skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your points make sense a lot for me, at least based on my experience, I have to turn off my desktop overnight because otherwise the fan noise would not allow me to sleep properly, but more than a problem with desktop itself (I have a liquid cooling anyway that is relatively quiet) I picked a AMD RX6900XT that might be noiseful so I guess laptop would solve that (or a cheaper VGA)

But in terms of space, I am not sure, I have a microATX case where the VGA fits by a nail, and it doesn't take that much space
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Elephant in the room is that an A15/M1 beefed up GPU is exactly the right chip for a Nintendo Switch/Steam Deck form factor device.
How many other times have you seen a public reversal on policy because of new information?
How much per 8K x 10 bit color, video frame?

Roughly 190GB per minute without sound.

Trying to do special effects on more than a few seconds of 8K video would overwhelm a 64GB system, I suspect.
"m" doesn't rhyme with "n" though, what accent is yours? I'd say money rhymes with honey but not mummy.
The M1 max with 64GB ram is $3,800, and the lowest M1 pro with 16GB ram is $2,000.
Sure. https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/189

Original claims were in the 90% and above performance increase over epoll. Then issues were found, and the figure was adjusted to 60% over epoll. Then more issues were found, and now real-world performance tests are showing minimal speedups if any.

Unfortunately the sibling commentors don't see "computer science" as a science but instead as a "feel good hobby", it seems. My point wasn't to hurt feelings, it was to provide a word of caution with these sorts of groundbreaking claims with respect specifically to the io_uring efforts, as they have been disingenuous quite a few times historically.

I don't doubt Jens does fantastic work. I don't doubt that he's seen these speedups in very specific cases. But people are celebrating this as a win where they'd be skeptical of e.g. "breakthrough" treatments of cancer (footnote: in mice). It's the same thing.
Yeah, but then you'd have to settle for a Quest.
Seems like a huge waste to throw away a $2000+ machine

There are other options besides throwing it away.

You can (a) trade it in for a new Mac (I just received $430 for my 2014 MBP) or (b) sell it for parts on eBay.

Or what if you're a klutz and spill your grape juice glass over your keyboard? Congrats, now you're -$2000 lighter since there's no way to take it apart and clean the sticky mess inside.

You can unscrew a Mac and clean it out. You can also take it into Apple for repair.
You've stated it yourself, you made money off it and that is why cryptos are so popular, people speculate and some people make lifechanging money while others lose. The greater fool theory is not even a thing in crypto markets. I'm not sure how far this will go till the bubble pops and there's no question the market is in a bubble. However, cryptos could become the currency of the future after n iterations.
One helpful thing would be to separate the hard sciences from the soft sciences. Calculating the mass of a hydrogen atom is fundamentally different than determining which factors and how much of each are required to diagnose ADHD. The latter is very important and it deserves an important category that clearly distinguishes it from the former in the common language.
Hrrm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Valdivia_earthquake

Different region, though...
I like DDG, i use it as my go to. That being said, it's very very USA centric. It will default all my searches that are place related (weather, restaurants, addresses) to the USA.
Which is the classic startup story of you need to build your product for the user that is paying your bill. Even if that means subjecting the actual end users to misery…
To be clear, neither statement is contradictory. The problem is that "there is no specific evidence for x" and "x is not true" are taken to mean the same thing when they really aren't. Was there much evidence at the beginning of the pandemic? No. Should that have overridden putting a little bit of thought into the problem? Also no.
Apple used to do these performance comparisons a lot when they were on the PowerPC architecture. Essentially they tried to show that PowerPC-based Macs were faster (or as fast as) Intel-based PCs for the stuff that users wanted to do, like web browsing, Photoshop, movie editing, etc.

This kind of fell by the wayside after switching to Intel, for obvious reasons: the chips weren’t differentiators anymore.
Large areas of psychology research are nonscientific. They simply don't qualify as producing testable models that, when tested repeatedly, hold up. This is one of the mistakes that the Damore memo made: the author attempted to justify his claims based on shaky science, which didn't help his argument.

Now, let's talk about another area of science. The structure of DNA, or whether electron spin exists or what the shape of the earth is. There are no questions in my mind (beyond the normal ones I have about Descartes' Great Deceiver) that the structure of DNA in aqueous solution at room temperature with 15mM Mg is B-form, very close to what was described by Watson and Crick, or that electron spin exists and that we can use it to do NMR to determine molecular structures. And the planet Earth is an oblate spheroid.

All three of those are so true that if you were able to disprove either, massive areas of science would fall. I cannot imagine any set of data which could falsify any of those three hypotheses in a way that didn't completely tank science.
Everyone's building on the "bigg" (bgfx + imgui + glfw + glm) stack ;)

https://github.com/yuki-koyama/bigger
AFAIK, triple ko games are usually played again, and they are extremely rare.
Sellars, "Sellars thinks that science’s aperspectival description of the empirical world is the measure of reality", and Carnap, "Since science in principle can say all that can be said, there is no unanswerable question left", would disagree.

Or at least we'd have to distinguish what we call science.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sellars/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-bebecome/
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"Trust the science"

Feels to me like an oxymoron.
Parent is talking about laptops, I am talking about laptops, why are you talking about smartphones? Though I also had my Samsung S2plus from 2013 to 2019 in use, and that was fairly cheap. I do not know any IPhone users that had theirs for longer.
Steamdeck is 88 GB/s using quad channel.
My 3y old samsung has 3mm hole in display for camera that is better then this one.

*Citation needed, but it's vastly better then current gen MBP, and good enough for Video calls.

Disclaimer: I don't care about the notch one bit, already order one, but saying that it's needed for good camera is imo stupid. Imo they eanted to add faceid, but didn't have the time, or enough chips to do it in this iteration.
Practically all aluminum production, for many decades, has in fact been powered by renewables.
Could you share your clone (w/ source code)? I've been wanting to build an open source Obsidian Publish alternative w/ the ability to authenticate and edit - Yjs + ProseMirror would allow for high quality collaborative Markdown editing on the frontend.

More broadly, I want a general Markdown notes "backend". Obsidian currently operates on local vaults which we can sync w/ general cloud providers, but no providers have all the features I'd want. Using Git lets me have great versioning of notes, but makes realtime syncing impossible, and using OneDrive is the opposite, so for the moment I'm using a Git repository in my OneDrive to get both.

It would be great to have a universal self-hostable note vault backend that interfaces with Obsidian, Dendron, etc. and allows for real syncing and publishing without requiring something hacky.
The new Macbook Pros support charging through the USB-C ports or the MagSafe port.

You should be fine using the USB-C ports with your adapter.

It's as of yet unclear how well the MagSafe cable would work with your adapter.
> Just yesterday they had an article from a Charlottesburg "Unite the Right" speaker lamenting why couldn't Americans overthrow their government like the Afghans did[0].

How is that any different than all the Navalny stuff being run in American and EU outlets? Cold War is Cold War, objectivity cannot be expected in any reporting, regardless of where it comes from.

> Journalists in Russia that don't unequivocally tout the Russian government narrative run the risk of jail or death.[1]

Assange is being persecuted for journalism by the US - are journalists here really more free to speak the truth? Is our media really any less beholden to the political establishment?

Sorry, but I don't see anything to disqualify RT as a news source, as long as it is taken with the appropriate salt (and of course, news should always be gathered from many diverse sources).
You can still do mini- and micro-hdmi, but by that point you may as well do more usb-c.
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> Most software doesn’t use the whole menu bar anyway.

No, but all those little things you've installed that put up a menu bar item on the right add up - I'm sitting at a cafe on my laptop right now, and the menu widgets come to pretty much the center. If I unhide the less-frequently-used ones that I hide with Bartender then they're covering 5/6 of the width of the screen.

I am an artist and spend a lot of time with Illustrator in fullscreen mode, with no visible menus. It'll be pretty annoying to have this thing jamming into the middle of my work area. Especially given that I think I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've used the cameras hiding in the frame of my previous Macs. Anyone playing games will be annoyed by it too.

Hopefully they will not make this same move in the next round of Airs, as that's what my next computer's probably going to be.
Passive solar design is such a beautiful elegant thing.
A fun book here is Let it Shine by John Perlin. He shares examples from around the world, over the last 6,000 years.
You literally cannot replace the battery in that Surface Laptop without destroying the whole thing.

It's made to be thrown away, instead of repaired.
I agree on the second part, science cannot decide what we humans want for ourselves and value and prioritize. Science is a means to an end, the end is what we have to decide for ourselves.

But when it comes to risk-management, I think science plays a big role, it can allow you to assess risk and predict probability of outcomes. That's super important in risk-management. What science cannot do is decide your risk appetite, risk tolerance as well as risk preferences.

You also need to choose which scientific model you also believe in the most, and when limited experimentation has occurred, science cannot help you choose, though more scientific research could give you comparative data between two scientific models that can help you choose. But all this takes time. And when time is limited, science can't take its normal course, that's where human judgement is necessary.
We solved that almost a decade ago now with HBM. Sure, the latencies aren't amazing, but the power consumption numbers are and large caches can hide the higher access latencies pretty well in almost all cases.
Or an AV/VR headset.
Fork is kind of expensive in most OS, even it's relative cheap compared to start a new process from scratch, but still much slower than few function calls.
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Have you ever tried CapRover? https://caprover.com/

Would be curious how it compares to some of these.
You brought many fascinating ideas to the table with this article. As someone who's seeing this for the first time, and adjusting to the paradigm shift you laid out, I'm curious to know what was the context which led you to write this article. What sort of ideas, resources and events helped you connect the dots and express CloudFlare's plan in this way?
I never had a problem paying for good software. The issue is that the paid software very often isn't better, that's why many people started gravitating towards the free apps, me included.

Nobody likes being scammed even if it's just for $2.
It'd be nice to hear their version of this before I bother to get my butt off the couch and pick my pitchfork. The fact that fee increases weren't communicated because the OP was't subed to promo emails just doesn't smell right. As is the fact that it wasn't obvious from the actual billing statements.

Ps. I remember their CEO (David Barrett) back from the p2p-hackers mailing list days. He ain't one of them Zuckerbergs. The exact opposite in fact.
Probably MagSafe 3 , a notch at 1080p with a screen with thinner bezels, SD card reader, faster SSD, LPDDR5 but still up to 16gb , maybe a hdmi port and Thunderbolt 4.
Doesn't prefetching data into the cache more quickly assist in execution speed here?
Comparing very verifiable, applied science to very theoretical science is a strawman. Science doesn't care about feelings or tenure, so while his experience is relevant, it does not excuse the provably inflated performance figures that have been boasted historically.
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Then everyone who had to run in AWS now has the option to think about running outside. Which establishes a new market sector and puts enormous (?) downward pressure on the price of some internal services.

Cloudflare is not worried about this, they want that, because it would open market access to a lot of juicy potential clients, who are already cloud ready but AWS locked in.

Plus they have this shot, they try to make this count, to get traction. If AWS moves now it'll be attributed to them. At that point they win by default. (At least that's the theory :))
Absolutely, and some really weird effects show up because of human behavior and expectations during treatment. Did you know that patients think older drugs are less effective than newer ones? This is almost like a placebo effect, but people will literally not respond as well if they are being told they're getting an older drug than a newer one. How bizarre is that? You would think the efficacy would be objective since the molecules haven't changed. But I doubt any study could control for the introduction of some new treatment decades later.
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Just seems a bit pointless, that's all.

I'm never going to buy a Bugatti Chiron, but you won't find me going to their forums and bleating on about how the gas mileage isn't as good as my Ford Focus...
You can downvote all you want, but the fact is that New York is the most restrictive area in the US when it comes to cryptochoice[1][2].

The US in turn, is up there as one of the worst countries for cryptochoice up there with Cuba, Crimea and Sevastopol, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, North Korea, or Antigua.
(Granted the US is there because of 'legitimate' SEC regulations, but ther is no reason NY should be more restrictive than the feds).

[1] The ability of the indiviual to choose which crypto they want to buy and availability of them

[2] https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042412652-Location...
How do you prefetch "node->next" where "node" is in a linked list?

Answer: you literally can't. And that's why this kind of coding style will forever be latency bound.

EDIT: Prefetching works when the address can be predicted ahead of time. For example, when your CPU-core is reading "array", then "array+8", then "array+16", you can be pretty damn sure the next thing it wants to read is "array+24", so you prefetch that. There's no need to wait for the CPU to actually issue the command for "array+24", you fetch it even before the code executes.

Now if you have "0x8009230", which points to "0x81105534", which points to "0x92FB220", good luck prefetching that sequence.

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Which is why servers use SMT / hyperthreading, so that the core can "switch" to another thread while waiting those 50-nanoseconds / 200-cycles or so.
God I want Linux on these things. Apple have built some very sexy hardware, but I'm still not into the OS. It's just... sluggish (mostly in terms of productivity, not performance), too barebones, too basic and toy-like. I need a real OS to make my dream laptop.
Until you need to talk to db, where you may want to have a persistent connection, so hacks required in php-fpm to support it.
Here is another Mobile 3080 from the same site: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3080-mobil...

That seems closer to the power consumption they had on their comparison chart.
I also love the touchbar, the only button it's not superior to is the escape button. Who touch types the function keys anyway? Love it for the volume and screen brightness controls.

Not too worried about my laptop being killed though, they screwed the keyboard up so hard it's essentially dead anyway. Have to take it to the Apple Care center to have it revived again sometime soon because I've got 3 sticky keys that won't unstick.
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Record an event log and reliably connect it to a variety of 3rd party sinks using off-the-shelf services
Can someone explain why the async keyword and the whole "red/blue functions" thing is necessary at all in the source code? Why can't the language implementation see that "await" is used in the body of a function, and automatically mark it as async?
I learned the same thing on a project that was using Java 1 non-generics. Not exactly untyped to typed but an analogous experience. Everyone I asked said that it was too big to do. I started anyway by enabling the warnings for nongeneric use. I turned down the reporting limit to 1000 (I think) so as not to be discouraged. After months and months of incremental work alongside my main work, I got under the 1000 warnings. It got a bit trickier after that. In the end, there was exactly 1 bug, where an object.toString was being added to a dropdown box and we'd see it from time to time as Class@hexhash. What I learned then is that it isn't strictly about the bugs, it's the confident way you can navigate the codebase and understand and add in consistent ways. Now I add types to all my Ruby and it's seems normal again.
The other end of the new MagSafe cable is a USB-C plug, so that should be fine.
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What I love about this approach is that if I fuck up somewhere specific and a user triggers that part then the whole app doesn't go down.
2 years when their contracts expire
…then why mention a salary at all?
DeFi isn't limited to stablecoins though. I think the current TVL (total value locked) across all DeFi has to be in tens of billions of dollars ATM, judging from the values I've seen on some of the more popular services.
Depending on what you want, OpenNebula (opennebula.io) has been making a thing of Firecracker.
I don't have any USB-C but I've got some MagSafe. Unfortunately this is MagSafe3 so I assume that means buying new chargers. I like the SD and HDMI, but IMHO they are still missing "standard" USB ports which are used by most flash storage devices. It's not even about the cost of buying new devices for me, it's about someone handing me an SD or a thumb drive with some data on it and being able to just use it. Apple is very very poor when it comes to that.
I used to consult for this kind of thing several years ago, I don't any more. The field has really just coalesced around K8s. I don't think there is much space for innovation anymore.
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> I would love to be enlightened about the new physics that Apple is using which is out of reach to the other engineers.

That’s known as private-public key crypto with keys burnt into efuses on-die on the SoC.

You can’t get around that (except for that one dude in Shenzhen who just drills into the SoC and solders wires by hand which happen to hit the right spots). But generally, no regular third party repair shop will find a way around this.
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yep, its because of the FCO ruling. The other thing I think everyone spouting money are missing is that FB would much rather be able to use the link between your FB and IG accounts to better serve you up ads based on that combined data.
> There have been multiple cases where reactors haven’t fully shut down safely

There's Chernobyl, and a few cases where a scram was delayed by 15 minutes or less. How can this produce hundreds of megawatts days later?

> There have been multiple cases where reactors haven’t fully shut down safely. Assuming a scram will 100% work every time in an emergency simply isn’t appropriate or realistic.

Assuming that every system fully fails is unrealistic, too.

> 7% of that is 280MW,

You said hundreds of megawatts days later.

> Mitsubishi APWR is aiming for 4.5GW thermal in normal operation though some safety margin needs to be considered on top of that.

What, they're going to run it over nameplate for days straight? A small excursion over 4.5GW won't appreciably change the amount of power output days later. Now you're just being silly.
Nice, except doing a screen replacement on a modern iPhone like the 13 series will disable your FaceID making your iPhone pretty much worthless.

Only if you go to someone who isn't an authorised Apple repairer.
If Apple ever gets around to putting an M1 Max in a Mac Mini, that'd probably push me over the edge toward buying one.
I can't move past your inability to accept the definition of merit I've given as nothing but tautological. It isn't.

It was good to talk to you about this, but I don't think we can move past this disagreement. Cheers!
> Unless there are some drawbacks to these optimizations, there should be no negative side-effects.

Historically the benchmarks have been crafted in a way to make them seem faster than their real-world and well-formed opponents (e.g. the io_uring vs epoll benchmark). One issue that was pointed out was that the io_uring benchmark eschewed proper error handling in order to avoid some branches, whereas the epoll benchmark properly error checked. This reduced the benchmark times considerably, though no correction was ever published after the fact.

This is why in the Github issue I mentioned in another comment there are some people understandably a bit annoyed. I don't choose to jump to conclusions about Axboe's intent, and my original comment wasn't meant to do so.
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Docker doesn’t really work on Mac. Like it technically runs, but just barely. Because it uses containerization inside virtualization, it pegs the CPU just to run a hello world app and completely drains the battery in 30 min. Oh and the fans sound like an airplane taking off.
The 3080M has something around 20TFLOPS of theoretical f32 performance. That's double that of Apple's biggest offerings.

In theoretical compute, it's closer to the 3060M which is nothing to sneeze at.
I do something similar with Samba.
I love this take. It's the ultimate HN critique.
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Okay, the whole RISC thing is stupid. But ignoring that aspect of the discussion... POWER9, one of those RISC CPUs, has 8-way SMT. Neoverse E1 also has SMT-2 (aka: 2-way hyperthreading).

SMT / Hyperthreading has nothing to do with RISC / CISC or whatever. Its just a feature some people like or don't like.

RISC CPUs (Neoverse E1 / POWER9) can perfectly do SMT if the designers wanted.
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I believe iOS 15 includes a little-touted feature: "Voice Isolation" mode; I haven't tested it comprehensively, but other similar technology (e.g. RNNoise [1]) has very impressive results in the scenarios you allude to.

[1] https://jmvalin.ca/demo/rnnoise/
I was referring to this statement:

“There is a deep group of rural american's who refuse health care, even when provided by their job at extremely low cost.”

Particularly the part about those with insurance not seeking care. The articles cited are concerning vaccine takeup rates, which reasonable people can differ.