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Pulling other cores into this discussion does nothing but muddy the waters.

The Firestorm cores in the M1 are 4.5X faster at SPECfp than the Icestorm cores. The Firestorm cores in the M1 are 3.1X faster at SPECint than the Icestorm cores.

In my world, the 3.1 - 4.5X faster sibling makes them very low performance, relatively. In a fully working together scenario, the "8" core M1 is equal in performance to a conceptual 4.5 core Firestorm part (see the Geekbench scaling, for instance). This, again, has positively nothing to do with any other core or part.

Bizarre that anyone thinks this is somehow negative or dismissive of the M1. It is an extraordinary chip. But they intentionally, purposefully put 4 very low performance -- compared to Firestorm -- cores because it matches the computing model of users average workload.
The negative publicity is a result of Google only providing feedback on her research paper, and forcing its retraction, through an HR mediated and anonymized process. That is toxic.
Absolutely right about the advantages of leverage. And with real estate, you can do a 1031 tax exchange and continue growing your wealth tax free indefinitely as long as you can pay the property taxes. Although, residential real estate offers a pittance in returns compared to commercial.

But I think almost everyone who doesn't have an interest in doing the grunt work of real estate investing would be better served sticking their money in an index fund ETF rather than real estate. It's drastically less work, less worry. Extremely low cost broad market index funds and ETFs are relatively new too, I'd be interested in seeing an analysis of performance after they went mainstream.
Why would I want that control when Docker on Mac does everything exactly the way I would do it if I set it up myself?

I don't want to maintain my own special-snowflake VM just to run docker containers on it. I want a dumb cattle VM running Container OS or an equivalent, whose only job is to run containers, ephemerally, connected to my host. The less it can do other than that, the better. In fact, best if it gets blown away on every restart.

Any statefulness is to be avoided, because a stateful Docker host might mislead me that my images will work in prod, when they're really dependent on something in my dev VM. Caches, databases, message queues? In development, they're ephemeral. Blow those containers away, please. I don't want any persistent volumes, host mounts, any of that. This is development, not deployment. Any data is just there to verify that the code is doing the right thing. Why would any such data need to live longer than the containers producing+consuming it?

(In the rare case that I do want a persistent database, I run it on the host. It's already a special snowflake; may as well treat it like one. As a bonus, this forces me to ensure my applications can target external resources using connection-string env-vars — which is almost-always relevant in production, where the DBMS is going to be some cluster external to the compute environment.)

> VM could be somewhere else. Or it could be on the local machine. Doesn't matter.

I don't know about docker itself, but I'm using Docker on Mac for Kubernetes "application" development. Targeting my commands to my local Docker-on-Mac k8s cluster vs a remote one is just a `kubectl config set-context` away. (Or you can do the same from the Docker on Mac tray menu.)
Growing up I always heard it was in Southern Illinois (where I grew up), as documented here:

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0118.shtml

> A far better documented incident occurred in southern Illinois in Williamson County in November 1926. "Bloody Williamson" had already garnered national notoriety during the 1920s as the site of labor unrest among coal mine unions, one of the bloodiest Ku Klux Klan wars in history, and gang warfare between two rival groups of liquor bootleggers. The Birger Gang, led by Russian immigrant Charlie Birger, and the Shelton Gang, led by brothers Carl, Earl and Bernie, had been involved in a bloody turf battle for domination of the southern Illinois liquor racket for several months. Their ever-escalating arms race had evolved from shotguns to tommy guns and even homemade trucks covered with armored plate used to shoot up each other's roadhouses.

> The warfare turned particularly violent in November 1926 as a series of shootings, bombings, and destruction of property caused terror throughout the county. Upping the ante once again, the Sheltons embarked on a bold plan to destroy the Birger Gang hideout, a place known as Shady Rest. They approached a pilot on a barnstorming tour and coerced him into taking a member of the gang on an overflight of the Birger roadhouse. On 12 November 1926, gang member Blackie Armes climbed aboard the old Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" biplane carrying several bombs, each made out of dynamite sticks bound around a bottle of nitroglycerine. While passing over Shady Rest, Armes lighted and dropped three of the devices. Only one exploded, missing its intended target and instead killing Birger's favorite bulldog and pet bird. Though initially stunned, members of the Birger gang fired back but did no damage. The shocked pilot flew back to the airfield, let the gangster off, and then immediately took off again, probably fearing for his life!
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No device this is going in has a large TDP budget. A unit tuned for a desktop heat sink will put in some interesting numbers. I'm curious to see when they put out a Mac Pro with an M-series chip. Or if server is ever coming back.
No offense taken. My point here is that this entire process of "changing the contract" was unnecessary on its face, and everyone involved knew it. The professional thing to do would have been to not spend the cycles even pursuing it.

It's like asking what the best way to write a lisp in INTERCAL would be. The best way is to not do it.
Can someone please ELI5 why the M1 is so much faster than every other ARM chip?
as CADBOT says, there is no license (or even standards body who could lobby for / issue one). You're allowed to ask what tasks the animal performs, then deny service so long as accommodations are made.

The correct solution is for businesses to grow a backbone and do that for all animals all the time until people gaming the system with fake ESAs give up.
I’m enjoying sitting on the sidelines and watching people “invest” in a digital “currency” that you cannot spend, does not produce cash flow, and whose values are determined by other shmucks buying it from previous shmucks.

What a time to be alive. No wonder the S&P 500 CAPE ratio is beyond the 1929 high. No one has any idea of what the intrinsic value is of anything.

Investing in companies that don’t make a profit, investing in companies whose investment returns are below real inflation, investing in SPACs that don’t expose financials.

You’d literally make more money today taking your cash and starting a business than dumping it in some of these worthless pursuits.
Don't know about historic but current is US gov and "lobbying" industries paying massive amounts to have drugs banned. Why should you be allowed to use the safe Cannabis that doesn't have any side effects and is dirt cheap to produce instead of the overpriced overly toxic and overly marketed biochemical agent developed by for profit companies.
I like the suggestion of the analogy in general. But a metaphor I'd use is a feedback system with a very long delay and very low decay constant. So definitely cyclic from that perspective! The signal chain is often split by guitarists with a dedicated A/B box too. So a fuller analogy would be a more complex pipeline.
I generally agree with your comment - industrial research is not academia. But (relative) freedom to publish is a very important consideration when attracting top-flight researchers. Especially in ML! I mean, even Apple's ML team publishes.

I'm not sure Google Brain's recruiting pitch includes a description of them blocking publication of a paper you'd worked a long time on (and even given them a heads up about, as Gebru apparently had). Their pitch is almost certainly about being able to do research similar to how you would in academia (except with more money and resources, etc.).
Do you have a similar problem with cash-only businesses?
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I'm not 100% sure, but perhaps this one? https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1274809417653866496?s...
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The managed cloud feature is great, so if there's a comparison happening it'll be much more valid if you do a like-to-like one. I'd be more interested to see that the numbers (performance and cost would be) if you ran the comparison with Timescale Cloud managed, on AWS, with EBS set up (and note IOPS settings) at a comparable provisioned size with multi-AZ failover. Doing that and checking costs would be much fairer from a cost-per-metric point of view.
ARM was a joint project between Apple, Acorn and VLSI, so you could say that they had a head-start on pretty much everyone except Acorn, who invented it in the first place.
Agreed - this is also why markets are inefficient and it can be easy to make money buying stocks.

M1 is a clear example of something a lot better where competitors are unable to keep up or adapt.

Yet tons of people in this thread still make up (bad) reasons why Intel/AMD have nothing to worry about.

I remember similarly dumb arguments about the iPhone too in 2007. Some people are just unable to recognize major change even when it's blindingly obvious.

Status quo bias is strong.
> Are you suggesting full-equality, like zero-crime, is something that doesn't exist? Or that our notion of what equality is evolves?

Both, to an extent. Avoiding problems in a large company is presumably a constant uphill struggle, and certainly society's view on it does evolve (often quite rapidly; I personally went from strictly speaking being outlawed before 1993 to having employment protections in 2000 to being allowed to marry in 2015, for instance).

> as it only requires that opportunity be similar

Even if you restrict it to that, it remains a huge problem for employers. To take the most basic example, there have been _endless_ studies showing that blinding resume review by removing names etc substantially changes outcomes in the very first stage of hiring (by impacting who gets called in for interview).
As someone who has struggled learning Rust, it's incredible to me you were able to do this so quickly. Had you spent much time prior with Rust?
I don't think the instrument platform was exactly designed to be heavy!
Then what is Gebru's solution to the FlickFaceHQ database having too many pictures of white people?
>99% of the time I just want to watch these films at home. I'm glad it's going to happen.

Fair enough. However the difference is that this has already been an option for people like you for roughly the last 50 years. This decision is the first solid indication that going to theater might not be an option for people like me in the future.
They might embarrass today's Threadripper. They don't exist yet, at least not outside an Apple lab. AMD's not sitting on their hands, either.
Is there any chance of avoiding personal attacks?
Well I wouldn't have a choice, so it wouldn't matter. They can get angry at the phone manufacturer instead of me.
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The hardest programs to run will not benefit here.

I don't need chrome to open up 0.1s faster.
In practical designs, flip flop outputs are regularly used as clock inputs and asynchronous set/reset inputs. If you used this latch as the output latch in a flip flop, it would glitch on the falling edge of the flip flop clock.

I didn't go through the entire game, so its entirely possible that it would not affect this particular "design". But as its far more educational than practical, I think its still worth mentioning.

> Especially because the d-flipflops found in standard cell libraries are frequently implemented as what amounts to two muxes and some inverters.

I'm curious where you've seen that implementation because I've never seen anything like that. Most of what I've seen uses two tri-state inverter latches.
The word "prescribe" can be used outside of a medical professional authorizing the use of something. A medical professional can prescribe a treatment of aspirin, for example. That doesn't mean aspirin requires a prescription.
Unions can represent workers in a single company. Most countries have laws about the rights and duties.
You have a point, but the key difference is the US is able to export its product worldwide using the military and corporations. I don't think Mexico has the same level of power.
Stop demanding so much from someone who has apparently been agrieved.
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> It is easy to debug a js function, but what about when you use angular or any other js framework ?

As someone who worked on a successful web-application perf-improvement project in a past life, my top 3 tricks were: 1. Profile, and use flame-graphs & call-graphs (with counts) to identify which parts are slow 2. Don't do unnecessary work 3. Execute code asynchronously whenever possible (requires balancing with code readability)

Not doing unnecessary work may be straight forward, and sometimes very complicated. Simple: some results are discarded, or some expensive functions are called for a minor side-effect just because developers were told to "maximize code reuse" at all costs. Complicated: understanding which function calls that unexpectedly block/delay browser rendering/painting
Where is all the mercury.com spam coming from. I am highly skeptical this is organic.
The statement as originally written implies that all people who are vaccinated can still transmit the disease. That may be true, but it's unlikely and we don't have enough data to say one way or the other yet.
Yea and to be clear i'm not saying it's not awesome. I'm just saying that a lot of things - like real world benchmarks of programs/etc - massively benefit from the proximity and speed of the RAM. Proximity seems to be a very difficult beast to scale. Works great in small scale, horrible in large scale.

Sidenote, even if Apple rolled out 128GiB tomorrow i probably couldn't afford it. As the OP says:

> including automobile-priced Mac Pros

That's rough.
There is an axiomatic approach that defines a logarithm as any function f(x) such that f(x•y) = f(x) + f(y). But it's easy to prove that this reduces to the usual definition for logarithms on the real numbers.
The same thing was said about home video, then video rental, then pay-per-view, then streaming, and now streaming during a pandemic. If there's one thing I've learned in my time on this earth, it's that there are plenty of people like you and I who love the social experience of going to a movie theater.

As an anecdote, my favorite moviegoing experience was when I was watching the Dark Knight during the first showing, at the point where Commissioner Gordon pulls of his mask, a guy in front of me jumped out of his seat and yelled "YEAH!! GORDON!!" The whole audience got a laugh, and it was just a really fun moment that only the thirty or so people who happened to be there got to experience.

Also, no matter how good your living room "home theater" is, it will never replicate a real auditorium that has had actual audio engineers work on setting up.
> BTC and a couple of others have the property of being valueable

I'm not sure this is a rock-solid argument. Ponzi schemes also have value (until they don't). MLM's are often massively valuable, too. But most people would acknowledge they're little more than scams to the huge majority of people "invested" in them.
The post-apocalyptic, young adult series "The Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld is based on a similar idea. A Fungus is created that causes petroleum products to explode when exposed to air (thus further spreading the spores).
Are you using a desktop tower?
The world's first global, decentralized, transparent, immutable ledger has come into existence. And you can own a piece of it by owning Bitcoin.

Who knows what it will be used for, but it will be used.
What sort of skill are you supposed to be training when you don't even know the time period or security you're trading? Just by staring at the brownian motion really hard?
The optimization proposed was whatever HTTP/2 does:

> "part of the idea with HTTP2 that the server can see everything you're asking for and more intelligently prioritize"

HTTP/2 prioritisation does in fact optimize continuously by starting lower priority streams when higher priority data isn't yet available, then pausing streams in mid-send as other higher priority streams' data becomes available.

The size of the send buffer makes a difference to how fast this can react, as I described. Details at Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-2-prioritization-with-nginx...

> "if the most important response takes longer to generate than lower priority responses, the server may end up starting to send data for a lower priority response and then interrupt its stream when the higher priority response becomes available"

> "the problem with large send buffers is that it limits the nimbleness of the server to adjust the data it is sending on a connection as high priority responses become available. Once the response data has been written into the TCP send buffer it is beyond the server’s control and has been committed to be delivered in the order it is written"

You proposed to replace this with HTTP/1.1 and multiple TCPs, which does not provide an equivalent optimization.

Browsers do in fact optimize HTTP/1.1 per asset by keeping a list of requests in priority order and running a limited number of TCP connections in parallel, but if they can use HTTP/2 that usually works out faster. On the internet for reasons described in the Cloudflare article, and also because giving as many requests to the server as possible up front allows the HTTP server to start fetching or generating lower priority assets sooner, hiding some backend latency - especially significant with load balancers, other reverse proxies, or HDD cold storage.
Overview here, pasted from another commenter elsewhere in this rabbit hole.

https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...
If it was used on someone positive would HIV mutate and allow that person to spread it to people who took the medication before being exposed to HIV?
Well, two things:

1. I think few companies are out there "hiring by race or gender". At most companies I know, affirmative action means hiring by skill, but making sure at least XX% of the hiring pool are women, black, etc. This really just means your resume is more likely to get seen and maybe you're more likely to get a first round, but not that "you're being hired by race or gender".

2. You could argue this is still unfair (although as previously stated, you're still hiring people who earned it based on skill). Unfortunately not doing anything would me more unfair, specifically by stagnating things in the problematic state they are now [1].

In the macro-historical context, white Americans brought African slaves to their country, and actively deprived of wealth and knowledge, right? That was a societal, conscious commitment to push these people down.

Now that they're free but seriously lacking wealth and behind on knowledge too, they're expected just create that wealth and knowledge themselves. Thanks to "unfair" institutions like public education, this is going to happen regardless, but very slowly unless there's a societal, conscious commitment to push these people up.

[1]: Having a huge chunk of your society be alienated not only socially but also economically leads to conflict, could worsen the gap instead of improving it, weakens social and cultural ties, etc.
the release groups don't publish much detail on their methods, lest they get patched. I doubt they use screen-capture, as this would involve reencoding an already bandwidth-starved video stream. my best guess is they have exploits for each service to extract and decrypt the stream, then remux into an mkv for distribution.
Was this the reason prices spiked last month?
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I am not a lawyer, but I have a long standing professional interest in the ADA.

It ain't over until it has been to court. The hurdle for the new agency rule is to demonstrate that this is not a violation of civil rights under the American's with Disabilities Act. For the past thirty years (almost) that's tended to be a high bar. How high? Well emotional support animals were flying because the airline industry didn't want to test it in court.

The agency rule gives the airlines additional cover. But an agency rule doesn't usually trump federal statute and the ADA doesn't explicitly delegate interpretation to ordinary federal agencies. Just the DoJ and the DoJ can be challenged in the Federal courts.

It might be over, but I wouldn't go all in betting on it. YMMV.
If the government buys the cocaine who are they going to sell it to? Smugglers in Guatemala?
As per this comment from dang, borrowed from scott_s - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18284457

> Most people overrate how funny their jokes are

In my observation, message board attempts at humour are often just sarcasm, which feels like humour to the writer, but to most readers it just comes over as bitterness, which is not funny or enjoyable to read at all.

Jokes that actually land go really well on HN.
You're willfully ignoring statements. Your father asked you to invest in one company's single security. The UAE, Singaporean and Norwegian wealth funds are invested in everything from real estate to stocks to bonds to private equity. If those funds were to fail, the cause of that would be because the underlying securities failed, which would imply a collapse of the global financial system.

As for the managers' capabilities, it's not some dude sitting in an office managing a trillion dollars - it's a team of highly brilliant investors who either invest directly or outsource the investing to multiple megafund investor firms across multiple risk profiles such as Blackrock or Blackstone or Vanguard or Citadel, all of whom hire really talented folks (unlike the typical investment banking industry). Nowhere near your dad advising you to invest in LBG.

Also the term "The Sun never sets on the British empire" implied geographical dominance across the world, not immortal dominance. Before you guys, it was the Spanish claiming that.
But at amazon they're blending them into the work force, is amazon contracting pinkerton or hiring their own? I guess it's just an undercover person on their security team?
> companies I've worked with (and I've worked with many) are large enough and have been around long enough to understand that re-architecting apps...is going to happen every couple of years no matter what

Like the commentator you responded to said. There are many fools in business.
> Companies hire activists because they want to look good without actually changing things.

I agree with this statement but for the life of me I can’t come up with a satisfactory answer as to why companies don’t want to actually change things. Is it purely institutional inertia? Are the benefits of a more diverse workplace not accepted by the powers that be, so efforts to achieve that are undermined?