st through October 7th 2023, when there was no war going on, Israel killed 234 Palestinians in the West Bank. That's just business as usual for Israel.
Monetization opportunities include: pay-per-jump and Abominable Snow Monster rescue fee.
> People who have been left behind by Apple's push towards phablets

It's my impression that Apple really tried to service this market - that last model was probably the iPhone 13 mini. I assume that there just isn't enough demand for smaller phones to justify the effort to develop them.

I was honestly hoping that we'd get a small phone as the iPhone SE 4. But it seems like that's not to be. At least, if the 16e is the closest we'll get to an SE in the near term.
Because some people would pay the same price (or even more) as a MacBook Pro to have a great screen in a thinner, lighter laptop that shouldn't cost Apple that much more to make.

Like how the MacBook Air was originally a premium-priced product instead of an entry-level product in Apple's lineup.
The Linux version, in a container no less, handles the entire gigabit bandwidth.

And let's be clear, it wasn't the app that had problems, the Apple Remote Desktop connection to the machine failed when the speeds got above 40MB/s and the network interface stopped working around 80MB/s.

I think Transmission works perfectly fine. I've been using it for 10+ years with no issues at all on Linux.

I forgot to mention this is a Mac mini/Intel (2018).
I knew Elon had a lot of kids but I hadn't heard of him being anyone's mom!
In fact, with AI becoming more powerful, the <canvas> tag might soon become even more viable; because nobody will need ARIA tags or similar to tell them what’s on screen. The AI screen reader will look at the website as a whole and talk to the user. With accessibility no longer required, and with any UI being just a dumb framebuffer, we’ll finally see perfect chaos.
Guess they have usage statistics to know a lot of their users are still on M1.

My partner and I are both still on M1 (our personal machines) and don’t really see the need to upgrade.
There's a saying about engineering, "Anyone can design a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to design a bridge that barely stands."

I might rephrase that for our field: anyone can design software that works. It takes an engineer to design software that barely works.
> it doesn't seem to get much updates, but that might be because it's "finished" software.

Thank the gods.
Please do some research into developmental psychology. Babies are far, far more sophisticated than you seem to believe.
Apples to oranges. NVIDIA cards have an order of magnitude more horsepower for compute than this thing. A B100 has 8 TB/s of memory bandwidth, 10 times more than this. If NVIDIA made a card with 512GB of HBM I'd expect it to cost $150K.

The compute and memory bandwidth of the M3 Ultra is more in-line with what you'd get from a Xeon or Epyc/Threadripper CPU on a server motherboard; it's just that the x86 "way" of doing things is usually to attach a GPU for way more horsepower rather than squeezing it out of the CPU.

This will be good for local LLM inference, but not so much for training.
I did a test with urine comparing it to other fertilizers a few years ago when I grew medical marijuana. Diluted about 1:10 it was pretty great. A little less growth than regular complete fertilizers but still quite good. I was surprised, I thought the sodium would be too high.

Storing urine is about as ghastly as you might imagine and smells almost exactly like a bad truck stop bathroom.
It's not a directly mappable to a register-based microprocessor but it's directly mappable to a stack-based microprocessor.

e.g. The PSC 1000 microprocessor (1994) could run Java directly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignite_(microprocessor)

Stack-based microprocessors tend to perform worse than register-based ones and I assume there wasn't a huge reason to develop a Java-on-chip for a "Java computer.” (1) It would have not run non-Java software easily and (2) the future of stack-based microprocessors wasn't as bright.
You've never heard about it because it's not newsworthy.

You should rather wonder why do you hear so much of it now.
Auth.openai.com Down
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/auth.openai.com?proto=ht...
I think you mean either SVR or FSB; the KGB hasn't existed for quite a while.
Are you a lawyer? Why do you only ask questions to which you already know the answer?

Snark aside in case you're seriously asking, it's a PR thing. Generation to generation might not show much differences in direct comparisons that makes the crowd ooh and ahh. The M1 chip was the first Apple Silicone chip, so going back to their first one for basis of comparison provides for more oohs and ahhs. The charts look pretty this way too.
Software Architecture Is More Than Boxes and Arrows
I'm not confused at all. It's the real numbers. Feel free to provide anything that suggests that the TOPS of the GPU in M chips are faster than the dedicated hardware for it. But you can't, cause it's not true. If you think Apple added the neural engine just for fun then I don't know what to tell you.

You have a fundamental flaw in your understanding of how both chips work. Not using the tensor cores would be slower, and the same goes for apples neural engine. The numbers are both for the hardware both have implemented for maximum performance for this task.
Isn't the rack-mounted Mac Pro supposedly "server-grade" (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro/rack)?

At least judging by the mounts, they want them to be used that way, even though the CPU might not fit with the de facto industry label for "server-grade".
Apparently it's a non issue, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43268848
You need an AWS Region for that...
This is a long time coming. To see through an idea from start to finish and make this span an entire field instead of a sub chapter in a dynamic programming book.

I wish a lot more games actually ended up using RL - the place where all of this started in the first place - would be really
cool!
>this fetishism to dig into another person’s personal life and find the most weird thing they said as the thing that paints over all of their life’s achievements as evil must stop.

This has nothing to do with his professional life. He has made these comments in a professional capacity at an industry AI conference... The rest of your comment is a total non sequitur.

>And worst of all internet gives your opinion the same weight as someone else (or the rest of us) who knows a lot about thing B that could change the world. From a strictly professional capacity.

I've worked professionally in the ML field for 7 years so don't try some appeal to authority bs on me. Geoff Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei and countless other leaders in the field all recognize and highlight the possible dangers of this technology.
They don't know the words but they definitely notice it. "Why is it so smooth/rough?"
> That doesn't mean I'm wrong, or you're wrong

There are things where the scientific consensus is so big that even if you "disagree" with it (whatever that means), you have to assume that you are wrong until you prove you aren't.

Maybe gravity doesn't exist, maybe we live in the Matrix. But for all intents and purposes, gravity does exist. If you disagree, you're wrong unless you come with evidence that shakes the scientific consensus. I mean evidence, not a mere belief that maybe gravity doesn't exist because you've read it somewhere.

If you don't believe that we humans are the cause of the biodiversity loss and climate change, today, you're wrong. And if you can't recognise that... well join a Flat Earther convention and have fun there, I don't have time for this here.
"EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine – report"

Isn't this comparing government spending to consumer spending? Because that energy is paid for by the population at the end the line directly.
I think this is a little pedantic or maybe I'm just being too ambiguous lol. I'll try to make my thoughts more clear as it's likely the latter.

You're absolutely right that drones have been used for awhile, but that has mainly been for reconnaissance and some extremely expensive predator drones. The idea of having thousands of small consumer grade drones mass produced cheaply to terrorize a much larger army by dropping grenades on soldiers and live streaming it on the internet is definitely a new development. There are drone swarms covering our major military ships as well and it's unknown whether it's our own military doing it as part of a black ops program (I assume it's possible, but highly unlikely) or a hostile foreign power doing recon. Russian tanks are also getting dissected by RPGs at an unexpected rate. The Ukrainians took out major Russian warships by distracting the ship with drones and then ramming it with a jet ski torpedo.

Modern militaries are scrambling to find new technology and strategies for how to handle these new capabilities.
Or.. USB naming schemes..
Note that 404 < 512
Maybe we're all idiots who look at some irrelevant numbers and declare the sky is falling. Or maybe we notice everything running really slowly because the computer is constantly paging.
Broken in this context means being able to determine the input nonce that generates a hash with enough leading zeros to mine a bitcoin block with much less energy and time than brute forcing random nonces does now. Then you could mine bitcoin blocks with no power expense and always be first. You would have to be careful about how many blocks you mine to not make people suspicious.
It's pretty squarely in the FAA's territory.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/40103

> Rep. Julie Jarvis, R-Casper, said she voted against the override because President Donald Trump and FAA have assured the public the drones are friendly and authorized.

> It is a federal felony to destroy aircraft. Provenza worries the bill makes law enforcement agents federally culpable.
I know you know what paying for something means, so I don't know why you wasted your time on this comment.
It's interesting to me that there's such a big difference between our experiences, even though the bug we find is the same. I'm running an M3 Pro 15.3 Sonoma. If you don't believe me I can provide a screen recording but from here yes, it's buggy, but it's such a small issue (milliseconds vs your seconds) that I'd give Apple a pass on this. But I get that you wouldn't!
Fortran. Had to use it for some obscure projects a while back.

It’s still kicking.
Pee in a cup or jug at home and take it outside.
In the days before USB-C, MagSafe was great. Tripping on the cable and it snapping off safely was really cool.

These days, it's an anti-feature. I have USB-C for everything, why would I give that up?
Enterprise tier adds the ability to disable users being devoured by the yeti?
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That's fewer opcodes than a 6502 or Z80 microprocessor.
I'm not really moaning about the cost or lack of upgradability. I mean, I don't like it but at least you know what you're getting into. I just always assumed Linux as a backup was an option, and more and more OSX is annoying me (last 2 or 3 days it keeps dropping bluetooth for 30 seconds) and more and more I just find the interface distracting. Plus whether it works with external displays over USB C is a crapshoot.

I'll miss the battery life of the M1 chips, and I'm going to have to re-learn how to type (CTRL instead of ALT, fn rarely being on the left, I use fn+left instead of CTRL A in terminals) but otherwise, I think I'm done.
Principles and Techniques for Designing Precision Machines – Hale [pdf] 1999
Water would boil on the moon, any ice would sublimate. You would be better off just compacting the regolith.
Oh it doesn't have downloads so not going to be useful for me. I might just spend some dollars for a month of Premium subscription and download as much as I can, then stop until the next time I need to do so.
I am struggling to see how that chart of layoffs prove him right in the assumption that:
1) the US only produces the dollar
2) US jobs are fake

If you think DOGE is a legitimate source of determining fake jobs you are mislead and not worth listening to.
Robotics is a software problem now, see the Tesla, Figure or Unitree humanoid bots. An AI can be totally embodied and humans will have little or no value as labor at all.
This becomes very obvious to one's self if you learn an instrument or another mechanical/procedural thing. For example, cramming 4 hours into guitar is less useful than 1 hour over 4 days cause of sleep. Sometimes I will struggle with something for quite a bit towards the end of a practice session, and then I will get it right on the first try in my next session on the following day. Hell, there are so many times when I go to my guitar teacher and I tell him "yeah so i practiced this part of the assignment over the past week and I could never figure it out" and then I try to show him the issue and I play it mostly correctly to my surprise.

With something like learning a language, problem solving skills, a code base, new maths, or wtv, it is less apparent because the mind can delude itself, and it is much harder to delude yourself with actual physical movements. You either do it, or you don't...
You will have to explain to me how.
I pee on my compost and I don't see any difference to the speed of composting between a good rain vs a gallon of pee.
> Wikipedia describes Lake as having been an "evening anchor" for most of three decades. Doesn't that mean that she largely read news gathered by somebody else? (And yes, I do apply the same criteria to Dan Rather and his predecessors.)

No; the UK "newsreader" has never really had a US equivalent, because the US has never had in-vision continuity which is where UK newsreaders typically came from. Anyone on camera on US television news has in-field reporting/production experience.
The one thing that has me a bit bummed with this is that the Ultra, which I had planned to upgrade to, is only an M3 not an M4. Bit disappointing after waiting this long.
Trump says US should scrap CHIPS Act, use the cash to cut debt
Or we could just you know, not build the thing that will probably kill us all and at minimum will obsolete all our labor value.
I'm still on a wired USB full sized keyboard from at least a decade ago, but didn't the newer keyboards see the return of the power button? Did I dream that?
> We're kind of waiting for some national movement to take hold, but where are the Democrats?

If you are waiting for a national movement, its not going to happen.

If you want it to happen, you have to get out and make it.

The major political parties are big tent electoral coalitions, actual movements come from other places (whether existing organized groups or new emerging networks) and then gain the strnegth to be adopted by one or the other party, they don't usually come from the party leadership or committees, which are not structured around creating or nurturing broad social movements.
If someone broke SHA-256 the best way to use it would be to mine blocks vastly cheaper than anyone else can, and you can choose how many blocks you "win" to control suspicion.
> In a way, that’s how humans have lived for most of their existence except the last 100 years or so.

Sure. They would also die whenever there was a famine, some disease ran rampant, Mongols or crusaders pillaged everything, some recent council decreed they were all heretics, etc.
For people who upgrade annually, comparisons don’t matter.

For people who are making a forced purchase, comparisons don’t matter.

For people who are content with what they’ve got, comparing with the oldest-popular market segment offers a clear statement of improvement and helps long-term users calibrate when to make their next purchase.
There is no question that quantization degrades quality. The GGUF R1 uses Q4_K_M, which, on Llama-3-8B, increases the perplexity by 0.18[0]. Many plots show increasing degradation as you quantize more[1].

That said, it is possible to train a model in a quantization-aware way[2][3], which improves the quality a bit, although not higher than the raw model.

Also, a loss in quality may not be perceptible in a specific use-case. Famously LMArena.ai tested Llama 3.1 405B with bf16 and fp8, and the latter was only 2 Elo points below, well within measurement error.

[0]: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/q...

[1]: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/5063#discu...

[2]: https://pytorch.org/blog/quantization-aware-training/

[3]: https://mistral.ai/news/ministraux
Related:

'Shadow fleets' and sabotage: are Europe's undersea cables under attack?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265224
can't wait for all the imaginary features
Actually, all we have is Google word but we don't know exactly what this will do. Is there a proof that it will still not contact home to report whatever in some cases? Even only for a specific whitelist or government mandated secret white list? In the same way, if the Libra was pushed, there are probably things that have been pushed in other Google apps at the same time. Secretly for the moment.
Maybe the current designers and product planners will peruse this and get inspired to make a decent looking car again*

*With actual steering feel and less gimmicks please
I can see utility in something like this where someone sent you a screenshot of code and you wish to compile/execute the code in the screenshot. Anything else is a bonus. I dig the project, keep it up!