skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I can barely conceive of the poor experience of running a modern web browser on 4 GB of memory at 1366x768."

I've used for years a CoreDuo system+4GB with Firefox then PaleMoon playing videos in FullHD on 23 and 27 inches monitors, and never got even close to hit the swap partition unless I was running virtual machines or heavy games. Now I'm on a i5 Debian+XFCE with 8gigs, one Waterfox (privacy oriented Firefox derivative, thanks to the HN user who pointed me at it) instance with 4 tabs opened and a shell with 2 tabs; here's free output:

~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 8037636 1194044 4182928 187332 2660664 6555172
Swap: 8249340 0 8249340

And this one while watching a 1080p Youtube video at fullscreen.

~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 8037636 1453204 3761776 280824 2822656 6202520
Swap: 8249340 0 8249340

The operating system probably makes a difference [1], but anyway Firefox runs perfectly
on 4 gigs or less. That RAM amount is plenty if well used.

[1] ~$ uname -svo
Linux #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u5 (2017-09-19) GNU/Linux
(a bit older RT kernel needed for low latency audio)
One common misconception (or should I say, overgeneralization) is repeated in the article: threads are always unsuited to CPU intensive work.

For instance, most numpy operations release the GIL, meaning that you can perform heavy computation on multiple threads simultaneously. Certain other C extensions do the same, including some bits of the standard library. The usual caveats apply about threading bugs, of course.

Another detail is that numpy linked to e.g Intel MKL will multithread some operations by default. Running multiple threads-in-threads is likely to cause slowdown.
Apple has done this twice already. 680x0 to PowerPC, then PowerPC to Intel. Adobe's come along on both of these.
> they had OSX running on x86 for years before the switch (in fact they had OSX running on x86 before it even was OSX

Although NeXTStep ran on x86, the MacOS build on x86 was John Scheinberg's personal skunkworks project until it became Marklar in 2001 (and then kept under the hood for another four years). Mind, Darwin was always written to be portable, but it wasn't a deliberate strategy to take it to Intel. This time around though, I too reckon that they have already a MacBook running on an A10X in the labs.
Crazy that Facebook would incorporate this change with no prior notice - on a holiday weekend no less. Surprised at the lack of outrage/news on this as I assume it impacts most 3rd party Instagram apps.
Apple has more experience with architecture changes than many other companies. In general, transitioning to a new processor architecture is very straightforward, and way easier than switching to a new OS.

The reason why windows on ARM never caught on was simply that windows was still available for x86. With apple it's different though, because once (Or if) they switch, then the only way to be on OS X is through the use of the new architecture.

There are a variety of features of OS X that are going to keep the design community there for the foreseeable future.
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Verizon still the fastest, my ISP, but switched to 1.1.1.1 for the perceived privacy benefit. The speed difference wouldn't be noticeable for me between Verizon, Google, Cloudflare.

used https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
Is it that username which crash Youtube? sounds pretty amazing!
A proof of stake smart contract would be perfect for this. The currency is reputation earned by writing well-done reviews and 'staked' behind reviews they believe are well-done. Papers need a certain number of well-done reviews with the stakes on both sides accumulating behind approve/deny. You have to pay with the currency to have your paper reviewed and the currencies are distributed to the reviewers to allow monetization via exchanges with a small amount withdrawn as a siphon to support the continued development of the network and marketing/public relations.
I don't see why a separate desktop device is needed at all.

Give us a MacOS-like desktop mode. We could connect a mouse and keyboard using bluetooth. We could airplay to a display. Even better, replace lightning with thunderbolt so we can connect our phones to an external GPU.
Similar to how Bell Labs Inferno worked. The kernel to user space interface was a register based VM called Dis. The entirety of user space was written in Limbo, the predecessor to Go (Both designed by Rob Pike), which allowed the whole of userspace and thus the bulk of the OS to be completely CPU independant. A JIT kept things speedy and performance penalties were about 30%. So your entire OS stack was CPU independent which allows applications to be written on an X86 machine and then ran on an Arm box with zero recopilation. True write-once-run-anywhere.

I have it built on my raspberry pi B+, Linux 32bit chroot, and there is a prebuilt Windows image available that you unzip and run.
Just the same treadmill as when toy desktops replaced workstations in the 80's.
Software-defined networking is harmonizing for networking's future
Locking Down Your AWS in 5 Steps
A lot of progress has been made recently in ARM virtualization (see its push into datacenter units). An ARM VM should run reasonably quick, and Ubuntu works fine on ARM.
Imagine this on the highway in the desert. Is it ever going to start raining then?

Or imagine if you just look up the weather ahead of time and only run the self driving trucks if there is a less than 5% chance of rain.

These situations are still very common. You could replace all trucks on the highway in any desert climate, for example. And that's still many billions of dollars.
Volkswagen Orders Up $20B in Batteries
None, but evidently the point I was trying to make was a bit too elusive — it is the userbase and concentration of information it forms that is itself the use case or desirable feature. FB's walled garden IS the tool.

I don't myself agree with it - I'm in your camp, thinking there're far better existant tools out there. I just know from my own experience I'm 'missing out' on stuff shared or put in there by people locked into a domain I do not myself have access to.
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> but the remaining cases are far more numerous and have far more utility

But why do we want to replace ourselves? Do we just want the machines to do everything for us? Take care of us like we're pets?
I don't think there's any way to tell if there has been concrete harm, which is the biggest problem. You can't trust the platform.
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No, YouTube is having issues loading any profile right now.
Perhaps this new Daily Beast story is evidence he has been taken in by another hoax.
It really depends on what exactly Apple is intending to do, which we just don't know yet.

But if they really are committed to the Mac Pro (and if this rumor is essentially true), then they must be planning something pretty extraordinary:

1. They actually have a solid plan on how they are going to make CPUs competitive with Intel Xeons over the next ~2-4 years.

2. They're planing on a bifurcated line, where some Macs have Apple CPUs and some have Intel CPUs... presumably with different architectures. I guess 2b. would be that the Apple CPUs will actually be x64 compatible.

It all seems pretty crazy, but Apple has done this kind of thing before, and done it rather smoothly. I guess time will tell.
If everyone is just doing passive investment, there's no real price discovery, it's just valuable companies getting more valuable just because they're already valuable. It also screws with management incentives for the companies when their 'owners' are completely checked out and uninterested in performance.
would also be too good to be true...
Interesting, I actually changed the font on the webpage because I found it too thin.
NYC mayor hints at ‘vacancy fee’ for landlords of empty storefronts
Haha, nothing gets you downvoted faster in Hacker News than expressing an anti-current-administration opinion. This place is being closely brigaded.
Better yet they can probably afford to just buy AMD.
The problem here, I think, is that although humans can be studied without knowing the structure of their brains, (psychology, sociology, etc...) machines of today cannot.
The reason for that is that humans are humans and barely differ from each other biologically (the structure of the brain), but ANNs are very diverse and their behavior changes depending on their "biology," so machine psychology or machine sociology cannot be built on stable grounds
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Humans like mind-altering substances. I can guarantee you that if tobacco disappeared and vaping didn't exist these kids would just be drinking or smoking pot.
It is plausible that Daily Beast has the story because Chelsea Clinton is a board member of the controlling company. She and her family have a profit motive for pushing Russia-phobic conspiracy theories.
There are multiple dimensions to scaling. A large number of subhuman-intelligent agents can beat a small number of superhuman-intelligences (and vice versa, depending on specifics), and certainly beats not building anything.
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It is used heavily by spammers to hide url's. Often, 5 or more shorteners (including less-than-reputable ones) are used in a chain.
> I feel like it's only a matter of time before we see some devastating compromise(s) of security using the OPM hack and/or hacks of private data sources.

I'm willing to bet that the devastating compromises thanks to the OPM hack have already happened, and that they're either classified, or, even scarier, the USG doesn't even know about them yet (e.g. people blackmailed into being spies who haven't yet been caught).
Its 29". I've had many monitors, both bigger and smaller, and this is by far the best I've had for gaming and everything else.

Exact model:

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A "2400 year old opinion", to me it is a proof of how good and unbreakable it is for surviving so many years. You are a very smart guy, more than me, for sure, you also should try it, fight against your mental blocks and give a try on philosophy, it can enlighten your life.
The overwhelming majority of zoning’s actual function in the cities in question is to reserve most land exclusively for single-family homes and parking spaces. This isn’t a minor abuse of a mostly-good concept. It is the concept.

Still, I think it would be beneficial to reframe the YIMBY position as “upzoning” or “legalize apartment buildings” because the “deregulation” spin invokes a bunch of right-wing baggage unnecessarily. Relatively few of us want complete deregulation. We want different regulations.
When you create a group of experts whose expertise lies in telling other people how what they're doing is wrong, you create problems.

The experts need to justify their position by coming up with more and more reasons that people need to listen to them. People who are actually doing the work quickly become convinced that said experts are ignorant asses who don't know what they are doing. This automatically sets up grounds for conflict.

I agree that the ethics of AI is important. However I expect the best work to come from people who are experts in AI first, and only secondarily in ethics. And I expect that the self-appointed experts in ethics won't recognize this. (Particularly not when faced with anything that makes their position seem less important.)
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interesting, i only use my ipad as a remote to the avr so i can play tidal from my hifi... it's gathering dust otherwise.
Do you ever take on interns?
> Sure single thread performance wont be able to compete with intel but they might not need to.

In regards to audio applications like Logic and Ableton, single thread performance is probably the biggest factor. Individual plugins and effects are all single threaded within a DAW.
It's humblebrag's cousin - the shamebrag.
Yes! This is the nice moment when the other party in the debate starts to back off from their original position, which, I shall remind you, was:

> My reasoning skills exceed that of my compiler and I can thus determine that certain designs are type-safe that my compiler cannot.

Anyhow. Back to your last comment:

> Even if I write a formal proof, I'm not guaranteed that my program won't index out of bounds.

If you actually come up with a proof, you are completely guaranteed that the proven statement is true.

> Formals proofs have errors in them all the time.

Correction: Purported proofs often actually aren't proofs. It is not a proof if it is wrong.

> I want dynamic checks to catch me in those cases.

Thanks for making my point for me! Self-quotes are decidedly not tasteful, but this situation calls for a reminder:

> It is useful (again, according to proponents, not me) to consider these inconsistent attempts valid programs so that programmers can obtain example-based feedback about the consequences of their designs. Logic and abstract reasoning are not everyone's forte, after all.

Anyhow. Back to your last comment:

> Further to the point, let me reiterate: programmers do not (in almost all cases) write these proofs you are talking about.

This is just a statement of fact, which is true, indeed. But it doesn't support your original position in any way.
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I wonder what this means for Americans who are digital nomads. We already have 90-day Schengen access. Healthcare would be cheaper, excellent, but we also have the global taxation thing, so they won’t be lower.
GNU libiberty includes a Rust symbol demangler that you can link: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libiberty/rust...
I don't understand your point here. Just like people pay separate subscription fees for Netflix and Hulu, which essentially provide the same service with different content, why wouldn't people pay separate subscription fees for Twitter and Facebook, if it were an option to avoid ads?
For what it is worth, I had a similar gut level reaction. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16738190 for my explanation of why I think that this is a bad idea.
> If the established players promote regulation which make it harder for new entrants to gain a foothold, that's cartel-like behavior and it hurts consumers.

It's called level playing field and it's not catered to multinationals in particular. There is no shortage of independent car rentals and hotels around the world. In fact am writing this from a non-chain beach condo and there's a mom&pops car rental maybe 250 meters away. Somehow they are able to comply to a few simple regulations, it is a bit dramatic to paint comparatively huge centralized corporations as victims of oligopolies here.
Linux desktop will never thrive. I'm sorry to tell you that.

it's more likely that some other player just releases a completely new OS to replace Windows. just like Chrome replaced IE (and not Firefox).
"People buy computers to run software. If they can't run their existing software on it"

Obviously, but my point was that this mattered more in the past. Apple has so many tools and arrangements in place today to make a transition less painful. They got fat binaries and bundles. They got bitcode. They have really strong control over the app delivery process by having it all go through their app store. Almost everybody use xCode which they also control.

I can't remember ever running very much on PPC emulation on last transition. Usually I used fat binaries. Apple has been through so many of these transitions and gotten better at it every time. This will likely be quit smooth.

"But now, a significant number people are using Macs as hosts for x86 Linux and Windows virtual machines."

Really? I've been a Mac user since OSX came out and have very rarely encountered people who do that. I think this user group is too small for Apple to care. Anyway Linux should work fine, and I believe Windows also runs on ARM although not all software so I think this is not as big of an issue as you might think.
Moreso. If you have one Usain Bolt, he can do stuff no one else can, but having accomplished it, he can't share his ability. If you have a software developer with a Usain Bolt-level of skill, he can share what he creates.
I agree with your assessment, but my "gut" feeling is that Sinclair is over-reaching and the expectation won't match the spend. ESPN just announced their streaming service ESPN+. This is just another nail in cable TV's coffin. In a few years, broadcast television may be on its last legs.

We're on the verge of a Spotify for TV where you can pick your own channels, including which "local" channel you want. Some people may still pick the Sinclair run station and be influenced, but my point is that we're reading this Sinclair deal in the context of the past.

And people have an interesting habit of recognizing when they're being manipulated and they call B.S.

First West Virginia, now Oklahoma where school teachers are fed up with tax cuts that only benefit corporations and the wealthy and end up taking away from teachers and students.

We have a tragic and unexpectedly organized and mature set of Florida teenagers that are giving the NRA a run for their money. They may have knocked a Fox News mainstay off the air by forcing most of her advertisers to bolt.

My sense, and it's just intuition based on the news of the day, is that people are just starting to push back. Sinclair probably needed the FCC changes 10 years ago. I think it's probably just too late.
Facebook: Connecting people is good, even if we help some killers along the way.
Will this finally let me write a parallel Python script that doesn't explode when I press control+C?
Automated, huh? There is no replacement for using your brain, and reasoning abstractly about the preconditions and postconditions of program fragments.
Those changes were all to more powerful processors such that emulating the old architecture wouldn't be that bad. In this instance, Apple would likely be going to a less powerful processors and thus emulation at any reasonable level of performance wouldn't be that viable.