skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AMD's design is clearly designed for cloud-servers with 4-cores / 8-threads per VM.

Its so obvious: 4-cores per CCX sharing an L3 cache (that's inefficient to communicate with other CCXes). Like, AMD EPYC is so, so so, SOOO very good at it. It ain't even funny.

Its like AMD started with the 4-core/8-thread VM problem, and then designed a chip around that workload. Oh, but it can't talk to the 5th core very efficiently?

No problem: VMs just don't really talk to other customer's cores that often anyway. So that's not really a disadvantage at all.
I have used Nbdev and I am not a fan. It creates friction when one wants to contribute (in my case, to fast.ai) and forces you to write your code with notebooks which is the point but also not great when you are writing code rather than producing a display mixing text and pictures. Plus, while notebooks should favour documentation in theory, you can also end up with notebooks full of blob of code with transitions text that does not help you undertsanding what's going on.

Case in point, here is a random notebook from the fastai repository, a python file would be simpler to read and shorter: https://github.com/fastai/fastai/blob/master/nbs/09b_vision....
Would that be covered by the same issue as Google v Oracle?
... the first one that shipped. I suspect they've been building things like the A12X mini DTK for a few years now.
Twilio, possibly.
We used Hired to great success 4-5 years ago in Austin but overtime the quality of candidate went down. At a dinner with our account rep early on he said they spent $20k to acquire each candidate. Their pricing structure at the time was more like $25k/yr for 20 introductions/mo. My best guess is that over time they blew through all of their cash and had to spend a lot less on acquiring and vetting talent. At some point in the last two years they priced their product similarly to what a retained recruiter would (I don’t remember exactly but it was either 20k per hired candidate or 20% or first years salary), and they weren’t competitive
That was for back when CPUs didn't really have native division or multiplication. So a mul or div would literally be like calling a function to do it using other arithmetic instructions, except the function is stored in the CPU. Which goes against the RISC philosophy and makes the CPU more complex for not much gain.
I mean, some tests shows that the throttling takes six or seven minutes of pure CPU hammering to turn on. For some tasks, I agree, that can make a difference — but in the context of these devices with these specs, I just don’t see if. Like, if you need that much sustained CPU usage without throttling, I don’t think the M1 is the right chipset for you. The M1X or M3 or whatever they call the ones that they put in the actual high-end machines and not the entry level stuff seems more apt.

The biggest advantage I see between the Pro and the Air, based on everyone I’ve talked to with both, is battery life. That might be worth the $200 or $250 depending on your storage configuration.
That PDF document was produced by some historical interviewers, not Symbolics. Your comment roundly criticizes Symbolics for someone else's work. Only in the words it contains does it have anything to do with Symbolics documentation!

Unable to discover the affiliation of its authors (not stated in the document itself), I can't tell where it did come from -- although it is hosted by several sites around the world, not just MIT. It shows internal evidence of font character code corruption, typical in the 2001 era of moving a document from one kind of system to another, or even just trying to change font-set. Note the prevalence of capital U's where an apostrophe belongs, and the clipped text in the second "competitive wheel" diagram. In fact, the diagrams show all the signs of being pasted in from an incompatible system: that wheel diagram is no longer circular, and the egregious box-and-pointer diagrams show the character misplacement typically exacerbated by PDF encoding.

None of that would have issued from Symbolics Press.

I may be a little defensive on the issue of paying attention to docs -- why else would I make a thoughtful response to a down-voted comment from someone with a history of them? At Symbolics, I was pleased that my technical writer colleagues shared the same title of MTS as us developers. I led the small team which developed Symbolics' document development system Concordia, and its document formatter -- which btw was contemporary with TeX and drew upon Knuth's published paragraph and equation layout algorithms. Also I personally inspected every pixel of every character (and all the pixels between) in every font used in Symbolics documentation. In a side-by-side comparison, Symbolics docs would look superior to something from 1986 TeX. One might see how even Prof. Knuth himself wished that Computer Modern had had the attentions of a professional font designer.

Finally, the paper itself explained that such in-house efforts were all of a piece with the rest of the company's engineering ethos.
Accidentally unplugging an SATA or m2 drive will have similarly awful results.
As if the "change" we have in UX currently is a good thing. Radical minimalism and the prioritization of clean design and simplicity over functionality doesn't necessarily look like progress to me.
RISC vs. CISC Still Matters (2000)
But they don't have sovereignty over their neighbors. If you want to make that argument, fine, but they have to not infect anybody if they get it. They can't cough in public, ever. They can't sneeze. They can't even breathe. Doing so is affecting other peoples' sovereignty over their bodies.
this is a sheet for tracking game compatibility and performance (including FPS, settings, system specs and sources) that I set up yesterday

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1er-NivvuIheDmIKBVRu3...

first results are impressive, there are reports of games that were unplayable on the 2020 Intel MacBook Air that now run well on the M1 MacBook Air
I am definitely hopeful to see Apple's ARM laptops start a trend. I do believe there are distros that already target ARM, such as archlinuxarm.org

And you're right - Apple's trackpad has everything else beat. The gestures are great too! I am more of a keyboard aficionado, so I don't mind this too much, but I'm not an average user in this way.
The charitable interpretation is that most people -- even atheists -- will have a belief system that is functionally equivalent to a religion.

> Atheism is to religion as being silent is to speaking – and you're essentially claiming it's just another way of speaking.

Another way of saying it is that religions (as we know them) are answers to questions, you can get rid of those answers, disagree with them, etc. but the questions will remain and you will implicitly provide answers to them. Those answers will constitute what your religion is -- albeit one might not examine their answers in any detail.
Sucker Day – Hustlers and Con Men
Author combines a personal essay about getting swindled by a fake Cyber security 'expert' with a classic tome about swindling and cons. Lots of weird little insights into scamming and conning
Missing 'Java' under programming languages / runtime. Last I heard it's being worked upon.
Yes! I've been using Verdana for a decade. I still can't find a better screen font for coding.

Edit: https://i.imgur.com/JnMopk4.png
TIL that South Park™: The Fractured But Whole is an historically accurate game :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1EbPpyq91U
This kind of sensitivity/accuracy issue and how it relates to culture broadly is one of those things inherent to fiction that isn't necessarily obvious when you experience it, but looms ever-larger as you get deeper into crafting it. At first you're OK with putting throwaway stereotypes in your work, and then you start thinking, "well, why?" Because if you don't take the question head-on, you aren't going to craft something coherent and directed towards a point or a purpose. And asking that that can lead you towards an elaborate justification, to some kind of critique, or to a nihilistic dismissal.

And while that can feed into culture wars issues, and popular works often arrive at the right time to be a lightning rod for them, it's equally often a case of "the real point being made is going to be esoteric anyway and only a fraction of the audience will work at understanding it properly." Especially with big productions like AAA video games, the prioritization is on rushing to produce big spectacles, and a majority of the production effort goes to the technical part of that, while the concept is kept to something easily described in blunt shorthand: "you get to play as a Viking and pillage the British." And it's like, oh, okay, gotta live up to the audience expectations here, make it a fun thrill ride with a happy ending, let's ignore the implications. The novel stuff and minority views usually can't get represented in such productions for structural reasons.
Ah hah, but there's also 300 FP registers!!

Okay, you got me. I somehow confused the register file with the reorder buffer in the above post. But I think I may still manage to be "technically correct" thanks to the FP register file (even though its not really fair to count those).
We can estimate if it's worth. Let's say the yearly economic burden of flu in the United States is $11.2 billion [1]. Now we need to compare it to the total cost of wearing masks - both manufacturing and distribution, but also the burden on mental health you mentioned in your other post. Actuaries can help us find such monetary value. Then we have to find out how much we will save if people start wearing masks (i.e. how effective the masks are). Finally we compare costs and savings and form our conclusions.

For example, assuming 330 million Americans would spend about $20 on masks every flu season, we would need the flu cases to drop by 59% to break even. It's based on a massive amount of assumptions and shortcuts. We probably won't need 100% of the population to wear masks. And I didn't include the cost of mental health, since I have no idea how to estimate it. But we can start from there.

1 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29801998/
Why Americans Have Been Deceived About Canada's Health Care System
I see how it worked. That measurement uses the 2013 technique published by Henry Wong. I think it’s probably a reasonable estimate of the instruction window length but to say that’s the same as the buffer size is making a number of architectural assumptions that I haven’t seen any evidence to justify. I suppose in the end it doesn’t really matter as users of the chip though.

http://blog.stuffedcow.net/2013/05/measuring-rob-capacity/
AWS claims far superior performance per dollar with the Graviton2 processors vs the Intel equivalent processors. Look at the SPEC cpu2017 charts in this presentation:

https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/2020_0501-C...

This will catalyze giant migrations of workloads away from AWS Intel instances to the Graviton2 processors. Additionally, it seems clear that AWS will begin running all of the managed services (e.g., RDS, caches, mail, load balancers) with the superior ARM processors. The world is changing!
That was a glitch, we've fixed it.
One of the things you absolutely cannot do, in the face of powerful people, is tell them that they are the problem. It gives them a common enemy - you. Humiliating them with the patent silliness of their positions just ads rage to the volatile mixture.
Google includes their own fleet management software, a custom package management system for security (which involves getting other employees to sign off on new programs), and a few other things.

Take a look at this document: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/fleet_management_a...
And it's an absolute IPC monster. At 3.2ghz it keeps up with high 4.x-ghz x86 cores. It's been a long time since anything's jumped like that from a good starting point.
Performance per dollar is pretty great on AWS. For an example: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/observations-on-arm64-awss-ama...
https://dji.retroroms.info/
> an extra instruction in the final 386 architecture to facilitate garbage collection.

Despite the tone problems of the post I'm replying to, I'm honestly curious about this: Is there such an opcode? I can't think of one, and I like to think I know things about x86 ISAs, despite all the dark corners that architecture has. Are they, somehow, confusing it with the iAPX 432, as unlikely as that sounds?

Anyway, here's the claim in context:

> (Interestingly, Symbolics at one time was working with Intel to build a development platform based on the 386, which led to the inclusion of an extra instruction in the final 386 architecture to facilitate garbage collection).
My experience has been fine. Whether with the default audio device picker (which doesn't work correctly once you've installed PulseAudio) or PA's own "pavucontrol" selecting output device is snap. Sometimes you have to restart the audio-producing program to use the new selection, which is a feature, not a bug - you could have different programs use different audio devices at the same time.

So to get the usual 3.5mm jacks, just buy a cheap USB/analog headset adapter; about $3 from Ali Express. Select as input and output, and done. Microphone is usually not an issue if you're using a webcam since most have an adequate one built in.
I don't know about 'follows', but yes their role is to connect people and enable the growth of communities (with the end goal of having happy users to show ads to). Facebook has no moral obligations for what communities discuss or even then go on to do. They probably do have a legal responsibility to do what the police order them to do.

It isn't like supermarkets have a role in only feeding the righteous, or educators to only educate the children of good people or bridge builders to only build bridges that moral people can cross. Corporations are a tool of doing things, not deciding political direction.

If Facebook has a moral imperative to intervene in Myanmar, then they have a moral imperative to try and topple a number of governments that are corrupt or leading their people in bad directions. And they have all the usual human failings in that they won't correctly identify which ones. It will end either badly or with Facebook engaging in deep hypocrisy and becoming a corrupt but politically active entity.
We're at the beginning of exploring what’s possible using drones for videography
Before there was Docker Desktop on Mac there was Docker Machine.

And of course there's a Podman Machine: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/02/12/podman-for-mac...
Interesting Remarks on RISC vs. CISC Microprocessors
The Special Fridges Behind the Covid-19 Vaccine, Difficult to Be That Cool
Seems like they were just too early and didn't have the capability of an AWS-scale company to work directly with ARM?

It seems like the first-gen of Graviton wasn't great, but then they seem to have made huge leaps with Graviton2.

https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/2020_0501-C...
This isn't a few racists shouting slurs, and Myanmar is not an elected local government. It's a military dictatorship bent on genocide.
"if" and "amortized" are just different forms for caveats and assumptions. The level of radioactivity amortized over how long? Long enough time scales and the level of radioactivity is 0 for everything in the entire universe.
It may happen as it's only limited to US users now.
> low customer expectations

Nope. They run ads with outrageous lies and some people fall for them.
I was just about to complain about another thing to learn. Then I saw you can do "$ alias docker=podman". Just want to acknowledge the importance of that work. Making things compatible is both boring and a pain, but it's a door opener for people like me who refuse to learn your new API because I know a decent one already.
I've also personally struggled a lot with this at $WORK, but some of the new features in RHEL 7.8+ (specifically GA'ing of the fuse-overlayfs graph driver) have actually alleviated a ton of the issues I've seen previously. If you haven't tried that I'd certainly recommend it, YMMV
The blog post that announces Cloudflare's current builds [1] says they "looked very seriously at ARM-based CPUs and continue to keep our software up to date for the ARM architecture so that we can use ARM-based CPUs when the requests per watt is interesting to us"

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-of-why-cloudfl...
I used it for awhile when I had a US bank account and lived overseas. I needed a working US phone number to authorize transactions.

I set up a google voice number just for that and it worked a treat.
Don't they listen to your voicemails and calls to target ads at you? Their early tech adopter audience is probably a valuable demographic, but most people don't make lots of calls anymore.
LetsDefend - a simulated real SoC environment to defend cyber attacks
Same. Been loving Google Voice / Grand Central for allowing me to both call and text from any device, even through all the rough patches (e.g. no MMS support, losing group texts). My wife cracked her screen and is looking at getting it fixed but the loss of her phone is making her hesitate. I'm tempted to get her on Google Voice but the roughness and concern over its future is why I hesitate.

I'm going to miss Hangouts Integration. It was great accessing GV directly from GMail.
I mean that NetworkManager, out of the box, supports every WiFi network I've needed. I mean that ALSA and PulseAudio worked out of the box and haven't had any issues, even with Bluetooth. I mean that fonts do not look pixellated or blurry.

And I personally haven't experienced the screen brightness issue.

Certainly, Linux still requires some extra setup to get going, and I think this area is ripe for improvement. But the experiencing of using Linux has been vastly superior in most cases IMO. And when things do break, I can actually fix them, unlike on macOS!
Thanks! It does look great, for what it's worth.
I was not really thinking about Apple when writing that part, more about some weak details of Zen N vs. Intel, that do not matter in the end (at least for most workloads). Be it inter-cores or intra-core.

I think the logical design space is so vast now that there is largely enough freedom to compete even when addressing vast corpus of existing software, even if said software is tuned for previous/competitor chips. It was already at the time of the PPro, with thousands times more transistors it is even more. And that makes it even more sad that Intel has been stuck on basically Skylake on their 14nm for so long.
Because of the large and rapidly-increasing number of sites that just refuse to work if you are running an ad blocker, unless you manually disable it first.
I had the opposite experiences, everything worked out of the box.
we've fixed the warning color, thanks for your feedback.
(Disclaimer: IANAL - I am not a linguist)

The Japanese language itself has very low "information density" - it takes many more syllables to convey the same thing in Japanese than it does in most languages. This is the result of the language having much tighter phonotactic constraints; literally there are fewer "legal" phonemes (and combinations of them) in Japanese than in most other languages. [1] This isn't a criticism of the language of course - just an interesting tradeoff: A Japanese speaker has fewer sounds to learn, but must learn to speak them faster in order to convey their ideas.

As a result, Japanese speakers are some of the fastest speakers in terms of syllables/second, out of necessity.

Therefore it's no surprise that the typography is going to appear more "densely packed" on a Japanese website. With the exception of Kanji which is a pictographic (logographic? I'm not really a linguist) writing system consisting of many, many characters (and thus can be quite information-dense) - Japanese's other writing systems are purely phonetic - each character representing a single syllable. Take a look at the front page of a Japanese newspaper and show it to an English speaker, they will think it's "crowded", but I bet if you translated it to English you'd see something that resembles a typical English paper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonotactics
I actually like the idea of Docker as a better systemd (or rather, the interface is better). No bespoke file format, programmable API, no need to google for the right journalctl switches, and then of course the advantages of containers and images over processes and system packages. I’m not suggesting everything should be a container nor that docker is the ideal implementation, but it certainly points in the right direction.
While the specific case in Myanmar is the subject of the article above, I think the interest in the topic is not due to us all being very involved in that conflict. (Excluding those who are infact involved in that conflict and reading HN)

Certain industries are natural monopolies. The winners win more. When a certain corporation gains too much power in a very important industry, the society at large becomes uncomfortable with the amount of power unelected employees at that company begins to have. The result is that companies within certain sectors becomes subject to certain laws, or are made public sector.

For example, most countries have made the road-keeping-and-making industry almost completely public sector. This means a private company can't just ban certain pedestrians or drivers from accessing the road.

Because road-keeping-and-making is a natural monopoly, and is very important to society.

Now, social media is very important to society, and it is also a natural monopoly. Youtube will not be outdone by a competitor, neither will Facebook, neither will Google. (Notice Alphabet Inc. owns two of those) It only follows that these companies should become subject to new laws that prohibit them from exercising their power over society, after all, they are not elected officials.

But something doesn't work. What country will decide the policy of Facebook? The US? Then why should the US decide the social media sector policy of Myanmar. .Which naturally follows if they control the policy of Facebook. Social media, the internet and it's mega-corporations are either in a very good spot right now, or in a very bad spot, depending on how you view it.

And I see no good solution. Certainly, if things keep going the way they are in the west, this trajectory of political censorship will probably lead to real conflict, like in Myanmar.
I agree with you but unfortunately these sites almost always have poor usability too.
It's possible to agree with a company's actions and defend its right to do those actions. It's possible for that same person to disagree with a company's actions while but acknowledge they have the right to do it.

It's impossible to refute your hypthetical because FB would never do such a thing because of the reputational and financial cost.
You could try reading the article next time, rather than having a hot take based on the headline.

"The HBOT protocol was administrated in a Multiplace Starmed-2700 chamber (HAUX, Germany). The protocol comprised of 60 daily sessions, five sessions per week within a three-month period. Each session included breathing 100% oxygen by mask at 2ATA for 90 minutes with 5-minute air breaks every 20 minutes. Compression/decompression rates were 1 meter/minute. During the trial, neither lifestyle and diet changes, nor medications adjustments were allowed."
There is no liability for publishing hate speech in the US.

There is also, crucially, no liability for not publishing hate speech in the US.
The Pi 400 is new enough to have USB boot already in it. At least mine did; the boot loader version was considerably newer than what is needed. Just dump the OS image onto a USB stick or an external hard disk, it'll boot.
I more often run into this issue on Debian-based distros than on Arch, due to the Arch User Repository (AUR).