skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Anandtech article shows the difference between idle wall power and current wall power, not wall power. Read the article, please.

>Again, citation needed. Mostly because these numbers aren't coming from Apple, but Anandtech.

The grey numbers are reported by the CPU using Apple code, but do not reflect actual power consumption

>This is straight up false. Again, read the article you yourself linked.

Incorrect. The workflows are the specific Apple-approved ProRes workflows as well as games, in CPU-limited fashion by the author's own admission. I linked the article for it's power consumption figures, you can watch the video linked above for proper GPU performance testing, where Rosetta 2 has negligible impact because of low CPU usage.

>Wow. So, rendering and manipulating video and photo are purely CPU benchmarks. Ridiculous.

Yes. CPU-rendering is a CPU benchmark. Lightroom is a CPU benchmark for all but a few very specific tasks (AI upscaling for example), and cannot properly utilize a high-performance GPU for anything else.

They created a good laptop GPU-wise for editing ProRes footage and using very large datasets, nothing else. If you need to do rendering, or game design, or have to work with complex CAD files, or have to do 90% of GPU compute workloads, or have to do 3D modelling/sculpting, or literally anything else a professional (or not) would want to do, it's embarrassingly deficient.
cream of tartar is very rich in potassium.
The Unexpected Rise of Germany's New Chancellor, Olaf Scholz
So how does it compare to Imaginary?

It looks Imagor can save/cache the resulting files in S3. If so that’s a great benefit since Imaginary does not support it and you have to use a CDN.

Do I understand it correctly that Imagor can transform the image from URL and store the results to S3 and next time the same image is requested it is not transformed again but returned from S3?
Like hospital billing errors always being in favor of the hospital.
the stuff they're censoring is like... white supremacy and threats of violence?
I remember going to trade shows (i.e. 'SDWest') back in the day when Borland was big.

The thing I remember most: They had some guy (short, with very long hair) that did demos for them. Live and without a net. He was good, and a good crowd pleaser. I hope he's doing well today.
I don't think that a root cause analysis like this is good for anything else than improving the algorithm.

It's the same as with face detection. The algorithms are better far superior to humans, but they fail at occasions where a human would not even think twice
> But is this inefficiency and resultant drag on prosperity balanced out by making the market more efficient to access for people up and down the road?

Nobody's saying we shouldn't have fast roads that are good for cars, just that they shouldn't be the same thing as where people go to shop. Stroads are the compromise of essentially putting businesses along the freeway.

> If he had to cross the tracks to get to the market you could basically come up with the same list of gripes.

No, this is incorrect.

There was actually a housing development I was interested in in Munich with exactly the setup you're talking about: the apartment buildings were on one side of the tracks and directly adjacent to said tracks and the train station, with two grocery stores on the other side. I would go there with my son occasionally to shop, and he and I would both easily cross under said tracks, because there was an underpass, and it's MUCH easier and cheaper to build a ped/bike underpass for two lanes of tracks than a 6+ car lane road.

Here it is on Google Maps if you're interested: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Siemenswerke/@48.0927833,1...
Well, read on a little. The text quoted clearly blames monarchy on the Heathens. Paine then recounts the history of monarchy in the Old Testament, with an example of god Himself speaking against it as a form of idolatry, his point being not that the Jews are the source of monarchy but that scripture is plainly opposed to it. Concluding that section, Paine writes "And a man hath good reason to believe that there is as much of kingcraft as priestcraft in withholding the scripture from the public in popish countries. For monarchy in every instance is the popery of government." As a good 18th-century Protestant, Paine was of course against "popery", yet the historian doesn't claim Paine blamed monarchy on the Catholics.

The book itself was well-reviewed, but the takeaways are a bit disturbing.
Though I agree we have good solutions to this, I also think it's a more nuanced problem than it seems at first glance. See for example this stack overflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75677/converting-a-unifo.... To convert uniform to a Gaussian there are at least four different competing methods, all with subtle tradeoffs. Besides that there are certainly other continuous distributions we might be interested in transforming to, which are useful but not as nice as a Gaussian.
Yes.

I'm a proponent of the idea that your athletic scholarship at a Division I-A school should be for "sports degree" and that it should entitle you to come back prepaid for an "academic" 4 year degree when that track runs out.

That would stop a lot of the idiocy we see around "student athletes".
Totally. Photo studio with sick backdrops? Looks great. Random 80s era bathroom counter with many other appliances/bottles/etc. around? Looks ridiculous.
I am not saying this is a real job prospect. If a kid told me he wanted to be a Twitch streamer I'd say he can't be one, same as professional singer or musician in general.

What I am saying that what Tyler has very much is a real job and successful business. You wouldn't say Taylor Swift is jobless because very few people make it in the pop music world.
Munich Agreement
Im not currently using it, but i had great experiences with mollie (https://www.mollie.com/).
I've seen this chart blasted around the mainstream media and I feel it is sort of cheating. The categories below the 0% line: Cellphone Service, Software, Toys and TVs all benefited mainly from one miracle innovation: Moore's Law. Other than that, have they really done anything else innovative to keep prices that low? If you eliminate anything that mainly benefited from Moore's law then you can derive a very different picture from the chart.

I guess we should be thankful to Moore's law and figure out how to apply it to Childcare, College, and hospital services? I guess thats where Elon Musks's robot comes in to play. It can teach you skills to get a job, take care of your kids, and then perform your surgery. Problem solved! :)
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Volvo had some R&D data stolen in security breach
Yes, I know I'm probably an exception and there's the problem of the observed being the observer. What I can say is that I haven't seen ads of most of the stuff I bought recently. I don't see companies with good and afordable products spending much in ads.

I'm stunned when I see it but I agree that the average person is heavily influenced by advertisement. Influencers and ads can implant ideas in the minds of people that they replicate with absolute naturalness without thinking about it ever. Like:
"X is the best Y". Which reminds me of Venus Inc.
I'm not an expert, but if following @popehat on twitter has taught me anything, it would lead me to conclude yes.

He's charged with 18 counts, each with a 10 year maximum sentence, except 1 with a 5 year sentence. Manning faced 22 charges, including one that carried a potential death penalty, so broadly speaking Assange is facing fewer and less serious charges. If we take Manning's sentencing as a reasonable upper bound, he'd face 35 years in prison, with potential for early release. He's 50 now, so there's a chance he'd die in prison, but I'd give him better than even odds. And that's assuming what I'd argue is a worse than could be expected sentencing.

But in general the likelyhood of him facing a life sentence (or what amounts to a life sentence, 50+years) is low.
That used to be the case, ( ~2018 ) when MNO around the world have a similar stance, have 2G as Fall Back, and switching off 3G. But more and more operators are now thinking of the idea switching off both 2G and 3G within the next 5-10 years. So their whole network will be IP based.

I think that greatly depends how much they can continue to milk those 2G / 3G equipment. And the pandemic has speed things up a little bit.
Since when is moving to different countries illegal?
History is written by the victor. Unless freedom is victorious, future generations might not hear about Assange.
That sounds brilliant, but I have no idea how to do any of it. (I have a legal background, not a technical one.) Are there any plug-and-play tools that will do it for me?
Injury on way from bed to home computer is a workplace accident, German court
If I may, I would like to tell you a couple of anecdotes from a colleague of mine and myself, which lead me to notice what is going on (and made fun of up there).

That former colleague of mine, being student, once had to make presentation for Sociopsychology (some complex area outside of tech student typical field of expertise) class and he has two days to do so - he was that lazy. And all he got for his work were two dictionaries, one for Psychology and another for Sociology and nothing else. Frustrated, he repeatedly read dictionaries' definitions of keywords from the theme of his presentation, for three hours straight, as he told me. At the end of that third hour he started to somehow connect these two things together and started to look for other things that he felt are connected to the theme. Next day he had quite solid presentation sprouted from definitions from the dictionaries and common sense and knowledge. He got hard 5 for his work (top score).

I myself experience something like that when I tried to understand video compression standard - intermittently reading just glossary for several days brought me enough understanding that actual text of the standard just filled some of the not quite important gaps.

Repeating the same thing allows my vis-a-vis to connect dots he or she missed the first time, if the answer is clear misunderstanding. It allows him or her to link what I am trying to convey to his or her experience - with life, code base, user experience, etc.

And, of course, repeating not quite sensible things that cannot be ruled outright as nonsense is a propaganda tactic - and this make regular people to fall to a propaganda as they manage to connect dots that were missing.
Hey thescholarlyowl, thanks very much for taking the time to write some feedback. I think I'll be working on a small intro video for the landing screen soon. A couple of tests I made seems to suggest some receptivity to it from visitors.

About the pricing page, I actually reworked a few of the flow, language and elements on it today, following your feedback, to make it (hopefully) more accessible. Don't set the slider to 1000. Any software for so many seats will have a scary pricing attached to it :-D.

In my view, the access path I provided (main page, simitless.com) is more for tech-aware people that would grasp the potential of the platform. I tend to direct users to the blog posts explaining use cases (https://blog.simitless.com/app26-templates-workshop-planner/) or even directly to the app template (https://simitless.com/en/a/templates-team-todo-tasks-managem...).

The main hurdle I see for now is leading people to adopt Simitless as a tool, even on the free quota. I see a lot of people trying it as a curiosity but little adoption as a day-to-day tool.

Thanks again for taking the time !
On the C64 text was PETSCII [1]. On your Mac in Chrome it's Unicode. Running a basic multilingual plane text editor on the C64 is probably impossible due to RAM constraints. Even with a RAM expansion and imagining it had a framebuffer I'm doubtful that the C64 could edit Unicode text at interactive speeds.

In the 1980s only a small portion of the developed world's population used home computers. Today the majority of people use computing devices. Most of them use languages that cannot be represented with PETSCII or ASCII. It's amazing what motivated people can do with low power machines, but let's not forget how going back to the 1980s would discard valuable capabilities as well as bloat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII
It sounds like the cars might have slightly more than broken even on cost for you which sounds like a terrible investment option when you've got everything from real estate to mutual funds that will generally outperform cars - and, much like stock picking, most of the models you purchased didn't significantly appreciate - just one ended up gaining in value.

I suppose I was misinformed in that I thought that cars of all value ranges were pretty disastrous assets to hold - but it sounds like holding on to them for value appreciation still isn't a particularly good tactic.
> I saw 20000$ markups in some places.

I'll call BS on this. Sounds completely made up.
>But the government does not regard it as inflation in the CPI till it reaches the final consumer.

I think this really drills down into the crux of the problem that was posed. If you merely want to survive and not build up investments and capital for your later life and heirs, then consumer inflation gives you a good picture of how prices are raising around you and what your purchasing power looks like.

If you actually care about having some security for the future, land or assets for your business, preserving wealth for general use in any asset class, or something to pass on for your family, or being a PART of the world rather than just a consumer, then the CPI looks like a poor indicator of your changes in purchasing power.
I am indeed horrified
I often find MS Edge usurping my exact URLs (ex: example.com) and turning them into search queries. It's infuriating. It also feels like auto-complete for URLs I visit frequently has been sabotaged to inflate search numbers.
I also am working within this field in academia, and I must say that I have really enjoyed reading your work. I am focused a bit more on combining biological data sources with text knowledge graphs, but in my literature review of the field, I have found that we both have very similar aspirations for career path.

It seems that one major bias that the author of the post's blog has is their heavy conflation of 'worth' with money.

Many of us probably realize that this is not true, as academia clearly shows. Furthermore, It's not that crazy that they had trouble making money off of software, as I wouldn't expect many startups at all to be able to get customers from software solutions alone.
They also seem to try to compare their success with that of essentially 'other biotech ml companies'; for which I would expect there to be quite a bit of tangible resources that these 'other companies' provide. For example, a startup looking to provide a service of detecting diseases or conditions from DNA methylation data would likely perform the sequencing required before doing an analysis (in order to have good control over experimental conditions).
The materials alone in that case could cost quite a bit - so charging a bit more for the analysis isn't that problematic, since the transaction of some currency is already required for covering material costs.

Anyway, as you mentioned - it seems it's important to recognize that these systems aren't necessarily meant to generate revenue for a startup, but rather are much more useful as a tool in academia.
I was wondering the same thing. Is it just the case that people for whatever reason see those more-familiar to them as better actors? Which also explains celebrity worship that certain people engage in, where they might go wild to see George Clooney, but would just walk right by a less-famous but equally or more skilled actor?

If you took who was a hermit in Alaska with no media exposure for their entire life and showed them 3 performances from 3 different tier actors, would they actually say that the A-lister is better than the B-lister, who is better than the C-lister?
A spring 2021 report from the National Security Commission on AI warned that China is poised to overtake the U.S. as the global leader in AI by 2030. U.S.-born students are earning roughly as many doctorates each year in AI-related fields as in 1990, while China is on track to graduate twice as many science, technology engineering and mathematics Ph.D.s as the U.S. by 2025. The Harvard report adds that China now clearly tops the U.S. in practical AI applications, including facial recognition, voice recognition and fintech.
This is absolutely fascinating. I'm really interested to learn why this seems to work so reliably well. What's going on on a chemical/electrical level in the brain during N1 sleep that gives it this unique ability, and why does it go away if you go too deep and enter N2 sleep?

Also, I'm incredibly eager to try this out now. First I've heard of it and it seems too good to be true.
In spite of that, not everyone has the same instincts on what is useful or not. Therefore utility is subjective. Beyond survival there is much else to disagree about.
From the PetNames site,

> Each name set consists of three elements: a key that is global and securely unique (but not necessarily memorable); a nickname that is global and memorable (but not at all unique), and a petname that is securely unique and memorable (but private, not global)

An essential component of a practical addressing system is names which are global, memorable, _and_ unique. Colloquially, I need to be able to say "Google dot com" over the phone to someone, and their experience using that name needs to be identical to mine. A system that doesn't provide this property doesn't solve the problem.
> IANAL

That much is clear.

Charging a fee for providing bad payment info is legal. See "bounced check" fees.
The Navy's $9B Stealthy Super Destroyer Is Covered in Rust
What evidence do you have beyond superficial pattern matching that the Keystone XL closing is a primary driver behind the current fuel prices?

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/01/facebook-p... says there's none at least (and shows its work)
Yes, I think this is both the biggest opportunity, and the biggest challenge, especially as I think there's been a growing separation between those two communities in the last few months and years. There's so many good ideas and implementations (and investment in harder problems of distributed systems) in the crypto/blockchain/web3 space, and a lot of hard-won experience and genuine applications in, as you say, "traditional" communities. It's just a matter of finding some sort of common ground.

I do think that the https://getdweb.net/ community is a model of how that crossover can work. It's also something I think a lot about at FFDW, which because of IPFS and Filecoin, has its feet in both camps.
Unfortunately afaiu this is by far the most thorough write-up of the story (that's why I submitted it). Perhaps we could update the URL with a Google Translate version:

https://www-martinthuer-at.translate.goog/2021/12/netzwerkef...
PRNGs and CPUs are stupidly fast these days. I'm not really convinced that the problem is abundancy of pseudo-random bits, not at least for simulations. A well written PRNG should execute at the same speed as a memset in fact (at least, for the creation of PRNG-bits before processing)

Massaging the bits into proper form: using modulus operator, requires like 80-cycles (aka: a division) on 5-year old CPUs and maybe 20-cycles on a very modern core (with the past 3 years, as Intel seems to have put a lot of work optimizing division). So the bulk of the time is on this massaging process actually.

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Even if the bulk of the CPU time is spent converting the uniformly random bits into usable integers (division / modulus is really slow!!), or usable floats / normal distributions or whatever... I still expect the typical core to handle 100-million pseudo random numbers per second... __per core__.

Seeding your PRNG with a true random seed every now and then will ensure large-scale randomness.

I think cryptographers might need something higher quality, but key-generation is quite uncommon, so you wouldn't need to be doing millions-and-millions of keygens per second, would you?

Simultaions need lots of random numbers, but those random numbers don't need to have entropy guarantees, but instead have weirder requirements (not only speed of generation, but also the ability to rerun your simulation... you actually want deterministic random-number-generators for simulations to verify your results). So in these cases, PRNGs are not only needed, but superior to a true RNG.

There's also the weird case of quasi-random, a term I learned from the graphics community. You want your rays to be random-ish, but actually "more uniform" than actually random. Its a more pleasant randomish pattern to look at, leading to pleasant and artistic images (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_sequence). Quasi-random raytracing is a so called "Biased" generator, because the physical light models are probably closer to true random. However, quasi-random sequences lead to far less noise in far less time / samples, so they're more useful in practice.

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Ultimately, our x86 CPUs today have "true" RNGs built into the RDSEED instruction, pulling entropy from some kind of physical circuit that's highly sensitive to temperature conditions (thermal quantum noise generators inside of circuits. After all, heat is quantumly random as your electrons jump between states in the very small scale).
youtubers / streamers keep making the mistake of thinking reporters are there friend and letting them observe their lives.
Simply put, demands for evidence where none is required derail conversations. By trying to re-orient the conversation toward a debate, you are stifling any kind of contemplative progress. Practically, debates of this style are not dialectical and do not pursue synthesis or truth per se. Look around HN at any hour of any day to see people continually conflate the two. Folks who employ this and related tactics do little more than stroke their superiority complex with logical gotchas.
I agree with your sentiment, and I think that having profit incentives tied into fucking everything is actually a horrible idea and makes many things worse for living in society