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Huh. I personally have never treated the word computer as a synonym of CPU, APU, GPU, Turing Machine, etc. To me this article reads more like, "I want to redefine what computer means and then tell you all of the things that fall under my definition."

But yes, there are indeed many components that make up the modern computers that are our smartphones, laptops, et cetera.
People tend to use dating websites/apps because they want to find someone _different_. People tend to have friends that are like them, but that is not always what you want in a relationship.
Er, no, you didn't understand my statement at all.

What you're talking about is NVMe NAND—which is a standard protocol on top of PCIe. If you aren't aware, both the PCIe m.2 NVMe SSDs, and the PCIe "card" NVMe SSDs, and even the DIMM-slot SDRAM-speaking NVMe SSDs, all still contain a flash controller behind their PCIe/SDRAM controller, which implements the standard NVMe protocol, acting as a translator between the host's decoded commands from the bus, and the NAND's proprietary protocol. And, like all other flash controllers, the flash controllers in NVMe SSDs do a host of "enrichments" to the abstraction they expose, like opaque wear-levelling.

Whereas what I'm talking about—"direct PCI-e NAND"—refers to the concept of NAND memory sitting directly on the PCIe bus with no flash controller, just a PCIe controller. This would, if it existed, allow the host to directly program and erase NAND blocks—as if the host was the flash controller—by sending the NAND commands in the NAND's own proprietary command format, wrapped into PCIe packets.

Directly-addressable NAND has none of the "enrichment" a flash-controller provides to NVMe NAND, and directly-addressable NAND also speaks whatever dumb protocol the NAND's manufacturer makes it speak, requiring a special custom driver per NAND (or a host-side flash controller.)

Old embedded systems (like phones and cameras ca. 2002) used to contain directly-addressable NAND, soldered onto the motherboard. They mostly switched away from this to using eMMC chips—those being single BGA packages containing a flash controller and NAND—because they were gaining no advantage from having a separate flash controller, only inconveniences (like having to write their own storage drivers) and/or costs (of adding their own flash controller to the embedded board's BOM.)

Old iOS devices used to use eMMC. But, since the creation of the Secure Enclave, Apple has found an advantage to having a discrete flash controller: namely, that it can interact with the Secure Enclave. So, since the iPhone 6, Apple stopped using eMMC in favor of their own flash controller + directly-soldered NAND flash.

And now, Apple have done the same thing to the Mac Mini that they did to iOS devices: switched from an interface that expects to find a flash controller speaking a standard protocol (NVMe or SATA), to an interface where the flash controller is on the host side and expects to find directly-addressable NAND flash on the other side for it to manage.

Attaching an m.2 NVMe SSD to that interface, would be similar in effect to what you'd get by taking one of those old phones that uses directly-soldered NAND with a host-side flash controller, and instead of soldering in NAND, soldering an eMMC card in its place.

In short: you'd have a dead device.
Because Oracle doesn't give a crap, they know they have a captive market and are the definition of a rent-seeking company. They don't sell their products based on their merits, they do it because companies have either have no choice or are already held hostage by them.
Not sure why this isn't getting more votes, but it's a good avenue of research and the authors should be commended. That said, this approach to optimizing floating point implementations has a lot of history at Imagination Technologies, ARM and similar low-power inferencing chipsets providers. I especially like the Synopsys ASIP Design [0] tool which leverages the open-source (although not yet IEEE ratified) LISA 2.0 Architecture Design Language [1] to iterate on these design issues.

Interesting times...

[0] https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=asip-designer
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISA_(Language_for_Instruction...
I see. I was hoping there was something more interesting going on, such as CPU-private bookkeeping... or perhaps supporting that JVM that lives in the management engine. :)
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Never seen The Good Place so I'm just trying to figure out what the frak you all are taking about.
Haha, were those 'folks around' you on the west coast, perhaps?
Why is it Absolutely American for a government to create a nature reserve? Does that not exist anywhere else in the world?
No personal attacks, please, regardless of how annoying you find another comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've posted other uncivil/unsubstantive comments recently. We ban accounts that do that, so can you please review the rules and follow them when commenting here from now on?
He talks about advertising there, which is a subset of marketing.

The 10-K states the truth in black and white. If Musk makes a contradicting statement in an interview, the 10-K is correct and he is not. If the 10-K is fraudulent, people are going to jail.
Ask HN: Do you own any vintage computers?
No, this is a bad example of prediction; if you bet money on the direction of prediction, you'll lose much. Drawing prices and making it looking as similar is not correct prediction. At least you should show >50% correct direction prediction if it is considered to be "well processed" machine learning.
I know this seems flippant, but I mean it with all due respect: Is it possible that you've just grown up?

I don't mean to say that those pursuits weren't fun or worth pursuing. My point is a lot of time has passed since "chat rooms" and "browser games" were all the rage and also that "fun" is not an objective measure and depends on your perspective. There are a lot of things that I found "fun" when I was younger that I simply don't or would not anymore (like logging in once a day to a BBS, pre-internet, to play a text-based RPG). Also, the things that younger people today find fun online aren't things that I, now a middle-aged man, would enjoy. As far as I know from my distant, curmudgeonly viewpoint, kids today are still having fun online, be it on snapchat, discord, fortnite, or whatever. It's just that, because of my age and life experience, I can't find those to be fun in the same way.
The DEA and other drug-related enforcement certainly isn't underfunded ...
Those are fairly good points. I upvoted you.

Yes graphics is better — the GPU on the Mac Mini is the Intel UHD 630 vs the UHD 620 on the Gigabyte Brix.

With regard to the CPU, the Gigabyte’s i7-8550U is slightly faster[1] than the i3 in the Mac Mini, but slower than the i5 and i7 offered on the Mac Mini.

The lower TDP might be something that people who plan to run a server on it might care about. I have a desktop with a i7-5820K (which has a 140W TDP), and I realized that a DigitalOcean droplet was cheaper than keeping my computer running all day (even with the monitor turned off, idle power usage was 100W+, and my electric cost is over $0.20/kWh).

I consider 16 GiB of RAM a minimum, and it is significantly cheaper with the Gigabyte. Apple’s $200 charge for an upgrade from 8GB to 16GB (in the US) is a bit too much. You can buy 16 GiB (2x8GiB sticks) for that.

Having the flexibility to pick your own SSD is nice too. The 960 PRO is one of the fastest PCIe SSDs out there — I wonder if the SSD in the Mac Mini comes close to it in speed. Also: if you don’t care about the SSD speed but want a lot more storage, you have the flexibility to get the slower 1TiB 860 EVO (or similar SSD) for around $150 — wheread Apppe charges $600 for an upgrade to 1TB on the Mac Mini — and exorbitantly high price.

Lastly, I use Arch Linux both on my home laptop, and on my work machine (whenever possible). And the fact is most people buy Macs for macOS; but I’m quite comfortable using Linux, and don’t really need macOS.

[1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i3-8100-vs-Intel-...
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Basically CGIs. This would be great if worker functions were written in C, but these days Web programming is done in dynamic languages with fat runtimes where hello world uses 50 MB of RAM. They're saving all that RAM by not using multiple processes.
How does OpenCensus integrate with existing tracing solutions like Jaeger or OpenZipkin? If I instrument my app with OpenCensus tracing today, which tools/services can I export this data easily?
They really dropped the ball not embedding an Xzibit in this paper.
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Ah, at last, after only 40 years. So there should be a boolean type by 2058 or so.
Income, tax and immigration data stolen in Healthcare.gov breach
"Convey textual information" is not the sole purpose of any website.

Websites have many purposes and functions, including of course interactive functions and connections with other elements both within the site and from other places.

Completely different to any book.
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The problem with a comment like this is that it comes off just as smug as what it criticizes.

Your beginning points seem arbitrary too. Thiel didn't begin any of that and the idea of unfair advantage long predates Facebook.
> no additional legislation [...] has as much consequence and is not qualitatively different than a little or a lot of legislation

This cannot be generalized and is different depending upon the circumstance. In this case, I wholeheartedly disagree.
Are you going to collaborate with folks working on Kubernetes or other projects to find a way to automatically expose z pages, e.g. to the Kubernetes dashboard or the GKE console pages? That's one of the first things that ex Googlers miss from Borg. Under Borg you have to create a magic file with an HTML fragment, but there were APIs to help with that.

Developers and devops folks can plumb those manually, of course, using an Ingress object, but that's tedious and unneeded friction.
I didn't downvote you and I wasn't referring to 4chan at all.
You can send traces to Jaeger, Zipkin, Stackdriver, Azure App Insights, X-Ray, Honeycomb, and a few others. Supported metrics backends include Prometheus, Datadog, SignalFx, Stackdriver, Azure, etc.
It is extremely important when you have 64 cores orif you use wide SIMD instructions. Intel's Xeon Phi have 16GB HMC memory with 500GB/s bandwidth to prevent the CPUs from being starved by main memory.

Imagine you have a cache miss on literally every memory access and have to pay a 100 nano second penalty to access main memory. SMT allows the CPU to switch to a different thread during a cache miss. Effectively you can have 128 memory loads at any given time. 100ns amortized over 128 threads is less than 1 nano second. Since the minimum size you can read is a 64 byte cache line this means that program will require at least 64GB/s of memory bandwidth even though your CPU is stuck on cache misses.
That depends on the functionality requirements of noSQL customers. I posit that writing a new, indepedent RDBMS that implements the latest SQL spec with the same maganement and replication capabilities as the incumbents is on-par with trying to compete with WebKit and Gecko. The SQL Server engineering team at Microsoft is about 1,000 people according to my friends on campus.

Whereas implementing a Key-Value Store is orders of magnitude simpler. There is plenty of room for innovation, of course - but you don’t need 1,000 people to build-on some new replication scheme or distributed backend.

If you take a simple NoSQL system then tack on things like object scheme support, JSON blob value indexes, node graph support, etc you’ll end up with an RDBMS analogue.

So the barrier-to-entry to building a NoSQL system is much lower than a RDBMS - and for many companies they might decide to build their own rather than extend an existing system - leading to more completion but not necessarily a better product.
I've noticed a few different TTS programs do something similar. It leads to a weird uncanny valley when acronyms get substituted inappropriately. e.g. My address includes the Spanish word "del". One automated phone system from an insurance company read it back as "Delaware"
> That's no so much a problem with GDPR as nation states.

Out of GDPR and nation states, only one can be abolished.
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It’s a poetic statement not a literal one. It speaks to the aspirational idea of what America could and should be/aspire to be.( in the mind of the writer)
Its very unlikely the TDP differences would prevent a design with an m2 SSD if Apple wanted it. TDP is 65 watts vs the 45 in the models with two relatively enormous 2.5 inch drives. This might vary depending on spec, but nowhere near enough to prevent an m2. We are talking about modern CPUs fabricated on more efficient processes vs those from 2012.

This is a choice, not a hard engineering limitation. An m2 SSD is tiny even compared to a single 2.5” drive.
Whatever I click on those options doesn't donejaat I want, which is to stay on the page im already on. The site is total garbage if you are not logged in to use the personalised settings and it's all over the day old.reddit.com is turned off
Yep! The Java library has some basic z-page support, but adding high quality z-pages will be a big part of the OpenCensus agent and OpenCensus service that we're developing now. These can be used within Kubernetes environments or on plain VMs.
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It's also a showcase of the best of the diversity of America's landscapes.
Strategy #1:

- Open in new tab

- Repeat 5,000 times

- Session is lost, all tabs are lost

Strategy #2:

- Save to Pocket

- Repeat 20,000 times

- Never read any
What do you mean traditional car companies not taking EVERYTHING IS seriously? Volzwagen is switching all their cars to electric.
7. Put on a bus on the busiest weekend, from a place with adequate parking, like a nearby town.

I visited Gatineau Park (just north of Ottawa) this way. I think the bus was free. It also meant we didn't need to plan a round-trip hike.
The Honeycrisp is fine, but I don't love the trend of Apple varieties that taste like jolly ranchers (super sweet and crisp - see also Pink Lady or Jazz). Old fashioned apple varieties like Macintosh and even Red Delicious can be great in season from local farms - I had a Red Delicious today I would take over any Honeycrisp.

I have friends who only eat Honeycrisp, I feel old when I complain that it's not a real apple and they should try something else.
At 1/10,000th of a server per each tenant (assuming 10,000 tenants) you can achieve “hard” isolation and far more cpu/memory per tenant using a TinkerBoard or something like that per client and charging a flat $2/mo with no hourly fees. That’s a business model that I see materializing that can eat into your business.

EDIT to clarify:
I’m assuming they can do 10,000 tenants per server. If they did 1 tenant per 1 TinkerBoard and charged $2/mo for it flat no hourly fee that would be an interesting business model IMO and it achieves hard isolation between tenacts.
The book analogy doesn't work. There is no point mentioning books.

A website is nothing like a book in form, function, purpose, appearance, use, lifespan, the list goes on.

You're confusing the equivalence. A "novel" is a type of book. A "website" is not a type of "something".

A website can be anything the owner wants it to be, with different functions and purpose. It doesn't need to conform to the other "novels" because of some perceived "effective form". That's the point I take from the OP's article.

Websites have not "found their form", that's just the reason you've chosen to believe based on so many websites using the same template.
"National" parks should only be free to the sovereign tribes that were forced out of there by colonizers. In fact all of that land should be given back to the tribal nations who previously did a great job managing those lands before the US National Park/Forest service and Smokey the terrorist came along and decided they knew more about the land than the people who previously spent thousands of years carefully tending the land.
If you read my comment again, you will see that I am not criticizing anyone for being smug. In fact, I say that I don't mind vanity when it is deserved. Elaborate and we could have a discussion, as it stands there isn't much for me to reply.
If you want to go that direction, maybe no commercial cloned apples are real.
Best explanation I've heard is Oracle makes simple problems complex, but hard problems possible.
That’s what happens in a growing market. Once it’s matured, it boils down to a handful.
That's been an expensive lesson to Larry Ellison not to be so arrogant.
Hey Europe, that’s bot how journalism works. Without the basic protections of journalists, you don’t have journalism, you have state-controlled propganda.
No, brutalist is HN, lobste.rs or the Oreilly CD Bookshelf.
Or any Unix CS guide with those square Motif-like buttons.
Imagine I was running a charity that accepted donations by asking people to post their bank login credentials on a corkboard outside my house.
Kill 75% of animals on the planet... Bring back a few... Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till its gone, take a paradise put up a parking lot.
Yes, an Apple //c, a RISC-PC 600, a Commodore 64, and a Vectrex. And soon to own a ZX Spectrum Next, which is a modern vintage computer.
It is nicer to ask for an (additional) donation.

For example, the British Museum is free, but the donation box when leaving points out that its paid for by taxes. I've seen international tourists making significant donations (e.g. £30+ for a family) recognising what visiting a similar museum would cost in their own country. But I like that a student from a low-income country can still visit the museum, and I'm happy for taxes to cover the cost.
I thought Interactive Brokers did their own thing, so they might not be doing this.
Also an Apple IIGS.
Every time I see ReactOS in the news I get reminded of sometime in 2004 the young me telling my PC-store supervisor how commercial Windows versions will be a thing of the past now that ReactOS is around the corner.
Ed Abbey started at arches in 1956. Definitely an amazing book nonetheless.
I've been learning HAProxy quite extensively over the last few weeks in preparing our network for scaling. It seems like the features are endless but this guide was a fantastic introduction to some of the more intermediate features. Much appreciated!
Why is everyone comparing websites with physical objects like cars, phones, laptops, and buildings? As soon as you do that, you've broken whatever conclusion you put forward next...

"...and because of the way cement is poured into the foundations of modern office buildings, that's why everyone is using the same website template".

Sorry, but you'll need to try a lot harder with your analogies.
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Old ma bell was a monopoly and long distance cost over a dollar a minute, but land lines were crystal clear for half a century and more. The shape of old phones also were really great for isolating the phone conversation from everything else.
Yellowstone was indeed the first "national park" at least within its cultural sphere. Before that, European royalty would often protect certain areas as their hunting ground or sum-such, but those were far smaller.

The idea of these protected areas serving the public good by, among other things, remaining accessible to the general public, is also integral to the definition of the term (and this article and new policy show this rather well). Such a policy may not have occurred to anyone establishing a nature reserve in Europe at the time, where classes would remain a fundamental category of society until the end of WW2.
I’m sure Healthcare.gov contractors had a lot more bureaucracy and protocols they had to follow—especially security—regarding a project of this magnitude than a cubicle engineer at FB. Granted, the original launch was botched, trying to compare the two is apples and oranges.
The Nick Batt from DNA mentioned in the article is Nick from sonicstate. He has a youtube channel where he does great reviews of all kinds of synth gear.
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High quality z-pages are great, but if there's no easy and secure way for a developer to get to them, they become useless. Rather than their contents or generation, my question is about automatic discovery and secure, restricted proxying of the pages. I don't want to tell my colleagues to run ad-hoc kubectl commands for each service or pod they want to inspect.
I think you're assuming that Cloudflare has only one server?
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It always starts that way. In time, the legacy baggage that gets added will turn the noSQL databases into the same bloated monsters that the SQL databases have become. There was a time when many of the SQL database options were the (relatively) simpler and more powerful options vs the wide variety of home-grown databases they eventually replaced. (i.e. there was a lot of baked in business logic etc. that the move to SQL databases forced companies to disentangle from the database engine itself) SQL Server was originally just a fork of Sybase SQL Server (a much smaller, simpler version) with some FoxPro tech bolted on to it...
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Tesla is making the Model 3 faster with a software update
I find it interesting that they were able to find improvements even on hardware that is presumably optimized for IEEE-754 floating point numbers.
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Nope. I’m assuming they can do 10,000 tenants per server. If they did 1 tenant per 1 TinkerBoard and charged $2/mo for it flat no hourly fee that would be an interesting business model IMO and it achieves hard isolation between tenants.
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The reason for that ban is that currant plants can spread white pine blister rust[0], which American pine trees have little resistance to. However, plant breeders are working on resistant strains of blackcurrant and pine tree, and the ban is decided by individual states, so it's not impossible to get blackcurrants in the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronartium_ribicola
And what about the tribes that those tribes forced out? This notion that everything was peaceful without territory wars before "colonizers" is a joke.

There is no single tribe that has carefully tended the land for thousands of years. Additionally, since they lacked a meaningful method of keeping knowledge beyond word of mouth, any non-common technique would have to be rediscovered every 100 years. They weren't carefully tending to the land, they were just struggling to get by with their crap agricultural skills.
The cores in each core complex in my phone can't be clocked separately. Are they not cores?
You might want to check out this post on using HAProxy as an API Gateway:

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/using-haproxy-as-an-api-gateway...

It has a section on rate limiting. Specifically check out the section which starts with the sentence: "Optionally, instead of a daily limit as used above, you can also do it based on the rate of the requests."
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Let's say you have an office on a Gigabit fiber connection going to a network switch capable of processing 10gbe (assume 10x speed). Hypothetically, would the switch be able to respond quickly enough such that even if the gigabit WAN connection was saturated it would degrade performance? It's it just a matter of computing power to deal with the network traffic or do you actually need to have bigger network pipes than the attack bandwidth?