skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They say "Once again, the United States continues to be the country with the highest daily traffic to Pornhub".

The give a graph of top 20 countries, which they say represent an aggregated 80% of their traffic.

The US is first, and take around 40-50% of that traffic.

Let's go with 40%. Of 80% that's ~ 32% of total.

They also say: "Pornhub’s daily visits now exceed 100 million".

This means 32% of 100M, so around 32M americans visit Pornhub alone each day.

And that's just one porn network. Along with Pornhub (which is however the most visited) there are also XVideos, XHamster, XNXX, Redtube in the list of Top 50 most popular websites.
Index of Phrases in the Q Phrasebook
Fashion Platform Zilingo Acquires Sri Lankan SaaS Startup NCinga for $15.5M
I like the idea behind the change, but it's the first time I've heard about it (and I assume I'm not alone), and it's being deployed in less than a month?! Seriously Google ?
How about modernizing the old animated gif/flash sites so they work in modern browsers? I've started on hamster dance[0] and leekspin[1], but the sounds leave something to be desired (hamster dance is more annoying than I remember, and I completely forgot the sound on leekspin).

0: https://efreak.github.io/loopy/hampsterdance/hampdance.html
1: https://efreak.github.io/loopy/leekspin/
> In that scenario, you're unable to use crypto because no goods exist to buy (meaning dollars are useless as well)?

The state will take over the entire supply chain to ensure that it transacts in a currency that it controls, crypto or otherwise.

Without that, the shared physical and legal infrastructure that supply chain depends on would cease to exist, and with it the supply chain.

Individuals, or the small communes that act financially as individuals in the crypto based trading system would have to trade in the simplest raw materials and finished products would be all have to be made hyper locally. Otherwise what entity would secure the transit of high value finished goods from supplier to customer?

I understand that it's a vision of the future that many people relish for its "freedom" from the state (but not so much from the local tribe). But universal crypto based transactions are not a drop in replacement for what we have now that keeps everything else the same. They come with their own radically different future-primitive vision for the world.
This seems like a good opportunity to point out that FF6 is available for iOS for $7:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/final-fantasy-vi/id719401490

The App Store/Play Store has quite a few games without in-app purchases or ads (which you have to buy up-front, of course, but that's only fair), but all the ones that I can think of are ports or remakes of classic games that predate smartphones.
Another interesting problem this might solve is birds.

Yes, domestic cats kill orders of magnitudes more birds, but that argument a. depends on relative scale that people don't grok, and b. coming from an energy company reinforces the preconception that they're callous.

Add radar and a sufficiently smart AI, and they could turn a PR problem into a marketing pitch by showing birds flying through unscathed while the mirrors shift to avoid them.
Often the point of a non-fiction book is to spend hours thinking deeply about the book's subject. You could probably get the major ideas in the length of a short blog post. But that's spending 10 minutes thinking about the topic as opposed to 2-3 hours.

You can think of it as the difference between reading about a subject online and having a long conversation about that subject with friends. For me personally, the length and guided interaction of a book makes a difference
You're misreading the benchmark, that's 6ms for 10,000 lock/unlocks per thread, 320,000 lock/unlocks total. In other words 0.6 microseconds per thread per lock.
Ah OS/2! You could use the computer even while formatting a floppy.

As I recall, IBM would send you OS/2 for free, on a bunch of the new-style 3.5" floppies. I think it was about two dozen floppies.
Ah, that was back when AA and Alaska were much closer partners, before the Virgin acquisition... I was surprised when reading the article that Alaska was so helpful.

https://thepointsguy.com/2017/12/last-call-alaska-american-a...
Again you only spend more time if you don’t know what you’re doing.

I’m not a front end developer by any stretch of the imagination. Would it be a valid argument if I said that React isn’t a good solution because I have years of experienced with server side rendering?

Again, don’t blame the tools just because you didn’t take the time to learn how to use them efficiently.

If my name doesn’t give you a clue,I was around and developing way before AWS or hosted solutions was a thing. Being able to provision resources by writing yaml and not having to deal with the infrastructure gatekeepers is a godsend.

No, there only very few cases, such as shaving video encoding time (the one that started all this mess around "serverless")

There are millions of people using computers in countless different ways. Are you sure that you know all of the valid use cases?
Before one takes the ideas of Rene Girard as seriously as I did, for quite a few years, it might help to read a careful critique[0].

[0] https://arcade.stanford.edu/rofl/deceit-desire-and-literatur...
According to "man vdso", futex is not in vDSO on any architecture. What eliminates the syscall cost is that it's rarely called due to elision.

A mutex may try to spin more than a "couple of times" before it calls futex. Example: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/thread/pthread_...
But Rails and Django are for midsized websites only. Node is used in big companies for Microservices and serverless. Its impossible to scale Django to say 3000 developers.
Yes, absolutely.

Also, once you get good rates, you ask for a higher rate from the next customer. If it is higher than their highest rate they tend to tell you what their highest rate is which gives you a great place to negotiate from. Like, maybe I'll take less if I can work remote 2 days a week.
Promiscuous Cookie was my stage name.
Streaming Takes a Toll on the Environment
> Not sure I understand how the military is going to stop individuals from exchanging goods within a country

States stop the exchange of goods within, into, or out of their jurisdiction of types or in manners not sanctioned by the state all the time, it's called “law enforcement”, and either the military or paramilitary police forces or both are often involved in it. It's never airtight, but it doesn't have to be to have a big effect.
Per the Brave article blocking is perfectly possible and works fine, it was just their blocker implementation not being ready for a different protocol.
Books are just another form of entertainment, and I wouldn't think of them as much more than that. Yes, there may be value in reading some books, and many of them contain interesting facts and opinions, but the truth is that reading lots of books won't raise your IQ anymore than watching TV.

It's become fashionable to boast or brag about how many books you read, but this is nothing more than signalling. Nobody really cares which books you've read, except it may be interesting to discuss books to help others find new ones that may interest them.

I personally have read many, many books over the years and I've found that I tend to forget most of the information shortly after reading them, with some exceptions. For example, I tend to find it easy to retain primary themes (i.e., I've read a number of books about stoicism and I have hung on to the core tenets of the philosophy but I don't remember the specific details).

These days I've caved into consuming audiobooks, mostly because they're extremely convenient. I like to listen to books while taking walks, which allows me to accomplish 2 things: 1) get some exercise, and 2) "read" a book. It's not really an additional time investment because I like to take walks anyway regardless of the book.
An Undercover Journey into the Heart of Madness
Right, there's UMWAIT[0] for that, but that's quite new.

[0] https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/umwait
What is the technical difference between an “auth” cookie and a “tracking” cookie?
Remember how it was done the last time the idiotic US government did the same stunt with crypto.... Zimmerman (PGP) physically printed and bound books containing the full OCR-happy font of the source code.

Evidently to the dinosaurs in Congress, a physical book is something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than a file online.
I want to edit a file in an Alpine container somewhere on the other side of the world. Where's your god now?
> Basically - if you are cash payor - you will show up and pay what they surprise you with at the end.

And worse, you will get billed 3x-5x the rate the provider negotiated with any random insurance company.
Billing hourly or daily is about the same. Weekly gets complicated. It is all about reducing risk, locking in cashflow and getting compensated for your time and energy.
People are going to misuse any design guideline -- that doesn't say anything about the guidelines themselves. Plain, simple layouts lend themselves to abuse just like textures, shadows and chunky buttons. The results are equally silly -- your average super-flat, plain, simple layout with flat, simple icons is as annoying to interact with as the tackiest Winamp skin you can remember.

Skeumomorphism has become this mythical beast that supposedly meant every interface was hard to use, cluttered and unintuitive. But we actually had a lot of very good, very useful interfaces back when it was a thing. In fact most programs written after GUIs became common enough had pretty good interfaces. Outrageous skins and things like Kai Power Tools were exceptions, not the norm.
Any luck? I'm very curious
It's actually simpler than that, median household income != median wage. Here's the chart the parent wants. Simple explanation is that there are more dual income households.

https://aneconomicsense.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/going-fr...
For three reasons cited in The Fine Article:

> The problem is that in the past concentrated solar couldn't get temperatures hot enough to make cement and steel.

> While other concentrated solar companies attacked this temperature problem by adding steel to make the technology stiffer and sturdier, Heliogen and its team of scientists and engineers turned to artificial intelligence.

> Heliogen said it is generating so much heat that its technology could eventually be used to create clean hydrogen at scale.
You either use the data, or your are just telling stories to fit your worldview. You carefully avoid stating it, but even the data in your Pew link shows a pay increase, albeit small.
I had no idea what RTK was before your comment. Thanks! Here's a link[1] for others who might be curious. Looks like the key is being within ~6mi of a RTCM (Radio Technical Commission for Maritime) station that transmits GPS correction data. If not, the cool thing is that you can create your own station as well by daisy-chaining off of an existing station that's within 6mi.

[1] https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/what-is-gps-rtk/all
China doesn't need American AI technology.
Cement is 8% of global CO2 emission. 40% of that is still greater than air travel (about 2.5%).
That's a really hard question but I think smaller teams need to be more empowered. Right now every big decision seems to come from way up high which guarantees that it seems out of touch and misses edge cases. A lot of the angst comes from people at the bottom shaking their fists at VP/CEO types. If individual teams could make their own decisions about what to do and how to do it they could shrug off some of the corporate nonsense that happens above them.
What was your story?
What about the older design flavors? Isomorphism use to be popular but was replaced by epimorphism and a flavor of monomorphism. Bimorphism was sort of a niche trend along with homomorphism and endomorphism. If you didn't notice all these words are borrowed from concepts that already exist in math that are over 3 decades old.

Maybe I should just stop making up garbage vocabulary for my design ideas. Morphism is a well defined word in both math and computer science so if you want to give a name to a new design follow your old trend of calling something flat design or skeu design or neudesign rather then borrowing a word from a field that has way more legitimacy then a design idea concocted up by some designer last month.
"They are relatively indestructible"

Over 800 dishwasher cycles later and the keyboard still functions as if it were brand-new. All I need to do is replace the PS/2 cord which has worn out at the strain relief.
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Browser fingerprinting is a hack, and exploits clear loopholes in browser privacy models.

I wouldn't rely on it because it's committing to an ongoing arms race against the browsers. One that I expect them to win.
It seems to be doing similar logic.

1. Does a CAS with compare_exchange_weak() at line 69.

2. Then call lock_slow() at line 72 to do spinlocking (Guh!).

3. The call to parking_lot_core::park() at line 256 seems to sleep wait.
I always try to understand the readers before writing a word. Why they are reading. And what they expect to be able to do better as a result of reading, or what decision they might be making.

If an author can't answer these questions, they will likely write something that is perceived as irrelevant, wrong, or simply 'meh'. This is especially true when writing 'technical reports' as opposed to documentation.
> There’s evidence of really quite disturbing experiments on American voters, manipulating them with fear-based messaging, targeting the most vulnerable, that seems to be continuing.

Ironically, it's not clear which party they re referring to
Providers are still basically private businesses (at least in primary care), so it is possible to sell to them. The problem is that each province runs its own system, unlike the UK where the NHS is universal across the country. So your addressable market is limited unless you can tailor your product to fit all 10 provinces. In practice it's very difficult, which is why almost all of the electronic health record software is owned by one of 3 large companies.
There's a ridiculous amount of information on most topics you can learn the hard way on the internet and through horrific trial and error for free or the easy way by reading one solid book at a nominal cost (or for free, since libgen exists).
> It's just not commercially useful to do that yet.

Some people are working on it : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728776 (dec 2019)
I've heard the best predictor of performance on IQ tests is number of books read.

In my experience, reading a book forces me to conceptualize the content in a way watching TV and listening to audio does not. It is also faster than watching and listening. I think this has improved my conceptual thinking ability, as well as being able to articulate my thoughts, and expanded the number of concepts I can use in my thinking.

My general experience is well read people seem to generally be more open minded and better able to understand other points of view. On the other hand, in the social media world of sound bites and text snippets, the ability to have a logically coherent extended discussion seems to be diminishing.

Yes, it does sound like reading books can improve a person's mind, and that can sound elitist, but it may well be true.
Also if both threads are pinned to separate cores and nothing else is supposed to run on those cores, it is pointless to use anything but spinlocks as there is no other thread that could better use the core (and probably you do not want the core to go to a low power syate waiting for an interrupt).
BetterTLS: Name Constraints. A Name Constraints Test Suite for HTTPS Clients
What Happens to a Body During Embalming? (2018) [video]
Nope. People in maintenance departments don't generally write blogs about this, and it's not like an airline is going to help publicize their issues. And judging by how even my post is downvoted, they're not likely to either.
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How is 25 years not a long time?
> I understand that Microsoft has a similar crew they can dispatch to any customer to get their business software working again.

There is a saying that these teams are dispatched by private jet and consist of 8 executives and 2 engineers.
I love SwiftUI, rewrote my side project in it and hope it takes off. That being said I don't think it's anywhere near ready for mainstream use and therefore wouldn't be particuly helpful in a comparison like this. The requirement of iOS13 alone means it's a non-starter for a lot of business cases.
Totally agree with your points about code correctness. That's the most important thing. I spent probably a year making systems/tools/processes to ensure that every code snippet in our documentation is imported unmodified from a GitHub repo with CI attached and that people reading the docs can see that. It's been a huge win.
Thanks for the link!

Seems like a really fun project.

> I only learned about MX record priorities last night haha.

Nice!

> With Postfix, the most straightforward way to run code on receiving an email seems to be through a pipe filter.

True.

Take a look into LMTP, you may be able to "read the email" directly from your rust daemon (via unix socket or tcp) :)
The specific genre of books in your list ("self help") is basically not worth it.

Virtually every other type of book is. Good fiction is amazing. Science is great, especially when written at a level just above what you can comfortably understand. Some biographies are inspiring.
Is there anyone seeing people reflect increased skepticism of internet sourced information following this stuff? Like, I learned in HS to discount the validity and value of “stuff I read on the internet” to 0 until I could verify if through alternate sources.
Taking over the entire supply chain is completely impossible though, black markets will always exist, and not just for simple raw materials.

Another aspect of crypto is the ability to simply leave the oppressor's territory, taking your money with you.

I'm absolutely not saying this is a perfect solution, or that government is powerless in this situation, but it seems hand wavey to say they'll just seize control of every economic transaction. That's a VERY difficult thing to do.
Coming as a ruby developer who dabbles in async rust in my free time, these posts/threads/links have been my best read of 2020 so far. My CS curriculum barely covered real-world lock usage, much less the ties to linux/windows schedulers + modern CPU caching. Big thanks all around to these internet commentators.
"Survives a browser restart: no" seems to imply any method which tried to use QUIC alone would be highly unreliable.
> But isn't that orthogonal with developing the algorithms?

Assuming it is - China is also competitive on developing algorithms. A few months ago there was a post on explosion of AI papers submitted by authors at Chinese research institutions, with no signs of slowing down.
OP, like many people on HN when talking about college, is hilariously out of touch.
This has happened more than a few times in Wichita. They are usually aiming for KICT but hit other airports. We had to file a flight plan out of Jabara for a private jet that was actually trying to land at KICT for maintenance. Didnt make the news but we did have to plan for the minimum amount of fuel.
I wonder what your background is? And to answer your question, I think you are missing a whole dimension in your life...
This experiment is a bit weird. If you look at https://github.com/matklad/lock-bench, this was run on a machine with 8 logical CPUs, but the test is using 32 threads. It's not that surprising that running 4x as many threads as there are CPUs doesn't make sense for spin locks.

I did a quick test on my Mac using 4 threads instead. At "heavy contention" the spin lock is actually 22% faster than parking_lot::Mutex. At "extreme contention", the spin lock is 22% slower than parking_lot::Mutex.

Heavy contention run:

$ cargo run --release 4 64 10000 100
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 0.01s
Running `target/release/lock-bench 4 64 10000 100`
Options {
n_threads: 4,
n_locks: 64,
n_ops: 10000,
n_rounds: 100,
}

std::sync::Mutex avg 2.822382ms min 1.459601ms max 3.342966ms
parking_lot::Mutex avg 1.070323ms min 760.52µs max 1.212874ms
spin::Mutex avg 879.457µs min 681.836µs max 990.38µs
AmdSpinlock avg 915.096µs min 445.494µs max 1.003548ms

std::sync::Mutex avg 2.832905ms min 2.227285ms max 3.46791ms
parking_lot::Mutex avg 1.059368ms min 507.346µs max 1.263203ms
spin::Mutex avg 873.197µs min 432.016µs max 1.062487ms
AmdSpinlock avg 916.393µs min 568.889µs max 1.024317ms

Extreme contention run:

$ cargo run --release 4 2 10000 100
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 0.01s
Running `target/release/lock-bench 4 2 10000 100`
Options {
n_threads: 4,
n_locks: 2,
n_ops: 10000,
n_rounds: 100,
}

std::sync::Mutex avg 4.552701ms min 2.699316ms max 5.42634ms
parking_lot::Mutex avg 2.802124ms min 1.398002ms max 4.798426ms
spin::Mutex avg 3.596568ms min 1.66903ms max 4.290803ms
AmdSpinlock avg 3.470115ms min 1.707714ms max 4.118536ms

std::sync::Mutex avg 4.486896ms min 2.536907ms max 5.821404ms
parking_lot::Mutex avg 2.712171ms min 1.508037ms max 5.44592ms
spin::Mutex avg 3.563192ms min 1.700003ms max 4.264851ms
AmdSpinlock avg 3.643592ms min 2.208522ms max 4.856297ms
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> When a senior leader within a nation is murdered by agents of a foreign government without even the decency of declaring war first, of course there will be calls for revenge.

I don't see why whether there was a declaration of war or not should matter if people want revenge. However, since you brought it up, Trump did tweet this all-caps tirade: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/10212345256266096... . I remember being very concerned that a president would post something like that. Anyhow, you have to admit that it shows how Trump wasn't keeping retaliatory plans hidden from Iran.
...and a fair few from the native Australian species, the Eucalyptus. Known to spontaneously combust and even spontaneously explode when spots of resin magnify sunlight. The leaves give off enough oils into the air that they can also spread a fire across a wide area through the tree tops. The plants and seeds are adapted to use fire as part of reproduction, and the seeds fire resistant. Just never normally on this scale.
This article uses the spellings "neuomorphic" and "Neuomorphism" in places, which just highlights the fact that dropping the "o" was a mistake and obscures the origins of the word.
Pretty sure its existed for at least a year or two
@elonmusk please work with integrating battery tech with these guys!!
Ignore Sunk Costs (2009)
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I am wondering if these effects are really important and warrant the use of "AI". If so, then what is the size of the target? If it is only some cm^2, then they still have a long way to go till it can handle industrial sized problems. Once you are at industrial scale, do you still need that kind of accuracy??
http://archive.is/Vo9GQ
Exactly. Even if what they told the girls was 100% true -- the videos would be on DVDs only distributed in Australia and New Zealand, there is little reason to think those scenes on a DVD wouldn't end up online on a streaming porn site.

The most disturbing part of this is the doxing of the girls after the fact and that they shorted them on payment after doing their scenes. Changing the terms of the shoot once they arrived actually has happened a lot in porn over the years.

There is no free lunch in life -- you don't make $3000-$5000 for filming something that will never see the light of day.

It sucks that the girls fell for their con, but there was an extreme amount of naivety on their part that allowed them to be conned in the first place.