skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commentz-Walter doesn't work that well in practice. As you add more patterns, the likelihood that there is any meaningful byte skipping goes way down. So it might be useful for a small number of patterns, but at that point, there are vectorized algorithms that will do (a lot) better. (Like Teddy from Hyperscan.)
That machine is using swap file a lot, in couple of years SSD will die.
The difference isn't that big: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKN9nvXTGHE

And for 5nm, I'm quite sure AMD already has contracts for that with TSMC. So the gap should be even smaller.
This article is not describing tit-for-tat.

Declaring that tit-for-tat is the best cooperative strategy, and then declaring that any observed cooperative strategy must be tit-for-tat, is a bit of circular logic.
Pirate it. That's easily more ethical than paying Google for nothing.
Is this relevant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5bAMoQt7EQ
It could be clearer but I suspect they do it on purpose for a purpose I've never understood.

I've always thought that a system like

i7-4-8-10-M (4 cores, 8 threads, 10th gen - Mobile)
i5-8-8-11-H (8 cores, 8 threads, 11th gen - High perf/Desktop)

There has to be a reason they haven't just been explicit with it.

When I shop for a cpu I care about a handful of things, manufacturer, cores, threads, generation, model
> Did you see an ad for Hacker News?

hacker news is heavily affiliated with ycombinator - and I can almost guarantee that I've seen ads/puff pieces for ycombinator over the last decade.

> The pens I always buy I first bought in a stationary store, ended up liking them and now I always buy that brand.

Just because you purchased a product without seeing an ad for it doesn't mean that that company doesn't have an ad spend. How did they get to that stationery store in the first place?

> Farmers sell their produce to supermarkets probably without having to advertize for them

Farmers likely work with a coop style organisation (who _do_ advertise heavily), or maybe have some local link. That local link is generated by having a presence in local business forums, farmers markets, local stores. Back in the day, your local butcher or greengrocer would take out full page ad in your town's newspaper to show the special offers they have on this week, nowadays I get facebook ads for my butcher.

> Lots of things we use on a daily basis we never saw ads for, and yet they're sold to us by companies. Somehow.

That's a strawman; the original claim was that there are companies with no advertising, not that people buy products without seeing advertising for them.
Yes, but in the PPC era Apple published amazing quality products several times superior to W98SE, W2000 and even XP.

Now, until the M1, Intel Macs where pretty much mediocre, even against a (fully configured OFC) KDE [3-5] BSD/Linux setup. Even with their iThingie ecosystem integration.
I ask due to a mixture of doubt, but also curiosity: Can you point to areas with prices in the 100Euro/m² range? For a house that's suited for living, and not destruction? My grandma's house might sell for that range (~200 Euro/m²), but it has 120m², was built at or before 1900 (as a poor farmers house) and there have been no meaningful improvements since the 1970s. So, as sad as it is: Best thing one can do is scap the house and build a new one. But then it's cheaper/easier to just buy some empty land.

That town is pretty much "Arsch der Welt", though they now have 50MBit/s internet since a few years. Next city (a small Kreisstadt) has multiple super markets and is 20km away. Mobile reception in the town is okay, I think they just skipped 3G for a decade and now partially swap 2G for LTE. Public transport to/from the Gymnasium [45m bus drive] is three times a day: Going there in the morning, and returning for 13 and 18 o'clock (so pupils can get to and from school for both the regular 6 lesson days and the longer 10 lesson days). For anything else you need a car; an electric car might work, since for most interesting hacker jobs you only need a total range of maybe 150km per day (outliers in both directions apply). OTOH, even if people might seem a bit skeptical of newcomers at first, they turn out to be super friendly. After all, it's easy to know everyone by name if you're just 250 people.

Where I live (Saarland) the "Bodenrichtwert"[0] alone is usually between 80 and 120 Euro for the "affordable" areas I looked at. So little chance getting more than a ruin for 100 Euro/m².

[0] For non-Germans: The "Bodenrichtwert" is the average price per m² of "raw land", that is, excluding improvements like houses. It is updated every 2 years to include recent sales in an area.
> The opening and closing involves zero work

Why?
I don't know why you're being downvoted. A 5nm version of the AMD stuff should be reasonably close to the M1.

The main bottleneck is the production capacity, we badly need more manufacturers of high end chipsets.
> But it's disingenuous to mix those quality of life arguments with an argument about money.

Genuinely don't understand why you would see these as disconnected from each other.

> Tech workers in the US tech hubs live a financially/materially more comfortable life than those in Europe.

Obviously as you can see from my comment above, I disagree with this view.
> ARM server chips are weak

For AWS cloud customers, I don't think this is true anymore. Graviton2 is quite capable with better performance in some instances for less money. I've already started moving some Java services to Graviton2 for the cost savings.

AWS is positioning the the Graviton2 in such a way that everyone using AWS will end up on them if they can.
>>North Korea is being bullied for ideological reasons

If by "ideological reasons" you mean "human rights".
We are trying to be less workflow focused and more closure focused. I do see how it might not be clear on the landing page.

You are right, we have limited features. That is because we are a small team and we want to have only the minimum features required for bug tracking (and not everything JIRA has). But, what we do intend is to go deep into this space and really question how we have all been building software and managing bugs.

The nudging people to move issues is indeed a culture thing. And the intention is to bring in culture building as part of the platform. This will reinforce and make resolving issues a much needed thing in our space.

The wrong culture is a bug, and maybe bugasura will help fix it. :)
To be honest it's not instant as everything has time lags and I'm assuming new strategies are very quickly incorporated into the market price, but if you have a market-beating algorithm and others start using it, that reduces the returns you generate potentially down to zero (depending on how efficient you think the market is).

The idea of an algorithm is that effectively you are wanting to work out the market value (or potential future value) of stocks/commodities to calculate if they are underpriced, i.e. you think a stock valued at £0.90 is actually worth £0.95, you buy them at £0.90 and hope to profit when people realise it is worth more. This gap between what you calculate, and the current market price, is the room you have to profit.

If others in the market start to use the same calculations as you, everyone will benefit from a more 'accurate' view of the underlying value of the asset, and this will change the market price. If you can't be the first-mover on this anymore you have lost your advantage.

Because of this, automated trading bots that actually work (which tend to be highly domain-specific, e.g. a bot that just estimates oil futures based on satellite imagery) tend to be sold to hedge/quant funds who can exploit the information asymmetry without disclosing the trading strategy.
That is such an awesome story, thanks for sharing!

Thanks to HN for connecting people across time and space and enabling exchange of memorable experiences.
Web Developer here. Wouldn't accept anything less than 32GB for a work machine.
> Physical media lets you have privacy without logging when you watch media, what media you consume, how many times you consume it, or how long you consume it.

I am so excited for my great-great-great-great ... grandchildren to find a layer of plastic DVDs in the earth’s crust 25 generations from now /s.

Seriously, Blu ray discs and DVDs are such a waste of resources.
Space and specs are becoming more and more meaningless to me, as all programming work is offloaded to the cloud anyway.

Yet I have a gigantic laptop that does nothing but produce heat from opening python scripts.
Are there similar platforms for buying ebooks?

I like ebooks but I'm not comfortable with all the layers of DRM involved in it.
Will checkout Sentry. What do you mean by it lacks some workflow?
It is very confusing because typically the previous generation’s i7 performs the same as the current gen’s i5, within the same tdp tier, and i5’s from a higher tdp can vastly outperform i7’s from a lower tdp within the same generation. Typically at any one time there are two or three processor generations in actual laptops being sold, as well as three or more tdp classes, so there is basically no good way of knowing how different laptops in the store compare performance-wise except by looking up benchmarks.
chess.com consistently lags for me why Lichess does not. I often lose completely winning positions because of the lag.
What IDE are you using?
Lichess is one of those examples where the open source alternative is actually the best and most well known.
Lightning network is a non-workable piece of shit that REQUIRES AN ON-CHAIN TRANSACTION TO SET UP A DEBIT CHANNEL BETWEEN WALLETS
This is the utopian future I dream of, but unfortunately there is 0 economic incentive for a company like apple to create a product like this. With how powerful our phones are, they could easily be the main workstations for millions, but they're forced to remain as toys. I'm somewhat surprised google don't try to push this more.
There was a similar story last year about Amazon Prime: https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/you-dont-own-the-movies-you-bu...
Would China entice Israel ?
Just donated $30 myself. I use this site every week. It's such a great product!

Here is the direct link: https://lichess.org/patron

PS: I also donated a few month of CPU time to fuel their Game Analytics a while ago: https://lichess.org/help/contribute
yepp (me facepalm)
Out of Thin Air: NASA Rover Makes Oxygen from Martian Atmosphere
Yeah, don't want to provide free advertising (they don't need it), but they should be as reliable as OVH for hosting servers in Europe.
But allowing too much is better than allowing too little, as usually you have to send an actual email to verify ownership anyways. Any regex more complex than /.+@.+/ fails some valid email address
Basically many modern Android phones today work perfectly well paired wirelessly with modern TV screen. Enable desktop mode, pair with a mouse and keyboard, and you have a kind of working environment: video chat, programming, text editing, office apps - all exists.

That's actually how to watch youtube without ads, because non-Android TV has no freetube/newPipe apps.
> I've got NES cartridges from the 80s or 90s still working.

And I've got Switch cartridges that are dependent on Nintendo's continued online support.

My point was that a physical Wii still works and is still a physical object, so it serves the same functional purpose here as individual NES cartridges.
> the tide doesn't always flow when you want it to.

It is possible (although complex and expensive) to construct a tidal scheme that can generate power consistently 24x7.

Conceptually, you can imagine two pools - one of which is filled on each high tide, and the other of which is emptied every low tide. There is always a water height difference between these two, so you can generate energy anytime with a generator between them.

It turns out such a scheme is less profitable than just generating lots of energy when the tide is flowing fast.
The parent's claim is:

> There are even some companies with no advertisement spending because their product is so essentially useful that people will seek it out themselves.

and that's in response to someone suggesting low profile/almost-no-ads. I completely agree about the low-profile/almost-no-ad approach (in the tech world having a community that evangalises for you is an advertisers wet dream, for example!), and I think that's what a lot of people in this thread are calling for. On a chess website, have ads for chess books/chess boards/novice-to-grandmaster streams, that sort of stuff, rather than shoving an ad for an Amazon mattress at the bottom of a blog post on Continuous Integration!
> and they come with blazingly fast SSDs...

Actually, they're somewhat slow compared to the competition.

A 500GB M1 SSD gives you about 3.1GB/s of write and 2.75GB/s of read performance [1]. In comparison - a $219 Samsung 980 Pro benchmarks at 4.2GB/s of write and 5.2GB/s of read performance [2]. Both on Disk Test from Black Magic.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/k2lhi8/ssd_speedtest_o...

[2]: https://www.servethehome.com/samsung-980-pro-500gb-pcie-gen4....
Here’s the AMD benchmark and it’s using up to 3x the power of the M1.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16446/amd-ryzen-9-5980hs-ceza...
Maybe buying a 5950X at the birth of DDR5, PCIeGen5 and TSMC's 5nm wasn't the wisest choice. Ehhhh seems like all that new stuff would still take lots of time to actually get ready, and the 5950X is the best CPU now.
Fortunately, countries with "nuclear first strike" do not perform them liberally, due to the threat of mutual destruction.

Hopefully, the same thing also applies to cyberspace.
This is false, computer performance has been doubling nearly every year. See for example https://www.top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/
Your web browser probably doesn't have many tabs open, and those that are open, are probably not web apps (think Slack, Facebook, WhatsApp, various internal corporate apps, etc.).

I can't even remember a time when just my web browser used up less than 4-5 GB of RAM, on its own.

Add at least 500MB - 1 GB for the OS itself, and we're talking about 2 - 3.5GB for apps. I'd immediately swap with just 8GB of RAM with an IDE and a DB running.
You can upgrade them to 16GB. Having been developing heavy applications in a M1 Mac mini for since they were released they’re definitely adequate for most users. Obviously some people need ~100 cores and ~1TB of ram (myself included for other parts of my job) but that segment is always going to be better served by companies other than Apple.
Signalling Security
I have an M1 from work (which I now mainly use for private stuff...) and it does have 16gb memory. It did cost a bit less than $1700 (after taxes) I believe, although I am not sure. I know it has some upgraded gpu compared to the standard model in some form, but didn't know about the memory.

As for the device: It is neat, but not revolutionary to any degree. I do paint and model and can run blender/krita just fine, it is even quite performant. This is through emulation, I don't have native builds for arm. Maybe those have become available in the meantime, but you don't notice the emulation at all.

But it won't be the end of x86 in my opinion. Why would it?
Thibault Duplessis is actually an ex co-worker of mine, and this guy is truly impressive.

Not only he is a very talented developer, he really sticks to his beliefs and made what Lichess is today.

He used to take up a job for a year or so, save money, and travel the world for a year or so until money runs out. Then he would come back to France and take up a new job. All working on Lichess during his free time.

For a few years now he has enough donation to pay himself enough money for his expenses, while he could have been a startup millionaire if he had decided to take a different path.

But he proved that you can have a successful non-profit, free of charge, free from ads service. Not just source code, but an actual service hosted with millions of users.

We need more people like Thibault.
Fibs.com ?
Many have had this concept, no one has actually executed well on it.
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Apple always nickel-and-dimes storage. Overpriced storage is how they make probably 5-10% of their hardware profits.

iPhone still have 64GB as their base storage in 2021...
Above Potential
> but that's not a very mainstream solution

Sometimes you gotta get off the train that speeds towards a cliff, even if it means going by foot for a while.
I did indeed, I never said that SSDs are a replacement for RAM, I just said that having access to 2.5GiB/s RW operations allows you to offload many things into the SSD, yes, thrashing is an issue, but it is much more insignificant at those speeds than disks.

I am not defending apple in any way whatsoever, I even mentioned in the first sentence of the comment. I stated that they are able to do that because they compensate with compression and SSDs, applications in the background can be thrown in the swap and the user will rarely notice.
Nobody needs Jeff Bezos to tell them this.
Being "Smart" is way overrated.
Most challenges faced in the workplace don't require geniouses.
I would without question rather having a really dedicated and hard working employee than a genious.
Relevant XKCD (from 2008): https://xkcd.com/488/
Just remembered a bit of history: the first (4 bit) Intel microprocessor would have been called the 1202 according to Intel's chip naming convention at that time until Federico Faggin pushed to get it changed to the 4004.

The 4004 was a hit and the rest is history!
> It’s an API and you have to build the gui.

It has an API, but after a quick peek at the page, I wouldn't say it 'is' an API. I'd call it a library.
As long as the disk still exists /somewhere/, a digital copy you ripped from it is legal to keep and backup for personal use indefinitely, and transfer to a new owner of the physical copy.

One of your many rights if you -actually- own a copy of media.

Many sites offer DRM-Free music and books without needing to have a redundant physical copy laying around, but in video media this is extremely rare, and that is a problem.
I have been talking to strangers in VR, which is actually quite easy to do. It has been a totally interesting and eye-opening experience. First of all, there is no safety risk, so a lot of the natural anxiety about talking to unknown people is gone. Because of this safety, people are much more willing to talk openly with you. You would think it would be all gamer geeks, but it turns out that people from every walk of life enjoy things like poker and battle royale. The ages go from about 10 to 60 and careers go from plumber to developer to student to prison guard.

My biggest learning is that I am in an incredible bubble. Everyone I have been interacting with for my whole life, even the strangers at the store have been heavily filtered without me even knowing it. Social media has done nothing to expand my bubble because it is an echo chamber where most voices are down-voted, drowned out or never expressed in the first place.

My conclusion is that on the one hand, there's so much variation in people's circumstances and values that you need these filters in order to ever find a person who you are remotely simaler to. On the other hand, there's a great joy in hearing about someone's life and perspective who is so different that they would have never had a conversation with you on the street. It expands your world, makes you less judgemental, and makes you more acutely aware of what a difference ethnicity, age, class, education, and nationality can really be when we don't have our guard up and can speak freely.
I really hope you meant - closed bugs
The problem with mime type in xattr is that you lose it as soon as you copy it to another filesystem. It also assumes that every system names its MIME types identically.
The sweet spot is 8GB for most people. I’d guess 80% 8GB/15% 16GB and 5% more. Even many types of developers are fine with 8.

Apple collects a lot of metrics and I’m sure they know this well.
I have no opinion on big corporations per se.

I merely know that specifically Google needs to be anti-trust'ed into shreds and pieces and then some more.

They control way too many parts of the public Internet, software and hardware.

Giving them even more control by letting their programming languages permeate the fabric of the software ecosystem is a bad idea.
I used to have a coworker named Thibault, I wonder if this is the same guy.
Clubhouse and Audio's Feature Not a Product Problem
Oh wow, Gen4 NVMes are really fast. Thanks for the link!
Some developers don't want to use the ternary operator because it's "too complex".

I believe there's a middle ground to be found where further abstractions add complexity rather than reduce it. Where that middle ground is, I don't know.
I have an electrical engineering degree. But I graduated in 2011, so I'd have to brush up on the math if I pursue the masters degree.
DMCA is no longer enforced on media where the device needed to play it is no longer sold.

You can go get almost any Super Nintendo ROM on archive.org right now, legally.

I hope to see this foothold extended.
I'm sorry, no. Everyone knows that before Rails there were only three ways to make a web application. You could do it in either PHP, in Java servlets or in ASP.Net. Ok and maybe ColdFusion MX.
That defeats the claimed purpose: decentralization, isn't it?
I had a look and it seems to be true! Thank you!

_That said_, their "Discover" range of videos on youtube sure look like ads (albeit not banner ads). I know that Tesla have had a presence at a bunch of EV events here in Scotland; they have a stall and cars there that you can test drive. It's definitely not banner-ad-on-google, (and the publicity from stating they don't do ads is likely an ad in itself), but it's definitely "paid marketing"

Super interesting though, thank you for giving me a rabbit hole to go down!
Radio pirate island ended up helping drug lords around the world
Though security isn't just about how secure a thing could be, but how secure it is in common practice. I would trust a minimal Linux distro with a decent kernel configuration as well, but I wouldn't trust Ubuntu server with systemd and who knows what else by default. I'd much rather have OpenBSD base; and OpenBSD base is fundamentally a minimal install with decent kernel defaults.

The people in the OpenBSD community tend to focus on the minimalist configuration by default, which helps security in practice; and things are easy to configure. Running a postgresql database on top of OpenBSD base with PF blocking everything except whitelisted clients will go a long way for security. For a lot of servers, OpenBSD base with a few libraries is enough for a server application, and the work put into making base minimal and secure by default is great for that.
Buying a DVD is surprisingly similar: you are buying two things, you are buying a physical copy of something (i.e. a movie which can be played) and a perpetual licence to play it in certain limited circumstances.

Even though you 'own' the DVD you still don't get to do what you want with it - you can't do public screenings in the UK for example without further permission.

And even though you 'own' the DVD might not even be able to copy the data to your own laptop for personal backup, again depending on jurisdiction.
I had great help of this website too: https://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/
Naturally GM: Crops steal genes from other species to accelerate evolution
That would be a very AMD thing to do. Apple is likely to pump endless amounts of cash into TSMC to make huge monolithic chips so that there's no cross-core latency issues and that they can still say they have a single "chip" in marketing materials.
I think that unless you drastically change the parameters of the implementation then yes it does mean it will always fail.
How does tracking time for each bug help in your work? Is this to manage SLAs or productivity?

The multi level comenting makes sense.