skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole of the article rests on a single claim that,

"Several trusted sources say that later today, likely at Supercomputing 16, the company will announce they have pulled in Purley aka Skylake-EP Xeons, to this year and will sell them to two key customers."

Customers which the article goes on to name as Google and Facebook. Although, I cannot find any corroborating evidence to support this claim. Supercomuting 16 is now over, and I see no other articles detailing how "Intel is playing favorites with Skylake Xeons in a way that will shatter the industry status quo." SemiAccurate is literally the only site I can find professing this scenario.

I'm not saying it's necessarily untrue, but I'd like a lot more information on why it's just Google and Facebook.

- Was there a silent bidding war on early access?

- Did Intel simply choose two major customers based on previous sales?

- Were Google and Facebook specifically targeted to exploit FPGA for AI development?

The list goes on ...
> But why?

So that you ask exactly that question.
Funny thing is, it has no effect at all on the battery life on a PC (Thinkpad T530 in my case). ~5 hours on Windows, ~3-4 on Linux.
>This is a common "troll" mentality.

Also the justification for nuclear proliferation. . .
They picked a good time, right as the bubble was beginning[1].

[1] - http://www.economicshelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nomi...
This is an interesting (made up) definition of totalitarianism. When I buy fair trade beans from the local coffee shop so I can feel better about my yuppie lifestyle, is my resulting denial of business to Folgers totalitarian?
Surely you are not arguing that national borders are non-artificial? We can argue all day about their pros and cons, but they are certainly an artificial construct.
The folks at CaH have a history of pranks around Black Friday. They've invited people to send them money in exchange for absolutely nothing. They've sold boxes of actual bullshit. My personal favorite was when they raised their prices $5 and called it a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity and they still had record sales.
Why did I get flagged for asking about YouTube
specifically about how to block ads...seems legit to me? no??
Wow, +1 on the Bose. I completely forgot there was an inline microphone on the Bose QC25 cable. I just tested it with my MacBook Pro, it detects it as an External Microphone, and the quality is good enough for work calls. This is going to reduce my luggage while travelling!

Prior to that I've been using a pair of Logitech USB 250s, which have a surprisingly clear microphone (better than the Bose), but aren't very comfortable for extended use.
REST IN POWER GREAT CONSCIOUS LEADER .
You'll have to come up with something better than a screed like that.

To pick apart just one of their so called examples.

We celebrate free speech in our country.

Some people got together to do just that (the Draw Mohamed Cartoon contest), and were attacked by 2 armed Muslims who disagreed with the free speech.

Somehow, this makes Breitbart racist?

Give me a break.
Hmm, as opposed to what? A red bull wing suit event, is that the progress you were looking for?
No totalitarianism tends to happen when you have a state run media apparatus which is run by a media mogul with a position close to a demagogue leader who has floated the idea of not giving press credentials to other media organizations. Starting to sound a little familiar?
How do you know it will go to waste?
No, the money is paying for the cost of operating excavators. This is not a charity, the CAH team is not going out with shovels, the men driving the excavators are not volunteers. You're paying them to dig a hole. When CAH runs out of money for hourly expenses of hole-digging, the digging stops. That's it.

You pay for N seconds of digging. That's the whole thing.
http://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Managing_the_economy/The_mu...

I don't think "Parable of the broken window" captures the essence of our economy, it only mentions the handyman receiving 6 francs, and not him paying his suppliers, them paying their suppliers and so on, his tools, his rent, his taxes, etc.
People always seem to forget about this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
The worst item of our era? Cards against Humanity?
Hopefully they will at least let people in need use the hole.
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How about businesses being forced to do business with individuals that hold views with which the owners of those businesses disagree.

A wedding cake baker chosing not to make a cake for a gay couple gets crucified and held legally liable -- yet the same exact behavior when an ad network chooses to do business with a company holding ideas with which they disagree -- that's allowed?

I personally think businesses should be allowed to discriminate for any reason -- the marketplace can answer that discrimination by not supporting those businesses.
I think the "it's for advertising" excuse is actually the cherry on the top of this satirical turd pile. It highlights ever so nicely the feeling we all have that money thrown at advertising instead of used for buying actual things or paying people for actual services is somehow equivalent to throwing it into a hole. Yet, it's the advertisers choosing to do this. That's what makes it brilliant. Getting advertisers to literally throw their advertising budget into a hole, and when we ask why these sums are there, we are given the excuse, well, "it's advertising." As if that excuses it, in such a matter-of-fact way that we are supposed to accept it without question, as if it should somehow be obvious that that's not a waste of money. Amazing.
I find it ironic that in a discussion that touches on censorship, fake news and hate speech you edited your comment to hide the fact that you were hating on Google, despite them not even being mentioned in the article ... one might call what you were doing "fake".
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The optimization Amazon wanted (and got) was related to CPU cores, not early next-gen chips. I always assumed it was a way to sell more "dedicated cores" per socket. It might be exclusive, but Google, Facebook and enterprises would not be interested unless the overall chip was more powerful.
An interesting question is what volume of earth could they move in the allotted time with this equipment. In the live feed it looks like they are making the hole wide, rather than deep though. It would be fun if they accidentally dug up a massive fossil find or something like that.
That money is parked overseas. Apple can't use the money for designers in California to create the next version of the iPad. Maybe that's good news for Irish designers. If we're lucky, the next iPad ought to have little stickers all over it proudly proclaiming "Designed by Apple in Ireland, Assembled in China".
There doesn't seem to be much consistency with what gets called evil, however. You tend to find many more people who call Castro evil than call Xi Jinping evil. I remember a time when the newspapers would almost always talk about human rights when they wrote about Cuba, but never mentioned it when they talked about UAE (and talking about Dubai as if it was a wonderful resort).
Publicity, or just a crazy easy way to fund year end bonuses. Some of their previous holiday sales have been similarly silly.
We destroy the environment for unnecessary trinkets daily, at least this is stimulating discussion...
So this ad company is not allowed to criticize Breitbart and should be forced to do business with them? And this would somehow be "freedom" and not totalitarianism?
Actually, yes. You can’t just transfer money to the government, they’ll just send it back.

But you can buy government bonds, which currently have a negative interest rate (you lose money).
Is this another one of those "only America" activities?
Are we going to pretend that the white nationalist alt-right has been a good citizen on platforms like Twitter and Reddit?

Hacker News itself is heavily moderated: spaces for expression are a commons, and people who abuse those spaces make them less useful for others, until they have infected the entire space making it only amenable to their sort of expression.

There's no such abstract ideal of free speech that transcends its legal definition. Speech is not neutral. If speech were neutral, it would not be so important. Since speech has effects, like harassing speech forcing people off platforms for expression, everyone has a shared interest in the expressive platforms they use. If an ideal of free speech precluded the moderation of conflicts arising from speech, what does it actually mean? That the most aggressive, vicious speakers get to monopolize the spaces they force others out of?

Re: Tolerance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
It wasn't too long ago that liberals were screaming that a cake company that refused to make a cake for a gay wedding "has" to make the cakes for them... I agree, the business owner should have the sole discretion of who to do business with, but don't be two faced about it.
These are not data, these are predictions. For first-world countries. The fact is that world-wide, at the moment, people are living longer, healthier lives than at any previous time in human history.
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I propose we abolish all income tax, and implement UBI. There. That's everybody's problems solved.
I don't think that's correct
Thanks. I was too naive.
That isn't true. A bakery can't chose to not do business with certain groups without being sued. How is this any different?
And I'm sure someone somewhere is depressed by the fact that some startup's funding could be used to feed thousands of starving children instead.
I see the Cuban revolution like Israel/Palestine. Anybody who has a black-and-white opinion on the subject is aggressively wrong.
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Yeah. Those two things should go hand in hand.

Alas, the left will react with revulsion at killing corporate income tax, and the right will react with revulsion at raising capital gains. Sigh.
Anybody had any issues with the keyboard? I've heard rumors of some ergonomic issues and it worries me.
Define 'terrorist'
Is The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win as useful for B2B as this ranking suggests?
Seems similar, since the average startup temporarily employs people and results in nothing (although over a longer period of time).
If you go to your own user page you can see comments you upvoted.
And their competitors' prices might include $2k in a safari trip to kill endangered species[1]. You monster.

[1] http://mashable.com/2011/03/31/godaddy-ceo-elephant/
> and we're back at square one.

I was going to mention this but add the HIPAA includes other worth while regulations around reporting of breach in security etc.

I'm not 100% sure but I think the repeated signing of HIPPA is less the law and more the Doctor's office covering themselves legally. That is to say legally I think once is enough, but it's easier to just have the front office staff always ask instead of track who has signed one.
Which is the ad network that keeps serving the full-screen popup "your computer may be infected with a virus! call this number" ads?

Show me you can tell the difference between real and fake ads first. Then I'll trust you to tell me the difference between real and fake news.
Trump said the election was rigged (specifically saying the polling places are rigged: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/78769993071869542...) and refused to say whether he would accept the results.
is that startup going to force 1,000s of creative people to stop what they are doing and think about something broader for a few minutes?

it's genius
There is also a bulldozer.
A wonderfully productive life and human example in service for humanity.
It's impossible to have both "neither government regulation nor market competition". (This is clearly the case with Comcast.) The reason for the lack of competition is exactly the presence of government regulation.
Not sure what your first comment means. My point is simply that many entities pass themselves off as these open platforms for diverse opinions, when in reality they will target and/or censor those they disagree with. Is this a good thing sometimes? Obviously, e.g. with illegal things. But it can also be a dangerous habit. This isn't about pointing fingers at specific people or companies, but about recognizing that this is human and no one is above the temptation.
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'it's dangerous not to call out evil for what it is'

Really have to question this reification of "evil" per se. Evil is most immediately a religious construct. Or, in the words of Hannah Arendt, it is "banal." When did calling people evil ever lead to more justice in the world?

As if George W Bush having the courage to call Iran and Iraq and Libya the "Axis of Evil" led to the US promoting peace in those countries? No, there's been a proportional increase in US-led suffering (death toll in Iraq post-invasion around .5 million).

I don't honestly know too much about Fidel Castro, but take a minute to look at the US-installed Batista, who was overthrown. And, gawd, what about JFK? What about Kissinger These leaders had all the advantages of starting out in a relatively functional industrially-developed democracy, and they managed to do all kinds of evil, mainly to countries like Cuba.

Tangentially, IMHO, I don't believe Castro was nearly as "pathological" a human being as a number of US presidents.
One good place to start is one of the "Awesome Sysadmin" lists on GitHub like this one:

https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin

There are many, those will lead you to some great resources.
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Indeed those words about good free education and healthcare in "those days" are what "former" communists use to try to brainwash the kids from today in former socialist block countries like my homeland Bulgaria. The history textbooks are written by communists. Grandparents express their nostalgia for those days ('cause they were young back then and now they live in mysery).
Every now and then the communists come back to power and one realizes for the nth time, that there's no such thing as a former communist. Another thing they say in Bulgaria is that you take the power from a communist the same way you can take the lard from a pig - with a knife. So, yes, those bastards need to be talked about the same way Hitler is talked about in Germany, make sure kids are aware of the evil and can spot and identify it as soon as it emerges.
Yeah. Unfortunately we don't know how to do this well, and it seems like political correctness (and fear of failure) is keeping us from experimenting.

I don't have any good answers here. People can't even agree on what their goal is.
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> The SPD (originally the worker's party) has destroyed the welfare state, the CDU (center right) lets in millions of refugees, and the Green party (originally anti war) goes to war.

While true, it was a bit more complicated than that, so I will add three facts, that are also true:

- There were 5 million unemployed people in Germany and it was called "the sick man of Europe", the SPD had to do something. Economically Germany has never been better off than today.

- The Green party fought physically against its leaders about going to war [0]. There were war crimes being committed right inside Europe, so ultimately they decided for the lesser of two evils.

- The CDU's full name is Christian Democratic Union. I think you can justify your actions, when you are doing literally what it says in your name.

I think you can also make the argument, that "ignoring your voters mandate" by being fundamentalist does not lead you anywhere. Merkel has been chancellor since forever.

SPD and the Green party implemented some of their policies, because they are able to compromise. The Left party holds true to its voters mandate, thereby securing Merkel, because you simply cannot work with fundamentalists. Their domestic policy essentially is to spend all the money (TM), their foreign policy is to make the leading power of Europe behave like an inflated Switzerland. A bonus on top is their very questionable relationship with their past as the governing party of the GDR.

So as long as they are not ignoring their voters mandate in some areas - you simply cannot govern Germany, if you want to leave NATO - they will get non of their voters will implemented as policies and Merkel will stay in office.

[0] https://www.phoenix.de/content/phoenix/bibliothek/441774
I can guarantee there isn't any gasoline being burned there.

Edit: Not sure why I'm getting downvoted, those three vehicles are burning diesel...
"Somehow", yep, way to exercise the principle of charity there. That's a wilful mischaracterisation of an argument from a respected anti-racist organisation.

It's what makes engaging with your type so fruitless. Still, suspect you'll reap the whirlwind of all this in "your country" shortly. Shame we all have to go with you for the ride.
I think the fact that advertising persists in such widespread forms is pretty good proof of its efficacy.

Study after study shows that even if you think you're immune from advertising you still gain a positive outlook on a brand just from familiarity/repetition alone, nevermind if you agree with the content of the advertisement.
Nixons most famous scandal was the illegal carpet bombing of Cambodia and Laos effectively bringing the Khmer Rouge to power [1]. Watergate was a drop in the ocean compared to this.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu
By digging a hole? Have a sense of perspective.
"New generation server parts significantly reduce operating costs and without a huge price rise, they will also drop TCO more than a little"

Looking at some outside evaluations of their capex, it does not seem to represent a significant drop since CPU cost is only a tiny part of operating a datacenter.

http://continuance.co/revisiting-capex/
If you see the glass half full, they are not just digging a hole, they are creating a hill next to it.
Funny, I heard remedies for incoming sneezes from several people and it's a different method every time, I'm not exaggerating. Pressing up the tip of your nose, press against the forehead, press your tongue against the palate etc. The latter works best for me, BTW.
I better not try to find a theory what's the real cause.
The Jim Crow laws were most certainly overturned through democratic means, namely the 1964 Civil Rights Act (an act of the elected legislature) invoking the Commerce Clause (part of the Constitution) and 1965 Voting Rights Act. If you mean they were not repealed through by referendum or plebiscite, that is true, but neither were they enacted through direct voting. This is the case with most laws in the US.
That news article does not say that SA funded the Iraq-Iran war:

"Both Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates provided financial backing for Iraq's eight-year war against Iran, which ended in an armistice in 1988."
ahahha! Indeed, good point.
Startup economy consists in a lot of hole digging...
2016 has been very sad for left wing. Brexit, Trump now Castro...
> Americans are not willing to step up and take these available software development jobs at a level of competence demanded by employers regardless of pay rate.

Do you honestly believe this? There's an easy test against it: post a hard-to-fill job at $50K salary, increase it by $3K per day posted. Within a couple months you will start to see desirable applicants.
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Hence _T_otal _C_ost of _O_wnership. Running a data center is all about getting direct power consumption (servers) and indirect power consumption (cooling) down.
Of course these are predictions. Those children haven't lived their lives yet. But it's nonetheless data-based predictions.
Trade is not subsidy. Is China subsidizing the USA?
You're talking about athletes and singers. But the vast majority of those employed in these industries are not the pretty faces. They are the producers, the audio technicians, the trainers, the vendors at the stadium, the men who swap kegs at the game. The lighting directors on the movie set. The CGI artists. The bouncers at your favorite venue.
A) Like iPads replacing last year's perfectly working model that become waste in two years? That's kinda the point.

C) Like e waste for Christmases past?
The income is $6,000 an hour. Making this wildly profitable.
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Looks like the automated dupe-catcher missed it because of bbc.com vs. bbc.co.uk; maybe needs to be aliased.
The opportunity cost of the people digging the hole should be lower, and at the end, at least they'll have a hole. A clear win over the median startup.

Besides, they are literally changing the world.
Thanks, I didn't see it. So the bulldozer is also around $2,000/day.
Or dig a deeper hole.
Yes.

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-hillary-clinton-res...
How is this even legal? Do they own the piece of land?
The first comment is a reference to http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/2014/04/18/on-the-li... which suggests that yes, one "side" is more tempted and prone to this than the other.

The intent was to say that there is more to this than "platforms for diverse opinions ... censoring those they disagree with".

Regardless of their agreement, if they just censor those that are false they will appear to have a liberal bias. This is reportedly what scared Facebook away from dealing with fake, mostly right-wing, propaganda on their platform.
This game (Secret Hitler) ruined quite of few nights when I was an exchange student: people kept playing it while it was limited to only 10 players IIRC and was an obvious albeit less-fun rip off of the game "Les Loups-garous de Thiercelieux"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Werewolves_of_Millers_Holl...
They are digging around the clock so the operators need to be x3
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Ah I think they might have gotten the weekly fee on the equipment, which is much cheaper (5k p.w. as opposed to 2k p.d. as an example)
As an immigrant from the (once) Soviet Union, the current inability among my Silicon Valley/tech friends to say anything but pro-left views scares me. Even hinting that I may want something other than NYT-like viewpoints seems to cause people to bring out the pitchforks.
My guess is that this isn't just a hole it's a building whose purpose we will find out about at a later date.

I threw in 15 dollars for entertainment purposes.
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Lol. Someone should send money in for building the hills.
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Well, I bought one and I think it's wonderful. My other laptop is a 15" 2013 Retina MBP. The new model is an improvement in almost every respect. Also, the space gray case is stunning.

FYI, I'm planning to sell my old one. Let me know if you're interested.
The cost per second changes over time. When I first saw the site yesterday afternoon, it was 2.2s / $.
Shareholders want a certain amount of profit on their invested capital, say 10%. The exact percentage depends on type of company and the industry it's operating in. Tax is an expense, one that comes after all other expenses are paid, but an expense nevertheless. If I have $100 in profit, and I have to pay 30% tax, I'm left with $70.

If a company today is returning 10% to its shareholders per annum (and is paying, say 30% tax), then reducing the tax rate to 15% frees up additional cash to reinvest in the business that wouldn't have been available / would've otherwise gone to taxes. Or that money could flow back to shareholders, who could then reinvest it in other businesses.