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Am I the only one understanding that finding funny ways to rant is one of Linus' favourites hobbies? And so that he is not doing that to hurt people, but to entertain? He makes that particularly clear by attending gatherings about pirates' language, etc.
Stop try to change him, because without this humorous spice his release notes would be way too boring.
That is well-defined.

"One special guarantee is made in order to simplify the use of unions: if a union contains several structures that share a common initial sequence (see below), and if the union object currently contains one of these structures, it is permitted to inspect the common initial part of any of them anywhere that a declaration of the complete type of the union is visible. Two structures share a common initial sequence if corresponding members have compatible types (and, for bit-fields, the same widths) for a sequence of one or more initial members."
Purely by accident of course. Same for the 16 phase mobo to supply upwards of 1kW of power to the CPU. All an accident.

No ill intent to find here.
Edge cases in this scare the hell out of me. I'm envisioning watching CCTV of every Tesla that follows a specific route on a specific day merrily driving off the same cliff until it's noticed.

I mean what would have happened here if another Tesla or two were directly behind Huang, following his car's lead?!

Possibly nothing, I'd assume the stopping distance would be observed and the following cars would be able to stop/avoid, but I wouldn't like to bet either way. Perhaps, in some conditions, the sudden impact on the lead car would cause the second car to lose track of the rear end of the first? Would it then accelerate into it?
The brown M&Ms of the corporate world?
Presumably, there was a follow-up discussion.
I suspect they have lots of experience at making sure translations are accurate.
> BTW, Cisco and a few others have been forced to develop 'lawful intercept' technologies on their routers for the three-letter agencies for years, I think. There was a big controversy about this a few years ago.

And you seem to be arguing that this is a good thing? Surely any company (filled with people) should be free to work on whatever technologies that those people feel is ethically right.
Sure, if you think the "game between nations" is scored on how much territory one occupies, rather than how prosperous the nations are.
We're not talking about an economic loss, we are talking about a potential subsidy to a sector of the economy to build massive numbers of carbon capture facilities.
I'd prefer a $1 trillion carbon-mitigation subsidy over a $1 trillion tax cut to be sure...
The CPU requiring a massive cooling system to run at the advertised frequency is an important information to share with the consumer.
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It doesn't have to be about sugar coating. Just try to take some of the emotions out of the conversation and stick to stating the facts, and you can easily come across as much less offensive.
If only us silly Americans talked so "honestly" with our wives:

"Why did you cook this? Are you fucking stupid?"

I'm in the military, and if you can't control what you say, you shouldn't be respected.
Both senses of 'to know' from Latin's cognoscere and sapere similarly flow through to other Romance languages including Portuguese (conhecer/saber) Italian (conoscere/sapere) and Spanish (conocer/saber).
> Actually the Earth did quite well during the carboniferous period all things considered.

Yes I agree Earth, and indeed life will do well on planet earth for a long time despite climate change.

Humans on the other hand...
So they are talking about a plant, soon to be built, that will capture about 50.000 tons of CO2 per year. Amazing! A single coal fired power plant (1GW) emits 12 million tons of CO2 per year.

Seriously, this stuff won't work, and it's pointless as long as fossil fuels are burned somewhere on Earth. It's bloody obvious what to do instead: (1) stop burning coal for electricity, (2) stop burning methane ("natural" gas) for electricity, (3) stop burning methane for process heat, (4) stop using methane to make fertilizer, (5) use electrified railways instead of trucks for most transportation.

Then it makes sense to talk about synthetic fuels, CO2 capture, electrifying the remaining transportation, etc, but not before.
I think people's ideas of what's a real conflict can vary. I don't know what Linus's motivation was, probably you know better than me. Is it possible he's trying to engender a culture where Andy pushes back harder on these rationales, rather than just being polite? Quoting Andy:

Yeah, there were few reasons why I decide to make that patch (OK, it seems I staked on not the best reason).
I think going over the TDP limits is putting it lightly considering it was outputting 2 watts per square millimeter.

For comparison, a Ryzen 1800X does 0.49 watts per square millimeter and has a lot less square millimeters (probably less than half)
So it's not the fact that it was overclocked that matters, but the fact that it required aftermarket cooling, right? Like my current CPU cannot get within 100MHz of its supposed max TurboBoost frequency due to (I presume) cooling limits, despite the fact that I haven't overclocked it, so for me to even get the frequency it is marketed as I would need aftermarket cooling... which seems like the same problem despite the lack of overclocking, right?
Numerous software companies (I'm not referring to typical SaaS startups here) advertise niche products or services that don't exist yet but can be created from the current product portfolio.
> managers who want to look like they’re doing something big so that they gain status.

So much this!

I've seen many outsourced multi-million-pound projects that would have been quicker, cheaper, and better as in-house projects for a few hundred thousand.

A senior manager doesn't want "In charge of a £100,000 3-month project" on their CV. They want to be able to write "In charge of a £20,000,000 2-year project". It doesn't matter that the cheap one works and the expensive one doesn't.
It's not constructive, but at least explicitly so. Avoiding swear words wouldn't change the fact, rather the insult would creep hidden in fluff.

The constructive part, not destructive, is in the alternatives proposed. So, plus minus zero in my mind, the emotional aspect is just a grab for attention, and ...
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I have added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 - 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝗖𝗖 𝗥𝗔𝗠 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 to the 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗽/𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿 article to cover setup with ECC RAM support.
Also, the origins of this bias are fairly arbitrary.

First, there is a real reason. Young people are more likely to be engaged with newer knowledge, technology, tools and such. That's balanced against older people being more experienced. It's particularly relevant in the software space, but the youthful exuberance VS experienced sobriety trade-off exists in all fields. Think of medicine, architecture, art...

The bigger reason (imo) for the bias is entirely arbitrary. Software is a new, rapidly growing field. There aren't many 50-something coders because most people start a profession in their youth and there wasn't as much code in their youth.

Far fewer people learned to code in the 80s than today. So.. the total number of people who code is skewed young. People see way more young coders than old ones. They assume only young people can code.

The point about people learning more new things in their youth is valid regardless of field.
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Is it just me or has slapping a number on blog titles been done to death? I'm at the stage now were I don't read articles with this type of lead. I guess the culprit somewhere down the line was, "12 tips on how to be a blogging Jedi".

I categorise these titles in the same group as phone calls which start, "Hi, how are you today?".
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Cultural differences? Look, we're not famous for our hospitality up here, but we are polite.
I would argue that this is extremely shady by Intel. It being an overclocked part means that this could be the single best 28-core die Intel has ever produced, so good luck getting one yourself (even then it still required a 1700W+ water chiller). And doing a one-off demo of overclocked (suggesting it would be a product) silicon just as competitors are announcing new products at COMPUTEX? There is no reason for this other than to mislead.
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When you say “here’s a 5GHz CPU” you expect it to fit with the current product lineup and to have thermal and power requirements within certain parameters that would allow you to run the thing at 5GHz without much effort.

“We overclocked this CPU to 5GHz” means all bets are off. You often have some headroom to overclock on stock voltage/cooling but always need to go above and beyond for more extreme overclocking. This particular setup apparently was using a very fancy 1700ish W chiller, and a 1300W PSU for the chassis itself.

Also, this is a Xeon part, so one you’d expect to see in servers or workstations. You don’t want that sort of thermals anywhere close to a data centre rack, and the sort of business with the budget to give you this sort of CPU wouldn’t want to have their IT department assembling custom coolers like this.

All of this assumes, of course, you can run the chip stably. That's more or less a given at stock speeds, operating within the vendor's operational specs. Once you start overclocking, all bets are off. Extreme overclocking (the sort that uses liquid nitrogen or this sort of chiller) never lasts long. Again, something an enthusiast overclocking for a few FPS on a gaming rig might be willing to live with, but a problem that's seriously disruptive in the sort of environment a Xeon is likely to be deployed.

(EDIT: Fixed chiller power and added stability concerns)
If they choose to make a very narrow interpretation, they'll be publicly shamed as violating their own policy.

It sounds like the want to keep selling cloud services, which is pretty much a commodity at this point.

Even if weak, any policy is better than none.

Anyways, given Googles consumer brand I suspect any form of involvement with weapons systems would be unwise :)
I'm surprised they even considered it.
Many times the announced max frequency is for single-core usage. If you're using all the cores they all have to slow down collectively so the whole CPU doesn't overheat.
> In fact, I'll take real toilet paper over standards any day, because at least that way I won't have splinters and ink up my arse.

So Linus, made my day!
I don't know how accurate it is to say that these engineers have put their careers on the line. It could also be that they wouldn't be able to make these statements were they not secure enough in their jobs to feel their careers wouldn't be on the line.
The cost of the Iraq war is in the trillions. A cynic could argue that that war happened to secure burnable fossil fuels.

It isn't obvious that the cost being in the trillions is cause to blanch - at the scale we are talking, the cost of mitigating with more expensive energy is also likely to be in the trillions.

You might benefit from being more specific about how many trillions.
Everything I'm talking about is single-threaded use only.
Overclocking sometimes invalides warantee.

Overclocking almost always shortens life expectancy of the CPU.
Still makes no sense to me whatsoever. Punishing non-mistakes like that doesn't magically make future mistakes disappear.

Training an activity will probably reduce the error rate in that particular activity, but it doesn't do anything for contract negotiation or whatever the senior banker later does where mistakes can be costly.
So you listened to the Tomorrow podcast rerun as well?

I think I skimmed this when it first came out, but after two years working at a consulting firm where our clients are borderline tech illiterate, this seems like a pretty decent primer to me. It's not that our clients are idiots (mostly), it's just that they are lacking 20 years or context. This does a great job at filling in some of the gaps.
Because the code is OK, but the _rationals_ in the commit message (union aliasing is bad) are not.

This is for history. If someone, later, say: "We should use union aliasing to fix this", someone would argue "No, we shouldn't because we already states _there_ that union aliasing is bad".

You can't consider a such amount of code like the kernel one without its commit history.

Here Linus explain why union aliasing is not "bad" per see, but considered "bad" because the C standard say so and he clearly explain standards are not holy book and compiler implementation is as important (something he always states).
This might fall under the GDPR, at which point they'd get between 2 and 4% of their annual turnover in fines.
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Well, the aftermarket cooling in the presentation was a 1HP sub-ambient cooling solution (though one image shows the system with a rating of 1.7kW)

The entire system pulled over 2kW of power, a lot of that dedicated to cooling.

This isn't merely "you need aftermarket cooling" but rather "you need to dedicated serious resources to cooling this".
> Which country came to the aid of Britain, and all those Western European nations when they were faced with the existential threat of Nazism?

Russia mainly, from where an estimated 24 million people died. American also didn't wade into a war through purely selfless means either, if Germany managed to invade Britain and western Europe, America would have been at significant threat.
Another moral indignation post at the top of the propaganda channel. Hint: Perhaps no one wants to communicate with you, too.
I went into a Walgreens in San Francisco and asked for an Allen wrench, and nobody on the staff knew what that was. They didn't speak fluent English.

But hey, Walgreens is exactly the type of store your comment applies to. I went into the Macy's flagship store on Union Square to ask for long underwear, and the salesman... didn't know what that was. He didn't speak fluent English either. He did eventually guess "do you mean... thermal?"

At that point I'm pretty comfortable saying it's the employer's fault. A tourist-attracting flagship is not in a cutthroat pricing competition with everyone nearby.
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s/personal development/breaking their spirit/g ?
It’s 250M a year for now.

Considering the size of the global arms trade, it’s very unlikely to stay 250M a year for long.
Hate to be that person, but -

This is not the spirit that some of us want to see in HN. Efforts are always appreciated. The field is improving incrementally, in a very fast way.
> There is not enough data to do this "scaling up". So doing so would be incredibly misleading (But doesn't stop tesla's PR from doing the same).

There are tens of thousands of Tesla vehicles on the road, many of which have been driven for years. However, the strength of Tesla vehicles safety doesn't rest on Tesla vehicles alone. Tesla vehicles are a class of vehicle which implement driver assistance technologies. There are many other cars that do this. Independent analysis of these cars in aggregate have shown them to reduce car accident frequency and severity.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/driver-assistance-technologi...

> The actions of this company and the persons behind this somehow does not feel compatible with such a goal. I am sorry. I am just not buying it. It is more probable that this "saving the planet" narrative is something that is meant to differentiate from the competition and to attract investors.

Tesla is a leader in the renewable energy sector. There is a need for renewable energy as a consequence of climate change. Being a leading player in renewable energy means being a leading player in combating climate change. So Tesla is a leader in combating climate change. Combating climate change is an effort to save the planet. So Tesla is a leading player in the effort toward saving the planet.

At no point in the chain of logic is it necessary to call upon the motivations of Elon Musk. If someone were kill another person, the motivation for doing that deed would not change whether or not they did in fact kill someone. In the same manner, the fact that Tesla is helping to solve the problem of climate change is a fact irregardless of the motivation of its founder.
> I simply don't know what to say to you if you are going to legitimately argue that shaving 20 feet off of braking distance will not make a car any safer.

If the car can’t see the obstacle, the braking distance simply does not matter.
Thank you, I am very much familiar with the site guidelines.

GitHub's Trending page has previously featured many similar projects, open letters and other non-software repositories, so I don't see how this is relevant here.

I understand that not all readers are interested in or even affected by GitHub's acquisition; however, a large number of them are. For this reason, a downvote button would be significantly more effective and democratic than giving two or three users the ability to completely hide a popular submission they do not agree with.

I do believe that dang and the Hacker News moderators have developed a good sense of how to keep the community healthy. Unfortunately, the most reliable way of accomplishing this is to eliminate any and all controversy that could lead to debates and arguments. This, however, is not indicative of a good community, it simply places users in a filter bubble by only showing them content that no two other users have ever disagreed with.

Despite eliminating nearly all arguments and controversy, this nonlinear voting mechanism is dangerous to the community and society as a whole, even if it gives the impression of a healthy community. Removing controversial submissions just as quickly as spam, child pornography and incitement to violence as can be expected from oppressive regimes is not an indicator of a healthy community, but rather that of a community that only gets to see what everyone agrees with.

Many people who have spent much more time on Hacker News than I have agree that there is room for improvement (see, for example, the analysis from last year that I linked to above). Unfortunately, simply hiding all controversial submissions saves the moderators time, and it seems that they are currently not interested in investing additional time into creating a truly healthy community, one that is capable of remaining healthy despite openly holding and expressing different opinions, and thus the current form of moderation is likely going to remain as it is now.
This does technically require that a union of those structs exists, even though it is not used. I don't know of any compiler for which this actually makes a difference though.
This really went wrong for intel. Let's sum it up:

- People who don't follow the corrections and follow up are now expecting them to release it (you can especially find a lot of people who says "intel will release it this year" in reddit for some reason). Now whatever intel actually releases will feel like a let down.

- By all account Amd only planned to release their 24 core threadripper 2 at computex, but after intel demo they moved to the 32 core model directly (with all 4 unit activated instead of 3 out of 4). Intel pushed the bar it has to compete with higher (also, good reminder that competition benefits the customer). Pricing wise TR2 is not even EPYC so intel also has trouble there.

- Additionally, Amd / Global foundry whispered that with their new process getting those chips at 5 ghz barrier in the not so distant future is on the table. Nobody had that barrier in mind a few weeks ago, and now all we know is Intel had to cheat to look like it can, while Amd is on its planned course to reach it. And this right after intel's numerous failure to get their new miniaturisation process to be on schedule the last few years.

- Once Asus and Gigabyte spilled the beans on how intel did it (aka it was overclocked, and the cooling unit was gigantic), intel came to their booth and gave them 30 minutes to hand back the cpu, ending the demo. Which moved it from "intel does a tech demo of what could be" to "intel tried to pull one over us and got caught".

After the ME security failure, the meltdown/spectre "working as intended" joke, the multi-release of various chips to try and stop ryzen in a few months, we now have the classic "oh we're sorry we got caught" ... Could someone at intel PR and marketing get a grip and stop making so much stupid moves ?

Nobody would have cared if they had come out and said "this is overclocked, a demo to show what we aim to do in the near future". Instead we got ... that.

Remember, Computex is a PR event. It's a tech show, not an investors call. You can't "lose" there, it's people coming to drool over what you have planned next. On most of these things, I don't doubt Intel and Amd are neck and neck, or even Intel ahead. Somehow, they managed to make themselves look like the ones who can't follow. Utterly terrible.
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> dark grey PVC-like conduit (is it actually PVC? I have no idea)

It is.

> I've seen electricians run the same stuff and I knew the glue they use was clear

The solvent ("glue") is more typically grey than clear IME for PVC electrical conduit. For PVC electrical conduit, it's a one-step process (no primer needed).

For PVC water or DWV pipe, it's a two-step (primer and solvent-glue) process; it's the primer that is typically colored and the solvent typically clear. The color in the primer is to facilitate inspection afterwards and the pipes are typically hidden. Electrical conduit is often visible where installed, and there's less tolerance to have the staining from the primer step used in water piping.
Especially since, once ASUS and Gigabyte showed how it was done, intel went to get their chip back and only gave them 30 minutes to comply. Way to show this wasn't supposed to be hidden from the public.
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These are daring statements!

In the light of the gigantic failure of
20th century early modernist architect's to solve many social problems, despite their loud claims to the contrary. What did early modernist
architects give us? Brutalism, car-friendly and pedestrian-repelling architecture following the blueprint of Le Corbusier "Radiant City" [1] and the Athens Charter [2]. Some solution to social problems ...

In the light of the extreme failure of most of 20th century's
modernist architecture, the burden of proof is
firmly in the architects & urban planner's court.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Radieuse
Ahh, so the difference is the voiding of the warranty? If so then this seems to explain why it would be more than a naming issue.
Northern European checking in here. I feel super uncomfortable with this communication style. Don't think this is reflective of cultural differences, so much as it is personal preference.
So if China does X US can do it too, also if China could do X but we do not know for sure then US can also do X.

Using this logic then US can do anything with the exception of the things you are 100% sure China(or insert other country here) is not and will not do it.

This means surveillance, killer robots, black magic,genetically enhanced humans, illegal experiments and procedures, is a valid tool for US because "what if we have a war with China, we must have same tools as them"