skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of like what Nvidia has been doing in GPUs. They have series. 1000s, 2000s, 3000s. Each generate is a new series.

Then the products inside seem to be in performance order. A 3080 is better than a 3060 is better than a 3020 (if that exists).

I know it gets messier than that. The fact that they add the titanium versions kind of screws with it. And in the last year they had that card they had to renumber because a change to its memory configuration (?) made it perform wrong for its moniker.

But at least you know a 3080 is two generations newer than a 1080. Compared to the seemingly random numbers on CPUs it’s simple.
This was true for only the first generation (Nehalem):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture)

And they didn't even have an i3 model. What you refer to as the i3 above was still branded as "Celeron". The immediate successor (Westmere) didn't follow this convention at all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmere_(microarchitecture)

All of the i3 and i5s of that generation were MC+SMT.
Similarly you can buy gold certificates that are not actually backed by gold, which seems crazy to me. Why people think crypto is a scam and all their other made up currencies are less of a concerted scam and are more robust is absolutely comical to me.
That's just really a different class altogether. I doubt my gas stove cost more than 200 new :)

But the thing about a cheap gas stove is that it performs as well as a high end one, at least for a one person household like mine. If I'd invest in induction it would all get much more expensive to get the same performance.
Surely, we still live in a life out of balance. But something about how digital much of human life and industry is now makes it seemingly difficult to create a modern successor to Koyaanisqatsi. I suppose you could just have a panning shot across massive server farms and maybe some footage evoking the sheer amount of carbon and water requires for these operations, but not sure it translates to film in the same powerful way as other footage in films like Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka, and the most recent film along these lines that I have seen, Anthropocene (2018).
At 80W, running a laptop, it hovered around 90F, shown here:
https://transistor-man.com/lenovo_ebike_adapter.html#How_doe...
absolutely my favorite commentator both for his game analysis and his depth of experience from his own chess career
It's on by default.
Uh, sure. Sort of a pedantic side note, but yes: all browsers' default to a fancy page zoom these days. It's even more buried in Chrome.

For good reason: using rems or ems in sizing values will cause "text only" zoom to do a good bit more than what's on the tin. WebAIM doesn't require it, and only recommends – which is more than I would say, at any rate. It's simply more trouble than it's worth.
regulated by who though? the GP was making the argument that the government is captured by the oil industry. regulation by a captured government is not legitimate regulation.
Well, if we have 32 cores at 2 GHz, and 48 cores at 1.5 GHz, from the same chip architecture, which is better?

For some workloads, it's one; for others, it's the other.

A one-dimensional performance axis is hard in practice.
The main idea behind the sustainability concept is that when left unchecked AI can and will fill not just our digital world, but our physical world with junk. Especially when the inevitable use of AI product generation comes about.

I did think about generating the article, but decided against it.
Setting the stage for the Intel 11, because it goes to 11.
I think personally it's important for people to realize that people are creature of habit. A person who has the disicipline of going extra miles and strive for excellency in their work, regardless of compensation, is likely to carry his habit across different jobs or even when he decides to do his own startup or anything non-work related. I think this is such a good habit to have will prove beneficial sooner or later. A lot of people think they will just work hard and do their best whem they need to, and take it easy for now at a corporate job. Personally I don't think work-ethics can be switched that easily, it has to be built.
Personally I think the i-N naming convention (and Ryzen naming convention for that matter) may have slightly hurt sales of the higher performance i-3 chips, which could be better than even midrange i-<5-9> chips for specific or general scenarios.

If I were branding chips I’d do some combination of core count, clock speed (yes I know performance is much more complicated), chip type/power requirements/specialization, and iteration. Like I have no idea how to compare an i3-4971058373 to an i7-5927263849. I can much more easily compare an i6L-36v2 (six core, 3.6 GHz, laptop thermals/power, second version) to an i8D-38v1. And even more importantly I can seek out SKUs according to my requirements rather than having to go through multiple third party websites doing the work of cataloguing/comparing specs and explaining wtf each sku is.
Compare with Project Xanadu, particularly micropayments:

https://dubinko.info/blog/2009/11/how-xanadu-works/

> All documents have a specific owner, are royalty-bearing, and work through a micropayment system. Anyone can quote, transclude, or modify any amount of anything, with the payments sorting themselves out accordingly.

If you're of the right philosophical bent, that sounds familiar:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galambosianism

> Galambosianism is an early precursor to libertarian philosophy promoted by an aerospace engineer named Andrew J. Galambos (1924-1997) during the 1960s. He gave a series of for-pay classes starting with "V-50" ("The Theory of Volition"). Unlike other precursors to libertarianism (such as the ideas of Ayn Rand, Robert LeFevre, Albert Jay Nock, and Ludwig von Mises), Galambos' ideas have largely been thrown in the dustbin of history by his fellow libertarians.

> Galambos called himself a liberal, but in reality was philosophically somewhat closer to anarcho-capitalism. One of the core ideas of his philosophy, and the main sticking point preventing broader acceptance of it, was his belief in absolute intellectual property rights, meaning the inventor or originator of an idea should have absolute, lifelong heritable control over that idea and all the profits derived from it.

[snip]

> Other libertarians quickly found Galambosians to be obstinate cranks. Reportedly, Andrew Galambos and Ayn Rand once met and within five minutes each had declared the other insane. Also reportedly, Galambos would keep a jar or coffee can next to him when speaking in public, into which he would drop a nickel or dime any time he mentioned the name of another person, or mentioned an idea or phrase attributed to another person, to symbolize he was paying "royalties" to them for his use of their intellectual property. He went so far as to drop a nickel in "royalties" to the long-dead Thomas Paine every time he used the word "liberty", on the mistaken belief that the word was invented by Paine. Also reportedly, he was born Joseph Andrew Galambos, Jr. but legally changed his name to Andrew Joseph Galambos so he wouldn't infringe on his father's intellectual property rights.

[snip]

> Needless to say, a wiki article discussing Galambosianism should not be allowed in a free society, but it is okay only if you drop a nickel in the jar after reading this article.

I wonder if Ted Nelson ever pays royalties to Galambos. Probably not, the slacker.
This has been well covered by Linus Tech Tips very recently.
https://youtu.be/1vpepaQ-VQQ
There's a great submission a couple hours ago on why LTT has been so effective covering it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764232

LTT cites some other major sources that were already publishing the absurd shit packaged on the various boxes.

LTT didn't go super deep, but they did go pretty wide, & looked at a bunch of boxes, & were like, yup, all horrible, just absolutely deplorable garbage!

So sad that arm is such a lowly immature ecosystem. If these were more like the computers we know love & take for granted we'd just do a fresh install of a regular OS like Debian & these would be potentially useful interesting boxes. Instead they're just garbage forever, unless you are an embedded kernel hacker. It's crazy that arm has been around so long & is still nowhere near being a viable software platform, that the whole stack is a giant deck of cards from flakey weird bootloader, to janky forked kernels with hacked together blobs & shitty kernel code, to godforsaken abominable user lands riddled with junkware.

It's incredible to contrast to the PC world, where interoperability lead to choice lead to making things better. ARM as an ecosystem has had no need to deal straight with it's users & that's why it's been such a rotting cesspool of tech for so many decades now.
Sounds like someone is getting an earful for not checking the branding guideline's spelling while "leaking."
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No, they have no right to that information, and if medical accomodations need to be made you stick with that (i.e. what your Doctor says); you do not volunteer information because they will fire you for it.

It may not happen immediately, all they need to do is wait 6 months and it can't be considered retaliatory.
> “The “i” branding is extremely powerful with the average consumer and removing it is bound to cause confusion amongst consumers who aren’t technically-inclined.”

I feel like you're either in one of two groups:

1. a PC "nerd" (kind of deragotory) who is obsessed with specs all the way down to things like L2 cache size, etc.

2. somebody who has 0 clue what any computer/laptop specification means whatsoever
It's impressive how the development experience in Windows got worse over the years.. dotnet core saves the face, but the native side of things is abysmal, linux is much better, except for the glibc version BS.. musl to the rescue!
Looked up the history and got there the same time as you.

Hindsight is 20/20, so I see how Intel ~2008 could have thought "Maybe SMT will fail in real world scenarios, so we don't want it on our entire product line."

But at some point relatively soon after that it was clear that SMT worked well and they could cram it into every chip.

That's when they really should have ditched the i* and converted to a new system.
I've written a whole series of posts about prompt injection that you might find useful: https://simonwillison.net/series/prompt-injection/
While somewhat ridiculous, I kind of feel like they might’ve been better off if they were currently selling the Pentium 17.

Anyone can look at 17 and compare it to the number on their older computer (say Pentium 14) and know it’s better.

Apple is doing this right so far with the M chips, but they’re about to be on #3. We’ll see how long they stick with it. They have so far in phones.
I can’t not share with others, either. To me a collapse means bringing everything I’ve got to the table for my family and community — no hoarding, no hiding. I really believe these skills (hydroponics, basic automation, growing food) will matter if something happens.

People who can help and provide actually stepping up to support less able people is the best thing we can use to prevent real catastrophe, I think.
The Fantatic Widget Factory
TLDR generated by GPT3:

In 2006, developers at Globo.com wanted to break down silos between different sites by allowing developers from other sites to offer GMC registered videos in a simple and standardized way. However, the platform's rigidity made it challenging to display dynamic video content on static HTML pages. To solve this problem, they developed standardized visual widgets on the client-side that obtained information from WebmediaAPI by returning a JavaScript call to a callback function. However, they needed server-side rendering to maintain relevance in organic searches. To achieve this, they rendered JavaScript widgets on the server using Rhino. Despite facing challenges, they successfully developed a client-side widget platform that enabled all websites to offer videos consistently and created a server-side rendered video product that could be indexed by Google.
I agree. I think GP meant "good" like you'd use it to describe a dog. obedient.
What? I can't talk to the voices in your head, please forward their reply.
... looks like I'll need to upgrade the CPU soon lol
I can’t find any video of Ding saying that but I’ll assume it’s true.

Well, then Ding is lying to himself (which would actually be a clever strategy so that doesn’t weigh on your mind the next time you’re in a tough time situation). Ding started his move with over 5 minutes to go. He finally played a move with about 45 secs remaining. He still had 8 moves to make in 45 seconds before time would be extended.

The 5 or so seconds he was leaving himself for each move was close to being physically impossible to achieve. Ding absolutely froze.

Also, it wasn’t “Fake news media” claiming he froze. It was live commentators who are largely GMs themselves who recognized it as him freezing. Anish Giri predicted he froze live when there was about 4 mins to go, from the fact that he hadn’t made a move yet.
In most uses, "conspiracy" is nothing more than a scare-word. The poster may have been attempting to illustrate this.
https://www.funet.fi/pub/vms/networking/gopher/gopher-softwa...

https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-goph...
> TMux itself contains a terminal emulator, and not everything works correctly in TMux

Which is why we invented terminfo and ncurses.
I wish Intel get back to the absolute basic. Great Products, Easy to understand spec numbers, less artificial market segmentation ( apart from optimising for yield ).
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> somebody who has 0 clue what any computer/laptop specification means whatsoever

Life was so easy in the MHz-wars days.

The bigger number was basically always better, and you could easily tell by how much.
I wish I could read this but it displays as white text on an off-white background on chrome for Android. Is everyone else seeing it that way?
Around 2001-2002 I wanted to build a bipedal robot, about 1-2 feet tall, mostly using RC servos... But first I wanted to sort of prototype it in software, and that part of the project took on a life of its own.

Coincidentally, a library called ODE had just been released, which did (still does) very nice physics modeling. After a year I had a sort of "robot construction kit" / 3D world editor and simulator GUI for ODE. I had so much fun building that app, and building random stuff in that virtual world, I didn't even start on the physical robot. Bipeds, centipedes (there's a dialog box to build N-pedes), snakes, a motorcycle, a couple cars, etc, etc.

If anyone remembers sodaplay from back in the day, I cloned and extended their GUI for controlling simple oscillating motions. And added a smooth waveform for "up, pause, down, pause, repeat" in addition to just sine waves.

There's a simple visual programming language for configuring the data flow from those simple wave functions to motorized joints in your contraption.

There's multilevel undo/redo for everything, because I had just bought the GoF patterns book, and the CommandHistory chapter seemed like such a great idea that I couldn't NOT use it.

It turned out really nice, I was super proud for a while... life moved on.

I dusted it off a couple years ago and got it to build with a modern version of Visual Studio. The C++ standard has evolved, and there are now a billion warnings, but it does build and run. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the MPEG library and terrain library to work. And the screenshots and MPEGs from 2002 are long lost, so I haven't got much to show for it today.

But it is on GitHub if anyone wants to play with it:
https://github.com/natewaddoups/juice
This is a great article with a lot of lovely detail and photos…and yet I was left wondering how the author actually connected it to the e-bike’s battery—was it directly? Via the bike’s charging port? I’d love to know more about the actual mechanics of _that_ and how they went about it because I’ve long wondered why these modern e-bikes don’t offer more ways to charge other devices from them (with a few exceptions in the Bosch lineup, with the ‘smart hub’ that they sell).
The impact of AI models will be as big as the web , now it is the critical defining moment of LLMs. Are we going to allow a few big companies control our access to AI ? This can happen just like Apple App Store . We must find a way to make AI free for all
Hmm…

In my experience, good quality clothing can be found near unfathomably cheap (in the U.S. atleast) at estate sales in/around historically middle-upper class neighborhoods of cities. Or rich zip codes in general.

It’s even better if you’re a bit smaller than average or in good physical shape - you can simply buy larger articles made of quality materials & self-tailor or pay a bit to have them fitted to your body.

You may miss some small QoL improvements & gimmicks modern day clothing can have, like recessed pockets with near invisible zippers or tucked away phone holders, but those can also be added by anybody who’s decent at handiwork.

Building your own wardrobe is fairly easy this way IMO - I don’t think I could say the same for supplying an entire family though.
The goal of the extension is great, as it allows developers to use WASI easily when creating new extensions. Mad props to the team that worked on it.

But is unfortunate that they used literally the name of the most famous extension for WebAssembly in VSCode (vscode-wasm), which has been around already for a few years, as it might confuse people on what is what:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dtsvet.v... (113k installations)

Repo here:
https://github.com/wasmerio/vscode-wasm
> As long as errors persist and, more importantly, are impossible/hard to be warned of, competent humans will need to oversee and validate

"Competent" humans make errors too. This is a non-argument.
I didn’t mow once last year. I do weed out non native weeds but I keep most of the weeds that I find pleasing.
nothing beats simplicity when it meets possibility
I was reading today about AMD 29000 and it came to my attention that a register windows wasn't a such a bad idea but having a fixed window size (as SPARC did) definitely was.
the leading digits of the SKU get bumped with every generation. this is the same pattern used by nvidia and amd for their gpus and cpus. it's only slightly more opaque than model years for cars.

I've also heard people say things like "my PC has an i7" without understanding the generational context, but the intersection between this group and the population that actually buys individual computer parts is approximately null. it's a lot harder to figure out chipset compatibility than it is to figure out that a 2700k is separated from a 13700k by more than ten years.
How the Streaming Era Turned Music into Sludge
Some union contracts actually let the union veto the outsourcing of jobs.

In those cases unionizing prevents outsourcing.
That site is really good. Definitely speed dial worthy - thanks for the story. About dropping the "i" - I think Intel is in need of a refresh and a new name wouldn't hurt the brand as a whole. I just hope they'd come up with something sensible and easy for the consumer to understand.
Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/NcOKD#selection-757.0-757.669
Police didn't like the "defund the police" movement (which was most active in 2020, so there's your temporal coincidence). The theory is that they are deliberately doing a bad job to make crime worse. Just be bad at your job and you'll get paid more because the low morale and understaffing means it's harder to hire and your overtime pay goes up so that's a win-win. In general no defunding actually happened anywhere. If you google around you'll find plenty of articles about that [0]. From the article: "local spending on police increased in 90 percent of locations since 2019." Anecdote, I've only talked to one former Oakland cop in person, but when he talked about his experience literally ALL he talked about was overtime and how to get more of it, and this was years before the pandemic. So it seems to be part of the institutional culture now.

In Oakland, the police department is like 25% of the total city budget. Depending on the year and what you count as "budget" it can be closer to 40% of the general fund [1]. Either way, as a percentage their budget has actually gone UP significantly since 2019, mostly due to excessive overtime. It works "kind of" like a protection racket. Some back of the napkin math and the OPD budget is something like $500k per officer and $3.5 million per murder, which they don't prevent and barely bother trying to solve. I think a few million redirected to better mental health and homeless services would probably pay off. They have lots of new SUV's which they like to drive through residential neighborhoods really fast though.

[0] https://abc7news.com/defund-police-oakland-crime-shooting/12...

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3Ou1LrUcAE67SZ?format=jpg&name=...
I do rather enjoy this definition.

> Puritanism = default no on happiness. You can't be happy about something unless you can prove it's justifiable to be happy about it. It might be a good idea to switch to default yes: you can be happy about something unless you can prove it's unjustifiable to

Having to make the effort to justify & think about whether something is actually good seems like a helpful outlook, like a perspective people don't always need to apply, but should at least have in their back pocket, should be in heavy rotation.
The Lisa was in development at the time, so apparently someone at Apple shared it. Strange thing to show off in your Xerox demo! (showing how much larger the screen was is my guess)

Lisa, for comparison: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10263089...
It had variable-size register window which seemed to work much better than SPARC's fixed size.
If that is your opinion, I kind of doubt that you would have that much of an issue with an electric stove, at least not the ones that OP was complaining about. An expensive gas range is going to perform significantly differently from a $200 one. At least, if all we are talking about is “heat goes into pan”.

Edit: Look, I don’t mean to come across as though I have an issue with your budget or choices, but you’re derailing a conversation that was in response to someone claiming that electric was inferior specifically in comparison to high end gas stoves. Your $300 range isn’t going to put out the 15-25k Btus that OP was talking about, which was why I made the comparison to a relatively less expensive induction device. I personally use that device for a significant amount of my cooking as I rent a unit that only has an underpowered 2 burned stove.
Yes, but their chosen solution is vulnerable to the media itself altering, which is not the case with CDs (which aren’t vulnerable to licensing issues either).
This is the answer, my kids are all
Into it and they really
Love Gotham chess (I think that’s what it is called and Hikaru as well) I’m sure there are others but I’m already out of my element.
Finally, the droids can talk to each other!
If you covariance, it's the first example because String is a subtype of Object. List is the same thing as List<Object>.

The first example is missing some parenthesis, but it should convoy my point.
It seems that it was Hudson Bay: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105820900/tom-sukanen-1878-1...

When I saw "the Hudson" I thought of the Hudson River. It seemed plausible he might be able to row to Lake Winnipeg and then follow rivers and portages to Lake Superior, and from there paddle his way down to Lake Erie and the down the Erie Canal to the Hudson.

Not exactly an easy trip, but NYC seemed to me like a better place to find a steamship to Finland than Hudson Bay!
I am probably missing the point of this. Didn’t we have stuff like this back in the 80’s with phone couplers and modems?