skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a longer than average pipeline for the frequency (and the longest pipeline ever made for a production CPU, in the case of the Celeron) certainly helps. They have a 31-stage pipeline, and the AMDs have 20, while other CPUs are around 15:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_CPU_microarchite...
Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?
I tried hard to understand the space and some of the ways in which the technology works, but after many hours of investment I am still unable to alleviate my scepticism that this entire space is vapourware, there is nothing here more than you can get with traditional database technology?

At the same time, the amount of coverage and attention it is getting and for a sustained period makes me believe I am missing something.

After all there are few instances of technology fads that have sustained such serious interest for a prolonged period of time (approaching a decade now) with little to show for in terms of investment returns or societal impact.

I am talking committees formed in parliaments and central banks around the world to discuss its benefits, serious universities dedicating whole programs on the subject, elite investors pouring money into its potential, and the list goes on.

So far the most charitable explanation I could come up with for the craze is that it is an effective rebranding for marketing purposes of database technologies, similar to how "data science" rebranded statistics and business analytics.

On the other hand "data science" even if it is merely rebranding did arguably lead to significant change in tooling/workflows in how data is consumed and presented in corporates around the world, no such thing could be said of blockchain.

Where am I going wrong? I am particularly keen to hear from people who underwent the journey from skeptics to believers in the space.
...a very high-pitched laugh.
No mention of shadow-bans? Guidelines incomplete.
Nice project! The unknown wires everywhere brought back memories. I did a similar project, hacking an escooter to add Bluetooth functionality in order to control it via a smartphone app:

https://ampedcycling.com/e-scooter-hacks-remove-the-speed-li...

It allows you to increase the top speed among other functions.
Not a relevant comment. Many people predicted at the start of 2022 not just that Russia would have a major war, but that is was very likely to happen a) within a few months and b) with Ukraine.

Why? because as parent comment have already explained, Russia was massing troops on the border.
> I am talking committees formed in parliaments and central banks around the world to discuss its benefits, serious universities dedicating whole programs on the subject, elite investors pouring money into its potential, and the list goes on.

This worries me too. These people don't understand much beyond a 3 minute sales pitch
Ask HN: What did your interview rejections teach you?
what's the reddit bot you mention?
Work remote in rural Southern California. You’ll be near Vegas, Palm Springs, Big Bear, and you can visit the beach cities and LA whenever you like.
I agree with the jist of your comment, however providing section 8 housing is as good as one can do to help low income families (in my opinion).
PSA. “mm” is not a unit of currency. It is a unit of length - a millimetre. If you want to represent millions of dollars use ‘M’, e.g., $3.5M.

I don’t know why people have started willfully using incorrect units, but it has to stop.
FFS, just Google it.
A great dev “should” have more than one tool at their disposal.

I find that “exploratory debugging” (for lack of a better term) is an under appreciated skill — using the debugger to learn about the code by seeing it in action as part of the ramp up process.
I would disagree. This sentence is about the Unites States, not Japan, and the use of passive voice reflects that.
1-level threads is not enough. You fork a thread for a new topic, and users can keep derailing the topic with tangents inside of that thread.

The traditional chat client expects the convention of users going back to the main room to create a completely separate thread.

There's other ways. Example, technical email discussions (convention: bottom posting, with good mail client with threading). Or reddit/HN. On email, each message automatically creates a new thread, and you can ignore threads that aren't interesting to you. But sadly, the convention is not enforced centrally through the client as everyone has their own. You need a tight culture for it to work.

I wish I had the convention enforced centrally (everyone using chat clients that behave roughly the same), yet have every message create a thread (so tangent to topics can live on their own, or be ignored). Or at minimum, 1-threads with titles (ala Streams (rooms) and Topics(threads) of Zulip), so people stick to the topic.
> yet one recently killed a friend

Very sorry to hear that, that's horrible.

> They are more dangerous than Tesla summon both in deaths per year and deaths per mile

I don't think deaths per year is that compelling as a metric for this. Teslas are becoming more common, so it's going to get worse.

Deaths per mile, where are you getting data for that? I mistrust anything from Tesla, they have a history of coloring the truth, at best.

Anyway though, I fundamentally disagree with this entire thought process of "X is worse, therefore we can't fix Y". Let's just fix them all!
Low-code Backend builder Canonic starts with a graph
Note that it's called "beer belly" and not "alcohol belly". Beer has a not insignificant number of calories even if you don't factor in potential overeating from intoxication. If by "secondarily" you mean overeating while intoxicated I guess you could also factor in organ damage from drunk driving accidents or fights.
Black list those companies.
It’s a set limitation. It’s the same thing as the Content Blocker apps that also don’t work on other browsers.

They really don’t want you to use anything other than Safari
It literally cures mortality. https://youtu.be/C7EocA1hsCU
I totally agree here. At the beginning I disliked Slack threads. But apart from the notification issue, I think the advantages of having a more focussed discussion where everything can be found in one place outweighs the disadvantages.
In other words you want to freely spread your political beliefs without anybody complaining.
Why JFK's Casket Stayed Closed [video]
If the entire point of using words in a certain way is to get people to reflect on subtle shades of meaning, admire your poetry or reach for a thesaurus, you're entitled to ignore the suggestions. Probably you'll want to ignore grammar suggestions which have been in word processors for decades without hundred comment whingefests and spurious Orwell comparisons too. Maybe even spellcheck if using yer own werrds in yer own pryvate documents is really iMpoRtAnT to yoo[1]. Most people aren't using Google docs to write Ulysses or Riddley Walker though, they're using it to draft documentation and letters to a customer base.

(And elsewhere it's being asserted with equal fury that master/slave replication and assumptions that people are exclusively male shouldn't be flagged because the choice of words doesn't have any deeper meaning...)

Honestly, can you not see how staggeringly self-centred it is to insist that if readers have to Google your idioms that's the beauty of language (even for documents where clarity is more important than linguistic flourishes) but removable squiggly line suggestions are far too much of an imposition on native speakers (who are of course both incapable of making a word choice in error and too vulnerable not to unthinkingly accept Google's suggested alternative in their private documents).

Honestly, the word privilege is overused, but I can't think of anything more apt to describe a cohort of people so far removed from any real threat that the most tyrannical thing they can think of is a clunky grammar check feature.

[1]Ironically, my phone actually insisted on overwriting my pryvate werrds with alternative spellings. Tyranny, I tell you.
True, but there is a long list of "smart" intellectuals/academics/investors who are believers in the space, which is where "am I going insane?" part comes in.
Threads are an absolute must to keep the noise down and conversation relevant - at least in working environments when using apps like Slack.

Not everyone has strict communication protocols or enjoys communicating succinctly, it's easier just to have one rule - start your convos as a thread.
Yeah, the ideal HN post should be fascinating for hackers and deathly boring for everyone else. Ragebait draws masses who could easily swamp the signal:noise of any thread here.
Really wish this was part of official zstd (https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395#issuecomment-535...) and not a contrib / separate tool.
There are many software engineers here. Most large companies or software projects are overtly political regarding the culture wars since at least 2016 and brutally force speech and thought upon their employees (they diligently avoid economic issues in politics of course).

HN provides a way to escape that. The discussion is not always partisan; many people point out hypocrisy and greed of people who pretend to have pure motives. Those are facts if you follow the money, power structures and inaction on real issues that are obscured by beautiful words.
My body weight fluctuates from day to day and throughout the day. If I use the same weights, or well calibrated weights, the weight I'm moving is consistent every time.
Agreed.. It's seems like an answer to a question no-one asked. It solves a problem no-one had.
There is also psychological damage to your populace to take into account. In Israel’s case, the iron dome prevents enough civilian deaths that the public and war hawk politicians don’t clamor for a “real” war against Palestine.

An actual war could quickly spiral out of control if third parties intervene, and the cost of that is far greater the attrition of using a missile defense that’s too good at its job.
AIUI, if you build a custom chip to use low-power async/clockless logic, cooling it with LN2 would absolutely make sense. It would run at high speeds while sipping power. Not for commonly available chips, though - those will waste power with every clock cycle and release that as heat. (It's gotten to the point where chips cannot be fully powered on at any time - some part of the chip will always be power-gated and kept "dark".) So any practical subambient cooling system would simply be overwhelmed.
I'm sorry, what? First, moreutils package installs its parallel as parallel-moreutils. Second, pacman (like any other pm) wouldn't allow overwriting files belonging to other packages.
I think this article needs to be read together with this other one:

https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-the-experience-of-be...
Watching someone learns basics of programming in Python, I realized that Python is actually not that easy to learn for beginners as I thought:

1. Types in Python are implicit. It's really hard to explain that they need to always think about what type something is, especially when they haven't grasped the concept of types yet.

2. Indentation as part of the language. I thought it's a great thing for beginners, but it's actually confuses beginners that empty space affects your program, e.g. they think that spaces around assignment or arithmetic operators should affect their program too, which is not the case.

3. Ranges for iteration -- they just memorize the syntax blindly :(

So I started to wonder whether Pascal is better to learn for beginners -- you have to list all the types at the beginning, and no implicit conversions are done.

But now I think what about TCL? Maybe it'd be even easier for total beginners?
>Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

This is a great point, I should try to remember to do this in general.
About 52% single-threaded, 196% multi-threaded improvement.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i7-8700K-vs-Intel...
I got started with the Spanish 48k+ version. It defined my life path. Thanks you, Sir Sinclair.
No.. I see IRC melting away, but it's still so much nicer.

Slack has filled some of the gaps for me. I join groups of devs in my area, and I get to not only snag answers to questions, but network locally as well.
I worked on this a bit, as a joke. A sex doll, in a box, with a small helium tank.

I wanted a friend to open the box, be scared by the air/hissing sound, back away, and before he could react?

Sex doll floats to the 12 foot ceiling in his office.

I had issues with the trigger, it deploying correctly, tried it a dozen times and gave up.

My other concern was it mistakely deploying while in transit with the post office.
I think they already tried that in New England.
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But it's much trickier to find the point in a GAN's representation space for "the exact same fluffy pink earrings that the actress was wearing in the last scene".

Mostly because one can't write code to judge equal-ness of pink earrings. Or the fact the trash can in the background had a lid in the last scene and is now missing the lid. Or the fact the brick wall has turned into a painted wall. etc.

Having said that, I'm sure some filmmakers will go for it anyway - after all, human-made films have some consistency issues, and many viewers simply don't care.
> The Soviets flying jets over Korea spoke in Korean on the radio and flew Korean jets!

They spoke in Korean sometimes (but especially under stress, spoke Russian), and flew Soviet jets based in China and nominally assigned to Air Defense, not Frontal Aviation.

They weren't maintaining plausible deniability, but a transparent fig leaf. We knew they were Soviet pilots, and they knew we knew they were Soviet pilots.

And the Soviet anti-aircraft crews shooting down American jets in Vietnam didn't even have a transparent fig-leaf of not being Soviet troops.
The house that fights mosquitoes
Maybe I'm missing something (it's late), but it shouldn't take years to figure out it's not an iframe or image, given the inspector/console is in every browser, right?
Folks interested in this, might be interested in the already available Tritium Batteries [1] that last for ~ 20+ years.

SparkFun did a DIY Kit[2], but have since discontinued it.

[1] https://citylabs.net/products/

[2] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/14773
If you are asking a general question about single threaded performance, then YES. Modern CPU performance is about so much more than clock speeds, and the TLDR is that there are many non-orthogonal factors that sometimes the only trustworthy quantifier is workload benchmarking.

If you're asking whether that 5Ghz is different than this 5Ghz, the main easy answer IPC (instructions per clock). Unfortunately there are no official IPC numbers, but every new release comes with vague unlabeled slides showing %increase, and then reviewres do their pinning the CPU at a specific clock and measure single-threaded performance to estimate relative IPC improvements (like this https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/core-i9-12900k-review,...)

If we go into multi-threaded workloads like compilation, then of course the new one completely throws the 8700k out of the water.

But please don't feel pressured to get on the latest and greatest bandwagon, I'm right here running around with a Thinkpad T460s (with a little bit of a need to upgrade).

_Usually_, if you are not waiting for your computer while CPU is on +90% utilization, there should be little gained from a CPU upgrade. (Workloads that depend heavily on cache size or memory latency are counter-examples)
Apberget? It was fairly outstanding in being mostly clean and professionally ran without attempting to go national or sell out much. Until they did get bought.
Sometimes I realise a flaw in my thought process when trying to write a HN comment, something that almost never happens on twitter and reddit. And i think its because the community has decided that curiosity is the prime virtue of HN, I really like that.
I don't think Intel ever intended AVX-512 to be used by people who buy non-enterprise chips. People getting them enabled with workarounds (disabling E-cores) probably signaled to Intel that they needed to shut it down.

It's nasty, but it's how Intel operates. AVX-512 and ECC are some of the few value adds for their Xeon line. They couldn't get away with charging 3x as much for the same processor otherwise.
For film-length consistency, I wouldn’t be surprised by it taking years to solve, despite what @dougabug says in a sibling comment.

But “years” isn’t very much time.

(I have the mental image of it being as easy to make a film as it was for the character of Mariner in that episode of Star Trek Lower Decks where she makes a filmified version of the ship, in the holodeck, in a few seconds; but the more I think about it, the more I realise I think I don’t feel the normal drives for expensive economic signalling in a way that would allow me to actually predict what people would do given the technology).
Quick dismissal with no reason is quite a waste of space.

I think the rendering is better and faster than iTerm.

I still use iTerm for a few features but there's no reason not to recommend the default terminal to people.
And probably also better performance per watt should you care about that.
“Topor” also means axe/hatchet in Russian
Hyperborea
I worked for an oil and gas company for a very long time, and frequently saw something similar, but not quite the same.

I didn't see anyone specifically put on a plane to collect a part - but there was no need, as the field team were flying around all over the place anyway. So, a manager would accost someone going from Aberdeen to Houston, for example, and ask them to put a 10kg part in their luggage on the return journey. Then the part would get dropped off at the Aberdeen facility, and put on the next chopper to the offshore platform that needed it.
> One of the most overlooked trends of the 21st century is we have too much entertainment.
That's some deep insight right there.
I used to watch netflix while eating alone only. I unsubscribed Jan 2022, and now I read a book on an ereader on a stand at eye level. Much more value for me and as entertaining if not more.

It's not entertainment, it's education.

The challenge now is to find and filter 'useful books' (most are not, and don't deliver on the promise on the cover).
Plus, shipping anvils with pillows sort of evens it out..
That the job market might not be as good as people say. That I'm not that good and that my skills aren't that much in demand. That I need to spend more time preparing for certain interviews. That I don't need to interview for positions that I know aren't suitable for me.
I rarely read the articles, but thoroughly enjoy...even the occasional slightly ott political comments...and certainly all of the others.
Sometimes i feel it's a shame that the USA is so predominantly: choose 1 or 0, there is no nuance; whatever you criticise means you're 100% for the other.
But then again, that's all part of the deal, and I'm grateful for it, not against it.
> 1. Why are income levels lower?

USA is in a unique position where it can stimulate its economy to a degree that is treatise-wise impossible for EU governments in EMU, and (until recently) without causing inflation.

Southern Europe used to have very high inflation before EMU.

For Spain, there is no equivalent to all the US government debts held by China and Japan, which you might view as subsidies to the US government.

A better question might be why Germany is wealthier than Spain. The answer will involve work ethic and discipline, attitude vs self-sacrifice, long-term strategic planning for industry, and so on. You probably won't see this is in individuals nowadays, but systemically and historically this might have been what "set the stage".
I like how HN walks the fine line between moderation and censorship really well.
I don't consider myself a "collector" but I have in my shelf a good pile of Microhobby and Micromania issues from the golden age too. Also I have a few "Programación Actual" issues, but from a later stage (end of 90s IIRC)
> What many may not realize is that there's a thriving industry in sending passengers on planes for the sole purpose of them taking things from A to B.

So someone out there must have made a courier-as-a-service website for this?

Sign up some people to be on standby, with a passport and a list of countries they have visa for, list them with their current location.

Person signs up to potentially make a few grand if they get the call.

Firms who are in need of a person throw in the money and the tickets.

Does that work? If I need something carried by a person from London to NYC today, what do I do?
In age if not in spirit, Gen X is approaching retirement
Not if you can’t afford the lawsuit.
minus the garbage collector, which for most CL implementations does not or only in limited ways benefit from multiple cores
Partition_sort isn't an analogy to the Partition of India (which isn't the traditionally understood meaning of the word 'partition').

In terms of analogies, we're much closer to if we'd decided to call a "delete all" function the "genocide" function. If computer programmers had widely used that terminology for the last three decades it might sound a bit less weird to us and the cohort of people shouting "that's such an inappropriate analogy" might be just a small group of liberals, but I'm not sure their argument about it being a poor word choice would be entirely baseless.
You need to loop back the generated output to provide context for the next output, just like how GPT-3 works. This at least establishes the needed data to train for consistent outputs. Given a deep well-trained network, the high-level meta-data that needs to be consistent across scenes is just a small set and the network will discover this just as GPT-3 did.
The '1619 Project' is peddled clearly as an essay project -- quite clearly differentiated from a pure news orientation. The essays were pretty light fare and nothing like overly sympathetic eyewitness reporting from the deck of a slave ship. Perhaps the NYT thinks that the country that unwaveringly holds itself out as the greatest country in the history of history (and the bastion and promise of liberty and democracy, still) can look inward and assess the legacy of slavery and the impacts felt today. One essay touched on whether race had a bearing on why the U.S. never adopted universal healthcare, which at least seems to be a worthwhile question.

American introspection is a notoriously unwelcome commodity by a people much more at home shouting 'USA USA USA!', often as a means to drown out any opposing speech.