skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So there is no keep alive in these tests including lb to application? Makes sense why the qps is so low on a single core for all versions tested if nginx is having to reopening a new socket each time to zerohttpd. Not sure how useful this is as keeping your connection alive to your lb is important for throughput.
> We'll happily refund every penny you ever paid us if you simply ask.

I'm all for giving customers the benefit of the doubt (and I'm definitely generous in giving refunds too), but doesn't this policy go a bit too far? Even if your costs are near zero, I find it somewhat unethical to say "yes, I have proof that you used my service and received the value I promised to provide... and yet the contract of the sale (implied or explicit) - past or present - is effectively nullified at your request at any time".

While it often doesn't make sense to chase after money from customers who make these kinds of requests, it also feels wrong (to me) to encourage that kind of consumer behavior. The retroactive part seems especially ripe for abuse from customers who decide to switch to a competitor, making their switching cost effectively negative (they're incentivized to leave you).

Yes - on the whole, people are usually honest and respectable. But in my experience, a surprising number of those same people value saving a few bucks over a clean conscience.
More global R&D is a great thing!

Hopefully, India soon joins in. Their economy is starting to grow like China’s. Between the two, that’s 1/3 of the world’s population.
Is It Solid? Or Is It Liquid? New Kind of Matter Is Both
Beware the Kitsune, the Shapeshifting Fox of Japanese Folklore
Not really.

.NET Native, D, Delphi, Ada and Eiffel also have pretty fast compilers, while offering quite powerful languages.

Lets even pick Turbo Pascal 7.0 for MS-DOS, which was quite feature rich, and was able to compile very large programs in a couple of seconds.

Also Visual C++ with modules preview support, incremental compilation and linking is also reasonably faster than the FOSS alternatives.

It is only a matter how much money one is willing to invest into improving tooling support.
Offensively invasive or Invasively offensive? Good luck!
I wonder if this could be Turing complete?
That's excellent, I had no idea that existed, I'll have to start using that. Though it is fun to do a game of security question chicken - how much letters are they going to listen to me say until they go "ok, that's good enough"?
There are two main reasons I remain skeptical about Microsoft's ambitions.

First and foremost is that they don't seem willing to make a commitment to use software patents only for defensive purposes.

Secondly is Microsoft's refusal to let regular users of Windows 10 fully and persistently disable telemetry.

If Microsoft were to change in both of those ways, without introducing some replacement form of sleaze, I would take their overtures more seriously. But as things currently stand, I see no reason to believe this is anything other than a charm offensive.
And yet reality is that if we completely eliminated the ENTIRE transportation industry world wide —land, sea and air, effectively destroying civilization as we know it—- a reduction of atmospheric CO2 concentration of 100 ppm will require somewhere in the order of 50,000 to 100,000 years.

Talking about non-solutions might feel emotionally satisfying, yet it does nothing at all to really address the problem. Worse yet, it pulls the conversation away from real solutions.
>one of the biggest groups of people interested in it seems to be millennials who work in the tech industry

I'm not surprised after reflecting for a moment. Stoicism seems like a reasonable answer for people who want to escape the sentimentalism packaged as life skills that's so popular at the moment.
It gets even more crazy, though. Very frequently there are weird market conditions that create massive losses for large suppliers. Random google link: https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9056981/india-tomato-whol... You can see that the price dropped as much as 74% These things happen around the world surprisingly frequently.

Large supermarkets, etc, can get access to these ridiculous prices and so it can cause prices to stay fairly low. However, it is not really healthy for the farmers. If you live in a really rural area that doesn't have access to a large world-wide market, the local food will be a lot cheaper because the only outside food you have access to is super expensive.

For me, buying local is about agricultural sustainability. It's about making sure that my neighbours can grow food, sell it and live comfortably. I'd also rather have many small farmers producing the best quality produce they can, than 1 super farmer that is trying to produce the cheapest produce they can. This all adds up to higher prices, of course.

I often feel that we should have "fair trade" in food everywhere. I can buy a pound of raisons from California for less than $2. The same grapes would be 4 pounds. $2000 of raisons at a retail price is 4000 pounds of grapes... And you think for those tonnes of grapes... how much is the farmer getting? It gets a bit crazy.
When teaching students about the effects of depth on cognition, one fun trick is to give them a couple of combination locks attached to a slate (with the combinations written on the slate). Time each of them opening the locks on the surface, then time them opening another slate with the same sort of locks at 60 feet -- a depth not normally associated with awareness of cognitive changes.
> And, implying the three Christian gods are paragons of virtue is laughable. There are examples of genocide and infanticide scattered throughout the Bible - it is a veritable bloodfest of violence. To say otherwise would be misleading people about the subject...

The canon of christianity includes the torah, and it is certainly filled with tales of a terrible god. But the gospel is much more generally virtuous. I'd say the inclusion of the torah provides a great context for the contemporary religion around the time of Christ's life but not a very good model for religion at all.
Let's assume you're running a scam (thought experiment). If it was possible to refund anybody who complained and not have the complaint affect your ability to charge credit cards, then wouldn't every scammer do this?

I think it's fair to assume that few people will notice a fraudulent charge, and much less bother to dispute it.

If you charge money you don't feel like you need to charge -- then simply don't charge it :)

For a subscription simply ask inactive users to sign-in and confirm that they wish to maintain their subscription.
They might be a preference but I don’t see how they can be best practice when they’re barely supported on a lot of platforms - Firefox has some support (but doesn’t work with, for example, Github), no/limited support in Safari, no/limited support in mobile devices.
Books for general audience are filled with light content. That's just the way things are nowadays. It is not going to change. Any self help, any book about basics of something is going to have massive amounts of filler. I remember listening to Shallows: What Internet Does to Our Brains, and just suffering from being forced to listen to history about reading. How the monks or somebody read in the past, how valueable it was. I didn't care about any of that. I wanted to hear stories about people falling into deep depression because of too much internet. I wanted summaries of research into changes of the brain addicted to the internet. Instead what I got was history of papyrus, and what came after that, how novel it was, and how books became available for everybody, not just select few. How monks read aloud, and how there was one special monk who could read without speaking words. Terrible book.

I remember reading something about geniuses and high performance individuals, and of course examples were about sports. Because everybody understands sports and the book was for everybody. I wanted to read about workings of the minds of best mathematicians or professionals in intellectuals fields, like engineering, programming, businessman. As I was reading I felt physically ill, until I closed the book, yelled as loud as I can "BWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" and made a cup of coffee for myself. I realized that most of the books I wanted to read were fluff written for the publishers and editors. Not for me. I can get the idea from the title, description, table of contents, and maybe a few Amazon reviews.

I notice the same thing with technical books. Sections about history, long winded explanations of what is going to be taught paired with long conclusions. Recaps. I can't tell you how many times I've read history of Linux, and I can't remember anything about it: these mad diagrams of standards, what came from where, and how it was improved, extended and replaced by something else. I wanted to read a book on algorithms, a free one, it had very warm reception on HN[0], and guess what? It starts out with history of numbers. With detailed names of people who came up with ideas, of places, and even pictures. I hate these forms of introduction. But the book still seems to be good. I can recognize whether a book is "heavy" or "light". Heavy books often have exercises, they start fast, and go deep. Light books just can't get to the fucking point.

Heavy book: Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
Light book: Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805624
Did anything come out of this? A lot of companies these days are into getting feedback but nothing never comes out of it. I feel like they have departments that collect the feedback and talk to customers with the best intentions but that data barely makes it to the people making the real product decisions.
Full-service cinemas have revived moviegoing in the age of Netflix
OK. It won't be compilable, because of dependencies on the UI framework and utility libraries, which I can't yet release, but it still should be very much readable and easy enough to hack into a usable state.
Go leaves a bad taste in my mouth too, partly because it thrusts someone’s stubborn opinions on me but mostly because I don’t think it is all that great of a language. In particular, I don’t know why you would use public memory to store processes, I don’t know why you would use cooperative scheduling in a language designed for concurrency, and I can’t imagine why you’d release or use a language with virtually non-existent dependency management (better nowadays, but still not great). With so many better-thought-out languages available, I just don’t see a reason to use Go.
What do you mean? I'm really tempted to ask "wait, there are people who shower without a watch?" - but I guess it's personal preference. I personally feel weird if I don't have my watch on me in the shower.
>Apple follows tredns here, not set them

CD Drives and USB Ports beg to differ
US to demand five years of your social media, email account info in visa app
Even if they are playing nice now, MS is a profit-driven corporation and will behave as such. If and when they feel like they have sufficient market leverage to use their positioning to favor their own products, they will. They have a fiduciary responsibility to do so.
The secret that the fonts industry doesn't want you to know
I just started a new remote position. I worked remotely in previous job as well and discovered then that working from home is not actually a good thing for me. I eventually worked exclusively from coffee shops but this isn’t exactly the best way to work everyday — expensive, drink LOTS of coffee, and coffee shops generally make it harder to find flow state, not impossible but just harder.

That previous job was contract work for an enterprise — not super inspiring, lots of structural annoyances in the team that created barriers to getting things done, and team a setup that didn’t quite put remote workers on the same level as the inhouse team members. Even with all the annoyances I found when working from home I had a lot of trouble “stopping” — it felt like I was always at work.

Switching to the coffee shops was definitely better, but with my role on new team (startup and fully remote team — it’s aweskme!) I decided to try out a coworking space. Got a reserved desk at a WeWork walking distance from home and really like the experience so far! Short walk to work, sort of a community feeling at the office (well haven’t made any friends Yet but it at least seems possible to), master of my own space, and whenever I want I can choose to work from a coffee shop or wherever seems convenient ...

Best of all worlds so far!
Last time I checked, it was common knowledge that Hitler invaded Poland because we wouldn't agree to an ex-territorial corridor to Danzig. Of course that's simplifying a lot, but still, I don't see how a revolution in Russia factors into this. Auschwitz is also on Lenin? The mass grave of victims of German soldiers near my parents' house too?
Array.from Has a Second Argument
> We tend to think of mental health disorders as something that happens to others

Oh, that's hilarious. I certainly don't.
Lol no need to look all the way at Europe even. In the US not a single one of the big techs hires remotely still, and this I believe is a big barrier to the spread of remote hiring (“if google doesn’t hire remote, there must be some good reason - so we’re not gonna do it either!”)
Neoliberal capitalism offers no solution to mass waste or climate change.
You only have two options: 1) find a niche with your current employer that you can exploit to fulfill your interests; or 2) find a job that will do the same.

The first involves less risk and if your employer is enlightened will most likely welcome it because they will be able to leverage your experience and enthusiasm in ways that an outside hire will not.

I've never had an official "machine learning" or "ai" title but I have done 5 machine learning projects for current and past employers by simply demonstrating skills.
It's amazing watching the Chinese Communist Party systematically target, succeed in, and gain dominance in these industries -- industries that any idiot can see are going to be critical to the global economy within a couple of decades max. Meanwhile trillions of investment dollars available in the US are busy chasing Juiceros.
But that's my point, why even bother freezing the brain, if simply waiting a few centuries more of tech progress will mean you don't even need the brain to be consciously brought back?

It's just replacing the faith in one omnipotent's afterlife with another.
Really I think if anyone should be forced into common carrier behavior it should be the financial system because of their involvement in payment transfers and power of abuse in cutting off avenues of donation and payment.

While Amazon's infastructure is neat and useful curation is still a valid task which is incompatible with a common carrier status and would be appropriative as it would raise serious questions if they could remove listers for anything not illegal. Like say "autism cures" involving bleach enemas or a guide to engaging in pedophilia. Not to mention functional integral aspects like search ranking would be a matter of "fairness" instead of trying to serve the customer or the company. I can see no way that a forced common carrier on Amazon will be anything but a disaster.
Apple still has problems with stopping synthetic clicks
I feed my cattle too. If they understood their situation, they would hate and fear humans even more than they hate and fear dogs. They've been bred for generations not to understand their situation...
Cost and reliability notwithstanding, I don't think most businesses who own .io domain names are selling to the average customer.
Wasn’t that happening regardless of MSFT? GitHub has long been the OSS ‘superhighway’...
I used to do a hard sleeper from Beijing to shanghai or Hangzhou (overnight train), and it was definitely cheaper than flying at the time. But hard sleepers aren’t for the feint of heart, especially if you get a dreaded top berth.

Sleepers are appreciated on planes enough that they charge a lot for them (a 12+ hour long haul in business class is mostly sleep, in economy it’s watch whatever movie you can find).
No, they didn't. Yes, I use VSCode, but that is it. And still, I have zero trust on Microsoft with it. I also still use github, but the first sign of misstep will give me the little push I need to migrate of off it.
Tangential question. Is there a mathematics curriculum out there that focuses on constructive foundations? Or is it possible to assemble one?

I feel this would be much more adequate for then following up with pure CS studies on topics such as [1-6].

Classical math bootcamps, like Math 55, are typically algebra plus analysis and they don't even focus too much on classical foundations.

[1] https://www.elsevier.com/books/lectures-on-the-curry-howard-...

[2] https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/

[3] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/

[4] https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783540654100

[5] http://www.concrete-semantics.org/

[6] http://adam.chlipala.net/frap/
Actually it is physically impossible to revive cryonics patients because essential information has been irretrievably lost. I don't think you understand the physics (or biology) here.
You reminded me of "the scene" back in the old days where movie groups like Centropy and many others were releasing latest films on FTP servers which were typically running on 100Mbps dedicated connections, gigabit lines were quite rare back then and mostly reserved for the most elite groups like FLT (PC Games). Releases were usually "pre'd" on affiliated topsites before getting spread to other lower tier sites via FXP transferring method by individuals called "couriers" in exchange for download credits (usually at 1:3 ratios), and it would eventually reach other p2p outlets such as DC++. Most of those release groups had their own private channels on IRC where members were like family, and they were really just a bunch of geeks. Fun time!
Yeah, I don't know where people get this idea that Microsoft isn't a monopoly anymore. You still can't buy a new computer without Windows on it (unless you trade Microsoft's horizontal monopoly for Apple's vertical one). And the captivity of the audience is evident from the way Windows treats its users these days. Last time I installed Windows it even had the temerity to ask me what kind of ads I wanted in my OS. Not whether I wanted ads - what kind.

I think the cultural shift around Microsoft is connected to a broader cultural shift where software freedom is losing importance. Maybe the old guard that weathered the intolerably closed conditions of the 80s and 90s is dying off, and the new guard, having grown up in an environment where free software is high-quality and plentiful, just doesn't understand what all the fuss is about (not realizing that it was that fuss that got us here today). Or maybe the idealistic countercultural element to hacker culture got swamped by capitalism. All I know is that even as Richard Stallman has never been more right, he's never been less popular.
Up and Running with Gatsby #9: Adding Content to a Gatsby Project [video]
It's from Netflix Canada, not sure if available outside of US / CA.
Not by itself, no. I think we can add stricter government regulations to help, however, especially if we actually enforced them.
I just wanted to say I really appreciate the honesty in this comment. I find it truly irritating when people talk about EEE like it was yesterday, and obviously still totally company policy just in secret or something.

There are also companies I admit I will probably never want to deal with or get excited about, even if it's not for a particularly rational or currently relevant reason, but it sticks with me too.
Shoes are indeed bad for you. They are good for you NOW because all your life you've been walking on shoes.

If you were walking barefoot all your life, you'd have strong feet, as evolution wanted.

Low light condition is actually awful for your eyes. I can use drive without glasses in the morning, but at night I really need them, because our eyes are designed for day light conditions.
Pharma-testing biz Eurofins Scientific says it fell victim to 'new version'
Long's books are definitive in the world of climbing, but the knots he teaches are limited by the needs of climbers. He isn't big on slip knots or knots that require tension (sheepshank) because those aren't safe for climbing. Knots for lashing and knots designed for natural fiber rope are similarly absent. Many a climber thinks they know knots until asked to lash a pair of ladders together.

Ironically the most common knot in all climbing, the one used by virtually every climber every day, isn't in Long's books. He doesn't teach how to lace and tie your climbing shoes. There are right and wrong ways. I have seen a climber injured by incorrectly tied boots. They hurt their foot and couldn't remove the boot quickly because the laces were all wrong.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/caf-combat-boot-lacing.htm
IEEE Reverses Huawei Paper Review Restrictions
But isn't that the exact opposite of a monopoly? They are creating more competition in another space that is difficult to enter.
Can you expand more on the "overall really bad choice for consumers"? Obviously it's missing a bunch of stuff that Steam has, like forums, ratings, cloud saves, offline play, shopping cart, wishlist, etc. But none of those are essential requirements, they're just features and can be built up over time.

They're doing a better revenue split than Steam, and they're subsidizing many purchases to offer more attractive prices. And they're offering some previous PS4 exclusives on PC for the first time, like Journey/Flow/Flower and the Quantic Dream games.

How is this worse for either consumers or publishers than a total Steam hegemony? I'm not trying to be combative, but I don't understand the mindset.
On Openbsd you have sosplice, which can be used much like sendfile.
This is hyper-locale specific, but the median per square foot construction cost in the US is under $150:

* https://www.newhomesource.com/guide/articles/cost-to-build-h...

Though a more realistic number, if one wants something a bit "nicer" may be up to $250:

* https://www.thumbtack.com/p/home-building-cost-by-sqft

In more (high-demand) urban areas, the price of the dirt may dwarf the price of the structure. When people say they "bought a home for $x", what's really happening is that they bought the land for $y and the structure for $z. If you look at homeowner's insurance, the coverage for rebuilding is $z and not $x.
Indexes in PostgreSQL, Part 9: BRIN
This proposal is ridiculous, if honest, or it is instead a dishonest attempt to add to the power of governments.

To deal with a recession, it's plausible that the central bank might want to produce some inflation - if you think that "sticky wages" are an issue (ie, that people don't want their pay cut even if deflation means that its purchasing power would be maintained, making it difficult for employers to address unemployment by cutting wages and then hiring more people).

But a central bank can easily (very easily) cause inflation without needing to impose any particular interest rate. The central bank simply needs to buy assets using money it creates. This is standard practice. The assests are typically government debt, but they can be anything, if necessary. There is no doubt whatsoever that buying sufficient assets with newly-created money will cause inflation.
It's only taken 20 years to pull the wool over Bloomberg's eyes.