skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Price and feature availability had a lot to do with it. Up until Ryzen came out, a 4 core CPU was the largest core count available in an Intel "consumer" CPU. I had a 6 core Ivy Bridge CPU at one point (i7-4930k) and it cost me ~$550. The motherboard was another $300. Despite the premium, it was still considered a desktop CPU, so ECC was unavailable. And since it was a niche product, I was unable to find a replacement motherboard when I inadvertently damaged mine. Moreover, since the chipsets changed seemingly every new CPU release cycle, I couldn't upgrade either my CPU or my motherboard without replacing both.

AMD released the Ryzen 1700x, with 8 cores, for cheaper than what I paid for my 6 core, and something like half the price of Intel's 8 core offering. AMD made 4 core the baseline, while Intel was still selling 2 core i3s, and they made 6 cores the middle of the road. All of them had hardware threading enabled, whereas Intel had disabled hyper-threading in its i5 line.

AMD also committed to supporting the AM4 socket for multiple release cycles. With BIOS updates, motherboards that launched with with the 1XXX series can run the newest 5XXX series (subject to being able to power them). And the Ryzen motherboards came in two flavors: one that was very affordable (the BX50 series) and one that was more expensive, but had features enthusiasts want (the XY70 series).

I don't want to sound like I'm gushing, but AMD came out swinging with Ryzen. I'm probably misremembering, but looking back, I think the only advantage Intel really had at the time was single core performance (and for a niche audience, AVX512). Subsequent Ryzen releases have really closed the performance gap and there the TSMC process improvements help. AMD has garnered a lot of good will at this point. They shook up the stagnant CPU market with both features and price.
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A large number of users, such as myself, also probably think that Microsoft could fix some of the reasons that make a full reboot necessary so often.
“Disrupting navigation”
While I agree with this, the ease of chargeback will make you pause if you ever tried being a merchant. We ran a successful e-commerce operation about 10 years ago and our product was digital but every one of them cost us money and single use (think gift cards); by definition the product could not be faulty itself. Maybe you can expect a few mistakes (no clue how but let's say) and yet we got a lot of chargebacks, of course after they used the product. That is the risk of the business, but it should not be. If I can reasonable show you got the product (activation location matches your CC zip code let's say in this case) chargeback should not be possible and, after experiences like this, actually punishable IMHO. As in, if you chargeback and it is not the merchant fault your CC should be taken away as you are apparently a scammer. And do it again with another bank, the authorities should be notified. Chargeback in the US way (it is harder in the EU, they ask a lot more questions) is, in cases like ours, simply stealing which is a crime no? And yet allowed and people are even proud of it on forums etc. Consumer protection is great but as a b2c merchant I would only accept crypto from US customers if I would ever do this again (which I will not).

(The person who bought the business, and knew all the details as we provided all the exact numbers from our e-commerce system and bank, actually burnt out and killed the business at great loss to himself when he saw how many people are actually down right thieves)
Plato made up Atlantis.
toybox is pretty cool, but there is one big problem (though I am biased): the `bc` it has is old and outdated and not much better than the GNU `bc`.

The last update was several years ago because Rob wanted to maintain the version in toybox himself. It has not gotten much love since.

Source: I am the author of the `bc` in toybox. My current version [1] is much faster and has more math libraries and extensions. Even Android uses my current version rather than the version in toybox.

Edit: mistakenly said that toybox has my `dc`. It does not. Busybox does, and I mixed them up. I've corrected the above.

[1]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
"slower" is just one piece of the calculation. On the server end one goal of async/await is that you can run 10k instances of your 3 lines of code concurrently - inside a single thread. And while this might not use parallelism to make an individual operation faster, it might use less resources overall.

The other use-case was to run multi-step operations which involve waiting on UI threads of appplications, which wouldn't have worked with blocking waits (would prevent redraw). For that use-case "speed" also isn't the highest priority.
This individual is amazing. Thanks for being a badazz.
yep, i meant my next comments on yc will try to provide better arguments and/or concrete proofs bringing value to the discussions
Why is water blue? [pdf]
Err, having people practice some self-discipline and personal responsibility would be great. Nice selling point of surveillance heh.

Imo, it is scary because the state always knows where you are and what you do. Which is fine most of the time, but if they decide you owe them a favour or need to disappear, that's it, can't hide.
Overall this isn't wrong, but just to make a few corrections here...

>its default is to send all your OpenGL operations to the X server so that the X server can do the actual OpenGL things

This isn't the case with any modern GLX applications and also hasn't been the default on the Xorg server in many years: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/d0da0e9...

>On Unix, EGL is implemented in Mesa

Confusingly, GLX is also currently implemented in Mesa.

>I suspect that EGL on X is not in any way network transparent

It's not, but modern GLX is not "network transparent" either. The only way you get indirect rendering with GLX is with extremely old applications (OpenGL 1.4 and earlier) and if you explicitly configure the server to use it with a flag.

>I don't know how an application using EGL and OpenGL on top of a Zink backed would interact with a Vulkan WSI, but I assume that Zink plumbs it all through somehow.

Zink is a Gallium driver so the WSI doesn't get used. You just use EGL and then Zink passes the Vulkan buffer back to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im6xQyglYuU
It might also be fair to say that a lot of “global history” of the past 30 years has been written by living people with an agenda. And the rigour of their work has not always been that high.

From an English perspective it is hard to understand the disdain for the “dark ages” label. After the Romans left, people in Britain got several inches shorter and became illiterate.
I've enjoyed trading a lot, but find that when I/others become consumed by it alone that it's a bitter existence. By avoid daytrading, and ensuring I'm not invested in anything that I'm forced to constantly worry about or check, it takes a long of the sting out.
Landley's major issue with GPL is that there isn't "a" GPL anymore. To paraphrase a talk (or multiple talks) I've seen of his: "the GPL", even up to GPLv2 was seen as a universal receiver of source code. For the most part it didn't matter which free/open code was linked to it, GPLv2 could be compatible with it.

Enter GPLv3 which wasn't even compatible with the unmodified GPLv2 and to Landley this made it no longer a universal receiver. Couple that with his disagreement over using the GPL in BusyBox to leverage source code from vendors, he created ToyBox and the 0BSD license. He sees the 0BSD license as a universal donor since GPL is no longer a universal receiver.
I think it made sense for UI integrations. From a synchronous OnClick delegate you could start an async void function - which essentially starts a background task that lives even after the click handler returns. Returning a Task here would not have made sense since nothing awaits it. But arguably the use-case could also have been fulfilled by calling `Task.Run` in the handler to spawn a background task.
Aren't they constantly challenged and at some point inevitably lose due to injuries and/or age?
Canadians Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor Released by China
I was given a Latitude 5300 2-in-1 running Windows 10 by a client for a short term project last year, there were multiple `big bro` installed on it so I didn't bother to tinker it much other than requesting local admin access so as to install WSL2 and Ubuntu in order to build a productive environment to get things done (implement a flavour of K8s distribution in fully air-gapped environment). BIOS is password protected so I can't even run USB Live Linux distros (to test performance of the hardware or play around).

Some interesting observations:

1. fan spins crazily for no reason randomly, and the laptop seemed to be always heated (in comparison with MBP and other laptops running Linux).

2. it can become overly hot and fan can spin even if it was in sleep! This was scary so after seeing it once I tend to power if off whenever finishing using it. Some times it didn't wake up, giving a QR code (BSOD...)

3. the not-too-bad specs failed to pump out expected performance (so sluggish), in comparison with similar hardware running Linux x86_64 or macOS (not surprised)

NOTE: Feeling lucky that my kids school allows BYOD, simply picked M1 MBA for both to avoid the Windows debt (in most cases hardware is not to blame, I've used many Dell Latitude models with positive impression).
It’s fascinating to think how they lived full lives and probably even pondered the ancients (relative to them.)
Big Problems at the Timezone Database
Eh? I don't get it?

They offer you an interview, however long it is, for no money.

If you are interested in changing jobs, think the new company is a fit, and you're prepared to invest some time for a shot at the job then go for it.

If the opportunity is not worth your time, then don't. It's not like you have to go...

This acts as a good filter for employers. If you as a candidate don't think it's worth the time invested then that's time I'm not wasting, and it's a win for both of us.

If I switch to paying people I remove the filter, hence get to do more interviews, and a bunch of those will just be there for the cash. The employer is out time and money, and the honest applicant is hard to spot. Lose lose.

It sounds to me like you are looking for a job, have been on a number of interviews (ie invested in much time) with no return so far. The solution to this is figuring out why you were unsuccessful, and working on that, not becoming a professional interviewee.

Incidentally some companies will give feedback after a rejection so it's worth following up, but for legal reasons some won't.
I'd say you got pranked, but that may be wishful thinking.

Yeah, I don't think that system is "confident enough". Just that the error rate is acceptable. Some poor sod gets charged instead of you? Welp, tough luck. Pretty terrible.
Your parent said like scientists. Not like jurists.

And as far as I understand it, they are correct. Science doesn't convict an effect, it provides a lower bound on the likelihood of the effect's existence.
>> What then do you identify as the single commonality between these 30 cities

I don't know. I mean we can start by ruling things out but I don't know.

It wasn't covid, every country had covid, you look at some of the other reasons people put forth, did that suddenly happen?

The increase in homicide rates suddenly happened. The police weren't suddenly defunded in 30 cities across America in June of 2020. They didn't suddenly change bail requirements in 30 cities across America in June of 2020.

The typical murder we are talking about here is a young black man with a handgun killing another young black man. That's where the increase comes from. Young black men didn't all of the sudden go acquire handguns in the middle of 2020.

These aren't for the most part legally acquired or legally carried handguns. Maybe starting in June of 2020 they felt the need to carry a gun was greater, and the risk of carrying a gun was lower?

In every large city in the US? I don't know, that's the best I've got. What've you got?
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When you switch a 11 year ICE car with an electric, yes, you would generate a 11 year-old ICE car. If priced low enough, somebody will pick it up and use it for a few years, since the purchase price, compared to a new electric car, is lower than the (worse fuel economy + higher maintenance costs) figure.

But, unless gasoline and diesel drastically drop in price, you are running towards an economic wall, since it's exactly people from Africa and former soviet territories that are the most sensitive to fuel economy and high maintenance costs. Meanwhile, electrics drastically drop in price, since they simpler and cheaper to produce.

The extra few years European cars will see in Africa is just the long tail of the ICE car in Europe, not some fundamental shift. If those would not be available, Africans would purchase cheap new Chinese ICE or other low cost brands. A visit to Eastern Europe will convince you that some 50% of cars are newly purchased cheap brands like Dacia-Renault, Mitsubishi Colt, Chevrolet Spark, often stripped down versions made specifically for these markets and priced at something like 10.000€.

These will have an even lower life expectancy than the typical 20-40.000€ western car, and will be in need for replacing.
"Pick up that can"
Not in the same way as a modern CI/CD-pipeline. 15 years ago you had release-approval meetings where a dedicated QA team would present all their manually observed findings in a excel-sheet to management.

E2E is a replacement for, or evolution of, the QA department, not a replacement for unit tests.
Why isn't it merged?
Thank you, that was exquisite.
Grommunio an open source Exchange replacement
>> eclipsing Intel

> AMD had 2020 revenues of $9.76bln to Intel's $77.87bln.

Ever heard of a solar eclipse? ;)
If a pay for success model could provide more QALYs at a lower cost than patented drugs, there would be no need to limit patent protections: the model would simply outcompete the patent system. Payers would instead "buy" successful RCT data for repurposed off-patent drugs via pay for success contracts instead and potentially save trillions of dollars as a result.

In my view, there is a role for new patented drugs, but this model will reduce pharma's ability to game the patent system via "evergreening" (e.g. releasing a slightly tweaked formulation of a drug just prior to expiry of the old generic and trying to get doctors to switch to new formulation using excessive marketing). It would give payers another option other than patented drugs to buy successful RCT data.
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I don't understand why dan g heavily moderates our comments while allowing links to paywall websites that don't want to be included in news aggregation.
Sexy Cynicism and Nihilist Elitism
It's okay. The Oxford dictionary has them covered:

https://www.lexico.com/definition/cromulent

https://www.lexico.com/definition/embiggen
Is there any evidence they were spies? I read the one guy arranged Dennis Rodman’s trip to North Korea. They were said to be a former diplomat and a business man.

How do any Canadians in the room feel about their business trips to China these days?
I agree, I have come to realize most of what we call values and the right thing to do is completely subjective.
There isn't much to go by here. I mean -- if they could embellish with large stone tablet buildings and "giants", we may reasonably surmise that the whole tale is a stand-in for simply uncharted/unexplored territory. The Norse equivalent of "Here be dragons".
[1] What is the CEO's cliff and vesting?
[2] Longer vesting means more stock, around 50% in this case, for companies who want employees long-term. (The relevant measure is stock/year, not total stock.)
[3] Ask the CEO to name three comparable companies with such terms.

If there's a hostile reaction to [3], you just learned something valuable.
If there's a neutral reaction, you can say that you're evaluating the CEO's ability to negotiate and persuade, which is true.

Interviews and offer negotiations go both ways.
>You can locate, download, install, and set up a crypto wallet

I was under the impression you had to download the blockchain for e.g. bitcoin before you could engage in transactions. Which is something like 350 GB at this point. And then do some processing that takes a while.

Surely this takes a lot more than two minutes.

If you didn't do that, do you really have a crypto wallet?
As I understand the GPL you only need to provide source to users. So you can sell it for $ and only then provide the source.

Of course that person could then post the source for anyone, and if you trusted that one-removed source you can get it from there.

(incidentally most paying users would not post the source because of loss aversion.)
I also didn't like that the deranged person is a Trump supporter. There are deranged democrats in not small proportions. The point of the article was good but it too was polarizing.
It certainly would.
It can't void the warranty in the US or EU.
Apples famous "gotofail" SSL Security Bug was due to this

https://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2014/03/apples-gotofail-...
Go read “Ward 6”.
My favorite infrastructure abstraction tool in this category is Apache Beam. I like that it lets you think in Python and an explicit Map Reduce DAG. Serialization errors are a bear to deal with. But, the power and composability of the framework make it nearly addictive.
You may want to look into Tinycore Linux. Lot of what you describe.
I generally agree. Apple seems to fly in the face of this however.
Their silicon story is an interesting one lately
Depends on which real scientists you are talking about.

I've worked with many "real scientists" who will consider possiblity unless they see conclusive evidence against it. On the frontiers, there is very little conclusive evidence; this is why they are the frontiers.

I have also met "real scientists" who actively dismiss conclusive evidence if it doesn't line up with what they think will get funded.

It doesn't seem the first flavor is the one you are talking about.
If you run Android in desktop mode, would that be considered a Linux desktop?
As a software developer it’s very confusing to read an article where a tree metaphor has been chosen because in the author’s view trees aren’t hierarchical! It’s a good exercise in cognitive dissonance.
Visa does do something equivalent to settlements. Even if that is just at monthly granularity (statements to card holders), the volume is immense.
What do you thing about this one: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/nginx
Amazing you actually believe that. Have you considered what doesn't make it to the news, and also what gets explicitly omitted from the news?

Do you even know that FATF is the main organization that goes around imposing KYC/AML?

And they are a non-governmental body, no oversight - don't answer to anybody.

They are literally Luca Brasi and you don't even know who the Don Corleones behind the curtain are.
Thanks to Europeans?

I wonder — what civilisation can we attribute all this progress to?

Romans? British? Or Americans ?
There has been zero evidence presented that they were spies. The fact that they were detained within days of Meng's arrest and released within hours of her being set free should tell you all you need to know.

The CCP has engaged in hostage taking because one of their elite members was arrested.

At any rate, now that they are free - Canada can go ahead and ban Huawei 5G networks like the rest of the 5 eyes (save NZ I think?)
Well my MBP 16 and before that my original 13" rMBP both did unscheduled wake ups and ending up super hot when being transported in my backpack. With the MBP 16, it took me a few days to detect the unscheduled wake ups, setup logging to now show private and then debug and fix the issue.
Free tip that took me a long time to realize: if it's dirty at all after you're done washing you're doing it wrong. You should need one or two wipes to clean the water off and nothing more. Sometimes it can take 10 seconds and a bit of dancing around to get it to really clean everything.
I'm not taking away from her, at all. She's kicking ass. But giving the CEO all the credit is unfair to everyone who participated. Keller and Papermaster are equally if not more important in this turnaround. That said, if Su had a hand in having these two on board, then yes she can have most of the credit.
I do not think the term should be used in this case because anyone could've mined at that point; others that actually did pre mine did so when only a few insiders could as well, like a pre IPO.
I don't think it is, but I think I understand your point. Of course there is no denyng there is a huge amount of cultural blurring of lines, primarily through the common language, but what I'm talking about goes far beyond just "but a few aristos have ties so why would they hate us" and more towards the systemic setup that has created much of the current mess we are in today. For example, there is a strong body of evidence supporting that Wilsonianism, which I credit as the primary turning point of US foreign policy, was very much entertwined with the upper establishment types in the UK. I could cite many similar examples (the banking system) that continue this narrative. These arent inherently bad per se, but the naive way Americans think of them makes them vulnerable to manipulation and deception.

Carroll Quigley's Anglo-American Establishment is a must read for background knowledge on this topic.
Is the touch sensitive iPod going to be a reality? (2006)
There's no evidence they were spies.

Unfortunately, most of the affordable flights to other parts of Asia connect through China these days. I'll be avoiding those connections now - even if it costs significantly more.
That existing utilities serving cities would not want to expand to rural areas does nothing to support the argument that no private business wanted to enter this market. After all, utilities are known to be very conservative as they are regulated monopolies. Trying to convince them to enter a risky new market is a tough sell. But those incumbent utilities themselves came into existence with some entrepeneur taking a risk, so the ability of the market to meet this type of need is there, but it requires credit for new entrants, not "asking" an incumbent monopoly to do it.

But the reason entrepeneurs couldn't in the 1930s was that there was no financing available to do so, and the law allowing subsidized government lending only to cooperatives (shutting out private business) prevented them from doing it. In fact if no private business wanted to enter this market, why was there legislation to exclude them? Why not just lend to anyone who wanted to take on the project? Then if half the borrowers were coops and half were private business, so be it. Then we could look back on this, and if indeed most were coops, we could make the kind of affirmative statement you originally made. But as it stands, it's not a fair statement to make.
Many/most people don't worry about having large amounts of cash stolen, whether by authorities or criminals precisely because they trust the banking system to keep track of their money.
Less volatile with every market cycle?

Nassim Taleb disagrees: https://youtu.be/dLOeBSaq-Ps

I bet the CoinGeek conference audience were stunned by his keynote talk because Taleb used to be a supporter.
Together with `Interaction of Color` by Josef Albers - these two were the primary sources to teach me colors.

In my view this site is as valuable amongst the other online resources as the book is amongst the other books about color theory.
I think the surprising news is that the norse explorations of North America was known in southern Europe. Until now I had thought it was a quite isolated event.