skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to diminish the efforts of anyone involved, but I truly feel one man more or less moves the direction of the CPU industry: Jim Keller.

He, among others, invented x86_64 at AMD during its previous glory days. AMD dominated the competition. He led the Apple chips at A4, and Apple chips then and now dominate the mobile competition.

He came back to AMD and helped create Zen, to obvious results. Apparently he now works for Tesla.

In any event, this guy seems to have the Midas touch wrt CPUs, it's a shame there isn't more written about him or more importantly, by him.
I just saw this thread, and honestly it is probably too late to get noticed by many, but I'm attempting to 'unsuck the web' with my project[0] by pinning "sticky" website elements where they belong - i.e. the website header shouldn't steal your screen real estate and scroll down the page with you.

My project/uBO filter list removes the "annoying" elements noted above as well as other "features" of websites (e.g. social share bars, cookie notices, etc) through a filter list that works with uBlock Origin.

I update the list often, and admittedly am probably entering into an arms race but I'm just really sick of websites hijacking (what I think) the web was built for (information).

Feel free to subscribe to the filter list by pasting the URL below[1] into the 'Custom' section under the '3rd-party filters' tab of uBlock Origin.

This filter list also works on mobile Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin installed.

[0] Project Homepage https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoya...
I've got a surface 2 and a surface 3. I had to stop using the surface 3 at around the 2 year mark as the fan was constantly on and I was noticing a lot of 'strange behaviour' even after a rebuild. Surface 2 is still going strong.
Even when accounting for percentage of population?
1. Working on the different problems you described is not mutually exclusive.

2. How many aluminum smelting plants are there? How many light bulbs? The decimal places seem to go the other way.

This Wikipedia page -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aluminium_smelters -- lists a bunch of aluminum smelters. While it says it's incomplete, its existence implies it has most of them. I doubt there is a page listing all the light bulbs. Once habitualized, turning them off takes negligible extra time or effort.

3. I don't mean to be flippant, but are you arguing against conservation?
Isn’t it size vs astmopheric noise? Or are there loads of other factors?
6. lightning strikes nearby won't enter your home over fiber like happened to me 4x over coax, losing your modem at best. NC summer thunderstorms are brutal.
Not to nitpick, but "[...] running C code in your browser" is a little bit of an exaggeration as there is no state-sharing between cells.

It's similar to a webpage that posts C code to a web service and returns the output of its stdout (so like CGI). Not that this is a bad thing, but when I read about stuff running in the browser, I suppose the code to be run by the browser itself, and not just visualizing the output of a program run on some remote server.
Sweet post bait. I'm working on an online notes organizer. I have ADHD-PI and I've been creating one for myself for the last few years. (I recently found out I might have ADHD)

HTTPS://OrgNote.com
Try 17:10 instead of 5:10?
LinkedIn shows new hires and total employees. Churn can easily be calculated by [June Employees] + [June New Hires] - [July Employees]
Or the Season 3 primer of Rick and Morty where Rick invents a fictional backstory with the secret the federation was looking for replaced with exploit code.
I've found dragging with my finger works decently well, or at least on Chrome on Android
If M ~ N(u,v_m) and W ~ N(u,v_w) [where N refers to the normal distribution], with v_m > v_w, then P(M > T) > P(W > T) for all T > u. I.e if the trait is approximately normally distributed with equal means among two groups, the group with the higher variance will exhibit more extreme values. Why is this a change in argument?
0x Project token sale registration ends tomorrow
21 Savage – Bank Account (Official Dance Video)| Aviisway_ Cpho.99
You're hilarious, where's the maximized profit in that?
Tab, Esc, Space and F2
are all already reached easily with your left hand.
Why do you like having them repeated elsewhere?
I don't have any experience with this type of thing, so that sounds like an incredibly large amount of data. What are you doing that requires it? What type of useful queries are you even able to perform over 432 billion records?
The current push seems to be in radiology. An AI that never sleeps and can read images and give you a good estimate of whether something is a tumor? It probably wouldn't replace humans entirely but it could be the first place that AI really gets into the process of diagnosis.
Why aren't Intel Xeon E7 processors considered in these benchmarks? Clearly they are "high-end" and carry a $5k+ price tag to show for it.
Doesn't this require a physical package of some sort of bio material to be delivered to the cell, with electricity being used to open the cell membranes and push it through via ions? If I'm understanding that correctly, then how do you make the leap to optical-only transfer? It's almost as if you're claiming that an optical signal could somehow cause a buffer-overflow exploit in the cone/rod cells of a human eye, and then root the cell's "kernel" and start making run-time patches. And that sounds like a completely different scientific breakthrough than what this TNT stuff sounds like. could you elaborate any further?
Didn't expect to see you on HN. I also read your book for self study (not for a class) and really appreciated all the exercises with solutions. Thank you.
Most recentlyv they generate a token on startup, which you need to interact with anything. It's fairly seamless on a client computer as the browser that is launched will get that token added automatically.
Oh well I stayed in Pakistan cities and villages and farms and there's clean water, housing and mobile broadband... Sorry to hear the state in India - I incorrectly assumed they were ahead due to higher GDP per capita.
If this was his intention this is a really dumb strategy. He went from having a valid lawsuit for his bonus to loosing his company and being at the loosing end of a lawsuit. I don't buy him being that dumb. He just didn't think he was going to get caught.
This is nothing short of a potential revolution. There are a wide number of illness in humans we don't understand, and have been making almost no progress on.

For example near-sightedness. We know it's more than genetic because rates have been skyrocketing, and we know time spent outdoors means lower rates of myopia, but that's about it...
> Intel's strategy of limiting the PCI throughput to hold GPU manufactures back is over, and these AMD cpu's are going to be paired super well with AMD, which is really making Intel look sad soon. Boat loads of major players have been irked by Intel holding back PCI throughput, AMD let it rip, and "thread ripped" too!

In what way does the increase in PCI lanes stop holding gpu manufacturers back? To the best of my knowledge a single GPU doesn't use more than 16 lanes.

Only multi-gpu systems are held back by the PCI lanes. So I can see threadripper being great for supercomputers, but I don't see how it affects Nvidia or AMDs GPU section.
These also happen to be the most difficult to use in terms of dosing frequency and rate of blood glucose control.

In the US of all places, there isn't a good argument for the very, very slightly modified newer insulins to cost so much more.

(these points are alluded to in the article, just want to mention them here, as well)
I have no clue if you're right but that sounds as reasonable as anything else I know about the trademark/copyright/i.p./patent system.

Edit: This actually seems like a sane restriction in the context of the trademark system. Without even looking up the rules, it's pretty obvious people will see "Linux ..." and assume it's endorsed, or at least unopposed, by the trademark holder, which can be somewhat ambiguous with free software since it can be used so freely.
It won't be very far off the shore, so it's accesible by boat.
I remember how excited I was when I heard the announcement that Keller was to work on a new project at AMD a few years back.

And I can certainly relate to the latter point: As an electronic engineer that likes to dabble with IC design, I'd love to consume some of the wisdom that the man could impart.
Exclusive:EirGrid targeted by 'state sponsored' hackers leaving networks exposed
Ggggggggrrrrreeeaaaatttt
I enjoyed the blog article and I would like to gently reiterate the notion that a _typed nil_ in Go 2 would change the semantic of _nil_, as seen in the example expression at the end of the article:

var b *bytes.Buffer
var r io.Reader = b
fmt.Println(r == nil)

We might need to use other expressions to capture the _nil_ type of above assignment but we should enable the _value only_ equality check with `r == nil`
I do think it was positioned wrong. Which is amazing given how clear their actual positioning was. Big data and ML are big business opportunities. IBM's marketing just jumped the shark and could lose a lot of market share due to it.
http://sharethewub.com

A music player made from URLs pulled from sub-reddits. Its a work in progress.
Yep, it can be used for either "irregular" events or "regular" time-series like monitoring data.

For event sourcing, just make sure you index on the proper user/session/thing (Docs or Slack for more info).
> I heard someone talk about interviewing at Uber as a practice interview before interviewing with companies they are actually interested in.

That is kinda hilarious.
I can personally clearly see the difference between 1080p and 4K even on phone screens. I guess it can be puzzling indeed if 4K seems like an irrelevant buzzword, but for many it's a significant improvement. What's more, I've seen this same argument against 1080p as well. A good chunk of people were arguing that 720p is all anyone would ever need and that 1080p is just a wasteful buzzword.

> Or an example of 4K resolution not being needed to see a couple of talking heads?

You keep coming back to needing something. It's a weak argument, because you don't really need anything besides water and a slice of bread. In addition, let's say I do actually need my 4K video conferencing. I would still be held back by the low speeds in question.

As for choosing relevant examples, 4K video conferencing is just fine. You're free to choose another example for your own campaign, but be warned that there will be plenty of people who will claim your example is irrelevant and a waste of resources. Because again, if we're not talking about water then it's a luxury and not everyone will be interested.
Or how did you find the people your product would innately appeal to.
How timescale fits postgres maintenance patterns(replication, backup)?
Seems to be mis interpreting my hand signals around 5-10% of the time. The little icon flickers rapidly between correct hand signal & the "face" icon, and I tried holding my hand closer to the web cam which didn't seem to help. Very cool though.
Brief thoughts on the “Google memo”
I do think there is something of a point there in that combined industrial and commercial use account for a larger portion of overall consumption. But, residential use is still significant.

This chart is old, but has a nice quick visualization of where you might want to focus.

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/styles/large/publ...

At least showing that for residential use, upgrading your AC, refrigerator, etc is probably higher impact than focusing on lighting.
As far as I understand (and I have only passing knowledge on this, as we've been evaluating machine learning technologies for our startup) IBM Watson is just a set of APIs you can use to build your own solution, and the APIs themselves are not top-of-the-line (Google's are.)

The other day I saw a TV ad for Watson for the first time: the ad showed a bunch of aeronautical engineers who instead of having to take all kinds of measurements of airflow around a hull or who knows what else (the TV was muted) now sat behind a single computer that would do the whole thing for them. It was such bullshit, I couldn't believe my eyes.

Imagine Amazon promoting SES as this amazing tool that'd automatically send marketing emails and create a marketing funnel and drive user acquisition cost down by a factor of 100X, without you having to do anything. That's the level of vaporware they are selling.
Visual Basic always struck me as the grown-up version of Hypercard.
Techradar's reporting...has had some issues. Initially the graphs on their threadripper review were misleading (link to imgur album [0]) and later changed. Anandtech[1] (prior discussion[2]) and Gamers Nexus[3] are much more reputable and go further in depth.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/SuzY9

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/11697/the-amd-ryzen-threadripp...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14979151

[3] http://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3015-amd-threadripper-1...

Edit: clarification
The USSR's population in 1939 (immediately pre-war) was about 188 million.

The peak Roman Empire population, in ~160 CE, was 60-70 million. Less than half that of the USSR. Still, the war dead over the empires history are just 1.25% of its peak instantaneous population. So yes, war was overall less deadly. But being an infant was far deadlier than today (~50% mortality by age 5).

Total Soviet casualties: 20-27 million, or 13.7% of the 1940 population. Compare against Poland at about 17%.

By contrast, the Third Reich saw ~8.5% population losses. The US and UK, less than 1% each, France, 1.4%.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empi...

Consider that there was a vastly increased ability to deliver and effect damage on both military and civilian targets in WWII. I'm not sure that a direct comparison is particularly meaningful. And I don't much encourage one-upmanship in this particular sphere.
Correct. There's no support for getUserMedia().

We've done some WebRTC stuff using Chrome. Super excited for iOS 11 where it'll be available (and High Sierra too, but that's not as big an issue as we can just tell people to use Chrome).
Good plan. It's not like that number includes vendors, contractors, drivers or anything that could skew the numbers.
You missed this part of the interview:

People have moral panics about bedbugs in their library or perverts in the library or — you’ll catch a cold from the library, like, whatever the thing is. And there’s a shred of truth to that, but realistically people are afraid of their own public, I think, in a lot of ways. And so being kind of matter-of-fact about the fact that, “Well, these really are who your neighbors are. Like, you can choose just to ignore
that that’s how the world works, but you know, these are all your neighbors, and you see them all at the public library. You’re welcome.
Another big thank you from me. I used PureScript to learn functional programming. For me, being able to read the resultant Javascript made a big difference.

Also, I have to say that your code is lovely (both the PureScript code and the Javascript). Every time I think, "I wonder how this works/should work" I take a quick glance and within a few minutes I have my answer. I will start reading the compiler code when I get some time.
The char *apple[] Argument Vector (2006)
I mentioned about the benchmark repo because I wanted to learn why you usually advertise on the write performance instead of query performance. The benchmark repo shares the results for write performance but not query performance. Later on, I saw the benchmark for query part in your blog post, which was great.

I agree that full-table scan is not common in time-series use-case and you can't improve the performance in that case unless you use a different storage format. The confusing part for me is that if I have 100B rows, I would probably use a distributed (multi-node) solution unless the dataset includes 50 years of data and I want to query the last week because Postgresql is not good enough when aggregating huge amount of datasets.

Do you have any plan to release distributed version (the chunks may be distributed among the nodes in cluster) or implement columnar storage format?
Yes they do, because birds are confused by the light signals at night or during foggy days and go towards them. Big glass windows/walls also kill birds. I work in an office with glass curtain walls and a lot of birds end up flying into them. To make matters worse, we also have stray cats around the building, so birds that fall to the ground and are not dead upon hitting the window end up being lunch.
Still doesn't matter, Bay Area is bigger than SFO.

You could go anywhere. San Ramon, Morgan Hill- Far off places. Yet very expensive.

Housing in and around Bay Area is very expensive.
If you go to the advanced page, it includes storage as a part of the calculations when optimizing for cost.

It usually doesn't play a very large part (I was only able to get it up to ~$2/mWh) but it certainly counts.
The top CPU is almost 4 times faster than my CPU (i5 6600K). Is it just down to the GHz and number of cores?

Besides those two elements, what makes this processor so much faster?
OVH works pretty well and you can get a small VPS for less than USD5
Facebook’s willingness to copy rivals’ apps seen as hurting innovation
If the USD collapses, other currencies will take its place - GBP, EUR, etc.

The only reason the USD would collapse in the first place would be if the US government collapses.

In that event, you're looking at apocalypse. Or at the very least, a world war. To assume that the world is as isolated as it was when the Spanish peseta collapsed as it is right now is absurd.

Good luck exchanging a digital currency in the event of an apocalypse.
Eh, Azure is not that great. It's okay.
We have successfully sent robots to Mars, but... I don't really need that light on in the living room.
That's on point. By being overly closed they have pushed away the demand they have for advertising. I wish I could buy ads on their content based on location but cant (I buy media for others).
I see what you're saying, but it's an edge case for the No True Scotsman, with a mix of "moving the goal posts," i.e what real sincerity is like.

>No, not really. What's the universal generalization or group here, of which Damore is a counter-example?

"Sincere people."

There's also tinges of "wishful thinking."
It also helps if you have a glass wall building or a wind farm around, which means free lunch for all the stray cats.
Absolutely absolutely agree with this! hckrnews is what I use to keep track of what's new on HN since I last visited!
One thing I love about HN is the willingness of people to name names in stories. I don't always do it because of fears of repercussion, but I appreciate people like you who do. Thanks for saying the word "Accenture".
> Can't you rebind them through the regular keyboard preferences?

Not for Caps Lock. I think it only lets you set it to Control.

> There's IT infrastructure built around using OSX at some jobs.

That is a really terrible idea, unless the only thing you do is develop OS X and iOS native applications. Do they really run OS X on their servers? Or is it develop-on-Mac-deploy-on-Linux? It isn't just OS X keyboard internals that are flaky and change with every release. The only reliable development environments I have seen on OS X were in fact done by "bailing on an operating system" by using virtualization.
Working on a GitHub iOS app to make managing GitHub projects easier. Fun part is now that it's shipped I'm using it to manage itself.

https://github.com/rnystrom/Freetime

Turning this into more of a social experiment now, seeing where he community wants to take this. Publishing download reports and stuff.

Even made a landing page.

http://freetime-app.com/
You do the influencer model where you pay someone to mention your business. Thats it. Can be really profitable of done well.
Many if not most people in positions of power are there because they know someone, not because of merit. I mean they have to be competent, but the person running the top company in the world, isn't the top CEO in the world necessarily.

How do you even gauge that? Who is the better programmer, Englebart or von Neumann? Hard to say, and even if I said it, it is easily arguable. Each would be better at different things. It's like asking what is the best video game? There is no score in programming.

Business has a lot to do with trust. I have a few people I've worked with for years that I prefer to continually work with. I know them, I know how they think, I know what to expect, I know they won't screw me over, I know I don't have to deal with petty bullshit. They might not be the best in the world, or even the best that I know, but they're the best for me to work with.

The same thing happens everywhere. To think any market is 100% efficient at anything, or even resembling that is extremely naive. A capitalistic market's only claim to fame is it's the most efficient way to allocate resources that we know of. That certainly doesn't mean it's near 100% efficient.

Add to that, Google is horribly inefficient. They can be though, they make so much money off search with little competition. They have a really good search engine, but many of their project ventures fail, and that's ok; but to consider them 100% efficient in hiring is just silly.

Finally, more often than not, young people are cheaper and more willing to suffer fools. They are eager to impress because they haven't been screwed over yet. They still believe success, and I mean big success, is based on their skills.
They have them but I rarely encountered any that actively used it, although Instagram was quite popular.
It's really neither of those things. Example: see Mediatek. They throw a billion cores and good cpu speed at a problem to no real results. Also see, AMD of the last 5ish years.

IPC is where the speed comes from, in conjunction with cores/hyperthreading. I won't attempt to explain it as I'm not qualified, but it's interesting reading.
I think that DID happen initially but it’s technically vandalism.

Of course hopping the gate isn’t illegal so...
They're not mutually exclusive.

There's more than enough money for both. It's a lack of political will that holds us back.
These tools are really compelling to me. I was dubious that a carbon tax would be sufficient to motivate substantial change, but it looks to me like a $40/ton carbon tax would drastically improve carbon emissions, and a $100/ton tax would virtually eliminate it.

I think as a way of exploring regulatory goals they're fascinating - very few situations does someone set up a simulation of the impact of a law and give laypeople knobs and buttons to play with to see how it would work.
It was a shitty chip anyway. No SIMD of any kind. Good riddance, I hope Microsoft picks something more respectable next time.
This is fantastic, thanks! I started using this "Kill Sticky Headers" [0] I saw on HN once and I find it very useful.

I'll give the ublock list a try.

[0] https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
We have designs. The problem is they aren't also capable of creating nuclear weapons so they are irrelevant to NATO. IIRC.
Actually, rhetorical forms are fallacies if they are not universally true. That they may be true in particular instances is not important.
> if you live in a country where you cannot get insulin if you need it, that is a pretty fucked up country.

Welcome to America. Land of the free.
Show HN: Raise money for charities with no costs while shopping online
I'm not disagreeing with you, but from what I know about WP, it could have been auto-generated. The plugin ecosystem is extremely varied and does lots of crazy shit
The air in Oregon is super crappy right now, thanks to fires.
A note on programmer salaries