skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we’re going to look at the “big” ISAs (big in the sense that they run things like workstations and servers)… there aren’t that many to look at. Cherry-picking three of them to tell a story seems a bit fishy to me. SPARC and POWER aren’t exactly taking over the world. SPARC is still around in the same sense that MIPS is still around—you can still buy SPARC CPUs—but the ISA won’t be on your radar unless you’re interested in very specific applications or if you’re a retrocomputing enthusiast.

I’m not sure whether the ownership changes can be attributed as causes or as symptoms of ISA market failure here. My understanding is that somewhere from 2000-2010, the cost of developing a cutting-edge ISA + an associated line of CPUs got too expensive, and companies like SGI were priced out of the market.

In other words, MIPS wasn’t sold off and then it failed. SGI needed to get rid of MIPS because it was too expensive, and without the backing of SGI, MIPS was doomed to a “cheaper, older-generation” CPU niche. There but for the grace of god goes ARM, which happened to find a new niche because it was already optimized for a use case (low power consumption) that people started really caring about in the 2010s.
Oh shit... am I the only one who thinks this can backfire in a very bad way? Like bubble popping material?

I mean, they can't do what P&G, Unilever, Mars, and many other umbrella brands did. It's just impossible, and the reason is simple: they can't have the share of voice and share of shelf these companies had, and that allowed them to be what they were.

They didn't just had a big portfolio of brands, they were literal bullies that left no room for competition, and they had built brands so strong - through buying millions upon millions of GRPs, through years, in a time where TV was the king of mass media - that they pushed their weight on retailers and won a lot of share of shelf (literally saturated shelves).

The times have changed, this doesn't work anymore. Now brands are more diluted, it's mainly built on small niches, consumers attention is extremely fragmented so you can't monopolize media space, and the weight lays on Amazon and retailers, not the other way around...
Also, ruslanbogan’s comment did mention race which confirms for me that you didn’t even read it. It accused the researchers of being racist towards if statements. (Please tell me you find that more absurd than what I wrote lol.) Again, why are you championing this cause when you’re _clearly_ wrong? I’m using an extreme word on purpose.
in case you haven't seen it: No Starch Press published a box set of all my free zines called "Your Linux Toolbox". I have some links to places you can get that here: https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/10/21/print-collection-of-my-first...
I initially thought it was a home pressure fryer.

Maybe it actually is.
The Future of Vaccines
> You are 3% basic. MYST and Project One? Where do you even find this shit?.

Hilarious, especially since these are pretty much mainstream artists of my (not so small) niche. I'd love to see how it comes up with those.
You are supposed to assume good faith about other posters though. And philosophy is (as far as I know) yet another male-dominated major so I don't get what you mean.

Personally I think the flagged poster was just ranting about technophobia among machine learning bias researchers.
ZFS is not harder to set up imo. It's as easy as `sudo apt install zfsutils-linux` and `zpool create poolname raidz2 disk1 disk2 disk3`

I've been bitten by btrfs back when it was the new hot FS, so I'll just stick to ZFS until a distributed (multiple machines) equivalent of ZFS comes along.
Probably killed by hackernews, not everything is webscale unfortunately.
Technically speaking depression is not a symptom. It's diagnosis in its own right.
I'd prefer performance regressions any day compared to losing my data because BTRFS had a bad day like was common in the past. I also no longer use BTRFS, once was enough. If a performance regression leads to ZFS-like stability, bring it on!
I think it means 'excessive fan', from Eminem - Stan
My YT recommendations are usually my already browsed songs, so it's a good thing for me. I also don't login on YT as I don't have a google account. Well, technically I do have one, I created one for my Android emulator but I don't care what's in that account.
Verbing weirds nouns.
A billion dollars is lots of money, but it isn't really a big deal for the broader economy.
Not saying YouTube's recommendation algorithm is perfect but you could try to interact with the feedback popups. That seems to clear up stuff I don't need on my 1st page.

If all else fails, create a new Google account for separate exclusive use should do the trick.
Five Minutes of Pink Oyster Mushroom Playing Modular Synthesizer
oops sorry I was typing on phone and didnt see that. yes focusmate.com
>massive infrastructure cost........It's a "short haul" technology.

Again, only in US, and only mmWave.

It seems US is the only part of the world where they use mmWave and 5G interchangeably. ( I guess I could blame the Media for it. ) Most part of the world aren't even thinking of implementing mmWave.
One of my biggest irritations is the tiny size of default stacks in 64-bit OSes. They don't really seem to have grown significantly while both physical memory and address space size have grown massively.

I write a bunch of algorithms which would most naturally be written recursively, but I have to go out of my way to make sure they have enough stack. Is there a good reason not to give the main thread of every program on a 64-bit OS 1GB of virtual address space?
And it's been the default filesystem for openSUSE (system partitions only) since December 2015 [0], so there's been plenty of real-world usage too.

[0] https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:13.2
> Want a .50 cal automatic machine gun? You should need some kind of extra license given the danger you now pose.

Dude! Sign me up! Where is this amazing place doling them out? And yes, I’ll jump through those hoops.
PCUI 1.1.0 introduces TreeView and ArrayInput controls
To be a “Stan” is to be a truly diehard fan, bordering on obsession. The term comes from the Eminem song of the same name. It can be used as a noun or a verb.
Every magazine that I know of does this. I'm in Canada and the Globe & Mail has the same process. It's similar to phone companies; you say you want to leave, they offer a discounted price to get you to stay.

That's fine by me. The call to cancel has never been too onerous, and the CSR reps never did this kind of back and forth. Don't want the discounted offer? No problem, your subscription is now cancelled.
Aramco to Bring Google Cloud Services to Saudi Arabia
Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings have unique microbiomes
Thing sh on my music tastes...
Austin McConnell made a video about 4 years ago on the decline of KFC[0] and just made a follow up last night[1] about how they've gotten a lot worse in a bunch of metrics but are still for some reason blowing budget on stupid marketing.

On a more personal note, my mom grew up down the street from Sanders and it's always left a really bad taste in my mouth what they've done with his image. It's not like he was some made up character made to encapsulate the feel of a old-timey southern gentleman or whatever, he was a real guy they turned into a caricature to try to catch the "ironic" wave with the youths

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1eaQrxA6ZE

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np5tFlmRUIc
Please no, we don’t need Stan to be rebuilt with a Python backend. That it’s built in C++ and can be called with higher level API’s is part of the appeal.
Ah, thanks, that was the one logo I didn’t recognize.
The military has its own effective means of silencing interfering sources permanently it can't use in peacetime.

Also these altimetes are most useful when landing which is generally done on your side of the lines.
definition of want: have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for.
definition of crave: feel a powerful desire for (something).

These really aren't all that different of words.

Imho, you recognized how distasteful smoking was to yourself and others, you thought it would be a good idea to quite - but as you said, you "craved" or as I said "wanted", another smoke at all times. Need? Smoking was never needed, that's a complete misnomer.

I am 3 days clean from a 10 year habit, so I guess I could ask you not to trivialize my experience please.
I also couldn’t hear anything. (Also safari iOS)
> I'd rather write my own 2D tile tree format, with a simple flex-like rendering layout, than to work with HTML and expect reliability.

I suspect you'd quickly find there's a lot more complexity there than you predicted.

Anyway - if that's what you want check out Qt + QML. You can do it badly, but when you use it well it's the best declarative UI framework I know.
I think so. Imagine the bill if it were simply allowed to autoscale without an upper bound.
Hold on! Is this why ethernet is exhibiting intermittent and impossible to diagnose behavior for me at work, and only for me?! Do you have some more information?
After realizing that I would sometimes spend hours caught in the YouTube recommendation trap--to the detriment of my sleep, my work, my hobbies, my family--I've taken steps to manage my borderline addiction to YouTube. Prior to this I'd tried blocking it entirely, but the problem is that there is sometimes valuable educational content that I benefit from watching (even if only to briefly unwind after a day of work). Ideally there could be an option in the YouTube settings to turn off all recommendations, or perhaps a browser extension to remove them from the page, but to solution I ended up with was quite simple: RSS!

I went to every channel with useful educational content that I like to watch, subscribed to their feed (or even indivial playlists) with my RSS reader of choice (Feedly), and the videos get delivered and displayed inline in the RSS reader. No more YouTube binging because I don't find myself with the urge to visit the site, and so I'm never exposed to the recommendations. On the rare occasion where I want to watch an arbitrary video, I open a private browsing session so that the recommendations are uselessly generic.
I use that CalDigit dock with my work laptop and personal laptop, and I just swap the cable. Adding a KVM switch just for that use case wouldn't make sense in my opinion.
>That's why I recommend to avoid signing-in into YouTube. Better watch anonymously so you can always clean the cookies and get out of the pit.

When you sign in, you can view your history and remove things you don't want the algo to work on.

Here's what to do instead: Sign in, and use your account to curate what you want to see. As you say, music, education, and for me, it's cookingtube, some non-toxic video game people for sim games and the like, etc.

And my algo recommendations are wonderful. The biggest issue is it forgetting about cool channels and hiding them, and I don't use the bell because I hate notifications, but generally speaking it does a great job.

But if you want to watch something that you DO NOT want the algo matching on: Open a private tab (or clean out your history).

It's actually not bad to keep it under control.

Oh, and when Youtube drops a redpill propaganda video in, or something similar, (it always will try to indoctrinate you into a radical ideology, no matter what), make sure to use the menu and tell it to fuck off and never show it again.

I've got it trained now. No politics! No radicalism! Just good, relaxing, well-made content.
Electron can certainly be a bad idea, but my main gripe there is that everyone embeds the runner. It has an amazing feature set, everyone can agree, no?
LibTraceFS 1.0 Released for Interacting with Linux's Tracing File-System
I don’t see any alternatives to social networks like Facebook / LinkedIn here, the same way that Wordpress is an alternative to medium.com

How do we submit here our open source platform https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
It’s part of the joke; it insults your tastes no matter what they are.
> So, I like for example HN where AFAIK I'm not tracked so much and I choose what I want from the top of the list.

The top of the list is the product of some recommendation algorithm. Clicking through https://news.ycombinator.com/newest, there were some 900 submissions in the past 24h; you probably chose from a small subset of that.
Perhaps moving advertisements into spaces where people intentionally go to get this information, rather than getting advertisements in continual drive-bys?
At least one major city in Brazil has banned advertisements from public spaces. Removing the endemic product placement from entertainment would be a good start as well.
But data collection on the internet is the big prize.
I would love to look into the feasibility of anonymizing data so we don't throw out a powerful tool completely.
Spotify is fantastic for me with everything. My only complaint is their webapp causes random bugs and eats whatever resources it can find.

Just as a counter point.
The problem I've found is that it takes some tuning to get it to stop recommending horrid clickbait, extremist recruiting fodder or just copyright fraud.

You have to actively click "not I don't like this" when you see something low quality.

This means that the average joe will be spammed by low quality shite, where as the power user will get decent recommendation.

I do have a container tab just for youtube, to avoid polluting my recommends with embedded shite.
Extremley strenuously exercise is known to lower testosterone. I wonder if people believe this urban legend because their bodies are in shock and they lose libido due to basic training exercises?
Seriously... and you can do it within Messages already.
Netflix is incompletely understood by most people because it's growth unfolded over a long time and it went through a few sharp pivots.

DVD-by-mail is gangster in terms of intellectual property, but the studios could do nothing about it (e.g. it is like a book)

What Netflix gets for it is a huge and loyal customer base.

The studios are then willing to license the streaming rights because they get more that way then they get in DVD-by-mail.

Netflix is busy making streaming delivery work.

As the scale changes Netflix goes from rent to buy, from David to Goliath. So far Reed Hastings has been thinking a step ahead of others in the industry at each juncture.
This is just a generic statement. Even in a container with no cookies it gives that statement.
what would hacker news here be helped by by removing the dom? do you think this website would be better with your solution? why?
Apple Music does have an Android app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...
The problem I have with YouTube recommendations is that it keeps suggesting me MOST of the big content providers MOST of the time. Sometimes I want to see a video from that indie creator I subbed to a few months back, even if just to catch up. Not all the time MKBHD or LTT on the front.
Pre 1989 under Iron Curtain pretty much _everything_ was illegal. Any activity not aligned with primary party goals and thinking lines had some paragraph attached to it. It all stemmed from the "mother country", Stalins Russia. As Beria used to say "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime". Thats Lavrentiy Beria, head of Secret Police under Stalin, and the father of Katyn massacre - murdering 22K Polish military officers with a shot to the back of the head and burying bodies in a forest mass graves.

The Death of Stalin (2017) is a lighthearted movie showing the tragedy, farce and terror of living under Soviet rule.
Not a parent, but it's super-easy to block any element I find distracting with about two clicks.

For example looking at en.wikipedia.org I can just remove that COVID box. Scalable? No. Smart? Eeeyuh... Satisfying? Hell yes.
Ask HN: How did you validate the idea of the startup you are running now?
It’s a simple question about your current business idea you are willing to grow.
Bonus point if you tell what kind of product you are working on too :)
Having used only a MacBook for 4 USB-c/thunderbolt ports for several years, and having moved all of my stuff (even my cordless shaver!) to USB-c / thunderbolt, I was really surprised and annoyed when I built an AMD gaming PC and realized I could only get 1 or 2 USB-c ports and almost no options for thunderbolt. It made me realize why most mice, etc are USB-a still.
When the result is predefined it's not research anymore, it's advertisement. Still calling it “research” is fraud.
I canceled Spotify and switched to Amazon Music Unlimited, primarily due to how buggy Spotify is. AMU does have one annoying bug I've found (that seems to have emerged after the recent redesign) but other than that it's been totally flawless. Reliable apps are such a joy to use. I feel this side of software is not appreciated enough anymore.
TL;DR: It's like Discord's voice channels, instead of WhatsApp's group voice calls. You can join and leave at any point.
Before today, I had never heard the term "Weird Machine" -- this term is going into my 2020/2021 lexicon.

Now, "Weird Machine" might have some relationship with the exploit writing / exploit defending community -- but I vote that the phenomena of a "Weird Machine" -- might be looked at in a purely neutral, purely academic, purely intellectual way...

You see, I'll bet that "Weird Machines" exist not only in the world of computers -- but also in Nature -- and in many human systems as well!

This would include (but is not limited to!) Sociological Systems, Corporations, Organizations, anywhere there's a fusion between machines and people -- there's the possibility for "Weird Machines" and "Wierd Machine" phenomena to occur...

We just haven't looked for it yet...

But I'll bet it's there!

This idea, and its study -- might add an interesting additional dimension to the study of Systems Theory -- in the future...

Related:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
Agreed, the bias towards culling negative results is not unique to Google, although the mechanism may be
That is a really cool enclosure, I love it. The totally fanless, silent aspect plus the sleek design, just perfect.
The downside of how it's done in Germany or the UK is that the fee isn't proportional to income, like taxes are (or are suppressed to be). And it doesn't have to be a choice between one or the other, a perfectly workable best of both worlds path exists, in Germany even:

There's a concept called "church tax" that is handled, for those who are members in one of the "qualified" confessional church orgs (in this car, "qualification" basically boils down to Napoleonic age precedent but this is orthogonal to the topic at hand) by the tax collection authorities in a proxy role for the church orgs, but which is very clearly outside of government budget scope. Exactly the same setup could be used to collect income-based broadcast contributions without subjecting broadcasters to budgetary government influence.
It is at will research funded by google, the researcher makes it clear what their findings were, they want the original research paper to have its say based on results not spin.

If google wants specific outcomes from research, go to the marketing department instead of funding real research.
Hmm I wonder if there's a way to debug that. On a fast 1G internet connection and fast NVMe disk, the only status message I see on slow web pages is "waiting for cache". Maybe this is a chrome bug
After playing for some hours with the new Turbo on a side project (with Django as backend), it mostly works fine.

One thing that is kind of broken out of the box is form submissions: so a common pattern with server side rendering is to re-render the form with validation errors, but otherwise redirect to wherever.

The workaround here I think is to use turbo-streams and just re-render the invalid form HTML snippet rather than the whole page. While this is probably ok for most cases, I have some forms (3rd party library stuff) where this is going to be more work than I'd like, and due to a bug in the beta release you can't override the default form submission behavior - Turbo throws an error if a form POST returns anything other than a redirect. So it's probably not quite ready for production yet.
To add to the list of complaints... The Chromecast streaming feature is also broken. It will randomly pause in the middle of playback. This bug has existed for months and months. My configuration is very vanilla. Common phone, TV with built-in Chromecast, no other devices you could stream to on the network, stable internet connection...
Seems like it was hugged to death within half an hour, ah Hacker News.
5g already is awesome, and the vast majority of it uses the same exact spectrum bands as 4g. mmWave, which is a portion not shared with 4g which has high infrastructure costs, only tends to get deployed in super high density places that need the extra bandwidth. You can buy a 5g phone today and get the advantages of 5g without ever connecting to a cell site that your 4g phone couldn't connect to.

Also, you aren't spending that money, some cartel telco is spending that money. You don't have any reason to be concerned about the amount of money they're spending. Those costs they're incurring has almost no relationship to the price you are paying...this is cartel economics 101.
Other comments point out to Bayesian inference being good for modelling an uncertain outcome, while deep learning is good for prediction.

However Bayesian inference is a good choice for prediction when you have few data points (deep learning is sample-size hungry). And it is especially good when you have high uncertainty in your labelled training data (ie large variance in the response variable for given input). Here a Bayesian regression (or even classification) model wouldn’t magically remove the uncertainty but rather you’d be able to account for the predictive variance (instead of being none-the-wiser using just good ole deep learning). You can then take it from there how you wish to treat the predictions, given the predictive variance as well.
No one has made anything as capable as the DOM.

It’s excellent for documents, and very capable for apps. Games and other intensely custom-graphical interfaces are really the only situation where it’s not great, and in that case you can drop into a canvas and/or SVG (SVG admittedly still being DOM, but not HTML DOM) with no difficulty.

HTML was not initially designed for interactive applications, but for many years has progressively been.

The DOM gets you things like support for accessibility tech in a way that few other technologies can rival; the only real defect it has is that it strictly uses a push model and you can’t query the screen reader—so you can’t do things like tweak things for particular screen readers (for good or ill), or skip parts of the accessibility tree for efficiency based on where the tool is looking at present, but must present the entire accessibility tree up front. But although this is limiting, there are also reasons why it is so, around privacy and robustness.

WebAssembly never had anything at all to do with the DOM, let alone replacing it.
Either one of these are real:

1) The Russians are unbelievably stupid and incompetent and can’t even poison someone successfully, let him leave the country and then can’t keep their incompetence a secret.

or

2) Navalny is a master of making up contrived stories in the rich tradition of Russian literature.
You always pay your broker.

You pay commission.

If you don't pay commission, you pay in bigger spreads they offer.

If the spreads aren't bigger then you're getting worse execution.

All anyone can do is understand HOW they are paying and use that information to minimise what they ultimately pay.

"Free" isn't a thing.