skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you have a look at the SweRV architecture and implementation, it is not incredibly complex, especially compared to, an out-of-order triple-issue A-15 core. And yet it achieves similar or higher CoreMark/MHz scores.

FYI, Coremark fits entirely within an L1 cache, so performance is significantly effected by load-to-use and load-to-load delay. The "skewed" pipeline design of SweRV helps it really shine here! The OOO cores typically have worse load-to-use and the OOO advantage typically shows up once you start missing in the L1 cache.

The remaining significant factor to Coremark performance is a good branch predictor, and to that end, I'm very impressed that their gshare can completely learn Coremark.
> "Concern"? This is a deal-breaker.

Anyone who finds themselves using email disagrees in practice. Plain text on the servers are no practical deal breaker to the vast majority of people, not even the majority of HNers.

> The contenders here are Signal and WhatsApp, not email.

This is the problem:

Stop recommending WhatsApp and we are a little closer.

Many of us can agree that Signal is probably more secure, even after the horrible bug they had in their desktop client not that long ago.

But WhatsApp is nothing but a metadata collection engine for Facebook.

I'm not too happy with the saying about not paying meaning you are the product, but in this case it fits perfectly:

1. Facebook buys WhatsApp, makes it free, promisese they can't combine it.

2. Turns out Facebook is too greedy to even pretend it wants to keep its promises, and goes on to update Terms Of Service, adding a default opt-in.

Can we stop recommending WhatsApp now?

Signal exists critical stuff.

For everything else, use something that works: Telegram, email, whatever, -even WhatsApp.
The low level answer is that you can pin content to the cache so it won't be evicted: https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/pinning/

However, it seems like something that would need clever UI integration to really solve the problem. Any user oriented actions like github starring, reddit upvoting/saving, browser bookmarking, etc. might need to also do a pin?
I'd think so.

I think that the spectacle of Russian regulators banning almost all of the Internet but NOT the Telegram a while ago is even more concerning. Or entertaining, if you aren't using Telegram.
How was success of the program being measured? And was next year's budget tied to any "diverse" graduates quotas being met?

The problem exists, if there's a monetary incentive or even bonus for quantity (and diversity implies to quantify) over quality.

Edit:
Removed a line that could have been interpreted as unnecessary accusatory.
FWIW, Scott Piper, who builds CloudMapper, also consults.

Glad I could help.
VW also causes immense employment and brings an immense amount of money into Germany. It's not that simple. Germany isn't a dictatorship. They can't take unilateral action that harms its populace and say "just deal, it's good for you in the long run"
Bring back the El Camino
I am mostly OK with a lot of things factoring into college admissions including legacies etc.
Most web ads are designed to be clicked, but I firmly believe this is the wrong model. Ads should be designed not to get you to click/buy now. Ads should be designed to make you think about buying it latter. You see/hear a car ad, and next time you drive you think wouldn't it be nice if my car did X.
I worked in a startup that made HR and recruitment software as SaaS. We really had to prove that our product really was on par or better than what people already had, sometimes going through great lengths offering 6months free trial periods, rushing new features just to keep one customer etc. It was hell, but in the end it turned out okay when we got some brand names and government contracts. The product price was based on amount of users, jobpostings etc and was free for the absolute lowest tier.
>When affirmative action programs start accepting scores that are much lower than for other races, it begins to really call into question your argument.

Might want to call into question your own argument since college admissions aren't based on a simple ranking of the highest scores.
Wonder why diveristy programs get questioned but not legacy or athletic admissions.
How does it deal with streaming? Can you use a sliding window? For large enough datasets e.g. having datapoints continuously ran is a memory leak.
Unless they forced them to work for free, or promised them money and then reneged, what is the problem? If the artists agreed, it was probably because they felt the exposure was worth giving up their time.
OrientDb is a multimodel db with graph support, so it seems pretty similar.
You should be fine, but I suggest asking yourself whether you’ll be able to go into a normal job.

Some things once known cannot be unknown : you’ve seen how the sausages are made ....
iMessage is great, but sometimes it breaks for some people, hence the fallback back to Telegram
Yep. India is the longest surviving civilization in the world. Indian civilization (& Hindus) survived despite numerous onslaughts from Islamic hordes & despite the 250+ British rule.
The Volskwagen saga can also be attributed to incomptenence but alas! it was not caused by it but by malice.

We are humans after all and money talks.

The razor is for non-economical causes.
It makes perfect sense, distilled down to "shift variable costs to suppliers while slowly extricating from the costly business of acquiring, storing, and shipping merchandise".
Thank you very much, Tom.

I think I read your blog post many years ago about your situation, it's really great to see that you're doing well. Thanks again for all the great advice.
Also it’s not an economy it’s a market.
I've always felt that gmail is more cumbersome and packed esp in mobile! Inbox was nice in few areas however the core gmail app on mobile is almost impossible to get to a correct mail.

Enter Outlook mobile, absolutely love it, no wonder its the most rated mail app in app stores!
I'd like to do the same for a mobile app I'm building, but I find Firebase has a lot of features that would be hard to build out myself. i.e User Session length, install attribution
Hmm, seems like Europe is further ahead in this field (I'm in Prague, Czechia). I can order the item and have it in less than 6 hours delivered to my doorstep and professionally installed, guaranteed. It costs just around triple of what would driving my own car cost.
Horseback archers in open grasslands also retained a massive advantage over firearms until the Colt revolver.
So is that also the case for my exercise equipment, my TV, my car, my car radio, my cable box, my printer, etc?
"Fist-Bump allocated Virtual Domination with Rust by WASMs" sez my lizard brain...
> I wonder what you will say

"People were right in a wrong way"
I really dont understand that way of clotroling overpopulation... lack of creativity, maybe, to Think another way...

tremember me of South Park cartoon scene, where they swoosh! Bison in the prairies with Second world war style Flametrowers! yes...flamethrowers haha , to control the overpopulation of Bisons in the prairies...burn them all like the Mad King of game of thrones...people are so crazy, even good people make uncomprehensibly sounding shit...

well...learning everyday a little more...

I learn...

thanks
ISTR one of the things was, "Hillary will win."
I don't object to advertising - it is how free news sights should pay for themselves. I understand and accept the deal. However this is a two way deal, they give me "free" content in exchange for me seeing the ads. If the ads are too intrusive they have violated their end of the contract and I leave.
Why should it matter which medium is used? I have some conversations I want to keep forever. Some I treat as ephemeral. This should be a per-conversation setting.
I have the exact opposite problem. I have a mental model of git, but not a very good one for most of its competitors; I don't really get mercurial for example, but git is just:

1) uncommitted stuff in workdir. Potentially can be lost, so commit often.

2) blobs in repo representing snapshots at commit time. Can never be lost.

3) symbolic references to the blobs. Can always recover from reflog.

4) tools to sync the above two things between repositories. (fetch and push)

5) tools to merge, diff and otherwise manipulate the changes between snapshots and files.

I'm confident that git will never lose my data, so long as I commit it. This makes experimentation stress-free.

Technically, you can lose data by explicitly deleting your refs, expiring the reflog, and running gc, but if you go that far you might as well rm -r .git
"an economy"

I think maybe "a market" maybe works better here?

I get there's a thing happening here but if they're not spending that money on Facebook, can they spend it elsewhere? Or won't folks spending it because of facebook ads just spend that money elsewhere?
Consumer Groups Want to Tax Facebook to Save Journalism
I generally follow: never ascribe a reason until you have sufficient evidence to support it, Be it malice or incompetence...
I've seen a five year old play those games and talk about how much he really needs that $100 gem pack. I wonder if these will have any lasting effect on how kids of today understand value.
Tbh I enjoy building new technologies, that hasn't changed at all. That's why I'd rather get into the startup world again, which many people think is crazy after 7 years lol
As a Swiss, I'd say that the Australians are grading their mountains on a bit of a curve there.

But other than altitude, this seems to be pretty serious wilderness.
Openspf.org Website has been down for a couple of weeks
We removed all tracking scripts from the front-end framework we use (vuepress) and are only checking nginx logs with geoip and org extensions enabled. This is more than enough for us as we're in the non-consumer software business with a relatively low volume of page views by human visitors. We see the org, the country, the city, and the page flow. Good enough.
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> Following [the W3C] recommendations and doing things just because they were in the spec does make those decisions ethical or even legal.

The spec being followed here is Freedesktop's, not W3C's https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes/

> user.xdg.origin.url: Set on a file downloaded from a url. Its value should equal the url it was downloaded from.
I’m about to release a fun little ambient physics based puzzle game on iOS and have been debating this. To me ads are a stain on what I consider my art. But at the same time I want to monetize and wonder if people will skip over a $1.99 download. What do you think? Ads with the option to unlock? Seems gross though... maybe free with paid version that includes level editor or additional level packs?
Manufacturers take the blame for this. And they take the blame for things like no global transponder in the loss of the 777 over the Atlantic. Unfortunately the FAA processes, while enlightened in some ways, and firmly grounded in the science of safety, are effectively a strong deterrent for a manufacturer to avoid changing anything in a design.

The result is that many aircraft operate for a very long time with very outdated systems. Replacing designs is prohibitively expensive to prove to the FAA that there will be no corresponding degradation of the system's performance or new safety risk. Unfortunately such a process does not calculate the cost of not replacing the system. No cost is attributed with keeping something that is old and lacking in capability.

The result is that aircraft systems are woefully behind what technology can offer. And this is not just the hardware or the software, it includes the procedures and the overall set of capabilities. The result is that aircraft are being operated to the standards of the 50s, when in fact a much higher standard of crew and aircraft performance is possible. When I say performance I am also talking about safety performance, the ability to operate without harm causing failure.
Why should anything about this be designed to exclude "trolls"? Last time repubs got a troll, and he won the whole thing.
Steer Clear of Lyft's IPO
The focus changes to that tab, typically. It’s not a big difference hitting a back button or closing a tab/window, is it? Some users are confused by this, being less familiar with the browser interface, and the effect of interruption is the same.
I think it comes down to real versus symbolic consequences and anthropomorphising non persons (Here, person in common language is constrained to individual Homo sapiens NCBITaxon:9606)
The non corporeal entity in question can not be put in an orange jumpsuit and the fine if large enough could have an actual impact. However a number on a ledger does nothing to satisfy a human perception of justice served.

To me the answer is; do both.
Netflix and Amazon Prime represent most of the best TV drama series of the last 10 years, and what isn't on those services is available a la carte from Apple and Amazon.

I know the article sets up the conflict this way, but the point really isn't that Netflix is an unstoppable juggernaut, so much as that what Netflix represents is. Maybe Amazon will figure things out and it'll come to dominate TV, or maybe Netflix will, but either way: HBO hosts only a small fraction of the prestige shows, in an era where there are too many to watch anyways.

The rap on HBO has been, if you look at the ratings, they have GoT, and used to have True Blood, and before that The Sopranos, and that's what's kept people paying. GoT is going away. Content of the same quality is much more available now than when GoT started running. Why are people going to pay a premium for HBO?
I've yet to see any stats from companies I work with that are heavily invested in Facebook who aren't just lying to themselves in meetings. The stats seem suspiciously off and their media content get almost zero interaction despite millions of followers. Which seems normal these days as Facebook and Twitter attempt to stay relevant.

But if all your chips are in Facebook, you've built a pretty weak business model. It's been about 2 years since I've been on Facebook, and I didn't even know about the outage until I went to a meeting with a client and they were all freaking out.
Yeah I've gone through that a bunch and it did help, but it seems to be mostly "slow brushes"... but like every brush is slow. The work to add AVX support on the brushes helped those brushes, but not nearly enough. And even fast brushes are perceptually laggy.

Really Krita would benefit massively from brushes being implemented on GPU but the developers (rightly) are worried about the massive complexity gain.
There's truth to that. The dynamics are certainly different than simply counting the total number of eyeballs watching your programming. Everyone having one or two must sees on your [all you can eat subscription] network probably trumps 10 shows that people are "Meh, it's something to watch."
Shared scooters should come with shared helmets
Facebook outage caused by server config change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
The Sistine Restored (Video, 1994)
You should start making and selling espresso machines then, since you know more than coffee professionals about them. Same with high-end audio gear.

Do you also go to museums and say "I could have done that" to every painting?
The iPad won via software not hardware. More importantly it was keeping everything working from low level firmware to UI seamlessly.

In cars software is far more than the infotainment system. Consider, to increase charge speeds Tesla reolized you should use battery power to heat the batteries as you drive to the charging station. Thinking just in terms of swapping a gas tank for batteries is not going to result in that kind of integration.

Tesla is also looking to integrate super capacitors for regenerative breaking and peak acceleration. Again, that’s a step up from tossing a larger battery pack into a Prius and calling it a day.
Not an engineering question, but do you foresee trademark issues with Google Fi?
Thank you so much! I will contact you the moment our company is officially shutdown (for various reasons and considerations regarding our users).
gsuite-noreply@google.com sends me invoices.
The co-creator of Dwarf Fortress is getting older, but work remains unfinished
>My case is Tesla

Considering Tesla has a microscopic market share and is financially tenuous...what exactly is your case again?

Big Oil will become Big Energy, and invest in alternatives. They've been doing so for decades. Some will fail, for sure. But these are well capitalized companies and believe it or not have capable engineers and managers who care about the future of the planet (outside of SV if you can imagine that!).
That's not what happened in this case. They used a single piston where commonly two or more pistons would be used to control the rudder.
I'm sorry I came in hot. I even misread the original comment. These recent events with Boeing have got me bothered I apologize for my rudeness.
Are we controlling for SEO effect? Having ads on your site probably nerfs your Google ranking a bit.
From the post:
"The NTSB report recommended that the valve be redesigned, and the Federal Aviation Administration mandated that the changes be implemented by November 2002. Since then, no 737s have crashed due to rudder hardover or rudder reversal."
> So now there are 4 independent quasi-/experimental datapoints (me, Pandora, LinkedIn, & Mozilla resp) showing that a standard load of ads vs no ads decreases total consumption/activity by 10–15%.

From the tweet itself, this is 10% of activity, not users. Kind of suspect that someone misinterpreted their own data so significantly.
This article fundamentally misunderstands what Amazon recently did (describing it as a "supplier purge"), misunderstands what the fulfillment business is, and incorrectly defines Amazon as a monopoly because it is a trendy thing to say more than it is an accurate thing to say.

>If an item sold on Amazon is FBA, that means that the wholesaler’s inventory is completely fulfilled by Amazon. The wholesaler sends a large portion of their inventory in bulk to Amazon’s fulfillment centers, where it is stored until a customer decides to buy it. Amazon then packs and ships the items to customers. It also incurs all the costs associated with these activities, many of which are variable costs. In exchange, wholesalers pay a per-unit fixed fee. The introduction of same and next-day delivery into the FBA scheme seems to further increase the cost of this service. Amazon’s shipping costs, which include sortation and delivery centers and transportation costs, amounted to $27.7 billion as of 2018.

This is generally wrong, and mixes up what vendors enrolled in Vendor Central do. Amazon sends vendors POs and then sells the products. The end. Some vendors also have some additional fees but it is not the same as a "Seller" who is not a wholesaler at all, but a business that owns the products being sold FBA and FBM the entire time. Amazon collects fees on each of those sales and never owns the inventory in question.

>On the other hand, when an item is FBM, fulfillment is done by the wholesalers.

No, they are not wholesalers. This may seem like a dorky nitpick but it isn't. A wholesaler sells the products to Amazon. The 'purge' complaint was from wholesalers, called Vendors or Vendor Central users in Amazon parlance.

>Thus, it appears that Amazon’s market share is closely tied to its ability to accomplish its “fulfillment network optimization” goals by bullying wholesalers to move from FBA to FBM.

No, they are just not issuing purchase orders. No purchase order, no wholesale relationship. They explicitly communicated to Vendors who are not receiving anymore POs to tell them to consider selling their products on Amazon as Sellers, which again means not being a wholesaler anymore but becoming a retailer. They can sell FBM or FBA but Amazon collects fees either way. That is entirely up to the seller.

The pressure is just Amazon saying "we won't buy your stuff anymore, but you can still sell on Amazon running your presence yourself or selling it to another Amazon seller."

I could just keep going but it is really obvious that this author only knows about how the Amazon marketplace works from financial reports and has zero experience in how the Amazon marketplace actually works.
Re: the book added in your edit. I have it right in front of me.

As I said before, we know a lot of facts. We know a lot about the spectral sensitivity of rods and cones, and the molecular mechanism that lets them turn photons into electrical impulses. We know a little bit about where the areas that process faces are and what visual features the neurons in them respond to. We’ve got pieces, but they’re not put together.

I would say that we understand vision when we can answer a question like “How do you find a friend in a crowd?”

You can start with “When you first met, light bounced off her face and isomerized some retinal from its 11-cis to all-trans form, which caused the bound opsin to change conformation into metarhodopsin II, which activated transducin, which....” Eventually, this cascade caused electrical activity that reaches cortex. A huge set of cortical areas process visual input, and these electrochemical signals flow through all of them. We can predict V1 neurons’ activity reasonably well, less so for the downstream neurons in V2, V4, or the temporal lobe areas. We have only the fuzziest ideas how those patterns are read out, tagged as important to remember, and moved into memory. You've only just met--and yet it gets worse.

To find her, you’ve got to retrieve those patterns from memory (no one knows how, but oscillations might be involved?), and use them to search in a way that’s robust against variations in the friend’s pose, position, rotation, illumination, and even dress style or age, many of which you have never seen before and will never see again. We know, for example, that some cells in IT are fairly robust against some moderate kinds of image changes. Some but not all, of this is done by circuits that look like a convNet. Whether this is a coincidence or not is debatable and how this convNet is trained is a total mystery—-it’s definitely determined by experience, but the feedback signals needed for vanilla backprop are missing.

As you scan the crowd, you’re only getting high-resolution data from a very small part of the visual field. This is (somehow) stitched together into a unified percept. You apply various heuristics—maybe your friend favors bright colors—to speed the search along. How you learn these, and how they’re mixed in with the input from your eyes is unknown, but it’s certainly reflected in your behavioural output: you'll find her faster if you successfully predict what she looks like, and you'll be much slower if you guess wrong. Perhaps you hear a familiar voice or smell the perfume you bought her. This, too, can help you find her, but how information is integrated across senses is unknown too.

Eventually, you find her. You plan a path across the plaza towards a cafe. We have a pretty good understanding of how this works in rats (3-7 Hz oscillations coordinate place cells and grid cells in the hippocampus). Those oscillations are really strong in rodents, but much weaker in monkeys and totally missing in bats, so it's not clear how this works in humans.

Now all you’ve got to do is open your mouth and order coffee....
Well, this not what I learned as a kid: https://youtu.be/Ea_9yGV61Dg?t=24
Let me second that. If you have been working for yourself for years, you really will get frustrated at the politics, red tape, etc of a big company and you will get pigeonholed.

I’ve never owned my own company, but after one short three year stint at what was then an F10 (non tech) company, you couldn’t pay me enough to work at a large company.