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> The M1 chip, which belongs to a MacBook Air with 8GB RAM, features a single-core score of 1687 and a multi-core score of 7433. According to the benchmark, the M1 has a 3.2GHz base frequency.

> The Mac mini with M1 chip that was benchmarked earned a single-core score of 1682 and a multi-core score of 7067.

> Update: There's also a benchmark for the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 chip and 16GB RAM that has a single-core score of 1714 and a multi-core score of 6802. Like the MacBook Air , it has a 3.2GHz base frequency.

So single core we have: Air 1687, Mini 1682, Pro 1714

And multi core we have: Air 7433, Mini 7067, Pro 6802

I’m not sure what to make of these scores, but it seems wrong that the Mini and Pro significantly underperform the Air in multi core. I find it hard to imagine this benchmark is going to be representative of actual usage given the way the products are positioned, which makes it hard to know how seriously to take the comparisons to other products too.

> When compared to existing devices, the M1 chip in the MacBook Air outperforms all iOS devices. For comparison's sake, the iPhone 12 Pro earned a single-core score of 1584 and a multi-core score of 3898, while the highest ranked iOS device on Geekbench's charts, the A14 iPad Air, earned a single-core score of 1585 and a multi-core score of 4647.

This seems a bit odd too - the A14 iPad Air outperforms all iPad Pro devices?
I assume there's some clever caching from fast storage + prerendering lower res footage to scrub through?

I was going off normal recommendations for video editing on x86 desktops/laptops. But it makes sense they'd go the extra mile on the software end to make it work on phones.
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I live in Louisville, KY and Google came in to lay fiber a couple of years ago. They tore up roads and made a mess and generally failed all around. Finally, they pulled out completely and left us high and dry. It was a pretty bad time, really.

I just checked my address in the Google Fiber website and it says that it's "coming soon" to my home. I wonder what that means. Did they stop digging up roads? Are they doing something different now? What's changed in the past 3 years that allows them to suddenly come back to the cities that they abandoned?

NOTE: Just to be clear, I'm not completely unhappy with Google as I have AT&T Gig Fiber thanks to Google Fiber scaring the incumbents into action.
I’m inclined to agree with you, but we simply don’t know because Google doesn’t report YouTube financials separately. They could still be taking a loss and subsidising it with general search revenue.
Super admirable space to be working in but i dont quite understand what the product is.
I have been training using a system called Flobility for a couple of years now and it has seriously reduced any chronic pain, especially in my back and shoulders. Pretty intense breath work but very worthwhile. Could be worth exploring:
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>We were disappointed to find little material published by engineers who built supersized async services. Now that ATF is deployed

Really? Such an important step to understand even a little bit about what real companies are using and you stopped at Google.com? Its not hard to network and interview with former employees to understand some of the bigger picture stuff in use at large companies.
I share an office with quite a few “professional users” I guess you’d call them. There are directors and 3D graphics people using mac pro towers and I’m sure they’d fit the definition, in that performance is a significant bottleneck for them and their output is tied to their hardware.
> This post does the same thing, using the same Benchmark suite as training data and for testing, but the goal is to use this optimized rustc to compile other Rust programs.

So, in my pipedream future, what's stopping crate authors from uploading the PGO profile for the build along with a new crate release? Even better, let CI handle it. Sounds like a logical next step.
Dark patterns at Shutterstock. How long will this be a thing?
Even in 2020, services like Shutterstock are using dark patterns.

I tried their trial and as this wasn't something which proved useful to me, I decided to cancel the plan.
I turned Auto-Renewal off and wanted to delete my account, but guess what: there is no single action like this on dashboard.

If you want to end your plan early, you need to contact support. Every normal service in 2020 has the possibility to cancel their plan, yet you need to go to Help section and navigate yourself.

Anyways, I have cancelled my auto-renewal immediately so they couldn't charge and 24 days after my signup they charged me with their plan.

I really don't understand these services. It makes me want to make a site and expose all these services making dark patterns available and charging for services to users which they don't use.
Hmm.. not 100% sure but I see 2 bugs in the PHP script:
1. the src of the image in the HTML is the local path on the hosting server (it would become src="/var/www/nyt/nyt.jpg" )
2. The v= parameter always uses current date, even if it downloaded yesterdays image. I assume it is being used to prevent caching, but thus doesnt really work. I'd use either an hash of the file or store the date used for the download in a variable and use that.
This is a very good question, and one thing we had issues with over the years while developing EteSync. At EteSync, we ended up building client side debug utils that we can get users to launch in order to figure out what's going on and selectively report issues. You can, depending on your users' risk profile, also have it more automatic (we kept it semi-automatic).

Developer tooling is definitely lacking at the moment for building encrypted applications and it's something we plan on addressing.
The sheer irony of a white person making this comment and thinking it’s clever. The unimaginative grey shit comes from you, asshole.
I wish those companies dedicated an employee or two to maintaining such content. Repairability and access to documentation would be worth enough to tip a purchase decision for many. Instead the manuals and parts list are kept off the internet. They're sold at insane prices if at all.
Apple shit when they saw M1 benchmarks and delayed their data center for years to fill it with their own server chips. https://businessrecord.com/Content/Default/All-Latest-News/A...
This seems like the place to ask if anyone has a good approach to downloading your music library. I've now got a large collection of DCI shows locked away in youtube music.
I'd expect their performance features, such as the wide execution and L2 etc, to be copied by amd/intel within a couple of years.
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Are governments following the science on Covid-19?
Living in Mexico here, the cartels in this country do indeed fight back against nation state adversaries (specifically the U.S government and the federal and state government forces of Mexico and its 30+ states where they operate) but the example of them as a model for just about any other organization is grotesquely mistaken. Here's why:

For one thing, they partly resist by paying immense amounts of money in bribes to government and police officials at all levels of the Mexican state apparatus, and in some cases even to lower-mid level officials of the U.S government close to the border. This is not a policy for staying under the radar or being effective at a reasonable cost (unless you're moving billions in drugs and kidnapping money)

Secondly, they depend to a large extent on a known capacity for incredibly psychotic, grotesque levels of violence to intimidate officials inside Mexico's chronically weak state institutions so that their activities can be left alone as much as possible. This requires a willingness to engage in violent criminality that few organizations in the world can match and it also involves the use of thousands of low-level foot soldiers armed to the teeth and recruited from immense pools of poverty-stricken populations (again, not applicable to many organizations or groups that just want to stay off the radar of nation state adversaries while doing their business.)

Thirdly, despite all the above, the cartels are indeed under constant attack either among each other or from state level actors in Mexico and with U.S government pressure. Consequently, their attrition rate is monstrously high, with thousands, yes thousands, of their members dying hideously bloody deaths each year in endless gun battles with authorities and rivals. This is only sustainable due to the recruiting factors of my second point above and it's certainly no model for successfully evading nation state actors. They don't evade them much, they just keep feeding more "disposable" lives to them while a small leadership more or less staves off its own eventual death by bullet or supermax prison.

As a final point, despite all of the above measures being in place, even the highly protected, wealthy leadership of these cartels eventually almost universally suffers its own extremely high attrition from state level actors: Seeing as how virtually every single major cartel boss that was running things a decade ago is now either dead or in prison, the long term prospects for any one of them are awful, despite all their money and localized power.
Founder of Visionect here. I'm so happy when these kinds of posts surface as this is exactly how we've envisoned our platform to be used - by tinkerers builidng interesting ideas.

I do see a lot of comments regarding the price, so it's best if I do the general disclaimer. E Ink screens are very pricy (compared to LCD). The driving is even pricier. And since this is not a mass-mass produced product (at least not in a sense of your 75" OLED TV) you get to the price that you have. We've worked for years on getting the price down for the E Ink screens (trust me on this), but there is a question of critical mass. E Ink in the non-reader, non-shelf label applications is still a very niche solution, that will command very high price. I hate to say it, but the only way we could have brought the price down with current quantities is if we built an inferior product as the price right now is the function of Bill-of-Materials.

We tried a lot of applications, some covered previously here on HN, we currently see that there are just two other avenues where E Ink is being used and has the potential for mass depoyments in the near future.

1. In offices it can be used as interactive signage - we've built a very successful solution for meeting room booking around it (see http://getjoan.com).

2. The market for outdoor displays - especialy smart bus stops that run on solar - is starting to ramp up. Check out what our partners are doing in this space (a recent live deployment https://www.visionect.com/blog/coimbra-the-city-of-the-stude...).

If anyone would like to get more information about E Ink, please shoot - we've tried every E Ink display out there, played with color display and probably seen every E Ink application out there. You can also shoot me a direct mail to luka.birsa AT visionect.com.
I'm thinking about working on a product that lets you stream your own music via webrtc sever from behind your own isp. Think this is something that might have a market?
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I do use paid Dropbox on iOS and aside from the two defects I mentioned, it’s very reliable. Actually there’s a third: the Dropbox iOS app cannot reliably run in the background, so mass uploading is only possible when the phone is plugged in and the screen switched on with the app in the foreground (e.g. overnight) - but this is the fault of iOS.

Is there an alternative you’d recommend? I also use Dropbox for its cost-per-TB and Linux client.
Is Geekbench that trustworthy? I always see them saying that new iPad CPUs are faster that the latest x86 desktop ones, but they are different architectures so I'm not sure the scores are comparable.
What if you wanted to drive a few more monitors for logging, monitoring and docs or have a local k3s cluster running for development or run some exploratory scripts on large data sets or build a large project from source? Professional programming is a vast and varied field.
Leave it to a bank to propose laying the burden solely on the shoulders of the middle class instead of actually taxing the .01%
So would a Xeon if you pulled the heatsink off.
apple is kinda slowly destroying it's iTunes device too sadly
I’d love to work on a maintenance project for a product I care about, though - and add small little incremental improvements over time and make my mark that way.

If there’s a hiring manager at Google that wants someone to babysit products that shouldn’t die, but can’t attract career-oriented people to work on, ping me :)
Because this Hacker News, where you have to be either cynical or pedantic in all your comments. This project is very cool, so the only major downside (the price) is used to fuel the cynicism.

It could cost 15 bucks and people would comment about the fact that it uses a cloud CMS. Or be disgusted by the PHP snippet.

It’s just the culture of HN. You can’t change that anymore.
Or, if you want free software, airsonic-advanced (specialized for audio) and/or Jellyfin (FLOSS fork of Emby)
The way I remember it the iphone-with-2-year-contract price was very similar to the buy-outright price for other phones. Are you definitely comparing the same contracts?
As a socialist, I have no idea what you are referring to.
Nice job!

Is vanilla Python networking is still dog slow, on the order of 1k requests per second per core on mid-range consumer hardware no matter how you wire it all together?
I'm currently looking into this with a twist for bot deterrence.
OLD isn't the world.
Why stream over WebRTC when <audio> will work just fine?
Definitely worth a shot.

I've really enjoyed working with FastAPI in Python for web apps.
> Unfortunate state of affairs with firefox extentions. Niche extentions do not exist anymore.

Interesting. I find Chrome extensions to be very limited in what they can achieve. Can not do without Tree Style Tab...
Very interesting to see the benefit of transparency materializing into real touchable cash.
> On the other hand, with marriage, it's generally (hopefully) safe to assume that both parties trust each other fully before entering into the agreement. Whether and how that plays out in practice is another story, but IME, very few people enter into marriage prepared for the case in which it ends.

Sounds to me you're describing the whole point of marriage as a contract, as it specifies the default set of conditions and requirements that are applied to both parties, and also the rights and obligations of both parties in case of a contract resolution and even breach of contract.

> This is why prenuptial agreements can sometimes be a touchy subject, since it breaks that assumption of complete trust.

Again, it sounds like you're describing the whole point of marriage as a contract, as its the original (and baseline) prenuptial agreement.
I'm not, the bottom 10 does not belong to that group.
Oh, and if it's local, search is instant, playback is instant, internet connectivity does not matter, no surprice updates, it just works. My player is Winamp and it still works just fine after all these years.

If someone want's to talk to me I just press ctrl+shift+E to pause, don't need to find a window on the computer. Tired of the song playing? Press ctrl+shift+b for next song in whatever program/game I'm in at the moment. (My winamp has quake-controls because that was what I was playing when I found the global hotkey settings.
Many of us would be perfectly happy spending our entire career making hundreds of thousands of dollars working on a niche product that we are passionate about.
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Very few of us expect an actual Mad Max-style scenario. Most preppers simply prepare for anything, as you simply don't know what the future holds. Personally, I found keeping a supply of N95's at home to be very handy in the current pandemic. We've also kept the store-runs to a minimum simply by living off some of the supplies we have at home, as well as our own produce.

I suspect most preppers agree that if shit hits the fan and zombies start walking the streets, cooperation is key for survival and rebuilding, and that simple things like getting to know your neighbours can be quite critical for survival in such scenarios. After all, sitting in a bunker with a ton of canned food is pretty pointless unless your kids have someone to procreate with.
I believe someone already stated the obvious: no one competitor will beat FB. Here are some of my thoughts on this:

1. They own ALL of Friendster's patents. they are all encompassing regarding social networking. No way any little guy can defend themselves.

2. someone said another obvious thing: ppl use different aspects of FB and not all.

3. after mons/yrs of teaching your grandma to use FB, no way anyone will move away and reteach.

4. FB offers no complete like Goog's Take Out scenario to easily reimport into another social network.

5. too many catfish. I suspect only 25% are real people. rest are entities, multi-accts.

6. too many simple thinking ppl are entrenched and won't change. comfort zone barrier too high to break.

7. governments worldwide now use them to control their people where in some coountries, every individual getting a cellphone must have a FB acct.

8. some countries like India use FB as their "internet." They don't know www exists.

9. FB can only be brought down by itself and they are already doing a fine job of it. There is a cycle for companies like this and although they now have a very long tail, there is an end to that tail. Next generation will have to make that change over so at a minimum, it will take a generation to make that fall.

10. FB are already losing the next gen, so opportunities abound except for the patent fights that will happen.

Bottomline is FB a road most will need to travel on for now, but I suspect like hwys, toll roads can lead a path out for some while the rifrafts will stay on the sinking boat.
I'm just looking at the charts, v5
Thank you Ryan for feedback. I will definitely work on making it clearer.
Assuming he pushed for the announcement to coincide with the preplanned sale he had absolutely no way of knowing how much the stock would potentially jump up.

If a bank robber only manages to get away with 100 dollars because the register is low, you wouldn’t come out defending him saying “well the claim is he only stole 100$, and obviously no one would care about such a small amount, so we can conclude that he didn’t actually try to rob the bank”.
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The OP could very easily have the same goal, except he is focusing on putting more leads at the top of the funnel.

More leads / dates = more chances for long term relationships.

If OP dates 100 women to find 1 long term relationship, is it more likely OP will find a better 'match', than you, who may date 1-3 women before converting them into a long term relationship.

Shouldn't more opportunities = more selective = better long term fit?
Music is tightly coupled with culture and culture is coupled with the tech. When something vanishes, most of the time it is because no one cares about it anymore because everyone moved on to the next thing. Some people remain of course, they get lonelier in this quest and if it happens that they have some artistic abilities they can play part in the re-discovery of the brilliance of the art of that era in the next retro wave.

Most of the time though, the people who don't move on simply age and get grumpy claiming that kids these days are horrible and don't understand the value of the thing that they still love.
State senates are not the federal senate.
> good recommendations

That would be sweetly ironic, considering Google's original success came from better search.
how much of the $300 goes to the retailer? how much goes to the distributor?
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> Lesbian Norah Vincent spent a year living as a man and practically had a mental breakdown (timestamp is where they discuss cold-approach dating and rejection):

To be clear, she had a mental breakdown when at a therapy session with a bunch of men who were talking about chopping up their wives. The context in your post frames it as if it had been because of her lack of success in dating, but that's not what it was. (Also, she talks about how she actually had dating success to the point that straight women she was dating would agree to sleep with her even after finding out that she has female parts. I wish I was that hot.)
Take a look at airsonic, jellyfin or plex
AArch64/ARM64 was developed from the ground up, not bolted on to the old 32-bit ISA
So pull the insides of the phone out, attach a heatsink ... heatsinks cost less than LCD screens I reckon.
I'm male, 45, and in the UK.

If I'm shopping I'll smile and say "thanks" for any little consideration (moving aside, putting a "between shoppers bar" on the conveyor, holding a door, etc.), and when waiting for something I'll say something "chit chatty" to the person next to me, male or female, old or young. Sometimes it will be met with a conversation, mostly a polite reply but no chat, others will be shocked that a stranger spoke to them.

Anything can be used as a conversational gambit. I think "how about dem Yankees?" comes from an old film.

The point is that it doesn't cost anything to be rebuffed. Being open, approachable, and friendly is worth learning.

Not being creepy, slimy, or a Lounge Lizard helps. Just speak to people.
The same way as iOS Garageband handles AUv3 now, I assume.

AUv3 plugins are meant to be able to run on both MacOS and iOS in the near future (this has caused some concern in the plugin dev community, because of different pricing models). Just in iOS they are apps you install from the app store, because everything that executes code needs to be a sandboxed app in iOS.
2019: "I'll build a Hackintosh, its cheaper & faster"

2020: "I'll build a Hackintosh, its slightly cheaper"
If it is only career you are interested in, you would probably use Google as a ladder for higher positions elsewhere.
In the meantime everyone is at home listening to streamers who DJ using their local music library.
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Making fun of Garfield cartoons might as well be a Monty Python reference.
Yeah, remasters, no thanks.

Bowie apparently hated how Lets Dance (the song) turned out, I had a remastered album where it was replaced with some dire 1990's techno version.

And let's not forget probably the most common streaming flaw: internet outages.
Omg, thank you. Somehow I'd missed that setting.
Like they were for years, in fact!
the latest ipad pro is still on the A12Z bionic. the air just got refreshed with the A14 bionic
If we fix it and remove the fluff words it becomes:

"Today it's almost obvious to state that good written communication creates a business advantage."

Why, it wasn't obvious yesterday? Or 20 years ago? And why "almost"? Own up to your sentence, damnit!

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"Well-written communication is a business advantage".
The A14 Air just came out and has a brand new CPU. The Pros have much fancier displays, lower pen latency, etc. Subjectively, in most typical use, the Pros already feel like they have more available cycles than iOS apps have got around to soaking up.