skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be that each generation of CPU was a significant performance jump.

DOOM on a 386 was nearly unplayable. On a 486 it was perfect. Quake on a 486 was awful, was great on a Pentium, and was smooth as butter on a Pentium II.

These days, each generation is less than 20% faster in single-core performance. My desktop at home is an i7-3770k. In a couple months, it'll be 6 generations out of date, and yet it's still fast enough for everything I do, even gaming!

My CPU is 6 years old, yet doesn't feel like it. If you were running a 6 year old computer in the year 2000, you'd be running a 133 Mhz Pentium while everyone with a new system at the time would be on a 1 Ghz Pentium III. The performance difference was at least and order of magnitude and definitely noticeable.
That's not for you to decide. I put whatever I want in your index funds.
Strange. Definitely haven't had any of the lag issues or random on/off issues. Bummer.

The dimming could be two things:

1) The high/low trim may need to be adjusted, which is IMO way way easier on Lutron than others.

2) If you have LED bulbs, the brand makes a huge huge difference. FWIW I found that Parmida LED retrofit kits are the best, by far. No buzzing and dims down to 1% (most are 10%).

As for the buttons, I agree actually. That's the one thing I like about some of my zwave switches. BUT, even better than both are the Lutron Maestro buttons, which you can get for ~$125 if you go with RA2 Select (vs Caseta). They are really nice.
Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes
Tuft and Needle is merging with Serta
Hey Brian, I have been investigating deploying a very similar stack to what you guys are using now. How are you handling onsite load balancing? Is it a simple round robin type load balancer at the router level?

Also is Highlander open source? I don't see a link to it in the article.
Range has been pretty solid for me, in a pretty good sized home. But you can also go with RA2 Select and get 4 range extenders, which should make it a non issue for most people.
I think the main flaw with your supposition is that being on the market requires rocket science

FIRST, lets talk about history since you know about it. Going public wasn't as coveted and rare of an event as it is today. So people like you had no expectation of being wowed by the rocket science presented in S-1 registration statements.

SECOND, revenue from selling tickets. Ticket selling websites have a monopoly on extra fees which can practically double the price over the face value of a ticket. Consumers have no other way to get tickets to these events. The market likes that. If you want to share in the profits of this money printing operation, then you buy the shares and hope they start giving dividends.

Thats all the market cares about.

High regulations have prevented companies from considering to go public via an IPO, or go public at all. So therefore companies go public via an IPO as the LAST round of equity financing at their peak growth, which they and their bankers think they can sell to the gullible investing public. When the market is frothy like today and the investing public is excluded from most of the growth, they will buy. IF ALL GOES WELL, the company can use that new IPO money and expand into further growth, but it isn't that important anymore.
Right, but don't most people use index funds exactly because of their assured stability? Assured in the "5 decades" sense of the word? i.e. the retirees in the above thread?

So I wouldn't want AMZN or NFLX in my index funds. NFLX just dropped dramatically in price, yea? So I bought it outright. I still have the bulk of my investment in index funds, though.
full quote: "I had a pretty serious Christian upbringing. I remember growing up I was taught to be small, be a turtle,” he says. “I remember thinking, Why would I go around the company and just chat with people? Like that would be so awkward. Now I go walk around the office and get a ton of emails like, ‘Oh, my God, that was awesome you came by.’ ”

but bloomberg did only highlight the bit you quoted and put it several paragraphs above the full quote...
Given that Spotify, a direct competitor to an Apple service, is allowed to remain while also breaking this rule makes it seem like this won't be enforced in Netflix's case. But who knows, maybe when Apple launches their video service they'll come down on both companies, and we'll see what happens.
Yeah, it may have taken a billion dollars but a billion dollars doesn't guarantee success. The product is impressive, even if Hololens stole their thunder two years ago. The engineers should be proud.

I don't see a market for it though, so it's hard for me to see how the company can survive until the technology matures enough for the mainstream. I think it will be more than 5 years, possibly 10. Timing is so important for a startup and Magic Leap is too early.
this is really the invisible giant.

Things like machines which manufacture machines for instance.

a good friend of mine works at a glass blowing company which makes beer bottles, the machines used to create bottlecaps at an insane rate are apparantly dominated by a german manufacturer. (this factory produces over 15mil bottles a day).

producing 15 million bottle caps in a single 24h shift is hard, producing stuff this quickly at suchs a scale is a hard problem to fix.
No, just no, this is complete and total nonsense.

FICO publishes exactly what makes up your credit score, straight from the horse's mouth:

https://www.myfico.com/credit-education/whats-in-your-credit...

The FCRA gives you the right to know what is in your file

In addition, the FCRA gives you the following rights (not inclusive):

-You must be told if information in your file has been used against you. Anyone who uses a credit report or another type of consumer report to deny your application for credit,
insurance, or employment – or to take another adverse action against you – must tell you, and must give you the name, address, and phone number of the agency that provided the
information.

-You have the right to dispute incomplete or inaccurate information

-Consumer reporting agencies must correct or delete inaccurate, incomplete, or unverifiable information.

-Consumer reporting agencies may not report outdated negative information. In most cases, a consumer reporting agency may not report negative information that is more than
seven years old, or bankruptcies that are more than 10 years old

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/pdf-0096-fair-credit-r...

So if you get denied a mortgage, you'll know why, and it certainly won't be because you drive by a pawn shop.
At least then, buyers get a more realistic view of total cost of ownership up front, rather than hiding the rest of the profits in the pricing of other people's apps.
How viable would be to write a blog post about it so it gets some attention?

Much like what happens when someone gets banned and posts an article on it, to get someone on the inside to notice and help out.

Or is that too risky even if you censor the juiciest details?
Who gets to determine whether you're being paid enough for whatever it is you do? Who gets to determine whether college tuition is reasonable? Who gets to determine whether you paid a fair price for that burger? Who gets to determine if "who gets to determine..." is actually a good faith question?
I have an 8 month old and I'm more productive now than I have been in ages, both in terms of side projects and day job.

My wife and I both stay at home and split baby duties roughly 50/50; we alternate nights, then split the day pretty evenly. We also each get one day a week that is free of baby duties, so we can relax.

I usually tend to use her naps as an opportunity to work on side projects, so I get a good solid 2 hours or so every day, plus any time I take after she goes to sleep for the night. These bounded, contiguous blocks of time focus me in a way that I find very helpful for productivity. I'm getting a ton done, spending a lot of time with my kid, and loving it all.
>just go to another

Does Mastadon have a way to migrate your posts/followers/etc from one instance to another?
...but it's not at all the same thing you'd try on the Sinclair that only does radians.

Right. Apparently I wasn’t aware of that at the time. Nice to find out here on HN some fourty years later :-)
I'm working on a Modded Minecraft series using AWS

If anyone has an interest in playing on my server ping me.
We could use a few more players.

https://medium.com/@andrewbrown_78670/2018-modded-minecraft-...
I have to agree with TaupeRanger here. This certainly has (almost) nothing to do with playing an instrument. It has little to do with music theory in the traditional sense. This is for the programmer/mathematician side of your brain, primarily. For the musician side, get a little electronic keyboard, poke around at it, and buy an introductory music theory book.
For discussion...

Question: Are these license restrictions on right to disclose benchmarks enforceable?

Question: If they are enforceable, do licensors ever try to enforce them? If not, why?

A little background here: https://danluu.com/anon-benchmark/

For example, this has been posted to HN at least twice recently:

https://clemenswinter.com/2018/07/09/how-to-analyze-billions...

Question: Was the author subject to any restrictions on publication? If yes, did the author seek "permission" from the licensor to publish these findings?

Excerpts from some of the licenses:

2.2. 32 Bit Kdb+ Software Use Restrictions

(c) 32 Bit Kdb+ Software Evaluations. User shall not distribute or otherwise make available to any third party any report regarding the performance of the 32 Bit Kdb+ Software, 32 Bit Kdb+ Software benchmarks or any information from such a report unless User receives the express prior written consent of Kx to disseminate such report or information.

kdb+ on demand - Personal Edition [64-bit]

1.3 Kdb+ On Demand Software Performance. End User shall not distribute or otherwise make available to any third party any report regarding the performance of the Kdb+ On Demand Software, Kdb+ On Demand Software benchmarks or any information from such a report unless End User receives the express, prior written consent of Kx to disseminate such report or information.

This Kdb+ Software Academic Use License Agreement ("Agreement") is made between Kx Systems, Inc. ("Kx") and you, the University, or employee of the University ("End User") with respect to Kx's 64 bit Kdb+ Software and any related documentation that is made available to you in (jointly, the "Kdb+ Software"). You agree to use the Kdb+ Software under the terms and conditions set forth below. This Agreement is effective upon you clicking the "I agree" button below.

1. LISCENSE GRANTS [sic]

1.4 Kdb+ Software Evaluations. End User shall not distribute or otherwise make available to any third party any report regarding the performance of the Kdb+ Software, Kdb+ Software benchmarks or any information from such a report unless End User receives the express, prior written consent of Kx to disseminate such report or information.

Kdb+ software end-user agreement:

By accessing the Kdb+ Software via the Google platform, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms and conditions (which may be updated from time to time) and to the extent you are acting on behalf of a permitted organization that you have authority to act on their behalf and bind them to these terms and conditions.

You may not access the Kdb+ Software if you are a direct competitor of Kx.

4. Benchmark Test Results. User agrees not to disclose benchmark, test or performance information regarding the Kdb+ Software to any third party except as explicitly authorized by Kx in writing.
This is a good clarification to my shoddy wording. Thanks
Why would it be unknown?
I tried listening to a 15-tone ET piano piece ones. Sure, maybe I'm not worthy, and too limited in my musical understanding (although I have been a musicians since the age of 6 and i'm now 43), but it just sounded like a piano out of tune. 12-tet is more than enough to experiment with for the rest of my life
Apple and Google not only created the device and funded the R & D for the features, but also created the APIs, the tools, the infrastructure, and attracted the (hundreds of millions of) users. The 30% cut they ask of developers is more than reasonable.

Want to bypass that cut? Build a web app and make it play well on mobile. If you want to run it on Android and iOS devices, then I don't really see how anyone can say "Apple and Google are taking too much of my cut".

Disagree with it sure, but don't act as if they're some thugs stealing from companies.
Kalashnikov takes on Tesla with retro-look electric 'supercar'
You're right that it's a bad situation for millions of kids to be told to turn off security settings, it seems like that's a bad situation for Android/Google/Samsung than it is for Epic Games. It's kind of Google's own fault for tying their 'security' into a huge tax. If Google offered certification for a fixed cost then this wouldn't be an issue - you could distribute certified apps yourself and not have the problem. The problem is they tied certification into a tax and appearing in the appstore.
Anything popular is up to date. But many windows programs have their own update methods anyway. So in some cases, you install the older version, but then update when asked.
To make 4. useful, links with the domain different than the open one should not be allowed to be added to History, otherwise you can bypass it with a different domain.
And without 4. this new limitation could be bypassed with a redirect (from the same domain).
Hopefully these kids will be exposed to the idea that they can choose what software they use rather than being limited to a curated store.
Welcome to the industry. If I had a nickel for every code base I came across that gave me nightmares, I'd be able to retire.

Depending on the company, I would just keep my mouth shut. Specifically in corporate environments, where ass-kissing gets you promoted faster than skill level. I've experience this time and time again. I'll go into a company, realize the code base is trash, I'll say something about, and then not couple months later I'll be let go.
Exploiting smart contracts are the ultimate bug bounties these days.

Forget these fortunes 500s, governments and startups.

And to the cynics? This is perfect for you if you hate cryptocurrencies and everything blockchain. Yeah, they're broken, make some money off of that.
> will not rent rent property to foreigners.

Unmerited animosity towards foreigners is called xenophobia, not racism.
But wouldn't a center tail section still help with overall structural strength even if it didn't have control surfaces?
Flimsy isn't quite what I'd describe -- but I agree that the four buttons are clumsy and that my lower cost zwave buttons are nicer in some ways. But I haven't found any zwave switch that ties nicely into my wall plates as cleanly as Lutron dimmers.

My solution for when I want a really nice sturdy single button is Lutron Maestro dimmers, which are even nicer (but now 2X the Caseta costs).
You may not be rich, but you are not poor. How can these projects be about civic participation if they're not inclusive to the kinds of people that can't afford to take time off work and trek across the country to go camping in the desert?

There are lots of ways people try to address the problems of our "highly commodified, transactional society" within their own communities, where everyone is capable of participating. For some reason, however, many of the people I know that go to Burning Man, and many of the kinds of people that typically do go, are never involved in those kinds of local organising initiatives...

It would be nice if these ideals about art were more commonly expressed and engaged with in the areas where they are really sorely needed, rather than in a remote place that people need to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars to get to and be in.
I'll second this.

I don't like the idea of a play-to-play line, but in a practical sense I travel too much to not make use of this.
The JBoss example: An open source monetisation story
Side Tangent:

In games and VR we encounter the problem of projecting an image onto a sphere all the time. There are many approaches, from wrapping a plane into a sphere to simply normalizing the vertices of a cube with an image on each face. One of the best ways to do this is to take an icosahedron, tessellate the faces into smaller triangles and then normalize all the vertices of the triangles. This is commonly known as an icosphere. It can be more dificult to "unwrap" but it gives the most even distribution of vertices that a triangle mesh representing a sphere can have.
I really enjoyed the first iteration of this article and am happy to see a part two.
Simple != easy.

I'm sure you can rebuild most of the site in a week, but who's going to buy from you? The simplest business models can become major companies moving lots of money because business operations has nothing to do with technical complexity. You should focus on that.
Maybe liability for private information loss could be $10k a user.

Or maybe up to 4% of the company's revenue.
> If they are talking about disabling it system wide vs disabling it for a single application, is this not pretty irresponsible?

It's not a system wide setting, it's an app-specific setting (that is, it's for the app you wish to be able to install other apps.)

Setting it to “allow” for the default browser and leaving it that way is something of an issue, though.
But "beat the friction more effectively" is just the definition of efficiency. If it takes an individual an hour to make dinner at home but a chef in a restaurant can make dinner for 10 people in the same hour then they're 10 times more efficient (but offset by the efficiency loss of needing a separate building etc.) That might allow the restaurant to break even.

If the chef can make dinner for 30 people in an hour at the same price per person, now the restaurant is more profitable because there is less friction -- 30 people eat in one restaurant instead of 10, so for 30 people you need one chef instead of three, one building instead of three, etc. Less friction, more profit.

What you need for profit isn't for you to have friction, it's for someone else to have more than you -- relative advantage. The more you eliminate the more profit you make. Or the more surplus ("consumer profit" if you will) you create for the customer, if you have similarly efficient competitors engaged in price competition.

And that's where regulatory capture comes in. In competitive markets a large fraction of the total surplus goes to the consumer because otherwise a competitor could gain market share by charging lower prices. 100 times $6 is more than 50 times $10. But if you exclude competitors with regulations then you can charge $10 margins and still have 100% of the customers. Then there is more "profit" but not more total surplus -- there is less total surplus because the artificial friction consumes some of it. So you're shrinking the pie in order to get a bigger piece of it for yourself, at the expense of everyone else. Which is effectively stealing.
This is not much of an issue with newer versions of Android. see Tim Sweeney's tweet about the situation: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/102553539172465049...
I think you're right, actually. There are occasions where you use a feature that's ostensibly supported, but it needs to be emulated by the driver in software (I think geometry shaders might have been this way on some OS/hardware combination). This is where some of OpenGL's reputation for fast/slow paths comes from.
Why is that sad? She found something she enjoys doing. Better than someone who has yet to find that spark that gives life meaning.

Is everyone in the advertising business supposed to love making adverts?

I certainly feel more alive camping with friends than I do debugging JavaScript. I'm lucky enough to have a life where I can go on 2 or 3 major vacations a year with friends and family with another couple smaller trips spread throughout the year. For people with a busier schedule, I can see them taking great pleasure in the one time a year they get to escape.

Especially since so many people never get to escape. I know plenty of people who never have had a vacation, and may very well die without ever having a day off from work and life and stress.
What's conveniently missing are actual financial details about the accelerator. Like how much money do they give companies and what percentage of equity does Chipotle take?

Chipotle is aiming to attract "growth-stage" companies, but their accelerator headline comes off as "get to meet Elon Musk's brother, a celebrity chef, and eat free food". This seems like Chipotle is bargain-bin shopping for companies they could own/acquire/copy to alleviate their own business struggles.
Why do you want others to provide you with motivation? You know what you have to do. Just do it. Right now it seems like you're expecting to fail, and looking for excuses to not even try.
That so-called paradox takes the following assumptions:

• That it is possible for a region as large as even a single galaxy to ever be "full" of one species or their creations.

• That anything can keep spreading indefinitely, and remain intact, not only across the gargantuan distances involved but also over potentially millions of years for other species to encounter them.

• That intelligent life wants to keep spreading or exploring indefinitely. As opposed to, say, creating VR universes of its own and attaining contentment within them.

• That there are only a few "directions" into which species or machines can spread across the universe, for them to run into each other.

• That there are no "stabilizing" forces – natural or adversarial – which counter rampant expansion.
Ask HN: AGPL – Alternative to Commons Clause for OSS Infrastructure Projects?
For the last couple of days, there is a heated discussion going on HN about Commons Clause. As per https://commonsclause.com/:

>> For purposes of the foregoing, “Sell” means practicing any or all of the rights granted to you under the License to provide to third parties, for a fee or other consideration (including without limitation fees for hosting or consulting/ support services related to the Software), a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software.

Though as a user I don't like Commons Clause, it made me think why some companies are opting for it.

For Open Source Infrastructure Projects like Databases, there are very few revenue models. Here are the ones I can think about:

1. Keep certain features Enterprise only
2. Enterprise Support
3. Hosted PaaS platform

If one goes with option 1, then it can become an adoption hinderance. For example, I have never seriously looked into Influx DB, as they kept Clustering a paid only feature. If I am making something a core piece of my infrastructure then I want to be able to scale it without paying enormous fees. I may choose to do it if my business model allows it, but I don't want to be forced into that option.

So to encourage adoption, I wouldn't want to go with option 1.

That leaves options 2 and 3. Enterprise Support model is very hard to scale to billions of USD scale. As it needs expertly trained humans to scale. But still, it can lead to substantial revenues. However, with open source core, it can take decades to reach the billion dollars scale with just enterprise support.

[Ran out of space. Please see the comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17829847]
From a legal point of view can you limit free speech through a end user license agreement? Free speech is protected by the first amendment, many countries basic legal laws. If some challenged it and it went to the high court how would it likely judge?
If you're talking about funding, many of the recent analyses were funded by the company whose product is being tested. Most companies do this kind of testing internally but it's good to pay for the recognized expertise and thorough process of jepsen.