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i would be more inclined to reestablish progressive income tax.

there are very few convincing reasons why anybody has earned 100x more than someone at the low end.
It seems strange to me that in 2020 no major research center has been established to actively try and invent Huxley's Soma! As if medicinal uses are all well and good, but hedonics, mystical practices and pure escapism are not deemed necessities for human existence ;)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-does-the-us-...

At one of 121 locations near our nuclear plants. We are not allowed to recycle the waste so it sits there waiting for transport.
I presumed they were holding all the good updates like Face ID, thinner bezels, modern webcam, 14 inch screen for this update to push adoption but yeah seems like we'll have another 6 months or a year for the 13" to resemble a modern laptop.
I'm surprised to hear that, having been a volunteer at an e-waste recycler several years ago when entire truckloads of NTSC equipment came in. Over the span of about 8 months, I think three or four separate local studios upgraded to digital and completely ditched NTSC. Waveform monitors, U-Matic decks, switchers and effects consoles, you name it.

Who's still using CVBS, and for what?
> They refuse to back nuclear without offering any reasonable alternative

Use less energy?
Update: I can see v2.0.1 now!
This is a good idea. How to implement it would be tricky as Disney is just one example of a copyright holder (that does tend to go overboard). What about someone poor who has inherited a copyright to say a musical piece that isn't commercial yet but s/he would like to work on and expand one day? Would this idea impact them negatively?
Did I state an assertion or did I ask a question?
In the past in The Netherlands there were ideas to have small mini nuclear plants per neighbourhood of a city which would power all the electricity needs.
As a customer I care about when I get my package. I don't - and shouldn't - care about all those details you stated. Which isn't to say you are wrong, just that it is irrelevant.
The part everyone forgets is that there have been plenty of other power plan disasters far worse than Chernobyl and most of them were Hydropower. Judging nuclear power by Chernobyl is an absurd proposition.
> Finally I discovered it was my external monitors - I have have 2 4k monitors connected and I use display scaling on both.

M1 (or at least the macbooks) only supports a single external display, problem solved!
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I expect them to be based in Scotland, Wales and constituencies in England without conservative mps
𝟼̶𝟺̶𝟶̶𝙺̶ 16GB should be enough for anybody!

Yes, I know the above quote was not actually stated by Gates or was misinterpreted, but the reason that it became so infamous is pretty much the same case as this. It's the short sightedness of the thing. (or in this case, perhaps a marketing trick as they now have a great "now supports up to 32 or 64GB" tagline for their 2021 model that will drive another must-upgrade rush)

It's pretty ridiculous to release a "latest and greatest" generation of any computer in 2020 with a hard 16GB limit. Sure, it's most likely enough for general usage and diehard Apple fans will buy that thing in droves and then spend countless hours debating it and justifying the buy, but as already stated by other commenters, there are many reasons to need more RAM and I suspect it will be a deal breaker for a lot of potential buyers, especially developers and designers. There are many things that benefit of more ram, large or complex ide's, virtual machines, game development, sound design, video editing, 3d rendering, and just plain old multitasking.

So, in my opinion, no, it's not reasonable for Software Engineering work unless you upgrade machines very frequently, and even then, I wouldn't really go for it, not only because of the RAM issue, but also the novelty of the entire system.
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I just spent 15 minutes reading posts and comments by a specific user and really appreciated how detailed and humble they all where.

Each comment almost read like a good blog post so that made me wonder why I cannot follow this user.

I assume there are browser plugins that do this but I would really appreciate if it was a part of HN.

And just like upvoted posts/comments, it should stay private.
This makes sense now on why this tarring for import exists

https://www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk/headings/8401

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We need to increase electricity production because of the transition to EVs and we need a way to guarantee supply whenever it is needed.

Renewables should be encouraged but they are not a panacea and I doubt that they are enough as things stand. In addition, most renewables sources have their own downsides so it's not all positives.
Another wise choice is not to use anything Electron based unless forced by the employer, or customer, and in that case, it is expected that they pay for the hardware.
The UK doesn’t because our governments screw over small business people and provide incentives to large corporations.

Here’s an example-

There’s a scheme called Kickstart where if you hire 30 or more young people they’ll pay the company £1500 up front for each person and then will cover their wages up to minimum wage levels for 6 months.

So a small business owner who would like to hire a developer to help me build an app gets nothing whereas a large consulting house or software company gets a large cash incentive if they hire 30 graduates in one time period if they have signed up to the scheme.

That simply is the small business owner subsidising the large business owner through redirection of taxes.

It’s stuff like this that has me counting down the days until I can leave this country.
also the `thecomputer` and typing an invalid command (emoji) rubbed me the wrong way
Similar opinions are expressed by a number of Green political groups around the world, and I've also struggled to reconcile their commitment to slowing global climate change with their rejection of nuclear power.

Ignoring the typical arguments against nuclear, I think a main point from them specifically is that investment in energy is zero-sum, and state resources directed towards nuclear energy are resources not going towards renewable energies. Furthermore, heating and transport make up a large proportion of carbon emissions, and these generally aren't powered by nuclear energy. So nuclear places the focus of energy transformation in the wrong place, and allows governments to believe they are solving the problem when much larger investment in renewables is required.

I'm not qualified enough in the area to agree or disagree with the implicit tradeoffs there, it's just the argument I've heard.
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"Recent figures show that only 15 percent of all crimes are solved." https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/5399870

That low resolution rate alone introduces a margin of error that is larger than the difference between immigrant and non-immigrant suspects. It is therefore possible that the much higher immigrant suspect rate is entirely a result of biases.
Take the volume of all the lab experiments ever done, multiplied by the length of time those experiments were run for.

Next take the entire volume of Earth's primordial oceans and multiply by a few hundred million years, roughly the period during which life arose on Earth.

What's the ratio between those two results? The fact that something arose once in the latter tells you very little about what's happening in the former.
This problem still occurs with the latest MBPs even with one 4k monitor. As you mentioned, it's a heat issue. Once I turn on the AC, it starts to pick up speed again.
> we know not to do the thing that makes them explode.

We collectively know a lot of thing, but as soon as you leave the opportunity to a human an accident will happen sooner or later. We know not to start heavy machinery while there is a maintenance technician inside it, but it still happens.

This is why we have safety lockout systems, to avoid an accident even if we know better.
Every business works constantly to reduce cost. How is this cost-saving any different from any other? Should a business that finds a cheaper vendor pay extra tax? And why does the money earned by remote workers, not somehow 'going into the economy'? That's a stretch.
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Which would require[0] a fume extractor, which they're lacking. Unless we're meant to believe they use lead free solder in their test labs.

[0] https://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_v/otm_v_3.html
I frequently listen to BBC radio, and it doesn't resonate with me. To be sure there are many non-male and non-white and non-hetero voices, but they are by no means the majority. If you take out the male requirement, the number becomes even smaller. Two days ago BBC radio 4 was broadcasting a discussion on literature. It had three men and two women, withe a male organizer. After that was the news told by a white woman. Then there was a segment on songwriting for musicals for the stage, given by a (presumably straight) older white man.

There is (sometimes) a "women's hour", but the fact that such a thing should show at least that male voices are at least slightly the norm. I couldn't tell the race of the callers (and never mind their sexuality when a partner was not mentioned), but there were male voices there too.

Could it be that we just notice non-(white, male, hetero) voices more when they come on, and assume that white, male, and hetero is the "default"?
But over a billion years or so, vastly more conditions occur on a single planet than we could ever hope to replicate in a lab, and even with the right conditions it might just be unlikely and take a very long time. So I’m still optimistic despite this argument.
> My main point is it's actually the case that a copy ties mutation in speed quite often if you structure the flow of your data correctly. If you're operating on a value, writing it somewhere else is often close to free.

So, here's something. I think that a copying-based methodology can be fast, but more importantly, a copying-based methodology can be easier to parallelize.

If a mutating state is too hard to parallelize, I think rewriting things to be copy-based, and then using that copy-based methodology as a basis for parallel code, is a good idea.

What's difficult is that "mutating state" is a local maximum so to speak: probably the fastest that any single-thread can get to. From this perspective, finding parallelism from a "higher level" can be more useful than trying to parallelize a well-optimized single-threaded program.

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Case in point: Multithreaded producer-consumer queues are difficult to write and even define. But multithreaded producer-producer queues (and consumer-consumer queues) are very easy: just an obvious "atomic_add(tail, 1)" (Producer) and "atomic_subtract(tail, 1)" (for consumers) kind of thing.

I call it a "producer-producer" queue, because you need assurances that no one is consuming from the queue for it to work. But if you synchronize your threads to all copy to a queue (and no one consumes from it), its really fast, and actually very parallelized. Ditto for the reverse (the consume phase).
There is. In order to satisfy the materials need, the world will probably move to strip mining and child labor.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/green-energy-dirty-side...

Edit: evidence for terrible ecological impact of renewals. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17928-5
I'd be surprised if these were ever online.
Xeon Phi's had that - up to 16GB of ridiculously fast memory in-package and the ability to drive external memory at more pedestrian speeds.

IIRC the 16GB could be configured as an "L4 cache" for the rest of the memory.

I assume the same approach could be taken.

OTOH, it shouldn't be too complicated to just add more memory dies to the package as higher densities become available.
I'll take one good native app over a thousand of crappy websites.
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No, it isn't outdated. The claims are still issues. In the scenario you describe, multiprocessing should work pretty well because each processes can run independently of the others and report one big result at the end (all the hashes that process computed). There are plenty of scenarios, however, where the different processes do have to talk to each other frequently which, in Python, means you introduce a ton of overhead in serializing and deserializing these data (Python transmits pickled data between processes). From personal experience I can tell you that this can be a major problem in terms of performance.

Other languages give you more flexibility in how to share data between processes.

The fundamental claim that threads running pure Python are limited by the GIL still stands. Others do point out that you can get around this in C and some of the standard libraries in Python (like hashlib) do this for you. That goes a long way to helping the issue, of course, but as yet others point out, it is weird to support Python in this context by saying "Yes Python can use threads effectively; all you have to do is use C."
They did but then Nevada had a NIMBY moment for a bit of uninhabited desert so they are back to square one.
So 2% of the airs sold last year are equal to or better than this.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the way to avoid an explosion: "don't pull the control rods all the way out"

It would take a very specific kind of war or natural disaster to pull out the control rods from a nuclear reactor, methinks.
Very useful, thanks for sharing.
Why would you expect Touch ID to work on a windows machine?

As far as I know it’s only available on Apple OSes.
Greenpeace's real opposition is mainly that, since SMR's are related to submarine reactor designs, they're subsidising those same subs. Sort of like if you oppose beef by-products because you think a cow died for it.

They're wrong - the cow died regardless, because of high-profit steak, and the submarines are funded regardless of whether we also get carbon-free power from it - but it's a valid argument.

But yes, in northern latitudes - in winter we run fossil fuels, which create literally millions of tonnes of gaseous waste for ever tonne of solid nuclear waste, or we freeze and die.

If you respond but what about [green magic], congratulations, you've not done the sums for winter in cold countries, and I'm not wasting time arguing with you. Go do them.
My first gut reaction is/was: “Wait what no I lost my job in march due to political shenanigans in civil/public agency, got out with server bouts of panic attack, 60 pounds heavier and lifeless, I managed to get re-hired in a fucking pandemic and you want to tax me more because you wasted some of the money you already took from me in policies that didn't replenish masks and respirators stock and I hear stock markets are skyrocketing and Bezos&co are richer than before the crisis and you want to tax the people who are keeping their head out of the water instead of going for once after the so-symbolic GAFA and others and the Deutsche Bank's plan is tax me more instead of helping fight global financial fraud ?! The Deutsche Bank ? On a BBC website, from a country that first denied covid then went the herd immunity foolish path ? Give them more money to build such plans ? To the people who brought us Brexit ?!" /s

I need to calm down a bit before reading the article :D but at least you have the gut/first reaction of a random joe to reading such headlines.
How does this compare to NuScale?
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> What is an operating system if not a collection of software that follow a standard so as to interoperate?

I have never heard that definition of an operating system, but it seems that every university & place has its own so we're all speaking different languages anyways when using that word :-)
This depends on how you use it. It's pretty common to use something like statsd or a prometheus exporter to aggregate data before storing it in InfluxDB.
Personally I imagine biomass/fuel could be a very attractive option if executed properly (sustainably and locally sourced):
* Where you grow the biomass you could create somewhat biodiverse piece of nature
* Storage of biomass is cheap
* Knowledge and machinery from regular fossil fuels can be (partially) reused
* No waste that will need to be looked after for 1000s of years in fear of leakage/terrorism

Unfortunately biomass seems to be looked at similarly as nuclear; just because it could be executed poorly the whole idea is written off..
The thing that gets me is: even if hydrogen and turbines can solve the issue, it's still years and years and years out and may or may not end up being good enough. We've got nuclear as an option RIGHT NOW for a problem we have to solve RIGHT NOW.

I think what frustrates me more than anything are the people that just think/say: "well we have amazing scientists so we'll find a solution to the problem when it becomes an issue" - in response to global warming. And more often than not they're the people saying that scientists warning that global warming is going to be a catastrophe that may be impossible to stop are just overreacting.

Green Peace kind of feels like its policy is being set by one of those folks...
The Greenpeace guy's comments are devastatingly on the mark. This idea faces very serious headwinds, not because of naysayers or greens, but because it its own inherent inferiority, especially compared to where renewables and storage are likely to be by the time any of these could be online.
Fair point about not googling but personal recommendations still have a place.
Yes the Thunderbolt controller etc are integrated into the SoC of the M1

Yesterday's models just replace the Air and lowest spec Pro

Seems likely that next year or so there would be an "M1X" chip with more RAM to support the higher end Pro models - the 16" and rumoured 14", hopefully both with four ports
In theory, one could build a service on top of HN to do this. Each user feed can be read via RSS that HN provides.

Maybe this already exists.
Agree. Given the push back green NGO:s and parties have directed towards nuclear energy around the globe it's as if they were funded by the coal industry.
Is Greenpeace well regarded? As in, when they say things does it tend to influence policy?

I thought they lost their credibility in at least the United States.
Just built InfluxDB IOx from sources [1] and compared data ingestion performance to VictoriaMetrics by using Billy tool [2] on a laptop with Intel i5-8265U CPU (it contains 4 CPU cores) and 32GB RAM. Results for 1M measurements are the following:

- InfluxDB IOx: 600K rows/sec

- VictoriaMetrics: 4M rows/sec

I.e. VictoriaMetrics outperforms InfluxDB IOx by more than 6x in this benchmark. I hope InfluxDB IOx performance will be improved over time, since it is written in Rust.

[1] https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb_iox

[2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/billy
Unless Apple starts selling some overpriced PCIe devices, don't hold your hopes up on this. Ram is soldered / integrated into the SoC. Tomorrow even the SSD will be (if it isn't already). Ultimately you will not be able to upgrade anything, just like your iPhone or iPad.
There are (at least) 6 solutions for the sun not shining.

In order of desirability.

1: A mix of renewables. Not solar or wind or hydro or geothermal, but a good mix.

2: A large grid. The sun is always shining and the wind is always blowing somewhere.

3: Over-provisioning. Size your installations for cloudy days and winds at 2km/h. Solar&wind are an order of magnitude cheaper than nuclear, so 1.5X - 3X over-provisioning is still a lot cheaper.

4: Indirect storage. If you're overprovisioned, then you will have lots of excess power, even more power than you can store in your batteries. (See 5). So use that power to hit several goals at once. For example, if you use it to produce methane, you can use that methane for carbon storage, use it to power peaker plants (see 6) or sell it for profit.

5: batteries

6: peaker plants. If 99.9% of your power is handled through 1-5, the emissions from the remaining 0.1% are negligible and can be offset with #4.
I understand your point, but in the lab scenarios we are theoretically using ideal(ish) conditions (or, at least what we think are ideal conditions).

In the random nature scenario, probably 99% of all the instances would be immediately discarded for potential because of 1 or more clearly suboptimal conditions.
to be fair, it is fairly easy to immigrate to Australia. Any higher graduate course and a decent score on their test usually suffices and they give you a PR from the outset. Same for Canada.

If anything, the immigration equation is far more relevant to the US than it is to other countries. A top PhD used to be able to fetch you an eb1 Green Card which is a lot faster than the eb2. However, 'eb' GCs have to be filed by your employer, which means leaving Academia or having a decent enough post-graduation industry outlook. With eb-1 requirements only getting more stringent, this perk is also becoming less relevant.
A part that seems interesting to me is the "unified memory" architecture

At first it seems like just a cost/power/size saving measure, like not having dedicated RAM in a discrete GPU

But the CPU-vs-GPU RAM distinction means there's a cost to moving work to the GPU as data has to be copied, leading to it only be used in cases where you can either do the whole work purely on the GPU or queue up batch jobs of work so that the cost of copying data can be amortised over the faster parallel GPU

They sort of hinted at it in the presentation, but the unified memory architecture potentially allows more flexible distribution of tasks between CPU and GPU and "Neural" cores, because the data doesn't have to be copied.

I wonder if this is then potentially something compilers will be able to do take more advantage of, automatically.

It will be interesting to see how useful the "Neural" cores are for non-ML workloads.
Agreed -- and the examples in the user comments were invaluable to me way back when I was getting started.
This has been discussed here many times, but I still thinks it’s worth being reminded about. It’s a very universal pattern that should get more cred for being used on its own without event sourcing.
Biomass's effective power/area is too low.
Those people can still get an Intel-based Mac. For me, the dealbreaker is the 16GB memory limit - it's too little for comfort right now and I assume a 32 or 64GB machine is what it would take to carry me for the next five years or so.
I'm kind of shocked that they got an integrated Thunderbolt controller working as fast as they did, even if version one doesn't support every feature.

Apple is shipping an integrated Thunderbolt controller before Intel does with Tigerlake.
They're not niche at all when your presentation mentions Machine Learning work and has Cinema4D as one of the examples of pro-apps you'll be running on this machine.

Either it's a machine that will serve those professionals, in which case it needs to be able to access a real GPU somehow or it's not a machine for those "Pro"-fessionals, in which case why make it part of your sales pitch.