skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the builder of the machines thinks of this as a feature not a bug https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26936774

So probably not
> The Apple monitor stand was over a thousand, wasn't it?

the Pro stand is $999 or VESA Mount Adapter is $199.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/pro-display-xdr/standard-...
Would it? Would you order a nuclear strike on a target that would guarantee a retaliation that would destroy your country and maybe the world and likely yourself?

Especially if a purely military target was hit like a carrier group and it was all soldiers that died?

Its not so obvious to me that every leader could do that.

Now look at the opposite. You are a leader who is about to be killed/ousted/lose everything if current course continues. No matter what you are probably dead in 10 years anyways due to old age. Why not? Especially if you think Putin is how he is portrayed by Western media?
It's the logical end to the social media arc.
I don't think there are any Macs that don't have a headphone jack, with the possible exception of the Mac Pro.
>"I would support the Poles

yay

>United Kingdom could not offer aircraft that the Ukrainians would be able to use.

oh, that kind of "support"

>We would protect Poland

so ‘in the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence, and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist, His Majesty’s Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all support in their power.’ ? That was Neville Chamberlain on 31 March 1939 in the House of Commons. Didnt age too well considering what followed.
The issue is similar to the asbestos mania. Lead paint is a problem for young children mostly when it peels and gets ingested, or pulverizes and ends up in the air.

Because the strategy is elimination, lead remediation is a huge expense and has driven landlord behavior to embrace incredulous ignorance. There’s actually an incentive to not maintain property in some cases - remediation may exceed the value of the property.

A smarter strategy imo would be to reduce harm. Do stuff like pay landlords to replace windows and paint trim to encapsulate older lead paint. In poor neighborhoods, you could use this to incentivize section 8 enrollment which gives the government more power to drive other remedies for different problems.

I grew up in an 1890s home and live in a circa 1918 home today. There is almost certainly lead present in both the water supply lines and in various painted structures. Because the homes were/are maintained and the water system isn’t run by criminally negligent people, my kids do not have any lead exposure.
> I believe internet is a great force for democracy

I also would like to believe that but it doesn’t seem to have worked out in favour of democracy in Russia. Do you think a few more years of internet access would do the trick where the last thirty or so failed?
"Your quote would be different advice; it doesn't have the same meaning nor implications."

What meanings or implications does the aphorism have other than "some people (fools in this case) shouldn't ever talk?"

We've established you think I've misinterpreted the aphorism and that you suspect there's something socially off with me, but we haven't established what you think the aphorism means. Go on, educate me.
> Your rights stop where the rights of others begin.

Which is why nobody has the right to force you to get penetrated and injected with something against your will.
AMD has never disappointed me in this regard.
While we’re at it, here’s some more madness… this time with booleans and numbers!

https://codepen.io/eyelidlessness/pen/yLPdLey
I'd take the GPU comparisons with a huge grain of salt.

If it's anything like the M1 Max and M1 Pro, the real-world GPU performance doesn't quite extrapolate the same way as the synthetic benchmarks.

From what I've gathered, the performance per watt of the M1 GPU isn't actually that much different than nVidia's 3000-series performance per watt in real-world applications. I'd love to be wrong and discover that Apple has also cracked the code on making GPUs more efficient than established industry players, but I think it's not leaps and bounds better like they've claimed. At least not in real-world applications.
If Netflix presents me with that choice, I'm just cancelling. Their no ad stance was their key market differentiator that made me want to support them. If they walk that back, they are just another streaming service.

Maybe I'll sign up for a month a year to catch up on exclusives, but I won't just let the subscription roll to support them anymore.
Twitter seems set on going the opposite direction. The fact that likes are mixed in with posts in the main feed is infuriating, because anyone who is just using the like function as a like function instead of a lesser version of RT just floods the feed with random shit.
Definitely a good topic to research and ponder about.
That's fair, but every one I've worked with has been closer to an accountant than a decision maker. They will certainly have reccomendations, but they generally don't steer the way a product is offered or monitized.
Is there a standard mechanism to measure power consumption for applications on processors?
> It's not a Florida judge, it's a Federal judge in the US District Court.

And yet, the US District Judge is still not a military judge.

This is a military matter and should be left to the military courts and judges that are well versed in military law. Let the federal courts handle federal laws, let local courts handle local laws, and let military courts handle military laws.
"We know the forces of all the atoms that act on each other, what is the mystery at this point other than calculating it is hard?"

might be true, but it's computationally intractable and even if you did find a way around it you'd just learn that your force field was inaccurate, or that proteins don't actually fold to their energy minimum.

Not just hard, but NP-hard. In fact, the "protein folding problem is NP hard" is misleading; in fact, the "static protein structure problem" is NP hard, and protein folding is "harder" than that (it's a superproblem of static structure prediction).

The way to describe angles for a protein is this: you use degrees or radians to describe the torsion angles of the backbone (2 torsions per amino acid, 360 possible positions per torsion, times the number of backbone atoms in the protein). Treat side chains with rotamers, that's already a solved problem. However, you can't compute self-collisions in angle space you need to embed the protein structure in cartesian coordinates, which is how they are normally represented (as a graph representing the bond topology, and an N*3 array of positions).
I have another question that's burning me. Has velocity always the same magnitude in space-time? Or rather (cause certainly not), can an object "trully" have varied velocity in space time (other than in terms of direction)?
I'll just never understand this. Chances are you are at the same desk day in and day out. You probably have monitors and external keyboard/mouse hooked up because hunching over a laptop and using a touchpad is unnecessary torture for a fixed workspace. Given that why would you hamstring yourself with a thermally constrained and overpriced-because-miniaturization-isn't free setup?

Until maybe these M1's (and I'm not entirely convinced) I've not in the 20 years I've been computing seen a reasonably configured desktop (eg not just a laptop on a stick ala iMac but an ACTUAL desktop) ever not smoke the pants off of every single laptop you could put up against it. It's hard to beat the one-two punch of lots of power and room to cool it. If you are sitting at at desk why the heck wouldn't you leverage that?
The Apple M1 Megazord, supporting 16 external monitors and 5 power rangers.
I don't really understand what the endgame of the sanctions and various actions are here.

The idea that the populace will rise up seems like a super high risk maneuver - it's like going all in. Like let's say it's X% Putin isn't in power next year. What happens in the other 100-X% case now they have nothing left to lose?

Is the idea that we just say "right, that's it, Russia is isolated forever now" and there we are? e.g. "we" showed that trade doesn't work, so instead we go for a kind of indefinite containment strategy?

It just feels like a really stupid path to go down in my view because once you eliminate interdependence via trade you've now removed another barrier to Russia just deciding to take another country.

Sure, NATO, MAD and all of that - but all of that was already there anyway.

Once you get to the point at which the Russian state sees loss of their own territory as being a declaration of war, I don't see anything other than full blown WW3 being on the table. If anyone tries to reclaim Crimea, the Donbass, or in a few weeks maybe other parts of Ukraine-now-Russia by force, SHTF.

I feel like all of this is getting lost in accusations of propaganda or being on the right side of history or whatever else. There seems to be no realistic climbdown being presented, if Russia fully pull out tomorrow, what do they get back and when?

Are governments even in control of this any more or has Moloch taken it and gone for a run?
> This argument is more colorable when not applied to people who signed a contract that says you must follow all orders given to you by the president or others in the chain of command

Nobody has signed such a contract.

The orders must be lawful, and not unreasonably interfere with personal matters. Manual for Courts-Martial (2019 ed.), Part IV, para. 16.c.(2)(a)(iv).

Your argument would be stronger if there were better evidence that the vaccine was significantly effective at preventing infection rather than ameliorating its course.
Don’t use your intuition developed from grinding out web crap to try and reason about the forefront of human knowledge.

Have you tried front end web frameworks recently? String theory has nothing on them.
I typically read the comments before ever going to a link. These comments have left me very intrigued.
I disagree strongly with the author's pull-quote that "We know nothing more than Bohr, Einstein, Schrödinger, and Heisenberg."

There has been roughly a century worth of experiments since the quantum theory came into being. Those experiments have scythed through myriad attempts to explain the mechanism by which quantum theory apparently describes reality.

Physicists can choose between interpretations of quantum mechanics according to "taste" precisely because there are no observable ways to differentiate between them. As soon as those ways become available to us, "taste" will give way to experimental tests.

There is still ample room for cleverness. Experimentalists are pushing forward where we can, but another observation like Bell's might be sufficient to allow, pardon the pun, a quantum leap.
> It declares that social media companies that have more than 20 million users in the United States are common carriers and that they can’t block people from receiving certain messages based on viewpoints, location, race, ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, gender, sexual orientation or disability.

My guess would be that almost any text that a social media company would want to ban (from election misinformation, to racial slurs, to incitement to commit an atrocity, to bad medical advice) could be phrased in the form of a "viewpoint", and therefore it would be impossible to block the message or ban the sender of the message.

Hopefully, though, there exists a countermeasure in the form of allowing users to choose whether to opt in to various types of filtering (with whatever dark pattern the company thinks it can get away with to make people all choose the same restrictive set of filters, so that advertisers don't have their content placed next to these objectionable posts).

I can't imagine a law saying that users can't choose what and who to filter, and companies would still be allowed to filter or ban based on the volume of messages sent (to prevent spam) and "inauthentic behavior" (to prevent fake accounts).
True but look at North Korea. No external info and it’s a complete human rights shit show.

Maybe slow down the traffic so ppl just get frustrated things are slow.

Maybe even get gov.ru to redirect to images from Ukraine… something that shows the ppl what is happening (although I feel even if they are in Ukraine right now - they will still deny it)
intense to consider. i guess it makes sense if you take positions which are individually less than your nominal skillset but combined result in higher pay than a more appropriate role
Great questions!

1) It really depends on the data broker and the state you live in, but the majority are the latter (prevent the info from being displayed online). When possible we request full deletion, but California residents are really the only ones that have firm data deletion rights from the CCPA and are typically the only ones that data deletion is even made available as an option by the data brokers. We have some new product features in development that will increase our ability to deliver data deletions though in the future.

Regarding “If the latter, then this is only half a solution because the data broker can still sell your information”: this too is inconsistent. In most cases they will stop selling your information after the opt out, but in some cases, though they take the profile down from the public web, but may still be selling the data behind the scenes, usually to corporate buyers.

When the data is represented as deleted by the data broker, we don’t have a good way to confirm that it has actually been deleted unfortunately. We have some ideas though for how to do this in the future.

2) We recommend only submitting the minimum amount of information necessary to complete the opt out, which in most cases is the minimum amount of information required to sign up for Optery (first name, last name, year of birth, current city, current state), or sometimes also the URL where your profile was found. Many data brokers request a phone number to verify, but we recommend never providing them with your real phone number. Most of the time, demanding the data broker remove the profile and threatening legal action or reporting them to the FTC and your state attorney general's office over email will induce them to remove the profile without a phone number. If data brokers push back on this, we recommend you definitely file a complaint with the FTC and your state attorney general (we do this frequently). If you do feel you want to provide a phone number, we recommend creating a temporary, secondary, or disposable phone number. If you do opt outs on your own, we also recommend you always use a temporary or secondary email address for the submissions, and NEVER use your primary email address. We have a post on our Help Desk about this here:

https://help.optery.com/en/article/do-not-share-your-persona...

3) Definitely there are some data sets that are inherently difficult or nearly impossible to remove, e.g. public records, voter records, etc. However, we can often get this type of data removed from the for-profit web sites that re-publish it. The best best thing you can do is submit the opt out request. Some will honor it, and some will not. It’s hit or miss. The silver lining is that most of the web sites that re-publish public records usually publish more limited information as opposed to other sites that post things like phone number, email address, ethnicity, household income, network, family members' names, etc.
there is a little miscommunication. I got an automated message saying 'lots of people are intersted in your profile, we'd love to promote it', but the person in charge of that really thought my profile was garbage and didn't want to. ok, your choice...1 week later the same message
In my company the greatest benefit is that: it is not mandatory. So I'm never on-call. My free time is too valuable for just a bit more of money.
I hope the CEO slaps CFO's hand for damaging the brand with this reckless statement.
> The RMB is 100% a creation of Xi, the bank is mostly independent but it's 100% open to whatever Xi wants at any time.

Xi is not a dictator. The part is authoritarian, but there are lots of backroom dealings between various power brokers that have to be considered. Saying RMB is 100% a creation of Xi implies that things will somehow change when Xi is inevitably out of power, which isn't really true at all (the same power structure will evolve with the next chosen president, who may be strong like Xi or weak like Hu, but still the same government). It would be more correct to say that "The RMB is 100% a creation of the CCP", but even that isn't very correct.

The RMB is freely convertible, which is annoying if you earn RMB and have to convert. But the Chinese government does appreciate stability, and they will keep the RMB at a fairly steady value (relative to the USD) in a way that tries to balance buying power with export competitiveness. This isn't a hyper-inflated currency by any means, and the RMB is much more stable than the RUB.
You know that mic-speaker feedback loop that yields a loud yowl?

That's what we're getting now.

(Back in the old days you had a lowpass filter - the "letters to the editor" written in paper. Now it's unfiltered, and it shows.)
Except the "No ads" claim on Premium is bullshit false advertising, because some content still has ads before and after.

I vote for my wallet by not paying for Hulu.
Yes, I understand your nit picking about the "first" UFO sighting being Mt Rainier, although, I feel like it was pretty clear that wasn't the main point I was making.

As for 1561, I am wondering if they had better optics and telescopes maybe it would have revealed what the phenomenon was. Maybe it was an Ancient Alien visitation, or maybe not, we don't know. And probably never will. So, it might be interesting, but it is not proof.

Foo Fighters (good band BTW), maybe if they had better radar or other tools maybe they could have detected what it was, maybe not. So, again, interesting but, just that.

For now, I remain a skeptic. Believe me, when I saw what looked like a disc, it looked like a lot more than just a dot of light, and a lot of other people thought so too, I was excited. I was hoping it was a visitation of nice aliens coming to save us from ourselves and not predators with a cookbook.

But, it turns out it was just a guy in a hang glider with a motor on it. Had I not had a lot of good optical equipment, I might have been convinced I saw a flying saucer.

I am a skeptic, but with proper proof of course I can be convinced, I am even hoping for it (I just hope they aren't bearing cookbooks).
> What I really dislike modern cloud DWH such as Snowflake is that it hides a lot of things from me.

This is by design. The less skill required to use a tool, the less some CTO has to pay the person using it.
I'm not making an argument, I'm simply addressing the parent comment. Perhaps the status quo in question is whether forcing service members to take a vaccine (totally lawful) is justified in this case. Even the CDC director is openly admitting that pushing these brand new vaccines so aggressively was "overly optimistic."

Again, not making an argument here, just pointing out that the status quo in the military for _these specific vaccines_ may change as a result of a shifting political landscape, and a lawsuit like this may well be the avenue.
The effects of ingesting asbestos were known a long time before this.

The reason so many people got cancer was bad information from the government that led to rescue workers not using proper protective equipment.

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/epa-misleads-on-air-qua...
Many SPA frameworks do provide state management. If you start from the idea that you want structured client-side state management for your webpages, you'll probably land on an "SPA framework". And if you're using such a framework, while I'll always advocate things like proper URLs and history (which the framework should handle for you), forcing a page reload when it's not needed seems pretty wasteful.
There's a large difference between conscientious objectors in a draft and professional service members who join up voluntarily understanding the expectations of them.
Netflix already has tons of ads. They heavily use product placement on some shows. Their subtlety makes them worse than explicit ads IMO.
Except when Bungie was going to release Halo on Mac[0] and Microsoft swooped in bought them and made it an Xbox thing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzrme9yWens
Talking of the new chips, it seems interesting to me to note the difference in cache sizes. I know it is not a 1:1 comparison because of architecture difference but the 16 core 5955WX has

L1: 512 KB, L2: 8 MB, L3: 64 MB

compared to M1 Ultra's from the Geekbench data

L1: 128 KB instruction, 64 KB data, L2: 4 MB

I have mostly forgotten my microprocessor architecture lectures but it seems interesting that even after being able to cache more data near a core, AMD is not gaining much. Maybe packing too much cache increases latency of access or the gains simply go away beyond a certain size.

Edit:
Maybe even it is coming down to the cache layout. Does anyone know if the cache fetch times for the named levels are roughly the same across architectures?

For x86, I remember L1 being a single cycle fetch and L2 being 10-20x slower than L1
That time passed 5+ years before he actually left. I will forever look at the 2016 MBP and remember his legacy.
Women comprise 21% of IC engineers, but only 15% among leadership
Talent report on gender diversity in software engineering
I saw the RTX 3090 configuration, but that is in the footprint n. 5, which is referenced from another paragraph, whereas the paragraph about GPU is more towards the beginning of that page. I'm not clear if that same configuration was used as a comparison for all the performance claims in the page. If the GPU used for that graph is an RTX 3090, the result is impressive especially considering power consumption. But yeah "relative performance" means nothing. Luckily, I think we will have to wait just a few days for "real world" benchmarking like Anandtech etc.
On the other hand, the return on USOI isn't bad.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/funds-and-etfs/usoi/d...
I'm with you. Watching ads is not worth it. Life is too short. Not only does it waste your time but it entices you to buy crap you don't need. I rather pay.
Quick in the scale of historical timeline. For people living in the shitshow or us watching, that might well take a whole lifetime to process.
I'm not sure the first type of advertising is that useful. Why would I care which plumber paid Google the most money? I just want to find plumbers.

I suppose you could make a 'search' engine by just letting people pay to show up on whatever keyword, but I'm not sure if that serves the same purpose as a general web search engine.
Or all sorts of particles people inhale.
This is simply ridicolous. The urgency to do anything, just to show the others you're doing something looks so stupid to me.

I think these kind of moves only help making things worse.
Vivaldi, by one of the creators (and former CEO of the original Opera, still seems decent, they don't have any bullshit like a "buy now pay later" extension or a rendering engine that inserts ads.
How can a stock clocked i9-12900K outperform M1 Ultra on single core?

It seems I have been misinformed about Intel.
The whole discussion is about the post war period. But if you look back further, homicide rates where higher. Again I’m not aware of any scholar, police organization, or or anyone really who disputes this. What even are you arguing here?
It's a protection racket that allows others to use your trademark to sell their product if you don't outbid them.