skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly many kinds of apps (e.g. web- and GUI- and disk- or DB-based) won't care if Dennard scaling has essentially stopped on a uniprocessor. But in other domains uniprocess speed is still their life's blood, like graphics, AR/VR, data-parallel number crunching, secure computing, and increasingly I suspect, non-deepNN forms of AI (like search).

As clock rates fall further behind the venerable curve of CPU clock rate doubling, I too wonder how long the 10x to 30x slowdown obliged by interpreted languages can last. It's lovely to write code a bit faster using REPL. But if that code's slow runtime or likelier troubles with portability or error recovery diminish its utility, then that bargain is Faustian.

I see some of that already after talking to a few startups who are in need low level coding abilities. These days there seems to be a deficit of folks with proficiency in fare like the GCC toolchain, that is, at the levels of assembler, binary objects and libraries, linkers, and device-drivers.

I wonder, given the proclivity of CS academia for the past 20 years to ground their instructional SW concepts mostly at a higher levels than binary (like reliance on libraries, OOPL objects, and pseudocode), if this canny valley is likely to grow into a real obstruction -- esp. now that we likely can afford it least.
Ah, memories. Used to use BeOS as my primary OS for a year or two. I think it's the only OS I ever found to be truly intuitive and pleasant to work with.

That said, I don't think the world would be in a better place had Apple chosen Be over NeXT. The elephant in the room is security: NeXTSTEP, being Unix-based, has some amount of security baked in from the ground up. BeOS didn't; it was more akin to Windows 95 or classic Mac OS on that front. Consequently, I doubt it could have made it far into the 21st century. It would have died unceremoniously in a steaming pile of AYBABTU. Taking Apple with it, presumably.
Definitely yes.

Property taxes should be proportional to the value of the property. We shouldn't give special breaks to one group or another just because we like them more.
However, Google creates cold backups of "hot data" that last for much longer than deleted data. Depending on the breadth of a warrant, data that was "hot deleted" and removed from servers could still be available on cold backups of the system made before the data was deleted. Unless we have evidence that deletion of hot data implies Google has a method to swiftly and reliably knock out that data in all its cold backups (including offsites).

This is, hypothetically, possible if they encrypt all data on-disk with a per-data-item key and the key itself is never backed up; if deletion deletes the hot key, the cold backups are now just noise and it doesn't matter if Google deletes them.
Rivals might not be the right word, within the 5W profile, Apple, using TSMC's leading edge node has been making chips that exceed Intel x86 in many benchmarks at a significant cost saving.
There is selling your soul, and there is selling your body along with it. Jfc people.
For scenario 1. the employee would still have access they just wouldn't be using it.
I always wondered if we could get more powerful computers faster if we worked on it 24/7 and if not, why not.
BeOS was really something of what the future 'could' have almost been. Too bad that it was killed by better competitors. But again I think its fair to compare with the lessons learned from its successor 'Haiku' that can be learned by many other OSes:

From what I can see from using Haiku for a bit, it has the bazar community element from the open-source culture with its package management and ports system from Linux and BSD whilst being conservative with its design from its apps, UI, and SDK like macOS. Although I have tired it and its surprisingly "useable", the driver story is still a bit lacking. But from a GUI usability point of view compared with many Linux distros, it feels very consistent unlike the countless confusing interfaces coming from those distros.

Perhaps BeOS lives on in the Haiku project, but whats more interesting is that the real contender who learned from its failure is the OS that has its kernel named 'Zircon'.
High IQ.
Their numbers look sound to me. Did you read the article?

>The ten most populous Bay Area cities listed above have a combined point-in-time homeless total of 63,527, and, margins of error notwithstanding, a census-estimated 92,800-plus homes vacant, a ratio of about three units for every two persons.

>The census’ annual American Communities Survey defines a home as vacant if there is either no occupant or a temporary occupant—temporary meaning “people who will be there for two months or less.”

>Vacancy rates are estimated by in-person visits to properties or by interviews via mail, email, or phone. The upcoming 2020 census will employ more exact methods and should result in housing and vacancy estimates with less room for error.
I found it on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/msdos_festival_TDRAW500
Elixir Wizards – S3E7 Dan Ivovich from SmartLogic on Hiring and Training
I must admit that I could be mistaken. There was a stack overflow question about this very topic wherein an NPTL implementer spoke up and claimed the following (any errors in this are the fault of my own recollection):

> There is at least one implementation that takes advantage of the requirement that a condition variable be associated with a unique lock to make fewer futex(2) calls, such that the signaling and woken thread make exactly one system call each. NPTL does this.

However, I cannot find that Q&A pairing any more. It is certainly the case on the RTOS I'm using right now that it is more optimal to signal outside the lock and rely on the fact that uncontended locking and unlocking operations don't make passes through the scheduler.
Entrepreneurs hope microbes hold the key to a food revolution
> One thing I don't understand is the "their real estate values will tank 80-90%" part. I live in a transforming rural area and one-by-one all the farmers have been selling their land to developers to make planned neighborhoods. They control the supervisors, zoning, and planning boards, and they have to be dragged kicking and screaming to allow these developments. However, their land values have gone up a ton in the last decade: basically a whole order of magnitude from on the order of 10's of thousands per acre to 100's of thousands per acre.

> I think the same applies to your single family home next to a 15 story condo building. Instead of selling to a another family, now they're selling to a big developer and can price it waaaaay higher, because the developer will be getting significantly more value out of the land than they were.

I think the way to think about property values is this: what is the highest value economic activity that can be accomplished on the property?

In your first example, it's pretty clear that building lots of houses (in the presence of sufficient demand) is a much higher value economic activity than farming.

The home to condo example is a bit more complicated. For the very first person to sell to a developer, I think your point is sound.

However, each additional bedroom that's created in the city decreases the value of all other bedrooms by a small amount. This not only directly decreases the value of a single family home, but it also decreases the value of a condo building, which means that developers will be willing to play less money for land.

Eventually, builders will stop building - the cost of construction will be more than they can sell new condos for. At that point, I believe the remaining home owners will have suffered a dramatic decrease in the value of their property.

Where does the equilibrium land? I don't think anyone knows for sure. But new construction goes up in some pretty low value real estate markets. 80-90% is just a guess on my part, but I don't think it's too far off based on current prices.
Because the electro-magnetic field polarization is preserved in many cases (specular). That doesn't mean there isn't a plasmon generated in between or that the sign of the electric field is maintained. What is interesting is that in the case of metalic (from low to high index of refraction) there is an inversion of the electric field. This does not happen at the reflection from a high index to low index (e.g. under water looking up to see total internal reflection the polarization remains the same). You can see this same effect bouncing water waves off of a concrete wall.
I think it's the "highly effective people are not doing this well" comment that strikes us. Nobody is doing this well, but his emphasis on top performers makes it seem like "we need to solve this problem for them so they can go back to being highly effective"
I have not seen any evidence to suggest CBD as a nootropic in healthy individuals. It may help with anxiety and stress, which can impede your cognitive performance, but at this time I do not believe CBD is boosting a fully healthy person's cognitive function. But I think a lot of people have to deal with stress and anxiety at work, so CBD could help to boost performance here.

I think it would be interesting to see studies in people like professional gamers. Stress can be good for performance, but too much can be detrimental. Is being super amped up on your favorite energy drink good for your K/D ratio or would being calmer with CBD actually be better?
Documentation websites should be two-way exchanges of information
On a related note, I find it fascinating that modern CGI cannot quite simulate wet fabric. I watched Frozen 2 and the rendering is absolutely breathtaking on most materials. Water, fabric, hair, etc. All impeccable.

But the minute fabric gets wet, it looks so unrealistic. It looks plastic-y or greasy. I can only assume this is an active area of research, but we’re clearly not there yet.
These are different levels of discomfort, though. Speaking too loudly and smiling too much are clear violations of politeness; they might mean that people will distrust you or think that you're acting silly (especially the "smiling too much" one). But they aren't going to avoid you altogether like women would avoid Asimov.
When I say "any competent philosopher", I'm being specific to the Western philosophical tradition. Up through the 19th century, any education in philosophy, classics, or the humanities was virtually certain to include reading Plato; since then, more organized philosophy degrees in university always have some ancient philosophy requirement that includes Plato/Aristotle. Additionally, Plato is frequently used as introductory material in philosophy classes to demonstrate how it works via the Socratic method. Within the confines of "professional" philosophy today, it's almost impossible not to have a basic grasp of Plato.

As for how and why we think differently today: any study of the history of philosophy is partly the study of refuting earlier philosophers. If you're aware of Plato, you're aware of criticisms of Plato and how that formed the basis of other ideas.
what technology and would be it be open source? or how would that work? self hosted/Saas?
Is coconut milk OK?
You might want to rephrase your question. As it is not clear what you are asking.
The bookmark workflow is an impressive demonstration that browsers have a lot of room for improvement in their bookmarking tools.

I'm hoping (and optimistic) that the distributed web brings with it some epiphanies about how to do better local knowledge management!
The ABI issues are exactly the reason why having C++ as OS API level language is a bad idea.
I never knew this was a thing, wow!
Moving to Canada as a PR, then getting the passport and then working in the US is likely the safest and sanest route.
> it's clear that the investing even more money into nuclear won't bring any breakthrough with visible effects in the next 20 years

The world will never become carbon neutral with PV and wind turbines. Our needs grow much faster than this tech will, short of an unexpected breakthrough, much like the one nuclear is still looking for and might actually be closer. It's just a great stopgap solution.

Your assumption (mind you, not a fact) that it will never happen does not preclude the investment in nuclear tech. We invested in PV for decades before they became anything near economically feasible. And they're not great for places that don't have the land to spare and/or are far away from the places that do. Not great when you are at the mercy of (ever changing) weather and climate.

But as usual your quotes have nothing to do with my point - that renewables projects can be astonishingly expensive too (nuclear level expensive for some wind turbines) and underdeliver, or that the reason there's no nuclear research has nothing to do with lack of potential but with preconceptions that it must be dangerous. So it's a self inflicted wound where you oppose improving nuclear tech and then you blame it for being old and inefficient. You are part of the reason we don't have good nuclear.

And to highlight the dissonance of your point you insist that there should be no investment in new nuclear tech because old tech is expensive and doesn't scale compared to renewables. And then insist we should invest in new renewables even if they are more expensive and don't scale as well as fossil. How is that? You either invest in the tech that scales and is cheap, or you don't. Or perhaps you invest in the technology that shows promise. And scary-nuclear-label aside, nuclear tech always showed a lot of promise, if only people like you didn't shoot it in the foot and then whined that it's limping.

Just google for "breakthrough in nuclear power" and see what advancements have been made even with a strong opposition of the uneducated. Now imagine what could be achieved if it actually received some solid support. In the meantime we're burning coal.
> It's a different kind of format however, which -by definition- isn't a replica anymore.

All non-trivial replication has to cross machine boundaries. To transmit to another machine, you have to use a serial format since there are no pointers on the wire. So insisting that a replica must be the same format prohibits the concept of replication in practice.
The processor is way faster. And the camera is probably way better (and still not anywhere near good enough, FWIW). Maybe you just don’t care about those features?
Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the industrial revolution
Didn't Be publicly offer up a free Be OS license to the first OEM willing to ship a duel boot system?

When there were no takers for a free way to have your hardware stand out from the pack, it was hard to imagine a reason for every single OEM in a very crowded field to back away that didn't involve antitrust shenanigans.
Too few people recognize grazing land as destroyed. Very often it used to be bog, forest, grassland supporting many wild species (before the soil was pumped full of nitrates) etc. A big grassy field can be an ecological wasteland.
Can confirm. Poor people really, really care about money.

Since there are more poor people than rich people, it makes sense to focus on what most humans care about.
what do you mean? how? you can use neovim as the editor in the notebook?
> It shook the table so hard things would fall off.

One of my earliest "computer memories" as a kid was being in a Radio Shack in the early 1980s and seeing a large dot-matrix printer outputting a maze on greenbar paper; the printer sat on a cheap printer cart thing that Radio Shack sold, and as the head moved back and forth, it caused the cart to also "flex and sway" with the movement (again - cheap particle board and screws, bad construction, age - all factored in).

I think the printer was connected to a TRS-80 Model 3 or 4, IIRC.

At the time, I "owned" (parents purchased - and I still have it) a TRS-80 Color Computer 2; which is probably why I was in the store with my Dad, probably buying something for it. It was my first "real computer" (my first "computer" - and introduction to programming - was the controller of the Milton Bradley Big Trak; I still have it, too).
The founder of Be wrote a bunch of articles about Be's life, and demise

https://mondaynote.com/tagged/beos
> The census’ annual American Communities Survey defines a home as vacant if there is either no occupant or a temporary occupant—temporary meaning “people who will be there for two months or less.”

So this is counting AirBnBs and other short-term rental spaces as vacant.

> Vacancy rates are estimated by in-person visits to properties or by interviews via mail, email, or phone.

I clicked through to the definition from census.gov:

> Mail and computer-assisted telephone and personal-visit interviews. All group quarters responses are obtained by personal visit interview. Most vacant units are not identified until the third month of data collection (the first personal visit). In that month, a 1-in-3 subsample of all addresses for which responses have not been obtained are visited by field representatives.

I'm curious how well you can distinguish permanent residents not being home when field representatives happened to drop by from actually vacant. My house looks like it could be vacant when nobody is home.
Are there studies on CBD relieving the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS)?
Is this what's driving AMD to bang up against the 50.00 ceiling this morning? I'd be surprised if it's just the Mizuho rating on Intel's potential 10nm server chip delays.

Disclosure: I'm long AMD
If your team is using solely Mac, it's now more expensive than using [Paw](1).

(1): https://paw.cloud/
The MTA probably has some in-house counsels with nothing to do, so they go after trivial stupid stuff to justify their salary. I don't see any other reason for being so petty for something so insignificant.
How does an organization migrate from its existing systems to Emvi? Is there a gradual adoption path?
Agreed, I remember trying BeOS in the late 90s and I felt the way Tesla fans report feeling about their cars - "it just feels like the future".

The responsiveness of the UI was like nothing I'd ever seen before. Unfortunately BeOS fell by the wayside, but I have such fond memories I keep meaning to give Haiku a shot.
German man dies four years after being poisoned by colleague
Xero disables OAuth 1.0, private integrations without notice, breaks workflows
Important subject, poor article, IMO.

Here's a background piece that covers most of the history and issues: https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-housing-crisis...

TL;DR: It's complicated.

Also (and especially for those of us from the Old World) remember that SF is ridiculously young as cities go, even for American cities. The continent was largely settled from East to West. The Western part of the city was sand dunes and scrub. People panned for gold next to Lake Merced.

Here's a thing from 2016 "Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments" : https://experimental-geography.blogspot.com/2016/05/employme...

He got some data:

> I set out to replicate the DataBook's methodology over a wider range of years, but quickly gave up on including just two-bedroom apartments, because ads in the early 1960s rarely referred to apartment sizes in these terms. Instead, for each first Sunday in April from 1948 through 1979, plus a few other years, I made a list of all the advertised unfurnished apartments, flats, houses, and, later, condos, regardless of size, that were advertised in the Chronicle. Mostly I used the San Francisco Public Library's page scans of the newspaper but resorted to microfilm for the few later years where no page scans are available.

Here's the main take-away:

> in 1956, apartments began to be listed in increasing numbers, but their prices also began to rise. Overall, they went up 6.6% every year. Today's outrageous prices are exactly in line with the 6.6% trend that began 60 years ago.

So, big long complicated history, dead simple stable 6.6%/year increase.

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Solutions: Bucky Fuller mega-city Old Man River City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_River%27s_City_project

https://solutions.synearth.net/2002/11/24/

Look at the cross-section: the structure is hollow. It's built like a suspension bridge. Imagine rotating the Golden Gate bridge around a vertical axis though its midpoint. See the article for the rest of the description.

Integrated with ecologically harmonious waste reclamation and "bioreactors" to make arcologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology

A few of these in the CA Central Valley on the Sacramento river would take all the housing pressure off the cities.
Indeed! I'd love to have some way to use broot instead of NERDTree.
Re #2 -

If you are on Windows, take a look at IOCP as a queuing mechanism.

Use one IOC port to queue work for the threads and use another IOC port to submit completed work back to whoever's listening. Worker threads then merely wait for the next completion packet, execute the work and post the packet into the second ("done") port. Dead simple and, due to how IOCP works, with very little overhead.

Strictly speaking, this is not what IOC ports are meant for, but the performance you get out of this is nothing short of amazing and the code ends up being short and simple.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/i-o-co...
Having thought about it, I'm not sure if I agree. Light can reflect off of transparent crystals, which do not have the right electron energy levels for absorption (that's why they're transparent.) It's possible that the Feynman diagram of a reflection might involve the photon "going away and another one replacing it" (I don't know what the diagram looks like), but Feynman diagrams cannot be interpreted as sequences of events. Instead, they describe an instantaneous flow of amplitude between different quantum states. I would only go along with the absorption and re-emission interpretation if there was always a time delay between the two steps (which there cannot be if the mirror does not have any energy level deltas suitable for storing the energy).

The other side of the debate would be that if the mirror is moving towards or away from the light, the reflection will be Doppler-shifted to a higher or lower frequency. Does this mean that the reflected photons are not the same photons as the incident photons, or does it mean that the same photons have had their energy changed? I think there is no meaningful distinction because every two particles with the same name in quantum mechanics are identical anyway. There's no telling which are which. If I showed you a photon, then took it back and showed you another, you would never be able to tell whether I had opened the same box twice or if I had taken the old one out and captured a new one from my desk lamp.
Accelerating UDP Packet Transmission for QUIC
We suspect that because the bug originated in reference code, that it might have slipped past QA as it came from a trusted source.
The current push for plant-based alternatives to everything reminds me of the effort to replace butter with margarine and tallow with vegetable shortening.

I believe the consensus these days is that butter is superior to margarine health-wise. Wouldn't be surprised if we see a resurgence in rendered animal fats for cooking as well at some point.

The thing that is great about animals (ruminants specifically) is that they can take a feed source that isn't useful to humans (grass) on land that isn't tillable and convert it into a useful food source (meat / milk / fat).

The whole idea behind margarine was a chemist figured if cows could get fat from plants, he could skip the cow and just get the fat from the plant. Very similar to current thinking on vegan meats, etc.

Except it turns out that the end product was loaded with trans fats that turned out to be super bad for you. Oops.

I would expect most meat alternatives to run into similar issues as we study them more.
Sea-thru: physics-based color reconstruction algorithm for underwater images
Yeah, I just discovered ranger a couple weeks ago. I'm going to see how this compares.