skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They can do whatever they want with 0 compatibility or backward compatibility.

Apple put in quite a bit of effort to make sure x86 binaries still run the ARM Macs. It works for 99.5% of things in my experience. They have even been observed putting in compatibility tweaks for specific applications.

Also fun fact: The x86 compatibility software, Rosetta, isn’t distributed with macOS and has to be downloaded once it’s needed. This is likely Apple hedging their bets against possible future patent claims.
It's pride, not love.

And a pride that is essentially about avoiding shame; shame being the primary currency of those with an authoritarian bent.
The hard stateful parts should be your data layer (replicated db, etc) and everything else should be cached stateless data. IAC for the stateful layer is tough but contained. IAC for the rest should be fairly recreatable quite quickly.
It took 11 days to reach 1 million commits. Then 8 more days to hit 25 million commits (day 19). Will it take another roughly <8 days to reach 50 million or will it be logarithmic and reach it in the next day or two. Let's see if the law of diminishing returns (aka engaged users) applies in the Github community:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns

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N.B. the dates of the commits could be off so this a guesstimate
Yeah, that was pre Ice-Age expansion, before it all went to hell. ;-)
> What gives you the right to inflict an "acceptable level of risk" on others?

What gives you the right to do it? Presumably you interact with people at least occasionally; how dare you expose them to pathogenic risk like that?

> It gives you hours of your day siting in traffic

No it doesn’t. I don’t sit in traffic for more than 15 minutes a day. Actually, the only time my commute is bad is when I occasionally have to take the train.

> what about those of us who don't own a car

You should probably live in a city or something. I don’t really have any input on your choices here. But I would appreciate if people who didn’t own a car wouldn’t take out their frustration on people who do own cars.
Yeah, but Oracle is much better at it. If Zenimax really wants to compete with them, they need to be sending license auditors into my house to count the number of occupants as potential users and send me a bill for their use of &/or gaining of enjoyment through watching me play their games.
I was going through my things this weekend and I found an old iPod and one of those speakers with an integrated iPod holder. Was about to try and give the speaker away, but instead I set it up, put it on shuffle, and it’s delightful. Like a time capsule jukebox.

Feels somehow nicer to have an independent device doing its thing in the corner of the room, rather than streaming from my phone.
Everyone's first flight is with zero experience. Somehow you can get flight experience without flying the first time?

In 2007 I landed a small plane with zero flight experience! I mean, that was actually the point of the exercise, but that's how it goes. Maybe if I marketed myself better I could have had an article in the new york times.
> unless they are currently scaling up production faster than anyone else and they're not

They have Giga Nevada which is already the world's biggest battery plant (although technically a lot of the production is Panasonic.

They also make batteries at their China factory

They've also said they will make batteries at both Giga Berlin and Giga Texas, and they're increasing their operations in California, including making more batteries.

I think it's safe to say they are scaling up production extremely fast, and I'd be interested to hear of another company scaling faster than they are.
I know I'm not selling my requests? I don't have to trust lightsail. Sure, I have to worry about AWS keeping logs of my requests but that seems less likely? Is that your argument?
I think it was in the early/mid aughts when grocery stores wised up. Couponing was a big deal during that time frame and I worked in a grocery store in the States at that time that would periodically do "double" and "triple" coupon weekends. We would have people walking out with $200-300 worth of merchandise on the triple weekends and they would have to scan a candy bar at the check out so that we didn't owe them money. It was always a cart full of pretty bizarre stuff that didn't look like a typical grocery trip in strangely large amounts (stuff like 4 bottles of Windex). They eventually stopped doing the double and triple coupon weekends once they figured out how much money they were losing.

That was also before you could easily just walk into a store then turn around and sell what you bought online two hours later too.
I went a little more in-depth about how manufacturer coupons work in a comment above. Long story short there isn’t any “server side” verification. As long as you have the correct format, anyone can create a barcode that will scan and give you the offer you encoded. But you will be committing fraud (don’t do it) and it does get checked.
> these Xeons are really put to shame here.

It doesn't really matter. Nobody's doing rendering on CPUs.

I get that he's sticking to comparing CPU to CPU rendering to compare apples to apples, but that's like saying "My new buggy whip is amazing!" in a news article written in 1950.

Everyone is doing GPU based rendering. Pascal based GPUs are still (I believe) several times faster than even current mid-tier AMD desktop processors. Pascal is two generations behind current GPUs, which are several times faster than it is.

What will actually be relevant and interesting is how the M1X's full capabilities can be leveraged for rendering, and how that will compare against Ampere GPUs.
React-ePub-Reader
Discussed at the time:

Why Are American Houses So Big? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990409 - Sept 2019 (73 comments)

Why are American homes so big? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20972741 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

Why Are American Houses So Big? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20955341 - Sept 2019 (5 comments)
Platforms should make money off ad revenue and prime placements and be happy with that. Radio sustained itself, along with the major music industry for many many years without needing to charge listeners and musicians for the music, and so did TV. Back then, we found epic music a lot more than now...

Now we're duped into the false belief that somehow Spotify, while making record profit year after year paying artists $0.0000001 cent per stream is reasonable?

This economy will bankrupt everyone who is not in their engineered and very controlled food chain if we give them subscription money just to listen to sponsored playlists that we can find and listen to elsewhere for free if we look hard enough. Tons of great musicians are putting out music on YouTube for free, and many other places, but the lazy attitude of only paying attention to charts, and letting playlists dictate what succeeds is really killing music because the money pipeline is locked down by the big industry, and it only pushes sterile and engineered music, not real honest music by naturally talented musicians.

It's a sham now, and the wrong people who do nothing to create and deliver the music make the profit, while the real artists pay the worst price of working hard. Musicians are forced to beg people with GoFundMe and Patreon campaigns and
very often die broke in this weak new type of Internet music economy.

Plain and simple. Music needs a new reasonable delivery model, and we need to stop supporting monopolistic communities for content they don't make nor promote fairly while they totally rip the true OC creators off.

I have no relation to OP, nor the platform cited... I'm just a musician that has been through the storm.
I agree with the concerns you bring up but isn’t framing this as a free speech/censorship” problem too broad when the main concern is propaganda/misinformation being essentially broadcast (and amplified by engagement algorithms) over quasi monopolistic tech platforms?
Similar: https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/
One of several tradeoffs is that M1-based stuff has a RAM ceiling, which until a few days ago was 16GB, now it's 64GB. If you need more than that, then you can't use M1.

Does the performance gap close if Intel starts selling similar on-package RAM to consumers?

I suspect yes, and rapidly. They have it, they just apparently don't want to sell it outside of specialized high-margin goods like Xeon Phi.
> But that's okay.

To you, maybe. It is manifestly not to most of the people actually involved or they would do it more often. It's not like the space of degrees of flexibility has not been well explored.

> I don't see why a non-profit can't work just like a legacy trust---fulfil the mission left behind by its founder, and manage its monies to do that and only that.

It can, but real people founding them don’t usually want that because its not a legacy trust; the people making it are alive, know that they have evolving views of the precise parameters of the mission and the optimal mechanisms for pursuing it, and don't want the burden of inflexibility.

Feel free to start your own rigidly programmed NGOs if you want.
> A system called TEMPEST that can tell if part of a computer has been compromised just from its electromagnetic emissions.

this is basically the only way you really can at this point, right?

with an increasing number of components per board assembly coming from a variety of sources, in a field where you can stuff an entire malicious payload inside a large capacitor, accounting for all counter-counter^n measures a nation-state can take...

all you can really validate is whether something under test functions identically to a known good copy/ies by watching its every move: will it behave the same way as 100 other copies we've built, factoring out thermal noise/environmental factors/TOP SECRET parameters
I don't believe for a second that you're arguing in good faith, given the parade of goalpost-moving with attendant downvotes you rained into the other post on this topic.

But he understood it, literally, because he ran a community that embodied it. To my knowledge, neither me nor you can say that, so again, literally speaking he has a lot more experience in understanding the dynamics of this culture.

You feel like he's painting conservatives with an unfair brush. OK. Take that up with him.
Git: SSH signing: Add commit and tag signing/verification via SSH keys using SSH
Testing your JSON API in Ruby with dry-rb
One past thread:

Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906218 - Oct 2020 (98 comments)
It’s more about accuracy. Most designers specify an explicit spacing between the edges of the characters and other elements on the screen. If the devs can’t access those edges, then they have to adjust in order to compensate. So having accurate dimensions would reduce time to delivery.
I think that person meant "overstate".

The ISA has relatively little to do with it. Sure, x86 requires power-hungry decoders, but most of the time you'll be running from the uop cache anyway. Plus you get denser code. Arm and x86 aren't all that different under the hood these days and generally RISC vs CISC is a wash. It took heroic engineering to get x86 that fast, but that work is already done.
Is the base64 in there actually a measure intended to stop copyright infringement? It can't be, base64 is completely transparent. The reason things are encoded in base64 is so that they can be transmitted in a subset of ascii (and thus be embedded in plain text formats like html).
> You produce much less energy from one so you must get so much better at producing a lot of them (in this case whooping 18 of them -- and that is only a start)

These reactors are not tiny. Each will produce 260 MW.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28986557.
Write Good or Die
I use Photoshop for art. Unfortunately, all other desktop software just isn't good, but thankfully Procreate is absolutely amazing software that I can use on my iPad (if you're reading this, devs, please port it to macOS. There are countless artists that'll pay to switch to a non-subscription based, non-Adobe piece of software that doesn't suck). But for desktop, I really have no choice but to buy into the Adobe scheme.

But yes, Creative Cloud is seriously completely fucking nuts. It's shit I do not and will not ever need or want for any reason and exists just to burn through my electric bill and contribute to climate change. Trying to find ways to disable it gives you cheeky employees who post marketing fluff about how it enables consumer whatever BS, but nobody can explain what those 8 dozen background tasks are doing or why we can't disable it.

I resorted to just deleting parts of the software package one by one. Most background tasks are gone. I made the mistake of updating one (1) time and the number of background tasks doubled. Absolute insanity. Nearly gigabytes of memory swallowed and CPU cycles wasted doing nothing. For all I know, it's nothing but crypto mining processes--and honestly, it probably is since Adobe has shown themselves to be money hungry and absolutely nobody can or will say what those processes are.
Some of the, especially government, form utilize what I think is some kind of Acrobat Forms QR code generation to create a machine-readable representation of the form. This isn't supported in Preview.

Further, PDF is a monstrous format which includes its own variant of ECMA script built in. I think its pretty unrealistic to expect Apple to cleanroom the whole "standard" so I'm not too upset. They've got probably 90% of the way there, but it's unfortunately not every form.

For Canadians, PPT-054 is a good example [1] - notice $Form$054 and so on in the upper right corner. I can't remember which off hand but either the US I-131 or I-765 has one, too. Unfortunately I-131 isn't even loading in Safari for me at the moment.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/englis...
Nobody does that though.

But you can denoise a sequence which is similar.
Also imagine what it means about the beliefs you have formed over the years based on what you've read in the news.
LOL. This guy clearly has nothing else to do.

I have friends from India and East Asia, they look great on their phone-made FB photos.
>A massive slice of talent and raw human resource is just dying every year, but the solutions that have worked in other countries are just impossible to implement here due because the the methods that are known to work are politically dead on arrival.

From the essay, it sounds like Jack was not possessed of any great "talent", or of any particular value as a "raw human resource". He was just a dude, probably easily replaceable from a HR perspective, and these are the sorts who, historically, we are willing to sacrifice in order to honorably lose a war on drugs. (If you want to know what kinds of sacrifices are required to win a war on opiates, Mao is the "best" recent example.)

We live in a cruel economy, where the "losers" are left to find solace in electronic toys and mystery fentanyls sold as heroin. Mostly, the losers are determined ahead of time, and their numbers grow as the middle class shrinks. It's an inhumane system with inhumane outcomes built in.

*I know I'm reading too much into your word choice, it's not meant as a personal attack, it's just useful as a jumping-off point for this post. If I were a better writer I would have figured out how to avoid this impression, but I'm not, so please take my word for it. I think you are basically right about the humane way to handle this.
A few years back a few of us code golfed a sheet down to ~250 bytes. Not quite as full-featured, but loads of fun to shave off bytes.

http://xem.github.io/sheet/
I don't really know where to start on this. SKUs that target very different markets are necessarily going to have different performance and efficiency tradeoffs. And core which target different cycle times are going to be able to achieve different IPC. This clearly confuses the basis of performance and different freq/ipc design points.

I also didn't suggest Apple would never have the best chips ever. Clearly all else being equal if ISA was irrelevant and you had 1 ARM competitor and 1 x86 competitor then sometimes the ARM CPU is going to be the better of the two.

I'm asking is there some continued effect by which people think ARM is going to continue to pull ahead. Is it going to remain < 5%, or is there some turning point where that will start to increase? I'm no expert on this, but there are experts who don't seem to think that there will be such an inflection point.
Right-to-disconnect legislation being introduced by Ontario Government
And the mass of material in your apartment's structure is only one kilogram now, too. Your car weighs a few grams. Your food, milligrams. You only drank 4 millilitres of water last year.

Ephemeralisation applies only to things that are essentially informational, not material. Somehow, despite dematerialisation, the world ends up using more stone and steel every year.
Can you link to this programme please? Do they accept people who can't legally work in the US?
Do board partners want this, though? Apple only has their own margin to worry about, but when Intel starts putting DIMMs on-chip, now the system integrator doesn't know exactly how much Intel's markup is on their CPU versus their memory modules, so they end up surrendering more margin to Intel, even if it's small (eg. paying 5% more dollars per GB with Intel versus sourcing DIMMs yourself).
This observation was famously attributed to one of the classic sociologists - maybe Durkheim? The form I remember was: each institution's primary activity is to preserve itself, and only secondarily to pursue its nominal purpose. I'd love it if someone could track down the original quote. It definitely predates Kaczynski though, and we could probably do without the internet trope of bringing him up as a social theorist.
Probably the wrong place to ask, but is there any information on the social costs for the Sacklers of their criminality? (I'm not excusing it, I'm just interested).

Although they have stuffed Giga$ into their pockets, most people also care deeply about their own social status, so have the Sacklers had severe social repercussions from their peers? Some of their peers or acquaintances of their peers must have been addicted.
That drug isn't exactly a secret and is widely prescribed. Also the rules are being loosened to allow more widescale deployment
The reason to even look at it. I never did. It didn't seem to solve any problem I had.
At one time, they did have a very permissive API. Which got abused by Cambridge Analytica.
And then you have to buy the rest of the machine

With Apple they are just overcharging for solid state drives, which I’m cool with these days (because at least I’ll get them)
Yeah it is a bit stale. 3D artists these days want their render boxes to be filled with gpus so they can use cycles or redshift or octane to render fast. Old school artists use cpus these days.
>Anyone who can solve the the "less echo chamber than Reddit but less racist than Ruqqus" hosting dilemma stands to gain a large audience.

Do you believe that is possible? Ruqqus would lead me to believe that it's not. The moderation needed to make it less racist is anathema and unpalatable to the audience that would need to support it in the first place. And that's not even mentioning the lack of a viable business model if it's not brand-safe.
The first paragraphs do not support the allegations

> The introduction of the vaccine passport scheme in Scotland has been an “unmitigated disaster”, according to the Scottish Hospitality Group (SHG).

The Scottish Hospitality Group has strong reasons to be biased here and should be in the title

> The hospitality sector body said that some venues had seen attendance levels down 40%,

This fails to even consider if reducing the number of unvaccinated people congregating in public is a legitimate government aim. Just because attendence is good for business doesn't mean it's good.

> with staff experiencing “intolerable levels of abuse”.

And the people to blame are those that delivered the abuse. We can't let individuals hold government hostage by threatening to break the law.
Hunder Biden would have been a better choice.

No doubt that would have set them back more than $500K. But the optics of it... Who knows, maybe they did buy some of his paintings?
>A factor of 2-to-3 IPC difference?

That is irrelevant. What matters is the product of IPC and frequency. x86 parts today are clocked much, much higher than Apple's parts.

IPC and frequency are both means to an end. Compare on performance and efficiency, not implementation details.
Raytracing can absolutely be done on GPU even without RTX-style hardware; there are tons of implementations of it in the literature. Last I read the research, the best approaches dynamically bundle up rays hitting the same or nearby objects to squeeze coherency out of the GPU.

As far as I can tell, the biggest problem is simply that GPU raytracing requires a completely different software architecture. Giant boil-the-ocean rewrites that require not only new software but also new hardware are very difficult to justify, especially in a mature industry dominated by (relatively) short-term film production schedules. There are other technical issues too, such as VRAM limits.
Sure, I'm not saying we should throw out the radios, but 90% of those comms are pretty standardized.
Not inconsistent; many will refuse treatment if simply asked, but with forced treatment / detox may come through the woods a bit and make a different decision.

It's the same freedom vs. detention debate and we've swung towards full freedom option in the US since the shutdown of mental health prisons and we've offloaded the care for the most difficult cases to police, ER, health workers, and they live on the streets. It's high time the pendulum swung back a bit with some (hopefully humanely administered) compulsory treatment options which is was the other commenter may have been getting at
Looks like this might be the original story: https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
It should be at the top. We both know the reason why you've hidden it at the bottom of the page.
I get why this is done when something is top secret. But I think there’s no better way to be reduced to a fungible coding cog than “you don’t actually need to understand the big picture. Here’s a spec. Implement it.”
Its like there was some weakness in the DNA of these classic libertarian organizations born out of 60s era idealism. I don’t know whether crypto or some other decentralized tech will solve this but I hope the internet will evolve beyond needing these legacy organizations.
task energy comparisons are usually won by the processor that gets it done fastest in absolute terms: because of the overhead of the rest of the system, it takes a really big perf/watt win to come out ahead of the system that maybe isn't as efficient in actual watts but gets it done in half the time, because you pay the system overhead for a shorter period of time.

it's also a 128-thread processor being put against a 8+2 thread processor, and that's the closest thing to something that will outweigh Apple's IPC advantage here: super wide processor clocked super slow, and unlike the more realistic comparisons (laptop processors, etc) the Epyc has deployed over four times as much silicon just to match the M1.

This is the absolute best-case scenario for x86 - they get six times as much silicon and 16 times as many threads and all they can do is match it.

Do the comparison again against the Mac Pro 40-core chip when it comes out and you'll see A15 pull ahead again.
Agreed. The provision that calls for businesses to create a policy on the "right to disconnect" at the end of the workday is great too.

You have to give credit where credit is due...