skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But that's plausibly the compiler doing its magic. Or is there anything in Fortran language/semantics that maps close to vectorized ISAs ?
More likely, the cheaper product sells out first.

Three weeks ago, there was no flour of any sort in the store I went to. No corn meal, not grains at all. Except for matzo meal, however, on the end of aisles where seasonal products are held, so I finally made matzo ball soup for the first time! There were also no beans except for a completely ridiculous $8/pound of dried lentil in some sort of super fancy packaging.
> Whatever greatness or horrors we observe from corporations should be attributed directly to the natural people who make those decisions— it's not Boeing that's bad, it's whoever's in charge and whoever condoned it. People. Boeing is just a 6-letter words, you can't put "Boeing" in jail, nor make it "Sir" by a Queen...

I think it's interesting how British English pluralises companies and groups in general, in recognition of this fact. For example, "Boeing have made a big mistake with the 737 MAX", where American English would use has. Or, "the family next door are lovely".
Think this post is being slightly downvoted, but it is the reason according to multiple contacts in the industry. Even the ad spend which is out there is explicitly blocking COVID content for their ads.
it seems to me it's not only density but mobility too. The US is a very mobile place, people can move around very easily. I think you have to consider that along with density when looking at how fast a virus can spread.

I hope a side effect of the virus spread is proving wfh feasible to many skeptics. Working from home goes a long way to reducing pollution and increasing productivity and morale. It's definitely not one size fits all and doesn't work for all personalities and jobs but it should be used where it can work. At a min, it keeps people off the roads/tracks.
> 100% of the problems are caused by people acting stupid in different ways

I moved from being employed to being a contractor/consultant (somewhere between the two). In the last 8 years I've worked with 8 or 9 clients and each one had serious issues (all bar one * , I would say). There were either individuals with power or small groups who were holding everyone else back by making consistently poor decisions, and there were upper managers too blind to see it or remove the offending parties, despite being informed by their staff what was going on.

It grinds you down, but I feel very similarly to you - it pays damn well and I can't see another way to achieve the lifestyle I want.

(* that one was a huuuuge corporate, and a department with incredibly low productivity and systemic issues with working practices. However they produced quality software to a schedule that was clearly OK with them, so .... that's OK I guess)
Bezos raises the middle finger and just shuts all distribution centers down, touche !
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This brought to mind this Schlock Mercenary strip[1].

[1] https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-08-29
> raising a middle finger and threatening to suspend all deliveries

I don’t see this. The court gave a short deadline for meeting an ambiguous target with respect to a complex international logistics network. Amazon’s choices are to sloppily comply or halt until they can properly do so. They’re choosing the latter.

That keeps warehouse workers safe. And it gives Amazon time to figure out how to only ship that which the court would consider essential. The only loser is the French consumer, and they (will eventually) have other options.
Ah video makes sense. Thanks.
There are some suspected ones during the Cold War (the USS Scorpion and the Soviet K-129)
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http://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/papers/iccd09/iccd09_dens...

See figure 7.

how would their performance ever be equivalent?

The majority of general-purpose code can't use SIMD because it's really branchy, mundane "business logic" type of code, and that's where handwritten Asm's code density really shows an advantage.

I see that you claim to have "written lots of bare-metal assembly" and have posted a link to your OS in Asm, so I looked at the code...

You are not using Asm the way Asm is supposed to be written. You are writing code like a compiler, which totally misses the point of using Asm. Now it is obvious why you don't understand --- because you've never seen what "real Asm" looks like.

To elaborate, one thing that stands out is lots of stack manipulation, barely using the registers at all. Putting everything on the stack is what stupid compilers do. This is no good for speed nor size.

I have been reading and writing Asm for a few decades. See some of my other comments if you'd like to learn more... here's a quick sampling:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8248172

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12332672

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12356450

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15721322

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17948475
Good answer, thanks for that! I am working on a commercial product to help people form SPARQL queries, and I must admit pro-SPARQL bias. Your decision makes a lot of sense.
This story reaffirms my sense that the recent explanation du jour for scarcity, residential vs commercial supply chains, isn't quite right. This person set out to buy an order of 250 lb of flour and it still vanished before their eyes.

My experience with commercial toilet paper has been the same, watching it dry up just like retail. People seem to be stockpiling cheap familiar essentials, plain and simple, wherever they can get it.
Many flights around the world that are continuing to carry cargo

For example

"The number of cargo-only flights at Heathrow has surged to five times normal levels, with the airport now saying it is prioritising medical supplies as passenger travel grinds to a halt."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/14/heathrow-pas...
While all those in the list are great, the list itself is a worthy match for Borges' Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge in which animals are divided into:

those that belong to the Emperor,
embalmed ones,
those that are trained,
suckling pigs,
mermaids,
fabulous ones,
stray dogs,
those included in the present classification,
those that tremble as if they were mad,
innumerable ones,
those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
others,
those that have just broken a flower vase,
those that from a long way off look like flies.
Source: my facebook feed, other french peoples I know from all political sides ... That want macron and his government to go to bastille and try that old guillotine ...
How far in advance are the airlines cancelling flights? I've looked at flight cancellations lately, and it looks like about 30-50% of US domestic flights are being cancelled. I haven't really seen anybody talking about this.
And why is "sprawl" bad?
Git is not slow for me. Don't know about Emacs, but I'm using git from command line and from Idea and it works just fine, instantly for ordinary tasks. Commiting 1000+ files takes few seconds.

Given the fact that Git is used for Windows development with monster monorepository, I think that something's wrong with your setup rather than Git on Windows in general.
My local supermarket here in the Netherlands split their toiletpaper section and spread it across the store to make use of this stupidity.
There is no way to arbietrarily visit someone else's island, you have to be invited somehow.

If you don't have friends with a Switch, you can visit someone's islands with a "Dodo code" (i.e. a unique-ID for that island). As someone mentioned, some folks have gone via Twitter and I magine Reddit has a subreddit for it too.

One good thing is unless you are "best friends" on the game (this is a an additional step to being Switch friends), they cannot do many things on the island (chop down trees is the main thing I noticed).
> To be perfectly fair, the current lockdown _IS_ going to kill people that would've survived otherwise. People that now won't go into emergency rooms out of fear of contracting Covid19

You've got the blame all wrong here. These people that are dying who would've survived otherwise are directly being killed by the pandemic, not by the lockdown. If the pandemic were completely uncontained then the hospital system would be way more overwhelmed and you'd be much more likely to die of other causes for lack of healthcare. The lockdown is saving lives by helping to preserve healthcare resources so that if you have some other need like a heart attack there might still be a doctor free.

It's not like, if the lockdown weren't happening, then there wouldn't be a pandemic. What would happen is that the pandemic would be way way worse.
Yes the timing is good, the Artemis program is heating up and needs to disperse grants for the 2024 moon missions. You will have a much better supply of labor to choose from than our previous unemployment rate. Capital is cheap right now and banks are still lending. Aerospace is a long-term investment and you'll deliver a product when the economy is back.
Growth is only good for the poor when it's evenly distributed, which it mostly isn't, and when it doesn't have negative impacts on personal health and the environment, which it mostly does.

Most "growth" is really just stripping the house and burning it down to make a fire - while a small number of people get most of the benefit.
Because QT can always move the goalposts. Like only offering LTS support for licensees. I'm already paying enough cash to another VC Vulture (Embarcadero) for Delphi. I've been looking to move my pascal code over to lazarus
From C-h v

This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in version 22.1 of Emacs.
Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 20.1.
The non food, non health related item could be for those people who produce food and provide health related service. You stop those you hurt them too.
This is scriptable using TamperMonkey in Firefox and Chrome (and Chromium and maybe Microsoft's new browser). Or to put it another way, hack away to your heart's content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampermonkey
> tech interviews which turned into combat trivial pursuit

Excellent phrase. Thank you.
You're right, the stakes are civil society. Which you no longer get to claim you have when you sacrifice the weak and the sick to Moloch for pseudofictional accounts in a computer somewhere.

We must take care of each other, it is our basic obligation as citizens of a civil society, and this is the only way we can do that right now.
I can only see it like this.

Amazon share price and business activity is surging as a direct result of Covid-19. They need to hire 100,000+ workers to meet the demand. However, the same thing they are profiting from (Covid-19) should also increase many of their operating expenses. Things like healthcare, paid sick leave adequate for the situation (so at least 4 weeks for proper quarantine), good PPE, in-depth infection combat strategies, and so on.

The problem is those operating expenses are only obvious if you have ethics/morality/whatever that concludes individual human life is more valuable than money. So if you're a big corporation that has been designed to enrich shareholders and the space company fantasies of your ego-maniacal CEO, you fight as hard as possible against taking on those operating expenses.
According to this pilot on youtube, that is one of the reasons, they don't have to refund. Another reason is to keep the crew and planes current and not have to retrain pilots or do additional maintenance checks on the planes later on. These seem to be required by law after a longer period of not flying.

*https://youtu.be/x5HNUjVEPyQ
> realized that I was only a so-so programmer. the real ninjas were so passionate and knowledgeable; I was only successful because of brute force and overworking.

I think I'm starting to feel this. I'm neither talented nor educated enough to work on things I truly find interesting and my ability to learn feels like its completely flatlined these days. Unfortunately, I feel trapped in what I do rn, because it's really one of the only decently paying careers I can get.
Legit scientists explain in a paper how the binding proteins on covid-19 match 6 found in HIV. This suggests a CD4 binding afinity and potentially immune cell attacking or cloaking chimera virus.
COVID-19 gives us a good opportunity to compare healthcare systems more directly.

Just looking at the absolute number of cases https://i.imgur.com/iiRulFy.png as a proportion of population;

US: 610K cases, population 328 million: 19% infected
France: 104K, population 70 million: 15% infected

... France is doing slightly better which may reflect how well they've handled the pandemic. Of course many factors come into play here, not just the healthcare system. A better metric is probably ICU load and we'll be able to analyse this stuff in detail once we have enough data...

Source of graph: https://qap.ecdc.europa.eu/public/extensions/COVID-19/COVID-...
Best way to test that would be to use different countries' death totals over time, and compare that to differences in quarantine policy.

By the way, you misspelled "quarantine".
Perhaps these airlines and their partners could repurpose some of their large jets for freight and acquire smaller jets to ferry passengers around. Small commercial aircraft manufacturers such as Embraer might turn out to be a good investment.
Not sure how saying "This one product is better than the other" is brand loyalty...

I mean, they could have added "in my opinion", but I don't think it's too hard to assume they're referring to their opinion and not unilaterally declaring their word as law?
The "Rule of Least Power" comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
Anyone operating at the scale of Backblaze should also already have the right infrastructure to deal with a drive, machine, rack, PSU, etc failure without causing service downtime. (And NB that part of that will including diversifying between drive brands to guard against eg a firmware issue which affects many drives of a certain brnad in a limited time window).

What matters in that context is something similar to $/GB x (% of drives which make it to end of useful life in their application context). Cheaper drives which are less reliable might well win on that score. They might also expect to retire drives rather sooner than an average NAS user as the power cost of running older, smaller drives becomes an issue.

In an average small NAS setup the cost of a failed drive is potentially much higher. You incur at a minimum a performance penalty while the array is degraded and a significant performance penalty while it's rebuilding and have lower guarantees against data loss during that period and you can't average that out over thousands of drives.
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I am back to learning Zig for the way it addresses some pitfalls in C, but really because it is so easy for cross-platform work. Compiling a program to a Windows exe on my 2011 iMac Pro and then running it on my Windows machine was so easy and the error messages are so helpful when they do occur.

I am not an expert at either C or Zig, so I would appreciate any feedback from anyone who can more intelligently compare the two.
Ought to be for what it costs. If I go down the wxWidgets path i'll help improve the quality by fixing things.
You could just set mark when scrolling starts. Then, next cursor move jump back to mark first.

Some heuristics to make it fully behave. Multiple scroll events should not modify mark, for example. Mouse click does not jump back to mark. Etc.
> It's a big source of innovation

that's enthusiasticly true, it is somewhat big and it is the source of some innovation, maybe. But it isn't a research center by any measure.

People working in research might contribute, and that's nearly always awesome when it happens. But the roots of the demoscene are slightly more humble, between game producers, the cracking scene, teenage engineers and bed room musicians, the scene remained rather conservative. Oh I like to ramble, like the lamer that I am. I don't even know what the scene!? The scene is dead!!1

Also, "intangible" by definition means it never produced tangible results ;)
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> The first is that the visual aspect of programming is completely left out. You can have nice outlines, pop-ups, tree views etc. in most other editors;

What do you mean? Emacs has them too, just not nice ones. Also, emacs is not an IDE, so there is some limit on what kind of interfaces people will build.

But yes, the GUI-parts of emacs are a big liability for future growing. While emacs does has offer all the nice visual tweaks, they also all sucks because of bad implementation and limitations in emacs itself.
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Sorta like how some of the large OPEC players decided to crush the US shale industry - - - give it way, for free or practically for free . . . except most can see through the smokescreen of a giant evil corporation like MS.
> So logically speaking, if a large portion of their current activity is already essential goods

I think the point is many suspect that is not the case.

https://thegrio.com/2020/04/01/amazon-worker-strike-covid-19...
This is anecdotal, but when I was younger and still figuring out what I wanted to do, I joined a 1 year course that was supposed to prepare people with HS diplomas and other people with practical jobs like electricians and such to study engineering in college. Surprisingly, the vast majority of the men in my class were electricians that had regretted their choice because it was such a dull job with a lot of menial labor, like crawling through very tight areas and otherwise being on your knees a lot and in awkward positions.
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I think not only "French customer", I order stuff from amazon UK while living in Switzerland and often goods go through sorting/whatever facilities in France. Maybe it'll just get routed different way without much impact, not sure.
There's nothing stopping an engineer from implementing equally inefficient data structures/algorithms in assembler as they would in a higher-level language.

...except the additional complexity of doing so? If you have to write every single instruction, you start thinking more about whether you have to write each one.

'Constant factor' is entirely irrelevant to this discussion.

It's entirely relevant to the real world.
I have a similar concept for my site, with no publish dates and handwritten content/styling. One difference is that I haven't been using a static site generator, which I'm on the fence about using. On one hand it sounds like a much easier way to incorporate mixed media when I create a page, but on the other it feels like needless bloat for such a simple project.

I like the word "garden" for this style of personal site, I might start using that.
> I do not understand this kind of brand loyalty.

What are you on about? They didn't mention any loyalty to a brand. They said qualitatively what they preferred about one product to another.
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I have hopes, but it likely depends on the airline.

Had an empty flight with Singapore Airlines right after Christmas and they didn't.

This is British Airways so we'll see.
Not anymore. Almost all the established brands have cashed out, to Private Equity or self brand-destruction.
I have stopped caring about hard drive brands.

What Backblaze and experience show is how drives of a certain brand performed a couple of years ago, not how the drive you just bought will perform.

IBM used to be very good until Deathstars, and now HGST, who took over is among the most reliable. I used to be very satisfied with Seagate, then ST3000DM001 happened, and now, it looks like they are slowly getting back on track. Maybe it is WD turn right now. I don't think there is a way to know until it is too late.

Personally, I like to make RAID mirrors with drives of different brands, or at least different models. Even it it is not ideal for performance, it helps making sure that not all drives fail at the same time.
Logic?

I doubt they'd use the inhabitant of the empty set, and if there is no such inhabitant then the biggest thing left is logic.

Oath could be: "I swear on my reasoning that I will take $OATHSUBJECT as an axiom in all my decision making and that I am willing to be stripped of all trust and influence if I ever go against sound logic based on $OATHSUBJECT."
Emacs is more like an Elisp programming environment that happens to have a text editor built in. And a window manager, process manager, shell, terminal multiplexer, async event loop, cross-platform OS APIs, debugger, a bazillion libraries for everything you could need.

Just to see how far one can go I cobbled together a few libraries one afternoon and wrote a Dockerfile that enables one to write web applications in Elisp: https://github.com/agentultra/Dockmacs

I'm having trouble finding them but I've read stories of hackers developing and deploying useful applications they built in emacs to end users. I don't know that I'd go that far but... you do get cross-platform GUI controls so it doesn't seem impossible for simple, straight forward tools.
I wrote you a longer reply and then deleted it. I've simply been up too many hours at this point and I feel like we're probably talking at cross purposes.

I need to either finally get to sleep or just shut up. No good will come of me continuing to post in this state.

Sorry things are so bad where you are.
...in microbenchmarks.

That's what created multi-kilobyte memcpy() implementations, which barely beat REP MOVSB but cause huge icache bloat.
As long as you don't need LTS support. Im done with commercial development tools. I'd rather endure issues with an open source project that I cant help fix/improve.
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I don't know what that means.

Honestly, it seems like a great time to reconsider our impact on the planet: All the things the naysayers claimed were impossible and could never be stopped or changed have been shut down in the span of less than a month.
You still haven't pointed to any actual examples.

Georgism is specifically about land, not housing. The theory is that land value isn't much affected by investment of the landowner. Housing is, and that can be owned by individuals who then have a strong incentivize to take care of it.
I guess I want to feel I know a variety of things (I was going to write 'shirt', lol) that makes me a good developer (heck, I don't even consider myself a developer - what IS a developer, anyway?!). Right now I don't think I'm good at my job. I don't think I'm leveraging technology. Every profile I look into linkedin that is into this industry (information visualization) is so skillfull in a variety of technologies and topics, and I only have "Qlik Sense" to show, you know. No favorite frameworks (because I don't apply one), no github profile to show, no parallel projects,... I think I wouldn't stand a chance competing against all this people in the market if I were to change jobs.

I have a stable job, with demand for it - projects are coming, there is work to do and value to add, but I don't think I'm developing as I should.

In the end, yes, I want more money and more freedom to do whatever I please at my own pace. I have enrolled in a Data Analyst with Python course (in dataquest) that will put me through a variety of technologies and challenges, and I'm hoping I will reach some clarity on the path I'm following on my current job. Don't know if this makes sense.
People always value quality, but don't view quality the same way.
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