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Whether you're an Intel fan, an Apple fan, or just anti-Intel (or anti-Apple), I feel like there's not much effort here to see the complete picture.

First, yes Apple Silicon M1 (any variety) is, with 100% certainty more efficient than Intel's Alder Lake 12th generation CPUs. And the performance is often better than Intel's best for specific workloads.

Second, you can look at just a few benchmarks and pick winners. You can look at maximum power draw and pick losers.

Or you can look at a lot of other things. For one, Alder Lake is a big improvement over their previous "10nm" aka "Intel 7" CPUs, both in performance, and in efficiency. But they were coming from a pretty big deficit. Second, Alder Lake seems to be able to draw a lot of power out of the box. But, it also performs almost as well when limited somewhat. For more interesting benchmarks, see how it does limited to 75W[0].

If you want great battery life, and MacOS works for you, there's no reason to join this debate. You win, you get the M1 and all the goodness that comes with it. If you've got a very specific job that requires maximum performance, you really need to see how the performance is on that task, and whether you can afford to trade off on battery life, or just need limited portability.

Of course MacWorld is not incentivized to color Intel in the best light, and neither any Mac faithful. But it's also weird to ignore the massive improvements here over Intel's 11th gen. It's technology and engineering, and it's a better showing than we saw out of Intel for quite some time. They spent the early part of the previous decade making tiny improvements to their same 4 core CPUs over and over. Then they spent the second half making mistakes in their process nodes. Alder Lake isn't perfect, but I appreciate it for what it is.

[0] https://youtu.be/Ur3Y2vxpTWo?t=345
Tribalism. Unfortunately it still exists in the modern day.
I have gone from industry to academia/research and back to industry. So I have a broad idea of what you might be facing.

The only researchers who might be interested in your work are those whose work is very closely related to yours. The only way you will identify them is to read academic papers in that specific field. The fact the your algorithm works in a game has very little impact. It will need to be compared to what is widely recognized and accepted in academic circles.

You're correct, academics are very time poor. They are subjected to many pressures to produce and thus will not expend any effort poking into some one page summary of an algorithm. If you present them with a solid draft for a paper and it is in their area of work, then you might get more interest.

The structure of an academic/research paper, needs to state the problem, survey the field, identify the key contributions in the field, detail your improvement and then provide verifiable comparisons. That is, prove that for a specific area of application your algorithm has specific advantages. The preparation of papers tends to require 3-6 months to first submission. It's not unusual to encounter several rejections before a journal or conference accepts a paper.
>> but the fact that you have to choose a method of saving

AFAIK there is a single default. Just use that. If you need more features you can go down that rabbit whole but I think tiddlywiki is very usable without any modifications like you're describing.
Some of these scenarios need a "just flip a coin" choice.
Its actually right in the posted link:

The “Sold by Amazon” program resulted in prices for some products increasing when Amazon programmed its pricing algorithm to match the prices that certain external retailers offer to online consumers.

As a result, when prices increased, some sellers experienced a marked decline in the sales and resulting profits from products enrolled in the program. Faced with price increases, online customers sometimes opted to buy Amazon’s own branded products — particularly its private label products. This resulted in Amazon maximizing its own profits regardless of whether consumers paid a higher price for sales of products enrolled in the “Sold by Amazon” program or settled for buying the same or similar product offered through Amazon.
I can believe it. I think it's a combination of buggy Software/firmware and hardware issues- they've tried to squeeze too much into too small a space and can't do it reliably.
I LOLEd at “very mild obstacles”
> We had a big issue way before the vaccine mandates thanks to the absurdity of right-wing media and right-wing politicians' conspiracy theories

Honestly, I feel like the pandemic politics predated all the right wing conspiracy theories emergence. The democrats/progressive left/resisters decision to make Covid the central issue to oust Trump is the more likely genesis. Very early on (Jan/Feb 2020) everything the Trump administration was doing was met with immediate 180 degree resistance from the progressive left and the left-leaning media. Including things they later supported—Travel bans, social distancing suggestions and yes, even the vaccine too.

Before I get accused of being a conservative or a Trumpie…I’m not and far far from it. But…I am not willing to excuse problematic approaches that have negative downstream unintended consequences even if the initial intention may have been positive.

Blaming the right is akin to being mad when the person you punched in the nose decides to fight back. How dare they!
My OS class at the University of Wisconsin used xv6. I love and hate that little operating system. My professor had actually taken the time to logically split all the source files into folders for their given purpose. When I found the original source and the flat structure, I died a little inside. There was no way I would be able to recreate a folder structure that would also successfully build with make. I tried and gave up in short order.
They are also useful for date range input. Or if the user needs to work out the date by looking at a calendar which is pretty common if you are doing something like booking a holiday or time off work.
That sounds like pretty normal branding. I can get a powered hub for $20 from BUNCHALETTERZ who will disappear without a trace next quarter, or $35 from Anker that I’m pretty sure won’t burn down my apartment.
$2.5 million is just over a half hour (33.6 min) of net sales reported on Amazon's 2020 annual report, or put another way, 0.0006% of net sales. I don't understand why the WA state attorney general considers that any sort of punishment.

I'm not anti-Amazon and don't even understand the alleged bad behavior. My point is that if governments want any corporation to behave, then the punishment has to be enough to deter future bad behavior. I don't see how this crosses the threshold where the corporation even cares about fines like this.

Now if courts start imposing fines/settlements/whatever that are double digit percentages of net sales, then I'd bet corporations would care deeply about it and start training their executives how not to be evil, and HBR would write articles about renewing ethics in corporations, and consultants would start offering ethical business practice training, etc.
Depends. Is it a worker cooperative that employs everyone?
I would argue that ideation aside, the person responsible for executing said idea needs to have a clear motivation & reward for taking up ownership of actioning it.

Brainstorming might be a throwback term, but it works.
> > Why would trustworthy people even try to gain power

> To improve society.

Is gaining power the most efficient way for a trustworthy and ethically constrained person to improve society? Keep in mind that if you answer that question "yes", you need to believe that attempting to gain power and use it ethically and responsibly is more effective at helping people than trying to earn a bunch of money and throwing it at GiveWell's top charities[1], after adjusting for chance of success, which is a pretty high bar to clear.

[1] https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
If there are so many of you then you should start your own platform. There is no reason facebook/twitter/etc have to host your point of view. There is absolutely zero stopping people from doing this. There are conservative oriented web hosting services, put your stuff there and let the money and followers roll in. If your point of view is popular you will draw people in like flies to honey
But why build a date picker?
Your bias is predictable. I actually lean left and do support peoples choice, just not mandates. I am not a big fan of Joe Rogan, but you can believe whatever helps you sleep at night. You can think I'm a racist Nazi Trump supporter if it helps you build images in your mind of what you think people that have different thoughts of you must be like.
This seems like ducking the issue. If you’re going to either hit an old lady or a young man and a cat, which do you choose? Saying “I’d never get into that situation” isn’t an answer.
Marginal reduction in transmission can mean the difference in ending a pandemic or dragging it out for another year or two. There is a big difference in an R value of R1 and R0.9

And you probably don't remember ever being required to show vaccination status to get into a stadium or restaurant in your lifetime because you hadn't previously lived through a pandemic.
Out-of-control SpaceX rocket will smash into the moon in weeks
More resources to harvest and convert within the atmosphere. Better positioning to explore other parts of Venus. Can't really think of any orbital advantages, as being in/at/near any planet is a disadvantage for space exploration - compared to being in space - but having the different orbit around the sun makes you closer to other objects at different intervals than being bounded to earth-orbit.
This is a bit of a catch-22. On the one hand, I very much want to know to whom the politicians owe their allegiance to. But, like you, I don't necessarily want the world to know whom I choose to donate to.

I believe small, cash-only donations are anonymous. So that might be a good way.
You may or will someday be wealthy. Do you see yourself automatically defaulting to lower moral standards?

If the answer is no, you are not alone. Many wealthy people - even those who are not self made - are not “big bad rich guys” as you put it.

And as such, it is not the default for poor people either.
Do you offer your services only in the US, or also elsewhere (Europe, Asia)?
Eh. Eating out is a huge money sink. I rarely go to restaurants or cafes. The city certainly isn’t entitled to my money for shit I can make at home for vastly cheaper.
Amazon can still sell on their own. They just can’t enter into a price matching agreement with 3rd party sellers any more.
“ Unlike money importance, however, the more people equated money and success, the lower their experienced well-being was on average (P < 0.00001), and there did not appear to be any income level at which equating money and success was associated with greater experienced well-being. ”
Unless there was specific evidence, I would take that report with a retroactive grain of salt. I'm not saying I know it to be false - just that it doesn't sound like what I've seen at YC.
Google's Swift protobuf library crashes on unknown enums
I thought I was going out of my mind, but I have all these issues as well. The “out of ear” detection failing and draining battery and the not actually charging while in the case issues are particularly annoying.
I ordered an M1 Max at launch at work and use an M1 Pro, and I've been so impressed with the M1 Air that I bought... a $150 Chromebook. It's complicated.

My next mobile purchase (or build, I'm into cyberdecks lately) will have a different form factor display, like 4:3 or 3:2, and I hope Apple makes it. I really thought the Framework might be it until I used one, but it felt like they're only making laptops as an experiment in opex minimalism, and that they're planning to sell off as soon as they establish the value of the "overpriced semi-open eco-conscious DIY laptop" market.

I've talked two people into buying M1 Airs and one M1 Mac Mini from Costco on sale. I haven't recommended anyone buy a Mac since 2014, but these things are fantastic.
in what way is gsuite garbage ? granted, i mostly just use gmail. but after a few years at [major company], gmail seems light years ahead of anything they use
These are the lies they keep telling themselves. I had seen in several places that after more investigation the cop died of a heart attack,nevertheless it is almost certain he wouldn't have had that heart attack if that mob of traitors hadn't assaulted the capitol building, yet somehow they'll pick at a tiny detail and ignore the other 90% of the situation. It's maddening yet laughable at their feats of logic acrobatics.
Suddenness still applies if it continues to come in waves like Omicron. If the waves are spaced far enough apart, the extra capacity is hard/expensive to plan for. Omicron came very suddenly after a long period of little activity (and is already leaving almost as fast in much of the US).

Importantly, COVID can make hospital staff sick, which is one way it takes up capacity. I'd read that in the hospitals that hit capacity issues during Omicron, they wouldn't have had any capacity problems if staff weren't sick from Omicron. So, the capacity challenge is having enough personnel slack to cover the suddenness, which seems harder than handling equipment/room capacity issues.

That said, I agree with your points and we need clear answers to those questions.
yes, vaccine + natural immunity gives you super immunity by a large factor, they also found that it doesn't matter if you get the virus, then get vaccinated, or get vaccinated then get the virus, you'll end up with super immunity.
It's not so much terraforming, but one idea for colonizing Venus is to live on giant airships that hang out in the upper atmosphere where the temperatures and pressures are temperate.

You still need to deal with the nasty chemical composition of the atmosphere, but that might be doable somehow. Your airship also needs to be massive and sturdy enough to shrug off hundred mile an hour winds.
Well, I use Zotero for this exact purpose. It covers exactly this, but stores everything in a SQLite file, so it is much more accessible
Great. Now the SA forum goons are gonna hear about this and we'll get a load of self-driving cars that run over humans to save cats.

Seriously, why are we so enamoured of vox pop that we think $random_internet_user is a good way to make difficult moral choices?
Corrected URL: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
It would’ve been nice if they specified but it was probably using the Intel iGPU for video playback. Those results would line up with last year’s laptops in integrated mode. Even with comparable hardware the MacBook is literally 3x as efficient.

In my experience if the dGPU is on at all it won’t get 6 hours of anything.
It has been an amazing performance. In my mind the highest risk remaining with JWST is the cryogenic system. Cryogenics can never be taken for granted and Northrop Grumman struggled with the design of the JWST cryogenic system for years. That's because it is a complex, high spec system that continuously and uniformly cools the entire reflector.
Interesting concept.

It's always intriguing to me that no major database vendors have added support for Python, Javascript, Lua, et. al, for their expression and stored procedure definition languages. It would really make things more accessible than Transact-SQL[1], Oracle's P/SQL[2] or DB2's messy external procedure support.[3]

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/create...

[2]: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/state...

[3]: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=statements-create...
There is no "mushy middle ground" when it comes to a coupe attempt at the capitol building. Sorry but you are simply wrong about this. There is no ambiguity at all in that statement.
Afaik both him and Lex Fridman tried to get Fouci on. He either declined or wanted to limit it to 15m
SIRI....disable it....plug in airpods...suddenly she is back and demanding your attention....

forget streaming.....mac m1 cannot Bluetooth
Show HN: Open-source browser extension to see the GitHub stars of a repo
Culture shock isn't the only thing that factors into quality of life though. There's a lot of places in the US you could go that you might dislike living in but wouldn't necessarily introduce a significant culture shock compared to a foreign country.

Just wanted to point out that out, as I've lived in Asia and Eastern Europe and despite the greater culture shock in the former, still preferred it as a long term residence. One's personal preferences and expectations for life can affect that a lot.
Yeah, but normally your competitor doesn't get to choose the price of YOUR widget.
I think 1/59th the price is clearer than 59x cheaper. In 59x, what is the x for? Multiplication? What is being multiplied?

"1/59th the price of AWS" is clear because you take the price of AWS and multiply it by 1/59. Probably more clear would be "1.7% the price of AWS".

When I think there's an opportunity for misunderstanding, I point it out. I don't think I'm more likely to misunderstand something than the average person, but I am more likely to speak out if I see something potentially confusing.

I would be interested in seeing a poll where we ask people to estimate "59x cheaper than $200", vs "1/59th of $200" vs "1.7% of $200". Obviously the last one is easiest to do exactly in your head, but we can still get a fair comparison by just seeing whether people are at least in the neighborhood vs way off.

I would also like to see it with 2x, 1/2 and 50%.
That first line (the one that starts with ">") is indicating that they are quoting someone else. It is not their statement.
The Palace of Dreams
The red flag is not those numbers, it is the market cap they are trying to justify.

They are doing terrific.
I'm pretty sure obsidian can't sort lists. Especially nested multilevel lists.
I tried it before and it got too much annoyances without obvious benefits, so I went back to dynalist.
I find this to be a strange take.

>Moderna had the mRNA vaccine for Covid ready in about 3 weeks. This means the tech was already there

Not quite. While this line of research has been occurring for some time, it wasn't quite at that point yet. It wasn't developed and not being used because testing them would be considered unethical. It was developing technology, and Covid came at an opportune time in that things were close enough for researchers to rush things along.

>But no, we needed a pandemic and 10 months of testing to start using it, because it wasn't "ethical".

Yes, we did need testing before we started using it. It could make everyone sick for all we know. Or perhaps only a select few populations. Testing also allows guidance to be developed on what expect, and what doctors need to look out for. If it were to cause bleeding in people with a certain blood type, for example, then just giving it out would result in huge numbers of people rushing to already overworked ER rooms. Which could just worsen the health crisis we were trying to avoid. There are many good reasons to test treatments even when time is limited

>We as a society shy away from doing things which we _know_ would save more lives in the aggregate because we'd have to risk causing much less harm, but harm which we'd be directly responsible for.

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I'll take this logic further and say why not do some DNA alteration experiments on babies? We may have to destroy the specimens after, but so what? A finite number of lives can lead to saving countless lives in the future. Think of the things we could learn about rare diseases, removing harmful genes, improving human health, etc. The millions, even billions of lives we could save and enrich. It's immoral NOT to do that, when the rewards are so great.

That's the line of thinking that doctors try to avoid, hence "do no harm". It doesn't matter how common sense it seems, some lines you just don't cross. Because if people do cross those lines, eventually some might use it to justify doing immoral things. There's certainly a lot of rigorous debate about medical ethics, but these decisions are the results of groups of doctors and ethicicts. I'm of the belief that the alternatives have indeed been considered in most cases and the best choice has been made.
Correct, cobber.
He’s a hack (pun intended) for other reasons, namely using the above credentials to obtain a greater credibility than he deserves.
> You seem to know a lot about an anonymous person on the internet!

Yeah I'm going off of the ~20 sentences I've spent time reading from this anonymous person on the internet. You're not doing much in these responses to demonstrate comprehension of my points so maybe it's gg.

> If you can't see that abortion is polarized along partisan lines, we live on different planets.

I didn't dispute this very basic fact. But again, this wasn't what my comments were about.
Oh, I meant GPU only. Sorry.

Yeah a well lit display can be a huge drain, but of course I can control that. I would hope WiFi/BT don’t use much relative to CPU/display, but I can’t claim to know.
This chip is clocked over 7 times higher than my old Pentium, and it's not like the Pentium was massively super scaler. I'm not sure how the IPC compares, but I can't imagine that ARM is that much worse than a mid-90s Intel chip.
Regardless of how small the absolute risk, the risks of COVID are far higher than the risks of the vaccine, even for 7 year olds. So why are you choosing to die on that hill?
I'm afraid to tell you that you like something for the wrong reasons.

The reason justification you just provided is wrong. People aren't digging through because they can, they're digging through because they like the game and it sits in a perfect state of simple, popular, fun where people want to see the curtains behind the game.

This would still be reverse engineered if it had to be decompiled first.

Your second statement kind of proves that you don't believe in your first statement, and in fact it is definitely the simplicity, popularity and fun that comes from the game that spawned intrigue.

What you really wanted to say was: "thanks, fun games!" because this has nothing to do with the game being open.
I hadn’t seen that. Thanks, makes sense.
I think we use the term "brain storming" in different ways, engineering teams coming together to flesh out an idea is often nothing like a "brainstorming" session. Engineering often tends to do "cooperative brain leveraging" :)
The computer built to last 50 years (2021)
This is, hands down, the greatest HN comment I have ever read.
Maybe the posted article is an advertisement, but a little surfing around their repo gave me the most anti-advertisement I could possibly imagine: https://github.com/run-x/opta/pull/534/files

So, (a) "it never worked" (b) it took them 7 months to know that[0] (c) who can possibly find the python string literal "arn:aws:iam::*:user/$${{aws:username}}" legible in order to know why in the world the dollars are doubled, the mustaches are doubled but not in an f-string (d) what in the world is the relationship between a .json file, a .yaml file, a .py file, and a tf-module directory containing HCL: https://github.com/run-x/opta/tree/v0.24.3/modules/aws_iam_u...

I'm glad that system works for them, but to then write a blog post saying "terraform is hard and opaque" takes some chutzpah

0: https://github.com/run-x/opta/blame/v0.24.3/modules/aws_iam_...
Same here, my moral brother. :D
Presumably the realistic cases are not so clear cut, but it's not hard to imagine situations where self driving cars must make choices between courses of action that have some probability of killing people (and where the car might calculate that all courses of action have some non-zero probability of killing people).
The contrived cases make sense as a way to guide what should be done in more realistic/ambiguous ones.
At least this CPU can run more than a single OS.