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london.metro-memory.com 2y ago

London Tube Memory Game

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Any real world protests over the RIAA YouTube-dl takedown?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Was HN Down?

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mobile.twitter.com 6y ago

Neil Ferguson: Disease modelling code is thousands of lines of undocumented C

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What software is in need of a open source clean room reimplementation?

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avherald.com 6y ago

No Afghan Ariana Airlines Crash

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www.bbc.co.uk 6y ago

Windows 10: NSA reveals major flaw in Microsoft's code

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www.dmca.com 6y ago

DMCA Protection and Takedown

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wwwf.imperial.ac.uk 6y ago

The Future of Mathematics [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: How much would you pay for adblock in real life?

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www.wd.com 7y ago

WD Purple Surveillance Hard Drive

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www.facebook.com 7y ago

Mark Zuckerberg -This Week I Talked with Yuval Noah Harari

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qz.com 7y ago

The new kid in town who wants to buy Jet Airways

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Anna Delvey: The Trial of New York's Fake Heiress

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Netherlands 'hosts most child sex abuse images'

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www.bbc.com 7y ago

Natalia Fileva: Russia airline co-owner dies in private plane crash

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www.sailingscuttlebutt.com 7y ago

Laser Class removes LaserPerformance as approved builder

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

UK MPs vote to delay EU departure

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

MPs vote to reject no-deal Brexit

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Mark Zuckerberg predicted a food trend

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Ethiopian Airlines: Boeing 737 Crashes on Way to Kenya

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Explosive Packages Found at Heathrow, Waterloo and London City Airport

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www.reddit.com 7y ago

Google AI refuses to share dataset fields

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qz.com 7y ago

IBM’s Watson is now offering career coaching to hourly employees

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www.bbc.co.uk 8y ago

Anthony Kennedy: US Supreme Court Judge to Retire

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

Klout is out–social media mojo-ranking service to shutter

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www.marketwatch.com 8y ago

Class Action Reveals Widespread Overpricing Scheme of DRAM

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www.bbc.co.uk 8y ago

Facebook broke German privacy laws, court rules

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www.bbc.co.uk 8y ago

Facebook invents new unit of time called a flick

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www.interactually.com 8y ago

(2013)The Creepiest Social Network

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Multithreading does not make code more efficient. It still takes the same amount of work and power (slightly more).

In addition to my sibling comments I would like to point out that multithreading quite often can save power. Typically the power consumption of an all core load is within 2x the power consumption of a single core load, while being many times faster assuming your task parallelizes well. This makes sense b/c a fully loaded cpu core still needs all the L3 cache mechanisms, all the DRAM controller mechanisms, etc to run at full speed. A fully idle system on the other hand can consume very little power if it idles well(which admittedly many cpus do not idle on low power).

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I would also add that if your system is running a single threaded database, and a single threaded web server, that still leaves over a hundred of underutilized cores on many modern server class cpus.

My sibling comment has a lot of good info, but to answer your question for ddr5, SK Hynix makes the ram capable of the highest frequencies/best timings, Samsung is second and micron is third. At least this was true when ddr5 initially came out, these things could change. Its also worth mentioning that manufactures can have different grades/product lines so there is variation within a manufacturer to. My perception is that Micron and Samsung are cheaper than SK Hynix, though idk what wholesale prices actually look like.

I'm not seeing it explicitly stated in this post but there is an important detail that other comments seem to be ignoring/assuming. There's a difference between a class that requires students "to consider that the idea that relentless progress that steamrolls all other concerns might not be the right way to think about progress"(from one of my sibling comments), and a class that requires students to not believe in relentless progress. Like a class that assigns an essay with the prompt "explain why building more datacenters is bad" or a class that assigns "are more datacenters good" are two very different classes. My sibling comments seem to be assuming that the later is happening. I suspect the OP thinks the former is happening.

Many of these people claim to have a "system" which will enable them to win. I've talked with some of them. None of them I've spoken to had money. Coincidence?

The original thread was about how statistics education will not cause people of gambling. Of course people almost always lose money gambling, except for very rare exceptions, but that doesn't really have anything to do with my point that people spending meaningful amounts of money on gambling are addicted. Addicts aren't going to just tell you that they gamble, because they are addicted(maybe some will but not in general).

Personally, I've gambled a few times. Lost money. I don't like losing money, it is not entertaining to me in the slightest.

Some people could probably say the same thing about video games, but nobody disputes that some people enjoy video games.

you'll see legions of people who do not understand statistics and pay a heavy price for that.

At the risk of stating the obvious, and not adding to the conversation, I think we all know that people putting their life savings into slot machines aren't doing so because they don't understand expected value. They may or may not understand that they are going to lose all their money, but they are gambling because they are addicted/have some kind of mental health problem. Knowledge of statistics doesn't really affect things for problem gambling.

As for those putting modest amounts of money into gambling, most of them will tell you that card games/etc. are fun, and are therefore worth it.

I've heard some variation of this many many times, and remain very unconvinced. General education in university isn't the norm around the world. Are non-americans all hyper-specialized people who know nothing else of the world? Are people who didn't go to university the same? Did someone do a study at some point and conclude that general ed was important or do these general ed requirements exist purely because they are tradition?

A 256GB RAM stick uses 80W!!!!

This seems very high to me, since most high capacity server sticks have no heatsink. Have you got a source?

I have long wondered about this. Note that you also need to be able to normalize grades across students who went to the same school but had different teachers. I suspect the answer is that both normalizations are hard so admissions people don't bother.

I believe Lean handles proofs about cardinality and infinities just fine. I'm not sure what kind of computation you want to do with infinities that current computers can't? Can you elaborate? Like sure I can't represent any arbitrary real but like that's never a problem in practice. And Mathematica like software can get pretty close to representing any computable real.

Sorry to respond to such an old thread.

Of course pretty much all communication is advertising in some way, but the topic here is the corporate kind with teams of people trying to optimize click through rates and the like. I don't think they are really comparable and I don't think its particularly difficult to tell the difference in most cases.

Lots of software I use on a daily basis has no marketing team and became dominant on its merits alone. I would rather all software competed on its merits.

As for you main point about advertising helping me find products I genuinely want/need, this couldn't be further from the truth in my experience. Recently I wanted a new laptop, and one of my criteria was that said laptop should not have pre-installed nonsense like mcafee/Norton(I mean I would be wiping the drive and installing Linux anyway but this is on principle). Anyway it turns out that all large laptop companies install some kind bloatware and also advertise aggressively, so it's quite difficult to search for a laptop without bloatware, since all the ads/seo are for laptops by companies with large advertising budgets and therefore have bloatware. More generally if I'm looking for a product I want there are generally multiple competing providers/manufacturers of said product, and I therefore must figure out which is better, and often there is a clear winner. However the other sides advertising team are incentivized to muddy the waters in this situation making it less obvious which products are best.

Also can you please not yell random words it's actually kind of jarring to read.

I sincerely doubt the jet in question was flying at supersonic speeds right above tree tops. Couple of reasons, at low altitude most military jets can only handle mach 1.2 or so at the cost of massive fuel consumption. Any sort of long distance flight at low altitude, supersonic speeds would waste massive amounts of fuel. Additionally all aircraft are significantly less maneuverable at supersonic speeds which is a bad combination with being close to the ground. Lastly and probably most importantly sonic booms are really really loud. As in they can at least in theory kill people if in close contact(not aware of this actually happening at any point, but there was a cold war project to use a low flying supersonic aircraft as an anti-tank weapon). Point is if they actually where supersonic I would be surprised if you didn't have some form of hearing damage. Also shaking and rattling is not consistent with a sonic boom, just normal jet noise.

Weary of Work 5 years ago

My understanding is that the UK experienced a population boom due to increased farming productivity due to potatoes. The resulting population boom meant that there where more farmers than farms, so they had to go somewhere, and the only option was cities.

Life expectancy is down in the US pre-covid, driven in part by the opioid epidemic and in part by poor health/obesity,both of which are associated with poverty. Involuntary servitude is alive and well in US prisons which incidentally don't have a ton of high income people.

So I don't think it's fair to say that life is necessarily getting better in the US for low income people.