skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling Geekbench a "single benchmark" is misleading because it runs 25 different types of workloads. So AMD doing well here means it does well compared to Intel in 25 different areas when they are all averaged:

• Cryptography Workloads
- AES
• Integer Workloads
- LZMA Compression
- JPEG Compression
- Canny
- Lua
- Dijkstra
- SQLite
- HTML 5 Parse
- HTML 5 DOM
- Histogram Equalization
- PDF Rendering
- LLVM
- Camera
• Floating Point Workloads
- SGEMM
- SFFT
- N-Body Physics
- Ray Tracing
- Rigid Body Physics
- HDR
- Gaussian Blur
- Speech Recognition
- Face Detection
• Memory Workloads
- Memory Copy
- Memory Latency
- Memory Bandwidth

Source: https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench4-cpu-workloads.pdf
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Were you able to test whether this was indeed heat generated by these items, vs their simple mass acting as a thermal reservoir?

On a typical summer day where I live, it cools down significantly at night and many open their windows to cool down. The daytime indoor temperature is later strongly influenced by this overnight cooling effect. Now, a bare room cools down very quickly, while a room full of mass will retain the heat of the day for much longer. Classic passive solar design working the wrong way round, if you will.

Mattresses, bedding, & cardboard all absorb moisture from the air, while food scraps are moist by themselves, so each could retain an appreciable amount of heat. They could even be contributing additional humidity if they absorb moisture during the hot day & release it in the cool night.
It actually doesn't make sense. A circle with a 1D point missing from its edge is the same as a sphere with a 2D hole in it. Both have material connected "around" it in another dimension. For a sphere the connection wraps around the hole and for a circle the connection wraps around the point (comprising the entirety of the circle's edge).
No problem. Large atmospheric chamber or controlled wind tunnel. Pump the pressure up or down, change the gas mixtures, whatever. Gravity, partially support the drone's weight. NASA is good at this stuff.
VNC has a significant performance penalty compared to network X.
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> we want to add a function that looks like all the other functions but doesn't work like them.

I like how Rust does it: all macros and special built-ins like these have names ending with an exclamation point. So when you see for instance "try!(something())", you know that this "try!()" is not a normal function call.
I throw that stuff in a hole in the backyard, covered with leaves.
FreeBSD jails have some flexibility. You can choose to pass through the host networking as-is, or pass a limited selection of ips; I think there's a way to have a more separated stack that that too, but I haven't used it. You can allow raw sockets or not, you can shield the processes or not, same with IPC.

I haven't had a need to have a jail inspect traffic of another, I suspect that might be tricky. However I've used them successfully as a lightweight alternative to a vm for QA/dev environments -- use hard links for the base OS to save space, and give each jail its own ip and you get fairly cheap multiple boxes. I've also used it them to contain statically compiled binaries -- TLS terminator runs without access to much of anything, if the next vulnerability after Heartbleed was worse, it would be a lot harder to escalate vs common deployment with OpenSSL linked into a webserver; similar with an environment running ffmpeg.
> Of course. They're just a tool.

Which is why it is strictly superior to use a language feature which does not have this issue to begin with (e.g. exceptions or actual compiler enforced error handling like Rust).

> I know of no other programming community which has such community standards on using race condition checking

I assume you're referring to the golang race detector. It's better than nothing, but then again, it's a tool and is not guaranteed to find all issues that may arise. Compare (again) with Rust, or with languages with proper immutable data structures like Scala and Java (e.g. https://immutables.github.io), not to mention https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8208520 or https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSanitizer.html
@idlewords can tell you about it.
i3 is great because it lets you live entirely in a terminal until you need a window.
Ask HN: How to Make Craig Wright Go Away?
Just saw another article about Craig Wright, the Australian fraud who claims he invented Bitcoin[1]. This guy seems to so obviously be a huckster at this point that I can't believe he's given the time of day by news organizations.

The article includes phrases like:

> The case could potentially help shed light on whether he really is Satoshi Nakamoto -- something that many in the cryptocurrency community doubt.

Which, a) it won't and b) the second part is a massive understatement. Also:

> Critics have urged Wright to verify his identity by transferring some coins, a proposal he has refused.

Which would be the obvious way to prove he was Satoshi and by his refusal is quite damning.

----

More broadly, there's a frustrating asymmetry here - now that he's notorious, Craig Wright can say or do just about anything and it makes the news cycle. This is also more generally a problem with, shall we say, some other individuals who are often reported on. Meanwhile, I think most semi-technical people who have read the points raised against Wright will have found them convincing. "Quite a few people on the internet disagree" doesn't make for a great article though. Is there any way to precipitate this guy's return to irrelevance other than "voting with your eyeballs" and not engaging with the content? This strategy seems...diffuse and ineffective.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/self-proclaimed-bitcoin-inventor-says-fortune-inaccessible
> That's not even something that is physically possible.

Water currents move water masses, travel in closed loops and obey the laws of physics. Claiming that is not even physically possible that the same water pass two times by a point is an overstatement. Can be unprobable, but is perfectly possible with enough time.

Water in Fukushima travels to California and Alaska and then returns again to Japan, and then returns to USA in an endless loop. That's how it works. Ask an oceanographer.

Water masses with their own collection of animals and plants are traced far away of their point of origin. Is not a secret at all.
Sure. That's why I don't wield sledgehammer to swat a mosquito, so to speak. GUIs and TUIs have their place as well as command line programming.
F3 – 2nd Annual Nintendo Fangames/Mods Showcase
Funny weird, I also bought my first fan ventilator last year. I used to put some ice in a bowl in front of it.

This year (last week) I bought a second one to put in the bedroom and set it up for the night. That breeze was really refreshing.
I think a lot my nimbleness comes from avoiding the mouse...which can also be done fairly well in most GUIs.

In the case you mention, I'd reach for vimdiff. Maybe it's a career thing, but I've been shifted to enough different environments that I couldn't consistently learn and use the same GUI diff tool (commandline servers, Windows, macOS, Linuxes where I can only install new things to my homedir). It's also very nice to have your editor right there.

I work in VFX. Obviously all of the tools effectively require a GUI, but when dealing with large projects requiring a lot of files and servers I can't imagine only having a GUI.

Here are a bunch of use-cases that come to mind:
- We deal with a lot of image sequences; numbered files for each frame of video. Each piece of software has their own interface for "squishing" them down so you're looking at a list of file sequences instead of 1000s of individual files. Renumbering, renaming, or even sorting through them sucks in Windows Explorer, Finder, etc. A few simple commandline tools, many of which ship with any Linux terminal, make that easier. Although, I have found it much easier to use the GUI to pick out outliers (random frames that are 0-size, a grouping with a similar timestamp, random frames that are solid black). It's faster than building up a `ls -l | sort | grep | head`
- Remoting into servers. Just logging into 10 servers to see if a local file was installed or what Nvidia driver they're running. Remote desktop would be miserable or you'd need special tools. ssh in a for loop does this trivially--if you have more than a handful use GNU parallel or a flavor of ssh that does it concurrently.
- Most project files are ascii and there are a lot of situations where tweaking one or more of them saves a lot of time. For 1 file you can use a gui, if it's like 3 files you can use a macro in your IDE, 10-100 files you /can/ probably use an IDE but setting up a project and confirming it worked has more overhead than commandline tools.
- I still don't like any GUI file search tools in practice. I think it's because of the guardrails and optimizations? `find`, `grep`, and `locate` work way more predictably on system files, network paths, and USB drives, where GUI tools seem to have way more limitations.

But I'm the fist to admit I don't think it's the best way to work for everybody.
Never bought an Intel CPU after learning about their illegal anti-competetive deals with OEMs. It's been probably 15 years with AMD CPUs.

Happy to see AMD on top once again.
>when the likelihood of sailing the country down a river for $$$ was lower

Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
Our team had a few of https://www.totalphase.com/products/usb-power-delivery-analy... for debugging persnickety devices, and that helped tremendously.
Oh yea... and it can constantly transmit data to earth and whoever is listening can re-create entire dump over time!
This should be good news for the Brazilian economy which seemed to be perennially encumbered by massive tariffs on imported industrial machinery. Hopefully they get their Econ in gear and drive the southern Econ and realize their potential.
Yes, I get that. But it seems that performance has barely improved since the 1970s despite the massive gains in telecommunication efficiencies since then. Or is the SNR so poor that even 1970s era technology was able to be close to the limit?
China wants a ‘balanced’ trade deal at summit, but the US isn’t interested
> Yes, but you have air conditioning in Chicago

I'm from the Great Lakes area, and barely anyone there has air conditioning. It's considered a luxury.
Feel free to start a Kickstarter to finish Wayland Over Wire. https://www.apkboard.com/wow-wayland-over-wire/
Quant Maps search seems to be quite lacking. Searched for a large store in my city, where I recently drove using Google Maps, and it can't find it. It just responds to a match to the city name. When I used just the name without the city, it found a pub half way around the world with exact name match.
Go-flutter – A package that brings Flutter to the desktop
Right? I am reliably put into this weird emotional state of being simultaneously entertained and chagrined at the propensity for technologists (and I very much include myself in this criticism) to make these kinds of assumptions, and the edge-case bugs that fall out of them.
> Corsair MP600 SSDs will offer up to 4950 MB/s sequential read speed as well as up to 4250 MB/s sequential write speed when used with a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface

WOW! Looks like they haven't announced pricing yet. I wonder what those drives will cost.
It exists, it's just complex-valued.
Ah, you know I just noticed that a couple of weeks ago. Alas, I use it only for work, and it still doesn’t work due to a OneDrive limit (can’t fetch my list of notebooks).

It’s still not as useful as the Evernote clipper, but it’s not as awful as I said it was.
And to add to that; the bsd’s tend to aspire to be Unix, not a Unix something . While Linux has been hellbent on being a desktop, Mac/Irix/Solaris work alike . Your next supercomputer, the cloud .

I am not saying one is better then the other. We just have different goals.

If I win the lottery; make my unicorn millions ; or otherwise find a pile of cash ; I am going to start a BSD Unix company . For the sake of choice.
Obama spent a lot of political and reputational capital on the TPP. The only purpose of TPP was to counteract China. I think it would be very surprising if they were treating China as an ally.
This seems like moving the goalposts though. "Much more" is not "rounds to zero". Software is just expensive, period - to build, and to maintain.
home of my GTD system

That may be why. Lots of people don't have a GTD system. I, personally, can't see myself ever using one.

Maybe I'm just way too low in conscientiousness but I find systems like that so oppressive that I get very unhappy and abandon them.
I was you 2 years ago. Now after experiencing failed keyboard, battery and overall poor performance in my MBP I'm back with linux on a thinkpad. I'm curious about Windows though.

A bit of advice: if you end up buying a macbook give it some time and don't move your whole life into the ecosystem. It's incredibly hard to move out. You can't just export all your photo albums, Things tasks, and so on.
10 seconds of video from Titan would change the world. It's shame we don't have this from Mars already. So it would take a few weeks to transmit - we got time.

Now figuring out which 10 seconds to select and send to earth... that'll be interesting. An on-board cache of x GB data storage, with key frames taken every 30 minutes, would probably be able to select some pretty compelling 10 second segments.
I don't live in Seattle- do big shot lawyers & doctors happen to ride the light rail to work? :)
Mattermost does, and just raised about $70m to do it well. ING is on their website. They have e-discovery tools and it's all hosted on your own cloud/servers.
There might be some scientific value for taking video. One measurement where video might be valuable is measuring the saltation threshold, or the wind speed at which grains begin to move, of the surface using rotor downwash. These measurements are important to understand the dune pattern on Titan. This could be pretty weird as the dust on titan is believe to be made of something similiar to moth balls, which could stick to each other like packing peanuts due to frictional electrostatic charging.

[0]https://www.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/TD/td3403/34_03-Lorenz.pdf
[1]https://www.news.gatech.edu/2017/03/27/electric-sands-titan
I was able to check a thermometer and note a consistent 5 degree Fahrenheit difference compared to before removing them and after removing them. I was able observe that the room not only felt less hot, it felt less muggy. I was able to observe that the large roaches endemic to Georgia stopped showing up when the cardboard was removed.

I don't believe their mass taking up space explains it. I believe them giving off heat like a rotting compost pile is vastly more likely.

But feel free to make me look like idiot by testing it under lab conditions all scientifically in a way that I was in no position to create as a desperately poor divorced single mom just trying to get to sleep at night by removing the cardboard from my room because it actually helped.
Because talking to the computer via text, perhaps over an RS232 or similar link, will be there when all of the more sophisticated systems go tits up.
SpaceX has a gargantuan advantage when it comes to the cost to get stuff to space, though. And it doesn't seem like anybody will catch up with them any time soon.
I find Google docs to be so clunky and slow.
I know of at least three projects (with huge budgets) right now that are spawned from the corpses of old, failed projects that never worked. Those old projects make up the legacy of the current effort and can’t be easily thrown away.
The internet is supposed to give the little guys at least a fighting chance - over and over, we see these shitty big companies (yelp, airbnb, etc, now grubhub) screwing those who can't fight back. Makes me so mad, isn't there anything that we can do?
reminds of the Computerphile Tom Scott video "The Problem with Time & Timezones"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

and why I will never implement datetime myself
I stepped on one that told me I was 13% fat. Which is ridiculous. Judging by the photo charts of body fat percentage, I'm probably 20%
Adjective rather than verb, but that's how I feel about Apple's use of "Recents" as a menu entry in some of their software.

Developers, if your application ever offers me a selection of Recents, I will delete it and then delete it, and delete it, again and again until the computer steps in to stop me.

I like to think that this is what provoked Jony Ive into leaving.
If you go to the Razer subreddit, there's reasonable consensus that buying from the Microsoft Store, Best Buy, etc. is highly recommended for the extended warranty, which you will have a high chance of using if you regularly game on it.
> Don't give up so quickly.

Some of use have been screaming about the bloody thing for 30 years. Now the car is crashing into the wall. It's too late to steer right or left. Bracing for impact is the best we can do.

> but I don't think it's the right thing to just call this unsolvable.

Making our peace with what could have been is often the only way to salvage what can be and prepare for real-world scenario, aka worst-case scenario regarding climate change.
It appears the potential market in the US is based on Federal broadband coverage figures. From the story:

"In 2017, more than 26% of people who lived in rural
areas in the U.S. were not covered by terrestrial
broadband internet service, according to a May report
from the Federal Communications Commission."

FCC numbers are pure fiction. It is well known that providers are GREATLY exaggerating their coverage and available capacity to rural and semi rural areas. Much of the coverage that actually exists is also garbage; fixed wireless suffering absurd contention and unreliable, low performance cable system or DSL systems.

There are well-heeled communities adjacent to large urban areas that can get nothing worthwhile; they're inflicting substantial new property taxes on themselves to fund FTTH build-outs. I suspect the actual market for rural broadband is many times larger than whatever is assumed in this story. I also know for fact that there is a cohort of people that will go further out into the hinterlands the instant they can solve the bandwidth problem at a reasonable cost. I'm one of them.
Lmao disappearing ports didn't start after Jobs died. Jobs had a vandetta against ports.
In this case Evernote is far more than just CRUD and you can see that by comparing it to the CRUD self-hosted alternatives which exist and have sub-par syncing, editing, organization, and indexing. For all it's flaws, which caused them to lose me as a customer, it's definitely more complex than it appears at first glance.
Thank you for saying this. After their switch to the ultra flat design, I'm still unsure where the buttons are. It's ridiculous.
Sorry for the confusion, I meant "single benchmark" as in "single run of Geekbench." As in comparing one measurement versus an aggregate of measurements isn't particularly meaningful, you need to compare aggregate to aggregate to get something valid. It's still a sample size of 1, even if the sample has 25 dimensions.

(I don't know if Geekbench uses an average or what they're weighting is e.g. with memory speeds and operating systems, which is why I'm saying "aggregate").
Yeah but I can't find a motherboard and RAM that won't hardware reserve half my memory without RMAing 4 iterations of each.
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Yeah the iPad Pro is the one product stack I like in Apples stack.
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I'm taking a mooc on climate change denial 1, and creating confusion is listed as one of the main reasons for denial. For example, when faced with scientific consensus about tobacco causing cancer, the industry invested a lot in creating doubt - doubt makes change stop or slow down.

Personal biases are also a big factor. Eg: a conservative is more prone to believe global warming when presented an article about "free market solutions with nuclear power" than "government legislation against co2", which are just different takes on the same underlying truth.

1 https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:UQx+Denial101x+1T2...
True that

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There might be meaningful differences in the hardware encode/decode for video. In the Plex community for example it seems like Intel CPUs are the best bet. They support a lot of codecs and can service multiple transcode streams. Consumer Nvidia GPUs are limited to 2. I don't think Plex supports hardware transcoding on AMD Ryzen or discrete GPUs at all right now. I haven't really looked into why yet, and could likely just be a software support issue in Plex.

This, unfortunately, would be a deal breaker for my home-server use case, although I'm very happy AMD is finally competitive again, overall.
Uhh. Sarcasm?
Our modern rationalization for private land ownership is that it's the best means to optimize for long-term agricultural output. A shifting climate risks undoing the very American notion that success of private landowners can occur independently of the success of the larger society.

A notion that emerged out of a simple abundance of land resources that had been sustainably cultivated by indigenous societies for centuries, and a government that encouraged white settlers to a first-come-first-serve buffet.

It'll be interesting to see how it all unravels.
The Avedis Zildjian Company, now an American-based cymbal manufacturer, was founded in Constantinople in 1623. Hell, even Nintendo's 123.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avedis_Zildjian_Company
> almost everyone I have ever seen will either force-ignore/auto-accept host key changes,

Thanks for the super informative answer. About the quoted portion... yeah! I assume it's my responsibility to do something... like manually check the host IP or something? What is the recommended practice to deal with this situation?
> This summer will affect the calculated climate, sure, but it could be canceled out by an equally cold summer next year (unlikely, because the Earth is warming).

Why would a cold summer next year cancel out a hot summer ? If extremes swing so much it doesn't matter that the average stays the same.
And then you'll vote (purchase) based on which government you trust the most for whom the company will be under the umbrella of - US, China, India, etc.
The difference between rocket fuel as a power source and nuclear radioactive decay as a power source is like comparing C4 explosive and a log fire in your fireplace. Once it great for providing a huge, fast release of energy, the other is great for providing a slow, steady release of energy.
I preferred Bernie over Hillary too, but an article about France is really not the place to bring up three year old American politics.