skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLMs easily use a lot of RAM, and these systems are MUCH, MUCH cheaper (though slower) than a GPU setup with the equivalent RAM.

A 4-bit quantization of Llama-3.1 405b, for example, should fit nicely.
I have a touchpad in between the halves of my Ergodox EZ. It's not exactly as easy to reach as a laptop touchpad, but it's worlds better than moving your shoulder to reach a mouse.
No the comment misunderstood the difference between CPU memory and unified memory.
This can dedicate 500GB of high bandwidth memory to the GPU. - ~3.5X that of an H200.
The best thing about "Apple intelligence" so far is that it made Apple eat their shoe and upgrade their base model's memory to something usable
In fact there is no figurative gold standard for value or money. A pokemon card or let's say a banana duck-taped to a canvas can have a lot of value. All there is, is reputation and trust.
That’s what’s weird to me too. It’s not like they would lose sales of macOS as it is given away with the hardware. So if someone wants to buy Apple hardware to run Linux, it does not have a negative affect to AAPL
More privacy-invading bloatware for Android users. This is like an app that demonstrates how chat control would work. Nobody stops Google from flagging "interesting" images/files as suspicious and uploading them to some cloud service for "examination". Besides, there are countless other ways to avoid exposure to CSAM.

Google's move of installing the app without my permission makes me distrust the company even more. And they did the same thing again with "Android System Key Verifier" which has a different purpose, but they should have asked for my consent. My reaction: uninstalled both apps and turned off auto-updates. I thought I owned my smartphone.
I love that the base model starts with 16GB of RAM here. The value of these computers is incredible - I purchased a Macbook Pro in 2021 and it's still powering through every task I throw at it. Before Apple started making their own chips, I felt like I had to upgrade every 2-3 years to prevent my laptop from becoming a hurdle in completing every day tasks (remember when tab management was a thing?). Really happy with these machines.
That's what the MBP product line is for. More ports and performance for more expense and weight/size.

I know it seems like a champagne problem but the Pro really can get annoyingly heavy when traveling and the Air is dreamy how light it is.
There isn't anything particularly high-bandwidth about Apple's DDR5 implementation, either. They just have a lot of channels, which is why I compared it to a 24-channel EPYC system. I agree that their integrated GPU architecture hits a unique design point that you don't get from nvidia, who prefer to ship smaller amounts of very different kinds of memory. Apple's architecture may be more suited to some workloads but it hasn't exactly grabbed the machine learning market.
I know you’re referring to the exolabs app, but the t/s is really not that good. it uses thunderbolt instead of NVlink.
Dolphins maybe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_marine_mammal
Why are we back to MagSafe? I liked just having the usb-c on my air.
> Why did Person A (who already had an email address) send a SMS text to Person B (who also already had an email address) to chat?!?

Arguably primarily because they want to chat with them and not email them. The two have vastly different UX beyond just contact discovery.

Before WhatsApp there were ICQ (also number-based!), MSN, Skype... WhatsApp's main contribution over these was indeed using phone numbers and contacts access for automated contact discovery, but I don't think it makes sense at all to characterize it as a usability improvement on email.

Another case in point: iMessage supports email addresses as identifiers too. I don't even have my phone number on there because I consider it a strictly inferior identifier (it changes every time I move countries, I lose it if payments to my operator ever lapse, unlike a TLD I have no way of owning it independently from a phone plan etc.)
Light, sure. Thin?

I have never seen any instance where a laptop's thinness ended up factoring in ease of portability.
> If they'd just give me onboard mobile connectivity

I don't even want that on my iPad Pro. I would rather tether it with my phone, mobile hotspot, or some other wifi connection.
> You're justifying jail time for racist speech!

For inciting further civil unrest during civil unrest.

Kinda weird to just cherry pick some things from my post.
Because it's cheap. Russia needs money to wage war so it sells stuff. Again, nobody is wholly dependent on Russia.
Xiaomi First to deliver on Qualcomm's promise of Wi-Fi earbud
It mostly creates a thread of meta, as you can see.
The current Mac Pro is not a "halo car". It's a large USB-A dongle for a Mac Studio.
You can remap that as well.
That makes sense to me though. If you don’t run iOS, you don’t have App Store and that means a loss of revenue.
Some did, others are thriving. Still a small community though.
At least reddit still maintains old.reddit. Digg never gave users the choice. If there is ever only new reddit, then there won't be reddit for me.
Email address is a *far* better identifier than a random string of numbers though. The only reason why phone number discoverability works better is because everyone keeps being in that ancient world.
It's probably enough a truly malicous printer could change the MAC address and device name to get around any such blacklist. Even a MAC-based whitelist is vulnerable to spoofing. To be truly safe you'd need to put the printer on its own lan without an internet connection or not connect it via ethernet/wifi at all.
Because "libertarian" is just another word for "anarchist" and anarchy is not a good system of government, as it obeys no rules.
> I wouldn't be surprised that the average upgrade cycle for a lot of folks is in that 3-5 year range, for both personal and corporate buyers.

My personal laptop is a 2014 MacBook Pro. I'll be buying one of these new M4 Airs, and comparing to an 11-year-old computer.
I actually meant Eurocentric because it emphasizes the values of the renaissance and enlightenment writers of Europe.
The memory amount is fantastic, memory bandwidth is half decent(~800 GB/s), and the compute capabilities are terrible(36 TOPS).

For comparison, a single consumer card like the RTX 5090 is only 32 GB of memory, has 1792 GB/s memory and 3593 TOPS of compute.

The use cases will be limited. While you can't run a 600B model directly like Apple says(cause you need more memory for that), you can run a quantized version, but it will be very slow unless its a MoE architecture.
Rearmament is stupid. For every $1 spent destroying Russian equipment it's equivalent to $10 not spent on deterrence over the next 10 years. The only thing more expensive than a war is an arms race.
I missed Diggnation, it was the first podcast I listed to. Happy to find it has already been revived; https://www.diggnation.show/
costco returns are notoriously generous, no questions asked. electronics might be a shorter window but i think it's very accepted to return
I hear the bicentennials are happily collecting social security or serving in congress
"essentially an ever-evolving organic computer, and the engineers behind it say it learns so quickly and flexibly "

On the Scientific Innovations to Sci-Fi Movie Disaster Plot Rankings. This sounds pretty high on the list.
> they should not be charged for those licenses until they actually use them

Unfortunately that's not the way bulk licenses has ever worked. For Government or enterprise. What you just described is no different than buying individual licenses.

The reason it's not "pissing money down the drain" is a few reasons:

- Managing licenses is not a free thing. The time it takes to actually go and purchase / negotiate / maintain those licenses can become significant if you are doing it many times per year.

- Vendors negotiate discounts for bulk purchases of licenses and the whole reason they do that is because it is guaranteed payment. If you stop guaranteeing the payment (by only paying for what you actually use) there is no incentive for the vendor to provide discounts. They will just charge you retail price.

Likely, though I don't know the specific in this case, you are seeing 2x to 3x extra licensing because someone actually did the math and found it was cheaper than constantly renegotiating deals and/or paying retail (and the associated bookeeping that goes with that).

That goes double in a situation like Government where you need to get purchase orders, approval, etc. Buying bulk significantly reduces the cost even without the discount just in hours managing the approval process.
I wonder if this macbook air will finally come with "replaceable" storage, like the m4 mac mini did.
I doubt a few ports can add any significant weight difference to it.
>not to mention some morally repugnant things that apparently even Melinda Gates couldn’t take anymore.

Can you explain this?
I think most companies should be like this. It does suck, but at the end of the day we shouldn't just be coasting, we should be climbing.
Words and talk are always cheap.

But you seem to regard "Was Alienated by Somebody" status as license to ignore treaties and start wars. Might that same standard apply, when you don't happen to favor the aggressor over the victim?
CIA Director Says U.S. Has Paused Intelligence Sharing with Ukraine
Though we see "fairly advanced level" of C and C++ leading to 70 percent of the vulnerabilities in the Chromium project. So I would bet on anyone's advanced level.
What's wrong with dashes?
I refuse to believe that AIS is the only way ships are being tracked. I think it's probably more likely that nobody is using their military intelligence to track fishing boats.
I used[1] jetbrains tooling quite a bit on my m1 air and never had problems, though I did opt for the 16gb ram version. The newer models are presumably at least as performant if not better?

([1] These days my daily driver is an m1 mbp of some whizzbang 32gb variety, which only replaced the mba because my spouse wanted a travel machine and the mbp came for the low low cost of being caught in the late 2022 startup crash. For day to day ordinary backend dev work there really isn't a noticeable difference in my experience, except I guess the mbp is more awkward when working-from-couch. arm vs x86 was sometimes a little awkward around launch, but I can't remember the last time it was an actual hassle.)
Sure, but larger models that fit in that 512gb memory are going to take a long time to tokenize/detokenize without hardware-accelerated BLAS.
This raises a few further considerations:

- Whether or not US intel agencies (or foreign proxies) will be leaking intelligence to Ukraine.

- Given what I’ve previously mentioned[1] as the unbelievably strong US intel penetration of Russian institutions, the likelihood that sources, and most especially HUMINT sources, will be disclosed to Russia. That would of course be catastrophic at multiple levels, and with enduring consequences.

________________________________

Notes:

1. For example <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31480538> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41273077>.
what do you mean? they cut prices, improved battery life and improved performance, like they do almost every year. every few years they do something big like a new form factor or a new CPU architecture!
I could salivate over the hardware no end, if only Apple software (including the OS) weren't that shoddy.
Chirality means that there is a mirror image of a molecule that cannot be twisted into the original shape, despite being structurally identical. Due to the particular ways molecules tickle each other in living organisms to do interesting things, that means that the mirror image (racemate) of a molecule does something different.

In chemical synthesis, most (but not all) processes tend to preserve chirality of molecules: replacing a bunch of atoms in a molecule with another set will tend to not cause the molecule to flip to a mirror image. If you start from an achiral molecule (one where its mirror image can be rotated to the original), almost all processes tend to end up with a 50-50 mix of the two racemates of the product.

In biochemistry, you can derive all of the amino acids and sugars from a single chiral molecule: glyceral. It turns out that nearly all amino acids end up in the form derived from L-glyceral and nearly all sugars come from D-glyceral. The question of why this is the case is the question of homochirality.

There's as yet no full answer to the question of homochirality. We do know that a slight excess in one racemate tends to amplify into a situation where only that racemate occurs. But we don't know if the breakdown into L-amino acids and D-sugars (as opposed to D-amino acids and L-sugars) happened by pure chance or if there is some specific reason that L-amino acids/D-sugars is preferred.
The state keeps the billionaires afloat though. Tesla, SpaceX, all of Musk's companies wouldn't exist without government welfare. Other big monopolies benefit from government protection and subsidy.

Billionaires are not a fact of nature, they exist because the rules we have created allows them to exist. Different rules could make them not exist, and society would benefit hugely.

> Regardless of your feelings about Elon, what would the strategic implications for the US vs Russia and China be minus SpaceX?

Weird to think of everything in the view of great power competition. Like, you can't have healthcare cause spaceX needs to beat China? There are many options.
What about AMD Instinct accelerators like the MI300A[1]? Doesn't that use a single memory pool for both CPU and GPU cores?

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/products/accelerators/instinct/mi300/...
> With an alias, I’d have to write it in Zsh.

huh?
AI is finally forcing them to do it
AI Global – Global Sector Trends on Generative AI [pdf]
I don't know. On the one hand I kind of agree that AI products currently suck, especially the ones built into OSes.

On the other hand, both using ChatGPT myself and the few usage figures they have released are very impressive.
Pretty sure it's Minimum Viable Product. This is a common term for a product with enough features to prove the value of the endeavor.
> an online chess game that's easy to use without registration would be cool

Lichess lets you play without registration, I believe (or at least one player; not sure if both sides can be anonymous).
Apart from enabling an 120h update to the XDR Pro, does TB5 offer a viable pathway for eGPUs on Apple Silicon macbooks?

This is a cool computer, but not something I'd want to lug around.
the point is thinkpad hardware is not nearly as good as Apple Silicon hardware
The intelligence feed will now be switched to another customer. Oh America what have you done.
WhatsApp obviously cannot be trusted for message privacy for the simple reason that Meta paid gazillion bucks for it. I don't understand why people need more evidence beyond that.
Time to start up a business as a “conflict free” gum arabic supplier.

Maybe they will make a movie about it: Lord of Gum <WIP>
Since graduating from college in 1993, working in the graphic design industry full-time through 2019, I had two brand-new Macs (a PowerMac G3/800MHz, and a G5), the balance were hand-me-downs from other employees --- the G5 in particular was especially long-lasting, though ultimately it was supplemented by an Intel iMac.

Each year when Apple came out with new machines, we would make a game of putting together a dream machine --- ages ago, that could easily hit 6 figures, these days, well, a fully-configured Mac Studio is $14,099 and a Pro Display w/ stand and nano texture adds $6,998 or so.
I am confused. I got an M4 with 64 GB Ram. Did I buy something from the future? :) Now why M3 now? Not M4 Ultra.
> This sounds like a situation where even if it is deliberate enemy action the appropriate thing to do is ask them to stop.

Do you moonlight as a strategist for the Democratic party?
Agree with this, and it doesn't seem like it's a priority for Apple to bring the kind of expandability back any time soon.

Maybe they can bring back the trash can.
Good point. I guess I assumed that there was a different description/billing rate based on their observed skill levels.
SSDs have added weirdness like 3-bit TLC cells and overprovisioning. Usable storage size of an SSD is typically not an exact power of 10 or 2.
Of course. Apple wants you to purchase their iCloud offerings and put your documents on iCloud Drive.

I just buy lots of storage on my desktop and access it remotely. Tailscale makes it easy to do so.
People can pry my em dashes from my cold, dead hands.
For those unfamiliar, George Washington's Farewell Address, 1796:

<https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-doc...>

Please cite and clearly delimit your quotes.
Java is a domain specific language for converting XML into stack dumps.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252103

>The background is that Terry Winograd, a professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University in Silicon Valley, had invited me to lecture on some of my work in 1998. After my talk, Terry invited me to tour his lab and meet some of his graduate students. One of the Ph.D. students was a bright young fellow named Larry Page, who showed me his project to enhance the relevance of web search results.

Many of those lectures are online. I was not able to find the 1998 one he mentioned, but here is one that Jakob Neilsen gave on May 20, 1994 called "Heuristic Evaluation of User Interfaces, Jakob Nielsen, Sunsoft".

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/vj346zm2128

He gave another one on October 4 1996 entitled "Ensuring the Usability of the Next Computing Paradigm", but I can't find it in the online collection, although it exists in the inventory of video recordings, however I can't find any 1998 talks by Jakob Nielsen in this list:

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82b926h/entire_tex...

Here is the entire online collection (it's kind of hard to search the 25 pages of the extensive collection, thanks to bad web site design!):

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/catalog?f%5Bcollection%5D%5...

The oldest (most interesting to me) ones are at the end (page 25):

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/?f%5Bcollection%5D%5B%5D=a1...

Here are some of the older ones that I think are historically important and especially interesting (but there are so many I haven't watched them all, so there are certainly more that are worth watching):

[...]

Bringing Behavior to the Internet, James Gosling, SUN Microsystems [December 1, 1995]:

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/bz890ng3047

I also uploaded this historically interesting video to youtube to generate closed captions and make it more accessible and findable, and I was planning on proofreading them like I did for this Will Wright talk, but haven't gotten around to it yet (any volunteers? ;):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrNeyuwA8k

This is an early talk by James Gosling on Java, which I attended and appeared on camera asking a couple questions about security (44:53, 1:00:35), and I also spotted Ken Kahn asking a question (50:20). Can anyone identify other people in the audience?

My questions about the “optical illusion attack” and security at 44:53 got kind of awkward, and his defensive "shrug" answer hasn't aged too well! ;)

No hard feelings of course, since we’d known each other for years before (working on Emacs and NeWS) and we’re still friends, but I’d recently been working on Kaleida ScriptX, which lost out to Java in part because Java was touted as being so “secure”, and I didn’t appreciate how Sun was promoting Java by throwing the word “secure” around without defining what it really meant or what its limitations were (expecting people to read more into it than it really meant, on purpose, to hype up Java).
After getting my 2015 macbook air 11' I am still struggling to find a reason to replace it. Still going strong with no hiccups!
yeah, managed to eeek about 10 years from minimum spec 2013 mbp
The counter to this is:

1) Rapid identification and localization of breaks, so military/police forces can be dispatched to the area.

2) Continuous deployment of MQ-9B SeaGuardian or HALE UAV platforms around shallow cable runs to locate and id dark ships, who would also be running nav beacons before and after.

3) Low-earth-orbit persistent sensing networks (e.g. what's now called PWSA [0]) with ship id'ing sensor packages.

As parent notes though, the lynchpin of this is inverting the cost:benefit ratio to be unfavorable, by raising the likelihood that ships will be detained and ultimately seized.

Even oligarchs don't like to light money on fire.

[0] https://spacenews.com/space-force-preparing-for-the-age-of-p...
I’ve spent time using KDE and it indeed has a lot of knobs. The options are nice but it’s still a struggle to get it configured the way I like, partially because there are no knobs for some things while some of the existing knobs control things that don’t make that much of a difference to me.

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread the issue with its global menu bar is the sheer number of apps that don’t populate it. Even the same exact Electron apps that populate the menubar on macOS don’t bother under Linux. Over half the time it sits up there empty.
Think this captures one of the bigger differences between what Open AI offers and what others offer using the same name. Funnily enough, Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash also has a native integration to google search[1]. They have not done it with their Thinking model. When they do we will have a good comparison.

One of the implications of OpenAI's DR is that frontier labs are more likely to train specific models for a bunch of tasks, resulting in the kind of quality wrappers will find hard to replicate. This is leading towards model + post training RL as a product, instead of keeping them separate from the final wrapper as product. Might be interesting times if the trajectory continues.

PS: There is also genspark MOA[2] which creates an indepth report on a given prompt using mixtures of agents. From what i have seen in 5-6 generations, this is very effective.

[1]: https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1896569401979081073 (i might be misunderstanding this, but this seems a native call instead of explicit)

[2]: https://www.genspark.ai/agents?type=moa_deep_research
Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC): From Concept to Practice (2022)
Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19
zsh also supports the "alias anywhere" concept (their term is "global alias") by using the `-g` flag.

alias -g ag='2>&1 | grep'
some-command ag 'words' # equivalent to: some-command 2>&1 | grep 'words'
No I meant uMatrix. It might not have been updated since 2021 but it didn't need any active development, it was perfect in my eyes. It was still available as an extension.
Except the linux users won't be buying Apple software, from the app store or elsewhere. They won't subscribe to iCloud.
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