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> I saw OP threw in technical points where the hobby machine is not like a production HPC box - after issuing a dismissal of the work entirely.

Which would make it a non-shallow dismissal, as it provided a number of specific discussion points, which are, in fact, being discussed. The guidelines don't, after all, discourage dismissal (even dismissal in entirety), only shallow dismissal.

> HN does best when it gives a hobbyist a good faith appraisal of his/her work.

This strikes me as a very subject assertion, all around. It's a matter of opinion on how HN does best, and it's a matter of opinion what constitutes a good faith appraisal, especially as it relates to a hobby.

That said, I might agree for a "Show HN" post, but not for a repost of something 4 years old, with the arguably clickbaity (and patently, unarguably controversial) unqualified term "supercomputers" in the title.

> A hobbyist is of course not going to have the resources to do HPC at home - usually.

If not, I'm left to wonder, what's the point? Where is the performance "high" or the computing "super"?

I could somewhat wrap my brain around a hobbyist building a very small (in node count) HPC cluster as a testbed. I could also understand if the goal were something like cost-performance efficiency improvement (for purchase and/or operating cost). Is that what's going on here? I didn't get that from the article, and only one comment claimed the architecture is "novel" without specifying in what way.

I didn't even see anything to suggest scalability/modularity that's easier than "real" HPC, but that could be because I missed it among the emphasis on handmade construction.
It just appeared to me that there are now people in tech who never saw one of these.
Any info on the stand alone version available?
> Are there any counterexamples of countries where the state picks up the bill?

The state foots the bill in : France, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elterngeld
I want a qwerty phone with an eink display
This seems to be missing something very important to me.
Yes if your ownership goes from 10% to 8% but of a more valuable company you don't lose money. But presumably you were hoping the company would do well and be worth 10 times as much in the future, and your 2% loss of that future value is much more significant.
Probably, but you can't put a modern PC into an Amiga. I mean, if you already have one, being able to still upgrade it is just.... so cool <3
$229,-- for the MP01 version that is 2G only is an outrage. nice design & great marketing though.
Correlation doesn't mean cause. Otherwise you would draw conclusions like divorce rates in Maine affected by margarine consumption.

https://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=1703

People consuming fruit could be more healthy individuals in general, exercising and avoiding other types of food which might have more effect than consuming fruit. So be careful about drawing conclusions from correlations or epidemiological studies as you have to consider other possibilities.
I'm an European and I strongly believe in the freedom from getting told when to quit my job.

...that is just to examplify that the freedom from/to distinction requires a very specific worldview to function as a robust differentiator.
DAU/MAU is an important metric to measure engagement, but here's where it fails
The key question is "What happens to the people who don't benefit from the iteration?" People are not software.
The address of all Hackers -_-'
You don't want to take a sleeping pill everynight. That's pretty bad. I would suggest meditation.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that history will judge this line of argument poorly.
If you're making clothing / textiles for the ages, don't use plastics.
my friend (we were kids back then) refused to edit his config.sys and autoexec.bat because he didn't want to "unplug the processor" :)
I'm British and pretty left wing, don't assume that it's all tribal. Granted my post sounded quite American. The government forcing you to take time off is absolutely mental to me. Think of the edge cases => what if I'm not planning to bring up the kid? What if I want lots and lots of children? What if it's an absolutely vital time for me at work, partnerships are coming up or something. What if I'm self-employed? Then think about how possible choices for these edge cases lead to messed up situations. I can imagine people pretending not to be bringing up their children so that the government doesn't mess with their lives.

I see how you can frame it as "freedom not to have reproduction affect your career". But for one thing that still won't work. Time off is time off and income correlates with total hours worked in your life. For another, I don't think all of society agrees that we should pay for your freedom to have children without incurring any costs. We don't need more children, the world population is still increasing. There's this strange train of logic now that because aging populations become poor (because we massively overpromised on pensions) we need native children. 1. We can use immigration. 2. If your system cannot support the decreasing population necessary for the world to get through the next centuries, you need to fix the system not encourage breeding.

Also what about incels, gay people, people who just don't want children? Why on earth are they paying for straight middle class peoples ability not to have their kids interfere with their law career.
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that could the premise to a movie. a kid finds the magic button his grandparent's basement and flips it.
The Internet in some sense starts with, at the very latest, the Treaty of Bern in 1874. Because the Internet is just the current physical incarnation of the Network.

(The Treaty of Bern says how to make physical letter post work internationally the way we're used to today, before that it was a colossal pain in the arse)

The Network is like the Word, it's fundamental to what we are, the precise implementation may change, but the idea is forever.

Automobiles, T-shirts, babies brought up almost exclusively by their immediate biological parents, cow milk as a normal human beverage, portraits, funerals, the novel - these are all "just" culture and might become unfashionable and go away over the longer term or in other contexts - they're not fundamental to what we are. But the Word and the Network are right at the centre of what we are, as people.

Blockchain is just a weird cultural blip. It's not even T-shirts, it's Pork Pie Hats. People keep trying to make it a thing, but it's not a thing.
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Yes, this is exactly it. We have tons and tons and tons of documents from ancient Greece and Rome. On the other hand, we have much more writings on Persia written by Greeks and Romans than we do on Persians written by Persians: most of our knowledge of ancient Persia is via the Greeks and Romans!

The sad reality of history is that having contemporaneous writings by the people involved adds a lot more color and detail to history than archeology, so people are naturally more interested - there's more that can be known!
What do you think of the HiFive Unleashed [1]. I don't have one but they have claimed [2] the entire boot process is free and open source?

1. https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/

2. https://forums.sifive.com/t/who-should-buy-the-hifive-unleas...
Thanks for iTerm2!
As others have pointed out, plenty of other countries have this. The United States doesn't because it's "not a country": there isn't a single financial services regulatory jurisdiction, there's 50 different ones, and enough people are opposed to the federal government on "principle" (?) that there's no support for useful coordination efforts.
The articles says Bohm's ideas "remain influential". Are there any examples in recent Physics where this is the case?
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Try Salt Lake City, Utah.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/plat-of-zion/
> The Lycra in the suits contained ester-based polyurethane, a plastic that deteriorates when it comes in contact with water.

This reminded me of the water soluble paper I bought at a magic shop. It looks just like ordinary paper--you can write notes on it and even use it in a printer--but it dissolves into a mush within seconds on contact with water. Presumably a spy or bookmaker could spit on or chew his notes to quickly destroy them if apprehended. I can't imagine any real use, but it's a cool gift for people who like gadgets and spy craft. An instantly dissolving swimsuit would make an even more amusing gift!
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https://youtu.be/NF6kcNS6U80?t=1000
You said in the 1800s that their was engineering of famines in order to carry out ethnic cleansing.

So neither "it was maybe subconscious", nor Churchill fits in there.

FWIW those quotes to me sound more like "I'm not going to apologise for what I consider natural selection". Perhaps it's the lack of context, could you cite the works those quotes are from?

There's a World of difference between being unapologetic that your "race" has won-out genetically and "we're going to systematically wipe out humans who lack what we consider to be ideal characteristics".
So any father who doesn't take several complete months off work is neglectful? Which months are these, and if you take the wrong ones off are you neglectful? Is it the very early months where kids can't speak or ever remember what happened? Is it when they're learning to speak? This is an insane standard. Your kid isn't going to be a criminal because you worked when they were young. There are such things as evenings and weekends.
> Unfortunately, a combination of corporations _and_ users themselves have made this reality.

This is technically true, but in the same sense that "humans and cattle are responsible for climate change and deforestation" or "drug cartels and addicts are responsible for drug epidemics" are technically true as well.

It ignores the enormous power imbalances between the participating actors - more precisely that we have hierarchical, goal-driven organizations with clear objectives and vast resources in infrastructure, knowledge, manpower and money on the one hand and mostly clueless individuals on the other hand.

> We as a species seem unable to wean ourselves from sweet social nectar (Facebook, Instagram, etc.)

Nope, sorry. I've seen the excuse too often. If some Fortune-500 managers realize there is an enormous amount of money to be made by exploiting attention, that's not "we as a species".
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Look up tables can sometimes just be a huge array of numbers. 137295.276 vs 137395.276 is the kind of issue I am talking about.

But really any kind of error even if the IDE catches it is still a distraction. As to errors and speech recognition I am more talking about text messages or online posts not code.
Interesting. Reminded me of the Kew Gardens Ice House, a far more modest Georgian England version.
On what basis?

The Ivy League schools understand that admission is a ticket to a comfy-but-historically-and-culturally-insignificant middle-class life. Their goal is to guard against applicants seeeking that and to look for those who will go further.

It's not unlike VCs who guard against investing in founders who will take the first acquisition offer they see so they can score a few million and live comfortably. That outcome does nothing for them.
This is the crux of the Iran issue. Look at what country borders Iran to the east. What has the US done there in the past few years? Now look at what country borders Iran to the west. What has the US done there in the past few years?

I say this as an Israeli who has genuine concern for my children's well being. Iran has legitimate nuclear ambitions. The chain leading up to those ambitions is difficult for some people to admit, and the direction that those ambitions are pushing Iran may very well harm my family. But I don't blame the Iranians themselves for the position that they are in.
Interest in Roman history was never lost. Access to Greek writings was lost to some extent in western Europe in medieval times, but even then it was known through Roman sources and retellings.
Kip Thorne here [1] agrees with one aspect of Bohm’s philosophy (not Physics) —- he posits that theories that explain nature’s laws with more and more precision are like Matryoshka Dolls (Greeks->Newton->Einstein->String Theory->{??}), where each new layer improves on the predictions of the previous one —- and at one point in the discussion, he says this could go on until infinity.

(Regardless, this is a great interview to watch if you are interested in physics)

In similar vein, here is Eric Weinstein [2] talking about why we can’t find the theory of everything — and has similarly...kooky...ideas as Bohm. He is short-String theory (https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25547). His main critique comes from the demands that the theory starts imposing about wanting 11 or 26 dimensions.

All this in some level is super exciting and suspenseful, as I do believe Physics is on the cusp of a “new big idea from a lone genius” type revolution, that might push things forward!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pItxUFeZlx9...

[2] https://youtu.be/Yw88utUCx9M
The best Amiga emulator (WinUAE) only runs on Windows and is still not quite there when it comes to emulating hardware expansions. Its ports to other OSes have been abandoned and the best candidate (fs-uae) is moving at snail pace whilst lacking a lot of the killer features from WinUAE.

Original hardware with modern FPGA-based expansions is a lot better in terms of retaining the feel of the Amiga and not compromising on performance.
The F-19 air-to-air missions were some of the most intense gameplay I've ever experienced. You had to fly deep into Soviet territory and kick off the war by shooting down an airborne command plane or an airborne early warning plane, and then make it out alive as World War 3 literally started around you.
I don't understand how that is incompatible with basic income? Basic income isn't going to give you millions of dollars...
I used to walk past the Harder House on SW 10th and Market every day, where I think the systems PhD program sits. They have these fascinating network diagrams stuck up in the windows, and I was always curious what they were...
Thanks, it's not quite the same though. Pause key was much more convenient, and worked on every system. Thanks nevertheless!
It’s almost impossible to mix up babies in a maternity ward nowadays with all tracking stuff they have. No, I mean the mother cheating her couple.
Thanks for sharing this technical information.

Unfortunately, I'm not the kind of engineer to jump in and help build CPUs.

Makes me feel proud of the work at least partly from the city I grew up and studied in - Chennai, India.

Also very proud of the humble explanation of progress, and sensible goals. One could easily imagine a project like this getting distracted by PR &a chase headlines instead of technical progress (remember the cheap laptop competitor to OLPC?).

I cheer for this project and the people involved in it with all my heart.
I always wondered whether mandatory voting isn't just a plain duty, like paying taxes.

If you get penalized for not voting all the modern democratic idealism which portraits voting as a right is pretty stale.

I completely get why the classic Greeks came up with it, though. They were obviously far more tribal in their culture.
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Your use of the word "couple" is confusing to people who speak English as a second language.
Tsk tsk, of course we should restrict those who seek upper middle class lives in law and medicine, when clearly we should instead be selecting for upper-upper middle class livelihoods in I-banking and, once in a blue moon, management consulting!
My Amiga 1000 is stock. I've only really though about adding A500 external HDD, and maybe a kickstart ROM mod. I'm not too sure about accelerating it, you still only have an OCS Amiga at the heart, so a lot of the demanding software still wouldn't run. So what is the benefit of a faster CPU in it?
Interesting concept , don't know if this is something that would work outside of germany though , because of how dependant it is on the culture of the country between owning something and renting it.

I'm very curious to know if product come in a generalist box with the company logo on it or if it's sent with the original box that is sold with product ?
This sort of thing reminds me of the process to select and promote generals. With veritable mountains of qualified candidates, the selection process has to invariably use political methods in order to produce a desired outcome.

These processes were completely political until the ancient Greeks, who experimented with things like randomness to grant power to lower-class citizens. Some of my favorite videos on YouTube describe these political methods.

Randomness seems to have fallen out of favor ever since, I think it might have died with the Romans.

But imagine Harvard actually making public policy that they're just going to randomly select the the top applicants. They still won't be able to shape the demographics the way they want. Ensuring that they get to define the concept of a diverse student body is so important for them that they're fighting tooth and nail to preserve it.

I stated the last time this came up that this was an existential issue for Harvard and the whole concept of the Ivy League. But now I see it as a public policy and individual rights issue. Should Harvard have the right to shape their student body demographically? And if not, what does that make Harvard? What distinguishes the Ivy League from other universities? Obviously Harvard is of the opinion that this is a bet-the-company moment for them.
I think you can answer that by asking yourself another question: who at Harvard understands supply and demand?
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Yes! The biggest scar on my body is a 3cm long cut in the shape of the eye of Sauron from the edge of an AT case. Dangerous stuff fiddling with computers back in the day.
Amazon: The default confidence level is 80%, but our documentation says law enforcement should use the 99% confidence setting.

Human nature: Most individuals do not read documentation.

Result: Many law enforcement searches will likely occur at the default 80% confidence level.

Amazon should, when they know an account is for law enforcement, set the default to 99% for those accounts.
No, certainly not. The threat of serious legal reprisal deters criminals of all sorts, including rapists.
Not exactly a dumbphone, but Unihertz makes extremely small phones https://www.unihertz.com/
This is just classism dressed up as racism. People who don't want to enter the upper middle class and have strong extracurriculars are just the already upper middle class/upper class. The professions like law/medicine are what the lower classes shoot for, trying to be a journalist or a political player is the domain of the higher classes.

"These people work too hard for too low aspirations, we need more people who work less hard but have higher aspirations"

Those people are the rich and powerful.
There are still plenty of research groups working on Bohmian mechanics.
Focus of education can be split even further than country. My step brothers and I went to different schools, and I remember being surprised to discover my history lessons focused on the historical relevance of one city, theirs on the history of another. Public vs private schools.
Simplicity is especially important for developers because it is perhaps the most important determinant for the cost of reviewing, understanding and maintaining code.

But this cost association might be sort of special for systems built with code. Or systems that are built for handling discrete use cases rather than for continuous or approximate use cases.

This is quite speculative and a bit out of depth but: For some systems it might make more sense to duplicate a lot of functionality and use redundancy to achieve stability. Thinking of evolutionary systems for example.
Amazon isn't all that special. The rest of corporate America just fucked up.

Fast delivery and low overhead is frankly something any webshop could have delivered but the dinosaurs were set in their ways.
Good vs. Bad Legacy Code
Or rather another reason to marry a woman of strong character.
Looks very cool, I'd not heard of this before!

I can't see where you can actually buy one, or how much it costs, but looks like a project to keep an eye on.
How I played Tetris:
1. start it while turbo is enabled

2. wait for Tetris to adjust to the speed of 8Mhz 8086

3. turn off turbo and play Tetris almost twice as slow - actually managed to reach 32000+ a few times ;) (as it overflows on 32768 you had to stop playing just before or else you won't end on the high score list)
Simple is better where you need to maintain control, because then a human being can understand the entire system and its behavior becomes deterministic from our perspective. Complexity--practically by definition--means that the system's behavior becomes harder to predict, when software development is (in most cases) explicitly focused on delivering expected behavior. So for most practical software development purposes, simplicity is better.

But complexity can also be emergent from the aggregation of many small, simple components. E.g. the internet, which grew out of some relatively simple protocols connecting a handful of computers into the globe-spanning organism that it is today. So you may not design a complex system as a software developer, but your simple system may become a component in a larger, complex system. And that system will be more robust than the individual, simple components are. Such as the replacement of HTTP with HTTPS at the protocol level or fiber replacing copper in the physical system of the internet. Those simple systems have (or rather will soon) perish, while the more complex system that emerged from them survives.
Interesting and thank you for the reply. So they aim to admit people truly outstanding at something or with the potential to do so and strong evidence to back that up.

I guess they might miss out on some exceptional generalists who tend to shine a bit later in life.
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I for one will be moving away from Macbooks when the time comes.
As a developer I can no longer justify such an oppressive attitude toward a line of computers meant for serious professionals. These laptops are more a fashion and status symbol than ever, rather than the dynamic powerhouse we need them to be.
They were great computers, but unfortunantly not so dynamic anymore and I philosophically do not agree with Apple any longer.

In a couple of years I'll be moving to a Linux setup, I only hope that the offerings at that stage are a little more 'complete'.
Assuming you mean extinction of mankind or end of civilisation, here are another two: genetically engineered diseases, artificial intelligence (AI).

There's also voluntary extinction (vhemt.org), of course, but that's not really a "cause".
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But it doesn't exist anymore - not as useful for show and tell.
It's not malaria that's spreading: it's people.
Wasn't there a study where wine tasters couldn't distinguish red wine from white wine containing red food coloring?
Thanks. That's interesting, but according to the article some of these countries are just paying out extra money from the state on top of employer-mandated leave, or they have a hybrid system where the employer covers some significant percentage, which still leaves these incentives in place.
I always thought it was the footprint (clawprint) of a dove
That sounds like an investment that will pay off in spades.