skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All modern allocator implementations I am aware of (including Hoard and Mesh) use per-thread caches (of a limited size), and thus avoid the use of atomic operations in the common case while also avoiding blowup (wasted memory caused by using a memory allocator that "leaks" -- see the Hoard paper (ASPLOS 2000, https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/berger-asplos2000.pd...) for a full discussion).
Photoshop CS6 is 64-bit.

Source: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/64-bit-os-benefits-limi...
Manhattan has plenty..... especially Upper West Side, and UES, and Kips Bay area (I have a school nearby, so see them everyday) and there is a high-school right next to Madison Park, and the East Village is dotted with schools.

I know this as I play rec. Volleyball during the winter, and they are always held at local school's gyms.

While I agree the west side of midtown doesn't have many though... (Hells Kitchen/Chelsea/West Village) as they are not necessary family friendly areas.

Same for Brooklyn, While you maybe not see any in Williamsburg, If you go to Park Slope, it is stroller nation..... you'd be out of place if you are young and single...

just saying...
Indeed. Uptime and (maybe less relevant these days) better reception in hard-to-reach places.

Plus there are often (or at least used to be) regional paging companies; it’s nice to deal with a service provider who’s local and small enough to care about your business.

One unlikely downside: I recall a very localized outage years ago that apparently no one at the paging company noticed and there weren’t enough users in the area to complain before it bit us.
http://archive.is/8KuiD
I started working out over lunch 2 years ago. I still hate actually working out but I use Netflix while on the elliptical so I get through it.

This has completely removed the 2:00 lull that used to come after eating a meal at lunch. I still eat after the workout but it doesn’t knock me out when it is being digested.

I absolutely see improvements in cognitive abilities that afternoon versus not working out.
All the big players in the Association can probably afford this gamble, but if they don't already have the government and the banks on their side, then this thing is DoA.

Government only really needs to do a few things to be essential, one of those things is securing and backing the legal tender, and yes this is also one of the ways they exert authority. It's also how they maintain legitimacy, this has been true for thousands of years.

What country is going to give up this power and hand it over to a consortium of multinational corporations (with 0 banks in it) led by a corporation that is controlled by a sole person?

If it can't be nationalized then they won't let it be adopted and I'm sure every country (including the US) has any number of laws that will allow them to prevent the undermining of their currency.

They let Bitcoin do its thing because it lacked all the things this has, which let them classify it as something closer to commodity/security, and not a currency. If this thing isn't that, then I don't see how this is going to be acceptable without the government demanding a massive hand in how it is run.
Yeah, I used to think that things will crash and burn if I disappear for a week when I was younger. Truth is, not only do things not crash and burn, they in fact barely change at all if I go on a 2-3 week vacation. You think the company will land on the moon by the time you return, and then you get back and it's the same shit, barely anything has changed.

Nowadays, though, my friends at MS say that it's one of the best large employers to work for in terms of work life balance. They don't pay the top dollar, but there are many people who would gladly trade that for the work environment in which they can also have a life.
BlackBerry still out here making good hardware, runs Android tho. I love the KeyOne&Two, they are awesome business device.
There have been a few Intel processors with "L4 cache" (meant to be used as iGPU memory, and only if unused work as L4 cache) as listed here [0]. Broadwell was the only generation to have desktop processors with the eDRAM chip sitting by the side of the processor. Now it's only on a few higher end ultrabook processors [1, 2] -- look for those listed with L4 cache.

[0] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/broadw...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)#Mo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaby_Lake#Mobile_processors
Agreed, but if someone wants to tackle such a list, here’s a meta-list of distributed systems resources.

https://gist.github.com/macintux/6227368
Just like choosing your cable company... or wait, that’s chosen for you based on where you live. Hmm.
But that happened because MS was late to the party, as parent poster said. By the time their “good” OS was ready, everyone was already writing apps for iOS and Android and nobody wanted yet another different platform to develop for. They tried hard to entice developers, even paying pretty good money, but it was just too late. Nokia had the same problem a bit earlier (well, among many other problems Nokia had...).
Here I am. Aligning DIV's. And then people do this. Awesome.
I wasn't around back then. But as far as I know there was never much inline C used, many C functions were wrapped sure, but that's necessary to use POSIX/WinAPIs.

Nim has always had a "everything should be implemented in pure Nim" philosophy. So much so that the stdlib is even separated into "pure" modules[1] (implemented in Nim completely) and "impure" modules (those that depend on external C/C++ libs). Nowadays major things are implemented in Nim, for example we don't use libuv/libevent but instead have written our own epoll/kqueue/IOCP implementation.

1 - https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/tree/devel/lib/pure
Al Capone had dozens of people killed. Surely you realize the absurdity in comparing the professional legacy of these two people.
It's already done.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3001685/huawei-co...
I had to use Windows Phone for work whilst at the same time as having both an iPhone and Android phone.
The Good:

The OS was absolutely rock solid

Battery life was amazing Office 365 worked great

The camera hardware was excellent

The Bad:

The handsets did not look sophisticated.

The UI was utter dog shit. Joe Belfiore should have been forcibly marched out the door for pushing that abomination.

The complete lack of variety of third party apps

When they were available they were almost always severely limited compared to the iPhone and Android versions.

The key internal apps like the Camera app were limited.

They didn’t come up with a free development solution that would entice Android devs to target both.

To sum it up they followed a mad man with mad ideas and then doubled down on the bad idea out of pride.

When they finally wised up they didn’t do even 10% of what was needed to recover.
Go V! (no pun intended).
In those cases its dependent on the local jurisdiction. If the state of California or the USA - Im not aware - has no minimum vacation time guarantees then yeah. But if that guarantee exists an employer cannot make up their own rules.

Either way it sounds ridiculous.
Quebec is always banned in most online competitions with a prize (I believe you can participate in Codejam for cannot win any prize), because local law forces these competition to be both in French and English. If it's not bilingual, they're not allowed.
Or the google citation graph version, https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1122180852070095073
> > Every concept can be applied in a harmful way which profits the few and oppresses society.

> Socialism cannot not do that due to the abolition of the pricing mechanism in favour of political power

I hope you're not serious, but in case you are... How can socialism not be used to oppress the many while enriching the few? You even included the mechanism - political power!

You could argue that it doesn't have to, and I'd say that history does not give great odds on oppression not happening... But to say it can't do such a thing? That's insulting.
The emoji virtual machine (step 3 or 4) is cool. I'm trying to understand what it does to speed it up.
Same. So it's a bot that doesn't work at all. Exciting.
Multiple Amazon account/unrelated on 1 pc possible?
Anybody know if i register multiple amazon accounts and make them all seem unrelated? I've tried VPN with different IP Address for each account but apparently that doesn't seem to work. My friend told me that i would need a different pc and router for each account Anybody know hows its done?

Thanks
Ah no. In case it wasn’t clear, I was installing GNU/Linux (Mandriva and later, Ubuntu)was for only a small number of family and friends – who had previously been asking me to “fix” (remove the crap from) their Windows systems or who were already interested in trying an alternative. They weren’t gamers, running particularly exotic hardware or business users. Interoperability between OpenOffice (no LibreOffice back then) and users of MS Office was the only real issue they came across. Otherwise, I had to provide very little support – once their systems were up and running.
I thought a lot about what to do about volatile when designing D. volatile is deeply embedded in the C++ type system, and is a very semantically expensive feature for what seems like little gain.

The solution was to replace volatile with a compiler intrinsic load and an intrinsic store. Those get special treatment in the code generator, and the rest of the type system does not have to carry the burden.

https://dlang.org/phobos/core_bitop.html#.volatileLoad
Doesn't work in Firefox 67 on Windows.
I did. Its not a big page. There's nothing there.

Now I'm not a (total) idiot, obviously I can debug it if i have to (and if other people are telling me "there's stuff there, you just can't see it").

If i open it in chrome with extensions turned off or a default mobile browser, stuff now appears, so yeah, its got to do with script permissions and the like.

But again, why not just include actual text in the "what is google ctf" section that answers "what is google ctf?", and/or in the beginner's section that explains what's going on, and of all the groups of people you'd build your webpage for, are security people the ones that you want a website that breaks if they block your default scripts/permissions?
yeah, the beginner one is definitely higher level that I would've expected a beginner level one to be. Definitely starting with a binary/reversing challenge is already quite a bit more than I'd expected from the very first beginner level.
Splitting water for fuel while removing CO₂ from the air (2018)
Companies have "No Allocated" vacation (By no stretch of the imagination is it unlimited) - for exactly one reason - so they don't have to carry the pay-out liability on their books.

But, an ugly side effect, is because there is no allocation, there is also no forcing function for people to "use-it-or-lose-it" - which also means when you are in crunch-time (which defines every startup I've ever worked for in the first 4-5 years) - it effectively means no vacation, excepting Christmas, which still seems to be untouchable (so far).
The notion that code should be dumbed down --- it's not as prevalent in C as it is in C# and Java, but definitely still there.
I wonder if the neurotransmitter "kick" one gets out of pulling off a successful cheat is equal to or greater than that of legitimately winning.
There are even a few 64 MByte / 512 Mbit N64 cartridges (IIRC: Resident Evil 2, Pokemon Stadium 2, Conker's Bad Fur Day).
Mario 64 is a bigger game than most I've played in recent memory...
And here's one written in (Dyalog) APL: https://github.com/arcfide/ALE
fixed, sorry...we had some problems with the hosting
I used my first Apple computer about 40 years ago. I’ve been conversant with, or a fan of, the company for decades. I don’t happen to recall “iLamp”.
I first used PySide for a QT application some years ago, and distinctly remember how nonexistent the documentation was. That said, C++ documentation was easy to be found, so I just used that. Nearly every function is mapped just the same WRT names and arguments.
What's insecure about curl and mkdir?
> The best route to that is to intentionally leave in memory safety bugs or a configuration that enables privilege escalation. Hackers find those all the time in all kinds of devices. They say, “Hey, they just made a common mistake.” Maybe it was there on purpose. We won’t know.

By that logic everyone from Apple to Xerox could possibly be enabling computer espionage. You’d never be able to prove a bug wasn’t a deliberate back door.
It is much harder to choose whether or not to deal with them than you imply.

For example, Experian has your data and is a significant factor in whether you can get a loan. You never chose to do business with them.
> officials lacked evidence to take action but requested he run with an observer the following year. Meza agreed but ended up skipping L.A. in 2016, entering the Oakland Marathon instead.

I suppose that says it all.
> Target (1) uses your credit card as the user hash, much like a loyalty card. There's no opting out of this one.

Does Target still accept cash?

Another one I've heard of is stores using wifi and bluetooth to track shoppers by their smartphones. This is possible even with bluetooth turned off in some cases.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluet...
This is really helpful, I've been wanting to deep dive on GANs and this has pushed me to do it.

I like the mix of images and explanations.

Thanks!
He threatened OEMs into refusing to even offer better software from his competitors. He won a contest by rigging it, and then seems surprised that he couldn't win another contest on merit, like a mafia don who thought he was a legitimate businessman.
This, I think, is the value proposition to the USG. Facebook is primarily aiming Libra at foreign markets. Americans don't really particularly need a better way to pay for things online.
Touch screens are awful for operating while you focus elsewhere.
I miss touch typing and I sure like adjusting car controls without looking away.
What's that, trust driverless cars you say? Never, and the basilisk be damned.
> Socialized health care works //better// than what is in the USA.

> Socialized news production works //better// than what is in the USA.

> Socialized education works //better// than what is in the USA.

Citations and definitions very fucking needed for all of these. In order:

> Socialized health care works //better// than what is in the USA.

The best health care in the world is in the US, if you're wealthy enough. For some, that's working better. Even going by total population access, the US isn't exactly bad, though it may not be perfect. And we have socialized health care for large fractions of the population - does that not count? (the old, the poor, the military)

> Socialized news production works //better// than what is in the USA.

Are you sure about that? Are you really sure that handing production of the news over to the government can ever really be '//better//'? I'd say that such actions enable mass propaganda, among other things. Even if you get a better experience in the short term, IMO what you're doing is taking on some massive risks or offloading your news media to foreign countries.

What country even has a socialized news system that you'd like to hold up as an example of working '//better//' than that of the US?

> Socialized education works //better// than what is in the USA.

Because the USA certainly doesn't ALREADY have socialized education? Pretty sure that we do, for K-12 at least. Which means you're talking about college, and the USA has a pretty damn good university system. The top schools are affordable for essentially everyone (look at the financial aid packages the Ivies advertise, for example) and generally regarded as some of the best schools in the world. So what are you looking for there? Mid tier and lower schools? That means mid tier and lower STUDENTS, and in a lot of the socialized education systems you'd probably hold up as examples they wouldn't be getting free college either.
Personal attacks will get you banned on Hacker News. You may not owe better to Bill Gates, but you owe better to this community if you want to post here.

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and sticking to their spirit from now on? We'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Surely they would have just gone with the original KHTML or some Gecko-based thing instead. I don't think we wouldn't have Chrome, just that it may look different.
Isn't the reason it's worth more because they figured out a way to grow the pie? The amount of people using taxi services has exploded due to Lyft & Uber (reliable ondemand, good customer service, low prices, etc). Similarly many people in cities are forgoing car ownership due to these on demand taxi services. So no, not obvious it provides much less added value.
Well I hope I helped with those big assed SUVs becoming a badge of shame. I've worked at it since the early 2000s.

That bloated junk they make now is made to appeal to giant egos and it amazes me how many there are out there. I miss the days when you could lift a 5 gallon bucket or some tools over the tailgate or side of the bed of a pickup truck.

My favorite car, of all those I've owned, is the Suzuki Samurai 4x4. The Suzuki Sidekick/Chevy Tracker is next. After that would be `70-`80's era Toyota Pickups. You can't buy anything new like those now.
I bet that [..] I could do the same [..] And I will find something. Guaranteed.

Why are you framing this as though it's adversarial and the parent comment is stating some kind of superiority, and you're here to turn it around and put them in their place?

Isn't teamwork all about doing better than one person working alone?
I don't think Bill Gates loses much sleep at night over the multi-decadal, multi-centigigabuck cash volcano that Windows was and remains for Microsoft.
Or it's a pile of nonsense from a company desperate to deflect blame. How could poor poor Equifax defend itself against foreign governments?

The reality is Equifax are lazy stupid idiots who

* couldn't patch well known holes in infra for months (note that a 2 engineer startup could do better by eg running rails and checking bundler-audit on every deploy);

* disabled their IDP because they didn't keep a cert up-to-date;

* didn't notice their disabled IDP FOR 10 MONTHS because lazy stupid incompetent;

* strongly appear to have no internal access controls, so regular app users in the db could exfiltrate the entire DB without creating any internal alerts

In contrast to the self-serving nonsense in the Bloomberg article, there was nothing sophisticated here. These people couldn't get the most basic things right, all part of the most very basic security posture: patch known holes. Regularly verify such patching. Run an IDP. Verify the IDP is running. Have controls around odd behavior or bulk queries for the DB users running on your front-end boxes.
> You know, in the software world, in particular for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So, you know, the greatest mistake ever is the whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is, [meaning] Android is the standard non-Apple phone form platform. That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win.

Perfectly in character for Gates to see the mistake as failure to enter the market with the copycat product rather than the product that creates an entirely new category.

I suppose the world needs people like this, but by golly there's no reason for them to get any more than acknowledgement for being one of many players.

If Microsoft had a history of doing things right consistently in the copycat position, that might be different. But as a generally mediocre player wielding a monopoly position to follow the technological lead of others Microsoft is really quite uninspiring.
Dig at Apple from the third stage of the beginners' quest;

"Your first thought is "Why does the display stand need to announce its price? And exactly how much does 999 dollars convert to in Xenonivian Bucklets?"
Another article about how hard it is doesn't mention the hardest part of all.

Getting to a place where you will ever get a chance to work on this stuff.

I tried joining a team working on it. Figured I wouldn't get to do a lot, but it was a foot in the door sort of situation.

By the time I quit I had managed 7 months without doing a thing, and 3 more where I wasn't even trying anymore.

Meanwhile the guys who built the thing all got pulled to work on the next big thing. Maybe they were just amazing engineers.

Maybe getting hired out of college and putting right onto a massive distributed systems project is the only fucking way to ever get your foot in the door.

I'm not gonna let this article ruin my day. It's pointless. I can think about how colossally fucked my career is on monday.
Unfortunately this website doesn't talk much about the shortcomings of DEC64. Just to start, numbers in DEC64 have multiple representations, meaning even a simple equality check can take tens of cycles. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool way to store numbers, and it does have purpose, but it is not suited for general use like IEEE754 is.
It was just timing, really. MS invested a lot in PDAs, at a time when the tech just wasn’t good enough. The screens were bad, you had to use styluses, memory was low, batteries would deplete in a few hours, cameras and GPS were too big to even consider shipping... it was a niche market for a certain type of business user, and that was it. Those PDAs did much better than the Apple Newton, but didn’t break into the mainstream.

Then technology improved, Apple made some smart acquisitions, and changed the UI game enough to become popular. It made Windows CE (and its competitors like Symbian) look terribly dated. MS fumbled their response not once, not twice, but three times: first they tried doubling down on what they had, then they rewrote from scratch, then they rewrote from scratch again. By the time they found a good balance, it was all over.

Meanwhile, Google was actually going through the early-MS playbook pretty religiously: get something that already exists, improve and rebadge it, then give it away as free to the consumer (which MS did with oem deals and piracy tolerance), effectively commoditizing it. Spread it far and wide until it becomes the platform, then leverage your ecosystem hegemony to achieve your true cashflow aims with higher-level tooling and apps. Massive availability made it the easy choice for oems, developers, and hobbyists/evangelists alike, turning the mobile OS in a commodity while competitors were still very determined to make a buck on it. This is what MS had done to hardware manufacturers in the ‘90s, and it’s extraordinary how they failed to see the parallels until it was too late. Or maybe not - after all, MS by then was the new IBM.