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What is the pricing? It is cheaper per core-hour than Intel? It should be.

Also how many machines will they have? Will it be a token amount in a single data center or will there be a good chunk of these around in multiple data centers?
I'm with you on your point, but to be fair, it seems like the Talos II motherboard is roughly 7.5x the price of the Supermicro motherboard ($350 vs $2600). I imagine that when they say "off-the-shelf" they really mean "commoditised". Still... I've got to say,though, that the Talos II is tempting if I ever got hold of that much money...
If you've been to Amsterdam, you'll realize that people don't give a fuck about weatherproofing. They're out riding bikes in normal clothes in the biggest of deluges. It's frankly jaw-dropping for me to see.

Nevertheless, the examples you've stated are easily dealt with by allowing as-needed exceptions for the disabled. I don't see what moving houses has to do with wanting to go to the town center in a car though.
I live in a mid-sized city in the US. Before Uber and Lyft, if I wanted to get a ride, I had to call into a central number (sometimes with a 5-10 minute hold) and then had to schedule a ride. IF someone was available right away, it would typically take 30 minutes for them to arrive - and it's not uncommon for them to simply never show up. The cars are not Mercedes, but your regular utilitarian cabs. What you are describing sounds great, but is far from the norm in the world.

I don't mind cash but I rarely have it on me.
This is how I feel about Manhattan/NYC. It should be limited to taxis/uber, buses, garbage, ambulances, and delivery trucks. There should be large garages/parking lots that are free/cheap just north of it in the bronx and people can quickly commute in via a shuttle, bus or bike.
Na, that's a red herring. We can reduce our meat consumption and not replace it with anything. Americans are over consuming food, we can definitely reduce meat intake without needing to replace it with foods shipped in from out of county.

Also, most of the US population is around the coasts. Shipping a bit of food inland to the people there isn't that big of an impact.
Again, you are spouting opinions as facts. "The government has the responsibility to keep society productive" find me the floating rock that shows that is an objective truth. And even if I DID give you that as an objective truth, it still is very far from your previous assertion that it's the government's job to keep people from falling into bad habits.
Do you mean we should ban McDonald's ads and food marketing in general? Because that sounds like a great idea.

Which makes me think. I wonder how much meat would people eat naturally, if they were note exposed to an image of a BigMac on every corner.
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I am not so sure. It is hard to teach ethics, but you can have ethics as a basis for a framework. Most MBAs will be very aware of something like compliance or labour law. And if know that framework you can critique them. Not every hardware engineer understand the importance of ethics, but they mostly accept the regulations or principles derived from ethics. In tech we don't really have that, so it is often a non-starter to begin with. The exception being GDPR, but you have probably noticed how messy those discussions are.
You are the problem. Not the tools.
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> How about the law saying it's illegal to put candy bars in the checkout aisle?

That would be a very good thing. Also, limiting the size of sodas. Etc. Don't the US have some kind of a weight problem maybe? Shouldn't it be the job of the government to help fix it?

The problem is not one of "freedom". It's a war waged by corporations against individuals. The role of the government is, at the very least, to protect individuals in that war.
Amsterdam in particular (mentioned in the GP) has excellent metro and tram networks, so you never have to walk far if you don't want to.

That said, the trams can still be really awkward if you're disabled, particularly if you're in a wheelchair as, somewhat incredibly in this day and age, not all trams are wheelchair friendly. And on those that are, you are reliant on the conductor to manually push out a ramp for you.

I do also agree that taxis are a form of public transport, and I don't personally think they should be excluded from places that buses and trams are permitted.
With 200 CPU threads (128 CPU cores), I think most startups can run a complex microservice environment on a single machine.

Although Kubernetes requires 3 to start, but still, this greatly reduces the need to have a lot of separate machines.

256 threads per machine this year. 512 threads per machine 2 years from now? And then hopefully 1024 threads per machine 4-5 years from now? That would be really fun.

(I will take a laptop in 4 years with just a lowly 64 cores please, leaving the heavy iron for the cloud machines.)

I want Moore's law back but in parallel form. The years since 2004 with x85 machines have been quite boring from a CPU performance increase perspective.
>Is Youtube a social site now?

Absolutely, go pick a video at random from a YT account with more than say half a million subscribers. Go look at the comments, go look at the 'community' tab on one of those accounts pages and look at the engagement in their non-video shares as well. Go watch one of these accounts when they do a live video and the chat is often flying by faster than you can read more than one or two lines.
> get home from the gym around 6pm. I make dinner

These are 2 things that apparently large parts of the population do not do. Instead they grab fast food on the way home and watch TV until bed. At least that's the responses I get anytime I say people should work out every day, and eat healthier by spending a few minutes cooking.
to be fair some Linux distros just add pre-installed tools or removal thereof

And that's why we call them distros instead of separate operating systems.
Amazon is likely the only one who can do this well today and they explain consistency in the post.
every item should be tax on how much money it would take to revert it back to it’s raw material and remove whatever air pollutants it produced. this is going beyond the carbon tax. such tax revenue can only be used on recycling or funding research on renewable energy or other energy sources like fusion.
Easy access to opiates thanks to Russia.
Isn't this sort of similar to the motorcycle helmet thing? Is it okay to make helmets mandatory by law or are we okay with people being free to do as they wish and so some percentage of us dying because of it.

There's always personal responsibility no doubt - and I'm very big on it -, but at the same time, should we allow corporations to exploit most of the population through addiction?

I don't think anyone can predict consequences of either choice in the short / long term.
Not during a Berlin winter.
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Fourier was already warning about climate change in the 19th century.
I guess it all depends on how big your definition of "city centers" is. Is it 1 km or 10 km across? Thinking realistically about my own city, I could probably draw 3-5 "islands", each ~1km across, within in the larger city center that I would make car free, but still have roads running between/around them.
No, I was miserable in the UK - I have better options elsewhere. I do not care enough about the UK to give it my life. The culture is locked in by hundreds of years of history, and a vast, vast majority of people like it the way it is.

Staying in the UK for me is like staying in an abusive relationship or a job you hate. It made me deeply unhappy, so instead of complaining and bringing my friends down I found a life to love overseas.
Considering that many compilers are written in the language they compile I was surprised by the Zig compiler being written in C++.

Does anybody know the reason?
We gotta realize HN isn't exactly representative of the population.
Convenience is a low, low bar for anything.

We already live in a society that is WAY too convenient. Instant messaging, online shopping, GPS, Google and all the rest of it has moved us one step closer to a ultimate, permanently-cathetered lifestyle of never having to leave the couch.

Let's welcome a reduction to the tiresome noise of internal combustion, methinks.
I'm confused about the details here. Does this run Intel SMM? Does it not run Intel SMM and still manage not to reboot after 30 minutes?
I didn't realize QNX was microkernel.
transmission-cli -w . linuxjournal-issues.torrent
transmission-cli 2.92 (14714)
[2019-08-09 08:19:15.356] Transmission 2.92 (14714) started
[2019-08-09 08:19:15.357] RPC Server: Adding address to whitelist: 127.0.0.1
[2019-08-09 08:19:15.357] UDP: Failed to set receive buffer: requested 4194304, got 425984
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[2019-08-09 08:19:15.357] UDP: Failed to set send buffer: requested 1048576, got 425984
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[2019-08-09 08:19:15.358] DHT: Reusing old id
[2019-08-09 08:19:15.358] DHT: Bootstrapping from 97 IPv4 nodes
[2019-08-09 08:19:15.411] issues/: Invalid metadata entry "path"
Failed opening torrent file `linuxjournal-issues.torrent'
[2019-08-09 08:19:15.412] DHT: Not saving nodes, DHT not ready
[2019-08-09 08:19:15.412] Port Forwarding: Stopped
>, into a stationary object,

Way back in 2008 London was padding lamp posts to protect people that were staring at their devices

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I suspect it has more to do with anti-westerners.
I just meant Bolsonaro as an example. Part of the goals of his government is to expand the meat industry and people in that industry love him. This has nothing to do with disagreeing or not disagreeing with him.
> Is not Apple's move mostly a PR stunt? Standard people will read "The iPhone is so secure that Apple is willing to pays $1M for somebody that find a security vulnerability."

¿Porque no los dos? Security and PR.
> You are aware the advertising industry was immense before the web existed and there was no such thing as a third party ad? Network television, cable, newspapers, magazines, billboards and so on.

Yes, this is called "the old media" and it is on the way out. Do you realize how hard it was to get advertisers on board with your publication in those days?

The whole point of profiling you as a user is to show you ads that make sense to show. There is nothing morally wrong with this. You want to use my service, I need you to tell me about yourself so that I can convince my advertisers that showing you an ad is worth something instead of nothing. You get an ad that is relevant to you, I get paid to run the service, and it all happens automatically.

If I instead had to pitch my service to advertisers to run first party ads, I would also have to convince them that my impression counts are accurate and that my target demographic is what I claim it is. How am I supposed to do that without an impartial third party? Am I supposed to survey my users, taking their precious time?

Of course this is all possible, but only for big companies. It's not CNN or Fox or even Google that is going to go bankrupt. They can adapt their model. For the upstarts, you'd be nipping them in the bud. The big guys will thank you for that.
My solution to this problem is simply that these websites shouldn't exist. A network of more than a thousand or so people can't reasonably give you any real sense of community. All these sites have a commonality: they are ad supported, so in order to end this the consumer ad industry must be collapsed, block ads and avoid purchasing products advertised to you. Once the ad industry is collapsed such sites will either be paid for or will be setup to facilitate a genuine need. This will maximise the benefits and avoid creating a constant stream of broadly irrelevant and useless information.
If you need it - you can't buy a fully auditable, fully open source, owner controlled x86 system at any price.

Also, you can buy a Talos II Lite or a Blackbird off the shelf for much less. There are options.
Tangential, but if a virus's contagion is regulated by its virulence (that is, very deadly viruses are less contagious because they kill their hosts) does that mean widespread access to modern medicine could remove the upper bound on virulence by keeping the hosts alive?

I could probably formulate this question better, but the basic question is, "could virus's symptoms be getting worse in general?"
No, we were looking for the high single thread performance machines, so the new compute optimized cascade lake ones, but those you can't get gpu's on.
On every dedicated box I keep a swap partition with an alert raised when its used beyond a certain threshold. For all VMS no-swap because as far as they are concerned disk = network.

Then again anything above 80% memory utilisation and we begin looking at adding another box to the cluster due to the fact that occasional spikes in usage can easily put us beyond what swap can protect from and that just causes a shit storm.
I'd raise my own pigs before replacing my meat with worms.
The biggest concern to me is the attention span most people have today. They can't go longer than a few minutes without going outside for a cigarette. It impacts work and leisure. An assignment at work is delayed or low quality because you had a cigarette every few minutes, you don't understand what's happening in a TV show/movie because you kept looking away to light up another cigarette, you can't get interested in a good book because you can't read more than a page or two without getting another cigarette.

I am guilty of this behavior myself and it's something that I've been working on a lot lately. I recognize that this is a problem, but I don't really support the government saving us from ourselves. I think this is something that average person just needs to educate themselves on and make the decision for themselves. It's not impossible to break free from it.
While that is a tempting view at first, I can't get behind it, given what we now know about state-sponsored efforts to destabilize western democracies, through targeted misinformation and outright cyber warfare. I think we have every reason to believe such efforts will become more sophisticated, bold and disruptive. Every bit of data that adversarial regimes may have on you, is a potential lever that they can pull.

Yep, yep, private firms in the west are harvesting our data and using it in not-so-great ways. Same with our security agencies. But... imperfect though they may be, we do have many tools with which to hold them accountable and affect change, even if the odds might be stacked against us most of the time.

Not to mention, we've seen how bad western companies tend to be at securing data (e.g. Equifax) - its not going to be any better in China or elsewhere.
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>It's not projecting my personal feelings.

>The government has the responsibility to keep society productive

That is very much your opinion.

I'm of the opinion that government should be doing whatever the end result of every member of government acting as the people who elected them want them to act (not necessarily what is best for those people). So what if the people want stupid things, the people should get what they want. It's not government's job to act like a parent.
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They're probably bitter because they never get any action, so they project disdain onto people whom enjoy their sex lives. It's a mixture of jealousy and frustration.
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As much as I don't like single big entities having this power, this seems like a ridiculous stance.

So I can have two pictures and look at them by hand, and use my own brain to categorize them. But the minute I use a computer to do so I have committed a crime.

It's this kind of stance which is going to make machine learning algorithms that casually identify people for convenience sake illegal. What the people in the court system have decided, is that they are frightened of being found out as hypocrites - as people who take bribes, and people who do bad things in public.

You can always do bad things in private. No one can stop you from doing such things, especially when they come short of murder.

There is essentially no difference between this technology, and the technology used for license plate recognition, but license plate recognition is totally legal.

In many places, if you were pulled over by a cop, you would pay a hefty fine, and the automated license place readers will simply fine you a bit less or let you go to court. What's wrong with recognizing people that are committing crimes and sending them a notice, "We were about 1% sure this was you doing something wrong, so here's a 1% fine." Everyone agrees such systems will be initially imperfect, but everyone is also totally agreed that present law enforcement is imperfect. I fail to understand the problem.

Unless of course, the problem is that everything is really run by criminals, and we're getting way too close to knowing the truth. That could be a problem.

Edit: I appreciate honest debate more than downvotes. If I have a shitty idea, please tell me why. Unless of course, you are afraid of honest discussion. Cowardice is always acceptable here.
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I think that many philosophers have gradually come around to the idea that the fact/value distinction is illusory. This is particularly apparent in the case of so-called "thick" ethical concepts (words like "cruel" or "courageous"), which do not seem to belong exclusively on either side.
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There were I'm fairly sure 3 Google I/Os in a row where they specifically spoke of iOS when talking about new features (probably more still, I haven't followed the livestreams anymore for them or for WWDC in like 2 years I guess). WWDC they'd do it as well (some during speeches, then the "whose devices are up to date" pie charts with like ~10% on the newest Android release of the time and >70% on the newest iOS release of the time). Microsoft did it during the Windows Phone days, but I think now they're trying to extend olive branches especially to Android, but I believe they've been nice about iOS as well.
Because nobody ever got virtue points from their "base" for proposing a middle ground.
Using Talos for a major global deployment of VPN servers is fantasy.

Having open source coreboot on those machines and what it allows you do on top (linuxboot for example) can massively improve your operational security and its viable for a global VPN network.
Thanks for sharing. I wanted to get Winsen MH-Z19B, but Senseair S8 (residential) looks like a better, more reliable option, for a DIY project.
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To be clear, my contention is that we should expect there to be no overwhelming or prevailing opinion, and that a quick look at the top-voted root comments and their subthreads seems to support this expectation.

For what it's worth, I think we're taking this discussion a bit too seriously, as the person you were initially replying to was being at least a little humorous and self-deprecating.

The parent comment they replied to made an assertion of the form HN's prevailing view on blah is X, and they replied to the effect of that's funny, my perception was that the prevailing view was opposite-of-X, which is a neat example of the hostile-media effect, and I think the commenter was aware of that.

It's interesting though, that it was the counter-point that you saw the need to challenge, not the original assertion :)

Do you assert that the prevailing or overwhelming opinion was in favour of one particular position? Can you provide evidence for that?

I'm very conscious that we could go around in circles on this :)
The Trump / Johnson play.
In which case you have poor decision makers, not poor lawyers.

The benefit of domain aware lawyers is they can explain the specific risks and help the decision makers apply those risks to the business.
Not sure why you're downvoted. I read it the title and immediately thought there was a blockchain involved.
While I don't think it’s a cure all, Portugal seems to have had significant improvements in drug related health problems (at least in the short term), crime and anti-social behavior after radical decriminalization in 2001. But sounding tough on drugs is too tempting for politicians, and most of the press screams at any sign of decriminalization.

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