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When I first started commenting, I remember being shocked (and annoyed) at how downvoted I got for making the kind of reply-snark that gets tolerated (if not upvoted) on Reddit – and that tone-setting is certainly a function of the community.

But that was almost a decade ago. The mindset of the tech community has gotten far more political (not a bad thing, but a natural consequence of "software eating the world"), and it's really hard to imagine that HN would have turned out like it is today through self-policing alone.

Even if we assume HN were to collectively agree on taking a hard stance against anything political in nature (which still seems to be the case sometimes, given that the mods have to occasionally step in and manually de-flag and protect threads), that would've likely turned off a number of current HN users who see HN as a great place to discuss tech's greater implications and role in society.
Sometimes optimization is not premature: when you have a known performance problem, have done proper profiling, and see that it's a tight loop (as usual).

Then you can shave off some execution time by using a slightly different construct, though bigger wins usually lie elsewhere.
Intel stock has dropped quite a bit in the last month.
For most developers, it doesn't. They're both making x86_64 chips with coherent caches of similar size, similar core and thread counts, and a lot of overlap in instruction set extensions. For people doing very high performance work (heavy data processing, simulations, etc.) or performance critical work (think hand coding optimized crypto library routines in assembly), the subtle differences in those categories might affect how they lay out data and access it, how many threads they use and how they use them, and preferences for the availability of instruction set extensions that are specific to the kind of workloads they have (vector processing extensions, native crypto operations, unusual bit twiddling patterns).
Yes, and I use both when I feel it's appropriate. However, it's still fundamentally a popularity contest rather than guidelines enforcement. If enough people simply don't like what a post has to say it will stay grey/dead.

I'm coming to the opinion that downvoting should not grey out posts, or that there should be some number of downvotes (greater than 1) required before it starts. It should be harder to suppress constructive, on-topic posts just because a bunch of people don't like the point.
you are right its the same thing, only that land is much more expensive in more sought areas.

domains are always at the same value when you register it (for each tld). this makes it easy for squatting-companies to register a huge amount and stop other business from using this names for their company.
Most of AMD's improvement is due to better chip design. The last 10% or so are from fabrication process.
Developers will be more indirect beneficiaries since the cost of compute may go down since they will have leverage against Intel and even AMD. Other benefits may include faster refresh cycle and/or hardware bugs effecting the dominant chip maker does not have to drag down the entire ecosystem etc.
I think grassroot movements and small NGOs should absolutely be focusing on personal choices that people can make to make themselves and their communities sustainable.

But the vast majority of government resources (money, attention and political capital) should be expended on reigning in systematic issues, such as outlined by GP: promoting electric vehicles, replacing all coal/oil/gas power plants, carbon neutral shipping and commercial flights etc

The shift of the global economy to sustainability is going to bring down lots of rich people and lots of vested interests, and replace it with other rich people and vested interests. The former are not going to go down without a big fight and only governments (and not individuals) are strong enough to bring them down.
> you significantly raise the bar for participation.

This simply isn't true, it's trivial to set up clearnet proxies into such services and they can be easily treated as disposable.

The message you send them seems more to be that they need to hunt and hide more for "the truth". The need for that further contributes to extremeified views. It turns out pushing people into deeper and darker recesses doesn't improve their sociability. You can see this difference from communities that used to exist for the content that spawned these on reddit, Twitter to 4chan leading to the spawning of Voat, Gab, 8chan and others. The farther down the line you go the more extreme you get.
>Without sustained support from NSF, DOE, and NIH, there is no way that fundamental research could move forward the way it has in the post-war United States.

One of my favourite scientists of all-time is Harrison Brown. He was most known for his role in launching George Tilton and Clair Patterson's dating-the-Earth project. But he had a most amazing ability to convince the cold-war era US government to fund civilian science that had no real military value whatsoever. He was a kind of science-funding Robin Hood, an ethical con artist.
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Both. AMD made a good decision to divest from Global Foundries. They have also made some great strides in chip design which improve instructions per clock (IPC) as well as increasing cache size and improving the various interconnects. The switch from a monolithic die design to chiplets which puts I/O at the center is an important change as well. But then TMSC enabling AMD to make a successful switch to 7nm adds to the efficiency equation and is likely key for clock speed targets.
Elixir, seriously: https://elixir-lang.org/install.html
> which it has used to sway politics

Do you have any actual evidence to support this assertion?

Certainly Google could easily swing an election, if it chose to (which is sort of frightening in itself) but I haven't seen anything to suggest that it has done so.
Which "public accommodation law" do you refer to?
dang and sctb possess admirable patience and persistence but I've always enjoyed dang's posts when he participates in a conversation. I wonder if his time spent serving as a moderator somewhat robs hn of an especially thoughtful poster. Thanks guys.
I agree and want to put /. as an example. In the 2000's I used to visit /. as much as I visit hn now. At that time there were plenty of great comments and sometimes even people like John Carmack posted there. Sure there was GNAA spam and similar, but the mod system took care of that.

Nowadays the mod system remains but the community has moved on and although the stories are good, there is no intellectual discussion.

A similar thing happened to OSNews. Another news aggregator I used to visit a lot.
How do you know their names, how do you know there are only 2?

One of the problems for me about HN is the secretive nature of moderation.
You could def provide an upper bound, though I imagine that'd just cause more people to be annoyed on this thread, complaining that linux doesn't give them memory when there's tons available. And to be honest, if you want this behavior you can basically get it already; check your mem.pressure and react to that. Linux isn't going to give you a null pointer, but you can def react to memory pressure.

> It is perfectly possible for a system kernel to execute in bounded memory

Is it possible while maintaining anything like the feature set that linux provides currently?
But how do you want to avoid that? Staying with old libraries forever? In some areas this is possible but in others you have to use newer stuff. I always envy people who work on stuff that’s mainly their own code and not cobbled together from other systems with their questionable APIs.
ignorant much?
servethehome had an interesting paragraph in their review:

> We are also not allowed to name because Intel put pressure on the OEM who built it to have AMD not disclose this information, despite said OEM having their logo emblazoned all over the system. Yes, Intel is going to that level of competitive pressure on its industry partners ahead of AMD’s launch.

https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7002-series-rome-deliv...
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Do you know any good tools that given an API will discover it and scrape periodically data into a database for BI analysis later?
Balanced binary trees usually have some kind of rotations to maintain their properties like left-leaningness. In this application this is to be avoided in order to not not send so many messages.

I understood that all participating clients know about the structure of the tree, so could not all the clients do the rotations in this kind of mass removal without sending messages?

I mean that in the last example, the tree is not left leaning, but can be made so by promoting every Zayne to their ancestor nodes.
Which Microcenter location though? The Fairfax one the employee in the section on Sunday said the two boxes in the floor cases were 3700X and not 3900X because the boxes for the 3900X are larger.
It's both. TSMC's 7nm process seems way more stable than Intel's 10m, but a simple die shrink wouldn't help a poorly designed chip that much. Zen is much, much improved over Bulldozer and their Infinity Fabric design could theoretically allow AMD to just add more cores and together with arch and node improvements could keep them competitive for a long time.
Sell stock to pay off debts. I just took out $50k from a ROTH IRA (all contributions not earnings so no penalty) to do this.
Has this scientist finally found the fountain of youth?
This is just an inner loop optimization, really. The thing to realize about the machines Windows 1.0 was originally written to run on is that they were very short on both memory and speed. Almost unimaginably so, by modern standards.

So here, where there's a need to perform operations in bulk as quickly as possible, this sort of extreme optimization makes a bunch of sense. Conditionals inside the loop would blow your performance, and the other options buy back performance with memory that was itself in short supply. So... dynamic compilation threads the needle between these two constraints at the cost of some up front development complexity. (Probably ongoing complexity too, as additional types of graphics boards were released with their own sorts of peculiar optimization strategies.)
Listen, if you saw the hearings about Google and search ratings, you know that a search should be a million different things to a million different people. By making a search engine you have to make A choice as to what is right, and you WILL make political decisions along with many others as to what people want to see.

Just like the cloud is "Just someone elses's computer", Google is "Just someone else's yellow pages". Someone rates the importance, and there will ALWAYS be a bias because bias ALWAYS exists.

Edit: I should correct and say someone has to create and curate the algorithms. Even if not a single person rates a single page personally, keywords can and will boost or lower popularity. Trigger words that in the US that mean "racism" but in other countries do not harbor racial aggression will bleed through search engine results, even if Google has a dedicated team in each country to resolving such things. These types of things, like it or not are very political in nature, and thus US politics is invasive in a sense, simply by being native to Google. This has the end goal (I think) of evangelizing a brand of politics to others. You can argue again whether this is good or bad. I would say parts of this are definitely bad. The major country that performs most poorly in many of its ways is exporting its bad culture to other places.
I looked at my overall karma once per minute and keeping a running total in a text file as well as the increase/decrease from the last file.

For comments I went to https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dsfyu404ed and whatever URL the "more" link was, found every comment of mine that was < 1 day old and then every comment not by me that was a reply to one of those and then listing the ids of additional comments by me and additional replies to my comments for that minute. Comments were tracked by ID to avoid duplicates.

Pages were grabbed with wget and all the parsing was done with the standards linux/bash utilities
You're right about the document sizes exploding but I think the real reason is the suits swooped down when they found that mere hyperlinked documents could actually be monetized into profitability. The rest is history. 4.4Mb for those 5Mb per news article is javascript that exists for ads and tracking, which in turn exist for monetizing.
IBM still designs both their Power (think Linux/big server) and Z (mainframe) chips.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture
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The general HN narrative is that, "yes, there are issues. we should fix them". So, I would love to hear some concrete examples of what is being done to reverse this.

For example, the deforestation efforts in Amazon are putting tribes at risk every single day. Not to mention the loss of animals, plants and other wildlife. Is there anyone here on HN that has given actual thought to how this could be resolved?

And I am not talking about hoola hooping the government either. Clearly that is not an approach that is ever going to work.
On a similar topic, I greatly enjoyed "The Other Paris" by Luc Sante, a sort of long-term social history of the city with focus on the marginalized.
This is the largest circle jerk I’ve ever found myself in unwillingly.
AMD is using a kind of modular processor architecture which, as I understand it, makes the chips easier / less expensive to fab than an Intel design of comparable size, so it seems like the two factors are intertwined. I don't know enough about the specifics of Intel's 10nm issues to say whether it would have helped them though.
Good question. Looks like they've probably improved:

"Amazon to drop dreaded stack-ranking performance reviews ", 2016-11-14. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-says-it-...

> The changes, first reported by tech news site GeekWire and set to become effective in 2017, make Amazon the latest tech firm to abandon the dreaded stack-ranking system.
It’s a persistent Misreading of Internet forums as a mode of discourse, both in how people consume them and how people participate in them, that we tend to regard their discussion threads as a mechanism for determining group consensus on a topic. Cloudflare is dropping 8chan? Let’s get together and decide whether we collectively think that is a good thing or a bad thing. Once we’ve established that fact, we can move on and refer back to that decision in future discussions, like a mathematical lemma.

If you instead think of a forum thread as an airing of opinions - a chance to find out what is the range of perspectives on the topic that exist in the community, and be exposed to nuances you wouldn’t have thought of on your own, the exercise takes on a different tone. People who came to that thread thinking that it’s obviously a good thing are exposed to arguments that disagree, and vice versa; maybe some people are persuaded to shift their viewpoint, or maybe not, but everybody learns that a topic that they might have assumed was uncontroversial is actually one on which reasonable people might disagree.

It can be jarring for the nerd-inclined to accept that just because they have arrived at their opinions through, obviously, clear rational analysis of facts, that does not mean that everybody else, when presented with the same facts, will necessarily reach the same opinion. The illusion that you can read an HN thread and say ‘well, the pro arguments seemed more coherent and got more upvotes than the anti ones, so presumably the community consensus is pro’ ignores the fact that the anti arguments were also made by members of the HN community, and we’re not bound by collective decision making. You are allowed to read the thread and adjust your own priors and come to your own conclusions, having hopefully been exposed to some perspectives you might otherwise have missed.
Except for Maps, Gmail, Messages, Photos, Search, and (due to the servicing model) Play.

I could be forgetting a few.
Someone tell Amsterdam and New York that they’re dead because they probably aren’t aware.
That’s just optimization. Premature optimization is to use certain constructs that often make code more complex because you believe that they are faster.
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Wait till they get a ahold of the alphabet soup of Chinese financial products:

WMP
DAMP
TBR
LGFV
NCD

Each with a quasi government guarantee!
> industrialized countries

Japan isn't western.
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Wow a little harsh, don’t you think? Maybe I should have used the Toyota Corolla instead? These weren’t trendy vehicles when they were new, that’s my point. Perhaps you missed the part of my comment where I prefaced with “If your fortunate...”? Because obviously this was an off-topic side comment countering GPs generalizing that all cars necessarily lose value, not a strong claim about the market as a whole.
And it is regulated in the financial space as well.
Usually when I read a comment like this, I find that the commenter is grossly misrepresenting the situation, usually by leaving out important details. But in this case, yes, that seems like an accurate description: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20467198

Personally, I like Dan's "Nietzschean flamewars" phrasing, and I sort of agree that "trying to get him to conform to slave morality" was a personal swipe. But if so, only barely. This could well be an example of overly sensitive moderation.

The real problem with that thread (in my opinion) is that Rayiner's comment was allowed to stay flagged to death. One might not agree with his opinion, but it's a viewpoint worthy of reply (as you did) rather than censorship.
Given the kind of people who frequent HN (lots of skilled, wealthy and fairly powerful people) there is a large incentive to game the system.

I assume that the mass upvotes/downvotes are exactly that.
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more like far from lonely, western establishment approved, comforted, and rewarded, work of moderating and censiring hn. fact.
Unfortunately doing this tends to lead to being unemployable because too many people associate being immersed in churn as "productivity." This spreads philosophically and suddenly people doing the hiring want these kinds of people who can "solve" these kinds of "problems."

At the same time, finding something that works and sticking with it perpetually sounds wonderful - perfect, even. But breaking things and doing hard things also leads to innovation and new ideas.

So ultimately I think there needs to be a balance and everyone should embrace a little churn while eschewing it in the broad form.
Now you are talking about Intel's best desktop CPU. of course it performs better while streaming otherwise it would be ..
Yes, the primary way to use the service was with a MoviePass credit card. From the theater's point of view, it was just a regular credit card. MoviePass eventually wanted to move to direct ticketing, but they made enemies of the major theater chains do their aggressive and unsustainable business model.
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> both a "sjw cesspool" and a "haven for alt-right"

both and neither. Partisan discussions, or even any kind of bitching at all ... are outright discouraged. I often step out of line in this regard and don't always agree, but I'm also confident that folk on "the other side" face the same kind of treatment. Though frustrating at times, I respect that it keeps things clean and helps cut out a lot of nonsense, of which the Internet has no shortage should I feel the need to go find some.

EDIT - actually upon some reflection I think that I would have to respectfully disagree, and change my opening sentence here to just "neither". Extremes of opinion that are "off topic" are not tolerated, and this is a good thing.
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People tend to significantly overvalue the executive branches power combined with the worst cases you hear in the news when evaluating the freedom of the average person in a country. The economic freedom indexes can be quite surprising compared to popular perception.

But still I read something like 1 in 4 people are party members whether directly or indirectly. That’s a whole lot of people directly involved in the snitch line.
You can order more than a few sports cars with roll cages from the factory. The distinction between road car and race car are blinkers, vin and tags. While you aren't likely to win Le Mons in your daily driver anymore, you sure can drive most race cars on the street.
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What are your thoughts of hiring a VP of Engineering to complement a CTO as the company grows? It’s my impression that there are multiple “types” of CTOs, and this always sounded like a reasonable path in case you have a more “technical” CTO.
Elements of a crime....

Legality (must be a law) ...
Actus reus (Human conduct) ...
Causation (human conduct must cause harm) ...
Harm (to some other/thing) ...
Concurrence (State of Mind and Human Conduct) ...
Mens Rea (State of Mind; "guilty mind") ...
Punishment.

Without a victim you have no crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnGQEzB9u_0 maybe?
This apologetic article changes nothing.

The moderation of hackernews should be independently audited for biased censorship.
1: Windows Firewall Control

2: Chrome/Firefox

3: Git/Webstorm

4: Putty

5: Spotify
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The French article repeatedly refers to it as _Les_ Olympiades.
Weird sensation, I remember the struggling days of AMD. And now that they're about to become very successful (plausibly) ... I'm almost tempted to donate to them. Go AMD.
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similar mindset: Who needs more than 32-bit for internet address.
Kkreiger! I remember being amazed by that at the time, it's a triumph of procedural generation, fitting a FPS into 96kb.

It's interesting to think of this from an information theoretic perspective as a form of compression. Firstly "compressing" textures into the algorithm that generates them, then cutting away all the parts of the algorithm that don't make any difference to the output.
Algeria: 2.381 sqkm.

Argentina: 2.780 sqkm.

Kazakhstan: 2.724 sqkm.

It's pretty close.
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