skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course not. Because up until the bottom falls out, a few people are going to continue to make tons of money.
Shameless plug: Reminds me of https://www.about.wiserstate.com/post/startup-cto-many-hats-....
Why we like what we like
This seems demonstrably untrue. Basic html development is vastly cheaper than “modern JavaScript” which would give any company w an HTML-only strategy a huge advantage. Why aren’t HTML-only companies dominating in every market?
"Evil" is not a useful category.

But Google is definitely maximizing the narrow interests of its share-holders at the expense of users and (what I consider to be) fundamental social interests, such as privacy, avoidance of undue psychological manipulation, limitation of government power etc.
A long time I read about some "next generation" 2-stroke thing, where they had fuel injected directly into the cylinders, after the piston had already blocked the exhaust port. The intake port was only used for air. A bit like those behemoth 2-stroke marine diesel engines.

Evidently it didn't really work out well enough, considering most outboards they sell these days are 4-stroke. I've always had a soft spot for 2-stroke engines, seems so wasteful to "waste" half of the strokes on a 4-stroke. Oh well.
> That shouldn't be a problem. They are both fundamentally the same architecture (amd64) and any CPU-specific features are already opportunistically handled by the vast majority of software because otherwise you wouldn't be able to run the same code on different versions of Intel's CPUs.

A very long time ago, I worked for a then very large company that sold servers. Plain standard 80486 based servers.

My job was to drive around and drop off these servers for evaluation at prospective customers, who would compare them against 80486 offerings from a different vendor.

Your argument about them all being fundamentally the same would be even stronger: it’s the same CPU.

And yet, customers did not take chances and would go through the eval motions. Because their business relied on it.

Now imagine that at a scale of thousands.

Claiming “they are fundamentally the same” is not wrong, but you don’t care about the fundamentals only. You care about the whole picture and you don’t take chances.
Ask HN: What could prevent us from designing a simulated universe better
than the one we're currently living in?
Is there anything that would signal that this universe isn't perfect? What would a perfecter universe look like?

Another possibile formulation of the question would be could you make it any worse?
Not just elected ones, we see even appointed officials doing the same to the media. Even media does it - intentionally confusing, talking about two unrelated (or mildly related) topics at the same time to disorient readers etc.

How does one expect answers from lawyers (probably the best in the business, no doubt highly paid) to be fully truthful or helpful? They're gonna do the absolute minimum required by law, they are hired for this very purpose
Abstraction and Generalization of Objects
PCI-E bottleneck is why Nvidia bought Mellanox Technologies this year. It's likely that they replace PCI-E with InfiniBand derivative in the future.
We saw this during the dot-com era and we've been seeing this play out again over the past decade or so. There are tons of things that middle-class/upper-middle-class people would like to have done for them.

Many of us would probably like daily housekeepers, drivers on call, people to do home maintenance, assistants to handle travel and random appointments (e.g. taking car in for service), etc. (Child care of course if needed.) Sure, we might be fine doing some of those things ourselves just for variety or because they're essentially as easy to do ourselves. However, help on call would be great a lot of the time.

But most of us can't actually afford to employ the equivalent of one or two people full-time even at rates significantly less than we're paid. Some things can work out because of economies of scale--e.g. eating out frequently in dense cities--but mostly people can't afford to have every "menial task" done for them on a day-to-day basis.
Pretty well documented? That a pure vegetarian diet is good for longevity is very well established. Eg this study of 73000 people published in JAMA https://www.livescience.com/37102-vegetarians-live-longer.ht...

These are, of course, micro optimisations versus the importance of good genes and there’s a lot of uncertainty regarding these studies... but the notion that meat is important for good health is absolutely false.
Maybe the response is different because if a man’s achievement is highlighted, the fact that a man did it isn’t highlighted, which isn’t exactly the case for women (apparently a woman in the team suffices for an achievement to be credited to a woman), making these two kinds of articles about fundamentally different things: “X was achieved” vs. “A woman achieved X”. One of these is far more loaded politically and hence of course more likely to elicit strong responses. There’s no reason that indicates misogyny in any form.
Opinion: The Space Corps needs naval rank
Lol, thanks - didnt know that. Then that's very probably the case here as I'm of course blocking their stuff.
I've been on a bit of a Michael Lewis binge myself recently, just finishing his book "The Undoing Project" - would definitely recommend if you're even tangentially interested in human psychology. It's a great introduction into why we make errors on a cognitive level and is a great follow-up to some of the concepts discussed in Moneyball.
They did everything they could, but Intel did not win with just bribery and dirty tricks.
What if Google did not include that very old legacy code during their evaluation process?

And exactly what kind of risk are you taking about?

If switching is as easy as you claim it is, you can still do so next year or the year after.
Hopefully, considering just how shitty things have become, this will just be a fad that will quickly die out... especially once devs start to catch up on JS advances of the last 4 years?
No, the only way to rein in global warming is to drastically reduce consumption, and vicariously, production - of everything. The chances of this happening are nil.

A new UN report claims water and land resources are being exploited at "unprecented rates", and this will become worse as water supply and agricultural yields diminish.

The next five to ten years are critical if something is to be done to stop or attenuate climate change. Unfortunately, very few people are prepared to make the necessary changes to their life style.
No, that is not what peak oil arguments boil down to. Peak oil arguments boil down to the observation that the humans are extracting (and burning) oil faster than it is being made, about five orders of magnitude faster in fact, and therefore at some point extraction will have to fall—presumably permanently, but at least for a few million years.

There are other resource concerns that are sometimes expressed in a form mimicking the peak-oil reasoning, but (with the exception of other fossil fuels and helium) the parallel is specious. Not, however, for the reason you cite (which applies equally well to oil), but because used platinum, phosphorus, lithium, and so on, are not destroyed; they can be mined from landfills or, in the case of phosphorus, the ocean. So intellectually sloppy advocates of conservation of these other resources imitate the well-founded peak-oil argument in a sad attempt to give their shabby arguments a veneer of respectability.

However, while Hubbert’s original reasoning for why an oil-extraction peak must exist is valid, his methods for estimating when it would happen have not held up.
I started subscribing to them due to a Black Friday discount. I wish I had read them longer, as they seemed to be a practical, valuable resource for developing my skillset.

I'm also sad to see them go because they were one of the few magazines that offered an EPUB download option, so that I could read them on my Kobo. Does anyone know of any other digital magazine distributions that offer the same?
I built a tiny Real-Time Telematics app on AWS to track my driving behavior
In poorer countries it is often a necessity.

Romania is being shaken by the case of a serial killer choosing his very young victims from poor rural areas who were hitchhiking, so I'm pretty sure the hitchhiking culture will change.

I've never hitchhiked myself, but I used to pick up hitchhikers before I was married and had children.

No great stories besides children up to no good, a drunken lady who had no idea where she wanted to go,on which I was able to use "the voice" to trick her into leaving my car, but mostly poor and weary people trying to make ends meet.
Moral conviction? No idea what you're talking about.

Lack of pressure? Whenever they get any orders from the government they operate under (like US National Security Letters or Chinese, uh, whatever it is the Chinese government issues) - they just comply with them.

"Apple a force for good"? Yeah, tell that to the Foxconn employees, I'm sure they'll be thrilled. Or, again, to the people whose data is made available to the NSA.

"mend the growing conflict between advertisers and users" - much of advertising is (mostly) hostile to the users, aiming to achieve results which are detrimental to them. So there's not much mending to be done.
Not the person you're replying to but I wrote a script to track when I got upvoted and downvoted and that parsed my comment tree for the past 24hr.

The highest downvote to upvote ratios and highest downvote to comment tree depth increase (i.e. discussion happening) occur in the time periods of 12-1 and 3-4 US East coast time by a factor of about 2. Those are actually the only hours of the day when my account personally (the only one I was tracking) has an upvote/downvote ratio less than 1 (ratio was 1.5-2 for the rest of the day). Based on the fact that I would say that there certainly exists a group of users who "reflexively" downvote. An alternate explanation is that people who hate what I have to say are most likely to use HN during those hours. Both those options seems highly plausible to me.

This analysis is about a year old and based on about 6mo of data. I have since lost the script and the records so don't expect any further analysis.
Strongly agreed. I fat-finger quite badly when browsing HN from mobile device; this improvement let me finally stop reflexively pinch-zooming the upvote button before pressing it.
The first modern, electronic ternary computer was Setun, built in 1958 in the Soviet Union. It is claimed that it had notable advantages over the binary computers which eventually replaced it, such as lower electricity consumption and lower production cost. But as far as I understand it, the Setun actually used 2 bits to record 1 trit, according to the Google Translated English of the Russian Wikipedia article (https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сетунь_(компьютер):

"Based on the Gutenmacher binary ferritodiode cell, which is an electromagnetic proximity switch based on transformer-type magnetic amplifiers , N. P. Brusentsov developed a ternary ferritodiode cell [1] [2] , which operated in a two-bit ternary code, i.e. one trit was recorded in two binary digits, the fourth state of two binary digits was not used. ... Two-bit binary encoded ternary digits (2-Bit BinaryCodedTernary, 2B BCT representation, “two-wire”) using all 4 out of 4 possible codes (two out of 4 codes encode the same ternary digit out of 3)."

Maybe the memory used actual trits, while the control logic used bits underneed?

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer it's not clear to me if there ever were computers that used real ternary logic, instead of just ternary memory and/or ternary logic implemented on top of binary logic.
there is a similar thing in Brighton where there is a whole block of flats built above (presumably at the same time) as a multistory car park

when you park there it does look like they were just dropped on top

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Brighton/@50.8225466,-0...
You could say the same about every single object you can purchase though, it's a business and a way for people to make money.

Why is it not illegal to sell diamonds for a unreasonably high price?
Hack it with a microscope and a lot of reading.
True. It is pure luck that Rupert Murdoch or Larry Ellison etc didn't end up owning search.

That said Google shifted priorities from Search to Empire Defense many many years ago. And that has had many unintended "evil" consequences on Society well documented by Tristan Harris, Tim Wu, Jaron Lanier et al.

Could they have avoided that path of empire defense, as they grew in size and survived, I don't think so. Few companies or empires have. The golden age of Greeks or Persians or Indians would have lasted much longer if they knew how to defend their empires.

Now that they have successfully survived and own the market and have cash in the bank, what they do with their empire is going to be interesting. Reviving a golden age takes vision not just empire defense.
As other have already noted: those hundreds or thousands per CPU are often just a blip on the radar compared to other costs.

Your comments in this discussion are very small scale, retail oriented.
> 1) Is Google more evil than a hypothetical benchmark company producing similar products?

My military dictatorship is well above category average as far as totalitarian states go! We put -0.2% less of our population in jail, and assassinate less than one third of our closest competitor! Now bow down before my statue please.
PVS-Studio found an error in the library used in PVS-Studio
By far, raw recordings of your vocal search.
Compared to veganism, not lacto-ovo vegetarianism. It's of course a difficult issue due to conflating factors, i.e. to speculate wildly the mental heath effects of being vegan in a world that hates them.

Your article puts pescatarians at the top in longevity but has vegans above lacto-ovo vegetarians. Maybe dairy is an issue and just ovo vegetarian is the answer.
My parent post is saying that even in situations where walking is very practical it stops working after you have kids, and I strongly disagree there.

As for the question of how generalizable this is, the US situation is much worse than other cities around the world. Boston has very good public transit for the US, but it's still pretty minimal globally, and we could build out transit far better. It's also only expensive to live near transit, or generally to live in cities, because we've massively restricted housing construction. Allow people to construct tall dense buildings, use the tax money to build out transit, and for the price of an apartment in the cheapest part of Boston today you can have something better that's a short walk from a transit stop that will get you all over the city faster than the T does today.
View Tree Duality
Although the article is about web development for the actual web, there is also a lot of web development that's not for the public web but just because using the browser used to be a simple alternative to developing a native GUI, especially if you valued portability.

For my current project I needed a GUI that I initially planned to implement in the browser, but then I started to question this assumption that web development is simpler, and decided to try to refresh my C++ and use Qt instead.

So far it's not a disappointment.

I wrote a bit recently about that here, if you are interested and can bear poor English:

https://rixed.github.io/ramen/blog/2019-07.html
Also the A320/737NG typically fly more shorter segments so spend proportionally more time in the critical phases of flight.
>The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition—hyperrational, dispassionate,

It's a good article overall, but it would be nice, just for once, to read something in a mainstream "arts and culture" outlet that wasn't absolutely dripping with fear and contempt for anything related to tech culture.
Her colleagues think she was the leader, star, and visionary of the whole project?
To someone attempting to return to web dev after a break of a decade or so, my normal response is incredulity at the absolute horrorshow that's arisen. To me it's a complete towering, teetering mess of differing approaches, needlessly heavyweight frameworks, terrible decisions, and inefficiency. This is probably the ultimate cliched comment but I honestly cannot understand how any self-respecting developer can work with this xxxx and look themselves in the mirror.
As a child my family grew vegetables in a sustainable low carbon footprint way and I was very healthy by every metric. I don’t know what concept of “sustainable diets” you’ve been sold but whatever it is strikes me as very odd. Is the way I ate scalable? With vertical farming, I think quite likely actually.

Also if soy “kills you off” early then the longevity of the Japanese is quite a puzzle.
I see. Still, this is quite common. For instance the English Wikipedia article [0] use the "random French capitalized article" ("Though the proportions are more modest, _Les_ Olympiades are designed similarly to the esplanade of _La_ Défense.", emphasis mine) but not the French Wikipedia 0article [1], which uses "normal" (to me) grammatical articles.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Olympiades

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympiades_(quartier_parisien)
It's a weird argument though. Infanticide was also the norm for almost all history, but you wouldn't defend any relation between it and whatever progress the society made, or things it produced.

It's just unrelated in my opinion.
Not the members.

One of the other forums I frequent would be chock full of pricks by HN standards. They are known for being jerks on other forums that cover the same interest. It's still a very good community as long as you don't take everything personally.
IPCC Special Report – Climate Change and Land
I’d like to point out that the idea that corporations “care about nothing except profit” is a fairly radical and new idea that would have been completely alien to anyone from more than a few decades ago.

It’s a testament to the success of the propaganda of the people who pushed this idea that, whether a good idea or not, the majority of people today consider it fundamental and will probably be surprised to learn how new it is.
>This sounds like a setting expectations issue. Developers are expected to write code, write tests, and troubleshoot issues. Why not also expect them to produce written documentation?

They often do, when sysadmins say "There is no documentation" doesn't mean that there is literally no documentation it's often the documentation looks like this: "Set up a cron job and have it fire every few minutes" instead of "login to the server located at 192.168.1.25 via SSH using the administrator credentials located in the password manager and type chrontab -e..."
Yes, and the reality is also that, if you run a company, you sometimes have to do what you have to do. If popular opinion turns on some policy or employee, you may have to make a tough decision whether or not it's something that you would necessarily do in the absence of potential business consequences.

It's easy to second-guess or criticize such actions from the outside, but sometimes you just have to be pragmatic.
Of course, even if they were totally kicking ass it will take many years for AMD to build more capacity to what Intel has. Fabs take astronomic investment and time to build.

But, it seems Intel is and has been for quite some time unable to even keep up with competition. It was leader and it seems 10 and 7nm processes completely stopped them in their tracks with regards to competition.

I am kind of interested what actually happen. Probably there is an interesting book to be written on Intel's troubles with getting 10nm node.
Making trolling less visible / viable practice is the work of moderators.

Enough HN members are happy to feed the trolls (even if unwittingly) and encourage more without removing them.
> You think you would have that freedom in a non-capitalist system?

Obviously depending on which system, but - yes. Even kind of rotten systems like the state-capitalism of East Germany had different "freedom trade-offs". A local once described it this way: "Under the DDR you had an apartment, but you couldn't speak out on things. Now you can say whatever you like and nobody will care, but you can't afford an apartment."
An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world. Cook writes of individuals behaving in a reckless, violent manner, without cause and "indiscriminately killing and maiming villagers and animals in a frenzied attack."
>>>>Software is the only industry where you are asked to build systems that have never been built before but that are more complex than anything ever built in the history of "mature industries"

Anyone engineering hypersonic missiles would easily dispute that.[1] Or submarine-capable quantum communication systems.[2]
[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/magazine/hypersonic-missi...
[2]https://www.realcleardefense.com/2017/11/04/quantum_communic...
> KDE's code is now in Chrome, Safari, and Edge. The only major web browser not containing it is Firefox (which is also OSS). That's AMAZING.

On the one hand yes, on the other Apple tried as hard as it could without technically violating the license that KHTML would get as little back from webkit as legally possible.
While I agree with you, it’s also sad that what was formerly community-controlled got more and more taken over by corporations until now Google has practically complete control over Blink. It’s open source, but the community hasn’t made it.
Don't you have LED lights?
An other interesting new urbanism project — though I'd have a hard time calling it "beautiful" — is Louvain-La-Neuve in Belgium: a completely planned city resulting from the split of the "Catholic University of Leuven" into the flemish KU Leuven and the walloon UCL the city was set up such that the city center is entirely pedestrian, cars within the city center travel below the giant concrete slab which makes up the city's ground.
Guidemaster: Smartwatches worthy of replacing your favorite timepiece
What about the motherboard chipsets? In the past AMD had decent CPUs but their other chips were not that great.
This is done routinely for embedded software.
Well, given that they didn't even use pythonic constructs, I'm not quite sure what to think of the article:

In [1]: import random
In [2]: r = [random.randrange(100) for _ in range(100000)]
In [3]: x, y = random.sample(r, 1000), random.sample(r, 1000)
In [4]: %timeit z = [x[i] + y[i] for i in range(1000)]
106 µs ± 1.28 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
In [5]: %timeit z = [i + j for i, j in zip(x, y)]
67.3 µs ± 3.38 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)

(under python 3.6.3)

For those that "don't see it", what I'm seeing is that, instead of looping over a zip of iterables, like they should be doing, they're using an "index range" to access each element by index -- not the best practice, and also results in a noticeable slowdown.

Edit: And for the curious who might think they're different result:

In [6]: z1 = [x[i] + y[i] for i in range(1000)]
In [7]: z2 = [i + j for i, j in zip(x, y)]
In [8]: z1 == z2
Out[8]: True

Final edit: all in all, I'd say this is a low effort post, aimed at gathering attetion and showing "look how good we are that we know how to speed up python loops using numpy" (/s)...

And I've successfully been python-nerd-sniped.
I didn't read anything dripping fear and contempt for tech culture in the article, much less the excerpt you quoted. It seems accurate to me.