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Because they'd much rather use their own high-density server designs instead of dealing with Macs that really aren't made for datacenters, and M1 has no clear must-have benefit over those justifying that effort outside of the macOS use case.

Now if Apple were to selling/license M1 chips to them, that might be different, but there is no indication that's going to happen in any way, and then the current work based on Macs wouldn't really be preparation for it.
So people came in looking to get rich quick, killed all the indians by scalping them and from disease, the largest land migration in world history..... (1840s). Sounds about right.
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hi! my name is shae koberle and i’m looking for a co-founder with experience with full-stack encrypted app development. i’m a senior at UCLA graduating in the end of winter quarter and am currently working in the Blackstone Fall internship program for entrepreneurs. Being 20 and living through the age of cambridge analytica and Q-anon, I noticed that there’s so much distrust in government and a surge of political engagement. Our ideal app would connect interested voters with canvassers and give the users a veil of encrypted privacy when asking their questions. Canvassing is a $6.4 billion industry that’s largely ineffective, and there’s no way for people to engage with local politics without giving up their personal information. The national swing-voter turn around is only 7%, which we believe we can beat. We have successfully beta tested our encrypted chat (website) and spoken with a handful of interested field directors. My team consists of myself (CEO), my COS Sina (‘20), and our programming intern Tim. A little bit about me, I major in philosophy and political theory at UCLA, set to graduate at 20. I took time off of school to pursue a start-up, Glamnetic, as the sole employee in the companies first six months. The start-up ended up becoming a multi-million dollar start-up in its first year. I am proficient in marketing, brand-strategy, and accounting. I’m also incredibly dedicated to the company and am set to pursue it full time after this upcoming quarter. My dream is to join YC, however I want to find a co-founder who is as passionate about this as I am and can develop the app. Thank you for reading
The conclusion we came to is that such a being would have to have it's own, metaphysically superior, time and space, and our time would be a subtime of it as well as our space would be a subspace of it.

The concept of a being subject to causality presupposes something akin to time.
> Part of your proofreading process should also be reading your posts aloud. My editor encouraged me to do this, and I was amazed at how effectively it catches careless errors and unnatural wording.

A related writing hack for mac OS users, is to use the built-in text-to-speech tools Accessibility > Speech and make the computer read your drafts to you.

See info for how to setup a keyboard shortcut here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem...
Are you seriously saying that new consumers have control over the production of housing supply?
As someone with a constant vitamin D insufficiency I'd like to remind people that absorbtion is very difficult - you have to take it with a fatty meal!

> The presence of fat in a meal with which a vitamin D-3 supplement is taken significantly enhances absorption of the supplement [1]

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25441954
Congratulations on some incredible work, Alex. Are you considering going into the hosting business? Seems like a logical progression.
Hmm, I'd be interested to see how one could define logical causality without accidently defining something that has all of the properties of time!
Insert any decade in the past and you can tell the same story...
My point is that all of this is devilishly multi-variate, and it will be a while before we can disentangle everything and determine what exactly works and why.

People saying "NZ's lockdowns worked" without actually having done the hard part is not helping.
But even in USA you can go and get blood test without a doctor.
Secure, safe, and equitable vaccine distribution
Yeah right, so I was thinking, identity provider can verify the user data and can give a cryptographically signed document back to the user to hold. This document contains the digital signature of the the identity provider which can be verified by anyone as long as they have his public key. Does that makes sense?
Complicated?

US intelligence agencies love extremely complicated scenarios, plausible deniability is a feature not a bug.

One example.... STUXNET

The amount of time, skill and manpower it took to pull that off.
Superscalar vs super-pipelining isn't new. If there's no magic, then a third wider would likely exactly decrease the boost clock by a third with perfect code. With SMT off, I get 25-50% more performance on single threaded benchmarks, that's because a thread does get full access to 50% more decode/execution units in the same cycle. It's not that simple again, but that's likely the simplest example.

The M1 is definitely a significantly different point in the design space. Intel is also doing big/little designs with Lakefield, but it's still a bit early to see where that goes for x64. I don't think Intel/AMD have specifically avoided going wider as fast as Apple; AVX/AVX2/AVX512 probably take up more die-area than going 1/3 wider, and that's what they've focused on with extensions over the years. If there is an x64 ISA limitation to going wider, we'll find out, but that's highly unlikely IMO.
This seems 100% about building in XCode, which leaves me wondering why it's being offered as an EC2 instance instead of some higher order build tool. Is there a use case I'm missing?
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Rust’s ownership and concurrency model prevent you from writing such broken code by accident. The early code examples in the article wouldn’t compile in Rust: you have to use atomic types explicitly, or pass values around explicitly (which will most commonly match the two paradigms of memory sharing and message passing). Rust makes doing things the way shown here quite difficult, which is a good thing, because the idiomatic functionally-equivalent code in Rust will be much easier to follow.
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I think it is necessary to work to start to actually make a new browser engine from the start, rather than being based on an existing one (except possibly some of the code from NetSurf). I wrote a list of how to make a better web browser (among other things, half of JavaScript DOM APIs are not implemented or are implemented differently, many core features (including some of the definitions of HTML and of the core protocols) are actually included extensions, and extensions would be commonly written in C for efficiency). Some things might not be compatible, but I don't care. I want full control as a user, and I want it for assuming the user has read the documentation and knows how to do it, rather than being stupid and trying to protect the user from themself, better is to allowing you to "have enough ropes to hang yourself and also a few more just in case" like the UNIX philosophy is. (People who don't like that can continue to use the browsers they have.)

I can post the list I have later once I have written a bit more.
I'm trying to document the practice of blackballing by enterprises who practice it [among other things]. This also involves the complicity of placement agencies who demand the last four digits of your social security number before consideration for submittal.
Any information about existing law suits, potential pro bono services, or your personal experiences in being ghosted for jobs this way is good information.
> Also, at the risk of victim blaming, maybe it isn't such a good idea to have your deposits/withdraws lined up on the same day? Deposits can get delayed/withheld, and withdraws can be moved up unexpectedly. Leaving zero days between a deposit and a withdraw is just asking for trouble.

I'm not sure you understood the example that GP gave; there was no mention of withdrawals. The idea was that you have $20 in your account, you buy something for $10, then later buy something else for $10, and then later buy something for $20, and the bank reverses the order of applying the transaction and says that you made two purchases after your account was empty, so you get charged two overdraft fees.
BSDP + IPKVM?
Until we know what Japan did right [0] (or any non-behavioral advantage they may have had) is completely pointless to try to frame them as an example or anything alike.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53188847
> The web is dying because no one wants to pay for it. The people who used to pay for it (the investors) no longer pay, the remaining good quality web is just a sidekick for their actual business.

This is such a baffling take, and undermines your entire post. There's more money changing hands than ever on the web, and plenty of people lining up to do so. And moreover, the "open" web was never paid for by investors, it was almost always paid for by volunteers and people taking donations. And there are tons of truly open projects being created and maintained this way - I can think of a dozen off the top of my head, and the success of patreon speaks for itself.
I've replicated them myself with my own code, so I'm pretty confident. It doesn't hurt that my numbers match Anandtech's, at least for the range of arrays they use and only using a single thread.

On pretty much any current CPU if you randomly access an array significantly larger than cache (12MB in the M1 case) you end up thrashing the TLB which significantly impacts latency. The number of pages that can be quickly access depends on the number of page in the TLB.

To separate out TLB latency from memory latency I allow controlling size of the sliding window for randomizing the array, so that only a few pages are heavily used at any one time, while visiting each cache line exactly once.

That's exactly what the brown "R per RV prange" does. For more info look at the description at:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14072/the-samsung-galaxy-s10p...

My code builds an array, then does a knuth shuffle, but modified so the maximum shuffle distance is 64 pages, so the average shuffle is 32 pages or so. I get a nice clean line at 34ns. With 2 or 4 threads I get a throughput (not true latency) of a cacheline every 21ns. With 8 threads (using the 4 slow and 4 fast cores) I get a somewhat better cacheline per 12.5ns.

Pretty stunning to have latencies that low on a low end $700 mac mini that embarrasses machines that costs 10x that much. Even high end Epyc machines (200 watt TDP) with 8 x 64 bit memory channels have to try hard to get a cacheline every 10ns.
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Please tell me this is a typo, and you actually meant $1/day.
It's definitely a face detection thing for some of them. My spouse had to deal with all of her black students being hectored nonstop by the software because it had a hard time reading dark skin faces and was constantly interrupting them to accuse them of not looking in the correct direction.
> SLS from ULA

Just one note on that: Boeing is the company building the SLS core stage, not ULA. While ULA is partially owned by Boeing (joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin), they operate independently.

ULA can't quite match SpaceX for style or cost these days, but they are consistently much better at what they do than Boeing is. Their launch success record is extraordinary, and their rockets provide certain capabilities that Falcon 9 and Heavy can't match without adding a kick stage to the payload.
I disagree. I think it’s obvious that if they went into it big, they wouldn’t just buy retail Macs. The current work would be testing the market and the experience of providing MacOS as a server. If there’s demand for server M1 chips, why wouldn’t Apple sell them? It’s a completely different market from their laptop consumer business. Bottom line: if the market demands M1 on servers, there’s billions to be made supplying them.
The only headers I sent were Connection and Host. But it does not matter if he guesses correctly. His bet is I am using a phone. My bet is I am not. Fact is I am not using a phone. I use a phone as a cellular or wifi phone and for GPS, but never for web browsing.
I appreciate learning more about what, exactly, ARM's "weaker memory model" constitutes. It's clearer to me after reading this article.

I wonder how much the gain in performance of e.g. Apple's M1 chip, compared to an x86 CPU, can be attributed to this weaker constraint. Given that the M1 can outperform an x86 CPU even when emulating x86 code, perhaps it's not much.

Also, I suspect programming languages that are immutable by default will gain a larger advantage using ARM's weaker memory model, as the compiler can more often safely let the CPU perform reordering (due to not having to wait for a mutable variable being updated until it can execute a subsequent line of code which depends on this updated variable).
WTF is CSIDH? Is it Diffie-Hellman with Alice and Bob replaced by Calleigh and Horatio? Are we just upvoting anything by Applebaum without looking at it?
They are making these claim using the EEMBC benchmark. This must be an interesting benchmark as they claim the fastest chip on the EEMBC benchmark is a Cortex-A9, a 8 year old design.
It’s the economics of it all. Industrial design costs a lot of money. Money requires margins. There is little margin to be had in building PCs after Intel/AMD, Nvidia, Realtek, etc all take their cut. And let’s not forget Microsoft getting their pound of flesh for Windows. The modern PC is simply packaging.

The flashy gaming PCs with cheap LED lights and backlit keyboards have allowed the manufacturers to increase their margin enough to stay in business, but not enough to fund the kind of industrial design that Apple puts forward.
The degree to which Instagram or Pinterest bleed into the "old web" is hurting the surfing experience of those who want to stay outside of those walled gardens.

There are millions of entry points into those walled gardens, which stop me right at the gate. I can't see a timelapse of a solar flare, because the photographer [1] has been lured into using Instagram as his publishing platform in return for a better interaction with "followers". From a technical viewpoint, there is no reason for this restriction. This is breaking the old internet.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/cosmic_background/
Agreed. And these kind of numbers are pretty meaningless to me unless and until I can actually see 'em in practice, i.e. on my desk.
not a typo. $1/day would be extremely cheap.
The A9 is a 32b core from 2010 (it was used in the iPhone 4S SoC), the M1 is a high-performance 64B SoC from 2020. I’ve no idea what they’re even trying to say here.
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Amazon lists the price of mac1 instances (running on rack-mounted Intel Mac Minis) at $1.083 per hour, $9,487 per year. You have to pay for 24 hours up front, after which they bill by the second. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/pricing/

They don't yet display any reservation pricing for mac1 instances, but they do offer a "savings plan." https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/pricing/

If you pay for three years up front, you can pay $0.764 per hour, $6,692 per year, 29% off. I believe that's the lowest price Amazon will offer you.

For comparison, you can rent an equivalent Mac Mini from MacStadium for $139/month, $1,668/year. Or you can rent their cheapest model for $59/month, $708/year.

You can also buy the equivalent Mac Mini for $1,899.
Still need to run `xcodebuild` at produce a binary.
I just don’t get why comments like this are downvoted. But I do suspect this makes Hacker News what it is. Good at surfacing a certain x to y percentile of a certain way of looking at things.

It’s not a place to brainstorm or be open minded about new ways of thinking successfully - not very very often. More a place to surface small useful bits of information that people find (a) useful and (b) that people are passionate about already. And there’s a lot of value in that as a reader. And some value as writer in practicing articulation of very clearly thought-out ideas.

But yeah - today I realized HN and ‘I wonder if...’ comments don’t really jive together.
Afraid not, but you can get much better pricing at MacStadium.
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I had a friend who solved the structure of 2 or 3 new proteins pretty much by himself his senior year of college. I also had an acquaintance who was a PhD student in the same lab, who said (jokingly) that she hated him because she had spent 5 years on a single protein and got way worse results than he did. I got the sense from talking to them that the process of figuring out how to get a protein to crystallize is basically just trial and error over and over—my friend himself said he basically got very lucky several times in a row (though he is also a brilliant biochemist).

Anyway that anecdote is pretty much the entire sum of my protein crystallography knowledge, but perhaps it explains how your experience and GP's statement can both be true?
Correcting my non-expert inaccuracies in this thread: I just learned that Diaconescu's theorem depends on the axiom of choice, which I'd missed even though I'd glanced at the code for classical.em a few times. So, LEM definitely depends on the axiom of choice in Lean.
Almost zero.

Queues or streams may have lockless properties. Or maybe not!

For the most part concurrent, mutable access to a shared data structure is undesirable and to be avoided.

If you find yourself wanting a lockless hashmap you’re going down the wrong path 99.9% of the time. There are always exceptions. But you better have a REALLY good reason why.
How can this be viable cost wise. With their minimum billing of $1.083 an hour, and a minimum of 24 hour billing, unless you want this for a short time only, these costs are way too high. macstasium.com has much lower costs for this.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/swiss-policy-research/ for analysis.

It's a strange site where they mix both facts and misinformation.
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> When I publish a blog post and it flops, I don’t get much feedback about why it was unsuccessful. To date, none of my readers have written to say, “Hey, you had great ideas in that post, but I never read them because your repetitive sentence structure lost my attention, and I closed the tab.” An editor actually can give me that kind of feedback.

danluu also hired an editor and says something similar aboout feedback, per this https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
Thing is, what you call unfair or cheating is only true when 1: the rulebook says so, 2: one is caught doing it, 3: when the evidence is indisputable & the interpretation of the rule is agreed upon.

Many big strides forward in sports are accomplished by re-interpreting understanding of said rules and coming up with possibilities that others have not yet thought about.

Take the Ten Commandments as example. Easy enough, at first glance. But the interpretation has been going on for about 6000 years with no end in sight.
The site actually crashed about 30 seconds past midnight, and was down for around 6 minutes -- much to the alarm of solvers like me, who began furiously resubmitting their solutions, hoping to get through!

I've never seen the site go down before; seems like AoC is more popular than ever this year. I wonder if the outage was caused by people running scripts to repeatedly request the Day 1 input.

Anyway, huge props to @ericwastl for creating another installment of AoC despite all the craziness this year. It's a much-needed distraction. :)
The "plenty of exceptions" part is the key! There are truly a lot of exceptions, and you can subsist eating entirely local, authentic, interesting, and healthy food in any mid-sized American city if you make it a priority.
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Goal is get into competition with big job search engines any and all ideas are welcome :)
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I would expect the death toll to be lower in sunny countries and higher in north. Italy and Spain was hit quite hard, but that was maybe because of a older population. But if D insufficiency is a leading factor, should you not see more deaths in the “younger” population in less sunny countries?
Around July 2020, I met a random woman at a grocery store in Northern Arizona [0] who said her symptoms of COVID-19 started on December 7 2019, soon after her friends came back from their trip to China. Her main symptom was coughing up lots of bloody mucous. She said her doctors didn't know what to make of her. She was tested her for SARS-CoV-2 when the test became available (February?). The test came back positive, and she was better by March.

I just retweeted Dr. Fiegl-Ding's tweet about this story. There should be more discussion of #earlycovid (cases of COVID-19 before the pandemic was declared). https://twitter.com/TaxiCabJesus/status/1333627148607766528

Lots of other comments on Dr. Ding's tweet are of anecdotes of experiences of #earlycovid, or about people who they think had #earlycovid.

Question: if COVID-19 was everywhere in the world before the pandemic officially started, what are the implications for the efforts to "contain" the virus? Should we not declare a cease-fire?

Question: Is there any point in getting the vaccine if you've probably already had COVID-19?

Quesiton: What is a better hashtag for efforts to falsify the Covid-19 narrative?

[0] quick-check line, woman in front of me came back with whatever she went back for. Me: "Ma'am, I'm so sorry for invading your safety bubble." Her: "don't worry about me, I've already had it."
Well, Whole Foods used to be SaferWay (Spoof of SafeWay).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Foods_Market
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He's one in a 1000/10000/100000/etc. - don't feel too bad.

Most work is never going to anywhere, no mater how smart or talented you are. Tons of highly intelligent and motivated people out there, working on dead-end projects. (not that there's not any value in such work, but for the vast majority, we're not going to be single contributors that significantly move the needle).
Don’t forget the bandwidth premium you pay at Amazon AWS.

Paying these premiums is all in the furtherance of a good cause called “Bezos getting another hundy billion to his name”.
Very good point!

I don't want to back the idea that Apple does make long-lived laptops, only that it's hypothetically possible they do sometimes :-)

My 2013 MBP is still going strong thankfully, I'm very happy with it still after all these years.
Wonder no more, as absolutely no one is out to get the oil industry just for the sake of harming it. Plenty of people will lie and are paid to lie for the sake of helping it. The green propagandists are funded by themselves and philanthropists, by people who understand greenhouse gasses and the need to be miserly with our oil consumption to reduce human suffering. Some grifters have tried to make money on green products, but that is no different than in any other industry of mostly honest motives.
Their figure of merit is performance per watt, not performance.
Fission and fusion is a quantum leap. It's like going from the Babbage Differential Engine to a Ryzen 7 1700X.

You can't iterate your way from fission to fusion, but you can iterate your way from the Merlin to the Raptor.

The Raptor which, by the way, is not even that far ahead of what came before it.
We weren't "rejecting most of candidates from Google" - I never said that. We were trying to pouch some really good people from them. The standards weren't the problem because we were hiring a lot of SWEs. Literally hundreds in few years. And companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. do have a large pool of above average pool of engineers. But it's not like just because someone works there makes them necessarily a hire. Same with schools.