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I get that Intel feels threatened by AMD. They are trying to impress the consumers... but bullshitting a demo is a very bad move! When a consumer decides to build a new PC, the characteristics of the product matter, but so does the reputation of the company that manufactures it. Right now Intel is putting too much effort into sketchy marketing practices: it undermines the actual work being done on their processors by some very talented people.

Presenting it as an extreme overclocking demo would have been a much wiser option.
It is a combination of cost and populism, where younger people are attracted to companies that pander to them and they are willing to accept less pay for more work. It's a fascinating phenomenon and to see identity politics enter this situation is equally fascinating.
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If you still have the old motherboard you can buy an old Xeon X56xx and use it as a drop in replacement in the LGA1366 socket. An X5650 for instance cost about $25 on ebay, is clocked at 2.66 GHz like the i7 920, has six cores, a TDP of 95W, and overclocks really well. I don't know if most i7 motherboards support ECC, but the CPU supports it.

The LGA1366 motherboards still fetch some money too, if you'd rather sell it.
God no. The broken window fallacy comes back from 1830, before Bastiat.

If you pay someone to do nothing you waste both the money you used that could have gone to something useful and the time of the person that would have done something else, hopefully productive, instead.
The best distillation I found was that this is all a version of the "Nothing to Hide" argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

There are some points to counter with in the article. Bruce Schneier quotes Cardinal Richelieu: give me 6 lines written by the most honest man and I'll find something in there to hang him by. Has the benefit of historical perspective!
Remember that the companies producing them use rolls in a printing press. This also allows for 3-d effects by applying e.g. resin with a deep-cut negative on the roll. The substrates lending themselves to this use are also probably different between direct digital printing and use of such a steel roll.
I thought this reference was for CNN News Network. Silly me..
My 2 cents, would be:
A decent IDE ( i vote for JetBrains' products ), a nice database tool ( i like AquaStudio very much ), a reliable workstation ( i7, 16Gb RAM or more, SSD ) with multiple monitors ( fullHD at least ), a proper O.S. ( BSD, Linux or MacOSX ) with root/admin rights, a fast internet and wifi connection, a sound muffling over-the-ear headphones, a comfortable ( gaming-style ) chair, a lock on the office door...
Last year I submitted a small CLI called Dnote to write down programming knowledge [1]. Today I launched a web version and wrote about what it is and why it exists.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14031649
Lifehacker is always interesting to see what the least tech savvy people on the planet think about tech.

A crypto trading game is a good idea.
They need training examples for their neural nets. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why? It's more expensive to do that. And there are many cases where that was not done.
BBC has massive financial issues. In 2005 the license fee was £183.46 (in today's money). It's now £147. That's a 20% cut in revenue in the last 13 years. In addition to that, funding for World Service and Monitoring has been moved to the license fee too.

If you're accessing from abroad you're the product -- the website is selling space to advertise to you.

This is the front page I see in the UK: https://i.imgur.com/EAADNgI.png

Top headline is Korea/US
Then next is Migrants, G7, Grenfell, and a trooping the colour change
The the sidebar is Entertainment, Crime, Sport, Entertainment, Entertainment, Crime, Technology

Internationally things like outbrain infect the BBC site, but we don't get that in the UK where we pay for it
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I... what? News-worthy?!
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If you haven't lived in that kind of high-visibility group-centric culture, you don't understand. Depression comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes and there is no 'should' - the term is meaningless. You might as well say 'you "should" feel better because how you feel isn't really real', right? That's not how depression and mental illness works.
Something very similar happens when companies outsource to lower skilled much cheaper overseas engineers. I'm not aware of a single example of that where the company hasn't lost ground as a result.

But hey it looks good on a spreadsheet.
Yp, sorry. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280710
Every time I hear someone say that C# is a well designed language I think of the story of how they had to hack the compiler to get async/await to work, and how F# implemented the same feature as a library. I guess there are different levels of "well designed".
It was always going to be that way. Threadripper 2 is just Threadripper with the two blank spacers in the IHS replaced with two more Zen dies, and a fab process change from 14nm to 12nm (but not architectural changes). It's very much what would be a "tick" in Intel CPU terminology.

Edit: Plus, the TR4 socket is guaranteed to be supported for 4 years, per AMD's roadmap at https://community.amd.com/thread/226363
I'm pretty sure you can change that, it should be a BIOS option [1].

[1] - https://www.anandtech.com/show/11697/the-amd-ryzen-threadrip...
I’ve personally listened to Tymoteusz Król giving a seminar lecture on Wilamowian. Lots of historical background in there. This guy is a heck of a geek, of the rarely-encountered kind.
> - Regardless of two-tone scheme chosen

It's about the design of the icons, not the colour scheme. They just aren't very good icons (IMHO at least, and presumably that of the previous commenter)
This is probably going to be a risky post here on Hnews, and i'm not sure of the credibility of the publication, but I too think we live in a Victimhood Culture.
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>One or two fixed position monochrome, low resolution forward facing cameras such as in a Tesla just won't compare.

I'm pretty sure humans could cope with that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CITIXlw_T4
Memrise has been an inspiration to Seedlang, but we have alot of improvements over it. Our videos are complete sentences, and they are also part of larger narratives (a story that we've written, or animated GIFs that we're describing). So it gives context to what is being learned.

Also, we have in depth understanding of grammar with each sentence. So if you don't know why a word has a certain ending, it can be clicked to get a full explanation.

But, yeah I'd love to know what you think of it. Hit me up at any time.
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This is really interesting, because this changed.

I noticed the default free CDN option was JS when version 5 of FA came out, but now the default is font based:

https://fontawesome.com/get-started

Note the tab order, it's Font | Js | Desktop | Advanced.

It used to start with JS, so I think you may be wrong on this point, even if they "recommend" it in their docs, their defaults argue otherwise.
I have lots of javascript disabled everywhere I go so only the first paragraph was visible. It wasn't until I opened the print preview that I saw the rest. We should rally against javascript-on-culture.
I really hope HN archives don't turn into a wasteland of [deleted] tags like reddit.

When HN deletes a user manually, how does it handle deleting comments with replies? Does it just mark the user as [deleted] and leave the content?
You can if you know what the higher level abstraction is. That kind of thing doesn't work when your learning algorithm doesn't have a programmer / mathematician to babysit it who knows more than it does.

... unless God is sitting there hacking our brains' code in real time to kick us out of local maxima. "Damn it... they're stuck on the mind/body dichotomy again... let me see what happens if I bolt a dimension reduction transform on there and then run another gradient descent on top. Shit now they're worshipping cheese... undo, undo, undo..."
That's on the older end of the customer demographic, though. My kids (oldest is seven) would have a blast, and would definitely be begging to bring something home.
Maybe try running the company with a partner if possible. Can help you share the burden and have some one to go through the experience together.
That would be akin to i7 8086k on 7.2GHz... just add LN2.
What they presented was an extreme overclocking area with insulation (due to subambient condensation), a one HP chiller that runs on a banned gas and a 4 second benchmark (seriously aside CB being free is not a true testament of overclocking prowess). Such a demo is as pointless as it is almost as practical as daily LN2 use.

I can imagine few cases where first-to-right-the-bell performance on a single core determines if you get a specific quote in HFT but that's that.
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When working on laptop in my lap I found trackpoint (I own ThinkPads) incredibly powerful, as I never need to put my hands away from keyboard.

Also once you get used to track point you will always look down on clunky workflow with touch pads - moving hands from/to keyboard all the time is worth it only with real mouse.
The corollary of "no error handling" is "caller must be perfect", it is the opposite to defensive coding. I can see the appeal, it puts minimal constraints on the caller, in a sense making the library functions as flexible as possible, but exposing an API so easy to misuse seems reckless, even if the API is elegant in its own way.
No, but with no more wear than through the use that what would be accepted when examining in a retail store. And shipping inside e.g. Germany is like 5 EUR (about 5$ if you compare pre-tax USD prices with post-tax EUR prices).
Probably most websites use Google Analytics or an alternative.
I’m surprised to learn an it professional regularly finds their way to a search engine home page. I would assume you’d just type your query directly into the address bar? This seems to work for every major browser at least, unless I’m mistaking?

I actually use Bing, and I see the oddity that is their homepage once a month, if that.

(And I think bing is fine for about 80% of searches. The rest I use google, which manages for another 10%, and for the remaining tithe I have to do something archaic like think about how to properly format a search query. Party like it’s 1999.)
Ikea works well online for me and several people I know.

The main factor is that we live in city centre and don't own cars, so 40 euro (or whatever it is) for shipping compares favourably to getting a taxi or a short-term car hire like car2go, gocar, etc.

TBH I even like visiting Ikea sometimes but ordering online solves the whole "this is going to chew up a whole Sunday afternoon" problem too.
Some (if not most) advice is pretty self-evident. But number 15 is interesting, about the legal profession and how lawyers round time when billing clients:

Rounding is a common practice in the legal profession and is the reason why lawyers can end up earning more than they actually work. Because they bill by 1/10th hour, a 30-second phone call and a 2-minute email are both rounded to 6 minutes for total of 12 minutes. This way, they can easily bill 8 hours in 6 hours (while staying perfectly honest).
Do note that while "burning trash" sounds absolutely horrific one shouldn't imagine setting fire to a garbage dump but more a factory where trash goes in on one side, and power and ash come out the other. There's fairly stringent requirements on what sort of thing is allowed to come out the chimney.

All in all it's probably not worse than running a coal plant.
While the article was insightful we cannot think linearly where two superpowers clash.

So I think we are lefting out the chance for a breakthrough. I imagine China could do their own Manhattan project for semiconductors and catch up faster.
If you make the fiber cable as thick as an Ethernet cable, you can easily make it not break when bend or rolled over.
Thanks. What I had in mind applies to distinct statements not expressions.

Funnily the chapter starts with the following caveat:

It is recommended that code not rely crucially on this specification. Code is usually clearer when each expression contains at most one side effect, as its outermost operation, and when code does not depend on exactly which exception arises as a consequence of the left-to-right evaluation of expressions.
> They have a flat charge, so if you buy a lot it can work.

They don't, at least in the UK. You pay a variable charge depending on what is shipping.
> I would expect a typical car trip to be faster than transit

Compared to buses on the same roads (i.e. without a dedicated lane), sure, but not to subways/light rail.
If you haven't lived in a high-visibility, group-centric culture like this, you don't understand why it's not strange for those two things to go together at all.

There is no "should" with depression and mental illness. You could well say 'you "should" feel better because it's just chemicals in your brain and what you are feeling isn't really real', right? But depression comes in all shapes and sizes and doesn't make rational sense, which is why it can't be treated that way.
By all means he deserves more money, no problem. But why with a lower tax rate?

Labor produces guaranteed income atleast in the west.

But investing capital doesn't.

How else do you incentivize risk taking?
Smyths also:

* Tends to be reasonably priced (I've gotten things there the same or cheaper than Argos)

* Is a quick walk from my flat in city centre

Though so far I've only bought baby things there (pram, etc.) not actual toys.

Neither of which applied to any ToysRUs in cities I've lived in.
Mine are growing up way too fast. My daughter, 12, lost interest in toys fairly early and was never into dolls or princesses at all. She did have a great Scooby Doo phase and we did buy the figures and toy Mystery Machine from Toys R Us and those toys went to hell and back. There were no monster characters to be had at the time, however, so our Scooby friends had little to do other than look at each other. We improvised.

My son, now 8, has been hot and cold with toys. I think he'd rather just run around with the neighborhood kids and engage in mock battles with makeshift swords and such. He liked my old Star Wars toys for awhile, and we even bought a few new ones to add to that stuff, but lately those things are sitting in a big bin in the basement. He was/is a Lego nut and has tons of Lego sets in his room and I am hoping he doesn't totally lose interest in building the sets and making up his own. If he loses interest I'll have about a zillion Lego sets to sell on CL.

It saddens me that kids aren't kids very long because I enjoy playing with him but my free time is so tight and I am often so harried that it is hard to just say "I'm going to dig through these bins and find parts so we can rebuild this set together." He'll be leaving for college one day and I'll have these huge regrets! My son's other big obsession is Nerf guns--those have been an enduring pastime for him, but one can only buy so many Nerf guns before saturation is reached as they are often huge and bulky items that don't store well. Still, much fun, especially in the dark winter months.

The only other toys that had any lasting impact for my kids were the expensive wooden Thomas trains when they were 3-4 years old. I guess my son liked Hot Wheels for awhile and we still have a large parking garage thing in our family room that probably is getting dusty right now. That thing comes out when the slightly younger neighbor kids come over.

I felt like last Christmas was really expensive and yet we didn't really buy them much of anything really good and I told my wife I'm not doing that again just to have the appearance of a lot of gifts. If they aren't going to play with stuff, they aren't getting it because our house is too full of unused junk as it is. I'd rather take a trip to Disney or maybe skiing.
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I am on POWER8 at work, the wiki article [1] gives a great description of the advantages of many cores per chip though ours only has 6/12 cores. Part of our hardware configuration to migrate from POWER7 to POWER8 was to have 40g of memory per core available. I think POWER7 was 30g. We use this in the iSeries environment but we have pSeries machines with the same hardware running AIX/Oracle and POWER7 VMs running many *nix implementations.

In my usage case, the core/thread count really helps DB2's SQL implementation as an iSeries is effectively a giant DB2 database with extras added on. Hence query engine (SQE/CQE see old doc [2] on our machine can make great use of many cores/threads. When serving data to intensive batch applications as well as thousands of warehouse users and double that through web services access to data is the name of the game.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8
[2] https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_i5_54/rza... <- that is quite a few years old but describes the query engines available - CQE is 'legacy' and SQE is modern
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If you're using this for anything serious, it's probably better to sign up for the keepa API at about $50/month and they scrape Amazon for you. Worth it to not need to deal with the complexities.
Claiming that PCG is unpredictable is dangerous. If it was really unpredictable, it would qualify as a CSPRNG... Unlike you, PCG's author does not claim it is, but even claiming it is "challenging to predict" is questionable.

There is a difference in statistical quality concerning the binary rank test, but this was fixed with the new PRNGs published in the xoshiro paper. Whether passing the binary rank test signifies "much better" quality is debatable...
I'm sorry for the out-of-topic rant:

I got the "we care about your prinvacy" note, in spanish.

What do I have to do to convince the internet that I don't speak fucking spanish?
Yes my ip is in spain because I live here.

Is it really so hard for developers in 2018 to realize that IP does not mean language preference?

<edit>
And also, stop spoiling spaniards with providing everything translated, this country needs to learn some english
Yep, they're using a jquery plugin called Sharrre to add social media buttons and have overridden its default off setting for "enableTracking - allows tracking social interaction with Google Analytics".
Are labelled pictures the only kind of input that neural networks can be trained on?
I think the main problem so to speak with RMS is that his predictions are usually:

a) terrifying and distopic
b) correct

It's like staring into the abyss, people reflexively want to look away.
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> If you're using an ad blocker, wouldn't this be irrelevant?

No; using an ad blocker won't prevent this kind of data collection. Ad blockers prevent you seeing ads, and some can block certain page elements associated with data collection (e.g. social media buttons), but this type of data collection is indistinguishable from the content itself.

While there are still other users who don't block ads, the incentive to collect such data for targeted advertising exists, and I think it's unlikely you will be specifically excluded from the dataset on this basis. I think it's also worth bearing in mind that it's in the interest of a data vendor to inflate expectations of the relevance of the data they sell.
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Prodigy is an annotation tool that makes it easy to use active learning or other model-in-the-loop features. It's a downloadable library, that can start the web server on your local network, allowing 100% data privacy. We've just rolled out experimental image support in v1.5.0.
Because she does not want to. Then either you do it or if you too don't want to do it just leave it undone.

Most chores are optional anyways.
It is bashing religion to imply the people who believe in it are primarily trying to escape reality. They believe they've discovered reality. And they'd like to be with other people who have also discovered reality.
Did they ever?
"Founders rank speed as their 3rd most important criteria and VCs, in fact, ranked it as the least important one."

This disconnect represents a significant opportunity for new VC firms.
With Ubuntu, and other Linuxen I've used, it's a matter of typing "firefox" or whatever the app is called. So, sure, I can type the extra but what I like about the Linux world is that there's no distinction between terminal and GUI apps when it comes to launching from the terminal.
¿Por qué no aprendes inglés?
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Thanks for posting that _old_dude_ - I was going to post similar things.

I'd also throw in the Shenandoah GC from Red Hat. I don't remember the details anymore, but I remember thinking it was an amazing bit of code:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0JTvyCxiv8
Which implementation are you talking about? The only assembly I can see in the reference implementation is used because clang fails to optimize a rotation. There seems to be no explicit SIMD at all.
Visual Studio arguably is SemVer based. Visual Studio 2017 is currently at version 15.7.2.
Commercial properties are valued based on their cap rate, so while vacancy is important to a potential buyer the seller is going to take the current square-foot rental rate and multiply it by the total size to get the projected annual revenue. They can then offer an 8% cap rate or other attractive return on a much higher asking price. As soon as they lower lease rates to increase occupancy the asset value is impacted moving forward, so if you've got a big inventory of commercial real estate that you're looking to sell it may be worth it to keep it largely vacant for years.

As a buyer you need to watch for new tenants at attractive rates as well. Sometimes the seller signs a 5 or 10 year lease with a connected company to drive up the cap rate, then a few months after selling the tenant defaults. As the landlord your recourse is limited, slow and expensive.
Latin american here,

I like to read things in Spanish.

pd: give you a break, go to a walk, talk to nice people.
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> long-running transactions

don't do that if you value your uptime at all. Long-running transactions are the bane of any Postgres setup, no matter the XID overflow.

A few weeks ago, one slipped through my monitoring and a cache table we often sequence scan which normally had 10k rows in it had 28M dead rows that could never be removed due to that one transaction.

That sequence scan suddenly became a lot more expensive.