skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! Only one position (Staff Backend Engineer) is there? Are you hiring for mid level full stack or backend engineers?
Care to share the TOPs numbers for the Apple GPUs and show how this would “grossly overstate” the numbers?

Apple won’t compete with NVIDIA, I’m not arguing that. But your opening line will only make sense if you can back up the numbers and the GPU performance is lower than the ANE TOPS.
There are extensions to force you onto old and improve the UI.
The Baltic sea is full of civilian traffic!
There are many independent consultants working in Lisp.

Yes, it is rare.
No Nano-Texture Option. I actually returned an M3 Macbook Air I got for xmas because I find it too reflective, waiting and hoping for a non-reflective Macbook Air.

If Apple had made it clear they weren't gonna release a non-reflective screen for the Macbook air, I might've just kept the M3 or perhaps gotten the heavy Pro. Now I don't feel like getting any of these.
The question will be how it will perform. I suspect Deepseek, Llama405B demonstrated the need for larger memory. Right now folks could build an epyc system with that much ram or more to run Deepseek at about 6 tokens/sec for a fraction of that cost. However not everyone is a tinker, so there's a market for this for those that don't want to be bothered. You say "AI Gold rush" like it's a bad thing, it's not.
Not actually the case. The gold standard linked the expansion of the money supply to the price of gold, not the actual supply. So as the money supply expanded, every time gold was bought or sold through direct bank transfer, the price was influenced by the expanding deposit supply, not by the asset gold supply, and slowly increased, creating a nice little feedback loop. If you look at the figures for the gold standard period in the 19th-20th century, otherwise known as the British Monetary Orthodoxy, you will see a slow and steady expansion in the deposit supply in all countries using it. Trouble was, the expansion was a different rates in different countries, and so by the 1910´s the differences were tearing the invisible financial fabric apart. The rest as they say is history.

Banking systems being somewhat unstable and prone to credit crises is actually an entirely different problem, and unrelated to how the expansion is being regulated.
How much VRAM do you get on those 2x 5090s?

How much would it cost to get up to 512gb?
It makes sense because that's who's upgrading.

I've got an M1 Air and there's still no really compelling reason to upgrade. MagSafe and a nicer camera don't really justify it, especially when Continuity Camera is better than on the M1 or M4.
> A software consultancy charges its client around a million euros to develop the MVP of a project—a web and mobile application consisting of just three components—over a period of six months. The catch? The scope of work is so simple that I estimate it could be completed in just three weeks.

I think the standard answer to this is: then do it. Bid €800k and win, over and over again.
Whether it was hula hoops or blockchains, when has any "great new thing" ever delivered on the hyped-up benefits?

EDIT: As tocs3 pointed out, I should have added "...but without any huge & unheralded downsides".
Real „this is why we can’t have nice things“ situation.

Reliable navigation is such a pure net positive for humanity.
Without opining on the correctness of referring to this kind of confiscation from one state by another as stealing: it's an obvious mistake to treat taking money out of their bank accounts as a more serious offense than making war on them, literally taking their lives.
They didn't increase the memory bandwidth. You can get the same memory bandwidth, which is available on the M2 Studio. Yes, yes, of course you can get 512 gigabytes of uRAM for 10 grand.

The the question is if a llm will run with usable performance at that scale? The point is there's diminishing returns despite having enough uRAM with the same amount of memory bandwidth even with increased processing speed of the new chip m3 for AI.
Not OP, but… what? On Windows I have a trigger finger for Alt+0133, Alt+0150, and Alt+0151. I use proper ellipses, en–dash, and em—dash all the time.
I just had a quick look at my state. Sales tax makes up 10.5% of our revenue. If you exclude things like money coming from the federal government, it's about twice that.

That's just a single data point; I was just curious.

We already don't tax most groceries, so that's not a tactic we could apply. I assumed that most states with sales taxes exclude groceries.
Ding! This exactly. Not every web page is best expressed in Markdown (or text for that matter). I post galleries of photos, weird web experiments, tutorials with inline photos, and other odd stuff that never fits in this 'automate my .md files to www' workflows everyone seems to love.

Write the html once, and it's good forever, really. Everything can be permalinked with authority. No reason to 're-render' your site again and again because you want to change the user interface - both of those are handled by CSS and JS.

You need to edit? Load up your FTP editor and work on the html file live, like a leet hacker! ...but I do succumb to using S3 due to its low monthly cost for hosting my 13gb 'personal' website. Too many hosted audio files...
If it takes a programmer an hour to optimize something that saves a second each time it is run, management thinks that is a complete waste since you have to run it 3600 times to 'break even'.

You might think that their thinking would change when you point out that the code is run millions of times each day on computers all over the world, so those saved seconds will really add up.

But all those millions of saved seconds do not affect the company's bottom line. Other people reap the benefits of the saved time (and power usage, and heat generated, and ...) but not the company that wrote the code. So it is still a complete waste in their minds.

Multiply this thinking across millions of programs and you get today's situation of slow, bloated code everywhere.
Virtualenv’s been a thing for many years, it’s built into Python, and it solves all that without adding additional tooling.

And if you’re genuinely asking, everything’s converging toward uv. If you pick only one, use that and be done with it.
Personal attacks are not OK.

I opened my MSI GS66 to install a second M.2280 NVMe and upgrade both DIMMs from 32GB to 64GB RAM. It was easy... I think about six screws or so.

(Typed on my M2 Air)
L5 can achieve 10-15 dB in ideal circumstances, with tuned loops. Not more. And those aren't ideal circumstances - the GPS signals are received mostly when satellites are grazing the earth (from the moon POV).
Baseline M4 doesn't have Thunderbolt 5 either; only the Pro/Max variants do.

The press-release even calls TB5 out:
>Each Thunderbolt 5 port is supported by its own custom-designed controller directly on the chip.

Given that they're doing the same on A-series chips (A18 Pro with 10Gbps USB-C; A18 with USB 2.0); I imagine it's just relatively simple to swap the I/O blocks around and they're doing this for cost and/or product segmentation reasons.
Could simply be that a bunch of invoices/billing are connected to months and they don't want to pay beyond the current month (to make sure they get their money for the domains).
Successfully replicated after trying this!
Are bits like "they put you in jail for memes" intended to drive away people with a basic grasp of reality so that he can start a cult? Or has he already driven away everyone and his cult aren't able to point out the absurdity as they are all down the same rabbithole?
The majority of the US is fine with what's happening. The sooner you accept that, the easier it is to let go.
Submarines aren't really well suited for this. You want something that can search and monitor over a wide area, and then the ability to intercept and potentially search/seize a suspicious vessel. The primary attribute of submarines is stealth, which is not relevant here.

What you want is a combination of maritime patrol aircraft and offshore patrol craft. Maritime patrol aircraft (helicopter, fixed wing aircraft, UAVs) are equipped with surface search radar and other sensors that enable them to monitor a wide area. The patrol craft are also fitted with radars and sensors, and can also move to intercept a suspicious ship. A helicopter could also potentially be used for intercept
He was the lead developer and very prominent figure.
I think it probably boils down to funding the new developments.
The point is that benchmark is pretty useless and likely does not line up to what a user that is still running a intel air would expect the word "faster" even means.

When normal users are thinking "faster" they are really thinking about snappiness/responsiveness, not number crunching.
Not moot if you care about producing those tokens with the largest available models
Can someone explain what it would take for Apple to overtake NVIDIA as the preferred solution for AI shops?

This is my understanding (probably incorrect in some places)

1. NVIDIA's big advantage is that they design the hardware (chips) and software (CUDA). But Apple also designs the hardware (chips) and software (Metal and MacOS).

2. CUDA has native support by AI libraries like PyTorch and Tensorflow, so works extra well during training and inference. It seems Metal is well supported by PyTorch, but not well supported by Tensorflow.

3. NVIDIA uses Linux rather than MacOS, making it easier in general to rack servers.
> The act got me expelled from high school, but worth it in the end.

It was?
"Stop not enjoying it" is indeed a way better take!

"Giving it someone who does" is also an opportunity to socialise and grow a mutual understanding of said music desire. That's sometimes even how collaborations start. But that's not on short notice...

Perhaps generators could be also seen as some kind of introductory instruments to wet the appetite of becoming musicians?
Yes, if you are willing to believe Jeffery Sachs, John Mershiemer (sp?), and a large number of people.. They believe Russia was provoked into the war.
Yeah I think when they say non-tech people they mean a subset of people who know a bit about refresh rates (example being avid PC gamers for instance), but I'd still say the vast majority of people cannot tell 60 to 120. That or its not something they think about.

Certainly if they had both side by side they may be able to notice a difference, but in everyday use it makes no real difference to the vast majority of people. Anecdotally even though I do use Android myself, everyone around me still think iPhones look the smoothest (albeit most of them have never even touched a quality phone running android)
Musk's support of Trump looks increasingly like it will start WW3, with Trump personally threatening action against several current NATO allies.

Musk would be correct that private individuals should not have this much power, should not take decisions about what is and isn't legal — which makes it even more hypocritical for him to have had a fight with Brazil or the UK government or offer support for any political party in Germany, let alone to be wielding a chainsaw on-stage at CPAC, being the public face of DOGE, taking his kid into the Oval Office to have a chat with the press, etc.
They didn't increase the memory bandwidth. You can get the same memory bandwidth, which is available on the M2 Studio. Yes, yes, of course you can get 512 gigabytes of uRAM for 10 grand.

The the question is if a llm will run with usable performance at that scale? The point is there's diminishing returns despite having enough uRAM with the same amount of memory bandwidth even with increased processing speed of the new chip for AI.

So there must be a min-max performance ratio between memory bandwidth and the size of the memory pool in relation to the processing power.
That's still taking a source of government funding (the money gained by auction) and boosting cryptobro gambling with it.
IMO this is a bigger blow to the AI big boys than Deepseek's release. This is massive for local inference. Exciting times ahead for open source AI.
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They definitely are not. Not even most tech power users understand refresh rates let alone can easily spot the difference.

Still a nice to have, which Apple recognizes.
Makes sense a throwaway account is spreading Russian propaganda and self conflicting within 1 comment of itself.

> We should spend money on deterrence.

Then

> You don't need to deter what doesn't exist.

I guess next you'll say Russia isn't even at war with Ukraine and we shouldn't believe our lying eyes?
They got rid of downvoting, which caused everyone's feed to devolve into garbage really fast.
That's funny; they obviously don't have any strategists.

I'm certain they do, however, have folks who dictate policy so they don't lose any donations from certain large foreign orgs.
This is me letting you know that Keynesian economics solved deflation, making it less difficult to get out of market contractions (Note, the comment you refer to specified specifically deflation to be an issue, and did not claim that it solved bubbles and poppings completely nor reduced their frequency). The last time the US had faced significant deflation has been 100 years ago. We used to face deflation much more frequently before Keynesianism since our country’s founding.

Inflation sucks but deflation is a death spiral. There is some more nuance, but most economists would agree that deflation is a lot scarier in general than inflation due to its feedback loop.

Moreover, the reason why we keep getting rampant inflation is more due to neoliberalism and neoconservative economic/fiscal policy rather than modern monetary theory and Keynesian monetary policy. If anything, these monetary policies have massively reduced the amount of inflation we have been feeling for the past several years.
does pasteurization break down PFAs? They're chemicals, not microbes. My understanding is that pasteurization only kills microbes.
The opinion of the Democrats is well known. It's not an awareness problem. Its a people didn't come out to vote problem.

The truth is that the American people voted for this. Until the American people are convinced that these policies are bad, no amount of meetings or protests will help.

Keep the eye on the prize: winning the 2026 midterm election and 2028 Presidential election. What's the best way to convince today's Americans that the policies Trump is pushing will harm the country?
Western coverage on this is just terrible.

I think a lot of folks who were dismayed by the 2008 bailouts during the GFC would have a lot of sympathy and respect for whats going on. China didn't bail out, they let them burn.

The deflationary conditions are the next challenge and I'm very interested to see how they are combatted. It's interesting that Xi has come out strongly against Abenomics, and direct cash transfers, arguing that they'd distort things and "breed laziness".

Obviously this is a very unconventional view point, but looking at the financial shenanigans that have happened in the West and Japan over the last couple decades it's hard to argue in favor of the conventional methods.

Big issue is neither approach really increases the velocity of money, and just leads to it ending up in savings and bloating balance sheets. You've got to get the cash moving.

E: I do ponder how much of the deflation actually is an "efficiency dividend" due to the mass adoption of renewables and electrification. Saul Griffith (one of the folks behind the inflation reduction act) is working on a macroeconomic analysis that suggests renewable energy is inherently deflationary. Solar panels cost less as time goes forward but oil always costs more (due to getting harder and harder to extract).
Pecunia non olet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet
I wasn’t stating anything moral, just disagreeing with the claim that you can do “just spf or dkim” and not have any issues.
I noticed the content change, but missed the reason behind it.
I’ve considered trying an ultralight PC laptop with a superior screen. But the sad state of reality is that:

(1) Windows these days feels like a constant battle against forcibly installed adware / malware.

(2) Linux would be great, but getting basic laptop essentials like reliable sleep/wake and power management to work even remotely well in Linux continues to be a painful losing battle.

(3) Apple’s M series chips’ performance and efficiency is still generations ahead of anyone else in the context of portable battery-powered fanless work; nobody else has yet come close to matching apple here, though there is hope Qualcomm will deliver more competition soon (if the silicon’s raw potential is not squandered by Microsoft).

Just because Apple’s competition has been complacent and lagging for many years, doesn’t render irrelevant any feedback to Apple regarding what professional laptop users would like.
White House to overhaul $42.5B internet plan – likely to Elon Musk's advantage
I was nearly 10 years old (i.e. as a Fish user) when I learned about abbr. I used to use functions for everything. :facepalm:
I totally agree; I was contemplating giving the book a try…I still might but knowing myself I’m going to go down the rabbit hole of how those mathematical functions work before I can continue…
No, nitrogen is very important. The carbon to nitrogen ratios is crucial for optimal composting.[1]

Yes, compost must be moist to decompose. And peeing on the compost adds required moisture and nitrogen.

Don't pee on your plants. It can chemically burn some of them. Not to mention peeing on your lettuce is just gross.

My compost is for dealing with kitchen waste: veggie and fruit scraps, coffee grounds etc. It it so nitrogen rich that I need to add leaves to it regularly to keep the C/N ratio where it needs to be or it goes "sour".

[1] https://compost.css.cornell.edu/chemistry.html
Why don't they provide performance comparisons between the two chips offered, M3 Ultra and M4 Max?
> AGI is, and always was, marketing from LLM providers.

TIL: The term AGI, which we've been using since at least 1997[0] was invented by time-traveling LLM companies in the 2020s.

[0]: https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/20231/who-first-coine...
that way you get your meth back for free
This is a true piece of art!
$8549 with 1TB storage
it was pretty close to a one man show
Probably some kind of local LLM server. 1TB of 1.6 TB/s memory if you link 2 together. $20k total. Half the price of a single Blackwell chip.
Bat guano is a common fertilizer that should be used with caution. Remember covid? Bad stuff lurks in the feces of cave dwelling mammals… You hope it has been safely composted, but has it?
I heard OpenBSD has been working for a while.

I’m continually surprised Apple doesn’t just donate something like 0.1% of their software development budget to proton and the asahi projects. It’d give them a big chunk of the gaming and server markets pretty much overnight.

I guess they’re too busy adding dark patterns that re-enable siri and apple intelligence instead.
The ANE and tensor cores are not comparable though. One is literally meant for low cost inference while the others are meant for acceleration of training.

If you squint, yeah they look the same, but so does the microcontroller on the GPU and a full blown CPU. They’re fundamentally different purposes, architectures and scale of use.

The ANE can’t even really be used directly. Apple heavily restricts the use via CoreML APIs for inference. It’s only usable for smaller, lightweight models.

If you’re comparing to the tensor cores, you really need to compare against the GPU which is what gets used by apples ml frameworks such as MLX for training etc.

It will still be behind the NVIDIA GpU, but not by anywhere near the same numbers.
Mediawiki: https://www.johnsenner.com/index.php?title=Portfolio
I like the idea of money going to creators but youtube is far too censorious for a premium content platform.
So long as you stay away from anything politics (including news!). They are extremely left wing - the developers believe the Chinese communist party can do no wrong. There are instances that are not quite that bad, but they are still very left wing and make central or right wing positions unwelcome.

There are some good tech communities there.
They are not. The owner doesn’t want to bear the running costs (and possibly also other ongoing consequences), so they’ve threatened to abandon the ship. Separately, the cable owner has initiated litigation that could see the ship seized to pay damages.
It is lovely. I would, if I created this... art... Relaunch it every 1st of april.
It is very funny that the article highlights these two guys saving Digg, and they both care so deeply about it that they are going to... sit on the board and keep their day jobs.

They won't go all-in on the idea and expect that we'll all be super excited by it. Just shows how out of touch VCs can get.
Home theater hobbyists do this for sure. Recent example:

https://www.avsforum.com/threads/double-stacking-two-epson-l...
It's pretty close. A 3090 or 4090 has about 1TB/s of memory bandwidth, while the top Apple chips have a bit over 800GB/s. Where you'll see a big difference is in prompt processing. Without the compute power of a pile of GPUs, chewing through long prompts, code, documents etc is going to be slower.
> Inflation sucks but deflation is a death spiral.

Do you actually have any evidence for this? Considering that we haven't experienced deflation in nearly 100 years, and all. The USA certainly wasn't "death spiraling" before we went off the gold standard, quite the contrary. But now it seems we are.
While kph is uncommon and ought not to have come about, the first sentence here [0] acknowledges it, so I don't think it's fair to say that people who use it don't mean what they say.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilometres_per_hour
Deterrence is usually the reason why a category of nation-state aggression doesn't exist. Otherwise, the fact that we've never had a global nuclear war would be sufficient to prove that we don't need to deter a global nuclear war.
these are solved problems now, check back in. uv is now the standard
The M4 Pro is 56% faster in ST performance against AMD’s new Strix Halo while being 3.6x more efficient.

Source: https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-AI-Max-395-Analysis-...

Cinebench 2024 results.
There's been a consistent call by many people that there needs to be a diversity of options for navigation and timing:

* https://rntfnd.org/2025/02/04/pnt-gps-critical-issue-for-new...

China has GNSS (BeiDou, plus plans for LEO) plus terrestrial navigation (eLoran) plus a fibre-based network for accurate timing:

* https://rntfnd.org/2024/10/03/china-completes-national-elora...

* https://rntfnd.org/2024/03/01/patton-read-their-book-chinas-...

* https://rntfnd.org/2024/11/29/china-announces-plan-to-furthe...

Russia has a Loran-equivalent:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAYKA
Just buy any gaming card? Even something like the Jetson AGX Orin boasts 275 TOPS (but they add in all kind of different subsystems to reach that number).
"Ranked Choice" (ballot) needs to be retconned to the decision process of Ranked Pairs rather than Instant Runoff Voting.

It feels like pushing for this (and for effective government structures in general) at the state level is the main backstop we have.

Unless there happens to be some helicopter pilot that ends up taking his oath to defend the United States seriously, or some other exceptional event or sea change that stops the neofascists in their tracks, it seems a foregone conclusion that the federal government will have been thoroughly destroyed in two years.
Or you could wait a couple months and get a Strix Halo based desktop from HP, Framework, Asus or GMK for > 100GB of unified memory.
I suspect that people self-manage a lot more if the pay is right. If they stop doing that it seems like you need a more expensive manager, or perhaps you do.