skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The replies really should be "no, stop wanting that." IRC is not meant for such interactions, and is built around different social expectations. If you want 24/7 presence, then you ought to justify it socially, because there is a qualitative cultural difference between folks who regularly idle on IRC vs. folks who are only connected to IRC when they actively want to discuss something. Similarly, backlogs are only marginally useful and are usually a security risk, but the typical client does offer full-text search through IRC backlogs, when needed, and I'm not sure why that's a problem for users.

It's obvious why Slack wins for businesses: Because it gives businesses greater control and legibility over their employees' work habits and decision-making. DCC or any other P2P connection is anathema to this sort of control.

Users want different things. They want both plain text and rich text, and similarly, they want both plain chat and rich chat.

Oh, and aside from all of this, there is a working group [0] which publishes proposals for modernization of the IRC protocol. Adoption rates are low, but perhaps that should tell you something about what users actually want.

[0] https://ircv3.net/
What does it cost to get a lawyer to draft a custom contract like this?
Well if only FBI knew about recovery mode...

I'm talking about having device data preserved and made accessible, while the device is screen-locked, without having any credentials or the passcode - pick all three.
> What is the speed with restriction to SSE3? That would finalize the tests.

I think this is the right incantation to restrict to SSE3:

clang-6.0 -O3 bodies.c -msse3 -Wall -lm -o bodies_clang_O3_sse3_c
perf stat bodies_clang_O3_sse3_c 5000000
1,470,870,787 cycles # 3.691 GHz
3,391,153,749 instructions # 2.31 insns per cycle

gcc-8 -O3 bodies.c -msse3 -Wall -lm -o bodies_gcc_O3_sse3_c
perf stat bodies_gcc_O3_sse3_c 5000000
2,256,550,525 cycles # 3.691 GHz
3,306,361,186 instructions # 1.47 insns per cycle

It would be interesting to analyze the difference between GCC and Clang here. Just glancing without comprehension, it looks like one big difference is that Clang might be calling out to a different square root routine rather than using the assembly builtin. Hmm, although it makes me wonder if maybe that library routine is using some more advanced instruction set?

> Do you mind if I directly quote you in a follow up post?

Sure, but realize that I'm speculating here. Essentially, I'm an expert (or at least was a couple years ago) on integer vector operations on modern Intel server processors. But I'm not familiar with their consumer models, and I'm much less fluent in floating point. The result is that I know where to look for answers, but don't actually know them off hand. So quote the primary sources instead when you can.

Please do write a followup, and send me an email when you post it. My address is in my HN profile (click on username). Also, I might be able to provide you remote access to testing machines if it would help you test.
There is plenty of work, why focus so much about the big tech companies?
The notion that you have to jump through hoops to get a tech job is pretty ridiculous. If you know your stuff you’ll have no trouble to find a job even without a degree from a fancy school.
Sorry, but especially on servers amd has a better track record with reliability. You are right with missing optimizations on some software stacks but that’s not a long haul it’s just that nobody saw the need to do it until now. Don’t forget all the loss of performance from spectre mitigation a lot of datacenters lost up too 25% performance overnight. Everyone is going amd. Google/Facebook/Disney/Pixar...
Lots of early androids have powervr gpus with no free support, which is a serious showstopper for pmOS and the like. It even shows up in some low-end x86-based devices, which are not even supported by current Windows 10 as a result.
They could use the -pr switch when running it.
Bad Education
The unsaid detail is tha the he’s using E36 (slide; positive image) stock.

I don’t understand why the C41 (negative) process/product became default for consumer grade color photography. I know there’s professional negative film that’s tuned for the human skin. But as an amateur that happened to snag a lot of really high quality (mostly 135) film in bulk on eBay, I’ve always felt overall happier with my legible developed film, the highly contrasted and colorful images and the noticeable flavor of different product lines.
Doesn’t that happen already? Sure, there’s a human, but he’s dead weight.
We often divide UX into those two broad "inexperienced" and "powerusers" categories, but in my experience those are only what we see for Good Software that could at worst miss its demographic. More frequently, I see Bad Software written, where the UX targets either looking good on a sales demo, or impressing an audience of 1-3 people (the CEO and/or other execs). Good sales demos may lean more to the simple side, but often they'll cram menus full of features purely to check off things on the client's list and look impressive on paper, even if in practice those features are too clunky to use. For CEO-targeting software, it may lean to "poweruser", but execs may also demand their product put the few things that they personally are interested in front-and-centre, at the expense of everything else.

As a programmer, I want Good Software to align with work that they'll pay me for. I'm fortunate enough that this is the case with my current work, though I can recognize that this hasn't always been the case over my career.
Kids are so less adventurous nowadays.

I'm not sure about teenagers, but for college students, it's more obvious. I believe it's because society is less forgiving - young people spent a ton of money or taking loans, work hard at school, cannot find jobs that are not stressful and underpaid. Or couldn't even find jobs at all. One step wrong and they would be screwed.
Dejanews, with all the search functionality that google groups did not keep.

Google video, mainly because there was a bunch of content that never got transferred to YouTube and seems lost now (I'm thinking here of various CS panel discussions and tech talks).
Does anyone know of a similar guide for digital sensors, since they can do these images with very different exposure times?
it was giphy. that's why.
> nobody bothered to make a decent product that could do all the nice things slack is doing.

Slack is a closed-source for-profit SaaS, ruled by a single benevolent company.

IRC is an open protocol-specification with a multitude of clients, servers and networks.

You couldn’t find better apples and oranges for comparison if you tried.
I think I'll have to disagree with you here. The way I understood history, "regulation and social factors" only happened because an alternative to whale oil was found. To an arguably large degree, social progress is a consequence of technological breakthroughs.

In general, and simplifying the dynamics a bit, I'd say this: what happens in a society is constrained to what makes economic sense. You can attempt change (e.g. get whaling banned), but you will not succeed when the economic pressures go strongly against you (e.g. there's no substitute for whale oil and demand is large, so regulations will not happen because of a combination of lobbying and international competition). Your society is always limited to what economics allow, and the way you reshape that economic landscape is through technology. You find substitute for whaling oil. Or a better fuel than wood. Or (upcoming invention) develop lab-grown meat that's competitive to regular one - I bet that vegans will think it was their activism that achieved a future without factory farming, but the way I see it, once we crack lab-grown meat, factory farming will be gone in a blink of an eye.

Another example I like: there were many attempts at reforming the Catholic church in the past, but the one that succeeded happened after the printing press was invented, which let reformatist ideas spread far and wide before the church could contain them.
You realise that's exactly the model of libraries, right?

A small fee (taxation) in return for open access to literature, and in most cases music and film too.
I have been wanting an email client where I can simply drag and drop emails as a TO-DO Kanban board. I will definitely give this a try.
For Common Lisp, there's a FORMAT directive:

CL-USER> (format t "~r" 4096)
four thousand ninety-six
“If you use fetch() to make Back end API calls, you need to read this”
>Frankly it should be MORE expensive for the amount of high quality content they release constantly.

I canceled it because it was obvious their content is stretched out for no reason other than to waste my time. Also it’s full of product placement which takes me out of the story.
I interpreted the "What is 'sometimes sexist attitudes' doing there" as outrage over it being mentioned. I did not thought it was disagreement, because the article has some quick explains on which part of memoirs made them thing that.

> I'm pretty sure he wasn't sexist in the even narrower sense of thinking that women simply can't do the things that traditionally used to be men's jobs

I think that part is addressed by "generous support for women academicians", support he gave to his sister and "unwavering respect for the many talented women he supported" and "support to the Blake scholar Jenijoy La Belle" all in the article.

The article basically goes out of way to point out instances where he was supportive to women with ambitions.

Offtopic: To me personally, mentioned negative attitudes mostly spoken to having certain sense of entitlement or naivety around bar women. He kind of expected them to be different species. The one where a girl falls in love with dude she just met and will have sex cause the guy she knows for 10 minutes is so awesome. Obviously it does not work like that, leading to disappointment and resentment over having to basically pay for sex.
This article is comparing apples to oranges. IRC is a protocol, Slack is a client/app that uses protocols (one of which used to be IRC). Many IRC clients, although beloved by some users, are rough around the edges.

In my opinion, Slack has "won" over other clients because of UX: it's extremely easy to sign-up, understand, and use productively. Plus, even large orgs (ours included), can use the free version if they're OK with having chat history disappear after a few days/weeks.
New Species of Turtle Discovered
> If that IFR holds it still means 1.6-3.3M deaths in the US assuming the healthcare does not get overwhelmed.

You cannot assume that 100% of people will be infected. Looking at case studies like USS Roosevelt (840 of 5000) and Diamond Princess (712 of 3,711) as the worst case prevalence because they are much higher-R environments.

So basically your IFR based fatality numbers could be divided by roughly 5.
Wasn’t it because you can’t get notifications from IRC?
There shouldn't be any reason it wouldn't work on those platforms, the `build.config.py` script would just have to be modified to add those targets.
This looks really compelling; distributed data at scale encompasses a number of hard problems and operational challenges. A strong dataviz story -- as illuminated here by pingcap -- surely plays a part in solutions. Bookmarked.
Frankly, it reminds me a lot of XHTML vs HTML5. I buy all the arguments XHTML had, I like the vision it had for the internet. It also wasn't what actual end-users valued, and something that offered that won out because it provided more value, even if it didn't pursue the same vision.
> This(dismissing the country solely on its current political situation or lack of awareness beyond the stereotype and prejudice) is exactly the mentality that I am talking about and I suspect that it is killing many people in the west.

Why would they tell the truth and make their country look bad if they can avoid it ? You won't make me believe Turkey has a better health care system, testing facilities and post mortem checks than EU countries. Do they send people in remote rural areas and check the causes of death from people who died in the last 3 months ? Do they count people with comorbidities ? Do they count people dying outside of hospitals ?

> stereotype and prejudice

It literally is a military dictatorship, like, what ?! do we have to accept everything no matter how fucked up they are these days ? The world isn't rainbow and sunshine, you won't make me trust Turkey on these kind of topics. I simply don't buy it, there is such a long trail of lies, deceptions, propaganda, &c. Look at what Trump gets away with while being under spotlight worldwide, now imagine what a guy like Erdoğan gets away with ...
It makes a lot of sense in Milton Keynes. Unfortunately that kind of design makes it an incredibly boring place to live, but there are some benefits.
Louisiana Channel
> I've never heard anyone even talk about a party, nobody's doing anything stronger than weed, nobody's fucking or even dating at all.

That's easy to explain: You don't have to talk about these things anymore, because of IM & co.. It's all still happening, but it's easier to hide it from the "dweebs". I've seen both sides, and it's really surprising how well this unwritten system works. At best you realize a few years or decades later.
This seems like an issue with semver. Its idealism is not compatible with actual human behavior.

The package devs clearly violated semver guidelines and npm puts a lot of faith in individual packages to take semver seriously. By default it opts every user into semver.

If you need semver to be explained to you bottom up (lists of 42 things that require a major bump) then you don't get semver. All you have to do is think: will releasing this into a world full of "^1.0.0" break everyone's shit?

This and left-pad are extreme examples. But any maintainer with a package.json who tries to do right by `npm audit` knows that there is an endless parade of suffering at the hands of semver misuse. Most of it doesn't make the news.
Depending on the use case. Some hyper scalers won't buy hardware just because of the CPU has the lower power consumption. It would be also not very wise to bet only on one vendor.
In other words: protocols lose to proprietary services.
For sure. It’s one of those things that my use case is probably a very, very small percent of users but it would be nice to be a bit more viewer friendly from that point of view. Right now since they have limited new content it feels like they are stretching them to keep subscribers as long as possible.
Quaint. Maybe you can write a blog post detailing how idealized of a human being you are, teaching us that self-promotion is a myth? Offer it to publishers and get amazed when everyone will `publish' anything, showing how truly remarkable you are.

Self-promotion is the vehicle that drives a good percentage of HN content. And that's okay and is just a reality of life as we all claw and scramble for our place in the hierarchy. But far too often it has dishonest packaging, with hilarious lead-ins like "people often ask me" (no they don't) and wrapping some self-aggrandizing prattle as if it's instructive for others.

It gets called out on most other venues. HN is a particularly gullible, complicit crowd (loads of low level developers who desperately want to feel like they're in the big boy club, wearing big boy pants) so it plays well here. Day after day.

It's pretty shameless.
> and ascertained that they could take out the best of what the American military has, based on some knowledge of military technology you magically have?

Thats called reading. https://www.rand.org/blog/2019/10/how-the-united-states-coul...

https://www.amazon.com/Destined-War-America-Escape-Thucydide...
You don't have to hide the bodies, simply don't count them. That's what France was doing with people dying in retirement houses up until a few weeks ago.
I guess pepper spray wouldn't be allowed
irc doesn't allow memes?
You can be sure because it says “experts” in the title.
History of Physics - Stephen Wolfram
Is this supposed to be a joke? The spinners spinning to no avail and zombocom funny message keeps on repeating. That is it, right?
> sorry, just learnt this is not an open access article

There is no such thing as "not open access article".

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2341882

(With a big thank you to Alexandra Elbakyan.)
If anything, I think GoT turned people away from getting invested into TV shows especially over long seasons due to its nonsensical ending.
> And IIRC "this person doesn't exist" uses human opinion to train.

It doesn't, incidentally. It's just a standard StyleGAN dumping random images, trained to to model the average image/distribution, and not optimizing for human ratings or anything. Almost all the 'X Does Not Exist' things operate that way, including my own https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/
> we notice that profits come from Company X's purposeful activities that are desired by customers that choose to spend money with Company X instead of Company Y.

Many companies make money from activities that are not desired by customers.
I just use a Pi-hole server now.

I don't have a problem paying for subs, I use Apple Music and used Spotify, I like Netflix or Prime. But Google/Youtube is unethical with their ads. Yesterday I saw an ad showing "the police kidnapping people in california" from a Russian account. No way to report it anymore, now way to prove it was true, a blatant example of trying to influence people negatively.

I'll support the content creators I like directly now via other methods. If youtube can't at least remove blatantly false "ads" then they don't deserve my support.
Illucia: The town of Final Fantasy
This was the first site I knew of that had server-side clickable image maps. Pretty cool stuff!

Pointless Audio
Kevin Pereira’s Internet audio show way before he was on G4 and way before the dawn of podcasts.
I agree completely.

But we're talking about reasons people ended up choosing slack over something like IRC (or, really, any open protocol instant messaging specification).

The grand-parent comment raises good points, people want these things, being connected and reachable while not being connected to the server with any client and having a context later on. These are problems that can be solved but nobody has put effort into making a sexy product to do it. (and monetising that kind of product might be troublesome)
We have those kinds of people in the UK too, unfortunately.
>Adoption rates are low, but perhaps that should tell you something about what users actually want.

I think it tells you that everyone who wants rich chat (which is most people, btw) already left for Slack or Discord.
I also thought the ending was subpar compared to the genius narrative twists in the first two seasons of Mr Robot. I agree with your take on the system, Eric Weinstein's latest podcast has some pretty interesting remarks about it.
The youtube video is not up yet so link to the specific portal episode

https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/the-portal/id146999956...
Ads can't seem to decide if I'm a rich homemaking woman with a side business, a rich man high up in a company, or someone who speaks Spanish and loves fast food. I don't know how to tell them I'm none of those.
Pretty much every studies show that the best working medical system are those with the best screening and prevention in place, among with are regular (usually free in Europe) checkup, accented for at risk population (child, aged people,...). Depending on your age in France there are lots of yearly /every 3 years checks entirely free that the national health agency push you to do.

So I may have assumed that yes but then if not it goes back to my original parent point of it being a sign of a broken system.
Adding a data source to my personal infrastructure
I was asked why I dislike something. I answered. "Unsubstantiated" is a really weird thing to use in the context of opinion. An unsubstantiated claim exclusively applies to fact, while I was very clearly giving my opinion. None of the things listed can be objectively measured.

I'd be perfectly happy to argue for them, but I don't think this is the right place to do it. Frankly, I don't care about how you handle your own opinions. When I am asked about my own, I'll tell them. I won't try and sell them as factual to anyone else, though, which is what going into more detail would require me doing in this particular instance.
Lobbying and corporate interests has hollowed out our government, simple as that. Great for the markets though, which in turn causes those few who make it into the investing class to vote for more of the same, creating a vicious cycle.
The reason phones become badly janky as the years pass is very rately the CPU. You can tell by how the lag ebbs, there are small hangs and the the device gets going again. It's some combination of flash perf degeneration, ram squeeze, and the many ways the OS install degenerates between wipes. And OS upgrades that have left old hw performance regressions unfixed.
Realistically, people don't tend to care about how much ram they're using, that's why PWA's are able to take the jobs of native applications, and people are even happy about it.

People only care if there's not enough resources.
Barely anybody cares that the protocol is open, and 400 MB of ram is pretty much nothing in 2020
Because there is a law for mandatory service, and nobody wants to extend it to women.

Women can volunteer and some of them do.
>Netflix can grow by getting more users by offering attractive services and features instead of advertisements.

I wasn't suggesting that it was desirable for Netflix to show ads. I was replying specifically to the "growth for growth's sake" because it's misleading.

As for "Netflix can grow by getting more users by offering attractive services and features", that's circular reasoning. They need growth to help pay for new attractive services and features.

>Even if they stop getting new users, and just maintain their current user base,

The problem is that their none of their existing user base signed a 30-year irrevocable contract to always pay $11.99 for the next 360 months. Consumers have free will and their preferences change which is why Blockbuster couldn't count on their old customers to keep walking into their stores to rent DVDs.

In other words, the "just maintain their user base" doesn't mean anything because customers have their own agenda of how they make changes in spending discretionary entertainment dollars. E.g.:
https://www.google.com/search?q=netflix+lost+subscribers
They put journalists and opponents in jail, what do you think would happen to them ? Who in his right mind would defend such a country ? I can't even begin to understand the logic behind that, sure it's not the lowest of the low like DPRK but comparing it to EU or the US ... I'm speechless.

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

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/27/turkey-crackdown-social-...

https://ahvalnews.com/germany-turkey/turkey-detains-german-n...

https://cpj.org/reports/2019/12/journalists-jailed-china-tur...
All three of those can be easily written off by anyone who likes the project. Claim that 4chan is toxic; people who like 4chan will think you're an idiot, but it won't really ruin their mood. Point out specific examples of their favorite board criticizing something they love, however, and they probably will feel upset for one reason or another.
> Until everyone on Earth is satisfied with their quality of life.

And then what? How will you maintain that?

And how much of other species' habitats would we ruin to achieve that in the first place?

People may never be satisfied with their lives as long as they perceive inequality (real or imagined).
ESPN (and consequently sports teams and their players) are about to find out how less valuable they are I think. There are so many options for entertainment that I doubt they will be able to command the wide audience they used to.