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The logic is:

1. Some instructions definitely have implementation defined behavior that will vary across platforms. rcpps is just one example to illustrate the point.
2. Therefore, if you test something on an intel CPU, it might not behave the same on an AMD CPU (and vice versa). This doesn't mean AMD's implementation is bad. (For all you know, it might work on intel because you are accidentally exploiting a bug, and that bug won't exist on AMD, and break your software.)
3. Therefore, if you don't test something using these on an AMD CPU, it could be risky to enable it.

As an aside, I don't necessarily think this logic is the only factor that should go into this decision and I'm not sure it's the right one for intel to make. But there is some logic to it that isn't simply intel screwing over AMD, which is the only point I've been trying to make here.

I think what you can fairly say about intel here is they are being lazy and overly risk averse, but not anti-competitive (in this instance!).
ah yea, sorry i misread the question.
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I try to keep a low profile, stay off of social media, and leave a minimal fingerprint. I was a "gifted child" of the 80's. I took the SAT when I was in 7th grade, and did better than above average high school seniors.

I have "stealth wealth", most of it from savings and stock market investments. I don't like to draw attention to myself.
Jeremy from BLT. I just saw this post, cool!

You are right on that we're developing small cargo ships at about 1% of the largest containers ships. However, a comparison to the largest container vessel is not fair. Our concept has 160 twenty-foot containers (TEU), which is the same as fourteen 747 cargo airplanes and can complete on freight duration with airfreight. Most air freight takes 3-7 days despite a 12 hours in-air transit time, and the remaining time is sitting around airports. We can deliver in 6 days across the pacific ocean, and port wait times are minimal because of our small vessel. Though, if you pay 10x the premium, you can get FedEx or DHL to deliver up to a 1 ton anywhere overnight. Airfreight moves 35% of the world's cargo value and is a $100b market, and a single airplane is only 0.06% capacity of the largest container ship. Hardly niche.

If the hydrofoils ships are too large, they will spend too much time filling the vessel rather than delivering point-to-point cargo, improving the service. Most ocean lines make 4-6 stops at ports, while a small foil ship can load quickly and make no stops, thus significantly reducing the door to door duration.

Correctly pointed out, hydrofoils do not follow the same scale laws as standard buoyancy vessel. The amount of cargo that can be delivered increases with the cube of the length assuming all else scales, meaning the fuel and crew cost per container decreases drastically with larger ships. That's why we see mega-20,000 TEU-container-ships. Hydrofoil ship lift capability scales linearly with plan area of the foil, so we don't gain much making them mega-ships.

Airships are cool. I'd like to see one built.
> Why did founders tie themselves in knots doing the wrong things when the answer was right in front of them? Because that was what they'd been trained to do.

Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I see another possibility: They want to create the appearance of running a hot startup without actually having to do the work. Why make something people want when you can just dazzle some investors and get them to dump a million dollars in your lap, no strings attached?

I wonder if that also might explain why such a tiny fraction of startups generate essentially all the wealth -- most of them aren't really trying.
But maybe it's not a big one (the reduction on the other side is still fairly small), and it may not be one at all (do you have the compute budget? look at how many epoches it takes to reach the other side and actually realize any gains!). More theoretically interesting than practical advice, I'd say.
That’s a good point. You’re right if the aim of the test is to measure information retention, and not raw intelligence.
https://slate.com/culture/2013/11/dallas-buyers-club-true-st...
To tell a fun anecdote: My parents have two bank accounts with identical account numbers and different routing numbers. They still use both accounts for legacy features of each.

The accounts used to be a single account at one financial institution. It got bought by a larger financial institution about ten years after they were married (this was their first joint account as a couple). Fifteen years after that, the bank split apart into three regional banks. The routing number changed with each corporate change but the account number persisted. In the last split, some customers who had property mortgages were “retained” by the divesting bank and “acquired” by the divested one.

Thus, two identical account numbers, different routing numbers.
I am baffled by your statement. Can you explain your position more? Are you maybe spiritual and believe thought is independent from physical matter?

A brain is metabolically a costly organ, it uses disproportionately much energy, so evolutionary brain matter or number of neurons would have been minimized if the extra capacity wouldn’t be useful and had advantages like better thinking/memory.

There are some interesting outliers, for example parrots/crows are surprisingly intelligent for their brain size, but they make up for it with densely packed number of neurons:

https://www.google.de/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2016...
Perhaps evolution has partially tuned the mixture of personality types that is optimal for us as a species. For example if there is a leadership gene then it should be ~10 times rarer than the follower gene. There could also be epigenomic (sp?) affects as well where one's leadership gene doesn't express itself unless there is a vacuum of leadership.
The elephant in the room here is that the lifespan of a lot of recently built houses is not necessarily what we might expect. A lot of these houses will turn out to have problems that will effectively “total” them as they age. There are a lot of McMansions out there that simply have no real long term future.
Lock out the login page too so users can't login from countries you don't do business with, especially the actively hostiles ones (CN, RU, T1).

It's simple and it's extremely effective. It benefits security immensely.
The title is misleading -- someone convicted of a felony is still a felon after being released from prison.

Juries create labelled data -- defendants are found guilty or not guilty -- but how do we know what characteristics of juries are likely to result in the most accurate verdicts, since we don't have a measure of whether defendants are truly guilty or innocent? Has anyone looked at what jury characteristics predict overturning of verdicts on appeal?
My intent was straightforward. There is a case for the free market, but the current school system does not expose the students to it. My father's students had never heard it, and I'd never heard it from the schools I went to, either.

It's a little sad, being as we live in a free market system.
you can just use come service like proxycrawl and then you are safe as they will never know anything about you scraping
Is this the era of microcomputers like we have microservices?
> It's important to distinguish between a "FOSS zombie" and a project which is simply done. If that's the case, you'll find out easily by reading the documentation.

I'm glad they mentioned that. Package managers and developers routinely neglect this possibility.
In that case, you have more pressing concerns than the public schools, such as the military-industrial-congressional complex, corporate welfare, and a tax code that privileges rent-seeking over labor.
I thought this was about Kuhn who claimed that all scientific education are indoctrination. Which sort of makes sense. As an undergrad we accept propositions and experimental results as true even if we don't fully understand them because you gotta do what you gotta do finish those problem sets.
Well.. the title here is.
The mathematicians mentioned here are:

G. H. Hardy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy

John E. Littlewood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edensor_Littlewood
> integrated cloud scale systems

a computer?
I agree there will be a small peak, but there is no cliff on the other side. 5 years is a pretty small range to look at 10 years you get the following:

There are 37.5 million folks in their 60s now.
There will be 40 million folks in their 60s in 2030
there will be 39 million folks in their 60s in 2040.
Never mind what it measures. My main point is that whatever it is, it's not simply "dollars spent on prep". Good tests provide an opening for the less well-off to succeed, despite the more well-off doing everything they can to rig it in their favor. My parents (and by extension me) owe a lot to them.
Don't blame "the invisible hand" (the market) for those monopolies.

Utilities like water, gas, and electricity are monopolized by the state: torn away from the market's invisible hand.

Internet providers use government regulations, not available market forces, to keep out competitors.
> slurping tons of data to demonstrate the scope of the vulnerability is rarely necessary

How else can you confirm that there aren't secondary protections to detect slurping tons of data?
You have to try Kiwi Browser. It has build in ad blocker (need to be enabled in settings first) and a real dark mode for websites. And bottom UI.
And lizards...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6yuEuvXOnA
>The weird PS1/PS2/PS3 were because of Japan's heavy arcade culture, where quirky hardware/software designs were the standard.

MSX, PC98. The Nintendo uses a standard 6502 CPU with a PPU and the Mega Drive used the uberknown M68k.
This is nothing compared to health insurance billing processes in the US. They work damn hard to tell you that you owe something, but the second you pay them they stop trying to make things right.
They explicitly look for the "GenuineIntel" product string and then basically disable all the efficient code paths if it isn't found, totally against their own advice for ISA extension detection [1].

https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49
Memorize what each great thinker who died hundreds of years ago thought, regurgitate it in essay format

I've taken 3 undergrad philosophy courses so far, all at second year level, and none of them were as you described. If you did that on your essays, you'd get a very low grade.

All of the essays I've had to write were critical essays. Believe me, it is NOT EASY to come up with a new counter-argument to a famous philosophical position that's already been poked at for centuries.

Have I developed critical thinking skills from taking these courses? I don't know. I take the courses because they're fun and interesting. I love getting into intense discussions with my classmates.
oooh touché
> Console hardware is not really interesting anymore if you ask me.

and Hallelujah to that

Praise Talos

We really do not need a Wakanda with an independent history of processor technology. Maybe 50 years ago the Cambrian explosion of possibilities was relevant, but this century?

Consoles had to compromise based on heating and costs while being competitive in graphical capabilities, those things haven't been issues that the market actually cares about in 15-20 years. For the market, the graphics pale to the actual experience, they're good enough and would never attract enthusiasts that are willing to use more electrical energy for bragging rights.

General processors and off the shelf graphics processors are good enough.

Interchangeable parts wins again.
Why do you say totally out of the question, is it basically a risk calculation?
I'm trying to find where I read this last time this came up on HN. In the meantime, this presentation goes into more detail on the psychopharmacology: http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/IROL/25/254022/Psy...

EDIT: looks like it's 60mg of DM, which seems rather high.
There is a parallel with one of pg's other essays, 'Why nerds are unpopular'[1]. He says (I paraphrase): 'nerds care more about being smart than being popular'. But that's another way of saying nerds think the tests you have to pass to be popular are (on balance) a waste of time, ie bad tests.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html
You could be right, but I'll point out that the college treated him well, and the business/finance department thrived under his management (as in it grew and attracted a lot more students). If he was a tyrant, I'd expect the college would try to get rid of him and students would avoid his department.
Neat idea. Anything to share about how you launched this? Is it on Shopify or another ecommerce engine?

I've heard that Instagram oauth access can be difficult to get approved for production use, were they giving you a tough time when you went through the approval process.
Almost all the gains in life expectancy are due to less children dying. Life expectancy for sixty year olds has increased by a single digit number of years in the past century and is stagnating or declining in most countries.

The argument that we have to work longer because of increased life expectancy is absolutely a rip-off. People who survived to retirement are not living much longer than they were a hundred years ago.
Not at all. I think sharing code/collaborating on projects will have its issues that I haven't figured out yet. Of course people dont want their IP stollen, but also you might be able to make some kind legal bond. I definitely don't think this is open source only.

I had a talk with the first user and he seemed to understand this as a bridge to start working on Node.js. What he wanted was any concrete opportunity to work on anything, and didnt care about being paid. He signed up as a junior dev, but really is a senior contract engineer.
AMD needs to do something like https://github.com/intel/mkl-dnn and https://github.com/opencv/dldt, either by talking to Intel to get them to accept contributions (vastly preferable), or, failing that, by forking the libs and implementing their own support. With recent work on efficient NN architectures the CPUs are pretty viable for most _inference_ (not training) tasks. DLDT/OpenVINO perf is particularly impressive. It does, however, extensively use JIT kernel generation through https://github.com/herumi/xbyak depending on the supported features for a particular chip (search for "mayiuse()" in the code to see examples). It's anyone's guess what it will detect and generate on an AMD chip however. Now that AMD is raking in more cash, it'd be a great time to invest some of that back into their dev ecosystem.
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I've noticed that people with really interesting side projects don't always have the bandwidth to execute at the pace they want.

At the same time, I find a lot of junior developers looking for opportunities to expand their craft. It's easiest to learn when you have something real to work on. But without opportunities that provide real world project experience, it's hard to get real world experience.

I thought it would be nice for junior developers to get opportunities to put their name on a project, while also seeing how something gets launched with real users works.
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There are plenty of example of drugs costing 10-100x what they normally would, which pharma companies get all the heat for, are drugs that would otherwise have plenty of competition but dont due to to backlogs at the FDA.

Including the most famous one: Epipens

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-d...
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You still have to keep track of it and keep in mind how much of the total sum is not yours. That is a mental overhead and inconvenience, especially when the alien sum is a significant part of the total.
> Kent, a Canadian Game & Fisheries warden, tells the story of one hapless grizzly attempting to swim a channel. The distance was, perhaps, less than a mile. Mr. Bear was beavering away at the swim. Up the channel, the dorsal fins of a small pod of orcas sliced the water--two bulls, some females, and get. The whales spotted the bear first. The moms and pups held back, while the bulls circled in. The bear weighed his options. First he looked to the farshore and then he looked to the backshore. He rubbernecked back and forth. Realizing both were too far, he tried to paddle straight up like a missile coming out of a nuclear sub. The whales did not circle (after all, they're not sharks) and did not sprint. They simply swam for the grizzly. In seconds, Mr. Bear turned into a red oil slick.

Robert H. Miller, Kayaking the Inside Passage.
> Build a strong relationship with your product manager.

this x1000
They added more cores and still haven't fixed the thermal throttling issues they have been having for years?
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Not to mention just because the pace has increased doesnt mean individual drugs are being released at "breakneck speed".
Your argument might be worth considering if Intel didn't use the same "cripple AMD" check across a lot of other libraries and their own compiler too - where there are no such "numerical approximation" concerns.

They've been doing it long before MKL [1].

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[1] https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49
The Julia programming language's development started explicitly to address this sentiment.
That makes sense. But everything we program are systems so shortening it like that isn't really helping anyone.
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Why did they have to use 現場?

Wouldn't "in the field" suffice as a term here?

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/in-the-field/
Could you give some examples? As far as I know, the policies of Congress are what is responsible for skyrocketing prescription drug prices.
I have been working in a company that even developers didn't want to use the product they built. They couldn't reach the "real" product owner and express their views, or there were too many product owners, especially in enterprises. All-hands meeting helped a little but it became politics when this came to public.
Maybe not the thread to post this, but I've seen too often "systems programming" be intertwined with arrogance and gatekeeping. As if these skills are special and inherently more difficult to pick up by developers without them. But tbh all software engineers are programming abstract machines at various levels. Systems work is just a different abstract machine to grok.

My education is in relevant skills (CompE), but the attitude I keep running into in this domain has really started to disgust me, even if it isn't everyone. When it's people I've seen in leadership, that's enough :/
The most common projection from the mouse retina is actually a highly-specialized and evolutionarily-conserved hawk detector. It responds to dark, looming stimuli against bright or grey backgrounds.

This is one of my favorite discoveries: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2012/08/08/121154710...
It is beyond unacceptable that this bug is 3 years in the wild.

Real people have been owned by this idiotic response from mozilla.

I’ve used Firefox since it was actually called “Mozilla”.

I’ve never been more upset at a decision of theirs than now.
Yup, I've seen on the graph it looks like at least an order of magnitude more training time until it starts to get interesting. Obviously this is only one example, so that factor might vary mightily. It might be an option for someone who is really serious about squeezing out the last drop of generalisation performance. I guess we'll see how things work out, because some folk are bound to try.
I don't understand how it's anything beyond a minimal defense-in-depth measure.

1. Target leaks session cookie
2. Attacker uses VPN to connect from target's country with the leaked session cookie
3. Attacker's session is deemed valid
Teaching children how to think and how to be intellectually curious is ultimately far more effective than our current methods if your desired result is an informed and intellectually capable populace.

You're preaching to the choir here. I am studying pure mathematics and minoring in philosophy and astrophysics, with the eventual goal of becoming a teacher. I dream of teaching kids critical thinking and deep problem solving skills, not rote memorization.

In the intro to mathematics education course, which I took as part of my program, we focused exclusively on teaching mathematics in the Socratic style. It was fantastic teaching my fellow classmates and a ton of fun to boot.

Unfortunately, I have to add this again, in my experience volunteering as a tutor (2 hours a week for the past 4 years) for high school students, I've noticed them really struggle with critical thinking type problems. Show them any mathematical problem where the structure of the question is different from what they've learned in class and they can't do it.

They don't really understand what they're doing, they only know how to repeat the procedure they were taught with cookie-cutter problems.
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One great addition to this article would be to propose some pragmatic examples and explain ways where people with different engineering philosophies would approach each example.

This can be a risky thing to do because readers in their heads, and people in the comments section "out loud", may end up debating the minutiae of the specific example instead of the broader philosophy.

But it's also very pragmatic, which is, like, the point, right.

Give us some worked examples of times where the product-minded engineering approach becomes relevant and we'll be readers who are more likely to understand your vision.

Let me pick a few examples, I'm not sure all are good/bad, but they're all cases where different kinds of engineers might do different things:

(1) We're building a web store. Do we insta-fail all orders that fail a fraud check, or do we let them go through but cancel within 24 hr (before fulfillment) if they haven't been manually reviewed, or what? If the fraud vendor has an outage what do we do with orders we get during the outage?

(2) We're building a feature which mirrors something provided by a direct competitor and should really exist. The UI the PM has specified is ugly and he knows it and I know it but we have no design resources committed to the project and timelines are pretty tight. Should I just build what he specced and move on, or what? Is it my job to make sure the business has accepted the limitations of this UI?

(3) I was glancing at a pull request that shipped last week and I found a bug in our product which could expose user data to third parties. It's not my code (I used to own this product area on a former team two years ago) and I have other sprint work to ship. Also it's pretty obscure so I doubt anyone is using it, but what should I do with this knowledge?

(4) I'm building an internal tool that is supposed to speed up development work. We wrote a spec for the tool based on what the hard parts of the process feel like to us, so, great, right? We're just gonna announce it? Does this feel a little hollow, should we maybe have interviewed some of our peers or colleagues first, or measured their work, to make sure we're building what they need? How do we even do that and how much time should we spend getting good at that before we go full steam ahead on the tooling?

(5) A friend showed me a pretty bad bug in our product where sometimes we show a blank screen instead of the data you requested. I checked and it turns out no one is measuring how often that bug happens to anyone, the product is kind of messy in terms of how we gather customer feedback, and it's not on anyone's roadmap to fix. Should I do something about that? What?

Just some thoughts.