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Ask HN: Has Intel not made any architectural improvements in 3 years?
So I recently decided to upgrade my home media server essentially because remote desktop and the whole thing was laggy and because I thought I could get something more energy efficient.

So the old one is an Intel® NUC Kit DN2820FYKH powered by a actively cooled Intel® Celeron® Processor N2830 (1M Cache, up to 2.41 GHz). 4GB DDR3 RAM, SSD.

The new one is a Chinese NUC powered by a passively cooled Intel® Core™ i7-7500U Processor (4M Cache, up to 3.50 GHz). 8GB DDR3 RAM, SSD.

I thought one of the best test was to use Handbrake to encode a chapter of a 1080p x264 movie to x265.

Here are the results with the power used by the whole server mesured directly at the power outlet:

Core™ i7-7500U (Q3 2016) | Idle : 8 watts | Max cpu : 35 watts | encoded 4660 frames in 586.04s | 7.95 fps / 35 watts / 0.22 fpsw

Celeron® Processor N2830 (Q1 2014) | Idle : 10 watts | Max cpu : 12 watts | encoded 4660 frames in 2400.00s | 1.94 fps / 12 watts | 0.16 fpsw

So, somehow I got what I wanted. At idle state, which the server is 98 % of the time, I got 20 % lower power use. I also now have 4 times more power at my disposal should I need it.

What seems also interesting is the ratio of frame per second encoded per watt = energy efficiency. From 0.16 to 0.22 is an energy efficency increase of +37.5 %. At the same time CPU Lithography went from 22 nm to 14 nm : -36.36 %. About the same percentage !

I may be jumping to the wrong conclusions here, but it seems to me that Intel spent the 3 years seperating 14nm and 22 nm doing nothing else than reduce lithography and made 0 architectural improvements. Am I wrong?
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who flagged this, and why?
Tell them it's OSS and they can fork the code-base if they want more fine grained control.

I know it's not going to resolve any issues but at least you are forcing them to say why that's not possible now and what long term plans they might have in store.
This is true and that's a trade-off for not using fingerprinting or cookies.
old man rants at Cloud.
What's up with the pair programming hate? I think it is great in the correct situations and would love to do more of it!

1. Get paired with another dev of similar level to work on new stuff. Bouncing ideas makes the surfacing solutions better.

2. Get paired with a dev that has been working on some system for a while. This is a much quicker way to learn the what's and why's of a project.
It’s very British to moan about the weather but I personally love it.
> It also relies on a new feature of macOS Catalina to allow the creation of 32-bit code segments in a 64-bit process

Is this roughly equivalent to MAP_32BIT on Linux?

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html
Someone should make a draw.io for presentations.
I do understand the criticism of open plan offices and the resulting interruptions, I do myself prefer a closed office. And I definitely haven't been around as long as this person. That being said, it feels like this person is just upset that they're not "at the top" anymore. Quote:

It was great back then; we were treated like princes [...]
Nuclear powerplants suffer from high upfront costs that can be amortized if you mass produce the same model.
Do they want to keep it open source?
Yet another case of "fair" competition from Prometheus and Thanos devs [1]:

* Prometheus users proposed extending `/api/v1/label/.../values` API [2], which has been already implemented in VictoriaMetrics.

* I mentioned about this and described high-level architecture for this feature, so it can be implemented by Prometheus devs.

* They say "you cannot point Prometheus users to the solution in VictoriaMetrics, since this is self-promotion" [1].

The same issue already contains Thanos promotion in the first comments, but nobody complains about this.

[1] https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/6178#issueco...

[2] https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/6178
Author Here:

Gasper serves a use case different from OpenFaas.

OpenFaas needs a specific functional configuration for deployment like https://github.com/openfaas-incubator/node10-express-templat... , hence it cannot deploy generalized applications such as https://github.com/sdslabs/gasper-sample-nodejs

As stated in the readme, Gasper is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) and not Functions as a Service (FaaS) like OpenFaas.

Gasper can deploy any generic application such as https://github.com/sdslabs/gasper-sample-ruby-on-rails with little configuration i.e the user doesn’t need to create specific Functions for his service. He can make any generic application in a language of his/her choice and deploy it via Gasper. The same goes for creating databases via Gasper.

You can think of it as an open-source WIP alternative to Heroku (https://www.heroku.com/) and Render (https://render.com) with super-easy setup procedures and high scalability and reliability
Can you please elaborate on “coach to help you develop a voice within the corporate setting”? What are these coaches called? Can you link to an example?
Einstein was still alive when my mom was a teenager.
I think a more robust (and privacy-preserving) way to calculate uniques ( per time-frame as well) is to make use of the local storage / indexDB in the visitor's browser.

This is how it would work:

- Visitor X lands on your website.

- With some JavaScript you check local storage if `dailyUnique` for today's date is set.

- if yes, send `visit` signal

- if not set, send `unique visit` signal and set `dailyUnique` to local storage.

You can apply this to any analytics use case. Its is private and does not rely on referrers. We have been using this goal-attainment approach to do analytics at my company for quite some years.
Very excited by the title, but very disappointed by the content...

This is not true unique visit counting. Which can be achieved using non unique values being set in browser storage, which is privacy friendly in my eyes.
What license did you choose for your open-source project? Fork it, or have them fork it?
We could build these reactors underground in areas where there are not seismic activity. That would also protect the atmosphere should there be any kind of incident.
Author here. It's technically more correct to call those visits "unique page views" and "page views". I think visit is a very simple word to understand for most people. My tool is targeted at people who want a simple tool, that's why I want to keep the wording also simple.
France Maybe ?
Yes, technically many schools require it, but the requirement is being dropped by more and more schools every year, and employers don’t care which school you come out of, so your competition is greatly increased.

And it’s not like med school or many other grad school options where you have to take MCAT, which is far more rigorous than PCAT anyway, but since the graduate of a pharmacy school that doesn’t require it is the same as one that does in the job market, it effectively nullifies the bar an entry exam might set.

https://www.studentloanplanner.com/getting-into-pharmacy-sch...
Nuclear makes a terrible backup to wind/solar. They aren't compatible. The problem is nuclear needs to generate most of the time to make economic sense. That's not a backup source, that's a baseload source.
Well, if Elixir had a Typesystem like Javascript has, I'd instantly switch to it. But atm I'm staying with Node because of Typescript.
Hey Gordon, I’m pushing a patch in early Jan to address this exact issue.
Author here. Our tool is GDPR compliant out of the box. We can't use local storage (it's legal wise the same as a cookie). Although your suggestion will provide more accurate stats, it's a trade-off we are willing to accept.
> It seems like a strange example to give, when many modern games obsess over minimising delays in all sorts of ways

And the more competitive ones tend to run higher than 60fps too, making the issue even more prominent, meanwhile for those for which it doesn't really matter (e.g. a 2D adventure game)… neither does ultra-low GC latency either.
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Given that FBI is famous for catching terrorists 'red-handed' with bombs they provided, who were recruited to commit terrorist acts by FBI agents, and sometimes are mentally ill, I'd say the standard for entrapment is quite high.
A ship can not go faster because it has a powerful engine or a near limitless energy source. A ship's speed is limited by design, especially with hull length. You cannot make a cruise ship go with 50kts.
I had high hopes for Clef, but unfortunately, it never got the traction it needed.

That would require each site to implement server-side components to talk to Clef, and most sites have been ice age slow to implement basic TOTP never mind yet another method.

Now, if the big existing OAuth sites, your Google, Facebook, Okta, etc implemented a QR code method like Clef then it might work.
> Un­der the Af­ford­able Care Act, hos­pi­tals must pay a penal­ty for each hos­pi­tal-ac­quired-in­fec­tion (HAI) oc­cur­ring with­in their in-pa­tient pop­u­la­tion. As a re­sult, if a pa­tient dies from a su­per­bug con­tract­ed dur­ing a pro­ce­dure such as surgery, the of­fi­cial cause of death may be in­stead list­ed as “Com­pli­ca­tions from Surgery.” Con­sis­tent and sys­temic un­der­count­ing of ill­ness­es and deaths from re­sis­tant in­fec­tions fur­ther dis­cour­ages the de­vel­op­ment of new an­tibi­otics as the num­ber of pa­tients who need these med­i­cines may ap­pear to be very small.

Sounds like the regulatory environment is overriding any market forces or customer needs.
People try to point to operating cost once the investment cost is amortized, but that's only relevant for the decision of whether to shut down an existing nuclear plant. The fully loaded cost, including the cost to build and finance the plant, is the relevant figure when deciding whether to build a new nuclear plant.

And even on operating cost, many nuclear plants in the US have failed to be cash flow positive in recent years, and have been shut down before their end of their lives. The remaining reactor at Three Mile Island had not made an operating profit in six years before it was ended.
Just my personal uneducated opinions below:

Only a proper lawyer can help you, though you should do initial searches online to see wether you get an inkling of where you stand, and possibly reduce amount of time needed to spend on expensive lawyer. See if there are free legal councel near where you live, online or if anything can be covered by insurance.

"I've developed it on my own time but the product directly relates to what my employer does"

This is a bright huge red flag. Depending on the contract you signed, creating something in direct competition while employed can be grounds for assuming ownership. Using company resources, time, knowledge, clout, internal discussions and/or reputation, can be strong case for this company, against your position. Evidence and witnesses as well as your own words can be used against your position. If this IP was unrelated to company offerings, they would be less interested, and probably objectively strengthen your own case somewhat, depending on what they can prove and not.

If you want to go very cheap, or avoid possible bill-hungry lawyers: Ask your boss wether they've cleared this with their internal lawyers and if you can get this confimed via a signed statement of company claims of ownership and exactly about what they claim ownership of and not. Always go internally through nearest boss or neutral intermediate in writing: Export the communications as well. Avoid contradicting your own claims unwittingly.

If you get this letter and don't want to lawyer-up, I'm afraid your options are limited and you should do whatever necessary to avoid getting fired or sued. If they bluffed, you just called them on it, and can negotiate from there.

Unfortunately, depending on the legal councel at this company and possible value of your work, your standing looks very weak, possibly damaging against you. This is why it's so vital to keep work and personal life divided. What may help in such situations is to do book-keeping of resources and hours spent separately for such side-project and document the process, while making sure Nothing from work is used.
"inmates" is also likely chosen while sloppily translating from German were "inmate" or "Insasse" can be used for occupant interchangeably in this context.
I'm just glad someone is focusing on obeying the spirit of the law rather than tacking an ironic "we value your privacy" popup to the website and continue selling my data.
"Sorry , current version only available for 64Bit Mac and Windows."
I'm not saying that SpaceX has harmed anyone or that it is less safe than other space companies. But the whole line of business is inherently dangerous and I don't think someone who personally values safety at a high level would found this kind of company. That doesn't mean they can't decide to have safe cars designed and built – on their own or because their engineers push for it – if it makes business sense.

Musk isn't the only one working at Tesla. People are generally more successful at something if they do it because they care not just because it's their job. So whoever was responsible for the safety of Tesla's previous cars probably cared a lot about safety. I imagine they're the kind of people some people might call boring but no one would ever doubt their sanity. If they ever found a company, it's going to be called "SeatbeltX".
> ...People like him aren't going to be missed. Their arrogance of not needing teams, being able to handle projects completely by themselves ....

Large-scale software projects were definitely around in the 1980s and 1990s including at M$, so it can't be that. The thing about "teamwork", recurring meetings/standups and other drains on 'flow' and individual productivity, is that they are a cost of your chosen development model. They're things you're supposed to minimize wherever feasible by improving your toolset (e.g. good repository management, CI, static analysis tools to cut down on pointless "unit" testing, computer-mediated communication as opposed to doing everything in person, etc.), not expand until they take up all available resources.
> I decided to pack up and go, and left the USA on 11/15/2010, intending to retire at 56, play my guitars, read my physics library, live my life in very strange language and relax.

This is someone who prefers solitude. It's not surprising that he doesn't like collaborative work.

He seems to be projecting his own preference onto the software industry though, which is misguided. Lots of great software has been built with all kinds of different workflows.
I am not sure. According to Paul Graham, it seems to matter.

http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html
After seeing a few of these comments, I think I'll clarify.

I'm aware of how stock options should work under stock splits. As others have said, in general, whether it's options or shares, the equity on each side of the split should remain constant. IE 3x the shares, 1/3 the value. In the case of options 3x the options, 1/3 the strike price.

My issue is that it's clear that the option amount did not auto-adjust. I've already executed the options. The kicker is, neither did the strike price. It looks like not only did I not get the number of shares from the options I vested when executing them, I overpaid for the ones I did get since the value didn't change. This likely means they're underwater and worth zero.

I guess my next step is to contact their law firm and see if I can get confirmation from them about the split, then I can push them to correct it. (through legal means if necessary)
I agree with you. It's privacy friendly to have a cookie stored on the browser with a boolean only. Unfortunately it's not allowed by GDPR without asking for consent first. Would be open to other ways without cookies and fingerprinting. I think there is no other way.
Thanks, I responded to a similar post earlier but we are pushing a feature soon with a minimalistic consent notification dialog that gives a recipient opt-out ability.
1. If you goal is to work in industry, don't do pure mathematics PhD. What works, and is doable in 20-30h/week is doing an applied PhD in an area related to your work. I know quite a few people who did it with great success. (Quite a few friends, and some accomplished people like https://ruder.io/.)

Also, as a person with PhD - spending 4-7 years in an irrelevant field is going to seriously hurt your industry career. (I speak as someone with PhD.) Yes, PhD is worth something - but it won't come in the place of experience.

2. For the second, you need time. On their side, even if they don't need to provide funding, they invest their time. Talk to people at a local department. You may impress them enough that they are going to work with you unofficially - but the bar may be high.

For later - what is the exact area you are most interested in?
> TBH HTML isn't a really good format for stuff like this, as HTML is text-only. Same goes for HAR. The moment you want to embed large images/video you run into size problems.

Is this really a problem for up to 100 MB? In my experience that would already be a huge Powerpoint presentation including a lot of detailed images or some smaller videos. Most presentations I handle are below 100 slides and below 10 MB.

If it goes beyond that, there will also be other problems. Nobody likes to handle a 5 GB presentation.

Encoding the binary files as BASE64 would add some overhead, indeed, but having a presentation as a single file that can be played by any modern browser on any modern device would provide tremendous usability benefits.
It seems to me the biggest hurdle in nuclear energy is the (lack of) speed with which you can build a new plant (and therefore cost). It seems to me that any new type of reactor must be built much more efficiently in order to gain traction. I bet a new plant with "old" design which can be built in 2yrs would be much more popular than a new plant with state of the art reactors which can be built in 5 years.
Yes, still very experimental at the moment but working on a way to get a demo presentation into the landing page nicely :)
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There's nothing "unique" about those visits, just using the referrer isn't enough to make them unique.
Co-founder here. My girlfriend and I(https://ippad-itn.eu/researchers) quit our jobs 4 months ago, and have been working on this day and night off of our savings since then.

FlyOut is born to address a problem that is driven by a "need" and this "need" is a global problem and wanted by the sheer volume that addresses the average middle class who study or work abroad and consistently miss the products from their culture back home or who are addressing their family members that are anxious to get in touch with foreign local products. More than 8 million people travel/day (www.iata.org/pressroom/pr/Pages/2013-12-30-01.aspx). Apart from our technical solution, what matters to us is how many of them know our product!!. Massive market awareness is our 24/7 strategy.
Hey Kristianc, Sizle currently supports PDF upload for this exact purpose and are working on PPT currently. We’re not trying to shift any sales workflows, the goal is to mainly give power users access to insights in a platform agnostic approach.
I am not a lawyer, so this is merely a speculative guess:

Currently, if they technically own the code, your open-sourcing it isn’t valid. You can put an Apache license in the repo, but you can’t legally give a license to others to use something you don’t actually own.

So the code is not really open source until someone puts that license on it with company authority. It is just public.

It sounds like this product competes with their other products. Even if they didn’t ask you to turn over control you would have problems working for them during the day, competing with them in the evening. Possibly liability even.

If you want control, and want to use it to do things they don’t want, you probably have to leave the company.

If you are going to leave, it seems you might turn over the repo to them to avoid legal trouble, and then be sure that someone else at the coming makes the open-source status official. Then you or others can fork it. But it seems you should only do further work on the fork if and after leaving.

Again this should not be construed as real legal advice as I am not a lawyer.
For real-time data, Waze is much, much better.

If it weren't already aware of the accident so it could warn you, you could have let Waze know about it and, at the least, helped out many others who were coming after you.
This is a great idea. Obviously do it only after talking to a lawyer first.
Agree on all points, a template library is currently in the works, as are some responsiveness fixes :)

We’re really in alpha, and many of the features are experimental so we’re seeing what works and taking what our alpha users are saying seriously.
First precise (±10%, 1 sigma) mass and radius measurements of a pulsar
Fun time to nerd out!

The name of the United Nations is an artifact of WWII - that was the name chosen by the alliance on 1 January 1942, just after the US entered the war, to describe their now-common cause. Given the wide variety of regimes fighting on the same side [1] and the common ideological basis of the combatant countries, "nations" and "brotherhood of nations" style of nationalism were an umbrella everyone could get behind while still having an appropriate amount of emotional oomph.

[1] Mostly. The USSR wasn't fighting Japan.
I definitely think it could be argued that there are many examples of brutalistic public transport - a great comparison would be New York City’s aluminium cans (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/MT...) versus London’s tube trains with their curves and glass (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Shiny_an...)
The Classic environment was retired in 2007 with the release of 10.5 Leopard, and was never available for x86 Macs. With 10.7 Lion (2011), they dropped support for 32-bit x86 Macs, and running PowerPC software via emulation (Rosetta). Eight years of support for 32-bit apps is quite long by these standards.
Parent said nothing about "turning up with a lawyer". You can get legal advice from a lawyer without just going in guns blazing.
You live in Munich. You think like a European. Left or right on the political spectrum, doesn't matter. What you said is generally accepted as "how it works" in Europe. Not so much in other places.
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How about referring from a https site? AFAIK, browsers don't send a referrer from s https site.
I've written a lot of C++, and a fair bit of Python. Dynamic typing is seductive at first, but you eventually realize that you would much prefer errors be caught at compile time, rather than run time.

I want a language where I can:

cInches in1, in2, in3;
cCm cm1;

in1 = in2 + in3; // OK
in1 = cm1; // compilation error: cannot mix units
in1 = in2 * in3; // compilation error: square inches are not inches
in1 = 2.0 * in2; // OK
float f1 = in1 / in2; // OK

cCm foo(cInches in)
{ return cCm(in * 2.54);
}

foo(cm1); // compilation error

Naturally this is accomplished with special classes (not shown here), it is not an inherent property of the language.
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Dependence on an App is not good for long term viability. Before joining any new ecosystem I check if there is a clear route to transition out of it in the long term. People like me are allergic to lock-in-effects and provider/service-dependencies that could lock oneself out of ones own data if the provider shuts down. Given that export to a common format like pptx works great I will consider this software.

The paradox here is that the better the export functionality works the less people will actually need it.
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