skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, which companies make up the Big 4? Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft?
This looks like the work of white nationalist Stephen Miller.

Very sorry to hear about your family situation.
what has that anything to do with my statement?
Probably the most important skill to make it the business: sales.
Yes. I saw that there were already other responses to your comment, but I'd like to add my own, quoted from the conclusion of the article:

"But the biggest surprises and largest performance increases were to be found in the A13's GPU. Where the new chip really shines and exceeds Apple’s own marketing claims is in the sustained performance and efficiency of the new GPU. Particularly the iPhone 11 Pro models were able to showcase much improved long-term performance results, all while keeping thermals in check. The short version of it is that Apple has been able to knock it out of the park, delivering performance increases that we hadn’t expected in what's essentially a mid-generation refresh on the chip manufacturing side of matters."

One of the key phrases is "...Apple has been able to knock it out of the park..."

The rest of the article is pretty clear - Apple gets it, and beats their competitors pretty soundly.
South Africa has the single worst inequality in the world [0], and up until very recently there was apartheid ruled by the descendents of dutch colonizers. This still fits the pattern of imperialists coming in, and enriching themselves at the expense of local populations. It's just that in this case the occupying population hung around permanently. But they're still hoarding the wealth.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/07/africa/south-africa-elections...
Catalina was the straw that broke this camel's back as well. 15 years on a Mac and I'm back on Linux.
> I don't know anyone who uses a Unix(-like) system who uses 7zip

7zip is an implementation of LZMA, like xz. So, different names and file format details, but essentially the same algorithm.
Why do you think this would help? Going from 0 to 1 viewers on one platform alone is quite hard, and then again for 1 to 10 viewers. You would have to put in that effort for each different platform, and ultimately you would still need to pick one and ditch the others once you qualify for partnership
Anyone think this is an additional factor in the Fermi paradox? i.e planets that are too small can’t support a strong atmosphere and life. Planets that are too big make space travel too uneconomical.
> if I knew gravity = 9.8 m/s^2 and everyone around me still thought the earth was flat, would the daily interactions with people start to grate on me?

If you have a decent amount of humility and good will, I honestly think you'd settle into working on finding the best way to communicate your ideas without belittling people.
So Cuba must very rich having sent its armies and advisors throughout the world fomenting revolution, overthrowing governments and installing puppet governments.
Recent threads on the acquisition announcement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23564854

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23583034
I agree on the eggshell thing. I rewrote what I said three times to try and block off any interpretation other than the one I meant. I have some friends that are female engineers and you a get drink in them and listen to all the bullshit they've had to deal with, you have to imagine how thick their skin is.
Second the default map app. I hate when I click a map link and it opens in Apple's map app, it looks just enough like Google maps that I don't immediately close it, then once I realize it's worse that I remember, I say, "oh, they tricked me again!"
Your actual valuable personal data is your graph connections, not your node.

Once you start connecting, you unmask yourself quite easily - many have tried creating spare accounts (even with VPNs and separate browser contexts) and have quite quickly been shown their exist friend set as "recommendations by FB".
The United Nations would issue a strongly-worded letter. Markets would fluctuate for a week. Then everyone outside of Taiwan will pretend that nothing happened.
> A benchmark that probably relies as much on disk access speeds as CPU?

If true, that's just a nitpick that doesn't affect the overall point of the GGGP, though.
Moore's law is dead.

First, Intel and the semiconductor consortium started the garbage definition of a technology node about 10 years ago, when pitch levels stopped following Moore's law.

Now TSMC and all Intel competitors straight up started lying through their teeth. I'm sure what TSMC is calling '5nm' is a complete joke even in face of the horrible redefinition 10 years ago.

Don't believe me? See for yourself:

- nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti was announced in 2016. base clock 1481 MHz, 11.34 TeraFLOPs FP32, on a 471 mm2 die [1].

- Four years later, RTX 3080 Ti, base clock 1905 MHz, 21.1 TeraFLOPs FP32, on a 700 mm2 die [2].

- 21.1 / 11.34 = 1.86x improvement in raw TeraFLOPs.

- 700 / 471 = 1.486x die size increase

- 1905 / 1481 = 1.286x base clock increase

- 1.486 * 1.286 = 1.91x

Conclusion: nVidia could use the bigger die size and the higher base clock to deliver 1.91x the performance using the same 16nm technology node (theoretically). But instead, using the 7nm node, they're delivering even less of a performance bump, 1.86x, when in reality it should've been 7.64x (= 4x * 1.91x, considering two node jumps, and the die-size and base-clock bump).

[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-1080-ti.c2...

[2] https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3080-ti.c3...
Actually you can use CON as a filename in Windows, you just have to use the right API. The command:

type CON > "\\?\C:\CON"

will create a file named CON. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming... has some details about this.
H1B visas are just modern day indentured servitude. Either the candidates skills are valuable enough where we should allow them in irrespective of a specific job tied to a company or not at all.
The current system creates such a massive imbalance of power between employee and employer that any agreements made might as well be under duress.
Just based on what I've seen and the women I've talked to - a lot of women in tech are encouraged to move into management because (for a variety of societal reasons) they've just upskilled more in EQ than many of their male peers.

See also: the pressure to be glue [1]

1: https://noidea.dog/glue
Google auctions the promise of showing ads to relevant users. Google would be eliminating themselves as a middle man service by selling the data they've curated.
It's what they did back in the Intel transition, also. They then sent everyone who'd had one a new Intel iMac, so it's plausible that they might do something like that again this time. (But don't count on it -- it wasn't promised last time either.)
I had seen Taichi (still not entirely sure what "Differentiable Computing" is!) and Tiramisu before but not Halide or DaCe. Neat =D

For whatever it's worth, Arraymancer was #1 on Matmul benchmark (no claims to it being a realistic measure of realworld implementation) until what must have been only the last few weeks:

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks#matmul

At some point recently that D lang library snuck in the top spot.
Efficacy and safety of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine in moderate Covid-19
I just did it, cpu did ramp up, but dropped right back to normal as soon as I closed the calculator. odd.
Are you going to elaborate or just leave it at that?
I know that this is stupid pet peeve but my number one thing to fix is not being able to change the extension of a file with the standard iOS tools. (or is there a way to do this?)

The length to which I needed to go to when I needed to do this recently on a video which was shared with me was mind boggling. I'm not sure if this is because the video was in Files and not in Gallery, but it shouldn't really matter. If anything, that would be exactly where I'd expect to have such a feature.
2015 15" Macbook Pro also had that (99.5 Wh).

https://support.apple.com/kb/sp719?locale=en_US
Now that it’s literally all the same can we please get an iPad Pro that runs Mac OS when docked into a nice keyboard/trackpad base??

I would get rid of my non-work 13inch mbp if this was the case.
dig +trace takes one path, there’s also tools like dnstrace that attempt to show all the paths: https://github.com/rs/dnstrace

Still there can be caches that don’t quite agree as the other comment mentions.
davidw didn't say H1-Bs. He said "immigrants".

But, since you bring it up...

The legal minimum H1-B salary is based on 'prevailing wage' standards, of which there are many to choose from. Sufficiently so, such that one employer I know was hiring PhD statisticians with 20 years of experience in bioinformatics for 90K/yr. In downtown Cambridge, a block from MIT.

Doesn't that sound like a princely salary for today's senior scientist with a family in Massachusetts to support? Maybe they'll throw in a gym membership at Planet Fitness.

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 problem most companies have with this approach is that they stop short of total war.

If you wanted to pay streamers to defect to your platform, then don't cheap out and try to pay a few of them.

Pay all of them. As much as it takes. And blacklist the ones who turn down your initial offers.

WCW vs WWF is illustrative.

You can't win while a rival platform remains viable. And they remain viable as long as they can fund themselves.

So either you play to drive your opponent out of business, or don't play at all.
Your probably don't reember the 'lickable' Aqua interface of OS X 10.2. Personally, I loved the gum-drop buttons, but there were a lot of naysayers.
Well, if they were paid in full, it's because that's how Ninja/Shroud and their lawyers were able to negotiate the contract. It's arbitrary. The contract could also have just been "contract terminated if Mixer ends".
This... article seems to use the phrase "inclusive political and economic institutions" a lot.

To the point where it doesn't mean anything.
V8 has a pure interpreted mode for JavaScript and RegExps: https://v8.dev/blog/jitless

Many sites only need light JavaScript usage and would not run significantly slower. wasm is not supported in jitless mode. Link pulled from twitter link in sister comment by rictic.
Because South Africa and its neighbors were not all colonized?

I’m not sure what SA being relatively wealthier is supposed to tell us.
It looks like iPadOS, so instead of adding more functions to iDevices, it seems like we'll be seeing more "dumbization" for macDevices :-(
Agreed, plus benchmarks and measures like TFLOPS are always highly subjective.

I'd be curious if Apple's non-mobile SOC roadmap emphasizes on CPU development while still allowing for eGPU setups or even some built-in integration (e.g. Mac Pro with Apple CPU and AMD GPU) initially. Maybe in 5-10 years they'll shift to focusing on the GPU front and bring out their own dedicated GPU.
Do you have a source on this? I didn't know about Prime scrip.
I don't think this is a very charitable take. Many people, myself included, consider change for the sake of change a cost, not a benefit.

The less I think about my keyboard layout or system UI widgets the better. I can see why someone might like the novelty of those changing but for me they are just a means to an end. Any time I spend hunting around menus that have changed or fiddling with a novel keyboard means less time for things that I actually care about.
The United States inherited a great deal of political history from Britain that gave us a huge boost. As Newton said, "If I see so far, it's because I stand on the shoulders of giants." We Americans got that advantage. And Britain didn't come by it easily: from the Norman invasion to the American rebellion were 11 civil wars. Representative governance instead of dictatorship was hard-fought. We like to think we alone fought for our system, but that's drastically untrue.
Russia has to balance control over commerce, because the US has a tendency of inciting rebellion in other countries. Divide and Conquer and all thag
> They were technically far superior to Twitch. Their video quality was much better with lower CPU utilization, their latency was extremely low, and their UI was intuitive and butter smooth.

This sounds like FUD. The streamer controls the video encode, not the platform. Also Twitch has had <1s latency streaming for more than a year.
Minor issue I noticed: whenever I launch the app on Windows, the mouse hit-targeting is off vertically by ~40 pixels. Resizing the window makes the problem go away for the rest of the session. I'm on Windows 10, 1920x1080, and I haven't modified scaling/DPI settings.
It's probably a question of awareness. How many of these people are reading e.g arxiv preprints to see this kind of research in the first place? There's also a rebound/face saving effect: if the CDC, State Health Officials, etc. got it wrong at first why should we believe them about anything? I just really doubt there are secret totalitarian Mayors and Governors out there intentionally locking people in their homes despite all evidence. Given politicians obsession with reelection and the unpopularity of these lockdowns it doesn't make sense they would do it for no reason and basically guarantee they lose their next election.
CS is more applicable to mathematics or Physics.

What CS needs is an equivalent engineering program. It is amazing to me that Software Engineering is not considered a valid engineering discipline like Civil, Mechanical (which apply maths and physics).
My comment describes the damage that imperialism has done and the consequences it's had for global wealth distribution.

You say that Cuba has done bad things too.

Therefore imperialism doesn't have consequences?

Can you fill in the blanks for me in your nonsequitur?
Glad to see this.
One of my (stupid) pet peeves is people that say "You have to wait for the DNS to propogate".
DNS does not propogate.
What you're actually waiting for is the cache TTL to expire so those name-servers that have cached it have to query the real answer again, thus getting the newly pushed information.
Of course it appears exactly like it "takes time to propagate" which is why it's actually a pretty sound description of what's happening, and thus why it's a stupid pet peeve.
Pointless rant ends.
Software patents are another kind of disease
It certainly would be. As cool as the tech sounds, I do feel more inclined to let Elon Musk and those types see how far they can run with conventional space tech and some non-nuclear efficiency optimization work.

Being able to reliably land chemical rocket first stages for reuse probably gained us a lot more than any realistic nuclear rocket design, at least as far as getting things from Earth surface into orbit.
Streamers really are a dime a dozen. No offense to streamers here.
I actually agree that x86 will dominate the desktop for quite a while yet. I also agree that EPYC has materially better performance than the Graviton - Rome is very impressive.

Just can't agree though that only Apple has the ability to make desktop / server Arm parts that don't have 'terrible' per core performance. The real issue is who has the economic incentive to build competitive desktop parts - I don't see anyone who would see it as worthwhile.
Any recommendations on a TB3 dock? I recently searched for one, and none of the top rated ones can support a 16" MBP power requirements. One of the manufacturers even went as far as saying "How often do you really use your CPU/GPU at 100%?"[0]

Dell and HP have higher powered docks, but there are many conflicting reports on if it can deliver 96W to non-dell/hp laptops.

TB3/USB-C is a giant mess that is too confusing for even techies to reliably navigate.

[0] - https://www.caldigit.com/using-the-16-macbook-pro-with-the-c...
I've heard two C-level guys with two separate German SMEs say that the only part of their workforce that hadn't handled remote work well was middle management.

The people doing the actual work were happy WFH and simply getting stuff done.
Senior management / C-level types were content seeing sales figures and general output from afar.

Middle management struggled because they had a hard time judging work estimates for tasks and whether people had their butts in seats etc.

Just an anecdote but thought that was intriguing.
From the outside it's a genuine question but from our side it feels like you ran into our car dealership wanting a car but knowing/telling nothing else.

So let me ask you some questions to see what kind of car fits best.

What do you want to learn?

Why do you want to learn it?

If you would be so kind as to answer those questions me or someone else will most likely be able to help.
i don't mean "BS" with venom aimed at you. but you equated a cash transaction at a store to data commodification by internet companies.

data commodification is very materially different from exchanging a currency for a physical good; and i think it's wrong to lose that distinction with a metaphor that's too simplistic.
So instead of trusting the hardware or OS maker you’re trusting a random third party?
It's kind of sad to see Mixer/Beam go, they did have a couple unique features I made good use of.

- FTL protocol, a streaming protocol based on UDP which had sub 1 second delay times, far far superior to what Twitch is capable of.

- User interaction, I was able to quite quickly set up buttons on my page that let my stream viewers control the RGB lighting in my room in interesting ways, and it was a lot of fun for me as a streamer to get that realtime interaction with my viewers
Thanks for reporting this. I created an issue to report this to the Gitlab website team. You can follow along and anything I might have missed here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/issues/8052
Here [1] is a direct link to the source code of the algorithm. It's really awesome!

[1] https://github.com/rberenguel/sketches/blob/master/iris/iris...
> Look, AMD is not stupid, and they're on the same node Apple will be using

Could you elaborate? What do you mean with the "same node"?
Usually some subset of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google

So Big 5, really, but I feel Apple is usually omitted because its primary focus is consumer hardware and the software is usually an ancillary product.
Everybody seems to debating the hardware but to me the question is software. With this mean Apple's desktop software would become incompatible with the new architecture? Also would this mean less control for for the end user on the laptop / desktop form factor? I'm picturing only app store from iOS on those form factors...yuck
Unfortunately for the governed there is a lot left to drain out of their reservoir. Take Venezuela for example. It’s been going on 20 years too long but it keeps going.
I don't know what has changed and then unchanged. As I said, I want to know the state of difference between Python 2.7 and Python 3.8, taking into account all the changes in Python3 that are still present.
That’s the point. Some people like that and are willing to pay extra for that.
I'll be even worse and note that this is a story that is fundamentally about a woman achieving reproductive success - and it sounds pretty miserable. The male version of this story is something like how much easier it is to sleep with an attractive women because a CEO title is perceived as high status.

Most people shape their lives around having a family - the incentives here are not favourable for females seeking out these sort of positions. Men get a lot more out of being powerful than women - having power is nearly the end of the game for a man. For Tracy it sounds like it was the beginning of a process of disillusionment.

She's obviously robust enough that it didn't really matter to her, but somewhere along the bell curve of personalities that incentive gap will make a difference.
This really sucks for people caught in the H-1B process...

My understanding is that it doesn't allow new visas, but it doesn't affect current ones. How about rewnewals?
In Argentina's case, decades of failing statism and economy intervention mixed with military dictatorships. Inflation rampant since the 40s with around only one decade (1990-1999) with 1 digit inflation.

Enterprising in Argentina is an absolute nightmare.
touchscreen mac already exists, it's just still called an iPad and still runs beefed-up phone software. The merge is coming in the next couple years. Tim Cook said the ARM transition would be 2 years, so I'm guessing that means 2022 or '23 has an apple tablet device running the same OS as apple laptop/desktop devices.
This is macOS. Every major and some minor versions are breaking, especially from an enterprise point of view :)
Fun history: Bram Cohen quit Mojo Nation to make BitTorrent. Mojo Nation aimed to solve exactly the problems you're talking about. It was too ambitious for its time, apparently, but trying is how you find out.
My question is what if we were unconcerned about the risks of nuclear powered rockets, could we get off a larger planet then?
Not matter the opinion, "nuclear winter" concept is a belief, you are totally right here. It has never been a scientific question in the first place, the idea was largely accepted for political reasons. Wikipedia [1] has a short overview of the discussion on the topic, but in reality there is no debate on that for a long time: one can't really argue in favor of milder consequences because he'd be labeled as a militarist and all. And I agree that this is one of the few discussions that we probably shouldn't have.

But in general: all the articles greatly exaggerate the volume of nuclear arsenal (tenfold), the number of actual nuclear detonations, the territory of fire and ash yield of the fires. And even then, the planet has tolerated all those at larger scale in volcanic eruptions and forest fires.

Napkin math: US/Russia arsenal is about 1500 warheads on 500-1000 carriers each, which is about 500MT combined. Out of those optimistically maybe a half will detonate on each side (they will be destroyed in preventive strikes/intercepted/etc.), which leaves you with about 125MT total yield - about the yield of a couple of Tsar Bombs that was detonated in 1961 without any consequences whatsoever. The majority of the strikes will be on military targets in the middle of nowhere, where there won't be any fire at all. The rest will fall on modern concrete cities that don't have much fuel either.

> And people do not live in Chernobyl at all

They do, there are about 3000 people working there at any given time and even more living there illegally. Also, animals have no problems living there whatsoever and in fact the ecosystem is in a better shape due to low human activity. Also, you are aware, that Chernobyl power plant itself was operational until year 2000, right?

> nuclear plant meltdowns are a completely different problem

I absolutely is, and in terms of ecological consequence Chernobyl is far more severe than thermonuclear warhead detonation. The core HAS melted down and exploded, pieces of graphite rods were found as far as hundreds of meters away from the building.

I'm not saying nuclear war is nothing to think about - this would be a major catastrophe. But it's very unlikely to end the civilization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_d...
Usually "Big Four" refers to the 4 largest accounting firms: Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PWC.[1] If it's referring to tech, that's an odd/confusing usage when "FANG" is so prevalent for the same concept but explicitly for tech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_accounting_firms