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I don't care so much about optimized tight loops written in assembly, rather about the ability to scale nowadays. Datomic uses databases like you describe e.g. Postgres as its storage. So it would be foolish to say that it beats their performance on a bare bones level. Instead, Datomics architecture and information model make it much easier and significantly reduce the overhead to design and implement applications that provide insane performance. I won't argue that you can hand rewrite every Datomic application in its underlying storage database and get more performance out of it if you do your caching and coordination right. It will take you much longer though (I'd guess a tenfold at least), likely have some very difficult to find bugs, and the result won't be as easy to extend. With Datomic, I get memory speed performance out of the box for the heavy hitters and so much more that it take would take some very uncommon requirements for me to choose something else nowadays.
Fun fact: We're using MiniZinc and Gecode in production code to solve volume/product puzzles on oil tankers.
I would suggest/recommend this as well.
There is a lot of solar energy in space.
This was the line in the 80s about japan. Didn’t actually work out like that. Edit: typo
If it's a better data structure, then two weeks might set the course, alas. It's happened to me. Fact is, one can't get away from judgement calls, slogans might nudge in one direction or another, but it all remains a judgement call what's just a raisin and what isn't. The fatal problem is bosses up the chain who want to demonstrate they matter and are worth their expense by throwing in superfluous raisins; having a crude slogan (misleading or not) to deter them is fine by me.
The previous article [?] mentions this coincided with a reduction on back stockroom space.
For ruthenium, rhodium and palladium we are probably better off reprocessing nuclear waste. Especially rhodium is rare on Earth btu formed in fairly high yield during nuclear fission.
Tens of thousands of old white people die of cold yearly in Britain. Sweden is considering upping the retirement age. Etc. This is because there's an enormous transfer of wealth taking place all across the west from the natives to immigrants. The money is simply not being passed between the natives anymore, and this is the result. Don't worry, everyone will be given their fair share, and quiet a bit more.

I'm curious if it's possible to measure the enormous amount of wealth transfer that's been transferred to the third world? If the west had not given Africa cars, electricity, GPS, medicine, and pretty much everything else, what would it look like?
It is worth clarifying, when people talk about "kernel memory", for x86-64 it really means all of memory, because all of physical memory is mapped into the kernel's address space. So really, meltdown allows userland code to read anything in memory.
Well, poor people tend to be drawn to low-cost products or do without. I wonder what you'd prefer the masses to be doing as against producing those goods?

Capitalism enables global wealth re-distribution. Thus were 500 million Chinese lifted out of poverty from 1981 to 2012 (World Bank figures) thanks to consumers who've bought the products of their industry. Most of us have helped in that respect.

Almost all of humanity lived for thousand of years in miserable and degrading poverty; the life of even the very rich two hundred years ago and later would be considered a low grade existence by a great majority of ordinary people today and not just in the West.
It's often true that firing assholes improves others' output, but that shouldn't be the only reason to fire them.

I think there is independent merit to removing people who are terrible, even if doing so deprives the company of an incredibly valuable asset--e.g. firing your mythical 10x founding engineer because they're harassing other employees and making them feel unwell/unsafe, even if it severely damages your company's ability to produce. This is because growth and profit are not--and despite the "100% meritocracy free market" advocates' arguments, never have been--the sole aims of a business.

Businesses exist within a broader community; they aren't optimizing for widget creation in a vacuum. The rise of intangible/cultural reasons for punishing a business in the court of public opinion (uber; those scandals didn't highlight things that directly impacted the company's bottom line, but rather things that were unacceptable ethically to the broader community, or things that might have, given time impacted the bottom line) speaks to this; so does the decrease over time in Tamany Hall/Boss Tweed-type abuses of employer authority.

In short, for a business, acting ethically has an objective value which is independent from (or, if you want to nitpick "independent", at least has primary influence on) profit/growth.
Huge difference. It's not the kernel size, it's the interface (ABI).

In a unikernel, the kernel is part of the application (like a library). Instead of a complex/slow transition from user space to kernel space, you just call a function.

A unikernel will also know exactly what your application needs (i.e. if you only use UDP, it doesn't bother including TCP.) It's possible to strip down the Linux kernel, but it requires a LOT of work (basically, remove something, then test that your application still works.)
src https://lobste.rs/s/rlj9xe/important_what_you_need_know_abou...
Handbrake is a pretty solid and easy to use GUI wrapper of ffmpeg.
Orbital power is either beamed to Earth, or connected to a supercomducting space elevator. Beamed power is problematic, because it’s either as diffuse as sunlight, or concentrated enough to be a weapon in its own right. And if you can make a space elevator length of superconductor economically, it’s easier to make a ring of PV and superconductors passing through the world’s deserts (and connecting them to each other and to all the cities) — it’s always daylight somewhere in the world.
They are in Coursera.
I have never seen an empty shelf in any major brand store. The idea is insane. Especially for a store targeting an upmarket clientele with high prices.
Yes, so that they can accumulate wealth, so that they can build a safety net, welfare, better education, freedom of speech, so that they finally can start working less in maybe 10 years.

Working so much loses its importance once your country already has those things, because it burns an entire generation, where people aren't humans, but just working machines.

Another really short sighted article by a very very smart VC.
Where do you source EPYC servers?
> Do you think they would be willing to part with that functionality to achieve engineering perfection?

I think that the question would be entirely lost on most users. Perhaps there needs to be a push to educate on the benefits.
Well that's actually precisely the problem and conversation that reparations always prompts.

Most people's hands are clean in a direct sense. Almost nobody in a developed nation has clean hands indirectly. Very few white people were slave owners or traders. How could one possibly account for the benefit a white (or black or asian) person in Britain today derives from British slavery in the 18th century? How could you possibly proportion reparations on any nation? Should a person that immigrated to Britain in 1978 from China, have to pay taxes to cover those reparations? Plausibly there's no way to deal with that fundamental issue that doesn't involve harming extremely large numbers of strictly innocent people, and the theoretical cost would be massive if you did attempt to do it (such that it would be guaranteed to be a tax on everyone across the board, regardless of race or guilt).

I've seen a lot of valid discussion of reparations in my lifetime. The topic itself is perfectly legitimate as a discussion matter. I've never once seen a practical way suggested that it could be implemented justly in regards to any of that nations that were responsible for the African slave trade.
Based on the code in this tutorial, it seems like it would already be easy to use from other languages. What did you need to change?
The $1400 was after he paid for eating/shelter. He's paying his parents $280 for rent - something he could do similarly by hooking up with some roommates. It's not glorious, yet he has the ability within his grasp to have an economic state of life that I suspect north of 90% of 40 year olds would trade their lives for. For a man who moves boxes for a living!

Here [1] is a calculator for investment fund returns. They're quite insane. Pick the absolute worst period for returns bust to bust 2000 to 2010 and you're still looking at a positive return. 1990 to present and you're looking at 10%. 2000 to present, going through both busts, is 6%. 2010 to present is 14%. 8% is not unreasonable - let's say it accounts for him possibly getting a raise sometime in the next 22 years.

[1] - https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/
Indeed, this would be great.

This actually came up for me a couple days ago, and my ham-fisted solution was to bundle ffmpeg.exe and ffplay.exe in the DLL and extract when running :)

It solved the problem but is so gross!
you may be interested in https://nixos.org/nix/
https://nixos.org/
This logic is backward. If you want empirical evidence you can ask WolframAlpha:

There are 25 primes in [1, 100].
There are 16 in [1001, 1100].
There are 6 in [1000001, 1000100].
I’ve used my Smoove Pro for that, and on a motorboat, so... should work. Also works for phones.
I dont quite understand this result.

The last frame took 0.012999999999738065ms to render.

Is there a timer with that resolution? Is this an average over 1000 frames? Doesn't seem like it.

Plus, there is no such thing that I know of that is a WebGL program. WebGL is a library that JS or WebAssembly program use to get access to the GPU. So I guess what he is saying is that be moving the calculations to the GPU he got a huge speed up. What's the news there?
It's clear now that the physical changes (deterioration) in the eye correlates to insufficient UV exposure. So that's a good place to start, particularly if you're young. Sunseekers live longer, too.
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Silicon Valley is commonly used as a figure of speech to refer to the entire tech industry. Similar to how Wall Street is used to refer to the financial industry, or Hollywood to the movie industry, or Washington to the entire federal government.
Solar power in the inner Solar System is abundant and always on.
It’s doubtful that they would drop all their aces in response to Zen.
This guy has never created anything.
Because novelists who don't already have a proven track record of producing marketable work are producing the work on their own dime and only get paid after they have already produced a financially successful novel.

Programmers have the same option, but most choose a guaranteed paycheck over autonomy.
There is always a backlash.

Those kids growing up with absent parents are going to have some psychological problems and some desires in common. The US had its "greatest generation", followed by their children, the boomers; China will not escape that cycle. Despite their cultural isolation and the Great Firewall, they will have a generation that will want to live very differently from their parents.

There's no denying China's incredible growth over the last couple of decades, but there's an excellent debate to be had about the long-term effects of that growth.

Of course, VC's aren't known for their long-term thinking.
Except "work twice as much" is a very vague term. Do they work twice as long? Do they have twice the amount of resources? What is the value of their output - is it twice higher than A? For how long do they work "twice as much" before burnout and overwork deaths happen like in Japan?

In Japan it is well-known that a long-hours work culture doesn't translate to actual productive work. People end up being masters of "looking productive" rather than actually being productive.
I don't think being a safe place to store money is reputationally harmful.
They used to do some metal
mounts, back in the Hero2 days. Shame they stopped.
Ask HN: Which database do you use and why?
There are a plethora of databases in the market. Majority of Fortune 500 companies use Oracle. There are many companies that use Mysql / Postgres. I also heard stories of people using Mongo, Cassandra and more recently Firebase. I am really interested to know which database you/your company ended up using and how you arrived at the decision ?

Please try to post each entry as a separate comment.
The problem with your summary of the centrist objection is that it's false. The Overton window isn't narrowing -- it's expanding. Look at the last presidential elections. You had Bernie Sanders expressing socialist ideas and opposition to the 1%. Expressing those ideas used to be political suicide, but not anymore. At the same time Trump expanded the Overton window enormously to the right. Look at the political discourse in its totality and compare that to the discourse from just 5 years ago. Voices in the far right and far left are louder than they have been for at least a generation. How is this compatible with claims about a narrowing Overton window? It's patently absurd.

As for your remark about calmly states ideas: hate speech laws exist for a reason in most of the world. The United States is the exception in its free speech absolutism. A lot more harm can be done by calm speech than by a baseball bat, and free speech (like any other freedom) can be used to infringe on other people's rights. I value free speech but I don't value it over everything else, and I don't think State suppression of free speech is meaningfully different from the many other ways in which speech can be suppressed.
Chicken Scheme does this.
https://www.call-cc.org/

And Bigloo Scheme.
http://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/doc/bigloo-3.html

And Gambit Scheme.
http://gambitscheme.org/

There seems to be a theme here...
By "being easy to use from other languages" I refer to the size of the header that needs to be translated.
Is this based on yet another neuroscience "research" we get to "enjoy" at supermarkets world-wide? "In Soviet something" instantly comes to mind...

Let's emulate shortages, despite queueing solved since 60s and likely warehouse full of necessary stuff nearby. 1st world in the need to emulate 2nd world.
It’s also a power multiplier for intelligent people.
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Ask HN: Best 'roll-your-own' blog framework?
I really want to like the idea of adding more content to my blogger, or starting up a medium blog, but part of me just wants to throw together my own thing where I control it from the ground up (or at least as far as the software is concerned since it will probably be on AWS). That being said, I'm something of a server-admin n00b, and I don't want to put up a leaky wordpress where I end up getting myself hacked by a 14 year old in Romania. What are my options?
Its a pair of photos taken at the height of each event. Its also the ones I saw in the news at the time. If you are familiar with some that look like its fudged to show trump in a bad light its probably from stuff conservatives shared on facebook where they picked 2 dissimilar pics, made up a story surrounding them about how the news is out to disrespect trump, and yelled about fake news.
True. Because everything else wasn't equal. And it won't be here. But if it gets close to equal ...

I imagine Chinese work ethic had something to do with the destruction of the Rust Belt, no?
You could just make the function, like square, accept arguments and then return a function that can be composed in that way.
How to deal with efficiency issues from the huge amount of data being piped? Shared memory area and send pointers over the pipe?
New Zealand’s problems due to colonisation stem almost entirely from the British government. It should be them paying to fix it and not New Zealand, with liability for actions that New Zealand pays for starting from when we governed ourselves. However this isn’t going to happen - Britain will never pay, so fixing it ourselves is the only course that repairs the damage that can be repaired. The sooner action is taken the better.

It’s simpler here because much of the harm done relates to land theft. Working out who you repay when people don’t necessarily know where they were kidnapped from and what they lost is not the same.
I also think it's really interesting stuff and love working on it. I'll definitely write something about that if/when I do a blog post about it. But it's quite simple at its core. Like the current post mentions, we use Raft to do it. We simply have a cluster of 3 nodes, each in a different zone. If one zone goes down, there's still a majority of nodes up, so enough to keep the cluster running. I recommend reading the raft paper for more details, it's one of the easiest papers to read and understand I've ever found. https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
Setting aside that I find it rather dubious that more hours worked is being equated to more profit/gdp/productivity, if/when the chinese economy becomes a net global importer, then I'd be more interested in this line of reasoning.
Idea recreated using CSS animations:

https://codepen.io/bennettfeely/pen/MrLoMd
Nonsense. The kid works 4 days a week for good pay for the jobs performed. He admits to banking 650 a month, with only 250 in non-work related expenses. He works three months, he can quit, and have enough cash on hand to support at least 6 months of job search... and then the dole will kick in.

The catch? He actually has to want to do it.

How is this like serfdom?
Yes! Especially in a place like Whole Foods, where I'm looking for particular products, and I'm not going to return if it's not apparent that WF stocks what I want.
I'm deliberately being vague for the sake of argument. Of course there are many details in practice.

A similar argument applies to the economies of Europe and the USA in parts the 20th century. A lot was similar, but Americans had the better work ethic.

Of course, work ethic doesn't explain everything. But it's really freaking important.
Could it be that Intel is communicating the way it does because they're afraid of lawsuits? I mean, if they admit that their processors are faulty, then they may have to recall basically all their processors.
Not as far as I know. We did benchmark a lot of embedded storages before deciding on Rocksdb though.
I also think it was a PR coup from the Intel side. I think of myself as pretty much tech savvy. But even I hesitated for a moment and asked myself whether AMD was affected by meltdown although I knew that it didn't. All the google searches lead to sites mentioning "Meltdown/Spectre attacks" as if they were the same thing. You can hardly find sites that explicitly state: look here is meltdown, it only affects intel CPUs and it can only really be patched on the software level and that will result in HUGE perormance losses. Basically every time your CPU accesses the Kernel Space, some kind of cache cleansing needs to be done, it has to context switch.

Instead no one seems to grasp what meltdown is, intel is feeding the media with benchmarks and says there is no real impact, users believe intel.

I read somewhere that all big companies Google, Intel etc. knew about these security vulnerabilities, especially meltdown months before. Intel made a deal with Microsoft to disclose the vulnerability on a Microsoft Update date and tell everyone that there was an issue and it was fixed. Microsoft was also supposed to make all processors including AMD to get affected by the slowdown. However Google reported 1 week earlier said it couldn't keep this a secret with good conscience. But even if that plan failed there is still a lot of misinformation caused partly by intel.

Even if you visit sites such as meltdownattack.com (first result on google with some deeper info), it says we do not know in which aspect Meltdown affects processors.

I'm on the verge of buying a new desktop, I will go with intel because I have no other cheap choice. Intel still delivers the cheapest option for me (i3-8100). But I would appreciate if Intel played fairly. All this manipulation behind the scenes is corrupting the market and intel is responsible for it.

I don't know what we got ourselves into. The RAM folks built a cartel and are keeping the prices high. Microsoft is deliberately crippling third party antivirus software. Intel is shipping us CPUs with backdoors (Intel ME), there are serious vulnerabilities that get swept under the rug, yet we have to buy intel because we are locked into the x86 platform.

At least microsoft is teaming up with Qualcomm and Apple is rolling out its own ARM processors. We need to have an alternative. IMHO Intel has been playing an unfair and an unethical game.
Intel stock is down ~10% and AMD up ~10% since end of December. I'm not even sure why people are saying the stock market thinks it's not a problem. The stock market represents a weighted average of possible futures and it has priced in some damage. Is the idea that Intel should instantly drop 90%?
what is the business model here? Sorry, I am confused here and website is not explaining it correctly.

I dont see what kind of "premium numbers" are available. Why would someone pay to talk to me?

would the caller have to register and provide CC number?

Is this call-back model which was used few years back on some website where some voice companies would offer call-back option from website (I think it used java that time) and it would cost per minute.
Not sure I see any of that where I am but if you want to stretch that view, Africa gave us humans so who owes who? There is plenty out of Africa that has helped the rest of the world, why the blinkered view?

Edit: I see that your account is a throwaway that spends its time defending the slave trade.
Using the current stock market reaction as a bellwether for anything but short term (1-6 months) outlook is a bit silly.

In the longer term (1-3 years) Intel has a very large problem. Especially as they are being eaten alive in non-desktop class cpus right now.

These issues may not be a knockout punch, or even have them on the ropes, but it made them stumble and they look vulnerable.
No primary/unique keys on the partition table and only on the partitions still seems like a common dealbreaker.
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UBI is supplemental income, you can still work. With a UBI, you wouldn't have to live in a tent because you could afford an apartment.

I find it strange that someone who was once homeless is opposed to a policy like UBI that would end or at least severely curtail homelessness.

So if not UBI, what's your solution?
It seems like blog posts on simple statistical methods like this one land on the front page of HNews a lot more than one would expect.
It handles a few (of the most common) use cases but it is not a generic interface for all of ffmpeg's functionality.

And strictly speaking, it is built on top of Libav, although they are considering switching over after 1.2
> it's up to individuals to decide what their own identity is. When an individual identifies as one thing...

That's actually not true and not workable. A very obvious example is a criminal who identifies as a good, upstanding person.

IMHO there are actually two kinds of identity (at least). They are separate things, but related and often confused.

1. Self-identity: the identity that someone applies to themselves based on their own thoughts and aspirations. This is very closely related to one's inner life. This is the identity that you're referring to above.

2. Applied-identity (for lack of a better term): the identity that each person applies to someone else based on their own thoughts, beliefs, and experiences with that person. Someone's reputation is an example.

If you try to force everyone's applied-identity of you to conform with your self-identity, that's also a form of oppression. What and how they think of you is their own business.