skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Targetting guanzhou would already wipe out any gains from capturing taiwan.

That doesn't address the lack of MAD nor any vulnerability to a first strike.
Jurassic Park is a great example of hard scifi in that the problems which happen all happen in believable ways.

It's still fiction and not an attempt to realistically estimate the rate at which problems would happen or the magnitude of those problems if they did. Look to zoos if you want a realistic point of comparison for the risk analysis -- but not if you want to watch a T-Rex chase kids in Jeeps.
For lightning network to serve more or less realistic amount of people and businesses, it needs to either have inordinate amount of channels (one-to-one) or it will have routing and fees may go up then, several times up. Lightning network transactions may end up not as cheap as they are right now.
Reflecting on the Shake Build System
I was hopeful that the tx rate would have improved significantly by now. Now I treat it as what it is now (without expectations of better)--of use to few and a waste to many.
In a descendant comment to this, you wrote:

> if we used more compassionate language to refer to these people

Which implies a greater interest in the politics of the language vs. semantic precision/grammatical precision.

The "illegal" in the phrase "illegal immigrant" refers to their illegal immigration, not to the legality of their person-hood, as your comment would imply. "Undocumented" is an intentional dodge of the legality of the immigration action undertaken by the person (aka their immigration status). The more factual phrase has been made controversial by partisans.

And btw, cards on the table, I support an expanded, rational immigration policy that recognizes the critically important role immigrants play in the U.S. economy and, more generally, society. And one that encourages legality and punishes illegality.
org-mode + emacs-jupyter
https://github.com/nnicandro/emacs-jupyter#org-mode-source-b...
Initially didn't care about Bitcoin, thought it would just get banned by the government.

Then the price went volatile and I thought more about it. I did the MIT Blockchain course, and it just seemed so clever.

Then I learned more about monetary policy and how central banks just create money at will. Combining all this with my economics background, it makes sense that Bitcoin could replace gold and have a real function in the world.

Most people on HN understand the technology, but they don't understand money. Gold is a $12tr market. The US bond market is ~$46tr. Capital needs a way to preserve its own value, but the dynamics of money creation throw that into whack over time.
small step for Apple, a giant leap for mankind
This is very good article. For many, after getting some kind of windfall, pitches start coming left and right. It is easy to think that angel investing is something normal rich people do. Personally I don't think it makes sense for most people, even with ultra high net worth it most commonly isn't worth spending the time on. Unless you really like it.
Without knowing what the silicon lottery distribution actually looks like we can't really say that.

> "... but it's worth bearing in mind that the cost of the product is not just the marginal cost of the materials and labour."

Yes, you could choose to amortize it over every product but then you're selling each CPU for the same price no matter which functional units happen to be defective on a given part.

Since that's not a great strategy (who wants to pay the same for a 12 core part as a 4 core part because the amount of sand that went into it is the same?) you then begin to assign more value to the parts with more function, do you not? And then this turns into a gradient. And eventually, you charge very little for the parts that only reception PCs require, and a lot more for the ones that perform much better.

Once you get to diminishing returns there's going to be a demographic you can charge vastly more for that last 1% juice, because either they want to flex or at their scale it matters.

Pretty soon once you get to the end of the thought exercise it starts to look an awful lot like Intel's line-up.

I think what folks don't realize is even now, Intel 10nm fully functional yields are ~50%. That means the other half of those parts, if we're lucky, can be tested and carved up to lower bins.

Even within the "good" 50% certain parts are going to be able to perform much better than others.
That's pretty neat! Can these be used to efficiently compute rolling percentiles (over windows of the data), or just incremental?
I was also pro - Now against.

The only utility that makes any sense is the same one that originally made me pro - You can use it to buy drugs online (spent 41 bitcoin on a 1/4 of weed in the early days).

These days - I'll firmly state that it's a pyramid scheme.
The SE series uses the same chips, but cheaps out in other ways by going with older body, older camera, older screen.
> we target releases to be available starting from the 20th of Sept.

https://github.com/adoptium/adoptium.net/issues/167
Death of Stalin
For French I liked https://www.amazon.com/Mon-premier-dictionnaire-Roger-Pillet... which I picked up after some basic grounding with Duolingo. It's not a textbook but it is all in French yet for second-language learners.
It's amazing how Apple was able to get general public to be excited about things like "20% brighter display". Benefits of being rockstar I guess. But all rockstars get out of fashion...
There are on the order of... 10s of thousands of intentional satellites.

There are millions of pieces of debris.

It's useful for preventing future debris from dead satellites perhaps, but doesn't address the large number of existing objects which are currently the problem.
And what will I be able to do with that performance bump? I use a tablet mostly for taking notes, email and looking at websites. I can’t see how the former can get any quicker. The latter is slow mostly because of the websites themselves. Will games or office apps get faster or have new possibilities?
There's rising competitiveness for everything else, not just body issues.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil...
"This is the best iphone we have ever made!"

Well, yeah, I hope so...
That's in a large part cultural. I don't know what you can say about it apart from don't consume so much social media and stay away from the news cycle.

For some reason its fashionable to be doom and gloom. You see it pretty much everywhere. People think the world is going to end and everything is corrupt. I can't imagine growing up as a child today doing active shooter drills despite the fact that US schools are one of the safest places to be in the world.

Unfortunately with raising children you have less options since most Americans are confined to public schools in their immediate geography.
Also, passing would work for height. Suppose you're 5'11 but your friends are around 6'1 and you were close friends in kindergarten (when you were all shorter of course). You begin wearing platforms that add about an inch to your height. You hang out with other tallers and so people just assume that's what you are, they likely don't insist on measuring you in bare feet at every opportunity. Laws affecting this social construction of "tallers" have much less impact on you than might seem to be the case looking at a medical chart. You would be said to "pass" for a taller.

Passing was (and to a lesser extent remains) crucial in the US and many places where variations in appearance were crucial to racial assumptions. If you look white and you act white then, most of the time to a first approximation you are white. But of course this opportunity is much more open to a relatively pale-skinned person than to a dark-skinned poor person which is a further problem on top of the problem that now people are lying about who they are.
USB-C is a requirement on any device I buy these days.

The amount of annoyance at tracking down a micro-usb cable and plugging it in has surprised me more than I thought.
Guns are widely available to anyone who wants to break the law.

The claim that this is because people can drive to others states is false.

For everyone else, how available they are depends on where you live.
Which is exactly what GraphQL was designed for: a tool for easily writing APIs to translate your clean decoupled general-purpose APIs into something that is convenient for the front-end to use.
> The usefulness of hardware acceleration for video decoding is highly debatable.

No it isn't. There's a reason it's used on 99% of consumer devices. Hardware companies are generally not in the business of adding to the BOM cost for no reason. Linux alone is the outlier.

> It's not always much more energy efficient, but it sometimes is, but less than you'd think, GPUs need power too

"As you can see a GPU enabled VLC is 70% more energy efficient than using the CPU!"

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/sustainable-software/vlc-ener...

chrome-hw showing 1/4th the power consumption of chrome-sw on the same video on more recent Apple M1: https://singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-video-power-cons...

Also hardware decoders have consistent performance, which is not true of CPU-based decoders. This is especially problematic & obvious at high resolutions. Windows & MacOS ultrabooks can do 4k video all day long without an issue. Linux ultrabooks get noticeably choppy at 1440p and 4k is right out.

This is also why you'll find ultra-low end SoCs regularly prioritizing hardware decoders over faster CPUs, notably those in every smart TV & the majority of TV streaming dongles/sticks/boxes. Which really shouldn't be surprising, fixed-function hardware has always been drastically more efficient than programmable hardware, and video has changed nothing about that.

> 2) It increases greatly the complexity of client software that has to implement both accelerated and unaccelerated decoding, leading to poorer software quality

Sounds like a job for a library, which is how every other OS makes this a non-issue.

> 4) HW support usually lags behind state of the art encoding. Youtube is already using av1, but the vast majority of devices won't support it in hardware before something else comes up

Youtube also still uses VP9 so that power efficiency didn't regress on existing hardware, and mid-tier TV SoCs with AV1 decoder support are already here (such as the Amlogic S905X4). Sony's 2021 BRAVIA XR line also has HW AV1 decoders up to 4k.

> 5) Highly optimised decoders, such as dav1d, are extremely effective and save bandwidth and power compared to HW VP9.

Care to back that up with a source? All I can find is statements that dav1d decoders are fast, but I can't find any evidence they are efficient. The only thing I can find is this: https://visionular.com/en/av1-encoder-optimization-from-the-...

which has dav1d using more power than ffmpeg-h264 but less than openhevc, but those are also software decoders which similar to the above take significantly more power than hardware decoders for the same codecs.
It's difficult and expensive.

Ground based radar is the best way.
I'm not sure I follow your logic: Google is certainly less trustworthy than Apple if we're speaking about scanning your files.

And before you think I'm partial, I have no dog in this fight: I degoogled myself since last year and I don't own any Apple devices.

But if I had to choose between Google and Apple for my privacy I would go with Apple (without much illusions).
Orbit is unintuitive. Objects in orbit are not just floating up there. They are constantly falling under the influence of gravity, just as objects here on Earth. The reason they don't hit the Earth when they fall is that they are traveling sideways at 25,000+ km/h. This is so fast that they miss hitting the Earth, and simply fall forever.

When a rocket launches to orbit, it only goes up a little bit, just to get out of the atmosphere, and then spends most of its time/fuel on going sideways to reach orbital velocity. If you watch a rocket launch you can see that the rocket starts to tip over and go sideways soon after leaving the pad. This is also why launching from a plane doesn't help you very much, because going up is the easy part of getting to orbit. A plane can't help you with the hard part of getting to 25,000 km/h sideways.

For an object in orbit to stop missing the Earth as it falls, it must slow down that sideways velocity, and gravity doesn't help with that.
Speaking not to this study in particular necessarily, I strongly agree with the general point. Science has really been held back by an over-focusing on "significance". But I'm not really interested in a pile of hundreds of thousands of studies that establish a tiny effect with suspiciously-just-barely-significant results. I'm interested in studies that reveal robust results that are reliable enough to be built on to produce other results. Results of 3% variations with p=0.046 aren't. They're dead ends, because you can't put very many of those into the foundations of future papers before the probability of one of your foundations being incorrect is too large.

To the extent that those are hard to come by... Yeah! They are! Science is hard. Nobody promised this would be easy. Science shouldn't be something where labs are cranking out easy 3%/p=0.046 papers all the time just to keep funding. It's just a waste of money and time of our smartest people. It should be harder than it is now.

Too many proposals are obviously only going to be capable of turning up that result (insufficient statistical power is often obvious right in the proposal, if you take the time to work the math). I'd rather see more wood behind fewer arrows, and see fewer proposals chasing much more statistical power, than the chaff of garbage we get now.

If I were King of Science, or at least, editor of a prestigious journal, I'd want to put word out that I'm looking for papers with at least one of some sort of significant effect, or a p value of something like p = 0.0001. Yeah. That's a high bar. I know. That's the point.

"But jerf, isn't it still valuable to map out all the little things like that?" No, it really isn't. We already have every reason in the world to believe the world is drenched in 1%/p=0.05 effects. "Everything's correlated to everything", so that's not some sort of amazing find, it's the totally expected output of living in our reality. Really, this sort of stuff is still just below the noise floor. Plus, the idea that we can remove such small, noisy confounding factors is just silly. We need to look for the things that stand out from that noise floor, not spending billions of dollars doing the equivalent of listening to our spirit guides communicate to us over white noise from the radio.
"All-screen design" seems like a stretch, the bezels are perceptibly large, maybe even more than usual because of the smaller screen they wrap around.
And one of my common responses is "well, this is the Brexit I voted against".

Many of these consequences were completely predicable.
This article is well not well written. The author thinks that the US cracked the math, ala “enigma cracking” rather than just asking for the balance left in a central exchange. This article is sorta like a 2017 era ignorance piece.
Nope not an issue in Firefox, an issue in VAAPI. Firefox supports VAAPI just fine, VAAPI does not support this hardware/API. Considering it is a new API, I am still holding out hope that support gets added.
"never" is too strong here. Two black people occasionally produce a white baby without albinism. There's a lot of genes that code skin color and you can have a bunch of recessive "white skin" genes and still be very black-skinned yourself. Then sometimes your child gets all the recessive white-skin genes from both parents.

I had a personal friend who was white with two black parents, not albino, and genetic tests proved paternity.

However, can I ask what the point of your hypothetical is? I'm not sure what message or conclusion I'm supposed to get from it, in context of the discussion.
An outdoor, fully-masked gathering is meaningfully different, and the people pushing against COVID restrictions were also pushing back against mask guidance. In reality, indoor masked gatherings were fairly safe, but the practical distinction was between outdoor masked or indoor unmasked.
All of those device perform exactly the same, as Apple has chosen the same power/thermal set point for all of them. This is going to start to look a lot different in coming years when the larger MacBook Pro transitions - I expect 2-3 more models there. Then when the Mac Pro transitions I expect another 2-3 models there.

We'll start to see high-binned next-gen Apple Silicon parts moving to the MacBook Pro, and Mac Pro, and lower-binned parts making their way down-range.
It is? “The Mustang has a new engine this year” “I’m going to take the Mustang today” - those sentences sound very strange without “the”. Yet Apple does this consistently, referring to each product as a singular proper name (which sounds weird because, like cars, there are millions of them with many variations over the years all with the same name).
The increase in vaccination coincided with care protocol changes which have significantly improved patient outcomes. Vaccination certainly had a huge impact but I don't think this paper did a good job of isolating those factors.
Going after bigger pieces in higher orbit might not bring much of an immediate benefit, but it can reduce the amount of damage if such an object is hit and shattered into many pieces (Kessler effect comes to mind).

So it might still be very worthwhile in the long term.
There is a fix for SafetyNet - it forces the client-side library to assume that there is no hardware co-processor.
Especially weird (though understandable) because it's basically "Doesn't scan your device and send the information to a corporation and the government" when Android basically does that everywhere, all the time.

But Android does it for profit, Apple does it "for the children."
A mention of QDebug() is probably warranted here as well, since qml element behavior can be implemented in c++
No it isn't. "NVDEC" is an actual ASIC block in the GPU silicon. It's not "shaders". Same with AMD's VCN. And Intel's QuickSync.

If it was just shaders then there'd be basically no concerns with driver quality or hardware support, just like there aren't with CPU decoders.
Well technically it is. The front is now screen only, regardless of the actual screen size. There is just nothing else on the front
It is actually so much work and costs a lot to produce an online course. After you have a lot of content is it not better try and sell the content you have, and then offload the creation workload udemy style, especially with coding courses since there are so many remote work people in this space.
For a while, there were some nitty, edge case, "UFO" types of differences between OpenJDK and the Oracle JDK. But that's mostly been resolved.

Oracle owns "Java", that is the name, the trademark, etc. In that sense, OpenJDK is "not" "Java". But operationally, this is moot. But it has impact in other areas. What was originally "Java Enterprise Edition" was transferred over to the Eclipse Foundation, but they couldn't take the "java" name with them. All of the JEE packages were "javax.enterprise.". Oracle wouldn't give up the "Java" part in order to not dilute its trademark, so now its the "Jakarta Enterprise Edition", and all of the packages are being renamed to "jakarta.enterprise.". I mention this just as an example of the hoops the community going through, even today, over what's happening with java.

So, Oracle and the community have to dance a fine line over what is the language, compilers, tools, and libraries, and what is "java", what is trademarked, what is owned by Oracle.

Oracle was kind enough to be an invested member in the Java community by not forking, closing, and going off its own way, and leaving the OpenJDK to fend for itself. This is essentially what happened to Solaris and OpenSolaris.

The other JDKs (Zuul, AWS, etc.) were certainly a hedge against this. The industry has a lot invested in "java", and can't really afford to let it get out of hand. Having "official" builds, that were supported, and patched, and eyes on vs the latest release from OpenJDK gives companies a secure feeling. That's why other companies stepped up to support their own JDKs. To help assure clients that the technology is stable and still worth building on.

So, the differences are not so much different languages, or even different implementations (though there is certainly some of that). Rather much of it is simply stability in the community.

Also, the whole licensing issue with Oracle vs the others was a big deal also. We'll see what impact the new free license from Oracle has.
Everyone knows that a 1/3 lb burger is larger than a quarter pounder, but unsure why the author never thought the reason people objected to the 1/3lb burger was due to its way too much meat to have for a burger, usually fast food is eaten during lunch and people don't want to have a gigantic lunch that will make them groggy during the 2nd half of the day.
It is useful transferring money around while bypassing restrictive laws or taxes. You can use your money without ever being tracked. For example in Argentina it is used to mostly for that, I am sure in other countries as well. So it will stay around I suppose.
That only require a magistrate at the administrative tribunal. Not a judge. And they can be obtained after the fact.
Fundación PostgreSQL is just wrong for trying this. Shame on them.
Neither. It's because it's extremely difficult to keep large animals confined indefinitely through all circumstances. Ask any farmer with livestock. The bigger they are, the more capable they are of ignoring whatever fencing/obstacles you put in the way.
”We have redesigned the Volvo XC60” is absolutely a normal way to talk. You are specifying a particular model from a line of models. “Volvos are some of the safest cars” is the way I would expect one to talk about Volvo’s cars in general. Companies don’t want their products to become generic names, that’s why they make these nonsense rules.
I think I just discovered that Ethereum will be worth 1T
Apple Makes the iPhone 13 Official
Things will be faster for a little bit then will bloat up to be just as slow as soon as the new hardware is standard
Stephen Harper, the previous prime minister of Canada, passed a similar law, which was fortunately overturned when his party lost power in the next election. People (IMHO rightly) criticized that it created different classes of citizenship, making citizens of immigrant background having less rights than born Canadians.
You read my mind. I wondered if the pictures were accurate, since there was clear non-screen space around the edges of the "all-screen design".
I've heard that DLC has made this less of a problem in recent years. Since there's a stable, predictable revenue stream and delivery channel for new content, iit's much easier to justify keeping devs, designers and artists on full time. Presumably this varies by studio / publisher / genre, but my impression is it's much better than it was.
> Generally, the benefits of progress more than compensates the regressions

That's certainly how this outline played out for the industrial revolution. The ending isn't written yet for the information revolution, but I do hope for the same.
Feels like small step for Apple, no movement at all for mankind.
100% this. It's now must have for any new tech for same reasons.
How else would you handle error codes without reducing efficiency by sending extra requests? One of the benefits of graphql is that you can query many different things in a single request, so some parts of your query could have errors without the whole thing resulting in an error.