skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Intrinsically linked” doesn’t mean anything, if you want to make an argument then make it.

I’ve already made mine - Anandtech shows a factor of 6 difference in perf/watt between a 11980HK and a M1 Max at peak performance, and this likely translates into a ~factor of four-ish difference in perf/watt and IPC at iso-power. That’s a performance gap that is unlikely to be closed by a node shrink - there is a large architectural gap there. Sure, Apple is probably using tighter pitches as well, but that doesn’t add up to a factor of 4 difference either.

If you have one processor that is doing 4 times the performance at iso clocks, and 2.2x the performance with both processors running at peak clocks, the "megahertz myth" isn't applicable, one of those processors is just faster than the other.

We will see next year, with Zen4 and A16 (apples next core) going head to head on N5P. I strongly doubt Zen4 will even get close.

> I just mean the rule of thumb for the "x86 tax", not any specific device.

Ah, so you are conflating “the amount of transistors spent on x86 decoding” with “the architectural impact that x86 has on performance”.

Unfortunately those are not the same thing. To make the car analogy, how much of your car’s engine bay is spent on aspiration? Probably 5%, maybe 10% right? So obviously aspiration is not important to a car’s performance output at all? And a different method of aspiration would not affect performance at all, a turbocharged car performs almost identically to a naturally aspirated car?

That’s the argument you’re making by focusing on number of transistors spent decoding instead of the impact on the rest of the design. Having a much higher “rate of feed” enables much higher-performance optimizations in the rest of the design - like a much much much deeper reorder buffer.

And just like with cars - that 5% or so of the processor is a key enabling factor that can produce gains of 2x in the rest of the processor, because it’s the only way to keep an engine that is 2x as powerful fed. It doesn’t, itself, produce all that much speedup, but you can’t design bigger engines without clearing that bottleneck. Even if it’s only 5% you can’t do those same designs naturally aspirated.

Similarly, even if the decoder is only 5% of the x86 design, it doesn't mean it's not strangling the ability to scale the rest of the design.
Are we going to see old refurbished devices be sold as distraction-free machines?

Does a new market for somewhat-luddite computers exist? I'd like to buy something like the freewrite [1] but cheaper, any suggestions?

[1] https://getfreewrite.com/
I agree. If a user reports a legitimate bug, it lies on the maintainer to act on this information. If the maintainer ignores the bug and makes other random changes to the code, it still is the maintainer’s responsibility to fix the bug – the fact that they made it harder to find the bug by altering the code is entirely their own doing. It does not fall upon the bug reporter to test the code for bugs for every change made. To demand this, and to close the bug when they do not comply, is entirely the wrong thing to do.
A dedicated camera product based on smartphone parts is

https://owllabs.com/products/meeting-owl-pro

It is based on a fisheye lens, a sensor with an outrageous number of megapixels, and an SoC that can "digital zoom" on individual meeting participants.

Circa 2004 I sketched a design for something similar that could image a whole room (and would have used a curved mirror instead of a fisheye lens), but I estimated it needed 40 megapixels or so which was out of reach at the time.
https://youtu.be/B3EBs7sCOzo
> When you build a society where people worship money & fame instead of kindness or sincerity or any moral virtue at all, some people will do literally anything to maximize the $$$ and your society is fucked. It has nothing to do with technology.

Money and fame are self-propagating, you're able to sell more products with fame and make more money with money. Kindness, sincerity, and moral virtues are better than their absence, I agree, but being kind to one person doesn't have the capability of exponential growth, you can't expect that the one act of kindness will allow you later to be kind to 100, then 10,000, then 1,000,000 people.

Technology is a blessing and a curse, it's a Pandora's box that allows scalable ideas to scale to previously unimaginable levels. There was an article here yesterday about how WhatsApp scaled to 1 billion users with just 50 engineers. That kind of action - and its effects on society - would not be possible without technology.
>> This stuff is barely scratching the surface of the data those companies collect and maintain, likely for long periods of time, just to analyze and improve customer experience.

> Heh, just to analyze and improve customer experience? Nothing else a bit more unsavory?

The point is this data would get captured regardless, surveillance or no. Mass surveillance (at least in this matter) often isn't so much about what gets captured, but how long it gets retained and who gets access to it.
> “Distributed state is so fundamentally complex that I think we actually need CRDTs (or something like them) to reason about it effectively.”

Gamedevs working on multiplayer FPSs and MMOs (which requires resolving incredibly complex state synchronizations at millisecond-scales) have done this for decades, and they haven’t been using any fancy CRDTs. Maybe they might have some ideas on how to achieve fast document synchronization as well?

If you forget about P2P and only think about server/client type connections (since P2P doesn’t give you that much advantages in a Google-Docs type service), I think there’s a lot of overlap between multiplayer games and collaborative document editing, and maybe some cross-domain pollination might be needed to solve this problem.
If you don’t understand the implications of the word “nominally”, here, then you really don’t understand anything about the gendarmerie. To compare it with the American policing model is beyond ludicrous.

This is how an armed, barricaded suspect is handled in France. Watch until the end, with captions. https://youtu.be/0Bx5PRqYAig
I found the recent Amazon Prime series "El Cid", rather engaging with good acting performances and production value. It could be an introduction to the Spanish History of the time.
they really did a number with this. they are getting regular old joes to ask other people to go to the theaters on HBOs behalf. i really gotta figure out how they did that, its pretty remarkable.
I don't really understand what Trump did differently, he just was more direct with implementing bad ideas. But surveillance steadily increased under previous presidencies. Government doesn't understand that this mistrust is mirrored by the populous at some point. In a democracy surveillance should be directed towards officials, not the populous. I think it pretty stupid to blame Trump. Yes, he was funny (as a non-American) but certainly not the reason for the structural issues and the split in political camps. A symptom perhaps and a predictable one I believe.
The vehicle I'm currently sat in at the moment has a 32A electrical cable running in the back, currently pulling 2881W into a magic box provided by victron inverter/charger, that is used to charge a battery (which is currently fully charged). That battery is currently being drained at a rate of 2881W to run the equipment (via the inverter back to 230V)

If I pull the 32A cable, everything carries on working (I believe it's a sub-20ms switchover). If the power goes for some other reason it carries on working. The truck can run on a 230V/13A source just as well (although when the aircon is on - not needed currently - we'll be pulling more than 13A so the battery will slowly drain). I can even plug into two different inputs.

Now this is a mobile vehicle, and I'm no electrician, but my understanding is this is perfectly fine -- the victron presumably switches from the grid if the input is lost and doesn't feed anything back into the grid.

Presumably the same setup could be used to power a home instead of several racks of equipment in the back of a truck.
I found some archive links about Movie Master, the software mentioned in the post above.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20001021145625/http://www.telepo...

- https://www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/sic07.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20001027005742/http://www.telepo... points out that the Hollywood Screenplay "uses the source code of the former Movie Master and adds improvements". It's probably referring to Movie Master Windows version though.

If someone would like to try, a Windows 95 version is available here: https://archive.org/details/goldutils018
>How do rights become true or false?

Here's how: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratification
The article claims "thousands" of workers, but the tweets it quotes, from people on the ground watching the protest, have it at hundreds of workers. It would be nice to have a reliable estimate, but in this modern day when feelings, intuition and "common sense" reign, we'll just never know.
Assuming that everyone who wants to maximize their income is a brainwashed capitalist drone is a mistake. There are many reasons why someone might want to maximize their income. Learning techniques and collecting information from your peer group is not immoral. Several people I know want to make as much money as they can so that they can pay off their house and have enough reserve cash to dedicate the rest of their lives to making an impact where money doesn’t matter to them anymore. Others have massive student loans and the pressure to get out of that debt is enormous.

Also, to suggest these companies are not making an impact on the world is insane. We are talking about companies like Apple and Google and yes… Facebook. Sure, they are not perfect moral companies but they have made massive impacts on the world.
For obsidian it is a significant advantage because you can have plugins that e.g. render a markdown task lists as a Kanban board.

It seems to fall into the vs-code category of being sufficiently well optimized, but if you wanted to deal with millions of files then some popular plugins (queries on tasklists in all files, aggregating data into diagrams, etc) probably would get slow.
Yes this has been my experience too. The WhatsApp bridge I used had been pretty unstable. I thought it might be a configuration issue from my side.
im typing on one right now. i have to figure out how to clean the keys, some have some coffee stains :)
Wouldn't a very rough location suffice, i.e. something that could be either manually set (for general aviation and shorter distances), derived from a VOR station identifier or similar, or just estimated via dead reckoning/an INS?

In other words, if you don't even have a rough idea of where you are, what good will a magnetic heading do?
Since no one else defined it, CRDT = Conflict Free Replicated Data Types.

There are 2 variants which confusingly have a very similar acronym:

- CmRDT: Commutative Replicated Data Types (also known as operation-based CRDTs). These CRDTs replicate state by transmitting update operations to peers. Peers are always able to apply these operations in any order and without conflicts.

- CvRDT: Convergent Replicated Data Types (also known as state-based CRDTs). These CRDTs replicate state by transmitting the entire object every time an update is made to a local replica. Peers are able to merge the state they receive with their local copy without conflicts.
> rural Ontario having a well stocked freezer is not optional. Especially in the winter the power would go out so frequently it was a serious limitation.

This sucks, but is it not cold enough to put freezer items outside?
> the "is-ought" problem follows from a particular (very problematic) metaphysics

Why is it problematic?

> It does not follow from an Aristotelian understanding of metaphysics.

Aristotle's metaphysics does also carry some baggage. It is contingent on an unmoved mover/active intellect that creates not only motion but purpose in the universe.

Although his ethics can broadly be taken at face value as long as you agree with the proposition that your purpose is to flourish as a human. It does seem to work pretty well, although the question he was truly answering was how to be a happy individual, whereas the meaning of ethics has shifted over the millennia to deal more with civic virtues than personal ones.
Installing Asahi is pretty straightforward to be honest. The guided installer due soon is a nice to have, not a major roadblock to benchmarking.
I miss some of your points - but the last paragraph is fair.

I assume by emphasising "bad school" you say that the parent was also saying social media not inherently bad, but the way it was implemented was?

I think that we could design (regulate?) better social media (I have high hopes that something similar to the "this looks like anti-vaxxer posting, here are some links to scientific consensus on the issue) would help move us from facebook to wikipedia. But I may be blinded by my own privilege
> They even have detailed data for predictions about how it is likely to change in the coming years (presently up until the year 2025).

They have been publishing the models in 5-year packages for as long as I can remember (e.g. previous one was 2015-2020 model, and so forth). I still have 30 year old devices/PDAs/GPSs that see firmware updates just for the magnetic declination models.

Curious how they do it these days, since all these devices with a compass need these up-to-date models. Likely they just phone home every time. :(
Seems interesting to ask moral dilemas to it:

"censor comments that may put people at risk"
- It's okay

"offend corrupt politicians"
- It's good

"condemn someone based on conviction but no proofs"
- It's wrong

I'm not sure "conviction" has the same meaning as in Portuguese. I Portuguese is means something more like faith.
With too many significant digits though.
Browser-based apps have use cases even when you reject PWAs generally as a replacement for native apps. Trying out a new tool quickly, or short-term when using a tool with a customer, in enterprise where you can't install native tools, etc...
Right, but how does this process create truth?
David Lewis
No I don't think that cuts it. As I said, the spiritual buttons necessary to do things like create meaning and hope where such things do not naturally exist need to be installed at a young age.
Watching the stock market as a whole, seems like all companies stock is up.

Reminds me of the dot-com days when ordinary Joe boasted about the gains of their portfolio when, as it turned out, a monkey throwing darts at the financial page could pick as many winners.
I'm not sure what you mean by using a heat pump for AC. AC is effectively a heat pump. Colloquially, we call HVAC systems that use a heat pump to heat the house as a "heat pump", while a heat pump used to cool the house (heat the outside) is called air conditioning. Many AC systems are also configured to heat the house (heat pump can work in either direction).

Why do you say it's an oversized system? It seems like it is sized appropriately give the stuff it is required to run.
> against allowing Facebook to use end-to-end encryption

Apparently three of her lawyers are connected to the US intel agencies. This is entirely US-gov friendly whistleblowing and they know which horses to back.
The point is that the bug is unexploitable on x86 because although the source code may have a bug, on x86 it gets compiled to machine code that does not. That's the thing with undefined behaviour, sometimes it does work exactly as you expect, which can make it so tricky to nail down.
I'm amazed that the screenplay for a 150 minute movie, based on a ~400 page novel, fits on 40 pages.
Much of what you were saying was hard to agree or disagree with. BTW I find Arnold's piece easy to understand (and appreciate) even for a (somewhat educated) layman.
As a massive generalisation, Android users don't spend money though - there's a massive portion of them that use Android _because_ they don't spend money and you can pick up an Android phone for nothing. They're a rounding error in the advertising world.
Should have just dictated it to a mentat.
The tasks are rarely secret, it's the other way round: things that nobody above them wants to bother seeing.
People will hack their ovens to run cleaning cycles without locking for pizza making purpose.
Humans have created a rather extensive historical record of seeking freedom from oppression in all forms, all of which involves intolerance. I.e., a large majority of humans want a tolerant environment

Most often, they do NOT actually manage to transform their intolerant society from within, but leave to find tolerance elsewhere. This is the most basic history of the worlds largest superpower - it's European inhabitants fled the various forms of intolerance at home, and then declared and fought for their independence when the rulers tried to extend their intolerance into the new lands.

This can also feedback to provide assistance to those still in the original lands. Also, the intolerance occasionally gets so bad that it will cause revolts and uprisings, which is typically how new tolerance is created.

The tolerant countries also can feedback and support such fights. One of the more notable ones was when Intolerance rose to a severe form in Germany in the 1920s, and we fought WWII to overcome it. Tens of millions died to fight intolerance, showing that fighting intolerance is a rather strong drive in humans.

I can think of few examples where tolerance gradually grew.

What happens is that a tolerant society is created first with great vigilance, and then after a few generations of getting comfortable with it, vigilance declines, and vacuous arguments like this pop up, attempting to separate freedom from responsibility for maintaining it, and an opening is created for the few to exercise their intolerance on the many.

So, nonsense, just because intolerant societies can be overthrown by the majority that just want to be left alone and 'live and let live' —and this usually requires massive effort and usually bloodshed —, that has zero bearing on whether intolerance can grow and drive out tolerance in a tolerant society.

In fact, the situation is the opposite.

If tolerance was the metastable state, then intolerance would never be able to grow in tolerant societies, yet it almost always does grow — and that paradox is how it does so.
Yeah, good old unjammable radio.
Meet Skimpflation: A Reason Inflation Is Worse Than the Government Says It Is
A brand new septic system (bed & tank) could run you up that high, too, these days. And a well is pricey as well.

Living rural is a constant money drain. Though in theory you are building systems that can sustain your independence later. In theory. In reality, rarely the case.
"Try one of these examples" top option for me was "Stabbing a cheeseburger"
Delphi: "It's wrong"
Genuine question, what led you to believe Google would fight this sort of thing?
Japanese rice tastier due to global warming, says ex-PM Aso
The author is presenting a false dilemma viz. their three reported options (1. IP level restrictions, 2. Citizenship based restrictions, 3. Union of legal systems):

- We can't just ignore the fact that the internet is a global technology but jurisdictions are regionally restricted. This is a tension, of course, but to just throw up the hands in the air and conclude that, therefore, the internet should be a wholly unregulated space is not an option and not a single nation will allow that eventually.

- It is not necessary that the whole of the internet abide by one of these mechanisms, different things can be regulated in different ways, and "mixtures" of the systems are conceivable.

- The fact that proposed regulations have edge cases is not something that makes regulation impossible. That seems to be a very engineer-like mindset, but in truth, the law is quite good when it comes to integrating competing interests and principles or do decide that at some point, something is "good enough". Otherwise no laws would ever be written.

- IP based restrictions do not become ineffective automatically because VPNs exist. This is proven by the fact that geoblocking works reasonably well on streaming services etc. VPNs are often blocked and, even when not, many people are not technically competent enough to set one up. Of course, it depends on what we want to use IP based restrictions for. If we're targeting criminals (or dissidents), that's probably not a viable solution, but if it's about blocking certain content to certain users then it should work reasonably well. NB: I'm not arguing in favour of geoblocking, it's a stupid thing that should disappear, but the point is solely that it works reasonably well for lots of users.

- Finding some sort of common ground between different jurisdictions is something that is necessary in many areas of life which is why trade agreements etc. exist. If the EU pushing GDPR means that Facebook et al. need to adopt better practices wrt. privacy across the globe (because it's too difficult to determine whether a user is EU-based or not), then I guess that's gonna be the price they have to pay to operate in the EU. If the price for operating in China is, nobody is able to talk critically about China anymore, then the response should be "well I guess we won't be operating in China, then" (or, failing that, this should become something that would make western users abandon the network, or even better, something that other countries would take issue with, forcing the service to actually have to take a stand on this).
Small farms presumably already have an electrical connection.
Exploring Quantum Technology – Qiskit and RasQberry
Well make a binary that doesn't require installation, this is a very narrow use case for a technology thats being advocated for more than that use case
I think the parent was referring to Facebook and co, though it is admittedly ambiguous.
It's not a stupid idea. It's the invention of digital scarcity. It is supposed to be real world costly.

High energy use in itself is not the issue, it's CO2 emissions. Energy can be locally abundant, renewable, yet remote, hard to transport to civilization. That would be an idealistic example of sustainable mining. Bitcoin mining isn't fully at that level of sustainability yet, but it's a solvable problem.

Bitcoin isn't for rich people. It's for all people. It's highly popular in deeply inflationary regimes, amidst refugees and particular immigrants. The fastest growth in Bitcoin addresses for years has come from the African continent.
> Rewrites in general are usually a terrible idea, unless the original is horribly broken (and beyond fixable).

I would say, it depends on the ROI.

For example, my current millstone, is a 20 year c++ program written towards the c++98 spec. The physical hardware is held together with spit and best wishes with the current management stating that we need to move to a Linux based, Intel platform as that's what 99% of the org is on.

And, we're not licensing Vendor A or B's product, therefore "patch it till the major rewrite is completed".

In the intervening 20 years, C++11, 17 or even 20 is very different from 98.

Will I rewrite the whole thing, nope, as there's another project to rewrite the client/server portion (again 20 years ago) and at that time, I will eliminate that c++ piece.
I don't think stable refers to the half life. It's a binary status.
Facebook & co are the parasites, Apple was the exterminator.
For me, it depends whether I’m using a laptop or proper size monitor.
Oooh, I may have misunderstood something, I think. :P
I don't view autocorrect as an advancement to be honest. It causes more issues than it solves IMO. On a phone it's ok to have it because typos are so frequent but on a PC I'd never use it.
I asked it:

- Is it OK to procrastinate if I have depression?
It's wrong.

- Is it OK to procrastinate if I don't have depression?
It's OK.