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I have a Mac Mini with an M1. We got it for testing, but I've played with it a bit and can answer a few questions.

Homebrew seems to be fine. Some packages have M1 versions and others run via Rosetta. Parallels has a preview version of Parallels Desktop for Mac that can run both Linux and Windows (tested both) for ARM64. Windows/ARM64 has its own Rosetta-like thing that seems able to run most Windows software.

The M1 is stupidly fast. Going from a relatively high end Intel laptop to the M1 feels like going from a 286 to a 486 back in the 1990s, and the thing barely gets warm even after you max it out for an hour. Intel is finished.
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There were no humans 56 millions years ago. I'd like the planet to remain in a state that is good for humans for at least a few more millennia.
"blockchain" is a term only used in the context of cryptocurrencies where a chain of transaction blocks is agreed upon in a distributed system. In any other case it's called a merkle tree. The core tech which distinguishes blockchain is not the series of signatures which provide proof of integrity (and perhaps more important in cryptocurrency: that they were derived from the previous part of the chain. This doesn't matter for data integrity per se, but it matters for consensus rules), but the consensus rules which say 'this chain is the one chain which counts, not the others'.
I think it’s similar in nature to when IBM’s founder said “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”
Oh please. It has almost no use as a currency, it's the rise of an asset bubble.
Whataboutism has no place in any intelligent discourse.
Naive understanding of statistics has been repeatedly used to spin data on immigrants (usually with the correlation is not causation fallacy). Real bad ass mathematicians with degrees and cool research positions could way in.

I would not go as far as saying they're obliged, but I'm no mathematician!
No that's you putting words into my or OP's mouth.

I don't have a problem with roguelikes, but I do have a problem with mobile games.

One is optimized to provide gameplay experience and fun, the other one is to extract as much money as humanly possible from their users.

The fact that they might use some of the same building blocks doesn't mean that end result is similar.

Just like playing poker and uno might use some similar mechanics (cards) that doesn't make them equal games. One is regulated the other one isnt.

Or you throwing dice in monopoly and craps
It's not just a difference in branding though if the quality varies between both products. In case of cereal you may get the exact same product coming from the exact same production line under a generic label. In case of the camera bag there are clearly differences in quality.
700 million people in the world face food scarcity at any one time. The world is overpopulated and its resources strained by the existing 7.4 billion humans (CO2 budget, natural resources reserves, etc).
The article is paywalled. So people upvoting this, are you just upvoting for the abstract and headline alone?
Probably (1) above, no?
It depends. Is Amazon, the marketplace, abusing its monopoly position to squeeze out competition? Then yes, it may be illegal (IANAL).
First Law of Thermodynamics anyone?

Yes there is a lot of power being used to mine crypto, I mine but it is done on a system that I would normally have running 24/7 regardless of mining. Yes large mining specific "server" or "ASIC" farms use alot of energy but so does every other serverfarm. Maybe we should be talking about the energy cost of watching Pr0n, or TikTok videos both of whic IMHO provide far less benifit to society.
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If you were sitting on billions and wanted to accelerate climate change then investing in BTC is probably the most inefficient way to do that. I doubt that idea ever even crossed his mind. It’s just about the profit.
No idea what it really is but it would make sense for the instinct to be quite the opposite to prevent inbreeding.
God I agree with this so much. Why would you even want to get rid of the metadata of function headers to help you quickly parse and understand code.
WRT Texas, that was a deliberate political choice rather than physics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_power_transmi...
It's speculation. People who buy highly expensive pieces of art and store them in a vault in Geneva* don't enjoy them in any way. It's a value store.

Why not buy Bitcoins instead? I think it has to do with the cool factor. It feels probably better to own an NFT than a Bitcoin, as it feels different to own actual art than stock in the Coca-Cola company.

(I can only guess though, I have never owned any of those.)

* https://www.crozier.ch/en/services/art-storage
Perhaps iterating on the ML model allowed you to learn about the business domain faster or more systematically.

When you're learning something new, you don't even know what questions to ask (unknown unknowns). And the domain experts don't know what to tell you first (curse of knowledge).

If, on the other hand, you present a model to a domain expert, they can start to poke it and tell you what it got wrong.
I never got the system I and system II distinction. Sounds like a modern version of the bicameral mind. Is the System I/II notion falsifiable? The duality also reminds of the mind/matter boundary.

But what do I know? Kahneman got a Nobel for it and along with Tversky is considered one of the most brilliant psychologists of the 20th century.
“a few more millennia” is basically nothing in terms of the planet’s history.
lol yes it is, texas is huge btw, but also has no interconnects with the rest of the grid, hence the price rise at a time of zero supply and high demand
That’s a function of the rather peculiar decision of Texas not to connect to the rest of the grid.

Every neighboring state is connected to the eastern power grid, which can transfer power from the Mexican border to Vermont.
Still has usage as a potential store of value and a means of cheap global transfers. My mother in law use it monthly to transfer money to her home (third world) country, which is crazy easy and cheap compared to traditional means.
Ugh this is such a tired argument. Energy used to watch TV could be used for something else instead. What is this mystical “something else” which couldn’t be powered because Bitcoin was using up all the electricity, and what good fortune would it have brought us?
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I've thought about this very question for years. My answer has been, usually, "no" for all cases that do not allow the developer to write straight assembly.

That is, until things like C++'s stackless coroutines came about, which are a construct intrinsic to the compiler and not functionality directly exposed by C.

Further, any machine code language is going to allow you specific instruction access that a compiler might not otherwise utilize (rare, but it happens). In such cases you can gain 'manual' speedups over what C could allow you to do. I would hope that is the obvious exception, however.

But you are asking a very good question not a lot of developers are willing to think much about.
BTC has surged which leads to a general interest in the topic. People looking for clicks try and figure out new ways to talk about the subject using whichever lens suits their agenda/objective and their audiences interests/convictions.
It seems like that’s artificially constrained food supply though. There’s plenty of land to grow crops on the planet. It’s not like there’s not enough seeds or dirt to grow food.
> Most of this electricity comes from the cheapest source of power, which is hydro.

This has become almost a religious belief amongst cryptocurrency acolytes, but it's simply not true.

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Edit: please see my comment¹ and piplikoc's comment² below for more detail on this.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26342411

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26342366
> And besides, isn't the thing that makes the M1 so fast the fact that it's a RISC processor that is -not- superscalar?

I don't know where you got the idea that RISC = “not superscalar”, but it's a wrong one. There are a lot of superscalar ARM CPUs out there [1].

> The headline suggested this had anything to do with the specific qualities of the M1 but apparently this has nothing to do with the M1 CPU?

The M1 is a SoC, with a CPU and a GPU (and other things) on the same chip.

> Any modern GPU can easily reach 1 TFlop nowadays.

Yep, but that's still quite a feat to do this on a on a low-power mobile SoC.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ARM_microarchitectures
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> India still has an independent judiciary...

That’s highly questionable depending on the level of the judiciary being discussed. The highest court (Supreme Court) has sided more often with the executive and takes years to start hearing cases of national importance. Some of the High Courts are better.
> It also states that it's more work for the compiler, stating that the template resolution seems more complex, and suggesting it's likely to bloat compile times. That's a more persuasive point (hard numbers are provided at the end of the article)

I take the author's point about the cost of compiling a template, but the benchmark is odd: a thousand functions with a single call to emplace_back(). C++ programmers are (in)famously willing to trade compile-time performance for run-time performance. Complement the compile benchmark with a realistic program benchmark. In a typical program, I would expect emplace_back() to be called many more times than it's compiled.
Absolutely not. Bitcoin’s value increases because it’s a speculative asset and there’s almost zero reasons for it to go down since it’s not really tied to anything tangible.
Look at it this way we know that PoW is wasteful as hell and because of that causes external issues on a huge scale. If we don't try to work out what those issues are and how big their impact is how would we ever deal with them? Putting our heads in the sand won't make them go away and the link details their methodology and results if you wish to quibble with them. Particularly as it addresses estimate accuracy directly.

More generally the whole external cost of PoW is definitely a case of techno-utopianism meeting the real world and a lot of proponents wanting to put on blinkers even though this study shows that crypto-currency is currently a net social positive. Literally any indication that it has any negative outcomes elicits very strange responses.
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This is partly true and mostly a baseless trope.

Dealerships provide a financial buffer around OEMs allowing them to run slimmer margins, spin production up and down slower, etc. They also provide a point of contact for the customer to complain to as needed (which has some value). As long as the overhead of the dealer system costs less than the benefit it confers it will still be used.

If the bean counters at GM thought it was cheaper to lobby to have laws repealed and do direct sales they'd have done it already.
Lets not forget opportunity cost. That may be hydro power but it's offsetting green power consumption.
Texas is a pretty disingenuous and cherry picked example considering they deliberately siloed themselves off from the other two major power grids of the country. Energy within a power grid is fairly fungible.
Sounds like a naïve view.

There's a limit of how far you can transport electricity, the majority of methane gas burnt and wasted.

Mining gold could be used on other things, energy going into dropping bombs could be used for other things... sadly it's just idealism.
Nothing special - that’s the problem. I consider a good HN post one where I learn something from the post and the discussion underneath it. Crypto posts for me at least typically don’t bring me learning from either. Discussions tend to all be along pretty similar patterns - either you’re pro or against. If pro, you talk about decentralization and money transfer in developing countries, if con about energy usage and criminal activity. Not that interesting
The entirety of human civilization is basically nothing in terms of the planet's history. That doesn't make it less important to me though.
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> were obliged to glorify the Soviet ideology.

Obliged by a authoritarian state (that could be violent, or destroy your career) is incomparable to some peer (that seems not very interested in begin violent nor career destroying) believing others should be obliged. Incomparable. Not sure what logical fallacy this is, but "incomparable" should do the trick.

Why would you want to compare the two, I ask myself?
What about every USD$?
If you think this “scientific” study qualifies as a contributor to intelligent discourse think again.
Looks like it now can do Ed25519 vs just NSA Suite B for ECC, which was a real irritation previously. They have touch now too, also important in helping hinder hot attacks.

The use of Rust is interesting to see in an HSM, though I'm not remotely skilled enough to say if they're actually using it well or how reliable Trussed is yet. The specific product pages like [0] have more details, but still missing some stuff. For example I wonder if they can do more standardized attestation now, and what the baked in certificate is (previously a disappointing RSA2048 IIRC).

Still glad to see this continuing along. While I'm now using YubiKeys, I backed the original CryptoStick back in the day and am happy to see multiple players in the space. HSMs and keys are criminally underutilized in online authentication even now.

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0: https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nk3an-nitrokey-3a-nfc...
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Same one that writes "We have members all around the globe" in twitter bio?
String formatting is indeed a mess, but that's a hind sight thing. Swift has a super nice system precisely because they are new and looked carefully at everyone else (I'm looking at you D who added string interpolation after swift but in a way that has all the problems of python).

But make no mistake: f-strings are NOT the same as .format()! One is compile time, the other is runtime. You can't localize f-strings.
I'm more on the development side of things, but I'm working on similar products right now and I completely agree with your sentiment.

What's more, there's usually a middle ground between spitting data out of postgres and full-on ML models. For example, if you're making forecasts, maybe a simple statistical model will get you 90% of the way there and won't require you to reach out for RNNs or something. In the end it's a tradeoff, and personally I'm delighted when simple math that mostly works can be used in place of complex models with little marginal value.
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> And those are just the little innocent gags, it's much much worse when the joke is disparaging someone.

This may be a stupid question, but why is it such a bad thing that they are disparaged? Maybe Godot doesn't want them as patrons, and are they even contributing that much?
Wow, what a toxic person. I think counterculture is an important part of the tech community, and for this to be removed is... Saddening.
Find the non-paywalled, full-text article here:

- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335993117_Cryptodam...
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I think Bitcoin is a worthless enabler of the worst humans around but this headline is total bullshit
If you go down this road then you can always drop down to assembler to be even faster than C.

I don't think this is a reasonable argument. Every Turing compatible language that gives you direct access to the metal, so to speak, provides you with the opportunity to implement these optimization by hand.

I think it's much better to look at average C code there. And then C has a tremendous advantage with their compiler support. C compilers have decades of optimization put into them. This will take a while for other languages to catch up to that.
- Docker: I've had no issue with arm64 containers so far. Most of my x86 containers appear to work fine (albeit noticeably slower) under QEMU, except none of the MySQL containers start for some reason. They crash out with a Go error, so I feel like it's a Docker issue rather than a QEMU issue?

- Xcode: Don't have much cause to use it, but in my limited playing around it's totally fine, as I would expect from a 1st party product.

- VirtualBox: Incompatible, with apparently no intent to support ARM hosts at all. I've installed Windows for ARM in the Parallels M1 Tech Preview though, and that seems to work fine. There's also UTM which will use virtualisation for arm64 guests and QEMU for x86.

- Installing random stuff via MacPorts: Totally fine, a lot of the packages I needed (nginx, PHP, etc.) are already available for arm64. The only issues I've had are Big Sur related, not ARM specific.
That would be the case if PD were the ones manufacturing the bags for Amazon. They do not.

Amazon is certainly allowed to make their own bags that fulfill the same function as PD's bags. What they're not allowed to do is to copy a design without permission.
> Why not ask the question: "how can we incentivise usage of clean over dirty energy?"

Because that would be absolutely pointless.

If energy were infinite and free, then all of this would disappear instantly.

The value of crypto is proportional to the future cost of minting. No future cost == zero present value.
Well if they 're so upset they can ban the mining of new bitcoins, the price of existing ones will go through the roof
No. Power usage is proportional to Bitcoin value. At $ 1 million, the network will consume as much power as the continental US.

The willingness and ability of nations/humanity to allow such a state should probably factor more into investment decisions than it currently does.
It can, and the people who only check a few well-known open source C library implementations miss that there is quite a range of other C library implementations out there that do this very thing, from P.J. Plauger's through OpenWatcom's and Tru64 Unix's to mine. (-:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26300532
"Either way, singling out mobile games like the text in Godot's documentation did is a mistake."

You're right, console and desktop games that do that are also a problem.
This is where the conversation gets tricky, though. If, as the bit rot example would imply, blockchain is just a fancy word for hash chain, then that statement is uncontroversial. Hash chains their cousins have been around for something like half a century and are well established.

That's really hard to reconcile with the "blockchain is revolutionary" meme, though. I think you've got to include distributed consensus and proof of work in the definition in order to get one that characterizes blockchain as a new invention and not just marketerspeak. Unfortunately, that definition doesn't jibe very well with the usual lists of successful uses of blockchain outside of cryptocurrency, such as corporate supply chain management, because they tend to be using blockchain where a hash chain would work just as well. Perhaps they're actually using hash chains, and just using the word "blockchain" as marketerspeak. I don't have inside knowledge and couldn't evaluate such things, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the more commonly touted examples were doing so because distributed consensus is not a desirable thing for the problem they're trying to solve.

In the abstract, the problem is that it gets really hard to understand what everyone is actually talking about when the conversation centers on a popular buzzword.
Is this bait?

Of course it's just about profit... the point is that he should be aware of its environmental impact and the hypocrisy of his investment therein.
those are two unrelated ideas.

again, overpopulation is a myth. a convenient and lazy one. but still a myth.

there are too many resources on the web explaining this.
What about intelligent discourse about whataboutism?
$1 of Global Plastic production is responsible for far more health and climate damage in the US than bitcoin.
To take all the cargo for 40 people to live there probably involves many trips of a 767 each year.

Just bringing in the fuel for the generators to keep everything heated and lit for a year is probably the cargo capacity for a 767.

That stuff would normally move by ship to other continents, but with no nearby port, I guess everything is moved by air.
If that’s true repealing the laws will be no-op. Let’s find out.
Well this something else is usually just nothing. Demand drives electricity production.
That's an assumption though, based on the current conditions and population. You can't extrapolate that same assumption to a future modernized world that has returned to one or two billion humans. Perhaps in that world, women happily choose to have more children than they are having now, for a variety of unforeseen reasons. Perhaps the world is just so great for everyone that women choose to bring additional children into the world, knowing just how much joy that children will experience. Perhaps children become a new popular hobby or some entertainment scheme we would find abhorrent in today's world.

I don't believe there's anyway to know today that it's a one way ratchet forever.
I know a Mountain-farmer that lives in Lauterbrunnen, he was pretty pissed about those Base-jumpers, being a Free-climber himself he loves a little bit of risk and so, but having his Children's seeing nearly everyday a lifeless body on the green or hanging in the trees or partially in the wall (with all the sirens and helicopters afterward) was too much for him...and for his children's (who actually cope much better with it then he did)

He's in a scene in that Doc (sorry for just being in german):

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> there’s almost zero reasons for it to go down since it’s not really tied to anything tangible

Or... every reason?
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