skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that graph added 7-day averaging because the reporting numbers bounce around on weekend boundaries, which was leading to a lot of confusion.

Whether there's 1-day or n-day averaging, exponential growth is the scary beast.
I suspect HP/Lenovo/Microsoft are squirming in their chairs right now.
> But the reason this is lasting so long...

Masks and social distancing and banning birthday parties are not about speeding up or ending the pandemic but slowing it down (to minimize deaths) until a vaccine is ready. This is what 'flattening the curve' is all about.

It's also weird to see Canada among your success stories. Their 'worst of it' is right now.

We're fighting with misinformation alright.
>From what I've seen, South Dakota is nearly out of ICU beds

Do you have a source for this?
Same here! If you don’t have a working Mac, buy a refurbished Mac, save money, and wait a couple cycles for the next Mac.

I plan on waiting a little bit to let the chips and MacOS’s arm ecosystem mature.
It's a radical decision yes, but also so very Apple-like. And I wonder how much of this wild architecture change is also behind the improved performance here.
If you have enough kids it's kinda a sink or swim moment: you learn to tune it out or go crazy. We have twin 2 year olds and a 5 year old. There's been periods of time where there's crying (by at least one of them) for most of the day. When you're 1 on 3 at these sorts of ages it's inevitable. When 1 starts crying in the car and the other 2 start crying because the crying is too loud, there's not much you can do but laugh about it.

Take solace in the fact that kids cry over ridiculous stuff. For 20 minutes. Because, for example, you peeled their orange for them.
And they still end up with low single digit profit margins, which means with even more returns, they'd have to try to get even more gross margin.

Best Buy gross margins are 22%, but their net margin is 3.75%. In a good quarter.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/BBY/best-buy/gross...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/BBY/best-buy/net-p...
depends how you're looking at it:

if what you care is your edit-compile-run cycle, what matters is how long does it take to compile it to the architecture where you'll actually run the app, which for interactive builds where speed matters most is supposedly your local machine.
The CPU gains on ARM have been increasing consistently year over year for the past decade. People have posted benchmarks of the A11/ A12/ A13 versus Intel for a while so this has been pretty obvious. It's just surfacing because suddenly we have a desktop CPU with desktop software like compilers and other things where it's more obvious outside of benchmark tools.

Apple is just jumping onto their existing ARM track, once they migrate their product line, which has surpassed Intel. Once they've migrated all their lines to ARM, the performance gains will be more like they have been on the iPhone/ iPad over the past few years. Mostly 20-30%/ year.
What would be the advantage of that? Saving a few CPU cycles, maybe?
My guess is that they are releasing the M1 right now because it's the smallest SoC they're going to make and its yields are just barely enough to be viable. Once they get better yields on the 5nm process, they will start making the larger, more yield-sensitive SoCs with more RAM in them.
The interesting information after which time the air was throttled and how much performance is lost when throttling.
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Have you ever played with Magit? It’s an emacs front end for git that is utterly amazing. Works great with evil-mode if you prefer vim bindings.
One of the most important things I feel is to make your child ready for the real world (and not only in terms of education, values, profession, etc) but more from mental make-up:

1. How to handle success

2. Dealing with failures
In my experience, P4 is simply hard. Maybe my introductions were rubbish, but I’ve found it difficult in its own right.
The property owner does not track you. You can pay your $2000/month and not be tracked.

It is when you choose to have a pizza delivered to you, or a package sent to you by third parties that hidden cameras overlooking your bed, your kitchen, and your toilet, may be used.

The camera is also specifically designed so that it cannot be used to track you across other buildings, but only for limited cases by one vendor.
I respect your choice; I suggest that you may try doing the same for people putting their kids in cribs instead of calling it weird and Victorian - because studies show it to reduce infant deaths; and it is practiced widely across the World, not just Victorian England. It is not weird for a parent to choose something that is shown to be safer for their infant. Again, I respect co-sleeping too; you had a queen just for baby and momma, and seem to be attentive and amazing parents. Some parents may be heavier sleepers though! I think there are many ways to be a good parent. Different room is also associated with higher risk though in the first 6 months ~ ideally crib is in a room with a parent.
>Heading through Vegas, Utah

>When I say no fucks were given - I mean that pretty much no one around me cared about wearing a mask, social distancing, etc

Good to hear, plan to visit these places soon. The risk is worth it.
I have family in rural Wisconsin and she wanted to buy masks and couldn't even find anywhere local to buy some. I ended up buying her a bunch in California and shipping them to her.
We'll buy what we want. No exceptions.

(I mean, I get the point, and I agree, but I don't like people assuming they know better than everybody else what kind of compromises make sense for them)
I just looked at it. I feel like I would have much preferred they put the e-Ink on the back side of the LCD screen instead of replacing the keyboard. It's really hard to use a non-tactile keyboard for any productivity.
Are you claiming that A1 is in the same category as M1?

If so... then Intel's latest chip generations should be traced back to 8088 in 1979.
My wife and I are working from home and raising our 6 month old daughter, and the -only- distraction that brings me to a grinding halt is my daughter's crying. Even with noise-cancelling headphones, if I hear any crying at all I feel an incredible emotional reaction that totally prevents me from focusing on work until she's calm and happy again. I'm also glad to read that there's a natural (hormonal?) explanation for the disproportionate effect that her crying has on me.
>> Please rethink the hostility towards donating to Mozilla Foundation

Once Mozilla rethink;s its hostility to its user base maybe the user base will rethink its hostility towards Mozilla

Mozilla left us, we did not leave Mozilla
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I don't know about Rust, but when compiling some Swift + ObjC code on a DTK, the target architecture made very little difference.
They mean fans as in the spinning plasticky thing that goes vroom
Maybe the memory controller could handle this, spilling onto the slower memory, much like swapping.
Yes, Digger generates TF files and stores it in the dedicated "main" repository, separately for each environment. You can tweak these files directly, or override the defaults in the templates. So unlike black-box PaaS you retain full control of the infrastructure, Digger just makes this complexity optional.
> It's not my case. It's summary of ROC/PRC argument, which predates others and had garnered major international support in a time when these disputes had no geopolitical relevance.

This is what I don't agree with. It seems you were referring to those treaties to show that the world accepted China's argument. But I don't see the evidence of that; at most they were just non-committal.

Of course it matters how good their argument is – if it was stronger than enough countries would be interested in maintaining stable international order to back them up.
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Tuxedo Computing and Slimbook both sell Ryzen 4800H computers that will outperform the M1 in heavy multithreaded workloads and come with Linux preinstalled. These laptops aren’t quite as slick as the MBP but weigh in at 1.5kg, have huge 91Wh batteries…

1. You're not going to get 20 hours of battery life.

2. Don't forget it's not just the M1—it's the unified memory, the 8 GPU cores and the 16-core Neural Engine. Most CPU and GPU-intensive apps are going to run faster on the M1 than on your machine. Even x86-64 apps using Rosetta 2 on an M1 Mac may run faster, since those apps are translated to native code on the M1.

3. Mac's SSD is probably faster; it's essentially a 256GB cache for the processor.

4. The Mac can run iOS/iPadOS apps too.

5. If done right, Linux compiled for the M1 will likely run faster on an M1 Mac than it does on a machine like yours, especially if Apple provides a way to access certain hardware features.

We’ll have to see what happens but expect these machines to be pretty popular with users, even those who need to run Linux when that the distros are updated.

We shouldn't forget that the underpinnings to all of this is Darwin, the BSD-derived Unix layer which is already running natively on M1, including the compiler and the rest of the toolchain.
I have been a bit disappointed as well, something like a couple of days to get to 50% battery. I do use it pretty heavily though, pretty much taking notes all day and reading an hour of two as well
It's actually the state governments that's at fault here. Not the specifically the people. Let me tell you I was in back-country Oregon recently, some of the MOST republican places within Oregon, not going to name drop the county. Anyway, the Oregon state government is very much democratic (cause you know Portland). But because of that, even the republican counties are under a mask order. And the extremely red counties, people are actually wearing masks all over the place. Grocery stores even are employing someone to just stand there and either hand a cheapy surg. mask or tell them to put one on.

So what I'm saying is that regardless of what people WANT to do, the state has the power and push to get people to do it. And this is why we need Biden in office yesterday.
The same logic they already use for L1/L2 caching, and/or VM could pretty easily be adapted.
Do you have the RM1 or the new RM2? apparently the input lag on the RM2 is very low.
I read your comment and thought of the Big Sur QuickTime icon...
Can confirm, at least anecdotally. As someone who runs a website but doesn't have nearly enough time to do everything he wants to do, upgrading to UTF-8 (and specifically utf8mb4) was never a priority - until my users starting using emojis and breaking things left, right and center.
One benefit of frequent commits is that it allows you to go back to a recent commit in case your code gets screwed up and you want to undo some recent changes. For example, if you do a search/replace in hundreds of files and make a mistake.
> install Python 3.6 alongside 3.9 in MacOSX .... right now, and it's not a one line command

To be fair, that's not easy on any OS (well, maybe Windows). Certainly on CentOS it is a chore to get two versions of Python installed simultaneously.
Also Arkansas is getting into the swing of things. https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/northwest-arkan...
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Very sad account and I feel terrible for those people - not only because dying from COVID is a terrible way to go, but also because had they followed proper mitigating strategies, many could have evaded infection.

Question that should be raised, but won't, is why so many people choose to not only disbelieve traditional authoritative sources, like public health officials and mainstream news, but worse, think they are actively being lied to. The standard answer is 'fake news' but that's putting cart before the horse. Maybe the distrust comes first, and once those authoritative sources are gone, 'fake news' is what fills the vacuum.

Look at it from the perspective of a regular mainstream conservative: Mainstream news during 8 years of the Obama presidency had them do minimal work on holding the administration to account, and then promptly ramp up to 11 against the Trump administration - with much of the coverage being outright lies (like the Steele document, which was actual Russian misinformation paid for by Hillary Campaign, and used as a basis for investigating a presidential campaign, and even purposely misinterpreting statements, like when Trump called cartels 'animals' and news promptly decided that this was a slur against regular Mexican-Americans).

None of major news networks had open Trump supporters on staff, and actively shielded Biden and Democrats from any criticism. At the same time, those same outlets were/are pushing social networks to ban conservative outlets and label mainstream conservatives as bigots and attack them when they speak on collage campuses. Similarly, public health and government officials either ignored, or actively encouraged large scale anti-racism protests in the middle of the pandemic, while cracking down on Orthodox Jews who attended synagogue, or accosted people who visited their families for holidays (meanwhile officials like mayors of New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, as well as Speaker Pelosi, and Gov. Newson, openly flaunted lockdown rules and refused to even apologize for it when caught ... because rules only apply to the others).

But this mistrust will be attributed to conservatives, Russian misinformation and fake news, because that's easy.
The delusion of the left is that central planning and control will prevent the spread of the virus. That's not exactly wrong -- it just has to be the level of government control that China has. A lot of Americans, myself included, won't tolerate that. (And for the record, I wear a mask.)
I did it myself for fun while I was in high-school, it's quite a trivial thing actually.

Just need to be on the same network as the victim and do some ARP spoofing to make your computer the gateway for that network.
Glad I used an old fashioned Honeywell for my core home security alarm and did the smart cameras on a separate system.
The basis most people provide is either an inaccurate or incomplete understanding of the rights given to US citizens by the Constitution of the United States, unfortunately.
What uses most of your ram when you need 16GB+?
To choose not to wear a mask is not like your other examples, because it increases not only the risk to yourself, but to those around you.

I don't necessarily think your posts should be getting flagged, but you seem to be arguing in bad faith.
> Out of curiosity, what is your basis for wearing a mask?

Protecting those around me if I happen to be carrying but asymptomatic. If it reduces the chances of spreading the disease by even 1% then it's worth a slight inconvenience to help keep my fellow humans safe.

IMO, being willing to accept a minor inconvenience for the betterment of the population as whole is a key facet of being a functioning member of society.
I think we should look at the case rate for measuring outbreaks, instead of the death rate. I wouldn't say "outsized", but the US' incidence rate is above most developed nations'.

Also, I didn't know that Austria and Switzerland were having such a problem.

https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=fra&are...
> Their machines are still far more expensive than Windows

Previous criticism was that you could get an equivalently powerful Windows device for cheaper from other manufacturers - This likely tips the scale and means that these Macbooks are very competitively priced considering their performance.

Then on top of that, you get battery life and build quality that runs circles around the closest competitor - so it does represent a really compelling offer on paper.
I'm just about to buy an X1 Carbon on Black Friday. I really dont want a MacBook air, but the screen and M1 speed/batt seem too good.

Maybe I should just wait. Ryzens will hopefully be coming more steadily next year and Intel should be cutting prices. 2021 is going to be a good year for hardware.
I noticed that the Supreme Court justices did that, in the Oracle vs Google hearing.
While this is true, it is surprising that is it impossible to engineer a system to be complete and consistent about arithmetic, as opposed to systems which are not engineered well, like your 2nd paragraph.

If I take "1 is even", "1 is odd" and "no number can be even and odd" as my axioms, then there is obviously a problem, but of my own doing.
Every modern general purpose computer already has multiple layers of memory. This would just be an additional layer. The virtual memory subsystems in the OS will handle this. At the end of the day it's just caches all the way down. A workstation with 16GiB of "on-chip" memory would be like a huge L4 cache for the say 512GiB of "standard" DDR4.

I really like OSTEP's chapters on virtual memory if you're interested in reading more[1].

[1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/vm-complete.pdf
This is the Apple equivalent of a Tesla showing up and out competing much more expensive cars on the performance. It feels like a huge disruption and probably Apple’s chance to gain significant PC market share.
True, but the term ‘magic cookie’ is not the term we use today. If you said magic cookie I’d know you were using the historical term. I’m old enough to remember but most people here are not.
Meanwhile, here I am in the "anarchist jurisdiction" of Seattle and 90%+ of the people I see are wearing masks, socially distancing, and taking the scientific authorities seriously.
> For example, by criticizing Trump on his COVID-19 plan, you are basically encouraging his base to resist whatever needs to be done (wear masks).

So if his plan was to drink bleach, we should say "yeah that sounds good" because we don't want to alienate his fans?
This reminds me a lot of the coaching given by the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress. That actually did help me become a better writer as I blogged, but I really think this methodology is limited.

PERFECT Grammar is optional.
(edited from "Grammar is optional" because people didn't recognize the hyperbole. My bad)

Sure, you have to have the basic grammar that everyone understands so that your writing can be understood. Beyond that, style takes over. I learned this from a newspaper columnist years ago. He didn't follow the Exact Rules. He made up some of his own, and his writing was better for it!

And so it is with me. I write to be understood and hopefully easy to read, and maybe, just maybe, be entertaining. Grammar is only part of the equation for me.

So what do I tell people? Use these tools (Grammarly, Hemmingway, etc) to become a better writer, and when you feel like you've met your goal, toss them. They're good for the purpose, but will limit you in the long run.
Yes. The best-known exception is IBM's recent(-ish) power processors, which use large eDRAM as a last-level cache. As far as I know, there's no widespread use of eDRAM on processors smaller than 14 nm.
Ah, that would make sense. I've been getting frustrated at the "both sides" talking point, as it frequently comes up when discussing superficial similarities, and misinterpreted your comment.
What. Things come down because of gravity, not because the pretense of an atmosphere.

Presumably the stuff required to move stuff to make the scope will disturb at least some sand
Isn't fast on-die/on-package (not sure either) memory access a key factor for Apple's gigantic performance leap, though? With memory pre-soldered on small notebooks for years now, it's not much of a difference for consumers anyway once more than 16GB becomes available.
It's $99 and it's not a gatekeeper to anything. People who need the developer program subscription easily make multiple of it each month even in the poorest countries. You only need it if you are going to distribute apps through Apple AppStore, you don't need it for anything else.
My Remarkable 2 is on its way. Can't wait to try out some of these tools!
Honestly I don't mind. I was not commenting on the quality of the post, neither was the typo that much of an issue. I have seen people from Anandtech active in the hackernews and I just this is a good way of reaching them and letting them know something trivial with their posts.
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You can never have enough ram!
> (And it does not have to be something separate than Git. It should maybe be just a really powerful abstraction built on top of Git.)

GitHub drooling now that their extinguish end-game will actively be welcomed by the community.
Well, if you're switching branches, you already have problems with a dirty worktree. Also, pulling can actually mean rebasing (I always use pull --rebase).
In addition to Swing also Qt and Gtk spent a lot of effort on this. Not to mention browsers reimplementing look and feel of native controls (not sure if they're still doing it). So it was wider than HN definitely. Other toolkits took the native route from the other direction (eg wxWdigets I think embeds the actual native widgets?).
> Would you care to explain why?

I'm not sure if my explanation would be fruitful here. I realise most people on HackerNews likely disagree with me on these issues. I am not here to convince people of my views on these issues. I respect anyones opinions on these matters.

But since you asked, in short:

- I really don't believe COVID-19 is as dangerous as is projected in the media

- I believe the human influence on climate change is much less than what most people tend to believe

My views are based on my own research on these issues.

If you'd asked me what issues I'm worried about, it's issues like pollution in the general sense (e.g. like plastics in the sea) or human population growth.
Just watch it. @furyofantares is pretty much spot on here.
> I do believe that this is a minority position. Most people don't care about closed ecosystems

You're absolutely right. I bought my first MacBook Pro (17") in 2007 (and it's still running at my parents' house!) Over time all the machines in the house save my work/gaming rig have been replaced by Macs (iMacs, MBP, 12" MB, etc.)

Now I plan on reversing course. I'll keep my iPhone for now because everyone in the family lives in the blue bubbles (iMessage.)
macos already has capabilities for compressing memory used by applications before finally giving up and paging it out. It seems plausible they could extend the code that supports that feature to push memory to external (or allocate it there in the first place if utilization isn't expected to be hot), and only pull it back after utilization indicates there is a benefit.
Check your local branch and the associated remote branch in your git log.

If the remote branch is an ancestor of your local branch, you have some commits that haven't been pushed yet and you can "play" with them.

If the remote branch and the local branch point to the same, you can't rebase without potentially impacting someone else.

If the remote branch and the local branch have diverged, it's already too late.
Is that about the community supported stuff that got moved out because nobody maintained it?
I have toned this down, thank you.
Hemingway App is amazing and everyone should use it. I’ve been using it to edit my blog posts for... 5 years? 10 years? As long as I can remember.

That doesn’t mean you should take all Hemingway App suggestions. It sometimes struggles with technical writing. It’s ok to ignore some suggestions.

But use the app. I am 100% confident your writing will be better because of it.
Yes, companies have ways to do this with a decent amount of precision and accuracy based on existing user behaviors. They can often even be detailed enough to know that LTV differs depending on the channel that the customer was acquired by (e.g. organic vs. Facebook ads vs. search ads) and tailor their ad spend accordingly.

I don't know what AirBnB's numbers are, companies aren't required to disclose this and they guard it very closely :)