skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yea its hard to compare, this makes sense as what is the most powerful cpu one can get no matter the power usage but there isn't anything close to M1 when it comes to high performance and long battery life. Even ryzen 4000 series laptops throttle a lot when on battery power while M1 performance doesn't change. I don't expect this to change with Zen 3 laptops either.
That's great. Unfortunately at the time it wasn't up to me, I was brought in after the big decisions had been made and the devices had been purchased. But it just makes me sadder seeing these things actually exist and would've made my life less painful.
Being liable for the consequences of poor software development and security practices would
I don't think this was anything like that, though.

The story that they were investigating was completely plausible because it painted a very realistic picture of things that were happening in Syria at the time.

I suppose the one part of this that is potentially harmful and false is that the ISIS member was living free in Toronto (while bragging about it on social media).
Twelve Forgotten Principles of Public Health
It's positive sum in utility but zero sum in dollars. People get caught up on the latter when all that matters is the former.

Think of a pawn shop on a street corner. They trade by making markets, engaging in a zero dollar sum game. But it's absolutely positive sum in utility.
No, Stanford is sorry that they were called out, but not sorry for what they did - or they wouldn't have done it in the first place.
The change is server side, the QR code pattern shouldn't change. When you click or scan the QR code after you switch types it should behave accordingly.
The quote that stands out to me the most is:

Work makes a mockery of freedom. The official line is that we all have rights and live in a democracy. Other unfortunates who aren’t free like we are have to live in police states. These victims obey orders or-else, no matter how arbitrary. The authorities keep them under regular surveillance. State bureaucrats control even the smaller details of everyday life. The officials who push them around are answerable only to higher-ups, public or private. Either way, dissent and disobedience are punished. Informers report regularly to the authorities. All this is supposed to be a very bad thing.

And so it is, although it is nothing but a description of the modern workplace.
2020's “The Dog Ate My Homework” Scapegoat: The Algorithm
> This isn't an apples to apples comparison

I mean how could it be. It's AMD to Apple's :-P
Walmart's new HQ campus will be made of wood (CLT). https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2019/12/09/modern-hom...
Was looking for this comment. Game had no bugs for me on PC but was obviously an unfinished mess.

Mass effect 1 style gun progression? People hated it in 2009 and I hate it now. It's unneeded here, and that's just the very tip of this really large sized iceberg on just how much they fucked up gameplay / RPG elements
Yes, but only the zen 2 flavor which is significantly slower per core. The M1 competitor with similar thermals, close IPC per core, and on board GPU is widly rumored to be announced in Jan at CES.
The original test linked at the beginning of the article is telling that multicore is not that relevant for the tested performance. The article is mentioning the power envelope and the fact that 5nm is temporary exclusive to Apple, but not for long - AMD will utilize it and that would be a closed test. In the end, if you want to compare performance before you buy, you care less about the internal and more about performance and price.
If geography and population density have nothing to do with it, then I suppose California isn't one of the world epicenters right now.

Australia has a lower population than California, by the way. Obviously, its pop is mostly spread over the east coast, but compared to the UK it's extremely sparse, with no tunnels connecting it to the mainland. It's disingenuous (at best) to think that the island nations that had successful lockdowns were all doing something magically better than other places with significant restrictions to daily life like France, Italy, California, etc. because they couldn't realistically close their borders to ground traffic.
An examples/ subdirectory seems a semi-frequent open source solution to this.
> The case fatality rate is around 1.8% in the USA [1]. Current population is 330 million. So if the entire population becomes infected that’s 5.9 million dead.

It won't get anywhere near that, as it doesn't take into account asymptomatic (I've seen estimates in some areas as high as 20:1, which would put the number dead at ~300k) and due to herd immunity not everyone is going to get infected anyway.
I don't think the "capitalist" system would really have any effectiveness here. Think about people like me: I could easily afford to pay whatever it would cost to be vaccinated. But, it's largely pointless: I work at home and don't go outside except to get some groceries now and again. If I did get COVID-19, I'm at a very low risk of dying. I'm probably not going to spread it to anyone either; I live alone and would just stay in bed for the two weeks I was contagious. And, if I did die, it wouldn't really matter to society -- I'm not writing software to save people from COVID-19.
Thus, if the goal is to minimize the spread of COVID-19, there is no value to letting me enter the highest bid for the vaccine. By the time my money feeds back into the system to increase production, everyone will already be vaccinated. Naively applying a simplistic economic model from elementary school doesn't get results here.

Capitalism doesn't help in the case that the article is discussing, either. Older doctors tend to be paid more than younger doctors, and are also at higher risk of COVID-19 without taking into account how many COVID-19 patients they see. If we just charged a high price for the COVID-19 vaccine, the older doctors would easily be able to afford it and get vaccinated and the residents wouldn't be able to afford it -- exactly what's being complained about in the article. You don't get paid for each COVID patient you treat (caring for dying pandemic victims is not a high-margin business), so using ability to pay as the means of distributing the vaccine doesn't maximize its value to society. The problem that the designers of the distribution model faced was balancing risk from old age with risk from exposure to patients with COVID-19. They balanced it wrong, and over-weigthed old age and under-weighted daily exposure to people sick with COVID-19.

It's not about capitalism, socialism, or anarchy. It's about getting back to normal as quickly as possible.
That's extraordinary and looks gorgeous.
People are operating on instincts that amount to something like 'the choices are the 80-year olds die im five years instead of now, or we all ruin years of our lives and hand over more power to the petty little tyrants who thrive under lockdowns. Sorry, grandma, but you were on your way out, anyway'.
Of course, that's not acceptable to say. Hence all the normal people say whatever they have to to get along and do otherwise (as usual) and True Believers are increasingly confused, angry, and disillusioned (as usual).
The two things you mentioned don't really affect the gameplay at all. I guess if you were looking for a GTA style sandbox game where you could just cause chaos in the streets it does not satisfy that. But if you want to explore a huge detailed city and do quests/mission etc.. it works really well.

The police spawning/ai issue is really dumb when you encounter it, but as long as you aren't trying to shoot random people in the street you don't encounter it.

The traffic is mostly just background detail. Again if your goal is to create a big traffic jam ala GTA then it won't be nearly as entertaining but in terms of just making it feel like you are in a living breathing city.. it gets the job done.

Many of the side missions are fairly detailed and interesting, it is fun just exploring the city and completing missions.
In the real world, there aren't many people making purchasing decision between an M1 Apple laptop or Mac Mini and an AMD 5800X desktop machine anyway. Still interesting to see the comparisons.

The leaked Geekbench results of AMD's upcoming 5800H laptop parts are about 85% of the M1's single core score and matching the M1's multi-core score. TDP is still higher than the M1, obviously, but AMD is also using a 7nm process while Apple got the jump on 5nm by buying exclusivity on TMSC's 5nm process through the end of the year.

I'm extremely impressed with the M1 and I'll be buying an Apple Silicon device as soon as they have something with 32GB or more of RAM. However, the sentiment that the M1 chip obliterates any and every desktop part on the market is getting kind of silly at this point.
No, shame on Wisconsin. This entire fiasco is the result of self serving politicians doing dumb things to get a headline today while sticking their successors with the mess it causes while constituents foot the bill.

This was never about corporate welfare. Foxconn never planned to build a factory there, not seriously at least. This was an exercise in generating positive news cycles for republican lawmakers in exchange for goodwill in federal policy making - in other words, political corruption.
The handling of this whole event is in stark contrast to just a few years ago - when details on malicious activity were a closely guarded secret and useful threat data was safely locked away from anyone who might protect the public with it.
It's only zero sum if the things being traded are in fixed supply. You can always pull more oil out of the ground and you can always create new fiat currency.
I think that is because the link does not actually send you directly to your website, but routes you through qr.new. If qr.new were to go down, any QR codes created would not work.
These peer reviewed projections for the US are dire. They are 4 years newer than the sources you cite, and incorporate the consensus conclusions the scientific community has drawn from the empirical discrepancies.

They do show parts of the US greening, but much of the South is likely to be unfit for human life or agriculture:

https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/
No. They sold an equal number of future contracts so they were flat and did not need to take inventory. That part is a routine shorting scenario. The odd part of this is that market conditions caused demand to drop so far that sellers paid buyers to take the contracts (and inventory). So these guys were paid to honor their TAS contract but had already sold the inventory to others via the futures contracts.
Isn't GPT-3 licensed exclusively to Microsoft? Maybe Bing will actually get good.
Wow.. lots of anti China propaganda in this. But who was it that hacked the US this March? Also, due to our current laws most of these "bad actors" can just straight up buy most of this "private data" from any company out there. No need for thieving.

Surprised that this doesn't have MyPillow as one of the sponsors.
Regarding the 5nm vs 7nm thing, I expect apple to be at least 1 node or intra-node improvement (eg: 5nm vs 5nm+ or 4nm) ahead for foreseeable future. They pay TSMC pretty penny to have access to cutting edge nodes. Not much different from how Intel had node advantage over others albeit here apple paying for it so at-least others aren't locked out of it for too long.
> SoundCloud is a breath of fresh air pending you don’t mind the underproduction.

The music I like I can't really find anywhere else to higher degree and ease (occasionally I might find it on youtube, just available on bandcamp, or have to message the artist) so its not really applicable.

> It was pleasant to see this whole world of artists just doing their thing

This is what I like the most, reminds me of FOSS: artists all over the world doing their own thing and occasionally doing it together.
Yes, but is that fair in a benchmark? The RAM maybe because all high end RAM speeds are technically out of spec and are overclocking. But messing with the CPU voltage to juice the benchmark results seems like cheating to me.
I'm still impressed how fast Intel was overtaken by AMD and now Apple. Benchmarks don't even bother including Intel.
Ken M?
In the real world, no one is debating between an Apple Mac Mini with an M1 chip and an AMD Windows/Linux desktop box in the first place.

But keep in mind that the author didn't even select AMD's top parts for this comparison. The Zen 3 series has 12 and 16 core parts as well.
In my experience, being kind results in self-interested people taking advantage of you. People who want to climb the corporate ladder often prey on the kind, so I feel that kindness is "taught out" of people. There is a fine line between being kind and being a doormat. I don't really know where the line is though.
I think it's probably just confusing, which is a bug in itself. There are a few text fields that all look like they could be what you redirect to, but only the "Link QR" will redirect you to the link you enter.

> the resolution is extremely low

Yeah no argument there. I do actually have space for a 4x3 font instead of a 3x3 font, that may be worth working on.
A First Look at Ghidra's Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition
It doesn't bode well that you can get it twice to begin with.
> Which many people do, and has become even more prevalent with the spate of looting...

Only 42% of US households own at least one gun. Which means at least 58% of households depend on police for protection. Moreover, having just a gun is not going to be sufficient and you will need other forms of protection offered by police and judiciary. Finally, just having an effective property rights protection and enforcement system deters a lot of crime. None of those things are available for free and property taxes are an effective way to pay for them.
Londoner here too and I agree with your observations about compliance. Tons of rule breaking. The dance studio next to my dwelling has been running popular dance classes as recently as last night. I think it's mostly an age thing: the under 20s almost completely ignore covid restrictions, and so does a substantial part of the under 30s. I can't even blame them as it doesn't affect them. And they mostly lack an understanding of the concept of asymptomatic carrier.

Regarding your PSA: In the mean time Taiwan has not had a quarantine at all, and has been
free of (internal) Covid for over 200 days. Other SE-Asian countries
are all doing very well, Japan for example does not have quarantine either.

European lock-down policies have been a monumental failure. Not good enough to stop the spread. But ruining the economy (and everybody's fun). It is truly remarkable that Europeans agree with being locked away for nearly one year now with little to show for, while other societies achieve much better results with different, and less drastic measures. No curiosity at all, it seems, even to understand why Taiwan, Japan and other countries succeed! SMH
> "GTA V, but you can't drive cars" then obviously that seems very tedious

The reason why it's tedious is because the map is built around cars. You can't go very far without encountering a road. This makes it fairly hostile to be a pedestrian since you're relegated to walking on sidewalks (or in front of traffic if you're daring).

A city built around pedestrians could have a much different environment, like open green spaces, cobblestone paths, proactive NPCs engaging in little dialogues with shopkeepers, people trying to sell you stuff on the streets, etc. A real "night out on the city" vibe that I don't think any city-style game has tried going for yet.
I don't see which tests done were multi-threaded/single threaded tests. The author should really clarify that.
The M1 is certainly impressive but how much does the same configuration say with 16GB and 1TB SSD cost? Most enthusiasts aren't going to buy an AMD Ryzen 5800x and limit themselves to 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD. A mac mini 8GB + 512GB SSD configuration is 900USD. Can you imagine what a 16GB + 1TB SSD cost, which is not an uncommon configuration? My guess is in the 1300USD range.
Migratory Typing: Ten Years Later (2017) [pdf]
I think "banned" is an overstatement. There were/are people obligated to use Windows because they need professional EDA tools and suchlike software only available for that platform. And although it's by no means my speciality -- I'm a distributed systems developer, not a Windows sysop -- I was told a few years ago that the general belief was that Windows had the most sound security story of all the operating systems you could put on a laptop. The reputation of Windows is a combination of history and the fact that idiots are likely to use it, so it always looks like the OS people do stupid things with. But if your company culture isn't stupid you can make it work much better.
You’re making a bit assumption that may or may not be true: that M1 will scale well to 8 performance cores. x86 vendors (and POWER) and Linux have put a lot of effort into multi core scaling in the last 15 years or so. Building a fast and efficient core is not the same thing as building one that scales well. I’m sure that Apple is capable of making an effective 8- or 16-core machine, but it may not be as simple as just adding cores. Look at the recent AMD machines’ complicated core organization for examples.

As far as I know, other than Graviton and other very new N1 designs, there haven’t been many big ARM systems at all.
If top management, maybe.
> Simply because the government "gave" me services I neither asked for nor consented to does not mean their taking of my labor / money is ceases to be theft

Well, such is the price of citizenship. You certainly are free to exercise your freedom of exit to move to a country where the government behaves otherwise.
You become hostage to their worldview:the murky world of moderation on Clubhouse
Eh I played about 100h on pc and it's great. Bugs were very minor for me.

Ai really sucks though and netrunner build is absurdly OP. Once you get suicide and cyberpsychosis + deck that spreads ultimate hacks to two enemies, you turn into a death god, remotely forcing people to kill themselves. Every fight turns into breach->suicide->suicide->suicide at which point all nearby enemies are likely to be dead. Suicide hack really shouldn't be in the game, or at least make it so that netrunners can protect allies and can't be suicided. At first it's fun but gets boring.
I did read the article. The second study also raises many questions.

What is meant by wait-listing? Does it mean their future is unclear and for this reason could their stress levels be higher?

Was maybe tutoring itself the activity that worked well not the kindness part in particular?

But anyway intuitively I believe volunteering and kindness do have health benefits, definitely reduces stress, feelings of guilt and just in general makes you feel better about yourself. So from this mental state there might be health benefits.

And while chemical levels differed it is still unclear what health effects there were. Being "linked" doesn't say much.
I wonder isn't it better to run a lottery who gets the vaccine when...
As the article mentions, densified wood already exists as a product [1]. But it's basically never used for building materials. As far as I can tell it's main use-case is for electrical transformer support pads and anchorage, as you need a strong, non-conductive material for that. So right now it's a fairly niche product.

I'm not an expert, but as far as I know existing densified wood is basically stronger by virtue of cramming more material closer together - the wood fibers themselves don't change mechanical properties at all, there's just more of them in a given area. So your strength increases are paired with an increase mass as well. If this actually increased the strength of the wood fibers, that would be interesting.

It's an interesting technique, but we already have processed wood products that offer significant strength gains over natural lumber [2], and they haven't displaced regular wood all that much. Normal sawn lumber is often strong enough, and it's just incredibly inexpensive. So it's unclear how much difference another stronger, processed wood product would make to the building market (I can't speak to other uses like body armor or vehicles).

I think long term, the most potential for wood improvement lies with improved trees that grow stronger, faster, and with fewer natural defects. Most agricultural products have been deliberately bred for desirable traits for thousands of years, but we've only just begun to do this with trees. (I wrote more about this here: https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/stronger-faster-c... )

(Source: structural engineer, formerly worked at a mass-timber focused construction startup).

[1] - https://www.roechling-industrial.com/us/products/composites/...
[2] - https://www.mjbwood.com/lsl-lumber/#:~:text=LSL%20Lumber%20(....
Apropos of other comments. What do we think about the mask “issue”? Some people vehemently refuse to wear them, others take “just go with flow” attitude, yet others approach it with outsized religious zeal, hounding the heretics or at least giving them the stink eye. It also seems some people take great comfort on the mask, wearing it even inside their cars or waaay out in the open.

Are we witnessing a religious schism in the making? Is it with us to stay, post-covid?
> terrible enemies, terrible drivers and terrible wanted

yeah enemies and police are stupid, you can basically kill the hardest enemies with sharpshooting and hiding. from the police you can run away pretty fast.

and the drivers. well you can create a jam by parking on the road.

still love the game, since I think the story is not that bad and the side quests are sometimes amazing.
not on zelda level, but still a good game
Hard to argue with their deaths being two orders of magnitude lower than ours.
Those are statistics/ML questions, not software development ones, so software development processes like TDD are only tangentially relevant really.

But in any case, it's actually fairly easy to test that your trained model has sufficient accuracy: choose a metric, choose a threshold for said metric, and check that the observed metric on a testing set (data that the model was not trained on) is above the desired threshold. Repeat for several different metrics for a better understanding of how well the model performs. This can be put in a set of unit tests.

Check residuals, inspect the logical implications of the regression coefficients (or whatever), plot a few curves etc to be more sure again. This can't really be put in unit tests, nor should it be. But again, this is more statistics than software development.

Same goes for model deterioration - every so often you check that the metric(s) still beat the minimum threshold on more recent data.
This is correct. I have basically combined a link shortener with a QR code.
Here's a datapoint. I just got an HP Omen gaming laptop for $1100 on Amazon. Pretty much equivalent to the 3800x mentioned in the article, but came with 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD, and 6GB Nvidia 1660ti discrete graphics. I can seemingly run unlimited browser tabs, video conference and play a game across 3 monitors (built in one is 144hz) simultaneously with no latency whatsoever. I upgraded to 32GB of ram for $144 and added another 512gb PCIe SSD I had lying around, because it had an extra slot. The fans do run (quietly) all the time, and it has a battery life of about 4 or 5 hours. Not in the same league performance per watt as the M1, but interesting performance for the dollar none the less.