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Ask HN: Intel 12/13th gen vs. AMD Zen 4 in Linux
Hi HN, the last time I built a system was more than a decade ago, and as you might guess I'm not caught up with present-day consumer desktop hardware. I'm planning to put together a new system in the next few months and trying to decide between Intel and AMD.

Unfortunately, existing reviews don't seem to cover my use case. I don't play games, and I don't use Windows. I do a lot of software development that benefits from parallel execution (think: C++, Rust, and various projects built with Bazel). I care about compilation speed, multithreaded scalability, and interoperability with my existing tools and workflows.

The 13th gen Intel chips (13900k) offer better performance than AMD's current top-of-the-line chips, and also at a lower MSRP. However, the new architecture of E-cores and P-cores worries me, especially in Linux.

* Are recent (5.15+) versions of the kernel able to effectively take advantage of the different types of cores? The Linux scheduler AFAIK was never really designed with the assumption that each physical CPU would have different performance characteristics, and I'm not convinced that an adaptation shoehorned in after the fact would be particularly effective.

* Given the unequal cores, how does this affect performance determinism? I'm concerned about the scenario where, for example, I benchmark a program that spins up $(nproc) worker threads, and some of those workers report much less max throughput than the rest (the ones allocated to E-cores by the kernel). If the kernel juggles the workload among all cores, then I'd have to rewrite a bunch of my tools to pin threads to specific P-core CPUs to get an accurate signal for maximum single-thread performance.

* "Turbo boost" clocks are a new concept to me--if the hardware changes clock frequencies arbitrarily, it sounds like this would be another source of performance non-determinism that I'd have to account for in userspace.
> When the 801 shipped, almost no system had hard coded microcode.

Intel 8086 was introduced in 1978, with hardcoded microcode. Intel didn’t introduce microcode patching support until the Pentium Pro in 1995.
If you pay 0 you get 0. If it’s free, you are the product.
Most TI calculators come with a TI-Basic interpreter included, and they are one of the few vendors that is accepted for national standardized tests (SAT, and so on), so lots of 30-ish-year-olds were first exposed to programming there. I don't recall if TI-basic requires line numbers though.
I wonder if that concept gives them more supply-chain flexibility. If they just have a bunch of 8051 devices sitting around, they can program them to taste at the last minute.

I've done some work on a CH375/6 based project, and it's sort of limited-- the fact you can only burst 64 bytes at a time is likely a factor of it being based on such a small MCU, but OTOH, you can always get them at pretty modest prices, while plenty of other parts seem to have gone up or outright unavailable.

When I went to get some USB-serialish adaptors, I went specifically for CH340 ones because I know they're explictly NOT a FTDI clone, so there's no risk of malicious drivers bricking them.
FWIW one of the reasons that got me into designing a custom keyboard is that split keyboards with a function row are relatively uncommon.
On a more positive note, hell yea here comes another space race!
Didn’t realize Haswell or Skylake were state of the art =)
"I'd like to know how you define the term "leftist" and "left," as they clearly deviate from what many people intuit."

You don't get to hold me accountable for others failures. If you're hazy on the definition of the term "leftist" I expect google could help you with that.
Ben Nadel: Base Tag HREF Doesn't Affect Document Root-Relative URLs
Ask HN: Is DDG Becoming Unusable?
I've noticed that the quality of search results has dropped precipitously in the past few months. Now, almost every search ends with "g!". I'm wondering if it is just me or are others noticing this?
Most of what we call “news” these days are not really news, but reporting on an endless stream of negative events, because negativity and sensationalism attracts more viewership (and thus, money).

Real news should be mostly local, about all of the good and bad things around us that actually matter in our lives. Otherwise, there’s really no sense in following the “news”, it’s just a meaningless waste of our lives.
Beyond social bonding, play (of which laughter is a part) is critical for learning. It changes brain chemistry and fosters neuroplasticity. You see play in all mammals - most of which are subject to similar evolutionary logic: few offspring, extensive nurturing out of the womb, learning phase extends into and beyond adolescence, social.

This is harnessable in our lives: laugh more and play more to be more flexible and to continuously learn. And to have friends!
"Being hassled about your immigration status" is very much a matter of somebody chosing to bring it to the attention of some competent authority who choses to take action. Choice is strong in this. Not that I like the authorities can and do choose who to hassle, but I believe it to be the reality.

TL;DR in a sanatorium with bills being met or in the right sanatorium as an indigent, there is no necessary role for immigration authorities, unless somebody "poked the bear"
COVID is never going to be over. So at some point it becomes your decision to move on with your life. And if you decide to continue being protective of a vulnerable loved one, then it’s not the pandemic— it’s the burden of caring for a loved one that many others have to deal with outside of COVID. This is not to disavow your personal difficulties. It’s just that I struggle to understand what else we can do as a society to fight a pandemic that is now endemic. I don’t think there is anything else left.
Discussion of the preprint 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33279281
I wish it was just a cold war. It has turned into a real fucking disaster. Despot Putin does not seem to be backing off, and perhaps will destroy all of Ukraine's vital infrastructure no matter the cost. If Ukrainians still stand still, he will not hesitate to use nuclear weapons.
You would like https://rust-analyzer.github.io/blog/2020/07/20/three-archit...
Why did the west even go to China in the first place? Cheaper labor.

China can’t go do what the West does by meta colonizing (economically colonizing) South America, India, Africa and South East Asia because their people need the low wage jobs too.

The West will just go elsewhere. If China and Russia don’t want the business, someone else will. And when suddenly those other someones become the growth story, China/Russia will adapt and reprice (as in, they will stop the shenanigans).

This will sort itself out. Amoral industries will find the geopolitical jockeying by the growth economy leaders as a liability.
Perhaps I'm bad at generalizing, but after four years I feel like I am building "roughly the same thing" approximately 10% of the time. Other than SQL queries and REST endpoints, it's always mostly new technologies, new situations, and new worries.

I think the personality type that reads a lot before starting the first time reads a lot before starting the tenth time, because you come back to it having learned so much and having new things you want to try. My advice for people like me is try to find a firm where you can be slow, because despite learning 1000 shortcuts you'll never be fast.
Given the amount of effort he spends to find what actual ancient texts, ancient pictures, and reproducing exactly that, I think he has a pretty good claim to be trying to reproduce actual specific historical styles.

In later videos he talks about not just historical archery, but specific styles used by specific people with references.
Debian manages to do global streaming for DebConf every year using only libre software and VMs running Debian at cloud providers. Seems like this is their setup using ansible:

https://debconf-video-team.pages.debian.net/ansible/simple_s...
The Chinese people have put up with a lot. If Xi stops delivering, there will be an uprising.

It will have to get much worse though, since the media can say things are fine and that tricks most people as we have seen elsewhere.
> do you really need Next.js and React for that

Folks like it these days, nothing wrong with doing stuff for fun. Possible that it enabled them to complete the project in 24h this way.
I'd expand on 'relying on layering' as 'trading off hand movement for added complexity'.

I use a smaller layout without a number row. I noticed that when I had to use my laptop's keyboard, pressing the ` key was quite annoying since it required either reaching/moving my hand; whereas on a reduced layout, I found it more convenient to not have to move my hand.
> I believe the era of growth is over. What are your preparation for low growth era?

I doubt it. It's a shame to see China isolating itself, but at the end of the day the manufacturing could just be moved somewhere else like India or Vietnam. Economically speaking, isolation is never the way forward, and China will likely fall further behind. Any sort of aggression on their part will only ensure that this happens

If anything, the extreme differences between China/Russia and the US will just bring the US (and the Anglosphere) closer together. I'm convinced the west has reached a stage of post war society where it's understood that it's better to grow up rather than out

What will be interesting to see is how Putin handles the current situation, considering they're losing ground and poorly prepared

Ofc I'm speculating here, and my position is highly US-centric
This is a very good point. In particular, it completely throws out the "overrepresentation" ratio for Asian students. What's the actual ratio by number of applications?
This reminds me of a joke I once saw acted out on Spanish television. A proud father is at the hospital waiting for his son to be born. The doctor comes out and says, "I'm sorry sir but it seems your son will be born without feet." The father answers "He's my son and I'll love him no matter what." The doctor comes out a few minutes later "I'm sorry sir but it seems your son will be born without legs." The father continues "He's my son and I'll love him no matter what." The doctor comes out again "I'm sorry sir but your son will be born without arms or hands." The father again says "He's my son and I'll love him no matter what." The doctor comes out again "I'm sorry sir but your son will be born without a torso, and will be blind and mute." The father again maintains "He's my son and I'll love him no matter what." At last the doctor comes out cradling an ear--"Sir I present your son". The father proclaims " My son! I love you!" The doctor responds "I'm sorry sir, your son is deaf."
What's wrong with that? Money provides opportunity to do as you please.

I say this as a person who never had to worry a day in my life about money, because I thought programming was super interesting, and learned C when I was 12, and made more money than both my parents combined by the time I was 18. It was never about money for me, but I wouldn't blame anyone for doing it for the paycheck.

Falling in line with conventional viewpoints rarely gets you kudos, since it is what most people do.
I'm on Tysabri as well. There have been no documented significant side effects in the US, which is good. Many people have many years between relapses, if they relapse at all.

However, there is additional risk in taking it if you are JC Virus positive.
So a black person who moved from Africa is then lower-case black, because they are not part of the Black (uppercase) culture?
He started setting records in the 1980s when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, so it very much was a Soviet thing. After Ukraine left he then competed under the Ukrainian flag, but I would expect many Soviet practices to have continued (at least for a while).
PureData has a very outdated looking GUI. Actually, it even looks as if the elements are rendered wrong. This has always driven me away from using it. This new thing has a much more pleasant looking GUI. Promising.
> This would be a blessing. I think we can trace most of our problems back to the end of the cold war. If we have some common thing to fight against we stop fighting each other

Except for that whole Jim Crow thing in the south…

This was hundreds of years ago. My still living parent grew up during segregation.
>Edit: and oh yeah, not airing a prime time presidential address to the nation because your ratings would go down. I’m sure the public interest rule was designed to protect your ratings above all else.

"TV networks not wanting to air a prime time presidential address because of ratings" is one way of framing it. The other is "TV networks giving what their viewers want and not shoving a presidential address down their throats". In the era of cable TV and c-span.org, people who want politics can get it. The person tuning in at prime time to watch NCIS or whatever doesn't care for the president's speech, and I'm not sure what good can come from trying to force people to watch it.
> I'd miss the Esc key in the upper-left

When the keyboard lets your thumb reach 2-3 buttons each, you get to use the thumb more, which allows using the pinky finger less. (Which is nice, since the pinky finger is weaker than the thumb).

I find it quite nice to use my thumbs for Tab/Esc/Space, Backspace/Enter/Delete.
Biogen offers non-income dependent financial aide that covers $20k a year towards the drug, and $2-3k a year towards the cost of infusions.
Related:

Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10229928 - Sept 2015 (53 comments)

Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731022 - May 2014 (103 comments)
I have my domain hosted on a service that provides web hosting and email. I configured Gmail to pickup that email and merge with my gmail mails. I can choose to send as either my gmail address or my personal domain address. I just tried it now and it worked just fine.
Discussed at the time:

On finally learning to program at the age of 40 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24404628 - Sept 2020 (161 comments)
I guess it depends on how you look at it... For me this is like a river with a big rock in the way... The water will find it's way around with other means...
Its more like US trying to isolate itself from Russia and China (for seemingly different reasons), don't you think?

It is as if US wants to rollback globalisation, because they feel it is starting to disadvantage them.

But for many companies Apple for example, a globalised world is better, in both ways in terms of efficient supply chains and getting access to markets.

International trade is a magic bullet in economics.
Another way to look at it is to realize how rarely you need to prove who you are, let alone your legal residency.

If you have someone to live with, you can subsist for quite a long time before anyone notices, and even then, will they care?
Ptorx: Send and receive mail without using your real email address
Note that the 1970s was a time of detente in the Cold War, so it supports the OPs point. As we started to forget about the Russians, we started to fight each other. The 80s is often held up as a time of renewed national unity, and it corresponds with heightened Cold War fears.
Well, I have been a donor for a long time, so yes, technically I am paying them.

And your second statement is false; other orgs have successfully had online gatherings on BBB, for example.
I would argue that actually has its limits. Fox News can barely keep any ads from major companies on air these days, but it's insulated because of carriage fees.

The problem is that digital is cutting the revenue up into too many pieces and customers have been resistant to paying in many cases. The solution is not to discourage financial support for products, as businesses need to business, but to separate these influences internally. Journalists reporting about global conflicts or crime or political corruption shouldn't have to think about how the lights are kept on to do their jobs.
Listening to old speeches or interviews (like radio interviews before TV) is also eye opening.

The thing is, everyone wants to blame politicians. But we as people have deteriorated. These people are who we choose. We're so concerned about winning at all costs that we don't even care about the abhorrent behavior of our candidates, on both sides. It's a race to the bottom now. Hopefully our experiment survives.
It does but the shape was as bad as the mush and best as I can tell they are still smaller. I think I would still take the new layout over it. The 360 does have macro key which you can map to common function keys if you really don’t want to layer the function row.
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It’s pretty hard to distinguish spam accounts by domain. They skip domains regularly. Much more often than actual humans. If your spam filters are only able to filter by domain you might want to find some more sophisticated filters.
Is there a license these are generally released under that lets them be posted like this? Or is it just a quirk of the general workflow for these?

I remember stumbling onto a production music site a while ago and it seemed to have full clips posted online, which was very refreshing from the normal music industry standards.
Will the EU demand the CEO of an American advertising company be extradited for browser tracking? Unless every country does this, I think it's almost certainly moot.
"ptorx.com’s server IP address could not be found." Hmm?
“Any idea what they are?” – American pilots report racetrack UAP in recent weeks
Pilots and crews from more than 15 commercial aircraft say they have encountered unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in American airspace in recent weeks, according to eyewitness testimony and videos that detail the unusual events.

According to witnesses, the rash of incidents occurred over a seven-week period and involved sightings of bright luminous aerial objects in airspace from the American Midwest to as far west as the Pacific. The Debrief has learned that several of the objects were reportedly observed performing unconventional tight-circling maneuvers, which pilots and others involved said defied simple explanation.

The objects, which have since garnered the nickname “Racetrack UAPs” for the descriptions of their odd circular flight paths, were first reported by researcher and television personality Ben Hansen on social media and his YouTube channel, where he has featured several videos detailing the pilot encounters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfB7LSaOMdc).
As pointed out, the payment for Over the Air news was supposed to be the airwaves. The news is supposed to be 'public interest programming' or whatever the phrase was.
How much do you actually know about manufacturing in China? China is not where comps it’s go for “cheap labor”. Companies aren’t building clothing factories in China.
This. The Wahl's protocol https://www.amazon.com/Wahls-Protocol-Autoimmune-Conditions-...

It's very simple. Avoid foods that cause inflammation and this helps reduce MS flare-ups
I keep wondering who'll work in all the factory jobs. How much will the jobs pay and how much will the rest of the people need to be able to make in order to afford Made in America things.

Would appreciate insight into this.
China and Russia isolating themselves? You’ve heard of BRICS right?
https://archive.ph/UE7x2
He's saying the @gmail.com domain is useless to him, because it he gets so much spam from it.

I could certainly see that being the case, and if you can block the whole domain and whitelist the few contacts you actually have, it probably could work decently well.
Giving yourself, say, 20 hours to build a kind of an application seems like a good way to learn quick iteration techniques. Coding challenges like Advent of Code or game jams like Ludum Dare can really push one to take a whole new approach to coding.

Also, light themes are superior.
To a liberal person, this response just reads like someone with privilege.

You're telling me that that I have an agenda meant to destroy law and order so I can live in a desolate dystopia (not even bothering to try to create a good faith explanation for why I believe what I believe), while I think you are a hapless victim of conservative media incapable of critically thinking, failing to understand that you are not supporting policy that is in your own best interest.

I wish it were possible to see eye to eye or understand each other, but clearly the schism between us is too great.

The irony is you believe I am under a delusion, and I believe you are under a delusion, and our opinions are irreconcilable. The end result (scaled across the population) can only be uneasy peace and a completely dysfunctional government or Civil War II and a balkanized America.

If you had read my post rather than jumping straight to "ridiculous liberal person," you'd see I've lived in SF and am quite unhappy with the policing there. So your assertion that I want to create an SF like environment doesn't make a lot of sense when I am simultaneously complaining about the SF environment.
jjulius, I did not state that they were helping them financially, though I also had not thought of that. I think Twitch does not display ads on non-profits streams (is this right?), but it's also extra visitors at the end of the day.

My comment was more along the general line of criticizing something verbally, but then taking actions that, in my view, undermine that same message. Contrast this with the FSF, for example, which is feverishly uncompromising about its values.
> I'm kind of a perfectionist coder/creator.

Ok. Must be true if you are saying so. Perfect job with the website - downloading 88MB of data just because I accessed the site.
Seems like the fairest option. GPA, essays, and extracurriculars are BS and even worse.
It's highly unlikely that we will enter a sustained period of low growth. It is too advantageous for all parties to continue interconnecting economies. Any country that chooses to isolate themselves from the rest of the world will find that it is much more difficult to be self sufficient than they imagined.
I bought one for at-desk prototyping because it was more available than a Pi 4. I’ve also bought one to serve as a temporary Pi server. Unless you actually need the form factor, the 400 is a completely fine substitute.
I am one such person, or at least I was when I began my career writing software way back in 2000. Oh well, write software is a loaded term, let's say I began writing programs. Simply for the reason you state above, more money than anywhere else with one caveat. There was this hunch that software is the future and there were more exciting stuff happening in software than in the world of let's say mechanical engineering, even in my backyard in Bangalore.

But, over time I got to love writing software and the entire industry as such. About 3 years in, I couldn't think of doing anything else. So yeah, there's no harm in pursuing something for the sake of money, because the odds are you will eventually fall in love with that path, assuming some of your qualities are suitable for that career.

But, not everyone finds happiness or satisfaction in a path that they chose for money and I think majority of them will be wishing they never had to be in that career.
We need legislative changes to make that lifestyle sustainable, because at the current rate it will become less and less so.

In the long long term, probably will only end with legislation, revolt, or dystopian outcomes.
That is not what's happening at all. China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa, and lots of other countries are currently building an alternative to western economy. These countries are where majority of the world population lives.
Let's say theoretically I did a gdpr request to Google to delete my emails, do they have to delete the counterparty copy?
When doing http by hand, it's better to do http/1.0 because that tells the server you (and it) can't do anything exciting.