jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My horribly underinformed understanding is that MIPS was ultimately a, uh, baseline architecture design in terms of performance to power consumption, particularly with respect to ARM's exponential progress post-iPhone.

The going-nowhere bureaucracy-heavy structure resonates with the impression I got from reading this - I can't help but wonder if:

- they brought in outside consultants to "strategize" how to respond to the OpenPOWER / RISC-V "threat" (postulation: RISC-V put the frozen deer in front of the headlights, while OpenPOWER was the foghorn that got them scrambling at the last moment - in any direction)

- said consultant wanted to ensure they'd get paid (translation: knew they were talking to a board that expected a yes-team), so simply coughed up "modern/relevant industry standard" advice they (probably correctly) assumed was expected of them: go open

- the entire industry went "all riiiiight, free MIPS!", and wasted no time commercially optimizing around royalty-free licencing

- MIPS' "overfed" (as you astutely put it) board suddenly saw all their holidays and etcetera flying away

- either this happened a while ago and the consultant said to hang on and it backfired, or this just happened recently

- Exceptionally loud meetings (probably involving death threats) were had, possibly angry and/or irrational "NO, WE ARE STOPPING THIS NOW" decisions were made, and...

...welp.

Given MIPS' execution being "below sea level" (again, as you put it), I get the impression the management had no resonance with the technical architecture of what it was they were managing.

So, they couldn't move the innovation forward, only industrialize the process of perpetuating what already existed.

Hence, going open without considering how to pull that off in a way that is both financially strategic and brings the best out of the architecture.

And because they didn't understand the strengths of their architecture they had no confidence/competence to execute properly in the first place, anticipate the disaster in this approach, or handle it correctly.

</naive_anecdotal_theory>
Paging HN user brandonb and 'a bunch of other Google, Facebook, and Y Combinator alums' -- did this exist while you worked on the site?

> I've been working on healthcare.gov for the last few months

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7312442
> It is said to "reduce stress", but stress is mostly the result of external stimuli. It's a symptom, like fever. If you treat the symptom without addressing the cause, what good is it?

As a long time meditator I agree with you, this is a very insightful comment. Unfortunately many of the things sold as "meditation" in the west are totally divorced from their original intent and are repackaged as stress reduction or performance enhancing instead. I find that trend quite dangerous.

Meditation (dhyana) is multifaceted and has many different traditions, but the major forms all tend to be about mind training in order to help the practitioner have some sort of realization about the nature of self. What that self is is where traditions diverge.

So yes you'd be correct in saying that stress is a symptom and focusing solely on these sorts of things is treating a symptom. You can certainly become addicted to these stress-reducing activities and end up not fundamentally altering the root cause. You see it in these western health spaces a lot, the people that come in and take intense daily yoga classes and keep crashing into depression once the endorphin highs go away since they're not focusing on treating the fundamental issues.

The path of meditation is hugely beneficial though and is not just about symptom treating in traditional lineages.
> Every government has taxes.

> In the U.S. you have the option of leaving if you find the cost too high.

So you acknowledge that there’s no alternative, but you still act like people have the choice of an alternative.

> This is the system we have developed for people to pay for the privilege of earning in this society.

Some people believe that the freedom to earn a living is a right, not a privilege.
I've felt that same freaking feeling as a US citizen returning to my own country! It's crazy! The customs officials entering the Netherlands were cracking jokes with us, the ones entering japan were unflinchingly polite and effective. At home I feel like I'm a criminal.
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The media understand nothing about that part of the Internet.
Corporations are an invention of the State.

Corporate charters are granted by the government.
No, hacker doesn't mean "web-startup groupie". Hacker is more the opposite of the mindless corporate drone who's coding just for the paycheck. (Note: this doesn't mean hackers never work in the corporate world.)

http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
I think 4chan can be thought of as the gathering place for people who organize movements like Anonymous (and for other folks who want to look at porn and weird photos). Saying "4chan hackers" launched an attack is like saying "HN readers" drive entrepreneurship in the US, it has a bit of a truth but (1) the readers of 4chan is a dynamic bunch, there is no clear set of "hackers" associated with it and (2) not all hackers within Anonymous are associated with 4chan.
This is pretty much a perfect example of the problem though. That example is a DVD - presumably the hypothetical torrent would be high definition, probably worthwhile for a 2012 release. Now to be fair I could get the Bluray for £4.06 used. It'd be £6.62 if I wanted to watch it on Friday (of course I can't get it delivered tomorrow even with Prime) so if I wanted to get near the convenience of Netflix I'm close to paying another month, for one film.

On another note about formats I have no way to watch a Bluray at home. I could buy an HDTV and Bluray player but I'd rather not. I'd also rather not be restricted to laptops that have disc drives when I shop for a new one in the future.

I won't use the term restricting freedom, but I'm clearly losing options in the future if I buy that. Immediately I lose it being in HD unless I purchase new equipment and going forward I have to worry about what will inevitably be legacy formats.

It's not hard to see why if I wanted to watch that film I might find the legal options lacking.
Larger-than-RAM data and on-disk databases, mostly.
Yeah, because I really want people to interact with my game before everything is fully loaded. Great idea.
Free speech is not the protection of the speech you don't mind. It is the protection of the speech you vigorously hate. The speech you don't mind needs no special protection. To borrow a quote from Scott Alexander: "But then someone else says “Well, if they get their exception, I deserve my exception,” and then someone else says “Well, if those two get exceptions, I’m out” [...] Civilization didn’t conquer the world by forbidding you to murder your enemies unless they are actually unrighteous in which case go ahead and kill them all."
WebRTC could be used for a messaging app?
How credible is vitaminforall.org? Never heard of it...
I will need proof that 5% of people would die if they didn't receive care. The hospitalization rate is not at 5% in my state, so on the face of it that number is bunk. And I doubt anyone would seriously contend that every hospitalization would be death but for hospitalization.

But lets take your numbers as they are. It wouldn't be 5% of all infections, or 5% of all severe infections. It would be 5% of all infections _above hospital capacity_. Health systems wouldn't disappear, they would just not take in more folks, or triage more aggressively. I know you address this in your comment, but it is important to note. Because it greatly changes the emotional appeal for your emotional argument to spell it out.

Don't bring long-covid in to this discussion, there is no real hard evidence that it even exists AND is an artifact of covid.
> You should be suspicious of using floats and expecting the solver to detect if a solution is real. Consider the polynomial $x^2 + C$ for $C \approx 0$. Are all of its roots real or complex? The problem is that even a very small change in C, maybe caused by rounding errors, can easily change a root from real to not real.

C \approx 0?

The imaginary parts in the first bug are nowhere close to zero.
Are they popular ? They may be infamous, but I feel most of the brain matter has been evacuated from English-speaking boards a decade ago and they at best sustain their existing demographic.
Very much so. Imagine "The Thing" but with ~75 years more advancement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%...
Brian Acton, the co-founder mentioned at the beginning of the blog post, resigned from Facebook in 2017 over early steps toward this and forfeited $850 million as a result [0].

[0]:https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive...
This is a good resource. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-statistics-dont-cap...
i need one which doesn't support 5g
Fair enough. You might be surprised (or not) how much software has stolen bits and how much data isn't exportable in any useful format.

But glad to see all my comments on this topic keep getting down voted.
I don't understand why acting like a large corporate entity is such a bad thing. It just is. Corporations are mortal entities and fear death. The first priority is to continue to simply exist.

I don't see this as bad- just the natural order.
That's changing quite a bit, but agreed.
honestly that could be huge. Imagine a repl.it arcade on iOS, kids would go wild to make stuff their friends could play on their phones.

At least middle school me would have.
An activist investor came in (Elliot Management Corp) and pointed out that they had failed to innovate for 5 years and that their CEO had literally decided to go part time and move to Africa. Twitter's share price has been absolute trash for a long time and something needs to change. It has given them a massive kick up the arse and they're trying to demonstrate some new features and value.

It looks a lot like senior management at twitter was asleep at the wheel. Frankly though, I don't think that any of twitter's feature-a-like products are going to work, they don't have the scale of facebook.
ok, i'll take your word for it since it's not something i follow that closely.

i'd just also reiterate that all this rigamarole is not worth it (for the generally claimed increase in productivity and investment), and we should just simplify and equalize individual and corporate tax law.
Double the rates, work half the time for each client :)
Covid and the lockdowns both might be causing the effect. So you have one group that has just Covid and then one group that has both. Then you compare the outcomes and see if the just-Covid group has the effect too.

But my comment was kinda tongue-in-cheek: How do you even find people not affected by this doom-n-gloom global news story?
For me that is what makes such uses of wealth so shocking. Doesn't notch have a better idea just how much 70m is and what it could do for other people.
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Banks used to do this sort of thing before the FDIC was established, but as you rightly point out the level of professionalism is somewhat lacking in these outfits.
These requirements are too strict. The main requirement is that average reproduction rate stays reasonably well below 1. If it fluctuates between 0.1 and 0.9 in time or between people, you still have heard immunity.

Presumably, Interesting things happen around 1.0, where the instability can push you either way. Hence heard immunity is almost a binary state.
There will be exceptions to all these rules at the expert level, but less expert people should probably follow them.

I was reminded of this recently after reading an essay by a high schooler. The essay was actually pretty insightful, but I couldn't help but notice the way in which the words that the author said seemed to be a great deal more than strictly necessary to communicate the point that he was trying to make to the audience that he was speaking to at the time he was writing the essay.

Perchance.
I see some of the most embarrassing, simple mistakes on resumes I almost want to mark them up old-school style with a red pen and send them back :/
Do you recall if Asimov had anything to say about Newton's disastrous investments?

BTW: I saw Asimov speak way back when I was in high school, circa 1981. He was great in person.
Around here, most programming jobs top out around 60-70K. I've seen a couple for around the 90K mark, but not many and most require quite a lot of experience.

Near Utah.
You mean people who are driving as a side job and are completely unregulated are bad drivers ?

I am shocked.
> If somebody had a nice, simple, practical, hypothesis it would probably be attacked and buried.

The problem is that consciousness is a metaphysical concept, you can't scrutinize it with the scientific method, it requires a complete change of perspective to understand consciousness.
Because everyone that works at Netflix thinks the same way. They ensure that with their hiring practice that alienates anyone that thinks differently.
There are documents out there that keep the "convertible" concept (i.e. figure out the hard stuff later), but do away with the debt aspect:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/31/thefunded-founder-institute...
I used to walk at lunch when I worked at an office. I work from home now and started to do so again this week after noticing how much damage my sedentary life has done to my body. It is nice to have some time to clear my head and hope I keep it up.
I totally agree. AR made and makes ZERO sense to my non-technical spouse and family. Holographic makes total sense. It's a clever rebranding and it will help sell ALL AR platforms, IMHO.
I agree with every word of this, despite Shakespeare's friend Ben Jonson saying: "I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech."
It is definitely not normal for people to get comped for having their work mentioned in someone else's book. This "comes up" a lot in security[1] because almost everyone serious in the industry winds up writing tools, and there are so many little nooks that it's easy to end up being "the authority" for (e.g.) SCADA protocols or Bluetooth fuzzing or whatever.

Long story short: you're happy about this. Buy the author a bottle of wine to thank them.

[1] scare-quotes applied because I've never seen someone be concerned about it
"1. Student loans and such all the machinery students today use to get their tuitions would still exist; they'd just be given directly to the student. 2. It would be a workers' cooperative, with the labor being learning. 3. Joining and participating would be different steps. The network would be free to join, but each class would still cost money, raised and pooled to create the class (in the fashion of groupon.com)"

As a student, I would still need to pay for infrastructure, a professor, and any other costs associated with the class. In addition to this, most students have no idea what they want when they start college. They need to be guided. Unless there is some sort of central authority creating all of the classes, I think it just wouldn't be practical.

If you joined for free, what would be the purpose unless you were going to actually get an education/pay for class?
Totally agreed there's a difference in significance... but that's Gizmodo's beat and there's a giant audience for that info. The entire industry gets reshaped by Apple's product moves. So Gizmodo being as aggressive as the law allows for scoops is to be expected.

Also, the argument that the news was ultimately a social triviality works both ways. No one's reputation was besmirched. The alleged-stolen property was returned to its owner fairly quickly.

Gizmodo's peek confirmed a few things and refuted a few others already rumored about the 2010 iPhone. While that info wasn't released exactly as Apple may have preferred, whether there was any net economic damage to Apple is debatable. Apple lost some surprise value around next week's announcements, but they also got tons of free publicity and hype about their flagship product.

So indignation about Gizmodo's actions should also be scaled to match your observation: it's just some exclusive pictures for a gadget blog. No permanent damage to any involved; perhaps a net win for Gizmodo and Apple.
That's pretty much the same advice I give to anyone who asks me whether they should do a PhD. If you need to ask, the answer is no.
What are the chances that Twillo will take an Uzi to it's API users ?

http://twitter.com/cdixon/status/14636556473
This post has me convinced that people should be able to buy and sell degrees on the open market.
Have you seen Project Euler? (http://projecteuler.net/) Almost 300 problems like that.
Do you call French fries "potatoes"?
All talk, no download available? Talk about PR wHoREs!
I agree with you on this but just as a counter point about Doctors. Someone on here a few months back speculated that the reason a lot of the top doctors in the US were from India is because they basically got the chance to "break a few things" back home before they got to the States. As such they got valuable learning experience that would not be possible with the stricter regulations in the US.
Also Hungarian here. The article summed up the law under debate correctly. Its a slippery slope that we've seen happening in other countries (Russia, which is a kind of a blueprint for this government in many respects, comes to mind). Carte blanche to do anything they please in the name of Protecting The People, suspending constitutional rights and silencing all dissenting voices, this time with jail sentences. Whenever the Covid situation gets better it's easy to make up a new national emergency with a different threat - immigrants, again, attack from EU, again, or something else. The 60% plus rural voters whose main news source is the captured state media (Russian style, again) won't really mind. Then we can stay in this "emergency doctrine" forever. No wonder why wannabe/actual dictators love crisis...

Author makes a good point at the end - it can go another way as well. Let's imagine, what if the country starts to crumble? As pezo1919 pointed out, health/healthcare is in deep trouble. What if tens of thousands die and everyone turns against Orbán? These changes will come very handy as well, won't they?

I'm trying to finish this comment real fast before they pass this law and a black car takes me away for spreading f
> Every loop should have a limit. There should be no unbounded object allocation.

See also total functional programming, which applies the same logic to runtime.
Interestingly, I am running a 10th Gen Intel Iris Pro GPU and had no problems on these kernels, (Arch)/

There were minor issues on 5.5 at the start of the cycle when some patches were overlooked, but that's all fixed now.

I honestly don't experience more problems than with my MacBook, (especially after major upgrades).

Maybe the issue is people just keep defaulting to Ubuntu and equating their experiences there with Linux as a whole. Maybe it just isn't the best distro around.

I'd honestly go with EndeavourOS, Manjaro or if you want to stay in the Ubuntu ecosystem, maybe Mint. I know everybody always says just switch distros, but honestly Ubuntu hasn't been the best distro around for anything for over a decade.
What kind of housing to they have? The article mentions bedding, blankets, etc, but not what sort of living quarters are provided. I hope they don't have people sleeping under their desks. Putting trailers in the parking lots seems like a good idea, to keep morale up if nothing else.
Maybe you didn't understand because you're focusing on a bit that the original comment didn't emphasise. The complaint is not about six pages of instructions. The complaint is about combining education with manipulation.

Imagine a handy guide from your bank that included instructions for how to wire money to its author.
Maybe a bit cheating - but it's nice with the consistency, and visually it becomes a lot more clear and immediate at least for me.

"金" would be short for "金曜日", a common way to abbreviate weekday names in calendars etc and yes, Friday is indeed the day of gold - I like to imagine it's the old pay day for workers maybe? :D
We have our "ops" guys that monitors the environments, and a list of people for each system that is more or less always on call. Each service/job that is being monitored has a procedure/description for how to respond to failures, and if nothing else works, the people on the list gets a call.

You're not required to take the call, but you get a fairly large sum of money if you do, meaning people usually take the call despite not being required to.

Because of laws here, you're required to have 11 hours of uninterrupted "free time" after leaving work (no laws on how long a work day is), so taking a call usually means you violate that, which in turn restarts the clock on your "free time", meaning you're entitled to "sleep in" on company time the next day. Doing so of course wreaks havoc on all planning, so very few people actually take the full 11 hours off, and instead just get in "late" around 9am.

Edit: I should probably have explained that the calls happen on average once per system every 2-4 weeks, and the amount of people on call is probably limited to <5%-10% of the engineers.
Also every language has a tag for that format (.toISOString()), where as the other formats might require entering your own printf spell
Instead of the usual 2 keystrokes, right?

It can take more keystrokes than that, even, if you have three or more windows.
Because nobody actually registers their ports. It's a multi-month process with little benefit to anyone.
When you are using your employer's computing equipment on your employer's premises, you have limited right to privacy.
Plastic notes
I know of another case reported to me by a friend. Their co-workers have taken part in an event that spawned multiple infections. They were ordered to stay home for two weeks and await testing.

No one ever came to test them, after multiple pleas. The two weeks ran out some time ago.
Perhaps but price regression doesn’t make anything more imperative to survival, such as feeding your children. Given the comparison of purchasing an additional cell phone and plan for your child versus feeding your child which is more important? Especially considering the price of school lunch is already so heavily subsidized.