skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is windows support for this many cores is still a problem. On a Linux server, sure we've been using multi-socket motherboards w/ high core count CPUs for years. But many applications (eg; Microsoft Edge) still crash w/ 16 cores.
>You may confusing workflow flexibility with scalability?

when increasing of scale results in cumbersome jumps through the hoops added to the workflow or the otherwise working workflows become impossible at all - that is a scalability problem. Git's easy branching and multi-repo (local repos) based workflows approach was produced as the solution to the scalability problems of central repository and lock based systems.
it will depend on which APIs the app is built with. I don't know which desktop environment you are refering to, but I assume it's one, not all linux based operating systems. But in this linux DE, if I run xeyes will it come up in dark mode?
Google has an extremely blatant monopoly in search. That has been the case for over a decade now.

The competitors to Google, outside of a few markets like Russia and China, are trivial at best.

Google's search competitors are so weak, all they've collectively done is lose market share for 20 years. The social competitors to Facebook - Twitter, Snapchat, Reddit, etc. - are no more threatening to FB's monopoly than DuckDuckGo and Bing are to Google's search monopoly.

When companies like Google and Facebook have monopolies, what they do in response is lie: they claim competition is everywhere. Microsoft used that lying tactic as well. They pretend they're not really in the search space specifically, they're an ad company in general, and they're only a small N% of the whole global ad market. So Google likes to lie and pretend they compete with every input box on the Web, and every ad served anywhere on earth; naturally their share of all text input box usage is merely 1%.
> secretly uploading your pictures

What if instead of it being a secret, it was a big button with “upload photo to Facebook” on it?

If Facebook outsourced the implementation of that button for each different type of camera to the respective camera manufacturers, rather than implementing it themselves, would that change it from a non-problem to a problem?
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Yes fair enough, good points.
I believe it was only like this the first year, where the selection were pretty tough and the list of candidates was insanely large.
Here, most computer sciences degree are in private schools. You have to take generic engineer studies oriented in computer sciences otherwise. Some are great but I found people with a private degree focus in computer sciences more skilled in general when I worked with them.
they use extra cores for live video recording and fun like that, also console games are usually run in a vm on the console these days so it's giving the OS some spare space too (contact lists/chat, achievements, etc.). Also it gives games the possibility to run on more cores if you're AAA and want to leverage them.
> Actually the thread was about C and someone threw Rust into the mix, as is typical.

I was referring to the thread that started a conversation about pointers and safety in Rust, not to the general post.

You are correct that C and Rust require some more bridging between the languages, but C++ also requires this when going from objects to C datatypes and vice versa. Mostly you save a little bit on the header definitions, but even there, the headers are generally #ifdef'ed to almost illegibility. With Rust's bindgen tool, getting C headers into Rust is actually quite easy: https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-bindgen/
What kind of product do you have?
GitHub removes IF_MS_BUYS_GITHUB_IMMA_OUT repository from Trending
It's actually well-defined in the C standard (although the format of the byte representation is implementation-defined), but undefined behavior in the C++ standard:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11996970

Since Linux is C, not C++, it should be fine; the author of the patch is just mistaken.

(Note that in practice, this will work in C++ too, since most compilers support both C and C++ and don't change their optimization behavior based on which mode the code was compiled in; but of course there's no guarantee this won't change in the future.)
I'd like a dead-simple and globally accessible way of donating.

Like github/gitlab/etc allowing to easily deposit money via CC, Paysafecard, Google Wallet et al. The projects could have a "donate" button by default.

I often clone and browse projects and absolutely wouldn't hesitate to donate a few dollars here and there if it's just a click away.
Yup they are asking the potential apprentices to shoulder all the risk of wasting their time in a dead end errand rather than compensating them.
I love the idea of opens source drivers in the mainline kernel. But from what I can tell linux + nvidia blob is still the more featureful, stable, and performant 3d stack for linux. I can stay logged in for weeks, watch bluray (with low CPU utilization), games, tinker with WebGL, and open a zillion terminals/tabs.

AMD is getting better, but doesn't seem quit there yet. Steam and phoronix still seem to generally agree nvidia is still the #1 choice on linux. #2 (stability wise) seems to be Intel's GPU. AMD's working on it, but decent performance often requires a custom build stack not supported on any current Linux distro. I'd rather not have to recompile my own kernel, mesa, and related just to get reasonable stable and decent performance.
You can still be direct without having to act out or treat people like they're idiots.

It is not impossible to narrow down the complaints without being rude. Most people do that just fine, with way larger projects than his kernel.

His behaviour is just unnecessary and distracting. It's almost as if he does it for publicity or shock value. Maybe that contributes to his success, but it shouldn't.

I find it weird that people try to defend him rather than acknowledge it is just one of his character flaws. People aren't perfect, and neither is he. Doesn't take from his achievements but acting like he's in the right to behave this way is just enabling him. If people want to emulate him, they should look at the good and leave the asshole behaviour behind.
Like I posted on that Github issue, they've been editing opposing opinions to call themselves "trolls." It's known that abusive repos get removed from trending/explore, and that's as clear cut as abuse as you can get.

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ooh, TIL! Thanks!

The ad-hoc I was reffering was : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_ad_hoc_network

And I am aware of "etc." ;)
> Prof Ian Bitterlin, a data centre consultant for nearly 30 years, is sceptical about the environmental impact of going underwater.

> "You just end up with a warmer sea and bigger fish," he says.

> And 90% of Europe's data centres are in big cities such as London and Madrid because that is where they are needed.

> Microsoft's Ben Cutler insists the warming effect will be minimal - "the water just metres downstream would get a few thousandths of a degree warmer at most" - and the overall environmental impact of the Orkney data centre will be positive.

Both of these opinions feel like exaggerations but I don't know enough about thermodynamics to know what the true answer is. I have a feeling that the Microsoft opinion is much closer to the truth, can anyone help me understand how I'd walk through the numbers?
If you download your files, then when you use the link to retrieve your files it lets you in and you can deactivate the account.

The main pain is that you need to remove messenger separately - which is difficult with a deactivated account!

Probably best to remove messenger first
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Direct to consumer advertising in stop-n-go traffic...of course that's a thing.
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Although it doesn't have anything to do with computational load, hydroelectric storage exploits the change in electricity price to store energy in hydroelectric systems. At low demand they pump water into the reservoir, and at peak demand they release it again through turbines, generate electricity, and sell it at the higher price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
Why do you say this is a trend? GitLab is open source with proprietary extensions and GreenSock is just plain proprietary with readable source. Those models have existed since before the term 'open source' was even coined and there have been countless examples of each over the decades.

For an example of things going the other way, Qt relicensed all their proprietary libraries to LPGLv3 just a few years back.
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Here's an interesting piece:

http://computer.expressbpd.com/news/ctrls-shows-how-data-cen...

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If I buy a machine that manufactures widgets I own the widgets. Why should it be different for machines that produce bits?
I use beancount for personal finances.

I've only recently moved to it in fact, previously used tools like YNAB and so on, but this approach seems to be a bit more flexible, especially around managing investments etc

I think you need to have the mindset for it, I've always reconciled my transactions and like to keep an overview of everything, so people saying it's tedious etc doesn't wash with me, in an odd way I sort of enjoy it
I think James Mickens expresses it correctly;

"""

When you debug a distributed system or an OS kernel, you do it Texas-style. You gather some mean, stoic people, people who have seen things die, and you get some primitive tools, like a compass and a rucksack and a stick that’s pointed on one end, and you walk into the wilderness and you look for trouble, possibly while using chewing tobacco.

"""

Kernel developers tend to, in my experience, be a specific type of person. They are writing software that will possibly save someone's life today. Billions of dollars changing hands using their code every second.

The average programmer on HN does not write code that will see more than a couple thousand users at once. Even people at google usually don't write code as important as the linux kernel (they write on top of the kernel, usually).

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There is also some narrativ that Linus is being abusive and I kinda disagree. Linus doesn't take a dump on people who don't know better, he takes a dump on people who should definitely know better and who are long time kernel contributors in important positions. Because these people count. (Plus, he's finnish)
>An ideal outcome would be a huge push toward open source (and also toward free software)

how much does open source improve security? (And does it at all?) In my experience nobody reads the source code before executing it. Maybe the situation is different for big project with many users. On the other hand for example smart contracts (which are open source) had security issues several times in the past which were discovered too late.
>I've resigned over unrealistic expectations from leadership about deadlines, (...)

This sets great example. Thank you.
Rust took me longer to learn than most languages, I'll grant you, but I'd say after 3-4 weeks I was writing safer code than anything I ever wrote in C.

Not claiming to be an expert in C, but I paid my share of blood and tears with it, and all I can say is that it's worth the effort to learn Rust for the huge guarantees the language gives you in the same contexts as C.

If you're interested in baremetal, there are a number of tutorials out there, all focused on different things. I really love the TockOS tutorials, they are really awesome for getting across some of the different benefits at different levels: https://github.com/tock/tock/tree/master/doc/courses/rustcon...

And then more raw OS stuff: https://os.phil-opp.com/
It would still be great - just not as good as some alternatives.

But if you're doing development spinning up 32 cores is a very realistic proposition (compilers are good at parallelizing work, especially on big projects, spinning up dev cluster locally, etc.) - so you're getting a top productivity machine that can game - if you can afford it and are not interested in chasing gaming benchmarks then I don't see how it wouldn't be great.
If you've seen Windows 10 (ads and telemetry) it's probably only fair to say that MS is also highly interested in end-user data and ads, just like Google.
Yeah I can see that point. Like Daring Fireball, Gruber just has the single ad off to the side.
Internet is also publicly available. Even if you'd argue that home connection costs $$$, internet is available for free in libraries. It's as public as TV, which is frequently paid too.
I don't have a Nest, but it becomes increasingly difficult to buy things that don't produce data. I think we should adapt our laws before everything you can buy is "smart".
Wondering how long it will be until we have cloud data centers in space... Seems like it could be useful to offer a flexible computing infrastructure to small sats and science missions without requiring ground comms.
Great, let's boil the planet
> Microsoft's Ben Cutler insists the warming effect will be minimal - "the water just metres downstream would get a few thousandths of a degree warmer at most" - and the overall environmental impact of the Orkney data centre will be positive.
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I was thinking of using ML for this approach too but tbh most of my transactions are predictable, just a simple hashmap of Payee->Account works just as well.

Cleaning up the payees is the trickier part.

I guess in cases like Amazon, where you might buy a plethora of things across different accounts, ML might be helpful
Oh boy, a new attack surface! drool, drool
Correction - Google is not a monopoly in the US, China, Russia and a few others. It's a monopoly in most of Europe and I think most Asian countries, too.
If you check the history of README.md, you'll see that this process was initiated in December 2017 -- well before the GitHub acquisition announced this week.
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There is stickiness. Low entry burden for contributer is the key point why huge projects use GitHub instead of other platforms.

And me registering at dozen of platforms, reading the legal stuff, learning the platform,... And when I finally successful submit a one line patch (how: no idea) the maintainer has a fair 50% chance of dropping it. That is not what I will do. And I will not be alone :).
Also virtualmachines!
Those weren't free trials: they were limited versions; they were already long ago replaced by using in-app purchase to upgrade a single app.
I think 99.99% of people would go with the $10B. It's not like you have to kill babies for it... It'd be dumb to hold this against the WhatsApp cofounders. I just think the parent comment saying MZ is somehow evil for this is not right. MZ believes in the ad supported model, and there isn't a whole lot of evidence against it so far. I prefer getting targeted ads over generic weightloss ads. I prefer a professional product over some shitty federated/opensource thing. A lot of people are upset, but then a lot of people don't have a clue how it works (also see the senate hearings, or the device manufacturer thing).
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I agree that editing other people's comments isn't the best thing to do, but the README clearly states that those types of comments weren't welcome.

In addition, serious opinions like issue #60 weren't edited, only issues like #77, which literally said:

"Dear Beef, Beef. Thanks, Beef"
-- https://github.com/upend/IF_MS_BUYS_GITHUB_IMMA_OUT/issues/7...

EDIT: ... and IMO calling an obvious troll a "troll" isn't defamatory. What GitHub is doing is clearly censorship, nothing short of it.
Well you're making it sound as if the data centers being cooled somehow wouldn't happen otherwise. Seeing as how the alternative is to cool using A/C, surely it's the case of causing less harm than the alternative?

Of course you could argue that the lower cost of this cooling method will create a larger demand for cheaper servers/data storage, which increases net harm, for which I have no answer.
I Googled around a bit and it seems like around 1900, a bunch of influential surgeons recommended that nobody should even consider stapes mobilization again, partly because the risk of infection, which could be fatal, was so great. So people collectively forgot about it until Rosen re-discovered it after antibiotics and safer surgery was available. But Rosen's technique seems to be different - moving the base of the stapes, rather than the small end connected to the incus bone.
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Perhaps. Close them and lock the issue, don't join the same "trolling" fashion.
> ... in about 1893, as it "was broken at the bottom, its base was sawn off straight so that it could stand and serve as a pedestal for Mrs Purser's flowerpots"; this caused the loss of one line of text, i.e., while the stele would now stand upright, the grinding had obliterated the last line of the inscription.

Sigh.
Yeah, it discourages the community from benefiting from other people's work without giving back.
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I imagine Android apps have to be emulated on the x86 chips, just like they were on Atom phones.
I was wondering the same thing.

>> "Microsoft's Ben Cutler insists the warming effect will be minimal - "the water just metres downstream would get a few thousandths of a degree warmer at most" - and the overall environmental impact of the Orkney data centre will be positive."

It's not like we've heard that before about carbon dioxide emissions and other environmental pollution. Companies have mostly a different interests than the protection of our environment, from past experience.

I'm very interested to see what scientists and researchers think of this.
But... Can it elegantly suppress broken pipe errors?
> At what point does this become a problem? They're using the naturally cool sea water to regulate the temperature in the container, but that heat needs to go somewhere... it heats the water.

Makes as much sense as the people who think that windfarms will eventually stop the wind, or people who worry that smoking is contributing to global warming.
If my calculation is correct, the total annual electricity production in the world (I used 20 279 PWh) would heat up the oceans (1 347 000 000 km³ of water) by 0,0129°C.

It's rather easy to calculate because one calorie is the energy required to heat up one gramme of water by one degree Celsius, the rest is just unit conversions, but I could have messed up anywhere of course.

Even if I'm off by a few orders of magnitude I'm confident that datacenters won't be noticeably heating up the sea for a long time.
expensive and limited. :(
The sort of manager who fetishizes military leaders would gladly order their employees to charge a machine gun nest if it improved their own bonus
A simple question for you. What do you think is going to happen when 'we' (modern, developed, western nation) eventually put a tyrant into power, and this tyrant has access to immense amounts of information on each and every person the nation? Or do you think that will never happen?

In a way we're repeating on a social scale, what we do on a political scale. Many are upset at the level of power of the president, which initially began as a much more limited position than the one-man-war machine we have of today. Yet both sides of the political spectrum rejoice as executive level power increases when 'their side' is in power, as if that will always be the case. And so too today on a social level we're happy (or at least apathetic) to see ever more private information siphoned off without considering what this will, sooner or later, end up being used for.
I think it gets points because Linus' Rants are usually good breeding ground for some discussion on various things.

Also don't forget to contrast the occasional (about ~1/month) rant with the thousands of emails where he's level headed and polite.
Chill out, I also hate the squat stalls in remote train stations in Italy that are three times the size they need to be leaving you feeling super exposed while trying to balance but that wasn’t the question the original commenter asked.
This will never become a problem.

Take the mediterranean for example, a relatively small ocean. It has a volume of 3.75e15m3, with a mass of 3.75e18kg.

We need 4kJ/kg/K to heat up water. To heat the whole mediterranean by 1K, we need an energy of 1.5e19kJ, or 4.16e6 TWh.

In 2008, total worldwide primary energy consumption was 1.32e5 TWh, 31x less energy than needed to heat the mediterranean by 1K.
> Of course you could argue that the lower cost of this cooling method will create a larger demand for cheaper servers/data storage, which increases net harm, for which I have no answer.

That argument doensn't apply here: demand isn't currently being constrained by us being affraid of the environmental impact of datacenters.