skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desktop/laptop is a shrinking market, and HEDT/Workstations have always been extremely tiny -- it's nowhere close to where Intel makes most of their money. Consumer Ryzen 7 uptake numbers or ARM laptops are basically meaningless as far as predictions about "The death of Intel" go. It's nothing. Datacenters are what matter.

This is a good move for ARM perhaps, since their licensees have (repeatedly, at least _for now_) failed to move into the server market where x86 reigns supreme, so if they can take a shrinking market off Intel's hands and make some inroads there, hey, whatever works. People actually don't care about processors, because for consumers, price is king. So if they can deliver cheaper Chromebooks or whatever, people are happy. And ARM already dominates the lower end market. But large players don't work that way.

EPYC has better pricing per-core (I say this as a very happy 1950X owner) but you're kidding yourself if large scale vendors who buy thousands of SKUs per year/quarter do anything but buy in bulk, on multi-year contracts, with extensive sales negotiations. They are far ahead as far as vendor validation/stability goes (my 1950X motherboard still has BIOS/IOMMU glitches that I'm waiting on updates for, this stuff just takes time). For the biggest customers, Intel customizes their SKUs directly to their requirements. That's a significant amount of integration with their partners that AMD is not going to match overnight. And even if they take away some of Intel's total-monopoly status in the DC, say 25%, which is a metric shitload, they've still got a hell of a lot of technology (in their foundries) to back themselves up, as well as a massive warchest. I wouldn't be surprised if Xeon margins were above 50%. You really think they can't drop some of that off and immediately tilt that ratio back around, while having tens of billions on hand for R&D anyway?

You live in a castle of sand if you think they're actually going anywhere anytime in like, the next 5-7 years. And I have many bridges to sell you, if you think "marketing" is their only advantage in this fight -- as opposed to their foundries, deep integration, near-total monopoly status in the only market that matters, their massive warchest, and huge R&D setup.

I honestly wonder if Intel actually wants people think that ARM Chromebooks are a threat to them or whatever. It means they can keep deluding themselves while Xeon sales and margins continue to skyrocket for cloud providers while everyone else chases pennies (except AMD, who are actually trying, and are absolutely not guaranteed to dominate by that alone)...

(I do hope they start feeling the pressure, of course. I'd love cheaper Xeons, personally. :)
Especially with all the hype around VR, I’ve long suspected that a device or process to reliably induct lucid dreams would be a hugely valuable invention. I suspect many people who have explored lucid dreaming would agree.
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And you're lumping Western people together in the exact same way.
cool, I've recently needed some help interpreting joy
I had one from 1988. It was totally awesome. My first experience with a Windows PC 5 years later was a like being slapped with a wet fish.
Also, the 8MHz ARM out performed the 486 100MHz by a long way
Sounds like a horrible future for Borneons. But, it's obvious why many farmers turn to palm oil.

It is a very effective cash crop (hence the big screen TV - possibly a Curved 100" OLED screen for "that guy" running the Palm Oil plantation ;) and the demand is there worldwide.

Farming is often a very tough existence, so palm oil is very alluring for many who would otherwise face relative or absolute poverty.
Why increase production of palm oil when algae oil is healthier for you, more sustainable, and cheaper?
Thanks for checking my project. Glad HNers loved it. I had a great day.

Thanks to Alexander and Michiel for pointing me to Knuth's and Keith's recommendations.

I'm signing off for today. I'll reply to new comments (if any) tomorrow.

Have a great day : )
The OP comment wasn’t specific on timing - it sounded like a description of the recent era but if so wouldn’t be accurate unless you go back to the turn of the century.

OS 9 was similar to old-school Windows with direct memory access. Users of either definitely were impressed by the stability of newer systems – Windows NT was a big jump, which OS X matched with minor improvements, and something like BeOS was truly impressive for being able to seamlessly recover from most driver crashes by restarting the entire display subsystem, which IIRC Windows took another decade and a half to match with Windows 7.
Superior Software’s SPEECH! for the BBC Micro: software speech synthesis on a machine with relatively anaemic sound hardware. It was so cool back in the 1980s :-)

http://www.triumphoverchallenges.com/working-at-superior-sof...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1hC7Vjl_EWY
How people use, and lose, preexisting biases to make decisions
It'd be awesome if they provided a comparison of other tools on the same hardware like, "on an AWS M4.xlarge instance we were able to achieve 160m/ops/sec when the dataset fit into memory where as redis only did X"

Lacking that I agree it's a pretty meaningless stat.
Just a fun anecdote: I once had a dream where I met someone who was introduced to me as being me, although he looked completely different. I thought it was a really boring "philosophical" statement about how we all have many sides to ourselves, got a little angry about how pseudo-intellectual this dream was and decided to wake up. I decided I didn't want anything to do with that dream and forced myself awake. It was a very odd feeling to force my eyes open into the real world, when in the dream my eyes were already open!
My co-worker recommended this book to me a few hours ago and I had never heard of the guy. I just listened to a talk of his at Google and he seems super smart.
Liberum veto abuse was a symptom, not the cause. The practice existed since forever, but before late 17th century it was only used to block a particular issue, not the whole session, and only temporarily. And it was OK.

Then in one case it was abused (technically correctly) to veto a movement to lenghten the parliament session because consensus wasn't achieved. One guy vetoed that, and sejm was finished without any decisions.

Then it started to be abused illegally to finish any sejm completely at any time (even 1 day into the session which were supposed to last weeks) when even 1 nobleman vetoed. It wasn't the problem of the law, because it was illegal to do so - it was the problem of the implementation of the law - because influential people wanted it to be abused that way.

But the real reason was - Poland lost several important international struggles (over Baltics vs Sweden and over part of Ukraine vs Russia), and international economic situation changed (agricultural revolution started, decreasing grain prices on the western markets). Additionally after series of barely survived wars Poland lost a lot of population, so the grain production decreased (and it was like 99% of Polish economy).

Becausse of all of that - infulential people in Poland perceived Polish interests as unrealistic, and alligned themselves with more profitable groups - Prussia, Germany, Catholic Church. And to further their cause they were breaking the law by abusing liberum veto among others.

There were also patriots, of course, and they broke the law, too (3rd May Constitution was introduced in a coup supported by Prussia basically). But in the end Poland was already a Russian protectorate, and there was no way to fix that as long as Russia was so much stronger. Only after WW1 it became possible.
There certainly is a taste hypocrisy if European countries lecture other countries about wildlife after pretty much wiping out their own. But it would be stupid if developing countries repeated mistakes.

I think in the end the West should be willing to pay more for products from countries with good environmental practices.
Not sure, maybe it's not active anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title#Nevada
Yeah totally inflated. It's not like he accomplished a double envelopment of a superior force, a feat yet to be matched

Then isn't it more the shame that he couldn't accomplish his strategic aims?

Not like he pierced the Roman heartland through the Alps without the endless steamroll of replacement troops that Napoleon had.

So he set himself up for failure at the outset, but we admire him for the genius of his small scale moves. Amateurs study tactics, but professionals study logistics. Both Hannibal and Napoleon had key failures in this regard.

Alexander was clearly superior

He was clearly superior, in his ability to capitalize on tactical superiority to achieve strategic aims.
I had only a few lucid dreams. In that moment I was pretty sure to be lucid, but after waking up, it felt like a dream in which I just thought I was lucid.

How do you differentiate between the two? Is it even possible?
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No. It's not a joke. There's tons of jobs out there that pay the same and involve more labor and/or a work environment with a less pleasant temperature. Pretty much any outdoor manual labor job and many food service jobs will meet those criteria.
Yeah but I don't like it. What I'm looking for is an open, user-generated platform where the best summaries are upvoted. Blinkist is more of a curated list, and they're all formatted the same. I honestly don't give a crap about a 10-minute summary of a book. If I want a good summary, where I actually absorb some of the info, I need at least a 10 minute segment on each chapter. And even then, preferably, I could choose to listen to a different chapter-by-chapter summary by someone else if I wanted to.
Whoever knows that already will be insanely rich.
Actually very much. Think of it from an industry perspective.

If you are a software engineer that needs to use a network as a plug in module, then you may not need much understanding of linear algebra. But then you also don't need to know much ML either. It is simply a software engineering job.

However things change for anyone who gets their hands dirty or actually builds (even just implements know networks ) from scratch .

It is common to find that error caused by transferring a known model to your problem, was because of making key mistakes in how the question was posted mathematically. I am currently implementing Neural nets in my job, and have made many errors because of misunderstanding the mathematical operation of a layer.

PGMs are almost entirely math and so are embeddings and matrix factorization models. VAEs and GANs also need a solid grasp of the math behind them. Want to touch your loss function ? -> Math. Want to change optimization methods ? -> Math.

The visual designs of almost all neural nets are grounded in math, and this fact makes it vital to be good at it, if one wishes to gain anything beyond a surface level understanding of it.
FWIW, being able to switch away from or minimize a hung process has been supported since 1996 (Windows NT) or 2000 (OS X).
Can you prove it's a "gargantuan overstatement"?
Almost always exceedingly wonderful, better than anything 'IRL'. Except for lucid nightmares which seem to start out as regular nightmares anyways. Sometimes I'm able to overpower the nightmare and go fully lucid, other times I can't and its horrible. Way worse than a regular nightmare because I'm fully aware of whats happening.

Its definitely unsettling at first. I started lucid dreaming by chance at ~11 so I guess I'm used to it. I don't think much of it when I look away from the window and it turns into a flock of birds, just roll with it ya know :)

I think the false awakenings are part of lucid dreaming. The awareness that you're not actually awake yet is a small step from control of your dreams.
>Still, this idea of a store that doesn't sell fresh produce seems completely alien - I haven't seen that pop up anywhere

Yes you have. The Finnish equivalent is called Tokmanni. It's pretty much the exact same low quality crap. The only difference is that Tokmanni sells some stuff over €10.
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Agreed — it'd be huge if companies donated even modest amounts to ongoing work on the open-source products which power their business.
The failure of archimedes was it not being a PC clone, at which all "big boys" were putting bets on, and secondary to that was Taiwanese not buying into it.

And remember, back then the whole notion of a _personal_ PC was very new, and thus companies with first mover advantage got huge leverage by instilling the idea into common people that AT/XT "common phenotype clone" is the computer.

Lots of people then got an idea that a computer must be a kind of at/xt derivative and nothing else:

My parents brought a second hand CZ310 from Japan in late 1994. A super expensive machine even for them (they were possibly within the top 2000 at that time in Russia.) I remember, mom saying about those times affectionately that she asked for "the best computer the money can buy." And that when it gave up the ghost in 1997 or 1996, the repairman simply did not believe that it was a computer and not a some kind of a gaming console.
Maybe a very long time ago. Or you're confusing them with Allwinner.

Rockchip has the source of all the things on their GitHub, and a ton of commits in mainline Linux.
Since they have a typical two-slot cooler configuration, I'd guess 250W or less.
Links to 'our website' on the github page follows through to this paper [1]. Haven't read through it, but I did see a graph comparing Intel TBB, RocksDB and Masstree.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...
Faster than the leading brand
We've come a long way... Software vendors compiling for multiple targets doesn't seem so crazy anymore. We've got toolchains that are good at that, and we don't distribute software by floppy or cd anymore. Emulation seems like the wrong way to go.
I experienced this for years, but it never seemed to actually affect "rest". I'd have multiple intense dreams per night, waking up often between them. But not feeling sleep deprived at all, if anything the opposite. However i was also in my early 20s so maybe it would be harder now.
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> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

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Its pretty clear to me at least. I can sometimes remember the moment I figured out I was dreaming. With some great ones being jumping through a closed window and off a skyscraper.
That was very different. Armies then lived off the land, bought/stole what they needed very locally.

Yes. It was the medieval version of logistics -- basically everything comes from the immediate vicinity and there's frack-all by comparison for infrastructure. You could have supply lines, but it was proportionally more expensive. It's quite surprising, the amount of materials for building a castle which came from the immediate vicinity.

Sieges were not that common.

Like battles were even less common. I was given to understand that sieges were more frequent than battles.
While praising, author could use that háček over Čapek last name because that diacritical mark does makes the difference when it comes to pronunciation.
That's a huge presumption isn't it?

Nope. I usually qualify the statement, as I did above. In this case, I wrote that I appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leaderboard of HN. At other times, I use the framing openly female member.

It's based on data collection and on the fact that claiming to be, for example, the highest ranked openly female member for the past 2 or 2.5 years has not resulted in substantive evidence to the contrary coming to light. So far, no one has come forward to state "I (or X person) post as openly female and I have more karma than you/ I'm on the leaderboard" or similar substantive rebuttal.

I just get comments like yours asserting that I can't know that for certain, never mind that I typically carefully qualify the statement. Given how often individuals like you try to shoot me down and the fact that this is a huge group of pedants, I strongly suspect the lack of real evidence to the contrary confirms it.

So I'm pretty confident that my qualified statements on this are accurate.

There are people on the leaderboard who give out little or no personal info. I allow for the possibility that one of those individuals could be female. Even so, they don't post as openly female. I do.

If there are women on the leaderboard hiding their gender, to my mind, that only lends more weight to the assertion that sexism is an issue. Men here do not feel compelled to hide their gender and never get told they "should," a thing I have been told more than once.

For the record, I am not a member of Leap currently. I think it unlikely that I will become a member.
Redis is like 0 for 3 from a CAP perspective as far as I understand it. Fine for a cache, but if you want a KV store you can rely on for some properties, it does not seem viable.

So redis is 'tried and true' but may not meet your constraints.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-Redis-in-the-context-of-the-CA...

I haven't read the Faster paper yet (planning to) so I don't know that it provides better guarantees. But I personally would like a simple-as-redis KV store that provides better guarantees.

edit: Ah, yeah, Faster doesn't seem to even really be directly comparable to Redis - seems more like rocksdb, and not a distributed system.
Here I am on hacker news, reading about my hacker news habit...
Yes and no. The Ars author cites a study that uses the highest possible number (from another study 9 years old from Corley) plus another high number for biofuels that does not take into account farming techniques or price elasticity, and then indicates that because of this, maybe Africa's habitat will be significantly eroded because it's "highly suitable" to palm oil based on their study of the climate. No cost accounting, political geography, etc discussed.

The original study from Corley seems quite measured in the Abstract (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290110...) and also indicates that a number of factors would prevent this from happening due to substitution.

"Alarmist habitat erosion is good for clicks" is not a good reason to perpetuate hypothetical land use when there is plenty of actual non-hypothetical discussion to be had around the industry.

Do I need to go to the mat on this? Probably not, no, but it is symptomatic of a larger issue that I have trouble abiding: Oversimplified article associates two things together in the mind of information consumers who do not fully understand the problem. That association is for life. The correction / nuance never comes. Best to try and get to that nuance up front if at ALL possible, otherwise it's irresponsible.
And: "FASTER achieves higher throughput than current systems, by more than two orders of magnitude, and scales better than current pure in-memory data structures, for in-memory working sets."

Looking at 7.2 of the paper, they probably mean "more than 2x", definitely not exponentially faster in most cases. Still nice work though.
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I hear you, but since we don't have software that can determine whether posts follow the guidelines, sometimes (especially for brand new accounts) the anti-abuse software gets it wrong so then we have vouching.
Musk obviously needs a vacation to get some physical rest as well as recover some mental perspective. It would be a win for him and his endeavors if someone in his circle could convince him of that.

I've seen too many instances where that kind of self-exhaustion crosses a threshold and bad decisions start getting made.
I don't think I agree with you, but I want to make sure I understand what you're saying before I go down that route here. What exactly do you mean by a "generic tangent"? You originally said "political", but now you say "low-quality"? Are political discussions inherently low quality, or is low-quality in this context in addition to it being political in nature?
You get one of those two scores for scalability.
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I could believe it ruins sleep quality definitely. Even with experience it's hard to keep your mind from fully waking during periods of lucidity. I've managed to go an hour or two many times but it invariably ends with me waking at a random time in the middle of the night
For interoperability, you would want to keep the models that are sent out over the wire separate from the models you use in your program. You want the freedom of being able to change your database properties and fields, your domain models which could be some type of crazy aggregation of separate database tables are even information from other sources, without changing the structure that you expose to external clients.
But granularity is exactly what led to this outrage. Complex settings causing confusion. More granularity makes it worse.
"Using case studies involving machine learning and other hastily-executed figments of Silicon Valley's imagination, I will explain why computer security (and larger notions of ethical computing) are difficult to achieve if developers insist on literally not questioning anything that they do since even brief introspection would reduce the frequency of git commits."

For anyone who hasn't heard a James Mickens talk, do yourself a favor!
What I've observed in Europe is that there are huge amount of small companies instead of one big one. While big and powerful companies might be important on global scale. I suspect that on a more local scale, it is the large number of small companies which are more beneficial.
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That's true assuming that the browser doesn't offer any way to manage that using e.g. Chrome/Firefox Sync.

What PGP really needs is a modern security model so you'd have many device keys registered to an identity rather than requiring the risk of spreading copies around. I think I have IIRC 8 GPG subkeys currently (6 of them being Yubikeys) and every aspect of that toolchain is unacceptable in the modern era.
Another commenter mentioned it as well, but "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann https://dataintensive.net/ is a _fantastic_ overview of the field and, I think, more approachable and enjoyable to read than Kimball's book. But Kimball is a classic, especially for how to do warehouse design.

I'll also make a plug for the Meltano[0] project that my colleagues are working on. The idea is to have a simple tool for extraction, loading, transformation, and analysis from common business operations sources (Salesforce, Zendesk, Netsuite, etc.). It's all open source and we're tackling many of the problems you're interested in. Definitely poke around the codebase and feel free to ping me or make an issue / ask questions.

[0] https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/
Faster? Really?

Name for fast X: Quicker

Name for fast Y: Speedy
My local newspaper is the same way.

Talks about a very visual thing .... doesn't have any photos.

It's crazy because all those media companies fired their photographers and in the age of the internet ... PHOTOS AND VIDEOS ARE IMPORTANT!
>If you think getting minimum wage for doing retail work in an 80deg store is a particularly bad deal then you're probably living in a little bit of a bubble.

I can't even begin to elaborate on how fucking delusional this sentence is.