skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have these tests been run with or without the security patches? Since Spectre/Meltdown/etc. it has increasingly been difficult to compare numbers. Lately intels IPC advantage compared to AMD has been melted away completely by these patches. It will probably take some time until we can judge if these new IPC gains are solid or if they have been bought with new compromises.

EDIT: To clarify: If you compare both "out of the box" then the old one would be unsafe while the new one hopefully is safe because it comes with hardware/firmware patches built in. If you compare both patched, the old architecture gets a large performance hit compared to when it was launched. With time the patches usually evolve and change the performance characteristic. So you have to be careful which OS or firmware revision you are using. However way you do it, it's not an easy apples-to-apples comparison anymore unless you're talking about a very specific use case at a very specific point in time.
Why would you go to a new planet that requires artificial habitats instead of setting those habitats up on earth?
That is presuming private ownership effects won't be big. And they will be. China owns more corporate debt in the US than anywhere else and it is a high percentage.
In Munich the SBahn is what you described. Not being on time/trains cancelled is the norm. When it snows in Norway the SBahn here breaks down.
Outside of primary schools with a very strict religious background they are really all the same. You don't look at those with exit metrics and average scores on national tests the way you do with schooling after it.
If he could amazon would be getting a spanking in court right now, I wouldn't be surprised if it were true, but as for evidence...
> the '18 models aren’t. It’s a fixed problem,

Nope, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20621436

And besides, of course the newer device is going to have a lower failure rate so far (unless they've screwed up even harder than Apple normally does). You have to compare the failure rate at the same point into the product's lifecycle.

> unless people hate Apple.

It's hard not to, when they are so eager to give people more reasons.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of scum and villainy. The internet has to grow up and conclusively eject these kinds of people - don't tolerate them, don't tolerate their providers.
For the interested, market leaders on mobile fraud detection are adjust and appsflyer.
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I visited 8chan/pol for the first time before it went down. I think reading content there should absolutely make anyone think hard about reasonable constraints on free speech. For example, I saw someone started a thread about population in Nigeria rising. Several anonymous commenters piled on, virtually everyone referring to Africans as “subhumans”. One commenter proposed that western countries should issue tags to hunt Africans in same way as animals and utilize their skills to survive as hunting challenge. Other commenter thanked Trump for shutting down Ebola research and hoped it will soon spread again. It was very clear no one had any rational debate. No one cared to fact check or cross-question anything. You can literally through whatever number and cite whatever source you want and everyone merely would go with it as long as it supports racial superiority. Everyone was busy one upping another in how grotesque and extreme they possibly could be. It is at this point I realized that hate is an addiction. I am certain it gives large dopamine hits for these people to consume all these material. It is probably highlight of their day to justify themselves as savior of humanity, being superior and created favorably by god than others. They probably hang out in here very large portions of their free time not for learning something but for pure entertainment derived dopamine hits. They are neither looking for nor want rational debates or reasoning from the other side. I can see how someone vulnerable will get in to these forums and become terminal addict. These forums should not be considered any less dangerous than drug dealers who handout cocain to young kids.
That only works as long as you have targets worth destroying. China has a lot. US, fewer... Russia, we do not even know the targets.
Are you really implying a school in Croydon, a large town in south London is going to be functionally and qualitatively equivalent to say a school in Golders Green, an area in the London Borough of Barnet? [1][2]

Equivalent in all the areas one might measure the attractiveness and potential of a school?

[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croydon

[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golders_Green

edit:typo
Something attracted the VCs in the first place though.
How many of these security leaks still need software patches for Sunny Cove? I thought Intel implemented hardware mitigations for pretty much all of them in the 10th generation chips?
My 8 year-old boy is a big Minecrafter. He went through a phase where he switched to Roblox. I checked it out and he asked me what I thought, I said "this is hot garbage—not nearly as good of a game as Minecraft is", but I let him keep playing it for a few weeks. Finally he switched back to Minecraft and got disgusted with the game quality of Roblox and dumped it.

I was relieved because if he hadn't, I was getting ready to ban it. I had set up the account with parental controls to turn off chat because I knew adults played the game, but I ultimately decided it was inappropriate for kids after digging a little deeper and seeing what a toxic waste dump it is.
This is just the beginning. We are halfway of the way to 1.5°C and there is no reason why warming should stop at 1.5°C.
Your multicloud strategy is all wrong
> Linux use cases tend to be servers where user interaction is unexpected at 3AM? No one around to make a choice, so automate a choice.

Even if it's a small percentage of the overall "computing" population, there are still millions of people running Linux on the desktop (roughly 2% out of 3.2 billion people using internet makes for 64 million - a large european country).
It's 64 million of people for which this behaviour is a pain in the arse.
Australia's situation is fairly different. And reeks of all the wrong steps of privatization of infrastructure

Telstra (at the time "Telecom Australia") was drawing up plans to roll out FTTH all the way back in 1994(!) before being privatized whole cloth in 1998

Some of their delightful missteps leading up to (and during) the NBN rollout included

- Selling Dial-Up services cheaper than competitors by virtue of not needing to pay line rental or other fees

- Describing ADSL as a "fetish" and saying ISDN was "good enough"

- Running a competitor's (Optus) HFC rollout into the ground. Large swathes of Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane to this day have "Telstra Cable" on one side of a street and "Optus Cable" on the other, simply because Telstra wanted to bankrupt Optus out of trying to avoid using their copper network, and thus, paying fees

- Breaking the ADSL 1 standard to prevent having to buy more DSLAM backhaul. The 8/1 ADSL standard was changed to "at most" 1.5/256

- Attempting to roll out FTTN across the country in 2006, on the provision that they NOT be required to allow competing providers access to their equipment (this was a large part of what precipitated Labor's original NBN vision in 2007)

- Stalling NBN negotiations as long as possible while gold plating their "4G" network, along with NewsCorp (which owns a 33% stake in Telstra) parroting the "WIRELESS IS THE FUTURE!" line, complete with ads for the "FASTEST 4G NETWORK IN AUSTRALIA"

- Staffing the entire NBN board after the LNP victory in 2013 with "ex" Telstra executives, whom were not required to divest their shares in Telstra, while actively negotiating terms to use Telstra's network(!)

There's many other egregious Telstra incidents like charging 5x the market rate for peering on their network (being the biggest ISP has its "perks") and repeated nation-wide outages of their services due to outsourced network operations, but these are the ones directly related to the NBN today
Someone had scrawled QAnon garbage on a disused billboard in the back streets of Reading, UK last I saw it. This vomitous nonsense has global reach.
28 year old here, I couldn't agree more.
I read the article about dignity as a right. I do not think dignity is explicitly a right in the USA.
And this happened instantaneously with a wave of magic wand and no costs, right?

The cost to the USA would make the recent debt crisis look like a picnic.
"Refuse to use" is the wrong expression, as we are using the technology to solve the problem as in solar, wind, wave, water, etc. It is just that we are refusing to give up on fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) quickly enough. We should be pushing at the maximum possible speeds to make the transition. For an intermediate time, using gas instead of coal and oil also reduces the CO2 footprint, as gas has a 1/3rd less carbon compared to coal. Which is also a reason, why Diesel cars don't save as much carbon as the fuel consumption suggests, as Diesel fuel is about 10% more carbon-rich than gasoline per litre.
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And much increased area dedicated to graphics
I read somewhere that it would take several years and generations for them to be fixed on the hardware side.
Interesting, I've used something quite similar to the scanning-through-prism technology a few years ago, though with an 8-sided polygon for the application of exposing PCB masks. We were looking at 3D printing too IIRC.

To get to the desired ~80x80cm PCB size and the accuracy needed, we had to achieve super high throughput and super low timing jitter on the UV-LEDs. Very interesting technology, unfortunately we took too long to get a smaller scale proto working and funding was cut right after we delivered that proto :-(. Calibrating the whole machine from scratch was clever too.

Learned a lot there.
>I don't understand. Are you suggesting that another branch of government is therefor able to restrict that freedom?

Yes, because that's what the constitution says, or rather because it doesn't say otherwise. All rights not granted the Federal government through the constitution devolve to the states, and further, to the people. The states and private enterprise are allowed to abridge the freedom of speech, just not the Federal government through Congress.

>GP's point is that the constitution serves not to grant the freedom of speech, but to restrict the government from curtailing it

GP's point was that the constitution made a philosophical argument about freedom of speech as a natural right that it does not, in fact, make. One can believe that freedom of speech is a natural right if one so chooses, but the only thing the constitution actually says about freedom of speech is that it's one of a list of freedoms Congress can't pass laws to abridge.
So Linux cannot handle low memory situation if you disable the low memory management feature (swap). Who knew?
One of my previous jobs was at this company which was very inefficient with people's time. Everyone had access to everyone elses calendar and they'd keep booking your time in meetings so your calendar ended up like Swiss cheese - lots of 30 minute holes that were absolutely inadequate for getting any work done.

What I started to do was doing what this article mentions, but just for me - blocking out 2hr meetings every other day "with myself" in my calendar weeks in advance just so I can have a dedicated time to work.
I don't think its really a tradeoff in a normal sense, its very likely from what we know that intel 10nm is just incapable of high clocks, at least for now.
Or virtual box with win or chromeos instanced. Easy peasy. (No, I don’t do this, but a fascinating problem space)
> I can't think of anything I'd do that would saturate my 20Mbps link

Have children
I thought something along the same lines - fire up an old server and launch a couple hundred Android VMs. I doubt it'll even be that much expensive (if at all) compared to 100-200 phones drawing 5-10W each, or whatever devices of that size consume.
I'm fairly sure this is to ease it into use. I would assume that as it becomes more ubiquitous (many banks don't even have it yet) the limit will increase.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC396144/

Is the closest thing to a real source I could find at short notice. I found this surprising as well, I guess it merits some more casual research!
I know nothing about schooling in England, but I would imagine the parents’ education as well as socioeconomic status plays a much greater role than elementary schooling, as is the case everywhere else.
Utter, utter bollocks. See - Microsoft and the stagnation of the web around IE 6.

There's plenty of problems with market capture by a single entity, government or no.
Some security issues require software patches but those CPUs also include hardware improvements which strive to reduce overhead to negligible value.

According to Anandtech [0] only Spectre V1 requires pure software mitigation.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14664/testing-intel-ice-lake-...
> people that are paradoxically at the same time obese and malnourished

I don't see the paradox? "Energy" and "nutrients" both are in food but they are not the same (okay, unless somebody wants to start arguing about word definitions in which case I refer them here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8HAkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-... -- you guys know exactly what I mean). If your body wants (certain) nutrients but they are always accompanied by way too much energy that ends up being stored as fat than you end up hungry as well as fat. No paradox.

Also using "energy" and "nutrients" like I just did: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fs176

Many discussions about obesity are accompanied by comments "they just need to eat less because calories in > calories out - it's just physics" ignore that energy is just one of many aspects of why we eat.
It’s already dead here, and I would argue that it is not unfortunate at all. It’s also a distraction from dismantling coal power and the large car lobby here.
> I think the boldest example of why this is bad is the right to live. In my view, this is an absolute right. "But what if it's a mass murderer?" - "But what if they are terminally ill and are suffering?" - "But what if they are so heavily handicapped that... ?" Adding _ifs_ and _buts_ to a right that should be absolute leads down a very dark path, because _the line_ will be a constant subject of discussion.

Could you clarify what exactly you're arguing here? This part is not entirely clear to me.
What I meant was pre-monopoly. The times when a company is constantly loosing money, like Uber.

Anyway, what happens when there are no competitors because the margins are too slim to be profitable without being at Amazon scale? If they are not a charity these margins will get fattier as much as their hearts desires. Their potential competitors won't be able to say "your fat margins are my opportunity" because Amazon will be able to do all kinds of anti-competative things.

Thanks god we have laws that keeps monopolies in check but sometimes these laws can move quite slowly and the damage may not be possbible to repair. Like with the case with Mocrosoft and Google.
China already has other customers and a big and growing internal market. Of course, USA is one of the bigger customers but not the only.

On the other hand, USA cannot import enough copper, aluminium and iron... (It's mined in China and Chinese controlled territories...) And create and staff factories out of thin air.
Some "hardware patches" are microcode changes that also result in performance degradation.
Yeah, it's kind of like assuming that all religions will die in 25 years, because everyone will be 'rational'.
Hollywood and other 3D heavy creation studios are pretty fine with it.
In India i had a BSNL prepaid plan for 2€ a month for 2GB 4G data "per day" which worked fast even in the rural villages there. But in Germany with O2 I get 2GB 4G data for 10€ a month which goes "No Service" or switches to Edge many times if i goes out of the city.
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I generally don't like a localized console (German here). Copy and pasting error messages to Google is much easier when it is in English. I frequently run stuff like

LANG="C" make

to ensure English output.
The UK is a pretty poor example since it's a very elitist country.
So, you believe that because a small group of people are kinda sorta overseeing this process over a long period of time, it is secure? Large groups of people watching intently are deceived extremely effectively and reliably by magicians all the time. I see no reason to think that the mere fact that some random citizens are "overseeing" the process makes it in any way secure.

And any way, we don't have to theorize:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/upshot/mapped-why-voting-...

The point is: a properly designed cryptographic voting system would make all of this provably secure. We wouldn't need to rely on witnesses paying attention, any citizen would be able to verify the integrity of the entire election on their home computer. That is why electronic voting is the best system.
We don't need nuclear power to prevent our extinction. Yes, having like France a large set of active nuclear reactors helps keeping CO2 emissions down. But from a pure financial point of view even, it is far more efficient to use solar and wind (and water etc.). For the same amount of money you get a lot more energy produced than with nuclear.
you could be cutting your kids off from their friends by doing this. it is unnecessarily cruel
Just phoning, even hands-free, is distracting.
Keep in mind this is specific to the US, in Paris you have a lot of suits going to the office using the public transportation (me included), though it depends on the line and the hour of the day.
> Intel decided to trade-off part of the IPC improvements for a lower power consumption

It's probably not a deliberate trade-off, their 10nm process is simply not good enough yet to get high yields when pushing clock speed. Their 14nm process was excellent in this regard, after they optimized it for so long, it is the only main advantage 9th-generation Intel parts still have compared to Ryzen 2. It's not a surprise they have to take a step back in that regard until 10nm improves.
Yeah, I'm wondering the range. With 5g, imagine a typical limit in germany is 15gb. With 5g you blow though it within minutes in a bad scenario...

That's what they want... But still... A bad joke..
The very first line:

> This is Part 1 of a series. I am not claiming to be an expert by any means, this is just an effort for me to internalize things I’ve learnt.
Probably depends on the country. Here in the Netherlands the difference of quality is really small between public elementary schools. Private schools are practically non-existent.
In my experience as a kid in a three-child family without a car, it worked fine. Though agreed that it would've been trickier if any of us had had some gear-intensive hobby like ice hockey.
actually it is and that has been tested. People on the phone drive more or less like drunk people. It's because of brain engagement.
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It's not a distraction. We're two decades away from replacing coal, we could've replaced it today. As always, we're putting off optimal solutions for some solution that might materialize in the future while we slowly wean ourselves off of the stuff that's destroying our habitat right now and having visible effects right now and from which tens, hundreds millions of people will visibly suffer in the coming decades from what we're doing right now (no, I don't mean the poor Bourgeoisie in France, I'm talking about everybody in Africa, South America, Asia, the Middle East). It's insanity.
It's also important to have clear distinctions between things that are questionable but not harmful, and that the kids feel that they can sound the alarm when things are really wrong.

There are a lot of pictures and words that are inappropriate and shouldn't be in kids games. But it's really important to convey that there is a difference between that, and even pictures of feet, to pictures of you nude or pictures with your face in them.

I met people from chatrooms some 16 years ago when I was 14, with friends, at a public space and my friends parents knew the place well and knew when and where we were going. Was a fun double date. A lot of people I know would not tell any adult and lie about where they are going to avoid shame and anger.
This doesn't even seem to follow, in my experience, and their argument definitely makes sense to me as someone that's lived in an urban European city, an urban American city, and some American suburbs and traveled around all of these places extensively.

Why do trains work well in many European countries? When there's farmland between stations (or even between some bus stops in the city where I currently live), it means that because you normally want to go somewhere that's not farmland, you're very likely to want to go somewhere near a station. The density around specific points (train stations, bus/tram plazas, etc.) is particularly high which makes the last-mile or last-kilometer problem largely a non-issue.

If you build this in the LA metro area, it might serve the people who live very close to stations well, but everyone else who lives somewhere in the middle between two stations (which would be a higher percentage than people living in European farmland) would need to find a way to get home from the station.
The answer is to end capitalism, so that the GMOs are no longer controlled by corporations that no longer exist.
It happens sometimes. I once owned a domain via MediaTemple registered to an account that no longer existed. I tried but MT wouldn't let me renew the domain even with proof that I was the owner other account (whois contact info, cc purchase history).

Only way to get that domain back was to let it expire and hope no one took it.
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The worst (# deaths) multiple homicides in USA history were arson with no firearm involved.
Microsoft would very much like Bedrock to "be" Minecraft.

As you've observed it's revenue-generating in a way the Java Minecraft is not, and it provides a controlled experience.

Microsoft has been talking to influential people about how to land some sort of modding-lite to Bedrock. I suspect that won't go well, but in principle it could work. They've been showing where they're going to people like Direwolf20 (popular Youtuber and small modder)

Actual (Java) Minecraft modding involves two layers of effort. Firstly, since Minecraft is Java, a layer is using Java's own introspection to reach inside Minecraft's core systems and genericise them. For example Minecraft doesn't really grasp "fluids" as a general group, it has a bunch of special cases for water, lava... but a mod might want to add others (Molten steel, Goat milk, Diesel, Tritium... all real examples of fluids in common mods) and then the second layer needs to add generic capabilities - if all you really have is lava and water but with different textures that's lame, but if new fluids have density and temperature and so on they can interact even without custom code for specific behaviour. Knowing Goat's milk is the same temperature as water my Seebeck Effect generator won't work if you put goat's milk on one side and water on the other. "Liquid Helium" however at 3K rather than 300K would work well, and "Molten steel" at 1800K would help on the other side, even without my Seebeck Effect Generator mod knowing what these liquids actually "are" in any sense.

I do not see an appetite at Microsoft for this level of detail in Bedrock Mods. I'm expecting some basic customisability, but nothing comparable to, say, AE2 or Thaumcraft (sprawling mods that touch every part of Minecraft).