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>And why is the iPad just a “Netflix machine” when tons of people use the iPad for professional creative use cases as well?

I never said people can't use iPads for profesional applications, I was asking what professional tasks are people doing with the iPad that necessitated the M4 to be in that closed platform vs the M3 or M2, instead of being put in a more open one like the Mac where it can be put to better use at more generic compute tasks similar to what X86 and Nvidia chips are used for, instead of being stuck in a very restricted platform mostly targeted towards content consumption.

And so far nobody has provided an answer to that question. All the answers are either repeating Apple's marketing or vague ones like "you can use the iPad for professional applications too you know, it's not just a Netflix machine". OK, but what exactly are those professional iPad applications that mandate the M4 being in the iPad instead of the Mac?

I'm bringing this up, because commenters bring up the M4 as the holy grail of chips in discussions about the latest X86 and Qualcomm chips, so if you compare a chip that can currently only run AppStore apps vs chips that can run most SW ever then we're comparing Apples and Oranges.
The person I was replying to said "they just want your phone number", which to me implies that we're not talking about 2FA at the level of banking apps, as the bank already has your phone number, among plenty of other details. Most banking apps I have used also do not use SMS 2FA.
I figure the vast majority of plasmids are used for mundane stuff like GFP expression. Not really worth sending in for an analysis because everyone just redoes the experiment if it fails to express anyway.
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Nope. Apple participates in the same pay-for-search-placement scheme, and therefore will happily distribute the same kinds of scams. https://usa.kaspersky.com/blog/dangerous-apps-in-app-store/2...
Check out https://love2d.org/ if you ever change your mind on that.
I wonder how effectively it can utilize all of its execution units for common workloads. Frontend boundedness is often a big issue especially with jit
that's an awesome analogy, built very similarly to the system it describes :)
The economics of a Postgres free tier
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> Olive Oyl from the Popeye movie

I recently (randomly!) listened to the "What Went Wrong" podcast episode about Popeye. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popeye-1980/id15128470...

It was _hilarious_ . But the one thing that went perfectly was the casting of Shelley Duvall. The podcasters said "If you gave god a bunch of popeye cartoons and told him to make a real human version of Olive Oyl, you'd get Shelley Duvall." And Shelley herself said that she grew up being called Olive Oyl, and hated it because of all that it implied- but now that it got her cast in a big budget movie, she said the comparison doesn't hurt anymore!
Counterpoint: Google did a long-term study of employees. Everyone was more productive in the early hours of the day. Even people who identified as night owls.
Cognitive function is different from productivity.
A tiny old church that I'm a friend of (Ohio, US) removed their bare-minimum stair lift chair - originally installed to help ill or infirm members up & down 6 steps - because the breakdowns and repairs and inspections and licensing got to be Just Too Much.

Neither the old members trying to manage those steps sans chair, nor them remaining housebound and isolated on Sundays, are better "promote the general welfare" outcomes. But neither the industry nor state regulators seemed to care about anything beyond their own revenue streams.
at least they're not a https://old.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/
for every big ball of mud there's 10 premature optimizations
I did not know her well[1] so cannot really speak to actual real troubles. Still, it easily appeared that she had mobility and cognition troubles. I saw her once at the grocery store and she asked me to go in and tell them that Shelley was there so they could come out and help her.

[1] edit : I meant "did NOT know her well". I hope my sentiment was reasonably clear.
Exactly! Everyone worth their salt sequences before, after and during insertion and expression.

I read this article expecting something new but it's just reporting that some people are lazy and do bad science.

This article is nonsense.
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Well, TIL
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Before these companies like plasmidsaurus that do whole-plasmid sequencing for relatively cheap with nanopore, people generally only sequenced a region of interest using sanger sequencing. The rest of the plasmid was assumed to be mostly correct, as long as it grows on a bacterial resistance. As noted in the article, the rise of nanopore-based whole-plasmid sequencing has reduced a lot of these types of errors.
You're arguing multiple axes and this argument feels really nonsensical to me as a result.

So first of all, your entire argument hinges on YOUR belief that the iPad is just a consumption device. So you don't believe the M4 is a significant jump over the M2, even when I give you reasons that it is.

Then your argument hinges on the comparison to Qualcomm SoCs, but isn't the use of the iPad irrelevant unless you also believe it'll not make its way to other devices? Which feels unfounded.

Those are two distinct arguments that IMHO have no bearing on each other unless you also make the two assumptions that I think you're erroneously making.
Yeah, it's crazy to see my dad at work in his shop - the amount of intuition he has of fractional measurements is insane, but he can do the math so quickly.

In that specific context, if you were to do the math with decimal measurements it would take longer and leave you with some funky units. It's hard to describe how you work with the fractions - but the lumber and the saw blades and the screws and even the finishes all come in these standardized fractional increments that are easy to work with.

And the skill required of a project is directly related to the precision of the measurement you go down to - 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, etc. It all just kinda works.
This makes me wonder about an alternate universe where a mile has 2310 yards. At least we’d get a bunch of prime factors out of it. Although guess being able to repeatedly halve a mile is useful for splitting up properties?
Answering my own question, one source is https://layoffs.fyi where there are some time domain data.
Really nice article!

I'm not sure about the poster though. This is not necessarily communist, as this was just the style of propaganda posters of all kinds, that came up in the first half of the 20th century.

Personally, it reminds me more of a Nazi poster for the army, which includes tanks that look similar to these robots:
https://c8.alamy.com/compde/r90frb/ss-freiwilligen-panzer-gr...
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I'm not sure that I see the issue with a December EoL; can you elaborate? There's always at least 3 months for upgrades -- it's not like we're doing a release on December 15 and saying "you need to upgrade by the end of the month".
Kafka is a big dumb pipe that moves the bytes real fast, it's ideal for shipping logs. It accepts huge volumes of tiny writes without breaking a sweat, which is exactly what you want--get the logs off the box ASAP and persisted somewhere else durably (e.g. replicated).
That reminds me of this program, which calculates the month and day given the year and the day of the year [0]. There's a version that abuses goto, and one that stores state in variables and only uses structured statements. You probably won't see people similarly abuse goto today, though. I think it was translated from Fortran.

[0]: https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2020/02/12/the-world-of-...
In the very early 90s, my dad started using some sort of unix again (I don't know if it was an early linux or a BSD of some sort.) Up until that point, I'd only ever seen him used windows 3.1 or some raw terminal/TTY emulator.

It was winter and suddenly his screen was a fuzzy grey, with funny looking windows, instead of the comforting (to me) windows teal.

At the time, it represented to me, a change into the unkonwn. As it was (assume) the start of a new contract (my dad worked at home alot) it was also a time of financial pressure.

So to me, I hated X, and how it looked. It was to me, the equivalent of a brutalist housing block. Well built sure, but foreboding to look at.

Later when I was I was using Linux my self (around redhat 5/6) If you suddenly saw that you were dropping into a "natural" X, It was a sign that you'd fucked up the window manager, or that the switch between gnome and E (or which ever one you were trying) had gone wrong.

I kinda like it now though.
It comes from the idea that apple didn’t advance significantly in M2 and M3, which are equally untrue, but equally pervasive.

People were absolutely sure that apple made basically no real advancement but just were running up the TDPs and that’s where all their M2 and M3 gains came from. That was the narrative for the last 2 years. But then you look at geekerwan and apple is making 20, 30% steps every gen, and with perf/w climbing upwards every gen too. Mainstream sites just didn’t want to do the diligence, plus there’s a weird persistent bias against the idea of apple being good. It’s gotta just be the node… or the accelerators… or the OS…

Reminder that we sit here 3 years later and even giving AMD a node advantage (7940HS vs M2/M3 family) they’re still pulling >20W core-only single-thread power (even ignoring the x86 platform power problems!) to compete with a 5W M2 thread. And yes, you can limit it but then they lose on performance instead.

https://youtu.be/EbDPvcbilCs?t=928

https://youtu.be/EbDPvcbilCs?t=1000

https://youtu.be/EbDPvcbilCs?t=708

But yeah, anyway, that’s where it came from. People completely dismissed M2 and M3 as having any worthwhile advancement (even with laptops they could objectively analyze!) and were in the process of repeating this for M4 yet again. So why wouldn’t you think that three generations of stagnation indicates apple has a problem? The problem is that apple hasn’t actually stagnated - there is an epistemic closure issue and a lot of people won’t admit it or aren’t exposed to that information, because it’s being proxied through this lens of 25% of the tech community being devout apple anti-fanboys.

It's a problem with every single apple/android thread too. People will admit with the ML stuff that apple does a much better job handling PII (keeping it on-device, offering e2e encryption between devices, using anonymizing tokens when it needs to go to a service), and people intellectually understand they use the same approaches and techniques in other areas too, but suggest that maybe apple isn't quite as bad as the literal adtech company and you'll get the works. People don't want to think of themselves as fanboys but... there is a large contingent that does all the things fanboys would do and says all the things fanboys would say, and acts how fanboys would act, and nevertheless thinks they're the rock of neutrality standing between two equally-bad choices. False balance is very intellectually comforting.

https://paulgraham.com/fh.html
M4 still has a 10% higher Geekbench single core score than the 9950X.
Archive node can go as low as ~2TB depending on the client, but regardless you do want to compare it to a full node, as the only difference is an "archive" node keeps the state at any block (e.g you want to replay a transaction that occured in the past, or see a state at a certain block). The full nodes still contain all events/txs (DEXes will emit events, akin to logs, for transfers) - so it's fair to compare it to a full node.

On CEXes you see a lot more trades, market makers/high frequency trades just doing a ton of volume/creating orders and so on, since it's a lot cheaper. CEXes without a doubt have more trades than DEX by orders of magnitude.

Additionally, they probably log multiple stuff for every request, including API request, which they most definitely get a ton of.
> So... phones where a corporation has root are more secure that phones where the owner has root, you say?

You're putting words in my mouth that I explicitly rejected when I said "that does not include GrapheneOS".
Just to prevent the follow up "well actually GrapheneOS is an organization": they don't have any kind of root access to GrapheneOS phones. The only thing they can do is push system updates, which you can (1) reject and (2) verify if they are the same updates being pushed to all users, to avoid targeted attacks.

> Secure for whom? For the user? Seems obviously wrong. It's more secure for someone else to have power over you?

Yes, secure for the user. Sure, power users that very carefully review any system mods they install with root powers would have the same level of security as with a non-rooted phone.
But most people won't read the source code of root apps/extensions they install.

It's easier to tempt mobile phone users to install "cosmetic improvement/customization whatevers" that happen to require elevated privileges, than desktop Linux users.
It's well known that many Android apps bundle near-malware that slurps all data possible, and will ask for root privileges if that is detected.

The fact is that mobile phones tend to contain more sensitive data than desktop computers (and are thus significantly more secure by default than Linux/Windows computers). Contacts, private messages, photos, etc. It's a more valuable target, so more effort is put in developing malware for phones.
My point is that bad trained models will remember chunks of the training data, maybe a theoretical perfect model will have no such problem.

I suppose you are aware of the case with ChatGPT and Dune’s Litany Against Fear memorization and the lengths OpenAI went to try and prevent the people to reproduce the issue to prove it is happening. If not google it, do you disagree that is not memorization ? That somehow the model manages to create the exact same text each time because it memorized some abstract concepts that are not in fact the exact representation fo this text ?
Simple from the user perspective. That’s the point of all of this. It’s can be complicated under the hood, but the IX is simple.
Amiga AGA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Advanced_Graphics_Archit...

As contemporary of 8-bit arch's it seems retro enough to count.
> Nor do most human adults.

But that's not the point. LLMS are all the rage nowadays. The point is that they do not think/understand what they do and I agree with that point. They statistically predict text but don't really understand anything, at least the way we do.

But hold on to your horse, they're still quite useful and cool but not what they're hyped/marketed as.
You could also read the "period" as punctuation and it still almost works. Ambiguously garden-pathable sentence?
Some telescopes are made using a big spinning dish of liquid mercury.
Membrane mirrors show promise:

https://physicsworld.com/a/membrane-mirrors-take-off-for-use...
There's a strong bias toward assuming that an effective treatment must necessarily address the disease etiologically.
I don't think that's why it has survived.

The ACA is an example of the divergence between rhetoric and political reality. It is easy to step in front of a camera villainize "ObamaCare" to engage your voters. But if you actually repeal it then you get to explain to those voters at the next election why you reintroduced lifetime caps and preexisting conditions while premiums did not go down (in fact, they probably went up!). Politicians are unfailingly partisan, but they are even more reliably panderers. Can't be an effective partisan from the sidelines.
The rule of thumb is that you should always avoid any services that still rely on SMS or phone numbers as an ID or 2FA. They simply don’t care about your privacy or security, even if they advertise it. A prime example is Signal.

Unfortunately, for some other services, like banks or government agencies, you don’t have any option. You can only minimize the impact by using a unique password and username and keeping them updated.
You can get baby name data for every n>5 name by year from the SSO: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html

It's... interesting. More Khaleesis and Gokus than you'd think.
You think more people used to die from fighting in ancient than in modern times?
> "But they're a financial organization, they have a certain amount of liability."

In the loosest possible sense. Binance is an organization that pretended it doesn't have any physical location in any jurisdiction. Its founder is currently in jail in the United States.
It's really incomprehensible, whatever minuscule revenue Apple is getting from running this protection racket, I mean ad network, must be minuscule compared to the potential damage they cause to their users and brand. But I guess that's next quarter's problem.
I've had 3 jobs in last 7 years, 2 were through HN. The first one through here was alright, the pay was shit but the work itself was very interesting. Stayed there for 3 years and learned a lot, though the working conditions were terrible. I was constantly working 12-13 hour days and barely making anything.

I posted here again in late 2019 and a recruiter asked me if I wanted to move to Europe for work. Not seeing any future back home, I gambled and said yes. Interviewed with the company for a few months and eventually moved to EU in late 2020 and been here since then. I never got to thank the recruiter in person as he had already left by the time I started at the new job. His one email in Oct 2019 was something that dramatically changed the trajectory of my life. Hi J, if you're reading this! :)

I've been posting on Who is Hiring threads again in the last few months but the situation has changed drastically now. I need a work permit to stay here and not many companies (at least on HN) are offering that. I guess it's time to pack my bags and move again to places unknown.
As a parent, I’ve recognized advice I’ve given as advice I received when younger. I always tried to take good advice, but so often the words can only truly be understood, to their depth, by having compatible experience. The same words have tremendously different meaning to someone that has been there vs someone who’s never experienced the topic. After pondering about this, I don’t think there is a ‘fix’. We do our best to help, but have to patiently wait for the other person to gain their own experience. THEN nuances can be given as advice.
Out of curiosity, I just tried with ChatGPT 4o... Screenshot of a legit banking website and asking it to describe it to me, to give me the exact URL in the screenshot and to tell me if it's legit or not.

It described me the whole page, explaining it was a login page to log in to bank X in country Y. He compared the URL with the bank's name, etc.

Then I modified one letter in the URL, changing "https://online.banking.com" (just an example) to "https://online.banklng.com" and asked ChatGPT 4o again.

He said it was a phishing attempt.

So, basically, you can, today, already have a screenshot automatically analyzed and have a model tell you if it's seemingly legit or not.
For low-frequency radiation, I wonder if you could build a big and light radio dish in orbit
As others have mentioned, there have been several rockets of various sizes that have done vertical landing.

What SpaceX solved was the requirements to do it economically while keeping the booster cheap enough to both initially build and then later refurbish for reflight. Even when not reused, a Falcon 9 is cheaper than the rockets of its generation. SpaceX also did self-landing tests with a grasshopper vehicle prior to working on F9 landings.

On top of that, this kind of hobby rocketry is very divorced from 'real' rocketry in most ways. The closest analogue to this kind of propulsive landing approach would probably be how Soyuz uses some small rockets that fire right before the capsule touches down to soften the impact, or similarly with New Shepard but instead using cold gas thrusters.

Doing it at this scale is really not that applicable to doing it well in terms of reusing a rocket stage at an orbital rocketry scale. Most of the challenges of landing that are in all the things a model rocket typically does not have. Not to discount the work though, the problem solving experience is certainly transferable.
I’ve run into a third problem more commonly - miscalibration.

It’s very hard to figure out how much to apply most advice. Advice always lacks an understanding of the context it will be applied in. Far too over, it gets applied in too absolute of terms.
No, the article provides its source:

https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-continues-to-le...

The source mentions that some numbers could actually be a low estimate.
I thought this was interesting:

this problem continues to get worse despite more hotels being built nearby. “It doesn’t have to do with supply. It has to do with allocated room blocks in those properties.”

some hotels have been making fewer and fewer rooms available in the [discounted] blocks, knowing they can charge top dollar on the open market.

The con negotiated a lower rate, but since demand is so high and users will still pay top dollar, the hotels see less and less reason to bargain.

I don't know how true the supply quote is - California is quite adverse to building anything.
> This same question applies to any other computing platform upgrade

Hardly. Or rather to a much lesser extent, at least pro/power users benefit a lot more from performance improvements on open general purpose platforms.. since well.. you can actually do stuff on them. What (performance sensitive) use cases does the iPad even have? I guess video/image editing to an extent but pretty much all of those apps on iOS are severely crippled and there are other limitations (storage and extremely low memory capacity).
https://www.binance.com/en/legal/licenses
Do you work with a lot of KVMs? Directly plugged monitors usually just work thanks to EDID info, but cheap KVMs frequently block that signal and cause problems. It's rare for a monitor plugged directly into the computer to have problems these days, even on Linux.
I don't know what brings me more happiness in this career. Building systems with no political constraints, or building something that's functional with severe restraints.
Dropping may be an unacceptable choice for some applications, though. For example dropping request logs is really bad, because now you have no idea who is interacting with your service. If a security breach happens and your answer is "like, bro, idk what happened man, we load shedded the logs away" that's not a great look...
> Another step everyone will ignore ...

Well then enforce it, at the browser level.
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I think that makes sense both from an organizational and cultural perspective. Context usually supplies whatever information is needed for personal names so less disambiguation is required, and they are used much more so some simplicity is useful/natural consequence of human nature. Family names are used less frequently and with less context and frankly is how people distinguish their group from others. So yeah, think it checks out.
There are also different types of logs. Maybe you want every transaction action but don't need a full fidelity copy of every load balancer ping from the last ten years.
It's not just anti-depressants, no?

If I am mistaken, we do not know why plenty of medications work -- especially those within in the domain of mental disorders.

For example, why does lithium work, amphetamines, etc.? Obviously, we know such medications work, but not the "how"/"why."
I would be happy if SQLite offered a native DATETIME type. That has been in the SQL spec since 1992! and is supported by every RDBMS that exists today in the planet. But nooo - its gets stored as TEXT and causes all kinds of issues for folks who don't know this.