skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting the article aside for a bit: as a person with phantom nostalgia for cypherpunk, I'm concerned about the prospect of the CBDC—but I don't understand how corruption is supposed to work with that. One thing that Western commentators don't seem to fully realize is that currently the police and the agencies are given (relative) freedom to pillage the businesses, the population and the budget—and that's how they're kept loyal. The government is literally mafia. If transactions are all recorded, how is that gonna work?

A CBDC could easily impose an actually-working tax system and the budget. But I don't see how it would implement the system where the neighborhood cops take your money and split it among themselves. Even shell companies wouldn't help, since in the end money moves to individuals. The whole thing is worse for the cops than for the citizens.

The cops do actually benefit from the isolation in that they can stop pretending that they respect the ‘law’, which they for some reason vaguely kept up until recently—at least on paper. But I don't think that they want instead to have strict ‘law’ and checks among themselves.
I doubt there will be much learned after actually shipping M1. Developing silicon takes a long time. I wouldn’t be surprised if the design was more or less fixed by the time the M1 released.
Many GB5 (and real world) tasks are memory bandwidth bottlenecked, which greatly favors M1 Max because it has over double a Threadripper's memory bandwidth.
You know, I sort of don't want to help them figure out which ones are more believable.
Company or Cult?
> Exposing my limited understanding of that level of the computing stack - it is but Apple seems to have very very good caching strategies - filesystem and L1/2/3.

That would mean that these comparisons between Threadripper and the M1 Ultra do not reflect CPU performance but instead showcase whatever choice of SSD they've been using.
They would probably have to give out burgers for free the way the ruble has collapsed.
> It doesn't say anything good for America that so many of its big companies fall into that category.

The big companies of America fall into every category, not just the ones you cherry-picked. You could have easily mentioned GE, Intel, MSFT, Apple, Target, Lowe's, Home Depot, Ford, GM, Kroger, Walgreens, Deere, Oracle, Caterpillar, and a bunch of other as-big companies. Those companies each have higher revenues than Coca-Cola, Instagram, or Netflix.
Thanks! Of course they are bit GPU centric but the idea is there.

Very interesting stuff. I wonder both if the Zynq Ultrascale RFSOC PCIe card would work in that chassis and if I could get register level access out of MacOS.
What do you mean big enough? You don't think there's any profits here?
Whataboutism is not every time someone says “what about X”. It’s when you are asked a question and you dodge it by saying “What about X”. e.g.

“Lead is bad for health”, “sugar is bad for health”, “marijuana is bad for health”. Not whataboutism.

“Mr Senator what’s with your taxpayer funded holiday?”, “What about YOUR broken election promises?”. Whataboutism.

> “Whataboutism or whataboutery is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy, which attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving the argument” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
This is what pushed me back to Apple after a single Android device. After 18 months, it was running like crap, and when I bought it, it was considered one of the best flagship Android devices available (there was another that was equal, so it was a coin toss between them).
You can have your old HN comments deleted by emailing the mods. There's limits to how much they'll delete, but they definitely don't want you to get into trouble over something you posted on HN.
Ask HN: Navigating activist tech organizations during a job hunt
Hi HN,

I've got a job now that's been pretty good to me so far, but a recent change in circumstances has put a bad taste in my mouth. As such, I'm considering other options. I do site reliability engineering work, though I could transition into full software if I wanted. I've got about 15 years of experience so it would be for a senior role.

One concern I have is accidentally stumbling into a company with a twisted, woke culture that will see me ostracized if I don't self-flagellate (being a white man) and engage in performative social justice. I could probably bring the odds of that down to about 0 if I avoid anything in say, urban California and NYC but that really cuts down on the available job opportunities in tech.

A few questions for you all:

1. How pervasive is this sort of work culture, actually? I get the impression that it's common in some areas, like Silicon Valley, but that could easily be a misconception.

2. Do you have any tips for detecting this kind of culture before signing on at a new company?

3. Any specific companies you can recommend looking into? I have roots where I am and not willing to move, so remote work flexibility is a must.

Thanks!
Yeah I miss this from my Pixel phones. I wish Apple would build a model that uses this.
That's a bit of a strawman. That's not transphobic. Nobody is obligated to have sex with anyone, trans or cis, period. That's not even up for discussion.

If one, however, goes out of their way to harass transexual people when stating this preference, then yeah, it's a bit transphobic. Intention matters.
I wonder why fingerprint readers act up for some people, is there some sort of physiological reason? It works perfectly for me, but I've seen how much a tech-savvy friend of mine struggled with it (for them, faceid was a godsend).
True :) that said upgrading to cleanest cars requires to build new car, which apparently requires some metals Russia has too... What a mess.

Are corner stores really illegal in the US? I could not find anything on the topic from a quick search
I find this argument compelling, but the counter-point is: what change is politicing everything going to affect? Will political comments on a codebase make it safer to be homosexual in Saudi Arabia? If not, combining those two things feels like an exercise in futility.
It’s really interesting to hear your performance issues with QuickJS there.

I found an opposite sort of performance profile (few small values on the stack, shallow stack size) with lots of calls back and forth between C and JS worked really well. Or, a lot of situations outdid V8 and ChakraCore for me (with JIT disabled). I didn’t dig into the exact reasons why though.
To me, cancel culture is a behavior where individuals, countries or corporations decide to cut ties or refuse to do business with other individuals, countries, or corporations, usually informed by some popular opinion. It's a form of collective action.

The popular opinion doesn't even need to be correct, it just needs strong emotional appeal that motivates people to cancel.
So now the follow-on question I really wanted to ask: if the CPU can't access all the memory channels does that mean it can only address a fraction of the total memory as CPU memory? Or is it a situation where all the channels go into a controller/bus, but the CPU link out of the controller is only wide enough to handle a fraction of the bandwidth?
They'd be visible, if it was noticed. Bugs get introduced to OSS all the time just because sometimes it's hard to review code 100% accurately. Replace bugs with truly malicious code and the same applies.

If you told me I use OSS on a daily basis that has some sort of malicious code that slipped though the cracks, I'd believe it just due to the shear amount of code running on any machine.
It's certainly been going better for the Ukrainians than I thought at the start - I thought the tanks would roll straight into Kyiv. Now they seem stuck and Russia lost 30 helicopters last night and today Poland agreed to give all their MIG29s. I guess this isn't really just Russia vs Ukraine but to an extent Russia vs the free world.
The final pithy quote about how a prominent linux developer claimed no cpu would ever do such a thing, loses some of its impact when you realize that a _more_ prominent linux developer replied saying “I think, when it comes to speculative execution, our general expectation that CPUs don't do idiotic things got somewhat weakened in the past year or so ...”
I doubt they'll go after the web server market. But I wonder if they might go after the sort of rendering farms that animation studios like Pixar use. Those guys are willing to pay silly money for hardware, and are market Apple has a long history with.
> I'm not a person with lots of free time

> CalyxOS on Android

Pick one.
> vile shenanigans by Apple with slowing down of SEs purposefully

Wasn't this more a poor communication of performance throttling to preserve battery that affected all phones?

And haven't Google/Samsung/others(?) also been caught doing the same thing? I thought just this past week Samsung backpedaled a change to throttle apps for battery performance.

I'm asking more generally because this is my understanding and I'm sure if someone has better info they'll reply, but to me "vile shenanigans" is a bit much. They could have done a better job of communicating a feature with some negative impact, that seems to be a not-uncommon problem for them.
Anyone who describes active voltage and frequency scaling in order to keep the cpu from crashing as “vile shenanigans” outs themselves as a person without worthwhile opinions on the topic.
I’d imagine Poland’s motivation, certainly by the current government standards, are mostly to stick it to the Russians, maybe also swap some Migs for Fs.

As honourable as the current Polish support for Ukrainians is, I’m almost sure it would be different if they weren’t fighting Russia and instead, say, were affected by a famine.
Yeah, a lot of his arguments don't really make sense if you break it down. The logic is similar to what Chinese people from China think on political issues.

It's always some shadowy government coming for them and they must defend themselves and rid of them (i.e. attack). When in doubt, blame the West.

It's crazy how ingrained it is for nationalists from current and former communist countries.
No, what I am comparing (not equating) is armed robbery, rape, and a drunk tirade. Whether you allow perpetrators of each to rejoin regular society says more about oneself than the crime. It's about the narrative we tell. Are you branded for life, or someone who made a mistake?

And this forgiveness is largely divorced from the severity of the crime.

If you want, reread my comment and notice that not only am I not equating George Floyd's death to anything i did not even mention it.
It's fine for me—though I probably fail the swipe-up gesture in one way or another 10% of the time, say by accidentally engaging the task switcher instead, or not quite getting close enough to the edge, which basically never happened with the button—but the button was a great affordance for the less-tech-savvy.
Yes, but AFAIK, M1's will not support emulation of x86 based regardless of software vendor - and unfortunately, I still have to run some old VM's several times a week - include a very old Windows XP environment, and I don't think anyone's in any rush to support that anytime soon.

Who knows, maybe get a Mac studio for my Mac work, and keep my MacBook Pro for when I need to run non-arm VM's
Like others have mentioned, I've used displayport over usb-c for high-refresh rate at high resolution. Atm I'm using that for low-refresh rate 30" screen. Though I believe LG and Dell screens do have USB-C directly.
I did mention that in the last sentence.
Most oil isn’t extracted by fracking
What was missing was the defense line. The type and mass of equipment was symptomatic for invasion army.

Nobody puts actually this large formations next to the border where the enemy could easily annihilate them.

Russia is know to fabricate evidence and spread lies to avoid their crimes. It has been especially evident under current regime where archives were again closed for historians.
Does Geekbench actually attempt to simulate that in their multi-core score? And how?

I was under the impression that all of their multi-core tests were "run N independent copies of the single-threaded test", just like SPECrate does.
> I have to essentially give (through your service) all these companies & data brokers my info

Happy user of Optery here: you don't have to give Optery a whole lot of info. No SSNs or anything, just things they would search by to help you remove them. Are there fields for past addresses or people you lived with or past names you may have had? Sure. Do you have to fill them out? No. Are they provided in bulk to the data brokers? No.
> I keep telling him to wait for the Pro then we can take some REALLY neat ideas off the shelf.

Aside from the fact that you're making my point for me -- you think the Mac Studio could do the job you imagine a Mac Pro doing -- there is this:

You tell your former customers to wait for an unreleased, as yet unscheduled update to a product to which historically Apple has displayed considerable, time-insensitive indifference, rather than order maybe multiples of the product that has been announced, or try to make it work somehow with kit that exists?

I'll note down your prediction about $8000. That, I guess, would be interesting. But if it's that cheap it's going to be after the chip shortage is over, surely.
The only reason I've ever cared about watts is that generally speaking 120 watt and 180 watt processors require more complicated cooling solutions. That's less true today than it ever was. Cases are designed for things like liquid cooling, and they tend to be pretty silent. The processors stay cool, and are pretty reliable.

I personally stick to the lower wattage ones because I don't generally need high end stuff, so I think Apple is going the right direction here, but it should be noted that Intel has also started down the path of high performance and efficiency cores already. AMD will find itself there too if it turns out that for home use, we just don't need a ton of cores, but instead a small group of fast cores surrounded by a bunch of specialist cores.
The point of a deep fake is usually for the fake to say something new and outrageous.
Honestly, performance per watt is probably the least important consideration for a desktop computer.

Running a farm of these things? Maybe perf per watt makes sense to save some money. Mobile device running on battery? I totally get it.

But surely, the difference in cost for one person running it in their house, or a few hundred people in an office... like who cares? The cost savings won't even be noticeable on the power bill.
Only if someone looks at the code.
Is 8 channel RAM doable, are there downsides? If no to both, why don't high end x86 processors have it?
I'm very sorry for all the trouble you have had to go through in order to have an 8k 65" screen.
I assumed most tweets aren’t by real people anymore.
AFAIK Unreal and Unity but support Metal. It's a chicken and egg thing. There is no game market on MacOS because no gamers are on MacOS because there are no games on MacOS so there are no gamers on MacOS ....

Of course consumer level macs have never had GPUs that could run AAA games. I don't know what an M1 MacBook Air's perf is. If it's able to run AAA games and a reasonable framerate then maybe a market would build? But if you're limiting gamers to M1 Pro/M1 Max/M1 Ultra users only then it's probably a pretty small market?
theres quite a lot of things around these days that make it easier to get a similar experience to online services like spotify. (as long as music discovery isnt your main priority)

i use syncthing to sync my library between all my devices. resilio sync with its "selective sync" feature is another option if you have a huge library on one device but only want to sync certain things to a device like a phone that has less storage space.

i have a synology network drive that has a music server built in. its also fairly easy these days to get a VPS server up and running and install something like navidrome/funkwhale/airsonic. they all have docker containers as well which can make the whole process a bit quicker.

things like tailscale/zerotier let you access the music library on your server from anywhere with an internet connection.

beets/musicbrainz make it easier to manage metadata and album art.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-Series
Its just the inconvenience of having to lug around multiple machines, and backup multiple machines - its nice when everything you need fits under your arm, but you are right - I could offload my old VM's, and may need to do that at some point.
Not sure how sanctioning Russia is "woke", but okay.
I think the main issue with the magic mouse 2 is that over time, as the batteries wear out, the effective life of the mouse risks dropping so much that you may eventually be unable to use it for a full work-day, whereas the previous solution of AA batteries had 'infinite' longevity - while it wouldn't be too much of an issue when new, it harms the resale value
McDonald's and Coca Cola halt business in Russia
Sure they do.

You can still buy an iPhone 11 for $499 at https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-11. Launch price $699.

The iPhone 12 is similarly still available for $599 at https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-12. Launch price, again, $699.

(The iPhone 13 mini is, unsurprisingly, $699. It'll almost certainly drop to $599 when the 14 comes out, and $499 when the 15 does.)
This could very well lead to the end of the global economy as it exists now, and the formation of a few large, insular economic blocs only doing business amongst themselves.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CPdotquH6e-/

Now, on the serious side, this is ignorant and sexist comment. It is sexist because it focuses on gender-biased fashion, emphasizing social gender inequality. It is ignorant because it does not take into account that women are usually physically smaller than men and they have smaller hands. They need a smaller device to have the same user experience as men, not because they want to carry it in their pockets (though surely they want it too).
Belarus is already occupied by Russians.
Not when their opinion means I can't bequeath my prized personal possessions to my partner without burdensome legal complications. I've seen wills being disregarded when it comes to same-sex partners all the time because the surviving family disagreed with their dead loved one so such an extent as to try to find a legal loophole to get out of following their last wishes.
100%, great take. I tried following some tech people I admire and hit the same issue and just unfollowed them. I now only use twitter for the sole-purpose of getting political/world news when I want it. But using it for anything technically interesting is dead to me.
If submitting a bug report against Dual_EC_DRBG got you exiled to a gulag, your false-equivalence exercise might have some validity.
Paper is here:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02070778v2/document

(I just googled the authors' names).
The Dell U4021QW is probably the best monitor I've ever used. I, too, got sad with 1440 vertical pixels on previous ultrawides, so I was pretty excited when they announced this one. 5120 x 2160 is really a dream. It's limited to 60hz, which bothers some folks, but I haven't noticed. I don't game or anything on it, though.
Yes.

The video fakes are always blurry around the mouth and gestures don't match the words.

The audio fakes are too "clean" (too defined breaks between words and no background noise) and sound like caricatures.

Text is virtually impossible because politicians say "fake" stuff all the time (e.g. speeches someone else wrote) so you can't rely on uncharacteristic language.
I initially thought the Mac Studio was the "pro" version of the Mac Mini. But no -- they're still selling the i5/i7 mini. This makes me wonder whether they're going to update it at all. Maybe they'll just quietly drop it at some point down the road?
Face ID, at least on the iPhone 13, is almost perfect for me once I rescanned my face from below since I'm usually peering down at it. Maybe try that.
Memory compression only works in certain scenarios. It requires your memory to actually have low entropy.
Do you think Russian weapons magically appear ? Everyone’s buying and selling
M1 has the most powerful chip ever yet it still can't handle two monitors.
FinTech / US / I get paid nothing extra except occasional kudos, and even those are pretty thin on the ground these days. Many times my team often gets the blame for fixing something that some other team were responsible for.
Never mind the people who quote it, such as you know them. The book is available on its own, to any who will give it a few hours.

Like most of its critics, you don't know what the book says.

Soldiers aren't considered superior, they don't even get to vote until they retire. It posits a voting requirement, in the individual's willingness to sacrifice themselves for the good of all, not the subordination of all civil institutions to the State. Note that the book's extensive moral philosophizing talks about the collective and general good, but _not_ the importance of the State. It is largely silent about what civil society and its institutions look like. There is no suggestion of a totalitarian thought control apparatus, and indeed the book notes the risk that the electorate will panic and screw up defense policy.

And again, it notes that all persons, franchised or not, have the right to free speech, which is hardly typical of a fascist society.

Further, the book is a thought experiment. Heinlein never wrote another book of the kind, and wrote a number that most would consider positively subversive.
Python Summer of Code 2022 Projects Announced
You might be looking for the word "boycott", like old people used to call it.
fwiw I find this moral outrage quite selective. The Saudi's bomb civilians in yemen but everyone is good with that. I really can't imagine what the Ukranians are going through right now sitting at my cushy desk. But that's a horror all victims of war face. A few years ago there was a Hungarian journalist tripping fleeing Syrians and other victims of war and there was this huge debate as to why those refugees were not welcome. No debate now obviously.
I've been using Twitter for something like 12 years now. I can count on one hand the number of actual positive interactions I've had in the last couple years. I'm my experience you can't even ask people mildly pointed questions anymore without getting blocked.

You can't even try to start a conversation anymore. It's just person makes grand sweeping statment. You cheer them on, ignore them, or get blocked. It's not a healthy environment. It's just grandstanding.

It used to feel really democratizing, anyone could comment on anything. Now between people only allowing people they follow to reply and the percentage of harmless to innate comments that get hidden behind "Show additional replies, including those that may contain offensive content" it really doesn't feel like it once was.

In their attempts to make it more "friendly", they both made it less friendly and killed the value proposition. It's just a place to build a cult of personality these days.
> I have no idea if this is still the case for their newer games though.

Diablo 2 Remastered doesn't run on a Mac :-(
This person is literally a registered sex offender. The court and society has decided that they are a risk that people should be aware of.

I’m not sure if that’s a perfect thing (and the registry does appear increasingly over broad due to the US using elected prosecutors), but that seems to be what people have decided.

I think it’s reasonable to assume that given the severity of rape my hat the presence and/or promotion of a rapist would impact the participation or involvement people at an event, especially prior victims of rape, or frequently targeted groups.