skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huawei products have been banned in a number of countries without any evidence, while US manufacturers like CISCO [0] have a pretty rich and regular history of weird backdoors in their products and actively harassing security researchers to suppress the reveal of that information [1].

Now consider the fact how one of the top search results for "Intel me NSA" is this article [2] telling people how they can totally disable that nasty ME thanks to the apparently very well meaning NSA.

I don't claim to be nearly well versed enough to understand if that NSA advise is actually useful, but I'm sure as hell skeptical enough when a burglar wants to tell me how to best secure my home from break-ins.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-a...

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/cisco_harasse...

[2] https://www.csoonline.com/article/3220476/researchers-say-no...
Just to go into one of your points, I'm not sure if women on average perform worse in negotiations. Probably they are only expected to perform worse in a job and thus have to overcome that gap in any negotiation, which makes it harder for them than the average man.
They do. But a lot of Americans believe that drug prices here are so high because nowhere else in the world research is done.
As a father with a toddler at home, we use the baby monitor as a dumb radio in case we can't hear his cries through the walls. (We usually can, he's loud when he wants to be heard.) I wouldn't want any other features because I'm the parent, not the dumb radio.
The thermal paste is there only to improve heat transfer between two imperfect surfaces. The real question is what the heatsink on these puppies will look like.
> Or are you saying that the test needs to run for way longer to be fair?

Yes, the main computing constraint of mobile devices is heat management (This doesn't really reflect the CPU but the complete device. Putting the CPU in a more ideal setup like a traditional desktop or water cooling will improve the CPU's performance in longer tasks)
It’s very impressive. It seems like the open computing platforms where you have control of your hardware/ os are in real trouble.

I use Mac at work, but Linux at home, if the hardware isn’t competitive....
It's not about accepting or not accepting paying to view videos. It's about how Youtube decimated competition and now the user cannot choose another pricing option and is left with the only option of paying the amount Google wants you to pay.
In person dating is hard, online dating is harder.
Dealing with anonymous people who get no penalty for being assholes is hard.
Relationships are hard, even with people you have a lot in common.

The last part -- matching with people you like is where I see a real need for a specialist that I'm an unaware to exist -- there could be soooo much at play there.
The demographics of that group, what that group REALLY wants in a partner, honest feedback for yourself, what to improve in yourself etc etc.
Surely I can't be the only one who still have cars which do not stream music, and so I have to put MP3s on CDs and USB sticks. Also, my wireless earbuds have built-in storage, so I load a bunch of music onto it and work out without carrying my phone with me. I also have a bunch of DJ mixes which are not available on online streaming services. Finally, I load MP3s onto my phone when I fly so that I can listen to music on the plane and in foreign countries. For all those reasons, I still keep and curate a pile of MP3s.
Start adobe premier, any significantly complex scene and render it. The system will throttle down to 1.2ghz, sometimes even 1 ghz .

I'm testing on is the 2019 core i9 2.3 ghz. Apple "Genius" bar tells me this is expected, no replacement in warranty. Maybe the 2020 is better, but after getting this as an answer I wont be buying another apple macbook.

The prior 2018 Core i9 Apple MacBook Pro had previous issues with insufficient power supply to the CPU core (this might be fixed, but I can't even sustain it due to thermal throttling, so I can't really tell).
I agree. I feel like the other people replying to this comment is misunderstanding the intention of having a baby monitor and the state of a mind a new parent is in.

I still remember the panic that set in when the cheaper camera loss signal and didn't notify us. The good monitor made a loud beeping sound if it's losing connection or is low on battery. It's a peace of mind knowing there are safe guards when the technology fails you.

I don't expect a baby monitor to keep track of the child's health status, but I do expect it to work reliably as digital link to the room.
Also, the line about notifying on your phone if your baby is crying really, really struck me the wrong way. Like, you need your phone to tell you if your own flesh and blood is in distress? Come on man, be a better parent than that.
Spark by Example
For me, I just spent the last week trying the latest Distros.

* Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon
* Linux Mint 20 MATE
* Manjaro Latest
* Ubuntu 20.04 (Gnone)
* Ubuntu 20.10 (Gnone)
* Solus Bungie

I ended up with Linux Mint Cinnamon for one major reason. The rest all had weird issues with my Graphics on my ThinkPad P52 with has a Nvidia Q2000 Pro Mobile.

They all used the native Nvidia driver, but for some reason Linux Mint Cinnamon is the only one that works correctly with my Thunderbolt dock and two monitor setup.

As for usability, I found them all mostly the same though I did like the MATE's customizability a little more.

Good luck.
Google Takeout: Export a copy of your data in Google services
> Those are in fact horrible odds. I would prefer to pay $2,000 for a 100% chance. Or $20,000.

The only way you can get 100% chance is if you go the route of a mail-order bride. Not sure if that's even legal anymore.

For legitimate options that include only legal means with consenting adults... 6.2% is pretty good.
There's still a lot of work to do on these chips, but these benchmarks give hope and I'm curious to see how much more speed Apple can actually squeeze out of the M1 now that they can do full vertical integration with the OS.
Its also a system to milk attention and validation out of men.
plex plus tidal is what you probably want to look into.
It's clear to me that they will.

Amazon, Google, Microsoft each have a cloud offering.

The M1 is just what Apple needed to compete there.
And those of us who are not dumb enough to be locked into a single narrow mindset will enjoy them both.
I'm not sure how that's relevant?
> Why not hire a salesman to do the online dating for you until they have managed to get a date offline?

My wife would get upset if I did that.

> I think most people absolutely suck at being original in texting or appealing.

Yup
> no one at google wants to work on a product no one uses

As far as I can tell, the opposite is true.

Everyone at Google wants to work on new products until they're released. Then the entire companies moves on, regardless of the number of users.

This decision seems based entirely on a desire to rebrand and rebuild (an unfortunately common and user-hostile pattern at Google) rather than usage stats.
ML Models trained, okay then. See ya!
It's not entitlement to say that, if it would end like this, they never should have been giving away such vast amounts of free beer in the first place.

That's asking for less free stuff in the interest of preserving healthy competition in the long term.
Gruber addresses this in his latest post [1]. Short answer: Pro usually means nicer, not necessarily for professionals only.

Think about it: the M1-based MacBook Air has better CPU and graphics performance than Intel-based laptops—including Apple’s—that are targeted at professionals.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2020/11/one_more_thing_the_m1_mac...
I am an anti-fanboy, not buying apple for the last 6 years, but couldn't resist its value now. Sounds like a good time. Buying M1 today is quite a good timing strategy guesstimating M2(or whatever name) with 32GB+ will come in next 2 years or so.
Unfortunately, in my case, the generalized inverse of AA' is the preconditioner for the system, which is why I need the factorization of A'. Essentially, I take this factorization and then run it through my own iterative method. When I run tests in MATLAB, SPQR scales fine for matrices of at least a few hundred thousand rows and columns. For larger, it would be nice to essentially have an incomplete Q-less QR factorization, which I don't think exists, but should be an extension of the incomplete Choleski work.

But, yes, LSQR or more fitting LSMR solves a similar problem, but they're the iterative solver and I need the preconditioner, which I'm using the factorization for.
I haven't yet seen a third party device that allows you to create a clip of a given length, record into it, and have it loop. You can do this in software if you want to sit on your laptop in front of your audience. You can do the BinkLooper workaround if you want a simple external hardware device to interact with things but it's really complicated. I would truly love to find out a way to do what the Push 2 does for launching clips without having to spend $800 for it on top of the Live license. Granted, a Push 2 can be bought for slightly less on sale but it's still a lot.
Just a reminder that AMD was building "heterogenous uniform memory access" chips back in 2013[1], with very much the same intent. Different product segments, but same ideas.

Different but similar topic, just last week, AMD announced "smart access memory", which is not unified/uniform memory, but is their own system for expanding the video card RAM aperture allocation, something invented back in AGP video card days (1997-2004) as a segment of system ram dedicated to transfer space to/from the video card.

[1] https://hothardware.com/news/amd-announces-huma-heterogeneou...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16202/amd-reveals-the-radeon-...
Rosetta 2 hasn't had much mileage yet, though.
Depends on the dating app, but my only real problem is that I find doing nothing at home more entertaining than first dates, and second dates bring fear of commitment.

Actually getting dates? That's easy enough. Being white, attractive enough, 6' tall, between 150 and 180lbs, no kids, and make a tech salary seems to tick off a lot of boxes for girls.
Wonderful analysis.
My reasoning is this:

I don't want to pirate music, and I don't want to pay for every song I'll ever listen to.

Pay-per-play makes the most sense to most users. We can't predict which songs we'll listen to once or 1,000 times.
> The only thing he cares about is staying President so that he has the authority to pardon himself.

Projection. Everyone in DC is gonna kill themselves if Biden doesn't make it because they know they're gonna either face a firing squad or do life in prison.

> There's no reason to believe he'd even want to "crush" the "central banking system."

Portrait of Andrew Jackson hanging in the Oval Office.

> I don't think I'll ever understand why people think this guy isn't a rich man on the side of the wealthy.

TDS.
The core of google is search. All their money is in search. Everything else is argued in service of search as a loss leader, such as Android which drives users to search but in itself costs a ton of money to maintain. If it didn’t drive users to search, it wouldn’t have value.

What if search falters? If Apple or Amazon beats it, or at least cuts the most profitable aspects of it. Or perhaps people finally care about privacy and switch to Duck Duck Go. I fear google will fall apart - all of their loss leaders that serve search will die, and it will become Gmail / Youtube co. Its cloud is on life support as it is, and IT in-the-know assumes all their B-grade services will be cancelled. Plus the trust-busters are knocking! If I were to bet on which FAANG will have the most trouble in this decade, it's [G]oogle.
It’s a huge problem for open computing to be sure.

This isn’t risk free, issues having to do with supply and process and frankly geopolitics can cause problems. But it looks like they’re off to a good start.
> I think the fact that we may only have 30-50 years' worth of human civilization left on Earth is a competitive advantage for both other planets.

We're centuries away from self-sustaining colonies on either Venus or Mars, so if your timeline was right, that's be a reason not to bother with either.
HBase doesn't work analogously to bigtable. HBase intentionally tries to move region files onto the same node as the region server. That is ass-backwards. HBase devs think of this as "good locality" but all you're really getting from it is terrible performance.
I'm sorry but this is not correct at all. I know people who were doing just this with Max 4 Live devices sans Push.

If you are at all code-savvy it is very easy to make your own custom rig that does everything everything you need for live performing in Ableton. You can write your own control surface scripts in Python (unofficially, but google is your friend and Ableton said "we know they're out there and we aren't going to try to shut it down") and you can make anything you want be your own customized equivalent of push with Max for Live. You can do anything you want with your clips and loops from either control surface scripts or M4L devices. Ableton itself was originally just a Max patch!

Sure they've made it easier, but it's definitely not true that you can't do this without Push.
“An Odd, Almost Senseless Series of Events” (2018)
Those were probably Greek Rite Catholics, which is also popular in the Rusyn ethnicity (a Slavic group in the areas between Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia.) Different history than Polish Catholics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Ukraine#Demograp...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusyns

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches
It was painless, but the UI for YouTube is awful. Album lists are slower to load, the integration with Google home is worse, and the app doesn't let you play music with your screen off.
Damn james, killing me.

Philosophically, I am highly opposed to the browser opting not do support this.

Webdevs have been waiting for half a decade for some way to use PUSH in a reactive manner, as I linked further in this thread,

And instead we get this absolute unit of a response.

This is just absolutely hogwash james. I can not. Truly epic tragedy that they would do this to the web, to promising technology, after so so so little time to try to work things out, after so little support from the browser to try to make this useful.

You're not wrong but I am super disappointed to see such a lukewarm take from someone I respect & expect a far more decent viewpoint from.
This is so wonderful. Thank you for putting this up :)
They wouldn't have announced the full transition if they weren't confident they could deliver. They would have kept the ARM for the low end models and Intel for the high end.
A Decentralized Internet Pt 1: Blockchain Domains
The rise of Blockchain Domains enables not only censorship-resistance, self-ownership, but drives & simplifies payments of digital assets.
Looks more like at Medium Modular Reactor. The Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) and three Steam Generators (SG) are all sized to fit on large trucks, 4.5m wide.
Dating coaches? Or matchmakers. I don't know, I've never used either.
This is an excellent resource, "learn how to design a radio communications channel" more than "listen to the police on your $20 usb stick".

Things like RTL-SDR sticks are much fun (I've got 2 running at the moment); things like LimeSDR are immensely exciting... and there's been a lot of progress in the 12?+ years SDR has been developing as a hobby. But.

It still feels unformed and natal. Like "personal computing" before the post IBM PC boom. Lots of "this will be big" but not a lot of practical uses for a wider market yet.

Maybe the MIMO/passive radar tricks will turn out to be the solution to digital 3d spatial sensing or something and we'll get direct sampling of GHz at a time to play with.
I’ve done this exercise a couple times: pick a random Apple laptop configuration and find an equivalent from another vendor: they’re frequently so close price-wise it doesn’t matter (depends on what you want, but I’m willing to pay $200 or so for macOS and not having to deal with Linux power management.)
If the point is only streaming music you already own, it's $25/ year. Or it's included in Apple Music.

I just use Apple Music now, but enjoyed iTunes Match before then.
meanwhile, two doors down on the front page:

Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060973
Unlikely. Most CAD users are on Windows.
There is one simple option to preserve whatever you want. Pay for it, dammit.
We are always on the receiving end of some claims. The feeling of easy accomplishment and unhindered flow is not something you get from every language out there, and not all languages explicitly advertise themselves as "maximizing developer happiness". I've never focused on lisp or emacs, but I am neutral towards their claims that god wrote the universe in lisp. Same with a perl user's claims of succinctness. I don't judge or envy them. Won't know until I learn the language and its tooling. And you won't really know until you try chaining a few map/reduce/select operations and have them compute lazily in ruby.
Impressive, but pretty unsurprising given the A series. 100 points higher than the A14 is a less than 10% improvement.

From Apple’s somewhat uninformative slides, we should expect peak power draw around 15W? The A series draws half that for > 90% monocore performance, so scaling seems on target.
> the latter I find clunky and hard to build on top of

If you learn ProseMirror [1], then building on top of outline's rich-markdown-editor or tiptap (which is also ProseMirror based) should be easier. What issues are you currently running into with extending that editor?

[1] https://prosemirror.net/
Same, and I will do everything I can to never have my frikkin car connected to the Internet. I’d rather just put my whole music library onto an SD card and plug into my car stereo, or use a Bluetooth connection to my iPhone.
Excellent! The many-to-many relationships in Ecto still confuse me. Though, in my defense, most of my work is using embedded KV not SQL so Ecto is only for the UI form stuff.
> Look, it’s our beautiful friend Venus. Contrary to popular belief, Venus is not our “sister,” and it does not have a gender. Neither does Mars. Actually, they are just rocky bodies surrounded by gas, in orbit around the Sun!

Let’s throw 2400 years of knowledge in symbolism and philosophy in the trash and yay Descartes, Heiddegger and Kant!
This is not at all a hard thing to do in Max (and thus Max4Live), and it's also very easy to hook up midi controllers to let you steer it without ever looking at your laptop.
Timing is important here, M1 is not going to give you 32GB+, 1 year gap doesn't sound to me. M1 to M2 (whatevername) gap should be 2 years+
While this is a far out of reach idea, Venus' atmosphere has some advantages over Earth's atmosphere. From a link in the article:

> On Earth, we know to get something to lift, you need something lighter than air. Well, on Venus, guess what? Our air is lighter than air, or at least lighter than the Venus atmosphere.” [1]

[1] https://www.universetoday.com/15570/colonizing-venus-with-fl...
The heat at the surface (864 deg F) melts lead, so it doesn’t seem feasible.
It's so weird, with COVID time at home, it's almost like I've picked up on my 18 month old's language. All his little noises and cries absolutely have meaning, they're just not in a language I understand. I can't wait until he is able to use words though, it will make it a lot easier!
IDK why he didn't just get a mb with ipmi on it? /Shrug
Bobby tables strikes again :/
This is a nice alternative to spending money to have someone do this check for you [1]. However, you need some expertise to really do the job... For example: "Pull on the tie rods and the suspension mounts. Do you detect any movement?" would require that you know what a tie rod and suspension mount is :)

[1]: https://www.rac.co.uk/buying-a-car/vehicle-inspections
The legislation should ban the marking term: free forever. Every company that says their service is free forever is just a cheating liar.
I'm in my mid twenties; do I count as an "aging millennial"?
For anyone looking to self-host something google music like, you may want to take a look at https://www.navidrome.org/

Been using that for a few months now and very happy with it, even if it's still quite early in development.
In 2020, most people who wrench on Japanese bikes and cars know exactly what a JIS screwdriver is and buy the $11 one on Amazon.
Can someone ELI5 why this new M1 chip would be better than decades of Intel's experience?
Reuters: YouTube back up after worldwide outage

"We're so sorry for the interruption. This is fixed across all devices & YouTube services," YouTube said in a tweet https://bit.ly/36r4sjz, without explaining what had caused the outage.

Google did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on the outage.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-youtube-outages/youtube-b...

YouTube's tweet: https://nitter.net/TeamYouTube/status/1326709701526974464
> - All M1 models only support 1 monitor, but up to 6K.

Where did you find this? In the Macbook Pro 13 landing page I find the specs per Thunderbolt port which states the display capabilities for each while not restricting anywhere to just one monitor.

So I'd would expect 1x monitor per Thunderbolt port leading to total 3 displays for the Pro ARM model: one internal and two external displays. I assume the restriction you refer to just applies to the Air model.
I love Ableton, but for mixdowns, you're right, the UI paradigm is awful. I use Ableton, Max, and Reaper to have the right tool for the job. For mixing, Reaper is the bomb. I know of a lot of pros who prefer it over everything, regardless of cost. It's just the most flexible mixing tool out there.
> the reality is barely anyone but aging millennials are keeping 20k songs around in mp3 format.

I'm a Zoomer with a decent collection of mp3s[0]. Silicon-Valley types tend to grossly underestimate just how "old-fashioned" the rest of the world is.

[0]:

[~/Music]$ find . -name "*.mp3" | wc -l
3157
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- Mac has ~10% of the global market for end user machines. It doesn't now, never has, and never will own the market nor does it desire to sell cheap enough machines to do so.

- Given that you can't add ram after the fact and 256GB is anemic the cheapest laptop that is a reasonable choice is $1400.

- The cheapest desktop option is $6000 with an 8 core cpu or 8000 with a 16 core.

- The average end user spends $700 on a computer

- We literally have marketing numbers and a worthless synthetic benchmark.

I think it entirely fair to say that the new macs are liable to be fantastic machines but there is no reason to believe that the advent of apple cpu macs marks the end of open hardware. Were you expecting them to sell their cpus to the makers of the cheap computers most people actually buy?
It’s a cool thing but come on, you bought it, you didn’t build it. Why are people proud on things they bought?
google music being shut down and youtube music being a terrible replacement was enough to push me to set up my own plex - loving it so far. I run it off a raspi.
> Contrary to popular belief, Venus is not our “sister,” and it does not have a gender.

Gender is socially ascribed (sex is different, so is gender identity), and thus defined by popular belief. (There's an evolving norm that for people, socially ascribed gender should conform to gender identity out of respect for the individual, but since Venus isn't a person and doesn't have a gender identity, that doesn't seem applicable here.)
> I wonder why OkCupid deleted their old posts

Political correctness. Hopefully there are copies around the web, those posts were very very interesting.