skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...spend a whole summer on the PC playing SimCity, Doom (I am old), and later Rainbow Six (I loved that game)...

You're really not THAT old :)

On your main point: I disagree. Even if they don't have "real world results", that doesn't mean that they're not valuable. They have value as cultural products much like books and movies do, but I also think there's an inherent value in "play" itself. It gives us joy, it teaches us how learn new skills, it gives as a practice arena for social interaction, and it exercises the parts our brains dealing complex thinking, spacial reasoning and reaction. It's also just plain fun, and that's not nothing.

You could say playing games "has no value" in the sense that reading a novel "has no value": doing this activity doesn't contribute anything to the world. It's just good for you.
Build servers, video conversion/streaming, and hosting game servers are use cases that would certainly benefit from this in a hobbyist/home environment.
I didn't see the 8 year part until after I had commented. That is completely absurd.
I'm okay with "sin" taxes if the taxes goes directly to fixing the problem. Like the additional taxes for Tobacco goes to finance former smokers diseases; or that of sugar to fight obesity.

It's like "Here you pay medication/trouble while you consume".
Just to add some color

BREAKING: Author and journalist Maria Konnikova becomes PokerStars Ambassador

https://www.pokerstars.com/en/blog/2018/author-journalist-ma...

> Maria Konnikova was just your ordinary psychologist and New Yorker writer when she began turning up at PokerStars events about 12 months ago.

Yep, anyone can do it, lol
High-voltage direct current has losses of less than 3% per 1000km according to the Wikipedia article. That's not China-to-US stuff but definitely low enough to move energy around in Europe.
It's funny to me how much range there is in these tests. Some of these are seemingly backwards with better CPUs ranking so much worse and some look completely random. But wow, the performance on these new TR chips is just insane. Never would've guessed that AMD would be this competitive a few years ago, especially not on the CPU front. Looking forward to the upcoming 7nm launch, can't wait to see what's in store.
By any means necessary I guess.
Capital must be raises to pay for these projects. Is there a way for Europeans to invest in that?

Or is this out of reach for the small "retail investors"...
Wait, the article title says that "Google tracks your movements, like it or not".

But if I don't like it I can turn off both "Location History" and "Web and App Activity", right?
At the very least I guess it would be useful for running multiple VMs
I run 70 miles per week, usually around noon each day in New England. I eat a very low sodium diet. All the sodium I get is naturally occurring in plants, and I do not seek out high-sodium vegetables like celery. I probably get around 500 mg.

I sweat like crazy. My sweat is not overly salty.

It's probably easier for me due to the volume of low-calorie density foods like starches, fruits, and vegetables. If I were eating a lot of high-fat foods like meats or oil I would likely not get enough salt.

Once you are conditioned to a low-salt, no-added-sugar, no-oil diet, your tastebuds become highly sensitized to the existing tastes of the food. Salt deadens the tastebuds.
Details of the Binford structure editor for MacLisp are documented in the Pitmanual: http://www.maclisp.info/pitmanual/edit.html
Seconded. Loved this.
Losses have to exceed 65% (i.e. 350 watts at the socket from 1,000 watts at source) for that to make worldwide solar load balancing a bad idea with current technology.
> After core counts, the next battle will be on the interconnect. Low power, scalable, and high performance: process node scaling will mean nothing if the interconnect becomes 90% of the total chip power.

I think this means that scaling processors to more cores (nodes) in a lightweight-NUMA scheme just isn't going to work.

My guess going forward is that the core counts will stay at the current level for quite a while, and that both AMD and Intel will optimize the heck out of their interconnects, using most power budget gains to bolster the actual cores.
Oh, I agree about that. I'm just saying that even if everybody felt that funding was secured, the price would still not be at $420, because there are other risks of a deal like this falling through.
My favorite bit was jangling his keys to induce noise in the line to delay the hacker long enough for a trace.
This isn’t happening specially for Defcon, it’s been standard practice for a while.
Workplace Wanking - comedy becomes reality:
https://youtu.be/VKH9ECC_Qa4
Especially since he later claimed: "Only reason why this is not certain is that it’s contingent on a shareholder vote."
The one caveat is that git has a somewhat more expansive view of what counts as a rewrite of a line of code than what would be counted as a rewrite when writing a book.
You can enlist at 17 and US Army BCT is only 8 weeks long so we may just be a few months from that mark.

The only way I can reconcile the ongoing nightmare of The War on Terror is that most civilians in USA don't even think about it and there's so much money being made by the MIC.
The biggest benefit I've found to running a 1950X isn't something I would have expected, but which perhaps I should have. True, it's much faster than my old system for batch processing, but most of the time it's still idle. Even if it's running Chrome flat-out, as far as the 1950X is concerned, that's idle.

Because the two NUMA nodes are ~entirely independent, it's capable of running two independent processes at full speed. In practice, that means lower latencies and less jitter, and it's been noticeable. Folklore would have it that single-thread performance is the most important aspect of desktop performance, but that isn't what I've observed.

...it's also useful when I, e.g, decide to run a Factorio server on my desktop.
Dear Ukrainian friend, I assure you the majority of the Russian population does not support it at all, but they are powerless to change it (hence the "totalitarian" sticker on the regime). I don't have that many Russian friends left, perhaps under a hundred including my family. Not a single one of them approves of this stupidity. We all voted against the dictator, but everybody understands that the voting was just a theater. A few more years, and there is some hope (unlike China where Mr. Xi is going to stay for good). The quicker all sides deal with this active state brainwashing, the better place the world will be.
Its not quite that bad. You can have a plant edge device that pulls information out of your plant PLCs. Maybe without code changes on the PLC. This data can then go into an analytics platform for whatever reporting you want. The problem is nobody sees much value in the reporting.
I was excited about soylentnews also, registered over there on day of launch, and was pretty active for the first few months. I tried to help out, and at the time, not being a linux coder, I did some graphics to improve the UI a bit. Got told off the bat 'thx, but no thx' even though my icons were way better than the originals (which were from the original openslash codebase), and could have been just dropped into the build. That sort of dismissive attitude basically told me, that despite their manifesto it was really run by a secret bro-coder club who only wanted their own fiefdom to play in. So I left.

Pipedot.org started off well, but I got the impression there that it was basically a one-man-band running it. The lack of resources became apparent very early on.

HN is now where I happily lay my hat.
The military very much conditions minds into believing the bullshit that is 'glory for your country'. It is just as much bullshit as religious crap like 'glory for Allah' and we need to point this out when we see it.

Dedicating yourself to fight for your country is just as fucked up as fighting for your god. Both ideals are a sham propagated by people who sit comfortably and take much relish in the ego boost that is commanding cannon fodder. Make no mistake, many of these people are legitimate borderline psychopaths who want nothing more than their name in history books.

The same people legislate for the sake of getting their names on a successful bill. They care not for anyone but their crony group and themselves. They bray in parliament like demented asses, and bark and howl in Congress like the pack of wolves they pretend to protect you and I from.

The whole show is a shameful fraud, and it's shame on us for not identifying the lot of them for who they clearly are. We are all heading toward calamity once again, lead by the same psychopathy that has polluted the human condition for thousands and thousands of years. We can all see it coming day by day and yet we think the water isn't yet hot enough to do something about it before we become soup.
I wondered that as well. I guess my imagination for uses isn't particularly good, but all the uses i bought my 16 core workstation for (mostly research computing development) would really suffer with the memory performance of the 32 core chip.

I don't know enough about video games, but I would naively think that the memory latency would be a big deal there as well.

At any rate, I learned a lot from this article. Anandtech's reviews always seem well-written and well-researched.
I just want root on my blackberry. I only use fdroid apps, disable permissions, etc, but I can't even uninstall the Facebook app, because, what, Facebook payed blackberry or google?

Has everyone forgotten the principle of first sale?

Google really ruined our opportunity to have linux mobile devices. Purism some type phones that are truly user controlled can't come soon enough.

I personally think it's a national security issue it's so bad.
There are lot's of cool ones:

How much air in your room weighs?

What power do you need to transfer energy at the same rate as when you fill tank of gasoline?
You can never truly know your audience, you can only know yourself. Good writing involves getting in touch with yourself on a fundamentally human level that others can relate to. Good writing is about exploration and discovery. Writers that pander to an audience tend to be hacks, and the best they can hope for is to become shallow commercial successes.
How is the $1800 2990WX outperforming the $1980 i9-7980XE in every rendering test they performed not convincing?

There are clearly workloads where the 32 core TR chip does not perform well (probably due to the memory configuration) but it seems pretty good at rendering.
The more original the technology, the more insane it is to draw up sales schedules before the technology works. I've written about this before.

--------------------

Tuesday, June 9th, 2015

John told me that the board of directors had drawn up monthly sales goals for him. Starting in August, he would be expected to hit his quota. I thought this was insane. Once a product exists and is stable, then a company can draw up a sales schedule. How can one reasonably do that when the product does not even exist yet? Especially if the product is a cutting-edge technology which carries a lot of unknowns? For a stable company with an existing product, deadlines need to be more than mere aspirational goals, but when building truly original technology, then the entire company is aspirational — until the technology is working, there is no proof that the technology can work.

Even if the glorious day arrived when we would finally have an app customers could install on their iPhones, that would only be the beginning of a long process. Customers are an endless surprise. I’ve worked with startups for sixteen years; I know this well. Whenever I have shown people new software, the features that seemed intuitive to me were counterintuitive to them. Real-life needs that seemed intuitive to them seemed strange to me. If John thought that we could create our apps and have them working by mid-August, and he could immediately go out and start making tons of money, then he was sadly mistaken. If the board of directors thought that, then they were being badly misled.

https://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Tech-Startup-Easy-Steps/dp/09...
At least there's progress being made there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
The 2990wx blew everything out of the water in rendering. It's like 37% faster than the 7980xe in the Blender benchmark.
The only one I've read in this genre. It was quite enjoyable, and if my memory is correct quite technically plausible. Interesting themes about tech gigants and their influence/power, and some tragic stuff about wife/women abuse.
The whole point of the article is that it’s still tracked even if you turn it off.
Disclaimer, I'm a big Neal Stephenson fan.

Reamde, is a fast paced techno thriller. It's arguably one of his lesser novels but still a ton of fun IMHO.

The premise of the book is that of an online game that is essentially similar to world of warcraft with the difference that the entire point of the game is the in game economy.

This part of the book is pretty well developed and ties in nicely with his other novels that also deal with money, gold, crypto currencies, etc. The crisis in the game is when a group of enterprising chinese hackers deploy a virus that encrypts people's laptops via a bit of ransomware distributed via email. To unlock their computers people are to pay some of the in game gold in a particular area. All goes sideways through a set of rather unlikely coincidences.

There are a lot of other elements being dragged into this including a fair bit of gun wielding by terrorists, russian mafia, and the protagonist and his somewhat libertarian family. This is is not the most innovative plot and it is ultimately a relatively one dimensional plot that is in places a bit cringeworthy.

I still enjoyed this book and have read it multiple times. It's got plenty of side plots, detailed musings, and so on that are typical for Neal Stephenson. If you enjoy that kind of thing, this book is fine but it's no Anathem or Snow Crash.
I want to add "The Watchmen" by Jonathan Littman. It's the story of Kevin Poulsen. It's very well written and I personally liked it better than all the Mitnick stories, but they are certainly comparable.
It's been a while since I've last read it, but I think about it with a bit of nostalgia, as there are all those phone phreaking and dumpster diving stories in it, when nobody cared about security.
IBM allowed their RCU contribution to be used in LGPLv2 or later code through this commit they kindly contributed to the Userspace RCU project:

commit 54843abcc17c8e8b7600ed635e966c6970d8d20f
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Sat May 9 01:11:49 2009 -0400

LGPL relicensing of IBM's contributions

Add comments noting IBM's permission to relicense its contributions to the
urcu.h and urcu.c files under the LGPLv2 license, or any later version.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven L. Bennett <steven.bennett@us.ibm.com>
I would use it to mine bitcoin and heat my house in winter, I already have a slogan :

"Don't be a patsy who pay for heating your place, be paid for it. Order our heating device for just $2999!"
I've read a scifi story with this exact plot, so it looks like you're not alone!
If you can engineer spacetime, there really isn't such a thing as a long-term consequence anymore.
Never heard of it? what was it?

nowadays it redirects to -> https://guydeboredom.tumblr.com/

Which in itself is seems to be a good commentary on modern society...
> as different apes and humans have different GI and metabolic paths.

I never said they were the same, I say they are similar. A quote from the article you provided (thanks again for that):

"Anatomically, the digestive tracts of humans and great apes are very similar (Stevens and Hume 1995)"
This is most certainly a show of force by the hotel. I recall a visit to a $500+ per night hotel by a colleague participating in a high-level industry conference, representing an 'open' side of the negotiating table. The conference leadership had committed to paying perhaps four nights of the bill. On the third day, a hotel representative unlocked and walked into the room unannounced to "see what was going on" and refused to leave when asked. This was not a goon, but a smiling mid-level lackey. After ten minutes of "looking" it was over. When checkout time came, the bill was not pre-paid, but instead an unexpected two days were not paid, resulting in a surprise thousand dollar balance due. It was obviously harassment by someone. My point is that this is not new, and you are not safe from harassment at an expensive event.
To be fair, FIAT was hardly ever under the sort of nation-state influence that a sovereign fund is. They occasionally made business that "pleased", let's say, the Italian government, but it was decades before the Chrysler deal, and it was pretty rare anyway. Usually the relationship was the other way around, with the state making moves for the company to profit from, which is expected for any company.

Sovereign funds are direct emanations of nation-states, which is different. When they buy a somewhat-strategic industrial asset, it is significant. The question is whether the US (and particularly this fossil-fuel-friendly administration) actually see Tesla as strategic at all - my guess is that the guys currently in charge wouldn't care one bit.
This? http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5A8FE70517FD734D720...

Title:	Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness, and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier

Author(s):	Suelette Dreyfuss

Publisher:	Mandarin Australia

Year:	1997

ISBN:	9781863305952, 1863305955

>> This book provides a great overview of a number of computer intrusion incidents and links them throught not only the technical nature of the activity but the persons behind them. UNDERGROUND provides an excellent overview of intrustion activities focusing on the UK, Australia, and the United States. It covers the late 80's to the early nineties with stories on incidents such as the WANK Worm outbreak and 8lgm's activities. The stand out attribute of this book is that it examines what happened to the intruders after their activity rather than focusing on the activity itself. It also examines the interrelationships between intruders worldwide giving some insight into how the culture allows for several key persons to be involved in or have siginficant knowledge of many different activities. A must have to include in your library along with other staples such as Cuckoo's Egg, Masters of Deception, Fugitive Game, and Hacker Crackdown. However, like the other books noted, there are apt to be a few points that persons will take exception too with regard to accuracy.
> Writing a good book even in a field whose content doesn’t change much is hard. There’s a need for publishers but just not a need for one that charges hundreds of dollars for a textbook.

That's what Dover Books[1] and its series on Mathematics[2] are for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Publications

[2] http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-mathematics.ht...
Hackers Found a (Not-So-Easy) Way to Make the Amazon Echo a Spy Bug
It would be a collection of lithographically etched plates. These are stable across a wide collection of conditions. The coding scheme would be reed solomon or a variant of it, or possible even just massive duplication with checksums.
Multiple duplicate backups of the entire data would be stored in geographically disparate locations. This reduces the "asteroid hits <city>" problem. A wide range of different technologies would be used, randomly, across the copies. This reduces the likelihood of systematic catastrophic failure due to a specific technology not working as expected.

This is not that different from how current millenia-scale data storage has worked for... well, millenia. The primary challenge is in finding a universal key (if somebody comes along a million years later, will they share enough context to decode the archive?)
> Batteries are limited by the physics of our universe

Right, but our ingenuity and understanding of the physics may well not be perfect. Didn’t Moore’s law continue on well past it’s sell-by-date?
It's funny that when corporations track users to provide customers with content they find useful, people are up in arms about privacy violations; but when governments set up 24 hour city or nation-wide video surveillance, people are much more receptive. Given the relative risks involved (companies want to make it easier for you to buy stuff; governments can send you to prison) one would think it should be the other way around.
Really?

There are many TB3 docks available like https://mymantiz.com/products/md-01-zeus that offer dual 4k @60 Hz and as far as I know, they work just fine on Macbook Pro.

Are you sure you're not confusing it with USB-C, which can only drive one 4k@60Hz monitor per connector? USB-C connectors are compatible with TB3.
How is this different than buying gasoline some of which presumably come from Saudi Arabia?
I am new to common lisp but I've never had any problems using paredit with barfing and slurping
This is very interesting! In film production, it is also a common rule of thumb that you film about 10 times more footage than you end up using.
I wish spacemacs would release with parinfer integration. Paredit feels clunky, error-prone, and awkward after getting used to parinfer on atom.
> My guess is that energy will be so cheap, we produce much much more than we consume in the future

Nuclear power promised "too cheap to meter" and of course this never materialised, because someone does actually have to pay the capital and operating costs.

While spot prices may drift around all over the place, and renewable guaranteed price floors will continue to lower gradually, I wouldn't expect retail electricity to get much cheaper soon.
Yes! When I was a kid I had heard his story a bit but this book was amazing and really highlighted just how far someone could go with regards to "owning" systems.
Never occurred to me to write and then have github track it. And it keeps an off-site copy. Nice idea.
The job they are supposed to do and the one they actually do are two different things.
There is no oil conspiracy to kill EVs. EVs have enough problems of their own, or more precisely, a single, very big problem: energy storage. They don't need to be conspired against.

Only recently have EVs become viable, thanks to decades of improvement in battery technology.

As for Arab countries depending on oil, they are not entirely governed by morons. They know very well that they can't depend on oil eternally. Their easily accessible reserves will dry out, making extraction more and more expensive, and most of the world is trying to move away from it, for environmental and strategic reasons.

So they are doing the smart thing: use their easy money to invest into the future. Dubai is building a resort-like city to attract investors, Qatar is buying everything related to sports, and the Saudi invest in EVs. How well their investments will turn out remain to be seen but it is clear that they have a plan to diversify themselves.
Musk betting the farm on the Saudis basically saying 'Insh'Allah'
If Tesla collapsed tomorrow, I don't see that that'd make a huge difference to adoption of electric cars in the long-term. Arguably, Nissan collapsing would be worse. The Leaf is a much better model for widespread adoption than Tesla's stuff.
I like Nethack :) Btw, that reminds me of Dwarf Fortress and the whole "losing is fun" idea, of which I am a great fan as well, and do not find anything stupid about it ;)
Domino's pizza.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylewong/2018/01/26/how-dominos...
Why the Boeing 787 is not the aviation miracle we were promised
Is energy density even important for grid storage? France is larger and less mobile than a car or a computer.
Perfect use case for http://datproject.org/. It has git versioning on top of bittorrent, so if something gets updated in the dataset you only download the diff (unlike torrent).