skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our startup sequence is sub-optimal. We query JDK to index timezone database and JDK generates a tonne of garbage in the process. The whole feat requires roughly 500MB RAM. Once out of startup sequence all this is collected and we can operate in 128MB heap.

The data itself is memory mapped. Columns are kept as primitives so that they take as much memory as their unit size times rows.
My solution is to just use Spotlight Search to launch everything. My hands are on the keyboard much more than a mouse or touchpad, and it's a good habit for when I switch between the laptop (where the touchpad is more convenient) and a desktop setup where they're more physically separated. Hunting for things on a screen with a cursor is tedious and annoying to me, when I can always just type it. But maybe that's a habit from growing up with MSDOS and (later) Linux and FreeBSD starting in college.
why exactly did they change the version number? i dont get it
>> First, they are driven significantly by amount of testing.

That depends which numbers you follow. "Cases" is different than "clinical cases". A clinical case will show some sort of symptom. While asymptomatic spread is almost certainly a thing, symptomatic patients spread much more readily than asymptomatic. So rather than look only a total cases, look for data on clinical cases because those are the ones that are most likely to spread to others. That will normally be patients under treatment rather than the larger number of people who have tested positive, show no real symptoms, and are sitting at home waiting for another test.
I've always used Apple products because they just work. UNIX compatibility has been great and I've run docker, run virtual machines, given presentations and I love the hardware. Most of the restrictions are tradeoffs for security and the real problem is that I have tried having workflows on other systems and tried to switch off of it (I had linux on my MacBook Pro 2017. Below are my most frustrating situations

1. My MacBook Pro 2017 had some weird problems due to voltage of the CPU. Somehow they misplaced the laptop but they did a full top case replacement eventually. It was weird when someone came out of the store with handcuffs while I was in the Apple store. With this Laptop I wasn't disappointed by the keyboard or the Touch Bar and never experienced reliability issues. I sold it due to frustration but I shouldn't have done it.
2. My AirPods have been replaced twice due to buzzing. This could have been me not cleaning them and sometimes I still experience buzzing sometimes but cleaning them seemed to work. I got both earbuds replaced twice
3. iCloud got messed up on my MacBook 2016 when I installed a beta version of Catalina and that was my fault had to go on support and they never got back to me about an engineer looking at my iCloud.
4. My MacBook Pro Retina (around 2012) had a zebra pattern on the monitor. I took it to the Apple store twice and they just gave me a new laptop.

With all of these issues over the years Windows is much more pain to even use. On my Gaming computer Wifi still can take minutes to start. I had to upgrade it to Wifi 6 and that may have fixed it with an external wifi.

My current Laptop (MacBook Pro 16) has good thermal management now. Plugging into a monitor does increase the thermals to 60 C . Sometimes I turn off turbo boost. Other than that having a laptop with 64 GB of Ram, a 5500m graphics card is pretty nice especially with a 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9. Somehow I actually was able to refine a few iterations of GPT-2 on the CPU but that was by mistake when I was cleaning data.

I like the Touch Bar because it lets me not change to using the trackpad sometimes due to RSI. I also have an external trackball mouse.

Wifi and bluetooth open with no issue. System is really responsive even compared to my Windows machine. Screens have always been amazing and color accurate. Emacs runs great also. Terminal.app keeps on getting better. UI looks like it's going to be cleaned up in MacOS 11. Having ARM is going to be very exciting and Metal is even more exciting and might be the only thing that will start to compete with NVIDIA.
The problems I have faced with my 2018 MacBook Pro that make me dread working with it (I have to due my job) are not development issues but mostly end-user ones: https://ivanca.tumblr.com/post/615979862803562496/15-flaws-o...
thanks for the find, fixed!
Up until as recently as 4 years ago, America was fine. America was chugging along well into recovery, we maybe even had peak awesome life.

That changed in 4 years. There are people on visas who came before that but still didn't get citizenship because of bureuacracy.

There are people who came after that who thought America could never behave like a corrupt developing country.

Beyond that, the number of people (immigrants, tourists and businesses) has actually been going down for 3 years.

Add covid, recession and racism to the mix, US economy will lose a lot of young blood going forward.

And yes, immigration to other countries has increased simultaneously.
Needing to scroll horizontally on a phone is an intolerable regression.
This exactly
There is not a single place in Europe that comes even close to the danger of Detroit or Chicago or New York.
IMO there are two problems.

The first is that no one actually wants to manage that kind of access. Especially not your every day computer user.

The second, related, problem is that if every app is asking you to review 20 permissions, people are going to stop reading the list and blindly accept. Or at least the people who need the guardrails the most will blindly accept.

For all the crazy granular permissions I just don't see a way for it to work other than a source like Apple doing the review, saying that this app is trying to read your documents for no reason and so it's rejected. But now you're back to all apps going through the app store sandbox.
you are fucking stupid
Interesting, do you have any benchmarks proving this?
The Onion at the peak of its powers absolutely destroyed the Segway.

https://www.theonion.com/the-segway-1819587083
Hey, I'm sorry to hear things are terrible. I'm not sure it helps, but I highly recommend reading up on self-compassion. It helped me realize that I was beating myself up all the time and not accepting that it's okay to have failures.

Everyone has failures. That's normal and totally human. It's important to recognize that it's okay for things not to go the way you wanted. It's a small step, but I think just recognizing that will help free up a load on your shoulders. Start there and try to focus less on what opportunities are "gone".
There's a lot of research into this, actually! Folks have been working on ways to extract executable code from Alloy, TLA+, Isabelle/HoL, and Coq specifications. That doesn't help with implementations which don't use codegen though--and it doesn't help you with the parts of the program that aren't formalized.
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Best blur method is just to make all pixels black.
On the contrary, one should absolutely be concerned about the number of total cases. In ~ 15 % of cases the convalescence period is greater than a month, and there is reason to be concerned about CFS in recovered patients. With SARS, the incidence of CFS was 40 %!.

If you aren't sufficiently worried, John Campbell has a video about the clinical presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7BbXEOB1gk
> It's exhausting, there's basically no downtime, and we end up in spirals of shame and guilt at being terrible parents, partners, employees. .... our kids are sat in pyjamas on the Nintendo Switch at 2pm ...

I've been reading "Selfish reasons to have more kids" (Brian Caplan) recently in semi-preparation for becoming a parent, and, well I'll just quote the book summary

> We've needlessly turned parenting into an unpleasant chore. Parents invest more time and money in their kids than ever, but the shocking lesson of twin and adoption research is that upbringing is much less important than genetics in the long run. These revelations have surprising implications for how we parent and how we spend time with our kids. The big lesson: Mold your kids less and enjoy your life more. Your kids will still turn out fine.
There is already Pagekite and it's been around for many years.
Why wait for mid lifecycle? Buy a low-specced machine and the drop in larger storage and memory rather than paying a huge premium to the vendor. It's not about control as much as just saving money.
Not sure what you are trying to say, windows like macOS is not perfect but with patience I was able to replicate my existing development workflows and improve some.

Which “nonsense” tools are you taking about?
I started the journey out (sorta) this way. It's a hard life.
Contentful person here - what could we do to make your experience better?

Feel free to shoot me an email if you don’t want to respond here. rouven _at_ contentful _dot_ com
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And this is what Apple has always been best at: taking technologies that already can work and making them into a product that does work, without hassle, for most people.
> But... we did flatten the curve enough to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system

Well, the curve had somewhat flattened (but was still trending upward among the noise) before reaching the point of overwhelming the system before we started reopening and it unflattened. I think it was premature to say that it had been flattened enough to avoid rather than delay that outcome, though it's kind of immaterial anyway since we abandoned the effort to keep it flat and are heading straight for overwhelming the system.
It's real shame they didn't hit the cop instead and solved everyone's problem right there and then
John Carmack on Oculus Go
Excess-3
I have also as a consultant not observed it much in the wild in the past 12 years. I've seen a lot more chef/puppet/saltstack and in past 5 years, ansible installations especially in big enterprise companies. I was surprised to hear it is still kicking apparently though
> She could have been on her way in 5 minutes but chose to act like an idiot.

From the cam video I've seen she was clearly frightened of them. They could have chosen to use empathy instead of force.
They'll put it in a Google spreadsheet to track... Oops.
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I’ve certainly bumped up the RAM in the past.
> Thus I ask: what better proof could one have that scott@slatestarcodex.com is Scott Alexander, author of slatestarcodex?

From an editor's point of view, that's not enough, assuming the reporter has not done any form of reporting through interviews, public records and other methods.
Its difficult to deduct cars as an expense--that is one of many expenses that the IRS will scrutinize.

The broader point still remains, for a business (a 1099 is considered a sole-proprietorship) generally net income is taxed, and as a W2, your taxes are witheld per pay period.
How does this work? Is there an alternate form for #! (aka shebang)?

EDIT: hah, I should have realized that "//" is the C comment and "//usr/bin/tcc" is equivalent to "/usr/bin/tcc". Clever!
Not sure I understand what you mean, mind giving me an example?
I eat at mcdonalds regularly. It is not a high quality burger. at all.
maybe i am holding it wrong but i only see Azure icons in the app? where is the AWS stuff?
It might be useful to provide an example using POSIX od(1) instead of hexdump(1). hexdump is actually a BSD utility. The Debian Linux version is ported from FreeBSD, while the Red Hat version is a pale imitation provided as a wrapper, IIRC, around the od implementation.[1] `od -An -tu1 -v` should suffice.

[1] I wrote a single-file hexdump implementation so know far too much about it: https://25thandclement.com/~william/projects/hexdump.c.html
And I’ll continue to buy them.

Why? Because I have better things to do with my time than fiddle with my OS, and because it’s still Unix like without having an awful user experience.

And my employers will continue to buy macs for me for largely similar reasons. My last colleague who tried to use Linux literally never got their laptop to work with the WiFi authentication, so they had to wire in.
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True. «Fined« and it was Iphones https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724
but the exact same thing happened to my Ipad. After the upgrade it was slow
Really great app. The CalDav sync was what makes it stand out from other F-Droid apps in the same category and allows integration with NextCloud. Really helps when becoming a Google heretic.
Dunno. The free Windows VMs I have saved can be reloaded in VirtualBox and used pretty much forever. They can’t run any serious software very well (on my old MacBook anyway), but I’m just using them to support some legacy web apps.
A highly-granular system can be organized under a simplified, streamlined, user-friendly interface. I fully believe that this could be made to work well.
H1B, then green card, then citizenship. Different countries have different wait times.
Clarity of language for one thing, but also that "times" is indicative of multiplication so "five times" anything has to be bigger[1]. One fifth is far clearer as there's no way to interpret that other than being a part of the size of the reference, ergo, smaller. Is it impossible to understand? No, but it's poor style for technical writing.

[1] I'm ignoring the case of decimal math since the reference in this case is always the whole integer 1.
You're straying away from the point and overcomplicating things. When a company has an open position and it is filled by an H1B worker, an American worker has lost that opportunity. That's zero sum. Whether or not H1B workers are going to go on to create more jobs has no bearing. You could say the same thing about the American worker that lost that job opportunity.

You realize that just because something is named a "fallacy" doesn't mean it is one. Economists have bias too and are often employed/used by lobbyists to sway analysis.
Yes, you did. You have now edited your comment to remove the part where you expressed your shock at seeing so many "anti-immigrant" commenters on HN. Don't gaslight.

EDIT: I made a mistake, you made the comment two posts above, not in the prior post. That's why I didn't see it when I came to reply; I looked at the immediate parent rather than going back a ways. But it's right there two posts above, you're decrying "anti-immigrant" commenters. When you set up the debate in that way, there's no consideration of the argument on the other side. You just write it off as being somehow hateful or motivated by prejudice. I don't dispute that some people are prejudiced, but that isn't the only basis upon which H1B policy can be judged. There are tens of millions of unemployed people in the USA right now. Suspension of H1B prioritizes those people over foreign nationals. It's not necessarily a question of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Can Snapchat survive in a world with TikTok? I'm genuinely curious what folks thoughts are.

Everyone I know that uses Snapchat has migrated to TikTok, but I personally have limited insight into these dynamics. From my perspective, even though the sharing dynamics are different, TikTok seems to capture and hold much greater attention.
Farmers' markets never closed here in Alameda County which is a lot more densely populated than Los Altos. I think the risk of transmitting respiratory diseases in the outdoors is wildly overstated. Also, people gotta eat.
What is your definition of rich? What do you really want?

It sounds to me like you already made it once. For most people, having $2m is enough to never really worry about money again. You could take double the median US salary from that sum, forever, without lifting a finger.

You did it once and you can do it again.

I can't really get behind the idea that companies don't value people with decent experience. Hell, you are 35, you are barely mid-career. Lots of companies are paying 50-60 year olds more than you would be paid because they have higher productivity than you.

You did it once, you can do it again. Don't give up.
It is spreading fast amongst the Latino population and more slowly amongst other populations. In SF, Latinos are over 50% of the cases now. In San Mateo, it is closing in on 50% of the cases as well.

A couple of weeks ago, the number of Latino cases in San Mateo was about the same as the Asian and white groups. It is now over triple.

https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/fjki-2fab

https://www.smchealth.org/san-mateo-county-covid-19-and-othe...
I have a VM with Haiku and I can confirm it is indeed very fast.

I am no Haiku expert but the Haiku's window manager does not support window composition and does not use GPU acceleration, right? It is also not modular and cannot be replaced.

You can disable composition on XFWM and make it run a little faster on lower spec hardware. You can also use a WM like i3, Windowmaker or Enlightment.

IMO, XFWM is the right balance between functionality and performance.
> I mean, you can't bring a body in with a zillion bullet holes and tell the coroner it was suicide.

But you can bring in a body that was in the backseat of your cop car, handcuffed behind the back, and with two shotgun wounds to the chest and tell the coroner it was suicide, and have it signed off on...
Considering that 80% of mac games got axed with the removal of 32bit support, and approximately 100% of the remaining with the ARM transition, id say they don't use Steam at Apple either.
Split second? The officer hadn't even drawn his gun when Brooks fired the Taser. He made the decision to draw his gun in the first place already knowing that the Taser Brooks held was depleted.
Goddamn, can we go one just one day without an Apple hate thread? How many times can Apple be “over” until these threads stop clogging up the front page?
Ask HN: How are Apple chips more efficient?
How exactly would Apple's custom chips be better for Macs than Intels/others. Have they optimized the CPU instruction set for Mac needs? Any help in better understanding this would be really appreciated.
How do they expect others to get free from FB and Google when they themselves are on Facebook and Instagram?
Partially reopen, New York City bears little resemblance to its former self
Same here. I'm withdrawing my contribution if they're just going to short-term solutions which will lead toward slowing down the migration to Wayland. This is an irresponsible use of funds.
Depends on your environment a lot. My last colleague who tried Debian literally never got it to work with the corporate WiFi.
The flow for installing apps outside of Google's approved method on Android breaks 3rd party app stores like F-Droid, such that automatic updates of apps installed via F-Droid, or updating several foreign apps at the same time, cannot work.
> Few people ever speak of the 150[1] officers killed on average per year in the line of duty.

If by “few people” you mean basically everyone, and every business, and every government everytime it happens, often with massive public memorial parades, etc., sure.

No one talks about lack of accountability for it because there is decidedly not such a lack of accountability, but people talk about the thing itself all the time.

Incidentally, abolishing the police also addresses that problem.
I keep reading these types of comments on HN but I just can't relate. I consider myself a power user, and precisely because MacOS feels like the best of Unix combined with customer focus is why I'm wholly invested in the Apple ecosystem. I simply can't relate to the statement that Mac is a "platform that contends with me every step of the way" and I'm curious to know more specifically why you feel this way?
Sorry, what is CFS?

edit: thanks!
Amazon invests $2B in its clean energy fund
Draft PEP for pattern matching in Python
Awesome, thank you for the detailed response! This all looks promising. It appears that our mobo has a TPM connector and they sell a TPM module. I'll look into this further!
1.8 applications run and compile fine on JRE 11 and up
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Nim uses GCC and normal, idiomatic Nim competes very well with Crystal in performance and memory usage.
I just read man re_format but that's a lot more fun
Maybe people thought I was making some kind of value judgement about web developers not being "real developers" because they're not kernel hackers. That's just my guess though - I doubt any of the downvoters will see or reply to this.
We need to do both: In order to give people back control of their data, we need to break up the monopolies that decide how our data is controlled.
Hmm, you're correct actually. Any downloaded code is prohibited.

I thought it was only JIT due to my background with native apps, my bad.
“Install one of the dozens of content blockers that work across macOS and iOS” seems like a better answer than “install a different browser”.
It won't even need a sustained effort once ai gets somewhat decent at analysing writing patterns. I don't think it will really matter if it's even that accurate, really, like it doesn't really matter to the police how accurate facial scanners are people who are looking for troublemakers will go with it anyway.
Easy. A new application you have needs more RAM. Your battery is not holding up very well and you want to replace it. Your SSD will fail soon and you want to replace it. I had every single one of those issues on a laptop, and fixing them cost me from 25$ to 100$, about a fifth of what the Apple Store or OEM was quoting me. Instead of being without my laptop for a week or two, I got all of them over in an hour and a half tops.

Everyone has a device fail them. Then you have the choice of changing it or repairing it, repair is almost always a better option if you're at all technically competent.

I can't imagine my SSD breaking down or my RAM failing and having to change the entire mainboard when I could just take 45 minutes and fix it. It's literally absurd to me.
Windows 10 with WSL on premium hardware like Surface is more Mac than Mac at this point
> I didn't get to choose hours, direction, who to work with.

There is nuance in that statement. The IRS has a test for whether a person is an employee or a contractor.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/understanding-employee-vs-contr...
Yes (kernel engineer here), we can mix and match what we pick and when. Almost every major subsystem is updated only a few months after the corresponding patches hit Linus's tree.

I would guess that most of RHEL 7 is on par with 4.14 or 4.19 (which is newer than the RHEL 8 kernel!) and RHEL8.3 will have subsystems updated up to 5.7-5.8.

Of course it's not much fun backporting 50 patches for Intel vulnerability mitigations to RHEL7.2 that some mission critical apps still use. But I guess it pays my bills so who am I to complain, I love everything else about my job. ;)
Does it also support managed environments such as EMR ?
Only a Sith deals in absolutes
Or users turn off Javascript on the page and never see the ads to begin with.
As a younger hacker, who has never been into the Apple ecosystem and doesn't know much about Steve Jobs, the video presentation of the funeral for MacOS 9 sort of blew me away. It was so funny and theatrical, but got the message of Apple's new direction across so clearly. You can even see people in the front rows standing up and gawking, trying desperately to figure out what was going on. What a fascinating production.
> On the bright side, I have no suicidal thoughts. None of my relationships have been destroyed (yet). I still have my job and I know the cause of my current state is temporary. I've started therapy, which should start helping any moment now. Covid has affected people in worse ways, so I'm quietly trudging along.

All the best! Thanks for sharing and keep on keeping on. We’re all there with you.