skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like Wells could have written the same article today, barely a few words of difference save the dates. Oddly, some of the places that the review jarred me most were in the way he called the lack of “originality” - Having seen (a cut, since there’s so many) the film, much of it’s aesthetic seems timeless by their inclusion. To the modern eye, they seem to hint at the cyclical nature of style. To Wells, it seemed lazy. Perhaps to Herr Lang, it was a reflection of how the more things changed the more they stay the same (or perhaps we need not be so charitable and accept Mr. Wells’ interpretation).
Bitcoin enthusiasm is inversely correlated with faith in the financial system that be. Hacker News is founded, and largely frequented, by (would be) entrepreneurs, whose model of success is linking up with big financial players who make up the current system. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

Kind of sad to see a crowd who supposedly values information technology and vision, as means to transform society (make the world a better place!) get so ideologically bent out of shape about a technical project - and one so undeniably incredible as bitcoin. I mean, if people find it dumb or useless, that's one thing, we hear that about projects all the time, but with bitcoin people here get downright nasty with the comments, take moral stands and so on.
> I'm wondering if an artificial process of evolution would be sufficient to satisfy the co-evolution assumption here.

In principle yes, if you can generate a significant number of artificially evolved variants that are folded/functional.
I really enjoyed writing this article and am seriously thinking about going deeper in my next article.
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Maybe in practice at the time, but in hindsight they were actually a valid indication of the true performance capabilities of the architecture. It’s just that a phone has too little thermal capacity to sustain the workload.
>> On campaign, mesages would revert to horseback.

Well, for the army. Naval semaphore (flags) could pass information across serious distance. Scout ships would often be over the horizon from flagships, their messages relayed back in minutes. The speed of pre-electric mechanical communication is underappreciated today.

Also, carrier pigeons were faster than horses.

"Messenger pigeons were used as early as 1150 in Baghdad[8] and also later by Genghis Khan. By 1167 a regular service between Baghdad and Syria had been established by Sultan Nur ad-Din.[9]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon
They should make this into a Kaggle competition.

Maybe they might get an even better model.
How in the world does that work :)
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Did you know that the Spanish flu of 1918 wasn't really Spanish?

Edit: Okay so maybe I skipped to the punchline. Just trying to say politics influences data or lack of data.
Thank you stranger ;)
I imagine they track usage and block accounts that abuse the service.
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The music for money ratio is still bad. Used Thinkpad still win.
What I do not enjoy in chess is that many pieces that can cross the whole board in multiple directions.

In shogi, lances and knights only move forward. Gold and silver generals move one tile at a time.

There is 1 bishop and 1 rook per player and no queen. And as a result pieces are not constantly crossing the whole board.

Pawns are more consistent too. The move forward, one tile at a time. No conditionally diagonal moves or 2 tile moves or en-passant.
I find that hard to believe considering they do not contain any actual serotonin receptor affecting compounds. Do you have any sources or experience reports? I would be interested to learn more. Perhaps they make naturally occurring DMT or other hormones more effective.
Apple's (and everyone elses') anti-repair stance (both in terms of design and in policy) is harming the environment and generating tons of e-waste. Whats wrong with expressing a view that helps the planet?
Everyone talks about its top scoring benchmarks, which I presume are the Firestorm cores, but I have to wonder what engineering marvels went into the Icestorm cores?
If your GPS antenna is doing any transmitting, you likely have other problems.
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If you want to try out this keyboard yourself, check out this pilot layout[0] as well as the government website on the new keyboard[1].

[0] https://github.com/springcomp/optimized-azerty-win

[1] https://norme-azerty.fr/
I don't know about that, but Norway is paying to save rainforests:

$1.2B to Brazil: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-amazon-norw...

$150M to Gabon: https://qz.com/africa/1714104/gabon-to-get-150-million-from-...

Indonesia: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/indonesia-norway-redd-paym...

Guyana: https://news.mongabay.com/2009/02/norway-to-pay-guyana-to-sa...
Pretty limited. The cellular connection only connects to amazon.com and Wikipedia
Interesting article here, but a lot of the stuff laid at Apple's feet here did not begin at Apple. Yes, they implemented it in a high power design, and yes, they did a great job, and it is really performing well, but all of this has been common in cell phone chips available from various vendors for over a decade.

Multiple cores, multiple DSPs, ISPs, GPUs, secure enclaves, encryption engines, high speed serial controllers, ADC/DAC, plus all the stuff to support the cellular modem such as viterbi encoders/decoders. All these little specialized blocks all embedded on the chip, and the DDR soldered directly to the top of it.

This has been a common technique for over a decade. Why isn't your phone as fast as the M1? How long do you think the M1 would run on your cell phone battery? Everything is an engineering trade off.

So Apple basically took the last decade of smart phone architecture, and blew it up with more transistors, to accomplish more processing throughput.

They didn't invent the technique of hybrid multi-core silicon by any stretch of the imagination.

You can go back to the mid 1990s and find single chip 56K dialup modems with a general purpose CPU, a DSP, onboard RAM, onboard NOR FLASH, and a half dozen dedicated modem hardware blocks, all on a single die.
Can we take pictures of the sun at night?
2.26GHz, on a quite old process.
>if you could see 5% gains just sitting on the money

Who said 5% sitting on money? I'm talking about a situation where there is basically no real inflation or deflation. $100 is $100. You can still choose to take your money and invest it if you want, but you aren't forced to GAMBLE your money (you can use the word invest all you want, but 99% of the time it's simply gambling).

>How many fewer tech giants and unicorns would we see?

So first of all, you are completely butchering what I said per above.. but in any case, maybe that's a good thing not to see all the tech giants and unicorns? People are so obsessed with doing things so they can "make it big" it's really just sad. HN in particular, I see it all the time here. All most people seem to care about is trying to make the most money possible and less about things that are actual helpful.

Greed is a hell of a drug.

>We already know what happens when people aren't incentivized to invest - it's called a recession.

That is quite a stretch. You will always have people that want to gamble their money. My point is you should not be FORCED to gamble your money to play the game the rich people who set the rules want you to.
Doesn't seem much different than various multichip or multisocket solutions where different parts of memory have different latencies, called NUMA. Basically the OS keeps track of how busy pages are and rebalances things for heavily used pages that are placed poorly.

Similarly, Optane (in dimm form) is basically slow memory, OSs seem to handle it fine. NUMA support seems pretty mature today and handle common use cases well.

With all that said, apple could just add a second CPU to double the ram and cores, seems like a great fit for a Mac Pro.
> - Cheaters don't stay in low ratings for long. If they aren't detected, they'll be out of your rating in no time, like in 2 or 3 wins. This reduces the chance you'll encounter cheaters, because if a cheater plays 100 games but only 2 of them are in your rating bracket, you're unlikely to ever match against them anyways.

If only this applied to Counter-Strike or other FPS. While those that are trying to hack discretely rise to Global fast, there are a lot of cheaters that aim to stay in high Silver or low Nova. Add this to the fact that many cheaters suck at cheating, they can absolutely get stuck in lower ranks because they tactically cannot outplay better opponents without blatantly cheating.

This is a bit different from cheating in Chess and Starcraft where mechanical skill and the design of the game makes cheats less impactful. Like, cheating in Dota is really just wider POV, complete map awareness and spell casting macros. But those are just a few aspects of the game. In FPS games, the mechanical skill weighs so heavy that you will have a bad time at any rank against any cheater.
I've been working remotely for about 7 years, through 3 different employers. Here's what I've discovered:

1. I can focus better at home vs at the office.
2. Remote work gives me an opportunity to change my scenery (travel or just go to the park) while working to help inspire me.
3. My day-to-day activities are more flexible as long as I'm delivering, which means I can cook healthy meals at home, take a mid-day run, or go walk my dog.
4. No commute, means I can sleep longer and greatly reduces my daily stress level.

Those are the upsides, but there's also downsides:

1. Much harder to build a rapport with people I work with, and I haven't developed any new adult friendships through work the way I did while I was in the office. There's no after-work crew who goes to dinner together or has game nights, like I did when I was in office.
2. Office politics is more difficult and more pointed, without the watercooler / hallway conversations, everything is a lot more pointed and direct and consequently also more difficult. You can't be as soft or subtle when you're remote, because everything necessitates a calendar invite and a video call.
3. I crave socialization outside of work more, while the opportunities to do so consequently dwindle. Traveling while working was a huge help, but COVID-19 killed that. Working actually from home means I'm starved for social interaction with other adults.

Then there's the things that are just a reality of the situation, but could be good or bad depending on the person:

1. I'm responsible for ensuring I get things done and how I spend my time during the day.
2. I'm responsible for making sure my equipment is up to snuff and capable of meeting the rigors of my work cycle.
3. I'm responsible for ensuring that I communicate my progress, needs, and achievements to my boss, peers, and others within the company proactively, because they have less visibility into those things directly otherwise.
4. I have to be a better self-advocate.

I've done some of my best work while remote, but it's all a matter of finding a way to "get into the groove", wherever I'm working. As long as you can stay motivated and focused, that's the environment you need to be working in whether it's at home, in an office, or in a coworking space.
It depends on where WFH policies of all the tech companies end up.
So, I take it you actually 'have' a few million dollars (like me) and are speaking from experience? There's a saying - the bigger you are the harder you fall. Multi millionaires can easily leverage themselves into massive failures. It's the norm, not the outlier. But, of course, you people who talk out your ass would know all about it. What a joke.
It doesn't seem any worse than existing NUMA systems today, where memory latency depends on what core you're running on. In contrast, the proposed system would have the same performance for on-board vs plugged DIMM regardless of which CPU is accessing it, which simplifies scheduling — from a scheduling perspective, it's all the same. I think that's easier to work with than e.g. Zen1 NUMA systems.
I know of many people who have started business (either startups or more classical business models) without working anywhere near as dramatically hard as this woman describes what she did. Since her product niche and product both sound like pretty decent areas for entry and business, what I don't understand is why she had to work so damn hard. Is there a missing part to the narrative or is this just a case of someone exaggerating hustle porn so they can sell a good story about passion and "pouring heart and soul" into something?
OTOH, it's difficult (impossible?) to un-allocate spectrum that has been put into use at any point. Perhaps there are foreseeable uses in the medium term that we should be reserving spectrum for, rather than auctioning our future resources off to today's rent-seekers.
I've never seen one of these in person or in emulation, but on seeing the terminal font, I was immediately and subliminally motivated to type:

PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
GOTO 10
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I think the key here to replicating the success is the deployment of deep learning effectively. But I would argue that deepmind's resource pool is immense, it's backed by Google. The resources of GPU's (and more advanced TPU's) are in abundance... not to mention the many brilliant PhD scientists who work there.
That perspective is a bit Eloi; plenty of people are not doing well.
Given that it started at a "point", it would go outwards in a circle, so you would end up with a "line" where sound from each direction crossed over. In theory, you could end up with a point where they all met again, however due to the focusing effects of the various landscape, and ambient pressure differences, this would rather be a diffuse area than a concentrated point, just like the lines where the sound met wouldn't be straight either.

This, combined with that the fact that on the on the "other" side of the world it was really only detectable by barometric readings means that you would be hard pressed to notice it, even along those lines and or point.
I think you might be underestimating the importance of RAM proximity to the CPU.

The speed of electricity over copper is listed as being 299,792,458 meters per second. A meter is 39.3701 inches, so that would be 11,802,859,050 (11.8 billion) inches per second.

Now imagine a CPU trying to send a round trip electrical signal 4 billion times per second over the the RAM, over the distance of two inches (a 4 inch round trip). That's literally 16 billion inches of distance that you are asking the electrical signal to cover in the space of a second, but we know that the electricity can only physically cover 11.8 billion inches in that second, so we would essentially have a bottleneck due to the physical restrictions of the speed of light.

Now imagine if you could cut that distance down from inches to cm or even millimeters... This is the benefit of having everything together on an integrated chip.
Cities should be complete. A complete city means you are able to have rich people living along side working people. Cities need to be complete to be truly green, because in this case the working class are commuting within their neighborhood to work, perhaps even walking or biking, not three hours across town in the cheapest car they can afford.
Donald Knuth said "The Itanium approach...was supposed to be so terrific—until it turned out that the wished-for compilers were basically impossible to write."[82]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanic

So they didn't have the needed compiler
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> The author seems to think Intel or AMD cannot make SoCs because of their business model.

You gave a good example of AMD, but Intel has been making the Xeon-D SoC for a while now. They've always looked interesting to me, but outside of expensive SuperMicro motherboards, I've never seen one available to the general public.

I think you are right though - both AMD and Intel would love it if vendors demanded high-performance SoCs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_D
Ha, well, thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt. But I am 32 and hopeless when it comes to following popular culture. I was probably just focusing my attention on something else. I have a solid track record of not noticing stuff. So the nuance added to xkcd 1053 by this story is that the average value of ten thousand per day is just an average :)

(And another nuance is that I am not in the US and so also not part of the ten thousand per day average.)
Try thinking more than 5 years ahead.
Nobody is suggesting that this research has anything to do with gene expression or anything like that. Their point was simply that we now have better tools to actually see the meaning/effect of a given DNA sequence.

Also, there is no need to passive-agressively highlight your credentials. I already researched them before replying.
But you still acknowledge the presence of and explicitly supply a response to the failure case.
That's definitely the hope. The Examples tab is supposed to be more of that, currently we hacked it to point at the more complex demos, but we have some ideas on making more "tutorial" like content.
I don’t know of any country on that list that hasn’t been mitigating infections in some way after the initial surge, so it’s no surprise the spike came down.

You would also expect to get no (average) excess mortality for the year if you just killed off the frail earlier than normal. This is not the case, excess mortality just returned to normal levels. You would need either a spike in the other direction or a step change down to fit with your theory.

You can track the yearly excess mortality data here for a few countries.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/15/tracking...
It's frustrating that every time I want to see other points of view on better possible paths to deal with the pandemic, it's almost always a political hack. This is the real problem.

Both sides just want to push their narrative. No one wants to accept basic facts and find common ground to solve problems. I don't know what the solution is.
The answer of wide decode and deep reorder buffer gets much closer than the “tricks” mentioned in tweets. That still doesn’t explain how Apple built an 8-wide CPU with such deep OOO that operates on 10-15 watts.

The limit that keeps you from arbitrarily scaling up these numbers isn’t transistor count. It’s delay—how long it takes for complex circuits to settle, which drives the top clock speed. And it’s also power usage. The timing delay of many circuits inside a CPU scare super-linearly with things like decode width. For example, the delay in the decode stage itself scales quadratically with the width of the decoder: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/sohi/trs/complexity.1328.pdf (p. 15). The delay of the issue queues is quadratic both in the issue width and the depth of the queues. The delay of a full bypass network is quadratic in execution width. Decoding N instructions at a time also requires a register renaming unit that can perform register renaming for that many instructions per cycle, and the register file must have enough ports to be able to feed 2-3 operands to N different instructions per cycle. Additionally, big, multi-ported register files, deep and wide issue queues, and big reorder buffers also tend to be extremely power hungry.

On the flip side, the conventional wisdom is that most code doesn’t have enough inherent parallelism to take advantage of an 8-wide machine: https://www.realworldtech.com/shrinking-cpu/2/ (“The first sign that the party was over was diminishing returns from wider and wider superscalar designs. As CPUs went from being capable of executing 1, to 2, to 4, to even 6 instructions per cycle, the percentage of cycles during which they actually hit their full potential was dropping rapidly as both a function of increasing width and increasing clock rate.”). At the very least, such designs tend to be very application-dependent. Branch-y integer code like compilers tend to perform poorly on such wide and slow designs. The M1 by contrast manages to come close to Zen 3, which is already a high ILP CPU to begin with, despite a large clock speed deficit (3.2 ghz versus 5 ghz). And the performance seems to be robust—doing well on everything from compilation to scientific kernels. That’s really phenomenal and blows a lot of the conventional wisdom out of the water.

An insane amount of good engineering went into this CPU.
Egalitarianism fur alles. If they've made it such an impolite comment, then clearly you've both disqualified each other, so you can be snarky about it too.
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> However, if the (AlphaFold-adjusted) trend in the above figure were to continue, then perhaps in two CASPs, i.e. four years, we’ll actually get to a point where the problem can be called solved, in terms of gross topology (mean GDT_TS ~ 85% or so).
Interesting prediction within.

It turned out only to be one more year instead of four (depending on whether getting to the 90~ range is "solved".

I'm curious to see if AlphaFold can do even better the next two years.

Those last mile percentages always tend to be small anyway.
it is not genius, it is logical

if you make a solicon switch, you should make sure your entire product line is following, otherwise it is going to be fragmented

your odd way of thinking reminds me exactly how a Microsoft guy would think about it

"it works = you must be a genius"

no, that's just logical
Another reason why the Amiga to PC workflow wouldn't have worked: Aspect ratio.

The Amiga's standard 320-wide resolution was 320 x 200, while VGA used 320 x 240. These were both typically scanned to fill a 4:3 screen, meaning the Amiga's resolution had slightly tall pixels (DeluxePaint actually had an option to compensate for this when using round brushes and the circle tool, called "square pixels"). So artwork transferred from an Amiga to a PC would look slightly squished.
I can’t speak to the implementation but in principle, a filesystem essentially being a specialized database, there’s no reason techniques commonly used for SQL optimization couldn’t be applied here. It’s fundamentally set theory, where you’re obtaining your results by producing subsets rather than traversing a hierarchical tree of branches and end nodes. Of course that implies some pathological conditions (some superset/subset scenarios will produce too many results to be useful or to optimize resolution) which would produce poor UX, but sane defaults and heuristics could alleviate that.

Again not speaking to the project itself, but in principle achieving good performance on something like this would boil down to “do what SQL databases do, then design efficient schemas and queries for the use case”.
Thanks for your feedback, I have fixed some of the addressed punctuation mistakes and will try to avoid them completely in my next blog.

It's true that my blog doesn't add anything since this topic is pretty popular, but I kinda wanted to just spit it out since I haven't done anything productive for some time now and it makes me more comfortable with blogging in general which I'm trying to get better at!

Cheers!
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