skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was amazed at how much power the interconnect was taking on these parts. Even with all the other downsides I was convinced it was the right move, but those power requirements are giving me second (third?) thoughts.

The 7nm parts (incl. Ryzen on up) are rumored to use 16-core CCXes, so we should see 64-core EPYC and possibly Threadripper with no worse IC power use. Hopefully they'll make the IC better as well.

7nm EPYC being fabbed on TSMC does give some chance for a big monolithic die. TSMC has a long history making large dies and their 7nm process should be mature enough for decent yields at that point. I am speculating out of my depth, though.
Let's not also forget the pretty much forced upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 10. That really registered; I even saw my non-tech family members notice how the system tries to trick them into upgrade; this really made people curious about the purpose of "telemetry" in the system ("they wouldn't be forcing us to upgrade if they weren't making money off spying on us").
wow... just, speechless...
Your source indicates it's part of Google's OK Google feature, which AFAIK is opt-out on Android as well. The headline makes it seem a little more overblown than it is.
Physics. In about 5 billion years the sun will become a red giant and destroy the earth.

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/astro801/content/l6_p2.html
I'd be excited if it were $950 cheaper. Lenovo users aren't buying these thing to look hip while we drink cold brew in the university center. So no that my mom won't buy my computers I'm expected to convince my employer to spend an extra thousand dollars on my wank-station? Perposterous.
my jaw has dropped because of this breakthrough
Comprehensive in which way?
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I think we’re going to find out that election machines have been regularly hacked since they were first released and that they were in fact designed to be insecure. It’s been well known that they were broken and unauditable going back to the Black Box Voting days of 2004 when everyone thought Bev Harris was some kind of paranoid nut job.
His TED talk is probably my all time favourite.
https://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everything
>Donald Trump publicly invited Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s email server

I find statements like this to be immediately discrediting of journalistic integrity. The intent was not to enter into an illicit agreement with a third party. Reacting in this ridiculous fashion only aids in his popularity. I think Democrat (obviously false) hyperbole is in danger of giving us a second term
"The Right to Read" by Richard Stallman[1] is certainly not a novel, but it is a short bit of fiction about cybercrime (or rather, what would happen if certain day-to-day developer activities were made criminal) and is certainly worth the <20 minutes that it takes to read.

I seem to recall that it received a bit of hysterical "oh that could never happen" reaction when it was released but I can't seem to find a source for that recollection. It may have mostly been a reaction that was generated by the somewhat emotive backlash that tends to appear whenever Stallman makes a statement about "freedom" though, and the story certainly is allegorical, so anyone who disagreed with him may have posted about it online and skewed the discussion in that direction. I can't recall much about the specific reaction at the time (it was more than 10 years ago now) though so much of the above is really just poorly-informed speculation on my part.

It is, unfortunately, disappointingly prescient and it's something that I think everyone working in the tech industry should read, regardless of whether they think they agree with RMS's views on software freedom and intellectual property.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

Edit: I just re-read it and my initial estimate of "<20 minutes" was way off. I had forgotten just how short the story actually was, so perhaps my recollection about the reaction to the allegory isn't entirely accurate either. Nonetheless, I'm leaving this comment here as witness to the fallibility of my memory.
This is the bit that jumped out at me, too. I would love to see Lenovo start offering preinstalled Linux on ThinkPads large and small.

Interestingly, however, Lenovo’s own info page on the P1 (https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/Thi...) makes no mention of Ubuntu or Red Hat options. It only list the usual flavors of Windows.
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The issue here is that those 160k insertions and 130k deletions don't really mean he wrote 160k lines of text.

The way VCS works, any edit would register as an insertion and deletion.

The way writing a book works, is you write some kind of draft and then mercilessly edit by rearranging things and changing words. But you don't change every single word 10 times.

Moving stuff around creates a lot of edits very quickly -- moving a paragraph creates many lines of insertions and deletions but I would never count that as rewriting all those lines.

The same goes for editing words -- changing a word will change entire line (insertion/deletion). If this also rearranges paragraph (due to line breaking) it may cause a lot of edits.

So I don't really buy into the whole premise of this article.
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Do you know how much Saudi money is invested in Texas? Welcome to the wheel.
That’s true only if the bond has an “infinite” term. Meaning it pays interest forever but you never get your initial principal back

If a bond has say a one-year term then it won’t lose 50% of its value if interest rates double from 1 to 2 percent because you still get your original full investment back after one year. It’s value instead drops by about 1%.

For a longer term example, a bond purchased for $1,000 and 1% interest rate with 30 years left is worth $776 if interest rates rise to 2%

Source: https://m.free-online-calculator-use.com/bond-value-calculat...
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What do you mean? The washingtonpost said that there was irrefutable evidence that hussein had WMDs and was working with al qaeda.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/02/06/i...

The same washingtonpost that recently got caught lying to the american people about syrian gas attacks and tried to dupe us into invading another country.

Next war that the lying media and politicians push, they and/or their sons should be on the frontlines and then the poor and downtrodden should be behind them.
Does this strike anyone else as a real-life version of Clue playing out?

> Mr. Laurie killed Mr. Moriarty with (gardening tools?) at the Tea House
But why do you need to put the foxes to sleep? For a lot of people, that part is the immoral bit, whether the fur is used or not.
I disagree I think it's a function of difficulty.

When you are young and depend on others for basically everything it is easier to be kind, and more in your best interest. It's difficult to appear intelligent because you haven't had as much time to learn.

When you are a wealthy older person, (not necessarily at the end of your life) but 40+, you basically don't need anyone to help you with anything. You can be as much of a jerk as you want. Those that choose to continue to fight hard to develop empathy really are going against the grain.

Have you heard the expression if you aren't a liberal when you are young, then you have no heart? If you aren't a conservative when you are old, then you have no brain? It's a dumb saying, but it does seem to reflect a general pattern that most people follow.
I read it as how culturally distinctive her evaluation of a romantic partner is:

a) She actually had a list of the desired / required traits of romantic partners on hand.

b) Desired traits include morning prayer.

c) Said traits also seemingly included the romantic partner having a daily to-do list.

Taken together you do get an interesting cultural phenomenon being displayed here.

So in my reading of the original post I found it more interesting than just "hating on religion".
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It seems that they left the plastic cover for at least some of the benchmarks [1]. I can imagine that would limit performance since the CPU would be throttling itself down to keep cool.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/comments/13124/the-amd-threadrippe...
Yep, it (probably) will be my industry or skill at one point, and I'll probably be pissed about it then.

But it'll still be the case that if someone does my job for cheaper than I do, it'll be because they're poorer than I am, and if I had a neutral perspective on my own situation (which of course I won't), I'd have a hard time making the case that I deserved to be paid more while that guy struggled in poverty.

And incidentally also whatever product or service I'm producing now costs less to the people who consume it, making them de facto wealthier.
> To pretend that most people's primary computing device is a "toy OS" is to pretend as though we are still in 2004. That's not the world we live in anymore.

And yet it still is a toy OS, compared to what it could be if it was designed with productivity and empowering end users in mind, as opposed to being a shallow consumption and communications platform.

That's orthogonal to the tracking angle, though. GP is wrong in assuming that just because desktop Windows is not a toy OS, it's automatically exposed to more sensitive data. It's not, because - as you noted - most people use smartphones as their primary computation device (for what little it can do). There's also another angle here - desktop PCs may contain most of your work data, but people don't really care about securing that. Privacy of their personal messages and photos, which are mostly accessed via smartphones these days, is of more importance to them.
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Apple: "it may have a neutered processor, no upgradeability, limited GPUs and a REAL heat-dissipation problem, but the MBP is SO THIN!!"

Lenovo: "here, have a Xeon in your razor blade"
There’s no ‘nuclear holocaust’ term in the equations for atomic physics, but nonetheless it is an undesirable consequence of screwing around with nuclear weapons.
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The best benefit I've heard about paper voting is the mechanism by which trust in the count is ensured.

With paper voting, all votes are counted by several people, with oversight and random recounts. It is _possible_ to cheat, but it would require a local conspiracy for a limited number of votes.

With electronic voting, the counting is done by machines and the mechanism is obfuscated and unverifiable. If it's working correctly, it should be perfect; but if the machines were hacked, it could be done through a network and the impacts could be massive. It would require a large conspiracy to pull off, but the number of votes that could be affected could change an election.

So in summary: paper voting = higher chance of small irregularities, with limited impact; electronic voting = lower chance of massive irregularities with election changing consequences. In paper voting, the trust is distributed, while in electronic voting, it is centralized.
1) Own a domain. This is good to demonstrate your own views, values, work, etc.

2) Put PDF on your domain.

3) Put your domain behind something like cloudflare.

4) Publish links to PDF. Ensure you have a method of feedback: email is generally preferred and include your name and email in the PDF.

You could publish on third party services but consider them non-authoritive and ephemeral. If you use them as primary distribution you will get burned in the future.
A couple of suggestions.

- Many conferences use blind peer-review.

- After you've finished up with the work, you can ask a PhD to provide feedback/editing in exchange for co-authorship.
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Its The Guardian, they are about as far removed from Trump and his base as its possible to be. Not that i approve of what their doing here, just explaining the motivation.
If you live in France, you can invest in Energie-Partagee, which promises a 2%/year interest. It only invest in renewables.

I subscribed some years ago and it's been the second year that they've raised their action by 2%.
So induction was not used to determine this?
I was just going to mention "Bad Blood" as well. I am currently reading it and just can't stop.
I don’t know if I agree with the author’s methodology (insertions + deletions seems like a weird choice for the numerator), but moreover, a big “work vs. final output” ratio doesn’t explain why estimation is so notoriously difficult.
GPLv2 provides implicit patent grant in section 6 and section 7. LGPLv2.1 has basically the same content in section 10 and section 11.

IANAL, but AFAIU LGPLv2.1 provides implicit patent grant in the same way as GPLv2.

IBM has allowed use of RCU in GPL code through its contributions to the Linux kernel for many years now. Their contributions to Userspace RCU provide an implicit patent grant in a similar fashion.

Userspace RCU being LGPLv2.1, it allows proprietary applications to link to it, and therefore use RCU through the library APIs, as long as they satisfy LGPLv2.1 requirements.
Ask HN: Engineers, don't you feel like pawns?
Yes, I don't know where I want to go with this question, but don't you feel like pawns? Busting your heads with complicated problems just because it gives purpose to our lives while others benefit from it? How do you deal with this?
It does make sense and it's a pretty standard thing. See for example: https://thequantmba.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/principal-compo... or https://www.coursera.org/lecture/fundamentals-machine-learni...
I remember reading about “xlock” and how its bare-bones appearance was a security feature. Namely, if you aren’t loading in standard GUI libraries or other stuff, there is a lot less to attack and less that can fail and leave the screen unlocked.

You have to do similar things when handling catastrophic errors, lest you trigger yet another failure simply in the process of displaying the original error.

While users might be a little unimpressed, perhaps it is time to pop up the barest of interfaces and make that the only UI, free from the rest of the OS.

And if I had to guess, that may be one of Apple’s goals with Touch Bar: while it can display Apple Pay prompts, etc. it could also theoretically serve as a well-isolated prompt system for messages that must not have full access to the system.
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It's insane that we have systems using 100% electric vote counting.

Any system, even 100% paper ballots, are hackable. They key is making the hack difficult to scale.

Computer systems are easy to hack from a distance and in large numbers. Theoretically, one person could hack many devices from another country.

Paper ballots require someone to change/stuff in person. One person can do limited damage and would have to be in the country. You'd need to recruit large numbers for an effective operation.

Electric assistance is fine but ultimately you need a paper result that a human can read.

A computer can help you make selections and fill out the ballot but the voter must be able to read the printed result and confirm their vote was properly printed.

I'd be against any computer counting for the initial count. Manual is slower and expensive but it's worth the added cost to have a more secure voting system.
Take it up a level: maybe the entire universe is the result of this. The Big Bang was the result of flushing another universe’s waste processes.
Sounds like the Miranda musical where one of the main characters is named "Usnavy" after the inscription on a ship..
Former CEO of Diebold, in 2003 when the first electronic voting machines were used (back when it was controversial, and people hadn't given in to this idea that it is inevitable and inherently "better" than paper voting):

"I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president."
GDrive on Android said "protected file" and didn't display anything.
> Because the two NUMA nodes are ~entirely independent, it's capable of running two independent processes at full speed.

I don't understand. From my (admittedly little better than layperson's) knowledge, I'm guessing the cores of most multicore processors have to compete for memory access...? Is there a good search term I can use to help me understand what's going on here?
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This is definitely true of Fanuc, but not a lot else.

Even the fiber interconnects are open protocols (regardless of how often implemented they are).

At the low end, you have modbus for everything (yes, it sucks latency wise even over tcp, yes, people can't number crap reasonably, etc. It works in the end).

Ethernet/IP is not a bad step up (I use it with 0 rockwell components). All my VFD's can be controlled with the same PLC code because of OVDA standards.

Ethercat is also fairly nice (and higher end CNC machines often just have everything from I/O to servo's on a single ethercat bus). It's more complicated, but i expect that will change over time.

Right now I have no problems connecting my siemens, mitsubishi, etc servos, field i/o, pneumatic valves, etc together over Ethernet/IP. Even lower end PLC's from automationdirect support it just fine.

(I've done Ethercat a few times as well, it's just harder to deal with on the software side ATM unless you go with beckhoff stuff)
You are a gas generator. I'd hope it's not so voluminous or noxious that you require regulation
Seems a lot more straightforward than I expected, maybe I tend to over complicate things..

Thanks!
I had the sense that GE didn't know what they were doing withe Predix and their whole industrial internet strategy. It seemed like some executive went to a 'innovation conference' and drank the kool-aid about industry 4.0 and IoT... came back to the office, slapped a 10-slide deck together for the board of directors framing a strategy to take over market space built around acquiring a promising company or two and building a business unit around them.
Board approved, they go off to execute... years later they realized their 10-slide deck was dumb, their understanding the market was flawed, and their product misaligned. This is par for the course for GE over the last decade plus.
Because keeping them alive costs money. Same reason why dog shelters have to put down some dogs from time to time too.
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Yeah this sucked to read... 10 years into programming and I thought pretty soon I'd be able to figure this stuff out on the 1st or second go...
Not OP but I did, it's very helpful with a lot of practical advices.
I second this. Legible code is second only to functional code. Anything else is gravy.
I Googled a few more surveys for yall. Here they are:

A Survey on Self-Healing Systems: Approaches and Systems (2010)

http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/sd/papers/Zeitschrift%...

Tools and Techniques for Designing and Evaluating Self-Healing Systems (slides)

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~rg2023/pubs/Tools%20and%20Techni...

A Survey of Cloud Computing Fault Tolerance: Techniques and Implementation

http://tarjomefa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/8351-English...
I would just put it on arXiv, or equivalents like biorXiv. You should read a lot of papers in the field and cite the relevant ones. Also, use conventions of the field--LaTeX two column format is frequently used in CS/ML papers.

In my PhD I put some work on biorXiv that I never bothered to put through peer review and was pleasantly surprised to see it cited by a peer-reviewed journal article.
> In a particularly egregious example of this, when I was interviewing for my second job out of college, I was asked to come up with an algorithm to eventually sink a submarine with unknown (but integral) position and velocity that was somewhere on a number line. (Spoiler alert: to solve this problem, you need to know how to enumerate the rationals.) Once again, zero lines of code.

Once a new employee in a company posted this problem for discussion, claiming that the wording is intentionally changed to make it unsearchable, and the year was 2008. So I'm really interested how this wording came here - was the task popular enough to make it to the Web afterwards or is Emma's knowledge traceable to that employee through a chain of interested people? Or is there some other explanation?
No. Moore's law is about making things smaller for speedups.

We can't shrink Relativistic Physics like that to lower the energy required to reach 1c (infinite). Of course, it is possible that there is a better standard model of physics which does a better job of explaining things and which does say we can do so.

Another space race or space F1 would definitely make our engineering better and more reliable, but at massive cost and we still won't get FTL.
...and in a related vein, anyone with a hacker mindset ought to check out R.V. Jones’ ‘Most Secret War’; Jones was the UK senior scientific adviser during WW2 and the book reads like an endless string of anecdotes about one-upping the Germans.

I guess tricking early IFF and radionavigation systems could be considered cyber crime - today, at least, he’d get the DMCA thrown at him for his trouble. :)
With the amount of data Google has and the predictability of human behaviour, I would not be surprised if there's some hiden program inside Google with the aim to predict future events before they happen.
It's why recent polls have foxnews rated more trustworthy than almost every other news organization. We are in such a sorry state of affairs right now.
The important take away for me, is that it is a reminder that rewriting/refactoring is a big part of quality, and should be in the back of a creators mind when considering the ends.

The details may vary for each person's style.
The Chrome compilation looks really strange indeed, especially with having the results from Phoronix on Linux which show that it's the fastest compiling the Linux kernel. I wonder what kind of Chrome build it's doing - does it use Clang-cl or Visual C++? Does it have LTO (LTCG for VC++) enabled? If it's VC++ with LTCG, for example, the entire code generation and linking is limited to 4 cores by default.
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That's not how bond yields work.

Let's say I have a bond that has a face value of $100, yields 1%, and matures in 1 year. It's value today is $99. Now interest rates go to 2%. That bond is now worth $98, because 1 year from now, at 2% interest, it will be worth $100.

But for longer term bonds (30 years, say), what you said can be true.
Might memory access model (UMA vs NUMA) play a role here? AFAIK the TR2950wx has configurable model (can be configured to work in either uma or numa mode) whereas the 2950x only has one mode (can't recall which one at the moment)
In the spirit of the fact that a few of these book suggestions have been made available online for free, I feel obligated to point out that Cory Doctorow has chosen to make both Little Brother and Homeland (the sequel to Little Brother, mentioned by another commenter) available in a few different formats on his website. [1] [2]

[1] https://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

[2] https://craphound.com/homeland/download/
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This numberphile video does a good job explaining why electric voting is a terrible idea. https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI
Worth repeating: Senator Ron Wyden has a bill that would require paper ballots. Worth calling your lawmakers to support.

Edit: press release with link to the full text of the bill - https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-gilli...
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