skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not defending Intel or even particularly have a positive opinion of Intel overall but I don't know how accurate this test is considering the difference in Linux kernel versions used in this benchmark. According to the article the Intel system is running a 3.10 kernel (doesn't say which distro but I'm pretty sure it's RHEL 7 or CentOS 7) while the EPYC system is running Ubuntu 19.04 with the latest 5.0 kernel. Also I'm not sure if the 3.10 kernel they're running on the Xeon system has been patched for Meltdown and Spectre which would could also affect the performance. I doubt it would amount to a significant difference in performance but usually benchmarks tests like this use the same OS and software stack for the tests.
Hi, feel free to review the comment guidelines if you haven't already: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think that it would be best to leave redditlike speak out of HN and do our best to bring something to the conversation.
No, I also find it confusing.
Of course we'd have had 12 unique symbols if humanity had adopted base 12 instead of base 10, say if that would have happened historically with arabic numerals (but it's a bit more complicated historically of course because the roman numerals and other systems before it were already decimal, even the babylonean base 60 was actually decimal based anyway, their notation uses 6x 10 symbols, not 5x 12 symbols).

Obviously it didn't and history won't change :)

And yep, no matter in what numeric base you are, "10" will represent the amount of symbols of that base. "10" in binary is 2 in decimal, "10" in hex is 16 in decimal, etc...
God Emperor of Dune is my 2nd favourite of the series after Dune - I regret reading the novels after that though.
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DuckDuckGo/Googling for that yields only the site, no review or some 3rd party information if it is safe to use. I mean, as a side-project, I could setup a website that pulls APKs from Google, infests [some] of them with a virus and puts them on a fancy looking website or "alternative app store"-app.
Nor would the timing of the last predicted flood of Glacial Lake Missoula help.
That’s a pretty cynical question. My doctor advises a vegan diet for her diabetic patients, since it is very effective against type 2 diabetes. Patients who follow her advice are generally off their meds pretty quickly, and pay far fewer visits to my doctor. It’s against her best interests (monetarily) to promote that diet, but she does it anyway.

Totally anecdotal, but it’s a datapoint that shows there are doctors who adopt profitless treatments if they truly are in the best interest of the patients.
I'm surprised that isn't blocked by cross-site scripting prevention or something along those lines. Shouldn't forcing logout require that you have the cookie that proves that you're logged in in the first place?
Tetris Randomizers
It has a horrendous drag coefficient, worse than a prius (not that they are a the worst car, but they're not sporty). It needs this to cool and feed the engine.
U.S. Companies: China Unfair, but We Don't Care
third party ticketing machines typically don't have an internet connection hence why offline validation is needed
Yes, but the car has to accelerate around 20 times the mass. Bugatti Veyron is listed as having the highest torque [0] at 1,106lb/ft but then it weighs over 4,000 lbs. Plus there'd a delay for the engine to rev up to peak torque before the launch (i.e. it wont produce 1,100ft-lbs at idle). Be interesting to test, but I'm not too practiced at racing Veyron's off the line on my bicycle.

Having said that, I am very used to riding bicycles and (large) motorbikes around town, and from waiting for lights to change if I'm on a bicycle I'm generally first away even when motorbike riders are getting competitive (never mind cars).

The advantage of the bicycle is generally only a few feet, of course.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron
Actually bus drivers can’t move the bus until all passengers have tapped in.

Then you have all the ticket machines, barriers, stations, staff etc that would be completely unnecessary.

The only real bonus of collecting fares is that tfl acts as a treasury with millions of pounds in funds to invest.
Gaining Persistency on Vulnerable Lambdas
CS:GO was released in 2012. Majors (international competitions sponsored by the developers) have a million dollar prize pool.
ECB official calls Facebook’s Libra ‘treacherous’
ggraph 2.0.0
I actually put together a userCSS to fix the two first points. I made it last year, haven't updated it recently but it's still up in my repo: https://github.com/gonzalocesar/sightsafe-hn
That's a backronym. It was originally short for user.

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/bellLabs/unix/Prelimi...

See page 9.
Sometimes digressions can be fun though - Neal Stephenson's works or the footnotes of Infinite Jest.
Sometimes it depends on how the backend data is stored. I'm going to assume that HN uses linked data for your account name against posts and comments...

How do they deal with your delete account request? Do they just remove your account resulting in 'NULL' appearing against all your previous comments and posts? Do they remove all your previous posts and comments as well? This could result in broken comment threads - a workaround would be to replace your comments and posts with '[Deleted]' which could then make child comments lose their context.

If the whole thing was automated, what stops people abusing the system by creating, posting abuse, and then deleting the account? So many questions, and no easy/simple answers.

Deleting an active account on a busy site is rarely just a case of removing the user record from the users table.
> schema.org data in json-ld format

It would be cool if you explored Tree Notation in your thoughts.

We have an idea roughly called "World Wide Tree" (or at least one person calls it "World Wide Forest").

We think Tree Notation might be the trick to getting the semantic web vision realized. One simple universal syntax for HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSON, Data schemas, data itself, etc.

The semantics you still need to define and build machines for, but if we had a simpler syntax (without sacrificing a single capability!) that might move the ball pretty far.
Since you mention gaming IPC (which isn't really a main factor in server CPU lineups), I would say Intel is still way ahead of AMD in terms of mobility lineups.

It's going to be interesting to see the Zen 2 mobile chips.
And don’t forget power consumption.
I've debated fasting for many years here on HN in a civilized non-reddit manner. It doesn't matter. @dang has an unofficial agenda to suppress health benefits of treatments that are not pushed and funded by pharmaceutical companies.
Show HN: HTML/Functional CSS Performance Test of HN Homepage
This project was made to demonstrate the power of the functional CSS and proper HTML techniques on Hacker News frontpage.

Everything started with this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20854214 that talks about how good is that HN wasn't redesigned since the OP was browsing it with slow connection. I though I could make HN even faster without changing the essence of the design too much. So I decided to re-do Hacker News using pure functional css (https://github.com/meerita/utilcss) and some tweaks to the code to increase the performance and test both performance gains in HN on a local server.

Code, notes and results available here https://github.com/meerita/hnredone
no, that'll be a requirement from the ticket machine manufacturer, not the app developer
Any site that has a GET route to /logout that does not check the referrer is vulnerable to this iframe/img attack.
That’s not the only game LTT uses to benchmark with, but they include it because of its popularity and I suspect because it normally runs at such insane frame rates that differences show up more readily—much easier to tell 220 FPS vs 240 FPS than 59.5 vs 60.
I had a post yesterday that I wanted to delete. It was less than 30 minutes since the post, and there was no deleted button, but an older comment slightly more than 30 minutes old still had the delete button.

HN moderation is very secretive and manual, and that introduces a lot of opportunity for bias.

Edit: it's interesting that you cannot delete a comment with a reply, but you can edit it into nothing. I never noticed that. Seems like a useless distinction. So you can also force a comment to exist by just replying quickly so they cannot delete it. Neat trick.
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> Almost all public transport can be paid for with contactless debit/credit or prepaid cards. Drivers have no requirement to verify fares and all stations have self-service terminals.

You're talking about the time it takes as you step onto the vehicle. That's not zero, but it's not half of the cost. You also have to fill the card to begin with, but most importantly it causes people to incur an incremental cost for using public transportation, which discourages its use. That's very bad.

> Although the administration cost is not zero, it is almost certainly negligible enough that moving to a taxpayer funded model would increase these costs. This is particularly true given that transport budgets are operated at the regional level and would require the introduction of new regional taxes rather than simply relying on exiting tax revenue.

There are surely existing regional taxes. The collection cost is therefore sunk and the overhead of adjusting the rate is nominal. Moreover, people don't like paying taxes, but people don't like paying fares either, so it balances out -- or comes out in favor of using taxes because in that case the cost is lower when you don't have the overhead of doing fare collection (and you have the overhead of tax collection either way).

> Then there is the question of whether a broad tax is more equitable then the current model. I fail to see how this could be the case given the current system retains the price signal and through a system of concessions ensures that those who most benefit from the provision (e.g. professional working in the inner city) contribute the most and effectively subsidise fares for the rest of society.

Professionals working in the inner city don't pay different transit fares than janitors working in the inner city (and if they did you're just imposing income tax but calling it something else and paying more overhead to collect it), and you don't want a pricing signal here because pricing is a method of rationing scarce resources but we want people to use public transit as much as possible.
Had this been a story about the US, discussion would devolve into the lack of universal healthcare and other safety net. But AFAIK, UK has NHS (and cheap tuition etc). Then why do we see falling life expectancy in UK as well? Is universal healthcare really not the panacea it is made out to be?
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing the link! Always helpful to read about related projects.
What Would Soltan Gris Do?

Has any Scientologist tried to reconcile the fact that everything about the world’s greatest dekology, Mission Earth, strongly suggests Dianetics / Scientology is a hoax?
Hong Kong leader says she would 'quit' if she could
The performance per dollar is about 5 times better with the AMD box. I'm very sure no new kernel would be able to compensate for that.
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"Blacks should just sit in the back and petition for the law to be changed. There is after all a correct course of action to go about inciting change."

I'll grant that the comparison is way out of proportion but would you have held this position in the 60's?
Enoki: Structured vectorization and differentiation on modern processors
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What if you don't want to use JS at all? I want to cater to people who want to turn off JS altogether.
It would help if they at least stayed consistent with the few words we get. Fine, elaborate from there as much as you like. Go wild, but at least respect the starting point. So I don't really care what the Aba Robes the Bene Gesserit wear look like, as long as they are kind of recognisable as an Abaya, or based on it, or at least derived from it. Not the trussed up, constraining taffeta monstrosities David Lynch had them squeezed into. They were about as far from the word 'robe' as you can possibly get and still be clothing.

I did like the look of Blade Runner 2049 though, so I have hope for the upcoming movie.
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I really like practical, simple solutions like this.

Older generations/civilizations have practiced fasting for general health.

Based on modern advances in science, I would love to see more research done on the applications efficacy of old cultural practices to modern problems.

Who know, maybe we’ll start flash mobs to dance for rain in 10 years.
A lot of psuedo medicine talks about eliminating sugar to kill cancer.

I always felt that they were on the right track somehow.

Thanks for the tidbit
Making lists with jot and seq – All this
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When you delete (or soft-delete) your Facebook account, it seems there is no way to also delete your corresponding Messenger account.. I've tried many times, to no avail.. is it simply possible?
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I think that after a comment has a reply, it can no longer be deleted.
You are correct - I forgot what a massive market laptops are. I wouldn't personally consider an AMD-based laptop just yet, hopefully that will change soon!

Exciting times.
While nobody will decide which server to buy based on Geekbench alone, the cost/performance difference will be reflected in other benchmarks. With a 5x advantage for AMD, I doubt there will be any single benchmark in which a similar Intel box will perform better than the AMD one.
They left out the most important parts: lie convincingly with statistics, speak with unwarranted confidence about your conclusions, and repeat the dogma of leaders in the field with minimal scrutiny.
Sounds interesting. No electrical roles?
isnt that why you have ram? to use it?
How could you even implement an easy account deletion flow with un-spoofable confirmation if the whole client is considered untrusted?
In 10 years they will finally "discover" that (dry) fasting reverses (quite paradoxically) cachexia.
You also can't delete a comment that has replies, so maybe that's what happened.