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Problem with fixed concurrency is that required memory per Chrome process varies a lot.

We (https://www.apify.com) are solving this by autoscaling number of parallel Puppeteer instances based on memory and CPU. Our open source SDK (http://github.com/apifytech/apify-js) implements this using class PuppeteerCrawler (https://www.apify.com/docs/sdk/apify-runtime-js/latest#Puppe...) which internally uses AutoscaledPool that provides autoscaling:

- https://github.com/apifytech/apify-js/blob/master/src/autosc...

- https://www.apify.com/docs/sdk/apify-runtime-js/latest#Autos...

Sadly this feature is currently limited to our platform because it's mainly build for running in Docker containers. And as Docker container don't know about it's CPU consumption vs limits it requires a notifications about reaching its CPU limit from underlying platform. We have solved this using Websocket events. But we are currently working on extending this to work anywhere/locally.
And who uses mastodon? I have never heard of a single friend even mention mastodon. ever. Decentralised might be utopia for us, the hackers, the techies... centralised however is for the masses. It's simply easier for them to be where their friends are.
Why don't they reduce spending?

Surely there are expenditures deemed "being nice" which isn't a real neccessity for the local citizens?
Gitea, Gogs, and Gitlab all have social-federation-related feature requests open right now. Not sure where they will land, but some are mentioning ActivityPub.
That's what we need, more confirmation of the standard model.
Do people generally agree with `3. page.evaluate is your friend` over using puppeteer's methods?
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Imagine if this same thing happened with Microsoft and imagike people’s reactions.
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I watched a history of the Saturn V on Amazon last night. Unfortunately, frustratingly little of it was about the technical details of it, which is mostly what interests me. The only good bit was an explanation of the pogoing problem, the rest was just the usual stuff seen on every "failure is not an option" Apollo documentary.

Reminds me of the locomotive buffs who are interested in every detail of markings on the locomotives, their routes, schedules, and paint colors. Whereas there's very little about the engineering evolution of those locomotives. Sigh.

For example, I'm interested in the transition between trial-and-error seat of the pants engineering and mathematically based engineering.
Valid point for sure. But also points out the flaws of property taxes. Teachers and other vital services should come from consumption taxes or other means. Owning a home and having it become more unattractive over time while you have paper gains is crazy. Esp. when paper losses don't go the other way.
The Paradox of Freedom
The brightly colored CMS detector reminds me of the colorful spiralling concentic circles of a mandlebrot zoom. We live in the matrix
Sounds like a 'we sell more shoes than airplanes so we don't need airplanes no more' kind of argument.
Microsoft has acquired GitHub for $7.5B in stock
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> Why don't they reduce spending?

There is strong selection pressure applied to politicians to get re-elected.

There is essentially no selection pressure for them to do a good job (as long as who to blame for the bad job is ambiguous, which it almost always is).
Translating between these two is not particularly hard. (Similar to Vulkan backend for OpenGL)
Official: Microsoft to Acquire GitHub for $7.5B
IMHO a healthy community is one where people can relax a little and post a mildly humorous comment, without it getting picked on and criticized in detail as though it was a serious social transgression and threat to the health of the community, leading to a wasteful thread arguing over a triviality.
Think lag really turns user off these days so I would advice making some adjustments there and forgo some animations. Might want to have a 'Back' button as well coz it'll be more intuitive instead of clicking your brand's logo. Profile page also doesn't have a homepage button

I was using noiseblend on iOS via chrome browser but it seems to crash too frequently. Might want to check on that.

Oh yes, my oversight. It did open up the webplayer.
Looking online about this company. Apple has acquired pa-semi for $278m in 2008 which translated in having the fasted arm processor by a wide margin a decade later, definitely paid out very well.
I don't really think assuming that one person might be similar to 80% of the rest of the population for the purposes of a joke would lead to a unhealthy community.

However, your own comments are definitely making the community worse, by arguing on minor points of an unassuming joke. Especially as you eventually admit to assuming yourself that this might be a joke at the expense of women (I don't think anyone else had thought this).

This is the kind of comment that only adds tension within a community.
Then it doesn’t disturb other people, does it?
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That I certainly agree. But I do think the future are Games built on top of Game engine. Unreal seems to have a massive improvement changelog every 6 months and if Unity didn't exist I did doubt how anyone is going to compete within a reasonable budget.

Game Engine Choices would become the old day of OpenGL vs DirectX. No one sane would write their own game from scratch.
I see only SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN. (but on http it looks very nice)
I don't think they'd ever admit to focussing on stability because that would imply the OS isn't already stable.
That was my point, apparently that was not obvious at all. That is what I meant by the "hand waving" part. Being apologetic about FB just because what they did was some kind of A/B testing does not redeem them at all.
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So what you say is Apple maps is better in China.
> Why don't they reduce spending?

Because the citizenry doesn't want that. Oh, sure, in abstract terms they do, but when it comes to any specific set of concrete cuts, they tend not to.
Every single testing I googled, including my own results shows Azure, surprisingly have the fastest instances, CPU, SSD Access, and Network. They do lack a few other managed "Services" instances that made Google and AWS much more attractive.
Udacity and Google launch free career courses for interview prep
So, what about LastPass? Since you've already got 1Password, and LastPass is totally dependent on their web infrastructure, it would be nice to have LastPass covered, too.

And before you ask, this is for work -- I didn't choose it.

They've only got a couple of twitter accounts. Their official status account is https://twitter.com/LastPassStatus whereas their "help" account is https://twitter.com/LastPassHelp but you will find that a lot of people send them complaints to the "help" account and the official status account doesn't typically get updated until they've already fixed the problem.
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What a strange site configuration. HTTPS is broken because the cert is valid for another hostname and www.bootstrappable.org and bootstrappable.org differ in content.

The site's intention is nice in theory but not really feasible in practice. To get an OS running on a computer, you need binaries anyways, so having some more binaries for programming languages isn't really that bad. There also isn't even an easily bootstrappable C compiler afaik.
The indie gaming community[1] would have me believe different.

https://mobile.twitter.com/EvilBachus/status/100372239162797...
https://mobile.twitter.com/tha_rami/status/10037287912173649...
https://mobile.twitter.com/radiatoryang/status/1003732865648...

[1] at least the portion I follow on twitter
Not the OP but here’s one. I recently got divorced and back into dating. These days, that means a lot of texting in some form, and I’ve found I have a distinctive style that people who know me well enjoy but that tends to produce a lot of misunderstandings with people That don’t know me that well.

I have the choice of either adjusting my writing style to new people, which I’d rather not, or use either text or picture emoji to convey the tone that makes my writing clearer to people who can’t infer it. I find that image-based emoji are much more specific in the mood they convey, and provide more range — and there is a definite difference in how clearly I come across.
> String Theory feels like a theory which is starting at the wrong place.

I think there's also a place for setting aside our prescriptive rulers and looking at String Theory in its own right.

As a programme it has contributed significantly to detangling the intractibilities in quantum field theory. Heck, it apparently even finds applications in such "mundane" applications as condensed matter physics by showing coorespondences between fluids and black holes. As a pure math endeavor, it's contributions to algebraic geometry are hard to miss.

Personally, I think a lot of the "problems" with String Theory only arise when circumscribing it to be a certain kind of cosmological model.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17223926
While it's a welcome step forward, if they didn't fix the keyboard it really is moot.

It is worth noting that the Coffee Lake i7-8750H reported here can support up to 64GB of RAM, so Apple is still shorting customers the limits of the platform...
Yeah, they are spectacular. And then you look at the green parts on the side and realize that thing is 4 stories high.

As an aside, I like the understated way the description is written:

The extraction of these events from the LHC data is challenging as there are many mundane type of events that can mimic them. Identifying these events requires measurements from all CMS subdetectors, which makes the reconstruction quite complex.

I can only imagine what the value of "many" and the amount of effort behind "challenging"and "quite complex" really is.
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Some work in front of the mirror. It is relatively easy.

There are muscles that are much harder to control, especially independently.
This is not what OCD is. I wish people would use the term appropriately.
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I don't remember where I first read it, but I liked this opinion: in the future, decentralization, even if only adopted by a techie minority, will serve as a threat of what could be, thus keeping the centralized powers in check.
HR has lost the trust of employees. Here is who has it now
> most games today are built using Unity3D, Unreal Engine etc

On PC: Maybe by number of games, but not by the number of players.

(I count Fortnite as an outlier because it's technically not built on a third-party engine)
> I run websites that get traffic from Amazon Silk browsers. I've never signed a data sharing agreement with Amazon.

Of course not. Because the fact that a user agent like this has widespread access to the data that the user has access to is expected. The OS itself also has at least that same level of access (as it has control over the behavior of the user agent). We just all seem to assume that we can trust those entities to not misuse the data (in some cases the particular software we run may have privacy policies that cover how they use that data that we necessarily give them access to).

> There's more going on in this story than a simple browsing proxy.

There's nothing in the report that indicates that. In fact, most "simple browsing prox[ies]" have no data sharing agreement limiting how they use the information from your browsing, in the cases in this story they were all limited to "signed agreements that prevented people’s Facebook information from being used for any other purpose than to recreate Facebook-like experiences." and even further "our partnership and engineering teams approved the Facebook experiences these companies built". In addition, it sounds like in most of these instances, no data was even accessed or stored off the device (i.e. they had much less access than a proxy).
> Also, with perfumes, the cost is 100 percent in the quality of the base

No, the cost of the perfume itself is usually not more than €2
It seems that FB gave to those clients an API to access more data than the user allowed. The Blackberry used by the Times got data about the friends of the journalist even if those friends didn't consent to that.

One thing is allowing the official FB client to see those data (FB has those data anyway), another thing is to let third parties see them and possibly store them on their servers and not only on our devices.

This is different from email and email clients. First, the expectations are different: if I send you an email I expect that you can forward it to your friends or anybody else unless I explicitly ask you not to. Second, local clients don't send mail to their authors, same for address books. Third, we know that Google and others can see most of our mails anyway, because most people use only webmail and messages are stored on the servers of those companies.

Finally, FB didn't tell us about this API and what it can do. It's this secrecy that's hurting them IMHO. Sure, I concede that they couldn't foresee the current climate around their company when they made the choice not to advertise it, or we wouldn't be in this situation now. But we're here also because of chain of bad choices from their side.

My suggestion for a social network of the future is to have a single API, used also by the official client. The servers must not trust any client, which is the usual thing we do in web development, and give all them the same level of access. It's up to the user to decide if they want to use the official client or one of any third party.
> Valid point for sure. But also points out the flaws of property taxes.

You fail to make an argument for this.

> Teachers and other vital services should come from consumption taxes or other means.

In practice on CA, they are. This doesn't make things better than when they were done by property taxes.

> Owning a home and having it become more unattractive over time while you have paper gains is crazy.

It's a strong incentive for transactions which promote efficiency in the sense of property being in the hands of those who will derive most utility from it. I'm not sure that's crazy, though, especially in the case of non-residential property.

> Esp. when paper losses don't go the other way.

Without Prop 13, paper gains and losses are symmetric with regard to tax effect; with Prop 13 they become asymmetric, as declines in fair market value are immediately and fully reflected while increases are limited.
would require four so dimm slots
The acronym was coined in 2013 to describe the best-performing tech stocks at the time. Microsoft's resurgence hadn't really happened yet. The acronym was so convenient that no one's updated it except to add Apple (which didn't require a change in pronunciation).
Gdpr: why so serious?
ActivityPub is indeed both simple and extensible. Perfect for issues and comments, also PRs.

For the actual code behind PR I would just setup a git daemon and reference own repo. With appropriate CORS the code can even be cloned in a browser.
No, Arc running on top of Scheme.
If GitLab or any of the other self-hostable services implements ActivityPub, then the "utopia" will be available to all users and instances.
Also the definition of "mundane" - I'd guess there are several phenomena under that heading that are quite fascinating in their own right.
On paper, your Celeron is specified to run at 6 W max[1], and of course has 4 cores; that's 1.5 W/core.

The AnandTech article says[2] that the new Cortex-A76 can run with a power budget of 750 mW/core, which is exactly half of the Celeron's, then.

[1] https://ark.intel.com/products/91830/Intel-Pentium-Processor...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12785/arm-cortex-a76-cpu-unve...
git-ssb is better than gittorrent, as bittorrent itself relies on a global DHT, which can and has been censored.
permissive free software licenses like BSD are still free software.
The comment you were replying to mentions proprietary open source which is another thing.
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> The planned obsolence - unreplaceable battery, glued screen, glassback etc mean phones break all the time.

Don't forget planned insecurity two years after release through unpatched software vulnerabilities.
Why doesn't it mean what the word normally means? "Software Freedom" was coined by Stallman and the FSF ("free software" might have been around before).

It's also not uncommon to use the term freedom as "free in all aspects but this set of restrictions", it's not equivalent to anarchy.
The shareholders see potential. I also think there are many ways for Microsoft to make money from Github. But that means changes the general Github user will not like (ads ? higher fees ? tracking ? killing atom ?). My point is that the 'Hello, Github' implies nothing will change.
>making it longer means more jets which means more water which means making the hose bigger which means it’s heavier....

if one combines it with one of a Boston Dynamics creatures, may be only the last 10ft is all what would be necessary to cover.
Private means that I (the user of my own FB client) can see my private data. That's obvious. What must not happen is that I can also see data that my friends, or their friends, marked as private. This doesn't happen in the official FB client and must not happen with any API.
I think you should be able to understand that sqlite's "the database is a file, ONE file" is superior to getting a fully configured and setup mysql up and running in speed, ease, and simplicity. Of course, it presents limits in terms of scalability (however because it is linked into the application rather than using TCP, if you want to do 400 sql queries per page view sqlite will be MUCH faster than mysql or postgres is going to be)

And in fact Sqlite is linked with the application, so it presents a development environment much more consistent with production (if that's also using sqlite of course) than any mysql or postgres ever will.
I meant instagram DM. Snap and Whatsapp are obvious but haven't seen anyone yet who's used Instagram for DM.
Any details as to what ML was used for that you can disclose? OCRing the scanned documents I assume?
Just wait until you see cloud pricing ! That is far "superior" (you know, bigger numbers) than either of the quoted prices.
can you elaborate on this feature?
"their tax base will leave the state in droves,"

Man that place is a dump, nobody goes there - it's always too busy.
I guess Google doesn't deploy DNS at each edge. Otherwise it's hard to explain that you often get >5ms in major cities.
What issues do you have with HTTPS/TLS? I can’t say I’ve come across any issues so far - is it a specific usecase to Ahrefs?
I’m sure they are referring to the fact that electric cars need very little maintenance.
The term CI/CD suddenly appears everywhere.
Can «continuous integration and continuous delivery» be shortened to CI&D or CIaD? Or how do you pronounce CI/CD? AC/DC backwards?
Next year's electric X3 doesn't look that much different from the normal X3.
Some links:

git-ssb (Git over Secure-Scuttlebutt):

- https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoy...

- https://github.com/noffle/git-ssb-intro

Secure Scuttlebutt (https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/)
We're teaching kids this age Scratch in the UK now as part of the curriculum. I don't think you're ever too young to start learning about logic, decision making and critical thinking.
I do think Nats statement is hyperbole. You can program something at that age for sure (I have taught kids to do exactly that) But I wouldn't personally class them as developers.
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They said:

"Are you merging iOS and macOS?" "No."

Then proceeded to detail the port of the iOS APIs to Mac and some apps just using those APIs.

Time will tell, but I think a merge is exactly what they are planning long term, and it makes sense to do so (with some differences for user input and larger screens). It's crazy to develop very similar APIs for GUI apps in parallel, and what has become two different OSs with slightly different apps and feature sets, but a huge amount of overlap. The savings for Apple and developers of having a consistent set of new APIs and one set of apps to manage (for example their entire office suite) would be huge.

The sheer pressure of money and users on the iOS side means that will be the dominant one, and UIKit will win.

Re lockdown, that's more a political decision than a technical one, it could go either way, I suspect both platforms will become gradually more and more similar (they already are converging) and the future will be close to the one you fear, with at the very least some ARM powered locked down laptops (which I'd be very happy with).
Constexpr pseudorandom numbers
I had never seen one. Googled. Exactly as described.
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It also seems to reset fixes.
One example: when asking for cycling directions into the city from where I live, Google maps tried to send me down a staircase in a local park. I notified google and it was fixed a few months later. Now it's back…
I've seen it for other fixes too.
The more valuable your work is to society, the less you’ll be paid for it
GitLab's GitHub Importer is rocketing
Well, then maybe it is a good thing for wannabe pixelmators? Create a nice Mac-only tool, profit.
RMS has also often said that software freedom is just a synonym for software liberty, ie that those have exact same meaning and that the only reason he use the word freedom instead of liberty is that the United States has a political platform which the American people associate with the word liberty, and RMS wanted to disassociate the free software movement from US politics so to not alienate the other side of the political spectrum.

Who made up the definition of Liberty? Not RMS. Was he first to use Freedom as a synonym to Liberty? I doubt it. It is imperfect but both words is commonly used interchangeable when talking about the philosophical concept of freedom and liberty so the question I have is why the distinction is important?
> I had the impression VSCode had the technical superior plugin system

From my very limited exposure to VSCode's plugins, it seems they are a lot more limited in how they can change the editor's behavior compared to elisp code in Emacs[1]; if Atom plugins are similarly flexible, then I'm not sure you can say it's (strictly) technically superior if you can only implement a small subset of what you can do in competitor's system. At most it's better at some tasks and worse at others if this is the case.

[1] I didn't say "Emacs plugins" since there is no distinction between user-written elisp code and core editor elisp code and you don't need to create any plugin project or such, which I think makes for a much more organic and pleasant customization experience.
> Which features would we miss?

There are the incidental contributors who do not necessarily have any affinity with git. For example, I've written a plugin for JOSM (OpenStreetMap editor), and a plugin for Inkscape. Both are hosted on GitHub, and any user willing to report a bug can do so there (and they do) without having to learn developer tools.
Would a basic income (often spoken of as about $12k/y) cover housing in the area they're currently frequenting? If not, what will that realistically change?