skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technology seems to swing like pendulum between running remote and running locally as technology evolves. Recently I purchased an RTX 3090, and between my Ryzen with 24 threads, and the 64 GB of memory I bought for a few hundred dollars it was really occuring to me how much power my PC has for really not that much money. I don't need to be spending so much cash on cloud services when my local machine has more than enough horses to do everything I need.

I think the M1 is one more force towards the pendulum swinging back. I suspect that as developers port applications to ARM people will rediscover the benefits of native installations as new software starts to take full advantage of this new hardware.
It does say this in the article:

>Dr Jessica Gardner, university librarian and director of library services since 2017, said: “My predecessors genuinely believed that what had happened was that these had been mis-shelved or misfiled and they took forward extensive searches over the years in that genuine belief.

>“Now we have completely reviewed as a new team what happened and come to a conclusion that that’s not a sufficient position or set of actions to take.”

The article goes on to say that "Cambridge University library has more than 130 miles (210km) of shelving", so it would have needed time to really think and consider the possibility that the notebooks have been stolen, I believe.
I always thought of it as anti-humour, which is a form of humour in and of itself. A lot of almost-joke scenes that just sort of stop without actually going anywhere.

I liked Garfield because it dead-panned things that otherwise would have been funny. Hated the television cartoon version though.
Video of SpinLaunch founders trying to pitch Hawaii residents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSSBARd5HhE
I'm surprised they didn't route the power and network cables down inside the legs instead of just being tied to the outside.
> "The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs. That was an error on our part. The microphone has never been on and is only activated when users specifically enable the option,"

Translation: We knew people wouldn't like it, so we "forgot" to list it on the tech specs.

I call BS. I had a printer once that advertised MANUAL DUPLEXING as a features. The marketing department wouldn't forget to list a piece of hardware that costed money as a feature unless they thought it devalued the product.

Google microphones in my house? No thanks.
I wonder how this compares to the GCP always free compute instance offering
You need the cardinality of the data stream to substantially exceed the value of the median; it's also the case that if the mean is very high compared to the range (or variance), you'd do better setting your initial guess to the first item.

I think, as you suggest, it's more fun to say "given my distribution x, what's a good statistic for the median and what are its properties?" than "what's a good general purpose technique for finding a median of any distribution subject to computational constraint y"
These are all really good points, but there's some nuance missing in this view. There is actually a fairly narrow slice of the financial world that you don't like, specifically central banking and fiat currency.

Currently, crypto traders are busy learning that all the rest of the financial world, including things like credit and financial derivatives (encapsulated in smart contracts), can still apply to cryptocurrencies.

Things like consumer credit and fractional reserve banking will show up in crypto soon (if they haven't already). It's just a matter of trusted entities offering specific smart contracts.

The one thing I really dislike about most crypto is the traceability: unless you use privacy coins (which themselves have dubious security claims), every transaction is 100% traceable.
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I want to find a trusted and reliable website that offers legit Path of Exile Currency? Any good suggestions? How about Eznpc PoE Currency trading site?
In spite of the HN headline, I'm glad the wiki page doesn't use the word "performant."

However, I was surprised that "performance" refers to compilation/editing speed rather than execution speed.
If rumors are to be believed, the next macbook generation is going to get a new body design and new screen, so will be 1st gen in a different, probably more severe sense. Makes it difficult to decide whether to just buy now.
it is annoying. as a reader, who cares about the last time someone else commented.

whatever, i found reddit better.
I think it's more a design pattern you see more with GC collected languages where people instantiate objects with pretty much every action and then let the the GC handle the mess afterward. Every function call involves first creating a parameters object, populating it, then forgetting about it immediately afterward.

I've seen this with java where the memory usage graph looks like a sawtooth, with 100s of MB being allocated and then freed up a couple of seconds later.
> In this context, "options" mean "options to fulfill the CCW licensing goal".

I think that is artificially closing the options.

Firstly, and most obviously - he could report the illegal activity by the sheriff and wait.

Secondly, he could sue, and ask the court order the licenses be granted immediately if there was a time-critical need.

There's probably other options available for relief too, and I'm pretty sure the Apple legal department could think of them!
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> If you simultaneously got rid of all the deductions, loopholes, etc and made it a true flat tax on all income, then it might work out that the effective rate of a flat tax policy could be more progressive than the results of our "progressive" tax policy.

Define "income"
Exactly. But at least pre-Big-Sur you could use Little Snitch to block Apple apps from sending things, but now that's no longer possible. :(
> In multi-threaded scenarios, power highly depends on the workload. In memory-heavy workloads where the CPU utilisation isn’t as high, we’re seeing 18W active power, going up to around 22W in average workloads, and peaking around 27W in compute heavy workloads. These figures are generally what you’d like to compare to “TDPs” of other platforms, although again to get an apples-to-apples comparison you’d need to further subtract some of the overhead as measured on the Mac mini here – my best guess would be a 20 to 24W range.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

So the Tiger Lake TDP is of multicore usage, not single core.
Every number carries special symbolism. It's all nonsense numerology.
> war that cost millions of lives

Not to show support for the invasion of Iraq, but it was a far cry from "millions of lives". https://www.iraqbodycount.org
The RAM limitation on the first gen M1s makes this claim a bit dubious.
My guess is that the team working on M1 is a non-overlapping set with the team working on macos releases
I do think it is too early to count out the competition. To be sure, the Air and 13" Pro are ultrabooks, and this seems to be a great fit for the great performance being extracted while sipping battery life.

On the other hand, it's not a foregone conclusion that higher performance systems will dominate the competition. For most Apple-focused users, this is a comparison between overheating Intel chips shoved into Macs, and these slick new M1 chips, and it's a no-brainer. And yes, the M1 does compete very well in several benchmarks on a per core/instruction per clock basis. But the higher end "many" core CPUs (especially outside the Intel universe cough AMD) with much higher TDP are still achieving much higher overall performance. Apple still has to catch up to them in those markets.

And for many people, right now Apple systems just are not an option. Not until all software and games run without issue. Software is a near certainty - games remain to be seen, but Apple has not prioritized them in the past. (And while the M1 integrated graphics are great, they are not at all competitive with existing dedicated graphics, and will not be suitable for replacing gaming systems.)
I don't mind an upgrade to better looking UIs on regular intervals, but functionality and ease of use should come first. And here there is pandering to the iOS crowd when a touch based interface makes no sense for an OS operated with a mouse and a keyboard.

But I suspect it is a consequence of the incessant screaming by all the hipsters and clueless morons that think iOS and macOS should be merged for no other reason than their belief in MORE is MORE. No LESS is MORE, and that is what Apple was built on.

So yeah I feel your pain even if I have a slightly different take on this. macOS should be primarily designed to be the ultimate OS for somebody using a mouse and keyboard. iOS should be optimized for touch. We don't need to merge these two world. That is what clueless MBA types of people think. Because all they can think of is things like "synergy effects"...
Maybe worth noting that while setting the initial estimate to the first element will help in a lot of cases, it will still fail catastrophically when you happen to get a small element in the beginning, which isn't all that unlikely (say if 1% of your data happens to be zero and the rest similar to before). I haven't researched it but I would imagine actually fixing the algorithm so that it succeeds with high probability in practical (but non-adversarial) cases may well be nontrivial.
I think they were using hyperbole to make a point.
Oh no, that's terrible. I really need to migrate, I guess. I was getting tired for paying for Google drive anyway. Onto someone elses family plan, I go.
All things considered, dating is easy for women.
Thank you. FYI your first scenario is dead on, I assumed that would be obvious.
I agree: this kind of thing is infuriating because it's such a slowdown to have to go touch the mouse and find the pointer on the screen. Really interrupts the workflow.
Agree that YAML is not really ideal for this case.

For other readers Argo does support 'Scripts' which means you can implement complex logic similar to Airflow if required but can be a bit clumsy: https://argoproj.github.io/argo/examples/#scripts-results

Additionally, I think we may see other layers on top of Argo in future that may abstract from the YAML similar to how Kubeflow uses Argo for the Kubeflow Pipelines capability: https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/components/pipelines/pipelines...
Maybe, but I think that would result in the supermodel looking ones still getting clobbered with requests while the majority of women get nothing.
> It’s not fashion.

For the most part, you are correct. Yes there are design trends, but that isn't the primary factor here. Staff designers have to justify their existence by making changes to established design patterns. They don't have to be good, just different.

Bonus points for following a public design trend, but so long as the visual diff is big enough, you get your pay check.
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Probably not very good, but the recent Ryzen offerings are still pretty strong, as is the very newest Intel stuff. See for example the 4900HS & 4800U on this Anandtech chart comparing spec2017 vs. the M1: https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph16252/119365.png

That's basically just sorted by power consumption. 4900HS is the most power used & fastest, followed by the ~22W M1 with all 8 cores loaded, then the 15W 4800U, and then the M1 with just the 4 bigs was last.
I bought my MBP for personal projects, in which I don't use Docker or any other virtualization-based tooling and I could live with 16GB RAM. I expect the kinks with things like Brew to be worked out in a matter of weeks. So I think these would do fine for my purposes
It's a lot better now. You should read on the history of owncloud/nextcloud to answer your proprietary questions, but the short verison is: nextcloud is open as can be and in really good shape. It will most likely never be quite as magic as Google Photos, but it's close enough to not miss GPhotos. Email me if you want to keep chatting about it or if you want to get a login to my intance to check it out :)
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Buying overpriced loss making investments is the fastest way to lose cash.
Because they would hire the person in hopes of new ideas.
This seems to just display top articles on a 1-dimensional spectrum.

I don't see how that's helpful or even justifies the service's name.

Wouldn't fact harvesting be more helpful and inclusive? Ditch the framing as much as possible and assert what happened.
That’s a very bleak worldview. If something doesn’t serve an immediate, obvious purpose, it is a waste and a drain on resources.
AFAIK the workspace switching animation can't be disabled.
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UI toolkits include "indeterminate" progress bars. Back before AJAX spinners (really, a simplified form of indeterminate progress bars) took over, they were a blob that bounced back and forth, or scrolled left to right repeatedly, within the progress bar's trough. Sometimes, a barber pole. The good ones would only advance the animation so long as actual progress was occurring, so that a hung system was indicated by a hung animation.

There's no reason to lie.
How do you know? If you have proof why have you not share that important piece of evidence with the authorities?
Let me know once internet service in the US compares favorably in cost and speed to internet service in South Korea.
> "At this point the spacecraft will be subjected to a peak force 10,000 times greater than Earth's gravity, something opponents believe will seriously affect its structural integrity and the safety of its complex electronics."

Centrifugal projectile weapons scale up poorly and have issues even at BB gun scale. Envisioning what happens with a 200lb projectile; leave aside the laughable velocities they're talking, and I want to be well distanced from these people when they power shit up.

I think this is a device for separating investors from money.
> [2N, 2N + 1, ..., 3N - 1]

This is practically the definition of monotonicity. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonic_function)

You should read the paper, it doesn't have the problems you think it has when used on real world data.
The better tinfoil hat question is how much did they intentionally sandbag the outgoing Intel models vs. how much was it a case that M1 was delayed? Such as the Intel MacBook Air whose fan wasn't even connected to anything? Was that bad design because it wasn't supposed to exist, or was that bad design intentional to help drive up the huge generation over generation gains?
yeah, but whats the fun in that.

As far as captcha, for the use case of just running on a local computer to buy one thing you could have it feed the user the captcha to solve over and over.
This is called uplifting, and it should be possible to do it in the 21st century by using genetic engineering to give creatures progressively bigger and better brains with each generation.

When a brain is of sufficient capacity for consciousness to emerge, we can begin to educate these sentients, and teach them all we know, leaving them to figure out how they can apply our knowledge to their perspective of the world, which is alien to us.

Octopus for instance may begin to construct tools that will allow for them to practice aquaculture and build more civilized social structures that move them away from hunter-gatherer lifestyles. When they are not farming, they could develop written language to record their history and debts. Surely if you checked back in tens of thousands of years you would find advanced cities and societies as complex as human ones, except entirely underwater with occasional structures breaking above the surface.

Other creatures like chimpanzees could be taught how to work with humans as a cheap form of labor, digging ditches or mining resources.
I'm clearly not articulating this well, so let me try to try another tactic.

The evolution of eukaryotes is based on the specific path that Earth went down. The combination of RNA, DNA, proteins, and other cellular chemical building blocks are a way that a cell could be constructed, but not the only possible way a cell could be constructed. For an extreme example, we could have non-carbon based life. If that is true, then all of our assumptions about what is scalable and what is not, based on our biochemistry simple cannot be trusted. So, looking at how long it took for something to develop on Earth tells us basically nothing about how long it would take to do that with this other biochemistry.
And Prince Andrew never fucked kids either. What's with you people defending kid fuckers? It's like you're projecting your own defense. Sick fuck.
> The new control center and notification center’s UI is so foreign from other parts of the macOS. It’s just… so custom.

Apparently it’s all SwiftUI, which makes it look strange and animate weirdly.
I didn't understand why the implementation wouldn't just do an atomic increment, but I guess Obj-C semantics provide too much magic to permit such a simple approach. The actual code, in addition to [presumably] not being inlined, does not seem easy to optimize at the hardware level: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation/blob/main...

The native Swift retain (swift_retain above) seems to be somewhere inside this mess: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/stdlib/public/runti...
It would be nice if they showed the queue length somewhere.
> If it was only down for a few hours then....

All depends how stuck they are.
There is work being done for native (AOT) Java deployments.
Of course it is. Our phones are intimately close to us. Physically, cognitively, socially and even emotionally. They may be the most widely-owned intimately-connected object humans have ever invented outside religion.

Artisans and their tools have been close for millennia. Every craftsman has been attached to their tools, even passed down generations, specially the good ones. But that's it. They're tools. In the end, they need to serve their purpose, or they're not.

If the OS is more masturbatory UI design exercise, and less tool experience, what's the point?
Spain "barely" makes it into Europe for most Americans. There is 0 chance for small central and eastern European countries.
The speedy providers are all jumping over each other to compete, now that the "gentlemen's agreement" between providers is no longer a thing... but they are cherry picking from people willing to pay and easily providing the service.

Seems like maybe 3 years ago when all the cable companies were able to compete without exclusivity by block?

In my condo building of 200+ units we have 5 providers now:
- Wave broadband cable
- Comcast cable
- Wave G (10Gbps connection to the building)
- Webpass Google Fiber (microwave to the building)
- CenturyLink (DSL maybe?)

The bummer is outside the high-rise towers, there is not much competition in the neighborhoods and single family homes it seems.
“A reference counting strategy would be more efficient in processor utilization compared to garbage collection as it does not need to perform processor intensive sweeps through memory identifying unreferenced objects. So reference counting trades memory for processor cycles.”

I think it’s the reverse.

Firstly, garbage collection (GC) doesn’t identify unreferenced objects, it identifies referenced objects (GC doesn’t collect garbage). That’s not just phrasing things differently, as it means that the amount of garbage isn’t a big factor in the time spent in garbage collection. That’s what makes GC (relatively) competitive, execution-time wise. However, it isn’t competitive in memory usage. There, consensus is that you need more memory for the same performance (https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf: with five times as much memory, an Appel-style generational collector with a non-copying mature space matches the performance of reachability-based explicit memory management. With only three times as much memory, the collector runs on average 17% slower than explicit memory management)

(That also explains why iPhones can do with so much less memory than phones running Android)

Secondly, the textbook implementation of reference counting (RC) in a multi-processor system is inefficient because modifying reference counts requires expensive atomic instructions.

Swift programs spend about 40% of their time modifying reference counts (http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/iacoma-papers/pact18.pdf)

So, reference counting gets better memory usage at the price of more atomic operations = less speed.

That last PDF describes a technique that doubles the speed of RC operations, decreasing that overhead to about 20-25%.

It wouldn’t surprise me if these new ARM macs use a similar technique to speed up RC operations.

It might also help that the memory model of ARM is weaker than that of x64, but I’m not sure that’s much of an advantage for keeping reference counts in sync across cores.
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The intelligence agencies repeatedly highlighted that the information was dubious at best.

The politically appointed heads of the intelligence agencies used this information to lie to the American public.
This algorithm basically works when the number of elements to compute the median for is at least as large as the true median, and you've a fairly normal distribution of element values.
emoji is both the singular and plural form of the word.
If arbitrage bots try to arbitrage between BTC-USDT and BTC-USD markets, and the USDT markets are the ones pushing the price up, then it's the arbitrage bots that would end up holding huge amounts of USDT. So what are they doing with it? They should mostly be trying to maintain equal holdings to handle arbitrage, so they would have to sell it on USDT-USD markets (or redeem it from Tether, if that's actually possible).

If the tethers are actually unbacked, then the USDT-USD markets should be dropping hard as arbitrageurs try to unload tether bags.
What does legible mean?
> While I'm sure a chemistry exists that supports vertical scaling 1000x beyond our own, it's not unreasonable to speculate that such genetic chemistry could be rare.

This is what I'm talking about. Your making an assumption and straight up saying it's an assumption, but not providing any evidence that this assumption is true. You make another analogy which may or may not apply. I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm not saying that you're right. I'm saying there is no possible way any of us can know at this point.
It’s paywalled - here’s the TLDR:

They are starting to raise at a reported valuation of $70-$100B, but no one has paid this yet, reporting is preliminary. Their last private valuation was $36B in April.

Saved you reading 500 words..
mmm... Doomsday Oreo... drool
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If he isn't targeting a group his odds are 5%. By hyper targetting those odds could be much higher

Randomly adding private ig profiles as a male probably has a 1-3% chance of success but as a good looking female that number probably jumps to 15%+. But if he was a goth had interesting goth photos that person will identify with him and add him.

Swiping everyone is just like emailing every company your resume. Spend sometime craft your profile and target who you want.

Want a ton more matches? Post a pic of your cat as your picture. Women may not find you interesting but many will want to meet your cat.
'Hollywood' in general is like this. All the film studios have real life people working in them and who have lives outside of their work. One of the reasons that Bel-Air, Beverly Hills, Malibu, etc. are what they have become is that they are a commutable distance to the studio lots. The same is then true of shooting locations in southern CA. The ability to go back home on the weekends/evenings (in the least) is very attractive as a shooting locale.