skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As expected, the Apple M1 is a little faster than Inter Tiger Lake in single-thread applications, but it is a little slower than AMD Renoir in multi-threaded applications.

So for things like software development where you compile frequently your projects, the new Apple computers are a little slower than similar computers with AMD CPUs.

So even when taking only CPU performance into consideration, there are reasons to choose other computers than those with Apple Silicon, depending on what you want to do.

Of course, nobody will decide to buy or not buy products with "Apple Silicon" based on their performance.

Those who want to use Apple software will buy Apple products, those who do not want to use Apple software will not buy Apple products, like until now, regardless which have better performance.
They have to make the claim ‘millions of devices run Java true’.
But anyway. A lot of programming languages are going to have to support Arm now. Interpreters for like php and js must be cross-compiled and then most things can work. Like Rust just brought their arm support to the tier 1 support level, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2959
Great work Luka! Love the minimalistic design.
How far are we from seeing a color-version on this display?
> Then what?

Have an mp3 collection that you actually control?
In Germany they introduced the Big Vegan TS (based on the Nestlé Incredible Burger) in April 2019. As far as I know it found great adoption and they even added the smaller Veganburger TS (same patty) to their menu. With the Big Vegan TS and all the sauces on there you can hardly tell it isn’t meat.
Design Constraints Examples Explained
Check the list of 7 design constraint examples by Coreteka.
I look forward to when Rust toolchains can compete with Delphi/Eiffel/.NET/Java in what concerns debug builds, I can let the CI/CD take care of release ones.

On a positive note, congratulations to everyone involved doing this work.
120$ is pretty cheap when the traditional alternative is to go to a bar - had friends doing that a couple times per week, 120$ is basically spent in a month or less
The Macbook Air with 16GB RAM and 512GB isn't really priced competitively here in Germany. It's almost 1600€.
> Being in 20s myself

Uhh... Sorry to break it to you, but... I... I think that makes you a millennial.
Guess it depends on the region. Here in Sweden I saw a few N95s and of Sony Ericsson and Nokia feature phones. Not a single Blackberry in sight, before or after.
Rapid Test Can ID Unknown Causes of Infections Throughout the Body
I think you put too much trust in technology.
I have used baby monitor for a short time, but I have never ever walked out of the house with one - if my baby cries I want to be able to go to it as fast as I can - so even if my baby monitor is not working I will hear the baby, just a bit later maybe.

So the devices described in the article is great, it can show me that baby is crying, not only using sound, but also I can use it to ping me in a visual way - which I always missed from any baby monitor.
Most likely it’s a binning thing. The top bins that can sustain longer boosts on higher temps would be binned for the MBP. The ones that can boost with a bit more cooling gets into a Mini. The lower binned ones would be on an MBA, and “faulty” chips with 1 GPU disabled would go in the cheaper 7GPU MBA. Higher yields, better economics.
...which one might attribute to the fact that it's not supported on chrome, the vastly more popular web browser. I really don't see how you can argue that Safari is the new IE6 when it is slow to adopt standards that Google just decided are now web standards.

A healthy ecosystem should allow for innovations to take place from Apple, Google, and Mozilla and look at what sticks. As it stands now, Mozilla and Apple occasionally make new contributions to web standards but anything that chrome pushes effectively becomes one without any input from another company and that's kind of problematic.
You can also say it benefits the artist because it makes it easier to listen to them, which incentivises people to give them money to support them. This is more or less the entire model of Bandcamp.
Yeah, I don't like it. It says making wrong jokes is an offense. On the plus side, it doesn't yet say that failure to report someone else for making wrong jokes is an offense.
Thanks for the explanation. That shed a different light on those two vassal "states".
> thermals ... reduce clock speed.

I see that statement a lot, and yes, at some point that is going to happen.

But the analysis seems to fail to take into account what utterly amazingly low power devices these chips are. So while it will happen, it might take a long time.
Crypto AG was selling knowingly-weak products for decades in conjunction with US and UK agencies.

Post-war they commercially sold an Enigma variant, C-52, with documented vulnerabilities to nations that were considered to be 'of interest'. Cracking their encrypted messages was trivial. Meanwhile, trusted nations were allowed to buy the otherwise secret and secure CX-52.

Rumours of this arrangement surfaced in the 1970s and again in the 1990s. Why anyone still bought from them is a mystery.
I'm guessing the code of conduct primarily concerns the software development process?
Assuming this works as advertised this is the most important medical news of the decade. If accuracy can be improved and processing accelerated it’s definitely the most important medical news of the decade.

> scientists have developed a single clinical laboratory test capable of zeroing in on the microbial miscreant afflicting a patient in as little as six hours – irrespective of what body fluid is sampled, the type or species of infectious agent, or whether physicians start out with any clue as to what the culprit may be.

...

> Compared with gold-standard culture and PCR, the researchers diagnosed 79 percent of bacterial and 91 percent of fungal infections by Illumina sequencing, and 75 percent of bacterial and 91 percent of fungal infections by nanopore sequencing.
I've tried Ruby (and RoR, which, while I've never used it professionally, has had a huge impact on the whole realm of web application development that I'm into), but I never fully understood it. Made a first RoR app from a book, but when trying to deploy it I ran into a minor issue (probably wrong database configuration), apparently I had to restart the application but the webhoster I used did not give access to restart the thing so I just sighed, gave up, and went back to PHP.
We were both obviously talking about the modern definition of the Gantt Chart, not the paper version invented pre ww1.
Thanks! Looks promising.
I found it interesting, and curious, that Apple has included hardware specifically for "machine learning" on the M1 chip.

It's hard to imagine that anyone will be training ML models on their Mac laptop. So presumably, this must be some kind of accelerator for executing models which have been trained elsewhere... right??

What do they expect those models will be used for?
Ask HN: Am I wrong to have honest concerns with the upcomming Covid-19 vaccine?
First off I am not an "Anti Vaxxer", I usually get a flu shot, I believe in the benifits of the MMR vaccine, I have my pets and livestock vaccinated.

My concerns with the promising Pfizer Covid vaccine is primarily based upon the myriad of current class action legal advertisments recruiting people to join their lawsuits, who have become ill from other government approved drugs and products that have also gone through the "rigorous" approval processes and peer reviewed trials, such as Zantac, Oxycodin, Round Up, Baby Powder etc. Going all the way back to Thalydamide or even Bayer's Heroine.

My understanding is that the Pfizer vaccine is using a new game changing method involving nano technology that allows the active molecules to pass through some sort of cellular barrier that was previously unpassable.

Is it really wise to be dosing such a large percentage of the population with something like this so quickly?

Like I said I DO believe in the benifit of vaccines, but have what I feel are reasonable concerns regarding how quickly the Covid vaccines are being promoted and eventually distributed to so many people around the world.

Worst case scenario might be the only ones not hurt could be the actual anti science, "anti vaxxer" conspiracy theorists left to make policy decisions regarding current and future medications.

Am I just being parinoid or is it reasonable to have these concerns?
Yeah I use VS Code,

But yknow electron yadda yaddaa,
I end up blowing it with too many plugins so it can be a little slow.

Also the telemetry...

Also although I love WSL for being able to use linux on my windows work machine, it is really slow for me. Trying to use a docker-magento image on windows under wsl gave me minute long page-loads.

I also hit a bug the other day that would put my vps server at 100% CPU when working remotely with the VSCode ssh remote extension...

So all in consideration, VS Code is Okay'ish but I'm not really a fan, for mac I like the new Nova editor from panic guys albeit it's newness that grants less community/plugins!
> Of course, nobody will decide to buy or not buy products with "Apple Silicon" based on their performance.

That's exactly the reason why you would chose Apple Silicon right now where you can choose between Intel and Apple SoC. There are of course other reasons such as battery life and price.
Here's a great discussion of that:

https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-hyperinflation-def...

Great info that stands independent of the author's politics and book-shilling.
> your baby is left crying unattended for a long time.

How is it possible?
Are people leaving babies in far away corners of the house and walk outside with baby left alone?
For me baby monitor is to inform me sooner when baby is starting to cry so I can comfort it faster and make it sleep again.

I have never ever been 100% dependent on baby monitors. I will always eventual hear when my baby is crying, I do it right now (I don't use baby monitors anymore because they were useless and loud and didn't have visual feedbacks).
>that the speed and specialist hardware (e.g. neural engine.....

Yes. For one, there seems to be no Unified API for GPU Computing in the PC Market. And Microsoft doesn't seems to be interested in doing a Direct X version of it.

And for NPU, which is increasingly important for things such as Speech Recognition, ( For many parts of the word where Languages aren't easily typed into, they are the default way of input on their Phone ), Photo Face Recognition without using the Cloud. Increasing use in Graphics, Video, Audio productivity apps. There aren't even any specific Hardware on PC market. ( That is why Intel is desperate to move the XE as a co-processor ). And it will be years if not a whole decade before a PC parts comes up and reach a large enough market volume.

And it sort of makes you wonder 3-4 years down the road when the M1 ( excluding Memory ) becomes a $20 SoC, will we see a variant of Mac cheap enough that will hit back at the 1.5B Windows PC Market. Where Apple current has roughly 110M Mac.
i want see this film
Maybe display the old timestamp, but also display a visible "re-up" tag next to it? This way it'll be obvious the submission was reinserted manually to give it a second chance.
The biggest turn off for me is that those plant-based alternatives are in no way any bit healthier than their real-meat originals.
> this could be a good time to jump the apple ship. it's pretty clear their focus is not their power users' focus.

Apple is at day 1 of their two year migration to Apple Silicon. Your judgement seems not just a little premature.
I've not done Python outside playing around really early on in my career during an internship, but I've never felt attracted to it; the 2 vs 3 debacle, installing the odd tool is like "what" (yeah just do `pip install this`, but first you need to install pip by using `easy_install`), and I've heard dependency management and environment setup is still quite backwards.

It needs a big ecosystem and tooling overhaul for me to be interested.

ATM I'm doing Go, which seems to have gotten the tooling part right at least.
> One even used to have one of the fridge-sized Cray supercomputers at home, just because.

If I wasn't already engaged....
They are not priced competitive. Cheapest macbook air starts from $999. Cheapest Dell Inspiron starts from $319.
My main issue with going from a free service to paying for storage isn't that it's not free anymore. It's that, at some point in the future, I would run out of storage and I'd need to pay more per month. I'm only good at estimating how many GBs of photos I produce per month. Also, what if I accumulate more than 2TB of photos? I don't even see an option to upgrade past that.

It's very hard for me (and many other people) to estimate how many GBs of photos I would produce total because (1) I don't know what camera technology would be like in a few years and (2) I don't know how many years I will be alive and producing photos for.

I know that they can't just our old uploads free forever, but I'd like the product framing to adapt to my mental model rather than the other way around. They can still price it such that it's profitable for them.

Another issue I have is vendor lock-in. Sure, I can take my data out of Google Photos, but I can't take my data out for 5 years, and at some later point decide to use it again, and have it be in exactly the same state as it was before. A lot of metadata (edits, social interactions like comments/shared album data) would be lost. To me, these "non-exportable features" almost feel like ads, since they entice people to modify their content in ways that can only be shown to them in the future if they continuously pay for the service.

I think the Facebook/Google Data Transfer project would help this second issue to some extent. https://engineering.fb.com/2019/12/02/security/data-transfer...
I also run a home VM server for several things, and you can do very very well with consumer hardware - and you don't need to go super high end.

One of the biggest disadvantages with using older enterprise hardware is that the power draw and noise can be substantially more than using up to date mid-range consumer hardware. There's not anywhere near as much well-priced second-hand hardware available outside of the USA, either.

I refreshed mine recently, and I went for an ASRock DeskMini H310 (not much bigger than NUC sized, but takes a full desktop processor), an i7 9700, 64GB of RAM, 2x 2TB SATA SSDs and a 1TB NVMe SSD. Runs Linux + KVM/qemu, is near silent, and overall works very very well - for a total cost of about £1200 incl VAT.

I'm not convinced it makes me directly more productive - really it's a hobby. But it's very useful for educational purposes - it teaches a lot of skills which are helpful professionally - especially if you work in smaller businesses and not FAANG.
The height is by far the most important factor. Surprised me but as a 5'5" guy, shedding excess weight, new wardrobe, good job, approached women IRL and online, none of it mattered compared to height. Goes down exponentially proportionate to how many SDs from the mean you are...

I have had relationships and am engaged to a beautiful woman now so I found a way to work around it but it is near impossible. My short male friends are either single or have made considerable compromises.

It's a factor that is weirdly denied in society too. Nobody wants to hear that an immutable characteristic plays such a role on the male side...
This is going to be a problem in the future.

Cameras keep getting better outputting bigger and bigger video and photo files.

Big percentage of the population has Google Photos as their single point of backup.

I don't like Googles threat of login each 2 years or we nuke everything.

People could be in coma, prison, religious sects etc for longer than 2 years without internet connection.

Lot's of people living in exotic areas don't have regular internet connection as well.
"Scientific consensus" does not equal "overwhelming evidence".
One interested little side aspect of Apple Silicon and Apple's war against Epic Games is going to be Unreal Engine.

I can see Unreal Engine not being available for Apple Silicon for quite a while. During the presentation of the new notebooks, Apple showed quite a bit of gaming. If there are no Unreal Engine titles for Apple Silicon, this could hurt them.
That’s an odd comment to make about a slow, painstaking, extremely careful long term experiment that’s all about verifying predictions about the Big Bang.
Ask HN: Using CSS grid for entire page
I've been learning CSS grid, and wanted to have the entire page based it. The goal was to be responsive automatically.

When all the children "grid-area" is set to auto, is all good. But if a few of them have custom "grid-area", things start to get weird.

Since the content is dynamic (element being added or deleted randomly), I couldn't add a media query then custom the "grid-area" as it needed to be

Appreciate any solution.

(somewhat similar to this https://material.io/design/layout/responsive-layout-grid.html#breakpoints)
The term itself was coined in order to disparage the idea by Fred Hoyle, who was a proponent of the Steady State Theory. He never accepted that the Big Bang happened.
‘renv’ (only) does more or less what pyenv does. Contrary to what the parent comment says, R doesn’t actually do any dependency resolution at all, and the official package repository (CRAN) doesn’t even archive many old versions (though MRAN does).

I strongly prefer R for data science, but its dependency management story is poor, even compared to Python’s (which, in turn, is poor compared to Rust/Ruby/…).
How do you find the NUC for noise? I've found that the CPU fans on them are annoyingly loud, and that they are a particularly irritating shrill frequency - and that they start ramping up at relatively low CPU usage.

I found going slightly bigger (around mini-ITX sized) resulted in vastly less noise, and more machine for the price.
Ah OK, thanks for the clarification. Yes, the MacBook was the fanless one. I wonder why they stopped making it?
Without doubt, the Apple M1 has the highest single-threaded performance of any non-overclocked CPU, being a little faster than AMD Zen 3 and Intel Tiger Lake.

Nevertheless, because Apple has chosen to not increase their manufacturing costs by including more big cores, the multi-threaded performance is not at all impressive, being lower than that of many much cheaper laptops using AMD Ryzen 7 4800U CPUs.

So for any professional applications, like software development, these new Apple computers will certainly not blow away their competition performance-wise, and that before taking into account their severe limitations in memory capacity and peripheral ports.
Couldn’t the same be said for youtube-dl? Again, I don’t know.. just curious.
What are current viable alternatives to the M1 MacBook (Air and Pro) laptops in the PC world?

I'm looking for those 2% computers "in the same class" (from the apple keynote 2 days ago) that are faster than these M1 laptops. From the looks of it they surpass their Apple store siblings, but how about x86 PC laptops? I'm currently shopping for my next dev machine, in the lighter side of the form-factor.

I've seen some name-dropping here and in other threads, like HP Zbook and Lenovo, but I'm completely out of the loop since I moved to a fully specced i7 2014 Macbook Air back in the day and.
If we assume this statement to be true, that still leaves the huge problem of figuring out whether the reason for something being removed/silenced is due to its controversial nature, or any of a number of other possible explanations.
What is it with americans and their meaningless code of conducts?
I'm curious - what did you switch to? (I'm looking)
>Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with 1981 to 1996 a widely accepted defining range for the generation.

Seems so. The original post saying "anyone in their 20s" confused me. I'm not really familiar with all this generation and millennial talk. But it does annoy me when people shoehorn generations into certain behavioral patterns stripping out their individuality.
Proxmox also works great, and is opensource.
> Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences.

> Gracefully accepting constructive feedback.

> Showing empathy and kindness towards other community members.

Yada yada, seemingly inclusive and tolerant then goes on to add a catch all list where every possible action can be deemed unacceptable, getting you expelled everywhere and "identification of the participant as a harasser to other members or the general public."

Anti meritocracy is a cover for the most intolerant.
Most likely, but I think the compensation will still be competitive; CoL in Europe is lower than in the U.S., I also think that generally QoL is higher in Europe.
On the opportunities side, I agree, luck plays a significant role here.
No, but overwhelming evidence, as we have for the Big Bang, generally does lead to scientific consensus. That’s how science works.
But Feynman method is for how you get paid-for sex. And women he was trying to get sex with were in fact interested primary in food he can pay for them. They were in it to find someone who will pay dinner for them, they were not in it for dating or hookup or fun. I kind of feel like that just straight paying prostitute is literally equivalent, but kind of more honest thing (more honest from both sides).
This is about the new line of Macs and the M1 chip in them, not iPads
https://stackshare.io/rails is a reasonable source to see what company uses Rails; notable entries are Github, AirBnB, Twitch, etc. Mind you it doesn't really say what / how much of those things are made with Rails. Github definitely uses it a lot though: https://github.blog/2019-09-09-running-github-on-rails-6-0/
How ironic that this statement of inclusivity is preceded with this one:

>We're sorry but funkwhale.audio doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.
OkCupid was bought by Match.com
Doesn't seem so:

> If a community member engages in .... up to and including expulsion from all Funkwhale spaces
lmao.. yeah it's like a fine wine, great content.
if I recall correctly, the geekbench score does run on small bursts and it's designed to find the peak performance without taking the thermal limitations in account.
> The registered office is located at 92, rue Consolat, 13001 Marseille, France
which is the prime reason I don't use the desktop app.

"Come use a version of our website where you can't tabbed-browse!"

Yeah, that's a hard no from me...