skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay:

Yes, TDP is an inexactly defined and meaningless term and while to the layman it would generally be understood to have some relation to the heat emitted by the CPU during normal operation, it's possible that both chips in fact only generate 1W of heat and were given a 140W TDP because Intel had a pre-existing cooling solution and a warehouse full of spare parts. Yes, you are correct on the semantics. Power consumption has no relation to TDP because heat generated has no defined relation to TDP.

However, given any meaningfully bounded definition of TDP, the case is still made that the TDP of these chips should be dissimilar. The later numbers show that under full load the power draw at the wall increases by 20W/core used. Unless your "typical load" used for determining TDP does not actually make use of the full number of cores (which I would think could be fine for a desktop processor, certainly not a server) then it's clear that the heat generated by these two processors should be dissimilar under any load.

If the 4 core actually needs to dissipate 140W under a typical use case, then the 6 core should absolutely need to dissipate more unless the "typical use case" is uselessly applied.

If we want to talk cars... Let's say I sell a base model with a top speed of 80mph, and a sport model with a top speed of 120mph. But I tell you you only need to put 80mph rated tires on the sport model because that's as fast as a typical person drives. Would you really claim that the sport model's tires are correctly rated? Would you not be surprised when you drove 100mph in the sport model and the tires exploded? Why on Earth would anyone even buy the sport model if it's crippled to nearly the same performance as the base model?
People absolutely are tools in the eyes of their employers. I've never been at a company and not heard them refer to employees as "resources" when talking about scheduling and allocation of people. There's nothing special about humans in a factory compared to robots other than our ability to adapt and learn. But as robotics and AI/ML get better that gap narrows until you reach a point that the robot is "good enough". That same robot might be a little slower than a person at first but it's operating for a fraction of the hourly rate and it's doing so 24/7 with no breaks and no slow downs.

Your point about millions of displaced people rising up and being unhappy is 100% valid. But you'll be hard pressed to find any company willing to sacrifice a slice of their earnings to employe people just because it's the right thing to do. Especially in the US where the entire culture is based around corporate profits only ever increasing at a rate greater than inflation. The US is in one big race to the bottom to see who can shave $0.01 off the sale price of their product. That naturally leads to two things. Monopolies and hyper efficiency. Because when your profit margin is pennies per unit you have to move one hell of a lot units to make hundreds of millions a year in revenue.
We have a long way to go. But the western world of today is, in a historical sense, unprecedentedly meritocratic.
Apache Mnemonic
We have too made lots of attempts.

Dr Doolittle style anecdotal stories and anecdotes, lots of people who talk to their pets, moving up in seriousness to attempts to teach gorillas about sign language, attempts to give animals cards they can point to to request things, or react to verbal prompting, to attempts to decode meaning from animal calls like Dolphin calls or elephant body language.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/dolphins-conversa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)

What we're assuming with space travelling aliens is not just that they'd want to communicate with us, but that the attempt would be obvious - a patterned radio signal - but the content not obvious.

(And if we did blanket an area with nuanced pheromones and insects responded in bulk, is that communication or is it overriding and giving compelling orders?)
My take away from this article is that they acknowledge that a lot of trouble lies ahead. Ironically, they don't have the courage to state their current state in a more factual manner. Instead they offer some vague statements and occasionally some outdated PR-speak

> “The world is changing really rapidly,” David Leonhardt, a columnist who led the group’s work, said in an interview. “We have to keep up, and even get ahead of it.”

> In a note to the newsroom, Mr. Baquet and Joe Kahn, The Times’s managing editor, endorsed the group’s recommendations, saying they outlined an “opportunity we have to produce an even more vital, more authoritative, more indispensable[0]’’ news report.

Wouldn't it be a great ad for their product if they were demonstrating that it is possible for the Times to even report about themselves in a blunt, factual manner? While some admissions are there the overall article is quite humble-bragish.

[0] more indispensable - what does that even mean?
Outpacing Pandemics
Complete noob (in both FinTech and Blockchain), but in my limited experience in FinTech, if you could eliminate the need for the trusted nth party (Bank Of New York, for example, cleared all of the bond trades we made), then you could save a few 1/32's of a trade (my last client in FinTech was like 15 years ago so I don't even know if those fees are even valid anymore). In any case, as you indicate, this seems to be the canonical use-case for the block chain...
There are a few subscription-based news models which run like this. Mediapart in France is one of the most prominent: hard news values, subscription-only, online.

I work at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, which is doing a lot of work in this area; the Digital News Project reports are interesting: http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/page/digital-news-...

I've recently authored one of these reports looking specifically at digital-born news media in Europe, which is particularly focused on the diversity of non-advertising focused news business models.
Close:

https://github.com/takikawa/racket-clojure

https://docs.racket-lang.org/rackjure/index.html
The internal report itself is interesting for a few reasons:

https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2020-report/

1) The graphic on top doesn't show a laptop or desktop.

2) " On a per-dollar basis, our freelance-written journalism attracts a larger audience on average than our staff-written journalism."

Wow. Hopefully, they have automated internal metrics to track this.

3) " Today, department heads and other coverage leaders must organize much of their day around print rhythms even as they find themselves gravitating toward digital journalism. The current setup is holding back our ability to make further digital changes, and it is also starting to rob the print newspaper of the attention it needs to become even better."

Until the focus is changed to digital first, I am unsure how much more they can grow.

I still marvel at how it is cheaper for me to get a NY Times Sunday paper delivery with digital access halfway across the country than it is for me to get just the digital access. lol
Hi,

Thanks for your thoughts. As I have stated elsewhere, the code handles all of the cases I needed it to handle, due to the stability of the input file format (which was emitted from another program). I don't see that this should be too hard to believe.

I also said in my second edit, on the top line, 'Not so trivial after all!'. If I was putting on some kind of act, wouldn't that have been dropping it? Further, I noted in my first edit, before I had received any replies, that I 'know this version won't support escaped separator/newline characters', so I am not sure what you were trying to add with your example?

I think that my central point (and I totally accept that I didn't express this well) is that depending on the specifications of your program, the required CSV parser /can be/ very short. When one compares this to other data exchange formats, for example JSON, it is clear that the barrier to /entry/ is much lower. The shortest JSON parser I could find with a cursory look was 200 lines of C.

I totally appreciate that to write a CSV parser that works for all cases would be extremely longwinded. It has been interesting to hear other people's experiences and opinions about that. But the fact remains true that /in some cases/, depending on the requirements of the program, the parser can be very short.

> We all recognize the classic developer I-could-build-that-in-a-weekend hubris when we see it. :)

It is funny you should say this. I needed the CSV parser because I thought it would be fun and interesting to see if I could build an anti-malware tool in a week (I am taking a malware detection class at the moment, I wanted it done before the next lecture). I did not expect I would be able to have anything good working in that time, but by the early hours of the next morning I had a perfectly functional anti-malware tool. It can use ClamAV signatures (so it can detect everything(?) that ClamAV can), runs in parallel, has a nice text console with DSL, and is fast enough (processing 210k small files in ~5 minutes, checking against ~60k sigs). It is about 650 lines of Erlang (including comments). I am saying this not to boast(!), but to make the point that I greatly underestimated how productive I could be, beat my expectations by many fold, then people comment about my hubris online the next day. It is funny how life goes!

Thanks,

Sam
> Horses are tools that people used. When there's no more use for the tool, it's usage may be reduces. People are not just tools, they are the reason we have an economy in the first place. A solution in some form will have to be put forth if one doesn't emerge.

Unfortunately, there's a long history of people thinking of and using other people as tools.
This has nothing to do with Whatsapp and its use of encryption but is cause by its choice of username and validation method.

The attacker needs to know the phone number and be able to read SMS messages from the phone number. Even very weak methods like the typical security questions would make this much more difficult.
Show HN: Functo – Composable method objects in Ruby
Maintenance (and maintainability) are definitely key questions for software development.

The first point, about keeping people who write maintainable code, I agree with 100%.

The second one, about keeping codebase expertise, seems complicated.

On one hand, we all know there are weird bugs and edge cases best handled by knowing the code intimately. What's 20 hours of QA and engineering for an unfamiliar team can be a 5 minute tweak for the guy who wrote the method, even with clear code and good tests. Weird bugs do happen, and just knowing that what it isn't can help with finding some awful probabilistic issue.

On the other hand, I wonder if this is a "controlled burn" kind of issue. Everyone's heard of systems that work fine for 20 years and then explode as soon as the expert leaves. Normally that's a design and maintainability issue, but at some level we're talking about bus factor here. You're definitely trading fewer crises for worse crises, but I don't know the rate on the tradeoff.

Obviously unplanned turnover is still a huge issue, but I do wonder what the right balance is on "just knows how to fix it" versus "institutional knowledge is safer than personal".
In this future, how do you determine quality articles before reading them?
I wonder how AI will affect those business models? If you can on-board and find employees so quickly that you can sustain the burn-n-churn, then I think an AI would do it better and faster and not be fired either.
iSoftStone and DKS Partner to Provide New Smart City Transportation Solution
Rather than being offended about a historical statement, what were the German war aims in 1914? Why did the British Empire enter the war? The British didn't die in their millions to defend the neutrality of the Belgians.
More details about the 50% disk space limit: https://www.raymondcamden.com/2015/04/17/indexeddb-and-limit...
You don't get much more "fake news" than Jayson Blair or Judith Miller.

But I still do appreciate their journalism. Unlike some journalism outfits they do seem to try to get it right.
>the american electorate is easy to manipulate

that is a feature of democracy not unique to America
Fired IT employee offered to unlock data for $200,000
If it's catastrophic, you're probably not taking advantage of the resources available. I know many people who feel pigeon-holed or trapped simply because they are unaware of how insanely easy it is to drop what you're doing, go to school, and get hired elsewhere. There are so many resources and options out there if you're willing to weather the change. Most people are just too scared to consider it and they misinterpret that as a problem with the market itself.
I'm not intending to criticize Common Lisp, which I loved back in the early 90's, but there are things to like about Clojure over Common Lisp.
Yeah, these are really cool and the player/editor look like some of the good parts of the Flash editor brought to JS, but judging from performance on my MBP using this on mobile would be a great way to turn a phone into a hand warmer, while achieving an astounding 5 FPS of animation.
Re: 2, Does the freelance-written material attract more readers, cost less, or both? The statements in the report are ambiguous.
That's feels like an odd statement considering many mature first-world economies actually seem to be dealing with the economic effects of transitioning to a flat to slightly negative population growth rate.
Just for your interest, I worked for a company that believed micro-payments was the way to pay for content on the internet in the late 1990s. It was called Qpass. The idea was that you could buy some credits, and use your Qpass at any of the sites in the network to pay for specific articles. Qpass wasn't able to make that model work at the time.

Qpass ended up pivoting to helping wireless carriers with flexible billing solutions for digital content.

[1] http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Qpass-sold-for-275...
This is a discussion about closing chapters isn't it? Are we merely disputing the date on which a billion power screwdrivers can direct themselves and then Instagram pics of their accomplishments? I give it 50-150 years.
There's not a faster way, that I'm aware of. That being said, I'm not exaggerating when I say the overwhelming majority of pages just work and the 5-10% that don't you can add them to the exception list (meaning they will run JavaScript) so you won't have to go through those 8 clicks every time.

give a try for a day or so. Once I did, I can't go back to keeping it on because the web seems so slow by comparison.
I'd say "you could use a blockchain". It does have some uses.
Maybe we need to scale up the specific approach (thought experiment).

Let's say that 10% (a small minority) of companies offering hosting adopt the same strategy, and that 20% (again a rather small minority) of them manage to get your email address (assuming that the other 80% missed your tweet or did not monitor specifically the twitter account or were lazy or are incompetent, it doesn't matter).

If there are 1,000 such companies, in no time after you post a tweet on your current hosting company you will find in your e-mail box 20 (unsolicited) messages, if there are 10,000 such companies that will be 200.

Would you react in the same manner?
Instagram also enabled some business to be created or to grow based on ease of access and low/no overhead costs for its service.

Instagram 'models' come to mind.
What also amazes me is that the same heterodox crowd critiquing capitalism goes on to say "money doesn't make you happy", citing surveys of millionaires and billionaires who all say they'd be happy with 2x-3x their current net worth! I mean, not necessarily the same people say it, but the same press outlets for sure.

But if it doesn't make you happy and you always want more, that desire must motivate you, right? Make up your mind!
This is anecdotal, but just today I cancelled my print subscription to the NYTimes because they kept messing up the delivery (not showing up, going to the wrong house)... and every time I contacted their customer service reps (who were obviously outsourced) they had absolutely no power to do anything about it.

I wonder how much the simple things like "taking care of your customers" factors into their business struggles. (Probably "not much", but just seemed strange to me that they'd drop the ball like that for honest-to-goodness paying customers).
There could be a disconnect between hiring managers and HR and upper management. The hiring managers you know probably do understand the cost of replacing a lost employee and how hard it is to hire. The HR department that's actually in control of this, and of salaries, doesn't, or just doesn't care.

I have a theory that a lot of the terrible mismanagement we see with modern American corporations comes directly from HR. Didn't W. Edwards Deming say that companies would be better off just eliminating their HR departments altogether?
ESLinting a Legacy Codebase
http://www.red-lang.org for those who doesn't necessarily need Lisp, but appreciates homoiconicity and other nice things.

> This executable is a full blown native interpreter with a JIT, GC, etc.

> A small, fast, native lisp

I have issue with the use of the word 'native' here. For me 'native' mostly means AOT compiling.
First Amendment Protections Don’t End for Anonymous Speakers Who Lose Lawsuits
I've read about a third of it. It's too long and too focused on other topics for me personally.

I also read the book 'Gödel's Proof' a long time ago, before I had much familiarity with pure math, and remember it describing a very interesting sort of 'architecture' that Gödel had put together—but I left still wondering about any applications other than producing the incompleteness theorems. Maybe I'd get more out of it now though...
>The report coincides with a series of broader changes at The Times, including a reimagining of the print newspaper; an aggressive international expansion; a heightened emphasis on graphics, video, virtual reality and podcasts; the $30-million purchase...

God, please no. Don't invest heavily in VR for news reporting. I agree with reducing multiple layers of copy editing for a digitally focused company, but VR is a misdirection of funds to get the facts straight. Or, maybe that was just a buzzword that didn't get edited out of the final press release.
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My sister gave me my favorite definition of "computer literate": Someone that isn't afraid of the computer.

The worse thing that's every happened to me because of my lack of fear was that I fried the motherboard on a friend's Mac back in the 90's by plugging a parallel printer into a SCSI port. Oops! Fortunately it was under warranty.
And yet isn't it just slightly odd how software consulting rates were the same 17 years ago as they are now? And there was all that inflation in the interim...hmmm...
Those are both opinion pieces, not NYT journalism proper.
Do you mind expanding a little bit on the "few types of patterns in ML and Big Data". Do you mean models, pipelines etc or something different. I am studying ML in grad school and I'm seeing way more patterns than just a few, almost too many to be honest if by patterns you mean models. I'd love to hear your view and what you meant by only few types of patters.
Caring to take good backups and the knowledge/skill of doing so is well worth more than $9K in the long run. Losing months of work is a mental killer.

(What's worse is losing 100+ BTC to Gox. :p)

I have not lost anything really important but I cannot live without at least 3 geographically separated backups of generations of backups for something I don't want to lose.
I think it's great that students and young professors in the sciences are taught to code now. I've even taught some of them.

To me, data science is more than understanding statistics, it's been essential to know how to scale them up and out.

If you're a domain scientist, you won't necessarily learn how to write reusable tools that are performant (or runnable) on data that is different from your initial model data. I once worked with a group whose model had grown so unwieldy that their config file was in NetCDF.

I found my niche was often in doing things that were slightly (or completely) outside the comfort zone of most domain scientists who were competent coders themselves, but who didn't have the funded time nor the inclination to learn things like database, visualization, and networking technologies that became necessary either to share their work with other research groups or to operate on larger datasets.

One project had me take a big model that was normally run twice a day and on a 4km grid and help write something that could run and visualize the results of the same thing on a 0.5km grid over a larger area and hourly. And then devise something that could help them visually explore the timeseries as it evolved, sometimes over months.

Designing the pipeline that can handle that is outside the scope of most scientists, even the ones who are good coders.
Don't hold your breath. Even superstars are fungible these days.
Traditional news-gathering certainly did, but that was in an age where every citizen didn't have an internet connected phone with a camera in their pocket. The current system is of course doomed...

However I think there's a gap here to do something radically different, global and paid for with subscriptions (from those who broadcast and companies who want aggregate data about fashion trends for example, or weather reports based on individuals reporting it).
There is no doubt that memes and social media have been militarized for propaganda use. This presentation from a consulting agency to many U.S. TLAs and defense contractors outlines the strategies and contains numerous references to DoD work in the area. It gives models, tells what metrics to use, identifies roles, etc.

http://robotictechnologyinc.com/index.php/military-memetics

Either find the PDF halfway down, or just go here:
http://robotictechnologyinc.com/images/upload/file/Presentat...

And here is their 1,680 page compendium of ~100 papers on the subject which they used as references:
http://robotictechnologyinc.com/images/upload/file/Memetics%...

Distraction is a tactic, but it's only a single tool in the strategy. It's also relevant when to distract, when to counter, when to ignore, etc.
> A spreadsheet needs someone to manage it. That person, and that data, must be very trustworthy, else they can simply change the data for their benefit.

Google Docs has a change log could be a first step.
Bitcoin's primary innovation isn't the blockchain per se, but the combination of the blockchain and proof-of-work timestamping to solve the double-spending problem without requiring a central authority.

A "private" blockchain largely defeats the point, as you don't need trustless distributed concensus when you implictly trust yourself or a central authority. We just call these versioned databases.
Coördination is proper English also :)
Probably the language that I'm most looking forward to. It'd give you the ease of python with the speed of a native language and the best GUI DSL I've ever seen.

Edit:
Agreed that I don't like the author's use of native either.