skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is absolutely fair. The ballpark figure for losses over Meltdown/Spectre fixes is about 20%. This means, on a laptop, you produce 20% more heat or your battery's charge lasts 20% less.

AMD's worst fix for Spectre/Meltdown lost about 3%, and that was for the original Zen 1. Would you rather have 20% of your CPU/battery just evaporate without warning, or 3%?

On top of this, Intel does not make any really competing parts: Intel laptops cost more and flat out perform worse per dollar, with a lower upper limit on maximum performance.

The next chance Intel has at being competitive is with their first full scale Cove family core (instead of the Lake/Cove hybrids, which isn't going to be out until Series 12.

Side note: Series 12 is already shaping up to be bad, the most cost-effective desktop part is going to go toe to toe with Zen 4 per "real" thread, and have 4 big SMT2 cores and 8 little Atom-like SMT1 cores (so 16 threads, with half of them on smaller and slower power efficient cores, so like how ARM does it), but the competing Zen 4 Ryzen will be 8 real full scale cores (and also 16 threads), which ends up putting it in the ballpark of being around a third faster with the same power usage and pricing.

Intel must compete, and I hope Pat Gelsinger can turn the ship around. CPUs take about 3-4 years, from early planning to retail shelves. He became CEO this year, so I don't think they have anything they can do (other than drop pricing significantly) until the Cove that goes up against Zen 6 comes out (which is 2025+).
I’m all for workers organizing. But these “protesters” were insincere and disingenuous.

The very same Apple employees who were demanding that Apple fight Texas’ new abortion laws were also demanding that Apple support
Palestine — where abortion is 100% illegal.
I just buy a MacBook Pro that’s upgraded within my budget.
On an unrelated note, I am a Zendesk customer and absolutely love the app. Zendesk makes customer support fun!
It's not. You generally only pay for the master clusters with no per-node costs over whatever instance type you are using and scheduling class (ondemand, reserved, spot, etc).

So not only are the masters relatively cheap, they cost is amortized over the cluster size.

AWS is probably very unhappy about this but they were forced into this by GKE pricing model. Google pushed people to adopt k8s not because they can make a lot of money from people using it but because they can take away a lot of money from AWS and increase workload portability, which benefits Google far more than AWS as they are in second place.

The most expensive managed services are things like RDS, MSK, Elasticache, etc. MSK in particular is pretty egregious with a 80% premium considering they haven't done any additional engineering like RDS.
It does speak LDAP as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IaxnSAggkI&t=1507s
One day these weapons will be pointed at their own civilians. What do we do then?
It's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of definition. I know what basic words mean. People can only disagree with the statements I made by destroying the meanings of the words I used. It's no big surprise that they're trying to do that, considering the source of this stuff is postmodernism.
> look to Hollywood to see unions like SAG, the DGA, and the WGA which exist to protect all workers from exploitation

Funny how those Hollywood unions knowingly let their "members" be sexually exploited by powerful industry figures and didn't say a peep.

Funny how those same unions let their "members" be exploited by abusive industry figures and shit working conditions for the entirety of their existence.
I didn't realize Pinterest had fallen victim as well. Never really liked the platform but always liked their logo. Sad.
I'm all for pushing back a bit against the usual HN crypto hate-fest, but you are really going about it in the most insufferable way possible. Maybe leave the crypto twitter level discourse out of it.
You’ve hit on something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately in price sensitive markets (which is basically anything in the consumer space). You’re better off being very expensive ($10k tattoo artist) than broadly appealing.

I’ve seen it mentioned here a lot w.r.t. freelance web developers, but my friends in the trades are aware of it too. Be expensive. It filters out the terrible customers and gets you people who are willing to pay (and wait) for quality work. The difficult part, I think, is knowing your market well enough to know what that threshold is. There is a lot of hysteresis in pricing - you can easily be too expensive for the cheap customers, but not expensive enough to make up for the reduction in paying jobs.

The hard part is you have to know your market really, really well. And you may not be able to apply that model to every job. No matter how rich your customer is, they’re probably not going to pay $1000 for you to change a lightbulb. On the other hand, there are plenty who will pay you $20k for work that your competition is quoting $5k for.

And the closer your chosen field is to art, the greater that gap can be. If you want to be a baker, you can’t compete with grocery stores for the $30 birthday cake market, but you can make $6k wedding cakes and corporate event cakes. You might only make one cake a week, but isn’t that better than having to crank out 200 sheet cakes with terrible baby pictures printed on them?
I was thinking the same thing. I found this article about a game called Axie Infinity.

“ NFT games such as "Axie Infinity" and "NBA Top Shot" let people earn money by grooming and selling animal characters called Axies, which players treat as digital pets. […] They will then groom these Axies, team up with their friends and make Axies do battle like Pokemon, and build so-called "virtual kingdoms."“

In any other game the characters you develop are essentially the _same_ as any other character played by any other player—maybe with the exception of the character name which you could personalize.

I can appreciate the notion that you can develop a character which can be uniquely identified.

Without devolving into a philosophical argument about games simulating reality, I’m thinking you can see NFTs as a fundamental change, because NFTs offer a unique player experience. If Eve Online creates a unique experience by allowing players to create corporations, then NFT character is a unique experience at the individual player level.

Unique digital assets are compelling like baseball cards

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/263796/20210805/how-do-nf...
Thank you! This reminds me of the old annoyances.org that listed a bunch of little tricks to improve your Windows 95 experience.
The Design of Conditional Cash Transfer Schemes in India
But that is only true for the consumer product line, isn't it? I have a Thinkpad T series and you can replace virtually everything and you can buy replacement parts super cheap on eBay because Thinkpads are so common.
I know some seriously sophisticated folks who are not only trading USDT at par, but even long, which I have long found puzzling given that anyone who didn’t just fall off the turnip truck knows it’s not even remotely capitalized to par.

My personal suspicion is that when a trivially distressed asset is valued at or above par by smart people that those people expect a bailout/recapitalization.

(Sidebar: USD is special among “fiat” currencies at the moment because its backed by the world’s largest military. Having guys with guns show up if you refuse to treat something as valuable is a pretty compelling argument to treat that thing as valuable.)
We use events and Kafka to make blockchain more accessible for development
I would barely call them logos. It's like they found the name of the company mentioned in the title of some blog article and just took a screenshot.

The new Pinterest logo is downright offensive, given how great the original was.
In one word: move. The living wage for a single adult in SF with no kids is $28/hour(1). That's not a realistic wage for someone in most unskilled jobs (which is why there's basically no manufacturing there and only the bare minimum of service jobs!).

We should subsidize moving.

The other point to make here is that labor constraints are largely a good thing right now. We went 50 years where the power balance was on the corporate side. Now that it's shifting, labor is finally seeing the benefits of increased productivity over that time. All it took was a global pandemic to push a few million boomers into finally retiring...

(1) https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/06075
At first I was like, “heh, parallel redis so pedis”…then I said it out loud and I was like….oh my
You mean the thing called PRO isn't ready for professional use?
The problem with America’s upper-middle class and meritocracy
My #1 requirement is a 4K OLED HDR screen, ideally 16" or larger.

The #2 requirement is a decent keyboard with full-sized arrow keys and dedicated PgUp/PgDn/Ins/Del and arrow keys. (Why $5000 laptops skimp on $0.01 keys just boggles the mind.)

Everything else is a nicety, or can be compromised on. But I look at the screen and I touch the keyboard for 8 hours a day. If they're not good enough, I'm not buying, end of story.
Do each file in your repo has the copyright+license at the beginning? IIRC they can not remove it if they use a "substancial portion of the Software".
I’m really not seeing what the issue is here. Could you expand on it?

As a programmer why do I have to reason or care whether something is compile time only or not? I don’t worry about constant folding but it is a similar thing.
Maybe this is the case with all processes, but it looks so simple that it has to have been tried before. How certain is it that this actually works?
Although fictional, the 5th season of the TV show Vikings covers these characters in some depth.
Building a More Human Internet in NYC – Still Connecting
I've seena crapload more commenters on here putting crypto in a positive light.

It's only recently I've started to see some genuine opposition.
Most promotions are on relationship basis. Sex, race, religion, region, culture... only matters to the degree that those people associate easier, or have related for longer, so they trust better, and as important as promoting knowledge is promoting trust for both parties

Promoting someone only for their very good skills, without a good relation, might result in exploitation and discarding as soon as you're not performing

Also can't read the article
Gross profit, not revenue.

”The GDP is the total of all value added created in an economy. The value added means the value of goods and services that have been produced minus the value of the goods and services needed to produce them, the so called intermediate consumption."

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...?
> Cool. Definitely saving this. Id like to self-host a cloud dev environment.

I’m going a big write up now of the landscape of cloud dev and self-hosted cloud dev. Leave your digits at https://www.ghuntley.com/newsletter to get it when it ships.
I've built a couple of demos using this article as a guide to understanding how the net architecture works. It's pretty fun to run through. Making your sim deterministic is a neat challenge.
OpenNebula 6.2 ‘Red Square’ Beta 2 has been released
> Interesting that they are choosing to provide an integrated solution including user management and OAuth IdP ( https://github.com/kanidm/kanidm/pull/485 ) rather than plug into existing open source or even commercial offerings.

I can understand their focus of being completely open and self-contained. At work we use Azure AD and I've been looking at an IDP to use personally. I actually do have access to a personal AAD instance. But I don't want to give commercial parties access or data about my stuff.

Existing open source offerings would be ok but then you have a codebase to consider that you don't manage and it could make the product heavier. The only thing I'd 'outsource' would be algorithm stuff in libraries like crypto.

I'm looking for something lightweight that is stand-alone and this looks really interesting. I'll definitely try it out.

Just wanted to point out that there is definitely a niche for it :)
Olivia’s slights against Paula—like stealing boyfriends—are typical of a vapid and self absorbed young person, which both are. But she appears to care for her friend as much as it’s possible for self absorbed young people to care for others. More to the point, there is no racial wedge between the two, but Paula perceived one because she has been socialized to do so. Whether this is intentional or not, that’s the exact sort of harm I think liberal identity education causes minority kids. (Although Sweeney has stated that Olivia is supposed to be a stereotype of a “woke white Gen Z Twitter girl.” I suspect Paula’s character is also supposed to be a critique of certain woke non-white Gen Z Twitter people.)
A friend used this service to try to have a pizza party for a small cohort of graduating Master's students, and said that one pizza came hours early and the rest never arrived.
Try Hibernate.
Oh, I used to bother trying. Then eventually you realize any wrong think simply gets down voted into oblivion, your posting throttled, and eventually shadowbanned.

So now I basically enjoy just telling the community to gfy.
> Would Hitler's thoughts on bureaucracy make it to HN?

Maybe? Would reading Hitler's thoughts on bureaucracy magically turn me into a fascist? Seems like interesting history. Would Genghis Khan's thoughts on strategy make it to HN?

I would argue "Tweets" shouldn't make it to HN though to be honest, but whatever, if that's what people want to discuss...
To test the hearing aid, just walk into your local cafeteria at around 2pm (aka dinner rush), and see how many people start reaching for their ears.
It's a big list because there are a lot of games on Steam. However, the chance that any given Steam game in your library will be DRM Free is very small. I've also had cases in the past where I bought a game because it was on this list, but the list was seemingly wrong because the game had DRM.

I've actually had much better luck with the Epic Game Store, although it's seemingly not as good as it used to be.
Surface Studio Laptop. I have one and am 100% satisfied
Yes, it is unfortunate. Information loss on the internet is not limited to CL, however, and many of my bookmarks became stale over the years. When I encounter a "treasure trove" of information, I make sure to archive it on my machine (and ultimately on backup hardware). Sometimes I put it up on sites like GitHub.
what a sad way to get enjoyment... go back to twitter if that's the kind of discourse you want to engage in
What’s unfunny to you is funny to someone else.

Almost all jokes are at someone’s expense.

Nothing illegal was said, so if you don’t like it, just don’t watch it, it’s really that simple. I get tired of the tyranny of the minority telling me what I’m allowed to do.
Windows wasn't good at this in the past either. Didn't they used to have sleep, hibernate and a load of other options too?
I think it’s also the case that current China is actively working on moderating every bit of information that comes out of China so if you’re not living there it’s unrealistic to expect one to have any opinion based on facts. But it seems like now you can’t safely live there. So there’s no way to build your own opinion.
This book sounded interesting to me, but it appears the author is controversial because he doesn't believe in evolution amongst other things which dampens my enthusiasm:

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Gilder
If there is no index, no key, no trigger, and that you have a low isolation level such as `Read uncommitted`, I really don't see what the database could do more than an insert.
AI inspired by honeybees helps humans make better decisions
Taking management lessons from Mao? It’s important to keep in mind his track record. Just one example, the time he ordered all the sparrows in China killed[1] which greatly contributed to a famine that killed around 30 million people[2].

1. https://gizmodo.com/china-s-worst-self-inflicted-environment...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
> It's harmful to constantly hear sound

Are we saying our brain is not processing sound while we sleep? Ain't we hearing sound 24/7?
You have a valid point, but so do the other commenters. The difference is with you it dangerously verges on religion.

Everyone is betting on an outcome but no one knows the future unless they are a fly on wall in various political offices.

Imo ignoring everything about crypto, all I know is historically government’s will take drastic measures to protect their currency. Gold ownership was banned for decades in the 20th century. Of course, this revelation doesn’t matter for crypto that’s truly decentralized. The problem is that the major ones aren’t decentralized. To make matters worse, transactions are neither fast or cheap, which makes a reliance on brokers a necessity, which is also another vector that governments can use for attack. There’s no near guarantee on anonymity either unless it’s Monero

Tether’s very existence helps bolster my point.
None. This has been trivial to break for a long time. It is not considered a cryptographically secure random number generator.
I think there’s a very high bar to clear to choose any other keyword than “constexpr”. With “constexpr” code can be compiled without change (at least in this regard) with C or C++ compilers, the keyword is the same. Good C and C++ interop is extremely important.

If you choose any other keyword we will end up with nasty macro ifdefs to detect C or C++ and choose the appropriate keyword. And worse, the burden will be on the programmer to do this.
I’ve been waiting for years, finally time to replace my 2015!
I also strongly recommend Game Programming Patterns. I have recently bought it and it has been very helpful for me.

As an experienced developer, but new hobbyist game developer, the book has perfect content density - not too introductory nor too mind-numbingly academic.
Not necessary, it was all of them.
Fascism as a Process-Concept
What they are doing is essentially encoding the binary circuit of the xorshift128 PRNG as a neutal network. The fact that you can encode abritrary binary circuits as neural networks is well-known, so it's not surprising that it is possible to do this.

The interesting and perhaps surprising result is the demonstration that it is possible to train this network using standard gradient methods, when choosing the proper loss function for the problem and designing the network with the required domain-knowledge of the algorithm it is supposed to model. In other words, this can be seen as an example of how well-educated network design and choice of loss function massively impacts the performance of your fancy ML model.

For more "real-world" problems, it is often very difficult to come up with a network design that encodes the implicit constraints of the problem, mostly because these constraints are not even known (that's why we use ML!), but results like the recent AlphaFold show that even for these problems, thoughtful design of the model architecture goes a very long way.
Yes. This happened, profoundly dumb. The leadership which used propaganda to the masses to destroy nature in this way, the very nature which we are intimately part of and no technology can replace.
My company has a very good expense app.

So remote employees can just order a pizza or whatever substitute they wish, photograph the receipt and then expenses the cost against an event or case.

We have staff in South East Asia, who might not have a pizza shop nearby. They can just order a local takeaway instead.
Dr. Craig Heller: Using Temperature for Performance, Brain and Body Health
Yep. The thinkpads I've had running Linux has supported s3 sleep but it feels like it's going away more and more.

You start with a laptop at 80% charged if you use Microsofts stupid system. The more I use Linux, the more annoyed I get at Microsoft and how they keep worsening the entire pc experience every year.

Users are not users, they are cattle to be managed by Microsoft.
from the FAQ:

"I have a complaint about my pizza.

No."

This seems like the kind of service where if your pizza arrives at all it's by the grace of God, let alone getting there at the right time or being the right order.

Gr8 customer service
I don’t know if life became more harsh; rather a few decades of the 20th century were anomalies.

Before automation and modern conveniences, running a household was a very demanding job.

Have you tried washing clothes using a bar of soap and a scrubbing board?

Or firing up a meal using an old stove? Or preserving foods (canning, drying, pickling) because no refrigeration.

Or drawing water for a bath from a well, and firing up hot water?

Never mind the kids…

Edit: Not aimed at you specifically. I just think people don’t appreciate that historically, both genders had to contribute a LOT to build a successful family.
Highly recommend the game. While playing it is a fascinating reminder of the limits of our perception and how we pattern match.
"have fun staying poor"

I don't understand the notion that bitcoin is making all people rich. It is a transactional system at best. If you cash out you are taking somebody else's money who decided to buy it at higher price. It has no fantastic democratizing magic which will make all people rich. It is. It building new things.

I can understand people who are invested in it wanting to perpetuate the positive story so they can eventually cash out. But the pretense it somehow helps the world / others, let alone those not well off , strikes me as callous or insencere or both.
The function is still deterministic. ANNs can learn the source code of the function , they re not looking for an analytical solution to the forward or inverse problem.
The real problem is that there is no competition.

Not a fan of Apple here but I use (and admittedly like) their products: I develop apps and iOS is solid on the app landscape, currently we don't even care about Android versions of our apps in almost any project that we use because most people who are "serious" about their apps are on iPhones and iPads. In addition, even though I have the hacker mindset of many out here, at the end of the day I need something reliable and good-looking, and well supported, which Apple has and others don't.

I don't like Apple's user-hostile behavior and would happily love to see some competition. For me:

Apple is bad, Microsoft/Google is worse. So Apple is relatively good.
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That was my first thought. How are they ordering pizzas? I could see a backend portal combined with phone calls working well, but I doubt that a stereotypical tech startup is comfortable using humans to order. And if I ran a Dominos pizza store, I would certainly find an automated order by text-to-speech or email to be fraudulent and ignore it.
> I did look into the Framework laptop recently but while it's probably the closet things in a long time the keyboard doesn't look good and there's no trackpoint (nor even physical mouse buttons)

It also has a screen that needs fractional scaling which makes Framework a deal breaker for me, no second thoughts about it. I'm not buying anything with a fractionally scaled display if I can help it.
One of the optimisations which can be performed on such a table is indexing on single and multiple columns so that retrievals can be faster. Since there are no updates, the performance impact of re-indexing after updates is miminised.
U.S. Coast Guard Locates Wreck of Famed Cutter USRC Bear
PC like desktops are in _no_ danger of going anywhere. There will always been a huge gamer and hobbies market for them.

Laptops maybe, but the framework laptop is exactly what you want, seems pretty decent, and has a decent chance of taking off.