skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe.

This is really a three part answer, since there were three quite-different effects I glossed over.

The first one is interesting, but it is also well-covered elsewhere, e.g., [1], [2] and [3]. That said, I have a ton of stuff to say on branch prediction, so I probably will at some point. Those posts are slow going, however. It may never emerge.

For the second and third points, I am partly blocked by the fact the effect disappeared or is only intermittently reproducible.

I am more interested in the third uninteresting effect than the second. The second thing could be a lot of things, since it shows up when running a python script with results piped to disk. What I've seen in the past is that the "driver" program (driver.py) undergoes some kind of phase change, e.g., suddenly causing a bunch of context switches or allocating/freeing a munch of memory which affects the program under test (despite CPU pinning, since there are shared resources). They are phantoms (but still interesting!).

The third one is very interesting to me, because it involves a CPU-bound loop with only L1 hits. It goes to the core of the Skylake uarch and the kind of fine-grained uarch details I'm interested in. However, it disappeared as I was tracking it down. I was getting a mix of 2.07 cycles and 1.57 cycles (slow and fast) running the benchmark repeatedly, trying differnet perf counters and doing the needful to track it down and then suddenly I only got 2.07. A new plot showed "blue" only at ~2.07. So I don't know. I have seen similar things though, and I've tracked down an similar "mode shift" and will post on it soon. Stay tuned.

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[1] https://lemire.me/blog/2019/11/12/unrolling-your-loops-can-i...

[2] https://lemire.me/blog/2019/10/16/benchmarking-is-hard-proce...

[3] https://lemire.me/blog/2019/10/15/mispredicted-branches-can-...
No, the headline pretty clearly states "Clang Format". I've used clang-format on MSVC codebases, and imagine there are some who use it with GCC (say, for instance, the author). It's still the best C++ formatter, as far as I know, and is compiler-independent.
As another gay male, there is a point where you age out of the club scene, and would prefer a private night at home, even if its at home alone.
Sure, but people with $1+million net worth are unlikely to own $5M+ homes, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.
The problem is identified when Jeff realizes that _no_ _one_ _will_ _know_.

The problem is one of character.
Then they'd have the problem of not being able to fly very easily in still weather, and being blown to the other side of the globe during the dust devil / wind storm events.
I couldn't find anything on Google's sites that clarify this point either way. But this is in Wikipedia's entry for Stadia (for whatever that's worth):

> Stadia is not similar to Netflix, in that it requires users to purchase games to stream via Stadia rather than pay for access to a library of games. While the base service will be free, a Pro tier monthly subscription allows users to stream at higher rates for larger resolutions, and the offer to add free games to their library.
Exactly, I can't imagine making it work any other way.
In the U.S., the incarceration rate is about 0.7%. So as a point of fact it seems likely that dentists do not outnumber criminals. :) They do probably outnumber white collar/big money criminals though.
Some XBox and PS4 games support keyboard and mouse. I don't think this is much of a differentiator for/against Stadia.
That's good to know, might have to try it again. Especially now that shared buffers and atomics are available in web workers.
tangent to your points:
you are not "nobody"!
> You're copiously misinterpreting my comment.

Hm. I don’t think I misread or misinterpreted as much as your sparing comment leaves many lines to read between.

In any case, I my inference does not match your intended meaning and I appreciate your clarification.

Free speech should be an inherent right. I also LOVE the idea that such employees might use this as an opportunity to advocate for free speech in their hime countries.

I don’t however see such advocacy as a requirement to criticize Zuckerberg.
You're trying to put me into a box where I don't belong. You are mind reading FedEx and mind reading me. You have no idea if they actually lied or simply changed their mind, or simply believe that what they did really is what leads to the best overall outcome for the public.

I'm not calling this fake news. I'm not suggesting it has any factual inaccuracies. I've offered what I feel is a reasonable delineation between straight news journalism and political propaganda. You just keep asserting you and others want to know this information without actually addressing what I'm saying.

If you disagree with me on where the line is between straight news journalism and political activism, that's fine. Can you please provide a general rule or set of rules that we can apply to all articles so that we can tell the difference between journalism and political activism?
> I read a book, ... or enjoy a movie.

Right there. For lots and lots of people, gaming is in the same class of activity as reading a book or watching a movie.

It genuinely feels really weird for me to write that, it feels so obvious.
> Blood runs thicker than water.

Just FYI, that aphorism does not apply in this case. That is, unless David is a blood relative of his wife, in which case I guess he's got other problems...
it still is, but the people who mean "regression" when they say "AI" will generally not admit this
I think you have some wires crossed.

YOU, a random developer working at some other company, or on your open source projects, are not sending data to facebook.

Facebook employees, using facebook's tools, running on facebook's dev-servers, to build facebook, ARE sending dev-tool telemetry to facebook's dev-tool-development team.

"What does it matter?" is referring to the latter.
I made an account and am on a waiting list. It wants me to invite people to bump myself up in the queue. Or pay.

The site looks very 2000s PHP CMS. I'm not sure what it is. I searched for a topic I'm interested in, something came up, and I clicked...and it bumped me back to the main page where it shows my place in the list.

Why would I invite people or pay money for something if I have no idea what I'm getting?
I second your recommendation of Migadu.

Earlier this year, I had to move a number of email accounts (my own, family, friends, clients).

Based on a fairly extensive comparison of email hosts - with brief stints trying self-hosting as well as Zoho - I migrated to Migadu and have been very happy with their service.

Their pricing is clear, structured well to suit my needs, and the service has been reliable.
It's figurative only. There are plenty of practical ways to disown your children.
Really? I'll give it a try. When vscode was first released this was the one feature missing.
To this day, the Configure script for Perl still outputs "Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice."

https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/Configure#L4614
> It is positioning itself as a "news focused" place, and says members will be able to edit "misleading" headlines.

Upcoming "Battle of Edits"?

And why edit only "headlines", and "misleading" compared to what?
I'm reminded of the movie GATTACA.

But I'm also wondering, shouldn't the parents be testing themselves to see if they have the requisite genes to create a prodigy?
I'm talking about clang-format, a formatting tool for C and C++ code, which has nothing to do with compiling your code with clang. You can use it with any compiler.

That said, the title is still a lie in that clang-format is not really at a fault here at all: clang-format triggered the issue on my codebase, by sorting header files, and this in turn triggered a libc performance issue.

So as I initially say it, a commit which purely clang-format 'd my codebase caused a massive regression - but the full story is doesn't implicate clang-format at all, really.
>Economists: increasing shareholder value is investment.

Why are you using sneaky word tricks? I said nothing about increasing shareholder value. I clearly said "shareholders' bottom line". Or put another way, return on investment.

Please don't do that.

> there's no news here

Hardworking Americans losing billions in tax revenue due to the misleading lobbying efforts of major corporations is news. Period. I can't fathom how it couldn't be news. In any other western-style democracy on the planet it would be news.

Now, you might have an issue with how it's reported. Or believe it was only reported to serve an agenda but you can't dispute the facts of what occurred. Except to say, elsewhere on this page that "it doesn't matter" if they lied.

So, you have no issue with what happened. Others find it morally repugnant and a violation of their trust. Therefore, news.
Mine seems to be 9880 or thereabouts - up that high it seems to be difficult to differentiate slightly higher or lower tones.

Been living with that high a tone for decades now and it's always been extremely noticeable.

I always coped with it by convincing myself "that's just my brain's CPU frequency" - sounds a bit nutty but that's a coping mechanism which worked for me.

Tried seeing my doctor about it a couple of years ago (UK, NHS GP) but at the time he dismissed it saying "nothing can be done" :/

This tone therapy - I'll try this and see how it goes.
Wouldn't that require a decent graphics card, largely negating the point?
It does redirect to gmap on Chrome 78 / Windows 10 (1903) for me.

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That's the stupidest thing. He would have been busted for sure, but there is no reason he couldn't have reduced the "Upfront" money he took by $500,000 to begin with.

If everything had matched up perfectly at the end, there is little reason for anyone to ever look into anything.

He also maybe have parked the stolen money in an offshore account for a few years, and not gone crazy shopping before he even left that job.

Like seriously, do none of his coworkers who know how much he makes wonder about the size of his mansions?
Thankfully dentists never participate in tax fraud, wage theft or any of common things associated with running your own business.
You've hit upon the fundamental difficulty in game ai design. It's trivial to make an AI execute strategies perfectly (in most games). The trick (and the significant difficulty) lies in making it not perfect, but in a way that is humanlike, or at least makes sense.

If a solution to make AIs function at human levels, for example a built-in delay between seeing a player and say, shooting at them, becomes noticable, it cheapens the experience for the player significantly.
news sources for niche subjects don't really exist, and it helps separate the signal from the noise.
The point of the question, I imagine (and am giving the interviewer the benefit of the doubt), was to see how the candidate negotiated technical compromises. Merely disagreeing without exploring the reasoning behind it and perhaps finding a different solution together might be a red flag for that environment.
I can't wait to read the bestseller that eventually gets written about WeWork
I think you're ignoring a key point of Heliogen's design function. Heliogen is designed to be used directly as the furnace in industrial applications for making steel, cement, etc.

The Odeillo solar furnace can reach higher temperatures but can't transmit them--it can only heat steam, which is a poor transmitter of heat energy to industrial materials.

Ideally, both of these designs would be incorporated together--one to drive the machinery (the Odeillo design) and the other to do the actual physical work of heating the materials (the Heliogen design).
>Nvidia have experience working with game developers - less so with players

True to an extent, but people with gaming as a hobby have been using Nvidia or Radeon products for a long time, and there's a certain level of trust regarding Nvidia and gaming.

GeForce as a gaming card brand has now existed for longer than a third of all gamers have been alive for now (and that's for those who don't remember Riva TNT).

Back when computers didn't come with graphics accelerators, you surely knew who made your graphics chip if you wanted to play games.

So a company like Nvidia would exist from interacting directly with the gamers (who would build their PCs and buy graphics cards).
It's basically the gorilla in the space, and it's good.

There is no gcc equivalent. In any case there no 1:1 relationship between formatters anyways: you might compiler you codebase with N compilers, but you'll only have one formatter unless you are insane. So my codebases are not "gcc" or "clang" codebases, but basically "linux" codebases - but the formatter is always clang-format.
It would be nice if the team could publish a high-level architecture of the system!

I'd like to understand how Nebula works -- any other suggestions besides just diving into the code?
I tried it on the first day it was released and haven't looked back. It's made me significantly more productive than with the old ssh plug-ins.
You'd think you would need a lot more than "thousands" for it to be called an actual trend worthy of an article.
nvidia grid beta?
Got it. Do you have an example of what is a good niche newsletter? Are we talking about ~30k subscribers, or more like 300 subscribers?
I'm aware of moderation. What else?
By the same objective measure by which a statue of Venus is more beautiful than a cube made of concrete (despite of the latter possessing more symmetry). The measure could be: the number of people saying so; the shape of the distribution of color in a brain scan of an observer, etc.
Yeah, the IP address of your MX looks clean indeed, and your config looks good too... I wonder, have you ever tried sending from @scissor.com instead of @williampietri.com?
WeRead (sorry, had to....)
> I went once to a session like this out of curiosity. I had cramps. A friend who’s just finished Uni being a GP told what is going on: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_alkalosis Is the medical term.

That's actually funny, because "what is actually going on here" was the very first question I had, but it seemed to me like this thought didn't even cross the mind of the other 10 in attendance - I even asked the instructor and he had no idea, or curiosity. It's interesting how differently we all think about the world.

> Note that this exact thing also happens during the panic attacks; so my running theory is that the “gurus” create a positive feedback loop in the weaker people that are in need of support.

I saw absolutely no sign of this being true in my session. Everyone enjoyed themselves immensely and there was a strong sense of bonding and peace....anxiety was the exact opposite of what I saw going down. Although, I can agree that some people using these sorts of things, and only these sorts of things, as temporary crutches rather than getting at the underlying issue is an actual problem.

> Maybe there is some self-impact by the placebo effect; but most usually these “sessions” are just a brilliantly evil way to earn money by getting people high on thin air!

Did you get any results out of your session? Characterizing this as a scam or a placebo effect makes me think it didn't work for you?

> Again, the feedback from a person who actually finished a uni to become a doctor: do not do this. If you are looking for spirituality, try meditation instead.

I don't see how being a GP would equip someone in any way for having superior insight on such topics, unless they are speaking only to the qualitative medical risk aspect? And even so, any such judgement should also take into consideration the relative efficacy of the different practices.
MoviePass cofounder doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer (2018)
To think of Twitter as one-size-fits-all is a mistake. People aren’t staying connected with just friends and family like Facebook.

It’s scale allows niches to spontaneously coalesce and grow stronger over time.
This can happen when a retargeting campaign doesn't have a 'burn pixel' or conversion event trigger. It's a common oversight, which can cause a re-targeting program to kick-off unnecessarily (or cause ads that have followed you around to become obvious)
I mean, how does a browser distinguish the two. How does it know that it's running on a device owned by the network operator, as opposed to the (probably more common) case that the device owner distrusts the network operator.
Im guessing things like 5 year olds watching the same video 300 times randomly on their parent's account has irreversibly tainted the Googletron into thinking people like to watch the same video over and over again.

Hundreds of times I have told youtube im not interested in a recommended video that i have already watched, seems to be completely ignored.
> I tried downloading a six megabyte file once which used up about 4 hours of my monthly quota, only for the file transfer to be aborted right near the end. I nearly cried.

The ability to resume an interrupted transfer was a huge benefit in the ZMODEM protocol, as compared to its predecessors XMODEM and YMODEM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMODEM

There were lots of innovations in this area, many of them having to do with how unreliable modem connections could be (both in terms of possibly un-hardware-corrected line noise, and in terms of the risk of having your connection hang up in the middle).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_transfer_pr...

I sure felt safer when I was downloading a big file with ZMODEM rather than XMODEM. :-)
I mean, this is true of most products. I don't get a suit of chainmail with the purchase of a kitchen knife, after all. Responsibility for not cutting myself-- whether that involves protective equipment or not-- is on me.

Besides, I'm not keen on shuffling more costs over to venues or artists. It's a tough business already, and tacking even $100 worth of earplugs onto a concert might wipe out what a small band will get paid to play.

Better to have the music and have to get the earplugs, than have less music to wear them to imo.
cctype is such garbage. not real functions, takes/returns int, not contexpr, and now this trash. bleh
US hospitals are a cesspool of crony capitalism.
uh, what? It has been very well established that managers at restaurants cannot offset your income or otherwise steal tips. It's possible your confusing tip sharing, which is legal, but, and this is important, does not allow the tips to be "shared" with the employer.
The vast bulk of taxes in the OECD are payroll and income taxes, which do not compound yearly. Taxes on property account for just 2% of tax revenue in the OECD: https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-highl....

As to Jeff Bezos--what is the point of taxes? Raising money to pay for public services, or trying to make Jeff Bezos have less money? I'm in the former camp. I don't care how much money Jeff Bezos has, I care about raising revenue to pay for public services.

Estimates are that an 8% wealth tax would raise between $60 billion and $430 billion annually: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/issues-2020-taxing-the-r.... Total U.S. government spending (at all levels) is somewhere between 12 and 86 times as much as what an 8% wealth tax would raise. (Of course, an 8% wealth tax would be completely insane and we would never do it. Sweden and France topped out at 1.5% before they realized it was a stupid idea and ditched it.)

I don't see the point of doing battle with billionaires (and potentially driving them all to Canada, or Sweden, or France) to maybe optimistically collect 8% more tax revenue, and realistically more like 1-3%. We could raise $500 billion+ (an extra 10% of revenue) by adopting a Canadian style VAT. Which has the major advantage that it's not insane and everybody else in the OECD has one.
Okay, so this tinnitus thing is an informal experiment that I'm organizing for people who are interested. Which is a thing that is perhaps worthy of discussion.

But I feel you're mixing too much new age stuff with hard science. Let's get some facts here and see where we agree and perhaps diverge.

Fact 1: the WHM gets you high on adrenaline [1]. It's actually higher than peak adrenaline during bungee jumping. In [1] it is also stated how the WHM is different than hyperventilation (neurobiologically at least).

Fact 2: The alkalosis thing is correct [2]. The doctors that I talked to (Radboud Nijmegen, The Netherlands) said that it was seemingly fine since every other indicator was fine. According to my conversation with them alkalosis happens when a person is dead, for example, but if it's the only thing that's negative, then it's probably fine. These doctors were also the authors of [1] as I was one of the research subjects.

I can see the medical community disagreeing about something like this (and again, I'm not a doctor, so if one wants to be on the safe side, assume it's bad, safety first).

> If you are looking for spirituality, try meditation instead.

I agree. The WHM is not something to be done on a whim.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7379 -- quote: Epinephrine levels in trained individuals were even higher than those reported in a recent study in which acute stress elicited by a bungee jump was found to suppress cytokine production by leukocytes ex vivo stimulated with LPS (13).

[2] same paper -- quote: and an increase in pH (reaching up to 7.75 in individual subjects; Fig. 2 and Movie S2), indicating acute respiratory alkalosis, which normalized quickly after cessation of the breathing techniques.
I've also heard that a significant amount of the detected fraudsters are simply let go. Essentially, a company would rather ask the current CFO to leave about learning the information rather than admit it had a CFO who was able to steal millions.
Wow, I had somehow forgotten about those chatty diagnostics about the Perl build system's reasoning about your local OS (maybe due to not having had to compile Perl recently?). They're awesome.
I don't think of ESPN and high quality in depth reporting in the same thought - perhaps I should be.
Right, naturally none of the rocket launches in the demo data set are recurring (perhaps one day...). In another calendar with recurring events, that ID will be a consistent string across all events that are part of the same series. It's pulled from the `recurringEventId` field in the Google Calendar API: https://developers.google.com/calendar/v3/reference/events#r...

At the moment, the tool just syncs events from one month in the past through one month in the future, so it will pick up a finite subset of a potentially infinite series of recurring events. In future iterations, we imagine users defining their own timeframe to sync.
Well, people like St Augustine, Erasmus, Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Gauss and so on also kinda matter, and even if there is no disputing that Ancient Greece was intellectually far more important than Ancient Rome, the fact
that Ancient Greek has probably less of 100 years worth of really important stuff (ignoring Homer) whilst Latin was used by the world's foremost minds for centuries (as you note) also must count for something.

Also I don't understand your point about Western Civilization barely surviving Roman conquest – surely much worse things could have befallen the Greek heritage?
Except when your broken arm needs to be reduced or you have an open fracture and you require moderate sedation to have a physician perform those procedures. Not so standardized and not to protocolized.
Got ya. That makes a lot of sense. I was a subscriber to a few newsletter that were advertised as niche, on topic, but found to be getting an aggregate of news/ideas that could be easily found anywhere else. I'd get 3 pages of 'insights' that could be summarized in a sentence. Maybe it was just a choice of newsletters on my part!