skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its the slowest rate in 30+ years.

First quarter was 6.4%

Second quarter was 6.2%

Third quarter was 6%

This is because the “quality” of China’s growth is, to use a technical term, kinda lousy. The way China measures growth and sets GDP targets encourages investment in projects that will never be profitable enough to cover initial costs. Short-term GDP growth trumps long-term GDP growth.

The Chinese government has long defied this economic logic. Since many of its investments aren’t profitable, the money to fund new economic activity comes instead via credit from state-run banks and, in the past, through shadow finance (loans made off bank balance sheets). It achieves this in part by controlling banks, though also through setting GDP targets that tell local government officials how much they must invest to earn promotions. (The 2019 target, by the way, is 6-6.5%, so it just barely made it last quarter.)

In short their economic numbers tend to be a lot of smoke and mirrors.

https://qz.com/1730848/good-news-chinas-gdp-growth-has-hit-a...
The full path calls a GNU tool, the other calls your shell's builtin function.
I saw this as an intern working on internal dev boards for some wireless gear. A coworker had set up some debugging tool to trigger a pin on some condition and it was being set off whenever he sat down in his chair.

I don’t think we ever found a work around.
All such useless patents on concept and software functoonality encourage patent trolls.
Superscalar dates to the CDC 6600, a machine I don't understand very well; branch prediction I think dates to Stretch, but the 70s at latest; instruction and data caches were commonplace in high-performance computers by the 1970s, and as the article points out, the 6600 had I$, and the 360/85 had a cache too (not sure if split). I'm not sure about register renaming and speculative execution, but I'd be surprised if they date from as late as the αXP.
Can you read the date at the top of the page? 2001. Thumb-2? And an ARM creator was interviewed as well, it is like you looked at first name on the list and just had a tantrum.
Ask HN: Why are you blocking all posts about Iran, even when genuine?
Why is HN blocking all posts about Iran?

HN, PG, Dang and team, ou have proved yourselves to be the 'normal' folks like any of us.

And PG, stop virtue signalling in your blog posts. You no longer have the moral right.
Spot on. Sihanoukville is China's Panamax port in the southern region, which gives them access to Jakarta and then west onto Africa. Google about how China has taken over the city as well as the roads/rails they are building through Laos/Cambodia. It is epic destruction.

It is quite easy to move between Vietnam / Laos / Cambodia... I know it because I've personally driven on a motorbike many of the trucker back roads literally cut through the borders.

Vietnam will take a dozen more years to catch up. Hai Phong in the north is a very wealthy city due to all the shipping with China and Samsung, but politics and culture will get in the way for quite some time to come.
Heh, I suspect hardware folks would like a CPU which programmed well with Verilog or VHDL, and I know that trying to make a hardware description language accessible to software folks has been a pipe dream for at least 25 years. However, I don't think Verilog was the solution for Itanium, and the useful niche for FPGAs seems increasingly limited to low Size Weight And Power realms.

The FPGA projects I've seen (using very high end FPAGs, not commodity/cheap ones) seem like they're always bumping up against clock rates and making timing as soon as they try to do anything approaching what you can do on a CPU or GPU. Of course there are exceptions where the FPGA does really simple and parallel things, but FPAGs aren't a panacea.
BuzzFeed news is an internal division inside BuzzFeed dedicated to actual fact checked journalism pieces. I think they've showed up on HN a few times before.
> They've made it pretty clear in a number of threads on Reddit that native apps for Samsung and LG are very low on the priority list.

Low in priority insofar as there are not many developers with that hardware contributing to the project. If you have the hardware and free time to contribute, please do.
I remember getting an MSDN CD wallet that included a build of Windows NT for Alpha. Of course, I never had an Alpha on which to run it.
"There are exceptions, but the people at the top of almost any field worked very hard to get there. Be skeptical of people who tell you that you don’t have to work hard if you want to have an exceptional career unless they have exceptional careers."

This advice seems to contradict the study below

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-mundanity-of-excellence-an-...

Perhaps it would be better to say "watch out for survivorship bias"
At that point how are they different from bookmarks? I suppose with tab tree every page is ‘bookmarked’ until you close it, or bookmark it for real.

Personally I save anything I actually want to refer back to as a PDF since the bookmarked web page will probably disappear.
That's because one of Chrome team's KPIs is how many Google searches are performed through the Omnibar, and better tab search would decrease that KPI and decrease Google ad revenue.

Think about it: it's a web browser literally built by the biggest search company in the world. The latest version of Chrome will even add Google Drive files to the omnibar search for G Suite users.

There is no excuse that they have a worse omnnibox search than Firefox.
A Bright Future for Moore’s Law?
As accessories, sales are limited to iphone numbers...

...until Airpods get an eSIM (like apple watches) and become standalone products, they'll be earphones. Ear-phones, geddit? Telephones for your ears, they'll be like... oh never mind.
The article already explains and exemplifies this. It produces abrupt changes in “velocity” of the gradient at every color stop, which is rarely something you want.
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6.6% is incredibly low and this number has been discussed a lot in Chinese forums.

as a Shenzhen guy,

I'd like to say the most important reason may be the price of the land has been increased quite a lot in the last years.

Many manufacturing companies, even Huawei moved out of Shenzhen this year, some go to Dongguan, Huizhou, which are other cities of Guandong, and some go to Vietnam, Thailand.

The reason is quite simple, they cannot afford the price of land to build the factory, and the salary cost is higher since the housing rent price also goes higher. Some factory owners work hard for a year, while the incoming is even less than the value increased of lands he owns.

So the business all goes to the lands, housing, malls. People don't know where is the top, but people believe is far more yet. Because Hong Kong, the city next to Shenzhen, has a higher land price.

For the future, the great bay area may solve this issue. Shenzhen will focus on the development of high-tech technology as a research center and enterprise center. The manufactory will move to Dongguan, Huizhou. While HongKong serves as a business/finance center. Guangdong will be the transaction center.

It is possible with the highly developed traffic net. The high-speed railway connected every city of the great bay area. People and things can move fast. Taking trains has become easier and more convenient than taking buses now.
Thank you for the list! I would like to suggest eG Enterprise APM suite which is a full-stack APM solution with Real User Monitoring, Business Transaction Monitoring and Synthetic. Differentiates itself with seamless navigation from APM to deep Infra visibility.
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I think by the definition I was using, data dependency ordering is preserving order on a single thread. All GPUs I'm aware of enforce this.
What we really need:

* Websites with notifications that are frequently denied by users, will lose the ability to request web notifications permissions. Users must manually enable it through Domain Settings.
Ask HN: Whats the coolest thing you've ever built in 24 hours?
> Instead of more cores, give me more ALUs.

It kinda didn't work that way though.

In practice, all of your ALUs, including your extra ones, were waiting on cache fetches or latencies from previous ALU instructions.

Modern x86 CPUs have 2-4 ALUs which are dispatched to in parallel 4-5 instructions wide, and these dispatches are aware of cache fetches and previous latencies in real time. VLIW can't compete here.

VLIW made sense when main memory was as fast as CPU and all instructions shared the same latency. History hasn't been kind to these assumptions. I doubt we'll see another VLIW arch anytime soon.

I accept the idea that x86 is a local minimum, but it's a deep, wide one. Itanium or other VLIW architectures like it were never deep enough to disrupt it.
Let's Synchronize Threads in Python
And yet all of those resources have amounted to what all regulators agree is a SAE level 2 system, only qualified for hands-on lane-keeping assist, exactly like you'll find on a modern Mazda or any other number of cars without any of that hardware or ML PHDs.

Sort of proving the point that the resource pool of the incumbent doesn't necessarily translate to the value of the product.
I don't think x86 compatibility mattered. When it launched in 2001 it was supposed to replace HP's PA-RISC architecture which is totally different anyway. Sun and its SPARC processors were very much alive, Google was only three years old, and AWS was five years away - the idea that a massive array of cheap x86 processors will outperform enterprise-class servers simply hadn't occurred to most people yet.

Of course, the joke is that cheap x86 processors did outperform Itanium (and every other architectures, eventually).
I'm not very interested in this until they figure out how to make the games free or subscription based. I really don't see the point otherwise. Sure there are use cases but not for me as a entrenched gamer.
The Pentium Pro pioneered neither of those concepts.
28%... http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=2...
Posts like this always come up in these threads and they're really great, but it's worth adding that 'switching to Firefox' isn't something anyone actually has to do. Just start using it for one thing or another and any complete change will happen naturally if it makes any sense. It's a process that involves no effort and no risk

The only thing I use Chrome for is gaming, graphics perf is still miles better than Firefox. But I'd never trust Chrome with anything as much as a private URL or a username or password, for much the same reason I wouldn't stick my hand through the bars of a cage while visiting the zoo. Did they ever get around to fixing that opt-out password sync crap?
Alas...so little respect for the 36-bitters these days. The PDP-10 especially was hugely influential.
Indeed... but it will take some time for it to develop.
SHAME on CNN.... Clown News Network. Full of hatred against white people. Shame on the bigots!
There is Signal (which has open forks), Matrix, XMPP and several others which support E2EE. For E-Mail there isn't a good alternative.
The brain is the computer, not the genome, no doubt about that. But the genome was not designed but evolved, as a consequence it contains many strange and overly complex mechanisms that just settled somewhere in a minimum in some highly complex landscape. It would be better to ask what it would take to store everything we learn and act upon it, in the most simple way.

If we are looking for the innate information, we should be asking the question: In how much information can we store the computer, and all machinery that builds it from basic components (molecules basically). It does become easy then to imagine that there is some kind of suckling response, a computer also starts doing things when it is powered up.
Neither the definition of toxic, nor the definition of hierarchy imply any such relation, much less require it.

Hierarchies are what they are: an acknowledgement that the universe (and most subsets of it, e.g. companies, countries, etc.) is not a mere undifferentiated blob, but has qualitative and quantitative differences that we need to take into account.

You wouldn't get any arbitrary surgeon if you could have the best one, just because "hierarchies are toxic", right?
The former is incorrect, the latter merely slower than necessary.
You're making a lot of really wild assumptions about what correlates with safety without a shred of evidence to back it up.

Humans have two eyes, a pretty narrow field of view, no radar, no sonar. By your logic they're even worse, yet theyre so much better than Autopilot that it's unattainable for it to match.
Do you feel like you'll graduate to 'political problems are human problems and human problems boil down to idiots having children, idiots raising children and society being unwilling to rid itself of humans who have convincingly shown to be counter-productive to society', coupled with 'for society to function long term, it needs to have a shared goal, vision, not selfish goals of one house, two cars, fence, big tv and plenty of derp entertainment for each family'?

I feel like anything that isn't addressing these two issues is re-arranging chairs on the Titanic as it's headed for a crash.
OMG did I love my Atari 800 back in 1985 when it was clearly one of the best price/performance machines available at that time.

Overlooked by many (but not all) was its built-in MIDI ports and its abilty to control all those early model beatboxs and synths...unfortunately I forget the name of the rather crappy software that I used to get things talking and synced up, but it did work and the bitmapped color graphics were way ahead of its time.

Too bad Atari self destructed with the cartrage business, and who knows what other poor business decisions it made, but that computer was one of my favorite things of my late teens.
> I find it ironic that HN seems to be both very pro-freedom/privacy/right-to-repair, yet also very anti-car. Perhaps two separate demographics.

I suspect there's less overlap than you assume. Freedom I'm sure we could go back and forth on for hours (money has better uses than gas IMO, but the freedom of a car is undeniable), but privacy for cars is an unmitigated disaster. Government-issued ID is undoubtedly a good requirement for driving, but everything else, from automatic license plate scanners to cars frequently reporting your location (to On-Star or Honda's anti-theft) leaves privacy in a dismal state.

Right to Repair is moving the wrong way as cars move from mechanical to digital. Tesla is infamous for this, and moving more people to electric cars seems unlikely to reverse the trend.

We're also discussing a subset of people likely sitting at desks far too much. I don't want to sit all day then sit in a car to get home either.
Very true, but I believe it was the first to deliver them at consumer price points and volumes.
No, not quite. This is a little hard to describe outside of ML terminology and it's pretty new, but I'll try.

The structure I'm describing is at a different scale from the structures of the individual neurons. Actually, come to think of it, baby motion may be an even better example:

When a baby is born, it (possibly) has no understanding of how to move it's arms and legs. But the newborn brain is structured in such a way as to encourage movement of limbs, such that the movement required for learning becomes a high probability event°. In this manner one need not encode all of the information necessary for grasping, merely the conditions necessary to learn it by leveraging information from the environment.

If you connect neurons in a particular large scale pattern, and wire some up to ears, some to eyes, some to touch receptors, two things may happen:

1. Your brain is more likely to perform the initial actions required to learn

2. Your brain may more easily learn certain actions

The second thing is inductive bias, and I think it will be extremely powerful in the world of ML once we figure out how to harness it. We know that neural nets are hugely wasteful now, there have been papers published on neural network optimizers which can shrink nets by some 80% while maintaining accuracy. Inductive bias is probably such an optimization.
We enable JavaScript selectively, and it would need to be the same for WASM. Enabling for everything just to support the rare pages I find it useful is nuts.
>Following your heart is a virtue.

No, that's a modern misconception.

"Following your heart" is just an action with no moral value in itself. Whether it's a virtue depends on the contents of your heart.

All kinds of scumbags and horrible people who hurt others "followed their heart" in doing so.
The article also doesn't talk about eliminating cars, in fact it very specifically has recommendations about how car traffic should be handled.
No, Americans are paying 500 bucks for a pen precisely because of regulatory capture. None of the manufacturers of the cheaper version have been successful in jumping the regulatory barrier to entry which the incumbents lobbied for, and tens of thousands of Americans suffer for it each year.
The page dates from 2010 and includes input from Gordon Bell in 2008. I see Sophie's interviewed in the article, but somehow her masterpiece — likely the most widespread architecture in the world by now — isn't included in the list at the top.
You shouldn't be using `#!/bin/bash` but rather `#!/usr/bin/env bash` instead.
Is the notebook available in github? I would like to review the code of plots and animations. The post and links is awesome.
Implicit ordering can outsource it to users and result in some awful to use software.

I think I've told this story before here but the best bug I've ever fixed is adding an order by clause to a query. The client was trying to find items in a combo box that were essentially randomly ordered, it was literally taking hours out of their day to find stuff in this list and forcing them to do overtime to keep up with the workload, they literally cried when I fixed it. I had to sneak the change past management but I'm not sure if I was successful, it may have played a role in my short tenure there.

That's a particularly bad example but like perl4ever I've found this to be more common and in practice a much bigger deal than gratuitous order by clauses.

I've seen many variations where the natural ordering is fine but once it's combined with top, or joined, or filtered the results become very random to users.
Agner is obviously brilliant, but I think maybe he's looking at general purpose applications.

If I'm doing a million point FFT, I can easily give you 2 million operations in a row without a loop/branch. Maybe 1000 of those at a time could be run in parallel before the results needed to commit for the next 1000. I'd be willing to pay for 1 or 2 nops in the last bundle of every 1000 operations. I admit, the idea might not be awesome for a word processor or spreadsheet, but I did specify signal processing and machine learning.
> How did that become the state of the industry, with so many smart people working so hard and nobody likes their latest designs?

The average consumer doesn't buy a fantastically well designed CPU if it doesn't run the software they care about. x86, externally, is horrifically ugly primarily because of backwards compatibility (I've legitimately had a nightmare once from writing an x86 JIT compiler). Internally, I'm almost certain it's an incredible feat of engineering. People who admire architecture aren't a powerful market force, I'm sad to say.
Sense of social status, cheating artificially increases your rank. No one knows your cheating, so you get all the respect.

Leaderboards are dopamine clickbait for trying to improve.

Why do billionaires want to richer?
If the keys are in random order, and the hash table is larger than L3, I bet you can make the hash version faster by looking ahead N items and issuing __builtin_prefetch() on the hash table array. (There are papers on this for hash joins in databases.)
What hasn’t changed is that OpenPilot falls under the category of level 2 self-driving as defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers[1]

Look at the directory structure for the software - it has a "selfdrive" directory where all the code is![2]

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/07/comma-ai-launches-comma-t...

[2] https://github.com/commaai/openpilot#directory-structure
Feels good to be an Australian and not get overcharged for healthcare while also not being run down by some DIY self driving car.
Tesla does not use 12 cameras for autopilot. It just uses radar and 1 or 2 of the front facing cameras depending on the version. Not really different from OpenPIlot.
Simple Tiny Compiler in C
oof, this sort of writing is why I avoid any apple threads on hackernews. "X was better than Y" without any sort of support.

How come we have such high expectations for argument quality for every other topic other than how "apple is better" - it has reached the point where I read it and I almost jump to astroturfing conclusions. Fortunately for Apple their fans are dedicated enough to astroturf for free!
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Is it possible to customize the movies screen to eliminate pagination and use a continuous scroll instead?
Yes, especially in multiplayer focused games, if there's a way to cheat there will be cheaters.
Also people who profit from the situations and sell cheating tools to other players.
>The daily choice is not between providing for your children or being a jerk to your fellow man.

You'd be surprised. People think so because we rationalize all kinds of bad behavior (e.g. not speaking up when a colleague was wrongly fired or abused, or working for a company that runs sweatshops, or does all kind of damage). As long as they don't do it directly (and just "follow orders" or "doing their job") they think it's OK.

But it's still a daily choice, and the other option to being principled is often not putting food on the table.
I'm sure Hare would be proud, but back in reality we have to find real answers to moral questions.

There are actully objective truths in life. Whether or not people can accept oppression due to cultural influences is irrelelevant; it's not a good thing. Freedom to speak and, therefore, to think, is preferable over the alternative. Not all arguments are created equal, and comparing the influence of Hollywood (while certainly real!) to that of an authoritarian government is a joke.