skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll give you a mid-2000s Celeron, before core, except 4 of them because it's a quad core, and with a few times more RAM since you can get pis with up to 4GB now. I had a 1.8Ghz single-core celeron with 512MB of RAM in 2005, upgraded to 3.0GHz with 768MB by 2006, then leaped to a Q6600/4GB in 2007. Not sure how my Radeon 9200 and later X1600 would've compared to the Pi GPU though.

This guy puts the rpi 4's GPU at 8 GFLOPS:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=244519

Looks like the X1600 was around 6 GFLOPS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processin...
Is it conceivable to be able to play PS4 games on other platforms? I.e. what are the theoretical minimum performance costs of emulating PS4?
That particular chip, probably badly. But you can buy a rad-hardened M0 with similar specs: https://www.voragotech.com/products/va10820 The price is under a thousand dollars, too.

NASA's also working on a hardened A53 at ~800MHz, and you can get hardened POWER chips at similar frequencies.
The broader data shows a split between those who started showing symptoms prior to Jan. 18 and those whose symptoms appeared after — with the former waiting much longer on average before seeking treatment. The contrast becomes even sharper on Jan. 22, when there was a noticeable jump in the number of patients seeking treatment the day their symptoms showed.

What changed on Jan. 22? That was the day the Hubei provincial government finally declared a public health emergency
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Maybe the adherents you mentioned are? I'm missing the requirement that the advice apply to "all of us".
Oops, you may be right...
Sorry, for some reason I assumed that the question was about Vinyl vs. CD, maybe because my preference for physical media seems like something obvious that needs no explanation.

Another factor is that I have the same analog hifi system since 16 years. I've grown to like it.

I've also used (and still use) digital players (computers, iPods, smartphones, etc), but they either break, or the software changes every few years, making it kinda hard to get attached to.
Rooftops in Switzerland are covered with snow for many months each year. Yet this article doesn't even mention the word "snow".
What have the STORED PROCEDURES ever done for us?
Afaik the problem with air travel is not only the CO2 released from burning fuel, it's also the various byproducts getting deposited in the higher atmosphere. Synthetic fuels avoid the net CO2 Release but still have those impacts.
If you sell digital goods online, then don't you by definition have a presence, sort of, in East Texas?
Take this with a grain of salt:

My wife, when she went to the hospital to be diagnosed, said that they had a separate room for those that were diagnosed with having the Wuhan virus, and a separate room for those that did not.

She saw several people in that room, and yet over the next few days, only one new case was reported from that hospital.

I don’t know if this is due to unconfirmed or bad diagnosis, but this is just yet another red flag in a country full of red flags.

As for my wife, she only had a respiratory infection and got medicine for it. She’s better now, but now her mother is sick -.-
I was in the Aosta valley (on the Italian side of the Swiss border, surrounded by the highest mountains in Europe) a few weeks ago in the middle of the winter.

In short: yes there are only about 9-10 hours of daylight but it can get very bright when the sun comes out over the mountains for 3-4 hours. They also grow wine on the south facing parts of the mountains (which requires plenty of sun). And you have to consider that mountains often have clouds/rainy weather.
Another thing to consider is the peaks of the mountains are often above the cloud layers. You can get a sun burn in the middle of the winter in Switzerland quite easily. Just because it's north of most of the US, doesn't mean solar is uneconomical.

So yes, it's not optimal but there's plenty of light. And people do put solar on their roofs there and it apparently makes economical sense to them.
I really love Jesse Frazelle's[1] blog. She posts things about low-level (firmware/open-hardware/system) security. Her work is already well known here on HN[2].

A few more of my fav:

The grugq (NatSec, Tradecraft, OpSec): https://gru.gq/

Pinboard (aka Maciej Cegłowski): https://idlewords.com/

Adam Aelkus: https://aelkus.github.io/

Bert Hubert: https://berthub.eu/

____

[1] https://blog.jessfraz.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jessfraz.com
I think F1 is a leading indicator here.

At the beginning F1 was decided mostly by the pilots skills, then increasingly by training. Then technology took the spotlight and was the way to have an edge, and now finally it’s the best lawyering what gets you wins.

I’m guessing is that is some kind of pattern you can’t avoid.

First the athletes compete, then competition gets fierce and simple selection does not cut it, training is required to be at the top of the game. Then when we hit the limits of what’s possible for a human only tech can step in and give you the edge.

Then tech improvements subvert the statu quo and regulation is demanded, regulation kills innovation and brings in a new game, the winner is whoever can argue that they’re not breaking the rules, just bending them a little.
> I don't see any evidence other than thought experiment to say that something was invented because the patent system existed.

The patent system is designed to reward the publication of technologies, not their development.
Interesting how compilation benchmarks do not scale at all from 24 to 32 to 64 core Threadrippers. Neither Linux kernel nor LLVM compilation. I wonder why it's so bad.
http://danluu.com is excellent.
There is nothing impressive about this.
https://godbolt.org/z/S2tDDh
Conjecture:

* Worked at Google / FB / blah startup for long enough to put some serious $$ away

* Don't care about working becasue see above

* Pick a fight / select a topic that is niche enough to wrote a blog post about

* Quit (cough , retire,) young and afford to live luxuriously

* Stop working becasue now you are too lazy to give a shit about anything

* Bitch about how everyone attacks you

* Get a shitty rating in perf review becasue you stopped giving a shit

* Whine and whine

* Get a shitty rating again
* Quit and make scene about how they were victimized

Here is a thought,
* Quit

* thank the gods and Google for making you rich

* live life and relax
Yup. Have to rename it the "inchworm illusion"
In the UK a lot of the cost of distribution and transmission infrastructure is charged based on your consumption during the three highest demand half hour periods in the year (triad charge). This only applies to large users on half hourly billing, standard domestic consumers just get a distribution fee included in their bill.
It wasn't a polite suggestion. It was a demand for the author, who is giving you something for free, to accommodate your preferences.
http://www.tinytouchtales.com covers both the process and the results, including the $ numbers. Great games too :)

https://bvckup2.com/wip covers mostly technical parts, but gives a good view into what's involved in making a software product from A to Z, especially in the parts further down the page.
> people who went into Chernobyl to begin containment

I'm not an authority on the subject, but I was under the impression that those were soldiers and conscripts and they were ordered to go.
We used to deliver search to Lycos in the late 1990s / early 2000s. I despised them deeply and the experience taught me that you shouldn't go out of your way to please the wrong customer. Lycos had no taste.
If you assume some correlation, even imperfect, between SWE effectiveness and interview performance, the least effective SWEs are likely to both be looking for work more often and require more interviews per successful job search, so will be way over-represented in the “who applies to interview” pool.

Joel Spolsky said it well: “A lot of companies think they're hiring the top 1 percent because they get 100 resumés for every open position. They're kidding themselves. When you fill an opening, think about what happens to the 99 people you turn away. They don't give up and go into plumbing. They apply for another job. There's a floating population of applicants in your industry that apply for nearly every opening posted online, even though many of them are qualified for virtually none of these positions.“
Thank you very much; this is a very detailed post that covers several things I was wholly unaware of. One minor gripe:

> However, what's perhaps more useful is that the Navy continues to offer a telephone time service (202-762-1401) while NIST does not.

NIST also has a phone # service, but regardless, I'm struggling to think of a scenario where dialing a phone # would be more useful and/or accurate than any other method. I haven't called a number to set my clock since the '90s.
That would be Welch test and not t-test
Re Dr. Li:

The letter of admonition he received has been posted, see:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang#/media/File%3A李文...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang

I don't speak or read Chinese but can rely on multiple news reports (e.g., BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795, SCMP: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3049561/dr-l...) and Wikipedia's inclusion and characterisation as strongly reliable indicators.

The BBC is the UK's national broadcaster. SCMP is owned by the Alibaba group, a major mainland China corporation. Each clearly labels Dr. Li as a whistleblower. SCMP's story includes a highlighted summary "China’s health authorities and the public have offered their condolences over the death of the doctor, whom police tried to silence in the early days of the outbreak".

Both articles focus on Li's acts in breaking the nCoV story -- without really wanting or intending to -- the initial negative response of Wuhan police, and the narrative now, from authorities such as Zeng Guang, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (reported in the SCMP story) that "that the eight people punished by the police should be held in 'high regard'", again, quoting the SCMP directly.

As for ongoing suppression of discussion adjacent to the nCoV outbreak, messages of support for Li and criticism of the Chinese government continue to be censored:

The top two trending hashtags on the website were "Wuhan government owes Dr Li Wenliang and apology" and "We want freedom of speech".

Both hashtags were quickly censored. When the BBC searched Weibo on Friday morning, hundreds of thousands of comments had already been wiped.

(From the BBC story.)
And more specifically you lose by not doing that, which is exactly what is happening to Intel and why they have such a hard time responding : by killing amd for a while but not being their own competitor, well, they forgot how to compete. Same thing that doomed the atom line and low power cpu (and why windows on arm is a thing).
If the assessment is done by the colleagues who benefit from those behaviors, at that point "gaming the system" means actually doing those things. You can only fake it when the evaluation is done by a third person / manager.
"bitt" shows me zero results, but "bitto" (all the way to "bittorrent") works. It's beyond b0rked!
Britain back then was the british empire. The empire we fought for 150 years to lead the anglo nations. The empire we fought for 150 years to lead the world. During ww2, the nation/empire we were the most ideologically opposed to was the british empire. The british empire was top dog ( superficially at least ) and the US wanted to be top dog. Hence why we bled them dry during ww2 and shattered the british empire over our knees after ww2.

Now, britain/uk are ideologically aligned with the US and we can be "friends". But that certainly wasn't the case before and during ww2 when they were the british empire. People really underestimate US disdain for the british empire and how instrumental the US was in destroying it. FDR even equated nazi slavery with british slavery.

"I can’t believe that we can fight a war against fascist slavery, and at the same time not work to free people all over the world from a backward colonial policy."

https://www.thequint.com/news/world/franklin-roosevelt-role-...

If you want a more general view of how we shook down britain during ww2.

https://www.quora.com/What-marked-the-end-of-the-British-Emp...

Of course altruism didn't drive our actions. It was self-interest. If the british empire "died" then we'd be the new rulers of the world. Just a few years after we admonished the british about nation's self-determination, we prevented vietnam, iran, etc from self-determination. The king is dead, long live the king!

As for israel, I'm not seeing how they are ideologically similar to the US. They are an ethno-religious nation-state far similar to saudi arabia than the US. Our relations with israel and saudi arabia are centered around convenient equal opportunity exploitation than ideology or anything else. Though one can question how equal the exploitation has really been the past few decades.
Sorry, I think static was not the correct word; I think I meant absolute, ie Tesla stock being worth $1k is the same for everyone. This is not the case with benchmarks, where the numbers are fairly meaningless and different for everybody, depending on their hardware.
Not if it has a heavier tail, which is common in practice. It is disastrously brittle in those cases, mainly because sample variance is a lot of garbage in those cases.
> you should fire your boss

This not how it works in our world.
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-For me, two main reasons, none of which relate to the perceived superiority of the vinyl format -

a) In recent years, it has been a trend that the vinyl masters suffer from less compression than their digital counterparts. Hence, they may sound better, despite the inherent limitations of the physical format.

b) I note that the mere act of putting a record on the turntable makes me eager to listen more carefully than if I just find the same music on Spotify; this is just a lack of self discipline, but after all - if going through the ritual of readying a record for play is what it takes to listen attentively, then so be it.
AFAIK the WHO always acknowledges that there is a large number if unreported cases and truly reliable numbers are only available after the fact. They also state that during the outbreak, the longer it takes and the more cases are reported numbers trend towards the true numbers. It is rather improbable that that the death ratio for the unreported cases should be higher than for the reported ones. Unless you believe in conspiracy theories, which I think the HN crowd should be above believing.
I totally agree with your points, especially the last, and didn’t mean to suggest it was deterministic at all.

Interviewing is a lossy, semi-random practice for both sides. Candidates and firms take different approaches to address this randomness, but it’s still ultimately not a digitally precise (repeatable) not even especially accurate system. You could be the next Jon Carmack and fail to get an offer from 10 straight interviews for relevant positions. “Too experienced; we don’t really do what he’s interested in; bad culture fit; too good culture fit-we want more diversity; simply preferred another candidate; decided to not move forward with the role; lost the budget; existing employee transferred; never was a real open position anyway but we legally had to advertise it...”
Do you need any? What do you want those ToS to achieve? If you want to use them to prevent users doing something nefarious, do you think they'll actually care?

Certain markets require you to have ToS with specific information if you're for example selling something. But if you're not selling anything and offering the service on a "free without warranty" basis, why bother?
A good search app is called "Search Everything" :)
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Unconfirmed cases of people in China are purposely spreading disease
- https://twitter.com/no_itsmyturn/status/1226076542758981633?s=20

- https://twitter.com/Rntk____/status/1222442651028377605?s=20

- https://www.newsflare.com/video/337134/health-education/man-in-south-china-arrested-after-deliberately-applying-spit-onto-lifts-buttons

- https://www.latintimes.com/coronavirus-patients-wuhan-spit-doctors-spread-disease-455208
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And what makes you believe that to be true? Have any WHO numbers been proven wrong in the past for, say, ebola? SARS? Or any other epidemic or disease? Or is it because it is China that a lots of people prefer to not believe them? Because that is how you spread panic if you ask me.
Except they're not, for the vast majority of them.
Yes, it might be true in the ski resorts, but most people leave in the plains.
Zürich has barely had any snowfall this year.

Even in snowier years, it's a few days per year at most.
What’s the correct name to use in writing/speaking?
I'd rather Rockerize a Dooby-on-rails application.
In my opinion, there's issues with all OS, but Linux is the only one that is documented enough, can be customized enough and as enough of an ecosystem to fix my problems or at least find workarounds.
With Windows or Macos the only solution is too often to live with the ecosystem as thought by Apple or Microsoft, liking it or not, which I just can't stand personnally...
I agree, I wouldn't want it any other way nowadays, but back then I had to migrate a lot of legacy system to AWS under pressure.

For one part we had a legacy service needing to connect to the services in the ASG and the best way to implement it was with round-robin DNS. So the lambda would update a DNS record contianing all the ASG host ips.

Also, because we had some had some semi stateful legacy instances that where basically lift and shift to AWS, but I wanted to have them in ASG to keep our environment similar until we could refactor them into real cattle.
Indexing benefits the other 99% as well.

Windows default was ok but slow in XP and absolutely unusable since. Any benefit to search would be a massive benefit to millions of people.

Doesn't have to be indexed but would certainly help. I guess SSDs are quick enough many times but it is absolutely essential if a regular hard drive is in the picture.
I think you bring up a good point. If someone hands me a python script and told me it was 3.7 I would only hear 3 and expect it to run or fail, not to run with differing outputs!

Dot-upgrades do allow for breaking changes, but this one can break silently and I’m not sure where such breakages neither belongs in python nor where they should belong.

Personally I’m happy to get ordered ducts sooner rather than later.
It's not just you hackerne.ws is down
I'm used to read HN through the hackerne.ws domain

For a couple of days, however, I have not been able (I get timeout while I can still access via https://news.ycombinator.com/)

Anyone know what the problem may be?

I am in Italy BTW
> Never seen Transformers toys? GI Joe? TMNT?

That doesn't extract any legitimization from me, exactly like reading of a horrible crime in a newspaper doesn't mean the perpetrator has my blessing. People have been doing it; not "always", but for a while. It was a shitty thing to do from day one, and it's getting more and more extreme.
Good luck to you and yours. My grandparents are worried and they're on the other side of the planet. I can only imagine what the atmosphere is in your region.
Main point is it's common to practice wrong.

It's hard for non-experts to assess expertise, needed to find a coach to give feedback.

Though, probably for a beginner in many fields, an even minimally credentialed "expert" will be extremely helpful.

(This is apart from fields lacking agreement on advice, like the article's public speaking example).
A reminder to always click to raw format before copying code from GitHub.
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Yeah, and people who know better say anything different than that? Or what exactly don't you like about official WHO numbers based on global data that pretty much alines with Chinese ones?

EDIT: What makes you think highly educated people just doing epidemics didn't have that ideas alrwady and didn't base their numbers on that?
Yet people who passed laboratory science classes in college, people who should really know better, choose to govern by the metrics they "feel" are causally related to outcomes.

Maybe you really do have a formula that outperforms a panel of subject matter experts. It does happen sometimes. Not for long, because the experts start using it. But the bar for making this kind of claim is, at minimum, peer-reviewed experimental results that reproduce.

Human experience is a rich dataset. Intuition is a sophisticated machine. It blows my mind that people will so easily dismiss all of that in favor of a few bits of information and some 3rd grade arithmetic they just made up.

It's not scientifically rigorous just because there's a table and a graph. Come on!
Do you have a neat and organized desktop? Most people just have a mess of shortcuts and that's how they launch programs. But also consider that most people use maybe 2 or 3 apps all the time and rarely explore outside of that.
I did read the article, I know it for a long time. But I do not believe it applies in this case. Google is not selling hardware, it is not selling software, it is not even selling services. Google sells advertising, and mobile phones serve a dual role: they are (1) a platform for advertising, and (2) a means to improve their advertising products by data collection.

The biggest risk for Google is that someone else controls the mobile platform, and chooses not to give them space on this platform, or chooses not to allow them to collect the data that they need to improve their advertising.

Both are the same reasons why Google chose to build Chrome. Browsers were already a commodity, Microsoft and Netscape had seen to that long before Chrome started. So Google's strategy with Chrome can't have been commoditizing their complements. Rather, their strategy is about control of their platform, and it proved very successful. And now they are applying the same strategy with Android and the Google Play services.

And yes, my issue is not with the core open source Android code, my issue is with the final OS on my phone, which includes the Linux kernel, the Android OS, and a lot of Google tracking that I can't scrutinize or disable.

However, if Google were to start losing control of Androideither through laws or through competition (say the Amazon Android phone had taken off and squeezed Google Play out of the market) I can guarantee you that Google investment in Android would slow to a crawl. Google doesn't need a commodity OS on mobile. Google needs to control as much as possible of the mobile phone platform.
In Germany in the 80s the Transrapid, a maglev train was developed. Sadly, the technology was dropped in favor of the ICE, predominantly because that one could use the extensive existing rail network. The only Transrapid Line actually operating is the Shanghai airport line.

In hindsight the needed new network could have been an advantage, as very little of the current rails is capable of anywhere near the 300km/h operation the ice can do. Would also have avoided all those scheduling problems where slower regional trains are regularly delayed, as they have to let other (also delayed) high speed trains pass.
to late to edit, but I meant "taken from everyone and redistributed"
A fave.

See also: Don't just do something, stand there!

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/22/stand-there/