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Your link isn't taking me to the comment, is this the one you're referring to?

> Anonymous Anonymous said...

> I started that piece but found it intolerable to read on. I do synpathize with your general point - that philosophy is important (well that appears to be your point from the first paragraphs, but I'm sure I missed the Lisp part that is bound to follow) - but does it have to be so naive? Do you have to announce your alsmost complete ignorance of all matters philosophic with fanfares? First, philosophy, like all science, is not ethically good or bad per se. Just as there were (and still are) scientific theories justifying racism, so there have been (and still are) philosophies justifying oppression, slavery and genocide. Plato and some of his fellow philosophers were working hard to develop a philosophy that sounded good and beautiful while celebrating inequality and slavery(hint: a standard method to achieve this is to invent a heavenly realm of ideals). Similar things can be said about philosophers sympathizing with fascism, like Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger etc. And your claim that there was no philosophy between antiquity and modernity is ludicrous. Medieval occidental philosophy (Augustine, Thomas Aquinas etc.) was of course subordinate to religion and the church but it was still philosophy, whether you like it or not, and much of modern philosophy is influenced by those church men. Steve, why is it that you have to write over-over-overlong blogs about subjects you don't understand? It's not a genuine interest in philosphy, I must conclude. Mind you, philosophy isn't about screaming as loud as you can, it's about thinking - studying - a lot of studying, actually - before talking. Si Tacuisses, Philosophus Mansisses as they used to say in the old days. You SHOULD absolutely get hold of some Russell before you continue discracing yourself like this. Have a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Western_Philosophy_(...

> And please, please SHUT UP!

> 10:41 AM, APRIL 24, 2006
Appreciate your expertise, friend! Valuable for me in my hunt for a used pickup.
> We observed an error rate of 65.08%

This is damning and completely unacceptable.
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Do you mean this year? When I am sharing a home office with my wife an 6-year-old who is doing online Kindergarten?

I get a solid, uninterrupted hour of programming for 6-7am, and then I am at work for another 8 hours, but I don't think I could claim more than 4 billable hours most days.

When I was in the office the ratio was a little better, but shorter days probably resulted in similar output.
I thought about the X1 Carbon, but the aspect ratio was a turn off for me. Even though it is 14 inch, somehow, I feel I get more usable space with Macs. I am waiting for the 14 inch though since I also plan to keep it for 4-5 years.
Personally I love the news feature. I returned a samsung note because it lacked a decent launcher with features like that
Here's a really good article describing why the M1 chip is so fast. Tl;dr it's a beefy CPU with a massive reorder buffer, and a bunch of discrete subsystems (gpu, ml core, dsp, etc).

https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-32...
Ask HN: Re-infection data for SARS-CoV2 / vaccine viability
It seems that the efficacy (and safety) of the current vaccine candidates has not been tested beyond 2 months duration [1]. However, there have been numerous re-infections with SARS-CoV2 in a town near me (Germany, population ~ 90K, 3000 infected, 9 re-infected) alone. Current state of peer reviewed information is lagging behind - there are less then 7 reported re-infections globally.

The reinfection cases by SARS-CoV2 in the German town happened 5 months after initial exposure. No genomic analysis data is available due to the constrained resources of the public health departments. Testing and tracking has been done thoroughly in Germany until now that the capacity gets overwhelmed by the rapid growth of infections.

Could perhaps someone (qualified) elaborate whether the vaccines will work in the long term if they have not been tested beyond 2 months time, and re-infection has been reported occurs in the wild after five months? I am aware that the reinfection cases are quite low at the moment - however, I am wondering how the virus evades our immune system so well.

Is there any more data available on reinfections? The RKI [3] in Germany is just now acknowledging the data internally and is going to start a wider study.

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[1] DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2034577 - "Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine" (2020)

[2] source: internal public health department data from Germany (prefer not to disclose in public)

[3] https://www.rki.de/
Not quite. That's the slogan used by Google's parent company, Alphabet. It never replaced Google's slogan which remains the same today.
Geez that's fantastic! Love the startup page trend!
probably ccbill. it's a third party. and they take 30% of the bill and require 6-12 month rolling escrow (where they hold all the money).
I agree. I'm explaining, not defending.

How does the counter information strategy work? Anti Limbaugh people have tried fact checking, mocking, discrediting, etc. The only thing that seems to have tempered his show is attacking his advertisers.

Imagine you really oppose Rachel Maddow or Alex Jones. How would you negate their influence?

I don't know any popular new style influencers on the left. So let's say Ben Shapiro and Carlos Masa (because I have no better idea). How would you bounce them?

The only angle of attack I can think of is a smear campaign.

The only successful campaign I know of is Milo. My take is the Mercers got sick of his schtick. So maybe attacking patrons, which are a different kind of advertisers, works too.
Oh yeah I forgot about that, it still works!
it’s not a big difference. both platforms are looking the other way when it comes to policing illegal content on their platforms because they make money off it whether it’s legal or not. they are choosing to offload the responsibility to the users as much as possible.
Theres plenty of ugly dudes with good relationships. If you can somehow find people who are both ugly and will develop a terrible personality, maybe. I'm not convinced mass aborting people for being unlikable is more moral then letting them grow up alone though
SolarWinds is a 21-year-old publicly-traded company.

They're not really "yet another startup".

I also don't think that the departments of the US Government are all going around all willy-nilly dropping tools from "yet another startup" into their core infrastructure.

While your overall point may be valid, it's tough to come to the conclusion that it is applicable here.
That's exactly my point, at some point the legal system doesn't scale as well as the technology.
It's Apple. Of course they won't give you control over voltage and frequencies.

Maybe someday someone will reverse engineer it.
Sorta - There is translation layer in software but the reason the M1 is so fast at executing x86 code is that it has hardware support for switching to the x86 memory model. This is something no other ARM processor I'm aware of has.
> Make a version of this with more cores and cache and maybe all high-performance cores instead of heterogenous.

Just a side note. It's unlikely that Apple will eliminate their "slow" cores from their desktops. Mac Pros spend big chunks of their time doing mundane things which their efficiency cores do just fine. By using their efficiency cores, they can bring down total power requirements and their desktops can essentially run continually as opposed to entering a dedicated sleep more.

I suspect the Mac Pro will sip power and run cool as a cucumber most of the time when it's not getting hammered for high end tasks.
Isn't Pornhub's content always public, whereas Facebook's can be segregated to smaller groups of people? If that's the case it seems that illegal content could remain undetected for far longer on FB rather than Pornhub.
That the legal system is severely messed up and full of incompetent people.

(Trooper made tons of mistakes, trooper lied to judge, trooper violated civil rights, original judge was arrested for gambling with campaign money, new judge doesn't understand the principle of dismissing with prejudice, and much more. All for an unleashed dog...)
I usually wear Uniqlo heattech sweater and when it gets very cold, Uniqlo heattech undershirts.

I don't like puffy winter jackets so I wear a long wool coat instead.
It’s Profit that matters, not Revenue.

Stock price is usually factored as a PE ratio - Price to Earnings.

Price to Sales also exists, but usually only for emerging companies that have just gone public and are growing rapidly.
So, am I reading this right? the Russian government had the ability to impersonate the credentials of ANYONE in the marjoity of the fortune 500, the US Government, the US DOD, and our telecomm infrastructure... and they likely had this access for a while.

How is this NOT an act of war?
My experience landing the UK Tier 1 Exceptional Talent visa! It is not that hard
Hi everyone, I wrote about my experience landing the Tier 1 Exceptional Talent visa.

The reasons I applied to the Tier 1 visa are:
* Not needing work sponsorship, which makes it easier to switch companies
* Freedom to apply to companies and startups that don’t offer sponsorship
* Freedom to start your own businesses in the UK or become self-employed
* Freedom to leave your company, stay in the UK or travel outside and be able to come back

https://blog.barac.at/my-experience-switching-from-tier-2-to-tier-1-exceptional-talent-uk-visa-in-2020

Hope you find it helpful
SolarWinds isn't another startup, its been around for over 20 years, I have used their software half a decade ago and it did the job just fine.

Age doesn't imply its good either, but blaming startups isn't the problem here.
I think the redesign worked exactly as well as it was supposed to. Looking at this graph for a subreddit with approx. 4 million subscribers, the unique pageviews are quite high on the redesign. The official mobile app, however, blows them both out of the water.

https://i.imgur.com/o80v09J.png
You're right and the funny thing is that's exactly what he said after I chimed in.
And now there is a sale on for 14 DiRTCoInZ for the low low price of $9.99, or, if you like, an even better deal: 29 DiRTCoInZ for only $14.99!
We keep our home thermostat, in the winter, set to 66. 1) It's FL, so we may hit that once per year. Our home almost never gets below 68 and it takes a few days of cold wx to get there. 2) We are perfectly fine with layering because the day, and thus our home, will warm up.
They are effectively stuck on 14nm. They are unable to produce 10nm chips at scale at an acceptable yield, and the power and performance characteristics are not as good as expected either.

There's a reason the only laptops getting 10nm are low-quantity premium laptops.
I'm going to agree with you to a degree. I used to live a mile or two from an organic sheep farm in Oregon. On overcast days and the wind went my direction, it wasn't that bad. I wouldn't say pleasant. But it was just the strong smell of cut grass with odd components to manure that weren't that bad.

However, on a clear, hot summer day and the wind came my direction... no. Add in where it rained a lot the day before... those were the days when I felt like it was time to have a massive lamb and mutton BBQ party to make sure I don't smell it again.

Though, still better than smelling your average public toilet. So yea. Somewhat agree.
I disagree substantially. Advertising, especially web advertising, allows us to pay for services not with money but our attention. When the Economist polled people how much they would pay to forego search engines, the result was over $17,000 [1]. It'd be simplistic to say that this is what Google could charge in a subscription model, but the point is that the value is very high.

Is a world where poorer students who can't afford google have to compete against wealthier students with google a better world than one with web ads? I think it's easy to focus on the bad, the privacy issues and dark patterns that web ads incentivize, to the exclusion of the fact that it has expanded access to incredibly powerful services to people of all means (well, all means as long as they have access to the internet).

1. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/25/how-much...
I'm curious if anybody tried AppleM1 with Unity3D? This guy reported dreadful compilation performance (11.6s on AppleM1 vs 2.3s on some old dual-core 2016 Intel model)
https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-compilation-speed-is-s...
> Some reasons why not:

> you may live with other people who have different basal temperatures from yours, aren't comfortable at 16 degrees or whatever you settle on, and didn't consent to participating in your wacky experiment;

> other people may come over to visit your house without realizing in advance that they need to wear long underwear;

C'mon. We can't figure out the solutions to these problems, in a moment? :) If you can't, I'm not hiring you to wash dishes. (I.e., I believe you can.)

Edit: I think there's an assumption that this is some dogmatic straw-argument. It's not; it's practical. The argument is: Be practical.
I was under the impression that this was common knowledge among the astrophysicist set, going back, well, according to Wikipedia, to the 1890s when Poincare figured out you could do zero-energy orbit transfers[0].

I suppose the novelty here is that someone identified a subset of 'fast' paths along the Interplanetary Transport Network.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Netwo...
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This is great :)

(if brief ...)
Above my pay grade! You probably operating with a fixed speed on M1 so you can't intentionally cripple it, but it would be interesting to see "What would this look like if Apple had paired it with standard DDR4-3200?". AMD's Zen core's are known to respond well to lower latency RAM, but in the PC space you're not getting anything close to what Apple has with the LPDDR4x on package. You could try benchmarking the Intel and Ryzen chips with DDR4 5000 and try carefully tuning the memory frequency and timing to find the right balance of bandwidth and latency.
You’re not the origianl commenter so I don’t know how you divined that.
Your opinion is not grounded in fact or reality.

Bizarrely, Prison Officers' unions are arguing that prisoners should get ahead of people who haven't committed crime to get the Coronavirus Vaccine. See this:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2020/12/11/h...

This is just the beginning. There will be plenty of such public employee unions that will be jockeying for access over private citizens. And these unions spend huge amounts of money on their preferred candidates in elections to the State Legislatures, among other governments.
The real reason this is good for mindgeek is that they own a bunch of the porn production companies too. Making pirating and amateur uploading harder will lead to more people paying both pornhub and the subsidiary porn companies.
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You can install LineageOS on phones and Linux/GNU on computers for your family members, unfortunately that may lead to inconveniences that they won't be happy about.
DataHub: A generalized metadata search and discovery tool (2019)
is unity3d running natively?
Hah! This comment made me think about how I personally started to both really hate advertising/advertising companies, and I also find it more morally questionable than I find porn, to the point that if someone told me they worked for google or some other advertising network, I would silently be judging them for their life choices, but if someone told me that they worked for a porn company I'd probably be like "oh, what's that like?". Right or wrong, advertisement is leaving a very sour taste behind, to the point where for me personally it seems to have overtaken other things, like porn.
Anandtech measured the ram latency at >90ns, which is not great:

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

The cache on the M1 is also massive. If Intel/AMD have clever prefetchers to make up for this, it looks like the M1 might be doing something more.
congrats on launching (:
Honestly, I think that's part of the cause of my problem. For 9 years I spent one weekend outside every month, summer or winter, rain or shine. (Military reserves.) My feet spent a lot of time hovering just above frostbite level. I think the speed with which my body cuts circulation to my feet is probably a learned adaptation from that time period.
If you give them a call their sales people would be happy to explain it to you. Eager in fact.
This also helps reduce the mercury in one's diet, unless one was solely eating things like sardines.
I wonder when all is said and done, what percentage of my professors will have been cancelled, and what percentage of them are the ones doing the cancelling.
I learned recently that Operation Flashpoint was the first of the "open world military sims" that eventually gave rise to the ARMA and DayZ games.

SovietWomble (of the hilarious "Random Bullshittery" videos [2]) had a series of videos on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBitIgZ_UvGFNHPFlRg48...

[2] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBitIgZ_UvGH_ywHokH6S93r4...
You might like /r/ProgrammingLanguages. It's a specific subset of programmers who are interested in programming language design and theory, but they seem more advanced. It's not very active though
> Being able to be comfortable in our homes while being minimally clothed in the winter is one of those "luxuries" of the fossil fuel age that we take for granted.

Did you know that the Romans had under-floor heating.
The half life of the antibodies averages six months but varies. It's not as severe at diseases like smallpox where a single exposure results in antibody production for life. So our body will make energy trade offs by ramping down antibody production, including to zero. Antibodies aren't the only immune response, you can also "train" your T cells. It's the difference between having a team of soldiers train for a particular enemy, vs. training for "enemies at large". It is likely that the first exposure would lead to the most serious infection, because of the delay in the short term immune response due to novelty. This is why people have a really bad week two with covid (delay followed by panic). It could end up being like the flu, where due to mutation and waning immune response getting the vaccine annually makes sense. It's unlikely we would need the vaccine every 6 months for healthy people.
Exactly. I can’t work 12 straight hours on an average day, my mind wouldn’t have allowed me to.
Tesla has a proven track record of innovation and investing heavily in the future.

Most other automakers... not so much.
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> Not sure if people should be worried about possible plastic they might be eating or the loads of junk food they're stuffing themselves with every day.

Why not both?
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I'm guessing they used quotes around "exfiltration" because, per your link, the word is used as a near-synonym for data theft.
Let's not apologize for Apple's lack of numbers, please, and assume that this is something you should do yourself. The M1 is fast. Fast enough that you can get away with putting "2x" on the screen without much qualification. But you still need the qualification! If you look at Apple's product page (https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/) every single number they put up has a little footnote next to it, and you can see the details of how they measured it below it. Apple's keynote slides got well-deserved flak for not including a scale–they can and should have put one there. There are only so many metrics you can take out before people call you out as being full of it. Apple still uses numbers–just not many–and they pair it with good copywriting. Your page about a processor that's 5% faster paired with someone who writes something like "accelerating the speed of life" and no numbers thinking they're emulating Apple's writing style isn't going to do nearly as well.
The most simple answer:

Because people are willing to buy them.

It also supports typical human behavior. If you're neighbor has a 400hp car, to "one up" them you buy a 500hp car.

Childish? Yes. Are adults with childish behavior new to the human race? Not at all :)
How is this possible?

I know the Apple M1 is fast but against a 3900X?

Is it mostly storage and memory affecting the results? (doesn't say what storage Ryzen uses).

I mean - I still have a hard time believing that a M1 can outperform a Ryzen 3900X if they benchmark something that uses the CPU 100% for a while - like raytracing.

Or do x86 just suck and we found out now when something else came out?
I’m sure you’re already aware - but be mindful of what’s under your feet. A folded blanket can do wonders to insulate your feet from the floor.
Note that "fast" is a relative term in this case. E.g, "On average, these particles reached Uranus and Neptune 38 and 46 years later, respectively, with the fastest reaching Neptune in under a decade."

It's more accurate to say that these are "cheap" paths rather than fast ones since the primary saving will be fuel. These paths will be too slow for humans to use and any dramatic improvement in human travel through the solar system will require a technological breakthrough like a high-powered torch drive [1] or laser-powered solar sails [2]. Otherwise, we'll still be stuck with multi-year trips to anything beyond Luna [3]

[1] http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/torchships.php

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDR4AHYRmlk

[3] See the Impulse vs Brachistochrone table at http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/appmissiontable...
Considering that Apple won't sell their chips to anybody else, and the M2, M3, Mn could be increasingly faster than the x86 chips, how long before we start moving along this path?

1. Amazon, Google, Microsoft start building their own chips for their own clouds. The most efficient chip could translate into the cheapest cloud, or the fastest one at the same price. Their choice.

2. There will be N somewhat compatible ARM chips, that is to say they are somewhat incompatible. Remember the home computing landscape of the 80s / early 90s but also the diversity in server architectures and OSes.

3. At least Microsoft is likely to sell their chips to third parties (they used to sell their software). Probably Amazon and Google have reasons to sell their chips too (Google -> Chromebooks)

4. Some of those chips will end up in development laptops and desktops.

5. If you want to develop for AWS you'll be safer to have a laptop with an Amazon chip, if you want to develop for Google Cloud a Google Chip, for Azure a Microsoft chip. This is not unheard of because if you want to develop for iOS you must have Apple hardware since 10+ years ago.

6. The chip manufacturer that wins the war for the developers' machines wins the war for the cloud, because it won't be possible for (let's say) Google to compete with (let's say) Amazon if Google has to buy chips from Amazon because 90% of the developers have a laptop with an Amazon chip.

Or we'll end up with 5 different laptops (unlikely) or one that connects to a remote desktop running in the appropriate cloud with the correct chip. That laptop could be a Mac or anything else, something powerful or a thin client.

So: fragmentation and then remote desktops? Back to mainframe / time sharing?
When you talk to Americans about guns or fast food or healthcare or 101 other issues, Freedom is a word you hear a lot. But for porn and alcohol, despite broadly harmless, Americans are all about bans and prohibitions...
They programmed it in Python, so server costs are insane.