skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The media" and "social media" may not be controlled by a single actor, but it's common knowledge that large enough chunks of both can be and often are.

For example, the conspiracy theory that Russia rigged the 2016 election for Trump is based on this premise.

There is also a widely-accepted partisan divide between the encumbent news sources on the left, and Fox and newer so-called "fringe" or "alt" news sources on the right. These in fact aren't correctly fringe or alt - at least in the US - as clearly very close to or more than half of the US population for the past decade has indicated they have political beliefs aligned with them.

It's therefore as disingenuous to attempt to delegitimize "alt right" media by referring to it thusly, just as it may br for right-leaning media to do the same by referring to the left as "fake news". With this example, both sides are behaving in uniform ways exactly typical of unified, single-actor control, respective to each.

If the Russian conspiracy is true, the premise that single-actor control is possible is accepted, as it therefore happened with enough force to alter a major an election. If it isn't, then half of the US is legitimately right-leaning, making the labelling of their mainstream news sources as "fringe" or "alt" or "extreme" indeed tantamount to "fake news".

Either way, it's mistaken to believe it impossible for the control of single actor to be enacted upon a large enough portion of the media to achieve widespread adoption of their agenda.

In effect, your last paragraph directly contradicts your first.
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I bet there were people like you back when slavery was legal.

If you don't like slavery, just don't buy slaves. Nothing wrong with that, right?
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I don't understand why exerting better control over hardware + software would mean we are being duped. A more cohesive experience provided by Apple can only be a win for them and their customers.
I recently learnt that yoiu can purchase modded versions of this classic Casio:

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They can be configured to boot other operating systems, see https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/macos-recovery-a-ma....
I've seen this before with crows, squirrels, cigarette butts for example. But my thought is always; how do I prevent one hundred pigeons from descending on this feeder?

Because that's all I see in the city where I live, pigeons, pigeons, and more pigeons.

Sure there are corvids too, seagulls of course near the sea, but if any food is outside pigeons will flock to this spot.

I guess magpies are one of the few birds that can figure out how to get the actual food so the others won't bother.

But I assume there's a training stage where you actually have to teach the magpies about the food by leaving some out for them.
> That's complete and utter conspiracy nonsense because control implicates intentions, but the media - and especially social media - are not directed by a uniform actor with intentions.

Not from the systems perspective, it doesn't. It requires a set point, an ability to measure deviation from that set point, and an ability to influence a factor that can reduce said deviation.

It's not a conspiracy theory to observe that news publishing is first and foremost a for-profit enterprise. That the primary, overriding goal of any private news agency is making money to survive and pay its owners. It's not a conspiracy theory to observe that news publishing is controlled to maximize that primary goal. It's also not a conspiracy theory to notice that people's behavior is influenced by the news - and here you have all the components you need for a feedback control loop.

If you notice that ad-based revenue model makes media profits proportional to "engagement", and that fear and hatred are some of the most strong emotions out there, you arrive at the reason why news publishing is trying to turn everyone into afraid, hateful bigots. It's how they make money. There's no conspiracy theory involved, just free market at work.

That there's no single actor with intentions and explicit goals - it only makes the phenomenon more robust.
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I can't make sense of what you're saying. All voting/moderation systems are flawed one way or the other, but what's the alternative?

The only I can think of is complete anarchy and no moderation at all, and I know that some people think that it's the solution, but spending a few hours on 4chan or some other "free speech maximalist" forum should tell you that it doesn't usually generate very high quality discussion. Outrageous "loud" takes take over and more nuanced and developed arguments get buried.

I really don't believe "they" are feeding us anything. "They" is "us", all it takes is some self discipline if you're unhappy with your exchanges online. I never had a Twitter account, never browse the website, yet I live. Crazy, I know.
> However, that marginal improvement hardly seems worth upsetting the entire Mac OS developer and consumer software ecosystem.

Really? This entire article is really dismissive, but this line especially struck me. I'm not convinced the M1 chip is some strange alien tech bypassing the laws of physics, but it seems clearly superior at its specific niche (single processes with an emphasis on low power usage, using fewer cores but massive L1I and L1D caches with a shared L2 cache).

Architecturally it looks like they're sacrificing expandability and raw multiprocessing power (like massively parallel database server multiprocessing) for a single minded focus on laptop chips. Why would it be surprising it'd excel in that domain?

The author also makes the confusing suggestion that M1 is a ploy to get developers to publish to the App Store because ... Xcode produces fat mach-o's? Maybe I'm an idiot here, but all those third party apps are also made with xcode. Where is the correlation with the app store? Sure, apple has been pushing the app store, but how does "apple silicon" specifically push devs there?

If there's anything apple has done to discourage 3rd party distribution, it's through Gatekeeper and strictly requiring notorized executables. If they wanted to make non app store distribution even less appealing, they could only allow notorization through the app store, or change the default to "only app store" ... Oh wait, they did that. On Intel.

Apple has always had complete platform control. They've done a lot of crappy things -- but this article tries to dismiss the M1 for pretty absurd reasons IMO.
I got the iPad from work when it was replaced after going out of service after 3 years. I had my apple account set on it, but initially it was activated with the work address. Now it's under "Activation lock" unless I input my old address and password.

It says "This iPad is linked to an Apple ID. Enter the Apple ID and password used to set up this iPad"

Obviously I don't have the receipt.
Reminds me of various attempts to store video on vinyl, some analog, some digital.

For example http://vinylvideo.supersense.com/
and this demo https://www.youtube.com/embed/Okdh7I06jFM
(This one must be digital.)
Profound effect of a one-time 50bpps fee on mortgage refis between $125K and around $510K (whatever the conforming loan limit is in your area)? That’s maybe $2000 on average and that for someone who’s probably living in a $600K+ home.

How many hours would you spend watching and fretting about the news to avoid this (and similar) couple thousand dollar “profound effects”? You’d probably be better off learning to change your own brakes or do some other part of home maintenance. Financially, time-wise, and mentally.
How many years will it take before an Apple competitor can make an ARM ISA SoC that is anywhere near "x86-64 high end" performance? Is anyone trying currently?
I believe that that blog post indicates that Google uses custom HSMs to do the backup pin check to access the actual backup encryption key, ruling out the likelihood (but not possibility) that Google is able to casually decrypt the data.

Google writes and signs the firmware for the Titan HSMs in question, though. I would be surprised if it is actually 100% technically impossible for Google to decrypt backups.
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Problems is in this country the Republicans belive the nature of government is incompetent and so they cut it. Democrats believe that government is competent at whatever and doesn't care about waste. Either way you lose giving government more as nobody is ensuring that money doesn't go to waste.
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Pfizer are also working on a lyophilised, aka freeze-dried, version of their vaccine, which would not need to be stored at -80 C. This is from July [1], not sure if there is any more news:

> But we also hope to have, as we always do in life cycle management, a new lyophilized formulated vaccine by -- within maybe a year after initial delivery such as fourth quarter 2021 and the lyophilized formulation could be stored in refrigerator.

[1] https://s21.q4cdn.com/317678438/files/PFE-USQ_Transcript_202...
TIL. All I ever remember hearing about was that it was determined that the vehicles were NOT at fault and Toyota was exonerated. Sad that the follow on investigations wasn't as widely reported on, or at least I missed them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration
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> That's complete and utter conspiracy nonsense because control implicates intentions, but the media - and especially social media - are not directed by a uniform actor with intentions.

In most places the media landscape is a oligopoly [0], even social media doesn't evade that pitfall, only a handful of companies dominate that whole space.

And while on social media these companies are not always supplying the content, they are very much the gatekeepers about what kind of content is allowed in the first place and what content they aggregate to whom [1].

That is a very powerful position to be in and the results can be observed for years already with filter bubbles based on extremely warped Overton windows and an increasingly centralized world wide web [2]

Giving all kinds of media a blank pass, as not doing so would allegedly be fascism, just trivializes a very real problem.

[0] https://youtu.be/ZggCipbiHwE

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-29/the-germa...

[2] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...
>Seems like a weird take to me. Is it legal to have a camera on your house pointing at the street?

In some countries, yes. It is illegal to point a camera at a public place without alerting people that there is a camera there.

Here in Sweden our version of the FCC (I gues, PTS) have actually written permission to apartment owners that they're allowed to have peep hole cameras in their doors. For example a lot of senior citizens have this so they don't have to get up to see who's at the door.

So that was an exception they had to make because otherwise you're not allowed to point a camera at a public place willy nilly.
Welcome to the EU.
Although there is still lots of stuff going on that is 'technically' illegal
BioNTech/Pfizer plan to deliver 50 million doses by the end of the year.

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...
Shouldn't you rather continue working to make sure that if such a destiny awaits you, you have enough money to at least buy yourself some comfort? If he wasn't a former successful actor, he couldn't afford "to move around" in his condition.
This goes via the phone network and not Googles servers, so you have to ask that question to your phone number provider and not Google.
With Arm, maybe Hackintoshes that will be worth it (for VMs at least) will be possible in the future. If Windows 10 on Arm succeeds... to make that hardware widely available. SBCs do not count.

(there's technically nothing preventing you of running macOS arm64 on non-Apple hardware in a VM)
With Chinese and Russian operatives creeping into every wifi router on the globe IoT security becomes an actual issue of national security with only political downside for not addressing it. Clap, clap, clap.
There's also effekt for Scala: https://github.com/b-studios/scala-effekt though it does not seem to be maintained.
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> but it should be illegal to run any kind of analytics that involves personal data and even

This is never going to be fully possible. Companies will just move to analyzing people's posts and communications to extract their preferences (and, predictably, they 'll stop offering encrypted messaging for this reason). Let's just admit that as long as advertising and manipulation are necessary evils, business is going to keep making money from that data
>But for the deadly virus you interpret the lack sufficient evidence on children as no risk, for the vaccine as as a sign of risk. How do you justify that inconsistency?

Not the person you're replying to, but looking at similar viruses, there's basically never been a flu-like virus that has no short-term symptoms but serious long-term symptoms, however there have been rushed vaccines that had serious long-term symptoms.
I like the novelty but since the introduction of calculators, memorizing tricks like these are a net loss.
A CPU article not even mentioning AMD (which has made some great improvements to stay competitive with M1) seems lacking and just a clear puff piece.

We've seen major industry improvements this year just due to fabs - nVidia Ampere, AMDs new Zen3 and RDNA, et. al. This article ignores all of that by just doing comparison to Intel which is clearly struggling to compete.

It also assumes ARM is the only way to go which is far from clear at this point.
I have a brass set, maybe because I wasn't born in Sweden.
How long until we see Apple Silicon in the data center? More performance with fewer watts must be incredibly attractive for all cloud providers.
I wonder if this ahead-of-time cross-compilation is a way of avoiding licensing issues?
It seems like one cannot just make x86 CPU without Intel's agreement, but I couldn't find a source explaining this well. I also can't see why someone cannot do a clean room implementation of the instruction set. Some people wrote to me that it may be to do with patents on some instructions, but I wonder how valid such patents are if they describe an obvious way to do a certain thing (I have not seen the patents, so this is my speculation only).
My typical automation that is cumbersome with YAML is with RF433 switches. I have plenty of wall switches (say - 20) that emit a signal AAAAAABBBBBB, I am only interested in the BBBBB part, and then I need to match this with an action.

Sometimes (usually) this is a toggle, sometimes a on, sometimes an off, sometimes something else.

This is easy to do in Python (the list if kept as a dict with actions, there are three lines, one for each action), but gets very verbose with YAML.
The funniest part of the last 4 years is Democrats defending the CIA.
This has been downvoted, but it's absolutely true - see the table here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine#Effectivenes...

The best effectiveness of a flu vaccine in the US since 2004 was 60%.
Never owned an Apple product and generally don't have too great of an opinion of this ecosystem.

But the M1 MacBook Air is perhaps the first Apple product that really caught my attention. A fan-less (without overheating issues) ultrabook with crazy batter life outperforming every comparable offering out there for $1,000. Pretty much the best deal on the market, unless you have specific issues with it. Which in my case is the keyboard. And general dislike of the ecosystem, but I already see it as completely locked down, this one being more so doesn't change anything for me. If it had a trackpoint and a few more keys I would get it despite hating the platform.
I think you should check the meaning of "cargo cult".
> we add two tablespoons of olive oil", and it looks like they pour much more than that

I saw that on cooking shows often, I guess it is cooking by a feel instead of following the exact measurements. For some things it doesn't really matter.
Live virus doesn't really cause symptoms as such, although they evolve to take advantage of it. The virus is basically re-purposing then melting a bunch of cells. The body's immune response is killing the viral structures and turning whole areas into the cellular equivalent of a battleground, killing off anything that is or is likely to be controlled by the virus.

Many of the worst symptoms aren't related to the presence or absence of the virus itself. If someone is turning blue from lack of oxygen, it isn't that the virus is doing anything here and now. It is that their lungs are non-functional from damage that the virus already did (note: past tense). You could remove every trace of active coronavirus from them and while they'd probably not get worse they also wouldn't get better very quickly. New lungs don't grow overnight.
It's not so much the cost, it's also the delay. At a 5% cost of capital, and a 10 year lag between R&D and final approval, your real cash flows are 40% lower due to the delay. At a 10% cost of capital, they are 60% lower. Sales also take several additional years to ramp up.

This doesn't apply so much to Covid vaccines, as the time frame is accelerated and demand is already high.
Why does it have to be ARM? It seems way more likely that AMD will continue improving their Zen x86-64 cores to stay within the envelope. Their improvements have been very notable as well and the M1 doesn't humiliate Zen3s in the same way it does anything that Intel built.
I consider myself a tech person and was immediately intrigued by the claims. Because I thought Apple could do it. And, after getting the Mac Mini in my hands as the only Apple computer in the house, I can mostly confirm it is quite astounding.

Maybe adding to the mystique helped some sales from curious people; it would help explain why benchmarks have been kept quiet and vague for the most part, even though they are very impressive.

I’ve witnessed single core performance on this device that I have not seen before and likely would need overclocking to hit if it can be done. For some workloads, it’s truly something.

Even thinking about it, I do expect some of this move was about performance, especially performance per watt. I doubt any other mobile processor is holding a candle at the moment. The control grabs, I think, might be secondary.
It was an enthralling interview, thanks so much for doing it!

I've met folks who worked in Bell Labs and feel enormous envy for the opportunity they enjoyed by working there. Sadly, Bell Labs now seems like a distant, never-to-be-repeated experiment. There's so much intense focus these days on short-term ROI and responding to market pressures. Creativity and discovery very much take a back-seat to predictability and keeping the stock market "happy".

Are there modern-day places like Bell Labs? Or am I idealizing what it was like there?
> Today, similar pricing and innovation issues have reared their head with Intel.

I’d also add difficulties with coordinating releases.

It will still be difficult, but should become easier.
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Apple is about platform control.

Apple Silicon is about performance and efficiency.

A friendly, open-hardware Apple would have moved to their own chips too, though they'd have documented their GPU, and a walled-garden Apple without a competitive laptop chip would have locked the system down anyway, as, in fact, they were doing on Intel.
Is that a market they're willing to go after?
We don't for absolute certainty, but there's no reason to think there would be. Consider:

a) A virus that is known to cause severe disease in a significant proportion of people, including months-long serious health effects, hospitalisation and death.

b) A virus chosen because it doesn't causing any ill-effects in humans, modified to take on some non-harmful aspects of virus a) and found to not cause any significant harm in tens of thousands of people over several months.

Which is more likely to cause long-term side effects?
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How is that a dupe? A dupe would be if the M1 chip was worse than Intel. If Apple can design a chip for those constraints and Intel can't, it's Intel's fault and problem
As soon as you have kernel-level code execution ability you can "chainload" either u-boot or a Linux kernel directly. But yeah, the biggest problem will be the lack of documentation - for example the good old classic iPod had iPodLinux, but never got real traction.

The new M series? Probably Apple themselves will allow booting other OSes, but I would not count on any official support in getting stuff running.
I think its just that it works better for most applications, where you run them multiple times. JIT is going to be slower under emulation anyway. Also note that Rosetta uses the native libraries where available, so as soon as you call into say graphics libraries that is running native, not emulating.

(I believe most of the relevant patents just expired; they don't emulate the vector instructions that are newer).
Those butterfly keyboards are no longer shipped, they reverted to their prior designs.
Git has a really simple view of changes. That is, none. It just saves blobs. It doesn't really know what you commit. For example it doesn't know if commits are independent of each other.

Darcs was also from the 2000s but unfortunately not fast enough to compete with git.

If you want to see what a post-git VCS might look like, read this introduction to pijul, a VCS that is based on patches and not on blobs like git:

https://jneem.github.io/merging/
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Cheating in school/university makes you better equipped for being a dev
In ex-Soviet country Universities cheating is like an art form, its something we (at least in my University) used to be proud of.
It dawned on me that cheating and copying others work (adapting it to look like your own) is very similar to what i do now:
take code samples, solutions from the Stack Overflow etc. and adapt it to look like its the job that i have done.
I was pretty good at cheating and i think im pretty good at pretending to be a good Dev.
I wonder if anyone else had the same experience
(lack of) Scalability maybe ? it's not easy to get and act upon feedback from 500 million active users.
If the vaccines are for the same antigen (eg the spike protein), i would expect that to work fine. Your B cells don't care how the RNA encoding the proteins got into your cells, just what the protein looks like.

A caveat here is that different vaccines might use different versions or modifications of the spike protein, in which case it's possible they wouldn't boost each other. This feels unlikely, though, because i think that would also reduce their effectiveness against the real virus.