skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know, is the 48-core SKU just a lower-binned version of the 64-core SKU, i.e. where one or more cores on each chiplet have flaws, and so AMD decides to just therefore build parts entirely out of e.g. “7 out of 8 cores enabled” chiplets to create the lower SKUs? (I know the chiplet-oriented manufacturing process makes it cheaper than ever before to get chips right the first time, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have flawed chiplets sitting around that they could intentionally make use of.)

If so, maybe AMD doesn’t have high-enough yield on their 64-core part (i.e. 8-core chiplet sub-part) to satisfy huge bulk orders for them, without also generating huge numbers of the 48-core-binned SKU (i.e. 6-core chiplets, really 6-out-of-8-enabled-core chiplets) in the process.

And I would suspect that their production process is such that they do have a real, explicit 6-core chiplet part as well, which can be mixed-and-matched within a single CPU with the flawed, re-binned 6-of-8-core chiplets, giving them a powerful hedge on their own logistics (in about the same way that SPAM has flexibility in their ratio of chicken to ham that lets them ride out turbulence in either market, making the end-product cheaper than either input), but requiring even further that people consume the SKUs containing “6”-core chiplets.

I would bet that AMD very much wants to sell large buyers the lower-core-count CPUs, since their yield guarantees that—at least for now—they have so very much more of them, and attempting to make more of the highest-end part ensures that they end up with even more of the less-than-highest-end chiplets laying around.

AMD probably ideally wants order-flow of CPUs in a ratio, e.g. “1x 7742 : 8x 7642”, and offers both better deals monetarily, and far faster delivery (/less contention on orders with other clients) when you take them up on it; or when you buy huge numbers of 7642s alone, such that you’re consuming the cast-off from bullheaded clients who wanted pure 7742s.
Regarding your second paragraph, I never said that I’d never heard the terms. I said that they weren’t covered in high school history for me.

There’s so many topics that can be covered in high-school history classes, and so little actual aggregate time for those classes - why would you expect those topics be amongst them?

Also, why do you think that criticising such history classes, and the country they're in, somehow negates the point i made?
"Main road" is actually considerably more general than trunk road in the Great Britain. The roads in GB are ordered hierarchically starting with motorways (although these have restrictions, ie. motorvehicles only), through trunk roads, primary, secondary, all the way down to byway.

It is important for navigation in GB. When you want to go somewhere you are supposed to use trunk roads to navigate to the first town/city on the trunk network beyond where you are going. The signs are coloured to indicate you are on the trunk network. Then as you approach your actual destination you will begin to see it signposted on the local non-trunk roads, at which point you leave the trunk roads.

This has been mostly forgotten in this age of GPS navigation, though, and many signs are in a poor state of repair or badly occluded by trees or shrubbery.
I’m saying that’s what that study accounted for: extremely at risk populations. So yeah elderly, people with preexisting conditions, etc.

It’s not a dismissal to acknowledge the limitations of your linked study; to do otherwise would be fearmongering in my opinion.
> The seasonal flu alone kills half a million people every year. So any mild disease that is as contagious and barely twice as fatal will kill 1 million

That’s assuming no containment effort, like with seasonal flu. Of course, it’s gonna happen if health authorities take the same defeatist attitude as you and do nothing.
It's easy to criticize AirBnB and Uber. Try to do something with a similar impact. If that's not an innovative company, I don't know what is it.

I don't particularly like Uber and AirBnB, to be clear. But it's hard to deny they're rare and valuable.
You can buy insurance from it. It's generally there to cover you from being unable to work for a period of more than a week. So serious stuff.

As an employee the employer will have insurance but basically have to eat the cost of short sickness.

I'm a freelancer but I've chosen not to buy the insurance. It's very expensive and can survive on her income. I put the money I would have spent into a buffer.
> Stock up now while no-one is panicking yet

That's what triggers panic buying... It's a snowball effect.
It's the same with terrorism - when random attacks seemed to be growing in frequency but were still not super common, it was the same question. They might not grow exponentially, but they appeared to be growing in some manner.

My answer now is the same as then: fear is about the future!
The problem I have with foam mattresses is they conform to my shape TOO well. Pressure is transferred from my strong tough parts to my weak parts. Instead of applying pressure to my arms and back, foam will apply pressure to my ribs as well. It took months to get used to it.
Forget the performance or the fancy memory management stuff, this is one of the best things about Rust: it makes you deal with edge cases by default (while allowing you to write code in a largely imperative or functional-lite style).

It's why I think it competes for market share with some of what is currently Java/C# and similar languages. A lot of people who use those languages care about correctness, and Rust is big step up in this regard.
The next presidential election, despite being an absolute circus, should keep things split no matter who wins. This makes political stagnation a reliable bet for the next 2.5 years, possibly even longer. Normally a good sign for markets as little new regulations/change will be occurring.
Try Privacy.com for a better creditcard firewall
That link has a really obnoxious popup banner for a political poll. Can you use one that is just the news, please?

e.g.
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/New-Israeli-invention-u...
I first misread this as "Truck road glitter tracker". At first I was disappointed, but then noticed the names of the gritting trucks and my faith in humanity was restored :)
Actually the Boer war brings to mind the fact that the Afrikaaner people of South Africa are noted for being of large stature.
They are primarily of Dutch origin as well but have long been separated from Holland. So the fact that these two societies would share the attribute of being tall suggests to me that Dutch tallness compared to everyone else is genetic in origin
Anyone that trusts the WHO is a plank anyway. These weirdo globalist fuckers are probably connected to those responsible for its deployment. Don’t trust the WHO or the UN for a second.
Long and short, I got sick of the tedium in web development, quit my job and went back to school. The dot-com bubble had just burst, and I had been taking occasional classes including a very inspirational data structures course which planted the seed with formal proofs.

After I went back to school, I tutored in the math study center to pay the bills, which really helped cement not just the learning but also the notion that I could survive academia. I'd gone in with a plan to study engineering, but after I transferred to university, I kept dawdling on the math prerequisites and not taking the engineering courses that needed them. So it kinda gradually dawned on me that math was what I loved, and away I went.

I never strayed too far from computers. I'm a graph theorist, specializing in computation; had I known better I'd have gone into computer science because that's where I see the most progress being made.
Something like traffic deaths - which occur fairly routinely and regularly - are probably already factored in by large companies (i.e. companies expect N people to leave every year, of which M might be unexpected deaths).

The new coronavirus hasn't been accounted for yet by our society, and probably can't be accounted for given that we don't know how far it will spread and how many will die.
I wouldn't call it a terrible false-positive. The Bayesian estimate on this behavior is that it's far more likely to come from a porn-bot than a legitimate use case.

(Arguably, the use-case in question isn't even what the service would consider "legitimate;" user was trying to tickle the tiger's tail on purpose. If one doesn't want to get kicked off like a porn-bot, it's not hard to avoid acting like a porn-bot).
On the one hand this seems to highlight the lived reality of many of us — moving from a segregated to more integrated neighborhoods brings its own set of issues.

In my case moving out of a middle class Black “food desert” into a more “diverse” neighborhood brought the stares of neighbors and disturbing and mentally, emotionally challenging micro-aggressions — how many times do you have to hear the same neighbors ask “Do you live around here?” before it starts to get to you? Ten years is a
long time to deal with persistent invisibility. Then there are policing patterns. In that context, the ability to find community on Twitter and FB provides some access to affirmation.

Black and Brown people in the US and Europe have been asking for generations to the groceries and other stores and services that the more privileged populations take for granted. In that sense the paper’s conclusions seem like old news. Proposals like the Paris 15 minute city proposal [1] might be one ray of hope.

It would have been nice for the paper to talk about segregation attributable to explicit and implicit state policies (e.g. state enforced segregation in the US, now outlawed but still visible in redlining practices today) vs cultural segregation (anybody watched Gentefied [2]?) other historic patterns. All that to say that there is probably a lot of important questions to resolve in how race, culture, ethnicity overlap when trying tease apart economic and online segregation.

Pentland also received a great deal of criticism in Shoshana Zuboff’s book Surveillance Capitalism [3]. The gist of her critique of Pentland’s social physics is that it amounts to a justification of behaviorist attempt at mass social control. Having heard a presentation of Pentland’s at a NetSci conference a few years ago, I didn’t think it that over arching, but still. I don’t know if people here had done much thinking about this. I can imagine a critique of this paper as being an attempt to control the behavior of segregated or marginalized communities.

I’m curious whether the data sets used are publicly available.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/paris-mayor-un...
[2] https://www.netflix.com/Title/80198208
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
Most people are fixated on nutrition to make people taller but nutrition can only do so much.

Imagine if you've a goal to increase height of people from 165 to 190cm with minimum number of generations. How will you go about it.

Easiest and fastest way is to have two tall parents breed. You'll see it happen within 2 generation.

Now, if you improve nutrition of people who are 165cm today. How many generations of better nutrition does it require to make them reach 190cm? Certainly more than 2 generations.

Point is that, if you think "sexual selection" is not fast enough to take people from 165 to 190 within few generations (as is the case with Dutch) then better nutrition certainly is not either.

Cattle/pet breeder do it all time.
> Even people who don't have a statistical understanding of power law vs. normal distribution usually have a good intuition of it, which is why most people worry about terrorism more than one would if they were just looking at just the total number of deaths vs. something car accidents or smoking.

I think this is a poor example, by any measure terrorism is an irrational concern for Americans, it's nothing like a pandemic that could actually affect the whole country.
> COVID19 is the most severe (ie. contagious + fatal) airborne disease since the Spanish Flu.

It very clearly is and it's out of the box, they can't stop it now. The US should be shutting down all travel into and out of the country, full quarantine from the rest of the world. We'd have a chance at stopping it from doing to the US what it has done to China, if we acted immediately, before it's across Europe and more of Asia and then imported in stealth mode by travelers from those regions that are unaware they're infected.

Back in reality, the US economy will look like China's frozen economy, within a month or two, unless Covid is stopped soon. More likely, it's going to spread from Italy across Europe, and continue to spread across Asia. From those hyper economic zones, the US will be guaranteed to import it from multiple sources (no single country to shut down travel with).

China went full totalitarian to an extreme, and couldn't stop it. Covid froze the second largest economy and did it in the span of a month. What chance does the rest of the world stand at stopping it? None.

Bill Gates is worried about it spreading across Africa (and said in an interview a few weeks ago, when asked about his plans for the year: "well, I plan to travel a lot less this year" - yeah). He's obviously properly worried. It will kill a large number of people in poorer economic regions that will see their healthcare resources overwhelmed. The US is nowhere near prepared for what's likely about to hit.
There's a big difference between a top-down and a bottom-up approach to natural selection.
I remember reading some guy's article where he said wearing fingerless gloves helped him with RSI because he was actually sitting right below the AC fan the whole time.
Seems like pharmacists, who are constantly in contact with sick people, should be the first to not work if they're sick.
Since this bubble is largely being driven by private investors it seems like the broader economy won't suffer but will instead benefit from investors losing their interest in stupid games.
Another issue is that when labor is cheap and plentiful one is less likely to invest in technology. There is a thesis that the Black Plague broke Europe out of a 'Matlthusian Deadlock' that size of the population made labor cheap enough that investing in agricultural technology had low returns, at the same time that same size led to everyone constantly being on the razors edge of famine.
PCI-DSS does not have Bug Bounty requirements. That's referring to ASV scans which have to be run quarterly by a specific list of vendors and then there's a dispute/remediation process.

Their response is dogshit but not for this reason.
I think this is an argument that while a certain group of server administrators and security professionals love ACME, it still has a number of kinks to work out.

In my case I’m not really setting myself up to forget about the renewal process as I have a script to generate the key and CSR and an ansible playbook to update the cert once sent to me. Certificate vendors are more than happy to email you to remind you of an upcoming renewal, in just the same way Let’s Encrypt does.

On a side note, trying to script out the proper setup/migration of Let’s Encrypt is WAY more involved and fraught with mistakes than a simple certificate upload. The failure case is that the initial certificate issuance succeeds but since the initial setup needs to happen before SSL is configured and working with Nginx, you can’t use the same config before and after the initial setup. Thus you need to have two separate Nginx configs and switch them, or you have to use standalone for the initial issuance and webroot for renewals. Both of these are far easier to mess up than uploading a certificate.

I’ve set up more than 10 different servers with Let’s Encrypt and I don’t think a single one has just worked. I think in every case something got messed up along the way, and you only find out about it 70 days later with the renewal email, IF you are the admin email on the LE account.

Don’t get me wrong, I think there are great things about Let’s Encrypt, but it has plenty of thorns to deal with. I’m glad we haven’t all been forced into three month renewals by the CAB forum (since the certificate vendors have a say and they got feedback from customers before agreeing). I am fairly annoyed that Apple decided to unilaterally change the rules when they were already part of an organization that deals with this topic. I can only imagine browser vendors moving forward will have little to no concern for site/server administrators and how their changes are affecting things.

As it stands now, we are at 400 day certificate lifetime, which means a bad actor can only impersonate for a year, in the name of revocation being performance prohibitive. This is effectively the same as three years from a users perspective. The only meaningful change would be a lifetime of something like a week or a day, but I shudder to think of all the ways that will fail spectacularly.
In particular, chloroquine has been shown to be helpful in treatment and is readily available in developing countries since it's used as a malaria medicine (and there are replacements available in developed countries).

in vitro: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0

practice: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/advpub/0/advpub_202...
Some people don't realise the gravity of the situation.
That, and they are expensive, because people expect them to be expensive.

When, say, the national Police asks companies to come up with sofware to manage contact details for all employees, you could come up with "Install and Configure SomeOpenSourceCRM on a VPS" for €3000.

Whereas typically some Enterprise Consultancy quotes a factor hundred of that to "integrate" it in a crappy way.

I've worked in such projects, for governments. The overhead is ridiculous. the NIH-syndrome is rampant. The specs and "but this is how we do things"-requirements are cut in stone.

Very often a evening of tuning some Open Source tool could suffice; But either some rule disallowing the language/server/deploy-speed, or some manager disliking it because last year they decided that from now on everything must be Java+XML, or you need at least three weeks of meetings before you are allowed to even start.

This is not a joke. I've had a simple off-the-shelve Rails tool cut down, because "we don't allow dynamic languages". I've had projects delayed with 3+ weeks because "we require a deploy-window to be announced 21 days in advance" and I've worked as only developer on a project with four(!) managers managing me.

That is why government projects are expensive: a catch22: "Because they are".
The key to understanding these and many other flagrantly irrational "beliefs" is that these things are believed for social or political reasons not simply rational ones.

There is an interview floating around with a flat Earth dude saying exactly this: that even if he were convinced the Earth were round he would stick with it because they have a community.

Humans are not rational robots. We are hyper-social emotional beings. The classical wire monkey experiment shows that primates will prioritize affection over food to the point of near starvation. It's not much of a leap to consider that humans may also prioritize affection over truth to the point of folly.

We see circumstantial evidence of this constantly. Most people would rather be wrong and have friends than right and alone.

If rational ideas look like they are failing, perhaps it's because we have failed to construct positive and lasting communities around them. If anything it's the opposite: the rational worldview is linked culturally to isolating sterile social orders with sterile objectives like GDP maximization or abstract political goals. These may be rational but they are not human.

If the rational can't rationalize community and culture we will continue to see a popular flight from reason.
I always find it nice to see similar alternatives shared on a related post.
> I suggested two options to them:

> 1. Either we have another person do the project management - and they have no say in how this will be done. Perhaps we even entertain the idea of an external hire - who is not an engineer. They won't have the engineering context, so they'll ask for more frequent updates, and have more regular check-in meetings. Also, anytime something seems to be delayed, they will have to come to the engineers to ask them how and what can be mitigated.

Not listing his "option 2" since the description for "option 1" is already so loaded that it's obvious the correct answer is "anything but option 1". I can't say I'm a fan of such manipulation.

> After this chat, everyone went with option #2.

Surprise, surprise.

Ultimately, the problem with these kinds of wisdom posts is that they suffer from the "everyone is the same, given the right chance or push" fallacy. We love it when the parts are all the same because it reduces our cognitive load, but that just doesn't happen in reality, especially with people. We can see from his "options" that he ran up against this problem, and solved it by forcing people to adopt the mold he'd set for them. Now everyone's a leader! Problem solved.
My point about the Spanish flu was that this is a complex comparison. Statistically it's similar so far. But with very different social parameters (massively increased global travel, vastly better understanding of epidemiology). We are still doing so many things wrong, given what we know. I think it's comparable.

The public numbers are not the same as the ones on GISAID.
This isn't always the case -- it depends on where they practice, see https://www.peo.on.ca/engineering-licensing-body-clarifies-u... for example.
> how to talk to these people?

listening is far more important than talking to.

To reinforce one of the other replies: asking questions is pretty good, as long as one takes it slow and actually listens to the responses.

I've (very lightly and positively) engaged with flat-earth folk for years now, and it's been fairly interesting. Many are 'cranks', many are trolls, but many have something like an honest desire to really know and understand, though with some pretty big blind spots.
It's not a regulation. It's a contractual obligation between the merchant and the PCI counsel (which is made up by VISA/Mastercard/the backing banks/etc). It was put in place to avoid regulation.
I hope no one calls it lightweight. We've been running a few or our own benchmark tests for various frameworks and we have found that Quarkus running on GraalVm is the definition of lightweight.
I think when people talk about this, they mean to push back against the fact that people will often to be biased to hire someone they think they could be casual friends with, share interests with, etc.

I like my coworkers and I find them perfectly find to work and make small talk with, but I don't share interests with many of them and wouldn't really care to hang with them outside of work. That shouldn't be a criterion for hiring.

I have found it highly annoying to work in engineering orgs where everyone seems to have the same interests. Everyone talking about Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings, etc. constantly because it's assumed everyone else around also enjoys that conversation.
I foresee a post-crash wave. Yes there will be a shakeout of unprofitable ideas. But "VC unprofitable" is not directly comparable to real world unprofitable. Growth at all costs mantras take down good ideas with 8-9 figure market caps too. If you don't take investment (maybe through debt + bootstrapping) and can deal with the slower growth rate $50M "lifestyle" businesses with full founder ownership isn't something to sneeze at.
Can it really be economically viable to have these scanned rather than just toss them out? I would imagine that anyone high enough in the EU to be a target is only using drives provided to them