skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note: This is an opinion article, and is definitely not a properly-contextualized roundup article on the topic.

Noting this clarifies some omissions from the narrative in the article -- e.g., the Sweden "success" is definitely mixed [1], and the US administration's messaging has been deliberately anti-science.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6513/159
"Only by entertaining a broader, scientifically informed view of what might work will the next phase of COVID-19 control be acceptable to a deeply divided public."

Sorry, but that's a claim without evidence - that the public might accept the next phase of COVID-19 control.
As the sister comments have noted they almost certainly could given the size of the die.

But in another sense you are right - Apple is throwing money at the problem: their scale and buying power means that they have forced their way to the front of the TSMC queue and bought all the 5nm capacity.
That is the standard little speech that I hear often repeated by McK employees. Like, "LOL, we don't do much, but we honestly try, but bureaucracy gets in the way." It's cute and funny on the surface, but I think it stops being funny when someone dives in deep and sees incentives that make a lot more sense than some nebulous concept of "political cover."

> His top deputy, Anthony Shorris, and other aides decided to hire a consulting firm. They solicited proposals from firms on a pre-approved list from the previous administration. Despite its lack of corrections experience, McKinsey won the contract.

> The mayor’s office denied that McKinsey was hired partly to provide political or legal cover, as did Shorris, who is now a senior adviser to McKinsey and teaches at Princeton University.

Now that's a reason a deal like this actually makes sense! I give you $27m in taxpayer money, and when I leave, you give me $x in return. That's a deal that makes a lot more sense than paying 24 year old NYU grads to solve big problems with powerpoint and linear regressions.
"Up to 1914 Wells was in the main a true prophet ... [but] Wells is too sane to understand the modern world. The succession of lower-middle-class novels which are his greatest achievement stopped short at the other war and never really began again, and since 1920 he has squandered his talents in slaying paper dragons."[0]

[0] George Orwell: https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/wells/english/e_whws
Not OP, but they're referring to situations when players call their own lines. (Virtually all amateur matches.) If you are horrible (or blatantly biased) at calling lines, your opponent can call the tournament referee, and you may end up with a line judge. But that takes time, and only happens after you aggravate your opponent. If you wait until a key moment to make a bad call in your favor, your opponent won't be able to reverse it, even if they call the referee and get a third party to call the lines for the rest of the match.

This is a particularly big issue in competitive junior tennis, unfortunately.
The amazing thing is that the halo’s utility was still argued about and debated after the 2018 crash in Belgium between Alonso and Leclerc.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wMymLt7NOTg
> Science isn't in the business of answering why.

I agree as long as science is a business. But why is science a business?

If science is not meant to answer why, does this mean we cannot know why?

should we just give up on having story-like (narrative) explanations for why and how things work? it seems like we are headed to a world where the computer just tells us what to do and where to go. a world in which we are free from having to think about why we are being told to do whatever it is we're doing. click (or tap) buttons, get tokens to buy food and pay rent.
> Chicago has a city budget of $12 billion this year with a population almost exactly three times higher. What in the hell are they spending money on?

1) San Francisco has a unified city-county government. The combined Chicago-Cook County budget is ~$20 billion.

2) San Francisco's budget includes both its public transportation agency (SFMTA) as well as its international airport (SFO). I'm not sure about Chicago, but I think Chicago's budget includes its two airports (ORD, MDW), but not CTA. Cook County's budget doesn't seem to include CTA, either. Airports generally pay for themselves (at least these 3 seem to), so they inflate headline budget numbers but are otherwise irrelevant. However, public transportation (including in SF) is usually a significant net cost.

3) The cost of living in San Francisco is much higher and therefore government pay scales in San Francisco are some of the highest in the country. Of course, many people choose to live far outside the city, but the pay still needs to compensate for the commute.

OTOH, San Francisco's budget DOES NOT include its K-12 public school system. (AFAIU, all school systems in California are separate entities principally funded by the state.) Chicago's budget DOES seem to include its K-12 public schools.

Fortunately, many of San Fransisco's discretionary expenditures are elastic, both due to their nature (e.g. homeless outreach) as well as SF's comparatively good public union relations. Next year's budget was scaled back by $1.2 billion ($13.6 -> $12.4).
absolutely. One thing that does temper this is that companies want to disproportionately reward the strategic businesses, so Microsoft will likely give higher commissions for selling Microsoft Teams than SQL Server. They have controls to prevent gaming that internally, although obviously not 100% effective.
Limitations summary, quoted directly from Benfield study[0]:

> Limitation:
Inconclusive results, missing data, variable adherence, patient-reported findings on home tests, no blinding, and no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others.

I would not be quick to promulgate or depend on the study.

[0] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
> If economic growth outpaces debt growth then it does not ever have to be paid back.

Bernie Maddoff said the same thing. He also tried to create a perpetual motion machine.

> Canada has been paying everyone $2000/month this whole time)

Canada has been lending everyone $2000/month this whole time.

> Bitcoin cannot and will not change the wealth gap when it’s overwhelmingly spoken for already.

Again, you don't understand what bitcoin is, nor money apparently. People don't stash money away, not all of it anyways, and specially not when its inflation rate is limited (as in there is not a lot of excess to stash like right now), they use it to buy stuff, to pay for stuff, to invest in stuff, they enjoy it, that is why you want money in the first place! Money is, was and always will be exchanged, which means it changes hands. Odd concept, I know.

> backed on an inflation schedule created and managed not by economists or experts but a narcotics smuggler and a bunch of random GitHub contributors.

Yes, the "experts" managing the "economy" right now are doing such a great job.

> just taking your ball to the BVI isn’t a solution.

At some point, sooner rather than later by the looks of it, it will be the only solution.

> If you really want to change society for the better, run for office, don’t shill magic beans.

Weird advice from someone convinced we'll never have to pay back our debts.
A professional association can also act as a simple indicator of quality, and encourage people to use membership as a screening tool. Something similar is commonly seen in tech fields with certifications; no law requires them, but they help in getting certain kinds of jobs, and they help employers screen potential hires for a certain competence floor.
It's because the driving wheel jerk from the front wheels being forced to turn will break your thumbs and/or other fingers.

You instinctively take your hands off the wheel if you have raced karts enough to get into a crash where you hurt your thumbs, that or you've trained to do it.

I even do it on racing sims some times, completely out of instinct.
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> I blame technology for our current predicament. If we didn't have computers and a global internet, there's no way we would be shutting down everything.

Why guess, we have The spanish flu to compare to. There was no internet then. There was however significant restrictions on people to control it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Responses
The question is, is it worth the risk of going to indoor weeding? At least for me its obviously yes.

The question is actually: is it worth the risk to all the other people that attendees at the wedding will subsequently interact with over the following 10 days or so?

You frame this as a matter of individual risk; it’s maddening to see so many just blatantly ignore that a transmissible disease has impact on people other than those who decide their exposure is worth the risk.
Mostly? I left google to work at a biotech startup working in a related area and found that the big three cloud providers have built systems that greatly improve computational science. That said, it's still a lot of work to get productive, many in the field are really resistant to changes like version control, continuous integration, testing, and architecting distributed systems for handling complex lab production environments.

Here's an exemplar of how I think it evolved well in a cloud world:
https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/

that project adopts many concepts from google and others and greatly improved our analytic capabilities for large-scale genomics.
Every time I see a platitude like this it reminds me of those self-compensating put-downs people use like "well she's so pretty, she must be dumb" etc. that have no reason to be true.

I feel like meaning is vastly oversold. People didn't have any meaning beyond "survive and make children" for millennia and they did fine. The whole search for meaning I feel has sprung up only among the people who have too much free time ;) I found that I became much happier when I explicitly rejected it, absurdism-style, and then at least partially internalized the notion... it doesn't quite get you back to the natural lack of concern that you have when you are young and don't think of life as finite, but it's the step in the right direction.
France is Getting a New Keyboard (2019)
Asking someone which of their relatives they'd like to die is clearly not arguing in good faith.
> in those cases it is obviously obvious.

Would it be possible for you to describe what it feels like to encounter an obvious cheater in chess? Is it simply who quickly they move, the strength of their moves, both, and/or something else?
Your clarification is important. However it makes this claim in the article even more interesting:

> The benchmark result of the Windows 10 ARM running on the Apple M1-powered MacBooks indicates that it is performing better than Microsoft’s own Surface Pro X. Based on the scores, it seems that the M1 is about 60% to 85% faster than the fastest Windows on ARM devices available right now.

Important note: I haven't been able to dig out the original post with that info from the message archive myself.
This. So far, after a week, my M1 is flawless. This is not first gen tech by a mile.

I’m slightly in shock to be honest. I was about to bail out to Linux and buy a monster PC but I can’t get a new Ryzen or Radeon card at the moment due to supply so I blew the cash on a Mini, which was actually in stock.
I've heard people from India say they don't have accent, but so do newyorkers.
Being native Spanish speaking, I find easier to harder english accents:

- Russian, Italians

- English RP (BBC)

- "Educated" American English (politicians, etc.)

- rural accents from the US

- India

- Ireland

- Australia

- UK popular accents
Even without mask, we still could go about our lives as nothing happen.
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One thing I noticed is increased disengagement with work as this pandemic goes on. I really do have trouble focusing or caring really about this shapeless virtual world I make my money in click clacking on my laptop on my couch knowing there is a pile of dirty dishes sitting there in the next room.
I guess it all boils down to the network effect of the Bitcoin network. It's the first mover advantage at play.
I agree, I think tires or barrels would be a much better choice for that barrier. But I think the concrete is an improvement, because at that angle you’d expect it to deflect at least some of the force, but it’s pretty borderline.

> Incidentally, I’m pretty sure areas where the Armco rail can’t be replaced with something safer and more modern due to space constraints are the reason some classic tracks are not rated by the FIA as safe for F1.

A lot of classic tracks wouldn’t get grade 1 status if they were built today, some of them are just kept on the calendar because they’re too classic to remove. Monaco and Spa are two examples. I don’t think they’d drop Spa, and they’re certainly not going to drop Monaco, but those circuits are not up to modern safety standards.
This is not the case. It's hard to overstate the magnitude of the increase in risk you take by pursuing a VC-backablr business strategy vs a bootstrappable one. There are many, many totally good business ideas that will "only" make you tens of millions of dollars and that can be executed relatively casually.
for the dollars invested, the amount of basic and applied results out weren't worth it.
Medrxiv.org allows anyone to read and comment on pre-print journal articles.
> Is anyone prevented from debating that question?

Maybe they're not prevented from debating it, but the sides will not take each other seriously.

For example, ponder your phrasing here:

> Do masks harm? Lol, no.

You say "Lol, no." as if this was a settled matter - inherently dismissing all possible criticism. There are studies that indicate that the higher concentration of bacteria which masks lead to in the area around your mouth may lead to an increase in dental issues.

Is this settled science? No. Does saying "Lol, no." do a disservice to the scientists trying to settle this? Yes.
In the past 14 days, 99.798% of residents in San Francisco County have NOT received a positive COVID-19 test.

See for yourself at https://thecovidcomplex.com/state/california/san%20francisco...

Full disclosure, I built this website. Data is sourced from the New York Times. It’s the same dataset they use to power the interactive map that was linked. And I just discovered I have an error sharing links to counties with spaces. Go figure lol

Edit: 4 minutes since posting and a downvote. At least explain yourself.
>If everyone wore masks then we wouldn't be where we are.

How do you know that?
This kind of "both sides" journalism is incredibly wishy washy and is, itself, political. Sweden, the model for the "Great Barrington Declaration" has failed to control the virus and has proven that you cannot both allow unchecked spread in the general population:

> Sweden has admitted its coronavirus immunity predictions were wrong as cases soar across the country

https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-herd-immunity-second-...

As for the article's dire warnings about downstream (presumably economic) impacts, my friends in many of the countries you named are able to go out and enjoy a night on the town, albeit in masks. I expect many of these economies to recover much faster than America.
Good science should be open to new ideas. I'm totally on board with mask wearing, social distancing, isolating when possible, etc. etc., but always keeping in mind the possibility that we could be wrong is a crucial factor in coming to objective truth through empirical means.

Reminds me of this blog post I read a while back: http://scott.wiersdorf.org/blarney/science

It's hard to disagree cordially and constructively when you perceive the "other side" as being uninformed, unenlightened, rude, or careless. We're really good at furnishing examples of such people which we generalize to represent the entire opposition.

I try and get over this by thinking what values other people have that might lead them to the conclusions that they do. I also try and think about what factors led them to the sets of information that they're working with. That has two effects: 1.) I'm less mad at them (usually), and 2.) I can understand how to talk to their concerns and worries, rather than just at them. I can't change other people, so I try and change myself.

I'm not saying I'm perfect at that—this doesn't always work as well as I'd like. What helps you to sympathize and communicate with others?
Unfortunately, this overrides all of your great benefits: American parents hate hearing their kids fuck and smelling them blaze chronic.
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

You can see normal flu seasons and the out-of-season huge spike. Then you can see subsequent bumps on a per-country basis. Some countries had multiple spikes and lockdowns etc.
In my observation this is just the way that people debate these days. They know that there are one or more contenders in the room but at least one that is in stark contrast to their view. They arrive at the most maximal conclusion possible, apply a moralistic impetus (everyone will die because of you and your ideas), we accept the proverbial threat and move on. If someone who isn't in stark contrast to their opinion continues to object then they just find a way to shove them in the box of whatever that stark contrast group is and follow the normal rules. The really creative part is when their contender also does this. At this point it's a race to the bottom of describing their opponent with various pejoratives and unrelated adjectives or sometimes it's as simple as having the best meme.
The problem with this is that newer products are often significantly more efficient.

The environment would likely be in worse shape if we were all still using CRT monitors, plasma TVs, old A/C units, incandescent lightbulbs, cars from the 70s.
You make this sound easy and side-effect free.
Well, because I can only speak for myself.

The impact goes both ways, preventing people to go to indoor weeding has impact on other people too.
Getting to (Ted Nelson's) Xanadu (2018)
Yes. "I'm just asking a question" is very commonly used for reasons that aren't actually related at all to the question itself.
Voting Machine Controversy (2003)
I guess this requires extending the architecture to 8-wide instructions when it makes sense.
I wonder how they managed that.
The first. Long lingering after effects. For some they are fairly minor, but for many they seem to be quite tough, with significant problems doing any kind of physical activity.

At the moment it's all quite nebulous, with a lot of anecdote and not enough data. But there are some studies starting up that might start to untangle what's going on.
Pokémon GO meets Orienteering Problems (2016) [pdf]
The Intel ISA has some very powerful instructions that allow it to keep performance up, but unfortunately decoding n x86 instructions involves doing a number of things that are O(n) in latency and O(n^2) in chip area/power - both instruction boundary detection and micro-op scheduling (since instructions can emit more than one uop) are included here. This isn't too bad when n is 4, but it has stressed both AMD and Intel's capabilities to make it to 8, and I don't think anyone would ever seriously consider building a 16-wide x86 machine. Once memory and I/O buses get fast enough to feed a 16-wide general-purpose computer, x86 as an architecture is in trouble. They have quietly gotten fast enough to feed an 8-wide machine.

LPDDR4 very quietly took the speed crown from DDR4 due to the fact that the signal integrity problems are less demanding (soldered vs DIMM being the standard interface), and it looks like the DDR interface may be near the end of its useful life. Transceiver-based memory modules using standards like CXL and CCIX may be the long-term fix to the problems of DDR4. In the short-term, those are going to hurt, but long-term they should be a lot better.
And now they're better than ever, right?

... Wait.
Took that one the wrong way - apologies.

I'm not sure we have something I'd call PMF yet. But again, that's all about your definition.
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They put an M1 in a mac mini, I think it just stands for Mac. "M2 Max" or something is exactly what I expect for their next desktop chip name
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> PC cameras are comical in comparison.

PCs usually do not have cameras. Laptops do, sometimes. But they are not meant to take photos - would you carry your laptop around for that?

The article does not get the facts right. There is huge R&D investment on the side of the big PC hardware manufacturers, just look at the big ones, AMD, Intel and Nvidia. There are also really nice Windows/Linux laptops. And great peripherals, with big changes over the years, just compare modern cases like a Lancool II 215 (which isn't even expensive) to what was common a decade ago. And of course the PC market did not grow as much as the smartphone market in the last decade - smartphones started from zero (well, add a few years), while many people that need a laptop or a PC do have one already.

Nonetheless the available market numbers for PC components and systems are not as bad as articles like this make it seem - and that was true even before the pandemic. Writers like this just always forget that when they want to paint a negative picture of PCs in favour of smartphones/tablets or when there is another round of "consoles will end PC gaming", which was never true in the slightest. There is no need for a closed off hardware platform like the Mac to save the PC.
Picturing the goodboys mom having to duck after having the 13th piss jug of the day thrown at her is killing me right now
Thanks for writing this up, good to know that santa is pretty safe in 2020
There is a lot unknown about the effects of various measures used to contain COVID-19. But the consequences of doing nothing are reasonably well known. We know the death rate by age well enough, we can suspect that there are significant long-term effects in survivors even if we don't know the full extent.

We also know that reducing contacts reduces the transmission of diseases like COVID-19. We might have no hard data on how well each measure works, but we know that reducing contacts does work in general.

The part I find problematic are the very generic "just protect the vulnerable populations" calls. I mean that would be a great solution for a virus with this kind of strong age dependency in lethality. But I still have no idea at all how we are supposed to protect the vulnerable populations while the virus is spreading among everyone else. For me this is just a slogan, not a real solution. I don't see how it could be possible to let the virus surge in a large part of the population while still reliably isolating everyone above 60 or so. I honestly don't see any way this can work at all, so I'm entirely baffled by this line of argument.
I think you are right in the P series, that would make a bunch of sense
But the context of this thread is that it is being done with soldered RAM. I don't know how much that matters, just pointing out that you are taking the conversation in a circle.
> There are no good Gmail cients for Windows

I use Mailspring (has both MacOS and Windows version).
OP here. Been working on tools to bring Nelson's dream to life for the last two years. Ready to launch our MVP and I'd sure appreciate any HN feedback. Thanks in advance!