skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brendan Gregg (the guy that gave that talk that the article linked to) wrote an extremely awesome book called systems performance. It is the best and most pragmatic operating system book I've read and is definitely worth a read. It will give you a better idea about how all of this eBPF stuff applies.
What is it support for and why do historians have special access to the internal motivations of contemporary protesters?
A few years ago while working on a big redesign of a high traffic web app used by people on a variety of devices–where maintaining conversion rates was critical to the project–I bought my team a handful of the cheapest current-gen Android devices I could find on Amazon to test with.

It's definitely a worthwhile exercise if your audience isn't just tech company employees with brand new flagship devices.
It's not limited to just the PRC...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia
Interesting! Follow up questions:

- Are there any constraints or requirements on the kind of device, software installed, etc.? E.g. using a VPN, antivirus.

- Do you use a separate work and personal accounts?

- laptop or desktop?

- how does your employer feel about personal projects?

Thanks!
I think in the video they said something along that line.
I run Kerbal and Dwarf Fotress on an 11 year old Xeon, as well as every other modern game with a 1070 at 2560x1600. All the eye candy on. I'm not suggesting running a decade old CPU, but it's completely silly for this presentation to be pumping expensive CPUs for 1080p gaming benefits.
What Could Happen If China Invaded Taiwan
A 'Network'-Effect, Not ?

Short Scenario: Living with an Girlfriend, a normal situation, _you_ are completing her spoken sentences before she could finish (not a 'what was that word'-situation) -because you can and may do what everyday-internet-practice does since...^^
Zen has traditionally been extremely hungry for memory bandwidth. Memory latency is bad, so processors prefetch whatever they can, but they sometimes get it wrong and fetch data that doesn't get used.

This allows you to give an efficiency rating, and Intel is better here.

Also means single channel Zen is a bad idea, but that doesn't stop laptop manufacturers from doing it.
Well, if you have to do that in order to "actually ship an app" :-D I'll stay with Swift for now.
A building code is something different. It’s more like a requirement.
I bought 3dfx stock in the late nineties for a similar reason. It went to zero. My recommendation would be to sell some of your stock to lock in a little bit of profit and then you can let the rest ride and it'll affect you less emotionally.
Nothing happens to the interoperability argument. Nothing says it need to be 100% interoperable, or else you wouldn't be able to ship an MVP for any reimplementation of an API. And hell, the official JDK isn't even 100% interoperable with it's past selves.

Maybe if Sun didn't play games with access to the TCK in the past we wouldn't be here adn there'd be a valid test for compliance that wasn't "do what the official JDK does".
To protect against bad PR.
I think someone said there is two ways to make money. Bundling and unbundling. This sounds like the second way.
The Story of Mel – Self Modifying Code
Slack and Cole Haan Shoe Collab
> banks that are used to working with them for 30 years

Given that banks were among the earliest commercial customers of computing machinery, it's more like 70 years:

https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/bankauto/....
> Gamers appear to be the most avid and most vocal fans of any given computer technology (except maybe networking?).

Gaming is very sensitive with network latency. Bandwidth is less important, but helps for downloading and installing games.
It depends. I threw together an HTPC a few months ago out of mostly second-hand parts and it's been a mixed bag. With an i5-4460 and an RX 570, I can run modern shooters perfectly, but a bunch of indie games give me unexpected trouble. Hades for example (isometric roguelite heavy on visual effects) still gives me lots of slowdowns and framedrops, and I even get jitter and issues on some really old titles that I would have expected to be butter-smooth, like Sonic Generations.
Cell phones also work for most of the ride.

If you enter a tunnel or something, your cell phone shuts off (but there are rumors of cell phone companies beginning to deploy towers inside of tunnels!! So maybe even the "tunnel problem" will be fixed soon). But in today's age where the cell phone is your connection to the world in general, its a pretty nifty advantage.
Apple requests Telegram to shut down 3 channels exposing Belarussian oppressors
Quote from Durov's Telegram channel: https://t.me/durov/135

______________________________

Apple is requesting that we shut down 3 channels used by the people of Belarus to expose the identities of their oppressors.

@karatelibelarusi
@chatpartizan
@belarusassholes

Their concern is that publishing the personal information of law enforcers and propagandists may incite violence.

I think this situation is not black and white and would rather leave the channels be, but typically Apple doesn’t offer much choice for apps like Telegram in such situations. Unfortunately, I assume these channels will end up getting blocked on iOS, but remain available on other platforms.

P. S. Everyone is welcome to express their views and comment on this post provided they stay on-topic and use English. Thanks!

______________________________

It seems, HN automatically bans everything submitted from https://t.me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=t.me

and from meduza.io:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=meduza.io

which is totally unfair in my view. So I submitted this news as it is.
While I agree with the sentiment here... this has been the argument Intel has been using as a "last excuse to buy Intel over AMD" - if you buy a fast enough video card, but play your games at 1080p on a really high refresh rate monitor... the gaming performance was better on Intel.

So AMD focuses on it here to say "look, your very last excuse for choosing Intel over AMD is no longer invalid."

Of course I do more "non-gaming" than gaming, so it wasn't very important to me in the first place, and I don't spend enough on a graphics card for this to matter. But I want a lot of cores for fast compilation and great multi-tasking with containers and virtual machines.
Mainframes are shockingly legit. Don't get me wrong, - they're the least sexy possible technology, imo. But they do _work_ in a way that I've rarely seen.

There's a tradeoff between flexibility and stability - the mainframe is just hardcore stable. Sucks to work on a lot of the time, but _damn_ if there isn't a reason financial institutions still do mainframe batch processing.
In many bios setting you can adjust the dynamic overclocking with course and easy or more nuanced settings to give you what you want. Many times a lot of the power and heat comes from high dynamic overclocking which uses a disproportionate amount of power.
It depends on your app, but for me, cocoa didn't quite cut it. Given my app uses some shaders.
this has been discussed internally. for a variety of reasons, testing the software on a remote machine is kinda painful, so we would still have the overhead of copying the executable back to the developer's machine. the more straightforward approach is just to buy fast desktops for all the devs. a desktop with 32GB ram, a top of the line consumer cpu, and a middling gpu is roughly the same price as a good ultrabook anyway.

also, c++ compilation doesn't scale perfectly with more cores. linking is still single threaded, AFAIK.
Arizona in general and the metro phoenix area have extraordinarily diligent road maintenance. Surface street speeds are higher and larger road sizes are also very favorable for something like robot cars.
The most mainstream application of massive computing power at home seems to be video editing.
Their talent is their leverage. Some players get paid $100m+ for their talent.

Athletes' unions exist to protect the players at the bottom, who are just talented enough to play at the professional level but aren't superstars, like the offensive line in football or the bench players in basketball.

Notably: many of the athletes' unions predate the era of the monopolistic sports leagues. (The modern NFL, MLB, and NBA are all the products of the mergers of smaller leagues, and their players' unions formed before they achieved monopoly status.)
> can you prove in court you received a given email

You can subpoena Google for the records. It would probably be easier to rely on that in court than cryptographic proof, as the legal system understand that much better.
I'm now thankful my country doesn't have jury as a part of legal system, so this circumstancial evidence doesn't turn into plausibility lottery. Non-zero chances my unlucky location and something I searched for in past $number of years [gives me trouble] isn't something in my opinion acceptable.

E: I accidentally missed a clause of my sentence
I know a couple of people who are in the process of riding companies down, so to speak. They’re pretty close to retirement (if not already able to retire), they like their coworkers, and are comfortable where they’re at. They’re happy to man the ship as it slowly sinks. This might be the case for a good many IBM’ers on the “underperforming “ side.
I worked in a bookstore in the '90s and there was a fantastic series of books, for authors, about how poisons worked, how it is like to die in certain situations, all kinds of dark stuff that was designed to help Crime Fiction writers help in areas they normally would not know enough about. Now imagine looking that stuff up on the internet for writing a book.
Oh man, it's actually a real improvement! I was afraid it was more pop sci, but not this is pretty cool.

I think this is the paper?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01409
Jesus, those prices... yeah they're pretty compact, but if you do it for a desktop, you can do it for 1/2 or even 1/3 of the price by getting a portable air conditioner or a mini fridge (new or used) and modifying it for cooling. Way higher BTU transfer, as well.

There were a few of these DIY projects last time I checked, and they worked well. Downsides: big cooling unit right next to you, loud af unless you mod the fan, as well :D
Show HN: Build a chatbot by feeding in your FAQ (Open Source)
Demo: https://www.papercupsbot.io/bot/demo

Bot Code: https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups-simple-chatbot

Client Side: https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups/blob/master/assets/src/components/demo/BotDemo.tsx
The paper is really nicely written: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01409

It's lengthy and full of some quite technical sections, but those are interspersed with sections sketching the high-level intuition and proving more informal versions of the technical theorems in simplified cases. An example is on p. 19, section 3.1, "Ideas underlying proof of Theorem 3.1".
It's neighbors would be the countries with which it shares a border: Norway, Finland and Denmark.
Or, say, Boston. https://i2.wp.com/geoffboeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09...
I don't understand why more people do not get flu shots, unless they have no medical insurance and cannot afford the cost.

It's not always effective, because they have to predict when they make it what strains of flu will be prevalent in the next flu season, and they don't always get that right, but in that case you are no worse off than if you had not gotten the vaccine. But when they do get it right, it can save you from getting the flu. That's certainly worth a few minutes getting it an a couple days with a sore arm.

With a COVID vaccine, I doubt it will get anywhere near the same fraction of takers as the flu vaccine.

1. The anti-vaccine crowd probably won't take it.

2. The "COVID is no worse than a mild flu" crowd probably won't take it. Even if they do, it won't be at a higher rate than they take the flu vaccine.

3. The "COVID is a hoax" crowd probably won't take it.

4. A lot of the people who believe COVID is real and serious will probably be turned off if the approval seems to have involved politicians forcing approval over the objection of scientists who say it is not ready yet. (Especially if those politicians have also been pushing the "no worse than a mild flu" narrative).
Could you share the video? That sounds quite interesting
Building a chatbot with Google's universal sentence encoder (Open Source)
R, Data Science, & Computational Biology (Transcript)
Perhaps we should require a minimum % of post-consumer recycled content in new plastics going forward. I have decades of industry-sponsored research indicating that plastic recycling is cheap and effective.
Except influenza is nowhere near spreading as fast. If let unchecked, many millions of people would be dead - this has been avoided only by control measures, and we're not past it yet.

If it's similar seasonality to Spanish flu, expect 4 waves. This is start of the second wave, likely biggest.
I think that's what they attempted to do with Watson and Watson Health, but it didn't take off the way they were hoping. It seems like they were early in the "AI" space.
Will definitely give her a listen then, thanks for the recommendation!
It's not that developers don't need these CPUs, it's just that there's a lot more gamers than developers, and most of them will buy laptops or be provided workstations with Ryzen PRO or Threadripper processors.
As full time job might not mean 40 hours per week during the pandemic. This is briefly mentioned in the article.

“ This was originally meant to be a side project that we'd work on every once in a while, but with all of the extra free time with the pandemic we each ended up putting a few hundred hours into it.”
> Interesting, Google spun off many companies under Alphabet umbrella, but essentially continues to provide base tooling/compute/IT support to them.

Those aren't actually spinoffs in the sense of what IBM is doing; "Google" was effectively just renamed "Alphabet", with its core business in a new subunit called "Google". They are all still within the same corporate ownership structure. Its an internal organizational change, not a separation into separately-owned organizations.
One can throw a boot into how superpowers have conditioned smaller countries into endless cycles of trading patronage for influence.

Many third world countries simply lost that institutional capacity to being an upstanding nation without living off "benefits payments" received from some major power.
The IPC increase seems to be coming from the microarchitecture, not the process. The Anandtech article includes a breakdown:

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16148/1%20Slide%206_575px....

+2.7% Cache Prefetching
+3.3% Execution Engine
+1.3% Branch Predictor
+2.7% Micro-op Cache
+4.6% Front End
+4.6% Load/Store
From my point of view, having negative emotions about this at all seems "ridiculous", much more describing it as "a mouthful", and framing it as their having "insisted" on doing something, rather than simply having done it.
> 8-core/16threaded Xeon CPU

What generation and what frequency?

Those things can be quite dissapointing for what they cost compared to consumer CPUs.

I would expect the 5950X to be around 3-6 times faster than an 8 core Xeon.
But, don’t waste money on a 3900 you’re going to replace. The 3300x and 3600 are really good placeholder options (I have the 3600 for this purpose).
I'm a little confused. The Ryzen 5000 line is CPUs. The GPUs being announced on October 28th will be Radeon 6000s.

But maybe I'm just misunderstanding you a bit!
Even JS devs “compile” their code and use multiple threads. And when JS runs, every JS engine uses multiple threads (parsing, running, GC). Just look at how many threads chrome is using on a single web page. No need to throw shade on JS devs and their equipment needs.
But there is an entire world outside the US. I trust my local ISP way more than a US corporation.
Yes, I believe const generics get monomorphized just like normal generics, with the usual set of tradeoffs that implies.
They're incomplete and the last time I looked, you needed to create Qt bindings for Rust using some code generator.
Would it be too cynical to assume this whole thing is going to get shutdown after a few years due to failing to gain enough traction (due to people being wary of Google's track record of doing so with their in-google properties)?
As a data scientist using snowflake and in the market for a feature store, the snowflake streaming is only for data ingestion, not serving. It doesn't solve the problem of serving data for a low latency app.
But I only want to read comments I agree with. :-)
because it isn't a type error?

Obviously if the spec says to create a word processor program, and you instead write a flight simulator, the compiler isn't going to correct that mistake.
TFA:

> Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that the argument seemed to split along partisan lines. Kavanaugh, Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch—all apparent Google skeptics—are the court's conservatives. Sotomayor, Breyer, and Kagan form the liberal wing. Chief Justice Roberts, who asked tough questions of both sides, has often been seen as the court's swing vote since the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2018.

> Grimmelmann argues that this was a coincidence. The late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for example, was known as a copyright hawk and could easily have sided with Oracle if she were still alive. Before his elevation to the Supreme Court, Justice Gorsuch authored at least one dovish opinion on copyright issues. In the 2014 Aereo decision, all of the court's liberals (along with two conservatives) held that Aereo had infringed copyright, while three other conservatives dissented.
> forego the website entirely and post your information on social media which can then be consumed by optimized native apps

...and force the user to install the "optimized native app" for the social media site du jour? Or simply let them put up with Facebook's "yes-this-is-a-public-page-but-I'm-still-going-to-ask-you-to-log-in-or-sign-up-just-because-I-can" shenanigans? Great UX, that!
Apple have too much power now and can decide what should and should not be done in different counties.
Why reframe something so harmless with such wild exaggeration and sarcasm?
Now if only I could acquire an RTX 3080 to pair with it :(
I'm in New Zealand. HN page loads are about as instant as you can get on the web. Certainly faster than the vast majority of SPA interactions and their requisite API calls.
Keep in mind that Docker for Mac runs in a virtual machine, so it is much heavier than running it on Linux.
If you want the best bang for the buck, wait for the Black Friday sales (which usually start in early Nov) when resellers will probably be heavily discounting the 3xxx series. If you want the absolute best performance, wait a few months on the 5xxx and I'm sure you'll see some discounting. You can still buy the 2xxx series new for ~$200... the old models don't disappear just because the new model comes out, they get cheaper.
It seems like this cooperative approach was very effective. I assume rubber duck debugging and having multiple minds attacking the problem from from multiple directions greatly improves the efficiency.
> cache the evaluated outputs

Was the point of my answer.
> In my view, the entire story was exaggerated and turned into a public spectacle, for very obvious reasons that nobody likes to admit to.

Are you claiming that online advertising doesn't work, or that gathering large amounts of data about individual users to tailor ads to them doesn't increase the effectiveness of those ads?
I would not have touched TensorFlow (or AI in general) at all if it weren't for Keras, and I wouldn't be happy with PyTorch if it weren't for PyTorch Lightning.

Easy onboarding for ML tooling is very valuable for the industry as a whole.
I'll see your PM2 and raise you the Benchmade Griptilian.

I like Spyderco a lot, but I made the switch to BM and haven't looked back.

I have a few gold class, I suppose this will be my next purchase: https://www.benchmade.com/15085-201-mini-crooked-river.html
Double the L3 cache size and more cores in the complex.
Honest queston. What are IBM making money from?
That's roughly how I feel at times about our society as a whole. We went up for 56 years and we've been going down for the last 19.
Great thanks for the detailed answer.
This is roughly what is called for here by some of the leading experts: https://gbdeclaration.org/
So, where will Watson end up?
I absolutely understand the importance of network performance in gaming.

My observation was on how vocal gamers tend to be in their excitement about hardware. I see gaming media go nuts over CPU and GPU releases. There's excitement and detailed analysis of motherboards. I've seen in depth content on storage, and there's been a lot of hype over the PS5's new storage architecture. RAM gets attention. Obviously displays get lots of attention, both from a visual quality and refresh frequency perspective. There are endless buying guides for peripherals such as mice, keyboards, and headsets.

I don't tend to see much content on networking, nor anything approaching the excitement I've seen for any of the categories above.

These observations do not diminish the importance of the network in online gaming. I merely noted that networking hardware tends to generate less vocal excitement among gamers. Beyond networking equipment, I believe gamers lead in hardware excitement.
If the delay you are experiencing is caused by your connection, having the data served via a JS worker will not be faster. The additional overhead compared to a pure HTML page will hurt even more.
But that's the old generation isn't it? T14 and T14s are the new ones with AMD 4000 which absolutely now dominates laptop CPU performance charts.
Unfortunately not repairable. Failure modes:
cathode melts, gap gets larger, unstable arc;
anode melts or cracks, possible catastrophic failure;
seals (uranium glass) to tungsten leak, xenon bleeds out;
envelope fractures, catastrophic failure!
In some cases electrodes vaporize and plate the inside of the envelope.
Details at https://www.sqpuv.com/PDFs/TroubleshootingGuide.pdf
Normal healthy children who don't develop a severe case aren't treated at all, so talking about early treatment is irrelevant. I literally just talked about this with a close family member who is a Children's ER doctor.

>And isolation of sick patient from viral reservoir (such as fomites and other asymptomatic sick) is known to be important too, as it changes the viral inoculum dose.

This isn't known to be important. If a person has been infected long enough that they are already symptomatic then "viral inoculum dose" is irrelevant.
> IBM will list its IT infrastructure services unit, which provides technical support

What does technical support mean here? The IT help desk services that they marketed heavily about a decade ago, or all of their on-premises related services?
Zen is not a brand. It's a codename for the evolution of their CPU architecture.

Zen, Zen+, Zen 2 and Zen 3 are the generations of CPU architecture.

Ryzen is the consumer brand of CPUs. Geared towards anyone who doesn't specifically need Threadripper.

Threadripper is the enthusiast/workstation brand of (rather) high core count CPUs. If you run software that uses a lot of cores, you should know whether this is the right line of CPUs for you.
For me it’s just a hobby but plenty of businesses still use typewriters. Any time there is a international bureaucratic process like “Affidavit of intellectual property for imported electronics” when shipping between two countries that don’t have huge shipping volumes (say Ecuador to Senegal or whatever) you will see the typewriters come out because bureaucrats often only trust the true rubber stamped copies.

The IBM typewriters are rock solid enough that they’ll be a supply for the next several decades. There are mothballed Selecteics in attics that for $2-300 can be made good as new.
I don’t think you are passing your Turing test, my friend :)