skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just installed it; Very colorful :)
There's actually a 3rd x86 license, that has changed hands quite a few times (Cyrix -> National Semiconductor -> Centaur(IDT) -> VIA -> Zhaoxin, I think, unless I missed a few transitions?)

There's also the https://opencores.org/projects/ao486 - the relevant patents on a 486-era design would have expired
> Yes, that's right. But reporters almost never publish an investigation while having extensive doubt and just leave it up to the reader as an exercise to evaluate the assertions.

Well, it's what the original Serial did. That format has inspired a lot of the podcasting world.
Ryzen and M1 both had design wins this year I feel because of broader and faster access to memory. In the next few years L1 & L2 caches might be getting bigger.
It seems to me that the vast majority of people claiming other people are useless actually have no clue what the other person does and assume it extends only to what they can visibly see from their position
Sounds interesting! It could be played easily on a physical board by putting poker chips under the pieces. Without a way to replenish counts there is a risk of deadlock, though. Maybe an option to pass to recover one move on a piece of your choice?
Can any nextcloud user suggest why to use nextcloud instead of a network drive for a small office where everything is done offline and within LAN ?
Mapped network drive is painlessly easy. Open file manager, click any file and you are there. There isnt much for "collaboration" when you can just talk face to face.

I really want to use nextcloud for managing files but I could not find a satisfactory answer.

Oh, I have a daily file backup meaning I can get any copy of a file from last year so that is covered.
Fisher invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess
Can anyone explain the Redis numbers, specifically the 3900X versus 5800X [1]? The 5800X is showing numbers easily more than 2x the 3900X. I understand this is a single-threaded test, so the additional cores of the 3900X (12C/24T versus 8C/16T for the 5800X) do it no advantage. But I wouldn't expect the Zen 3 architecture to be that dramatically superior to Zen 2.

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tuhdo/tuhdo.github.io/mast...
When Google published PageRank in 1998, they didn't publish MapReduce, the framework required to do coordinate large distributed computations, until 2004. By then, AltaVista was dead.

If AltaVista had thrown resources at the problem using any of the then widely known techniques for scaling, they would have been constantly dead in the water.
Yes that's also my go to WM for x2go. Light, efficient and doesnt get in the way.
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Well, I kind of agreed with them. It's easy to assume that phone apps written for a few GB ram would not be representative of high end use like compiling large projects, editing 4k video, manipulating large datasets, etc.

But as it turns out the M1 does quite well at quite a few real world aggressive desktop applications.
What drives me nuts is that those ads are also present in the "Pro" edition as well. I could understand MSFT pushing games into start menu for Home users, but doing so for Pro licences is outrageous.
You seem to have not mentioned the lawsuit and clean room effort.
I don't really know if this is a head's up comparison -- Apple maintains very tight control over their hardware compared to Windows. So you're trading off, in that Microsoft has to manage an ecosystem with much greater complexity, but you have a blessed path for using Nvidia graphics cards.
That's not a thing. Medical ethics relate to individual patients, so even if you have a coherent public health strategy that makes sense (and a placebo to spread supplies more thinly could be such a strategy), the medics insist on applying ethics to individual patients.

For example the early data for HPV vaccination was enough that as public health policy it made sense to immunise boys. The men would not spread HPV and thus contribute to reduced cancer in any future female partners. But that would be unethical because it's no direct benefit to the boys you're vaccinating. So they waited until they had data showing it would likely also prevent some cancer in men, bingo now it's both ethical and good policy.
One option which is what I've been doing is just using SFTP.

I find that that reduces the maintenance burden to just keeping a machine running and patched.

I also set up a read-only web frontend with NGINX's directory indexing + htaccess so I can share files easily.
Speaking as someone with experience working with SAR imagery, the example you link to does not appear overlaid on optical imagery.
Homelessness is largely not a housing supply issue. In my country you can quite easily get government welfare payments for an unlimited time which can realistically cover housing and all essentials. And yet we still have a load of homeless people.

The problem is these people don’t need a house, they need a full time caregiver to manage their addictions and mental illnesses. The government and people are somewhat happy to give welfare payments but not cover the expense of giving the level of care these people need.
Led by the US with a president that would change his mind about COVID three times in two sentences. Somehow the rest of the "free" world decided that emulating this mess is a worthwhile venture.
That's the same conclusion I'm coming to. In the golf course image I think the imager is actually where the sun appears to be based on shadows and perspective. The 'evidence' I'm looking at that the imager can see through the roof may just be in open view of the imager and we're just seeing retroreflections from the corners of the window.

So i guess they take a lateral sweep of the image and let the return fill in the other axis of the image?
I like this idea. There's already sales channels for this, they would just be another imaging provider.
The fact of the matter is that automation is far from perfect. There are many tasks that are simple for a human, but fiendishly hard for a machine due to their unpredictable nature. Take driving a car or cooking in a restaurant. How is a machine supposed to know if the meat is a bit too old to be palatable? Would it really be worth it to implement an elaborate apparatus to determine meat freshness, and deploy it in every restaurant? I believe such a thing is firmly in the realm is science fiction, where effort and energy are free, unlike the real physical world we inhabit.

Now consider this, can joy not be had in cooking? I can certainly tell you that I find cooking good food to be a very fulfilling task. Unlike engineering projects I can go from start to finish in under an hour. And it fulfills an immediate and visceral need.

I think that the argument for play is a good one. In engineering I encounter many people who engineer, not for the joy of it (which is spread very thin in many jobs anyway), but for the money. Now imagine if there was no quantitative social status (money) associated with engineering. You would see engineers self select purely on a basis of authentic interest rather than financial status seeking. Would that not bring more promising talent to the table?

Let me now attack the idea of automation from another angle; to claim that we should be able to automate all product is as outrageous as claiming that Atlas holds the earth up. How could we automate everything? Who makes the machine, and perhaps more importantly, who fixes them when they break. You cannot possibly convince me that you could make a machine to fix machines. Again, such a device would be in the realm of science fiction. In reality, even in the relatively controlled environments of factories things inevitably break in unpredictable ways, and there you are, back to needing humans to clean up the mess.

Now, automation does have a place; doing repetitive tasks. But I’d rather order a meal from an expert chef than a robot.
> someone this dumb who makes videos and hucks mid-level apts in Seattle as a noob "realtor"

Why the ad hominem?
The business case is that you won't be able to retain good engineers if you refuse to rewrite your AS400 COBOL app.
Yes, it seems that CISC is at a dead end.

But perhaps Intel/AMD can surprise us with a dynamic allocator that runs in the reorder buffer. Or perhaps they can still push the limit one more time with more transistors. Another option would be to implement a fast-path for small instructions, so in effect they would be moving from CISC to RISC but only for parts of the code that need the extra performance.
It's not necessary to change any system, just set aside a place where anarchists can live as they please. We already have millions of square kilometres devoted to capitalism, but why should capitalism be forced on people who don't want it? Sure, anarchism isn't for everybody, and people who prefer capitalism should be able to remain within that system.
Reminds me of the tweet - we replaced our monolith with Microservices so that every outrage is like a murder mystery
OP mistyped, fixed:

One of medicine's most elementary failings is [not] providing a reasonable framework for death in these diagnoses.
These posts feel like ragebait.

On the Hacker News welcome page there is a section about what constitutes "deeply interesting" and I feel this story falls under the category of a "robbery" and is thus irrelevant to readers outside of Palo Alto.

The reason I think this is a national story has more to do with the collective's hatred of the managerial/executive class.

I like this post so far as it explains how the algorithm was written by and for the administration and thus "the algorithm made a mistake" defense from the executives doesn't hold but the people who read Hacker News already understand this.
If you're curious about the process I would highly recommend David Bull's pamphlet and series of youtube videos detailing the extensive process of recreating the print in 2014/2015: https://mokuhankan.com/catalogue/0293.php
Over a decade ago I was trying to get the C++ committee to support multidimensional arrays via overloading, so we could have 2D collections. In C++, you can overload "operator[]". But it can't take more than one argument. Why?

Because of the C "comma operator". In C, the comma operator evaluates both operands and discards the first result. It's an ancient hack used mostly with preprocessor defines.

In C and C++,

foo(a,b)

is a call with two arguments. But

foo[a,b]

invokes the comma operator and presents one value to "[]" You have to dig through the C++ specification to find this.

So I asked the question, could anyone find an example of the comma operator used in C or C++ inside square brackets in any production code. I couldn't. I got someone at IBM Almaden to search IBM's code archive and they couldn't. But there was the concern that somewhere, someone had used that misfeature for something.

So, no 2D array syntax for you.
I've always noticed when I am doing things for others I can't spend too much time dwelling on what isn't perfect about my life.

I have found you have to be careful not to expect much in return otherwise you can start feeling resentful.
On the other hand the best player in the world is known to be a player who puts less effort into opening prep and takes his opponents out of book very frequently.
The whole "transparent wood" thing is such a scam. It's PLASTIC. A process removes nearly all of the wood from the material, then replaces it with transparent plastic, and somehow it's still marketed as "wood".
This is something I have had no problem with the past 5 years. With permanent tinnitus come October, this is terrifying and difficult.
The fun thing is that many C-people are fed the VC kool-aid about scalability. They want everything to br scalable because they want to cash in. Except that not many companies reach the level where you need to scale your tech stack "exponentially". And you usually don't want to scale the dumb prototype that ended up in prod anyway. The trap here is that those systems will allow you just that in a totally unauditable way... Good luck replacing parts of those systems as well when everything is interconnected...
Well, while I didn't get the photo and I only spoke to him about "Spacewar!" and later reimplimentations (I didn't know about his link to Lisp at the time)... I nonetheless had him autograph a "Spacewar!" t-shirt for me.
Are you requesting citations or take issue with the general contribution along the lines of "FYI Shit Happens on the Illinois Prairie Path"?

Because if it's the former this is no more than a trivial search away from multiple news results...

And in case it's not obvious, the Illinois Prairie Path forms a substantial swath of the often rail-adjacent trails used by joggers and cyclists throughout the state.
"icesound - play audio files when interesting GUI events happen". The full man page list all the details¹. Note that it is optional too, you don't have to enable MovieOS swooshing and zooming sounds to use icewm ;)

¹ https://ice-wm.org/man/icesound
Fischer Random Chess (aka Chess960) is meant to address exactly that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess

It has a large online following.
Before small screens and walkmans, millions of people flew every day in an airplane seat trapped with their own thoughts. For many, it was probably the only time they experienced this.

I actually get comments from other passengers now how I can sit and look out the window for hours without music, movie or book.

In their rooms, they have other venues and probably less fear of negative self-conscious thoughts (too fat, ugly, whatever for the beach).

I wonder how many Hikikomori are in their own thoughts vs escaping into online venues.
Web version that also works with touch https://ba.net/igames/spacewar
So now each year we can't do proper benchmarks anymore because there will always be the (X)nm vs (X-1)nm argument.

What's wrong with using price-power-performance ratio benchmarks on what's available on the market?
Using what metric?

To use a local(ish) example to me, Multnomah County in Oregon has about 815K people, and 3800 that are either living on the streets, in a shelter, or in temporary housing. That's 0.4%. Portland is known for having a homeless problem.
Thank you!

There's a little plastic hinge that goes on the end of the dowel / slots into the hanger. I don't have a picture, but the file is here: https://github.com/keredson/chimes/blob/main/striker_hinge.s...
I just find a typo! I meant

> even if I had not been academically successful

Sorry about that.
This 'article' appears to be a new-ish form of GPT* generated SEO blogspam.
This is pure speculation, but the Zen 3 cores have access to double the cache. In very specific workloads that could lead to a 2x speedup.
Yeah, raarts is trying to burn us by taking this sudden reappareance of a whole 30 cases in NSW seriously. Because here in Australia we take it that seriously.

Short lockdown maybe, back to normal soon, not too many other places will be able to brag about that.

We will be able to save all the lives prior to vaccination that nations with less willpower seem willing to spend.
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I hadn't thought that far! The poker chips are a great idea. Perhaps a reset mechanism after both sides run out of moves would work too.
Few people will switch, but those people may still end up running Windows on ARM.
491 is also interesting

https://primes.utm.edu/curios/page.php/491.html

But maybe 982 has something to do with a frequency that can easily travel through that part of the interstellar medium without disturbance.
As someone who loves sitting quietly and thinking to the point where when I get too busy, lack of it is what first starts to impact me negative emotion wise, I have to question what can be taken away from that study.

I can safely and easily sit quietly at home. I can't safely and easily electro shock myself at home. It's something I'm curious about and would try. You'd need to have me come back a few times and see what I pick when the electroshock option is no longer a novelty. Even then, you're going to have to be careful that there's no way this could turn in to a competition of sorts where I get the idea to try to outlast the other participants or even just myself seeing how much I can take.

This would be like determining that I prefer my burgers to have weird chutneys and exotic ingredients on them because that's what I order at restaurants given the option. No, plain cheeseburger with maybe some tomato or pickles is way better. But I can and do make that myself, often, and imo better than must restaurants do. I'm ordering something different that I don't do at home, not picking my favourite choice.

Or "here's your favourite movie you've seen a ton of times and have on your hard drive. Here's another one you've thought about watching, haven't bothered to, but if you don't watch it now you'll probably never have another chance; which one do you want to watch?" Pick the latter and they clap themselves on the back for their miraculous favourite movie changing ability.
> I would a expect a "low-cruft and minimalist" to NOT mtry to get smart with histor

fair point and I agree, thank you
I’ve wondered whether these good engineers are really a net benefit. They crank out something spiffy, move your big systems to it, and then disappear to work on the next hotness, leaving an already burdened tech team to support yet one more spiffy stack that is not quite as reliable or easy to use as we would like.
These do not make fifty thousand opex per homeless person per year or anything around that. Both before and onwards, much is capex to build out.
There's a significant gap between the experience of a bunch of elite research-oriented universities, and the vast majority of universities where the professors are not "professional researchers at the level of being a professor" but rather teaching staff that might try to get some minimal research done but don't get much support and aren't really expected to succeed.

The professors we read about on HN are the exception rather than the norm. The median professor working in a mid-rank institution (not a top-100 institution, not even close to that) does have academic freedom, but most of their time is taken with non-research duties, they do not have an a research group under him/her as they do not have an active research grant which would fund that, and so the median professor does a very limited amount of research which comes out, if I recall the statistics correctly, to approx. 1 paper per year.
Here's an idea (probably not original): simultaneous chess. Both players write down their moves and, once they have both committed, both moves are executed in parallel. If two moving pieces end up on the same square, both are eliminated. If one piece moves onto a square that has been vacated by an opponent's piece in the same move then no capture takes place.

Addendum: One benefit of this variant is that it is completely symmetric and hence completely fair. There is no advantage for either side because neither side moves first.
This is clearly a surface opinion without a great deal of experience in leveraging the numerous benefits of cloud and serverless.

Complexity can be managed if you start out thinking about. The biggest problem with the cloud is ad-hoc. If you go in just building shit without a strategy and guardrails, it's going to cost a lot of money and end up in pretty bad shape.
I remember AltaVista even had a free dialup service. IIRC, it was like netzero, in that it displayed ads in a window that stayed on top. Of course, I would just find the window handle and set it to invisible
"extremely naive"

Especially because there apparantly a warning 17 days earlier that negative prices were a.possibility. A tourist trader might not follow industry news well enough, but I would think outfits like the Chinese firm that lost everything would be a bit more savvy.
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> but in my head it sounds interesting.

It really does sound interesting to me as well. I suggest you grab a friend or random chess-playing stranger and challenge them to a game of "God-mode chess".
Suggest retitle: "someone's bitter".
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Yesterday, I released freqtop.

It is a linux tool that runs in the terminal and shows a live view of the frequencies that the CPU cores are scaled to.

Core frequencies in linux are dynamically set by a governor based on the load.
I paused updates until next year. Hopefully this gets resolved.
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I had friends living in London come back home to Australia. (2 weeks in mandatory hotel quarantine on entry)

Apparently the enforcement and compliance with the rules is night and day different here. They described London as a place with rules that everyone just ignores.
Mind if I ask why? It seems to the great determent of society and to the benefit of nothing but superstition.
CPU: $450 (5800x)

GPU: $150 (1650 super)

Storage: $60 (samsung 970 evo 250gb)

PSU: $90 (silverstone sfx 500w 80 plus gold - there's probably cheaper options but most PSUs seem sold out on amazon)

RAM: $70 (16gb 3200mhz CL16, gskill or team group)

Case: $70 (Silverstone tek)

Motherboard: $120 (asrock b550-m itx)

There's your $1000 mac killer. I wouldn't call it a sensible build, but it should outperform the mac across the board. Notably the GPU is significantly better but the closest gpu the m1 is to trading blows with is the Radeon 560 which is only $30 cheaper. Also the mac comes with 8gb ram in the base model, and 16gb is a $200 upgrade but I could not find a decent speed 2x4gb ddr4 kit as nobody wants that little ram anymore in a custom build. I could save $40 by going with a 1x8gb kit for $30, but single channel will hurt performance.

I'd also consider $30 to go from the 250gb ssd to a 1tb variant, something apple charges $400 for.

The reason I wouldn't call it sensible is that the 1650 super is a budget gaming card while the 5800x a higher tier cpu. If you were actually planning to build this for gaming I'd suggest dropping down to the 5600x and putting the extra $100. actually for gaming I'd even suggest squeezing the budget for a 2060 (or even better wait for the standard 3060) by dropping to basic ddr4-2133, and going for standard sized case/psu rather than the small form factor to chase the mac.

On the other hand, if you're not gaming and just need a video output, save like 120 bucks and just get a gt 1030. Use that to buy some nicer RAM or more cores via a 5900x depending on what suits your workload better. Sadly you have to get _a gpu_ as Intel is falling behind and AMD won't give us high end APUs in the individual market.
Everyone but me needs to take this.
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It doesn't seem to be that large of an online following: it's supported on the main chess sites but not as one of the top default modes.
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Which lawsuit? The mid-late 2000's one after all this history? Or the 1991 one that was about intel seeking ways to squeeze out AMD from it's license? The first one isn't really relevant to this and the second one could have been more direct but AMD having a license and then getting another later as part of the deal on x86-64 does allude to behind the scenes shenanigans.
I ran into what I believe was this issue last week, BSOD stating Stop error NTFS File System. Couldn't boot, startup repair did nothing, and then the worst thing occurred was no restore points were available. Even if system restore is ON it will periodically remove/clean them up which I never knew. Since reading about this issue I was trying to recall my steps of recovery frustration, but I think ended from the startup repair opening up the command prompt and issuing a chkdsk and rebooting a few times initiating automatic repair and finally came back to life.
Do people actually pronounce learned “learnt”? Where?
There's a 'fog of war' variant where you can only see the squares that a piece of yours could move to.