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Same; there's so much important information in the WWDC videos, and part of me wanted to watch them all when I was still doing iOS development. But I can't watch videos, I don't have the attention span, and sitting to watch / listen just makes me go to sleep.

It's a me thing, not down to the presenters or anything. But all that I ask is documentation and / or blog posts.

I hope that anyone that is making a presentation also writes down the contents as a blog post and/or documentation. Please. For examples, Go's blog is pretty good (although there too one is often pointed at a presentation or slide deck for certain subjects)
This looks so so appealing!!

My biggest mental hurdle with these systems are

- how do I easily have local development environments My team and I can use

- displaying other users names and email addresses is a really common thing to need in applications I build. What's the way to go about keeping that data in sync between the identity or auth system with the application? What used to be a database join could grow into any number of network requests to the identity server

- how does one re-skin the sign up process or user management to match each application so it's less jarring to the user?

I'm not really looking for answers - this isn't stack overflow :) They would come with even the smallest amount of investigation into it. I'm more just sharing what I think is an interesting mental block stopping me from immediately adopting it as the default.
Yep, those things work (though both GNOME and KDE still have unstable compsitors, so take that as you will).

There is also pipewire going somewhat stable (I had issues with bluetooth but otherwise it worked perfectly), that would enable all these things without applications having to worry about the compository at all.
I just assumed, but I think you're right that it doesn't. (Though I wouldn't be surprised if it followed, Yubikey's first FIDO key was also just that, but now they all do it.)

My main point though was that it's not a device-specific authentication, or even an external reader for unlocking a secret provisioned onto one or many devices, it is the sole thing needed, so you can walk up to a new device and use it without provisioning it with secrets.

An OpenPGP one would be cool though - replace passphrase with fingerprint.
so how do they differ from the A72, A53 etc?
The "Every Frame a Painting" guy summed this up pretty well a few years ago:

A huge percentage of the Internet is the same information, repeated over and over again. This is especially apparent on film websites; they call it aggregation but it’s really just a nicer way to say regurgitation.

https://medium.com/@tonyszhou/postmortem-1b338537fabc

I will simply say: you aren't alone and I don't think it indicates depression. The early Internet was immensely creative, mostly because no one cared. It was a free space for experimentation. In the past ±15 years, corporations and other larger entities have homogenized everything.

It's important to remember that we're still only in the very early stages of computer networking technology, a.k.a the Internet. Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440 and it took over 70 years for its first serious society-wide impact (The Reformation.) The Internet of 2050 isn't going to look anything like it does today.
Soemthing to show the world, github / -lab repo, the like?
Maybe, just maybe, it shouldn't be a $1T company? Maybe it should once again become a company that puts its customers and their experience before profits?

People are frustrated with technology lately. Even non-tech people. Apple has everything it would need to change that, but it decides to contribute to technology becoming ever more frustrating time and time again instead.
The review you post against a product would apply to all sellers, not just the one you tried to buy one from.

That's why the separate seller-specific ratings exist for seller-specific issues.
Which is how legal insider trading for management works these days. Because cancelling a 10b5-1 is perfectly legal at any time.

So you could totally abuse the system by submitting 5 of them, designed to allow for different strategies, then cancelling some of them to pick specific trading strategies based on more recent insider info.

And this works: cancelling them is normal, so that won't even attract much attention. It's a matter of executing well on this loophole.
The purpose of an API is like a company mission statement: There's one version written on the wall and then there's the actual version everybody knows is true but they don't say it out loud.

You described the written one above. GP described the actual one.
With densities so high, and circuit boards so small (when they want to be), that factor isn't very important here.

We regularly use chips with an L3 latency around 10 nanoseconds, going distances of about 1.5 centimeters. You can only blame a small fraction of a nanosecond on the propagation delays there. And let's say we wanted to expand sideways, with only a 1 or 2 nanosecond budget for propagation delays. With a relatively pessimistic assumption of signals going half the speed of light, that's a diameter of 15cm or 30cm to fit our SRAM into. That's enormous.
This. The whole thing is a lie.

As a former EE, I can categorically state that absolutely no bench I have ever seen is that tidy when debugging hardware. It's usually a complete snake pit of cables, mess and hell. And half the equipment that they would actually need to support what they have out on display is not actually there. Also no one is going to sit on those god awful chairs while working.

And on top of that I guarantee that there are PCs in their real laboratories that do the CAD and debugging work. Zukon, SolidWorks, Catia and Altium don't run on Macs.

PCs design Macs. Discuss :)

Edit: in retrospect I think it felt like a Scientologist recruitment video.
Exactly. What producers lose is the ability to create a monopoly. Maybe producers will make less money, since some distributors will pay a huge premium to enable them to price gouge consumers or force consumers to switch to their services. Or maybe producers will make more money, as all distributers will need to purchase content at the price the producer sets if one of them purchases, or they risk losing customers to their competitors. But the consumers win.
I have two books you might be interested in (written by me).

If you want to review math fundamentals (high school math), the No Bullshit Guide to Mathematics will be good for you—condensed material for adult learners. Preview: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmath_v5_previe...
Concept map: https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_concepts.p...

For linear algebra, check No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra. Preview: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSLA_v2_preview....
Concept map: https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/linear_algebra_...

You can find them in print on the amazons and in digital form on gumroad.

Oh and as a general tip: make sure to do some problems while studying/reviewing. It's super important to put things into action, otherwise it's very easy to read and think you understand despite not having integrated the new knowledge. A few problems here and there though, and you can make very fast progress and remember things in the long term. As they say, math is not a spectator sport.
> I wonder if anyone will even notice though as it would require putting energy into criticizing anything other than the election

Not really; they seem to have gone out of their way to be election-relevant:

> The first analysis was to occur after 32 volunteers — both those who received the vaccine and those on placebo — had contracted Covid-19. If fewer than six volunteers in the group who received the vaccine had developed Covid-19, the companies would make an announcement that the vaccine appeared to be effective. The study would continue until at least 164 cases of Covid-19 — individuals with at least one symptom and a positive test result — had been reported.

> In their announcement of the results, Pfizer and BioNTech revealed a surprise. The companies said they had decided not to conduct the 32-case analysis “after a discussion with the FDA.” Instead, they planned to conduct the analysis after 62 cases. But by the time the plan had been formalized, there had been 94 cases of Covid-19 in the study.

> Gruber said that Pfizer and BioNTech had decided in late October that they wanted to drop the 32-case interim analysis. At that time, the companies decided to stop having their lab confirm cases of Covid-19 in the study, instead leaving samples in storage. The FDA was aware of this decision. Discussions between the agency and the companies concluded, and testing began this past Wednesday.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/09/covid-19-vaccine-from-pf...

So they had a plan in place to release interim results as soon as 32 cases were detected, but then in late October they decided they wanted to alter the plan. And just to make sure the original plan couldn't happen no matter what, they also stopped their ongoing testing, choosing to resume it on November 4th, when they learned they had dramatically exceeded their revised goals.
And if you go on vacation in the region around Venice (Veneto) you'll see so many historical buildings with engraved the San Marco's lion (the emblem of Venice) and flags that it feels like it ended in 1979. It also gives a feeling of the wealth of the Republic of Venice.
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.275443...

Scroll down to ‘B. Scheme to Fraud’.

What if the testers worked together to move out the credits in a slower way, split the 10 million. It seems he only got caught because the authorities became suspicious of the Bitcoin windfall.

He probably had one hundred thousand $100 dollar gift cards. How do you move all that slowly without arousing suspicion or registering as a business?
They're doing one of the single most important things for the company's performance in the next year or years; the Apple events alone can make Apple's market value jump or fall by hundreds of billions. If you had that influenced, you too would have a serious team behind these presentations, and you would spend weeks rehearsing and polishing your presentation.
Why is the Strong AI not here yet?
Yup, me too. Especially when debugging in Xcode, the TouchBar shows a bunch of useful functions.
Yeah, I think that's a separate category. I've tried to engage with a number of Trump supporters, as I'd really like to understand how reasonable, ethical people could vote for someone I see as so despicable and dangerous. Obviously I'm missing something, and I honestly don't want to think that half the US population is unreasonable on unethical.

I've found that the most reasonable people tend to be staunchly pro life. And I can see that—if you truly believed abortion was murder, it would be reasonable to support almost anyone who might stop it. I don't believe that, but I can respect it. Others tend to believe things about the world that I don't think are true, like climate change isn't a big deal, other countries have been taking advantage of the US for decades, democrats are controlled by the military-industrial complex, etc. Their conclusions might be reasonable if you take their beliefs as fact, but I think their starting position is flawed.

And then there are of course those who aren't reasonable. Those who just enjoy watching Trump troll libs. Those who want to see the whole system burn. Those who just believe whatever Fox or Breitbart or whatever says. Etc.

I mean, I'm sure I have my own biases. I despise the very thought of the man, because of the way he acts and how he doesn't care about the damage he does. But I'm sure that feeling makes it difficult for me to see any of his positive qualities, or that someone could (perhaps rationally?) value those qualities over the negative ones I see. So far though, I haven't been able to find evidence to change my mind.
It's what the exit polls say, although the main lesson we've learned this year is not to trust polls.

What's clearer is that Trump made big gains in areas of the country with a high Latino and Hispanic population - e.g. Santa Ana county, CA, which is 77% Hispanic, saw a 13-point swing to Trump, and there are many similar datapoints from across the country. It's pretty clear Trump carried Florida on the strength of the Latino vote in that state. There's also similar evidence that Trump made big gains this year among Asians.

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1326190869163225090

https://sweep.thedispatch.com/p/the-sweep-dont-trust-the-exi...

So to summarise: Trump definitely made gains among Hispanics and probably made gains among Asians according to voting data; he made gains with every demographic except white men according to exit polls; the former data is more reliable than the latter.
Maybe they should consider taxing the office space since businesses do not need to pay for it when most of their staff works from home.

Taxation of WFH people is like taxing vegetarians because the tax revenue from sugar tax is too low.

Edit: Also fuck banks, of course their employees suggest taxing the middle class.
Entry-level pro? Devaluing the "pro" moniker? The latter isn't new though, they've had to spend years in R&D to try and reinvent the Mac Pro for example.
"Produce proper evidence" - excellent advice. Would be nice if the president himself followed it.
Can someone explain to a layman like me the how severe the risks are here? The article doesn't go on to say more than it's effecting wild birds and authorities are trying to stop it infecting livestock.

The article doesn't say there has been a jump in species. Is the discovery of new viruses in wild birds not a regular occurrence?
Or not. There is really no data in the article besides some very contrived self reported numbers.

In Germany, a Berlin start-up called SO1 is doing similar things with its AI system for retailers. It claims that nine times more people buy AI-suggested goods than those offered by traditional promotions, even when the discounts are 30% less.

To me it suggests exactly the opposite of the title. No AI secret sauce, just smoke and mirrors.
Why haven't we had a similar onslaught against remdesivir?
(patented by one company)

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/very-very-bad-look-r...

On HCQ (no patent; used for decades for malaria thus there's extensive clinical experience on its use) there are other views across the world.
http://www.francesoir.fr/societe-sante/covid-19-hydroxychlor...

(IMO use of the word 'irrefutable' is not a wise choice. However the results are interesting.)
I personally liked Glenn Greenwald's approach with the Biden story he published on Substack. He clearly had strong opinions, but he provided references for his assertions that his readers can look into for themselves. The more that we can "hyperlink" journalism to sources, the less an individual writer's bias matters, I think.

By stark contrast, Bloomberg's controversial piece on alleged Chinese spy hardware had no named sources and no references for readers to follow up on, and furthermore companies Bloomberg alleged to have been compromised all reported the allegations were false. The piece even featured an artist's idea of what the hardware might look like, not an image of an actual device, and the only way to know it was an artist's rendition was to read the fine print under the picture.

I'm not sure there's any way to know the truth, but the article should not have been published, in my opinion, without some way for readers to dig further into the available facts independently of Bloomberg's reporting.
Because it's scraping the bottom of the barrel. There's not really a sensible reason for the investors to try and claw back their investment every time a company fails, because the business model is based on homeruns.
> But why do it on an anonymous forum where no one knows you nor will remember your username after the few seconds they read your comment?

Because this forum is attached to a billion dollar Silicon Valley investment firm and Very Important People might wander past the water cooler, and people want to signal their affinity with the Cool Kids tribe. Because there's this impression, deserved or not, that being on Hacker News marks you as one of the intellectual, cultural and technical elites. Or that it would if you tried hard enough.
Code that requires codegen or some verbose structure to express some constraint or idea that could be expressed in a sentence or two or a simple oneliner with the right abstraction can actually be harder to read because of the miles of boilerplate you have dive through.

Ex doing string processing in python vs golang. In golang or java even it's far more lines of code and far harder to understand.
I agree, making something and actually selling is can be really damn hard.

Actually, making something and giving it away for free and having people use it, still damn hard.

I made a few games that I'm giving away for free, open source and all.. They're not that bad, still , almost nobody knows about them or plays them, and they're in most major linux distributions too.
Pfizer stock popped 12% on monday, more than enough!
Life is literally alien technology.
Half a million data points sounds like a lot but it's smaller than a 1k texture. RAM for integrated graphics is VRAM too, just to render to the screen you need a ton of it, for every open window.
"You say you vote for Bernie, but your grandfather was a nazi.

How curious.

I am very intelligent."

Anyway, rebelling against parents in the broadest sense of the term is not uncommon at all. Making a hard turn right though, oof.
Besides NixOS, which is mentioned by jdally987, Fedora Silverblue also fits that bill. A basic immutable desktop OS with atomic updates/rollbacks. Applications are installed through Flatpaks or containers (per Fedora Toolbox or podman).
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I think GP means that the projection used appears to be an Azimuthal equidistant projection [0] - which doesn't really make it a 'flat Earth map' as such, but if the Earth were flat I suppose it would be the only logical (non) projection.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuthal_equidistant_projecti...
Three key questions on the Pfizer Covid vaccine
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Biden won by razor-thin margins in the swing states, underperformed his polls by 5 to 10 points across the country, and got crushed in several states which pollsters had said were competitive (e.g. Texas). Meanwhile the Democrats lost seats in the House and (probably) failed to take the Senate despite favourable polls and optimistic predictions of a "blue wave".

Happiness = Reality - Expectations. Expectations were very high and the Democrats have a lot of reasons to be unhappy.
On Choosing Boring Tech
I thought, the parent comment was talking about hardware upgrade on the same laptop.:)
It is exactly the other way around. People who frequent a store are more likely to know about their promotions or opt it to their programs. Source: me, I usually shop at the closest shops in person and more likely to have their cards and coupons.

Also the numbers are meaningless without a baseline.
Switzerland Is Choosing Austerity over Life
It astonishes me that anyone can think "cancel culture" is a right-wing myth.
it would be 50 byte regions of any given line, right?
Flames give food different flavours that you cannot get from just heating it with induction or hot plates.

Also flames can go up the sides of a cooking vessel (specifically thinking a wok here) which you cannot achieve on an induction stove top.
Please read my edit. I do not mean Real Man(TM) in that sense. I never use those two words as a fixed term, they just accidentally ended up together in my comment.
Oh, so the underlying Visa expires and they have no way to renew the same chip? That sucks.
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My grandpa is Polish but he was born in the eastern part of Poland, which is now Ukraine. The way he pronounces the ł sound is very similar to how Russian speakers pronounce Л. I am not sure this answers your question, however.
If you hold Fn you get the traditional row of function keys, which seems like a pretty good tradeoff. And if you really hate that, you can simply configure the touch bar to always display them, in which case literally the only downside is that they are not physical keys anymore. Do people really touch-type the function keys so heavily that this becomes a an actual annoyance and not just an ideological one?

Adding an extra row of physical keys that do the same thing as the row of virtual function keys, at the expense of trackpad size and possibly ergonomic (harder to reach the touch bar) doesn't make a lot of sense IMO.
That's exactly what good journalism does. It informs and entertains, while providing a balanced view of the subject and covering all the salient points. It's very difficult to do right, hence the reason that journalists used to be respected and there are awards for it.
The court records list his salary at Microsoft-Seattle as a contractor (116k). Thought Seattle salaries were higher?

That’s probably what the ‘Ukraine’ part has to do with.
> the importance of the Catholic Church in contemporary Polish culture goes back to at least 1772, when the Partitions began.

And the serious distancing from the same church by Czechs goes back even to centuries before that, as I've quoted before. Also note how Joseph II helped there only 9 years after that 1772 you mention.
I have a very similar story!

I maintain a similar project for SoundCloud called SoundScrape: https://github.com/Miserlou/soundscrape which I started for a similar reason, to save my own 'likes' and tracks that I've made and my friends have made.

SoundCloud made this very easy, as they had an API which exposed the endpoint MP3/WAV location in a field. The tool used an API key provided by SoundCloud to fetch the response.

Overnight and without warning, they removed that field from responses, changed the terms of service, banned my application for terms of service violations, and deleted all of my personal music and likes because I had used my own account to create the API key.

I was very angry at the time since all my my music got deleted, but these days I'm just sad. Things like this have little by little destroyed all of my enthusiasm for technology.

I want to be a carpenter now.
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Probably not as much. The paper describes the sparsity they use as:

1. We initializedthe weights using a sparse random mask, so that only a fraction of the weights contain non-zero values.

2. We created sparse activations by maintaining only the top-k active units of eachlayer; the rest are set to zero

So it's basically random which units are dropped. GPUs being SIMD (meaning 32-128 execution pipelines share an instruction decoder) means you have to run a large number of threads in lockstep, meaning that this kind of sparsity simply means you do a lot of multiplications with zero, or run no-ops. You can save power on no-ops but can't gain performance. To have fast execution for GPUs you can do for example:

1. Do what Nvidia did on Ampere and define a constant bitrate compression where you drop exactly 2 of every 4 values. This allows you to then specialise your HW for this compression, but your speedup is fixed at ~2x

2. Create sparsity (i.e. varaible bitrate compression) in your network where you drop out entire NxN matrix blocks (where on e.g. Nvidia N = 128), so you can skip and entire HW pass over the data. This is possible but more complicated than simply thresholding the activations, but it's the most efficient.

3. Use elementwise sparsity but compress the represenation using e.g. bitmasks. This is only worth it if you have a large degree of sparsity (because handling the data indices is more instructions than simply multiplying by zero)
Multiple category errors here.
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