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Lately I've started to wonder if Itanium wasn't a good idea badly executed. I wonder if you went back in time and invested more in compilers and ecosystem if it could have succeeded? VLIW could really reduce complexity by dumping a lot of instruction re-ordering stuff and eliminating the need for tons of baroque vector instructions for specific purposes.

The biggest thing Intel didn't do with Itanium was release affordable AT/ATX form factor boards. They priced it way, way too high, chasing early margins in "enterprise" without realizing that market share is everything in CPUs. This is the same mistake that Sun, DEC, and HP made with their server/workstation CPUs in the previous era. With a new architecture you've got to push hard for market share, wide support, and scale.

If I'd been in charge I would have priced the first iterations of Itanium only a little above fab cost and invested a lot more in compiler support and software.

Edit: also whatever happened to the Mill? The idea sounded tenable but I have to admit that I am not a CPU engineer so my armchair take is dubious.

Anyway the ship has sailed. Later research in out of order execution has yielded at least similar performance gains and post-X86 the momentum is behind ARM and RISC-V.
At the same time, the Linux kernel uses so many GCC specific extensions to C that an unpatched Clang couldn't even compile it until 2019. It is not in any way a typical program.
an updated version of firefox loads fast without issue
That saying “hey, let’s violently overthrow the government” isn’t a class of protected speech.
There's value in having GPIO pins not behind any bus or controller at all. Don't Thunderbolt controllers need firmware uploaded and such before they start working? How complex is Thunderbolt device and bus enumeration?
Then the competitor couldn't just take the exact design and replicate it at a lower margin than the designer. Removing allowable commercial terms makes it significantly less "open" though, to that extent that many would argue it isn't open at all, like the various "shared source" approaches commercial software uses.

Another interesting approach would be something like the GPL, which I don't think is often used in hardware. Allow your competitors to use your design ... they just must contribute back improvements. Probably the incentives are wrong for this, but maybe not, it sorta seems like a bunch of the "no-name" chinese consumer goods operate like this. The produces are easy enough to reverse engineer that every just copies the basic idea and produces their own variants. This of course doesn't keep the inventor in an advantaged position, but at least keeps them competitive.
It think the shift into acceptance of D&D is part of a general mainstreaming of geek stuff (the so-called geek wave) rather than just tabletop games and the like. Other 'geek' interests fell into the same category - Star Trek, etc.

Those also have reached 'ok, I can talk about it in wider social circles without getting squinted at or handed a copy of The Watchtower' levels in the new millennium where they were not previously.

This is definitely a better state of affairs and it really really please me to see new audiences play D&D or discover TNG, but sadly, as such (again, maybe just my nostalgic bias) such things have been so marketable-sized by the corps taking advantage of the geek wave as to be bland and soulless.
I understand. Most of those can be achieved using privacy and sharing settings though and does not necessarily require content moderation.
"Some customers" do you think the majority of Apple users (not picking on them, they're your average non-IT person) knows about a password they set last year maybe?

That is the problem. It's very frustrating to tell some people that they can't recover their data because they forgot the password

If you can keep a password for a long time then you can do your backups yourself I guess?
Mysterious helicopters have been circling Los Angeles
Sure, it's up to interpretation, but I think we're fooling ourselves a bit to say he didn't incite violence. People raided the capitol on his behalf. His rhetoric must have had something to do with that.
Raku incorporates many of the neatest ideas in languages but retains a perlish flavor. I would almost equate it with Racket, in that there is support for many styles of coding, and your code may look nothing like another's. TMTOWTDI is fundamental to the perl philosophy so if you prefer total consistency, you are probably better off with python or go.
Why is data scientist a profession in IT but not for example computer scientist? Many IT professionals studied computer science but they don't call themselves scientists in their line of work.
>It had long been assumed that dire wolves made themselves at home in North America before gray wolves followed them across the Bering Land Bridge from Eurasia

This sentence caught my mind because it really represented how much randomness and accident you can abstract away with your choice of words
> I mean AMD for years survived in a situation much worse then Intel currently is.

Yeah, a lot of people seem to ignore the fact that AMD was not killing it in the CPU market for a while a few years back. I wouldn't be surprised if Intel makes a comeback eventually. It's not a huge deal to me who's in the lead at any given time, I'm more interested in competitive CPUs.

I'm most interested in the future of x86 as a whole. It's definitely got a while left, but I wonder how much market share will start to be taken by ARM (and hopefully RISCV).
> For the record, I don't think Facebook should be shut down.

That's cool, I'm down for making all social media apps illegal. Today.

We've given guns to chimpanzees. Perhaps the human race needs to mature a little before we're shoving our entire lives into everyone else's face. Turns out that despite having more things in common than not, we still don't like each other very much.

10 years ago, most of the American left and center were shouting at banks about being the 99%. In the wake of that, these apps have been used to divide and conquer us. They've turned us against each other. Our best hope is to shun these tools en masse.
I think FB could work if there was a hard limit on the size of groups/spread of ideas.

Say a group can have only 50 members

Anything a person shares can only be seen by X people and no re-sharing allowed.

Basically a return to old style forums, niche audience etc.
Yes. It’s handled by Finder now since new versions of macOS don’t have iTunes, but it’s the same encrypted backup functionality.
I need to watch that again - saw it years ago when it first came out. I'm currently reading Ellsberg's Secrets
A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers - which is pretty shocking - they knew all along they could never win in Vietnam but continued for "reasons".
If you're unlucky enough to have lots of crazy Trump cultist family members, or live in the conservative South, or both, Facebook will show you a never-ending stream of this content as well. It's like having to walk past an overflowing toilet on the way to the cafeteria, every time I go to check my Facebook.
Parler has allegedly had hundreds of paid moderators for months. They also allegedly cleared their backlog over the weekend in a foolish belief they could be on the right side of AWS politics.
> It's a Brownian motion of small incremental innovations, until eventually we stumble upon something big (like deep learning).

Is the deep learning really the result of incremental research? The SOTA chasing frenzy comes after the discovery of deep learning. The motivation of incremental research can hardly be justified as to discover the next deep learning, although they might do.
Maybe stupid question, but how can you do deals like that with a democratic government? What binds the next cabinet to uphold the bargain?
That's why the solution is liability: Companies will keep leaving unchecked algorithms responsible for this until they can go to jail for doing so.

Adtech is a cancer and it's time to cut it out using every legislative and regulatory option we have.

Put Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai behind bars and the problem will correct after that.
Now that feature freeze is over, I'm looking forward to upstream Wine getting spatial audio support that's needed for Cyberpunk 2077.
I think the title says one thing but the body doesn't really provide enough evidence to support the title (aka linkbait).

The body shows some people got a bunch of likes for saying crazy things on Facebook. I assume that's true of twitter or all social media, and true for all conspiracy theories. I'd be curious what exactly the proposal is from this post.
I don't think it's even technically true, they're fundamentally different circuit elements that just share a principle of operation. Diodes allow current to flow in one direction (rectification), triodes provide a proportional increase in the energy of a signal (amplification).

Their shared implementation details mean you can wire a triode as a diode but I don't think it's even a better diode.
The answer probably depends a lot on what you're used to from other languages.

Java users might want to make 404 an exception (FileNotFoundException), C++ users probably wouldn't throw an exception for that
So would you say that the rumors about a 2021 MacBook having a mini led display likely to be fake? Or those are different technologies?
Show HN: Yagss, yet another generator of static sites
The propagator is a two photon vertex... interpreted as one in, one out, moving through time :-)

Maybe you meant there’s no 2–>1 vertex.
That nuance is appreciated. Removing government penalties seems like a "bright line" thing to prioritize, to me.
We need to ban posts with Orwellian in the text!! Because we are not Orwellian!! irony crystalized.
I think morally he did. And he should be impeached for both that and his inaction in response to that.

But the statement was "inciting violence is illegal". Which involves the law. That's a different question.
So FOSS users will be caught hopping between .0 releases full of bugs and regressions? Sounds fantastic.
As far as I can tell, Timescale is not like the others, their shift was to make the formerly proprietary enterprise only code source available. Remarkably they went MORE open rather than less (as it the case for all the others).

You have to give them respect for approaching things differently.
Quintessential Facebook.
Because we have data to back this up.
Countries like the Netherlands or Portugal have was fewer OD deaths than countries where a hard drugs use is more punished.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/632372/total-number-of-d...

https://transformdrugs.org/drug-decriminalisation-in-portuga...
Well I guess it's indeed true that people only realized the sin when themselves are the victims...

This should be obvious and media and propaganda tools have always been like this. If there were no Facebook, it would be another news paper brooding the insurrection.
> Honestly I would rather ban videogames. I have seen many smart, hard working people whose lives have been ruined by videogames. So much wasted potential.

Me too, I've also seen a lot of life wasted on games. Some of it my own!

But isn't this much the same line of reasoning as with drugs? Some people just can't control it. I'm all for adults being adults and making adult choices. But clearly there's people who can't deal with games as well as drugs.

Where I grew up, you can get weed without a problem. I just somehow never thought it was worth the money, and though I had a few friends who'd buy they never got into any trouble with it.

Perhaps it's also a function of your environment what you find destructive. Like many kids, I grew up in the middle class where games would eat more time than drugs. I wonder if you are the same? There are others who grew up much more exposed to drugs and drug addiction, who maybe didn't have a computer to waste time on.

I'm also in favour of legalization, but mainly for practical reasons. We've tried making hard drugs illegal, and people aren't satisfied. Maybe try a different approach and see if there's a better balance there.

My main issue with it is that I don't really want to give the drug lords a head start on a business that we want non-criminals to run, but that's something else to thing about.
jschauma's been doing this for a while: I took this course about 15 years ago! It was one of the two most challenging, rewarding courses in my undergrad degree. I still apply things I learned from it daily.

Highly, highly recommended if you want to work in SRE or system-focused programming.
So it would be OK for a kids TV show website to have Viagra ads on it?

Edit: I mean spam.
I think the term Orwellian should be used carefully not because of a strategy to censor people but because it tends to accompany and be a symptom of sloppy, armchair thinking that leads to fruitless fights on social media. (similar to Godwin's law)
The link you posted to courtlistener.com shows that Parler responded within two days to Amazon's request and apologized it took them a long time.

You wrote that Amazon warned Parler about their content, but that's not what your link shows. It shows that Amazon asked a question about policies regarding specific posts, and Parler answered with their policies.
It's worth remembering that content moderation is an activity which causes people mental illness right now, because it's so unrelentingly awful. Attempts to decentralize this are going to be met with the problem that people don't want to be exposed to a stream of pedophilia, animal abuse, murderous racism and terrorist content and asked to score it for awfulness.
Anything with at least a Core 2 Duo and 2 GB RAM should be able to do that. You might be able to get away with something older, but I'd be hesitant with a single core CPU or less RAM.

So 2006 era? Make sure you blow the dust out.
>> CNNs use convolutions which are a generalization of matrix multiplication.

> A nitpick: CNNs are most definitely not a generalization of matrix multiplication. In fact, the opposite: you can view CNNs as a matrix multiplication with a particular matrix structure.

Neither is really a generalization. Any matrix multiplication can be implemented with a convolution function, and yet any convolution can be represented as a matrix multiplication via im2col.
I think Porsche won over Tesla in producing the next generation of sports EV first. I don't think it's fair to compare the Taycan to anything Tesla offers except the new unreleased Roadster.

I haven't personally driven it either, but that's what I gathered from the reviews and spec sheet. Maybe after driving it I would change my mind, that's certainly possible..

It's also interesting that Bill Gates chose the Taycan as his first EV when he could have afforded anything he wanted.
Elastic contributes massively to Lucene, so this is a false dichotomy
http://reddit.com/r/parlerwatch
http://reddit.com/r/insaneparler
What do you expect them to do though? If they want to be viable as a business they need to place some restrictions so they can have a monopoly on some aspect in order to derive profit.

If they're not viable as a business, they die and nobody benefits from that.

It's this kind of all or nothing criticism that has made me rethink open source. I'm releasing a product this year, and it's going to start under a proprietary license. Because it seems you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. At least commercial closed source products don't attract this kind of criticism.
The Art of War, basically the first textbook ever written (and understandably so) is still relevant today.

It's almost oddly metaphysical, and relevant in zero-sum games.

Also:

"evidence of how you have come to understand the barriers faced by others, evidence of your academic service to advance equitable access to higher education for women, racial minorities, and individuals from other groups that have been historically underrepresented in higher education, evidence of your research focusing on underserved populations or related issues of inequality, or evidence of your leadership among such groups.”

It's funny how some forms of censorship are evil, but other forms are lauded.

They are essentially demanding that research 'be in service to' a specific intersectional perspective, which has to be the opposite of academic freedom.
They got to live an absolutely fantastic and long life doing what they loved doing, being successful in all the right ways. I can only try to imagine what that must feel like. Life endings are a tragedy per se, but this one doesn't seem particularly traumatic as these things go. Most of us will die exactly like this.
You were so close...Try thinking about why guns, tobacco, liquor, etc. are regulated by the government while kitchen knives aren't. You'll get there.
I like the way the form is "in situ." Like filling in Mad Libs.
Email is the messenger you should migrate to
Liability is tricky because a) it seems like it would be hard to prove, and b) it could get too broad, hampering internet expression in general. I tend to think a specific law against automated content-curation would be better - that's the true source of problems - though it's obviously still really hard to define (arguably anything a computer does is "automated").

The simplest solution might be privacy protections, which (among other things) would indirectly kneecap targeted content curation, due to a lack of data.
Don't give developer ideas. People with a javascript bootcamp and 2 years experience are already called "senior engineer".
Data engineer, here. Or at least, that has been my title a couple of times.

Some data is inherently trash but a huge part of the data quality problem is sources who are allowed to produce trash that everyone else has to clean up, when it would be way more efficient for them to quit producing trash.

Not to pick on any one institution, but SOAP seems to be a read flag that the service will also deliver some screwy data.
This certainly feels opportunistic to me.

While I’m no fan of facebook and they are definitely guilty of putting their profits ahead of anything else, that is unfortunately rather typical of a corporation their size. Facebook hasn’t done the world more harm than big oil did.

The fault lies of course with the perpetrators (Facebook, Exxon) but mainly with regulators for failing to act in time.

But bad as they are, Facebook and oil companies actually do have legitimate business with normal people in the real world.
Whereas as far as I can tell, Parler was almost purely a platform for lunacy.
Elon Musk $5M donation to Khan Academy
Free ePub books from the Open University on mutiple topics
I don't know about Facebook (I don't use it) - but YouTube adverts do nothing but make me hate the products being advertised (and yes I give as much feedback as it will let me).

Edit: Fortunately I find Nigel Farage trying to sell me financial products fairly amusing...
> I think there is always a temptation, a danger, for those of us in STEM careers to hold our own feelings and emotions (not to mention those of others) in contempt, as if they are somehow invalid by definition.

> Instead, we should accept the emotional and intuitive aspects of ourselves and try to reason through them, understand where those feelings are coming from and make conscious decisions about how to move forward.

I agree completely. I'm distrustful of my emotions (if I feel uncomfortable with someone, is it because of things I know, or things I assume? Both are possible), but it's a fact that I experience them, and that they affect my day to day. Reason isn't what gets me out of bed in the morning. Emotions likely evolved because they were useful for survival. They can be very useful for directing our attention, or they can mislead us. If I feel something, I try to figure out if it's based on things I know instead of things I imagine, and then I try to act.
The thing is you only see this attitude with Software Engineers and not other high paying professions such as Doctors or Lawyers.

If you were to compare the roots of Computer Science and its culture to other professions, it initially stemmed from the nerds and nerds were always trained to see themselves as low status, in fact by definition being a geek would make you an outcast amongst others..

It just so happened by pure luck that many successful startups grew thanks to our field and being a SWE became suddenly desirable.

So I'm not surprised that demanding a fair wage or forming unions are some of the things we struggle with.

Our industry is constantly trying to bring its own value down (anyone can code, it's easy,..), you never hear about other industries complaining they are "overpaid" or belittle the value they bring to people and businesses.

It's an unfortunate truth about studying CS and if I may be boldly controversial on HN, it might also one of the reasons we don't see too many women in this low status field.
Is Parkinson's such a common disease that the average person would need to take action to specifically lower risk for it specifically?

If the output of the study was "Vitamin C and Vitamin E lower risk of Parkinson's and have no negative effects", that would be useful. But that is not the case, supplementation of various vitamins and minerals, specifically over supplementation have been shown to have risks. For example, Vitamin C is linked to increase iron absorption, and higher iron levels have been correlated with high risk of Alzheimer's. I'd much rather have Parkinson's than Alzheimer's.
It's not like these things fail to work without internet access. Obviously, the vast majority of people using the OS are going to have internet access so assuming actions based on internet access and then failing if you can't connect is accounted for, regardless of the reason (weak connection, no connection, etc). I don't see how anyone can call this behavior an oversight when it works exactly as intended.
> 'You're new around here. Welcome!'

No, I'm not new around here, and your disingenuous 'welcome' is unhelpful and unwelcome.

> 'You might be used to a Twitter style dismissiveness, but do read the guidelines. People take them seriously.'

I don't post on Twitter, but THAAAAAAAANKS.

> 'This is true. It's also a non-sequitur. You're arguing against a very easy, stupid argument that I did not make'

Yes, that is exactly the argument that you obviously did make. Just like all the other extremely naive tools always do.

> 'and you argued it rather aggressively.'

So what?

> 'How about you quote the specific sentences that led you to this, and we'll sort it out together.'

Sort what out together? Your cowardice? Your naivete? Sort that out for yourself. I only posted to demonstrate to others your foolishness.