skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is fracking a requirement, even rhetorically, for "avoiding the dark ages?"

I strongly suspect that alongside the well-intentioned environmentalists there are malign influences piggy-backing on the movement for their own ends, and I suspect some of these would happily see us back in the dark ages. There is evidence, if one cares to look.

> You're getting that no matter what.

That's the consensus, but none of us have a crystal ball, including you. And there are dissenters from the orthodoxy, though they risk severe punishment for their heresy. Some say we are better off managing the impacts rather than investing stupendous sums in prevention. I'll also point out that the same organisations that are pushing climate change hard (UN etc.) are doing little to halt growth in global population, and are also promoting mass migration to high income economies, thereby creating a need for further development of infrastructure, housing etc. in those economies, but apparently for some reason the concrete used in housing etc. built for migrants magically doesn't generate co2.

> humanity's combined industrial output exceeds the output of a volcano

And there are those that argue that non-human factors influence our climate far more than humanity.
Moral philosophy is a part of it and how it is often used but not all of it. It is possible to be objectively incorrect and it becomes rapidly apparent.

Use fixed universal prices regardless of location and you /will/ have problems. The Soviets tried unsuccessfully to do a value calculation for their existence.

Economics points out for instance that stopping smuggling without offering an alternative serves as a subsidy for the successful smugglers.

Doing the math to point out that say a deflationary currency would eventually become worthless as a currency is likewise objective.
The recent post [1] "The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News", should shed some light on how he moderates.

If you go to the [2] Algolia API, and filter "Comments in the last 24 hours". There's around 8,000 results. It's not really possible to keep track of that many comments and conversations (if he is a human that is).

My guess is that the moderation tools help him monitor for content that needs urgent attention, to keep the community and discussion healthy... so my final answer ~10% (1,000 comments per day)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...
Does Birth Order Affect Personality?
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TheLegendOfSwa...

tl;dr - 2x RAM was true in the early 90s
> Studies show otherwise

That’s a bold claim.

> the gut reaction of those who read that discussion also shows that at least some developers felt that way, if not in general, then at least in that particular case.

I can’t follow you here.
Well, I think the scale of the problems you can takle on your own in an open source project vs. as part of an established game dev studio team is quite different.

Please don't project your own perspective on other's people work/life balance and consider it as the only valid way that things can be.
Then the beginning of the decade yes... but really not any different over the past 7 years or so (source: HN reader since the beginning).

2007-2012: The first 5 years everything was new and cool and shiny and we were just going thru the economic crash.

2012-2017: growth and scaling. Slightly more political posts, but that's mostly because tech and politics mix a lot more then the previous 5 years.

2017-present: stabilization. An even mix of similar articles, voting sentiments, repetitive opinions. The main thing missing is actual NEW ideas. We get tropes on "AI will rule the world", "10 reasons we need universal basic income", "why self driving will/will run the roads in 5 years", "FANG is evil", etc... all very predictable dicussions.

The revolution will not come from Hacker News : )
Is nobody going mention the irony that the source code was discovered because of a misconfiguration and Boeing is claiming that these vulnerabilities aren’t important because of their secure configuration?
I’m currently on a project which uses Elixir and the Phoenix framework. Both are pretty good.

It uses “hex” for package management, which has a tool called `mix` to call build related commands.

Last I was in erlang was 2008; and I’m quite impressed with where it’s at now in terms of the above.

I’ve found the vscode elixir/erlang defaults to also be quite helpful.
Genuinely asking, since I have little to no concept of this space - how does the prevalence of either Intel or AMD affect developers?
It even increased by 2500m in the last 6 million years. The Nile cut at Cairo into a huge canyon. This area is constantly sinking. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis
Can anyone explain this?

> ...first generation of EPYC, ... attaching each one to two memory channels, resulting in a non-uniform memory architecutre (NUMA).

OK

> 2nd Gen EPYC, ... solved this. The CPU design implements a central I/O hub through which all communications off-chip occur.

Well it's solved in that all mem accesses now uniformly are a bit slower as all have to go through the new memory access hub. Is this a correct reading?

also

> The CCDs consist of two four-core Core CompleXes (1 CCD = 2 CCX). ... those CCX can only communicate with each other over the central I/O die. There is no inter-chiplet CCD communication.

What is the communication for, presumably the MESI (or whatever AMD uses) cache coherence stuff, and poss. the sync instructions (CAS, atomic increment) too? Anything else I'm missing?

Thanks

(edit: bloody love that you can click the 'Print This Article' button and it becomes a single long web page. Webbyness as god intended).
The Google answer makes sense then:

Received 150+ Billion searches

Solved 48.96% of those searches without a click

Sent 7.2% of all search clicks to paid results

Sent 6.01% of all searches (~12% of search clicks) to websites
owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company

Directed a click to non-Alphabet-owned websites (aka, the rest of the web) after 45.03% queries

Specifically "Sent 6.01% of all searches (~12% of search clicks) to websites owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company". So only 12% of search clicks resulted in Google owned sites. The 50+% quoted includes all the search results without a click. Getting answers without a click is the ideal for me as a consumer. I don't know why you would include that as evidence that Google somehow favors their site over others.

The other factor is the content. IMO Youtube and Google Maps are far superior products compared to others. I imagine an unbiased search engine would favor these sites. If a large percentage of search queries are for videos or places, I would expect the search results to skew towards Google products.
Ask HN: Which popular programming languages are you NOT interested in and why?
1.4 may not be accurate, but nearly every child is educated. 9-year compulsory education is the lowest standard across the country. The number fighting for survival is very small compared to the whole population (the recent number is 20 million). Now the government's poverty line is <400$ annual income, and the gov has the goal to eliminate this absolute poverty in 2020.
The current path is different from the last 30 years, but Deng's reform has never changed.
In some area, censorship is more strict (this has to do with complicated political reasons), but in more areas such as science, technology, trade, and finance, China is becoming more and more open to the world.
Things may seem that Chinese are alienating themselves, but that is not true. More and more people go abroad every year. And although there is the wall, actually people know what happens outside China.
And if you are not in the US, EU, or an Asian developed country, your stability of funding is pretty much at a level where you are taking an unnecessary and big risk by going into academia as a livelihood.
This is like saying the giant that could have squashed me into nothing has only stepped on a couple of my neighbors.

In the end, Google has unchecked power which it has used to sway politics, which is something its own employees have protested.

You can say either for good or bad, that it lets government authorities snoop and pry on emails and communications.

Many people remain convinced that Google is not all bad and I am in agreement. But also, Google is not your friend. If you get torn to shreds in the gears of its business logic, Google couldn't possibly care any less. Maybe this doesn't mean to you evil, per se, but I find any institution that is so large that it cares over its own good much and beyond that of its negative effects on society is evil.

There is a saying that "You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain". Google has lived long enough to see itself become the villain. Where once it was certain they worked for the active benefit of people, at this stage, this can most certainly be cast into doubt.
Notifying people that their devices are vulnerable to something is never reckless or careless or irresponsible.

Those words all focus on the fact that 'bad guys' also get notified and ignore that users get notified.
There is no practical way that I can make use of the availability of such ratings to protect myself (let alone others) from the damage to the economy that is being caused by the conflicts of interest being described here.
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2019 is the year when reality caught up with the Internet in a way that it hasn't since before social media. Internet culture was never really about unequivocally accepting things, but about thinking for yourself. The need to rationalize the Internet only happened once the Internet started to mean money. Which resulted in many holding opinions that are more the idea of an idea, rather than the idea itself. That will usually mean, at least perceived, "flip-flopping" once something is challenged. And that is to some extent what is happening now.
So, should it not be worth millions? Is calculus not worth millions?
The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction
The bubble is quite amazing. Outside of a very small number of cities (and even there it's probably largely confined to the upper end of income), most locals do not routinely take taxis/Uber on a daily, weekly, or probably even monthly basis.

The typical American owns a car that is probably a number of years old and drives to the grocery store to buy food which they cook at home.
Yes, you are right. And manufacturers are packing more and more wattage in the same space over time.

Thanks for mentioning immersion cooling as a potential solution to this; as a shameless plug, we are working very hard to make immersion cooling not exotic anymore at Submer ( https://submer.com ), solving all the problems we saw of the previous state of the art and helping with some of the biggest problems in the data center industry: cooling, power, densities, real estate costs, data center location, DC power distribution, TCO and more.

Exciting times... we are seeing a lot of trends pointing towards our immersion cooling solution and stealth traction from big names.
You mean like amazon or ebay or paypal or yahoo? Or like how facebook was so html that they wrote their own php interpreter?
That's a either a naive, or corporate apologist opinion. It's like some sort of Libertarian fever dream. Does that hold true for corporations that produce, distribute, and over-prescribe addictive and deadly opiates? These corporations have directly contributed to 130,000+ deaths in 2016 - 2017 alone.
The 'premature optimization is the root of all evil' quote is from Knuth's 1974 paper "Structured Programming With Go To Statements", p268, second column not "The Art of Computer Programming"
The thing about being a CTO (or any role for that matter) is that it changes over time, and needs to. They purpose, value, and goals of a CTO are completely different with 3 people, 30 people, and 300 people. This is much like software - what is ideal at a scale of "just do it" is completely different at a scale of "okay, breathe".

It's the norm to rain fire and brimstone on someone's past decisions when they become your inherited present. At the same time, there's a reality that those past decisions were probably made for reasons, known to be not ideal, and have to change in the future.

Personally, I'd much rather never have those technical trade-offs; but I'm also a realist. The same is true of process - certain things that are bread and butter to small companies are anathema to an organization of 300. We seem to lose sight of that.
I believe the investors were the ones to look at. The infamous /r/wallstreetbets in addition to self-deprecating jokes about themselves being basement dwellers essentially engage in outright gambling on shorter term swings and hunches to make and lose big - mostly the latter.
Running 2k3 office outside of a container, vm or otherwise, is not recommended as it hasn't seen security patches in about a decade. Where you see no problems i can only think "Eeeks".
I'm curious, since I don't follow hardware that closely: Is the current battle really best framed as a fight between Intel and AMD, or between Intel and TSMC? I.e. is AMD's recent resurgence due to better chip design, or because Intel's fabrication is struggling, whereas TMSC isn't?
That’s entering conspiracy territory. A government is just as likely to hide a massive revolution in AI as it would space flight with “alien technology”, which means extremely unlikely.

The simple fact is they’d need the best minds of the world working on it and as we saw with the Manhattan project the people working on it tended to have the best grasp of the implications and wouldn’t keep it secret for long. Plus it’d turn whatever country had it into an economic powerhouse which is way more valuable than some classified intelligence product.
Enforcing protocols at compile-time in C++
I don't see the moderation here as particularly strict nor as the original source of all the goodness.

I think having the right set of rules for the site's discussion (maintaining of which is a moderator job) and having a generally "good" population as an initial condition were the keys to setting the mods up for success. The mods' job then becomes to maintain the community's high level of discourse.

I see a lot of comments which violate the site guidelines in a fairly minor way. To me, strict moderation would involve curtailing those (to the site's detriment in general, a la Reddit, Wikipedia, or stackoverflow). Instead, I think we have strict guidelines and fairly tolerant moderation thereof. (I also find it interesting and telling that I felt normal to say "we have" in the previous sentence, rather than "news.yc has".)

PS: This is not meant to take anything away from what the mods do. It's critically important and they do a good job from my viewpoint. I think I got my hand slapped once in a decade (and I don't even now recall what it was, but I do recall that I agreed that I deserved it and it was handled reasonably).
They made some process technology choices that didn't work out as they planned.

The delay of the 10nm process and patching the delay with 14+ and 14++ didn't stop anything else they do in process technology. They have accelerated the path to 7nm (similar to TSMC's 5mm).

ps. Intel plans to launch their first discrete GPU in 2020 using 7nm process. That's going to be interesting.
check youtube-dl
I think the exciting thing about changing diet is that literally everyone could stop eating meet now and the world would continue as before and we’d wipe off that 9% over night. But stopping shipping, heating, aircon, electricity generation, manufacturing all overnight would bring about the end of civilisation. Literally. So I think it’s worth a go whilst we also solve the other problems in parallel. We have very little time left I fear.
Ah, thanks. My mistake was assuming you could distribute new K as a normal message, encrypted with old K. Clearly (now) this wont work since new K will be distributed to everyone, including people who need to be omitted.
< I wonder if there are contemporary developments that will, some day, be considered truly beautiful.

By whom? It's a matter of perspective. If you're into architecture and design you'll care more about the practicality and function of the building than it's exterior appearance. A sterile exterior then becomes an indicator that the budget went into what matters most.

In my personal opinion, the exterior of buildings (excluding windows) should all be considered public space, they should be open for decoration, like street art, mural paintings etc., so this problem would be solved by the people who live there and take action.
The fan inside the PMS7003 sensor is very quiet.
Singleton by Jon Skeet
I don't really see a security flaw here. The lack of documentation may be justified, but the way I read this is that we don't know what exactly is send to Apple. They could very well use hashed and salted passwords to verify.
Is it linux or freebsd based? Can the firmware be reflashed?
Discussion in todays world is highly over rated.

There are people who build hospitals and there are people who stand around talking about who should build hospitals.

The former group in any population in any country is very small. The latter group is very large and thanks to the current architecture of the internet have gotten so over amplified that they think they actually matter.

Their resumes don't have any actual achievement beyond drawing attention to things. They don't matter. People who are driven to build hospitals will keep building hospitals irrespective of all the "discussions" going on.
Why can investors buy land and leave it undeveloped until there is an opportunity for profit? It is the same concept. The land is unproductive until somebody wants to live on it, or build their business on it.

It is true that many communities in the US have property taxes, which has an interesting effect. It makes it so only wealthy people can own and hold un-used land, because most middle and lower income folks could not afford to pay property taxes on land just to hold it.
>they do not change so robustly & fast in short peroids of time.

Not really, rapid prototyping - especially due to 3d printing - is a thing now - you can iterate on a model as fast as you can in CS/CE.

Also - a lot of engineering disciplines use simulations - civil engineering, avionics etc - so they too can iterate quickly.

We are absolutely horrible at estimating. I had article somewhere that analyzed plenty of CS/CE projects and found that we are good at estimating median, and if something goes wrong in most complex part - the time to delivery can skyrocket 100x.
Author lists some potential solutions but fails to mention the Brave browser (brave.com), which I think is pioneering much of what they're talking about.
This must be one of the reasons https://i.redd.it/181enxirv6f31.jpg

Edit: source https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-epyc...
As ajross says, there is a conflict of interest here. Not everyone wants an unbiased rating.

2008 provided strong empirical evidence that the market does not have the motive to solve its own problems. Markets are not obliged to conform to theories about how markets should work.
Exponential growth is a pipe dream
People, listen the whistleblowers please.

Listen arm dealers testimonies.
Listen they office workers.
Listen medical industry whistleblowers.. too many to mention who talk about alphabetic company and they plans..

And you have nerve to questioning they evilness ?
That stuff really has no place in a healthy diet. It’s is indeed highly processed and mainly designed for taste and texture. If you want to go vegetarian stay away from things that try to emulate meat. That’s not a good path. Instead look at real vegetarian dishes that stand in their own . Indian cuisine is full of them for example. Italian cooking also has lots of them.
The problem is that in a thread about cutting back on transportation emissions, the top post will be about cows and wasteful agriculture and the emissions cost of transporting so much food and water long distances.

Instead of always shifting the blame to another thing, do what you can within your own means to attack all points at once: eat locally grown food and ideally cut back on meat consumption, particularly beef and fish (fish not for emissions, but due to the absolutely massive environmental damage that fish farming, trawling, and all methods aside from using your own rod do to everything); try to use public transportation, walk, or bike when possible or even try pushing your limits a little bit; don't buy worthless flavor of the month products or needlessly "upgrade" to new items when what you have works fine; and cut back on heating and AC when it's not going to be dangerous or unreasonably uncomfortable.

These are changes people can make in a month. The impact on your wallet with be noticeable fairly immediately, and if enough people actually follow it instead of kicking the can down the road, changes will be seen.
I don't really believe that it is achievable, but the US Navy published some intriguing patents:

* Craft using an inertial mass reduction device [1]

* High frequency gravitational wave generator [2]

* Piezoelectricity-induced Room Temperature Superconductor [3]

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US10322827B2

[3] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190058105A1
Hacker News is a well-moderated community, but it's illustrative to see where Hacker News fails at moderation. While Hacker News is great at protecting the community from disruptive individuals, it tends to fall down when protecting unpopular individuals against the community turned mob.

I support Hacker News moderating itself however it chooses. However, if we are looking at it as a moderation model for large, open, non-editorial platforms (Youtube, Facebook) -- which I believe should all be covered under public accommodation law -- it clearly fails. And even if when we are looking at ostensibly neutral, publicly-orientated sites like newspaper comment boards, it fails.

Hacker News moderation is not appealable, not auditable, does not have bright line rules, and there are no due process rights. It simply does not respect individual rights.

So while this moderation method succeeds for Hacker News, and perhaps should become the model for small private sites, we should not try to scale it internet-size companies. Platform companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter) and backbone companies (ISPs, Cloudflare!) need a different set of rules geared towards protecting individual rights and freedoms instead of protecting a community.
It assumes rationality not omniscience or complete understanding and the markets are a big place - not space big but still quite a lot even at the level of public news. Even then it would take time for the easy money arbitrage to stabilize.
AMD being competitive means faster and / or cheaper CPUs for everyone, short term from AMD and medium term from both AMD and Intel. People have been frustrated with slow CPU performance progress resulting from diminishing returns of process improvement and lack of competition for Intel ("four cores should be enough for everyone and also expensive").
Currently I am not interested learning modern front-end stack and js-framework-of-week. Life is short. This stack is changing so fast. I will wait few more years. Hopefully then it will be stable to learn.
Very thoughtful comment, thank you.
Indeed the main difference between e.g. physics and economics (or medicine) is that in the former case one has the privilege of being able to experiment by toggling the parameters one at the time. And brute force things with experiments, as you write.