skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the task of JOIN is to modify the circuit so that at subsequent times there is the representation of a new item C that will fire if and only if the representations of both A and B are firing." What that describes sounds like what in linguistic (syntactic) terms one would call conjunction. I don't recall whether Chomsky's recent theories (which come under the rubrik of "minimalism") count conjunction as a type of Merge, but what he's more concerned with is subordination, which is quite a different thing from conjunction, given that subordination--but not conjunction--results in hierarchical structures.

And for the record, I don't think Merge in the linguistic sense has anything to do with "chunking", much less the "magical number seven." But then I don't know much about chunking.
> This is recursive and implies a decrease in diversity over time, starting from enormously high and reaching abysmally small. But I am fairly certain that it doesn't hold.

What books are considered part of a canon will always trail behind the total number of books being published, so the total set will either remain stable or increase in size.

However, I think your assumption that it will somehow converge only holds if the criterion of quality are both universal and consistent. Neither has to be true – different cultures have different measures and weights for quality, and within cultures there are disagreement as to what quality is (even in a contemporary setting). Hence my next claim.

> I fail to see what makes old books capable of disagreeing with each other and recent releases incapable. At some point new releases become old and therefore they suddenly attain the ability to disagree with each other?

That's the point – it equivocates the two which allows you to be indifferent between them upto other factors, since you should expect both new and old books to be diverse, rather than the monoculture of thought you are attempting to resist by going completely your own way. Those other factors can include possible selection effects like I have claimed above which act as signals for a book's quality.

I guess the only thing left to add is that you can't read everything, but there's a lot you could read. Given this problem, does one be an early adopter for a book or not?
> Appreciating the iPhone is largely done in hindsight.

I’m sorry but that’s definitely not true. Yes, there were a vocal minority of folks who said the iPhone was nothing special but the mass market response was huge and it was heralded as a huge deal by the vast majority.

And to go back to my original point: there’s a difference between “this new invention allows you to do new things, but those things aren’t important” and “this new invention does not allow you to do new things”. Reaction to the iPhone was the former. My reaction to the M1 is the latter. It allows you to do the things you already do faster and cooler and it’s a big technological shift. But it isn’t going to change the way people use computers in the way the iPhone did.
That's not how things work in the Apple world. Anything Apple release is disruptive and innovative even if its been done before. Just ignore it and continue on in reality.
Incidental correctness does not validate a sloppy process.
If the M1 proves anything at all it’s that ARM 64 can and will be a performance chip not just a chip that is strictly intended for low power devices. I think that’s what the M1 will finally signal to all the other vendors, even though many have been saying this for a long time it’s proof in the wild that you can build desktop class ARM chips.

My other thought is I wonder if this will open up the idea of vendors support specific co-processors analogous to how Apple has things like the T1, some offloading to a specific chip for ML etc.

This is exciting if more vendors do this, I predict the first one to do it in an open way will win the day long term as it will be attractive to all upstream manufacturers like Dell etc
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Is that really the case? Apple's design of the CPU itself seems like it's a bigger unique factor than the fab. Doesn't TSMC make competitors chips that are benchmarking much poorer than M1?

Qualcomm got rid of their mobile ARM CPU designs a while back. Can the snapdragon cx / SQ2 series hope to compete using ARM reference designs, with Apple out so far ahead?
> For the love of whatever stupid internet points people are trying to win, let Morehead's review go.

Do you not think it's the least bit concerning that Moorhead has Intel, AMD and NVIDIA as his clients?

Do you really think he can write an unbiased piece about a competitor of theirs when they put food on his table?

(EDIT: For reference, I'm in the 4x4/travel world and write for a stack of magazines. Big car OEMs fly journalists all around the world, put them in expensive hotels, feed them 5 course meals and then have them review their new vehicles. I want you to guess what percentage of those reviews are absolutely glowing. )
Paul Graham had good intentions, I think, but he indirectly contributed to something that ruined a lot of people's lives.

I was there in the mid-2000s. I used to read everything he wrote. I loved his Lisp books. I totally bought into what he was selling. I really admired the guy. He made greed morally acceptable and I was a confused kid. He said that in "the real world" all the petty drama that makes nerds unpopular would go away. (It ain't true. Unless you're in tech in the 1990s, the corporate world is worse than high school.) I considered applying for YC. Looking back, I'm glad I didn't. I know too many people who flew too close to a garbage fire in the Mountain View sky they thought was the sun and are still recovering, 5–10+ years later.

The fact is, I don't dislike Paul Graham. I think he got out of his depth. Y Combinator, though, is a sleazy institution with a record of ageism, atrocious founder quality— the number of YC-backed people who've turned out to be spousal abusers is shockingly high— and marketing-sans-substance. I actually think that most of YC's atrociousness happened in spite of PG's influence and probably set in after he was a major factor.
Not sure how that applies here, but it's a nice quote that seems to ring true.
About half of the US doesn't have an economically workable species/breed of tree unless they charge those higher prices. Virgina Pine grows well in the south (was the historical staple crop until 20~25 years ago), but doesn't naturally grow in cone shaped, and requires trimming/shaping and spraying multiple times a year for the 4-8 years it takes to get a marketable tree. Most southern tree farms have replaced V.P. with Leland Cypress (not really a cypress) or a similar/derivative breed of tree with promises of low/no required tending, but they also ended up having pretty high maintenance costs and don't market as well. (They look more like privacy bushes to me, and are also sold for that purpose at nurseries.)

So it ends up being cheaper/more profitable to ship trucks of harvested firs/etc from where they grow almost naturally, and "export" them clear across the country.

Also, the actual/current market for locally grown trees (at least in the south) is sustained 99% by people who still want the experience of choose-and-cut. And that also costs more to run than a commoditized crop.
Rumours are not an effective way of discussing the safety of medicine, because they are naturally prone to all sorts of biases which skew opinion. Rumour mills are how you get witch hunts (and interestingly, the "witches" in those witch hunts were actually the early forms of doctors -- they were women who had knowledge of traditional herbal remedies).
The iPhone was a basically new form factor that over the course of the next 13 years (after trickling out to the lower priced Android phones), became the primary way that billions of people interact with technology.

The M1 is a really good new processor. We've been doing really good new processors for the last couple decades. It's great to have more competition in the CPU space, which was seeming to stagnate, but not matter how big an iteration, it's still just an iteration, it won't be remembered like coming up with a new type of device.
Benchmarks show that the M1 has better performance in only a few areas, and underperforms in others, and that's with Apple controlling literally every aspect of the hardware and software stack.

It's great for an ARM system for a vertically oriented company, but it isn't sufficiently performative to be a significant threat to the competition. And that's before you consider all the non-technical crap Apple has thrown at its customers recently.

And of course, the big issue is that in order to use the M1 you must switch your entire stack to Apple. Considering the broad swaths of essential business software that is simply incompatible with Apple OS, that's not going to happen.
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It looks like this may be more due to a mistake in the censor area than a general pattern you can use but here it is https://twitter.com/Lattie9001/status/1027204063811850240

These kinds of mistakes show up constantly. Another one that often works is when people draw black bars over words they are often no 100% opaque and you can chuck them in to gimp, drag the levels around until the original word is exposed.
They may license the ARM technology, but will they license their own GPU technology? That’s what a Dell would need to make their own SOC.
Wouldn't you end up with a Box of Null? Wouldn't it be better to:

struct Node {
value: i32
next: Option<Box<Node>>
}
Riseup.net?
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The people complaining about it being delayed are probably the people least likely to change their minds because of the delays and not buy the game when it comes out. Empty promises about crunch and lost trust won't matter as much to those people when the game comes out. Also, does the general gaming subculture still care about Red Dead Redemption 2's development and the livelihood and mental health costs it caused to its devs? Or Grand Theft Auto V, seven years later? Will 2077 only be remembered in the future as a very good title with no acknowledgement of the unnecessary toil the devs were put through?

One problem is that there is too much hype. No Man's Sky proved that with too much effective advertising you can hype yourself into a corner, not have enough resources to finish the product properly, and guarantee the disappointment of the people expecting too much. Some game developers seem to not know when to scale back their ambitions and align the hype they generate with a time schedule and human resources management that is healthy. There's just too much passion in some game development areas that isn't left unexploited.

For GTA VI, Rockstar will only release a smaller sized game and instead add sizeable updates spread out over time, which makes it sound like they've finally started to learn from the past.

https://kotaku.com/18-months-after-red-dead-redemption-2-roc...
I loved my Sony Ericsson phones. With a decent memory stick and headphones it felt like the future. In a way it was, but there were many limitations and I jumped to the iPhone one year after it became available without regrets.
Thanks for those links. I'm commenting so I can read them later :-)
Enclosing the fan in plastic with no vents should help keep the noise down, though it makes little sense from a thermal perspective.
To me, it doesn't seem like it is LLVM doing the heavy-lifting as much as Docker/Podman (which are used through Cross). Maybe I am missing something...

I definitely agree with you that Zig and Go handle cross-compiling much nicer than the workarounds mentioned in this article. Personally, I prefer the cross-compilation mechanics of Zig over Go.
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What is "exploitative" about the mix it up poster? I know people like that. Have they no right to exist?
If you compare Snapdragon scores of the same TSMC node to their Apple equivalent, they come up wanting.

TSMC is a fantastic and innovative company, and they've done amazing things (in no small part to Apple's massive investment in them). But Apple chip design is superior to their competitors.

Combine Apple's superior designs with first access to TSMC's premier nodes and you get some pretty special results, as we've been seeing for years with the A series chips, and which is finally getting the notoriety it deserves with this M series debut.
Howdy, I posted this and also run Sauerworld, the community news and resources site for Cube 2: Sauerbraten.

As others have helpfully pointed out, Sauerbraten is an open source Quake-like arena FPS. It's been around for years, and this is this first major release since 2013.

The community is still quite active, and there's been a particular hubbub of activity preparing for this new release. It's a super fun game if you're into arena FPS with lots of opportunities for tinkering, modding, and freeform content creation through its fairly unique online map editor.

I'm happy to answer any questions, and there's also the community discord server: https://discord.gg/j3kyxtj
It's not cleverness for cleverness sake, it reduces complexity, and yet the code is still self explanatory. The extra level of indirection means one variable can be used to access what was previously stored in two. The only confounding part of it is that this didn't become the canonical way to manipulate a linked list over the naive implementation.
The summary of this essay appears to be that Paul Graham relies too much on his own intuition, but intuition can lead people astray- a lengthy discussion on the failure of PG's own Arc language is used to support this argument. And apparently his recent political/social commentary fails for the same reason. The author went as far as to call him "profoundly unserious public intellectual".

I'm not convinced that role of intuition is exactly similar in something as subjective as political commentary as in designing a programming language. Even more frustrating is that the author doesn't clarify what characteristics someone needs to have to become a "serious public intellectual". He clarifies what PG should have done for Arc (read a scientific paper), but there isn't any such specific criticism directed against PG's political essays.

The actual thrust of the argument seems so broad (i.e. reliance on intuition), this could be used to label almost anybody outside pol-sci academic circles a "profoundly unserious public intellectual" for commenting on politics.
Woah I had never heard about that, could you say more?
I speculated that they may seek to use eugenics, nootropics or other methods to enhance the performance of their (vast) pool of scientists and engineers. This would offer a strategic advantage in accelerating such development, but would assure nothing.

The phrasing of your response re-interpretating/rephrasing my statement is misleading/inaccurate.
> I don't even know what his actual "policies" are

Of course you don’t. Orange man bad.
Oh, for sure. It’s going to be a big deal to use techies and represents a huge shift in terms of who holds the power in processing. (that said, the vast majority of PCs won’t be able to use it!)

But entire industries (e.g. ride hailing) were created in the aftermath of the iPhone’s launch. I just don’t think we’ll see that kind of change reflected in most people’s lives.
Timely. We just, as in a few hours ago, wrapped up our season as owners of a u-cut tree farm. It's relatively small, just under 30 acres. But our family was just doing a post-mortem on what went well, what we need to change and making fairly detailed plans for next year and even several years out. I can tell you more then you want to know about the growing, spring/summer and fall care. The shaping. The labor to trim, drill, bag, etc. It's fascinating to see the impact 2008 had on planting and the resulting shortage of trees these past couple of years. I don't have any real point other than, been there, doing that, have the t-shirt, ask me anything. Oh, and this part of the farm is basically a side hustle to my normal 9-5 infosec job. Merry Christmas!
I forgot to mention, it's a rich man's drug, another way it's similar to cocaine. I probably spent $150,000 on cases of whippets (25 boxes x 24 whippets to a box.) My first reaction to Tony Hsieh and nitrous was "He had too much money for his own good." I ran out of money before I could kill myself with it.
Neat idea, but yeah like you say you break referential integrity pretty hard with this solution. And tbh I feel like everyone prefers tons of local links in their data, and since we have memory to spare with wasteful representations, we pick the convenient, link heavy one, a world in which this algorithm variant does not apply.
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Supercharged usually refers to an engine with a supercharger, which is a crankshaft driven pump used to force more air into the engine. It is similar to a turbocharger, except a turbo is driven by exhaust gas.

N2O is typically used with a normally aspirated gasoline engine. It's just another way to get more oxygen into the combustion chamber.

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You’re right, it doesn’t stand up to the multi core performance of the absolute top of the line Xeon chip. But that chip probably cost more than the entire laptop with an M1 in it.

Apple started at the bottom of their lineup. Given the performance of the processor compared not only to the processors that it replaces but to others higher in their lineups, it’s extremely impressive.

Is it the absolute number one best in every metric on the planet? No. But you shouldn’t expect that part in a $999 laptop.

This was their first try, in the low end. In six months (or so) when they release stronger Macs with a different in one (or M2) we’ll see how well they scale it.
I agree that we need to look at the system as a whole, but outliers also tell us a lot. The examples above where families become financially ruined by healthcare cl probably happen rarely, if at all, in a country with socialized healthcare. To me, the fact that it can happen even once in the US acts more as a red flag than a meaningful statistic.
There were more than a couple MP3 players before the iPod. I had a cool little device from Sandisk with, I think, a 512MB solid state drive? I bet it's still kicking. That thing was way cooler than an iPod, it ran off a AA battery (I think) and it seemed pretty tough. I dropped it in a slushy road puddle and it just kept trucking. The iPod had good capacity but the spinning drive in there was a huge failure point.
While this comment is problematic because of the entitlement it exudes, it draws attention to two important phenomena:

(1) the issue would have likely been avoided if the studio did not set a day-definite release date (announcing it more generally as e.g. Q4 2020 instead);

(2) there is a general problem with how game pre-orders work: people put their money down but it isn't really clear what they are getting for it in return, or when they will be getting it; many pre-orderers make certain assumptions to this effect, and when promises fail to materialize later, the disappointment runs deep.
Its only disruption if it disrupts. No one cares other than existing Apple users so I guess the only disruption will be the year of really fast and efficient teething issues they will be dealing with.

We have one at work, I'd highly recommend waiting another year before getting one if you want to be productive.
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No I'm saying that for quite some time, the US has not made the reforms it should have that other countries did.

Perhaps the ratio of exceptionalism to gridlock as the excuse for stasis has changed, but the stasis itself hasn't.
That clearly there has been a conflict between Red Hat and Docker employees in the past, and that when Red Hat employees tell their version of the story which happens to make them look good and the opposite side look bad, one should take that narrative with a grain of salt. Especially when one side is 100x larger and more powerful than the other by any metric: number of people, revenue, marketing and PR budget.

Are we really supposed to believe uncritically that Red Hat, a publicly traded company with billions of revenue and an army of engineers at their command, are being bullied by a startup of what, a couple hundred people?

I’m sure the people at Docker did behave badly in some way to piss off people at Red Hat, but whenever I dig into the underlying facts, it’s always something silly and sometimes ridiculous. I’ve seen a talk by a Red Engineer dedicated entirely to the topic of how mean Docker maintainers were to him. The actual offense was 1) refusing to merge certain PRs Red Hat deemed important, 2) a tweet by an individual maintainer’s personal twitter account making fun of Red Hat for sending low-quality patches. That’s the kind of ridiculous petty food fights this whole “Docker vs the world” drama is built on. I mean, who cares?

TLDR: the real story is probably more complicated than “everything was great then Docker was mean and then they failed because they were mean, the end” and best told by a less biased source.
I did crunch time once. (In my case ironically I was the problem, it was fully unnecessary and no one but me involved).

Thinks I learned from it:

- It's very daunting.

- It's quite bad for your health, especially your mental health.

- It's bad for productivity. Which means it's a fatal cycle: you do crunch time => because of stress and exhaustion you are less productive => you need to do even more crunch because you where not productive enough.

- It's bad for quality. Sure all your tests pass and the many problem(s) seems fixed, but there is a good chance that you will have to pay extra in the long run due to technical dept or just sub-optimal design.

- It's bad for creativity. I could more than one time majorly reduce my work by just reflecting on what is actually needed (in difference to what seems to be needed, is asked for by your team lead (i.e. not your customer)). The chance for this to happen under crunch is continuously decreasing with increasing frequency of crunch.

- EDIT: Because of the last 3 points, it's bad for getting things done in time as they will likely take longer on a "work done per hour" scalar.
As long as “free” exists, and the general population don’t understand why it’s free - then sure this will be the case.

I think the knowledge tide is turning on surveillance and there will be a time where people will gladly pay (a reasonable amount) for a service that is working for them.
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You perhaps miss the point of 'then start your own thing'. It is not meant as a realistic suggestion of where to take your career. It is meant to point out that the employer/employee relationship is one-directional for relative profit because it's the other direction in relative stability and investment. You are correct in your analysis that developers don't have access to the kind of capital necessary to start a company. That's the point - you can't predicate an argument on 'the actual workers only get a small fraction' when minus a stable job you would only be able to output a small fraction.

Plus the development abstraction layer influences public perception as much as it does developer perception. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab...