HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

srum

30 karma · joined March 10, 2015

submissionscomments
srum··on Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)
This one always stood out to me on Marilyn's trip to Seattle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylkbjjykgG4&list=RDylkbjjykg...

srum··on Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?
You can get in trouble for having it in the UK (though not necessarily convicted)

https://news.sky.com/story/anarchist-cookbook-case-student-j...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-45841291

srum··on How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart?
I don't. I've been away so long that I may go wrong and lose my way
srum··on AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th
You could disable Turbo and EIST in the BIOS - most will have a setting for these, and that will result in the cores running at nominal freq.

I don't know about a nice high-level linux interface, there may well be one, but if you need to access these settings from a running machine there are MSRs you can poke.

srum··on Where the Good Jobs Are
As long as there are pre-paid meters, pirate sparkies will be in demand
srum··on NSA’s top policy advisor: It’s time to start putting teeth in cyber deterrence
You’re surely right about the incentives at play, and why no intelligence agency is going to spend millions doing x company’s validation work for them. But how in the world would selective patching work? How do you hide that?
srum··on When Your Profiler Lies
Is the laptop using the HPET for the QPC timer? (10MHz..) and the added latency[0] of calling into that is messing up the reported timings in the profiler?

[0]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/desktop/SysInfo/acq...

srum··on I Used to Be Homeless
It may seem that way, but at least here in the UK homelessness is a huge problem in the immigrant community. It is virtually invisible though. You can get kicked out of the UK as a migrant (even from the EU) for being homeless, so keeping a low profile is essential.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/st-mungos-ho...

https://www.homeless.org.uk/connect/blogs/2018/jan/10/migran...

srum··on Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors
I'm not even sure they're going to let you program the FPGA drectly (with HDL)?

I expect the main workflow will be using OpenCL to offload arbitrary work to the coprocessor along with a few Intel-provided modules capable of common tasks.

The great thing about having the FPGA on-die via UPI is that the cache-coherency, decreased latency and massive bandwidth will allow much more granular offloading of work. This is as compared with PCIe coprocessor where it only makes sense to offload larger chunks of work and minimise the communication and data passing between the two.

The greater the granularity of work that we can offload, the more viable the OpenCL/high-level synthesis/heterogeneous computing type stuff will be, as it will integrate more seamlessly into existing software development methods. This is the holy grail at the moment for FGPA vendors: to get to the point where software developers can program them on their own.

As to your point though I guess we'll find out soon what the dev tools for this will actually look like.

srum··on Ransomware as a Service
China?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7855571

srum··on Why is the Internet so Slow?
The horse's mouth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9045125
srum··on Stupid security things
test@strawberrynet.com

test test test, Burdur, Eastern, Hong Kong , Hong Kong

Daytime Contact Number: 1234567890 ; Mobile: 55555555

srum··on How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network
Didn't the recent travel ban attempt to revoke valid visas?
srum··on The Mind of an Octopus
The flip side of that is, if they are stronger than us, many would take it for granted that they would attempt to communicate with us, even though we've made no such attempt to do the same with species on our own planet.

Peter Gabriel has though tbf

http://petergabriel.com/news/the-interspecies-internet/

https://www.ted.com/talks/the_interspecies_internet_an_idea_...

srum··on ‘Black Mirror’ Finds Terror, and Soul, in the Machine
Don't forget Community!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3278596/

srum··on Moving Forward on Basic Income
The high taxes for cigarettes (and similarly alcohol) should also be taken into account when considering net gains/losses. According to this [1] in the uk at least the taxes more than cover it for tobacco

[1]https://fullfact.org/economy/does-smoking-cost-much-it-makes...

srum··on Here’s $100. Can you win $800M at Powerball?
Competition:

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=tB6QVsOuHPHS8AeM0YuwC...

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=tB6QVsOuHPHS8AeM0YuwC...

srum··on The Yale Problem Begins in High School
I agree that artificially imposing a "fair and balanced" framework onto news/discourse is a bogus concept as, like you say, the centre of gravity can be shifted in favour of nonsense ideas just by posing the question.

But in your second paragraph, you seem to imply (maybe I'm wrong here) that there is a sense of objectivity inherent in news reporting, because the reporting leads logically from the facts. However, the facts are hand-picked, meaning bias is unavoidably baked into the premise. In which case we are no closer to avoiding "focussing on opinion diversity", as the same opinion diversity arguments apply to choosing the facts on which to report.

edit: RTFA

srum··on Enterprise software vendors have no taste
Could someone tell me exactly what was wrong with the home icon in the top corner? I'm not defending the design - it looks like crap, but I couldn't put my finger on why that particular bit was wrong. There's a home icon top left in my browser as I type this.
srum··on Announcing Starfighter
What sort of range of engineers will this be aiming to recruit? Only the very best (and most expensive)? Or a range including more junior / less well-paid positions?