skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>then you are (willingly or not) selecting arguments to match your narrative and that can be seen as pushing an agenda

If I lean towards one side of an issue (e.g. unchecked immigration policies are a net negative to first world societies) then the onus is not on me to present both sides. That does not make me a xenophobe.

>can be interpreted as pushing xenophobia
Only when there is social pressure to interpret things in such a way.

No matter how you slice it, automatically associating anti immigration sentiment with xenophobia is dishonest conflation.
Use a 'no'.
Feels a bit like looking for your keys under the streetlight. App users may be 10x more valuable but it doesn’t mean you can force them. There are lots of services that I will use frequently through a website but would never install an app.
You think that Google search is destroying the world? How, exactly?
You can secede.
For one, it exists before any of our feeble explanations of how it works. It's always correct and we try to play catch up.
How, exactly? Explain the physics of that to me. How is ad tech destroying the world?
It's the webdev equivalent of creating a log-in form tutorial and putting the password in a JavaScript variable.
> 10,000+ tenants on one machine

> a huge incentive to a lot of not so good people to try to break the sandbox

> $15k bounty on this exact type of exploit

Lol. What a joke.
I keep an "ideas folder". Some may call it an idea notebook. Every time I think of something cool I add it there. The reality is that 90% of the content is crap, but the rest of 10% is good enough for my next project.

For the ideas themselves, it's usually some pain point I have. A solution for a personal pain point is a project. A solution for a pain point that I share with thousands other people is a business.

I saw some people are motivated by curiosity: "I wonder how a music synthesizer works, so I'll just build one myself", but that is not motivating enough for me. I guess it depends from person to person.
Well, let it be the exclusive playground of the lucky (winners of the lottery) then.

I am resigned to the fact that I won't reach Mt Whitney's summit during summer again in my lifetime...
Predetermination is not a theological rabbit hole that is necessary to go down for this conversation. Reducing things to the point where the original ideas have little tangible meaning ineffective way to discuss ideas. See why mathematicians reduce complex ideas into a concise syntax.

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Empower:

* To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.

* To equip or supply with an ability.

Give to individuals:

Legal power over their persons (liberty), as much as is possible without infringing on the legal power of other persons.

The ability and knowledge to wield this power to maximize their individual outcomes.

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These concepts are well defined by the founders of the USA in a really beautiful and rigorous fashion. Read them thoroughly and you will learn more than I can convey.

I'm not sure why you would trust me, a stranger on the internet to define these concepts to you. Would you write off the foundational ideas of liberty if I were not able to convey these concepts with the fluency they deserve?

I'm picking up a really ineffective and/or deceptive argument strategy from you. The guidelines of this cite states:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

If your plan is to ask de-constructive questions until I slip up, know that you are abusing the Socratic method. [1] It is a cooperative argument exercise used to promote critical thinking. I did not consent, nor have the time for a critical thinking exercise. Refuting a sub-hypothesis says little about the school of thought that may have spawned it.

I am only writing this reply because I have seen similar threads spread throughout internet boards since I started browsing. The strategy (not you) is an evil cancer that degrades effective discussions, brow beats posters into submission, and kill communities. If I were to host a discussion platform I would do my best to cull this practice (without consent). I believe that is the spirit of that point in Paul's guideline. Please do better.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
We don't do monarchy in the United States. We believe in checks and balances, and limited power.

Edit: also, the power of the purse is a matter of constitutional law, not the antideficiency act. The supreme court would absolutely order the government to close. No Federal employee would follow executive orders to violate congressional authority.
7nm and 14nm do not refer to the wavelength of the light. They describe the size of the features on the chip (though that is getting increasingly inaccurate).

Either way, Zen chips are already multi die chips. For Zen and Zen+ each die has (up to) four cores. Chips with more cores than four contain multiple dies.

For Zen 2 they are going to be mixed differently, which is what you are referring to.
> Well, it would violate the Antideficiency Act.

More to the point, it would violate an express prohibition in Art. I, Sec. 9 of the Constitution: “No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law”.

> Would the Supreme Court order the government to close?

Yes, the Supreme Court would very likely order the executive branch to stop expending non-appropriaed funds.

> But, assuming it doesn't, Congress can either accept it, or impeach and remove the President. Given removal of a President requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate, it probably wouldn't happen.

Maybe not right now, where Congress is dominated so much by partisanship over protection of institutional traditional, legal, and Constitutional power that you can imagine the President's party backing such a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congressional authority. But that's sort of aberrant historically; most of the time, even the President’s party is keen to keep the executive out of legislative branch’s clear Constitutionally-reserved powers.
You and me brother. Honeycrisp is way overrated. Personally, I enjoy the empire apple for raw eating.
His predictions don't sound that far off from something Ray Kurzweil would predict. They're both predicting a utopia and the beginning of a new form of intelligence. The difference is that Yuval Hariri is a little more explicit about the fact that not everyone might make it to the rapture.

Quick reminder: doesn't matter how exclusive you make heaven. People have a tendency to believe that they'll be one of the lucky ones.

More importantly, they don't really leave a lot of room for avoiding something that feels inevitable to a lot of people. Well, a lot of people in the audience anyway. The people you encounter at lunch would probably find the notion of God-like humans to be kind of crazy.
The Biggest Problem with TDD(and why it's still good)
Hey guys, a presentation at work about TDD inspired me to write this short piece, would love your opinions!

https://amando-abr.eu/wrote/the-biggest-problem-with-tdd/
Join organizations that you find fun, interesting, or meaningful. Over time you should be able to form friendships with like minded people, provided you are friendly enough.
The 13" MBP has two USB-C's, not four. The 15" has four.
I still have fun buts it been reduced to scraping as much data from the web and finding ways to profit from it. as another post said, I miss the irc days.
Haven't had a chance to try the app yet. Any idea why the name? When I read Lasso, I do not necessarily think of 15 second videos with overlayed soundtracks.
Two other reasons I can think of why Macs cost more, including used:

1. The MacOS premium. It's impractical to run MacOS on anything else.

2. Status symbol.

Anecdotally, I see a lot of people outside of HN comparing their experiences with the quality of a $1200+ USD Macbook to ~$500 USD laptops of other OEMs. Of course the Macbook wins over things half its price.

Personally I've had great experiences with Thinkpads and Latitudes, which have held up great and are very easy to repair or upgrade.
No it doesn’t fall short, Intel single core lead is < 10%. (except for the few programs that use AVX256)

Btw, zen 2 will take the lead at every metrics.
Meetup is a great source of leads.
(This is the poorest joke)
When non-traditional databases became popular, I thought it was primarily driven by people short-sightedly prioritizing development time over all of the good relational database features.

Now I see things differently -- the non-traditional databases are just better at scaling horizontally, eventual consistency, and running in cloud environments than the traditional databases. They are easier to set up and use. Some of them now have pretty good relational features and schemas.

During the past decade the Oracles of the world have continued to think dismissively of new non-traditional databases, as I did at first. The non-traditional databases got better and better while Oracle kept doing a lot of the same stuff. Oracle just didn't take the competition seriously, and that's fair enough because the competition didn't deserve to be taken seriously at first -- but now it does, and it's becoming a threat to Oracle's business.

It's obvious that Amazon would want to use their own database products -- but the impressive thing is that those products, which are not very old, are already good enough to replace Oracle for a lot of use cases at very high scale.
I used to take 100-level electives in college, just to meet attractive women. It also fulfilled criteria for my degree and general interests, but I could have taken the 200-level class where-in-which all the attractive women had already transferred out of the school, dropped out, or found a husband and dropped out. Also note, this form of attraction was just as visual as the dating apps are today and there is a night and day difference with who remains.

I now take 100-level courses and also meet attractive women in a variety of age ranges. Many of them are there for recreation too.

Try doing something extracurricular where women would also have a common interest.

I don't get "swiped-right" on dating apps. I can still go out with the most attractive woman in a room. And by attractive, I mean visually attractive by male consensus, just like what is experienced both ways on dating apps.
You're mixing up a bunch of things.

Each wafer, which is the disk on which many dies are produced, is produced using a single technology process. This means that Rome's IO dies (14nm process) are produced on separate wafers from the core dies (7nm process). The wafers are sliced into dies, the dies are tested and binned separately, and sufficiently good dies are then packaged together into a single package that goes into your server's CPU socket.

The wavelength of the laser used for the manufacturing is a different story entirely. Pretty much all state-of-the-art photolithography uses 193nm wavelength lasers, and this has been the case for many years. Yes, the wavelength is larger than the size of the features produced with those lasers. There's a lot of magic involved.

Since it's getting a bit too much magic, the industry has been trying to upgrade to 13.5nm (extreme ultraviolet) lasers for a long time. They're now starting to be used in actual practice. And EUV lasers are still basically magic, but of a different kind.
Clients are intentionally writing JavaScript against (a subset of) the Service Worker API; so you will have to spawn a V8 process & context anyway.

V8 isolates are the same separation as browser tabs, and thus are also designed to be initialized extremely quickly. I’d be surprised if spawning a new process is faster, and it’s not going to be faster if your goal is to run JS/WASM.
I'm working on an experimental function as a service based on CGI apps. It has a lot of advantages of the article:

- Process isolation

- Close to hardware

- No cold start

But it also has some advantages like:

- Any language, including compiled languages

- Local testing, backed by a standard

I am still experimenting with the scaling potential; my biggest concern is memory requirements. Currently I'm writing the project's blog using the project, and then am going to do some performance tests.

It's hosted on a 5 dollar digital ocean instance at bigcgi.com.

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There is no “Pro” user story. Every “Pro” is different. Some sales dudes just need to make calls, take notes, and manage email. An iPad is plenty for that.
By using something like Paredit to navigate the source by list structure. Reading and navigating are kind of mixed together.
I am not very happy with some of Yelp UX decisions, but if their service goes down, it will be missed very much by me. I know their ratings are not always reliable, but I haven't found any better alternative. It is somewhat weird that one of the obvious things that people started working at decades ago, still doesn't seem to have a satisfactory solution.
Mostly correct, except Zen (and Zen+, and Zen 2) has eight cores per die. You may have been thinking of core complexes (CCXs), of which there are two on a die, and each CCX has four cores.
Someone posted this app they made on reddit a few months ago: https://chatcircles.com/ Perhaps it's the missing fun link you're looking for? Sometimes there are a fair number of people hanging out but other times it's just another lonely place on the internet.
The Russians know very well that the big carrier/battlewagon era is over. they can be killed by supervelocity missiles, so they are not going to waste another ruble - nor should the USA.
Even Iran knows this and they are biuidling large fleet of small drone boats that can loiter at the surface and emit nothing unti they are commanded.
My fancy Ford Focus came with the PS Cup 2's from the factory. You don't need to buy a Porsche to get barely street legal tires!
The only thing that this "article written about a tweet" made me think was why has it taken Amazon so long?

Oracle sued my company a few years back for license compliance issues - I vowed never to run their stuff again and rip it out wherever I find it.
>I still want to hear why this is such a bad idea (other than not being a very popular one, of course)

Because it effectively prevents parts of the public from being able access a public resource.

If that isn't enough, think about what happens to the public's opinion of National Parks if most people can't afford to use them. At best the public would likely vote to reverse the new fee structure, at worst you create a public that outright opposes conversation of public land and parks are slowly dismantled.
Companies interacting with their customers the way gansters and drug dealers might ... So fun.
You arent giving nuance. Your just acting as a contrarian, interpreting the original comment literally, then pedantically responding. thats not helping a discussion
There are probably another order of magnitude more computers in a 'computer' than Gwern estimates.

Consider:

- Power management chips (of which there are dozens) each containing programmable MCUs

- Batteries, of course, contain one or more MCUs each

- Clocks

- 'Glue' MCUs for things like DMA controllers and USB controllers. (USB controller firmware has been exploited from the port side, and it's not upgradeable)

- Supervisors

- RGB LEDs (!)

- SD cards have several (see Bunnie's work)

- Ethernet, WiFi and Bluetooth controllers contain several small and usually a few large computers each

Some of these have fully-baked ROM code, some are programmed and modifiable through flash, and some have firmware written at driver load time to save money.
Went to Acadia a couple of weekends ago, was amazing. Went one time in the dead of summer a few years ago, was annoying.
The worst is when you're in a meeting with a non-technical manager and another developer is like "this task is trivial, I could do it in X hours".

It's becomes like a weird intimidation thing where people don't want to argue back because non-technical managers might think you're just slow at development or don't know what you're doing.
Both! https://blog.cloudflare.com/webassembly-on-cloudflare-worker...
> No, this is not some conspiracy theory by a few anecdotal players.

I've been working in the search engine industry for more than 15 years (as in, worked on core ranking algorithms and other infrastructure for a long time). I've heard similar reports countless times about ranking algorithms that our team controlled, and it was all just speculation.

Once again: Yelp has been around for 10+ years. By now, surely someone will have iron-clad proof that they paid to get bad reviews removed. I have not seen any.
The interracial relationships of the Bay Area are purely a result of the numbers. If you’re in the Google employee socioeconomic class, your social environment is about 30% Indian, 20% Asian, 20% American born white, and 20% other. The chance that you’ll marry someone of a different race, with no preference, is >70%.

However relationships are very homogenous on social class, education, values, politics, and physical attractiveness.
Upvoted just for the conference rooms.
I actually have experienced basically the opposite sort of thing.

There are monolothic applications and overly restrictive central IT processes where the “folk knowledge” you describe is basically a job-security obfuscation tactic for developers to wield political control and act as credit-mongering constraints on what other developer teams might want to do, under the guise of it all being for the safety or stability of the monoliths (which are already unstable and unsafe).

Particularly in cases where multiplicity of different runtime environments is critical for innovation, this central IT bureaucracy can be totally killer.

The worst is when outside consultants come in and just reinforce what the central IT people are already stonewalling with.

For this reason, it can actually be great when new silver bullets come in from consultants who are able to break that hegemony. Sure, the silver bullets are dipshitty business crap, but if it at least offers a hook for using better modern tooling, you can successfully not die from the central IT crap.

Then by showing the results of the new tools, you can undermine the “folk knowledge” gate keeper people, and force them to be honest about the declining business value of protecting the so-called stable legacy monoliths.
How would this not suffer from similar issues to Lambda? The start times are going to be worse per request than application servers today because all of the initialization can no longer be amortized. Long before containers became the hot new thing, people were using FastCGI to amortize these costs, and importantly, Scale - CGI requires expensive process creation on every request. You can't take advantage of fast, usermode context switching like with Goroutines or event-based architectures like Node.js because each request is a process in old-school CGI.

And how doesn't that put you to square 1 with isolation? Cloudflare is running multi-tenant loads; you ideally want to have fine grained control on resource utilization and access controls. With CGI, you pretty much have to reinvent Docker to get the same level of isolation...

I'm not sure I follow how this is superior to other solutions except for that CGI is easier to test locally.
I'm just stunned (but probably shouldn't be) that someone would not only openly advocate for but double down on the idea that access to national parks should be determined by who has the most money. It's not only on HN but the other places probably involve private clubs and drinking whiskey.
> If your Worker makes requests to a third-party API that is also implemented as a Cloudflare Worker, this request doesn't even leave the machine. The other worker runs locally.

Doesn't this undermine your assumption that external timers can't be used in a timing side channel attack because "the network is extremely noisy"[1]? Consider a third-party API implemented as a Cloudflare Worker that just returns Date.now(). How much noise will there be if that runs locally?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18280156
I've seen three Model 3's at the track at this point - none of them modified. They appear to run just fine without overheating their batteries. The biggest issue is in the brakes. The Model 3 is a heavy, powerful car which has insufficient rotor surface area to dissipate the large amounts of braking heat generated. Of the three that I'm familiar with, all three ended their track day early because of brake pads crumbling due to excessive heat. Better pads would last a lot longer, but there's still not enough rotor for the size and weight. This Performance Tesla had better have a bigger brake setup.

The range on track isn't as awful as I thought. It seems to use charge at about 4x the indicated rate (100 mi range remaining indicated means about 25 miles actual range left), so the 300mi version of that car is good for about 75 track miles. Not bad at all, compared to a tank of gas in a sporty car.
Can you mention the popular non-traditional databases that are competitive with a traditional relational database ?
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> Looking forward to these chips but always have concerns for AMDs ability to execute consistently. Opteron, the original 'Sledgehammer' series was way ahead of Intel because Intel just couldn't bring themselves to put 64 bit features into their Pentium line, and AMD squirreled away that advantage by not following up, and having other issues with later spins of the Opterons.

That isn't really what happened though. It was a combination of two things. One was this:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/184323-intel-stuck-wit...

The other was that it happened around the time when CPU frequencies hit the power wall. That hit the Pentium 4 especially hard, which gave AMD the advantage, but Intel's anti-competitive behavior prevented AMD from capitalizing on it. Meanwhile Intel knew the Pentium 4 was too power hungry for laptops, so they kept iterating on the Pentium M, which is what became Core. It was designed for power efficiency rather than clock speed right when clock speeds unexpectedly started getting limited by power. It wasn't expected to be faster than the Pentium 4 (at half the power), but it was, so Netburst got canceled and suddenly Intel had the advantage.

The combination of the two things meant that AMD never had a chance to really profit from its investment in Sledgehammer, which meant they didn't have the money to put into R&D and fell behind for a decade.

There is no guarantee something else won't go wrong, but the chance of that same confluence of factors happening again seems pretty unlikely.
Someone should sell a kit that replaces the bottom panel of the new Mac Mini with a slightly thicker one containing an "external" NVMe drive enclosure. It could be coupled with a piece which replaces the Mac Mini power plug assembly, which could then tap mains power, allowing the "external" enclosure to be a Thunderbolt 3 NVMe enclosure. (Could have thicker ones for thin profile and regular 2.5" SATA drives.)
It's kinda odd to write imperative expressions like for-loops all in one line without brackets, also the necessity of 'this'. I guess these are the downsides of using a Javascript-like language.
The threat of divesting Apple from their app store should be a threat hanging over their heads, if they choose to engage in anti-competitive activities.
Just had to look it up: https://www.razer.com/project-valerie

They demoed it and apparently the unit they demoed was stolen when they were leaving the show.

Not going to lie, I’d love an Acer Iconia style portable at this point. Wouldn’t use it for desktop publishing or probably anything with heavy typing, but just seems like a fun form factor.