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Unless Apple intends to get into the server business, I think the market at the top is very small.

They really only have to be competitive with the lower core consumer chips to accomplish their goal.

I think they should try for the performance crown though and the server business. There's a lot of money in that. In servers power consumption is an important consideration and they have an advantage there as well. ARM based architectures are also a lot more relaxed in that they don't have to present a nearly sequentially consistent view of cache and memory between multiple cores like x86. That may give them an edge scaling the core count. It's horrible to program for if you are coding lock free algorithms, but almost nobody does that and fewer should.
Most programming languages don't have an "address of" operator. That's because it's a potentially unsafe operation. I think your usage of Pascal sounds more like trying to operate a motorcycle like a bicycle.
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Worse than that, rather than using 100KWh of natural gas power to generate, you buy from abroad, from a less efficient producer who uses 150kWh of coal fired power, and then use another 100kWh of oil power to transport it.

With gas being 1 "badness" per 100KWh, oil being 2 and coal being 3, this would mean avoiding 1 unit locally, but getting importing 5 units.

The beauty of a carbon tax is that it satisfies those on both the environmental side ("the left") and the localism side ("the right"). The only ones not liking it are globalists that don't care about the environment.
If I remember correctly the government pays you to house the tenants. But yes, they trash the premises and speaking to someone that does this, the only way the margins work is if you do all the fixes yourself.
This.

When Steve Jobs announced iPhone on stage in 2008 he said it was a “revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone,"

That was saying the quiet thing out loud and Apple is playing it much cooler on PR around competition these days.

But Apple Silicon combined with Apple software is very likely at least 5 years ahead of the competition, because there is not currently an assembly of organizations that can integrate to offer anything like what Apple is doing _now_.

What makes this article particularly interesting is it points at beating NVIDIA and AMD in graphics and reducing the size of the enclosure by half.

I find it interesting that Apple just redesigned the Mac Pro only to have to redesign it again for Apple Silicon.

Oddly, the failed trash can Mac Pro may have actually worked for Apple Silicon designs.

I suspect that Apple will provide web services to Apple developers that breaks pricing for Intel / NVIDIA based cloud compute and further burnishes the value of building for Apple platforms.

Apple can fab at max scale if it can consume its own chips in its own data centers that can flex between serving Apple or AWS or Azure customers.

It’s going to be a rough go for the PC market because not everyone is going to make it through this—-at least not as the companies they are today.
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I think one problem for CPUs specifically is that people plainly just don't care as much about speed anymore. Modern processors are extremely fast.

So other metrics like power draw get more prominence. Apple managed to get both with a chip design, but I don't see it as a trend yet. I wouldn't even call it innovative in itself, it is just a very good iteration of CPU tech. I think that is awesome because it challenges other companies again.

For performance intensive applications like gaming or CAD, GPUs have become more relevant.

There is a lot of special software for physical calculations (lenses, materials, etc.) that require raw CPU power for n-th degree numerical solutions, but these are niches that cannot sustain an industry.

My main device I use in private for a lot of development has a standard intel CPU and I only looked at power usage because I knew it would be fast enough. I wanted it to be as silent as possible. Turns out it was indeed fast enough for anything I wanted to do. Maybe I buy a new one in a few years, but it didn't yet fail me in any way.
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Because, there is only one blockchain and one cryptocurrency.
Altcoins are simply scams to make more of that one, real cryptocurrency.
It’s possible to compromise a device at the firmware level - as evidenced by the recent UEFI attacks in the wild - but the better comparison would be ransomeware. That’s shut down businesses, school systems, hospitals, etc. and is completely prevented by the iOS security model. Whether or not I like the impact on flexibility, there are inarguable benefits to the users from having devices which cannot be resold, permanently compromised, etc.
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Maybe were talking about enterprise datacenter giant more than hardware giant? I'm curious what those distributions are since I've worked very little in enterprise scale datacenters, just utilized them with non-Apple hardware.

Apple develops and manufacturers a lot of hardware (one of the few positive things I'll plug them for). I would definitely consider them a generic "hardware giant" in that context. Much of this hardware are phones, watches, laptops, and peripherals. I know their server/datacenter market is traditionally pretty slim but don't know what it typically looks like. I know AWS recently announced Mac EC2 instances[1]. The fact EC2 has been so dominant and Apple hardware in EC2 is just now arriving gives much merit that they're not in that much demand in datacenters. I work in research and have only encountered a handful of instances where projects interfaced with Apple hardware (especially in a datacenter) but there's no reason that couldn't shift given Apple's capital and talent pool that already exists.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-mac-instances-to-bu...
I can't make any sense of this? Laptops have been around since the early 90s and have always used LCD screens - what else? Anything with a CRT wouldn't fit on your lap. Jeff Goldblum even used one to repel an alien invasion in 1996.
Would you care to elaborate on the point of your suggested integration? Are you (seriously) proposing the inclusion of a javascript backend into *TeX distribution?
I can't get behind your interpretation. Not counting the bread, sure whatever. Maybe that's just a missed exclusion clause in the program documentation.

But then sending out discount codes to affiliates explicitly saying, "Boost your sales by giving out these codes!" Then to exclude those purchases from the affiliate program? I mean, come on. Where do you draw the line? Because that's definitely crossed out of my "innocent mistake" threshold.

> In the US, admitting you did something wrong could open you up to a class action suit where some customers could be eligible for damages due to negligence.

This is not a customer relationship, it's a business one. Presumably with some sort of written agreement. Violating that agreement or their own advertising around that agreement is what is going to get them in trouble, not an admission of fault. Besides, paying the author as they did could be submitted to a court as an admission of fault anyway. (That's why real settlements come with an NDA and explicit written agreement that fault was not assigned.)

> You could’ve written your post without specifically mentioning the merchant’s name, if your intent were really only to help others.

I think calling out the merchant is helping others, specifically others in or thinking of joining their affiliate program.
We went with a fake tree this year for this reason. I wanted a real one but the excessive amount of needles and the fake one looks real enough. I do miss the smell. Have to find some candles or something...

When we move and no longer have carpet I will go back to a real tree. We will probably have two, the fake one and the real one.. lol.

The next issue will be storing the damn thing...
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The thing is that you aren’t really advocating for just that... Since this is pretty general support library code, the result of this philosophy is defensive checks in all support functions and that means checks every spinlock, mutex/semaphore, and god knows how many other places... everything really. We also would want these checks at multiple levels since we shouldn’t trust that other people checked things. This would have a significant effect on performance and many would prefer their system not to run however-many percent slower. All to avoid a possible issue that can’t be very large or systems would be kernel panic’ing all over the place.

From a black box, zero-knowledge, perspective it’s maybe worth remembering that code built this way successfully runs mission critical systems all over the world every day. Thoughtful people would have switched to other (slower, more pedantic) systems if doing things differently was a real overall life improvement. People have had the choice, there are plenty of OS’s out there... some far more formal/pedantic. Linux wasn’t the safe choice back in the day, it was just better by several important metrics consistently over time.

Perhaps these insanely experienced kernel devs know what they are doing.
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> None of this has any connection to being anxious about something, like a deadline, or a date, or an exam. Or with panic attacks. Or with being an overtly anxious person who may be prone to worry. That's a different syndrome and isn't noticeably linked to abusive behaviour.

You lost me here a bit, but I agree with the rest. It depends what you judge to be "abusive". People definitely suffer extreme, inappropriate worry about things that make sense to worry about. They also have general feelings of worry that cause distress.

These stresses sometimes manifest in testiness. Depending on the relationship or how well liked the person is, this tends to get judged as normal tension or "abuse". I've definitely been abused by people who were clearly letting themselves be wound up. I've wondered if the person has pathological problems (eg narcissism, anxiety). I don't know if I'd go so far as saying the person is not redeemable, but the behavior was definitely unacceptable and included name calling.

I think a lot of people just don't want it to be true, but it is. That doesn't mean you have to put up with the behavior, because "they have a heart of gold deep down", or anything like that. It's just wrong to say that general anxiety isn't associated with any abusive behaviors categorically (it's really one of those statements that's the exact opposite of the truth). I've seen it happen.
I think some guy in Oregon ended in prison because he activated the EPIRB dozens of times -- for broken fingernails and other such emergencies.
I am hesitating to ask, but would you mind sharing the code?
In a mature project, the number of removed lines is a stronger proxy to productivities.

It is related to the unavoidable tech debt that any project has and only the strongest people see it and work on it.
If you're chucking it out as you get it aye, but chances are you're going to need to do a bit of transcoding aren't you?
He is squeezing his last juice out of his reputation.
Huh I guess that explains why they chose [ as the second byte in the initiator for color control sequences: ESC [ = ^[ [
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You could try https://github.com/josephfrazier/prettier-diff , but it's inconvenient to ask members of your team to download an entirely separate diff tool
I'm hopeful. I think it still remains to be seen if this is practically possible and not just theoretically possible. But I'm hopeful that it will be the case. Not only is it a good thing for the Linux world to have multiple architectures/more hardware to work with, but I think it would also be good for Apple to show that they are more open with their computers than phones, for example.

When it comes down to it, Apple is still (largely) a hardware company. If someone wants to buy a Mac to put Linux on it, they still sold a Mac. And I think that having the Linux community testing their hardware would do nothing but make their hardware stronger.
Sure, those companies use people's names in their names, but they're not all personality-centric (though that's a subjective assessment).

In this list, I see really only 1 - Disney. Air Jordan isn't a company, it's a brand from another company - Nike.

The others may have been named after their founders, but the companies are not about their founders and weren't started/successful because of the relationship with the founder.
Apple's issues re gaming are more cultural than hardware-based. The walls of the garden are particularly high when it comes to games, game development/mods, and subscription gaming. The fastest CPUs in the world won't change that.

"In addition to advertising Apple Arcade within iOS settings (see picture above), Apple is actively fighting against companies like Epic Games who are seeking permission to offer their own game stores on iOS. Apple is also restricting companies like Microsoft from offering game subscription/streaming services on iOS."

https://hardware.substack.com/p/falling-out-of-love-with-app...
One thing to look at is how is the theory formulated. Standard QM seems to build its Hilbert space of wave functions from functions over R^3N. It has a Hamiltonian built out of the notions of that space. So configuration space seems pretty crucial. But configuration of what? If you say particles with positions do not exist, then what exactly is the relevance of this space? What is the primitive stuff whose behavior can be right or wrong from our perspective?

It is also odd to say that position cannot be measured. We can tell in an experiment whether something ended up over there or over here. It would be reasonable to then try to have a theory that correlates the position measurements with something that has a position. Now it is not necessarily the case that there has to be such a thing, but it seems like a reasonable first step.

We can even see trails of particles in cloud chambers and the like. Why is that an IPU?

I will grant that it does not have to be the case that the only possible explanation is that of particles with position. But it certainly seems like if there is such a theory (and, of course, there is), then it would seem reasonable to consider it as quite plausible.

It also helps to ask you what is real in your theory. Are wave functions real? They certainly can't be measured in their entirety. Are operators the real thing? We don't measure them, but rather get something close to their eigenvectors/eigenvalues. Are those real?

Many worlds is the closest version with nothing added, but even that requires some kind of mass density function to make explicit connection with our lived experience. While it doesn't add too much in the way of extra mathematical structure in the theory (integrate over the wave function in a certain way: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.2211 ), the implication in terms of what it says reality is actually like certainly involves a heck of a lot of IPUs.
This really hasn't got anything to do with App Store exclusivity. They have a business model that's widely used and has been perfectly legal and established for many decades before they adopted it. This happens to make them vulnerable to certain forms of regulatory control. That's a government and regulatory issue, not a business issue.
Companies with rotten culture are ripe for their own kind of disruption. Above a certain level of decadence, it is more promising to build a parallel company on the other side of the street rather than trying to remove the rotten apples. Countless examples in history. One of the few ways to keep a megacorp alive at this stage is government subsidies, corruption or contracts, with the goal of exploiting its scale advantages.
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Wait what? Googling the user name that I am replying to leads to:

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Most people aren't aware of these extra entities that can help protect their interests. So to them the system has failed and I can see their point.

Navigating your rights as a citizen and/or consumer shouldn't be a thing. It should be an automatic action.
I rarely use lambda but I use alot of Google firebase-functions for majority of my server code. From my experience lambda/firebase-functions/Azure-functions are very popular.One simple usecase I can tell is payment-successful return-hook from payment servers like Stripe.Its a tiny task which just logs payment-success info and triggers a email..etc.
I would love to get into the porn business, how do I go about this? To clarify, not as a performer or cameraman but I’m not sure what other roles are available.
Various Australian trees actually depend on fire to propagate. I love going through areas that were burned out in recent months—you get fresh green growth springing up everywhere, and a lot of the trees that got burned become absolutely covered in fresh green sprouting branches, and it contrasts beautifully with the black from the burning.
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Honestly, the arguments in this series of posts are not strong. I laughed out loud when I got to his complaints about Apple's headphone chips and the ease of pairing they allow -- and how it's somehow unfair that Apple, having developed this competitive advantage, is refusing to share it with other companies.

What IS it about Apple that makes a certain class of tech geek feel like they have to dislike them in such a public and performative way?
Exactly! Tachyons was awesome and ahead of its time but its core design system wasn't as well made as Tailwind's is.

Also, to be fair, Tailwind's marketing game is out of this world as well. They are literally some of the best developer marketers on this planet!
Word does not use plain text input, and its output looks objectively terrible compared to LaTeX. These two things make it completely inadequate as a competitor.
As others mentioned, they really are a hardware company already.

Where I disagree with you, though, is why do you want consolidation of expertise into a single silo?

I would prefer better competition and consumer choice. As many point out...

* With Windows, you are beholden to Microsoft and the control they exert over Windows 10, including stuffing ads into your start menu or even popping up alerts over your taskbar insisting that you try Edge.

* With Linux, you have all of the choice, but sometimes a steeper learning curve. Depending on the kinds of gaming you prefer, it's a non-starter.

* With Apple, they make all the choices for you, and as long as you are OK with their choices, you're a happy camper. If you don't like their choices (or depending on the kinds of gaming you prefer) it's a non-starter.

There's a constant tug-of-war between unity and choice. If there was one central way of making games that worked across operating systems, you might have better choices between Windows, Linux and MacOS, but you'd be stuck with whoever controls the game standard.

So back to the central point, I'd be happy for Apple to be a dominant low-level hardware maker... if it wasn't stuck inside their walled garden. I'd much rather have three solid CPU makers (or more) that were compatible with several operating systems, each with support for Unity, Unreal, etc. not to mention things like CUDA.
> With Bitcoin there's a concensus at this point that only bug fix hard forks are accepted.

There was a consensus that Cyprus bank accounts were solvent, until they weren't.

> The DAO hard fork happened because most people with economic power who run nodes in Ethereum accept Vitaly's decision.

Yes. The point is that can happen to Bitcoin, too.

Is it unlikely? Perhaps. It's also unlikely you'll have your bank account take a haircut via government action like Cyprus took.
This HN discussion is pretty worthless.

"It's not peer reviewed," "I didn't read the paper and I don't know much about microwaves but I personally don't think microwaves work that way", "But I read something else about pesticides two years ago."

Anyone want to read the paper and respond to it instead of racking their brains for weird meta-arguments?
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Asserts have run-time cost. What you need is to ensure ensure those preconditions are met in the first place, statically, by formal methods for example.
> Apple will likely have HBM on the 32 core packages

First of all, that's ludicrously expensive. You need an active interposer that's larger than the chip to do something like that. 4x HBM stacks means 4096 wires to run between your compute-device and the RAM, that's a lot of wires in a tiny area, and only possible with advanced packaging (expensive) methodologies.

Second: HBM2 based designs have poor memory-capacity: 8GB per stack means 4x HBM2 caps out at 32GBs under most reasonable configurations.

Going into 2021 with a ludicrously expensive 32GB machine seems a bit weak. I don't think anyone in the high-end market is targeting that level of memory capacity. Even if we're generous and HBM capacity doubles between now and then, I'm not sure if 64GBs is enough for workstation tasks.

HBM works for supercomputers, because when 32GB isn't enough, you just buy another node. A64FX, the current CPU-based supercomputer that uses HBM, only has 32GB/node. Then Fugaku bought 150,000 nodes.
It could if it avoided all the black keys.
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It's also a thing for Europeans to criticize Americans about because most average people in Europe can't afford to have an SUV, whether due to money, lack of parking, roads not made for SUVs, etc.
No it won't. All the records will show is that X amount of energy was produced at time T. There's no way of proving that these values were legitimate.
...what is the least trivially surprising natural number? That is, would such a number still be trivially surprising?
Fair enough, but it's not only addicts being adversely affected by the quarantines and lockdowns. I would go so far to say that everyone has been adversely affected by the lockdowns--it's just a question of how much and have these costs outweighed the benefits.

Until recently, I'd it was pretty clear that Sweden (no lock-downs) and the US (many lockdowns of varying length and enforcment) have suffered the same per capita fatality rate.
That sounds like an absolute nightmare.
This is somewhat analogous to programmers who type very fast but delete half of what they type. This is very subjective again, most of the deletes can be legit deletes. There is a difference in the mistakes that are deleted and deletes that arise because of a thorough process change. I digress, but to a routine observer the person typing fast appears like a pro, someone who is really good at their job. While this can be true of other professions like a carpenter being good at his craft will be extremely fast, am not sure the same holds true for the typing speed of programmers.

If you are a trial and error type of programmer then of course speed matters a lot because it has a direct correlation on how fast you can iterate and increase your sample space of trials. The frequency of commits and PRs can be seen in the same light.

So IMO it's hard to find a true universal measure to identify the top programmers.
Those sources are likely shielded and clean.

A transmitter like this will radiate harmonics, and that's the major concern. It is not just a TV signal.

All that said, this is nice work. Analog signals are a lot of fun.

NTSC going away makes me sad. I have abused it to great results many times over the years.
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