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>You can't do what you do on a desktop on a laptop, not even a good one

Yeah… no, those days are over. The reviews clearly show the M1 Macs, including the MacBook Pro outperform most "desktops" at graphics-intensive tasks.

>So no, M1 is not comparable to a Threadripper, it's not even close, even if it consumes a lot more energy

Um… nobody is comparing an M1 Mac to a processor that often costs more than either the M1 Mac mini or MacBook Pro. However, the general consensus is the M1 outperforms PCs with mid to high-end GPUs and CPUs from Intel and AMD. Threadripper is a high-end, purpose build chip that can cost more than complete systems from most other companies, including Apple. However, it's at a cost of power consumption, special cooling in some cases, etc.

>Who cares if an M1 consumes less energy than a candle if I can buy 64GB of DDR4 3600 for 250 bucks and render the VFX for a 2 hours movie in 4k. Another 300 bucks buy me a second GPU

The MacBook Pro has faster LPDDR4X-4266 RAM on a 128-bit wide memory bus. The memory bandwidth maxes out at over 60 GB/s. And because the RAM, CPU and GPU (and all of the other units in the SoC) are all in the same die, memory is extremely fast.

From AnandTech; emphasis mine [1]:
"A single Firestorm achieves memory reads up to around 58GB/s, with memory writes coming in at 33-36GB/s. Most importantly, memory copies land in at 60 to 62GB/s depending if you’re using scalar or vector instructions. The fact that a single Firestorm core can almost saturate the memory controllers is astounding and something we’ve never seen in a design before."

It can easily render a 2-hour 4k video unplugged in the background while you're doing other stuff. And when you're done, you’ll still have enough battery to last you until the next day if necessary. According to the AnandTech review [1], it blows away all other integrated GPUs and is even faster than several dedicated GPUs. That's not nothing; and these machines do it for less money.

>vertical products are an absolute waste of money when you chase the last bit of performance to save time (for you and your clients) and don't have the budget of Elon Musk

>The M1 changes nothing in that space

This is not correct… seeing should be believing.

Here's a video of 4k, 6k and 8k RED RAW files being rendered on an M1 Mac with 8 Gb of RAM, using DaVinci Resolve 17 [2]. Spoiler: while the 8k RAW file stuttered a little, once the preview resolution was reduced to only 4k, the playback was smooooth.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxH3RabNWfE
Why is this comment being downvoted? @dang do we have CCP bots here doing mass downvoting?
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It's incredibly hard to prove discrimination or harassment was based on ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or political views, even when it is.

You say "people with those types of built in personal issues float to the top" aren't you implying their positions are not earned based on merit and, therefore, that they are less competent than their peers?
"Instead, the measurements match beautifully, largely ruling out some proposals for new particles" from what I understand this is some kind of Occam's razor argument saying that we don't need anything more in the standard model to explain the measurements but is this only qualitatively reasoning or does it actually gives some quantitative constrains to the possibility of new particles? I mean some particles have been predicted before being discovered (the Higgs and neutrinos I have read but there must be more) in those cases have the physicists actually gone and calculated constraints to the possibilities of that particle existing depending on the measurement of the fine structure constant?
Halo 2 also has a similar fall in the level “The Oracle”. You cut three cables then ride the station down into a gas giant as you hitch a ride out.

https://youtu.be/Otu_B5eEQpc
If you haven't seen it already you should check out Peter Norvig's 20-odd line toy spell checker, written over the course of a flight.

https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
If given the right opportunity and enough time, every once victimized group will become the oppressor. Note this is true for groups not individuals.
why is this aimed at the office? the last thing i want is to build a personal relationship w my coworkers or anything related to my job. i don't want any traces of my personality left at that company to be used once i have left. my company keeps large posters of attractive people and i find it creepy -- they don't even work there and this is what they do after they leave?

however the posters themselves are cool so I would get them of myself or my friends as gifts, if it wasn't just for office use.
but in doing so, single-handedly enabled economies of scale in solar panel manufacturing ... in China and the US.

The economic boon the German Greens sold us the Energiewende with never came to fruition. The RENIXX stock index lost most of its German companies to be largely comprised by Chinese or American ones.

Just a few once household names in German renewables that went bust in the last ten years:

- Solaworld

- Q-Cells

- Solibro

- Sovello

- Phoenix Solar

- Centrosolar

- Solarhybrid

- Solarmillennium

and of course financial scam of Prokon AG.
I recently had an idea for a similar service that uses a storage account of your choosing as a backend. The plan was to market it as a “vault” for your emails and attachments.

Basically, you get an email address, and any email you send to it is streamed to a storage account of your choosing, with optional minimal processing (e.g., convert your emails into Markdown prior to storage).

I spent a while setting up the mail processing backend using Postfix + a mail filter written in Rust.

I ultimately ended up scrapping the project because:

A) It didn’t seem like there was a large enough market of paying customers.

B) There already are a few services that do something like this, but with a focus on attachments.
I agree, reading the article (https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...) and the thread I also don't see how one puts this on Timnit.

Coming back to the original tweet: if you changed the training data have more black people instead of white, would it perform the same but with inverted racial biases? Maybe? You really can't know without doing it. It might generate faces with a dark complexion but also big distortions or unrealistic colors. The original model doesn't just produce white people because of the training data, the hyperparameter tuning, perhaps the entire architecture, would have been modified until it produced acceptable outputs... using white training data. Ultimately the engineers and other humans behind the scenes are the arbiters of success, loss functions are chosen by humans, and swapping training data on the same model won't change those early decisions.

In another context I'm sure LeCun could have offered his somewhat reductionist take on this example of bias (something I might have done myself – reductionism flows in technologists' veins!) A discussion could have ensued, and everyone could have come out with a better understanding. A hot Twitter thread isn't where that will happen. Neither LeCun nor Timnit have the power to change what Twitter is. LeCun (reasonably!) doesn't like the nature of the discussion, and he leaves, and I think that's OK.
That's amusing. You made multiple negative comments ("click bait", etc) based on a misunderstanding of the title, replied sarcastically when I pointed it out, and then when I bluntly pointed it out, you throw that at me?
> If there were plenty of talented developers why are they paying such astronomical salaries?

Because Facebook (and Google, for that matter) discovered a money hose that is called online advertising, so they can be more liberal with the money they dole out. Also, SV tends to be expensive.

The amount of money your are paid does not necessarily mean you are the best and brightest, as much the HN/software types like to believe.
"Google fired a black researcher". Does the word "black" belong there or is it used just as an attempt to tarnish Google?
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Wow it seems like the effect of FB and Apple and Amazon on google’s revenue is real.

They have been on a cost cutting rampage recently.
Facebook doesn't prefer H1-B's over American workers. This suit isn't about Facebook hiring H1-B's over American workers. It is about Facebook not properly advertising the jobs of H1-B's they have already hired to American workers. It is pretty obvious that you'd rather keep a worker that has already worked for you for many years over hiring a new guy who would need to get up to speed etc, even if they cost the same.
Sure, only that doesn't seem like the case here. Are you really gonna argue that the email is in a factual, true-or-false sense, not "withering"?
Can you take your dollars in to the government and redeem it for units of "military might", whatever that means?

You have it backwards. The military is an instrument in protecting the US dollar's dominance, control and influence as a reserve currency.
And do you know how they call the big mac in France?
There also appears to be an awful lot of them running MacOS which doesn’t really make sense (overclockers with bleeding edge Ryzen systems don’t have a lot of overlap with the Hackintosh crowd). Seems like it might be at least partially a data error.
Here is a spell checker from Peter Norvig:

https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
For anyone interested, there's a 2014 documentary [1] about the Massacre and Louis Tikas [2], the main labor union organizer of the coal miners.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22U0Hwb-7ao
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Tikas
Emails already counted against the 15 GB quota for free accounts. So no change there.
What is “dangerous” about it? It isn’t as if the DOJ is the one speculating as to what the motive is or was, it’s that they have specific evidence of communication between Plaid and Visa that spelled out Plaid’s plan to basically “scare” Visa and Visa’s concern of their plan.

This feels like one of those situations where two parties were so conspicuous is making an anti-trust case that the DOJ could not do anything but prosecute.
Speaking to the choir - I have had prescriptions to both adderall and ritalin (swap back and forth every year or two) for the last 15 years, definitely helped me start a business while going to college, crank on that business insane hours for the first 7 years.

Doesn't mean I think meth, opiates, etc legalization aren't without consequences, or that they can be honestly compared to alcohol. Personally, I go back and forth on legalization, and recently voted for decriminalization of all drugs in my state. Might as well make law reflect practice.
I think the subtle part might be "It was approved then", I read that somewhere too and it was not clear whether it was approved by google despite it not following the normal 2 week process or if it was talking about some other form of approval.
the fact that you had time to build this with at least one 1 year old baby gives me hope that being a parent won't be too difficult
Back in the day (early 80's) I remember using a VAX 780 @ 1 MIPS via time-sharing with 60 other simultaneous users.

Editing with EDT felt quite snappy. Amazing.
I've thought about that filter through which we view the world a lot recently, and I think you may have identified part of where the conflict comes from. People viewing the world through fundamentally different filters.

The problem is that if you focus on race, gender and/or sexual orientation as an important factor underlying interactions, if you're not careful you can soon come to see race and gender as the primary driving force that dictates the outcomes of all interactions, and soon all issues get reduced down to a matter or racial, sexual, or class struggle.

The problem is the real world doesn't work that way, it is a complicated interacting network of events that are often only 2nd or 3rd order events from other completely different decisions made long ago.

To try and reduce all interactions and societal problems to a matter of a 1 or 2 factors is like trying to make money on the stock market solely by looking at the Fed's monetary policy. Sure the Fed's monetary policy is an important overall factor, and in some cases the most important factor in certain changes in the stock market, but that doesn't mean that there aren't a thousand other moving parts to focus on.

The problem is when we interpret every event through a single filter, or give one filter primacy in all interpretations of events that filter now colors everything we see.

So for example if my primary filter for understanding the world is race relations and/or critical race theory, any time someone disagrees with me I really do feel as though it is a racially motivated attack. Why? Because I have chosen to interpret everything in my world through the filter of race, and every event that occurs will in my mind be race related.

Note this applies just as well to any filter, christian extremists will interpret all events that happen as a sign of the times and the devil coming to power. If my filter is the class struggle than I will see every issue be between the haves and the have-nots.

My point is not to discredit people that want to bring gender and race in to everything I think there are many discussions where examining the role these factors played is important. My point is to caution and warn against getting into a single filter mindset, that is the cause of much of the divisiveness we see, we have people that really are living in totally different worlds because the way they choose to view the world is totally different and they refuse to ever consider there might be other filters to view the world through.
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If you suffer a permanent injury on the job, you’re typically entitled to compensation for the damage to your body and your future lost wages. But depending on the state, benefits for the same body part can differ dramatically.

Compensation for the loss of certain body parts is only one part of a larger system. States may be more or less generous in other aspects of their workers' comp benefits.
Ilhan Omar said something similar on Twitter in response to Obama's criticisms of the "defund the police" slogan. I think you're being overly generous to social activists. Their fundamental job is to bring social change. You can't change anything by simply alienating those who disagree with you. That creates political entrenchment.

The fact is that Obama has got way more done for America than Omar, so I'm inclined to think he's right.
Comparing it to previous gen Apple devices doesn't really tell the whole story. You can get a machine from a different manufacturer with similar hardware for much much less than $4000, and it wont have totally broken cooling[0].

[0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-15-Core-i9-s...

Bear in mind that I'm not arguing that the m1 macbooks aren't a really compelling option. I'm just saying this is evolutionary, not revolutionary.

(Making other laptop/desktop manufacturers and OS devs wake up to non x86 architectures could be revolutionary for competition and pricing though, we'll see.)
It doesn't emulate a whole CPU and has the simulated CPU run the code.

It translates instructions directly to the different ISA.
Jeff Dean is treated like God in these circles alongside the likes of Carmack. Despite that, I'd say he is appropriately rated.

There is not a single software team on planet earth that would not want Jeff as their technical leader.

It is like comparing a high school athlete to Usain Bolt.
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That's a huge competitive advantage.

Country X gets the top students from country X, the US gets the top students from the world!

That smart TA from X European country helping American undergrads on that problem set? He's not helping undergrads from his country. He's not publishing papers that would boost his country's schools either.

One might ask if the lab he works at would even exist without foreign grad students! Would there be enough native applicants to staff it?

Graduate school isn't a zero sum game. It's an ecosystem and ecosystems have a huge network effect.
Just picking your comment as one of a number of similar examples to reply to.

Apologies if I’ve misunderstood the intent of these comments, but —- what is the argument that connects “alcohol is more destructive” to “cannabis (and perhaps other drugs) should be legalised everywhere”? To me, without some connecting argument it seems to be a non-sequitur.
I have taken various runs at stored procedure versioning and agree with you. The database is the ultimate sacred resource. Change things at your peril and test like crazy.
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I bet it'd be pretty easy to make it work using a RaspberryPi's on board wifi and an ethernet cable to the router.

Dual wifi makes for easier installation/operation in a lot of situations though, so I think its a good "default config". If there's already a wifi network people can use, hooking one wifi chipset to that then connecting the phones under test to an access point broadcast by the other - is easier than expecting there to be a live ethernet port and someone at a womens shelter-style-place having access to it and skills to use it.
I would be shocked if the abuse wasnt >50%
I especially like the spellchecker added to the D compiler. The neato feature is the "dictionary" is the part of the symbol table that is in scope. In my usage it guesses right about 50-75% of the time.

I've been considering adding one to my text editor. I found out I'm not as good a speller as I thought I was before spellcheckers :-/
This is a rather bad article because it completely misses the real complexity of a spell checker.

A spell checker is not simply a list of words, it's a way to check mistakes according to a standard and to point towards ways to fix these mistakes. This not reducible to a look-up in a hashtable. It requires taking into account some complicated things about the definition of a word and the context in which it is written.
You might think that's grammar checking but the boundary is not clear and in any case, any language processing application starts with tokenizing and deciding what counts as words and on what basis.

What is a word even ? Is "CIA" a word ? What about "C.I.A." ? What about C (as in the language) ? What about c (as in the speed of light) ? 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazine ?
How does the spellchecker handle dashes and apostrophes ? What about proper nouns ?

Really, the example is poorly chosen.
Multiple rounds of 20% improvement like what we've been getting with iPhones each year?
Not disputing what you are saying, but there seems to be more to the story. If this is all that happened why not let her resign on her own (perhaps take action if this did not happen after n months). Surely that would create less publicity.
Central banks are trying to prop up the deflationary structural changes happening in the broader world economies due to aging demographics and technology reducing the value of human labor.

The end result is an enormous asset bubble as their only solution is to print money to prevent any actual deflation from happening as that would implode the financial system.
Yeah, every single person I know who started to watch it, gave up in the first 30 minutes - excepting me. I mean the final movie twist was obvious and my wife called it before getting up from the living room and leaving to browse her phone in bed.

The editing was rough and it wasn't fully explained what was happening. What other team members, that weren't the team members betraying him and not the guy in the chair "who lasted 18 seconds"? What?

I didn't like it that much 6/10 from multiple perspectives.
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Plot twist: the cartel stands to benefit a lot from hiring lawyers to lobby for keeping drugs illegal, same with banning firearms. Making something legal which was once a black market item means no one needs them anymore.
I have a pretty unpopular take on this, being married to someone with severe pet allergies. That take is, dogs (and cats) have no place on an airplane, and responsible adults shouldn't get pets that they can't find sitters for or board while they are away.
Planes are enclosed-air spaces, and the allergens from your dog make anyone with allergies miserable for the entire duration of the flight. Every single time we end up on a plane with a dog (even the "hypoallergenic" ones), my wife ends up sick. Not to mention the fact that there are plenty of people with severe phobias of dogs, and that the animals themselves tend to be extremely uncomfortable on flights. That last factor has actually led to a number of innocent people sitting next to folks with dogs getting bit, etc on planes.

Actual service animals do still belong, because they provide an actual service, are extremely well-trained, and are worth the allergen/phobia tradeoff because folks who need them literally need them.

The amount of entitlement that pet owners have to impose the downsides of their pets on others boggles my mind sometimes.
after 30 days!
They made billions of dollars in the interim and a global pandemic destroying theater demand is the reason why this has accelrated. As much as I liked to mock Disney for being late to the game with Disney Plus, I'm not sure it mattered, and possibly they did everything right.
Alcohol is harmful.

Illegal alcohol is more harmful.

We need to stop treating substance misuse as a criminal justice matter and start treating it as a public health problem.
The caps on the available residency spots might have something to do with this as well.