skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you've been able to edit high-res (haven't tried 8K but 4K and 6K been working fine) footage on commodity hardware (that costs way less than $5000) for... years, via editing software that supports operations via GPU (like DaVinci Resolve), you still think it's the best innovation in the tech industry? Add to it that the M1 is proprietary, only developed for one OS and one company, it feels less like innovation for the industry and more like Apple-specific innovation.

Also, the argument that only $5000 could edit high-res footage is false even without the invention of GPU editing. Proxy clips been around for as long as I've done video editing, even though the experience is worse, it's been possible to edit at reduced resolutions for a long time.
On lifesciences, R still wipes the floor to Python.
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>It is also funny to think that Trump, to my knowledge, did not engage in undercover or open military operations, whereas Obama, who passed for a dove certainly was not one.

Though he has yet to start a new war, he had drastically increased bombing and drone strikes leading to far more civilian deaths than Obama.
> All the devices he talks about are wifi-enabled. What are the implications of non-wifi non-internet e.g. Zigbee devices?

None, as nobody is using them? IKEA zigbee remote is probably the one and only thing ever I saw on sale, and everyday use, and even they, saying this knowing an inside source, want to eventually switch to WiFi only.
you're just proving his point.

knowing much about linguistics teaches you much about culture and/or the human cognition. knowing much about arts (including things like literature, music, etc.) teaches you things about the human condition, about history, about philosophy, ...

I see those as equally fundamental as scientific knowledge.
Well yes, they can easily suppress anti-government writing from Indian residents with credible threats of violence. This law is to protect the government from critics abroad where the Indian government cannot reach.
I know quite a few people in the U.S. who watch RT, a Russian state-controlled media operation. The pivot from backing the left fringe to the Trumpist right has been quite interesting.

Not affiliated with the bug tracker RT, in case you were wondering.
Isn't this just an elaborate way to screen potential candidates who Jane Street might like to hire? A bit like GCHQ running its semi-regular "solve this puzzle" competition.
It's not just "enthusiast PC builds". You can buy plenty of PCs in that middle category of high-but-not-extreme performance without the certifications, Quadros and vendor markup that a full-on "workstation" model has. And they're perfectly fine choices for many professional use cases.

For that market, the Mac Pro is overpriced (the high-end Dell/HP workstations are too), and Apple doesn't make anything more suited for it. That's the criticism. That the Mac Pro is acceptably priced compared to the Dell/HP workstations doesn't matter if that's not what you need.
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ASCII originated in 1963: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

It looks like the star notation for "zero or more" could originate in 1951 as the Kleene Star: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#CITEREFKl...

The wildcard use of the asterisk is at least as old as Unix, so probably pre-1970, but I can't find a reference in the time I am willing to spend.
"I’m writing this in December of 2020" :)
Wild false equivalency.

Markets don’t react to mere knowledge of them, like in your magical thought experiment.

Markets react to actions determined not by the knowledge itself but by discrete reactions to the knowledge called thoughts.

If economists hadn’t given up on knowledge oh about a century ago or so, we might not be so addicted to this pattern of spiraling anti-intellect.
We'll see about that (with respect to pixel density and efficiency). I'm typing this on a 4k xps 15, and while the display is great, the battery cost is extreme. There would be no meaningful advantage in an 8k-display of the same form factor, so there is far, far less incentive for manufacturers to race to 8k.

there will be 8k tvs, sure, but lets be real - the step to 1080p was massive, the step to 4k already couldn't fit in those shoes.
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So let it be. If there's a niche waiting to be filled, there are bound to be multiple attempts at that. The world would've been a better place without electron.
> Germany opened its borders at the height of the first Covid-19 wave to allow workers from Romania to come, when Romania was a hot bed for Covid-19.

Just a small correction, you've got your data the other way around. Early to mid April when Asparagus-Gate happened, Romania had at the very worst 500 new daily cases for a population of 19 million, while Germany regularly had 4-5000 for a population of 83 million.

So in essence Germany was a hotbed.
Wow the Smithsonian Magazine has resorted to reposting Quora answers.
I like this term "cognitive niche" a lot. The term "Evolutionary winning strategies" kind of implies an ordering, as if there was only one winner in the grand scheme of things. Humanity may seem like the apex predator on Earth but we live just where we live, in the circumstances we find ourselves in, that our genes have adapted to. In other circumstances, spaces or timescales, other lifeforms prevail. And on a cosmic scale, who knows...
Is this a tax-inclusive comparison? Hetzner's site shows me prices including VAT while Scaleway shows me prices excluding VAT.
Ask nicely and Modi might give you a courtesy tap.
An extremely rough estimate, FFT (prolly the most expensive one of what you mentioned) needs 5N*Log2(N) operations.

If you have 1M source floats and want 60 FPS, translates to only 6 GFlops.

On Pi4, on paper the GPU can do 32 GFlops. Again on paper, the CPU can do 8 FLOPs/cycle which translates (4 cores at 1.5 GHz) to 48 GFlops. That’s assuming you know what you’re doing, writing manually-vectorized C++ http://const.me/articles/simd/NEON.pdf abusing FMA, using OpenMP or similar for parallelism, and have a heat sink and ideally a fan.

So you’re probably good with both CPU and GPU. Personally, I would have started with NEON for that. C++ compilers have really good support for a decade now. These Vulkan drivers are brand new, and GLES 3.1 which added GPGPU is not much older, I would expect bugs in both compiler and runtime, these can get very expensive to workaround.

While I don’t have any experience with Jetson, on paper it’s awesome, with 472 GFlops. Despite the community is way smaller, nVidia is doing better job supplying libraries, CUDA toolkit has lots of good stuff, see e.g. cuFFT piece (I did use CUDA, cuFFT and other parts, just not on Jetson).
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The divide has always been there, it's just that "computer illiterate" people massively outnumber the literate ones and as such, are getting more attention.

It's kind of like saying there's a huge divide between "house literate" people, who know how everything in their home is built and how to fix it, and "house illiterate" people who just want to come home, turn on the lights, use the shower, the oven and the bed.
I use processwire for simple sites. I write maybe a 100 lines of PHP, slap on a HTML template, some Vue.js here and there... and there you go, your small project is ready. Many people do similar with Wordpress, jQuery, etc. In my case, clients also get a synced staging site so they can even do upgrades on their own (click giant upgrade button, sync if it works, open ticket when not).

If it's going to take more than a week, I directly involve Entity Framework (recently more Dapper than EF but anyway), React/Next.js, Typescript (switched from NHibernate + knockout.js to this stack lately). Most of the pages are rendered on the server. Performance is crazy. Maintainability is great too! They need to call me, or hire one of the many react/.NET devs available if an update/migration is needed, but it's easy to understand as no magic is involved.

We need to understand that these 2 are shockingly separate worlds. So, all these words just to say that I agree with you :) But there is one catch: Sometimes a quickly implemented site organically grows into multi-sites, or into an app that does more than to manage content, that's the point the customer needs to understand these concepts too.

Better to explain to them from the beginning!
Is a SSD suitable for swap, given its limited number of write cycles?
> Vulkan 1.0 conformance means the V3DV Mesa driver has passed all tests from Khronos CTS and should be compatible with most applications using this version of the API.
That's only true for application code. If you write libraries, you can't know how your library functions will be called and have to assume that most of them could end up in performance-critical code paths.
Imo release of M1 will be comparable to the release of the original iPhone, but for the Mac brand (in terms of profitability and long term returns). Just saying.
using the narrative of "national security" to justify authoritarian moves, classic textbook move.
That's not true at all. There are tons of ZigBee/Z-Wave devices available, most notably the Philips Hue series. I have over 60 ZigBee devices in my house, and so do a lot of people that I know. Also you can expect the next-gen low-power devices to switch to the still in-development CHIP spec (Connected Home over IP), not WIFI.
Honestly asking - it they are just a proxy for that info, does it change things?
You were probably testing at least 10x more than we were, at the time ;-)
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Does this make sense? Yes. ASCII was invented in 1960 and already updated in 1968 and 1977. Is it really true? No[0].

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.fan.douglas-adams/...
This GPU abstraction library can do that: https://diligentgraphics.com/diligent-engine/

Haven’t tested their Vulkan support, but I did GLES 3.1, D3D 11 and D3D 12, all 3 worked great for me.
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Eh, Nvidia shares a lot of the blame on that one though, because the signed firmware they use post-Fermi can't be legally redistributed in any way, and is embedded in the proprietary graphics driver blobs, so it can't be extracted. That firmware is required to adjust GPU clocks, which start off very low. So the choice isn't "Good proprietary drivers" vs "Less featured open drivers", it's "proprietary drivers" vs "drivers that are legally forbidden from running above 0.5% their advertised clock speed, no matter if it's otherwise fully featured".[1] In contrast, AMD and Intel have open drivers in Mesa that work very well and fully supported and AMD allows its signed VBIOS to be redistributed, so it's clearly not just a matter of chip complexity, but the position of the vendor as well.

In that vein I agree with your original point, though: I suspect we'll probably never see Linux on the M1 in anything but the most superficial form that lacks all the really good stuff. You might get the 8 core CPU, SSD/RAM, some peripherials. But no Neural Engine, no GPU, video decoders or image processors, power management, security features in the T2 like attested boot or encrypted key storage, etc. The only way that'll ever change is if Apple makes it happen.

[1] For reference, the open source Nouveau driver for Fermi cards, nvc0, is the 4th most well supported Mesa driver in terms of features implemented (almost 90% of all features, surpassed only by radeonsi and i915). So it's not like there's no interest in FOSS Nvidia drivers... https://mesamatrix.net/
One thing to worry about is how long this will actually be available. Scaleway has a shitty history of discontinuing products and pushing the migration work for you.

One example of this is C14. Even though they advertised it as a long-term archiving solution, they gave the product a 5-month discontinuation period after which they just delete your data. If you wanted to start using their new storage solution, you had to do the migration work by hand and then ask them to refund you so that they don't invoice you twice.
I'd imagine a lot of things can be streamlined from big companies that individual/independant farmers can't keep up with; one thing that came to mind was those big circles visible on aerial photos like those pictured here https://www.quora.com/Why-do-they-make-circular-crop-fields-...
Yeah, it's really cheap, but 8051 which is quite cumbersome to work with imho.
Noob question - is there a quick summary somewhere why Vulkan is better than e.g. OpenGL? Whats different? And what kind of performance enhancements one should expect when using Vulkan?
Regular old is 20/80. Would be nice to have some data sets to see what it looks like.
GPT-3 can produce text that's probabilistically similar to text that it's been trained on, and observed as part of sample outputs. If there was no huge corpus of human language to train it on, GPT-3 couldn't even begin to give the illusion of thinking, and certainly couldn't tell you (for example) that 3 is greater than 2, or even know that 3 and 2 were concepts that it perhaps should have opinions about.

The really interesting question (at least to me) is to what extent that observation is also true for humans.

I mean, we humans presumably built up our big corpus of human language/knowledge all on our own over the lifetime of the species, which GPT-3 currently cannot do, but.. to what extent does human thinking just consist of probabilistic re-mixing of words, phrases, and sentences that we've seen before, that came to us through our continual training on segments we've been exposed to from that big 'dataset' of human knowledge, and the best of which then get contributed back into that dataset? How much more than that is actually going on, for us?

If what GPT-3 is doing shouldn't really count as 'thinking' (as seems intuitive to me, personally, though others may certainly disagree), then to what extent can we say that humans do anything qualitatively different?
Ecen a pretty basic set of modern farm equipment and facilities will run into the millions of dollars, and will have very low utilization on small farms. A single modern combine can harvest >100 acres per day. With multiple big fields of crops that have different harvesting times your equipment will spend much less time idle.
Oh nice! Hope this works, trying it out later!
Don't gatekeep.
Mother threw away my Ryzen APU
I was wondering what happens to the (hopefully) very small amount male chicks that still hatch because no testing is free from false positives/negatives.

The good news is, according to section 5.2.4 of the the "respeggt System Manual"[1] they are forbidden to kill earlier than 12 weeks old.

[1] https://respeggt-group.com/files/respeggt-Systemhandbuch_en....

Edit: link to the English system manual
Just want to add that I was actually thinking about Outer Wilds when I wrote my parent comment. That game was a literal journey of the soul for me.
> I'd argue that more work (at least 50% more) should be put in documenting APIs. Technical writing is a lost art.

I’d suggest 100% more.

I use headerdoc (Doxygen-style) code comments all the time[0]. That helps, but is not perfect. It’s still better than nothing.

Structuring an API, so that the internals are sequestered, is (IMNSHO) important. I like to have the lions’ share declared private or protected.

Test harnesses (as opposed to unit tests) are pretty effective examples[1].

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/various/testing-harness-vs-unit...
>I'm simply stating that raising them to eat is better than just gassing them immediately.

I think that is more of an ethical debate than a fact. One could argue that most farmed chickens live a life of suffering, and keeping them suffering long is not better than gassing them immediately.
Yes, a programming language being a user interface is a common analogy.
Mimblewimble improves both fungibility and scalability.
Unlike Mimblewimble, nano does nothing to reduce the burden of full validation as it still needs to reprocess the entire history of transactions.
But most of the comments here aren't.
Isn't Vulkan just the new name for the efforts that historically went into OpenGL?
Perhaps it'll be possible to use external memory as a first layer of swap. For most workloads the difference would be minimal.
Kind of illustrates the point of being unaffordable.
I am not, but I didn't eat chickens for a long time now. Allegedly, recent rulings allowed to process diseased chickens in the US and I believe they planned to allow processing dead chickens too. Treatment isn't really better in the rest of the world of course and especially chickens are treated very poorly.
ASCII was released in 1963.
The M1 was released on the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini.

Buying an iMac now would seem to be a poor decision.

From what I'm seeing in some of the comments, people are so lost in the history of the past years of Apple being the pooch ridden from behind on performance, that they can't get their heads out of their arses to see how awesome this is.

I am sitting here right now wondering if I should invest more of my savings directly in Apple stock, at least temporarily to ride their sales wave, or if I should buy a Mac mini and a nice wide curved monitor with a mechanical keyboard from WASD and be f'ing awesome all of a sudden.

The only reason I'm not hitting the buy button is that all of that isn't $135. There's no reason for that amount, but if it said $135, I'd have already paid for it and been drinking beer to celebrate the happiest purchases I ever made.
Offtopic but this book changed the way I see things in many aspects of life. Funny how I came across it from a talk about abstractions in Clojure.
> The notebooks were last seen in November 2000... It was only during "a routine check" two months later that it was discovered they were missing.

Why on earth is this just getting published now? The article reads like the library just found out they were missing.
Probably AI dungeon? Are there any other free generators?

I asked for API access months ago and didn't even get so much as a "no".
That's a "Golden Age" perspective. At best it was true for a minority of people for a rather short moment in time, compared to the time agriculture has been around.

Historically agricultural workers were slaves or at best serfs. In any case, a brutal lifestyle, generally for someone else's benefit.

Well, what you're saying does apply to a category of countries, underdeveloped ones. Countries at very low levels of what we'd consider civilization. There people were either shepherds or subsistence farmers but closer to what we'd call hunter-gatherers.
Sorry, I understood your intention, and you are completely right, mine was rather a rant that was just relevant.
And anecdotally I went full carnivore after suffering from IBS, and my digestion and mental health improved immesurably. Any kind of pulse, grain or seed noticeable worsens my IBS and digestion. YMMV.
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Aren't most big desktop apps like office on PC still written in C++? Same with almost all AAA games. And the operating system itself.

Browsers are written in C++ and javascript has full-blown GC.

I don't see how refcounting gives you advantage over manual memory management for most users.
A 7th grader reciting the first 600 digits of pi.

https://twitter.com/RSPraveenSwaero/status/12392299347043246...
Goodwill is a strong word with Amnesty International, as they have a political side[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amnesty_Internati...
Answer from another noob: AFAIK it is not about being better, but lower level.

Being closer to how GPUs work underneath gives developers more flexibility for optimizing.
Didn't the WHO literally do a house call to the entire country of India in their ultimately successful quest to eradicate smallpox? I wouldn't rush to condemn international aid.

You put scare quotes around both aid and news. Neither of these things are inherently bad.

Misinformation is the threat, not simply foreign information.

Government control of media is not a remedy to misinformation. In fact it is frequently a source.

You seem to be espousing an isolationist strategy but the genie is out of the bottle. Any country that tries to pull back from the rest of the world will suffer in comparison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amnesty_Internati...
> Are you sure about that 250$ number? Because I don't think that's a very realistic number.

For note taking, word processing, basic image editing, web browsing, video playing, etc, you can easily get a capable enough laptop for that price.

This is not comparing like-for-like in terms of what the machines can do, of course. Apple's range doesn't even remotely try to cover that part of the market so a direct comparison is unfair if you are considering absolute price/capability of the devices irrespective of the user's requirements, but for work that doesn't involve significant computation that bargain-basement unit may adequately do everything many people need it to do (assuming they don't plan to also use it for modern gaming in non-working hours).

> If you try to sell anything Apple related that isn't more than 5 years old you won't have that problem at all.

Most people don't consider the resale value of a machine when they buy it. For that to be a fair comparison you have to factor in the chance of it being in good condition after a couple of year's use (this will vary a lot from person to person) and the cost of any upgrades & repairs needed in that time (again more expensive for Apple products by my understanding).

And if you buy a $500 laptop and hand it down or bin it, then you are still better off (assuming you don't need
a powerful machine) than if you dropped $3,000 for an iDevice and later sold it for $2,000.

> what the market value should* be.*

"Market value" is decided by what the market will bare, not what we want to be able to sell things for, and new & second hand are often very different markets.
Given that they cannot carry out their ops without foreign investment is clear indication that the business was unsustainable.

> I think the fundamental outlined in the article is "Narendra Modi government’s new foreign direct investment norms for digital media," and not described in relation to revenue.

That's an opinion piece. The fact is they shut down operations. And if the reason is lack of foreign investment, then it's imminently obvious that they made no profits.
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I think it is realistic. It's easy to think people have money to spend on $999 laptop when you are living in a first world country. 90% of the world probably couldn't afford that.
> Initially librarians thought they might have been put back in the wrong place. "My predecessors genuinely believed they had been misfiled and they would find them," adds Dr Gardner, who became director of library services in 2017.

> There were a number of "intense" searches over the years. They all drew a blank.

So they knew they were missing, they just thought they were misplaced for 20 years.
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Those piles of bars are shallow, and those barrels are probably mostly non-spent-fuel by volume.
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As I understand it, Vulkan allows the application much more control over the rendering pipeline, whereas OpenGL has a lot of internal state you control indirectly.
which country was that? and what work did the contractors do?