skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
of course it's not, but the ccp certainly realized the threat to its own power
Was hoping for the rumored 24 hours of battery life, but it looks like the M4 couldn't squeeze that. Still 18 hours stated, like the M3 Air:

https://www.apple.com/mac/compare/?modelList=MacBook-Air-M3,...

Looks like the only arguments for the M4 Air are:

- 32GB RAM option

- 2 more CPU cores

- 100GB/s vs 120GB/s memory bandwidth
is there an active linux support for the hardware?
Yeah man, stoicism is def amazing.

What do u mean?
> My guess is that Apple developed this chip for their internal AI efforts

what internal AI efforts?

Apple Intelligence is bunkers, and Apple MLX framework remains a hobby project for Apple
The page up to 2x faster than M1, but it's not worth upgrading from for the average person, your laptop should last longer than 4 years hence why they market to Intel Mac users.
I've always maintained that the M2 Mac Pro was really a dev kit for manufacturers of PCI parts. It's such a meaningless product otherwise.
The OS is not going to deliver random printer firmware updates without some printer manufacturer software involved.
Caffeine?! I bet people are more worried about cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, ketamine, and THC, which are all found in sewage. To not include SSRIs et. al. and anti psychotics.

This is study is European, but still shows the issue:

https://www.euda.europa.eu/news/2024/4/latest-wastewater-dat...
> gee is `foo` an alias or... did I upgrade it to a function?

which foo

On Zsh that tells you if it’s an alias, a function, or a script.
I have an M1 for reference, with only 8GB RAM which is the real limiter here. I *can* use Jetbrains IDEs and I *can* build/develop software on it. It's a bit sluggish but doable. I try to not code on that machine, but sometimes it's the only machine I have available when I need to look at something.
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html + css

Lua (roughly https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/gen_site)

VPS

Final result: https://akkartik.name
Yeah, now everyone and their mom is on the internet. And their mom probably more then they are.
The better screen and better keyboard are probably the most day to day practical reasons to upgrade. But that’s countered by the extra weight and thickness of the Pro, too. So it’s really a choice of mobility versus usage ergonomics.

The Pro is also fan cooled, but with Apple Silicon I’m not sure that matters all that much at this performance band. If you need fan cooled performance you probably want to start thinking about a Pro level SoC, at which point you’re all in on a Pro machine anyway.
you can remap modifier keys if you so inclined in keyboard settings, without additional software, and have separate settings per internal and external keyboard.
Accidental cable cuts happen all the time, but there is clear proof of intentional sabotage for some of the recent cuts.

I believe this is akin to the US flying obvious spy planes over countries at altitudes they can't stop them at even if they wanted to: a show of force, likely unrelated to how a full-on military conflict would work.

If Russia wanted to make these attacks look like an accident, they could've sent fishing ships or at least pick more believable anchor points.
Reportedly Apple is using its own silicon in data centers to run “Apple Intelligence” and other things like machine translation in safari. I suspect that the initial supply was sent to Apple’s datacenters.
I agree. Nonetheless, I agree with Siracusa that the Mac Pro makes sense as a "halo car" in the Mac lineup.

I just find it interesting that you can currently buy a M2 Ultra Mac Pro that is weaker than the Mac Studio (for a comparable config) at a higher price. I guess it "remains a product in their lineup" and we'll hear more about it later.

Additionally: If they wanted to scrap it down the road, why would they do this now?
That ship seems to have largely sailed and the trend will be hard to reverse given how cell number has started to become all-purpose ID number tracker.
I'd be tempted, but the MacBook Air M1 still kicks ass. I don't care if this is 2x faster. The M1 is still very fast.
I don't need 512GB of RAM but the moment I do I'm certain I'll have bigger things to worry about than a $10K price tag.
On the Air model? Its whole thing is being light and thin. On the Pro model, sure.
except that you cannot run multiple language models on Apple Silicon in parallel
Is it even rational to assume one is rational? Of course I think I am, but I also think basically nobody else is. Yet I'm sure they think the are, and similarly doubt I am. So is the issue that I'm a snowflake and everybody else is wrong, or is the issue that rationality does not really exist (though that does not mean it's not worth striving towards)?

It seems only rational to doubt ones rationality.
I agree that people are taught we have meritocracy that is not real, but the problem is that the billions are able to buy power, not what people think of his intelligence, to be clear.
Yeah, but AMDs memory controllers are really finnicky. That might have been more of a Strix Halo issue than a CAMM2 issue.
120hz display
Cover Letters (2008)
There is no difference in the number of screens supported when it comes to the base M4 chip.
What do you feel is a good price for that?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243075 ("Apple's Software Quality Crisis" - 1134 comments)

^ has a lot of elaborations on this subject
I "liked" the new digg after it was purchased because someone took up the mantle, but I expected it to grow into the features it was missing, even perhaps have a new diggnation podcast behind it. But it basically just sat still, hoping to just ride the domain name. It also went extreme woke since I believe the human editors were hired that way.
They don't always hit the mark but I sort of miss the times when Apple would innovate more boldly with their devices.

Apple Intelligence isn't it - it's just playing catch-up with a market that tries to slap AI onto everything it can think of.

The hardware upgrades are always nice but there's nothing 'out there' like a touch bar or even a 'dynamic island'. Just more safe iterations.
I have considered going back to Mac after about 5-7 years on Windows/WSL, but the storage premium is just too much to swallow. If the $999 was a base 16GB RAM and 512GB storage, I'd consider it. I just added another 32GB of RAM to my 2020 built desktop for $50. You can get a 1TB crucial M.2 drive for $70. I know I'm comparing apples and oranges, but the storage cost is too much, and 256GB is much too little.

Edit: to go to 32GB RAM is $400. To go to 1TB SSD is another $400. That is essentially doubling the $999 cost. $400 buys me between 4 and 6 1TB M.2 drives or 2-3 2TB M.2 drives.
I'm surprised that any useful accuracy can be obtained. Maybe an additional input to the solution would be to watch when various GPS satellites are occulted by the Earth.
Right, but physically I think the Mac left-most bottom button is fn or something instead of control but yeah just one of those things to deal with
No, with limited VRAM you could offload the model partially or split across CPU and GPU. And since CPU has swap, you could run the absolute largest model. It’s just really really slow.
Yes it's amusing when people aren't aware of the benefits. I, too, have been peeing on anticorporate's compost pile for two or three years.
No that's not what I mean, don't put words in my mouth.

> excessive legal and process red tape

I just wanna hit "Send" in my standard email client, not set up pine and debug a mail spooler
To be clear:

1) Apple releases incremental upgrades! Why won't they make huge strides every year so I can upgrade!

2) People who upgrade every year are sheeps!

3) Apple support devices for longer than Android, that's nice! (yes, not Windows though).

4) God, why do their benchmarks compare devices that are 3-5y old?!

Apple is marketing to people who have devices that are old, because they are old.

"Hey, you noticed things are slow? Well, this thing is a lot faster" is pretty good marketing if it's true, nobody except the very wealthy are dropping thousands of euros/dollars on a new device for 10% performance gains, however if it's twenty-three times the performance of the Mac I currently own? Maybe it's enough to convince me or someone like my Mum to splurge on a new device.

Maybe my current Mac is not "good enough" anymore when 23x is the number on the box if I buy new.

It's fair to compare with devices that you expect actual people to actually upgrade from, there's a lot of Intel macbook airs in the field.

Heck, even some professionals are still on Intel macs: https://www.production-expert.com/production-expert-1/25-of-...
It's honestly for the best. US has been doing two-faced politics for years. Immigration is apparently a solution but the politicians have been waging a war on immigrants for as long as I can remember.

Even with the democrats it was the same thing. People who jump the border were the only sucesfull immigrants. Those trying the legal pathways are waiting for decades to get into the country. Now the message is again clear, be ultra rich and invest 5M to gain entry.
No. The US has tens of thousands employed who look at IMINT for analysis and an automated workflow.
No native docker support, no headless management options (enterprise strength), Limited QoS management, lack of robust python support (out of the box), interactive user focused security model.
I'd be even more paranoid and connect the printer via USB only. You can then run your own print server if you want to support printing from multiple devices.
That doesn't sound right. The marginal cost of +768GB of DDR5 ECC memory in an EPYC system is < $5k.
I think it might be even more than 20, it is slow but they are gaining. I don't think their objective is to get whole of Ukraine but the eastern oblasts (which they do have most of already) and maybe a buffer zone. But that's my speculation.

NK men are only in Kursk / Russian region. I don't think there's any confirmed NK men fighting in Ukraine.

According to iiss [1], Russia does not have man power issues, unlike Ukraine.

> amazing job by the Ukrainians and the West destroying the Russian army twice and depleting all the old Soviet stock.

I only wish it wasn't at the cost of hundreds of thousand of Ukrainian men.

https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/military-balance/2025/0...
Not for M3/M4, as far as I'm aware.
OP, you probably shouldn't say "runs directly in your browser" if it sends screenshots to a cloud service.

If anyone wants a similar tool for Windows that does the OCR locally instead, I recommend Text Grab (https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab).
Urine and poop have been known as great fertilizers for longer than recorded history. However be careful about trying this for yourself. These are both toxic wastes and if not handled correctly can kill you. Urine isn't too bad in amounts you are likely to deal with in a garden. Poop provides are lot more benefit than Urine in the garden - but tiny amounts not handled correct can kill.

I do not know all the factors in play. If you are considering this instead of commercial fertilizer for your garden then you need to do real research (not youtube research - read real academic papers)
Three red lines was definitely reactionary and perhaps late, but better late than never. I'd consider any form of intervention/deleveraging prior to a full blown meltdown evidence of being "not asleep". It's very hard to pass laws that negatively impact peoples life savings.
Any links to the research here?
Because if there are multiple inverted units, you'd need to add parentheses to put them all in the denominator. Tidily giving each a ^-1 is clearer (especially with superscript exponents).
The families of those murdered probably thought so
Yeah, when everybody is spying why compete on the price?
One-Time
Any references you would recommend where I can learn more about this specific system?
I used to hold the same opinion as you, but since getting a m2 air I’ve really enjoyed how thin and light it is. It really is a noticeable quality of life improvement. Once you have a decent stockpile of usb c cables the port thing isn’t really an issue anyways
AMD Ryzen AI Max SoC chips have that [1], but it maxes out at 128GB RAM.

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen/ai-3...
Stagflation, here we come. (Inflation and high unemployment.). Not seen since the late 70s, IIRC.
> I remember Slack eating up my CPU when it had to display several animanted emojis at once.

I remember using phpBB back in the late 2000's, viewing a page that had at least 100 animated emoticons on it.

It would slow IE6 down to a halt. But then I tried Chrome or Firefox (I forget which one) and it didn't even blink showing the same page. I even remember reading some developer posts about things like that at the time.
Why would you need onboard mobile? It’s 2 clicks to trigger a mobile hotspot from your iPhone and there are very cheap LTE dongles on eBay. Not sure how much service would cost, most of us have reasonable download caps on our mobile plans. The dongles have better data plans than phones.
Take ad hominem. It’s true that there is no logical connection between who is saying something and whether it’s true.

But in practice, that’s one of the most relevant factors of whether you should be listening to someone. Does this person have a solid track record? Do they have your interest in mind?

So it is relevant information. It’s just that, “well once this guy kicked a dog” is usually done in bad faith.

So I wouldn’t consider it a non-sequitor, except in its most crude forms.
For if America maintains the defense of Europe, she gains influence upon European decision making. Our former hegemony was built upon our role as America, defender of peace and fighter for liberty.

Europe's health care is built upon subsidization by American defense. That is a source of power.
Haha. Well, I guess it kind of makes sense in some way, Apple doesn’t want to say anything negative about any generation of “M” processor, maybe?

Up to 23x faster. Of course, the fastest Intel MacBook Air is pretty old. But 23X is pretty crazy, right? I wonder what they are comparing against. Int-8 matrix multiplications or something else that’s gotten acceleration lately, maybe?
I have a MacBook Pro from 2017 2.3 GHZ, and I am considering an upgrade. Is it worth it?
They completely got rid of the M1 or M2 whatever baseline MacBook Air, and instead having the latest M4 at $999.

That is along with their recent upgrade which bump All Mac model to 16GB Baseline. In Apple's History, the M4 Mac mini and M4 MacBook Air are perhaps the best value for money in the entire History of Mac. I actually dont even record anything that came close.
With M1 Air, Apple had to blow us away. People, including me, had hard time believing Apple's claims and many people were coping by looking at the Keynote charts and assuming that Apple must have tricked everyone by not giving proper scale metrics etc.

When people put their hands on the real device, it was slaying almost everything on the market and soon it was clear that this thing is a revolution.

You don't one up this easily. Apple claims 2X performance improvement over M1 Air and I am sure its mostly true but that M1 Air was so ahead that for a lot of people workloads didn't catch up yet.

At this very moment I have 3 Xcode projects open, Safari has 147 tabs open and its consuming 11GB of my 16GB Ram and my SSD lifetime dropped to 98% due to frequent swap hits and yet I'm perfectly fine with the performance at this very moment and I'm not looking for immediate replacement.
NATO sent a flotilla of ships to patrol the Baltic off Finland, in response to damage to undersea cables. One would hope (!) that was based on a genuine problem existing an not just a media-driven misrepresentation of normal levels of cable damage.
> I wonder how the economics work to push the price down.

Maybe it’s not only the economic strategies that push the price down?
That's CPU only memory, not high bandwidth, and not addressable by the GPU.
> I can't wait to see someone testing the full DeepSeek model on this

at 819 GB per second bandwidth, the experience would be terrible
https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/apple-reportedly-developin...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/24/apple-commits-500b-to-us-m...
I use a 13 inch M3 Air (16 GB ram) with goland and pycharm. It's the best dev machine I ever owned, everything is a breeze, and the machine is super lightweight. I don't really notice thermal throttling... but then again i dont run LLMs locally or anything like that.
Depends what you mean by 'faster' ... I wouldn't be surprised if the AGC was more responsive (faster response on the screen to user input) than a modern computer. Early computers were often quite snappy.

https://danluu.com/input-lag/
I use tmux specifically for your first example. I'm not a power user, but after trying screen and tmux, I didn't find anything missing in tmux (relative to screen) and I found it easier to do the things I was interested in. I also like having the ability to attach to an existing tmux session or start one if it doesn't already exist by using something like this: "tmux new -A -s me", which I have as an alias and "me" is just a name for the tmux session. I'm not sure if screen has this feature, but I found this single command lets me get going with a multi-window session without having to first check if I already have a session running.
GPU accessible RAM.
What innovation is there from a laptop these days? Apple Silicon chips were the innovation we needed (better performance for better battery).

Last time people cried for Apple to innovate they added the touch bar to laptops. Computers (and phones) are a mature product category where I don't want innovation, I just want them to be functional.
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it throttles when not limited to bursty tasks; some people mod theirs by simply placing a thermal pad between the bottom of the laptop and the heatspreader to get performance identical to the MBP - but then you can not have it comfortably on your lap
Yes, indeed. But when indexing to an element in an array you aren't measuring from a zero (well, in memory you are, but not conceptually). You're conceptually pointing at an apple.
What is your background? Unfortunately I did not find it very accessible.
Lemmy has been growing quite well and has a passionate userbase. It's still microscopic compared to Reddit, but it has great apps and scratches the itch for me.
> the Intel customers are still the ones they're trying to target, amusingly

yeah i just checked mine, it says MacBook Pro 16" 2019 and the cpu is an intel i7. i don't know what to say, it still meets all my requirements, i don't feel any need to upgrade.
Seems like a massive hazard if a natural thing severs a cable and requires maintenance. Plus the removal at some point, presumably. Would suck for true accidents to have human lives on top of the damage.

I imagine there must be some other deterrent measure but drawing a blank. My brother was the navy man...
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FTFA

> Apple’s custom-built UltraFusion packaging technology uses an embedded silicon interposer that connects two M3 Max dies across more than 10,000 signals, providing over 2.5TB/s of low-latency interprocessor bandwidth, and making M3 Ultra appear as a single chip to software.
The GitHub Event API uses a `X-Poll-Interval` header for this purpose. There is also Retry-After but that seems more targeted towards error states.

EDIT: There is the `Cache-Control` header, it seems ideal for this use-case

- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/rest/acti...
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ca...
I went from the 2019 16" MacBook Pro (Intel i9) to 2023 16" MacBook Pro M2 Max.

It's basically the same without the fan noise, it's a lot cooler, and it seems to handle whatever tasks I throw at it just fine.

I would probably go with the Air if I was a project manager, development manager, or someone that did not have to do much work with code.
Personally I don't see a use or benefit of large gender dropdowns. Either keep any existing m/f or simply remove it if you don't need to adress them as her or him. Imo making lists increases chances for stigmatization.
Might it not be possible to "harvest" carbon from sources on e.g. the moon [1], thereby requiring less effort to launch those resources into orbit? Feel free to point out if I'm talking (thinking) nonsense here...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources#Carbon_and_nit...
Makes sense. They're viral and resist criticism -- attempts at curtailing their propagation. "Look who can't take a joke!"
draymond green is right, he's entertaining to watch at least..but the fact that if you breath on someone in the NBA its a foul is one reason why i don't watch...including the fact that traveling and double dribble etc are barely ever called even tho players will walk 50 years with the ball. I think if players can play defense again you will see less throwing it up for 3's
my elderly neighbor sometimes mistakes the difference between one hundred thousand and one hundred million. The point is, she thinks they are similar numbers. So when "people who are capable of reading Dickens blame Dickens for being less literate" and "people who read Twitter/X blame Twitter/X for being less literate" .. perhaps there really is a difference in those two despite the claim being similar.
A plain UDP fallback won't help you if the printer can get to it servers without needing it in your home network. DNS-level filtering is pointless for devices you don't control.
Something to keep in mind when selecting a printer with refillable
liquid ink tanks is that they all have an internal waste ink
repository, which is a sponge that soaks up unused ink that apparently
accrues slowly through normal use, or quicker any time you do an ink
purge [1]. On very high end photo printers it's replaceable, and might
be described as a maintenance cartridge in the specs. If it fills up
and can't be replaced, the printer is dead. When I was shopping
around, the only brand I could find that had replaceable waste ink
repositories even at the low end was Canon, and being too cheap even
to have a network interface also saved me the trouble of firewalling
it.

It's true that ink tank printers need to be used regularly or else the
print heads dry out like a felt tip pen. Since the ink costs next to
nothing per page, I print a full page family photo once a week and
hang it up somewhere around the house if I haven't used the printer
for anything else, which still works out cheaper than any
alternatives. The walls look like instagram, but being reminded of
loved ones might not be such a bad thing.

[1] https://youtu.be/6HUazpXWRYo
Another option is to create functions in the bashrc, they can contain logic like the suggested bin approach.
Please post this every month.
Because the .1% is who will buy it? I mean, yeah, supply and demand. High demand in a niche with no supply currently means large margins.

I don't think anyone commercially offers nearly this much unified memory or NPU/GPUs with anything near 512GB of memory.
I still love my M2 MacBook. I can't see any reason at all to upgrade.

But I am glad that they continue to refine the technology.