skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s like someone in the 90s saying paying for an internet connection, getting an email address and signing up for YouTube is too much of a headache than turning on the TV.

Besides, you can earn currency from just seeding the torrent- presumably there would be a way to download some initial torrents for free and then you can contribute to the network directly without needing to get a wallet or set anything up.

It’s on the web as well, so it could be as seamless as YouTube, only you’d have a small currency counter that goes up if you leave the tab open, and you can either spend that currency by downloading or withdraw it by selling it to other users who would rather pay than seed.
I'm not sure I agree with you on most of this, but I think more competition in the cpu biz is always a good thing.
The only connection that I can think of is how caffeine is a diuretic. If you're using the restroom more often, and drinking more fluids, it might result in more opportunities to filter out more uric acid or something along those lines.

I'm not a doctor though, so grain of salt
It’s a psychological play that is politically motivated. Nothing else.
Nope, 7zip is using LZMA algorithm for compression, which is around a few MB/s on the fastest CPU. It's heavily CPU bound.

edit: Just tried compressing a large file, ultra setting on my desktop i5 CPU, it's running at 3 MB/s on 1 core.
Not only that, it will also step up ARM software quality in general, hopefully. Expect Rust and ARM versions of Linux to get much better in the short to medium term.
> Those were also lower-end computers with poor GPUs.

Were you under the impression this $500 developers kit shipping with an iPad Pro CPU/ GPU is a high end computer? While it's a decent chip, it's essentially the same CPU as the prior generation iPad Pro with 1 additional core.
The comparison is a bit unfair. x86 is like a decade older than ARM. Not that much in retrospect. aarch64 is as "free of historical legacy" as x86_64 is (that is: not at all free). There is lot of cruft and even multiple ISAs in aarch64 (e.g. T32/Thumb).

And the CISC vs RISC arguments are questionable, seeing that Apple has done the migration in both directions by now.
Doesn't all nutrition change alter the gut microme somehow?
The cape was literally a restocking hub for the global trade hegemon (Dutch) and later served similar purposes for the following hegemon (British). Of course it had higher rates of capital accumulation. This was seen even into the 60s
Look at the A12's power/frequency chart: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14892/a12-fvcurve.png

Increase frequency by 30% and the A12 will also be hitting 10 watts per core - the end of that graph is going real vertical real fast.

Since Zen 2 and A12/A13 are all on the same TSMC process this shouldn't be that surprising...

> I expect at least a 50% per core performance increase

Based off of what evidence? That'd be an unheard of improvement. TSMC isn't even claiming anything close to that at a pure transitor switching frequency for 5nm? They are predicting 15% frequency gain (at the same complexity and power) or a 20% power reduction (at the same frequency and complexity) over their 7nm process.
Here's Dallas: ICUs are filling up with Covid patients.

https://twitter.com/Mary_Plastic/status/1274525635638149120?...

Because the ICU is full of covid patients that means there's less capacity for young people after road traffic accidents.
That is a use of SRV records [1], however it was not accepted into the HTTP protocol specification. I bring it up every time there is a new protocol version but I am too lazy to write an RFC addendum for it and hope that someone else will. Existing protocols may not be modified in this manor once ratified. Maybe HTTP/4.0? /s

Some applications use SRV records for load balancing. Many VoIP and video conferencing apps do this. There is a better list on Wikipedia.

_service._proto.name. TTL class SRV priority weight port target.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
Yeah sometimes people spend inane amounts of money for things. If someone was willing to pay $7.5 million for milk.com it'd be theirs. But no ones offered even 0.1% of that. So the market says milk.com really isn't worth very much. And the owner of milk.com and my other two friends that own single word domains are using them for their personal websites not squatting on them.
I think they are slightly different as this one is focussed purely on the UI/UX differences whereas the other is a more general “what’s new” in terms of features etc. Happy for you to do what you think best of course!
If you like this game consider checking out Cities Skylines. Traffic is a major part of the game. With the vanilla edition you can already do a lot, but if you want to route lanes you need the traffic manager mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=16376...
I strongly disagree on all points, but I think it is a useful perspective overall as a comparison of what the future could or should look like.
My understanding is that iOS Edge "kind of/mostly" supports push notifications from PWAs. From what I recall seeing, the experience isn't particularly great (notifications are always from Edge itself so you have a hard time filtering them by individual PWA "app", for instance). PWA parity on iOS has seemed an interesting focus of Edge, and it's interesting to see if it will be a losing battle or not.
> Japan has Sony, Nintendo, Canon, Hitachi, Panasonic and one or two others that are relevant.

Add Nikon to the list, especially in the context of chip fabbing (They and Canon are one of the few companies that make fab equipment not necessarily of the same caliber as ASML, but similar vein.).
Anecdotal evidence: On my work notebook (Lenovo X1 Carbon, Windows 10), the fan starts spinning when Slack is on a channel with animated emoji reactions.
Just conversations, but a quick googling points to twitch.amazon.com. That appears to offer Amazon Prime members "free channel subscription ($4.99 value) every month".
I'd say both. If I'm a user who's all in on the Apple ecosystem, it seems like a nice plus that the out of the box apps can be expected to look similar and work similarly, whether I'm on my phone or my laptop.

There's certainly ways to screw that up, I won't deny that. But I think it's an inherently good direction to aim for. In my mind, that means (1) making sure that functionality is synced whenever possible (the lack of iMessage functionality on macOS after it was enhanced on iOS has bugged me for years), and (2) matching the look and feel to make the macOS version (or iOS version) feel familiar the first time you use the app if you've previously used the alternate platform's equivalent.
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Try browsing the web on a semi-decent laptop from, say, 2008.
It's a frustrating experience. It is obnoxious how much CPU power modern websites require.
Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.

It didn't help Mexico that they were being heavily exploited by American business interests, to the point where the American ambassador helped having President Madero killed, because he was a little too left-leaning for US business interests. Though, President Taft was quite upset, as Ambassador Wilson had orchestrated it on his own accord.
How would it be better than round robin DNS with low TTL?
I’m sorry but seeing discontent and rebellion with the backdrop of the Soviets and modern Russia doesn’t earn much in terms of “imbalance”.
On the flip side - it also means that if we have a bad president or two in the United States, we’ll still probably be ok. With multiple branches of government there’s only so much damage that can be done in 4/8 years.
Right to Privacy
Actual experience. The state of code in Bioinformatics is a joke. Many do not know the word 'conda' or 'docker', and example datasets are far and few between.
I'm not sure what your point is.

Yes, these are anecdotes. If you have references that show Facebook is popular with young demographics I'd love to see links and discuss them.

Otherwise these anecdotal data points are useful. While not representative, it gives some ideas about mindset.
It seems like these new Macs might as well be phone with a keyboard in the way they treat their software and "pro" consumers taking away options when screen real-estate exists to empower the mouse user.

Wake me up when they use less glue to hold their computers together : (
One of the execs of the bank I work at made a public statement that they actually saw the productive output of the IT organization shoot up during the WFH weeks here in Denmark.

But of course middle management didn't agree so now we are back in the office.
I highly recommend everyone candy-flip at least once, just to see why they call it candy-flipping (because everything looks like lovey-dovey glowing gumdrops). However, in my experience, the serotonin release from the MDMA tends to overwhelm the LSD, and you pay for it with the inevitable comedown and MDMA hangover the next day instead of the blissful LSD afterglow.
The land area of my big city is massive, so there is no risk of running out of land. The problem with that is the increases of traffic and commute times. The area where I live is also absolutely dominated by single family residences. Developers have been building 500+ houses per year in the 5 mile radius of my house over the last decade and space for more single family residences in this location is running out. Developers are turning from single family dwellings towards apartment complexes. The current residents in the area are strongly opposed to the development of multi family units that will only further congest already unbearable traffic conditions. The city had to widen roads to accommodate the rapidly growing population but keeps putting it off.
SciPy did support Accelerate, but they dropped it in 2018 because Apple’s implementation of LAPACK was so out of date. Apple have been crap at updating this stuff which is why people don’t use it.
macOS 11: Installing Custom Kernel Extensions
Is there anyone building on Electron and only targeting the Mac desktop environment? Windows is still the king there.
I don't understand what any of this has to do with people not being insufferable assholes on a platform.
E/O: Suspending Entry of Aliens Presenting a Risk to the U.S. Labor Market
I agree that Guns, Germs, and Steel is an excellent book, but it does not explain modern economical disparities. It basically explains why Europeans were the ones to conquer the African and American continents in the 15th and 16th centuries, and not the other way around (and the arguments are solid). But it clearly does not explain why modern countries have large economical disparities today, or why some countries colonized by Europeans are highly developed economically (e.g. the US, Australia) while others are not (e.g. Brazil, South Africa).

As for the article, I believe there is more to economical success than political institutions as well, it is such a complex process that it cannot be reduced to any single factor.
This is exactly the same for Android though. Both Google Play and Apple App store charge 30%. And they both also drop the 30% to 15% for subscriptions after 1 yr.

It's estimated Apple did about $50 billion in App Store revenue in 2019, and $30 billion for Google Play store.

Now consider that about 80% of Apple's revenue actually comes from hardware, not software or people's data.

But 70% of Google's revenue comes from ads. It's insane to me that you think that in Apple's ecosystem you're the product. The product in Apple's ecosystem is their hardware and they charge for access to users.

Google does exactly the same thing, except without the regard for your privacy. Google's entire business model is selling access to its users.
It's to prevent the phone accidentally unlocking. But your experience does highlight a big problem. They should show a message when you "frustrate" tap explaining what you should do.
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That's the point. It prevents oligopolies forming (as we have now), short of them producing enough value per user to cut them a sizeable payment.

All the problems of big tech disappear when they're held accountable for their actions. The easiest way to hold them accountable is to reduce their clout.
if power goes down heat will also, it's almost 1 to 1. Almost all power going into a CPU is lost as waste heat eventually.
Collaborate. All you would do is sit at your desk in a mask and freak out every time someone walks by you.
Probably he based his opinion on speed of progress. In 2006 you could buy Core 2 Duo at 3.0GHz. Modern processor at 4.5GHz would be maybe just 3 times faster in normal, every day, single thread use which seems like a lot, but isn't too much if you think that CPUs 14 years before Core 2 Duo were clocked at 33MHz and IPC slightly below 1.

My dad uses a computer with C2Q CPU and it's still fast enough for everyday use.

Edit: to be clear, he's still wrong, we had quite untrivial IPC increase during all these years. I just wanted to point out that he's comment probably was based on empirical data.
> I think many of these earnest but "bad" questions just need answers in the form of heuristic advice or pointers to get them on the right track.

This is true, but not necessarily the role of SO to solve. This seems more like a mentoring service.

SO was conceived as a long-term repository of questions and corresponding answers that are worth archiving for several years, so explainers don't have to rehash the same explanations many times and explainees have quick access to expert knowledge collected over a long time.

Remember the bulk of users are the passive readers of the vast question bank of SO, they come to SO because the questions and answers are relevant and helpful. The primary user is therefore not necessarily the novice user who cannot formulate a question well and cannot search for similar questions or break down their problem into pieces, explain what they did etc. We also need to make sure the site remains high-quality for the readership, people who read answers from months and years ago.

I agree that there needs to be some place for novices to get coarse-level guidance of what terms to search or what fields of CS may be of interest, etc. It's definitely true that formulating the question the right way is already a substantial step towards solving it.

But "I'm confused in a vague way about this specific file I was tasked to work with and I'm getting an error message I was too scared to read, so plz help" is not worth archiving in a question bank.

It sounds more like a support help desk for programmers, but you'd have to pay for it because answering such questions is exhausting and not really rewarding. The people who go to SO do it for free because they like the puzzle solving aspect of thinking and solving interesting questions. Rehashing the same thing gets old and you can not guilt trip people into doing it as some sort of unpaid community service.
Yes, exactly. There is plenty of room to criticize Monsanto without demonizing the idea of gene editing.
> Are you under the impression that current rates of state & local taxation realistically reflect the actual cost of servicing future obligations for services and infrastructure, including pension costs? They don't pay that much more into the system....of course, if Trump set the minimum H1-B salary to 300K nationwide, and allowed for a marginal rate of 65%, that would be a different story.

The median American worker makes something like 30k+/year. So yes, the person making $90k is paying far more into the system than they take out, even if you account for the fact that the current system is not quite fully funded. Skilled immigrants are also less likely to be on disability, be unemployed, end up in prison, etc, or otherwise end up in a position where they are extracting more resources than they put in.
https://howdns.works is one of my favorite educational booklets on the subject. Not as in depth as many other resources, but highly amusing and fairly sticky.
It destroys battery life though.
Didn’t notice either, I’m aware of rust but I’ve not seen bigger codebase in it, will have pull it and have a nosy.

Thanks for pointing out that it’s in rust.
5% increase per gen for most of the past decade vs. 50% increase per gen when clock speeds were increasing in lock step along with transistor count, but sure.

I've got a 13 year old laptop that runs today's OS's and development software a little slow but ultimately just fine, and if it weren't for a low limit on installed RAM it would be more than "ultimately" just fine.

That would've been absolutely laughable even 10 years ago, much less 20. You'd be lucky to be able to run a then-current OS on 2-3 year old hardware in the 90's through early 2000's.
That’s why I have hopes for them to come back and square up the Mac platform to where it should be for stability and usability. They could have been treating the whole platform as a beta for what they want to make of it after the move to their own silicon for many years now - perhaps even a decade. They’ve been well financed for as long. They also seem to have something like institutional anti-ADHD in so far as they can really only “nail” one product down well at a time.
Tbh it is less developer focused than I expected
At least in the case of India, colonization ensured that the local population was decimated in terms of access to education and industrial revolution for nearly 200 years.

After colonization ended, while they inherited British institutions, arbitrary boundaries (which affect them even today) and a closed economy (coming from protectionism and fear of western colonizers) ensured that they couldn't rise from the ashes as fast as other Asian countries.
You are just shifting the anti-money laundering responsibility for merchants. It is not going to be a long term game.
At least it educates the user.
I feel like that demonstrates my point (though maybe I didn't communicate it well).

Given a modified version of that example¹, with everything being apples-to-apples (identical input code minus the presence of async/await keywords, and sticking to a debug build instead of --release-fast so as to avoid Zig and/or LLVM optimizing away the semantic differences), there are subtle differences in the interaction between the generated 'add' and 'add2' (calling convention differences maybe? I strongly suspect you'd know more about what's going on with rax and rcx there...). These differences continue to be visible with --release-safe (though --release-fast and --release-small both optimize away those differences, which does indeed seem like a reasonable thing to do).

That is: even in that example, the fact that add2() doesn't yield doesn't change the fact that Zig treats it differently (namely, I would guess, by assuming that it has the potential to yield and thus doing the necessary bookkeeping to handle that) depending on whether or not it's invoked as an async function. If async/await were indeed "no-ops" as the article asserts, then shouldn't the assembly outputs here be identical in debug and release-safe?

The LLVM IR output for --release-safe is telling, too, since it's apparent that Zig's emitting IR specifically around an async frame (at least that's my impression from seeing all those getelementptrs on a @Frame(add2) -- which, come to think of it, do correspond to the extra rax/rcx manipulations in the async version). --release-fast even shows a difference on the IR level, though it's admittedly pretty inconsequential-looking (just an extra @llvm.debug.value call in the non-async version).

EDIT: as another interesting note, these differences persist even with --single-threaded, which contradicts the documentation on Single Threaded Builds (which states that "The overhead of Async Functions becomes equivalent to function call overhead." -- I mean, I guess that's true with --release-fast or --release-small, but --single-threaded doesn't seem to have an effect there).

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¹: https://godbolt.org/z/_zfkeJ
I don't think binning is as big of a deal as it's made out to be. What does Apple do with the "low-bin" A13s, for instance?
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Only if you opt in.[1]

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/08/improving-siris-priva...
I don't know, just Catalyst and Swift/UI alone are making my life as a developer much easier and nicer.
Why do you think that is not a completely reasonable expectation?
Looking at the link, if you peg the CPU and GPU to 100% even the charger that comes with the MBP will struggle.

Another 100w option is the Targus dock - https://us.targus.com/products/usb-c-universal-quad-4k-docki...
Exactly. As an analogy imagine if a car magazine compared a Lamborghini to a Toyota Corolla and said "the Lamborghini didn't take me down the road to the shops any faster than the Corolla, they're pretty much the same".
Probably like iOS
I have an application that is partially broken in Safari only because of the lack of support for input type="datetime-local". Very frustrating.
Why would you compare 2014 ridership to 2020 capital spending? The same charts you posted show a 40% increase in ridership with only a 20% increase in capital spending from 1982-2004.

Obviously the capital spending boost that is happening right will only be reflected in future ridership.
I have experimental evidence that a Kindle Fire wouldn't, for an elderly father losing his faculties, after my sister and nephew insisted he should have one and use skype. Just getting the on/off switch is bad enough, along with other problems mentioned here. The whole thing was bad enough for me as a hacker used to android, specifically interacting with skype.
Apple would never allow that on their store.
Indeed - and I'm hoping they give some more details about that, whether it's ARM only virtualisation, or if their Rosetta 2 also supports x86 virtualisation.
I don’t remember this but it’s credible. Can you dredge your any links from back then?
Virtually all of these changes reduce contrast and differentiation between controls while simultaneously decreasing information density. All bad news for people who work on their computers for a living.
They're not even going to use A12Z for laptops, it doesn't support virtualization. Seems like they're just for DTKs.
All of these celebrities regularly take appearance fees to show up at nightclubs, bar mitzvahs, birthday parties, etc. It's extremely common. You don't hear about most of them because they're private events.
That's a fair point. I was referring to "most" distros in terms of the plain number of distros with reasonable mainstream visibility (and therefore possibly the majority focus from mainstream userspace developers), as a kind of a generous argument. The number of embedded Linux deployments is undoubtedly huge.
I assume the browsers are still stuck using Safari's rendering and JavaScript engine.
Making people aware of their implicit biases doesn’t usually change minds
Trump will sign executive order temporarily suspending work visas for H-1B
Good thing nobody is under the delusion that the economy is a zero-sum game! /s
Ask HN: Apple – How much is on device in on-device intelligence
How much data is actually on device for these on-device intelligence? I am sure they need to gather some of the intelligence to make their services more intelligent. But how much they need for that and how they share it?
> On other social media websites

That sort of statement requires data to back it up.

> I don't see how you jumped to that conclusion, that it's unwanted. I want Facebook, and I want it for free

If no one wants to pay for it, it's unwanted. I'm sure you'd also want a mansion, butlers, a private jet, etc. for free. That you want something for free means nothing, and is entirely irrelevant.

Facebook in its current form also doesn't care about what you want. They care about how they can please their paying customers, with you being one of their many products they can sell.
(Note: to rent.)