skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should also be noted that believing that Zen 4 is "double-pumped" and the Intel CPUs are not "double-pumped" is completely misleading.

On most Intel CPUs with AVX-512 support, there are 2 classes of 512-bit instructions: instructions executed by combining a pair of 256-bit units, thus having an equal throughput for 512-bit instructions and 256-bit instructions, and the second class of instructions, which are executed by combining a pair of 256-bit execution units and also by extending to 512 bits another 256-bit execution unit.

For the second class of instructions the Intel CPUs have a throughput of two 512-bit instructions per cycle vs. three 256-bit instructions per cycle.

Compared to the cheaper models of Intel CPUs, Zen 4, while having the same throughput as Zen 3, i.e. two 512-bit instructions per cycle vs. four 256-bit instructions per cycle in Zen 3, either matches or exceeds the throughput of the Intel CPUs with AVX-512. Compared to the Intel CPUs, Zen 4 allows 1 FMA + 1 FADD, while on the Intel CPUs only 1 FMA per cycle can be executed.

The only important advantage of Intel appears in the most expensive models of the server and workstation CPUs, i.e. in most Xeon Gold, all Xeon Platinum and all of the Xeon W models that have AVX-512 support.

In these more expensive models, there is a second 512-bit FMA unit, which enables a double FMA throughput compared to Zen 4. These models with double FMA throughput are also helped by a double throughput for the loads from the L1 cache, which is matched to the FMA throughput.

So the AVX-512 implementation in Zen 4 is superior to that in the cheaper CPUs like Tiger Lake, even without taking into account the few new execution units added in Zen 4, like the 512-bit shuffle unit.

Only the Xeon Platinum and the like of the future Sapphire Rapids will have a definitely greater throughput for the floating-point operations than Zen 4, but they will also have a significantly lower all-clock frequency (due to the inferior manufacturing process), so the higher throughput per clock cycle is not certain to overcome the deficit in clock frequency.
If iOS allowed other browsers, then parental controls as described in https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304 will obviously not work. Which eliminates a feature that many parents like.

Yes, yes. I'm well aware that there are many workarounds. Kids get around it. But, like the lock on your front door, its purpose is to give you a feeling of safety. And not to actually be safe.
This is a clickbait headline. I'm not defending what happened, but it wasn't just for using (a) "gift card".

(Edit: The HN headline has now changed.)

As he himself admits, he used a lot of different cards of different values. He doesn't say exactly how many, and I bet that's because it's a lot. He also says he has "multiple Apple ID accounts in different countries".

Apple should absolutely restore this guys account if he isn't actually attempting fraud, but as far as anti-fraud measures go, this would make me suspicious, too.
Loading 60 BERTs onto a single T4
> If we also eliminate patents and all intellectual property restrictions we’d see a much higher rate of innovation. Contrary to the fairy tales we’re told by those who benefit from holding patents, I’m convinced that intellectual property restrictions dramatically slow down the rate of innovation.

This claim is contrary to common sense. If there are no IP protections, why would I write a novel? The moment I share it, every publisher on the planet can print it for free, without paying me a penny. If I invent a widget, Walmart can use their established supply chains to build my widget for cheaper and distribute it wider than I ever could. Why would I put in all the work required to invent my widget only for some soulless corporation to profit from my labor?

> The latter would be much better for everyone.

So we remake the global economic system... to remove the odium that accompanies pirating IP?

> And you might be surprised to realize that providing a basic standard of living for every person does not require dismantling the larger capitalist system.

Obviously--every single nation with a high standard of living has achieved it via free markets.
Virus Modified to Kill Cancer Cells Appears to Have Saved a Patient's Life
Huh I always thought of the Library of Congress as having pretty strong political power -- under the DMCA Section 1201, every 3 years the Librarian of Congress enacts new rules proposed by the Copyright Office (part of the LOC) and can broadly determine that entire categories of software are not illegal DRM-circumvention devices.
I keep seeing this sentiment and it's incredibly obvious that people are traveling to European or developed Asian countries. The sim situation in most other countries is exactly as you describe if not worse, and that's also accounting for language barriers between the traveler and the vendors.
he means if apple did the same garbo on osx, people would leave.

if you couldn't install cs suite or final cut or whatever, because apple comes with its own default stuff, no one would use osx.

I can't install my own browsers, my own antivirus, my own file explorer, my own shell, or my own applications in iOS as I see fit. but they do allow this on osx.
The running like a coward part is always the pretense. It came down to being given a trial, 6th amendment. Let me tell you it's no easy feat getting your day in court, I've been waiting since February 6, 2009, and been suffering the punishment every day since.

Any day now.
> The assumption is that your performance is always at the top

That's silly.

At the top of what? Your current level? How do they determine which level you are at? They have levels, right, it's not a communist utopia where everyone, from the junior eng, to the SVP is equal.

How is that different from any other firm which has eng levels, but relatively narrow wage bands within those levels?

If you were to say that 'they always strive to pay top-of-market for <equivalent roles in other firms>', that would make more sense.
> If browsers were commodity items, we'd see more innovation and participation than we do now

commodity != competitive

If anything the low margin of a commodity market freezes innovation and participation. If anything the period leading up to monopoly is the best for innovation and participation. The monopoly company takes its winnings for a time and then loses its shine as it matures and a new paradigm takes over.

Like you said, Mozilla has an unhealthy revenue model from the cartel. If anything they act as sock puppet competition for Google, a subsidiary save in name out of monopsony.

Still, in 2020, Mozilla Corporation’s revenue was $466 million from its search partnerships (largely driven by its search deal with Google), subscriptions and advertising revenue.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/13/mozilla-expects-to-generat...
Not to mention the VPN and whatever other abandonware-in-potentia the Mozilla Foundation is funding. It's so damned frustrating.
I'd wonder if EU antitrust laws could give them something to gain: namely, not being fined. There's a concept of market fairness in EU antitrust law that isn't present in the equivalent US rules, such that price is not the only consideration.

I'd be surprised if this couldn't be turned towards pushing for greater user choice as it was when MS was bundling internet explorer for years. If memory serves, it was competition law which was used to undo that.
GIMPS!
That’s easy. Google.com prompts you to install Chrome if you’re not running Chrome when you visit. There’s not equivalent site for Mozilla (MDN doesn’t have the same reach as “Google it”).
This and your previous comment suggest that you're either a troll or truly some unique level of narrow-minded fool. Do you simply defend and applauds any sort of self-serving government rules or characterizations of others because they have vague, nebulous state power justifications on their side? Whistleblowers often get fired or worse for "submitting to the proper authorities". History is loaded with cases of them doing just that only to be brushed off and the information they revealed to be buried even further in obscurity. Surely you can't be so dense as to not have read about just how easily and frequently this happens before labeling someone a traitor for going outside official channels to disclose conduct that even the responsible government admitted was BLATANTLY illegal in many ways?
>Snowden’s acceptance of Russian citizenship is likely to drive more criticism against him from people who say he has remained silent on issues such as the conflict in Ukraine.

His options are dying of defenestration, remaining silent, or surrendering to the US. He's going to stay silent.
I wouldn't say this is obvious at all. If Apple thinks gift cards are fraudulent, it shouldn't sell them or accept them as a payment method.
Maybe I'm interpreting this comment incorrectly but I'm begging people to realize if they're a normal person and they have the NSA at the top of their threat model they're bad at internalizing relative risk.
Maybe they have changed, I'll admit it has been a few years. But I would routinely get a gigantic box that was 99% empty space. For example, I ordered ~8 feet of a specific brass rod (~1/4 inch diameter). Instead of a tube they used a rectilinear box that was big enough to fit a human inside.
Then leave them on your desk.
Do you realize you are making a ton of assumptions about the situation in which I ask such a question, or how? Most of them needlessly negative. Which I find odd given that I explicitly stated that I'm only doing this in a context of good faith and mutual openness.
That website really grinds my gears. He's the equivalent of an HN influencer I guess, because I seem to come across him every three days. Like the Stratecherry guy. And it's so naff. It's clearly designed to look like that on purpose and it's kind of a thumbing-your-nose at your audience thing. "My words are so important that you can get fucked if you want max-width". It REALLY annoys me way more than it should. After all, it's just another dude on the internet.
Working at a major big box retailer, my location simply stopped selling Apple gift cards because the rate of fraud was so high. New cards would get shipped in via the supply chain and we would just throw them directly into the trash (they're all activated at point of sale, so until then they're merely cardboard as far as the store is concerned, no value lost). Either scammers would attempt to return them empty and pitch a fit until they found a compliant manager willing to pay to make them leave, or innocent customers would buy a card only to find that someone had pilfered the number and drained the balance as soon as it went through point of sale.
Also Amazon[0], who found out that hiring a bunch of veteran developers, putting them in the same room together and showering them with money does not equal a successful game.

Are there any examples of an established company "breaking in" to the game industry and creating a significantly successful product? If so I would like to hear about it.

I feel like a lot of game companies that regularly release successful games have a difficult-to-quantify mix of experience and team cohesion. To the outsider executive it might seem like you can build this from scratch with the right budget, but I think it's a lot more complicated than that.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-29/amazon-ga...
just two cents here, as far as I know, all browsers need GPU acceleration.
you can try to turn it off see how fast you can browse.
so without OS, how can browser drive GPU?
Top of the industry. Netflix tries to hire the best in the industry and assumes that if you've been hired then you are that and will stay there.
My advice: Stop trying to get into fights with everyone, and no, the whole world isn't out there to get you.

I hope you learn to interact more positively and constructively with your surroundings.

Until then, please go away.
Yes, Germany is sane. And no one is freezing to death here. The gas storages are almost filled (91%), so Germany won't run out of gas.
I don't know why people need to tell so many lies about the German situtation at the moment. Yes, severe mistakes have been made in the past, mostly to have such a large dependency on Russia. But no need to invent things.
The real problem here is the idiotic partitioning of the App Store into countries. This causes so much trouble. Companies restrict their apps without thinking about it much, and customers have to jump through hoops to access these apps (or just not use them at all).

Case in point: just try to visit the US with an EU-based iPhone. Apps like Starbucks, Target, Ralphs, Vons, and many many others will be inaccessible to you.

You'd think we'd be past those ancient divisions in this day and age.
> I think if you're going to set up a toll system in the future, then this is the tech you're going to use. Not RFID or transponders. Just read the license plate and charge the user.

In my experience any tolling system set up in the past decade is this way. No worries about transponders, they just have a bunch of cameras over the lanes and then send you a bill. Works even for out-of-state plates.
> I vaguely remember seeing it in IBM's Visual Age for Java in the early 2000's.

Yes, it was pretty amazing.
Imagine Microsoft making that argument back in 2000...
Source isn't needed, though. "I think" means it's an opinion, which is fine. You are also allowed to opine in the opposite direction.

As for me in particular, I'm also inclined to think that the "pandemic" restrictions were less about the actual disease vs. a test on how much control can a state exert over its citizens.
> But anything outside the absolute most normal usage of a gift card is likely to stick you in a user cluster that is overwhelmingly fraudulent.

And this is the problem of the user rather than the business? I find any attempt to justify behavior like this disgusting. Just say it the way it is - Apple maximizes its profits by imposing costs like this on others. From that perspective, you cannot justify restrictions on a restaurant running sewage into the street, since the profit of the business trumps all else.
>> That discussion has to do with the failure of SI to notate the directions of vectors.

Well if radian is a unit then torque become Nm/r and is no longer Nm like energy. Then when multiplied by an angle in radians you get energy. It was *something like that*.
There are a lot of people who have to use gift cards because they don't have a credit card, or because their foreign credit card isn't accepted, and they can't get a local card because local banks only offer cards to permanent residents, or because they are minors and their parents don't want to give them a credit card, etc.

If your algorithm throws all these people in with fraudsters, then it's a bad algorithm.

(This problem would be fixed if Apple offered other payment options aside from credit cards)
I always find these articles a bit blind.

If the guys hoped a job every 6 month for the past 4 years then they've been hired _every_ _single_ _time_ they hopped. People hire job hoppers. If they didn't then they'd (by definition) stop job hopping. Sure maybe after the 10th hop it'll catch up to you but by that point (in this scenario) you've had the equivilant of 10 14.8% raises which IIUC is a total ~404.6% raise. So you're now "stuck" at a job making 4x what you did 5 years ago.
To use your comparison, Windows is fine with you pulling Edge off the taskbar.

To abuse the comparison further, Firefox does not allow you to uninstall the pocket addon.

Mozilla needs to be held to the same standards they're attempting to hold others too.
Back when you could buy $100 or $200 gift cards for 20% off, I used them regularly.

It always feels like there is something missing in these stories. Are mistakes made by Apple (or other big cos?) sure. But they don't want to shut people off. Something was done either accidentally or on purpose that likely triggered some internal fraud warning.

I think the biggest problem is getting caught in the low level call center support when the problem needs to be up-leveled to someone who can help. This is something companies should improve on, but I'm sure the volume makes it challenging.
That would only really work if I already had the hardware for a meaningful benchmark. Right now my desktop has a 5950x and my laptop has a 6700hq. Showing a benchmark between those two systems would not be that interesting. I would like to show how my system performs on a 7950x vs my 5950x but I don't want to go out and buy another $2000+ computer just to get those numbers.
I agree, but I'm assuming it's an amount that's big enough that Amazon cares enough to piss off every affected employee. If it was a 2.99% raise instead of 3%, they'd be better off just letting the employees have the money.

I'm also assuming that the proper amount is what the employee would have expected and been happy with if the mistake hadn't happened, which softens the blow considerably. So if they expected 5% and got 6%, going back to 5% is a morale-dampener, but not fatal.

OTOH, tech employees don't really need much excuse to change jobs any more, so literally any amount is a huge risk for your best employees.
10+ years at one company for me. Pay is peanuts.
> Obama himself stated on the 2008 campaign trail...

In your opinion, how much time is sufficient before we can safely use the phrase "Their opinions have evolved for the better since then"? Please specify a number.
200GB of Mario Maker 2 data
Also it seems to be slanted, is it really Putin doing it? And wtf is pa.media, a website/Twitter account hoping you'd confuse it with AP (Associated Press)?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Com...
They don't give raises because there are plenty of suckers that will happily accept the scraps they hand out.
> we’ll invest like crazy to ensure, even if compelled, we wouldn’t have the ability to compromise the integrity of the data flowing through our network

By aggregating the whole internet onto Cloudflare you are creating choke points where fiber taps are far more effective to deploy than the previous situation where they needed to tap hundreds of different regional providers.

Sure you can do encryption for data in flight, but your keys and CA infrastructure now become one of the most valuable intelligence targets. Unless you can attest that not a single CF employee has family in China, or gambling problems here in the US, was born in Russia, etc. there is a weakness somewhere waiting to be exploited.

We don't care what makes financial sense for you now. One day you will be dead, and what you created will be taken private by a well resourced entity with less morals.
Unfortunately I have to agree with your inner voice that there's no perfect language out there.

I'm building my first library in OCaml for a number of great reasons:
1. the type system we all want
2. multicore is here (but in RC)
3. algebraic effects is here (but in basically RC)
4. build system is pretty good after you warm yourself up a bit. i ran into some weird dep issues recently but overcame it by vendoring deps directly.

A hard requirement for me is to be able to generate native executables, and only OCaml / Rust / Swift has this with a more modern type system. If I wasn't so focused on learning in an fp language, I'd use Rust for my needs.

If you asked for a vote, I'd say give 2 weeks for each of your top 3 languages. Opinions and anecdotal experience will always be beaten by personal experience.
You clearly aren't trying to defraud Apple. You're in a shitty situation, and I can imagine how frustrating it must be.

But redeeming a bunch of random gift cards (most especially if they were purchased in a bunch of different countries) is extremely fraud-like behavior. There's nothing wrong with what you did! You're not a fraudster! But you undertook a series of actions that is almost exclusively undertaken by fraudsters.

The recovery process for this situation is especially annoying, because fraudsters absolutely will try to talk their way out of fraud controls, and first- and second- line customer support people aren't qualified to go toe-to-toe with fraudsters (who are hyperspecialized and thus simply better at winning these CS interactions than the customer support staff is). So, yeah, your recovery experience is going to be hostile and prolonged.

My guess is what you need to do here is find a way to escalate out of customer service. Maybe someone else on HN has advice on how to do that.
What exactly does Firefox lack in this regard? I'm curious. I've used it for years and the only noticeable difference to me is that it doesn't nag me about having a Google account.
> Becoming a role expert – 6 – 18 months – owning the role completely and helping to shape the direction of the team.

This ... seems a bit extreme. I guess if you're doing something simple.
If you can get a 20% bump in TC by moving that's irrespective of stock price so you'll take net loss staying put no matter what happens with stocks.
OpenAI CEO chats with board member about “AI for the Next Era”
> The streaming giant is forming an in-house game studio in Helsinki, Finland to create "world-class" original games without ads or in-app purchases. While it's too soon for details of the games themselves, Zynga and EA alumnus Marko Lastikka will serve as director.

...

They're hiring someone that worked at two companies that are known as the KINGS of in-game ads and purchases to make games without in-game ads and purchases?

I'm not exactly holding my breath on these games being any good at all.
Difference between Polish and Soviet is not tiny pidgeon hole difference. It is giving proper attribution. Not everything was done by Soviet. And for that matter, Soviet does not mean Russian automatically either.

And specifically, Poland was occupied by Soviet long enough to deserve not tonhave own art attributes to them.

Also, literature before revolutions and after them is much different. Topics, style of writing, who could get published or become famous are all much different. You can't attribute to Soviet what was done after Soviet broke up.
Getting your account temporarily disabled is not surprising. The response from Apple when the user has the receipts being "Too bad" is what's surprising.
I would argue that's an inevitability with democracy, since short term thinking tends to dominate.
Well, in that case it was for a project that required a very specific and somewhat rare set of skills (IE, you couldn't just throw a dart and hit a web developer). I was friends with a lot of people there, so I know it took them about 6 months to find a replacement, and even then the person was more expensive and had a long ramp up time to become as productive.
isn't that whataboutism, they're still massively better in every aspect than all of their competitors, & are the only mobile browser that allows blocking ads
I've been using C++ since 1993. I still don't understand how I've written all this code and never once found myself using, or wishing I could use std::move.

Presumably my code has been less than optimally efficient or something, because it seems that most people talking about "modern" C++ view it as absolutely central to the language.
If Apple isn't going to accept gift cards, it shouldn't claim it accepts gift cards.

He should take this to small claims court, I think.
any differences in output or they are identical with the same prompt and seed?
maybe because only like 3-4 of them actually touch the marketing site?
That isn't even an even playing field!

Google defaults you to Chrome on Android. That's 49% of users, and most won't know to switch.

Google assaults you with Chrome ads on their search page if you use a default browser without adblock.

Google pays for default search status on Apple. Then pulls you in.

Google is currently running a nationwide "better on Chrome" ad campaign. Billboards and murals everywhere.