skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it’s been eight months since the M1 shipped and we haven’t heard from Apple. I have a good guess what’s going on: It’s proving really hard to make a CPU (or SoC) that’s perceptibly faster than the M1

It’s possible the arguments in the rest of the article are correct, but this isn’t. Hardware cycles take a while and the design for the M1X or M2 was surely settled upon some time ago, probably even before the official M1 release.
Vote with your feet. Move somewhere you find more friendly to you and your potential hires.
I work in finance and think I understand gp’s meaning. Although the end part sounds like They’re playing favorites with budget dollars which is essentially where office politics comes into play and not exactly in a way that’s in the best interest of the company.

However, the problem I see is that teams (hr, legal, etc) generally can’t be trusted to make decent technology decisions. They could blow $10M on something that sits on the shelf because they were “sold” or worse it disrupts the entire organization in the process of a failed implementation. Both we see happen regularly throughout the organization. Finance is responsible for vetting every possible point of failure which is why we are risk adverse, or appear so.
Yeah. Everything is so FAST on my M1. At this point I'd say the fact it has Classic in the name explains why it's slow.
It's easy: don't. I am struggling with the same thing up here in Alberta and it's just impossible to make any headway against an electorate that continues to vote this way. It's not worth your time and it's better to focus on hiring out of state/province or moving.

EDIT: fellow Albertans feel free to email me on my profile (lots of us here!)
What is your memory pressure like? Your RAM will get filled with file system and other caches, even if no programs are actually using the memory.
Perhaps it’s just “We turned out to only need half of the design thermal capacity” meets “let’s break the mold” in half.
The difference is that things that are good for you are good for you and things that are bad for you are bad for you.
Code Smell 83 – Variables Reassignment
Progress. What would be neat is to see how much data Apple is collecting about its customers after purchase. Why wouldnt we want to know this. Could Apple provide option to hide true email address, tell app do not track and give visibility into data being sniffed without also collecting vast amounts of user data itself. We cannot answer that question until we see the data they collect. I used to be of the mind that Apple was not really hurting anyone until it became clear they are competing with Google and Facebook. Even Apple competing with Microsoft is unsettling because that company has been aggressively acquiring user data, also trying to compete with Google. On issues of user data, these companies have more similarities than they do differences. They are all hoovering it up, albeit through different channels.
The resistor control is pure gold.
What exactly is being pushed onerously upon these people that’s making them push back? Mask requirements in a pandemic? Taxes? Cancel culture? Seat belt laws? Gun buying restrictions? Brown neighbors? I’m not sure I follow.
There is a global chip shortage. Apple has said the shortage would impact their products.
Why do we still use these terms in the context of science? 'Chinese' scientists are just scientists. If we're referring to the country or state of China in this context then we should make the distinction. The convolution of political states and ethnocultural identities is an antiquated concept.
It's literally designed to fit in the space previously used by the fan. They took all the internal shortcuts they could NOT to redesign that machine.
> they take take money from Google to make them the default search engine on a fresh Firefox install.

Heh, no.

They take money from Google to get paid and also help Google avoid antitrust suits.
You're oversimplifying it. First of all, the ocean is a sink for CO2, it absorbs it and mix it down in the depths, not release it back.

Plants don't sequester the carbon, like you said. But on the other hand, the extra CO2 is causing a bigger plant mass growth. So called greening of the deserts (but not just deserts). So basically the living biosphere is growing and absorbing CO2 as it does, because it can.

The plants evolved when there was more CO2 around, 200-300 is very close to starvation, they thrive in 1000+ environments.

Total Earth biomass is 550 gigatons, much larger than 36 which is what we emit every year. But obviously it cannot keep up...since the year 1750 we emitted 1700 gigatons, so more than 3 times the weight of the biosphere. That being said, I can see how the biosphere can grow by 2% with all the extra CO2 and go from 550 to 560, 570 and so on.
> If a fire has burnt out, it can’t deliver any warmth anywhere, not just at some things.

You're putting a lot of weight on the mechanics of "burning," but the physics of combustion are an analogy of convenience, not the diagnostic criteria.

One of the reasons that "burnout" applies particularly to work rather than hobbies or recreational pursuits is that people (generally speaking) can't afford to just walk away from their job and return when they feel like it.
Apparently we need to let these viruses come back and just firewall all these places off when they suffer from epidemic infections.
Well, good, but you traded one bad apple for another. Apple is in the process of locking down freedom. And while you might not be tracked by Google, your quality of life in a closed ecosystem is just as bad in other ways. How many people have to contend with iCloud endlessly begging for money because they took a few photos of their child?

Isn't iCloud data backed up on Chinese servers? I'm pretty sure that means you're being spied on.

This is not to mention the waste generated by Apple actively fighting the right to repair.

So, good, Google needs to go. But so do the tech giants.
In rural India where science stream - Math + Phy + Chem - was almost automatic for me for 2 years 10+2 schooling (before 3-4 yrs of college began) because I had scored quite well in my 10th board examination.

Because, for the world around me it was obvious that I would be studying medicine or engineering (I chose engineering as I had seen number of thick books a relative had - he was a medical student - that had scared me).

Fine arts and creative fields are reserved around there for people who didn’t score well in school level, or have very rich patents or are women (don’t kill me, I am just stating it), or have rich patents and are kinda “aware” (in a “woke” sense; hope this term is not highly offensive). For the rest it’s just - what will pay and pay ASAP.

Almost after more than a decade and a half later when all this happened and now that I am a senior software developer I really wish I had picked creative fields to study but that thought goes for a long pause, every time, the moment I think about the definite hardships I would have had to face and almost definite failure (statistically).

I do believe the ecosystem around me at that time collectively nudged me towards a wise and practical choice, even though I barely do not hate software development (sure I do not like/love it) and almost every day I think/fantasise about getting into writing, history, film making etc. I hope I am able to maintain this dream and reality balance for long enough to retire safely and comfortably.
There is another way to look at it. The conservative agenda (for lack of a better term) has been pushed aggressively for 30 years, well beyond the point where most people reasonably expect it should be. The “liberal agenda” is the pushback. The last hangers-on want to push even more harshly on their extremism to rally their diminishing base. The phrase “lost cause” comes to mind.
I’m quite sure they could, but mostly just because they could simply walk into your house and tamper with the hardware. You don’t need a fancy zero day when you’re the government.
Does contributing to a wider world of discourse actually change anything? My sense is that at most people feel vaguely more enlightened and continue on with what they were going to do originally.
Someone should do a calculation of Pi in the hexagonal coordinate, good for gaming in general.
Release channels.

If you follow one for nixpkgs, it means that the infrastructure has at least attempted all possible builds. If you're starting to build something, it's likely broken. However, that's usually not the case. https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-21.05
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...
carbon coin concept explored by the amazing Kim Stanley Robinson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-fo...
It made me laugh too, but imagine if you were blind. Would be about as simple as it would get to set the volume in that case.
Developers stubbornly refusing to utilize the tools provided by the operating system because they think they can do it better (90% of the time they can't) is one of my greatest pet peeves.

You should ONLY ever use your own engine for things like notifications if the particular OS doesn't support them (pre-10 Windows)
How much of your problem is Docker? If you're running more than, say, 6 containers locally, you'd really benefit from spinning up a Linux VM (Parallels Desktop Pro is nice) and putting your Docker containers there. Note Parallels supports port forwarding, and VSCode supports opening projects through ssh.

As it is, if you're running Docker Desktop for Mac, you're spinning up an entirely separate (internal) VM with macOS filesystem syncing for each Docker container you run.
Those are still all better than mobile phones that have a dozen "volumes" and when you press the volume up when a video is just starting you might get lucky and lower the media volume, or you might have missed it for one microsecond and now you are stuck on ring or alarm or whatever volume while the video plays.
Rape has abysmal prosecution and conviction rates in the US. A few years ago, I was told 3% of cases end in conviction. Thus it was no surprise that the local prosecutor declined to take my case, despite my providing the glass that contained the drug residue.
i had a very interesting conversation with a ccny professor on the subway once where he explained that he was facing a bimodal distribution in grades. those who were full-time residential students and those who were working their way through with one foot in the real world.

i imagine that trade schools can face similar problems.

that said, there has been no shortage of scams in education. this is why i think financing for it is best run and regulated through the government.
It’s amazing to see how vaccines have become a political football in the last 25 years. It makes me pretty cynical about the long-term prospects of humanity, that so much of the population is vulnerable to self-destructive memes like this. It’s like finding out that all your Bitcoin is on a fleet of unpatched Windows 98 machines that can’t be upgraded.
An alternative to giving your money to one of the largest tax-dodgers on the planet is a $30 raspberry pi with "pi-hole" installed.

Browsing on my phone at home with all those ad networks blocked okay... until you go outside your home network and get all the ads again. It's almost made my stop using my phone outside of my home network.
SolarWinds 0-day gave Chinese hackers privileged access to customer servers
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/12/an...
As distance to center of black hole approaches zero, curvature approaches infinity. There is no "locally" one can constrain small enough to observe no curvature upon approach to a singularity... Given two particles arbitrarily close together at arbitrary velocity (< c) relative to the center of a black hole, there is a distance from the center at which they will encounter unequal acceleration.
That’s a good point. I was listening to a podcast of a comedy historian explain how comedy is very generational. If you go back and listen to the comedians of our parents generation, it’s very different than what we hear today, it’s very rare to see comedians cross generations. Twenty years ago what did we have? No Twitter, Facebook, nascent digital photos, mostly VHS and DVD. Today a digital image, video, or screenshot could be saved by someone who genuinely wants to cause someone harm in the future. It’s already been done and when it happens to some random kid applying for college it’s truly terrifying.

I’ve got 15 years to retirement and I’m very fortunate to have not done anything to get myself canceled. I really hope I can make it to retirement without a an overblown dongle-gate situation crushing my career. I still think about those guys…

Edit: Grammar, as always.
I spent a while considering whether to submit this and decided to submit because this seems civilizationally significant. Adjacent as this is to current politics (and therefore outrage/indignation), please: let's keep the discussion within the guidelines and befitting this community.
Minors can't give consent, so their parents grant consent on their behalf. The salient difference between vaccines (or any medical treatment) and making your child drink alcohol is that one is good for them and the other is abuse.

There's an overwhelmingly large body of law dedicated to this.
I liked the version where you said “bad habit in your culture” more, and I know it was there because I started responding to ask what you meant by “your culture” while you quickly edited it to be more acceptable. You should edit that back and own your opinion, because at least I’d respect you more for sticking to your value system.

And no, “we” don’t. I don’t live in a NATO country, amigo.
basementcat CLEARLY said: "but it would suck to be the immunocompromised individual" (my emphasis)

Some immunocompromised people can't be vaccinated. For others, the vaccine is much less effective than for people with healthy immune systems. Those are two groups of people that lots of us care about.

Also, nobody in the US under 12 is supposed to have gotten the jab yet. That's another very large group of people that many of us care about.
No, this is an incredibly stupid argument.
I think he’s actually making the point you are: that a step that large is probably impossible at this point in time.

Not that I would have expected the step function they did manage to pull off either…
I’ll be very surprised if they abandon the yearly cadence they’ve settled into for the phones.
Anyone have a download for the steam version now that it's been removed?
I think the missing premise in this article is that they control the operating system in lockstep with the CPU, and so when they optimize frameworks and objective-C internals for CPU hardware acceleration, they can require those OS optimizations for each revision of their CPU, with no backward compatability whatsoever.

The best analogy I can think of is to imagine if epoll or dbus were hardware-accelerated, and every year a silicon update and a kernel update added more or improved acceleration for more and more components.

We don’t yet know what the speed gains possible from reducing OS overhead are, but I bet Apple does, and I bet it doesn’t require frequency bumps at all. If someone has compiled vmlinuz into FPGA tapeout somehow, that would be a good point of comparison. (“Inconceivable!”, except not so much nowadays..)

[I can’t find the tweet linked in the past few weeks about CPU-accelerated ObjC calls, but there’s an HN discussion about it that’s worth reading.]
Oh man I haven’t thought about those CDs that had extra content for computers. I had the volume issue and hated with a passion the weird players it would install.
Try to zoom a document and it zooms an image file of your entire hard drive.
Yeah, Alberta being Alberta makes it hard to bring people here who didn't grow up here.
Well this blog post ended precisely how I expected it to end. "Maybe."
> Which is probably why for example US made weapons have found their way via Saudi Arabia to al-Qaeda and ISIS linked groups.

To be fair. The US does a whole lot of that itself. The US even helped to transport al-Qaeda troupes from Lybia to Syria.

The DoD and CIA both had massive programs to push weapons into Syria, much of them ended up in Al Nusra and ISIS hands.

This is also not new, the US used extremist groups in the 90s under Clinton in the balkan and to support the Chechens.
Yes android is OK but this doesn’t work on iOS I think.
I had never tried that (Yosemite). The scroll wheel works just fine.

On my 2014 Mac Mini, the Apple remote works fine for pausing, adjusting volume, and going into sleep mode with a long pause press.
Saudi Aramco to Sell More Assets in Multi-Billion Dollar Push
The insanity of the false intuitiveness is hilarious. So let me get this straight, you need pixel perfect accuracy to reduce the volume to lowest, but not as much to increase it to the highest? How was this delineation determined?
Are they still doing compulsive education for minors?
Idk, kenney has screwed things up so badly that the next election might be a real competition.

https://338canada.com/alberta/polls.htm
"nerdsniped" is my new favorite word - thank you for this post haha
Yes, exactly. Then they should focus outreach to those parents.. which is what's happening.
I realize this is rhetorical, but do you want to work in a building full of anti-vaxxers?
There's a limit to how much we can hypothesize about the nature of other universes, given we don't know if they actually exist. It'd be foolish to claim "QED" either way.
But Long-polling doesn't scale in certain situations where you can have infinite webhooks.

I'm sure many people reading this have many idle GitHub repos set up with webhooks into some kind of build server. The repo might see no more than one commit a week.

It makes absolutely no sense for GitHub to long-poll (or websocket) all of these build servers.

(Now what would make sense is for /events to support a way to flip over to a webhook when it's idle. IE, long-poll for a minute, then the next request sends a URL for a 1-time webhook called on the next event.)
I will say I find the inconsistency in whether a game will obey the physical Silent switch on iOS to be annoying at times. I'll know I have my volume turned up but oh, this game is being silent because Silent is on. At the very least that should be an option.

While I'm on the Silent gripe, mild tangent, but Facebook on Android refusing to follow the Notifications volume and instead following the Ringtone volume is one of the shittiest pieces of UX I have to deal with daily.
In Tennessee a physician may give a vaccine without parental consent.

https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/Mature_Mi...
I both give you a 9/10 for your social camouflage course. Great work !
I’m watching you form your thoughts in real time as well. As I’m responding to the third or fourth edit of this post too. So cool your head and give actual counterpoints, because everyone is wondering

You are assuming there is no accuracy in what I wrote, replaced by the assumption I am being reductive and Islamophobic. I’m not conflating anything, Saudi Arabia beheads people for legal reasons there that do not match our human rights values here. The beheadings occur for the same reasons ISIS does beheadings, because they are both practicing Wahhabism. People have had their citizenships stripped and have been targeted from summary drone strikes, simply because they werent doing the exact same things within Saudi Arabia.
IMHO, you are not wrong. The advantage of spreadsheets is they are incredibly flexible. The disadvantage of spreadsheets is they are incredibly flexible.

Over the years I have noticed a few conventions that make spreadsheets easier to read from a model perspective.
- Inputs should have their own tab and ideally a name. Should also be a color-coded font (blue is popular).
- A worksheet should work left to right, top to bottom. I am always frustrated when I try to work through someone else's spreadsheet and the formulas just drift across a tab rather than working in a pattern toward a conclusion/summary
- Pretty print sections should be separate from the actual engine. Do the calculations in a manner that is easy to understand. Create an output tab to create the pretty report.
- Flag with a bright background color when a formula changes (yellow is popular). This frequently happens when your boss asks you to create a scenario where you override a formula with a constant. I cannot tell you how many hours of my life have been lost tracking down an overridden formula.

These types of conventions make spreadsheets easier to inherit from someone else. They do not change the fact that there can be a lot of calculations happening through a multi-tab that you simply cannot see the bigger picture.
> The idea isn’t crazy. The last few releases of Lightroom have claimed to make more use of the GPU

Lightroom keeps claiming this on new releases, and have done for years, and users keep finding very little improvement. Adobe clearly wants users moving to the non-Classic cloud.

> Anyhow, it’d be really surprising if Apple managed to get ahead of GPU makers like NVidia. Now, at this point, based on the M1 we should expect surprises from Apple. But I’m not even sure that’d be their best silicon bet.

I would be very surprised, competition is intense and there is a lot of money on the table for anyone with a better architecture. Nvidia would compete for any acquisitions. Ultimately does Apple even need to compete with Nvidia? They don't care about gaming, just desktop graphics and local ML inference.
Anyone have a good theory here? Last I heard from Trump he was urging everyone to “take the great American vaccines” (that he, Trump, sped along, he said)

So this isn’t the Republican following the siren song of Trump. They seem to be doing their own thing. And in so doing, making their own job harder because they’ll see more infections.

What is this: a grassroots competition to pander to their base which has lumped vaccines in with other pandemic measured they like?

I have not delved into their narratives so I’m out of the loop and confused on what is driving things. It isn’t Trump that I can tell.
AFAIK it is not possible to run Docker outside of a Linux VM on the mac.
> No. A contract can involve me agreeing not to do something I would otherwise be permitted to do (eg, an NDA is a contract in which I agree that I won't engage in certain forms of constitutionally protected speech). If I agree to a EULA that says I won't do things that would be permitted by fair use, that's probably enforceable.

You do not get it. I am assuming you did as you originally mentioned and got a hold of a copy of Windows without agreeing to the EULA. If that's the case, then you don't need to worry about the EULA, according to your argument at the beginning of this discussion. Then you can train the model under fair use.

Unless, of course, you actually don't believe your own arguments where you claimed that you can get a copy of Windows without agreeing to the EULA, in which case, your entire first argument is moot, and you admit that EULA's do put implicit contracts on people that copy the code, even without copyright, which means that I am right.

Once again, you are dodging. You keep trying to come up with "gotchas," but you're really digging your own grave here.

> They don't claim that! They claim that what they're doing is permitted by copyright law, which is a very different thing.

They are claiming an exemption to copyright law that is spelled out in the copyright law. Thus, they are claiming the same thing as no copyright in this particular case.

> And how many people have been successfully prosecuted (and that prosecution upheld) under this interpretation?

Ever heard of Aaron Swartz? He was charged under the CFAA and with grand larceny, among other things.