skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest examining this question of 'what level of state intervention to create public safety and public order is just' without framing one's own perspective or the cultural norm of one's own place and time as the obvious 'correct' answer.

One from the future or some utopian free-love society could argue that 21st century western neoliberal capitalist states with police and criminal justice systems as they are and economic systems as they are are themselves permanent enslavement of millions of people.

And if you'd argue 'well, I believe in abolishing the police, ending the drug war, and UBI for all' I'm sure they could still find parts of your worldview that would be pretty much just enslavement. Maybe the idea of pet ownership, of forced education of what we currently call 'children', maybe some taboo around sex or love.

In which case, that future person could say that they're genuinely shocked that anyone on Hacker News could consider _you_ a decent human being.

My point is simply, there's no simple 'obvious' answer when it comes an ethical / moral / economic question as large as this. It's a question of trade-offs and optimizing for different goals / values / metrics.
That sounds like fun, but I've never tried it.
It is, but how different would any of those situations have turned out without a firearm with a violent man usually twice the size of the woman at risk?
I wonder if a name change for the holding company would help with recruiting. I can imagine that a lot of people don't want to say "I work at Facebook" — but might be willing to say "I work at [holdco]". Sort of similar to the Google/Alphabet distinction, but FB probably has a worse image among SV types than Google ever has.
airplanes can gradually transition

Except they can't, since there is no approved alternative.

The other problem is that even planes that can run unleaded gas often don't, because it's not available at the airport. Avgas is a tiny market and because of costs most FBOs can't or won't set up another fuel delivery infrastructure to run two fuels over some short transition period.

Because of this, an additional requirement on a replacement is also that it be safely mixable with 100LL in any ratio, because during the transition period this will happen as people fly from airports where it exists to airports where it doesn't.

This problem is being solved (https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/avgas/).
This is the comparison to a mid 2015 15" MacBook Pro for anyone who is curios: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10513492?baseli...

Summary: single core performance gain is 2x whereas multi-core performance gain is 4x.
I think that part is obvious, at least to anyone who can read between the lines, so maybe not to young children. Also in a world still trying to make nice with the CCP, nobody was going to talk much about that aspect anyway.

But the interesting thing that Liu accomplished with these books, is communicating how it feels to be faced with a technologically superior adversary intent on colonizing you. That’s not something most modern Americans and many others have ever experienced, but Liu made it universally relatable.

Worse, you have a means of leveling the playing field, rapidly catching up, but your leaders and society keep making poor decisions, preventing you from doing so - trusting the Trisolarians after Luo Ji became Swordholder, Luo Ji’s successor, banning light speed research, strategy for defending against a Dark Forest strike, etc.

That is probably what it felt like living under the CCP for a long time - Great Leap Forward (famine), Cultural Revolution (destruction of knowledge and science), etc. all unnecessary setbacks to China's advancement.

I suspect that’s partly why the books have captured so many people’s imaginations, it's an exploration of cultural systems and psychology as much of scifi.
After the new name fails to make any significant difference, they will try new CEO.
By that logic you could build an array of mac mini if you don't care about price/heat.
Have you seen the way the wind is blowing in the US? We are closer to The Handmaid’s Tale than anything like what you’re describing. Progress is never inevitable.
The open source version is still available as c9sdk on GH, some docker images are available on dockerhub
Americans have a higher than normal instance of late life dental issues because nobody ever actually pays to go to the dentist before they're thirty. Most employee healthcare doesn't significantly cover dental and paying out of pocket is unreasonable - this is much the same for the vision market.
If I want hard sci-fi I can read Lorentzian Wormholes from Matt Visser or something like that. You can't explore such crazy ideas from TBP without going off the rails with speculation.

> - Attack of the Flat, Interchangable Characters

Yeah, I agree with you, but I don't know yet if this is a cultural thing with Chinese literature that can't be translated to English or simply that Liu can't write good characters.
> Not as hard as you think

Volatility on a log scale gets squashed a fair bit.

Not that I disagree with PlanB's model, but that's not what most people look at, especially not daytraders: PlanB's model's investment horizon is way too long for them.
https://archive.md/9fnDv
And that's why Verilog has mostly "won". But syntax isn't the whole story of a language. VHDL's type system is much superior to Verilog's. I once worked for an EDA company and we had a product that emitted HDL (Verilog or VHDL depending on what the user chose). At some point we had requests from customers to fix linting warnings in the generated code. My job was to placate the linter. For the VHDL code generator there wasn't much to fix - just not a lot of linting problems due to the type system. For the verilog code generator, though, there were lots of linting warnings to fix.
If you don’t then you don’t really need the top end do you?
Plus there are more than enough "dark matter" developers making an otherwise good living at Fortune Xty companies that are afraid of technology and love micro-management and require all software to install to go through 6 month+ review processes. I've known some fantastic developers that will put up with that (and more), code in Notepad and Perforce if they have to, so long as they make a living wage and can clock out directly at 4:59pm every day. (In some of those cases there is maybe hope for them that getting a personal internet access firewall exception for vscode.dev might only be one form and a 30 minute review versus that 6 month+ process to get VS Code installed properly. I appreciate that it may be a nice new option for them by existing.)

It's not a lifestyle that I want for myself, but that doesn't mean I don't respect those folks as "decent developers". It takes a lot of fortitude to build software in those sorts of constraints.
The points per watt is probably going to be crap but equally I don't care all that much.

One thing as well is that there are always headlines complaining about power usage, but the figures are nearly always from extreme stress tests which basically fully saturate the execution units.

Geekbench is slightly different to those stresses so not sure.
I do FB ads but have always refused mobile games and gambling. It preys on people with mental illness, most whales are not rich.
As a child in the Reagan years, this was not a source of stress for myself or any kid I knew.
16GB of RAM seems so low in 2021. OTOH, hard drives are so fast on these things that maybe 16 is good enough with the SSD as overflow.

I ended up shelling out the extra $400 for 32GB, but didn't feel great about it!
The open source ecosystem is concentrated. There are far more OSS packages for javascript or C++ than, say, Rust.

Less popular programming languages are talked about much more than they are contributed to, but they're talked about precisely because they're often solving problems that are major pain points in people's lives.

I'm personally rooting for OCaml, assuming some current efforts bear fruit I'd love a language with the following properties:

- An extremely expressive type system with type inference

- Incremental builds so compiling is fast

- Good compile to JS story so frontend/backend share types as well as serializers and deserializers

- Only slightly slower than C (think Java perf)

- Good multicore, perhaps even with typed effects

- Can be run in a unikernel so I can ship my program as a simple image

Any language with this feature list would solve a lot of personal and organizational problems for me and many other programmers I know. None of the really popular languages I'm familiar with can achieve these goals due to backward compatibility requirements.
There is no such thing as a worldwide patent. A US patent only grants protection in the US. Presumably they have applied for patents in several countries though.
Depending on what part of Africa you want to talk about, they already have robust drug manufacture and transport lines in place. Ebola'll do that to you. The issue isn't the stand-up capacity so much as, well, the recipe for COVID-related manufacturing specifically.

While we're on the subject:

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/07/22/covid-19-remdesi...
I was responding in particular to the commenter's point about the acceptability of nudity beyond the context of art.
Don't think of it as magic, but as convention. Where do you put your function definitions? In the folder named "functions". There are only a handful of such things to learn.
>You could use your exact same argument that cars put other people in danger and we should walk everywhere. Or that it's for the collective good that we never leave our house because doing so increases other people's risk of death.

Cars are a great example, because we absolutely weigh their costs and benefits. One does not have the 'right' to drive a car. It is a licenced and regulated activity. 18 wheelers are more dangerous than cars, and thus are subject to more restrictive regulation.

>Society exists because men with items that can kill or maim others died to create and defend it.

What you're talking about here is the state's monopoly on sanctioned violence. Guns are a part of that, but not a requirement. There are plenty of 'beat cops' around the world that discharge their duties without relying on firearms.
More info from creator: https://twitter.com/cyrildiagne/status/1450762117255204866
> I want the vaccine to be as widely available as possible to anyone who wants it at a price (free) they are willing to pay.

Then why don't you advocate for the US to buy those doses and send then around the world. Why don't you start a fund that buys vaccines and sends them around the world?

You want it all at zero cost to yourself. Now you can understand why Moderna doesn't want to be footing the bill for the entire world.
Speaking of education/CS50: we (the Codespaces/Live Share team) have actually been very excited/privileged to collaborate with the amazing CS50 team, as they've built their student experience on top of VS Code/Codespaces (http://code.cs50.io). Lowering the barrier of entry for learners, and supporting student success, is a huge goal of ours, and so I'm looking forward to getting our tools in the hands of more developers, and iterating based on feedback.
"the M1 is not able to run any modern game at decent fps."

Do you have first hand experience with this? I do . We play WoW on MacBook air M1 and it runs fantastic . Better than my intel MacBook Pro from 2019
The purpose of BAT is funding Brave development, which is why Brendan Eich personally claims 30% of the currency ever minted. It's a joke along the same lines as Tether or Bingus Token in the world of DeFi.
John Siracusa - no the chart isn't real, but maybe qualify that with "yet"...

https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1450202454067400711
What if performance advertising isn't just an analytics scam?
Does someone know how much VRAM the M1X has? Because I bet it's far less than a 3070 or 3080.
I wish there were laptop-specific Geekbench rankings because right now it seems impossible to easily compare devices in the same class
>when discussing code quality there was almost never consensus regarding what's good and bad.

FWIW, I've found that the best way to approach dragging a team in a new direction is to not focus on what "quality" is at all, but see if everyone can agree on what the problems are.

I think if you can get people aligned on the problems -- specifically high level 'above the code' ones like "X keeps breaking" or "X is really hard to change" -- you can sneak quality into the discussion without it being an attack on any individual developer's code. "why is X hard to change" can become a conversation about loose coupling, cohesion, state, etc..
Unlikely to make Xcode any faster. Just look at your ram usage now and then forecast a bit to know.
The M1 chip is actually probably extremely expensive. The top of the line one is literally 60 BILLION transistors!

My current machine has like 10 billion (GPU + CPU)
Plenty of FKK swimming in the eastern states as well. A day at the beach is a lot better when you can hop in and out of the water without worrying about a wet swimsuit, and warm your whole body in the sun.
That's certainly overclocked or very high PBO offsets, at stock the 5800x gets around 1700-1800 ST.
> For example, we regulate ivf, don't we? Why? Because the action undertaken has the ability to create new life. The same is true of prostitution.

No, we don't regulate it because it can create new life, we regulate it because it falls under healthcare for which doctors have a certain duty of care, and if IVF is done poorly it can cause all sorts of deleterious health effects for the mother and the implanted embryo. These considerations do not apply to prostitution since we have contraception and abortion.
Vikings lived in North America by at least the year 1021
Nope. To everything what you just said, I supposedly said.
My M1 cannot properly without stuttering show https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/ (esp. the second animation of opening and turning the laptop).

Both safari and chrome
I think the article is leaving out critical details:

> We can only provide the best care with the cooperation and consent of the patient. We do our best to connect patients in need with ... social service organizations to provide appropriate after-hospital care.

Is this a failure of local social services? The patient clearly was ready to move to a different facility; and according to the hospital, refused assistance at placement. Were local social services involved? What were the conversations with Medicare? We may not know, because HIPPA could keep the real story confidential.

Hospitals are often stuck in a hard spot: Often, people are admitted to the hospital because there is no other place for the person to go. My wife was a pediatrics resident, and sometimes social services would admit children to the hospital until the local foster care system could find them a place.

Furthermore, patients leave against medial advice all the time.

I wouldn't read too deep into this without knowing more about what the hospital did to place the patient.
"Running fantastic" is what Apple would advertise, but what matters is fps, utilisation and thermals when benchmarking games
Workstation laptops are expensive. These new Macs are priced quite competitively. E.g. the 14“ with the full M1 Pro is $2.5k and is faster, more portable and has a much better display than a 2.7k Dell Precision 5560…
The really cool thing about shell scripts is that they are just a saved version of your interactions with the ability to edit and refine later. If you stop using the shell interactively you've just lost the main advantage of using it for scripting.
The trade show they introduced it at looks like a trip, I dig the robo-carp[1].

1: https://youtu.be/5rBBR1SErdc
Isn't this what we criticize China for doing though? The alternative here would be that Moderna gets to operate within (ostensibly Africa?) doing business with them. Instead, Africa wants more favorable business terms so they make an end-around run to steal the IP from Moderna however they can. It's even worse that this is WHO-sanctioned IP theft.

It's just like China wanting more favorable terms with US companies leading them to steal US IP to make their own companies instead.
What compiler could even make use of 10 cores? Most build processes I've run can't even fully utilize the 4 cores.
On the other hand I've been running 16GB of ram for a while and I can't conceive of a reason why I would need more. 32GB seems like overkill. What would you do with all of that ram? Open more tabs?
One big thing to consider is that this is just the first m1 Max Geekbench score, compared against the world's greatest 11900Ks. Most 11900K's are nowhere near the levels of the top preforming one.

Once Apple starts shipping M1 Max in volume, and as TSMC yields get better, you will see "golden chips" slowly start to score even higher than this one.
The memory is unified, and very high bandwidth. No idea what that means in practice, guess we'll find out.
That's fair, thanks for your clarification then.
I don't expect the conservative hinterland to suddenly start guiding American cultural evolution, no matter how big of an asshole they barely elected one time. Progress will continue to come from the cities, where the wind continues to blow in a favorable direction.
It's true that SystemVerilog fixed a lot of Verilog's deficiencies and took it more in the direction of VHDL. But a lot of free tools don't support SystemVerilog.
Are modern games built with Metal? Pretty sure Apple deprecated OpenGL support. Macs have never been gaming computers.

The GPUs in the M1 family of Macs are for “professional” users doing Video Editing, Content creation, 3D editing, Photo editing and audio processing.
This is simply not accurate. There might be certain areas that are more impacted than others, like the Maldives, but there is no reasonable interpretation of "uninhabitable" any scientist would attribute to Africa, let alone Earth entirely.
Isn't it absolutely insane that we are resource constrained on solving a pandemic nearly 2 years into it?

The fact that the resource in question is a secret recipe is just astounding. If all of humanity worked to end this collectively, we would all be immensely better off. There shouldn't be moral questions about getting a third dose or sending it to countries without supply.

The reason for this is astounding and unbelievable profit based on decades of US federal research funding.

Moderna's most recent financial results: "Total revenue was $6.3 billion for the six months ended June 30, 2021, compared to $75 million for the same period in 2020"

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d....
The WHO can absolutely buy the entire process.

Moderna is a public company. It will cost them, at current time, $134 billion.
I don't really understand, why would people stop going into medicine or starting research labs? How would Moderna releasing their process crash the entire field? I'm not making a general argument that all medical research should be publicly available forever (although...), I'm making a very specific argument that in this global emergency, the benefits massively outweigh the risks. "Should I save the world or should I protect my brand" is a joke, it's not even worth asking.

I don't know if the polio analogy is overplayed at this point, but this is like polio. The vaccine needs to be freely available to the world. The absolute "worst case" is that Moderna faces increased competition in like 10 years and eventually goes out of business and its employees go work for different labs in different companies.
Same situation as you, looking at 14". Need to see what the Xcode benchmarks are like for the variety of M1 Pro processors on offer, to see if any upgrades from the base model are worthwhile.

If I was sticking with 16GB RAM I think I'd get a M1 Air instead. The smaller screen is the downside, but 300g lighter and substantially cheaper are good points.
It's a lot of small papercuts, but

use module::{ foo, Parameters, ParametersWithDefault };

fn bar() {
foo(Parameters {
non_optional_parameter_1: Foo,
non_optional_parameter_2: Bar,
extra_options: ParametersWithDefault {
optional_param: Baz,
...Default::default(),
}
});
}

is a far cry in ergonomics from:

use module::foo;

fn bar() {
foo(_ {
non_optional_parameter_1: Foo,
non_optional_parameter_2: Bar,
optional_param: Baz,
..
});
}

Even just having to import the extra structs (and lookup the names) is a massive pain. Especially if you need to change to use a slightly different function.
But they are likely to make significant revenue with everything included in the requested disclosure. Corona isn't going to be the only virus that needs a vaccination. A lot of the methods and technology produced with this vaccine can be reused later, which will generate more revenue. Can no countries pool money together for the vaccine? Can the who not act as a broker instead of encouraging IP theft? Certain pieces can be shared and reused, just like in the FOSS ecosystem, but some things are gated behind paying for the time taken to produce the overall product. It's completely reasonable to expect compensation especially when it could be provided but they're just choosing not to.
Up to 64GB…
Personally, I don't think SMB accounting fits in the scope of a Play Store App. The way to get there is organically as actual users grow their business.

The big problem you will face is that SMB's already have accounting software. Good luck.
I'd do everything different today. Being a nerd, I had absolutely terrible social skills and did everything wrong. I couldn't sell a $20 bill for $10. I've been trying for decades to do better with that.

But the best lesson is to associate with someone who can sell.
My opinion: the jump from 16GB to 32GB probably won't make a huge difference today, especially if your workload is already running alright in 16GB. I think it'll greatly extend the useful life of the laptop, though. For example, I wouldn't want to be using an 8GB laptop today.
Defines fantastic because a 1080ti from 4 years ago run faster than the M1. My 2070 could run wow at 144fps, and it's a 2.5y/o card.

Yet most people can't get 60fps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhcJzKCcpMQ

Edit: thanks for the dates update
There's no vram. It's unified / shared memory.
There's no M1X. There's M1 Pro and M1 Max
the memory is unified so whatever ram is on there (16,32,64) can be allocated as vram.

That's why during the presentation they bragged about how certain demanding 3d scenes can now be rendered on a notebook.
I wouldn't go for the base model, since it has 6 performance cores, rather than 8.
I've heard from people with M1 laptops that they perform surprisingly better than Intel laptops with less RAM (on the Mac). I imagine the same will hold with the Pro and Max, although it will depend a lot on what type of work you're doing.
I didn't perceive this as him snapping or being impolite or being a "killer". He was just being real with us.
Modern PHP Cheatsheet
I don't think it's something that people should 'just know' that when Windows asks them their name during install time, they ought to use 7-bit clean ASCII for everything, no matter where they are in the world or how much they know about other languages. When Windows says "What is your name?", they ought to be able to use their name without things breaking.

I'm sure a computer savvy speaker of a fully-non-Latin language may still guess this is a good idea, but "computer savvy" doesn't cover everyone... and they shouldn't have to.

"Just use 7-bit-clean ASCII English" is not a solution to this problem.
Ram is ram. Don’t fall for marketing hype and think M1 means you need less ram. If you think you need it, you still need it on M1… and I say that as someone who owns an M1 Mac.