skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how NVMe works out in practice is also interesting

Indeed, though I suspect, in the context of a storage fabric "behind" a RAID card, it will just be a costly bandwidth increase.

>I've found some benchmarks for SATA-SSDs

Unfortunately, that's not a very useful one, as it uses a small number of low-performance (by today's standards) SSDs.

Also, if Google Translate correctly translate the below text to English, the author turned off caching:

>der Controller Cache auf Write-Through gestellt.

Oddly, the author references https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents... as a reason for doing so, except that document supports using caching:

> Write-back caching at the controller level can reduce write latencies. This is especially true with RAID 5/50/6/60 as RAID parity calculations introduce additional latency.
>Also, write-back caching helps with merging smaller sequential write transfers into larger write transfers. Size of the resulting larger transfers equals the write-back cache element size, which typically equals stripe unit size. Merging write transfers is important when there are concurrent sequential write threads with small transfer sizes (for example, database transaction logs).

That is, it cites what appear to be exactly my earlier points regarding full stripe writes.

> I guess if you want or need to squeeze out the max performance on RAID5

Since the whole premise of the article is performance, max performance is the goal.

> test your own system

That still, however, does not address my original question, which is about the general advice that RAID5 performs poorly for databases.

My suspicion remains that this accepted wisdom is outdated (i.e. rendered irrelevant my modern technology).
The article says BOLT was deployed in production with HHVM (which is Facebook's PHP runtime).
If the video is streamed it's wasting internet bandwidth as well. If not then device storage.

High end mobile GPUs can handle 5k video at the expense of battery life but most GPUs can't.
Augmenting Pathology Labs with Big Data and Machine Learning
perhaps. hopefully we still might.

random example of youtube shittiness i just stumbled over:

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1009197617408954368
It's a lot less responsive than something like WordPad, which has a comparable feature set. All those extra text features that most WYSIWYG editors add do actually add up, especially common programmer features like syntax highlighting.
> Now we've come full circle and people in pain are being denied effective treatments, all in the name of moral panic.

A moral panic is exactly what this is.

Meanwhile, nearly a million people die in the USA every single year from obesity, dietary choices, and lifestyle decisions leading to heart disease, diabetes, etc, which is a very real and preventable crisis.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
> The freedom to enslave others is not a freedom that one protects. I believe there was a little thing called the civil war where that point was made.

Allowing people to make proprietary code from BSD licensed code is not enslavement. Also if someone improperly used GPL licensed software to make proprietary software it would be breach of contract or copyright infringement not enslavement.
Or you can just send an email asking if user is still alive.
3 year contract where you need to come in to the office alongside full time employees every day? How is that not considered full-time?
Most of Buffet's income is long-term capital gains, and he probably pays his secretary well above median.
That's really good news. We need more progress in CPU design.
Same situation - forced to used Linux again at the moment and having a hard time using Ubuntu 18.04 and hence Gnome. Shockingly bad UX, I find myself googling things like “what’s the Firefox shortcut key for X” all the time.

I decided to stick with it for a few weeks, now considering leaving Gnome and even buying a Mac for the job.
Male caucasian singles often don't realize that there are cultures where your parents or in-laws come to live with you (often for several months) when your kid is born.

Of course caucasians buy SUVs too...
Indeed. I cannot open Google Drive in chrome on my OpenBSD box without crashing the tab from exhausting memory, but Firefox handles it no problem.
Is it possibly because you're a nerd, and the internet is no longer for nerds? It's now a platform for mass consumerism, and what interests the masses, and is thus good for advertisers probably shares little overlap with your interests?
Thanks! Yeah figured I'd be wrong somewhere in there!
For the 12 people that run the OS.
This system seems to be the same as VLIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_long_instruction_word
Over 80% of plague cases in the United States are of the bubonic form, which is less often fatal. [0]

The case of the boy in Idaho is bubonic.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html
You can tell a difference between 144-240. A lot of small differences, but there is a difference. I just wish there were a nice high-tickrate game to play other than CS.

144-200 was not very noticeable. 144-240 was absolutely noticeable. A couple of games that dual 980 ti's cant reach 240 in currently, hopefully Volta changes that. The monitor was also on sale, so I got it for a crisp $300 with no tax.
Even assuming their action was purely malicious (and not, say, an extended family member or friend or even fan of the band that was a bit surprised to see a still active profile for someone they were well aware was no longer around and thought they were fixing things), it's a weird world where Facebook has some sort of moral duty to disclose their identity to people apparently obsessed with pursuing them.

If the profile can't be restored, that sounds like a separate policy issue with Facebook defaulting to permanently deleting rather than simply hiding profiles in these circumstances.
PewDiePie viewers aren't profitable to advertisers?
> There are lots of popular channels that don't have advertising and Blender's videos are popular but not that popular.

It makes sense if it's staged rollout. I'm assuming all unmonetized good actors (ie not stealing other people's content) will see this ultimatum eventually.
Ultimately a P/E ratio should be justified by discounted future expected returns, compared to the risk free rate. So ultimately, the P/E ratio is a market prediction of future earnings growth.
Except the performance of hyper-threading today is far better than it was first introduced. I had a dual-socket P4 Xeon box w/ HT around 2003. Single-threaded performance with HT enabled was around 70% of what it was with HT disabled. Today, I think you'd see only about 95-98% of enabled vs disabled performance.

I don't have hard numbers to back this up, it's purely my personal experience/recollection. On my 2 socket P4 Xeon box, I disabled HT. On my current I7 6-core box, I have HT on.
Url changed from https://twitter.com/blender_org/status/1009077941676986368, which points to this.
It is. Make the EU collapse.
That was my take away as well, which makes sense. I think trying to seamlessly merge functionality across any two paradigms is going to be tougher than sticking with just one or the other. But for any company with an existing app, mixing in is the most likely first baby step into react native.
Because a contract is not employment. A contractor has less protections than an employee.

It's both good and bad, but typically a contractor gets a higher rate than an employee since health insurance, etc is not provided.
I read it and still don't really understand why there was no one administrating the system. Who could have stopped the system (with the appropriate emails to cover their ass).

I also do not understand why a check couldn't be cut. Submit to accounts payable with an email approval?
I don't think the author was implying they didn't work full-time but using "full-time" loosely to refer to a salaried employee.
sounds like the machine worked perfectly. it did what it was supposed to do and followed the rules layed out by us humans.

the problem is in the way the workflow is described/implemented - and even with that we would need to see some numbers around how many times the workflow ran vs issues encountered.
Typical workloads? What's that? People run hugely diverse workloads on cpus, and they change over time.
My bad. I should have changed the title. In any case, landing with an engine that can't be throttled down (as most model rockets use), only vectored, will be remarkably challenging unless you can vector it to zero vertical thrust (which I doubt from seeing the components).
They said they talked to "their recruiter" which usually means they are a full time employee of another organization which has a three year contract to place this person with this company.
jewish privilege is a much more serious problem than white privilege
Wikipedia Added US Border 'Detention Centers' to Its List of Concentration Camps
OP was pointing out that if they were a contractor for three years, they were violating IRS rules.
They should make it easier to find the diff behind all openbsd emails. I can’t find this one.
Systematic separation of children from parents as a matter of policy does ring some alarm bells.
Could never be erased or censored, never go down, never be taken over by telecoms, yeah it has some desirable properties. If you have high speed internet you are most likely already taking part in an internet sharing scheme already.
Espionage Group Hits Satellite, Telecoms, and Defense Companies
I am interested about how will Wikipedia protest the page? Does anyone know anything about how they take care of integrity in such high-profile cases?

I would expect there would be thousands of people who would want to edit the page and remove the entries, now or later.
only delivering the visible portion of a 360° video assumes that the video is ready to be decoded at any angle, which is the entire problem.
Is this tangential to what Improbable is building with Spatial OS, or potentially a competitor?
Seriously? Just use the blockchain to find out who uploaded it.
(Disclosure: I work at Pulumi.)

The `pulumi update` command first shows you a preview of the exact resources it will create. Once you've deployed, you can view all your resources on the pulumi.com console, so you know exactly what has happened.
Any place with enough liquid water will tend to be pretty green regardless but it means that the plant will be able to chemically store less energy from sunlight and plants won't grow as quickly.
Seems like a missed opportunity for Microsoft's Azure... afaik a lot of Unity games are in C# which seems like a stronger fit than Google. Maybe Google sees this as a synergistic move with games on the Play Store?
Sometimes it helps to "encourage" Spotlight to reindex your files, creating new Quicklook thumbnails.
I have wrote a bit about the situation of Turkish education system here, in the form of three big consecutive comments. Here is a link for anybody interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15373653

[Edit: rereading this series of comments I linked above, I note some mistakes in there. E.g. the wealth tax was collected from Muslims too, albeit at a wildly lower rate compared to non-Muslims. Apart from this sort of details though, it should be fine and rather accurate. Any corrections are welcome!]

Basically the education has lately become an ideological battleground, and the 1980 coup has furnished the controls to the government to play with it at every level however it wants. This situation combined with an air of anti-intellectualism has caused the education and academical system to rot.

Hopefully the upcoming vote will bring a change for good. If there will be anyone ready to listen, I have tonnes of feedback ready to be given, and I believe, hopefully again, I'm far from alone in that.
By what standard, other than tax law, can the fair amount of tax be determined?
No reasonable industry would use Bitcoin's proof of work to transact between <10 semi-trustworthy parties.

We're talking about private, permissioned blockchains.
Not a cheese expert but I definitely can
And it's a mistake.

Just recently I noticed that when Firefox loads multiple tabs of the same wordpress site, it starts hanging not unlike Firefox always used to hang. That's likely because it groups all of those same site pages under one process.

I've never experienced that with Chrome. This is why I hope Firefox eventually (ASAP) switches to one process per tab, too. I can handle the browser using an extra GB of RAM. I can't handle it hanging on me and frustrating me.

Instead of pushing for 30-40% lower memory than Chrome, I say they should push for 10% lower memory with the same sanboxed process per tab model.
Lead: America's Real Criminal Element (2013)
Only Xamarin.Forms introduces another layer for you (it is the same concept as React Native). If you use Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android you call underlying APIs directly. Although there can be issues with bindings, nothing like you will face with React Native.

I am aware of why C# isn't popular among startups. It is sad because C# is a great language that has amazing tooling support. It runs everywhere - Xamarin for apps, ASP.NET for servers, Blazor for browsers, and it is getting only better, and I cannot imagine how awesome it would be if other companies helped Microsoft. But I can only dream.
> He explained that Isaiah, his five-year-old, had been especially affected by his mom’s leaving, and a few mornings earlier, still half-asleep, had grown distraught. “Do you have any idea,” he asked, “what it’s like when your son needs you to comfort him, he needs you to pick him up, and all you can tell him is, ‘I’m so sorry, I just can’t right now’?”

An absolutely chilling ending to a great read. It brings to light serious problems in how society is handling cracking down on opioid addiction, but also there aren’t many solutions available.
> all in the name of moral panic

I think "moral panic" implies "nothing is wrong, but are all panicking anyway."

Something is clearly wrong. And those pills are coming from somewhere.

It seems like the true panic is over finding the right balance, if that's even possible.
Really curious as to how Flutter (and Xamarin, NativeScript, Ionic, Vue-based write-once frameworks, etc.) can overcome the difficulties expressed in this piece.
Or .NET
Remember that Blender started as proprietary software created by a Dutch company. The software was close source from its inception until 2002 when the parent company went bankrupt and the creator started a crowdfunding campaign to buy and open the source from the holding company's liquidation sale.
reddit works great without an account.
(Disclosure: I work at Pulumi)

Yes, Pulumi does mutate resources in place, if the cloud provider supports it. For most resources, it will create a new one (such as a new ECS task), and wait for it to be ready before deleting the old one.
Singer Akon Creating and Launching New Cryptocurrency AKoin
The Twitter status the article is referring to is also missing.

It's interesting how all those services just shrug about someone harassing normal people, but providing compilation of public information of literal modern Gestapo is suddenly not okay and removed in blink of an eye.
Isn't the survey you posted, counting the "number of pages" (which isn't exactly a good metric in the world of SPAs), even funnier by entirely looking at the development side of things?
No, not in the least. But persons who can't even be counted on to not make up their own facts are clearly not acting in good faith.
PKD was such a visionary that I can pretty much take whatever SF book/movie/etc from the last 40 years and link it directly to his work.

Although his books are hard to read sometimes, the ideas expressed in them more than makes up for the fuzzy/bad form in the which they are conveyed.
I know I'm speaking from a position of privilege, but I really don't understand how people work at companies like this... The pay must be insane.

Edit: Slight disclaimer, "work at companies like this" in a software/IT role...
I love the rent-an-in-house-designer concept - it solves a big mental block I have had with the 99designs style approach.

However I get the feeling your price point may be too low - there is a lot of value a designer can add, not just in "logos and stationary", and that can mean a lot of work - I guess you just have to suck it and see.

Which takes me to tiers - it's a lot easier to have the "you are now in the platinum tier" conversation than the "stop asking me to do a full time gig on 200 bucks"

As it is so hard to guess how much work, and you want to get away from
looking like it's piece work, can I suggest offering streams of work. Bear with me

Logos and stationary are one basic stream of work.
But the long term gigs will probably come from two classes of company - mid sized firms wanting to get in-house designers to revamp the existing art work to be more consistent, and I strongly suspect internal enterprise teams wanting to build distinctive internal brands

That to my mind gives three streams - the try-me-out level of logos and stationary, the internal branding and the wider revamp. Each feels like increasing amounts of complex work. but each feels like a distinct market, and with levels inside

Edit
I guess the internal brand one is most exciting to me - give developers a pattern library for their app, and keep adding to it as they add features or work. A bootstrap/react pattern library that you can retheme would probably go long way?
I had a somewhat similar, but much less serious experience at Google. I resigned just after I had gotten a promotion, but before the date when the promo was effective. Much to my surprise, the resignation (slated to be effective after the promo) somehow cancelled the promo via some automated system.

However, a promo at Google is a huge deal. I really wanted the promotion to go through, so that I would have that level if I decided to re-join Google (or even so that go/epitaphs would match my resume). My manager and HRBP managed to get it sorted out, but it was a pain.
mouse wheel and trackpad support was added, but did not make it into that blogs tech preview
Like VLIW there's a notion of explicit parallelism but unlike VLIW there isn't a strict prescribed order of execution.
More basically, I only see their ads because there are non-ad videos that draw me to the site and give me a reasonable average impression of the combination of content and ads I see. Remove non-ad videos from YouTube and you would need to cut ads down by 50% to retain viewers like me.. the lower split of sharing on all content and/or lower viewer numbers will further dustress people with ads enabled on their content.. pushing them further into a death spiral of low profitability, poor content and inadequate incentives for the commercial content they apparently want.
Eventually this is going to get them in trouble with the Sherman Antitrust Act.

From Wikipedia:

> "Innocent monopoly", or monopoly achieved solely by merit, is perfectly legal, but acts by a monopolist to artificially preserve that status, or nefarious dealings to create a monopoly, are not. The purpose of the Sherman Act is not to protect competitors from harm from legitimately successful businesses, nor to prevent businesses from gaining honest profits from consumers, but rather to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuses.

It's pretty clear that Google used their dominant position(s) in web search and web advertising to then dominate the user-generated video space. And now they're engaging in the type of abuse of customers that the Sherman Antitrust Act was designed to mitigate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act
It's been a niche thing for 30 years or so. But any day now...
Those are all very good reasons, especially #3. It's part of React's track record and you don't have to look far to see other similarities to it. It isn't a sign of being a responsive to their userbase because they waited until the inventor of the world's most popular website publishing platform complained about it.
I doubt all business management software is this inflexible (never heard anyone complain about SAP "taking over"). Anyone have any idea which software product/service this may have been?
I suspect that every utopia is someone else's dystopia.
this is an early tech preview, not at release level.
There is no trade deficit with Canada. At all. Claiming there is one, in the face of all facts to the contrary, is not having a discussion in good faith.
Of course. It just has no way to know how the system would do it, as the system can also do it any goddamn way its user wants it to.
I do love me some CAN-D. Nicely played.
A technique I often use in this is to leave a "human in the loop". Have control points where the system takes no further action until an administrator requests it. Instead of coding that automated cleanup routine, send a notification to an admin and let them take care of it manually.

As the system matures and the edge cases become better understood it can become more automated. At first, though, leave it loose and human-powered wherever you can.
These are the steps for transformation that may answer your questions:

1. Cubemap (source) - 360° videos are often sourced from six different images stitched together.

2. Equirect (video) - the cubemap is transformed to "equirect" trivially with a fragment shader—which maps every output pixel to some input pixel.

3. Perspective (output) - Mapping equirect video to a perspective projection is also done with a fragment shader, just using a different transformation depending on the focal point of the user.

4. Pannini (alternative output) - You mentioned this projection, and it's an alternative to the "perspective" projection that allows a wider output FOV that minimizes distortion in the periphery.
Static scheduling plays badly with variable memory latencies and Itanium's speculative memory features just didn't work well enough. But it's instruction encoding was very inefficient and hurt a lot on workloads sensitive to i-cache pressure. If I understand EDGE correctly they don't try to statically schedule with respect to loads so this isn't a problem, they're just explicit about where the parallelism is.
It's more DOM vs. whatever framework.

DOM is very good for laying out webpages, but seriously falls over when trying to do layout for applications. The layout of the frameworks you mention are all designed around making application layout as efficient as possible.

Although WPF stands out, it's layout is for more DOM like than the others, and suffers for it.
I would not want to first hear of my friend's death via an automated Facebook notification, still less in the form of an invitation to vote on whether to honour a family member's request to remove the profile.
F-14D solved a lot of the issues via better engines. There were never enough TF-30s around to keep from having to scavenge from airframes. Can't really agree that they outlived their mission; they served well as Bombcats, clearly good enough for a multirole mission. Rhinos are probably better at ACM, but their (current) lack of range really hamstrings them.
oh, you mean a dictionary object containing a hash of the properties of the previous dictionary object?

Sooo innovative...