skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason it doesn't help them that much in performance is that the difference in the way x86/ARM manage memory is not that ARM reorders more and x86 reorders less, but that ARM reorders openly and x86 reorders things behind your back but makes sure everything is where you think they should be if/when you look.

This is the reason that the relatively primitive memory model of x86 has turned out to be so successful despite the consensus in the field being that it's way to restrictive for performance way back in the 90's. It turns out that the x86 memory model is an easy target for a complex reordering backend to provide as a "facade", between what is actually happening the in CPU's own L1 and buffers and what everything else thinks it's doing.

The only way weaker memory orderings benefit is that they don't need as large buffers and queues on the backend, as they can retire memory operations earlier. Except that if you just implement the ARM memory model as specified and without a similar facade, it will actually lose to modern x86, because the x86 chip can make use of the freedom provided by it's machinery to reorder even more without any of it ever being visible to the software. So you end up implementing a similar system as the x86, with only very minor gains from the fact that you can sometimes properly retire accesses earlier and thus get a little more use out of your buffers.

ARM, especially 64-bit ARM, has genuine advantages over x86. (Notably, decode.) The weak memory model is not one of them, outside the very weakest and tiniest cores (where it allows some reordering with a tiny load-store backend).
That's for "negative emissions" which are more expensive than offsets. I got my data from https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20811981/stripe-carbon-ca... which cites the $8 figure.
Absolutely. I understand that there are alternatives and options. My concern isn't scarcity. It's that the confidence in those options is rooted in tenuous predictions about commercial viability in the far future.

That is, how a transition to these alternatives would conceivably integrate in and have an impact on larger market dynamics, and they way they might be either furthered or impeded by local, regional or geo-political dynamics.
I'd like to see this explored more. I think AMD/Intel might be historically looking at C++/compiled workloads more than JS/Java/python interpreted workloads. JITs very well could take better advantage of wider cores than compiled code.

Diminishing returns with increasing cache sizes and going wider doesn't seem to hold back the M1.
Indeed, and so the UK Gov has decided to give free vitamin D suppliments to risk groups this winter.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/at-risk-groups-to-receive...
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You can search my comment history under both this handle and Mz. It goes back more than 11 years.

I've spent nearly 20 years getting better when that's supposed to be impossible. I've done so while dirt poor and even homeless for several years. What I've spent to get better is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions my condition is supposed to cost under conventional treatment while merely slowing your slow, gruesome, torturous death.

No one's interested and I've been thrown off of various forums over the years and been openly hated on and called a liar, teller of tall tales and insane.

No wants it because no one will get rich off of it. No one wants it because I'm a former homemaker, not a physician or scientist. And no doubt several other reasons, none of which I can really fathom.

The world basically agrees with you, turns a blind eye to any and all evidence to the contrary and actively tries to silence people like me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_Sun_angle_on_climate
When I see replies like this, I am made aware that some people see the world dramatically different from me. To me, this is about as close to just directly copying everything as you can get. To point out the seams is to lose the forest for the trees.

Genuine question, does copying to you mean that it has to be exact? Like, if there are small, meaningless differences, then it's not copying?
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Apple acquired buddybuild in 2018 (https://www.buddybuild.com/blog/buddybuild-is-now-part-of-ap...).

For CI/CD providers, it depends on how they offer the underlying macOS environment. If they target enterprise workloads that have stringent compliance needs, then this offering is a net benefit especially if the enterprise is already on AWS. The cost isn't cheap but there are many ways to price it as a value added provider.
With the pricing, 24h minimum and "only developers" restriction. it seems like there are exactly two usecases for this service.

1. You are a big company who needs Mac CI and your IT department has a strict "Cloud Only" restriction.

2. You are a developer for a cross-platform App who doesn't own a mac, but needs access to a real mac every few weeks or months for debugging/releasing.
Python does more than you think
It coats your mouth too. I used to like it but after most places switched to vegetable oil, I find tallow-fried fries disgusting.
If academia actually allowed failure we wouldn't be getting so many tiny incremental growth papers just for the sake of it as in deep learning and machine learning.
£1M is plenty if you're frugal. Not saying it's not an idea to try reducing stress and saving a little more but you'd have to be an idiot to accidentally burn through £1m before 50.
Can't you also bring your own licenses for AWS/Windows? This all makes sense to me too... if you want to run a Windows instance, you need a license for Windows (on top of the hardware fee). Microsoft says that AWS can loan you a license (if you need one), but AWS would still need to hold a full license.
For Go have a look at https://ebiten.org/
Maybe you can't commit because these fields are so similar? They're all analytical, and for example mechanical engineering is just applied physics and physics in practice is often about programming simulations and data processors. So, in a way, it doesn't matter that much what you choose, as these fields have very similar "feel" to them, and also you can fairly easily change fields in the future.
Said from NZ, we did the hard hard part.

How do you think we eradicated community covid several times?
>"The market doesn't care about such niche concerns, but it'll not flip completely overnight."

I do not care all that much abut market either. When I need something it always seems to be there and I do not mind if it is not produced by the biggest guy on the block. If at some point I would not be able to find what I need I'll deal with it but so far it did not happen.
when you're a billionaire you have certain influence, and people have told me that LDS members tend to look out for their own. Trevor made a large donation to the people that helped with the arrest after. I can't remember if it was the police or the attorney or both.
Really happy to see that the project is back (the commit graph flatlined for quite a while) :D Thanks for the great work!

This project will probably never be "done" and will have to play catch up with Google all the time but it's really amazing that people are putting the work in to achieve this! Thanks a lot! I think this project is vital to the future of AOSP based community distributions.
We Are All Behavioral, More or Less: A Taxonomy of Consumer Decision Making
Like GB Shaw, HG Wells (both brilliant men) was completely taken in by the monster called Stalin (Uncle Joe) who ran Russia from Lenin's death in 1924 to 1953 when he died.

“In him I realised that Communism could after all, in spite of Marx, be enormously creative. After the tiresome class-war fanatics I had been encountering among the Communists, […], this amazing little man, with his frank admission of the immensity and complication of the project of Communism and his simple concentration upon its realisation, was very refreshing. He at least has a vision of a world changed over and planned and built afresh,”

Anyone who has romantic illusions about that period should read Montefiore's `Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar`.
omg you're right. Wasn't sharing the right link. Sorry about that...
https://driftctl.com/2020/11/24/infrastructure-drift/
Just because a word has two meanings does not mean you can equate one meaning with the other.
EULA apply, but there is legislations in EU that make terms prohibiting you from reverse engineer, sell, rent or automating null and void.
You’re spot on!
This is really nice. You should perhaps check out surveyjs.io as well for some inspiration. They do some really nice work.
Precisely. Black is no more important than a descriptor than say eye color or hair color in relation to covid. The reality is black population in the US are more obese than the white population, which is a major comorbidity, hence the higher death rate from covid. Meanwhile in Africa there is a much lower death rate than blacks in the US, as well as a lower death rate than Americans as a whole.
Those extra memory will cost you an arm and a leg.
Watch the restored version scored by Giorgio Moroder; it is a sublime experience.
Coo coo coo coo cool

Ive always wondered how libraries like big.js works but man it's just unreadable for beginners trying to understand the math behind it
Yes, I have a bunch of Apple devices as well.

I find that iOS itself and its first-party apps are fantastic from a privacy perspective, especially compared to Google. Most of the apps I mentioned using on Android have an Apple-provided alternative that's vastly superior to Google in regards to privacy. For example Apple asks you when you set up your device whether you want to allow analytics and easily allows you to opt-out. Apple also allows you to use basically every service other than Siri and the App Store without storing any data on their servers.

It's not all sunshine and rainbows though. Unlike Android, there isn't a strong open-source/privacy culture among iOS developers, so there are few privacy-respecting or open-source third-party apps (while on Android, F-Droid is full of them). And there's no app sideloading and the OS itself is locked-down and closed-source.

Still, I'd say that as far as stock mobile OS go, iOS is the clear winner in terms of privacy.

When it comes to non-stock though, Android is much better, with the right device. There are devices (mainly Nexus/Pixel) that allow you to re-lock the bootloader after flashing a custom ROM by adding your own system verification key. With these, you can build AOSP, LineageOS, GrapheneOS or whatever takes your fancy, sign it with your own key, flash it to your device and then bootloader lock it. GrapheneOS also has verifiable builds.

With that, you get all the advantages of a locked device but you don't have to accept the backdoor that is Google Play services.
As an American living in New Zealand I can attest to the fact that the Labour government led by Jacinda Ardern made mostly good moves by treating COVID seriously and thus winning re-election in a landslide. I cannot say if her decisions helped to squash COVID, but her words and facial expressions were very good politically.

I was in favor of one hard lockdown and strict border controls, and that is mostly what happened. I was not in favor of shutting down butchers, bakers, and green grocers because that just crowded everybody into supermarkets making social distancing difficult and creating long lines at supermarkets. It also crushed several businesses into bankruptcy unnecessarily, caused lots of food to go to waste, and propped up the already-too-powerful supermarket conglomerates.

NZ had extreme advantages: an island nation with easy to control borders, a large lead time to prepare, a low population density, a unified jurisdiction, no constitutional restrictions on the government's power, first world medical infrastructure, a timid compliant population that overwhelmingly just does as they are told and doesn't makes a fuss, high social cohesion, double helpings of common sense. Cowardly risk-averse and boring people that will never amount to much more than a hill of beans by American standards, but happy nonetheless [this sentence was meant as tongue-in-cheek self-deprecating humor, sorry if anyone was offended or took it seriously].

The US does not have the options NZ had. The federal government does not have jurisdiction to enforce a national lockdown, and even local lockdowns are being ruled as unconstitutional. And if you can't do one coordinated severe lockdown to squash it completely and then strictly close your borders requiring two week quarantines for anyone coming in... then I say don't bother with lockdowns at all. Oh, and stop blaming everything on your president.
That's a really silly statement.

I cant create 100 tonnes of nuclear waste in my garage either. However, it's not means for celebration when a giant institution does it.

As OP pointed out, with fusion -- net positive power output is important. Not the temperature achieved.
In a major scientific breakthrough, A.I. predicts the exact shape of proteins
The good ol' bait 'n' switch
In my (one point) experience of industry R&D more projects failed than succeeded, but project leaders were not blamed.

How could one predict success or failure in risky project proposals? In both cases you learn something.
And the US has just 36 per km/2. What’s your point?
I'm not German so don't use it often but I installed it, ran it and had a quick look around and nothing was noticably broken. For me, Mapbox is used to display the map.
omg... if you use it sigificatly (ie: every day) you might as well buy a physical mac mini and keep it at home. it'll pay for itself in a month!
Poetry 1.1 introduced parallel downloads. Even before that, it was an order of magnitude faster than its competitor Pipenv.
> Prescription drugs need a prescription because they have potentially dangerous side effects

Or, more likely, someone just decided they should be prescription only. Why are melatonin, gabapentin, piracetam prescription only? Paracetamol will kill you in the right dosage, yet it's OTC. Hell, you can overdose on vitamins and minerals/metals, too.

It's like a game for the industry, at the expense of a minority who have to suffer from only having access to bad doctors.
Is it seasonal because of natural yearly weather seasons, or is it because of the growth dynamics?!

Most curves look a lot like an explosion that burns out locally too fast to sustain a continuous fire. This could lead to some kind of seasonal dynamics without external factors.

One exception is maybe Argentina. Since the beginning it was more like a continuous burning fire - until they stopped. What did they do?
Check out Processing!

https://processing.org
Only because of Linux, without it in the picture they would still be selling UNIX workstations.
>You. can. make. own. browsers

With the growing marketshare of chromium-only based browsers, I'm concerned that this will not be the case for long. It doesen't matter how many browsers there are if they can't implement the monopoly's proprietary standards
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The "Omega Tau"-podcast does have an episode about superconductivity where they interview a superconductor engineer from ITER [1]. A section of the podcast is about "Quench Protection", which relates to what occurs when the superconductor looses its superconductivity and the energy needs to be removed from the system as fast as possible before it melts.

From the abstract of "Capacitor bank for Fast Discharge Unit of iter facility" [2]:

> In case of failure, in particular quench in a superconducting coil, rather fast and safe energy discharge from the magnetic system is provided by FDU, which breaks the coil supply loop and provides energy dissipation in high energy resistors. The ITER FDU should interrupt currents up to 70 kA with a voltage up to 10 kV.

There are also some slides on the web from CERN about quench protection at the LHC [3] with photos and diagrams in it.

The podcast also has several episodes on fusion "157 – Fusion at ITER" [4] and "312 – The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Experiment" [5] (and more linked in the descriptions of those episodes).

On a very separate topic, it also has a good one about weather forecasting "326 – Weather Forecasting at the ECMWF" [6]

[1] https://omegataupodcast.net/285-superconductivity/

[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6191678

[3] https://indico.cern.ch/event/194284/contribution/34/attachme...

[4] https://omegataupodcast.net/157-fusion-at-iter/

[5] https://omegataupodcast.net/312-the-wendelstein-7-x-fusion-e...

[6] https://omegataupodcast.net/326-weather-forecasting-at-the-e...
Seems about the same ratio aws uses for most things
The problem is that a phone with a lightning fast CPU is rather useless with current ecosystems.

I do think there are "technical tricks" though, especially the compatibility memory mode that makes x86 emulation faster than comparable ARM chips. If you call it a trick or finesse is probably a matter of perspective.
People experiencing homelessness often do need things like phone minutes and electronics and gift cards for things like toothpaste or deodorant or various needs that aren’t covered by just food donations. These things are often needed in order to help themselves get out of the situation they’re in, to connect or to be presentable for opportunities that arise that might aid them (and to be able to get the phone call telling them of such opportunities). To say this is something many Texans can’t understand I disagree with strongly, and that holds for Austin as well.

Also the idea that Californians moving are responsible for pushing Austin in a more liberal direction I find untrue and a bit at odds with reality both from data presented on metro-to-metro movements [1, 2] and also with my own anecdotal experience here. I find many of the people I know who moved here from California think they’re getting away from what they consider an overtly liberal area by doing so, and in part move specifically because they believe Austin (by being in Texas) will be more conservative. From my experience having lived in Austin and in Texas (over twice as long as I’ve lived in California, which I first moved to from Austin), it is and has been more progressive than even most of the Bay Area has seemed to me (excluding Santa Cruz and Berkeley which I find comparable).

As far as what might be making it more liberal, it was a large part of the 60s and 70s counter-culture movement (Whole Foods and Wheatsville, Janis Joplin and the 13th Floor Elevators, Mother’s Cafe, etc.) the founders and artists of which were not from California, and in the case of Whole Foods and Janis actually were Austin exports to California. And also being widely more known for being a college town with large music festivals and a huge DIY scene. Austin feels more like San Jose to me these days, but it’s politics, especially when discussed with those I’ve known who were born and raised here, feel more akin to what I see and hear being discussed in places like Portland and Berkeley than what I saw and heard from those I knew in Palo Alto and Mountain View.

This is not due to Californians moving in, as even to this day the majority of Austinites are either born and raised or migrated from other parts of Texas. Even the initiative against keeping public homelessness from being criminalized was widely supported in council and by the mayor (of which I’m not aware of a single party being from California, Greg Casar who is pushing for a lot of the more progressive policies is actually from Houston and Adler went to UT and is from Washington DC).

Basically just trying to say, I disagree with the “liberal by Austin standards” idea, I think if anything you’re just seeing the city as it always was but with more political clout due to recent changes in how city council works and with a very energized mayor. The transplants from California if anything, in my anecdotal experience at least, are fairly conservative by Austin standards. But our experiences are our own.

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2018/demo/geographic-mobi...
[2] https://austonia.com/austin-growth
Why wouldn't I prefer to live in a community that has an actual coffee shop and an actual library close by?
The entire legacy of ashes book is compiled from such declassified documents.
> Documentation is the key. Wikis. Code comments. Bug/issue trackers.

That requires people to write them and unless there's a strong managerial hand poking constantly, it's often "there's no time right now, we'll do it tomorrow" and, as we know, tomorrow never comes.
>I am from ... germany

Well there's your problem. Extremely few well paying (say $150k+) jobs and crazy taxes don't exactly encourage wealth accumulation.

Try Bay Area - with tech salaries there and stocks growth being what they were this past decade, the real question is how is it not possible (if only you wanted) to have made $2M+ working for a FAANG for a decade there.

Or at least go for Switzerland, although market is much smaller there, beware. But I know multiple multimillionares in person who made it all on Google Zurich payroll.
I think it was with the seq2seq paper of Sutskever, Vinyals and Le in 2014: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3215

People were doing a mix of learning from data and hand engineered solutions before this, but this was the first system learned end-to-end, afaik.
Indeed, but it didn't had anything that justified actually paying big bucks for an Alpha.
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It might still be headed our way. Corporations might have a friendlier face, but that's mostly so we'll happily trust them with our data.
The thing is, this is very personal. No one knows you better than yourself.

I wish people were allowed to just experiment with different solutions. Sign a paper saying that you take full responsibility and they're not obligated to treat you and that's it.

Some people live in areas that good doctors left a long time ago.
Pai was originally nominated to be FCC commissioner in 2011 by President Obama during his first term.
> Ok, but then why not for the flu. It kills people too, just not as many.

Literally because of "just not as many" part. Yes, real world policies do some cold calculations about "how many people die" and have arbitrary lines. Arbitrary lines are actually ok. Better then arbitrary line on either "never ever" or "totally all the time" extreme. Also, we literally close schools when flu get out of control in some area - for a week or so and that is enough for flu to get under control. There is also huge push for flu vaccines each year. It is not true that no flu management is done, there is a lot of flu management going on.

Like, I dont know whether it is consequences of two party system, but the whole "we either lock everything for every reason or never nothing at all" and "we cant possibly think in probabilities and death rates and nuance" is frankly, idiotic.
Wasn’t 27W for the whole Mac Mini machine using a meter at the wall plug? So that includes losses in the power supply and ssd and everything else outside the chip that uses a bit of juice whereas the AMD tdp is just the chip. I thought Anandtech said there was currently no reliable way to do an ‘apples to apples’ tdp comparison?

Edit: quote from anandtech:

“As we had access to the Mac mini rather than a Macbook, it meant that power measurement was rather simple on the device as we can just hook up a meter to the AC input of the device. It’s to be noted with a huge disclaimer that because we are measuring AC wall power here, the power figures aren’t directly comparable to that of battery-powered devices, as the Mac mini’s power supply will incur a efficiency loss greater than that of other mobile SoCs, as well as TDP figures contemporary vendors such as Intel or AMD publish.”