skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where it might help more is by reducing the power needed to run the ram. Putting it on package keeps the trace lengths to a minimum and might reduce the power the memory controller needs to talk to it.
> Through some complex bio-chem, the mRNA that codes for the spike protein gets into your cells

Is this bio-chem designed by Moderna, or is it just a property of the mRNA? Does all mRNA follow the same path into the cell?
I'm very pro-mask but cases are skyrocketing everywhere, even in countries like France and Italy where masking is the norm. I don't presume to know how to fix the issue, but virologist knew this was going to happen -- it is called seasonal forcing[1]. There is going to be another spike in a few months again, even with the vaccines and masks.

On top of science, the mask guidance in the US has switched multiple times [2]. We had a chance get this messaging right but we (the Trump administration) completely fucked that up. A lot of US institutions have lost their credibility, and it is not going to be easy for them to get it back.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339321846_Impact_of...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/health/face-masks-us-guidance...
so much this! I want XPrivacy out of the box, and whats with the blocking me from recording my own calls? I want that too.
Yes, I will complain about illegal aliens getting benefits. Those benefits are not meant for them. They are taking resources from law-abiding citizens & residents. The cost of illegal aliens far outweighs any amount they pay in taxes [1].

> At the federal level, about one-third of outlays are matched by tax collections from illegal
aliens. At the state and local level, an average of less than 5 percent of the public costs
associated with illegal immigration is recouped through taxes collected from illegal aliens.

> Most illegal aliens do not pay income taxes. Among those who do, much of the revenues
collected are refunded to the illegal aliens when they file tax returns. Many are also claiming
tax credits resulting in payments from the U.S. Treasury.

A significant fraction of those illegal aliens actually commit fraud by using someone else's SSN. And a large amount of others pay zero tax, because they are paid under the table.

Spare me your criminal-coddling, all illegal aliens should be deported immediately.

[1] https://www.fairus.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/USCostStu...
So what's going to happen to fold.it and folding@home now?
Nice, that somewhat reminds me of urllib3 versus requests. Used to use the former but then requests is/was so much simpler for most stuff.
There is a fallacy here. Yes, these things are cyclical, but rents are still not crashing to levels affordable to the working class. The bay area is getting the worst of both worlds: a crisis on the streets and, even despite recent decreases, rents unaffordable to normal working people. This is sort of unprecedented uncharted territory beyond the boom and bust cycles up until this point. The people you wrote about in the last paragraph still can't afford to get in, and it's not like there is a lot of work in, say, the restaurant industry right now to finance these side efforts.
while most big tech "fanboy" clubs don't exist anymore (e.g. google), apple's seems to be still going on

They also still uphold their founder's cult of personality
See also the news in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
Scientists reveal regions of the brain where serotonin promotes patience
While not significantly better, XNU on Apple Silicon uses 16kB pages already.
Dunno, rumors claim 8 fast cores and 4 slow cores for the follow up. With some package tweaks I think they could double the ram to 32GB inside the package and leave the motherboard interface untouched.

I do wonder how many use cases actually need more then 32GB when you have a low latency NVMe flash with 5+ GB/sec of bandwidth and relatively low latencies. Especially with the special magic sauce that I've seen mentioned related to hardware acceleration for either compressing memory or maybe it was compressing swap.

In any case, I'm not expecting the top of the line for the next releases. Step 1 is low end (mba, mbp13", and mini). Step 2 is mid range, rumored to be a MBP 14.1" and 16 in first half of 2021". After that presumably the mac pro desktop and Imac's "within 2 years". Maybe step #3 will be a dual socket version of step #2 with of course double the ram.
It's very interesting to see H. G. Wells being so optimistic about the future, merely a decade after WWI and the atrocities therein (does anyone know if he fought in the Great War?):

> And what this film anticipates is not unemployment, but drudge employment, which is precisely what is passing away. Its fabricators have not even realized that the machine ousts the drudge. [...] 'Efficiency' means large-scale productions, machinery as fully developed as possible, and high wages.

Of course, he ended up being wrong and Metropolis (along with Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times) ended up being eerily right. Modern life is a drudge. People don't toil in the fields, but they waste away in office buildings. The internet wasn't the harbinger of a new Enlightenment, but often does the opposite: it proliferates ignorance.
"This was the dream of the future everyone had, once."

In a 2014 interview[1], William Gibson said:

"It hasn't ever really been a monolithic thing. The gleaming kitchens and the monorail and the flying cars, and all of that, in the 1950's coexisted with a strain of left-leaning American sociopolitically aware prose science fiction, which was being published in contrast to its political opposite -- the political opposite was called Astounding Stories and the liberal scifi magazine was called Galaxy, and the writers.. there was a little bit of crossover and they would drink together when they went to science fiction conventions but otherwise they didn't have much to do with one another."

"If you look at the stories that were being published in Galaxy, they were quite dystopian and grittier and more naturalistic, and to my mind altogether more intelligent, but that's sort of a matter of taste, so it's never all one scenario, though we tend to remember it that way."

[1] - at around 18 minutes in to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlvle5YBv4
On the other end of the spectrum you have France and Spain with new lockdowns and high mask compliance.

Public health coupled with the communication of it is a damnadly hard subject.
I feel like DeepMind has a disproportionately large scientific impact relative to its resource pool. How would one (or a group) go about replicating its success?
I'm seeing this:

> This is not available to you
Continuing the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25259370
Of course, they havent solved everything, but you seem to be doing exactly what I accuse that entire field (and academia in general) of doing - which is to insist a problem is intractable or hard and undermine someone potentially challenging that. When they released the 2018 results tbey field did embrace it (for sure I'd consider the groups organizing CASP as at least forward thinking) but was still skeptical on how much more progress it can make; now they blow everyone's minds again by a monumental leap and again people want to come say of course this is the last big jump!

I understand the self preservation instincts that kick in when there's a suggestion that the entire field has been in a dark age for a while, but I hope you can see that there might be something fundamentally wrong with how research is done in academia and that is to blame for why this didn't happen sooner, and why it's so hard for many to embrace it.

Regarding your comments on the inapplicability of this current solution for docking, I'm sure that's the next project they're taking up, and let's see where that goes.

This is exactly the same type of progression that happened with Go, where when their software bet a professional player everyone's like "yeah but I bet he wasn't that good". A few years later and Lee Sedol just decided to retire. I am interested to see what happens to that entire academic field in a similar vein, though my interests are more in knowing how science can advance from more people thinking this way.
At least, individual Reddit moderators remove them (I have first hand experience). I've heard reports of removals on many platforms.
The huge spike happens and people adjust. They take less risks. Government mandates step in, businesses make decisions to close.

This isn't going to correlate to one thing. The seasonal impact is real, but that doesn't mean lockdowns don't work.
The Tesla LFP batteries aren't just million mile batteries, Jeff Dahn said there was no detectable degradation from cycling.

For those that don't know, LFP is only going to be in the short range M3 until more improvements in density (or better integration) hit mainstream.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25256318 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25256772
GP probably means that you won't be able to sell it, even if there is a compiler. (Not true in the super embedded space, sure.)
> IMO cyberpunk was maybe just too early. I think brain implants, gene editing, AI and other technologies are going to happen

I had a discussion with someone - "if the 21th century is the century of biotech" (the cliché in the Silicon Valley since the late 90s) is true, why are we seeing little progress? My reply was: perhaps biotech history will be similar to electronics history, and it's just too early for now. Spark-gap transmitters were put into service in the 1900 and started the electronic age. In the 1910-1920, vacuum tubes were invented (the entire radio industry started before we even had an RF amplifier). In the 1940s, the first generation of electronic computers came into existence. Transistors were invented in the 1950s and practical ones didn't exist until the 1960s. VLSI started in the early 70s, and it's only in the 1980 that the microcomputer revolution was finally here.

Although Moore's Law arguably is much older than VLSI, but it still took 40 years before the new science of electronics invented the computers, and another 40 years before VLSI's exponential growth. Thus, I wonder, is the Human Genome Project the spark-gap transmitters of our era? Then CRISPR-Cas9 is the vacuum tube? And today we see a Hacker News headline "AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology" [0], a breakthrough of protein folding using deep learning. Well, we are probably reaching the biotech equivalent of electromechanical computers right now. This "electronics-biotech" analogy seems right, if it's the case, brain-computer interface will be invented in the 2070s, like 1970s VLSI.

On the other hand, classic cyberpunk is always about the near-future. Its plots were usually based on a quick interpolation of the extreme growth of computing power we were seeing in the 80s, combined with the caricature of post-capitalism, it is only from this assumption that leads to radical social changes. If the story took place in the 22th century instead of 40 years later, it would be very "uncyberpunk". Cyberpunk's predictions has failed to materialize from this perspective. But it may still have a chance - if the singularitarianism are correct, the singularity will be there by 2050...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25253488
There has been talk of using eGPUs with the M1 chips. Obviously there would be downside to having to move stuff over a slow Thunderbolt 3 connection but given that the GPU can be much bigger, how do you think that would play out?

Would that offer higher performance? If so on what kind of workloads?
I doubt more taxes would help. If you're in California and San Francisco, your taxes are already higher than they would be in most other places in the USA. Before I'd agree to paying even more, I'd want to know what exactly my existing taxes are paying for, and why those things are more important than cleaning up literal shit from the sidewalks.
Amazon is still offering Kindle's with lifetime cellular connectivity [1]. I'm not sure what kind of arbitrage possibilities exist here...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-Paperwhite-Waterproof-...
They will be fine considering Los Angeles makes 10.5B function across 5x the population and 10x the land area.
Elon Musk said that he'd coup whoever he wants in order to get lithium... there is a lot at stake.
I think mostly the latter. Just like how strict voter ID laws are intended to disenfranchise certain voters who don't have ready access to photo ID.
Or, you know, they could just wear masks? Is that too much to ask?
They have certainly optimised against some key aspects of their software (eg Rosetta and reference counting) but that is not at the expense of other software. The M1 Arm CPUs are just very fast general purpose CPUs.

Word and Autocad also run on the Mac!
Funny thing is that an Apple computer or any smartphone deserves the title "Personal Computer" more than my Linux PC (which has multiple accounts which can be used simultaneously).

I think we'll see more Personal Computers and devices in the future. For example, Oculus Quest is only usable with a personal Facebook account, so I would say it's a PC by definition.
> At deaths per capita, they [ = Sweden] [a]re lower than UK, Spain, Italy, Belgium, and many more.

Which is not difficult because you picked the worst of the worst to compare them with. Compare them with other nordic countries like Norway or especially Finland and Sweden suddenly looks like a complete failure.
That's not a Pythonic thing. There are whole classes of problems where you'd have time-of-check vs time-of-use (TOCTTOU) bugs/vulnerabilities if you tried to do it differently.
An example of a contested scientific question from the article might be "what is the infection fatality rate?"

And I'm sure I don't know, but here's an article saying "A new study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London found the COVID-19 infection fatality ratio is about 1.15% of infected people in high-income nations and 0.23% in low-income nations." [1]

Which seems like quite a range? But they say it's because low-income nations have fewer old people.

These numbers are not like constants from physics. They aren't the same everywhere, they depend on the environment, and they can change over time. They depend on quality of care, which might improve due to doctors understanding the disease better, or degrade due to hospitals being overwhelmed.

[1] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201030/covid-19-infection-...
This is a really insightful question and I need to take some time to fully understand the ensuing discussion.

If my speculation is correct, then drug discovery should use a process of genetic programming, using something like this to score the resulting amino acid sequences. I'm wondering if an artificial process of evolution would be sufficient to satisfy the co-evolution assumption here.
>"if you can't get past that, move on."
What a nonsense attempt to shut down valid criticism. If you can't "get past" the fact that Hacker News enables comments, move on.

>"The intro paragraph is basically an ad because the free articles drive subscriptions for the paid ones"

He uses ", though," four separate times in a single post. Is that by design, because it's a free article?
Exactly. Econ 101. Lots of demand and no supply means prices rise. SF and other bay area cities are more than happy to build tons of office space for tens of thousands of office jobs, but when it comes to building the housing those new workers need to live... Nope. Office jobs mean revenue, houses mean costs. When you have to be a home owner to be on a city council, your incentives get a little perverse.
I'm pretty sure that this took more than 1 junior engineer-month.
That's why it's so important that all the people who can get the vaccine get it - this is the herd immunity everyone is yammering about. If the healthy people are vaccinated the virus won't be able to spread to the people who can't get vaccinated.
This is so cool. I hope they will also tackle the problem of predicting RNA structures and catalytic activity.
I saw that rumor as well. Looks compelling. What I’m holding out for is what they bring to the rumored redesigned 16 inch MacBook Pro and the rumored 14 inch MacBook Pro. I think I’ll choose between one of those.
Nobody can quite figure out what it is for except speculation and crime.

Bitcoin is a non-sovereign, hard-capped supply, global, immutable, decentralized digital store of value. It’s an insurance policy against monetary and fiscal policy irresponsibility from central banks and governments globally.
Intel had such an attitude once before.
Well anecdotally the only good marriages I’ve seen adhere to the above. The partner provides feedback but have no say in the final decision. In a marriage one person needs to be submissive. I’ve been married for more than a decade and we’ve never been happier. Individual agency is only important if you don’t have a community based aspect to your life that respects you explicitly for the larger good your submissive role plays for a better outcome from a community perspective. People need respect, individual agency is just a route to accomplishing that.
I (as a tech lead in IBM) had a sales visit from P.A. Semi years ago- we needed a CPU for a co-processor board. We didn't use their chip, and I was amazed that Apple bought them soon after. But then consider who was the founder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_W._Dobberpuhl
I don’t think much has changed in this regard, comedians are very often miserable complainers... in the past they usually just didn’t get frequent tv specials or series.

And to Seinfeld’s credit, his show seems to be intentionally more of a talk show than a comedy show. Bill Burr has ALWAYS complained about sensitivity (kind of a Denis Leary sibling), Lewis Black’s shtick is angry ranting... it’s an entire genre.

Comedians previously ran for much longer on much less material, at least as far as I can tell... and yeah sometimes if they had bad days they’d rant for their entire set... you just didn’t see it.
Funnily enough, one of the reasons I'm looking to move to Germany is to get richer. Salaries in Germany are significantly better than most of western Europe (UK, France, Spain, Italy…) for a similar cost of life.
While I can certainly understand a certain amount of frustration at Apple for using phrasing that has been used as an official marketing term, I also have to say that I don't think too highly of whoever came up with the idea that "HBM" should be an exclusive marketing term in the first place, when it's a very straightforward description of memory that includes, but is not limited to, memory within that specific label.

Based on what Apple's doing, it seems perfectly legitimate and reasonable to refer to the memory in the M1 Macs as "high-bandwidth memory", even if its lanes are not 1024 bits wide.
Components have flaws, or they break down over time, and soldering components hampers repair and reuse.
Their business model allowed for them to integrate GPU and video decoder. Of course it allows for this kind of integration. The author is not even in that industry, so a lot of his claims are fishy. Moore's law is not about frequency, for example.
Why aren't people marching on city hall about this?
Netflix finally acquiesced and paid ISPs (Verizon, AT&T, Cox) money to stop throttling their service. Though, this happened long before Pai took control of the FCC (~2014).

If you have one of those ISPs and Netflix, then you're paying your ISP twice: directly for the internet connection, and indirectly for the privilege of being able to use Netflix. This was literally the argument in support Net Neutrality, which ISPs said would never happen. It only took months for ISPs to capitalize.
For traversing a DAG you probably still would to avoid exploring an exponential number of paths (consider a chain of diamonds [1]).

1: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-diamond-shaped-DAG_fig...
She wasn't happy playing that talented Soviet kid. He isn't going away and neither is the rest of the Soviet team. It's pointed out earlier that the Soviet Union pays its players, while she is going to have to scrape by on tournament winnings and Christian charity offers with strings attached.

There's no way she's recovered from her addictions, she bought sedatives while in the USSR and only just managed to keep herself from taking them.

She has a cold, off-putting personality which is probably going to loose it's luster once her novelty has warn off. Her mother probably suffered from mental illness and there seems to be a reasonable chance she inherited it. There's a discussion that happens midway though the series about all the Chess grandmasters who lost their minds, which feels prophetic.
If you'd actually read, perhaps his biography, rather than just blowing smoke out your ass, you might know that he actually almost went bankrupt numerous times getting Tesla up and running. He wasn't a billionaire at the time. 'No risk involved' - wtf? Have you ever actually started a business? What a moron.
Show HN: My first Haskell package providing PostgreSQL database insights
OK, I could see how one could implement a variable width instruction decoder (e.g. "if there are 8 one-byte instructions in a row, handle them, otherwise fallback to 4-way decoding" -- of course much more sophisticated approach could be made).

But is this actually done? I honestly would be interested in a source for that; I just searched again and could find no source supporting this (but of course I may have simply not used the right search, I would not be surprised by that in the least). E.g. https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf#page216 makes no mention of this and calls AMD Zen (version 1; it doesn't saying anything on Zen 2/3).

I did find various sources which talk about how many instructions / µops can be scheduled at a time, and there it may be 8-way, but that's a completely different metric, isn't it?
In the full report (linked in the website) they mention this low awareness explicitly: 50% of the consumers are aware of the regulation, and half of them are sufficiently informed about what it involves. On the bright side, they also mention a “need for continued awareness-raising activities among traders and consumers about their obligations and rights“ as a direct action point for the Commission itself.

On a side note, I feel a similar relief as you. As much as I’d personally want a stricter and more enforced regulation, because it bugs me that I can’t access all the content I’d want, I admire that the Commission looks at a bigger picture and takes into considerations long-term effects on the media industry as well as the quality of the available content.
It is easy to dismiss any scientific study based on their limitations but to date, no other study has attempted to place any controls. We have mechanistic models based on incomplete transmission knowledge (is it airborne?) and we have observational studies where we look at what happened and attempt to adjust for certain variables.

It seems obvious by now that universal mask policies have not been very effective at controlling the transmission rate when compared to other variables: known and unknown. Maybe it is a little bit effective but that has not been conclusively shown yet. Where I live, the Ro value dropped below 1 before masks were required and shot well above 1 months later. Compliance is high, probably as high as any public health policy
> An internal communique obtained by the Globe stated “there were no roles for the vast majority” of workers in corporate functions already filled by ServiceNow. Element AI also told employees their stock options are “void and cancelled...with no value in lieu provided” in the deal.

Elsewhere in the article, it mentions that all investors were paid out. Startups have no credibility anymore to potential employees