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It's one that comes up, but first consider that it's not fundamentally clear to the layman that these values are actually completely "free parameters".

Imagine, if you will, benchmarking some unknown CPU, and determining that the fused multiply-add operation takes, idk, 17 times as long to execute as an increment operation. We might postulate that there other CPUs out there where it takes a different amount of time — arbitrary amounts of time! Alternatively, we might gain knowledge of the underlying CPU architecture and understand that fused multiply-add is implemented with a certain set of transistors, and that it's fundamentally more complex, though there's room for some variability based on the specific implementation. In such a world this "free parameter" is set as it is for a very specific reason: a transistor arrangement.

We have limited visibility into what's actually happening "underneath" our laws of physics. Some of the values we see could be truly arbitrary. Some of them might actually be controlled by some other field and change over time (though we haven't seen evidence of that so it seems less likely). Some of them could be a deeper artifact of the way the universe works.

If you look at things like string theory, which do try to describe in more detail and dial down the free parameters to just one ("length of the fundamental string" more or less) we are left with something that's frustratingly nonspecific until you locate a more-specific solution within the broader string-theory solution space and call it "the laws of physics." That specific location might indeed seem quite arbitrary; the question might then become, what relation does this hundreds-of-dimensional solution space have with our concepts of physical reality? And can other areas of that landscape be probed in any way meaningful to our experience of physics?
Single core score is not that much better than the existing M1 models, but multi core is off the charts as would be expected.
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> per Scott: that a complex domain cannot be accurately modeled or understood, that all attempts to do so are at best compromises and in error, and that any model will prove insufficient and unequal to the task.

Ahh, interesting. I believe that most modern scientists would reject that proposition, a priori. Millennia of scientific advancements have shown that complex systems can indeed be modeled. Recent advancements in mathematics have shown that self-correcting simulations are certainly possible (deep learning, for example). Science itself could be simply described as a “self-correcting model with built-in error checking”.
So there are 16,000 neurons in the ear that perform something like FFT with 16k bins over a 100ms sliding time frame. Now imagine there is a 2nd layer where each neuron is watching the corresponding neuron in the 1st layer and when that one fires, it looks up what other neurons are firing at the same time. This correlation event is recorded somewhere inside the neuron. After listening to lots of sounds, the 2nd layer neuron will notice a simple pattern: when its frequency fires, neurons corresponding to 2x, 3x, etc. frequencies also fire. As a result, the 2nd layer neuron fires upon seeing a harmonic pattern.
Unless the M1 Ultra is actually magic I don't think it is possible.

My guess is they're putting a lot of weight on the phrase "relative power" and hoping you assume it means "relative to each other" and not "relative to their previous generation" (i.e. M1 Ultra -> M1 Max and RTX 3090 -> RTX 2080Ti) or "relative to the stock power profile".

Put bluntly, if the M1 Ultra was capable of achieving performance parity with an RTX 3090 for any GPU-style benchmark then Nvidia (who are experts in making GPUs) would have captured this additional performance. Bear in mind the claim seems to be (on the surface) that the M1 Ultra is achieving with 64 GPU cores and 800GB/s memory bandwidth what the RTX 3090 is achieving with 10,496 GPU cores and 936.2GB/s memory bandwidth.
KI tablets to saturate the thyroid, but don't take so much as to kill yourself. Perhaps iodized salt will help, but that might be a lot of salt.

My hope has always been when a leader decided to push the button that those around them, or in charge of the button, decide that their cushy life is more valuable than the leader's cushy life. Or, more valuable than dying for the cause.

They're not a rational weapon, as they're a deterrent rather than anything else. But is war rational?
Downtime is important. If there is something on the computer you would like to do but can't, because you feel you should always be working or improving skills, then that is a problem. But if there is nothing else you'd want to be doing on the computer, then who cares. As long as you have some other activities. No one should dump all their time into their career or hobby. Some people do, but it's not healthy.

But, to answer your question directly. I read news, watch streaming services, play video games all on my personal PC. I don't feel guilty. I put a lot of effort into my work, when working. I realize I need time for fun and relaxing, as well as exercise(although I could be way better at getting it). In order for me to perform at my best at work, I can't be burned out or drained, and these other activities help that.
it seems also disingenuous that the environmental impact at origin of the imported oil is completely ignored, and the same applies for other imports including consumer goods or even "green energy" related devices and materials (batteries, solar panels, etc)

also the US has a variety of conditions for prospection, CA being one of the worst places for new prospection projects - so this also needs to be taken into account

PS: at 3$/gallon I suspect the majority of consumers were already not taking gas consumption lightly, so while it's true that energy savings are a crucial part of the picture, they were already very heavily incentivised for a while in the US and certainly here in Europe as well
People are similar to water: they will often the path of least resistance.

The trick is to find a solution, document its “shape”, make it easy to integrate and market the hell out of it internally. Then you let the market decide.

Building a big shared common library can be a mistake, but that’s not because it’s intrinsically the wrong choice, it’s impact is partly a function of how many resources you can dedicate to effectively designing and maintaining it. At a certain scale the economics of this suddenly flips.

The problem in the post seems to scream infrastructure rather than code. Identify the different types of queues services need, pick some off the shelf and preferably managed solutions, then make it take 5 minutes to get started.
It's not like this act of musical chairs is going to fool anyone. The US is still hoping that sanctions (alone) will put enough pressure on putin to negotiate a deal. They really don't want a shooting war.
Yes, skin types can affect how well it works. Also age, older people’s fingerprints often become less pronounced and harder to read.
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I know I shouldn’t respond to comments like this, they’re uninformed and conspiracy ridden so not HN material, but “arms companies” have no need to “generate conflict.” People are fairly efficient at doing that regardless.
In a 40+ year career, I’ve been on the acquired side 10-12 times depending on whether one considers LBOs as acquisitions. In some cases, it was a terrific experience, better benefits, etc. In three cases, it was a total disaster, lots of turnover, etc. In one case, the acquiring company offered some of us lateral moves to a new city but essentially treating us as new hires. Most of us said no. The last example, my position was eliminated and I was paid to retire early. Bottom line, as other have noted, it’s always different. Depending on your position, keep your head down, stay engaged, and do the best job you can. And expect chaos and frustration.
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Actually its pick it up, then look at it and then swipe up. That's three vs. grabbing your phone with thumb and it opens.

Also, if you ever need to open your phone while driving (not a good thing but too many do it) grabbing it with thumb and it unlocking is a lot safer then ... grab it, look at it and swipe up.
There's no guarantee that anyone does anything. The proof is in actions, not words. Treaty or no.

If it comes to preventing the end of the world or protecting Ukraine, NATO has already shown it would rather prevent the end of the world.
I wouldn't start a browser from scratch, it's too big and compatibility is a never ending quagmire. I think it would be cool to do a new portable app platform with bits and pieces of the web platform like WebGPU, combined with new stuff, kind of like how deno is using web APIs outside the web. Maybe combined with the ideas from the redbean server.
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Keeping other specs the same, the Max -> Ultra upgrade is $2,200 which implies that the chip alone is... very expensive.
We definitely need laws that require companies to display this information online as well so that ethical shoppers aren't forced to go to the stores to avoid Made in China products.
As far as a mercenary safari goes, Far Cry 2 still rules supreme in my book with its minimalist UI and serious tone, and could really use a modern remaster.
Strange, I googled “windows riddled” (without quotes - try it). This was the first result:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-is...

“Why is Windows 10 riddled with so many bugs and the updates make matters worse?”

It’s likely time to admit that you’re wrong. Riddled is a word, the meaning fits and people use it to describe software.
It seems weird to me that somebody could get a physics PhD without a deep enough understanding of the philosophy of science to

1) understand why science avoids these 'what, really, is X' questions in favor of 'how does X work'

2) circumvent this existential crisis
While that’s true from a purely economic perspective, nations and their goals aren’t always geared towards that economic perspective. For instance the trade war is economically ignorant but geopolitically it makes sense. Another example is the US in the 1800s. They used a ton of tariffs to force American companies to build out infrastructure within the US instead of importing everything we needed. This worked to create the economic juggernaut we see from the Spanish-American war onward.

This wouldn’t have made economic sense to an economist because the goals here weren’t entirely economic. Yet it built a giant economy.
The problem is ill-posed, not that we lack a solution.
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While I could be wrong, I think the Mac Studio may be their "desktop aimed at designers and programmers" -- get the M1 Max instead of Ultra, bump the SSD up to 1TB and the RAM to 64G and it's $2600. By no means cheap, but not the wheeze-inducing iMac Pro prices or the second-mortgage Mac Pro ones.

The caveat is whether they're going to bring out an Apple Silicon-based "big iMac" that's a more direct replacement for the iMac I currently have. I'm not really optimistic about that possibility now that they've shipped the xMac, er, Mac Studio, but never say never.
How do you feel back pressure? Do you measure the derivative of the queue in respect to time?
My impression is that Russia was disappointed that the allies didn't invade Japan so they could grab that up too.
I agree that just M1 MacBook Pro is not great for gaming. However my M1 iPad Pro is very nice for some types of games. Lots to enjoy in Apple Arcade that takes advantage of motion detection in the tablet, developer support for VR/AR, etc.
I worked on Nintendo video games about 22 years ago, but I am not much of a gamer now because my iPad and Quest just about do it for me.
Ah. Thanks for the info!
So single core performance is inferior to a 700$ CPU ( i9-12900k ). The M1 Ultra will be beaten within 6month for multi-core this summer on consumer grade amd / intel CPU with reasonable price.

It's impressive performance but for desktop termal / perf per watt is less relevant.
Then it’s not the good justification for the ten year lag you were presenting it as. I really don’t know what you think that comment was contributing.
What you’re describing is so 101 level, I don’t mean it in an insulting way but in bewilderment from the typical criticisms from within tech from which you’d think what you’re describing is impossible mythology or completely off the mark
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Most people? If a given application isn't good at multithreading/multicore, it doesn't stop the OS from scheduling other applications on other cores, freeing up cycles. I think most people have multiple processes running at a time on their machines. Even just looking at software devs, the plugins serving your code editor probably run in their own processes.
I think you're half right: China will allow Russia to circumvent trade sanctions, like they do with North Korea. But, like any irreplaceable middleman, China will extract as much as they can from Russia in the process. China loses a powerful ally, gains a loyal vassal state, and Russia loses its political power. All in all, not a terrible outcome for the West.
The Intel i9-12900k has a TDP of something like 240 watts (I don't remember the exact number).

The AMD 5950x has a TDP of 105 watts.

The 5950x does roughly 10-15% worse single core and 10% worse all-core.

Intel is far behind AMD.

Overclock the 5950 a bit and you're back to where the i9 is stock, but still with less power. (I haven't actually done any research into that last sentence, but that seems plausible)

The AMD customer experience is also much better. I can upgrade - and soon will be upgrading - my 2 year old 3900x system to a 5950x. I don't have to buy a new motherboard like I would have had to with Intel. Plus my system has had PCIe 4.0 for a few years (which I have been utilizing with a super fast SSD) and also supports ECC RAM - Intel will price gouge you for those by making you go to their enterprise targeted CPUs/motherboards (to be fair, they do now support PCIe 4 on the i9).

Plus Intel withholding ECC from their consumer CPUs - even the high end ones - is just a major dick move and hurts all of the people like us on HN who want to have good hardware. And considering all the scummy anticompetitive stuff Intel has done over the last few decades, I'd say it's better to go with AMD even if their chips had a slight perf/$ disadvantage compared to Intel (but they don't). Of course, I'm not saying AMD is amazing and wouldn't do evil stuff if they got the opportunity, like Intel had, but AMD is still the underdog for just a bit longer, and in duopolies it's generally good to support the underdog if it doesn't cost you much (and here it doesn't really cost anything).
Just tar sands.
I don’t know about the 5 but the 5s supports 4G but is no longer supported by carriers because it doesn’t support Voice over LTE (VoLTE).
I still find most of it to be completely impenetrable at first glance as a relative novice

There's a lot of boilerplate code involved in setting up even the simplest of programs. I think one descent way to get started learning is to skip the boilerplate at the start and just play with the GPU part, like shadertoy.com lets you do.
That's why I will be sticking to my 4k 144hz monitor. Yes, it's less than 5k but I get crisp fonts and smooth transitions.
Caring about average people caught in the crossfire through no actions of their own is perfectly natural and great. If you're able to do something genuinely useful like give some housing to a refugee family who fled, hey good for you.

It's the rush to only parrot the list of acceptable ideas that the media tells you that people are allowed to think, emotionally overreact and go out of your way to try and not try and understand the conflict, trying to shut Russia out of the world that's going to really escalate this. It's important to understand this region better: Russia has been talking about NATO/EU encroaching on them for about 20 years. There's bad stuff going on all around the region and most people are ignorant about everything other than the current news cycle.

And yes, I stand firm on people not having a clue about recent history . Most people don't remember that they were in a state of mass panic about Omicron and Covid less than a month ago and have seamlessly transitioned to caring about the latest bad thing (TM) that they're told to consume.
Eventually there will be so many JavaScript libraries and frameworks that they will collapse in upon themselves and create a black hole.
> a pretty big philosophical difference between a Canadian private citizen taking their own equipment to Ukraine and a Canadian soldier follows orders into Ukraine.

and a legal quagmire. I wonder if a canadian citizen who murders someone overseas can be tried for such in canada (when they return). Because if they can be, then going overseas to participate in a war can be legally problematic, esp. unauthorized by the canadian gov't.

But if this is seen as legal today, then it sets a bad precedence for private citizens going overseas to commit murder!
Do you have data on the efficacy of your solution?

How many fewer spam and phishing attempts do your customers receive vs non-customers? What is the rate of successful identity theft against your users vs a similarly technical and privacy conscience control group?

I love this idea, but you’re asking me to spend more money a month than many streaming services. To command that type of price you’re going to need to show actual data on risk reduction and not hand wave some claims about spam and phishing. So I wonder who your target customer is? For a higher profile person spending $300 a year to automate some opsec is trivial. For broader consumers perhaps less so, especially without hard data on efficacy.

Can you point to quantifiable effects of your service?
So, hobbyists and hackers.
My mom *hates* her iPhone 12 Mini because there is no more home button.

She often wants to defenestrate it, and I do, too, because I am stuck attempting to explain something that used to need no explanation: How to go back to the home screen.

Bring back the home button with mechanical, tactile feedback in the square form iPhone, please.
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Not sure what your rant is getting at but my point stands - eliminate all pollution (even naturally occurring arsenic?) and you’d reduce cancer rates by maybe 30%.

Worthwhile? Of course? Going to get rid of cancer? No.
I was trying to find the original justification for why macOS was removed from Proton, but could not find any official word apart from some comments here https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1344.

It was quite odd because the original herald of Steam Play had macOS front and center, even with exclusive cosmetics if you launched the game on macOS.

I do remember a large kerfuffle over the very poor state of OpenGL on macOS, which if I remember correctly was stuck on 3.2 for a long while, before being completely deprecated.
To add to this, they still mine (and make products from) Asbestos to this day in Russia. They even have open pit mines and use explosives.
Doesn't matter if apple didn't want any serious games on their mac platform. And it is for now afaik.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/08/russia-publi...

“58 percent of Russians support the invasion of Ukraine, and 23 percent oppose it, new poll shows”

Would informing them change broad public opinion?
This is specific to the reid-hillview county airport, north of san jose. It was in the news last fall. I can't/won't look for the exact broadcast, but the spokesperson for the airport was quick to point out that there's no detectable lead in the air. The FAA is not convinced either and has no intention of shutting down the airport.

At the bottom here is a link to the studies presented to the local government in an attempt to shut down the airport by local residents: https://news.sccgov.org/newsroom/reid-hillview-airport-airbo...

Here is a PDF of the "airborne lead study" which in fact only talks about blood lead levels, and does not include a single measurement of lead in the environment, oddly.: https://news.sccgov.org/sites/g/files/exjcpb956/files/docume...

I don't work for anything related to aviation or petrol, quite the opposite, and I don't have any interest in it, just was suprised to hear the FAA say that there's no detectable lead in the environment, and then a lead blood level study trying to argue otherwise. In the study they do admit that 25% of the homes in the study were built before 1960 (which I thought was an odd year to pick, as lead paint wasn't banned until almost 20 years later (1978), and I'd wager 65%+ of the homes there were built 1960-1978).

That's about as much time as I have to look down that rabbit-hole. I may be convinced, but there's enough cherry-picked data to make a very gray issue questionable. Looks like nationwide BLL is about 1.50 ug/Dl and in the homes less than a thousand feet directly downwind of the airport it was 1.70, and a child in a typical lead paint home was 1.90

It would have been much more convincing (and conclusive), to me, if there was a measurable amount of lead, particularly downwind, in the areas with the higher blood lead levels. But those readings either were not done, or were absent in the report.
I expect this for CPU side. Multiple SoC introduces NUMA but it's already done on Dual Xeon based Mac. I wonder how their GPU work for the configuration.
Lol. We are talking about army/navy, where you could kill or get killed even in a drill.
Independent of what? The ad-o-sphere? If they are showing ads, they are not independent of them.
I really dislike this approach to Kubernetes. The stated aim is to "hide the complexity" but the real goal seems to be making you dependent on docker desktop.

This is fine while you are in development and only doing local testing. What happens when you want to deploy to a cloud service and something goes a bit wrong? You are much better off slogging through the underlying setup, without the crutches, and knowing exactly what is going on.

At least that way you will have a basic understanding of what it will take to move your project off your workstation and onto some kind of public facing infrastructure.
Don't get me wrong, the benefits of using ARM architectures for general purpose vs. x86 are really compelling.

The performance of x86 has been a leader for a while mostly because of the sheer amount of optimization work that has gone into them, but the cruft of the x86 instruction set and the architectural stuff you have to do to make the instruction set work is really showing it's age.

That being said, the GPU performance claims are incredibly misleading. The previous "relative performance" benchmarks that were done on the M1 Max for GPU performance were misleading as well, they definitely cannot keep up with a mid-tier modern discrete GPU.

The GPU claim isn't an ARM/x86 comparison like the CPU performance would be. This is comparing a 64 core 800GB/s GPU with a 10k core 900GB/s GPU and trying to make them look equivalent through misleading marketing.

None of this is to say that the M1 Ultra is bad necessarily, even if it performs roughly the same as a mobile GPU or powerful iGPU it would still be a very good chip, and I'd love to use one if I could use it in my environment properly. I'm just saying don't put too much faith in the GPU performance measurements provided here.
You do own them in GeForce Now, not sure in Stadia/Luna. You're renting the gaming PC, but you can install those Steam games on whatever machine you choose. Though perhaps Steam is the GAAS.