skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, Naval reactors usually use Uranium enriched to much higher levels that civilian nuclear plants, both to get higher power output for smaller reactor size, and to not need refueling as often. Reactors designed to operate in space may do the same sort of thing. I wonder what other kind of optimizations and/or workarounds might be required for a real space-capable reactor.
>Just because you're self-employed, selling your services to others on a contract basis, doesn't make that gig work.

doesn't it? as far as i can tell, the only distinction between "gig economy" and contract workers is that contract workers actually get paid at rates that make it sustainable and that being between contracts isn't a catastrophe, whereas jobs classed as "gig economy" pay low enough to keep the workers desperate for the next gig.
This is a demo so take with huge grain of salt, but the x86 performance looks solid... better than I expected considering it's based on an iPad CPU.
Though if some people want to make websites for the 0.4% of clients that won't allow JavaScript to load, I hope they enjoy their niche hobby.
Hmm. I like that but how about.

> You stop being a startup when you start spending only your own money.

Lot's of growth based VC backed startup's have some token income you could argue they are spending.
My workplace is pushing aggressively to eliminate remote work, with 50% off remote work in the next couple of weeks. I'm in one of the biggest hotspots, and as the last few months have shown, a significant amount of work has been perfectly viable from home. But before this shutdown, my workplace had a hard ban on WFH. It's the "the workers will be lazy if they're not in the office" mentality. As though you couldn't be lazy at work as well.
I ll leave that here http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/247406.html

Edit: in the link, rust creator argues that we should watch out how we market rust.
Well that's why they have 'imaginary' job titles :) Thank you for pointing this out.
Truly inspirational read. Keep up Tracy.
As I say in another comment, I'd be happy to put a punitive taxation level on this entire industry. But if we're going to talk about "paying users for their data", then from the very beginning the framing is being written in terms of what the companies can afford based on what they're making, and the whole conversation is going to be anchored in terms of what the companies make. The discussion won't be about internalizing externalities, it'll be about the users profit-sharing with the companies.

If you want to internal externalities, go for the tax. Probably an easier sell to the politicians.
People online are insignificant. Online Peter Thiel is some sort of vampire who feeds off the lifeblood of young men and governments while suppressing the press. In real life, Peter Thiel is a respected businessman who is considered one of the archetypes of a successful entrepreneur.

In the story, there are parts she openly regrets as having optimized for appearance: returning to work so soon after having given birth. There are parts she doesn't express regret over but mentions (the miscarriage, pumping in the car instead of a mother's room and the ensuing feelings of humiliation).

There's probably a balance here but it appears that optimizing for appearance isn't of much value except when you need people to believe in your appearance: meeting investors, talking to your team. Since most people online are neither, they are not important.
Seconding. Other than 10 minutes surrounding 9:30 and 4, the trading floors I've worked on have been quieter than any tech company I've worked for.
Curious that they said nothing about virtualizing Windows. That can’t be a mistake or oversight. Odd.
Curious how this will effect "the developer experience" considering that cloud instances are also transforming to ARM based processors.
Besides native apps from Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe (Universal 2), the demo included Maya and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Rosetta 2), and Parallels Desktop (unspecified virtualization improvements). I couldn't tell if the guest O/S was Debian for x84-64 or Aarch64.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21298963/ninja-shroud-mix...

I'm wondering how these contracts for the the Mixer exclusives will pay out.
Nitpick but I hope the overtly (about 10px) rounded corners of running app windows aren't there to stay. Looks heavy/dated.
> Are there any people trading on companies trading their profitability for moral righteousness?

Blackrock controls about $6 trillion in investments. They announced a move to socially responsible investing over two years ago. And it's becoming a common question investors are asking startups: what positive long term impact will you have on society?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/blackrocks-push-for-social-r...
More active discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/hds2kk/new_gith...
I’ve been getting annoyed lately, configured iOS to “offload” rarely used apps - but it means that I stop getting expected notifications.. and don’t realize it until I try to open the app.
It seems to be going the other way actually. MacOS Big Sur looks like iPadOS with a menu bar tacked on.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23601333.

Normally we'd have merged the other way, since this is the canonical source and was posted earlier, but people are complaining about not being able to read the site.
That's what Apple is good for, see Palm Pilot vs iPhone. I'm hoping by making a good clean version of the QR code functionality that gets popular, it will make people create proper QR codes when they see how it's supposed to be done.
Am I missing something? I read it the other way: all CNF instances can be rewritten as regexp + backreferences, meaning re + backreferences are at least as general that SAT, not at most as. Meaning, they could be higher in the polynomial hierarchy.
To non-developers perhaps.

They marketed (very well) a good product directly at developers realising that would give them a foothold when business person said "who should we use?" and dev thought...well I can deal with paypal or stripe.
Yeah, this will probably be integrated with AZTEC or some kind of zk scheme before it becomes a full mainnet protocol due to the risky nature of torrents.
I was curious about the hardware they used for the demo.
Macs with new Apple-built chips will natively run iPhone and iPad apps
It is aptly named.
Since when has Stripe ever been even remotely "secretive"? They've been highly publicized in the tech community since the beginning. Just because they weren't mainstream in the beginning doesn't mean they're secretive.
Seems like they’ve just Osborned half the machines for the next 2 years.
You're basically replacing an insurance program that everyone pays into with safety guarantees with a savings account that each individual pays into with zero guarantees and each individual now has to know how to save enough for themselves, oh and the government will take some of your money if you don't save enough of it. I can't imagine anything more regressive.

The entire purpose of the Federal Reserve is to ensure our economy devalues our savings at about 5% a year. So every year those of us required to save are losing money to the people who have easy access to credit. And like every "plan" in this country it will be 100% based on W-2 income meaning the extremely rich won't ever be affected by it, just like they're not affected by insurance costs or social security insurance.
If you remember that they had cursor support in the latest iPad , my guess is that the cursor support enables it instead of a touchscreen.
For an interesting contrast, check out the history of cave temples in the karst formations of Southeast Asia. I'm most familiar with those in Malaysia, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batu_Caves. There it's common for religious groups (Buddhist or Hindu) to purchase a cave and develop it into a temple, complete with concrete floors and living spaces for the monks. It's a completely different attitude towards transforming yet conserving the natural environment that really shocked me coming from American caves where everything is "look but don't touch."
Exactly right. Prices for the smaller players will drop or otherwise be easier to get broader exposure for the same product category.

If I was running an ecommerce business, this would be a strong signal to buy placement on FB.
It’s not cost-free, it’s transaction-free.
His technical papers are fun to read and based on solid mathematics. He's collecting that work into a book which is about as poorly edited as you would expect but the math is solid. There is no sense in which Taleb is as vapid as JBP.
Next step in work evolution, I'd say.

Now we just have to increase entrepreneurship by some orders of magnitude and things will scale like never before.
Emulation? I assume using the same kind of tech that let x86 run old PowerPC apps
Are we witnessing history being made?

Apparently the A12 SoC is running those apps effortlessly.
I knew a futurist who proposed using a railgun on Kilimanjaro as stage 1 of a rocket launch system. A lot of fuel is burned just trying to shove a lot of fuel through the lower atmosphere.

But as you say, a human-rated railgun has a much lower acceleration. And there's the problem of what happens when you hit the atmosphere at the end of the gun...
You're being downvoted, but you're right. (It would have been nice for you to have said it a little less crassly though)
Yep I do it in the same way. Mostly if I decide to read a book, I print it out buy the book. Then I use (), [] underline and .x. symbols to make it important and keep reading the book and after each chapter I reread the marked point and scratch off if it feels unimportant after reading the whole chapter amd ghen proceed on.
> Whatever the number, Cameo keeps 25% of the transaction and the talent does what it wishes with the remainder.

That’s...a lot. The App Store strategy I guess.
Tim Cook just said they have new intel macs in the pipeline. Those will go over like a lead balloon.
It’s going both ways - iPadOS now has drop down menus at the top, etc.
Now will Qualcomm feel a little more competition or not? There chips are slow in mobiles and they are slow in PCs, compared to Apple's processors.
Why are you talking about women in the world? The parent's argument is on the vc world, which is pretty different.
It may be to avoid appearing to be misleading. They'll almost certainly be able to virtualize ARM-based Windows, but that's not what normal users are looking for when they want to virtualize Windows.
I doubt it. 'Most' apps work fine unmodified they said. Probably iPadOS cursor support. Perhaps multitouch trackpad gestures will work maybe?
“We've been down this road before”

Yes, and then you ‘upgraded’ the OS and gratuitously stopped running older software. My final Mac Pro — yes, I was a buyer of Mac Pro grade hardware — still runs 10.6.8 for that reason.

https://youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q
If I needed a kidney and couldn't find a donor through personal connections, I would hope a company with something to offer would ad-target me.
I doubt it. Probably just mouse support from iPadOS.
Might be competition type thing, MS not wanting to or because they simply didn't get it to work yet. Speculation is free.
Remarkable if Microsoft really thought they could just buy two big streamers (and a couple of smaller ones) to get Mixer going and that Twitch market share - without making much change to the platform and its community.

"A typical Microsoft" I guess?

Big pay day for Ninja & Shroud though if they're really just free to join Twitch again, their returns will be huge.
The Next Step for Mixer
I think they meant that having a Dalit man be presidett is proof that there has been some progress, same as Obama's presidency in the US. That showed that progress has been made in the battle against racism, even if it certainly doesn't mean that racism is over.
Pyomo is nice, but I think it’s perhaps more like AMPL [1] and friends than a typical “Pythonic” library?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPL
Momentum. I think one component of momentum is just the time it takes to develop mature tooling for the ecosystem and port existing software over.

I invested in ARM (ARMH) back in 2006, partly because I realized that whether Apple or Android won more marketshare, nearly everyone was going to have an ARM-based smartphone in a few years. Part of it was also realizing the above and hoping ARM would take a good share of the server market. SoftBank took ARM private before we saw much inroads in the server market, but it was still one of the best investments I've made.

Of course, maybe I'm just lucky and my analysis was way off.
Indeed - only talked about Linux, of which there are of course ARM versions available.
Did Tim Cook just say there are exciting Intel based Macs in the pipeline?
> There are many ways this can work, and it's not necessarily simple. I don't have a specific proposal.

I was talking about the proposal from `cwhiz, in which the government would revoke protections under existing current law. I think there are holes in that suggestion that are miles wide, that will extend to pretty much any other proposal that depends on the government deciding if a site is over- or under-moderated.

Without a specific proposal to talk about, or specific opinions on "should a site have to relinquish editorial control or rule-setting ability to enjoy liability protections from stuff done by users" (I say "no"), I don't see much more interesting stuff to debate. Those are real, active questions and proposals being made; other hypotheticals could go on forever but are less relevant to now.

But if you aren't interested in those specific points, I don't know why you're participating in a thread that was specifically about the questions around that current law.
What they did to Finder is just...unacceptable.
I don't think they said anything on that. However they did say there's still new Intel-based Macs coming, so I would expect it to be a while.
It is probably the most tested food additive that exists. Anything you eat will modify your microbiome.
When a company has a history of Doing The Right Thing they earn the benefit of the doubt. It's called "good will".
Oregon town names park after rotting whale officials blew up 50 years ago
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No new macbook.
> I don't think Reddit should be able to censor lawful content and also claim protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

The entire point of 230 was to allow companies like Reddit to censor lawful content while still claiming protections. It was never designed at any point to create neutral platforms.

Lack of moderation was already a defense before 230 was created:

> CompuServe stated they would not attempt to regulate what users posted on their services, while Prodigy had employed a team of moderators to validate content. Both faced legal challenges related to content posted by their users. In Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc., CompuServe was found not be at fault as, by its stance as allowing all content to go unmoderated, it was a distributor and thus not liable for libelous content posted by users. However, Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. found that as Prodigy had taken an editorial role with regard to customer content, it was a publisher and legally responsible for libel committed by customers. [0]

Section 230 was not designed to foster neutral platforms, it was designed to allow platforms/communities to moderate as they saw fit without opening themselves up to legal liability. To re-phrase that in modern terms, section 230 is one of the strongest protections we have today for community's Right to Filter[1].

When people say that they like Section 230 but it's gone off the rails, what they really mean is that they think Section 230 was always a bad idea. Or perhaps more charitably that they haven't really researched how Section 230 works or what its history was.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...

[1]: https://anewdigitalmanifesto.com/#right-to-filter
How is this trolling?
Millions are affected across China and India, people are dying on a daily basis ... But yeah I get it they have no purchase power and they're not white not Christian so who gives a shit
No mention of Bootcamp at all. RIP.
Bitch please, change your name to a Black or Muslim sounding name and apply in California / US. What's your point - discrimination still exists in India today ? Yes, it does. But there are voices against it, change albeit slowly is happening for the better, not worse.

Discrimination exists everywhere, even I am guilty of it many a times, the point is to learn to recognize , be conscious of it and eradicate it via education and CONSENT. When a dailt man is discriminated against in India, even if not effectively enforced, it is a crime, organizations, political parties, media that champion their causes exist. When a Ugyher is taken into a concentration camp in China, the law doesn't say a word, media remains silent.

The discussion here is not about flaws of India. The question is whether the rest of the world should continue enabling China via trade or move elsewhere, and the impact of this decision on the future of the world.
MacMini with an A12 chip. Available now as a part of a developer kit. Will be fun to see what that can do.
PayPal and Venmo are reportedly planning to let users buy and sell crypto
Cook said they expect the transition to last 2 years. The first models will ship before Christmas.
I wish there were a clear bad guy here, but most of the hardship seems to have been caused by more diffuse social pressures. What could we have done as an industry to improve the author's experience? Maybe just having more female founders around in general (by removing any barriers) would make some of these circumstances more commonplace.
One of the About This Mac dialogs showed an A12Z with 16 GB, which is consistent with the developer transition kit, basically an iPad Pro in a Mac mini case: A12Z, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD.
The project site was also posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23599774), but we merged those comments hither because people were complaining that they couldn't view that page.
It said A12Z. Mac Minis with A12 available next week to devs.
I was seriously considering upgrading my 2012 MacBook to the new 16" model soon, but now I wonder what kind of longevity or support I can expect from that hardware...
When they did the transition to Intel they also had a dev kit which was not based on the final product processor, so I guess history repeats itself (it was a P4 based kit but I don't think we ever saw a P4 Mac)
>I can't stand the fact that newly installed apps decide to show up on the desktop

That is an option that you can disable
curious that they almost never said arm and referred to it as "apple silicon".
Exactly, I consciously check email when I want/need. So I don't even need push notification.
IDK, "look how good our CPU support is by running a several year old GPU limited game" fell a bit flat for me.
Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon
I agree. I know they're currently using AMD GPUs, but how much longer will they keep using AMD if they believe that their own in house chips can do a better job? Also, I'm curious as to whether they would try to sell their GPUs (iGPU?) to gamers who traditionally don't stay within the Mac ecosystem at all. Having a 3rd major player in the GPU space would be wild.
I'm using https://github.com/multiarch/qemu-user-static - that's what it is, right ?
Docker and Linux virtualization. Fat binaries to make it easy to update Mac apps. iPhone and iPad apps. Rosetta to run Intel apps that aren’t updated.

Apple is gonna knock this out if the park.
Facebook has made a point that they'd rather not build a world where Mark Zuckerberg's schmucks decide who can express their opinions and who can't. Patagonia is targeting Facebook not because Facebook is full of hate, but for failing to censor things they deem hateful.

Patagonia's stance against hate some merit to it, but it is in the end an illiberal stance, one which fails to acknowledge the concept that freedom of speech may be a broadly good thing. As society becomes more illiberal, the list of "hate" will grow broader and the list of approved politicians and causes will grow narrower. I am sure that there are a few on these pages who would be ever so thrilled to ban the entire Republican party from advertising entirely.

We have had similar episodes in this nation's history. The Red Scare comes to mind. The House Unamerican Activities committee set out to find the Communists and Russian agents who were infiltrating government and society at all levels. And there were, in truth, a lot of Russian agents who had infiltrated American government. And yet today we mostly do not talk about that, for instead, we must talk about how the HUAC, its blacklists which would ban people from industry, was a deranged exercise in paranoia, guilt-by-loose-association, and its own forms of hatred.

Today's cancel culture, in which Patagona's boycott is but the smallest plank, is the new HUAC. It differs in that it is not run by government and it is generally leaderless. It is the same in that there are a lot of things which are legitimately problems, and it finds some of them. It is the same in that it deploys abusive media and social-media attention on small-time nobodies, destroying their careers and their livelihoods, in an effort to create an atmosphere of fear and silence its opposition. And I can only hope that future generations will look back on us aghast and ask, "what the hell was wrong with these people?"
iOS Safari already supports adblocking.
First mac with Apple chip by the end of the year.

Also Apple is committing to a long term pipeline of Intel chips. This makes sense since so many apps will take years to transition. At the same time, they're willing to put their own chips side by side with Intel and they believe people will voluntarily switch. I'm looking forward to the benchmarks.
Its great when you can indeed iterate without 100s of GPU/hrs.

Are there any papers/comparisons/tradeoffs on when GBDT predictive-power plateaus compared to a NN?

EDIT: with self play you can trade-off a cpu budget for both the GBDT depth, a NN depth, and the roll-out depth - which is super interesting
Here is a though how about making Rosetta run those 32 bit applications you dropped on the floor with Catalina.