skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple didn't specify if they're counting by model or total sales, but virtually everything in the Gamer Laptop category is going to be faster in virtually every measure.

https://www.newegg.com/Gaming-Laptops/SubCategory/ID-3365

As a Joe Schmoe it's hard to get good figures, but it appears the total laptop market is about $161.952B[1] with the "gaming" laptop segment selling about $10.96B[2]. Since gaming laptops are more expensive this undercounts cheap laptops, but there are other classes of laptop that are going to outperform this mac, like business workstations.

There might be one way to massage the numbers to pull out that statistic somehow, but it is at best misleading.

[1] https://www.statista.com/outlook/15030100/100/laptops-tablet...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1027216/global-gaming-la...
I know right? I work hard and do well for my family, but I know there are folks who have much higher incomes and wealth and enjoy much more privileges. Some of them have earned it and some haven't. I spend zero percent of my life being upset about this. Why do so many young people in basically my same life station fret about it so very much? It seems very toddlerish, to be so upset just because you saw someone with a toy you don't have.
> If your editor can do that, so could the compiler. So, why require them?

So that there's a step in between where the human can check the result
Old quad-core 2020 Macbook Air was probably faster than 98% of the existing laptops on the market given what specs have most volume sold (<$500).
That's a stretch. And China is 2nd world.
I've been choosing to play without enemies. Makes for a less-frantic, more-relaxed gameplay.

Once I get good at building bases fast, I'll try with enemies to see how I like it.
> The ocean has thus become emblematic both of a natural world victimized by humanity and of nature’s possible vengeance.

Nature is not cute and cuddly. Nature has always been dangerous to humans. The Ice Age almost wiped out humanity. And this was before any modern industrial developments or pollution. Plagues have been ravaging humanity for millenia. Mothers and infants died by the millions. Even for other species, most members end their lives either starving to death, or being eaten, many times while they are still alive and sensate.

It is humanity learning to control and harness nature that has made us what we are. We learned to get more food that nature would naturally give. We learned to treat diseases. We learned how to control plagues. We learned to control maternal and infant mortality. We learned to fly. We learned to go to space. We learned to tame and control nature for our benefit.

For the future, we are going to have to go all in on science and technology. It is our only hope. Harmony with nature is life that is nasty, brutish, and short.
Well for one, that's not quite the case. You'll for example regularly see the king wear a fes hat when receiving foreign dignitaries, it's not quite like a Mexican sombrero.

Second, even if that was the case, I can assure you it's not unlikely for foreigners in Mexico to visit tourist-oriented places where you'll find locals wearing a sombrero. The fact that they're pandering to customers and this is part of a movie scene, doesn't mean the movie is the latin american equivalent of orientalist. The same goes for fes hats in Morocco. If anything, the scene exposes the orientalist nature of some of its characters who're ignorant and exaggerate the cultural differences, while others see the differences as quite ordinary and aren't fazed by them.
A really underappreciated part of Haskell is innovation in things other than the type system. Linear types is one of them, but STM and lightweight threading were in Haskell long before they became popular in other languages.
Thank you! I really appreciate the leads.
More solar is good, but we have space for it elsewhere. It's cheaper and easier to have roads be "plain old roads".
Frustratingly, this has also been happening in Apple's open source xorg server for like a decade. Whenever I unplug from my external monitor I just kill it and restart with `xinit`.

https://www.xquartz.org/
IMO, both the hyperloop and the boring company tunnels will evolve into something much more subway-like if they succeed. Starting out by soaking the rich is often a good way to start, though.
So much of factorio is using the keyboard though.. how does that translate to a tablet?
Software Engineering – A philosophical activity – Tom Enden
https://mediagoblin.org/
An incredible and inspirational talk by Tom Enden, with powerful ideas and outstanding delivery. I've watched it and then listened to it again a few days later on my commute, as it helped me frame some of my thoughts on how to build teams that can build software. As an example, "The world is the totality of facts, not of things" is why I believe safe (canary testing, blue/green deployments, low MTTR etc.) and fact-based testing of our software should be in production, where real customers can tell us the truth about the usage, usability, and stability of our propositions ("as truth-functions").
This passage isn’t as much about forgiveness as correction. You are supposed to forgive no matter what (77 times). But this is if someone is doing wrong and needs to be corrected. If no matter what they will not stop their bad behavior then depending on how serious it is they cannot be allowed to keep being a part of the community.
PCIe Gen4 gives you sequential 5GB/s reads and even random reads at well above 4GB/s, this isn’t a page file on an ATA133 drive.

In theory this can also be extended over TB/USB4 and ofc it can be extended over the network (however that’s the slowest part) this going to be quite a big thing especially for use cases like video editing if they offer a true unified memory as a lot of the latency doesn’t necessarily comes from the interface latency but from memcopy and translating between multiple address spaces.
As a Briton, I sympathise. It's easy to say and then feel foolish by the reaction of the counter-party - that you've made something bigger of it than it is, or that you've inadvertently (been considered to having had) admitted guilt to something serious!

'Sorry' to me ranges from 'Excuse me', through 'ha-ha we both reached for that/side-stepped in the same direction at the same time', all the way of course to the serious 'I regret and apologise for what I have done' that it (solely) means elsewhere.

On the flip side though, American's are constantly telling me that I'm 'so welcome' when they don't mean it (or perhaps because they're used to 'thank you' having similar infrequency and sincerity to 'sorry'?) - so I think we're even. :)
Is this level of infrastructure even viable for a few rich people?
I think the increase of popularity of these types of articles happened mostly before the pandemic.
Incidentally, regular trains getting shot at in America is not uncommon. Apparently Boeing has to check fuselages shipped by rail for bullet holes, because that happens..
The Tachikoma Crew: Best/Worst Dad Joke of All Time
Tablet? I use it on my computer, it’s basically a VM with RDP (not literally RDP as it’s specialized for gaming).
And the Wafadrive is there too.

https://obsoletemedia.org/wafadrive/
you don't semicolons, but they can be handy. One way of looking at them is as an infix operator (a monad if you want).

Another remark is that Python parsing can be hard as a single newline can actually end multiple blocks. Lexers are not designed to have a single char denote multiple tokens.
I just had the thought that the figures could be skewed by education departments all over the country making bulk orders for cheap laptops for students doing remote learning.
The biggest time where you want to avoid consuming nuclear fuel is likely to be the initial setup of the factory, where Kovarex enrichment hasn't bootstrapped enough U-235 for nuclear fuel. Once you get the bootstrap U-235, then you don't need the throttling as much, unless you have a massively overbuilt nuclear plant.

(I designed my system when I moved from 3 separate 2×2 nuclear plants to one large 2×6 system, and, as you say, even then it was mostly because I wanted to design such a system, and I didn't want to worry about power ever again).
So this is something I actually feel somewhat knowledgeable (qualified?) enough to speak on. As to why, happy to discuss in the comments, though I don't think it's relevant to what I'm about to say.

Cargill is just another 'private company' in the same way that Carnegie Steel was just another private company, or Standard Oil was just another publicly traded company. It's actually a family business in the truest sense of the word. The family itself owns nearly the entire financial stake in the business, and controls the rest in all but name.

With 115+ billion in annual revenue, they are one of the largest companies in the world, public or private. I believe if you exclude state owned enterprises, they would be top 50 worldwide somewhere around Microsoft. And as far as companies go, at least on the corporate side, they seem to treat their employees well from both a benefits and compensation standpoint.

They operate in multiple markets with near impunity where they are, essentially, the only buyer or seller of goods at scale. And, depending on who you believe and how you read into things, are responsible for anything ranging from really terrible industrial accidents, all the way up to exploitation and nation state style cover-ups and atrocities.

Why is this? And this is where I get to the 'trust me if you dare, just my opinion' part of the post, but... few short reasons.

One -- They're privately held, and subject to much less scrutiny because of it.

Two -- They're a generational wealth family business. Combine that with the lack of 'publicly traded' above and those who are actually delegated the work have no incentive to step out of line.

Three -- In almost every market they're in, the cost of them ceasing operations in that market is perceived as more harmful, for everyone, than whatever negative externalities they happen to create.

Happy to clarify, or hear how I'm wrong in my thinking.
Soft-wrapped code tends to be pretty difficult to read though. Certainly much more difficult than wrapped prose. Personally I prefer horizontal scrolling over wrapping code pretty much always (at least on a mac where horizontal scrolling is easy).
So let’s talk about Parler. -A Twitter Thread by Dave Troy
IMO 'truth and reconciliation' should just focus on 'truth'.

We don't owe war criminals reconciliation, but they owe us the truth.
Mainframe? Where we're going, we don't need mainframes.
If there are some months that he only makes a few hundred dollars, it's possible that you're actually losing money on depreciation (even if you're net positive on current costs like gas and maintenance). This is something that I see very few drivers talk about but influences your earnings significantly.

Depreciation is a real cost. If at the time you sell your car your car, you get $X, but driving for Uber caused you to have more miles and thus sell for $X-$Y, then Y is real cost. Even if you don't sell your car and instead drive your it into the ground, the extra miles you're driving for Uber cause your car to fail faster.

I get the sense that many part time drivers think they're making money when instead they're losing it (or maybe making less than minimum wage after expenses).
You're both right, but they're more right because the subtle difference you mention is the problem they're highlighting: Apple went out of their way to be unclear and create subtle differences in interpretation that would be favorable to Apple, as a company should.

After the odd graphs/numbers from the event, I was worried it was going to be an awful ~2 year period of jumping to conclusions based on:

- Geekbench scores

- "It's slow because Rosetta"

- HW comparisons that compare against ancient hardware because "[the more powerful PC equivalent] uses _too_ much power" implying that "[M1] against 4 year old HW is just the right amount of power", erasing the tradeoff between powerfulness and power consumption

The people claiming this blows Intel/AMD out of the water need to have stronger evidence than comparing against parts launched years ago for budget consumers, then waving away any other alternative based on power consumption.[1]

Trading off power for power consumption is an inherent property of chip design, refusing to consider other chipsets because they have a different set of tradeoffs mean you're talking about power consumption alone, not the chip design.

[1] n.b. this is irrational because the 4 year old part is likely to use more power than the current part. So, why is it more valid to compare against the 4 year old part? Following this logic, we need to find a low power GPU, not throw out the current part and bring in a 4 year old budget part.
A Pretty Good Mathematical Model of Perfectionism
>When and where did this line of thought of "it's better for everyone to stay the same than everyone get better if some people get better by a bigger amount" started being socially acceptable within grown adults?

That's not at all what the author is saying. He's arguing that it would be better, easier, and provide more value for more people if instead of things like Hyperloops we invested in high speed rail. If you've ever been to the US you'll know the transport infrastructure is TERRIBLE. Compared to Europe (and from the reading the article, Japan too it seems) American public transport is embarrassing; rusty diesel locomotives and pot holed roads. Having a high speed rail network in America would most certainly not be keeping everything the same.
The Kollected Kode Vicious [audio]
I would guess they don't charge over 90% anyway.

I've only charged our 3 to 100% 5 or 10 times over 2.5 years. And I don't leave it sitting that way.
Vulnerable yet vital: Why childhood and old age are key to our human capacities
It is a main thing that defines who controls the personal computer

It's a flaky feature that people had a workaround for in minutes. Nobody lost control of their computer.

There is no elevation here from my side, it is literally about human right

My secondary school had a bigass Universal Declaration of Human Rights mounted on a wall behind plexiglass. Whenever I got detention I'd protest citing Article 9. At 12, this seemed both funny and trenchant commentary on my predicament.
> …are you sure it's not just regular VHS tape you have?

Yes, but I imagine that's a common point of confusion. I was in college and had access to an S-VHS deck, so it served as a poor man's ADAT[1] at the time.

That site is gold, many thanks for the link!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAT
>My father used to fight with me, when I told him that his was investing in some ponzi scheme. And he ended up losing ~40% of his lifetime saving.

As if the Western world was smarter in that regard...

Should I put a list?

Because on average, the US scores very low against Europe.

For example, Creationism.
What is "scientifically inaccurate"?

> conventional breeds of chicken raised for meat, termed “rapid growth” breeds due to selective breeding that causes the animals to reach market weight unnaturally fast, suffer muscle myopathies, deformities, poor foot health, and have trouble standing or walking.

https://thehumaneleague.org/article/study-reveals-the-chicke...
> "it's better for everyone to stay the same than everyone get better if some people get better by a bigger amount"

I think this falls down because things aren’t getting better, at least in the US. People are less likely to own a house than their parents were at their age, minimum wage hasn’t increased in line with inflation and has therefore effectively decreased, higher education is more expensive etc.

And then you see people who profit off of making things worse buying their third house and you start to think it’s not exactly fair.
My brother lives in India and apparently there is a local brand of electric scooters. Very cool, imho. Lots of two wheelers in India, so it makes sense that happens first.
We use WhatsApp with family groups
> Am I apologizing? Hardly! The full sentence is, "Sorry, did you just actually step on my foot, what the hell?"

At least in the UK, that's not the full sentence, or it could be, but only with a change in tone ('SOrrY?!') - to me it's more like 'Oops my foot was in your way I think, so sorry'. (Said of course before you have a chance to think 'no hang on, I wasn't in the way, you weren't looking, this isn't my fault'.)
> But consider the time-value you're expending in doing so, versus just not engaging.

Most;y it's because I really do want the content. When you replace money with time/effort you still have to do the math to see if it's worth it to you. I think most of the time that math checks out, but there certainly have been times when it wasn't and I didn't bother.

There are places where I usually do follow your philosophy of 'just walk away' for example: websites that don't display basic content without javascript or need you to disable ad-blockers. 9.8 times out of 10, I'll just click away because I really just don't care that much. Everyone has their own tolerances for putting up with broken things. Mine my just be higher than most in some areas but they are defiantly lower in others.
Kahler v. Kansas
and to add on an important extra data point, 1lb of fat is roughly 3500 calories. So that one 220 calorie treadmill walk is 0.06lb or about 1lb lost per 16 walks, changing nothing else.

Or put another way, if your office is a 30 minute walk away then you can lose just over 2.5 lb/mo by just changing your routine to walking instead of driving (5×2×4×220÷3500 = ~2.5) and not changing your diet at all.
Why is everyone surprised by this? Fudging numbers, stealing credit, and blatantly lying is what Apple has always done. Of course they put a beautiful marketing layer on top of it all so its slightly less obvious.
I will stay home. I will organize a few events virtually, but that's it.

I'm afraid, quite a bit of people around me said that they will still do the same as usual. People that do care about Covid, that do talk about the risk and want to reduce the amount of propagation, but still won't make the concession of missing holidays. I'm from Quebec so it's probably that mentality that made us have more death per capita than the US.
I think that's the point. The 'technology' seems optimized for creating hype on reddit, not actually being commercially viable.
Open source, so no, we're not.
I unhardwired myself using Swift.

It is painful when I need to use them in another language.

After coding for decades, I’m glad to have one less thing to type.

If we want verifiable code, let’s move up a level of abstraction and build safer languages.
> the security and protection of property under the rule of law should be a human right

Well, it is - although the extent to which this should extend from humans to corporations is debatable. Otherwise you end up with situations like Philip Morris suing Australia over their anti-smoking policy.
Also the M1 is built on TSMC 5nm.

The AMD Radeon Pro 5600M is built on TSMC 7nm.
This reads like it was written in 2006.

I get the corporate cheerleading newoptimist TED talk breathless thing. And yes, some of these are reasonable extrapolations–at least, they would be, absent the entire apple cart being overturned by destabilizing forces which totally puncture the fragile globalist two-class equilibrium of the last decade or two.

But's it's breathtaking in its lack of engagement with the forces that make such an upsetting of the cart highly likely: • ever vaster reach and cost of the surveillance state
• accelerating wealth accumulation in a smaller oligarchy
• unprecedented efficacy of sentiment and behavioral control
• disruptive climate change and side effects like pandemics

Just to name a few contemporary headlines.

I mean... really. I have lived through decades of misguided utopianism around the tech side. So has this guy.

Buck to be made and cottage industry aside, he should know better.
Within 5 to 15 years I would guess, depending on the moment cheaper batteries materialize at scale and/or the tax system either benefits EVs or penalizes ICEs.

Taxis and buses are already starting to use EVs due to tax subsidies for businesses so we know that reducing taxes works, but even with our currently "slightly less statist than average" government that's a long shot for regular people to get the same benefits anytime soon. This is in Uruguay FWIW.
Apple Music has some playlists made by humans that are quite good ! They also have the “create a radio station” option in the song that starts playing similar songs to the song you were listening !
Best I can tell Madoff was unrelated to the actual subprime mortgage crisis.

While I agree that there were structural problems, we can't just allow diffusion of responsibility[0] to escalate to the point that you can commit manslaughter and get away with it. (737 Max says hi) Especially since you can purposefully organise a company to maximise confusion as to who, if anyone, was responsible.

As for "a specific hit-list" - it's not gonna appear by itself, the rating agencies are a good place to start, but you have to actually investigate and subponea documents. As far as I can tell, that work has not been done with anything like the vigour and resources it deserved - we just found a couple low-level scapegoats and called it a day.[1]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility#:~....

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the...
Well, it works both ways. You may not be able to bring yourself to go for that run 9 of 10 times. And maybe on the 10th time, you could actually do it, but you say "well, what's the point, I'd never stick with it". One of the most powerful things for me is doing the right thing. Even if it's just once. It's amazing how small steps can turn into habits.
I have no idea why anyone immediately installs the new MacOS.

It is literally like this with every major release now.
Huh. I only charge my Tesla to 100% a few times a year.
Show HN: I built an Ethereum Node debugging tool
I noticed in this comment that you spent a lot of time talking about yourself and specifically praising yourself and your contributions to this community. Having no other insight other than what you are providing me, it seems like you tend to make yourself the center of discussion and honestly, you come across as high-ego. People like that are often polarizing in communities and tend the shift the conversation from "what" to "who". Perhaps the best practice would be to learn to make your point without personalizing it so much.
I worked at a granite shop. Someone came in and tried to rob us once. It was on a Saturday only one of my coworkers was there, he was in the back in the programming room where we a few computers and stuff. He had forgotten to lock the front door. Somebody came into the programming room and said he was robbing the place. Apparently, my coworker just started laughing at him and said 'There's no money, only stone take what you want.' I guess the guy just got confused and left.

There was things he could have probably stolen, tools and stuff, but I can't really see it being worth it.
I'm not sure about that. People expect electricity to just work. People also are likely to plug their cars in at peak time after they get home from work and may want them somewhat charged before going out again in the evening.

I think demand response can help, but there is the fundamental issue that transportation uses as much as all electrical consumption currently, so there will be twice as much kWh needed.

That 7:1 ratio looks actually a lot worse in power terms. A streetlight consumes maybe 100W, 7 EVs could soak up 350kW for a period of time.

This is made much worse in N America with 110V everywhere.
It’s not greed and looking up it’s empathy and looking down.
Go's Recurring Security Problem