skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They admit in the article that a lot of this performance could be an illusion caused by the APFS instant cloning feature, which essentially just creates a new directory listing pointing to the existing file when you copy a file to the same volume. A separate copy of the data is only made when you make a change to one of the files.
Just clarification. Lately, I've found myself being asked to explain to others what it is that these new things do and found relating it to existing architectural patterns was helpful. Not saying there is or isn't a better tool than Lambda - it's a new option, just clarifying the role it fits.
This is really silly. American whiskey producers already experiment with accelerated aging. But the whiskey we're talking about in this article --- high priced Japanese single-malt, and single-malt in general --- is aged in particularly selected casks. You can't use a heated pressure chamber to change a bourbon barrel into an oloroso sherry cask.
Original source (w/o sound-on autoplay video): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-13/wework-te...
Any parent will tell you that inducing a desired teenager behavior while maintaining the illusion of free will is a simple wording trick:

"I would love to see you succeed in any career you choose; of course, society values things very materialistically, for example an art major will never afford a fancy car and clothes, a big house with a pool and trips around the world. But you will have your love of art and lots of art albums if that's what really maters to you."
I was a professional photographer for about ten years, and it definitely had a big negative impact on enjoying it as a hobby. The biggest factor contributing to that without question were the problem customers that came along. I enjoy creating. I do not enjoy the customer service or mundane business aspects.
They are already developed. Money is already spent.
If it's fulfilled by Amazon, it may be commingled with inventory from other sellers, depending on the seller's settings that purchasers can't see.
Also, apple is using the new file system that makes things like copying files more efficient (not sure how exactly), but sounds like the test is going to make the mac look awesome even though many people who pay extra for a 1 TB samsung EVO 960+ SSD are going to be matching apple's performance..

For example, my 2012 MBP uses a Samsung EVO 960 SSD and yes its super fast.. and I didn't have to pay $4000 for the computer..
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Like it or not, this is the side of history that will eventually win out. In 50-100 years from now, expect this kind of arrangement to be very common with American companies.
Cocktails are far more pretentious than single-malt snobbery, and also far more caloric. Plus, they're dying in the glass from the moment you're done mixing them; you can't nurse one for a half hour.
For a brand like Jansport, this is a false dichotomy:

https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=jansport%20backpack&ca...
Most likely they just want a federal law to deal with instead of having to make unworkable carve-ups for illinois and texas.

This unsurprisingly provided an ideal preamble for the NYT to try and reinforce the unsubstantiated claim that tech firms swayed the election and salivate about how this might open the door to further regulation. To keep things overboard newspapers should provide a disclaimer that they are reporting on business rivals when they write about tech firms.
The 15" sports a bigger battery than the 2017 model too. Just to compensate for DDR versus LPDDR.
I love Postgres, I really do. And Google's Cloud Postgres is my "default" axe.

It will not easily give you scale. It will not give you the ability to "not think about your database". You will not be able to go fishing (or wherever) with confidence that your app will just keep running without you.

I find there are two sweet spots for GCD (and probably DynamoDB, although I haven't used it in anger):

1) Persistence for really small and/or simple systems. Services that need a tiny bit of persistent state and really could do without the fuss of setting up databases and running migrations.

2) Persistence for big systems that need absolute rock solid availability, and can relax (or shunt off) analytical needs. Postgres is always one poorly-thought-out migration script away from downtime, and how many organizations test their migration scripts against full copies of the production database? Even Stripe has database-driven downtime, with their armies of developers and devops. Your two-person startup hasn't got a chance.

For everything else (and I'll be the first person to say that includes the majority of web applications!) there's Postgres.
Couldn't agree with you more. I wandered through a big-box store not long ago for 15 minutes searching, I kid you not, for AAA batteries. I'd even bought them at the same store before, but the powers that be decided that store layout wasn't profitable enough, or whatever prompts such decisions.
China's Sesame Credit is one experiment I'm sure most countries are watching closely as it's designed to rate you based on your behavior online, social network, consumption and interactions in society at large

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
The speed seems to be accurate for a high capacity PM981 or newer especially in raid Apple is just using bonker fast SSDs.
Of course stories and all the other modifications have made Instagram worse. The same way reality tv made television worse. But people love it and just eat it up.
In one study of treatment-as-usual for drug and alcohol disorders, the researchers found that most therapists failed to implement well-validated intervention techniques (Santa Ana et al., 2008), choosing instead to focus on assessing social functioning and asking open-ended questions, rather than changing relevant thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.

This is what stood out to me and seems similar to problems I hear regarding internal medicine. Doctors trust their intuition above results of novel studies. It takes time for their recommendations to catch up.
in the modern context? corrupted.
Hold up, doesn't APFS mean that just copying files is instant because they're not being "physically" copied? Does anyone know if BlackMagic Disk Test actually touches the files?
I haven't read all the indictments and so might be wrong, but at this point I think it would be speculation. Time will almost certainly tell for sure. The wikipedia definition of the term seems easy to agree on — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_(intelligence)
> 1. Apartments are more expensive than Hotels.

Why wouldn't they be? It's a different product. I like being able to prepare and eat my own food in a full kitchen. I like washing my own clothes and tidying my own bed. An apartment typically has much more space than the equivalent hotel room, with multiple rooms to stay in. I also don't need to interact with any staff, or see much of tourists (nor do I need to be in a crowded downtown area). For me, these are all benefits.
What about PUSHAD and POPAD for x86, those are not undocumented right?
There is a solution of known "sweetness" you can put on test strips. If the result comes up in a set range, they're acceptable. Basically my assumption is that if a random strip or 2 from a container is good, they're all good. Also, knowing blood sugar EXACTLY isn't really something I'm interested in. I want to know trends and where I'm roughly at.
Filed under "believe, but cannot prove":

Whereas I thought anxiety (or lack of) was first order predictor someone's behavior (eg conservative vs liberal), I now think the root is someone's fear response.

Reformulated: fear -> anxiety -> (submission to) authority
I have never disagreed with someone more than I do now. =)

Config absolutely needs comments. Context is everything. Comments allow me to explain to other humans why the config is the way it is. Dumping that out to a separate file is begging for it to fall out of sync when there's no comment instructing anyone to go and update the other file. Plus that's just kind of silly.
So Copy on Write (essentially NOPs) are now being counted towards disk performance tests?
> Ok, they're a private company, they can do what they want.

That's right. No buts.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12167/the-microsoft-surface-b... this seems to disagree.
Here's an explanation of what APFS is doing to make file copying to the same volume almost instantaneous:

http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/06/19/apfs-part3/

The Mac App Store reviews on the disk speed test tool they are using are abysmal, so I wonder if it's truly testing the disk performance or being fooled by the tricks that APFS is doing.
Depth, certainly. Breadth, not necessarily (though I don't want to have much illusions regarding breadth). It could very well be that this information was gleaned from when the dutch hacked Cozy Bear. If that's the same group. https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/dutch-agencies-provide-... (link copied from another comment)
They pay their employees like shit to start, no surprise here.
Wal-Mart has the same problem, although perhaps not to the same extent.
That depends on the clock cycle latency but ceteris paribus yes, a higher frequency at the same timings would have higher bandwidth.
Look, I'm sorry but this is beyond 99% of the world's IT services right now.

This is of course biased, unresearched anecdata but roughly speaking

- 50 % of all IT installations cannot be rebuilt from scratch in an automated fashion if you have them the new hardware,plugged in.

A further ten percent could be rebuilt with mostly automated scripts and a wiki page that's out of date by two months

of the remaining 1/3 of the world's IT, 1/6 has dependencies it does not know about - the DNS server that "just works",the production routers that should not serve that subnet, the database that is "owned" by a different team whose configuration you have no control over.

Good guy d.b. has its secret passwords on the wiki page, or stored on a seperate importable module, in source control, base64-encoded

And the rest - the rest rely more on bash than ansible.

Just get the world's enterprise services over the line and into "run this python script with these parma's and you get a complete rebuild across databases and routers" and then we can talk.
Black magic writes files to disk however they should use a cross platform benchmark.
My XPS 15 shipped with a PM981 (1TB) and while it is fast it isn't as fast as the speeds in the article. However I think this is more down to Apple "cheating" at the file system level with delayed write and snapshots or whatever other tricks they are using.

Also the PM981 is the same tech as used in the 970 EVO. Samsung have also had the SM line previous which was the same tech as used in the PRO line but there doesn't seem to be an SM981 so maybe they are no longer doing OEM MLC?
For much of human history, we let disabled people die, murdered them as children, or treated them like animals.

Any appeal to what we did for most of human history is worthless. The question is, given modern technology, how can we do best for all of us?
A new 13" with 16 GB of memory, 256 GB SSD, and 2.3GHz quad‑core 8th‑generation i5 is $2,000. Half your quoted $4,000.
I believe sintetic meat will be the most common in 50-100 years, so I don't think so.
Most of the check to acquire the lock happens in user mode. It would favors the thread in RUNNING state that still has quantum left. For example, if a thread is running, has the lock, does its work, releases the lock (which wakes up other sleeping threads but they are in RUNNABLE state not RUNNING yet), and the running thread immediately loops back to acquire the lock again, it would succeed because the lock is free. When that running thread's quantum runs out and put to sleep (still holding the lock), the other awaken threads runs but the lock is not free so they promptly go back to sleep to wait for the lock. The old running thread wakes up and continues the cycle.

If you want fairer lock acquisition, you need to use locking priority. Just lower the running thread's priority when it finishes its work. The other sleeping threads with higher priority will have a chance to get the lock.
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It’s nice that companies are releasing these types of policies publicly so peopl can choose whether to work there. It’s sometimes hard to get a good bead in company culture due to reporting bias of people there or who left. Stuff like this will help companies and workers find each other.

I worked for a company for a while before I learned their expense policy was really frustrating. $40 max expenses and their headquarters and work location was on Spear Street in San Francisco. They also wouldn’t allow any alcohol and required receipts for any expense. It wasn’t so onerous to make me quit, but it was annoying and kind of indicative of their philosophy on cost cutting.

Had I known about this it would have changed the weighting on some other offers I didn’t take.
And not because of environmental concerns. But moral concerns. Something that is flagrantly immoral would be opposed regardless of environmental questions.

That is important to note because it is not a simple question whether meat is net positive or net negative for the environment. It isn't even clear what it means if something is net positive for the environment.

This is a moral issue, not an eco issue.
Though lots of designers are migrating to Figma, which is web-based and works just fine on Windows. (I'm a designer and just moved to Figma after 4 years on Sketch and am definitely seeing lots of peers do the same)
Yes, in someways it feels like if Visa claimed that it handles 99.99% of all online retailing and showing revenue numbers based on the entire retail sales transaction and not just on the 1.5% processing fee.

To a certain extent, Amazon's retail presence is 68% Marketplace (from the article). Marketplace is really just a very high scale website plus very high scale order fulfillment which nets an analogous 6%-15% fee for listing, inventory storage and shipping/returns.
You're welcome, really glad you like it, and good to know the double square brackets make sense to you! It does seem to be a bit polarizing, so we'll keep working on something even better.
How does toml compare to Google protobufs as a configuration system?
I doubt it. Unless lab grown meat manages to be a competitor, people are going to get meat based protein.

And have you seen the vast variety of food around the world made from meat?

It’s like saying people will give up excel. Possible, but only if some very major hurdles are crossed.

Otherwise ubiquity, biological, and cultural adaptation will win out.

The vegetarian side is underestimating the scope and time scale required.
>“What’s at stake if we don’t build a true centralized digital arm is falling further behind the Republicans and continuing to lose ground, the battles on key issues and elections at every level,”

No... Talk about things people care about in a reasonable and inclusive way and you will stand a chance. Otherwise, the number of tech hipsters you summon to do the bidding of the DNC will be irrelevant.

Socialism, open borders, hysteria over every breath the President takes, attacks on law enforcement, attacks on white people, on men, on straight people etc will do nothing but alienate the majority of the country.

I love seeing people write off things like the #walkaway movement as the work of "Russian bots" when myself and many of my (registered) Democrat friends/family (who are not Russian bots, I think) are disgusted with the Democrats and, while not necessarily planning to vote for Republicans, will certainly abstain from voting if the Democrats don't turn things around.
I'm not sure how to interpret "ordinary users". I read several blogs with an actively enforced moderation system. However, they are still personal blogs, with a single moderator who can kick people off, and the moderator can't be there all the time.

What I've seen is that there are long-time commenters who will reply to the abusive behavior of trolls, not taking the bait but calling out the abusive behavior for what it is.

They cannot moderate, but as long-time users they are also not "ordinary." In the cases I'm thinking of, their responses don't seem to add fuel to the fire.

Here's commentary from someone who deals with far more trolling than I (quoting from https://jezebel.com/dont-ignore-the-trolls-feed-them-until-t... ):

> I feed trolls. Not always, not every troll, but when I feel like it—when I think it will make me feel better—I talk back. I talk back because the expectation is that when you tell a woman to shut up, she should shut up. I reject that. I talk back because it's fun, sometimes, to rip an abusive dummy to shreds with my friends. I talk back because my mental health is my priority—not some troll's personal satisfaction. I talk back because it emboldens other women to talk back online and in real life, and I talk back because women have told me that my responses give them a script for dealing with monsters in their own lives. And, most importantly, I talk back because internet trolls are not, in fact, monsters. They are human beings—and I don't believe that their attempts to dehumanize me can be counteracted by dehumanizing them. The only thing that fights dehumanization is increased humanization—of me, of them, of marginalized groups in general, of the internet as a whole.
I also deleted my Facebook years ago, and wince every time I feel compelled to look at Instagram.

Speaking of dark patterns, few people probably ignore Instagram long enough to notice, but after weeks and weeks the app starts showing you head-fake notifications. They aren't mentions or messages, just 'alerts' that people you know are using Instagram and you should be looking.
mapping escape onto caps lock, and setting the touch bar to simply be function keys has made the touch bar almost bearable, but I'd rather have a physical escape key.
Nice. If you care at all about moral justifications for your own actions, eating meat is an extremely difficult position to defend. It even falls on the wrong side of the Kantian perfect/imperfect duty divide, since the default really is not eating meat, so eating meat is a positive action which must be justified. I think it's a great example of philosophy pointing out the absurdity of a (very) widely-practiced phenomenon.

Of course, there's always the perpetual ethical get-out-of-jail-free card of doubting the existence of any finite set of values (articulated in our imprecise, incomplete, informal language) which could inform all our actions in this staggeringly-complex world, plus the impossibility-in-principle of living consistent with those values ;)
totally agree - the experience, knowledge and growth that comes with the "hobbies" should be a fair amount of reward as is; however, if you are trying to "product-ize" one of your "hobbies" then that is something totally different - you need laser focus for that to "complete" one of these...
On one hand, this seems like a very heavy-handed move considering today's societal ubiquity of meat.

On the other hand, I believe that in 100 years we'll look at today as the dark ages in terms of the scale of our industrial meat production.

So, I'm cautiously curious to see if other companies follow suit or not.
Nonsense. Plenty of old computer science papers don't hold up well to scrutiny or are largely irrelevant nowadays, such as those that were trying to optimize for bottlenecks in hardware that no longer exist or have shifted to different places. Even in pure mathematics, something that was considered a great insight a long time ago might be considered fairly trivial now, and not just because the other paper came out first. Just because a paper is correct doesn't make it interesting or worthwhile--a lot of the best papers have errors in them, but propose something that's a genuinely new contribution to the field.
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I would like to add: the implications of someone adding your personal information unauthorised to these social networks has not been tried legally.
NoSQL caught on because our industry is like the fashion industry and we need to follow the fads year after year. Plus a lot of FUD about relational databases not scaling (it's true that NoSQL will scale certain problems way better than relational, but the vast majority of people were/are not writing applications at that scale).
It's not "easy" (or common) because a lot of unusual things need to line up for it to work. You need an established company with big pockets, a new company that poses an existential threat but which also desperately needs cash, and a credible enough narrative that you can push to the financial markets, to get picked up by the business markets, and create a feedback loop.

The examples you gave don't fit the model. They are all profitable, they do not constitute an existential threat as Tesla does to big oil, and the relative differences in market cap is nowhere near as big between the parties. It's hard to overstate the proportions here -- the entire $12B of short interest in Tesla represents less than 2% of the Big Oil market cap. And that's without touching Aerospace/foreign governments that might want to starve SpaceX by way of Tesla.
Outside of raw experience, what can you do, read, or learn to build the intuition for formulating and answering the above questions?

I can answer the above for systems I've built, but I've spent quite a bit of time with those systems. How do I get better at doing this during the planning phases, or even better, for a system I'm unfamiliar with (ie. are there tools you lean on here)?
I and a few of my past co-workers have been suspecting that the facilities team in a big tech company I used to work for had an evil genius plan to reduce costs:

1. Pick the most popular snack (e.g. nachos)

2. Replace it with less tasty alternative (e.g. kale chips) "for your health"

3. Consumption is a few times smaller

4. The company can claim they take better care of their workers and no one can accuse them of being stingy

5. Finance team high-fives each other
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Will WeLive dorms also be made meat-free?
Odd to see this paragraph in the middle - it has no relation to anything else in the article, and the 2 points don't relate to each other - beyond the theme of companies banning things:

> American Airlines Group Inc. and Starbucks Corp. recently joined the chorus of companies pledging to phase out plastic straws and drink stirrers. And Southwest Airlines Co., in a bid to reduce allergy risk, said this week peanuts will no longer be available on flights starting Aug. 1.

As far as I'm aware, meat-based meal options are available from both airlines and the restaurant.
ARMv7 (not AArch64) has the STM instruction that lets you push a register set, selected by bitmask. eg:

STMFD sp!, {r3-r7,lr}

(I believe the "FD" suffix is to do with the stack growing down - "full descending")

Of course this is just implemented with microcode so it's not really any more efficient than a series of PUSHes, except there's a bit less I-cache pressure.
What's the goal? How long term is long-term? (A couple decades? A couple centuries? A couple millennia?)

For the really long term, printing something and getting it into some major archives (library of congress, etc) may be your best bet to persist information.

For somewhat long term, perhaps archive.org or another organization with a related mission might be part of the strategy?
How would a government weaponize this? By going around damaging people's brains with brute force?
Because your data is probably relational and data being consistent is probably beneficial?
while the fact remains that everyone should derive his or her own opinion on this highly sensationalized study, Philip Zimbardo's response is worth reading
http://www.prisonexp.org/response/