skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EPIC also had numerous problems. The most severe I think was that it exposed the innermost workings of the chip.

That sounds like an awesome idea, but it's actually a major issue because once you expose something you freeze it in time forever.

Pretty much all modern processors larger than in-order embedded cores are basically virtual machines implemented in hardware. The actual execution units are behind a sophisticated instruction decoder that schedules operations to achieve maximum instruction level parallelism and balance many other concerns including heat and power use in modern designs.

The presence of this translation layer frees the innermost core of the chip to evolve with almost total freedom. Even if fundamental innovations were discovered like practical trinary logic or quantum acceleration of some kind, this could safely be kept behind the instruction decoder.

EPIC on the other hand by exposing the core freezes it. I predict that if EPIC would have taken over eventually you'd have... drum roll... an instruction decoder for each EPIC "lane" or whatever that did exactly what today's instruction decoders do. It probably would have ended up evolving into a synchronous multithreaded vector processor with cores that look not unlike today's cores complete with pipelines and instruction schedulers and all the rest of that stuff.

I can imagine one scenario where EPIC and other designs that show their guts could work, but it would require the cooperation of operating system vendors. (Stop laughing!)

OSes could implement the instruction decoder layer in software, transpiling binaries from a standard bitcode like WASM, JVM bytecode, LLVM intermediate code, and/or even pre-existing instruction sets like X86 and ARM to the underlying instruction set of the processor core. Each new processor core would require what amounts to a driver that would look not unlike an LLVM code generator.

Have fun getting OS vendors to do that. Another major problem would be that CPU vendors would be incentivized to distribute these things as opaque blobs, making it very hard for open source OSes to support new chip versions. It would be a bit like the ARM / mobile phone binary blob hell, which is one of the factors making it hard to ship open source phone OSes or make open phones.

Keeping the instruction decoder on the silicon basically just avoids this whole shitshow. It lets the CPU vendors keep their innovations closed as they wish without imposing that closed-ness on the OS or apps.

The final issue with kernel compilation is that the performance probably wouldn't be much better than what we get now. We'd trade the overhead of an instruction decoder in silicon for a lot of JIT or AOT compilation and caching in the OS kernel. The performance and power use hit might be just as large or larger.
"Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport". Just the name makes you cringe. Digital, Media, and Sport is what a library is about avoiding. Its about deep thinking and healing through reading, not the mindless pleasure of the screen. How did these technocrats get in charge of such a precious institution?
In Microsoft office, I often found it hard to find the button I was looking for because the buttons weren't group with similar buttons in the toolbar, and were distributed randomly. I prefer the tabbed+grouped layout of the ribbon because it fixes that organization problem. All the basics are in "Home", if I need to adjust the layout I go to layout, etc. Then within those tabs, common actions/properties are grouped together. I never want to go back to the old toolbar layout in Office 2003.
Semi-related, I think the OP doesn’t give him/herself enough credit. Frankly, given then relative abundance of talent in China (1.4 billion population with general preference towards STEM subjects is no joke) and relatively cheap cost (you can hire a junior swe for probably $30-40k/year), there must be a reason the Chinese company decided to partner with you, an European living in a different time zone and speaking a different language. Take your vacation. Charge more. You probably have more leverage than you think.
It is nice to be able to throw up a nice interactive data viz app in a day on Reddit that can handle millions of POST requests with minimal effort.
I definitely played this variant on MSN messenger. IIRC that service only ever managed to get 4 different games.

Such a shame, it was a good "hey someone's online, let's play a game" paradigm, words(etc) with friends have a problem of waiting around for a long time and things fizzle out.

I guess we'll never really get back a "hey I'm online atm" immediacy situation
Mindfulness video game changes areas of the brain associated with attention
I search for neither in job postings. Whatever the market wants to call it is fine, but that doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day we're just sysadmins with bigger hats and different titles. Even in San Diego, I see job postings for Systems Administrators and they are in fact just that, a sysadmin (sorry, "DevOps Engineer") and are not just for Windows or helpdesk work. The world outside of San Francisco is pretty normal, generally. Even my previous role at Sony was for a Linux Systems Administrator, but I still automated and did way more involved work than someone just doing printers and helpdesk.
I like this subset of the Hardest Problem: trusting other human beings to get enough things right.
Am I to assume that you haven't left your house since "the old days"? Why in the world would that be impossible.

Even more obviously: how exactly do you think people find each other when they arrive at a location? Are you assuming they don't use their eyes to look around?
How is such a thin article upvoted? That was basically a verbose tweet.
An ex once worked for a "charity" like this. The person running the "nonprofit" drove a very nice car, but as far as we could tell the income (mostly derived from fooling retirees into increasing their recurring donations) went largely to perpetuating the owner's paycheck with a small amount diverted to printing pamphlets.
Watch “waste material flower – carry bag making at home ” on YouTube
Like with any subscription, if you don't use it much, you'll eventually realize it's not worth the cost and cancel it.

If people subscribe to 3 TV streaming services and realize they're mostly watching only 2 of them, they'll cancel the 3rd.

So for Netflix, it's extremely important that you watch a lot, because that's precisely what prevents you from cancelling.
Always check the percentage of money donated/used for the purpose of a charity vs how much is spent on overhead/fundraising (using public sources not the charity). Ideally 90% should go to the purpose and no more than 10% to the other. It's sad how many are inverted.
A model of the net increase in network size pre- and post-internet would be interesting but I don't know of any.
Brain-like functions emerging in a metallic nanowire network
Hey bkor, thanks for the interesting information on CCTV laws in the Netherlands. I am curious from a photographic perspective. What if I visit NL and I take some photos of buildings and happen to capture pictures of the public? (Its on my list of places to see someday) Can you not post those photos publicly online without consent?

Generally much of the US protections for photography of the public reach pretty far, nice legal outline here http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf

I found this fun guide I think others would enjoy while I was looking up this topic:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_...

Sadly I don't find much on NL would be cool to build a chart to contrast and compare laws in each nation as they pertain to video/photo/audio recording in public.
Heh - as you age, your body most certainly doesn't respond to exercise like it used to. On top of that, it's more responsive to food :(

Lifting once a week does little for your muscles if you're in your twenties. It does pretty much nothing once you've reached your forties. (It's still better than doing nothing, but it won't show much in terms of visible change)

And no, exercising once a week won't make your waist shrink. Losing one pound requires a caloric deficit of ~3,500 calories. If you're the average desk-bound adult male, that means eating no more than 1,500-1,700 calories a day to lose a pound/week. (Your deadlifting burns around 500 calories/hour, so if you do an hour a week, that barely influences what you can eat)

Intermittent fasting is a way to get there, but... it's a fad. It can easily lead to eating disorders. I'd look at what you eat, and how healthy it is, first.
I agree with this broadly with a caveat I'm curious about: What do we do when these factors also have factors? Does it increase the contribution of a factor if it applies to both the measured factor's dependencies and also the dependencies' dependencies?

Let's say pay gap is 5% "anti-black racism" when it comes to a black man being paid in software development. Pay gap is also 40% job performance, 20% visibility, 15% negotiations, 10% unknown, 5% underpaying due to being black.

What happens if visibility is 10% antiblackness, due to a manager have just a small amount of bias when delegating visible work? Does this increase the 5% antiblackness by the 10% of 40% (to like 5.4%?)

EDIT: I'm not trying to be socially just in this analysis, so we can also replace being black with being openly conservative for example, or being from a different college, or not liking the same sport or same beer as one's peers. Pretty much anything can fit into this, I'm just trying to analyze this viewpoint.
I ate everything that I saw in Vietnam. Street food, restaurant food, food down dark allies. For months. Only had ONE single issue. For an hour. That's it.

There may be something more going on here?
In my view black and white are just shades of grey so it should never have better results. I'd say that the only benefits of black and white thinking are that it takes less effort and that it is easier to find like minded individuals when your thinking is simpler.
The recently-departed Chuck Peddle [1], designer of the MOS 6502, caused me to fall down a wiki hole for a bit and I learned that IC failure rates, right off production back in the 1970's, was something surprisingly dismal like... 70% were good? Can't find the original article but it illustrated that a LOT of silicon was melted back down and reused until MOS Tech came along, refined some of the processes to increase reliability and the industry followed behind.

Edit: found it... [2] tl;dr: MOS's advancements resulted in IC production success rates of 70% or more, and were markedly worse before (lows of a 30% success rate would still be considered profitable or successful).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21847718

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology#Mask_fixing
Age Beta 1
>The team managed to send information from one chip to another instantly without them being physically or electronically connected

Doesn't current quantum teleportation require optical connectivity because the state transfers along photons?

The abstract says

>Here, we report the demonstration of chip-to-chip quantum teleportation and genuine multipartite entanglement, the core functionalities in quantum technologies, on silicon-photonic circuitry

So while there may not necessarily be a phsyical connection this does require line-of-sight by my read, and "silicon-photonic circuitry" sounds like this is all on one physical board.

I guess I don't understand how this is "two different chips" as the article claims. Did they use two photomasks? Baby steps, I suppose.
Wait, nobody ever named a team "IT Ops".
The correct answer to this is an appreciative "oh yes, yes they do."
Emojis are at least colourful and shaded. Maybe if the set of them increases as the rate they are currently we can have them as icons in our UIs.

And as the sibling post pointed out it’s all Unicode.
I think the bigger result is a sort of brain drain.

Early on there were stories of folks purged or threatened and doctors and other professionals simply decided it was time to leave before things got ugly.... I don't know if they're coming back.
I just want to "second" this message. It's an attitude I've adopted and has been highly beneficial. It might seem like an uphill battle at first, with plenty of challenges, but ultimately has none of the challenges once the habit is steady. Rather, there are no challenges regarding honesty, because there is only one course of action available.

Some people may respond to it poorly, but I've learned to see this as a test of character. People worth interacting with and investing in will appreciate that honesty. People that don't appreciate it will likely be a source of conflict sooner or later anyway.

Perhaps the only valid "challenge" is learning how to be honest in a productive and beneficial way, but this challenge is distinct from challenges that _result_ from being honest.
So every minute spent watching Netflix is one minute not spent on Disney et al? Makes perfect sense to me in a space with increasing competition.
As companies like Disney pull they content from Netflix and put it in their own services, Netflix will need other avenues to hook people in order to keep their subscriber counts up.
I get the feeling this article is extremely inaccurate and that the author doesn't understand quantum mechanics at all. I'm no expert either, but I've heard over and over from experts that FTL information transfer is still impossible even with "teleportation".
It always confuses me how authoritarians and their ilk always end up admitting they do the thing they are complaining about. It’s like they are complaining to me for their lack of self control. In any case, Netflix does turn off if it thinks you are asleep. Or, you can configure your tv or Wi-Fi to turn off at a certain time, which is why my kids don’t watch tv at 3am.
> Our current understanding of physics says that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, and yet, with quantum teleportation, information appears to break that speed limit.

The word “information” could be interpreted to mean communication faster than the speed of light, which is important to note is not made possible by entanglement.

Entanglement can’t be used for faster-than-light communication because although observing the spin of particle A affects the spin observed for particle B, the spin you observe is effectively random, so there’s no way to know that the results match up unless you compare them with another means of communication, one that is at most the speed of light.

This article explains it way better: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2016/05/04/the-real-r...
Great content alone won't maximize stickiness - better UX than competitors is also a major selling point. For example, on Netflix you currently don't get ads, which when compared to broadcast TV or even some streaming services, you have to suffer through (seeing ads on YouTube even while paying for a subscription is an example of user hostility).

Competitors don't sit still either - they're busy trying to put together a package of good content and improved UX as well in order to better compete with Netflix. Incumbents generally are harder to unseat though, whether it be in politics or in business, the bar that needs to be passed is "Why should I move from/pay for X?" - in this case, Netflix wants to be the X.
A “Cybertruck” goes on sale for $10,800–in Russia
Originally, yes, there was one¹. But three were used quite soon after.²

¹ https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/3...

² https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY
There are many ways to get around this, like side channels.
A listicle of networking guides. I guess this may be found useful by some, but it appears to me as buzz feed-tier tech writing with no content produced; certainly not what I'd expect from a professional outfit like red hat.
Force touching an item to see if there is a contextual menu isn't a destructive action.

That doesn't change the fact that neither interface gives you a way to know in advance which items have associated contextual menus.
Is a water jet equal to or better than flossing?
I still use Netflix on my old Panasonic plasma, rather than my Nvidia Shield as the hardware obviously doesn't support that autoplaying video nonsense. I absolutely hate, despise and loathe that "feature" with a passion. It's brought me close to cancelling many times just out my sheer hatred for that alone.
Paul Graham just posted a directly relevant blog today on the challenges of being a "moderate" in polarized times.

http://paulgraham.com/mod.html
> In spirit of this article, I wonder why grey thinking is so uncommon.

It isn't, it is just that grey thinkers are all unique so don't easily unite behind a banner. Even worse, a grey thinker can often not recognize another grey thinker since their shades are so different that they look black/white to each other.
This is likely just a function of fluctuating glucose levels. Fasting + becoming fat-adapted can help with this.

That said, I have gone through fasts and said f-it at hour-mark 34 because I was on a deadline.

It's not a religion, so do what works for you - but I would at least try it.
Is there any good Linux based networking book/resources which teaches you from first principles ?
Technically, yes. But because the word had been misused for so long, it has taken on the meaning of a developer/sysadmin combination role.

The word “irregardless” also got misused long enough that it became acceptable.

irregardless
irregardless /ˌɪrɪˈɡɑːdləs /
▸ adverb non-standard regardless:
the photographer always says, irregardless of how his subjects are feeling, ‘Smile!’
irregardless, the song is a fine piece of work.
– ORIGIN mid 19th century : probably a blend of irrespective and regardless.
Irregardless means the same as regardless, but the negative prefix ir- merely duplicates the suffix -less, and is unnecessary. The word dates back to the 19th century, but is regarded as incorrect in standard English.
Startup Miracles
The rise, fall and resurrection of Flickr
what do you dislike about inverted colors?

also white text on blue- ouch.
How does Netflix make more money the more users watch, if users pay a flat monthly rate, and they don't show ads? They have to pay more bandwidth costs, the more people watch. Seems they should optimize for users who subscribe then never watch.
Railroad Grade Pocket Watches
China successfully launches Long March 5 rocket
While I take a lot of issues with the article itself, I concur the core message completely due to having done the experiment myself.

This has been my experience in teaching as well: https://jakeseliger.com/2008/12/28/laptops-students-distract...
Other than the ending of every book Gibson has ever written, compared to the ending of any of Stephenson's works.
I'm always amazed that multi-thread code works as well as it does. I can have some data in multiple caches being used by multiple threads on separate CPUs and as long as I get the memory barriers right, it will work. Combine that with predictive branching and out-of-order execution and it feels even more magical.
Indeed, which is what they're doing here: the OP only posts RedHat fabrications like that in here...
Do you find it more or less effective than regular flossing? I've been looking for alternatives to plastic picks/floss. Also they seem to be damaging my gums as I floss too hard
I'll give a skeletal answer that will only make sense if one has read what's out there. These are just my choices where choices matter, leaving out the canonical:

Measure cal by weight as a proportion of total weight of corn and water (for comparison Paul Bertolli estimates the water weight of meats in "Cooking by Hand" for his brine formulas). I like 0.5% cal and 4x water to corn. This is on the light end (standardized by total weight, recipes vary 0.3% to 1.6% cal) which brings out corn flavor.

Simmer at least an hour, or more, till kernels are nearly al dente, not chalky. For less effort use a slow cooker, and start the clock hours later when it reaches 80 C. Leave overnight before rinsing well. The corn will have nearly doubled in weight. This is nixtamal.

As recommended in “Oaxaca: Home Cooking from the Heart of Mexico” by Bricia Lopez, grind 4:15 water:nixtamal for 40 minutes in a 1.5 liter Premier Small Wonder Table Top Wet Grinder. Indian cooks, chocolatiers on a budget like this wet grinder. She recommends 450g corn. More will push off the lid, which one can fix by drilling a 1" deep hole with a 2 1/4" Forstner bit in a 5" or so square block of hardwood, to rest just over the lid as a lid stop. Then one can use more corn, which needs less tending. This is a problem like designing the paper feed in a copier, a career I'm grateful I don't have.

If the masa is too wet, work in a bit of masa harina. Test by kneading by hand; it should be just shy of sticky, but not sticky.

I bake harder than some say (I like brown specks and the resulting flavor) on a Baking Steel. I plan to experiment with an actual comal, which might breathe better as my masa is on the edge of too wet, like an artisanal bread dough. It puffs nicely.

If one happens to have a VitaMix or VitaPrep commercial blender, one can get a reasonable approximation of this by blending corn with too much water, then thickening with masa harina. Masienda.com sells a masa harina from their white corn. Be aware that grind fineness is just one axis, and a VitaPrep can actually overdo this. One ends up 2:1 nixtamal:harina by dry weight, 2/3rds of the way there, with an inferior texture but much of the great flavor of different landrace corns. One will then decide a wet grinder is worth it.
“Grey Thinking” as a term does a poor job at conveying what I _think_ the author wants to say. And that is, (1) don’t make generic statements and (2) consider your perspective. When you boil a problem down to its specifics, you get back to black and white thinking. Using the article’s example, “War is awful but history shows it to be occasionally necessary, and a very complex phenomenon” still contains the black and white statement of “War is good when situation X occurs and bad when situation Y occurs.”
The upside I see is illegal online "libraries", which are free public printing presses.

It's a revolution that went quite unseen, thanks to the copyright lobby's persistent noise about copied videotapes and bootlegging.

May good health find their operaters, and may the next Library of Alexandria make it to the heat death of the universe.
>because teaching for 3 terms at 2 different schools is hardly something to brag about

Context

>What if your first exam was bad

Good question but irrelevant. You ignored my questions. I want to believe that, I'm not the only one who sees that entrance exams to universities, university exams and professional exams repeat over 80% of their questions?

If all your exams were all freshly set questions, say so. If not, what wrong with preparing my students for reality?
There is a growth process in any profession. Nobody starts out as an expert just like nobody starts out as an adult. Wages to such are not a waste, but money well spent on training. There are degrees of skill, and jobs to match each level. And at the end of the day, the best quality education comes through real life experience.